The Crosby Garrett Helmet Romans and Natives in Central Britain Edited by David Breeze Edited by R.D. Martlew The discovery of a Roman sports helmet at Crosby What happened to the Garrett, Cumbria, in 2010 aroused considerable Brigantes when Rome took public interest. Subsequent field work and over? How were they affected excavation demonstrated that the helmet had been by military events? Can we buried in a farm of the Romano-British period, see sub-territories in their dated by two coins of the 330s and contemporary material culture? How did pottery finds. The helmet itself is a unique type of they react to the opportunities ‘sports’ helmet worn at Roman military exercises that Rome offered? Was and dates to the 3rd century AD. In this book, David their way of looking at the Breeze brings together the results of the field work world altered? This book and excavation along with discussions of the helmet summarises current opinion. and its significance and an account of its discovery. 84pp col illus (Yorkshire 112p col illus (CWAAS 2018) 9781873124796 Pb £18.00 Archaeological Society) Pb £12.00 Late Antique and Byzantine Beyond Intolerance Armies of the Late Roman Empire The Meeting of Milan of 313 AD and the AD 284 to 476 Evolution of Imperial Religious Policy from the History, Organization and Uniforms Age of the Tetrarchs to Julian the Apostate By Gabriele Esposito Edited by Davide Dainese & Viola Gheller Gabriele Esposito challenges The papers summoned in this volume tackle the many stereotypes and complex historical phase following the edict of misconceptions regarding Milan a number of perspectives (from Church the Late Roman Army; for history and theology to political and juridical example, he argues that the history). The chronological scope, stretching from Roman military machine the decades preceding the meeting of 313 to the remained a reliable and reign of Julian the Apostate, allows a focus on efficient one until the very the cultural, political and juridical premises of last decades of the Western Constantine and Licinius’ decisions and the way Empire. He describes the they affected a number of aspects of everyday life organization, structure, within the Empire’s borders, until Julian’s pagan equipment, weapons, combat history and tactics of “restoration” and beyond it. Late Roman military forces. The origins and causes 220pp (Brepols 2019) 9782503574493 Pb £120.00 for the final military fall of the Empire are discussed in detail, as well as the influence of the ‘barbarian’ Emperor and Senators in the Reign peoples on the Roman Army. of Constantius II 208pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526730374 Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Hb £19.99 Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD By Muriel Moser The Military History of Late Rome In this book, Muriel Moser AD 361–395 investigates the relationship By Ilkka Syvanne between the emperors This is the second volume in an ambitious series Constantine I and his giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late son Constantius II (AD Roman military history from AD 284-641. It gives 312-361) and the senators a detailed account of the changes in organization, of Constantinople and equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Rome. She examines and Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant contextualizes the integration period, while also giving a detailed but accessible of the social elites of Rome account of the campaigns and battles. This volume and the Eastern provinces covers the tumultuous period from the death of into the imperial system and Constantius II in AD 361 to the death of Theodosius. demonstrates their increased 256pp (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781783462735 Hb £30.00 importance for the maintenance of imperial rule in response to political fragility and fragmentation. 434pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108481014 Hb £90.00 54 The Specter of the Jews Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch The Caspian Gates in the Caucasus By Ari Finkelstein from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns In early 363, while living in Syrian Antioch, Julian and the Middle Ages redoubled his efforts to hellenize the Roman The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Empire by turning to an unlikely source: the Excavations & Surveys of 2013–2016 Jews. Ari Finkelstein examines Julian’s writings By Eberhard Sauer and views on Jews as Judeans, a venerable group Featuring in the works of whose religious practices and values would help literary giants, no other delegitimize Christianity and, surprisingly, shape a mountain pass in the ancient new imperial Hellenic pagan identity. and medieval world matches 269pp (University of California Press 2018) Dariali’s fame. A team of 9780520298729 Hb £74.00 archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major Theoderic and the Roman Imperial gorge-blocking fort and a Restoration barrier wall on a steep rocky By Jonathan J. Arnold ridge further north. The walls Focusing in particular on the works of Cassiodorus still standing today were built Late Antique and Byzantine and Ennodius, Arnold argues that contemporary around the time of the first Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century. as the Western Roman Empire and its ‘barbarian’ The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation king, Theoderic (r.489/93–526), as its emperor. for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold controlled Trans-Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects explains how the Roman past, both immediate and and human remains reveal harsh living conditions distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find and close connections to the Muslim acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential South, as well as the steppe world to the Empire’s perceived recovery. of the north. Only 352pp, (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9781107054400 704pp, 700 b/w & colour £60.00 until Hb £85.00, 9781107679474 Pb £19.99 images (Oxbow Books publication 2019) 9781789251920 Hb Attila the Hun £75.00 Arch-Enemy of Rome Change and Resilience By Ian Hughes The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, Attila in Late Antiquity dominated European history for the next two decades, bullying and manipulating both halves Edited by Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros & of the Roman empire, forcing successive emperors Catalina Mas Florit to make tribute payments or face invasion. Ian Change and Resilience Hughes recounts Attila’s rise to power, attempting offers a view of the main to untangle his character and motivations. A major Mediterranean islands from theme is how the two halves of the empire finally West to East in Late Antiquity. united against Attila, prompting his fateful decision A first group of papers covers to invade Gaul and his subsequent defeat at the islands and island groups Battle of the Catalaunian Plain in 451. in the Central and Western 256pp, b/w illus, col pls (Pen & Sword 2019) Mediterranean, highlighting 9781781590096 Hb £19.99 the role of the rural economy. The second group emphasizes Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political the impacts external shifts in Theory under Rome political power and economic Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works ties in the Eastern Mediterranean had on island landscapes, as well as the connected relationship By Simon Swain between sacred space and territorial occupation This volume presents a new critical edition, across many of these islands. The translation and analysis of Themistius’ letter to final group of papers pivots on Julian about kingship and government, together changing perceptions of island Only with texts, translations and analyses of Julian’s Letter landscapes in Late Antiquity. £25.60 until to Themistius and Sopater’s Letter to Himerius as 256pp, b/w illus publication well as the Letter of Aristotle to Alexander. (Oxbow Books 2019) 230pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781107633766 9781789251807 Pb £32.00 Pb £23.99 Late Antique and Byzantine 55 My Lots are in Thy Hands Authority and Control in Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity the Countryside Edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk & William E. Klingshirn From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean Sortilege – the making of and Near East (6th–10th Century) decisions by casting lots – Edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre & Petra was widely practiced in the Sijpesteijn Mediterranean world in Late This volume looks at the economic, religious, Antiqiuty. Employing the political and cultural instruments that local and overlapping perspectives of regional powers in the late antique to early medieval religious studies, classics, Mediterranean and Near East used to manage anthropology, economics, their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control and history, contributors – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons study a variety of topics, and fortifications, religious and administrative including the hermeneutics appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect and operations of divinatory control – monuments and landmarks, cultural texts, the importance of diviners and their styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard- the search for hidden order in a seemingly random setting – are examined to reconstruct the various world. means by which authority was asserted over the 410pp (Brill 2018) 9789004384101 Hb £130.00 countryside. Life in an Egyptian Village in Late 612pp (Brill 2018) 9789004386358 Pb £70.00 Antiquity Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest Selected Essays By Giovanni R. Ruffini By Jairus Banaji Aphrodito, a village in This collection of essays sixth-century AD Egypt, is provides a stimulating antiquity’s best source for rebuttal to the prevailing micro-level social history. minimalism in late antique The archive of Dioskoros studies. Successive chapters of Aphrodito introduces discuss the scale of the late thousands of people living Roman gold currency, the the normal business of their economic nature of the lives: loans, rent contracts, aristocracy, the importance work agreements, marriage, of trade, relations between divorce. The emerging the state and the ruling picture is a different vision class, and the problem of of Roman late antiquity than what we see from the continuity into the early Middle Ages. A substantial view of the urban elites. It is a world of free peasants introduction pulls together the themes of the book building networks of trust largely beyond the reach into a coherent synopsis. of the state. 273pp (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107101944 Hb 300pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107105607 Hb £28.99 £67.99, 9781107499539 Pb £24.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Daily Life in Late Antiquity By Kristina Sessa Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE. Each of the six topical chapters highlight historical ‘everyday’ people, spaces, and objects, whose lives operate as windows into the late ancient economy, social relations, military service, religious systems, cultural habits, and the material environment. From Manichean rituals to Only military service, gladiatorial combat to garbage collection, £20.00 until patrician households to peasant families, Daily Life in Late Antiquity introduces readers to the world of late antiquity 31st May from the bottom up. 256pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9780521148405 Pb £21.99

56 Late Antique and Byzantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Bir Messaouda Basilica Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Plain Volume 1 Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage The Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Edited by Simon Greenslade This volume charts the Butrint 6 describes the radical transformation of an excavations carried out on inner city neighbourhood in the Vrina Plain from 2002– late antique Carthage which 2007. Volume I discusses the was excavated over a five- results from the excavations, year period by a team from tracing the development the University of Cambridge. of the area from an early The neighbourhood Roman bridgehead suburb remained primarily a to a major 3rd-century residential one from the domus, its transformation second century until 530s AD into a new residential centre when a substantial basilica dominated by a Christian was constructed over the eastern half of the insula. basilica, to becoming the home of The Bir Messaouda basilica provides important a Byzantine archon during the Only insights into the transition between Vandal and 9th and 10th centuries. £52.00 until Byzantine control of the city, the development 568pp, b/w and colour of a new Christian inter-mural urban landscape (Oxbow Books 2019) publication in the sixth century AD, and the significance 9781789252132 Hb £65.00 of the pilgrimage in reinforcing ecclesiastical authority in post- Butrint 6: Excavations on Justinianic North Africa. Only the Vrina Plain Volume 2 368p b/w illus £41.25 until The Finds (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 Edited by Simon Greenslade Volume II discusses the finds from the Vrina Plain Butrint 5: Life and Death excavations. It provides an insight into how the Vrina at a Mediterranean Port Plain community lived, worked and ultimately died The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch and includes chapters on the medieval and post- Palace medieval ceramics from the excavations, analysis of the human and faunal remains, By William Bowden environmental evidence, Roman This is the second volume and Medieval coins, mall finds Only arising from the 1994–2003 and glass. excavations of the Triconch £44.00 until 280pp, b/w and col illus publication Palace at Butrint (Albania), (Oxbow Books 2019) which charted the history 9781789252170 Hb £55.00 of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd Butrint 6: Excavations on to the 15th centuries AD. This the Vrina Plain Volume 3 volume reports on the finds The Roman and late Antique pottery from from the site (excluding the the Vrina Plain Excavations pottery), which demonstrate the ways in which the lives, By Paul Reynolds diet and material culture of a Mediterranean Volume III discusses the Roman and Late Antique population changed across the arc of the late pottery. It follows the archaeological sequence Roman and Medieval periods. It includes discussion recovered from the excavations in chronological of the environmental evidence, the human and order and provides a comprehensive and in faunal remains, metal-working evidence, and the depth review of the pottery, context by context, major assemblages of glass, coins and small finds, offering an important insight into the supply, giving an insight into the health, as well as typology, of local and subsistence base and material imported pottery available to the culture of the population across Only inhabitants of the Vrina Plain Only more than 1000 years. £33.75 until during this period. £48.00 until 352pp, b/w and col illus 320pp b/w and col illus publication publication (Oxbow Books 2019) (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781785708978 Hb £45.00 9781789252217 Hb £60.00

