OXBOW BOOK NEWS 105

New and forthcoming titles for Spring 2020 Archaeology The Ancient World Greece and Rome The Middle Ages Welcome to the 105th Oxbow Book News, featuring all the latest archaeological titles from our own imprints and our partner publishers.

Among our own publications, we are particularly pleased to announce Landscapes Revealed which presents the results of several years of surveying on Orkney between Skara Brae and Maeshowe to give a detailed picture of the changing landscape context of one of ’s most important concentrations of prehistoric monuments. Landscapes Revealed should hit the shelves in June.

We are also proud to bring the seminal work of Pierre Petrequin and Anne-Marie Petrequin to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Ecology of a Tool is a classic study of the of Irian Jaya in New Guinea. It explores their manufacture, exchange and economic significance, taking an object-centred approach.

With nearly 200 titles, all of them brand new or back in stock due to popular demand, you will find a considerably expanded bargain section in the centre of this catalogue. We have great new reductions on a selection of our own title, plus fantastic lists from Spink, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Amberley, plus a mixed bag just in from the US.

This catalogue goes out in the shadow of the global CO-VID 19 pandemic. As I write we are continuing to process and send out orders as normal, although postage, particularly to the European mainland, may be subject to delays. However, I must stress that we may be overtaken by events; we are monitoring the situation closely and will keep you updated with any changes to our normal trading during this uncertain period. Please check our website for the latest information – it will remain up and running. Please do keep in touch through our social media channels.

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Cover Image: Excavations at the Early site of Bestansur, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaimani province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq Photo: Roger Matthews, University of Reading From: The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent (Oxbow Books 2020)

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A Taste for Green A Global Perspective on Ancient Jade, Turquoise and Variscite Exchange Edited by Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, Ben A. Nelson & Ramón Fábregas Valcarce A Taste for Green addresses the latest research into the acquisition of jade, turquoise or variscite, all of which share a characteristic greenish colour and an engaging appearance once they are polished in the shape of axes or assorted adornments. Papers explore how, in addition to constituting economic transactions, the transfer of these materials were also statements of social liaisons, personal capacities, and relation to places or to unseen forces. The volume centres on two study areas, Western Europe and México/ Southwest US.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789252743 • £45.00 • Hardback • 192 pages b/w and col illustrations The Competition of Fibres Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) Edited by Wolfram Schier & Susan Pollock The central issues discussed in this new collection are the relationships between fibre resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices – for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared – in the production of textiles play a major role. Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and southeastern Europe in the context of a consideration of other fibres, both plant and animal.

Oxbow Books • April 2020 • 9781789254297 • £38.00 • Paperback • 240 pages forthcoming, only col illustrations £30.40 until publication In the Footsteps of Honor Frost The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology Edited by Lucy Blue Maritime archaeologist Honor Frost (1917-2010) was a pioneer in her field. She left a rich legacy through her innovative research conducted in the eastern Mediterranean on the remains of ports and harbours, sea-level change, shipwrecks and ship construction, and ancient anchors. This volume provides an appreciation of Frost’s work and assesses current projects in the region that draw on her legacy, providing insight into the development of the discipline of maritime archaeology in the region from its infancy to the present day.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908309 • £60.00 • Paperback • 300 pages b/w and col illustrations 1 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

Art in the Archaeological Imagination Edited by Dragos Gheorghiu This book discusses the creative mental processes of prehistoric and contemporary artists, as as of archaeologists studying them from the perspective of cognition and art. Its intention is to highlight the artistic thinking within the imagination of the archaeologist, as well as to discuss the concepts of imagination and art in current scientific research. From this perspective the book suggests a type of research closer to the complexity of the human and human thinking.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253528 • £36.00 • Paperback • 144 pages b/w illustrations Dead or Alive Edited by Maria Fabricius Hansen, Rosanna Tindbæk & Gundhild Ravn Borggreen The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet simultaneously appears to be alive. Covering a wide range of image practices, such as early palaeolithic stone engravings, medieval tomb , renaissance death masks and baroque painting to modern fashion and park design these twelve chapters demonstrate that the ontological paradox of the image is not limited to a specific historical period or certain types of images, but can be seen throughout the history of images across different cultures.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788771843514 • £55.00 • Hardback 304 pages Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies Edited by Julia Katharina Koch & Wiebke Kirleis In which chronological, spatial, and social contexts is gender a relevant social category that is noticeable in the archaeological material? How can transformations in social gender relations and identity be recognized archaeologically? Is the identity of prehistoric people defined by gender? If so, what is the accompanying cultural context? What about gender equality among the scientists working in archaeology? In what degree are research teams, as well as their scientific approaches, biased today? These and other burning questions are intensively discussed in this volume.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908217 • £65.00 • Paperback • 500 pages 2 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context Cemetery Research from the Low Countries Edited by Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats & Kerry Fast While osteoarchaeological research is common in the Low Countries, many of the studies done on the excellent skeletal collections remain unpublished and therefore unavailable to a larger audience. This volume contributes to the dissemination of cemetery research in the Low Countries. Several important skeletal collections are examined in their historical contexts to better understand past living and dying. Osteoarchaeological data are combined with information on burial location, orientation, and .

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908330 • £35.00 • Paperback • 206 pages b/w and col illustrations Death and Changing Rituals Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices Edited by Håkon Roland, Marina Prusac & J. Rasmus Brandt In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of such different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals, how and when they occurred, and how they may be explained. A range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253818 • £35.00 • Paperback • 480 pages New in Paperback, b/w and col illustrations Dying to Eat Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife Edited by Candi K. Cann, Emily Wu, Jung Eun Sophia Park, Joshua Graham & Lacy K. Crocker Dying to Eat is the first interdisciplinary book to examine the role of food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The contributors explore the phenomenon across cultures and religions, investigating topics including tombstone rituals in Buddhism, Catholicism, and Shamanism; the role of death in the Moroccan approach to food; and the role of funeral casseroles and church cookbooks in the Southern United States. Illuminating how and corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and bereavement.

University Press of Kentucky • 2019 • 9780813178516 • £26.50 • Paperback 208 pages • b/w illustrations 3 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

Debasement Manipulation of Coin Standards in Pre-Modern Monetary Systems Edited by Kevin Butcher The debasement of coinage, particularly of silver, was a common of pre-modern monetary systems. While in some cases the motives behind the debasements or reductions in standards are clear, in many cases the intentions of the issuing authorities are uncertain. This volume explores the phenomenon. It is inter-disciplinary in scope; apart from bringing together monetary historians of different periods, it also contains contributions from archaeometallurgists who have experience with the chemical and physical composition of coins and technical aspects of production of base alloys.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253986 • £50.00 • Hardback • 240 pages b/w and col illustrations We and They Decolonizing Biblical and Graeco-Roman Antiquities Edited by Jonathan Cahana & Karmen MacKendrick The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788771844436 • £25.00 • Hardback • 200 pages

Public Archaeology Theoretical Approaches & Current Practices Edited by Isilay Gursu This volume explores the relationship between archaeology and contemporary society, especially as it concerns local communities living day-to-day alongside archaeological heritage. The contributors come from a range of disciplines and offer inspiring views emerging from the marriage of archaeology with a number of other fields, such as economics, social anthropology, ethnography, public policy, oral history and tourism studies, to form the discipline of ‘public archaeology’. Case studies are from Greece, Italy, Turkey and elsewhere.

British Institute at Ankara • 2019 • 9781912090808 • £30.00 • Hardback 102 pages • b/w illustrations 4 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 British

Making One’s Way in the World The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People By Martin Bell This book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded prehistoric routes such as hollow ways as generally undatable. The premise is that archaeologists tend to focus on ‘sites’ while neglecting the patterns of habitual movement that made them part of living landscapes. Evidence of past movement is considered in a multi-scalar way from the individual footprint to the long-distance path including the traces created in vegetation by animal and human movement. It is argued that routes may be perpetuated over long timescales creating landscape structures which influence the activities of subsequent generations. In other instances, radical changes of Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254020 axes of communication and landscape structures £50.00 • Hardback • 320 pages • col provide evidence of upheaval and social change. illustrations Palaeoenvironmental and ethnohistorical evidence Related Titles: from the American North West coast sets the scene with evidence for the effects of burning, animal movement, faeces deposition and transplantation which can create readable routes along which are favoured resources.

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Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC Excavations at Ringlemere Site M1, Kent, 2002–2006 By Keith Parfitt & Stuart Needham The discovery in 2001 of an exquisite Early Bronze Age gold cup at Ringlemere Farm in Kent prompted an extensive survey and excavation of the site from 2002–2006. Excavation revealed a site with a long history of use, the most striking evidence being for intensive activity in the third millennium BC associated with a monument, the interior of which was later buried beneath an Early Bronze Age mound.

British Museum Press • 2020 • 9780861592173 • £40.00 • Paperback • 200 pages b/w illustrations Sark A Sacred Island By Barry Cunliffe & Emma Durham The Archaeological Survey of Sark began in 2004 with a view to studying the island in the context of Atlantic maritime networks. A complete gazetteer of nearly 100 sites has been compiled together with a full listing of all the artefacts recovered. The volume also contains full reports on eight archaeological excavations including details of an early Neolithic settlement, a middle Neolithic ritual site, a Beaker burial a Mid–Late Bronze Age settlement, a Gallo-Roman ritual site and an early Medieval farm.

Oxford University School of Archaeology • 2019 • 9781905905461 • £40.00 Hardback • 280 pages • b/w and col illustrations The Social Context of Non-ferrous Metalworking in Later Prehistoric Britain and Ireland By Sophia Adams, Joanna Brück & Leo Webley The Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals – including gold, silver, tin and lead – is also considered. The key questions are: what was the social context of this craft, and what was its ideological significance? How did this vary regionally and change over time?

Oxbow Books • June 2020 • 9781789251760 • £35.00 • Hardback • 288 pages forthcoming, only b/w illustrations £28.00 until publication 6 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 British PREHISTORY

Landscapes Revealed Remote Sensing Across the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site By Amanda Brend, Nick Card, Jane Downes, Mark Edmonds & James Moore This volume brings together several years of work devoted to the wider landscape of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 hectares between Skara Brae on the west Orkney coast and Maeshowe, by the Loch of Stenness. The project has made it possible to talk for the first time about the landscape context of some of the most remarkable and renowned prehistoric monuments in Western Europe. The aims are to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The results are genuinely remarkable are presented in a manner which Oxbow Books • June 2020 makes the material of interest and value to a relatively 9781789255065 • £35.00 • Hardback wide readership, with an array of images which fully 288 pages • col illustrations document and interpret the evidence. Survey work at a landscape scale tends to deal with palimpsests. Here descriptive sections are set within a Related Titles: thematic structure designed to explore the changing use and significance of different areas over time. The results shed important new light on the character and extent of known prehistoric sites and ceremonial monuments. But they also document the afterlives of these and other places and their relation to the lived landscapes of the historic and more recent past. In tracing the changing configuration of the World Heritage Area, we can begin appreciate this landscape as an artefact of several millennia of dwelling, working land, attending to wider worlds and to the past itself. Windgather Press • Available Now • 9781909686502 forthcoming, only Paperback • £19.99 • 178 pages £28.00 until publication

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New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England Edited by Gill Hey & Paul Frodsham These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. The papers take a broad chronological sweep, from the /Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area. The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding ‘the trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character early Neolithic enclosures; the need to integrate into wider discourse.

Oxbow Books • June 2020 9781789252668 • £38.00 • Paperback forthcoming, only 192 pages • b/w and col illustrations £32.00 until publication

The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age Proceedings of ‘Arras 200 – Celebrating the Iron Age’, Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference, 2017 Edited by Peter Halkon In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses. Since then further remarkable finds have been made in the East Yorkshire region, including 23 chariot burials, most recently at Pocklington in 2017 and 2018. This volume brings together papers presented by leading experts to celebrate the bicentenary of the Arras discoveries. The book covers a wide variety of topics including migration, settlement and landscape, burials, experimental chariot building, finds of various kinds and reports on the major sites such as Wetwang/ Garton Slack and Pocklington.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789252583 £38.00 • Paperback • 216 pages b/w and col illustrations

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EAA 170: Rectory Farm, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire Excavations 1988–95, Neolithic Monument to Roman Villa Farm By Alice Lyons This report presents a complex multi-period landscape containing archaeological remains of considerable importance. The earliest activity was a large Early to Middle Neolithic trapezoidal enclosure. A Middle to Late Neolithic ‘’ ran 0.5km to the south-west. A Bronze Age funerary mound lay to the north and both this and the earlier mound were later used for Roman burials. A Roman villa farm developed adjacent to the Neolithic enclosure in three identifiable phases, linked by road to the Roman town of Durovigutum (Godmanchester).

East Anglian Archaeology • 2020 • 9781907588129 • £45.00 • Paperback 496 pages • b/w illustrations Berryfields Iron Age Settlement and a Roman Bridge, Fieldsystem and settlement along Akeman Street nearFleet Marston, Buckinghamshire By Edward Biddulph, Kate Brady, Andrew Simmonds & Stuart Foreman Excavations uncovered the remains of a middle Iron Age settlement and the agricultural hinterland of the nucleated Roman settlement of Fleet Marston, situated on the major Roman road of Akeman Street. This volume describes the results of the fieldwork and analysis of an exceptional range of the artefactual and environmental evidence, including timber piles, which supported a bridge that carried the Roman road over the River Thame, and a wooden , chickens’ eggs and many other objects ritually deposited into a waterlogged pit in the late Roman period.

Oxford Archaeology • 2020 • 9780904220858 • £20.00 • Paperback • 218 pages b/w illustrations Cutacre Excavating a prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval landscape By Richard Gregory Cutacre, near Bolton in Greater Manchester, was once a rural landscape, which was settled and developed during the prehistoric and historic periods, with large-scale coal mining becoming a notable feature of the nineteenth century landscape. This booklet offers an excellent insight into the use of the ancient landscape, and provides rare details relating to Bronze Age settlement and medieval iron production, together with the different types of rural houses that existed in the seventeenth century.

Oxford Archaeology North • 2020 • 9781907686344 • £5.00 • Paperback 60 pages • col illustrations

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The Earliest Europeans – a Year in the Life Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic By Robert Hosfield The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude Europe with its distinctive temperatures, seasonality patterns, and available resources. Using a season-by-season chapter structure to explore, for example, the contrasting demands and opportunities of winter versus summer survival, Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity and quality, and the resulting implications for hominin behaviours. By testing the likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based insights with long-term, regional trends, Hosfield is able to put forward ideas on how our earliest European ancestors survived and what their lives were like.

Oxbow Books • June 2020 9781785707612 • £24.99 • Paperback forthcoming, only 160 pages • b/w illustrations £19.99 until publication

Farmers at the Frontier A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation Edited by Kurt J Gron, Lasse Sorensen & Peter Rowley-Conwy All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centres of and agricultural origins worldwide. This fact affects every aspect of our understanding of the start of farming on the continent. This volume aims to collect various perspectives regarding the earliest farming from across Europe. Methodological approaches, archaeological cultures, and geographic locations in Europe are variable, but all papers engage with the simple question: What was the earliest farming like? The book opens a conversation about agriculture just after the transition in order to address the role incoming people, , and adaptations have in secondary adoptions. Contributions are ordered geographically and chronologically, following the progression of the Neolithic across Europe.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251401 £45.00 • Hardback • 464 pages b/w and colour illustrations

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Wild Things 2 Further Advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research Edited by James Walker & David Clinnick This volume builds on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow Books 2014) which showcased cutting edge new research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. Covering aspects of both Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order to encourage dialogue between practitioners of archaeology of both periods, contributions are also geographically diverse, touching on British, European, North American and Asian archaeology. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer and people, technologies, , land-use, antler frontlets, and the development of prehistoric archaeology an ‘age of wonder’.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785709463 • £38.00 • Paperback • 208 pages Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha Edited by Chris Scarre & Luiz Oosterbeek This volume takes recent excavations at Lajinha, a small megalithic tomb in the hill-country north of the River Tagus, and the adjacent site of Cabeço dos Pendentes as the starting point for a broader consideration of the megalithic tombs of western Iberia. Key themes addressed are relevant to megalithic tombs more generally, including landscape, chronology, settlement and interregional relationships. Over what period of time were these tombs built and used? How do they relate to the famous rock art of the Tagus valley, and to the burials and open-air settlements of the region?

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785709807 • £45.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w illustrations The Pitted Ware Culture on Djursland Supra-regional significance and contacts in the Middle Neolithic of southern Edited by Lutz Klassen Between ca. 3000 and 2800 BC, the Pitted Ware Culture of northeast European descent spread to the northeastern parts of . This volume presents 12 individual papers that present the available finds from the key site of Kainsbakke as well as a number of other sites. Besides artefacts, the faunal and botanical remains are dealt with in a comprehensive matter. Several papers are devoted to scientific analyses of chronology as well as the provenance of artefacts and selected faunal remains.

