This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...

This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...

In spite of many differences, no age has had closer affinities with Ancient Greece than our own; none has based its deeper life so largely on ideal...

The London customs records of the Middle Ages represent a central source of economic history and finance for the English crown. These records trace...

Fully updated and revised , this edition of a classic medieval source collection features: Clear modern English translations , based on the best av...

Fully updated and revised , this edition of a classic medieval source collection features: Clear modern English translations , based on the best av...

"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253--55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to ...

The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through S...

These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orato...

These remarkable documents of Greek social and cultural history include masterpieces of lively narrative and subtle argument prepared by such orato...

A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of ...

A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of ...

The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

The Peak is Hong Kong’s top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...

The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half o...

By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...

By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...

The work deals in depth with Aristotle’s thesis that the change of location is in many ways the most important and fundamental form of change and t...

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...