Variant scholarship
Ancient texts in modern contexts
Edited by Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel & Josephine Munch Rasmussen | 2023
Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of…
Revealing Christian Heritage. Volume I
The rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860 and 1930
Edited by Chiara Cecalupo | 2023
This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a…
Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
City Gates in the Roman West
Forms and functions
Cornelis van Tilburg | 2022
This book discusses various aspects of city gates in the Western Roman Empire: Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany and Britain. In these countries many Roman city gates are to be found, sometimes still in a good…
The early modern Zagori of Northwest Greece
An interdisciplinary archaeological inquiry into a montane cultural landscape
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou | 2022
Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their…
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond
Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Jörg Mull | 2022
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial…
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Variant scholarship
Ancient texts in modern contexts
Edited by Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel & Josephine Munch Rasmussen | 2023
Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of…
Revealing Christian Heritage. Volume I
The rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860 and 1930
Edited by Chiara Cecalupo | 2023
This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a…
Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
City Gates in the Roman West
Forms and functions
Cornelis van Tilburg | 2022
This book discusses various aspects of city gates in the Western Roman Empire: Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany and Britain. In these countries many Roman city gates are to be found, sometimes still in a good…
The early modern Zagori of Northwest Greece
An interdisciplinary archaeological inquiry into a montane cultural landscape
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou | 2022
Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their…
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond
Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Jörg Mull | 2022
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial…
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