Aarhus University Press • April 2020 • 9788771847826 • £58.00 • Hardback forthcoming 489 pages

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Houses of the Dead? Edited by Alistair Barclay, David Field & Jim Leary LBK have widely been considered to provide ancestral influence for both rectangular and trapezoidal long barrows and , but with the discovery and excavation of more houses in recent times is it possible to observe evidence of more contemporary inspiration. What do the features found beneath long mounds tell us about this and to what extent do they represent domestic structures. This collection of papers seeks to explore the interface between structures often considered to be those of the living with those for the dead.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254105 • £40.00 • Paperback • 216 pages Megalithic Monuments and Social Structures Comparative Studies on Recent and Funnel Beaker Societies By Maria Wunderlich Combines various archaeological and ethnoarchaeological case studies on social implications of building activities from a comparative perspective. The case studies presented include recent megalith building traditions in Sumba, Indonesia, Nagaland, North-East India, as well as Neolithic Funnel Beaker communities in today’s Northern Germany and Southern . This book presents a rich body of new data to clearly demonstrate the importance of cooperative and competitive structures and their effect on feasting activities and megalith building.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088907869 • £90.00 • Paperback • 450 pages b/w and col illustrations The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC Edited by Laure Salanova & Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups, using technological studies and physical anthropology to understand mobility patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. Chronological evolution is used to reconstruct the rhythm of Bell Beaker diffusion and the environmental background that could explain this mobility and the socio-economic changes observed during this period of transition toward Bronze Age societies.

New in Paperback, Oxbow Books • May 2020 • 9781789253849 • £35.00 • Paperback • 216 pages forthcoming, only b/w and col illustrations £28.00 until publication 12 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

Death Revisited The excavation of three Bronze Age barrows and surrounding landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg By Arjan Louwen & Prof. Dr. David Fontijn This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The burial practices in the mounds show strong similarities and it is argued that these barrows were each other’s successors, representing the funeral history of people who wished to unite their forebears in death as one unproblematic whole without distinctions. The fieldwork showed that even small-scale, partial excavations of a seemingly minor barrow group can inform us on the significance of the extensive barrow landscapes they are part of.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088905803 • £45.00 • Paperback • 200 pages b/w and col illustrations Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory Edited by Michela Spataro & Martin Furholt This book aims to detect and explain technological change in the past and its role in transformation processes, using archaeological and ethnographic case studies. The papers draw mainly on examples from prehistoric Europe, but case-studies from Iran, the Indus Valley, and contemporary central America are also included. The authors adopt several perspectives, including cultural-historical, economic, environmental, demographic, functional, and agent-based approaches.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908248 • £40.00 • Paperback • pages b/w and col illustrations Rural Settlement Relating Buildings, Landscape, and People in the European Iron Age Edited by Dave Cowley, Manuel Fernández-Götz, Tanja Romankiewicz & Holger Wendling This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms – the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands – to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908187 • £48.00 • Paperback • 240 pages b/w and col illustrations 13 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

Celtic Art in Europe Making Connections Edited by Katharina Ulmschneider, Christopher Gosden & Sally Crawford The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. This volume of 37 papers brings together an international group of specialists to chart the history of attempts to understand Celtic art and argue for novel approaches in discussions spanning the whole of Continental Europe and the British Isles.

New in Paperback, Oxbow Books • April 2020 • 9781789253832 • £38.00 • Paperback • 416 pages forthcoming, only b/w illustrations £30.40 until publication Art in the Eurasian Iron Age Context, Connections and Scale Edited by Courtney Nimura, Helen Chittock, Peter Hommel & Chris Gosden Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition. This volume explores Iron Age art at different scales and considers the long-distance connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of seeing’ that link Celtic Art to otherart traditions across northern Eurasia. It brings together 13 papers on varied subjects such as animal and human imagery, technologies of production and the design theory behind Iron Age art, balancing pan-Eurasian scale commentary with regional and site scale studies and detailed analyses of individual objects, as well as introductory and summary papers.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253948 • £48.00 • Hardback • 256 pages b/w and col illustrations

In Die Töpfe Geschaut Biochemische und Kulturgeschichtliche Studien zum Früheisenzeitlichen Essen und Trinken Edited by Philipp W. Stockhammer & Janine Fries-Knoblach This volume explores the potential of biomarker and isotopic analysis in studying ancient organic residues. The core of the book consists of three articles on the final archaeo-scientific results of BEFIM, with three in-depth case studies analysing organic residues in their archaeological contexts. The volume ends with two gender-historical contributions, one on the question of alcohol in the female sphere of life in ancient cultures of Europe and the Near East with regard to production, distribution, trade, ritual, and consumption, the other on gender stereotypes in the interpretation of ostentatious Iron Age graves.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088907685 • £55.00 • Paperback • 330 pages b/w and col illustrations 14 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

The Hammerum Burial Site Burial Customs and Clothing in Roman Iron Age Edited by Tinna Møbjerg, Lise Ræder Knudsen, Hans Rostholm & Ulla Mannering In 2009 analyses showed that grave 83 at the Hammerum site – known as the Hammerum girl’s grave – was a sensation. All that remain of the deceased was her hair and her dress, but it was the best-preserved Danish Iron Age textile from an inhumation grave. The analysis tells us an extraordinarily nuanced archaeological story: a dress used in everyday life, produced by carefully choosing fine fibres which, together with the coiffure refers to a style recognizable throughout Europe and in this case worn by a mobile, well-groomed, well-connected Iron Age female.

Aarhus University Press • 2019 • 9788793423237 • £30.00 • Hardback • 240 pages Illerup Adal 13 By Xenia Pauli Jensen Illerup Ådal Vol. 13 discusses the relationship between the use of weapons in war and the civilian use of bow and for hunting or axes as a tool for daily tasks. Xenia Pauli Jensen writes about bows and , and Lars Christian Nørbach analyses the axes and the production of them. Also includes chapters on the use of wood in weapons.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788788415629 • £48.95 • Hardback • pages

Illerup Ådal 15 Kleinfunde von ziviler Charakter By Xenia Pauli Jensen, Jørgen Ilkjær & Andrzej Kokowski Illerup vol. 15 is the last volume in the many publications about the find of sacrificial weapons from the late Iron Age. This volume is about the many non-military finds, such as dice for board games, beads, , amulets, etc. – things that the soldiers have worn as jewellery around their necks, or in purses on their belts. Much of the jewellery and the amulets show close connections to the current Poland and Ukraine, and the beads are the kind produced by the Roman Empire’s boarder on the Continent.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788793423398 • £40.00 • Hardback • 235 pages b/w illustrations 15 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 World Archaeology

Ecology of a Tool The ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia) By Pierre Petrequin, Anne-Marie Petrequin & Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that small part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasant than elsewhere. This presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic that remains mostly unexplored. Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentric approach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as means of acting on the environment.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253863 This monograph will take a different approach. Here, £45.00 • Hardback • 336 pages polished stone blades are placed at the center of the b/w and col illustrations world, between, on one side, the transformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economic environment. This approach will allow us to suggest Related Titles: new avenues of inference in archaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones.In this volume, the stone is considered as a living being, existing in balance within its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers, for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture. Following a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, we will describe the function of polished stone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of styles, define and study the quarrying zones and the areas of Oxbow Books • Available Now Oxbow Books • Available Now diffusion and use of their production, and, if possible, 9781842174203 • Paperback 9781842171301 • Hardback the different trends noted in each area of polished blade £36.00 • 328 pages £60.00 • 288 pages production and exchanges. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeological potential of these contemporary observations.

McDonald Institute • Available Now • 9781902937342 • Hardback Only £12.95 • 275 pages 16 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 World Archaeology

Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados Past, Present, and Future Research Directions Edited by Maaike S. De Waal, Niall Finneran & Matthew C. Reilly This volume provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the archaeology of a single Caribbean island yet published. The papers start with an overview of different approaches to the pre-contact archaeology of the island of Barbados and focus upon recent debates and issues surrounding material culture, economic change and site location. Two following sections focus upon recent developments in historical archaeology, looking at a series of urban and plantation case studies. The final section considers the social implications of Barbados’ past and recent developments in community heritage, education and management.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908453 • £50.00 • Paperback • 360 pages b/w and col illustrations Matters of Belonging Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe Edited by Wayne Modest, Nicholas Thomas, Doris Prlić & Claudia Augustat Matters of Belonging foregrounds critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. Addressing diverse political climates and citizenship regimes, legal frameworks and colonial/migratory histories, the articles seek to question the role of ethnographic and world cultures museums within contemporary negotiations of how to define Europe, Europeans, and European heritage, especially mindful of the region’s colonial and migratory pasts.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088907777 • £30.00 • Paperback • 150 pages b/w and col illustrations This is not a Grass Skirt On Fibre Skirts (Liku) and Female Tattooing (Veiqia) in Nineteenth Century Fiji By Karen Jacobs In nineteenth-century Fiji, beautiful fibre skirts (liku) in a great variety of shapes and colours were lifetime companions for women. This book is based on a systematic investigation of previously understudied liku in museums collections around the world. Through the prism of one garment, multiple ways of looking at dress are considered, including their classification in museums and archives. Also highlighted are associated tattooing (veiqia) practices, perceptions of modesty, the intricacies of intercultural encounters and the significance of collections and cultural heritage today.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088908125 • £45.00 • Paperback • 236 pages b/w and col illustrations 17 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 World Archaeology

An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies By John F. Cherry & Krysta Ryzewski Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory. It has suffered greatly in recent times, first from the devastations of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and since 1995 from the still-ongoing eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano that has caused two-thirds of the island’s population to emigrate and left half the island a dangerous exclusion zone. Archaeological research here began only in the late 1970s, but work over the past four decades has now made it possible to present an archaeological history of Montserrat, from the earliest known traces of human activity on the island about 5,000 years ago to the present. This book draws on all the available archaeological evidence (including that from the co-authors’ own island-wide survey and excavation project since 2010), as well as newly available archival documents, to trace this little island’s long history and heritage. This is not the story of an isolated and remote island: Montserrat is Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253900 shown rather to be a place intricately connected to the £30.00 • Paperback • 208 pages flows of people and goods that have travelled between b/w and col illustrations islands and across the Atlantic at various points in time, both Amerindian and historical. Despite its small size Related Titles: and seeming irrelevance, Montserrat has in fact always been networked into regional and global systems of connectivity. An underlying theme of this volume is resilience. It presents insights from the archaeological and documentary evidence on how the island’s inhabitants have coped with often adverse conditions throughout the course of its history – hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, slavery, disease, invasions, and impoverishment – all while remaining proudly connected to heritage that celebrates the accomplishments of island residents. Sidestone Press • Available Sidestone Press • Available Now • 9789088907890 Now • 9789088905773 £40.00 • 230 pages £45.00 • 340 pages

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La Biographie d’un paysage Etude sur les Transformations de Longue Durée du Paysage Culturel de la Région de Fort-Liberté, Haïti By Joseph Sony Jean This study explores long term landscape transformations of the Fort-Liberté region, Haiti. By using a landscape biography approach, this research aims to understand the substantial developments of the region, from the Amerindian occupation, through the Spanish colonization, to the French colonial period. The study of the transformation of the landscape in the longue-durée suggests that activities of cultural groups are considered as events that were connected to each other, not just as superposed layers or isolated events.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088908392 • £45.00 • Paperback • 260 pages b/w and col illustrations Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba By Dr. Jana Pešoutová In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By combining data from critical historical analyses and ethnographic fieldwork, this research examines current healing landscapes and their historical background in both countries. Data presented in this work guides our understanding of how local cultural memory plays a key role in our construction of medicinal histories, and the profound demographic and landscape transformations which shaped the healing landscapes after European conquest. Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088907647 • £55.00 • Paperback • 390 pages b/w and col illustrations Puspika¯ V ˙ Tracing Ancient India, through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 5 Edited by Heleene De Jonckheere, Marie-Hélène Gorisse & Agnieszka Rostalska This edition of Puspika¯ takes “Jains and the others” as its main theme. ˙ The purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determining the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. In this dynamic, two papers deal with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives and two others with the relation between textual tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. In concert, other innovative papers elaborate on Puranic and kāvya literature, include technical discussions on linguistics and engage in philosophical studies.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252828 • £38.00 • Paperback • 172 pages 19 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Egypt

The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt A Local History, 4500 to 1500 BC By Wolfram Grajetzki This book delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the age. The focus is on the Wadjet province, about 350 km south of modern Cairo in Upper Egypt. Here, archaeological records provide an especially rich dataset for the material culture of farmers. Histories of Ancient Egypt have focussed heavily on the kings, monuments and inscriptions, while the working population is hardly mentioned. The book investigates the life of people far from the centres of power. One main aim of the book is the interaction between farmers and the ruling classes at the centres of power and locally.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789254211 £55.00 • Hardback • 288 pages b/w illustrations

Gilded Flesh Coffins and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt Edited by Rogério Sousa This book examines twelve non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. From the Pre-dynastic times to the decline of the New Kingdom, it explores each site revealing the interconnection between mummification practices, coffin decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual landscapes. Through this analysis, the author aims to point out how the design of coffins changed through time in order to empower the deceased with different visions of immortality.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252620 £60.00 • Hardback • 208 pages b/w illustrations

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The Oasis Papers 9 A Tribute to Anthony J. Mills after Forty Years in Dakhleh Oasis Edited by Gillian E. Bowen & Colin A. Hope This new volume in the Oasis Papers series marks the 40th anniversary of archaeological fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert under the leadership of Anthony J. Mills and presents a synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of the oasis and its interconnections with surrounding regions, especially the Nile Valley. The papers are by distinguished authorities in the field and postgraduate students who specialise in different aspects of Dakhleh and presents an almost complete survey of the archaeology of Dakhleh including much unpublished, original material.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253764 • £60.00 • Hardback • 496 pages b/w and col illustrations A Stranger in the House – The Crossroads III Proceedings of an International Conference on Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age held in Prague, September 10-13, 2018 Edited by Jana Mynárová, Marwan Kilani & Sergio Alivernini These papers aim to enhance our understanding of “foreignness” in ancient societies between the end of the period and the end of the Late Bronze Age. Some authors decided to approach the discussion from a theoretical perspective, or to present and discuss theoretical frameworks that could be used to explore at least some elements underlying the concept of “foreignness”. Others investigated sociocultural dimension involved in the presence of foreigners, or in their interactions with local communities.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 2020 • 9788073089283 • £66.80 • Hardback 435 pages Created for Eternity The Greatest Discoveries of Czech Egyptology By Miroslav Bárta, Ladislav Bareš & Jaromír Krajci In 2019 Charles University, its Faculty of Arts, and the Czech Institute of Egyptology are celebrating the hundredth birthday of Czech Egyptology. For many years now Czech Egyptologists have been among world leaders in the field, making major breakthroughs (most recently the discovery of the tomb of the priest Kaires) – and helping to set new international research trends. This book presents the most important discoveries of Czech Egyptologists and the range and variety of their activities.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 2019 • 9788073089276 • £26.60 • Hardback 387 pages 21 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Egypt

The Persistence of Memory in Kush Pianchy and his Temple By Anthony Spalinger A Report concerned with military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia, the present Sudan (B 500), important battle scenes in the Great Temple’s inner hall (B 502) and the outer one (B 501). The author extends the arguments from his book Icons of Power.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 2019 • 9788073089160 • £71.00 • Hardback 192 pages Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Edited by Stéphanie Porcier, Salima Ikram & Stéphane Pasquali This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the Roman period. The essays cover topics such as animal husbandry, mummification, species-specific studies, the archaeology and economy of the animal cults, funerary practices, iconography and symbolism. The contribution of archaeometrical methods, such as DNA analyses, balms’ analyses, AMS dating, radiography, and 3D imaging, are also represented as these play a significant role in furthering our understanding of the human-animal relationship in Egypt.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088907722 • £55.00 • Paperback • 310 pages b/w and col illustrations ‘Is There Not One Among You Who Understands Egyptian?’ The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar By Helmut Satzinger Late Egyptian – the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) – is a distinct episode in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic language. It is a vivid, fresh idiom, compared with the time- honoured Classical Egyptian language of the hieroglyphic texts. Usually it is described from a more historical standpoint, against the background of the older language, Middle Egyptian. Here, however, is an account of its structure that is independent of the languages’ older phases.

Golden House Publications • 2020 • 9781906137687 • £35.00 • Paperback 170 pages 22 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Egypt

Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt The Mourning Rite in the Times of the Pharaohs By Maria Rosa Valdesogo Reliefs and paintings from ancient Egypt illustrate various aspects of funerary ceremonies, which contributed to the dead’s resurrection in the afterlife – including images of mourners shaking and pulling on their hair. In this publication, Maria Rosa Veldesogo describes the relationship between hair and these rites, and the role that hair played in death and funerary rites in ancient Egypt.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 2019 • 9789492940087 • £36.00 • Paperback 144 pages • col illustrations Paint it, Black A Biography of Kohl Containers By Jolanda Bos Paint it, Black covers the remarkable history of kohl containers from the Early Bronze Age to the present day, including ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, the culture of the Early Islamic Period and the present-day cultures of North Africa and West Asia. For thousands of years, people from all over the world have used body paint and kohl, a black powdery substance, has been universally used by both men and women throughout history. The book also incorporates a catalogue of a unique collection of kohl containers kept in the Wearable Heritage collection.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 2019 • 9789492940070 • £49.50 • Hardback 356 pages • col illustrations Être et Paraître, Statues Royales et Privées de la Fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période Intermédiaire (1850–1550 av. J.-C.) By Simon Connor This volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture. Style, material and dating are discussed in length. The book is well illustrated (more than 100 b/w plates) and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.

