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.
Featuring more than 120 illustrations, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times is an essential reference for those interested in the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. combines archaeological and literary sources to reconstruct the history of late antique Iberian aristocracies, facilitating the study of a social class that has proved elusive when approached through the lens of a single type of evidence.
Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
S. Rebecca Martin
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812249088
Pub Date: May 2017
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Explicating the relationship between theory, method, and interpretation, The Art of Contact destabilizes categories such as orientalism and Hellenism and offers fresh perspectives on Greek and Phoenician art history.
Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. works from the premise that the traditional picture of hegemony and great men tells only a partial story. The volume's essays present exciting new perspectives based on recent archaeological work and the discovery of new material evidence.
Edited by Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812247640
Pub Date: July 2016
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Landscapes of the Islamic World presents new work by twelve authors on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian peninsula, and central Asia. The focus looks beyond the city to engage with the predominantly rural and pastoral character of premodern Islamic society.