Late Antique and Byzantine 57 Eusebius and Empire NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Constructing Church and Rome in Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century the Ecclesiastical History Current Research and Future Directions By James Corke-Webster James Corke-Webster argues that the Ecclesiastical Edited by Ine Jacobs & Hugh Elton History is not simply an attempt to record the past Our growing under- history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission standing of networks of statement that uses events and individuals from villages and hamlets is that past to mould a new vision of Christianity very likely to influence tailored to Eusebius’ fourth-century context. He the appreciation of the presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a last decades of Late picture of their faith that smooths off its rough Antiquity drastically. edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and Indeed, it would seem relationship to Rome. that the sixth century in 400pp (Cambridge UP 2019) 9781108474078 Hb £90.00 particular is characterised not only by a ruralisation The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics of cities, but also by the By Robert Wisniewski extension and flourishing of villages in Asia Minor, the Roman Near East and Egypt. This Initially, Christian attitude toward the bones of the volume explores a series of themes include dead, saint or not, was that of respectful distance. the physical development of large and small The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics examines how settlements, their financial situation, and the this changed in the mid-fourth century. Robert proportion of public and private investment. Wisniewski investigates how Christians began to Imperial, provincial, and local initiatives in believe in power of relics, first, over demons, then city and countryside are compared and the over physical diseases and enemies. He considers main motivations examined, including civic or how they sought to reveal hidden knowledge at personal pride, military incentives and religious the tombs of saints and why they buried the death stimuli. The evidence presented is used to close to them. form opinions on the impact of the plague on 272pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780199675562 Hb £65.00 living circumstances in the sixth century and to evaluate the significance of the Justinianic When Christians Were Jews period. The First Generation 256p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2019) By Paula Fredriksen 9781789250077 Pb £38.00 How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God’s promises to Israel, The Caucasian Archaeology of end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Paula Fredriksen answers the Holy Land this question by reconstructing the life of the Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Communities earliest Jerusalem community. She offers a vivid Between the Fourth and Eleventh Centuries CE portrait both of this temple-centered messianic By Yana Tchekhanovets movement and of the bedrock convictions that The Caucasian Archaeology animated and sustained it. of the Holy Land investigates 272pp, 2 b/w illus. (Yale UP 2018) 9780300190519 Hb the complete corpus of £20.00 available literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity of the Armenian, Georgian Development, Decline and Demise and Caucasian Albanian ca. A.D. 270–430 Christian communities’ By David Walsh activity in the Holy Land David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras during the Byzantine and developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. the Early Islamic periods. and why by the early 5th century the cult had It explores the place of completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional each of these Caucasian narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out communities in ancient Palestine through a of existence by Christians, Walsh demonstrates synthesis of literary and material evidence and seeks that its decline was a far more gradual process that to understand the interrelations between them and resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the influence they had on the national churches of the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity. the Caucasus. 158pp, b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004380806 Pb £122.00 308pp (Brill 2018) 9789004362246 Hb £150.00 58 Late Antique and Byzantine The Oxford Handbook of Early The Novels of Justinian Christian Ritual A Complete Annotated English Translation Edited by Risto Uro, Juliette J. Day, Richard E. DeMaris Edited by David Miller & Peter Sarris & Rikard Roitto The novels comprise a series of laws issued in the This book gives a comprehensive account of the sixth century by Justinian (r.527-65), along with ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning a number of measures issued by his immediate of the movement up to the fifth century. The volume successors. This work represents the first English introduces relevant theories and approaches; central translation of the novels and comes with an topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early extensive historical and legal commentary. Christianity; and important Christian ritual themes 1400pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107000926 Hb £185.00 and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions. Archaeology and Urban Settlement in 752pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198747871 Hb £110.00 Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia Euchaia-Avkat-Beyoezu and its Environment God’s Library Edited by John Haldon, Hugh Elton & James Newhard The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts The significance of Euchaita lies in the fact that it was a small provincial town, typical of the ‘average’ By Brent Nongbri Anatolian urban settlement. This volume represents While biblical scholars have expended much the results of a collaborative project that integrates effort in their study of the texts contained within archaeological survey work with other disciplines our earliest Christian manuscripts, there has both to enhance understanding of the history of been a surprising lack of interest in thinking Byzantine provincial society and to illustrate the about these books as material objects. Through application of innovative approaches to field survey. painstaking archival research and detailed studies 400pp b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108471152 of our most important collections of early Christian Hb £90.00 manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows how the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s of texts or samples of handwriting. They are Northern Frontier, c. AD 500–700 three-dimensional archaeological artefacts with Coins, Artifacts and History fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen. 416pp, b/w illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300215410 Hb By Andrei Gandila £25.00 Through a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, the author demonstrates that communities The Myth of Pelagianism living beyond the frontier competed for access By Ali Bonner to Byzantine goods and reshaped their identity as a result of continual negotiation, reinvention, Setting the accusation of heresy against Pelagius and hybridization. In the hands of ‘barbarians’, in the context of recent scholarship, The Myth of Byzantine objects, such as coins, jewelry, and Pelagianism proves that Pelagius did not teach the terracotta lamps, possessed more than functional or ideas attributed to him or propose anything new. economic value, bringing social prestige, conveying In showing that Pelagius defended what was the religious symbolism, and offering a general sense of mainstream understanding of Christianity, Bonner sharing in the Early Byzantine provincial lifestyle. explores the notion that rather than being the leader of a separatist group, he was one of many 396pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108470421 propagandists for the ascetic movement that swept Hb £90.00 through Christianity and generated medieval The Making of the Medieval Middle East monasticism. Religion, Society, and Simple Believers 360pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780197266397 Hb £80.00 By Jack Tannous The Syriac World In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Edited by Daniel King Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into This volume surveys the ‘Syriac world’, the competing churches and Arabs conquered the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking region, leading to its eventual conversion to Islam. communities from the second century CE and Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding which continues to exist and flourish today. The these dramatic religious transformations are five sections examine the religion; the material, ordinary religious believers. Largely agrarian and visual, and literary cultures; the history and social illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims structures of this diverse community; and Syriac well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have interactions with their neighbours ancient and typically been invisible in our understanding of the modern. Middle East’s history. 840pp (Routledge 2018) 9781138899018 Hb £175.00 664pp, 2 b/w illus. (Princeton UP 2019) 9780691179094 Hb £30.00 Late Antique and Byzantine 59 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art The Vicissitudes of Contact Between Human Hagia Sophia in Context and Divine An Archaeological Re-Examination of the By Rico Franses Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople Rico Franses argues that By Ken Dark & Jan Kostenec the term ‘donor portraits’ The Byzantine cathedral is inappropriate for the of Hagia Sophia has been category of images to which a source of wonder and it conventionally refers and fascination since its sixth- proposes an alternative title century construction. for the category, ‘contact However, while almost all portraits’. He contends that previous archaeological work the most important feature has focused on the church of the scenes consists in the itself, the surrounding active role that they play complex of ecclesiastical within the belief systems buildings has been largely of the supplicants. They are best conceived of not neglected. The research simply as passive expressions of stable, pre-existing project presented here (co-directed by the authors) is ideas and concepts, but as dynamic proponents in the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate a fraught, constantly shifting landscape. environs of the church in order to understand the 266pp, 64 b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108418591 complex as a whole. Previously unrecorded material Hb £75.00 includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox Church was governed for almost a Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and millennium, what may be the ‘Great Baptistery’ north Mesopotamia in the 10th Century of the church, and what are perhaps A Comparative Study the first fragments of the fourth- By Georgios Theotokis century phase of the cathedral Only yet identified. This book examines the £41.25 until strategies and military 208p b/w and col publication illus(Oxbow Books 2019) tactics of the Byzantines and 9781789250305 Hb £55.00 their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. It focuses Hagia Sophia on the way the Byzantines Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium innovated and adapted their strategies and tactics to By Bissera V. Pentcheva those of their enemies in the Coupling digital acoustic East, giving a rich picture of models and video with tenth-century Byzantine warfare. a close examination of 288pp (Edinburgh UP 2018) 9781474431033 Hb £80.00 liturgical texts and melodic structures, Pentcheva applies A Companion to the Byzantine Culture art-historical, philosophical, of War, ca. 300–1204 archaeoacoustical, and anthropological method- Edited by Ioannis Stouraitis ologies to provide insight This collection of essays on into the complementary the Byzantine culture of war ways liturgy and location in the period between the worked to animate 4th and the 12th centuries worshippers in Byzantium. She delves into the provides a critical overview performativity of Hagia Sophia and explains how of current research as well the “icons of sound” created by the sung liturgy as new insights into the role and architectural reverberation formed an aural of military organization as a experience that led to mystical transcendence distinct form of social power for worshippers, opening access to the imagined in one of history’s more long- celestial sound of the angelic choirs. lived empires. The various 304pp, b/w illus (Penn State UP 2017, Pb 2018) chapters consider the political, 9780271077260 Pb £24.95 ideological, practical, institutional and organizational aspects of Byzantine warfare and place it at the centre of the study of social and cultural history. 