Golden House Publications • 2020 • 9781906137663 • £75.00 • Hardback 500 pages • b/w illustrations 23 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 NEAR EAST

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II Early Alphabets Edited by Philip J. Boyes & Philippa M. Steele This book brings together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250923 £50.00 • Hardback • 240 pages

Nairi Lands The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-Economic Landscape By Guido Guarducci This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. It also furnishes a reassessment of pottery production characteristics and theories, tied to the sedentary and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252781 £60.00 • Hardback • 272 pages b/w and col illustrations

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Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960–1967) By Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. A meticulous yet efficient excavation method was introduced, the already tenuous relationship between Bible and archaeology was further exacerbated, and the study of excavated pottery was given a scientific basis. The story of the excavations at Tell Deir Alla in the 1960s have never been told in any detail, and the excavation results have mostly been published in scholarly books and journals which are difficult to access. This book hopes to remedy that.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088908736 • £35.00 • Paperback • 156 pages b/w and col illustrations Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry to Institutional Textile Edited by Cécile Michel & Catherine Breniquet The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, different societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played an important economic role. These 22 papers explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region, where large-scale textile production began during the second half of the 3rd millennium.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253801 • £35.00 • Paperback • 472 pages New in paperback b/w and col illustrations Qala’at al-Bahrain 3 The Western and Southern City Walls and Other Excavations By Flemming Højlund The capital of ancient Dilmun, Qala’at al-Bahrain, the most important archaeological site in East Arabia, was excavated in 1954-1978 by a Danish expedition from Moesgaard Museum. The first two volumes were published in 1994 and 1997, dealing with the northern city wall, the Islamic fortress and the central monumental buildings. The third volume covers the remaining 13 excavations, presenting their architectures and stratigraphies. A detailed treatment of the finds is given, stamp seals, inscriptions, figurines, incense burners, human bones, pottery, etc., dating from the late 3rd millennium to the Islamic period.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788793423282 • £35.00 • Hardback • 300 pages 25 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 NEAR EAST

The 1968 Nablus Hoard A Study of Monetary Circulation in the Late Fourth and Early Third Centuries BCE Southern Levant By Oren Tal & Haim Gitler The Nablus 1968 Hoard is the largest late Persian/early Hellenistic period coin and jewelry hoard recorded from the southern Levant and the largest known hoarded assemblage of Samarian coins. This study provides a detailed catalogue of all the coins and pieces of jewelry the authors managed to record. In addition, the authors discuss the hoard and its context, its burial date, a synopsis of the history and archaeology of the Persian period province of Samaria, a discussion on the hoard’s Phoenician, Samarian, Athenian-styled, Philistian, and Yehud coins, Athenian tetradrachms and the few overseas Greek and Cypriot issues belonging to the hoard.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 9780897223607 • £60.00 • Hardback 209 pages • b/w illustrations

Rivalling Rome Parthian Coins and Culture By Vesta Curtis & Alexandra Magub The Arsacid Parthians, famous for their riding and archery skills, became Rome’s most dangerous enemy east of the River Euphrates. Their coinage reveals important information about the development of the Parthian state, its expansion and the role of the king, who, by 111 BC, had adopted the ancient Persian title of King of Kings. This book highlights the rise to power of the Parthians, the long conflict with Rome, as well as the culture and religion of the Parthian Empire as seen through the coinage of this period. It is co-published with the British Museum to accompany an exhibition of the same name which opens there in April 2020.

Spink Books • April 2020 • 9781912667444 £20.00 • Paperback • 128 pages forthcoming

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General Interest A History of Knowledge By Charles Lincoln van Doren Paper Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, this book Paging Through History covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of By Mark Kurlansky the human race, but also explores the social conditions, A definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it political climates, and individual men and women of has shaped today’s world. Paper is one of the simplest genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. and most essential pieces of human technology. For the 442pp • Ballantine • 1992 • Paperback • 9780345373168 past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more was £13.99 now £4.95 efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has Earth-Shattering Events created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization and the stabilising of regimes. By A. Robinson 416pp • W.W. Norton & Company Ltd • 2016 • Hardback This book seeks to understand exactly how human agency 9780393239614 • was £19.99 now £7.95 and great earthquakes have interacted, not only in the The Royal Portrait short term but also in the long perspective of history. While Image and Impact physical devastation has in some times and places led to By Jennifer Scott permanent decline and collapse, elsewhere earthquakes A fresh assessment of the importance of portraiture in the have presented opportunities for renewal, the cities they image-making of monarchs from Richard II to the present destroy proving to be extraordinarily resilient. day. The impact of the finished image within its specific 256pp • Thames and Hudson • 2016 • Hardback intended location is explored, alongside the use of portraits 9780500518595 • was £18.95 now £7.95 through the ages to promote the public (and private) face of the monarch. 200pp • Royal Collection Trust • 2010 • Hardback Method and Theory 9781905686131 • was £20.00 now £9.95 History from Things The Sea and Civilization By Steven and Kingery, W. David Lubar and W. David Kingery By Lincoln Paine 18 essays on material culture explore the many ways A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship objects – defined broadly to range from Chippendale that retells human history through the story of mankind’s tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth- relationship with the sea. Above all, Paine makes clear how century parks and a New England cemetery – can the rise and fall of civilizations can be traced to the sea. reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. 784pp • Alfred A Knopf • 2013 • Paperback 9781101970355 • was £25.00 now £9.95 300pp • Smithsonian Institution Press • 1995 • Paperback 9781560986133 • was £17.99 now £5.95 The City A Global History The Diversity of Hunter Gatherer Pasts By Joel Kotkin Edited by Bill Finlayson and Graeme Warren Despite their infinite variety, all cities essentially serve Explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and three purposes: spiritual, political, and economic. Kotkin gathering peoples past and present and the considerable follows the progression of the city from the early religious analytical challenges presented by this diversity to centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China to archaeologists and anthropologists attempting to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise understand and reconstruct past lifeways. of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, 204pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback ending with today’s post-industrial suburban metropolis. 9781785705885 • was £36.00 now £12.95 218pp • Modern Library • 2006 • Paperback 9780375756511 • was £18.00 now £5.95 Figuring it Out Early Ships and Seafaring By A. Colin Renfrew Water Transport Beyond Europe In this challenging book, Colin Renfrew argues that By Sean McGrail archaeologists can learn a great deal about interpreting In this book, Professor McGrail’s study of European Water and understanding the past through the approaches taken Transport is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, Southeast by modern artists.He examines how both archaeology Asia, China, Australia, Oceania and the Americas. The and modern art seek to understand the world through early rafts and boats of those regions were, as in Europe, its material remains and explores the process by which hand-built from natural materials and were propelled and we have become what we are, from the earliest modern steered by human muscle or wind power. humans to the present day. 220pp • Pen & Sword Books Ltd • 2016 • Hardback 224pp • Thames and Hudson • 2003 • Hardback 9781473825598 • was £19.99 now £9.95 9780500051146 • was £32.00 now £9.95 i www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

People and the Sky museums in civil society, the history of African-American By Anthony F. Aveni collections, and experiments with museum-community People and the Sky explores the history of mankind’s dialogue about the design of a multicultural society. intimate relationship with the sky, and how the lives of 624pp • Smithsonian Institution Press • 1992 • Paperback our ancestors were cosmically grounded. Aveni discusses 9781560981893 • was £22.70 now £7.95 why constellations were invented, how stars were used in navigation, how the cosmos acted as a seasonal clock for farmers, the importance of the sky in urban design and Landscape in legitimating the power and ancestry of rulers, and the Hortus Mirabilis development of timekeeping. 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In this formulation of his ideas concerning be overcome before such connections could be fostered. landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm 256pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781785707162 and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. was £48.00 now £14.95 104pp • University of Pennsylvania Press • 2003 A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape Hardback • 9780812237221 • was £41.00 now £14.95 Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway European Prehistory By Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone Presents the full results of excavations at an important, The Wisdom of the Bones short-lived crannog site of the 5th century at Cults Loch, In Search of Human Origins Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland and explores both the By Alan Walker and Pat Shipman relationship between the crannog and its social and physical In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern landscape and the wider role and function of crannogs. 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The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from south-east Europe to Britain, How Compassion Made Us Human and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, The Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morailty but with a decided focus on the former. Thematically, By Penny Spikins the main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart Neolithic daily life, settlements and subsistence; as well of what makes us human. She takes us on a journey as monuments and aspects of worldview. 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Silla Churches of Ethiopia Korea’s Golden Kingdom By Stanislas Chejnacki, Mario di Salvo and Osvaldo Rainieri Edited by Soyoung Lee Narga Sellase’s monastery sits on a tiny islet in the middle The Silla Kingdom, which flourished in Korea from 57 B.C. of Lake Tana. Founded in 1748, it is noted for the superb to 935 A.D., is known for its intricately crafted ornaments, quality of the paintings which completely cover the walls many in resplendent gold, and for the creation of of the “maqdas”. This volume sets the monastery in its prominent temples. Silla focuses on the striking historical and architectural context, before going on to artistic traditions of the Old and Unified Silla Kingdoms analyse the paintings themselves. (4th–8th century), and is the first publication in English 240pp • Skira editore • 1999 • Hardback • 9788881185290 to explore the artistic and cultural legacy of this ancient was £45.00 now £17.95 realm. 240pp • Yale University Press • 2013 • Hardback 9780300197020 • was £50.00 now £19.95 Ancient Egypt

Terracotta Warriors In the Light of Amarna By Edward Burman 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery The Terracotta Warriors seeks to examine one of China’s Edited by Friedrerike Seyfried most famous archaeological discoveries in light of new An accompaniment to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s findings from an ongoing international project which special exhibition celebrating the discovery of the Nefertiti started in 2011. Burman describes the tomb and its Qin bust in 1912, this catalogue presents never-before-seen dynasty context, before discussing the warriors themselves artefacts and objects from the Amarna period of Egyptian and their function in the afterlife. history. The book also explores religion, craftsmanship, 304pp • Pegasus Books • 2018 • Hardback daily life, and sculpture in Amarna and the world famous 9781681777962 • was £17.99 now £7.95 Nefertiti bust. 496pp • Michael Imhof Verlag GmbH • 2013 • Hardback The Ancient History of U Thong, City of Gold 9783865688484 • was £32.00 now £12.95 By Anna Bennett U Thong, 100 or so km north of Bangkok, has been an A Passion for Egypt important site for over 2,000 years, as witnessed by the Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the ‘Curse of discovery of a 3rd century Roman coin. The author is a the Pharaohs’ trained research metallurgy scientist, and these skills have By Julie Hankey been brought to bear on the highly significant corpus of Arthur Weigall was Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Upper early gold artefacts found in and around the moated city, Egypt in its remarkable Edwardian heyday, and was the largest accumulation of such artefacts from any of the brought into contact with all the leading figures in Egyptian ancient muang of Thailand. archaeology at the time, including Lord Carnarvon and 168pp • River Books, Thailand • 2017 • Hardback Howard Carter – with whom relations soon grew strained. 9786167339818 • was £25.00 now £9.95 Covering his early life in brief, this biography concentrates of his career as an Egyptologist and his achievements in Oceanic Art bringing Egyptian archaeology to the masses. By Nicholas Thomas 392pp • I.B. Tauris • 2007 • Paperback • 9781845114350 Until recently, the tendency in the West has ben to view was £12.99 now £5.95 the art of Oceania as “primitive”, mysterious, shrouded in taboo. Nicholas Thomas, in this survey, goes beyond this City of the Ram-Man view to discover the meaning and significance of art for The Story of Ancient Mendes the people of the Pacific. By Donald B. Redford 216pp • Thames and Hudson • 1995 • Paperback In this richly illustrated book, Donald Redford draws on the 9780500202814 • was £12.95 now £5.95 latest discoveries to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes. He traces its development from its The Fall of the Ancient Maya prehistoric founding, through its development of a great Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to By David L. Webster its final decline and abandonment in the 1st century BC. The fall of the ancient Mayan civilisation is one of the 240pp • Princeton University Press • 2010 • Hardback most enigmatic questions in history and has been a hotly 9780691142265 • was £37.00 now £12.95 debated issue for many years. In this new book David Webster assesses the theories put forward by others, How to Read the Egyptian Book of the Dead dispelling many myths along the way, and presents his By Barry Kemp own thoughts taking a multi-causal approach. The Book of the Dead, the modern name given to 368pp • Thames and Hudson • 2002 • Hardback a popular compilation of ancient Egyptian spells, 9780500051139 • was £19.95 now £9.95 empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking iv www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

in the Otherworld and to become one with the gods A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations that governed. Barry Kemp selects a number of spells to in Wadi ath-Thamad explore who and what the Egyptians feared and the kind Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau and Margreet L. Steiner of assistance that the book offered them. Presents the results of recent excavations at a small, 144pp • W W Norton • 2008 • Paperback isolated but very important Iron Age shrine in Moab, 9780393330793 • was £8.99 now £4.95 southern Palestine. A rich assemblage of cultic objects, including figurines and statues, shed much light on History of Egypt From Earliest Times to the Present religious practices in the region. By Jason Thompson 272pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781785707087 This cohesive account charts Egypt’s millennia-long past was £60.00 now £14.95 from the predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twentieth century. The author addresses central issues Coins and the Bible such as how Egyptian history can be treated as a whole By Richard Abdy and Amelia Dowler and how the west has shaped prevailing images of it, both Some of the most famous stories in the Bible revolve through direct contact and through the lens of western around coins. From the widow’s mite to Judas’s thirty scholarship. pieces of silver, the original narratives and their later 382pp • Anchor Books • 2009 • Hardback translations have used local coins to make the Gospels 9780307473523 • was £14.99 now £5.95 relate to audiences over the ages. In turn, early Biblical writings have directly inspired the earliest artistic Cleopatra the Great expression of Christian faith on coin designs. The Woman Behind the Legend 121pp • Spink Books • 2013 • Paperback • 9781907427305 By Joann Fletcher was £15.00 now £6.95 This well-written biography of Cleopatra follows the recent trend of emphasising the Egyptian context of The Herodian Dynasty her life and actions, rather than through the eyes of the Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse main Roman literary sources. Fletcher paints a picture By Nikos Kokkinos of tremendous cultural reawakening under Cleopatra, The remarkable Herodian dynasty flourished from the matched by political success and the restoration of the second century BCE to the second century CE. This book Egyptian empire to a size not seen for a thousand years. examines its origins, measures its impact on Jewish society, 454pp • Harper Collins Publishers • 2008 • Paperback and discusses the influence it had beyond Judaea. 9780060585594 • was £12.99 now £4.95 530pp • Spink Books • 2010 • Hardback • 9781907427015 was £20.00 now £7.95 • Paperback • 9781907427039 Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction was £12.50 now £5.95 By Barbara Watterson Barbara Watterson takes a two pronged approach in this Early Animal Domestication and Its Cultural Context biography of Cleopatra, focusing just as much on how she Edited by Pamela Crabtree, Kathleen Ryan and was and is perceived as on her life itself. She first surveys Douglas V. Campana the ancient sources before describing her reign and then The transition from hunting and gathering to food her afterlife on stage and on screen. production is one of the most significant developments 304pp • Amberley Publishing • 2017 • Hardback in all of human prehistory, since it led to profound 9781445669656 • was £20.00 now £7.95 changes in population, settlement patterns, and technology. The authors examine the process of early animal domestication in the Near East, South Asia, and Ancient Near East Europe, focusing on the cultural context of early animal husbandry. The Ark Before Noah 136pp • University of Pennsylvania Press • 1989 Decoding the Story of the Flood Hardback • 9780924171963 • was £21.50 now £6.95 By Irving Finkel In 2009 Irving Finkel became the first to translate a Antioch and Jerusalem cuneiform tablet which, it transpired, contained a new The Seleucids and Maccabees in Coins version of the Babylonian flood myth, including detailed By David Jacobson instructions for the construction of an ark. Here he makes This book recounts the heroic story of the Maccabees and his findings available to a non-specialist readership, and explains how they successfully took on the might of the outlines a new theory as to the transmission of the flood Seleucid realm, illustrated by the coins issued by the main myth. protagonists. 480pp • Anchor Books • 2015 • Paperback 168pp • Spink Books • 2015 • Hardback • 9781907427541 9780345804396 • was £14.99 now £5.95 was £30.00 now £12.95 v www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

