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(Not) All Roads Lead to Rome
This book considers mobility in Antiquity in its broadest sense from a multidisciplinary perspective. Although mobility is always present in studies of exchange and cultural diffusion, here it is discussed as a key feature of societies, inherent to their functioning and where cultural, social and economic processes meet.
Reframing the Roman Economy
This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been studied through its macro-economic and large-scale – and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent – aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections, covering unusual actors and perspectives, unusual places of production, exigent landscapes of exploitation, less-visible products and artefacts, and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history, well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions.
Rewriting the Ancient World
Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world. The fascination that ancient society holds for later periods in the Western world is as noticeable in popular fiction as it is in other media, for there is a vast body of work either set in, or interacting with, classical models, themes and societies. These works of popular fiction encompass a very wide range of society, and the examination of the interaction between these books and the world of classics provides a fascinating study of both popular culture and example of classical reception.
Insularity, Identity and Epigraphy in the Roman World
This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigates Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their practical consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire. The contributions examine whether being related to an island was an externally or internally distinctive feature, and whether a tension between insularity and globalisation can be detected in this period. The book also looks at whether there is an insular material culture, an island-based approach to sacredness, or an island-based category of epigraphy.
Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Islam is the only biblical religion that still practices animal sacrifice. Indeed, every year more than a million animals are shipped to Mecca from all over the world to be slaughtered during the Muslim Hajj. This multi-disciplinary volume is the first to examine the physical foundations of this practice and the significance of the ritual. Brannon Wheeler uses both textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam. He provides a 'thick description' of the elaborate camel sacrifice performed by Muhammad, which serves as the model for future Hajj sacrifices. Wheeler integrates biblical and classical Arabic sources with evidence from zooarchaeology and the rock art of ancient Arabia to gain insight into an event that reportedly occurred 1400 years ago. His book encourages a more nuanced and expansive conception of “sacrifice” in the history of religion.
The Three Ages of Government
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments embraced this shift due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments began to perform a range of tasks, functions, and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the ga...
Central Asia in Antiquity
Central Asia is a wide subject of research in the archaeological and historical studies of the Ancient World. Scholars have usually focused on the complex and diverse questions that resulted from the analysis of the historical realities of this key region during Antiquity. The purpose of this book is to undertake an approach to the polymorphic and multiple aspects of Central Asia in Antiquity from several points of view. The starting point is the confidence in an interdisciplinary perspective as the mainway to understand the different aspects of the region in a very wide chronology: from the emergence of the cities and their relation with the nomadic populations, to the expansion of models a...
L'endemà
Quin país construirem lendemà de la independència? Les paraules dIsona Passola i les de gairebé 50 professionals destacats de tots els àmbits, catalans i internacionals, dibuixen amb entusiasme les possibilitats dun somni comú: la independència. Què farem quan siguem independents? Quin ha de ser el nostre model de país? Quines dificultats ens trobarem? Una emocionant reflexió col·lectiva, fruit dun moment històric inoblidable, portada a la pantalla gràcies a laportació de més de 8.000 persones i ara, també, convertida en un llibre que conté textos inèdits de lautora sobre aquesta campanya de finançament única i sobre aquest rodatge tan especial, sempre guiat per la passi...
Ecohistoria del paisaje agrario
La arqueología del paisaje ha aportado en los últimos veinte años una visión nueva sobre el estudio de la antigüedad. Partiendo de trabajos interdisciplinarios, especialmente con geógrafos y geólogos, pero también con médicos y biólogos, físicos y químicos, se han analizado en profundidad tanto los componentes de los paisajes antiguos como los de las sociedades que en él habitaban, sobre todo los del mundo grecorromano, en los que se produjo un fuerte impacto sobre el territorio y para los cuales los historiadores disponen de una amplísima documentación escrita. El interés de este libro es ocuparse de unos paisajes poco estudiados hasta ahora. Las aportaciones de reconocidos especialistas aquí reunidas demuestran cumplidamente la potencialidad de los estudios de arqueología del paisaje referentes a la cultura fenicio-púnica, sin la cual no puede entenderse la historia del Mediterráneo.
