Governing England explores how England is governed and how the English wish to be governed. England's relationships to…

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish…

• Počet stran 464
• Rok vydání 2019

Produkt Brief History of Ancient Greece - Pomeroy, Sarah B. a Burstein, Stanley M. a Walter Donlan a Roberts, Jennifer…

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\nAnalyses key aspects of ancient Greek philosophy in their original context of mystery religion, and magic. The author…

\nModernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of…

This study traces the rise of the cult of St Stephen in Jerusalem in the fifth century, exploring such episodes as the…

Mr Howard's book does not pretend to be the complete story of how Roman Catholicism evolved from Pius IX to Frances, but it…

\nAn exploration of the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary…

• Počet stran 1288
• Rok vydání 2023

The fourth volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the end of the second to the middle…

Martin Delrio, author of Disquisitiones magicae (Investigations into Magic, 1599-1600) probably never persecuted or met a…

\nThe text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of…

• Počet stran 400
• Rok vydání 2021

Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance…

\nPaths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central…

\nThe book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why…

\nThe Third Reich\'s Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany\'s most prominent training academies for the…

\nIdeology and Mass Killing offers the first dedicated study of the role of radical ideologies in different kinds of \'mass…

\nJane Webster develops a pioneering approach to \'rebuilding\' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the…

• Počet stran 560
• Rok vydání 1997

This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great…

Exploring as to how a sense of being \'a Christian\', or of \'Christian identity\', was shaped within the setting of the…

\nThe cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly…