Late Antiquity & Byzantium Constantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Religious Faith and Imperial Policy Edited by A. Edward Siecienski The Bir Messaouda Basilica Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Contents: Constantine and religious extremism Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage (H.A. Drake); The significance of the Edict of Milan (Noel Lenski); The sources for our sources: By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Eusebius and Lactantius on Constantine in 312-313 This volume charts the (Raymond Van Dam); Constantine in the pagan radical transformation of an memory (Mark Edwards); Writing Constantine inner city neighbourhood in (David Potter) The Eusebian valorization of late antique Carthage which violence and Constantine’s wars for God (George was excavated over a five-year E. Demacopoulos); Constantine the Pious (Peter J. period by a team from the Leithart). University of Cambridge. The 160p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472454133 Hb neighbourhood remained £110.00 primarily a residential one from the second century until The Architecture of the Christian 530s AD when a substantial Holy Land basilica was constructed over Reception from Late Antiquity through the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive the Renaissance modifications were made to the basilica half-a- century later when the structures on the western half By Kathryn Blair Moore of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly Architecture took on a special representational role enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. The Bir associated with the bodily presence of the dominant Messaouda basilica provides important insights into figures of the religion. This study traces andre- the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control interprets the significance of the architecture of the of the city, the development of a new Christian inter- Holy Land within changing religious and political mural urban landscape in the sixth contexts, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. century AD, and the significance 436p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) of the pilgrimage in reinforcing 9781107139084 Hb £74.99 ecclesiastical authority in post- Only Justinianic North Africa. Procopius of Caesarea £41.25 until 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books publication Literary and Historical Interpretations 2018) 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 Edited by Christopher Lillington-Martin & Elodie Turquois This volume offers approaches that shed new light on Procopius’ texts by comparing them with Riot in Alexandria a variety of relevant textual sources. In particular, Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique the volume pays close attention to the text and Pagan and Christian Communities examines what it achieves as a literary work and By Edward J. Watts what it says as an historical product. This innovative study uses 316p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472466044 Hb one well-documented £105.00 moment of violence as a starting point for a wide- New Cities in Late Antiquity ranging examination of Documents and Archaeology the ideas and interactions Edited by Alessandra Ricci & Efthymios Rizos of pagan philosophers, This volume brings together studies by archaeologists Christian ascetics, and working on sites that were founded or developed as bishops from the fourth to urban centres during Late Antiquity. On the base of the early seventh century. case studies and synthetic approaches it attempts Edward J. Watts reconstructs to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of a riot that erupted in research and to provide discussion of the motives Alexandria in 486 when a group of students and characteristics of city-building and settlement attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly development in Late Antiquity. insulted the students’ teachers, and shows how 300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503555515 Pb £80.00 historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped reactions to the event. 312p b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 9780520294868 Pb £27.95 50 Divine Powers in Late Antiquity The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Edited by Anna Marmadoro & Irini-Fotini Viltanioti Church and its Leadership in Late Divided into two main sections, the first part of this Antiquity volume examines aspects of the notion of divine By Stephen J. Davis power as developed by the four major figures of This study analyses the development of the Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Egyptian papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. Proclus. Part two investigates the notion of divine Stephen J. Davis examines a wide range of evidence- power in early Christian authors, from the New letters, sermons, theological treatises, and church Testament to the Alexandrian school and, further, histories, as well as art, artefacts, and archaeological to the Cappadocian Fathers. The two groups of remains-to discover what the patriarchs did as thinkers share largely the same intellectual and leaders, how their leadership was represented in cultural heritage; they are concerned with the same public discourses, and how those representations fundamental questions; and they often engage in definitively shaped Egyptian Christian identity in more or less public philosophical and theological Late Antiquity. dialogue, directly influencing one another. 272p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2017) 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198767206 Hb £65.00 9789774168345 Pb £20.00 Pagans and Philosophers Tyconius of Carthage The Problem of Paganism from Augustine Exposition of the Apocalypse to Leibniz Edited by Francis X. Gumerlock & David C. Robinson By John Marenbon The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Gryson’s and troubled by the Problem of Paganism, which edition, which reconstructs the work from citations this book identifies and examines for the first time. in early medieval sources, was published in 2011 in How could the wisdom and virtue of the great Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. The present thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact translation of that edition, with introduction and that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? notes, exhibits Tyconius’s unique non-apocalyptic 328p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176086 Pb approach to the Book of Revelation. £19.95 277p (Catholic University of America Press 2017) The Dawn of Christianity 9780813229560 Hb £41.50 People and Gods in a Time of Magic and The Cross Miracles History, Art, and Controversy By Robert C. Knapp By Robin M Jensen Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual looks at why it was that people first in Judea and and spiritual journey through the two-thousand- then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean year evolution of the cross as an idea and an world became susceptible to the new religion. artefact, illuminating the controversies – along Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging with the forms of devotion – this central symbol exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 of Christianity inspires. His wide-ranging study BC to the end of the first century. focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the 320p, col pls (Profile Books 2017) 9781781252079 Hb quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the £25.00 symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars The Making of the Abrahamic Religions of colonial conquest. in Late Antiquity 280p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674088801 Hb £25.00 By Guy G. Stroumsa Making Amulets Christian This book explores the history of Christianity in Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts the context of other late antique religions, and in By Theodore de Bruyn particular through the lens of two main types of This volume examines Greek amulets with Christian religion, high and low intensity. The figures of the elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic reflect a the processes whereby a customary practice – the centripetal mode of religiosity that is characterized writing of incantations on amulets – changed in an by high intensity. The other mode of religiosity, increasingly Christian context. It considers how the obviously much more common than the first one, formulation of incantations and amulets changed is centrifugal and irenic, the mode of priests and as the Christian church became the prevailing bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. religious institution in Egypt and shows how 240p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786009 Pb £25.00 incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians. 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199687886 Hb £65.00 Late Antiquity & Byzantium 51 Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Marriage, Sex and Death Power in Late Antiquity and the Early The Family and the Fall of the Roman West Middle Ages By Emma Southon Edited by Ildar H Garipzanov, Caroline Goodson & The political rise of the church in the Late Antique Henry Maguire west, alongside that of the Germanic kingdoms, In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of led to dramatic changes in law, politics, power, and graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and culture. Against the backdrop of that upheaval, monograms and the contexts that facilitated their the family became a vitally important area of dissemination in diverse media. They ask whether focus for cultural struggles related to morality, law, some culturally specific norms and practices of and tradition. This book explores those battles graphic composition and communication can be in order to demonstrate, through the family, the discerned behind the rising corpus of graphic signs intersections between Roman and Christian legal from the fourth to tenth centuries and whether culture, thought, and political power. common features can be found in their production 256p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789462980358 Hb £64.00 and use across various media and contexts. 412p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503567242 Hb £93.50 Sulpicius Severus’ Vita Martini Edited by Philip Burton Cyprus Between Late Antiquity and The Vita Martini or Life of Martin of Sulpicius the Early Middle Ages (CA. 600-800) Severus is one of the classic Latin hagiographies, An Island in Transition a brilliant combination of Christian and classical By Luca Zavagno culture, providing allusions both to the Bible and to authors such as Virgil and Sallust throughout. This This book proposes a new story of continuities edition provides a Latin text with facing English and slow transformations in the fate of Cyprus translation, along with a commentary addressing between the late sixth and the early ninth centuries. matters of linguistic, literary, theological, and wider Analysis of new archaeological evidence shows cultural interest, taking into account the revolution signs of a continuing link to Constantinople. in the study of ‘late antiquity’ in the last fifty years. Whereas the island retained sound commercial ties with the Umayyad Levant in the seventh and 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199676224 Hb £120.00 eighth centuries, at the same time politically and Christian Novels from the Menologion economically it remained part of the Byzantine sphere. of Symeon Metaphrastes 240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138243316 Hb Edited by Stratis Papaioannou £110.00 Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection Social Dynamics in the Northwest of rewritings of saints’ lives originally intended to be Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire read at services for Christian feast days. A landmark Beyond Transformation or Decline of Byzantine religious and literary culture, the Menologion was revered for centuries – copied Edited by Wim de Clercq, Stijn Heeren & Nico in hundreds of manuscripts, recited publicly, and Roymans adapted into other medieval languages. This edition This volume explores presents the first English translation of six Christian the final phase of the novels excerpted from Symeon’s text, all of them West Roman Empire, featuring women who defy social expectations. particularly the changing 395p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674975064 Hb £19.95 interactions between the imperial authority and The Laws of the Isaurian Era external ‘barbarian’ groups The Ecloga and its Appendices in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the Edited by Mike Humphreys fourth and fifth centuries. In 741 Leo III and Constantine V promulgated The contributions present the Ecloga, a concise legal handbook that proved valuable overviews of recent a watershed moment in Roman Law. Over the archaeological research combined with innovative next three decades, it is argued, the Ecloga was theoretical discussions. Key topics include the buttressed with several further texts, before Irene movement of precious metals, trajectories of used her own laws to attack the dynasty she had imperial power, the archaeology of migration, married into, and whose policy of iconoclasm she and material culture in relation to debates about had reversed. For the first time all these texts are ethnicity. gathered together and translated, providing new 230p, b/w and col illus (Amsterdam UP 2016) insights into this crucial but murky period. 9789462983601 Hb £80.00 208p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940087 Pb £16.99