500pp (Brill 2018) 9789004355514 Hb £210.00 60 Late Antique and Byzantine Reading in the Byzantine Empire The Slavic Dossier and Beyond By Iurie Stamati Edited by Teresa Shawcross & Ida Toth In The Slavic Dossier, Iurie Stamati’s explores Starting from the materiality the emergence of two different discourses in of codices, documents and Soviet archaeology on the place of the Slavs in the inscriptions, the volume’s territory of Moldova and their role in the genesis of contributors draw attention Moldovans and their culture during the medieval to the evidence for a range of period. He not only questions the political contexts interactions with texts. They in which these discourses emerged, but also looks examine the role of authors, at the history of the Moldovan archaeological field, compilers and scribes. They personal profiles of archaeologists, their theoretical look at practices such as the and ideological attachment, relationships and close perusal of texts in order interactions with each other inside and outside the to produce excerpts, notes, archaeological field. commentaries and editions. 312pp (Brill 2018) 9789004342583 Hb £138.00 But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of and speech. 1234 and Its Sources 742pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108418416 Hb £120.00 By A. Hilkens In the late 1230s or in the 1240s, a Syriac Orthodox The Komnene Dynasty historian continued a Syriac Chronicle up to Byzantium’s Struggle for Survival 1057–1185 the Year 1204. The result is the subject of this By John Carr monograph. It reveals the influence of a wide range John Carr narrates the military events of the 128- of Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources, written in year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185), when Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic, and reconstructs the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes some of the chronicle’s now lost sources such as simultaneously. This period saw several changes in the chronicle of Andronicus and a medieval Greek Byzantine military practice, such as the adoption of history along the way. heavy cavalry on the western model, the extensive 351pp (Peeters 2018) 9789042934023 Hb £105.00 use of foreign mercenaries and the neglect of the navy (both of which were to prove a huge and The Excerpta Constantiniana and the possibly fatal disadvantage). Byzantine Appropriation of the Past 256pp b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526702296 Hb By Andras Nemeth £25.00 The Excerpta project instigated by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII turned the enormously Imagining the Byzantine Past rich experience offered by Greek historiography The Perception of History in the Illustrated into a body of excerpts distributed across fifty- Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses three distinct thematic collections. In this, the first By Elena N. Boeck sustained analysis, Andras Nemeth moves from Through close analysis of viewing the Excerpta only as a collection of textual how two chronicles were fragments to focusing on its dependence and impact methodically manipulated, on the surrounding Byzantine culture in the tenth this study argues that century. Byzantine history was 336pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108423632 selectively re-imagined to Hb £75.00 suit the interests of outsiders. The Madrid Skylitzes created The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II at the court of Roger II of Political and Sociocultural Dynamics in Latin- Sicily subverts the divinely Byzantine Constantinople ordained image of order that By Filip Van Tricht Byzantine rulers preferred Filip Van Tricht uses a ‘new’ set of sources to to project. The Vatican Manasses, produced for question the traditionally negative view of the Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria in the mid-fourteenth Byzantine capital under Latin rule. Mid-13th century century, presents Byzantium as a platform for the Latin-Byzantine Constantinople is redefined as a accession of Ivan Alexander to the throne of the city that – in spite of the Western conquest during Third Rome, the last and final world-empire. the Fourth Crusade – remained dynamic, with 352pp, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) vibrant internal and international politics, and with 9781107085817 Hb £80.99, 9781107450011 Pb £27.99 interesting developments in the social, religious, artistic, and scientific spheres. 300pp (Brill 2018) 9789004372443 Hb £132.00

Late Antique and Byzantine 61 Islamic The Islamic World Arts of Allusion A History in Objects Object, Ornament, and Architecture By Ladan Akbarnia & Venetia Porter in Medieval Islam Told in six chapters, arranged By Margaret S. Graves both chronologically and Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial thematically, and richly site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern illustrated, this book Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in explores the material fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, culture produced from West and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns Africa to Southeast Asia fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners through art and artefacts, in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars people and places. Texts articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that are accompanied by a wide allude to tents: through close studies of objects from variety of objects, including the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals architectural decoration, that allusions to architecture abound across media in ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world. musical instruments, coins, illustrated manuscripts, 360pp, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190695910 and modern and contemporary art. Hb £55.00 272pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500480403 Hb £29.95 The Standing Caliph Coinage By Tony Goodwin The Rise of a Capital The Standing Caliph coinage of late Seventh Al-Fustat and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750 Century Syria was highly unusual in having an By Jelle Bruning image of the Umayyad caliph ‘Abd al-Malik on Jelle Bruning maps al-Fustat’s development from a the obverse. First issued in Jerusalem around garrison town founded by Muslim conquerors near 690CE, it was then struck in considerable variety, modern Cairo (Egypt) in c. 640 C.E. into a bustling in both gold and copper, at 19 separate mints. This provincial capital a century later. Synthesising is the first comprehensive survey of the Standing contemporary papyri, archaeology and narrative Caliph coinage and describes images, legends and sources, he argues that al-Fustat’s position in Egypt mint practices in detail. It also includes historical changed with the different policies of the Rightly- background to show how the coinage fitted in to the Guided and Umayyad caliphs and their provincial caliph’s wide ranging programme of reforms. The representatives. book concludes with a catalogue of 450 coins, all of 212pp b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004366350 Hb £121.00 which are illustrated. 174pp b/w illus (Archetype 2018) 9781909492639 Pb £36.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Lost Maps of the Caliphs Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo By Yossef Rapoport & Emilie Savage-Smith About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. The essays which make up this book use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Early astronomical ‘maps’ and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive Only assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an £32.00 until effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also 31st May reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. 368pp, col illus (Bodleian Library 2018) 9781851244911 Hb £37.50

62 Islamic Islamic Christian Martyrs under Islam The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria Religious Violence and the Making of (1250–1517) the Muslim World Scribes, Libraries and Market By Christian C. Sahner By Doris Behrens-Abouseif This volume explains how This book investigates the circulation of the book as Christians across the early a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses Islamic caliphate slowly the impact of princely patronage on the production converted to the faith of the of books, the formation and management of libraries Arab conquerors and how in religious institutions, their size and their physical small groups of individuals setting. The market as a venue of intellectual and rejected this faith through commercial exchanges and a production centre is dramatic acts of resistance, explored with references to prices and fees. The including apostasy and social and professional background of scribes and blasphemy. Sahner argues calligraphers forms a further major theme. that Christians never 178pp, col illus (Brill 2018) 9789004387003 Hb £100.00 experienced systematic persecution under the early caliphs, but that episodes The History of Central Asia of ferocious violence contributed to the spread of The Age of Decline and Revival Islam within Christian societies, and memories of this bloodshed played a key role in shaping Christian By Christoph Baumer identity in the new Islamic empire. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed Central Asia 360pp, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691179100 quartet, Christoph Baumer Hb £30.00 shows how China in the east, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of and Russia in the northwest, Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD succeeded in throwing off the Mongol yoke to become the By Timothy Insoll, Salman Almahari & Rachel masters of their own previous MacLean rulers. He suggests that, as In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an traditional transcontinental illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern trade routes declined in Arabic transcription and English translation is importance, it was the ‘Great provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, Game’ – or cold war between Imperial Russia and types, manufacture, decoration, iconography, Great Britain – which finally brought Central Asia inscription content, archaeological context, history back into play as a region of strategic importance. of research, and contemporary significance and 352pp col illus (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781788310499 Hb conservation issues. £30.00 490pp, (Brill 2018) 9789004380783 Hb £133.00 Anglo-Saxon and Viking Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval and History 21 England Edited by Helena Hamerow By Michael D. J. Bintley Contents: Ethnic identity or something else? Trees were of fundamental The production and use of non-ferrous dress- importance in Anglo-Saxon accessories and related items from early medieval religion both before and, as Lincoln; What was the basis for Bede’s list of this book argues, after the overlords in Historia Ecclesiastica 2.5?; The Anglo- introduction of Christianity. Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire: a It shows that in fact they re-assessment of the chronological evidence and may have played a crucial possible re-interpretation; Objects from a distant role in mediating the place: transformation and use of insular mounts transition between ancient from Viking-Age burials in TrØndelag central beliefs and the new faith. Norway; Two rural Anglo-Saxon sites in Suffolk: Tree symbolism helped archaeological excavations at Church Road, Snape early English Christians to and Lime Avenue, Oulton. understand how the beliefs of their ancestors about 110pp, (Oxford University School of Archaeology 2018) trees, posts, and pillars paralleled the appearance of 9781905905447 Pb £30.00 similar objects in the Old Testament. 206pp, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2015, Pb 2018) 9781843839897 Hb £50.00, 9781783273010 Pb £19.99 63 Image and Performance, Agency The Staffordshire Hoard and Ideology An Anglo-Saxon Treasure Representations of the Human Figure in Edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson and Leslie Funerary Contexts in Anglo-Saxon Art, Webster AD 400–680 The Staffordshire Hoard: An By Lisa Brundle Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells This book investigates the topic of human imagery the story of the Staffordshire and hybrid human imagery rendered on metalwork Hoard’s discovery and of early Anglo-Saxon date recovered within eastern acquisition, and the six- England. It presents the first definitive catalogue of year research project that its kind for this region and timeframe. The author pieced its fragments back considers such topics as the interrelationship between together, identified its image, object and the user, the changing portrayal of objects and explored their human representation and the social implications of manufacture. Key chapters such developments and the emergence of new bodily discuss the decoration and gestures in representational art. meaning of the Hoard’s 288pp, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 645, 2019) intricate ornament, the techniques of Anglo-Saxon 9781407316512 Pb £63.00 craftsmen, the religious and historical background, and hoarding practice in Britain and Europe, to Kingship, Society, and the Church in place this most exceptional find in context. Finally, Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire the text explores the impact that the find has had locally, nationally and internationally in the twenty- By Thomas Pickles first century. Inspired by studies of 640pp b/w and col illus (Society of Antiquaries 2019) Carolingian Europe, 9781527233508 Hb £45.00 NYP Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Citadel of the Saxons Yorkshire argues that the The Rise of Early London social strategies of local kin- groups drove conversion By Rory Naismith to Christianity and church Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth- building in Yorkshire from century Britannia Londinium, the capital, was all 400-1066 AD. It challenges but abandoned. But by the 600s a new settlement, the emphasis that has been Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the placed on the role and River Thames by enterprising traders who braved agency of Anglo-Saxon kings in conversion and the North Sea in their precarious small boats. This church building, and moves forward the debate book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium surrounding the ‘minster hypothesis’ through an was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against inter-disciplinary case study. the Danes and a pivotal English citadel, surviving to 384pp, b/w figures/illustrations (Oxford UP 2018) become the most important town in England. 9780198818779 Hb £85.00 552pp (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781788312226 Hb £20.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Formative Britain An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD By Martin Carver Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and Saxons, who expressed their views of this world and the next in a thousand sites and monuments. This highly illustrated volume is the first book that attempts to describe the experience of all levels of society over the whole island using archaeology alone. The story is drawn from the Only clothes, faces and biology of men and women, the images that £23.50 until survive in their poetry, the places they lived, the work they did, the ingenious celebrations of their graves and burial grounds, 31st May their decorated stone monuments and their diverse messages. 766pp b/w illus (Routledge 2019) 9780415524759 Pb £26.99

64 Anglo-Saxon and Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Wulfhere’s People A Mid-Saxon Cemetery at Wolverton, The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World Milton Keynes The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery By A.J. Hancock & R.J. Zeepvat By Alexandra Lester-Makin The mid-Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Wolverton This volume presents the contained 81 inhumation burials and two first substantial history of cremations, accompanied by a wide range of grave early medieval embroideries goods. This cemetery, the largest of its type found in and their context within Buckinghamshire to date, is probably to be linked the British Isles. It brings with the nearby Saxon settlement at Wolverton Mill. together and analyses all This report describes the results of the excavation 43 embroideries believed in details and provides insights into the lives of to have been made in the Wolverton’s earliest inhabitants. British Isles and Ireland in 155pp b/w illus (Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society the early medieval period. 2018) £23.00 New research carried out on those embroideries that Aelfred’s Britain are accessible today, involving the collection War and Peace in the Viking Age of technical data, stitch analysis, observations By Max Adams of condition and wear-marks and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing Traditionally, Aelfred the published and archival sources. The research has Great is cast as the central been used to write, for the first time, the ‘story’ player in the story of Viking of embroidery, including what we can learn of Age Britain. But Max Adams, its producers, their techniques, and the material while stressing the genius functions and metaphorical of Aelfred as war leader, meanings of embroidery within law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more early medieval Anglo-Saxon Only society. nuanced and variegated £30.40 until narrative to relate. The 272pp, b/w and col illus publication Britain encountered by the (Oxbow Books 2019) Scandinavians of the ninth 9781789251449 Pb £38.00 and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities: of Picts, Dal Riatans and Strathclyde In Enigmate Britons; of Bernicians and Deirans, East Anglians, The History of a Riddle, 400–1500 Mercians and West Saxons. 512p col pls (Head of Zeus 2017, Pb 2018) 9781784080303 By Erin Sebo Hb £25.00, 9781784080310 Pb £9.99 In enigmate is a study of the Creation riddle, perhaps Alfred the Great the best-known riddle in War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon early England as, it was England transmitted, translated and By Richard Abels transformed over more than a thousand years. Versions of This biography of Alfred it survive in both popular and the Great, king of the West elite literature, and because Saxons (871-899), combines it is constructed around a sensitive reading of the an enigmatic description primary sources with of Creation, it reveals a careful evaluation of changing cosmological the most recent scholarly and cosmographical conceptions as it is retold research on the history and reimagined. Together, the iterations of this and archaeology of ninth- riddle represent a unique opportunity to study century England. The book the imaginary geography of medieval society as it recovers the historical Alfred, changed over time. pragmatic, generous, brutal, pious, scholarly within the context of his own 224pp (Four Courts Press 2019) 9781846826344 Hb age. This new edition includes illustrations of £45.00 key material sources and extended sections on Alfred’s intellectual/literary program and on the posthumous reputation and memory of Alfred. 400pp (Routledge 2nd ed 2019) 9781138808126 Pb £29.99 Anglo-Saxon and Viking 65 The Book of Durrow Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in By Rachel Moss the Early Medieval North Atlantic A masterpiece of Celtic By Jeremy DeAngelo art, th Book of Durrow is Out of Bounds examines the development of the believed to be the oldest fully literary outlaw in the early Middle Ages, when decorated Insular Gospel traditions drawn from Anglo-Saxon England, that survives, pre-dating early Christian Ireland, and Viking Age Iceland the Book of Kells by more informed a generous view of itinerant criminality than a century. This richly and facilitated the application of outlaw tropes to decorated introductory guide moral questions of conduct in both secular and explores the manuscript’s religious life. Taken together, the traditions of distinctive artwork, providing the North Atlantic archipelago reveal a world of a fascinating view of the interconnected cultures with an expansive view eclectic sources drawn upon of movement across boundaries both literal and by the scribe/illuminator to adorn this sacred text, as conceptual. well as the practical challenges that faced its maker, 296pp (Amsterdam UP 2018) 9789462984080 Hb £85.00 such as working on and binding with vellum, and early inks and pigments. Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship 96pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500294604 By Michael G. Shapland Pb £14.95 For the first time, this book The Pioneer Burial gathers together the evidence for the so-called ‘tower- A High-Status Anglian Warrior Burial from nave’ churches, towers with Wollaston Northamptonshire only a tiny chapel located By Ian Meadows inside. It traces their origin MOLA undertook evaluation and subsequent in monasteries, where kings excavation at Wollaston Quarry, near and bishops drew upon Wellingborough through the 1990s. A single late 7th Continental European century grave, the Pioneer burial, was an isolated practice to construct feature. Within the grave there was an individual centrally-planned, tower-like adult of slender build probably in their early to chapels for private worship middle 20s equipped with a boar-crested iron and burial, and to mark gates and important helmet, a pattern-welded sword, a entrances, and their adoption by the secular copper alloy hanging bowl with aristocracy to adorn manorial sites. The book argues enamelled escutcheon, an iron Only that many of the known examples would have knife, a copper alloy clothing £20.40 until provided strategic advantage as watchtowers over hook and three iron buckles. 31st May roads, rivers and beacon-systems, and have acted as 82pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress focal points for the mustering of troops. 2019) 9781789691191 Pb £24.00 272pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2019) 9780198809463 Hb £85.00 Scotland in Early Medieval Europe The Middle Ages Revisited Edited by Alice E. Blackwell Studies in the Archaeology and History of This cross-disciplinary Medieval Southern England Presented to volume includes Professor David A. Hinton contributions focussing Edited by Ben Jervis on archaeology, artefacts, This volume, produced in honour of Professor art-history and history, David A. Hinton’s contribution to medieval studies, and considers themes that re-visits the sites, archaeologists and questions connect Scotland with key which have been central to the archaeology of processes and phenomena medieval southern England. Topics include happening elsewhere in Anglo-Saxon Hamwic; the Jutish archaeology of early medieval Europe. Wessex; Winchester Old Minster; the household Topics explored include the of early medieval Facombe Netheron; Cuckoo transition from Iron Age to Lane, Southampton; church floor early medieval societies and the development of tiles from Oxfordshire; wheat secular power centres, early medieval intervention cultivation; animal bones from Only in prehistoric landscapes, and the management of Eynsham Abbey; and elite £27.50 until resources necessary to build kingdoms. medieval landscapes. 31st May 175pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) 9789088907517 168pp b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) Hb £90.00, 9789088907524 Pb £30.00, NYP 9781789690354 Pb £32.00 66 Anglo-Saxon and Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Crafting Communities and Social A Norse Settlement in the Outer Networks in Viking Towns Hebrides Edited by Stephen P. Ashby & Søren Sindbaek Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, Viking-period towns were South Uist the hubs of cross-cultural Edited by Niall Sharples communication of their The settlement at Bornais in age, and innovations in the Western Isles of Scotland specialized crafts provide is one of the largest rural archaeologists with some of settlements known from the best evidence for studying the Norse period in Britain. this communication. The This volume explores the volume brings together stratigraphic sequence leading UK and Scandinavian uncovered by the excavation archaeological specialists to of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. explore crafted products and The excavation of mound 2 workshop-assemblages from these towns, in order revealed a sequence of high to clarify how such long-range communication status buildings that span worked in pre-modern Northern Europe. Results are the Norse occupation of the settlement Detailed analysed in relation to social network theory, social recording of the floor layers has revealed a wealth and economic history, and models of of finds that provides invaluable insight into the communication, setting an agenda activities taking place. The excavation of mound 2A for further research. Only provides an insight into the less prestigious areas 224pp, b/w and col illus £30.40 until of the settlement and contributes (Oxbow Books 2019) publication a significant amount of evidence 9781789251609 Pb £38.00 on the settlement economy. Only 608pp b/w illus £33.75 until Beside the Ocean (Oxbow Books 2019) publication Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, 9781789250466 Hb £45.00 Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003–18 Looting or Missioning By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison & Michael Athanson Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in From 2003, a new Viking Age Contexts in Norway archaeological research By Egil Mikkelsen project began to investigate Until now insular and continental material, mostly the hinterlands of the three metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in bays of Skaill, Marwick Bay, Norway, has been interpreted as looted material and Birsay Bay, seeking from churches and monasteries on the British Isles to create a broader and and the Continent. The objects comprise crosses, better-informed landscape croziers, portable reliquaries, mountings from books context. Several new areas or reading equipment, altars or crosses, pitchers, of archaeological interest glass vessels, chalices, and patens. Contemporary have been identified, and sources show that missionaries brought this sort of many previously-known equipment on their mission journeys. Mikkelson sites are now better-understood. In one area in interprets the sacred objects found in Viking Age particular, a cluster of large settlement mounds on pagan graves as objects that originate from the the northern side of the Bay of Skaill, two major many unsuccessful mission attempts in Norway Viking-Norse settlement clusters were identified throughout the Viking Age. They changed function and investigated. The artefact assemblages include and were integrated in the pagan tradition. The evidence for ferrous metalworking along with conversion and Christianisation of Norway can thus iron and copper alloy objects, be seen as a long-lasting process, at combs, glass and amber beads, least from about 800 (but probably worked stone, ceramics and a Only earlier) to the beginning of the Only range of archaeobotanical and £33.75 until eleventh century. archaeozoological remains. £38.40 until publication 288pp col illus (Oxbow 432p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789253184 publication Books 2019) 9781789250961 Hb £48.00 Hb £45.00