Archaeozoology of the Near East 9 Studies in Ancient Coinage Edited by Marjan Mashkour and Mark Beech In Honour of Andrew Burnett This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists By R. Bland and D. Calomino to present 31 papers on the latest research into This volume of essays is offered by his teachers, colleagues archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide- and friends to the greatest exponent of the study of ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: ancient coinage of our generation. from Palaeolithic assemblages in Syria to 316pp • Spink Books • 2015 • Hardback • 9781907427572 Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus was £50.00 now £14.95 to Cyprus. 464pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback Treasures from the Sea 9781782978442 • was £70.00 now £19.95 Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple Dye in Antiquity Edited by Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Francesco Meo The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia Presents new research on the extraction and physical and Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Stuart chemical properties of, and the use and social significance Campbell Through analysis of many archaeological site of mollusc-extracted purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in assemblages and collections these papers explore the the ancient Mediterranean. Papers include the study of evidence for the origins and development of pottery epigraphical and historical sources, practical experiments production against the wider technological background. as well as, highlighting the presence of purple dye in select 196pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781785705267 archaeological data. was £70.00 now £19.95 224pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781785704352 was £38.00 now £14.95

Classical World Greece From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece Edited by Julie Hruby and Debra Trusty By David Michael Smith The contributors utilise a wide variety of analytical Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece presents nearly 200 approaches and demonstrate the impact that cooking objects currently housed in public collections around the vessels can have on the archaeological interpretation of world that offer both context and immediacy to the rich sites and their inhabitants. These sites include major Late culture of Ancient Greece Bronze Age citadels and smaller settlements throughout 288pp • Thames and Hudson • 2017 • Hardback the Aegean and surrounding Mediterranean area. 9780500519585 • was £12.95 now £5.95 216pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback • 9781785706325 was £38.00 now £14.95 Coinage in the Greek World By Ian Carradice and Martin J. Price Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves The development and use of coinage in the Greek world Women in Classical Antiquity is surveyed in this book from its introduction in the 7th By Sarah B Pomeroy century BC to the late Hellenistic period. Coins can “The first general treatment of women in the ancient illuminate many facets of history and here the focus is world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. on the reasons why they were circulated and how they Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook were used. on women’s history in Greece and Rome has hardly been 154pp • Spink Books • 1988 • Paperback • 9780900652820 challenged.”--Mary Beard. Contains a new preface by the author. was £20.00 now £7.95 267pp • Alfred A Knopf • 1995 • Paperback Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue 9780805210309 • was £16.99 now £5.95 By Peter J. Ahrensdorf Enduring Bronze Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad By C. C. Mattusch and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer’s This book, richly illustrated with works from the J. Paul understanding of the best life, the nature of the divine, Getty Museum and other important collections, provides and the nature of human excellence. According to an engaging overview of classical bronzes. discusses the Ahrensdorf, Homer teaches that human greatness many roles bronze objects played in ancient Greece and eclipses that of the gods, that the contemplative and Rome and analyzes discoveries made at ancient foundries compassionate singer ultimately surpasses the heroic and by contemporary scientists. warrior in grandeur. 168pp • Getty Trust Publications • 2014 • Paperback 304pp • Cambridge University Press • 2014 • Hardback 9781606063262 • was £24.99 now £7.95 9780521193887 • was £34.99 now £15.95 vi www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

Rome BCE) and describes the moneyer’s career, social, political and family history, and his part in the events of his times. Pax Romana 266pp • Spink Books • 2015 • Paperback • 9781907427589 By Adrian Goldsworthy was £30.00 now £12.95 Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of the creation of the Empire, revealing how and why the Romans came to Coinage in the Roman World control so much of the world and asking whether the By Andrew Burnett favourable image of the Roman peace is a true one. He Originally published in 1986, this book takes a fresh look at chronicles the many rebellions by the conquered, and the development and use of coinage in the Roman world, describes why these broke out and why most failed. At the from the third century BC to the break-up of the Empire in same time, he explains that hostility was only one reaction the fifth century AD. The emphasis is upon interpretation to the arrival of Rome, and from the start there was alliance, of the coins rather than description of types, focusing on collaboration and even enthusiasm for joining the invaders. both how and why they were circulated, and how they can 528pp • Weidenfeld & Nicholson • 2017 • Paperback illuminate the historical and economic background. 9781474604376 • was £10.99 now £4.95 164pp • Spink Books • 2004 • Paperback 9780900652844 • was £20.00 now £7.95 Cave Canem Animals in Roman Civilization The Roman Gaze By Iain Ferris Vision, Power and the Body Iain Ferris explores the significance of animals in Roman By David Frederick society, discussing the extraordinary slaughter of huge The act of looking, both outwards and inwards, was an numbers of animals for entertainment in the Roman important element in Roman culture with Roman vision, so arena, their association with the gods, their place in Fredrick argues being distinct from both Greek and Western mythology and symbolism and their use in Roman vision. Contributors focus in particular on sexual behaviour, religious practice. Many of their actions towards animals the theatre, literature and art, including episodes from the are seen today as cruel, but what did animals mean for works of Lucan and Lucretius, the relationship between the Romans and how did they view their own actions? shame and sight, and the suburban baths of Pompeii. 288pp • Amberley Publishing • 2018 • Hardback 333pp • Johns Hopkins University Press • 2002 9781445652931 • was £20.00 now £7.95 Hardback • 9780801869617 • was £39.50 now £12.95

A City of Marble Materialising Roman Histories The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome Edited by Astrid Van Oyen and Martin Pitts By Kathleen S. Lamp The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical human-material environment, from monumentalised rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns This book explores new perspectives to understand this functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. power and to influence civic identity and participation in 232pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback the Roman Principate. 9781785706769 • was £40.00 now £14.95 205pp • University of South Carolina Press • 2013 Hardback • 9781611172775 • was £45.95 now £14.95 Sinews of Empire Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul Edited by Eivind Heldaas Seland and Håkon Fiane Teigen By Bijan Omrani Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, Julius Caesar’s conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, wake transformed forever the ancient Celtic culture of administration, technology, religion and municipal life in that country. From the amphitheatres of Arles and Nimes the Roman Near East and adjacent regions. to the battlefield of Chalons, Bijan Omrani explores 240pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback archaeological sites, artefacts and landscapes to reveal 9781785705960 • was £40.00 now £14.95 how the imprint of Rome shaped France. 416pp • Pegasus Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781681775661 Identifying Roman Coins was £25.00 now £7.95 By Richard Reece and Simon James This book aims at producing an easily usable and visual Roman Republican Moneyers recognition guide to Roman coins. Their chronological And Their Coins 63BCE – 49BCE presentation follows and identifies major reverse types By Michael Harlan from the first to the late fourth centuries AD. Michael Harlan has selected a group of 32 moneyers from 60pp • Spink Books • 2000 • Hardback • 9781902040400 the best documented years of the Roman Republic (63-49 was £9.95 now £4.95 vii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

Ennion Late Antique and Byzantine Master of Roman Glass By C. S. Lightfoot Christianity’s Quiet Success This publication examines the most innovative and The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power elegant known examples of Roman mold-blown glass, of the Church in Late Antique Gaul providing a uniquely comprehensive, up-to-date study of By Lisa Kaaren Bailey these exceptional works. Included are some twenty-six A study of the Eusebius Gallicanus collection of remarkably preserved examples of drinking cups, bowls, anonymous, multi-authored sermons from fifth- and sixth- and jugs signed by Ennion himself, as well as fifteen century Gaul. They were used for centuries by clergy as a additional vessels that were clearly influenced by him. preaching guide and by monks and pious lay people as 160pp • Yale University Press • 2015 • Paperback devotional reading. 9780300208771 • was £18.99 now £7.95 272pp • University of Notre Dame Press • 2010 Paperback • 9780268022242 • was £35.95 now £9.95 Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome By Virginia L. Campbell Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and This volume collects and illustrates 200 artefacts from Medieval China Museums around the world. From coins of the 5th century By Samuel N. C. Lieu BCE to pottery made at the time of the fall of the Western In the third century A.D. the Syro-Persian Mani founded Roman Empire in 476 CE, each object reveals an important a highly evangelistic Gnostic religion in Mesopotamia. insight into this highly influential ancient civilization. It became a world religion with followers spread across 288pp • Thames and Hudson • 2017 • Hardback Central Asia and even parts of China. The history of its 9780500519592 • was £12.95 now £5.95 persecution in the Roman and Chinese Empires and of its extraordinary survival and diffusion are presented in detail. Death as a Process 384pp • Manchester University Press • 1985 • Hardback The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral 9780719010880 • was £80.00 now £19.95 Edited by J. Pearce and J. Weekes This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across The Darkening Age Europe, methodological advances and conceptual The Christian Destruction of the Classical World innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the By Catherine Nixey Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them In this lively polemic Catherine Nixey argues that Christianity to their tombs and the communities who buried them. was fundamentally intolerant, violent and destructive in 272pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Paperback • 9781785703232 its actions toward the established pagan relgions of the was £38.00 now £14.95 Roman Empire. From the 1st century to the 6th, those who didn’t fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every Journal of Roman Pottery studies, Volume 11 possible way: social, legal, financial and physical. Edited by Pamela Irving 352pp • Pan • 2017 • Hardback • 9781509812325 Nine papers, predominantly on the study of Roman was £20.00 now £7.95 pottery in Britain. The Thousand and One Churches 168pp • Oxbow Books • 2005 • Paperback By William Mitchell Ramsay and Gertrude Bell, Edited by Robert 9781842171400 • was £24.00 now £7.95 Ousterhout and Mark P. C. Jackson Catullus’ Bedspread Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet monuments of Anatolia. Because many of the monuments By Daisy Dunn have long since disappeared, this documentation is now A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great invaluable, and Bell’s extensive photographs provide poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife a unique view of travel and archaeology more than a and made it known to the world through his verse.A century ago. monumental figure for poets from Ovid and Virgil 618pp • University of Pennsylvania Press • 2008 onwards, his journey across youth and experience, from Verona to Rome, Bithynia to Lake Garda, is traced in Daisy Hardback • 9781934536056 • was £41.00 now £12.95 Dunn’s biography. Augustine 336pp • Harper Collins Publishers • 2018 • Paperback Conversions to Confessions 9780062317032 • was £12.99 now £4.95 By Robin Lane Fox Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine on a brilliantly-described journey, combining the latest scholarship with recently- found letters and sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait of his subject which is subtly different from older biographies. Augustine’s heretical years as a Manichaean, his relation to non-Christian philosophy, his mystical viii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

aspirations and the nature of his conversion are among that emerged from the religious state established by the aspects of his life which stand out in a sharper light. the Prophet Muhammad. The Islamic coinages of India 672pp • Basic Books • 2017 • Paperback • 9780465093854 and South East Asia are excluded because they are was £16.99 now £6.95 derived from different monetary concepts and cultural backgrounds. The Origin of Satan 236pp • Spink Books • 1985 • Paperback By Elaine H Pagels 9780900652660 • was £25.00 now £9.95 The figure of Satan has been a standing puzzle in the history of religion. This study examines his origins and his In the Shadow of the Sword shifting functions. Satan is not present in classical Jewish The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire sources (and scarcely present in traditional Judaism to this day). Images of Satan began to develop and proliferate in By Tom Holland later Jewish sources not included in the Hebrew Bible. The This gripping (and controversial) book recounts the book explores this early history or invention of the devil, momentous events of Late Antiquity, exploring the rise and traces Satan’s subsequent transformations as one of of Islam, the fall of Persia and the drastic shrinking of society’s most necessary fictions. the Byzantine empire. In particular Holland explores 214pp • Random House • 1996 • Paperback the triumph of monotheism and the processes whereby 9780679731184 • was £8.99 now £3.95 all three Abrahamic religions came to be canonically defined, arguing especially for a sceptical approach to Mehmed II the Conqueror and the Fall of the Franco- the Arabic sources for early Islam, and questioning its Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turks Meccan origin. 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Crossing Boundaries Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, By Patrick J. Geary Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World Patrick Geary explores the role of language and ideology Edited by Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian is on material culture, but also includes insights into the sacred texts and administrative documents, and the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom. record information in unfamiliar languages. 136pp • Brandeis University Press • 2013 • Paperback 320pp • Oxbow Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781785703072 9781611683912 • was £23.00 now £7.95 was £55.00 now £19.95 Croatia in the Early Middle Ages In the Land of Giants By Ivan Supicic A Journey Through the Dark Ages This large book contains thirty papers in English, bringing to the By Max Adams fore-front the richness of Croatian history, artistic and cultural Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past achievement in the Early Middle Ages. Spanning the period from by walking its paths and exploring its lasting imprint on the 7th to 12th centuries, the papers explores the relationships valley, hill and field. From York to Whitby, from London between Croatia and the rest of Europe, especially the influence to Sutton Hoo, from Edinburgh to Anglesey and from of Roman, Byzantine and eastern cultures. Hadrian’s Wall to Loch Tay, each of his ten walk narratives 633pp • Philip Wilson Publishers • 1999 • Hardback form both free-standing chapters and parts of a wider 9780856674990 • was £73.00 now £24.95 portrait of a Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone. A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture 464pp • Pegasus Books • 2017 • Paperback By Felice Lifshitz 9781681775531 • was £14.99 now £5.95 This study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Theodulf of Orleans: The Verse Main Valley during the eighth century, explores how one Edited by Theodore M. Andersson group of religious women helped to shape the culture of A complete translation with commentary and introduction medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, of the verse of Theodulf of Orleans (c.750-821), a key figure as well as through their editorial interventions. in the Carolingian Renaissance. 368pp • Fordham University Press • 2014 • Hardback 220pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2014 9780823256877 • was £45.00 now £14.95 Hardback • 9780866985017 • was £46.00 now £14.95 Medieval History First Among Abbots The Career of Abbo of Fleury A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert By Elizabeth Dachowski By Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead Abbo of Fleury (c.945-1004) had an extraordinary, if disperate A comprehensive assessment of the “Doctrine of the Hert”, life, and made important contributions to many fields of a devotional text which circulated widely in later medieval medieval endeavour, including the politics of the Kingdom of Europe, both in its Latin original and in various vernacular France and the Papal court, as a monastic reformer, and as a translations. It contains useful background information scholar and hagiographer. This, however, is the first modern on the text, its authorship, its anchoritic context, use attempt to write on his multi-faceted career as a whole. of symbolism and metaphor, and on the process of 299pp • Catholic University of America Press • 2008 translation and its popularity throughout Europe. Hardback • 9780813215105 • was £80.95 now £14.95 294pp • The Exeter Press • 2010 • Hardback 9780859898218 • was £85.00 now £19.95 Renovatio Monetae: Bracteates and Coinage Policies in Medieval Europe The Culture of Food in England, 1200–1500 By R. Svensson By C. M. Woolgar Bracteates are thin, uni-faced coins that were struck with C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England only one die. Although these coins were very fragile, they was far more complex, varied, and more culturally dominated the coinage for 150-200 years in large parts significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of medieval Europe. This book is about the function of of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well bracteates and how they can be linked to the evolution as an influx of new flavors and trends from abroad had an of coinage policies especially re-coinage. impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. 284pp • Spink Books • 2013 • Hardback • 9781907427299 360pp • Yale University Press • 2016 • Hardback was £50.00 now £14.95 9780300181913 • was £30.00 now £14.95 xii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

