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BARGAINS General Interest ...... 2 Method & Theory ...... 2 Landscape ...... 5 ...... 7 Britain & Ireland ...... 7 ...... 10 Asia ...... 12 World ...... 13 & the Ancient Near East ...... 13 Ancient Near East ...... 16

Mediterranean Prehistory ...... 21

Classical World ...... 23

Greece & The Hellenistic World ...... 24

Archaeology and History ...... 24 Literature...... 27 Rome & the Roman Provinces ...... 27

Rome ...... 27 ...... 31 Latin Literature ...... 33 Late Antiquity ...... 33

Byzantine ...... 34

Islamic ...... 35

Medieval ...... 35

Anglo-Saxon ...... 35 Viking ...... 36 Early Medieval Europe ...... 37 Medieval Britain ...... 38 Medieval Europe ...... 39 Medieval Art & Architecture ...... 42 Medieval Archaeology ...... 43 Medieval Literature ...... 46 Post-Medieval...... 47 Maps of War Excavating Our Past Cosmopolitan Material Engagements Mapping Conflict Through Perspectives on the Archaeologies Studies in honour of the Centuries History of the AIA By Lynn Meskell By Neil Brodie and Catherine Hills By Jeremy Black By S. H. Allen The essays in this volume address Papers which explore the engagement From the 17th century onwards, Excavating Our Past delves into the archaeological ethics, exploring the of beings, now and in the military commanders and strategists history and development of the AIA obligations to local communities past, with both the natural world began to document the wars in which and reveals the influences of historical which archaeologists increasingly and the material world they have they were involved and later, to use trends in archaeology and allied fields observe, and the global political created. Particular themes include the mapping to actually plan the progress upon the AIA. Contributors examine contexts in which they operate, interactions of archaeology with the of a conflict. This sumptuous new volume covers the the founders, practitioners, related institutions and the drawing on recent developments in cosmopolitan theory study of art and with the antiquities trade. history of the mapping of war on land and shows the times that shaped them. and ethics. 180pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war. 260pp, Archaeological Institute of America, 2002, 296pp, Duke University Press, 2009, 9780822344445, 2004, 9781902937267, Hardback, was £35.00 224pp, Conway Maritime, 2016, 9781844863440, 9780960904280, Paperback, was £29.95 Paperback, was £21.99 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95 Now £5.95 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

Early Ships and Archaeographies Nostratic Seafaring Excavating Neolithic Dispilio By Christopher Scarre and Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily Water Transport Beyond Europe By Fotis Ifantidis Graeme Lawson By A. Colin Renfrew and Daniel Nettle By Sean McGrail This book consists one of the very Archaeoacoustics focuses on the This volume of essays examines the role of sound in human behaviour, In this book, Professor McGrail’s first experimentations in printed claim that a linguistic macrofamily can format, dealing with the visual from earliest times up to the be identified which includes not only study of European Water Transport development of mechanical detection is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, interplay between archaeology and the Indo-European and Afroasiatic photography. The case study is the and recording devices in the 19th language families but also the Southeast Asia, , , century. Megalithic tombs, Palaeolithic Oceania and the Americas. The early excavation of the Greek Neolithic Kartvelian, Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian settlement of Dispilio. The book tackles archaeological painted caves, Romanesque churches families. rafts and boats of those regions were, as in Europe, and prehistoric rock shelters all present specific sound hand-built from natural materials and were propelled practice on site, the microcosms of excavation, and the 164pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, interaction between people and “things”. qualities which offer clues as to how they may have been and steered by human muscle or wind power. designed and used. 1999, 9781902937007, Paperback, was £30.00 220pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2016, 9781473825598, 112pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2013, 9781905739622, Paperback, was £9.50 118pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £9.95 Hardback, was £19.99 2006, 9781902937359, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

The Mapmakers' WreckProtect Bones for Tools - Tools Phylogenetic Methods World Decay and Protection of for Bones and the Prehistory of A Cultural History of the Archaeological Wooden Shipwrecks The Interplay Between Languages European World Map Edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Objects and Objectives Edited by Peter Forster Other Juha Nurminen and Edited by Björdal and David Gregory Edited by Krish Seetah and Colin Renfrew Peter Barber and By Marjo Nurminen This book includes chapters on the and Brad Gravina Which phylogenetic methods are The Mapmakers’ World illuminates anatomy and structure of wood Exposing and exploring contexts best suited to retracing the the fascinating cultural history of and the physical and biological spanning much of prehistory, and of languages? And which types of European world maps: what do decay of shipwrecks under water. A drawing data from a wide range of language data are most informative historical world maps tell of us, of our perception of the summary of available methods for the in-situ protection environmental settings, the book covers both sides of about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists world, and of places and peoples that are foreign to us? of wrecks is presented and a cost-benefit analysis of the complex inter-relationship between animals, the engage with these key questions. Who were the makers of these early world maps? How in-situ preservation versus conventional raising and technologies used to procure them and those arising 220pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, were the maps created and for whom were they drawn conservation is given. from them. 2006, 9781902937335, Hardback, was £20.00 and printed? For what purposes were they used? 154pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2012, 9781905739486, 164pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £9.95 360pp, The Pool of Press, 2015, 9781910860007, Hardback, was £19.95 2012, 9781902937595, Hardback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Sleeping Around Microanalysis of Examining the Rethinking Materiality The Bed from Antiquity to Now Parchment Farming/Language Engagement of Mind with By Annie Carlano and Bobbie Sumberg By Rene Larsen Dispersal Hypothesis Material World From a simple blanket laid on Microanalysis of Parchment By Peter Bellwood and A. Colin Renfrew By Elizabeth DeMarrais the ground to elaborately carved presents sampling techniques and The farming/language dispersal What is the relationship between four-posters hung with sumptuous non-destructive, microanalytical hypothesis makes the radical and mind and ideas on the one hand, draperies, from a hammock swinging and semi-microanalytical methods controversial proposal that the and the material things of the world under the stars to a stifling cupboard for the analysis and testing of present-day distributions of many of on the other? Contributors debate bed built into a wall, the ways in historic parchment based on the world's languages and language the significance of key thresholds which have gone about trying to get a good visual, microscopical as well as chemical and physical families can be traced back to the early developments in the human past, including sedentism, domestication, night's sleep are myriad. This book, illustrated with some techniques.The contributions in this volume represent and dispersals of farming from the several nuclear areas and the emergence of social inequality and their impact 140 images, takes readers on a lively tour of beds and the main achievements of the European joint project on where animal and plant domestication emerged. on changing patterns of human cognition, symbolic sleeping customs over time and around the world, from parchment Methods in the Microanalysis of Parchment expression, and technological innovation. and Greece to 1970s water beds. sponsored by the European Commission. 520pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2003, 9781902937205, Hardback, was £50.00 280pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 200pp, University of Washington Press, 2006, 180pp, Archetype, 2002, 9781873132685, Paperback, was 2005, 9781902937304, Hardback, was £45.00 9780295985985, Paperback, was £27.99 £47.50 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Fire and Sand Humanity's Burden Image and Imagination Simulations, By Anastassios Antonaras A Global History of Malaria Edited by Colin Renfrew and I. Morley and Human Prehistory For the first time, this important By James L.A. Webb The scope of this work is global. It Edited by Peter Forster, A. Colin volume features nearly all of the Humanity's Burden provides a sets out to explore the first stirrings Renfrew and Shuichi Matsumura ancient glass objects in the collection panoramic overview of the history of artistic endeavour and of figurative Data from molecular genetics of the Princeton University Art of malaria. It traces the long arc of imagery on each continent, and to have changed our views on the . Taken together, the 509 malaria out of tropical into consider the social context in which origin, spread and timescale of our ancient glass vessels and plaques Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas they arose. species across this planet. But how provide a timeline of archaeological during the early years of the 346pp, McDonald Institute for can we reveal more detail about and cultural history from the middle Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle Archaeological Research, 2007, 9781902937489, the demography of ancient human populations? This of the second millennium B.C. to the rise of Islam in the latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth Hardback, was £30.00 book is a summary of the landmark conference held 7th century. century. Now £12.95 in in 2005, where specialists in simulations 398pp, Yale University Press, 2013, 9780300179811, 248pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, and molecular genetics as well as archaeologists came Hardback, was £50.00 9780521670128, Paperback, was £20.99 together to present and evaluate the state of the art, and Now £19.95 to discuss future possibilities. Now £5.95 208pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2008, 9781902937458, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95

2 • GENERAL INTEREST AND METHOD AND THEORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Dennis Jackson Bones and Identity Development-led Forms of Dwelling A Northamptonshire Archaeologist Zooarchaeological Approaches to Archaeology in North- 20 Years of Taskscapes Reconstructing Social and Cultural By Dennis Jackson West Europe in Archaeology Landscapes in Southwest Asia This autobiography covers work on Edited by Richard Bradley, By Ulla Rajala and Edited by Philip Mills Neolithic and Bronze Age burials, Edited by Nimrod Marom, Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander An important new collection of numerous and Roman Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Linden and Leo Webley theoretical and case study papers Weissbrod and Guy Bar-Oz settlements and an Anglo-Saxon These 12 papers bring together assessing the continued importance cemetery. The book also includes Seventeen papers demonstrate data on developer-led archaeology and value of the taskscapes approach reviews of pit alignments, Iron Age how zooarchaeologists engage in Britain, Ireland, , the Low in archaeological research 20 years settlement studies and a proposed chronology for Iron with questions of identity through culinary Countries, Germany and Denmark in order to review after its conception.While exploring new frontiers, Age pottery assemblages in Northamptonshire. references, livestock husbandry practices and land and evaluate key common issues relating to organisation, the papers contrast British, Nordic and Mediterranean 174pp, Northamptonshire County Council, 2010, use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished practice, legal frameworks and quality management. archaeologies to showcase the study of material 9780950715148, Paperback, was £14.50 zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide and landscape and conclude with an assessment of the geographic expanse between Greece in the West and 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174661, Paperback, concept of taskcape and its further developments. was £38.00 Now £4.95 India in the East and spanning a time range from the 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703775, Paperback, latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Now £12.95 was £38.00 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701726, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

A Geography of Care in the Past Dress and Incomplete Offerings Archaeological and Contributions from Archaeology Archaeologies Deposits of Valuables in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by T. F. Martin and R. Weetch Edited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn Landscapes of Ancient Europe Edited by Lindsay Powell, William Presents a refreshingly new, J. Franklin and James A. Johnson By Richard Bradley Southwell-Wright and Rebecca Gowland theoretically informed and integrated This collection focuses on the actions, A provocative study of current The 12 papers in this volume bring approach to dress as a specific practices and processes leading approaches to and theories regarding together archaeological, historical, and category of archaeological evidence to the formation of archaeological the character, location, social and philosophical perspectives to examine by focusing on the close relationship assemblages. The ultimate aim is physical context and object histories the topic of care in past , between dress, identity, bodies and to reassert an awareness of the of specialised deposits in the European archaeological and how we might recognise the provision of care in material culture incompleteness of assemblage, and thus the importance record. This is an extended essay about the strengths archaeological contexts. The topic of care is examined 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703157, Paperback, of practices of assembling (whether they seem at first and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised through three different strands: care throughout the life was £36.00 creative or destructive) for understanding social life in deposits. course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest the past as well as the present. members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards Now £12.95 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785704772, Paperback, 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701153, Paperback, impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both was £36.00 was £15.99 recipients of care and as tools for its provision. Now £9.95 Now £7.95 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703355, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £14.95

Archaeologies of Children, Spaces and Engaging with the Locating the Sacred Waste Identity Dead Theoretical Approaches to the Encounters with the Unwanted Edited by Margarita Sánchez Exploring Changing Human Emplacement of Religion Edited by Daniel Sosna and Romero, Eva Alarcón García and Beliefs about Death, Mortality Edited by Claudia Moser Lenka Brunclíková Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez and the Human Body and Cecelia Feldman A multi-disciplinary exploration Specialists from archaeology, history, Edited by Jennie Bradbury These essays, with a wide of the relationship between waste literature, architecture, didactics, and Chris Scarre chronological and geographical and human societies in terms of museology and coverage, aim at an understanding of build a body of theoretical and Engaging with the Dead adopts a value, social differentiation, and cross-disciplinary, archaeologically religious ritual not as a disembodied space. In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging methodological approaches about how space is event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and articulated and organised around children and how this focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked from the relationship between waste and identity in to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated early agricultural settlements to the perception of disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social material objects. identities. the ways of disposing of the dead. Contributors explore contemporary nuclear waste. changing beliefs and practices over time, considering 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976165, Paperback, 182pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703270, Paperback, 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979357, Paperback, how modern archaeology, and historical was £25.00 was £45.00 was £36.00 records can aid our interpretations of the past. Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706639, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £14.95

Archaeology for the Creating Material Environment and Paradigm Found People Worlds Aggregate-Related – Present, Joukowsky Institute Perspectives The Uses of Identity in Archaeology Archaeology Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný Edited by John Cherry and Felipe Rojas Edited by Adrián Maldonado, By Tony Brown Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, All of the articles collected in this Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell This volume provides a synthetic book combine sophisticated analysis and Louisa Campbell review of the background and Ladislav Šmejda and Jan Turek of an exciting archeological problem Explores new theoretical approaches archaeology that has emerged These 23 papers provide a discussion with prose geared at a non-specialized to the relationship between people through archaeological interventions of the issues currently re-appearing audience. It also offers a series of and objects, demonstrating how associated with the quarrying of in the focal point of theoretical reflections on how and why to engage in dialogues about identity can be seen as an emergent property of living sand, gravel, and rock for aggregates. The book covers all debates in archaeology such as the role of the discipline archaeology with people who are not specialists. in a material world, and including a critical review of periods from the Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval, and is in the present-day society, problems of interpretation in 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701078, Paperback, theories of identity. Research areas span from the Great organized on a regional basis. archaeology, approaches to the study of social evolution, was £28.00 Lakes to the Mediterranean, with case studies from the 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781905223022, Paperback, as well as current insights into issues in classification and to the contemporary world by emerging was £38.00 construction of typologies. Now £9.95 voices in the field. Now £12.95 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782977704, Hardback, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701801, Paperback, was £45.00 was £36.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Archaeomalacology Death embodied Ethnozooarchaeology People with Animals Revisited Archaeological approaches to The Present and Past of Human- Perspectives and Studies in Non-dietary use of molluscs the treatment of the corpse Animal Relationships Ethnozooarchaeology in archaeological settings Edited by Zoë L. Devlin and Edited by Umberto Albarella Edited by Lee G. Broderick Edited by Canan Cakirlar Emma-Jayne Graham and Angela Trentacoste People with Animals emphasises These ten papers revisit important Archaeological interpretations of This book examines how the study the interdependence of people and archaeological issues such as burial remains can often suggest that of human-animal relations can help us animals in society, and contributors of raw materials, dye the skeletons which we uncover, and interpret archaeological evidence. An examine the variety of forms and production and the secondary uses therefore usually associate with past international range of contributors time-depth that these relations of industrial shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the funerary practices, were what was actually deposited in examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering can take. The types of relationship studied include the symbolic world of diverse civilisations, technology and graves, rather than articulated corpses. The nine papers and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as early cross-regional exchange networks. provide a series of theoretically informed, but not techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, constrained, case studies which focus predominantly on societies. butchery, symbolism and food. 104pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174364, Paperback, the corporeal body in death. was £32.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179970, Hardback, 156pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702471, Paperback, 174pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979432, Paperback, was £48.00 was £38.00 Now £7.95 was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM METHOD AND THEORY • 3 Re-Presenting the Past The Future from the Crossing Frontiers Archaeological Archaeology through Text and Image Past By H. Schroeder, P. Bray, P. Resource Management Edited by Sheila Bonde and Archaeozoology in Gardner and V. Jefferson in the UK Stephen Houston Wildlife Conservation and With the ever-increasing By John Hunter and Ian B. M. Ralston Heritage Management specialisation of archaeological The archaeological past exists for This book reviews the issues facing us through intermediaries. Some methods and techniques, it By Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier and Ina Plug becomes more and more difficult archaeologists in an increasingly are written works, descriptions, These 18 papers are all complicated and diverse discipline, narratives and field notes, while to communicate across disciplinary concerned with the contributions boundaries. These papers explore and examines the implications of others are visual. These essays raise archaeozoologists make to specific heritage management and legislation, key questions about the function of re-presentations of the challenges and opportunities of problems encountered in the management and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology. stricter planning controls, changing land use and the the past in current archaeological practice. conservation of our natural and cultural heritage. pressure of public interest and concern. The second 215pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972310, Paperback, 160pp, University School of Archaeology, 2007, edition is substantially enlarged and completely 184pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842171158, Hardback, 9780954962777, Paperback, was £30.00 rewritten. was £25.00 was £50.00 Now £5.00 Now £9.95 402pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006, 9780750927895, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £4.95

Shell Energy Trends in Biological Production Technology Genes, and Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources Anthropology 1 of Faience and Related Human History Edited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonić Early Vitreous Darwinian Archaeology Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara and Kathleen McSweeney Materials and Cultural Evolution This volume brings together The first in a new series on By M. S Tite and Andrew J. Shortland By Stephen Shennan information about little known, or presents 11 The vitreous materials considered are Shennan explores the potential for a recently discovered, concentrations papers comprising assessments of glazed steatite, faience, Egyptian blue neo-Darwinian evolutionary approach of shell mounds. Discussions are methodological practices and case and green frits, and glazed pottery to some of the major concerns presented on new approaches to studies in palaeopathology. and bricks from the 5th millennium and issues within archaeology. interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978367, Paperback, BC through to the Roman period. For each group of He reviews the concept of memes and applies it to analysis of molluscs, the use of shell as a raw material for was £49.95 material, the emphasis is on presenting the available human exploitation of resources, population histories, making artefacts and in construction, and the variable analytical and microstructural data which are then the transmission of cultural traditions, male-female formation processes associated with mound formation. Now £9.95 interpreted to provide information on the raw materials relationships and social evolution, competition and 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842177655, Hardback, and production. warfare. was £60.00 232pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, 304pp, Thames and Hudson, 2002, 9780500051184, Now £14.95 9781905905126, Hardback, was £35.00 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £5.95

Skyscapes Underground Gifts and Discoveries Ships and Shipwrecks The Role and Importance of Archaeology The Museum of Archaeology of the Americas the Sky in Archaeology Studies on Human Bones and and Anthropology, Cambridge Edited By George F. Bass Edited by Fabio Silva and Artefacts from Ireland's Caves By Mark Elliott and A survey of the maritime history Nicholas Campion Edited by Marion Dowd This beautifully illustrated sample of the New World. The book brings Eleven papers extend discussion of the Museum’s collections, which together the work of leading nautical This book brings together a series of archaeologists, each with first-hand of the role and importance of the ground-breaking studies on human illustrates and discusses objects from landscape and the wider environment all over the world, from the first diving experience. Twelve chapters bones and artefacts recovered from tell the story of watercraft in the to past societies, and to the Irish caves principally between 1870 stone tools to modern indigenous understanding and interpretation of their material art. Alongside information on the artefacts themselves Americas, accompanied by photographs, paintings, and 1990.The 15 expert contributions presented here diagrams, charts and maps. remains, into consideration of the significance of the shine a light on the use and perception of caves at the text explores the circumstances of their collection, celestial environment: the skyscape. different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic illuminating aspects of the history of archaeology and 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 1996, 9780500278925, 210pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978404, Paperback, through to post-medieval times. anthropology Paperback, was £16.95 was £38.00 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703515, Hardback, 96pp, Scala Publishers, 2011, 9781857597158, Paperback, Now £5.95 was £12.95 Now £12.95 was £48.00 Now £14.95 Now £3.95

The Death of Weben und Gewebe in History from Things Insight from Archaeological der Antike / Texts and By Steven and Kingery, W. David Innovation Theory? Textiles in the Ancient Lubar and W. David Kingery New Light on Archaeological Edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce World 18 essays on material culture explore Ceramics the many ways objects - defined Edited by Emilie Sibbesson, Ben This book addresses the provocative Materialität – Repräsentation broadly to range from Chippendale subject of whether it is time to – Episteme – Metapoetik / tables and Italian Renaissance pottery Jervis and Sarah Coxon discount the burden of somewhat Materiality – Representation to seventeenth-century parks and This volume contains explores some dogmatic theory and ideology that – Episteme – Metapoetics a New cemetery - can of the most exciting developments has defined archaeological debate By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer reconstruct and help reinterpret the currently taking place within and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven past. archaeological ceramic studies, including cutting-edge chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materiality – provenanceing techniques, computer-aided visualisations, assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future Representation – Episteme – Metapoetics presents 12 300pp, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, 9781560986133, Paperback, was £17.99 and contemporary craft and design perspectives, opening directions. papers arranged under the four headings of the title up avenues for new researches and demonstrating 96pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174463, Paperback, which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the Now £5.95 that ceramic studies represent one of the frontiers in was £12.95 weaving process itself, and the materiality of fabric. modern-day archaeology. Now £4.95 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700620, Hardback, 220pp, The Highfield Press, 2016, 9780992633646, was £38.00 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95

The Diversity of Wild Harvest Visions of Antiquity The Stone of Life Hunter Gatherer Pasts Plants in the Hominin and Pre- The Society of Antiquaries By David Peacock Edited by Bill Finlayson Agrarian Human Worlds of London 1707-2007 This book is about the archaeology and Graeme Warren Edited by Karen Hardy and Edited by Susan Pearce querns and mills, simple stone Explores the extent of variation Kubiak-Martens instruments which are vital to survival This fascinating portrait of the Society in a society which adopts bread as amongst hunting and gathering A major new textbook discussing of Antiquaries of London, founded peoples past and present and the its staple. They become the ‘stones the role of plants in hominin and in 1707, assesses the impact that of life’, an essential ingredient in considerable analytical challenges pre-agrarian human societies with individual Fellows and the Society as a presented by this diversity to the subsistence strategy of settled case studies drawn from ethnography, whole have had in influencing the way agriculturalists. archaeologists and anthropologists attempting to and illustrating methods we visualise and understand the past. The contributions understand and reconstruct past lifeways. of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical shed light on the Society’s achievements (and some of 220pp, The Highfield Press, 2013, 9780992633608, 204pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705885, Paperback, assemblages may be used and interpreted. the accompanying conflicts between personalities and Hardback, was £45.00 was £36.00 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701238, Paperback, ideas) over three hundred years. Now £9.95 was £32.00 463pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007, Now £12.95 9780854312870, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £12.95 Now £10.00

4 • METHOD AND THEORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Turning Stone to Thornham and the Enduring Records Wellington Quarry, Bread Waveney Valley The Environmental and Cultural Herefordshire (1986- A Diachronic Study of Millstone An Historic Landscape Explored Heritage of Wetlands 96) Making in Southern Spain By John Fairclough and Mike Hardy By Barbara A. Purdy Investigations of a Landscape By Timothy J. Anderson Fairclough and Hardy describe These twenty-seven papers on in the Lower Lugg Valley This book examines the sites where the history of Thornham from the wetland research across the By Robin Jackson and Darren Miller stones were extracted to make prehistoric period through to the world, from America to Europe to present day estate, placed within the Australasia, aim to raise the profile This volume presents the results of querns and millstones. The study area the first 10 years of archaeological is the southern half of the Iberian context of the Waveney Valley and of these fragile environments and the nearby estates such as at South Elmham. potential they have for shedding light on the past. investigation at Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire. Peninsula and the chronological framework covers all the During this time a regionally unique archaeological and periods since the small saddle querns of the Neolithic 235pp, Heritage Publications, 2004, 9780954445676, 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, 9781842170489, Hardback, palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering through the large 20th-century industrial millstones that Paperback, was £19.95 was £60.00 nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and equipped wind and watermills. Now £4.95 Now £6.95 landscape change. 341pp, The Highfield Press, 2016, 9780992633653, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842173664, Hardback, Paperback, was £45.00 was £30.00 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Surfaces Trent Valley Exploring and The Wetlands of A History Landscapes Explaining Diversity in Greater Manchester By Joseph Anthony Amato By David Knight Agricultural By D. Hall This theory-rich study spans a huge This synthesis of landscape change Technology This study offers original research sweep of time, from early hominids and human occupation in the Trent Edited by Annelou van Gijn, John on Chat Moss, Carrington Cross, to the present day and takes a Valley is based on more than twenty Whittaker and Patricia C. Anderson Moss, Ashton Moss and Kearsley phenomenological approach to human years of research and includes much Moss, as well as a description of interaction with surfaces. Overall previously unpublished material. Each Each chapter provides an smaller and former wetlands in the it charts a transformation in that chapter focuses on a different period interdisciplinary overview of the area. The survey ranges from post- relationship with humanity becoming a “knower and from the Pleistocene landscape, Mesolithic hunter- skills used and the social context glacial periods to the most recent past. maker of surfaces and a self-conscious, self-directing and gatherers, Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, Late of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to 188pp, Oxford Archaeology North, 1995, 9780901800800, self-designing animal”. Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Roman and medieval Paperback, was £24.00 cereal processing and food preparation. 288pp, University of California Press, 2013, periods. 9780520272774, Hardback, was £27.00 202pp, Heritage Publications, 2004, 9780954445645, 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842175156, Hardback, Now £5.00 Paperback, was £25.00 was £50.00 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Golden Ages and Living in the Living with the Flood Archaeology and Barbarous Nations Landscape Mesolithic to post-medieval Landscape in Central Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Essays in Honour of Graham Barker archaeological remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Politics in Ireland, C.1750-1800 Edited by Katherine Boyle, Ryan Edited by Gary Lock and – a wetland/dryland interface By Clare O'Halloran J. Rabett and Chris O. Hunt Amalia Faustoferri By Samantha Paul, Kevin Colls This book, the first major study The assembled chapters illustrate These seventeen papers address of Irish antiquarian and historical how climate, demographic, and Henry P. Chapman topics in Ancient History, new writing during the turbulent second subsistence, social and ecological This volume integrates archaeological technologies and methods, half of the eighteenth century, charts change have affected from and palaeoenvironmental analysis to geomorphology and anthropology the ways in which contemporary politics, notably the the Palaeolithic to Historical, from North Africa and provide a detailed picture of life in an area of wetland/ and how they can all be combined in the study of past question, legislative independence and the West-Central Eurasia to Southeast Asia and China. dryland interface from the late glacial to the post- landscapes. Case studies present various projects based gathering agrarian and political crises from the late They also chronicle the innovations and renegotiated medieval periods. It compares the nature and utilisation mainly in central Italy with seven of the papers describing 1780s, shaped articulations of the remote and recent relations that communities have devised to meet and of built structures from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and aspects of fieldwork in the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo. past. exploit the many shifting realities involved withLiving in Saxon period in their environmental contexts. 253pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, 280pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, the Landscape. 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979661, Paperback, 9781905905065, Hardback, was £38.00 9780268037215, Paperback, was £25.00 380pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, was £19.95 2014, 9781902937731, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £10.00 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

The Strait Gate Agricultural and Modelling archaeology By River, Fields and Thresholds and Power in Pastoral Landscapes in and Factories Western History Pre-Industrial Society palaeoenvironments in The Making of the Lower Lea Valley By Daniel Jutte Choices, Stability and Change wetlands By Andrew B. Powell The Strait Gate demonstrates how Edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge The hidden landscape archaeology Extensive geoarchaeological and doors, gates, and related technologies Schjellerup and Althea Davies of Hatfield and Thorne palaeo-environmenal studies, coupled such as the key and the lock have Moors, eastern England with a comprehensive radiocarbon shaped the way we perceive and This volume deals with the technological constraints and dating programme, have enabled navigate the domestic and urban By Henry P. Chapman the valley’s past environments to spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jutte innovations that enabled societies to survive and and Benjamin R. Gearey thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The be reconstructed. As well as significant Neolithic finds, reveals how doors have served as sites of power, This study utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitative the excavations revealed Bronze Age and Iron Age exclusion, and inclusion-and, by extension, as metaphors three foci are colonisation, fields and field systems, and pastoralism and attendant landscape adaptations. methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial settlements, and some evidence for Roman, Saxon and for -in the course of Western history. and temporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for medieval activity. 384pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300211085, 280pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842173596, Hardback, two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne was £50.00 240pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2012, 9781874350590, Hardback, was £30.00 Moors. Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971740, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

EAA 91: Excavations Caves in Context Places in Between Cipières on the The Cultural Significance of Caves The Archaeology of Social, Landscape and Community in Southern Bypass, and Rockshelters in Europe Cultural and Geographical Alpes-Maritimes, France 1989-91, Part 1 Edited by Knut Andreas Borders and Borderlands By David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Excavations at Bixley, Caistor Bergsvik and Robin Skeates Edited by David Mullin Andrew Fleming and David Siddle St Edmund, Trowse Caves and rockshelters are found all This book, which grew out of a This interdisciplinary project over Europe, and have been occupied session at TAG in 2008, explores explores the village’s morphology and By Trevor Ashwin and Sarah Bates by human groups, from prehistory some of the possibilities offered archaeology, including a landscape A synthesis of the results of a major right up to the present day. The aim of by the study of borders from survey and investigation of the series of excavations and watching briefs is offered in this book is to explore the multiple significances of these an archaeological point of view and presents new agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving this volume, in which a series of six discrete excavation natural places in a range of chronological, spatial, and perspectives on borders, both metaphorical and on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, reports is followed by single chapters presenting cultural contexts across Europe. geographical, from locations as diverse as and and the local economy from the fifth environmental information and a concluding discussion. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174746, Hardback, China, from the Neolithic to the Cold War. century through to 1900. 253pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2000, 9780905594293, was £50.00 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179833, Paperback, 432pp, Windgather Press, 2013, 9781905119998, Paperback, was £27.50 was £36.00 Paperback, was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LANDSCAPE • 5 Deer and People Gardens and Archaeology, the Global Ancestors Edited by Karis Baker, Ruth Designed Landscapes Public and the Recent Understanding the Shared Carden and Richard Madgwick By Patsy Dallas, Tom Williamson Past Humanity of our Ancestors This volume draws together research and Roger Last Edited by Chris J. Dalglish Edited by Rebecca Redfern, on deer from wide-ranging disciplines This beautifully produced volume Jelena Bekvalac, Heather and in so doing substantially advances Heritage, memory, community provides a detailed exploration of the archaeology and the politics of the Bonney and Margaret Clegg our broader understanding of human- history of gardening and landscape deer relationships in the past and past form the main strands running These papers reflect on modern architecture in Norfolk, from the through the papers in this volume. museological responses to the often the present. Themes include species geometric gardens of the sixteenth dispersal, exploitation patterns, The essays deal with an interest in complex and emotive relationship and seventeenth centuries, through the landscape the meaning, value and contested nature of the recent that people have with the ancestors and objects symbolic significance, material culture and art, effects on parks of the eighteenth century and the civic spaces of the landscape and management. past and in the theory and practice of archaeological which they created. Topics include how indigenous the nineteenth, to the emergence of modern ideas of engagements with that past. peoples are represented in ; the repatriation 248pp, Windgather Press, 2014, 9781909686540, ecological and ‘minimalist’ garden design. of human remains and objects; and the ways in which Paperback, was £45.00 179pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838517, 472pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188308, Hardback, was £30.00 archaeologists and indigenous communities interact. Now £9.95 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175330, Paperback, Now £9.95 was £32.00 Now £7.95

Dury and Andrews’ Street Trees in Britain The Conservation Heritage Transformed Map of Hertfordshire A History Movement in Norfolk By Ian Baxter By Andrew Macnair, Anne By Mark Johnston A History How does "heritage" become Rowe and Tom Williamson This is the first book on the history By Susanna Wade Martins objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book describes the creation of of Britain’s street trees and it gives Norfolk played a unique role in a new, digital version of an important a highly readable, authoritative and This book proposes a model for the development of conservation. this process and contains five case county map that throws important often amusing account of their story, This book narrates the story of new light on Hertfordshire’s from the tree-lined promenades of studies that explore variety in the the movement, from its origins five transformation of heritage. The model landscape and society in the middle the 17th century to the majestic hundred years ago to the present day. decades of the eighteenth century when it was boulevards that grace some of our modern city centres. proposes that heritage is transformed produced, and in more remote periods. 187pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2015, 9781783270071, from concept to object and the agency of change is 352pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188230, Paperback, was £19.99 "management". 240pp, Windgather Press, 2015, 9781909686731, Paperback, was £39.95 Paperback, was £35.00 Now £4.95 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174579, Paperback, Now £14.95 was £40.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Historic Gardens and The Ancient Yew Historical Redress Recent Developments Parks of Derbyshire A History of Taxus Baccata Must We Pay for the Past? in the Research and Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 By Robert Bevan-Jones By Richard Vernon Management at World By Dianne Barre Robert Bevan-Jones discusses the This title provides an introduction to Heritage Sites A lavishly illustrated study of nearly history of the yew, its biology, the the philosophical implications of the By Melanie Pomeroy- 100 gardens in Derbyshire from the origins of its name, the yew berry recent surge of political and ethical Kellinger and Ian Scott fabulously wealthy stately home to and its toxicity, its distribution across interest in historical redress. The Britain, means of dating examples, and book addresses all the main issues The common threads linking the smallest hidden delights. The book these papers are the influence considers the importance of gardens their association with folklore, with and arguments relating to justice, churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre- wells and memory, apology and citizenship, and concludes by of the UNESCO World Heritage in Derbyshire Spa towns, discusses the role of inherited Convention, the importance of research in the and new wealth of the industrial revolution on the as landscape markers. arguing for a forward-looking approach that focuses on the right of future generations to live just lives. understanding and management of World Heritage design of both private estates and public gardens. 216pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781785700781, Sites, and the importance of building consensus through 272pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188049, Paperback, was £29.95 192pp, Continuum International Pub., 2012, partnership and involvement in the management of 9781441121318, Paperback, was £18.99 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 World Heritage Sites. Now £9.95 Now £3.95 80pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, 9780904220476, Paperback, was £7.50 Now £2.00

Landscapes for the The Historic New Shopping in Who Owns Antiquity World Landscape of Historic Towns. By James Cuno Conserving a Global Heritage A Study in Change and Continuity The Chesterfield Story A controversial look at the antiquities By Peter Fowler By Lucy Ryder By T. Aldous trade, and the legal framework which surrounds it which suggests that the Since 1992 UNESCO has designated The combined evidence for three Case study of the city centre current set-up merely encourages the cultural landscapes as World Heritage case-study areas – the Blackdown of Chesterfield, where a new hoarding of antiquities by the states Sites. This book asks what constitutes Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South conservation approach to its which now occupy the territories a cultural landscape, and looks Hams – is examined in detail. Key development meant the preservation of ancient civilizations, and argues at the criteria and politics which issues addressed include: how far back of its heritage, and the accomodation instead for the enabling of global surround their selection. Lavish illustration accompanies patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or of modern buildings ‘encyclopedic museums’. The paperback edition contains a subsequent tour of those already accorded World projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence 93pp, English Heritage, 1990, 9781850742982, a new afterword in which Cuno repsonds to some of Heritage listing. and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the Paperback, was £15.00 his critics. 235pp, Windgather Press, 2004, 9780954557591, spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements. Now £2.95 244pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, 9780691148106, Paperback, was £26.00 256pp, Windgather Press, 2013, 9781905119387, Paperback, was £14.99 Paperback, was £38.00 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Local Places, Global Back to the Garden Ruins Reused Water and Heritage Processes By James H. S. McGregor Changing Attitutes to Ruins Material, Conceptual and Histories of Environmental A cultural and ecological history since the late 18th Century Spiritual Connections Change in Britain and Beyond of the Mediterranean region and By Michael Thompson Edited by Willem Willems humankind's broken covenant with and Henk van Schaik Edited by Peter Coates, David nature. Traditional agriculture in the This book charts the development­ Moon and Paul Warde ancient Mediterranean mimicked of an active relationship between This book deals with the heritage This book investigates the the key traits of naturally occurring the public and ruins as to how they of water management and the use relationship between perceptions ecosystems. It was diverse, complex, can be preserved and used, looking that was made of water, as well as of environmental change at a self-regulating, and resilient. at developments throughout the the impact of water management on local scale and the wider forces of transformation, This relationship effectively came to an end in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. heritage. An example of the former may be an ancient addressing influential ways of understanding and debating late eighteenth century, when "nature" was steadily 110pp, Heritage Publications, 2006, 9781905223046, irrigation system in the Filipines or in the Middle East questions of ‘the state of nature’. It uses case studies equated with the untamed landscape devoid of human Hardback, was £14.95 that still functions today, while the latter may reflect the importance of maintaining groundwater levels for the on conservation, landscape change and management to intervention. Now £6.95 examine how perceptions of environmental change have preservation of organic remains on archaeological sites 320pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300197464, or of wooden piles underneath standing buildings. emerged or been discarded over time. Hardback, was £30.00 272pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686939, 434pp, Sidestone Press, 2015, 9789088902789, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £75.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

6 • LANDSCAPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Acquisition and in Excavations on the EAA 97: Monument Exhibition of Classical Context Wormington to Tirley 97; Orton Longueville, Antiquities A Report of the 1995-1998 Pipeline, 2000 Cambridgeshire By Robin Francis Rhodes Excavations at Gorhams and By Laurent Coleman, Annette A late Pre-Roman Iron Age Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar These papers consider the Hancocks and Martin Watts and Early Roman Farmstead implications of buying, selling, and By R. N. E. Barton, C. B. Stringer, These excavations add considerably By D. F. Mackreth exhibiting antiquities. To whom should J. C. Finlayson and Edited by N. to our understanding of life and death Identified from cropmarks and they belong? What circumstances, Barton and C. B. Stinger in the late prehistoric and Roman if any, demand the return of those excavated in 1974, the site consisted 24 chapters by leading specialists periods, and of the distribution of of three enclosures belonging to a small farmstead antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a cover a range of topics from information concerning the archaeological remains of all periods, in an area of known consensus among archaeologists and museum directors lasting from at least the later 1st century BC to the nature and sequence of Middle Palaeolithic archaeological significance close to the confluence of middle of the 2nd century AD. about these issues? occupations to the reconstruction of the environmental two major rivers: the Severn and Avon. 175pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, context of these activities. 89pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2001, 9780952810513, 106pp, Cotswold Archaeology, 2006, 9780952319696, Paperback, was £10.50 9780268040277, Paperback, was £25.95 352pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2012, Paperback, was £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 9781905905249, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

