Taschen, 2010. — 816 p. — (Archive for research in archetypal symbolism). The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and over 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each...
Cassell, 1997. — 388 p. This is a panoramic view of world history from the time the first humans appeared to the present day. Each section is introduced by a series of maps which give a bird's eye view of the state of the world at significant moments in each era. These snapshot surveys are then followed by area maps which give regional detail, depicting the growth of empires,...
UTET, 2015. — 679 p. Tenendo conto delle recenti scoperte archeologiche e attraverso un'analisi meticolosa delle testimonianze storiche, religiose, letterarie e artistiche, l'autore traccia un quadro d'insieme organico e approfondito, che si estende dalle ultime manifestazioni dell'età del bronzo fino all'epoca romana e ci fornisce, con questo libro, una preziosa lente per la...
C.H. Beck, 1986. — 332 S. Urheimat und Herkunft der Slawen - JOACHIM HERRMANN Die Slawen der Völkerwanderungszeit - JOACHIM HERRMANN Wegbereiter einer neuen Welt - der Welt der Staaten und Völker des europäischen Mittelalters - JOACHIM HERRMANN Slawen, Protobulgaren und das Volk der Bulgaren - DIMITAR ANGELOV, DIMITAR OVCAROV Die Südslawen in Jugoslawien - BOSKO BABIC, JANKO...
Adolf M. Hakkert, 1970. — 147 p. Byzantium. Byzantium and the Magyars . The Formation of the Hungarian People on the Northern Frontiers of the Byzantine Empire. Settlement and Raids. Orientation towards Byzantium. Struggle against Byzantine Expansion. Plans for a Hungaro-Byzantine Union. Wars Fought in Support of Byzantium. The Role of the Byzantine Church. The Influence of...
Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. — 923 p. Archeological, genetic, linguistic, metallurgical, and climate studies into the Bronze Age and early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central Asia. Volume 1 Archeology An Zhimin - Cultural Complexes of the Bronze Age in the Tarim Basin and Surrounding Areas Elena E. Kuzmina - Cultural Connections of the Tarim Basin People and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 1118 p. The modern history of Egypt and Sudan has radically intervened in the Nubian world several times and continues to do so to this day: After the great dam construction of the 20th century, new dam, construction and prospecting projects are also the reason for the 21st century enormous time pressure to explore large-scale Nubian terrain. As a...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1990. — 743 p. The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. The present book, fourth in the popular series, chronicles...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 1710 p. A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the...
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1980. — 384 p. Examining Byzantine life from the point of view of the average citizen, a noted historian deals with language, social and economic conditions, the disappearance and revival of cities, education, monasticism, and the Byzantine literary, artistic, and architectural legacy.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 229 p. The island of Cyprus was conquered from its Byzantine ruler by Richard I of England in 1191 during the Third Crusade, and remained under western rule until the Ottoman conquest of 1570–1. From the 1190s until the 1470s the island was a kingdom governed by the members of the Lusignan family. The Lusignans, who hailed from Poitou in...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1989. — 675 p. Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1991. — 654 p. This is the final volume of an already standard work on private life in Western civilization from Greco-Roman times to the present. The entire work was planned by Phillipe Ariès and Georges Duby in the tradition of the Annales group; this volume was first published in France as Histoire de la vie privee: de la Première...
Blackwell, 2000. — 402 p. — (The Peoples of Europe). The Etruscans are one of history's extraordinary casualties. For many centuries they flourished exuberantly in central Italy, only to be completely absorbed into the growing Roman state. Their power, at its height, extended well beyond their borders: they were known and feared by Romans and Greeks alike. Their arresting...
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 224 p. The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of...
Thames & Hudson, 2013. — 659 p. The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavor. World-class interpretations exist of its Classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little holistic exploration of how its societies, culture and economies first came into being, despite the fact that almost all the fundamental developments...
Alianza, 1999. — 263 p. La civilización hispano-árabe floreció en la Península Ibérica durante más de ocho siglos y ha impreso una huella indeleble en el carácter de los españoles. Una historia lineal de tan extenso período obligaría, bien a un sucinto resumen cronológico de los jalones más importantes de su desarrollo, bien a una obra de dimensiones monumentales; el enfoque...