King John was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, By Marc Morris Tolkien, and Rowling. Drawing on contemporary chronicles and the king’s own 312pp • Yale University Press • 2017 • Paperback letters, bestselling historian Marc Morris brings the real 9780300227307 • was £14.99 now £6.95 John vividly to life. We see how a youngest son with limited prospects became the ruler of the greatest dominion in After the Conquest Europe, but at a terrible cost. His rise to power involved The Divided Realm 1066–1135 treachery, rebellion and murder, and his reign witnessed By Teresa Cole oppression on an almost unprecedented scale. On his deathbed William the Conqueror divided his 400pp • Cornerstone • 2016 • Hardback • 9780091954239 was £20.00 now £7.95 property between his three sons, Robert, William and Henry. One of them got England, one got Normandy and Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost one £5,000 of silver. None of them was satisfied with what on the Welsh Frontier he received. It took much violence, treachery, sudden By Timothy Venning death and twenty years before one of them reigned In medieval England the practical limitations of the reach supreme over all the Conqueror’s lands. of the Crown forced the king and the government to 304pp • Amberley Publishing • 2018 • Hardback entrust some autonomy and legal powers to its regional 9781445667782 • was £20.00 now £7.95 aristocratic rulers. The lords of the Welsh Marches were granted ever greater authority to the point where they Matthew Paris: The History of Saint Edward the King believed they ruled like kings. Timothy Venning showcases Edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne their dramatic careers, from those who prospered from Paris’s French illustrated life of Edward the Confessor was their loyalty to the king, to those whose power was gained probably designed for presentation to Eleanor of Provence by treachery. on her marriage to Henry III in 1236. This volume includes 336pp • Amberley Publishing • 2017 • Hardback 9781445659404 • was £20.00 now £7.95 a translation of the History and the rhymed rubrics Paris composed to accompany his text and images and an Robin Hood introduction on the historical, cultural, literary and stylistic By J. C. Holt contexts in which Paris wrote. In this definitive work on the famous outlaw J.C. Holt traces 182pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2008 back the various elements of the Robin Hood legend, Hardback • 9780866983891 • was £35.00 now £12.95 using evidence from surnames and nicknames to extend it back into the 13th century, and looking at the audience for Women in Medieval England Robin Hood tales, the actual background to outlawry in By Lynda Telford medieval England and the various places which have been This fascinating book explores the status of women in linked to Robin Hood. medieval England, both before and after the Norman 265pp • Thames and Hudson • 1982 • Paperback Conquest. Telford covers such subjects as marriage 9780500289358 • was £12.95 now £5.95 and childbirth, the rights and responsibilities of wives, Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England separation and divorce, safety and security and the By Catherine Hanley challenges of widowhood. She also examines such issues In this fascinating biography of England’s least-known as virginity and chastity and the pressures placed on “king”-and the first to be written in English-Catherine women by religious groups Hanley explores the life and times of “Louis the Lion” 320pp • Amberley Publishing • 2018 • Hardback before, during, and beyond his quest for the English 9781445668680 • was £20.00 now £7.95 throne. She illuminates the national and international context of his 1216 invasion, and explains why and how Early Rymes of Robyn Hood after sixteen fruitless months he failed to make himself An Edition of the Texts, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600 King Louis I of England. By Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lister M. Matheson 304pp • Yale University Press • 2016 • Hardback This volume comprises new editions of all the known works 9780300217452 • was £25.00 now £9.95 on Robin Hood, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600, drawn from the original Medievalism manuscripts and early printed books. Includes Robin Hood and The Middle Ages in Modern England the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, A Lytell Geste of Robyn By Michael Alexander Hode and the plays: Robynhod and the Shryff off Notyngham, Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this Robin Hood and the Friar, Robin Hood and the Potter. groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement 310pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2013 examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period Hardback • 9780866984768 • was £57.00 now £14.95 xiii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

Matthew Paris: The Life of Saint Alban Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Thelma S. Fenster Society, C.1400–c.1600 This volume presents the first translation of Matthew Edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh Paris’s Vie de seint Auban, the great thirteenth-century Essays on on the creation of identity in late medieval and chronicler’s life of the patron saint of his own monastery Renaissance urban society. When negotiating relationship of St. Albans. It includes a substantial introduction, a new with the Church, the Crown, and within the town’s own translation of Paris’s chief source, the Vita sancti Albani competing constituencies, townsmen were able to and two essays on the manuscript. manipulate factors such as time and space in their pursuit 239pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2010 of honour, status, commemoration, reputation, and power. Hardback • 9780866983907 • was £53.00 now £14.95 222pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2013 Hardback • 9780866984829 • was £49.00 now £14.95 Edward II the Man A Doomed Inheritance Unmarriages By Stephen Spinks Women, Men and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages War, debt and baronial oppression before 1307 ensured By Ruth Mazo Karras that Edward II inherited a toxic legacy that any successor What we think of as traditional marriage was far from would have found almost impossible to wrestle with. the only available alternative to the single state in Stephen Spinks explores that legacy using a wide breadth medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, of contemporary and later sources, focusing on Edward’s quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry early years as much as the reign itself to build up a picture if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different of Edward as a man and the challenges which he faced. religions. Unmarriages draws on a wide range of sources 304pp • Amberley Publishing • 2017 • Hardback from across Europe and the entire medieval millennium in order to investigate structures and relations that medieval 9781445667669 • was £20.00 now £7.95 authors and record keepers did not address directly. Isabella: The Warrior Queen 292pp • University of Pennsylvania Press • 2012 By Kirstin Downey Paperback • 9780812222982 • was £21.99 now £7.95 A popular narrative biography of Isabella of Castile, the God`s Armies – Crusade and Jihad controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher By Malcolm Lambert Columbus’s journey to the New World, established the Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade female rulers in history. and jihad. They are often reckoned two sides of the 560pp • Alfred A Knopf • 2015 • Paperback same coin but this simple opposition, the author shows, 9780307742162 • was £13.99 now £5.95 conceals crucial differences and similarities. 352pp • Pegasus Books • 2017 • Paperback Amerigo 9781681775319 • was £13.99 now £5.95 By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an Medieval Italy irresistible avatar for the age of exploration-and as a By Katherine Ludwig Jansen, Joanna H. Drell and man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler Frances Andrews of discovery. His ability to sell himself – evident now, Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did of newly translated primary sources from the central and not “discover” bears his name – was legendary. But as later Middle Ages. The selection incorporates southern Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed Italy and Sicily, and includes Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and some fire to go with all the smoke Lombard sources. 231pp • Penguin Books Ltd • 2008 • Paperback 624pp • Pennsylvania University Press • 2010 • Paperback 9780812972986 • was £10.99 now £3.95 9780812220582 • was £24.99 now £9.95

How to Plan a Crusade A Brief History of the Knights Templar By Christopher Tyerman By Helen Nicholson Christopher Tyerman focuses the massive, all- Rather than a blow-by-blow account of events, this outline encompassing and hugely costly business of actually history is aimed at a general readership and begins with preparing a crusade. Among the areas under discussion the origins of the order before outlining their activities in the are diplomacy, communications, propaganda, the use of Latin East, Iberia and eastern Europe, their organisation, mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, government, religious life, commercial activities and their weapons, credit, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power trial and downfall. It is a revised edition of Nicholson’s 2001 of prayer. book The Knights Templar: A New History 432pp • Pegasus Books • 2018 • Paperback 351pp • Constable & Co. Ltd. • 2010 • Paperback 9781681778952 • was £14.99 now £5.95 9781849011006 • was £9.99 now £3.95 xiv www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile Parish Church Treasures: The Nations Greatest Edited by Joseph F. O’Callaghan Art Collection The Chronica Latina Regum Castellae forms a history By John Goodall history of the rulers of Castile from the death of Count John Goodall’s weekly series in Country Life has Fernán González in 970 to the reconquest of Córdoba by celebrated particular objects in or around churches King Ferdinand III in 1236–39. It is presented here in English that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical translation with an introduction. importance, to underline both the intrinsic interest of 150pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2001 parish churches and the insights that they and their Hardback • 9780866982788 • was £21.00 now £9.95 contents offer into English history of every period. Parish Church Treasures incorporates and significantly expands The Gibraltar Crusade this material to tell afresh the remarkable history of the By Joseph F. O’Callaghan parish church. The epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar 304pp • Bloomsbury • 2015 • Hardback • 9781472917638 waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late was £25.00 now £9.95 thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often overlooked, chapter in the history of the The Abbey and Mint of Bury St Edmunds to 1279 Christian reconquest of Spain. Although the Castilians By R. J. Eaglen seized Gibraltar in 1309 and Algeciras in 1344, the Moors This major work is the definitive study of the mint at eventually repossessed them. Bury St Edmunds, one of England’s longest-lived medieval 392pp • Pennsylvania University Press • 2014 • Paperback mints. Dr Eaglen presents the history of the mint from its 9780812223026 • was £24.99 now £9.95 inception in the reign of Edward the Confessor until the coinage reform of 1279, set in its historical context. The Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise book includes a catalogue and die-study of over 3,000 A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa María coins. Edited by Kathleen Kulp-Hill 357pp • British Numismatics Society • 2006 • Hardback This collection of the Cantigas de Santa Maria consists of 9781902040752 • was £55.00 now £9.95 420 poems and songs gathered and set down by Alfonso X, “El Sabio” (The Wise) in the 13th century, recounting Make a Joyful Noise miracles performed by the Virgin Mary. This volume Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral comprises the first English translation of this important By Gary M. Radke work. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and 542pp • Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society • 2000 architecture and the Cathedral’s musical program is Hardback • 9780866982139 • was £48.00 now £12.95 explored in depth in this beautiful book. Luca della Robbia’s charming for the organ loft are The Wisdom of the Middle Ages examined alongside luxurious illuminated manuscripts By Michael K. Kellogg commissioned for musical performances. This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity 95pp • Yale University Press • 2014 • Hardback to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of 9780300209181 • was £35.00 now £12.95 thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the Middle Ages. The author examines philosophical Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American treatises, memoirs, letters, tales, romances, and epics, Public Collections documenting the unique array of evolving concerns that The South drove the medieval search for wisdom. By Perri Lee Roberts 390pp • Prometheus Books • 2016 • Hardback The South is the first in the series of Corpus catalogues 9781633882133 • was £22.50 now £7.95 to be published and covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Puerto Rico. Three Medieval Art, Architecture volumes’ worth of entries provide full information, and Archaeology bibliography and scholarly commentary on each work of art, all of which are illustrated. Romanesque 801pp • University of Georgia Press • 2009 • Hardback By Rolf Toman and Achim Bednorz 9780915977642 • was £150.00 now £39.95 A superbly illustrated introductory survey of romanesque art and architecture. The core of the book is devoted Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven to a Europe-wide survey of architectural change and By Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb innovation, with plentiful plans and information on This beautifully illustrated work explores the relationship building styles and techniques. between the historical and the archetypal city of 480pp • H.F Ullman • 2015 • Hardback • 9783848008407 Jerusalem, uncovering the ways in which the aesthetic was £25.00 now £9.95 achievements it inspired enhanced and enlivened the xv www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

medieval world. Patrons and artists from Christian, Jewish, The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin and Islamic traditions alike focused their attention on the By Geoff Brandwood Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings and One of England’s greatest architectural practices creating luxury goods for its residents. was based, not in London, but in the relatively quiet town 400pp • Metropolitan Museum of Art • 2016 • Hardback of Lancaster. The firm established a national reputation, 9781588395986 • was £50.00 now £19.95 especially for its many fine churches, ranging from great urban masterpieces to delightful country ones, which are The Durham Mint imbued with the spirit of the Arts & Crafts movement. By M. Allen 282pp • English Heritage • 2012 • Hardback Bishops of Durham had the right to mint coins from the 9781848020498 • was £50.00 now £19.95 late eleventh century to the mid-sixteenth century. This British Ceramics, 1675–1825 book provides a comprehensive account of the mint, Edited by Brian Gallagher reconstructing its operation as a business at the mercy The Mint Museum’s collection of British ceramics is one of market forces, and assessing its contribution to the the best and largest in the United States, numbering exceptional palatine privileges of the prince-bishops of over two thousand items. This important and visually Durham. stunning new publication features two hundred highlights 222pp • British Numismatics Society • 2003 • Hardback selected on account of their rarity, craftsmanship, or as 9781902040516 • was £45.00 now £9.95 important examples of particular methods of production or decoration. There are scholarly entries, two illustrated Haughmond Abbey essays on the collection, and a bibliography. Excavation of a 12th-Century Cloister in its Historical and 272pp • D Giles Limited • 2015 • Hardback Landscape Context 9781907804366 • was £49.95 now £19.95 By Jeffrey J. West and Nicholas Palmer Haughmond Abbey was a prosperous house of Augustinian Canons north-east of Shrewsbury. The work Numismatics reported on had its origins in excavations carried out in A Manual for the Wearing of Orders, Decorations and near the cloister in 1975-79, but the scope has been and Medals broadened to place the site in its historical, theological, By Andrew Hanham architectural and landscape context. A comprehensive guide to the protocol and regulations of 416pp • English Heritage • 2014 • Paperback wearing orders, decorations and medals currently in force 9781848020627 • was £100.00 now £29.95 in the United Kingdom and its associated territories. 126pp • Spink Books • 2005 • Paperback 9781902040608 • was £15.00 now £6.95 Post-Medieval Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles & Everyday Life in Tudor London Their Values Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare By Michael Dickinson & Anne Boleyn First published in 1986, this catalogue is the first publication By Stephen Porter in over one hundred years to list all known major types of A lively portrait of Tudor London. Stephen Porter describes the seventeenth century series of token coinage issued in the physical fabric of the city including new building work, the British Isles between 1648 and 1679. The tokens were as well as the lives of its inhabitants. Chapters look at mostly struck in copper or brass in denominations of the religious changes of the Tudor era, at commerce, at farthings and half pennies. wealth and poverty, and at leisure and entertainment, 292pp • Spink Books • 2011 • Hardback • 9780900652783 including the theatre. was £50.00 now £14.95 304pp • Amberley Publishing • 2016 • Hardback A Dictionary of English Numismatic Terms 9781445645865 • was £20.00 now £7.95 By Harrington E. Manville For any member of the general public who wishes to Limoges Enamels at the Frick Collection understand more about the history of coins and medals By Ian Wardropper and Julia Day or who simply has a question on the subject, this book Limoges enamels, named for the town in which they were should provide the answer. For those that then want to go produced, are one of the most distinctive art forms of the on to investigate the given topic a little further, they are French Renaissance. This stunning handbook – the first given the opportunity to do so, for the fruits of Manville’s book dedicated to Henry Clay Frick’s important collection own extensive knowledge are supplemented here by of forty-six Limoges enamels – reflects the jewel-like mini-essays contributed by a range of specialists from character of the objects it describes. the United Kingdom and the United States. 80pp • D Giles Limited • 2015 • Hardback 301pp • Spink Books • 2014 • Hardback • 9781907427367 9781907804373 • was £12.95 now £5.95 was £45.00 now £14.95 xvi www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

The English Civil Wars The Banknote Book Volume 1 Medals, Historical Commentary & Personalities Abyssinia – French Sudan By Jerome Platt and Arleen Platt Edited by Owen Linzmayer The English Civil Wars saw the introduction of medals as This is the first edition of a completely new reference work rewards for gallantry and campaign service. This book on World Banknotes containing detailed information, places these medals within the historical context of the full colour images, accurate valuations and additional times. bibliographies for 203 countries, published in three volumes. 808pp • Spink Books • 2014 • Hardback • 9781907427152 788pp • Spink Books • 2014 • Hardback • 9781907427404 was £175.00 now £49.95 was £60.00 now £14.95 The Uniform Coinage of India 1835 to 1947: A Catalogue and Pricelist The Banknote Book Volume 2 By Paul Stevens and Randy Weir Gabon – Nicaragua This catalogue provides an authoritative guide to the Edited by Owen Linzmayer different major coinages of William IV, Victoria, Edward VII, 777pp • Spink Books • 2014 • Hardback • 9781907427411 George V and George VI, with detailed colour illustrations of was £60.00 now £14.95 each coin. This work is based upon that of Major Pridmore. 360pp • Spink Books • 2012 • Hardback • 9781907427237 The Banknote Book Volume 3 was £75.00 now £19.95 Nigeria – Zimbabwe An Introduction to Commemorative Medals in England Edited by Owen Linzmayer 1685-1746 790pp • Spink Books • 2014 • Hardback • 9781907427428 Their Religious, political and artistic significance was £60.00 now £14.95 By Brian Harding The year 1685 saw the beginning of a turbulent period in The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain English history: King James II was expelled from Britain; By Michael J. Freeman there were wars in Ireland and on the Continent; repeated This updated reprint of The Bronze Coinage of Great attempts by the Jacobite party in exile to regain the throne Britain is the most complete standard reference of England; and, underlying everything, severe religious catalogue ever published on pennies, half-pennies and dissension between Catholics and Protestants. All these events were eminently suitable for medallic commemoration. farthings, from the introduction of British bronze coinage 88pp • Spink Books • 2017 • Paperback • 9781907427107 in 1860, the year in which the popular and well-known was £25.00 now £9.95 ‘bun’ head issues appeared, up to and including the decimal coins of today. Coinage and Currency in Eighteenth Century Britain 232pp • Spink Books • 2006 • Hardback • 9781902040783 The Provincial Coinage was £37.00 now £12.95 By D. W. Dykes This book puts eighteenth-century provincial token British Historical Medals of the 17th Century coinage into the context of the currency problems Medallists, Books, Authors, Collectors, Booksellers of the time. On the basis of a wide-range of both documentary and secondary sources it examines its major & Antiquaries manufacturers and their intentions, and through profiles By Jerome Platt and Arleen Platt of many of the issuers involved it sets out to give a living This volume presents the published works on 17th century dimension to a bygone monetary phenomenon. British medals that appeared in the late 17th century 383pp • Spink Books • 2005 • Hardback • 9781907427169 through to the 19th century as well as biographies of the was £65.00 now £19.95 authors. It also surveys those medallists who created the medals, the major collectors of the medals, and the great The Coins of the English East India Company collections that we know of through auction catalogues. Presidency Series. A Catalogue and Pricelist 432pp • Spink Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781907427480 By Paul Stevens This catalogue presents a list of all coins known to have was £50.00 now £14.95 been issued by the East India Company for use in their European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras. Each of Edited by Maria F. P. Saffiotti Dale the main sections covers the coins of one Presidency with chapters on the coins issued from the main mint in the This grouping of medals represents the museum’s area – Calcutta, Bombay or Madras – as well as chapters Renaissance, Baroque, and nineteenth-century highlights on coins issued from local and transitional mints. and illustrates the history of the art of the commemorative 562pp • Spink Books • 2017 • Hardback • 9781907427695 medal. Over sixty essays illuminate the selected pieces. was £60.00 now £14.95 • Paperback • 9781907427725 205pp • American Numismatic Society • 2014 was £40.00 now £9.95 Paperback • 9781933270173 • was £32.00 now £9.95 xvii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

History of Art and illuminating essays offer a rich introduction to the treasures of the Venetian Renaissance. Artists represented The Life of Titian include Mantegna, Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Palma Edited by Julia Bondanella, Bruce Cole, Jody Robin Shiffman and Vecchio, Bordone, and Bassano. Peter Bondanella 159pp • Prestel Verlag • 2011 • Hardback • 9783791351681 After Vasari’s Lives of the Most Famous Artists,The Life was £24.99 now £9.95 of Titian by the seventeenth-century Venetian artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi is the most important contemporary El Greco to Velazquez documentary source for our understanding of the great Art During the Reign of Philip III Renaissance artist. This new critical edition, the first Edited by Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer translation into English of Ridolfi’s biography, illuminates Focusing on the careers of the mature El Greco and the his life, his artistic production, and his early critical young Velázquez, which bookend the reign of Philip III, reputation. a period of resurgent court culture, this volume also 152pp • Penn State Press • 1996 • Paperback investigates the works of lesser-known but highly talented 9780271016276 • was £33.95 now £12.95 artists who exerted a critical influence on the development of Spanish painting. Raphael’s Tapestries 272pp • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • 2008 • Hardback The Grotesques of Leo X 9780878467266 • was £51.00 now £19.95 By Lorraine Karafel Around 1515, Raphael designed a set of tapestries for The Art Historian Leo X. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and National Traditions and Institutional Practices silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with Edited by Michael F. Zimmermann inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand- Fourteen international scholars examine how differing scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael’s Tapestries art historical practices in the USA and in Europe might and set among a series of unprecedented decorative be characterized, in theory and actuality, in the past projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. and the present, comparing the function of higher 200pp • Yale University Press • 2017 • Hardback education in different national contexts and the extent 9780300181999 • was £45.00 now £19.95 that professionalization encourages or limits critical Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies innovation. Edited by Keith Moxey and Michael Ann Holly 240pp • Yale University Press • 2003 • Paperback Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find 9780300097917 • was £14.00 now £5.95 themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and High Spirits challenging volume explores the connections and The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson differences among these three methods of investigating By Kate Heard visual representation. High Spirits brings together nearly one hundred comic works 292pp • Yale University Press • 2003 • Paperback by Rowlandson,with subjects spanning the entire range 9780300097894 • was £16.99 now £6.95 of English society, including numerous satires of politics, and George III and his troublesome offspring. Full-colour Tiepolo Pink illustrations are accompanied by details drawn from new By Roberto Calasso archival research on both the works and their royal collectors, Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo’s series from George IV to QueenVictoria and Prince Albert. of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the 272pp • Royal Collection Trust • 2013 • Paperback Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to 9781905686766 • was £24.95 now £9.95 the challenge. He argues that Tiepolo represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed Venice Disputed with a fluid, seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura, the 1550–1600 art of not seeming artful. By Deborah Howard 304pp • Alfred A Knopf • 2011 • Paperback • In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, 9780375712081 • was £25.00 now £7.95 politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, Masters of Venice taking advice from architects, engineers, and members of Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the the public. Venice Disputed explores the complex dialectic Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna between theory and practice, between utopia and reality, Edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Lynn Federle Orr and and between design and technology that infused these M.H. de Young disputes. Focusing on canonical works from Vienna’s 320pp • Yale University Press • 2011 • Hardback Kunsthistorisches Museum, this book’s lavish illustrations 9780300176858 • was £45.00 now £14.95 xviii www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

The Art of Law Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae Three Centuries of Justice Depicted By Romano Nanni Edited by Vanessa Paumen, Tine Van Poucke, Stefan The extraordinary technological innovations and Huygebaert and Georges Martyn revolutionary machines from the collection of the In this book, depictions of the Last Judgement and other Leonardo Museum in Vinci. This beautifully illustrated justice scenes, as well as allegories and visualisations of volume discovers the multiple interests of Leonardo the (sometimes gruesome) torture and execution practices are technologist, the architect, the man of science and, more placed within an art-historical and legal-historical context. generally, the history of Renaissance techniques. 208pp • Lannoo Publishers • 2017 • Paperback 319pp • Skira editore • 2014 • Hardback • 9788876245749 9789401440417 • was £29.95 now £9.95 was £50.00 now £19.95

Drama and Devotion Eye of the Beholder Heemskerck’s Ecce Homo Altarpiece From Warsaw Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the By Anne T. Woollett Reinvention of Seeing Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most By Laura J. Snyder active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century. One This book follows the parallel careers of Antoni van of his extant masterpieces, the “Ecce Homo” triptych of Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer, exploring the ways 1544, was brought from the National Museum in Warsaw in which advances in optical instruments fundamentally for treatment and study at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Richly changed their respective approaches to biological illustrated, this book documents the dramatic process of science and to art, and ultimately the way the world was revealing the brilliance of a 16th-century masterpiece. perceived. 112pp • Getty Trust Publishing • 2012 • Paperback 448pp • W.W. Norton & Company Ltd • 2015 • Hardback 9781606061121 • was £18.99 now £7.95 9780393077469 • was £25.00 now £6.95

A Renaissance Woman The Plains of Mars The Life of Vittoria Colonna European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of By Ramie Targoff the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Renaissance Woman’ tells of the most remarkable woman Edited by Leslie Scattone and James Clifton of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of This handsome volume is the first graphic print survey of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of the theme of war in the early modern period. Featuring Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend, but she was also work by such artists as Dürer, Goya, and Géricault, the not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also book presents varied images of soldiers; battles (including the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy. specific historical events); production, innovation, and 342pp • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2018 • Hardback instruction in arms and armor; and representations of 9780374140946 • was £21.99 now £9.95 abstract concepts related to war and peace. 254pp • Yale University Press • 2009 • Hardback Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a 9780300137224 • was £65.00 now £19.95 Renaissance Writer and Art Collector By Susan Nalezyty The Last Days of Pompeii Susan Nalezyty analyzes how Bembo’s incredible collection Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection of art and antiquities functioned as a source of inspiration By V. C. Gardner Coates, K. D. S. Lapatin and J. L. Seydl for artists like Titian and writers like Giovanni della Casa. This lavishly illustrated volume – featuring the works of As visitors to the collection marveled at the quality and artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, variety of the displayed objects, Bembo encouraged Chassériau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, investigations into the ways in which contemporary art Dalí, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol – surveys the compared with ancient objects. legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the 288pp • Yale University Press • 2017 • Hardback three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and 9780300219197 • was £50.00 now £24.95 resurrection. 264pp • Getty Trust Publishing • 2012 • Hardback Small Bronzes in the Renaissance 9781606061152 • was £29.95 now £12.95 By Debra Pincus The contributors to the volume analyze the production The Renaissance and collecting of small bronze sculptures from the A Short History fifteenth through the early seventeenth century in both By Paul Johnson Italy and the North. They offer new assessments and This period of profound evolution in European thought is attributions of these fascinating works of art, the result of credited with producing the most astonishing outpouring an intense collaboration between artists and collectors. of artistic creation the world has ever known. Paul 277pp • Yale University Press • 2011 • Hardback Johnson explains the economic, technological, and social 9780300090420 • was £40.00 now £14.95 developments that provide a backdrop to the age’s xix www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Bargains and good deals

achievements and focuses closely on the lives and works Circa 1700 of its most important figures. By Henry A. Millon 208pp • Modern Library • 2002 • Paperback Twelve distinguished contributors provide a 9780812966190 • was £12.99 now £4.95 comprehensive look at the design, renewal, and expansion of capitals and countries including Naples, Seeing Through Paintings Rome, Vienna, Stockholm, Saint Petersburg, England, Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies Amsterdam, Cádiz, Lisbon, Quebec City, and Lima. By Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson The result is a fascinating cross section that allows a This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive comparative reading of baroque architecture: from discussion available on materials, techniques, and country to country, from region to region, and from the condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval Old World to the New. times to the present. “An essential handbook for the pro, 247pp • Yale University Press • 2006 • Hardback and also a beautifully illustrated primer for the layperson”. 9780300114751 • was £38.00 now £14.95 344 pp • Yale University Press • 2002 • Paperback 9780300094084 • was £35.00 now £9.95 Sublime Beauty Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady With a Unicorn Rembrandt and His School Edited by Esther Bell Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections Two essays explore the stylistic relationship between this By Colin Bailey masterpiece and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and the This volume accompanied an exhibition which brought link to Petrarch’s poetry and popular notions of beauty together works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries in Renaissance art. They examine attributions and the from two renowned collections. painting’s distinct iconography, and why, in place of the 112pp • Frick Collection • 2011 • Paperback • 9780912114538 usual lapdog, the woman holds a unicorn. was £14.99 now £6.95 72 pp • D Giles Limited • 2015 • Hardback • 9781907804731 was £15.95 now£6.95 Court, Country, City British Art and Architecture, 1660–1735 Jacob Van Ruisdael: Windmills and Water Mills Edited by Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn and Martin Myrone By Seymour Slive This volume provides fresh perspectives on the art of the Windmills were ubiquitous in seventeenth-century late Stuart and early Georgian periods, focusing on the Holland, in contrast to the much rarer water mills. His concepts, spaces, and audiences of court, country, and city most celebrated painting, Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede as reflected in an array of objects, materials, and places. at the Rijksmuseum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum’s 544pp • Yale University Press • 2016 • Hardback Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice are the 9780300214802 • was £55.00 now £19.95 centerpieces of this overview of the Jacob van Ruisdael’s depictions of windmills and water mills. Portrait of the Artist 112pp • Getty Trust Publishing • 2011 • Hardback By Anna Reynolds 9781606060551 • was £17.99 now £7.95 This volume showcases images of artists within the Royal Collection. It examines a range of themes played Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn out within these works, from the cult of the artist to the By Aruna D’Souza and Jill Casid symbolism evoked through images of the artist’s studio, With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural and looks at the role of the monarch in commissioning, landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale collecting and displaying portraits. reassessment of art history’s largely Eurocentric framework. 256pp • Royal Collection Trust • 2016 • Hardback As this book demonstrates, approaching art history 9781909741324 • was £29.95 now £12.95 from such alternative perspectives rewrites some of the Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200–1700 most basic narratives, from the origins of representation By Elisabeth De Bievre to the beginnings of the “modern” to the very history of Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a globalization and its effects. coherent phenomenon – the product of state formation 256pp • Yale University Press • 2014 • Paperback in the late 16th century. Arguing that the Dutch Golden 9780300196856 • was £16.99 now £6.95 Age was far from unified, de Bièvre exposes how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped each urban development and, in turn, fundamentally informed the art and visual culture of individual cities. 475pp • Yale University Press • 2015 • Hardback 9780300205626 • was £50.00 now £19.95

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The Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossos By Sinclair Hood & Lisa Bendall The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century BC, but are only rarely attested on the Greek mainland. Volume I presents a typology and chronology of the signs, considers their distribution beyond Knossos, examines comparanda in other media and in cultures beyond Crete, and provides a detailed discussion of their purpose. It also offers a full catalogue of some 1600 signs in the Palace of Knossos and surrounding buildings. Volume II presents a complete photographic record of the Knossian signs, numerous line drawings, as well as plans and elevations showing their location.

British School at Athens • 2020 9780904887716 • £130.00 • Hardback 2 vols • 650 pages • b/w illustrations

Collapse and Transformation The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean Edited by Guy D. Middleton The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse, and the story of the Aegean at this time has frequently been incorporated into narratives focused on the wider eastern Mediterranean, and most infamously the ‘Sea Peoples’ of the Egyptian texts. In twenty-four chapters written by specialists, Collapse and Transformation instead offers a tight focus on the Aegean itself, providing an up-to date picture of the archaeology ‘before’ and ‘after’ ‘the collapse’ of c. 1200 BC. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions, as well as providing data and a range of interpretations to those studying collapse and resilience more widely and engaging in comparative studies.

Oxbow Books • April 2020 9781789254259 • £55.00 • Hardback 280 pages forthcoming, only £44.00 until publication

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Death in Mycenaean Laconia A Silent Place By Chrysanthi Gallou Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in the south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252422 • £48.00 • Hardback • 296 pages b/w illustrations Beyond the Cyclades Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew & Michael J. Boyd This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250602 • £40.00 • Hardback • 328 pages b/w illustrations

From ‘LUGAL.GAL’ TO ‘Wanax’ Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Edited by Dr. Jorrit Kelder & Willemijn J. I. Waal In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400–1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence. On at least two occasions, the ruler of Ahhiyawa is designated as LUGAL.GAL –‘Great King’. The apparent Hittite perception of such an important ruler in the Mycenaean world is, however, completely at odds with the prevailing view of the Mycenaean world as a patchwork of independent states, all of which were ruled by a local ‘wanax’ -King.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088907982 • £25.00 • Paperback • 140 pages b/w and col illustrations 28 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 GREECE

Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in the Age of Globalization Edited by Anna Kouremenos & Jody Michael Gordon Given the current state of the field for globalization studies in Mediterranean archaeology, this volume aims to bring together for the first time archaeologists working on different islands and a range of material culture types to examine diachronically how Mediterranean insularities changed during eras when connectivity increased, such as the Late Bronze Age, the era of Greek and Phoenician colonization, the Classical period, and during the High and Late Roman imperial eras. Each chapter aims to situate a specific island or island group within the context of the globalizing forces and networks that conditioned a particular period, and utilizes archaeological material to reveal how islanders shaped their insular identities, or notions of insularity, at the nexus of local and global influences.

Oxbow Books • June 2020 9781789253443 • £38.00 • Paperback forthcoming, only 256 pages • b/w illustrations £30.40 until publication

The Fight for Greek Sicily Society, Politics, and Landscape Edited by Melanie Jonasch This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyse how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.

Oxbow Books • April 2020 9781789253566 • £45.00 • Paperback 400 pages • b/w and col illustrations forthcoming, only £34.00 until publication

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Sicily Heritage of the World Edited by Dirk Booms & Peter John Higgs This volume considers the history and material culture of the different peoples occupying Sicily at key points in the island’s history. Part I concentrates on ancient Sicily during the time of Greek settlement, exploring themes such as the creation of urban centres during this period and the production of Sicilian terracotta between the 5th and 4th centuries BC. In Part II, the focus shifts to the Middle Ages, Sicily’s period of enlightenment under Muslim and Norman rules, with key themes including Norman identity and the use of the Norman legacy in the 19th century.

British Museum Press • 2019 • 9780861592227 • £40.00 • Paperback • 200 pages b/w illustrations Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory Settlement, Trade and Production on the Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC­–AD 500 By Adam Lindhagen This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest.

Oxbow Books • June 2020 • 9781789252507 • £60.00 • Hardback • 464 pages forthcoming, only b/w and col illustrations £48.00 until publication Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World Edited by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos & Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods.

Oxbow Books • May 2020 • 9781789252989 • £40.00 • Hardback • 256 pages forthcoming, only b/w and col illustrations £32.00 until publication 30 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ROME

Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, Colin Haselgrove & David J. Mattingly This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion. Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them.

Oxbow Books • April 2020 • 9781785708558 • £65.00 • Hardback • 384 pages forthcoming, only b/w and col illustrations £48.75 until publication In the Northern Cemetery of Roman London Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007 By Malcolm McKenzie, Christopher Thomas, Natasha Powers & Angela Wardle London’s Spitalfields Market was the location of one of the city’s largest archaeological excavations, carried out by MOLA between 1991 and 2007. This book presents the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence for Roman activity here, to the north-east of the urban settlement and the site of a series of burial grounds on the east side of Ermine Street. Burial began here c AD 120 and continued into the 4th century AD. Excavation revealed a number of ditched enclosures, some used for the interment of 169 inhumations and five burials, some for other purposes.

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) • April 2020 • 9781907586514 • £30.00 • forthcoming Hardback • 236 pages • b/w illustrations Life in the Limes Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers Edited by Frances McIntosh & Rob Collins The essays presented here encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.

