The article discusses the rise of Parthians to power over large territories in Middle East at expense their Seleucid rivals. author borrows a framework from International Relations theory, namely (Offensive) Realism, place actions Parthian kings, particular Mithridates I wider geo-political environment. While resulting account is rather close traditional (positivist) political history, explicit...

The author provides a summary of the problematic and complex events registered by diaries during troubled period between end Seleucid rule coming Parthians. Aim is to show how historical references in were not mere list events, but series connected elements organised form narration. What surprising it almost total absence Parthian Studies, made more disappointing claimed effort contex...

The Roman imperial monarchy is generally studied from the vantage point of ancient Roman history: the “Roman emperor” is viewed and analyzed as an element of the Roman world. This conventional approach fails to place this institution in a broader comparative context, that of monarchical rulers across world history. Systematic comparison opens up new perspectives and is indispensable in identify...

With The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine and Sin, Stephen Brogan offers a new understanding of the royal touch – the ability of kings and queens to miraculously heal their subjects of particular diseases in 16th and especially 17th-century England. ‘Greater numbers of people were touched for scrofula during the Restoration by both Charles II and James II, and with greate...

Abstract This article aims to provide an explication of the doctrine monarchy Father. A precisification is made within building-fundamentality framework provided by Karen Bennett, which enables a further clarification central elements be and important objection against it answered.

Recenzió a Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy című kötetről.

Abstract This paper begins with an examination of the phrase /garah dmāna-/, most common designation for Paradise in Gathas, which traditional translation ‘House Song’ is upheld. Its dualistic opposite /drujah dmāna-/ Wrongness’ Hell leads to question why one doesn’t have expected *‘House Rightness’ instead Song’. The answer proceeds from etymologically unrelated Armenian gerezman ‘grave, tomb’...

in iranian archaeology, sistan played an important role especially in the parthian period. this region is well known since it was cross road for greeksto reach the east, a place for scythians arrival, the presence of powerful suren pahlav clan and the place of epic and heroic tales. during the parthian era favorable environmental conditions of sistan caused to arise many of towns and settlement...