The British Museum Press, 2003. — 470 p. The provinces that the Romans referred to as Syria covered a vast area occupied today by several modern states. These included some of the most spectacular ruins of the ancient world-Palmyra, Baalbek, and Apamea-and fabled cities such as Antioch, Damascus, Sidon, and Tyre. Roman Syria also comprised sites that are virtually unknown, such...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 226 p. In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life in this remote period, in a way which is impossible from...
University of California Press, 2006. — 397 p. "The glory that was Rome" has become proverbial. But John R. Clarke, a professor of the history of art, argues that the monuments of that glory, like the Arch of Constantine and the portraits of emperors, are not the full story. There was other Roman art, like wall paintings and mosaics, which, especially if they were decorations...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 255 p. Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an investigation of their history. This was a land at the margins of other great empires - Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Byzantine - and is still off the...
Thames & Hudson, 2014. — 339 p. — ISBN 9780500252048, 0500252041. An illuminating and evocatively illustrated tour of forty of the greatest cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations, from China and Mesoamerica to Europe and Ethiopia Today we take living in cities, with all their attractions and annoyances, for granted. But when did humans first come together to...
Philip's, 2005. — 312 p. This atlas presents the story of civilization in physical setting. Specially designed to help the reader visualize great historical themes and decisive moments. It combines 400 specially drawn maps depicting the scope of these events. The atlas features 135 double-page spreads, each of which potrays key develppments in a world region over a specific...
Einaudi, 1995. — 462 p. Di tutte le tribù e i popoli con cui i Romani si trovarono a dover contendere la supremazia sull'Italia, nessuno fu più minaccioso dei Sanniti. Forti e valorosi, possedevano un territorio più ampio e un temperamento più risoluto di qualsiasi altra popolazione della penisola. Per mezzo secolo e più, dal 343 al 290 a. C., impegnarono i Romani nei tre...
Routledge, 2017. — 284 p. Palmyra: A Historyexamines Palmyra, the city in the Syrian oasis of Tadmur, from its beginnings in the Bronze Age, through the classical period and its discovery and excavation, to the present day. It aims at reconstructing Palmyra's past from literary accounts - classical and post-classical - as well as material evidence of all kinds: inscriptions,...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1987. — 704 p. irst of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves—from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 482 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 18). Since Prehistory, communities principally engaged in herding activities have occupied the intermontane valleys and plains of the Zagros (Western Iran). Relations, tensions and cultural exchange between the inhabitants of the mountains and the Mesopotamian plains already occurred during the Bronze Age. These...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2020. — 1367 S. Die im vorliegenden Band behandelten byzantinischen Provinzen Bithynien und Hellespont umfassen den ganzen Nordwesten Kleinasiens. Wegen ihrer Lage gegenüber der Reichshauptstadt Konstantinopel kommt ihnen besondere Bedeutung zu. So galten die asiatischen Küsten des Bosporos und des Marmarameeres als...
Variorum, 1996. — 362 p. — (Variorum collected studies series 538). These essays deal with the history and archaeology of Byzantine Asia Minor from the 4th to the 14th century. They include regional surveys of the southwest (Lycia and Pamphylia) and discussions of specific sites and monuments elsewhere. These include many fortifications which have never been analysed or...
Bison Books, 1985. — 264 p. For nearly two centuries, Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” has been considered the paradigm of classical history. This monumental work, originally published in six volumes over a period of twelve years from 1776 to 1788, was greeted with general acclaim from the time the first volume came off the press....
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008. — 782 S. Tabula Imperii Byzantini erforscht systematisch die historische Geographie des Byzantinischen Reiches, das vom Beginn des 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Bestand, also von der Spätantike bis zur osmanischen Eroberung, um einen Atlas der vorgenanntes Imperium. Ostthrakien, im...
Thames & Hudson, 2008. — 241 p. The ideal reference on Maya archaeology.—Science NewsBehind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among numerous kingdoms. Intense rivalries,...
Facts On File, 2008. — 3756 p. The seven-volume Encyclopedia of World History is a comprehensive reference to the most important events, themes, and personalities in world history. The encyclopedia covers the entire range of human history in chronological order—from the prehistoric eras and early civilizations to our contemporary age—using six time periods that will be familiar...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 348 p. Between the eighth and the sixth centuries BC, Phoenicians established the first trading system to encompass the entire length of the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland, in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain. The Phoenician state was able to maintain its independence, depite...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 201 p. Seeking to expand both the geographical range and the diversity of sites considered in the study of ancient Greek housing, Ancient Greek Houses and Households takes readers beyond well-established studies of the ideal classical house and now-famous structures of Athens and Olynthos. Bradley A. Ault and Lisa C. Nevett have brought...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 241 p. — (Archaeological Histories). Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by French and American archaeologists, and is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Roman Near East. A Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman site, its place between East and West is a vexed question in both...
