The first writing

script invention as history and process

Gender in the Early Medieval World

East and West, 300-900

Gender analysis is one of the most probing ways to understand both power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. In this book, sixteen scholars on the cutting edges of their disciplines explore the ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from c. 300 ...

Alfred Tarski

life and logic

Christianity and roman society

The Cambridge Companion to reformation theology

Ancient Puebloan Southwest

Ancient Puebloan Southwest traces the evolution of Puebloan society in the American Southwest from the emergence of the Chaco and Mimbres traditions in the AD 1000s through the early decades of contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The 2004 book focuses on the ...

Rome's religious history

Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their gods

Ancient Maya

the rise and fall of a rainforest civilization

The origins and evolution of Islamic Law

Long before the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Arabia had come to form an integral part of the Near East. This book, covering more than three centuries of legal history, presents an important account of how Islam developed its own law while ...

Ethnicity, nationalism, and minority rights

The European Union and conflict prevention

policy and legal aspects

Since 2001, the prevention of violent conflicts has been a priority of the European Union's external policy. In addition to new operational competences developed under the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Union is particularly suited to combat root-causes of conflicts throughout the ...

The parthenon and its sculptures

Modeling aggregate behavior and fluctuations in economics

stochastic views of interacting agents

This book has two components: stochastic dynamics and stochastic random combinatorial analysis. The first discusses evolving patterns of interactions of a large but finite number of agents of several types. Changes of agent types or their choices or decisions over time are formulated as jump ...

Euros and europeans

monetary integration and the european model of society

The reform of the frankish Church

chrodegang of metz and the regula canonicorum in the eighth century

Chrodegang of Metz (c. 712-766) was a leading figure of the late Merovingian and early Carolingian Church. Born to one of the principal aristocratic families in Austrasia, he served as referendary of Charles Martel, and was appointed bishop of Metz in the 740s. As bishop ...

A monetary history of the Ottoman empire

The Ottoman empire stood at the crossroads of intercontinental trade at the dawn of the era of capitalism. This volume examines the monetary history of that empire from its beginnings in the fourteenth century to the end of the first world war. Through a detailed ...

Classical humanism and republicanism in english political thought

1570-1640

Ancient Rome

a military and political history

The rights of others

aliens, residents, and citizens

The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state ...

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time ...

Print, manuscript and the search for Order

1450-1830

This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested ...

Republicanism

a shared european heritage.Vol.I: Republicanism and constitucionalism in early modern Europe

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally ...