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New and forthcoming titles for Spring 2016 A T A W G R T M A Welcome to the rst Oxbow Book News of 2016. It is also, we are delighted to announce, the rst to be printed in full-colour throughout. The current Book News format had seen good service – nearly ten years, in fact, and we felt that the time was right for an update. We hope that the result is not only more pleasing to the eye, but also clearer, with colour-coded subject headers for ease of navigation, and new Oxbow books readily identiable whether just out, or coming soon. Most importantly, the Book News remains as full as ever of fantastic new titles in a full range of areas from cutting edge archaeological method and theory to the latest excavations, and from the Palaeolithic to the present day. All the usual features are here, including my own regular editors’ choice selections, all of which we continue to oer at a special price and another great range of oers on the latest Archaeopress Archaeology titles. You will nd both highlighted throughout the catalogue. There has been no let-up in our publishing programme, and we are particularly excited to announce the publication of two projects which might justly be described as long-awaited. The 1965-1978 Mucking excavations are legendary both for their size, scope and ambition and for the myriad complications which have prevented their full publication. Lives in Land by Christopher Evans, Grahame Appleby and Sam Lucy is the rst of two volumes which rectify this situation, providing a comprehensive report on the Prehistoric landscape at Mucking, and revealing in fascinating detail changing settlement, land-use craft and industry across 5,000 years. Also imminent is O a’s Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain by Keith Ray and Ian Bapty. Based on over a decade of research, this book lls a surprising gap with a full study of the physical structure, landscape setting and purpose of Britain’s largest linear monument. It wouldn’t be a Book News without our latest bargains, and you will nd a full bargain section as ever in the central pages. Superb new deals on books from publishers Cambridge University Press and Boydell and Brewer especially stand out in a packed list of others. I hope you nd plenty to tempt you here, and that you like the new look for the Book News. As ever we welcome your feedback.
Cover Image: Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Warwickshire, Beauchamp Chapel, detail of angels and saints around the east window, interior, 1437 . Photograph: © Sara James From: Art in England: The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 by Sarah James forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2016
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/oxbowbooks @oxbowbooks Method and Theory What the Rest Think of the West Since 600 AD NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Laura Nader Focusing on four civilizations – Islamic, Japanese, Archaeology for the People Chinese, and South Asian – Nader has collected Joukowsky Institute Perspectives observations made over centuries by scholars, Edited by John Cherry & Felipe Rojas diplomats, missionaries, travellers, merchants, and In 2014, the students reflecting upon their own Wests. These Joukowsky Institute writings derive from a range of purposes and for Archaeology perspectives, such as the seventh-century Chinese and the Ancient Buddhist who goes west to India, the missionary World organized an from Baghdad who travels up the Volga in the tenth international writing century and meets the Vikings, and the Egyptian competition calling for imam who in 1826 is sent to Paris to study the accessible and engaging French. essays about any 472p (University of California Press 2015) 9780520285781 aspect of archaeology. Pb £27.95 Nearly 150 submissions from over two dozen A History of Norfolk in 100 Objects countries were received. Archaeology for By Tim Pestell & John A. Davies the People gathers the best of those entries. Compiled by two highly respected authors and Their diverse topics – from the destruction museum curators, this richly illustrated book of historic, urban gardens in contemporary features 100 objects – ranging from a Viking Istanbul to the fall of the ancient Maya city – Thor’s Hammer and Lord Nelson’s funeral drape, offer a taste of the global reach and relevance to the whistle used during the Christmas truce of of archaeology. The book also offers a series 1914. The result is an illuminating visual record, of reflections on how and why to engage in demonstrating the central role objects have in dialogues about archaeology with people who understanding our past and revealing the often are not specialists. crucial role Norfolk has played in the development 240p, (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701078 Pb of our national story. £28.00 128p, (The History Press 2015) 9780752461625 Pb £14.99 Incomplete Archaeologies The Land of the Green Man Edited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn J. A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes Franklin & James A. Johnson of the British Isles The contributors to By Carolyne Larrington this volume aim to How have the remarkably persistent folkloric reassert an awareness traditions of the British Isles formed and been of the incompleteness formed by the identities and psyches of those who of assemblage, and inhabit them? Focusing on liminal points where thus the importance of the boundaries between this world and that of the practices of assembling supernatural grow thin, Carolyne Larrington shows (whether they seem how mythologies of mermen, Green Men and Wild at first creative or Men have helped and continue to help human destructive) for beings deal with such ubiquitous concerns as love understanding social and lust, loss and death and continuity and change. life in the past as well as the present. The individual chapters 256p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781780769912 Hb £20.00 represent critical engagements with this aim by From Gabriel to Lucifer archaeologists presenting a broad scope of case A Cultural History of Angels studies from Eurasia and the Mediterranean. By Valery Rees Case studies include discussions of mortuary practice from numerous angles, the Valery Rees offers the first comprehensive history sociopolitics of metallurgy, human-animal of these beautiful, enigmatic and sometimes relationships, landscape and memory, the dangerous beings, whose existence and actions assembly of political subjectivity and the have been charted across the eons of time and curation of sovereignty. civilization. She shows that the ubiquity of these celestial messengers reveals something profound, 176p, black/white illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) if not about God or the devil, then about ourselves: 9781785701153 Pb £36.00 our perennial preoccupation with the transcendent. 288p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781784534318 Pb £12.99 1 Rethinking Colonialism Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Comparative Archaeological Approaches Edited by Katherine Howlett Hayes & Craig N. Cipolla The Archaeology of Darkness Historical archaeology studies once relied upon Edited by Robert Hensey & Marion Dowd a binary view of colonialism: colonizers and Archaeology shows us that colonized, the colonial period and the postcolonial over the whole human period. The international contributors to this journey people have sought volume scrutinize imperialism and expansionism out dark places, for burials, through an alternative lens that looks beyond for votive deposition and simple dualities to explore the variously gendered, sometimes for retreat or racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude religious ritual away from of faiths, desires, associations, and constraints. the wider community. Inciting a critical study of the lasting consequences Thirteen papers explore of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant topics including Palaeolithic communities, this wide-ranging volume includes use of deep caves in Europe essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and and the orientation of contemporary Native Americans. mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze 288p, (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813060705 Hb £72.50 Age. Others examine how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual Archaeology and State Theory activities. We see how darkness was and is viewed By Bruce Routledge at northern latitudes where parts of the year are Over the past two decades archaeological research spent in eternal night, and in Easter Island where has shifted decisively from check-list identifications darkness provided communal refuge from the of the state as an evolutionary type to studies pervasive sun. This first collection of how power and authority were constituted in of papers on the subject begins specific polities. Developing Gramsci’s concept a conversation about the role of Only of hegemony, this book provides an accessible darkness in human experience £24.00 until through time. discussion of general principles that serve to help publication us understand and organise these new directions 144p, (Oxbow Books 2016) in archaeological research. Throughout this book, 9781785701917 Pb £32.00 conceptual issues are illustrated by means of case studies drawn from Madagascar, Mesopotamia, the Towards Skyscape Inca, the Maya and Greece. Archaeology 208p (Bloomsbury 2010, Pb 2015) 9780715636336 Hb By Fabio Silva 45.00, 9781474237130 Pb £15.99 The study of beliefs and practices concerning the Social Theory in Archaeology sky in the past and the and Ancient History uses to which people’s By Geoff Emberling understanding of the sky was At a time when archaeology put has long been of great has turned away from interest to archaeologists questions of the long- and the wider public, but term and large scale, this also controversial. Towards collection of essays reflects Skyscape Archaeology looks on some of the big questions at archaeoastronomical in archaeology and ancient theory and method from the history – how and why point of view of archaeology. It highlights current societies have grown in limitations and suggests what needs to be addressed scale and complexity, how and overcome for archaeoastronomy to produce they have maintained and knowledge of value to the broader academic discarded aspects of their community. It argues that archaeoastronomy own cultural heritage, and how they have collapsed. needs to come closer to archaeology; it needs to Encompassing the Middle East and Egypt, India, become a skyscape archaeology, and proposes Southeast Asia, Australia, the American Southwest ways to achieve this. Using case studies from and Mesoamerica, the fourteen essays offer Peru, Scotland, Spain, Malta and Stonehenge, perspectives on long-term cultural trajectories; on Fabio Silva challenges the orthodoxy and argues cities, states and empires; on collapse; and on the that with a different approach we can further our relationship between archaeology and history. understanding of the cosmology and worldviews 366p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107053335 Hb £74.99 of the cultures and societies. b/w illus (Oxbow Insights in Archaeology, Oxbow Books 2016) 9781782979555 Pb £15.99
2 Method and Theory An Archaeology of the Immaterial Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Victor Buchli An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a Creating Material Worlds highly significant but poorly understood aspect of The Uses of Identity in Archaeology material culture studies, namely the active rejection Edited by Anthony Russell, Elizabeth Pierce, Adrián of the material world. By this is meant a number Maldonado & Louisa Campbell of cultural projects, from anti-consumerism, Despite a growing literature asceticism, and other attempts to transcend on identity theory in the material circumstances. This book looks at the last two decades, much way people ‘disengage’ from the material world of its current use in as a specific kind of physical engagement that has archaeology is still driven profound implications for our understanding of toward locating and dating personhood and materiality. static categories such as 208p (Routledge 2015) 9780415840491 Hb £85.00, ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or 9780415840507 Pb £24.99 ‘native’. Previous studies have highlighted the various Archaeology’s Visual Culture problems and challenges Digging and Desire presented by identity, By Roger Balm with the overall effect of deconstructing it to The insistent visuality of archaeology is a insignificance. This volume argues that identity is key stimulus for the imaginative and creative worth studying not despite its slippery nature, but interpretation of our encounters with the past. because of it. Identity can be seen as an emergent Balm investigates the nature of this projection of property of living in a material world, an ongoing the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in process of becoming which archaeologists are the imagery of archaeology and acknowledging particularly well suited to study. The geographic the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around and temporal scale of the papers included is artifacts, archaeological sites and museum purposefully broad to demonstrate the variety of displays. Using a wide range of case studies, the ways in which archaeology is redefining identity. book highlights how archaeologists can view Research areas span from the Great objects and the consequences that ensue from Lakes to the Mediterranean, with these ways of seeing. case studies from the Mesolithic Only 344p, (Routledge 2015) 9781138941151 Hb £85.00 to the contemporary world by £27.00 until emerging voices in the field. publication Death, Rituals, Social Order and 192p (Oxbow Books 2016) the Archaeology of Immortality in 9781785701801 Pb £36.00 the Ancient World Death Shall Have No Dominion Edited by Colin Renfrew, Iain Morley & Michael Boyd Aspects of the Design, Production and The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider Use of Textiles and Clothing from the the rituals and responses Bronze Age to the Early Modern Age to death in prehistoric NESAT XII societies across the world, Edited by Frances Pritchard & Karina Gromer from eastern Asia through NESAT XII contains 35 Europe to the Americas, and scientific papers grouped from the very earliest times into seven chapters. The before developed religious first chapters introduce beliefs offered scriptural Austrian textile research and answers to these questions. prehistoric textile finds from Compiled and written by Europe. The main corpus of leading prehistorians and archaeologists, this articles deals with textiles volume traces the emergence of death as a concept and clothing from early in early times, as well as a contributing factor to the medieval to the early modern formation of communities and social hierarchies, period, their archaeological and sometimes the creation of divinities. research, experiments and 460p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107082731 Hb £120.00 art historical context. Five papers focus on tools and textile production, object-based research as well as experimental archaeology and investigation of written sources. 376p, (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911673 Hb £60.00
Method and Theory 3 Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Pei-Lin Yu, Russell D. Greaves & Frederic Sellet The Materiality of Magic This collection of chapters by archaeologists, An artifactual investigation into ritual anthropologists, ethnoarchaeologists, biological practices and popular beliefs archaeologists, and behavioural ecologists considers Edited by Ceri Houlbrook & Natalie Armitage how humans have practiced mobility across several continents and thousands of years, raising questions The Materiality of Magic about human adaptation and offering a diversity of addresses the value of approaches for measuring ancient mobility of small- the material record as a scale societies. The number of moves, the distance resource in investigations travelled, the frequency of movement, and the into magic, ritual people who move are all relevant in reading the vast practices, and popular archaeological record of environmental adaptation. beliefs. The chronological and geographic focuses of 320p (UP of Florida 2006, Pb 2015) 9780813029566 Hb the papers presented here £60.50, 9780813061405 Pb £27.50 vary from prehistory to Massendinghaltung in der Archäologie the present-day, including Der material turn und die Ur- und Frühgeschichte numinous interpretations of fossils and ritual deposits in Bronze Age Edited by Stefan Schreiber, Doreen Mölders, Thomas Europe; apotropaic devices in Roman and Meier & Kerstin P. Hofmann Medieval Britain; the evolution of superstitions This volume focuses on two general topics. The and ritual customs – from the ‘voodoo doll’ of essays in the first part treat the problem of objects Europe and Africa to a Scottish ‘wishing-tree’; stockpiling in collections. Those in the second part and an exploration of spatiality in West African deal with established empirical-antiquarian research healing practices. in the light of the material turn and also show the complexity of the relationship between humans 152p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700101 and objects. Last but not least, the volume discusses Pb £35.00 current attempts at the understanding of objects in other disciplines from an archaeological perspective. German text. 388p, (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088903465 Regional Settlement Demography Pb £60.00, NYP in Archaeology Mathematics and Archaeology By Robert Drennan, C. Adam Berrey & Christian E. Edited by Igor Bogdanovic & Juan A. Barcelo Peterson Although many archaeologists have a good In this study varied understanding of the basics in computer science, approaches to estimating statistics, geostatistics, modelling, and data mining, regional population sizes in more literature is needed about the advanced both relative and absolute analysis in these areas. This book aids archaeologists terms are synthesized in learning more advanced tools and methods while and their advantages and also helping mathematicians, statisticians, and disadvantages assessed. Tools computer scientists with no previous knowledge for quantitative analysis of of the field realize the potential of the methods in regional demographic data archaeological experiments. are presented. Field survey methods developed around 528p, (CRC Press 2015) 9781482226812 Hb £82.00 the world are compiled from Across Space and Time widely scattered sources and Papers from the 41st Conference on Computer best practices for collecting Applications and Quantitative Methods in archaeological data to sustain demographic analysis Archaeology, Perth 25-28 March 2013 are delineated. Concepts for improved sampling Edited by Arianna Traviglia design in regional survey work are derived from This volume presents a selection of the best papers fundamental statistical principles. presented at the forty-first annual Conference on 180p (Eliot Werner 2015) 9780989824941 Pb £32.50 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. The theme for the conference was “Across Space and Time”, and the papers explore a multitude of topics related to that concept, including databases, the semantic Web, geographical information systems, data collection and management, and more. 515p, (Amsterdam UP 2015) 9789089647153 Hb £96.00 4 Method and Theory The Archaeology of Underwater Caves Insight from Innovation Edited by Peter B. Campbell New Light on Archaeological Ceramics This is an edited volume drawing on the last sixty Edited by Emilie Sibbesson, Ben Jervis & Sarah Coxon years of underwater cave research, the vast majority This collection of papers is presented in of which has never been published previously. honour of Professor David Peacock’s many and Underwater caves are foreboding places, but they lasting contributions to archaeological ceramic hold great potential for archaeology due to the studies. It explores some of the most exciting excellent preservation of organic artefacts found developments currently taking place within in caves. Chapters are authored by the principle archaeological ceramic studies, including cutting- researchers responsible for the development of edge provenanceing techniques, computer-aided this emerging sub-field. The volume’s scope is visualisations, and contemporary craft and design international and spans the Palaeolithic through perspectives. Pottery is approached not as an end the modern era. to itself but as a vehicle for addressing a wide range 250p, (The Highfield Press 2016) 9780992633677 Pb of archaeological questions. £35.00, NYP 220p, (The Highfield Press 2016) 9780992633646 Hb £65.00, NYP Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage Marine Archaeology’s Greatest Threat? Crude Hints Towards an History of By Sean Kingsley My House in Lincolns Inn Fields The profound threat of By Sir John Soane & Helen Dorey the global fishing industry In 1812 the architect Sir remains a black hole in John Soane (1753-1837) wrote marine archaeology, poorly a strange and perplexing understood and unmanaged. manuscript, in which, in Fishing and Shipwreck the guise of an Antiquary, Heritage is the first global he imagines his home as a analysis of the threat of future ruin, inspected by bottom fishing to underwater visitors speculating on its cultural heritage, examining origins and function. Never the diversity, scale and published in his lifetime, implications on endangered the manuscript has been finds and sites. Throughout, the key questions meticulously of whether it is too late to save the planet’s three transcribed and provided with an million wrecks and how sustainable management Only explanatory introduction and is achievable are debated. £13.00 until footnotes. 172p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472573605 Hb £45.00 30th April 60p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784912154 Pb £16.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE Site Formation Processes of Submerged Shipwrecks Edited by Matthew E. Keith Many factors influence the formation of shipwreck sites: the materials from which the ship was built, the underwater environment, and subsequent events such as human activity, storms, and chemical reactions. In this first volume to comprehensively catalogue the physical and cultural processes affecting submerged ships, Matthew Keith brings together experts in diverse fields such as geology, soil and wood chemistry, micro- and marine biology, and sediment dynamics. The case studies identify and examine the natural and anthropogenic processes – corrosion and degradation on one hand, fishing and trawling on the other – that contribute to the present condition of shipwreck sites. The contributors also discuss how these varied and Only often overlapping events influence the archaeological record. £60.00 until Offering an in-depth analysis of emerging technologies and methods--acoustic positioning, computer modeling, and site reconstruction – this 30th April is an essential study for the research and preservation of submerged heritage sites. 304p, (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813061627 Hb £73.95
Method and Theory 5 The Archaeology of Food Forthcoming from Oxbow Books An Encyclopedia Edited by Karen Bescherer Metheney & Mary Beaudry People with Animals The Archaeology of Food offers more than 250 entries Perspectives and Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology spanning geographic and temporal contexts and Edited by Lee Broderick featuring recent discoveries alongside the result People with Animals of decades of research. They provide overviews of emphasises the inter- current knowledge and theoretical perspectives, dependence of people and raise key questions, and dive into the myriad animals in society, and scientific, archaeological, and material analyses that contributors examine the add depth to our understanding of food. variety of forms and time- 602p b/w illus (Rowman and Littlefield 2015) depth that these relations 9780759123649 Hb £130.00 can take. The types of relationship studied include Paleoethnobotany the importance of manure A Handbook of Procedures to farming societies, dogs By Deborah M. Pearsall as livestock guardians, This new edition of the definitive work on doing seasonality in pastoralist societies, butchery, palaeoethnobotany brings the book up to date symbolism and food. Examples are drawn from by incorporating new methods and examples of the Pleistocene to the present day and from the research, while preserving the overall organisation Altai Mountains, Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Mongolia and approach of the book to facilitate its use and North America. Discussion papers explore as a textbook. In addition to updates on the this topic and use the case-studies presented in comprehensive discussions of macroremains, other contributions to suggest the importance of pollen, and phytoliths, this edition includes a ethnozooarchaeology not just to archaeology but chapter on starch analysis, the newest tool in the also to anthrozoology. A further contribution to palaeoethnobotanist’s research kit. archaeological theory is made by an argument for 600p b/w illus (Left Coast Press 3rd ed 2015) the validity of ethnozooarchaeology derived models 9781611322996 Pb £55.50 to Neandertals. The book makes a compelling case for the importance of human-animal relations A Natural History of Wine in the archaeological record and By Ian Tattersall & Rob DeSalle demonstrates why the information Conversational and accessible, this colourfully contained in this record is of Only illustrated book embraces almost every imaginable significance to specialists in £28.50 until other disciplines. area of the sciences, from microbiology and ecology publication (for an understanding what creates this complex 156p, (Oxbow Books 2016) beverage) to physiology and neurobiology (for 9781785702471 Pb £38.00 insight into the effects of wine on the mind and body). The authors draw on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, evolution, and climatology, and they Beastly Questions expand the discussion to include insights from By Naomi Sykes anthropology, primatology, entomology, Neolithic Going beyond the simple archaeology, and even Classical history. confines of ‘what people ate’, 252p b/w illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300211023 Hb £25.00 this accessible but in-depth study covers a variety of high- Maize for the Gods profile topics in European Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn archaeology and provides By Michael Blake novel interpretations of Maize for the Gods brings together new research by mainstream archaeological archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, questions. This includes and a host of other specialists as they trace the cultural responses to wild history of maize, exploring the complex ways that animals, the domestication of this single plant and the peoples who domesticated animals and its implications it came to be inextricably entangled with one on human daily practice, another over the past nine millennia. It spans from experience and ideology, the transportation of species the first appearance and domestication of maize in and the value of incorporating animals into landscape ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its research, the importance of the study of foodways for intercontinental journey throughout most of North understanding past societies and how animal studies and South America. can help us to comprehend issues of human identity 266p, (University of California Press 2015) and ideology: past, present and future. 9780520286962 Pb £19.95 240p, (Bloomsbury 2014, Pb 2015) 9781474260695 Pb £22.99 6 Method and Theory Heritage US Cultural Diplomacy and Fernweh: Crossing borders and Archaeology connecting people in archaeological Soft Power Hard Heritage heritage management By Christina Luke & Morag M. Kersel Essays in honour of prof. Willem J.H. Willems Archaeology forms a critical part of the U.S. State Edited by Sjoerd J. van der Linde, Monique H. van den Department’s diplomatic toolkit. Many, if not all, Dries & Amy Strecker current U.S.-sponsored and directed archaeological These essays contribute projects operate within U.S. diplomatic agendas. to contemporary debates U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology is the in archaeological heritage first book to evaluate museums and their roles in management. They concern presenting the past at national and international the various dimensions and levels, contextualizing the practical and diplomatic consequences of current processes of archaeological research within the policies and practices and realm of cultural heritage. address the meaning and use 170p (Routledge 2012, Pb 2015) 9781138825260 Pb £34.99 of the world’s legacies from the past in and for society, The Valletta Convention at present and in the future. Edited by Victoria M van der Haas & Peter Schut The overarching theme is The Valletta Convention (1992) saw the inclusion of the question of whose heritage we are protecting archaeology in the process of spatial planning. This and how we can better valorise research results and collection assesses its wide-ranging impact. Not only connect with society. the successes, but also the challenges and possible 186p, (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088903502 Pb £35.00, solutions are be addressed. With articles written by NYP experts from different parts of Europe, it provides the reader with a good view of the state of affairs in various countries. NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS 184p, (Archaeolingua 2014) 9789639911499 Hb £30.00 A Handbook of Geoarchaeological Setting the Agenda Approaches to Settlement Sites and Edited by Peter A. C. Schut & Leonard C. de Wit Landscapes The results of a second symposium assessing the By Charles French Valletta Convention are published in this volume, Geoarchaeology is which largely comprises the Amersfoort Agenda a major branch of for managing the archaeological heritage in Europe. archaeological science at This has three themes: 1. Embedding archaeology the interfaces between in society, 2. Dare to choose, and 3. Managing the geology, geography and sources of European history. The various articles in archaeology, involving this book are organised under these themes, which the combined study of they explore in greater depth. archaeological, soil and 176p, (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911642 Hb £30.00 geomorphological records and the recognition of Current Trends in Archaeological how natural, climatic and Heritage Preservation human-induced processes National and International Perspectives alter landscapes. The formation and modification Edited by Stefan Caliniuc & Sergiu Mustesta of past soils, and occupation sequences can The papers in this volume examine the be examined primarily through the use of soil archaeological-heritage preservation policies of micromorphological techniques and various Romania and their interplay with their European physical and geo-chemical techniques. This and international counterparts. They further aim to short text aims to explain some of the basics share the experience and to discuss actual situations of geoarchaeological approaches and research in the field of archaeological heritage preservation design used to tackle the investigation of in various countries. landscapes and settlement archaeology, and 132p, (British Archaeological Reports 2015) the application of soil micromorphology to 9781407314006 Pb £36.00 archaeological situations. The intention is to present a basic handbook of good practice, with case studies and examples, that any archaeologist or aspiring geoarchaeologist can use. 144p (Studying Scientific Archaeology, Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700910 Pb £16.95 7 Landscape NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Living with the Flood Gardens and Gardeners of Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological the Ancient World remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire History, Myth and Archaeology – a wetland/dryland interface By Linda Farrar By Samantha Paul, Kevin Colls & Henry P. Chapman Gardens and Gardeners Living with the Flood of the Ancient World presents the results of the traces the beginning of study of a wetland/dryland gardening and garden interface on the edge of history, from Ancient palaeochannels of the River Egypt and Mesopotamia, Cam in Cambridgeshire. to the Minoans and Through the integrated Mycenaeans, Greeks, archaeological and Etruscans and Romans, palaeoenvironmental through Byzantine, Islamic analysis of a site on the and Persian gardens right western edge of Sawston, up to the Middle Ages. It a detailed picture of life on shows how gardens in each period were designed the edge of the floodplain from the late glacial to and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and the post-medieval periods has been developed. At horticulture is gathered from surviving examples the heart of this is the relationship between people of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual and their changing environment, which reveals a shifting pattern of ritual, occupation and more period gardens that have survived the centuries transitory activity as the riparian landscape in a and the wealth of garden myths associated with wooded setting became a wetland within a more certain plants. These sources bring ancient openly grazed environment. gardens and their gardeners back to life, and provide information on which plants were chosen 128p, colour and b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) as garden worthy, their setting and the design and 9781782979661 Pb £19.95 appearance of ancient gardens. Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes 304p, 150 col illus (Windgather Press 2015) in Pre-Industrial Society 9781909686854 Pb £25.00 Choices, Stability and Change Dury and Andrews’ Map of Edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup & Althea Davies Through a series of case Hertfordshire studies, this third volume By Andrew Macnair, Anne Rowe & Tom Williamson in the Earth series deals This book is about the with the technological map of an English county constraints and innovations – Hertfordshire – which that enabled societies to was published in 1766 by survive and thrive across two London map-makers, a range of environmental Andrew Dury and John conditions. The Andrews. The first section contributions are structured examines the context of into three sections to the map’s production and draw out particular its place in cartographic commonalities and contrasts in the choices made history, and describes the by pre-industrial communities in the construction creation of a new, digital of varied landscapes and cultural heritage. The version of the map which can be accessed first deals with colonisation, including the drivers online. The second part describes various and processes through which colonisers developed ways in which this electronic version can be an understanding of the productive potential and interrogated, in order to throw important new limitations of their new lands. The second focuses light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, on fields and field systems and their identification both in the middle decades of the eighteenth in the archaeological record, while the third focuses century when it was produced, and in more on the complex ‘time-space adaptations’ devised remote periods. for managing cultivation and livestock production. 240p, col and b/w illus, DVD (Windgather Press 2015) 280p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781842173596 9781909686731 Pb £35.00 Hb £45.00
8 Landscape Landscape Archaeology Between Art The Archaeology of Herefordshire and Science An Exploration From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach By Keith Ray By Erika Guttmann-Bond & Sjoerd J. Kluiving This new study describes what is now known of Both processual and post-processual approaches to Herefordshire’s archaeology, assessing both the landscape archaeology are addressed in this book, work of past generations and the discoveries of with 35 papers that are presented here and that the modern era of enquiry. Major excavations on are divided into six themes: 1) How did landscape Dorstone Hill and at Wellington Quarry have shed change?; 2) Improving temporal, chronological and light on the activities and rituals of our Neolithic transformational frameworks; 3) Linking landscapes ancestors, while the excavation of a cairn in the of lowlands with mountainous areas; 4) Applying Olchon valley has illuminated the ebb and flow concepts of scale; 5) New directions in digital of beliefs at the transition of the Neolithic into the prospection and modelling techniques, and 6) How Bronze Age. In Hereford the site of part of the Saxon will landscape archaeology develop in the future. cathedral has been identified, along with a possible 560p, (Amsterdam UP 2015) 9789089644183 Pb £50.95 Mercian royal residence, helping reshape ideas about the Saxon city. These are just a handful of the Digging at the Gateway: Archaeological new insights into many periods of Herefordshire’s landscapes of south Thanet remote and more recent past revealed by this The Archaeology of the East Kent Access fascinating study. (Phase II)Volume 1: The Sites 448p, (Logaston Press 2015) 9781906663964 Pb £15.00 By Ken Welsh, A. P. Fitzpatrick, Paul Booth & Phil Living on the Edge Andrews Archaeological Investigations at Steart Point, A Kent County Council programme to build Somerset a new road link, the East Kent Access, in the south-east part of Thanet resulted in the largest By Lorraine Mepham & Lorrain Higbee archaeological project carried out in Britain in 2010. A number of significant sites and areas of past human Volume 1 describes the archaeological remains and activity and inhabitation from the Iron Age, the discusses their wider significance in Thanet and Romano-British period, the medieval and early post- beyond. Volume 2 presents the analysis of the finds, medieval periods have been recorded. The results environmental remains and results of the extensive follow broad regional patterns seen in the Severn radiocarbon dating programme. Estuary Levels, with the more regularly planned farming landscapes and permanent settlement 568p, (Oxford Archaeology 2015) 9780957467231 Hb evidence from the Romano-British period onwards, £30.00 developing from seasonal, episodic exploitation of this resource-rich salt-marsh landscape. 100p (Wessex Archaeology 2016) 9781874350897 Pb £7.50, NYP
EDITOR’S CHOICE The Historic Landscape of the Mendip Hills By Elaine Jameson Bringing together a wide variety of new and past research, The Historic Landscape of the Mendip Hills explores the archaeology and architecture of this remarkable corner of England, beginning with evidence for the first hunting groups who passed through the region over half a million years ago. Succeeding generations have left their mark on the Hills, from the enigmatic ceremonial structures of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, to the ancient farming landscapes and brooding hill forts of the later prehistoric period. Field archaeology, combined with architectural and historical enquiry, has also allowed a complex narrative to be constructed for more recent periods of history. This is a story dominated by adaptation and change, evidenced by the developing architecture of manorial centres Only and the shadowy remains of earlier structures fossilised £28.00 until within village houses, or by flights of abandoned terraces of former strip fields and the unassuming ruins of farmsteads which bear testament to the people who 30th April once worked and occupied the land. 304p col illus (Historic England 2015) 9781848020429 Hb £35.00