Anglo-Saxon and Viking 67 Viking Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Tom Williams The Viking Way Between the conventional beginning of the Viking Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia Age in the late eighth century and its close in the eleventh, Scandinavian people and culture were By Neil Price involved with Britain to a degree that has left a This book examines the permanent impression on these islands. Tom evidence for Old Norse Williams shows how they came to plunder and, sorcery, looking at its ultimately, to settle, to colonize and to rule. By the meaning and function, time of the Norman Conquest, much of Britain practice and practitioners, might justifiably be described as ‘Viking’, and in and the complicated language, literature, place-names and folklore, the constructions of gender and presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt. sexual identity with which 416pp (William Collins 2017, Pb 2018) 9780008171957 these were underpinned. Pb £9.99 Combining strong elements of eroticism and Norse Greenland aggression, sorcery appears Viking Peasants in the Arctic as a fundamental domain of women’s power, By Arnved Nedkvitne linking them with the gods, the dead and the future. Their battle spells and combat rituals How could a community of 2-3000 Viking peasants complement the men’s physical acts of fighting, survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985 in a supernatural empowerment of the Viking – 1415), and why did they finally disappear? In the way of life. What emerges is a fundamentally last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous new image of the world in which the Vikings in emphasising that long term climatic and understood themselves to move, in which magic environmental changes created a situation where and its implications permeated every aspect of a Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the society permanently geared for war. In this fully- community was ruined. This monograph challenges revised and expanded second edition, Neil Price this model, arguing that the Norse settlers had takes us with him on a tour through the sights and successfully adapted to their environment, and sounds of this undiscovered country, meeting its refocusing attention on ethnic confrontations human and otherworldly inhabitants, including between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. the Sámi with whom the Norse partly shared this 480pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815366294 Hb mental landscape. On the way we explore Viking £115.00 notions of the mind and soul, the fluidity of the Silver, Butter, Cloth boundaries that they drew between humans and animals, and the immense variety of their spiritual Monetary and Social Economies in beliefs. Combining archaeology, history and literary the Viking Age scholarship with extensive studies of Germanic and Edited by Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams circumpolar religion, this multi- Silver, Butter, Cloth advances award-winning book shows us the current debates about the Vikings as we have never seen Only nature and complexity of them before. £22.50 until Viking economic systems. 336p b/w and col illus publication It explores how silver and (Oxbow Books 2nd ed other commodities were 2019) 9781842172605 Hb used in monetary and £30.00 social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the Pocket Museum: Vikings wide scale introduction of By Steve Ashby & Alison Leonard coinage. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach Pocket Museum: Vikings brings together nearly that unites archaeological, numismatic, and 200 of the most remarkable artefacts that are held metallurgical analyses, the contributors examine in museum collections around the world. From the the uses and sources of silver in both monetary and vast Oseberg ship to a tiny valkyrie pendant, and social transactions, as well as giving the first detailed from simple wooden panpipes to the unparalleled consideration of the monetary role of butter, cloth, collection of silver items in the Spillings Hoard, each and gold in the Viking economy. object provides an important insight into this most 352pp, 94 b/w figures/tables (Oxford UP 2019) fascinating of cultures. 9780198827986 Hb £75.00 288pp col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500052068 Hb £12.95

68 Anglo-Saxon and Viking Early Medieval Europe Power and Religion in Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Merovingian Gaul Columbanian Monasticism and Markets in Early Medieval Europe the Frankish Elites Trading and ‘Productive’ Sites, 650–850 By Yaniv Fox By Katharina Ulmschneider & Tim Pestell Contrary to earlier studies, which viewed Recent collaboration between Columbanus and his disciples primarily as religious the archaeological and metal- innovators, this book focuses on the political, detectorist communities economic, and familial implications of monastic has transformed our patronage and on the benefits elite patrons stood understanding of early to reap. Columbanian monasteries were not serene medieval economies. The havens of contemplation, but rather active foci of great coastal emporia or power and wealth, and quickly became integral wics like Hamwic, Dorestadt elements of early medieval statecraft. and Quentovic have in 369pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2018) the past been the centre 9781107064591 Hb £65.00, 9781107658424 Pb £21.99 of scholarly attention. However, the identification The Social Life of Hagiography in of ‘productive sites’, mostly through the detection the Merovingian Kingdom and archaeological analysis of coins, has increasingly shown how economic and cultural exchange went By Jamie Kreiner on at a myriad of other places, many of them inland. This book charts the influence of Christian ideas This book surveys the evidence for inland markets about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and and trading sites, in Anglo-Saxon England and across operational policies of the Merovingian government. Scandinavian and Frankish Europe. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were 304pp, b/w illus, tbs (Windgather Press 2003, able to convey convey political ideas, by layering Pb 2019) 9781911188476 Pb £30.00 their arguments with different rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface narratives entertaining. 341pp (Cambridge UP2014, Pb 2018) 9781107050655 Hb Ireland’s Immortals £70.00, 9781107658394 Pb £20.99 A History of the Gods of Irish Myth The Avars By Mark Williams A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822 The first account of the By Walter Pohl gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Walter Pohl’s epic narrative offers a comprehensive Irish literature in both the overview of he history of the Avars. He discusses nation’s languages, this book the construction of their steppe empire in the describes how Ireland’s centre of Europe; their wars and alliances with pagan divinities were the Byzantines, Slavs, Lombards, and others; and transformed into literary their apex as the first so-called barbarian power characters in the medieval to besiege Constantinople (in 626); to their fall Christian era – and how they under the Frankish armies of Charlemagne and were recast again during subsequent disappearance as a distinct cultural the Celtic Revival of the group. late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A 624pp (Cornell UP 2018) 9780801442100 Hb £58.00 lively narrative of supernatural beings and their The Imperial City of Cologne fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis gods--known as the – Tuatha De Danann – have By Joseph Huffman shifted shape across the centuries. An urban history of Cologne from its imperial 608pp, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2016, Pb 2018) Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military 9780691183046 Pb £22.00 outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire’s northwestern border. The book challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government. 336pp b/w illus (Amsterdam UP 2018) 9789462988224 Hb £90.00 69 Lombard Legacy The Olsztyn Group in the Early Cultural Strategies and the Visual Arts in Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Medieval Italy Region By John Mitchell The Cemetery at Leleszki Using the great south-Italian monastery of San By Miroslaw Rudnicki Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved Between the 5th and the 7th century, the region monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a of the Mazurian Lakes in northeastern Poland case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell witnessed the rise of communities, know as the has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of Olysztyn Group, engaged in long-distant contacts the ways in which visual culture was developed with both Western and Eastern Europe. Besides and deployed by ambitious states and institutions offering a survey of the current state of research on in early medieval Europe. The present volume the Olsztyn Group, Miroslaw Rudnicki presents a includes studies on the cultural dynamics of Italy study of the Leleszki cemetery as one of the most and its contribution to the visual complexion of representative sites. Europe in the period, as well as essays on many aspects of the artistic culture of San Vincenzo. 280pp b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004264946 Hb £133.00 644pp b/w and col illus (Pindar 2019) 9781904597346Hb £150.00 Medieval Britain The Cult of Thomas Becket The Annals of Dunstable Priory History and Historiography through Edited by Harriett Webster & David Preest Eight Centuries The Annals of Dunstable Priory are a valuable By Kay Brainerd Slocum witness to thirteenth-century England. They This volume provides a historiographical analysis commenced under the direction of the well- of the major themes in Becket scholarship, from connected Prior Richard de Morins, who, amongst the writings of the twelfth-century biographers other important events of his age, attended the to those of scholars of the twenty-first century. In Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. Giving insights into addition, several chapters are devoted a discussion many facets of medieval life, they perhaps most of artworks in various media devoted to the saint, importantly offer detailed accounts of key events as well as liturgies and sermons composed in his on an national and international stage, including honour. the crisis of the Second Barons’ War in the reign of 340pp (Routledge 2018) 9781138103283 Hb £115.00 Henry III, and the conquest of Wales under Edward I. This volume presents a new English translation. The Cartulary and Charters of the 320pp (Boydell & Brewer 2018) 9781843838135 Hb Priory of Saints Peter and Paul, Ipswich £75.00 Part I: The Cartulary Hugh Despenser the Younger and By David Allen Edward II The charters and other Downfall of a King’s Favourite documents recorded in the thirteenth-century Cartulary By Kathryn Warner of the Augustinian priory This book tells the story of of Sts Peter and Paul, ‘the greatest villain of the Ipswich, throw light on fourteenth century’, his an institution whose early dazzling rise as favourite to the history was mostly shrouded king and his disastrous fall. in obscurity. They are an For years Hugh Despenser important source for the the Younger dominated the study both of the expansion English government and of the priory estates and the foreign policy, and took consolidation of its holdings whatever lands he felt like by the gift or purchase of adjoining parcels of land by both quasi-legal and in common fields, and a mine of information for illegal methods, with the the student of place-names. This first volume of two king’s connivance. His actions were to bring both presents the Priory’s Cartulary, with introduction himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly and notes. responsible for the first forced abdication of a king 320pp (Boydell & Brewer 2019) 9781783273546 Hb in English history. £60.00 192pp, col pls (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526715616 Hb £25.00 70 Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou Medieval English Travel A Marriage of Unequals A Critical Anthology By Amy Licence Edited by Anthony Bale & Sebastian Sobecki He became king before his first birthday, inheriting This volume consists of three sections: concise a vast empire from his military hero father; she was introductory essays written by leading specialists; the daughter of a king without power, who made an an anthology of important and less well-known unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of completely opposite in character, together they supporting bibliographies organised by type of formed an unlikely but complimentary partnership. voyage. The organising principle for the anthology History has been a harsh judge to this royal couple. is one of expansive geography. Starting with local In this discerning dual biography, Amy Licence English narratives, the section moves to France, en- leads the way in a long-overdue re-evaluation route destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. of their characters and contributions during a 528pp (Oxford UP 2019) 9780198733782 Hb £85.00 tumultuous period of British history. 256pp, col pls (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526709752 Hb £19.99 Immigrant England, 1300–1550 By W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert & Jonathan The Black Prince and the Grande Mackman Chevauchée of 1355 This book provides a vivid By Mollie M. Madden and accessible history of The victory at Poitiers first-generation immigrants was the culmination of an to England in the later Medieval Britain expedition which had begun Middle Ages. Accounting in England in 1355, and saw for upwards of two percent of the successful undertaking the population and coming of the so-called “grande from all parts of Europe and chevauchée” – which beyond, immigrants spread depended on a system of out over the kingdom, purveyance and recruitment settling in the countryside as in England, in addition to an well as in towns, taking work efficient supply train which as agricultural labourers, accompanied the army. This skilled craftspeople and professionals. Often book examines in detail encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified and the logistics that drove that victimised, immigrants were always on the social success; it also shows the powerful connection and political agenda. between tactics and strategy on the one hand, and 312pp (Manchester UP 2018) 9781526109156 Hb £80.00, geography, human topography, and the need for 9781526109149 Pb £19.99 food, water and rest, on the other. 252pp (Boydell & Brewer 2018) 9781783273560 Hb £60.00 Medieval Europe Unquiet Women Contesting the Middle Ages From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to By John Aberth the Dawn of the Enlightenment Contesting the Middle Ages By Max Adams looks at nine of the most In this exploration of hotly debated topics in the some of remarkable – but historiography, the decline little-known – women of Rome, the origins of living between between Islam, the Viking invasion, the last days of Rome and the Crusades, persecution of the Enlightenment, Max minority groups, women, the Adams overturns the idea rise of nominalism, the Black that women of this period Death and lastly the waning were either queens, nuns of the Middle Ages. John or invisible. In a sequence Aberth in each chapter sets of chronological chapters, out the historiographical debates in an engaging a centrepiece biographical and informative way. sketch is complemented by thematically linked 344pp (Routledge 2018) 9780415729291 Hb £105.00, stories of other women of the time. 9780415729307 Pb £24.99 288pp (Head of Zeus 2018) 9781788543415 Hb £20.00 71 Sailing to the Holy Land Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Crusader Ships, Seamanship, Logistics and Early Modern Europe Landing Operations Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage By Dan Mirkin Edited by Valerie Schutte & Estelle Paranque This book, unlike most studies dealing with the This book covers queenship from 1016 to 1800, Crusaders’ voyages by sea across the Mediterranean demonstrating the influence of queens in different and their arrival at the shores of the Levant, looks aspects of monarchy over eight centuries and at this feat from a seaman’s point of view. To this furthering our knowledge of the roles and end, it examines the types of ships, the sails and challenges that they faced. It also promotes a rigging that were used at the time. It also tackles deeper understanding of the methods of power and the problems of transporting cargo, humans and patronage for women who were not queens, many horses, and the management of large fleets and their of which have since become mythologized into what navigational difficulties. historians have wanted them to be. 107pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2904, 2018) 9781407316598 248pp (Routledge 2018) 9781138085459 Hb £110.00, Pb £22.00 9781138085466 Pb £29.99 The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights A Knight for the Ages Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry By William Urban Edited by Elizabeth Morrison The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles The Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing, a in Medieval Europe. The Teutonic Knights were famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays defeated and they would never again regain their the audacious life of Jacques de Lalaing (1421- former power. Following the battle, the balance of 1453). This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of power shifted in Central and Eastern Europe and so the manuscript with essays written by the world’s came the rise of the Polish-Lithuanian union as the leading medievalists, adding rich texture and dominant political and military force. Here William providing a greater understanding of the many Urban provides a detailed account of the battle and aspects of the manuscript’s background, creation, its far-reaching consequences. and reception. 352pp, b/w and col illus (Greenhill Books 2018) 192pp, col illus (Getty Trust Publications 2018) 9781784383572 Hb £25.00 9781606065754 Hb £40.00 Crusading in Art, Thought and Will Marie of France Edited by Matthew E. Parker, Ben Halliburton & Countess of Champagne, 1145–1198 Anne Romine By Theodore Evergates The contributors to this volume offer new Countess Marie of Champagne is primarily known perspectives on topics as varied as the application today as the daughter of Louis VII of France and of Roman law on slavery to the situation of Eleanor of Aquitaine and as a literary patron of Muslims in the Latin East, Muslim appropriation Chretien de Troyes. In this engaging biography, of Latin architectural spolia, the roles played by the Theodore Evergates offers a more rounded view of crusade in medieval preaching, and the impact of Marie as a successful ruler of one of the wealthiest Latin East refugees on religious geography in late and most vibrant principalities in medieval medieval Cyprus. Together they demonstrate how France. If Henry the Liberal created the county of pervasive the institution of crusade was in medieval Champagne as a dynamic and prosperous state, it Christendom. was Marie who expertly preserved and sustained it. 304pp (Brill 2018) 9789004376595 Hb £122.00 192pp (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018) Siege Warfare during the Hundred 9780812250770 Hb £58.00 Years War A Cultural History of the Senses in Once More unto the Breach the Middle Ages By Peter Hoskins Edited by Richard G. Newhauser Throughout the Hundred Years War, sieges were For the long medieval millennium, the senses a major weapon in the strategic armouries of were not limited to the five we think of: speech, for both sides, and they form the centre of Peter example, was categorized among the senses of the Hoskins’s new study. He describes the difficulties mouth. This book presents essays on the following faced by besieger and besieged, examines the topics: the social life of the senses; urban sensations; logistics and resource implications of sieges, and the senses in the marketplace; the senses in religion; provides a comparative assessment of siege warfare the senses in philosophy and science; medicine alongside set-piece battles and the English strategy and the senses; the senses in literature; art and the of chevauchees. senses; and sensory media. 256pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781473834323 Hb 280pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350077898 Pb £25.00 £24.99 72 Medieval Europe Medieval Religion The City Lament Burning Bodies Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean Communities, Eschatology, and the Punishment By Tamar M. Boyadjian of Heresy in the Middle Ages Poetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as By Michael D. Barbezat old as cities themselves. Tamar M. Boyadjian traces Burning Bodies interrogates the trajectory of this genre across the Mediterranean the ideas that the authors world during the period of the early Crusades (1095- of historical and theological 1191), focusing on elegies and other expressions of texts in the medieval West loss focusing on the spiritual and strategic objective associated with the burning of those wars: Jerusalem. She exposes significant alive of Christian heretics. literary intersections between Latin Christendom, Michael Barbezat traces the Islamic caliphates and sultanates of the Middle these instances from the East, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. eleventh century until 210pp (Cornell UP 2018) 9781501730535 Hb £44.00 the advent of the internal crusades of the thirteenth Royal Books and Holy Bones century, depicting the Essays in Medieval Christianity exclusionary fires of hell and judicial execution, By Eamon Duffy the purifying fire of post-mortem purgation, and In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon the unifying fire of God’s love that medieval authors Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of used to describe processes of social inclusion and Western religion in the thousand years between exclusion. the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the 300pp (Cornell UP 2018) 9781501716805 Hb £45.00 Protestant Reformation. Topics include: the fear of Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago death and the impact of devastating pandemic, holy war against Islam and the invention of the blood de Compostela libel against the Jews, provision for the afterlife and By Bernadette Cunningham the continuing power of the dead over the living, The long and hazardous journey by land and the meaning of pilgrimage and the evolution of sea to the shrine of St James in Galicia was not Christian music. undertaken lightly. This innovative book explores 384pp col pls (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781472953230 Hb the varied influences on and motivations of the £25.00 pilgrims, as well as the nature of medieval travel, in order to understand when, why and how pilgrims Virgin Whore from Ireland went to Santiago in the heyday of By Emma Maggie Solberg the pilgrimage, between the twelfth and fifteenth Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly centuries. prevalent theme in late English medieval literature 160pp (Four Courts Press 2018) 9781846827297 Pb £17.95 and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality. Looking to a period before the idea of her Elf Queens and Holy Friars purity and virginity had ossified, Solberg uncovers Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church depictions and interpretations of Mary, discernible By Richard Firth Green in jokes and insults, icons and rituals, prayers and Richard Firth Green revelations, allegories and typologies-and in late investigates an important medieval vernacular biblical drama. aspect of medieval culture 294pp (Cornell UP 2018) 9781501730337 Hb £33.00 that has been largely ignored by modern literary St. Hildegard of Bingen scholarship: the omnipresent The Book of Divine Works belief in fairyland. He argues Edited by Nathaniel M. Campbell that when medieval preachers Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works inveighed against the demons (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of that they portrayed as the Hildgeard’s theological project, offered here for threatening their flocks, they the first time in a complete and scholarly English were in reality often waging translation. The first part explores the intricate war against fairy beliefs. That physical and spiritual relationships between the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously the cosmos and the human person. The second suggests that they were ideologically loaded. part examines the rewards for virtue and the 304pp (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016, Pb 2018) punishments for vice. 9780812248432 Hb £45.00, 9780812224252 Pb £21.99 277pp (Catholic University of America Press 2018) 9780813231297 Hb £49.50 73 Medieval Art and Architecture Understanding Illuminated Manscripts The Power of Textiles A Guide to Technical Terms Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions By Michelle P. Brown (1363–1477) What is a historiated initial? What are canon By Katherine Wilson tables? What is a drollery? This revised edition This book explores tapestry of Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts offers in one of the greatest textile definitions of the key elements of illuminated producing regions, the manuscripts, demystifying the techniques, Burgundian Dominions, processes, materials, nomenclature, and styles used c.1363-1477. It begins by in the making of these precious books. The new identifying the suppliers edition has been fully updated to reflect current of tapestry to the dukes of research and technologies. Burgundy and their ability 128pp, col illus (Getty Trust Publications 2nd ed 2018) to spin webs between city 9781606065785 Pb £14.95 and court. It proceeds by considering the forms of Fashion in the Middle Ages tapestry and their functions By Margaret Scott for urban and courtly This volume provides consumers. It then observes the ways in which a detailed look at both tapestry constructed social relations as part of gift- the actual fabrics and giving strategies. It concludes by exploring what composition of medieval the re-use, repair, and remaking of tapestry reveals clothing as well as the about its value to urban and courtly consumers. period’s attitude toward 350pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503533933 Pb £63.00 fashion through an exploration of illuminated Arrayed in Splendor manuscripts in the collection Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Modern Europe The last portion of the book Edited by Christoph Brachmann is dedicated to the depiction Ranging from the twelfth to the seventeenth of clothing in biblical times centuries, this collection of essays of leading and the ancient world as scholars in the field offers an invaluable window seen through a medieval lens. Throughout, excerpts into the complexity of the textile arts and their from literary sources of the period help shed light medium, from the overpowering splendour of on the perceived role and function of fashion in liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious daily life. fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early 112pp, col illus (Getty Trust Publications 2018) modern period, to the visual world of monumental 9781606065853 Pb £12.99 room decorations in the form of tapestries. 