Late Antiquity and Byzantium

The Years without Summer
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
£45.00
Editors:
Joel D. Gunn
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710747
Paperback:
176pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and line drawings.
BAR number:
S872
Sub Title:
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
“In the fall season of A.D. 536 Cassiodorus sat at his writing table…..” So Joel D. Gunn begins this interesting and unusual topic of... More
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£87.00
Author:
David Klingle
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310435
Paperback:
348pp
BAR number:
B569
The book systematically examines and compares a large sample of burials from the same region, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, in the... More
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£32.00
Author:
Julia Seiber
Publication Year:
1977
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860540007
Paperback:
124pp, Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S37
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The Significance of Portages
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Significance of Portages, 29th Sept–2nd Oct 2004, in Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, arranged by the County Municipality of Vest-Agder, Kristiansand
£69.00
Editors:
Christer Westerdahl
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841719306
Paperback:
286pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs
BAR number:
S1499
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Significance of Portages, 29th Sept–2nd Oct 2004, in Lyngdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, arranged by the County Municipality of Vest-Agder, Kristiansand
Conveying craft and their cargoes between navigable waterways (Portages) represents a hitherto neglected feature of past transport... More
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£75.00
Author:
Katia Cytryn-Silverman
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306711
Paperback:
304pp. Includes 100 plates of maps, drawing and figures in colour and black and white, Gazetteer
BAR number:
S2130
The term khan can refer to urban and rural hostelries, relay stations of the Mamluk royal mail, fortresses, farmhouses, warehouses, and... More
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The Resilience of the Roman Empire
Regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources
£44.00
Editors:
Dimitri Van Limbergen, Sadi Maréchal and Wim De Clercq
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356945
Paperback:
152 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 26 tables, 38 figures.
BAR number:
S3000
Sub Title:
Regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources
The Resilience of the Roman Empire discusses the relationship between population and regional development in the Roman world from the perspective of... More
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The Origin of White Porcelain
Transformation of ceramic technology in sixth century north China
£50.00
Author:
Shan Huang
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407360492
Paperback:
164 pages
Sub-series name:
UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series, 8
BAR number:
S3113
Sub Title:
Transformation of ceramic technology in sixth century north China
The sixth century saw a major transformation of ceramic technology. It initiated an era characterised by porcelain and polychrome decoration that overturned... More
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£29.00
Author:
Attilio Mastrocinque
Publication Year:
2022
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407359137
Paperback:
116 pages, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour. 24 figures.
BAR number:
S3074
Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy. It... More
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The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
£39.00
Author:
Chin-Yin Tseng
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311883
Paperback:
130pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2567
Sub Title:
Constructing material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)
The Tuoba's success in the development of the Northern Wei as a conquest dynasty in fifth-century northern China is demonstrated as a... More
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£33.00
Author:
Ryan H. Wilkinson
Publication Year:
2020
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407356839
Paperback:
120 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 21 figures.
BAR number:
S3006
Sub Title:
A prosopographical, numismatic, and ceramic synthesis (ca. 395-550 CE)
How did the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ change social and economic networks in eastern Gaul, and how did new ‘barbarian’ political frontiers shape those... More
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£48.00
Editors:
Demetrios Michaelides, Philippe Pergola, Enrico Zanini
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407311418
Paperback:
201pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556), 2
BAR number:
S2523
Sub Title:
Archaeology and history
The backbone of seafaring mobility of humans and goods during the historical longue durée of the Mediterranean basin was formed by... More
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The Impact of Rome on Settlement in the Northwestern and Danube Provinces
Lectures held at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in winter 1998/99
£43.00
Editors:
Stefan Altekamp and Alfred Schäfer
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English, German and French
ISBN:
9781841712192
Paperback:
169pp. Includes numerous figures, plates, maps, plans and drawings.
BAR number:
S921
Sub Title:
Lectures held at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in winter 1998/99
The seven chapters in this volume were delivered at a cycle of lectures presented (at the Winckelmann-Institut der Humboldt-Universität)... More
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