Economic Public Archaeology The Origins of Art and Houses of the Dead Zooarchaeology Theoretical Approaches Music Edited by Alistair Barclay, Studies in Hunting, Herding and Current Practices Ice Age Discoveries from the David Field and Jim Leary and Early Agriculture Edited by Isilay Gursu Caves of Southwestern Germany This book explores the interface Edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale This volume explores the relationship By Nicholas J. Conard and between Neolithic structures considered to be those of the Serjeantson and Paul Halstead between archaeology and Claus-Joachim Kind contemporary society, especially as living (such as longhouses) with Discusses key research issues Some of the world’s oldest evidence those for the dead (such as long concerning hunting, herding and early it concerns local communities living for figurative art has been discovered day-to-day alongside archaeological barrows). Case studies present recent agriculture through the analysis of in the caves of southwest Germany, advances in radiocarbon dating, zoological and archaeobotanical remains. The 33 papers heritage. It targets these issues with case studies from as well as some of the oldest musical instruments. This Greece, Italy, Turkey and elsewhere. osteoarchaeological analysis and environmental data to present a wide array of topics covering many areas of book transports the reader into the world of the Ice re-examine long-assumed chronological developments archaeological interest. 102pp, British Institute at Ankara, 2019, 9781912090808, Age, describing and interpreting these amazing finds from houses for the living to those of the dead. Hardback, £30.00 320pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253405, from Germany. 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781789254105, Paperback, Paperback, £30.00 192pp, 110 illustrations, Kerns Verlag, 2020, £40.00 9783935751339, Hardback, £46.00 Forthcming, £32.00 until publication Forthcoming

Habitus? Matters of Belonging Das Helga-Abri A Prehistoric Burial The Social Dimension of Ethnographic Museums in Lithische Technologie und Mound and Anglo- Technology and Transformation a Changing Europe Rohmaterialversorgung der Saxon Cemetery at Edited by Sławomir Kadrow Edited by Wayne Modest, spätmagdalénienzeitlichen und Barrow Clump, and Johannes Müller Nicholas Thomas, Doris Prlić frühmesolithischen Gruppen Salisbury Plain, By presenting the latest studies on and Claudia Augustat By Thomas Hess Wiltshire the social dimension of technology Matters of Belonging foregrounds The work presents a lithic analysis of and transformation, this book critical practices within ethnographic finds from the site of Helga-Abri in By Phil Andrews, Jonathan contributes to a better understanding museums in relation to their diverse southwest Germany. The extensive Last, Richard Osgood, Nick of a system of embodied dispositions hidden within stakeholders. The articles seek to question the role documentation of lithic artifacts offer an important Stoodley and Edited by Philippa Bradley Bourdieu's concept of ‘Habitus’. Rock art, Trypillian of ethnographic and world cultures museums within resource for researchers outside of the German- Barrow Clump is the site of a large, partly extant Early megasites, stone axes and adzes, metallurgy, wagons, contemporary negotiations of how to define Europe, speaking world. Bronze Age burial mound which incorporates an earlier archery items, ceramics produced on potter’s wheels, Europeans, and European heritage, especially mindful of 292pp, 179 illustrations, 48 tables, 1 appendix, Kerns Verlag, Beaker funerary monument, seals a Neolithic land mechanisms of cultural genesis and dualistic social the region’s colonial and migratory pasts. 2019, 9783935751278, Hardback, was £37.00 surface, and was the focus of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, systems are examples of the topics discussed. 150pp, 25fc/16bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, most of the 70 graves dating to the 6th century AD. 236pp, 65fc/15bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, 9789088907777, Paperback, £30.00 284pp, 272 bandw and colour illustrations , Wessex 9789088907838, Paperback, £40.00 Archaeology, 2019, 9781911137122, Hardback, £25.00

A Taste for Green Modern Human Geißenklösterle From Mesolithic A global perspective on ancient jade, Origins and Dispersal Chronostratigraphy, Encampment to turquoise and variscite exchange Edited by Yonatan Sahle, Hugo Paleoenvironment and Subsistence Medieval Estate Edited by Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, Ben Reyes-Centeno and Christian Bentz during the Middle and Upper The Archaeology of the Bay Gateway Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura Nelson and Ramón Fábregas Valcarce Despite consensus on Africa's central By Jeremy Bradley and Examines the appeal, acquisition, place in the evolution of our species, Edited by Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Christine Howard-Davis exchange and cultural significance of the emergence of modern human Bolus and Susanne C. Münzel artefacts made from distinctive green populations and their dispersal out The earliest remains included The site of Geißenklösterle Cave in evidence of prehistoric settlement, rocks widely circulated throughout of the continent remain controversial the Ach Valley on the Swabian Jura prehistoric Europe and the Americas. topics. Here scholars offer multi-disciplinary at a location that had seen repeated activity in the is synonymous with a range of key issues in Palaeolithic Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, and during the Bronze perspectives, reviews, and original research reports on archaeology. The current volume presents a wide range 192pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, the mode and timing of anatomical and cultural changes Age. Several buildings are thought to represent the 9781789252743, Hardback, £45.00 of results that focus on topics including geoarchaeology, in the human past. remains of one or more water mills associated with dating, paleoecology, human subsistence, and others, with Beaumont Grange, an estate belonging to Furness Abbey. Forthcoming, £36.00 until publication 360pp, 71 illustrations, 14 tables, Kerns Verlag, 2019, special place given to the extensive zooarchaeological 9783935751308, Paperback, £37.00 studies. 308pp, 200 colour images, Oxford Archaeology North, 2018, 9781907686252, Paperback, £25.00 416pp, 106 illustrations; 22 tables, Kerns Verlag, 2019, 9783935751155, Hardback, was £55.00

Textiles and Textile Tracing the Indo- Wild Things 2 The Beaker People Production in Europe Europeans Further Advances in Palaeolithic Isotopes, Mobility and Diet From Prehistory to AD 400 New evidence from archaeology and Mesolithic Research in Prehistoric Britain Edited by Margarita Gleba and historical linguistics Edited by James Walker Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, and Ulla Mannering Edited by Birgit A. Olsen, Thomas and David Clinnick Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Twenty-three chapters collect and Olander and Kristian Kristiansen This collection of contributions Richards and Jane Evans systematise essential information on An inter-disciplinary study combining presents recent research covering textiles and textile production from archaeological evidence for cultural aspects of both Palaeolithic and This volume presents the results of a sixteen European countries, resulting development with DNA studies and Mesolithic research in order major project that sought to address in an up-to-date and detailed sourcebook and an easily historical linguistics to examine the origins, chronology to encourage dialogue between practitioners of a century-old question about the identity of the people accessible overview of the development of European and spread of Indo-European cultures. Papers provide archaeology of both periods. who were buried with Beakers in Britain from around textile technology and economy from prehistory to AD new evidence for the origins of Indo-European languages 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781785709463, Paperback, 2450 BC. Around 300 skeletons were subjected to 400. and insights into migrations, society and language in £38.00 isotope analysis to explore patterns of mobility and diet. 480pp, 320 col and b/w illus, 22 maps, 30 tables, Oxbow European prehistory. 616pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, Books, 2019, 9781789253429, Paperback, £36.00 192pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250640, Hardback, £49.99 9781789252705, Paperback, £25.00

Debasement Making One's Way in Farmers at the Sark Manipulation of Coin Standards in the World Frontier A Sacred Island Pre-Modern Monetary Systems The Footprints and Trackways A Pan European Perspective By Barry Cunliffe and Emma Durham Edited by Kevin Butcher of Prehistoric People on Neolithisation The Archaeological Survey of Sark The debasement of coinage, By Martin Bell Edited by Kurt J Gron, Peter Rowley- began in 2004 with a view to studying particularly of silver, was a common Explores landscape archaeology, Conwy and Lasse Sorensen the island in the context of Atlantic maritime networks to explore feature of pre-modern monetary palaeoenvironmental studies, Presents various perspectives systems. While in some cases the ethnohistory and animal tracking to the themes of remoteness and regarding earliest farming among connectivity. A complete gazetteer of motives behind the debasements address the topic of how we identify archaeological cultures and or reductions in standards are clear, in many cases the and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory. nearly 100 sites has been compiled together with a full geographic locations across Europe, addressing the listing of all the artefacts recovered. intentions of the issuing authorities are uncertain. This question: What was the earliest farming really like? volume brings together monetary historians of different 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781789254020, Hardback, was £50.00 280pp, b/w and colour, Oxford University School of periods, alongside archaeometallurgists to examine these 256pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2020, Archaeology, 2019, 9781905905461, Hardback, £40.00 issues. Forthcoming, £40.00 until publication 9781789251401, Hardback, was £45.00 288pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2020, Forthcoming - £36.00 until publication 9781789253986, Hardback, £50.00 Forthcoming, £40.00 until publication

Heritage Under Zeichen Dronehenge How's Life? Pressure – Threats and Markierungen, Muster und Symbole The Story Behind the Remarkable Living Conditions in the 2nd Solutions im Schwäbischen Aurignacien Neolithic Discovery at Newgrange and 1st Millennia BCE Edited by Michael Dawson, Edward By Ewa Dutkiewicz By Anthony Murphy Edited by Marta Dal Corso, James and Michael Nevell This volume explores early symbolic In July 2018, Anthony Murphy and Ken Wiebke Kirleis, Jutta Kneisel, Nicole Heritage under Pressure examines communication through the finds Williams discovered a giant previously Taylor, Magdalena Wieckowska- the relationship between the political uncovered in the Aurignacian cave unknown Late Neolithic henge Lüth and Marco Zanon perspective of the UK government on sites of the Swabian Jura in Southwest monument close to Newgrange This volume investigates Bronze Age 'soft power' and the globalising effect Germany. German text with English while flying their drones over the living conditions through aspects of of projects carried out by archaeologists and heritage summary Boyne Valley. Murphy tells the story of the remarkable the archaeological record related to production (e.g. professionals working in the historic environment. 440pp, 128 illustrations; 46 tables, Kerns Verlag, 2019, discovery of this monument, and attempts to unravel of food and metal), well-being (e.g. diet, health), human Individual papers raise complex and challenging 9783935751346, Hardback, £55.00 some of its mysteries. relations (e.g. violence), and the local environment (e.g. issues, such as commemoration, identity, and political 250pp, 75 colour photographs, Liffey Press, 2019, pollution, waste disposal, and water management). Forthcoming intervention. 9780995792791, Paperback, £18.95 210pp, 43fc/29bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, 336pp, 124 images, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9789088908019, Paperback, £40.00 9781789252460, Paperback, £38.00

2 • NEW METHOD AND THEORY AND EUROPEAN PREHISTORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Arras Culture of Was tranken die Looking Closely The Egyptian Eastern Yorkshire frühen Kelten? Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Collection at Norwich Celebrating the Iron Age Bedeutungen und Funktionen Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014 Castle Museum mediterraner Importe im Edited by Peter Halkon Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Catalogue and Essays früheisenzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. Bernbeck and Birgül Ögüt London’s Spitalfields Market was the Internationale Konferenz Kloster By Faye Kalloniatis This volume reinvestigates the small location of one of the city’s largest This volume presents the first Weltenburg 28.04.-01.05.2017. Late Neolithic (ca. 6200-5600 BCE) archaeological excavations. This book full publication of this important and early Aeneolithic (ca. 4800-4350 presents the archaeological and Edited by Philipp W. Stockhammer collection which contains several BCE) village of Monjukli Depe. The documentary evidence for medieval and Janine Fries-Knoblach outstanding objects. The inscribed research examines microhistories of cultural techniques activity here, on the north-eastern fringe of the historic By integrating archaeological and scientific analyses, this materials have all been translated and individual entries as a source of insights into long-term and spatially city, and the sit book sheds completely new light on Early Celtic drinking give examples or parallels. Seventy colour plates extensive change as well as internal variations and 192pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, practices in Central Europe and their transformation illustrate each object. similarities in material practices. 9781789252583, Paperback, £38.00 due to intercultural encounters with the Mediterranean. 504pp, over 400 black and white images and 70 colour 500pp, 195fc/117bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, Forthcoming, £30.40 until publication 360pp, 129fc/37bw, Sidestone Press, 2018, plat, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789251968, Hardback, 9789088906145, Paperback, £60.00 9789088907654, Paperback, £95.00 £45.00

Art in the Eurasian The Hammerum Puspika V New Horizons Iron Age Burial Site Tracing Ancient India, through Texts The Pan-Grave ceramic Context, Connections and Scale Burial Customs and Clothing and Traditions: Contributions to tradition in context Current Research in Indology Edited by Courtney Nimura, in Roman Iron Age By Aaron M. de Souza Helen Chittock, Peter Hommel Edited by Tinna Møbjerg, Lise Edited by Heleene De Jonckheere, This volume serves as a catalog and Chris Gosden Ræder Knudsen, Hans Rostholm Marie-Hélène Gorisse and and handbook for the description Agnieszka Rostalska This volume explores Iron Age art and Ulla Mannering for Pan-Grave ceramics, and that at different scales and specifically This edition of Puspika takes “Jains considers the Pan-Grave tradition In 2009 analyses showed that grave and its ceramic production within the considers the long-distance 83 from the burial site at Hammerum and the others” main theme. The connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determine broader socio-cultural framework of Ancient Egypt and was a sensation. All that remain of the deceased was her Nubia during the mid-Second Millennium BC. seeing’ that link Celtic Art to other art traditions across hair and her dress, but it was the best-preserved Danish the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South northern Eurasia. It brings together 13 papers balancing Iron Age textile from an inhumation grave. Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think 280pp, 8 color plates, many photos and drawings, Golden pan-Eurasian scale commentary with regional and site beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. House Publications, 2019, 9781906137656, Paperback, 240pp, Aarhus University Press, 2019, 9788793423237, £60.00 scale studies and detailed analyses of individual objects. Hardback, £30.00 172pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789252828, Paperback, 272pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, £38.00 9781789253948, Hardback, £48.00 Forthcming, £38.40 until publication

Megalithic Tombs in Ecology of a Tool The Flowering Desert: Paint it, Black Western Iberia The Ground Stone Axe of Textiles from Sindh A biography of kohl containers Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha Irian Jaya (Indonesia) By Hasan Askari and Nasreen Askari By Jolanda Bos Edited by Chris Scarre By Pierre Petrequin, Anne-Marie This book presents a private ‘Paint it, Black’ covers the remarkable Petrequin and Translated by A re-assessment of the chronology, collection of textiles from Sindh, history of kohl containers from the landscape setting and social context Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud Pakistan, which, according to some Early Bronze Age to the present day, of Neolithic megalithic tombs in An English edition of the classic scholars, was the crucible in which including ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, Iberia based on recent excavation of French publication on the the textile traditions of Gujarat and the culture of the Early Islamic Period Lajinha and Cabeço dos Pendentes. manufacture, exchange and social and Rajasthan were forged. Sindhi textiles and the present-day cultures of North reflect a dimension that combines the harshness of Africa and West Asia. 256pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781785709807, economic significance of New Guinea axes. the terrain with a quest for a mythical and unattainable 356pp, full colour images, Blikvelduitgevers Publishers, 2019, Hardback, was £45.00 336pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2020, beauty. 9781789253863, Hardback, was £45.00 9789492940070, Hardback, £49.50 Forthcoming, £33.75 until publication 160pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019, 9781911300717, Forthcoming, £36.00 until publication Hardback, £30.00

Embracing Bell Beaker New Perspectives on Tanaka 1587 Hair and death in Adopting new Ideas and Objects the Peopling of the Japan’s Greatest Unknown ancient Egypt across Europe during the later 3rd Americas Samurai Battle The mourning rite in the Millennium BC (c. 2600-2000 BC) Edited by Katerina Harvati, Gerhard By Stephen Turnbull times of the Pharaohs By Jos Kleijne Jäger and Hugo Reyes-Centeno In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of By Maria Rosa Valdesogo This book deals with the question The mode and timing of the peopling tiny Tanaka Castle on Japan’s southern Mourners shake and pull their hair how communities across Europe of the Americas remain highly island of Kyushu held out for 100 days on reliefs and paintings from ancient during the later 3rd millennium BC debated topics, with diverse – and against an army ten times their size. A Egypt. Hair played a clear role in adopted and transformed the Bell sometimes conflicting – conclusions systematic archaeological investigation funerary rites. In this publication Beaker phenomenon differently. reached by the scholars from different disciplines. Here of the castle site was undertaken in 1986, and our Maria Rosa Valdesogo describes the relation between 290pp, 91fc, Sidestone Press, 2019, 9789088907555, experts provide current reviews and original research on knowledge was further added to by the 1989discovery hair and these rites, and the role hair played in death in Paperback, £50.00 the evidence for human occupation of the continent. of Japan’s oldest surviving battle map. ancient Egypt. 224pp, 46 illustrations, 17 tables, Kerns Verlag, 2018, 128pp, 55 b/w photos/ills, 3 b/w maps, 8 colour plates, 144pp, full colour images, Blikvelduitgevers Publishers, 2019, 9783935751285, Paperback, £28.00 Helion and Company, 2019, 9781912866496, Paperback, 9789492940087, Paperback, £36.00 £19.95

EAA 169: Iron Age Early Settlers of the Stelae of the Middle Beni Hassan Volume V Fortification Beside Insular Caribbean Kingdom and the The Tomb of Khnumhotep l the River Lark Dearchaizing the Archaic Second Intermediate By Miral Lashien and Excavations at Mildenhall, Suffolk Edited by Corinne L. Hofman Period Anna-Latifa Mourad By Tim Havard, Mary and Andrzej T. Antczak Ägyptisches Museum und Khnumhotep I was the first governer Alexander and Ray Holt This book offers comprehensive Papyrussammlung, Staatliche of the Oryx nome during Egypt’s coverage of the most recent advances Museen zu Berlin formative Twelfth Dynasty. This report Excavations produced evidence includes a description of the tomb’s for human activity spanning three on the early human settling of the By Helmut Satzinger Caribbean islands. It challenges architecture, its various scenes on millennia. Well-preserved environmental evidence and Danijela Stefanović daily life, desert-hunting and militaristic activities, as and large assemblages of animal bone and crop waste currently existing perspectives on early human settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, migration A catalogue of the Middle Kingdom and Second well as a new copy and translation of Khnumhotep I’s allowed comparison of farming practices over time. Finds biography. included the largest assemblage of decorated Middle routes and mobility and exchange. Intermediate Period Egyptian stelae in the Egyptian Iron Age pottery from the region to date and structures 320pp, 20fc/40bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, Museum in Berlin. Many of them were lost in WWII, and 45pp, 128 colour plates and 14 bandw folded plates, included massive Iron Age defensive ditches. 9789088907807, Paperback, £45.00 the publication thus uses old archive photographs. It Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2019, 9780856688423, includes full translations. Paperback, £80.00 200pp, 70, East Anglian Archaeology, 2019, 9780955353482, Paperback, £25.00 153pp, Golden House Publications, 2019, 9781906137632, Paperback, £75.00

Hinterlands and An Archaeological The Persistence of Created for Eternity Inlands History of Montserrat, Memory in Kush The Greatest Discoveries The Archaeology of West Cambridge West Indies Pianchy and his Temple of Czech Egyptology and Roman Cambridge Revisited Edited by John F. Cherry By Anthony Spalinger By Miroslav Bárta, Ladislav Bareš and Jaromír Krajčí Edited by Christopher Evans and Krysta Ryzewski A Report concerned with military and Gavin Lucas This book draws on all the available reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel In 2019 Charles University, its Faculty Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across archaeological evidence, as well as Barkal in Nubia, the present Sudan (B of Arts, and the Czech Institute a 3 sq. km swathe on the west side of newly available archival documents, 500), important battle scenes in the of Egyptology are celebrating Cambridge, this volume presents the to trace this little island’s long Great Temple's inner hall (B 502) and the hundredth birthday of Czech results of 15 sites, including seven cemeteries. The main history and heritage. Montserrat is shown to be a place the outer one (B 501). Egyptology. This book presents the most important focus is on the area’s prehistoric ‘inland’ colonization intricately connected to the flows of people and goods 192pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2019, discoveries of Czech Egyptologists and the range and (particularly its Middle Bronze Age horizon) and the that have travelled between islands and across the 9788073089160, Hardback, £71.00 variety of their activities. dynamics of its Roman hinterland settlements. Atlantic at various points in time, both Amerindian and 387pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2019, historical. 350pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 9788073089276, Hardback, £26.60 2019, 9781902937892, Hardback, £35.00 192pp, 90 colour and 24 b/w images, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781789253900, Paperback, was £38.00 Forthcoming Forthcoming, £30.40 until publication +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM NEW PREHISTORY, WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY AND EGYPTOLOGY • 3 Art-facts and Artefacts Ancient Egyptian Figurine Makers of From 'LUGAL.GAL' Edited by Peter Janosi Warfare Prehistoric Cyprus TO 'Wanax' The papers of a conference in Tactics, Weapons and Settlement and Cemeteries Kingship and Political Organisation summer 2017 in Vienna. The Ideology of the Pharaohs at Souskiou in the Late Bronze Age Aegean contributions focus on Middle Kingdom (about 2000 to 1750 BC) By Ian Shaw Edited by Edgar Peltenburg, Edited by Dr. Jorrit Kelder art. A concise introduction to Ancient Diane Bolger and Lindy Crewe and Willemijn J. I. Waal 102pp, 30, Golden House Publications, Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic This volume reports on the In this book the much-debated 2019, 9781906137601, Paperback, period through to the Iron Age. As excavation of the 4th and early problem of political organization in £45.00 well as discussing such crucial issues 3rd millennium BC settlement and Mycenaean Greece is analysed and as military strategy, martial ideology, construction of cemetery at Souskiou Laona. Excavations have revealed contextualised through the prism of archaeology and fortresses and waging of siege warfare, the book includes complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) the study of practical questions­ of life, death and survival of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by evidence. The papers discuss the role of the ruler in of individual soldiers on the battlefield. a rich variety of grave goods. the Mycenaean world through comparisons with the 160pp, 30 black and white photos and diagrams, Casemate 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250190, Hardback, contemporary Near East. UK, 2019, 9781612007250, Hardback, £9.99 £48.00 140pp, 2fc/15bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, 9789088907982, Paperback, £25.00

Gilded Flesh Current Research in Inhabiting the Exploring a Terra Coffins and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt Nubian Archaeology Promised Land Incognita on Crete Edited by Rogério Sousa Edited by Gemma Tully and Exploring the Complex Relationship Recent Research on Bronze This book examines twelve non- Samantha Tipper between Archaeology and Ancient Age Habitation in the Southern royal tombs, from the plains of A compilation of the latest scientific Israel as Depicted in the Bible Ierapetra Isthmus Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. and archaeological research carried By Margreet L. Steiner Edited by Konstantinos It explores each site revealing out by scholars working in Sudan, Chalikias and Emilia Oddo the interconnection between providing an insight into the daily life The aim of this book is to describe mummification practices, coffin and health of ancient Nubians. the often-complicated relationship This book brings together for the between archaeology and the Bible. It first time scholars working on the decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual 219pp, Gorgias Press, 2019, 9781463239404, Hardback landscapes. focuses on the information that archaeology can provide Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of £76.00 on the lives and beliefs of the ancient peoples that the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, a region that actively 208pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789252620, inhabited the land in which the Bible was written, and participated in the coastal and maritime trade networks Hardback, £60.00 on the question of how this information relates to the of East Crete. biblical stories. 166pp, 66, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean 192pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253306, Prehistory), 2019, 9781931534994, Paperback, £23.00 Paperback, £30.00

A River Runs Through Sigmund Freud und Personal Ornaments Ceramics, Cuisine and It sein Buch, Der Mann in Prehistory Culture Studies in Honour of Professor Moses An Exploration of Body The archaeology and science of Fekri A. Hassan. Volume 1 Eine kritische Würdigung Augmentation from the Palaeolithic kitchen pottery in the ancient Edited by Aloisia de Trafford, aus ägyptologischer und to the Early Bronze Age mediterranean world Geoffrey J. Tassie, Okasha El anthropologischer Sicht By Emma L. Baysal Edited by Michela Spataro Daly and Joris van Wetering By Rolf Krauss Using evidence from archaeological and Alexandra Villing This collection of studies is dedicated Freud’s study about Moses and sites across Turkey, the Near East and Structured around main themes to Professor Fekri A.Hassan by people monotheistic religion combined Egyptology and the Balkans, this book explores the concerning technical aspects of with whom he has worked over the past forty-five years. anthropology in a critical analysis of the biblical faith. history of personal ornaments from their appearance pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; It represents the vast temporal and geographical ranges This book reviews the Egyptological and anthropological in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centres in the and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural across which Fekri has spun his long and illustrious bases of Freud’s arguments. There is also a chapter Early Bronze Age encompassing technologies ranging encounters, a range of social economic and technological career and reflects his passion for archaeology and devoted to Pater Wilhelm Schmidt, Freud’s foremost from stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the models are discussed on the basis of insights gained geology. opponent among anthropologists. roots of glass manufacture. from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. 324pp, color and BandW illustrations, Golden House 140pp, 25, Golden House Publications, 2019, 272pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789252866, Paperback, £38.00 Publications, 2019, 9781906137373, Paperback, £45.00 9781906137649, Paperback, £22.00 288pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253412, Paperback, £38.00

Fifth Dynasty Sun The Last Hunter- Understanding The Knossos Tablets Temples Gatherers Relations Between By José L. Melena and Richard J. Firth Kingship, Architecture, and Religion The Epipaleolithic in Scripts II The sixth edition of The Knossos in Third Millenium BC Egypt Southwestern Syria Early Alphabets Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the By Massimiliano Nuzzolo By Kurt Felix Hillgruber Edited by Philip J. Boyes and texts of the Linear B inscriptions and Miroslav Verner This volume describes the first Philippa M. Steele from the preeminent Cretan palatial Sun temples of the Fifth Dynasty are large-scale Paleolithic survey and This book brings together ten site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. It an unparalleled monument of ancient excavation project conducted in experts on ancient writing, languages presents definitive readings of these Egypt and characterized the Central southwestern Syria, examining the and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on archaeologically, linguistically and part of the Old Kingdom considered as the apex of prehistoric hunters and gatherers and their settlement the early development of alphabetic writing systems and historically important records. the solar cult and theology. This volume collects all the behaviour. their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during 696pp, 5, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean available archaeological and textual evidence, including 290pp, 180 illustrations, Kerns Verlag, 2019, the second and first millennia BC. Prehistory), 2019, 9781931534963, Hardback, £55.00 an in-depth reconstruction of the original decoration of 9783935751261, Hardback, £37.00 these temples. 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250923, Hardback, £50.00 560pp, b/w illus, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2019, 9788073088965, Hardback, £98.00

Oasis Papers IX Nairi Lands Old Testament Death in Mycenaean Edited by Colin A. Hope The Identity of the Local Warriors Laconia (17th to 11th and Gillian E. Bowen Communities of Eastern The Clash of Cultures in c. BC) This volume marks the 40th Anatolia, South Caucasus and the Ancient Near East A Silent Place Periphery During the Late anniversary of archaeological By Simon Elliott fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Bronze and Early Iron Age By Chrysanthi Gallou Beginning in approximately 3000 BC Egypt’s Western Desert under the By Guido Guarducci This book discusses and reconstructs leadership of Anthony J. Mills and with the Sumerians, this authoritative the emergence and development of presents a synthesis of the current This study analyses the social and short history gives a masterly the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in state of our knowledge of the oasis symbolic value of the material overview of warfare and fighting in Laconia by examining the landscape and its interconnections with surrounding regions, culture, in particular the pottery production and the the age of the Old Testament, including many ancient of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post- especially the Nile Valley. architecture, and the social structure of the local cultures from the Middle East such as the Sumerians, funerary customs and rituals, and by offering patterns communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Akkadians, Philistines, Hittites and Hebrews. over a longue durée. 500pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran 9781789253764, Hardback, £60.00 160pp, 25-30, Casemate UK, 2019, 9781612007939, 288pp, approx. 550 drawings, images and maps,, Oxbow during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Hardback, £9.99 Early Iron Age. Books, 2019, 9781789252422, Hardback, £48.00 272pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, Forthcming, £7.00 until publication 9781789252781, Hardback, £60.00

Perspectives on Lived Digging up the Bible? Beyond the Cyclades Deliciae Fictiles V. Religion The Excavations at Tell Deir Early Cycladic Sculpture in Networks and Practices Transmission Landscape Alla, Jordan (1960-1967) Context from Mainland Greece, Workshops the North and East Aegean Edited by Nico Staring, Huw By Margreet L. Steiner and Architectural Terracottas and Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss Bart Wagemakers Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Decorative Roof Systems Renfrew and Michael J. Boyd The 16 papers presented here The story of the excavations at Tell in Italy and Beyond discuss the archaeology of religion Deir Alla in the 1960s have never This second volume on Early Cycladic Edited by Patricia Lulof, Ilaria and religious practices, landscape been told in any detail, and the (and Cycladicising) sculptures found Manzini and Carlo Rescigno archaeology and 'cultural geography', excavation results have mostly been in the Aegean, examines finds from and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, published in scholarly books and journals which are mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the Contributors discuss the network between patron across the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to difficult to access. This book hopes to remedy that. north and east Aegean, with the exception of those elites and specialized craft communities that were the Christian periods, but also further afield to Sudan, discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding responsible for the sophisticated terracotta decoration 156pp, 30fc/85bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, of temples in Italy between 600 and 100 BC, asking how the Arabian peninsula, China and southeast Asia. 9789088908736, Paperback, £35.00 volume), and of those found in Crete. images, iconographies, practices and materials can be 315pp, 80fc/70bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, 328pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250602, used to explain the organization of ancient production, 9789088907920, Paperback, £50.00 Hardback, £40.00 distribution and consumption. 688pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253108, Hardback, £60.00 4 • NEW EGYPT, NEAR EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY WW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Collapse or Survival Julius Caesar Roman and Medieval Byzantine Butrint Micro-dynamics of crisis and Rome's Greatest Warlord Carlisle: the Northen Excavations and Surveys 1994-99 endurance in the ancient By Simon Elliott Lanes, Excavations By Kosta Lako and William Bowden central Mediterranean Julius Caesar has been the inspiration 1978-82 This book brings to life this Edited by Elisa Perego, Rafael to countless military commanders Volume One: The Roman Period extraordinary Byzantine town, with Scopacasa and Silvia Amicone over the last two millennia. This chapters on the historical sources, concise history details his military life, By John Zant and Christine various aspects of the archaeological Explores localised phenomena Howard-Davis of crisis, unrest and survival in and how it impacted with his political excavation and survey, finds of the ancient Mediterranean first career, from his youth through the This volume presents the evidence pottery and environmental remains. civil wars that resulted in his becoming the dictator of millennium BC, a region which represents a unique for Roman occupation within the northern Lanes, from 432pp, 88 b/w pls, 169 b/w illus, 31 col pls, 16 col illu, convergence point for both large and small scale social Rome, and his legacy. the construction of a probable military camp and a Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253436, Paperback, £30.00 changes and patterns of human mobility. 160pp, 30 black and white photos and diagrams, Casemate series of large timber buildings, possibly mansiones, in UK, 2019, 9781612007090, Hardback, £9.99 the early Roman period, to the expansion of civilian Forthcoming, 24.00 until publication 208pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789251005, Hardback, £45.00 settlement across this area during the mid-late second century AD. 256pp, 315 illustrations; 127 olates; 96 tables, Oxford Archaeology North, 2019, 9781907686290, Paperback, £25.0o Mediterranean Julius Caesar’s Battle The Maryport Roman The Bir Messaouda Archaeologies of for Gaul Settlement Project Basilica Insularity in the Age of New Archaeological Perspectives Excavation 2013-14 Pilgrimage and the Transformation Globalization Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick By John Zant of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage Edited by Anna Kouremenos and Colin Haselgrove A research and community-training and Jody Michael Gordon This book latest archaeological excavation conducted between 2013- By Richard Miles and Simon Greenslade The purpose of this volume is research on the Battle for Gaul 14 within the Roman extramural This volume charts the radical to explore how comparative and its aftermath, exploring the settlement at Maryport. The primary transformation of an inner city archaeologies of insularity can consequences of the war on the aim of the project was to enhance neighbourhood in late antique contribute to discourse on ancient Mediterranean Iron Age communities of north-west Europe through understanding of the settlement through the excavation Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period. "globalization." It brings together archaeologists working archaeology and numismatics. of a single building plot, the first time this had been The neighbourhood remained primarily a residential on different islands and a range of material culture types 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250503, Paperback, undertaken at Maryport in modern times. one from the second century until 530s AD when a to examine diachronically how Mediterranean insularities £38.00 188pp, 128 colour images, Oxford Archaeology North, substantial basilica was constructed over the eastern half changed during eras when connectivity increased. 2019, 9781907686337, Paperback, £25.00 of the insula. 256pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781789253443, 440pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781785706806, Hardback, Paperback, £38.00 £55.00 Forthcoming, £30.40 until publication The Ancient Harbours Augustus and the The Transition to Late Change and Resilience of Piraeus Destruction of History Antiquity on the The Occupation of Mediterranean Volume II. Zea Harbour: the Group The politics of the past in Lower Danube Islands in Late Antiquity 1 and 2 Shipsheds and Slipways – early imperial Rome Excavations at Dichin, a late Edited by Miguel Ángel Cau Architecture, Topography and Finds Edited by Ingo Gildenhard, Ulrich Gotter, Roman/early Byzantine Fort Ontiveros and Catalina Mas Florit By Bjørn Lovén and Ioannis Sapountzis Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson and a Roman Aqueduct Change and Resilience offers a view This volume presents further results The ten case studies collected here By Andrew Poulter of the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity. of the archaeological investigations analyse how different authors and Excavations on the site of this conducted by the Zea Harbour agents (individual and collective) Themes include the rural economy, remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) external shifts in political power, and the changing sacred Project (ZHP) in 2004-2010 and 2012 of ancient developed specific conceptions of history and articulated formed part of a long-term programme of excavation shipsheds and slipways in Zea Harbour (Pashalimani), them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to landscape. A final group of papers pivots on changing and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic perceptions of island landscapes in Late Antiquity. both identified and possible, making them the best position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) as well as physical changes which mark the transition documented structures in Athens’ naval bases and in the new Augustan normal. from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages. 336pp, 65 black and white photos and illustrations, Oxbow wider Mediterranean. Books, 2019, 9781789251807, Paperback, £32.00 370pp, 10 bandw, Cambridge Philological Society, 2019, 904pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781785709586, Hardback, 221pp, 37 figs., 32 plates, Aarhus University Press, 2019, 9780956838162, Hardback, £60.00 £70.00 9788771848021, Hardback, £45.00

Documenting Ancient The Roman Villa at Dariali The Monasteries and Rhodes Maasbracht The ‘Caspian Gates’ in the Caucasus Monks of Nubia Archaeological Expeditions The archaeology and history of a from Antiquity to the Age of the By Artur Obłuski Huns and the Middle Ages and Rhodian Antiquities Roman settlement on the banks On the basis of archaeological Edited by Stine Schierup of the river Meuse (Province of By Eberhard Sauer and epigraphic data, the author Limburg, The Netherlands) reconstructs the life in Nubian The papers included in this volume A team of archaeologists has now Edited by WV.K Vos, Corrie shed much new light on the major monasteries. The work features a throw new light on the early catalogue of archaeological sites exploration history of Rhodes, from Bakels and T.A. Goossens gorge-blocking fort at Dariali and a barrier wall on a steep rocky ridge tentatively identified as locations the earliest documented discoveries In the Dutch archaeological of monastic communities, as well as an overview of to the more systematic work done by British, French, further north. Everyday objects and human remains community, the Roman Villa of Maasbracht has become reveal harsh living conditions and close connections to pertinent textual sources. Danish and Italian archaeologists. They ask how the famous for the beautiful remains of murals that have nature of this work contributes to and challenges our the Muslim South, as well as the steppe world of the 200pp, Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2019, survived to this day. Here chapters examine settlement north. 9788394684860, Hardback, £43.00 understanding of the ancient sites and the archaeological traces and structures, pottery, the building material, material they yielded? the wall painting fragments, animal remains and bone 1100pp, 700 black and white and colour images, Oxbow 336pp, Aarhus University Press, 2019, 9788771249873, artefacts, glass and jet, and finally the metalwork. Books, 2019, 9781789251920, Hardback, £75.00 Hardback, £35.00 204pp, Sidestone Press, 2019, 9789088908569, Forthcoming, £60.00 until publication Paperback, £45.00

Roman Imperial Rural Settlement and Butrint 5 Classical Syriac Coinage Volume II, Economic Activity The Non-Ceramic Finds By Arman Akopian Part 3 Olive oil, wine and amphorae from the Triconch Palace A grammar of Classical Syriac. An From AD 117 to AD 138 - Hadrian production on the Tarhuna plateau By William Bowden introductory course of eight lessons during the Roman period presents the Syriac phonology and By Richard Abdy and Peter Mittag This is the second volume arising script, followed by the basic course of By Muftah Ahmed from the 1994–2003 excavations of The standard reference work for 40 lessons. The book is designed to An exploration of the rural economy the Triconch Palace at Butrint, and cover one academic year. Roman Imperial coinage of Hadrian reports on the finds from the site now occupies a fully revised and of Tripolitania during Antiquity. The 399pp, Gorgias Press, 2019, chapters explore the geography (excluding the pottery), including greatly expanded standalone volume environmental evidence, the human and faunal remains, 9781463239794, Paperback, £71.00 to cover the last epoch of what many consider the and climate of the area and present the results of the author’s archaeological survey. Settlement types and metal-working evidence, and the major assemblages of apogee of Roman coinage – begun with Nero’s reform glass, coins and small finds. of AD 64 when great effort was taken over their their constructions are examined, followed by a detailed iconographic designs. analysis of olive oil presses and their production capacity. 320pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781785708978, Hardback, was £45.00 608pp, Spink Books, 2019, 9781912667185, Hardback, Finally, amphora production sites are discussed. £150.00 216pp, 136, Society for Libyan Studies, 2019, Forthcoming, £33.75 until publication 9781900971553, Paperback, £40.00

Glass of the Roman Army of the Roman Butrint 6: Excavations The People and the World Emperors on the Vrina Plain Peoples Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Archaeology and History Volume 3 Syriac Dialogue Poems Freestone and Caroline Jackson By Thomas Fischer and M. C. Bishop The Roman and late Antique pottery from Late Antiquity These papers both extend and Thomas Fischer presents a from the Vrina Plain Excavations By Sebastian P. Brock consolidate aspects of our comprehensive and unique By Paul Reynolds This book provides the Syriac texts understanding of how glass exploration of the Roman military and annotated English translations was produced, traded and used Volume III discusses the Roman and of the imperial era. With over 600 Late Antique pottery. It provides of four anonymous dialogue poems throughout the Empire and the illustrations, the costumes, weapons (with separate introductions to each) wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns a comprehensive and in depth review of the pottery, and equipment of the Roman army are explored in detail context by context, offering an important insight into the where the protagonists are, respectively, Synagogue and of distribution, and other methodologies, including the using archaeological finds dating from the late Republic Church, Sion and Church, Jesus and the Synagogue, Jesus incorporation of new scientific methods. supply, as well as typology, of local and imported pottery to Late Antiquity, and from all over the Roman Empire. available to the inhabitants of the Vrina Plain during this and the Pharisees. 232pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2019, 456pp, 574 colour and black and white images, Oxbow period. 150pp, 15, Journal of Jewish Studies, 2019, 9781789253399, Paperback, £35.00 Books, 2019, 9781789251845, Hardback, £45.00 352pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9780957522817, Paperback, £45.00 9781789252217, Hardback, £60.00

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM NEW GREECE AND ROME • 5 The Mongol Conquests Early Christianity in The Lost Art of the Magic, Metallurgy and The Military Operations of South-West Britain Anglo-Saxon World Imagination in Genghis Khan and Sube'etei Wessex, Somerset, Devon, The Sacred and Secular Medieval Ireland By Carl Fredrik Sverdrup Cornwall and the Channel Islands Power of Embroidery Three Studies This book offers a detailed narrative By Elizabeth Rees By Alexandra Lester-Makin By John Carey of the military operations of Genghis This book offers a new assessment This volume presents the first Khan and his successor Sübe’etei. This book is a study of the rich and of early Christianity in south-west substantial history of early medieval fascinating traditions found early Irish Many conventional wisdom views Britain from the fourth to the tenth embroideries and their context of the Mongols, such as their use of literature concerning smiths and the centuries. It is based on evidence within the British Isles. New research fashioning of metal. The smith was terror as a deliberate strategy, or their excellence at from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent carried out on those embroideries that are accessible siege warfare, are shown to be incorrect. associated with magic and the supernatural, as well as critical scholarship and covers Wessex, Devon and today, involving the collection of technical data, stitch having special legal status, and a marginal and ambiguous 392pp, 27 maps, Helion and Company, 2020, Cornwall. analysis, observations of condition and wear-marks position within the community. 9781913336059, Paperback, £25.00 440pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781789253481, and microscopic photography supplements a survey of existing published and archival sources. 148pp, 2, Celtic Studies Publications, 2019, Paperback, £34.99 9781891271281, Paperback, £14.95 256pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, Forthcoming, £27.99 until publication 9781789251449, Paperback, £38.00

The Making of the Crafts and Social Looting or Missioning The McCarthy Mosque Networks in Viking Insular and Continental Collection A Survey of Religious Imperatives Towns Sacred Objects in Viking Age Spanish, English, Flemish and Contexts in Norway By Essam Ayyad Edited by Steven P. Ashby Central European Miniatures By Egil Mikkelsen While the structure built by the and Søren Sindbaek By Peter Kidd Prophet in Madina, soon after the Crafting Communities explores Until now insular and continental This handsome catalogue is the Hijra in 622 AD, is believed by many the interface between craft, material found in pagan Viking second of a three-volume set to have later provided the prototype communication networks, and Age graves in Norway has been exploring the McCarthy collection, of the mosque, the dominant theory urbanization in Viking-age Northern interpreted as looted material arguably the largest and most that it was only a private residence casts doubt on Europe. It brings together leading UK and Scandinavian from churches and monasteries. This volume proposes important private collection of illuminated cuttings, that belief. The current study provides fresh evidence, archaeological specialists to explore crafted products an alternative interpretation: they were brought by miniatures, and leaves in the world. It is dedicated based on the Quran, Hadith and early poetry, that this and workshop-assemblages from these towns, in order Christian missionaries from different parts of the British to Spanish, English, Flemish and Central European structure was indeed built to be a mosque. to clarify how such long-range communication worked. Isles and the Continent to Norway. manuscripts from the 12th to late 15th centuries. 493pp, Gorgias Press, 2019, 9781463207274, Hardback 224pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 256pp, colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789253184, 248pp, Ad Ilissum, 2019, 9781912168132, Hardback, £100.00 9781789251609, Paperback, £38.00 Hardback, £48.00 £80.00

The Zaydi Reception of St Michael's Church, The Ancient Ways of The McCarthy Bahshamite Workington Wessex Collection Mu’tazilism Excavation of an Early Travel and Communication in French Miniatures By Sabine Schmidtke Medieval Cemetery an Early Medieval Landscape By Peter Kidd The magmu’a, a facsimile of which is By John Zant and Adam Parsons By Alexander Langlands This substantial catalogue is the included in the present publication, In September 1994, the parish church The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells final of a three-volume set exploring was written between 673/1274- of St Michael, Workington, was the story of Wessex’s roads in the a remarkable collection of leaves 75 and 676/1277 and contains badly damaged by fire, reducing the early medieval period, at the point and miniatures from medieval doctrinal works by Imami and Zaydi interior to a shell. The archaeological at which they first emerge in the manuscripts. Richly detailed with theologians from both Iran and from Yemen. excavation prior to reconstruction began provided historical record. What emerges is a dynamic web of plentiful illustrations, this notable contribution to 378pp, Gorgias Press, 2019, 9781463240295, Hardback a rare opportunity to study the origins of one of interconnecting routeways serving multiple functions and medieval scholarship describes French material from c. £232.00 the earliest, and long-lived, early medieval Christian one, perhaps, even busier than that in our own working 1100 to the 15th century, with particular strength in the cemeteries in North-west England. countryside. 13th and 14th centuries. 170pp, 129 colour images, Oxford Archaeology North, 256pp, b/w and colour, Windgather Press, 2019, 336pp, Ad Ilissum, 2019, 9781912168187, Hardback, 2019, 9781907686313, Paperback, £20.00 9781911188513, Paperback, £35.00 £100.00 Forthcoming

Zwischen Maturidiya The Staffordshire The Viking Way The Lombard und Aš’ariya Hoard Magic and Mind in Late Haggadah Abu Šakur as-Salimi und sein An Anglo-Saxon Treasure Iron Age Scandinavia By Milvia Bollati, Marc Michael Tamhid fi bayan at-tauhid Edited by Chris Fern, Tania By Neil Price Epstein and Flora Cassen By Angelika Brodersen Dickinson and Leslie Webster This book examines the evidence This scholarly book includes chapters The present work provides a new The full scholarly publication of the for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its on the art, iconography, and historical edition and substantial German Staffordshire Hoard. Key chapters meaning and function, practice and context of a remarkable medieval commentary of the important discuss the decoration and meaning practitioners, and the complicated manuscript: a Haggadah created in the theological Arabic work Al-Tamhid of the Hoard’s intricate ornament, constructions of gender and sexual circle of the famous artist Giovannino fi bayan al-tauhid (“Introduction to the explanation of the techniques of Anglo-Saxon craftsmen, the religious identity with which these were underpinned. What de’Grassi (d. 1398) in Milan in the late fourteenth monotheism”) by the 5th/11th century scholar Abu and historical background, and hoarding practice in emerges is a fundamentally new image of the world in century. Shakur al-Salimi Britain and Europe, to place this most exceptional find which the Vikings understood themselves to move. 240pp, 200 illustrations, Les Enluminures, 2019, 515pp, Gorgias Press, 2019, 9781463239411, Hardback in context. 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781842172605, Hardback, 9781911300663, Hardback, £45.00 £100.00 640pp, 355, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2019, £30.00 9781527233508, Hardback, £45.00

Legacy of the Masters A Norse Settlement in Llangorse Crannog The Romanesque Islamic Painting and Calligraphy the Outer Hebrides The Excavation of an Early Abbey of St Peter at By Will Kwiatkowski Excavations on Mounds 2 and Medieval Royal Site in the Gloucester Kingdom of Brycheiniog This publication presents a collection 2A, Bornais, South Uist By Carolyn Heighway and of over sixty paintings, drawings and Edited by Niall Sharples By Alan Lane and Mark Redknap Richard Bryant calligraphic specimens mostly made The settlement at Bornais in the The crannog on Llangorse Lake near The survival of so much of the abbey in the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Western Isles of Scotland is one of Brecon in mid Wales was discovered of 1089 is remarkable, and often Mughal Empires in the period from the largest rural settlements known in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by not appreciated by the casual visitor the 16th through the early 19th from the Norse period in Britain, two local antiquaries. This publication to Gloucester Cathedral since it is century for inclusion in albums (muraqqa‘). spanning the period from the fifth to the fifteenth re-examines the early investigations, describes in detail ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, 224pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019, 9781911300731, century AD. The evidence presented in this volume the anatomy of the crannog mound and its construction, surveys have been produced which enable accurate Hardback, £50.00 makes a major contribution to the understanding of and the material culture found. plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late Norse Scotland and the colonisation of the North 400pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; Atlantic. 9781789253061, Hardback, was £40.00 deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. 752pp, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789250466, Hardback, Forthcoming, £32.00 until publication £35.00 128pp, Colour illustratons, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789254143, Paperback, £24.99

Silver and The Glass Vessels of Settlement change Living off the Land Frankincense Anglo-Saxon England across Medieval Agriculture in Wales c. 400–1600 AD Scent and personal adornment c. AD 650-1100 Europe Edited by Rhiannon Comeau in the Arab world By Rose Broadley Old paradigms and new vistas and Andy Seaman By Sigrid van Roode This volume combines a Edited by Niall Brady and This is the first book for a generation This book presents an introduction comprehensive exploration of all Claudia Theune on medieval agriculture in Wales. vessel glass from middle and late Themes covered include the use of into this lesser known aspect of The authors of these 36 papers focus personal adornment in the Arab Anglo-Saxon England and a review infield-outfield systems, seasonal land of the early glass with detailed on transmissions and transformations use and its impact on territorial and world. Starting from a historic in a longue durée perspective, from the early Middle background, it explores the uses of scent in personal interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon estate structures, and regional variation, all explored society. It provides the first quantification of form, colour, Ages to the early modern era. Topics include the using a wide array of complementary multidisciplinary appearance such as jewellery, hairstyles and make-up, but shrinking and disappearance of settlements; changes also its purpose in religious, ritual and social context. and decoration, and a new typological, chronological and approaches. geographical framework. in rule and authority; developments in the agrarian 82pp, full colour images, Blikvelduitgevers Publishers, 2020, economy; the shift from handwork to manufacturing; 264pp, Windgather Press, 2019, 9781911188391, 9789492940100, Paperback, £19.00 224pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, demographic change. Paperback, £34.99 9781789253726, Paperback, £35.00 Forthcoming 446pp, 135fc/51bw, Sidestone Press, 2019, 9789088908064, Paperback, £70.00

6 • NEW ISLAMIC, ANGLO-SAXON AND MEDIEVAL WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Excavations at Oxford Estate Landscapes in Manet to Guercino: Virtuoso Castle 1999-2009 Northern Europe Bracquemond Draftsman By Julian Munby, Andrew Norton, Edited by Signe Boeskov, Unknown Letters to an By John Marciari Daniel Poore and Anne Dodd Kristine Dyrmann, Jonathan Artist and a Friend Accompanying an exhibition of Finch and Mikael Frausing This volume reports and discusses By Jean-Paul Bouillon drawings by Guercino from the This volume draws out the social, collection of the Morgan Library the results of the excavations, building This new edition publishes the cultural and political impact of and Museum, Guercino: Virtuoso recording, documentary research, and letters adressed by Édouard Manet manors and estates on landscapes Draftsman offers an overview of the the specialist finds and environmental (1832–1883) to his friend, the artist throughout northern Europe. The artist’s graphic work, ranging from analyses. The most substantial results Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914). The chapters provide insights into a broad range of histories, his early genre studies and caricatures, to the dense and relate to the late Saxon town and its rampart, and to the letters are presented in their original French language, such as the social worlds of burghers and nobility in dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and on to construction of the Norman motte and bailey castle and accompanied by meticulous comments on their dating the Dutch Republic, or the relationship between the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were its defensive rampart and ditches. and subject matter; illustrations reproduce most of the distribution of land and the agitation for electoral reform ends in themselves. 520pp, 293, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2019, works alluded to in the texts. 9781905905454, Hardback, £25.00 in nineteenth-century England. 80pp, Morgan Library, 2019, 9781911300694, Paperback, 300pp, Aarhus University Press, 2019, 9788771845198, 136pp, Ad Ilissum, 2020, 9781912168170, Paperback, £15.50 Hardback, £35.00 £35.00 Forthcoming Now £12.50

Mount Grace Priory: Manufactured Bodies Portrait of an Artist Portraying Pregnancy Excavations of 1957– The Impact of Industrialisation By Paul Liss Holbein to Instagram 1992 on London Health This publication examines how artists By Karen Hearn Edited by Glyn Coppack By Gaynor Western and Jelena Bekvalac portray themselves in self-portraits Comprising material from the 15th and Laurence Keen and how they portray their fellow century through to the present day, The archive of human skeletal remains artists. The artist’s studio, models and This volume presents results of at the Museum of London provides Portraying Pregnancy accompanies an milieu (friends, family etc) are also exhibition at the Foundling Museum. excavations and recording of the a large bank of evidence that has considered. most important Carthusian site in been explored here, along with other It considers the different ways in England. It includes detailed recording skeletal collections from around 352pp, Over 300 illus., Liss Llewellyn which (from the late Middle Ages Fine Art, 2020, 9781999314545, Paperback, was £35.00 survey of standing buildings, monastic formal gardens England, to investigate how far some diseases go back in onwards) a sitter’s pregnancy was, or was not, visibly and analysis of an important collection of architectural time and what we can tell about the influence of living Forthcoming, now £28.00 represented to the viewer. fragments. environments past and present on human health. 112pp, 80, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020, 448pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 272pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781911300809, Paperback, was £17.50 9781789253146, Hardback, £30.00 9781789253221, Paperback, £19.99 Forthcoming, now £14.50 Forthcoming, £15.99 until publication

The Medieval Priory How Armies Grow Phyllis Dodd (1899- Raphael and the Pope’s and Hospital of St The Expansion of Military Forces in 1995)/ Douglas Percy Librarian Mary Spital and the the Age of Total War 1789–1945 Bliss (1900-1984) By Nathaniel Silver and Ingrid Rowland Bishopsgate Suburb Edited by Matthias Strohn By Paul Liss and Edited Raphael and the Pope’s Librarian By Chiz Harward, Nick Holder, This anthology analyses a number of by Sacha Llewellyn brings together for the first time the Christopher Phillpotts and case studies and provides insights into This book presents the work of the Gardner Museum’s portrait of papal librarian Tommaso Inghirami and a Christopher Thomas themes and topics that characterised artists Phyllis Dodd and her husband the so-called ‘reconstitution’ of Douglas Percy Bliss, whose work is painting from the Vatican Museums London’s Spitalfields Market was armies in their historical and social depicting an episode in his life. This the location of one of the city’s largest archaeological exhibited across the UK including contexts. The period covered is the “age of total war” at The National Museum of Wales, Edinburgh Gallery book tells the story of the first Raphael in America and excavations. This book presents the archaeological and from the French Revolution to the end of the Second explores Inghirami’s fascinating career. documentary evidence for medieval activity here, on the of Modern Art, Glasgow City Art Gallery, The British World War. Museum, The Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert 64pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019, 9781911300762, north-eastern fringe of the historic city, and the site of Paperback, was £16.00 the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without 256pp, Casemate UK, 2019, 9781612006017, Hardback, Museum. Bishopsgate, later known as St Mary Spital. £50.00 192pp, Over 200 illus., Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, 2020, Now £13.00 315pp, 245, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), Now £40.00 9781999314538, Paperback, was £25.00 2019, 9781907586484, Hardback, £32.00 Forthcoming, now £20.00

The Cosmatesque A Pocket Guide to Hubert Arthur Finney Caravaggio’s Mosaics of British Gallantry (1905-1991) Cardsharps on Trial Westminster Abbey Awards By Paul Liss and Nicholas Finney Thwaytes v. Sotheby’s The Pavements and Royal Rewarding Gallantry in Action Hugh Finney was a painter, By Richard Spear Tombs: History, Archaeology, By Peter Duckers draughtsman and teacher. Although Vividly written and handsomely Architecture and Conservation he was reclusive and reluctant to illustrated, this account of Thwaytes v. This new Spink book offers an show his work he did exhibit at the By Warwick Rodwell and introductory guide to British and Sotheby’s – one of the major art trials RA Summer exhibition (in 1950 and of recent times – will be of interest By David S. Neal Imperial medals for gallantry which 1954) and the Portrait Society and at have appeared since 1854 and which to dealers, conservators and lawyers This volume presents the definitive description of the The Paris Salon. A large solo exhibition took place at the as well as all admirers of Caravaggio. only Cosmatesque mosiacs that survive outside Italy continue to be awarded to this day, illustrating the type University of Oxford’s Institute of Education in 1964. with a full discussion of their history and significance. of action which has led to the award of the various 392pp, 66 colour and 20 b/w, Paul Holberton Publishing, medals over nearly 200 years. 112pp, Approx 75 illus., Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, 2019, 2020, 9781916237810, Hardback, was £35.00 The book is superbly and painstakingly illustrated 9781999314521, Paperback, was £25.00 in colour by leading historical mosaics expert and 176pp, Spink Books, 2019, 9781912667024, Hardback, Forthcoming, now £28.00 watercolour artist David Neal. £20.00 Forthcoming, now £20.00 724pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2019, 9781789252347, Hardback, was £65.00

Animals and Paul Nash Early Colour Printing The Splendor of Archaeology in Another Life Another World German Renaissance Woodcuts Germany Northern Medieval By David Boyd Haycock at the British Museum Eighteenth-century Drawings Russia This catalogue charts the whole of By Elizabeth Savage from the Crocker Art Museum Edited by Mark Maltby Nash's career from his early days This richly illustrated publication By William Breazeale and before studying at the Slade School reproduces and describes effectively This volume deals with a substantial Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil of Art, through to his time at the every early modern German colour body of animal bones that has been The Crocker Art Museum has one Western Front during World War I as print held at the British Museum. recovered over the last decade of the finest and earliest German a serving officer and then an official It features masterpieces by leading from Novgorod and its hinterland. drawings collections in the United War Artist, and to his mature Surrealist-era works. figures like Erhard Ratdolt, Lucas Cranach, Hans Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baldung Grien, and Hans Burgkmair, as well as unfairly exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of 100pp, 78, Piano Nobile, 2019, 9781901192544, Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich overlooked entrepreneurs and innovators like Erasmus mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of Paperback, was £30.00 Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines Loy (and his daughter Anna). species. Now £24.00 the major developments in German draughtsmanship 200pp, b/w illus and accompanying CD with supporting 256pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019, 9781911300755, over the course of the eighteenth century. data, Oxbow Books, 2020, 9781842172773, Hardback, Hardback, was £50.00 144pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020, 9781911300779, £65.00 Forthcoming, now £40.00 Paperback, was £40.00 Forthcoming, £45.00 until publication Forthcoming, now £32.00

Medieval to Modern Art Deco by the Sea Divine People: The Art Painting from Nature Suburban Material By Ghislaine Wood and Other Bruce and Life of Ambrose Open Air Painting in Culture and Sequence Peter, Gill Saunders and Vanessa Toulmin McEvoy (1877–1927) Europe 1780–1870 at Grand Arcade, Art Deco by the Sea is a major By Erik Akers-Douglas and Edited by Ger Luijten, Mary new book and exhibition examining Edited by Lawrence Hendra Morton and Jane Munro Cambridge British coastal culture between the Archaeological Investigations First and Second World Wars. It Ambrose McEvoy was one of the This lavish catalogue presents of an Eleventh to Twentieth- celebrates iconic examples of Art most modern and daring English sketches made en plein air between the end of the eighteenth century and Century Suburb and Town Ditch Deco architecture, from hotels and society portrait painters of the early apartment blocks to piers, cinemas 20th century. Divine People is the late nineteenth century. It is organised Edited by Craig Cessford and Alison Dickens and sea fronts and shows how Art Deco became the key first major written study of McEvoy’s life and work and thematically, reviewing, as contemporary artists did, At 1.5 hectares the Grand Arcade investigations style for pleasure and entertainment. aims to firmly place this long-neglected artist back into motifs such as trees, rocks, water, volcanoes, and sky represent the largest archaeological excavation ever the canon of 20th-century British art. effects, and favourite topgraphical locations, such as 160pp, 120, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2020, Rome and Capri. undertaken in Cambridge. 9781916133600, Paperback, was £30.00 256pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019, 9781911300793, 495pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Hardback, was £35.00 256pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020, 9781911300786, Forthcoming, now £24.00 Hardback, was £45.00 2019, 9781902937786, Hardback, was £45.00 Forthcoming, now £28.00 Forthcoming Forthcoming, now £36.00

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The Age of the Horse Pilgrimage A History of Histories Dyes in History and An Equine Journey Through A Very Short Introduction By J. A. Burrow Archaeology 20 Human History By Ian Reader This book describes the intellectual By Jo Kirby By Susan Forrest Ian Reader explores the factors that impact that the study and Technical and specialised consideration of the past has had Susanna Forrest takes a journey affect how pilgrimage has changed papers focus on new methods for over time, from contemporary in the western world over the past analysing and processing ancient through time and around the world, 2500 years, treating the practise of from the Mongolian steppes to a international developments, such and historical dyes. Case studies as mass transportation to changing history not as an isolated pursuit but include ancient Near Eastern and mirrored manège at Versailles, an as an aspect of human society and an elegant polo club in Beijing and a social attitudes reflected in the Mediterranean dyes, Tyrian purple, motives of pilgrims through the ages. He demonstrates essential part of the cultural history 8th-century Japanese dyeing, Japanese indigo, Malachite farm, a fort and an auction house in America, exploring of Europe and America. the horse's crucial role and revealing how our culture the social and international aspects of pilgrimage, green, Chinese green, and Polish workshops. and economy were generated, nourished and shaped by showing how it has become a way of expressing social 576pp, Vintage Books, 2009, 9780375727672, Paperback, 200pp, 18 col pls, b/w illus, Archetype, 2005, horse power. identity and cultural heritage, as well as being entwined was £12.99 9781873132296, Paperback, was £40.00 with themes of entertainment and tourism. 432pp, b/w illus, Atlantic Books, 2017, 9780802126511, Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £20.00 144pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780198718222, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £7.95 Now £3.95

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The Cambridge Rome Greek Warriors Birds History of Western A Cultural, Visual, and Hoplites and Heroes By Dale Serjeantson Textiles Personal History By Carolyn Willekes This book serves as a guide to the By David Jenkins By Robert Hughes This expert introduction explores methods of study of bird remains the life and training of the citizen from the past and covers a wide This two-volume set looks at the Robert Hughes traces the city's range of topics, including anatomy production and use of textiles with history, and explores its art, from soldiers of the Greek city states, and how they fought against other Greek and osteology, taphonomy, eggs, contributors taking archaeological, its mythic foundation with Romulus feathers, and bone tools. It examines curatorial, art historical and historical and Remus to Fascism, Fellini and citizen armies and against the threat of Persia. the myriad ways in which people have approaches to the evidence. The beyond. Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, interacted with birds in the past. different parts of the book look at: Textile Industries contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a 160pp, 30 b/w illustrations, Casemate UK, 2017, of the Ancient World; The Medieval Period; The Early monument both to human glory and human error. 9781612005157, Paperback, was £7.99 486pp, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Modern Period; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth 9780521758581, Paperback, was £28.99 498pp, col illus, Random House, 2012, 9780375711688, Now £3.95 Century. Paperback, was £16.99 Now £12.95 1500pp, b/w illus, 40 col pls, Cambridge University Press, Now £4.95 2003, 9780521341073, Hardback, was £365.00 Now £99.95

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Great City Maps The Mapmakers' Archaeographies Cosmopolitan By Jeremy Black World Excavating Neolithic Dispilio Archaeologies This beautifully illustrated book A Cultural History of the By Fotis Ifantidis By Lynn Meskell explores the world's most celebrated European World Map This book consists one of the very The essays in this volume address historical city maps in stunning detail. first experimentations in printed archaeological ethics, exploring the It follows the history of over 70 Other Juha Nurminen and Edited by Peter Barber and By Marjo Nurminen format, dealing with the visual obligations to local communities maps and their stories, with profiles interplay between archaeology and which archaeologists increasingly of iconic cartographers and artists The Mapmakers’ World illuminates photography. The case study is the observe, and the global political showing you who created each map, the fascinating cultural history of excavation of the Greek Neolithic contexts in which they operate, how, and why European world maps: what do settlement of Dispilio. The book tackles archaeological drawing on recent developments in cosmopolitan theory 256pp, col illus, Dorling Kindersley, 2016, 9780241238981, historical world maps tell of us, of our perception of the practice on site, the microcosms of excavation, and the and ethics. Hardback, was £20.00 world, and of places and peoples that are foreign to us? interaction between people and “things”. Who were the makers of these early world maps? How 296pp, Duke University Press, 2009, 9780822344445, Now £9.95 were the maps created and for whom were they drawn 112pp, b/w illus, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2013, Paperback, was £21.99 and printed? For what purposes were they used? 9781905739622, Paperback, was £9.50 Now £4.95 360pp, 300 colour and b/w maps, The Pool of London Press, Now £2.95 2015, 9781910860007, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95 8 • GENERAL INTEREST AND METHOD AND THEORY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Innovation in Cultural Archaeomalacology Development-led From These Bare Systems Revisited Archaeology in North- Bones Contributions in Evolutionary Non-dietary use of molluscs West Europe Raw Materials and the Study of Anthropology in archaeological settings Edited by Richard Bradley, Worked Osseous Objects Edited by Michael J. O'Brien Edited by Canan Cakirlar Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Edited by Alice Choyke and Stephen Shennan These ten papers revisit important Linden and Leo Webley and Sonia O'Connor The contributors to this volume archaeological issues such as These 12 papers bring together The 20 papers presented here consider innovation in biological provenance of raw materials, dye data on developer-led archaeology explore a wealth of information terms; they discuss modern insights production and the secondary uses in Britain, Ireland, France, the Low pertaining to the use of osseous into innovation; and they offer case studies of innovation of industrial shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the Countries, Germany and Denmark in order to review materials over the long period of human craftsmanship from archaeological and ethnographic records, examining symbolic world of diverse civilisations, technology and and evaluate key common issues relating to organisation, and tool manufacture by exploring raw material developmental, behavioral, and social patterns. early cross-regional exchange networks. practice, legal frameworks and quality management. selection and curation within tool types, social aspects 288pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262013338, 104pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 200pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174661, of raw material selection, and new methods of materials Hardback, was £37.95 9781842174364, Paperback, was £32.00 Paperback, was £38.00 identification. Now £7.95 256pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2013, Now £9.95 Now £12.95 9781782972112, Paperback, was £39.95 Now £14.95

Dennis Jackson Bones and Identity Dress and Society Great Excavations A Northamptonshire Archaeologist Edited by Nimrod Marom, Contributions from Archaeology Shaping the Archaeological By Dennis Jackson Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Edited by T. F. Martin and R. Weetch Profession Weissbrod and Guy Bar-Oz This autobiography covers work on Presents a refreshingly new, Edited by John Schofield Neolithic and Bronze Age burials, Seventeen papers demonstrate theoretically informed and integrated This is a fascinating and entertaining numerous Iron Age and Roman how zooarchaeologists engage with approach to dress as a specific retrospective documenting some settlements and an Anglo-Saxon questions of identity through culinary category of archaeological evidence of the seminal British excavations, cemetery. The book also includes references, livestock husbandry by focusing on the close relationship assessing why they were so significant reviews of pit alignments, Iron Age practices and land use. Contributions between dress, identity, bodies and and why they persist in the memory settlement studies and a proposed chronology for Iron combine hitherto unpublished material culture and folklore of archaeologists today. Fourteen chapters zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide Age pottery assemblages in Northamptonshire. 192pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703157, describe specific projects, while six further chapters geographic expanse between Greece in the West and provide a thematic overview. 174pp, col illus, Northamptonshire County Council, 2010, India in the East and spanning a time range from the Paperback, was £36.00 9780950715148, Paperback, was £14.50 latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. 368pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Now £12.95 9781842174098, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £4.95 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701726, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

A Geography of Care in the Past Engaging with the Incomplete Offerings Edited by Lindsay Powell, William Dead Archaeologies Deposits of Valuables in the Southwell-Wright and Rebecca Gowland Edited by Jennie Bradbury Edited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn Landscapes of Ancient Europe The 12 papers in this volume bring and Chris Scarre J. Franklin and James A. Johnson By Richard Bradley together archaeological, historical, and Engaging with the Dead adopts a This collection focuses on the actions, philosophical perspectives to examine A provocative study of current cross-disciplinary, archaeologically practices and processes leading the topic of care in past societies, and focused, approach to explore a variety to the formation of archaeological approaches to and theories regarding how we might recognise the provision the character, location, social and of themes linked to the interpretation assemblages. The ultimate aim is of care in archaeological contexts. of mortuary traditions, death and to reassert an awareness of the physical context and object histories The topic of care is examined of specialised deposits in the European archaeological the ways of disposing of the dead. Contributors explore incompleteness of assemblage, and thus the importance through three different strands: care throughout the life changing beliefs and practices over time, considering of practices of assembling (whether they seem at first record. This is an extended essay about the strengths course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised how modern archaeology, ethnography and historical creative or destructive) for understanding social life in members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards records can aid our interpretations of the past. the past as well as the present. deposits. impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both 160pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, recipients of care and as tools for its provision. 288pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2017, 176pp, black/white illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785706639, Hardback, was £55.00 9781785701153, Paperback, was £36.00 9781785704772, Paperback, was £15.99 208pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703355, Now £7.95 Paperback, was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Ancient Textiles Children, Spaces and Environment and Locating the Sacred Production, Crafts and Society Identity Aggregate-Related Theoretical Approaches to the By Marie-Louise Nosch and C. Gillis Edited by Margarita Sánchez Archaeology Emplacement of Religion This volume brings together Romero, Eva Alarcón García and By Tony Brown Edited by Claudia Moser Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez researchers from northern and This volume provides a synthetic and Cecelia Feldman southern Europe to look in more Specialists from archaeology, history, review of the background and These essays, with a wide detail at textiles in the ancient world, literature, architecture, didactics, archaeology that has emerged chronological and geographical combining a chronological survey museology and anthropology through archaeological interventions coverage, aim at an understanding of with papers on production and the build a body of theoretical and associated with the quarrying of religious ritual not as a disembodied symbolism and meaning of textiles. methodological approaches about how space is sand, gravel, and rock for aggregates. The book covers all event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and 304pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, articulated and organised around children and how this periods from the Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval, and is natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated 9781782978305, Paperback, was £38.00 disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social organized on a regional basis. material objects. identities. Now £14.95 232pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2009, 144pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, 384pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781905223022, Paperback, was £38.00 9781782976165, Paperback, was £25.00 9781782979357, Paperback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

Archaeologies of Text Creating Material Ethnozooarchaeology Medicine, Healing and Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics Worlds The Present and Past of Human- Performance Edited by Matthew T. Rutz The Uses of Identity in Archaeology Animal Relationships Edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, and Morag Kersel Edited by Adrián Maldonado, Edited by Umberto Albarella Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, These essays tackle current Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell and Angela Trentacoste Ellen McInnes and Rhiannon Pettitt theoretical and practical problems and Louisa Campbell This book examines how the study These papers take a multi-disciplinary involved in interdisciplinary research Explores new theoretical approaches of human-animal relations can help us approach to the topic, addressing into the archaeological contexts of to the relationship between people interpret archaeological evidence. An such issues as the cultural conception early inscription. and objects, demonstrating how international range of contributors of disease; the impact of gender 278pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, identity can be seen as an emergent property of living examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by 9781782977667, Paperback, was £30.00 in a material world, and including a critical review of and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and syncretism; the relationship between material culture techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional and the body; and the role played by the active agency Now £9.95 theories of identity. Research areas span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with case studies from the societies. of the sick. Mesolithic to the contemporary world. 208pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179970, 176pp, B/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701801, Paperback, Hardback, was £48.00 9781782971580, Paperback, was £36.00 was £36.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Archaeologies of Death embodied Forms of Dwelling Paradigm Found Waste Archaeological approaches to Edited byUlla Rajala and Philip Mills Archaeological Theory – Present, Encounters with the Unwanted the treatment of the corpse An important new collection of Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný Edited by Daniel Sosna and Edited by Zoë L. Devlin and theoretical and case study papers assessing the continued importance Lenka Brunclíková Emma-Jayne Graham Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, and value of the taskscapes approach Ladislav Šmejda and Jan Turek A multi-disciplinary exploration Archaeological interpretations of in archaeological research 20 years of the relationship between waste burial remains can often suggest that after its conception.While exploring These 23 papers provide a discussion and human societies in terms of the skeletons which we uncover, and new frontiers, the papers contrast of the issues currently re-appearing value, social differentiation, and therefore usually associate with past British, Nordic and Mediterranean in the focal point of theoretical space. In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging funerary practices, were what was actually deposited in archaeologies to showcase the study of material culture debates in archaeology such as the role of the discipline from the relationship between waste and identity in graves, rather than articulated corpses. The nine papers and landscape and conclude with an assessment of the in the present-day society, problems of interpretation in early agricultural settlements to the perception of provide a series of theoretically informed, but not concept of taskcape and its further developments. archaeology, approaches to the study of social evolution, contemporary nuclear waste. constrained, case studies which focus predominantly on as well as current insights into issues in classification and the corporeal body in death. 272pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703775, construction of typologies. 182pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703270, Paperback, was £38.00 Paperback, was £36.00 174pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979432, 288pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £12.95 9781782977704, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM METHOD AND THEORY BARGAINS • 9 People with Animals The Archaeology of Discovering The Past The Strait Gate Perspectives and Studies in Darkness Through Archaeology Thresholds and Power in Ethnozooarchaeology Edited by Marion Dowd By Chris Catling Western History Edited by Lee G. Broderick and Robert Hensey A well-illustrated introduction By Daniel Jutte People with Animals emphasises Archaeology shows us that over the to archaeology, which not only The Strait Gate demonstrates how the interdependence of people and whole human journey people have presents the more spectacular doors, gates, and related technologies animals in society, and contributors sought out dark places, for burials, for sites and discoveries, as do many such as the key and the lock have examine the variety of forms and votive deposition and sometimes for similar offerings, but also includes shaped the way we perceive and time-depth that these relations retreat or religious ritual away from information on how archaeologists navigate the domestic and urban can take. The types of relationship studied include the the wider community. Thirteen papers examine how the go about their task, with sections on fieldwork and spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jutte importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as senses are affected in caves and monuments that were exacavation, scientific techniques, post-excavation reveals how doors have served as sites of power, livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, used for ritual activities, from Bronze Age miners in analysis, and the development of archaeological thought. exclusion, and inclusion-and, by extension, as metaphors butchery, symbolism and food. Wales, to initiands in Italian caves, to a modern caver’s 128pp, col illus, Southwater, 2011, 9781844769957, for salvation-in the course of Western history. 156pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702471, Paperback, experience in one of the world’s deepest caves in Russia. Paperback, was £8.99 384pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, was £38.00 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701917, Paperback, 9780300211085, Hardback, was £30.00 was £32.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Prehistoric, Ancient The Archaeology of Genes, Memes and Landscape Biographies Near Eastern and the Dead Human History Geographical, Historical and Aegean Textiles and By Henri Duday Darwinian Archaeology Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Dress This book looks at the way in which and Cultural Evolution Transmission of Landscapes An Interdisciplinary Anthology the analysis of skeletons can allow By Stephen Shennan us to re-discover the lives of people Edited by Rita Hermans, Jan Shennan explores the potential for a Edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile who came before us and inform us of Kolen and Hans Renes Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch their view of death. Duday throughly neo-Darwinian evolutionary approach In Landscape Biographies, twenty examines the means at our disposal to some of the major concerns The essays in this volume offer a fresh geographers, archaeologists, historians, to allow the dead to speak, as well as identifying the and issues within archaeology. insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which pitfalls that may deceive us. He reviews the concept of memes and applies it to of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, human exploitation of resources, population histories, landscapes and monuments have been constructed, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad 230pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173565, the transmission of cultural traditions, male-female transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the geographical and chronological spectrum. Paperback, was £32.00 relationships and social evolution, competition and present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to 224pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £12.95 warfare. Portugal, and from England to Estonia 9781782977193, Hardback, was £40.00 304pp, 47 b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 2002, 438pp, b/w illus, Amsterdam University Press, 2015, Now £12.95 9780500051184, Hardback, was £19.95 9789089644725, Hardback, was £94.00 Now £5.95 Now £19.95

Re-Presenting the Past The Death of Ships and Shipwrecks The Archaeology of Archaeology through Text and Image Archaeological of the Americas Hill Farming on Edited by Sheila Bonde and Theory? Edited By George F. Bass Exmoor Stephen Houston Edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce A survey of the maritime history By Cain Hegarty and The archaeological past exists for This book addresses the provocative of the New World. The book brings Robert Wilson-North us through intermediaries. Some subject of whether it is time to together the work of leading nautical Meticulous survey work is presented are written works, descriptions, discount the burden of somewhat archaeologists, each with first-hand showing how nearly 700 years narratives and field notes, while dogmatic theory and ideology that diving experience. Twelve chapters of‘reclamation’ on the royal forest of others are visual. These essays raise has defined archaeological debate tell the story of watercraft in the Exmoor, its surrounding commons key questions about the function of re-presentations of and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven Americas, accompanied by photographs, paintings, and its hill farms, has helped to shape the landscape the past in current archaeological practice. chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also diagrams, charts and maps. of Exmoor National Park. This includes recent air 215pp, 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs, Oxbow Books, 2013, assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future 272pp, col illus, Thames and Hudson, 1996, photographs, reconstructions, detailed plans and maps. 9781782972310, Paperback, was £25.00 directions. 9780500278925, Paperback, was £16.95 128pp, 116, English Heritage, 2014, 9781848020825, Now £5.00 96pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174463, Now £5.95 Paperback, was £20.00 Paperback, was £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Shell Energy Underground Surfaces Agricultural and Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources Archaeology A History Pastoral Landscapes in Edited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Studies on Human Bones and By Joseph Anthony Amato Pre-Industrial Society Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara Artefacts from Ireland's Caves This theory-rich study spans a huge Choices, Stability and Change This volume brings together Edited by Marion Dowd sweep of time, from early hominids Edited by Fèlix Retamero, Inge information about little known, or This book brings together a series of to the present day and takes a Schjellerup and Althea Davies recently discovered, concentrations ground-breaking studies on human phenomenological approach to human of shell mounds. Discussions are interaction with surfaces. Overall This volume deals with the bones and artefacts recovered from technological constraints and presented on new approaches to Irish caves principally between 1870 it charts a transformation in that interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, relationship with humanity becoming a “knower and innovations that enabled societies to survive and and 1990.The 15 expert contributions presented here thrive across a range of environmental conditions. The analysis of molluscs, the use of shell as a raw material for shine a light on the use and perception of caves at maker of surfaces and a self-conscious, self-directing and making artefacts and in construction, and the variable self-designing animal”. three foci are colonisation, fields and field systems, and different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic pastoralism and attendant landscape adaptations. formation processes associated with mound formation. through to post-medieval times. 288pp, b/w illus, University of California Press, 2013, 320pp, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9780520272774, Hardback, was £27.00 280pp, col illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842173596, 232pp, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, Hardback, was £50.00 9781842177655, Hardback, was £60.00 9781785703515, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Shuffling Nags, Lame Wild Harvest Golden Ages and An Atlas of Ducks Plants in the Hominin and Pre- Barbarous Nations Northamptonshire The Archaeology of Animal Disease Agrarian Human Worlds Antiquarian Debate and Cultural The Medieval and Early- By László Bartosiewicz and Erika Gal Edited by Karen Hardy and Politics in Ireland, C.1750-1800 Modern Landscape Lucy Kubiak-Martens This volume provides an invaluable By Clare O'Halloran By Tracey Partida, David guide to the investigation of trauma A major new textbook discussing This book, the first major study Hall and Glenn Foard and disease in archaeozoological the role of plants in hominin and of Irish antiquarian and historical This volume presents an accurate assemblages. It provides a clear pre-agrarian human societies with writing during the turbulent second view of Northamptonshire's medieval methodological approach, and case studies drawn from ethnography, half of the eighteenth century, charts landscape with details of the medieval describes and explains the wide range of traumatic ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods the ways in which contemporary politics, notably the fields, woods, pastures and meadows which have been lesions, infections, diseases, inherited disorders and of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical Catholic question, legislative independence and the mapped by ground-survey of archaeological remains other pathological changes and anomalies that can be assemblages may be used and interpreted. gathering agrarian and political crises from the late confirmed where possible from aerial photographs identified. 368pp, black/white and colour images, Oxbow Books, 2016, 1780s, shaped articulations of the remote and recent and early maps. It details the whole county with the 264pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971894, Paperback, 9781785701238, Paperback, was £32.00 past. exception of Rockingham Forest, published elsewhere. was £38.00 Now £12.95 271pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 280pp, 95 col illus., Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175118, Now £14.95 9780268037215, Paperback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £40.00 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