52 Late Antiquity & Byzantium A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Theodore Metochites: Poems Manual Edited by I D Polemis The Sylloge Tacticorum Theodore Metochites (ca.1270-1332), an important By Georgios Chatzelis & Jonathan Harris writer of Late Byzantium, composed twenty The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example long Poems in dactylic verse. This translation of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika, is accompanied by notes clarifying the sense of one of a number produced during the tenth century difficult passages and giving references to the texts CE. This is the first complete translation of the that inspired Metochites directly or to parallel Sylloge into English. An introduction places the passages in the works of Metochites himself, or work in its historical and literary context and other Greek and Byzantine authors. considers some of the questions that have remained 377p (Brepols 2016) 9782503570396 Pb £48.00 unanswered over the centuries, such as its authorship and the date of its composition. Nicholas Mesarites 184p, (Routledge 2017) 9781472470287 Hb £110.00 His Life and Works Edited by Michael Angold Michael Psellos on Literature and Art The aim of this book is to make accessible to a A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, Edited by Charles Barber & Stratis Papaioannou an ecclesiastic, who provides a vivid record from Most famous for his personal experience of his troubled times, including Chronographia, a history of the loss of Constantinople in 1204. eleventh-century Byzantine 400p, b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940063 Hb emperors and their reigns, £85.00 Psellos also excelled in describing as well as Coinage and History in the Seventh prescribing practices and Century Near East 5 rules for literary discourse Edited by Tony Goodwin and visual culture. This The 18 articles mainly deal with Byzantine and volume introduces this Early Islamic coinage in Syria and Palestine, but aspect of Psellian writing to there are two articles on weights, one on lead seals a wider public. The editors and one historical essay. Well over 200 coins are of this volume present thirty illustrated, most of them for the first time. The Psellian texts in English translation, characterised definitive study of the Jerash mint will certainly by theoretical reflections on themes associated with be the fundamental reference for the foreseeable the modern terms “literature” and “art.” future and three other Arab-Byzantine mints are 430p, (University of Notre Dame Press 2017) published here for the first time. 9780268100490 Pb £41.50 198p, b/w illus (Archetype 2017) Pb £28.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Framing of Sacred Space The Canopy and the Byzantine Church By Jelena Bogdanovic The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures – typically comprised of four columns and a roof – canopies had a critical role in the modular processes of church design, from actual church furnishings in the shape of a canopy to the church’s structural core. As a crucial element of church design in the Byzantine world, a world that gradually abandoned the basilica as a typical building of Roman imperial secular architecture, the canopy carried tectonic and theological meanings and, through vaulted, canopied bays and recognizable Byzantine domed churches, established organic architectural, symbolic, and sacred ties between the Old and Only New Covenants. The book highlights significant factors in understanding canopies through specific architectural settings £33.00 until and the Byzantine concepts of space, thus also contributing to larger debates about the 31st January creation of sacred space and related architectural taxonomy. 408p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190465186 Hb £38.99

Late Antiquity & Byzantium 53 Chosen Places The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia From the End of Late Antiquity Until the Orthodoxa Coming of the Turks By Jelena Erdeljan Edited by Philipp Niewohner Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament This major work is divided into a dozen thematic topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem syntheses that each addresses an central issue for the and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, archaeology of Anatolia, alongside two dozen case process and media of formulating and disseminating studies on single sites that exemplify its richness. this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian The syntheses focus on historical geography; visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case transport and communication; urbanism; human of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine remains; coins; rural settlements; fortifications; Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation houses; monasteries; churches; rock cut architecture; to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of funerary archaeology; ceramics; and small finds. the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle 480p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190610463 Hb Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. £81.00 276p b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004314719 Hb £121.00 Byzantium and the Emergence of A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, CA. 1040-1130 Manuscripts By Alexander Daniel Beihammer Edited by Vasiliki Tsamakda The Turkish penetration of Byzantine Asia Minor This volume offers an overview of Byzantine is primarily conceived of as a conflict between manuscript illustration, a central branch of empires, sedentary and nomadic groups, or religious Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, and ethnic entities. This book proposes a new illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material narrative, which begins with the waning influence culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as of Constantinople and Cairo over large parts of well as to the development and spread of Byzantine Anatolia and the Byzantine-Muslim borderlands, art. The volume provides a comprehensive overview as well as the failure of the nascent Seljuk sultanate of the material, divided by text categories, including to supplant them as a leading supra-regional force. both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a leading which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how. role in this process, not because of their raids and 676p b/w and col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004343184 Hb conquests, but because of their intrusion into pre- £213.00 existing social networks. 458p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138229594 Hb £110.00 Islam In God’s Path The Near West The Arab Conquests and the Creation of Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and an Islamic Empire the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age By Robert G. Hoyland By Allen Fromherz Scholarly but accessible to the general reader this Examining shared comm- study provides a compelling new analysis of the erce, slavery, mercenary Islamic expansion. His approach allows a longer activity, art and intellectual view of the conquests, emphasising Arab integration and religious debates, this within the Late Antique world and earlier contact book argues that North with Byzantine and Sassanian powers, as well as the Africa was an integral near contemporary successes of other “peripheral part of western Medieval peoples” such as the Turks, Avars and Khazars. History. The book tells the The speed of the conquests, so often remarked history of North Africa upon, is seen as resulting from the widespread and Europe through the recruitment of nomads into the Arab armies, and eyes of Christian kings and their canny use of non- Arabic collaborators. It is Muslim merchants, Emirs in the sustainability of the conquests that Hoyland and Popes, Sufis, Friars and sees the crucial role of Islam, in providing a cohesive Rabbis. It argues North Africa and Europe together identity. experienced both the Twelfth Century Renaissance 320p (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780190618575 Pb and the Commercial Revolution. £12.99 320p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781474426404 Hb £70.00, 9780748642946 Pb £24.99 54 Moor’s Last Stand Medieval Damascus How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library Came to an End Edited by Konrad Hirschler By Elizabeth Drayson This book discusses The Moor’s Last Stand the largest and earliest presents the poignant medieval library of the story of Boabdil, the last Middle East for which we Muslim king of Granada. have documentation – the Betrayed by his family and Ashrafiya library in the undermined by faction and very centre of Damascus internal conflict, Boabdil – and edits its catalogue, was defeated in 1492 by the also exploring the spatial forces of King Ferdinand organisation of the collection. and Queen Isabella. The This catalogue shows that Christian victory marked even book collections the completion of the attached to Sunni religious long Christian reconquest institutions could hold rather unexpected titles. of Spain and ended seven centuries in which 352p (Edinburgh UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781474408776 Hb Christians, Muslims and Jews had, for the most part, £85.00, 9781474426398 Pb £29.99 lived peacefully and profitably together. Elizabeth Drayson presents a vivid account of Boabdil’s life Arabian Drugs in Medieval and times and considers the impact of his defeat Mediterranean Medicine then and now. By Zohar Amar & Efraim Lev 224p col pls (Profile Books 2017) 9781781256862 Hb This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as £17.99 Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk of Arab medicine and pharmacology. Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Period Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean – including An Extract from Ibn Fadl Allah Al-’Umari’s Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, Masalik Al-Absar Fi Mamalik Al-Amsar sandalwood and turmeric – the authors show By D. S. Richards how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs Providing a modern English translation of a key influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-’Umari’s Masalik al- they look at how these substances merged with the absar, this book offers a rich description of Egypt development and distribution of new technologies and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages. the fourteenth-century AD. It provides a fascinating 256p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9780748697816 Hb £80.00 snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights Medieval Jerusalem into its society and the organization and functioning Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to of the Mamluk state. Christians and Jews 133p (Routledge 2016) 9781138208599 Hb £110.00 By Jacob Lassner Medieval Jerusalem Preaching Holy War examines an old question Crusade and Jihad, 1095-1105 that has recently surfaced By Niall Christie & Deborah Gerish and given rise to spirited About ten years after Urban first proclaimed the discussion among crusade, a jurisprudent from Damascus named Islamic historians and ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) dictated a call to archaeologists: what role did the jihad (holy war) against the European invaders. a city revered for its holiness In this groundbreaking book Niall Christie and play in the unfolding Deborah Gerish explore the similarities between politics of the early Islamic the messages of Urban and al-Sulami, examining period? Examining Muslim how far medieval understandings of holy war might historiography and religious have spanned these radically different cultures. The lore in light of Jewish traditions about the city, Jacob book includes a full text, translation and study of Lassner points out how these reworked Jewish the al-Sulami’s Kitab al-Jihad. traditions and the imposing monumental Islamic 200p (Routledge 2017) 9780754637295 Hb £95.00 architecture of the city were meant to demonstrate that Islam had superseded Judaism and Christianity as the religion for all monotheists. 288p (University of Michigan Press 2017) 9780472130368 Hb £63.95 Islam 55 Islamic Palace Architecture in the Tamta’s World Western Mediterranean The Life and Encounters of a Medieval A History Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia By Felix Arnold By Antony Eastmond This book offers a This book tells the compelling story of a thirteenth comprehensive and up-to- century Christian noblewoman named Tamta. date overview of Islamic Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen palace architecture in Spain, Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia nephews of Saladin after her father was captured and southern Italy. The during a siege. She was later raped and then author presents all Islamic married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage palaces known in the region by the Mongols, before being made an independent in ground plans, sections and ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. The book individual descriptions, and explores how women’s identities changed between discusses such topics as the different courts, with shifting languages, religions influence of the architecture and cultures, and between their roles as daughters, of the Middle East on the Islamic palaces of the wives, mothers and widows. western Mediterranean region, the role of Greek 400p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107167568 Hb £35.00 logic and scientific progress on the design of palaces, and the impact of Islamic palaces on Sweet Waste Norman and Gothic architecture. A View From the Mediterranean and From the 384p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190624552 Hb 2002 Excavations at the Tawahin Es-Sukkar £64.00 (Safi), Jordan By Richard E. Jones The Most Noble of People This volume reports on the excavation of a medieval Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity sugar refinery south of the Dead Sea in Jordan. in Muslim Spain There it was possible to explore many of the steps By Jessica Coope in the process from milling/crushing of the cane The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look to purifying the crude juice. At the same time, the at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the book reviews the available archaeological evidence Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to for sugar production across the Mediterranean 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations up to the time that the industry’s focus moved among different religious and ethnic groups, and increasingly west to the New World. between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers 245p b/w and col illus (Potingair Press 2017) the ways in which personal and cultural identity in al- 9780956824035 Pb £45.00 Andalus could be alternately fluid and contentious. 224p (University of Michigan Press 2017) 9780472130283 Hb £62.50

