The Raunds Area Project investigated more than 20 Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Nene Valley. From c 5000 BC to the early 1st millennium cal BC a succession of ritual mounds and burial mounds were built as settlement along the valley sides increased and woodland was c…
by Foard, Glenn, Deegan, Alison
fromEnglish Heritage
Aerial reconnaissance and the National Mapping Programme project in Northamptonshire have recovered and mapped evidence of archaeological activity of widely varying character, from field systems through settlement remains to funerary monuments, and ranging in period from the Neo…
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world novels since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patron…
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information, generates advantag…
This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o…
Régulièrement la postérité instruit le cas Hérodote : est-il ethnographe ou historien ? Est-il l'historiographe d'un prince ou d'une cité ? S'il est le père de l'histoire, pourquoi ment-il alors comme ne saurait le faire un historien ? Les Histoires- couramment appelées L'Enquêt…
"Warfare has long been recognised as central to a proper understanding of the classical world, where, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, war was 'both king and father of all.' More recently, however, an approach to the ancient world solely in such terms has been challenged.…
