Latin Literature Caesar Roman Literary Cultures Civil War Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Edited by Cynthia Damon Civic Spectacle This edition of the “Civil War” replaces the earlier Edited by Alison Keith & Jonathan Edmondson Loeb Classical Library edition by A. G. Peskett Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary (1914) with new text, translation, introduction, and scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines bibliography. new critical methods with traditional analysis across 450p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674997035 four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid- Hb £16.95 republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The An Anthology of Informal Latin contributors explore Latin texts both famous and 200 BC – AD 900 obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire By J. N. Adams through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters This book contains over fifty passages of Latin issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and 336p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442629677 linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an Hb £41.95 elementary reader, but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost Latin Inscriptions every century represented. Conventional histories By Dirk Booms cite constructions out of context, whereas this work Deciphering Latin inscriptions is fun, rewarding gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and and, as this engaging book demonstrates, does idiosyncrasies of specific passages. ‘Informal’ texts, not necessarily require a prior knowledge of the particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic language. Most are easy to puzzle out because they variety and change better than texts adhering to are extremely formulaic, using a standardized system classicising norms. The commentaries identify of abbreviation that ensured Romans from all areas innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of of the Empire could understand them. Drawing on long duration. examples from the British Museum’s wide collection, 718p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107039773 the author explains the conventions, demystifies the Hb £120.00 grammar and introduces the key vocabulary, taking the reader step by step through each inscription. 112p, col illus (British Museum Press 2016) 9780714122885 Pb £9.99 Late Antiquity & Byzantium The Life and Legacy of Constantine Ammianus’ Julian Traditions through the Ages By Alan J. Ross Edited by M. Shane Bjornlie In this book Alan J. Ross The modern demarcation of the post-classical period argues for a re-examination is often inseparable from the reign of Constantine. of Ammianus’ agenda What receives less-frequent attention is the fact and methods in narrating that our modern appreciation of Constantine as the reign of Julian. It a pivotal historical figure is itself a direct result of suggests that the Res the manner in which Constantine’s memory was Gestae presents a Latin- constructed by the human imagination over the speaking, western audience course of centuries. The essays are divided into with an idiosyncratic and three broad, chronological categories: Constantine ‘Romanized’ depiction of and his memory in the fourth century, the reception the philhellene emperor of Constantine in early-medieval contexts from and that, consciously the sixth century to the Carolingian period, and exploiting his position as a Constantine’s representation and meaning from the Greek writing in Latin and High Middle Ages to the Renaissance. as a contemporary of Julian, Ammianus wished his 248p, bw illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472433244 Hb work to be considered a culminating and definitive £95.00 account of the man and his life. (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780198784951 Hb £65.00

54 Imperial Lineages and Legacies in Education and Religion in Late Antique the Eastern Mediterranean Christianity Edited by Rhoads Murphey Reflections, social contexts and genres This volume investigates the balance between Edited by P. Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof & Peter continuity and change adopted at various historical Gemeinhardt conjunctures when new imperial regimes were This book studies the complex attitude of late established. Each essay explores the shared theme ancient Christians towards classical education. of imperial identity and legacy in the Mediterranean It focuses on a series of lesser-known texts in World of the pagan, Christian and Muslim eras. order to study the impact of specific literary 230p b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781409466789 Hb and social contexts on late ancient educational £95.00 views and practices. Instead of seeing attitudes towards education in late antique texts as Globalization of Knowledge in the applications of theoretical positions, it reads Post-Antique Mediterranean 700-1500 them as complex negotiations between authorial Edited by Sonja Brentjes & Jurgen Renn intent, the limitations of genre, and the context of The contributions to this volume enter into a performance. dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions 228p (Routledge 2016) 9781472434760 Hb £95.00 that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different Edited by Kristina Sessa, M. Shane Bjornlie & case study but also investigates a different type of Jonathan J. Arnold question, ranging from how history-writing drew on This comprehensive survey of the Ostrogothic state cross-culturally constructed stories and shared sets contains 18 essays providing readers with probing of skills and values, to how an ancient warlord was syntheses of recent scholarship on key topics, from transformed into the iconic hero of a newly created the Ostrogothic army and administration to religious monotheistic religion. diversity and ecclesiastical development, ethnicity, 234p, col pls (Routledge 2016) 9781472456564 Hb £95.00 cultural achievements, urbanism, and the rural economy. Significantly, the volume also presents From Constantinople to the Frontier innovative studies of hitherto under-examined The City and the Cities topics, including the Ostrogothic provinces beyond Edited by Theofili Kampianki, Lorenzo M. Bondioli & the Italian lands, gender and the Ostrogothic court, Nicholas S.M. Matheou and Ostrogothic Italy’s environmental history. Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, 551p, b/w illus (Brill 2016) 9789004313767 Hb £155.00 and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, these Spaces in Late Antiquity papers reveal the range of factors involved in the Cultural Theological and Archaeological dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including Perspectives contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic Edited by Ulla Tervahauta, Maijastina Kahlos, Raimo history, and covering geographical areas throughout Hakola & Juliette Day the central and eastern Mediterranean, the volume The essays in this volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human explore how various groups actions and relationships worked with, within, and in Late Antiquity rooted between urban spaces and the periphery, and how their identity in special these spaces and relationships were themselves places that were imbued ideologically constructed and understood. with meanings derived from 520p (Brill 2016) 9789004307735 Hb £150.00 history and tradition. In Part I, essays explore the tension Motions of Late Antiquity between the Classical Essays on Religion, Politics and Society in heritage in public, especially Honour of Peter Brown urban spaces, and the Edited by Jamie Kreiner & Helmut Reimitz Church’s appropriation of The essays of this volume demonstrate that that space through doctrinal Late Antiquity is not just a period in which the disputes and rival public performances. Parts II and late Roman world grew into the three successor III investigate how particular locations expressed, cultures of the Roman Empire — the Latin West, and formed, the theological and social identities of Byzantium, and the Islamic world — but also a Christian and Jewish groups by bringing together set of hermeneutical tools for exploring historical fresh insights from the archaeological and textual transformation. A late antique view considers both evidence. the profound plurality of past societies and the 242p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472450166 Hb surprising instances when a culture coheres out of £95.00 those differences. 360p (Brepols 2016) 9782503549118 Hb £76.50 Late Antiquity & Byzantium 55 The Afterlife of Greek and Roman The Archaeology and History of the Sculpture Church of the Redeemer and the Late Antique Responses and Practices Muristan in Jerusalem Edited by Troels Myrup Kristensen & Lea Stirling A Collection of Essays from a Workshop on the This volume explores the Church of the Redeemer and its Vicinity held destruction and reuse on 8th/9th September 2014 in Jerusalem of statuary, investigating Edited by Dieter Vieweger & Shimon Gibson key responses to statuary The Muristan is situated in the heart of the Old City across most regions of the of Jerusalem and was a prime property in medieval Roman world. The volume times with numerous churches, a hospice, and a opens with a discussion large hospital complex. This explores archaeological of the complexity of the and historical aspects of the Muristan from the archaeological record and Iron Age through to Ottoman times. A number a preliminary chronology of chapters also address its immediate urban of the fate of statues across surroundings, notably the complex of structures both the eastern and associated with the Church of the western imperial landscape. Holy Sepulchre on the north and Contributors address questions of definition, the Church of St John the Baptist Only identification, and interpretation, as well as factors to the south-west. £36.00 until such as earthquake damage, late antique views on 322p, b/w illus (Archaeopress civic versus “private” uses of art, urban construction, Archaeology 2016) 9781784914196 31st April and deeper causes underlying the end of the Pb £45.00 statuary habit. 448p, b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2016) Ostia in Late Antiquity 9780472119691 Hb £69.95 By Douglas Boin Ostia in Late Antiquity, the Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique first academic study on Literature Ostia to appear in English By N.K. Rollason in almost 20 years and the This book focuses on gifts of elite male clothing in first to treat the Late Antique Late Antique literature in order to show, that when period, tackles the dynamics they appeared in texts, these items were not only of this transformative functioning in an historical or a ‘real-life’ sphere but time. Drawing on new also as a literary space within which authors could archaeological research, discuss ideas of social relationships and authority. including the author’s own, This book suggests that authors used items which and incorporating both usually formed part of the costume of authority material and textual sources, of the period to ‘over-write’ wearers and donors as it presents a social history of confident figures of ‘official’ authority when this the town from the third through the ninth century. may have been open to doubt. 308p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472435736 Hb 9781107024014 Hb £67.00, 9781316601532 Pb £29.99 £95.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Designing Identity The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity Edited by Thelma K. Thomas Textiles from Late Antiquity document transformations of cultural traditions and societal values at the most intimate level of the individual body and the home. This exhibition catalogue Only explores the parallel histories of ancient textile production £18.50 until and consumption, and the modern business of collecting 31st April Late Antique textiles. 160p, col illus (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691169422 Pb £22.95