Skyscapes The Memory Code The Dancing Caves in Context The Role and Importance of By Lynne Kelly Goddesses The Cultural Significance of Caves the Sky in Archaeology Lynne Kelly presents a new theory Folklore, Archaeology, and the and Rockshelters in Europe Edited by Fabio Silva and about the function of Prehistoric Origins of European Dance Edited by Knut Andreas Nicholas Campion monuments. She argues that the Bergsvik and Robin Skeates stone circles across Britain and By Elizabeth Wayland Barber Eleven papers extend discussion northern Europe, the elaborate From southern Greece to northern Caves and rockshelters are found all of the role and importance of the stone houses of New Mexico, huge Russia, people have long believed in over Europe, and have been occupied landscape and the wider environment animal shapes in Peru, the statues of female spirits, bringers of fertility, who by human groups, from prehistory to past societies, and to the Easter Island - all served as a memory spend their nights and days dancing right up to the present day. The aim of understanding and interpretation of their material system. They allowed people in non-literate cultures to in the fields and forests. Drawing on archaeological and this book is to explore the multiple significances of these remains, into consideration of the significance of the memorize the vast amounts of information they needed folklore this book traces these goddesses and the rituals natural places in a range of chronological, spatial, and celestial environment: the skyscape. to survive. surrounding them back through the Romans and Greeks cultural contexts across Europe. 210pp, colour and b/w illus., Oxbow Books, 2015, 336pp, b/w illus, col pls, Pegasus Books, 2017, to the first farmers of Europe. 304pp, 111 illus, 17 tables, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781782978404, Paperback, was £38.00 9781681773254, Hardback, was £20.00 448pp, b/w illus, W W Norton, 2014, 9780393348507, 9781842174746, Hardback, was £50.00 Paperback, was £15.99 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

10 • METHOD AND THEORY AND LANDSCAPE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Exploring and Wellington Quarry, Deer and People Shades of Green Explaining Diversity in Herefordshire (1986- Edited by Karis Baker, Ruth An Environmental and Cultural Agricultural 96) Carden and Richard Madgwick History of Sitka Spruce Technology Investigations of a Landscape This volume draws together research By Ruth Tittensor in the Lower Lugg Valley on deer from wide-ranging disciplines This book presents the first major Edited by Annelou van Gijn, John and in so doing substantially advances Whittaker and Patricia C. Anderson By Robin Jackson and Darren Miller study of the importance of Sitka our broader understanding of human- spruce in North America and the This volume presents the results of Each chapter provides an deer relationships in the past and British Isles in terms of landscape and the first 10 years of archaeological interdisciplinary overview of the the present. Themes include species landscape history, cultural perceptions investigation at Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire. skills used and the social context dispersal, exploitation patterns, and reactions, and in economic terms. of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of During this time a regionally unique archaeological and symbolic significance, material culture and art, effects on tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering the landscape and management. 375pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686779, Paperback, was £29.95 cereal processing and food preparation. nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and 248pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Windgather Press, 2014, 304pp, 285 col illus., Oxbow Books, 2014, landscape change. 9781909686540, Paperback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 9781842175156, Hardback, was £50.00 208pp, 57 tabs, 79 b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842173664, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Living with the Flood Wetland Archaeology Dury and Andrews’ St Kilda and the Wider Mesolithic to post-medieval and Environments Map of Hertfordshire World archaeological remains at Mill Regional issues, global perspectives By Andrew Macnair, Anne By Andrew Fleming Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire Edited by M. C. Lillie and S. Ellis Rowe and Tom Williamson Many of those writing about St Kilda – a wetland/dryland interface In this volume contributors This book describes the creation of have emphasised the remoteness By Samantha Paul, Kevin Colls demonstrate the rich heritage a new, digital version of an important and insularity of its environment. In and Henry P. Chapman resource that wetlands can contain county map that throws important this book Andrew Fleming challenges such interpretations. His history of This volume integrates archaeological and highlight the ways in which new light on Hertfordshire’s the islands reviews the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental analysis to archaeologists excavate and interpret landscape and society in the middle evidence for the first inhabitants before 2000 BC, how provide a detailed picture of life in an area of wetland/ the evidence. The chapters cover a wide range of site decades of the eighteenth century when it was they lived and survived, and how they became integrated dryland interface from the late glacial to the post- types, methodological approaches and geographical areas. produced, and in more remote periods. into the wider world. medieval periods. It compares the nature and utilisation 336pp, 127 b/w illus, 13 tabs, Oxbow Books, 2006, 240pp, Windgather Press, 2015, 9781909686731, of built structures from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and 9781842171547, Paperback, was £30.00 Paperback, was £35.00 226pp, 89 b/w and col pls, Windgather Press, 2005, Saxon period in their environmental contexts. 9781905119004, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 128pp, colour and b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £9.95 9781782979661, Paperback, was £19.95 Now £7.95

Memory, Myth and Landscape and Gardens in History Swaledale Long-Term Landscape Englishness A Political Perspective Valley of the Wold River Inhabitation By David Matless By Louise Wickham By Andrew Fleming Edited by Adrian M. Chadwick Landscape has been central to An examination of the creation of Now with an updated preface and and Catriona D. Gibson definitions of Englishness for gardens through a political 'lens' in colour illustrations throughout, this These papers explore how long-term centuries. David Matless argues that order to move debate away from beautiful book tells the story of persistence of place and practice in landscape has been the site where portraying the motivation behind Swaledale, a well-loved part of the the landscape was possible; and why English visions of the past, present 'garden-making' merely as painting North Yorkshire Pennines. It shows this was the case. Case studies use and future have met in debates over a picture with plants and buildings. how the perspectives of archaeology, detailed contextual evidence to address these questions. questions of national identity, disputes over history and Gardens are looked at in relation to not only how they history and ecology can be linked to transform our In many instances, contributors discuss less visible modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body. are influenced by the political ideas of their creators but understanding of the landscape. examples where ‘memory work’ can be identified from 368pp, b/w illus, REAKTION BOOKS, 2016, also how the gardens themselves provide support and 166pp, Windgather Press, 2010, 9781842173725, non-monumental, ‘everyday’ landscapes. 9781780235813, Paperback, was £9.95 legitimacy to those in government, either covertly or Paperback, was £26.00 directly. 336pp, 166 b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2013, Now £4.95 Now £9.95 9781782973935, Hardback, was £40.00 272pp, 138 col illus, Windgather Press, 2012, 9781905119431, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £19.95 Now £9.95

Modelling archaeology Ancient Woodland Historic Gardens and The Ancient Yew and By Ian D. Rotherham Parks of Derbyshire A History of Taxus Baccata palaeoenvironments in Ian D. Rotherham here explains the Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 By Robert Bevan-Jones wetlands various uses of British woods and By Dianne Barre Robert Bevan-Jones discusses the their industries, such as coppicing, history of the yew, its biology, the By Henry P. Chapman and charcoal-burning, basket-making and A lavishly illustrated study of nearly Benjamin R. Gearey 100 gardens in Derbyshire from the origins of its name, the yew berry bodging, and helps the reader to seek and its toxicity, its distribution across This study utilizes a range of out the clues to their woodland's fabulously wealthy stately home to the smallest hidden delights. The book Britain, means of dating examples, and quantitative and qualitative past. their association with folklore, with methodologies and GIS modelling to considers the importance of gardens 64pp, b/w and col illus, Shire Publications, 2013, in Derbyshire Spa towns, discusses the role of inherited churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and investigate spatial and temporal patterns of Holocene 9780747811657, Paperback, was £7.99 as landscape markers. landscape change for two raised mires in south Yorkshire: and new wealth of the industrial revolution on the Hatfield and Thorne Moors. Now £3.95 design of both private estates and public gardens. 216pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781785700781, Paperback, was £29.95 216pp, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 272pp, b/w and colour, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781782971740, Hardback, was £30.00 9781911188049, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Of Rocks and Water Farmers, Consumers, Local Places, Global Trees in Towns and Towards an Archaeology of Place Innovators Processes Cities Edited by Ömür Harmanşah The World of Joan Thirsk Histories of Environmental A History of British This volume presents a series of Edited by Richard Jones Change in Britain and Beyond Urban Arboriculture archaeological landscapes from the and Christopher Dyer Edited by Peter Coates, David By Mark Johnston Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Chapters on regional differences, Moon and Paul Warde This is the first book on the history Plateau, and from the Mediterranean farming methods, conflicts over the of trees in Britain’s towns and cities borderlands to Mesoamerica. The This book presents a multi- use of land, shopping opportunities, disciplinary approach to the and the people who have planted and contributors all have a deep interest fashion and consumption resonate cared for them. It discusses trees in in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox relationship between perceptions with each other and present fresh insights into a world of environmental change at a local scale and the our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present places of human interaction with the mineral world, that was undergoing transformation well before the day, including public parks, private gardens, streets, specifically the landscapes of rocks and water. wider forces of transformation. It uses case studies on Agricultural Revolution. conservation, landscape change and management to cemeteries and many other open spaces. 270pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976714, Paperback, 192pp, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016, examine how perceptions of environmental change have 256pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Windgather Press, 2015, was £25.00 9781909291560, Paperback, was £16.99 emerged or been discarded over time 9781909686625, Paperback, was £39.95 Now £9.95 272pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686939, Now £7.95 Paperback, was £29.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Places in Between Cipières Norfolk Gardens and William Faden and The Archaeology of Social, Landscape and Community in Designed Landscapes Norfolk's Eighteenth Cultural and Geographical Alpes-Maritimes, France By Patsy Dallas, Tom Williamson Century Landscape Borders and Borderlands By David Austin, Rosamond Faith, and Roger Last A Digital Re-Assessment Edited by David Mullin Andrew Fleming and David Siddle This beautifully produced volume of his Historic Map This book, which grew out of a This interdisciplinary project provides a detailed exploration of the By Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson session at TAG in 2008, explores explores the village’s morphology and history of gardening and landscape some of the possibilities offered archaeology, including a landscape architecture in Norfolk, from the William Faden’s map of Norfolk, by the study of borders from survey and investigation of the geometric gardens of the sixteenth published in 1797, was one of a large an archaeological point of view and presents new agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving and seventeenth centuries, through the landscape number of surveys of English counties produced in the perspectives on borders, both metaphorical and on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, parks of the eighteenth century and the civic spaces of second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with geographical, from locations as diverse as Somerset and social structure and the local economy from the fifth the nineteenth, to the emergence of modern ideas of accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of China, from the Neolithic to the Cold War. century through to 1900. ecological and ‘minimalist’ garden design. the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. 120pp, 40 illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179833, 432pp, b/w and col. illus, Windgather Press, 2013, 472pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188308, Paperback, was £36.00 9781905119998, Paperback, was £38.00 Paperback, was £25.00 218pp, full colour throughout, Windgather Press, 2010, 9781905119349, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LANDSCAPE BARGAINS • 11 Back to the Garden The Acquisition and The Strange Case of Later Prehistoric and By James H. S. McGregor Exhibition of Classical the Rickety Cossack Romano-British Burial A cultural and ecological history Antiquities By Ian Tattersall and Settlement at of the Mediterranean region and By Robin Francis Rhodes Ian Tattersall argues that a long Hucclecote, humankind's broken covenant with tradition of "human exceptionalism" nature. Traditional agriculture in the These papers consider the Gloucestershire implications of buying, selling, and in paleoanthropology has distorted ancient Mediterranean mimicked the picture of human evolution. By Alan Thomas the key traits of naturally occurring exhibiting antiquities. To whom should they belong? What circumstances, He offers an idiosyncratic look Notable discoveries include 3 or 4 ecosystems. It was diverse, complex, at the competitive world of Middle Bronze Age cremation burials, self-regulating, and resilient. if any, demand the return of those antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 12 inhumations from the Late Iron Age through to 2nd This relationship effectively came to an end in the years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in century AD, early 2nd-century ditched enclosures which late eighteenth century, when "nature" was steadily consensus among archaeologists and museum directors about these issues? Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings later became part of the medieval field system. equated with the untamed landscape devoid of human in the Caucasus. intervention. 175pp, b/w figs, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, 74pp, b/w figs, Cotswold Archaeology, 2002, 9780268040277, Paperback, was £25.95 256pp, Palgrave, 2015, 9781137278890, Hardback, was 9780952319672, Paperback, was £6.95 320pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300197464, £18.99 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £9.95 Now £2.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Archaeology, the Linguistics and The Upright Thinkers Iron Age and Roman Public and the Recent Evolution The Human Journey from Living in Settlement on the Past A Developmental Approach Trees to Understanding the Cosmos Northamptonshire Edited by Chris J. Dalglish By Julie Tetel Andresen By Leonard Mlodinow Uplands Heritage, memory, community Informed by the latest findings in Leonard Mlodinow guides us through By A. Mudd the critical eras and events in the archaeology and the politics of the evolutionary theory, this book sets Excavations were undertaken on development of science, all of which, past form the main strands running language within the context of human five settlement sites, four dating to he demonstrates, were propelled through the papers in this volume. biology and development, taking the Iron Age/early Roman period, forward by humankind's collective The essays deal with an interest in ideas from fields such as psychology, and one to the Roman period.Of struggle to know the meaning, value and contested nature of the recent neurology, biology, anthropology, genetics and cognitive particular importance was the discovery of Iron Age iron past and in the theory and practice of archaeological science. 352pp, Pantheon Books, 2015, 9780307908230, smelting at Biddlesden Road Bridge and early Roman engagements with that past. 313pp, Cambridge University Press, 2013, Hardback, was £20.00 iron melting at Syresham. 179pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781107650114, Paperback, was £28.99 Now £7.95 228pp, Heritage Publications, 2008, 9780955506208, 9781843838517, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95 Paperback, was £17.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

The Conservation Living in a Dangerous Rough and Tumble The Land of Boudica Movement in Norfolk Climate Aggression, Hunting and Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk A History Climate Change and Human Evolution By John Davies By Susanna Wade Martins Human Evolution By Travis R. Pickering This book traces the story of Norfolk Norfolk played a unique role in By Renee Hetherington Pickering argues that the advent of from the Ice Age and the first the development of conservation. This book provides a unique and ambush hunting approximately two appearance of people to the end of This book narrates the story of thought-provoking journey from early million years ago marked a milestone Roman Britain. In particular it focuses the movement, from its origins five humans; evolutionary repsonse to in human evolution, one that on the many remarkable and exciting hundred years ago to the present day. climate change, species extinctions, established the social dynamic that discoveries made across the region, and societal downfalls to today's global crisis. It links allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. At often through the contribution of amateur enthusiasts, 187pp, col illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2015, the same time he challenges the traditional link between and how these have transformed our picture its history 9781783270071, Paperback, was £19.99 scientific knowledge and presepctives of evolution, climate change and economics. aggression and human predation. in recent decades. Now £4.95 272pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 224pp, University of California Press, 2013, 251pp, Heritage Publications, 2009, 9781905223336, 9781107694736, Paperback, was £26.99 9780520274006, Hardback, was £40.00 Paperback, was £19.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

Historical Redress Geology and Wired for Culture A Corridor Through Must We Pay for the Past? Paleontology of the Origins of the Human Social Mind Time By Richard Vernon Miocene Sinap By Mark Pagel the archaeology of the A55 This title provides an introduction to Formation, Turkey Mark Pagel investigates the Anglesey Road Scheme the philosophical implications of the Edited by Mikael Fortelius evolutionary origins of culture, By Richard Cuttler, Andrew recent surge of political and ethical and By John Kappelman revealing how an innate propensity Davidson and Gwilym Hughes interest in historical redress. The to contribute and conform to the book addresses all the main issues The Sinap Formation in central Turkey culture of our birth not only enabled Five main sites and a series of and arguments relating to justice, near the city of Ankara preserves a human survival and progress in the prehistoric burnt mounds are memory, apology and citizenship, and concludes by rich record of mammalian evolution past but also continues to influence our behaviour today. discussed. The route encountered from about 15 to 5 million years ago and is one of the remains of Neolithic pit groups; Bronze Age and Iron arguing for a forward-looking approach that focuses on 432pp, W. W. Norton, 2012, 9780393065879, Hardback, the right of future generations to live just lives. few sites in this region that also has fossil apes. The Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation authors have been able to piece together a detailed was £19.99 cemetery; Romano-British settlements and a farmstead; 192pp, Continuum International Pub., 2012, record of faunal change. an early medieval inhumation cemetery, medieval 9781441121318, Paperback, was £18.99 Now £5.95 448pp, illus., Columbia University Press, 2003, agricultural features and a corn-drying kiln. Now £3.95 9780231113588, Hardback, was £89.00 304pp, col and b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174234, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

New Shopping in Casting the Net Wide The Story of A Late Iron Age Historic Towns. Papers in Honor of Glynn Stonehenge farmstead in the The Chesterfield Story Isaac and His Approach to By Patricia Southern Outer Hebrides Human Origins Research By T. Aldous Patricia Southern ventures outside Excavations at Mound 1, Edited by Jeanne Sept Case study of the city centre her usual Roman specialism with Bornais, South Uist this concise, intorductory guide of Chesterfield, where a new and David Pilbeam Edited by Niall Sharples 16 papers on the archaeology of to Stonehenge and its history. Her conservation approach to its The examination of the mound 1 human origins, focusing on issues of account synthesises existing work on development meant the preservation deposits provides an important early human diet, palaeolandscapes, the subject rather than attempting of its heritage, and the accomodation contribution to our understanding of the Iron Age of modern buildings lithics, and the archaeology of the Near East and Africa. to put forward any new theory. The bulk of the book is comprised of a description of the stones themselves and sequence in the Atlantic province. The principal 93pp, 118 illus, English Heritage, 1990, 9781850742982, 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174548, Hardback, their arrangement, with discussion of how they were contribution comprises the large quantities of mammal, Paperback, was £15.00 was £35.00 transported and how the monument was built. fish and bird bones, carbonised plant remains and Now £2.95 Now £7.95 158pp, b/w illus, col pls, Amberley Publishing, 2012, pottery, which can be accurately dated to a fairly precise 9781445605630, Hardback, was £16.99 and narrow period in the 1st millennium AD. 280pp, 111 col and b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, Now £4.95 9781842174692, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Who Owns Antiquity Human Social A Brief History of Continental By James Cuno Evolution Stonehenge Connections A controversial look at the antiquities The Foundational Works of By Aubrey Burl Edited by Hugo Anderson-Whymark, trade, and the legal framework which Richard D. Alexander Burl’s accessible overview provides a Duncan Garrow and Fraser Sturt surrounds it which suggests that the wealth of information on Stonehenge, The central aim of this book is to current set-up merely encourages the Edited by Kyle Summers and Bernard J. Crespi the history of research at the site, explore ‘cross-channel’ relationships hoarding of antiquities by the states and the myths which have become throughout later prehistory, which now occupy the territories Richard D. Alexander is an attached to it. He explores the wider investigating the archaeological links of ancient civilizations, and argues accomplished entomologist who landscape, offering his own theories (material, social, cultural) between the instead for the enabling of global turned his attention to solving particularly as to the construction of the monument areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental ‘encyclopedic museums’. The paperback edition contains some of the most perplexing problems associated with and source of the bluestones and as to its astronomical Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the a new afterword in which Cuno repsonds to some of the evolution of human social systems. Each chapter alignment. Iron Age. his critics. features an introduction highlighting the importance of Alexander's work and reviewing more recent 368pp, b/w illus, Constable and Co. Ltd., 2007, 176pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 244pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, 9780691148106, 9781845295912, Paperback, was £9.99 9781782978091, Paperback, was £36.00 Paperback, was £14.99 contributions to the topic. 496pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199791750, Now £3.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Hardback, was £29.99 Now £6.95 12 • HERITAGE, HUMAN EVOLUTION AND BRITISH PREHISTORY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Corrstown Hunters, fishers and Quaternary of the An Animate Landscape A Coastal Community. foragers in Wales Trent Rock Art and the Prehistory Excavations of a Bronze Age Towards a social narrative Edited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland Village in Northern Ireland of Mesolithic lifeways Howard, Mark J. White and Tom S. White By Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Jones, By Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone By Malcolm Lillie This volume is an integrated overview Davina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor Corrstown is a highly important A major new holistic appraisal of and synthesis of available data relating and Hugo Lamdin-Whymark Bronze Age site. A total of 74 Middle the evidence for the Mesolithic to the Quaternary evolution of Focusing on its landscape context Bronze Age roundhouse platforms occupation of Wales. Chapters the River Trent. It provides detailed this study argues that the rock art were identified and organised into follow a sequence from the descriptions of the Pleistocene of Kilmartin played an active part pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to palaeoenvironmental background, through a sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and of the process of socialising the landscape, in which be contemporary, a site type hitherto unknown in Britain consideration of the use of stone tools, settlement related drainage systems. the landscape became more organised from the Late and Ireland. patterning and evidence for subsistence strategies and 416pp, 16p colour DVD, Oxbow Books, 2014, Neolithic onwards, and that this organised landscape 232pp, 137 illus, 15 in colour, Oxbow Books, 2011, the range of available resources. 9781842174616, Hardback, was £30.00 relates to broader cosmological concerns. 9781842174647, Paperback, was £36.00 256pp, colour and b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £9.95 400pp, 127 col and 44 b/w illus, Windgather Press, 2011, Now £7.95 9781782979746, Paperback, was £40.00 9781905119417, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Defining a Regional Huntsman’s Quarry, Ritual in Early Bronze An Upland Biography Neolithic Kemerton Age Grave Goods Landscape and Prehistory on By Kenneth Brophy and G. Barclay By Robin Jackson An examination of ritual and dress Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire The contributors to this volume A report on excavations which equipment from Chalcolithic and By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan address issues of regionality through uncovered Late Bronze Age Early Bronze Age graves in England and Mark Edmonds a series of case-studies that focus not occupation areas and field systems By John Hunter and Ann Woodward Gardom's Edge has long been on the traditional 'cores' of Wessex spreading across more than 8 An extensive and intensively renowned for the wealth of and Orkney, but rather on other hectares. Limited evidence for Upper prehistoric field systems, cairns and areas - the 'Irish Sea Zone', Ireland, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and illustrated overview and study of a large proportion of the grave goods other structures which can still be Scotland, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Beaker activity was also recovered together with an traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. from English Early Bronze Age burial sites. It shows that 138pp, 60 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173336, many items of adornment formed elements of elaborate original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography Paperback, was £34.00 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979944, Hardback, costumes, probably worn by individuals who held documents prehistoric activity across this area, was £30.00 important ritual roles within society exploring the changing character of occupation from the Now £12.95 Mesolithic to the Iron Age. Now £7.95 616pp, Fully colour illustrated, includes CD, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782976943, Hardback, was £90.00 200pp, b/w and colour, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188155, Paperback, was £34.99 Now £29.95 Now £14.95

Down By The River Ireland's First Settlers Shadowland Animal Secondary By Henry Chapman, Andy Time and the Mesolithic Wales 3000-1500 BC Products Howard and Benjamin Gearey By Peter Woodman By Stephen Burrow Edited by Haskel J. Greenfield This series of detailed studies Ireland’s First Settlers tells the story This is the story of life in Wales over Animal Secondary Products presents the results of of the archaeology and history of the a period of 1,500 years, as gleaned investigates domestic animal palaeoenvironmental, archaeological first continuous phase of Ireland’s from the remains its inhabitants exploitation and the animal and geoarchaeological investigations human settlement. It combines left behind. From 3000 to 2200 BC, economy from the Palaeolithic focused on the Post-Glacial record centuries of search and speculation people built few monuments and to the Bronze and Iron Ages preserved in the valleys of the Suffolk about human antiquity in Ireland buried very few of the worldly goods across Eurasia. Incorporating rivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, with a review of what is known today about the Irish which they must certainly have possessed while, for the current zooarchaeological theory and cutting-edge Hoxne, Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were cored for Mesolithic. period 2200 until 1500 BC, monuments were built in methodological developments, it critically assesses palaeoenvironmental assessment, further sampling and profusion and the dead were buried in great numbers. Andrew Sherratt’s concept of a Secondary Products radiocarbon dating and the resulrs are described. 448pp, b/w illustrations and 32pp colour plates, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782977780, Hardback, was £50.00 176pp, col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174593, Revolution at the end of the Neolithic. 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701689, Hardback, Paperback, was £20.00 256pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, was £25.00 Now £14.95 9781782974017, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Excavations at Cill Lives in Land – The Use and Reuse of Bodies of Clay Donnain Mucking Excavations Stone Circles On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron By Christopher Evans, Grahame Fieldwork at five Scottish Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg Age Wheelhouse in South Uist Appleby and Sam Lucy monuments and its implications and Valeska Becker By Mike Parker Pearson This volume comprises a Edited by Richard Bradley This collection of papers explores and Marek Zvelebil comprehensive account of the and Courtney Nimura common themes in the social context, prehistoric archaeology of the manufacture, characteristcs and A report on an Iron Age wheelhouse mucking landscape from the This volume presents all new data and Bronze Age settlement, including resulting from the excavation and disposal of human-shaped pots. It Mesolithic to Iron Age. It presents a considers the relationship between pottery, faunal remains and a variety synthesis of landscape development through 5 thousand cross-comparison of 5 Scottish stone of bone and metal tools. circles of varying type, size and sequence, as well as anthropomorphic ceramics and various forms of figural years of prehistory including settlement histories, art in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe. 272pp, 190 images, 63 tables, Oxbow Books, 2014, reassessing the construction sequences and use histories changing land-use, death and burial, industry and craft 160pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706967, 9781782976271, Hardback, was £25.00 activities. of stone circles in Britain 240pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £7.95 640pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701481, Hardback, was £40.00 9781785702433, Paperback, was £39.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Gathering Time Moving on in Neolithic Stonehenge Celtic Art in Europe Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures studies By Rosemary Hill Making Connections of Southern Britain and Ireland Understanding mobile lives Instead of trying to uncover the Edited by Christopher Gosden, Sally By Alasdair Whittle, Frances Edited by Jim Leary and Thomas Kador prehistoric mysteries of Stonehenge Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider Healy and Alex Bayliss and its purpose and/or meaning for These papers examine the its creators, Rosemary Hill examines This volume of 37 papers brings Gathering Time presents the results importance and complexities of what the stone monument has meant together a truly international group of a major dating programme that re- movement and mobility, whether on to the people of recorded history. of pre-eminent specialists in the writes the early Neolithic of Britain land or water, in the Neolithic period. The book largely begins with the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. by more accurately dating enclosures, They use movement in its widest post-Reformation antiquaries, before They reassess contacts, context, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: sense, ranging from everyday mobilities – the routines moving on to the likes of Inigo Jones and John Wood, the transmission and meaning in Celtic art for understanding places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and and rhythms of daily life – to proscribed mobility, such Romantics, Victorians and to the modern age of scientific the development of European cultures, identities and deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new as movement in and around monuments, and occasional archaeology and neo-paganism. economies in pre- and proto-history. radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using and large-scale movements and migrations around the 400pp, b/w illustrations, 32pp colour illustrations, Oxbow a Bayesian statistical framework. continent and across seas. 242pp, b/w figs and pls, Profile Books Ltd, 2008, 9781861978653, Hardback, was £15.99 Books, 2014, 9781782976554, Hardback, was £60.00 992pp, over 600 illus and 103 tables, Oxbow Books, 2011, 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701764, Paperback, Now £19.95 9781842174258, Hardback, was £45.00 was £38.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

Gristhorpe Man Prehistory without A Forged Glamour Communicating with A Life and Death in the Bronze Age Borders Landscape, Identity and Material the World of Beings Edited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher Edited by Rachel Crellin, Chris Culture in the Iron Age The World Heritage rock art Knusel and Janet Montgomery Fowler and Richard Tipping By Melanie Giles sites in Alta, Arctic Norway Research report on an early This book assesses the impact of An exploration of the lives and By Knut Helskog discovery of a very well-preserved the Anglo-Scots and similar borders deaths of ironworking communities This study of the rock art of Alta in British Bronze Age bog body. A log- on our understanding of prehistoric renowned for their spectacular Arctic Norway explores its role as coffin excavated in the early 19th patterns of activity. It provides material culture, who lived in an expression of animistic belief: that century proved to be well enough a regional synthesis based on modern-day East and North Yorkshire, through it people might have been preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full topography, geography and archaeology which transcends between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates able to communicate with other-than-human beings who armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its modern political boundaries and considers the extent to settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and ruled parts of the environment – in order to petition occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a which the Tyne-Forth does or does not form a coherent craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and favours for themselves or others. new date. regional unit at various periods in prehistory. beliefs might have been. 240pp, Colour illustrated throughout, Oxbow Books, 2014, 256pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2013, 260pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701993, Hardback, 224pp, 50 b/w + col illus., Windgather Press, 2013, 9781782974116, Hardback, was £35.00 9781782972075, Hardback, was £55.00 was £45.00 9781905119462, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM BRITISH PREHISTORY BARGAINS • 13 Creating Communities Flint Daggers in Paths to Complexity Rock Art Studies - New advances in Central Prehistoric Europe Centralisation and Urbanisation News of the World European Neolithic Research Edited by Catherine Frieman in Iron Age Europe Volume 3 Edited by Daniela Hofmann and Berit Valentin Eriksen Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, By Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias and By Penny Bickle The present volume brings together Holger Wendling and Katja Winger Strecker and Edited by Paul Bahn Although the LBK is one of the papers that address questions of the The 21 papers in this volume cover This is the third in the five-yearly best researched Neolithic cultures regional variability and socio-technical the whole Iron Age from ca. 800 BC series of surveys of what is happening in Europe, here the material is complexity of flint daggers and their to the beginning of the Common Era, in rock art studies around the world, used in order to further explore production. It focuses on the typology, exploring the origins of urbanism. covering the years 1999-2004. the interconnection between individuals, households, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint As always, the texts reflect something of the great and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, 248pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions 9781782977230, Hardback, was £65.00 differences in approach and emphasis that exist in of Neolithic society and lived experience. but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in different regions. prehistory. Now £14.95 271pp, 118 b/w illus, 16 tbls, Oxbow Books, 2009, 320pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842173169, 9781842173534, Paperback, was £40.00 176pp, black/white illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Paperback, was £65.00 9781785700187, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Decoding Neolithic Cliffs End Farm Isle of Paths Towards a New Rock Art Through Atlantic and Thanet, Kent World Time Mediterranean Island By Jacqueline I. McKinley, Matt Neolithic Sweden Scanian rock carvings in the Ritual Leivers, Jörn Schuster, Peter Marshall, By Mats Larsson, Geoffrey Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age Edited by George Nash and Alistair Barclay and Nick Stoodley Lemdahl and Kerstin Lidén By Peter Skoglund Andrew Townsend Excavations uncovered Bronze Age Covering the approximately 6,500 This beautifully illustrated book barrows and enclosures, and a large The 16 papers presented here years from the beginning of the presents a detailed reassessment of prehistoric mortuary feature, as well Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Simrishamn rock art in Sweden explore the physicality, and levels of as a small Anglo-Saxon inhumation insularity of individual islands and the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes and examines the close relationship cemetery. An extraordinary series of human and animal the reader on a journey through the development of between iconography displayed on metals and that found island groups during prehistory through a series of case remains were recovered from the Late Bronze Age– studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the in rock art. Middle Iron Age mortuary feature, revealing a wealth backdrop of climatic and landscape change. and Mediterranean regions. of evidence for mortuary rites including exposure, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701641, Hardback, 304pp, black/white illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2016, excarnation and curation. 144pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, was £20.00 9781782972570, Paperback, was £36.00 9781785700507, Hardback, was £50.00 288pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2015, 9781874350705, Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Elevated Rock Art Image, Memory and Prehistoric Journeys The Bell Beaker By Johan Ling Monumentality Edited by Vicki Cummings Transition in Europe This volume aims to shed light on the Archaeological Engagements Ideas of journeys and travel Mobility and local evolution process of shore displacement and with the Material World are integral to many traditions during the 3rd millennium BC its social and cognitive implications of interpreting the prehistoric for the interpretation of rock art in Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, archaeological record. The Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto the prehistoric landscape of Bohuslän. Joshua Pollard, Julie Gardiner contributors to this volume see Martínez and Laure Salanova The findings clearly show that in the and Michael J. Allen journeys as an integral part of The 17 papers presented here Bronze Age, the majority of rock Leading scholars in these 29 prehistoric life - socially meaningful offer a range of new and different art sites had a very close spatial commissioned papers in honour - which must be understood within perspectives on the Beaker connection to the sea. of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric their (pre)historic contexts. phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell 272pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, archaeology that have defined his career, such as 152pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, 9781842172506, Paperback, Beaker pottery but on social groups, using technological 9781782977629, Hardback, was £40.00 monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material was £38.00 studies and physical anthropology to understand mobility worlds and field practice patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. Now £9.95 366pp, 60 illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2013, Now £12.95 216pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782973928, Paperback, was £30.00 9781782979272, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Exchange Networks Life and Death in the Prehistoric Rock Art in The end of the lake- and Local Mesolithic of Sweden Scandinavia dwellings in the Transformations By Mats Larsson By Courtney Nimura Circum-Alpine region By Maria Emanuela Alberti Over the last 20 years a vast number This comprehensive review is based Edited by Francesco Menotti and Serena Sabatini of new and important Swedish on the creation of a Scandinavia- A comprehensive analysis of socio- Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Mesolithic sites have been excavated wide GIS database for prehistoric economic and environmental factors Age, European and Mediterranean and published in different ways as rock art and re-examines theoretical behind the abandonment of 3500 societies appear to have been articles, books and site reports. As approaches and interpretations, years of prehistoric occupation of involved in complex systems of yet there has been no study that tries in particular with regard to the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine exchange networks which invariably affected local to bring the loose ends together and so the main task significance of the ship and its relationship to a maritime region. customs and historical developments. These articles of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading landscape. prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of 208pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, explore the dynamic relationship between regionally 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701191, Paperback, 9781782978602, Paperback, was £45.00 contextualised transformations and inter-regional some of the main sites and results. was £25.00 144pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2017, Now £9.95 exchange networks. Now £9.95 160pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174852, 9781785703850, Paperback, was £38.00 Paperback, was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Exploring Prehistoric Living Well Together? Representations and The First Farmers of Identity in Europe Settlement and Materiality Communications Central Europe Our Construct or Theirs? in the Neolithic of South- Creating an Archaeological Matrix Diversity in LBK Lifeways East and Central Europe Edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca of Late Prehistoric Rock Art Edited by Penny Bickle and Enlander and Rebecca Crozier By Alasdair Whittle, Daniela Edited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian Alasdair Whittle Hofmann and Douglass W. Bailey Sixteen papers investigate aspects of Kristiansen and Felipe Criado Boado This major study takes a strikingly prehistoric identity and how it was Investigates the development of the Nine papers summarize new large regional sample, from northern constructed. They range widely in Neolithic in southeast and central excavation and survey results, Hungary westwards along the Danube their geographical and chronological Europe from 6500–3500 cal BC with advanced studies of iconography and to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley, coverage and are grouped into four sections: material special reference to the manifestations of settling down. intriguing landscape studies. and addresses the question of the extent of diversity culture of the dead; material culture of the living; 178pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842172674, Paperback, 160pp, 53 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173978, in the lifeways of developed and late LBK communities, architectural and ritual expressions; and our construct was £40.00 Paperback, was £25.00 through a wide-ranging study of diet, lifetime mobility, or theirs? health and physical condition, the presentation of the Now £14.95 176pp, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £4.95 bodies of the deceased in mortuary ritual. 9781842178133, Paperback, was £36.00 608pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175309, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95

Fingerprinting the Iron Mesolithic Horizons Rock Art Studies The Megalithic Age By Sinead McCartan, Rick Schulting, News of the World IV Architectures of Approaches to identity in Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman Edited by Paul Bahn, Natalie R. Europe the European Iron Age This is an enormous compendium of Franklin and Matthias Strecker Edited by Luc Laporte and Edited by Cătălin Nicolae research published in two volumes This is the fourth in the five-yearly Christopher Scarre with over 140 papers drawn from the Popa and Simon Stoddart series of surveys of what is happening This volume focuses on the whole of Europe, ranging from the in rock art studies around the world. The 24 contributions to this volume European Arctic to many parts of the construction and design of European focus on the south east Europe, Papers consider the distribution megalithic tombs – on the tomb Mediterranean, and from the British of sites, chronology, interpretation, and the wide array of approaches Isles to Russia. These papers cover as an architectural project. It shows to identity reflect the continuing debate on how to new surveys and publications, management and site how much is to be learned from detailed attention to recent research on virtually all aspects of the European conservation. integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely Mesolithic. the stages and the techniques through which tombs classical authors looking in on first millennium BC 398pp, b/w illus, col pls, Oxbow Books, 2012, were built, modified and enlarged, and often intentionally 980pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173114, Hardback, 9781842174821, Hardback, was £85.00 dismantled or decommissioned. societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. was £150.00 336pp, b/w and colour images, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £14.95 248pp, colour and black /white illustrations, Oxbow Books, 9781782976752, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £49.95 2015, 9781785700149, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

14 • EUROPEAN PREHISTORY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Tripolye Culture Chinese Bronze Ware Pastoralist Landscapes Exploring Art of the giant-settlements in By Song Li and Social Interaction Ancient Americas Ukraine China enjoys a unique position in in Bronze Age Eurasia The John Bourne Collection world history because of the great Formation, development and decline By Michael D. Frachetti variety of innovative and beautiful By Dorie Reents-Budet Edited by Francesco Menotti and bronze ware that has been unearthed This work reconceptualizes the This volume features fine examples Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy on China's vast territory. This Bronze Age prehistory of the of painted earthenware vessels and vast Eurasian steppe. Michael D. An examination of the Tripolye book introduces the reader to this figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery magnificent culture with thorough Frachetti combines an analysis of and vessels from Mesoamerica, culture in the Ukraine, with a special newly documented archaeological emphasis placed upon the development of the so-called discussion of the context and Central America and Andean America. significance of bronze production, vivid descriptions and sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan Each section opens with an introductory text on the art, ‘giant-settlements’. Chapters discuss the geographical with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data and chronological context, highlighting the different full color illustrations. culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed 164pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and by discursive entries accompanying each work. facets of the culture that resulted in the formation of the rock art. giant-settlements 9780521186858, Paperback, was £14.99 264pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2012, 9781907804052, 213pp, b/w figs, University of California Press, 2008, Hardback, was £39.95 174pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174838, Now £4.95 9780520256897, Hardback, was £66.00 Paperback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Wild Things Writing and the Dragons and Lotus Turquoise Mosaics Recent advances in Palaeolithic Ancient State Blossoms from Mexico and Mesolithic research Early China in Comparative Vietnamese Ceramics from the By Colin McEwan Edited by Frederick W. F. Foulds, Helen Perspective Birmingham Museum of Art The nine turquoise mosaics from C. Drinkall, Angela R. Perri, David T.G. By Haicheng Wang By John A. Stevenson and Mexico are some the most striking Clinnick and James W.P. Walker Donald A. Wood pieces in the collections of the British Writing and the Ancient State Museum. They all originate from the Topics include: the chronology explores the early development Through a series of judicious of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic of Mixtec and Aztec civilizations first of writing and its relationship to purchases that began in the 1970s, the encountered by Europeans during European Russia; territorial use of the growth of political structures. Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, Alpine high altitude areas by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers; the Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century. Structured thematically, the first half of each part surveys has created an extraordinary collection of Vietnamese Illustrated with more than 160 color images, this book reconstructing Neanderthal demography to examine evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, ceramic art. Essays by three noted experts introduce the their extinction; the funerary contexts from the describes the recent scientific findings about the mosaics Central Mexico, and the Andes; against this background collection. in detail, revealing them to be rich repositories of Mesolithic burials at Muge; and an analysis of Mesolithic/ the second half examines the evidence from China. Neolithic trade in Europe. 320pp, col illus, University of Washington Press, 2011, information about ancient Mexico. 427pp, b/w illus, col pls, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 9780295991627, Paperback, was £37.00 140pp, col illus, Duke University Press, 2006, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977469, Paperback, 9781107028128, Hardback, was £65.00 was £38.00 Now £12.95 9780822339243, Paperback, was £20.99 Now £24.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

The Later Prehistory Ancient Irrigation The Landscape of Dating and the of North-West Europe Systems of the Aral Words Earliest Known Rock The Evidence of Development- Sea Area Stone Inscriptions from Early Art Led Fieldwork By B. V. Andrianov and Edited and Medieval China By Matthias Strecker By Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander by Simone Mantellini By Robert E. Harrist While significant advances have Linden, Leo Webley and Richard Bradley Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral In this fascinating and meticulously been made in direct dating French By surveying changes in social forms, Sea Area is the English translation researched book on the Chinese and Spanish rock art, direct dates landscape organization, monument of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's landscape as a medium for literary obtained by AMS for the New World types, and ritual practices this volume work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy inscription, Robert E. Harrist Jr. are extremely scarce and existing reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation focuses on the period prior to the eighth century C.E. stylistic hronologies cannot be trusted. These papers the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron systems and the settlement pattern in the historical to demonstrate that the significance of inscriptions on from the International Rock Art Congress held in Bolivia Age. It explores how far common patterns of social region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). stone embedded in nature depends on the interaction of in 1997 focus on the dating problem. development are apparent, and whether there were 300pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781842173848, Hardback, words with topography 200pp, with 18 b/w plates, Oxbow Books, 1999, periods when local differences were emphasized instead. was £35.00 424pp, University of Washington Press, 2008, 9781900188654, Paperback, was £38.00 480pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2015, Now £12.95 9780295987286, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.00 9780199659777, Hardback, was £102.50 Now £14.95 Now £29.95

Scientific Research on Archaeology of East Sacred Angkor Ancient Peoples of the Ancient Asian Asia The Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat American Southwest Metallurgy The Rise of Civilisation in By Vitorio Roveda By Stephen Plog Proceedings of the Fifth China, Korea and Japan This splendidly illustrated study of This is an up-to-date introduction to Forbes Symposium at the By Gina L. Barnes Angkor Wat examines the magnificent a region famous for its mysterious Freer Gallery of Art carvings of the long galleries, the cliff-dwellings as well as its extensive This book is a detailed introduction pueblo towns. Plog aims "write a to the social and political corner pavilions, pediments, lintels, Edited by Paul Jett, Blythe as well as the lesser-known sculpted summary of Southwestern Prehistory McCarthy and Janet Douglas development of China, Korea, Japan that focuses as much on social and their peripheries from the tapestry reliefs. The analysis reveals The use of scientific methods to study works of the religious and secular symbolism with which Angkor relations as on environmental change, as much on ritual Palaeolithic to the 8th-century early historic times. It and exchange as on pottery and projectile point types". art began at the Freer Gallery of Art in 1951. These incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual Wat was imbued by the Khmers in the XII century proceedings commemorate that work and also advances of the last two decades, including DNA, Weatherhill, 2003, 9780834805248, Paperback, was 224pp, b/w illus, col pls, Thames and Hudson, 2008, present recent studies on ancient Chinese bronzes and gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and £17.99 9780500286937, Paperback, was £18.95 Southeast and West Asian copper alloys. extensive excavation results. Now £7.95 Now £7.95 180pp, b/w illus, Archetype, 2012, 9781904982722, 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706677, Paperback, Hardback, was £65.00 was £36.00 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

Scientific Research on Epigraphic Approaches Cast for Eternity The First North Historic Asian to Indus Writing Ancient Ritual Bronzes from Americans Ceramics By Bryan Wells the Shanghai Museum By Brian M. Fagan Proceedings of the Fourth This book presents the analysis of By Yang Liu and Ya Zhou An accessible overview of Pre- Forbes Symposium at the a comprehensive, computer-based This volume showcases thirty Columbian North America. Fagan Freer Gallery of Art corpus using the most detailed sign bronzes which date from the 18th describes the controversies over list yet compiled for the Indus script. first settlement, and the debates over Edited by Blythe McCarthy to the 1st century B.C.E. and span Custom computer programs allowed numerous dynasties. An accessible the routes used as humans moved These papers define ceramic the verification of the sign list and essay serves as an introduction to south into the heart of the continent. technologies, examine their similarities and differences, the compilation of statistics regarding sign distribution these masterpieces, and sumptuous, newly commissioned The author traces the origins and development of the and explore broader questions regarding their historical and use. photography makes this publication a standout addition Moundbuilder societies of the Eastern Woodlands, and cultural context, such as trade and technology 272pp, figs, tbls, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179949, to the literature on Asian bronze sculpture. the spectacular Pueblo societies of the Southwest, transfer between East and West Asia. Hardback, was £35.00 the flamboyant Mississippian culture of the South and 144pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, Southeast and the mounds of the ancient city of Cahokia. 246pp, b/w and col illus, Archetype, 2009, 9780300207897, Paperback, was £30.00 9781904982463, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500289419, Paperback, Now £12.95 was £19.95 Now £19.95 Now £7.95

China's Cultural Relics The Origins of Ancient The Formation of The Maya By Li Li Vietnam Chinese Civilization By Michael D. Coe and Utilising a wealth of archaeological By Nam C. Kim An Archaeological Prespective Stephen Houston evidence, China's Cultural Relics This book explores the origins of an Edited by Sarah Allan and Xu Pingfang Coe and Houston update this classic provides an illustrated introduction account of the New World's greatest ancient state in northern Vietnam, an Scholars from China and America to the artifacts that survive from area long believed to be the cradle of ancient civilization, incorporating different periods of Chinese history, show how archaeological evidence the most recent research in a fast- Vietnamese civilization. In doing so, proves that Chinese culture did not and the collection and preservation it analyzes the archaeological record changing field. of these precious relics in modern spread from a single central area, and the impact of new information on as has previously been assumed, 320pp, b/w and col illus, Thames and times. It covers a wide range of topics extant legends about the region and its history. Hudson, 2015, 9780500291887, Paperback, was £16.95 representative of Chinese culture, including pottery, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting porcelain, jade and bronze. 354pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2015, Neolithic cultures. Taking us into the great archaeological Now £7.95 9780199980888, Hardback, was £54.00 finds of the past 100 years - tombs, temples, palaces, 168pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, cities - they seek to shed light on many aspects of 9780521186568, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £14.95 Chinese life. Now £4.95 288pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2005, 9780300093827, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £29.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY BARGAINS • 15 Is It a House? An Illustrated Mummy Egyptian Mummies Archaeological Excavations at English Introduction to The Inside Story Unraveling the Secrets Camp, San Juan Island, Washington Ancient Egypt By John Taylor of an Ancient Art Edited by Amanda K. Taylor By Charlotte Booth This richly illustrated and accessible By Bob Brier and Julie K. Stein This beautifully illustrated, accessible study, squarely aimed at general This is a good, popularly written book Is It a House? uses multiple lines of introduction to Ancient Egypt covers readers, presents the results of about an eternally interesting topic. It evidence to investigate whether the all the major aspects of religion, daily the British Museum's non-invasive includes a complete analysis of the art U-shaped depression surrounded by life, childhood, politics and finally investigation of a 3000-year old of mummification, a comprehensive shells at the English Camp site on death rites, through the words and mummy. It combines an analysis of the listing and description of the known San Juan Island was originally a house constructed by possessions of the people who lived there. tecniques involved in the analysis and the forensic results royal mummies, stories of grave robberies and stolen native peoples. Each chapter addresses a different kind along with a consideration of the priest's life and work in mummies and a detailed look at the mummies in 94pp, col illus, Amberley Publishing, 2014, 9781445633657, the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. of evidence, including artifacts, sediment, faunal remains, Paperback, was £9.99 Tutankhamun's tomb. and stratigraphy. 48pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2011, 352pp, b/w illus, Harper Collins Publishers, 1996, 180pp, b/w illus, University of Washington Press, 2011, Now £3.95 9780917046988, Paperback, was £12.99 9780688146245, Paperback, was £12.99 9780295991474, Paperback, was £23.99 Now £2.95 Now £5.95 Now £7.95

Fiery Pool Women in Ancient Sacred and Profane Acta Nubica The Maya and the Mythic Sea Egypt By Martin Bommas, Eurydice Edited by I. Caneva and Edited by Daniel Finamore By Barbara Watterson S. Georganteli, Maria Michela Alessandro Roccati Luiselli and Michael Sharp and Stephen Houston Barbara Watterson shows that the This substantial volume resulting Most scholarly interpretations of lives of ancient Egyptian women were This volume publishes more than from the Tenth International Maya art and culture have emphasized remarkably free of the restraints eighty artefacts from the collection of Conference of the Nubian Society, that this ancient civilization was normally placed upon women in the William Joseph Myers (1858-99), and held in 2002, surveys the recently oriented toward inland centers rest of the ancient world, allowing now housed at Eton College, including discovered antiquities of the Nile and preoccupied with the blood of them to play a full part in society, statuettes of mortals and gods, Valley and beyond, throughout Egypt royal lineage and ritual sacrifice. This volume presents a recognised as equal with men under the law. The types of mummy masks, jewellery, pottery and and the Sudan. In these numerous revisionist reading emphasising the mythic power of the occupations and careers open to women are described, papyri as well as Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine coins. archaeological, archaeometrical, and epigraphical sea as the basis of a larger, deeper cultural narrative and as are their domestic and personal lives - marriage, 128pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2010, 9781904832805, discoveries, scientists present new groundwork for the history for the Maya. health and childbirth; family life; running a home; clothing, Hardback, was £24.95 understanding of Egypt, not as a lone oasis of civilization, jewellery and beauty preparations. but rather as a key part of a larger ancient world. 328pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2010, Now £9.95 9780300161373, Hardback, was £60.00 160pp, 35, Amberley Publishing, 2013, 9781445610207, 497pp, b/w and col illus, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca, Paperback, was £9.99 9788824013147, Paperback, was £150.00 Now £19.95 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

Gifts from the Ancient Egypt Egypt Exploration Ancient Egypt Ancestors By Farid Atiya Society, The Early Transformed Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait Beautifully illustrated in full colour Years The Middle Kingdom Edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Aron throughout, this informative coffee- Edited by Patricia Spencer By Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, table style book takes the reader on L. Crowell and Julie Hollowell a tour of the sites of Ancient Egypt. Published to celebrate the Society’s Dieter Arnold and Kei Yamamoto This volume examines ancient Organised geographically rather than 125th Anniversary in 2007, this This comprehensive volume presents ivories from the coast of Bering chronologically, but with sections volume gives a fully illustrated a detailed picture of the art and Strait, western Alaska, and the on the historical and religious account of the earliest years (1883- culture of the Middle Kingdom. islands in between, illuminating their background, the glorious photographs 1915) of the Society’s work in Egypt, Thematic sections explore art sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and illustrate a text which describes a wealth of tombs and describing life on excavations run by pioneers such as produced for different strata of Egyptian society, individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are monuments, their construction, function and excavation. Flinders Petrie and setting major discoveries in their including the pharaoh, royal women, the elite, and the archaeological and cultural contexts from recent Russian excavations and are presented here 228pp, col illus, American University in Cairo Press, 2006, family, while other chapters provide insight into Egypt's for the first time in English; others are from private 9789771729198, Hardback, was £49.95 272pp, Egypt Exploration Society, 2007, 9780856981852, expanding relations with foreign lands and the themes of collections not usually open to the public. Paperback, was £22.00 Middle Kingdom literature. Now £6.95 320pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2009, Now £4.95 400pp, col illus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015, 9780300122060, Hardback, was £40.00 9781588395641, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95 Now £24.95

Olmec Masterpieces of The Royal Mummies Egyptian Art at Eton Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Egypt By G. Elliot Smith College Ancient Mexico By Nigel Strudwick A new edition of a classic text, first Selections from the Myers Collection Edited by Kathleen Berrin Features over 180 of the most published in 1912, which reports on By Stephen Spurr, Nicholas the mummies of kings, queens and and Virginia Fields stunning and important Egyptian and Reeves and Stephen Quirke Sudanese artefacts in the Museum, lesser nobles found at Deir el-Bahri This sweeping project brings together and in the tomb of Amenophis. It The core of Eton College’s fine the most recent scholarship, along including not only internationally famous items such as the Rosetta includes discussions of the mummies collection of Egyptian decorative with a diverse selection of more of Ahmose, Tuthmosis III, Amenophis objects was collected by old Etonian than 100 monuments, sculptures, Stone, but also a wealth of lesser- known but equally significant or beautiful pieces. III, Akhenaten and more besides. With Major W J Myres during his posting in adornments, masks, and vessels, many of which have many photographs of the human remains. Cairo during the late 19th century. The stunning objects never traveled beyond Mexico's borders, that paint a rich 352pp, col illus, American University in Cairo Press, 2006, include ceramics, model figures, faience items, cosmetic portrait of life in the most important Olmec centres. 9789774160356, Hardback, was £25.00 224pp, with 103 b/w pls, 20 figs, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2000, 9780715629598, Paperback, was £25.00 implements, scarabs, shawabti, chalices, jewellery and 272pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2010, Now £7.95 Romano-Egyptian portraits. 9780300166767, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 64pp, many col illus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, Now £19.95 9780300086904, Paperback, was £13.95 Now £5.95

Ancient Churches of Tutankhamen:The The Tomb of Siphtah Bersheh Reports I Ethiopia Search for an Egyptian with The Tomb of By D. P. Silverman By D. W. Phillipson King Queen Tîyi This cemetery on the east bank of This superb book, lavishly illustrated By Joyce A. Tyldesley By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston Maspero, the Nile is a vast site with a long with plans and photographs takes a Edward Ayrton and George Daressy history from the Predynastic Period The first part of this book details through the Coptic era. This volume largely archaeological approach in its Howard Carter’s search for the Davis’ excavations (1905–8) of the comprehensive coverage of Ethiopia's summarises the 1990 season of the tomb and its discovery, going on to tomb of Siphtah uncovered the Bersheh Expedition early churches from the conversion describe the grave goods in detail, greatest hoard of 19th Dynasty of the Aksumite kingdom in the 4th and to explain and appraise the jewellery ever found along with a 92pp, 40 b/w pls, 17 b/w figs, Museum century down to the 13th. various studies which have been made of the mummy of Fine Arts Boston, 1992, 9780878463657, Paperback, colllection of mummified pets, including a dog, a duck was £25.00 230pp, col and b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2009, itself. The second part is dedicated to the myths and and several monkeys 9780300141566, Hardback, was £75.00 conspiracy theories surrounding Tutankamun which have 72pp, b/w pls and 80p, 35 b/w pls, Gerald Duckworth and Now £4.95 Now £24.95 proliferated in the years since the discovery of the tomb. Co Ltd., 1908, 9780715630730, Paperback, was £25.00 316pp, col pls, Basic Books, 2012, 9780465020201, Hardback, was £22.99 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

The Nile Egyptian Mummies The Tombs of The Secrets of Tomb A Journey Downriver Through By John H. Taylor Harmhabi and 10A Egypt's Past and Present This is a short, illustrated Toutânkhamanou By Rita E. Freed By Toby Wilkinson introduction to the ever-fascinating By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston A beautifully illustrated study topic of Egyptian mummies. It Maspero and George Daressy of the Middle Kingdom tomb of Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey addresses the most frequently asked up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, A reissue of Davis’ account of his Djehutynakht in Deir el-Bersha questions about Egyptian mummies: and its spectacular collection of from Cataract to Cataract, past the how and why they were made, the last great discovery in the Valley of Aswan Dam, to the delta. Along the the Kings. In 1908 Davis discovered artefacts. As well as describing its religious beliefs which underpinned rediscovery and excavation, the book way he explores the critical role of mummification, the preservation of the rchly decorated tomb and ornate the river in Egypt's past, and describes some of the many sarcophagus of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Tutankhamun’s provides information on the Middle Kingdom political animals, and how the mummies have been treated from and religious context, and a detailed examination of the sites along its banks. ancient times until the present day. general and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other tomb described here was mistakenly interpreted as that burial goods. 292pp, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, 9780385351553, Hardback, 160pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2010, was £20.00 of Tutankhamun himself. 224pp, col illus, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2009, 9780714150581, Paperback, was £9.99 9780878467488, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £5.95 135pp, 91 b/w pls, b/w illus, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., Now £3.95 1912, 9780715630723, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 Now £4.95

16 • EGYPT BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Life Everlasting Tax Receipts, Ancient Egyptian The Crown of Arsinoë By Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson Taxpayers, and Taxes in Furniture Volume II II This catalogue presents the collection Early Ptolemaic By Geoffrey Killen The Creation of an of Ancient Egyptian coffins and Thebes In this revised second edition Dr Image of Authority related artefacts held by National By Brian Muhs Killen continues his survey of Egyptian By Maria Nilsson Museums Scotland. All pieces are furniture-making techniques with a The author lays out the early photographed in colour together with study of boxes, chests and footstools A detailed study of a unique crown Ptolemaic tax system and details of dating, dimensions, materials, and traces their evolution from the that was created for the Ptolemaic then reconstructs the prosopography provenance, and lengthy descriptions earliest times. Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II. Images of and analysis. Highlights include the and provenance of thirty-nine Arsinoë are represented in a broad royal burial group from Qurna, the coffin of the priest tax payers whose names occur frequently in these 168pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704857, spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical Iufenamun, and the double coffin and mummies of the initial studies. He then provides editions of sixty-one Hardback, was £60.00 figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and young half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. ostraca from Harold Nelson's collection that include Now £14.95 as queen and goddess alike. 176pp, col illus, NMS ENTERPRISES LTD, 2010, an important group of early Ptolemaic Demotic, Greek, 272pp, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781905267170, Hardback, was £30.00 and bilingual ostraca, mostly tax receipts. 9781842174920, Paperback, was £55.00 283pp, 32 pls, Oriental Institute of the University of Now £6.95 Chicago, 2005, 9781885923301, Hardback, was £85.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95

Catalog of Demotic Temple of Khonsu, Ancient Egyptian The Kellis Isokrates Texts in the Brooklyn Volume 3 Furniture Volume III Codex Museum The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple By Geoffrey Killen By K. A. Worp and A. Rijksbaron By George R. Hughes Roof at Karnak: A Manifestat In this third volume Dr Killen This volume of the Dakhleh Oasis A checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's By Helen JACQUET-GORDON investigates how woodworking in Project presents a first edition collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian ancient Egypt developed in the 19th of the texts of three orations by A complete survey of all the and 20th dynasties. It establishes or attributed to Isocrates (Ad texts. Samples of each type of text graffiti and a detailed study of the (papyri, ostraca, inscribed stone and the range of wooden furniture Demonicum, Ad Nicolem and the inscriptions has revealed that far from manufactured during this period by Nicocles) as found in a new 4th wooden pieces) are illustrated on being casual tourists, it was mostly the plates and only the more interesting passages in the surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and century AD codex from Ismant el-Kharab in the Dahkleh the priestly personnel of the temple itself whose graffiti Memphite tombs. Oasis (ancient Kellis). texts are given in transliteration and translation. have been preserved there. The 334 graffiti recorded 113pp, 40 pls, Oriental Institute of the University of in the volume are richly illustrated by photographs and 144pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704895, 320pp, 30 b/w plates, Oxbow Books, 1997, Chicago, 2005, 9781885923271, Paperback, was £58.00 facsimile drawings. Transliterations, translations, line Hardback, was £60.00 9781900188432, Hardback, was £70.00 notes, and commentaries are provided. Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 150pp, 126 plates, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2004, 9781885923264, Hardback, was £140.00 Now £29.95

Excavations at Serra The Oriental Institute Dakhleh Oasis and the The Language of East, Parts 1-5 Hawara Papyri Western Desert of Ramesses A-Group, C-Group, Pan Grave, Demotic and Greek Texts from an Egypt under the By Francois Neveu and New Kingdom, and X-Group Egyptian Family Archive in the Fayum. Ptolemies Translated by Maria Cannata Remains from Cemeteries By George R. Hughes and By James C. R. Gill An indispensable guide to learning A-G and Rock Shelters Late Egyptian, the language of the Richard Jasnow Through an analysis of recently By Bruce B. Williams New Kingdom (c. 1300-700 BC). The papyri published here comprise discovered Ptolemaic pottery from The first part of the book covers In the New Kingdom, Serra East was part of a large family archive from the Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re- the basics of the grammar, the the site of an important centre, one Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic examination of pottery collected morphology, while the second part is devoted to the closely connected to the family of rulers of Teh-Khet. and Greek, the documents (annuity contracts, donations, by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the syntax, covering first the verbal system and then the This volume, the first in a series of reports, looks at the sales, mortgage agreements, loan repayments) are an oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common nominal forms. ancient burials and outlying structures. excellent source of information about the Egypt of the perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden fourth to third century BC. increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise 282pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978688, Paperback, 236pp, xxxii + 281, 148 b/w figs, 43 b/w pls, 55 tbs, was £29.95 Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993, 101pp, 4 b/w figs, 62 b/w pls, 2 tbs, Oriental Institute of the in population during the Roman Period. 9780918986924, Hardback, was £43.00 University of Chicago, 1997, 9781885923028, Hardback, 504pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701351, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £37.50 was £75.00 Now £7.95 Now £17.95 Now £19.95 Excavations Between The Temple of Khonsu. Delta Reports, Volume The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Abu Simbel and the Volume II I Chancellor Senneferi Sudan Frontier, Part 6 Scenes and Inscriptions in the Research in Lower Egypt at Thebes (TT99) New Kingdom Remains from Court and the First Hypostyle Hall By Donald B. Redford Edited by Nigel Strudwick Cemeteries R, V, S, and W at Qustul By Martine Newby This volume contains work done in This book presents a fascinating and Cemetery K at Adindan This volume completes the record of and around the temple of Ba-neb-djed account of the life, career and tomb By Bruce B. Williams and the forecourt and main hypostyle hall in the North-west temenos at Tel er- of Senneferi, Chancellor to Thutmose William J. Murnane of the temple of Khons in Karnak, by Rub'a (Mendes). III (c. 1430 BC) as revealed by the Chicago Epigraphic Survey. The excavation and detailed analysis of This volume provides lavish details on the 216pp, 33 illus, 27 b/w pls, Oxbow folio of plates is accompanied by a quarto booklet giving Books, 2009, 9781842172445, Paperback, was £40.00 the tomb contents and decoration. The book focuses on New Kingdom remains from the Nubian sites of Qustul not only the list of plates and annotated translation of all the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, and Adindan. Egyptian influence and Nubia's prosperity texts, but also an informative preface by Dr. Kent Weeks. Now £4.95 especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). are clearly depicted in the burials. 93pp, 97 b/w pls, plans, Oriental Institute of the University 432pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, 479pp, 206 b/w figs, 53 b/w pls, 24 tbs, Oriental Institute of Chicago, 1981, 9780918986283, Hardback, was £89.00 9781785703317, Hardback, was £70.00 of the University of Chicago, 1992, 9780918986863, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £34.95 Now £19.95 Now £19.95

Excavations Between Theban Desert Road Greek Ostraka from Untersuchungen im Abu Simbel and the Survey in the Egyptian Kellis Totentempel des Sudan Frontier, Parts Western Desert, By Colin A. Hope and K. A. Worp Merenptah in Theben 2, 3, and 4 Volume 1 This volume publishes 293 texts Band IV: The Pottery Neolithic, A-Group, and Post Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions inscribed in Greek on potsherds By David A. Aston, Brigitte Dominicus, A-Group Remains from 1-45 and Wadi el-Hôl Rock excavated at Ismant el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. These texts Benjamin L. Ford and Horst Jaritz Cemeteries W, V, S, Q, T, and a Inscriptions 1-45 date from the 2nd - 4th centuries This substantial volume presents the Cave East of Cemetery K By John Coleman AD, and they contain documentary pottery found on or under the Temple By Bruce B. Williams Darnell and Deborah Darnell evidence for a wide range of subjects such as taxation, of Merenptah, the majority of which can be dated to private letters, lists and accounts, contracts, memoranda, the New Kingdom, from the reign of Amenophis II until This volume, the second to publish the results of Seele's This volume publishes inscriptions from Gebel Tjauti sometime late in the Twentieth Dynasty. two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Neolithic, and Wadi el-Hôl, two major concentrations of rock school texts, and astrologica. A-Group, and Post-A-Group remains from Qustul, inscriptions and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of 240pp, plus 46 pages of photo. The photos are also reprod, 426pp, b/w illus and pls, Philipp von Zabern, 2008, Ballana, and Adindan. the Egyptian Western Desert. Oxbow Books, 2004, 9781842171288, Hardback, was 9783805338035, Hardback, was £80.00 388pp, b/w illus and pls, Oriental Institute of the University 174pp, 126 b/w pls, Oriental Institute, 2002, £70.00 Now £9.95 of Chicago, 1989, 9780918986542, Hardback, was £30.00 9781885923172, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £19.95 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

Gold of Praise Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom, New The Quest for Studies on Ancient Egypt in Furniture Volume I Perspectives Immortality Honor of Edward F. Wente By Geoffrey Killen Egyptian Art and Archaeology Treasures of Ancient Egypt By Emily Teeter and John A. Larson This revised second edition examines 2750-2150 BC By Erik Hornung and Betsy M. Bryan This Festschrift in honor of the common forms of furniture Edited by Nigel Strudwick This colour catalogue, from an Prof. Edward F. Wente contains used in ancient Egypt, so much of and Helen Strudwick exhibition held at the National contributions by forty-three of his which has been preserved by the dry Gallery of Art in Washington during Egyptian climate and has long been Recent research on all aspects of the colleagues and friends. A particular Old Kingdom in Egypt is presented the summer of 2002, mostly presents focus is on texts and iconography, admired for the quality of its design objects drawn from the collection and construction. in this volume, ranging through the particaulrly in religious and ritual contexts. Pyramid Texts, tomb architecture, ceramics, scene choice of the Cairo Museum. These are complemented by four 494pp, 140 b/w figs, 7 tbs, Oriental Institute of the 160pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704819, and layout, field reports, cemetery layout, tomb and essays that discuss the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt University of Chicago, 1999, 9781885923097, Paperback, Hardback, was £60.00 temple statuary. with emphasis on the artistic achievements of the reign of Thutmose III and the New Kingdom in general. was £58.00 Now £14.95 344pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Now £14.95 9781842174302, Hardback, was £60.00 240pp, col illus, Prestel Verlag, 2002, 9783791327358, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT BARGAINS • 17 The Obelisk and the The Gold of the Pharaoh Violence in Roman Englishman Pharaohs By Garry J. Shaw Egypt By Dorothy U. Seyler By Henri Stierlin Garry Shaw covers, through eight By Ari Z. Bryen William John Bankes (1786 1855) was A stunningly illustrated study of themed chapters, all aspects of This study draws on over a hundred a pioneer in the nascent study of the masterpieces of the goldsmith’s the realities of pharaohs life, from papyrus petitions, submitted to language, history, and civilization of art, with special emphasis on the mornings waking in the palace to local and imperial officials, in which ancient Egypt. Enhanced by many of treasures of Tutankhamun in the Valley evenings spent banqueting, with all individuals from the Egyptian Bankes's drawings and paintings, this of the Kings, and of Psusennes I at his duties and activities in between. countryside sought redress for engaging story is full of vivid detail the Delta site of Tanis. With general He charts the development of a acts of violence committed against about the beginnings of Egyptology, Regency England, and discussion of metallurgical technology and specialisms, uniquely Egyptian vision of kingship, them. Rather than a simple force of imperial power, a fascinating individual, and it sets the record straight and plans of the two royal tombs. exemplified by the men and women who ascended the an open legal system allowed petitioners to define throne about Bankes's crucial role in setting the stage for the 216pp, col illus, Terrail, 1997, 9782879393308, Paperback, their relationships with their local adversaries while work of later scholars. was £12.99 224pp, col illus, Thames and Hudson, 2012, contributing to the body of rules and expectations by 300pp, Prometheus Books, 2015, 9781633880368, 9780500051740, Hardback, was £24.95 which they would live in the future. Now £2.95 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 363pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 9780812245080, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £9.95 Now £17.95

Egyptian Games and The Pharaohs Sunken Cities How to Read the Sports Master Builders Egypt's Lost Worlds Egyptian Book of the By Joyce A. Tyldesley By Henri Stierlin Edited by Franck Goddio and Dead This book traces the evidence for This is a popular account of Egyptian Aurelia Masson-Berghoff By Barry Kemp sport and games from Predynastic architecture which discusses building Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, The Book of the Dead, the modern times to the end of the New techniques and technologies before at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the name given to a popular compilation Kingdom, combining archaeological, examining the great monuments submerged remains of the ancient of ancient Egyptian spells, empowered pictoral and textual sources to bring of Egypt in roughly chronological Egyptian cities Naukratis and Thonis- the reader to overcome the dangers Egyptian leisure time to life. succession, ending with the temples at Heracleion. Accompanying a 2016 lurking in the Otherworld and to 64pp, col illus, Shire Publications, 2007, 9780747806615, Philae. Very attractively illustrated in colour, this remains British Museum exhibition this book showcases some of become one with the gods that governed. Barry Kemp Paperback, was £6.99 a serious book which juxtaposes glossy (and some the most spectacular finds and explores the distinctive selects a number of spells to explore who and what the unusual) photos with temple plans and other pictorial culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Now £1.95 Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the book sources for reconstructing the architects and builders 256pp, col illus, Thames and Hudson, 2016, offered them. lives. 9780500292372, Paperback, was £25.00 144pp, W W Norton, 2008, 9780393330793, Paperback, 221pp, with several 100 colour plates, Terrail, 2007, was £8.99 9782879393285, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £11.95 Now £4.95 Now £2.95

Egyptian Models and Cracking the Egyptian The Complete Gods Cleopatra and Antony Scenes Code and Goddesses of By Diana Preston By Angela M. J. Tooley The Revolutionary Life of Ancient Egypt An unashamedly popular approach to A discussion of Egyptian models, Jean-Francois Champollion By Richard H. Wilkinson the lives of the famous lovers. Diana Preston tells the story well from the where they are found, who owned By Andrew Robinson This volume examines the evolution, them, what purpose they served, rise of Caesar to the final defeat of Robinson traces Champollion’s worship and eventual decline of the Cleopatra and Antony at the hands where in the tomb they were placed numerous gods and goddesses - from and how they relate to tomb scenes. career from obscure beginnings of Octavian. She aims to bring the to his seminal work in deciphering minor household figures such as ancient world to life with plentiful 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1995, hieroglyphic script. He explores Bes and Taweret to the all-powerful descriptive passages and to present 9780747802853, Paperback, was £6.99 Champollion’s many rivalries, in particular with Thomas deities Amun and Re - that made Egypt the most her characters as properly three-dimensional human Now £1.95 Young, and describes the expedition to Egypt which he completely theocratic society of the ancient world, and beings, rather than the propagandist stereotypes of the led with Rosellini. made Egyptians, according to Herodotus, 'more religious Augustan sources. than any other people'. 272pp, b/w illus, col pls, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 333pp, col pls, Walker and Company, 2009, 9780500051719, Hardback, was £19.95 256pp, b/w and col illus, Thames and Hudson, 2017, 9780802717382, Hardback, was £20.00 9780500284247, Paperback, was £18.95 Now £7.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Egyptian Towns and Exploring the World of The Complete Valley The Great Pharaohs Cities the Pharaohs of the Kings By T. G. H. James By E. P. Uphill A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt By Nicholas Reeves and R. H. Wilkinson This gloriously illustrated book A short guide to the history of By Christine Hobson A tour through the history and combines T.G.H. James’ publications urbanism and town planning in archaeology of the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of An invaluable popular guide to the the Boy Pharaoh and Ramesses II in ancient Egypt. Uphill discusses history, people and archaeology of The text looks at the topography of the reasons for urban growth and the site, its construction and history a single volume. The format is slightly Ancient Egypt. Illustrations, charts and smaller, but this is still a sumptuous describes the various different types chronologies support the detailed and then at the early investigations of centres that developed: provincial by travellers and antiquaries. The undertaking, with the history of the and informative discussions about two pharaohs’ reigns juxtaposed centres, workmen’s villages, royal residences, military and many of Egypt’s most important sites and archaeologists, major excavations are discussed in terms of the key frontier towns, religious centres. personalities, the tombs dug and important finds. with discussion and illustrations of the monuments all aimed at helping the visitor to make the most from and artefacts which can be associated with them, most 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2002, 9780852639399, their visit 224pp, 200 b/w and col illus, Thames and Hudson, 1996, notably the finds from Tutankamun’s tomb. Paperback, was £6.99 9780500284032, Paperback, was £16.95 192pp, many col and b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 1987, 640pp, col illus, White Star Publishers, 2011, Now £1.95 9780500275603, Paperback, was £12.95 Now £7.95 9788854406308, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

The Art of Death in Genesis of the The Egyptians Dawn of Egyptian Art Graeco-Roman Egypt Pharaohs By Cyril Aldred By Diana Patch By Judith A. Corbelli By Toby Wilkinson A revised and updated edition of With illustrations of more than A wide-range of material is presented The ancestors of the pyramid-builders Cyril Aldred’s classic text. The text 180 objects created from about - tomb decoration, stelae, sarcophagi, were not village-dwelling farmers, retains its original lucidity, while new 4000 to 2650 BC, Dawn of Egyptian coffins, mummy cases, funerary masks, but wandering cattle-herders, and discoveries and ideas have been taken Art presents the art forms and portraits and cinerary urns - in order pharaonic civilization was forged in into account, the dating revised, new iconography in which the early to give the reader an overview of the one of the most forbidding places photographs and a chronology added, Egyptians recorded their beliefs about various categories of funerary art on Earth: the Eastern Desert. Here and the bibliography amended and the land where they lived, the yearly from Graeco-Roman Egypt and their inter-relationship. hundreds of intricate rock carvings have been found in expanded. events that took place there, and which the origins of later pharaonic imagery is clearly 224pp, 139 ills, Thames and Hudson, 1998, what they thought was important to the eternal survival 80pp, many col pls, Shire Publications, 2006, of their world. 9780747806479, Paperback, was £6.99 discernible. Toby Wilkinson traces the discovery of these 9780500280362, Paperback, was £9.95 ancient records, dates them, and identifies the artists 256pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2012, Now £1.95 who made them. Now £2.95 9780300179521, Hardback, was £50.00 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, 9780500051221, Now £14.95 Hardback, was £18.95 Now £6.95

After the Pyramids Lives of the Ancient The Thames and Pharaoh: King of The Valley of the Kings and Beyond Egyptians Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt By Aidan Dodson By Toby A. H. Wilkinson Ancient Egypt By Marie Vandenbeusch, Aude Semet A chronological overview of the Thisl book takes the form of a series By Toby A. H. Wilkinson and Margaret Todd Maitland funerary monuments of Egypt, of 100 short biographies of Ancient This new illustrated dictionary This book introduces readers to beginning with the last pyramids Egyptians. Some are well known provides a comprehensive, three thousand years of Egypt's and ending with the tombs of the such as Akhenaten, Hatshepsut and authoritative reference guide to ancient history by unveiling its famous Ptolemaic Period in the Nile Delta. Cleopatra, but most are much more an endlessly fascinating subject. It rulers - the pharaohs - using some The architecture and decoration of obscure, such as Ahmose son of covers queens and courtiers, gods of the finest objects from the vast the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in Abana, a naval officer under three successive Pharaohs, and goddesses, temples and tombs, as well as literature, holdings of the British Museum, along with masterworks detail, including the results of more recent excavation in and Paneb, a tomb robber, as well as Hesira the court language and medicine. from the collection fo the Cleveland Museum of Art. the Valley of the Kings. dentist and Hemira a priestess. 272pp, many b/w, col illus, maps, Thames and Hudson, 180pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2016, 234pp, 133 b/w illus, Stacey International, 1999, 356pp, b/w and col illus, Thames and Hudson, 2007, 2005, 9780500203965, Paperback, was £10.95 9781935294412, Paperback, was £30.00 9780948695520, Paperback, was £16.95 9780500051481, Hardback, was £24.95 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

18 • EGYPT BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Tell Taannek 1963-1968 Reconstructed Excavation in Palestine From the Workshop of IV/2 Chronology of the By Roger Moorey the Chicago Assyrian The Iron Age Cultic Structure Divided Kingdom An introductory guide to the Dictionary By Frank S. Frick and Garth Gilmour By M .Christine Tetley archaeology of the Biblical world, Studies Presented to Robert D Biggs which addresses both general issues The common response to any This book, the latest in a series of relating to the whys and wherefores By Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber attempt to read the chronological excavation reports from the ancient of excavation, and discussion of and Matthew Stopler notations associated with the kings site of Tell Taannek, examines an Iron Biblical archaeology in particular, of Israel and Judah in the time of the 24 papers on Ancient Near Eastern Age Cultic Structure and its contents. what it can and can't tell us, and how divided monarchy is, perhaps, a shrug linguistics, texts and history. Frick explores the question of how archaeology relates to the Bible itself of the shoulders, or a statement to the effect that the one might, on the basis of archaeological data, determine as a source. 288pp, 12 b/w illus, Oriental Institute of the University of the likelihood that a structure had a cultic function. problem is insoluble. Now Christine Tetley has attacked Chicago, 2007, 9781885923448, Paperback, was £31.00 this knottiest of problems with fresh vigor and assayed a 128pp, col illus, Lutterworth Press, 1981, 9780718824327, 360pp, b/w illus, American Schools of Oriental Research, new solution. Paperback, was £20.25 Now £9.95 2000, 9780897570503, Paperback, was £27.50 208pp, Eisenbrauns, 2005, 9781575060729, Hardback, Now £4.95 Now £7.95 was £43.95 Now £7.95

Excavations at Qasrij Shechem 1 Jerusalem 1 Megiddo 3 Cliff and Khirbet The Middle Bronze IIB Pottery By Graeme Auld and M. L. Steiner Final Report on the Stratum Qasrij By Dan P. Cole A book which demonstrates that VI Excavations By John Curtis This volume reports on, and there is moe to the archaeology By Timothy Harrison catalogues, the pottery from the of Jeruslem than the city of David Qasrij Cliff, a small Late Assyrian and Herod's temple. Tracing the Ever since its discovery, there site of the 8th–7th centuries BC has Middle Bronze IIB period (c.1750- has been considerable debate and 1650 BC) recovered during development of the city from the produced an interesting range of Bronze Age to 200 BCE, the book speculation both about the cultural Assyrian pottery. Khirbet Qasrij is excavations of Tell Balatah, otherwise character of Stratum VI, and the cause known as Shechem. The material is culminates in a tour around the later, dating from the obscure period perimeter of the ancient city. and date of its destruction. Whatever between the fall of Assyria in 612 BC and the start of also contrasted with pottery found elsewhere, on the the precise historical case, it is clear nevertheless that the Achaemenid era in 539 BC. coast and in the Jordan Valley. 100pp, 39 figs, Lutterworth Press, 1996, 9780718829018, Stratum VI represents the initial Iron Age (or Iron I) Paperback, was £19.75 75pp, plus 49p of figs and 13p of b/w plates, British 203pp, b/w figs, fold-outs, Eisenbrauns, 1984, settlement at Megiddo. Museum Press, 1989, 9780714111230, Paperback, was 9780897572064, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £4.95 168pp, 122 illus, 40 pls, 9 tabs, Oriental Institute of the £25.00 University of Chicago, 2005, 9781885923318, Hardback, Now £4.95 was £78.00 Now £3.95 Now £14.95