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Mongols and the Islamic World From Conquest to Conversion By Peter Jackson The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive array of primary sources as well as modern studies to demonstrate how Islam not only survived the savagery of the conquest, but spread throughout the empire. This unmatched study goes beyond the well-documented Mongol campaigns of massacre and devastation to explore different aspects of an immense imperial event that encompassed what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Only Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia and parts of eastern £25.00 until Europe. It examines in depth the cultural consequences for 31st January the incorporated Islamic lands, the Muslim experience of Mongol sovereignty, and the conquerors’ eventual conversion to Islam. 640p b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) 9780300125337 Hb £30.00

56 Islam Anglo-Saxon & Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England By Jill Bourne Jill Bourne presents the corpus of all 70 surviving Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century Kingston place-names, and investigates each one By Mark McKarracher within its historical and landscape context. The study Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen explores connections between Kingstons and the as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the cyninges-tūns and villæ regales of the documentary pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more sources; considers the concept and development of important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological early kingship and its possible origins, the laws of the data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural earliest kings, the petty kingdoms, and emergence of innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the the larger kingdoms; and pays particular attention to age of Bede. Farming Transformed is the first book Ancient Wessex, where more than half of the corpus to draw together the variegated evidence of pollen, of Kingston names are found. sediments, charred seeds, animal bones, watermills, 180p (BAR BS 630, 2017) 9781407315683 Pb £44.00 corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional scale. The result is an inter- A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and Anglo-Scandinavian Sites size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire and new watermills, granaries and ovens were By Guy Points erected to cope with – and flaunt – the fat of the land. As arable farming grew at the expense of pasture, This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide sheep and cattle came under closer management to places (mostly churches and museums), with and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy architectural features, stone sculpture, artefacts and goods, and traction power for ploughing. These material of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian and other innovations are found to be concentrated interest in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, placing Part 1 provides background material, while Part lordship at the forefront of agricultural 2 identifies 62 “sites” with detailed descriptions, innovation, and farming as the information on location and a star rating system. force behind kingdom-formation 184p, b/w and col illus (Guy Points 2017) 9780993033957 and economic resurgence in the Only Pb £16.95 seventh and eighth centuries. £26.25 until St Samson of Dol and the Earliest 144p, b/w illus (Windgather Press publication 2018) 9781911188315 Pb £34.99 History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales Edited by Lynette Olson What emerges from the studies collected here is a context of greater plausibility for the First Life of St Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Samson of Dol as an early and essentially historical Anglo-Saxon England text, potentially at the centre of early British By Lindy Brady Christianity and its influence on the Continent. The This is the first study of the landscape of that Christianity is gradually emerging Anglo-Welsh border region from the shadows and it is a landscape in which the in the period before the career of St Samson, the first Insular peregrinus, is Norman arrival in England, shown to be of considerable importance. from the fifth to the twelfth 240p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272181 Hb £60.00 centuries. It demonstrates that the region which would The Arthurian Place Names of Wales later become the March of By Scott Lloyd Wales was not a military This new book examines all of the available source frontier in Anglo-Saxon materials, dating from the ninth century to the England, but a distinctively present, that have associated Arthur with sites in mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural Wales. The material ranges from Medieval Latin zone, one much more chronicles, French romances and Welsh poetry culturally coherent, and the through to the earliest printed works, antiquarian impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, notebooks, periodicals, academic publications than has been previously realised. and finally books, written by both amateur and 216p (Manchester UP 2017) 9781784994198 Hb £75.00 professional historians alike, in the modern period. 288p b/w illus (University of Wales Press 2017) 9781786830258 Pb £29.99 57 The Lindisfarne Gospels Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England New Perspectives By Tom Lambert Edited by Richard Gameson This volume explores The expert studies in this English legal culture and collection examine in turn practice across the Anglo- the archaeology of Holy Saxon period, beginning Island, relations between with the essentially pre- Ireland and Northumbria, Christian laws enshrined in early Northumbrian book writing by King Æthelberht culture, the relationship of of Kent in c. 600 and working the Lindisfarne Gospels to forward to the Norman the Church universal, the Conquest of 1066. The focus canon table apparatus of the of the volume is on the manuscript, the decoration maintenance of order: what of its Canon Tables, its constituted good order; what systems of liturgical readings, the mathematical forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what principles underlying the design of its carpet pages, roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals points of comparison and contrast with the Book of were expected to play in maintaining it; and how Durrow, the Latin and Old English texts, the nature that worked in practice. of the glossator’s ink, and the meaning of enigmatic 416p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786313 Hb £75.00 words and phrases within the vernacular gloss. 226p, b/w and col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004337831 Hb Offa and the Mercian Wars £139.00 The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom Islands in a Global Context By Chris Peers Edited by Conor Newman & Mags Mannion In England in the eighth This volume presents essays century, Offa ruled Mercia, from over forty leading one of the strongest Anglo- experts on Insular art c. AD Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 400–1500, across all media years he was the dominant including stone, vellum, warlord in the territory cloth, metal and glass. The south of the Humber and papers also consider the the driving force behind the contemporary European and expansion of Mercia s power. Mediterranean background It is Chris Peers s task in and context of Insular art, this new study to uncover under the headings of motif, the facts about Offa and the theme, symbol, transmission, other Mercian kings and to translation and scholarship. set them in the context of English history before the 304p, b/w and col illus (Four Courts Press 2017) coming of the Danes. 9781846825682 Hb £55.00 240p (Pen & Sword 2012, Pb 2017) 9781526711502 Pb £14.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Sutton Hoo Story By Martin Carver The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificed horses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know of this site, at which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signalled the pagan and maritime nature of their court. This is the story not only of this dramatic place, but also of its exploration over Only half a century, which amounts to a potted history of British archaeology. It is a revised, rewritten and updated version £16.00 until of the classic Burial Ground of Kings and takes into account 31st January new research and theories since its publication in 2005. 288p, col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272044 Pb £19.99

58 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Anglo-Saxon England Winchester By Patrick McBrine Edited by Martin Biddle & Derek Keene This book provides an accessible introduction to Biblical epic poetry, an eclectic body of literature Combining many full- that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible colour maps with an across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and authoritative but very subsequently in Old English, biblical versification readable text, this atlas has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre shows how the Roman preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims city of Venta Belgarum of medieval Christian readers. became the second- most important city in 392p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9780802098535 England for several Hb £57.99 centuries, a walled town, Conceptualizing the Enemy in the seat of kings and an ecclesiastical centre Early Northwest Europe almost unparalleled in the country before gently By Karin Olsen declining into a judicial centre and county town. This volume provides the first comparative analysis The atlas is centred on a detailed map of the to explore conceptions of conflict and otherness in city at the scale of 1:2500, showing Winchester’s the literary and cultural contexts of the early North historic buildings and structures on a map of Sea world by investigating the use of metaphor the city as it was in 1800. A series of maps show in Old English, Old Norse, and Early Irish poetry. how Winchester was at key points in its history, Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory together charting its development and changing shape. with literary and anthropological analysis, the Like its companion volumes, the maps, text, study examines metaphors of conflict and alterity gazetteer and illustrations are presented in an A3 in a range of (pseudo-)mythological, heroic, and stiff card binder, and the format allows for maps occasional poetry, including Beowulf, Old Norse of different date to be compared side-by-side. skaldic and eddic verse, and poems from the 144p, col maps (Historic Towns Trust 2017) celebrated ‘Ulster Cycle’. 9781785706660 Hb £70.00, NYP 260p (Brepols 2017) 9782503552279 Hb £64.00 England in Europe English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, Forging the Kingdom c.1000-c.1150 Power in English Society, 973-1189 By Elizabeth Muir Tyler By Judith A. Green In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on Between the imperial two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, coronation of Edgar in 973 written for Emma the wife of the Aethelred II and and the death of Henry II Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith in 1189, English society was the wife of Edward the Confessor. She argues that transformed. This lively and both Emma and Edith’s negotiation of conquests wide-ranging study explores and factionalism created powerful models of social and political change in queenly patronage that were subsequently adopted England across this period, by individuals such as Queen Margaret of Scotland, and examines the reasons for Countess Adela of Blois, Queen Edith/Matilda, and such developments, as well Queen Adeliza. as the many continuities. By 464p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442640726 putting the events of 1066 Hb £64.99 firmly in the middle of her account, Judith Green casts new light on the King and Warrior in Early significance of the Norman Conquest. She analyses North-West Europe the changing ways that kings, lords and churchmen Edited by Jan Erik Rekdal & Charles Doherty exercised power, especially through the building of These essays, by scholars from the areas of Norse, massive stone cathedrals and numerous castles, and Celtic and Anglo-Saxon studies, examine how highlights the importance of London as the capital medieval writers highlighted the role of the warrior city. The book also explores themes such as changes in relation to kings, or to authority, and to society as in warfare, the decline of slavery and the integration a whole. The warrior who fought for his people was of the North and South West, as well as concepts also a danger to them. How was such a destructive such as state, nationalism and patriarchy. force to be controlled? 