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The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828818
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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.
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827019
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, thereby empowering and immortalizing their families.
Living with Risk in the Late Roman World
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512827392
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
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.
Pharaoh
Art and Power in Ancient Egypt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827217
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
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.
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512825305
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
This new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE draws on a range of texts, including hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English, to explore what pre-Islamic culture actually entailed. The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus.
Hieroglyphs
Unlocking Ancient Egypt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825381
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
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.
Unfinished Christians
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians’ ritual lives in late antiquity. With few first-person accounts by ordinary Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns from Greek-speaking communities.
City of Saints
Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823721
Pub Date: November 2022
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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.
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812252811
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
476 Pages
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.
The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Construction and Invention
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252538
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Reading early medieval Spanish documents that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, Santiago Castellanos charts the formation of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia and how it was later reinvented from the episcopal point of view.
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828818
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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.
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827019
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, thereby empowering and immortalizing their families.
Living with Risk in the Late Roman World
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512827392
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
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.
Pharaoh
Art and Power in Ancient Egypt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827217
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
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.
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry
From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512825305
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
This new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE draws on a range of texts, including hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English, to explore what pre-Islamic culture actually entailed. The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus.
Hieroglyphs
Unlocking Ancient Egypt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825381
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
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.
Unfinished Christians
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians’ ritual lives in late antiquity. With few first-person accounts by ordinary Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns from Greek-speaking communities.
City of Saints
Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823721
Pub Date: November 2022
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
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.
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812252811
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
476 Pages
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.
The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Construction and Invention
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252538
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Reading early medieval Spanish documents that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, Santiago Castellanos charts the formation of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia and how it was later reinvented from the episcopal point of view.