This two-volume set delves deeply into the life of the Muslim scholar Ibn A tham al-K f and his monumental historical work the Kit b al-fut Book of Conquests . This two-volume set delves deeply into the life of the Muslim scholar Ibn A tham al-K f and his monum... Lees meer.

This volume provides a much needed historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient medieval and early modern r... Lees meer.

This study focuses on the diversity with which early medieval society formed not only among macro European zones but also within individual areas and thus on the need to look beyond the models elaborated during a phase in which archaeological sources were still fragmen... Lees meer.

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a state-of-question introduction by Thomas Robinson assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of earl... Lees meer.

The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages and only re-emerging in the Renaissance when pe... Lees meer.

The Copts adherents of the Egyptian Orthodox Church today represent the largest Christian community in the Middle East and their presiding bishops have been accorded the title of pope since the third century AD. This study analyzes the development of the Egyptian pap... Lees meer.

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the product... Lees meer.

This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages third to ninth centuries AD . It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is... Lees meer.

A definitive new history of the origins evolution and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis or city-state was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship freedom and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and... Lees meer.

Why has the history of Western herbal medicine received such little research coverage in any systematic and authoritative way even though it has figured large in both lay and learned healthcare of the past. What methods and sources are most appropriate for the study o... Lees meer.

If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe then keep reading... Five captivating manuscripts in one book. European History. A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe Starting from the Neanderthals Through to the Roman Empire and the End of the Cold... Lees meer.

Responding to the profound challenges of our times this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective from the second millennium BCE and even earlier up to early modernity. Individual chapt... Lees meer.

The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East Central Asia India and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues nearly all working within th... Lees meer.

How did sexual relationships work before in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era. What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose. How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then. What were the possibilities for same-s... Lees meer.

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