250pp col illus (Brepols 2018) 9782503579658 Pb £110.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Sculptural Seeing Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy By Christopher R. Lakey This volume examines a series of important relief sculptures from northern and central Italy, including the impressive sculptural programs at the cathedrals of Modena and Ferrara, and the pulpits by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano at Pisa and Pistoia. Demonstrating that medieval sculptors orchestrated the reception of their intended religious and political messages through the careful manipulation of points of view and architectural space, Only Christopher R. Lakey argues that medieval practice was well informed by visual theory and that the concepts that led to £47.00 until the codification of linear perspective by Renaissance painters 31st May had in fact been in use by sculptors for hundreds of years. 240pp, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300232141 Hb £55.00

74 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Late Gothic Architecture Its Evolution, Extinction, and Reception The Cosmatesque Mosaics of By Robert Bork Westminster Abbey In this book, Robert Bork offers a sweeping The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, reassessment of late Gothic architecture and its Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation fate in the Renaissance. He demonstrates that the By Warwick Rodwell & David Neal Gothic design tradition remained inherently vital Westminster Abbey contains throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the only surviving medieval creating spectacular monuments in a wide variety Cosmatesque mosaics of national and regional styles. The displacement outside Italy. They comprise: of this Gothic tradition reflected the impact of three the ‘Great Pavement’ in the main external forces: the rise of a rival architectural sanctuary; the pavement culture; the appropriation of that architectural around the shrine of Edward language by patrons who wished to associate the Confessor; the saint’s themselves with papal and imperial Rome; and the tomb and shrine; Henry III’s chaos of the Reformation. tomb; the tomb of a royal 450pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503568942 Pb £101.00 child, and some other pieces. This publication in two volumes, presents a holistic Building the Sacred in a Crusader study of this outstanding group of monuments in Kingdom their historical architectural and archaeological Gothic Church Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus context. Conservation of the sanctuary pavement By Michalis Olympios was accompanied by full archaeological recording with every piece of mosaic decoration drawn This new study is based on original research on and coloured by David Neal, phase plans have the physical fabric of Cyprus’ Gothic ecclesiastical been prepared, and stone-by-stone examination edifices, on a thorough exploitation of the published undertaken, petrologically archaeological data, and on a new reading of identifying and recording the the extant documentary sources. In particular it reevaluates and recontextualizes the ambitions of locations of all the materials Only present. the patrons and the choices (and compromises) £52.00 until of the master masons responsible for this unique 560pp, b/w and col illus publication monumental heritage. (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789252347 Hb £65.00 489pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503536064 Pb £93.50 Rood Screens Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at By Richard Hayman Canterbury Cathedral and The rood screen was the visual focus of the the Cult of Thomas Becket medieval parish church, dividing the nave from By Carolyn Malone the chancel. Most were built of wood and were This study reconstructs adorned with intricate carved decoration painted twelfth-century sculptural in bright colours, often with images of saints. This and architectural finds, fully illustrated book explains the symbolic and found during the restoration practical significance of rood screens and describes of the Perpendicular Great the ways in which they were constructed and Cloister of Christ Church, decorated. There is also an extensive list of churches Canterbury, as architectural in England and Wales where screens can be found. screens constructed around 64pp, col illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781784422943 Pb 1173. It proposes that the £7.99 screens provided monastic privacy and controlled Hampshire: South pilgrimage to the Altar of the Sword’s Point in By Charles O’Brien, Bruce Bailey, Nikolaus Pevsner & the Matrydom, the site of Archbishop Thomas David W. Lloyd Becket’s murder in 1170. In addition to this new This volume, a companion to Hampshire: Winchester interpretation, a catalog raisonné and an account and the North, covers the county’s southern half, of the discovery of the finds offers from the woodland and heath of the New Forest material for future research that to the cities along the Solent, and from remote has been unavailable to previous Only Saxon churches to Modernist seaside villas. The studies. £44.00 until original text has been fully revised to include new research and 130 specially commissioned colour 288pp, b/w (Oxbow Books publication 2019) 9781789252309 Hb photographs. £55.00 800pp, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300225037 Hb £35.00 Medieval Art and Architecture 75 Cut in Alabaster Islamic Elements in the Architecture Traditions of Alabaster Sculpture in Western of Puglia Europe 1330–1530 By Christiane L Joost-Gaugier By Kim W. Woods Puglia is one of the most extraordinary parts of This book explores and compares the material Italy. Inhabited for over 8,000 years, this region has practice and visual culture of alabaster sculpture experienced almost every type of civilization known in late medieval Europe. It charts sculpture from to the European world. This book focuses on the quarry to contexts of use, exploring practitioners, little known but important Islamic contribution markets and functions as well as issues of to the architecture of Puglia, a contribution which consumption, display and material meanings. It was centred in the once Muslim city of Lucera and provides detailed examination of tombs, altarpieces subsequently came to be of significance for the and both elite and popular sculpture, ranging from building of Christian cathedrals and churches in high status bespoke commissions to small, low-cost this beautiful region, little known to the outside carvings produced commercially for a more popular world. clientele. 280pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503580319 Pb £135.00 350pp b/w and col illus (Harvey Miller 2018) 9781909400269 Hb £127.50 Medieval Archaeology Castrum to Castle Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Classical to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman Empire Interpreting Medieval Effigies By J.E. Kaufmann & H.W. Kaufmann The Evidence from Yorkshire to 1400 This highly illustrated By Brian Gittos & Moira Gittos history gives a fascinating This innovative study insight into the design and examines and analyses the development of the castle wealth of evidence provided and into the centuries of by the monumental effigies violence and conflict they of Yorkshire from the were part of. The factors that thirteenth and fourteenth influenced their location, centuries, including some of layout and construction are very high sculptural merit. analysed, as is the way in More than 200 examples which they were adapted to survive from the historic meet the challenges of new county in varying states of tactics and weapons. preservation. Together, they 256pp b/w and col illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781473895805 present a picture of the people able to afford them, Hb £25.00 at a time when the county was frequently at the forefront of national politics and administration, Castles during the Scottish wars. Stylistic analysis of the History, Archaeology, Landscape, Architecture effigies themselves has been employed, better to and Symbolism understand how they relate to one another and give a Edited by Neil Guy firmer basis for their dating and production patterns. They are considered in relation to the history and This festschrift for Derek Gunn contains a large material culture of the area at the time they were selection of essays on a wide range of issues related produced. A more soundly based appreciation of the to castle studies, from early medieval origins sculptor’s intentions and the aspirations of patrons is to the fifteenth century. Individual case studies sought through close attention to the (focussing in the main on Britain and Ireland) full extent of the visible evidence sit alongside wider discussions of design and afforded by the monuments and Only architectual transmission, site selection, patronage, their surroundings. politics and symbolism. £32.00 until 408pp, b/w and col illus 416pp b/w and col illus (Castle Studies Group 2018) (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 9780954588410 Hb £69.95 9781789251289 Hb £40.00

76 The Anarchy Forthcoming from Oxbow Books War and Status in 12th-Century Landscapes of Conflict Living off the Land By Oliver Creighton & Duncan Wright Agriculture in Wales c. 400 to 1600 AD This innovative volume offers the first ever overview Edited by Rhiannon Comeau & Andy Seaman and synthesis of the archaeological and material This is the first book for record for this controversial period. This approach a generation on medieval not only augments but also challenges historical agriculture in Wales, narratives, questioning the ‘real’ impact of Stephen’s presenting evidence troubled reign on society, settlement, church and which is of considerable the landscape, and opens up new perspectives on relevance to those studying the conduct of Anglo-Norman warfare the development of the 346pp, b/w illus col pls (Liverpool UP 2017, Pb 2018) early medieval landscapes 9781786941855 Pb £24.99 of England and Ireland. This collection of essays New Approaches to Disease, Disability confronts the paradox that, and Medicine in Medieval Europe though agriculture lay at the Edited by Erin Connelly & Stefanie Kunzel heart of medieval society, understanding of what this meant for Wales remains limited. Themes The majority of papers in this volume were originally covered include the use of infield-outfield systems, presented at the eighth annual ‘Disease, Disability, seasonal land use and its impact on territorial Medieval Archaeology and Medicine in Medieval Europe’ conference. They and estate structures, and regional focus on infections, chronic illness, and the impact variation, all explored using a of infectious diseases on medieval wide array of complementary society, including infection as a Only multidisciplinary approaches. until disability in the case of visible Only £26.25 224p b/w illus publication conditions, such as infected £25.00 until wounds, leprosy, syphilis, and (Windgather Press 2019) tuberculosis. 31st May 9781911188391 Pb £34.99 156pp (Archaeopress 2018) Mount Grace Priory 9781784918835 Pb £29.00 Excavations of 1957–1992 Barrow Old Hall and Twiss Green Edited by Glyn Coppack and Laurence Keen Investigations of Two Sub-Manorial Estate Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, established Centres Within the Townships of Bold and in 1398 and suppressed in 1539, was one of only nine Culcheth in the Hundred of Warrington successful Carthusian monasteries in England. 