Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford and beyondThis fascinating book is full of surprises. It explores the remarkable
This volume of ten essays by classicists, art historians and archaeologists engages with the intellectual challenge that is making sense of Greek art.Chronologically, the essays cover the so-called Ar
From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their pro
The history, psychology, and pathology of Nazism and its practices have been addressed by an almost limitless list of authors, historians, and researchers since the twilight of the Third Reich. This
Simpson’s introductory study is based on the B-text, the most widely read and studied of the three versions of Piers Plowman. Aimed at undergraduates, it is the only truly introductory book on
Why is George II the forgotten monarch? In this new biography--the first for over 30 years--Jeremy Black explores why George II has been so neglected and demonstrates convincingly that he is a worthy
This straightforward, well-illustrated guide to manuscript study for students and researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature brings together invaluable advice on accessing and handling historic
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) has become a figure emblematic of his age—as well as one continually reassessed in our own time by generations of scholars, historians, and critics. This
The research of archaeologist and scholar Heinrich Härke has highly influenced contemporary theories of mortuary archaeology and our interpretations of historical burial practices. This volume b
This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story—the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Co
Part of the "Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies" series, which includes works of interest and importance previously unpublished, long out-of-print, or otherwise inaccessible to students. This e
An introduction to Old English and a starting-point for the discussion of life and literature in Anglo-Saxon England; it offers seven passages suitable for weekly or fortnightly work; each page is acc
This book is a collection of specially-commissioned art-historical essays on the theme of manuscript studies by some of the world's leading art historians and curators of manuscripts. It is expected t
This volume makes available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, a fifteenth-century English-language translation of De doctrina cordis, which was a thirteenth-century La
How can one begin to understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? In the case of Rome, the texts we have available—from the Bronze Age through the conquest of Italy around 300 BC—were
Cleopatra—Shakespeare’s muse of the past, mistress to Caesar and Mark Antony, wielder of the poisonous asp—has been dead for two millenia, but her name and image still resonate in t
This book takes a fresh look at the controversy surrounding the publication of the Book of Sports and the cultural battle over the tension between Sunday observance and traditional revelry in pre civi
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) has become a figure emblematic of his age—as well as one continually reassessed in our own time by generations of scholars, historians, and critics. This
