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Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty by Caroline Dunn 9783030093471
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and... -
On the Edge of Empires: North Mesopotamia During the Roman Period (2nd - 4th c. CE) Rocco Palermo 9781032093727
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80On the Edge of Empires explores the mixed culture of North Mesopotamia in the Roman period. This volatile region at the eastern edge of the Roman world became during the imperial period the theater... -
The Genesis of Modernity by Arpad Szakolczai
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant... -
Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity Yonatan Moss 9780520418356
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus's body: Was it corruptible prior to its... -
Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France Marc D. Schachter 9781138274396
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period. These... -
Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East by 9781032337227
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95 BCE to 224 CE. Schlude explores the rhythms of this relationship... -
Narbonne and its Territory in Late Antiquity: From the Visigoths to the Arabs by Frank Riess
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This work centres on the post-Roman period of Narbonne and its territory, up to its capture by the Arabs in 720, encompassing not only recent archaeological findings but also perspectives of French,... -
Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire by Michael Grant 9780415642293
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire presents a study of third century Rome, which is lavishly illustrated and a lucid read, typical of Michael Grant's inimitable style.In Collapse and Recovery... -
Tiberius the Politician by Barbara Levick
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors. At the same time, his career is uniquely important for the understanding of the Empire's development on the foundations laid... -
Heroism in the Harry Potter Series Katrin Berndt 9781138261013
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized... -
Marcus Aurelius: A Biography by Anthony R Birley
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar:... -
Roman Conquests: Britain Simon Elliott 9781526765680
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic... -
Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity Yonatan Moss 9780520289994
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus' body: Was it corruptible prior to its... -
The Roman Auxiliary Units of Britain Simon Turney 9781399056038
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47The majority of work on Roman Britain's military focuses on the legions, with much less attention paid to the auxilia, even though the latter formed the vast majority of the manpower. The auxiliary... -
Storming The Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, And Civilians In The Roman Empire by Antonio Santosuosso
Booksplease Price: £49.89In the closing years of the second century B.C., the ancient world watched as the Roman armies maintained clear superiority over all they surveyed. But, social turmoil prevailed at the heart of her... -
From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity by Anton J.L.Van Hooff 9780415513241
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods... -
Aurelian and the Third Century by Alaric Watson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the... -
Art in the Roman Empire by Michael Grant
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37Michael Grant has specially selected some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware, to give a unique insight into the functions and... -
Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality by Thomas Grunewald
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history.Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus,... -
Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter Elizabeth E. Heilman (Michigan State University, USA) 9780415964845
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon... -
Roman Gaul (Routledge Revivals): The Three Provinces, 58 BC-AD 260 John Drinkwater 9780415748650
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Roman Gaul, first published in 1983, makes use of a wealth of archaeological discoveries and modern methods of interpretation to give an account of the Roman presence in Gaul, from the time of... -
The Means Of Naming: A Social History Stephen Wilson 9781857282450
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Names are never given accidentally; they are chosen and bestowed according to rules that reflect fundamental features of the society and culture concerned. This is a study of the nature and history... -
LEGO Harry Potter Ideas Book: More Than 200 Ideas for Builds, Activities and Games by Julia March 9780744084566
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.06Conjure the magic of Harry Potter using your LEGO bricks Delve into the world of LEGO Harry Potter and be inspired to build your own magical creations with LEGO Harry Potter Ideas Book, packed full... -
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre by Naomi Conn Liebler 9780415131834
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and... -
Latin Literature of the Fourth Century by J. W. Binns 9780415740159
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 years before the collapse of the Western Empire,... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.24The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of... -
Augustus: Image and Substance by Barbara Levick 9780582894211
Booksplease Price: £49.46Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness... -
Rome and Persia at War: Imperial Competition and Contact, 193-363 CE by Peter Edwell
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict... -
Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical Survey by M. L. Clarke
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This new edition of M.L. Clarke's 1953 classic study of Roman rhetoric incorporates corrections and a new introduction by D.H. Berry. The bibliography has been substantially updated and supplemented... -
The Look of Van Dyck: The Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and the Vision of the Painter John Peacock 9781138251335
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is... -
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood by Judith Evans Grubbs
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook... -
Roman Coins from India by Paula J Turner
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This book is a detailed collation of the recorded finds of Roman coins on Indian soil, divided into Republican, Julio-Claudian and post-Julio-Claudian coins. It also includes chapters on the... -
LEGO Harry Potter Ideas Book: More Than 200 Ideas for Builds, Activities and Games by Julia March 9780241610589
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Conjure the magic of Harry Potter using your LEGO bricksDelve into the world of LEGO Harry Potter and be inspired to build your own magical creations with LEGO Harry Potter Ideas Book, packed full of... -
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire by Thomas Wiedemann 9780415749671
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for... -
Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650 by Brian Croke 9781032234816
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical... -
Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources Ralph Mathisen 9781138251328
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as... -
Caligula Sam Wilkinson 9780415341219
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Sam Wilkinson provides an accessible introduction to the reign of Caligula, one of the most controversial of all the Roman Emperors. Caligula's policies have often been interpreted to be those of a... -
The Lost History of Peter the Patrician: An Account of Rome's Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian by Thomas M. Banchich
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter's History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of... -
Greek and Roman Military Writers: Selected Readings by Brian Campbell
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers who tell us about the technical aspects of military practice and the management of armies.The... -
Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars Jasper Burns 9780415408981
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.95Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's...