Category: Ancient

By Susan Sorek

This can be the 1st monograph dedicated to the process of group benefaction practised via Jews in Palestine from the second one century BCE to the 6th century CE. critical is the facts from synagogue inscriptions erected to consumers and donors from the second one century CE onwards. these kinds of inscriptions are reviewed, including a re-evaluation of the way they're to be translated. Sorek is mainly drawn to the incentive for benefactions, and concludes that the Jewish procedure attested within the inscriptions is particular to the Jewish group. It was once now not in basic terms a replica of the well known Graeco-Roman procedure of euergetism, during which wealthy voters contributed from their wealth to public expenditures. yet neither was once the Jewish method competently an expression of charity, as has usually been proposal. Sorek argues that the benefaction approach is better understood as an expression of hesed, the that means of which she explores intimately.

By Andrew Monson, Walter Scheidel

Encouraged via the recent economic historical past, this publication represents the 1st worldwide survey of taxation within the premodern global. What emerges is a wealthy number of associations, together with experiments with refined tools comparable to sovereign debt and fiduciary funds, difficult the idea of a customary premodern level of financial improvement. The stories additionally show styles and correlations throughout extensively dispersed societies that make clear the fundamental components riding the intensification, abatement, and innovation of economic regimes. Twenty students have contributed views from a variety of fields in addition to heritage, together with anthropology, economics, political technology and sociology. The volume's assurance extends past Europe, the Mediterranean, and the close to East to East Asia and the Americas, thereby transcending the Eurocentric procedure of so much scholarship on economic background.

By by Gai, Joe, M.A., California State University, 2006

By Jehangir Cooverjee Coyajee

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By Lionel Casson

Written by means of the popular authority on historical ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, the traditional Mariners has lengthy served the wishes of all who're drawn to the ocean, from the informal reader to the pro historian. This thoroughly revised variation takes into consideration the clean details that has seemed because the ebook used to be first released in 1959, in particular that from archaeology's most modern department, marine archaeology. Casson does what no different writer has performed: he has installed a unmarried quantity the tale of all that the ancients complete at the sea from the earliest instances to the top of the Roman Empire. He explains how they perfected buying and selling vessels from mere rowboats into large freighters which could hold over 1000 lots, how they remodeled warships from easy oared transports into advanced rowing machines protecting hundreds of thousands of marines or even heavy artillery, and the way their maritime trade stepped forward from brief wary voyages to a community that reached from Spain to India.

By John Blofeld

By Craig A. Lockard

Created via a "student-tested, faculty-approved" evaluation procedure with 1000s of scholars and school, global is a fascinating and available method to accommodate the varied existence of cutting-edge newbies.

By Michael Maas

John Lydus and the Roman Past deals a brand new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as considered throughout the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century student and civil servant. Maas exhibit that keep watch over of classical inheritance was once politically contested within the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates how the prior should be used to express legitimacy and social definition at a time of profound swap.

By Hugo H. Koning

By John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, E. Sollberger, N. G. L. Hammond

In this interval the dominant powers within the East have been Assyria after which Babylonia. each one tested an intensive empire that used to be in line with Mesopotamia, and every in flip fell mostly via inner strife.