New in Paperback, Oxbow Books • May 2020 • 9781789253856 • £38.00 • Paperback • 264 pages forthcoming, only b/w and col illustrations £30.40 until publication 31 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ROME

Beyond the Romans Posthuman Perspectives in Roman archaeology Edited by Irene Selsvold & Lewis Webb The Romans were entangled with other beings and the world around them: they were relational beings, as we are today. With this volume, the editors aim to explore the potential and utility of posthuman theoretical perspectives for Roman archaeology. The contributors consider a diverse array of themes including posthuman performances of emperors, the agency and relationality of epigraphic funerary markers, the ritual function and agency of votive figurines, the materiality of divine agency in the city of Rome, hybrid human-chicken coins, plant agency, the agency and nature of water in Roman urban infrastructure, and the Anthropocene.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251364 • £40.00 • Hardback • 176 pages b/w illustrations Connections, Communities, and Coinage The System of Coin Production in Southern Asia Minor, AD 218–276 By George Watson The chief aim of the book is to address the system of coin production in the regions of Pamphylia, Pisidia and Cilicia during the third century AD. As in much of the Roman East, cities in these regions produced their own bronze coinage, but that this was in some respects collaboratively achieved is shown by the use of the same obverse dies by two or more cities, as well as the appearance of the same engraving style in multiple cities.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223584 • £75.00 • Hardback 620 pages Ovid in Exile By Adrian Radulescu Written by the late Romanian scholar Adrian Radulescu, Ovid in Exile provides a rare and insightful look at the life and works of Publius Ovidius Naso. Radulescu studies the historical environment of the Greek city of Tomis to where the Roman poet was expatriated, discussing the impact of his exile on his life and literary work. Failing to regain imperial favour or to have his sentence commuted, Ovid spent the last eight years of his life in Tomis where he wrote two of his most important and enduring literary masterpieces, Tristia and Ex Ponto.

Vita Histria • 2020 • 9781592110209 • £19.99 • Paperback • 188 pages 32 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 LATE ANTIQUITY

City Walls in Late Antiquity An Empire-Wide Perspective Edited by Emanuele Intagliata, Christopher Courault & Simon J. Barker The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. Research has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. Although these developments have made a significant contribution to the understanding of late-antique city walls, studies are often concerned with one single monument/small group of monuments or a particular region, and the issues raised do not usually lead to a broader perspective, creating an artificial divide between east and west. It is this broader understanding that this book seeks to provide.

Oxbow Books • April 2020 9781789253641 • £55.00 • Hardback forthcoming, only 200 pages • b/w and colour £44.00 until publication

Dariali: The ‘Caspian Gates’ in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys 2013–2016 By Eberhard Sauer Featuring in the works of literary giants, no other mountain pass in the ancient and medieval world matches Dariali’s fame. A team of archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major gorge-blocking fort and a barrier wall on a steep rocky ridge further north. The walls still standing today were built around the time of the first major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century. The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison controlled Trans- Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects and human remains reveal harsh living conditions and close connections to the Muslim South, as well as the steppe world of the north.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789251920 £75.00 • Hardback • 1088 pages b/w and col illustrations

33 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 LATE ANTIQUITY

A Globalised Visual Culture? Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art Edited by Fabio Guidetti & Katharina Meinecke Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions.

Oxbow Books • June 2020 • 9781789254464 • £50.00 • Hardback • 384 pages forthcoming, only col illustrations £40.00 until publication The Bir Messaouda Basilica Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage. The neighbourhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until the 530s AD when a substantial basilica was constructed. Half-a-century later the structures on the western half of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly enlarged. By carefully reconstructing the complex architectural plan of this innovative building, this study shows how the re-modelled Bir Messaouda basilica was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre overturning established tradition that located such complexes outside the city walls.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785706806 • £55.00 • Hardback • 440 pages

What did the Sarcophagus of Symmachus Look Like? Late Antique Pagan Sarcophagi By Niels Hannestad This book concerns the chronology of Roman mythological sarcophagi. The traditional chronology assumes a peak in production during the reign of Gallienus (AD 259-268) to fade away with the reign of Constantine, replaced by Christian sarcophagi. This raises, however, a very simple question: How were pagans buried? No doubt production of pagan sarcophagi continued beyond the turn of the century and Symmachus, who died in AD 402, was buried in such a sarcophagus.

Aarhus University Press • 2020 • 9788771847437 • £20.00 • Paperback • 160 pages 34 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 LATE ANTIQUITY

Byzantine Butrint Excavations and Surveys 1994–99 By Kosta Lako & William Bowden The ancient walled town of Butrint sits at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. It also controlled a land-route into the mountainous Balkan interior. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992, Butrint covers an area of around 16 ha, but geophysical survey has shown that at times it was almost twice this size. This book brings to life this extraordinary Byzantine town, with chapters on the historical sources, various aspects of the archaeological excavation and survey, finds of pottery and environmental remains.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253436 • £30.00 • Paperback • 432 pages New in Paperback b/w and col illustrations Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch Palace By William Bowden This is the second volume arising from the 1994–2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint. It reports on the finds from the site (excluding the pottery), which demonstrate the ways in which the lives, diet and material culture of a Mediterranean population changed across the arc of the late Roman and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the environmental evidence, the human and faunal remains, metal-working evidence, and the major assemblages of glass, coins and small finds.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785708978 • £45.00 • Hardback • 376 pages b/w and colour Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain Volume 3 The Roman and late Antique pottery from the Vrina Plain Excavations By Paul Reynolds Volume III discusses the Roman and Late Antique pottery. It follows the archaeological sequence recovered from the excavations in chronological order and provides a comprehensive and in depth review of the pottery, context by context, offering an important insight into the supply, as well as typology, of local and imported pottery available to the inhabitants of the Vrina Plain during this period.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252217 • £60.00 • Hardback • 336 pages b/w and colour 35 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EARLY MEDIEVAL

The Staffordshire Hoard An Anglo-Saxon Treasure Edited by Chris Fern, Tania Dickinson & Leslie Webster The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture. Key chapters discuss the decoration and meaning of the Hoard’s intricate ornament, the techniques of Anglo-Saxon craftsmen, the religious and historical background, and hoarding practice in Britain and Europe, to place this most exceptional find in context. Finally, the text explores the impact that the find has had locally, nationally and internationally in the twenty-first century.

Society of Antiquaries of London • 2019 9781527233508 • £45.00 • Hardback Reprinting available 640 pages • b/w and col illustrations again April

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Cotswold Archaeology • 2020 • 9780993454561 • £19.95 • Hardback • 207 pages

Re-imagining Periphery Archaeology and Text in from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods Edited by Charlotta Hillerdal & Kristin Ilves This edited volume delves into the current state of Iron Age and Early Medieval research in the North, explored under the subheadings of field and methodology, settlement and spatiality, text and translation, and interaction and impact. Gathering the work of leading, established researchers and field archaeologists based throughout northern Europe and in the frontline of this new emerging image, this volume provides a collective summary of our current understandings of the Iron Age and Early Medieval Era in the North.

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37 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EARLY MEDIEVAL

My Life as a Replica St John’s Cross, Iona By Sally Foster & Sian Jones In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on the deck of a puffer delivering the island’s annual supply of coal. In this fascinating book, Foster and Jones draw on extensive interdisciplinary research to reveal the composite biography of the St John’s Cross, its concrete replica, and its many other scale copies. Replicas are shown to be important objects in their own right, with their own creative, human histories - biographies that people can connect with.

Windgather Press • 2020 • 9781911188599 • £35.00 • Paperback • 224 pages b/w and col illustrations Early Christianity in South-West Britain Wessex, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands By Elizabeth Rees This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book is based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and covers Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. It is richly illustrated throughout.

Windgather Press • 2020 • 9781911188551 • £34.99 • Paperback • 288 pages b/w illustrations Llangorse Crannog The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog By Alan Lane & Mark Redknap The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton. In 1988 dendrochronological dates established its construction in the ninth century, and an investigation of the site was started. This publication re-examines the early investigations, describes in detail the anatomy and construction of the crannog mound, and the material culture found, including early medieval metalwork, evidence for manufacture, the largest depository of early medieval carpentry in Wales and a remarkable richly embroidered silk and linen textile. Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253061 • £40.00 • Hardback • 512 pages b/w and col illustrations

38 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EARLY MEDIEVAL

The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650-1100 By Rose Broadley This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society. Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of all known Anglo-Saxon vessel glass of middle Anglo-Saxon date as a group has enabled the first quantification of form, colour, and decoration, and provided the structure for a new typological, chronological and geographical framework. The quantification and comparison of the vessel glass fragments and their attributes, and the mapping of the national distribution of these characteristics (forms, colours and decoration types), both represent significant developments and create rich opportunities for the future.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253726 £35.00 • Paperback • 192 pages b/w and col illustrations

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns Edited by Steven P. Ashby & Søren M. Sindbaek This book explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized crafts provide archaeologists with some of the best evidence for studying this communication. Contributors assess the implications for our understanding of early towns and the long- term societal change catalysed by them, including the initial steps towards commercial economies. Results are analysed in relation to social network theory, social and economic history, and models of communication, setting an agenda for further research.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251609 £38.00 • Paperback • 288 pages b/w and col illustrations

39 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 EARLY MEDIEVAL

A Riverine Site Near York A Possible Viking Camp? Edited by Gareth Williams The discovery and investigation of the location known as ‘A Riverine Site Near York’, along with Torksey in Lincolnshire and Woodstown in Ireland, has revolutionised understanding of the size and character of Viking camps, with wider implications for the aspects of Viking warfare, urbanisation, precious metal economies and the transition from raiding to permanent settlement. This volume includes the detailed publication of the ARSNY site, along with the first detailed comparison of the sites as a group and of their wider significance.

British Museum Press • 2020 • 9780861592241 • £40.00 • Paperback • 160 pages b/w and col illustrations A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist Edited by Niall Sharples This volume explores the stratigraphic sequence uncovered by the excavation of Bornais mounds 2 and 2A. Mound 2 revealed a sequence of high status buildings that span the Norse occupation of the settlement. One of these houses, constructed at the end of the eleventh century AD, was a well preserved bow-walled and the careful excavation and detailed recording of the floor layers has revealed a wealth of finds. The excavation of mound 2A provides an insight into the less prestigious areas of the settlement.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250466 • £35.00 • Hardback • 728 pages

Settlement change across Medieval Europe Old paradigms and new vistas Edited by Niall Brady & Claudia Theune Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats of the past, evident at micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Changes, alterations and modifications may affect how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes. This volume focuses in particular on transmissions and transformations in a longue durée perspective to examine themes such as the shrinking and disappearance of settlements; changes in rule and authority; developments in the agrarian economy; the shift from handwork to manufacturing; and demographic change.

Sidestone Press • 2019 • 9789088908064 • £70.00 • Paperback • 446 pages b/w and col illustrations 40 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 MEDIEVAL

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester By Carolyn Heighway & Richard Bryant The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, surveys have been produced which enable accurate plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. The late 11th-12th century church is described in detail, along with the surviving claustral buildings. There is a chapter on polychromy and on the surviving 11th-12th century sculpture, and a full bibliography. The whole is set in context by Malcolm Thurlby, who comments on the wider sources and associations.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789254143 £24.99 • Paperback • 128 pages • col illustrations

Mount Grace Priory Excavations of 1957–1992 Edited by Glyn Coppack & Laurence Keen Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire was one of only nine successful Carthusian monasteries in England. First excavated by Sir William St John Hope in 1896-1900, it is acknowledged as a type site for late-medieval Carthusian monasteries. In 1987 English Heritage commissioned the re-excavation of two areas that had been examined by Hope, the water tower in the great cloister and the prior’s cell, refectory and kitchen in the south cloister range and the guest house in the west range of the inner court. Coupled with this excavation was a reappraisal of the architectural development of the monastery and reconstruction of lost structures such as the cloister alley walls and the central water tower.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253146 £30.00 • Hardback • 448 pages b/w and col illustrations

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Elite Residence to Manufacturing Centre Excavations on the site of the Archbishop of York’s Palace and the Battersea Enamelling Works, at the former Price’s Candle Factory, Regent and Grove Wharves and Bridges Wharf, Battersea By Alistair Douglas, Berni Sudds, Marit Gaimster & Frank Meddens This monograph details the results of excavations at three sites along the east riverfront of the Thames at Wandsworth. It was not until the later 15th Century that development of the area began in earnest, with construction of a moated manor house. Initially constructed as an episcopal residence, this manor house provided a country retreat for the pleasure and relaxation of bishops of York. By the mid-19th century the site had become the location of one of the country’s foremost candle manufactories.

Pre-Construct Archaeology • 2019 • 9781999615536 • £20.00 • Paperback 175 pages Brothers Minor: Lancashire’s Lost Fransciscans Investigations at Preston Friary 1991 and 2007 By Jeremy Bradley & Stephen Rowland In 1991 and 2007, development-led excavations close to Preston’s historic centre revealed significant medieval remains. Although badly damaged, these included the foundations of a substantial stone building with cobbled footings and corner buttresses. Several east/west-aligned burials, some with oak coffins, lay inside and around the structure. Dating of the human remains and organic materials, which suggested that burial took place between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, matching the occupation of the Franciscan friary of St Clare.

Oxford Archaeology North • 2020 • 9781907686351 • £12.00 • Paperback 108 pages Medieval to Modern Suburban Material Culture and Sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge Archaeological Investigations of an Eleventh to Twentieth-Century Suburb and Town Ditch Edited by Craig Cessford & Alison Dickens This is the first volume describing the results of the CAUs excavations in Cambridge and it is also the first monograph ever published on the archaeology of the town. At 1.5 hectares the Grand Arcade investigations represent the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Cambridge, significantly enhanced by detailed standing building recording and documentary research.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research • 2019 • 9781902937786 • £45.00 Hardback • 495 pages

42 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 MEDIEVAL

The Wealth of England The medieval wool trade and its political importance 1100–1600 By Susan Rose In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men and how they transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781789253825 £28.00 • Paperback • 238 pages b/w and col illustrations New in Paperback,

Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region Edited by Mark Maltby & Mark Brisbane This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists. Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of species.

Oxbow Books • 2020 • 9781842172773 £65.00 • Hardback • 392 pages • b/w illus, CD-Rom

43 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 MEDIEVAL

Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften Eine Studie zur Entwicklung und Funktion von Burgen im südlichen Jütland (1232–1443) By Stefan Magnussen Castles had a lasting influence on the practice of rulership during the high and late Middle Ages throughout Europe. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the castles between Eider and Kongeå, which have received little attention so far. It illustrates a total of seven evolutionary phases of this historical castle landscape, from the humble beginnings of the 12th century to the manorially complex and diverse structures of the 15th century. Text in German.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908675 • £65.00 • Paperback • 444 pages col illustrations John Hunyadi Defender of Christendom By Camil Muresanu This biography explores the life and times of John Hunyadi. As voivode of Transylvania, and later royal governor and captain-general of Hungary, he became the principal defender of Christian Europe from 1441 until his death in 1456. It traces the history of the threat posed by the Ottoman Turks leading up to the great clashes of the fifteenth century and makes critical use of primary sources to tell the story of the man who directed the effort to defend Christian Europe against the Islamic onslaught.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2019 • 9781592110124 • £24.99 • Paperback 252 pages • b/w illustrations Dracula Essays on the Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler Edited by Kurt Treptow & Radu Florescu This book includes a wide range of studies on the life and times of Vlad III Dracula by leading historians and scholars from around the world. It presents a diversity of viewpoints, allowing the reader to understand the different historical perspectives with which Vlad is viewed in modern historiography. It also includes a wealth of supplementary materials: translations of important documents concerning his reign; a genealogy of the family of Vlad the Impaler, translations from Turkish and Byzantine chronicles referring to the controversial Wallachian prince; a chronology, and an extensive bibliography.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2019 • 9781592110100 • £29.99 • Paperback 444 pages • b/w illustrations 44 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 POST-MEDIEVAL

The Lost Library of the King of Portugal By Angela Delaforce The destruction on the morning of All Saints Day 1755 of the heart of the city of Lisbon by an earthquake, tidal wave and the urban fires that followed was a tragedy that divides the 18th century in Portugal. One casualty was the Royal Library, one of the most magnificent in Europe at the time. This volume describes the creation of the library, its cultural significance, the acquisition of single volumes as well as entire libraries from across Europe and the role in this of Portugal’s most talented diplomats.

Ad Ilissum • 2019 • 9781912168156 • £45.00 • Hardback • 208 pages

A History of Romania Land, People Civilization By Nicolae Iorga Originally published in 1925, Iorga’s book was one of the earliest overviews of Romanian history printed in the English language. The author presents the history of the Romanian lands from ancient times until the end of World War I. This new edition of this classic work includes a list of rulers, a bibliography, an index and numerous illustrations. It is also accompanied by a foreword by David Prodan, another great of Romanian historiography, discussing Iorga’s contributions to Romanian scholarship.

Center for Romanian Studies • 2019 • 9781592110148 • £24.99 • Paperback 352 pages • b/w illustrations Jingdezhen to the World The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty By Teresa Canepa This lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most comprehensive and meticulously assembled private collections of Chinese export porcelain from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. The Lurie Collection, comprising about 170 porcelain pieces, contains examples that are exceptional not only for their aesthetic beauty and quality but also for their rarity or historical importance.