Early Man in the The Strange Case of Iron Age and Romano- Landscape Evolution Soviet Union the Rickety Cossack British Agriculture in in the Middle Thames By C. B. M. McBurney By Ian Tattersall the North Valley McBurney's fully illustrated lecture Ian Tattersall argues that a long Gloucestershire By Framework Archaeology on the expansion of humans into tradition of "human exceptionalism" Severn Vale Framework Archaeology the north of the Eurasian landmass in paleoanthropology has distorted By Neil Holbrook Excavations in advance of the reflects research developments the picture of . construction of Terminal 5 at made during the 1960s and 1970s He offers an idiosyncratic look Two sites are reported on in theis Heathrow Airport uncovered a into climatic history and ecology, at the competitive world of volume, with significant remains complex settlement and farming archaeological discoveries and the establishment of a paleoanthropology, beginning with 150 including Bronze Age parallel ditches, and Iron Age to landscape spanning later Neolithic to Saxon periods; the firmer chronology based on radiocarbon dating. years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Roman settlement at Walton Cardiff, and a Roman area remaining as farmland into the 20th century. 55pp, British Academy, 1976, 9780197257319, Paperback, Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings period field system at . in the Caucasus. 416pp, Framework Archaeology, 2010, 9780955451928, was £5.00 112pp, Cotswold Archaeology, 2009, 9780955353437, Hardback, was £20.00 256pp, Palgrave, 2015, 9781137278890, Hardback, was Paperback, was £7.95 Now £1.95 £18.99 Now £7.95 Now £3.95 Now £7.95

Stone Knapping How Compassion Prehistoric and The Land of Boudica The Necessary Conditions for a Made Us Human Medieval Occupation Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk Uniquely Hominin Behaviour The Evolutionary Origins of at Moreton-in-Marsh By John Davies By Valentine Roux and Blandine Bril Tenderness, Trust and Morailty and 's Cleeve, This book traces the story of Norfolk Chapters approach stone knapping­ By Penny Spikins Gloucestershire from the Ice Age and the first appearance of people to the end of from a multi-disciplinary perspective Penny Spikins argues that compassion By Martin Watts that embraces psychology,­ physiology, lies at the heart of what makes us Roman Britain. In particular it focuses Significant remains recorded at behavioural biology and human. She takes us on a journey on the many remarkable and exciting Moreton-in-Marsh include a Middle as well as archaeology. The result is a from Stone Age societies living discoveries made across the region, Bronze Age settlement of four post-built circular better understanding of early human engagement with millions of years ago to those of Ice Age Europe, drawing often through the contribution of amateur enthusiasts, structures and a series of medieval fields. The Iron Age the material world and the complex actions required for on the latest research from primatology, psychology, and how these have transformed our picture its history and medieval remains recorded at Bishop's Cleeve add the creation of stone tools. neuroscience and as well as that in recent decades. to our understanding of past settlement in and around 275pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, from the material record to demonstrate the central 251pp, Heritage Publications, 2009, 9781905223336, the village. 2005, 9781902937342, Hardback, was £35.00 role that emotional connections had in human evolution. Paperback, was £19.95 94pp, Cotswold Archaeology, 2008, 9780955353413, Now £12.95 278pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2015, 9781781593103, Paperback, was £7.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £7.95 Now £3.95

Casting the Net Wide Human Roots Two Cemeteries from A Woodland Papers in Honor of Glynn Africa and Asia in the Bristol's Northern Archaeology Isaac and His Approach to Middle Pleistocene Suburbs The Haddenham Project Volume I Human Origins Research By Larry Barham and By Martin Watts By Christopher Evans and Edited by Jeanne Sept Kate Robson-Brown Excavations from two sites - a rare Four extraordinary sites excavated and David Pilbeam 16 papers focused on the question late Iron Age inhumation cemetery at Haddenham, north of Cambridge 16 papers on the archaeology of of `how different were humans and at Henbury School, Bristol, which chart the transformation of Neolithic human origins, focusing on issues of human behaviour in Africa and the Far continued in use into the Roman woodland to Romano-British early human diet, palaeolandscapes, east during the Middle Pleistocene’? period, and a post-Roman cemetery marshland, providing unrivalled lithics, and the archaeology of the Near East and Africa. The contributors draw on evidence from recent at Filton, which appears unifluenced by Anglo-Saxon insights into death and ritual in a changing prehistoric 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174548, Hardback, archaeological fieldwork and represent different schools burial traditions. environment. The highlight is the internationally was £35.00 of thought concerning the Out-of-Africa or Multi- 96pp, Cotswold Archaeology, 2006, 9780955353406, renowned Foulmire Fen long barrow. Regional origins of man. Paperback, was £7.95 262pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £7.95 263pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2001, 2006, 9781902937311, Hardback, was £35.00 9780953541843, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £3.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Human Social The Story of EAA 121: A Line Hunter-Gatherer Evolution Across Land Landscape The Foundational Works of By Patricia Southern By Kasia Gdaniec, Mark Edmonds Archaeology Richard D. Alexander Patricia Southern ventures outside and Patricia E. J. Wiltshire The Southern Hebrides Edited by Kyle Summers her usual Roman specialism with Construction of a water supply Mesolithic Project 1988-98 this concise, intorductory guide and Bernard J. Crespi pipeline in Cambridgeshire provided By Steven Mithen to Stonehenge and its history. Her an opportunity to sample the Richard D. Alexander is an account synthesises existing work on prehistoric landscape along a transect The definitive publication of the ten accomplished entomologist who the subject rather than attempting that crossed several major geological year Southern Hebrides Mesolithic turned his attention to solving to put forward any new theory. The bulk of the book is boundaries. Along with palaeoenvironmental data, Project. The project aimed to document Mesolithic some of the most perplexing problems associated with comprised of a description of the stones themselves and samples of flint, burnt flint and other materials provided settlement on the islands of Islay and Colonsay and, the evolution of human social systems. Each chapter their arrangement, with discussion of how they were a context within which to explore specific models for in intepreting it, to throw light on a number of major features an introduction highlighting the importance transported and how the monument was built. interpreting the character of later prehistoric landscape issues: the colonisation of following the last Ice of Alexander's work and reviewing more recent 158pp, Amberley Publishing, 2012, 9781445605630, occupation across a diverse set of conditions. Age; the nature of early postglacial settlement patterns; contributions to the topic. the transition to Neolithic and farming communities. Hardback, was £16.99 95pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2007, 9780954482459, 496pp, , 2013, 9780199791750, Paperback, was £12.00 651pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Hardback, was £29.99 Now £4.95 2000, 9781902937120, Hardback, was £88.00 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Now £29.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM AND IRELAND • 7 Prehistoric Landscape A Lake Dwelling in Its Gristhorpe Man. Prehistory without Development and Landscape A Life and Death in the Bronze Age Borders Human Impact in the Iron Age settlement at Edited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher The Prehistoric Archaeology Upper Allen Valley, Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Knusel and Janet Montgomery of the Tyne-Forth Region Cranborne Chase, Dumfries and Galloway Research report on an early Edited by Rachel Crellin, Chris By Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone discovery of a very well-preserved Fowler and Richard Tipping British Bronze Age bog body. A log- By Helen Lewis and Charles French Presents the full results of excavations This book assesses the impact of at an important, short-lived crannog coffin excavated in the early 19th the Anglo-Scots and similar borders This volume concerns palaeo- site of the 5th century at Cults Loch, century proved to be well enough on our understanding of prehistoric environmental and archaeological investigations which Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and explores both preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full patterns of activity. It provides a regional synthesis revealed sequences of landscape development which the relationship between the crannog and its social and armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its based on topography, geography and archaeology which contrast with those previously put forward for the physical landscape and the wider role and function of occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a transcends modern political boundaries and considers region. A programme of valley-wide geoarchaeological crannogs. new date. the extent to which the tyne-forth does or does not survey and palynological analyses of the relict palaeo- 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703737, Hardback, 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972075, Hardback, form a coherent regional unit at various periods in channel system was conducted, along with sample was £55.00 prehistory. investigations and open area excavations of a variety of was £36.00 prehistoric sites in the area. Now £19.95 260pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701993, Hardback, Now £12.95 was £45.00 400pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007, 9781902937472, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Twice-crossed River Corrstown Hunters, fishers and Preserved in the Peat Prehistoric and Palaeoenvironmental A Coastal Community. foragers in An Extraordinary Bronze Age Investigations at Barleycroft Excavations of a Bronze Age Towards a social narrative Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Farm/Over, Cambridgeshire Village in Northern Ireland of Mesolithic lifeways Dartmoor, and its Wider Context By Christopher Evans, Jonathan By Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone By Malcolm Lillie By Andy M. Jones Tabor and Mark Vander Linden Corrstown is a highly important A major new holistic appraisal of Presents detailed analysis of a highly The first volume charting the Bronze Age site. A total of 74 Middle the evidence for the Mesolithic unsual Early Bronze Age burial CAU’s on-going Barleycroft Farm/ Bronze Age roundhouse platforms occupation of Wales. Chapters with preserved textiles, animal Over investigations, which now were identified and organised into follow a sequence from the skin, basketry and an array of rare encompasses almost 20 years of fieldwork across both pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to palaeoenvironmental background, through a metal and organic objects, and discusses its wider banks of the River Great Ouse at its junction with be contemporary, a site type hitherto unknown in Britain consideration of the use of stone tools, settlement environmental, social and burial context. the Fen. This is an important book, for the scale of and Ireland. patterning and evidence for subsistence strategies and 328pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785702600, Hardback, The Narrows’ excavations and palaeoenvironmental 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174647, Paperback, the range of available resources. was £30.00 studies, its comprehensive dating programmes and, the was £36.00 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979746, Paperback, Now £9.95 innovative methodologies and analyses undertaken. was £40.00 680pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £7.95 2016, 9781902937755, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Archaeology of the Down By The River Huntsman’s Quarry, Quaternary of the Jubilee Line extension Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental Kemerton Trent Prehistoric and Roman activity and Geoarchaeological Investigations By Robin Jackson Edited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. of The Suffolk River Valleys at Stratford Market Depot, A report on excavations which Howard, Mark J. White and Tom S. White West Ham, London, 1991-3 By Henry Chapman, Andy uncovered Late Bronze Age This volume is an integrated overview By Jonathan Hiller and Howard and Benjamin Gearey occupation areas and field systems and synthesis of available data relating David R. P. Wilkinson This series of detailed studies spreading across more than 8 to the Quaternary evolution of presents the results of hectares. Limited evidence for Upper the River Trent. It provides detailed Excavation uncovered flint tools Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and descriptions of the Pleistocene and debitage characteristic of the palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations focused on the Beaker activity was also recovered together with an sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and Early Bronze Age. A Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. related drainage systems. neonate skeleton of Early Iron Age date was recovered Post-Glacial record preserved in the valleys of the from a rubbish pit near a probable roundhouse. Two Suffolk rivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, Hoxne, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979944, Hardback, 416pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842174616, Hardback, crouched adult inhumations are atypically early Roman. Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were cored for was £30.00 was £30.00 palaeoenvironmental assessment, further sampling and 56pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2005, radiocarbon dating and the resulrs are described. Now £7.95 Now £9.95 9781901992540, Paperback, was £7.95 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701689, Hardback, Now £3.95 was £25.00 Now £9.95

Excavations at 25 Excavations at Cill Lives in Land – Ritual in Early Bronze Cannon Street, City of Donnain Mucking Excavations Age Grave Goods London A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron By Christopher Evans, Grahame An examination of ritual and dress From the Middle Bronze Age Wheelhouse in South Uist Appleby and Sam Lucy equipment from Chalcolithic and Age to the Great Fire By Mike Parker Pearson This volume comprises a Early Bronze Age graves in England By Nicholas Elsden and Marek Zvelebil comprehensive account of the By John Hunter and Ann Woodward prehistoric archaeology of the This report provides a chronological A report on an Iron Age wheelhouse mucking landscape from the An extensive and intensively account of excavation findings at and Bronze Age settlement, including Mesolithic to Iron Age. It presents a illustrated overview and study of a 25 Cannon Street, supported by many illustrations and pottery, faunal remains and a variety synthesis of landscape development through 5 thousand large proportion of the grave goods specialist contributions. The dig revealed a long sequence of bone and metal tools. years of prehistory including settlement histories, from English Early Bronze Age burial sites. It shows that of occupation, including Middle Bronze Age pottery, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976271, Hardback, changing land-use, death and burial, industry and craft many items of adornment formed elements of elaborate Roman masonry buildings, and Anglo-Saxon and later was £25.00 activities. costumes, probably worn by individuals who held buildings and the Church of St Werburga. important ritual roles within society Now £7.95 640pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701481, Hardback, 73pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2001, was £40.00 616pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782976943, Hardback, 9781901992229, Paperback, was £7.95 was £90.00 Now £14.95 Now £3.95 Now £29.95

A Corridor Through Gathering Time Movement, Exchange The Use and Reuse of Time Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures and Identity in Europe Stone Circles the archaeology of the A55 of Southern Britain and Ireland in the 2nd and 1st Fieldwork at five Scottish Anglesey Road Scheme By Alasdair Whittle, Frances Millennia BC monuments and its implications By Richard Cuttler, Andrew Healy and Alex Bayliss Beyond Frontiers Edited by Richard Bradley Davidson and Gwilym Hughes Gathering Time presents the results Edited by Anne Lehoërff and Marc Talon and Courtney Nimura Five main sites and a series of of a major dating programme that re- This volume presents all new data Brings together leading scholars from prehistoric burnt mounds are writes the early Neolithic of Britain resulting from the excavation and the UK and northern Europe in a discussed. The route encountered by more accurately dating enclosures, cross-comparison of 5 Scottish stone thought-provoking and revealing new examination of the remains of Neolithic pit groups; Bronze Age and Iron a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: circles of varying type, size and sequence, as well as relationship between communities in the ‘Transmanche Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and reassessing the construction sequences and use histories Zone’ in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The premise is that cemetery; Romano-British settlements and a farmstead; deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new of stone circles in Britain the English Channel was a conduit for connectivity and an early medieval inhumation cemetery, medieval radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using exchange of ideas, artefacts and social practices and 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702433, Paperback, agricultural features and a corn-drying kiln. a Bayesian statistical framework. rather than a barrier or frontier. was £39.95 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174234, Hardback, 992pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174258, Hardback, was £45.00 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707162, Hardback, Now £14.95 was £35.00 was £48.00 Now £19.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

8 • PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Fairfield Park, Stotfold, Green Park (Reading Segsbury Camp Thornhill Farm, Bedfordshire Business Park) Phase 2 Excavations in 1996 and 1997 Fairford, Later Prehistoric Settlement Excavations 1995 at an Iron Age on the Gloucestershire in the Eastern Chilterns Neolithic and Bronze Age sites Ridgeway An Iron Age and Roman pastoral By Jane R. Timby, Martin By Carol Allen, Adam Brossler By Gary Lock, Christopher site in the Upper Thames Valley Wilson and Leo Webley and Robert Early Gosden and Patrick Daly By D. Jennings, Jeff Muir, S. The excavations at Fairfield Park The Neolithic features included an This volume describes the two Palmer and A. Smith revealed a later Bronze Age hilltop unusual segmented ring ditch, and a seasons of excavation at Segsbury Camp which form a part of Oxford From the middle Iron Age to the early enclosure and an extensive early number of pits and postholes. A field system was laid out Roman period, Thornhill Farm appears to have been lived Iron Age settlement. As one of the first large-scale in the area to the establishment of a late Bronze University’s of the Ridgeway Project. The evidence suggests that the large hillfort of Segsbury was in and worked as a cattle ranch. Extensive excavations excavations of an early Iron Age settlement in eastern Age settlement which included five roundhouses, and a revealed large parts of the settlement, including England, the site makes a significant contribution to our number of post-built structures. used during the period 6th to 2nd century BC but was not densely and permanently occupied. paddocks, stock enclosures and droveways. understanding of the later prehistory of the region 180pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, 158pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, 200pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, 176pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, 9780953153138, 9780904220339, Paperback, was £14.99 9780947816728, Hardback, was £24.95 Paperback, was £14.95 9780947816681, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £5.00 Now £7.50 Now £7.50 Now £10.00

Settlement on the Guernsey The Archaeology of A Slice of Rural Essex Bedfordshire Claylands An Island Community of the Gravel Terraces of Recent Archaeological Discoveries Archaeology along the A421 the Atlantic Iron Age the Upper and Middle from the A120 between Stansted Great Barford Bypass By Bob Burns, Thames Airport and Braintree By Richard Brown, Alan Hardy, and Heather Sebire Early Prehistory to 1500 BC By Jane R. Timby, Richard Brown, E. Biddulph and Alan Hardy Stephen Leech and Jane R. Timby Excavations in the 1980s revealed a By Tony Morigi, Danielle Schreve, late Iron Age settlement with a smithy Excavations at nine sites along the Mark White and Gill Hey A diverse pattern of human hist­ route of the Great Barford Bypass and numerous cist burials. Includes ory was revealed including earlier provided a rare opportunity to gazetteer of sites and discussion of Part 1 of this volume covers the prehistoric flint knapping, later investigate an extensive area of the South Midlands Guernsey’s place in the trade between Armorica and Pleistocene, the epoch of the Ice Ages, in an integrated prehistoric ritual activity, a Roman farmstead with claylands, a landscape that has hitherto seen little Britain during the Iron Age. review of the geological, palaeontological and accompanying cemetery, a middle Saxon hall, medieval archaeological work. The excavations produced evidence 129pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1996, archaeological data. Part 2 takes up the story from the settlement, pottery production and a windmill. for the long-term development of the social landscape, 9780947816445, Paperback, was £18.00 beginning of the Holocene, the warm period in which we 214pp, Oxford Wessex Archaeology, 2007, agrarian economy and environment of the area from are still living, which began around 11,500 years ago. 9780954597023, Hardback, was £14.95 Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Now £8.95 582pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2011, Now £7.50 430pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, 9780953153152, 9780954962784, Hardback, was £34.99 Paperback, was £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.50

An Iron Age and Histories in the The Archaeology of Settlement, Ceremony Romano-British Making the Gravel Terraces of and Industry on Enclosed Settlement Excavations at Alfred's the Upper and Middle Mousehold Heath at Watkins Farm, Castle, 1998-2000 Thames Excavations at Laurel Farm Oxon By Christopher Gosden and Gary Lock Late Prehistory 1500 BC-AD 50 Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk By T. G. Allen Although small, Alfred’s Castle By George Lambrick, Mark By Barry Bishop and Jennifer Proctor displayed a long and complex history, Report on 1983-5 excavation of a Robinson and Anne Dodd An extraordinarily long and starting with early Bronze Age round low-lying gravel site close to the complex history of occupation and barrows on which later Bronze Age This account of the Thames Valley in Thames. A mid Iron Age ditched enclosure with four exploitation was revealed, dating back to the Lower linear ditches were aligned, these in turn were used to the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest huts, and evidence suggesting horse-breeding rather than Palaeolithic. The site was visited in the Upper Palaeolithic form enclosures in the Iron Age. In the early Roman seeks to examine change in human society from a arable cultivation is followed, after a break, by Roman by hunter-gatherer communities, and in the Early period a small villa house was built inside the smaller thematic point of view, examining patterns of settlement period enclosures that initially respect the earlier ditches Neolithic a remarkable deposit of pottery and flint was enclosure, which then shows some use in the early and landuse, political boundaries, and human impact on but later become rectangular. the environment. placed into a pair of adjacent tree hollows. Around 4,500 medieval period. years ago, use of the area changed with the construction 130pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1991, 428pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2009, 9780947816803, Paperback, was £12.00 239pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2014, of a substantial ring-ditch, probably the remains of a 9781905905324, Hardback, was £35.00 9780954962791, Hardback, was £30.00 ploughed-out round barrow. Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 170pp, Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2011, 9780956305442, Paperback, was £15.00 Now £6.95

Archaeology of the Iron Age and Roman The Danebury Stonehenge Wallingford Bypass, Settlement in the Environs Project By 1986-92 Upper Thames Valley The Prehistory of a Wessex Instead of trying to uncover the Late Bronze Age Ritual and Excavations at Claydon Pike Landscape, Volume 2 prehistoric mysteries of Stonehenge Habitation on a Thames Eyot at and other sites within the and its purpose and/or meaning for By Barry Cunliffe its creators, Rosemary Hill examines Whitecross Farm, Wallingford Cotswold Water Park Volume 2 comprises seven separate­ what the stone monument has meant By Anne Marie Cromarty, Alistair Barclay, By S. Smith, G. Perpetua Jones, D. Miles, volumes reporting on the Prehistoric to the people of recorded history. George Lambrick and Mark Robinson S. Palmer, A. Smith and G. P. Jones evidence from the excavations and The book largely begins with the research at sites in the Danebury area post-Reformation antiquaries, before The site at Whitecross Farm, included timber structures The report is based upon four key excavated rural during the early 1990s. located on the edge of the eyot, and a substantial midden settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon moving on to the likes of Inigo Jones and John Wood, the and occupation deposit. The late Bronze Age artefact Pike, which dated primarily from the middle Iron Age to 842pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, Romantics, Victorians and to the modern age of scientific assemblages are suggestive of a high-status site, with a the late Roman period. The results of these excavations 9780947816490, Hardback, was £60.00 archaeology and neo-paganism. range of domestic and ritual activities represented. are incorporated into a wider synthesis of landscape Now £15.00 242pp, Profile Books Ltd, 2008, 9781861978653, 264pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2006, development in the region, including aspects of material Hardback, was £15.99 9780947816674, Hardback, was £26.95 culture, environment and the economy. Now £4.95 436pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, Now £9.95 9780947816742, Hardback, was £34.99 Now £14.95

Gravelly Guy Longbridge Deverill The Prehistoric An Iron Age enclosure Excavations at Stanton Harcourt Cow Down Landscape and Iron and Romano-British By George Lambrick and T. G. Allen An Early Iron Age Settlement Age Enclosed features at High Post, Archaeological evidence at Gravelly in West Wiltshire Settlement at Mingies near Salisbury Guy spans from the Neolithic through By Christopher Hawkes, Lisa Brown Ditch By Andrew B. Powell to the Saxon period. Structural and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes evidence, finds and environmental By T. G. Allen and Mark Robinson Archaeological works at High Post data is combined in a detailed During four brief seasons of The 1977-1978 excavation of the near Salisbury have confirmed the study of the site, its position in excavation between 1956 and 1960 Middle Iron Age enclosure at Mingies presence of an Iron Age hilltop the landscape and relationship to the contemporary Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated Ditch and the prehistoric evidence from the 1980 enclosure on the southern margins archaeology of the surrounding area. three enclosures and revealed the well-preserved excavation of Smithfield, the adjoining field. It includes a of Salisbury Plain. More significantly, lying beneath the remains of four impressive timber roundhouses. The 90-page technical appendix of figures and tables. line of the bank was a large spread of mostly articulated 520pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, release of Hawkes' archaeological data marks a major animal bone, dating to the Early Iron Age. 9780947816667, Hardback, was £34.95 contribution to the pursuit of insight into this intriguing 250pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1993, 9780947816827, Paperback, was £28.00 130pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2011, 9781874350576, Now £7.50 phase of British prehistory. Paperback, was £5.95 321pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2012, Now £9.95 9781905905256, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND • 9 Renewing the Past The Archaeology of Appropriating Decoding Neolithic By Andrew B. Powell Solvieux Innovations Atlantic and A popular account of the buried An Upper Palaeolithic Open- Entangled Knowledge in Mediterranean Island history of the 2012 Olympic Park Air Site in France Eurasia, 5000‒1500 BCE Ritual site. Archaeologists have unearthed prehistoric settlements, a medieval By James Sackett Edited by Joseph Maran and Edited by George Nash and millstream and a Victorian riverboat, Report on one of the largest open-air Philipp Stockhammer Andrew Townsend and they traced the area's industrial Palaeolithic sites ever excavated, This volume seeks to turn its head The 16 papers presented here heritage. revealing a seemingly unique stone the familiar idea that the spread of explore the physicality, and levels of 44pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2012, 9781874350606, tool industry termed Beauronnian. innovations is a gradual and linear insularity of individual islands and Paperback, was £4.95 The history of the project, methodologies, results and process bringing progress in the development of island groups during prehistory through a series of case analysis of finds are complemented by a large number of societies, especially during the late Neolithic to Early studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic Now £1.95 drawings, outlines of typologies and essays. Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe. and Mediterranean regions. 328pp, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 1999, 296pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707247, Hardback, 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700507, Hardback, 9780917956911, Hardback, was £58.00 was £48.00 was £50.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Miss Layard Excavates Late prehistoric Bodies of Clay Elevated Rock Art the Palaeolithic site at Foxhall exploitation of the On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery By Johan Ling Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905 Eurasian steppe Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg This volume aims to shed light on the By Mark White and Steven Plunkett By Marsha Levine, Yuri and Valeska Becker process of shore displacement and Rassamakin, Aleksandr Kislenko its social and cognitive implications A study of the pioneering excava­ This collection of papers explores for the interpretation of rock art in tions of 1903–05 of Frances Layard and Nataliya Tatarintseva common themes in the social context, the prehistoric landscape of Bohuslän. and a reappraisal of the importance This book contains three major manufacture, characteristcs and The findings clearly show that in the of Foxhall Road, a site at which studies: The origins of horse disposal of human-shaped pots. It Bronze Age, the majority of rock Palaeolithic humans gathered around husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe considers the relationship between art sites had a very close spatial the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving behind (M Levine); The eneolithic of the Black Sea Steppe: anthropomorphic ceramics and various forms of figural connection to the sea. stone tools and manufacturing waste. art in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe. The dynamics of cultural and economic development 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977629, Hardback, 196pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2005, 4500-2300 BC (Y Rassamakin), and The Eastern Ural 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706967, Paperback, was £40.00 9780953541881, Hardback, was £48.00 steppe at the end of the Stone Age (A Kislenko and N was £38.00 Now £9.95 Tatarintseva). Now £12.95 Now £9.95 216pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1999, 9781902937038, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95

A Forged Glamour The Upper Palaeolithic Communicating with Exchange Networks Landscape, Identity and Material Revolution in global the World of Beings and Local Culture in the Iron Age perspective The World Heritage rock art Transformations By Melanie Giles Papers in Honour of Sir sites in Alta, Arctic Norway By Maria Emanuela Alberti An exploration of the lives and Edited by Katherine V. Boyle, Clive By Knut Helskog and Serena Sabatini deaths of ironworking communities Gamble and Ofer Bar-Yosef This study of the rock art of Alta in Throughout the local Bronze and Iron renowned for their spectacular Papers in this volume examine the Arctic Norway explores its role as Age, European and Mediterranean material culture, who lived in an expression of animistic belief: that societies appear to have been modern-day East and North Yorkshire, archaeological record of the Upper Pleistocene from Australia, through eastern and western through it people might have been involved in complex systems of between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates able to communicate with other-than-human beings who exchange networks which invariably affected local settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and Asia and Africa to northern Spain and the classical Périgord region of France, a cornerstone region which ruled parts of the environment – in order to petition customs and historical developments. These articles craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and favours for themselves or others. explore the dynamic relationship between regionally beliefs might have been. Mellars has been researching and publishing on since 1965. To papers on chronology, typology, subsistence and 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974116, Hardback, contextualised transformations and inter-regional 224pp, Windgather Press, 2013, 9781905119462, social complexity are added historical and theoretical was £35.00 exchange networks. Paperback, was £35.00 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174852, Paperback, contributions, along with a biography. Now £9.95 Now £12.95 177pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, was £38.00 2010, 9781902937533, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

An Upland Biography An Enquiring Mind Comparative Exploring Prehistoric Landscape and Prehistory on Studies in Honor of Archaeologies Identity in Europe Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire Alexander Marshack Edited by Katina T. Lillios Our Construct or Theirs? By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan By Paul Bahn A discussion of current thinking Edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca and Mark Edmonds Alexander Marshack single-handedly on the dynamics and historical Enlander and Rebecca Crozier Gardom's Edge has long been revolutionized the field of Paleolithic trajectories of complex societies in the American Southwest (AD Sixteen papers investigate aspects of renowned for the wealth of art research. To honour his memory, prehistoric identity and how it was prehistoric field systems, cairns and in this book, scholars from many parts 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC) through a focused constructed. They range widely in other structures which can still be of the world contribute papers about their geographical and chronological traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of some of the many problems that interested him and to comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, , and Art. coverage and are grouped into four sections: material original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography which he made such a massive contribution. culture of the dead; material culture of the living; documents prehistoric activity across this area, 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173831, Hardback, 312pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781935488262, Hardback, architectural and ritual expressions; and our construct exploring the changing character of occupation from the was £35.00 was £45.00 or theirs? Mesolithic to the Iron Age. Now £7.95 Now £9.95 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842178133, Paperback, 200pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188155, was £36.00 Paperback, was £34.99 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Landscapes in the Animal Secondary Creating Communities Fingerprinting the Iron Broekpolder Products New advances in Central Age: Approaches to By Linda L. Therkorn and Elles Besselsen Domestic Animal Exploitation European Neolithic Research identity in the Excavations in Beverwijk and in , the Edited by Daniela Hofmann European Iron Age Heemskerk in North Holland Near East and the Far East and By Penny Bickle Integrating South-Eastern revealed finds from the Bronze Age to Edited by Haskel J. Greenfield Although the LBK is one of the Europe into the debate the . Twenty insets Animal Secondary Products best researched Neolithic cultures about various aspects of archeology in Europe, here the material is Edited by Cătălin Nicolae have been added to the main text. In investigates domestic animal Popa and Simon Stoddart exploitation and the animal economy used in order to further explore the appendices a large part of the prehistoric pottery is the interconnection between individuals, households, The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the described and illustrated from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages across Eurasia. Incorporating current zooarchaeological settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions south east Europe, and the wide array of approaches Amsterdams Archeologisch Centrum, 2013, theory and cutting-edge methodological developments, of Neolithic society and lived experience. to identity reflect the continuing debate on how to 9789078863557, Hardback, was £28.00 it critically assesses Andrew Sherratt’s concept of 271pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173534, Paperback, integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely a Secondary Products Revolution at the end of the was £40.00 classical authors looking in on first millennium BC Now £9.95 societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. Neolithic. Now £9.95 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974017, Hardback, 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976752, Hardback, was £65.00 was £48.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

10 • PREHISTORIC EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 From Surface North Meets South Rock Art Studies - Wild Things Collection to Theoretical Aspects on the News of the World Recent advances in Palaeolithic Prehistoric Lifeways Northern and Southern Rock Volume 3 and Mesolithic research Art Traditions in Scandinavia Making Sense of the Multi-Period By Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Edited by Frederick W. F. Foulds, Helen Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Strecker and Edited by Paul Bahn C. Drinkall, Angela R. Perri, David T.G. Ling and Ulf Bertilsson By John Chapman and This is the third in the five-yearly Clinnick and James W.P. Walker Bisserka Gaydarska Where previous examinations of series of surveys of what is happening Topics include: the chronology rock art have emphasised disparaties in rock art studies around the world, of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic of An analysis of the rich collection of between traditions in northern and covering the years 1999-2004. European Russia; territorial use of Neolithic and Chalcolithic finds from surface collection southern Scandinavia, this volume emphasises similarities As always, the texts reflect something of the great Alpine high altitude areas by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers; at the settlement of Orlovo, emphasising the diversity of in themes, formats and repertoire and discusses new differences in approach and emphasis that exist in reconstructing Neanderthal demography to examine the objects and what they can tell us about the lifeways theoretical approaches to analysis which emphasise different regions. their extinction; the funerary contexts from the of this site. interaction and commonality. 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842173169, Paperback, Mesolithic burials at Muge; and an analysis of Mesolithic/ 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173916, Hardback, 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785708206, Hardback, was £65.00 Neolithic trade in Europe. was £60.00 was £20.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977469, Paperback, Now £19.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 was £38.00 Now £12.95

Image, Memory and Paths to Complexity Sagaholm The Later Prehistory Monumentality Centralisation and Urbanisation North European Bronze Age of North-West Europe Archaeological Engagements in rock art and burial ritual The Evidence of Development- with the Material World Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, By Joakim Goldhahn Led Fieldwork Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Holger Wendling and Katja Winger This major new study presents By Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander , Julie Gardiner The 21 papers in this volume cover and discusses a series of rock art Linden, Leo Webley and Richard Bradley and Michael J. Allen the whole Iron Age from ca. 800 BC engravings from a Bronze Age barrow By surveying changes in social forms, in Ljungarum , Jönköping Leading scholars in these 29 to the beginning of the Common Era, landscape organization, monument exploring the origins of urbanism. Län, situated in the central part of types, and ritual practices this volume commissioned papers in honour southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the largest group of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977230, Hardback, reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from was £65.00 of rock engravings discovered in a burial context in the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron archaeology that have defined his career, such as northern Europe. monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material Now £14.95 Age. It explores how far common patterns of social worlds and field practice 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702648, Paperback, development are apparent, and whether there were was £36.00 366pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782973928, Paperback, periods when local differences were emphasized instead. was £30.00 Now £12.95 480pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199659777, Hardback, was £102.50 Now £12.95 Now £29.95

Life and Death in the Paths Towards a New The end of the lake- Les fouilles du Yaudet Mesolithic of Sweden World dwellings in the en Ploulec'h, Cotes- By Mats Larsson Neolithic Sweden Circum-Alpine region d'Armor Over the last 20 years a vast number By Mats Larsson, Geoffrey Edited by Francesco Menotti By Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou of new and important Swedish Lemdahl and Kerstin Lidén A comprehensive analysis of socio- This study, written entirely in French, Mesolithic sites have been excavated economic and environmental factors it provides an overview of the and published in different ways as Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the behind the abandonment of 3500 site, giving insight into the physical articles, books and site reports. As years of prehistoric occupation of geography, the town’s history prior yet there has been no study that tries Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine to excavation, and the archaeological to bring the loose ends together and so the main task region. research programme. of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading the reader on a journey through the development of prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978602, Paperback, 302pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, some of the main sites and results. backdrop of climatic and landscape change. was £45.00 9780947816599, Hardback, was £50.00 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703850, Paperback, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782972570, Paperback, Now £9.95 Now £15.00 was £38.00 was £36.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Lower and Middle Prehistoric Rock Art in The Neolithic of Les fouilles du Yaudet Palaeolithic artefacts Scandinavia Europe en Ploulec'h, Cotes- from deposits mapped By Courtney Nimura Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle d'Armor, volume 2 as clay-with-flints This comprehensive review is based Edited by Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings, Le site: de la Préhistoire à la By J. E. Scott-Jackson on the creation of a Scandinavia- Daniela Hofmann and Joshua Pollard fin de l'Empire gaulois wide GIS database for prehistoric ‘Clay-with flints’ refers to deposits rock art and re-examines theoretical Eighteen papers on prehistoric By Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou lying on the hilltops and plateaux of approaches and interpretations, archaeology, written by leading This second volume deals with the the Chalk Downlands of southern in particular with regard to the international scholars. Thematically, Prehistoric period, continuing up until England. This study is based on significance of the ship and its relationship to a maritime the main foci are on Neolithisation; the end of the Gallic Empire. the archaeology, geology and sedimentology of these landscape. the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements deposits and forms a comprehensive review of the and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects of 390pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2006, 9780954962708, Hardback, was £75.00 Palaeolithic stone tools found embedded within them. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701191, Paperback, worldview. A number of contributions highlight the was £25.00 180pp, Oxbow Books, 2000, 9781842170052, Paperback, recent impact of techniques on our understanding of Now £15.00 was £30.00 Now £9.95 mobility, diet, lifestyles, events and historical processes. 340pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706547, Hardback, Now £5.00 was £48.00 Now £14.95

Mesolithic Horizons Representations and The Tripolye Culture The Guadajoz Project. By Sinead McCartan, Rick Schulting, Communications giant-settlements in Andalucía in the First Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman Creating an Archaeological Matrix Ukraine Millennium BC Volume This is an enormous compendium of of Late Prehistoric Rock Art Formation, development and decline 1 research published in two volumes Edited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian with over 140 papers drawn from the Edited by Francesco Menotti and By Barry Cunliffe and Maria whole of Europe, ranging from the Kristiansen and Felipe Criado Boado Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy Cruz Fernandez Castro European Arctic to many parts of the Nine papers summarize new An examination of the Tripolye This volume presents the results of Mediterranean, and from the British excavation and survey results, culture in the Ukraine, with a special the fieldwork and specialist studies: Isles to Russia. These papers cover advanced studies of iconography and emphasis placed upon the development of the so-called ceramics, small finds, figurines, fauna, recent research on virtually all aspects of the European intriguing landscape studies. ‘giant-settlements’. Chapters discuss the geographical botanical remains and settlement history. This evidence is Mesolithic. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173978, Paperback, and chronological context, highlighting the different then used to postulate about the overall development of 980pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173114, Hardback, was £25.00 facets of the culture that resulted in the formation of the societies in central Andalucía from the Neolithic to the giant-settlements Medieval period. was £150.00 Now £4.95 174pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174838, Paperback, 469pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1999, Now £49.95 was £40.00 9780947816476, Hardback, was £85.00 Now £9.95 Now £15.00

