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Published 2022
Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian's History of the Empire /

: In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. This book shows that each reign in Herodian's History is creatively mapped onto ever-recurring narrative patterns. It argues that patterning is not simply decorative in Herodian's work but constitutes a crucial conceptual and methodological tool for writing interpretative history. Herodian deserves credit as an original and independent author. A careful consideration of the formulaic nature of his historiography indicates that there is more artistry in his composition than had previously been discerned.
: This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004516922
9789004516892

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography /

: "Revised and enlarged"-- Title page verso.
Originally published : Alexander the Great. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970. : xxxvii, 617 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm : Includes bibliographical references (pages [569]-585) and index. : 0520071654 (cloth : permanent paper)
0520071662 (paper : permanent paper)

An Arab tells his story : a study in loyalties /

: "First edition, 1946." : vii, 229 pages : plates, portraits ; 23 cm.

Khul-khaal, five Egyptian women tell their stories /

: xxx, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : 0815601816

Published 1991
The intimate life of an Ottoman statesman : Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662) : as portrayed in Evliya Çelebi's Book of travels (Seyahat-name) /

: Selections from the author's Seyahatname. : 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0791406415 (PB : acid free)

Published 2017
Three stones make a wall the story of archaeology /

: xix, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographica references and index. : 9780691166407

Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ wa-al-tārīkh /

: volume <4> : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm : Includes bibliographical references. : 977196979x

The history of Alexander /

: Translation of : Historia Alexandri Magni. : 332 pages, [3] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-299) and index. : 0140444122 : .alaa-sweed

The history of the Saracens : comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the eleventh caliph /

: 2 pages l., xxviii, 512 pages : frontispiece (portraits) ; 19 cm : wafaa.lib.

Ahmose : An Egyptian soldier's story /

: viii, 310 pages : illustrations, drawings, plans, maps, photos (in black and white) ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-300) and index. : 9781494961473

The murder of Tutankhamen : a true story /

: Originally published : New York : Putnam, 1998. : xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. : 9780425206904

Published 1993
Histories of the monks of upper Egypt : And, The life of Onnophrius /

: Spine title : Histories of the monks of upper Egypt & the life of Onnophrius translated from the coptic.
Translated of : Historia monachorum in Aegypto. : 179 pages : maps ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographucal references (pages 167-171) and indexes. : 087907440x

Published 2005
Early Islam between Myth and History : Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship /

: This volume examines the process through which a historical character named al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was transformed into a myth by several groups in medieval Islam. Al-Ḥasan lived in the city of Basra, southern Iraq, and was famed for his piety, which attracted to him a large number of disciples who went on to play important roles in the formation of several religious trends. The literary corpus (sayings, stories and letters) ascribed to him has been used as a window into early Islamic religious and intellectual thought. But as this study shows, this corpus was largely forged in different periods, in some cases even a thousand years after al-Ḥasan's death. It tells us more about the beliefs of those who forged the sayings, stories and letters rather than about al-Ḥasan's thought and time.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047416708
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Pioneer to the past : the story of James Henry Breasted, archaeologist /

: x, 436 pages [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index.

Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda...

: xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Encyclopaedic prosopographical lexicon of Byzantine history and civilization /

: Originally published (in Greek): Athens : Metros/Iolcos, 1996-1998.
Translation of : Enkyklopaidiko prosōpographiko lexiko vyzantinēs historias kai politismou. : 476 p. ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782503523033

Published 2019
Scholarly personae in the history of Orientalism, 1870-1930 /

: This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar. Focusing on the field of study known as Orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume examines how Semitists, Sinologists, and Japanologists, among others, conceived of their scholarly tasks, what sort of demands these job descriptions made on the scholar in terms of habits, virtues, and skills, and how models of being an orientalist changed over time under influence of new research methods, cross-cultural encounters, and political transformations. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Christiaan Engberts, Holger Gzella, Hans Martin Krämer, Arie L. Molendijk, Herman Paul, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Henning Trüper.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004406315

The ladies of Castlebrae : a story of nineteenth-century travel and research /

: xiv, 242 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. : Bibliography : pages 241-242. : 0862992281

Published 2020
A classical archaeologist's life : the story so far : an autobiography /

: Sir John Boardman is one of the foremost experts on ancient Greek art. His autobiography offers a mixture of scholarly reminiscence, reflection on family life, travelogue and critique of classical scholarship worldwide. Illustrated with pictures of travels, friends and home life, it reflects on his experiences of more than 90 years.
: Also issued in print: 2020. : 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781789693447 (ebook) :

Egypt's road to Jerusalem : a diplomat's story of the struggle for peace in the Middle East /

: Includes index. : xii, 366 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. : 0679452451