Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Late Antiquity & Byzantium
Palmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9798888570609
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 72 Illustrations including Color & B/W photographs, maps, illustrations, charts, and diagrams
Description:
This book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene ‘Empire’ (AD 272) and the end of the Umayyad dominion (AD 750). The goal of the book is to fill a substantial hole in modern scholarship - the late antique and early Islamic history of the city still has to be written. In late antiquity Palmyra remained a thriving provincial city whose existence was assured by its newly acquired role of stronghold along the eastern frontier.
Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781789258745
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/W and colour
Description:
Cyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century did not abruptly bring the island’s prosperity to an end. Recent research instead highlights long-lasting continuity in both urban and rural contexts.
Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1088
ISBN: 9781789251920
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series
Illustrations: 700 black and white & colour images
Description:
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world.
Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789250077
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity. It was rarely disturbed by external invasions and remained largely untouched by the continuous Roman-Persian conflict until very late in the period, was apparently well connected to the flourishing Mediterranean economy and, as the region closest to Constantinople, is assumed to have played an important part in the provisioning of the imperial capital and the imperial armies. When exactly this prosperity came to an end – the late sixth century, the early, middle or even later seventh century – remains a matter of debate.
The Logbooks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780819576446
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2016
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
Description:
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner’s son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut’s slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely.
Justinian's Balkan Wars Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9780905205588
Pub Date: 06 Jan 2016
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: 20 colour illus
Description:
Justinian’s Balkan Wars is the first history of military and diplomatic affairs in the Roman provinces south of the River Danube during the reign of the Emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-65).
Constantinople Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781782971719
Pub Date: 29 Nov 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col. illus
Description:
Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named ‘Constantinople' after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and surviving buildings, but its archaeology remains relatively little known compared to other great urban centres of the ancient and medieval worlds. Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis is a major archaeological assessment of a key period in the development of this historic city.

New Light on Old Glass

Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780861591794
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2013
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. New Light on Old Glass explores how mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive; revealing changing aesthetics and issues surrounding the technical production of glass in medieval artistic practices. This is the first time that so many diverse papers, ranging from art history, archaeology, chemistry, physics and Byzantine studies have been assembled in one volume, and is the culmination of a five-year research programme on the Composition of Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae, conducted by the University of Sussex in conjunction with the British Museum and sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
The Balboura Survey and Settlement in Highland Southwest Anatolia Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781898249221
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2012
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Description:
The Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and 1994, investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in the mountains of southwestern Turkey. Although the survey's focus was on the Hellenistic-Early Byzantine city of Balboura and its western territory, the fieldwork revealed significant prehistoric occupation, and the project included research into Ottoman and recent settlement. Vol.
RRP: £80.00
Gems of heaven' Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780861591770
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2011
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 600 colour illus integrated throughout the volume, with maps and tables
Description:
This is the companion volume to one devoted to recent research on Byzantine jewellery published in 2010 and forms part of a series organised under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine Seminar Series. The conference brought together leading scholars from Europe, the USA and the Middle East to discuss Late Antique gems and cameos. This is the first time that so many diverse papers, interdisciplinary in nature, have been assembled in a single volume and includes scientific papers addressing issues such as typology and sourcing of gemstones.
Butrint 3 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9781842179802
Pub Date: 08 Sep 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: c.425 b/w and 60 col illus
Description:
This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments - and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its Mediterranean connections.
Unclassical Traditions Volume 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780956838100
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2011
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity is the second of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with the classical past. Rather than concentrating on developments at the centre of empire (the focus of a previous volume, Unclassical Traditions I ), the aim here is to present a set of views from the margins: social, political, religious, literary, geographical and linguistic.
RRP: £45.00
The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9781842174173
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts.
Unclassical Traditions Volume 1 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780906014332
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2010
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with its classical heritage. This issue has long been at the heart of modern historical debate and, as this volume demonstrates, it was no less a matter of concern among authors and audiences in the period itself. From the Chronological Tables of Eusebius of Caesarea to the Brevarium of Festus and from the imperial panegyric to the Byzantine liturgy, eight papers explore how the persistence, dominance and normative nature of the classical tradition in its various forms could be negotiated, undermined, ironised or even flatly denied.
Alexandria Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788779344914
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2010
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination of the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world and so did Philo, Josephus and Clement.
Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781902937403
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2007
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 527 b/w illus, 58 col illus, 43 tabs
Description:
These two volumes report on five season's excavation and four millennia of occupation at Kilise Tepe, from the Early Bronze Age through the rise and fall of the Hittite Empire and into the Byzantine era when the mound was crowned by a substantial church. The site takes its importance from its position guarding the Göksu Valley, one of the two main routes from the interior of Anatolia to the Mediterranean opposite Cyprus, so that it gives a record of relations between the interior and the seaboard. Of particular interest are the sequence from the Hittite Empire through the end of the Bronze Age and into the classical world, and the Byzantine levels associated with the church.
RRP: £95.00