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC EUROPE • 11 Appendices: Persistent Scientific Research on Rainforest Foraging The Origins of Ancient Traditions Historic Asian and Farming in Island Vietnam By Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz Ceramics Southeast Asia By Nam C. Kim These appendices constitute a Proceedings of the Fourth Edited by G. Barker This book explores the origins of an comprehensive inventory of 159, Forbes Symposium at the Excavations by Tom and Barbara ancient state in northern Vietnam, an mostly excavated, archaeological Freer Gallery of Art Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s area long believed to be the cradle of sites in the Lower Rhine Area for Vietnamese civilization. In doing so, Edited by Blythe McCarthy revealed the longest sequence of which general characteristics were human occupation in the region, it analyzes the archaeological record recorded. Their analysis shows These papers define ceramic from (we now know) 50,000 years and the impact of new information on that the succession of Late Mesolithic, Swifterbant technologies, examine their similarities and differences, ago to the recent past. This book is the first of two extant legends about the region and its history. culture, Hazendonk group and Vlaardingen culture and explore broader questions regarding their historical volumes describing the results of new work in the 354pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199980888, societies represents a continuous long-term tradition and cultural context, such as trade and technology caves by a multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists and Hardback, was £54.00 of inhabitation of the wetlands and wetland margins of transfer between East and West Asia. geographers aimed at clarifying the many questions this area 246pp, Archetype, 2009, 9781904982463, Hardback, was raised by the earlier work. Now £14.95 422pp, Sidestone Press, 2013, 9789088902116, £65.00 464pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Paperback, was £48.00 Now £19.95 2013, 9781902937540, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

Iron Age Echoes China's Cultural Relics Why cultivate? The Dragon Throne By David Fontijn, Quentin By Li Li Anthropological and By Jonathan Fenby Bourgeois and Arjen Louwen Utilising a wealth of archaeological Archaeological In The Dragon Throne, Jonathan This volume presents archaeological evidence, China's Cultural Relics Approaches to Fenby tells the extraordinary story research carried out on a group of provides an illustrated introduction of imperial China through its 157 just two barrows that crown a small to the artifacts that survive from Foraging-Farming emperors, from Qin Shi Huangdu, hilltop near the Echoput in Apeldoorn, different periods of Chinese history, Transitions in who crushed his rivals to take the Netherlands. It revealed that and the collection and preservation Southeast Asia supreme power as the first emperor these mounds are rare examples of of these precious relics in modern in 221BC, until the final collapse of monumental barrows from the later times. It covers a wide range of topics Edited by Graeme the faltering Manchu dynasty amidst part of the Iron Age. They were probably built at the representative of Chinese culture, including pottery, Barker and Monica Janowski the revolutionary chaos of the early twentieth century same time, and their similarities are so conspicuous that porcelain, jade and bronze. Does it make sense to understand the prehistory, Quercus, 2008, 9781784296292, Paperback, was £9.99 one might speak of "twin barrows". 168pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, history and present-day patterns of life in Southeast 174pp, Sidestone Press, 2012, 9789088900730, 9780521186568, Paperback, was £14.99 Asia in terms of a distinction between two ways of life: Now £4.95 Paperback, was £45.00 "farming" and "foraging"? This is the central question Now £4.95 addressed by the anthropologists and archaeologists Now £12.95 contributing to this volume. 142pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2011, 9781902937588, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95

Living near the dead Chinese Bronze Ware Ancient Irrigation Pastoralist Landscapes Edited by David R. Fontijn By Song Li Systems of the Aral and Social Interaction Parts of two mounds at Elst in China enjoys a unique position in Sea Area in Bronze Age Eurasia the municipality of Rhenen were world history because of the great By B. V. Andrianov and Edited By Michael D. Frachetti excavated to reconstruct the variety of innovative and beautiful by Simone Mantellini formation and histories of this barrow bronze ware that has been unearthed This work reconceptualizes the landscape from 2000 BC onwards. on China's vast territory. This Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Bronze Age prehistory of the Contrary to what was initially book introduces the reader to this Sea Area is the English translation vast Eurasian steppe. Michael D. thought, the Elst barrows appeared magnificent culture with thorough of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's Frachetti combines an analysis of not to have been situated within a discussion of the context and work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy newly documented archaeological separate ceremonial landscape but were rather closely significance of bronze production, vivid descriptions and priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan linked with the world of daily living. full color illustrations. systems and the settlement pattern in the historical with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and 180pp, Sidestone Press, 2011, 9789088900556, 164pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, rock art. Paperback, was £38.00 9780521186858, Paperback, was £14.99 300pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781842173848, Hardback, was £35.00 213pp, University of California Press, 2008, Now £12.95 Now £4.95 9780520256897, Hardback, was £66.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Monuments on the Archaeological Archaeology of East Dragons and Lotus Horizon investigations in the Asia Blossoms By Quentin Bourgeois Niah Caves, Sarawak, The Rise of Civilisation in Vietnamese Ceramics from the By unravelling the histories of 1954-2004 China, Korea and Japan Birmingham Museum of Art specific barrow landscapes in the Edited by Graeme Barker By Gina L. Barnes By John A. Stevenson and Low Countries, this volume seeks Donald A. Wood to distinguish distinct activity phases This book is the companion volume This book is a detailed introduction of intense barrow construction. to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in to the social and political Through a series of judicious Each of these phases contributed Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology development of China, Korea, Japan purchases that began in the 1970s, the in a particular fashion to how the barrow landscape of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together and their peripheries from the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, developed and reveals shifting attitudes to these they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves Palaeolithic to the 8th-century early historic times. It has created an extraordinary collection of Vietnamese landscape monuments. and new studies of finds from earlier excavations, incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual ceramic art. Essays by three noted experts introduce the a project that has involved a team of over 70 advances of the last two decades, including DNA, collection. 252pp, Sidestone Press, 2012, 9789088901041, archaeologists and geographers. gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and Paperback, was £45.00 320pp, University of Washington Press, 2011, 592pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, extensive excavation results. 9780295991627, Paperback, was £37.00 Now £12.95 2016, 9781902937601, Hardback, was £65.00 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706677, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

Scientific Research on Grounding Knowledge/ Epigraphic Approaches Cast for Eternity Ancient Asian Walking Land to Indus Writing Ancient Ritual Bronzes from Metallurgy By Judith Pettigrew, Christopher By Bryan Wells the Shanghai Museum Proceedings of the Fifth Evans, J. Pettigrew, Yarjung This book presents the analysis of By Yang Liu and Ya Zhou Forbes Symposium at the Kromchain Tamu and Mark Turin a comprehensive, computer-based This volume showcases thirty Freer Gallery of Art This volume documents almost corpus using the most detailed sign bronzes which date from the 18th list yet compiled for the Indus script. Edited by Paul Jett, Blythe a decade of groundbreaking to the 1st century B.C.E. and span investigations within the Annapurna Custom computer programs allowed numerous dynasties. An accessible McCarthy and Janet Douglas highlands of Nepal. Including survey the verification of the sign list and essay serves as an introduction to The use of scientific methods to study works of art recording of fort and settlement sites, from the outset the compilation of statistics regarding sign distribution these masterpieces, and sumptuous, newly commissioned began at the Freer Gallery of Art in 1951 with the the project's focus was the extraordinary ruins of and use. photography makes this publication a standout addition work of R. J. Gettens. These proceedings, and their Kohla Sombre Kohla, The Three Villages the ancestral 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179949, Hardback, to the literature on Asian bronze sculpture. companion symposium, commemorate that work and settlement of the Tami-mai (Gurung) community. was £35.00 144pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300207897, also present recent studies on ancient Chinese bronzes 223pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £7.95 Paperback, was £30.00 and Southeast and West Asian copper alloys. 2009, 9781902937502, Hardback, was £40.00 180pp, Archetype, 2012, 9781904982722, Hardback, was Now £12.95 £65.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

12 • ASIA WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Formation of Is It a House? Animal Behaviour in The Amarna Age Chinese Civilization Archaeological Excavations at English Egyptian Art Western Asia Camp, San Juan Island, Washington An Archaeological Prespective By Linda Evans By Frederick J. Giles Edited by Sarah Allan and Xu Pingfang Edited by Amanda K. Taylor This study takes a unique approach In this historical study Giles deals and Julie K. Stein Scholars from China and America by documenting the way in which with the relations of Egypt with its show how archaeological evidence Is It a House? uses multiple lines of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, great power neighbours and its own proves that Chinese culture did not evidence to investigate whether the amphibians, and insects are shown vassals during the 18th Dynasty. spread from a single central area, U-shaped depression surrounded by behaving in Old Kingdom tomb The study is based on the Amarna as has previously been assumed, shells at the English Camp site on scenes from Giza and Saqqara and archive, and considers various Hittite but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting San Juan Island was originally a house constructed by then comparing these representations with current documents. Neolithic cultures. Taking us into the great archaeological native peoples. Each chapter addresses a different kind zoological knowledge of contemporary fauna. 467pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 1997, finds of the past 100 years - tombs, temples, palaces, of evidence, including artifacts, sediment, faunal remains, 400pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2010, 9780856688003, Paperback, was £55.00 and stratigraphy. 9780856688263, Paperback, was £80.00 cities - they seek to shed light on many aspects of Now £27.50 Chinese life. 180pp, University of Washington Press, 2011, Now £40.00 288pp, Yale University Press, 2005, 9780300093827, 9780295991474, Paperback, was £23.99 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £29.95

Exploring Art of the Gifts from the Deir El-Gebrawi The Cemetery of Meir, Ancient Americas Ancestors Volume III Volume I The John Bourne Collection Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait By Naguib Kanawati The Tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle By Dorie Reents-Budet Edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Aron A new complete record of the By Effy Alexakis, A. L. Mourad, S. This volume features fine examples L. Crowell and Julie Hollowell architecture, scenes and inscriptions Shafik and Naguib Kanawati of painted earthenware vessels and in the important tomb of Djau This volume examines ancient with description and translations. The tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery ivories from the coast of Bering is completely preserved, containing and vessels from Mesoamerica, The volume includes studies by M. Strait, western Alaska, and the Schultz and R. Walker of the recently valuable information on various Central America and Andean America. islands in between, illuminating their aspects of the Egyptian provincial Each section opens with an introductory text on the art, discovered human remains of Djau and a study of sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and mummification techniques by S. Ikram. administration and on daily life in the Sixth Dynasty. culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are Both burial shafts of the tomb owner and his wife end by discursive entries accompanying each work. from recent Russian excavations and are presented here 84pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2012, in beautifully decorated and extremely well preserved 264pp, D Giles Limited, 2012, 9781907804052, Hardback, for the first time in English; others are from private 9780856688553, Paperback, was £75.00 burial chambers. was £39.95 collections not usually open to the public. Now £37.50 68pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2011, 320pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300122060, 9780856688454, Paperback, was £75.00 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £40.00 Now £37.50 Now £19.95

Turquoise Mosaics Researching Africa's Deir el-Gebrawi, The Cemetery of Meir, from Mexico Past volume 2 Volume II By Colin McEwan New contributions from The Southern Cliff: The The Tomb of Pepyankh the Black The nine turquoise mosaics from British Archaeologists Tomb of Ibi and Others By Naguib Kanawati and Linda Evans Mexico are some the most striking Edited by P. J. Mitchell, Anne By N. Kanawati The tomb is one of the most pieces in the collections of the British Haour and John Hobart Originally recorded by Davies in completely decorated and preserved Museum. They all originate from the provincial tombs of the Old Kingdom Mixtec and Aztec civilizations first Topics include: early 1900 and published in 1902, the evolution and the recent appearance tomb of Ibi represents an important with scenes covering various themes encountered by Europeans during from the life of the tomb owner the Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century. and expansion of our own species, document on the administration and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, the early the provincial life in the period Merenre to early Pepy II. as well as the most complete scenes of the funerary Illustrated with more than 160 color images, this book procession. All the scenes and inscriptions are published describes the recent scientific findings about the mosaics development of food-production, the development of The new publication includes new line drawings showing metallurgy, the formation of complex societies, and the the present condition of the scenes and inscriptions, in detailed, coloured photographs as well as line in detail, revealing them to be rich repositories of drawings. information about ancient Mexico. sociopolitical impacts of long-distance trade. accompanied by line drawings of the same scenes 200pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003, retraced from Davies' publication. 66pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2013, 140pp, Duke University Press, 2006, 9780822339243, 9780856688416, Paperback, was £75.00 Paperback, was £20.99 9780947816582, Hardback, was £40.00 Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2006, 9780856688089, Paperback, was £65.00 Now £14.95 Now £37.50 Now £7.95 Now £32.50

Managing our past into The Year of the Ghost Mereruka and his The Chapel of Kahai the future An Olduvai Diary Family Part III.1 and His Family Edited by Corinne L. Hofman By Derek A. Roe By Naguib Kanawati, Alexandra Woods, By Miral Lashien and Jay B. Haviser The ‘ghost’ of this book is Derek Roe Sameh Shafik and Effy Alexakis As one of the most colourful tombs This volume provides a background himself. In January 1983 he embarked As vizier and husband of King Teti's of the Old Kingdom, the present to the history of archaeological on his first journey to Tanzania as a eldest daughter, Mereruka enjoyed publication offers magnificently research in the Dutch and ghost writer for an autobiography by a very special status and built an rich colour plates and context line compiles a number of compliance , a name linked for ever unusually rich mastaba. This volume drawings showing all the intricate archaeology projects that have been in the minds of archaeologists with deals with the architecture and art details of the scenes and inscriptions. carried out under and in the spirit of the Valetta Treaty. the famous palaeolithic site of . This diary of the exterior of his mastaba and with those of rooms 56pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2013, It also discusses the successful creation of localized covers Derek Roe’s three trips to visit Mary and also A1-A12 of his magnificent chapel. 9780856688362, Paperback, was £75.00 community-based archaeological heritage associations. includes other correspondence between them. 45pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2010, 356pp, Sidestone Press, 2015, 9789088903250, 186pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2002, 9780856688294, Paperback, was £75.00 Now £37.50 Paperback, was £65.00 9780953541850, Hardback, was £14.95 Now £37.50 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Renewing the House History of Egypt From Mereruka and his The Old Kingdom By A. V. M. Samson Earliest Times to the Family Part III.2 Cemetery at Tehna, Archaeological research from the Present By Naguib Kanawati, Alexandra Woods, Volume I indigenous Taíno site of El Cabo in the By Jason Thompson Sameh Shafik and Effy Alexakis By Elizabeth M. Thompson Dominican Republic is presented and This is the last volume reporting on seven centuries of community history This cohesive account charts The early Old Kingdom tombs at Egypt's millennia-long past from the the unusually rich tomb of Mereruka Tehna are cut into the eastern from development and growth, to and his family. It discusses the pillared eventual demise after European predynastic kingdoms to the nation- escarpment bordering the Nile, some state of the twentieth century. The hall, A13, the largest room in the 12kms north of Minya in Upper contact is narrated through the chapel, as well as Mereruka's burial dominant structure, the house. author addresses central issues such Egypt. The cemetery consists of more as how Egyptian history can be treated as a whole and chamber, the most majestic and best preserved among than 15 rockcut tombs, 3 of which are illustrated and 370pp, Sidestone Press, 2010, 9789088900457, how the west has shaped prevailing images of it, both those of private individuals of the Old Kingdom. described in this first volume of the site. Paperback, was £45.00 through direct contact and through the lens of western 45pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2011, 102pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2014, Now £9.95 scholarship. 9780856688409, Paperback, was £75.00 9780856688652, Paperback, was £75.00 382pp, Anchor Books, 2009, 9780307473523, Paperback, Now £37.50 was £14.99 Now £37.50 Now £5.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY AND EGYPT • 13 The Teti Cemetery at Sacred and Profane Marsa Matruh I Life Everlasting Saqqara VIII By Martin Bommas, Eurydice The Excavation By Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson The Tomb of Inumin S. Georganteli, Maria Michela By Donald White This catalogue presents the collection Luiselli and Michael Sharp By N. Kanawati These at Marsa Matruh on Bates’s of Ancient Egyptian coffins and This volume publishes more than Island, which is located on the related artefacts held by National Located on the northern limits of the eighty artefacts from the collection of Museums Scotland. All pieces are Teti Cemetery, the Tomb of Inumin is seacoast at the north of Egypt’s William Joseph Myers (1858-99), and western desert, uncovered a small photographed in colour together with dated to the earlier part of the reign now housed at Eton College, including details of dating, dimensions, materials, of Pepy I. The chapel is formed of five site with a metalworking workshop statuettes of mortals and gods, and nearby houses. This volume provenance, and lengthy descriptions rooms, three of which are beautifully mummy masks, jewellery, pottery and and analysis. Highlights include the decorated with scenes of daily life clearly influenced by provides an overview of the excavations at the site, the papyri as well as Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine coins. Late Bronze Age and historical period occupations, and royal burial group from Qurna, the coffin of the priest the neighbouring rich tomb of Mereruka, but at the same Iufenamun, and the double coffin and mummies of the time showing individuality in the choice of details. 128pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, 9781904832805, Hardback, an introduction to the environmental morphology and was £24.95 history of the island. young half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2006, 9780856688102, 176pp, NMS ENTERPRISES LTD, 2010, 9781905267170, Paperback, was £65.00 Now £9.95 126pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2002, 9781931534000, Hardback, was £53.00 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £32.50 Now £24.95 Now £6.95

The Teti Cemetery at Ancient Egyptian Marsa Matruh II The Boy Behind the Saqqara, Vol. 9 Anchors and the Sea The Objects Mask By Naguib Kanawati By Alessandra Nibbi By Donald White By Charlotte Booth The mud brick mastaba of Remni This work presents a catalogue of This volume of the report on the Charlotte Booth’s popular history was recently discovered in the North more than 200 anchors found at excavations at Marsa Matruh on takes a different tack to most books West corner of the Teti Cemetery. Maersa Matruh and compares them Bates’s Island, which is located on on Tutankamun - instead of focusing All four walls of its one room chapel to other anchors found along the the seacoast at the north of Egypt’s on his tomb, its rediscovery and its are covered with scenes of daily Nile, ultimately questioning the western desert, publishes the local spectacular treasures, she attempts to life, painted on mud plaster and attribution to the Ancient Egyptians. and imported pottery, the crucibles reconstruct his life. She explores the thus preserving for us a good example of this rarely 120pp, Discussions in Egyptology, 2002, 9780951070482, and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds religious revolution of Akhenaten as the backdrop to his preserved type of decoration. Paperback, was £15.00 (including ostrich egg shells), and the other discoveries childhood, and shows how his short reign was spent not 50pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2009, made at the site. only restoring the old gods, but also Egypt’s capital, and 9780856688287, Paperback, was £65.00 Now £4.95 174pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean diplomatic and economic relations. Prehistory), 2002, 9781931534017, Hardback, was £59.50 192pp, Oneworld Publications, 2007, 9781851685448, Now £32.50 Hardback, was £14.99 Now £29.95 Now £4.95

The Tomb of Some Geographical Acta Nubica Catalog of Demotic Amenemope at Notes on Ancient Edited by I. Caneva and Texts in the Brooklyn Thebes (TT 148) Egypt Alessandro Roccati Museum Volume 1 By Alessandra Nibbi This substantial volume resulting By George R. Hughes from the Tenth International By Boyo G. Ockinga, Susanne Collected papers by Alessandra Nibbi. Conference of the Nubian Society, A checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's Binder and J. Brophy They are largely concerned with the held in 2002, surveys the recently collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian This publication deals with the large physical aspects of ancient Egypt – the discovered antiquities of the Nile texts. Samples of each type of text Theban tomb of the Third Prophet of identification of places, the meaning Valley and beyond, throughout Egypt (papyri, ostraca, inscribed stone and Amun, Amenemope. The tomb is well of words, plant types, interpetation of and the . In these numerous wooden pieces) are illustrated on known for the data it provides on the leading families hieroglyphs and Egyptian concepts of geography. archaeological, archaeometrical, and epigraphical the plates and only the more interesting passages in the of the priests of Amun in the 20th Dynasty; in addition 423pp, Discussions in Egyptology, 1997, 9780951070475, discoveries, present new groundwork for the texts are given in transliteration and translation. to its genealogical data, this book presents the tomb's Paperback, was £40.00 understanding of Egypt, not as a lone oasis of civilization, 113pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, 9781885923271, Paperback, was £58.00 extensive religious and ritual scenes and inscriptions as Now £9.95 but rather as a key part of a larger ancient world. well as its architecture. 497pp, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca, 2006, 9788824013147, Now £12.95 149pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2010, Paperback, was £150.00 9780856688249, Paperback, was £80.00 Now £19.95 Now £40.00

The Tomb of The Tomb of Siphtah Egypt in the Age of the Excavations at Serra Ptahhotep I with The Tomb of Pyramids East, Parts 1-5 By AnnaLatifa Mourad Queen Tîyi By Rita E. Freed A-Group, C-Group, Grave, The publication presents detailed By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston Maspero, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has New Kingdom, and X-Group recordings of the Old Kingdom tomb Edward Ayrton and George Daressy one of the worlds premier collections Remains from Cemeteries A-G and Rock Shelters of Ptahhotep I, a tomb noted to be Davis’ excavations (1905–8) of the of Old Kingdom art, thanks to 'the most beautiful in Saqqara' by one tomb of Siphtah uncovered the George Reisner's celebrated By Bruce B. Williams of its early excavators. Unlike earlier expeditions during the first decades greatest hoard of 19th Dynasty In the New Kingdom, Serra East was publications, the monograph includes jewellery ever found along with a of the last century. This volume 150 coloured and detailed photographs, as well as high presents many of the finest pieces, alongside archival the site of an important centre, one colllection of mummified pets, including a dog, a duck closely connected to the family of rulers of Teh-Khet. resolution line drawings showcasing the quality of the and several monkeys photos of Reisner's excavations. tomb's scenes and its exceptional architectural plan. This volume, the first in a series of reports, looks at the 72pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 1908, 144pp, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2002, ancient burials and outlying structures. 42pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2015, 9780715630730, Paperback, was £25.00 9780878466306, Paperback, was £24.95 9780856688515, Paperback, was £75.00 236pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993, Now £4.95 Now £7.95 9780918986924, Hardback, was £43.00 Now £37.50 Now £7.95

Egyptian Mummies The Tombs of Giza au premier Excavations Between By John H. Taylor Harmhabi and millénaire Abu Simbel and the This is a short, illustrated Toutânkhamanou Autour du temple d'Isis Sudan Frontier, Part 6 introduction to the ever-fascinating By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston dame des Pyramides New Kingdom Remains from topic of Egyptian mummies. It Maspero and George Daressy Cemeteries R, V, S, and W at Qustul addresses the most frequently asked By Christiane M. Zivie-Coche questions about Egyptian mummies: A reissue of Davis’ account of his Publication of the Kate Period Isis and Cemetery K at Adindan how and why they were made, the last great discovery in the Valley of Temple in the Eastern Cemetery, By Bruce B. Williams and religious beliefs which underpinned the Kings. In 1908 Davis discovered along with a large number if Late William J. Murnane the rchly decorated tomb and ornate Period objects relating to the history mummification, the preservation of This volume provides lavish details on the animals, and how the mummies have been treated from sarcophagus of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Tutankhamun’s of Giza Necropolis. general and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other New Kingdom remains from the Nubian sites of Qustul ancient times until the present day. 362pp, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1991, and Adindan. Egyptian influence and Nubia's prosperity tomb described here was mistakenly interpreted as that 9780878463435, Paperback, was £35.00 160pp, Press, 2010, 9780714150581, of Tutankhamun himself. are clearly depicted in the burials. Paperback, was £9.99 135pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 1912, Now £6.95 479pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1992, Now £3.95 9780715630723, Paperback, was £25.00 9780918986863, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

14 • EGYPT WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Theban Desert Road Current Research in The Crown of Arsinoë Egyptian Models and Survey in the Egyptian Egyptology 4 (2003) II Scenes Western Desert, Proceedings of the Fourth The Creation of an By Angela M. J. Tooley Volume 1 Annual Symposium Image of Authority A discussion of Egyptian models, Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions By Kathryn Piquette and Serena Love By Maria Nilsson where they are found, who owned 1-45 and Wadi el-Hôl Rock Thirteen papers illustrate a range them, what purpose they served, A detailed study of a unique crown where in the tomb they were placed Inscriptions 1-45 of subject areas and approaches; an that was created for the Ptolemaic underlying theme, though, is apparent; and how they relate to tomb scenes. By John Coleman Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II. Images of a greater degree of reflexivity and a Arsinoë are represented in a broad 72pp, Shire Publications, 1995, Darnell and Deborah Darnell wider engagement with interdisciplinary research. spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical 9780747802853, Paperback, was £6.99 This volume publishes forty-five inscriptions from Gebel 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2004, 9781842171332, Paperback, figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and Now £1.95 Tjauti and forty-five inscriptions from Wadi el-Hôl, two was £36.00 as queen and goddess alike. major concentrations of rock inscriptions and rock art Now £6.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174920, Paperback, on pharaonic caravan routes of the Egyptian Western was £55.00 Desert. The inscriptions range in date from predynastic to Christian times. Now £9.95 174pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2002, 9781885923172, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £19.95

Ancient Egyptian Current Research in The Kellis Isokrates Egyptian Towns and Furniture Volume I Egyptology 5 (2004) Codex Cities 4000 – 1300 BC Proceedings of the Fifth By K. A. Worp and A. Rijksbaron By E. P. Uphill By Geoffrey Killen Annual Symposium This volume of the Dakhleh Oasis A short guide to the history of This revised second edition examines By Rachael J. Dann Project presents a first edition urbanism and town planning in the common forms of furniture of the texts of three orations by ancient Egypt. Uphill discusses The fifth annual Current Research or attributed to Isocrates (Ad the reasons for urban growth and used in ancient Egypt, so much of in Egyptology Symposium was held which has been preserved by the dry Demonicum, Ad Nicolem and the describes the various different types in January 2004, at the University of Nicocles) as found in a new 4th of centres that developed: provincial Egyptian climate and has long been Durham. The conference offers the admired for the quality of its design and construction. century AD codex from Ismant el-Kharab in the Dahkleh centres, workmen’s villages, royal residences, military and majority of postgraduates researching Egyptology their Oasis (ancient Kellis). frontier towns, religious centres. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704819, Hardback, first opportunity to present academic work to their was £60.00 peers, and to receive critical feedback. An interesting 320pp, Oxbow Books, 1997, 9781900188432, Hardback, 72pp, Shire Publications, 2002, 9780852639399, development in the direction of research in this volume was £70.00 Paperback, was £6.99 Now £14.95 is the emphasis on aspects of identity and individuality. Now £14.95 Now £1.95 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, 9781842172209, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £6.95

Ancient Egyptian Current Research in The Tomb of Pharaoh’s The Art of Death in Furniture Volume II Egyptology 12 (2011) Chancellor Senneferi Graeco-Roman Egypt By Geoffrey Killen Proceedings of the Twelfth at Thebes (TT99) By Judith A. Corbelli In this revised second edition Dr Annual Symposium Edited by Nigel Strudwick A wide-range of material is presented Killen continues his survey of Egyptian Edited by Heba Abd El Gawad, This book presents a fascinating - tomb decoration, stelae, sarcophagi, furniture-making techniques with a Nathalie Andrews, Maria Correas- account of the life, career and tomb coffins, mummy cases, funerary masks, study of boxes, chests and footstools Amador and Veronica Tamorri of Senneferi, Chancellor to Thutmose portraits and cinerary urns - in order and traces their evolution from the to give the reader an overview of the Contributors to this volume III (c. 1430 BC) as revealed by earliest times. excavation and detailed analysis of various categories of funerary art approach a broad range of subjects from Graeco-Roman Egypt and their inter-relationship. 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704857, Hardback, spanning from Prehistory to modern Egypt, including: the tomb contents and decoration. The book focuses on was £60.00 self-presentation, identity, provenance and museum the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, 80pp, Shire Publications, 2006, 9780747806479, Paperback, was £6.99 Now £14.95 studies, funerary art and practices, domestic architecture, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). material culture, mythology, religion, commerce, 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703317, Hardback, Now £1.95 economy, dream interpretation and the birth of was £70.00 Egyptology as a discipline. Now £19.95 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174982, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £8.95

Ancient Egyptian Dakhleh Oasis and the Untersuchungen im Tutankhamun's Furniture Volume III Western Desert of Totentempel des Footwear By Geoffrey Killen Egypt under the Merenptah in Theben By Andre J. Veldmeijer In this third volume Dr Killen Ptolemies Band IV: The Pottery The first full analysis of the footwear investigates how woodworking in By James C. R. Gill By David A. Aston, Brigitte Dominicus, from Tutankhamun's tomb. Several ancient Egypt developed in the 19th specialists contributed to the volume and 20th dynasties. It establishes Through an analysis of recently Benjamin L. Ford and Horst Jaritz discussing the different materials the range of wooden furniture discovered Ptolemaic pottery from This substantial volume presents the (gold, vegetable fibre, birch bark, manufactured during this period by Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re- pottery found on or under the Temple glass and faience, leather, gemstones) surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and examination of pottery collected of Merenptah, the majority of which can be dated to that were used in the footwear, as well as other New Memphite tombs. by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the the New Kingdom, from the reign of Amenophis II until Kingdom comparators. oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common sometime late in the Twentieth Dynasty. 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704895, Hardback, perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden 312pp, Sidestone Press, 2012, 9789088900761, was £60.00 increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise 426pp, Philipp von Zabern, 2008, 9783805338035, Paperback, was £65.00 Hardback, was £80.00 Now £14.95 in population during the Roman Period. Now £14.95 504pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701351, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £75.00 Now £19.95

Coptic Documentary Dakhleh Oasis Project Egyptian Games and After the Pyramids Texts From Kellis Preliminary Reports on the 1992- Sports The Valley of the Kings and Beyond Volume 2 P. Kellis VII 1993 and 1993-1994 Field Seasons By Joyce A. Tyldesley By Aidan Dodson By Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock By Colin A. Hope and A. J. Mills This book traces the evidence for A chronological overview of the and Wolf-Peter Funk This volume contains progress sport and games from Predynastic funerary monuments of Egypt, reports on the work of these two times to the end of the New beginning with the last pyramids Contains 75 fourth century Coptic Kingdom, combining archaeological, letters and household accounts from seasons as well as a number of short and ending with the tombs of the reports on excavations at the Roman pictoral and textual sources to bring Ptolemaic Period in the Nile Delta. Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis. They give Egyptian leisure time to life. voice to ordinary people and provide site of Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab). The architecture and decoration of genuine insights into literacy and the role of women, 152pp, Oxbow Books, 1999, 9781900188951, Paperback, 64pp, Shire Publications, 2007, 9780747806615, the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in communications and travel, multilingual society and was £40.00 Paperback, was £6.99 detail, including the results of more recent excavation in the Valley of the Kings. normative forms of belief and practice. Now £4.95 Now £1.95 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976516, Hardback, 234pp, Stacey International, 1999, 9780948695520, was £75.00 Paperback, was £16.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT • 15 Cracking the Egyptian The Thames and Preliminary At Empire's Edge Code Hudson Dictionary of Excavation Reports By Roger Matthews and The Revolutionary Life of Ancient Egypt Sardis, Idalion, and Tell El- Edited by Thomas F. Matthews Jean-Francois Champollion By Toby A. H. Wilkinson Handaquq North and By Claudia Glatz Project Paphlagonia was a multi- By Andrew Robinson This new illustrated dictionary By W. G. Dever period, large-scale programme of provides a comprehensive, Robinson traces Champollion’s This volume reports on excavations regional survey in northcentral Turkey. authoritative reference guide to career from obscure beginnings at Sardis, 1992 and 1993, on two Late The sites range in date from early an endlessly fascinating subject. It to his seminal work in deciphering Roman Wells at Sardis, on the site of prehistoric to Ottoman, and include covers queens and courtiers, gods hieroglyphic script. He explores Idalion in Cyprus and on early town Palaeolithic camp-sites, Chalcolithic and goddesses, temples and tombs, as well as literature, Champollion’s many rivalries, in particular with Thomas development and water management in the Jordan Valley. and Early Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries, language and medicine. Young, and describes the expedition to Egypt which he 154pp, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1996, fortified defensive sites of the Hittite and other periods, led with Rosellini. 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2005, 9780500203965, 9780788503153, Hardback, was £60.00 Phrygian villages and burial tumuli, and a wealth of small 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500051719, Paperback, was £10.95 towns, villages, farmsteads and hill-top refuges of the Now £4.95 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £2.95 Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and early Turkish periods. Now £7.95 293pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2009, 9781898249238, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95

Exploring the World of The Nile and Its Tell Taannek 1963-1968 Black Sea the Pharaohs People IV/2 Past, Present and Future - A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt By Charlotte Booth The Iron Age Cultic Structure Proceedings of the International, Interdisciplinary Conference, By Christine Hobson This accessible volume looks at the By Frank S. Frick and Garth Gilmour Istanbul (14-16th October 2004) An invaluable popular guide to the centrality of the Nile to Egyptian This book, the latest in a series of history, people and archaeology of history - how the people of Egypt excavation reports from the ancient By G. Erkut and Stephen Mitchell Ancient Egypt. Illustrations, charts and have relied on it for food, irrigation, site of Tell Taannek, examines an Iron These papers cover a period from the chronologies support the detailed and transportation, how they have Age Cultic Structure and its contents. first appearance of human settlers in and informative discussions about impacted on the Nile itself, and the Frick explores the question of how the Black Sea region to the present many of Egypt’s most important sites and archaeologists, place it has held in their culture. one might, on the basis of archaeological data, determine day, and all emphasize the significance of the sea itself, all aimed at helping the visitor to make the most from 191pp, The History Press, 2010, 9780752455068, the likelihood that a structure had a cultic function. linking communities and histories in a wider regional their visit Paperback, was £16.99 360pp, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2000, context, extending westward along the Danube basin, 192pp, Thames and Hudson, 1987, 9780500275603, Now £4.95 9780897570503, Paperback, was £27.50 northward into the Ukraine and south Russia, east Paperback, was £12.95 into the Caucasus and southward over the Anatolian Now £7.95 hinterland. Now £4.95 172pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2007, 9781898249214, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95

Pharaoh Temples and Tombs Digital atlas of Canhasan Sites I By Garry J. Shaw Treasures of Egyptian Art traditional food made Stratigraphy and Structures Garry Shaw covers, through eight from the British Museum from cereals and milk By David French themed chapters, all aspects of By Edna Russmann, Nigel By R.T.J. Cappers The mound known as Canhasan the realities of pharaohs life, from Strudwick and T. G. H. James The Digital atlas of traditional food Hueyuek 1, in the Konya Plain of mornings waking in the palace to south-central Turkey, has revealed a evenings spent banqueting, with all Presented here are a wide variety made from cereals and milk explores of objects - sculpture, relief, the traditional food products that series of settlements running through his duties and activities in between. the Chalcolithic period (c5500-3000 He charts the development of a papyri, ostraca, jewellery, cosmetic could have been made by transitional objects, and funerary items - in a hunter-gatherers and the early BC). This first volume detailing uniquely Egyptian vision of kingship, work carried out between 1961 and 1967, lays out exemplified by the men and women who ascended the variety of media, including stone, wood, terracotta, gold, farmers in south-west Asia by examining the traditional glass, and papyrus, each categorised according to its use foods still being made today. the fundamental stratigraphy of the site and the major throne structural developments. in ancient Egyptian culture. 640pp, Barkhuis, 2018, 9789492444707, Hardback, was 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500051740, 101pp, British Institute at Ankara, 1998, 9781898249092, Hardback, was £24.95 136pp, University of Washington Press, 2006, £90.95 9781885444325, Paperback, was £19.99 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

Sunken Cities Gifts for the Gods An Epigraphical Canhasan Sites 2 Egypt's Lost Worlds Images from Ancient Survey in the Kibyra- The Pottery Edited by Franck Goddio and Egyptian Temples Olbasa Region By David French Aurelia Masson-Berghoff By Marsha Hill conducted by A S Hall This book charts the development of Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, The images to which the title refers By Alan S. Hall and N. P. Milner Glass over four millennia, from 18th at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the are metal Egyptian anthropomorphic Dynasty Egypt, through to the present This volume presents (with text, submerged remains of the ancient statues designed for use in a religious day, illustrated by 56 examples from translations and brief commentary) Egyptian cities Naukratis and Thonis- context. The accompanying essays the collections held by the Ashmolean some 160 ancient stones and Heracleion. Accompanying a 2016 place the works in context, offering Museum. inscriptions recorded by the late Alan British Museum exhibition this book showcases some of a detailed historical survey, together with notes on Hall in 1984 and 1985 which attest to the influence of 296pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2005, 9781898249160, the most spectacular finds and explores the distinctive their production and use and reports on the statuary at the Hellenistic and Roman kingdoms. Hardback, was £45.00 culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. specific sites. 127pp, British Institute at Ankara, 1998, 9781898249108, Now £14.95 256pp, Thames and Hudson, 2016, 9780500292372, 240pp, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300124088, Hardback, was £35.00 Paperback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £11.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

The Complete Valley Hacksilber to Coinage Anatolian Iron Ages 5 Canhasan Sites 3 of the Kings New Insights into the Monetary By A. Cilingiroglu and G. Darbyshire By David French By Nicholas Reeves and R. H. Wilkinson History of the Near East and Greece The papers gathered in this volume This volume, reporting on excavations A tour through the history and By Miriam S. Balmuth cover the area from Urartu in the carried out at the Canhasan I mound east to Phrygia in the west, and in south-central Anatolia in the years archaeology of the Valley of the Kings. Ancient Near Eastern hoards of The text looks at the topography of range from the discussion­ of broad 1961-1968 present a descriptive randomly shaped silver pieces, problems of chronology and cultural account and catalogue of the the site, its construction and history generically called Hacksilber, have and then at the early investigations interaction to the presentation of registered small-finds. The small-finds come increasingly to be interpreted new material from both major and have been grouped, described and by travellers and antiquaries. The as hoards of pre-coinage currency. major excavations are discussed in terms of the key less well known sites. then illustrated according to material, These papers present new insights into the circulation e.g., clay, stone, bone. personalities, the tombs dug and important finds. and use of these hoards, drawing on new scientific and 240pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2005, 9781898249153, 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 1996, 9780500284032, documentary analyses. Hardback, was £50.00 210pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2010, 9781898249245, Hardback, was £45.00 Paperback, was £16.95 136pp, American Numismatic Society, 2001, Now £14.95 Now £7.95 9780897222815, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £14.95 Now £8.95