56 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Augustine Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan Confessions Volume II: Books 9-13 and Nubia Edited by Carolyn J R Hammond By Gawdat Gabra This edition replaces the earlier Loeb Classical The contributors to this volume examine various Library edition of “Confessions” by William Watts. aspects of Coptic civilization in Aswan and Nubia 585p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674996939 over the past centuries. The complexity of Christian Hb £16.95 identity in Nubia, as distinct from Egypt, is examined in the context of church ritual and architecture. The Mary in Early Christian Faith and archaeological and artistic heritage of monastic Devotion sites in Edfu, Aswan, Makuria, and Kom Ombo are By Stephen J. Shoemaker highlighted, attesting to their important legacies in This volume explores the the region. emergence and development 352p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2016) of the Marian cult in the 9789774167645 Pb £19.50 early Christian centuries. Shoemaker reveals that Epiphanius of Cyprus Marian devotion played A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity a far more vital role in By Andrew S. Jacobs the development of early Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from Christian belief and practice 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last than has been previously decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major recognized, finding evidence surviving text, the Panarion, is studied for lost that dates back to the latter sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as half of the second century. an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of 320p, (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300217216 Hb late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves £25.00 Epiphanius from the margin back toward the centre and proposes we view major cultural themes of late Ricerche Archeologiche a Santandrea antiquity in a new light altogether. di Loppio (Trento Italia) 352p (University of California Press 2016) 9780520291126 Il Castrum Tardoantico-Altomedievale Hb £70.95 By Barbara Maurina A report on a multi-layered site with finds ranging A Tale of Two Saints from the prehistoric age to late antiquity, medieval The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints times and right through to even the First World Theodore the Recruit and the General War. Most notable is a fortified settlement with By John F. Haldon a complex series of construction periods dated St. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ was one of the best- between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Numerous known of the so-called ‘military saints’, particularly examples of armoury and military in the Byzantine, and the eastern Christian world. clothing clearly suggest the Ranging in date from the fifth to the eleventh military function of the site. Only century CE, five accounts of the martyrdom of the saint together with two sets of miracles have been Italian text. £64.00 until selected, texts that testify to the growth and to the 810p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913618 evolution of the martyrdoms and miracle collections Pb £80.00 associated with him. 160p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781381663 Hadrianopolis III Pb £18.99 Ceramic Finds from Southwestern Paphlagonia By Ergun Lafli & Gulseren Kan Sahin The Donatist Schism Pottery finds collected from Hadrianopolis in Controversy and Contexts southwestern Paphlagonia (north-central Turkey), Edited by Richard Miles are presented in detail in this volume. Between In order to reappraise the Donatist Controversy 2005 and 2008 1550 sherds ranging between the for the first time in many years, 14 specialists in the Pre-Iron Age (2nd millennium BC) and the Middle religious, cultural, social, legal and political history Byzantine period (late 11th-early 12th century as well as the archaeology of Late Antique North AD) were collected, most of which consist of Late Africa have examined what was one of the most Roman-Early Byzantine (late 5th-mid 8th century significant religious controversies in the Late Roman AD) coarse ware. World through a set of key contexts that explain its 472p, b/w illus (BAR 2786, 2016) 9781407314365 Pb significance the Donatist Schism not just in North £64.00 Africa but across the whole Roman Empire, and beyond. 368p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781382813 Hb £80.00 Late Antiquity & Byzantium 57 Arguing it Out The Byzantine Turks 1204–1461 Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium By Rustam Shukurov By Averil Cameron Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic This study focuses on minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, twelfth-century prose Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. dialogues in Greek and The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the on what they can tell us legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into about Byzantine society Greek society are discussed in detail. Shukurov and culture of the era when convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences western Europe was itself on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in developing a new culture Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The of schools, universities, and study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon scholars. Yet it was also the of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek. period in which Byzantium 513p (Brill 2016) 9789004305120 Hb £150.00 felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with John II Komnenos, Emperor of the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204. Byzantium Despite revisionist attempts to play down the extent In the Shadow of Father and Son of this disaster, it was a blow from which, arguably, Edited by Alessandra Bucossi & Alex Rodriguez Suarez the Byzantines never fully recovered. How can the relative 256p (Central European University Press 2016) obscurity of John II 9789633861110 Pb £15.99 Komnenos be explained in the light of his military Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine successes, Byzantine Hospitals territorial expansion in Asia A Study of the Extant Formularies Minor, and the construction By David Bennett of the most important A number of texts compiled shortly before or monastic complex of twelfth- during the late period of Byzantium (here broadly century Constantinople? 1204-1453) and shorter fragments preserved in Why has John been neglected Byzantine and later manuscripts record remedies by modern historians? What which, according to the titles, were used in new historical evidence can Byzantine hospitals (xenônes). Although they lead to a reassessment of the achievements his have been remarked since the nineteenth century, reign? This book sets out to answer these questions. such texts have not been studied in depth or It combines overviews of the reign with detailed collectively, nor has their authenticity been tested; analysis of events and problematic issues. Coverage the late David Bennett was the first to undertake is interdisciplinary, from art history to literature, these tasks, and the results of his investigations are from theology to diplomatic history. presented here. 250p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472460240 Hb 264p (Routledge 2016) 9781409441656 Hb £95.00 £95.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Empire That Would Not Die By John F. Haldon In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the Byzantine Empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. The more the empire shrank, the more it became centred around Constantinople, whose ability to withstand siege after siege proved decisive. The crisis forced the imperial court, the provincial ruling classes, and the church closer together. Despite territorial losses, what remained Only became the heartland of a medieval Christian Roman state, £27.50 until with a powerful political theology that predicted the emperor would eventually establish Orthodox Christianity’s world 31st April dominion. 432p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674088771 Hb £33.95

58 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Epigram, Art and Devotion in Later Nectar and Illusion Byzantium Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature By Ivan Drpic By Henry Maguire Epigrammatic poetry, Professor Drpić argues, An exploration of the portrayal of nature in constitutes a critical - if largely neglected - source Byzantine art and literature. Henry Maguire shows for reconstructing aesthetic and socio-cultural how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in discourses that informed the making, use, and the decoration of their churches during the fifth to perception of art in the Byzantine world. By seventh centuries but then adopted a much more attending to such diverse topics as devotional self- cautious attitude toward the depiction of animals fashioning, the aesthetics of adornment, sacred and plants in the Middle Ages, after the iconoclastic giving, and the erotics of the icon, this study dispute of the eighth and ninth centuries. An offers a penetrating and highly original account of important theme is the asymmetrical relationship Byzantine art and its place in Byzantine society and between Byzantine art and literature with respect religious life. to the portrayal of nature. 513p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge University Press 2016) 224p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford University Press 2012, 9781107151512 Hb £108.00 Pb 2016) 9780199766604 Hb £34.49, 9780190497101 Pb £22.99 Islam Imagining the Arabs An Apocalyptic History of the Early Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Fatimid Empire By Peter Webb By Jamel Velji This volume argues that the time-honoured Through a detailed stereotypes depicting Arabs as ancient Arabian examination of some of the Bedouin are entirely misleading: the essence of structural features of the Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during Fatimid revolution, as well the first centuries of Islam, emerging and evolving as early works of ta’wil, or as groups imagined new notions of community symbolic interpretation, to suit the radically changing circumstances of Jamel Velji illustrates how life in the early Caliphate. The idea of ‘the Arab’ the Fatimids conceived of was a device used by Muslims to articulate their their mission as one that communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest would bring about an power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. imminent utopia. He then 404p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9781474408264 examines how the Fatimids Hb £75.00 reinterpreted their place in history when the expected end never materialised. The book ends The Almoravid and Almohad Empires with an extensive discussion of another apocalyptic By Amira K. Bennison event linked to a Fatimid lineage: the Nizari Ismaili This volume charts the rise declaration of the end of time on August 8, 1164. and fall of the Almoravids 182p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9780748690886 and the Almohads, the two Hb £70.00 most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic Islamic west. Although World both have often been seen By Stephen Blake as uncouth, religiously It was the astronomers and mathematicians of intolerant tribesmen who the Islamic world who provided the theories and undermined the high culture concepts that paved the way from the geocentric of al-Andalus, this book theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century argues that the eleventh to AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas thirteenth centuries were Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth crucial to the Islamisation of the Maghrib, its and seventeenth centuries. This nontechnical integration into the Islamic cultural sphere, and overview of the Islamic advances in the heavenly its emergence as a key player in the western sciences allows the general reader to appreciate Mediterranean, and that much of this was due to the absolutely crucial role that Muslim scientists these oft-neglected Berber empires. played in the overall development of astronomy and 382p, b/w illus (Edinburgh University Press 2016) astrology in the Eurasian world. 9780748646807 Pb £29.99 224p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9780748649099 Pb £24.99 59 Landscapes of the Islamic World Medieval Islamic Maps Archaeology History and Ethnography An Exploration Edited by Stephen McPhillips & Paul D. Wordsworth By Karen C. Pinto This volume presents new work by twelve authors In this beautifully illustrated on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of book Karen C. Pinto focuses the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian on the distinct tradition of Peninsula, and Central Asia. The focus looks maps known collectively beyond the city to engage with the predominantly as the Book of Roads and rural and pastoral character of premodern Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik Islamic society. The essays are grouped into wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS), four thematic sections: harnessing and living examining them from three with water; agriculture, pastoralism, and rural distinct angles – iconography, subsistence; commerce, production, and the rural context, and patronage. She economy; and movement and memory in the untangles the history of the rural landscape. KMMS maps, traces their 280p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) inception and evolution, and analyses them to 9780812247640 Hb £65.00 reveal the identities of their creators, painters, and patrons, as well as the vivid realities of the social and Le Qsar, Type d’implantation humaine physical world they depicted. au Sahara 406p col illus (University of Chicago Press 2016) Architecture du Sud Algerien 9780226126968 Hb £42.00 By Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya The qsar corresponds to a type of human settlement In the Shadow of the Church widely distributed in the Sahara desert. This volume, The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria through the systematic analysis and comparison By Mattia Guidetti of some qsur of southeastern Algeria (Rig, Mzab, Mattia Guidetti examines the establishment of Miya and al-Mani’a), reveals common architectural Muslim religious architecture within the Christian features that can be used to identify a common context in which it first appeared in the Syrian type of qsar in this region, and region. He scrutinizes the slow process of conversion which would help position the to Islam of the most important town centres by qsar among the urban planning Only looking at religious places of both communities of the dar al-islam. French text. £40.00 until between the seventh and the eleventh century. The author assesses the relevancy of churches 356p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913472 by analysing the location of mosques and by Pb £50.00 researching phenomena of transfer of marble material from churches to mosques. 212p b/w illus, col pls (Brill 2016) 9789004325708 Hb £129.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The History of Central Asia The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) By Christoph Baumer This third volume of Christoph Baumer’s extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of Central Asia is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Only Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering £24.00 until to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater 31st April mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe. 392p, col illus (I.B. Tauris 2016) 9781784534905 Hb £30.00

