- Apocalypses
- Eugen Weber
- Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent. From this more than two millennia history, Weber redresses the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apocalypses and millennial thought to the ash heap of thought and belief.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- Byzantium
- Rowena Loverance
- In this introduction to the history of Byzantium, from the fourth to the fourteenth century, Rowena Loverance draws on the British Museum's rich collections of spectacular Byzantine silver, ivories, jewelry, and icons, as well as pieces from the empire's Persian and Germanic neighbors. This revised edition, featuring a new introduction, is updated to include the most recent finds and interpretations.
- Paperback 2004
- Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
- Nadia Maria El Cheikh
- This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization.
- Paperback 2004
- Byzantium, A World Civilization
- Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou
- Edited by Henry Maguire
- These seven chapters, originally given as lectures honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, cover a wide range of topics, from the relationship of Byzantium with its Islamic, Slavic, and Western European neighbors to the modern reception of Byzantine art.
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1995
- Christianity and the Transformation of the Book
- Anthony Grafton
- Megan Williams
- Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- The Early Chinese Empires
- Mark Edward Lewis
- Timothy Brook, General Editor
- In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity.
- Hardcover 2007
- From Athens to Auschwitz
- Christian Meier
- Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
- What does history mean today? What is its relevance to the modern world? In contemplating fundamental questions about history and the Western legacy, noted classical historian Meier offers a new interpretation on how we view the world.
- Hardcover 2005
- History, Theory, Text
- Elizabeth A. Clark
- In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2004