Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Paperback. While the cult of St Theodore has been studied in the context of hagiographical writing and from the perspective of his representation in medieval art, this translation of the Greek texts connected with St Theodore examines the structure of the texts and their historical development. Series: Translated Texts for Byzantinists. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations, Black and White. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381663
- ISBN
- 9781781381663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.45
€ 59.45
Hardback. The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. Series: Carl Newell Jackson Lectures. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLC1; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 206 x 35. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088771
- ISBN
- 9780674088771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.23€ 48.51
€ 52.23
€ 48.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 226 x 31. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884023913
- ISBN
- 9780884023913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.20
€ 45.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. By the middle of the sixth century, the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in half. This work covers the history of the wars between Byzantium and its numerous foes - the Goths, Arabs, Slavs, Crusaders and Ottoman Turks. Num Pages: 240 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 235
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752445656
- ISBN
- 9780752445656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, and the emperors who staged them and the critics. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Profile
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846684708
- ISBN
- 9781846684708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.70
€ 15.99
€ 11.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 27 maps and plans and 6 genealogical tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571114610
- ISBN
- 9780571114610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.04
€ 23.99
€ 16.04
hardcover. In a series of massive military undertakings that stretched from 1095 to 1291, Christendom's armies won, defended, and lost the sacred sites of the Holy Land. This book recreates the experience of crusading, from the elation of taking up the cross to the difficult adjustments at home when the war was over. Num Pages: 356 pages, 40 black & white illustrations + 20 colour images. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; HBWC; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300118889
- ISBN
- 9780300118889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.22
€ 43.99
€ 31.22
Hardback. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous leaders of all time.This controversial reassessment concludes that Alexander's claim to the status of military genius is not supported by evidence. The author contests he was clearly a misfit and increasingly traumatized, showing all the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp plate section, or none, approx 6 b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783461974
- ISBN
- 9781783461974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.79
€ 36.99
€ 30.79
Great Generals of the Ancient World: The Personality, Intellectual, an...
Professor Richard A. Gabriel
Hardback. Reveals the secrets of military greatness, timeless principles of leadership applicable today Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 b/w maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBG; HBLA; HBW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473859081
- ISBN
- 9781473859081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.80
€ 36.99
€ 31.80
Hardback. This reprint of Richard Brilliant's papers document the development of his ideas concerning Roman art and its links with Greek art. Divided into three sections, the papers discuss portraiture, the methods by which Roman artists adapted earlier models and the symbolic structures and characteristics of Roman art. Num Pages: 440 pages, 232 illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Pindar Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907132745
- ISBN
- 9780907132745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.47
€ 81.47
Paperback. Shows how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them. In this book, the author seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 192 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846684029
- ISBN
- 9781846684029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.27
€ 17.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841801
- ISBN
- 9781603841801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.90
€ 23.99
€ 21.90
Hardback. By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. In this title, Prokopios' tell-all is faithfully rendered in blunt and idiomatic English. Editor(s): Kaldellis, Anthony. Num Pages: 276 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841818
- ISBN
- 9781603841818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.84€ 43.87
€ 55.84
€ 43.87
Paperback. Includes translated commentaries, dating from the sixth century, that show the persisting survival of Greek learning in an increasingly Christianised world. This work takes the form of a series of explanations and glosses of classical references in Gregory's original Sermons. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HRAX; HRCX4; HRKP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853239178
- ISBN
- 9780853239178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.55
€ 36.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Translator(s): Yardley, John C. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy with slight shelf wear and sunning to cover and spine but remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000396
- ISBN
- 9780140444124
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. A Roman guide for campaigning. It is suitable for politicians and those who enjoys watching them try to manipulate their way into office. Translator(s): Freeman, Philip. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HPCA; HPS; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 175 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691154084
- ISBN
- 9780691154084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. Num Pages: 239 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 1QDAR; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Archaeopress Archaeology
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905739615
- ISBN
- 9781905739615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 102.70
€ 102.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Francese, Christopher; Smith, R. Scott. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624660009
- ISBN
- 9781624660009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Hardback. Editor(s): Francese, Christopher. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624660016
- ISBN
- 9781624660016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.68€ 70.74
€ 92.68
€ 70.74
Paperback. The Middle Kingdom (c 1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This book studies this literary legacy. It reassesses the Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on studies of the individual texts. It explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible. Series: Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 2CXG; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845537708
- ISBN
- 9781845537708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.64
€ 46.64