Books and reading 2004

Periods

Macrohistory and archaeology

1. Cavallo, Guglielmo et Roger Chartier (eds.). Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1997. - 587 p.
2. Grmek, Mirko. Les maladies à l`aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans e monde grec historique, archaïque et classique. Paris: Payot & Rivages, 1994 (1983). - 532 p.
3. - (ed.). Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1998. - 478 p.
4. Wells, Peter S. Beyond Celts, Germans and Cythians. Archaeology and identity in Iron Age Europe. London: Duckworth, 2001. - 160 pp. (= Duckworth debates in archaeology)

Greece and Rome

Classical authors

1. von Albrecht, Michael. Meister römischer Prosa. Von Cato bis Apuleius. Interpretationen. Tübingen/Basel: Francke Verlag, 3rd ed., 1995.
2. - . Römische Poesie. Texte und Interpretationen. Tübingen/Basel: Francke Verlag, 2nd ed., 1995.
3. Apuleius. The golden ass. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. - 277 p. Translated by P. G. Walsh.
4. Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. On Medicine: Bks. I-IV. Loeb: 1935. - 513 p. Latin and English. Translated by W.G. Spencer.
5. Petronius. Satyricon. Ware (UK): Wordsworth, 1999 (1953, 1998). - 152 p. Translated by Paul Dinnage.
6. Suetonius. Kejsarbiografier. Oversatt med innledning och kommentarer av Ingemar Lagerström. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2001. - 503 p. (= Wahlström & Widstrands klassikerserie).

general and political history

1. Bleicken, Jochen. Verfassungs- und Sozialgeschichte des Römischen Kaiserreiches. Paderborn: Verlag Schöningh. Band 1. 4. Auflage, 1995 (1989, 1978). - 367 s. ; Band 2. 3. Auflage, 1994. - 302 p.
2. Cameron, Averil. The later Roman empire. AD 284-430. London: Fontana, 1993.  - 238 p. (= Fontana history of the classical world)
3. - . The Mediterranean world in late antiquity AD 395-600. London: Routledge, 1993. - 251 p. (= Routledge history of the ancient world).
4. Dahlheim, Werner. Geschichte der Römischen Kaiserzeit. 2nd ed. München: Oldenbourg, 1989. - 307 p. (= Oldenbourg Grundrisse der Geschichte, Band 3)
5. Finley, M.I. Politics in the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. - 152 p.
6. Millar, Fergus. The Roman empire and its neighbours. With contributions by Richard N. Frye, D. Berciu, Tamara Talbot Rice and George Kossack. London: Duckworth, 1981 (1967). - 370 p.

cultural history

1. Beard, Mary. The invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. - 229 p.
2. Brown, Peter. Authority and the sacred. Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman world. Cambridge University Press,  1997 (1995). - 91 p.
3. Cameron, Averil. Christianity and the rhetoric of empire. The development of Christian discourse.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994 (1991). - 261 p. (= Sather classical lectures, vol. 55)
4. Davidson, James. Courtesans and fishcakes. The consuming passions of classical Athens. London: Fontana, 1998 (1997). - 372 p.
5. Isager, Signe; J.E. Skydsgaard. Ancient Greek Agriculture: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1995. - 256 p.
6. Künzl, Ernst. Medizin in der Antike. Aus einer Welt ohne Narkose und Aspirin. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002. - 120 p.
7. Schulze, Christian. Celsus. Hildesheim: Olms, 2001. - 158 p.
8. Snodgrass, Anthony M. Arms and Armor of the Greeks. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1999. - 152 p.
9. Spivey, Nigel. Greek art. London: Phaidon press, 1997. - 447 pp.
10. Vegetti, Mario (red.). Nytt lys på antikkens litteratur. Oslo: Cappelen, 1997.- 252 p. (= Cappelens upopulære skrifter)
11. Zanker, Paul. Eine Kunst für die Sinne. Zur Bilderwelt des Dionysos und der Aphrodite. Berlin: Wagenbach, 1998. - 126 p. (= Kleine Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek nr. 62)

Middle ages

1. Hartmann-Virnich, Andreas. Was ist Romanik? Geschichte, Formen und Technik des romanischen Kirchenbaus. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2004. - 286 p.
2. Higounet, Charles. Les Allemands en Europe centrale et orientale au Moyen Age. Paris: Aubier, 1989. - 454 p.
3. Lawrence, C.H. Medieval monasticism. Forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. 3rd. edition. Edinburgh Gate (UK): Longman, 2001 (1984). - 321 p.
4. Waddell, Helen. The wandering scholars of the Middle Ages. New York: Dover, 2000 (1932). - 331 p.