Every City Shall Be Tell el-Hesi IV Archaeology of the Nippur III Forsaken The Site and the Expedition Bronze Age, Kassite Buildings in Area WC-1 Urbanism and Prophecy in Ancient Edited by Frances Dahlberg Hellenistic, and Roman By Richard L. Zettler Israel and the Near East This volume combines reports Remains at an Ancient Details the construction and rebuild­ ­ By Lester L. Grabbe on the excavations at Tell el- Town on the ings of a large Kassite private house Topics include positive and negative Hesi with analysis of the 19th near the western city wall (Area century excavations and changing Euphrates River WC–1), which furnished information responses to the city in prophetic Excavations at Tell Es- discourse, social-scientific method methodology in the ongoing work on Kassite architectural practice as in the study of urbanism, the there, as well as on the physical Sweyhat, Syria Volume 2 well as unanticipated patterning in reconstruciton of the socio-economic urban background environment of the site. By T. A. Holland intramural burials. 240pp, Eisenbrauns, 1989, 9780931464577, Hardback, 347pp, 3 b/w figs, 109 b/w pls, 26 tbs, Oriental Institute to Haggai, and the definition of the city. This large two volume set presents the final publication 234pp, Continuum International Pub., 2001, was £47.95 of the University of Chicago, 1993, 9780918986917, of the excavations at Tell es-Sweyhat. It focuses on Hardback, was £54.00 9781841272023, Hardback, was £140.00 Now £5.95 excavation in the lower town, its rampart and the main Now £9.95 mound, and on a detailed analysis of the pottery finds. Now £6.95 650pp, /w illus, Oriental Institute, 2006, 9781885923332, Hardback, was £143.00 Now £39.95 Myth and Politics in Uncovering Ancient Chogha Mish, Volume Nippur V Ancient Near Eastern Stones 2 The Area WF Sounding: The Early Historiography By Lewis M. Hopfe Final Report on the Last Six Dynastic to Akkadian Transition By Mario Liverani This volume contains nineteen Seasons of Excavations, 1972-1978 By Augusta McMahon, McGuire Gibson, These essays focus on two central essays on Old Testament archaeology By Abbas Alizadeh David Reese and Pamela Vandiver and Biblical studies collected in themes in the historical texts of the In addition to the materials and The excavation of area WF in the ancient near east: myth and politics. memory of H. Neil Richardson. They eighteenth and nineteenth seasons are grouped in three sections: the records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh There is a close connection, Liverani uses the data available from the at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was finds, between the writing of history Hebrew Bible in its time; Archaeology aimed specifically at delineating the and the Bible; and the Hebrew Bible and its later uses. excavations of the neighboring sites and the validation of political order and political action. of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian 240pp, Cornell University Press, 2007, 9780801473586, 270pp, Eisenbrauns, 1994, 9780931464737, Hardback, reconstruction of Susiana prehistoric development, periods, and this goal has been realised. Paperback, was £24.99 was £45.00 poisiting a more substantial role for the ancient mobile 206pp, 12 figures, 186 plates and 78 tables, pastoralists of the region. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, Now £6.95 Now £5.95 396pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008, 9781885923387, Hardback, was £74.00 9781885923523, Hardback, was £70.00 Now £19.95 Now £19.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians Empires of the Plain Cuneiform Texts from On the Margin of the Vol 4 Henry Rawlinson and the the Ur III Period in the Euphrates The Eastern Archives of Nuzi Lost Languages of Babylon Oriental Institute, Settlement and Land Use at and Excavations at Nuzi 9/2 By Lesley Adkins Volume 2 Tell es-Sweyhat and in the By Ernest R. Lacheman, MA This popular account shows how the Drehem Administrative Documents Upper Tabqa Area, Syria Morrison and D. I. Owen 19th-century soldier, adventurer and from the Reign of Amar-Suena By Tony Wilkinson Dr. Morrison’s study of the scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered This study forms part of the author's cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, By Clemens D. Reichel Eastern Archives combines both and Markus Hilgert long-term research strategy that archaeological and philological and rediscovered Iraq's ancient is aimed at examining the growth data bringing order to the organization of the Eastern civilisations. The main publication of the 605 cuneiform tablets in the of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape Archives and showing how they might have been 464pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004, 9780007129003, Oriental Institute Museum that were found at the site of over much of the last ten thousand years.It comprises grouped originally when excavated. The second part of Paperback, was £11.99 the ancient administrative centre of Drehem and date to detailed studies of some 60 sq. km of land around Tell the reign of Amar-Suena (2046-2038 b.c.). the late E. R. Lacheman’s Excavations at Nuzi, volume 9 is Now £5.95 es-Sweyhat, Syria, and the thirty sites therein on the east also published in this volume. 650pp, 23 b/w figs, 79 b/w pls, Oriental Institute of the bank of the Euphrates River. 420pp, b/w illus, Eisenbrauns, 1993, 9780931464645, University of Chicago, 2003, 9781885923240, Hardback, 267pp, /w illus, Oriental Institute of the University of Hardback, was £63.95 was £109.00 Chicago, 2005, 9781885923295, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £7.95 Now £24.95 Now £14.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians God's Gold Excavations at the Proceedings of the Vol 5 By Sean Kingsley prehistoric mound of 51st Rencontre General Studies and A sort of archaeological detective Chogha Bonut, Assyriologique Excavations at Nuzi 9/3 story, God's Gold aims to track Khuzestan, Iran Internationale, Held at down the final resting place of the By Ernest R. Lacheman and D. I. Owen treasures of the Second Temple taken Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 the Oriental Institute The first part of the volume contains by the Emperor Titus in AD 71 and By Abbas Alizadeh of the University of 7 articles on various facets of Nuzi, portrayed on the Arch of Titus in This volume presents the results Chicago, July 18-22, the texts found there and the Rome. archaeology of the site. Part two of three seasons of excavations at 2005. 318pp, b/w illus, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008, Chogha Bonut, which pushed the earliest period of completes the publication of the excavations at Nuzi 9780060853990, Paperback, was £10.99 Edited by Robert D. Biggs series begun by E.R. Lacheman. occupation of Susiana to the aceramic phase, ca. 7200 BC.. Selection of papers and posters. 357pp, b/w illus, Eisenbrauns, 1995, 9780931464676, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £63.95 186pp, 47 b/w figs, 26 b/w pls, 16 tbs, Oriental Institute 434pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008, of the University of Chicago, 2003, 9781885923233, 9781885923547, Paperback, was £62.00 Now £5.95 Hardback, was £74.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM NEAR EAST BARGAINS • 19 Studies in Semitic and Carchemish in On the Margins of The Proto-Elamite Afroasiatic Linguistics Context Southwest Asia Settlement and Its Presented to Gene B By T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg Cyprus during the 6th Neighbors Gragg and Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson to 4th Millennia BC Tepe Yaya Period IVC Edited by Cynthia L. Miller This volume provides an overview By Joanne Clarke By Benjamin Mutin and Edited of the main trends of settlement in This book examines social change by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Two Afroasiatic papers consider the region of Carchemish over 8000 different aspects of connections in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th In addition to a synthesis of the years, using a combination of survey millennia BC. It is proposed that between various branches of the databases to both north and south of Proto-Elamite period and the material Afroasiatic family. Another pair of many of the observable differ­ences assemblage at Tepe Yahya, This volume provides an the Syrian-Turkish border and with a focus on the earlier between mainland southwest­ Asia and Cyprus during papers focuses on comparative Semitics. Three papers phases of settlement from the Neolithic until the end of updated review and comprehensive discussion of the examine aspects of Biblical Hebrew; one looks at South this period are the result of divergent adaptive strategies Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and the Bronze Age when Carchemish became an outpost of in response to different environmental conditions, low Semitic; three examine Aramaic; and two discuss Semitic the Hittite empire. its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. writing systems. population density and low resource stress. 350pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974192, Hardback, 288pp, b/w and colour images, Oxbow Books, 2016, 160pp, 33 b/w illus and tables, Oxbow Books, 2007, 216pp, 2 b/w illus, Oriental Institute of the University of 9781785701115, Hardback, was £48.00 was £35.00 Chicago, 2008, 9781885923417, Paperback, was £40.00 9781842172810, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The Amuq Valley Defining the Sacred Painting Pots – Cypro-Minoan Regional Projects, Approaches to the Archaeology Painting People Inscriptions, Volume 2 Volume 1 of Religion in the Near East Late Neolithic Ceramics in The Corpus Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Edited by Nicola Laneri Ancient Mesopotamia By Silvia Ferrara Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002 These essays aim to bridge the divide Edited by Walter Cruells, Inna This volume is the first By K. Ashhan Yener and Edited between evidence for religious belief Mateiciucová and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse comprehensive archaeological by K. Aslihan Yener and religious practice in the Ancient The 19 papers presented here catalogue of all the extant inscriptions Near East. They include important written in the un-deciphered syllabary The results of the Amuq Valley bring together specialists discussing contributions on temples, metallurgy, Neolithic ceramics from the Near of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500- Regional Projects (AVRP) presented in this volume are sacrifice and animal burials, with coverage extending 1200 BC): the so-called Cypro-Minoan script. It focuses the outcome of eight seasons of intensive fieldwork East in the broadest sense. There is a general focus on from the pre-pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age. decorated pottery traditions. What raw materials and on the physical reality of the inscribed objects containing (1995-2002) representing the first phase of a long-range, Cypro-Minoan and the archaeological contexts in which broadly-based archaeological investigation in the Hatay 200pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, ceramic technologies did Late Neolithic peoples employ? 9781782976790, Paperback, was £38.00 they were found. region of southern Turkey. How may we analyze decorated ceramics to explore Now £12.95 social networks and identities? 320pp, b/w and col pls, Oxford University Press, 2013, 352pp, 142 figures, 8 plates and 5 tables, Oriental Institute 9780199693825, Hardback, was £112.50 of the University of Chicago, 2006, 9781885923325, 272pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2017, Hardback, was £78.00 9781785704390, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £29.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 The Origins of State Documentary Sources Petra Great Temple Nomadism in Iran Organizations in in Ancient Near Volume 3 By D. T. Potts Prehistoric Highland Eastern and Greco- Brown University Excavations This book argues that what has been Fars, Southern Iran Roman Economic 1993–2008, Architecture interpreted in the past as an enduring and Material Culture pattern of nomadic land use on the Excavations at Tall-e Bakun History Iranian plateau is, by archaeological By Abbas Alizadeh Edited by Heather D. Baker By Martha Sharp Joukowsky standards, very recent. Since the early Definitive third volume on the Alizadeh argues that the specialised and Michael Jursa Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural excavations of the Great Temple manufacture and administrative Addressing textual corpora that have communities in Iran had kept herds of at Petra focusing on aspects of aspects at Tall-e Bakun A indicate the existence of traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers sheep and goat, but the communities Nabataean material culture, construction design and differential status at the site, where a few families or overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members history, and economy. ranking individuals controlled the manufacture and flow between the economic institutions of these two regions were required to move with the herds seasonally. of goods. and reveal a more variegated and dynamic picture of the 622pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785706127, 558pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199330799, Hardback, was £60.00 Hardback, was £75.00 300pp, 41 charts, 76 figures, 25 plates and 41 tables, ancient economy. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, 336pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £14.95 Now £19.95 9781885923363, Hardback, was £58.00 9781782977582, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Town and Country in Dynamics of Siraf The Troad Southeastern Anatolia, Production in the History, Topography and Environment An Archaeological and Volume II Ancient Near East By Cameron A. Petrie, David Whitehouse, Topographical Study The Stratigraphic Sequence Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia Donald Whitcomb and T. J. Wilkinson By J. M. Cook at Kurban Hoyuk The 17 essays collected here analyse Siraf played a leading role in the A study of the Troad, the region in Edited by Guillermo Algaze and By M. A. the economic transformations in the network of maritime trade that which Troy was situated, based on the Evins, M. L. Ingraham and Leon Marfoe ancient near east which affected the supplied Western Asia with the author's fieldwork between 1960 and old dominant powers of the Late products of India, the Far East and 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts This two volume set details a carefully Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and of more recent travellers, maps and excavated cultural sequence spanning the Chalcolithic economic environment, the emergence of new economic 1050. This volume synthesises the written evidence of archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of and Early Bronze periods in the region, as well as the actors and the impact of these changes on very different the history of Siraf, and introduces the results of seven patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to largest exposures yet available for the urban florescence social sectors and geographic areas. seasons of excavation and survey. the present day. of the Early Bronze Age in the Turkish lower Euphrates area and its decline 368pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702839, 128pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173947, 443pp, illus, Oxford University Press, 1973, Paperback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £48.00 9780198131656, Hardback, was £19.99 438pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1990, 9780918986658, Hardback, was £101.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £24.95

An Examination of Jerusalem Throne The Earliest Neolithic En Boqeq 2 Late Assyrian Games of Iran Excavations in an Oasis Metalwork The battle of Bible stories 2008 Excavations at on the Dead Sea By John Curtis after the death of David Sheikh-E Abad and Jani By Moshe Fischer This volume makes available for the By Peter Feinman Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy This volume reports on the first time a vast amount of previously Jerusalem Throne Games puts Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar excavation of an early Roman building unpublished metalwork, much of forward a new assessment of the Describes the excavation of two Early which served as a workshop for the it from the Assyrian capital city of authorship of key sections of the Old Neolithic mounds: Sheikh-e Abad manufacture of cosmetic products. Nimrud, excavated first by Sir Henry Testament, and aims to understand in the high Zagros and Jani, in the Three strata of occupation are Layard between 1845 and 1851 and then by the British the creation and meaning of those stories in their foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising identified and specialist reports detail pottery, stone School of Archaeology in Iraq between 1949 and 1963. original political context. Feinman explores the political up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation vessels, glass vessels, metal artefacts, coins, industry, It emerges that Assyria had a thriving metalworking battle for power to succeed David expressed through spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for dendroarchaeological remains and animal bones industry probably superior to any contemporary state selected stories from the Book of Genesis. diachronic and spatial analyses. 211pp, photographs, plates, 9 foldouts, Philipp von Zabern, in the region. 352pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706165, 224pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972235, 2000, 9783805317917, Hardback, was £60.00 330pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842175071, Hardback, Paperback, was £30.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £4.95 was £55.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Archaeology in the Nishapur Revisited The Neolithisation of Uruk 'Land of Tells and Stratigraphy and Ceramics Iran Late Babylonian Seal Impressions Ruins' of the Qohandez Edited by Roger Matthews on Eanna-Tablets A History of Excavations in the Holy By Rocco Rante and Annabelle Collinet and Hassan Fazeli Nashli By Erica Ehrenberg Land Inspired by the Photographs The Irano-French archaeological These studies, many of them by This book charts the development of and Accounts of Leo Boer mission at Nishapur (2004-07) Iranian scholars, consider patterns Glass over four millennia, from 18th of change and/or continuity across a Edited by Bart Wagemakers focused on the Qohandez, or citadel. Dynasty Egypt, through to the present After an introduction to the site this variety of topographical landscapes; day, illustrated by 56 examples from An exploration of Near Eastern book presents the stratigraphy and investigate Neolithic settlement the collections held by the Ashmolean archaeology through nine sites: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell, the pottery of the site. The combination of the data from patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and Museum. Samaria and Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan stratigraphical and laboratory analyses gives an accurate environmental indicators and present new insights into (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet 138pp, 28 plates, Philipp von Zabern, 1999, and completely new chronology of the site. some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The 9783805322676, Hardback, was £60.00 She’an. 144pp, 105 col illus., Oxbow Books, 2013, results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the 264pp, b/w and col. illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842174944, Hardback, was £50.00 transition to sedentary farming. Now £14.95 9781782972457, Hardback, was £49.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971900, Paperback, Now £7.95 Now £9.95 was £40.00 Now £14.95 20 • NEAR EAST BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Ancient Israel Lost Treasures of the Archaeology and the Beyond The Old Testament in Bible Emergence of Greece Thalassocracies Its Social Context By Clyde E. Fant and Mitchell G. Reddish By Anthony Snodgrass Edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter By Philip F. Esler This book describes and analyses Collected essays. The initial papers Pavúk and Luca Girella This book explores the use of the over one hundred artefacts on display illustrate how classical studies, or The 14 chapters which comprise social sciences in Old Testament in museums around the world, linking classical archaeology, has changed this book examine various aspects Biblical research. Chapters focus on them into a roughly chronological over the past forty years, the of the phenomena of Minoanisation issues such as tribalism, polygamy, overview of Ancient Near Eastern subjects that are now considered, and Mycenaeanisation, both of which rituals and in particular sacrifice, history. the approaches taken and methods share the basic underlying defining examine specific Biblical texts, and look at psychological 471pp, b/w illus, col pls, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, of reserach applied. Subsequent papers are arranged feature of material culture change in communities and political interpretations, and identity theory. 9780802828811, Paperback, was £23.99 thematically into the early Iron Age, the early polis at around the Aegean. It focuses on regions of the Aegean home and abroad, the early polis at war, early Greek art, basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting 440pp, SCM-CANTERBURY PRESS LTD, 2005, Now £5.95 and archaeological survey. 9780334040170, Paperback, was £25.00 their similarities and differences. 484pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2006, 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702037, Hardback, Now £7.95 9780801473548, Paperback, was £37.00 was £45.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

Qumran Questions Piety and Politics The Agro Pontino Burial and social By James H. Charlesworth The Dynamics of Royal Authority Survey change in first This collection of ten studies aims to in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, By A. Voorrips, S. H. Loving millennium BC Italy reconstruct the history and theology and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and H. Kamermans Edited by Elisa Perego and of early Judaism. Various topics By Dale Launderville First report on the continuing field Rafael Scopacasa are covered, such as the progress Focusing on Homeric Greece, Biblical survey, by the IPP Amsterdam, of the The chief aim of these papers is to made on the new edition of the archaeology of the Agro Pontino - the Genesis Apocryphon, the philological Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, this harness innovative approaches to the comparative and thematic study coastal area, south of Rome, between exceptionally rich mortuary evidence understanding of Psalm 155, the the Via Appia and the sea. laws regarding prophets in Early assesses the role of the king as a of first millennium BC Italy, in order Judaism, and an examination of literatures predicting the divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety 131pp, with text figs and four fold-out maps., Institute voor to investigate the roles and identities of social actors destruction of the Temple to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of Pre-en, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, 1991, who either struggled for power and social recognition, his subjects. 9789070319144, Paperback, was £20.00 or were manipulated and exploited by superior 210pp, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 9781850757702, authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio-political Paperback, was £19.99 407pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2003, 9780802839947, Now £5.95 Hardback, was £75.00 change throughout the entire Mediterranean basin. Now £2.95 Now £7.95 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701849, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £14.95

Copper Scroll Studies The Sword and the Helen of Troy Communicating Edited by George J. Brooke Stylus By Bettany Hughes Identity in Italic Iron and Philip R. Davies An Introduction to Wisdom Focusing on the 'real' Helen (the Age Communities These papers cover the history of the in the Age of Empires possibility of a flesh and blood Edited by Margarita Gleba Helen), Bettany Hughes reconstructs Scroll’s interpretation; how it should By Leo G. Perdue and Helle W. Horsnaes be conserved, restored and read; the context of life in Bronze Age how it was produced; the meaning In this introduction to ancient Greece for this elusive prehistoric Explores the many and varied of its technical terms; its genre; wisdom literature, Leo Perdue princess. Through the eyes of a young identities of the Italic peoples of the its geography; its correlation with argues that it can only be properly aristocratic Mycenaean woman, Iron Age, and how specific objects, archaeological remains; and not least understood in its historical and Hughes looks at the social and places and ideas might have been who wrote it, when and why. social contexts. He shows how wisdom texts reflect political minutiae that would have made Helen who she involved in generating, mediating and communicating a vast array of different and changing moral systems, was: her palaces, her slaves, her jewellery, her feasts, her these identities. A wide range of evidence is discussed 344pp, b/w illus, T and T Clark, 2004, 9780567084569, epistemologies, and religious understandings. including funerary iconography, grave offerings, pottery, Paperback, was £59.99 games, the religious rituals she would have presided over. 502pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, 9780802862457, vase-painting, coins, spindles and distaffs and the 458pp, b/w illus, Jonathan Cape, 2013, 9781400076000, excavation of settlements. Now £4.95 Paperback, was £29.99 Paperback, was £16.99 228pp, 108 b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Now £6.95 Now £5.95 9781842179918, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95

Persia and the West Alexander to A Test of Time and A Early Cycladic By John Boardman Constantine Test of Time Revisited Sculpture in Context This study by John Boardman By Eric M. Meyers and Mark A Chancey The Volcano of Thera and the Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin discusses in detail the architecture, This comprehensive and richly Chronology and History of the Renfrew and Michael Boyd sculpture and monumental arts of the illustrated book explores the Aegean and East Mediterranean in This volume presents the first Persians; their experimentation, the archaeological record of the land the mid Second Millennium BC comprehensive reassessment of sources of their artistic styles and the of the Bible from its conquest by By Sturt Manning Early Bronze Age sculpture from the creation of a distinctly Persian style. Alexander the Great in the fourth Cycladic islands in a generation. The 255pp, many b/w illus, Thames and century B.C.E. until the reign of the A Test of Time, first published in 1999, contributors examine sculpture from Hudson, 2000, 9780500051023, Hardback, was £36.00 Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century sought to resolve the dating of the settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, eruption of the Thera volcano, suggesting a new‘early’ Now £9.95 C.E. In particular the authors explore the impact of with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of Hellenism on the evolution of Judaism and Christianity chronology for the Aegean c. 1700–1400 BC. This edition manufacture. during this period. comprises the original, unrevised text, together with a substantial new appended essay which critically reviews 544pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701955, Hardback, 400pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, the continuing debate between 1999 and 2012. was £40.00 9780300205831, Paperback, was £21.00 672pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782972198, Hardback, Now £19.95 Now £5.95 was £48.00 Now £14.95 Ancient Laws and Social Archaeology of An Archaeology Of Odysseys and Modern Problems Households in of Prehistoric Bodies Oddities The Balance between Justice Neolithic Greece and Embodied Edited by Barry Molloy and a Legal System By Stella Souvati Identities in the Of Odysseys and Oddities is about By John Sassoon Using detailed case studies from Eastern scales and modes of interaction Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi in prehistory, specifically between In this book, John Sassoon looks at Mediterranean societies on both sides of the Aegean the laws of ancient Sumer, Akkad examines how the household is defined socially, culturally, and Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi and with their nearest neighbours and Babylon from c.2100 to 1800 overland to the north and east. The BC and the principles on which they historically; she discusses household Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos and community, variability, production and reproduction, This book presents a series of thematically organised 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how were based. Arguing that a set of general principles were we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly devised that could then be applied to a wide range of individual and collective agency, identity, change, papers exploring the anthropology of the body and complexity, and integration. its role in the construction and performance of social the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and problems, he outlines how justice was defined and truth material encounters or displacements. sought, and what concepts of property and ownership 309pp, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2008, identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean. existed. 9780521836890, Hardback, was £82.00 248pp, b/w, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702914, 400pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702310, Paperback, was £38.00 220pp, Third Millennium Publishing, 2001, Now £9.95 Hardback, was £48.00 9780953696994, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Sasanian Jewry and Its Stone Vessels and Back to the Beginning Social Change in Culture Values in the Bronze Reassessing Social and Political Aegean Prehistory By Daniel M. Friedenberg Age Mediterranean Complexity on Crete during the Edited by Corien Wiersma Early and Middle Bronze Age This volume presents fifty-seven By Andrew Bevan and Sofia Voutsaki Jewish seals from the Sasanian Andrew Bevan explores this diverse Edited by I. Schoep, P. Tomkins This volume discusses the processes Empire, as well as comparative seals and prolific industry in all its many and J. M. Driessen of social and economic change from and other Sasanian artefacts. The text facets, bringing some clarity to an These papers re-evaluate our the Early Bronze Age III to the Late identifies their provenance (if known), artefact which has the potential to theories and models and ask anew Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 - 1600 translates their inscriptions, and reveal much about the nature of what we really know about social BC) in the southern Aegean, using organizes them by their depiction or reference. Bronze Age production, the function and use of certain and political complexity on Crete from the end of the pottery, burials and settlement evidence. A wide variety 74pp, b/w illus, University of Illinois Press, 2009, objects, the movement of people, ideas and goods, as Neolithic to Middle Minoan II (c.3600-1750/00 BC). of factors is considered including demographic changes, reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, household 9780252033674, Hardback, was £36.00 well as the value ascribed to such objects, all of which 352pp, 90 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174319, are covered in the book. organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £40.00 internal tensions, connectivity and mobility. 301pp, b/w figs and pls, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521880800, Hardback, was £72.00 Now £7.95 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702198, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM NEAR EAST AND MEDITERREANEAN PREHISTORY BARGAINS • 21 Tools, Textiles and The Classical World Medicine and Healing Slavery Contexts An Epic History from in the Ancient By Page Dubois Textile Production in the Aegean and Homer to Hadrian Mediterranean World As well as detailing the practical Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age By Robin Lane Fox Edited by D. Michaelides aspects of slavery through the ages, duBois sets aside the majority of the Edited by Eva Andersson Strand This new history takes a These papers grouped under a work for discussion of theoretical and Marie-Louise Nosch chronological approach, encompassing series of headings: medicine and issues, such as the definition of This volume combines experimental the entire breadth of the classical archaeology; media (online access slavery, and ancient and modern archaeology, analyses of textile world, from archaic Greece to the to electronic corpus); the Aegean; conceptions of slavery and freedom. tools and find contexts to provide height of Imperial Rome. Robin Lane medical authors/schools of medicine; She attempts as far as is possible to unique insights into both the production processes and, Fox makes this enormous topic endlessly fascinating, surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; present the experience of slavery in the words of slaves significantly, into the range of types of textiles that could his narrative is engaging and amusing, and the move new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and as much as masters, exploring tactics of resistance and have been produced at specific sites. away from a thematic structure makes the book wholly Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. revolt. approachable. 484pp, 210 illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842174722, 446pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782972358, 154pp, Oxford University Press, 2010, 9780195380859, Hardback, was £48.00 672pp, b/w illus, Basic Books, 2008, 9780465024971, Hardback, was £65.00 Paperback, was £12.99 Paperback, was £16.99 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

Woven Threads Domestic Space in Rough Cilicia Fields of Death Edited by Maria C. Shaw Classical Antiquity New Historical and By Richard Evans and Anne. P. Chapin By Lisa C. Nevett Archaeological Approaches By combining the ancient sources This volume investigates evidence Housing is shaped by culturally- Edited by Michael C. Hoff and latest archaeological findings with for patterned textiles that were specific expectations about the kinds and Rhys F. Townsend his personal observations on the produced by two early Mediterranean ground, Richard Evans reanalyses a of architecture and furnishings that The region of Rough Cilicia (modern civilisations: the Minoans of Crete are appropriate; about how and series of Classical battles and sieges. and the Mycenaeans of mainland area the south-western coastal He aims to identify their locations where different activities should be area of Turkey), known in antiquity Greece. Only a few small scraps carried out; and by and with whom. It and explores the ways in which the of textiles survive but evidence as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the course of the engagements were is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural western part of the larger area of Cilicia. The twenty- for their production is abundant and frescoes supply systems of which they are a part, that are explored in shaped by the terrain. detailed information about a wide variety of now-lost two papers presented here give a useful overview on this volume. current research on the region, from the Bronze Age to 256pp, b/w illus, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, textile goods from luxurious costumes and beautifully 9781848847972, Hardback, was £19.99 patterned wall hangings and carpets, to more utilitarian 178pp, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2010, the Byzantine period, with a variety of methods, from decorated fabrics. 9780521789455, Paperback, was £26.99 surveys to excavations. 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Subjects include volume brings together for the first vied for territory, conquest and glory. regarding the nature of dwellings and burials, together Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman time and in fresh, lively translations all of the ancient From Alexander the Great's 22,000-mile march on Persia with a wide range of artifacts. poetry and imperial Roman dream interpretation. Jewish novels and fragments of novels. to Attila the Hun's plunder of the Roman empire, John 320pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2011, 298pp, Oxford University Press, 2002, 9780195151428, Haywood brings the most crucial battles and decisive 240pp, with 39 figs and 164 plates., Princeton University campaigns to vivid life, and examines the extraordinary Press, 1993, 9780691040158, Hardback, was £120.00 9780715638682, Paperback, was £34.99 Paperback, was £72.00 cultural achievements of these civilizations. 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Ancient Bronzes Sibyls From Polypragmon to Victor's Crown through a Modern Prophecy and Power in Curiosus A History of Ancient Sport Lens the Ancient World Ancient Concepts of Curious from Homer to Byzantium Introductory Essays on the By Jorge Guillermo and Meddlesome Behaviour By David Potter Study of Ancient Mediterranean In his definitive and erudite book, By Matthew Leigh This engaging study takes a look and Near Eastern Bronzes Jorge Guillermo tracks the story study of how Greek and Latin writers at the role of sport in the ancient Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus of Sibyls through polytheism (in describe curious, meddlesome, and world. It begins by looking at the Greece and Rome), paganism, and exaggerated behaviour. Founded on emergence of competitive sport in This volume's eight essays present into the seemingly disparate tenets of Greece in the archaic period, before technical and formal analyses. The text provides an a detailed investigation of a family of Christianity. With a remarkably rich set of historical and Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each moving on to the original Olympic Games, the disciplines overview of ancient manufacturing processes as well as artistic examples that range from Homer to Virgil, from in which athletes competed and the conditions for the modern methods of scientific examination, and it focuses other, and of the Latin words used to describe them, Boccaccio to Michelangelo, Guillermo pays tribute to the opening chapters survey how they were used in Greek participants and spectators. The book is rounded off on objects as diverse as large-scale statuary and more surprising and enduring history of these singular women. with a look at the gladiatorial games and chariot races of utilitarian armor, vessels, and lamps. and latin literature, while later chapters adopt a more 240pp, Overlook Press, 2013, 9781468306842, Hardback, thematic approach. ancient Rome. 208pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, was £18.99 262pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199668618, 416pp, Quercus, 2011, 9781849162524, Hardback, was 9780300207798, Paperback, was £35.00 £25.00 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £79.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

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22 • CLASSICAL BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Genuine Teachers Athens Sociable Man The Colors of Clay of This Art A History Essays on Ancient Greek Social Special Techniques in Athenian Vases Rhetorical Education in Antiquity By Robin Waterfield Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher By Beth Cohen By Jeffrey Walker In this well-written and accessible Edited by S. D. Lambert This catalogue documents a major study, Robin Waterfield describes Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations Themes include politics and law; social exhibition at the Getty Villa that was the `tragic drama’ that is Athenian of rhetorical theories and values, including honour, dishonour the first ever to focus on ancient history, focusing on the events of 480 schoolroom practices from early and hybris; social relations in the Athenian terracotta vases made by to 340 BC. This is not a conventional to late antiquity. He makes a case Athenian navy; gender and power; techniques other than the well- narrative history, although for considering rhetoric not as an citizen identity, Athenian and Arcadian; known black- and red-figure styles. chronological discussions are included, instead, Robin Aristotelian critical-theoretical discipline, but as an and sexuality. The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, Waterfield focuses on key themes as well as the people Isocratean pedagogical discipline, an art of producing coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and who shaped Athenian history and formed its legacy. 350pp, 10 bandw illus, Classical Press of Wales, 2011, speakers and writers. 9781905125517, Hardback, was £62.00 Six’s technique, as well as examples with added clay and 410pp, 34 col and b/w pls, Basic Books, 2004, gilding, and plastic vases and additions. 352pp, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, 9780465090631, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £12.95 9781611170160, Hardback, was £49.50 376pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2008, 9780892369423, Paperback, was £37.00 Now £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

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The Parthenon Enigma Classical Greece and Ambush Mysteries of the By Joan Breton Connelly the Birth of Western Surprise Attack in Ancient Oracles A radical new interpretation of the Art Greek Warfare By Philipp Vandenberg meaning and purposes of one of By Andrew Stewart By Rose Mary Sheldon In a first person narrative Philipp the world's most iconic buildings. This introductory guide provides A reappraisal of the importance of Vandenberg recounts his travels Joan Breton Connelly proposes that to the sites of the fifteen ancient the Parthenon frieze depicts not historical context for the ‘Classical irregular warfare in the strategy of revolution’ in art. Andrew Stewart the Ancient Greeks. Chapters cover oracles, and explores the history of the celebration of the Panathenaic archaeological research, as well as festival, but instead the sacrifice of examines Greek architecture, painting, ambush tactics, night attacks, surprise and sculpture of the fifth and fourth seaborne landings and the use of how the oracles functioned and how his daughter by King Erectheus, the they were perceived by contemporaries. founder King of Athens. In so doing she presents a far centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, trickery to capture towns and cities. darker picture of Athenian relgion and identity. cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. 322pp, Frontline Books, 2012, 9781848325920, Hardback, 291pp, I.B. Tauris, 2007, 9781845114022, Paperback, was £11.99 485pp, b/w illus, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, 9780307593382, 376pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, was £25.00 Hardback, was £25.00 9780521618359, Paperback, was £18.99 Now £5.95 Now £3.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Dream and Reality Early Hellenistic Sparta At War Corpus Vasorum Danish Antiquaries, Architects Portraiture Strategy, Tactics and Antiquorum and Artists in Greece Image, Style, Context Campaigns, 950-362 BC J Paul Getty Museum, Fascicule 5 By Ida Haugsted By Peter Schultz By Scott Rusch By Marit R. Jentoft-Nilsen This book provides an outline of the This study examines the styles Scott Rusch provides a narrative Mycenaean faience, east Greek, Proto- story of Danish travellers in Greece, and contexts of portrait statues history of Sparta's wars, not only Corinthian, Corinthian, Laconian, illuminating aspects of both the produced during the early Hellenistic describing the various campaigns Euboean, Chalcidian, Attic geometric, cultural history of Greece and the age. A team of experts investigates in detail, but also aiming to explain Attic black-figure, Attic network, Attic period of the Danish golden age in the problems of origins, patronage, Sparta's rise to becoming the premier black body, Attic black glaze, Lead the first half of the nineteenth century. setting, and meanings that have consistently marked this Greek military power, her defeat of Persia and Athens, glaze and Arretine. 395pp, b/w illus, Archetype, 1996, 9781873132753, fascinating body of ancient material culture. and her ultimately irreversible decline in the fourth century BC. 60pp, 55 pls, J Paul Getty Museum, 1994, Hardback, was £85.00 304pp, col and b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780892362783, Hardback, was £60.00 9780521866590, Hardback, was £80.00 272pp, b/w pls, Frontline Books, 2011, 9781848325302, Now £19.95 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Ancient Greek Pottery The Conquests of Thucydides' War Corpus Vasorum By Michael Vickers Alexander the Great Accounting for the Faces of Conflict Antiquorum This full colour guide showcases By Waldeman Heckel By Neil Morpeth J Paul Getty Museum, Fascicule 3 a selection of vessels from the Heckel provides a revisionist This specialist study takes a close By Marit R. Jentoft-Nilsen Ashmolean's collection. Most of overview of the conquests of look at Thucydides’ use of numbers and A. D. Trendall the pots were made in Corinth and Alexander the Great. Emphasising - his estimations of the sizes of Presents the red-figured kraters, Athens and transported to Italy the aims and impact of his armies and naval forces and of and Sicily where they served as military expeditions, the political amphorae, hydriai, kantharoi, troop movements. This information lekanides, pyxides, plates, skyphos, grave offerings. Many are decorated consequences of military action, is presented in table form, with with figures, which give an insight and the use of propaganda, both for motivation and oinochoai, epichyseis, and rhyta of a detailed commentary, and an extended critique of Apulia. into Greek religion, warfare, sport, party-going and justification, Heckel rejects notions of Alexander as concepts of scale in Thucydides craftmanship. irrational, showing that his aims were in accord with 50pp, 58 pls, J Paul Getty Museum, 1990, 348pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2006, 9783487132563, 9780892361724, Paperback, was £60.00 80pp, col pls, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1999, those of the military aristocracy which backed them. Paperback, was £45.00 9781854441140, Paperback, was £8.95 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £2.95 9781107645394, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £4.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM GREECE BARGAINS • 23 Remembering Defeat Tarentine Horsemen On the Fascination of Envy and Jealousy in Civil War and Civic Memory of Magna Graecia, Objects Classical Athens in Ancient Athens 430-190 BC Edited by John Boardman, Andrew By Ed Sanders By Andrew Wolpert By Nic Fields Parkin and Sally Waite Building on recent developments in This volume explores the settlement Taras was the leading power of the The 14 papers presented here reflect reading emotion "scripts" in classical which emerged in Athens after defeat scattered Greek states of southern the broad scope of the Shefton texts, this book applies to Athenian in the Peloponnesian War, and the Italy and built their reputation on collection of Greek and Etruscan culture and literature insights on the overthrow of the oligarchic regime the unmatched horse warriors who art; ranging across pottery, jewellery, contexts, conscious and subconscious which followed it. Wolpert uses helped the Tarantines claim and terracottas and metalwork. The motivations, subjective manifestations, public speeches of the early fourth century to consider maintain their power. In this book Nic Fields examines contributions focus on specific objects or groups of and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories the Tarentine horsemen in detail, discussing their objects in the Collection, providing new interpretations emotions, derived from modern philosophical, of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to tactics, weapons and equipment and detailing how they and bringing previously unpublished items to light. psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and themselves an agreement that allowed the oligarchic operated as mercenaries throughout the region. 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700064, Hardback, anthropological scholarship. conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. 64pp, col illus, Osprey, 2008, 9781846032790, Paperback, was £60.00 224pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199897728, 208pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, was £11.99 Hardback, was £65.00 9780801867903, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £3.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

The Hunt in Ancient Ancient Sailing to Classical Invention of Greek Greece Historiography on War Greece Ethnography By Judith Barringer and Empire Papers on Greek Art, By Joseph Skinner Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Archaeology and Epigraphy Greek ethnography is commonly inscriptions, and other literary Müller and Richard Stoneman presented to Petros Themelis believed to have developed during evidence, Judith Barringer reexamines This volume shows the ways in which Edited by Olga Palagia and the Greeks’ “encounter with the the theme of the hunt and shows the literary genre of writing history Hans Rupprecht Goette barbarian” - Achaemenid Persia. how the tradition it depicts helped Skinner argues that, on the contrary, developed to guide empires through This volume of 15 papers is a tribute maintain the dominance of the ruling their wars. Taking key events from the ethnographic discourse was already social groups. to Petros Themelis for his significant ubiquitous throughout the archaic Greek world, not Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to 312pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way only in the form of texts but also in a wide range of the excavation, study and conservation of the ancient iconographic and archaeological materials. 9780801866562, Hardback, was £45.00 events and the accounts of those events interact. site of Messene in the Peloponnese. New, previously 343pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199793600, Now £12.95 304pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and 9781785702990, Hardback, was £48.00 elsewhere is here presented for the first time. Hardback, was £75.00 Now £14.95 120pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174227, Now £12.95 Paperback, was £32.00 Now £6.95 The Litigious Athenian Athenian Potters and Textile Production in Poiesis By Matthew R. Christ Painters III Classical Athens By Peter Acton Athens saw frequent debates about Edited by John Oakley By Stella Spantidaki Poiesis brings together ancient texts the manipulation of the legal process Athenian Potters and Painters III This book presents a detailed and inscriptions, recent scholarly by unscrupulous individuals. Christ's presents a rich mass of new material consideration of the historical and analysis, archaeological finds, and book discusses how these debates on Greek vases, including finds social context of textile production the expertise of modern craftsmen reveal contemporary Athenian from excavations at the Kerameikos in classical Athens. It examines and to investigate every known facet attitudes to problems in their legal in Athens and Despotiko in the discusses evidence for the equipment, of Athens' manufacturing activities. system, and their ability to define the Cyclades. Some contributions focus materials, processes and techniques The framework explains why limits of ethical behaviour through on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, employed at each stage of the full production sequence, certain segments were suited to such public discussions. and the structure of the figured pottery industry in and discusses the organisation of production and trade. the sole craftsman and others to teams of slaves, and 317pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and deduces earnings potential based upon competitive 256pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, differentiation. 9780801858635, Hardback, was £40.50 the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. 9781785702525, Hardback, was £40.00 408pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2014, Now £12.95 272pp, b/w images and 2 colour plate sections, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976639, Hardback, was £80.00 Now £14.95 9780199335930, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