60 Islam Anglo-Saxon & Viking In the Land of Giants A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & Anglo- By Max Adams Scandinavian Sites Max Adams explores Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire Britain’s lost early medieval By Guy Points past by walking its paths This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide and exploring its lasting to places (mostly churches and museums), with imprint on valley, hill and architectural features, stone sculpture, artefacts field. From York to Whitby, and material of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo- from London to Sutton Hoo, Scandinavian (Viking) interest in Cambridgeshire from Edinburgh to Anglesey and Northamptonshire. Part 1 provides background and from Hadrian’s Wall to material on historical and architectural contexts. Loch Tay, each of his ten Part 2 identifies 62 “sites” in alphabetical order with walk narratives form both the aim of enabling the reader to know exactly what free-standing chapters and they are looking for and where exactly to find it. parts of a wider portrait of a 184p, 33 b/w illus. & 67 colour photographs (Guy Points Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt 2017) 9780993033957 Pb £16.95, NYP and crannog, church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone. Art of the Islands 464p, b/w illus, col pls (Head of Zeus 2015, Pb 2016) Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual 9781784080341 Hb £25.00, 9781784080334 Pb £9.99 Culture C. 450-1050 By Michelle Brown Patterns in Stonework (Part B) This book provides a highly The Early Churches in Northern England: The illustrated overview of the Counties of Northumberland Nottinghamshire early medieval art of the Staffordshire Westmorland and Yorkshire British and Irish archipelago. By John F. Potter It explores the interaction In this volume (Part B), the five counties of between its inhabitants, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Westmorland along with the formation and Yorkshire are examined. The details of 174 of national and regional churches are analysed. Ten of them are designated identities, through the lens Anglo-Saxon for the first time. It proved possible to of visual culture. Leading determine the relative importance of the different expert Michelle P. Brown building stones used; and to learn more about explains the historical features like church security, cut backs, re-use of context within which key artworks of the period Roman masonry, and herringbone masonry. were made and used, and examines the ways in 270p, b/w illus (BAR BS 624, 2016) 9781407314938 Pb which their complex imagery can be interpreted. £49.00 240p col illus (Bodleian Library 2016) 9781851244461 Pb £25.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Aethelred The Unready By Levi Roach The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred “the Unready” (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised. Infamous for his domestic and international failures, Aethelred was unable to fend off successive Viking raids, leading to the notorious St. Brice’s Day Massacre in 1002, during which Danes in England were slaughtered on his orders. Though Aethelred’s posthumous standing is dominated by his unsuccessful military leadership, his seemingly blind trust in disloyal associates, and his harsh treatment of political opponents, Roach suggests that Aethelred has been Only wrongly maligned. Drawing on extensive research, Roach argues that Aethelred was driven by pious concerns about sin, £24.00 until society, and the anticipated apocalypse. His strategies, in this 31st April light, were to honour God and find redemption. 390p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300196290 Hb £30.00

61 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Old English Philology Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk The Anglo-Saxon Fenland Edited by Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual & Tom By Susan Oosthuizen Shippey Archaeologies and histories Scholarship on historical metrics and the dating, of the fens of eastern editing, and interpretation of Old English poetry England continue to suggest forms the core of this book; other topics addressed that the early medieval include syntax, phonology, etymology, lexicology, fenland was dominated and paleography. An introductory overview of by the activities of north- Professor Fulk’s achievements puts these studies west European colonists in in context, alongside essays which assess his a largely empty landscape. contributions to metrical theory and his profound Using existing and new impact on the study of Beowulf. evidence and arguments, 352p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781843844389 Hb £60.00 this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon Old English Psalms fenland offers another interpretation. The fen Edited by Patrick P. O’Neill islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation The Latin psalms were translated by the Anglo- unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano- Saxons into Old English, first in prose and later British settlement appears to have been followed by in verse. Sometime in the middle of the eleventh consistent early medieval occupation on every island century, the prose and verse translations were in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the brought together and organized in a complementary impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the sequence in a manuscript now known as the Paris region were organised within territorial Psalter. The complete text of all 150 prose and verse groups in a complicated, almost psalms is available here both in Old English and certainly dynamic, hierarchy modern translation for the first time. Only of subordinate and dominant 65p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674504752 polities, principalities and £22.50 until Hb £19.95 kingdoms. publication 160p b/w and col illus (Windgather Bede and Aethelthryth 2017) 9781911188087 Pb £29.95 An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics By Stephen J. Harris Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of This volume asks why Christians in Britain around Happiness and Good Fortune’ the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see An Archaeological Assessment in it? What did they get from it? The book attempts By Patrick Ottaway to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly This critical assessment of the learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a archaeology of the historic fifty-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn city of Winchester and its to Aethelthryth. The reconstruction is hypothetical immediate environs from and derived from grammatical manuals, learned earliest times to the present commentaries from the early medieval period day is the first published (especially Servius’s commentary on Virgil), and a comprehensive review of wide variety of aesthetic observations by classical the archaeological resource and medieval readers. for the city, which has seen 216p (West Virginia UP 2016) 9781940425931 Pb £45.50 many major programmes of archaeological investigation. Early Medieval Kent 800-1220 In the Late Anglo-Saxon Edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh period it became the pre-eminent royal centre for The essays collected here provide insights into a the Kingdom of Wessex. The city acquired a castle, range of topics of importance in the history of Kent cathedral and bishop’s palace under Norman during this seminal period. To provide a context kings but from the late 12th century onwards its for these, the opening essay presents an assessment status began to decline to that of a regional market of the kingdom of Kent. Subsequent chapters town. The archaeological resource for consider the development of first rural and then Winchester is very rich and is a urban society, the impact of the Vikings, pilgrimage resource of national and, for and the landscape, literacy and learning, the the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Only developing monastic way of life, and parish church periods, of international £30.00 until architecture. Three multidisciplinary chapters importance. publication discuss Canterbury as a case study, while a gazetteer 416p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books of place-name elements closes the book. 2017) 9781785704499 Hb £40.00 320p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9780851155838 Hb £50.00 62 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Literature and Culture Transformation in Anglo-Saxon By Samantha Zacher Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin Culture with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England Edited by Charles Insley & Gale R. Owen-Crocker before the conquest did not prevent early English The five authoritative authors from writing obsessively about them. These papers presented here are essays examine visual and textual representations of the product of long careers Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, of research into Anglo- the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the Saxon culture. All are treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks. cross-disciplinary and the 336p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442646674 same texts and artefacts Hb £43.95 weave through several of them. Literary text is used Weaving Words and Binding Bodies to interpret both history The Poetics of Human Experience in Old and art; ecclesiastical- English Literature historical circumstances By Megan Cavell explain the adaptation of usage of a literary Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the text; wealth and religious learning, combined first comprehensive study of weaving and binding with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended imagery in Old English texts through intertextual into the making of new books with multiple analysis and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances poetry of Cynewulf, and other key texts. Megan are the background to changes in burial ritual. Cavell highlights the prominent use of weaving The common element is transformation, the and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on new times and the necessary adaptation to new important tropes such as the lord-retainer “bond” circumstances. and the gendered role of “peace-weaving” in Anglo- 144p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) Saxon society. 9781785704970 Pb £38.00 356p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442637221 The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Hb £38.95 Rheged Living and Dying at Auldhame The Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at The Excavation of an Anglian Monastic Trusty’s Hill, Galloway Settlement and Medieval Parish Church By Ronan Toolis & Christopher Bowles By Anne Crone & Erlend Hindmarch The Pictish inscribed Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has stone at the early revealed one thousand years of burial activity and medieval fort of Trusty’s liturgical practice, the nature of which changed Hill is unique in southern over the course of the millennium. Undoubtedly, Scotland, and has long the most significant elements of the evidence are puzzled scholars as to why those for Anglian activity and for Norse contact. the symbols were carved Between the mid-seventh and mid-ninth centuries so far from Pictland. The AD a para-monastic community, associated with the Galloway Picts Project, Anglian saint Balthere flourished on the headland. aimed to recover evidence 256p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) for its archaeological 9781908332011 Hb £25.00 context, but far from validating the existence of Picts in this southerly Faroe-Islander Saga region of Scotland, the archaeological context A New English Translation instead suggests that the carvings relate to a By Robert K. Painter royal stronghold and place of inauguration for This book offers a new English translation of the the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600. Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga Saga), centred Examined in the context of contemporary sites on the enduring animosity between Sigmundur across southern Scotland and northern England, Brestirsson and Thrandur of Gota, rival chieftains the archaeological evidence from Galloway whose bitter disagreements on the introduction suggests that this region may have been the heart of Christianity to the Faroe Islands set the stage of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged. for much violence and a feud which unfolds over 200p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) generations of their descendants. 9781785703119 Hb £35.00 171p (McFarland 2016) 9781476663661 Pb £33.50

