... conceptualization of justice. It suggests that the ‘rod and ring’ scene in royal monuments also signified righteous kingship sanctified by the gods and it communicated an aspect of the enduring relationship between the palace and the temple which served to secure the institutional continuity that endured throughout...

... was gradual and the arrival of the Arabs had little impact on the daily lives of the Egyptians. The Arab conquest did not result in mass confiscations of land in Egypt and there was no programme of land rewards for the conquering elite. This chapter suggests that both administrative continuity and change were...

... places and long-term political continuity in early medieval South-East Wales. It concludes by considering some of the contrasts between patterns of power in South-East Wales and Anglo-Saxon England. Book of Llandaf Seaman Andy Wales ‘barbarians’ Cyfraith Hywel Law of Hywel Hywel Dda King...

...The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet it is a subject that has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These chapters, covering more than 4,000 years of history, discuss the continuity...

... of these mechanisms through three aspects of social extension — ontological security, psychological continuity and extension of self. References Aiello, L. C. ( 1998 ). The ‘expensive tissue hypothesis’ and the evolution of the human adaptive niche: a study in comparative anatomy. In: J. Bayley (ed...

...This chapter examines continuity and change in Iraq from the mid-thirteenth century to the present, with special reference to royal ideology and administrative practices. It explains that during these six centuries, Iraq underwent a series of major upheavals but a degree of continuity was preserved...

... able to adopt a variety of ways to distribute qualities to beings in the world, thus resulting in forms of discontinuity and continuity between humans and non-humans. It stresses that people should treat the modern ontological grid — moral singularity versus physical universality — as one of several...

... of continuity and points of convergence between Ottoman poetry and modern Turkish poetry foregrounding Neoplatonic references and analogies. To this end, this chapter aims at scrutinising how modern Turkish poets follow in the footsteps of a Neoplatonic cosmology. The arguments of the paper are built...

... are well rehearsed in the area of Indo-European dispersals in Asia, particularly with reference to Indo-Iranian origins and migrations. This chapter discusses the following models: continuity, discontinuity, geographical, cultural, and contact models. prehistoric linguistic dispersals archaeological...

... of buildings, and explores the region's experience with a series of invasions. The chapter analyses the role of money as a marker of cultural continuity and change and discusses religious iconography and temples. Abdullaev Kazim All Union Academy of Sciences USSR Ardashir I Sasanian king Askarov Askar...

...This chapter examines the role of coins or money as a marker of cultural continuity and change in Central Asia. It explores the full range of surviving coins to create an overview of coinage in the region and suggests that the origins and progress of coinage in ancient Central Asia can be seen...

...This chapter examines the impact of the relation between the Persian conquerors and the local Babylonians on the cultural continuity in Babylonia during the mid-first millennium BCE. It suggests that the evidence of Persian adoption of Babylonian traditions is manifest not only in administrative...