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Representing Rome's Emperors brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history,...

The teenage years. . . parents fear this stage, dreading it even while watching their adorable toddlers explore the world. When it arrives, they try to control their teenager, in turn causing their...

Rhetoric and Homiletics in Fourth-Century Christian Literature: Prose Rhythm, Oratorical Style, and Preaching in the Works of Ambrose, Jerome, and AugAuthor: Steven M. OberhelmanPublisher: Oxford...

Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why...

Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this volume explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches...

Author: Phil HusbandsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0198845391ISBN-13: 9780198845393

This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.Author: Wace, Glyn S. BurgessPublisher: Oxford...

Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also to educate and warn those in his own day who...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568)...

Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil...

Author: Greg WoolfPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2021Number of Pages: 512 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190687452ISBN-13: 9780190687458

This exciting new series, produced in partnership with the RSC, is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's plays. Using trusted and established RSC approaches and vibrant RSC performance...

This exciting new series, produced in partnership with the RSC, is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's plays. Using trusted and established RSC approaches and vibrant RSC performance...

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the...

An original approach to the iconic landscape of California--the beaches of Los Angeles--this book recovers untold stories of presidential jaunts, wild spring break celebrations, underground gay...

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and...

Towards the close of his long and brilliant career as the preeminent spokesperson for empirical theology, Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975) began writing Science Serving Faith, clearly intending it to...

What makes a state? This question has attracted more and more attention in recent years with Catalan's illegal vote for independence from Spain and Palestine's ongoing search for international...

In The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke answered two objectives: to refute the concept of the monarchy's divine right and to establish a theory reconciling civil liberties with political...

Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds. Our senses of vision, smell,...

Selected Poems: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Guillaume ApollinairePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 2016Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

Translation of: ?Education sentimentale.Author: Gustave FlaubertPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 2016Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.Author: Marko Attila HoarePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 15,...

Between Dissent and Disloyalty traces early America's troubled history of foreign meddling and political conflict through the career of James Madison. Spanning the period from the American Revolution...

Author: Barbara J. Sahakian|Julia GottwaldPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: February 01, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 019875289XISBN-13:...

Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's GuideAuthor: Michael Dobson, Stanley WellsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Dec 15, 2020Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars PoeticaAuthor: Bernard FrischerPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1991Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

A lively, funny and sometimes touching look at the adventures of some of Broadway's most colourful practitioners - from authors, directors, actors, producers and designers to the myriad other folk...

Author: Donald WorsterPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2018Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190849851ISBN-13: 9780190849856

Examines the use and meaning of Christian symbols found in Renaissance artAuthor: George FergusonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: January 01, 1961Number of Pages: 304...