Landscape 9 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Shades of Green Archaeology and Land-Use of South- An Environmental and Cultural History East England to 1066 of Sitka Spruce Edited by Michael J. Allen & David Rudling By Ruth Tittensor In this new authoritative This book takes a fresh textbook on the archaeology look at the most disliked of South-East England over tree in Britain and Ireland, 30 leading authors provide a explaining the reasons comprehensive overview of it was introduced and the South-East as an informed why it became ubiquitous narrative and interpretation in the archipelagos of of the prehistory and history north-west Europe. The of the region. Chronological historical background to chapters tell the story of the the modern use of Sitka development of the South- spruce is explored. The lack East by period from the of cultural reference may Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest. Others focus explain negative public response when tree-less on either specific areas within the region, or aspects uplands in the UK and Ireland were afforested with of material culture and the economy. This is the introduced conifer species, particularly Sitka spruce, first book to look at the region as a whole for a following two World Wars. The multi-purpose generation and since the advent of developer-funded forestry of today recognises that Sitka spruce is the archaeology, and it will have an most important tree to the timber important place in the archaeology industry and to a public which of the South-East. It is offered in Only uses its many products but fails Only memory of Sussex Archaeologist £25.00 until to recognise the link between £23.95 until Peter Drewett. growing trees and bought goods. publication publication b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 208p, (Windgather Press 2016) 2016) 9781782979623 Hb £35.00 9781909686779 Pb £29.95
Local Places, Global Processes The Ancient Yew Edited by Peter Coates, David Moon & Paul Warde By Robert Bevan-Jones Our perceptions of change, With wonderful photographic and what kind of change portraits of ancient yews and might be for good or ill, are a gazetteer (with locations) shaped by the interaction of the oldest yew trees in of localised experience Britain, the book brings and the wider forces of together for the first time transformation. Local Places, all the evidence about the Global Processes examines dating, history, archaeology how these relationships and cultural connections have been shaped in of the yew. Robert Bevan- Britain over time in three Jones discusses its history, ways. First, through essays biology, the origins of its addressing influential ways of understanding name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’. across Britain, means of dating examples, and their These are complemented by case studies on association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, conservation, landscape change springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape and management, and how markers. This third edition has an perceptions of environmental Only updated introduction with new change have emerged or been £24.00 until photographs and corrections to Only discarded over time. publication the main text. £24.00 until 272p, (Windgather Press 2016) 216p col illus (Windgather Press, publication 9781909686939 Pb £29.95 3rd ed 2016) 9781785700781 Pb £29.95
10 Landscape St Kilda NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Last and Outmost Isle By Angela Gannon & George Geddes Norfolk Landscapes Angela Gannon and George Geddes have spent By Doug Kennedy over nine months living and working on St Kilda, This beautiful photo and have been part of a team which has been book captures the researching its complex and remarkable history essence of Norfolk’s for more than a decade. In this new book they turn varied landscapes in the popular perception of the archipelago on its sumptuous images head. St Kilda, they argue, has never existed in total and an informative isolation, but has always been linked to a network text that gets of communities scattered across the north western underneath the seaboard and the Highlands of Scotland. The Last surface of why things look like they do. The and Outmost Isle pulls St Kilda back from the ‘end of Norfolk Broads, Breckland, The Waverley the world’ to tell a compelling story of triumph over Valley, The Fens and the coastlines are geographical adversity. What makes these islands so explored in turn along with the wildlife special is not their distance from ‘civilisation’, but you can encounter on the way. In addition, rather their enduring capacity to remain a living, Norfolk’s lovely churches that punctuate every connected part of Scotland over the course of some view, and the distinctive traditional buildings three thousand years. that give each area its special flavour are 320p, (RCAHMS 2015) 9781902419916 Hb £25.00 featured. Doug Kennedy has roamed the County on foot and by boat, seeking out The Hoo Peninsula Landscape what makes each place special and applying By Sarah Newsome, Edward Carpenter and Peter his photographer’s eye to capture the scene Kendall perfectly. The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent 112p, (Windgather Press 2015) 9781909686816 Hb coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book £14.99 raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use The Monster in the Garden and maritime activity over time have given this The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance landscape and seascape its distinctive character. Landscape Design It uses new information, which involved historic By Luke Morgan landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, Monsters, grotesque aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area creatures, and giants assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key were frequently depicted sites and other desk-based research. in Italian Renaissance 88p col illus (Historic England 2015) 9781848022256 Pb landscape design, yet they £14.99 have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates What Is Landscape? that gardens of the period By John R. Stilgoe conveyed darker, more In What Is Landscape? disturbing themes than Stilgoe maps the discovery has been acknowledged. In of landscape by putting The Monster in the Garden, words to things, zeroing Luke Morgan argues in on landscape’s essence that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance but also leading sideways culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary expeditions through such anxieties about normative social life and identity. sources as children’s picture Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and books, folklore, deeds, scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on antique terminology, out- monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early of-print dictionaries, and modern Europe, he considers the garden within conversations with locals. a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a (“What is that?” “Well, it’s not really a slough, not new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape really, it’s a bayou...”) He offers a highly original, design, Morgan argues that the presence of cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative monsters was not incidental but an essential lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to feature of the experience of gardens. discoveries. 272p, (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 264p, b/w illus (MIT Press 2015) 9780262029896 Hb 9780812247558 Hb £42.50 £13.95
Landscape11 Human Evolution Prehension Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity By Colin McGinn Wild Harvest Drawing on evolutionary biology, anatomy, Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, Worlds among other disciplines, McGinn examines the Edited by Karen Hardy & Lucy Kubiak Martens role of the hand in shaping human evolution. He Plants are fundamental to finds that the development of our capacity to grasp, life; they are used by all to grip, to take hold (also known as prehension) human groups and most is crucial in the emergence of Homo sapiens. He animals. They provide raw speculates that the hand played a major role in the materials, vitamins and development of language, and presents a theory of essential nutrients and we primitive reference as an outgrowth of prehension. could not survive without 208p, (MIT Press 2015) 9780262029322 Hb £17.95 them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can Neanderthal Legacy be challenging. The lack of An Archaeological Perspective from Western visible evidence has led to Europe plants being undervalued, By Paul Mellars both in terms of their contribution to diet and as raw Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount materials. This book outlines why the role of plants of information on the behaviour of Neanderthals. is required for a better understanding of hominin His comprehensive overview ranges from the and pre-agrarian human life, and it offers a variety of evidence of tool manufacture and related patterns of ways in which this can be achieved. In section 1 each lithic technology, through the issues of subsistence chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use by and settlement patterns, to the more controversial humans; Section 2 covers different methods available evidence for social organization, cognition, and to obtain information on plants; and the third section intelligence. Mellars argues that previous attempts covers ethnography, ethnohistory, to characterize Neanderthal behavior as either or ethnoarchaeology, and how “modern” or “ape-like” are both overstatements. these can be used to improve Only 494p (Princeton UP 1995, Pb 2015) 9780691167985 Pb our understanding of the role of £22.50 until plants in the pre-agrarian past. £27.95 publication 368p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow The Real Planet of the Apes Books 2016) 9781785701238 Pb £30.00 By David R. Begun The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of Language in Prehistory our human lineage-such as bipedalism, dexterous By Alan Barnard hands, and larger brains. As the climate deteriorated For ninety per cent of our in Europe around 10 million years ago, these apes history, humans have lived either died out or migrated south, reinvading the as ‘hunters and gatherers’, African continent and giving rise to the lineages of and for most of this time, as the gorilla, chimpanzee, and, ultimately, the human. talking individuals. No direct 246p (Princeton UP 2015) 9780691149240 Hb £19.95 evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; The Neanderthals Rediscovered we do not even know if early How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story humans had language, either By Dimitra Papagianni spoken or signed. Taking an For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as anthropological perspective, dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders, but in recent Alan Barnard acknowledges years their story has been transformed thanks this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless to new discoveries and advances in scientific infer a great deal about our linguistic past from techniques. This book takes a fresh and engaging what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers look at the whole story of the Neanderthals, setting still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient out all the evidence, redressing the balance and number to enable us to study the ways in which arriving at a fairer assessment of a species that was they speak, the many languages they use, and what closely related to us and in so doing addresses what they use them for. it is to be human. 184p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107041127 Hb £64.99, 208p (Thames and Hudson 2013, Pb 2015) 9780500051771 9781107692596 Pb £17.99 Hb £18.95, 9780500292044 Pb £9.99 12 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Ireland’s First Settlers Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton Time and the Mesolithic By Robin Jackson By Peter Woodman Archaeological investi- Ireland’s First Settlers gations at Huntsman’s tells the story of the Quarry, Kemerton, south archaeology and history Worcestershire during 1995- of the first continuous 6 recorded significant Late phase of Ireland’s human Bronze Age occupation settlement. It combines areas and field systems centuries of search and spreading across more than speculation about human 8 hectares. Limited evidence antiquity in Ireland with for Upper Palaeolithic, a review of what is known Mesolithic, Neolithic and today about the Irish Beaker activity was also Mesolithic. The story is recovered together with an Early Bronze Age embedded in how the island of Ireland, its ring-ditch. Together the evidence indicates a position, distinct landscape and ecology impacted small settlement within which occupation of on when and how Ireland was colonised. It also individual areas was short-lived with the focus explores how these first settlers evolved their of the settlement shifting on a regular basis. This technologies and lifeways to suit the narrow managed and organised landscape appears to range of abundant resources that were available. have been established for the maintenance of an The volume concludes with discussions on how economy primarily based on relatively intensive the landscape should be searched for the often livestock farming. ephemeral traces of these early settlers and how 192p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) sites should be excavated. 9781782979944 Hb £30.00 448p, 32 col pls, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782977780 Hb £50.00 The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney Down By The River Edited by Colin Richards & Richard Jones Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Drawing on the results of Geoarchaeological Investigations of the an extensive programme Suffolk River Valleys of fieldwork in the Bay of By Andy Howard, Henry Chapman & Benjamin Firth, Mainland Orkney, the Gearey text explores the idea that Whilst East Anglia has the physical appearance long been known as a key of the house is a potent area for the preservation resource for materialising of important Palaeolithic the dichotomous alliance archaeological and and descent principles ap- palaeoenvironmental parent in the archaeological deposits, relatively little evidence for the early and study of the Holocene later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the record has previously insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formu- been carried out. This lation of sociétés à maisons are extremely relevant series of detailed studies to interpreting the archaeological evidence and presents the results providing the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of of palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and the material changes occurring in Orkney between geoarchaeological investigations focused on the the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC. The major Post-Glacial record preserved in the valleys of excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wide- the Suffolk rivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, ford Landscape Project provided an unprece- Hoxne, Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were dented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic cored for palaeoenvironmental assessment, occupation. The results are described and discussed further sampling and radiocarbon dating and in detail here, enabling tracing of the development the results are described. and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 248p,b/w illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) year period of Northern Isles prehistory. 9781785701689 Pb £25.00 512p, col illus (Windgather Press 2015) 9781909686892 Hb £35.00 13 Home The Southern Kintyre Project A Time Travellers Tales from Britain’s Prehistory Exploring Interactions Across the Irish Sea from By Francis Pryor the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age In Home Francis Pryor Edited by Gary Robinson & Vicki Cummings presents a view of British This volume presents the results of a five year Prehistory which focuses research project which investigated the Mesolithic, on its most important Neolithic and Bronze Age of Southern Kintyre. building block, the family. Alongside a known Neolithic chambered tomb, this He shows how the pursuit project also identified a range of prehistoric features of domesticity shaped including Bronze Age domestic and ritual structures prehistoric society, from the as well as a series of well-preserved curvilinear field earliest houses discovered in systems. The excavations conducted by the late Jack Britain at Star Carr, Howick Scott at Ardnacross II chambered tomb are also and others which date from reported on here in detail for the first time. soon after the end of the last 199p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports BS 618, glaciation, to the coming of the Romans, and in so 2015) 9781407313948 Pb £40.00 doing promotes the agency of ordinary people in our Prehistoric past. The book also functions as A Celtic Feast memoir, packed throughout with reflections on the The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, archaeological projects which Francis Pryor has Wiltshire taken part in and led, and enlivened by anecdotes Edited by Alexandra Baldwin & Jody Joy and an all pervasive enthusiasm for the potential This volume presents for of archaeology in uncovering the daily lives and the first time the results of aspirations of Prehistoric communities. the excavation and scientific 352p, col pls (Penguin Books 2014, Pb 2015) 9781846144875 analysis between 2005 and Hb £20.00, 9780241955888 Pb £9.99 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a Reading Between the Lines large pit on farmland in The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland the parish of Chiseldon, By Kenneth Brophy Wiltshire, and consequently While outlining the physical characteristics of the acquired by the British cursus, this book also addresses the limitations of Museum. The assemblage this kind of typological description when applied is unprecedented in many to monuments which varied so remarkably in respects and is the largest known single deposit of terms of materiality and size. Moving beyond a prehistoric cauldrons from Europe. Thought to be morphological account, Brophy considers what can vessels made and used for feasting, the capacity be said of this diverse group of sites, and how they represented by the Chiseldon Hoard indicates the were actually built and used in prehistory, in light potential in these societies to host feasts with many of several decades of aerial reconnaissance and hundreds, if not thousands of participants. excavation in Scotland. 160p, (British Museum Press 2016) 9780861592036 Pb 280p b/w illus (Routledge 2015) 9781138913516 Hb £85.00 £40.00, NYP
EDITOR’S CHOICE Stonehenge Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery by Mike Parker Pearson Stonehenge is an iconic monument for people all around the world. Built around 5000 years ago, it stands for mystery and forgotten secrets waiting to be decoded. In this latest book in the Council for British Archaeology’s ‘Archaeology for All’ series, Professor Mike Parker Pearson presents an up-to-date interpretation of Stonehenge and Only its landscape. Drawing on his years of research and excavation, the author presents a highly readable account £11.50 until that is lavishly illustrated with images by the renowned 30th April photographer Adam Stanford and the reconstruction artist Peter Dunn. 120p col illus (CBA 2015) 9781909990029 Pb £14.00
14 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Cartimandua’s Capital? Edited by Colin Haselgrove The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles Famous for the excavations carried out by Sir Fieldwork at five Scottish Monuments and Mortimer Wheeler in 1951–52, the late Iron Age its Implications earthwork complex at Stanwick, North Yorks, is Edited by Courtney Nimura & Richard Bradley the largest prehistoric site in northern England. A This major new assessment recent re-evaluation of the radiocarbon dates has first presents the results of led to a new chronology which has rewritten our fieldwork undertaken at the understanding of late Iron Age Britain. This volume Scottish recumbent stone reports not only on the excavations of the 1980s, but circle of Hillhead; the stone also synthesises other work in the environs of the site. circles of Waulkmill and 512p, (Council for British Archaeology 2016) Croftmoraig, the stone circle 9781902771984 Hb £50.00, NYP and henge at Hill of Tuach at Kintore; and the small Scotland in Later Prehistoric Europe ring cairn at Laikenbuie Edited by Ian B. M. Ralston & Fraser Hunter in Inverness-shire. Part 2 The papers in this volume review recent work on brings together the results of the Scottish later Bronze Age and Iron Age in the these five projects and puts forward a chronology light of its neighbours. Authors use the explosion of for the construction and primary use of stone recent data to investigate settlements and domestic circles, particularly the Chalcolithic and Bronze architecture, art, craft, beliefs and environmental Age examples. It considers the reuse of stone change. Larger topics include the changing balance circles, long after they were built, and discusses of Atlantic versus Continental connections, how four neighbouring stone circles in Aberdeenshire societies responded to climate change, and how which display both similarities and significant an issue this was. contrasts in their architecture, 301p, (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2015) use of raw materials, associated Only 9781908332066 Hb £60.00 artefacts and structural £30.00 until sequences. publication Early to Middle Iron Age Settlement 240p, (Oxbow Books 2016) and Early Anglo-Saxon Settlement at 9781785702433 Pb £39.95 Harston Mill, Cambridgeshire Prehistory Without Borders By Leonora O’Brien Prehistoric Archaeology of the Tyne-Forth Region A Bronze Age barrow, one of several in the Rhee Edited by Richard Tipping, Chris Fowler & Rachel Crellin valley, was encircled by two concentric rings of posts Modern borders of all kinds, in the early to middle Iron Age, and a single crouched political, geographical and inhumation was buried nearby. A small group of social, affect the kinds roundhouses and granaries was built on the clays of prehistoric narratives c.100m from the river, and nearly 200 possible grain archaeologists can write. storage pits were dug on chalk deposits next to the This volume works across river. During the later 6th century AD, a small open such borders and focuses farming settlement of six sunken-featured buildings specifically on the region was established, akin to many similar settlements between the Rivers Forth investigated in South Cambridgeshire. and Tyne, an area divided 250p (East Anglian Archaeology 2016) 9780993247705 by the modern political Pb £25.00, NYP border between Scotland and England. The introduction and opening Later Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes chapters consider the impact of the Anglo-Scots and on the Berkshire Downs 2015 similar borders on our understanding of prehistoric By Paula Levick patterns of activity. Further chapters explore the The aim of this work was to examine land-use history of research in the region, including field and settlement on the Berkshire Downs from the survey and aerial photography. Another nine Bronze Age to the end of the Romano-British chapters discuss the results of recent period. Aerial transcription from the National research, including new and Mapping Programme is used to provide a view older excavations, or conduct Only of the landscape before its destruction through regional analyses of artefacts £34.00 until modern agriculture, while maps and documents, and mortuary practices. lidar, woodland survey, geophysics and metal publication 260p, (Oxbow Books 2016) detected finds are used to create a theoretical 9781785701993 Hb £45.00 account of activity across this region. 212p (BAR BS 225, Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313665 Pb £49.00 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland15 Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By D. W. Harding In Death and Burial in Lives in Land – Mucking excavations Iron Age Britain, Harding By Christopher Evans, Grahame Appleby & Sam examines the deposition of Lucy human and animal remains Lives in Land is the first from the period – from whole of two major volumes skeletons to disarticulated which bring together fragments – and challenges all the evidence from the assumption that there Mucking, presenting should have been any both the detail of many regular form of cemetery in important structures prehistory, arguing that the and assemblages and a dead were more commonly comprehensive synthesis integrated into settlements of the living than of landscape development segregated into dedicated cemeteries. Even where through the ages. It begins cemeteries are known, they may yet represent no with a thorough evaluation more than a minority of the total population, so of the methods, philosophy and archival status of that other forms of disposal must still have been the Mucking project against the organisational practised. The volume evaluates the evidence for and funding background of its time, and discusses violent death, sacrifice, and cannibalism, as well its fascinating and complex history through a as age and gender distinctions, and associations period of fundamental change in archaeological with animal burials, and reveals that ‘formal’ practice, legislation, finance, research priorities cemetery burial or cremation was for most regions and theoretical paradigms in British Archaeology. a minority practice in Britain until the eve of the Subsequent chapters deal with the prehistoric Roman conquest. landscape, each focusing on the major themes 352p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199687565 Hb £70.00 that emerge by major period from analysis and synthesis of the data. 640p, (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701481 Hb £40.00 European Prehistory Ancient Scandinavia Arqueologia de la Cuenca del Rio Saja An Archaeological History from the First (Cantabria) Humans to the Vikings Edited by J. Ruiz Cobo & E. Munoz Fernandez By T. Douglas Price This book presents the rich and varied archaeological Constructed similarly to the author’s previous record from excavations carried out between 2004- book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinavia 2010 in the Saja river basin, Cantabria, northern provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch Spain. Sites date from the lower Palaeolithic to the followed by detailed, illustrative examples from Middle Ages. the archaeological record. An engrossing and Spanish text, 394p, (British Archaeological Reports 2737, comprehensive picture emerges of change across 2015) 9781407313962 Pb £58.00 the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter – gatherers to large farming Ancestral Journeys communities to the complex warrior cultures of The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the to the Vikings spectacular rise of the Vikings. By Jean Manco 520p, col illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780190231972 Hb The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of £41.99 favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of continuity now have to give way to a more dynamic view of Altamira vista por los españoles Europe’s past, with one wave of migration followed by By Xurxo Ayán Vila another, from the first human arrivals to the Vikings. In this essay about memory, politics and archaeology, This pioneering book brings together for the first the author uses the comments left in the Altamira time the latest genetic evidence and combines it with Cave Museum visitors’ book by visitors both famous archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history and anonymous to delve into the image of the cave, of Europe. the past and Spanish society of the last decade. 312p, (Thames and Hudson 2013, Pb 2015) 9780500051788 Spanish text 250p (JAS Arqueologia 2015) 9788494436826 Hb £19.95, 9780500292075 Pb £9.99 Pb £14.00 16 The Archaeology of Malta New from Oxbow books From the Neolithic through the Roman Period By Claudia Sagona The Megalithic Architectures of This book is the first systematic and up-to-date Europe survey of Malta’s archaeological evidence from the Edited by Luc Laporte & Christopher Scarre initial settlers to the archipelago’s inclusion into the Megalithic Architectures Roman world (c.5000 BC-400 AD). Claudia Sagona provides new insight draws upon old and new discoveries and her analysis by focusing on the covers well-known sites such as the megalithic construction and design structures, as well as less familiar locations and of European megalithic discoveries. She interprets the archaeological record tombs – on the tomb as to explain changing social and political structures, an architectural project. intriguing ritual practices and cultural contact It shows how much is to through several millennia. be learned from detailed 464p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107006690 Hb £84.99 attention to the stages and the techniques This Must Be the Place through which tombs Perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition were built, modified and enlarged, and often in Ostergotland, Eastern Middle Sweden intentionally dismantled or decommissioned. By Annika Helander & Tom Carlsson The volume brings together regional specialists This volume draws on newly excavated Mesolothic from Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, France, and Neolithic sites in the county of Ostergotland in Belgium and Iberia to offer a series of uniquely Eastern Middle Sweden to explore the introduction authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork of farming and cattle herding. The study proves are fully incorporated and much of the material that the process of change from foraging to farming is published here for the first time in English. It in this area can be regarded as alterations in provides an invaluable overview of the current the Mesolithic local communities and that the state of research on European megalithic tombs. introduction of farming and animal husbandry was 248p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) an apparently rather undramatic event. 9781785700149 Hb £55.00 250p, (Riksantikvarieämbetet 2015) 9789172096899 Pb £19.99 Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe Statements in Stone Edited by Catherine Frieman & Berit Valentin Eriksen Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany The present volume By Mark Patton brings together papers This detailed study sets the various megalithic that address questions traditions of Brittany into a social context and relates of the regional monumental traditions to changing structures variability and socio- of social organization. Patton shows how recent technical complexity of excavations have contributed important information flint daggers and their to our understanding of megaliths, such as the production. It focuses on evidence for multi-phase construction of megalithic the typology, chronology, cairns and tombs. technology, functionality and meaning of flint 224p, (Routledge 1993, Pb 2015) 9781138862074 Pb £34.99 and other lithic daggers Rivers in Prehistory produced primarily in Europe, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in Edited by Andrea Vianello prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchers This volume explores rivers as facilitators of provide a comprehensive overview of the state movement through landscapes, and it investigates of knowledge concerning various flint dagger the reasons for living near a river, as well as the role corpora as well as potential avenues for the of the river in the human landscape. An extended development of a research agenda across essay and ten case studies explore how the symbolic national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. and philosophical perceptions and understanding of rivers, the cultural and social behaviour associated 176p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700187 with their presence, and the effort Hb £40.00 and engineering required to subdue and control their flowing Only waters have all become deeply £30.50 until embedded in human cultures. 30th April 250p, (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784911782 Pb £38.00
European Prehistory17 Prehistoric Village Social Dynamics Bog Bodies Uncovered The Early Copper Age in the Koros Region Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery By Attila Gyucha By Miranda Aldhouse-Green This book explores the social dynamics of early Against a background village societies, focusing specifically on the of increasing numbers of transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age known bog bodies Miranda and the development of Early Copper Age village Aldhouse-Green provides a communities in the Körös Region on the Great new synthesis of the current Hungarian Plain. In order to model how Copper Age state of research into this villages evolved from their Neolithic predecessors, perennially fascinating different theoretical and methodological perspectives phenomenon. Forensic were incorporated, and data on settlement patterns science allows us to deduce and organization, mortuary customs, economy, the age, physical condition, and interaction were considered in a diachronic status, cause and time of framework and at multiple geographic scales. death of these ancient 352p, (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911680 Hb £50.00 victims, helping to answer the fundamental questions that they pose: were these people Homines Funera Astra 2 executed, simply murdered, or victims of human The Archaeology of Death in Ancient Times. sacrifice? Who selected them? Who delivered the Life Beyond Life? (Romanian Case Studies) killing blow, and why? Edited by Susan Stratton, Mihai Gligor, Roxana- 224p b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2015) Gabriela Curca & Raluca Kogalniceanu 9780500051825 Hb £18.95 These essays are dedicated to burial practices from Central and South-Eastern Europe, focusing on Clay in the Age of Bronze elements that suggest belief in afterlife. Seven studies Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric are dedicated to prehistoric burial practices, discussing Creativity discoveries dating from the Palaeolithic (one study), By Joanna Sofaer Neolithic and Copper Age (four studies), and Bronze This book explores how creativity was expressed Age (one study). A study focusing on methodology through the medium of clay in the Bronze Age in proposes a non-invasive method of analysis for burial the Carpathian Basin. Although metal is one of the mounds, with examples from the Bronze and Iron defining characteristics of Bronze Age Europe, in the Ages. Two studies focusing on the Carpathian Basin clay was the dominant material Roman Period and another on the in many areas of life. Each essay combines a broad Migration Period complete our Only range of theoretical insights with a specific case vision of funerary archaeology for £25.50 until study of ceramic forms, sites or individual objects. this part of Europe. 30th April 225p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521768269 Hb £69.99, 132p (Archaeopress Archaeology 9780521155366 Pb £22.99 2015) 9781784912062 Pb £32.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE By Steppe, Desert and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia By Barry Cunliffe By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly ‘big history’, it charts the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel from Mongolia to the Great Hungarian Plain within a year). Along the way, it is also the story of the rise and fall of empires, the development of maritime trade, and the shattering impact of predatory nomads on their urban neighbours. Above all, as this immense historical panorama unfolds, we begin Only to see in clearer focus those basic underlying factors – the acquisitive nature of £24.00 until humanity, the differing environments in which people live, and the dislocating effect of even slight climatic variation – which have driven change throughout the ages, 30th April and which help us better understand our world today. 544p, col illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199689170 Hb £30.00
