Professor Emerita Hildred Geertz

Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the

Should a temple be seen as a work of art, its carvers as artists, its worshippers as art critics and patrons? What is a temple (and its art) to the pe

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How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil.

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.

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M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed thro

An engaging primer of the history of the sustainability movement from the 1600s to the present day, illuminating how sustainability evolved from a rel

A collection of extra-biblical scriptures written by the gnostics, updated with three ancient texts including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas

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The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and oth