Countries

East Asia

1. Buckley Ebrey, Patricia. Cambridge Illustrated History of China, The. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999 (1996). - 352 p. (= Cambridge Illustrated Histories Series)
2. Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. London: Murray, 2002. - 402 p.
3. Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig. Geschichte Chinas bis zur Mongolischen Erobrerung 250 v. Chr. - 1279 n. Chr. Oldenbourg: München, 1999. - 235 p. (= Oldenbourg Grundrisse der Geschichte, 26)
4. Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. London: Norton, 2000. - 322 p.

Germany and Austria

1. Gassner, Verena; Sonja Jilek; Sabine Ladstätter. Am Rande des Reiches. Die Römer in Österreich. Wien: Ueberreuter, 2002. - 488 p. (= Österreichische Geschichte 15 v. Chr. - 378 n. Chr. ).
2. Wolfram, Herwig. Das Reich und die Germanen. Zwischen Antike und Mittelalter. Berlin: Siedler, 1998. - 477 p. (= Siedler: Deutsche Geschichte, vol. 1)

France

1. Werner, Karl Ferdinand. Die Ursprünge Frankreichs bis zum Jahr 1000. München: DTV, 1995 (1989). - 660 p.

Spain and Portugal

1. Birmingham, David. A concise history of Portugal. 2nd. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 225 p.
2. - . Trade and empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600. London: Routledge, 2000.
3. Fletcher, Richard. Moorish Spain. London: Phoenix press, 2001 (1992). - 183 p.
4. Marques, A.H. de Oliveira. A expansão quatrocentista. (= Nova historia da expansão portuguesa, vol. 2). Lisboa: Estampa, 1998. - 401 p.
5. Saraiva, Jose Antonio. Introdução geral a cultura Portuguesa. 2nd. ed. (= A cultura em Portugal. Teoria e historia, vol. 1). Lisboa: Gradiva, 1996. - 240 p. HTM

Other

1. Berners- Lee, Tim. Weaving the web. The past, present and future of the World Wide Web by its inventor. London: Orion business books, 1999. - 244 pp.
2. Blackmore, Susan. Memesket. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, 2003. - 331 p.
3. Hughes-Warrington, Marnie. Fifty key thinkers on history. London: Routledge, 2000. - 363 p. (= Routledge key guides). 
4. Korte, Hermann. Über Norbert Elias. Das Werden eines Menschenwissenschaftlers. Suhrkamp, 1988. - 195 p.
5. Mitoraj. Urok Gorgony. The spell of Gorgon. Warsawa 2003. - 192 p.
6. Nagami, Pamela. The woman with a worm in her head and other true stories of infectious disease. London: Fusion Press, 2001. - 285 p.
7. Nourmand, Tony; Graham Marsh. Film posters of the 40s. The essential movies of the decade. London: Autom Press, 2002. - 126 p.
8. Wadel, Cato. Læring i lærende organisasjoner. Flekkefjord: SEEK, 2002.- 116 p.
9. Weil, Simone. Tyngden og nåden. Oslo: Gyldendal, 2001. - 197 p. (= Ad Fontes-serien)

Fiction

1. Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci code. London: Corgi, 2003.
2. Gibbons, William. Pattern recognition. New York: Putnam, 2003. - 356 p.
3. Koike, Kazuko & Goseki Kojima. Heaven and earth. Milwaukee: Dark horse comics, 2002. - 276 p. (= Lone wolf and cub, vol. 22)
4. Mirrlees, Hope. Lud-in-the-mist. London: Millennium, 2000 (1926). - 273 p.
5. Stephenson, Neal. The diamond age. London: Bantam, 1996. - 499 p.

A comment

The fantasy author Hope Mirrlees (Lud-in-the-mist) happened to be the close friend, confidante and possibly lover of the great classicist Jane Harrison (1850-1928). "A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman -- as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens" (HTM). I read Harrison`s Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion a long time - maybe forty years - ago and was deeply impressed. Meeting her in her social context, through Mary Beard`s scholarly and irreverent book (The invention of Jane Harrison), was a pleasure.