16 • EGYPT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Çatalhöyük The Madra River Delta The Excavations at Tell Nuzi and the Hurrians Excavations Environment, Society and Al Rimah Vol 4 the 2000-2008 seasons Community Life from The Pottery The Eastern Archives of Nuzi Prehistory to the Present By Ian Hodder By Caroline Postgate, David and Excavations at Nuzi 9/2 By Kyriacos Lambrianides Oates and By Ernest R. Lacheman, MA Excavation, recording and sampling and Nigel Spencer methodologies are discussed as well Introductory report and a detailed Morrison and D. I. Owen as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping The results presented here shed catalogur of the pottery finds from Dr. Morrison’s study of the of buildings into social sectors. The important new light on environmental this second millenium BC Assyrian Eastern Archives combines both excavations in three areas of the East changes in this part of the Anatolian site, in modern Iraq. archaeological and philological coastal region, on their long-term impact on the Mound at Çatalhöyük are described. 276pp, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1997, data bringing order to the organization of the Eastern inhabitants of the Delta, and cultural ties with the island Archives and showing how they might have been 300pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2013, 9781898249290, of Lesbos from the prehistoric to the Roman period. 9780856687006, Paperback, was £48.00 Hardback, was £60.00 grouped originally when excavated. The second part of 158pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2008, 9781898249191, Now £25.00 the late E. R. Lacheman’s Excavations at Nuzi, volume 9 is Now £19.95 Hardback, was £50.00 also published in this volume. Now £14.95 420pp, Eisenbrauns, 1993, 9780931464645, Hardback, was £63.95 Now £7.95

Integrating Tille Hoyuk 1 Catalogue of the Reconstructed Çatalhöyük The Medieval Period Babylonian Tablets in Chronology of the themes from the 2000-2008 seasons By John Moore the British Museum, Divided Kingdom Edited by Ian Hodder Between the 12th and 15th centuries Volume VI By M .Christine Tetley The present volume discusses general the prehistoric mound was occupied Tablets from Sippar 1 The common response to any by the fortified residence of a local themes that have emerged in the By Erle Leichty attempt to read the chronological analysis and interpretation of the chieftain. This volume contains a notations associated with the kings results of excavations in 2000-2008. discussion of the methodology Publishes over 10,000 Babylonian of Israel and Judah in the time of the It synthesizes the results of research and stratigraphy of the excavation, Tablets acquired by the British divided monarchy is, perhaps, a shrug described in other volumes in the same series. followed by catalogues of the pottery, metal objects and Museum in 1882, the majority of which come from the of the shoulders, or a statement to the effect that the coins. archives of the Shamash temple at Sippar and date from problem is insoluble. Now Christine Tetley has attacked 180pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2014, 9781898249320, 625–331 BC. Hardback, was £45.00 205pp, British Institute at Ankara, 1993, 9781898249009, this knottiest of problems with fresh vigor and assayed a Hardback, was £45.00 308pp, British Museum Press, 1986, 9780714111155, new solution. Now £14.95 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95 208pp, Eisenbrauns, 2005, 9781575060729, Hardback, Now £12.95 was £43.95 Now £7.95

Studies in Ancient Tille Höyük 3.1. The Myth and Politics in Shechem 1 Coinage from Turkey Iron Age Ancient Near Eastern The Middle Bronze IIB Pottery By Richard Ashton Introduction, Stratification Historiography By Dan P. Cole A report on seven hoards of Greek and Architecture By Mario Liverani This volume reports on, and and Greek Imperial coins, four By Stuart Blaylock and S. R. Blaylock These essays focus on two central catalogues, the pottery from the hoards of Roman Imperial coins and This book presents the structures themes in the historical texts of the Middle Bronze IIB period (c.1750- catalogues of six other collections ancient near east: myth and politics. 1650 BC) recovered during of mostly provenanced coins. There and stratigraphy of the important Iron Age sequence at Tille Höyuek, a There is a close connection, Liverani excavations of Tell Balatah, otherwise is also a die-study of the extensive finds, between the writing of history known as Shechem. The material is bronze coinage of Gordian III minted at 6 Caesarea in mound at a crossing of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey. The site revealed ten major structural and the validation of political order and political action. also contrasted with pottery found elsewhere, on the Cappadocia. coast and in the Jordan Valley. levels of the Iron Age, spanning the period from the 11th 240pp, Cornell University Press, 2007, 9780801473586, 168pp, British Institute at Ankara, 1996, 9780901405333, century to the 6th-4th centuries BC Paperback, was £24.99 203pp, Eisenbrauns, 1984, 9780897572064, Hardback, Hardback, was £45.00 was £41.00 224pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2010, 9781898249207, Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

Substantive Tille Hoyuk 3.2 Ancient Jordan from Tell el-Hesi IV technologies at The Iron Age: Pottery, the Air The Site and the Expedition Çatalhöyük Objects and Conclusions By Robert Bewley and David Kennedy Edited by Frances Dahlberg reports from the 2000-2008 seasons By (author) Stuart Blaylock Sites are everywhere in this vast open This volume combines reports Edited by Ian Hodder In this second (and final) volume of museum, one tally has calculated on the excavations at Tell el- the report on the Iron Age levels, the 25,000 visible from above ground Hesi with analysis of the 19th At Çatalhöyük, heavy use of clays led pottery and objects are presented, alone, and as is so often the case the century excavations and changing to changes in the local environment together with chapters on seals and best view is seen from the air. This methodology in the ongoing work that interacted with human activity, plant remains, along with a concluding book contains over 200 high quality there, as well as on the physical as indicated in the first section of discussion of the material covered in both Tille 3.1 and colour photos illustrating the range of sites together environment of the site. the volume. In the second section, other examples of Tille 3.2. with full descriptions and an overview of Jordan’s 240pp, Eisenbrauns, 1991, 9780931464577, Hardback, material technologies are considered all of which in fascinating history. various ways engage humans in specific dependencies 604pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2016, 9781898249375, was £47.95 and relationships Hardback, was £60.00 282pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2004, 9780953910229, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £5.95 300pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2013, 9781898249313, Now £19.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £12.00 Now £19.95

The Balboura Survey Excavations at Tell Excavations at Tawilan Uncovering Ancient and Settlement in Rubeidheh in Southern Jordan Stones Highland Southwest By R. G. Killick By Crystal-M. Bennett and By Lewis M. Hopfe Anatolia A report on the excavation of an Piotr Bienkowski This volume contains nineteen By J. J. Coulton Uruk period mound dug as part of First report on the Iron Age site of essays on Old Testament archaeology the Hamrin Dam rescue project in Tawilan, in the Biblical kingdom of and Biblical studies collected in The Balboura Survey, conducted East Iraq. It includes sections on the Edom. Particular attention is paid memory of H. Neil Richardson. They between 1985 and 1994, investigated archaeology, finds, animal bones and to the cuneiform tablets and gold are grouped in three sections: the the settlement history of a small flints. jewellery hoard. The stratigraphy, Hebrew Bible in its time; Archaeology district in the ancient region of 210pp, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1989, ceramics and other finds are also comprehensively and the Bible; and the Hebrew Bible and its later uses. Kabalia in the mountains of southwestern Turkey. analysed and an overview of the development and nature Although the survey's focus was on the Hellenistic-Early 9780856684319, Paperback, was £35.00 270pp, Eisenbrauns, 1994, 9780931464737, Hardback, of the site is provided. was £45.00 Byzantine city of Balboura and its western territory, the Now £4.95 fieldwork revealed significant prehistoric occupation, and 300pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 1995, Now £5.95 the project included research into Ottoman and recent 9780197270073, Hardback, was £60.00 settlement. Now £10.00 British Institute at Ankara, 2012, 9781898249221, Hardback, was £80.00 Now £24.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ANCIENT NEAR EAST • 17 God's Gold Excavations at Kilise Towards Reflexive Megiddo 3 By Sean Kingsley Tepe, 1994-98 Method in Final Report on the Stratum A sort of archaeological detective From Bronze Age to Byzantine Archaeology VI Excavations story, God's Gold aims to track in Western Cilicia The Example of Catalhöyuk By Timothy Harrison down the final resting place of the treasures of the Second Temple taken Edited by J. Nicholas Postgate By Ian Hodder Ever since its discovery, there and By David Thomas has been considerable debate and by the Emperor Titus in AD 71 and The aim of the volume is to portrayed on the Arch of Titus in These two volumes report on five speculation both about the cultural discuss some of the reflexive or character of Stratum VI, and the cause Rome. season's excavation and four millennia postprocessual methods that have of occupation at Kilise Tepe, from the and date of its destruction. Whatever 318pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008, 9780060853990, been introduced at Catalhoyuk in the precise historical case, it is clear nevertheless that Paperback, was £10.99 Early Bronze Age through the rise and fall of the Hittite the work there since 1993. These methods involve Empire and into the Byzantine era when the mound was Stratum VI represents the initial Iron Age (or Iron I) reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or settlement at Megiddo. Now £4.95 crowned by a substantial church. relationality. 244pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 168pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, 300pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 9781885923318, Hardback, was £78.00 2007, 9781902937403, Hardback, was £95.00 2000, 9781902937021, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £29.95 Now £14.95

Excavation in Palestine Excavations at Tell Archaeology of the On the Margin of the By Roger Moorey Brak 4 Bronze Age, Euphrates An introductory guide to the Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Hellenistic, and Roman Settlement and Land Use at archaeology of the Biblical world, Regional Centre, 1994-1996. Remains at an Ancient Tell es-Sweyhat and in the which addresses both general issues Upper Tabqa Area, Syria relating to the whys and wherefores By Roger Matthews and Town on the of excavation, and discussion of Wendy Matthews Euphrates River By Tony Wilkinson and T. J. Wilkinson in particular, Provides an account of the Excavations at Tell Es- The present study forms part of the what it can and can't tell us, and how architecture, artefacts, and environ­ Sweyhat, Syria Volume 2 author's long-term research strategy archaeology relates to the Bible itself mental evidence, supported­ by a that is aimed at examining the growth as a source. program of radiocarbon dating. The results emphasize By T. A. Holland of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape 128pp, Lutterworth Press, 1981, 9780718824327, the indigenous nature of cultural development in Upper This large two volume set (text and plates) represents over much of the last ten thousand years.It comprises Paperback, was £20.25 Mesopotamia during the early 4th to 2nd millennia BC the final publication of the archaeological excavations detailed studies of some 60 sq. km of land around Tell 512pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, conducted at Tell es-Sweyhat in the Tabqa Dam region of es-Sweyhat, Syria, and the thirty sites therein on the Now £4.95 2003, 9781902937168, Hardback, was £75.00 the upper Euphrates River in Syria. It focuses on east bank of the Euphrates River; the surveys were excavation in the lower town, its rampart and the main conducted in 1974, 1991, and 1992. Now £19.95 mound, and on a detailed analysis of the pottery finds. 267pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, 650pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, 9781885923295, Hardback, was £58.00 9781885923332, Hardback, was £143.00 Now £14.95 Now £39.95

Çatalhöyuk Inhabiting Çatalhöyuk Chogha Mish, Volume The Amuq Valley Perspectives Reports from the 1995-99 seasons 2 Regional Projects, Themes from the 1995-99 Seasons By Ian Hodder Final Report on the Last Six Volume 1 By Ian Hodder Deals with various aspects of the Seasons of Excavations, 1972-1978 Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and This volume, number six in the habitation of Çatalhöyük, including By Abbas Alizadeh Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002 Çatalhöyük Research Project series, the relationship between the site In addition to the materials and By K. Ashhan Yener and Edited and its environment, diet, lifestyle draws on material from Volumes 3 to records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh by K. Aslihan Yener 5 to deal with broad themes. Data and population size, and ways in uses the data available from the The results of the Amuq Valley from architecture and excavation which houses and open spaces in the excavations of the neighboring sites contexts are linked into broader discussion of topics settlement were lived in. Regional Projects (AVRP) presented in this volume are of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his the outcome of eight seasons of intensive fieldwork such as seasonality, art and social memory. 446pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, reconstruction of Susiana prehistoric development, 2005, 9781902937229, Hardback, was £60.00 (1995-2002) representing the first phase of a long-range, 246pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, poisiting a more substantial role for the ancient mobile broadly-based archaeological investigation in the Hatay 2006, 9781902937298, Hardback, was £39.00 Now £14.95 pastoralists of the region. region of southern Turkey. Now £12.95 396pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008, 352pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, 9781885923523, Hardback, was £70.00 9781885923325, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Changing Materialities Preludes to Urbanism Cuneiform Texts from The Origins of State at Çatalhöyuk Edited by Augusta McMahon the Ur III Period in the Organizations in Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons and Harriet Crawford Oriental Institute, Prehistoric Highland By Ian Hodder Urbanism in the Near East has Volume 2 Fars, Southern Iran traditionally been located in late Discusses the changing materiality­ of fourthmillennium bc southern Drehem Administrative Documents Excavations at Tall-e Bakun life at the site over its 1100 years of Mesopotamia (south Iraq); but recent from the Reign of Amar-Suena By Abbas Alizadeh occupation. It includes­ a discussion of excavations and surveys in northeast By Clemens D. Reichel Based on the analysis of the available ceramics and other fired clay material, Syria and southeast Turkey have chipped stone, groundstone, worked and Markus Hilgert archaeological data as well as identified a distinctively northern historical and ethnographic sources, Alizadeh argues that bone and basketry. Mesopotamian variant of this development, which forms The main publication of the 605 cuneiform tablets in the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum the specialised manufacture and administrative aspects 506pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the focus of this volume. at Tall-e Bakun A indicate the existence of differential 2006, 9781902937281, Hardback, was £59.00 that were found at the site of the ancient administrative 196pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, center Puzriå-Dagan (Drehem) and date to the reign of status at the site, where a few families or ranking Now £14.95 2015, 9781902937656, Hardback, was £30.00 Amar-Suena (2046-2038 b.c.), the third ruler of the Third individuals controlled the manufacture and flow of goods. Now £12.95 Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004 b.c.). 300pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, 650pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003, 9781885923363, Hardback, was £58.00 9781885923240, Hardback, was £109.00 Now £14.95 Now £24.95

Excavating Çatalhöyuk The Provincial Excavations at the A Wayside Shrine in South, North and KOPAL area Archaeology of the prehistoric mound of Northern Moab: reports from the 1995-99 seasons Assyrian Empire Chogha Bonut, Excavations in Wadi By Ian Hodder pEdited by John MacGinnis, Dick Khuzestan, Iran ath-Thamad This volume presents the results Wicke and Tina Greenfield Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau of excavation in three areas of the Analyses of environmental zones By Abbas Alizadeh and Margreet L. Steiner site. It describes aspects of the and ecofactual datasets, material excavation, recording and sampling This volume presents the results Presents the results of recent culture and architectural traditions, excavations at a small, isolated but methodologies that are necessary the permeation of literacy and the of three seasons of excavations at for an understanding of the results presented as well Chogha Bonut, which pushed the earliest period of very important Iron Age shrine in use of para-literate systems form the platform for Moab, southern Palestine. A rich assemblage of cultic as incorporating interpretive discussion. It brings in innovative and integrative evaluations and lead to a new occupation of Susiana to the aceramic phase, ca. 7200 data from the study of animal bones, lithics, ceramics, BC. The results of these excavations add to the already objects, including figurines and statues, shed much light appreciation for the diversity of local responses to the on religious practices in the region. micromorphology and the full suite of analyses Assyrian expansion. rich picture of cultural development in the regiont. conducted on the material. 186pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707087, Hardback, 408pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, was £60.00 688pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2016, 9781902937748, Hardback, was £80.00 9781885923233, Hardback, was £74.00 2007, 9781902937274, Hardback, was £69.00 Now £14.95 Now £29.95 Now £19.95 Now £24.95

18 • ANCIENT NEAR EAST WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Archaeological Culture, Chronology Excavations by K. M. Landscape and Perspectives on the and the Chalcolithic Kenyon in Jerusalem Interaction, Troodos Transmission and Edited by J. Lovell and Y. Rowan 1961-1967 V Survey Vol 2 Transformation of The two themes of this volume - Discoveries in Hellenistic The TAESP Landscape culture and chronology - combine the to Ottoman Jerusalem Culture in the Eastern need for theoretical engagement with By Michael Given, A. Bernard Mediterranean the establishment of broader, more By K. Prag Knapp, Luke Sollars, Jay Noller By Joanne Clarke and Joanne Clark precise empirical data using explicit Describes the discoveries made in and Vasiliki Kassianidou classificatory schemes. six sites in the ancient city. Issues Wherever trade takes place, a similar Covering four regions of the survey include the extent of the occupation of the city during exchange of ideas, technology and culture also occurs. 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179932, Hardback, area (The Plains, Karkotis Valley, Upper Lagoudhera the Iron Age, the location of the southern defence This book presents thirty papers on this very subject, was £40.00 Valley and The Mountains) volume two focuses on line in Herodian and Roman times, and the date of the looking at the ways in which we can measure the explicit research questions appropriate to each Now £12.95 destruction of an Umayyad palatial structure. transmission of culture in the eastern Mediterranean, region. Organised geographically, chronologically and and how this transmission varied across time and space. 592pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842173046, Hardback, thematically, each region is investigated from the was £75.00 Neolithic to the present day. 218pp, Oxbow Books, 2005, 9781842171684, Hardback, was £40.00 296pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971887, Hardback, Now £15.00 was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Archaeozoology of the Defining the Sacred Excavations by K.M. Landscapes in Near East 9 Approaches to the Archaeology Kenyon in Jerusalem Transition Edited by Marjan Mashkour of Religion in the Near East 1961–1967 VI By Bill Finlayson and Graeme Warren and Mark Beech Edited by Nicola Laneri Sites on the edge of the Ophel This volume presents a collection This two part volume brings together These essays aim to bridge the divide By Kay Prag of papers focusing on archaeological over 60 specialists to present 31 between evidence for religious belief approaches to landscape in the papers on the latest research into and religious practice in the Ancient In this volume the principal focus is context of the adoption of agriculture archaeozoology of the Near East. Near East. They include important on the presence/absence of the city in Southwest Asia and Northwest The papers are wide-ranging in terms contributions on temples, metallurgy, walls on the east side of the city from Europe. Case studies are presented of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic sacrifice and animal burials, with coverage extending the Iron Age onwards. The evidence from these contrasting regions, one where the transition rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in from the pre-pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age. for major walls and their structure from Iron Age II to to farming is indigenous, and the other where the Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. the Byzantine periods in Sites S.II and R.II is described transformation is initiated externally. 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782976790, Paperback, and substantial revisions suggested. 464pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781782978442, Hardback, was £38.00 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842174166, Paperback, was £70.00 324pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706530, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95 was £50.00 Now £19.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Beyond the Fertile Dynamics of Jerusalem Throne Later Prehistory of Crescent Production in the Games the Badia Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Ancient Near East The battle of Bible stories Excavation and Surveys in Communities of the Jordanian Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia after the death of David Eastern Jordan, Volume 2 Steppe. The Azraq Basin Project The 17 essays collected here analyse By Peter Feinman By A. V. G. Betts, D. Cropper, L. Volume 1: Project Background and the economic transformations in Jerusalem Throne Games puts Martin and C. McCartney the Late Palaeolithic (Geological the ancient near east which affected forward a new assessment of the This volume covers the Late Neolithic Context and Technology) the old dominant powers of the authorship of key sections of the Old and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia. By Andrew Garrard and Brian Byrd Late Bronze Age, their adaptation Testament, and aims to understand This period was marked by the to a new economic environment, the emergence of This volume explores the geology, stratigraphy and the creation and meaning of those stories in their first appearance of sheep and goat as one element of new economic actors and the impact of these changes original political context. Feinman explores the political the steppic economy alongside traditional practices of dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites of the Azraq Basin on very different social sectors and geographic areas, and provides a detailed description of the technology battle for power to succeed David expressed through hunting and foraging. from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian selected stories from the Book of Genesis. and typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites. Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174739, Hardback, These are then compared with those from the wider Mesopotamia. 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706165, Paperback, was £48.00 Levant, in order to explore possible links between was £30.00 technological traditions and social groups. 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702839, Paperback, Now £14.95 was £45.00 Now £9.95 448pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842178331, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Carchemish in Excavations at Tell Knowledge is Light Painting Pots – Context Nebi Mend, Syria Travellers in the Near East Painting People By T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg Volume I Edited by Katherine Salahi Late Neolithic Ceramics in and Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson Edited by Peter J. Parr Essays which explore the experience Ancient Mesopotamia This volume provides an overview The earliest settlement so far of travel in Egypt and the Near East Edited by Walter Cruells, Inna of the main trends of settlement in discovered at Tell Nebi Mend dates to from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Mateiciucová and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse the region of Carchemish over 8000 the first half of the 7th millennium BC The book features travellers of great years, using a combination of survey character who visited Egypt and the The 19 papers presented here and is the subject of this volume. Five bring together specialists discussing databases to both north and south of phases of occupation were recognised Near East seeking trade, adventure the Syrian-Turkish border and with a focus on the earlier and knowledge. Neolithic ceramics from the Near with architectural features including, at different times, East in the broadest sense. There is a general focus on phases of settlement from the Neolithic until the end of house structures and remains of larger, probably 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174487, Paperback, the Bronze Age when Carchemish became an outpost of decorated pottery traditions. What raw materials and communal, buildings, along with remains of plaster, floor was £20.00 ceramic technologies did Late Neolithic peoples employ? the Hittite empire. surfaces, fire and rubbish pits and burials, followed by Now £4.95 How did they paint their designs? How may we analyze 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701115, Hardback, large-scale abandonment. More than 2000 sherds of decorated ceramics to explore social networks and was £48.00 Neolithic pottery and 1400 flint and obsidian artefacts identities? What did these decorated pottery traditions were recovered. Now £14.95 mean socially? 408pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782977865, Hardback, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704390, Hardback, was £48.00 was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Crossing the Rift Excavations by K M Landscape and Petra Great Temple Resources, Settlements Patterns Kenyon in Jerusalem Interaction: Troodos Volume 3 and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah IV Survey Vol 1 Brown University Excavations By Piotr Bienkowski and The Iron Age Cave Deposits Methodology, Analysis 1993–2008, Architecture and Material Culture Katharina Galor By Itzak Eshel and K. Prag and Interpretation The Wadi Arabah falls between the By Martha Sharp Joukowsky This volume concentrates on finds By Michael Given, A. Bernard two areas of southern Jordan and outside the walls of the Iron Age city, Knapp, Jay Noller, Luke Sollars Definitive third volume on the Negev, and has traditionally been and particularly on the enigmatic, and Vasiliki Kassianidou excavations of the Great Temple seen as a barrier and border. This pottery-rich depositis in Caves I and at Petra focusing on aspects of book (and the conference it came out of) is an attempt Beginning with a considered overview of the context, II to the south east of the city. Eshel’s analysis of the Nabataean material culture, construction design and to look at this neglected area anew: bridge, rather than research aims and methodology of the project, Volume 1 pottery leads him to suggest a 7th-century BC date. history, and economy. barrier. provides detailed accounts of the archaeology, material 278pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 1995, culture, geography and environmental record of the 622pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785706127, Hardback, 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, 9781842172094, Hardback, 9780197270059, Hardback, was £45.00 entire survey area. was £60.00 was £45.00 Now £14.95 400pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971870, Hardback, Now £14.95 Now £10.00 was £48.00 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ANCIENT NEAR EAST • 19 Tell Kosak Shamali Vol The Proto-Elamite Society and Polity at Piety and Politics II Settlement and Its Bronze Age Pella The Dynamics of Royal Authority The Archaeological Neighbors By A. Bernard Knapp in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia Investigations on the Upper Tepe Yaya Period IVC Employing a framework based on Euphrates, Syria. Chalcolithic By Benjamin Mutin and Edited Annales socio-historical methodology, By Dale Launderville Technology and Subsistence this study examines the uncritical by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Focusing on Homeric Greece, Biblical By Yoshihiro Nishiaki and and often unquestioned comparison Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, this In addition to a synthesis of the Toshio Matsutani or contrast of archaeological data comparative and thematic study Proto-Elamite period and the material and ancient documentary evidence, assesses the role of the king as a The four seasons of excavation at assemblage at Tepe Yahya, This volume provides an relating to Middle and Late Bronze Age Palestine and divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety Tell Kosak Shamali yielded around 33,000 flaked stone updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Transjordan. to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of artefacts from the Chalcolithic period. The tools are Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and 116pp, Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, 9781850753476, his subjects. described and documented within their chronological its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. Hardback, was £40.00 context, and their functional and morphological 407pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2003, 9780802839947, 350pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974192, Hardback, Hardback, was £75.00 properties discussed. was £35.00 Now £4.95 318pp, Oxbow Books, 2004, 9781842171387, Hardback, Now £7.95 was £60.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The Earliest Neolithic Umm al-Biyara Antioch and Jerusalem The Sword and the of Iran Excavations by Crystal-M. The Seleucids and Stylus 2008 Excavations at Bennett in Petra 1960-1965 Maccabees in Coins An Introduction to Wisdom Sheikh-E Abad and Jani By Piotr Bienkowski By David Jacobson in the Age of Empires Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Umm al-Biyara was the first Iron This book recounts the heroic story By Leo G. Perdue Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar Age Edomite site to be extensively of the Maccabees and explains how In this introduction to ancient Describes the excavation of two Early excavated. The stratigraphy, pottery, they successfully took on the might of wisdom literature, Leo Perdue Neolithic mounds: Sheikh-e Abad small finds and inscribed material, the Seleucid realm, illustrated by the argues that it can only be properly in the high Zagros and Jani, in the including the important bulla of coins issued by the main protagonists. understood in its historical and foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising Qos-Gabr, King of Edom are described, supplemented 168pp, Spink Books, 2015, 9781907427541, Hardback, social contexts. He shows how wisdom texts reflect up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation by chapters on the use of space and a landscape study of was £30.00 a vast array of different and changing moral systems, mountain-top sites in the Petra region. spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for Now £12.95 epistemologies, and religious understandings. diachronic and spatial analyses. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174395, Hardback, 502pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, 9780802862457, 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972235, Hardback, was £35.00 Paperback, was £29.99 was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

The Early Prehistory Nomadism in Iran Coins and the Bible Alexander to of Wadi Faynan, By D. T. Potts By Richard Abdy and Amelia Dowler Constantine Southern Jordan This book argues that what has been Some of the most famous stories By Eric M. Meyers and Mark A Chancey Archaeological Survey of Wadis interpreted in the past as an enduring in the Bible revolve around coins. This comprehensive and richly Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan pattern of nomadic land use on the From the widow’s mite to Judas’s illustrated book explores the Iranian plateau is, by archaeological thirty pieces of silver, the original archaeological record of the land and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery standards, very recent. Since the early narratives and their later translations Neolithic A Site of WF16 of the Bible from its conquest by Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural have used local coins to make the Alexander the Great in the fourth By Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen communities in Iran had kept herds of relate to audiences over the century B.C.E. until the reign of the This edited volume provides a full report on the Pre- sheep and goat, but the communities ages. In turn, early Biblical writings Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century Pottery Neolithic­ A site of WF16, southern Jordan. themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members have directly inspired the earliest artistic expression of C.E. In particular the authors explore the impact of Excavations have shown that the site contains a highly were required to move with the herds seasonally. Christian faith on coin designs. Hellenism on the evolution of Judaism and Christianity dynamic use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage 558pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199330799, 121pp, Spink Books, 2013, 9781907427305, Paperback, during this period. reveals new information on the processes that lead to Hardback, was £75.00 was £15.00 400pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300205831, the domestication of the goat. Now £19.95 Now £6.95 Paperback, was £21.00 640pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, 9781842172124, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £5.95 Now £10.00

The Emergence of The Troad The Herodian Dynasty Explorations in Pottery in West Asia An Archaeological and Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse Albania, 1930-39 Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Topographical Study By Nikos Kokkinos The notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Nieuwenhuyse and Stuart Campbell By J. M. Cook The remarkable Herodian dynasty prehistorian with the Italian Through analysis of many A study of the Troad, the region in flourished from the second century Archaeological Mission archaeological site assemblages and which Troy was situated, based on the BCE to the second century CE. This Edited by Karen Francis collections these papers explore author's fieldwork between 1960 and book examines its origins, measures the evidence for the origins and its impact on Jewish society, and 1999 saw the rediscovery of Luigi 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts Cardini’s site notebooks, photo­ development of pottery production of more recent travellers, maps and discusses the influence it had beyond against the wider technological background. Judaea. graphs, drawings and maps relating archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of to work carried out in Albania from 1930–39 where 196pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705267, Hardback, patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to 530pp, Spink Books, 2010, 9781907427039, Paperback, he was sent on a governmental mission to `reinforce was £70.00 the present day. was £12.50 Italian supremacy in Albania through archaeological Now £19.95 443pp, Oxford University Press, 1973, 9780198131656, Now £5.95 research’. This monograph publishes extracts from these Hardback, was £19.99 notebooks within a historical, political and archaeological Now £7.95 context. 222pp, British School at Athens, 2005, 9780904887488, Hardback, was £56.00 Now £9.95

The Neolithisation of En Boqeq 2 Copper Scroll Studies Intermezzo Iran Excavations in an Oasis Edited by George J. Brooke Intermediacy and Regeneration Edited by Roger Matthews on the Dead Sea and Philip R. Davies in Middle Minoan II Crete and Hassan Fazeli Nashli By Moshe Fischer These papers cover the history of the Edited by Colin F. Macdonald These studies, many of them by This volume reports on the Scroll’s interpretation; how it should and Carl Knappett Iranian scholars, consider patterns excavation of an early Roman building be conserved, restored and read; how it was produced; the meaning These papers cover most key sites of change and/or continuity across a which served as a workshop for the where Middle Minoan III occupation variety of topographical landscapes; manufacture of cosmetic products. of its technical terms; its genre; its geography; its correlation with has been identified. The aim has been investigate Neolithic settlement Three strata of occupation are to rehabilitate Middle Minoan III as a patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and identified and specialist reports detail pottery, stone archaeological remains; and not least who wrote it, when and why. dynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, in order to environmental indicators and present new insights into vessels, glass vessels, metal artefacts, coins, industry, provide a better understanding of socio-political change some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The dendroarchaeological remains and animal bones 344pp, T and T Clark, 2004, 9780567084569, Paperback, across the island and beyond in the latter part of the results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the 211pp, Philipp von Zabern, 2000, 9783805317917, was £59.99 Middle Bronze Age. transition to sedentary farming. Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 227pp, British School at Athens, 2013, 9780904887679, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971900, Paperback, Hardback, was £79.00 was £40.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

20 • ANCIENT NEAR EAST WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Knossos Monastiriako Archanes, Crete Kavousi I Mochlos IC Kephali Tomb and By J. A. Sakellarakis and Efi Sakellarakis The Archaeological Survey Period III. Neopalatial Settlement 'Deposit' A guide to the Minoan site of of the Kavousi Region on the Coast: The Artisans' Archanes, including parts of the Edited by Laura Preston By Donald C. Haggis Quarter and the Farmhouse at splendid palace which are preserved Chalinomouri. The Small Finds The archaeological sites on the amongst the houses of the modern Provides a comprehensive look at Monastiriako Kephali hill analysed town, the impressive cemetery the topography of the area, its natural By Jeffrey S. Soles in this volume include the earliest complex at neighbouring Phourni as resources, and the way in which the This volume, Mochlos IC, presents the known mortuary activity at the key well as the Anemospilia excavations local people interacted with them small finds from the site. over time, as shown in the changing Minoan centre of Knossos on the which have revealed sensational 300pp, INSTAP Academic Press island of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented, evidence of a human sacrifice. pattern of settlement (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2004, 9781931534086, known as the ‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’, originally Ekdotike Athenon, 1992, 9789602132340, Paperback, was 392pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Hardback, was £53.00 excavated in the 1930s but until now never published in £14.99 Prehistory), 2005, 9781931534185, Hardback, was £53.00 detail. Now £24.95 Now £24.95 125pp, British School at Athens, 2013, 9780904887686, Now £6.95 Hardback, was £56.00 Now £9.95

Knossos Crete Kavousi IIA Mochlos IIA Protopalatial Deposits in By Anna Kofou The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Period IV: The Mycenaean Settlement Early Magazine A and the This guidebook provides an overview Vronda. The Buildings on the Summit and Cemetery: The Sites South-West Houses of the history and geography of By Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. By Jeffrey S. Soles By Colin F. Macdonald Crete, before giving more detailed Klein and Lee Ann Turner information on the principal sites and The results of excavations carried This volume represents the first museums of the island. Kavousi IIA is devoted to the out at two Late Minoan III sites complete publication of substantial­ excavation of material from the Late at Mochlos in eastern Crete are deposits dating to this period, 302pp, Ekdotike Athenon, 2006, Minoan IIIC settlement at Vronda, presented. The stratigraphy and specifically the Middle Minoan IB and 9789602134269, Paperback, was particulary the houses on the summit architecture of a total of 31 tombs IIA phases. They are presented with their contexts, the £21.99 of the Vronda ridge (Buildings A-B, C-D, J-K, and Q), and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete stratified pottery and small finds. Now £9.95 along with earlier (Building P) and later (Building R) list of artefacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each 204pp, British School at Athens, 2007, 9780904887532, structures around them. context. Hardback, was £68.00 400pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 402pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2009, 9781931534512, Hardback, was £53.00 Prehistory), 2008, 9781931534239, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £14.95 Now £24.95 Now £24.95

Palaikastro Block M Aegean Bronze Age Midea: The Megaron Mochlos IIB The Proto- and Neopalatial Town Rhyta Complex and Shrine Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement By Carl Knappett and Tim Cunningham By Robert B. Koehl Area and Cemetery: The Pottery Block M is a substantial architectural This comprehensive study of Bronze By Gisela Walberg By R. Angus K. Smith complex comprising three large Age rhyta from the Aegean builds on This volume presents the 1994-1997 Excavations carried out at two Late buildings at the heart of the nearly a century of discoveries and excavation of the Lower Terraces Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Minoan town of Palaikastro. These scholarly contributions, and addresses of the Mycenaean citadel of Midea Crete yielded a pottery assemblage investigations have helped to elucidate questions of typology, function, in the Argolid Plain of Greece. The from 31 tombs and 11 houses, the character of this important town context, and the uses of these vessels. stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, which are cataloged, discussed, and during the Middle and early Late Bronze Ages, and offer The volume includes a thoroughly illustrated catalogue, lithics, small finds, and human and faunal remains dating illustrated together with petrographic analyses. an index of sites and the present locations of rhyta. valuable evidence for relations between eastern Crete from the Final Neolithic through Byzantine periods are 320pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean and sites in the centre of the island such as Knossos. 450pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean discussed and catalogued. Additionally, the continuous Prehistory), 2010, 9781931534543, Hardback, was £53.00 338pp, British School at Athens, 2012, 9780904887655, Prehistory), 2006, 9781931534161, Hardback, was £75.00 sequence of LH IIIB-LH IIIC strata on the Lower Hardback, was £115.00 Terraces revealed the ground plan and expansion of the Now £24.95 Now £36.00 megaron complex. Now £9.95 550pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2007, 9781931534192, Hardback, was £86.00 Now £39.95

Parallel Lives Ayioryitika Mochlos IA Monastiraki By Gerald Cadogan, M. Iacovou, The 1928 Excavations of Carl Period III. Neopalatial Settlement Katalimata Katerina Kopaka and James Whitley Blegen at a Neolithic to Early on the Coast: The Artisans' Excavation of a Cretan These essays compare and discuss Helladic Settlement in Arcadia Quarter and the Farmhouse Refuge Site, 1993-2000 at Chalinomouri. The Sites the two islands' cultural trajectories By Susan L. Petrakis By Krzysztof Nowicki diachronically from c. 3000 BC By Jeffrey S. Soles through their Bronze Ages and down Ayioryitika, a large open-air This monograph provides a detailed to their loss of independence in 300 settlement in Arcadia, in central The Artisans’ Quarter consisted of a discussion of the six occupational BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete. Greece, was inhabited during the series of workshops with evidence for phases recorded on the largest of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The pottery manufacture, metalworking, Monastiraki Katalimata’s terraces 382pp, British School at Athens, 2012, 9780904887662, site is particularly important for its beautifully decorated and weaving. Chalinomouri was a semi-independent (Final Neolithic, MM II, LM IB-IIIA1, LM IIIC, Early Hardback, was £98.00 Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human farmhouse. This volume, Mochlos IA, presents the Byzantine, and Late Venetian to the 17th century A.D.) Now £19.95 figures and animals. This volume gathers together the process of excavation and the architecture. and offers a reconstruction of the site’s role in the scattered and fragmentary evidence for the excavation 337pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean context of Cretan history. and its finds. Prehistory), 2003, 9781931534062, Hardback, was £53.00 275pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 144pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2008, 9781931534246, Hardback, was £46.00 Prehistory), 2002, 9781931534024, Hardback, was £49.50 Now £24.95 Now £22.00 Now £24.95