18 European Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Tripillia Megasites and European Prehistory Moving on in Neolithic Studies 4100-3400 BCE Understanding mobile lives Edited by Johannes Muller, Knut Rassmann & Mikhail Edited by Jim Leary & Thomas Kador Videiko This latest collection of papers The Tripillia group of over 30 ‘mega-sites’ cover from the Neolithic Studies areas of over 100 ha in some cases, while the largest Group seminars examines the (Talljanky, at 340ha) is as large as the Early Bronze importance and complexities Age Near Eastern city at Uruk. This volume assesses of movement and mobility, the role of the Tripillia mega-sites in the debate whether on land or water, over urban origins; and sets the mega-sites in a in the Neolithic period. It comparative framework of urban origins in Europe uses movement in its widest and the Aegean. sense, ranging from everyday (Maney 2015) 9781910526026 Hb £55.00, NYP mobilities – the routines and rhythms of daily life – to Turning Stone to Bread proscribed mobility, such as A Diachronic Study of Millstone Making movement in and around monuments, and occasional in Southern Spain and large-scale movements and migrations around By Timothy J. Anderson the continent and across seas. Papers are roughly Millstone quarries are the sites where hard and grouped and focus on ‘mobility and abrasive stones were extracted to be fashioned the landscape’, ‘monuments and into the querns or millstones to grind flour for mobility’, ‘travelling by water’, Only bread, the staple food of our ancestors. These little and ‘materials and mobility’. £28.50 until known extraction sites, ubiquitous throughout the 256p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication European landscape, have been largely neglected. Books 2016) 9781785701764 Pb This study, focusing on the southern half of the £38.00 Iberian Peninsula, attempts to draw attention to these often spectacular sites that merge so well with nature. Rock Art Through Time 341p, (The Highfield Press 2016) 9780992633653 Pb Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and £45.00, NYP Earliest Iron Age By Peter Skoglund Recycling Ideas The rock art surrounding the Bronze Age Metal Production in Southern city of Simrishamn in south- Norway east Scania constitutes a By Lene Melheim spatially well-defined An examination of technological, cognitive and tradition that covers the symbolic aspects of metallurgy across the Nordic Bronze Age and the earliest region in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, with Iron Age, c. 1700–200 BC a particular focus on southern Norway. Basically, and, although the number two sets of ideas are scrutinized: 1) ideas that have of sites is comparatively governed and still govern archaeological concepts of small, a characteristic and the Bronze Age, and 2) ideas that moulded Bronze unusual feature is the Age mentality, arising, it is argued, from physical large representation of experience with metallurgy. various kinds of metal axes. Significanctly these 273p, (British Archaeological Reports 2715, 2015) images are tightly distributed inside the core 9781407313689 Pb £46.00 zone of metal consumption in southernmost Scandinavia. This beautifully illustrated new Cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture addition to the Swedish Rock Art series presents the Human Remains from Herxheim a detailed reassessment of the Simrishamn rock By Bruno Boulestin art and examines the close relationship between The Herxheim enclosure is one of the major discoveries iconography displayed on metals and that found of the last two decades regarding the Linear Pottery in rock art. In so doing it raises some important Culture, and probably one of the most significant in questions of principle concerning advancing understanding of how this culture ended. the current understanding of the The authors provide here the first extensive study of the south Scandinavian rock art Only human remains found at Herxheim. tradition. £15.00 until They describe the treatment of the (Swedish Rock Art Series vol. 5, publication dead, showing that they actually Only Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701641 were the victims of cannibalistic £28.00 until Pb £20.00 practices. 30th April 152p, (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784912130 Pb £35.00 European Prehistory19 Blood of the Celts NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The New Ancestral Story By Jean Manco Prehistoric Rock Art in Scandinavia Debate continues about who were the Celts, where By Courtney Nimura they came from, and whether the modern Celtic- This comprehensive speakers of the British Isles and Brittany are related to review is based on the Continental Celts we know from ancient history. the creation of a Jean Manco explores both linguistic and genetic Scandinavia-wide GIS evidence in a vivid and compelling account that takes database for prehistoric the reader from the origins of the ancient Celts to the rock art and re-examines modern Celtic Revival. theoretical approaches 240p, (Thames and Hudson 2015) 9780500051832 Hb and interpretations, in £18.95 particular with regard to the significance of The Later Prehistory of North-West the ship motif and Europe its relationship to The Evidence of Development-Led Fieldwork a maritime landscape. Two main theories By Leo Webley, Marc Vander Linden, Colin Haselgrove are developed. The first is that the sea was & Richard Bradley fundamental to the purpose and meaning of rock art, especially in the Bronze Age and, An up-to-date synthesis of the later prehistoric therefore, that sea-level/shoreline changes archaeology of north-west Europe, which transcends would have inspired a renegotiation of the political and language barriers that can hinder relationship between the rock art sites and their understanding. Key to the volume’s broad scope is its intended purpose. The second that the purpose focus on the vast mass of new evidence provided by of rock art might have been altered to have an recent development-led excavations at thousands of effect on the disappearing sea. sites across Britain, Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, western Germany, and Denmark. The 160p, (Swedish Rock Art Series vol. 4, Oxbow Books results challenge many aspects of previous narratives 2015) 9781785701191 Pb £25.00 of later prehistory, allowing the volume to present a Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and distinctively fresh perspective. Mediterranean Island Ritual 480p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199659777 Hb £90.00 Edited by George Nash & Andrew Townsend Persistent Economic Ways of Living The 16 papers presented Production, Distribution and Consumption in here explore the Late Prehistory and Early History physicality, and levels of Edited by Manuel Fernandez-Gotz & Alzbeta Danielisova insularity of individual islands and island This edited volume focuses on long-term economic groups during prehistory structures reflected in material culture, analysing through a series of case the emergent processes that affected production studies on Neolithic mechanisms and embedded economic behaviour. It island archaeology focuses on approaches and methods for ascertaining in the Atlantic and levels of societal complexity through the detection Mediterranean regions. of the character and aspects of basic economic For the eastern Atlantic processes. (the Atlantic Archipelago) papers discuss the 241p, (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911703 Hb £45.00 sacred geographies and material culture of The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Neolithic Gotland, Orkney, and Anglesey and the architecture of and ritual behaviour Iron Age Roman and Medieval Europe associated with megalithic monuments in Edited by David Wheatley, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan & the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles. For Marta Diaz-Guardamino the Mediterranean region papers discuss This volume explores the pervasive influence theoretical constructs and ritual deposition, exerted by some prehistoric monuments on cave sites, ritualised and religious aspects European social life over thousands of years, and of Neolithic death and burial; metaphysical reveals how they can act as a node linking people journeys associated with the underworld in through time, possessing huge ideological and Late Neolithic Malta and the possible role political significance. The essays explore the role of of its Temple Period art in ritual activities; ancient remains in the creation, institutionalization, and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the contestation, and negotiation of social identities and Neolithic monuments of Corsica. memories, as well as their relationship with political 304p, b/w illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700507 economy in early historic European societies. Hb £50.00 384p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198724605 Hb £85.00 20 European Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Celts: Art and Identity Edited by Fraser Hunter & Julia Farley Celtic from the West 3 Drawing on the latest scholarship, the authors Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages – questions explore how the Celts have been defined of shared language differently from ancient times to the modern day, Edited by Barry Cunliffe & John T. Koch by people with different perspectives and agendas. The Celtic languages and They look, too, at what is meant by Celtic art, from groups called Keltoi emerge its origins c.500 BC in western Europe, through its into our written records at transformations and revivals in the Roman, Anglo- the pre-Roman Iron Age. The Saxon and medieval periods, to its rediscovery impetus for this book is to in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth explore from the perspectives centuries. The book accompanies the British of three disciplines – Museum exhibition and includes a sumptuously archaeology, genetics, and illustrated catalogue. linguistics – the background 288p, (British Museum Press 2015) 9780714128368 Pb in later European prehistory £25.00 to these developments. There is a traditional scenario, The Celts according to which, Celtic speech and the associated By Alice Roberts group identity came in to being during the Early Iron Age in the north Alpine zone and then rapidly Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their spread across central and western Europe. But it has treasures in a lively narrative which accompanies a become increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent new BBC series. She explores their real origins, how discoveries pointing towards origins in the deeper past. they lived and thrived, and their enduring modern It should no longer be taken for granted that Atlantic legacy, using ground-breaking linguistic research, Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC were in addition to the latest archaeology and genetics. pre-Celtic or even pre-Indo-European. 320p, (Quercus 2015) 9781784293321 Hb £20.00 The explorations in Celtic from the West 3 are drawn together in The Silk Road this spirit, continuing two earlier Only A New History volumes in the influential series. £33.95 until By Valerie Hansen 480p, (Oxbow Books 2016) publication The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the 9781785702273 Hb £45.00 Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a Iconic Costumes caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality By Ulla Mannering was different-and far more interesting-as revealed This richly illustrated in this new history. Hansen explores seven oases book presents a selection along the road, from Xi’an to Samarkand, where of the rich and varied merchants, envoys, pilgrims, and travellers mixed iconographic material from in cosmopolitan communities, tolerant of religions the Scandinavian Late Iron from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. There was no Age (AD 400-1050) depicting single, continuous road, but a chain of markets that clothed human figures, from traded between east and west. an archaeological textile 34p, (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780190218423 Pb £12.99 and clothing perspective. The source material consists The Silk Roads of five object categories: A New History of the World gold foils, gold bracteates, By Peter Frankopan helmet plaques, jewellery, and textile tapestries The region stretching from eastern Europe and and comprises over 1000 different images of male sweeping right across Central Asia deep into and female costumes which are then systematically China and India is obscure to many in the English- examined in conjunction with our present knowledge speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself of archaeological textiles. In particular, the study began, where the world’s great religions were born explores the question of whether the selected images and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series complement the archaeological clothing sources, of connections, but networks that linked continents through a new analytical tool which and oceans together. A major reassessment of world enables us to compare and contrast history, this book is an important account of the the object categories in regard to Only forces that have shaped the global economy and the material, function, chronology, political renaissance in the re-emerging east. context and interpretation. £28.50 until 656p col pls (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781408839973 Hb 288p, (Oxbow Books 2016) publication £30.00 9781785702150 Hb £38.00
European Prehistory 21 World Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Ming China Courts and Contacts 1400–1450 Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral By Jessica Harrison-Hall, Craig Clunas & Luk Yu-Ping Sea Area These papers focus on Ming dynasty China in the By B. V. Adrianov & Simone Mantellini years 1400 to 1450, a time when China was the largest Ancient Irrigation Systems (and one of the most prosperous) states in the world, in the Aral Sea Area, is the ruled by a single family through a network of imperial English translation of Boris and regional courts. During this period, many cultural, Vasilevich Andrianov’s work, social and political themes that were to dominate Drevnie orositelnye sistemy China’s history from this point onwards were either priaralya , concerning the created or consolidated. The book integrates more study of ancient irrigation fully material culture perspectives with the work of systems and the settlement social, political, economic, intellectual and cultural pattern in the historical historians and situates early Ming court culture region of Khorezm, south of within a wider global context. the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). 272p, (British Museum Press 2016) 9780861592050 Pb This work holds a special £40.00, NYP place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary The Origins of Ancient Vietnam approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, By Nam C. Kim surveys, and excavations. This translation has been This study explores the enriched by the addition of introductions written by origins of an ancient state in several eminent scholars from the region regarding northern Vietnam, an area the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological- long believed to be the cradle Ethnographic Expedition and the of Vietnamese civilization. figure of Boris V. Andrianov In doing so, it analyses the and his landmark study almost Only archaeological record and the 50 years after the original £16.95 until impact of new information publication. on extant legends about publication 300p (Oxbow Books 2016) the region and its history. 9781842173848 Hb £20.00 Additionally, Kim presents the archaeological case for this momentous development, The Archaeology of South Asia placing Co Loa within a wider From the Indus to Asoka c.6500 BCE-200 CE archaeological consideration of emergent cities, states, and civilizations. By Robin Coningham 354p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199980888 Hb £41.99 This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology Eastern Han (AD 25-220) Tombs of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), in Sichuan when domestication began, By Xuan Chen to the spread of Buddhism This work explores the many factors underlying accompanying the Mauryan the extended popularity of the cliff tomb, a local Emperor Asoka’s reign burial form in the Sichuan Basin in China during (third century BCE). The the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220). It identifies authors examine the growth a series of factors including the readily exploitable and character of the Indus soft limestone hills. The meanings behind the civilisation, with its town seemingly continuous ‘family’ associated with planning, sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities the cliff tomb structure are also explored, as and international trade. They also consider the strong the construction of the tomb resulted from the cultural links between the Indus civilisation and continuous endeavours of many the second, later period of South Asian urbanism generations, and the physical which began in the first millennium BCE. In addition appearance of the cliff tomb Only to examining the evidence for emerging urban becomes a metaphor for family £22.50 until prosperity. complexity, this book gives equal weight to interactions 30th April between rural and urban communities across South 126p, (Archaeopress Archaeology Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural 2015) 9781784912161 Pb £28.00 areas in social and economic development 552p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521846974 Hb £89.99 22 Rock Art and Regional Identity World Archaeology NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A Comparative Perspective By Jamie Hampson The Roots of Asian Weaving This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area By Eric Boudot & Chris Buckley of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates This ground-breaking that there are archaeological and anthropological ways book documents the of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain weaving traditions and the significance of rock art motifs. Using two disparate textiles of one of Asia’s regions shows the possibility of comparative rock art most ethnically diverse studies and highlights the importance of regional areas, placing them studies and regional variations. in a regional context. 256p b/w illus (Left Coast Press 2015) 9781611323719 Hb Based on more than £60.95 a decade of first-hand study in the field, the Prehistoric Culture Change on authors record the trad- Southern Vancouver Island itions of Miao, Yao, The applicability of current explanations of Buyi, Dong, Zhuang, Maonan, Dai and Li the Marpole Transition weavers from Guizhou to Hainan Island. They By Terence Clark describe the looms and techniques of these groups, including diagrams, descriptions Presented here are the results of research on the and photographs of the weaving processes transition from Locarno Beach archaeological culture and woven structures. The authors present a type (3500/3300 – 2500/2400 BP) to Marpole culture novel analysis of loom technology across the type (2500/2400 4500/1100 BP) within the Gulf of Asian mainland, using techniques derived Georgia region of the Northwest Coast of North from linguistics and biology. They use these to America. Nearly 6000 artefacts from seven Southern chart the evolutionary history of looms in Asia, Vancouver Island archaeological sites are typologically demonstrating that all the major traditions are reclassified and combined with previously recorded related in spite of their apparent diversity. data from twenty Gulf of Georgia site components. 480p, col ills (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701443 85p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2015) Hardback £60.00 9781407314044 Pb £26.00 Na¯ Inoa Ho¯ku¯ Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names Art Archaeology and Science By Clive Ruggles, John Kaipo Mahelona & Rubellite An Interdisciplinary Approach to Chinese Kawena Johnson Archaeological and Artistic Materials Though long out of print, Nā Inoa Hōkū is still widely By Meili Yang regarded as a definitive source of reference for anyone Science has played a crucial role in the study interested in the use of astronomy in Polynesian of ancient Chinese artworks and archaeological voyaging or the nature and development of ritual materials. Part One of this book explores the modes and calendrical practices throughout the Pacific. and functions of the scientific resources available Working together with British archaeoastronomer and their integration into interdisciplinary study Clive Ruggles, the authors have extensively revised methods and models. In Part Two, Meili Yang and extended the catalogues and transformed the establishes a feasible method of interdisciplinary discussion of their wider context and significance, study in terms of five case studies related to Chinese resulting in a much stronger focus upon the rich Song ceramics. historical legacy of the Hawaiian Islands themselves. 224p, (Sussex Academic Press 2015) 9781845197339 Hb 284p, (Ocarina Books 2015) 9780954086756 Pb £26.00 £65.00 The Archaeology of Community The Origins of the Lost Fleet of Emergence and Development on the Mongol Empire Mabuyag in the Western Torres Strait By Randall James Sasaki By Duncan Wright Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding This book provides the first detailed archaeological the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of study into the emergence and development of Japan in 1281 CE. Although no conclusive statements historically and ethnographically-known villages can be made regarding the origins of the vessels, it in the Torres Strait. The close examination of appears that historical documents and archaeological settlement and subsistence histories on Mabuyag evidence correspond well to each other, and that furnishes chronological insights into the changing many of the remains analyzed were from smaller role of villages for a single island community. vessels built in China’s Yangtze River Valley. 88p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2754, 2015) 216p, (Texas A&M UP 2015) 9781623491949 Hb £46.50 9781407314150 Pb £26.00 World Archaeology23 The Oxford Handbook of North Paysage Socioculturel et Architecture American Archaeology Dans la Culture Chimu Edited by Timothy R. Pauketat L’implantation Humaine à l’Intermédiaire This volume explores 15,000 years of indigenous Récent (1000-1470 Apr. J.---C.) Dans la Vallée human history on the North American continent, de Chicama (côte nord du Perou drawing on the latest archaeological theories, By Camille Clement time-honoured methodologies, and rich datasets. In this volume the analysis of settlement patterns From the Arctic south to the Mexican border and and the exploitation of the valley of Chicama sheds east to the Atlantic Ocean, all of the major cultural light on different mechanisms that contributed to developments are covered in 53 chapters. the growth of Chan Chan, the political capital and 704p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780195380118 ceremonial centre of the Chimú. It shows that the Hb £107.00, 9780190241094 Pb £32.99 heart of the coastal plain of Chicama was cultivated by local communities, while in the margins, the Sex Metaphor and Ideology in Moche expanding irrigation and the agriculture were Pottery of Ancient Peru managed from administrative centres relaying the By Andrew Turner authority of Chan Chan. This study focuses on portrayals of an often-depicted French text 381p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports Moche deity who, in this instance, copulates with 2748, 2015) 9781407314099 Pb £60.00 a woman figure and argues that such images drew upon widespread beliefs concerning the functions Swahili Urbanisation Trade and Food of a vital cosmos to make potent ideological claims of Production legitimacy in a richly metaphorical visual landscape. Botanical Perspectives from Pemba Island 94p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2015) Tanzania AD 600-1500 9781407313986 Pb £25.00 By Sarah Walshaw This monograph examines Swahili plant The Archaeology of an Ancient subsistence and food production patterns through Seaside Town the analysis of macrobotanical remains from Performance and Community at Samanco four archaeological sites on Pemba Island, Nepena Valley Peru (ca. 500-1 BC) Tanzania, dating to A.D. 700-1600. Specifically By Matthew Helmer towns and villages are compared before and Two field seasons of intensive excavations at during the emergence of stonetowns, settlements Samanco in 2012 and 2013 yielded a substantial characterized by stone/coral household and ritual dataset to analyze performance and maritime architecture, which have been described as urban, aspects of early urbanism in the Central Andes. based on their roles as economic, political, and This book provides an in-depth look at Samanco’s religious centres along the eastern African coast. archaeological record, supplanted with theoretical 126p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2755, 2015) analysis of performance, common experiences, and 9781407314167 Pb £32.00 community organization. The research reveals a thriving coastal town during a period of settlement Material Explorations in African nucleation, known as the Salinar phenomenon. Archaeology 194p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2751, 2015) By Timothy Insoll 9781407314129 Pb £38.00 This study examines materiality in African Metallurgy in Ancient Ecuador archaeology by exploring A Study of the Collection of Archaeological concepts of material agency Metallurgy of the Ministry of Culture Ecuador and material engagement By Roberto Lleras Perez and entanglement in relation Through the study of the collection of to their manifest presence archaeological metal objects of the Ministry of in persons, animals, objects, Culture and Heritage of Ecuador, the compilation substances, and contexts. of previous archaeological references, laboratory Adopting a multidisciplinary analyses and C14 dating of museum objects this focus, the volume draws not study reconstructs the history of metallurgy only on archaeology but in Ecuador from its beginnings also, among other areas, in around 1500 BC, to the rise ethnography and history, of regional traditions and Only discussing themes such as bodies, landscape, healing and medicine, and divination, as well as concepts the effects of first Inca, then £22.50 until European domination. such as memory and biography, transformation, and 30th April 150p, (Archaeopress Archaeology metaphor and metonym. 2015) 9781784911607 Pb £28.00 496p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199550067 Hb £90.00
24 World Archaeology Egypt Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters The Sphinx That Traveled to Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late Philadelphia 19th – Early 20th Centuries The Story of the Colossal Sphinx in the Penn By Maya Muratov & Rachel Mairs Museum In the late 19th and early By Josef Wegner & Jennifer Houser Wegner 20th centuries, growing This book tells the fascinating story of the colossal numbers of tourists and sphinx that is a highlight of the Penn Museum’s scholars from Europe and Egyptian galleries. The narrative covers the original America, fascinated by new excavations and archaeological history of the discoveries, visited the Near Sphinx, how it came to Philadelphia, and the East and Egypt. This study, unexpected ways in which the Sphinx’s story based on published and intersects with the history of Philadelphia, the unpublished travel memoirs, University of Pennsylvania, and the Museum just guidebooks, personal papers before World War I. and archaeological reports 256p col illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) of the British and American 9781934536766 Hb £19.50 archaeologists, deals with the socio-political status and multi-faceted role of interpreters at the time. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian 147p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472588807 Pb Archaeology £19.99 Characters and Collections An Illustrated Introduction to By Alice Stevenson The Petrie Museum holds more than 80,000 objects Ancient Egypt and is one of the largest and finest collections of By Charlotte Booth Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. This illustrated, accessible introduction to Ancient Here experts discuss the discovery, history and care Egypt covers all the major aspects of religion, daily of key objects in the collections such as the Koptos life, childhood, politics and finally death rites, lions and Roman era panel portraits. The rich and through the words and possessions of the people varied history of the Petrie Museum is revealed by who lived there. the secrets that sit on its shelves. 96p, col illus (Amberley Publishing 2014) 9781445633657 120p col illus (UCL Press 2015) 9781910634042 Pb £10.00 Pb £9.99 Gifts for the Gods The Story of Egypt Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies and By Joann Fletcher the British A popular, one-volume history of Ancient Egypt By Lidija Mary McKnight which focuses on the lives and culture of the In a series of chapters written by experts in their Ancient Egyptians. Insights are provided on field, Gifts for the Gods details the place of animals, everything from Egypt’s oldest art to the beginnings both in ancient Egypt and in museum collections, of mummification almost two thousand years whilst incorporating the stories of those who earlier than previously believed. Fletcher also looks discovered animal mummies, either in Egypt, at the women who became pharaohs on at least 10 at auctions or in museum storage. The range of occasions, and the evidence that the Egyptians built scientific analyses applied to animal mummies at the first Suez Canal, circumnavigated Africa and the University of Manchester and partner research won victories at the Olympic games. institutions brings the book to a close with the 496p, (Hodder & Stoughton 2015) 9781444785180 Hb understanding that this research represents only the £25.00 beginning of a much larger task. 112p col illus (Liverpool UP 2015) 9781781382554 Pb In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians £19.99 By Charlotte Booth Charlotte Booth draws on archaeological evidence The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II and the written record to build up a picture of sex in By Anna Garnett the time of the pharaohs. Aspects of sex from ideal Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the beauty and ideas of sexuality to the importance and statue and contextual images, this book tells the representations of fertility in artwork and religious story of this magnificent artefact, discussing the ideology are examined. Marriage, divorce and draw of colossal Egyptian sculpture and the history adultery are discussed along with prostitution and of the reign of Ramesses II. homosexuality. 64p col illus (British Museum Press 2015) 9780714151090 304p, (Amberley Publishing 2015) 9781445643434 Hb Pb £6.00 £20.00 25 Rise of the Hyksos Egyptian Gold Jewellery Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom with a catalogue of the collection of gold to the Early Second Intermediate Period objects in the Egyptian Department of the By Anna-Latifa Mourad National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden This book provides a new appraisal of the By Marielle Bulsink circumstances leading to Hyksos rule. Utilising Ancient Egyptian gold is theories on ethnicity and cultural mixing, it known to all of us. But what investigates the nature and effects of Egyptian- was the significance of gold Levantine contact from the Middle Kingdom to the in Ancient Egyptian society? early Second Intermediate Period, and reassesses the Where was it found and Egyptian concept of the other. The approach is holistic, how was it won? And where gathering archaeological, textual and did the Ancient Egyptian artistic evidence from sites across goldsmith work and what three regions: Egypt, the Eastern Only techniques did he master? Desert, and the Levant. £38.50 until The first part of this book 328p b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April tackles these questions. The Archaeology 2015) 9781784911331 second part is a catalogue Pb £48.00 of gold objects in National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. The World of Middle Kingdom 206p col illus (Brepols 2015) 9782503553672 Hb £75.00 Egypt (2000-1550 BC) Volume 1 Contributions on Archaeology Art Religion and Copper and Trade in the South-Eastern Written Sources; Middle Kingdom Studies I Mediterranean Edited by Wolfram Grajetzki & Gianluca Miniaci Trade Routes of the Near East in Antiquity This volume presents a Edited by Karolina Rosinska-Balik, Agnieszka Ochal- collection of articles on Czarnowicz, Marcin Czarnowicz & Joanna Debowska- the Middle Kingdom and Ludwin Second Intermediate Period This book is the result of a large-scale research of Ancient Egypt. Written undertaking “Trade Routes of the Near East”, by experts, these papers examining Egyptian-Levantine interaction in the present new insights into the 4th Millennium BC. Chapters explore many issues art, archaeology and religion related to copper and trade in the long period of a still not very well known covering the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, but also period of Egyptian history. Roman period, with a special extension to present 382p, (Golden House Publications metallurgical practices in the African interior. 2015) 9781906137434 Pb £75.00 157p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2753, 2015) 9781407314143 Pb £34.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE The Tears of Re Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt By Gene Kritsky According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the ground. Beyond the realm of myth, the honey bee is a surprisingly common and significant motif in Egyptian history, playing a role in the mythology, medicine, art, and food of the ancient culture. In The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt, entomologist Gene Kritsky presents the first full-length discussion of the ways in which bees were a part of life in ancient Egypt. He delves into ancient Egypt’s complex society, revealing that bees had a significant presence in everything from death rituals to trade. In fact, beekeeping was a state-controlled industry, and in certain instances honey could even be used to pay taxes! Honey was used both to Only sweeten foods and treat cuts, and was sometimes used as a £16.00 until tribute or offering. From the presence of bees in paintings and hieroglyphs in tombs to the use of beeswax in a variety 30th April of products, bees had a significant presence in ancient Egyptian culture. 160p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199361380 Hb £19.99
26 Egypt Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Context and Function By Elizabeth Brophy Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert The aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic in Egypt under the Ptolemies and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating By James C. R. Gill between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy Through an analysis of I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. recently discovered Ptolemaic It considers the distribution, style, placement, and pottery from Mut al-Kharab, functions of the royal statues, and to answer the as well as a re-examination primary questions: where were these statues located? of pottery collected by the What was the relationship between statue, especially Dakhleh Oasis Project during statue style, and placement? And the survey of the oasis from what changes can be identified 1978–1987, this book challenges between Ptolemaic and Imperial Only the common perception that royal sculpture? £30.50 until Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase in 170p b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April Archaeology 2015) 9781784911515 agricultural exploitation and Pb £38.00 a dramatic rise in population during the Roman Period. It argues that such changes had already begun Tell el-Ghaba III to take place during the Ptolemaic Period, likely as A Third Intermediate-Early Saite Period Site in the result of a deliberate strategy directed toward this the Egyptian Eastern Delta Excavations 1995- region by the Ptolemies. This book focuses on the 1999 and 2010 in Areas I II VI and VIII ceramic remains in order to determine the extent of Edited by Silvia Lupo Ptolemaic settlement in the oases and to offer new This volume of Tell el-Ghaba consolidates and insights into the nature of this settlement. It presents extends the results of the excavations undertaken a corpus of Ptolemaic pottery and a catalogue of in the first stage between 1995 and 1999 and includes Ptolemaic sites from Dakhleh Oasis. It also presents the results of the fieldwork conducted in the second a survey of Ptolemaic evidence from the oases of stage in 2010. It is divided into an introduction and Kharga, Farafra, Bahariya and Siwa. four main sections: The environmental and physical It thus represents the first major studies; the fieldwork; pottery; other finds. synthesis of Ptolemaic Period Only 437p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2756, 2015) activity in the Egyptian Western £56.00 until Desert. 9781407314174 Pb £70.00 publication 504p, (Oxbow Books 2016) The Cemetery of Meir, Volume III 9781785701351 Hb £75.00 The Tomb of Niankhpepy the Black By Ashraf Senussi, Anna-Latifa Mourad, Miral Lashien, Naguib Kanawati & Linda Evans This book details the excavation and recording Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and of Tomb A4 and its decorated burial chamber Neolithic Near East belonging to Niankhpepy the Black, whose son A Guide Pepyankh the Black built two communicating tombs By John J. Shea A1 and A2 for his father and himself, then linking the Written by a lithic chapel of Tomb A1 to the burial chamber of Tomb A4 analyst and professional via a sloping passage. flintknapper, this book 68p b/w pls (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2015) systematically examines 9780856688560 Pb £75.00, NYP variation in technology, typology, and industries Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt for the Lower, Middle, 300 BC-AD 800 and Upper Paleolithic; By Roger S. Bagnall the Epipaleolithic; and More than three hundred letters written in Greek and Neolithic periods in the Egyptian by women in Egypt in the millennium from Near East. It is extensively Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest survive on illustrated with drawings papyrus and pottery. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella of stone tools. In addition Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters to surveying the lithic evidence, the book also in translation and set them in their palaeographic, considers ways in which archaeological treatment linguistic, social, and economic contexts. of this evidence could be changed to make it more 440p, (University of Michigan Press 2006, Pb 2015) relevant to major issues in human origins research. 9780472115068 Hb £83.50, 9780472036226 Pb £41.95 350p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781107006980 Hb £64.99, 9781107552029 Pb £23.99
Egypt 27 Ancient Near East
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Cylinder Seals Volume IV By Edith Porada & Dominique Collon Archaeozoology of the Near East The latest in the British Museum’s series publishing Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark Beech their collection of cylinder seals continues the story This two part volume brings of the cylinder seal styles of the second millennium together over 60 specialists to BC beyond Babylonia. Between 2000 and 1000 present 31 papers on the latest BC whole series of regional glyptic styles were research into archaeozoology developed in various autonomous kingdoms and of the Near East. The papers city states. Each of these has merited its own chapter are wide-ranging in terms or section within this current volume, with its own of period and geographical selection of photographs and catalogue entries. coverage: from Palaeolithic 272p, (British Museum Press 2016) 9780714111308 Hb rock shelter assemblages in £60.00, NYP Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers Imperial Landscape are grouped into thematic sections examining Social Value and Semiotic Meaning patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in By Alice M.W. Hunt northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, and the unincorporated territories, including nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By case studies on ritual animal deposits; understanding these vessels as a vehicle through and specific analyses of patterns of which interregional and intercultural relationships animal exploitation at urban sites Only were negotiated and maintained she reveals their in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan. £52.00 until complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication dynamics. Books 2016) 9781782978442 Hb 248p b/w illus (Brill 2015) 9789004304116 Hb £95.00 £70.00 Bones and Identity Religion and Ideology in Assyria Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing By Beate Pongratz-Leisten Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, Edited by Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Weissbrod, Nimrod and visual sources, this book reconstructs the Marom & Guy Bar-Oz cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through Seventeen papers the first millennium BCE. Tracing Assur’s cultural demonstrate how zoo- interaction with the south on the one hand, and archaeologists engage with the Syro-Anatolian horizon on the other, it with questions of identity articulates a “northern” cultural discourse that, even through culinary references, while interacting with southern Mesopotamian livestock husbandry tradition, managed to maintain its own identity. practices and land use. Among the themes explored 553p (Walter de Gruyter 2015) 9781614514824 Hb £110.00 are shifting identities of late Tell er-Rumeith hunter-gatherers through Edited by Tristan J. Barako & Nancy J. Lapp interactions with settled agrarian societies; the Tristan Barako and the other authors have used management of camp sites by early complex hunter- the field notes, reports and photographs of Paul gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman Lapp’s excavations in the 1960s to bring together this culinary practices among Egyptian final report. Part I presents the basic stratigraphy elites; and the propagation of of the site and the corpus of Iron Age pottery that medieval pilgrim identity represents its main period of occupation. Part II Only presents studies of artefacts including the post-Iron through the use of seashell £28.50 until insignia. age pottery, the human skeleton evidence, and publication textile production at the site, as well as figurines, 352p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) groundstone and other small finds. 9781785701726 Pb £38.00 444p, b/w illus (American Schools of Oriental Research 2015) 9780897570893 Hb £52.00 28 Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins in the The Mysterious Wall Paintings of Context of 8th-6th Century BC Teleilat Ghassul Jordan in Context Babylonian Assyrian and Elamite Monographs of the Sydney University Teleilat Funerary Practices Ghassul Project By Yasmina Wicks By Bernadette Drabsch This volume is dedicated to the examination of a This volume is primarily concerned with the re- small corpus of bronze U-shaped burial receptacles analysis of the wall paintings from the Jordanian from ancient Mesopotamia and Elam, dubbed Chalcolithic period (ca. 4700-3700 BC) settlement site ‘bathtub’ coffins for their characteristic apsidal of Teleilat Ghassul, first excavated in 1929. The seven shape, reminiscent of a style of 19th and early 20th major paintings were re-analysed using a methodology century bathtub. The coffins are approached in this based on contextualisation, digital reconstruction, work as a distinct corpus because they are almost experimental replication and subject analysis. They identical in appearance and manufacture, and have revealed numerous insights into the artistic are known to have been produced traditions and cultic practices of South Levantine and used for only a relatively Ghassulian Chalcolithic culture, short time-span by three closely Only with considerable relevance to the ongoing debate on such matters as Only interacting societies. £28.00 until prehistoric societal makeup and £27.50 until 200p b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April art historical scholarship. Archaeology 2015) 9781784911744 30th April Pb £35.00 210p, (Archaeopress Archaeology 2015) 9781784911706 Pb £34.00 The Excavations of Beth The Many Faces of Herod Shemesh, November–December 1912 the Great By Nicoletta Momigliano, Zvi Lederman, Shlomo Bunimovitz & Duncan Mackenzie By Adam Kolman Marshak In 1992 Nicoletta Momigliano For most of the Western world, Herod the Great rediscovered Mackenzie’s is an icon of cruelty and evil, the epitome of a lost manuscript on his 1912 tyrant. Adam Kolman Marshak portrays him quite excavations at Beth Shemesh. differently, however, carefully drawing on historical, At about the same time, archaeological, and literary sources. Marshak shows Shlomo Bunimovitz and how Herod successfully ruled over his turbulent Zvi Lederman initiated new kingdom by skillfully interacting with his various excavations at Beth Shemesh audiences, Roman, Hellenistic, and Judaean. He which considerably changed chronicles how Herod moved from bankrupt previous interpretations of usurper to a wealthy and powerful king who the site. This volume presents founded a dynasty and brought ancient Judaea to Mackenzie’s detailed its greatest prominence and prosperity. discussion of his last excavations at Beth Shemesh 400p, (William B. Eerdmans 2015) 9780802866059 Pb in the light of these more recent discoveries. £23.99 164p b/w illus (Maney Publishing 2015) 9781138640740 Hb £90.00, NYP
