The Poet Lucan Gendered Dynamics in The Cosmic Viewpoint Encounters By M. P. O. Morford Latin Love Poetry A Study of Seneca's Travel and Money in the Morford considers the rules of By Ronnie Ancona Natural Questions Byzantine World ancient rhetoric and common themes This volume, the first to focus By Gareth D. Williams By Eurydice S. Georganteli in Lucan’s epic on the Civil War as specifically on gender dynamics in A study of Seneca’s innovative and Barrie Cook well as the poem itself, incorporating Latin love poetry, moves beyond three new translations. meteorological treatise, in which The study of Byzantine coins the polarized critical positions that technical coverage of natural is essentially the study of 93pp, Bristol Classical Press, 1967, argue that this poetry either confirms phenomena is combined with ethical communications and movement of 9781853994883, Paperback, was traditional gender roles or subverts reflections on human nature in one people and ideas, within and outside £18.99 them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the stoic philosophical whole. Byzantium. This highly illustrated volume, focuses on over ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, 50 coins to explore the empire's political and socio- Now £1.95 shifting power back and forth between male and female. 392pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199731589, Hardback, was £40.49 economic development and cultural relations with its 372pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, neighbours. 9780801881985, Hardback, was £46.50 Now £7.95 72pp, col illus, Art Books International, 2006, Now £9.95 9781904832270, Paperback, was £6.95 Now £2.95

Pliny's Women Intertextuality and the The Deaths of Seneca Unearthing the Truth By Jaqueline Carlon Reading of Roman By James Ker Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture Combining detailed prosopo-graphy Poetry The forced suicide of Seneca is By Edna R. Russmann with close literary analysis, Jacqueline By Lowell Edmunds one of the most tortured-and This volume presents the Brooklyn Carlon examines the identities of most revisited-death scenes from Museum’s permanent collection the women whom Pliny includes in Edmund's discussion of current classical antiquity. James Ker offers a debates in the study of Roman poetry of Late Antique Egyptian stone his letters, and how they and the comprehensive analysis of the scene, sculptures (C.E. 395–642), including men with whom they are associated asks how we can explain the process situating it in the Roman imagination by which a literary text refers to several reworked or repainted contribute both to this presentation and tracing its many subsequent objects and some that appear to be of exemplary Romans and particularly another text. Individual theoretical interpretations. At the book's centre chapters on the concepts of `text', `poet', `reader' and modern forgeries. The ancient reliefs were made for use to his own self-promotion. is an exploration of Seneca's own prolific writings about in pagan and Coptic Christian cemeteries as well as in `persona' are applied to passages from Virgil, Horace, death. 270pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Ovid and Catullus. Christian churches and monasteries. 9780521761321, Hardback, was £67.00 432pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199959693, 91pp, col illus, Brooklyn Museum, 2009, 9780872731622, 201pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Paperback, was £32.49 Now £9.95 9780801865114, Hardback, was £42.00 Hardback, was £17.99 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

Acts of Silence The Empire of the Self Recognizing Persius Jewish Martyrs in the Civil War, Tyranny and Suicide By Christopher Star By Kenneth J. Reckford Pagan and Christian in the Flavian Epics The Stoic ideal of individual empire A passionate and in-depth exploration Worlds By Donald McGuire or complete self-command is a major of the libellus of six Latin satires left By Shmuel Shepkaru theme of Seneca's philosophical by the Roman satirical writer Persius A comparative literary analysis of works. The problematic consequences when he died in AD 62 at the age of This book presents a linear history the three epic poems of the Flavian of this ideal are explored in Seneca's twenty-seven. In this comprehensive of Jewish martyrdom, from the era (Statius’ Thebaid, Valerius Flaccus’ dramatic and satirical works, as well and reflectively personal book, Hellenistic period to the high Middle Argonautica and Silius Italicus’ Punica) as in the novel of his contemporary, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out Ages. It shows how Jewish thought in light of their contemporary political Petronius. Star examines the the primary importance of this on martyrdom was influenced by world, higlighting the significant body of thematic rhetorical links between these diverse texts. mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. the centrality of self-sacrifice to Roman and Christian material common to all three poems. thought, even as martyrdom was used to define Jewish 302pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, 240pp, Princeton University Press, 2009, 9780691141411, religiosity and delegitimise their persecutors. 272pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 1997, 9783487103341, 9781421406749, Hardback, was £50.50 Hardback, was £49.00 Paperback, was £28.00 428pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Now £4.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 9780521842815, Hardback, was £77.00 Now £9.95

Troy's Children Elegiac Passion Pliny's Statue Barsanuphius and John Lost Generations in Virgil's Aeneid Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy Pliny's Statue Letters, Volume 2 By John K. Newman and By Ruth Rothaus Caston By John Henderson Translated by John Chryssavgis Frances Stickney Newman This study begins by examining John Henderson gives a completely A collection of monastic writings, This study analyses the ambiguous the differences between the fresh and enthusiastic re-reading which provided both spiritual and role of children in Virgil’s Aeneid. It elegiac treatment of love and that of Pliny's Letters. We are shown a practical advice to a variety of suggests that, by its entire stylistic of philosophy, whether Stoic or confidant of emperors obsessed with sixth-century interlocutors from bias, the Aeneid was incapable of Epicurean. Ruth Caston uses the main his own monumentalization - both in diverse walks of life. The two picturing the vigour and life of a new chapters to address the depiction of his writings and in the art works he anchorites, having settled in an generation. jealousy in the love relationship and explores in detail handles. isolated location near Gaza, were in demand as trusted 400pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2005, 9783487128108, the role of the senses, the role of readers-both those 226pp, 5 b/w illus, The Exeter Press, 2002, counselors, responding to questions on topics ranging Paperback, was £45.00 internal and external to the poems-, and the use of 9780859897204, Hardback, was £75.00 from relationships within monasteries to problems of violence as a response to jealousy. municipal taxation. Now £5.95 176pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199925902, Now £19.95 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, Hardback, was £65.00 9780813201146, Hardback, was £33.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Horace: A Life Exemplary Traits Politics of Desire Novatian By Peter Levi Reading Characterization Propertius IV The Trinity, The Spectacles, Jewish This biography attempts to present in Roman Poetry By Micaela Janan Foods, In Praise of Purity, Letters a complete picture of Horace's life By J. Mira Seo Janan uses modern psychoanalytical­ Translated by Russell J. DeSimone and world. It considers the details of methods to examine Propertius Horace's romantic liaisons and why Exemplary Traits examines how This volume presents translations Roman poets used models (c.54–2 BC), who helped to shape the of all Novatian's surviving writings. he never married, what the status of form of the Latin elegy, and explores his father - a freedman - meant to dynamically to create character, and The collection opens with the work how their referential approach to the social and political forces that that most clearly defines him as a the poet, and his distinctive brand of helped to create his poems. Following philosophy. character reveals them mobilizing theologian of central importance: The the literary tradition. By tracing the philosophical and an introduction to the study’s concepts, each chapter Trinity. This treatise refuted heresies concerning Christ's 288pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781780761398, Paperback, was rhetorical concepts that underlie characterization concentrates on specific poems with extracts in Latin dual nature and God's total spirituality. £12.99 as a literary technique, this study illuminates an and in English translation. 223pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2008, Now £4.95 underestimated aspect of this poetic technique and its 244pp, University of California Press, 2001, 9780813215464, Paperback, was £47.50 relation to a larger intellectual context. 9780520223219, Paperback, was £25.00 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199734283, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Virgil Function of Humour A Legacy of Armenian Making of a Christian By Peter Levi in Roman Verse Satire Treasures Empire Peter Levi here reconstructs the Laughing and Lying Testimony to a People-The Alex By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser poet's life, from a childhood largely By Maria Plaza and Marie Manoogian Museum The work of the Christian scholar shrouded in mystery to his work as a Maria Plaza analyses the function Edited by Edmond Y. Azadian Lactantius provides an ideal lens great literary genius and revolutionary through which to study how Rome poet, by examining archaeological and of humour in Horace, Persius, and The Alex and Marie Manoogian Juvenal. She argues that, while the became a Christian empire. Elizabeth historical evidence from Augustan Museum in Michigan holds the largest DePalma Digeser shows how Rome, as well as through close Roman satirist needs humour for his and most representative gathering of work's aesthetic merit, his proposed Lactantius' Divine Institutes, seditious readings of the poet's own work. Armenian art and artifacts outside in its time, responded to the emperor Diocletian's message suffers from the ambivalence that humour Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed 264pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781848859043, Paperback, was brings with it. persecution and then became an important influence on £12.99 books, rugs and carpets, sacred vessels and vestments, Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor. 370pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, 9780199237937, textiles and embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, Now £5.95 Paperback, was £45.99 coins, and objects from the ancient kingdom of Urartu. Cornell University Press, 9780801477874, Paperback, was 160 of the finest are described and illustrated here. £21.99 Now £4.95 336pp, col illus, Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum, 2013, Now £7.95 9780578113777, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £14.95 30 • LATIN LITERATURE AND LATE ANTIQUITY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Cage Cups Pseudo-Dionysius of Michael Attaleiates Neighbours and Late Roman Luxury Glasses Tel-Mahre and the Politics of Successors of Rome By David Whitehouse Chronicle, Part III Imperial Decline in Traditions of Glass Production and A comprehensive survey that By Witold Witakowski Eleventh-Century use in Europe and the Middle East presents chapters on the discovery Although the chronicle dates to the Byzantium in the Later 1st Millennium AD and study, characteristics, distribution end of the 8th century the third part, By Dimitris Krallis Edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer and date, and manufacture of cage translated here is taken from the Price and Caroline Jackson cups. 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Court In the third century A.D. the shed light on various aspects of the After a general introduction to church’s role in late Byzantine society, Ideas about divinely-inspired Syro-Persian Mani founded a highly each site, its biblical significance and evangelistic Gnostic religion in especially on the relationship between a citation of the relevant biblical disaster have an enduring place in the church and the lay world and the history of Christian thought. Mesopotamia. It became a world sources with commentary, the author religion with followers spread across the response of individuals to the lists the literary sources that pertain Charting a steady course between challenges faced by Orthodoxy. the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like Central Asia and even parts of China. The history of its specifically to early Christian pilgrimage activity. 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A Christian's Guide to Byzantine Art New Directions in Desiring Conversion Greek Culture Recent Studies Boethian Studies Hermas, Tecla, Aseneth By Jennifer Nimmo Smith Edited by Colum Hourihane Edited by Noel Howard Kaylor By B. Diane Lipsett These commentaries on Gregory Studies on the architecture and art and Peter Edward Phillips Self-restraint or self-mastery may of Nanzianus show the continued of the Byzantine world from the 12 contributions on Boethius and his appear to be the opposite of erotic importance of Classical Greek tenth to the fifteenth centuries. later medieval reception. They are desire. But in this nuanced, literary learning in the 6th century. Underpinned by iconography, style, grouped into four parts: Boethius' analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the 156pp, maps, Liverpool University Press, reception and date, these essays Latin De Consolatione Philosophiae; intriguing interplay of desire and 2001, 9780853239178, Paperback, attempt to contextualize the eastern Vernacular translations of the self-restraint in three ancient tales of was £25.00 world and the west, the Muslim and the Christian, the Consolatio; Boethius in art and literary history; Boethius conversion: The Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul specific detail and the larger picture. in religion and mythography; and a new critical edition of and Thecla, and Joseph and Aseneth. Now £2.95 207pp, illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, the Boke of Coumfort of Bois. 190pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780199754519, 9780866984263, Hardback, was £53.00 294pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, Hardback, was £71.00 9781580441018, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Donatist Martyr Coptic Legal Bir Umm Fawakhir Explaining the Cosmos Stories Documents Survey Project 1993 By Michael W. Champion The Church in Conflict in Edited by Leslie MacCoull A Byzantine Gold-Mining This volume analyzes the writings of Roman North Africa This volume contains annotated Town in Egypt three thinkers associated with Gaza: English translations of fifty selected Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. By Maureen A. Tilley By Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, Together, they offer a case study for legal documents originally written in W. E. Kaegi and Terry G. Wilfong A collection of hagiography from the Coptic language, dating from the the appropriation, adaptation, and the 4th century Donatist sect in mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. This report reflects on the aims transformation of classical philosophy North Africa, famously opposed by They include land transfers, sales, wills, of the 1993 season which was to in late antiquity, and for cultural St. Augustine. Their literature was property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. continue mapping the site, to expand transitions more generally in Gaza. suppressed and remains little known and consequently the pottery corpus, to seek for some specific features 248pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 256pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199337484, the debate has only been understood from the winning not found in 1992 such as defensive structures and Hardback, was £62.00 side. 9780866984256, Hardback, was £46.00 churches, and to carrry out a more general survey of the 137pp, Liverpool University Press, 1996, 9780853239314, Now £14.95 site's immediate vicinity. Now £9.95 Paperback, was £25.00 92pp, 59 b/w figs, Oriental Institute of the University of Now £3.95 Chicago, 2000, 9781885923165, Paperback, was £31.00 Now £9.95

Hilary of Poitiers Mehmed II the Butrint 4 Literary Territories Conflicts of Conscience and Law Conqueror and the The Archaeology and Histories Cartographical Thinking in the Fourth-Century Church Fall of the Franco- of an Ionian Town in Late Antiquity By Lionel R. Wickham Byzantine Levant to Edited by Inge Lyse Hansen, Richard By Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Two works supporting the Nicene the Ottoman Turks Hodges and Sarah Leppard From accounts of Holy Land faith by Hilary of Poitiers. The first Some Western Views and Testimonies This richly illustrated volume pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, is what remains of a historical discusses the histories of the port city to the systematization of Ptolemy's work Hilary wrote against two Edited by Marios Philippides of Butrint, and its intimate connection scientific works, Literary Territories distinguished contemporary bishops, This collection of sources deals with to the wider conditions of the argues that very different forms which throws light upon the violence and betrayal in the period 1453 to 1481 and includes both historical Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the of literature in Late Antquity nevertheless shared an church life. The second text is an open letter to the and ethnographic material. The texts chosen range from site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited Emperor Constantius urging him to throw his weight eyewitness to well-informed accounts of events. urban history over the longue durée. world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the behind the Nicene creed. collection and organization of knowledge. 444pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, 250pp, c.50 col and c.325 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 176pp, Liverpool University Press, 1997, 9780853235729, 9780866983464, Hardback, was £46.00 9781842174623, Hardback, was £55.00 192pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780190221232, Paperback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £62.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £3.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LATE ANTIQUITY AND BYZANTINE BARGAINS • 31 Nectar and Illusion Christianity: A Global Ambrose's Patriarchs Archaeology of the Nature in Byzantine History Ethics for the Common Man Early Islamic Art and Literature By David Chidester By Marcia Colish Settlement in By Henry Maguire In this impressive history of In this detailed study of the patriarch Palestine An exploration of the portrayal of Christianity David Chidester treatises of Ambrose of Milan Marcia By Jodi Magness nature in Byzantine art and literature. emphasises the diverse manifestations Colish addresses the question of their Archaeological evidence is frequently Henry Maguire shows how the of the religion, first tracing its origins intended audience, arguing that the cited by scholars as proof that Byzantines embraced terrestrial and theological developments through treatises were geared towards the Palestine declined after the Muslim creation in the decoration of their the medieval centuries, before average lay person rather than those conquest, and especially after the churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but then concentrating on its expansion to all corners of the with special callings in the church. rise of the Abbasids in the mid-eighth century. Instead, adopted a much more cautious attitude toward the globe and its varied local adaptations and challenges. 193pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Magness argues that the archaeological evidence depiction of animals and plants in the middle ages, after 689pp, b/w pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2001, 9780140257113, 9780268023652, Paperback, was £31.50 supports the idea that Palestine and Syria experienced the iconoclastic dispute of the eighth and ninth centuries. Paperback, was £14.99 Now £4.95 a tremendous growth in population and prosperity 224pp, b/w illus, col pls, Oxford University Press, 2016, Now £4.95 between the mid-sixth and mid-seventh centuries. 9780190497101, Paperback, was £29.49 248pp, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060705, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £47.95 Now £9.95 Saint Augustine of Alienation: The Ascetic Culture Islamic Glass in the Hippo Experience of the Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau Corning Museum, An Intellectual Biography Eastern Edited by Blake Leyerle and Volume One By Miles Hollingworth Mediterranean (50-600 Robin Darling Young By David Whitehouse In a stimulating and provocative A.D.) These essays explore how quickly This hefty and beautifully produced reinterpretation of Augustine's By Antigone Samellas the industrious and imaginative catalogue presents 595 objects and ideas and their position in the practitioners of asceticism, from the fragments with scratch-engraved and Western intellectual tradition, Miles This book is a comprehensive study early fourth through the mid-fifth wheel-cut ornament made in the Hollingworth draws his inspiration of the experience of alienation in its century, adapted the Greco-Roman Islamic world between the eighth largely from the actual narrative of Augustine's life. By many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the social, literary, and religious culture in which they had and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour this means he reintroduces a cardinal but long-neglected late-antique East. It situates Christianity's enduring legacy been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban with description and comments on technical and stylistic fact to the centre of Augustinian studies: that there is a in its early historical context and explores the way centres of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated matters, dating and provenance. direct line from Augustine's own early experiences of life estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to that life in their libraries, households, and communities. the status of a cardinal religious virtue. 430pp, col illus, Hudson Hill Press, 2010, 9781555953553, to his later commentaries on humanity. 432pp, illustrations, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Hardback, was £50.00 312pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199861590, 556pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2010, 9783039117895, 9780268033880, Hardback, was £71.95 Paperback, was £87.95 Now £19.95 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £19.95

Saving the Holy Sacred Trash The Thousand and One Artisans of Empire Sepulchre The Lost and Found World Churches Crafts and Craftspeople How Rival Christians Came Together of the Cairo Genizah By William Mitchell Ramsay, Under the Ottomans to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine By Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Gertrude Bell and Edited by Robert By Suraiya Faroqhi By Raymond Cohen Sacred Trash tells the remarkable Ousterhout and Mark P. C. Jackson This comprehensive history, by In Saving the Holy Sepulchre , story of the Cairo Geniza. The book Published in 1909 and long out leading Ottoman historian Suraiya Raymond Cohen tells the engaging combines coverage of the collection’s of print, The Thousand and One Faroqhi, presents the definitive view story of how three major Christian rescue with explorations of the Churches remains a seminal study of the subject, from the production traditions - Greek Orthodox, Roman medieval documents themselves— of the postclassical monuments of and distribution of different Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox - each with jealously letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, Anatolia. Because many of the monuments have long craft objects to their use and enjoyment within the guarded claims to the church, struggled to restore one money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion- since disappeared, this documentation is now invaluable, community. Faroqhi sheds new light on all aspects of of the great shrines of civilization. conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and and Bell's extensive photographs provide a unique view artisan life, setting the concerns of individual craftsmen mysterious magical charms. of travel and archaeology more than a century ago. within the context of the broader cultural themes that 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780195189667, connect them to the wider world. Paperback, was £26.99 304pp, Schocken Books, 2016, 9780805212235, 618pp, b/w illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, Paperback, was £12.99 9781934536056, Hardback, was £41.00 304pp, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2011, 9781848859609, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £5.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