318p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521158299 Pb £19.99 400p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846825019 Hb £45.00 Anglo-Saxon & Viking 59 The Natural World in the Exeter Book Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon of Riddles Literature and Material Culture By C. E. Dale By James Paz This study offers fresh Nonhuman voices in Anglo- insights into the Exeter Saxon literature and material Book riddle collection, culture uncovers the voice investigating humanity’s and agency possessed by interaction with, and nonhuman things across attitudes towards, the Anglo-Saxon literature and rest of the created world. material culture. Anglo- Drawing on the principles Saxon writers and craftsmen of eco-criticism and eco- describe artefacts and theology, the study considers animals through riddling the cultural and biblical forms or enigmatic language, influences on the depiction balancing an attempt to of nature in the collection, speak and listen to things arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian with an understanding that these nonhumans often issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. elude, defy and withdraw from us. 200p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781843844648 Hb 272p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2017) 9781526101105 £60.00 Hb £25.00 Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes Archaeology of Touchstones Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination An Introduction Based on Finds From Birka, By Heide Estes Sweden This book investigates how Anglo-Saxons interacted By Martin Ježek with and conceived of their lived environments. This book explores the importance of touchstones, Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf tools used to determine the nature and test the and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural nature and value of non-ferrous metals. Drawing on events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other finds from Viking Age Birka, a key part of the book documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo- is formed by the results of chemical microanalyses Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically of metal streaks on the touchstones, a hitherto opposed to humans, and the natural world as unused source of information for the skills of designed for human use, have become deeply ancient metallurgists. In particular the study sheds embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and light on the role of touchstones in the culture of more. ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual. 308p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089649447 Hb £64.00 200p col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088905186 Hb £100.00, 9789088905179 Pb £35.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Conceiving a Nation Scotland to 1000 AD By Gilbert Markus This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth’s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 1000 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources. Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well Only as its literary sources – what he calls’luminous debris’-as a £16.00 until method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has 31st January often been dismissed as a ‘dark age’. 280p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9780748678990 Pb £19.99

60 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 Cille Pheadair Memory, History and Identity A Norse Farmstead in South Uist By Ann-Marie Long Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of By Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the Mulville & Helen Smith twelfth century. She discusses the place of Norway Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age in Icelandic cultural memory and how Icelandic and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island authors envisioned and reconstructed their past, of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), in particular how they instrumentalized Norway off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well- to explain the changing parameters of Icelandic preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases autonomy. of occupation, including five longhouses and 352p (Brill 2017) 9789004335622 Hb £94.00 many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during The Norse Myths two centuries of near-continuous occupation A Guide to the Gods and Heroes c. AD 1000 –1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue project undertaken By Carolyne Larrington before the site was destroyed by coastal erosion, Passages translated from the Old Norse bring their it provided an opportunity to address important legendary world to life, from the myths of creation research questions about the domestic use of space, to ragnarok and everything that comes in between. agricultural economy, and relationships with the Carolyne Larrington describes the myths’ origins wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides. A battery in pre-Christian Scandinavia and Iceland, and of scientific studies, including faunal and floral their survival in artefacts and written sources, from analyses, isotopic and lipid residue analyses, and Old Norse sagas and poems to the less approving soil chemistry, have revealed much about the social accounts of medieval Christian writers. She traces and economic dimensions of life on a Norse farm. their influences into the modern age. Cille Pheadair’s status as an ordinary, if wealthy, 208p b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) farmstead can be contrasted with 9780500251966 Hb £12.95 the much larger and longer-lived Niorstigningar Saga high-status settlement at Bornais Only to the north. Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old £26.75 until 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Norse “Descent into Hell Books 2018) 9781785708510 Hb publication By Dario Bullitta £35.00 Dario Bullitta traces the routes of transmission of the the Gospel of Nicodemus to Iceland and continental Scandinavia in the form of the Nidrstigningar saga. He argues that the saga is derived from a Into the Melting Pot less popular twelfth-century French redaction of By Unn Pedersen the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the This volume examines exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth- workshops and discusses the century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor. He craftspeople in the Viking provides a new edition and translation of the text. town of Kaupang including 256p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442697997 their activities, crafted Hb £44.99 products, raw materials, skills and networks. It Saxo Grammaticus focuses on artefacts used in Hierocratical Conceptions and Danish on-ferrous metalworking: Hegemony in the Thirteenth Century crucibles, moulds, matrix By Andre Muceniecks dies, tuyeres and a unique In this study of the Gesta Danorum Andre collection of lead models. Muceniecks identies what he terms the theme of The finds show that Kaupang was an important the Counsellor as principal narrative “kernel”. It is centre for the production of jewellery, and the not sufficient for the king to be strong; he needs to craftspeople appear to have had access to a range be wise, and have a wiser man to guide him, here of high quality raw materials including brass and represented by the Archbishopric. Muceniecks kaolin clay. identifies a defense of hierocratic conceptions, even 222p, b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788779343108 in books where Christianity is absent. The Gesta Hb £35.00 also defines a Danish hegemonic project in the Baltic, under guidance from the Archbishopric. 236p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401131 Hb £64.00 Anglo-Saxon & Viking 61 Early Medieval Europe Saint Brigid of Kildare Making Christian Landscapes in Life, Legend and Cult Atlantic Europe By Noel Kissane Conversion and Consolidation in the Early Despite being the female Middle Ages patron saint of Ireland and Edited by Tomas O Carragain & Sam Turner one of the most remarkable This book considers the imprint of early medieval women in Irish history, St Christianity on landscapes along the continent’s Brigid has always been an western shore from Galicia to Norway, and across elusive figure. This book the northern islands from Britain and Ireland to reviews the evidence – history, Iceland. The construction of new monuments legend and folklore – and clearly led to some major physical changes, but concludes that while she has landscapes are not just affected by tangible, material many of the pagan goddess’ alterations: they are also shaped by new types of attributes Brigid, she was knowledge and changing perceptions. certainly a real person. The 256p (Cork UP 2016) 9781782052005 Hb £35.00 book also reviews her cult and veneration in Ireland and overseas, from her lifetime down to the present day. The Narrative Worlds of Paul 352p, b/w illus (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826320 the Deacon Pb £22.50 Between Empires and Identities in Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 Lombard Italy By Daibhi O Croinin By Christopher Heath This impressive survey This study presents fresh interpretations of Paul covers the early history of the Deacon’s Historia Romana, Vita Sancti Gregorii Ireland from the coming of Magni, Gesta Episcopum Mettensium, and Historia Christianity to the Norman Langobardorum by focusing on him as an individual settlement. Within a broad and on his strategies of argumentation, ultimately political framework it explores advancing a new conception of Paul as a dynamic the nature of Irish society, the author whose development of multiple lines of spiritual and secular roles of thought deserves closer examination. the Church and the flowering 328p, b/w illus (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089648235 of Irish culture in the period. Hb £70.00 Other major themes are Venantius Fortunatus Ireland’s relations with Britain and continental Europe, the beginnings of Irish Poems feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman Edited by Michael Roberts invaders. The expanded second edition has been fully The sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus wrote updated to take into account the most recent research praising kings and elites of the Merovingian dynasty in the history of Ireland in the early middle ages, and describing the natural scenery and society including Ireland’s relations with the Later Roman of his adopted homeland of Gaul. This volume Empire, advances and discoveries in archaeology, and presents for the first time in English translation Church Reform in the 11th and 12th centuries. (with parallel Latin texts) all of his poetry, apart 432p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed. 2016) 9781138885431 from a single long saint’s life in verse. Pb £29.99 928p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674974920 Hb £19.95 The Early Finn Cycle Royal Bastards By Kevin Murray The Birth of Illegitimacy 800-1230 This study takes as its focus the early Finn Cycle, By Sara McDougall up to and including the composition of the most The stigmatization as ‘bastards’ of children born significant fíanaigecht tale, Acallam na senórach outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have (‘The colloquy of the ancients’), at the beginning emerged early in Medieval European history. As of the Early Modern Irish period. It deals in detail this volume demonstrates, however, well into the with topics such as the nature of the fían; the late twelfth century, ideas of what made a child a extent of early fragmentary Finn Cycle sources; legitimate heir had little to do with the validity of the background to Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus his or her parents’ union according to the dictates Ghráinne (‘The pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne’); of Christian marriage law. Instead a child’s prospects the boyhood deeds and death of Finn; and the depended upon the social status, and above all the development of the Fenian lay tradition. lineage, of both parents. 224p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826306 Pb £22.50 336p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198785828 Hb £65.00 62 Cosmos and Community in Early Power and Exploitation in the Czech Medieval Art Lands in the 10th – 12th Centuries By Benjamin Anderson A Central European Perspective Benjamin Anderson uses By Tomas Petracek thrones, tables, mantles, This book offers a unique analysis of the history of frescoes, and manuscripts early medieval Czech society. It draws new attention to show how cosmological to the role of serfdom and slavery in the early motifs informed early period of the Premyslid dynasty in the Czech lands, medieval relationships and the organization of land and property access between individuals, and ownership. Petracek analyses these issues especially the ruling elite, and comparatively, also taking into account Poland and communities, demonstrating Hungary. how domestic and global 384p (Brill 2017) 9789004284883 Hb £143.00 politics informed the production and reception of Late Antique Metal Vessels in the these depictions. He considers such imagery across Carpathian Basin the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Luxury and Power in the Early Middle Ages Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of By Tivadar Vida these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the This study explores the magnificent gold and silver centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of vessels that reached the Barbarian elites of the art history. Migration period either as diplomatic gifts or as 216p, col illus (Yale UP 2017) 9780300219166 Hb £50.00 war booty, as part of annual subsidies or through trade, and what they can tell us about the many A Sacred Kingdom forms of cultural exchange between the late antique Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300- civilisation of the Mediterranean and the tribal 850 kingdoms emerging on its fringes. Precious metal vessels played an important role in maintaining and By Michael Edward Moore cementing amicable relations and alliances between Religious imperatives shaped the understanding the late antique states and the Barbarian kingdoms, of early medieval political culture, alongside and were sometimes circulated as part of the gift aristocratic consensus and cooperation. Drawing on exchanges between Barbarian elites or between a the records of nearly 100 bishops’ councils spanning Barbarian king and his nobles. the centuries, alongside royal law, edicts, and 143p, b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911819 Pb capitularies of the same period, this study details £30.00 how royal law and the very character of kingship among the Franks were profoundly affected by The Village World of Early Medieval episcopal traditions of law and social order. Northern Spain 277p, b/w illus (Catholic University of America Press Local Community and the Land Market 2011, Pb 2016) 9780813218779 Hb £70.50, 9780813229621 Pb £36.50 By Robert Portass This book charts the social, Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain economic and political and Gaul, 500-700 development of Asturias- From Romans to Goths and Franks León from the Islamic conquest to 1031. Using By Erica Buchberger a forensic comparative Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western method, which examines the culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of abundant charter material Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting from two regions of northern the Romans themselves, in part because modern Spain – the Liébana valley in scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as Cantabria, and the Celanova one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. region of southern Galicia – As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval it sheds new light on village ‘Romanness’ also encompassed a sense of belonging society, the workings of government, and the to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia constant swirl of buying, selling and donating that and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in marked the rhythms of daily life. a more nuanced manner than has been previously 224p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9780861933440 Hb acknowledged. £50.00 218p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089648808 Hb £64.00