EDITOR’S CHOICE Ancient Kanesh A Merchant Colony in Bronze Age Anatolia By Mogens T. Larsen The ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh (present-day Kultepe, Turkey) was a continuously inhabited site from the early Bronze Age through Roman times. The city flourished c.2000-1750 BCE as an Old Assyrian trade outpost and the earliest attested commercial society in world history. More than 23,000 elaborate clay tablets from private merchant houses provide a detailed description of a system of long-distance trade that Only reached from central Asia to the Black Sea region and the Aegean. This book presents an in-depth account of this £52.00 until vibrant Bronze Age Anatolian society, revealing the daily 30th April lives of its inhabitants. 340p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107119567 Hb £64.99
Ancient Near East29 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Empire Authority and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia The Parthian and Early Sasanian By Elspeth Dusinberre Empires Through a wide array Adaptation and expansion of textual, visual and Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth Pendleton, archaeological material, Touraj Daryaee & Michael Alram Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre Despite a change of ruling shows how the rulers of dynasty, the Parthian and the Achaemenid Empire Sasanian Empires were constructed a system flexible closely connected and enough to provide for the cannot be regarded as totally needs of different peoples separate entities. Although within the confines of a an attempt has been made single imperial authority and by several scholars in the highlights the variability in west to place the important response. This book examines the dynamic tensions Pathian dynasty in its between authority and autonomy across the Empire, proper cultural context, the providing a valuable new way of considering traditional GrecoRoman imperial structure and development. influenced approach is still prevalent. The 408p, (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781107018266 Hb present volume presents 15 papers covering £79.99, 9781107577152 Pb £18.99 various aspects of Parthian and early Sasanian history, material culture, linguistics and religion A State of Mixture which demonstrate a rich surviving heritage and Christians, Zoroastrians and Iranian Political provide many new insights into Culture in Late Antiquity ideology, royal genealogy, social By Richard E. Payne organisation, military tactics, Only Christian communities linguistic developments and £29.00 until flourished during late trading contacts. publication antiquity in the Persian 160p, (Oxbow Books 2016) Empire, a Zoroastrian political Mediterranean Prehistory 9781785702075 Hb £38.00 system that integrated culturally and geographically Carchemish in Context disparate territories from By T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg & Eleanor Arabia to Afghanistan into Barbanes Wilkinson its institutions and networks. The city of Carchemish in the Whereas previous studies valley of the Euphrates river have regarded Christians as can be regarded as one of marginal, insular, and often the iconic sites in the Middle persecuted participants in this empire, Richard East, a mound complex Payne demonstrates their integration into elite known as the seat of Hittite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices power and Neo-Hittite kings. and imaginaries, and participation in imperial Carchemish in Context institutions. summarises the results of 318p, (University of California Press 2015) 9780520286191 regional investigations Hb £65.00 conducted within the Land of Carchemish Project in Mortuary Practice in Ancient Iran from Syria, as well as other archaeological surveys in the the Achaemenid to the Sasanian Period region. A synthesis of the history of Carchemish By Mahdokht Farjamirad is presented and a regional overview of regional A collection of archaeological materials and burial archaeological features and key historical references remains, recovered during large scale excavations through to the early Iron Age. Insightful snapshots of or by accidental discovery by travellers and locals, the dynamics of an ancient state are revealed which are presented in this volume on sixth- to seventh can now be seen to have fluctuated dramatically in century mortuary and funerary practices in during size throughout 700-800 years, in the Achaemenid and Sasanian period in Iran. Much part depending upon the power of this material has been poorly published in the of the king of Carchemish or the Only past, or not been published at all. aggressions of external powers. £34.00 until 396p b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2747, 2015) 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 9781407314082 Pb £60.00 Books 2016) 9781785701115 Hb £45.00
30 Ancient Near East Arabs and Empires Before Islam Pre-Islamic South Arabia and By Greg Fisher its Neighbours This volume collates nearly New Developments of Research 250 translated extracts Edited by Jeremie Schiettecatte & Mounir Arbach from an extensive array These essays explore the ways in which religious of ancient sources which, cults and practices shaped the landscapes and from a variety of different societies of pre-Islamic Saudi Arabia. Topics perspectives, illuminate include the origins of pre-Islamic pantheons; the history of the Arabs links between architectural form, religion and before the emergence of territory; pilgrimage; consequences of the growth Islam. Drawn from a broad of monotheism on pagan temples; and divergences period between the eighth and continuities between pre-Islamic and Islamic century BC and the Middle communities. Essays in English, French and Arabic. Ages, the sources include 262p (British Archaeological Reports 2740, 2015) texts written in Greek, 9781407313993 Pb £45.00 Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a variety of languages and alphabets, and Cypriote Antiquities in Reading discussions of archaeological sites from across The Ure Museum at the University of Reading the Near East. More than 20 international experts and the Reading Museum from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient By Jennifer M. Webb, Marianne Bergeron & Sadie Pickup history, linguistics and philology, epigraphy, and The artefacts which make up these collections art history, provide detailed commentary and date from the Bronze and Iron Ages and include analysis on this diverse selection of material. ceramics, lamps, terracottas, knives, spearheads a 608p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199654529 Hb £120.00 mirror, and stone vessels and figures. 48p, (Astrom Editions 2015) 9789170812019 Pb £25.00 Mediterranean Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Beyond Thalassocracies Of Odysseys and Oddities Understanding processes of Minoanisation and Scales and modes of interaction between Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean prehistoric Aegean societies and their neighbours Edited by Peter Pavúk, Evi Gorogianni & Luca Girella Edited by Barry Molloy Beyond Thalassocracies Of Odysseys and Oddities is aims to evaluate and about scales and modes of rethink the manner in interaction in prehistory, which archaeologists specifically between approach, understand, societies on both sides of and analyse the various the Aegean and with their processes associated with nearest neighbours overland culture change connected to to the north and east. The interregional contact, using 17 contributions reflect on as a test case the world of tensions at the core of how the Aegean during the Late we consider interaction in Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC). archaeology, particularly the The 14 chapters compare and contrast various motivations and mechanisms leading to social and aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and material encounters or displacements. Linked to Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic this are the ways we conceptualise spatial and social underlying defining feature of material culture entities in past societies (scales) and how we learn change in communities around the Aegean. The about who was actively engaged in interaction and volume targets those regions of the Aegean basin how and why they were (modes). Ultimately, the that were affected by both processes, intention is to foreground material highlighting their similarities and culture analysis in the development differences, in particular the Only of the arguments presented within Only Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the £34.00 until this volume, informed, but not £29.00 until north-eastern Aegean islands. driven, by theoretical positions. publication publication 240p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 400p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702037 Hb £45.00 9781785702310 Pb £38.00 31 Policies of Exchange Hagios Charalambos: A Minoan Burial Political Systems and Modes of Interaction Cave in Crete in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd II.The Pottery Millenium B.C.E Edited by Eleni Stravopodi, Costis Davaras, Philip P. Edited by Regine Pruzsinsky & Birgitta Eder Betancourt & Louise C. Langford-Verstegen Contributions in this present volume address the The finds from the cave at Hagios Charalambos specific mechanisms and routes of exchange in the in the Lasithi Plain illustrates secondary burial eastern Mediterranean during the 2nd Millennium practices in Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete. BC. They deal with questions including: How and The pottery shows that the people who deposited by which means did material commodities and their dead in the secondary burial cave at Hagios knowledge circulate among the great powers, lesser Charalambos were in contact with ceramic independent states and vassal kingdoms of the production centers in East Crete, the Mesara, Aegean, Anatolia, Syria, the Levant, Mesopotamia Knossos, the Pediada, and Malia. This range of and Egypt? Where did the different raw materials influences speaks not only of trade relations and and finished products come from, and under which political spheres of influence but also of tastes in conditions and by whom were they negotiated? Is pottery production and consumption. it possible to determine regions of production and 222p, (INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean direct and indirect channels of distribution? Prehistory) 2016) 9781931534833 Hb £36.00, NYP 357p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2015) 9783700176619 Pb £90.00 Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda The Power of Technology in the Bronze Specialist Reports and Analyses Age Eastern Mediterranean By Kevin T. Glowacki, Geraldine C. Gesell, Kimberly The Case of the Painted Plaster Flint-Hamilton, Heidi M.C. Dierckx & Leslie Preston By Ann Brysbaert Day This study approaches the topic of painted plaster by This book is the third volume in the final report of a multidisciplinary methodology and demonstrates the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan the human forces through which transfer was IIIC settlement of Vronda. Detailed analyses of enabled and how multiple social identities and the architecture, pottery, other finds (including the inter-relationships of these actors with each figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal other and their material world were expressed remains are presented, along with a complete through their craft production and organization. history of the site and an attempt to reconstruct the The investigated data from sixteen sites has been social, political, and religious organization of the contextualized within a wider framework of Bronze settlement. Age interconnections both in time and space. 420p, (INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 256p b/w illus (Equinox 2008, Pb 2015) 9781845534332 Prehistory) 2016) 9781931534840 Hb £55.00, NYP Hb £60.00, 9781781792537 Pb £30.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE The Making of the Middle Sea A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World By Cyprian Broodbank The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavour. World-class interpretations exist of its Classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little holistic exploration of how its societies, culture and economies first came into being, despite the fact that almost all the fundamental developments originated well before 500 bc. This book is the first full, interpretive synthesis for a generation on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its beginning, before the emergence of our own species, up to the threshold of Classical times. Extensively illustrated and ranging across disciplines, subject matter and chronology from early humans and the origins Only of farming and metallurgy to the rise of civilizations Egyptian, Levantine, Hispanic, Minoan, Mycenaean, £20.00 until Phoenician, Etruscan, early Greek the book is a masterpiece of archaeological 30th April and historical writing. 672p, (Thames and Hudson 2013, Pb 2015) 9780500292082 Pb £24.95
32Mediterranean Prehistory NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context Woven Threads Edited by Colin Renfrew, Marissa Marthari & Edited by Maria C. Shaw & Anne. P. Chapin Michael Boyd This volume investi- The study of the sculpture of gates evidence for the early bronze age Cyclades patterned textiles (that has been hampered by the is, textiles woven with fact that so many of the finds elaborate designs) that come from unauthorised were produced by two excavations, where the early Mediterranean archaeological context was civilisations: the irretrievably lost. Largely for Minoans of Crete and that reason there are still the Mycenaeans of many problems surrounding mainland Greece, that the chronology, the function prospered during the and the meaning of Early Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000–1200 BC. Only Cycladic sculpture. This lavishly illustrated and a few small scraps of textiles survive but comprehensive re-asssement sets out to rectify evidence for their production is abundant and that situation by publishing finds which have frescoes supply detailed information about a been recovered in controlled excavations in recent wide variety of now-lost textile goods from years, as well as earlier finds for which better luxurious costumes and beautifully patterned documentation can now be provided. Beginning wall hangings and carpets, to more utilitarian with early examples from Neolithic settlement decorated fabrics. A review of surviving sites and extending into a consideration of material artistic and archaeological evidence indicates found in later contexts, the 35 chapters are divided that textiles played essential practical and into sections which examine sculpture from social roles in both Minoan and Mycenaean settlements, cemeteries and the societies. sanctuary at Kavos, concluding 264p, colour illustrations (Oxbow Books 2015) with a discussion of material, Only 9781785700583 Hb £38.00 techniques and aspects of £32.00 until manufacture. publication 576p, (Oxbow Books 2016) Micromorphological Analysis of 9781785701955 Hb £40.00 Activity Areas Sealed by Vesuvius Burial and Social Change in Avellino Eruption First Millennium BC Italy The Early Bronze Age Village of Afragola in Approaching social agents Southern Italy Edited by Rafael Scopacasa & Elisa Perego By Tiziana Matarazzo The chief aim of this collection The remarkable preservation of the Early Bronze of 14 papers is to harness Age village of Afragola on the Campania Plain of innovative approaches Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. The site to the exceptionally rich was buried under nearly a meter of volcanic ash mortuary evidence of first deposited by the Avellino eruption of Vesuvius ca. millennium BC Italy, in 3945+10 cal. BP. The site boasts a large number of order to investigate the roles well-preserved structures, built features and organic and identities of social actors materials and thus provides a laboratory-type who either struggled for setting in which to investigate variability in artefact power and social recognition, distribution and activity areas across a single village. or were manipulated and This research utilizes micromorphological analysis exploited by superior of thin sections of undisturbed sediment collected authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio-political at the site to understand how people used living change throughout the entire Mediterranean basin. spaces, organized daily activities and, Contributors provide a diverse range of approaches when possible, to connect village in order to examine how power Only life to broad issues related to the operated in society, how it was £30.50 until emergence of social complexity exercised and resisted, and how Only on the Campanian Plain. this can be studied through 30th April £30.00 until 208p, (Archaeopress Archaeology mortuary evidence. publication 2015) 9781784912116 Pb £38.00 336p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701849 Pb £40.00
Mediterranean Prehistory33 Classical World Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Charlotte R. Potts Ancient Fortifications Religious Architecture in Edited by Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, Mike Schnelle Latium and Etruria c. 900- & Peter De Staebler 500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment Since the early years of of cult buildings in western the 21st century, research central Italy from the Iron on ancient fortifications Age to the Archaic Period. has experienced an The first part of the study international boom, examines the processes by reflected in this bilingual which religious buildings (English and German) changed from huts and book. The book is divided shrines to monumental into two parts: the first part temples, and explores apparent differences between includes 12 chapters on these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second methods of interpretation, part analyses the broader architectural, religious, documentation, and field and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco- project organisation; the systematic description Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their and presentation of fortifications; the‘building introduction. experience’; masonry forms and techniques; defensive, symbolic, and urbanistic functions 208p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198722076 Hb and aspects; on fortifications in written sources, £75.00 the visual arts, and as a historical source; and on Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily regional and rural fortifications, and regionally Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary confined phenomena. Part two is a catalogue that Corpus offers exemplary presentations of fortifications. By Katherine McDonald 352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701399 Hb £55.00 Using frameworks from Weben und Gewebe in der Antike/ epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of Texts and Textiles in the Ancient language contact, this book World explores the relationship Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – between Greek and Oscan, Metapoetik / Materiality – Representation – two of the most widely spoken Episteme – Metapoetics languages in the south of the By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer pre-Roman Italian peninsula. This volume presents 11 Dr McDonald demonstrates papers arranged under that genre and domain are the four headings of critical to understanding the title which focus on where and when Greek was the process of textile used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how manufacture, the weaving ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of process itself, and the their languages in their writing. materiality of fabric. 302p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107103832 Hb £64.99 Contributions address the problematic issues The Oxford History of Historical Writing of cognitive archaeology, Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600 consumer research, Edited by Grant Hardy & Andrew Feldherr literary theory and themes exploring both Volume I of this major new global survey of philosophical history and the history of reception historical writing offers essays by leading scholars of ideas and practice. Text mainly in German. on the development and history of the major 192p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) traditions of historical writing, including the 9781785700620 Hb £35.00 ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross- cultural comparisons. 672p, (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2015) 9780198737803 Pb £35.00 34 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Companion to Food in the Ancient Classical World World Focus on Fortifications Edited by John Wilkins & Robin Nadeau Edited by Rune Frederiksen, Silke Muth, Peter Schneider A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents & Mike Schnelle a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects With a collection of 57 relating to the production, preparation and articles in English, French consumption of food and drink in antiquity. Topics and German, presenting covered include the latest findings related to food the most recent research on in ancient literature; food and its relationship to ancient fortifications, this diet, nutrition, philosophy, gender, class and power; book is the most substantial archaeological and anthropological food studies; publication to have issued the production, transport and preparation of food; on the topic for many years. food cultures beyond the Greek and Roman worlds; The papers were presented the role of food in ancient religious practices; and at a conference in Athens in considerations of “great food cultures”. December 2012, and they all 457p (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781405179409 Hb £120.00 present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the Ancient Botany most central themes in the study of fortification By Laurence Totelin & Gavin Hardy in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical A new overview of ancient botany and the Classical surroundings and building technique, function texts which form its scientific foundations. The and semantics, historical context, authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a the fortification of regions and chronological one, considering important issues regionally confined phenomena, Only such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, the fortifications of Athens and £55.00 until classifications, physiology, the link between plants new field research. publication and their environment, and the numerous usages 624p, (Oxbow Books 2016) of plants in the ancient world. The book also takes 9781785701313 Hb £70.00 care to place ancient botany in its historical, social Spinning Fates and the Song and economic context. of the Loom 238p, (Routledge 2015) 9780415311205 Pb £29.99 The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production Ancient Geography as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece Greek and Latin Literature and Rome Edited by Marie Louise Nosch, Mary Harlow & By Duane W. Roller Giovanni Fanfani Duane Roller offers a comprehensive account of Spanning mainly Greek ancient pioneers in the field of geography, and the and Latin poetic genres, yet frontiers that defined their world. From the Bronze encompassing comparative Age to Late Antiquity, Roller maps the development evidence from other Indo- of geographical scholarship from its incipient European languages and beginnings in the literature of Hesiod, Homer, literatures, these 18 chapters Herodotus and the tragedians through to the draw a various yet consistent learned compendia of Posidonius and Strabo – and picture of the literary the scientific discoveries of Pythagoras, Eratosthenes exploitation of the imagery, and Euclid that made it all possible. concepts and symbolism of 288p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781784530761 Hb £62.00 ancient textiles and clothing. Topics include refreshing Women & War in Antiquity readings of tragic instances of deadly peploi and Edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith fatal fabrics, situating them within a Near Eastern Sixteen scholars re-examine classical sources to tradition of curse as garment, explore female agency uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored in the narrative of their production, and argue for relationship between women and war in ancient broader symbolic implications of textile-making Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played within the sphere of natural wealth. The concepts a much more active role in battle than previously and technological principles of ancient weaving assumed, embodying martial virtues in both emerge as cognitive patterns that, real and mythological combat. They consider a by means of analogy rather than vast panorama of scenes in which women are metaphor, are reflected in early Only portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and Greek mathematic and logical £28.50 until beneficiaries of war. thinking, and in archaic poetics. publication 341p (Johns Hopkins UP 2015) 9781421417622 Hb £35.50 (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701603 Hb £38.00 Classical World 35 Revealing & Concealing in Antiquity Philosophy and the Ancient Novel Textual & Archaeological Approaches to Edited by Silvia Montiglio & Marília F. Futre Pinheiro Secrecy The papers assembled in this volume explore a Edited by Sine Grove Saxkjaer & Eva Mortensen relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient This volume explores the concept of secrecy novel: the relationship between ostensibly non- and its implications in Antiquity, Late Antiquity philosophical genres and philosophy. The papers and the Renaissance in eleven cross-disciplinary in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging contributions using both textual and archaeological from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian sources. By exploring the revealing and concealing narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by of knowledge across different social contexts, diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances time frames and geographical locations, the book in these texts. provides insight into the concept of secrecy and 179p, (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431890 Hb £57.20 its potential for illuminating the agendas behind identity construction, political propaganda, literary Kinesis works, religious practices and shared history. The Ancient Depiction of Gesture Motion 202p (Aarhus UP 2015) 9788771243895 Hb £25.00 and Emotion Edited by Judith P. Hallett, Edith Foster & Christina Clark Holy Men and Charlatans in This collection explores the depiction of emotions, the Ancient Novel gestures, and nonverbal behaviours in ancient Edited by Gareth Schmeling, Michael Paschalis & Stelios Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise Panayotakis language depicting them. Individual contributors This collection focuses on male and female examine genres ranging from historiography and characters in the ancient novel and related texts, epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase decoration. They both pagan and Christian; these characters are explore evidence as disparate as Pliny’s depiction of presented either as holy or as charlatans but in animal emotions, Plato’s presentation of Aristophanes’ several cases the two categories cannot be easily hiccups, and Thucydides’ use of verb tenses. distinguished from each other. 328p, (University of Michigan Press 2015) 9780472119592 211p, (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431906 Hb £61.00 Hb £77.50 Divine Images and Human Imaginations Irritamenta in Ancient Greece and Rome Numismatic Treasures of a Renaissance Collector Edited by Joannis Mylonopoulos By John Cunnally Images of the gods transformed the divine world into These are the records of a coin collection owned by a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even Andrea Loredan, a Venetian patrician well known without a theoretical or theological superstructure. in the 1550s and ‘60s as a passionate connoisseur For the illiterate, images were together with oral of antiquities. The book was intended as a sales traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach catalogue and comprises lavish illustrations of silver the idea of the divine; for intellectuals, images of the tetradrachmas of Athens and Alexander the Great, gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to aurei of Philip and Augustus, denarii of Caesar and reflect upon. 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Schaps addresses a range of issues pertaining to traditions helped shape the modern study of the major shifts in ancient economies, including money, ancient world. Its chapters deal with the origins of the exchange, and economic organization in the Near term ‘barbarian’, the role of ethnography in Tacitus’ East and Greece before the introduction of coinage; Germania, Plutarch’s Lives, Xenophon’s Anabasis, the invention of coinage and the reasons for its and Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae, Herodotean adoption; and the development of using money to storytelling, Henry and George Rawlinson, and generate greater wealth. Megasthenes’ treatise on India. 312p, (University of Michigan Press 2003, Pb 2015) 296p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781474234764 Pb £21.99 9780472113330 Hb £83.50, 9780472036400 Pb £31.50 36 The Battle of Arginusae Ships and Silver Taxes and Tribute Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War By Hans Van Wees By Debra Hamel Hans van Wees reconstructs Whilst the pivotal naval the scattered evidence for all battle of Arginusae may have aspects of public finance, in resulted in Athenian victory, archaic Greece at large and its aftermath saw the failure early Athens in particular, to rescue the shipwrecked to reveal that a complex crews of 25 of their vessels, machinery of public funding and in the ensuing post- and spending was in place as mortem back in Athens the early as the reforms of Solon 8 generals in charge were in 594 BCE. Public finance sentenced to be executed. was in fact a key factor in This book describes the the rise of the early Athenian violent battle and its horrible state – long before Themistocles, the empire and aftermath. Recreating the claustrophobic, unhygienic democracy. conditions in which the ships’ crews operated, Hamel 224p, (I.B. Tauris 2013, Pb 2015) 9781784534325 Pb £16.99 provides an in-depth examination of the fraught relationship between Athens’ military commanders Democracy’s Beginning and its sovereign democracy. The Athenian Story 160p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2015) 9781421416816 By Thomas N. Mitchell Pb £13.00 A new history of the birth of democracy in Ancient Economic Analysis of Institutional Athens, its institutions, Change in Ancient Greece day-to-day functioning and Politics, Taxation and Rational Behaviour eventual extinguishing at By Carl Hampus Lyttkens the hands of Macedonia. 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Greece37 Federalism in Greek Antiquity The Origins of the Olympic Games Edited by Peter Funke & Hans Beck By Andras Patay-Horvath In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, Even in antiquity it was debated when and why federalism was a creative response to the challenge the Olympic Games had been established and by of establishing regional unity, while at the same whom. This volume offers a new explanation for the time preserving a degree of local autonomy. This phenomenon, based mainly on the interpretation of volume provides a comprehensive reassessment of the archaeological material and some ethnographic the topic. It comprises detailed contributions on all parallels, and argues that the Games evolved from federal states in Aegean Greece and its periphery, hunting and from animal ceremonialism observed as well as thematic sections that place the topic in a among various hunting groups. broader historical and social-scientific context. 156p (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911727 Pb £22.00 604p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521192262 Hb £99.99 The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Stasis and Stability Greek Religion Exile, the Polis and Political Thought Edited by Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt c. 404-146 BC This handbook offers a By Benjamin Gray comprehensive overview This volume uses exile and exiles as a lens for of scholarship in ancient investigating the later Classical and Hellenistic polis Greek religion, from the and the political ideas which shaped it. The issue Archaic to the Hellenistic of the political and ethical status of exile and exiles periods. The initial chapters necessarily raised fundamental questions about lay out the key dimensions civic inclusion and exclusion, closely bound up with of ancient Greek religion, basic ideas of justice, virtue, and community. This approaches to evidence, and makes it possible to interpret the varied evidence for the representations of myths. exile as a guide to the complex, dynamic ecology of The following chapters political ideas within the later Classical and post- discuss the continuities and Classical civic world. differences between religious practices in different 448p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198729778 Hb £90.00 cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. Eumenes of Cardia 736p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199642038 Hb £95.00 A Greek Among Macedonians (Second Edition) By Edward M. Anson Treasure Map This second edition updates the original work in A Guide to the Delian Inventories light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents By Richard Hamilton much new analysis influenced by this continuing In the fourth century b.c.e., the Athenians introduced scholarship. Eumenes of Cardia was a royal to the sacred isle of Delos the habit of making secretary who, in the years following the death of marble inscriptions that noted inventories of goods Alexander the Great became a major contender for in religious precincts. Richard Hamilton has tackled power. 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In the Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of and the Solitary Life by Liz Herbert McAvoy. This Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his book investigates the wider cultural importance of experiences in the Venetian merchant and military medieval anchoritism within the different religious fleets. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the manuscript, landscapes and climates of the period. It focuses on reproduced in full colour. 534p col illus (MIT Press the gender dynamics of this remarkable way of life, 2009) Hb was £44.95 now £14.95 and the material spaces which they generated and The Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume within which they operated. 211p (Boydell 2011) Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 3: Studies edited by Pamela O. Long. 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How and why did jousting armour evolve, how effective was it, and how did Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection it differ from the field armour worn by knights in of T.R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, battle? What constituted technical virtuosity in Oxford by Peter Kidd. This catalogue describes the lists? And why did jousting die out? This book 24 manuscripts, primarily late medieval devotional uses previously untapped Iberian source material books from France, the Netherlands and renaissance (and includes editions and translations) to provide Italy. 209p b/w illus (Bodleian Library 2001) Pb was answers to such questions. 541p b/w and col illus £20.00 now £7.95 (Boydell 2010) Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 Mirror of Salvation: Speculum Humanae Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand Salvationis - An Edition of British Library du Guesclin, 1357-1380 edited by Michael Blockbook G.11784 edited by Albert C. Labriola and Jones. This book brings together for the first time John W. Smeltz. A full translation and reproduction the wealth of archival evidence relating to du of all 58 woodcuts of this 15th century blockbook. Guesclin’s career, making available the full range of A commentary illuminates its central focus on diplomatic, administrative and financial evidence the roles of the Virgin Mary and Christ in human for his public and private life found in more than salvation. 208p, 58 b/w pls (James Clarke & Co 2002) fifty archives in western Europe. 472p (Boydell 2004) Hb was £54.00 now £14.95 Hb was £95.00 now £24.95
