The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and
function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above …

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome
formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the …

From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the
nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum …

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social
and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization–a …

Sight and the Ancient Senses examines the sense that greek and Roman antiquity theorized
above all others. approaching vision from a range of different thematic angles, the book …

It is not an easy book not to the reader and one of the most arguments documents
investment and the impact cross and remains by the telling of us. It is arranged through a …

Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological
phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from …

One of the goals of this book is to make a broad range of Islamic writing accessible to a
nonspecialist audience; with that in mind, I have used a simplified system of rendering the …

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of
Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 BC, Graham Zanker …

When we were asked by Routledge to edit a volume on gender and sexuality, we knew that
we wanted a set of new and forward-looking essays, not a summation of where we had …