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32 • LATE ANTIQUE, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 John the Baptist's Beatus Vir Language and Style in Anonymous Prayer or the Descent Studies in Early English Old English Interpolations in into Hell from the and Norse Manuscripts In Composite Homilies Aelfric's Lives of Saints Memory of Phillip Pulsiano Exeter Book By Hiroshi Ogawa By Robin Norris Edited by A. N. Doane By M R Rambaran-Olm By examining the compilers’ language This volume contains studies of This is a collection of fourteen essays and style in eight works that utilize a four saints lives: the Life of Saint This first full-length study offers a dealing with various aspects of Old full account of the Old English poem variety of sources (including works by Euphrosyne, Saint Mary of Egypt, English and Old Norse manuscript Ælfric and Wulfstan, and anonymous the Seven sleepers, and the Passion known popularly as the Descent into study. The work includes essays on Hell, together with an edition of the Vercelli homilies and Old English of Saint Eustace, anonymously textual editing, codicology, the interrelation of text and poems), the author shows that these composite homilies, interpolated into Aelfric's Lives of Saints. text and facing translation. It aims to resolve some of the manuscript, manuscript backgrounds, and librarianship. poem's vexing issues and provides a variety of possible far from being unreflective pastiches, are products of 118pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, interpretations of the poem. 575pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, compilation, not imitation, made by individual minds with 9781580441636, Paperback, was £14.99 9780866983648, Hardback, was £57.00 their own designs and purposes. 249pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9781843843665, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £14.95 224pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866984096, Hardback, was £46.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Saints and Scholars Beowulf and the Myth in Early Poetry, Place and Edited by Stuart McWilliams Critics Northwest Europe Gender Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, By J. R. R. Tolkien and Edited Edited by S. O. Glosecki Studies in Medieval Culture in and their subsequent appropriations, by Michael D. C. Drout Myth in Early Northwest Europe Honor of Helen Damico unite the essays collected here. This critical edition of Beowulf and examines the confrontation of Edited by Catherine Karkov Prominent themes include the Critics presents both unpublished classical, biblical, Celtic, and Germanic hagiography and issues of community cultures and how they interplay A collection of papers primarily on versions of Tolkien's lecture, each Anglo-Saxon subjects, embracing and reception. substantially different from the other during the Carolingian and Viking 288pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2012, periods. It shows how Christian and Old English poetry, archaeology, and from the final, published essay. art history, palaeography, liturgy, 9781843843030, Hardback, was £60.00 The edition includes a detailed critical introduction that native religions engaged with each other. The studies deal with current myth theory and analyze myths embedded landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes Now £14.95 explains the place of Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon scholarship new interpretations, new evidence, even new both in the history of Beowulf scholarship and in literary within Old Norse, Old English, and other Germanic literatures from, or set in, this era. technologies to further the study of some key medieval history. works. 506pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, 380pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, 9780866983655, Hardback, was £41.00 380pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 9780866984508, Hardback, was £51.00 9781580441278, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Aspects of Anglo- Conversion and Purloined Letters Sources Of Anglo- Scandinavian York Colonization in Anglo- The Twelfth-Century Saxon Literary By R. A. Hall Saxon England Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Culture: The Illustrated Hexateuch The ten chapters in this book, Edited by Catherine Karkov Apocrypha each written by a specialist, place and Nicholas Howe By A. N. Doane and William P. Stoneman Edited by F. M. Biggs the Coppergate discoveries within Papers range in scope from the An investigation of the extensive the wider context of Viking Yorvik This book forms part of a conversion of the English to set of Latin and English annotations longstanding project by numerous whilst demonstrating `how far the Christianity, to the expansion of added throughout the manuscript of study of Anglo-Scandinavian York has scholars to map the sources which Anglo-Saxon culture beyond the the Old English Hexateuch. More than influenced the literary culture of progressed in the last quarter century’ since the `Viking British Isles; and from early Anglo-Saxon burial goods to 30 annotations in English are conventionally explained Dig’. Anglo-Saxon England. It aims at a comprehensive, the evidence for and treatment of disease. as “mid-twelfth century” copies of notes composed in descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain 228pp, b/w figs, fold-out, Council for British Archaeology, 267pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, Old English at an earlier date. Purloined Letters argues between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to 2004, 9781902771427, Paperback, was £19.95 9780866983631, Hardback, was £36.00 that these English notes are in fact the “last Old English,” date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources coeval with the date of the handwriting (post 1180). of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990). Now £6.95 Now £12.95 416pp, MRTS, 2011, 9780866984430, Hardback, was 117pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, £53.00 9781580441193, Paperback, was £15.50 Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Walk into the Dark Early Medieval English St. Oswald of The Old English Ages Texts and Northumbria Hexateuch By Bill Bevan Interpretations Continental Metamorphoses Aspects and Approaches This gloriously illustrated book Studies Presented to By Marianne Kalinke By Rebecca Barnhouse and introduces the reader to early Donald G. Scragg This study of the continental legend Benjamin C. Withers medieval Britain and Ireland through Edited by Elaine Treharne of St. Oswald is accompanied by an Ten papers which reflect a wide 35 chronologically arranged sites edition and translation of Ósvalds from the broch of Moura and the and Susanne Rosser range of research interests into the saga, which represents the oldest Old English Hexateuch. Subjects Saxon Shore forts to the battlefield These original essays include work on vernacular legend on the continent, at Hastings and the Norman motte and bailey castle the sources and dissemination of prose and verse texts, include the contribution of Aelfric, and an edition and translation of Van sunte Oswaldo the dating evidence, the composition of the Old English at Painscastle via Tintagel, Dunadd, and Skellig Michael on palaeography, lexicography and semantics, the editing deme konninghe, an abbreviated Low German legend among many others. Each entry is accompanied by a of manuscripts, and post-Conquest use of Old English text including the personalities and motivations of the deriving ultimately from the earliest version known anonymous translators, the illustrations, male and female route map, but this is as much for the armchair explorer texts. solely in Icelandic translation. as the walker. readers and the manuscript's place in Anglo-Saxon 391pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, 221pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, literature and art. 208pp, col illus, Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2014, 9780866982955, Hardback, was £36.00 9780866983419, Hardback, was £38.00 9780711234116, Hardback, was £30.00 358pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Now £12.95 Now £12.95 9781580440509, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Anglo-Saxon England Holy Vikings Aedificia Nova The Recovery of Old and the Continent Saints' Lives in the Old Studies in Honor of English Edited by Hana Sauer and Joanna Story Icelandic Kings' Sagas Rosemary Cramp By Thomas Graham This volume explores some aspects By Carl Phelpstead Edited by Helen Damico chart the progress of Old English of the relations between Anglo-Saxon This book argues that theoretical and Catherine Karkov studies from the earliest work of England and the Continent, and the concepts developed by Mikhail Focusing on the material culture of the mid 16th century through to scholars and texts which moved Bakhtin can provide new insights into the Anglo-Saxon world, contributors the heyday of the early 18th century. in both directions throughout the the role of hagiography in the origins address the themes of time in history; Subjects include the movement of period. of Icelandic saga-writing by enabling a societal and ideological change Anglo-Saxon studies from London 384pp, b/w illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, reading of these texts as both saint’s life and saga. Rulers and continuity; iconic style and polysemous textuality; to Cambridge and, finally, to Oxford, the influence of 2011, 9780866984423, Hardback, was £66.00 are depicted as “holy Vikings”, sometimes conforming to symbolic and representational interpretation; gender- Richard Verstegen's engraved depictions of pagan Saxon saintly ideals, but often far from doing so. specific economic production; definitions of social and gods, the early history of printed Anglo-Saxon texts, the Now £14.95 political structures; and social processes of eclecticism evidence of handwritten workbooks, lexicography and a 284pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, bibliography. 9780866983884, Hardback, was £42.00 and adaptation. 427pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, 422pp, 22 b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Now £12.95 9781580441100, Hardback, was £78.00 9781580440134, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

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Ireland 3-6 September 1998 the myths about their military and church this study considers the social seafaring skills, reputation, and An edition and english translation By Mark Redknap, Nancy Edwards, dimension of the Eucharist, and its exploits. It examines their tactics, of an Old Irish text, comprising a treatment in art and architecture. Alan Lane and Susan Youngs seamanship, mobility, strategy, and series of three word maxims, attributed to King Aldfrith Most importantly, O'Donoghue shows that pre-Norman These twenty-five papers are concerned with Insular how they exploited victories and dealt with defeats. of Northumbria (ca. 685-705) under his Irish name Ireland was very much a part of the Western (Gallican) art in its broadest sense, encompassing studies of 256pp, 16 pages b/w photos, Pub Casemate Greenhill, Flann Fina. It seeks to demonstrate that these maxims liturgical tradition metalwork, manuscripts, sculpture and textiles, both 2010, 9781932033601, Hardback, was £25.00 represent a coherent text despite the varied contexts in 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, recent discoveries and new investigations of well-known which they have been preserved. Now £9.95 9780268037321, Paperback, was £47.50 objects. 256pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, 293pp, b/w figs and pls throughout, 22 col pls, Oxbow 9780866982474, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £14.95 Books, 2002, 9781842170588, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Transformation in The Art of the Picts Religion Culture and The Making and Anglo-Saxon Culture Sculpture and Metalwork in Society in the Early Unmaking of a Saint Toller Lectures on Art, Early Medieval Scotland Middle Ages By Mathew Kuefler Archaeology and Text By George Henderson and Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble This volume traces the rise and fall Edited by Charles Insley and Isobel Henderson Essays in this volume explore of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac Gale R. Owen-Crocker This well-illustrated book looks at wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, through a millennium, from his the carved slabs, crosses, sculpture Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy death in the tenth century to the Presents five major cross-disciplinary attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the discourses on Anglo-Saxon culture and metalwork of the Picts from Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and an art-historical perspective. The Pilgrimages to the works or lives of nineteenth century. 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34 • ANGLO-SAXON AND EARLY MEDIEVAL BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Bannockburn Reading and War in John Wyclif on War The Black Death The Battle for a Nation Fifteenth-Century and Peace A Personal History By Alistair Moffat England By Rory Cox By John Hatcher A new narrative treatment of the From Lydgate to Malory From the writings of St Augustine of Focusing just one village, the well Batle of Bannockburn. In addition By Catherine Nall Hippo in the fifth century, Christian documented village of Walsham in to setting the battle within its justifications of war had revolved Suffolk, John Hatcher pens what Reading, writing and the prosecution historical and political context Alistair around three key criteria: just he describes as a docu-drama, a of warfare went hand in hand in the Moffat captures all the fear, heroism, cause, proper authority and correct fictionalised attempt to reconstruct fifteenth century, demonstrated by confusion and desperation of the intention. Using Wyclif's extensive the lives of ordinary people as they the wide circulation and ownership of fighting itself as he describes the tactics and manoeuvres Latin corpus, the author shows how he dismantled struggled to cope with the plague and its consequences. military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of that led to Scottish victory. these three pillars of medieval "just war" doctrine, 352pp, b/w pls, Da Capo Press, 2009, 9780306817922, military concerns into a huge corpus of texts. This book demonstrating that he created a coherent doctrine of 160pp, Birlinn, 2014, 9781780272184, Hardback, was argues that these connections were vital to the literary Paperback, was £11.99 £12.99 pacificism and non-resistance which was at that time culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much unparallelled. Now £5.95 wider scale. Now £4.95 200pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9780861933259, 198pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, 9781843843245, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Richard III Records of Medieval Mystical From Alfred the Great A Ruler and His Reputation Convocation III: Tradition, 5, 1992 to Stephen By David Horspool Canterbury 1313-1377 By Marion Glasscoe By R. H. C. Davis David Horspool tells the story of Edited by Gerald L. Bray The proceedings of the fifth meeting Twenty teo collected essays on Late Richard, Duke of Gloucester's birth This volume contains all the evidence include: studies of medieval mystics Anglo-Saxon and Norman history. and upbringing and his part as a young for convocations and provincial in continental Europe; Bridgettine Two broad topics predominate: the man in the closing years of the Wars councils during the reigns of Edward spirituality; Julian of Norwich and the Norman Conquest and the sources of the Roses, describes what really II and Edward III, and reconstructs the status of visionary autobiography as for it, and King Stephen's reign and happened to the Princes in the Tower, period from 1328 to 1349, for which a literary genre; comparison between the extent of the so-called anarchy. and explains why this character has become one of the the Canterbury registers have been lost. Latin text. modern philosophical understanding and that of a 318pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1991, most compelling and divisive rulers in the history of the medieval mystic; enquiry as to what books were available 9781852850456, Hardback, was £95.00 British Isles. 458pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2005, 9781843831785, and to whom in fourteenth-century Cambridge. Hardback, was £95.00 336pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781472902993, Hardback, 221pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1992, 9780859913461, Now £6.95 was £20.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Anglo-Norman Studies The Medieval Mystical Memory and Myths of 1215 II Tradition in England: the Norman Conquest The Year of Magna Carta Proceedings of the Battle Papers read at By Sarah Brownlie By Danny Danziger and John Gillingham Conference 1979 Charney Manor July This book offers a study of A popular exploration of English Edited by R. Allen Brown 2011 contemporary British memory of society in 1215 and the events which the Norman Conquest, focussing led to the signing of Magna Carta. Topics include: Carmen de Hastingae Edited by E.A. Jones on shared knowledge, attitudes and Proelio; Battle c.1100; Military Each chapter adopts a theme, such The five "Middle English Mystics" beliefs. I draws on a study of 807 architecture; Piety of Anglo-Norman as the castle, the countryside, town, (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the contemporary British newspaper Knightly Class; Military Architecture school, tournaments and battles, King author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich articles, a quantitative survey of 2000 UK residents and c.1200; The Byzantine View of the Normans; Henry I and John, the English, the Church, and Christianity, to look at and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with contemporary books and films. Anglo-Norman Magnates; Anglo-Norman as a Spoken how rich and poor lived their lives and how they viewed significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical Language; Magnates, Curiales and the Wheel of Fortune; 240pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838524, their changing world. approaches. Bishop's Lynn; Battle Abbey Hardback, was £60.00 324pp, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, 9780340824757, 226pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843405, Paperback, was £12.99 224pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer, 1980, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 9780851151267, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £3.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95

England in the Later Anglo-Norman Studies Texts and Traditions of Naming, Society and Middle Ages 33 Medieval Pastoral Regional Identity Edited by Derek Baker By C. P. Lewis Care Papers presented at a Symposium Primary source material - 149 items, Topics include Alexander III's 'Rules Essays in Honour of Bella Millett held at The Department of English Local History, with 47 illustrations - cover the on the Formation of Marriage'; Edited by Cate Gunn and political, ecclesiastical and social religious life in Rouen; Orderic University of Leicester Catherine Innes-Parker history of Plantagenet England, from Vitalis; Robert of Torigni; William of By David Postles the reign of Edward III to that of Malmesbury; St Anselm and art; the Pastoral and devotional literature Richard II. Arrangement by topic Domesday boroughs; and architecture flourished throughout the middle These 10 papers focus on the covers King and Government, The Church, Land and in the Bayeux Tapestry. ages, and its growth and transmutations form the development of personal naming across a broad chronological and geographical span from People. 172pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of a variety of perspectives including Viking England, early 272pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156484, 9781843836582, Hardback, was £60.00 modern England and 19th century Sweden. Paperback, was £17.99 vernacular spirituality. Now £9.95 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, 9781903153291, 294pp, 24 b/w figs, Leopard's Head Press, 2002, Now £3.95 Hardback, was £50.00 9780904920291, Hardback, was £17.50 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Fourteenth Century Haskins Society The Foundations of England, Arise England IV Journal 18 Medieval English By Juliet Barker Edited by J.S. Hamilton By Stephen Morillo Ecclesiastical History Juliet Barker, acclaimed for her studies Topics include the cult of Thomas of A collection of papers on England Studies Presented to David Smith of the latter half of the Hundred Years War, here turns her attention to the Lancaster, royal landscapes, Edward and its neighbours in the High Middle By Christopher N. L. Brooke, Philippa III's fundraising, Thomas Hatfield, Ages. Essays include two on Geoffrey Great Revolt of 1381. She is anxious Agnes Malatravers, John Mirk, the of Monmouth, one on the chronicle Hoskin and Barrie Dobson to avoid the title “Peasant’s Revolt”, statutes of Provisors and Premunire, of Fulk Le Rechin, one on the Anglo- These essays demonstrate the for as the considerable evidence the royal pardon, Thomas Despenser, Saxon law code of Aethelberht, one importance of critical editions of which is marshalled here makes the deposition of Richard II, and the coal industry. on the law code of Roger II of Sicily, one on the coinage primary documents editions to a proper understanding clear, the revolt was much more than a rural phenomenon, and united people from a wide 204pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 9781843832201, of Henry II, and one on twelfth century hospitality. and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century spectrum of social statuses, from members of the gentry, Hardback, was £60.00 167pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, 9781843833369, merchants and urban tradesmen, to the more usually Hardback, was £55.00 forgery to diocesan administration, from the church Now £12.95 courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish recognised villeins. Now £4.95 clergy to the papacy. 528pp, col pls, Little, Brown and Company, 2014, 284pp, 1 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781408703359, Hardback, was £25.00 9781843831693, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 John Mirk's Festial Ipswich Recognizance Magna Carta The Wars of the Roses Orthodoxy, Lollardy and Rolls, 1294-1327 Law, Liberty, Legacy By Trevor Royle the Common People in Edited by G. H. Martin Edited by Claire Breay An entertaining popular narrative of Fourteenth-Century England The recognizance rolls of Ipswich are and Julian Harrison the Wars of the Roses, which takes the long view, beginning in 1399 By Judy Ann Ford a register of titles to property in the This exhibition catalogue takes us borough and are among the most with the usurpation of Henry IV Written with largely uneducated rural on a journey from the charter's and including the Perkin Warbeck congregations in mind, John Mirk's varied and interesting of the court’s medieval origins through to what it records. The contents of the first rebellion against Henry VII. Trevor Festial became the most popular means to people around the world Royle tells the story with gusto, vernacular sermon collection of late- twenty-one rolls are presented in an today. Drawing on the rich historical English paraphrase that takes account of all significant focusing on political events rather medieval England. This book represents the first major collections of the British Library - including two original than producing a predominantly military account. examination of the Festial, looking in particular at the variations in the original Latin, and also indicates the copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to issues of popular culture and piety; the oral tradition; clerk’s marginal notes and memoranda. life the history and contemporary resonance of this 496pp, b/w pls, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, biblical and secular authority; and clerical power. 151pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1970, 9780900716140, globally important document. 9780349117904, Paperback, was £14.99 176pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843840015, Hardback, was £25.00 272pp, col illus, British Library, 2015, 9780712357630, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL BRITAIN BARGAINS • 35 Familia and Household Widows, Heirs, and English Inland Trade Domesday Book: in the Medieval Heiresses in the Late 1430-1540 Bedfordshire Atlantic Province Twelfth Century Southampton and its region Edited by John Morris Edited by Benjamin T. Hudson The Rotuli de Dominabus Edited by Michael Hicks Facsimile text and translation of this These nine essays explore the use Et Pueris Et Puellis A detailed examination of fundamental source. and importance of genealogy, the Edited by John Walmsley Southampton’s trade with its 160pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1977, artificial family, literary images of extensive region and commercial 9780850331493, Hardback, was kinship, and the political ramifications This work is a new critical edition and £14.00 translation of the late-twelfth-century development in the fifteenth and of family ties. They contribute to sixteenth centuries. the investigation of domestic structure and family Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records Now £4.95 were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal 184pp, b/w and colour illus., Oxbow Books, 2015, organization during a crucial time in European 9781782978244, Hardback, was £45.00 development. enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on estates held directly by the Crown in 1185. 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, Now £14.95 9780866984409, Hardback, was £48.00 146pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9780866983532, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