The Pottery from Crete beyond the Mochlos IB Moni Odigitria Karphi Palaces Period III. Neopalatial Settlement A Prepalatial Cemetery By Leslie Preston Day Edited by James D. Muhly, Leslie on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and Its Environs in the and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. Asterousia, Southern Crete The site of Karphi, high above the Preston Day and Margaret S. Mook The Neopalatial Pottery Lasithi plateau, remains one of This volume is divided into the By Andonis Vasilakis and Keith Branigan the most extensively investigated following sections: Trade, Society and By Kellee A. Barnard and This volume presents the final report settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; Religion, Chronology and History, Thomas M. Brogan on the excavation of two Prepalatial it was excavated by the British School Landscape and Survey, and Technology This volume, Mochlos IB presents the tholos tombs and their associated at Athens under the direction of and Production. pottery from the site. remains at Chatzinas Liophyto in John Pendlebury in 1937-39. This volume now presents 340pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains a thorough study of the Karphi pottery, much hitherto 345pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2004, 9781931534093, Hardback, was £53.00 Prehistory), 2003, 9781931534079, Hardback, was £53.00 include pottery, metal objects, chipped stones, stone unpublished, accompanied by copious new drawings and vases, gold and stone jewelry, sealstones, and human photographs. Now £24.95 Now £24.95 skeletal material. 392pp, British School at Athens, 2011, 9780904887631, 530pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Hardback, was £95.00 Prehistory), 2010, 9781931534581, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £9.50 Now £24.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY • 21 Pseira I Pseira VII The Cave of the Kavos and the Special The Minoan Buildings on the The Pseira Cemetery II. Cyclops Deposits West Side of Area A Excavation of the Tombs Mesolithic and Neolithic The sanctuary on Keros and By Philip P. Betancourt Edited by Philip P. Betancourt Networks in the Northern the origins of Aegean ritual The site is a seaport dating from and Costis Davaras Aegean, Greece: Volume I: Intra- Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga the end of the Final Neolithic until This volume covers the excavation Site Analysis, Local Industries, Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos the Late Minoan period. This volume and cleaning of the 19 tombs that and Regional Site Distribution Gavalas and Michael Boyd presents a series of houses whose still exist at the Pseira cemetery. By Adamantios Sampson main period of occupation is Late Volume II describes the excavation The cemetery is remarkable for the and finds from the Special Deposits Minoan IB. The architecture is constructed of stone and diversity of its communal tomb types including burials The setting and stratigraphy of this remarkably well preserved. cave on the island of Youra and a survey of the area are at Kavos at the sanctuary on Keros lying opposite in cist graves built of vertical slabs, in small tombs the settlement on the islet of Dhaskalio (described constructed of fieldstones, in house tombs, and in jars. discussed. The Mesolithic and Neolithic ceramic, lithic, 200pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean and small finds are organised into catalogues. Additionally, in Volume I). The finds are presented here in their Prehistory), 1995, 9780924171406, Hardback, was £39.50 192pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean this volume presents the connections between this excavation contexts, and the significance of the Special Now £19.95 Prehistory), 2003, 9781931534055, Hardback, was £49.50 outlying area and mainland Greece. Deposit South as a ritual deposit is examined in the Now £24.95 430pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean context of Aegean prehistory. Prehistory), 2008, 9781931534208, Hardback, was £53.00 614pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2016, 9781902937700, Hardback, was £64.00 Now £24.95 Now £19.95

Pseira II Pseira VIII The Hagia Photia Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos Building AC (the `shrine') and The Archaeological Survey Cemetery I The Investigations of 1987-88 Other Buildings in Area A of Pseira Island, Part 1 The Tomb Groups and Architecture By A. Colin Renfrew, Giorgos Gavalas By Philip P. Betancourt Edited by Costis Davaras, Philip P. By Costis Davaras and and Edited by Colin Renfrew This volume reports on the new Betancourt and Richard Hope Simpson Philip P. Betancourt and By Christos Doumas, Lila I. Marangou and Giorgios Gavalas researches on building AC, the The Temple University excavations This large Early Minoan burial ground Late Minoan I shrine. The recent (1985-1994) under the direction of with over fifteen hundred Cycladic Investigations starting in1963 revealed excavations have paid particular Philip Betancourt and Costis Davaras imports was discovered in 1971. A large quantities of fractured marble attention to the architecture including conducted an intensive surface survey total of 263 tombs were excavated, bowls, broken marble figures and the reconstruction of the wall paintings, and the textile of the island. Pseira VIII presents the results from the and among the 1800 artefacts are some of the earliest smashed pottery of the Early Cycladic period from patterns from stucco reliefs, which are reported in full in corollary studies that accompany the surface survey. known Cretan discoveries of several types. around 2500 BC. This report of the subsequent this volume. 200pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 290pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean survey and rescue excavations of 1987-88 reveals the 150pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2004, 9781931534109, Hardback, was £49.50 Prehistory), 2004, 9781931534130, Hardback, was £53.00 extraordinary richness of the site, now confirmed as one Prehistory), 1997, 9780924171444, Hardback, was £46.00 of the most prolific in Èlite goods of the entire Aegean Now £24.95 Now £24.95 early bronze age. Now £19.95 475pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007, 9781902937434, Hardback, was £69.00 Now £24.95

Pseira III Pseira IX The Politics of Storage Klithi The Plateia Building The Pseira Island Survey, Part 2: Storage and Sociopolitical Palaeolithic Settlement and By Cheryl Floyd The Intensive Surface Survey Complexity in Neopalatial Crete Quaternary Landscapes in Northwest Greece This third volume focuses on the By Richard Hope Simpson, Philip By Kostandinos S. Christakis Plateia building discovered in 1986. P. Betancourt, Costis Davaras This study reassesses the intrinsic By G. N. Bailey This report on the findings includes and Jacqueline Simpson relationship between storage A two volume set which sets out the an introduction to the project, The Temple University excavations and sociopolitical complexity by history of Palaeolithic occupation followed by a detailed discussion (1985-1994) under the direction combining testimonies on the storage in the Epirus region of north-west of the architecture and small finds: of Philip P. Betancourt and Costis of staples from palatial, nonpalatial Greece over the last 100,000 years, pottery, stone tools, terracotta objects, sealstones, shell Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the elite, and ordinary domestic contexts dated to the LM bringing together the full range of studies carried out artefacts, faunal remains, charcoal, lithics, plaster and so island, the results of which are published here. I period. between 1981 and 1983 as part of the Klithi project. on 350pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 185pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 734pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 329pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2005, 9781931534116, Hardback, was £53.00 Prehistory), 2008, 9781931534505, Hardback, was £39.50 1998, 9780951942024, Hardback, was £70.00 Prehistory), 1998, 9780924171604, Hardback, was £46.00 Now £24.95 Now £19.95 Now £24.95 Now £19.95

Pseira IV Pseira X Tholos Tomb Gamma Mediterranean Minoan Buildings in Areas B C D F The Excavation of Block AF A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb Prehistoric Heritage By Philip P. Betancourt By Philip P. Betancourt at Phouni, Archanes Training, Education and Management and Costis Davaras Block AF provides the fullest By Yiannis Papadatos Edited by Ian Hodder and Volume four in the series of final sequence of building phases from any This publication includes a detailed By Louise Doughty reports on the Bronze Age town of one area at Pseira, with habitation discussion of the pottery, the Drawing on the experience of the Pseira located on Pseira island just extending from before MM II to finds and their parallels, and a Temper project ( Training, Education, off the coast of Crete. This volume LM III. It has examples of complex reconstruction of both the excavation Management and Prehistory in the reports on the architectural remains architectural details including a and stratigraphy of Tholos Gamma in Mediterranean ) and wider examples and associated finds from Areas B, C, D and F, including “pillar crypt,” elaborate upstairs floors, a well-preserved the Bronze Age cemetery of Phourni at Archanes. This from the Mediterranean, this volume explores the pottery, stone tools, lithics, fauna and micro-fauna. U-shaped staircase, and a well-designed kitchen, all of evidence is used to give the historical outline of the issues inherent in managing, interpreting and presenting 346pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean which contribute significantly to our knowledge of East tomb from its foundation in Early Minoan IIA until its prehistoric archaeological sites. Cretan building practices. excavation in 1972. Prehistory), 1999, 9780924171741, Hardback, was £56.00 160pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 330pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 166pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 2007, 9781902937380, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £24.95 Prehistory), 2009, 9781931534567, Hardback, was £53.00 Prehistory), 2005, 9781931534178, Hardback, was £39.50 Now £12.95 Now £24.95 Now £19.95

Pseira VI Soil Science and Horizon The Settlement at The Pseira Cemetery I. Archaeology A Colloquium on the Dhaskalio The Surface Survey Three Test Cases from Minoan Crete Prehistory of the Cyclades Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Edited by Philip P. Betancourt By Michael W. Morris By Giorgos Gavalas, and Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos and Costis Davaras A. Colin Renfrew Gavalas and Michael Boyd In this book Michael Morris presents This volume covers the methodology a detailed study of the prehistoric The Cycladic Islands of Greece played Here the findings are presented that was employed in the landscape in three regions of Crete. a central role in Aegean prehistory, from the well-stratified settlement of investigation, the topography of the He examines the development, and many new discoveries have been Dhaskalio, occupied from c.2750- cemetery area, and the ceramic stability, and physio-chemical made in recent years at sites ranging 2300 BC. The excavation and finds petrography for the cemetery pottery. The survey composition of selected soils near three archaeological in date from the Mesolithic period to the end of the (excluding the pottery, discussed in later volumes) are showed that the cemetery was first used in the sites. Bronze Age. This book contains novel theoretical insights fully documented, with consideration of stratigraphy, Neolithic period, and that it was abandoned in Middle into the workings of culture process in the prehistoric geomorphology, organic remains, and the evidence for 181pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean metallurgy. Minoan II, before the expansion of the nearby town in Prehistory), 2002, 9781931534031, Hardback, was £39.50 cultures of the islands. the Late Minoan I period. 540pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 832pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 188pp, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Now £19.95 2008, 9781902937366, Hardback, was £65.00 2013, 9781902937649, Hardback, was £80.00 Prehistory), 2002, 9781931534048, Hardback, was £43.00 Now £19.95 Now £29.95 Now £19.95

22 • MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 An Archaeology Of Odysseys and Greek, Roman and Theatrokratia of Prehistoric Bodies Oddities Byzantine coins in the Collected Papers on the Politics and and Embodied Scales and modes of interaction Museum at Amasya Staging of Greco-Roman Tragedy Identities in the between prehistoric Aegean (Ancient Amaseia), By William M. Calder III societies and their neighbours Eastern Turkey The volume gathers for the first time Edited by Barry Molloy Mediterranean By S. Ireland thirty-five scattered articles by Calder Of Odysseys and Oddities is about published 1958-1998 concerned Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi scales and modes of interaction Over 4,500 coins held in the museum with the political content of selected Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos in prehistory, specifically between are catalogued, ranging in date from tragedies and their staging from This book presents a series of thematically organised societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their the 5th century BC until the 11th century AD. Most are Thespis to Seneca. finds from the surrounding region, but over 50 other papers exploring the anthropology of the body and nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. 434pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2006, 9783487128559, its role in the construction and performance of social The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of mints in Asia Minor are represented and some coins Paperback, was £50.00 identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean. how we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly come from as far afield as Alexandria in Egypt and Arles in Gaul. Now £9.95 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702914, Hardback, the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and was £48.00 material encounters or displacements. 132pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2000, 9780901405531, 400pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702310, Paperback, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £14.95 was £38.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Beyond Social Change in The Greek and Latin KOINE Thalassocracies Aegean Prehistory Inscriptions in the Mediterranean Studies in Understanding processes Edited by Corien Wiersma Burdur Archaeological Honor of R. Ross Holloway of Minoanisation and and Sofia Voutsaki Museum Edited by Derek Counts Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean This volume discusses the processes By G. R. H. Horsley and Anthony Tuck Edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter of social and economic change from 24 papers grouped in four sections: I. the Early Bronze Age III to the Late The Burdur Archaeological Museum Pavúk and Luca Girella holds material from a mountainous A View of Classical Art: Iconography Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 - 1600 in Context; II. Crossroads of The 14 chapters which comprise this BC) in the southern Aegean, using area of southwest Turkey. This volume book examine various aspects of the presents its rich holdings of ancient the Mediterranean: Cultural pottery, burials and settlement evidence. A wide variety Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, of factors is considered including demographic changes, inscriptions, ranging from Hellenistic royal letters and both of which share the basic underlying defining feature Roman imperial regulations to the votive offerings and Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, household and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation. of material culture change in communities around the organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, gravestones of rural people. Aegean. It focuses on regions of the Aegean basin that internal tensions, connectivity and mobility. 330pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2007, 9781898249184, 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173794, Hardback, were affected by both processes, highlighting their Hardback, was £60.00 was £50.00 similarities and differences. 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702198, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £9.95 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702037, Hardback, Now £19.95 was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Burial and social Religious Architecture Greek and Latin from Life and Death in Asia change in first in Latium and Etruria an Indo-European Minor in Hellenistic, millennium BC Italy c. 900-500 BC Perspective Roman and Byzantine Approaching social agents By Charlotte R. Potts By Coulter George, Matthew McCullagh, Times Edited by Elisa Perego and The first part of this study examines Benedicte Nielsen and Antonia Ruppel Studies in Archaeology Rafael Scopacasa the processes by which religious This volume presents new work and buildings changed from huts and exploring how the study of The chief aim of this collection of shrines to monumental temples, Edited by J. Rasmus 14 papers is to harness innovative can advance our and explores apparent differences understanding of Greek and Latin Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, approaches to the exceptionally rich mortuary evidence between these processes in Latium and Etruria. The Gro Bjørnstad and Sven Ahrens of first millennium BC Italy, in order to investigate the and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us second part analyses the broader architectural, religious, to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of Twenty papers combining archaeology and roles and identities of social actors who either struggled and topographical contexts. for power and social recognition, or were manipulated its speakers. bioarchaeology to give a sophisticated picture of life and and exploited by authorities in a phase of 208pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780198722076, 2pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 2008, death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC – to AD 1300. tumultuous socio-political change throughout the entire Hardback, was £96.00 9780906014318, Hardback, was £45.00 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703591, Hardback, was £65.00 Mediterranean basin. Now £14.95 Now £22.50 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701849, Paperback, Now £19.95 was £40.00 Now £14.95

Early Cycladic Economics of Religion Ratio et res ipsa Spinning Fates and the Sculpture in Context in the Mycenaean By S. P. Oakley, R. J. E. Thompson Song of the Loom Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin World and Edited by Paul Millett The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Renfrew and Michael Boyd By Lisa Bendall and Lisa Maria Bendall In this volume fourteen former Cloth Production as Metaphor, pupils of James Diggle have Symbol and Narrative Device This volume presents the first This book uses the economic comprehensive reassessment of contributed essays to mark his in Greek and Latin Literature information about religion contained retirement. The contributions cover Early Bronze Age sculpture from the in the Mycenaean Linear B tablets to Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie Louise Cycladic islands in a generation. The many of the diverse disciplines ask a simple but important question: of Classics: Greek literature, Greek Nosch and Giovanni Fanfani contributors examine sculpture from What proportion of the resources language, Latin literature, Textual Spanning mainly Greek and Latin settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, available to the palaces was directed towards support Criticism, Greek and Roman Culture and the History poetic genres, yet encompassing comparative evidence with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of for religion? manufacture. of Scholarship from other Indo-European languages and literatures, 350pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, 296pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 2011, these 18 chapters draw a various yet consistent picture 544pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701955, Hardback, 9781905905027, Hardback, was £40.00 of the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and was £40.00 9780956838117, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing. Now £19.95 Now £22.50 300pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701603, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95

From Cooking Vessels Ancient Bronzes Domestic Space in Treasures from the Sea to Cultural Practices through a Modern Classical Antiquity Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple in the Late Bronze Lens By Lisa C. Nevett Dye in Antiquity Age Aegean Introductory Essays on the Housing is shaped by culturally- Edited by Hedvig Landenius Edited by Julie Hruby and Debra Trusty Study of Ancient Mediterranean specific expectations about the kinds Enegren and Francesco Meo and Near Eastern Bronzes of architecture and furnishings that Presents new research on the The contributors utilise a wide are appropriate; about how and variety of analytical approaches and Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus extraction and physical and chemical where different activities should be properties of, and the use and social demonstrate the impact that cooking Featuring significant bronzes from carried out; and by and with whom. It vessels can have on the archaeological significance of mollusc-extracted the Harvard Art Museums' holdings as well as other is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in the ancient interpretation of sites and their inhabitants. These sites museum collections, the volume's eight essays present systems of which they are a part, that are explored in include major Late Bronze Age citadels and smaller Mediterranean. Papers include the study of epigraphical technical and formal analyses. The text provides an this volume. and historical sources, practical experiments as well settlements throughout the Aegean and surrounding overview of ancient manufacturing processes as well as Mediterranean area. 178pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, as, highlighting the presence of purple dye in select modern methods of scientific examination, and it focuses 9780521789455, Paperback, was £26.99 archaeological data. 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706325, Paperback, on objects as diverse as large-scale statuary and more was £38.00 utilitarian armor, vessels, and lamps. Now £4.95 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704352, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £14.95 208pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300207798, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY AND CLASSICAL WORLD • 23 Luck, Fate and The Parthenon Enigma A Shorter History of Pythagoras Fortune By Joan Breton Connelly Greek Art His Lives and the Legacy Antiquity and Its Legacy A radical new interpretation of the By Martin Robertson of a Rational Universe By Esther Eidinow meaning and purposes of one of This is the shorter work of the two By Kitty Ferguson the world's most iconic buildings. volume set A History of Greek Art, Why and how the ancient Greeks Joan Breton Connelly proposes that This book shows how Pythagoras tried to foretell the outcome of intended for a general readership. and the Pythagoreans transformed the Parthenon frieze depicts not The abbreviation has been achieved the present is the subject of Esther the celebration of the Panathenaic the ancient world and still inspire Eidinow's lively appraisal, which by the selection of fewer objects for the realms of science, mathematics, festival, but instead the sacrifice of discussion rather than by a more explores the legacy of ancient Greek his daughter by King Erectheus, the philosophy and the arts. The belief notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era, drawing summary treatment and the particular qualities of the that the universe is rational, that there is unity to all founder King of Athens. In so doing she presents a far larger History have been preserved. on approaches to . darker picture of Athenian relgion and identity. things, and that numbers and mathematics are a powerful guide to truth about nature and the cosmos hark back 213pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780195380798, 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 485pp, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, 9780307593382, Hardback, 9780521280846, Paperback, was £36.99 to the convictions of this legendary scholar Paperback, was £12.99 was £25.00 Now £5.95 368pp, Icon Books, 2011, 9781848312319, Paperback, Now £3.95 Now £6.95 was £11.99 Now £4.95

A Brief Guide to The John Max Wulfing Classical Greece and Corpus Vasorum Classical Civilization Collection in the Birth of Western Antiquorum By Stephen Kershaw Washington University Art J Paul Getty Museum, Fascicule 5 Written in a conversational tone, By Kevin Herbert By Andrew Stewart By Marit R. Jentoft-Nilsen this book forms a reliable basic An illustrated catalogue of 437 Greek, This introductory guide provides Mycenaean faience, east Greek, Proto- introduction to the world of Greece Roman and Byzantine coins which historical context for the ‘Classical Corinthian, Corinthian, Laconian, and Rome. The historical narrative is Wolfung donated to the Classics revolution’ in art. Andrew Stewart Euboean, Chalcidian, Attic geometric, dealt with swiftly with the majority of Dept of Washington University in examines Greek architecture, painting, Attic black-figure, Attic network, Attic the book given over to introducing 1928. and sculpture of the fifth and fourth black body, Attic black glaze, Lead society, religion, art, architecture and literature. 30pp, American Numismatic Society, 1979, centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, glaze and Arretine. 448pp, Perseus Press, 2010, 9780762439867, Paperback, 9780897221801, Hardback, was £15.50 cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. 60pp, J Paul Getty Museum, 1994, 9780892362783, was £7.99 376pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 9780521618359, Paperback, was £18.99 Now £2.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

Chronicles of the Dream and Reality The Conquests of Corpus Vasorum Ancient World Danish Antiquaries, Architects Alexander the Great Antiquorum By John Haywood and Artists in Greece By Waldeman Heckel J Paul Getty Museum, Fascicule 3 Interweaving Mesopotamian, Egyptian, By Ida Haugsted Heckel provides a revisionist By Marit R. Jentoft-Nilsen Persian, Greek and Roman history, This book provides an outline of the overview of the conquests of and A. D. Trendall this book follows these burgeoning story of Danish travellers in Greece, Alexander the Great. Emphasising empires over 4,000 years, examining the aims and impact of his Presents the red-figured kraters, illuminating aspects of both the amphorae, hydriai, kantharoi, the delicate balance of power as they cultural history of Greece and the military expeditions, the political vied for territory, conquest and glory. consequences of military action, lekanides, pyxides, plates, skyphos, period of the Danish golden age in oinochoai, epichyseis, and rhyta of From Alexander the Great's 22,000-mile march on Persia the first half of the nineteenth century. and the use of propaganda, both for motivation and to Attila the Hun's plunder of the Roman empire, John justification, Heckel rejects notions of Alexander as Apulia. Haywood brings the most crucial battles and decisive 395pp, Archetype, 1996, 9781873132753, Hardback, was irrational, showing that his aims were in accord with 50pp, J Paul Getty Museum, 1990, 9780892361724, £85.00 campaigns to vivid life, and examines the extraordinary those of the military aristocracy which backed them. Paperback, was £60.00 cultural achievements of these civilizations. Now £19.95 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Now £7.95 256pp, Quercus, 2015, 9781848668966, Paperback, was 9781107645394, Paperback, was £12.99 £9.99 Now £4.95 Now £3.95

Studies in Ancient Ancient Greek Pottery Greek Warriors Remembering Defeat Coinage By Michael Vickers Hoplites and Heroes Civil War and Civic Memory In Honour of Andrew Burnett This full colour guide showcases By Carolyn Willekes in Ancient Athens By R. Bland and D. Calomino a selection of vessels from the This expert introduction explores By Andrew Wolpert Ashmolean's collection. Most of the life and training of the citizen This volume of essays is offered by the pots were made in Corinth and This volume explores the settlement his teachers, colleagues and friends to soldiers of the Greek city states, and which emerged in Athens after defeat Athens and transported to Italy how they fought against other Greek the greatest exponent of the study of and Sicily where they served as in the Peloponnesian War, and the ancient coinage of our generation. citizen armies and against the threat overthrow of the oligarchic regime grave offerings. Many are decorated of Persia. with figures, which give an insight which followed it. Wolpert uses 316pp, London, Spink Books, 2015, public speeches of the early fourth century to consider 9781907427572, Hardback, was £50.00 into Greek religion, warfare, sport, party-going and 160pp, Casemate UK, 2017, 9781612005157, Paperback, craftmanship. was £7.99 how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories Now £14.95 of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to 80pp, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1999, Now £3.95 themselves an agreement that allowed the oligarchic 9781854441140, Paperback, was £8.95 conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. Now £2.95 208pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, 9780801867903, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £7.95

The Genuine Teachers Catalogue of Greek Land of Lost Gods The Hunt in Ancient of This Art Terracottas in the The Search for Classical Greece Greece Rhetorical Education in Antiquity British Museum By Richard Stoneman By Judith Barringer By Jeffrey Walker Volume III From Cyriac of Ancona to the Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations By Lucilla Burn and Reynold A. Higgins dawn of the age of archaeology inscriptions, and other literary as a science, Richard Stoneman evidence, Judith Barringer reexamines of rhetorical theories and A catalogue of almost 1,000 schoolroom practices from early narrates the rediscovery of Greece's the theme of the hunt and shows Hellenistic terracottas, each of which Classical remains. Drawing on how the tradition it depicts helped to late antiquity. He makes a case is illustrated and described in full. for considering rhetoric not as an their own accounts he explores maintain the dominance of the ruling Arranged geographically, most of the the achievements and motivations of travellers and social groups. Aristotelian critical-theoretical discipline, but as an Mediterranean is represented. Isocratean pedagogical discipline, an art of producing antiquaries, and the enthusiasm for the Hellenic which 312pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, speakers and writers. 528pp, British Museum Press, 2001, 9780714122212, they rekindled in western culture. 9780801866562, Hardback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £145.00 352pp, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, 384pp, I.B. Tauris, 2010, 9781848854239, Paperback, was Now £12.95 9781611170160, Hardback, was £49.50 Now £49.95 £11.99 Now £6.95 Now £3.95

24 • GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Corpus Vasorum Tarentine Horsemen On the Fascination of With Alexander in Antiquorum of Magna Graecia, Objects India and Central Asia Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, 430-190 BC Edited by John Boardman, Andrew Moving east and back to west Fasc 1 (USA Fasc 21) By Nic Fields Parkin and Sally Waite Edited by Claudia Antonetti and P. Biagi By Ann Steiner Taras was the leading power of the The 14 papers presented here reflect Twelve papers in this volume A diverse collection, including scattered Greek states of southern the broad scope of the Shefton examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian Cypriot, Attic and South Italian pieces, Italy and built their reputation on collection of Greek and Etruscan campaign, the relationship between mostly previously unpublished. the unmatched horse warriors who art; ranging across pottery, jewellery, him and his generals, the potential to helped the Tarantines claim and terracottas and metalwork. The use Indian sources, and evidence for 50pp, Joslyn Art Museum, 1986, 9780936364148, maintain their power. In this book Nic Fields examines contributions focus on specific objects or groups of Hardback, was £50.00 the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring the Tarentine horsemen in detail, discussing their objects in the Collection, providing new interpretations areas such as Iran and Russia. Now £4.95 tactics, weapons and equipment and detailing how they and bringing previously unpublished items to light. operated as mercenaries throughout the region. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705847, Paperback, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700064, Hardback, was £40.00 64pp, Osprey, 2008, 9781846032790, Paperback, was was £60.00 Now £12.95 £11.99 Now £14.95 Now £3.95

Boeotia Project, Ancient Onomatologos Envy and Jealousy in Volume II: The City of Historiography on War Studies in Greek Personal Names Classical Athens Thespiai and Empire presented to Elaine Matthews By Ed Sanders Survey at a Complex Urban Site Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Edited by R. W. V. Catling and By Building on recent developments in By John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Müller and Richard Stoneman F. Marchand and M. Sasanow reading emotion "scripts" in classical texts, this book applies to Athenian Slapšak and Anthony Snodgrass This volume shows the ways in which These papers reveal some of the potential that has been unlocked by culture and literature insights on the Few major Classical cities have the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through the systematic documentation of the contexts, conscious and subconscious disappeared so completely from evidence for personal names across motivations, subjective manifestations, view, over the centuries, as Thespiai in Central Greece. their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman the Ancient Greek world, mainly from inscriptions and and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related Only the technique of intensive field survey, carefully papyri, that has accumulated over the last century. They emotions, derived from modern philosophical, adapted to a large urban site and reinforced by historical ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. amply demonstrate the value of this raw material for psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and investigation, has made it possible to recover from linguists and philologists, students of Greek and Latin anthropological scholarship. oblivion much of its life of seven millennia. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702990, Hardback, was £48.00 literature, epigraphists, papyrologists, numismatists and 224pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199897728, 414pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, prosopographers. Hardback, was £65.00 2017, 9781902937816, Hardback, was £70.00 Now £14.95 680pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842179826, Hardback, Now £12.95 Now £24.95 was £90.00 Now £19.95

Testing the Hinterland Athenian Potters and Sailing to Classical Megara Hyblaia and The work of the Boeotia Survey Painters III Greece Selinous (1989-1991) in the Southern Edited by John Oakley Papers on Greek Art, Two Greek City-States Approaches to the City of Thespiai Athenian Potters and Painters III Archaeology and Epigraphy in Archaic Sicily By Anthony Snodgrass and presents a rich of new material presented to Petros Themelis By Franco De Angelis Edited by John Bintliff and By Phil on Greek vases, including finds Edited by Olga Palagia and This study focuses on two Howard and A. M. Snodgrass from excavations at the Kerameikos Hans Rupprecht Goette in Athens and Despotiko in the settlements, Megara Hyblaia and This first volume of the project's Cyclades. Some contributions focus This volume of 15 papers is a tribute Selinous, established in Italy by the publication deals with the landscape on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, to Petros Themelis for his significant Greeks during the late 8th and that formed part of the territory of the ancient city and the structure of the figured pottery industry in contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to mid-7th centuries BC. It explores the environment and of Thespiai. This landscape acted as the laboratory in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the excavation, study and conservation of the ancient political setting, the development of the settlements which the project refined its methodology: the entire the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. site of Messene in the Peloponnese. New, previously themselves and their influence, the nature of society, the territory was traversed systematically by survey teams, unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and economy and political life. and artefacts were collected not only from every 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976639, Hardback, elsewhere is here presented for the first time. was £80.00 310pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, archaeological site located but also as 'off-site' material 9780947816568, Hardback, was £48.00 indicative of land use practices such as manuring. 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174227, Paperback, Now £19.95 was £32.00 320pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Now £10.00 2007, 9781902937373, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £19.95

The Divided City Gods and Garments Textile Production in The Archaeology of On Memory and Forgetting Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in Classical Athens Greek Colonisation in Ancient Athens the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC By Stella Spantidaki Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze By Nicole Loraux By Cecilie Brøns This book presents a detailed and Franco De Angelis Originally published in French in 1997 A new investigation into and consideration of the historical and These classic essays focus on as La Cite divisee , this study focuses interpretation of the role of textiles social context of textile production archaeological research, but on a crucial moment in Athenian and clothing accessories in the in classical Athens. It examines and they consider themes relevant political history, the end of oligarchic performance and materialisation of discusses evidence for the equipment, to archaeologists and historians rule in 403BC and the decision to ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the materials, processes and techniques alike, including: the motivation for forget the stasis of the past. Reconciliation politics 7th–1st centuries BC. Among the questions posed are employed at each stage of the full production sequence, colonisation, identity, and social integration; technology comes to the forefront as Loraux examines how civil how and where we can detect the use of textiles in the and discusses the organisation of production and trade. and trade; collaboration, competition and conflict. war could be forgotten, how dissension could be kept at sanctuaries, and how they were used in rituals including 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702525, Hardback, 160pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, bay from the city and its politics when it had been such a their impact on the performance of these rituals and the was £40.00 9780947816612, Paperback, was £9.95 fundamental part of its past. people involved. Now £14.95 358pp, MIT Press, 2002, 9781890951092, Paperback, was 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703553, Hardback, Now £4.95 £17.99 was £40.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

Alexander the Great Greece, Macedon and The Macedonians in The Tyrants of at War Persia Athens, 322-229 B.C. Syracuse: Vol. II 367- By Ruth Sheppard Edited by Timothy Howe, Erin Proceedings of an International 211 BC Nicely designed and well illustrated, Garvin and Graham Wrightson Conference held at the University By Jeff Champion of Athens, May 24-26, 2001 this book gathers together sections This book contains a collection of In this second volume of his military of the many previous Osprey books papers related to the history and By Olga Palagia and Stephen V. Tracy history of Syracuse, Jeff Champion on Alexander, linking them together historiography of Warfare, Politics and follows the course of the city' s wars coherently with narrative and analysis Power in the Ancient Mediterranean These papers focus on various aspects of Athenian art, archaeology from the death of Dionysius II down by Ruth Sheppard. world. The contributions, written by to the final epic siege of the city in 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and history in the century of 256pp, Osprey, 2008, 9781849084802, Paperback, was Macedonian domination. They consider Athens' new role 213-211 BC, and its fall to the Romans. £12.99 and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conflict at the heart of social, as a political stepping stone for potential Successors to 272pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848843677, Now £5.95 political and economic activity. the throne of Macedon, and the ways in which Athenian Hardback, was £25.00 culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979234, Hardback, Now £7.95 was £45.00 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842170922, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

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City-State Civism in The Spartans The Greek World The Parthenon Ancient Athens The World of the Warrior- Classical, Byzantine and Modern By Vincent J. Bruno Its Real and Ideal Expressions Heroes of Ancient Greece By Robert Browning Originally published in 1974 this By Thomas L. Dynneson By Paul Cartledge A wonderfully illustrated book that classic work provides an overview of the Parthenon, its history, The author presents an extensive Interspersed with the personal celebrates the history, culture and achievements of the Greeks and links architecture, building techniques, description of the intellectual forces biographies of leading figures, and sculptures and significance. that attracted "international" scholars based on 30 years' research, The Greece and the Greek people of and teachers to Athens, who in turn Spartans tracks the people from different periods from ancient times 351pp, W W Norton, 1996, 480 to 360 BC charting Sparta's to the modern world. 9780393314403, Paperback, was established important schools of £17.99 higher learning as they labored to develop and advance progression from the Great Power of the Aegean Greek 328pp, Thames and Hudson, 1985, 9780500281628, the study of rhetoric and philosophy as competing world to its ultimate demise. Paperback, was £19.95 Now £6.95 alternative approaches for addressing the perceived 320pp, Random House, 2004, 9781400078851, weakness of the democratic system. Paperback, was £13.99 Now £7.95 222pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9781433103117, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £55.95 Now £14.95

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26 • GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Sappho Potamo of Alexandria Dithyramb Tragedy Silver Coinage with By Marguerite Johnson and the Emergence of and Comedy the Types of Aesillas Sappho's poetry, essentially Eclecticism in Late By A. W. Pickard-Cambridge the Quaestor preserved in tantalising fragments, Hellenistic Philosophy A history of the earliest stages of By Robert A. Bauslaugh is discussed in a series of thematic By Myrto Hatzimichali Greek drama. The study begins by A thorough catalogue of the coinage chapters that include her religious bringing together what was known In this book the historical and of Aesillas the Quaestor. Contents writings, particularly directed to the of the dithyramb, and argues against interpretative problems associated include: the catalogue, metrology goddess of love, Aphrodite; personal Aristotle's statement that tragedy with eclecticism are for the first and production controls, overstrikes, interpretations of mythological originated from the leaders of the time approached from the point of hoards and circulation, a conclusion, themes; marriage hymns; and love dithyramb, and against the theory that it originated in view of the only self-described eclectic philosopher indices and plates. songs to female companions. performances at the tombs of dead heroes. from Antiquity, Potamo of Alexandria. The evidence is 119pp, American Numismatic Society, 2000, 144pp, Bloomsbury, 2007, 9781853996900, Paperback, 346pp, Oxford University Press, 1962, 9780198142270, was £19.99 examined in detail with reference to the philosophical 9780897222693, Hardback, was £65.00 and wider intellectual background of the period. Hardback, was £14.99 Now £19.95 Now £5.95 208pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Now £4.95 9780521197281, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £9.95

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Children in the Visual Gardens of Pompeii Interpretatio Rerum Death as a Process Arts of Imperial Rome By Annamaria Ciarallo Archaeological Essays on The Archaeology of the By Jeannine Uzzi This lavishly illustrated volume Objects and Meaning Roman Funeral In official imperial art, Roman children combines botanical images depicted By S. S. Lukesh Edited by J. Pearce and J. Weekes in Pompeiian art with present-day are most often shown in depictions Eight essays by students of R Ross This volume draws on large-scale of peaceful public gatherings before photographs of gardens in the region to give a complete understanding of Holloway discussing and interpreting fieldwork from across Europe, the emperor, whereas non-Roman Greek and Roman objects. Subjects: methodological advances and children appear only in scenes of the fruits, vegetables, pollens, seeds, and other plants of Pompeii. EBA Sicilian geometric decoration; conceptual innovations to explore submission, triumph, or violent socio-political symbolism in Greek new insights from analysis of the military activity. In this study Jeanine Diddle Uzzi argues 73pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2001, 9780892366293, vase-painting; mortal and divine scenes on Greek Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw that this stark contrast conveys the ruling elite's notions Hardback, was £20.00 vases; the Herms of Hipparchos and the propaganda them to their tombs and the communities who buried of what it meant to be Roman. Now £6.95 of wisdom; female sexuality and Danae; cityscape in them. 252pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, the Roman world; family values; Augustan imagery on 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703232, Paperback, 9780521820264, Hardback, was £67.00 coinage from Paphos. was £38.00 Now £9.95 100pp, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, 1999, 9780974860954, Paperback, was £29.00 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

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Roman Perspectives In Search of Ancient More than Just Materialising Roman Studies in Political and North Africa Numbers? Histories Cultural History, from the A History in Six Lives The Role of Science in Edited by Astrid Van Oyen First to the Fifth Century By Barnaby Rogerson Roman Archaeology and Martin Pitts By John Matthews This book, part history, part travel Edited by Irene Schrufer-Kolb The Roman period witnessed massive The fifteen papers in this volume writing, explores ancient North Africa This book, part of the International changes in the human-material discuss issues of Roman social, through the lives of five men and one Roman Archaeology Conference environment, from monumentalised cultural and political history from woman: King Juba, Septimius Severus, series, presents a range of case cityscapes to standardised low-value the foundation of the Principate to St Augustine, Hannibal and Masinissa. studies from Italy and the provinces artefacts like pottery. This book the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working In between their life stories, Rogerson describes ruins that open a fresh debate between science-based and explores new perspectives to understand this Roman imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they which tell their own tales and demonstrates the multiple humanities-based archaeologists. Contributions share a ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire interconnections that bind the cultures of this region common methodological thread in that the application 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706769, Paperback, between its early and later periods, and reveal the roots with the wider world. of scientific methods in each case answers research was £40.00 of political behaviour in social practice. 336pp, Haus Publishing Limited, 2017, 9781909961548, questions that traditional archaeology alone could not. Now £14.95 350pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2010, 9781905125395, Hardback, was £20.00 191pp, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2012, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £7.95 9781887829915, Hardback, was £110.00 Now £12.95 Now £39.95

28 • ROME WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Roman Crete: New Terra Marique TRAC 2009 Sertorius and the Perspectives Studies in honour of Anna Proceedings of the Nineteenth Struggle for Spain Edited by Jane E. Francis and Marguerite McCann on the Annual Theoretical Roman By Philip Matyszak Anna Kouremenos receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeology Conference Archaeological Institute of America Philip Mayszak provides a lively study These papers confirm Crete’s place By Alison Moore, Geoff Taylor, Emily of the career of Quintus Sertorius as a fully realised participant in the By John Pollini Harris and Peter Girdwood and his rebellion against the rule Roman world. They explore issues This volume is divided into two Among the topics and issues of Sulla. He traces the course of such as Romanisation/acculturation, thematic parts: the first is dedicated discussed are a feminist critique of Sertorius's campaigns in Spain and climate and landscape studies, regional to ancient art and archaeology, Romanization, the Herculaneum those of Pompey, sent to crush the production and distribution, iconographic trends, especially Greek and Roman sculpture; the other to Amazon, GIS and cooking wares in Gaul, hortii in the city revolt. domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition underwater and port archaeology and technology. of Rome, cadastres in the Roman northwest, the elderly 208pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781848847873, to the late-Antique era. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2005, 9781842171486, Hardback, in funerary contexts of southern Britain, Samnite grave Paperback, was £19.99 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700958, Hardback, was £48.00 goods, and sub-Roman Baldock. was £50.00 Now £6.95 Now £7.95 152pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842179727, Paperback, Now £14.95 was £36.00 Now £7.50

Roman Imperial TRAC 2002 TRAC 2010 Sword of Rome Armour Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Proceedings of the Twentieth A Biography of Marcus The production of early Theoretical Roman Archaeology Annual Theoretical Roman Claudius Marcellus imperial military armour Conference, Kent 2002 Archaeology Conference By Jeremiah B. McCall By David Sim and J. Kaminski By Gillian Carr, Ellen Swift Edited by Dragana Mladenovic McCall assesses the glittering military and Jake Weekes and Ben Russell Roman Imperial Armour presents and political career of Marcellus, an examination of the metals the This selection of twelve papers from 10 papers with topics including what who gained a legendary status for his armour was made from, of how the the twelfth annual Theoretical Roman the pottery finds from the Nepi successes during the period of the ores containing those metals were Archaeology Conference illustrates Survey Project can tell us about how Punic Wars and as the embodiment extracted from the earth and transformed into workable the broad range of different theoretical approaches the local landscape was used and inhabited, poliadic of virtus. He sees Marcellus as very much a man of his metal and of how that raw product was made into the applied to Roman archaeology today; one trend, though, deities in Roman colonies in Italy, Pompeii, the practice time, and as only one of a series of militarily competent armour of the Roman army. is apparent: a wider engagement with interdisciplinary of the recycling of architectural materials and personal aristocratic commanders. Marcellus’ real talent, McCall research, drawing theoretical ideas from many diverse adornment concerning textile remains and brooches. argues lay in his political maneuvering and his skillful 180pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174357, Paperback, management of his reputation. was £25.00 fields of study, including philosophy, psychology, history 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174524, Paperback, of art, and consumer theory. was £36.00 150pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848843790, Now £9.95 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842171004, Paperback, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £7.95 was £30.00 Now £5.95 Now £7.50

Romans and TRAC 2004 TRAC 2011 Dying Every Day Barbarians Beyond the By James Bruhn, Ben Croxford Proceedings of the Twenty-First Seneca at the Court of Nero Frontiers and Dimitris Grigoropoulos Annual Theoretical Roman By James Romm Archaeology Conference Edited by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez Topics include the ancient economy, In this lively book James Romm and Alexandra Guglielmi historiography and modern Edited by Maria Duggan, Frances examines Seneca's role at the court perceptions of the Roman world, Case studies presented here span McIntosh and Darrell J. Rohl of Nero, asking to what extent he production, supply and consumption was able to influence the emperor's across disciplines and territories, of material culture, social identities Nine papers with topics including from American anthropological cultural evolution, production and actions, and how his self-enrichment and the experience of social space at the centre of what has been seen studies on transcultural discourse and and the landscape. distribution of samian ware, the Iron provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches Age/Roman transition, and the social role of women on as a monstrous administration can be reconciled with to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th 170pp, Oxbow Books, 2005, 9781842171738, Paperback, the frontiers. his own self-presentation as the exemplar of a simple was £30.00 philosophical life. century German empire; from Danish research on 134pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174999, Paperback, warrior identities and Roman–Scandinavian relations, to Now £7.50 was £36.00 322pp, Random House, 2014, 9780307596871, innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; Hardback, was £25.00 and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Now £7.95 Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative Now £5.95 exercise on frontier cultures. 164pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706042, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Sinews of Empire TRAC 2005 Ethics, Identity and Monumenta Asiae Networks in the Roman Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Community in Later Minoris Antiqua Vol. XI Near East and Beyond Theoretical Roman Archaeology Roman Declamation Edited by Peter Thonemann Conference, Birmingham 2005 Edited by Eivind Heldaas Seland By Neil W. Bernstein A corpus of 387 Greek and Latin and Håkon Fiane Teigen By Ben Croxford, Helen The Major Declamations is a inscriptions and other ancient and Thirteen contributions employ a Goodchild and Jason Lucas collection of nineteen full-length Latin medieval monuments from inner range of quantitative, qualitative and Of the twenty-three papers delivered speeches attributed in antiquity to Anatolia (Phrygia, Lykaonia, and descriptive network approaches in at TRAC 2005, this volume presents Quintilian but most likely composed south-western Galatia). Most of order to provide new perspectives eight, plus three special contributions. by a group of authors in the second these monuments were recorded on trade, communication, administration, technology, These three papers were commissioned to mark the and third centuries CE. This is the first book devoted by William Calder and Michael Ballance in annual religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and fifteenth year of TRAC with the intention that they exclusively to the Major Declamations and argues that expeditions to Asia Minor between 1954 and 1957. All adjacent regions. should take stock of TRAC to date and look to where it the fictional scenarios of the Major Declamations enable the inscriptions are translated in full, with extensive commentaries and photographic illustration. 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705960, Hardback, may go in the future. the conceptual exploration of a variety of ethical and was £40.00 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, 9781842172193, Paperback, social issues. 399pp, Roman Society Publications, 2013, was £30.00 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199964116, 9780907764380, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £62.00 Now £7.50 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Small Finds and TRAC 2006 Rome's Revolution Roman Dress Ancient Social Edited by Ben Croxford and Death of the Republic and Accessories Practices in the By Fred Eugene Ray, Roman Birth of the Empire By Ellen Swift Roth and Peter J. White Northwest Provinces By Richard Alston Moving away from high status glitzy of the Roman Empire Papers explore issues of identity, In an original account of what he jewellery, Swift focuses on the dress its expression and recognition. accessories of the everyday person, Edited by Stefanie Hoss calls Rome's revolution, Richard Other topics include public and Alston explores the experience of the the brooches, bracelets, finger-rings, and Alissa Whitmore private religion, 'Romanisation' from ordinary inhabitants of Rome during earrings, beads, pins and belt sets. This volume uses the analysis of a zooarchaeological perspective, the fall of the Republic. They, like Based on archaeological finds, she ‘everyday’ objects to reconstruct social lives and and how theoretical archaeology the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were discusses the production of these items, the workshops practices. It takes a critical look at archaeological works in the field. political agents, negotiating their positions in the context responsible, and the distribution of particular types. contexts and site formation processes in the formation 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, 9781842172643, Paperback, of a "failed state." 56pp, Shire Publications, 2003, 9780747805670, of the archaeological record and interpretations of past was £30.00 408pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199739769, Paperback, was £6.99 peoples and behaviours. Now £6.95 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £2.95 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702563, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROME • 29 Carthage The Roman Remains Presenting the EAA 93: Excavation of Edited by R. F. Docter, Ridha John Izard Middleton's Visual Romans a Romano-British Boussoffara and Pieter Ter Keurs Souvenirs of 1820-1823 Edited by Nigel Miller Settlement on the (with additional views in Italy, presents the most recent views of Issues in the public presentation and A149 Snettisham Carthaginian society, its commerce France, and Switzerland) interpretation of the archaeology of Bypass, 1989 and politics, and the way its society By C. R. Mack and L. Robertson Hadrian's Wall and other frontiers was organised. Chapters, written by By Myk Flitcroft With additional views in Italy, France of the Roman Empire are explored leading experts, describe the founding and addressed here. Topics covered The mid first to late second century of Carthage, its merchant and war and Switzerland. Many black and white plates of the artist’s work. include re-enactment, virtual and Romano-British settlement at fleets, and the devastating wars with physical reconstruction, multi-media, smartphones, Snettisham was based on a mixed economy of farming Rome, as well as the archaeology of the Roman City and 203pp, University of South Carolina Press, 1997, interpretation planning and design; while new evidence and low intensity industry and demonstrated the survival the impact of Christianity. 9781570031694, Hardback, was £27.50 from audience research is also presented to show how of traditional techniques of house construction, and the 144pp, Sidestone Press, 2015, 9789088903113, Hardback, Now £4.95 visitors respond to different strategies of engagement. continued importance of handmade pottery. was £19.95 204pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838470, 88pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2001, 9780905594316, Now £6.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Paperback, was £11.50 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Coinage in the Roman Caesar Roman Settlement Corstopitum World The Life of a Colossus and Medieval Manor An Edwardian Excavation By Andrew Burnett By Adrian Goldsworthy House in South Bristol By M. C. Bishop Originally published in 1986, this book In his trademark readable style, By Reg Jackson This little booklet contains a selection takes a fresh look at the development Adrian Goldsworthy tackles the This report describes excavations of over forty old photographs,­ with and use of coinage in the Roman vast subject of Caesar's life, death, at Inss Court, Bristol. Evidence supporting text, from the 1906–1914 world, from the third century BC to and all the bits in between. While was found for occupation starting exca­va­tions of the Roman site the break-up of the Empire in the emphasis is placed on the military in the late Iron Age, with three at Corbridge, Northumberland. fifth century AD. The emphasis is career of this great general (this Romano-British buildings with stone It offers a fascinating insight­ into upon interpretation of the coins rather than description is, after all, Goldsworthy's speciality), the book also foundations dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The archaeological techniques and discoveries early in the of types, focusing on both how and why they were seeks to concentrate on his personal relationships, excavations also uncovered the west and North ranges century, and serves as a valuable source of unpublished circulated, and how they can illuminate the historical and his development as a politician, and his unrivalled of a medieval , dated to the 14th and 15th information for those interested in the site. economic background. commentaries on his military campaigns. centuries. 48pp, English Heritage, 1994, 9781850744757, 164pp, London, Spink Books, 2004, 9780900652844, 583pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2006, 9780753821589, 116pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2007, Paperback, was £2.95 Paperback, was £20.00 Paperback, was £14.99 9780900199561, Paperback, was £15.00 Now £1.00 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £4.95

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Roman Republican Ancient Rome A Roman Maltings At Excavations in the Moneyers By Thomas R. Martin Beck Row, Mildenhall, Middle Walbrook and Their Coins 63BCE - 49BCE Interweaving social, political, religious, Suffolk Valley By Michael Harlan and cultural history, Martin interprets By Ellen Bales By Tony Wilmott the successes and failures of the Michael Harlan has selected a group Romans in war, political organization, A report on a large timber aisled A synthesis of material excavated of 32 moneyers from the best quest for personal status, and in Roman building, which was fully by the Guildhall Museum along the documented years of the Roman the integration of religious beliefs rebuilt after burning down and was course of the Walbrook stream Republic (63-49 BCE) and describes and practices with government. He then abandoned after a second fire between 1927 and 1960. Noted for the moneyer's career, social, political focuses on the central role of social in the 3rd century. The building was their Roman finds, seven sites are and family history, and his part in the events of his times. and moral values in determining individual conduct as used for agricultural rather than domestic purposes, discussed and a history of the development of the area 266pp, London, Spink Books, 2015, 9781907427589, well as decisions of state, from monarchy to republic to possibly as a malt house. is created. Paperback, was £30.00 empire. 74pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2004, 9780860552802, 189pp, London and Middlesex Arch Soc, 1991, Paperback, was £10.00 9780903290395, Paperback, was £19.95 Now £12.95 320pp, Yale University Press, 2012, 9780300160048, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

Gladiator Ennion EAA 106: Excavations The Oriental Cults In By Philip Matyszak Master of Roman Glass at a Large Romano- Roman Britain Have you seen Gladiator or By C. S. Lightfoot British Settlement at By Eve Harris and John Richard Harris Spartacus and felt that a gladiator's This publication examines the Hacheston, Suffolk, What are the reasons behind the lifestyle might have something going most innovative and elegant known 1973-74 contamination of oriental cults in for it? This entertaining book will examples of Roman mold-blown glass, Roman Britain? What circumstances certain give you all the information providing a uniquely comprehensive, By Thomas Blagg led to this spiritual upheaval, the you need to make your decision. up-to-date study of these exceptional This report publishes the findings results of which contributed to the Drawing on ancient literary sources works. Included are some twenty-six from the 1973-74 geophysical survey triumph of Christianity? This problem and archaeological evidence, Philip remarkably preserved examples of drinking cups, bowls, and excavations at the site. The introduction provides a is at the centre of this classic study by E. Harris and J.R. Matyszak has put together a comprehensive guide to a and jugs signed by Ennion himself, as well as fifteen background history to the site which was first occupied Harris. gladiatorial career. additional vessels that were clearly influenced by him. before the Roman invasion and subsequently developed 120pp, Mimesis International, 2014, 9788857524009, 200pp, Thames and Hudson, 2011, 9780500051672, 160pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300208771, until the 4th century when it was abandoned. Evidence Paperback, was £8.00 Hardback, was £12.95 for pottery manufacture and ironworking are reported Paperback, was £18.99 Now £3.95 Now £4.95 alongside the coins, small finds and faunal data. Now £7.95 217pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2004, 9780860552789, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95

30 • ROME WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 A Roman Drainage Roman and Later Roman Southwark - Agriculture and Culvert, Great Fire Development East of Settlement and Industry in South- Destruction Debris the Forum and Economy Eastern Roman Britain and Other Evidence Cornhill By Carrie Cowan, Fiona Seeley, Angela David Bird (Editor) from Hillside Sites Excavations at Lloyd's Register, 71 Wardle and Andrew Westman This volume assesses our knowledge North-East of London Fenchurch Street, City of London A wide range of data from 41, of the southern hinterland of Roman Bridge By Richard Bluer, Trevor Brigham previously unpublished, north London. It presents detailed studies and Robin Nielsen Southwark sites provides the means of a variety of rural industries and By Ian Blair and David Sankey for ‘mapping’ Roman activity in manufacturing centres, and considers Excavations in 1996-7 uncovered important new Early Roman quarrying at Monument House was Southwark – an early trading settlement and later the supply of a range of essential goods to Roman evidence for the development of the eastern part of the administrative centre, contracting by the mid 4th London. followed by timber buildings. A 3rd-century AD stone Roman Londinium, as well as medieval and later activity. building included a subterranean drainage culvert. century AD to the area around the bridgehead – and 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703195, Paperback, At 13–21 Eastcheap early buildings were sealed by 188pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, documenting changing patterns of land use and broader was £40.00 9781901992434, Paperback, was £20.95 processes of social and economic change. Hadrianic fire debris. Now £14.95 79pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2008, Now £7.95 280pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2009, 9781901992694, Paperback, was £8.95 9781901992786, Hardback, was £27.95 Now £3.95 Now £9.95

Becoming Roman Roman and medieval Roman Waterfront Ariconium, Excavation of a Late Iron Age to Cripplegate, City of Development at 12 Herefordshire Roman Landscape at Monkston London Arthur Street, City of an Iron Age settlement and By Raoul Bull and Simon Davis Archaeological excavations 1992-8. London Romano-British 'small town' Occupation along the east side of By Elizabeth Howe and David Lakin By Dan Swift By Robin Jackson the Ouzel valley included a Late Iron New evidence for Roman London’s The Roman ‘small town’ of Ariconium Age field system and a cremation This volume presents the results of riverfront development is presented in southern Herefordshire has long cemetery, with Catuvellauni funerary work from five separate developer- here, constituting an important been known as an important iron traditions continuing into the Roman funded excavations between 1992-8. addition to our knowledge of the production centre but has remained post-conquest period. Later 1st-century AD fields, Bronze Age field ditches were sealed by domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early foreshore, its waterfront, quays and buildings. very poorly understood. Rapid expansion during the timber structures and a large enclosure were associated second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the with farming near Roman Watling Street. Roman London after AD 70. Extensive reoccupation 78pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2007, came with the establishment of burgage plots after AD 9781901992625, Paperback, was £8.95 local population was able to articulate rapidly with the 73pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, 1050. economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. 9781901992670, Paperback, was £7.95 160pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, Now £3.95 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174494, Hardback, Now £3.95 9781901992427, Paperback, was £13.95 was £25.00 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

Industry in North-west Roman and Medieval The Roman Tower at Bath: An Roman Southwark Development South of Shadwell Archaeological By Friederike Hammer Newgate A Reappraisal Assessment An examination of an extensive Excavations at 3-9 Newgate Street By David Lakin, Fiona Seeley, A study of settlement around sequence of Roman metalworking and 16-17 Old Bailey, City of London Joanna Bird and Kevin Rielly the sacred hot springs from the workshops and hearths, from the Mesolithic to the 17th century AD late 1st-late 4th centuries AD. The By Ken Pitt A new analysis and reinterpretation book is split into discussions of the Important new evidence of of the fascinating site at Shadwell, By Emily La Trobe-Bateman metalworking industry, the period 2nd-century AD Roman pottery located on the north bank of the and Rosalind Niblett covered, and an analysis of the finds and is extensively industry. Up to eight kilns, producing Verulamium region Thames. Lakin et al argue that early Roman quarrying gave way to a cremation cemetery The first major assessment and synthesis of illustrated throughout. white ware, and a probable potters workshop represent archaeological records for the City of Bath, this volume two phases of production. during the 2nd century. The construction of the 9m 186pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, square ‘tower’, dated to the 2nd century or later, is consists of 3 parts first providing an overview of the 9781901992342, Paperback, was £13.95 84pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, consistent with that of a mausoleum. area’s natural topography and current understanding 9781901992588, Paperback, was £9.95 of its archaeology, summarising antiquarian and Now £5.95 72pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2002, early archaeological investigations, then surveying Now £4.95 9781901992274, Paperback, was £6.95 archaeological evidence available to us today, and offering Now £2.95 suggestions for future research directions. 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979982, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Pre-Boudican and Roman and Medieval Urban Development in Colchester, Fortress of later activity on the Townhouses on the North-west Roman the War God site of the forum London Waterfront Southwark an Archaeological Assessment By Lesley Dunwoodie Excavations at Governor's By Carrie Cowan By David Radford, Adrian Gascoyne New evidence of Londinium’s House, City of London Excavations at Courage’s Brewery and Edited by Philip Wise pre-Boudican origins and its first By Trevor Brigham and Aidan Woodger revealed an archaeological sequence This volume is a critical assessment and second fora has been found at dating back to Prehistoric times. The This volume presents the results of the current state of archaeological a site on Cornhill. In the AD 50s Roman remains begin from AD 40-55 knowledge of the settlement commercial or military storage of the archaeological work at and show the development of the site this important site in a clear chronological narrative originally called Camulodunon buildings were established, including a granary, with a from the 1st to the 4th centuries, as the area increased and now known as Colchester. The town has been marketplace or open public area to the west. supported by many detailed illustrations and specialist in wealth before the occupation phase ended to be reports. the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th 67pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, replaced with a cemetery. century and the first modern archaeological excavations 9781901992533, Paperback, was £7.95 140pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2001, 208pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns 9781901992212, Paperback, was £12.95 9781901992335, Paperback, was £15.95 most prominent historic site. Now £3.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175088, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95

Prehistoric Landscape Roman Defences and Within These Walls Journal of Roman to Roman Villa Medieval Industry Roman and medieval defences north Pottery studies, Excavations at Beddington, Excavations at Baltic House, of Newgate at the Merrill Lynch Volume 11 Surrey, 1981-7 City of London Financial Centre, City of London Edited by Pamela Irving By Isca Howell By Elizabeth Howe By Jo Lyon Nine papers, predominantly on the Excavations at Beddington have Excavations at the site of Baltic Stream channels gave way to early study of Roman pottery in Britain. uncovered a long occupation House uncovered evidence of Roman settlement, with the city’s 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2005, sequence which includes Late Bronze occupation dating from Roman times defensive wall built in the late 2nd 9781842171400, Paperback, was Age or Early Iron Age fields, a Late onward. This included a large V-shaped century AD. The defensive ditch £24.00 Iron Age enclosed settlement and early Roman finds. A ditch which formed part of a late 1st-century defensive was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman villa was established at the site in the late 2nd century boundary along the northeast side of the Roman wall repaired, with the area becoming the site of the Now £7.95 AD and included a house, bathhouse and five other settlement and evidence for industrial activity between Greyfriars Friary in 1225. buildings. the 13th and 15th centuries. 193pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2007, 135pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2005, 122pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2002, 9781901992687, Paperback, was £24.95 9781901992564, Paperback, was £10.95 9781901992175, Paperback, was £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £4.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROMAN BRITAIN • 31 Romano-British Art and Society in Roman Archaeology in Longthorpe II Settlement and Fourth-Centry Britain the Upper Reaches of The Military Works Depot: An Cemeteries at Villa Mosaics in Context the Walbrook Valley Episode in Landscape History Mucking By Sarah Scott Excavations at 6-8 Tokenhouse By G. B. Dannell and John Peter Wild Excavations by Margaret and This volume builds upon the copious Yard, London EC2 This volume describes the pottery- Tom Jones, 1965–1978 and varied research on villa mosaics By Jim Leary, Jonathan Butler and making depot attached to the pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of By Sam Lucy and Christopher Evans in Roman Britain and evaluates it Edited by Victoria Ridgeway within the context of elite social life Longthorpe near and A comprehensive account of the in the 4th century AD. It argues that The Walbrook witnessed the build up and throws light on the problems Romano-British archaeology of the Mucking landscape the mosaics were an integral part of the rich lifestyle of of almost 4m of stratified deposits in the years between of supply of the Roman army during the conquest with detailed description and discussion of an extensive the elite in this period and played an important role in c. AD 43 and 400. The results of excavation presented campaigns. rural farming settlement and its industries in its defining their status. in this volume tell the story of the struggle to live alongside the river, attempts to control its course 206pp, Roman Society Publications, 1987, landscape setting, including important implications for 9780907764083, Paperback, was £15.75 the transition from Roman occupation to Anglo-Saxon 120pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, and alleviate flooding. Waterlogged conditions resulted 9780947816537, Paperback, was £28.00 settlement. in outstanding preservation of organic remains and Now £5.00 artefacts. 456pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702686, Hardback, Now £5.00 was £40.00 150pp, Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2012, 9780956305459, Paperback, was £15.00 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

The Archaeology of Excavations At Barrow Secrets of the Gardens Silchester the Lower City and Hills, Radley, By Jonathan Butler and Edited City in Transition Adjacent Suburbs Oxfordshire, 1983-5 by Victoria Ridgeway By Michael Fulford and Amanda Clarke By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Volume 2: The Romano Beneath Drapers' Gardens, in what This volume describes the 2nd and Michael J. Jones, Jenny Mann, British Cemetery and Anglo was once a damp and uninviting 3rd century evidence from the Alan Vince and Jane Young Saxon Settlement quarter of the Roman city excavation of Insula IX. The report of Londinium lies the buried valley This volume contains reports on sheds important light on the urban By R. A. Chambers and E. McAdam of the Walbrook, home to some of condition, debating such themes as excavations undertaken in the lower The Romano-British cemetery the more unpleasant industries of walled city at Lincoln. Remains of population density, status, occupation, consisted of 69 burials dating to the 3rd and 4th the town, as well as some remarkable diet and domestic ritual. timber storage buildings were found, probably associated centuries; both inhumations and cremations were found. and unexpected finds, including a hoard of metal objects with the Roman legionary occupation in the later 1st buried in a fourth century well. Secrets of the Gardens is 544pp, Roman Society Publications, 2011, The Anglo-Saxon settlement dates by finds evidence to 9780907764373, Paperback, was £75.00 century AD. Larger aristocratic residences came to the 4th-early 7th centuries. a lavishly illustrated, full colour, popular interim account dominate the hillside. Sequences of increasingly intensive of the excavations, aimed at the general reader Now £24.95 occupation from the 10th century were identified, with 280pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, plentiful evidence for industrial activity. 9780947816735, Hardback, was £24.99 80pp, Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2009, 9780956305411, Paperback, was £9.95 550pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781782978527, Hardback, Now £7.50 was £55.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

Between Villa and The Danebury My Roman Britain Silchester To w n Environs Roman By Richard Reece Changing Visions of a Roman Town Excavations of a Roman Roadside Programme A personal view - stimulating and By John Creighton and Robert Fry Settlement and Shrine at Higham By Barry Cunliffe and Cynthia Poole provoking - of Romano-British This volume draws together for the Ferrers, Northamptonshire studies. From 1997 to 2006 the Danebury first time all the fieldwork known to By Alex Smith, Steve Lawrence Trust, under the direction of Barry 164pp, Richard Reece, 1988, have taken place from the earliest and Alexander Smith Cunliffe, excavated seven sites on the 9780905853215, Paperback, was located trenches in the 1720s up chalk downland of eastern £14.95 until the modern campaigns of This volume presents the results Fulford. It integrates this work with of archaeological investigation of a to explore the rural settlement of Now £3.95 the region in the Roman period. The volumes make a a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new substantial Roman settlement. Established along the overarching narrative for the town. eastern side of a road in the early 2nd century AD major contribution to our understanding of Iron Age and with an array of circular stone buildings, it underwent a Roman Britain. 448pp, Roman Society Publications, 2016, significant transformation around 100 years later. 1295pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, 9780907764427, Paperback, was £55.00 361pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2009, 9780904220445, 9781905905119, Hardback, was £150.00 Now £19.95 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £49.95 Now £7.50

Transect Through Time Settling the Ebbsfleet A Late Roman Town Central and East The Archaeological Landscape Valley vol 3 House and its Environs Gaulish Mould- of the Shell North Western By Catherine Barnett, Jessica M. By Emma Durham and Michael Fulford Decorated Samian Ethylene Pipeline Grimm, Jacqueline I. McKinley This report publishes the 1937–8 Ware in the Royal By Janet Lambert, Rachel M. and Chris J. Stevens excavations in Colliton Park, Ontario Museum Newman and Adrian Oliver Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed The detailed specialist reports in this By Alison Harle Easson A new chemical pipeline from volume cover the late Iron Age and one of the best preserved late Roman Scotland to Cheshire ran down the Roman human bone and animal bone town houses so far discovered in Most of the 111 pieces described and west coast passing through areas of assemblages recovered during the Roman Britain. In addition to the illustrated (with line drawings) in this Roman interest. Excavation was carries out at four sites reported excavations, as well as environmental remains town house and its mosaics, the report publishes the catalogue come from Roman London. as well as a more detailed study of the Lune gorge. and dating evidence relating to contemporary landscape, surrounding buildings in the north-west quarter of the 49pp, Royal Ontario Museum, 1988, 9780888543240, subsistence and economy. town, also mostly of late Roman date, and associated Paperback, was £11.00 224pp, Oxford Archaeology North, 1995, 9780901800749, occupation along with an extensive collection of Paperback, was £20.00 240pp, Oxford Wessex Archaeology, 2011, Now £2.95 9780954597054, Hardback, was £30.00 artefacts. Now £5.00 436pp, Roman Society Publications, 2014, Now £7.95 9780907764397, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £14.95

Archaeology in Bath From Temples to Fosse Lane, Shepton Roman Mosaics of 1976-1985 Thames Street Mallet 1990 Britain Volume IV Excavations at Orange Grove, 2000 Years of Riverside Development Excavations of a Romano- Western Britain Swallow Street, The Crystal By Timothy Bradley and J. Butler British Roadside Settlement at By Stephen R. Cosh and David S. Neal Palace, Street Shepton Mallet, Somerset Excavations which throw light on The area covered by the fourth and By Peter Davenport two Roman construction phases By Peter E. Leach final volume in the corpus is one This report describes three including a substantial building A detailed report on the excava­ of the richest regions of Britain in excavations within the town and complex linked to the construction tion of a Romano-British roadside economic as well as architectural and some other fieldwork, including of the 3rd-century riverside wall. settlement in Somerset. Sections artistic terms and this is reflected in Swallow Street where substantial Roman foundations Evidence was revealed for substantial foundations and examine the buildings, structures, burials and the finds the quantity and quality of the region’s mosaics, which underlay late Saxon material. In Abbey St a Roman elaborate provision for drainage to combat the unstable as well as consider the date and significance of the include the largest figured mosaic ever found in Britain - mosaic and post-Roman burials were excavated. ground, while the buildings included at least two possibly settlement. the Woodchester Orpheus pavement. unfinished temples of classical form. 166pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 1991, 348pp, Roman Society Publications, 2001, 480pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010, 9780947816285, Paperback, was £20.00 156pp, Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2008, 9780954293864, 9780907764274, Paperback, was £47.00 9780854312948, Hardback, was £160.00 Paperback, was £18.95 Now £5.00 Now £7.50 Now £50.00 Now £7.95

32 • ROMAN BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Roman Inscriptions of Roman Comedy Gendered Dynamics in Encounters Britain, Volume II, By Kenneth McLeish Latin Love Poetry Travel and Money in the Fascicule 3 This introductory guide to Roman By Ronnie Ancona Byzantine World comedy focuses on the works of By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin This volume, the first to focus By Eurydice S. Georganteli Plautus and Terence. There are and Barrie Cook Inscriptions on brooches, rings, gems, chapters dealing with the two specifically on gender dynamics in bracelets; helmets, shields, weapons, playwrights' sources in Greece Latin love poetry, moves beyond The study of Byzantine coins and other military equipment; iron and Italy, and also with the kind of the polarized critical positions that is essentially the study of tools; baldric and belt fittings; votives production, theatre and actors they argue that this poetry either confirms communications and movement of in gold, silver and bronze; lead pipes, were writing for. traditional gender roles or subverts people and ideas, within and outside them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the roundels, sheets and other lead objects; stone, bone and 80pp, Bristol Classical Press, 1976, 9780862921866, Byzantium. This highly illustrated volume, focuses on over pottery roundels, and other objects of bone. ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, 50 coins to explore the empire's political and socio- Paperback, was £16.99 shifting power back and forth between male and female. 176pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991, 9780862999353, economic development and cultural relations with its Hardback, was £35.00 Now £1.95 372pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, neighbours. 9780801881985, Hardback, was £46.50 72pp, Art Books International, 2006, 9781904832270, Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £6.95 Now £2.95

The Roman The Poet Lucan Intertextuality and the Augustine Inscriptions of Britain By M. P. O. Morford Reading of Roman Conversions to Confessions Volume II, Fascicule 8 Morford considers the rules of Poetry By By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin ancient rhetoric and common themes By Lowell Edmunds Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine in Lucan’s epic on the Civil War as This fascicule covers graffiti on coarse Edmund's discussion of current on a brilliantly-described journey, well as the poem itself, incorporating combining the latest scholarship with pottery cut before and after firing; a three new translations. debates in the study of Roman poetry stamp on coarse pottery and addenda asks how we can explain the process recently-found letters and sermons by and corrigenda to fascicules 1-8. 93pp, Bristol Classical Press, 1967, by which a literary text refers to Augustine himself to give a portrait 9781853994883, Paperback, was another text. Individual theoretical of his subject which is subtly different 165pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995, £18.99 from older biographies. Augustine's heretical years as 9780750909167, Hardback, was £35.00 chapters on the concepts of `text', `poet', `reader' and Now £1.95 `persona' are applied to passages from Virgil, Horace, a Manichaean, his relation to non-, Now £6.95 Ovid and Catullus. his mystical aspirations and the nature of his conversion are among the aspects of his life which stand out in a 201pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, sharper light. 9780801865114, Hardback, was £42.00 672pp, Basic Books, 2017, 9780465093854, Paperback, Now £6.95 was £16.99 Now £6.95

The Romans Who Ennius Perennis Elegiac Passion Unearthing the Truth Shaped Britain the Annals and Beyond Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture By Sam Moorhead By William Fitzgerald and Emily Gowers By Ruth Rothaus Caston By Edna R. Russmann In this new narrative history of Eight essays on the poetry and This study begins by examining This volume presents the Brooklyn Roman Britain, Moorhead and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 the differences between the Museum’s permanent collection Stuttard take an unashamedly BC). Subjects discussed include elegiac treatment of love and that of Late Antique Egyptian stone traditional approach, focusing on the Cicero's "invention" of Ennius, the of philosophy, whether Stoic or sculptures (C.E. 395–642), including deeds and motivations of the Roman part played by the cor (heart) in Epicurean. Ruth Caston uses the main several reworked or repainted emperors, generals and governors unifying Ennius' literary project, the chapters to address the depiction of objects and some that appear to be who conquered, pacified and ruled Britain, as well as possibility of "further voices" and a role for women in jealousy in the love relationship and explores in detail modern forgeries. The ancient reliefs were made for use exploring the actions of some of the principal British Ennius, Virgil's fraught "father-son" relationship with his the role of the senses, the role of readers-both those in pagan and Coptic Christian cemeteries as well as in tribal leaders. epic predecessor and Ennius' later reincarnation in the internal and external to the poems-, and the use of Christian churches and . 288pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500251898, works of Horace and Petrarch. violence as a response to jealousy. 91pp, Brooklyn Museum, 2009, 9780872731622, Hardback, was £18.95 172pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 2007, 176pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199925902, Hardback, was £17.99 9780906014301, Hardback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £22.50 Now £9.95

The Romano-British Lands and Peoples in The Cosmic Viewpoint Jewish Martyrs in the Peasant Roman Poetry A Study of Seneca's Pagan and Christian Towards a Study of People, The Ethnographical Tradition Natural Questions Worlds Landscapes and Work during the By Richard F. Thomas By Gareth D. Williams By Shmuel Shepkaru Roman Occupation of Britain Shows how Greek ethnographical A study of Seneca’s innovative This book presents a linear history By Mike McCarthy prose influenced the poetry of meteorological treatise, in which of Jewish martyrdom, from the This important and significant volume Virgil, Horace and Lucan and their technical coverage of natural Hellenistic period to the high Middle examines, for the first time, the portrayal of real and imagined Roman phenomena is combined with ethical Ages. It shows how Jewish thought ordinary people of Roman Britain. landscapes and environments. reflections on human nature in one on martyrdom was influenced by stoic philosophical whole. It looks at how people earned a living, family size and 144pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 1982, the centrality of self-sacrifice to Roman and Christian structure, social behaviour, customs and taboos and the 9780906014035, Paperback, was £15.00 392pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199731589, thought, even as martyrdom was used to define Jewish impact of the presence of non-locals and foreigners, Hardback, was £40.49 religiosity and delegitimise their persecutors. Now £2.95 using archaeology, texts and ethnography. Now £7.95 428pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 160pp, Windgather Press, 2013, 9781905119479, 9780521842815, Hardback, was £77.00 Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Fronto: Selected Horace and the The Deaths of Seneca Upper Zohar Letters Dialectic of Freedom By James Ker An Early Byzantine Fort By Caillan Davenport and By W. R. Johnson The forced suicide of Seneca is in Palaestina Tertia Jennifer Manley Traces the key themes in the poems, one of the most tortured-and By Richard P. Harper M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman suchas Horace's relationship with his most revisited-death scenes from classical antiquity. James Ker offers a The final report of excavations senator from North Africa, and the father and with Rome his adoptive undertaken by the British School foremost Latin orator and legal city, and the conflicts between comprehensive analysis of the scene, situating it in the Roman imagination of Archaeology in Jerusalem at the advocate of the mid-second century urban vitality and rustic serenity and 5–7th century fort. The preservation A.D. This collection features new between inner freedom and outer and tracing its many subsequent interpretations. At the book's centre conditions in the dry sand resulted in English translations and commentaries on fifty-four freedom. some remarkable finds and interesting zooarchaeological letters from Fronto's correspondence, selected with is an exploration of Seneca's own prolific writings about 172pp, Cornell University Press, 1993, 9780801428685, death. records. particular emphasis on court politics and intrigue, the Hardback, was £40.95 432pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199959693, 161pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 1995, Parthian War, and family relationships among members of 9780197270080, Hardback, was £52.50 the Roman elite. Now £6.95 Paperback, was £32.49 240pp, Bloomsbury, 2013, 9781780934426, Paperback, Now £7.95 Now £5.25 was £22.99 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROMAN BRITAIN, LATIN LITERATURE AND LATE ANTIQUITY • 33 Mystras - The Medieval Pseudo-Dionysius of Pilgrimage in Early Alienation City and Castle Tel-Mahre Christian Jordan The Experience of the Eastern By Manolis Chatzidakis Chronicle, Part III A Literary and Archaeological Guide Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.) This well illustrated guide-book By Witold Witakowski By Burton MacDonald By Antigone Samellas surveys each of the principal Although the chronicle dates to the After a general introduction to This book is a comprehensive study monuments of the Byzantine and end of the 8th century the third part, each site, its biblical significance and of the experience of alienation in its Frankish city of Mystras, including translated here is taken from the a citation of the relevant biblical many and inter-related manifestations the palace and the churches with otherwise lost John of Ephesus (d. sources with commentary, the author as attested in the late-antique East. It their stunning mosaics. There is also c.588) and covers the reigns of Zeno, lists the literary sources that pertain situates Christianity's enduring legacy coverage of the town's museum. Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian. specifically to early Christian pilgrimage activity. This in its early historical context and explores the way 128pp, Ekdotike Athenon, 2005, 9789602130650, information is complemented with a description of the estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to 192pp, Liverpool University Press, 1995, 9780853237600, the status of a cardinal religious virtue. Paperback, was £14.99 Paperback, was £25.00 early Christian archaeological remains found at the site Now £6.95 and their interpretation. 556pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2010, 9783039117895, Now £3.95 264pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9780977409495, Paperback, Paperback, was £87.95 was £26.00 Now £19.95 Now £6.95

Passion and Paradise Church and Society in Desiring Conversion Spiritual Marriage By J. Warren Smith Late Byzantium Hermas, Tecla, Aseneth Sexual Abstinence in This study of the great fourth century Edited by Dimiter Angelov By B. Diane Lipsett Medieval Wedlock theologian Gregory of Nyssa explores The essays in this collection seek to Self-restraint or self-mastery may By Dyan Elliott his conception of man's relationship shed light on various aspects of the appear to be the opposite of erotic to God, and the implications of man Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, church’s role in late Byzantine society, desire. But in this nuanced, literary theology, canon law, and pastoral being made in God's image for the especially on the relationship between analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the nature of salvation. Smith also looks sources, Dyan Elliott traces the the church and the lay world and intriguing interplay of desire and history of spiritual marriage, in at the influence of Neoplatonism on the response of individuals to the self-restraint in three ancient tales of Gregory's writing. which husband and wife mutually and challenges faced by Orthodoxy. conversion: The Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, 291pp, Herder Editrice e Livreria, 2004, 9780824519445, 253pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, and Thecla, and Joseph and Aseneth. in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the Paperback, was £38.00 9781580441438, Paperback, was £24.99 190pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780199754519, sixteenth century. Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Hardback, was £71.00 392pp, Princeton University Press, 1995, 9780691010885, Now £7.95 Paperback, was £43.00 Now £12.95

The Roman Self in Inventing Latin Explaining the Cosmos The Latin Alexander Late Antiquity Heretics By Michael W. Champion Trallianus Prudentius and the Byzantines and the Filioque This volume analyzes the writings of The Text and Transmission of Poetics of the Soul in the Ninth Century three thinkers associated with Gaza: a Late Latin Medical Book Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. By Marc Mastrangelo By Tia M. Kolbaba Together, they offer a case study for By D. R. Langslow This study aims to restore Prudentius Focusing on the ninth-century the appropriation, adaptation, and The present work offers an and late Roman poetry in general to beginnings of Byzantine writings transformation of classical philosophy extensive introduction to the text a more central place in the formation against the Latin addition of the in late antiquity, and for cultural and transmission of the ancient of a new Christian intellectual Filioque to the creed, Inventing transitions more generally in Gaza. Latin version of the medical works tradition in the fourth century AD. Marc Mastrangelo Latin Heretics illuminates several aspects of Byzantine 256pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199337484, “Therapeutica” and “On Fevers” of the great sixth– shows how Prudentius was able to fuse ideas from thought—their self-definition, their theology, their Hardback, was £62.00 century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. Virgil and Horace with Platonism and biblical exegesis to uniquely constituted state. 320pp, Roman Society Publications, 2006, explore the idea of self in a newly Christian world. 205pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, Now £9.95 9780907764328, Paperback, was £65.00 259pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 9781580441339, Hardback, was £62.00 9780801887222, Hardback, was £52.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

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34 • LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Romans and Christians Arts of the City Between Revolution Annotated By Dominic Janes Victorious and State Bibliographies of Old A visual and its By Jonathan M. Bloom The Path to Fatimid Statehood and Middle English artistic and architectural interaction The Fatimids ruled in North Africa By Sumaiya Hamdani Literature with the Roman Empire, from and Egypt from 909-1171 and persecution and co-existence in the produced some distinctive and This book examines the most V, Old English Wisdom Poetry Pagan Empire, to the adaptation and spectacular art and architecture, important writings of a tenth century By Russell Poole Islamic theologian and jurist who was construction of a new visual language which this lavishly illustrated book Bibliographical guide to the scholarly in the Christian Empire. A case study synthesises into an impressively one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi literature, which also aims to give a of Late Roman Gaul and Britain detailed one volume study. survey on the research on Old English Wisdom Poetry. rounds off the book. al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in 236pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2007, Ismaili Shi'i literature, an emergence necessitated by the 418pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1998, 9780859915304, 159pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002, 9780752419541, 9789774161292, Hardback, was £45.00 Fatimids' transition from revolutionary movement to Hardback, was £65.00 Paperback, was £17.99 Now £14.95 statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority Now £3.95 as a Shi'i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate. Now £4.95 230pp, I.B. Tauris, 2006, 9781850438823, Hardback, was £27.00 Now £6.95

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+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LATE ANTIQUE, ISLAMIC AND ANGLO-SAXON • 35 EAA 108 A Gazetteer of Anglo- Purloined Letters The Old English Excavations at Mill Lane, Saxon, Anglo- The Twelfth-Century Reception Hexateuch Thetford, 1995 Scandinavian and of the Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Aspects and Approaches Hexateuch (British Library, By Heather Wallis Hiberno-Norse Sites By Rebecca Barnhouse and Cotton Claudius B. IV) In 1995 a large-scale excavation was Cumbria, Dumfriesshire Benjamin C. Withers By A. N. Doane and William P. Stoneman undertaken to the south of the Little and Wigtownshire Ten papers which reflect a wide Ouse in Thetford, in an area which By Guy Points An investigation of the extensive range of research interests into the had once been part of the Late Saxon set of Latin and English annotations Old English Hexateuch. Subjects settlement. The excavation results Intended for the student and added throughout the manuscript of include the contribution of Aelfric, have added significantly to our understanding of Late non-specialist alike, as well as those who already have the Old English Hexateuch in the late twelfth century. the dating evidence, the composition of the Old English Saxon Thetford, and confirmed that there was no earlier some knowledge of the subjects covered, it bridges the Among them are more than 30 annotations in English, text including the personalities and motivations of the settlement in this part of the town. divide between an academic approach and that of the which are conventionally explained as “mid-twelfth anonymous translators, the illustrations, male and female 131pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2004, 9780905594415, interested general public. All the sites mentioned have century” copies of notes composed in Old English at an readers and the manuscript's place in Anglo-Saxon Paperback, was £13.00 been personally visited and assessed by the author. earlier date. Purloined Letters documents the fascinating literature and art. discovery that these English notes are in fact the “last Now £5.95 216pp, Guy Points, 2016, 9780955767999, Paperback, 358pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, was £16.95 Old English,” coeval with the date of the handwriting 9781580440509, Paperback, was £38.00 (post 1180). Now £6.95 416pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, Now £9.95 9780866984430, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £14.95 EAA 74 A Gazetteer of Anglo- Writing in a Speaking The Recovery of Old A Late Neolithic, Saxon and Medieval Saxon and Viking Sites World English Site at Middle Harling, Norfolk Yorkshire The Pragmatics of Literacy By Thomas Graham By Andrew Rogerson By Guy Points in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions chart the progress of Old English and Old English Poetry A hoard of coins of the shadowy East A comprehensive guide to places, studies from the earliest work of Anglian King Beonna triggered off a artefacts and material in Yorkshire By Peter Orton the mid 16th century through to project which revealed not only late of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest the heyday of the early 18th century. A critical investigation of some Subjects include the movement of Neolithic activity but also a Viking comprising 282 sites. Each entry is manifestations of literate ways burial and a small part of a rural rated to indicate the quality of what Anglo-Saxon studies from London of thinking and expression in to Cambridge and, finally, to Oxford, the influence of settlement of the 8th to 13th centuries AD. there is to see and how easy it is to find, and the sites Anglo-Saxon writings. Two of its main themes are the are described in detail, including measurements and Richard Verstegen's engraved depictions of pagan Saxon 100pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 1995, 9780905594170, relationship between runic and Roman writing in both gods, the early history of printed Anglo-Saxon texts, the Paperback, was £10.00 descriptions of decoration where appropriate. inscriptions and poetry, and certain distinctive deictic evidence of handwritten workbooks, lexicography and a Now £4.95 446pp, Guy Points, 2007, 9780955767906, Paperback, usages, in particular the use of the first-person pronoun bibliography. was £24.95 in reference to non-human subjects.. 422pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Now £4.95 266pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2014, 9781580440134, Hardback, was £41.50 9780866984935, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

EAA 87 Being an Islander Aedificia Nova Saxon, Medieval and Excavations in Thetford, North Production and Identity at Studies in Honor of Post-Medieval of the River, 1989-90 Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600 Rosemary Cramp Settlement at Sol By Phil Andrews Edited by James H. Barrett Edited by Helen Damico Central, Marefair, Three major excavations and other Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and Catherine Karkov Northampton work in Thetford reveal settlement and fishers on the island of Westray in Focusing on the material culture of Archaeological Excavations north of the river by AD1000, within Orkney - was continuously occupied the Anglo-Saxon world, contributors 1998-2002 a semi-circular defensive enclosure from the tenth century until 1937. address the themes of time in history; which probably pre-dates that Focusing on the archaeology of its societal and ideological change By Pat Miller, Tom south of the river, but was initially little more than a first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' and continuity; iconic style and polysemous textuality; Wilson and Chiz Harward bridgehead. Occupation peaked in the 11th and 12th both reflected and impacted the fundamental pan- symbolic and representational interpretation; gender- Excavation work revealed activity in the Late Saxon to centuries, with a shift of people to the north bank, European watersheds of the Middle Ages. specific economic production; definitions of social and Norman period, when metalworking, crop processing followed by medieval decline. 358pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, political structures; and social processes of eclecticism and bone working took place at the site. A cemetery 102pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 1999, 9780905594279, 2012, 9781902937618, Hardback, was £56.00 and adaptation. was established on the site in the 10th century and Paperback, was £11.00 Now £19.95 427pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, associated with the chapel of St Martin in the 12th Now £4.95 9781580441100, Hardback, was £78.00 century, from which 72 burials were excavated. Now £14.95 81pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, 9781901992571, Paperback, was £11.95 Now £4.95

A Gazetteer of Anglo- Beatus Vir Poetry, Place and Crossing Boundaries Saxon and Anglo- Studies in Early English Gender Interdisciplinary Approaches Scandinavian Sites and Norse Manuscripts In Studies in Medieval Culture in to the Art, Material Culture, Lincolnshire Memory of Phillip Pulsiano Honor of Helen Damico Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World By Guy Points Edited by A. N. Doane Edited by Catherine Karkov This is a collection of fourteen essays Edited by Eric Cambridge This Gazetteer aims to be a A collection of papers primarily on dealing with various aspects of Old and Jane Hawkes comprehensive guide to places, Anglo-Saxon subjects, embracing English and Old Norse manuscript artefacts and material of Anglo- Old English poetry, archaeology, In this major collection of 27 papers, study. The work includes essays on Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian art history, palaeography, liturgy, contributors transcend traditional textual editing, codicology, the interrelation of text and (Viking) stone interest in Lincolnshire. Part 1 provides landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a manuscript, manuscript backgrounds, and librarianship. background material to put the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo- new interpretations, new evidence, even new number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity Scandinavians into their historical context, and part 2 575pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, technologies to further the study of some key medieval to the . The main focus is on material identifies 117 “sites”. 9780866983648, Hardback, was £57.00 works. culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the 220pp, Guy Points, 2016, 9780993033940, Paperback, Now £14.95 380pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 9781580441278, Hardback, was £78.00 strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record was £16.95 information in unfamiliar languages. Now £6.95 Now £7.95 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703072, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £19.95

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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Arthurian Sources, Fortified Settlements The Eucharist in Archaeology and Volume 3 in Early Medieval Pre-Norman Ireland History 15 Persons Europe By Neil Xavier O'Donoghue By Sally Crawford and By John Morris Defended Communities of In addition to reassessing the Papers on a cemetery at Updown in A prosopography of ecclesiastics the 8th-10th Centuries available texts for the liturgy of the Kent; Wat's Dyke; western Mercian and lay people active in sub-Roman Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish Edited by Neil Christie and church this study considers the social town defences; the significance of Britain, with biographical details Hajnalka Herold OE Burh; the Winchester style in and full citations and bibliographical­ dimension of the Eucharist, and its metalwork finds from the Danelaw; information, as well as cross- This important collection treatment in art and architecture. and masculinity in Viking-Age England. referencing. provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the Most importantly, O'Donoghue shows that pre-Norman archaeologies of the distinctive settlement forms that Ireland was very much a part of the Western (Gallican) 400pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, 172pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1995, 9780850337594, characterised Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Contains liturgical tradition 9781905905102, Paperback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £19.95 twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, Now £14.95 Now £4.95 from across Europe 9780268037321, Paperback, was £47.50 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702358, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Form and Order in the Viking Art Of War Landscape With Two The Making and Anglo-Saxon World, By Paddy Griffith Saints Unmaking of a Saint AD 400-1100 This groundbreaking, authoritative By Lisa M. Bitel By Mathew Kuefler Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and best-selling study of the Vikings This intriguing book examines the This volume traces the rise and fall and History Volume 16 establishes the facts behind their multifaceted careers and cults of of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac rise to prominence, and cuts away two fifth and sixth century saints, through a millennium, from his Edited by Sally Crawford and By the myths about their military and Genovefa of and Brigit of death in the tenth century to the Helena Hamerow and Leslie Webster seafaring skills, reputation, and Kildare. Unlike the usual stereotype attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the The aim of this volume is to explore exploits. It examines their tactics, of the female saint as pious nineteenth century. Mathew Kuefler Anglo-Saxon perceptions of form and order in their seamanship, mobility, strategy, and martyr, Genovefa and Brigit were celebrated for the makes a strong case for the sophistication of hagiography different manifestations, through two main strands texts how they exploited victories and dealt with defeats. active part they played in ordering and shaping their as a literary genre that can be used to articulate religious of all kinds, and art, architecture and archaeology. 256pp, Pub Casemate Greenhill, 2010, 9781932033601, newly Christian communities. doubts and anxieties even as it exalts the saints. 128pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2009, Hardback, was £25.00 297pp, Oxford University Press, 2009, 9780195336528, 320pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 9781905905133, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £31.49 9780812245523, Hardback, was £66.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

The Anglo-Saxon Pictorial Arts of the Croatia in the Early Richard II Cemetery at Worthy West, 800-1200 Middle Ages A True King's Fall Park, Kingsworthy, By C.R. Dodwell By Ivan Supicic By Kathryn Warner near Winchester, A large and profusely illustrated This large book contains thirty papers In this book, Kathryn Warner paints Hampshire survey of medieval art extending in English, bringing to the fore-front a portrait of the king with all of his from Scandinavia to Jerusalem, and the richness of Croatian history, strengths and imperfections left in the By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Guy ranging widely across its many forms artistic and cultural achievement picture. An aesthete and patron of the Grainger, E. Biddulph and Anne Dodd and history. Includes discussion of the in the Early Middle Ages. Spanning arts as well as a person troubled by a The cemetery was excavated in painters and craftsmen of the time, the period from the 7th to 12th much-maligned 'personality disorder', 1961–2 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes; this volume draws and the relationships between the arts and the history centuries, the papers explores the relationships between Richard II here emerges from behind the mask of a to­gether all of her chapters and drawings relating to the and theology of the period. Croatia and the rest of Europe, especially the influence theatrical character. site, including a detailed catalogue of burials, a report on 461pp, Yale University Press, 1995, 9780300064933, of Roman, Byzantine and eastern cultures. 372pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445662787, the human bone, and a gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon sites in Paperback, was £35.00 633pp, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999, 9780856674990, Hardback, was £20.00 Hampshire. Hardback, was £73.00 Now £16.95 225pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003, Now £9.95 9780947816605, Hardback, was £22.50 Now £24.95 Now £10.00

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE • 37 Richard III Ipswich Recognizance English Episcopal Acta John Trevisa and the A Ruler and His Reputation Rolls, 1294-1327 IX English Polychronicon By David Horspool Edited by G. H. Martin Winchester 1205-1238 By Jane Beal David Horspool tells the story of The recognizance rolls of Ipswich are By Nicholas Vincent Jane Beal examines the rhetorical Richard, Duke of Gloucester's birth a register of titles to property in the Bishop Peter des Roches was one of strategies John Trevisa used to and upbringing and his part as a young borough and are among the most the most important and controversial establish his authority and justify his man in the closing years of the Wars varied and interesting of the court’s figures in the political history of translation of Ranulf Higden’s Latin of the Roses, describes what really records. The contents of the first 13th-century England. A large number Polychronicon into English. She pays happened to the Princes in the Tower, twenty-one rolls are presented in an of administrative writs relating to his particular attention to the translator’s and explains why this character has become one of the English paraphrase that takes account of all significant role at court are included in this collection of over 340 use of paratextual material, which includes two prefaces most compelling and divisive rulers in the history of the variations in the original Latin, and also indicates the documents. and numerous intertextual notes. British Isles. clerk’s marginal notes and memoranda. British Academy, 1994, 9780197261309, Hardback, was 186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 336pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781472902993, Hardback, 151pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1970, 9780900716140, £40.00 9780866984850, Hardback, was £50.00 was £20.00 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

Fourteenth Century John Wyclif on War Magna Carta Personalities and England IV and Peace Law, Liberty, Legacy Perspectives of Edited by J.S. Hamilton By Rory Cox Edited by Claire Breay Fifteenth-Century Topics include the cult of Thomas of From the writings of St Augustine of and Julian Harrison England Lancaster, royal landscapes, Edward Hippo in the fifth century, Christian This exhibition catalogue takes us Edited by A. Compton Reeves III's fundraising, Thomas Hatfield, justifications of war had revolved on a journey from the charter's The history and culture of Agnes Malatravers, John Mirk, the around three key criteria: just medieval origins through to what it fifteenth-century England have been statutes of Provisors and Premunire, cause, proper authority and correct means to people around the world subjected to rigorous research by the royal pardon, Thomas Despenser, intention. Using Wyclif's extensive today. Drawing on the rich historical several generations of scholars. The the deposition of Richard II, and the coal industry. Latin corpus, the author shows how he dismantled collections of the British Library - including two original international group of scholars who have contributed these three pillars of medieval "just war" doctrine, copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to 204pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 9781843832201, to this volume continue that effort by approaching demonstrating that he created a coherent doctrine of life the history and contemporary resonance of this Hardback, was £60.00 their particular subjects from such varied perspectives pacificism and non-resistance which was at that time globally important document. Now £12.95 unparallelled. as scandal and warfare, people and politics, art and 272pp, British Library, 2015, 9780712357630, Paperback, literature, and successions and processions. 200pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9780861933259, was £25.00 Hardback, was £50.00 182pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Now £7.95 9780866984621, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

John Mirk's Festial Texts and Traditions of The Black Death The Winchcombe and Orthodoxy, Lollardy and Medieval Pastoral A Personal History Chronicles the Common People in Care By John Hatcher Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to Fourteenth-Century England Essays in Honour of Bella Millett Focusing just one village, the well the Work of John of Worcester By Judy Ann Ford Edited by Cate Gunn and documented village of Walsham in Edited by Paul Anthony Hayward Written with largely uneducated rural Catherine Innes-Parker Suffolk, John Hatcher pens what The Winchcombe and Coventry congregations in mind, John Mirk's he describes as a docu-drama, a Pastoral and devotional literature Chronicles are the foremost Festial became the most popular fictionalised attempt to reconstruct examples of ‘the breviate world vernacular sermon collection of late- flourished throughout the middle the lives of ordinary people as they ages, and its growth and transmutations form the chronicle in annalistic format’ to medieval England. This book represents the first major struggled to cope with the plague and its consequences. survive for twelfth-century England. This book edits examination of the Festial, looking in particular at the focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of 352pp, Da Capo Press, 2009, 9780306817922, Paperback, and translates both texts in full for the first time. It issues of popular culture and piety; the oral tradition; was £11.99 includes comprehensive source-critical and historical biblical and secular authority; and clerical power. vernacular spirituality. Now £5.95 commentaries, and an extensive introduction explaining 176pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843840015, 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, 9781903153291, their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose. Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £50.00 788pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 Now £22.50 9780866984218, Hardback, was £106.00 Now £24.95

Records of The Foundations of England, Arise Richard of Maidstone: Convocation III: Medieval English By Juliet Barker Concordia Canterbury 1313-1377 Ecclesiastical History Juliet Barker, acclaimed for her studies The Reconciliation of Edited by Gerald L. Bray Studies Presented to David Smith of the latter half of the Hundred Years Richard II with London War, here turns her attention to the This volume contains all the evidence By Christopher N. L. Brooke, Philippa Great Revolt of 1381. She is anxious Edited by David R. Carlson for convocations and provincial Hoskin and Barrie Dobson to avoid the title “Peasant’s Revolt”, and A. G. Rigg councils during the reigns of Edward for as the considerable evidence The poem that Richard Maidstone II and Edward III, and reconstructs the These essays demonstrate the importance of critical editions of which is marshalled here makes wrote on the metropolitan crisis of period from 1328 to 1349, for which clear, the revolt was much more than 1392 reports information about the the Canterbury registers have been lost. Latin text. primary documents editions to a proper understanding and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval a rural phenomenon, and united people from a wide royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail 458pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2005, 9781843831785, ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century spectrum of social statuses, from members of the gentry, than any other source. The latin text is presented here Hardback, was £95.00 forgery to diocesan administration, from the church merchants and urban tradesmen, to the more usually with a facing verse translation, an introduction and notes. recognised villeins. Now £9.95 courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish 144pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, clergy to the papacy. 528pp, Little, Brown and Company, 2014, 9781580440806, Paperback, was £12.00 9781408703359, Hardback, was £25.00 284pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831693, Now £3.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Mystical English Episcopal Acta Familia and Household Henry V Tradition in England: II and III, Canterbury in the Medieval By Marcus Cowper Papers read at 1162-1205 Atlantic Province A concise look at the campaigns Charney Manor July By C. R. Cheney and E. John Edited by Benjamin T. Hudson and military leadership of Henry V, accompanied by plentiful illustrations, 2011 The output of the ' These nine essays explore the use battle plans and photographs of the Edited by E.A. Jones chanceries reveals that the underlying and importance of genealogy, the surviving castles which he besieged principles of ecclesiastical government artificial family, literary images of and captured. The five "Middle English Mystics" were changed not by the turbulent , and the political ramifications (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the events of the period, but by a gradual of family ties. They contribute to 64pp, Osprey, 2010, 9781849083706, author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich evolution of offices, institutions and customs in Latin the investigation of domestic structure and family Paperback, was £11.99 and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with Christendom. This collection of official acts reflects the organization during a crucial time in European Now £3.95 significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical unprecedented activity of English prelates of this period development. approaches. in the management of their dioceses, in the transfer of 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, 226pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843405, parochial patronage from laymen to religious houses, and 9780866984409, Hardback, was £48.00 Hardback, was £60.00 in correspondence with the court of Rome. Now £14.95 Now £6.95 374pp, British Academy, 1991, 9780197261040, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95

38 • MEDIEVAL BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 St Edmund of Her Life Historical For Honour and Fame Olivier de la Marche Abingdon Exemplarity and Female Saints Chivalry in England 1066-1500 and the Rhetoric of Lives in Late Medieval England A Study of Hagiography and History By Nigel Saul 15th-Century By C. H. Lawrence By Catherine Sanok A survey of chivalry - the value Historiography St Edmund was the last Archbishop This study argues that late medieval system of the medieval aristocracy. By Catherine Emerson writers and readers used religious Focusing on England, Saul discusses its of Canterbury and the first Oxford Oliver de la Marche’s Mémoirs of master to have been officially narrative, and specifically the legends origins, its martial aspects, its impact of female saints, to think about the on art and architecture, and on Burgundy was written over a fifty canonized. This book offers a careful year period in the 15th century and is scrutinisation of the hagiographic historicity of their own ethical lives literature, its religious aspects, and its and of the communities they inhabited. broader impact on social relations. a real mix of disjointed episodes. This tradition and the primary texts. detailed study re-examines the Mémoires in order to 339pp, Oxford University Press, 1960, 9780198212751, 256pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2007, 432pp, Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, 9781845951894, determine the method beind the work’s structure and Hardback, was £14.99 9780812239867, Hardback, was £58.00 Paperback, was £16.99 design and to uncover the agenda of the author which led to particular interpretations of certain events. Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 247pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781843830528, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95

Stephen Langton Looking Inward Henry V The Hospitallers and By Maurice Powicke Devotional Reading and the Private By John Matusiak the Holy Land Powicke's Ford lectures from 1928 Self in Late Medieval England This new biography takes a fresh Financing the Latin East, 1187 - 1274 remain the principal study of Stephen By Jennifer Bryan look at Henry's entire life and nine By Judith Bronstein Langton, exploring his role in the year reign. John Matusiak shows that Magna Carta crisis, and the influence An exploration of the popularity of the situation confronting Henry at An investigation of the organisation of scholastic philosophy on his the English devotional treatise in the the outset of his reign was far more of the Hospitallers in the east. It actions. Later Middle Ages. Jennifer Bryan favourable than is often supposed focuses on the impact of the various argues that these works encouraged but that he was nonetheless a man of crises in the East upon the Order, 227pp, Oxford University Press, 1928, readers to focus on themselves and looking at how it reacted to events, 9780198269687, Hardback, was £12.99 prodigious gifts whose extraordinary their own identities, in effect they acted as a mirror achievements in battle left the deepest possible the contributions that western priories played in the Now £4.95 on the soul, and their popularity both reflected and impression upon his contemporaries. rehabilitation of the East, and the various efforts made to contributed to a growing feeling of self-awareness in late restore its economic and military strength. medieval society. 304pp, Routledge, 2012, 9780415620277, Paperback, was £28.99 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831310, 270pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, Hardback, was £50.00 9780812240481, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

The Letters of Osbert Textual Healing The Call to Read Charters and of Clare Studies in Medieval English Medical, Reginald Pecock's Books and Custumals of the Prior of Westminster Scientific and Technical Texts Textual Communities Abbey of Holy Trinity, By E. W. Williamson Edited by Javier E. Diaz-Vera By Kirsty Campbell Caen, Part 2 and Rosario Caballero The latin text of the letters of Osbert Kirsty Campbell examines the The French Estates important and innovative contribution of Clare, active from the 1120s to The studies presented in this volume By John Walmsley the 1150s. Osbert promoted reform, concentrate on different aspects of Pecock made to late medieval debates was twice exiled by his superiors at the medical, scientific and technical about the roles of the Bible, the The second volume contains Westminster, and was one of the varieties of early English used in a Church, the faculty of reason, and important evidence on the economic most prolific hagiographers and forgers of charters of wide range of medieval manuscripts. practices of devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and and social development of monastic estates on both his age. 213pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2009, 9783039118229, stable Christian community. sides of the Channel. 232pp, Oxford University Press, 1998, 9780198206187, Hardback, was £50.95 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 160pp, British Academy, 1994, 9780197261378, 9780268023065, Paperback, was £40.50 Hardback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £12.99 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

An Alternative History Domesday Book: Tales from the Long Nicolas de Clamanges of Britain Bedfordshire Twelfth Century Spirituality, Personal Reform The War of the Roses Edited by John Morris The Rise and Fall of the and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the By Timothy Venning Facsimile text and translation of this Angevin Empire By M. Bellitto This book forms a chronological fundamental source. By Richard Huscroft history of the Wars of the Roses, 176pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1977, This intriguing book tells the story This study of the early humanist which identifies key turning points 9780850331493, Hardback, was of England's great medieval Angevin Nicolas de Clamanges (1363/64-1437) and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As £14.00 dynasty in an entirely new way. focuses on his religious thought, and in particular his proposals for the much as exploring alternative paths of Now £4.95 Departing from the usual king-centric history, however, Venning's approach focuses on why they narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his reform of the church, which led him to be condemned as happened as they did, asking how forces were weighted, chapters on the experiences of a particular man or a proto-protestant in later centuries. and where luck or judgement had a decisive say. woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. 146pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 224pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781781591277, 320pp, Yale University Press, 2016, 9780300187250, 9780813209968, Hardback, was £42.50 Hardback, was £19.99 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £4.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

Summer of Blood Domesday Book: Queens, Regents and The Deeds of By Dan Jones Berkshire Potentates Innocent III A straightforward narrative account By Ian Morris Edited by Theresa M. Vann By James M. Powell of the Great Rising of 1381, written Facsimile text and translation of this Queens, Regents and Potentates "The Deeds of Pope Innocent very much with the newcomer to fundamental source. concentrates on the theme of women III", composed before 1210 by an medieval history in mind. It's fast 160pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1979, and royal power, examining the anonymous member of the papal moving, gripping and full of chatty available information about specific curia, provides a unique window into language and bucketloads of gore 9780850331721, Paperback, was £8.25 royal women and reassessing their the activities, policies, and strategies 288pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 2016, access to and use of power and of the papacy and the curia during 9780143111757, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £2.95 authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about one of the most important periods in the history of the Now £4.95 internal politics and international relations in medieval medieval church. Europe. 286pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 166pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156491, 9780813214887, Paperback, was £34.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND EUROPE • 39 Imperial Lives and In Search of the Holy The Transformation of The Medieval Marriage Letters of the 11th Grail the Year One Scene Century The Quest for the Middle Ages Thousand Prudence, Passion, Policy By Theodor Mommsen By Veronica Ortenberg By Guy Bois Edited by Sherry Roush and Translations of "The Deeds of Conrad A survey of the influence of the A Marxist socio-economic history Cristelle L. Baskins II" (1024-1139) by Wipo, "Life of Middle Ages, and of medieval attitudes of the village of Lournand near Papers on on fictive, artistic, legal, Emperor the Henry IV" (1056-1106) and values, on later periods and on Cluny. In tracing the development­ ethical, and economic facets of the and the Letters of Henry IV. the modern world, taking in the of the community from antiquity to institution of marriage across Europe 223pp, Columbia University Press, romantic movement and the influence feudalism, the author presents the between roughly 500 and 1550. 2000, 9780231121217, Paperback, was £27.00 of medievalism on nationalism, the enduring popularity case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a sharply defined era of dramatic change. 216pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, of all things Celtic or Arthurian, and the Middle Ages on 9780866983433, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £4.95 screen from Robin Hood to Pasolini. 171pp, Manchester University Press, 1992, 336pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2006, 9780719035661, Paperback, was £16.99 Now £12.95 9781852853839, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £2.95 Now £6.95

An Anatomy of Trade The Culture of Medieval Comparative in Medieval Writing Christendom Constructions in Perspectives on By Lianna Farber By Marc A. Meyer Gender and Identity History and Historians Lianna Farber restores the core Fifteen essays in Medieval History Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante Essays in Memory of Bryce economic concept of trade to its in memory of Denis Bethel; they Edited by Teodolinda Barolini Lyon (1920-2007) medieval contexts, showing that it range from the fall of Rome to the contains three component parts: fourteenth century, and are centred Sharing an interest in women and Edited by James M. Murray, David value, consent, and community, each on the high medieval church. identity formation, these essays range Nicholas and B. S. Bachrach of which were deeply contested. In through time, covering the period These essays are grouped 320pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, from the tenth through the fifteenth the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not 1993, 9781852850647, Hardback, was £95.00 according to the major areas on which Lyon’s research descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an century, and across languages, discussing sources in Latin, concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional attempt to justify it. Now £4.95 Italian, French, Occitan, English, and Hebrew. and legal history of England and the Continent, and the 235pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444128, 204pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, economic history of the Low Countries. Hardback, was £48.00 9780866983372, Hardback, was £36.00 376pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2012, 9781580441681, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

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Out of Love for My Kin Henry Suso: Life of the The Customs of Magistra Doctissima Aristocratic Family Life in the Servant Catalonia between Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 Translated by James M. Clark Lords and Vassals by Edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Ann By Amy Livingstone A translation of Henry Suso's great the Barcelona Canon, W. Astell and Howell Chickering Livingstone examines the personal mystical work, which written in Pere Albert The essays in this volume are grouped response to the sufferings of a woman dimensions of the lives of aristocrats A Practical Guide to Castle in five sections: Old and Middle in the Loire region of France approaching death, narrates his own English Literature, Arthuriana Then during the eleventh and twelfth spiritual life and ascetic practices. Feudalism in Medieval Spain and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, centuries. She argues for a new 150pp, James Clarke and Co, 1990, Edited by Donald J. Kagay and Spirituality, and Royal conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an 9780227678626, Paperback, was £18.00 Kagay provides an English translation of this medieval Women. ethos of inclusion, evident in the care that aristocrats Now £4.95 practical guide to feudal relations in Catalonia, and 280pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2013, showed toward their families. places the work and its author in the context of other 9781580441773, Hardback, was £70.00 296pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, 9780801448416, thirteenth-century legal handbooks as well as the Hardback, was £45.00 "feudalism debate" of the twentieth century. Now £7.95 Now £9.95 160pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, 9780866982856, Hardback, was £23.00 Now £7.95

Passion and Order The Life and Afterlife The Late Medieval The Salt of Common Restraint of Grief in the of Isabeau of Bavaria Pope Prophecies Life Medieval Italian Communities By Tracy Adams The "Genus Nequam" Group Individuality and Choice By Carol Lansing Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) was Edited by Martha H. Fleming in the Medieval Town Countryside and Church A fascinating cultural history, this the wife of Charles VI of France, The Genus nequam group is the book looks at a period of great whose weak rule and periodic bouts earliest manifestation of the 15 Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt of madness left her as effective change in perceptions of grief in illuminated prophecies that captivated The essays within this volume, thirteenth century Italy. Carol Lansing regent for much of her reign. Tracy readers and viewers for over three Adams tackles her posthumous produced in honor of J. Ambrose argues that as the well-being of the centuries. They describe the progress Raftis, are united by two themes state came to be associated with orderly behaviour reputation for incompetence, debauchery and adultery, of the Church from Nicholas III (1277-80) to the final finding her actions to be politically astute given the significant in Raftis’s career: a belief in the fundamental public displays of grief became seen as disorderly and angelic pontiff, and include depictions of Martin IV, individuality of medieval English men and women, and a were associated increasingly with women. almost impossible circumstances in which she found Honorius IV, and other intervening . Latin text with herself. belief in their ability to make choices. 244pp, Cornell University Press, 2008, 9780801440625, commentary. 338pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, 562pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Hardback, was £53.00 240pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, 9781879288478, Paperback, was £39.99 9780801896255, Hardback, was £43.00 9780866982467, Hardback, was £22.00 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

40 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Book of Michael of The Empire at the End Authorship and Blessed Louis, the Rhodes of Time Publicity Before Print Most Glorious of Kings Volume 1: Facsimile Identity and Reform in Late By Daniel Hobbins Translated by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Medieval German Prophecy Edited by David McGee, Alan M. Daniel Hobbins argues for a With the aim of showing Saint Stahl and Pamela O. Long By Frances Courtney Kneupper new understanding of Jean Gerson as Louis as he was commemorated in a man of letters actively managing the the literature of the Middle Ages, In the fifteenth century, a Venetian In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic publication of his works in a period this book presents six previously mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote of rapid expansion in written culture. untranslated texts: two little-known and illustrated a text describing his prophecies of the late medieval Empire, which even within the More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson but early and important vitae of Saint experiences in the Venetian merchant as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand out for their bitter and violent nature. She argues that of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and mathematics and treatments of contemporary proper mass in his honor. shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, increased literacy, the development of strong urban 352pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2013, and astrological ideas. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the centers, the drive for reform, and a connection to the 9780812222746, Paperback, was £23.99 322pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 9780268029845, Paperback, was £42.50 manuscript, reproduced in full colour. imperial crown were behind their popularity. Now £9.95 534pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262135030, Hardback, was 280pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780190279363, Now £12.95 £57.95 Hardback, was £59.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Book of Michael of God`s Armies - Sea of Silk Engaging with Nature Rhodes Crusade and Jihad A Textile Geography of Women's Essays on the Natural World in Volume 2: Transcription By Malcolm Lambert Work in Medieval French Literature Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Translation Malcolm Lambert investigates the By E. J. Burns Edited by Barbara Hanawalt Edited by Pamela O. Long, David histories of Christianity and Islam to This intriguing book looks at the and Lisa J. Kiser McGee and Alan M. Stahl trace the origins and development depiction of female silk workers This collection of essays looks at the of crusade and jihad. They are often in Old French literature, arguing interaction between humans and the edited by Pamela O. Long, David reckoned two sides of the same coin McGee and Alan M. Stahl. that literary portraits of medieval natural world, at medieval ideas and but this simple opposition, the author heroines who produce and decorate conceptions of nature, and at the use Michael’s book includes the first extant treatise on naval shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities. silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline of animals and the natural world as literary and cultural architecture, a treatise on mathematics in the tradition 352pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681775319, Paperback, a metaphorical geography that includes France as an devices. of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts was £13.99 important cultural player in the silk economics of the 236pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, on navigation, and Michael’s autobiographical service Mediterranean. record. Now £5.95 9780268030834, Paperback, was £32.50 264pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, 732pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262195904, Hardback, was 9780812241549, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 £62.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The Book of Michael of Hugh of Poitiers: The The Bride of Christ From Knowledge to Rhodes Vezelay Chronicle Goes to Hell Beatitude Volume 3: Studies Edited by John Scott and John O. Ward Metaphor and Embodiment in the St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Edited by David McGee, Alan M. This Chronicle, which Pons Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Scholars, and Beyond Stahl and Pamela O. Long (1138-1161) ordered his notary Hugh By Dyan Elliott Edited by E. Ann Matter of Poitiers to write, is a passionate and Lesley Smith Nine essays examine the Venetian and detailed account of the litigation This book uses 's epithet maritime world of the fifteenth and violence that marked the "bride of Christ" as a starting point Essays on the intersection between century, Michael's life, the discovery emergence of urban institutions to examine the ways in which this Christian theology and spiritual life of the manuscript, the mathematics at Vezelay and the fighting between abbot, count and metaphor was applied to pious primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational bishop. This first English translation also includes other women during the full sweep of the Middle Ages, and centuries, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor. directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the relevant documents as well as an introduction and notes. how it was used by the church to shape and restrict They range from the study of the exegetical school of Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive female agency, as well as by women themselves to reflect twelfth-century St. Victor and medieval glossed Bibles to calendrical material. 402pp, Pegasus Press, 1992, 9780866980951, Paperback, a more intimate, mystical relationship with Christ. the medieval cultural reception of women visionaries, was £10.99 384pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262123082, Hardback, was 480pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2011, preachers, and crusaders. £37.00 Now £4.95 9780812243581, Hardback, was £54.00 488pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Now £9.95 Now £14.95 9780268035280, Hardback, was £77.50 Now £19.95