The Return of Ulysses Autopsy in Athens The Macedonians in Searching for the A Cultural History of Recent Archaeological Research Athens, 322-229 B.C. Amazons Homers Odyssey on Athens and Attica Proceedings of an International The Real Warrior Women By Edith Hall Edited by Margaret M. Miles Conference held at the University of the Ancient World This wonderful book takes the reader These papers offer perspectives on of Athens, May 24-26, 2001 By John Man on a journey with as many twists and a range of issues relating to Classical By Olga Palagia and Stephen V. Tracy John Man travels to the grasslands turns as the Odyssey itself, tracing its Athens: the ambience of the ancient These papers focus on various of Central Asia, from the edge of enormous influence from antiquity city for passers-by, filled with roadside aspects of Athenian art, archaeology the ancient Greek world to the to the present day. It is arranged shrines; techniques of architectural and history in the century of borderlands of China, to discover thematically rather than chronologically, allowing the construction and sculpting; religious expression in Macedonian domination. They consider Athens' new role the truth about the warrior women mythologized reader to compare the ways in which the poem's central Athens including cults of Asklepios and Serapis; the as a political stepping stone for potential Successors to as Amazons. He redefines our understanding of the ideas have been treated across the centuries and over precise procedures for Greek sacrifice; how the borders the throne of Macedon, and the ways in which Athenian Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend the world's continents. of Attica were defined over time, and details of its road- culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. into the modern world and examining its significance system. 304pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 272pp, 143 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2003, today. 9780801888694, Hardback, was £20.00 224pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842170922, Hardback, was £75.00 304pp, b/w illus, Pegasus Books, 2018, 9781681776750, 9781782978565, Hardback, was £60.00 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Corpus Vasorum Gods and Garments With Alexander in Macedonian War Antiquorum Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in India and Central Asia Machine, 359-281 BC Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC Moving east and back to west By David Karunanithy Fasc 1 (USA Fasc 21) By Cecilie Brøns Edited by Claudia Antonetti and P. Biagi This study aims to shed light on a By Ann Steiner A new investigation into and Twelve papers in this volume wealth of understudied aspects of the Macedonian military, with a focus A diverse collection, including interpretation of the role of textiles examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian and clothing accessories in the campaign, the relationship between on five specific areas: Preparation; Cypriot, Attic and South Italian pieces, Support; Dress and Battle Equipment; mostly previously unpublished. performance and materialisation of him and his generals, the potential to ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the use Indian sources, and evidence for Alexander's Veterans; and Life on 50pp, fold-out pls, Joslyn Art Museum, 1986, 7th–1st centuries BC. Among the questions posed are Campaign. 9780936364148, Hardback, was £50.00 the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring how and where we can detect the use of textiles in the areas such as Iran and Russia. 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781848846180, Now £4.95 sanctuaries, and how they were used in rituals including Hardback, was £25.00 their impact on the performance of these rituals and the 304pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2017, people involved. 9781785705847, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £7.95 384pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, Now £12.95 9781785703553, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95

The Divided City Greece, Macedon and After Thermopylae Spartan Way On Memory and Forgetting Persia The Oath of Plataea and the End By Nic Fields in Ancient Athens Edited by Timothy Howe, Erin of the Graeco-Persian Wars For a period of some 200 years, By Nicole Loraux Garvin and Graham Wrightson By Paul Cartledge Sparta was acknowledged throughout This book contains a collection of the Greek world as the home of the Originally published in French in 1997 Paul Cartledge provides a fascinating finest soldiers. Nic Fields explains the as La Cite divisee , this study focuses papers related to the history and re-examination of the Battle of Platea, historiography of Warfare, Politics and reasons for this superiority, how their on a crucial moment in Athenian its decisive end to the Persian wars, reputation for invincibility was earned political history, the end of oligarchic Power in the Ancient Mediterranean and the struggle between Athens world. The contributions, written by (and deliberately manipulated) and rule in 403BC and the decision to and Sparta over their memory. He how it was ultimately shattered. forget the stasis of the past. Reconciliation politics 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological examines the Oath of Platea made before the battle and comes to the forefront as Loraux examines how civil and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples how it illuminates the propaganda wars between Athens 208pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848848993, war could be forgotten, how dissension could be kept at considered war and conflict at the heart of social, and Sparta. Hardback, was £25.00 bay from the city and its politics when it had been such a political and economic activity. 240pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2013, Now £7.95 fundamental part of its past. 168pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9780199747320, Hardback, was £16.99 358pp, MIT Press, 2002, 9781890951092, Paperback, was 9781782979234, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £5.95 £17.99 Now £12.95 Now £5.95 24 • GREECE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Tyrants of The Spartans Early Greek Vase Excavations at Nemea Syracuse: Vol. II 367- The World of the Warrior- Painting III 211 BC Heroes of Ancient Greece 11th-6th Centuries BC The Coins By Jeff Champion By Paul Cartledge By John Boardman By Robert C. Knapp, John D. Mac In this second volume of his military Interspersed with the personal The later achievements of Greek Isaac and Stephen G. Miller biographies of leading figures, and history of Syracuse, Jeff Champion art can only be understood in the The vast majority of the 4,092 coins based on 30 years' research, The follows the course of the city' s wars context of this period, which saw the recovered from the Greek city of Spartans tracks the people from from the death of Dionysius II down transition from the Geometric style Nemea have secure archaeological 480 to 360 BC charting Sparta's to the final epic siege of the city in to the Orientalising and then to the contexts and are identifiable. The progression from the Great Power of the Aegean Greek 213-211 BC, and its fall to the Romans. dominance of work from Corinth and Athens. A succinct majority of the coins date from the heyday of the site world to its ultimate demise. 272pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848843677, and comprehensive guide to art which is the principal during the early Hellenistic period when the Nemean Hardback, was £25.00 320pp, b/w illus, Random House, 2004, 9781400078851, means of dating for its period. Games were at their height. Paperback, was £13.99 Now £7.95 287pp, 588 illus, Thames and Hudson, 1998, 290pp, 32 b/w pls, University of California Press, 2005, Now £4.95 9780500203095, Paperback, was £9.95 9780520231696, Hardback, was £100.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

City-State Civism in The Creativity of Greek Gems and Stephanos Ancient Athens Crete Finger Rings Edited by K. J. Hartswick Its Real and Ideal Expressions By Malcolm Cross By John Boardman and Mary C. Sturgeon By Thomas L. Dynneson In this detailed and well argued A large and comprehensive account Classical Greek sculpture forms the focus of the majority of these essays. The author presents an extensive study Malcolm Cross explores the of gem engraving from the Early Classical and Hellenistic achievement Bronze Age through to the Hellenistic Discussions tackle interpretations description of the intellectual forces of technique and style, consider that attracted "international" scholars of Crete's city states, arguing that period. John Boardman discusses in many respects, not least their the history of engraving, the subject single sculptures, groups, and whole and teachers to Athens, who in turn monuments, the well-known as established important schools of longevity they surpassed that of matter, materials and techniques and the more famous city states of mainland Greece. their relationship with other artistic media. well as the unusual. Approaches are higher learning as they labored to develop and advance traditional, art historical, as well as semiotic, and make the study of rhetoric and philosophy as competing He discusses their laws, consitutions and practical 480pp, 8p col pls, numerous b/w pls and figs, Thames and governance, as well as social structures and economies, use of ancient literary sources, architectural contexts, alternative approaches for addressing the perceived Hudson, 2000, 9780500237779, Hardback, was £75.00 epigraphy and recent investigation into Greek religion, weakness of the democratic system. highlighting significant developments and presenting a picture of an advanced and commericialised society. Now £19.95 the emerging polis and the status of women. 222pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9781433103117, 300pp, b/w illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, Hardback, was £55.95 299pp, col pls, Signal Books Ltd, 2011, 9781904955955, Paperback, was £12.99 9780924171529, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95

Alexander The Elgin Affair Greek Sculpture Folds of Parnassos The Ambiguity of Greatness The True Story of the The Archaic Period Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis By Guy MacLean Rogers Greatest Theft in History By John Boardman By Jeremy McInerney In this fast-paced narrative history By Theodore Vrettos Traces the development of Archaic This study explores how ecological Guy MacLean Rogers charts Almost two hundred years after Greek sculpture in terms of styles and conditions, land use, and external Alexander's extraordinary career and they were "purchased" from Greece, regions, providing a comprehensive factors such as invasion contributed attempts to reconstruct his character, the finest and most famous marbles range of pictures for the period that to the formation of a Phokian focusing in partcular on his military of antiquity still remain a burning includes coverage of unfamiliar, rarely territory. McInerney shows how prowess, the motivation behind his issue. This compelling, controversial reproduced sculptures. shared myths, hero cults and military conquests, and his fascination with Persian customs. story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful 252pp, 271 b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 1978, alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region 464pp, Random House, 2005, 9780812972719, detail "the greatest art theft in history," a steamy tale of 9780500181669, Hardback, was £10.95 together over centuries despite repeated invasions. Paperback, was £12.99 obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin 407pp, University of Texas Press, 1999, 9780292752306, Now £6.95 Paperback, was £33.00 Now £6.95 256pp, col pls, Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, 9781611453157, Paperback, was £10.99 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Ghost on the Throne The Art and The Greek World The Hemlock Cup The Death of Alexander the Great Architecture of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Socrates, Athens and the By James Romm Ancient Greece By Robert Browning Search for the Good Life A gripping account, popular but By Nigel Rodgers A wonderfully illustrated book that By Bettany Hughes backed by rigorous scholarship, This title offer a sumptuously celebrates the history, culture and Socrates lived and contributed to a which reconstructs the events which illustrated introductory account of achievements of the Greeks and links city that nurtured key ingredients followed the death of Alexander at classical Greek buildings, sculptures Greece and the Greek people of of contemporary civilisation - the height of his fame and power. and paintings. The first half of the different periods from ancient times democracy, liberty, science, drama, Romm describes the unsuccessful book analyses the rise of Greek to the modern world. rational thought - yet, as he wrote revolt of the Athenians, and the struggles among architecture from its Minoan roots to the creation of the 328pp, many b/w and col pls, b/w figs, Thames and Hudson, nothing in his lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. Alexander’s generals to control the two remaining Parthenon. The second part covers the skill of ancient 1985, 9780500281628, Paperback, was £19.95 Bettany Hughes has painstakingly pieced together representatives of the Argead line. Greek sculptors and artists, and looks in detail at their Socrates' life, following in his footsteps across Greece 389pp, b/w illus, Random House, 2012, 9780307456601, techniques. Now £7.95 and Asia Minor, and examining the new archaeological Paperback, was £12.99 128pp, col illus, Southwater, 2016, 9781844768028, discoveries that shed light on his world. Paperback, was £9.99 528pp, Vintage Books, 2012, 9781400076017, Paperback, Now £5.95 was £15.99 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

The First Clash Attrition The Greeks in Asia The Parthenon By Jim Lacey Aspects of Command in By John Boardman By Vincent J. Bruno A popular military history of the the Peloponnesian War John Boardman examines a wealth Originally published in 1974 this events leading up to Marathon and By Godfrey Hutchinson of art and artifacts as well as literary classic work provides an overview the battle itself, taking up the position sources to reveal the remarkable of the Parthenon, its history, made famous by Victor Davis Hanson A military narrative of the influence of Greek culture on peoples architecture, building techniques, that the strategy deployed by the Peloponnesian War, focusing on the - Anatolians, Levantines, Persians, sculptures and significance. Greeks marks the beginning of a strategies employed by the generals Asiatics, Indians, and Chinese - whose who dominated the different stages 351pp, b/w illus, W W Norton, 1996, distinctive “western way of war”. civilizations were far older, with their 9780393314403, Paperback, was of the war - Pericles, Brasidas, Kleon, own strong traditions in government, 233pp, Random House, 2011, 9780553807349, Alcibiades, Lysander et al. £17.99 Hardback, was £20.00 the arts, and daily life 304pp, Spellmount Ltd, 2008, 9781862273238, Hardback, 240pp, b/w illus, col pls, Thames and Hudson, 2015, Now £6.95 Now £4.95 was £25.00 9780500252130, Hardback, was £32.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

The Rise of Athens Greek Vase Painting Civic Rites Greece The Story of the World's Form, Figure and Narrative Democracy and Religion History and Treasures of an Greatest Civilization By P. Gregory Warden in Ancient Athens Ancient Civilization By Anthony Everitt At the heart of this study of the By Nancy Evans By Stefano Maggi The Rise of Athens' celebrates relationship between Greek vases Nancy Evans vividly depicts the A sumptuous coffee-table style the city-state that cradled the and their decoration - and between physical environment and the presentation of some of the glories world's first democracy - from its the decoration and the function of ancestral rituals that nourished the of Greek art, from the frescos of revolutionary beginnings through to the vase - is a very well presented people of the earliest democratic Knossos to the Hellenistic age. flowering of its intellectual and artistic catalogue of 43 Greek and Etruscan state, demonstrating how religious The accompanying text provides an achievements - and explores its eventual decline into a vases exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental outline historical narrative and explains the main artistic conquered and pleasant 'university town'. in Madrid. processes developments. 576pp, Random House, 2017, 9780812984989, 168pp, many col pls, Texas AandM University Press, 2004, 272pp, b/w illus, University of California Press, 2010, 207pp, col illus, White Star Publishers, 2007, Paperback, was £14.99 9780870744891, Hardback, was £30.50 9780520262034, Paperback, was £21.95 9788854404588, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM GREECE BARGAINS • 25 Democracy's Peripatetic Philosophy, Sophocles: Oedipus at Frontiers of Pleasure Beginning 200 BC to AD 200 Colonus Models of Aesthetic Response in The Athenian Story By R. W. Sharples By Adrian Kelly Archaic and Classical Greek Thought By Thomas Mitchell This book provides a collection of In his final play, Sophocles returns By Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi Thomas N. Mitchell addresses the sources, many of them fragmentary to the ever-popular character Anatasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that most crucial issues surrounding and previously scattered and hard of Oedipus, the blind outcast of although the Greek language had Greek democracy, including what to access, for the development of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of no formal term equivalent to the initially inspired the political beliefs Peripatetic philosophy in the later human reversal, whose fall he had so “aesthetic,” the notion was deeply underpinning it, the ways the system Hellenistic period and the early memorably treated in the 'Oedipus rooted in Greek thought. Her analysis succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against Tyrannus'. This useful companion provides background, centers on a dominant aspect of beauty - the aural - a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play. associated with a highly influential sector of culture that and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. 144pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2009, comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the hastened the demise of Athenian democracy. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations. 9780715637135, Paperback, was £18.99 “activity of the Muses,” or mousike. 309pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 350pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2015, Now £3.95 206pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199798322, 9780300215038, Hardback, was £25.00 9780521884808, Hardback, was £77.00 Hardback, was £67.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Arguing with Socrates Potamo of Alexandria Sophocles: Women of Homer's Cosmic An Introduction to Plato's and the Emergence of Trachis Fabrication Shorter Dialogues Eclecticism in Late By Brad Levett Choice and Design in the Iliad By Christopher Warne Hellenistic Philosophy In Women of Trachis Sophocles By Bruce Heiden An overview of the key themes of the By Myrto Hatzimichali presents the tragic drama of A new attempt to get to the bottom dialogues, their political and cultural Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, In this book the historical and of the organisation and construction context and Socrates' philosophical who unintentionally poisoned her interpretative problems associated of the Iliad, which proposes that the method. Christopher Warne explores husband in her attempt to entice with eclecticism are for the first poem is structured in such a way each dialogue in turn, encouraging the him away from his young concubine. time approached from the point of as to make reading it profitable, as reader to engage with the questions raised by Socrates' This companion guides the student through the view of the only self-described eclectic philosopher opposed to the standard conception of its being an thought. background to this unusual drama, the `odd one out' from Antiquity, Potamo of Alexandria. The evidence is oral experience. Heiden notes that the division of the among Sophocles' plays, and presents a number of work into books also creates a structure to the work 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2013, 9781441195449, Paperback, examined in detail with reference to the philosophical interpretations for its key themes and issues. was £20.00 and wider intellectual background of the period. as it is read, which flags up major events, and delineates 155pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2004, sub-plots. Now £5.95 208pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 9780715631881, Paperback, was £18.99 9780521197281, Hardback, was £67.00 254pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780195341072, Now £3.95 Hardback, was £71.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Plato's Symposium Relative Chronology in Pindar Plutarch's Practical A Readers Guide Early Greek Epic By Anne Pippin Burnett Ethics By Thomas L. Cooksey Poetry A new translation of Pindar’s Victory By Lieve Van Hoof This introductory guide to Plato’s By Oivind Andersen Odes. Brief introductions to each A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, Symposium first sketches the poem explain matters of context a group of twenty-odd texts within This book sets out to disentangle and mythological symbolism, as well historical background, then its key the complex chronology of early the Moralia designed to help powerful philosophical themes, before providing as what we know of the victors and Greeks and Romans manage their Greek epic poetry, which includes their patrons a section by section reading of the Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. ambitions and society's expectations text, and an overview of its influence. Some contributions offer statistical 191pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, successfully. Lieve Van Hoof combines 192pp, Bloomsbury, 2010, 9780826444172, Paperback, analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis 2010, 9780801895753, Paperback, was £17.00 a systematic analysis of the general principles underlying was £18.99 of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical Now £3.95 Plutarch's practical ethics, including the author's target approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, Now £4.95 seek to track the development and interrelationship of with five innovative case studies. epic contents. 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2010, 9780199583263, 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £100.00 9780521194976, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Sappho In Search of the At the Limits of Art One and Many in By Marguerite Johnson Sorcerer's Apprentice A Literary Study of Aelius Aristotles Metaphysics: Sappho's poetry, essentially The Traditional Tales of Aristides' Hieroi Logoi The Central Books preserved in tantalising fragments, Lucian's Lover of Lies By Janet Downie By Edward C. Halper is discussed in a series of thematic chapters that include her religious By Daniel Ogden Setting this dream-memoir of illness The Central Books of the writings, particularly directed to the This is the first book in English to and divine healing in the context of Metaphysics are widely recognized goddess of love, Aphrodite; personal be devoted to Lucian’s Philopseudes Aristides' professional concerns as as the most difficult portion of a interpretations of mythological or Lover of Lies (ca. 170s AD). It an orator, this book investigates the most difficult work. Halper uses the themes; marriage hymns; and love comprises an extensive discussion, Hieroi Logoi's rhetorical aims and problem of the one and the many as a songs to female companions. with full translation. Among the themes of the work are literary aspirations. Incorporating numerous dream lens through which to examine the Central Books. What Lucian’s methods of adapting motifs from traditional accounts and narratives of divine cure in a multi- he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency 144pp, Bloomsbury, 2007, 9781853996900, Paperback, layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of and argumentative coherence in a work that almost was £19.99 narratives, and the text’s overlooked Cynic voice. rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. 312pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2007, 9781905125166, is transparent to the divine. Now £5.95 Hardback, was £62.00 374pp, Parmenides Publishing, 2006, 9781930972056, 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199924875, Hardback, was £50.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

Euripides and the Masks of Authority Dithyramb Tragedy From Protagoras to Poetics of Nostalgia Fiction and Pragmatics in and Comedy Aristotle By Gary S. Meltzer Ancient Greek Poetics By A. W. Pickard-Cambridge Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy This book provides detailed studies By Claude Calame A history of the earliest stages of By Heda Segvic of four of Euripides' plays (Hippolytus, These interlinked essays explore the Greek drama. The study begins by These papers range from a literary Hecuba, Ion and Helen), looking at means used by ancient Greek poets bringing together what was known study of Homer’s influence on the tension between nostalgia and to create in their works a fictional of the dithyramb, and argues against Plato’s Protagoras to analytic studies skepticism. Whilst Euripides has often authorship. The volume shows that Aristotle's statement that tragedy of Aristotle’s metaphysics and his been seen as shockingly new, Gary they made of their poems, through originated from the leaders of the ideas about deliberation. Most of Meltzer argues that there is another side to his work, a various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with dithyramb, and against the theory that it originated in the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic’s idea deep nostalgia for the past and a belief in a golden age of the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the performances at the tombs of dead heroes. that both Socrates’ and Aristotle’s universalism and simplicity and truth. ideas of craft and performance. 346pp, Oxford University Press, 1962, 9780198142270, objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their 266pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 248pp, Cornell University Press, 2005, 9780801438929, Hardback, was £14.99 opposition to Protagorean relativism. 9780521858731, Hardback, was £67.00 Hardback, was £61.00 Now £4.95 196pp, Princeton University Press, 2009, 9780691131238, Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Hardback, was £53.00 Now £7.95

Performing Oaths in Euripides: Ion Form Without Matter Thucydides Classical Greek Drama By Laura Swift Empedocles and Aristotle An Introduction for the By Judith Fletcher Ion is one of Euripdes' less well on Color Perception Common Reader Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in known plays, in antiquity just as By Mark Eli Kalderon By Perez Zagorin today, possibly due to the obscurity ancient Athenian legal, commercial, Empedocles conceives of perception An exploration of Thucydides’ civic and international spheres. Their of the myth on which it was based. Laura Swift's concise analysis of the as a mode of material assimilation, continuing importance and profound importance is reflected by the fact but this raises a puzzle about originality as a historian. The first that much of surviving Greek drama play provides a full context for the issues it brings up of divine justice colour vision, since colour vision half of the book discusses the features a formal oath sworn before seems to present colors that intellectual and historical background the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of and responsibility, of the nature of parenthood and most of all of Athenian imperialism. inhere in distant objects. Kalderon shows how, read in to Thucydides’ work. The following chapters deal with that phenomenon. light of Empedoclean puzzlement about the sensory the portrayal of the Athenian leader Pericles and the 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 127pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2008, presentation of remote objects, Aristotle's definition of account of some of the main episodes of the war, as well 9780521762731, Hardback, was £67.00 9780715637449, Paperback, was £18.99 perception can be better understood. as Thucydides’ methodology. Now £7.95 Now £3.95 234pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780198717904, 190pp, Princeton University Press, 2005, 9780691138800, Hardback, was £58.00 Paperback, was £20.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

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Listening to Homer Regional Pathways to Republicanism During On the Spartacus Tradition, Narrative and Audience Complexity the Early Roman Road By Ruth Scodel By P.A.J. Attema, Gert-Jan Burgers Empire A Spectacular Journey Homeric poems are founded in and P. M. Van Leusen By Sam Wilkinson Through Ancient Italy oral tradition but how did Homer Synthesizing almost 30 years of Dutch Exploring the political ideology of By Peter Stothard overcome the audience's different archaeological research in central and Republicanism under the Roman Peter Stothard retraces the steps of levels of knowledge and familiarity southern Italy, this book discusses and emperors of the first century AD, Spartacus and his slave army through with particular characters, myths and compares settlement and land use Sam Wilkinson puts forward the Italy, interspersing narrative and stories? What narrative strategies patterns from the late protohistoric hypothesis that there was indeed analysis of the rebellion with modern were used to make the performance both intelligible and period to the late Roman Republic. opposition to the political structure and ideology of travelogue. pleasing to the audience? This study looks at how the 235pp, b/w illus, col pls, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, the rulers on the grounds of Republicanism, but that Homeric tradition functioned and how it was received emperors too could appropriate moral aspects of 368pp, 70 b/w pls, Harper Collins Publishers, 2010, 9789089642769, Hardback, was £70.00 9780007340781, Hardback, was £18.99 by an audience. Republican ideology. Now £24.95 235pp, University of Michigan Press, 2002, 272pp, Continuum International Pub., 2012, Now £4.95 9780472033744, Paperback, was £21.50 9781441120526, Paperback, was £28.99 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

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Making Textiles in Rome's Revolution A Jew Among Romans Antony and Cleopatra pre-Roman and Death of the Republic and The Life and Legacy of By Adrian Goldsworthy Roman Times Birth of the Empire Flavius Josephus Adrian Goldsworthy here gives us People, Places, Identities By Richard Alston By Frederic Raphael a narrative history of Antony and Cleopatra. He traces their political Edited by Margarita Gleba and In an original account of what he An audacious history of Josephus, careers, and attempts to reconstruct Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke calls Rome's revolution, Richard the Jewish general turned Roman their motivations and ambitions. He Alston explores the experience of the historian whose emblematic betrayal This volume explores the abundant challenges the established picture of ordinary inhabitants of Rome during is a touchstone for the Jew alone Antony as a military man first and archaeological and written evidence the fall of the Republic. They, like in the Gentile world. Raphael goes to understand the typological and geographical diversity foremost, as well as recent emphasis the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were beyond the fascinating details of Josephus’s life and his on the Egyptian context of Cleopatra's queenship. of textile commodities. It examines the foundations of political agents, negotiating their positions in the context singular literary achievements to examine how Josephus the textile trade in Italy and the emergence of specialist of a "failed state." has been viewed by posterity 470pp, col pls, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2010, textile production in Austria, the impact of new Roman 9780753828632, Paperback, was £14.99 markets on regional traditions and the role that gender 408pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2015, 336pp, Random House, 2013, 9780307378163, played in the production of textiles. 9780199739769, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £4.95 240pp, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, Now £5.95 Now £7.95 9781842177679, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95 28 • ROME BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 In the Name of Rome Presenting the Excavations in the My Roman Britain The Men who Won the Romans Middle Walbrook By Richard Reece Roman Empire Edited by Nigel Miller Valley A personal view - stimulating and By Adrian Goldsworthy Issues in the public presentation and By Tony Wilmott provoking - of Romano-British interpretation of the archaeology of studies. This study focuses on the generals A synthesis of material excavated Hadrian's Wall and other frontiers whose victories forged and sustained by the Guildhall Museum along the 164pp, Richard Reece, 1988, of the Roman Empire are explored the Roman Empire, focusing less on course of the Walbrook stream 9780905853215, Paperback, was and addressed here. Topics covered the minutiae of battle strategy than between 1927 and 1960. Noted for £14.95 include re-enactment, virtual and on the reasons for actions and their their Roman finds, seven sites are physical reconstruction, multi-media, smartphones, Now £3.95 consequences for Roman government and history. discussed and a history of the development of the area interpretation planning and design; while new evidence is created. 480pp, 15 b/w figs and maps, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, from audience research is also presented to show how 2004, 9780753817896, Paperback, was £12.99 visitors respond to different strategies of engagement. 189pp, 117 b/w figs and pls, London and Middlesex Arch Soc, 1991, 9780903290395, Paperback, was £19.95 Now £3.95 204pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838470, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Catiline The Monster Roman Settlement Agriculture and Medicine and Health of Rome and Medieval Manor Industry in South- Care in Roman Britain An Ancient Case of House in South Bristol Eastern Roman Britain By Nicholas Summerton Political Assassination By Reg Jackson David Bird (Editor) This short but well illustrated By Francis Galassi This report describes excavations This volume assesses our knowledge book surveys health care in Roman at Inss Court, Bristol. Evidence of the southern hinterland of Roman Britain from a largely archaeological This lively biography aims to rescue perspective. Nicholas Summerton the reputation of Catiline, arguing was found for occupation starting London. It presents detailed studies in the late Iron Age, with three of a variety of rural industries and examines the remains of hospitals that his goal was genuine and radical and instruments used for surgical reform of a corrupt Roman system, Romano-British buildings with stone manufacturing centres, and considers foundations dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The the supply of a range of essential goods to Roman proceedures, but also looks at less obviously related and that he represented a real threat to the senatorial subjects, such as the cult of Asclepius and Roman order, reflected in the charges of immorality laid against excavations also uncovered the west and North ranges London. of a medieval manor house, dated to the 14th and 15th attitudes to hygiene and bath houses, as well as methods him by Cicero. 368pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, of waste disposal. centuries. 9781785703195, Paperback, was £40.00 187pp, Westholme Publishing, 2014, 9781594161964, 56pp, col illus, Shire Publications, 2007, 9780747806646, Hardback, was £19.99 116pp, b/w and col illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2007, 9780900199561, Paperback, was £15.00 Now £14.95 Paperback, was £6.99 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 Now £2.95

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Ancient Rome Hadrian's Wall Romano-British The Work of Giants By Thomas R. Martin Archaeology 8 (2017) Settlement and Stone and Quarrying Interweaving social, political, religious, Edited by David Mason Cemeteries at in Roman Britain and cultural history, Martin interprets A bumper edition of the annual Mucking By Andrew Pearson the successes and failures of the round-up of archaeological work on Romans in war, political organization, By Sam Lucy and Christopher Evans Andrew Pearson examines evidence Hadrian’s Wall. Articles report on a for stone quarrying and building from quest for personal status, and in A comprehensive account of the substantial number of projects at sites the late Iron Age and throughout the integration of religious beliefs Romano-British archaeology of the including the vicus at Dorcas Avenue, the Roman period, the types of and practices with government. He Mucking landscape with detailed Benwell, Vindolanda, Piercebridge, stone exploited, how the stone was focuses on the central role of social description and discussion of an Netherby, Binchester, Haltwhistle Burn and Lancheste. procured and transported, the tools and techniques and moral values in determining individual conduct as extensive rural farming settlement and its industries in used, native versus imported stone and how the use of well as decisions of state, from monarchy to republic to 72pp, col illus, Durham County Council, 2017, its landscape setting, including important implications for local stone influenced architectural styles. empire. 9781907445835, Paperback, was £6.00 the transition from Roman occupation to Anglo-Saxon 320pp, b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2012, Now £2.95 settlement. 160pp, 51 b/w illus, 25 col pls, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, 9780752435916, Paperback, was £19.99 9780300160048, Hardback, was £20.00 456pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702686, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

Whispering City Hadrian's Wall The Archaeology of The Romans Who Rome and Its Histories Archaeology 4 (2013) the Lower City and Shaped Britain By R.J.B. Bosworth Edited by David Mason Adjacent Suburbs By Sam Moorhead An exploration of the many layers The fourth annual review of By Kate Steane et al. In this new narrative history of of history found within the Eternal archaeological work taking place on This volume contains reports on Roman Britain, Moorhead and City. Often beginning his analysis Hadrian's Wall and the wider frontier excavations undertaken in the lower Stuttard take an unashamedly with sites and monuments that zone. It reports on excavations at walled city at Lincoln. Remains of traditional approach, focusing on the can still be found in contemporary the civilian settlement at Benwell and timber storage buildings were found, deeds and motivations of the Roman Rome, Bosworth expands his scope at Arbeia Roman fort, on the first probably associated with the Roman emperors, generals and governors to review how political groups of different eras-the year of an ambitious new programme of excavations legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD. Larger who conquered, pacified and ruled Britain, as well as Catholic Church, makers of the Italian nation, Fascists, at Vindolanda, on continuing excavations at Binchester, aristocratic residences came to dominate the hillside. exploring the actions of some of the principal British and "ordinary" Romans (be they citizens, immigrants, or on temples and settlements at Maryport, as well as Sequences of increasingly intensive occupation from the tribal leaders. tourists)-read meaning into the city around them. presenting articles on the Clayton Collection of Roman 10th century were identified, with plentiful evidence for 288pp, b/w illus, col pls, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 358pp, b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2011, militaria and on the conservation of the wall. industrial activity. 9780500251898, Hardback, was £18.95 9780300114713, Hardback, was £25.00 40pp, col illus, Durham County Council, 2013, 550pp, b/w illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781907445637, Paperback, was £6.00 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 9781782978527, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £2.95 Now £19.95

The Britons Challenge The Roman Baths and The Edge of the Roman Comedy Rome Macellum at Wroxeter Empire By Kenneth McLeish By Patricia Southern Excavations by Graham A Journey to Britannia: From the This introductory guide to Roman A lively introduction to the warfare Webster 1955-85 Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall comedy focuses on the works of Plautus and Terence. There are between the Britons and the might By Peter Ellis By Bronwen Riley of Imperial Rome, from Caesar's chapters dealing with the two invasions to conquest under Report from the 1955–85 excava­ Bronwen Riley describes an epic playwrights' sources in Greece Claudius, the Boudican revolt, and the tions on the southern part of an journey from Rome to Hadrian's and Italy, and also with the kind of campaigns of Agricola as related by insula containing a market hall. Much Wall at Britannia's - and the empire's production, theatre and actors they Tacitus. of the volume reports on the large - northwestern frontier. In this were writing for. assemblage of finds, many of which date to the original strikingly original snapshot of Roman Britain, she brings 128pp, Amberley Publishing, 2015, 9781445644561, 80pp, b/w figs, Bristol Classical Press, 1976, building campaign, including coins, small finds, brooches, vividly to life the smells, sounds, colours and textures of 9780862921866, Paperback, was £16.99 Paperback, was £6.99 gems, glass, pottery and industrial and environmental travel in the second century AD. Now £2.95 remains 272pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681774350, Paperback, Now £1.95 394pp, many b/w illus, English Heritage, 2000, was £13.99 9781850746065, Paperback, was £55.00 Now £5.95 Now £6.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROMAN BRITAIN BARGAINS • 29 The Poet Lucan Gendered Dynamics in The Cosmic Viewpoint Encounters By M. P. O. Morford Latin Love Poetry A Study of Seneca's Travel and Money in the Morford considers the rules of By Ronnie Ancona Natural Questions Byzantine World ancient rhetoric and common themes This volume, the first to focus By Gareth D. Williams By Eurydice S. Georganteli in Lucan’s epic on the Civil War as specifically on gender dynamics in A study of Seneca’s innovative and Barrie Cook well as the poem itself, incorporating Latin love poetry, moves beyond three new translations. meteorological treatise, in which The study of Byzantine coins the polarized critical positions that technical coverage of natural is essentially the study of 93pp, Bristol Classical Press, 1967, argue that this poetry either confirms phenomena is combined with ethical communications and movement of 9781853994883, Paperback, was traditional gender roles or subverts reflections on human nature in one people and ideas, within and outside £18.99 them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the stoic philosophical whole. Byzantium. This highly illustrated volume, focuses on over ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, 50 coins to explore the empire's political and socio- Now £1.95 shifting power back and forth between male and female. 392pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199731589, Hardback, was £40.49 economic development and cultural relations with its 372pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, neighbours. 9780801881985, Hardback, was £46.50 Now £7.95 72pp, col illus, Art Books International, 2006, Now £9.95 9781904832270, Paperback, was £6.95 Now £2.95

Pliny's Women Intertextuality and the The Deaths of Seneca Unearthing the Truth By Jaqueline Carlon Reading of Roman By James Ker Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture Combining detailed prosopo-graphy Poetry The forced suicide of Seneca is By Edna R. Russmann with close literary analysis, Jacqueline By Lowell Edmunds one of the most tortured-and This volume presents the Brooklyn Carlon examines the identities of most revisited-death scenes from Museum’s permanent collection the women whom Pliny includes in Edmund's discussion of current classical antiquity. James Ker offers a debates in the study of Roman poetry of Late Antique Egyptian stone his letters, and how they and the comprehensive analysis of the scene, sculptures (C.E. 395–642), including men with whom they are associated asks how we can explain the process situating it in the Roman imagination by which a literary text refers to several reworked or repainted contribute both to this presentation and tracing its many subsequent objects and some that appear to be of exemplary Romans and particularly another text. Individual theoretical interpretations. At the book's centre chapters on the concepts of `text', `poet', `reader' and modern forgeries. The ancient reliefs were made for use to his own self-promotion. is an exploration of Seneca's own prolific writings about in pagan and Coptic Christian cemeteries as well as in `persona' are applied to passages from Virgil, Horace, death. 270pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Ovid and Catullus. Christian churches and monasteries. 9780521761321, Hardback, was £67.00 432pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199959693, 91pp, col illus, Brooklyn Museum, 2009, 9780872731622, 201pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Paperback, was £32.49 Now £9.95 9780801865114, Hardback, was £42.00 Hardback, was £17.99 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

Acts of Silence The Empire of the Self Recognizing Persius Jewish Martyrs in the Civil War, Tyranny and Suicide By Christopher Star By Kenneth J. Reckford Pagan and Christian in the Flavian Epics The Stoic ideal of individual empire A passionate and in-depth exploration Worlds By Donald McGuire or complete self-command is a major of the libellus of six Latin satires left By Shmuel Shepkaru theme of Seneca's philosophical by the Roman satirical writer Persius A comparative literary analysis of works. The problematic consequences when he died in AD 62 at the age of This book presents a linear history the three epic poems of the Flavian of this ideal are explored in Seneca's twenty-seven. In this comprehensive of Jewish martyrdom, from the era (Statius’ Thebaid, Valerius Flaccus’ dramatic and satirical works, as well and reflectively personal book, Hellenistic period to the high Middle Argonautica and Silius Italicus’ Punica) as in the novel of his contemporary, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out Ages. It shows how Jewish thought in light of their contemporary political Petronius. Star examines the the primary importance of this on martyrdom was influenced by world, higlighting the significant body of thematic rhetorical links between these diverse texts. mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. the centrality of self-sacrifice to Roman and Christian material common to all three poems. thought, even as martyrdom was used to define Jewish 302pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, 240pp, Princeton University Press, 2009, 9780691141411, religiosity and delegitimise their persecutors. 272pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 1997, 9783487103341, 9781421406749, Hardback, was £50.50 Hardback, was £49.00 Paperback, was £28.00 428pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Now £4.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 9780521842815, Hardback, was £77.00 Now £9.95