John Trevisa and the John Capgrave: The Stephen Langton Domesday Book: English Polychronicon Life of Saint Katherine By Maurice Powicke Berkshire By Jane Beal Edited by Karen A. Winstead Powicke's Ford lectures from 1928 By Ian Morris Jane Beal examines the rhetorical John Capgrave’s The Life of Saint remain the principal study of Stephen Facsimile text and translation of this strategies John Trevisa used to Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in Langton, exploring his role in the fundamental source. Magna Carta crisis, and the influence establish his authority and justify his Norfolk, is, according to the editor, 176pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1979, translation of Ranulf Higden’s Latin “. . . the longest and most intricate of scholastic philosophy on his actions. 9780850331721, Paperback, was Polychronicon into English. She pays Katherine legend written during the £8.25 particular attention to the translator’s Middle Ages, either in Latin or in any 227pp, Oxford University Press, 1928, use of paratextual material, which includes two prefaces vernacular.” 9780198269687, Hardback, was £12.99 Now £2.95 and numerous intertextual notes. 332pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Now £4.95 186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 9781580440530, Paperback, was £23.50 9780866984850, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

Personalities and Love and Marriage in An Alternative History Domesday Book: Perspectives of Late Medieval London of Britain Devon Fifteenth-Century By Shannon McSheffrey The War of the Roses By Ian Morris England This book examines the public and By Timothy Venning Facsimile text and translation of this Edited by A. Compton Reeves private relationship of marriage, This book forms a chronological fundamental source. as well as its religious and social The history and culture of history of the Wars of the Roses, 768pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1985, connotations, through translations which identifies key turning points 9780850334920, Paperback, was fifteenth-century England have been of depositions, or testimonies, from subjected to rigorous research by and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As £24.50 marriage cases brought before 15th- much as exploring alternative paths of several generations of scholars. The century English church courts. Now £6.95 international group of scholars who have contributed history, however, Venning's approach focuses on why they to this volume continue that effort by approaching 89pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, happened as they did, asking how forces were weighted, their particular subjects from such varied perspectives 9781879288539, Paperback, was £12.00 and where luck or judgement had a decisive say. as scandal and warfare, people and politics, art and Now £3.95 224pp, 1 map, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, literature, and successions and processions. 9781781591277, Hardback, was £19.99 182pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Now £5.95 9780866984621, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £12.95 Sex, Aging, and Death Richard of Maidstone: Summer of Blood Domesday Book: in a Medieval Medical Concordia (the By Dan Jones Middlesex Compendium Reconciliation of A straightforward narrative account Edited by John Morris Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina Richard II with of the Great Rising of 1381, written Facsimile text and translation of this very much with the newcomer to fundamental source. Trinity College Cambridge MS London) medieval history in mind. It's fast R.14.52 is one of the most important Edited by David R. Carlson moving, gripping and full of chatty 76pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1975, extant witnesses to vernacular and A. G. Rigg language and bucketloads of gore 9780850331318, Hardback, was medical and scientific writing in late £12.00 medieval England. This two-volume The poem that Richard Maidstone 288pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 2016, collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports 9780143111757, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £4.95 physical manuscript, its contents and textual relations information about the royal entry that concluded the Now £4.95 to other Middle English medical compendia, followed crisis in greater detail than any other source. The latin by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, text is presented here with a facing verse translation, an nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished. introduction and notes. 930pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 144pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 9780866983358, Hardback, was £96.00 9781580440806, Paperback, was £12.00 Now £24.95 Now £3.95

The Study of Medieval Studies on the Looking Inward For Honour and Fame Manuscripts of Personal Name in Devotional Reading and the Private Chivalry in England 1066-1500 England Later Medieval Self in Late Medieval England By Nigel Saul Festschrift in Honor of England and Wales By Jennifer Bryan A survey of chivalry - the value Richard W. Pfaff Edited by David Postles An exploration of the popularity of system of the medieval aristocracy. Edited by George Hardin Brown and Joel T. Rosenthal the English devotional treatise in the Focusing on England, Saul discusses its origins, its martial aspects, its impact and Linda Ehrsam Voigts Later Middle Ages. Jennifer Bryan Collected papers on medieval argues that these works encouraged on art and architecture, and on The first group of studies reflects the England's names and naming patterns- readers to focus on themselves and literature, its religious aspects, and its meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts; the second -mostly forenames or Christian their own identities, in effect they acted as a mirror broader impact on social relations. names, but with some attention to family names. with historical material. on the soul, and their popularity both reflected and 432pp, Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, 9781845951894, 447pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 398pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, contributed to a growing feeling of self-awareness in late Paperback, was £16.99 9780866984324, Hardback, was £60.00 9781580440264, Paperback, was £39.50 medieval society. Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 270pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 9780812240481, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95

The Winchcombe and The Book of John Textual Healing Henry V Coventry Chronicles Mandeville Studies in Medieval English Medical, By John Matusiak Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to An Edition of the Pynson Scientific and Technical Texts This new biography takes a fresh the Work of John of Worcester Text with Commentary on Edited by Javier E. Diaz-Vera look at Henry's entire life and nine the Defective Version and Rosario Caballero year reign. John Matusiak shows that Edited by Paul Anthony Hayward the situation confronting Henry at The Winchcombe and Coventry Edited by Tamarah Kohanski The studies presented in this volume the outset of his reign was far more Chronicles are the foremost In addition to printing the entire concentrate on different aspects of favourable than is often supposed examples of ‘the breviate world Pynson edition of Mandeville's the medical, scientific and technical but that he was nonetheless a man of chronicle in annalistic format’ to text, this volume contains a lengthy varieties of early English used in a prodigious gifts whose extraordinary survive for twelfth-century England. This book edits discussion by Kohanski of the surviving texts, including a wide range of medieval manuscripts. achievements in battle left the deepest possible and translates both texts in full for the first time. It case for variance-and reception-based study. 213pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2009, 9783039118229, impression upon his contemporaries. includes comprehensive source-critical and historical 192pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Hardback, was £50.95 304pp, b/w illus, Routledge, 2012, 9780415620277, commentaries, and an extensive introduction explaining 9780866982733, Hardback, was £25.00 Paperback, was £28.99 their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose. Now £14.95 788pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 Now £6.95 9780866984218, Hardback, was £106.00 Now £24.95 36 • MEDIEVAL BRITAIN BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Greatest Knight Tales from the Long The Haskins Society Captives and their The Remarkable Life of Twelfth Century Journal 24 Saviors in the Medieval William Marshal, the Power The Rise and Fall of the Edited by William North Crown of Aragon Behind Five English Thrones Angevin Empire and Laura L. Gathagan By Jarbel Rodriguez By Thomas Asbridge By Richard Huscroft The topics of the essays range from Given the endemic warfare between Thomas Asbridge draws upon an This intriguing book tells the story the complexities of landholding and Christians and Muslims in medieval array of contemporary evidence, of England's great medieval Angevin service in England after the Norman Spain the taking of prisoners was a including the thirteenth-century dynasty in an entirely new way. Conquest and the place of Portugal common feature on both sides. This biography, to present a compelling Departing from the usual king-centric in the legal renaissance of the twelfth book examines what life was like for account of William Marshal's life and times, from rural narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his century, to the purpose and audiences of copies of Christian captives, attitudes towards captivity and the England to the battlefields of France, the desert castles chapters on the experiences of a particular man or Anglo-Saxon charters produced by the late medieval structures put in place for their ransoming. community at Bury St Edmunds. of the Holy Land and the verdant shores of Ireland. woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. 225pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, 464pp, col pls, Simon and Schuster, 2015, 320pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 205pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843838302, 9780813214757, Hardback, was £59.95 9781471163388, Paperback, was £9.99 9780300187250, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

England's Empty The Battle of Death in Fifteenth- Henry of Suso Throne Agincourt Century Castile Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours Usurpation and the Language Edited by Anne Curry and Ideologies of the Elites Translated by E. Colledge of Legitimation, 1399-1422 Malcolm Mercer By Laura Vivanco Written by Dominican preacher and By Paul Strohm In a remarkable work Vivanco reveals two ideologies mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), In this boldly revisionary book, Paul commemorating the 600th co-existing among two elite groups, Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom’s Strohm provides a new account of anniversary of arguably the most the oradores and defensores. She Watch upon the Hours, was one of the Lancastrian revolution and its iconic military engagement of discusses in detail the main features the most successful religious writings aftermath. Integrating techniques the medieval era, a wide range of of these belief systems with regard of its time. Essentially a dialogue of literary and historical analysis, Strohm reveals the experts examine the battle in its political, cultural, and to the process of dying, the journey and ultimate between the author and Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells Lancastrian monarchs as masters of outward display, geographical contexts, detailing strategies, tactics, armor, destination of the soul, the importance of leading a good of Suso’s service to and espousal of Wisdom, his “most persuasively "performing" their kingship through a weapons, and fighting techniques while exploring the and noble life and whether prayer and the role of the cruel bride”. variety of novel ceremonies in a quest for legitimacy. battlefield experiences of commanders and ordinary bereaved could change the outcome of the afterlife. 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1994, soldiers alike. 292pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 211pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781855661004, 9780813207926, Hardback, was £34.50 9780268041212, Paperback, was £36.95 328pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, Hardback, was £60.00 9780300214307, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

The Call to Read The Late Medieval Olivier de la Marche Nicolas de Clamanges Reginald Pecock's Books and English Church and the Rhetoric of Spirituality, Personal Reform Textual Communities By G. W. Bernard 15th-Century and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations By Kirsty Campbell The later medieval English church is Historiography Kirsty Campbell examines the invariably viewed through the lens of By Catherine Emerson By M. Bellitto important and innovative contribution the Reformation that transformed it. Oliver de la Marche’s Mémoirs of This study of the early humanist Pecock made to late medieval debates But in this bold and provocative book Burgundy was written over a fifty Nicolas de Clamanges (1363/64-1437) about the roles of the Bible, the historian George Bernard examines year period in the 15th century and is focuses on his religious thought, and Church, the faculty of reason, and it on its own terms, revealing a a real mix of disjointed episodes. This in particular his proposals for the practices of devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with detailed study re-examines the Mémoires in order to reform of the church, which led him to be condemned as stable Christian community. weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome. determine the method beind the work’s structure and a proto-protestant in later centuries. 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 304pp, b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2013, design and to uncover the agenda of the author which 146pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780268023065, Paperback, was £40.50 9780300197129, Paperback, was £14.99 led to particular interpretations of certain events. 9780813209968, Hardback, was £42.50 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 247pp, col pl, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Now £4.95 9781843830528, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95

The Rise of the Tudors Millennium The Hospitallers and An Anatomy of Trade The Family That Changed The End of the World and the the Holy Land in Medieval Writing English History Forging of Christendom Financing the Latin East, 1187 - 1274 By Lianna Farber By Chris Skidmore By T. A. Holland By Judith Bronstein Lianna Farber restores the core This lively narrative history traces Millenium takes us ‘from the An investigation of the organisation economic concept of trade to its the fortunes of the Tudor family and crucifixion to the First Crusade, and of the Hospitallers in the east. It medieval contexts, showing that it the future Henry VII from the mid from the glitter of Constantinople to focuses on the impact of the various contains three component parts: fifteenth century before presenting the bleak shores of Canada. It was the crises in the East upon the Order, value, consent, and community, each a detailed account of the Bosworth age of Otto the Great and William looking at how it reacted to events, of which were deeply contested. In campaign. the Conqueror, of caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, the contributions that western priories played in the the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the rehabilitation of the East, and the various efforts made to descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an 437pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2014, 9780312541392, attempt to justify it. Hardback, was £20.00 invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal restore its economic and military strength. monarchy and the emergence of Western Europe for the 235pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444128, Now £5.95 first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.’ 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831310, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £48.00 476pp, Abacus, 2008, 9780349119724, Paperback, was Now £9.95 £12.99 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Henry V: The Queens, Regents and The Medieval Mystical Out of Love for My Kin Conscience of a King Potentates Tradition in England Aristocratic Family Life in the By Malcolm Vale Edited by Theresa M. Vann VII (2004) Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 Focusing on a series of themes-the Queens, Regents and Potentates By E. A. Jones By Amy Livingstone interaction between king and church, concentrates on the theme of women Subjects include: Julian of Norwich, Livingstone examines the personal the rise of the English language as a and royal power, examining the the writings of Jan van Ruusbroec, dimensions of the lives of aristocrats medium of government and politics, available information about specific Anchoritic texts, St Birgitta, holy in the Loire region of France the role of ceremony in Henry's royal women and reassessing their women in print, continental women during the eleventh and twelfth kingship, and more-Vale revises access to and use of power and mystics in England during the 15th centuries. She argues for a new understandings of Henry V and his conduct of the authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about and 16th centuries, Margery Kempe, devotional theology, conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an everyday affairs of England, Normandy, and the kingdom internal politics and international relations in medieval The Book of the First Monks , mystical desire and the ethos of inclusion, evident in the care that aristocrats of France. Europe. English Syon Brethren. showed toward their families. 328pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 166pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156491, 212pp, 4 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 296pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, 9780801448416, 9780300148732, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £60.00 9781843840077, Hardback, was £60.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

Louis: The French The Fabric of Marian Council and Hierarchy Passion and Order Prince Who Invaded Devotion in Isabel de The Political Thought of Restraint of Grief in the England Villena's Vita Christi Willam Durant the Younger Medieval Italian Communities By Catherine Hanley By Lesley K. Twomey By C. Fasolt By Carol Lansing In this fascinating biography of Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) became Detailed examination of the A fascinating cultural history, this England's least-known "king"-and abbess of the Poor Clare convent, development of conciliar theory book looks at a period of great the first to be written in English- the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, and humanism through the political change in perceptions of grief in Catherine Hanley explores the life a position she held for almost thirty thought of the French bishop William thirteenth century Italy. Carol Lansing and times of "Louis the Lion" before, years until her death. This is the first Durant the Younger (c 1266-1330). argues that as the well-being of the during, and beyond his quest for the English throne. She full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary 437pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, state came to be associated with orderly behaviour illuminates the national and international context of his works. The author pays particular attention to the way 9780521392853, Hardback, was £45.00 public displays of grief became seen as disorderly and 1216 invasion, and explains why and how after sixteen in which devotion to the Virgin Mary is manifested and were associated increasingly with women. fruitless months he failed to make himself King Louis I described through material culture, on her rich fabrics, Now £6.95 244pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2008, of England. brocades, silks, shoes, and crown. 9780801440625, Hardback, was £53.00 304pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 320pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, Now £6.95 9780300217452, Hardback, was £25.00 9781855662483, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS • 37 Essays in Later Dark Mirror Bartolomeo Scala: Pierpaolo Vergerio the Medieval French The Medieval Origins of Humanistic and Elder History Anti-Jewish Iconography Political Writings The Humanist as Orator By P. S. Lewis By Sara Lipton Edited by Alison Brown By John M. McManamon A collection of 17 essays by P.S. In this work, Sara Lipton maps out Contains almost the entirety of the A biography of Pierpaolo Vergerio Lewis. The book’s central theme the complex relationship between extant works of Bartolomeo Scala the elder (ca. 1369-1444) who was is the physical and intellectual medieval Christians' religious ideas, (1430-1497), a key figure in Florentine influential in the devlopment of the structure of later medieval French social experience, and developing politics and in the emergent humanist humanist movement in several areas: politics. Following a general survey, artistic practices that drove their movement. The texts are in Latin or its epistemology, ideology, educational Lewis illustrates his argument by examining a series of depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures Italian and include letters, orations, dialogues, poetry and curriculum, emphasis on ethos and its relationship to the institutions, attitudes and ideas. connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious sermons. university, to political authority, to religious belief and to 375pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1985, portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear 572pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, the visual arts. and hostility. 9780907628415, Hardback, was £80.00 9780866981996, Hardback, was £35.00 240pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1996, 416pp, b/w illus, col pls, Henry Holt, 2014, 9780866982047, Hardback, was £16.00 Now £4.95 9780805079104, Hardback, was £22.00 Now £5.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Haskins Society God's Philosophers Catherine of Siena Pietro da Eboli: Book Journal Volume 1 How the Medieval World Laid the An Anthology in Honor of Augustus By Robert B. Patterson Foundations of Modern Science Edited by Suzanne Noffke (libro ad honorem This first volume of the journal is By James Hannam Drawing from all of the writings of Augusti) dedicated to the memory of the late "God's Philosophers" is a celebration Catherine of Siena—The Letters, Edited by Gwyneth Hood Sidney Painter and includes essays of the forgotten scientific The Dialogue, and The Prayers—this A translation of Pietro da Eboli’s on subjects with which he was achievements of the Middle Ages. It anthology gathers texts in three Liber ad Honorem Augusti, published associated, many by his former pupils. brings back to light the discoveries of collections: her theology; her imagery; with the original Latin text. The neglected geniuses like John Buridan, and significant issues with which she 191pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, Liber, completed around 1196–1197, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as dealt in her own time. 1989, 9781852850319, Hardback, was £95.00 follows the struggles of Henry VI of Hohenstaufen, Holy putting into context the contributions of more familiar 1186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Roman Emperor, to establish himself as king of Sicily Now £3.95 figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint 9780866984546, Hardback, was £90.00 after marrying its heiress, Constance of Hauteville. Thomas Aquinas. Now £24.95 560pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 448pp, Icon Books, 2010, 9781848311503, Paperback, 9780866984461, Hardback, was £70.00 was £10.99 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

