Oxford University Press

This is the first account of Old Norse for a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. Professor Faarlund presents a full analysis of Old Norse syntax and succinct descriptions of its phonology and morphology. His approach is descriptive, set in a framework of generative grammar....

After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practised in the first century CE in the region where John was...

Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. In this rich and varied collection, writers from a range of fields explore Wallace's work - and influence today - as biologist, collector, and a Victorian deeply engaged with the social, political, and philosophical issues of the age....

An Infinity of Things tells the story of one of the largest private collections ever created, and the life of the man behind it. Funded by his vast personal fortune, Wellcome planned a great museum filled with treasures from all corners of the globe, charting the history of human health from prehistory to the present day....

The recovery of the various pasts of Britain - prehistoric, Roman, and Saxon - was one of the most remarkable achievements of seventeenth-century scholarship, carried out by some of the most learned men of the age.    The Trophies of Time offers the first comprehensive review of the heroic phase of antiquarian studies, when history was being...

The explorations of archaeology encompass the whole globe, survey 2.5 million        years, and range from deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, and from        pebble tools to GPS. Its efforts to reconstruct and understand the past do not fail        to fascinate us. Paul Bahn explores the importance of archaeology in...