Holy Treasure and Urban Legends Understanding Plague Gendering Disgust in Sacred Song Civic Identity and the Classical By Randal P. Garza Medieval Religious Relic Cults and their Liturgies Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350 This volume studies the effects Polemic in Medieval Tuscany By Carrie E. Benes of the Black Death in Spain, and By Alexandra Cuffel demonstrates how it changed By Benjamin Brand Between 1250 and 1350, numerous the societies it afflicted. Studying Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval This book situates sacred music Italian city-states jockeyed for the medical and imaginative texts Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses at the centre of an examination position in a cutthroat political of medieval Spain reveals that of gendered bodily imagery and of relic cults in medieval Tuscany. climate. Each city-state appropriated the disease helped to change the metaphors of impurity in their visual Benjamin Brand reveals that the music classical symbols, ancient materials, perceived role of the medical and verbal polemic against one composed to honor these local saints - no fewer than and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal another. She shows that these religious traditions shared ninety chants for the Mass and Divine Office - were successor to-or continuation of-Roman rule. In Urban of death and dying. notions of the human body as distasteful. In particular, essential components of larger devotional campaigns Legends, Carrie Benes illuminates this role of the she explores how authors from each religious tradition classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian 119pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9780820463414, targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. that included the recording of their life stories and the Hardback, was £45.95 building and decoration of their shrines. urban identity. 448pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199351350, 296pp, Penn State University Press, 2011, Now £14.95 9780268023676, Paperback, was £47.50 9780271037653, Hardback, was £69.95 Hardback, was £43.49 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Song of the Distant Worlds of Difference Columbus and the Gothic Song Dove European Discourses of Quest for Jerusalem Victorine Sequences and Augustinian By Raymond P. Scheindlin Tolerance c1100-c1550 By Carol Delaney Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the By Cary J. Nederman This new biography sets Columbus’ By Margot E. Fassler best-known and most beloved of Medieval Europe, with its crusading life and voyages against the backdrop This book demonstrates how the premodern Hebrew poets, abandoned fervour, is not generally thought of as of his eschatological beliefs, arguing of St. Victor, Paris, used his home and family in Spain and a place of tolerance; divergence from that Columbus’ primary motivation in an art of memory to build sonic spent the last year of his life traveling the norm, whether social, political attempting to chart a western route models of the church. This musical to the Land of Israel. This book tells or religious, was not acceptable. to the East Indies lay in his desire to art developed over time, inspired by the story of Halevi's journey through selections from his Nederman argues, however, that tolerance and liberalism raise funds for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem as the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and letters, and explores its meaning through discussions of had their supporters across Europe during this time and the first step in the fulfilment of history and the coming their understandings of image and the spiritual journey his stirring poetry, presented in new verse translations that inter-religious and political dialogue took place apocalypse. with full commentary. 536pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, 157pp, Penn State University Press, 2000, 319pp, Simon and Schuster, 2011, 9781439102329, 9780268028893, Paperback, was £57.95 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780195315424, 9780271020167, Hardback, was £49.95 Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £41.49 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE • 41 Holy Scripture and the The Writings of Agnes Mortgage of the Past The Ark of God: Part Quest for Authority at of Harcourt Reshaping the Ancient Political B, Volume 3 the End of the Middle Edited by sean L. Field Inheritance (1050-1300) Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 Ages Agnes of Harcourt became at By Francis Oakley By John James By Ian Christopher Levy the new royal abbey of Longchamp, Here, Oakley explores kingship from This book presents a complete founded by Isabelle of France, sister the tenth century to the beginning of Levy demonstrates that the collection and photographic record of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote the fourteenth, showing how, under Wycliffite/Hussite “heretics” and of all the capitals carved in the Paris a substantial biography of Isabelle as the stresses of religious and cultural their opponents in fact shared a large Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few well as a brief letter detailing Louis development, it became an inceasingly and undisputed common ground. of which have never been published IX’s involvement with the abbey. This volume contains secular institution. They held recognized licenses of expertise, venerated before. James has dated nearly every building campaign the old French texts with a facing English translation, in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement tradition, esteemed the , and embraced as well as a substantial introduction to Agnes’ life and 336pp, Yale University Press, 2012, 9780300176339, Holy Scripture as the ultimate authority in Christendom. Hardback, was £52.00 possible only because every one of the 147 remaining works. works have been included. Yet it is precisely this commonality, according to Levy, Now £14.95 that rendered the situation virtually intractable 120pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, 740pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, 9780959600599, 9780268044039, Hardback, was £40.50 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, Hardback, was £395.00 9780268034146, Paperback, was £39.50 Now £4.95 Now £69.95 Now £9.95

Isabelle of France Tabula Picta The Discovery of The Ark of God: Part Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan By Marta Madero Mankind B, Volumes 4 and 5 Identity in the Thirteenth Century To whom does a painted tablet Atlantic Encounters in the Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 By Sean L. Field belong? To the owner of the physical Age of Columbus By John James piece of wood on which an image is Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was painted? Or to the person who made By Over 13,000 photos, being about situated at the nexus of sanctity and the painting on that piece of wood? Emphasizing contact between peoples half of the capitals carved during power during a significant era of Marta Madero turns to the extensive rather than the discovery of lands, these years. They are formal-abstract French culture and medieval history. glosses and commentaries by and using archaeological findings as in style. The analysis of the foliate In this ground-breaking examination medieval jurists, articulating a notion well as eyewitness accounts, David carving, including the capitals on the of Isabelle's career, Sean Field explores issues including of intellectual and artistic property radically different Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World great portals, helps to identify individual carvers through the possibilities for women's religious authority, the from our own. inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first their way of working, from which the key buildings may creation and impact of royal sanctity, and the relationship transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation be dated and through this a consistent chronology between men and women within the mendicant orders. 160pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, established for the period. 9780812241860, Hardback, was £37.00 of wonder to vicious exploitation. 296pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 408pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300158212, 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9780975742525, 9780268028800, Paperback, was £42.50 Now £5.95 Paperback, was £18.00 Hardback, was £695.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £99.95

Lordship, Reform and The Measure of Medieval Manuscripts The Art of Empathy the Development of Woman from the Collection of By David S. Areford Civil Society in By Marie A. Kelleher T.R. Buchanan in the One of only a handful of extant Medieval Italy This study explores the complex Bodleian Library works attributed to the anonymous Nuremberg artist, the Master of the The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250 relationship between women and Oxford legal culture in Spain's Crown of Stotteritz , the Mother By David Foote Aragon during the late medieval By Peter Kidd of Sorrows is a fine example of the This study places emphasis on the period. Kelleher argues that women This catalogue describes 24 heightened realism that characterised important role of religious institutions were not passive recipients - or even manuscripts, primarily late medieval much Northern European painting in regulating the intense competition and co-operation victims - of the legal system. Rather, medieval women devotional books from France, the Netherlands and during the early Renaissance. David between lords and the Church during the 12th and 13th actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, renaissance Italy. It includes "Books of Hours", a Areford explores the artist’s technique in creating centuries. engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of Bridgettine Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a emotional drama. 254pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, their litigation strategies. Psalter of c 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. 64pp, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804267, Paperback, 9780268028725, Paperback, was £25.95 217pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 209pp, Bodleian Library, 2001, 9781851240593, was £11.95 9780812242560, Hardback, was £50.00 Paperback, was £20.00 Now £4.95 Now £3.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Love of Self and Love The Maid and the The Medieval Book Uneasy Communion of God in Thirteenth Queen and a Modern By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen Century Ethics By Nancy Goldstone Collector Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke By Thomas M. Osborne A popular and dramatic history, which Essays in Honour of A fascinating study of the iconography narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin’s Toshiyuki Takamiya of and the artistic This book covers an important collaboration between Jews and aspect of medieval ethics, namely the party from their lowest ebb to the revival of the French monarchy. In Edited by Takami Matsuda, Richard Christians. In the multi-cultural controversy over whether or not it Linenthal and John Scahill society of late medieval Spain, is possible to love God more than particular Nancy Goldstone focuses on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, Essays focus on the study of English Jewish and Christian artists worked oneself through natural powers alone. together to produce retablos (large In debating this topic, thirteenth-century philosophers the Dauphin’s chief supporter and strategist, and Joan of medieval manuscripts and early printed books., including Arc, whom she argues, was championed by Yolande. items in Takamiya's own collection. The subjects multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew and theologians introduced a high level of sophistication religious manuscripts. to the study of how one’s own good is achieved through 296pp, Viking, 2012, 9780670023332, Hardback, was range from Saint to Tolkien, with particular virtuous action. £20.00 concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious 176pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, 9781904832706, Hardback, and historical writings of the . was £35.00 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Now £4.95 9780268037222, Paperback, was £32.50 512pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2015, 9781843844051, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £35.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Making Difference in Daughter of Venice The Ark of God: Part Immagine Antica Medieval and Early Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus, A, Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by Marco Ciatti Modern Iberia and Woman of the Renaissance Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 and Cecilia Frosinini By Jean Dangler By Holly S. Hurlburt By John James This volume reports on the conservation of a superb panel, the Jean Dangler traces shifts in con­ Caterina Corner, a Venetian The Ark of God is a comprehensive noblewoman and the last Queen Madonna and child of Santa Maria ceptions of alterity from medieval pictorial history of Early Gothic Maggiore in Florence. As well as to early modern Spain through a of Cyprus, led a complex and churches in the Paris Basin. Part A remarkable life. This study considers scientific analyses it also contains detailed study of four writing genres: in two volumes contains over 9,000 papers exploring the artists behind its muwashshah/jarcha poems from for the first time the strategies of photos of the capitals with an analysis. her reign, negotiating Venetian encroachment, family creation and issues of dating, with a Al-Andalus, Andalusi “cutting poems”, medical literature The capitals of this period are more natural in style than revised 12th century date proposed. about the body and discourse about the monster. pressures, and the challenges of female rule. those that went before, confirmed in those buildings for 348pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300209723, which we have documentary dates, which may then be 182pp, Edifir Editizione Firenze, 2003, 9788879701624, 218pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Paperback, was £25.00 9780268025762, Paperback, was £27.95 Hardback, was £40.00 used to establish a chronology for other works from these times. Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 1632pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, 9780959600582, Hardback, was £695.00 Now £99.95

42 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE, ART AND ARCHITECTURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Chester Art Peterborough Church Monuments Painted Glories A Subject List of Extant and Cathedral 2001-2006 By Brian Kemp The Brancacci Chapel in Lost Art Including Items From Devastation to Restoration Originally published in 1985, and now Renaissance Florence Relevant to Early Drama By Michael Bunker and Paul Binski reprinted unaltered, this (very) brief By Nicholas A. Eckstein By Sally-Beth Maclean guide covers the multitude of late Peterborough Cathedral - one of medieval and early modern funerary In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter Though it may not contain the the finest Romanesque cathedrals monuments found in churches and Paul, Florence unexpectedly bumper-crop of surviving subject- in Northern Europe - was ravaged throughout England. Kemp looks at defeated Milanese forces near the art as a city such as York possesses, by fire on 22 November 2001. The their development and elaboration, town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Chester nevertheless holds much first part of this book is a personal and the messages which they convey Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly account of the process of restoring the Cathedral after about their patrons. impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public demonstrates. that devastating event, while the second part the unique life and how it could have triggered the custodians of 13th-century painted nave ceiling which came close to 32pp, Shire Publications, 1985, 9780852637685, the Brancacci Chapel, the Carmelite , to seek the 115pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1982, Paperback, was £4.99 9780918720207, Hardback, was £38.50 complete destruction. completion of frescoes by Masolino (c.1383-c.1436) and 128pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2006, 9781903470558, Now £2.50 Masaccio (1401-c.1428). Now £7.95 Hardback, was £25.00 284pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300187663, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

Homo Memento Finis The Bernward Gospels Medieval Castles Postcards on The Iconography of Just Judgement Art, Memory, and the Episcopate By Robert Higham and O. H. Creighton Parchment in Medieval Art and Drama in Medieval Germany An introduction to castles and castle The Social Lives of Medieval Books Edited by David Bevington By Jennifer P. Kingsley studies answering such questions By Kathryn M. Rudy as who built castles, when and why, The contributions to this volume Jennifer Kingsley offers the first and assessing how they have been Medieval prayer books held not explore the Last Judgement as it was interpretive study of the pictorial studied in the past. Individual chapters only the devotions and meditations depicted in the medieval cycle plays, program of this famed eleventh- are devoted to exploring the social, of Christianity, but also housed, with comparative insights from other century manuscript and considers domestic and military functions of slipped between pages, sundry arts forms. how the book conditioned castles and sites are approached notes, reminders, and ephemera, 219pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, contemporary and future viewers to remember its through archaeological and landscape perspectives. such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted 9780918720610, Paperback, was £9.99 patron, Bishop Berward of Hildesheim images.Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously 72pp, Shire Publications, 2003, 9780747805465, unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding 228pp, Penn State University Press, 2014, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £2.95 9780271060798, Hardback, was £63.95 light into the everyday life and relationships of those in the medieval Low Countries. Now £19.95 Now £2.95 360pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300209891, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £24.95

Art in England The Italian Piazza Westminster Abbey Preaching, Building The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 Transformed Chapter House and Burying By Sara N. James Parma in the Communal Age The History, Art and Architecture of By Caroline Bruzelius A single volume overview of artistic By Areli Marina 'A Chapter House Beyond Compare' Friars transformed the relationship movements in Medieval and Early Areli Marina examines the radical Edited by Warwick Rodwell of the church to laymen by Renaissance England. The media transformation of Parma's urban and By Richard Mortimer taking religion outside to public studied include architecture and center in the thirteenth century by and domestic spaces. Mendicant related sculpture, both ecclesiastical This volume tells the complete story convents became urban cemeteries, reconstructing the city's two most of the Westminster Abbey chapter and secular; tomb monuments; murals, significant public spaces: its cathedral warehouses filled with family tombs, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript house, which ranks as one of the flags, shields and private altars. This is the first book and communal squares. She documents and discusses spectacular achievements of European Gothic art and illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by the evolution of each site tracing their construction by to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and foreign artists commissioned by English patrons. architecture; and that is precisely what its builder, King transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. opposing political factions within the city's ruling elite. Henry III, intended. 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702235, Hardback, 192pp, Penn State University Press, 2012, 224pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300203844, was £60.00 305pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010, Hardback, was £45.00 9780271050706, Hardback, was £74.95 9780854312955, Hardback, was £49.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Now £19.95

Medieval and Later The Caporali Missal English Stained Glass Translating Truth Ivories in the A Masterpiece of By Painton Cowen Ambitious Images and Religious Courtauld Gallery Renaissance Illumination This album of medieval (c.1100-1530) Knowledge in Late Medieval The Gambier Parry Collection By Stephen N. Fliegel stained glass in England's churches France and England is among the finest to be found. A By Aden Kumler By John Lowden The sumptuously illuminated geographical sweep of the nation Caporali Missal was created by the This handsomely produced volume This scholarly catalogue, full of takes in over 100 windows along with Caporali brothers for the Franciscan examines manuscript illumination beautiful new photography, is the short descriptions, from the greatest community in the hillside town of and changing conceptions of the first publication dedicated solely to Cathedrals to isolated examples in Montone, near Perugia, in 1469. importance of the visual in conveying the collection. There are examples out of the way parish churches. This exhibition catalogue celebrates this important religious truth following the increased emphasis placed of the highest quality of ivory carving, both secular and manuscript, elucidating the history, style, content, 128pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500238462, on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). religious in content, and a number of the objects are of function, and authorship of the missal. Hardback, was £14.95 outstanding interest. 290pp, Yale University Press, 2011, 9780300164930, 132pp, Prestel Verlag, 2013, 9783791352718, Hardback, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £65.00 144pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2013, 9781907372605, was £22.50 Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

Medieval Ivories and Jean de Carpentin's Make a Joyful Noise Excavations in the Works of Art Book of Hours Renaissance Art and Music medieval suburb of By John Lowden By Alixe Bovey at Florence Cathedral Redcliffe, Bristol, 1980 The Thomson Collection contains In the 1470s, one of the most By Gary M. Radke By Bruce Williams examples of the highest quality of innovative artists working in Bruges The interrelationship between the This volume presents a summary most types of medieval ivory carving, illuminated a Book of Hours for brilliant art and architecture and account of the results of excavations both secular and religious. These Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and the Cathedral's musical program is in Redcliff Street. Features include include large statuettes of the Virgin prominent citizen of Normandy. explored in depth in this beautiful part of the city wall, a 13th century and Child intended to stand on altars The manuscript is enriched with book. Luca della Robbia's charming slipway, 14th century dyers in chapels, small versions for private use in the home, miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders sculptures for the organ loft are examined alongside workshops and a 15th century bakery. Also included is and folding tablets or diptychs with scenes from the life in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are luxurious illuminated manuscripts commissioned for an outline history of Redcliffe. of Christ carved in relief. framed by twisting branches of acanthus. musical performances. 30pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1981, 128pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2008, 9781903470800, 184pp, Sam Fogg, 2011, 9781903470954, Hardback, was 95pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300209181, 9780900199141, Paperback, was £6.00 Paperback, was £25.00 £50.00 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £2.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY • 43 Mary-le-Port, Bristol St Gregory's Priory, EAA 96: Two Medieval Archaeological By Lorna and Rahtz, Philip Northgate, Churches in Norfolk Approaches to Watts and Philip Rahtz Canterbury. By Olwen Beazley and Brian Ayers Medieval Europe A report on excavations at the Excavations 1988-1991 Reports of two church excavations, Edited by Kathleen Biddick church and street of St Mary-le Port, St Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, and St Bristol, an important early example of By Martin Hicks and Alison Hicks This volume presents a series of Michael, Bowthorpe, undertaken prior papers which showcased the potential both urban and church archaeology. A detailed report on excavations to their re-building and re-use. The The report posits a tenth century carried out at the site of St Gregory's of archaeology for the study of the reports cover the earliest evidence Middle Ages, at a time when medieval date for the origins of both church Priory that revealed two major for occupation of the site and the and street, and also includes a ecclesiastical buildings. The earliest archaeology was still a relatively phases of re-building, repair and ruin (in the case of St young discipline. Contributions include Glanville Jones on historical and topographical survey of the area. church, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in AD 1084 Michael's) from the Anglo-Saxon period through to their became a priory in 1133; it was rebuilt after a great fire the multiple estate; David Hall on field systems; Oliver 208pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1986, present state. Rackham on forest and woodland; Richard Hodges on 9780900199264, Paperback, was £30.00 in 1145, probably under the patronage of Archbishop Theobald, and was eventually dissolved in 1537. 104pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2001, 9780905594330, pre-Viking trade in the North Sea region; and Pamela Paperback, was £13.00 Crabtree on the of West Stow. Now £6.95 431pp, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2001, 9781870545044, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £5.95 310pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, 9780918720528, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

The Archaeology of The Window Glass of Norwich Castle A Dated Type Series of the Medieval Suburb the Order of St Excavations and Historical London Medieval of Broadmead, Bristol Gilbert of Survey 1987–98. Part III A Pottery, Part 5 By Reg Jackson Sempringham Zooarchaeological Study Shelly-sandy ware and the This report describes the results A York-based Survey By Mark Beech, Julie Curl, greyware industries Umberto Albarella, Mark J. Beech, of a large and important excavation By C. Pamela Graves By Lyn Blackmore and Jacqueline Pearce on a domestic site between Union J. S. Curl and Alison Locker Street and Fairfax Street in central The excavation of St Andrew, This study charts the development, Excavations at Castle Mall yielded peak and decline of two ceramic Bristol. An outstanding sequence of Fishergate uncovered the largest the largest faunal assemblage ever medieval and post-medieval pottery and other finds, quantity of window glass from any house of this traditions: the shelly wares of c 1140–1220, mainly city- recovered from Norwich with the greatest, most based but reaching Scotland and across the North Sea to including environmental material, was obtained from the monastic order. Research on this glass provided the continuous chronological spread. archaeological deposits. opportunity to study all other known assemblages of Norway, and the greywares of c 1170–1350, widely used window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the 188pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2009, 9780905594507, in the city and even more so in its hinterland. 154pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2010, results and interpretations are presented here. Paperback, was £20.00 9780956737106, Paperback, was £25.00 320pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2010, 575pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2000, Now £7.95 9781901992939, Hardback, was £27.00 Now £5.95 9781902771151, Paperback, was £26.00 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

The Abbey and Mint of A Moated Rectory at Norwich Castle Bankside Bury St Edmunds Wimbotsham, Norfolk Excavations and Historical Excavations at Benbow House, from 1279 By Andy Shelley Survey 1987–98. Part IV Southwark, London, SE1 People and Property in the By R. J. Eaglen This report on the excavation and By Anthony Mackinder and Documentary Record This volume concentrates on the associated archival research reveals Simon Blatherwick abbey and mint from 1279 until Wimbotsham as a moated rectory, By Margot Tillyard, Elizabeth The multi-period site of Benbow the closure of the mint c. 1329. most probably built by the de Shepherd Popescu and Nancy Ives House lies next to the Thames, and is Warenne family at the end of the A concluding chapter summarizes The documentary evidence presented a fine example of the multifarious and 12th century. The excavation found major events affecting the abbey until here provides additional data on colourful activities that took place two earth building platforms, a series of internal drainage its dissolution in 1539. The Catalogue in this volume properties around the entire circuit of the Castle Fee, in London over the centuries. Three phases of building channels, remains of a 13th- or 14th-century timber- incorporates a die study of almost 2,500 coins struck at which originated as a substantial precinct of Crown land from the 13th century onwards were identified, including framed building and an assemblage of finds that included Bury during the fifty year period to c. 1329. defined immediately around the castle and developed probable medieval stews, 16th-17th century buildings domestic and some high-status objects. 300pp, British Numismatics Society, 2006, into an administrative entity. and an 18th-19th century foundry. 46pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2003, 9780905594378, 9781907427374, Hardback, was £45.00 62pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2009, 9780905594514, 68pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2000, Paperback, was £9.00 9781901992120, Paperback, was £5.00 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £9.00 Now £3.95 Now £3.95 Now £1.95

The Durham Mint EAA 100: Excavations St Mary's Street, St Great Houses, By M. Allen in Norwich 1971-8 Neots, Cambridgeshire and Mills on the South of Durham had the right to Part 3 By A. E. Jones Bank of the Thames mint coins from the late eleventh By Malcolm Atkin Episodes of alluviation and the By Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer century to the mid-sixteenth century. A report on five excavations within formation of marshy deposits on the Excavation of two important sites This book provides a comprehensive site accompanied medieval activity account of the mint, reconstructing and around Norwich: Cathedral on the south bank of the Thames. Close, Castle Fee, St Benedicts Street, along the street frontage. In the 17th The first was the site of a house its operation as a business at the century the ground was made up, a mercy of market forces, and assessing Magdalen Street, and the suburb acquired by 1349 by Edward III and of Heigham. The data from these terrace of houses was built in brick rebuilt by him in 1353–61; the second its contribution to the exceptional along the street frontage, and the backplot area was palatine privileges of the prince-bishops of Durham. excavations improve our understanding of changes to contained tidal mills on the waterfront and three notable the city in the medieval and post-medieval periods. used for tanning. residences during the medieval period. Exceptionally rich 222pp, London, British Numismatics Society, 2003, 35pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2000, 9780704421455, assemblages of domestic artefacts and ceramics as well 9781902040516, Hardback, was £45.00 265pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2002, 9780952069515, Paperback, was £25.75 Paperback, was £5.50 as plants, timber structures and woodworking evidence. Now £9.95 Now £2.95 240pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2009, Now £9.95 9781901992830, Hardback, was £22.95 Now £9.95

A Twelfth-Century EAA 102: New Winchelsea London Bridge Pottery Kiln at Pound Castle, 2000 years of a river crossing Lane, Canterbury Excavations and Finds, A Medieval Port Town By Bruce Watson By John Cotter 1951-1972 By David Martin This volume is based on the 1984 In 1986 a medieval pottery kiln was By David Sherlock and Carolyn Dallas A report on excavations in the cinque investigation of the Southwark excavated at Pound Lane, Canterbury port, founded in the late 13th century, medieval bridge abutment and The report records the small amount combines the archaeological, which appears to have been worked of archaeological excavation which which proves that in its 14th century by a continental potter, perhaps a heyday it was larger and more architectural, historical and pictorial has taken place at Baconsthorpe, evidence for London's greatest bridge. Norman, around the middle of the contains an analysis of the buildings, influential than has previously been 12th century. The report contains a short account of the a survey of the earthworks, and draws together all finds supposed. 258pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2001, site and excavation, followed by a detailed account of the and documentary evidence extant for the site and its 222pp, Heritage Publications, 2004, 9780954445652, 9781901992182, Paperback, was £22.00 kiln itself and an extensive typology of the kiln products. owners. Paperback, was £24.50 Now £7.95 124pp, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, 115pp, East Anglian Archaeology, 2002, 9780905594361, Now £9.95 9781870545075, Paperback, was £9.95 Paperback, was £17.50 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

44 • MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Medieval and later A Maritime Towns and Topography Excavation of a urban development at Archaeology of Ships Essays in Memory of David H. Hill Medieval Manor High Street, Uxbridge Innovation and Social Change in Late Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker House,Witney By Heather Knight and Nigel Jeffries Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Susan D. Thompson By T. G. Allen, Brian Durham These excavations trace the By J. R. Adams Fifteen papers examine a variety of and Jonathan Hiller development of the medieval town In this book Jon Adams evaluates aspects of medieval towns and their This report documents the discovery, of Uxbridge. The central part of key episodes of technical change in topography. Topics include place-name excavation and preservation of a the town was set out during the the ways that ships were conceived, studies, monasteries, mints, Anglo- Norman moated stone manor house 12th century, perhaps as a planned designed, built, used and disposed of. Saxon settlements, and medieval found in 1984 at the Mount House, extension of an existing Saxon hamlet. The excavations Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most mapping to name a few. Witney. also produced evidence for a thriving medieval pottery complex artefacts made, changes in their technology 196pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977025, Hardback, 272pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2002, industry. provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, was £60.00 9780947816780, Paperback, was £24.95 strategies and agency of social change. 80pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, Now £14.95 9781901992373, Paperback, was £7.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842172971, Paperback, Now £9.95 was £29.95 Now £3.95 Now £12.95

Roman Burials, Castles and the Anglo- Eynsham Les fouilles du Yaudet Medieval Tenements Norman World A village and its Abbey en Ploulec'h, Cotes- and Suburban Growth Edited by John A. Davies, Angela By Alan Hardy and Rosalyn Smith d'Armor, volume 3 By Dan Swift Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque In recent years major archaeological Le site: du quatrième siècle and Charlotte Lapiche The excavation at 201 Bishopsgate excavations have revealed much apr. J.-C. à aujourd'hui in 1998-9 uncovered evidence for Castles and the Anglo-Norman World of Eynsham Abbey's remains and By Barry Cunliffe and Patrick Galliou Londinium’s northern cemetery, draws together a series of 20 papers intriguing evidence of settlement roadside occupation along Roman by 26 French and English specialists going back 3000 years. his colourful The third volume of the Le Yaudet Ermine Street, and medieval and in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. booklet includes a series of excavation reports details the history later development to the west of Bishopsgate. This area It includes summaries of current knowledge and new reconstruction paintings showing the village and the and archaeology of the site from AD 300 until the has been extensively used and re-used, from burials to research into important Norman castles in England abbey at various times through history, along with many present day. refuse-disposal to houses, as London has expanded. and Normandy, drawing on information from recent illustrations of the archaeological finds. 207pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, 88pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, excavations. 28pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2003, 9780904220308, 9780954962722, Hardback, was £67.00 9781901992410, Paperback, was £9.95 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700224, Hardback, Paperback, was £4.50 Now £15.00 was £48.00 Now £4.95 Now £1.95 Now £14.95

The London Guildhall Newcastle upon Tyne, From Studium to A Place to Believe in By David Bowsher, T. Dyson, Nick the Eye of the North Station Locating Medieval Landscapes Holder and Isca Howell An Archaeological Assessment Rewley Abbey and Rewley By Clare Lees A major integrated history of the By C.P. Graves and D. H. Heslop Road Station, Oxford This volume brings together scholars London Guildhall, the home of This volume brings together By Ric Tyler, Dave Wilkinson, Julian of medieval literature, archaeology, the City of London’s government. history, religion, art history, and Beginning with the first hall of the the archaeological evidence for Munby, Andy Simmonds, Ric occupation in the historic core of Taylor and David Wilkinson environmental studies to explore 12th century, the book describes later the idea of place in medieval halls and precinct buildings from the Newcastle between the prehistoric This report presents the results of period and 1650. It places the religious culture.A strength of the 14th to the 20th centuries. Good over 40 years of excavation, historic collection is its awareness of the fact that medieval and organic survival preserved evidence in an 11th- and evidence in the context of the evolving historical building survey and documentary research that has been communities who made and occupied the site, and in the modern viewpoints converge in an experience of place 12th-century parish churchyard and for a number of carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the and frame a newly created space where the literary, the adjacent timber houses. wider context of medieval and early modern European site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, founded in 1280 urban life. historical, and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation 536pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2007, as a chantry, but quickly growing to become a fully- with the geographical, the personal, and the material. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842178140, Hardback, fledged abbey and studium. 9781901992724, Hardback, was £65.00 288pp, Penn State University Press, 2006, was £45.00 112pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, 9780904220407, Now £19.95 9780271028606, Paperback, was £28.95 Now £12.95 Paperback, was £7.50 Now £9.95 Now £5.00

The Medieval Seals and their Old Abbey Farm, Reclaiming the Marsh Gate by the Tower of Context in the Middle Risley Archaeological Excavations at London Ages By Richard Heawood, Christine Howard- Moor House, City of London By David Whipp Edited by Phillipp R. Schofield Davis, Denise Drury and Mick Krupa By J. Butler Excavations at Tower Hill in 1979 This volume is divided into three This small moated site, now in The area known as Moorfields was uncovered substantial reamins of the sections looking at the history Warrington Borough, was probably waterlogged throughout the Middle medieval postern gate at the junction and use of seals as symbols and constructed after the sub-division of Ages, only being reclaimed in the of the City's defensive wall and the representations of power and the manor of Culcheth in 1246. The 16th century. Finds include evidence of the Tower of London. The prestige in a variety of institutional, project provided a rare opportunity of Roman settlement up to the postern gate was constructed between 1297 and 1308, dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and to record a building during demolition and subsequently construction of the wall in the 3rd century, and evidence and formed a defensible terminus to the City wall and a legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources excavate below it, thereby maximising the information of the medieval use of the area for leisure activities, minor gateway suitable for pedestrian traffic. and artistic attributes retrieval. including ice-skating and for dumping waste. The site 74pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978176, Hardback, 200pp, Oxford Archaeology North, 2004, 9780904220346, was used for pottery production in the 16th and 17th 9781901992601, Paperback, was £7.95 was £90.00 Paperback, was £17.99 centuries following its reclamation. 179pp, Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2006, 9780954293857, Now £3.95 Now £24.95 Now £10.00 Paperback, was £22.50 Now £9.95

Winchester Palace The Archaeology of Barentin's Manor Sherborne Old Castle, Excavations at the Southwark Medieval Novgorod in Excavations of the moated manor Dorset Residence of the Bishops Context at Hardings Field, Chalgrove, By Peter White and Alan Cook of Winchester Oxfordshire 1976-9 A Study of Centre/ A report on the excavations carried By Derek Seeley, Christopher Periphery Relations By Philip Page, Kate Atherton out at various times in the 20th Phillpotts and Mark Samuel and Alan Hardy century on Sherborne Old Castle, Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj built by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury The London house of the medieval Makarov and Evgenij Nosov One of the most complete examples bishops of Winchester in Southwark of a moated medieval manor yet (1102–39), later the country seat originated in the mid 12th century. This volume includes papers on excavated in England. Evidence of a of Sir Walter Ralegh. Although The results of archaeological rescue excavations aspects of the environmental and technological context pre-moat occupation dating from the first half of the Sherborne Old Castle was altered over the four in 1983–90, mainly in the east part of the site, are of the relationship between urban centre and rural 13th century, which may not have been seigneurial, was centuries of its occupation, most of its original structural supplemented by a wealth of documentary and pictorial hinterland. It examines the environmental context for succeeded in the mid 13th century by the construction elements were retained until the buildings were slighted evidence, taking the story into the 19th century. the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to of the moated manor house. in 1645. 15th centuries. 192pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2007, 198pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, 200pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2015, 9781901992656, Paperback, was £15.95 528pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842172780, Hardback, 9780947816629, Hardback, was £19.95 9780854312993, Hardback, was £35.00 was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY • 45 Digging for Richard III Medieval Romance John Metham: Acts of Recognition: By Mike Pitts Medieval Contexts Amoryus and Cleopes Essays on Medieval No archaeological project of recent Edited by R. Purdie and Michael Cichon Edited by Stephen F. Page Culture years has captured the public The essays in this volume take a This fifteenth century romance, By Lee Patterson imagination like the discovery of the representative selection of English written by John Metham, creatively grave of Richard III. Mike Pitts tells This volume brings together Lee and Scottish romances from the reworks Ovid’s tale of Pyramus and Patterson's essays published in the full story, including the dramatic medieval period and explore some Thisbe. The Middle English text is unearthing of the king's bones and various venues over the past twenty- of their medieval contexts, deepening accompanied by a contextualizing seven years. Two dialectics are at the scientific studies which proved our understanding not only of the introduction, extensive notes, and their identity as well as the picture work in this book: that between the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval helpful gloss. past and the present and that between the individual and they give of Richard's appearance, diet, death and the contexts that produced or influenced them. treatment of his corpse. 142pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, the social, and both have moral significance. 208pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, 9781843842606, 9781580440165, Paperback, was £12.00 400pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2014, 9780500252000, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £18.95 Now £4.95 9780268038373, Paperback, was £39.50 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £6.95

Medemblik and New Directions in John Wyclif: On the Confession and Monnickendam Oral Theory Truth of Holy Resistance Aspects of medieval Urbanization Essays on Ancient and Scripture Defining the Self in Late in Northern Holland Medieval Literatures Edited by Ian Christopher Levy Medieval England By H. A. Heidinga and H. H. Edited by Mark C. Amodio A condensed English translation By Katherine C. Little van Regteren Altena Rejecting the view that orality and of Wyclif's 1378 treatise, which Katherine C. Little cautions that Five English papers and one Dutch literacy are mutually exclusive and emphasises the ultimate authority of medieval selfhood should not be on the site and finds of this medieval contradictory cultural forces, these scripture as the basis for the reform understood merely in terms of trading centre. essays focus on the mix of oral and ordering of the church and confessional practice. She points to Christian life. 134pp, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1998, and literate poetics discoverable in a wide range of the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay 9789070319113, Hardback, was £19.50 ancient and medieval texts. In the explorations of texts 378pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, instruction that was generated in late medieval England produced in cultures situated at various points along the 9781580440318, Paperback, was £27.50 around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). Now £2.95 oral-literate continuum, the authors reveal how deeply This controversy, she maintains, reveals the contested and inextricably intertwined orality and literacy are. Now £4.95 nature of the language of medieval selfhood. 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, 192pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 9780866983303, Hardback, was £35.00 9780268033767, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Wyclif: Summa The Prose Brut: The The Worlde and the Goddess Natura in Insolubilium Development of a Chylde Medieval Literature Translated by Paul V. Spade Middle English Edited by Peter Happe By George Economou Latin text of Wyclif's logical treatise Chronicle The Worlde and the Chylde, issued Economou’s work focuses on the on paradoxes. By Lister M. Matheson by the press of Wynkyn de Worde renaissance of the twelfth century, 176pp, Arizona State University, 1986, in 1521, is one of the very earliest when a new kind of allegory appeared This is not a new edition of the plays published in England. It also that celebrated and explored the 9780866980746, Hardback, was Middle English text that survives in £20.00 has very considerable interest nature of the cosmos. He analyzes the more manuscripts than almost any for its adaptation of the Ages of central role that Natura played in the Now £4.95 other. Rather, this work classifies and Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the writings of Bernard Silvestris, Jean de Meun, Alain de Lille, groups the manuscripts and early printed editions, and introduction, notes, and illustrations. and Geoffrey Chaucer. comments on the relationships that developed among them from the late 14th to and sometimes beyond the 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, 15th century. 9781580440523, Paperback, was £17.99 9780268029555, Paperback, was £36.95 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1998, Now £4.95 Now £7.95 9780866982221, Hardback, was £26.00 Now £7.95

Chaucer and Array Chaucerian Dream Thomas of Usk: The Sartorial Strategies Patterns of Costume and Fabric Visons and Complaints Testament of Love Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Rhetoric in The Canterbury Edited by Dana M. Symons By R. Allen Shoaf Conduct in Late Medieval Literature Tales, Troilus and Criseyde With the exception of the Scottish The first edition of The Testament By Nicole Smith and Other Works Quare of Jelusy, the poems in of Love to be published since 1897 This volume considers how By Laura F. Hodges this volume were all attributed based on William Thynne's 1532 representations of clothing in An analysis of the ways in which to Chaucer by early compilers edition. With introduction and a list of medieval literature respond to clerical Chaucer uses details of costume, or editors of his work in the late critical sources for further reference. discourses that sought to regulate clothing and fabric. In particular, it fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. 471pp, Medieval Institute Publications, contemporary aristocratic fashion. addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's The book also contains the Middle English texts of The 1998, 9781580440011, Paperback, was £31.50 Nicole D. Smith establishes that writers of romances expectations, derived from their knowledge of the Boke of Cupide, A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe, and La redirect the negative depictions of the courtly body literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy Belle Dame sans Mercy. Now £6.95 found in clerical chronicles and penitential writings into passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but 306pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, positive images that convey virtue. includes them in some of his comedic works. 9781580440875, Paperback, was £19.50 288pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 254pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843689, Now £5.95 9780268041373, Paperback, was £36.50 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Fatherhood and its John Gower: The The Wisdom of the The Island Garden Representations in French Balades Middle Ages England's Language of Nation Middle English Texts Edited by R.F. Yeager By Michael K. Kellogg from Gildas to Marvell By Rachel E. Moss Contains two collections of French This engaging survey of important By Lynn Staley The figure and role of the late- balades composed by John Gower, works from late antiquity to the Identifying the concept of enclosure medieval father is reappraised the Traitié selonc les auctours pour beginning of the Renaissance reveals as key to Britain’s language of place, through a close reading of a range of essampler les amantz marietz and the depth of thought and the diversity Lynn Staley traces the shifting documents from the period, including the Cinkante Balades, with facing of expression that characterized the meanings of this concept in medieval both letters and romances. page translation, annotations, and Middle Ages. The author examines and early modern histories, treatises, introduction. philosophical treatises, memoirs, letters, tales, romances, 208pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843580, and poems. 196pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, and epics, documenting the unique array of evolving Hardback, was £60.00 concerns that drove the medieval search for wisdom. 376pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 9781580441551, Paperback, was £15.50 9780268041403, Paperback, was £40.50 Now £12.95 390pp, Prometheus Books, 2016, 9781633882133, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £22.50 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

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