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11. The Babylonian World

    Edited by Gwendolyn Leick

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and...

    Published December 31st 2008 by Routledge
12. The Renaissance World

    Edited by John Jeffries Martin

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and...

    Published September 30th 2008 by Routledge
13. The World of Pompeii

    Edited by Pedar Foss, John J. Dobbins

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes...

    Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge
14. The Enlightenment World

    Edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf, Iain McCalman

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720–1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up...

    Published November 23rd 2006 by Routledge
15. The Early Christian World

    Edited by Philip F. Esler

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social,...

    Published July 28th 2004 by Routledge
16. The Biblical World

    Edited by John Barton

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings and social context of the Bible. It presents the fruits of years of specialist study in an accessible form, and is essential reading for anyone who reads the Bible and would like to know more about how and why it came...

    Published July 28th 2004 by Routledge
17. The Hindu World

    Edited by Sushil Mittal, Gene Thursby

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today. With twenty-four dedicated chapters written by the world's leading Hinduism scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great...

    Published July 7th 2004 by Routledge
18. The Medieval World

    Edited by Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth...

    Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
19. The Roman World

    Edited by John Wacher

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    When originally published in 1987, this book was hailed as a landmark in the study of the Roman World. Now back in print with a new preface by the author, it is still the most comprehensive survey of the Roman World available. Ranging from the founding of Rome in the eighth century BC, and...

    Published September 26th 2001 by Routledge
20. The Reformation World

    Edited by Andrew Pettegree

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet. A timely and much-needed account, it looks at every aspect of the Reformation world and considers new historical research which has led to the expansion of the subject both thematically and...

    Published September 23rd 2001 by Routledge