Anglo-Saxon & Viking 63 Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland NEW FROM CaSemate Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD By Martin Carver, Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall Vikings at War Discoveries at Portmahomack in Easter Ross (1994 By Kim Hjardar & Vegard Vike to 2008) were initially hailed as the first modern “Employing unorthodox sighting of a Pictish monastery. This book is and unpredictable the final report on the campaign and the post- strategies, which were excavation analysis which followed, and defines six hard for more organized successive settlements on the same spot, including forces to respond to, the the eighth-century monastery with vellum and most crucial element metal workshops and pieces from a dozen carved of the Viking’s success stone monuments. was their basic strategy 552p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) of evading the enemy 9781908332097 Hb £30.00 by arriving by sea, then attacking quickly and Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts with great force before By Martin Carver withdrawing quickly. Never before have the This updated second edition continues and develops Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site conquests been presented together in such detail. in north east Scotland, with new chapters exploring With over 380 colour illustrations including Iron Age, Medieval and European contexts of the beautiful reconstruction drawings, maps, cross- settlement. Martin Carver describes the discovery of section drawings of ships, line-drawings of the site and the design and execution of the research fortifications, battle plan reconstructions and programme, then traces the events that occurred photos of surviving artefacts including weapons from the mid 6th century to the 11th century when and jewellery. Vikings at War was awarded the the parish church was founded on the former Norwegian literary prize ‘Saga Prize’ in 2012; monastic site and beyond to survey the subsequent currently in its fourth printing in Norwegian, history of the church. this translation makes it available for the first time in English. 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Edinburgh University Press, 2nd ed 2016) 9780748697670 Pb £29.99 The best synthesis of Viking warfare ever produced: Expanded Boats clear, authoritative, occasionally controversial and By Ole Crumlin-Pedersen & Hanus Jensen superbly illustrated. – Neil Price During the summers from 2005 to 2007, the Viking Ship Museum reconstructed and built three boat- 400p, col illus (Casemate UK 2016) 9781612004037 finds from the Iron Age and Viking Age. Common to Hb £29.95 all three boats is that they all have a thin, hollowed- out log boat as their basic component, which is then heated and softened over fire and then expanded A Handbook to Eddic Poetry out into a new hull form. In this book Ole Crumlin- Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia Pedersen presents the archaeological background of Edited by Carolyne Larrington, Judy Quinn & expanded boats, while boatbuilder Hanus Jensen Brittany Schorn describes how the three reconstructions were built. A comprehensive and 128p (Viking Ship Museum 2017) 9788785180742 Pb accessible survey in English £30.00, NYP of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature Why is your Axe Bloody? rooted in the Viking Age, A Reading of Njals Saga which is a critical source By William Ian Miller for the study of early Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, Scandinavian myths, poetics, was written around 1280. Law and feud feature culture and society. The centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the showcase the poetic riches of greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the eddic corpus, and reveal the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its its relevance to the history feuding strategies, as well as the author’s stunning of poetics, gender studies, manipulation and saga conventions. In ‘Why is your pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology. axe bloody’ W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, 413p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) and completely original personal reading of this 9781107135444 Hb £69.99 lengthy saga. 336p (Oxford University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9780198704843 Hb £55.00, 9780198768920 Pb £24.99 64 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Early Medieval Europe Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Fortified Settlements in Early Language and Literature of the Early Medieval Medieval Europe World Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Edited by Eric Cambridge & Jane Hawkes Centuries In this major collection of Edited by Hajnalka Herold & Neil Christie 27 papers, contributors 23contributions by transcend traditional leading archaeologists disciplinary boundaries from across Europe and offer new approaches. explore the varied The main focus is on forms, functions and material culture, but also significances of fortified includes insights into the settlements in the 8th compositional techniques of to 10th centuries AD. Bede and the Beowulf-poet, Papers run from Irish and the strategies adopted by cashels to Welsh and anonymous scribes to record Pictish strongholds, information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors Saxon burhs, Viking offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, while new strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and finds such as the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle coverage extends fully from north-west Europe, whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean published here for the first time . Important thematic and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing carvers interacting with the political and intellectual also where available on the documentary concerns of the wider Insular and continental world. record, this important collection provides Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the revealing how recent archaeological archaeologies of the distinctive settlement work reveals the inadequacy of the forms that characterised Europe in the Early traditional categorisation of the Only Middle Ages. Vikings as ‘incomers’. £41.00 until 352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702358 Hb 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication £50.00 Books 2016) 9781785703072 Hb £55.00 Social Complexity in Early Medieval Rural Communities Fibulae uit de Lage Landen The North-Western Iberia Archaeological Reocrd Brooches from the Low Countries Edited by Juan Antonio Quiros Castillo By Stijn Heeren and Lourens van der Feijst The aim of this book is to discuss the theoretical For this comprehensive examination of brooches challenges posed by the study of social inequality in the Netherlands as well as parts of Germany and social complexity in early medieval peasant and Flanders, the authors have not only used the communities in North-western Iberia. Traditional collections of museums and published finds from approaches have defined these communities as excavations, but also the extensive collections of poor, simple and even nomadic, in the framework metal detectorists. The first part gives a description of a self-sufficient economy that prioritised animal of the 90 different types and the hundreds of husbandry over agriculture. The archaeological variants, together with a drawing, date, provenance results and documentary analysis presented here and distribution map. Part two provides analysis. however are centred on the emergence of villages, Brooches are followed from production and the formation of local elites, distribution to deposition and recycling. Dutch the creation of socio-political language with all captions in English, each type has networks and the role of Only a summary in English and each chapter also has a identities in the legitimation of £26.00 until summary in English. local inequalities. 31st April 680p, b/w illus, 85 pls (SPA Uitgevers 2017) 133p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) 9789082628500 Hb £65.00 9781784915087 Pb £32.00

65 Isidore of Seville The Prague Sacramentary On the Nature of Things Culture, Religion and Politics in Late Eighth- By Calvin. B. Kendall & Faith Wallis Century Bavaria Isidore’s On the Nature of Things is the first Edited by H.G.E. Rose, Rob Meens & Maximilian work on natural science by a Christian author Diesenberger that is not a commentary on the creation story in The Prague Sacramentary is a unique liturgical Genesis. Instead, Isidore adopted a classical model manuscript, written in the turbulent period when to describe the structure of the physical cosmos, Charlemagne crossed Bavaria to fight the Avars and discuss the principles of astronomy, physics, and when his son Pippin rebelled against him, geography, meteorology and time-reckoning. This seeking support among the Bavarian nobility. It is the first translation of this work into English. can be linked to specific groups of Bavarian elites The introduction places the work in the context that had to come to terms with this explosive of Isidore’s milieu and concerns, and traces the political situation. This new study of the manuscript remarkable diffusion of his book. includes a discussion of the topics of the formal 304p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781382943 invocation of saints, vernacular understandings Pb £25.00 of Latin texts, marriage, politics, and concerns for ritual purity as well as the well-being of the conflict- Isidore of Seville and His Reception in ridden Carolingian family. the Early Middle Ages 260p (Brepols 2016) 9782503549200 Hb £68.00 Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge Edited by A. T. Fear & Jamie Wood Hincmar of Rheims This volume represents a On the Divorce of King Lothar and Queen cross section of the various Theutberga approaches scholars have Edited by Rachel Stone & Charles West taken toward Isidore’s In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by writings. The essays the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: explore his sources, how he the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia selected and arranged them to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and for posterity, and how his remarry. This is the first professionally published legacy was reflected in later translation of a key source for this extraordinary generations’ work across the episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims’s De early medieval West. Rich in divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. The archival detail, this collection translation includes a substantial introduction and provides a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise on annotations, putting the case into its early medieval one of history’s greatest intellectuals. context and explaining Hincmar’s sometimes 256p (Amsterdam University Press 2016) 9789089648280 dubious methods of argument. Hb £64.00 388p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719082962 Pb £19.99 Medieval Britain The Continuity of the Conquest Orderic Vitalis Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism By Wendy Marie Hoofnagle Life, Works and Interpretations Wendy Marie Hoofnagle Edited by Charles C. Rozier, Daniel Roach, Giles E.M. explores the Carolingian Gasper and Elisabeth van Houts aspects of Norman influence The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia in England after the Norman ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded Conquest, arguing that as landmarks in the development of European the historical and literary historical writing and, as such, are essential sources ideals that developed about of medieval history for students and scholars alike. Charlemagne after his The essays here consider Orderic’s life and works, death influenced certain presenting new research on existing topics within aspects of the Normans’ Orderic studies and opening up new directions ruling approach, including for future analysis and debate. They offer fresh a program of conversion through “allurement,” interpretations from across the disciplines of political domination through symbolic architecture medieval manuscript studies, English-language and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural memory royal forest as an extension of the royal court. studies; they also revisit established readings. 