Ad Ilissum • 2019 • 9781912168095 • £90.00 • Hardback • 304 pages col illustrations 45 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 POST-MEDIEVAL

Forgotten Voices The Hidden History of a New England Meetinghouse By Carolyn Wakeman Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past. It begins with the displacement of Indigenous people in the area before Europeans arrived, continues with disputes over worship and witchcraft in the early colonial settlement, and looks ahead to the use of Connecticut’s most iconic white church as a refuge and sanctuary. This community portrait details the long ignored genocide and enslaved people and reshapes prevailing ideas about history’s makers.

Wesleyan University Press • 2019 • 9780819579232 • £18.00 • Paperback 200 pages Islands of Salt Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880 By Konrad A. Antczak The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.

Sidestone Press • 2020 • 9789088908156 • £65.00 • Paperback • 364 pages b/w and col illustrations Boonesborough Unearthed Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort By Nancy O’Malley Throughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. It served not only as a stronghold against the British but also as a sanctuary, land office, and a potential seat of government. This groundbreaking book presents new information and fresh insights about Fort Boonesborough and life in frontier Kentucky. O’Malley also delves into the lives of the settlers who lived there, and explores the Transylvania Company’s dashed hopes of forming a fourteenth colony at the fort.

University Press of Kentucky • 2019 • 9780813177618 • £20.50 • Paperback 214 pages • b/w illustrations 46 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 POST-MEDIEVAL

Manufactured Bodies The Impact of Industrialisation on London Health By Gaynor Western & Jelena Bekvalac Industrialisation is a notoriously complex issue in terms of the hazards and benefits it has brought to human beings in our endeavours to improve our lives. The archive of human skeletal remains at the Museum of London provides a large bank of evidence that has been explored here, along with other skeletal collections from around England, to investigate how far some diseases go back in time and what we can tell about the influence of living environments past and present on human health.

Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253221 • £19.99 • Paperback • 272 pages b/w and col illustrations A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 Edited by Bill Luckin & Peter Thorsheim Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 2020 • 9780822946106 • £40.00 • Hardback 480 pages • b/w illustrations Jacques Wiener’s Most Remarkable Edifices of Europe The Man, Monuments, and Medals By Michael Ross The nineteenth-century medal series, The Most Remarkable Edifices of Europe, by Belgian engraver-medalist Jacques Wiener is examined in detail by author and collector Michael Ross. The work begins by providing a biographical background for Wiener, integrating two primary, existing sources, supplemented by information from Wiener family descendants. The overall medal series is then addressed starting with its inception as defined in Wiener’s original 1853 prospectus through its quietly incomplete conclusion.

American Numismatic Society • 2020 • 9780897223591 • £75.00 • Hardback 354 pages 47 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 Numismatics

The Metal in Britain’s Coins By Graham Birch The origin of the metals in Britain’s coins is seldom discussed by numismatists, but this fascinating book shows what a compelling topic it can be. Graham Birch’s starting point is to de-code the provenance marks on coins and understand the motives behind their use and the messages they convey – mostly about power and money. Global traders such as the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company brought bullion from all corners of the world, while logos and privy marks allow us to connect with the mines and the characterful people involved.

Spink Books • April 2020 • 9781912667437 • £40.00 • Hardback • 248 pages forthcoming

Coins of England and the United Kingdom 2020 Pre-decimal Issues, 55th Edition Edited by Emma Howard From the earliest of times, coins have been used by states or monarchs to communicate with people; Coins of England is therefore not only a reference book for collectors, but a fascinating snapshot of British history, illuminating its economics, technology, art, politics and religion. This volume of pre- decimal issues features every major coin type from the Celtic period up until 1968, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations, and varieties.

Spink Books • 2019 • 9781912667208 • £30.00 • Hardback • 576 pages Coins of England and the United Kingdom 2020 Decimal Issues, 6th Edition Edited by Emma Howard For the past few editions the Standard Catalogue of British Coins has separated out the decimal issues under Elizabeth II from the pre-decimal coinages, with all decimal coinage since 1968 listed in a separate volume. The two volumes are available as independent publications for the first time in 2020, this Decimal Issues volume listing all individual coins and sets issued by the Royal Mint from 1971, offering an authoritative catalogue of all modern British coins.

Spink Books • 2019 • 9781912667215 • £9.99 • Paperback • 302 pages 48 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ART

Forever Seeing New Beauties The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857−1907 By Eve M. Kahn Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857−1907) was determined to paint portraits and landscapes in her distinctive style. Her first biography reveals her as feisty, funny, self-deprecating, caustically critical of mainstream art, and observant of everything from soldiers’ epaulettes to colourful produce layered on delivery trucks.

Wesleyan University Press • 2020 • 9780819578747 • £27.00 • Hardback 240 pages Fragile Earth The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art By Jennifer Stettler Parsons In Fragile Earth, leading artists Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison, and James Prosek make natural elements their medium conceptually and literally. These essays and written conversations showcase the persuasive role artists can play in advocating for the preservation of earth.

Wesleyan University Press • 2020 • 9781880897317 • £20.00 • Paperback 120 pages Art Deco by the Sea By Ghislaine Wood, Bruce Peter, Gill Saunders & Vanessa Toulmin Art Deco by the Sea is a major new book and exhibition examining British coastal culture between the First and Second World Wars. It celebrates iconic examples of Art Deco architecture, from hotels and apartment blocks to piers, cinemas and sea fronts and shows how Art Deco became the key style for pleasure and entertainment.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts • 2020 • 9781916133600 • £30.00 • Paperback 160 pages • col illustrations Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s By Richard Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, this account of Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s – one of the major art trials of recent times – will be of interest to dealers, conservators and lawyers as well as all admirers of Caravaggio.

Paul Holberton Publishing • 2020 • 9781916237810 • £35.00 • Hardback 392 pages • col illustrations 49 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 ART

True to Nature Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780–1870 Edited by Ger Luijten, Mary Morton & Jane Munro This lavish catalogue presents sketches made en plein air between the end of the eighteenth century and late nineteenth century. It is organised thematically, reviewing, as contemporary artists did, motifs such as trees, rocks, water, volcanoes, and sky effects, and favourite topographical locations, such as Rome and Capri.

Paul Holberton Publishing • 2020 • 9781911300786 • £45.00 • Hardback 256 pages • col illustrations Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners 1919-1939 Edited by Paul Liss & Christopher Woodward Between the two world wars there were an exceptional number of artists who gardened. Charles Mahoney shared his unbridled enthusiasm for plants with Edward Bawden, Geoffrey Rhoades, John Nash and Evelyn Dunbar who swapped cuttings with each other by post. They form the focus of this exhibition catalogue.

Liss Llewellyn Fine Art • 2020 • 9781999314552 • £15.00 • Paperback • 80 pages col illustrations Capital Designs Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London By Eileen Chanin Founded as a sovereign Commonwealth in 1901, a dominion in the British Empire, Australia set out immediately to present itself to the world as a nation with a great future. This book relates the untold story of how Australia’s first diplomatic mission was conceived, designed and built. Its international showcase was to be Australia House, a splendid purpose-built building at the Aldwych in the very heart of London, the Imperial capital, and of world trade and prosperity.

Arden • 2020 • 9781925984231 • £25.00 • Paperback • 474 pages • b/w illustrations

Galway: Hardiman & Beyond Arts & Culture in Galway 1820-2020 Edited by John Cunningham & Ciaran McDonough This book tells the story of cultural and artistic endeavour in Galway over the past 200 years. Starting with Hardiman’s exceptional cultural contribution, it includes original studies of the dynamic Galway arts scene of recent decades.

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Ancient Egyptian Warfare Ship 17: a baris from Fashioned Selves By Ian Shaw Thonis-Heracleion Edited by Megan Cifarelli A concise introduction to Ancient By Alexander Belov Presents a wide ranging examination Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic A study of the construction, structure of the social roles of dressed bodies in period through to the Iron Age, and identification of Ship 17, a Late ancient contexts, texts, and images. covering everything from battle tactics Period baris-vessel discovered during Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252545 to weaponry and battle injuries. underwater excavations at Thonis- £38.00 • Paperback • 256 pages Casemate UK • 2019 • 9781612007250 Heracleion, a sunken city in Aboukir . b/w and col illustrations £9.99 • Hardback • 160 pages Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology b/w illustrations 2019 • 9781905905362 • £45.00 Hardback • 152 pages • b/w illustrations

Figurine Makers of Inhabiting the Promised Land Old Testament Warriors Prehistoric Cyprus By Margreet L. Steiner By Simon Elliott Edited by Edgar Peltenburg, Diane A lively introduction to the ways in A short history of warfare in the age Bolger & Lindy Crewe which archaeology can elucidate the of the Old Testament including many Systematic excavations of the settlement lives and beliefs of ancient peoples that ancient cultures from the Middle East and rich cemetery at Souskiou inhabited the land in which the Bible such as the Sumerians, Akkadians, Laona indicate it was a centre for the was written. Philistines, Hittites and Hebrews. manufacture of picrolite figurines. Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253306 Casemate Publishers • 2020 Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250190 £30.00 • Paperback • 192 pages 9781612007939 • £9.99 • Hardback £48.00 • Hardback • 368 pages b/w illustrations 160 pages • b/w illustrations

Pantalica in the Sicilian Late Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks Greek Colonization in Bronze and Iron Ages and Workshops Local Contexts Edited by Robert Leighton & Rosa Edited by Patricia Lulof, Ilaria Manzini Edited by Jason Lucas, Carrie Ann Maria Albanese Procelli & Carlo Rescigno Murray & Sara Owen Comprehensive study and illustrated Investigates workshops and networks Examines the repercussions and local catalogue of finds from 250 LBA–A responsible for the sophisticated reactions to Greek colonization in Pantalica tombs, Sicily, terracotta decoration of temples in social, religious, economic and cultural Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253023 Italy, 600-100 BC. terms. £40.00 • Paperback • 216 pages Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253108 Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251326 b/w and col illustrations £60.00 • Hardback • 688 pages £40.00 • Paperback • 248 pages b/w and col illustrations b/w illustrations 51 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

The Ancient Harbours Army of the Roman Roads in the Deserts of Piraeus Emperors of Roman Egypt By Bjørn Lovén & Ioannis Sapountzis By Thomas Fischer & M. C. Bishop By Maciej Paprocki Presents further results of the A major overview of the imperial Uses archaeological evidence alongside archaeological investigations Roman army: its soldiers, weapons, satellite imaging, landscape and network conducted by the Zea Harbour Project equipment and history. analyses to assess how desert roads (ZHP) in 2004-2010 and 2012 of ancient Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251845 evolved in reaction to climatic, social and shipsheds and slipways. £45.00 • Hardback • 456 pages technological change in Roman Egypt. Aarhus University Press • 2019 b/w and col illustrations Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251562 9788771848021 • £45.00 • Hardback £38.00 • Paperback • 352 pages 221 pages • b/w illustrations b/w illustrations

The Southern Levant during Classical Antiquities The Transition to the first centuries of Roman of Algeria Late Antiquity on rule (64 BCE–135 CE) By Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Claude the Lower Danube By Paolo Cimadomo Sintes & Philip Kenrick By Andrew Poulter This book explores local attitudes This guidebook will take you to all the Excavation report on the site of a towards the Roman annexation of sites of Algeria and lavish provision of remarkable late Roman fort in northern territories of the Near East’. maps, plans and photographs. Bulgaria, including finds analysis and Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252385 Society for Libyan Studies • 2019 site survey. £50.00 • Hardback • 224 pages 9781900971546 • £20.00 • Paperback Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781785709586 b/w illustrations 328 pages • col illustrations £70.00 • Hardback • 904 pages b/w and col illustrations

Hagia Sophia in Context The Ancient Ways of Wessex The Lost Art of the By Ken Dark & Jan Kostenec By Alexander Langlands Anglo-Saxon World An archaeological re-examination Highly accessible but detailed account By Alexandra Lester-Makin of the cathedral of Byzantine of the everyday workings of the Presents the first detailed analyses of Constantinople, with fresh evidence early medieval landscape of Wessex all 43 known embroideries believed to about the appearance and function of through the pathways trodden over a have been made in Britain in the early the complex. millennium ago. medieval period. Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250305 Windgather Press • 2019 Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251449 £55.00 • Hardback • 152 pages 9781911188513 • £35.00 • Paperback £38.00 • Paperback • 256 pages b/w and col illustrations 256 pages • b/w and col illustrations b/w and col illustrations 52 www.oxbowbooks.com | [email protected] | +44 (0)1226 734350 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Vikings at War Scotland in Early Medieval The Viking Way By Kim Hjardar & Vegard Vike Europe By Neil Price A comprehensive account of the Viking Edited by Alice E. Blackwell Examines the evidence for Old Norse art of war, weapons and the history of This edited volume explores how (what is sorcery, looking at its meaning and their conquests. today) Scotland can be compared with, function, practice and practitioners, Casemate UK • 2019 • 9781612007991 contrasted to, or was connected with and the complicated constructions of £19.99 • Paperback • 400 pages other parts of early medieval Europe. gender and sexual identity with which col illustrations Sidestone Press • 2019 these were underpinned. 9789088907524 • £30.00 • Paperback Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781842172605 175 pages • b/w and col illustrations £35.00 • Hardback • 432 pages col illustrations

Looting or Missioning Beside the Ocean Living off the Land By Egil Mikkelsen By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison & Edited by Rhiannon Comeau & Andy Presents a new interpretation of sacred Michael Athanson Seaman objects found in pagan Viking graves Excavation and field survey in the bays This volume sets Welsh medieval as indicating their introduction by of Orkney’s Atlantic coast have revealed agricultural landscapes in a broader Christian missionaries and re-examines much new evidence for Viking and British context and demonstrates how early Christianity in . Norse settlement. it can illuminate archaeological and Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789253184 Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250961 historical research. £48.00 • Hardback • 256 pages £45.00 • Hardback • 376 pages Windgather Press • 2019 col illustrations b/w and col illustrations 9781911188391 • £34.99 • Paperback 264 pages • b/w and col illustrations

Interpreting Medieval Effigies The Cosmatesque Mosaics Twelfth-Century Sculptural By Brian Gittos & Moira Gittos of Westminster Abbey Finds at Canterbury A detailed examination of more than By Warwick Rodwell & David S. Neal Cathedral and the Cult 200 examples of surviving monumental Presents a holistic study of an of Thomas Becket effigies in the context of the social, outstanding group of monuments – By Carolyn Marino Malone material and economic background of mosaic pavements, tombs and shrines Reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural the medieval period in northern Britain. – in their historical architectural and and architectural finds as architectural Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251289 archaeological context. screens constructed around 1173. £40.00 • Hardback • 256 pages Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252347 Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252309 b/w and col illustrations £65.00 • Hardback • 724 pages £55.00 • Hardback • 280 pages b/w and col illustrations b/w illustrations

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Human Remains in Tracing the Indo-Europeans First Farmers of the Archaeology Edited by Birgit A. Olsen, Thomas Carpathian Basin By Charlotte A. Roberts Olander & Kristian Kristiansen By Eszter Bánffy This revised and updated 2nd edition of Examines the origins, chronology and Explores processes of cultural change in Provides the very latest guidance on all spread of Indo-European cultures. the earliest Neolithic of the Carpathian aspects of the recovery, handling and Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789252705 basin through analysis of monumental study of human remains. £25.00 • Paperback • 192 pages clay figurines. Council for British Archaeology • 2019 b/w and col illustrations Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251647 9781909990036 • £25.00 • Paperback £35.00 • Hardback • 192 pages 336 pages • b/w illustrations b/w and col illustrations

Mining and Quarrying in Chalk Hill The Beaker People By Peter Clark, Grant Shand Edited by M. Parker Pearson, Edited by Anne Teather, Peter Topping & Jake Weekes A. Sheridan, M. Jay, A. Chamberlain, & Jon Baczkowski Excavation of a type of early Neolithic M. Richards & J. Evans Examines the processes of and beliefs ritual monument unique to the British A unique and fundamentally important behind the acquisition and use of stone Isles. exploration of the origin, mobility, diet in the Neolithic. Sidestone Press • 2019 and cultural relationships of Beaker-using Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251487 9789088906077 • £45.00 • Paperback people in the Chalcolithic of Britain. £38.00 • Paperback • 224 pages 275 pages • b/w and col illustrations Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789250640 b/w illustrations £49.99 • Hardback • 616 pages b/w and col illustrations

Bell Beaker Settlement The Egyptian Collection at The Naos of Amasis of Europe Norwich Castle Museum By Dr. Marco Zecchi Edited by Alex M. Gibson By Faye Kalloniatis This naos, or shrine, was built by king Presents the first comprehensive, The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Amasis in the VIth century BC and stands Europe-wide review of evidence for Bell Castle Museum represents the first full out for its originality. Amasis dedicated Beaker settlement structures, domestic publication of this important collection the naos to Osiris Hemag, one of the assemblages and settlement patterns. which contains several outstanding most important and enigmatic Osirian Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251241 objects. forms of the first millennium BC. £35.00 • Hardback • 392 pages Oxbow Books • 2019 • 9781789251968 Sidestone Press • 2019 b/w and col illustrations £45.00 • Hardback • 504 pages 9789088907951 • £30.00 • Paperback b/w illus, col pls 146 pages • b/w and col illus

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