Scenting salvation

ancient christianity and the olfactory imagination

This is not just a book about the Christianity of the Greco-Roman world; it embraces the entire Middle East through its rare ability to conjure up the imaginative world of the Christians of the Syriac- speaking region. It is a survey of a broad range ...

The mother of the gods, Athens and the tiranny of Asia

a study of sovereignty in ancient religion

This book elegantly illustrates how ancient divinities were not static types, but rather expressions of cultural systems that responded to historical change. Presenting a new perspective on the context in which the Homeric and Hesiodic epics were composed, Munn traces the transformation of the Asiatic ...

Immediate struggles

people, power and place in rural Spain

Although the focus of the book is on a region in Spain, many of the changes on the ground there are present world wide making the book of interest to scholars outside of Spain. This is an important study of a region in which great ...

The life of hinduism

The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays--many recognized as classics in the field--that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore, India's ...

A critical history of early Rome

from prehistory to first punic war

Printing and book culture in late Imperial China

Gooddesses and the divine feminine

a western religious history

This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture - from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation ...

Living on the edge in Leonardo's Florence

selected essays

The rhetoric of Manhood

masculinity in the attic orators

The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators ...

Cannibal talk

the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the south seas

Retrying Galileo

1633-1992

Spain

the root and the flower: an interpretation of Spain and the spanish people

Holy bishops in late antiquity

the nature christian leadership in an age of transition

The State of China atlas

China is the world's fastest-growing economy, and the second largest trading nation. With its entrepreneurial outlook and population of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and overseas investors. Presented through maps and graphics, this atlas profiles a country of marked disparities ...

German modernism

music and the arts

In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the ...

The monster that is history

history, violence, and fictional writing in Twentieth-Century China

In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of ...

The History of Human Rigths

From ancient times to the globalization era

Failure of empire

valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.

"Failure of Empire" is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune ...

The origins of indigenism

Human Rights and the politics of identity

'International indigenism' may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and accessible narrative, Ronald Niezen examines the ways the relatively recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - 'indigenous peoples' - intersects ...

Pathologies of power

health, Human Rights, and the new war on the poor