193p (Penn State University Press 2016) 9780271074016 416p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271252 Hb £60.00 Hb £53.95 66 Henry the Young King 1155–1183 Christians and Jews in Angevin England By Matthew Strickland The York Massacre of 1190 Narratives and Crowned at fifteen to secure Contexts an undisputed succession, Edited by Sarah Rees Jones & Sethina Watson Henry played a central role The mass suicide and in the politics of Henry murder of the men, women II’s great empire and was and children of the Jewish hailed as the embodiment community in York on 16 of chivalry. Yet, consistently March 1190 is one of the denied direct rule, the Young most scarring events in the King was provoked first into history of Anglo-Judaism. heading a major rebellion This collection considers against his father, then to the massacre as central to waging a bitter war against the narrative of English and his brother Richard for Jewish history around 1200. control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the Its chapters broaden the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. contexts within which the Matthew Strickland provides a richly coloured narrative is usually considered and explore how a portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure, while narrative of events in 1190 was built up, both at the using his career to explore the nature of kingship, time and in following years. succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in 375p (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2016) 9781903153444 twelfth-century England and France. Hb £60.00, 9781903153642 Pb £19.99 416p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300215519 Hb £30.00 Medieval Powys Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132– The Plantagenet Empire, 1259–1453 1293 Proceedings of the 2014 Harlaxton Symposium By David Stephenson Edited by Peter Crooks, David Green & W. Mark Ormrod This book provides the first full, authoritative Grouped into four thematic sections, twenty-one history of Powys in the twelfth and thirteenth original and innovative studies explore aspects of centuries. It argues in particular that the Powysian ‘Empire, dynasty and identity’, ‘Regional responses rulers were dogged and resourceful survivors in to empire’, ‘Networks and communications’ the face of pressure from Welsh rivals and the and ‘The empire in retrospect and prospect’. A problems of internal fragmentation; and that, frequent question running through the collection, paradoxically, co-operation with the and one brought into concentrated focus in the English and intermarriage with conceptual essay by the editors, is the meaning and marcher families underlay a Only meaningfulness of ‘empire’, both for those who desire to regain lands to the east inhabited the Plantagenet dominions in the Later lost in earlier centuries. £48.00 until Middle Ages and for modern scholars interrogating 348p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 31st April the dimensions of the imperial experience in 9781783271405 Hb £60.00 comparative contexts. 448p, col pls (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730528 Hb £49.50

EDITOR’S CHOICE William the Conqueror By David Bates In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived from studies of early medieval kingship, he assesses each phase of William’s life to establish why so many trusted William to Only invade England in 1066 and the consequences of this on the £24.00 until history of the so-called Norman Conquest after the Battle of Hastings and for generations to come. 31st April 595p b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300118759 Hb £30.00

Medieval Britain 67 Bannockburn 1314–2014 Henry V Battle and Legacy The Conscience of a King Edited by Michael Penman By Malcolm Vale The papers presented here bring fresh historical, Malcolm Vale draws on extensive primary archival archaeological and environmental perspectives evidence to present view of Henry V defined not to the study of Bannockburn and its medieval simply by his military exploits: a multidimensional impact, as well as to the numerous literary, artistic, ruler of great piety, a hands-on governor who commemorative, heritage and historiographical introduced a radically new conception of England’s contributions which have reflected on that famous European role in secular and ecclesiastical affairs, encounter down to the present. a composer of music, an art patron, and a dutiful 272p, col pls (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730504 Hb king who fully appreciated his obligations toward £35.00 those he ruled. 328p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300148732 The Livery Collar in Late Medieval Hb £20.00 England and Wales Politics Identity and Affinity The Decline of Serfdom in Late By Matthew Ward Medieval England This first book-length study of the livery collar From Bondage to Freedom examines its cultural and political significance. By Mark Bailey It explores the principal meanings bestowed This dazzling study provides an accessible and up- on the collar, considers the item in its various to-date survey of the decline of serfdom in England, political contexts, and places the collar within applying a new methodology for establishing both the sphere of medieval identity construction. It its chronology and causes to thousands of court rolls also investigates the motives which lay behind its from 38 manors located across the south Midlands distribution, shedding new light on the nature and and East Anglia. It presents a ground-breaking understanding of royal power at the time. reassessment, challenging many of 272p, b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & Brewer 2016) the traditional interpretations of 9781783271153 Hb £50.00 the economy and society of late- medieval England, and, indeed, Only Henry of Lancaster’s Expedition to of the very nature of serfdom £20.00 until Aquitaine 1345–1346 itself. 31st April Military Service and Professionalism in the 385p, (Boydell & Brewer 2016) Hundred Years War 9781783271283 Pb £25.00 By Nicholas A. Gribit In 1345 Henry of Lancaster led an English royal Towns in Medieval England army to the duchy of Aquitaine and inflicted two Selected Sources devastating defeats on the French royal forces. Edited by Gervase Rosser This reassessment of a neglected campaign draws Collectively, the texts and commentary in this on a wealth of original source material to furnish anthology provide an overview of English medieval an examination of the campaign urban history, while the emphasis throughout is on “in the round”; recruitment, the character and potential of each type of evidence, from legal and administrative records to inventories preparations, and financial Only administration, as well as its of shops, and from letters and poetry to legendary events and achievements, are £24.00 until civic histories. examined closely. 31st April 312p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719049095 378p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) Pb £18.99 9781783271177 Hb £30.00 The Later Medieval Inquisitions Post Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade Mortem The English Experience in the Fourteenth Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Rural Century Society By Timothy Guard Edited by Michael Hicks This book details extensive English involvement in The Inquisitions post mortem (IPMs) are a truly fourteenth century crusading; details of participants wonderful source for many different aspects of and campaigns are chronicled and associated late medieval countryside and rural life. The matters of tactics, diplomacy, organisation, and chapters here examine IPMs in connection with the recruitment are minutely analysed. The book’s landscape and topography of England, in particular second theme traces the surprisingly strong grip the markets and fairs and mills; and consider the utility crusade-idea possessed at the height of politics, as of proofs of age for everyday life on such topics as an animating force of English kingship. the Church, retaining, and the wine trade. 296p (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2016) 9781843838241 226p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783270798 Hb Hb £60.00, 9781783270910 Pb £19.99 £60.00 68 Medieval Britain Medieval Europe Norman Naval Operations in the Material Culture and Queenship in Mediterranean 14th-century France By Charles D. Stanton The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Drawing from Latin, Greek, Jewish and Arabic By Marguerite Keane sources, this book details how the House of Marguerite Keane considers the object collection Hauteville, particularly under Robert Guiscard and (books, jewelry, reliquaries, and textiles, among his brother Roger, used sea power to accomplish the others) of the long-lived fourteenth-century French conquest of southern Italy and Sicily from Islam. queen Blanche of Navarre. She connects the The subsequent establishment of an aggressive naval patronage of Blanche of Navarre to her interest in presence on Sicily, first by Roger de Hauteville and her status and reputation as a dowager queen, as then by his son Roger II, effectively wrested control well as bringing to the life the material, adornment, of the central Mediterranean from and devotional interests of a medieval queen and Byzantine and Muslim maritime her household. hegemony, opening the sea to Only 262p, col illus (Brill 2016) 9789004248366 Hb £100.00 east-west shipping. £20.00 until Frederick Barbarossa 328p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 31st April 2011, Pb 2016) 9781783271382 Pb The Prince and the Myth £25.00 By John Freed This new biography of Frederick Barbarossa paints a Louis rich picture of a consummate diplomat and effective The French Prince Who Invaded England warrior. John Freed mines Barbarossa’s recently By Catherine Hanley published charters and other sources to illuminate In 1215 a group of English the monarch’s remarkable ability to rule an empire barons, dissatisfied with that stretched from the Baltic to Rome, and from King John, decided that they France to Poland. Offering a fresh assessment of needed a new monarch, and the role of Barbarossa’s extensive familial network settled on Louis, eldest son in his success, the author also considers the impact and heir of the king of France. of Frederick’s death in the Third Crusade as the key In this fascinating biography to his lasting heroic reputation. of England’s least-known 704p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300122763 “king”, Catherine Hanley Hb £30.00 explores the life and times of “Louis the Lion” before, Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers during, and beyond his quest from Tarascon for the English throne. She By William D. Paden illuminates the national and international context Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents of his 1216 invasion, and explains why and how after an edition, translation, and discussion of two sixteen fruitless months he failed to make himself vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and King Louis I of England. fifteenth-century Provence. William D. Paden 304p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300217452 discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts Hb £25.00 of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll- Mercenaries to Conquerors keeping. Norman Warfare in the Eleventh and Twelfth- Century Mediterranean 256p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442629349 Hb £47.99 By Paul Brown In this book Paul Brown analyses the Norman The Hundred Years War Volume IV conquests across the Mediterranean, exploring the Cursed Kings reasons for their considerable and swift success. By Jonathan Sumption Throughout he focuses on the military side of The fourth part of Jonathan Sumption’s magisterial their progress, as they advanced from mercenaries history of the Hundred Years’ War tells the story of to conquerors, then crusaders. The dominant role the destruction of France by the madness of its king played by a succession of Norman leaders is a key and the greed and violence of his family. Into the theme of the narrative - a line of ambitious and void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of ruthless soldiers that ran from Robert Guiscard and the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of Bohemond to Roger II and Tancred. England, who conquered much of northern France 252p, col pls (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781473828476 Hb before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months £25.00 before he would have become King of France. 