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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 30)
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 31)
One of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars. The ‘Junius...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 32)
Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 33)
It is red-letter day in Anglo-Saxon studies when a previously unknown Old English text comes to light. In 2002, as the result of some outstanding...
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Press Censorship in Jacobean England
This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It challenges prevailing attitudes that...
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From Reich to State
Napoleon’s contribution to Germany’s development was immense. Under his hegemony, the millennium-old Holy Roman Empire dissolved, paving the way...
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Pedagogy and Power
Pedagogy and Power is a volume of interdisciplinary essays which explores the political dimensions of Graeco-Roman education and of its subsequent...
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The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of...
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Anglo-Saxon England
That Alcuin addressed to the monks of Lindisfarne the question, "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?", is a much repeated dogma in Old...
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Universitetet i kamp: 1940-1945
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Den tyske okkupasjonen av Norge i 1940 skulle innvarsle et dramatisk avsnitt i Universitetet i Oslos historie. De nye makthaverne ønsket å skaffe...
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Thucydides and Internal War
In this book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of...
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Vienna and Versailles
This book brings vividly to life the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court at Paris-Versailles. Drawing on a...
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Being Greek under Rome
These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating perspective on a crucial era of western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire...
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Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt
This book collects all known Jewish inscriptions in Egypt between the third century BC and the sixth century AD. The entry on each inscription...
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Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their...
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Trade in Classical Antiquity
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system,...
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The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936
The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems...
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The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman...
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Law and Crime in the Roman World
What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the...
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Union and Empire
The making of the United Kingdom in 1707 is still a matter of significant political and historical controversy. Allan Macinnes here offers a major...
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Neorealism, States, and the Modern Mass Army
Examines why countries imitate the military systems of one another. A book of theory and history, it builds on and extends the most influential...
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Communism and the Emergence of Democracy
Before democracy becomes an institutionalised form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty...
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Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions
The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BC to c. 200 BCE) and constitute an important additional source...
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Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome
The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means...
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