for professional medievalists and for academics with an interest in ‘the animal turn’

former director of the British Museum in London

Ancient Rome is the perfect book for anyone who is interested in this defining period of world history

intricate annotations

to the offerings at a typical Greek symposium or drinking party in fourth century Athens

The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe MD2021 for professional medievalists and forLarisa Grollemond, Kelin Michael, Elizabeth Morrison, and Joshua ODriscoll This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world. From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious