Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the economy, and the state collapsed. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming charts this collapse, and its foundational role in making the world we characterize as early medieval.
Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, Living with Risk in the Late Roman World demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks that they perceived.
Highlighting research on key pieces from the British Museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities, Pharoah covers three thousand years of history—exploring the reality and the many challenges of ruling one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen.
Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairo’s synagogues as exquisite storytellers. Meital contends that studying the congregations and the social services provided in synagogues sheds new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present.
Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the British Museum, this book tells the story of the pioneers who cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the mysteries of ancient Egypt that they unlocked.
City of Saints explores how Byzantine Rome naturalized saints from throughout the Mediterranean world to build a new sacred topography. As a result, an exhausted city with a limited Christian presence metamorphosed into the spiritual center of Western Christianity.
Richly illustrated with 216 halftones and sixteen color plates of mostly small-scale objects, Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece examines what objects and images can tell us about the experiences and impressions of ancient Greek religion.
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Jesper Majbom Madsen
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252378
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Bringing together a wide range of literary, historical, and political sources, Jesper Majbom Madsen examines how Pompey's cities in Roman Pontus were initially organized, how they developed over time, and how inhabitants in this part of the Roman Empire defined themselves culturally and politically.
Edited by Kurt W. Carr, Christopher A. Bergman, Christina B. Rieth, Bernard K. Means, Roger W. Moeller and Elizabeth Wagner
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9780812250787
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
960 Pages
The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference to the rich artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution and includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research.
Located in Western Australia, the massive archaeological site of Murujuga has been subject to decades of abuse from regional mining interests. José Antonio González Zarandona traces Murujuga's destruction from the seventeenth century until today, arguing that colonial interference in the region has resulted in landscape iconoclasm.