928p (Faber & Faber 2016) 9780571274567 Pb £22.00 69 Crusade and Jihad The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I Origins, History, Aftermath of Portugal By Malcolm Lambert By Jeffrey L. Forgeng Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Written around 1430, Duarte of Portugal’s Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and remarkable treatise on chivalric horsemanship, development of crusade and jihad. He describes the Livro do Cavalgar (Book on Riding), is the sole the long and firecely fought struggles to control substantial contemporary source to survive on the the sacred places of the Middle East between the definitive physical skill of the medieval knight. seventh and thirteenth centuries, as well as the more Under the general rubric of horsemanship Duarte recent history of these ideas. Crusade and jihad covers a range of topics that include jousting, are often reckoned two sides of the same coin, but tourneying, and hunting, as well as the physical this simple opposition, the author shows, conceals apparatus of equestrianism and various cultural crucial differences and similarities between them. styles of riding.This first English translation also 320p, b/w and col pls (Profile Books 2016) 9781846685545 serves as a systematic introduction to medieval Hb £20.00 equestrianism in general. 172p, b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) John of Brienne 9781783271030 Hb £25.00 King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople c.1175–1237 Medieval East Central Europe in a By Guy Perry Comparative Perspective: From Frontier John of Brienne’s progress, from mid-ranking Zones to Lands in Focus knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most Edited by Gerhard Jaritz & Katalin Szende remarkable careers in the entire medieval period. Including fifteen original chapters from This biographical study of aristocratic social and an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this geographical mobility in the ‘Age of the Crusades’ collection begins by posing the question: “What reassesses John’s fascinating life, and explores how is East Central Europe?” with three specialists families and dynasticism, politics, intrigue, religion offering different interpretations and presenting and war all contributed to John’s unprecedented new conclusions. The book is then grouped into career. four parts which examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The 236p (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) essays point out themes and structures from town 9781107043107 Hb £72.00, 9781316620298 Pb £18.99 planning, to gender, to religious orders, that did The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century not function according to political boundaries, and Converging and Competing Cultures for which the inclusion of East Central European Edited by Norman Housley territories was systemic. This volume explores the range of interactions which 296p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138923461 Hb took place between the three faith communities £90.00, 9781138923478 Pb £29.99 which were most affected by crusade in the fifteenth Archery and Crossbow Guilds in century, namely the Catholic and Orthodox worlds, and the adherents of Islam. Religious and ethnic Medieval Flanders 1300-1500 identities were volatile, allegiances negotiable, and By Laura Crombie diplomacy, ideological exchange and human contact In the towns of medieval were constantly in operation between the period’s Flanders a plethora of major religious groupings. guilds existed which had 220p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472464712 Hb £95.00 little or nothing to do with the organisation of labour, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade including archery and By Nicholas Morton crossbow guilds. This is This volume offers a major reinterpretation of the first full-length study of the crusaders’ attitudes towards the Arabic and these guilds, encompassing Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey not only the great urban to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how centres of Ghent, Bruges they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and and Lille but also numerous landscapes they encountered, offering a varied smaller towns. It examines picture of cross cultural relations, and depicting guild membership, structure and organisation, the Near East as an arena in which multiple revealing the diversity of guild brothers - and sisters protagonists were pitted against each other. Some - and bringing to life the elaborate social occasions were fighting for supremacy, others for their when princes and plumbers would dine together. religion, many simply for survival. 264p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271047 Hb £60.00 326p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107156890 Hb £64.99 70 Medieval Europe Medieval Chivalry Journeying Along Medieval Routes By Richard W. Kaeuper in Europe and the Middle East In this major new overview, Edited by Marianne O’Doherty, Leonie V. Hicks & Richard Kaeuper examines Alison L. Gascoigne how chivalry made sense of Focusing on routes and journeys throughout violence and war, making medieval Europe and the Middle East in the it tolerable for elite fighters period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth rather than non-knightly or century, this multi-disciplinary book draws on travel sub-knightly populations. narratives, chronicles, maps, charters, geographies, He discusses how chivalry and material remains in order to shed new light buttressed status and on the experience of travelling in the Middle profession, shaped active piety, Ages. Many essays place a strong emphasis on the and fostered intense warrior methodological problems associated with the study attachments and heterosexual of travel and its traces. relationships. Kaeuper engages 300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2016) 9782503541730 Hb £76.50 with a wide range of evidence in his analysis, drawing on the chivalric literature, manuscript illumination, and Mapping Medieval Geographies sermon exempla and moral tales. Geographical Encounters in the Latin West 464p, b/w illus (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks 2016) and Beyond 300-1600 9780521137959 Pb £19.99 By Keith D. Lilley Mapping Medieval Legal Plunder Geographies explores the Households and Debt Collection in Late ways in which geographical Medieval Europe knowledge, ideas and By Daniel Lord Smail traditions were formed in Focusing on the Mediterranean cities of Marseille Europe during the Middle and Lucca, Legal Plunder explains how the vigorous Ages. The book is divided trade in goods that grew up in fourteenth- and into two parts: Part I focuses fifteenth-century Europe entangled households on the notion of geographical in complex relationships of credit and debt. In a tradition and charts the world without banking, household goods became evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms valuable commodities that often substituted for of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; hard currency. Pawnbrokers and resellers sprung whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; up throughout European cities, helping push these that is to say, those ‘imagined geographies’ that goods into circulation. Simultaneously, a harshly came into being as a result of everyday spatial and coercive legal system developed to ensure that spiritual experience. debtors paid their due. 348p b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2014, Pb 320p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674737280 2016) 9781107036918 Hb £72.00, 9781316620274 Pb Hb £29.95 £20.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Great Transition Climate Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World By Bruce M. S. Campbell In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this ‘Great Transition’, Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, Only including estimates of national income, reconstructions of £18.50 until past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and 31st April realignment of Western Europe’s late medieval commercial economy. 488p, (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9780521144438 Pb £22.99

Medieval Europe 71 Fools and Idiots? Childhood Disability and Social Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages Integration in the Middle Ages By Irina Metzler Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth- This is the first book devoted to the cultural history And Fourteenth-Century Canonization in the pre-modern period of people we now Processes describe as having learning disabilities. Using an By Jenny Kuuliala interdisciplinary approach, including historical This volume offers new insights into medieval semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and disability studies by analysing miracle testimonies law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of from canonization processes as sources for the social and medical history and makes an original study of medieval attitudes to and understanding contribution to the problem of a shifting concept of childhood physical impairments: how they were such as ‘idiocy’. The book demolishes a number of defined, and the social consequences of childhood historiographic myths and stereotypes surrounding disability on the family, on the community, and on intellectual disability in the Middle Ages and children themselves. suggests new insights with regard to ‘fools’, jesters 394p (Brepols 2016) 9782503551852 Hb £85.00 and ‘idiots’. 256p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719096365 Hb £70.00 Medieval Religion Afterlives Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages England By Nancy Mandeville Caciola By John Munns The society of medieval Europe developed a rich This book explores the extraordinarily rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the and vibrant visual and religious culture of the afterlife, evident in the widespread popularity of twelfth century, offering new and exciting insights stories about the returned dead, who interacted into its significance, and studying the dynamic with the living both as disembodied spirits and relationships between ideas and images. In as living corpses or revenants. This book explores addition to providing the first extensive survey this extraordinary phenomenon of the living’s of surviving Passion imagery from the period, relationship with the dead in Europe during the it explores those images’ contexts: intellectual, five hundred years after the year 1000. Caciola cultural, religious, and art-historical. It thus not considers both Christian and pagan beliefs, only enhances our understanding of the place of showing how certain traditions survived and the cross in Anglo-Norman culture; evolved over time, and how attitudes both diverged it also demonstrates how new and overlapped through different contexts and image theories and patterns of Only social strata. agency shaped the life of the 360p (Cornell University Press 2016) 9781501702617 later medieval church. £48.00 until Hb £26.95 312p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 31st April Elf Queens and Holy Friars 2016) 9781783271269 Hb £60.00 Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church Cathars in Question By Richard Firth Green Edited by Antonio Sennis Richard Firth Green investigates an important Focusing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs aspect of medieval culture that has been largely in southern France, Italy and the Balkans, this ignored by modern literary scholarship: the volume considers a number of crucial issues. omnipresent belief in fairyland. He argues that These include: what constitutes popular belief; when medieval preachers inveighed against the how (and to what extent) societies of the past demons that they portrayed as threatening their were based on the persecution of dissidents; and flocks, they were in reality often waging war whether heresy can be seen as an invention of against fairy beliefs. He offers a detailed account orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed of the church’s attempts to suppress or redirect new light on some key aspects of the belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, political, cultural, religious and and alternative versions of the afterlife. economic relationships between 285p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) the Balkans and more western Only 9780812248432 Hb £47.00 regions of Europe in the £48.00 until Middle Ages. 31st April 332p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781903153680 Hb £60.00 72 The Cistercians in the Middle Ages Peter the Venerable By Janet Burton & Julie Kerr Writings Against the Saracens This book seeks to explore the phenomenon By I. M. Resnick that was the Cistercian Order, drawing on recent A new English translation of Peter the Venerable’s research from various disciplines to consider what twin polemics against Islam – A Summary of the it was that made the Cistercians distinctive and entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect how they responded to developments. The book of the Saracens – as well as related correspondence. addresses current debates regarding the origins and These works resulted from a sustained engagement evolution of the Order; discusses the key primary with Islam begun during Peter’s journey to Spain sources for knowledge; and covers architecture, in 1142-43. administration, daily life, spirituality, the economy 192p, (Catholic University of America Press 2016) and the monks’ ties with the world. 