Bargains and good deals xi Translating the Past: Laurent De Premierfait 9,000 photos of the capitals with an analysis. The and Boccaccio’s De Casibus by Anne D. Hebdeman. capitals of this period are more natural in style than In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait (c. 1380-1418) those that went before, and follow Viollet-le-Duc’s produced a French translation of Boccaccio’s observation that the mode of carving gradually De casibus virorum illustrium. This gloriously evolved from spring to summer. This is confirmed illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent’s in those buildings for which we have documentary work from the first copies made for the dukes of dates, which may then be used to establish a Berry and Burgundy to manuscripts independently chronology for other works from these times. 2 vols, produced by artists and booksellers in Paris. 240p 1624p b/w illus (West Grinstead Publishing 2002) Hb col illus (Getty Trust 2008) Hb was £41.95 now £14.95 was £695.00 now £195.00 Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and The Ark of God: Part B, Vol 3 Archaic capitals Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and 1070 to 1130 by John James. This book presents England by Aden Kumler. This handsomely produced a complete collection and photographic record volume examines manuscript illumination and of all the capitals carved in the Paris Basin before changing conceptions of the importance of the 1130 - over 4,000 - few of which have never been visual in conveying religious truth following the published before. James has dated nearly every increased emphasis placed on pastoral work at the building campaign in the Basin to within 5 years - a Fourth Lateran Council (1215). 290p col illus (Yale UP unique achievement possible only because every 2011) Hb was £45.00 now £19.95 one of the 147 remaining works have been included. 725p b/w illus (West Grinstead Publishing 2006) Hb was The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female £395.00 now £95.00 Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany by J.F. Hamburger. In nine essays embracing the histories The Ark of God: Part B, Vols 4 and 5 Formal of art, religion, and literature, Jeffrey Hamburger capitals 1130 to 1180 by John James. Over 13,000 explores the interrelationships between the visual photos, being about half of the capitals carved arts and female spirituality in the context of the during these years. They are formal-abstract in cura monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used as style. The analysis of the foliate carving, including instruments of instruction and inspiration, images the capitals on the great portals, helps to identify occupied a central place in debates over devotional individual carvers through their way of working, practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. from which the key buildings may be dated and 580p col illus (MIT Press 1998) Hb was £32.95 now through this a consistent chronology established £12.95 for the period. 2 vols, 1748p, b/w illus (West Grinstead Publishing 2008) Hb was £695.00 now £195.00 Kings, Queens and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France by Martha Wolff. This The Master Masons of Chartres by John sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of James. Chartres survives almost unaltered from its French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period medieval heyday, when it was constructed largely when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of through the labours of one generation of craftsmen. the Hundred Years’ War, invaded Italy and all media John James shows how he came to identify those flourished. What followed was the emergence of a master masons from the stones themselves. His unique art: the fusion of the Italian Renaissance meticulous ‘reading’ of the cathedral has revealed with northern European Gothic styles. 208p col illus much about those men: how they solved problems (Yale UP 2011) Hb was £40.00 now £14.95 of engineering and design, how they raised two-ton stones forty metres into the air, and how one mason The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass controlled over 300 men in this gigantic workshop. and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance by 200p b/w illus (West Grinstead Publishing 1990) Hb was Catherine Hess. Hess demonstrates how many Italian £25.00 now £9.95 techniques of glass and ceramic production and ornamentation were first developed in the Islamic History of Dunster Church and Priory, East between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Volume 1 by Joan Jordan. A comprehensive These techniques - enamel and gilding on glass and history of the church and priory of Dunster from its tin-glaze and lustre on ceramics - produced brilliant foundation in the eleventh century to the civil war. and colourful decoration that transformed these As well as tracing the architectural and institutional items into true luxury commodities. 172p col illus history of the priory, the book also focuses on (Getty Trust 2004) Pb was £29.99 now £12.95 its principal patrons, the families of Mohun and Luttrell. 288p b/w pls (Halsgrove 2007) Hb was £14.99 The Ark of God: Part A, Vols 1 and 2 Foliate now £6.95 capitals 1170 to 1250 by John James. Subtitled, “The Creation of Gothic Architecture: An Illustrated Thesaurus”, The Ark of God is a comprehensive pictorial history of Early Gothic churches in the limestone region of northern France known as the Paris Basin. Part A in two volumes contains over xii Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals Greek Art & Archaeology Entre Aidos y Peitho NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS La iconografía del gesto del velo en la antigua Grecia On the Fascination of Objects By Pablo Aparicio Resco Edited by John Boardman, Andrew Parkin & Sally This volume focuses on Ancient Greece, and delves Waite into the iconography of the veil gesture, but also The Shefton Collection explores other topics closely related to it from an in Newcastle upon Tyne anthropological perspective. Spanish text. contains a fine array of 179p, (JAS Arqueologia 2015) 9788494211041 Pb £13.00 Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name Isthmia from its founder Professor Lamps from the UCLA/OSU Excavations Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). at Isthmia, 1967-2004 In spite of the importance By Birgitta Wohl of this collection it has This volume catalogues more than 400 lamps and not been widely published lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the and remains something Byzantine periods found over several decades at of a hidden gem. Brian the Isthmian Sanctuary of Poseidon. As well as the Shefton was an insightful collector, as well as detailed descriptions of the lamps in the catalogue, a distinguished scholar of Greek and Etruscan the volume presents a commentary on the types archaeology, and the 14 papers presented of lamps used at the Sanctuary that enriches our here reflect the broad scope of the collection; knowledge of their manufacture, use, and artistic ranging across pottery, jewellery, terracottas and evolution over time. metalwork. The contributions, written by leading experts in the field, focus on specific objects or 224p, (American School of Classical Studies at Athens groups of objects in the Collection, providing 2016) 9780876619308 Hb £95.00, NYP new interpretations and bringing previously Gnathia and Related Hellenistic Ware unpublished items to light. The history of the Shefton Collection is explored. Together these on the East Adriatic Coast contributions provide a tribute to a remarkable By Maja Mise individual who made a substantial and notable Gnathia ware, originally produced in Apulia, was contribution to his discipline. found on numerous sites on the East Adriatic coast 192p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700064 and in its hinterland, especially in ancient Issa. Pb £60.00 The aims of this study are fourfold: to present Gnathia ware on the East Adriatic coast; to define local Issaean Gnathia production; to identify further workshops on the East Adriatic coast and Arts of the Hellenized East their relationship to other types of Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre- Hellenistic pottery; and finally Islamic Era to understand the trade and Only By Martha L. Carter contacts in the Adriatic during £25.50 until Dating from the centuries the Hellenistic period. 30th April following Alexander the 178p, (Archaeopress Archaeology Great’s conquest of Iran 2015) 9781784911645 Pb £32.00 and Bactria in the middle of the 4th century BCE up Sounion Revisited to the advent of the Islamic The Sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena era, the beautiful bowls, at Sounion in Attica drinking vessels, platters By Zettta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis and other objects in this This book is the first to be published from a wider catalogue drawn from the research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of suggest that some of the best Sounion. It examines and interprets a wide selection Hellenistic silverwork was not made in the Greek of unpublished finds. It also re-evaluates the limited heartlands, but in this eastern outpost of the records of the work in the sanctuaries Seleucid empire. Martha L Carter connects these conducted by Valerios Stais far-flung regions from northern Greece to the between 1897-1915, and reviews Only Hindu Kush, tracing the common cultural threads the establishment and early £44.00 until that link their diverse geography and people. development of the sanctuaries. 30th April 424p col illus (Thames and Hudson 2015) 9780500970690 346p, (Archaeopress Archaeology Hb £45.00 2015) 9781784911546 Pb £55.00 39 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery Textile Production in Classical Athens By Kathleen Slane By Stella Spantidaki Rescue excavations were carried out in 1961/2 along the In ancient Greece, textiles were considered among terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson the principal and most fundamental cultural and the ASCSA. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone expressions. Textile production was a fundamental sarcophagi, and cremation burials, and seven chamber part of the economy and was practised also by tombs. The burials ranged in date from the 5th century men in both the domestic and artisanal spheres. B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons The resulting technological sophistication is were preserved for study. This volume publishes the reflected in depictions of discrete or elaborate results of these excavations and examines the evidence patterns, in the rich diversity of textile implements for changing burial practices in the Greek city, the and in the variety in the quality of the extant Roman colony, and the Christian town. textiles In Textile Production in Classical Athens 500p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Stella Spantidaki provides the first synthesis of Athens 2016) 9780876610220 Hb £95.00, NYP the available evidence from textual, iconographic and archaeological sources on textile production Corinth XVIII.7 in 5th and 4th century BC Athens, employing an The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore interdisciplinary perspective that sets the frame for By Nancy Bookidis & Elizabeth G. Pemberton future research in the field. She presents a detailed This volume incorporates two bodies of material – consideration of the historical and social context of Greek lamps and offering trays. The lamps include textile production in classical Athens, examines and those made from the 7th through 2nd centuries B.C., discusses evidence for the equipment, together with a few Roman examples not included materials, processes and techniques in Corinth XVIII.2. The offering trays support a employed at each stage of the variety of vessels rather than types of food and had full production sequence, and Only a symbolic function in the Sanctuary rituals. discusses the organisation of £28.50 until production and trade. 256p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at publication Athens 2016) 9780876611876 Hb £95.00 NYP 256p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702525 Pb £38.00 The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine By Robert S. Wagman The Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among The Bioarchaeology of Classical ancient nymph caves as the only such site to Kamarina feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine’s Life and Death in Greek Sicily foundation and its founder. This volume includes a By Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver revised catalogue, extensive new commentaries on This study synthesizes the cave’s famous inscriptions, and an investigation skeletal, material, and of the site’s topographical and archaeological layout. ritual data to reconstruct It challenges some commonly held views about the the cultural practices of origin of the foundation poem. Kamarina, a city-state in 278p, (Brill 2015) 9789004297616 Hb £95.00 Sicily. Using evidence from 258 recovered graves Greek Historiography from the Passo Marinaro By Thomas F. Scanlon necropolis (circa the fifth Situating historical writing to the third century BCE), among the forms of epic Sulosky Weaver suggests that and lyric poetry, drama, Kamarineans were closely philosophy and science linked to their counterparts in neighbouring Greek for which the Greeks are cities. Evidence of violence, like head trauma already so well known, Greek and a high young adult mortality rate, indicate historiography examines exposure to a series of catastrophic events. Other individual historians evidence at burial sites allude to Kamarina’s mixed perspectives on power and ancestry, ethnicity, and social hierarchy. Despite human nature as a means of the tumultuous nature of the times, the resulting tracing the early evolution of portrait reveals that Kamarina was a place where ancient Greek history. From individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries Thucydides to Polybius, the volume considers were united in life and death by shared culture and pervading questions of causation, divine justice, funerary practices. leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy 368p, (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813061122 Hardcover and literary reception. £75.50 333p (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781405145220 Hb £45.00 40 Greek Art & Archaeology Greek Literature Thucydides The Spell of Hypnos By P. J. Rhodes Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek This concise introductory guide sets Thucydides Literature in context as a Greek historian writing about the By Silvia Montiglio Peloponnesian War; as an intellectual in the era Silvia Montiglio’s imaginative and comprehensive of the ‘sophists’, who were willing to question a study of the topic illuminates the various ways variety of traditional assumptions; and as an upper- writers in antiquity used sleep, and sleeplessness class Athenian who lived through and was actively to deal with major aspects of plot and character involved in the Peloponnesian War as a general. development. She explores recurring tropes of P. J. Rhodes explores the principles and practices somnolence and wakefulness in the Iliad, the of historiography which Thucydides originated: his Odyssey, Athenian drama, the Argonautica and narrative insight, an almost scientific judgment and ancient novels by Xenophon, Chariton, Heliodorus exposition of sources and prejudices, and a strictly and Achilles Tatius. defined and authoritative view of what was required 336p (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781784533519 Hb £62.00 in a history of a war. 104p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472523990 Pb £16.99 Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire Edited by Tom Hawkins & C.W. Marshall A Companion to Greek Literature This volume offers the first expansive treatment Edited by David Schenker & Martin Hose of the reception of Athenian comedy in the A comprehensive introduction to the wide range Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek studies examine the lasting impact of classical language from the 6th century BCE up to the early Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of years of the Byzantine Empire. Areas explored methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources include the production and transmission of ancient discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as and the wide variety of genres and literary forms dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse produced by the ancient Greeks. satire, essays, and epistolary fiction. 576p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781444339420 Hb 304p (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472588845 Hb £70.00, £120.00 9781472588838 Pb £22.99 Rome SPQR Rome’s Revolution A history of Ancient Rome Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire By Mary Beard By Richard Alston SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one The familiar story of the Roman Republic’s downfall of the world’s foremost classicists. It explores not continues to be the story of its elites. Richard Alston only how Rome grew from an insignificant village however explores this era from the point of view of in central Italy to a power that controlled territory the soldier, the peasant, and the pauper. They, like from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, thought about themselves and their achievements, were political agents, negotiating their positions in and why they are still important to us. the context of a “failed state.” 544p, (Profile Books Ltd 2015) 9781846683800 Hardcover 408p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199739769 Hb £20.00 £25.00 Riding for Caesar An Illustrated Introduction to Ancient The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guard Rome By Michael Speidel By Iain Ferris The history of the Roman horse guards begins at Iain Ferris’s accessible introduction to Ancient Noviodunum in 52 BC, when they saved Caesar Rome provides a concise narrative exploring in Gaul. Based on literary, archaeological and the foundation of the city, the expansion of the epigraphic sources, this book traces their history empire, the end of the republic and the lives of the up to their demise with Maxentius at the battle emperors. However, he also presents a picture of the at Milvian Bridge. It examines the Germanic and daily lives, culture and beliefs of the ordinary people Danubian tribesman who formed the bodyguard, of Rome, its citizens and slaves and of the various their weapons and warfare, everyday life, gods and peoples of the Roman Empire. graves, and their training. 96p col illus (Amberley 2015) 9781445645650 Pb £9.99 223p b/w illus (Routledge 1994, Pb 2015) 9780415620055 Pb £30.00 41 Caligula Leisured Resistance A Biography Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World By Aloys A. Winterling By Michael Dewar Caligula is surely the most notorious of all Roman Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways emperors, his name a byword for depravity and in which cultured Roman aristocrats used their cruelty. Aloys Winterling undertakes a thorough country estates as a political and literary tool. comparative review of the evidence, setting it in While for some the villas were retreats in which its contemporary cultural context and discarding to compose literature and to escape from politics, those elements which are obviously fabrications. others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium He rejects the charge that Caligula was insane, (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to and instead sees his actions, cruel though they present radical and competing visions of society and undoubtedly were, in the political context of a literature alike. newly emasculated senate, whose powerlessness 146p (Bloomsbury 2011, Pb 2015) 9780715634899 Hb Caligula exposed mercilessly. £45.00, 9781474244022 Pb £15.99 240p (University of California Press 2011, Pb 2015) 9780520287594 Pb £16.95 Laughter in Ancient Rome By Mary Beard Processes of Cultural Change and What made the Romans Integration in the Roman World laugh? Drawing on a wide Edited by Saskia T. Roselaar range of Roman writing A collection of studies on the interaction between from essays on rhetoric to a Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire surviving Roman joke book between c. 300 BC and AD 300. The book focuses Mary Beard tracks down the on the mechanisms by which interaction between giggles, smirks, and guffaws Rome and its subjects occurred, e.g. the settlement of of the ancient Romans colonies by the Romans, army service, economic and themselves. From ancient cultural interaction. In many cases Rome exploited monkey business to the role the economic resources of the conquered territories of a chuckle in a culture of without allowing the local inhabitants any legal tyranny, she explores Roman autonomy. However, they usually maintained a great humour from the hilarious, to the momentous, to deal of cultural freedom of expression. the surprising. 290p, (Brill 2015) 9789004294547 Hb £100.00 336p, (University of California Press 2014, Pb 2015) 9780520287587 Pb £12.95 Bringing in the Sheaves Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World In Bed with the Romans By Brent D. Shaw By Paul Chrystal Brent D. Shaw investigates the ways in which Our popular impression of the Roman Empire Roman Art & Archaeology human labour interacted with the instruments of is of a seamy, salacious world in which intrigue harvesting, what part the workers and their tools had and sexual licence were ubiquitous at the highest in the whole economy, and how the work itself was levels of state. This accessible account explores that organized. Both collective and individual aspects of familiar elite world as well as the role sex played the story are investigated, centred on the life-story in broader Roman society – from sex in Roman of a single reaper whose work in the wheat fields of marriage to homosexuality, from sexual graffiti and North Africa is documented in his funerary epitaph. prostitution to sexual medicine and aphrodisiacs. 457p b/w illus (Toronto UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781442629226 304p, (Amberley Publishing 2015) 9781445643441 Pb £29.99 Hardcover £20.00 Roman Social Imaginaries Hidden Lives Public Personae Language and Thought in Contexts of Empire Women and Civic Life in the Roman West By Clifford Ando By Emily Hemelrijk Ando examines the connection between the Studying the civic participation of women in the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking towns of Italy outside Rome and in the Latin- about law, society, and empire. He considers how speaking provinces of the Empire, this books offers metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped a new view on Roman women and urban society. create the structures of thought that shaped the Women’s civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses Roman Empire as a political construct. Using and patronesses or ‘mothers’ of cities are brought Latin’s extraordinary capacity for abstraction , to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which laws and institutions invented for use in a single was dominated by the imperial family, the book Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across demonstrates that wealthy women in the local a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity 124p (University of Toronto 2015) 9781442650176 Hb to leave their mark on the city. £25.99 648p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780190251888 Hb £55.00 42 Rome Roman Festivals in the Greek East Magical Practice in the Latin West From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era Edited by Francisco Marco Simon & Richard L. Gordon By Fritz Graf This volume contains the first This study explores the development of ancient festival critical editions in English of culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying important newly discovered particular attention to the fundamental religious curse tablets from Mainz and changes that occurred. It addresses several key Rome as well as major surveys questions for the religious history of later antiquity: of new prayers for justice. How did Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, Other sections are devoted articulate their resistance? How did these festivals to the discourse of magic in change when the empire converted to Christianity? the West, to the linguistics Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing and aims of cursing, and to pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, the major field of protective how did these very popular festivals – despite their and eudaemonic magic up to pagan tradition – influence the form of the newly and including the Visigothic developed Christian liturgy? slates and the Celtic loricae. 384p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107092112 Hb £74.99 702p (Brill 2009, Pb 2015) 9789004179042 Hb £180.00, 9789004283183 Pb £40.00 The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World By Claude Moatti By Sarolta A. Takacs In this classic work, now appearing in English This study deals with the integration of the for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent intellectual transformation that occurred at the end transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the of the Roman Republic. This movement, linked to Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the the development of writing, challenged old forms names of these two deities independent from their of authority and adhesion, belief and behaviour, cultic context. It refutes the myth that the guardians without destroying tradition; and for this reason of tradition and Roman religion tried to curb the this rational trend can be described not as a cultural cult of Isis in order to rid Rome and the imperium but as an epistemological revolution whose greatest from this decadent cult. achievement, Professor Moatti argues, was the 252p (Brill 1994, Pb 2015) 9789004283336 Pb £40.00 development of the system of Roman law. 416p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521895781 Hb £75.00 Roman Art & Archaeology Sabores de Roma Shaky Ground Actas del I Simposio Internacional Sobre Context, Connoisseurship and the History Gastronomía Antigua Romana of Roman Art Edited by Pedro Carretero By Elizabeth Marlowe This book derives from a programme of experimental Canonical pieces like the research on the recipes of Apicius. Topics span from Barberini Togatus or the food production and manipulation to experimental Fonseca bust of a Flavian lady recipes and new products commercialized in the last appear in many scholarly couple of years (garum, oil, wine…). Spanish text. studies and virtually 148p (JAS Arqueologia 2015) 9788494211065 Pb £13.00 every textbook on Roman art. But we have no more Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi certainty about these works’ Art and Social History archaeological contexts than By Janet Huskinson we do about those that surface This is the first full study of Roman strigillated on the market today. This sarcophagi. Characterized by panels of carved fluting book argues that the current and limited figure scenes, they were produced from legal and ethical debates over looting, ownership the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, and and cultural property have distracted us from the thus cover a critical period in Rome, from empire epistemological problems inherent in all (ostensibly) to early Christianity. The book focuses on their rich ancient artworks lacking a known findspot, problems potential as an historical source for exploring the that should be of great concern to those who seek to social and cultural life of the city in the later empire. understand the past through its material remains. 368p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199203246 Hb 184p, (Bloomsbury 2013, Pb 2015) 9781474234665 Pb £75.00 £15.99 43 A Companion to Roman Art NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Barbara E. Borg Roman art has become a valuable object of study, Ways of Being Roman not only for its aesthetic qualities, but as a historical Discourses of Identity in the Roman West source in its own right. It provides us with insights By Louise Revell into Roman self-perceptions, value systems and This book examines ways of perceiving the world that complement the question of identity information taken from written sources. In this in the Roman west. companion the reader is introduced through Roman Combining material art to the daily Roman world, its preoccupations and textual evidence, and cultural characteristics. The book includes it takes an innovative sections focusing on methodology and approaches, approach in looking at genres, contexts of display and usage of art and its the wider discourses modern reception and utilization. or ideologies through 638p, b/w illus, col pls (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) which an individual 978405192880 Hb £140.00 sense of self was learnt and expressed. The Civilian Town at Aquincum This wide-ranging survey considers ethnic Guide to the Archaeological Park at Aquincum identity, status, gender and age. Rather than By Paula Zsidi constructing a paradigm of the ‘ideal’ of The remains of Aquincum, the one-time seat of any specific aspect of personal identity, it the Roman province of Pannonia, can be found looks at some of the wider cultural ideas in several locations across Budapest. Outstanding which were drawn upon in differentiating among these is the Archaeological Park around the groups of people and how they were expressed Aquincum Museum with the remains of buildings within the written sources and the material brought to light during the excavations conducted culture. This book further looks at how the over more than a century. This guidebook contains caricatures of specific identities, such as detailed descriptions of some thirty buildings and women or children, were used as metaphors their most outstanding finds. to express other messages. It concludes by considering instances of the appropriation and 142p col illus (Archaeolingua 2014) 9789639340558 Pb reinterpretation of ‘Roman’ as a concept in the £18.00 creation of more recent identities. The Moving City 144p (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781842172926 Pb £29.95 Processions Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Edited by Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjornebye & Ida Ostenberg Volume 16 This collection focuses on movements in the ancient Edited by Steven Willis city of Rome, exploring the interaction between The Journal of Roman people and monuments. Covering a wide range Pottery Studies of people, places, sources, and times, the volume continues to present a includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and cross-section of recent late antique movement, triumphal processions of research not just from conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of the UK but also Europe. riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals Volume 16 carries and the everyday movements of individual strolls or papers on a variety of household errands. subjects from Britain 376p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472528001 Hb £80.00 and the Continent, ranging from papers From Pompeii dealing with production The Afterlife of a Roman Town sites to those looking at the distribution of By Ingrid D. Rowland types. There are case studies on kiln vessels The experience of Pompeii always reflects a particular from Essex, pottery production in Roman time and sensibility. The city’s houses, temples, gardens Cologne, excavations at Toulouse, as well as – and traces of Vesuvius’s human victims – have elicited an examination of transport routes of samian responses ranging from awe to embarrassment, with ware to Britain. Also included are an editorial, shifting cultural tastes playing an important role. obituaries and book reviews. Rowland treats readers to the distinctive, often quirky 200p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700743 responses of visitors ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Pb £50.00 Mozart, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain to Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. 340p b/w illus (Harvard UP 2014, Pb 2015) 9780674088092 Pb £14.95 44 Roman Art & Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Roman Villa of Hoogeloon and Roman Crete the Archaeology of the Periphery New Perspectives Edited by H. Hiddink, Ton Derks & N. Roymans Edited by Jane E. Francis & Anna Kouremenos This book is about the Roman villa complex of Hoogeloon, a key site for the understanding of the The last several decades have impact of empire on a peripheral region in the seen a dramatic increase in Roman North. A central role is attributed to agency interest in the Roman period and the interplay of military and urban networks and on the island of Crete. Ongoing native social structures. Themes discussed include and some long-standing town-country relations, monetization, the agrarian excavations and investigations economy of the region, changing settlement systems, of Roman sites and buildings, and the ethnic identity of the inhabitants. intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and 356p, (Amsterdam UP 2015) 9789089648365 Hb £96.00 intensive research on artefacts, Las Presas Romanas en Espan˜a 2015 history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant By Juan Carlos Castillo Barranco data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman In Spain there are the remains of and references to provinces. The breadth of topics addressed by the 73 dams from the Roman era, constructed between papers in this volume is an indication of Crete’s vast the 1st and 4th centuries AD. Forty five are detailed archaeological potential for contributing to current in full in this study. academic issues such as Romanisation/acculturation, Spanish text. b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports climate and landscape studies, regional production 2714, 2015) 9781407313672 Pb £49.00 and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the La Valle del Sagittario e la Conca Peligna late-Antique era. These papers confirm Crete’s place Abruzzo Tra Il IV e Il I Secolo A.C. as a fully realised participant in the Dinamiche e Sviluppi Della Romanizzazione Roman world over the course of By Anna Dionisio many centuries but also position Only This book examines the most significant Roman it as a newly discovered source of £36.00 until discoveries and studies in the Sagittarius valley academic inquiry. and Peligna Dell. The theme of Romanization is publication 288p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) introduced and defined from an historical point of 9781785700958 Hb £48.00 view and a crtical study of the methodology that has been followed is presented, examining the advantages and limitations involved. Civic Monuments and the Augustales Italian text. 636p (British Archaeological Reports 2735, in Roman Italy 2015) 9781407313924 Pb £85.00 By Margaret L. Laird Die Romische Villa als Indikator This book examines Provinzialer Wirtschafts- Und ancient Roman statues Gesellschaftsstrukturen and their bases, tombs, dedicatory altars, and panels By Mareike Rind commemorating gifts of This investigation of the Roman villa and its civic beneficence made by economic structures in the western provinces of the Augustales, civic groups the Roman Empire shows that rural settlement composed primarily of developed at different paces and intensities that wealthy ex-slaves. Margaret largely depended on the specific region in which L. Laird examines how these a villa landscape was intended and created. The monuments functioned as Roman villa economy was a complex and dynamic protagonists in their built and system that in its configuration vastly differed, social environments by focusing on archaeologically according to the specific province, although one attested commissions made by the Augustales that served clear functional purposes such as self- in Roman Italian towns. She considers how subsistence and, ideally, surplus dedications and their accompanying inscriptions production for the supply of created webs of association and transformed places the Roman military in newly Only of display into sites of local history. Understanding conquered provinces. German £36.00 until text. how these objects functioned in ancient cities, the 30th April book argues, illuminates how ordinary Romans 292p, (Archaeopress Archaeology combined public lettering, honorific portraits, 2015) 9781784911683 Pb £45.00 emperor worship, and civic philanthropy to express their communal identities. 338p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107008229 Hb £64.99 Roman Art & Archaeology45 Roman Provincial Coinage Volume IX Per Terram, Per Mare By Antony Hostein Seaborne Trade and the Distribution of Roman This volume presents for the first time an Amphorae in the Mediterranean authoritative and systematic account of the coins By Stella Demestica minted in the Roman provinces during the period This book explores seaborne from the accession of Trajan Decius in AD 249 to trade in the Roman the death of Uranius Antoninus in AD 254. The Mediterranean through the introductory essays and extensive catalogue section study of amphorae. New data (detailing over 15,000 coins classified into 2,330 main are presented on amphorae varieties) are followed by indexes and an illustration exported, variously, to the of every major issue listed. Black Sea, the Adriatic, the 656p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2016) western Mediterranean, 9780714118291 Hb £160.00 Cyprus and the Aegean. Shipwrecks and harbour Monuments in Miniature assemblages are discussed Architecture on Roman Coinage together with finds from By Nathan Elkins urban centres, providing insights into the diverse The regular representation mechanisms of maritime commerce during the of the built environment on Roman period. coins was a purely Roman 298p, (Astrom Editions 2015) 9789170812156 Hb £60.00 phenomenon among the ancients. From the first The Ceramics Industry of Roman occurrence in 135 BC through Sikyon the late Roman Empire, the A Technological Study architectural images on coins By Conor Trainor from Rome commemorated Between the second century BC and the third or politicized the century AD, the Greek city of Sikyon was home monument in question. to a ceramics industry that specialized in the This comprehensive and production of a range of coarseware ceramics, chronological approach to architectural coin especially transport amphorae. This study employs types conveys the complexity of the subject and a multifaceted approach, integrating ancient history, underscores how the designs were symptomatic of, archaeology and compositional analysis of clays and and sensitive to, the underlying social, cultural and ceramics to explore this industry. It demonstrates historical trends that affected both Roman art and significant economic growth occurring after the Roman society at large. Roman conquest of the Sikyon region. 240p, (American Numismatic Society 2016) 9780897223447 125p, (Astrom Editions 2015) 9789170812033 Hb £30.00 Hb £65.00, NYP
EDITOR’S CHOICE Understanding Roman Frontiers A Celebration for Professor Bill Hanson Edited by Ioana A. Oltean, Rebecca H. Jones & David J. Breeze Roman frontiers defined the Roman Empire, one of the greatest states that the world has ever seen. By understanding these frontiers we can better understand the relationship between Rome and her neighbours. Leading scholars of the frontiers of the Roman Empire have come together to present this collection of essays published in honour of one of their most distinguished practitioners, Professor Bill Hanson. The focus of the book is how we understand the operation and function of Roman frontiers, how we learn about the effect of these frontiers on the people who lived in their vicinity, and how new scientific techniques, particularly remote sensing, help us to extend our knowledge. The book is divided into three parts: studies of the frontier installations; considerations of the value of artefacts; and discussions of Only future directions for research. The contributors bring the £24.00 until results of recent work to the public, including the ways in which we interpret and present Roman frontiers, and cast light on the vitality of life on the frontier zone 30th April nearly 2,000 years ago. 288p, (Birlinn Ltd 2015) 9781906566852 Hb £30.00
46 Roman Art & Archaeology Roman Britain Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Very Short Introduction By Peter Salway The Archaeology of the Lower City and In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Adjacent Suburbs Peter Salway makes a number of essential updates By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Jones, in light of recent research in the area. He looks Jenny Mann, Alan Vince & Jane Young at issues of ethnicity, ‘Britishness’, and post- This volume contains reports colonialism, provides alternative theories to the end on excavations undertaken in of the Roman period in Britain, and draws parallels the lower walled city at Lincoln between the history of Roman Britain and a wide and its adjacent suburbs range of other periods, territories, and themes, between 1972 and 1987. The including the modern experience of empires and earliest features encountered national stereotypes. were remains of timber 124p, b/w illus (Oxford UP, 2nd ed. 2015) 9780198712169 storage buildings, probably Pb £7.99 associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the Journey to Britannia later 1st century AD. In the 4th From the Heart of Rome to Hadrians Wall century, the fortifications were AD 130 enlarged and two new gates inserted. Occupation of By Bronwen Riley an urban nature did not recommence until the late Combining an extensive range of Greek and Latin 9th century. Markets were established sources with a sound understanding of archaeology, in the 11th century and stone began Bronwen Riley imaginatively reconstructs an epic to replace timber for residential Only structures from the mid-12th journey from Rome to the newly constructed £42.00 until century. Hadrian’s Wall in AD 130. She provides an evocative publication snapshot of Roman Britain, bringing vividly to life 608p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books the smells, sounds, colours and textures of travel in 2016) 9781782978527 Hb £55.00 the second century AD. Segedunum: Excavations by 272p, (Head of Zeus 2015) 9781781851340 Hb £25.00 Charles Daniels in the Roman Fort at Hadrian’s Wall Wallsend (1975-1984) A Life By Alexandra Croom & Alan Rushworth By Richard Hingley Between 1975 and 1984 While the Wall is famous almost the entire area of the as a Roman construct, its Roman fort of Segedunum monumental physical in Wallsend was excavated structure did not suddenly under the direction of cease to exist in the fifth Charles Daniels, senior century. This volume lecturer in the Department explores the after-life of of Archaeology at Newcastle Hadrian’s Wall and considers University. It is these the ways it has been excavations which form the imagined, represented, and subject of this publication. researched from the sixth This comprehensive report century to the internet. The on the structural remains (Vol. 1) and finds (Vol. 2) sixteen chapters show the show clearly that Daniels’ work represented one of changing manner in which the most ambitious and prolonged programmes of the Wall has been conceived and the significant fieldwork attempted on the northern frontier up role it has played in imagining the identity of the to that point and has made Wallsend one of the English, including its appropriation as symbolic most fully investigated of Roman forts in Britain. boundary between England and Scotland. Hingley Volume 1 describes first the stratigraphic sequences discusses the transforming political, cultural, and and excavation of the stone and timber buildings religious significance of the Wall during this entire of the fort’s central range, while Volume 2, on the period and addresses the ways in which scholars predominantly 2nd–3rd century material culture from the site, and artists have been inspired by the monument looks at the stonework, pottery, over the years. Only coins and small finds recovered. 416p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780199641413 £42.00 until 816p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Hb £87.00, 9780198707028 Pb £30.00 publication 2016) 9781785700262 Hb £55.00, NYP 47 A Roman Frontier Post and its People The Romans in Huddersfield – Newstead 1911-2011 A New Assessment Edited by Lawrence Keppie & Fraser Hunter Huddersfield and District Archaeological This volume reassesses Society James Curle’s pioneering Edited by Granville Clay, Gerrie Brown & excavations at Newstead and Barry Hobson asks how the picture has been Work on the vicus of the Roman fort at Slack, revised in the intervening Huddersfield during three seasons of excavation century. It is constructed in 2007, 2008 and 2010, covered in this volume, around five main themes: has led to a reconsideration of the dates of Early work on the site; the Roman occupation, taking it well into the 3rd and fort complex; the finds; the possibly 4th centuries AD. Radiocarbon dating setting, especially links to the and pottery analysis show convincingly that there local population; the afterlife was considerable late activity in the vicus area of the excavations, in terms adjacent to the fort and the Roman road from of their continuing impact. Chester to York. 250p, (National Museum of Scotland 2012, Pb 2015) 94p, (British Archaeological Reports BS 620, 2015) 9781910682012 Pb £25.00 9781407314068 Pb £26.00 The Antonine Wall Pudding Pan A Handbook to Scotland’s Roman Frontier A Roman Shipwreck from Britain and By Anne Robertson & Lawrence Keppie its Cargo of Samian Pottery This well-known handbook By Michael Walsh to the Roman frontier For more than 300 years commercial fishermen between Forth and Clyde, working in the outer Thames estuary have in print since 1960, is recovered Roman pottery in the vicinity of republished here in a revised Pudding Pan. The exhaustive research presented format and illustrated for in this book, the first detailed study of a seemingly the first time in full colour. predominantly samian cargo in British waters, It incorporates the latest convincingly argues that the retrieved 700 artefacts results of archaeological represent an unknown proportion of a cargo from excavation, fieldwork and a Roman trading ship en route from northern research, with numerous France to London that was deposited on the photographs and plans to seabed between AD 175 and 195. aid the modern visitor. 202p, (British Museum Press 2016) 9780861592029 Pb 144p, (Glasgow Archaeological Society 2015) £40.00, NYP 9780902018143 Pb £9.50
