1 Historical Perspectives; 1.1 The phenomenon of hospitality; 1.2 Hospitality is as old as recorded human history; 1.3 Focusing on Classical Antiquity; 1.4 The hospitality lexicon; 1.5 Links between oral tradition and texts; 2 Philosophical Perspectives on Hospitality; 2.1 Individual moral philosophy: host; 2.2 Hospitality and the nation states; 2.3 Hospitality and language; 2.4 Potential for discontentment and bias; 2.5 Summary philosophical issues identified; 3 Judaeo-Christian Origins; 3.1 The Old Testament; 3.2 The New Testament; 3.3 Biblical studies

3.4 Patristic theology; 3.5 The Teleological Fallacy; 3.6 Summary of issues identified in the Judaeo-Christian literature; 4 Classical Greece; 4.1 Domestic hospitality: the nomad and the homestead; 4.2 Civic hospitality: communities and the emergent city; 4.3 Commercial hospitality: the geneses of an industry; 4.4 Summary of hospitality in Classical Greece; 5 Classical Rome; 5.1 Founding of Rome; 5.2 Domestic hospitality: consolidation of power; 5.3 Civic hospitality: growth of an empire; 5.3 Commercial hospitality: diversified industry; 5.4 Summary of hospitality in Classical Rome

6 Through the Middle Ages towards the Renaissance; 6.1 Towards the end of Classical Antiquity; 6.2 Identifying the Five Dimensions of Hospitality; 6.3 The Middle Ages; 7 Charitable Hospitality; 7.1 The Abrahamic model of hospitality; 7.2 Hospitality to those in necessitudine; 7.3 The evolving but unchanged essence of charitable hospitality; 8 Monastic Hospitality; 8.1 The Origins of Western Monasticism; 8.2 The rule of Benedict and rise of Western monastic hospitality; 8.3 Basis for religious hospitality; 8.4 The legacy of mediaeval monasticism; 8.5 Summary of the principles of hospitality

9 Along the Silk Routes 9.1 Caravanserais; 9.2 Iranian hospitality; 9.3 Mongolian hospitality; 9.4 Customs and practices of hospitality; 9.5 The future of Mongolian hospitality; 10 The Dynamic Model of Hospitality; 10.1 Hospitality: a social lens; 10.2 Dynamic model of hospitality; 10.3 Further development of the dynamic model of hospitality; 10.4T he key outcomes; 10.5 The ultimate conclusion;