1982–87 First excavated by Sir William St John Hope in By Dan Garner, Jennifer Lewis, David Freke & Jill 1896-1900, it is acknowledged as a type site for late- Collens medieval Carthusian monasteries. The modern study of Mount Grace began in 1957 when Hope’s This report presents the results of interpretation of the monks’ cells about the great the excavations at these two small cloister was found to be simplistic. This was moated sites, including evidence Only followed between 1968 and 1974 by the excavation for possible aisled halls at both of individual monks’ cells in the west range of the sites, as well as a significant £26.00 until 31st May great cloister and two cells in the north range. assemblage of medieval and In 1987 English Heritage commissioned the re- early post-medieval pottery. excavation of two areas that had been examined 120pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress by Hope, the water tower in the great cloister and 2018) 9781784919689 Pb £30.00 the prior’s cell, refectory and kitchen in the south cloister range and the guest house in the west Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath range of the inner court. The contrast between Colonial Monasticism in Medieval Ireland this semi-public area of the monastery and the By Tadhg O’Keeffe monks’ cells was dramatic. Coupled with this Little remains of the Augustinian priory of excavation was a reappraisal of the architectural Tristernagh. Study of its architecture, based on the development of the monastery and fragmentary physical remains and on two late 18th- reconstruction of lost structures century illustrations, reveals its church to have been such as the cloister alley walls Only an important early Gothic work, and is a reminder and the central water tower. £24.00 until that, even in such frontier locations as the western 400pp b/w and col illus publication half of the lordship of Meath, Anglo-Norman (Oxbow Books 2019) colonialism had an aesthetic manifestation. 9781789253146 £30.00 64pp, b/w illus (Four Courts Press 2018) 9781846827181 Pb £9.95 Medieval Archaeology 77 Relics @ The Lab Tricks of the Medieval Trades An Analytical Approach to the Study of Relics The Trinity Encyclopedia, a Collection of Edited by Mark Van Strydonck, Jeroen Reyniers & Fourteenth Century English Craft Recipes Fanny Van Cleven By Mark Clarke The first group of papers explores the archaeological The anonymous Trinity Encyclopedia (translated authenticity of the relics, the second group here from Middle English for the first time) is elucidate the use, additions and manipulations a collection of unusually detailed 14th century of the relics through the ages. Radiocarbon and English craft recipes, collected from several physical anthropology are the main tools to study individuals and from a number of written sources, the primary relics, while dye analysis, imaging for manufacturing pigments, dyeing, preparing techniques, textile analysis and dendrochronology skins and furs, imitating expensive imported are used to study the secondary and tertiary relics. leathers, counterfeiting semi-precious materials, 358pp (Peeters Press 2018) 9789042936676 Pb £85.00 ‘multiplying’ (adulterating) verdigris, and for making soaps and confectionery. Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages 132pp (Archetype 2018) 9781909492653 Pb £35.00 Edited by Rory Naismith This book presents a set of fresh and insightful Artillery in the Era of the Crusades perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential By Michael S. Fulton of coinage to all scholars of medieval history and Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a culture. It includes coverage of major developments detailed examination of the use of mechanical in monetary history, set into their economic artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and and political context, as well as innovative and thirteenth centuries. Michael S. Fulton explores the interdisciplinary perspectives that address money full scope of the available literary and archaeological and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology evidence, reinterpreting the development of and medieval literature. trebuchet technology and the ways in which it was 364pp, b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004372467 Hb £149.00 used during this period. 514pp (Brill 2018) 9789004349452 Hb £144.00 Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds Environment, Colonisation, and A Cognitive Historical Analysis the Baltic Crusader States By Steven Wagschal Terra Sacra I THis volume explores how humans have understood Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the In the thirteenth century, crusading armies Middle Ages through the Early Modern period. unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan Wagschal explores a number of ways in which tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic. Castles were culture and human cognition interact, including: built, towns established, and colonists encouraged the utility of anthropomorphism; the symbolic use to settle under the leadership of the new Christian of animals in medieval Christian texts; attempts theocracy. This volume draws on and integrates at understanding the minds of animals in Spain’s a range of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, early modern farming and hunting books; the effect historical, and cartographic sources in order to of novelty on animal conceptualizations in ‘New highlight the diverse impact of colonization and World’ histories. landscape reorganization that followed in the wake 360pp, (University of Toronto Press 2018) 9781487503321 of the Baltic Crusades. Hb £51.99 450pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503551326 Hb £85.00 Life and Death in Medieval Gaelic Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, Ireland and Religious Conversion in the By Catriona McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy Medieval Baltic In 2003, the skeletal remains of some 1,300 Terra Sacra II individuals – men, women and children – were Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski uncovered from Ballyhanna in Co. Donegal. This second Terra Sacra volume draws together a Radiocarbon dating indicates that the cemetery was series of case-studies on Livonia and Prussia which in use for a prolonged period of time from the 7th cover six key themes: building-construction in the to the 17th century. The remains of all individuals conquered territories; food supply to the houses of were subject to a detailed osteological and palaeo- the Teutonic Order; life in the multi-cultural towns pathological analysis. This book contextualizes of the eastern Baltic; transforming the physical the results of the research, revealing a wealth of landscape; transforming the spiritual landscape; information concerning health, diet and lifestyle. and the Baltic Ordensland in its regional context. 352pp, col illus (Four Courts Press 2018) 9781846823305 500pp (Brepols 2019) 9782503551333 Hb £93.50 Hb £45.00

78 Medieval Archaeology Post-Medieval Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Blood, Faith and Iron A dynasty of Catholic Industrialists in Sixteenth Manufactured Bodies – and Seventeenth-Century England The Impact of Industrialisation on London By Paul Belford Health The Ironbridge Gorge is an iconic industrial By Gaynor Western and Jelena Bekvalac landscape, but it was created by an entrepreneurial Industrialisation is a Catholic dynasty over 200 years before the Iron notoriously complex issue Bridge was built. Acquiring land at the Dissolution in terms of the hazards of the Monasteries, the Brooke family invested in and benefits it has brought coal mining and iron production. This book looks to human beings in our in detail at the landscape, buildings endeavours to improve our and industrial installations lives. This is never more created by the Brooke dynasty Only evident than in the field of between the Dissolution and the £29.00 until health and medicine, where English Civil War. 31st May there are many questions 234pp, b/w illus (Archaeopress about the causes and 2018) 9781789690682 Pb £34.00 treatments of diseases we commonly encounter today, such as cancer, diabetes and degenerative age- A Very Dangerous Locality related conditions. The archive of human skeletal The Landscape of the Suffolk Sandlings in remains at the Museum of London provides a large the Second World War bank of evidence that has been explored here, By Robert Liddiard & David Sims along with other skeletal collections from around England, to investigate how far some of these This book examines the diseases go back in time and what landscape archaeology of we can tell about the influence the Second World War on the section of the east coast of living environments past and Only present on human health. of England known as the £10.40 until Suffolk Sandlings, an area 160pp b/w and col illus publication unusually rich in military (Oxbow Books 2019) archaeology. It considers how 9781789253221 Pb £12.99 this area was transformed in the course of the conflict by synthesising an extensive Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes range of sources, including People and Their Animals in Early Modern the physical remains of England defences and training, aerial photographs, the war diaries of military units on the coast, oral history By Erica Fudge and artistic representations. What was the life of a cow 384pp, b/w and col illus (University of Hertfordshire in early modern England Press 2018) 9781912260089 Pb £18.99 like? What would it be like to milk that same cow, day-in, Grabados Rupestres en La Mancha day-out, for over a decade? Centro How did people feel about and toward the animals that By R. Rodero Rocio, V. M. Lopez-Menchero Bendicho, they worked with, tended, A.Marchante Ortega, A. J. Cardenas Martin-Buitrago and often killed? With these & P. M. Garcia Zamorano questions, Erica Fudge This book deals with the documentation and begins her investigation into interpretation of historical rock sites located a lost aspect of early modern in La Mancha, from the detailed study of the life: the importance of the symbols that have been engraved in the rock. day-to-day relationships between humans and the Crosses, calvaries, orbs, human and animal animals with whom they worked. Such animals are representations, letters, cup-marks and always have been, Fudge reminds us, more than and game boards make up an simply stock; they are sentient beings with whom authentic symbolic universe, of Only one must negotiate. It is the nature, meaning, and clear Christian roots. £31.00 until value of these negotiations that this study attempts Spanish text. 116pp col illus 31st May to recover. (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919962 264pp (Cornell UP 2018) 9781501715082 Pb £23.99 Pb £36.00 79 The Birth of the English Kitchen, Adventures in Archaeology 1600–1850 The Wreck of the Orca II and Other By Sara Pennell Explorations Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen By P.J. Capelotti from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Remnants of the curious Pennell explores how the English kitchen became and peculiar ways a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. humankind has marked the She opens up the early modern English kitchen archaeological landscape as an important historical site in the construction are abundant but often of domestic relations between husband and wife, ignored: wrecked aircraft, masters, mistresses and servants and householders abandoned airfields, old and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in highway billboards, derelict contemporary heritage landscapes. boats, movie props, and 272pp (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2017) 9781441188083 Hb deserted mining operations. £90.00, 9781350056183 Pb £28.99 Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary objects Legacies of the First World War from the recent past hold Building for Total War 1914–1918 secrets about the cultural history of humans. Edited by Wayne D. Cocroft & Paul Stamper Among the case studies presented are the site where a stunt copy of the Orca, the fishing boat used in During 2014-18 Historic the movie Jaws, was stripped to pieces by fans, and England set out to uncover abandoned base camps near the North Pole that are and study the physical now used as destinations for Arctic tourism. remains left across England by the First World War – this 264pp b/w illus (University Press of Florida 2018) book presents the results. The 9780813064840 £30.95 range of what was discovered A Shadow of War is astonishing, reflecting how Archaeological Approaches to Uncovering the the home front became as Darker Sides of Conflict From the 20th Century important as the battlefront. Archaeological remains can By Claudia Theune be found of practice trench lines, munitions works, This book presents archaeological research from government factories, army and PoW camps, places of war, violence, protest and oppression airfields and airship stations, as well as defences of the 20th and the 21st century; sites where the down the east and south coasts, and the wrecks of material relics give a deep insight to fateful events ships sunk during the war. – a shadow of war. Archaeological finds often shed 256pp, b/w and col illus (Historic England 2018) light on daily life, revealing survival conditions in 9781848022881 Hb £30.00 internment camps; the lives of people and their fighting and dying on battlefields and in trenches. 208pp, col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904547 Pb £25.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE Lime Kilns History and Heritage By David Johnson For centuries lime was an essential ingredient in many aspects of life and work – such as farming, building and manufacturing – and the kilns in which lime was produced were a familiar sight across the country, not just in areas where limestone naturally occurred. The importance given to the industry is illustrated by the number of painters, notably Turner and Girtin, who chose to paint lime kilns either as the main focus or as an incidental element, and by the number of literary figures who brought lime burning into their novels. Lime Kilns: History and Heritage starts by discussing the uses and importance of lime, and how it Only has been portrayed artistically, then describes how lime £13.00 until kilns changed over time, from simple clamp kilns through 31st May small farmers’ and estate field kilns to large commercially operated kilns. 96pp, col illus (Amberley 2018) 9781445680590 Pb £14.99

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