9780813228594 Hb £43.50 256p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2011, Pb 2016) 9781783271207 Pb £17.99 Pope Innocent II (1130-43) The World vs the City Painting the Hortus Deliciarum Edited by John Doran & Damian J. Smith Medieval Women Wisdom and Time The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long By Danielle Joyner been recognized as a watershed in the history of Between 1170 and 1190 in Alsace, Abbess Herrad the papacy, marking the transition from the age compiled for her canonesses an elaborate of reform to the so-called papal monarchy. This manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, which combined volume brings together the authorities in the field resplendent images with quotations from more to give an overarching view of his pontificate, and than fifty texts to portray a history of the Christian its importance in terms of the internationalization church across time and through eternity. Danielle of the papacy, the internal development of the Joyner shows how the book reflected twelfth- Roman Curia, the integrity of the papal state and century concerns, such as emphasizing a historical the governance of the local church, as well as vital interpretation of the Bible and reconciling scientific to the development of the Kingdom of Sicily and and theological accounts of the cosmos. the Empire. 256p, b/w and col illus (Penn State University Press 420p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472421098 Hb 2016) 9780271070889 Hb £63.95 £95.00 Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant The Scottish Legendary Cultures, 1200-1450 Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration Edited by Constant J. Mews & Anna Welch By Eva Von Contzen The papers in this volume are organised under This is the first book-length study of the Scottish three headings, prefaced with an introductory essay Legendary of the late fourteenth century, the only by the editors: Poverty and the Rule of Francis, extant collection of saints’ lives in the vernacular exploring the interpretation of poverty in the from medieval Scotland. Focusing on the role of Franciscan Order; Devotional Cultures, considering the narrator, the depiction of the saintly characters, aspects of devotional life fostered by mendicant their interiority, as well as temporal and spatial religious communities, Franciscan, Augustinian and parameters, it is demonstrated that the Scottish poet Dominican; Preaching Poverty, on the way poverty has adapted the traditional material to the needs of was promoted and practiced within the Dominican an audience versed in reading romance and other Order in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. secular genres. 225p (Routledge 2016) 9781472437327 Hb £95.00 288p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719095962 Hb £70.00 A Maid with a Dragon The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval The Church in Fourteenth Century England Iceland By Juliana Dresvina By Erika Sigurdson This is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary Erika Sigurdson provides a history of the fourteenth- study of the cult of St Margaret of Antioch in century Icelandic Church with a focus on the social medieval England. The cult grew in England status of elite clerics following the introduction of from Anglo-Saxon times, with over 200 churches benefices to Iceland. The book further chronicles dedicated to Margaret and hundreds of images and major developments in the Icelandic Church after copies of her life known to have been made. The the reforms of the late thirteenth century, including book examines Greek, Latin, Old English, Middle its emphasis on property and land ownership, and English and Anglo-Norman versions of Margaret’s the growth of ecclesiastical bureaucracy. life, their mouvance and cultural context, providing 208p (Brill 2016) 9789004301177 Hb £100.00 editions of the hitherto unpublished texts. 400p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780197265963 Hb £80.00 Medieval Religion 73 Medieval Art & Archaeology The Bayeux Tapestry NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS New Interpretations Edited by Martin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey & Art in England Dan Terkla The Saxons to the Tudors: 600–1600 In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the By Sara N. James Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its Art in England fills a void sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, in the scholarship of both and site of display. This volume demonstrates English and medieval the value of more recent interpretive approaches art by offering the first to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining single volume overview the textile’s materiality, visuality, of artistic movements reception and historiography, in Medieval and Early and its constructions of gender, Only Renaissance England. territory and cultural memory. Grounded in history and £20.00 until 248p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 31st April using the chronology of 2009, Pb 2016) 9781783271245 Pb the reign of monarchs as £25.00 a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved The Power of Place threads of continuity, patterns of intention and Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities unique qualities that run through English art of and Holy Places the medieval millennium. By placing the English By D. W. Rollason movement in a European context, this book This study explores the nature of power – the power brings to light many ingenious innovations that of kings, emperors, and popes – through the places focused studies tend not to recognize and offers that these rulers created or developed, including a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration media studied include architecture and related sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb from the first to the sixteenth centuries, David monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, Rollason examines how these places conveyed and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; messages of power and what those messages were. and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons. 464p, b/w illus, col pls (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691167626 Hb £41.95 448p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702235 Hb £60.00 The North Transept of Reims Cathedral Edited by Jennifer M. Feltman A Rothschild Renaissance This book focuses on the north transept of Reims A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the Cathedral. Essays address issues of the north British Museum transept’s evolving design and visual programs, Edited by Pippa Shirley & Dora Thornton thereby significantly clarifying and revising A collection of papers which the building’s chronology. Essays also consider celebrate the opening of the meaning of its visual programs in light of the new gallery housing the architectural adaptation and contemporary socio- Waddesdon Bequest, one of historical events. the world’s finest collections 242p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472462466 Hb £95.00 of medieval and renaissance Of Churches, Toothache and Sheep craftmanship. Subjects Selected Papers from the Norwich Historic included new attributions Churches Trust Conferences 2014 and 2015 for sculptures, a detailed discussion of the making and Edited by Nicholas Groves marketing of forgeries by Contents: Toothache, saints and churches in pre- Salomon Weininger, Frédéric Reformation Norfolk (John F. Beal); Theology to Spitzer and Alfred André as well as new research on liturgy: the material culture of change in Norwich jewellery and its presentation both at Waddesdon and beyond, c.145-1640 (Victor Morgan); Norwich’s Manor and in the new gallery at the BM. Catholic chapels (Francis Young); ‘The sheep hath paid for all’: church building and self-expression in 200p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) the Late Middle Ages (Allan B. Barton); Valuations of 9780861592128 Pb £40.00, NYP churches in medieval Norfolk (Elizabeth Gemmill); The funeral of John Paston (Susan Curran). 128p, b/w and col illus (Lasse Press 2016) 9780993306921 Pb £14.99 74 Late Medieval Castles Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Edited by Robert Liddiard Levant The contents of this volume The Archaeology and History of the Latin East represent key works in Edited by Micaela Sinibaldi, Kevin J. Lewis, Balasz castle scholarship. Topics Major & Jennifer A. Thompson discussed include castle Written to celebrate the prestigious career of warfare, fortress customs, Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles architectural design and offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship symbolism, spatial planning on recent studies on the Latin East. With a and the depiction of castles concentration on the areas corresponding to the in medieval romance. The crusader states during the twelfth and thirteenth contributions also serve to centuries, the articles also offer research into the highlight the diversity of neighbouring areas of Cyprus, Anatolia, Greece approaches to the medieval and the West, and the legacy of the crusader period castle, ranging from the study there, with results from recent archaeological of documentary and literary fieldwork in the Middle East. sources, analysis of fragmentary Only 544p, b/w illus (University of Wales Press 2016) architectural remains and the £48.00 until 9781783169245 Hb £95.00 recording of field archaeology. 31st April 352p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer Medieval Rural Settlements in the 2016) 9781783270330 Hb £60.00 Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Steep Strait and High Centuries) Ancient Houses of Central Lincoln By Balasz Major By Christopher Johnson & Stanley Jones After enumerating the historical events that This volume illuminates the development of influenced the settlement pattern of the Syrian coast different building styles in timber, stone and brick in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, its centres, over a period of 750 years, in one of the oldest areas including the towns and castles (with special regard of Lincoln. High quality and detailed architectural to the smaller fortifications of the countryside that drawings are accompanied by documentary seem to have been a Frankish introduction to the accounts which explain the historical context, and area) are analysed. A closer look at tell some of the fascinating and tragic stories of the the villages and their environment people who lived and worked there from the mid- aims to draw a general picture on Only the density of settlements and twelfth century until the First World War, including £42.00 until their basic characteristics. the medieval Jewish community. 31st April 206p, col illus (Lincoln Record Society 2016) 288p (Archaeopress Archaeology 9781910653012 Hb £40.00 2016) 9781784912048 Pb £52.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Castle Builders Approaches to Castle Design and Construction in the Middle Ages By Malcolm Hislop In Castle Builders, Malcolm Hislop looks at the hugely popular subject of castles from the unusual perspective of design and construction. In this general introduction to the subject, we discover something of the personalities behind their creation - the architects and craftsmen - and, furthermore, the techniques they employed, and how style and technology was disseminated. Castle Builders takes both a thematic and a chronological approach to the design and construction of castles, providing the reader with clear lines of development. Themes include earth, timber and stone Only construction techniques, the evolution of the great tower, £20.00 until the development of military engineering, the progression of 31st April domestic accommodation, and the degree to which aesthetics contributed to castle design. 264p col illus throughout (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781781593356 Hb £25.00