Troy's Children Elegiac Passion Pliny's Statue Barsanuphius and John Lost Generations in Virgil's Aeneid Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy Pliny's Statue Letters, Volume 2 By John K. Newman and By Ruth Rothaus Caston By John Henderson Translated by John Chryssavgis Frances Stickney Newman This study begins by examining John Henderson gives a completely A collection of monastic writings, This study analyses the ambiguous the differences between the fresh and enthusiastic re-reading which provided both spiritual and role of children in Virgil’s Aeneid. It elegiac treatment of love and that of Pliny's Letters. We are shown a practical advice to a variety of suggests that, by its entire stylistic of philosophy, whether Stoic or confidant of emperors obsessed with sixth-century interlocutors from bias, the Aeneid was incapable of Epicurean. Ruth Caston uses the main his own monumentalization - both in diverse walks of life. The two picturing the vigour and life of a new chapters to address the depiction of his writings and in the art works he anchorites, having settled in an generation. jealousy in the love relationship and explores in detail handles. isolated location near Gaza, were in demand as trusted 400pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2005, 9783487128108, the role of the senses, the role of readers-both those 226pp, 5 b/w illus, The Exeter Press, 2002, counselors, responding to questions on topics ranging Paperback, was £45.00 internal and external to the poems-, and the use of 9780859897204, Hardback, was £75.00 from relationships within monasteries to problems of violence as a response to jealousy. municipal taxation. Now £5.95 176pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199925902, Now £19.95 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, Hardback, was £65.00 9780813201146, Hardback, was £33.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Horace: A Life Exemplary Traits Politics of Desire Novatian By Peter Levi Reading Characterization Propertius IV The Trinity, The Spectacles, Jewish This biography attempts to present in Roman Poetry By Micaela Janan Foods, In Praise of Purity, Letters a complete picture of Horace's life By J. Mira Seo Janan uses modern psychoanalytical­ Translated by Russell J. DeSimone and world. It considers the details of methods to examine Propertius Horace's romantic liaisons and why Exemplary Traits examines how This volume presents translations Roman poets used models (c.54–2 BC), who helped to shape the of all Novatian's surviving writings. he never married, what the status of form of the Latin elegy, and explores his father - a freedman - meant to dynamically to create character, and The collection opens with the work how their referential approach to the social and political forces that that most clearly defines him as a the poet, and his distinctive brand of helped to create his poems. Following philosophy. character reveals them mobilizing theologian of central importance: The the literary tradition. By tracing the philosophical and an introduction to the study’s concepts, each chapter Trinity. This treatise refuted heresies concerning Christ's 288pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781780761398, Paperback, was rhetorical concepts that underlie characterization concentrates on specific poems with extracts in Latin dual nature and God's total spirituality. £12.99 as a literary technique, this study illuminates an and in English translation. 223pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2008, Now £4.95 underestimated aspect of this poetic technique and its 244pp, University of California Press, 2001, 9780813215464, Paperback, was £47.50 relation to a larger intellectual context. 9780520223219, Paperback, was £25.00 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199734283, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Virgil Function of Humour A Legacy of Armenian Making of a Christian By Peter Levi in Roman Verse Satire Treasures Empire Peter Levi here reconstructs the Laughing and Lying Testimony to a People-The Alex By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser poet's life, from a childhood largely By Maria Plaza and Marie Manoogian Museum The work of the Christian scholar shrouded in mystery to his work as a Maria Plaza analyses the function Edited by Edmond Y. Azadian Lactantius provides an ideal lens great literary genius and revolutionary through which to study how Rome poet, by examining archaeological and of humour in Horace, Persius, and The Alex and Marie Manoogian Juvenal. She argues that, while the became a Christian empire. Elizabeth historical evidence from Augustan Museum in Michigan holds the largest DePalma Digeser shows how Rome, as well as through close Roman satirist needs humour for his and most representative gathering of work's aesthetic merit, his proposed Lactantius' Divine Institutes, seditious readings of the poet's own work. Armenian art and artifacts outside in its time, responded to the emperor Diocletian's message suffers from the ambivalence that humour Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed 264pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781848859043, Paperback, was brings with it. persecution and then became an important influence on £12.99 books, rugs and carpets, sacred vessels and vestments, Constantine the Great, Rome's first Christian emperor. 370pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, 9780199237937, textiles and embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, Now £5.95 Paperback, was £45.99 coins, and objects from the ancient kingdom of Urartu. Cornell University Press, 9780801477874, Paperback, was 160 of the finest are described and illustrated here. £21.99 Now £4.95 336pp, col illus, Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum, 2013, Now £7.95 9780578113777, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £14.95 30 • LATIN LITERATURE AND LATE ANTIQUITY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Cage Cups Pseudo-Dionysius of Michael Attaleiates Neighbours and Late Roman Luxury Glasses Tel-Mahre and the Politics of Successors of Rome By David Whitehouse Chronicle, Part III Imperial Decline in Traditions of Glass Production and A comprehensive survey that By Witold Witakowski Eleventh-Century use in Europe and the Middle East presents chapters on the discovery Although the chronicle dates to the Byzantium in the Later 1st Millennium AD and study, characteristics, distribution end of the 8th century the third part, By Dimitris Krallis Edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer and date, and manufacture of cage translated here is taken from the Price and Caroline Jackson cups. The book includes a catalogue otherwise lost John of Ephesus (d. Focusing on the History, the major of 69 vessels and fragments, nine work of the judge and courtier Presented through 20 case studies c.588) and covers the reigns of Zeno, covering Europe and the Near appendixes, and an addendum containing 13 objects that Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian. Michael Attaleiates, this book construes Byzantine was written following the author’s death. historiography as an eminently political enterprise East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates 192pp, Liverpool University Press, 1995, 9780853237600, that allowed Attaleiates to express his ideas about the development in the production of glass and the 255pp, b/w and col illus, Corning Museum of Glass, 2015, Paperback, was £25.00 mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a 9780872902008, Hardback, was £60.00 empire’s military and political crisis. Now £3.95 wider material culture in Europe and the Near East 336pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, around the later first millennium AD. Now £14.95 9780866984706, Hardback, was £53.00 352pp, 81 colour illus, 95 b/w figs, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £14.95 9781782973973, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Approaching the Manichaeism in the Church and Society in Pilgrimage in Early Apocalypse Later Roman Empire Late Byzantium Christian Jordan A Short History of Christian and Medieval China Edited by Dimiter Angelov A Literary and Archaeological Guide Millenarianism By Samuel N. C. Lieu The essays in this collection seek to By Burton MacDonald By John M. Court In the third century A.D. the shed light on various aspects of the After a general introduction to church’s role in late Byzantine society, Ideas about divinely-inspired Syro-Persian Mani founded a highly each site, its biblical significance and evangelistic Gnostic religion in especially on the relationship between a citation of the relevant biblical disaster have an enduring place in the church and the lay world and the history of Christian thought. Mesopotamia. It became a world sources with commentary, the author religion with followers spread across the response of individuals to the lists the literary sources that pertain Charting a steady course between challenges faced by Orthodoxy. the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like Central Asia and even parts of China. The history of its specifically to early Christian pilgrimage activity. 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Donatist Martyr Coptic Legal Bir Umm Fawakhir Explaining the Cosmos Stories Documents Survey Project 1993 By Michael W. Champion The Church in Conflict in Edited by Leslie MacCoull A Byzantine Gold-Mining This volume analyzes the writings of Roman North Africa This volume contains annotated Town in Egypt three thinkers associated with Gaza: English translations of fifty selected Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. By Maureen A. Tilley By Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, Together, they offer a case study for legal documents originally written in W. E. Kaegi and Terry G. Wilfong A collection of hagiography from the Coptic language, dating from the the appropriation, adaptation, and the 4th century Donatist sect in mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. This report reflects on the aims transformation of classical philosophy North Africa, famously opposed by They include land transfers, sales, wills, of the 1993 season which was to in late antiquity, and for cultural St. Augustine. Their literature was property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. continue mapping the site, to expand transitions more generally in Gaza. suppressed and remains little known and consequently the pottery corpus, to seek for some specific features 248pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 256pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199337484, the debate has only been understood from the winning not found in 1992 such as defensive structures and Hardback, was £62.00 side. 9780866984256, Hardback, was £46.00 churches, and to carrry out a more general survey of the 137pp, Liverpool University Press, 1996, 9780853239314, Now £14.95 site's immediate vicinity. Now £9.95 Paperback, was £25.00 92pp, 59 b/w figs, Oriental Institute of the University of Now £3.95 Chicago, 2000, 9781885923165, Paperback, was £31.00 Now £9.95

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+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LATE ANTIQUITY AND BYZANTINE BARGAINS • 31 Nectar and Illusion Christianity: A Global Ambrose's Patriarchs Archaeology of the Nature in Byzantine History Ethics for the Common Man Early Islamic Art and Literature By David Chidester By Marcia Colish Settlement in By Henry Maguire In this impressive history of In this detailed study of the patriarch Palestine An exploration of the portrayal of Christianity David Chidester treatises of Ambrose of Milan Marcia By Jodi Magness nature in Byzantine art and literature. emphasises the diverse manifestations Colish addresses the question of their Archaeological evidence is frequently Henry Maguire shows how the of the religion, first tracing its origins intended audience, arguing that the cited by scholars as proof that Byzantines embraced terrestrial and theological developments through treatises were geared towards the Palestine declined after the Muslim creation in the decoration of their the medieval centuries, before average lay person rather than those conquest, and especially after the churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but then concentrating on its expansion to all corners of the with special callings in the church. rise of the Abbasids in the mid-eighth century. Instead, adopted a much more cautious attitude toward the globe and its varied local adaptations and challenges. 193pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Magness argues that the archaeological evidence depiction of animals and plants in the middle ages, after 689pp, b/w pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2001, 9780140257113, 9780268023652, Paperback, was £31.50 supports the idea that Palestine and Syria experienced the iconoclastic dispute of the eighth and ninth centuries. Paperback, was £14.99 Now £4.95 a tremendous growth in population and prosperity 224pp, b/w illus, col pls, Oxford University Press, 2016, Now £4.95 between the mid-sixth and mid-seventh centuries. 9780190497101, Paperback, was £29.49 248pp, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060705, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £47.95 Now £9.95 Saint Augustine of Alienation: The Ascetic Culture Islamic Glass in the Hippo Experience of the Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau Corning Museum, An Intellectual Biography Eastern Edited by Blake Leyerle and Volume One By Miles Hollingworth Mediterranean (50-600 Robin Darling Young By David Whitehouse In a stimulating and provocative A.D.) These essays explore how quickly This hefty and beautifully produced reinterpretation of Augustine's By Antigone Samellas the industrious and imaginative catalogue presents 595 objects and ideas and their position in the practitioners of asceticism, from the fragments with scratch-engraved and Western intellectual tradition, Miles This book is a comprehensive study early fourth through the mid-fifth wheel-cut ornament made in the Hollingworth draws his inspiration of the experience of alienation in its century, adapted the Greco-Roman Islamic world between the eighth largely from the actual narrative of Augustine's life. By many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the social, literary, and religious culture in which they had and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour this means he reintroduces a cardinal but long-neglected late-antique East. It situates Christianity's enduring legacy been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban with description and comments on technical and stylistic fact to the centre of Augustinian studies: that there is a in its early historical context and explores the way centres of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated matters, dating and provenance. direct line from Augustine's own early experiences of life estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to that life in their libraries, households, and communities. the status of a cardinal religious virtue. 430pp, col illus, Hudson Hill Press, 2010, 9781555953553, to his later commentaries on humanity. 432pp, illustrations, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Hardback, was £50.00 312pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199861590, 556pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2010, 9783039117895, 9780268033880, Hardback, was £71.95 Paperback, was £87.95 Now £19.95 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £19.95

Saving the Holy Sacred Trash The Thousand and One Artisans of Empire Sepulchre The Lost and Found World Churches Crafts and Craftspeople How Rival Christians Came Together of the Cairo Genizah By William Mitchell Ramsay, Under the Ottomans to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine By Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Gertrude Bell and Edited by Robert By Suraiya Faroqhi By Raymond Cohen Sacred Trash tells the remarkable Ousterhout and Mark P. C. Jackson This comprehensive history, by In Saving the Holy Sepulchre , story of the Cairo Geniza. The book Published in 1909 and long out leading Ottoman historian Suraiya Raymond Cohen tells the engaging combines coverage of the collection’s of print, The Thousand and One Faroqhi, presents the definitive view story of how three major Christian rescue with explorations of the Churches remains a seminal study of the subject, from the production traditions - Greek Orthodox, Roman medieval documents themselves— of the postclassical monuments of and distribution of different Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox - each with jealously letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, Anatolia. Because many of the monuments have long craft objects to their use and enjoyment within the guarded claims to the church, struggled to restore one money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion- since disappeared, this documentation is now invaluable, community. Faroqhi sheds new light on all aspects of of the great shrines of civilization. conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and and Bell's extensive photographs provide a unique view artisan life, setting the concerns of individual craftsmen mysterious magical charms. of travel and archaeology more than a century ago. within the context of the broader cultural themes that 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780195189667, connect them to the wider world. Paperback, was £26.99 304pp, Schocken Books, 2016, 9780805212235, 618pp, b/w illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, Paperback, was £12.99 9781934536056, Hardback, was £41.00 304pp, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2011, 9781848859609, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £5.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

Constantine the Great Romans and Christians Art of Empire Between Revolution Warlord of Rome By Dominic Janes The Roman Frescoes and Imperial and State By Elizabeth James A visual history of Christianity and its Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple The Path to Fatimid Statehood Elizabeth James sets the scene with artistic and architectural interaction Edited by Michael Jones and By Sumaiya Hamdani with the Roman Empire, from Susanna McFadden a discussion of the nature of the This book examines the most Roman army as it emerged from persecution and co-existence in the Pagan Empire, to the adaptation and In the 4th century C.E., the Roman important writings of a tenth century the Third Century Crisis and the Imperial government converted the Islamic theologian and jurist who was impact of Constantine's policies and construction of a new visual language in the Christian Empire. A case study temple of Amun-Re at Luxor into one of the most original thinkers reforms. She then examines each of a military camp and constructed of his period. It argues that Qadi Constantine's campaigns and battles to show that he of Late Roman Gaul and Britain rounds off the book. a lavishly painted cult chamber dedicated to the four al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in deserves to be remembered as a great general as well as emperors of the Tetrarchy. This volume brings together Ismaili Shi'i literature, an emergence necessitated by the a great emperor. 159pp, 31 b/w illus, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002, scholars across disciplines for a comprehensive look at Fatimids' transition from revolutionary movement to 9780752419541, Paperback, was £17.99 171pp, b/w illus, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, the frescoes and their architectural, archaeological, and statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority 9781848841185, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £3.95 historical contexts. as a Shi'i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate. Now £5.95 240pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, 230pp, I.B. Tauris, 2006, 9781850438823, Hardback, was 9780300169126, Hardback, was £55.00 £27.00 Now £19.95 Now £6.95

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32 • LATE ANTIQUE, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 John the Baptist's Beatus Vir Language and Style in Anonymous Prayer or the Descent Studies in Early English Old English Interpolations in into Hell from the and Norse Manuscripts In Composite Homilies Aelfric's Lives of Saints Memory of Phillip Pulsiano Exeter Book By Hiroshi Ogawa By Robin Norris Edited by A. N. Doane By M R Rambaran-Olm By examining the compilers’ language This volume contains studies of This is a collection of fourteen essays and style in eight works that utilize a four saints lives: the Life of Saint This first full-length study offers a dealing with various aspects of Old full account of the Old English poem variety of sources (including works by Euphrosyne, Saint Mary of Egypt, English and Old Norse manuscript Ælfric and Wulfstan, and anonymous the Seven sleepers, and the Passion known popularly as the Descent into study. The work includes essays on Hell, together with an edition of the Vercelli homilies and Old English of Saint Eustace, anonymously textual editing, codicology, the interrelation of text and poems), the author shows that these composite homilies, interpolated into Aelfric's Lives of Saints. text and facing translation. It aims to resolve some of the manuscript, manuscript backgrounds, and librarianship. poem's vexing issues and provides a variety of possible far from being unreflective pastiches, are products of 118pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, interpretations of the poem. 575pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, compilation, not imitation, made by individual minds with 9781580441636, Paperback, was £14.99 9780866983648, Hardback, was £57.00 their own designs and purposes. 249pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9781843843665, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £14.95 224pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866984096, Hardback, was £46.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Saints and Scholars Beowulf and the Myth in Early Poetry, Place and Edited by Stuart McWilliams Critics Northwest Europe Gender Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, By J. R. R. Tolkien and Edited Edited by S. O. Glosecki Studies in Medieval Culture in and their subsequent appropriations, by Michael D. C. Drout Myth in Early Northwest Europe Honor of Helen Damico unite the essays collected here. This critical edition of Beowulf and examines the confrontation of Edited by Catherine Karkov Prominent themes include the Critics presents both unpublished classical, biblical, Celtic, and Germanic hagiography and issues of community cultures and how they interplay A collection of papers primarily on versions of Tolkien's lecture, each Anglo-Saxon subjects, embracing and reception. substantially different from the other during the Carolingian and Viking 288pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2012, periods. It shows how Christian and Old English poetry, archaeology, and from the final, published essay. art history, palaeography, liturgy, 9781843843030, Hardback, was £60.00 The edition includes a detailed critical introduction that native religions engaged with each other. The studies deal with current myth theory and analyze myths embedded landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes Now £14.95 explains the place of Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon scholarship new interpretations, new evidence, even new both in the history of Beowulf scholarship and in literary within Old Norse, Old English, and other Germanic literatures from, or set in, this era. technologies to further the study of some key medieval history. works. 506pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, 380pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, 9780866983655, Hardback, was £41.00 380pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 9780866984508, Hardback, was £51.00 9781580441278, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Aspects of Anglo- Conversion and Purloined Letters Sources Of Anglo- Scandinavian York Colonization in Anglo- The Twelfth-Century Saxon Literary By R. A. Hall Saxon England Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Culture: The Illustrated Hexateuch The ten chapters in this book, Edited by Catherine Karkov Apocrypha each written by a specialist, place and Nicholas Howe By A. N. Doane and William P. Stoneman Edited by F. M. Biggs the Coppergate discoveries within Papers range in scope from the An investigation of the extensive the wider context of Viking Yorvik This book forms part of a conversion of the English to set of Latin and English annotations longstanding project by numerous whilst demonstrating `how far the Christianity, to the expansion of added throughout the manuscript of study of Anglo-Scandinavian York has scholars to map the sources which Anglo-Saxon culture beyond the the Old English Hexateuch. More than influenced the literary culture of progressed in the last quarter century’ since the `Viking British Isles; and from early Anglo-Saxon burial goods to 30 annotations in English are conventionally explained Dig’. Anglo-Saxon England. It aims at a comprehensive, the evidence for and treatment of disease. as “mid-twelfth century” copies of notes composed in descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain 228pp, b/w figs, fold-out, Council for British Archaeology, 267pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, Old English at an earlier date. Purloined Letters argues between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to 2004, 9781902771427, Paperback, was £19.95 9780866983631, Hardback, was £36.00 that these English notes are in fact the “last Old English,” date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources coeval with the date of the handwriting (post 1180). of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990). Now £6.95 Now £12.95 416pp, MRTS, 2011, 9780866984430, Hardback, was 117pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, £53.00 9781580441193, Paperback, was £15.50 Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Walk into the Dark Early Medieval English St. Oswald of The Old English Ages Texts and Northumbria Hexateuch By Bill Bevan Interpretations Continental Metamorphoses Aspects and Approaches This gloriously illustrated book Studies Presented to By Marianne Kalinke By Rebecca Barnhouse and introduces the reader to early Donald G. Scragg This study of the continental legend Benjamin C. Withers medieval Britain and Ireland through Edited by Elaine Treharne of St. Oswald is accompanied by an Ten papers which reflect a wide 35 chronologically arranged sites edition and translation of Ósvalds from the broch of Moura and the and Susanne Rosser range of research interests into the saga, which represents the oldest Old English Hexateuch. Subjects Saxon Shore forts to the battlefield These original essays include work on vernacular legend on the continent, at Hastings and the Norman motte and bailey castle the sources and dissemination of prose and verse texts, include the contribution of Aelfric, and an edition and translation of Van sunte Oswaldo the dating evidence, the composition of the Old English at Painscastle via Tintagel, Dunadd, and Skellig Michael on palaeography, lexicography and semantics, the editing deme konninghe, an abbreviated Low German legend among many others. Each entry is accompanied by a of manuscripts, and post-Conquest use of Old English text including the personalities and motivations of the deriving ultimately from the earliest version known anonymous translators, the illustrations, male and female route map, but this is as much for the armchair explorer texts. solely in Icelandic translation. as the walker. readers and the manuscript's place in Anglo-Saxon 391pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, 221pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, literature and art. 208pp, col illus, Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2014, 9780866982955, Hardback, was £36.00 9780866983419, Hardback, was £38.00 9780711234116, Hardback, was £30.00 358pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Now £12.95 Now £12.95 9781580440509, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Anglo-Saxon England Holy Vikings Aedificia Nova The Recovery of Old and the Continent Saints' Lives in the Old Studies in Honor of English Edited by Hana Sauer and Joanna Story Icelandic Kings' Sagas Rosemary Cramp By Thomas Graham This volume explores some aspects By Carl Phelpstead Edited by Helen Damico chart the progress of Old English of the relations between Anglo-Saxon This book argues that theoretical and Catherine Karkov studies from the earliest work of England and the Continent, and the concepts developed by Mikhail Focusing on the material culture of the mid 16th century through to scholars and texts which moved Bakhtin can provide new insights into the Anglo-Saxon world, contributors the heyday of the early 18th century. in both directions throughout the the role of hagiography in the origins address the themes of time in history; Subjects include the movement of period. of Icelandic saga-writing by enabling a societal and ideological change Anglo-Saxon studies from London 384pp, b/w illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, reading of these texts as both saint’s life and saga. Rulers and continuity; iconic style and polysemous textuality; to Cambridge and, finally, to Oxford, the influence of 2011, 9780866984423, Hardback, was £66.00 are depicted as “holy Vikings”, sometimes conforming to symbolic and representational interpretation; gender- Richard Verstegen's engraved depictions of pagan Saxon saintly ideals, but often far from doing so. specific economic production; definitions of social and gods, the early history of printed Anglo-Saxon texts, the Now £14.95 political structures; and social processes of eclecticism evidence of handwritten workbooks, lexicography and a 284pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, bibliography. 9780866983884, Hardback, was £42.00 and adaptation. 427pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, 422pp, 22 b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Now £12.95 9781580441100, Hardback, was £78.00 9781580440134, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Anglo-Saxons and the How Tradition Works Anglo-Saxon Books Danes in Wessex North A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of and Their Readers The Scandinavian Impact on Edited by Matti Kilipio and the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century Edited by Thomas N. Hall Southern England, c. 800–c. 1100 Leena Kahlas-Tarkka By Michael D. C. Drout and D. G. Scragg Edited by Ryan Lavelle Essays which examine cultural Expanding and revising “memetic” Essays focus on the scribes, contents, and Simon Roffey contacts between Anglo-Saxon theory, this book analyzes the circumstances of production, and Two major topics, the Viking wars and England and Scandinavia. They are culture of the tenth-century English intended uses of selected manuscripts the Danish landowning elite, figure broadly divided between literary and Benedictine Reform. It shows how from the late Anglo-Saxon period, strongly in this collection but are material culture approaches, with this flowering of culture can be traced as well as the fates of Anglo-Saxon shown not to be the sole reasons for topics including comparison between Eddic and Old to the reliance by Anglo-Saxon monks upon unchanging manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth- the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in English meter, the "Leningrad Bede", agriculture and ship written rules, the Rule of St. Benedict and the Regularis century antiquaries. Wessex. Multi-disciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and terminology. Concordia. 198pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, Danes not just through the written record, but through 191pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, 342pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9781580441377, Hardback, was £35.00 their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the 9780866984126, Hardback, was £39.00 objects they owned or produced. 9780866983501, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 288pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £12.95 9781782979319, Paperback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING BARGAINS • 33 Pattern and Purpose Viking Art Of War Old Irish Wisdom The Eucharist in in Insular Art By Paddy Griffith Attributed to Aldfrith Pre-Norman Ireland Proceedings of the Fourth This groundbreaking, authoritative of Northumbria By Neil Xavier O'Donoghue International Conference on and best-selling study of the Vikings An Edition of Briathra In addition to reassessing the Insular Art held at the National establishes the facts behind their Flainn Fhina Maic Ossu available texts for the liturgy of the Museum and Gallery, Cardiff rise to prominence, and cuts away Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish By Colin A. Ireland 3-6 September 1998 the myths about their military and church this study considers the social seafaring skills, reputation, and An edition and english translation By Mark Redknap, Nancy Edwards, dimension of the Eucharist, and its exploits. It examines their tactics, of an Old Irish text, comprising a treatment in art and architecture. Alan Lane and Susan Youngs seamanship, mobility, strategy, and series of three word maxims, attributed to King Aldfrith Most importantly, O'Donoghue shows that pre-Norman These twenty-five papers are concerned with Insular how they exploited victories and dealt with defeats. of Northumbria (ca. 685-705) under his Irish name Ireland was very much a part of the Western (Gallican) art in its broadest sense, encompassing studies of 256pp, 16 pages b/w photos, Pub Casemate Greenhill, Flann Fina. It seeks to demonstrate that these maxims liturgical tradition metalwork, manuscripts, sculpture and textiles, both 2010, 9781932033601, Hardback, was £25.00 represent a coherent text despite the varied contexts in 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, recent discoveries and new investigations of well-known which they have been preserved. Now £9.95 9780268037321, Paperback, was £47.50 objects. 256pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, 293pp, b/w figs and pls throughout, 22 col pls, Oxbow 9780866982474, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £14.95 Books, 2002, 9781842170588, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Transformation in The Art of the Picts Religion Culture and The Making and Anglo-Saxon Culture Sculpture and Metalwork in Society in the Early Unmaking of a Saint Toller Lectures on Art, Early Medieval Scotland Middle Ages By Mathew Kuefler Archaeology and Text By George Henderson and Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble This volume traces the rise and fall Edited by Charles Insley and Isobel Henderson Essays in this volume explore of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac Gale R. Owen-Crocker This well-illustrated book looks at wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, through a millennium, from his the carved slabs, crosses, sculpture Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy death in the tenth century to the Presents five major cross-disciplinary attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the discourses on Anglo-Saxon culture and metalwork of the Picts from Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and an art-historical perspective. The Pilgrimages to the works or lives of nineteenth century. 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Bookmarks from the The Transformation of Landscape With Two Owen Tudor Past a Religious Landscape Saints Founding Father of the Studies in Early English Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150 By Lisa M. Bitel Tudor Dynasty Language and Literature in By Valerie Ramseyer This intriguing book examines the By Terry Breverton Honour of Helmut Gneuss A detailed study of the religious life multifaceted careers and cults of In a popular style Terry Breverton Edited by Lucia Kornexl of the principality of Salerno in the two fifth and sixth century saints, traces the extraordinary life and and Ursula Lenker early Middle Ages, and in particular of Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of career of Owen Tudor, his marriage the reform program spearhead by the Kildare. Unlike the usual stereotype to Katherine of Valois, the widow The papers collected in this volume of the female saint as pious virgin of Henry V, and his capture and reflect the long and distinguished Archbishop of Salerno and the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava. martyr, Genovefa and Brigit were celebrated for the execution after the battle of Mortimer's Cross, where he career of Professor Helmut Gneuss in the fields of Early active part they played in ordering and shaping their fought for the Lancastrians. English language, literature and culture. Topics include 222pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444036, newly Christian communities. Standard Old English, Old and Middle English poetry, Hardback, was £49.00 336pp, Amberley, 2017, 9781445654188, Hardback, was medieval manuscript studies, palaeography, and the 297pp, Oxford University Press, 2009, 9780195336528, £20.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £31.49 history of English language scholarship. Now £9.95 353pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820465203, Now £12.95 Hardback, was £66.95 Now £14.95 King Alfred's Old Bright Lights of the Faith, Art and Politics Isabella of France English Translation of Dark Ages at Saint-Riquier The Rebel Queen Pope Gregory the The Thaw Collection of Early By Susan A. Rabe By Kathryn Warner Great's Regula Medieval Ornaments This study argues that the life and Examining Isabella's life with particular Pastoralis and Its By Debra Noel Adams spirituality of St Riquier, expressed focus on her revolutionary actions in its monastic buildings, grew out in the 1320s, this book corrects the Cultural Context The exceptionally broad scope of of dominant political, aesthetic the Thaw collection, spanning over a many myths surrounding her and By Carolin Schreibner and theological concerns of the provides a vivid account of this most millennium, is used here to illustrate Carolingian court of the 790s. King Alfred the Great translated the continuity and evolution of fine fascinating and influential of women. Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis as part of metalworking traditions. It also reveals the profound 256pp, illus, Pennsylvania University Press, 1995, 336pp, col pls, Amberley Publishing, 2017, his programme for the revival of learning. Three of the influence of the classical world on the new political 9780812232080, Hardback, was £28.00 9781445652429, Paperback, was £14.99 surviving six pre-Conquest manuscripts are edited for alliances formed during the Early Medieval period Now £6.95 Now £6.95 the first time in substantial parts in this volume; the that united people from diverse cultural and ethnic edition is accompanied by a comprehensive commentary. backgrounds. 674pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820460505, 432pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2014, 9781907804250, Paperback, was £94.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £24.95 Now £19.95

Arthurian Sources, Classical Analogy This is my Body Richard II Volume 3 Between Speech and Representational Practices A True King's Fall Persons Music and Its in the Early Middle Ages By Kathryn Warner By John Morris Transmission in By Michal Kobialka This book charts the development of A prosopography of ecclesiastics Carolingian Music Kobialka takes four epistemological Glass over four millennia, from 18th and lay people active in sub-Roman Theory fragments to illustrate his argument Dynasty Egypt, through to the present Britain, with biographical details that images of the male and female day, illustrated by 56 examples from and full citations and bibliographical­ By Blair Sullivan body recreated in medieval drama the collections held by the Ashmolean information, as well as cross- This study examines the relationship and theatre were constantly changing Museum. referencing. between the theorization of speech and that of musical and affected by different modes of seeing until they 372pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445662787, were stabilised by the constitutions of the Fourth Latern 172pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1995, 9780850337594, sound, beginning in antiquity and continuing through the Hardback, was £20.00 Carolingian ninth century Council in 1215. Hardback, was £19.95 Now £9.95 112pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, 313pp, University of Michigan Press, 1999, Now £4.95 9780866984485, Hardback, was £41.00 9780472089383, Paperback, was £30.50 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

34 • ANGLO-SAXON AND EARLY MEDIEVAL BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Bannockburn Reading and War in John Wyclif on War The Black Death The Battle for a Nation Fifteenth-Century and Peace A Personal History By Alistair Moffat England By Rory Cox By John Hatcher A new narrative treatment of the From Lydgate to Malory From the writings of St Augustine of Focusing just one village, the well Batle of Bannockburn. In addition By Catherine Nall Hippo in the fifth century, Christian documented village of Walsham in to setting the battle within its justifications of war had revolved Suffolk, John Hatcher pens what Reading, writing and the prosecution historical and political context Alistair around three key criteria: just he describes as a docu-drama, a of warfare went hand in hand in the Moffat captures all the fear, heroism, cause, proper authority and correct fictionalised attempt to reconstruct fifteenth century, demonstrated by confusion and desperation of the intention. Using Wyclif's extensive the lives of ordinary people as they the wide circulation and ownership of fighting itself as he describes the tactics and manoeuvres Latin corpus, the author shows how he dismantled struggled to cope with the plague and its consequences. military manuals and ordinances, and the integration of that led to Scottish victory. these three pillars of medieval "just war" doctrine, 352pp, b/w pls, Da Capo Press, 2009, 9780306817922, military concerns into a huge corpus of texts. This book demonstrating that he created a coherent doctrine of 160pp, Birlinn, 2014, 9781780272184, Hardback, was argues that these connections were vital to the literary Paperback, was £11.99 £12.99 pacificism and non-resistance which was at that time culture of the time, and should be recognised on a much unparallelled. Now £5.95 wider scale. Now £4.95 200pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9780861933259, 198pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, 9781843843245, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Richard III Records of Medieval Mystical From Alfred the Great A Ruler and His Reputation Convocation III: Tradition, 5, 1992 to Stephen By David Horspool Canterbury 1313-1377 By Marion Glasscoe By R. H. C. Davis David Horspool tells the story of Edited by Gerald L. Bray The proceedings of the fifth meeting Twenty teo collected essays on Late Richard, Duke of Gloucester's birth This volume contains all the evidence include: studies of medieval mystics Anglo-Saxon and Norman history. and upbringing and his part as a young for convocations and provincial in continental Europe; Bridgettine Two broad topics predominate: the man in the closing years of the Wars councils during the reigns of Edward spirituality; Julian of Norwich and the Norman Conquest and the sources of the Roses, describes what really II and Edward III, and reconstructs the status of visionary autobiography as for it, and King Stephen's reign and happened to the Princes in the Tower, period from 1328 to 1349, for which a literary genre; comparison between the extent of the so-called anarchy. and explains why this character has become one of the the Canterbury registers have been lost. Latin text. modern philosophical understanding and that of a 318pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1991, most compelling and divisive rulers in the history of the medieval mystic; enquiry as to what books were available 9781852850456, Hardback, was £95.00 British Isles. 458pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2005, 9781843831785, and to whom in fourteenth-century Cambridge. Hardback, was £95.00 336pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781472902993, Hardback, 221pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1992, 9780859913461, Now £6.95 was £20.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Anglo-Norman Studies The Medieval Mystical Memory and Myths of 1215 II Tradition in England: the Norman Conquest The Year of Magna Carta Proceedings of the Battle Papers read at By Sarah Brownlie By Danny Danziger and John Gillingham Conference 1979 Charney Manor July This book offers a study of A popular exploration of English Edited by R. Allen Brown 2011 contemporary British memory of society in 1215 and the events which the Norman Conquest, focussing led to the signing of Magna Carta. Topics include: Carmen de Hastingae Edited by E.A. Jones on shared knowledge, attitudes and Proelio; Battle c.1100; Military Each chapter adopts a theme, such The five "Middle English Mystics" beliefs. I draws on a study of 807 architecture; Piety of Anglo-Norman as the castle, the countryside, town, (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the contemporary British newspaper Knightly Class; Military Architecture school, tournaments and battles, King author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich articles, a quantitative survey of 2000 UK residents and c.1200; The Byzantine View of the Normans; Henry I and John, the English, the Church, and Christianity, to look at and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with contemporary books and films. Anglo-Norman Magnates; Anglo-Norman as a Spoken how rich and poor lived their lives and how they viewed significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical Language; Magnates, Curiales and the Wheel of Fortune; 240pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838524, their changing world. approaches. Bishop's Lynn; Battle Abbey Hardback, was £60.00 324pp, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, 9780340824757, 226pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843405, Paperback, was £12.99 224pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer, 1980, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 9780851151267, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £3.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95

England in the Later Anglo-Norman Studies Texts and Traditions of Naming, Society and Middle Ages 33 Medieval Pastoral Regional Identity Edited by Derek Baker By C. P. Lewis Care Papers presented at a Symposium Primary source material - 149 items, Topics include Alexander III's 'Rules Essays in Honour of Bella Millett held at The Department of English Local History, with 47 illustrations - cover the on the Formation of Marriage'; Edited by Cate Gunn and political, ecclesiastical and social religious life in Rouen; Orderic University of Leicester Catherine Innes-Parker history of Plantagenet England, from Vitalis; Robert of Torigni; William of By David Postles the reign of Edward III to that of Malmesbury; St Anselm and art; the Pastoral and devotional literature Richard II. Arrangement by topic Domesday boroughs; and architecture flourished throughout the middle These 10 papers focus on the covers King and Government, The Church, Land and in the Bayeux Tapestry. ages, and its growth and transmutations form the development of personal naming across a broad chronological and geographical span from People. 172pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of a variety of perspectives including Viking England, early 272pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156484, 9781843836582, Hardback, was £60.00 modern England and 19th century Sweden. Paperback, was £17.99 vernacular spirituality. Now £9.95 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, 9781903153291, 294pp, 24 b/w figs, Leopard's Head Press, 2002, Now £3.95 Hardback, was £50.00 9780904920291, Hardback, was £17.50 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Fourteenth Century Haskins Society The Foundations of England, Arise England IV Journal 18 Medieval English By Juliet Barker Edited by J.S. Hamilton By Stephen Morillo Ecclesiastical History Juliet Barker, acclaimed for her studies Topics include the cult of Thomas of A collection of papers on England Studies Presented to David Smith of the latter half of the Hundred Years War, here turns her attention to the Lancaster, royal landscapes, Edward and its neighbours in the High Middle By Christopher N. L. Brooke, Philippa III's fundraising, Thomas Hatfield, Ages. Essays include two on Geoffrey Great Revolt of 1381. She is anxious Agnes Malatravers, John Mirk, the of Monmouth, one on the chronicle Hoskin and Barrie Dobson to avoid the title “Peasant’s Revolt”, statutes of Provisors and Premunire, of Fulk Le Rechin, one on the Anglo- These essays demonstrate the for as the considerable evidence the royal pardon, Thomas Despenser, Saxon law code of Aethelberht, one importance of critical editions of which is marshalled here makes the deposition of Richard II, and the coal industry. on the law code of Roger II of Sicily, one on the coinage primary documents editions to a proper understanding clear, the revolt was much more than a rural phenomenon, and united people from a wide 204pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 9781843832201, of Henry II, and one on twelfth century hospitality. and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century spectrum of social statuses, from members of the gentry, Hardback, was £60.00 167pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, 9781843833369, merchants and urban tradesmen, to the more usually Hardback, was £55.00 forgery to diocesan administration, from the church Now £12.95 courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish recognised villeins. Now £4.95 clergy to the papacy. 528pp, col pls, Little, Brown and Company, 2014, 284pp, 1 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781408703359, Hardback, was £25.00 9781843831693, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 John Mirk's Festial Ipswich Recognizance Magna Carta The Wars of the Roses Orthodoxy, Lollardy and Rolls, 1294-1327 Law, Liberty, Legacy By Trevor Royle the Common People in Edited by G. H. Martin Edited by Claire Breay An entertaining popular narrative of Fourteenth-Century England The recognizance rolls of Ipswich are and Julian Harrison the Wars of the Roses, which takes the long view, beginning in 1399 By Judy Ann Ford a register of titles to property in the This exhibition catalogue takes us borough and are among the most with the usurpation of Henry IV Written with largely uneducated rural on a journey from the charter's and including the Perkin Warbeck congregations in mind, John Mirk's varied and interesting of the court’s medieval origins through to what it records. The contents of the first rebellion against Henry VII. Trevor Festial became the most popular means to people around the world Royle tells the story with gusto, vernacular sermon collection of late- twenty-one rolls are presented in an today. Drawing on the rich historical English paraphrase that takes account of all significant focusing on political events rather medieval England. This book represents the first major collections of the British Library - including two original than producing a predominantly military account. examination of the Festial, looking in particular at the variations in the original Latin, and also indicates the copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to issues of popular culture and piety; the oral tradition; clerk’s marginal notes and memoranda. life the history and contemporary resonance of this 496pp, b/w pls, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, biblical and secular authority; and clerical power. 151pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1970, 9780900716140, globally important document. 9780349117904, Paperback, was £14.99 176pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843840015, Hardback, was £25.00 272pp, col illus, British Library, 2015, 9780712357630, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL BRITAIN BARGAINS • 35 Familia and Household Widows, Heirs, and English Inland Trade Domesday Book: in the Medieval Heiresses in the Late 1430-1540 Bedfordshire Atlantic Province Twelfth Century Southampton and its region Edited by John Morris Edited by Benjamin T. Hudson The Rotuli de Dominabus Edited by Michael Hicks Facsimile text and translation of this These nine essays explore the use Et Pueris Et Puellis A detailed examination of fundamental source. and importance of genealogy, the Edited by John Walmsley Southampton’s trade with its 160pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1977, artificial family, literary images of extensive region and commercial 9780850331493, Hardback, was kinship, and the political ramifications This work is a new critical edition and £14.00 translation of the late-twelfth-century development in the fifteenth and of family ties. They contribute to sixteenth centuries. the investigation of domestic structure and family Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records Now £4.95 were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal 184pp, b/w and colour illus., Oxbow Books, 2015, organization during a crucial time in European 9781782978244, Hardback, was £45.00 development. enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards on estates held directly by the Crown in 1185. 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, Now £14.95 9780866984409, Hardback, was £48.00 146pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9780866983532, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

John Trevisa and the John Capgrave: The Stephen Langton Domesday Book: English Polychronicon Life of Saint Katherine By Maurice Powicke Berkshire By Jane Beal Edited by Karen A. Winstead Powicke's Ford lectures from 1928 By Ian Morris Jane Beal examines the rhetorical John Capgrave’s The Life of Saint remain the principal study of Stephen Facsimile text and translation of this strategies John Trevisa used to Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in Langton, exploring his role in the fundamental source. Magna Carta crisis, and the influence establish his authority and justify his Norfolk, is, according to the editor, 176pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1979, translation of Ranulf Higden’s Latin “. . . the longest and most intricate of scholastic philosophy on his actions. 9780850331721, Paperback, was Polychronicon into English. She pays Katherine legend written during the £8.25 particular attention to the translator’s Middle Ages, either in Latin or in any 227pp, Oxford University Press, 1928, use of paratextual material, which includes two prefaces vernacular.” 9780198269687, Hardback, was £12.99 Now £2.95 and numerous intertextual notes. 332pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Now £4.95 186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 9781580440530, Paperback, was £23.50 9780866984850, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