Early Medieval Europe 63 Medieval Britain Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 Anglo-Norman Studies 39 By David Crouch By Elisabeth Houts Though England was the emerging super-state in This year’s volume continues to demonstrate the the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of of disciplines. Topics include the forging of the Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in one of how European Latin and French culture eleventh-century Rouen; the impact of the Conquest and ideals colonised the minds of all the British on England; the circulation of manuscripts between peoples. This engaging and accessible introduction England and Normandy; and Earl Harold and the offers a truly integrated perspective of medieval Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross. British history, emphasising elements of medieval 256p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272211 Hb £50.00 life over political narrative, and offering an up- to-date presentation and summary of medieval The Historians of Angevin England historiography. By Michael Staunton 388p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521149679 Pb The Historians of Angevin England sets out to £22.99 illustrate the historiographical achievements of this period, and to provide a sense of how writers Discovering William of Malmesbury such as Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, William Edited by Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Dolmans & of Newburgh, Gerald of Wales, and Gervase of Emily Winkler Canterbury wrote, and their idea of history. But it Areas that receive particular attention in this is also about how medieval intellectuals thought collection are William’s historical writings, his and wrote about a range of topics: the rise and fall historical vision and interpretation of England’s past; of kings, victory and defeat in battle, church and William and kingship; William’s language; William’s government, and attitudes to women, heretics, and medical knowledge; the influence of Bede and other foreigners. ancient writers on William’s historiography; William 432p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198769965 Hb £75.00 and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the English Church; William and the Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval Latin Classics; William and the Jews; and William North as hagiographer. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470 244p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271368 Hb £70.00 By Ian Peter Grohse The Church at War Commonly portrayed as the epicentre of political The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and tension between Norwegian and Scottish fronts, Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200 Orkney appears here as a medium for diplomacy between monarchies and as an avenue for By Daniel M. G. Gerrard interface and cooperation between neighbouring This study addresses three main questions: which communities. Removed from the national clergy engaged in military activity in England, why heartlands of Scandinavia and Britain, Orcadians and when? By what means did they do so? And how fostered a distinctly local identity that, although did others understand and react to these activities? rooted in Norwegian law and civic organization, There was enormous variation in the character of featured a unique cultural accent engendered the clergy that became involved in warfare, their through Scottish immigration. circumstances, the means by which they pursued 308p (Brill 2017) 9789004342538 Hb £98.00 their military objectives and the way in which they were treated by contemporaries and described by Power, Identity and Miracles on chroniclers. a Medieval Frontier 334p (Routledge 2017) 9781472423757 Hb £110.00 Edited by Catherine A. M. Clarke Walter Map and the Matter of Britain As the principal town of the Marcher lordship of By Joshua Byron Smith Gower and seat of the Marcher lord’s rule, medieval Swansea was a site of contested authority, colonial Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French control and complex interactions – and collisions – prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to between different cultures, languages and traditions. Walter Map? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer This volume brings into focus questions of place, this and other questions and in so doing, he offers a power, identity and belief, bringing together inter- new explanation for how narratives about the pre- disciplinary perspectives which span history, literary Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including King Arthur studies and archaeology, and engaging with current and his knights, first circulated in England. debates in the fields of medieval frontier studies, 312p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) urban history, manuscript studies and hagiography. 9780812249323 Hb £58.00 130p (Routledge 2017) 9781138690875 Hb £100.00 64 The English Aristocracy at War Forthcoming from Oxbow Books From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn The Wealth of England By David Simpkin The Medieval Wool Trade and its Political Importance 1100–1600 This book utilises the records of central government – pay-rolls, horse inventories, wardrobe books By Susan Rose and others – to examine the military careers and In The Wealth of England activities of the men-at-arms who fought in the Susan Rose brings together armies of Edward I and his son, focusing on five the social, economic and main themes: mobilisation; military command; political strands in the service patterns among the gentry; retinues and development of the wool their composition; and ‘feudal’ service. trade and show how and 246p (Boydell & Brewer 2008, Pb 2017) 9781843833888 why it became so important. Hb £50.00, 9781783271825 Pb £19.99 The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent gentry who based their A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World wealth on producing this By Anthony Goodman commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to Joan Plantagenet, acclaimed prominence in the City of London like Nicholas in her youth as the ‘Fair Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men Maid of Kent”, became who acquired wealth and influence like William de notorious for making both a la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth they clandestine and a bigamous made transformed the appearance of the leading marriage in her teens and, centres of the trade with magnificent churches and in her thirties, a scandalous other buildings. The complex operation of the trade marriage to her kinsman, is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais Edward III’s son and heir, to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the Edward of Woodstock, the policy of English kings, especially Black Prince. This accessibly in the fourteenth century, was written account of her life heavily influenced by trade in Only sets her in the full context of her world, and vividly this one commodity. portrays a spirited medieval woman who was £30.00 until determined to be mistress of her fate and to make a 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication mark in challenging times. Books 2017) 9781785707360 Hb £40.00 232p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271764 Hb £25.00 The Black Prince The Fighting Essex Soldier The King That Never Was Recruitment, War and Society in By Michael Jones the Fourteenth Century Edward of Woodstock, Edited by Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward & eldest son and heir of Neil Wiffen Edward III of England, In a series of related chapters better known as ‘the Black which add up to a wide- Prince’, was England’s pre- reaching survey, leading eminent military leader researchers explore key during the first phase of the aspects of military, social Hundred Years War. Michael and economic history Jones uses a wide range of in fourteenth-century chronicle and documentary Essex. Topics include the material, including the raising of forces to serve Prince’s own letters and the king, through a study those of his closest followers, of aristocratic lawlessness to bring to life the dramatic and powerful story of which may have been linked the life and times of ‘the Black Prince’, and to paint to violent experiences on a memorable portrait of warfare and society in the the battlefield, to new ways of analysing data to tumultuous fourteenth century. give insights into men recruited as archers and 400p, col pls (Head of Zeus 2017) 9781784972936 Hb mariners, and a consideration of military aspects of £30.00 the Peasants’ Revolt. 256p, b/w illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2017) 9781909291881 Pb £18.99 Medieval Britain 65 The Soldier Experience in the Civic Community in Late Medieval Fourteenth Century Lincoln Edited by Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman Urban Society and Economy in the Age of & Andy King the Black Death, 1289-1409 Via a careful re-evaluation of original sources, and By Alan Kissane the use of innovative methodological techniques The later middle ages saw provincial towns and such as statistical analysis and the use of relational their civic community contending with a number of databases, the essays here bring new insights to economic, social and religious problems – including bear on soldiers, both as individuals and as groups. famine and the plague. This book, using Lincoln Topics addressed include military service and the – then a significant urban centre – as a case study, dynamics of recruitment; the social composition investigates how such a community dealt with these of the armies; the question of whether soldiers saw issues, looking in particular at the links between their role as a “profession”; and the experience of town and central government, and how they prisoners of war. influenced local customs and practices. 244p (Boydell & Brewer 2011, Pb 2017) 9781843836742 272p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271634 Hb £60.00 Hb £60.00, 9781783272433 Pb £19.99 The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages Henry IV Guilds in England 1250-1550 By Chris Given-Wilson By Gervase Rosser This comprehensive and This volume explores the motives and experiences nuanced biography restores of the many thousands of men and women who to his rightful place a king joined together in guilds and fraternities. Gervase often overlooked in favour of Rosser addresses the subject of medieval guilds in his illustrious progeny. Using the context of contemporary debates surrounding a wide variety of previously the identity and fulfilment of the individual, and untapped archival materials, the problematic question of his or her relationship Chris Given-Wilson reveals to a larger society. The peasants, artisans, and a cultured, extravagant, professionals who joined the guilds sought to and skeptical monarch change both their society and themselves. who crushed opposition 264p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015 Pb 2017) 9780198201571 ruthlessly but never quite Hb £65.00, 9780198735786 Pb £19.99 succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his own supporters. Contesting the City 608p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9780300229714 The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, Pb £19.99 1250 – 1530 From England to France By Christian D. Liddy Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages This volume exploits the rich archival sources of Bristol, Coventry, London, Norwich, and York in By William Chester Jordan order to present a new picture of town government At the height of the Middle and urban politics over three centuries. There were Ages, a peculiar system multiple, and divergent, ideas about citizenship, of perpetual exile – or which encouraged townspeople to make demands, abjuration – flourished in to assert rights, and to resist authority. The power western Europe. It was a of urban governors was much more precarious than judicial form of exile, not historians have imagined. political or religious, and 288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198705208 Hb it was meted out to felons £75.00 for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment Medieval London or death. From England to Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron France explores the lives of these men and women who Edited by Joel Rosenthal, Caroline M. Barron & were condemned to abjure the English realm, Martha Carlin and draws on their unique experiences to shed This collection of eighteen revised and updated light on a medieval legal tradition until now very papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish, poorly understood. It explores the judicial and church and religious culture; people of late- administrative processes that led to the abjuration of medieval London (including Richard Whittington) more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and the intellectual and cultural world of a city that and the circumstances of their exile and in a small soon grew into one of the most important in Europe number of cases, return. and the world. 