EDITOR’S CHOICE Bignor Roman Villa By Miles Russell & David Rudling Discovered in 1811, Bignor is one of the richest and most impressive villas in Britain, its mosaics ranking among the finest in north-western Europe. Opened to the public for the first time in 1814, the site also represents one of Britain’s earliest tourist attractions, remaining in the hands of the same family, the Tuppers, to this day. This book sets out to explain the villa, who built it, when, how it would have been used and what it meant within the context of the Roman province of Britannia. It also sets out to interpret the remains, Only as they appear today, explaining in detail the meaning of the £12.00 until fine mosaic pavements and describing how the villa was first found and explored and the conservation problems facing the 30th April site in the twenty-first century. 176p, (The History Press 2015) 9780750961554 Pb £14.99
48 Roman Britain Latin Literature NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Bath: An Archaeological Juvenal Satires IV Assessment By John Godwin A study of settlement around the sacred Juvenal’s fourth book of hot springs from the Mesolithic to the 17th Satires consists of three century AD poems which are all By Emily La Trobe-Bateman & Rosalind Niblett concerned with contentment This volume provides in various forms. These a collection and poems use enormous rigorous assessment humour and wit to puncture of the accumulated the pretensions of the foolish information relating to and the wicked, urging an Bath’s rich archaeological acceptance of our lives and a heritage. Part 1 comprises more positive stance towards an overview of the area’s life and death by mockery natural topography, a of the pompous and comic description of the rich summary of antiquarian and famous. The Introduction places Juvenal in the and early archaeological history of Satire and also explores the style of the investigation, and poems as well as the degree to which they can be a survey of the archaeological evidence read as in any sense documents of real life. The text available to us today. Part 2 collates the detailed is accompanied by a literal English translation and archaeological evidence, summarising earlier the commentary is keyed to important words in the work, assessing the nature of the evidence, translation and aims to be accessible to readers with and setting out our informed understanding of little or no Latin. Bath’s past. Lastly, Part 3 offers an overview of 200p, (Aris & Phillips 2016) 9781910572320 Hb £50.00, the current understanding of the archaeology 9781910572337 Pb £19.99 NYP of Bath, an assessment of the potential of the surviving deposits for providing new data, and Plautus: Aulularia suggestions for future research directions. By Walter Stockert & Keith Maclennan b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979982 Hb Plautus’ play, the Pot of £40.00 Gold is here presented with a facing English translation, introduction and a detailed commentary, the first on Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, the text for over a century. Volume 16, 2016 The introduction critically Greek and Roman Poetry; The Elder Pliny examines the various Edited by Roy Gibson & Francis Cairns options that have been Contents: The Elder Pliny; proposed for the end of the Cicero as Role-Model in play, its construction and the Self-Definition of Pliny influence on subsequent the Elder; Notes from classical drama, and provides a detailed and Underground: the Curious comprehensive background to the writing, Katabasis of Dionysodorus; performance and transmission of the play in its Taxonomic Organization in ancient Roman setting. Pliny’s Natural History; The 326p (Aris & Phillips 2016) 9781910572375 Hb £50.00, Authority of Greek Poetry 9781910572382 Pb £19.99, NYP in Pliny’s Natural History 18.63-65; Pliny the Elder on Pythagoras’ Greek and Roman Poetry; Four Reasons not to have an Epinician; Callimachus at the Mouseion (the Hymn to Delos); Literary Love Triangles: Berenice at Alexandria and Rome; Lucilius and Horace: from criticism to identification. 340p, (Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd 2016) 9780905205595 Hb £50.00, NYP
49 Livy’s Political Philosophy Pliny’s Defense of Empire By Ann Vasaly By Thomas R. Laehn This volume explores the political implications Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the of the first five books of Livy’s celebrated history architecture of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, of Rome, challenging the common perception of exposing fundamental errors in the inherited the author as an apolitical moralist. Ann Vasaly understanding of the text traceable to its initial argues that Livy intended to convey through the reception in ancient Rome. Recognition of the text’s narration of particular events crucial lessons about true structure reveals that Pliny’s encyclopaedia is in the interaction of power and personality, including fact a first-rate work of political philosophy constituting the personality of the Roman people as a whole. an apology for Roman imperial expansionism 209p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107065673 Hb £55.00 grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. 168p (Routledge 2013, Pb 2015) 9780415818506 Hb Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile and the £90.00, 9781138943018 Pb £24.99 Composition of a New Reality By Ayelet Peer Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile An Introduction this book reveals the intricate literary world that By Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello Caesar creates using sophisticated techniques such This new overview of Pliny’s letters combines close as a studied choice of vocabulary, rearrangement of readings with broader context. Chapters trace Pliny’s events, use of indirect speech, and more. Each of the autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters, three books of the work is examined independently set the letters within the Roman epistolographical to set out the gradual transformation of Caesar’s tradition, and provide case studies of thematic literary persona, in step with his ascent in the ‘real’ groups within the collection. The final chapter world. focuses on the ‘grand design’ which unifies and 200p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472452078 Hb £70.00 structures the collection. 364p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9780521603799 Pb £19.99 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Religions of the Constantinian Empire The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity By Mark Edwards Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson A synoptic review of Constantine’s relation to all The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire. innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that Divided into three parts, the first considers the efforts has become increasingly central to scholarly debates of Christians to construct their own philosophy, over the history of western and Middle Eastern and their own patterns of the philosophic life, in civilizations. Historical events are set in the context opposition to Platonism. The second assembles of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious evidence of survival, variation or decay in religious change during the period. The geographical scope practices which were never compulsory under of this handbook is unparalleled among comparable Roman law. The third reviews the changes, both surveys: Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans within the church and in the public sphere, which all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope were undeniably prompted by the accession of a extends to the western kingdoms, Ireland, and Christian monarch. Scandinavia in the West. 384p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199687725 Hb £30.00 1296p col pls (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9780195336931 Hb £120.00, 9780190277536 Pb £38.99 Two Romes Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Edited by Gavin Kelly & Lucy Grig Christian Golden Age In this unified essay collection, prominent By Jonathan Bardill international scholars examine the changing roles Jonathan Bardill shows how Constantine’s and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in propagandists exploited the traditional themes Late Antiquity from a range of different disciplines and imagery of rulership to portray him as having and scholarly perspectives. The seventeen chapters been elected by the supreme solar God to save his cover both the comparative development and the people and inaugurate a brilliant golden age. The shifting status of the two cities. Developments in author argues that the cultivation of this image politics and urbanism are considered, along with made it possible for Constantine to reconcile the the cities’ changing relationships with imperial long-standing tradition of imperial divinity with his power, the church, and each other, and their monotheistic faith by assimilating himself to Christ. evolving representations in both texts and images. 440p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2015) 496p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012, 2015) 9780199739400 9780521764230 Hb £89.99, 9781107538986 Pb £23.99 Hb £62.00, 9780190241087 Pb £29.99 50 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Politics and Tradition Between Rome Cereals of Antiquity and Early Ravenna and Constantinople Byzantine Times A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554 Wheat and Barley in Medical Sources (Second By M. Shane Bjornlie to Seventh Centuries) Bjornlie highlights the By Zofia Rzeznicka, Maciej Kokoszko & Krysztof Jagusiak insights the Variae provide This study comprises a detailed analysis of the into early medieval political, evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of ecclesiastical, fiscal and legal the value of medical sources for historians of food, affairs and the influence of focusing on the period between the 2nd and the the political and military 7th centuries AD, and in particular on the role of turbulence of Justinian’s cereals. The research sets out the history of cereals reconquest of Italy and in the area around the Mediterranean Sea, singles of political and cultural out the most important products derived therefrom, exchanges between Italy demonstrates their dietetic evaluation as presented in and Constantinople. The the sources, determines the place of cereals in cuisine book also explores how and outlines their role in medical procedures. Cassiodorus revised, updated and assembled the 518p (Jagiellonian UP 2014) 9788323339014 Pb £41.50 Variae for publication and what this reveals about his motives for publishing an epistolary record The Coin Evidence as a Source for the and for his own political life at a crucial period of History of Classe (Ravenna) transformation for the Roman world. Excavations of the Harbour Area (2001-2005) 386p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9781107028401 Hb and the Basilica of San Severo (2006-2010) £69.99, 9781107529311 Pb £24.99 By Elena Baldi Archaeological research at the harbour of Classe East and West in the Roman Empire of carried out between 2001 and 2005 brought to light the Fourth Century a total of 2564 coins, dating between the 2nd century An End to Unity? BC and the 8th century AD. In addition excavations Edited by Sanne van Poppel, Danielle Slootjes & Roald at the Basilica of San Severo brought to light a total Dijkstra of 224 coins, dating the 1st century BC and the 14th After a methodological key-paper on the concepts century AD. The archaeological contexts represent of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these a focal point for the reconstruction of the history of notions from various geo-political perspectives: the territory and for defining the characteristics of the role of the army and taxation, geographical the settlement (housing, productive areas etc.) and perspectives, the unity of the Church and the its evolution. perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case- 254p, (British Archaeological Reports 2736, 2015) studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia 9781407313955 Pb £53.00 apostolorum, antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. 186p, (Brill 2015) 9789004291928 Hb £80.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE The Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple Edited by Susanna McFadden & Michael Jones The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site’s earlier significance, converted the temple into a military camp and constructed a lavishly painted cult chamber dedicated to the four emperors of the Tetrarchy. These frescoes provide fascinating insight into the political landscape of the late Roman Empire and, as the only surviving wall paintings from the tetrarchic period, into the history of Roman art. Only The culmination of a groundbreaking conservation project, £40.00 until this volume brings together scholars across disciplines for a comprehensive look at the frescoes and their architectural, 30th April archaeological, and historical contexts. 240p col illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300169126 Hb £50.00
Late Antiquity & Byzantium51 Repertoire de Fleurons sur Bandeaux Sons of Hellenism Fathers of the Church de Lampes Africaines Type Hayes II Emperor Julian Gregory of Nazianzus and By Jean Claude Rivel & Jean Bussiere the Vision of Rome A comprehensive repertory of the stamps decorating By Susanna Elm the rims of Christian African lamps of the Hayes II This ground breaking study type. The fruit of ten years of research, it presents a brings into dialogue for the typology based on a catalogue of over 5000 lamps. first time the writings of the It will prove an indispensable tool to emperor Julian, and his most Mediterranean archaeologists for outspoken critic, Bishop identifying even small fragments Only Gregory of Nazianzus. Elm recasts both Julian and of lamps. French text. £22.50 until Gregory as men entirely of 138p b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April Archaeology 2015) 9781784911560 their times, showing how Pb £28.00 the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with Mutations of Hellenism in the ideological and social Late Antiquity matrix without which its longevity and dynamism By Polymnia Athanassiadi would have been inconceivable. The 21 studies in this volume explore the ways 558p, (University of California Press 2012, Pb 2015) whereby over the course of a few hundred years – 9780520269309 Hb £55.00, 9780520287549 Pb £24.95 roughly between the second and the fifth centuries Conversion in Late Antiquity AD – an anthropocentric culture mutated into Christianity, Islam and Beyond a theocentric one. Rather than underlining the differences between a revamped paganism and Edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou the emergent Christian traditions, the essays in Challenging the two stereotypes of Islamic the volume focus on the processes of osmosis, conversion as an intrinsically violent process, and interaction and acculturation, which shaped the Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual change in priorities among the newly created one, these papers seek to isolate the behaviours textual communities that were spreading across the and circumstances that made conversion both such entire breadth of the late antique oecumene. a common and such a contested phenomenon. Themes include the articulation between norm and 392p, (Ashgate Variorum 2015) 9781472443663 Hb practice, the role of authorities and institutions, and £95.00 the social and individual fluidity on the ground. Wandering Poets and Other Essays on 398p (Ashgate 2015) 9781409457381 Hb £80.00 Late Greek Literature and Philosophy Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity By Alan Cameron A Sourcebook This book presents a radically revised version By A. D. Lee of some of the most important and innovative This sourcebook aims to introduce the reader to the articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of religious developments of Late Antiquity through a late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Topics selection of translated extracts from the 3rd to 6th include the “Wandering Poets” from early Byzantine centuries AD. The second edition has been updated to Egypt; the poetry of the empress Eudocia; the date include additional documentary material, including and identity of the influential poet Nonnus; the newly published papyri, an expanded chapter on so-called closing of the Academy of Athens; the the emperor Constantine, greater attention to church Alexandrian epigrammatist Palladas; and same-sex controversies in the fourth and fifth centuries, and marriage in the Roman world. thoroughly updated references and further reading. 376p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780190268947 Hb £47.00 328p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed. 2015) 9781138020320 Boethius Consolation of Philosophy as Pb £28.99 a Product of Late Antiquity Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late By Antonio Donato Antique Egypt Antonio Donato investigates how the study of Edited by David Frankfurter the Consolation can profit from the knowledge of This volume deals with the origins and rise of Boethius’ cultural, political and social background Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. that is available today. The book focuses on three Topics include sacred landscape and shrines’ topics: Boethius’ social/political background, his catchment areas, pre-Christian pilgrimage practices, notion of philosophy and its sources, and his rites such as oracles, chant, and stational liturgy, and understanding of the relation between Christianity literary depictions of pilgrimage. Case studies of six and classical culture. major pilgrimage shrines complete the volume. 232p (Bloomsbury 2013, 2015) 9781780934624 Hb 548p, (Brill 1998, Pb 2015) 9789004111271 Hb £240.00, £65.00, 9781474228572 Pb £21.99 9789004283251 Pb £40.00 52 Late Antiquity & Byzantium The Origin of Heresy Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity Augustine By Robert M. Royalty De Civitate Dei Books XIII and XIV This book traces the construction of the idea of By P. G. Walsh & Peter Walsh ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. In this volume, the seventh in In other words, there was such a thing as ‘heresy’ in Peter Walsh’s series, Augustine ancient Jewish and Christian discourse before it was turns to the problem of death called ‘heresy.’ And by the end of the first century, as punishment for the sin the notion of heresy was integral to the political of disobedience, resumes positioning of the early orthodox Christian party his attack on the Platonists within the Roman Empire and the range of other and pursues a range of Christian communities. topics which emerge from consideration of Adam’s sin. 248p, (Routledge 2012, Pb 2015) 9780415536943 Hb This is the only edition of £90.00, 9781138921917 Pb £30.00 these books in English which Pagans and Christians in Late Antique provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most Rome influential documents in the history of western Conflict, Competition and Coexistence in Christianity. the Fourth Century 218p, (Aris & Phillips 2016) 9780856688720 Hb £50.00, Edited by Michele Renee Salzman, Marianne Saghy & 9780856688829 Pb £24.99 Rita Lizzi Testa The essays which make up this book argue that the once-dominant notion of Augustine pagan-Christian religious Conversions and Confessions conflict cannot fully explain By Robin Lane Fox the texts and artefacts, as Robin Lane Fox gives well as the social, religious, a portrait of Augustine and political realities of late which is subtly different antique Rome. Competition from older biographies. between diverse groups in Augustine’s heretical years Roman society – be it pagans as a Manichaean, his with Christians, Christians relation to non-Christian with Christians, or pagans with pagans – did philosophy, his mystical create tensions and hostility, but it also allowed aspirations and the nature for coexistence and reduced the likelihood of overt of his conversion are among violent, physical conflict. the aspects of his life which 434p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107110304 Hb £74.99 stand out in a sharper light. For the first time Lane Fox compares him From Temple to Church with two contemporaries, an older pagan and a Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic younger Christian, each of whom also wrote about Topography in Late Antiquity themselves, and who illumine Augustine’s life and Edited by Johannes Hahn, Ulrich Gotter & Stephen Emmel writings by their different choices. Destruction of temples and their transformation 672p, (Penguin 2015) 9781846144004 Hb £30.00 into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political Preaching Bondage system, and public perception. Archaeologists, John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery historians, and historians of religion illuminate in Early Christianity “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, By Chris L. De Wet analysing local configurations within larger Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the contexts, both regional and imperial, in order novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, to find an appropriate larger perspective on this in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth- phenomenon within the late antique movement century priest and bishop. Chris L de Wet examines “from temple to church”. the dynamics of enslavement in Chrysostom’s 392p (Brill 2008, 2015) 9789004131415 Hb £120.00, theology, virtue ethics, and biblical interpretation 9789004283220 Pb £40.00 and shows that human bondage as a metaphorical and theological construct had a profound effect on the lives of institutional slaves. 332p (University of California Press 2015) 9780520286214 Hb £65.00 Late Antiquity & Byzantium53 Gregory the Great Byzantium Triumphant Ascetic Pastor and First Man of Rome The Military History of the Byzantines By George E. Demacopoulos By Julian Romane Scholars have often been Byzantium Triumphant perplexed by the two sides describes in detail the wars of Gregory – the monkish of the Byzantine emperors theologian and the Nicephorus II Phocas, his calculating administrator. nephew and assassin John By exploring unique aspects I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. of Gregory’s ascetic theology, The operations, battles wherein the summit of and drama of their various Christian perfection is bitter struggles unfold, viewed in terms of service depicting the new energy to others, Demacopoulos and improved methods of argues that the very aspects warfare developed in the late of Gregory’s theology that made him distinctive tenth century. Romane’s careful research, drawing were precisely the factors that structured his particularly on the evidence of Byzantine military responses to the practical crises of his day. manuals, allows him to produce a gripping narrative 240p, (University of Notre Dame Press 2015) underpinned by a detailed understanding of the 9780268026219 Pb £25.50 Byzantine tactics, organization, training and doctrine. 208p, (Pen & Sword 2015) 9781473845701 Hb £19.99 Authority and Performance By Hagit Amirav Byzantium The decrees of the Council A Very Short Introduction of Chalcedon led to major By Peter Sarris upheavals in the Church In this Very Short which continue to this very Introduction Peter Sarris day. Hagit Amirav presents introduces the reader to the the first study on the social unique fusion of Roman dynamics and various roles political culture, Greek played by the stakeholders intellectual tradition and of this council, the power Christian faith that took plays of the imperial place in the imperial capital representatives and the of Byzantium under the bishops, their actions and emperor Constantine and statements designed to further a consensus. At his heirs. Using examples the centre of this analysis lies Marcian in his dual from Byzantine architecture, role as Emperor of the East Roman Empire as art and literature, Sarris shows how their legacy was well as a central figure in the Church. re-worked and re-invented in the centuries ahead, in 232p, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015) 9783525208687 the face of external challenges and threats. Hb £75.00 144p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199236114 Pb £7.99
EDITOR’S CHOICE Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium By Sharon E. J. Gerstel This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastructure and setting of the medieval village guide the reader into the consideration of specific populations. The village becomes a micro-society, with its own social and economic hierarchies. In addition to studying agricultural workers, mothers and priests, lesser-known individuals, such as the miller and witch, are revealed through written and painted sources. Placed at the center of a new scholarly landscape, the study of the medieval villager engages a broad spectrum of theorists, including Only economic historians creating predictive models for agrarian economies, ethnoarchaeologists addressing historical £56.00 until continuities and disjunctions, and scholars examining 30th April power and female agency. 207p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521851596 Hb £70.00
54 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassiada Islam Turkey Ibn Tulun Edited by Justin Leidwanger, Sarah M. Kampbell & By Tarek Swelim Deborah N. Carlson Tarek Swelim presents a topographic survey of In 2007 a symposium was al-Qata’i‘, a city lost since its destruction in 905. held at Texas A&M University He provides a detailed architectural analysis of to celebrate the twenty-fifth the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, which was spared the anniversary of the publication destruction and is now the oldest surviving mosque in of the first volume reporting Egypt and Africa. Rare archival illustrations and early the Yassiada shipwreck site. photographs document the changing appearance and Seventeen papers from that uses of the mosque, while 3D computer renderings symposium featured in this take us back in time to recreate its architectural book broadly illustrate such development through its early centuries. varied topics as ships and 240p, b/w and col illus (American University in Cairo seafaring life, maritime trade, Press 2015) 9789774166914 Hb £30.00 naval texts, commercial cargoes, and recent developments in the analysis of the Islamic Art Close-Up Yassiada ship itself. They explore novel interpretations By Sheila R. Canby of old material, new methods of interrogating This stunning book offers an introduction to and historical sources, and new theories about our an exceptional view of an imposing collection of understanding of trade, economy, technology and arts from across the Islamic world, highlighting cultural diversity in the waning Roman Empire. outstanding examples of design, workmanship and 224p col illus (Texas A&M UP 2015) 9781623492151 Hb craft in paintings and manuscripts, calligraphy, £69.50 metalwork, ceramics, jade, glass, wood and ivory. Chapters relate to central themes such as religion Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting and belief, the supernatural and natural worlds, The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of feasting, the hunt, war, music and power. Chrysography 144p col illus (British Museum Press 2015) 9780714111896 By Jaroslav Folda Pb £12.99 The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin Perspectives on Early Islamic Art holding and pointing to her son as the way to in Jerusalem salvation. In this book, Jaroslav Folda traces the By Lawrence Nees appropriation of this image by thirteenth-century This volume analyses several overlooked aspects Crusader and central Italian painters, where the of the earliest decades of Islamic presence in Virgin Mary is transformed from the human mother Jerusalem, during the seventh century CE. Focusing of god, the Theotokos, of Byzantine icons, to the on the Haram al-Sharif, also known as the Temple resplendent Madonna radiant in her heavenly home Mount, Lawrence Nees provides the first sustained with Christ and the angels. This transformation, study of the Dome of the Chain, a remarkable Folda demonstrates, was brought about by using eleven-sided building standing beside the slightly chrysography, or golden highlighting, which came later Dome of the Rock, and the first study of the to be used on both the Virgin and Child. meaning of the columns and column capitals with 425p, col illus (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107010239 Hb figures of eagles in the Dome of the Rock. £84.99 242p col illus (Brill 2015) 9789004301764 Hb £105.00 Age of Transition Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Edited by Helen C. Evans Worlds This volume explores cultural interaction between Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. The eleven essays address such topics By Hyunhee Park as the transmission of Christian imagery in the Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic Mediterranean, icons preserved in the Holy accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese Monastery of St Catherine at Sinai, interaction and Islamic writers between 700 and 1500 AD, this between Jewish communities and the Muslim book traces the development of major contacts world, the purposeful mutilation of figurative between people in China and the Islamic world floor mosaics in churches and synagogues, the and explores their interactions on matters as varied evolution of classical and Byzantine motifs in a new as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, cosmology for Muslim rulers, and interconnections world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and in the realm of music. scientific exploration. 208p, col illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300211115 Hb £30.00 306p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9781107018686 Hb £64.99, 9781107547834 Pb £19.99 55 Khalifa ibn Khayyat’s History on Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West the Umayyad Dynasty (660-750) Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe Translated by Carl Wurtzel By Daniel G. Konig Khalifa ibn Khayyat is Previous scholarship has maintained that the the author of the earliest medieval Arabic-Islamic world regarded Western extant Arabic chronicle. Europe as a cultural backwater at the periphery of The work principally deals civilization that clung to a superseded religion. It with fighting between Arab holds mental barriers imposed by Islam responsible groups, external conquests, for the Muslim world’s arrogant and ignorant and administrative matters. attitude towards its northern neighbours. This study After the death of each caliph refutes this view by focusing on the mechanisms of it lists the persons who held transmission and reception that characterized the office (as governors, judges flow of information between both cultural spheres. and secretaries) during his 464p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198737193 Hb £75.00 reign; it also notes who led the pilgrimage in each year, the death of prominent Saladin the Almohads and persons (included those who died in major battles), the Ban Ghniya and natural phenomena. Events are for the most The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th part narrated quite briefly and the work was Centuries) presumably intended as a useful guide to Islamic By Amar S. Baadj history and a complement to his biographical A new analysis of the long struggle between the dictionary of scholars, which also survives. Almohad caliphs of the Maghrib, the Banū Ghāniya 332p (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP of Majorca, and the Ayyubids for dominance of 2015) 9781781381755 Pb £25.00 North Africa. The author makes use of important textual sources that have been ignored as well as Sharma new archaeological evidence to challenge some of Un Entrepot de Commerce Medieval sur la the basic assumptions about the events in question. Côte du Hadramawt (Yemen ca 980-1180) He also successfully places these events in their wider Edited by Axelle Rougelle temporal and geographical context for the first time. The medieval port of Sharma was discovered in 1996 228p (Brill 2015) 9789004296206 Hb £60.00 on the Ḥaḍramawt coast of Yemen; it was excavated in 2001-2005. Excavations proved that this settlement The Book of the Jihad of Ali ibn Tahir experienced six occupation phases, which are closely al-Sulami (d. 1106) related to the political and economic developments Edited by Niall Christie in the region at that time. The material is mainly In 1105, six years after the first crusaders from transit merchandises, small objects, resins, glass and Europe conquered Jerusalem, a Damascene Muslim pottery; some of the ceramics were locally made, in jurisprudent named ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) the nearby kilns of Yaḍghaṭ, but most publicly dictated an extended call to the military (70%) were imported, from all jihad (holy war) against the European invaders. In parts of the Indian Ocean from Only this book Niall Christie provides a complete edition China to East Africa. £70.50 until and the first full English translation of the extant French text. 582p, (Archaeopress 30th April sections (parts 2, 8, 9 and 12) of the manuscript of al- Archaeology 2015) 9781784911942 Sulami’s work, making it fully available to modern Pb £88.00 readers for the first time. The Great Seljuk Empire 420p, (Ashgate 2015) 9780754667728 Hb £85.00 By A. C. S. Peacock The Orange Trees of Marrakesh The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man which dominated the Middle East and Central By S. F. Dale Asia in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book In this new biography Ibn Khaldun emerges as a surveys that period, which was one of exceptional cultured urban intellectual and professional religious importance, witnessing profound demographic, judge who demanded his fellow Muslim historians religious, political and social changes in the Islamic abandon their worthless tradition of narrative Middle East. It provides a narrative history and a historiography and instead base their works on a thematic analysis of the empire’s institutions and philosophically informed understanding of social aspects of life in the Seljuk world, using a wide organizations. His strikingly modern approach to variety of historical and literary sources as well as historical research established him as the premodern the evidence of archaeology and material culture. world’s preeminent historical scholar. 392p, (Edinburgh UP 2015) 9780748638253 Hb £90.00, 383p (Harvard UP 2015) 9780674967656 Hb £22.95 9780748638260 Pb £29.99
56 Islam Anglo-Saxon & Viking Beda Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede Offa’s Dyke By Henrietta Leyser Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Beda is a slightly unusual Britain book, which explores the By Keith Ray & Ian Bapty world of Bede and his This book provides a fresh Ecclesiastical History perspective on the creation through those places which of Offa’s Dyke arising from he mentions which still have over a decade of study and of Anglo-Saxon features which conservation practice by its can be visited today. The two authors. It also provides book thus functions as a a new appreciation of the gazetteer or guidebook, but specifically Mercian and also as a coherent work in its English political context of own right, which builds up its construction. The authors a picture of the Kingdoms first summarise what is of Anglo-Saxon England as they were in the time known about the Dyke from of Bede and of the processes by which they were archaeology and history and review the debates converted to Christianity. surrounding its form and purpose. They then set 256p b/w illus (Head of Zeus 2015) 9781781853870 Hb out a systematic approach to understanding the £20.00 design and construction of the massive linear bank and ditch. What can currently be deduced about The Anglo-Saxon World the build qualities of the Dyke are then summarised By Nicholas Higham & Martin J. Ryan from the authors’ recent (and newly In this authoritative work, intricate) study of details of its N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan localised form and construction Only reexamine Anglo-Saxon and its landscape setting. £20.00 until England in the light of new 200p b/w and col illus (Windgather publication research in disciplines as Press 2016) 9781905119356 Pb wide-ranging as historical £26.00 genetics, paleobotany, archaeology, literary studies, art history, and numismatics. The result is the definitive Sylloge of Anglo-Saxon Coins II introduction to the Anglo- By Rory Naismith Saxon world, enhanced with This publication catalogues a rich array of photographs, maps, genealogies, and the British Museum’s other illustrations. uniquely important 336p, col and b/w illus (Yale UP 2013, Pb 2015) collection of coins from 9780300216134 Pb £16.99 southern England of the period c. 760–880. Containing In the Land of Giants more than 1,400 coins, the Journeys Through Dark Age Britain British Museum’s collection By Max Adams represents the single richest Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval collection for the period, and past by walking its paths and exploring its lasting stands out for its holdings imprint on valley, hill and field. From York to Whitby, of both famous rarities and from London to Sutton Hoo, from Edinburgh to large representative runs of numerous coin-types. Anglesey and from Hadrian’s Wall to Loch Tay, All coins are illustrated and described in full, and each of his ten walk narratives form both free- set into context with an introduction surveying their standing chapters and parts of a wider portrait of a numismatic and historical background, including Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, church a description of the history of the collection itself. and causeway, holy well and memorial stone. Part 272p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2016) 9780714118246 travelogue, part expert reconstruction, In The Land Hb £45.00, NYP of Giants offers a beautifully written insight into the lives of peasants, drengs, ceorls, thanes, monks and kings during an enigmatic but richly exciting period of our island’s history. 416p, (Head of Zeus 2015) 9781784080341 Hb £25.00 57 Monk-Bishops and the English Environment, Society and Landscape Benedictine Reform Movement in Early Medieval England By Tracey-Anne Cooper By Tom Williamson London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii is a compilation Historians and archaeologists manuscript made at Christ Church, Canterbury, have long been fascinated (arguably) in 1020–1023. Its ninety-four texts and by regional variations in two illustrations initially seem to present an the landscape, by the way incompatible miscellany: a monastic customary in which different parts and texts concerning pastoral care; private prayers of the country displayed and public liturgical forms; scientific treatises and marked differences in prognostics. This book argues that when viewed social structures, settlement as a product of the third generation of the English patterns, and field systems. In Benedictine Reform, and an episcopate that was this controversial and wide- almost entirely monastic, however, the codex begins ranging study, the author to make sense as a reflection of a reform movement argues that such differences that involved much more than the ejection of some were largely a consequence clerks and the establishment of a few Benedictine of environmental factors: of monasteries and monastic sees. the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and 368p, (Brepols 2015) 9780888441935 Hb £80.00 of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. The Church and Vale of Evesham, 280p (Boydell 2013, Pb 2015) 9781843837374 Hb £45.00, 701-1215 9781783270552 Pb £19.99 By David Cox In c.701, a minster was The Fields of Britannia founded in the lower Continuity and Change in the Late Roman Avon Valley on a deserted and Early Medieval Landscape promontory called Evesham. By Chris Smart, Ben Pears & Stephen Rippon Over the next five hundred Commencing with a discussion of the differing views years it became a Benedictine of what happened to the landscape at the end of abbey and turned the Vale of Roman Britain, this volume then brings together the Evesham into a federation results from hundreds of archaeological excavations of Christian communities. and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to This book integrates the map patterns of land-use across Roman and early evidence of archaeology, medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, maps, and documents in a the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations continuous narrative that in Romano-British and early medieval land-use pays as much attention to religious and cultural life using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal as to institutional and economic matters. It provides grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes a complete survey over one of the most important varied considerably and were heavily influenced by and wealthy Benedictine abbeys and its landscape. underlying geology. 230p (Boydell 2015) 9781783270774 Hb £60.00 480p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199645824 Hb £90.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker & Maren Clegg Hyer The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited – roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages Only and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, £60.00 until grave-markers and standing sculptures – and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo- 30th April Saxon life. 398p b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2015) 9781781382653 Hb £75.00
