Blood and iron : stories and storytelling in Homer's Odyssey /
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Blood and Iron is an exploration of the role of gossip, rumor and storytelling in the society depicted in the Odyssey and in the real world in which the poem was performed. It includes extensive analysis of Homeric narrative technique, with particular attention to the way the singer creates tension in a largely traditional tale. Individual chapters treat discrete, generally very traditional literary and historical problems, including the significance of the term kleos , the presentation of Telemachos, the internal chronology of the poem, the nature of Homeric kingship, and the role of violence in the ancient Greek family. The book will be of importance for anyone interested in the literary content or storytelling technique of Homeric epic, as well for historians of the late Dark Ages.
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1 online resource (x, 260 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252) and index. :
9789004329539 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Blood, faith and iron : a dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England /
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An iconic industrial landscape, presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a national narrative of heroic Protestant individualism. However this is not the full story. In fact this industrial landscape was created by an entrepreneurial Catholic dynasty over 200 years before the Iron Bridge was built.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690699 (ebook) :
The Poole Iron Age logboat /
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This text is the culmination of significant multi-disciplinary work carried out by a variety of specialists, from conservators to woodworking and boatbuilding experts, exploring the history of the Poole Iron Age logboat (today imposingly displayed in the entrance to Poole Museum in Dorset) and also its functionality - or lack of - as a vessel.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (x, 122 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789691450 (ebook) :
Bringing down the iron curtain : paradigmatic change in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? /
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Bringing down the Iron Curtain: Paradigmatic changes in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? presents the researches of scholars of different generations from twelve countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Canada, Austria) who participated in a session of the same title at the 20th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul, 2014. The papers addressed the question of change in the approaches to Bronze Age research in the Central and Eastern European countries from different points of view.
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1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694550 (ebook) :
Agriculture in Iron Age Israel /
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Orig. pub. Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, �1987. "Reprinted by permission."--T.p.verso
Initiated as a Ph. D. dissertation at the University of Michigan. :
xxii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-184) and indexes.
"Bibliography: updated and annotated": pages 185-213 :
0897570545
9780897570541
Iron from Tutankhamun's tomb /
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"A century after Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's sensational discovery in 1922 of the virtually intact tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, the boy-king and his treasures continue to fascinate people all over the world. Although nearly 5,400 objects accompanied the young pharaoh on his journey to the afterlife, many of them have not been investigated in detail. Iron from Tutankhamun's Tomb analyzes nineteen iron artifacts from the tomb in depth for the first time. This group consists of sixteen small iron chisels set into wooden handles, an Eye of Horus amulet, a miniature headrest, and the blade of a richly decorated golden dagger. The most important of these were placed in close proximity to the king's mummy, emphasizing the high value attributed to this rare material in late Bronze Age Egypt-a time when iron smelting was not yet known in the land of the Nile. Written by a research team of archaeologists, scientists, and conservators, this comprehensive study explores in fascinating detail the context and meaning of these artifacts, while establishing for the first time that Tutankhamun's iron came from meteorites. They complete their examination with the results of chemical analyses, offering in the process a rich overall understanding of iron and its significance in ancient Egypt."--
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xiv, 61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781617979972
Dress and identity in Iron Age Britain : a study of glass beads and other objects of personal adornment /
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Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book explores the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915278 (ebook) :
Challenging preconceptions of the European Iron Age : essays in honour of Professor John Collis /
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This collection of essays by leading researchers in the archaeology of the European Iron Age pays tribute to Professor John Collis who, since the 1960s, has been involved in investigating and enriching our understanding of Iron Age society and, crucially, questioning the status quo of our narratives about the past.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803270074 (PDF ebook) :
Assessing iron age marsh-forts : with reference to the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment surrounding the Berth, North Shropshire /
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This volume assesses marsh-forts as a separate phenomenon within Iron Age society through an understanding of their landscape context and palaeoenvironmental development. These substantial monuments appear to have been deliberately constructed to control areas of marginal wetland and may have played an important role in the ritual landscape.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698640 (PDF ebook) :
Between Point Zero and the Iron Curtain : International Cooperation in Art and the Postwar Moment, 1945-1948 /
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This volume, edited by Éva Forgács, with contributions from art historians from across Europe and the Americas, analyzes the artistic initiatives of the short time span between the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. In this moment, a new internationalism was anticipated by retrieving pre-war modernism, as well as creating the new era's new artistic lingua franca. The chapters include in-depth case studies that analyze the complex, often interconnected, projects throughout the world-South America, North Africa, and eastern and western Europe-that were soon ended by the Cold War. See Less
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1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004711280
Origins, development and abandonment of an Iron Age village : further archaeological investigations...
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This volume is the second of two reports on archaeological excavations undertaken ahead of the eastern expansion of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) which lies in the northern watershed region of Northamptonshire at its border with Warwickshire.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784912192 (PDF ebook) :