240p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176147 Pb £18.95 404p, b/w illus (Medieval Institute Publications 2017) 9781580442565 Hb £96.00 66 Medieval Britain Medieval Europe The Middle Ages The Routledge Handbook of Maritime By Johannes Fried Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes Edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom & a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz economic, and scientific developments that draws This collection takes as a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a its central question how culture of reason. Beginning with the rise of the shippers and merchants Franks, Fried uses individuals to introduce key were able to connect themes, bringing to life those who have too often regional and interregional been reduced to abstractions of the medieval trade circuits around and “monk” or “knight.” beyond Europe in the late 632p (Harvard UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780674975361 Pb medieval period. An opening £18.95 section addresses broad themes such as ships and Medieval Europe sailing routes, maritime By Chris Wickham law, financial linkages and Tracking the entire sweep linguistic exchanges. The following sections present of the Middle Ages across case studies addressing themes including conflict Europe, Wickham focuses on resolution, relations between different types of main important changes century ports and their hinterland, the local institutional by century, including arrangements supporting maritime trade, and the such pivotal crises and advantages and challenges of locations around the moments as the fall of the continent. western Roman Empire, 522p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138899506 Hb Charlemagne’s reforms, £175.00 the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314 destruction of the Byzantine Edited by William Chester Jordan & Jenna Rebecca Empire, the rebuilding of Phillips late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes century (1214-1314), a period that changed the that underscore how shifting social, economic, and cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation political circumstances affected individual lives and for the modernisation of the medieval West. international events. Essays are grouped in thematic sections: Royal 352p col pls (Yale UP 2016, 2017) 9780300208344 Hb Patronage and Expressions of Kingship; Power and £25.00, 9780300228823 Pb £10.99 its Representation; Philip the Fair and his Ministers; The Medieval Invention of Travel and Crusaders and Crusading Orders. 378p b/w nad col illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503567181 Hb By Shayne Aaron Legassie £85.00 Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine closely integrated, fostering the international and Problems and Perspectives intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, Edited by Guilhelm Pupin diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. These The political union between England and Gascony wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences or Aquitaine lasted from the early thirteenth in unprecedented numbers and transformed century until 1453, and the long series of Gascon traditional conceptions of human mobility. Rolls in the National Archives record some of the Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval business of Aquitaine during the union. These are Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array currently being calendared, and this volume reflects of sources to develop original readings of canonical some of the research which resulted. Topics include figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and the war of Saint-Sardos, the administration of the Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel Black Prince, and political allegiances in Gascony writers. and the neighbouring principalities. 304p (University of Chicago Press 2017) 9780226446622 256p, (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271979 Hb £60.00 Pb £22.00

67 The Irish Church, its Reform and The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, the English Invasion 1190-1291 By Donnchadh O Corrain By Nicholas Morton This book radically reassesses the reform of the This book – the first Irish Church in the twelfth century, on its own comprehensive analysis of terms and in the context of the English Invasion the Order in the Holy Land that it helped precipitate. Professor Ó Corráin re- – explores the formative examines how Canterbury’s political machinations years of this powerful drew its archbishops into Irish affairs, considers international institution and the successes and failures of the major reforming places its deeds in the Levant synods, and reassesses impact of the actions of within the context of the St Malachy of Armagh in replacing indigenous wider Christian, pagan and Irish monasticism with Cistercian abbeys and Islamic world. It examines Augustinian priories. the challenges that shaped 160p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826672 Hb £30.00 its identity and the masters who planned its policies. Noble Society 242p (Boydell & Brewer 2009, Pb 2017) 9781843834779 Five Lives from Twelfth-Century Germany Hb £60.00, 9781783271818 Pb £25.00 Edited by Jonathan R. Lyon The Principality of Antioch and its This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding Frontiers in the Twelfth Century of the culture and society of the twelfth-century By Andrew D. Buck German kingdom. The sources bring to life the Situated in northern Syria, activities of five noblemen and noblewomen, and on the eastern-most frontier demonstrate how interconnected political, military, of Latin Christendom, the economic, religious and spiritual interests could principality of Antioch was be for some of the leading members of medieval a medieval polity bordered German society – and for the authors who wrote by a host of rival powers, about them. presenting a challenge to its 288p (Manchester UP 2017) 9780719091025 Hb £70.00, survival. This book examines 9780719091032 Pb £19.99 how its ruling elites sought to manage these threats, in The “Chivalric Biography” of Boucicaut order to maintain Antioch’s (Jean II le Meingre) existence during the troubled By Craig Taylor & Jane H. M. Taylor twelfth century. It explores the principality’s diplomatic This account of the life of Jean le Maingre, Maréchal and military endeavours, its internal power structures Boucicaut (1364-1421) is one of the most important of and its interaction with indigenous peoples. a series of chivalric biographies from the end of the 288p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271733 Hb £60.00 Middle Ages. This first English translation makes The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon available to a wider audience a text that sheds light on the history of France, on crusading in Prussia in the Twelfth Century and the Mediterranean, and on the complicated Sons of Saint-Gilles politics of Italy and the papacy during the Great By Kevin James Lewis Schism as well as on chivalric mentalities and The county of Tripoli is attitudes in late-medieval France. arguably the most neglected 240p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271665 Hb £60.00 of the so-called ‘crusader states’. The present work An Introduction to the Crusades is the first monograph on By S. J. Allen the county to be published This accessible book begins with a brief overview in English, and the first of the Crusades before immersing the reader in in any western language the logistics of crusading and the day-to-day life of since 1945. What emerges a crusader, explaining arms and armour, strategy is an intriguing portrait and tactics, and siege warfare. Topics explored in of the county in which its depth include women on crusade, pilgrimage, the rulers struggled to exert Mongols, crusade charters, and the use of crusader their power over Lebanon in the face of this rhetoric throughout history. region’s insurmountable geographical forces and its 216p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442600232 sometimes bewildering, always beguiling diversity Pb £17.99 of religions, languages and cultures. 354p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472458902 Hb £105.00 68 Medieval Europe Medieval Religion The Avignon Papacy Contested Saints and Sainthood Around the An Intellectual History from Dante to Baltic Sea Catherine of Siena Orality, Literacy and Communication in By Unn Falkeid the Middle Ages The Avignon papacy (1309– By Carsten Selch Jensen 1377) represented the zenith This book demonstrates the importance of the cult of papal power in Europe. of saints in the cultural transformation of the regions The Roman curia’s move to around the Baltic Sea. It addresses a wide range of southern France enlarged topics, for example the introduction of foreign (and its bureaucracy, centralized ‘old’) saints into new regions, the creation of new its authority, and initiated local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, closer contact with secular the cult of saints in the creation of political and institutions. But a crisis of lay identities, the adaption of cult of saints in folk legitimacy was brewing poetry and the use of saints in times of war. among leading thinkers of 268p (Routledge 2017) 9781472409508 Hb £95.00 the day. This study considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who Saints and Cults in Medieval England waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s Edited by Susan Powell increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics Saints have been a significant element of the from every corner of Europe. Christian church from early times. Saints were part of the liturgical year and also the focus of 288p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674971844 Hb £39.95 indulgences, relic-lists and pilgrimage. Their lives The Oxford Handbook of Medieval were the subject of prose and poetry. Their shrines were accessible and images and symbols decorated Christianity stained glass, sculpture in wood and stone, and Edited by John H. Arnold precious manuscripts. All these aspects of saints This volume explores the beliefs, practices, and and cults in medieval England are handled in this institutions of the Christian Church between 400 new volume of 22 essays from the 2015 Harlaxton and 1500 AD. It addresses topics ranging from Symposium. early medieval monasticism to late medieval 448p , 97 col pls (Paul Watkins 2017) 9781907730597 mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church Hb £49.50 to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. William of Malmesbury The Handbook is arranged thematically, seeking Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity Edited by Michael Winterbottom of religion throughout this long period, and Written around 1135 by the Benedictine monk, the numerous different ways in which modern historian and scholar William of Malmesbury, The scholarship can approach it. Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary belongs in the 608p (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780199582136 Hb first wave of collected miracles of the Virgin. This £95.00, 9780198811176 Pb £35.00 paperback takes the translation from the original Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth- hardback, retaining the introduction, notes and appendices. Century England 214p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271962 Pb £19.99 Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils Religion, Time and Memorial Culture By Alexander Russell in Late Medieval Ripon Fusing the history of political thought with the By Stephen Werronen study of institutional practices, this innovative This book charts the developments in the practice study relates the procedural innovations of the of religion, and in particular the commemoration of general councils of Constance and Basle and the deceased, from the late fourteenth to the early their anti-heretical activities to wider trends sixteenth centuries, in the important parish of Ripon. in corporate politics, intellectual culture and It shows how the twin necessities of honouring the pastoral reform. Alexander Russell argues that the minster’s patron saint and remembering the parish acceptance of collective decision-making at the dead had a profound effect on the practice of councils was predicated upon the prevalence of religion in late medieval Ripon, shaping everything group participation and deliberation in small-scale from the ritual calendar to weekly and daily corporate culture. religious routines. 232p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107172272 Hb £75.00 224p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9780861933457 Hb £50.00 69 The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Caring for the Living Soul Plantagenet World, c.1170-c.1220 Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Edited by Paul Webster & Marie-Pierre Gelin Medieval Mediterranean This book examines the development of the cult By Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and the impact of the legacy of Saint Thomas within Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental the Plantagenet orbit of the late twelfth and early role emotions played in the development of learned thirteenth centuries. Traditional textual and archival medicine and in the formation of the social sources, such as miracle collections, charters, and role of the “physicians of the body” in western royal and papal letters, are used in conjunction Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book with the material culture inspired by the cult, to explores theoretical debates and practical advice emphasise the wide-ranging impact of the murder concerning the treatment of the “accidentia anime” and of the cult’s emergence in the century following in diverse medical sources. the martyrdom. 