58 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Patterns in Stonework: The Early NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Churches in Northern England Danes in Wessex A Further Study in Ecclesiastical Geology Part A The Scandinavian Impact on Southern By John F. Potter England, c. 800–c. 1100 This volume provides a comprehensive analysis Edited by Ryan Lavelle & Simon Roffey to cover all the early churches in Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire and A multi-disciplinary Lincolnshire; 79 churches or sites in all. It further and inter-disciplinary endorses the existence of those distinctive Patterned approach to the study of features in stonework fashions documented by Scandinavians in Wessex the author in earlier work covering Scotland, contexts. Two major topics, Ireland and Wales. Distinctive regional differences the Viking wars and the are identified however, in the numbers of early Danish land-owning elite, churches which survive today. figure strongly in this collection but are shown not 360p, (British Archaeological Reports BS 617, 2015) to be the sole reasons for the 9781407313931 Pb £55.00 presence of Danes, or items The Vikings in the West Country associated with them, in By Derek Gore Wessex. The papers evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their This book is the first to bring together and analyse impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the Vikings in the West Country. It covers both the objects they owned or produced. They raise the First and Second Viking Age, conquest, the wider questions too, such as when did aggressive fall of kingdoms, raids , hoards, metalwork, stone Vikings morph into more acceptable Danes, and sculptures and place names. It provides from Dorset what issues of identity were there for natives and to south-western Cornwall a great sense of how incomers in a province whose founders were the Vikings contributed to the diversity and the believed to have also come from North Sea areas, if development of the West Country, “Wessex” and not from parts of Denmark itself? England. 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 208p, (The Mint Press 2015) 9781903356654 Pb £16.00 9781782979319 Pb £45.00 Early Medieval Scotland Individuals Communities and Ideas By Martin Goldberg, Alice Blackwell & David Clarke The Politics of Language This beautifully illustrated book explores early Byrhtferth, Aelfric and the Multilingual Identity medieval Scotland through its material culture. of the Benedictine Reform Its three sections discuss themes of individuals, By Rebecca Stephenson communities and ideas in turn, asking what Old English literature thrived personal items such as jewellery can tell us about in late tenth-century England. identity, what more public objects such as cross Its success was the result of a slabs, inscribed stones and traded goods can reveal concerted effort by the leaders about community, landscape and memory, and how of the Benedictine Reform objects could provide symbolic echoes of Rome, or movement to encourage both promote Christian or Pagan ideologies. widespread literacy and a 232p col illus (National Museum of Scotland 2015) simple literary style. Yet the 9781910682029 Pb £25.00 same monks who copied and compiled these important Early Medieval Stone Monuments Old English texts themselves Edited by Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton & Meggen wrote in a rarified Latin, full Gondek of esoteric vocabulary and convoluted syntax and This book, investigating stone monuments from almost incomprehensible even to the well-educated. Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia (including the Comparing works by the two most prolific authors important memorials at Iniscealtra, County Clare), of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Aelfric of advocates three relatively new, distinctive and Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics interconnected approaches to the lithic heritage that encouraged the simultaneous development of a of the early Middle Ages. Building on recent simple English style and an esoteric Latin style. By theoretical trends in archaeology and material examining developments in Old English and Anglo- culture studies in particular, it uses the themes of Latin side by side, The Politics of Language opens materiality, biography and landscape to reveal how up a valuable new perspective on the Benedictine carved stones created senses of identity and history Reform and literacy in the late Anglo-Saxon period. for early medieval communities and kingdom. 216p (University of Toronto Press 2015) 9781442650589 279p b/w illus (Boydell 2015) 9781783270743 Hb £60.00 Hb £33.99 Anglo-Saxon & Viking59 Northmen Maritime Societies of the Viking The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD and Medieval World Early Medieval Europe By John Haywood Edited by James H. Barrett & Sarah Jane Gibbon John Haywood states in his introduction that “this This book is a study of communities that drew their book is not an attempt to paint a balanced picture identity and livelihood from their relationships of Viking life – it has little to say about their with water during a pivotal time in the creation of artistic achievements, their everyday lives or the the social, economic and political landscapes of role of women, for example, rather it is intended northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North to place the Vikings in their wider geographical and Irish Seas in the Viking Age and early Middle and historical context, from their Prehistoric pagan Ages, while also touching on the relationships origins to their transformation into Christian between estate centres, towns, landing places and Europeans”. To that end he covers a longer historical the sea in the more terrestrially oriented societies time frame than many such histories, and organises that surrounded northern Europe’s main spheres his work geographically as well as chronologically, of maritime interaction. bringing out the vast horizons of the Viking world. 386p, col pls (Society for Medieval Archaeology 2016) 448p, (Head of Zeus 2015) 9781781855232 Hb £25.00 9781909662797 Hb £60.00, NYP The Northmen’s Fury Dead Warriors in Living Memory By Philip Parker A Study of Weapons and Equestrian Burials The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from in Viking-Age Denmark, AD 800-1000 the first raids of the eighth century to the great By Anne Pedersen armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to The author presents a detailed study of weapon conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. and equestrian burials set against the overall burial It describes how and why a region at the edge of evidence from Viking-Age Denmark. Typological Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of and chronological analyses of individual objects the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and burials demonstrate the diversity of the weapon and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and burial practice of especially the 10th century. the growing power of kings tempered the Viking In a period of significant political and religious ferocity and stemmed the tide of raids. It relates the transition in southern Scandinavia, ostentatious astonishing achievement of the Vikings in forging burial may have served as a means to demonstrate far-flung empires whose sinews were the sea and both social position and political and religious whose arteries were not roads but maritime trading preferences among the Viking elites. routes. 580p, 70 b/w pls (UP of Southern Denmark 2014) 450p, (Vintage Books 2015) 9780099551843 Pb £10.99 9788776748401 Hb £39.50
EDITOR’S CHOICE Viking Dublin The Wood Quay Excavations By Patrick E. Wallace The Wood Quay – Fishamble Street archaeological excavations formed the most extensive urban excavations ever undertaken in Europe and yielded more unprecedented data about town layout in Dublin 1000 years ago than about any other European Viking town of the time. Dozens of often near intact building foundations, fences, yards, pathways, and quaysides, as well as thousands of artefacts and environmental samples were unearthed in the course of the campaign. Pat Wallace, the chief archaeologist who directed the Wood Quay and Fishamble Street excavations, provides a detailed examination of the implications of these discoveries for Viking-Age and Anglo-Norman Dublin by placing them in their national and international contexts. Lavishly illustrated with over 500 colour images, maps, and drawings, and together with detailed descriptions and analyses of the artefacts, this Only pioneering study draws together all the finds and discusses them in the context £40.00 until of parallel discoveries in Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia and northern Europe with the historical, economic and cultural milieu of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin in 30th April background focus. 700p, (Irish Academic Press 2016) 9780716533146 Hb £50.00
60 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Early Medieval Europe Small Things – Wide Horizons Early Medieval Ireland and Europe Studies in Honour of Birgitta Hardh Edited by Padraic Moran & Immo Warntjes Edited by Bengt Soderberg, Bertil Helgesson, Fredrik This collection of essays aims at reintegrating Ekengren & Lars Larsson the study of early Christianity in Ireland within The forty contributions to this volume use the wider European trends. The first section deals evidence of small finds to provide a wide range of with chronological problems faced by modern perspectives on Viking Age and Iron scholars as well as the controversial issues relating Age Europe. Themes include the to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary silver economy, coins, trinkets, Only intellectuals. The following three sections then focus burials, crafts, farms and fields, £35.50 until on Ireland’s interaction with its neighbours, namely centrality and transformations. a) Ireland in the insular world, b) continental 30th April 308p, (Archaeopress Archaeology influences in Ireland, and c) Irish influences on 2015) 9781784911317 Pb £44.00 the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the The Arthur of the North Middle Ages in modern literature. The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus 723p, (Brepols 2015) 9782503553139 Pb £135.00 Realms Edited by Marianne Kalinke The Spolia Churches of Rome This is the first book-length study of the Arthurian Recycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages literature that was translated from French and Latin By Maria Fabricius Hansen into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century. The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the It concludes with a chapter on Arthurian literature architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of in the Rus’ area, precisely East Slavic, with a focus pre-fabricated building materials. This resulted in on the Belarusian Tryscan. some very eclectically and ingeniously constructed 240p (University of Wales Press 2011, Pb 2015) churches. This sumptuously illustrated guide 9781783167876 Pb £39.99 explores the principles for the distribution of these antique architectural elements, and the significance Glass Beads from Early Medieval Ireland of breaking down and building on the past. Eleven Classification Dating Social Performance churches are selected as case studies for their wide By Mags Mannion variety of spolia and described in detail, whilst This is the first dedicated and comprehensive study of shorter summaries are provided for 28 further glass beads from Early Medieval Ireland, presenting churches. the first national classification, typology, dating, and 255p, (Aarhus UP 2015) 9788771242102 Pb £25.00 symbology. It explores not only the importance of beads as a tool of archaeological research but also Gregory of Tours the relevance of beads in the social arena and their Lives and Miracles significance as markers of cultural Edited by Giselle De Nie and religious identity and symbols Gregory of Tours served as bishop of Tours, then of status and age both in Ireland Only a city in the Frankish kingdom, from 563 to 594. and further afield. £24.00 until This volume presents the Latin text with a facing 153p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April English translation of The Life of the Fathers, The Archaeology 2015) 9781784911966 Miracles of the Martyr Julian, and The Miracles of Pb £30.00 Bishop Martin. 944p, (Harvard UP 2015) 9780674088450 Hb £19.95 Understanding Celtic Religions Revisiting the Pagan Past History, Frankish Identity and the Rise Edited by Katja Ritari & Alexandra Begholm of Western Ethnicity, 550-850 Although it has long been acknowledged that By Helmut Reimitz the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre- This pioneering study explores Frankish identity Christian and Christian elements, the challenges in the early Middle Ages as a window into the involved in the understanding of these different strata formation of a post-Roman conception of ethnicity. have not been subjected to critical examination. It offers a new basis for comparing the Western This volume draws attention to the importance of history of collective and ethnic identity with the reconsidering the relationship between religion and Islamic and Byzantine world. Interpreting identity mythology, as well as the concept of ‘Celtic religion’ as an open ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores itself, through the disciplines of theology, literary the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts studies, history, law and archaeology. through which societies tried to find order in the 182p (University of Wales Press 2015) 9781783167920 rapidly changing post-Roman world. Hb £95.00 513p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107032330 Hb £89.99 61 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons Classification, Typology, Chronology and Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Technology Europe By Gergely Csiky Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Gergely Csiky presents the classification, Centuries manufacturing techniques, fittings, suspension, Edited by Hajnalka Herold & Neil Christie distribution, and chronology of polearms and edged Twenty-three contributions weapons known from Avar-age burials. A special by leading archaeologists emphasis is laid on the origins and cultural contacts from across Europe explore of these weapons, and their social significance and the varied forms, functions function is discussed in order to place them in and significances of fortified nomadic warfare. settlements in the 8th to 10th 532p, (Brill 2015) 9789004226616 Hb £170.00 centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial Practices of Wealth Depositing in the nature, upland retreats, 1st–9th Century AD Eastern Baltic monastic enclosures, rural By Ester Oras seats, island bases, or urban This study presents different patterned practices nuclei. But they were all of concealing valuables in the 1st–9th century AD expressions of control – of states, frontiers, lands, eastern Baltic through a detailed contextual analysis materials, communities – and ones defined by of their main material characteristics: artefacts, walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run their assemblages and appearance, environment from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, of concealment, chronology and location in the Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, cultural landscape. It demonstrates how depositional Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic practices change in time and space, and analyses strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and relations between specific depositional practices and coverage extends fully from north-west Europe, to developments on a wider social scale. central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork 350p (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088903076 Pb £75.00, and excavations, but drawing also where available on NYP the documentary record, this important collection Slavery in Arpad-era Hungary in a provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeologies of Comparative Context By Cameron Sutt the distinctive settlement forms Only Sutt examines servile labour in the first three that characterised Europe in the £37.50 until Early Middle Ages. centuries of the Hungarian kingdom and compares publication 352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) it with dependent labour in Carolingian Europe. 9781785702358 Hb £50.00 Using legislation as well as charter evidence, he establishes that lay landlords of Árpádian Hungary frequently relied upon slaves to work their land, but the situation in Carolingian areas was much Charlemagne’s Practice of Europe more complex. The use of slave labour in Hungary By Jennifer Davis continued until the end of the thirteenth century when a combination of economic and political Davis explores how factors brought it to an end. Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling 224p, (Brill 2015) 9789004248335 Hb £98.00 his vast empire, namely how Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, to delegate authority and how to manage diversity. c.500-900 She demonstrates that By Zubin Mistry rather than imposing a pre- This book, the first to treat the subject in this existing model of empire period, tells the story of how individuals and onto conquered regions, communities, ecclesiastical and secular authorities, Charlemagne and his construed abortion as a social and moral problem men learned from them, across a number of post-Roman societies, including developing a practice of Visigothic Spain, Merovingian Gaul, early Ireland, empire that allowed the Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian empire. emperor to rule on a European scale. As a result, It argues that early medieval authors and readers Charlemagne’s realm was more flexible and diverse actively deliberated on abortion and a cluster of than has long been believed. related questions, and that church tradition on 531p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107076990 Hb £99.99 abortion was an evolving practice. 342p, (Boydell 2015) 9781903153574 Hb £60.00 62 Early Medieval Europe Medieval Britain The Oxford History of Historical Writing The Growth of Royal Government Volume 2: 400-1400 under Henry III Edited by Chase Robinson & Sarah Foot Edited by David Crook & Louise J. Wilkinson How was history written in The essays here draw on Europe and Asia between material available for the first 400-1400? How was the past time via the completion of understood in religious, the project to calendar all the social and political terms? Fine Rolls of Henry III, and And in what ways does cover topics including the the diversity of historical evidential value of the fine writing in this period mask rolls themselves and their underlying commonalities wider significance for the in narrating the past? The English polity, developments volume, which assembles 28 in legal and financial contributions from leading administration, the roles of historians, tackles these women and the church, and and other questions, through both geographical the fascinating details of the development of the overviews, and thematic studies. office of escheator. Related or parallel developments 672p (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780199236428 Hb in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are also dealt with, £95.00, 9780198737995 Pb £35.00 giving a broader British dimension. Kings and Bishops in Medieval England 304p, (Boydell 2015) 9781783270675 Hb £60.00 1066-1216 Lordship in Four Realms By Roger Wickson The Lacy Family 1166-1241 This introductory text By Colin Veach explores the central This book examines relationship between the the rise and fall of the kings of England and their aristocratic Lacy family in bishops, from the Norman England, Ireland, Wales and Conquest to Magna Carta. Normandy. As one of the first Wickson provides an truly transnational studies approachable overview of of individual medieval the key scholarship on this aristocrats, it provides a subject, from historical to fresh look at lordship and contemporary viewpoints. the interplay between He also draws readers to aristocracy and crown from the major primary sources, such as monastic 1166 to 1241. In particular it chroniclers, making this an ideal starting-point for chronicles the spectacular anyone studying high medieval England. rise to power in Ireland of Hugh de Lacy and his 256p, (Palgrave 2015) 9781137431165 Pb £19.99 son Walter, grounding them firmly in the realities of Anglo-Irish politics. 320p, (Manchester UP 2014, Pb 2015) 9780719089374 Hb £70.00, 9781784991173 Pb £18.99 EDITOR’S CHOICE A New History of the Isle of Man Vol 3 The Medieval Period, 1000-1406 Edited by Sean Duffy & Harold Mytum This reassessment of the medieval legacy of Man highlights the island’s position as a cockpit of English, Scottish, Irish and Norwegian power-politics, exploring the multi-cultural traditions of Man, and reassessing the role it was to play throughout the medieval period as Only a focal point in a complex nexus of inter-relationships £20.00 until (linguistic, economic, ecclesiastical, political, miltitary and so forth) which linked the various people of the British Isles 30th April and Scandinavia. 606p, 160 b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2015) 9780853236276 Pb £25.00 63 Brut y Tywysogyon or the Chronicle Henry V of the Princes By Anne Curry Peniarth MS 20 Version Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V By Jones Thomas and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt. Brut y Tywysogyon or The Chronicle of the Princes She explores how Henry’s hyperactive efforts to was described by Sir J. E. Lloyd as ‘the greatest expunge his past failures, and his experience of monument of Welsh historiography in the Middle crisis – which threatened to ruin everything he had Ages’. Of the original thirteenth-century Latin text struggled to achieve – defined his kingship, and how no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed translations are extant. This volume contains an his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and English translation of the Peniarth MS. 20 version, of all generations to come. which is the most complete of the three. 128p (Penguin 2015) 9780141978710 Hb £10.99 352p, (University of Wales Press 2015) 9781783163519 Hb £75.00 The Battle of Agincourt Edited by Anne Curry & Malcolm Mercer Welsh Soldiers in the Later Middle This comprehensive, Ages, 1282-1422 sumptuously illustrated By Adam Chapman volume provides a defining This book explores the role of the Welsh in reassessment of England’s England’s armies and in England’s wars between legendary victory on the Edward I’s conquest of Wales in the 1280s, through fields of Agincourt. A wide the wars in Scotland and France and the revolt range of experts examine led by Owain Glyndwr, concluding with Henry the battle in its political, V’s conquest of Normandy following his victory cultural, and geographical at Agincourt in 1415. It examines the structure and contexts, detailing strategies, composition of armies and the social networks and tactics, armour, weapons, hierarchies which underpinned them. and fighting techniques 264p, (Boydell 2015) 9781783270316 Hb £60.00 while exploring the battlefield experiences of commanders and ordinary soldiers alike. In Adam Usk’s Secret addition, this all-encompassing study offers deep By Steven Justice analyses of many artefacts and aspects of the battle Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome and its aftermath that have rarely been covered in during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived other histories, including medicine and hygiene, the a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal roles of faith and chivalry, the music of the times, advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. Usk also and the experiences of women. wrote a peculiar book: a chronicle of his own times, 328p col illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300214307 Hb £30.00 composed in a strangely anxious and secretive voice that seems better designed to withhold vital facts Prisoners of War in the Hundred than to recount them. Steven Justice provides a Years War detailed textual analysis, exploring what it was that Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages Usk wanted to hide. By Remy Ambuhl 224p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) Historians have long 9780812246933 Hb £32.50 emphasised the significance of the French and English Popular Protest in Late Medieval crowns’ interference in the English Towns issue of prisoners of war, but By Samuel K. Cohn this original and stimulating Contrary to received opinion, revolts and popular study questions whether they protests in medieval English towns were as frequent have been too influenced and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those by the state-centred nature in the countryside. This groundbreaking study of most surviving sources. refocuses attention on the varied nature of popular Based on extensive archival movements in towns from Carlisle to Dover and research, this book tests from the London tax revolt of Longbeard in 1196 customs, laws and theory to Jack Cade’s Rebellion in 1450, exploring the against the individual experiences of captors and leadership, social composition, organisation prisoners during the Hundred Years War, to evoke and motives of popular rebels. Samuel Cohn their world in all its complexity. demonstrates that the timing and character of 316p, (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9781107010949 Hb popular revolt in England differed radically from £69.99, 9781107529304 Pb £21.99 revolts in Italy, France and Flanders. 390p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107027800 Hb £79.99, 9781107529359 Pb £24.99 64 Medieval Britain Medieval Europe Must We Divide History into Periods? The Franks in Outremer By Jacques Le Goff By Alan V. Murray In this, his last book, Le Goff This volume brings together twenty studies relating argues persuasively that to the history of the Crusader states. Half of the many of the innovations essays deal with the first three decades of the we associate with the Frankish settlement, focusing on the monarchy of Renaissance have medieval the kingdom of Jerusalem, and on the origins and roots, and that many of the prosopography of the Frankish nobility. Beyond this most deplorable aspects of are longer-ranging studies devoted to sacred and medieval society continued secular aspects of the landscape and population to flourish during the of Palestine, and essays which consider how the Renaissance. We should Franks perceived and interacted with the Muslim instead view Western and native Christian inhabitants of Syria, Palestine civilization as undergoing and neighbouring lands. several “renaissances” following the fall of Rome, 366p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472468857 Hb £90.00 over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed How to Plan a Crusade necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff By Christopher Tyerman maintains, the meaningful continuities of human In this highly original and enjoyable new book, development only become clear when historians Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious adopt a long perspective. but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing and 176p (Columbia UP 2015) 9780231173001 Hb £20.00 hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. It provides a detailed exploration of the Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, logistical effort involved and the ways that society 1066-1216 responded taking in diplomacy, communications, By Eljas Oksanen propaganda, the use of mass media, medical care, This book is a groundbreaking investigation of the equipment, voyages, money, weapons, credit, wills, relations and exchanges between the county of ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer. Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm. Among 448p, (Penguin 2015) 9781846144776 Hb £25.00 other important themes, it examines Anglo- Flemish diplomatic treaties and fiefs, international Hattin aristocratic culture, the growth of overseas By John France commerce, immigration into England and the On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin construction of new social and national identities. destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom 324p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780521760997 Hb of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle £64.99, 9781107529892 Pb £24.99 of Hattin – and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. John France analyses the The Crusader World origins and course of this pivotal battle, illuminating Edited by Adrian J. Boas the roots of the bitter hatred which underlay it, and Adrian Boas draws together explains its significance in world history – from an impressive range of medieval times to the present. academics, including work 240p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199646951 Hb £18.99 from renowned scholars as well as a number of From She-Wolf to Martyr though-provoking pieces The Reign and Disputed Reputation from emerging researchers, of Johanna I of Naples in order to provide broad By Elizabeth Casteen coverage of the major aspects In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna of the period. This volume (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming enriches present knowledge the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe’s of the crusades, addressing most important polities. Elizabeth Casteen examines such wide-ranging subjects as: intelligence and Johanna’s evolving, problematic reputation and uses it espionage, gender issues, religious celebrations in as a lens through which to analyze often-contradictory crusader Jerusalem, political struggles in crusader late-medieval conceptions of rulership, authority, and Antioch, the archaeological study of battle sites and femininity. She argues that despite Johanna’s modern fortifications, diseases suffered by the crusaders, reputation for indolence and incompetence, she crusading in northern Europe and Spain and the crafted a new model of female sovereignty that many impact of Crusader art. of her contemporaries accepted and even lauded. 748p, (Routledge 2015) 9780415824941 Hb £130.00 288p b/w illus (Cornell UP 2015) 9780801453861 Hb £33.50 65 Daughter of Venice John Hawkwood By Holly S. Hurlburt An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy Medieval Religion Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and By William Caferro the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and John Hawkwood was fourteenth-century Italy’s remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King most notorious and successful soldier. In addition to Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus. In the first year a thorough account of Hawkwood’s life and career, of her reign, pregnant and widowed, she became Caferro’s study offers a fundamental reassessment of regent for the kingdom. This study considers for the Italian military situation and of the mercenary the first time the strategies of her reign, negotiating system. Hawkwood’s career is treated not in isolation Venetian encroachment, family pressures, and the but firmly within the context of Italian society, challenges of female rule. against the backdrop of unfolding crises: famine, 348p b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300209723 plague, popular unrest, and religious schism. Hb £40.00 480p, (Johns Hopkins UP 2006, Pb 2015) 9781421418414 Pb £22.50 The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Leckchner Enemies in the Plaza By Dr Jeffrey L. Forgeng Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Completed in 1482, Johannes Leckuchner’s Art of Culture 1460-1492 Combat with the “Langes Messer” is among the By Thomas Devaney most important documents on the combat arts of This study traces the changing attitudes toward the Middle Ages. The lavish manuscript consists religious minorities in late fifteenth century Castile of over four hundred illustrations with explanatory as manifested in public spectacles ranging from text. This translation, complete with all illustrations knightly tournaments, to religious processions, to from the manuscript, makes the treatise accessible popular festivals. Public spectacle served to negotiate for the first time. and articulate the boundaries between communities 481p b/w illus (Boydell 2015) 9781783270286 Hb £60.00 as well as to help Castilian nobles transform the frontier’s religious ambivalence into holy war. 256p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 9780812247138 Hb £39.00 Medieval Society The Origins of Corporations The Medieval New The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation By Germain Sicard By Patricia Clare Ingham Germain Sicard proves that Europe’s first corporations Examining a range of evidence, from the writings of were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Roger Bacon and Geoffrey Chaucer to the letters of Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English Christopher Columbus, and attending to histories of and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. children’s toys, the man-made marvels of romance, He shows that the corporate form derives from a the utopian aims of alchemists, and the definitional unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe precision of the scholastics, Ingham analyses the called pariage, and a culture of strong property ethical ambivalence with which medieval thinkers rights and municipal self-governance. First English approached the category of the new. translation of a 1952 with a new introduction. 288p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 480p, b/w illus (Yale UP 2015) 9780300156485 Hb 9780812247060 Hb £42.50 £60.00 Generations of Feeling Learning to Die in London 1380-1540 A History of Emotions 600-1700 By Amy Appleford By Barbara H. Rosenwein Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of Charting the varieties, transformations and the Middle English “art of dying” (ars moriendi). An constants of human sentiments over the course of educated awareness of death and mortality was a eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores vital aspect of medieval civic culture, she contends, the feelings expressed in a wide range of ‘emotional critical not only to the shaping of single lives communities’ as well as the theories that served to and the management of families and households inform and reflect their times. She assesses the ways but also to the practices of cultural memory, the in which emotional norms and modes of expression building of institutions, and the good government respond to, and in turn create, their social, religious, of the city itself. ideological, and cultural environments. 336p, (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) 390p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107097049 Hb £54.99, 9780812246698 Hb £42.50 9781107480841 Pb £19.99 66 Medieval Religion The Murder of William of Norwich NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe A Medieval Woman’s Companion By E.M. Rose By Susan Signe Morrison In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, Focusing on women from a young apprentice leatherworker, was found Western Europe between abandoned outside the city’s walls. A story soon c. 300 and 1500 CE in spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by the medieval period and Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as a mockery of richly carpeted with detail, Christianity. E.M Rose’s engaging book delves into A Medieval Woman’s the story of William’s murder and the notorious Companion offers a wealth trial that followed to uncover the origin of the ritual of information about real murder accusation – known as the “blood libel” – in medieval women who western Europe in the Middle Ages. are now considered vital 416p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780190219628 Hb £16.99 for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and Imagining Religious Leadership in nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval the Middle Ages women illustrate how they have anticipated Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform and shaped current concerns, including access By Steven Vanderputten to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theatre, romantic fiction, and music; This book forms an in-depth study of Richard marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, of Saint-Vanne (d.1046), abbot of numerous childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex monasteries, and with a reputation as a highly trafficing and sexual violence; the balance of successful administrator and reformer of monastic work and family; faith; and disability. Ideal for discipline. It shows how Richard conceived of his high school and college classroom use in courses life as an evolving commentary on a wide range of ranging from history and literature to women’s issues relating to individual spirituality, monastic and gender studies, an accompanying website discipline, and religious leadership. with educational links, images, downloadable 264p, (Cornell UP 2015) 9780801453779 Hb £33.50 curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication. The Secular Clergy in England, 176p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700798 1066-1216 Pb £16.95 By Hugh M. Thomas Secular clerics had a huge role in the rise of royal bureaucracy. They were instrumental to the Children and Youth in Premodern intellectual and cultural flowering of the twelfth century, the rise of the schools, the creation of Scotland the book trade, and the invention of universities. Edited by Janay Nugent & Elizabeth Ewan Indeed, this volume argues that they contributed By examining medieval more than any other group to the Twelfth-Century and early modern Scottish Renaissance. It forms a major study of the secular communities through the clergy below the level of bishop in England from lens of age, this collection 1066 to 1216. counters traditional 422p, col pls (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198702566 Hb £75.00 assumptions that young people are peripheral Kind Neighbours to our understanding of Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle the political, economic, Ages and social contexts of the By Tom Turpie premodern era. The topics In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion addressed fall into three to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later main sections: the experience middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role of being a child/adolescent; representations of the played by these saints in the legal and historical young; and the construction of the next generation. arguments for Scottish independence, and the The individual essays examine the experience of the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, young at all levels of society; they draw on evidence were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. from art, personal correspondence, material culture, 192p (Brill 2015) 9789004298224 Hb £85.00 song, legal and government records, work and marriage contracts, and literature. 