Autrement, 2016. — 97 p. La situation au Moyen-Orient n'est pas une crise de plus mais un basculement historique. Plus de 120 cartes pour comprendre les origines multiples des violences du Moyen-Orient, cet ensemble géopolitique allant de la Turquie au Yémen, et de l'Égypte à l'Iran. - Les racines historiques des conflits actuels, depuis l'effondrement de l'Empire ottoman - Les...
Routledge, 2016. — 336 p. This atlas provides students and scholars with a broad range of information on the development of the Ancient Near East from prehistoric times through the beginning of written records in the Near East (c. 3000 BC) to the late Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The geographical coverage of the Atlas extends from the Aegean coast of Anatolia in the west...
Vendome Press, 2012. — 237 p. The Maya are of enormous and abiding fascination to anybody interested in archaeology, ancient history, astronomy, or the visual arts. From the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD, while Europe was deep in the Dark and Middle Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae, and wall murals, and building magnificent temples, palaces,...
The University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 559 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 72). There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconography. Owing to the role that fire plays in Zoroastrian beliefs in later periods in Iran, almost any discussion of the subject of...
LULU, 2016. — 202 p. The Trojan War is the foundation of Greek history. If Greek historians had little doubt of its existence they remained extremely skeptical regarding its mythological origin. Archaeology has confirmed one essential point: there was indeed a general conflagration in the Greek world around 1200 BCE, the assumed period of that war, which caused the...
Philipp von Zabern, 1980. — 243 S. Thrakien, Iwan Marasow Die Thraker - Kunst, Religion und Selbstverständnis Thrakien von der Jungsteinzeit bis zur späten Bronzezeit Der Grabfund von Warna Die thrakische Kunst in der Zeit der legendären Könige Späte Bronzezeit 1600-1200 v. Chr. Der Schatzfund von Waltschitran Thrakien in der frühen Eisenzeit Geometrische Kunst 12.-6....
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990. — 302 S. Tabula Imperii Byzantini erforscht systematisch die historische Geographie des Byzantinischen Reiches, das vom Beginn des 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Bestand, also von der Spätantike bis zur osmanischen Eroberung, um einen Atlas der vorgenanntes Imperium.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 334 p. The late sixth century was a period of considerable change in Etruria; this change is traditionally seen as the adoption of superior models from Greece. In a re-alignment of agency, this book examines a wide range of Etruscan material culture - mirrors, tombs, sanctuaries, houses and cities - in order to demonstrate the importance of...
Oxford University Press, 1969. — 548 p. The subject of this book is the viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, their emergence and development, civilization and culture, and their many-sided achievement at home and abroad. It is an extensive field to survey. For even when we set aside the almost trackless millennia of my opening pages, there remain a thousand years of...
Brill, 2021. — 477 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (450-1450) 74). In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been...
Brill, 2001. — 303 p. In the process of the transformation of the Roman world, the notion of frontiers, but also their topography changed. Within and beyond the old Roman empire, new frontiers were established. This volume explores their meaning and their impact. Three contributions discuss Roman frontiers and their perception in late antiguity, demonstrating that they were not...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 275 p. — (Case Studies in Early Societies 1). This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. The approach is explicitly anthropological, drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich...
Facts on File, 1990. — 238 p. Beginning with a description of the physical changes that occurred in the region following the last Ice Age, and their influence on patterns of settlement, the atlas tells the story of the cultural, technological, political and economic achievements of the different peoples, races and tribes who occupied the area in the course of nearly 12,000...
Laterza, 1997. — 300 p. — (Economica Laterza 104). Un profilo di storia e civiltà etrusche, dai secoli bui della protostoria all'età romana. Partendo dal discusso problema delle "origini", Torelli racconta la formazione e le vicende dell'assetto sociale e politico, l'evoluzione del sistema economico e dei rapporti commerciali e infine il progressivo tramonto della potenza e...