250p (Brill 2017) 9789004341517 Hb £92.00 224p b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271610 Hb £60.00 The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary Edited by Michael Robson in Medieval Scotland This volume explores the rich diversity of the Edited by Stephen Ian Boardman & Eila Williamson Franciscan contribution to the life of the order and This volume examines the phenomena of the cult of its ministry throughout England between 1224 and c. saints and Marian devotion as they were manifested 1350. The 21 contributions examine the friars’ impact in Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period across the different strata of English society, from to the sixteenth century. It combines general surveys the parish churches, the missions, the royal courts of the development of the study of saints in the early and the universities. and later middle ages with more focused articles on 516p (Brill 2017) 9789004331617 Hb £127.00 the cults of specific saints, and on the way in which Marian devotion permeated late medieval Scottish Hospitals and Charity society. Religious Culture and Civic Life in Medieval 226p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2010, Pb 2017) Northern Italy 9781843835622 Hb £60.00, 9781783272464 Pb £25.00 By Sally Mayall Brasher A comprehensive examination of the hospital Death in Medieval Europe movement that arose and prospered in northern Death Scripted and Death Choreographed Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Edited by Joelle Rollo-Koster Throughout this flourishing urbanised area This volume presents new cultural research into hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and appeared, offering care for the ill, the poor and demonstrates the important relationship between pilgrims en route to holy sites in Rome and the death and the world of the living. Essays discuss eastern Mediterranean. Over three centuries they overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, became mechanisms for the appropriation of civic revenants, mourning practices and funerals, authority and political influence in the communities capital punishment, suspicious death, and death they served, and created innovative experiments in registrations using case studies from across Europe healthcare and poor relief which are the precursors including England, Iceland, and Spain. to modern social welfare systems. 256p (Routledge 2016) 9781138802124 Hb £100.00, 200p (Manchester UP 2017) 9781526119285 Hb £70.00 9781138802131 Pb £32.99 Franciscans and the Elixir of Life Clerical Households in Late Medieval Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages Italy By Zachary A. Matus By Roisin Cossar This volume focuses on alchemy as a material Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history practice and investigates the Franciscan discourses of the Christian church in fourteenth century Italy by and traditions that shaped the pursuit of the elixir, examining how clerics managed efforts to reform their providing a rich examination of alchemy and domestic lives in the decades after the arrival of the religiosity. Zachary A. Matus makes new connections Black Death. She refutes the longstanding charge that between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the the late medieval clergy were corrupt, living licentious particular commitment of the Franciscan Order lives that failed to uphold priestly obligations. In to the natural world, shedding new light on the fashioning a domestic culture that responded flexibly question of why so many people claimed to have to their own needs, priests tempered the often made, seen, or used alchemical compounds that unrealistic expectations of their superiors. could never have existed. 240p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674971899 Hb £39.95 216p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) 9780812249217 Hb £52.00 70 Medieval Religion Medieval Art & Architecture Cultural Exchange Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Marketplace By Sarah Kay By Joseph Shatzmiller Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin Demonstrating that bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this similarities between Jewish prominent genre challenged the boundary between and Christian art in the its human readers and other animals. Using a rich Middle Ages were more array of examples, she shows how the content than coincidental, Cultural and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the Exchange meticulously continual references in the texts to the skins of other combines a wide range of animals, as well as the ways in which the pages sources to show how Jews themselves repeatedly and at times, it would seem, and Christians exchanged deliberately intervene in the reading process. artistic and material culture. 232p b/w illus, col pls (University of Chicago Press 2017) It examines objects pawned 9780226436739 Hb £37.00 with Jewish money-lenders by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged A Rothschild Renaissance by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the given up by the Christian well-to-do who required British Museum financial assistance. The work also explores how Jews Edited by Pippa Shirley & Dora Thornton hired Christian artists and craftsmen and vice versa. The Waddesdon Bequest contains some of the most 208p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2013, Pb 2017) beautiful examples of medieval and Renaissance 9780691176185 Pb £14.95 craftsmanship, including exquisite pieces of St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter jewellery, silver plate, painted enamels of Limoges, glass and microcarvings in boxwood. Subjects Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England in this collection on all aspects of the collection Edited by Kristen Collins & Matthew Fisher include new attributions for sculptures, a detailed One of the most compelling and provocative books discussion of the making and marketing of forgeries of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter by Salomon Weininger, Frédéric Spitzer and Alfred was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between André as well as new research on jewellery and its 1120 and 1140. Here leading scholars of twelfth- presentation both at Waddesdon Manor and in the century manuscript studies explore the Psalter, new gallery at the BM. understanding it through new methodologies, 20op col illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592128 pursuing innovative lines of inquiry, and broadening Pb £40.00 the discourse about the book and its readers. 413p, b/w and col illus (Medieval Institute Publications 2017) 9781580442589 Hb £80.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Ormesby Psalter Patrons and Painting in Medieval England By Frederica C. E. Law- Turner The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Fantastic imagery proliferates: musicians, mermaids, lovers and warriors are juxtaposed with scenes from everyday life, from chivalric legend, and from folk-tales, fables and riddles. It was the work of four or five scribes and up to seven illuminators and its pages show a panorama of stylistic development. This book casts an entirely new light on its history, not only clarifying and dating the successive phases of production, but associating the main work on the manuscript with Only the patronage of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. It is £25.00 until extensively illustrated with full-page colour reproductions of the manuscript’s main decorated folios, as well as many 31st January smaller initials and numerous comparative illustrations. 224p col illus (Bodleian Library 2017) 9781851243105 Pb £30.00 71 Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims English Parish Churches and Chapels By Roger Rosewell Art, Architecture and People This well illustrated guide takes the reader across By Matthew Byrne Britain, providing a map of the most important There are over 40,000 churches and chapels in religious shrines that pilgrims would travel vast the United Kingdom. The earliest were built by distances to reach, as well as descriptions and the first Anglo-Saxon Christians and about 10,000 images of the shrines themselves. It explains the were built before the Reformation in the sixteenth history of pilgrimage in Britain and the importance century. This beautifully illustrated book features that it played in medieval life, and describes the photographic portraits and descriptions of 26 impact of the Reformation. English churches and chapels: ancient and modern, 80p b/w and col illus (Shire 2017) 9780747814023 Pb large and small, urban and rural. £8.99 192p, col illus (Shire 2017) 9781784422394 Hb £20.00 Stained Glass at York Minster Materia y Accion en las Catedrales By Sarah Brown Medievales (SS. IX-XIII) Sarah Brown introduces the magnificent stained Edited by Gerardo Boto Varela glass at York Minster. She provides an holistic This book is intended to help shed light on the overview, starting with evidence for the glazing of material properties, visual layouts and ceremonial the pre-Conquest Minster and the earliest surviving attributes of a representative selection of medieval glazing from the twelfth-century church. She then cathedrals built from the 9th to 13th centuries. The embarks on an extended tour of the Minster’s analyses in this collection examine the historical windows, including the Five Sisters in the north and artistic contexts in which different cathedrals transept, the Rose Window in the south transept, emerged. Spanish text. the famous Bell-Founder’s Window in the north 371p, b/w illus (BAR 2017) 9781407315928 Pb £56.00 nave aisle, the Great West Window, often called the Heart of Yorkshire, and the magnificent Great East Princes of the Church Medieval Archaeology Window. Bishops and Their Palaces 104p col illus (Scala 2017) 9781785510731 Pb £15.00 Edited by David Rollason England’s Cathedrals Princes of the Church brings together the latest By Simon Jenkins research exploring the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape Gloriously illustrated throughout, England’s history, architectural history and archaeology. Cathedrals acts as a companion to Simon Jenkins’ Including contributions from the late Antique earlier England’s Thousand Best Churches. 53 period through to the eighteenth and nineteenth cathedrals are included with entries detailing their centuries, it deals with bishops’ residences in history, architectural development, fixtures and England, Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, fittings, and above all Jenkins’ personal thoughts France, and Italy. It is structured in three sections: and interpretations. design and function; landscape and urban context; 384p col illus (Little, Brown 2016) 9781408706459 Hb and architectural form. £30.00 476p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138714946 San Lorenzo Hb £105.00 A Florentine Church Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Edited by Robert W. Gaston & Louis A. Waldman Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection Augustus to the Franciscans, C. 500-1450 illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending By Claudia Bolgia from its Early Christian foundation to the modern Prominently located on the Arx, the northern era. The papers investigate: the urban setting of summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in the church and its parish; San Lorenzo’s relations Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church with other ecclesiastical institutions; the genesis of Rome to survive to the present day. On the of individual major buildings of the complex and basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining their decorations; the clergy, chapels and altars; the archaeological analysis with the finding of new chapter’s administration and financial structure; archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents lay and clerical patronage; devotional furnishings, and literary and epigraphic sources, this book music, illuminated liturgical manuscripts, and offers a reconstruction of the original church, its preaching; as well as the annual or ephemeral festal monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ practices on the site. ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically 752p col illus (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674975675 Hb from earlier hypotheses. £79.95 480p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781409417613 Hb £95.00 72 Medieval Art & Architecture Medieval Castles of England and Wales Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval By Bernard Lowry England Designed to dominate the Readings, Representations and Realities surrounding area, to house By Hollie L. S. Morgan powerful garrisons, offer This volume offers the first sumptuous quarters for local interdisciplinary study of nobility, and to discourage the cultural meanings of and repel enemy attacks, beds and chambers in late- castles dominated England medieval England. It draws and Wales for more than on a vast array of literary, half a millennium. This pragmatic and visual book examines why castles sources, including romances, were so essential to medieval saints’ lives, lyrics, plays, warfare, their importance in wills, probate inventories, domestic politics, and the day-to-day lives of those letters, church and civil court who lived and worked within them. It also shows documents, manuscript how the development of new technologies affected illumination and physical objects, to shed new their construction and design, and why they light on the ways in which beds and chambers eventually fell into disrepair in the late Middle Ages. functioned as both physical and conceptual spaces. 