Articles

"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But... 
Greece | Civilization | Greece Civilization | City-states | To 1500 | Greece Politics and government | Greece Economic conditions | History | Economic history | Social change | Politics and government | Economic History | Ancient | History & Surveys | History & Theory | Business & Economics | Ancient & Classical | Political | Philosophy | Political Science | Economics | To 146 B.C | Economic conditions | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | HISTORY

"The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used... 
Sewerage | Italy Social life and customs | Sanitation | City and town life | Italy Antiquities, Roman | Water-supply | City planning | History | Sanitary engineering | Public health | Public toilets

"During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department's Cultural... 
Arts and diplomacy | Communist countries Foreign relationsHistory | United States Cultural policyHistory | Music and globalization | History | United States. Department of State.Cultural Presentations Program History | United States Foreign relationsHistory | Music in intercultural communication | History & Criticism | Music | United States. Department of State. Cultural Presentations Program | 20th century | United States | Foreign relations | Cultural policy | Communist countries | Political Science | Communist countries - Foreign relations - United States - History - 20th century

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the... 
History | Church history | HBLC | Rome | Economic History | Christian Church | Ancient | Business & Economics | Religion | HRCC1 | 1QDAR | HBLA | Economics | Empire, 284–476 | Religious aspects | Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600 | Christianity | Wealth | RELIGION | HISTORY | Empire, 284-476 | Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by... 
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian | Methodology | Magic, Assyro-Babylonian | Philosophy | Literary Criticism | Ancient & Classical

Available for the first time in paperback, this first large-scale, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and... 
History of Medicine | Classical Studies | History | Physicians - History

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political... 
Political culture | Humanities | Germany History | History | Social sciences | Germany Intellectual life | Intellectual life | 20th century | 1918–1933 | Germany | Philosophy | Political Science | PHILOSOPHY | Europe | History & Surveys | Modern | HISTORY | 1918-1933

This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is... 
History of Medicine | History, Medieval | Medicine, Medieval, in literature | Literature and medicine | History | Medicine, Medieval | Literature and morals | Medieval Literature | Classical and Antique Literature | Literature | Social History | History of Religion | Religion and Society | History of Medieval Europe | Literature, Medieval | Humanities | the seven deadly sins | medieval medicine | Languages and Literature | medieval religion | Historia | Språk och litteratur | History and Archaeology | Humaniora | General Literature Studies | history of religion | medieval culture | Litteraturvetenskap | medieval literature | Historia och arkeologi | history of medicine

This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of crusades. It addresses the question... 
Classical Studies | World/International History | Late Antiquity & Byzantium | Medieval History 400-1500 | Civilization | Political culture | Ethnicity | Roman influences | Community life | To 1500 | Europe | History | 476-1492 | Byzantine Empire | Identification (Religion)

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider... 
Medicine | History | Medical innovations | Medicine, Ancient | Other branches of medicine | Dreams | History of Medicine | Classical Studies | Modern History 1750-1945 | Social & Cultural History | Late Antiquity & Byzantium | Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Dreams in literature

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature... 
People with disabilities | Literature, Medieval | History and criticism | History | People with disabilities in literature | History of Medicine | Medieval Literature | Medieval History 400-1500 | To 1500

Printing | Popular culture | Street literature | Ballads, English | Broadsides | History and criticism | History

Rome History, Military | Greece History, Military | History | Military history, Ancient | Military art and science

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the... 
Middle East CivilizationPhilosophy | Civilization | Middle East Intellectual life | Mythology, Middle Eastern | Acculturation | Middle East CivilizationHistoriography | Arabs | Romans | History | Greeks | Philosophy | Middle East Colonization | Middle East | Intellectual life | Historiography | Colonization | Ancient | HISTORY