In Search of the Holy Henry Suso: Life of the Don Juan Pacheco Rhetoric in the Middle Grail Servant Wealth and Power in Ages The Quest for the Middle Ages Translated by James M. Clark Late Medieval Spain A History of Rhetorical Theory from By Veronica Ortenberg A translation of Henry Suso's great By Nancy F. Marino Saint Augustine to the Renaissance A survey of the influence of the mystical work, which written in This is the first book-length study of By James J. Murphy response to the sufferings of a woman Middle Ages, and of medieval attitudes fifteenth-century Castilian courtier Originally published in 1974, this and values, on later periods and on approaching death, narrates his own Don Juan Pacheco. It explores how spiritual life and ascetic practices. book follows the threads of ancient the modern world, taking in the the powerful nobleman exploited his rhetorical theory into the Middle romantic movement and the influence 150pp, James Clarke and Co, 1990, position as the king’s favorite in order Ages and examines the distinctly of medievalism on nationalism, the enduring popularity 9780227678626, Paperback, was £18.00 to satisfy his political and personal ambitions and became Medieval rhetorical genres of perceptive grammar, the wealthiest and most titled courtier of the period. of all things Celtic or Arthurian, and the Middle Ages on Now £4.95 letter-writing, and preaching. These various forms are screen from Robin Hood to Pasolini. 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, compared with one another and placed in the context of 336pp, 8 pls, 9 figs, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2006, 9780866983563, Hardback, was £37.00 Medieval society. 9781852853839, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £7.95 416pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2001, Now £6.95 9780866982696, Hardback, was £22.00 Now £9.95

The Culture of Primitivism and Du fait de cuisine / On Saints: Studies in Christendom Related Ideas in the Cookery of Master Hagiography By Marc A. Meyer Middle Ages Chiquart (1420) Edited by Sandro Sticca Fifteen essays in Medieval History By G. Boas “Aucune science de l’art de These fifteen essays study the cult in memory of Denis Bethel; they These essays demonstrate the growth cuysinerie et de cuysine” of saints in the Middle Ages and to a range from the fall of Rome to the lesser extent in the early Renaissance. of primitivism and anti-primitivism Edited by Terence Scully fourteenth century, and are centred from the first to the thirteenth 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance on the high medieval church. centuries, and include discussion Dated 1420, the Du fait de cuisine Texts Society, 1996, 9780866981798, 320pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, of topics such as the Noble Savage, sets out a vision of culinary best Hardback, was £35.00 1993, 9781852850647, Hardback, was £95.00 earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, practice by presenting a pair of elegant two-day and cynicism and Christianity. banquets, one for meat days, the other for lean days. Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Thirty-three more recipes cover contingencies: a 227pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1948, prolongation of the banquet and the presence of sick 9780801856105, Paperback, was £20.50 persons at the lord’s court. This is the first English Now £4.95 translation. 336pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866984027, Hardback, was £61.00 Now £14.95 Bonaventure: The Life The Life and Afterlife Giovanni Conversini The Company She Of St Francis of Isabeau of Bavaria Da Ravenna: Dialogue Keeps By Martine Newby By Tracy Adams Between Giovanni and The Medieval Swedish Cult of Bonaventure (1221-1274), an Italian Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) was a Letter Saint Katherine of Alexandria theologian and monk, is widely the wife of Charles VI of France, Edited by Helen Lanneau Eaker and Its Transformations considered the greatest Franciscan whose weak rule and periodic bouts and Benjamin G. Kohl By Tracey Renee Sands mystic after St. Francis himself. of madness left her as effective Commissioned by the Franciscan regent for much of her reign. Tracy Early humanist discussions of the How did this Mediterranean Order, Bonaventure wrote this official Adams tackles her posthumous religious calling; text and translation saint come to be one of the most biography of St. Francis of Assisi in 1260. reputation for incompetence, debauchery and adultery, portray a major church leader at the beloved saints in a cold and remote finding her actions to be politically astute given the time of the Great Schism. northern region? How did a figure renowned for her 112pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005, 9780060576523, learning become an intercessor for people whose access Paperback, was £10.50 almost impossible circumstances in which she found 208pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1989, herself. 9780866980432, Hardback, was £26.00 to the written word was limited at best? In confronting Now £2.95 questions such as these, this study provides a fascinating 338pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Now £5.95 insight into Christianity in medieval Sweden. 9780801896255, Hardback, was £43.00 304pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 9780866984102, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £12.95

Francis and Clare of The Transformation of Medieval The Customs of Assisi the Year One Constructions in Catalonia between Selected Writings Thousand Gender and Identity Lords and Vassals by Translated by Emilie Griffin By Guy Bois Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante the Barcelona Canon, A collection of the writings of A Marxist socio-economic history Edited by Teodolinda Barolini Pere Albert the two thirteenth century saints, of the village of Lournand near Sharing an interest in women and A Practical Guide to Castle founders of the mendicant orders Cluny. In tracing the development­ identity formation, these essays range Feudalism in Medieval Spain of the Franciscans and Poor Clares, of the community from antiquity to through time, covering the period Edited by Donald J. Kagay including prayers and hymns, the rules feudalism, the author presents the from the tenth through the fifteenth of the respective orders, blessings and testaments. case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a sharply defined century, and across languages, discussing sources in Latin, Kagay provides an English translation of this medieval 144pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006, 9780060754655, era of dramatic change. Italian, French, Occitan, English, and Hebrew. practical guide to feudal relations in Catalonia, and Paperback, was £10.50 171pp, Manchester University Press, 1992, places the work and its author in the context of other 204pp, illustrations, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, thirteenth-century legal handbooks as well as the 9780719035661, Paperback, was £16.99 2006, 9780866983372, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £2.95 "feudalism debate" of the twentieth century. Now £2.95 Now £9.95 160pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, 9780866982856, Hardback, was £23.00 Now £7.95 38 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Late Medieval Comparative Medieval Lives and the The Women of Pope Prophecies Perspectives on Historian Renaissance Florence The "Genus Nequam" Group History and Historians Studies in Medieval Prospography Power and Dependence in Edited by Martha H. Fleming Essays in Memory of Bryce Edited by Neithard Bulst and J-P. Genet Renaissance Florence Lyon (1920-2007) The Genus nequam group is the Essays which explore the potential By Richard C. Trexler earliest manifestation of the 15 Edited by James M. Murray, David of prosopography as well as Contents: Celibacy in the Renaissance: illuminated prophecies that captivated Nicholas and B. S. Bachrach methodological issues regarding The Nuns of Florence; Florentine readers and viewers for over three These essays are grouped both its definition and application, prostitution in the Fifteenth Century: centuries. They describe the progress according to the major areas on which Lyon’s research in particular noting the choices patrons and clients; A widows' asylum of the Church from Nicholas III (1277-80) to the final concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional involved in grouping and classifying people. Topics of the Renaissance: the Orbatello of Florence. angelic pontiff, and include depictions of Martin IV, and legal history of England and the Continent, and the include ecclesiastical elites, social groups in town Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 9780866981576, Honorius IV, and other intervening popes. Latin text with economic history of the Low Countries. and countryside, political and economic elites, and Paperback, was £9.99 commentary. intellectual elites. 5 essays in English, 12 in French, 10 in 376pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2012, German. Now £4.95 240pp, b/w illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 9781580441681, Hardback, was £78.00 2000, 9780866982467, Hardback, was £22.00 438pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1986, Now £6.95 9780918720696, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

The Letters of Pierre De Ore Domini Personal Names The Book of Michael of de Cros Preacher and Word in Studies of Medieval Rhodes Chamberlain to Pope the Middle Ages Europe Volume 2: Transcription Gregory XI (1371–1378) Edited by Eugene A. Green, Beverly Social Identity and Familial Structures and Translation Edited by Daniel Williman Mayne Kienzle and Thomas L. Amos Edited by Monique Bourin, Pascal Edited by Pamela O. Long, David Pierre de Cros, chamberlain to Pope Essays on medieval preaching and Chareille and George Beech McGee and Alan M. Stahl Gregory XI from 1371 to 1378, sermons. They present a diverse edited by Pamela O. Long, David selection of historical periods, Under the direction of Monique was responsible for most of the Bourin an international team of McGee and Alan M. Stahl. accumulated worldly wealth of the methodologies, and audiences, covering a broad timeframe, the 700s to 1511, and scholars has been considering onomastics from the Michael’s book includes the first extant treatise on naval Roman Church and for much of its activity not related perspective of history rather than that of linguistics architecture, a treatise on mathematics in the tradition to its religious character including work on figures ranging from Bede to Ramon Llull. or philology. This volume describes the methodology of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts 126pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, employed and some of the results obtained. on navigation, and Michael’s autobiographical service 9780866984041, Hardback, was £52.00 283pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, record. 9780918720276, Paperback, was £24.99 221pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Now £12.95 9781580440646, Paperback, was £21.99 732pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262195904, Now £5.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £62.00 Now £9.95

The Medieval Gospel History as Literature The Children of The Book of Michael of of Nicodemus German World Chronicles of the Renaissance Florence Rhodes Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts Thirteenth Century in Verse By Richard C. Trexler Volume 1: Facsimile in Western Europe Edited by Mike Graeme Florence This volume brings together four Edited by David McGee, Alan M. Edited by Zbigniew Izydosczyk This volume presents excerpts and studies of Florentine youth. Topics Stahl and Pamela O. Long include the great foundling home of This book charts the development of translations of three thirteenth- In the fifteenth century, a Venetian century South German verse the Innocenti; infanticide; the changing Glass over four millennia, from 18th lives of adolescents during the mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote Dynasty Egypt, through to the present chronicles: Rudolf von Ems’s and illustrated a text describing his Weltchronik, the anonymous Renaissance; and the political games day, illustrated by 56 examples from and plots of Florence's troublesome young men. experiences in the Venetian merchant the collections held by the Ashmolean Museum. Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial These three works are close in language, in date, and in 133pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 570pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, mathematics and treatments of contemporary conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing 9780866981569, Paperback, was £8.99 shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, 9780866981989, Hardback, was £26.00 the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval Now £3.95 and astrological ideas. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the Now £9.95 society: courtly, monastic, and urban. manuscript, reproduced in full colour. 194pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 534pp, col illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262135030, 9781580440424, Paperback, was £15.50 Hardback, was £57.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Marriage Ladies, Whores and The Hands of the The Book of Michael of Scene Holy Women Tongue Rhodes Prudence, Passion, Policy A Sourcebook in Courtly Essays on Deviant Speech Volume 3: Studies Edited by Sherry Roush and Religious and Urban Cultures Edited by Edwin David Craun Edited by David McGee, Alan M. of Late Medieval Germany Cristelle L. Baskins Presented in three sections—Sins of Stahl and Pamela O. Long Papers on on fictive, artistic, legal, Edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen the Tongue, Punishing Deviant Speech, Nine essays examine the Venetian ethical, and economic facets of the and Sarah Westphal-Wihl and Deviant Speech and Gender— maritime world of the fifteenth institution of marriage across Europe This sourcebook presents the essays included here explore century, Michael's life, the discovery between roughly 500 and 1550. editions and translations of seven what speech acts can tell us about of the manuscript, the mathematics 216pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics, and literary in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational 9780866983433, Hardback, was £35.00 understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late craftsmanship. directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the medieval German-speaking world. 232pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive Now £12.95 calendrical material. 166pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 9781580441155, Paperback, was £21.99 9781580441513, Paperback, was £15.50 384pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262123082, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £37.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Law, Custom and the The Salt of Common A Hound of God Shepherd Social Fabric in Life Pierre de la Palud and the Jean de Brie's "Le Bon Medieval Europe Individuality and Choice fourteenth century church Berger" (1379) Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon in the Medieval Town By Jean Dunbabin Countryside and Church Edited by Carleton W. Carroll Edited by B. S. Bachrach Traces the career of Pierre de la and Lois Hawley Wilson and David Nicholas Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Palud from his early reflections on Le Bon Berger, one of the earliest The essays within this volume, contemporary moral issues, including Topics include marriage rules as they papal prerogatives, contraception and “how-to” books in French, is a relate to women and incest, Bernard produced in honor of J. Ambrose treatise full of practical information Raftis, are united by two themes usury, to his political and diplomatic of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval activities as titular Patriarch of Jerusalem. for the medieval shepherd. This critical edition of the Paris. significant in Raftis’s career: a belief in the fundamental Middle French text is accompanied by a facing-page individuality of medieval English men and women, and a 208pp, Oxford University Press, 1991, 9780198222910, English translation. 330pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, belief in their ability to make choices. Hardback, was £115.00 9780918720313, Paperback, was £29.99 234pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 562pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Now £4.95 9780866984720, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £4.95 9781879288478, Paperback, was £39.99 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

Wind and Water in the Magistra Doctissima The Study of Chivalry Hattin Middle Ages Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler Resources and Approaches By John France Fluid Technologies from Edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Ann Edited by Howell Chickering On 4 July 1187 the legendary Antiquity to the Renaissance W. Astell and Howell Chickering and Thomas H. Seiler Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom Edited by Steven A. Walton The essays in this volume are grouped This hefty volume provides a useful of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter These collected essays examine the in five sections: Old and Middle introduction to the historiography at the battle of Hattin. John France continuity of mill technology from English Literature, Arthuriana Then and debates surrounding medieval analyses the origins and course of this the ancient world to the Middle and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, chivalry in its historical and literary pivotal battle, illuminating the roots Ages and its transfer between Nuns and Spirituality, and Royal manefestations, as well as a series of the bitter hatred which underlay Arabic and European cultures; the legal position of Women. of reflections on the teaching of chivalry as a topic to it, and explains its significance in world history - from mills and millers; literary and artistic representations 280pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2013, undergraduates. Essays explore the material culture of medieval times to the present. of these technologies; their urban, rural, and monastic 9781580441773, Hardback, was £70.00 chivalry, as well as the vast wealth of medieval chivalric literature. 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199646951, contexts; and early modern adaptations of the medieval Hardback, was £18.99 technologies of wind and water. Now £7.95 710pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, 328pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9780918720948, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £7.95 9780866983679, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS • 39 Holy Treasure and The Fight for Status The Queen's Hand Blessed Louis, the Sacred Song and Privilege in Late Power and Authority in the Most Glorious of Kings Relic Cults and their Liturgies Medieval and Early Reign of Berenguela of Castile Translated by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin in Medieval Tuscany Modern Castile, 1465- By Janna Blanchini With the aim of showing Saint By Benjamin Brand 1598 Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) Louis as he was commemorated in was one of the most powerful women the literature of the Middle Ages, This book situates sacred music By Michael J. Crawford this book presents six previously at the centre of an examination in Europe. On her brother's death, Michael Crawford investigates untranslated texts: two little-known of relic cults in medieval Tuscany. she inherited the Castilian throne conflicts about and resistance to but early and important vitae of Saint Benjamin Brand reveals that the music outright—and then, remarkably, the status of hidalgo, conventionally understood as the Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher composed to honor these local saints - no fewer than elevated her son to kingship at the same time. Bianchini lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Castilian Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and ninety chants for the Mass and Divine Office - were contends that recognition of Berenguela as a powerful nobility. He presents and explains the contentious proper mass in his honor. essential components of larger devotional campaigns reigning queen by nobles, bishops, ambassadors, and realities and limitations of their legal privileges, that included the recording of their life stories and the popes shows the key participation of royal women in the 360pp, 307, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, particularly that of exemption from taxation. building and decoration of their shrines. western Iberian monarchy. 9780268029845, Paperback, was £42.50 256pp, Penn State University Press, 2014, 368pp, b/w illus, Pennsylvania University Press, 2012, 320pp, 20 figures, 21 music examples, Oxford University 9780271062891, Hardback, was £51.95 Now £12.95 Press, 2014, 9780199351350, Hardback, was £43.49 9780812244335, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Robert Holcot Urban Legends Understanding Plague Engaging with Nature By John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt Civic Identity and the Classical By Randal P. Garza Essays on the Natural World in Holcot was a Dominican friar Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350 This volume studies the effects Medieval and Early Modern Europe who flourished in the 1330's and By Carrie E. Benes of the Black Death in Spain, and Edited by Barbara Hanawalt produced a diverse body of work demonstrates how it changed and Lisa J. Kiser including scholastic treatises, biblical Between 1250 and 1350, numerous the societies it afflicted. Studying commentaries, and sermons. Over Italian city-states jockeyed for the medical and imaginative texts This collection of essays looks at the the course of this introduction the position in a cutthroat political of medieval Spain reveals that interaction between humans and the authors unpack Holcot's views on climate. Each city-state appropriated the disease helped to change the natural world, at medieval ideas and faith and heresy, the divine nature classical symbols, ancient materials, perceived role of the medical conceptions of nature, and at the use and divine foreknowledge, the sacraments, Christ, and and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of animals and the natural world as literary and cultural political philosophy. successor to-or continuation of-Roman rule. In Urban of death and dying. devices. Legends, Carrie Benes illuminates this role of the 384pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780199391257, 119pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9780820463414, 236pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian 9780268030834, Paperback, was £32.50 Paperback, was £29.49 urban identity. Hardback, was £45.95 Now £9.95 296pp, b/w illus, Penn State University Press, 2011, Now £14.95 Now £9.95 9780271037653, Hardback, was £69.95 Now £14.95

Song of the Distant Worlds of Difference City of Fortune From Knowledge to Dove European Discourses of How Venice Ruled the Seas Beatitude By Raymond P. Scheindlin Tolerance c1100-c1550 By Roger Crowley St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the By Cary J. Nederman A gripping narrative account of the Scholars, and Beyond best-known and most beloved of Medieval Europe, with its crusading rise of Venice from 1000 to the start Edited by E. Ann Matter premodern Hebrew poets, abandoned fervour, is not generally thought of as of the sixteenth century. Crowley and Lesley Smith his home and family in Spain and shows how warfare and crusading, a place of tolerance; divergence from Essays on the intersection between spent the last year of his life traveling the norm, whether social, political trade and commerical rivalry with to the Land of Israel. This book tells Genoa and Pisa and the creation of a Christian theology and spiritual life or religious, was not acceptable. primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth the story of Halevi's journey through selections from his Nederman argues, however, that tolerance and liberalism network of colonies all played their part, and describes letters, and explores its meaning through discussions of the city’s wealthy mercantile elite and unique system of centuries, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor. had their supporters across Europe during this time and They range from the study of the exegetical school of his stirring poetry, presented in new verse translations that inter-religious and political dialogue took place governance. with full commentary. twelfth-century St. Victor and medieval glossed Bibles to 157pp, Penn State University Press, 2000, 435pp, black and white illustrations, colour illustrations,, the medieval cultural reception of women visionaries, 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780195315424, 9780271020167, Hardback, was £49.95 Random House, 2013, 9780812980226, Paperback, was preachers, and crusaders. Hardback, was £41.49 £9.99 Now £14.95 488pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Now £9.95 Now £3.95 9780268035280, Hardback, was £77.50 Now £19.95

Thomas Aquinas: The No Place of Rest Columbus and the Gendering Disgust in Power of God Jewish Literature, Expulsion Quest for Jerusalem Medieval Religious Translated by Richard Regan and the Memory of France By Carol Delaney Polemic On Power (De Potentia) is one of By Susan L. Einbinder This new biography sets Columbus’ By Alexandra Cuffel Aquinas's "Disputed Questions" There are few direct references to life and voyages against the backdrop Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval (a systematic series of discussions the catastrophic great expulsion of his eschatological beliefs, arguing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of specific theological topics). This of the Jews from France in 1306. that Columbus’ primary motivation in of gendered bodily imagery and volume presents an abridged English Einbinder studies a range of writings attempting to chart a western route metaphors of impurity in their visual translation of the work, which she reveals to be commemorative. to the East Indies lay in his desire to and verbal polemic against one discusses the trinity and creation. Her careful readings uncover the ways in which medieval raise funds for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem as another. She shows that these religious traditions shared 352pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199914623, Jews asserted their identity in exile and, perhaps more the first step in the fulfilment of history and the coming notions of the human body as distasteful. In particular, Paperback, was £32.49 important, helped to preserve or efface their history. apocalypse. she explores how authors from each religious tradition 319pp, b/w illus, Simon and Schuster, 2011, Now £9.95 267pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. 9780812241150, Hardback, was £50.00 9781439102329, Hardback, was £20.00 448pp, 10 halftones, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, Now £7.95 Now £4.95 9780268023676, Paperback, was £47.50 Now £7.95

God’s Armies - Sea of Silk The Templars and the Gothic Song Crusade and Jihad A Textile Geography of Women's Shroud of Christ Victorine Sequences and Augustinian By Malcolm Lambert Work in Medieval French Literature By Barbara Frale Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris Malcolm Lambert investigates the By E. J. Burns This book investigates the possibility By Margot E. Fassler histories of Christianity and Islam to This intriguing book looks at the that the the Holy Shroud of Christ This book demonstrates how the trace the origins and development depiction of female silk workers came into the possession of the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used of crusade and jihad. They are often in Old French literature, arguing Templars, explores its possible an art of memory to build sonic reckoned two sides of the same coin that literary portraits of medieval identification with the Mandylion models of the church. This musical but this simple opposition, the author heroines who produce and decorate of Edessa, and speculates as to its art developed over time, inspired by shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities. silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline possible influence on Templar theology, and connection the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and 352pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681775319, Paperback, a metaphorical geography that includes France as an to the charges of idolatry for which they were tried. their understandings of image and the spiritual journey was £13.99 important cultural player in the silk economics of the 296pp, Skyhorse Publishing, 2012, 9781620874493, 536pp, Illustrations, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, Mediterranean. Hardback, was £18.99 Now £5.95 9780268028893, Paperback, was £57.95 264pp, b/w illus, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Now £3.95 9780812241549, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

The Sorcery Trial of The Bride of Christ Aspects of Jewish Holy Scripture and the Alice Kyteler Goes to Hell Culture in the Middle Quest for Authority at A Contemporary Account (1324) Metaphor and Embodiment in the Ages the End of the Middle Edited by Richard de Ledrede Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Edited by Paul E. Szarmach Ages and L. S. Davidson By Dyan Elliott These papers examine the By Ian Christopher Levy This work, the contemporary This book uses Tertullian's epithet relationship between Jewish and Levy demonstrates that the Narrative of the 1324 Sorcery "bride of Christ" as a starting point medieval studies, the patristic basis Wycliffite/Hussite “heretics” and Proceedings against Alice Kyteler (of to examine the ways in which this for Christian attitudes on the Jews, their opponents in fact shared a large Kilkenny, Ireland) documents the first metaphor was applied to pious the Hispanic literary tradition, Jewish and undisputed common ground. instance of a woman being accused of witchcraft through women during the full sweep of the Middle Ages, and Spain, problems in Jewish art, and myth criticism and They held recognized licenses of expertise, venerated intercourse with the Devil, and the first execution how it was used by the church to shape and restrict medieval studies. tradition, esteemed the church fathers, and embraced for heresy in Ireland. This book provides an English female agency, as well as by women themselves to reflect 208pp, State University of New York Press, 1979, Holy Scripture as the ultimate authority in Christendom. translation together with an introduction providing a more intimate, mystical relationship with Christ. 9780873951654, Hardback, was £19.25 Yet it is precisely this commonality, according to Levy, historical context. 480pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2011, Now £7.95 that rendered the situation virtually intractable 100pp, Pegasus Press, 2004, 9781889818429, Paperback, 9780812243581, Hardback, was £54.00 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, was £6.99 Now £14.95 9780268034146, Paperback, was £39.50 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 40 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Isabelle of France The Measure of Medieval Manuscripts Sculpture in the Age of Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Woman from the Collection of Donatello Identity in the Thirteenth Century By Marie A. Kelleher T.R. Buchanan in the Renaissance Masterpieces By Sean L. Field This study explores the complex Bodleian Library from Florence Cathedral Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was relationship between women and Oxford By Timothy Verdon and Daniel M. Zolli situated at the nexus of sanctity and legal culture in Spain's Crown of Aragon during the late medieval By Peter Kidd This remarkable and beautiful new power during a significant era of volume examines twenty-three major period. Kelleher argues that women This catalogue describes 24 French culture and medieval history. artworks that were produced to were not passive recipients - or even manuscripts, primarily late medieval In this ground-breaking examination decorate the Duomo of Florence in victims - of the legal system. Rather, medieval women devotional books from France, the Netherlands and of Isabelle's career, Sean Field explores issues including the first decades of the 1400s. There are also detailed actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, renaissance Italy. It includes "Books of Hours", a the possibilities for women's religious authority, the discussions of the gilded bronze doors Ghiberti made engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of Bridgettine Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a creation and impact of royal sanctity, and the relationship for the neighboring Florence Baptistery. between men and women within the mendicant orders. their litigation strategies. Psalter of c 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. 217pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 209pp, Bodleian Library, 2001, 9781851240593, 200pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2015, 9781907804564, 296pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, Hardback, was £34.95 9780268028800, Paperback, was £42.50 9780812242560, Hardback, was £50.00 Paperback, was £20.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Making Difference in The Maid and the The Medieval Book The Art of Empathy Medieval and Early Queen and a Modern By David S. Areford Modern Iberia By Nancy Goldstone Collector One of only a handful of extant By Jean Dangler A popular and dramatic history, which Essays in Honour of works attributed to the anonymous Nuremberg artist, the Master of the Jean Dangler traces shifts in con­ narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin’s Toshiyuki Takamiya party from their lowest ebb to the Stotteritz Altarpiece, the Mother ceptions of alterity from medieval Edited by Takami Matsuda, Richard of Sorrows is a fine example of the to early modern Spain through a revival of the French monarchy. In particular Nancy Goldstone focuses Linenthal and John Scahill heightened realism that characterised detailed study of four writing genres: much Northern European painting muwashshah/jarcha poems from on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, Essays focus on the study of English the Dauphin’s chief supporter and strategist, and Joan of medieval manuscripts and early printed books., including during the early Renaissance. David Al-Andalus, Andalusi “cutting poems”, medical literature Areford explores the artist’s technique in creating about the body and discourse about the monster. Arc, whom she argues, was championed by Yolande. items in Takamiya's own collection. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular emotional drama. 218pp, b/w illus, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 296pp, b/w illus, Viking, 2012, 9780670023332, Hardback, was £20.00 concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious 64pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804267, 9780268025762, Paperback, was £27.95 and historical writings of the late middle ages. Paperback, was £11.95 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 512pp, b/w and col illus, Boydell and Brewer, 2015, Now £3.95 9781843844051, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95

The Writings of Agnes Irresistible North The Ark of God: Part Uneasy Communion of Harcourt By Andrea Di Robilant A, Volumes 1 and 2 By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen Edited by sean L. Field Journalistic in style Di Robilant’s Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke Agnes of Harcourt became abbess at book retraces and provides an By John James A fascinating study of the iconography imaginative reconstruction of the of altarpieces and the artistic the new royal abbey of Longchamp, The Ark of God is a comprehensive founded by Isabelle of France, sister voyages of the Venetian Zen brothers collaboration between Jews and and investigates the claims of their pictorial history of Early Gothic Christians. In the multi-cultural of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote churches in the Paris Basin. Part A a substantial biography of Isabelle as sixteenth century descendant that society of late medieval Spain, they included an exploration of the in two volumes contains over 9,000 Jewish and Christian artists worked well as a brief letter detailing Louis photos of the capitals with an analysis. IX’s involvement with the abbey. This volume contains New World as early as the 1380s. together to produce retablos (large The capitals of this period are more natural in style than multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew the old French texts with a facing English translation, 228pp, b/w illus, Vintage Books, 2011, 9780307269850, those that went before, confirmed in those buildings for Hardback, was £20.00 religious manuscripts. as well as a substantial introduction to Agnes’ life and which we have documentary dates, which may then be works. Now £4.95 used to establish a chronology for other works from 176pp, b/w and col illus, D Giles Limited, 2010, 120pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, these times. 9781904832706, Hardback, was £35.00 9780268044039, Hardback, was £40.50 1632pp, 9000 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Now £9.95 Now £4.95 9780959600582, Hardback, was £695.00 Now £99.95

Tabula Picta Ambiguous Realities The Ark of God: Part Immagine Antica By Marta Madero Edited by Carole Levin B, Volume 3 Edited by Marco Ciatti To whom does a painted tablet and Jeanie Watson Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 and Cecilia Frosinini belong? To the owner of the physical Topics include the changes in attitude By John James This volume reports on the piece of wood on which an image is toward women, the role and status conservation of a superb panel, the painted? Or to the person who made of women, the dichotomy between This book presents a complete Madonna and child of Santa Maria the painting on that piece of wood? the public and private spheres, the collection and photographic record Maggiore in Florence. As well as Marta Madero turns to the extensive prescriptions for women's behaviour of all the capitals carved in the Paris scientific analyses it also contains glosses and commentaries by and the image of the ideal woman, Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few papers exploring the artists behind its medieval jurists, articulating a notion and the difference between the of which have never been published creation and issues of dating, with a of intellectual and artistic property radically different perceived and the actual audience of medieval and before. James has dated nearly every building campaign revised 12th century date proposed. from our own. Renaissance writers. in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement possible only because every one of the 147 remaining 182pp, b/w illus, col pls, Edifir Editizione Firenze, 2003, 160pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, 264pp, Wayne State University Press, 1987, works have been included. 9788879701624, Paperback, was £25.00 9780812241860, Hardback, was £37.00 9780814318737, Paperback, was £15.95 740pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Now £4.95 Now £5.95 Now £2.95 9780959600599, Hardback, was £395.00 Now £69.95

Taxonomies of The Discovery of The Ark of God: Part Translating the Past Knowledge Mankind B, Volumes 4 and 5 Laurent de Premierfait and Edited by Emily Steiner Atlantic Encounters in the Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 Boccaccio's De Casibus and Lynn Ransom Age of Columbus By John James By Anne D. Hedeman These six essays demonstrate By David Abulafia Over 13,000 photos, being about In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait how the technologies of the book, Emphasizing contact between peoples half of the capitals carved during produced a French translation of including the types of material used, rather than the discovery of lands, these years. They are formal-abstract Boccaccio's De casibus virorum choices of textual arrangement, and using archaeological findings as in style. The analysis of the foliate illustrium, a fourteenth-century text format, script, layout, decoration, well as eyewitness accounts, David carving, including the capitals on the containing cautionary historical tales and overall design, make it possible to determine what Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World great portals, helps to identify individual carvers through about the corrupting effects of power. This gloriously medieval readers and writers thought information was, inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first their way of working, from which the key buildings may illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent's work what they determined was useful to know, and through transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation be dated and through this a consistent chronology from the first copies made for the dukes of Berry and which categories they decided it could be transmitted of wonder to vicious exploitation. established for the period. Burgundy to manuscripts independently produced by effectively to others. artists and booksellers in Paris. 408pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300158212, 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9780975742525, 176pp, col illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, Paperback, was £18.00 Hardback, was £695.00 240pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2009, 9780812247596, Hardback, was £37.00 9780892369355, Hardback, was £41.95 Now £7.95 Now £99.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The History of Anti- The Medieval Heart Faces of Power and Decoding Old Masters Semitism By Heather Webb Piety Patrons, Princes and Enigmatic From the Time of Christ In this book Heather Webb studies By Erik Inglis Paintings of the 15th Century to the Court Jews medieval notions of the heart. An introduction to medieval By Abolala Soudavar Drawing from the works of Dante, By Leon Poliakov portraiture lavishly illustrated Abolala Soudavar examines seven Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, throughout with full colour images Chiefly the history of prejudice Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other paintings by some of the great from the collections of the British masters of the 15th century and against the Ashkenazim, and its literary, philosophic, and scientific Library and the Getty Museum. origins in medieval Europe. Jews texts, she reveals medieval answers to demonstrates how we can better A huge gulf exists between our understand the state of international were accused of countless crimes, such fundamental questions as: Where own notion of a portrait, and medieval priorities, and from causing the Black Death to practicing ritual is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it relations and the political rivalries of the time by in his text Erik Inglis sets out why this was, and the decoding the figures, their postures and gestures, the murder, and the author attempts throughout to reveal begin? And how does it end? ways in which portraits were intended to preserve the sociological and psychological forces behind these background scenes, the compositions and much else in 241pp, Yale University Press, 2010, 9780300153934, a recognisable image of virtues rather than a lifelike these paintings. irrational charges. Hardback, was £57.00 depiction. 340pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 154pp, col illus, I.B. Tauris, 2007, 9781845116583, Now £9.95 88pp, col illus t/out, British Library, 2008, 9780712309813, Hardback, was £70.00 9780812237665, Hardback, was £54.00 Hardback, was £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £2.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE, ART AND ARCHITECTURE BARGAINS • 41 The Badia of Florence Homo Memento Finis Echoing Helicon The Caporali Missal Art and Observance in a The Iconography of Just Judgement Music, Art and Identity in the A Masterpiece of Renaissance Monastery in Medieval Art and Drama Este Studioli, 1440-1530 Renaissance Illumination By Anne Leader Edited by David Bevington Edited by Tim Shephard By Stephen N. Fliegel In 1418, 17 Benedictine monks The contributions to this volume Drawing examples from the Este The sumptuously illuminated journeyed to Florence from Padua explore the Last Judgement as it was dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara Caporali Missal was created by the to save one of their order's oldest depicted in the medieval cycle plays, throughout the Renaissance - Caporali brothers for the Franciscan houses from ruin. Realizing that with comparative insights from other author Tim Shephard reaches new community in the hillside town of reformed spiritual practice alone arts forms. conclusions about the integration of Montone, near Perugia, in 1469. would not save the Badia, Abbott Gomezio di Giovanni 219pp, b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of This exhibition catalogue celebrates this important commissioned the creation of a new cloister, to be 9780918720610, Paperback, was £9.99 renaissance Italy, and about the cultural work required of manuscript, elucidating the history, style, content, decorated with vivid and engaging frescoes. Leader's music and of images by those who paid for them. function, and authorship of the missal. study examines the Badia during this crucial period of Now £2.95 184pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199936137, 132pp, col illus, Prestel Verlag, 2013, 9783791352718, reform and rebirth. Hardback, was £38.99 Hardback, was £22.50 340pp, col illus, Indiana University Press, 2011, 9780253355676, Hardback, was £56.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

The Mirror of The Early Art of Love and Marriage in Saint Francis Salvation Coventry, Stratford- Renaissance Florence Patriarchal Basilica in Assisi; Artistic Speculum Humanae Salvationis Upon-Avon Warwick By Caroline Campbell Testimony, Evangelical Message - An Edition of British Library and Lesser Sites in A detailed examination of the By Roberto Caravaggi Blockbook G.11784 Warwickshire celebrated Morelli-Nerli wedding A huge book, which forms a chests, ordered by Lorenzo Morelli Edited by Albert C. Labriola By Clifford Davidson and comprehensive photographic record and John W. Smeltz when he married Vaggia Nerli in of the Basicilica of St Francis in Assisi. Jennifer S. Alexander 1472. Chapters explore the history Accompanying essays explore the art A full translation, and reproduction of This volume seeks to aid those of the wedding chest and issues of and architecture as well as religious all 58 woodcuts, of this 15th century studying the early art of Warwickshire, including relics iconography and meaning, and production. and historical contexts. blockbook. The translators have provided detailed and musical iconography. The subject lists found within commentary to explain the blockbook's biblical passages 128pp, 80 illustrations, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2009, 220pp, Rizzoli International, 1991, 9789110865815, provide information from records and antiquarian 9781903470916, Paperback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £75.00 and mythological legends, and to illuminate its central accounts of both lost and extant early art from the focus on the roles of the Virgin Mary and Christ in region. Now £6.95 Now £19.95 human salvation. 237pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, 208pp, James Clarke and Co, 2002, 9780227679692, 9780918720634, Hardback, was £62.00 Hardback, was £54.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Building the Kingdom The Early Art of Art of Estrangement: Church Monuments Giannozzo Manetti on the Norfolk Redefining Jews in By Brian Kemp Material and Spiritual Edifice A Subject List of Extant and Reconquest Spain Originally published in 1985, and now By Christine Smith Lost Art Including Items By Pamela A. Patton reprinted unaltered, this (very) brief Relevant to Early Drama guide covers the multitude of late Building the Kingdom examines how Pamela Patton traces the medieval and early modern funerary Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), by By Ann E. Nichols transformation of Iberia's Jews in monuments found in churches interpreting the great architectural This book contains a detailed list of the visual culture of twelfth and throughout England. Kemp looks at projects of his day within historical, early art in the county of Norfolk, thirteenth century Spain's Christian- their development and elaboration, literary, and spiritual contexts, turning to a geographically defined ruled kingdoms as those rulers and the messages which they convey articulated their relevance for his contemporaries as database of evidence to examine the development of strove to affiliate with mainstream Europe and distance about their patrons. cultural paradigms of the Early Italian Renaissance. The regional styles and devotional preferences. The subject themselves from an uncomfortably multicultural past. book includes texts and translations of his key works. 32pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1985, 9780852637685, of much of the art revolves around devotional life and 220pp, 23 Halftones, color; 59 Halftones, black and white, Paperback, was £4.99 536pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, local saints. Penn State University Press, 2012, 9780271053837, 9780866983624, Hardback, was £60.00 357pp, 43 b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Hardback, was £65.95 Now £2.50 Now £14.95 9781580440349, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Spanish Medieval Art Art in England The Bernward Gospels: Medieval Castles Recent Studies The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 Art, Memory, and the By Robert Higham and O. H. Creighton Edited by Colum Hourihane By Sara N. James Episcopate in Medieval An introduction to castles and castle Focusing on style, iconography, A single volume overview of artistic Germany studies answering such questions as who built castles, when and why, function, and reception, in the movements in Medieval and Early By Jennifer P. Kingsley religious as well as secular milieus, Renaissance England. The media and assessing how they have been these studies examine influences studied include architecture and Jennifer Kingsley offers the first studied in the past. Individual chapters within the country and outside it in related sculpture, both ecclesiastical interpretive study of the pictorial are devoted to exploring the social, an attempt to contextualize Spain in and secular; tomb monuments; murals, program of this famed eleventh- domestic and military functions of the larger European framework. panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript century manuscript and considers castles and sites are approached how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and through archaeological and landscape perspectives. 298pp, b/w and col illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons. future viewers to remember its patron, Bishop Berward 72pp, 58 b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2003, Society, 2007, 9780866983945, Hardback, was £55.00 of Hildesheim 352pp, 270, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702235, 9780747805465, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £60.00 228pp, 18 Halftones, color; 34 Halftones, black and white, Penn State University Press, 2014, 9780271060798, Now £2.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £63.95 Now £19.95

Chester Art Seats of Power in The Italian Piazza St George's Chapel, A Subject List of Extant and Europe during the Transformed Windsor, in the Late Lost Art Including Items Hundred Years War Parma in the Communal Age Middle Ages Relevant to Early Drama By Anthony Emery By Areli Marina By Colin Richmond and E. Scarff By Sally-Beth Maclean A major new overview of the castles, Areli Marina examines the radical 10 essays explore different aspects Though it may not contain the fortresses, palaces and manor houses transformation of Parma's urban of the history and architecture of St bumper-crop of surviving subject- of the ruling elites of England, France center in the thirteenth century by George’s Chapel in the 15th Century, art as a city such as York possesses, and further afield in Europe during reconstructing the city's two most when it was an important Yorkist Chester nevertheless holds much the Hundred Years War, covering significant public spaces: its cathedral symbol of culture, religious devotion of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly the period 1330 – 1480. Analyses over sixty buildings, and communal squares. She documents and discusses and artistic splendour. demonstrates. extensively illustrated in colour with photographs and the evolution of each site tracing their construction by 214pp, St George's Chapel, 2001, 9780953967605, 115pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1982, plans. opposing political factions within the city's ruling elite. Hardback, was £45.00 9780918720207, Hardback, was £38.50 352pp, col illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701030, 192pp, b/w and col illus, Penn State University Press, 2012, Now £6.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £49.95 9780271050706, Hardback, was £74.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Early Art of the West The Lantern Tower of The Classical Tradition English Stained Glass Riding of Yorkshire Westminster Abbey in Czech Medieval Art By Painton Cowen A Subject List of Extant and 1060-2010 By Jan Bazant This album of medieval (c.1100-1530) Lost Art Including Items Reconstructing its History In this volume, Jan Bažant analyses the stained glass in England's churches Relevant to Early Drama and Architecture tradition of ancient Greece and Rome is among the finest to be found. A geographical sweep of the nation By Barbara D. Palmer in the art of Bohemia from the 10 th By Warwick Rodwell to the 14 th century. Bohemia is of takes in over 100 windows along with Prior to Henry VIII’s earlier acts A study of the different physical great interest in this respect because short descriptions, from the greatest of redistribution, the West Riding’s struc­tures and prospective designs for it was never part of the Roman Cathedrals to isolated examples in religious establishments numbered towers to occupy the central crossing at Westminster Empire and there was, consequently, no Roman tradition out of the way parish churches. a minimum of 334 that have left record of their Abbey, from the tower depicted on the Bayeux tapestry per se. 128pp, col illus on every page, Thames and Hudson, 2008, foundation. Some 194 of those churches also have left to plans by Wren and Hawksmoor. 9780500238462, Hardback, was £14.95 record of their art, which constitutes the larger part of 333pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820460970, this volume’s subject entries. 112pp, full colour illus throughout, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £50.95 Now £7.95 9781842179796, Paperback, was £15.00 363pp, 44 b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Now £9.95 9780918720320, Hardback, was £39.50 Now £3.95 Now £9.95

42 • MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Splendour, Gravity and Preaching, Building The Archaeology of Castles and the Anglo- Emotion and Burying the Medieval Suburb Norman World The World of French Medieval By Caroline Bruzelius of Broadmead, Bristol Edited by John A. Davies, Angela Illuminated Manuscripts Friars transformed the relationship By Reg Jackson Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque of the church to laymen by and Charlotte Lapiche Edited by A.S. Kortweg This report describes the results taking religion outside to public of a large and important excavation Castles and the Anglo-Norman World This book provides an overview of and domestic spaces. Mendicant on a domestic site between Union draws together a series of 20 papers ninety French manuscripts that are convents became urban cemeteries, Street and Fairfax Street in central by 26 French and English specialists currently in Dutch collections. They warehouses filled with family tombs, Bristol. An outstanding sequence of in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. are illustrated in full colour and linked flags, shields and private altars. This is the first book medieval and post-medieval pottery and other finds, It includes summaries of current knowledge and new by a text which explores their roles as monastic prayer to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and including environmental material, was obtained from the research into important Norman castles in England books, scholarly works, aristocratic markers of status, transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. and reflections of lay piety. archaeological deposits. and Normandy, drawing on information from recent 224pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, excavations. 224pp, Uitgeverij Matrijs, 2004, 9789040096303, 9780300203844, Hardback, was £45.00 154pp, col illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2010, Hardback, was £45.00 9780956737106, Paperback, was £25.00 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700224, Hardback, Now £14.95 was £48.00 Now £12.95 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

Corpus of Early Italian Religious Poverty, Three Medieval Sites Environment, Society Paintings in North Visual Riches in Gloucestershire and the Black Death American Public By Joanna Cannon By Niall Oakey An interdisciplinary approach to Collections: The South At the heart of this book is the A medieval building and occupation at the late-medieval crisis in Sweden By Perri Lee Roberts Dominicans' evolving relationship Maidenhill, Stonehouse; Medieval field Edited by Per Lagerås with the laity, expressed at first by systems at Tinker's Close, Moreton in The South is the first in the series of the partitioning of their churches, Marsh; A medieval occupation site at This volume uses evidence and Corpus catalogues to be published and subsequently by the ever- Westward Road, Ebley. techniques from archaeology and and covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, increasing sharing of space, and of the the natural sciences to focus on Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North 34pp, b/w illus, Cotswold Archaeology, environmental and social changes production and use of art. Joanna Cannon's magisterial 2000, 9780952319641, Paperback, was £9.95 Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Puerto study uses chronicles, legislation, liturgy, sermons and in the wake of the Black Death using Sweden as a case Rico. Three volumes' worth of entries provide full other sources to explore the place of art in the lives of Now £4.95 study. Pollen analysis provides new light on the impact on information, bibliography and scholarly commentary on the friars and the urban laity of Central Italy. agriculture, and urban archaeology and skeletal analysis each work of art, all of which are illustrated. provides evidence of changing living conditions. 368pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2013, 801pp, col illus, University of Georgia Press, 2009, 9780300187656, Hardback, was £50.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700545, Paperback, 9780915977642, Hardback, was £150.00 was £36.00 Now £24.95 Now £39.95 Now £9.95

Judaism and Christian Touching Objects The Window Glass of Seals and their Art By Adrian W.B. Randolph the Order of St Context in the Middle Aesthetic Anxieties from the Addressing painted and sculpted Gilbert of Ages Catacombs to Colonialism portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, Sempringham Edited by Phillipp R. Schofield and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses Edited by Herbert Kessler themes such as family and individual A York-based Survey This volume is divided into three and David Nirenberg memory, windows, perspectival By C. Pamela Graves sections looking at the history This volume is the first dedicated to and use of seals as symbols and space, and touch to investigate how The excavation of St Andrew, the long history, from the catacombs representations of power and these items were experienced in late Fishergate uncovered the largest to colonialism but with special prestige in a variety of institutional, 14th and early 15th century Italy, quantity of window glass from any house of this emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and particularly by women. monastic order. Research on this glass provided the the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources 328pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, opportunity to study all other known assemblages of "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, and artistic attributes 9780300204780, Hardback, was £60.00 window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the defend, and explore its own territory. results and interpretations are presented here. 208pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £19.95 9781782978176, Hardback, was £90.00 456pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 575pp, 236 b/w and col illus, Council for British Archaeology, 9780812222531, Paperback, was £26.99 2000, 9781902771151, Paperback, was £26.00 Now £24.95 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Jean de Carpentin’s Translating Truth The Castles of Kent, The Archaeology of Book of Hours Ambitious Images and Religious Surrey and Sussex Medieval Novgorod in By Alixe Bovey Knowledge in Late Medieval By Mike Salter Context France and England In the 1470s, one of the most This book is a comprehensive guide A Study of Centre/ innovative artists working in Bruges By Aden Kumler to the history and architecture of Periphery Relations illuminated a Book of Hours for This handsomely produced volume castellated buildings dating from the Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and late 11th century to the mid 16th Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj examines manuscript illumination Makarov and Evgenij Nosov prominent citizen of Normandy. and changing conceptions of the century in the counties of Kent, The manuscript is enriched with importance of the visual in conveying Surrey and Sussex. Eighty buildings in This volume includes papers on miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders religious truth following the increased emphasis placed the three counties are described in detail with the aid of aspects of the environmental and technological context in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). old and new photographs, prints and plans reproduced of the relationship between urban centre and rural framed by twisting branches of acanthus.. to a set of common scales. hinterland. It examines the environmental context for 290pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2011, the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to 184pp, col illus, Sam Fogg, 2011, 9781903470954, 9780300164930, Hardback, was £65.00 Folly Publications, 2016, 9780993187933, Paperback, was Hardback, was £50.00 £9.95 15th centuries. Now £14.95 528pp, b/w and colour illus and accompanying CD with Now £14.95 Now £4.95 supp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842172780, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £19.95 Orsanmichele and the Excavations in the Archaeological The Bull Ring History and medieval suburb of Approaches to Uncovered Preservation of the Redcliffe, Bristol, 1980 Medieval Europe Excavations at Edgbaston Civic Monument By Bruce Williams Edited by Kathleen Biddick Street, Moor Street, Park Street and The Row, Birmingham Edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke This volume presents a summary This volume presents a series of City Centre, 1997-2001 This book makes important new account of the results of excavations papers which showcased the potential information about the history and in Redcliff Street. Features include of archaeology for the study of the By Catharine Patrick and restoration of the church available part of the city wall, a 13th century Middle Ages, at a time when medieval Stephanie Ratkai slipway, 14th century dyers archaeology was still a relatively for the first time, and examines the These excavations in the centre of workshops and a 15th century bakery. Also included is young discipline. Contributions include Glanville Jones on monument in its broadest context as a civic and religious Birmingham uncovered plentiful material from the 12th an outline history of Redcliffe. the multiple estate; David Hall on field systems; Oliver center from the Middle Ages to the present day, revealing to 19th centuries: artefacts, environmental­ samples and Rackham on forest and woodland; Richard Hodges on the historic building's evolving role as repository of 30pp, b/w illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1981, structural remains. Evidence of the medieval industrial pre-Viking trade in the North Sea region; and Pamela history and living institution. 9780900199141, Paperback, was £6.00 past was of particular interest, including tanning and the Crabtree on the Zooarchaeology of West Stow. 416pp, col and b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2012, Now £2.00 manufacture of hemp and linen. 9780300135893, Hardback, was £50.00 310pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, 9780918720528, Paperback, was £31.50 440pp, 136 b/w illus, 42 col pls, Oxbow Books, 2008, Now £24.95 9781842172858, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Postcards on Mary-le-Port, Bristol A Maritime Towns and Topography Parchment By Lorna and Rahtz, Philip Archaeology of Ships Essays in Memory of David H. Hill The Social Lives of Medieval Books Watts and Philip Rahtz Innovation and Social Change in Late Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker By Kathryn M. Rudy A report on excavations at the Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Susan D. Thompson church and street of St Mary-le Port, Medieval prayer books held not By J. R. Adams Fifteen papers examine a variety of Bristol, an important early example of aspects of medieval towns and their only the devotions and meditations both urban and church archaeology. In this book Jon Adams evaluates of Christianity, but also housed, key episodes of technical change in topography. Topics include place-name The report posits a tenth century studies, monasteries, mints, Anglo- slipped between pages, sundry date for the origins of both church the ways that ships were conceived, notes, reminders, and ephemera, designed, built, used and disposed of. Saxon settlements, and medieval and street, and also includes a mapping to name a few. such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted historical and topographical survey of the area. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most images.Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously complex artefacts made, changes in their technology 196pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding 208pp, b/w illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1986, provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, 9781782977025, Hardback, was £60.00 light into the everyday life and relationships of those in 9780900199264, Paperback, was £30.00 strategies and agency of social change. Now £14.95 the medieval Low Countries. Now £6.95 272pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 360pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, 9781842172971, Paperback, was £29.95 9780300209891, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £12.95 Now £24.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BARGAINS • 43 Traditional Buildings in Castles in Context Chartier in Europe The Poetic Voices of the Oxford Region Power, Symbolism and Edited by Emma Cayley John Gower By John Steane and James Ayres Landscape, 1066 to 1500 and Ashby Kinch Politics and Personae in This book, the fruit of twenty years By Robert Liddiard A sustained enquiry into the the Confessio Amantis research, provides an account of Castle studies have been transformed distinctive influence of the fifteenth- By Matthew W. Irvin vernacular architecture in the Oxford century French poet and diplomat, in recent years with a movement This volume concentrates on the region from Anglo-Saxon times to away from the traditional Alain Chartier, on the reading and the 19th century. At the heart of the writing cultures of England, Italy, dialogue of Amans and Genius in interpretation of castles as static the Confessio Amantis. It argues book are surveys of cruck buildings, military structures towards a wider Scotland, and Spain, as well as France. manorial and moated sites, town houses with particular that Gower negotiates problems of view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a 228pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2008, 9781843841760, politics and problems of love through their discourse, emphasis on Abingdon, and houses in the countryside more complicated relationship with the landscape. This Hardback, was £50.00 from farmhouses to cottages. which produces a series of attempts to find a coherent clearly written and very accessible study makes the Now £4.95 and rational union of lover and ruler. 464pp, over 500 col and b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, most current ideas about the role of the castle available 9781842174791, Hardback, was £45.00 to a wider and more general readership. 328pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843399, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £19.95 178pp, many col illus, Windgather Press, 2005, 9780954557522, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

A Place to Believe in Interpreting the Chaucer and Array Fifteenth-Century Locating Medieval Landscapes English Village Patterns of Costume and Fabric Studies Volume 26 By Clare Lees Landscape and Community Rhetoric in The Canterbury By Edelgard E. DuBruck Tales, Troilus and Criseyde This volume brings together scholars at Shapwick, Somerset and Barbara I. Gusick and Other Works of medieval literature, archaeology, By Mick Aston and Christopher Gerrard Seventeen papers, plus tributes and By Laura F. Hodges history, religion, art history, and The Shapwick Project examined book reviews, on the history and environmental studies to explore the development and history of an An analysis of the ways in which culture of 15th-century Europe. the idea of place in medieval English parish and village over a ten Chaucer uses details of costume, Subjects include: Crusade propaganda religious culture.A strength of the thousand-year period. The result is clothing and fabric. In particular, it in the court of Philip the Good; Pope collection is its awareness of the fact that medieval and a fascinating study about how the community lived and addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's Joan; Froissart's Chroniques ; Pierre Gringor; Margery modern viewpoints converge in an experience of place prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group expectations, derived from their knowledge of the Kempe; French farce; misogyny; the Dominican Convent and frame a newly created space where the literary, the of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy of S. historical, and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation story. passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but 303pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2001, 9781571132284, with the geographical, the personal, and the material. 416pp, 233 illus, Windgather Press, 2013, includes them in some of his comedic works. Hardback, was £75.00 288pp, b/w illus, Penn State University Press, 2006, 9781905119455, Paperback, was £25.00 254pp, col pls, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843689, Now £2.95 9780271028606, Paperback, was £28.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Pilgrim Routes of the Medieval Rural Comic Drama in the Heroes of the French British Isles Settlement Low Countries Epic By Emma J. Wells Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 C.1450-1560 Heroes of the French Epic This book leads the modern By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper A Critical Anthology By Michael A. Newth traveller along some of the key A major assessment and review of Edited by Bas Jongenelen The poems translated in this volume medieval walking routes of Britain, the origins, forms and evolutions of - Gormont and Isembart, The song taking in world-famous sites such and Ben Parsons medieval rural settlement in Britain Drama formed a central aspect of William, Charlemagne's Pilgrimage, as Canterbury and Lindisfarne and Ireland across the period c. AD Raoul of Cambrai, Girart of Vienne in addition to out-of-the-way of public life in the cities of the 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive Netherlands. This collection brings together the original and The Knights of Narbonne - are places along paths not so widely travelled. As well as analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, taken from all three Old French epic song cycles, and suggesting some fresh walking ideas, the book offers an Middle Dutch text of ten comic plays, with facing economics and population, bringing together evidence translation into modern English. The selection is divided apart from their individual merits, display the complete understanding of the history, significance and practices drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, range of themes, episodes and character types which surrounding the pilgrim routes. evenly between formal stage-plays and monologues, and historical geographical analysis and documentary and provides a representation of the full range of rederijker were the life-blood of the chanson de geste genre. 240pp, col illus, Robert Hale Ltd, 2016, 9780719817076, place-name study. 697pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831471, Hardback, was £19.99 drama. 304pp, 112 illus, Windgather Press, 2011, 308pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, 9781843842910, Paperback, was £25.00 9781905119424, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Heilig en Profaan 3 Wyclif: Summa Fatherhood and its Images of Kingship in By H. J. E. Van Beuningen Insolubilium Representations in Chaucer and His In this book over 1,300 badges are Translated by Paul V. Spade Middle English Texts Ricardian shown full-size, together with data Latin text of Wyclif's logical treatise By Rachel E. Moss Contemporaries concerning sites, measurements, on paradoxes. material, methods of attachment, The figure and role of the late- By Samantha J. Rayner dating and any inscriptions. In a 176pp, Arizona State University, 1986, medieval father is reappraised Through detailed examination of the separate section authors deal 9780866980746, Hardback, was through a close reading of a range of texts, this study analyses the works with related topics, such as moulds £20.00 documents from the period, including of Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the and the casting process, the site of Now £4.95 both letters and romances. Gawain poet, to set out exactly what Arnemuiden, depictions of pilgrim badges in medieval 208pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843580, each has to say about kingship, looking for common books and badges in the shape of buttons. Dutch text Hardback, was £60.00 themes and attempting to relate them to the concrete with English summaries. Now £12.95 kingship of Richard II. 400pp, col illus t/out, Stichting Middeleeuwse Religieuze, 177pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9781843841746, 2012, 9789090266190, Hardback, was £55.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Digging for Richard III Dante in Love Heroines of the Interlace Structure of By Mike Pitts By A.N. Wilson French Epic the Third Part of the No archaeological project of recent A.N. Wilson's book serves as a A second selection of Prose Lancelot years has captured the public well-written introduction to Dante, chansons de geste By Frank Brandsma imagination like the discovery of the mixing biography with a detailed grave of Richard III. Mike Pitts tells exposition of the political and literary Edited by Michael A. H. Newth Thematically and as a narrative the full story, including the dramatic background to his work, as well as The chanson de geste was technique, interlace, the complex unearthing of the king's bones and discussion of its principal themes, and increasingly influenced by the ethos weaving together of many different the scientific studies which proved a look at his reputation and influence of romance, and the present volume story-telling strands, comes to its their identity as well as the picture down to our own time. offers full English verse translations full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. This study explains they give of Richard's appearance, diet, death and the 386pp, col pls, Atlantic Books, 2011, 9781848879492, of six examples, each chosen to illustrate the range of treatment of his corpse. roles gradually accorded to women in these originally how the interlace works and shows that it is the perfect Hardback, was £14.99 vehicle for the relation of the events. 208pp, b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 2014, militaristic narratives. 9780500252000, Hardback, was £18.95 Now £4.95 434pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843610, 278pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, 9781843842576, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Bones of a King Adams Grace Romance and its Late-Medieval German By The Grey Friars Research Team, Fall and Redemption in Contexts in Fifteenth- Women's Poetry Lin Foxhall and Maev Kennedy Medieval Literature Century England Secular and Religious Songs The Bones of a King presents the By Brian Murdoch Politics, Piety and Penitence By Albrecht Classen official behind-thescenes story of the The theme of "Adam's Grace" is the By Raluca L. Radulescu Translations of both religious and Greyfriars dig and the subsequent interplay of theology and literature archaeological and scientific analyses, By examining a broad cultural and secular verse written during the across a wide range of genres and 15th and 16th centuries by German drawing throughout on the research vernaculars: in particular, the use of political framework stretching from of the specialists directly involved in Richard II's deposition to the end women. The first part presents medieval literary texts to explain numerous, largely anonymous, love the discovery. It presents the details the balance of the Fall and Redemption, the universality of the Wars of the Roses through of Richard’s life, health, diet and death, as well as the the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author poems and songs whilst the second comprises religious of original sin, and the identity of mankind with its first songs composed by aristocratic women. wider archaeological settings of the events leading up to parents, Adam and Eve. draws attention to the specific circumstances in which his burial in the Grey Friars church. Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry 157pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781843840213, 218pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2000, 9780859915595, Lovelich's History of the Holy Grail and Malory's Morte Hardback, was £40.00 232pp, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 9781118783146, Hardback, Hardback, was £60.00 was £18.99 were read in fifteenth-century England. Now £4.95 Now £5.95 252pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843597, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 44 • MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND LITERATURE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Poetry, Knowledge and Ovid's Art and the The Prose Brut John Gower Community in Late Wife of Bath The Development of a Recent Readings Medieval France The Ethics of Erotic Violence Middle English Chronicle Edited by R.F. Yeager Edited by Rebecca Dixon By Marilynn Desmond By Lister M. Matheson Essays in this volume, presented by and Finn E. Sinclair This volume explores the enormous This is not a new edition of the scholars at meetings of the John This collection examines the role of influence of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Middle English text that survives in Gower Society at the International poetry in medieval French culture in on the later Middle Ages, looking more manuscripts than almost any Congress on Medieval Studies transmitting and shaping knowledge. in particular at how his ironic other. Rather, this work classifies and (Western Michigan University, It reveals the interplay between poet, conception of the erotic potential of groups the manuscripts and early 1983–88), unpublished elsewhere and text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of violence was taken up by authors such as Heloise, Jean printed editions, and comments on the relationships rewritten exclusively for this collection, take a series later medieval French poetry and of the communities in de Meun and Guillaume de Loris, Chaucer and Christine that developed among them from the late 14th to and of fresh approaches to the study of the works of John which it was produced. de Pisan. sometimes beyond the 15th century. Gower. 250pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 206pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2006, 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1998, 366pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1989, 9781843841777, Hardback, was £60.00 9780801473173, Paperback, was £22.99 9780866982221, Hardback, was £26.00 9780918720993, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

Court Poetry in Late Intellectual Life in the Three Medieval John Wyclif: On the Medieval England and Middle Ages Rhetorical Arts Truth of Holy Scotland By Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward Edited by James J. Murphy Scripture By Anthony J. Hasler The variety of experience available to This book charts the development of Edited by Ian Christopher Levy Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, medieval scholars and the vitality of Glass over four millennia, from 18th A condensed English translation Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, medieval thought are both reflected Dynasty Egypt, through to the present of Wyclif's 1378 treatise, which this study examines the paths by in this collection of original essays. day, illustrated by 56 examples from emphasises the ultimate authority of which court poetry and its narrators 336pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, the collections held by the Ashmolean scripture as the basis for the reform seek multiple forms of legitimation: 1992, 9781852850692, Hardback, Museum. and ordering of the church and from royal and institutional sources, but also in the was £180.00 259pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2001, Christian life. 9780866982702, Hardback, was £22.00 media of script and print. Now £6.95 378pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, 269pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Now £9.95 9781580440318, Paperback, was £27.50 9780521809573, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Ethics and Enjoyment Collected Works of Ava's New Testament Middle English Marian in Late Medieval Gonzalo de Berceo in Narratives Lyrics Poetry English Translation When the Old Law Passed Away Edited by Karen Saupe By Jessica Rosenfeld Edited by Jeannie K. Bartha, Annette Edited by James A. Rushing The poems selected for this volume Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history Grant Cash and Richard Terry Mount Ava is the first woman whose name provide a sampling of the rich of the ethics of medieval vernacular Berceo, a thirteenth century priest, we know who wrote in German. She tradition of Marian devotion as love poetry by tracing its engagement was the first Spanish poet whose wrote her poem - or poems - on the expressed in Middle English. Taken with the late medieval reception of name is known to us. This volume lives of John the Baptist and Jesus together, the poems express the Aristotle. The chapters reveal that makes available his complete works in Christ sometime early in the twelfth full range of a people’s effort to 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often English translation for the first time. century, no later than 1127. voice anxieties and joys through Mary. The texts are accompanied by introductory material, gloss and notes. characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but 544pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2008, 254pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and 9780866983730, Hardback, was £60.00 9781580440370, Paperback, was £15.50 312pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, earthly happiness. 9781580440066, Paperback, was £19.50 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 257pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Now £6.95 9781107000117, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £7.95

Vernacular Translation New Directions in Closure in The Sovereignty and in Dante's Italy Oral Theory Canterbury Tales Salvation in the Illiterate Literature Essays on Ancient and The Role of The Parson's Tale Vernacular 1050-1150 By Alison Cornish Medieval Literatures By David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley Edited by James A. Schultz While Dante is usually the starting Edited by Mark C. Amodio These ten papers reject the tradition This volume offers some of the point for histories of vernacular Rejecting the view that orality and that assumes that The Parson's earliest texts in Middle High German, translation in Europe, this book literacy are mutually exclusive and Tale has little literary merit. The Das Ezzolied, Das Annolied, Die demonstrates that The Divine contradictory cultural forces, these contributors search for Chaucer's Kaiserchronik VV. 247-667, Das Lob Comedy places itself in opposition to essays focus on the mix of oral authorial and narrative voices and Salomons, and the Historia Judith, a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among and literate poetics discoverable in a wide range of examine the role of The Parson's Tale in closing The with an introduction and notes. its readers. ancient and medieval texts. In the explorations of texts Canterbury Tales . 176pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 287pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, produced in cultures situated at various points along the 268pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 9781580440622, Paperback, was £15.50 9781107001138, Hardback, was £62.00 oral-literate continuum, the authors reveal how deeply 9781580440127, Paperback, was £31.50 and inextricably intertwined orality and literacy are. Now £3.95 Now £7.95 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, Now £4.95 9780866983303, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95

St. Thomas Aquinas: Songs of Holy Mary of Gavin Douglas: The Technology, Guilds and An Exposition of the Alfonso X, the Wise Palis of Honoure Early English Drama 'On the Hebdomads' A Translation of the Cantigas Edited by David Parkinson Edited by Clifford Davidson of Boethius de Santa María Gavin Douglas's The Palis of This book attention to both social Translated by Janice L. Edited by Kathleen Kulp-Hill Honoure is a dream poem from organization and material culture as Schultz and E. Synan early sixteenth-century Scotland. It integrally related to the civic drama This collection of the Cantigas de operates within the courtly tradition of England in cities such as Coventry, In his sixth-century work known as Santa Maria consists of 420 poems of Scottish poetry, establishing a York, and Chester, to explore the the De hebdomadibus, Boethius poses and songs gathered and set down dichotomy of earthly and heavenly sources and design of those things the question of how created things or by Alfonso X, "El Sabio" (The Wise) things. This edition includes an ample gloss and notes, as that were used in the production of plays. substances can be good just as they are, without being in the 13th century, recounting miracles performed by well as an informative introduction and glossary. the same as the source of all goodness, God. St. Thomas the Virgin Mary. This volume comprises the first English 138pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, 9781879288805, Paperback, was £19.50 Aquinas sets out to explain the problem Boethius is translation of this important work. 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, 9781879288256, Paperback, was £12.00 treating as well as to elucidate Boethius's solution. 542pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, Now £4.95 65pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780866982139, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £4.95 9780813209951, Paperback, was £24.50 Now £12.95 Now £3.95

Chaucer's The The Mirror of Jaume Global Perspectives on Ten Bourdes Canterbury Tales Roig Medieval English Edited by Melissa M. Furrow By Gail Ashton An Edition and an English Literature, Language, A bourde is an English comedic poem A concise guide to the Canterbury Translation of MS. Vat. Lat. 4806 and Culture similar to a French fabliau but with Tales, aimed primarily at students. a moralizing element and less of an Edited by Maria Celeste Delgado-Libero Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor emphasis on violence. This collection As well as providing background to and Richard Scott Noakes Chaucer’s life , historical and literary This is an annotated edition and includes contextualizing introductions, context, Gail Ashton explores the English translation of Jaume Roig’s Each of these essays presents a global copious notes, glosses, and a glossary. various critical approaches which Spill, a vast, mid-15th-century perspective on medieval literature, 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, have been taken to the Tales, discussing themes such as Iberian narrative poem composed whether by comparing texts, by 2013, 9781580441926, Paperback, was £23.50 ‘Englishness’, narrative voice, genre, language and form, in Valencian Catalan. The work is serves as a major considering textual transmission through translation or gender and authority. touchstone for knowledge of late medieval medicine by contrasting medieval issues with developing global Now £7.95 (Roig was a physician), misogyny, Marian theology, and a movements. 144pp, Continuum International Pub., 2007, huge array of cultural practices such as midwifery, wet 9780826489364, Paperback, was £15.99 nursing, marriage, and civil law. 328pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, 9781580441209, Hardback, was £70.00 Now £2.95 434pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866983983, Hardback, was £74.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL LITERATURE BARGAINS • 45 The Assembly of Gods The Worlde and the Crossing Borders Defining Acts By Jane Chance Chylde By Sahar Amer Drama and the Politics This anonymous English poem of Edited by Peter Happe This ambitious study looks at of Interpretation in Late Medieval England the later 15th century is written in The Worlde and the Chylde, issued the interaction between Arabic the tradition of Gower, Chaucer and by the press of Wynkyn de Worde and French medieval writing and By Ruth Nisse Lydgate, and tackles some of the specifically their representation of in 1521, is one of the very earliest This study examines the social, social, cultural and religious concerns plays published in England. It also gender, and female homo-eroticism. of the day. This study includes a full Amer contends, however, that by political and theological issues that has very considerable interest were brought to the late medieval version of the poem (Cambridge for its adaptation of the Ages of taking a comparative intertextual Trinity College Library MS R.3.19 (2) approach, and by examining stage. Examining plays, urban pageant Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the cycles and travelling `miracles' and morality plays, dating fols. 67b-97b) with introduction and notes. introduction, notes, and illustrations. French engagement with Arabic literary traditions hitherto unrecognised traces of cross-cultural exchange to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores 155pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, how these translated contemporary issues and especially 9781580440226, Paperback, was £15.50 and engagement with the idea of same-sex love can be 9781580440523, Paperback, was £17.99 discerned. vernacular theology through performance. Now £5.95 Now £4.95 252pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 226pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 9780812240870, Hardback, was £50.00 9780268036027, Paperback, was £107.00 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

The Complete Harley Thomasin Von Ziclaria: Mary Magdalene and Goddess Natura in 2253 Manuscript: Der Welsche Gast (the the Drama of Saints Medieval Literature Volume 1 Italian Guest) Theater, Gender, and Religion By George Economou Edited by Susanna Greer Fein Edited by Marion E. Gibbs in Late Medieval England Economou’s work focuses on the British Library MS Harley 2253 is one and Winder McConnell By Theresa Coletti renaissance of the twelfth century, of the most important literary works An English translation of Thomasin when a new kind of allegory appeared Through a detailed study of the Digby that celebrated and explored the to survive from the English medieval von Zirclaria's thirteenth century Mary Magdalene play, this study shows era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, didactic poem, which meticulously nature of the cosmos. He analyzes the the importance of Mary Magdalene in central role that Natura played in the its secular love lyrics comprise presents the moral and ethical code religious life, in providing a mediating an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are by which the author urged his aristocratic audience to writings of Bernard Silvestris, Jean de Meun, Alain de Lille, figure between “masculine and feminine religious and Geoffrey Chaucer. contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics live their lives. authority; institutional and individual modes of spiritual designed to inspire religious devotion. French and Middle 262pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, expression; authorized and unauthorized forms of 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, English text with facing translation, introduction, glossary 9781580441452, Paperback, was £19.50 revelation and sacred speech”. 9780268029555, Paperback, was £36.95 and notes. 342pp, b/w figs, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004, Now £7.95 516pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2015, Now £4.95 9780812238006, Hardback, was £62.00 9781580442053, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £7.95 Now £6.95

The Complete Harley Lordship and The Song of Troilus Salvation and Sin 2253 Manuscript: Literature By Thomas C. Stillinger By David Aers Volume 2 John Gower and the Politics Traces the origins of modern Salvation and Sin explores various Edited by Susanna Greer Fein of the Great Household authorship in the formal modes of displaying the mysterious experimentation of medieval writers. relations between divine and human French and Middle English text By Elliot Kendall Texts discussed include Dante’s Vita agency, together with different with facing translation, introduction, A sustained new reading of John Nuova and Chaucer’s Troilus and accounts of sin and its consequences. glossary and notes. Gower's major English poem, Criseyde. Theologies of grace and versions of 518pp, Medieval Institute Publications, Confessio Amantis, shows how deeply 291pp, Pennsylvania University Press, Christian identity and community 2014, 9781580441988, Paperback, the great household informed the 1992, 9780812231441, Hardback, was £50.00 are its pervasive concerns, and was £31.50 way Gower and his contemporaries imagined their it comprises close readings of Augustine, William of world. Exploring royal government and gentry ambitions Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Langland. Kendall views the period's politics and literature in terms 284pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, of a household-based economy of power. 9780268020330, Paperback, was £40.95 301pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780199542642, Hardback, was £105.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

The Complete Harley Chaucer, Gower and Medieval Savoring Power, 2253 Manuscript: the Vernacular Rising Interpretation Consuming the Times Volume 3 By Lynn Arner By Robert S. Sturges The Metaphors of Food in Medieval Edited by Susanna Greer Fein Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular This study argues for a significant and Renaissance Italian Literature French and Middle English text Rising examines the transmission development in medieval literature, By Pina Palma of Greco-Roman and European the belief in an indeterminacy of with facing translation, introduction, An innovative look at the writings glossary and notes. literature into English during literary meaning. Analysing chansons the late fourteenth and early de gestes and the works of such of five important Italian authors— 420pp, Medieval Institute Publications, fifteenth centuries, while literacy authors as Chretien de Troyes, Marie Boccaccio’s Decameron, Pulci’s 2014, 9781580441995, Paperback, was burgeoning among men and women from the de France, Guillaume de Machaut, Chaucer and Mallory, Morgante, Boiardo’s Innamorato, was £31.50 nonruling classes. This dissemination offered a radically Sturges shows how the concept of a multiplicity of Ariosto’s Furioso, and Aretino’s Ragionamento. Palma shows how their authors use food and gastronomy Now £6.95 democratizing potential for accessing, interpreting, and meanings became part of literary practice. deploying learned texts as a means to critique the social, political, theological, 302pp, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994, philosophical, and cultural beliefs that constitute the Penn State University Press, 2013, 9780271058931, 9780809315567, Hardback, was £38.50 fabric of the society in which they live. Hardback, was £53.95 Now £5.95 440pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Now £12.95 9780268038397, Paperback, was £45.50 Now £5.95

The Hero Recovered Christine de Pizan and Acts of Recognition: The Island Garden Essays on Medieval Heroism the Fight for France Essays on Medieval England's Language of Nation in Honor of George Clark By Tracy Adams Culture from Gildas to Marvell Edited by Robin Waugh Adams locates Christine de Pizan's By Lee Patterson By Lynn Staley and James Weldon works within a detailed narrative of This volume brings together Lee Identifying the concept of enclosure Essays on the heroic in medieval the complex history of the dispute Patterson's essays published in as key to Britain’s language of place, literature. Among the texts under between the Burgundians and the various venues over the past twenty- Lynn Staley traces the shifting discussion are Beowulf, The Battle of Armagnacs. Contrary to what many seven years. Two dialectics are at meanings of this concept in medieval Maldon, the Passio Sancti Edwardi, scholars have long believed, Christine work in this book: that between the and early modern histories, treatises, Hrafnkels saga Freysgoda, Vatnsdaela saga, the Exeter consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout past and the present and that between the individual and and poems. Book riddles and Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica. her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of the social, and both have moral significance. Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. 376pp, col illus, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 263pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 400pp, 2 illustrated halftones, University of Notre Dame 9780268041403, Paperback, was £40.50 9781580441544, Hardback, was £70.00 232pp, Penn State University Press, 2018, Press, 2009, 9780268038373, Paperback, was £39.50 9780271050713, Hardback, was £58.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

The Trials and Joys of Jean d'Arras: Melusine; Confession and The Voice of the Marriage or, The Noble History Resistance Hammer Edited by Eve Salisbury of Lusignan Defining the Self in Late The Meaning of Work in The disparate texts in this anthology, Edited by Donald Maddox Medieval England Middle English Literature produced in England between and Sara sturm-maddox By Katherine C. Little By Nicola Masciandaro the late thirteenth and the early Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance Katherine C. Little cautions that A detailed study of the way work sixteenth centuries, challenge, and of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, in some cases parody and satirize, medieval selfhood should not be was conceptualised in late medieval the brother of King Charles V of understood merely in terms of England, grounded in a close analysis the institution of marriage. The texts France, is one of the most significant bridge generic categories. Some are obscure, written by confessional practice. She points to of the Middle English lexicon, and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay accounts of the history of work and Fragment VII of the anonymous authors; others are familiar, written by the Preceded by a substantial introduction, this translation is likes of John Lydgate, John Wyclif, and William Dunbar. instruction that was generated in late medieval England Canterbury tales. the first in English to be amply annotated. around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, 208pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 264pp, Penn State University Press, 2012, This controversy, she maintains, reveals the contested 9780268034986, Paperback, was £26.95 9781580440356, Paperback, was £19.50 9780271054124, Hardback, was £57.95 nature of the language of medieval selfhood. Now £5.95 192pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, Now £4.95 Now £14.95 9780268033767, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £5.95 46 • MEDIEVAL LITERATURE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Writing the Oral Modern Military Beyond the Dead Inventing Van Eyck Tradition Matters Horizon The Remaking of an Artist Oral Poetics and Literate Studying and Managing Twentieth- Studies in Modern Conflict for the Modern Age Culture in Medieval England Century Archaeology in Britain Archaeology By Jenny Graham By Mark C. Amodio By John Schofield Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders The Enlightenment had quietly placed Mark Amodio's book focuses on the This book provides a concise The new interdisciplinary study van Eyck in the Gothic tradition. influence of the oral tradition on statement of the state of knowledge of modern conflict archaeology Then Napoleon looted panels of written vernacular verse produced and future research priorities relating has developed rapidly over the his masterwork, the Ghent Altar- in England from the fifth to the to twentieth-century military remains last decade. Its anthropological piece, and took them back to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how in Britain – an emerging area of intense archaeological approach to modern conflicts, their material culture Louvre. This sparked the arrival of van Eyck mania, with a living tradition articulated only through the public, investigation. and their legacies has freed such investigations from ever-more fanciful tales in the art press of his life as performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find 60pp, b/w illus, Council for British Archaeology, 2004, the straitjacket of traditional ‘battlefield archaeology’. inventor of oil painting, monkish painter, even arsonist expression through the pens of private, literate authors. 9781902771373, Paperback, was £5.95 These 18 papers offer a demonstration of what modern and murderer. Inventing van Eyck tells the extraordinary conflict archaeology is and what it is capable of. story of the making of an artist for the modern age. 298pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Now £1.95 9780268020248, Paperback, was £28.95 240pp, 90 col and b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 272pp, b/w illus, col pls, Berg Publishers, 2007, 9781842174715, Paperback, was £38.00 9781845207779, Paperback, was £19.99 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Antoine de la Sale: Devon Thatch St Paul's Cathedral The Rape of Europa Jean de Saintré By Jo Cox and John R. L. Thorp Archaeology and History The Intriguing History of Edited by Roberta L. Krueger Using many interesting archive By John Schofield Titian's Masterpiece and Jane H. M. Taylor photographs as well as images of John Schofield examines the cathedral By Charles Fitzroy thatchers at work, this book traces Written in 1456 and purporting from an archaeological perspective, `The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's to be the biography of the actual the history of thatching in Devon reviewing its history from the early from the earliest times, celebrating great masterpieces, a work charged fourteenth-century knight of its title, 18th to the early 21st century, as with eroticism and classical mystique Jean de Saintré has been called the the skills and traditions of the craft illustrated by recent archaeological and exploring some of the most behind which lies a tale as compelling first modern novel in French and recording, documentary research as the painting itself. Here Charles one of the first historical novels in any language. This interesting thatched buildings in the and engineering asssessment. A detailed account of county today. FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the new translation contextualizes the story with a rich the construction of the cathedral is provided based on painting's movement following the rise and fall of the introduction and a glossary 208pp, Devon Books, 2001, 9781855227972, Hardback, a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building countries in which it has been housed. was £30.00 264pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, accounts and evidence from recent archaeological 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781408192092, Hardback, 9780812245868, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 investigation. was £16.99 209pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, Now £14.95 9781785702754, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £19.95

Culture and History, A Voyage Long and Sveti Pavao Shipwreck Painting Life 1350-1600 Strange A 16th century Venetian The Art of Pieter Brueghel the Elder Edited by David Aers Rediscovering the New World Merchantman from Mljet, Croatia By Robert L. Bonn Chapters consider the self fashioning By Tony Horwitz By Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Painting Life explores the paintings of Gelichi and Igor Miholjek of male identities within court This history of early European the old Flemish master Pieter Bruegel culture, medieval Christianity and voyages to North America focuses A report on the excavation the Elder (1520/5-1590). Robert L. eucharistic discourses, the emergence on the neglected period between of a fifteenth century Venetian Bonn guides the reader through the of a commercial and national theatre Columbus's voyage of 1492 and merchantman. Many personal scenes depicted in these remarkable in the sixteenth century, the position the Pilgrims arrival in 1620. Tony possessions of the crew were works of art, including the social of working women across the period and the history of Horwitz traces the early voyages of exploration and the preserved as well as a number of bronze artillery context in which they were painted, and how they relate the subject. enduring legacy of early contacts with native American pieces and the remains of a cargo of luxury and richly to our lives today. 214pp, Wayne State University Press, 1992, civilisations, revealing along the way just how much of decorated ceramic material from Iznik and other 174pp, col illus, Chaucer Press Books, 2007, 9780814324165, Paperback, was £15.50 the popular imagination of these centuries is the result oriental workshops. 9781884092121, Hardback, was £25.50 Now £2.95 of 19th century myth-making. 200pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £7.95 464pp, Henry Holt, 2008, 9780805076035, Hardback, 9781782977063, Paperback, was £40.00 was £25.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Temple Beauties Painted Enamels The Lost Battles British Portrait The Entrance-Portico in the An Illustrated Survey, 1500-1920 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Miniatures Architecture of Great Britain By Erika Speel and the Artistic Duel That Cleveland Museum of Art Defined the Renaissance By Richard Riddell this comprehensive reference work By Cory Korkow By Jonathan Jones The portico was a defining feature of provides lists of artists and technical This beautifully illustrated volume the Classical architectural revival of information within discursive chapters In 1504 Leonardo and Michelangelo showcases over 70 exquisite pieces the eighteenth and early nineteenth on the historical developments of competed with each other directly, from the Cleveland Museum of Art's century in Britain, but has been the different classes of enamel work. to paint the walls of a room in internationally important collection rarely studied in its own right. In this Including details on the recognition of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. But this of British portrait miniatures which well illustrated volume Richard Riddell first provides a the painting methods for each era and the calibre of the competition has been largely forgotten because the rival range in date from the 17th to the 19th century. It definition for the portico, then explores its symbolism paintings, the supporting texts also show the historical works did not survive. This great artistic clash, Jonathan features the work of leading miniaturists, including and significance. He selects representative examples and technical changes that gave the impetus for various Jones argues in this riveting account, marks the true Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, as well as of different portico types, relating them to stylistic innovations and developments of painted enamels. beginning of the High Renaissance. an extensive collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway developments and influential models. 256pp, col illus, Lund Humphries, 2008, 9780853319351, 320pp, b/w illus, col pls, Alfred A Knopf, 2012, 288pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804236, 435pp, many col pls, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2011, Hardback, was £100.00 9780307594754, Hardback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £40.00 9781905739448, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £19.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Crossing Paths or A Glorious Empire Picturing Art History Manhood, Marriage, Sharing Tracks Archaeology and the Tudor- The Rise of the Illustrated History and Mischief Future Directions in the Stuart Atlantic World of Art in the Eighteenth Century Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Archaeological Study of Post- Edited by Eric C. Klingelhofer By Ingrid R. Vermeulen Other Dutch Group Portraits 1550 Britain and Ireland Fifteen papers present the results of Books on art history are nearly By Harry Berger By Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer new research into various aspects always lavishly illustrated with quality A study of the theory and practice These essays discuss the practice of of material culture and historical colour reproductions of famous of seventeenth-century Dutch group post-1550 archaeology and outline archaeology that reflect culture, masterpieces. Yet this has not always portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and problems, potential problems and trade and social interaction shared by been the case: it was only in the Mischief offers an account of the future directions for the discipline, and how the work of Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart eighteenth century that art books came to be illustrated genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as archaeologists ties into and is affected by the museums periods. with beautiful images. Picturing Art History shows how comments on the social context of portrait sitters who and heritage sectors. 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175101, Hardback, the fundamentally new notion of the history of art as a are husbands and householders as well as members of visual history was responsible for this development. 416pp, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, was £45.00 civic and proto-military organizations. 360pp, b/w illus, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 9781843834342, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £7.95 192pp, b/w and col illus, Fordham University Press, 2006, 9789089640314, Paperback, was £46.50 9780823225576, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Historic Mauchline Art, Artisans and On the Trail of Bosch Andrea Mantegna - Archaeology and Development Apprentices and Bruegel The Adoration of the By E. Patricia Dennison, Dennis Apprentice Painters and Sculptors in Four Paintings United Under Magi Gallagher and Gordon Ewart the Early Modern British Tradition Cross-examination By Dawson M. Carr This volume examines the By James Ayres By Erma Hermens Dawson Carr explores Mantegna's life development of Mauchline from its James Ayres provides a lively account The four paintings investigated in and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua medieval origins as a monastic estate of the inter-relationship between this book all depict Christ driving and provides a fascinating closer centre through its association with artists and artisans in the late 17th to the traders from the temple. They look at the painting itself, considering Burns to the present day. The authors early 19th centuries, in both Britain are alike yet different with echoes of Mantegna's innovative treatment look at the archaeological potential of key sites in the and North America. He demonstrates how the crafts of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch, but all of the subject, the relationship of the narrative to the town, to direct more detailed research and further the the visual arts were once acquired via apprenticeships were presumed to have been painted in Antwerp in the viewer, and problems associated with the conservation conservation of Mauchline’s heritage. in contradistinction to the aesthetic-based methods of 16th century. of its beautiful, but fragile, distemper medium. 70pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2006, later academies of art. 120pp, b/w and col illus, Archetype, 2012, 96pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publications, 2006, 9781902771595, Paperback, was £9.50 536pp, 136 b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 9781904982784, Paperback, was £39.50 9780892362875, Paperback, was £16.99 2014, 9781782977421, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM POST-MEDIEVAL AND ART HISTORY BARGAINS • 47 Pontormo - The Visions of Paradise Michelangelo Making Renaissance Halberdier Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece Drawings and Other Treasures from Art By Elizabeth Cropper By Jennifer Sliwka the Casa Buonarroti, Florence By Kim W. Woods Much has been written about the Visions of Paradise showcases By Pina Ragionieri This book explores key themes in identity of the sitter in this portrait. new scholarly research on the This volume includes drawings the making of Renaissance painting, In 1568, Vasari noted that Pontormo monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by usually kept in storage to protect sculpture, architecture, and prints: painted a beautiful work, a portrait Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). them from exposure to damaging the use of specific techniques and of Francesco Guardi.In this volume, The painting, which depicts the light and air, among them sketches materials, theory and practice, change Cropper argues that the subject of Assumption of the Virgin, was made and preparatory studies for such and continuity in artistic procedures, the painting is indeed Francesco Guardi. She discusses for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Matteo important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici conventions and values. It also reconsiders the not only the specific determination of the sitter but the Palmieri (1406-1475). In addition to its religious content, tombs. It affords an extraordinary view of Michelangelo importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation tools and methods used in general for establishing the the altarpiece depicts a panoramic landscape that serves through personal sketches, writings, and studies from the of the antique revival, and the illusion of life. people and places portrayed in works of art. as a very early example of a "city portrait" of Florence. artist's notebooks. 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2006, 136pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publications, 2006, 112pp, col illus, National Gallery of Art, 2015, 152pp, col illlus, University of Washington Press, 2019, 9780300121896, Paperback, was £22.50 9780892363667, Paperback, was £14.99 9781857095944, Paperback, was £14.95 9780939802944, Hardback, was £25.99 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

Sebastiano Del Luxury for Export Titian Raphael and the Piombo Artistic Exchange Between India The Last Days Beautiful Banker A Venetian in Rome and Portugal Around 1600 By Mark Hudson By David Alan Brown and By Kia Vahland By Pedro Moura Carvalho Produced with his fingers as much as Jane Van Nimmen During his lifetime, painter Sebastiano By the early 1500s, the courts and with the brush, Titian's last paintings Focusing on viewers' responses del Piombo (ca. 1485-1547) was the cities of Europe had become avid are imbued with a unique rawness to Raphael's portrait of Bindo considered, along with Giorgione, consumers of luxury goods imported and immediacy without precedent Altoviti, this book describes the the great hope of the Venetian from South Asia. This book shows in the history of Western art. This transformation of the picture from School. His reputation has suffered how the trade in exotica spurred book describes artist's life and the a family treasure into a supposed from the disparagements of both Michelangelo and the development of an extraordinary hybrid art, at once devleopment of his work toward the physical and self-portrait of the artist; its public display in Munich, Vasari, however, and this book makes the case for his Indian and Portuguese. spiritual landscape of those last paintings. where it was first celebrated, then dismissed by sceptics importance, and status as an innovator. 77pp, col illus, Periscope Publications, 2009, 320pp, Walker and Company, 2009, 9780802710765, claiming that it was neither of nor by Raphael; and its 9781934772966, Hardback, was £12.99 Hardback, was £20.00 acquisition by canny English dealers who lured the panel 144pp, Hatje Cantz, 2008, 9783775721455, Hardback, out of Nazi Germany was £17.99 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 240pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2005, Now £5.95 9780300108248, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95

Velazquez and the The Dragon's Trail David After David Sculpture in Britain Surrender of Breda The Biography of Raphael's Edited by Mark Ledbury 1530-1830 The Making of a Masterpiece Masterpiece This important book explores By Margaret Whinney By Anthony Bailey By Joanna Pitman David's grand projects of the Empire This comprehensive survey of period and the often mysterious What began as propaganda art to Raphael's St. George and the sculpture in Britain from the works produced in his last years as a Reformation to the accession of celebrate a rare Spanish victory in Dragon is the work of a genius - political exile. It features twenty-one the Eighty Years' War with Holland, an exquisitely rendered vision of Queen Victoria aims to shed light essays that discuss these later works on English taste in the period. It The Surrender at Breda is today heroism and innocence by one of the in the aesthetic, political, and social recognized as Velázquez's narrative greatest painters of all time. Yet the examines the family tomb and the contexts of their production and portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in masterpiece. Anthony Bailey examines earlier treatments painting's creation is only the beginning of its fascinating reception. of the "surrender" subject to explore Velazquez's artistic story, which spans centuries of power play and intrigue, Britain at that time. innovations and the importance of the painting in his and has made it a witness to the rise and fall of the 376pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 522pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 1992, 9780300121513, Hardback, was £40.00 oeuvre. great powers of the Western world, from Henry VIII to 9780300053173, Hardback, was £40.00 Catherine the Great and Joseph Stalin. 288pp, b/w illus, col pls, Henry Holt, 2011, Now £9.95 Now £12.95 9780805088359, Hardback, was £20.00 310pp, Simon and Schuster, 2008, 9780743265140, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Verrocchio's David Illuminating Luke Delacroix and the Seeing Through Restored Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Matter of Finish Paintings A Renaissance Bronze from Renaissance and Baroque Painting Edited by Eik Kahng, Marc Gotlieb Physical Examination in the National Museum of By Heidi J. Hornik and and Michele Hannoosh Art Historical Studies the Bargello, Florence Mikael C. Parsons This groundbreaking publication By Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson By Gary M. Radke This book examines visual centres on a previously unknown This prize-winning book offers the representations of the public variation of Eugene Delacroix's only comprehensive discussion A well illustrated study of the history, (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece art, and significance of Verrocchio's ministry of Christ in scenes unique available on materials, techniques, to the Gospel of Luke. The book The Last Words of the Emperor and condition issues in Western David, along with the story of its Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time.The recent restoration in Florence. demonstrates how this 'visual exegesis' informed the easel paintings from medieval times to the present. "An contemporary faith community's interpretation of authors reinterpret Delacroix's lineage to such fellow 110pp, col illus, High Museum of Art, 2005, essential handbook for the pro, and also a beautifully Scripture. artists as Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) illustrated primer for the layperson". 9781932543001, Hardback, was £20.00 and Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) 208pp, b/w and col illus, T and T Clark, 2005, 344pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2002, Now £6.95 9780567028204, Paperback, was £34.99 168pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300094084, Paperback, was £35.00 9780300199444, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Imperial China Illuminating Luke European Tapestries in Viewing Renaissance The Art of The Horse in The Infancy Narrative in the Art Institute of Art Chinese History Italian Renaissance Painting Chicago Edited by Kim W. Woods, Carol M. By Bill Cooke By Heidi J. Hornik and Edited by Konrad Brosens and Richardson and Angeliki Lymberopoulou This exhibition catalogue contains Mikael C. Parsons Christa C. Mayer Thurman This book focuses on the values, numerous plates and illustrations, plus Through their close readings of This lavishly illustrated book priorities, and motives of patrons and a timeline and a useful introduction to famous paintings illustrating stories presents a rich variety of European the purposes and functions of art the horse in Chinese art and history. from Luke, the authors ask: How tapestries from the Art Institute of works produced north and south of 182pp, full col, Kentucky Horse Park, did Renaissance artists and their Chicago. These exquisite tapestries the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. 2000, 9781564690715, Paperback, was £18.99 patrons understand the gospel? And what traditions of include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, It begins by considering the social range and character faith guided them in translating biblical text and Church manufactured at almost all the major centers of of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Now £7.95 tradition into paint? production in many of the foremost workshops Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England 176pp, b/w and col illus, Trinity Press, 2003, 408pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2008, 9781563384059, Paperback, was £27.99 9780300119602, Hardback, was £40.00 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300123432, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Apollo and Vulcan Young Leonardo Locating Renaissance Views of Difference The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700 The Evolution of a Revolutionary Art Different Views of Art By Guido Guerzoni Artist, 1472-1499 By Carol M. Richardson Edited by Catherine E. King Dedicating equal attention to current By Jean-Pierre Isbouts and This book explores the dynamic In a fascinating series of case studies, thought in the fields of economics, Christopher Heath Brown interchange between European this book looks at the ways in which economic history, and art history, Isbouts and Brown depict Leonardo's artistic centers and artists and the European colonizers interpreted the Guerzoni offers a broad and far- seminal years in Milan from an trade in works of art. It also considers arts of the people they colonized, reaching analysis of the Italian scene, entirely new perspective: that of the the impact of differing locations as well the ways in which they have highlighting the existence of different Sforza court. They show that much of on art and artists and some of the tended to view art produced by the forms of commercial interchange and diverse kinds of the Sforza patronage was directed on vast projects, such economic, political, and cultural factors crucial to the colonized and their descendants in post-colonial times. art markets. In doing so he ranges beyond painting and as the Milan Cathedral, favoring a close circle of local emergence of an artistic center. 272pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 1999, sculpture, to examine as well the economic drivers artists to which Leonardo never gained entry. As a result, 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300077643, Paperback, was £22.00 behind architecture, decorative and sumptuary arts, and his exceptional talent remained largely unrecognized 9780300121889, Paperback, was £19.95 performing or ephemeral events. right up to the Last Supper. Now £7.95 Now £7.95 384pp, col illus, Michigan State University Press, 2011, 240pp, Thomas Dunne Books, 2017, 9781250129352, 9781611860061, Hardback, was £49.50 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 48 • ART HISTORY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350