Medieval Art & Archaeology 75 La Ceramica Bassomedievale a Pisa A History of the County of Oxford e San Genesio (San Miniato-Pi) XVIII (Victoria County History) Citta e Campagna a Confronto: Cita e Benson Ewelme and the Chilterns (Ewelme Campagna a Confronto Hundred) By Beatrice Fatighenti Edited by Simon Townley This book presents the study of pottery in two Occupying a varied landscape in south-east medieval contexts, Pisa (a city) and San Genesio (a Oxfordshire, the fourteen rural parishes covered central rural settlement in the Arno Valley). The in this volume extend from the river valleys of the research focuses on specific issues observed in the Thames and Thame up onto the Chiltern hills. two contexts, like characteristics of production, Nucleated villages and open fields dominated specialization and circulation of the products; the vale, while the uplands feature dispersed characteristics of consumption; and pottery as socio- settlement, early inclosure, and extensive wood- economic indicator. The data from pasture. Notable buildings include the fifteenth- this research helps define a picture century brick-built almshouse complex at Ewelme, of relations between town and co-founded by Chaucer’s granddaughter Alice de countryside in the Arno Valley Only la Pole, and the now largely demolished Tudor between Xth and XIVth century. £30.00 until mansion at Rycote, while more recent additions 234p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April include Nuffield Place, remodelled in 1933 for the Archaeology 2016) 9781784912772 Oxford car manufacturer William Morris. Pb £37.00 336p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781904356479 Hb £95.00 The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire Medieval Dispersed Settlement on By Paul Spoerry the Mid Suffolk Clay at Cedars Park, This synthetic and analytical study examines Stowmarket evidence for pottery manufacture and its By Tom Woolhouse distribution and use, through the study of Four phases of medieval and post-medieval land documents, publications, excavated assemblages use were identified; the main period of activity and museum collections. The report is presented in was in the 13th–14th centuries AD. To the north two parts. Part 1 describes the results of the research of Cedars Park, where the hillside levels off to a programme, and also provides a consideration of plateau, excavation revealed part of an enclosed period assemblages by ceramic sub-region with a farmstead. The remains of two buildings with earth- synthesis of the results which examines in detail fast foundations were identified, as well as cobbled aspects such as pottery production and supply. Part yard surfaces, numerous quarry and rubbish pits 2 provides the illustrated type series and scientific and a large pond or watering hole. analysis through the use of thin sections and ICPS 160p b/w illus (EAA 161, 2016) 9780993247729 Pb £15.00 investigation. 200p b/w illus (EAA 159, 2016) 9781907588082 Pb £30.00 Post Medieval EDITOR’S CHOICE Finding Shakespeare’s New Place An Archaeological Biography By Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls & William Mitchell This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare’s life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to Shakespeare and, in so doing, challenge some of the long-held assumptions of Shakespearian biography. New Only Place was the largest house in the borough and the only one £13.00 until with a courtyard, giving Shakespeare significant social status and was crucial to his relationship with Stratford-upon-Avon. 31st April 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Manchester University Press 2016) 9781526106490 Pb £15.99

76 An Immense and Exceedingly Commodious Goods Station NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Archaeology and History of the Great Northern Railway’s Goods Yard at King’s Cross, St Paul’s Cathedral 1849 to the Present Day Archaeology and History By Rebecca Haslam & Guy Thompson By John Schofield A redevelopment to the north of King’s Cross In this major new Passenger Station presented a unique opportunity account, John Schofield to thoroughly investigate the archaeology, built examines the cathedral heritage and history of one of the most important from an archaeological former railway termini in the country: King’s Cross perspective, reviewing Goods Yard, which forms the focus of this book. its history from the early Supported by thorough historical research and 18th to the early 21st never-before published archaeological work, this century, as illustrated monograph comprehensively presents the story by recent archaeological of this extraordinary complex from its inception recording, documentary through to its regeneration and salvation in recent research and engineering times. asssessment. A detailed account of the construction of the cathedral is 340p, b/w illus (Pre-Construct Archaeology 2016) provided based on a comparison of the fabric 9780992667269 Hb £30.00 with voluminous building accounts which have The Changing Face of London Historic survived and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. The construction of the Wren Buildings and the Crossrail Route building and its embellishments are followed By Richard Brown, Julian Munby, Andy Shelley & by the main works of later surveyors such Kirsty Smith as Robert Mylne and Francis Penrose. The Buildings have much to 20th century brought further changes and tell us about the lives and conservation projects, including restoration livelihoods of others, and after the building was hit by two bombs in Crossrail ensured that any World War II, and all its windows blown out. building affected by the The 1990s and first years of the present century works was surveyed by their have witnessed considerable refurbishment team of archaeologists before and cleaning involving archaeological and any work began. This book engineering works. Archaeological specialist considers what the buildings reports and an engineering review of the stability and structures examined in and character of the building are provided. this way have told us about 484p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) the changing face of London. 9781785702754 Hb £65.00 Each chapter takes as its theme buildings that shared common functions or characteristics, such as the offices that lay in the way of the capital’s Excavations at the British Museum new stations or the former industrial buildings that An Archaeological and Social History of clustered around the railway’s new tunnel portals. Bloomsbury 152p, col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) 9780904220780 By Rebecca Haslam & Victoria Ridgeway Pb £10.00 In 1999 and 2007 respectively, From Brunel to British Rail the central courtyard and The Railway Heritage of the Crossrail Route the northwest corner of By Andy Shelley & Richard Brown the British Museum estate were redeveloped. This Crossrail ensured that any building affected by the volume presents the results works was surveyed by their team of archaeologists of the ensuing studies before any work began. This book considers what undertaken by Pre-Construct the buildings and structures examined in this way Archaeology and in so doing have told us about the changing face of London. details the evolution of this Each chapter takes as its theme buildings that area of London from the shared common functions or characteristics, such Roman period into modern as the offices that lay in the way of the capital’s times. Two key finds were the discovery of the new stations or the former industrial buildings that hitherto elusive Civil War defences of London and clustered around the railway’s new tunnel portals. the intriguing assemblage of dead cows recovered 152p, col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) 9780904220780 from an early 18th-century collection of graves Pb £10.00 buried underneath the site. 250p, 160 (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592104 Pb £40.00, NYP Post Medieval 77 A Quaker Burial Ground at North Architettura Militare di Fine Ottocento Shields La Difesa Costiera e Limpiego Delle Batterie Excavations at Coach Lane, Tyne and Wear Dello Stretto di Messina By Jennifer Proctor, Märit Gaimster & James Young By Armando Donato Langthorne A study of the permanent system of coastal batteries The archaeological excavation of 244 burials and of the Strait of Messina which was erected in the associated charnel from a burial ground in North late nineteenth century which draws on newly Shields, used by the Society of Friends between discovered plans of the defences of the Kingdom of 1711 and 1829, provided a rare opportunity to Italy. It was already conceptually obsolete during examine a Quaker burial ground in its entirety. construction and progressively decommissioned. The publication considers aspects of the layout 92p, b/w illus (BAR 2784, 2016) 9781407314648 Pb £18.00 and chronological use of the burial ground, use of coffins, coffin fittings and grave markers, treatment Technology in the Country House of the body and burial customs, demographics and By Marilyn Palmer & Ian West health of the population. By the 19th century, life in most country houses 211p, b/w and col illus (Pre-Construct Archaeology 2016) changed as a result of various technical inventions 9780992667276 Pb £20.00 such as improved water supplies, central heating, and better lighting by means of gas and electricity. The Birth of Industrial Glasgow Country houses, however, were usually too far The Archaeology of the M74 2016 from urban centres to take advantage of centralised By Michael Nevell sources of supply and so were obliged to set up The excavations detailed their own systems if they wanted any of these here examined massive services to improve the comfort of daily living. Some complexes such as the landowners chose to do this; others did not, and this Govan Iron Works and book examines the motivations for their decisions. the Caledonian Pottery as 204p, col illus (Historic England 2016) 9781848022805 well as engineering works, Hb £60.00 foundries, lime works and a textile mill. Many different The Archaeology of the Cold War types of housing were also By Todd A. Hanson investigated, from purpose- In this book, Todd Hanson presents nine case built workers’ rows to ‘Greek’ studies of archaeological investigations conducted at Thomson tenements. The famous-and some not so famous-historic American world-famous industrial might of Glasgow in Cold War sites, including Bikini Atoll, the Nevada the form of businesses large and small, wide- Test Site, and the Cuban sites of the Soviet Missile ranging and specialised, and the homes of the Crisis. By examining nuclear weapons test sites, people involved, is here described in detail in the missile silos, submarine bases, fallout shelters, and archaeological reports and set in context by the more, Hanson illustrates how archaeology can help principal author Michael Nevell. strip away myths, secrets, and political rhetoric to 216p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) better inform our understanding of the conflict’s 9781908332103 Hb £25.00 formative role in the making of the contemporary American landscape. Welsh Slate 192p (University Press of Florida 2016) 9780813062839 Archaeology and History of an Industry Hb £84.95 By David Gwyn Slates from quarries in Victims of Ireland’s Great Famine Wales once went to roof the The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny world. By the late nineteenth Union Workhouse century as many as a third By Jonny Geber of all the roofing slates In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass produced worldwide came burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 from Wales, competing with Kilkenny Union workhouse inmates. In the first quarries in France and the bioarchaeological study of Great Famine victims, United States. This book Jonny Geber uses skeletal analysis to tell the story of traces the industry from how and why the Irish Famine decimated the lowest its origins in the Roman levels of nineteenth century society. By examining period, its slow medieval the physical conditions of the inmates that might development and then its massive expansion in the have contributed to their institutionalization, as nineteenth century – as well as through its long well as to the resulting health consequences, Geber drawn-out decline in the twentieth. sheds new light on Ireland’s Great Hunger. 292p, col illus (Royal Commission (Wales) 2015) 288p, b/w illus (University Press of Florida 2015) 9781871184518 Hb £45.00 9780813061177 Hb £96.50 78 Post Medieval