Glass along the Silk Road from 200 BC to AD 1000 Jaime SobrinoSince Antiquity, the Silk Road was a network for commercial and cultural exchange, criss crossing the Asian continent, connecting eastern and south eastern Asia to the Mediterranean world via maritime and overland routes. Goods travelled in both directions; glass is an excellent example for a trade good that arrived in the East from the West.
Topics include identifying miniaturists and woodcut designers
Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear
the Treatise on the Martial Arts
The book reconstructs their story through archaeological and textual sources
and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice
Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success
migration and authoritarian politics
What do you think when someone mentions “Brazil”
life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art
but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look
the leading comic playwright of 1630s London - reconstructs the chronology of his career from manservant to successful professional dramatist and beyond