80p, col illus (Shire 2017) 9781784422141 Pb £8.99 224p col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781903153710 Hb £60.00 Medieval Archaeology Medieval Cross Slabs of Derbyshire Crusader Archaeology By Peter Ryder The Material Culture of the Latin East This book charts the discovery of the 12th and 13th By Adrian J. Boas century gravestones across the county. It follows an This new edition of Crusader Archaeology updates, 18 year study, which found 457 slabs and fragments with recent excavation results and research, the at 98 sites across the county. As well as taking a close only detailed study of the material culture of the look at Bakewell’s collection of cross slabs, where Crusades in Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Jordan. It over 100 are built into the internal walls of the south examines what life was like for the Crusaders in porch, the book also features similar stones found in their territory and how they were influenced by churches in Baslow, Barlow, Bolsover, Chesterfield, their new-found neighbours. Chapters discuss: Chelmorton, Darley Dale, Hartington and Derby. urban and rural settlements, surveying agriculture, 87p b/w illus (Peak District National Park Authority industry, the military, the church, public and private 2017) 9780907543770 Pb £7.99 architecture, arts and crafts, leisure pursuits, death and burial and building techniques. The History and Archaeology of 306p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed, 2016) 9781138900257 Cathedral Square Peterborough Hb £110.00 By Stephen Morris Archaeological work in 2008-2011 identified a Arabic Script on Christian Kings succession of stone surfaces from the creation of Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from the market square in the 12th century through to Norman Sicily the 19th century. The cobbled surface of the original By Isabelle Dolezalek market square was overlaid by an accumulation of Roger II’s famous mantle and other royal garments dark organic silts, containing finds dating through to from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily the 16th century. At the start of the 15th century the prominently display Arabic inscriptions. This case parish church of St John the Baptist was constructed study of the inscribed garments from Norman over the western half of the medieval Sicily draws attention to the diverse functions of market square with a cemetery Arabic textile inscriptions using various contextual immediately to the west of the frames. While the phenomenon is highly unusual church. Only in the context of Latin Christian kingship, the use 96p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress £20.00 until of inscriptions as a textile ornament was common 2017) 9781784916619 Pb £25.00 31st January and imbued with political functions in the Islamic courts of the medieval Mediterranean. 255p, col illus (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9783110532029 Hb £73.99 73 Medieval Masterchef An Historical Map of Kingston Edited by Joanita Vroom Upon Hull The focus in this varied From Medieval Town to Industrial City collection of studies by By David Neave, Susan Neave & D. E. Evans key scholars in the field is As with other maps in the series produced by the on cuisine and foodways Historic Towns Trust, this new publication shows in the Mediterranean and the locations of the city’s many medieval and north-western Europe post-medieval buildings. The map shows medieval during Medieval and and post-medieval major buildings, fortifications, Post-Medieval times (ca. ancient water-courses (including the possible 6th- 20th centuries). The old route of the River Hull). However, instead of scope of the contributions being based on a time-shot of the city in the mid encompasses archaeological nineteenth century, the map has in the background and historical perspectives an Ordnance Survey of 1928, and thus also shows on eating habits, cooking techniques, diet practices the many manufacturies, shipyards and warehouses and table manners in the Byzantine Empire, the which dominated the character of the city in its Islamic World, the Crusader States, Medieval and Edwardian heyday. Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire. (Historic Towns Trust 2017) 9780993469824 map £8.99 400p b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503575797 Pb £95.00 Italian Maiolica and Europe Archaeology of the 11th Century Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in Continuities and Transformations the Ashmolean Museum Edited by Dawn M. Hadley & Christopher Dyer By Timothy Wilson The impact of the Conquest This book, containing of England by the Normans 289 catalogue entries, is the central focus of this completely encompasses the book, which not only Ashmolean’s outstanding assesses the destruction collection of postclassical and upheaval caused by the Italian pottery, including invading forces, but also pieces from excavations. examines how the Normans In addition it includes contributed to local culture, catalogue entries for some religion, and society. The seventy selected pieces of volume explores a range of pottery from France, the Low topics including food culture, Countries, England, Spain, funerary practices, the development of castles and Portugal, Germany, and Mexico, in order to present a their impact, and how both urban and rural life wide-ranging picture of the development of tin-glaze evolved during the 11th century. pottery from Islamic Spain through to recent times. 326p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138201156 Hb 520p, col illus (Ashmolean Museum Publications 2017) £115.00 9781910807163 Hb £60.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Place of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 950-1150 Edited by P. S. Barnwell This volume in a series on places of worship in Britain and Ireland covers the age of reform, during which western Christianity acquired most of its distinctive features: the diocesan system of administration, the parish and the foundation and spread of the monastic orders which were to be such an important feature of the central middle ages. Eric Fernie contributes an introduction; John Harper examines liturgy and music; Marie-Pierre Gelin writes on the monastic cathedrals; Julian Luxford on Benedictine art and architecture; Lyn Coppack on Cistercian monasteries; Richard Fawcett on the Tironensians; Paul Everson and David Stocker on the Premonstratensians Only at Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire; Richard Oram on Northern £30.00 until monasteries and schools; P. S. Barnwell on the cure of souls; Tomás Ó Carragáin on buildings of worship in Ireland; and 31st January Barnwell again provides a conclusion. 208p col illus (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730566 Hb £35.00

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The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700 Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. Morriss Edited by Knut Bergsvik & Marion Dowd The cathedral city of Caves and ritual in medieval Hereford is one of the best- Europe, AD 500–1500 focuses kept historical secrets of the on this neglected field of Welsh Marches. The city research – the ritual and boasts an astonishingly well- religious use of caves. It draws preserved medieval plan and together interdisciplinary contains some of the earliest studies by leading specialists houses still in everyday use from across Europe: from anywhere in England. Three Iberia to Crimea, and from leading authorities on the Malta to northern Norway. buildings of the English Christianity was widespread Midlands have joined forces, and firmly established combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary in most of Europe at this time, and many of historical research and topographical analysis, to the contributions deal with different types of examine 24 of the most important Christian practices, such as the use of rock-cut buildings, from the great hall of the churches, unmodified caves for spiritual retreat, Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the caves reputedly visited by saints, and caves as first surviving brick town-house Only places for burials. But parallel to of c.1690. £18.75 until this, some caves were associated publication with localised popular religious 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Only Books 2017) 9781785708169 Hb practices, which sometimes had £25.00 pre-Christian origins. £37.50 until 376p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Bristol: A Worshipful Town Books 2017) 9781785708329 Hb and Famous City £50.00 An Archaeological Assessment from Prehistory to 1900 By Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones The Urban Graveyard This volume provides, for the Archaeological perspectives first time, a comprehensive overview of the historical Edited by Roos Van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Kerry Fast, development of Bristol, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester based on archaeological and The medieval graveyards in architectural evidence. Part which the deceased were 1 describes the geological interred, then still located and topographical within town limits, are context of Bristol and an invaluable source of discusses evidence for knowledge for reconstructing the environment prior to past lives. The urban the foundation of the city. graveyard presents several The history of archaeological work in Bristol is studies in which the results discussed in detail, as is the pictorial record and the of older archaeological and cartographic evidence for the city. In Part 2, a series osteoarchaeological research of period-based chapters considers the historical are compared to more recent background and archaeological evidence for excavation data from several Dutch, Belgian and Bristol’s development. Each chapter discusses the Danish cities and towns. Both the archaeological major civic, military and religious monuments of data concerning burial position, orientation, and the time, and the complex topographical evolution grave goods as well as osteoarchaeological data of the city. Part 3 assesses the significance of Bristol’s such as demographic information and pathological archaeology, and presents a range observations are discussed. of research themes for future 320p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) research. Only 9789088905032 Hb £150.00, 9789088905025 Pb £50.00 600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow £30.00 until NYP Books 2018) 9781785708770 Hb publication £40.00

Medieval Archaeology 75 Urban Consumption Animaltown Tracing Urbanity in the Archaeological Record Beasts in Medieval Urban Space of Aarhus c. AD 800-1800 Edited by A. L. Choyke & Gerhard Jaritz By Jette Linaa The medieval animals found in the articles of Based on excavations and finds from Aarhus and its Animaltown appear in text and image, as well periphery this volume analyses the development of as archaeological find materials in the form the town and its network from the Viking Age to of butchery waste, kitchen refuse, debris from mid-1800. Central is the special urban way of living manufacturing osseous objects, and the objects which makes town dwellers into citizens. The urban themselves. This multiplicity of sources sheds communities are in focus as well as their challenges: light on the ways towns fed themselves, protected division between town and countryside, but also themselves and created their personal landscapes social divisions of the townspeople, and between and views of themselves through the power of newcomers and born and bred citizens. metaphor and symbol involving the array of beasts, 239p col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423060 Hb great and small, surrounding them. £29.00 217p b/w illus (BAR 2858, 2017) 9781407315720 Pb £41.00 Post Medieval Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Lost Lives, New Voices Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at Interdisciplinary and International the Battle of Dunbar 1650 Perspectives By Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell, Chris Gerrard, Pam Edited by Jane Eva Baxter & Meredith a.B. Ellis Graves & Andrew Millard The nineteenth century was a time when the In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered world was becoming increasingly connected unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of through global forces and networks. This dynamic Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 environment was the backdrop for a time when years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced childhood was becoming significantly elaborated as together by a team of archaeologists to establish a cultural category of identity. Institutions, objects, the identity of the human remains. Today we know and places specifically designed for children were them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who multiplying at an unprecedented rate; writing died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham cathedral about children in fiction and non-fiction became and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the increasingly prolific; and the concern for children’s south-east coast of Scotland. Fought between the health and well-being in life and death was English and the Scots, this was one of the key paramount in many communities. This volume engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms. brings together scholars from archaeology, art Using the latest techniques of skeleton science, history, bioarchaeology, educational history, this book gives back to the men a voice through history, literary studies, and theatre history to an understanding of their childhood and later present studies of nineteenth century children lives. Archaeological and historical evidence also and childhood in Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how England, Ireland, Native North America, Romania, and why these men vanished off the historical Russia, and the United States. The interdisciplinary radar. Of the prisoners who survived their ordeal focus of this volume illustrates the wealth of after Dunbar, new evidence has emerged about sources, methods, and perspectives that can be their involvement in local industries and in one used to develop our understandings of childhood of the great infrastructural projects of the day, in the nineteenth century, and the international the draining of the Fens. Others were sent far scope of the studies offers a platform to engage away, transported to the colonies commonalities in an increasingly as indentured servants to begin globalized world alongside an a new life at the edge of the Only appreciation for local, regional, known world. Only £15.00 until and national variations 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow in the cultural creation and £30.00 until publication Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb experiences of childhood. publication £20.00 208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708435 Pb £40.00

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