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This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact.
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social marginalisation, and oppression.
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests.
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fat? al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fat? al-Andalus (“The Conquest of al-Andalus”).
First biography of Caratacus, Iron Age war leader and arguably one of Britain’s greatest kings, focusing on archaeological material and historical sources.
Examines humility as theologically central to the Comedy. Canto by canto, Teubner demonstrates the many means by which... Læs mere
This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them.
Buchanan Sharp examines governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late Middle Ages... Læs mere
In this highly readable and engaging survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries, Linda Walton presents a framework for... Læs mere