Rostovtzeff Lectures – serie
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7 produkter
Origins of Monsters
Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Häftad, 2020
449 kr
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It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and …
Origins of Monsters
Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Inbunden, 2013
520 kr
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It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and …
Political Machine
Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus
Inbunden, 2015
494 kr
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The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age Caucasus, Adam Smith demonstrates that beyond assemblies of people, polities are just as importantly …
Silk Roads, Steppe Roads
History Unearthed from the Tombs of Medieval China
Inbunden, 2026
405 kr
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An innovative study of medieval Chinese tombs that provides new insights into the history of Eurasian cultural contact and exchangeSilk Roads, Steppe Roads takes the reader on a journey to three sites in northwestern China and Mongolia to investigate medieval Chinese tombs containing evidence of …
Rise of Coptic
Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2020
547 kr
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Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc …
Political Machine
Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus
Häftad, 2020
370 kr
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The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age Caucasus, Adam Smith demonstrates that beyond assemblies of people, polities are just as importantly …
Rise of Coptic
Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2022
370 kr
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Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc …
