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Now also available online www.oxfordhandbooks.com 1 FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW February 2012 $ 944 pages February 2013 $ 560 pages February 2013 $ 800 pages November 2012 $ 1,312 pages 878 illustrations $ OUP USA 24 maps & 2 illustrations 57 illustrations & 11 maps 20 b&w illustrations 978-0-19-530574-6 and 15 line drawings OUP USA OUP USA Hardback $ £95.00 978-0-19-518831-8 978-0-19-530465-7 OUP USA Hardback $ £95.00 Hardback $ £105.00 978-0-19-533693-1 Hardback $ £95.00 The Oxford Handbook of The Oxford Handbook of The Oxford Handbook of The Oxford Handbook of THE STATE IN THE WARFARE IN THE LATE ANTIQUITY GREEK AND ROMAN COINAGE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND CLASSICAL WORLD Edited by Scott Johnson, Georgetown Edited by William E. Metcalf, Yale University University and Dumbarton Oaks MEDITERRANEAN Edited by Brian Campbell, Queen’s University Includes up-to-date study of Greco-Roman Edited by Peter Fibiger Bang, University of Belfast, and Lawrence A. Tritle, Loyola The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity is a wide- numismatic scholarship and nearly 900 illustrations Copenhagen, and Walter Scheidel, Stanford Marymount University, USA ranging collection of essays that engages with This book attempts to make accessible to students, University, USA valuable questions about the end of the ancient Offers six exemplary case studies of Greeks and world and the beginning of the medieval, while scholars, and the lay public annotated, up-to- First systematic survey of all major ancient states Romans at war providing a much-needed touchstone for the study date information regarding the major coinages of in western Afroeurasia of Late Antiquity itself. the Greco-Roman world. An international group War lay at the heart of much of life in the classical of experts has been asked to treat their areas of This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of world—from conflicts between tribes or states expertise, and the result is a broadly illustrated ancient state formation in western Eurasia and to internal or civil wars—it often had significant introduction to the subject. North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers economic, social, or political consequences. This Contributors to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, Handbook offers a critical examination of war and Gianfranco Agosti, Jairus Banaji, Anne Boud’hors, Craig from the earliest known states in world history organized violence, and their relevance beyond the H. Caldwel, Christopher Celenza, Brian Croke, Andrew Contributors to the Roman Empire and its successors. It seeks battlefield. The volume’s introduction begins with Gillett, Tim Greenwood, Cam Grey, Petre Guran, David M. Richard Abdy, Peter van Alfen, Michael Alram, Michel to understand the inner workings of these states the ancient sources for the writing of war, preceded Gwynn, John Haldon, Kyle Harper, Jill Harries, Peregrine Amandry, Richard Ashton, Martin Beckmann, Roger Bland, Horden, Robert Hoyland, Herve Inglebert, Aaron Johnson, by focusing on key issues: political and military by broad surveys of warfare in ancient Greece Andrew Burnett, Kevin Butcher, Ian Carradice, Sylviane Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Michael Kulikowski, Etienne power, mechanisms of cooperation, coercion, and and Rome. Also included are chapters analyzing Estiot, Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Angelo Geissen, Haim de la Vaissiere, Michael Maas, Ralph Mathisen, Jaclyn Gitler, Arthur Houghton, Ann Johnston, Koray Konuk, exploitation, the impact of ideologies, and the new finds in battlefield archaeology and how the Maxwell, Scott McGill, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Glenn John H. Kroll, William E. Metcalf, Ben Lee Damsky, Sam environment affected the ancient practice of war. rise and demise of individual polities. This shared Peers, Christian Julien Robin, Samuel Rubenson, Stephen Moorhead, Matthew Ponting, Selene Psoma, Pere P. Ripollès, emphasis on critical institutions and dynamics A second section is comprised of broad narratives J. Shoemaker, Gregory Smith, Kevin Uhalde, Joel Walker, N. K. Rutter, Kenneth Sheedy, Fabrizio Sinisi, Oren Tal, invites comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. of classical societies at war, covering the expanse Edward Watts, Susan Wessel, Philip Wood, Ann Marie Yasin Bernhard Woytek, Liv Mariah Yarrow A detailed introductory review of contemporary from classical Greece through to the later Roman approaches to the study of the state puts the rich Empire. Part III contains thematic discussions historical case studies in context. Transcending that examine closely the nature of battle: what conventional boundaries between ancient Near soldiers experienced as they fought; the challenges The Oxford Handbook of Eastern and Mediterranean history and between of conducting war at sea; how the wounded were MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE ancient and early medieval history, this volume treated. A final section offers six exemplary case is of interest not only to historians but also to studies, including analyses of the Peloponnesian Edited by Ralph Hexter, University of California and David Townsend, anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, and War, the Second Punic War, and Rome’s war with University of Toronto political scientists. An accessible style and up-to- Sasanian Persia. date references make it an invaluable resource for The twenty-eight challenging yet accessible essays in this Handbook represent the best scholars, students, and general readers alike. of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributors This book affords specialist and non-specialist readers alike vivid insight into the Colin Adams, Lee L. Brice, John Buckler, Brian Campbell, field’s complexities and into future possibilities for the work essential to the pursuit Contributors Duncan B. Campbell, Angelos Chaniotis, Stefan of medieval Latin studies. Walter Ameling, Gojko Barjamovic, John Bennet, Trevor Chrissanthos, Phyllis Culham, Donald Engels, Waldemar Bryce, Steven Garfinkle, John Haldon, Mogens Herman Heckel, Randall Howarth, Dexter Hoyos, J. Donald Hughes, Contributors Hansen, John Ma, Emily Mackil, Joseph Manning, Ian Ann Hyland, S. James, Eero Jarva, Bruce Laforse, A.D. 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