235p, (Boydell 2015) 9781783270439 Hb £60.00 67 Monastic Culture From Eden to Eternity Edited by Lars Bisgaard, Sigga Engsbro, Kurt Villads Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages Jensen & Tore Nyberg By A. J. Minnis This collection of essays offered in honour of Brian Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to Patrick McGuire explore on the role of monasteries live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate as cultural centres, focusing in the main on the in paradise? And since people had no need for long thirteenth centuries. Topics include monastic clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did contacts and friendship networks, relationships animals serve? These were but a few of the questions between the monastic orders, Cisterican sermons, and that plagued medieval scholars for whom the idea recruitment, and the Dominicans as disseminators of of Eden proved an endless source of contemplation. knowledge and as a model for other orders. In this study Alastair Minnis examines accounts of 328p, (UP of Southern Denmark 2014) 9788776747749 the origins of the human body and soul to illustrate Hb £29.00 the ways in which the schoolmen thought their way back to Eden to discover fundamental truths about Christian Materiality humanity. An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe 368p, (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) By Caroline W. Bynum 9780812247237 Hb £39.00 In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made Medieval Jews and the Christian Past pilgrimage to places where material objects – By Ram Ben-Shalom among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of The focus in this book is on the historical wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers – consciousness of the Jews of Spain and southern allegedly erupted into life through such activities France in the late Middle Ages, and specifically as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. Caroline on their perceptions of Christianity and Christian Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, history and culture. Ben-Shalom demonstrates that discusses the problems they presented for both Jews were less influenced by Christian thought and church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and theology than by their interactions with Christian probes the basic scientific and religious assumptions society at the local level, and there was no single about matter that lay behind them. stereotype that dominated Jewish thought. 440p, (Zone Books 2011, Pb 2015) 9781935408116 Pb 300p, (Littman Library 2015) 9781904113904 Hb £35.00 £19.95 Art of Documentation Conscience and Authority in the Documents and Visual Culture in Medieval Medieval Church England By Alexander Murray By Jessica Berenbeim These five essays address the difficult relationship The later Middle Ages was a time of profound between private conscience and public authority connection between the spheres of bureaucracy and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Contents: art. By discussing the two together, this book argues Confession before 1215; Confession as a historical that art-historical methods offer an important source in the Thirteenth Century; Counselling in contribution to diplomatics, and that works of art medieval confession; Archbishops and mendicants are important sources for the cultural reception of in Thirteenth Century Pisa; Excommunication and documentary practices. conscience in the Middle Ages. 242p b/w illus (Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies 208p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198208839 Hb £30.00 2015) 9780888441942 Pb £80.00 Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Taxonomies of Knowledge Galicia Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts Edited by Carlos Andres Gonzales-Paz Edited by Emily Steiner & Lynn Ransom For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were This volume considers the role of the manuscript seen to represent a clear risk of moral and religious book in organizing and classifying knowledge. Its perdition for women, and they were strongly six essays demonstrate how the technologies of the discouraged from making them. However, as book, including the types of material used, choices the chapters here show, women – and not only of textual arrangement, format, script, layout, ‘extraordinary women’ such as saints and queens, decoration, and overall design, make it possible but also women from other social strata – became to determine what medieval readers and writers pilgrims and travelled the paths that led from their thought information was, what they determined homes to the most important Christian shrines. was useful to know, and through which categories This situation is thoroughly documented in this they decided it could be transmitted effectively to multidisciplinary book, with emphasis both on others. the pilgrimages abroad from Galicia and on the 176p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) pilgrimages to the shrine of St James at Compostela. 9780812247596 Hb £29.50 184p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472410702 Hb £65.00 68 Medieval Religion Medieval Art The Art, Literature and Material Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Culture of the Medieval World Edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes & Melissa Herman Art in England The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 This volume challenges traditional perceptions of the Medieval, exploring the many ways in By Sara N. James which it was actively transformatory and how Art in England fills a void ideas of change are reflexively understood within in the scholarship of both academic discourse. The wider debate about English and medieval art cultural crossroads and understandings in the by offering the first single Medieval period is readdressed, to ask what the volume overview of artistic Medieval was, is and might be. movements in Medieval and 334p, (Four Courts Press 2015) 9781846825613 Hb £50.00 Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and Medieval Monsters using the chronology of By Damien Kempf & Maria L. Gilbert the reign of monarchs as a Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures structure, it is contextual and sparked artists’ imaginations to remarkable heights. comprehensive, revealing Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi- intention and unique qualities that run through headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. English art of the medieval millennium. By placing This lavishly illustrated book is packed with over the English movement in a European context, this 100 wondrous and terrifying images which together book brings to light many ingenious innovations offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind. that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media 96p, (British Library 2015) 9780712357906 Hb £10.00 studied include architecture and related sculpture, Manuscripts and Printed Books in both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; Europe 1350-1550 manuscript illuminations; textiles; Packaging Presentation and Consumption and art by English artists and by Edited by Emma Cayley & Susan Powell foreign artists commissioned by Only This collaborative collection considers the English patrons. packaging, presentation and consumption of £45.00 until 448p, (Oxbow Books 2016) publication medieval manuscripts and early printed books in 9781785702235 Hb £60.00 £45.00, Europe 1350-1550. The collection falls naturally into NYP three sections: Packaging and Presentation: The physical context of the manuscript and printed book including its binding, visual presentation and internal organization; Consumers: Producers, The Crusades and Visual Culture Owners, and Readers; and Consuming the Text: The Edited by Laura J. Whatley, Susanna A. Throop & experience of the audience(s) for books. Elizabeth Lapina 352p, (Liverpool UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781781382691 Pb The essays in this volume £25.00 examine the ways in Performing Medieval Text which ideas of crusading were realized in a broad Edited by Ardis Butterfield, Henry Hope and Ardis variety of media (including Souleau manuscripts, cartography, Insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle sculpture, mural paintings, Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; and metalwork). Arguing manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and implicitly for recognition of music; paintings, and many more. Adopting a wide the conceptual frameworks range of disciplinary perspectives – literary studies, of crusades that transcend liturgical studies, iconography, and musicology traditional disciplinary – this collection of essays reveals the two-fold boundaries, the volume explores the pervasive performative nature of such texts: they document, influence and diverse expression of the crusading mediate, or prefigure acts of performance, while movement from the twelfth through the fifteenth at the same time taking on performative roles centuries. themselves by generating additional layers of 288p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472449269 Hb £65.00 meaning. (Legenda 2016) 9781910887134 Hb £75.00, NYP
69 Medieval Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Romanesque and the Mediterranean Points of Contact across the Latin, Greek and Castles and the Anglo-Norman World Islamic Worlds c.1000 to c.1250 Edited by John A. Davies, Angela Riley, Jean-Marie Edited by Rosa Bacile & John McNeill Levesque & Charlotte Lapiche The sixteen papers collected in this volume explore Castles and the Anglo- points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic Norman World is a major worlds between c. 1000 and c. 1250. The individual new synthesis drawing essays cover a wide range of topics and media: together a series of 20 papers. from the ways in which the Cappella Palatina in It includes summaries of Palermo fostered contacts between Muslim artists current knowledge and new and Christian models, the importance of dress research into important and textiles in the wider world of Mediterranean Norman castles in England design, and the possible use of Muslim-trained and Normandy, drawing sculptors in the emergent architectural sculpture of on information from recent late-11th-century northern Spain, to the significance excavations. Sections consider of western saints in the development of Bethlehem the evolution of Anglo- as a pilgrimage centre and of eastern painters and Norman castles, the architecture and archaeology of techniques in the proliferation of panel painting in Norman monuments, Romanesque architecture and Catalonia around 1200. artefacts, the Bayeux Tapestry and the presentation 342p col pls (Maney 2015) 9781909662803 Pb £55.00 of historic sites to the public. These studies are presented together with Romanesque Architecture and its a consideration of the 12th century Only Sculptural Decoration in Christian cross-Channel Norman Empire, £36.00 until Spain 1000-1120 which provides a broader context. publication By Janice Mann 336p (Oxbow Books 2016) This study examines how the financial patronage 9781785700224 Hb £48.00 of newly empowered local rulers allowed Cod and Herring Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea to significantly redefine the cultural identities Fishing of those who lived in the frontier kingdoms Edited by James H. Barrett & David C. Orton of Christian Spain. Mann examines groups of buildings constructed by particular patrons against Quests for cod, herring and other sea fish had the backdrop of changing social conditions and profound impacts on attitudes that resulted from increased influence medieval Europe. This from beyond the Pyrenees, the consolidation of interdisciplinary book royal power, and intensified aggression against combines history, archaeology Muslims. and zooarchaeology to discover the chronology, 296p b/w illus (University of Toronto Press 2009, Pb causes and consequences of 2015) 9780802093240 Hb £53.99, 9781442628939 Pb these fisheries. It addresses £21.99 evidence for human impacts With Thy Towers High on aquatic ecosystems in some instances and for a By Gordon Ewart & Dennis Gallagher negligible medieval footprint Archaeological investigation began at Stirling Castle on superabundant marine species in others. Regional in 1921, when the Grand Battery was excavated to differences are clear, yet communities of the North reveal the great kitchens, but it is only in the later Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic, North and Irish Seas twentieth century that concerted archaeological also followed trajectories with many resonances. research, conservation and presentation has sought Ultimately they were linked by a pan-European to provide a coherent picture of the development trade network that turned preserved fish into wine, of the monument. This volume brings together grain and cloth. At the close of the Middle Ages this the evidence from the archaeological excavations, nascent global network crossed the surveys, historical research and investigations of the Atlantic, but its earlier implications standing buildings which have taken place during the conservation and re-presentation of Stirling were no less pivotal for those who Only harvested the sea or profited Castle. £36.00 until from its abundance. 288p col illus (Historic Scotland 2015) 9781849171694 192p, (Oxbow Books 2016) publication Pb £14.99 9781785702396 Pb £48.00
70 Wallingford NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Castle and the Town in Context Edited by David Roffe, Neil Christie & K. S. B. Keats- York Rohan Edited by Peter Addyman Combining the text and material evidence, the York has been England’s contributions to this volume provide a detailed second city for much narrative of the history of Wallingford Castle from of its almost 2000 years its construction to its destruction, as well as helpful of history. This atlas, contextual sections on English history and medieval produced in the Historic castles. Also included are sections on excavations Towns Trust’s large at the castle at the nearby town of Oxford and the portfolio format, traces priory at Wallingford. It forms a companion to two the origins and growth earlier volumes arising from the Wallingford Burh of the city from its to Borough Project. foundation as a Roman 302p, (British Archaeological Reports BS 621, 2015) legionary fortress c.AD71 9781407314181 Pb £44.00 right through to the 21st century, epitomising some Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe of its greatest periods. Edited by Anngret Simms & Howard Clarke Eleven maps, period by period, bring together This volume has grown out topographical, archaeological, historical and of the European historic cartographic evidence to present a clear picture towns atlas project and of what is known of the city through time. focuses on the question The period maps are supplemented by others of how seigneurial power which show York in its regional, geological, and influenced the creation of topographical settings, and there are special towns in medieval Europe maps of York’s 19th century parishes and wards. and of how this process 144p, (Historic Towns Trust 2015) 9781785701276 Hb in turn influenced urban £70.00 form. Part I of the volume addresses two major issues: Seats of Power in Europe during the history of the use of town the Hundred Years War plans in urban research and the methodological By Anthony Emery challenges of comparative urban history. Parts II and Seats of Power in Europe III constitute the core of the book focusing on the is a major new study dynamic relationship between lordship and town of the residences of the planning in the core area of medieval Europe and crowned heads and the on the periphery. In Part IV the symbolic meaning royal ducal families of of town plans for medieval people is discussed. the countries involved in Part V consists of critical contributions by an the Hundred Years’ War. archaeologist, an art historian and an historical Though they were the geographer. leading protagonists and 574p, (Ashgate 2015) 9780754663546 Hb £85.00 therefore responsible for the course of the war, do Lived Experience in the Later their residences reflect an Middle Ages entirely defensive purpose, a social function, Studies of Bodiam and Other Elite Landscapes or the personality of their builders? The study in South-Eastern England concentrates on sixty properties extending from Edited by Matthew Johnson the castles at Windsor and Kenilworth to those Between 2010 and 2014, topographical, geophysical at Saumur and Rambures, and from the palaces and building survey were undertaken at four at Avignon and Seville to the manor-houses at different late medieval sites and landscapes in Germolles and Launay. A number of subsidiary south-eastern England: Bodiam, Scotney, Knole or associated properties are also considered in and Ightham. This volume seeks to present this more broad-based sections. Each region and its work and discuss its archaeological and historical residences are prefaced by supporting historical importance. Central to the volume are the linked and architectural surveys to help position the ideas of lived experience and political ecology in properties against the contemporary military, presenting a new understanding of late medieval financial, and aesthetic backgrounds. sites and landscapes. 352p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 300p, (The Highfield Press 2016) 9780992633660 Pb 9781785701030 Hb £49.95 £25.00, NYP
Medieval Archaeology71 The Wonder of the North A Medieval Manor House at Longforth Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Farm, Wellington, Somerset By Mark Newman By Matt Leivers, Simon Flaherty & Phil Andrews This volume, based on 25 Excavations in advance of housing development years’ research, for the first at Longforth Farm, Wellington revealed limited time tells the full story of evidence for late prehistoric settlement, but the the landscape of Fountains principal discovery was the remains of a previously Abbey and Studley Royal unknown high status medieval building complex. Park, from prehistory This is thought to have been a manor house and through the middle ages to though heavily robbed, key elements identified the Victorian era. It charts include a hall, solar with garderobe and service the rise and fall of England’s wing. There was a restricted range and number largest Cistercian monastery, of medieval finds, but together these suggest that and reveals the hitherto occupation spanned the late 11th or 12th century to lost history and scale of the probably the 14th century. Aislabie family’s Studley Royal designed landscape, 100p b/w illus (Wessex Archaeology 2016) 9781874350859 at the forefront of every emergent garden fashion of Pb £7.50, NYP the eighteenth century. 394p col illus (Boydell 2015) 9781843838838 Hb £35.00 Stepney Green Moated manor house to city farm An Historical Map of Oxford By David Sankey From Medieval to Victorian Times Remains of a late medieval and Tudor moated Edited by Alan Crossley mansion, known from the 17th century as Worcester A new historical map of Oxford, based on the House, were located on Crossrail’s Stepney Green earliest accurate survey of the city produced by shafts worksite in London’s East End. Its rich Ordnance Survey in 1876. The map has been merchant and aristocratic owners had a fine country digitised and enhanced to show the sites of the city’s residence with easy access to the city and to the main medieval and post-medieval buildings, both River Thames and so to overseas trade. By the late civic and university. It shows colleges completely 17th century the estate had passed into the hands of lost or radically changed, town buildings like the radical Nonconformists associated with the Stepney butter bench and shambles now vanished, and the Meeting and a meeting house was built there. huge Oxford castle site in detail. The full-colour 100p b/w illus (Museum of London Archaeology 2015) map has a short introduction to the city’s history, 9781907586316 Pb £10.00 and on the reverse a gazetteer of Oxford’s main buildings and sites of interest. (Historic Towns Trust 2015) 9780993469800 £8.99
EDITOR’S CHOICE Glastonbury Abbey Archaeological Investigations 1904–79 By Cheryl Green & Roberta Gilchrist Thirty-six seasons of archaeological excavation took place at Glastonbury Abbey during the twentieth century, directed by such iconic figures as Sir William St John Hope, Sir Charles Peers, Sir Alfred Clapham and Dr Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford. The results of these antiquarian excavations, only published in the past in the form of brief interim statements, is examined here critically for the first time. The volume reports on the comprehensive study of the archaeological archives and artefact collections and a new geophysical survey. Previous interpretations are challenged and new evidence is presented for the Saxon and later medieval phases of the abbey, including an important complex of early glassworking furnaces, dated c 700. For the first time, archaeological evidence is revealed for the Norman and later medieval monastic ranges and the luxurious abbot’s hall and court. The rich assemblage of material culture includes devotional objects, fine imported Only vessels, locally produced ceramic floor tiles and stained glass and sculpture of the £36.00 until highest quality. Many retrospective elements are evident in the architecture of Glastonbury Abbey, perhaps suggesting a deliberate strategy to cultivate memory 30th April and to promote the antiquity of its Christian heritage. 504p, (Society of Antiquaries of London 2015) 9780854313006 Hb £45.00
72 Medieval Archaeology Excavations at Newport Street, NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Worcester, 2005 Roman Roadside Activity and Medieval to Post- Environment, Society and the Black Medieval Urban Development on the Severn Death Floodplain An interdisciplinary approach to the late- By Peter Davenport medieval crisis in Sweden The excavation of approximately a third of a Edited by Per Lagerås hectare in the north-western part of the historic In the mid-fourteenth core of Worcester represent the first large-scale century the Black Death archaeological investigation of this area. The results ravaged Europe, leading to complement those of previous major investigations dramatic population drop of the Roman and medieval town and provide and social upheavals. This valuable insights into the economic and social status study uses new evidence of the medieval town’s expansion onto the former from pollen and tree-ring floodplain. data to gain new insights 286p, (Cotswold Archaeology 2016) 9780955353499 Hb into farm abandonment £21.95, NYP and agricultural change, and to point to the The Archaeology of Medieval Spain important environmental By Magdalena Valor and Avelino Gutierrez and ecological consequences of the crisis. The This book is the first modern archaeological record shows that the crisis was survey in English of medieval not only characterised by abandonment and archaeology in Spain, and decline, but also how families and households it reveals the extraordinary survived by swiftly developing new strategies development of Spanish during these uncertain times. Finally, stature and archaeological work after isotope studies are applied to human skeletons the creation of regional from medieval churchyards to reveal changes in governments in the 1980s. health and living conditions during the crisis. Chapters deal with the rural 208p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700545 and urban habitat, daily life, Pb £36.00 trade and technology, castles and fortifications, the display of secular power and all three religions of medieval Destined to serve: Use of the outer Spain: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. 336p b/w and col illus (Equinox 2014, Pb 2015) grounds of St Augustine’s Abbey, 9781845531737 Hb £80.00, 9781781792520 Pb £29.99 Canterbury before, during and after the time of the monks Devon’s Torre Abbey Canterbury Christ Church University Faith, Politics and Grand Designs Excavations 1983-2007 By Michael Rhodes By Alison Hicks Torre Abbey is an This volume describes archaeological site of nation- archaeological discoveries al importance. Founded in made within the outer 1196, it became the wealthiest precincts of St Augustine’s English monastery of the Abbey between 1983 and order of Premonstratensian 2007. Of particular note canons. The extent of its was evidence for Bronze survival makes Torre Abbey Age settlement, a Roman the best preserved medieval cremation cemetery abbey in Devon and and water conduit, a mid Cornwall. After King Henry Anglo-Saxon craftworking VIII closed the monastery site associated with the in 1539, two of its former ranges were adapted for monastery of SS Peter and Paul (founded c AD 598). use as a private house, which from 1662 became the Subsequent development associated with the outer home of the Roman Catholic Cary family, who lived court of the abbey saw the construction of major there for nearly 300 years. Sumptuously illustrated, service buildings including a brewhouse-bakehouse this book tells the story of the Abbey and its owners, and a cellarer’s range. detailing the various architectural changes and the 379p b/w illus (Canterbury Archaeological Trust 2015) course of modern archaeological research at the site. 9781870545327 Pb £35.00 160p col illus (The History Press 2015) 9780750962674 Hb £16.99
Medieval Archaeology73 Post Medieval The Global Lives of Things Food and Health in Early Modern Europe The Material Culture of Connections in Diet, Medicine and Society 1450-1800 the Early Modern World By David Gentilcore Edited by Anne Gerritsen and Georgio Riello This volume is both a history of food practices and This collection considers the ways in which ‘things’, a history of the medical discourse about that food. ranging from commodities to works of art and It is also an exploration of the interaction between precious materials, participated in the shaping of the two: the relationship between evolving foodways global connections in the period 1400-1800. By and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order focusing on the material exchange between Asia, to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study Europe, the Americas and Australia, the book traces of printed dietary advice covering the entire early the movements of objects through human networks modern period, from the late-15th century to the of commerce, colonialism and consumption. early-19th; it is also the first to trace the history of 265p b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138776661 Hb European foodways as seen through the prism of £100.00, 9781138776753 Pb £29.99 this advice. 264p (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472534972 Pb £19.99 Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Pieces of Eight Seventeenth-Century Voc Ships More Archaeology of Piracy By Wendy van Duivenvoorde Edited by Matthew E. Keith Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was The contributors to this volume combine both aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia , the only material culture and archival research to confirm excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century the exploits of pirates and the ships they sailed. Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in They examine the latest discoveries at Captain a way that permits detailed examination. The Henry Morgan’s encampments and recount William systematic and analytical approach includes Kidd’s epic capture of the Quedagh Merchant detailed aspects of metallurgy, casting techniques in the Indian Ocean. Other chapters include and woodworking. explorations of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, 310p b/w and col illus (Texas A&M UP 2015) Bartholomew “Black Bart” Robert’s Ranger, and 9781623491796 Hb £83.50 even Hollywood’s portrayal of pirates. 304p b/w illus (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813061580 Hb The Country House £36.50 Material Culture and Consumption Edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann Commemorating the Seafarer This collection addresses a number of current By Barbara Tomlinson academic debates about elite consumption practices, This book discusses memorials – stained glass and the role of landed society as arbiters of taste. By windows, church, cemetery and public monuments looking at the country house as lived space many of – commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders the papers throw up interesting questions about the and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century accumulation and arrangement of objects; the way to the present. Each chapter includes case studies of in which rooms were used and experienced by both both high status and popular memorials, showing owners and visitors, and how this sense of ‘living how iconography such as the depiction of the history’ can be presented meaningfully to the public. wrecked ship was widely transmitted. 214p col illus (Historic England 2016) 9781848022331 260p, (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2015) 9781843839705 Hb Hb £70.00 £30.00 Assembling Enclosure The Archaeology of Smoking and Transformations in the Rural Landscape of Post- Tobacco Medieval North-east England By Georgia Fox By Ronan O’Donnell Georgia Fox analyses the archaeological record to Case-studies break enclosure down into its survey the discovery, production, consumption, and constituent processes – the abolition of common trade in tobacco. She also examines how tobacco rights, the creation of ring-fence farms, the use has influenced the evolution of an American rearrangement of land-use patterns, settlement cultural identity, including perceptions of glamour, dispersal, and agricultural improvement. Each is individuality, patriotism, class, gender, ethnicity, examined in detail, showing them to be the product and worldliness, as well as notions of poor health, of particular ‘assemblages’ of local circumstances inadequate sanitation, and high-risk activities. A rather than the inevitable outcomes of enclosure case study of Port Royal Jamaica and its role in the itself. tobacco trade completes the volume. 152p b/w illus (Hertfordshire UP 2015) 9781909291430 176p, (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813060415 Hb £63.50 Pb £14.99 74 St Marylebone’s Paddington Street NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS North Burial Ground Excavations at Paddington Street, London W1, For Future Generations 2012–13 Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection By Don Walker, Adrian Miles & Michael Henderson By Mark Jones The graveyard recorded in this report was in use For Future Generations between 1772 and 1853. The archaeological findings presents an introduction to the conservation and detailed osteological analysis of 291 individuals programme devised for are combined with documentary research to provide the Mary Rose, and the a fascinating account of a burial ground used principles, objectives predominantly by the middle and upper classes. and problems of 135p b/w illus (Museum of London Archaeology 2015) marine archaeological 9781907586385 Pb £15.00 conservation. It explains the conservation methods Derelict Stone Buildings of the Black used for the treatment and Mountains Massif preservation of each major category of material. By Christopher George Leslie Hodges 160p, b/w illus (2003, Oxbow Books Pb reprint 2015) The research published here aimed to locate all 9781785701559 Pb £24.95 the sites of derelict stone buildings within the designated upland study area of approximately Sealed by Time 140 square kilometres. A total of 549 potential sites The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Rose were identified comprising houses, barns, other By Peter Marsden ancillary buildings and sheepfolds; 499 separate Combining for the first structures were located on the ground. time all that is known from Information regarding masonry, contemporary documents modes of construction and extant and the archaeological features is presented in both Only evidence, Peter Marsden tabular and photographic forms. £38.50 until and a team of specialists 346p b/w illus (Archaeopress 30th April give a fascinating and Archaeology 2015) 9781784911492 detailed overview of the Pb £48.00 history of the Mary Rose. They set out details of Crosse and Blackwell 1830-1921 the circumstances of her A British food manufacturer in London’s West End building, participation in three wars with France, By David Sorapure, Nigel Jeffries & Lyn Blackmore repairs and rebuilds, and finally the tragic This book presents the results of archaeological sinking with massive loss of life in Portsmouth excavations charting the history of one of the great Harbour in 1545. enterprises of Victorian and Edwardian Britain – 216p b/w illus (2003, Oxbow Books reprint 2015) Crosse and Blackwell. Crosse and Blackwell built and 9781785701528 Pb £15.00 converted property on a number of streets between Your Noblest Shippe Soho Square and Hog Lane (later Charing Cross Anatomy of a Tudor Warship Road) into warehousing and factory space, enabling By Peter Marsden production of its food sauces, pickles, vinegar, jams and marmalades on a vast, industrial, scale. This volume is concerned primarily with a detailed 100p b/w illus (Museum of London Archaeology 2016) description of the Mary 9781907586378 Pb £10.00, NYP Rose and how she operated as a functional The Thames Iron Works 1837–1912 warship. The structure of A major shipbuilder on the Thames the ship and her rigging By Daniel Harrison as she was in 1545 are The Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding described deck by deck Company was one of the great private enterprises of and lavishly illustrated, the Victorian age. Recent archaeological excavations including reconstructed on the Limmo Peninsula afforded a glimpse of this deck plans. Operational aspects such as steering, vanished industry. Several important components mooring, anchoring, the ship’s boats, navigation of the yard were investigated, including engineering and the removal of water are discussed. A workshops, a furnace, a mast house and mould loft summary of the ship’s armaments is provided building, and a slipway. and her fighting capabilities considered. 114p b/w illus (Museum of London Archaeology 2015) 418p, 287 b/w illus (2009, Oxbow Books reprint 2015) 9781907586347 Pb £10.00 9781785701597 Hb £60.00
Post Medieval75 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Kerbside Geology in Reading Berkshire Aspects of Historical Archaeology in the The Dyer’s Handbook Expanding Town c.1840-1914 Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist By J.R.L. Allen By Dominique Cardon Between 1801 and the First World War the population The Dyer’s Handbook concerns of the Borough of Reading increased almost tenfold. a unique manuscript from the The authorities responded by delineating new eighteenth century; a dyers streets and encouraging development in districts memoirs from Languedoc, beyond the original market town. This volume containing recipes for dyes discusses the geological features, spatial distribution with corresponding colour and geographic sources of the types of stone samples. It is an exceptional used for road construction in Reading in the late document, hugely rare and nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. of great significance not only to textile historians but 134p b/w and col illus (British Archaeological Reports 619, dyers and colourists today, 2015) 9781407314051 Pb £30.00 as thanks to the information in the manuscript the colours can be reproduced The London County Council Bomb exactly, with the same ingredients, or reproduced Damage Maps 1939-1945 using modern techniques by matching the colour By Laurence Ward samples. To the English translation of the text, The attack on London between 1939 and 1945 is one together with facsimile pages reproduced in colour of the most significant events in the city’s modern from the original manuscript, are added essays which history, the impact of which can still be seen in its situate it in its historical, economic and technological urban and social landscapes. As a key record of the contexts. For those historians who have long been attack, the London County Council Bomb Damage fascinated by the change in scale and the amount of Maps represent destruction on a huge scale, innovation that occurred in woollen cloth production recording buildings and streets reduced to smoke in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, the and rubble. The full set of maps is published here, Memoirs on Dyeing bring first-hand insight into made up of 110 hand-coloured 1:2500. Ordnance the daily preoccupations and tasks Survey base sheets originally published in 1916 but of a key actor in the success story updated by the LCC to 1940. of the Languedocian broadcloth Only 288p col illus (Thames and Hudson 2015) 9780500518250 production specially devised for £36.00 until Hb £48.00 export to the Levant. 160p, (Oxbow Books 2016) publication Shipwrecked in Paradise 9781785702112 Hb £48.00 Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawaii By Paul F. Johnston The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Ditherington Mill and the Industrial Cleopatra’s Barge, endured many incarnations over Revolution her eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure Edited by Colum Giles & Mike Williams cruiser to a Hawaiian king’s personal yacht, before Ditherington Mill is rightly being wrecked on a reef in Hanalei Bay on April celebrated as having the first 6, 1824. A team of divers from the Smithsonian iron-framed building in the Institution located, surveyed, and excavated the world. Its highly innovative wrecked ship from 1995 to 2000. Richly illustrated, structure provided a Shipwrecked in Paradise tells the story of the ship’s fireproof environment for life in Hawai’i, from her 1820 sale to Liholiho to her industrial processes. Around discovery and excavation. the Spinning Mill other early 256p, (Texas A&M UP 2015) 9781623492830 Hb £35.50 buildings have also survived. Since its final closure in The Banknotes of the Imperial Bank 1987 archaeologists and of Persia historians have examined An Analysis of a Complex System with Catalogue every aspect of this internationally significant industrial site. This research has investigated By Michael Bonine & Jere Bacharach the innovative technologies employed to create The Imperial Bank of Persia, established in 1889, the factory’s buildings and has cast light on the was the first bank to issue banknotes and attempt people responsible for the mill’s construction and to establish a modern banking system in Iran. operation. The story which has emerged is a rich This lavishly illustrated and stochastically printed one and is summarised in this book, the publication volume showcases the best and rarest of these of which is a further demonstration of a collective banknotes while untangling the complex web of commitment to securing the site’s future. branch banks in Iran. 192p col illus (Historic England 2015) 9781848021181 146p b/w illus (American Numismatic Society 2015) Hb £50.00 9780897223379 Hb £65.00, NYP 76 Post Medieval RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM
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