Personalities and Love and Marriage in An Alternative History Domesday Book: Perspectives of Late Medieval London of Britain Devon Fifteenth-Century By Shannon McSheffrey The War of the Roses By Ian Morris England This book examines the public and By Timothy Venning Facsimile text and translation of this Edited by A. Compton Reeves private relationship of marriage, This book forms a chronological fundamental source. as well as its religious and social The history and culture of history of the Wars of the Roses, 768pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1985, connotations, through translations which identifies key turning points 9780850334920, Paperback, was fifteenth-century England have been of depositions, or testimonies, from subjected to rigorous research by and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As £24.50 marriage cases brought before 15th- much as exploring alternative paths of several generations of scholars. The century English church courts. Now £6.95 international group of scholars who have contributed history, however, Venning's approach focuses on why they to this volume continue that effort by approaching 89pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, happened as they did, asking how forces were weighted, their particular subjects from such varied perspectives 9781879288539, Paperback, was £12.00 and where luck or judgement had a decisive say. as scandal and warfare, people and politics, art and Now £3.95 224pp, 1 map, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, literature, and successions and processions. 9781781591277, Hardback, was £19.99 182pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Now £5.95 9780866984621, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £12.95 Sex, Aging, and Death Richard of Maidstone: Summer of Blood Domesday Book: in a Medieval Medical Concordia (the By Dan Jones Middlesex Compendium Reconciliation of A straightforward narrative account Edited by John Morris Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina Richard II with of the Great Rising of 1381, written Facsimile text and translation of this very much with the newcomer to fundamental source. Trinity College Cambridge MS London) medieval history in mind. It's fast R.14.52 is one of the most important Edited by David R. Carlson moving, gripping and full of chatty 76pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1975, extant witnesses to vernacular and A. G. Rigg language and bucketloads of gore 9780850331318, Hardback, was medical and scientific writing in late £12.00 medieval England. This two-volume The poem that Richard Maidstone 288pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 2016, collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports 9780143111757, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £4.95 physical manuscript, its contents and textual relations information about the royal entry that concluded the Now £4.95 to other Middle English medical compendia, followed crisis in greater detail than any other source. The latin by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, text is presented here with a facing verse translation, an nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished. introduction and notes. 930pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 144pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 9780866983358, Hardback, was £96.00 9781580440806, Paperback, was £12.00 Now £24.95 Now £3.95

The Study of Medieval Studies on the Looking Inward For Honour and Fame Manuscripts of Personal Name in Devotional Reading and the Private Chivalry in England 1066-1500 England Later Medieval Self in Late Medieval England By Nigel Saul Festschrift in Honor of England and Wales By Jennifer Bryan A survey of chivalry - the value Richard W. Pfaff Edited by David Postles An exploration of the popularity of system of the medieval aristocracy. Edited by George Hardin Brown and Joel T. Rosenthal the English devotional treatise in the Focusing on England, Saul discusses its origins, its martial aspects, its impact and Linda Ehrsam Voigts Later Middle Ages. Jennifer Bryan Collected papers on medieval argues that these works encouraged on art and architecture, and on The first group of studies reflects the England's names and naming patterns- readers to focus on themselves and literature, its religious aspects, and its meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts; the second -mostly forenames or Christian their own identities, in effect they acted as a mirror broader impact on social relations. names, but with some attention to family names. with historical material. on the soul, and their popularity both reflected and 432pp, Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, 9781845951894, 447pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 398pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, contributed to a growing feeling of self-awareness in late Paperback, was £16.99 9780866984324, Hardback, was £60.00 9781580440264, Paperback, was £39.50 medieval society. Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 270pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 9780812240481, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95

The Winchcombe and The Book of John Textual Healing Henry V Coventry Chronicles Mandeville Studies in Medieval English Medical, By John Matusiak Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to An Edition of the Pynson Scientific and Technical Texts This new biography takes a fresh the Work of John of Worcester Text with Commentary on Edited by Javier E. Diaz-Vera look at Henry's entire life and nine the Defective Version and Rosario Caballero year reign. John Matusiak shows that Edited by Paul Anthony Hayward the situation confronting Henry at The Winchcombe and Coventry Edited by Tamarah Kohanski The studies presented in this volume the outset of his reign was far more Chronicles are the foremost In addition to printing the entire concentrate on different aspects of favourable than is often supposed examples of ‘the breviate world Pynson edition of Mandeville's the medical, scientific and technical but that he was nonetheless a man of chronicle in annalistic format’ to text, this volume contains a lengthy varieties of early English used in a prodigious gifts whose extraordinary survive for twelfth-century England. This book edits discussion by Kohanski of the surviving texts, including a wide range of medieval manuscripts. achievements in battle left the deepest possible and translates both texts in full for the first time. It case for variance-and reception-based study. 213pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2009, 9783039118229, impression upon his contemporaries. includes comprehensive source-critical and historical 192pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Hardback, was £50.95 304pp, b/w illus, Routledge, 2012, 9780415620277, commentaries, and an extensive introduction explaining 9780866982733, Hardback, was £25.00 Paperback, was £28.99 their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose. Now £14.95 788pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 Now £6.95 9780866984218, Hardback, was £106.00 Now £24.95 36 • MEDIEVAL BRITAIN BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Greatest Knight Tales from the Long The Haskins Society Captives and their The Remarkable Life of Twelfth Century Journal 24 Saviors in the Medieval William Marshal, the Power The Rise and Fall of the Edited by William North Crown of Aragon Behind Five English Thrones Angevin Empire and Laura L. Gathagan By Jarbel Rodriguez By Thomas Asbridge By Richard Huscroft The topics of the essays range from Given the endemic warfare between Thomas Asbridge draws upon an This intriguing book tells the story the complexities of landholding and Christians and Muslims in medieval array of contemporary evidence, of England's great medieval Angevin service in England after the Norman Spain the taking of prisoners was a including the thirteenth-century dynasty in an entirely new way. Conquest and the place of Portugal common feature on both sides. This biography, to present a compelling Departing from the usual king-centric in the legal renaissance of the twelfth book examines what life was like for account of William Marshal's life and times, from rural narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his century, to the purpose and audiences of copies of Christian captives, attitudes towards captivity and the England to the battlefields of France, the desert castles chapters on the experiences of a particular man or Anglo-Saxon charters produced by the late medieval structures put in place for their ransoming. community at Bury St Edmunds. of the Holy Land and the verdant shores of Ireland. woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. 225pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, 464pp, col pls, Simon and Schuster, 2015, 320pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 205pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843838302, 9780813214757, Hardback, was £59.95 9781471163388, Paperback, was £9.99 9780300187250, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

England's Empty The Battle of Death in Fifteenth- Henry of Suso Throne Agincourt Century Castile Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours Usurpation and the Language Edited by Anne Curry and Ideologies of the Elites Translated by E. Colledge of Legitimation, 1399-1422 Malcolm Mercer By Laura Vivanco Written by Dominican preacher and By Paul Strohm In a remarkable work Vivanco reveals two ideologies mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), In this boldly revisionary book, Paul commemorating the 600th co-existing among two elite groups, Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom’s Strohm provides a new account of anniversary of arguably the most the oradores and defensores. She Watch upon the Hours, was one of the Lancastrian revolution and its iconic military engagement of discusses in detail the main features the most successful religious writings aftermath. Integrating techniques the medieval era, a wide range of of these belief systems with regard of its time. Essentially a dialogue of literary and historical analysis, Strohm reveals the experts examine the battle in its political, cultural, and to the process of dying, the journey and ultimate between the author and Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells Lancastrian monarchs as masters of outward display, geographical contexts, detailing strategies, tactics, armor, destination of the soul, the importance of leading a good of Suso’s service to and espousal of Wisdom, his “most persuasively "performing" their kingship through a weapons, and fighting techniques while exploring the and noble life and whether prayer and the role of the cruel bride”. variety of novel ceremonies in a quest for legitimacy. battlefield experiences of commanders and ordinary bereaved could change the outcome of the afterlife. 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1994, soldiers alike. 292pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 211pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781855661004, 9780813207926, Hardback, was £34.50 9780268041212, Paperback, was £36.95 328pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, Hardback, was £60.00 9780300214307, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

The Call to Read The Late Medieval Olivier de la Marche Nicolas de Clamanges Reginald Pecock's Books and English Church and the Rhetoric of Spirituality, Personal Reform Textual Communities By G. W. Bernard 15th-Century and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations By Kirsty Campbell The later medieval English church is Historiography Kirsty Campbell examines the invariably viewed through the lens of By Catherine Emerson By M. Bellitto important and innovative contribution the Reformation that transformed it. Oliver de la Marche’s Mémoirs of This study of the early humanist Pecock made to late medieval debates But in this bold and provocative book Burgundy was written over a fifty Nicolas de Clamanges (1363/64-1437) about the roles of the Bible, the historian George Bernard examines year period in the 15th century and is focuses on his religious thought, and Church, the faculty of reason, and it on its own terms, revealing a a real mix of disjointed episodes. This in particular his proposals for the practices of devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with detailed study re-examines the Mémoires in order to reform of the church, which led him to be condemned as stable Christian community. weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome. determine the method beind the work’s structure and a proto-protestant in later centuries. 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 304pp, b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2013, design and to uncover the agenda of the author which 146pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780268023065, Paperback, was £40.50 9780300197129, Paperback, was £14.99 led to particular interpretations of certain events. 9780813209968, Hardback, was £42.50 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 247pp, col pl, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Now £4.95 9781843830528, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £5.95

The Rise of the Tudors Millennium The Hospitallers and An Anatomy of Trade The Family That Changed The End of the World and the the Holy Land in Medieval Writing English History Forging of Christendom Financing the Latin East, 1187 - 1274 By Lianna Farber By Chris Skidmore By T. A. Holland By Judith Bronstein Lianna Farber restores the core This lively narrative history traces Millenium takes us ‘from the An investigation of the organisation economic concept of trade to its the fortunes of the Tudor family and crucifixion to the First Crusade, and of the Hospitallers in the east. It medieval contexts, showing that it the future Henry VII from the mid from the glitter of Constantinople to focuses on the impact of the various contains three component parts: fifteenth century before presenting the bleak shores of Canada. It was the crises in the East upon the Order, value, consent, and community, each a detailed account of the Bosworth age of Otto the Great and William looking at how it reacted to events, of which were deeply contested. In campaign. the Conqueror, of caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, the contributions that western priories played in the the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the rehabilitation of the East, and the various efforts made to descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an 437pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2014, 9780312541392, attempt to justify it. Hardback, was £20.00 invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal restore its economic and military strength. monarchy and the emergence of Western Europe for the 235pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444128, Now £5.95 first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.’ 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831310, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £48.00 476pp, Abacus, 2008, 9780349119724, Paperback, was Now £9.95 £12.99 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Henry V: The Queens, Regents and The Medieval Mystical Out of Love for My Kin Conscience of a King Potentates Tradition in England Aristocratic Family Life in the By Malcolm Vale Edited by Theresa M. Vann VII (2004) Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 Focusing on a series of themes-the Queens, Regents and Potentates By E. A. Jones By Amy Livingstone interaction between king and church, concentrates on the theme of women Subjects include: Julian of Norwich, Livingstone examines the personal the rise of the English language as a and royal power, examining the the writings of Jan van Ruusbroec, dimensions of the lives of aristocrats medium of government and politics, available information about specific Anchoritic texts, St Birgitta, holy in the Loire region of France the role of ceremony in Henry's royal women and reassessing their women in print, continental women during the eleventh and twelfth kingship, and more-Vale revises access to and use of power and mystics in England during the 15th centuries. She argues for a new understandings of Henry V and his conduct of the authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about and 16th centuries, Margery Kempe, devotional theology, conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an everyday affairs of England, Normandy, and the kingdom internal politics and international relations in medieval The Book of the First Monks , mystical desire and the ethos of inclusion, evident in the care that aristocrats of France. Europe. English Syon Brethren. showed toward their families. 328pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 166pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156491, 212pp, 4 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 296pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, 9780801448416, 9780300148732, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £60.00 9781843840077, Hardback, was £60.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

Louis: The French The Fabric of Marian Council and Hierarchy Passion and Order Prince Who Invaded Devotion in Isabel de The Political Thought of Restraint of Grief in the England Villena's Vita Christi Willam Durant the Younger Medieval Italian Communities By Catherine Hanley By Lesley K. Twomey By C. Fasolt By Carol Lansing In this fascinating biography of Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) became Detailed examination of the A fascinating cultural history, this England's least-known "king"-and abbess of the Poor Clare convent, development of conciliar theory book looks at a period of great the first to be written in English- the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, and humanism through the political change in perceptions of grief in Catherine Hanley explores the life a position she held for almost thirty thought of the French bishop William thirteenth century Italy. Carol Lansing and times of "Louis the Lion" before, years until her death. This is the first Durant the Younger (c 1266-1330). argues that as the well-being of the during, and beyond his quest for the English throne. She full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary 437pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, state came to be associated with orderly behaviour illuminates the national and international context of his works. The author pays particular attention to the way 9780521392853, Hardback, was £45.00 public displays of grief became seen as disorderly and 1216 invasion, and explains why and how after sixteen in which devotion to the Virgin Mary is manifested and were associated increasingly with women. fruitless months he failed to make himself King Louis I described through material culture, on her rich fabrics, Now £6.95 244pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2008, of England. brocades, silks, shoes, and crown. 9780801440625, Hardback, was £53.00 304pp, b/w pls, Yale University Press, 2016, 320pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, Now £6.95 9780300217452, Hardback, was £25.00 9781855662483, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS • 37 Essays in Later Dark Mirror Bartolomeo Scala: Pierpaolo Vergerio the Medieval French The Medieval Origins of Humanistic and Elder History Anti-Jewish Iconography Political Writings The Humanist as Orator By P. S. Lewis By Sara Lipton Edited by Alison Brown By John M. McManamon A collection of 17 essays by P.S. In this work, Sara Lipton maps out Contains almost the entirety of the A biography of Pierpaolo Vergerio Lewis. The book’s central theme the complex relationship between extant works of Bartolomeo Scala the elder (ca. 1369-1444) who was is the physical and intellectual medieval Christians' religious ideas, (1430-1497), a key figure in Florentine influential in the devlopment of the structure of later medieval French social experience, and developing politics and in the emergent humanist humanist movement in several areas: politics. Following a general survey, artistic practices that drove their movement. The texts are in Latin or its epistemology, ideology, educational Lewis illustrates his argument by examining a series of depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures Italian and include letters, orations, dialogues, poetry and curriculum, emphasis on ethos and its relationship to the institutions, attitudes and ideas. connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious sermons. university, to political authority, to religious belief and to 375pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1985, portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear 572pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, the visual arts. and hostility. 9780907628415, Hardback, was £80.00 9780866981996, Hardback, was £35.00 240pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1996, 416pp, b/w illus, col pls, Henry Holt, 2014, 9780866982047, Hardback, was £16.00 Now £4.95 9780805079104, Hardback, was £22.00 Now £5.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Haskins Society God's Philosophers Catherine of Siena Pietro da Eboli: Book Journal Volume 1 How the Medieval World Laid the An Anthology in Honor of Augustus By Robert B. Patterson Foundations of Modern Science Edited by Suzanne Noffke (libro ad honorem This first volume of the journal is By James Hannam Drawing from all of the writings of Augusti) dedicated to the memory of the late "God's Philosophers" is a celebration Catherine of Siena—The Letters, Edited by Gwyneth Hood Sidney Painter and includes essays of the forgotten scientific The Dialogue, and The Prayers—this A translation of Pietro da Eboli’s on subjects with which he was achievements of the Middle Ages. It anthology gathers texts in three Liber ad Honorem Augusti, published associated, many by his former pupils. brings back to light the discoveries of collections: her theology; her imagery; with the original Latin text. The neglected geniuses like John Buridan, and significant issues with which she 191pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, Liber, completed around 1196–1197, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as dealt in her own time. 1989, 9781852850319, Hardback, was £95.00 follows the struggles of Henry VI of Hohenstaufen, Holy putting into context the contributions of more familiar 1186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Roman Emperor, to establish himself as king of Sicily Now £3.95 figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint 9780866984546, Hardback, was £90.00 after marrying its heiress, Constance of Hauteville. Thomas Aquinas. Now £24.95 560pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 448pp, Icon Books, 2010, 9781848311503, Paperback, 9780866984461, Hardback, was £70.00 was £10.99 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

In Search of the Holy Henry Suso: Life of the Don Juan Pacheco Rhetoric in the Middle Grail Servant Wealth and Power in Ages The Quest for the Middle Ages Translated by James M. Clark Late Medieval Spain A History of Rhetorical Theory from By Veronica Ortenberg A translation of Henry Suso's great By Nancy F. Marino Saint Augustine to the Renaissance A survey of the influence of the mystical work, which written in This is the first book-length study of By James J. Murphy response to the sufferings of a woman Middle Ages, and of medieval attitudes fifteenth-century Castilian courtier Originally published in 1974, this and values, on later periods and on approaching death, narrates his own Don Juan Pacheco. It explores how spiritual life and ascetic practices. book follows the threads of ancient the modern world, taking in the the powerful nobleman exploited his rhetorical theory into the Middle romantic movement and the influence 150pp, James Clarke and Co, 1990, position as the king’s favorite in order Ages and examines the distinctly of medievalism on nationalism, the enduring popularity 9780227678626, Paperback, was £18.00 to satisfy his political and personal ambitions and became Medieval rhetorical genres of perceptive grammar, the wealthiest and most titled courtier of the period. of all things Celtic or Arthurian, and the Middle Ages on Now £4.95 letter-writing, and preaching. These various forms are screen from Robin Hood to Pasolini. 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, compared with one another and placed in the context of 336pp, 8 pls, 9 figs, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2006, 9780866983563, Hardback, was £37.00 Medieval society. 9781852853839, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £7.95 416pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2001, Now £6.95 9780866982696, Hardback, was £22.00 Now £9.95

The Culture of Primitivism and Du fait de cuisine / On Saints: Studies in Christendom Related Ideas in the Cookery of Master Hagiography By Marc A. Meyer Middle Ages Chiquart (1420) Edited by Sandro Sticca Fifteen essays in Medieval History By G. Boas “Aucune science de l’art de These fifteen essays study the cult in memory of Denis Bethel; they These essays demonstrate the growth cuysinerie et de cuysine” of saints in the Middle Ages and to a range from the fall of Rome to the lesser extent in the early Renaissance. of primitivism and anti-primitivism Edited by Terence Scully fourteenth century, and are centred from the first to the thirteenth 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance on the high medieval church. centuries, and include discussion Dated 1420, the Du fait de cuisine Texts Society, 1996, 9780866981798, 320pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, of topics such as the Noble Savage, sets out a vision of culinary best Hardback, was £35.00 1993, 9781852850647, Hardback, was £95.00 earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, practice by presenting a pair of elegant two-day and cynicism and Christianity. banquets, one for meat days, the other for lean days. Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Thirty-three more recipes cover contingencies: a 227pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1948, prolongation of the banquet and the presence of sick 9780801856105, Paperback, was £20.50 persons at the lord’s court. This is the first English Now £4.95 translation. 336pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866984027, Hardback, was £61.00 Now £14.95 Bonaventure: The Life The Life and Afterlife Giovanni Conversini The Company She Of St Francis of Isabeau of Bavaria Da Ravenna: Dialogue Keeps By Martine Newby By Tracy Adams Between Giovanni and The Medieval Swedish Cult of Bonaventure (1221-1274), an Italian Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) was a Letter Saint Katherine of Alexandria theologian and monk, is widely the wife of Charles VI of France, Edited by Helen Lanneau Eaker and Its Transformations considered the greatest Franciscan whose weak rule and periodic bouts and Benjamin G. Kohl By Tracey Renee Sands mystic after St. Francis himself. of madness left her as effective Commissioned by the Franciscan regent for much of her reign. Tracy Early humanist discussions of the How did this Mediterranean Order, Bonaventure wrote this official Adams tackles her posthumous religious calling; text and translation saint come to be one of the most biography of St. Francis of Assisi in 1260. reputation for incompetence, debauchery and adultery, portray a major church leader at the beloved saints in a cold and remote finding her actions to be politically astute given the time of the Great Schism. northern region? How did a figure renowned for her 112pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005, 9780060576523, learning become an intercessor for people whose access Paperback, was £10.50 almost impossible circumstances in which she found 208pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1989, herself. 9780866980432, Hardback, was £26.00 to the written word was limited at best? In confronting Now £2.95 questions such as these, this study provides a fascinating 338pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Now £5.95 insight into Christianity in medieval Sweden. 9780801896255, Hardback, was £43.00 304pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 9780866984102, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £12.95

Francis and Clare of The Transformation of Medieval The Customs of Assisi the Year One Constructions in Catalonia between Selected Writings Thousand Gender and Identity Lords and Vassals by Translated by Emilie Griffin By Guy Bois Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante the Barcelona Canon, A collection of the writings of A Marxist socio-economic history Edited by Teodolinda Barolini Pere Albert the two thirteenth century saints, of the village of Lournand near Sharing an interest in women and A Practical Guide to Castle founders of the mendicant orders Cluny. In tracing the development­ identity formation, these essays range Feudalism in Medieval Spain of the Franciscans and Poor Clares, of the community from antiquity to through time, covering the period Edited by Donald J. Kagay including prayers and hymns, the rules feudalism, the author presents the from the tenth through the fifteenth of the respective orders, blessings and testaments. case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a sharply defined century, and across languages, discussing sources in Latin, Kagay provides an English translation of this medieval 144pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006, 9780060754655, era of dramatic change. Italian, French, Occitan, English, and Hebrew. practical guide to feudal relations in Catalonia, and Paperback, was £10.50 171pp, Manchester University Press, 1992, places the work and its author in the context of other 204pp, illustrations, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, thirteenth-century legal handbooks as well as the 9780719035661, Paperback, was £16.99 2006, 9780866983372, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £2.95 "feudalism debate" of the twentieth century. Now £2.95 Now £9.95 160pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, 9780866982856, Hardback, was £23.00 Now £7.95 38 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Late Medieval Comparative Medieval Lives and the The Women of Pope Prophecies Perspectives on Historian Renaissance Florence The "Genus Nequam" Group History and Historians Studies in Medieval Prospography Power and Dependence in Edited by Martha H. Fleming Essays in Memory of Bryce Edited by Neithard Bulst and J-P. Genet Renaissance Florence Lyon (1920-2007) The Genus nequam group is the Essays which explore the potential By Richard C. Trexler earliest manifestation of the 15 Edited by James M. Murray, David of prosopography as well as Contents: Celibacy in the Renaissance: illuminated prophecies that captivated Nicholas and B. S. Bachrach methodological issues regarding The Nuns of Florence; Florentine readers and viewers for over three These essays are grouped both its definition and application, prostitution in the Fifteenth Century: centuries. They describe the progress according to the major areas on which Lyon’s research in particular noting the choices patrons and clients; A widows' asylum of the Church from Nicholas III (1277-80) to the final concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional involved in grouping and classifying people. Topics of the Renaissance: the Orbatello of Florence. angelic pontiff, and include depictions of Martin IV, and legal history of England and the Continent, and the include ecclesiastical elites, social groups in town Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 9780866981576, Honorius IV, and other intervening popes. Latin text with economic history of the Low Countries. and countryside, political and economic elites, and Paperback, was £9.99 commentary. intellectual elites. 5 essays in English, 12 in French, 10 in 376pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2012, German. Now £4.95 240pp, b/w illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 9781580441681, Hardback, was £78.00 2000, 9780866982467, Hardback, was £22.00 438pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1986, Now £6.95 9780918720696, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

The Letters of Pierre De Ore Domini Personal Names The Book of Michael of de Cros Preacher and Word in Studies of Medieval Rhodes Chamberlain to Pope the Middle Ages Europe Volume 2: Transcription Gregory XI (1371–1378) Edited by Eugene A. Green, Beverly Social Identity and Familial Structures and Translation Edited by Daniel Williman Mayne Kienzle and Thomas L. Amos Edited by Monique Bourin, Pascal Edited by Pamela O. Long, David Pierre de Cros, chamberlain to Pope Essays on medieval preaching and Chareille and George Beech McGee and Alan M. Stahl Gregory XI from 1371 to 1378, sermons. They present a diverse edited by Pamela O. Long, David selection of historical periods, Under the direction of Monique was responsible for most of the Bourin an international team of McGee and Alan M. Stahl. accumulated worldly wealth of the methodologies, and audiences, covering a broad timeframe, the 700s to 1511, and scholars has been considering onomastics from the Michael’s book includes the first extant treatise on naval Roman Church and for much of its activity not related perspective of history rather than that of linguistics architecture, a treatise on mathematics in the tradition to its religious character including work on figures ranging from Bede to Ramon Llull. or philology. This volume describes the methodology of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts 126pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, employed and some of the results obtained. on navigation, and Michael’s autobiographical service 9780866984041, Hardback, was £52.00 283pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, record. 9780918720276, Paperback, was £24.99 221pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Now £12.95 9781580440646, Paperback, was £21.99 732pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262195904, Now £5.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £62.00 Now £9.95

The Medieval Gospel History as Literature The Children of The Book of Michael of of Nicodemus German World Chronicles of the Renaissance Florence Rhodes Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts Thirteenth Century in Verse By Richard C. Trexler Volume 1: Facsimile in Western Europe Edited by Mike Graeme Florence This volume brings together four Edited by David McGee, Alan M. Edited by Zbigniew Izydosczyk This volume presents excerpts and studies of Florentine youth. Topics Stahl and Pamela O. Long include the great foundling home of This book charts the development of translations of three thirteenth- In the fifteenth century, a Venetian century South German verse the Innocenti; infanticide; the changing Glass over four millennia, from 18th lives of adolescents during the mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote Dynasty Egypt, through to the present chronicles: Rudolf von Ems’s and illustrated a text describing his Weltchronik, the anonymous Renaissance; and the political games day, illustrated by 56 examples from and plots of Florence's troublesome young men. experiences in the Venetian merchant the collections held by the Ashmolean Museum. Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial These three works are close in language, in date, and in 133pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 570pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, mathematics and treatments of contemporary conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing 9780866981569, Paperback, was £8.99 shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, 9780866981989, Hardback, was £26.00 the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval Now £3.95 and astrological ideas. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the Now £9.95 society: courtly, monastic, and urban. manuscript, reproduced in full colour. 194pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 534pp, col illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262135030, 9781580440424, Paperback, was £15.50 Hardback, was £57.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Marriage Ladies, Whores and The Hands of the The Book of Michael of Scene Holy Women Tongue Rhodes Prudence, Passion, Policy A Sourcebook in Courtly Essays on Deviant Speech Volume 3: Studies Edited by Sherry Roush and Religious and Urban Cultures Edited by Edwin David Craun Edited by David McGee, Alan M. of Late Medieval Germany Cristelle L. Baskins Presented in three sections—Sins of Stahl and Pamela O. Long Papers on on fictive, artistic, legal, Edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen the Tongue, Punishing Deviant Speech, Nine essays examine the Venetian ethical, and economic facets of the and Sarah Westphal-Wihl and Deviant Speech and Gender— maritime world of the fifteenth institution of marriage across Europe This sourcebook presents the essays included here explore century, Michael's life, the discovery between roughly 500 and 1550. editions and translations of seven what speech acts can tell us about of the manuscript, the mathematics 216pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics, and literary in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational 9780866983433, Hardback, was £35.00 understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late craftsmanship. directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the medieval German-speaking world. 232pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive Now £12.95 calendrical material. 166pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 9781580441155, Paperback, was £21.99 9781580441513, Paperback, was £15.50 384pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262123082, Now £4.95 Hardback, was £37.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Law, Custom and the The Salt of Common A Hound of God Shepherd Social Fabric in Life Pierre de la Palud and the Jean de Brie's "Le Bon Medieval Europe Individuality and Choice fourteenth century church Berger" (1379) Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon in the Medieval Town By Jean Dunbabin Countryside and Church Edited by Carleton W. Carroll Edited by B. S. Bachrach Traces the career of Pierre de la and Lois Hawley Wilson and David Nicholas Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Palud from his early reflections on Le Bon Berger, one of the earliest The essays within this volume, contemporary moral issues, including Topics include marriage rules as they papal prerogatives, contraception and “how-to” books in French, is a relate to women and incest, Bernard produced in honor of J. Ambrose treatise full of practical information Raftis, are united by two themes usury, to his political and diplomatic of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval activities as titular Patriarch of Jerusalem. for the medieval shepherd. This critical edition of the Paris. significant in Raftis’s career: a belief in the fundamental Middle French text is accompanied by a facing-page individuality of medieval English men and women, and a 208pp, Oxford University Press, 1991, 9780198222910, English translation. 330pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, belief in their ability to make choices. Hardback, was £115.00 9780918720313, Paperback, was £29.99 234pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 562pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Now £4.95 9780866984720, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £4.95 9781879288478, Paperback, was £39.99 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

Wind and Water in the Magistra Doctissima The Study of Chivalry Hattin Middle Ages Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler Resources and Approaches By John France Fluid Technologies from Edited by Dorsey Armstrong, Ann Edited by Howell Chickering On 4 July 1187 the legendary Antiquity to the Renaissance W. Astell and Howell Chickering and Thomas H. Seiler Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom Edited by Steven A. Walton The essays in this volume are grouped This hefty volume provides a useful of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter These collected essays examine the in five sections: Old and Middle introduction to the historiography at the battle of Hattin. John France continuity of mill technology from English Literature, Arthuriana Then and debates surrounding medieval analyses the origins and course of this the ancient world to the Middle and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, chivalry in its historical and literary pivotal battle, illuminating the roots Ages and its transfer between Nuns and Spirituality, and Royal manefestations, as well as a series of the bitter hatred which underlay Arabic and European cultures; the legal position of Women. of reflections on the teaching of chivalry as a topic to it, and explains its significance in world history - from mills and millers; literary and artistic representations 280pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2013, undergraduates. Essays explore the material culture of medieval times to the present. of these technologies; their urban, rural, and monastic 9781580441773, Hardback, was £70.00 chivalry, as well as the vast wealth of medieval chivalric literature. 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199646951, contexts; and early modern adaptations of the medieval Hardback, was £18.99 technologies of wind and water. Now £7.95 710pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, 328pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9780918720948, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £7.95 9780866983679, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS • 39 Holy Treasure and The Fight for Status The Queen's Hand Blessed Louis, the Sacred Song and Privilege in Late Power and Authority in the Most Glorious of Kings Relic Cults and their Liturgies Medieval and Early Reign of Berenguela of Castile Translated by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin in Medieval Tuscany Modern Castile, 1465- By Janna Blanchini With the aim of showing Saint By Benjamin Brand 1598 Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) Louis as he was commemorated in was one of the most powerful women the literature of the Middle Ages, This book situates sacred music By Michael J. Crawford this book presents six previously at the centre of an examination in Europe. On her brother's death, Michael Crawford investigates untranslated texts: two little-known of relic cults in medieval Tuscany. she inherited the Castilian throne conflicts about and resistance to but early and important vitae of Saint Benjamin Brand reveals that the music outright—and then, remarkably, the status of hidalgo, conventionally understood as the Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher composed to honor these local saints - no fewer than elevated her son to kingship at the same time. Bianchini lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Castilian Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and ninety chants for the Mass and Divine Office - were contends that recognition of Berenguela as a powerful nobility. He presents and explains the contentious proper mass in his honor. essential components of larger devotional campaigns reigning queen by nobles, bishops, ambassadors, and realities and limitations of their legal privileges, that included the recording of their life stories and the popes shows the key participation of royal women in the 360pp, 307, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, particularly that of exemption from taxation. building and decoration of their shrines. western Iberian monarchy. 9780268029845, Paperback, was £42.50 256pp, Penn State University Press, 2014, 368pp, b/w illus, Pennsylvania University Press, 2012, 320pp, 20 figures, 21 music examples, Oxford University 9780271062891, Hardback, was £51.95 Now £12.95 Press, 2014, 9780199351350, Hardback, was £43.49 9780812244335, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Robert Holcot Urban Legends Understanding Plague Engaging with Nature By John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt Civic Identity and the Classical By Randal P. Garza Essays on the Natural World in Holcot was a Dominican friar Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350 This volume studies the effects Medieval and Early Modern Europe who flourished in the 1330's and By Carrie E. Benes of the Black Death in Spain, and Edited by Barbara Hanawalt produced a diverse body of work demonstrates how it changed and Lisa J. Kiser including scholastic treatises, biblical Between 1250 and 1350, numerous the societies it afflicted. Studying commentaries, and sermons. Over Italian city-states jockeyed for the medical and imaginative texts This collection of essays looks at the the course of this introduction the position in a cutthroat political of medieval Spain reveals that interaction between humans and the authors unpack Holcot's views on climate. Each city-state appropriated the disease helped to change the natural world, at medieval ideas and faith and heresy, the divine nature classical symbols, ancient materials, perceived role of the medical conceptions of nature, and at the use and divine foreknowledge, the sacraments, Christ, and and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal of animals and the natural world as literary and cultural political philosophy. successor to-or continuation of-Roman rule. In Urban of death and dying. devices. Legends, Carrie Benes illuminates this role of the 384pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780199391257, 119pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9780820463414, 236pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian 9780268030834, Paperback, was £32.50 Paperback, was £29.49 urban identity. Hardback, was £45.95 Now £9.95 296pp, b/w illus, Penn State University Press, 2011, Now £14.95 Now £9.95 9780271037653, Hardback, was £69.95 Now £14.95

Song of the Distant Worlds of Difference City of Fortune From Knowledge to Dove European Discourses of How Venice Ruled the Seas Beatitude By Raymond P. Scheindlin Tolerance c1100-c1550 By Roger Crowley St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the By Cary J. Nederman A gripping narrative account of the Scholars, and Beyond best-known and most beloved of Medieval Europe, with its crusading rise of Venice from 1000 to the start Edited by E. Ann Matter premodern Hebrew poets, abandoned fervour, is not generally thought of as of the sixteenth century. Crowley and Lesley Smith his home and family in Spain and shows how warfare and crusading, a place of tolerance; divergence from Essays on the intersection between spent the last year of his life traveling the norm, whether social, political trade and commerical rivalry with to the Land of Israel. This book tells Genoa and Pisa and the creation of a Christian theology and spiritual life or religious, was not acceptable. primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth the story of Halevi's journey through selections from his Nederman argues, however, that tolerance and liberalism network of colonies all played their part, and describes letters, and explores its meaning through discussions of the city’s wealthy mercantile elite and unique system of centuries, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor. had their supporters across Europe during this time and They range from the study of the exegetical school of his stirring poetry, presented in new verse translations that inter-religious and political dialogue took place governance. with full commentary. twelfth-century St. Victor and medieval glossed Bibles to 157pp, Penn State University Press, 2000, 435pp, black and white illustrations, colour illustrations,, the medieval cultural reception of women visionaries, 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780195315424, 9780271020167, Hardback, was £49.95 Random House, 2013, 9780812980226, Paperback, was preachers, and crusaders. Hardback, was £41.49 £9.99 Now £14.95 488pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Now £9.95 Now £3.95 9780268035280, Hardback, was £77.50 Now £19.95

Thomas Aquinas: The No Place of Rest Columbus and the Gendering Disgust in Power of God Jewish Literature, Expulsion Quest for Jerusalem Medieval Religious Translated by Richard Regan and the Memory of France By Carol Delaney Polemic On Power (De Potentia) is one of By Susan L. Einbinder This new biography sets Columbus’ By Alexandra Cuffel Aquinas's "Disputed Questions" There are few direct references to life and voyages against the backdrop Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval (a systematic series of discussions the catastrophic great expulsion of his eschatological beliefs, arguing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of specific theological topics). This of the Jews from France in 1306. that Columbus’ primary motivation in of gendered bodily imagery and volume presents an abridged English Einbinder studies a range of writings attempting to chart a western route metaphors of impurity in their visual translation of the work, which she reveals to be commemorative. to the East Indies lay in his desire to and verbal polemic against one discusses the trinity and creation. Her careful readings uncover the ways in which medieval raise funds for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem as another. She shows that these religious traditions shared 352pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199914623, Jews asserted their identity in exile and, perhaps more the first step in the fulfilment of history and the coming notions of the human body as distasteful. In particular, Paperback, was £32.49 important, helped to preserve or efface their history. apocalypse. she explores how authors from each religious tradition 319pp, b/w illus, Simon and Schuster, 2011, Now £9.95 267pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. 9780812241150, Hardback, was £50.00 9781439102329, Hardback, was £20.00 448pp, 10 halftones, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, Now £7.95 Now £4.95 9780268023676, Paperback, was £47.50 Now £7.95

God’s Armies - Sea of Silk The Templars and the Gothic Song Crusade and Jihad A Textile Geography of Women's Shroud of Christ Victorine Sequences and Augustinian By Malcolm Lambert Work in Medieval French Literature By Barbara Frale Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris Malcolm Lambert investigates the By E. J. Burns This book investigates the possibility By Margot E. Fassler histories of Christianity and Islam to This intriguing book looks at the that the the Holy Shroud of Christ This book demonstrates how the trace the origins and development depiction of female silk workers came into the possession of the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used of crusade and jihad. They are often in Old French literature, arguing Templars, explores its possible an art of memory to build sonic reckoned two sides of the same coin that literary portraits of medieval identification with the Mandylion models of the church. This musical but this simple opposition, the author heroines who produce and decorate of Edessa, and speculates as to its art developed over time, inspired by shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities. silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline possible influence on Templar theology, and connection the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and 352pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681775319, Paperback, a metaphorical geography that includes France as an to the charges of idolatry for which they were tried. their understandings of image and the spiritual journey was £13.99 important cultural player in the silk economics of the 296pp, Skyhorse Publishing, 2012, 9781620874493, 536pp, Illustrations, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, Mediterranean. Hardback, was £18.99 Now £5.95 9780268028893, Paperback, was £57.95 264pp, b/w illus, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Now £3.95 9780812241549, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

The Sorcery Trial of The Bride of Christ Aspects of Jewish Holy Scripture and the Alice Kyteler Goes to Hell Culture in the Middle Quest for Authority at A Contemporary Account (1324) Metaphor and Embodiment in the Ages the End of the Middle Edited by Richard de Ledrede Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Edited by Paul E. Szarmach Ages and L. S. Davidson By Dyan Elliott These papers examine the By Ian Christopher Levy This work, the contemporary This book uses Tertullian's epithet relationship between Jewish and Levy demonstrates that the Narrative of the 1324 Sorcery "bride of Christ" as a starting point medieval studies, the patristic basis Wycliffite/Hussite “heretics” and Proceedings against Alice Kyteler (of to examine the ways in which this for Christian attitudes on the Jews, their opponents in fact shared a large Kilkenny, Ireland) documents the first metaphor was applied to pious the Hispanic literary tradition, Jewish and undisputed common ground. instance of a woman being accused of witchcraft through women during the full sweep of the Middle Ages, and Spain, problems in Jewish art, and myth criticism and They held recognized licenses of expertise, venerated intercourse with the Devil, and the first execution how it was used by the church to shape and restrict medieval studies. tradition, esteemed the church fathers, and embraced for heresy in Ireland. This book provides an English female agency, as well as by women themselves to reflect 208pp, State University of New York Press, 1979, Holy Scripture as the ultimate authority in Christendom. translation together with an introduction providing a more intimate, mystical relationship with Christ. 9780873951654, Hardback, was £19.25 Yet it is precisely this commonality, according to Levy, historical context. 480pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2011, Now £7.95 that rendered the situation virtually intractable 100pp, Pegasus Press, 2004, 9781889818429, Paperback, 9780812243581, Hardback, was £54.00 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, was £6.99 Now £14.95 9780268034146, Paperback, was £39.50 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 40 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Isabelle of France The Measure of Medieval Manuscripts Sculpture in the Age of Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Woman from the Collection of Donatello Identity in the Thirteenth Century By Marie A. Kelleher T.R. Buchanan in the Renaissance Masterpieces By Sean L. Field This study explores the complex Bodleian Library from Florence Cathedral Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was relationship between women and Oxford By Timothy Verdon and Daniel M. Zolli situated at the nexus of sanctity and legal culture in Spain's Crown of Aragon during the late medieval By Peter Kidd This remarkable and beautiful new power during a significant era of volume examines twenty-three major period. Kelleher argues that women This catalogue describes 24 French culture and medieval history. artworks that were produced to were not passive recipients - or even manuscripts, primarily late medieval In this ground-breaking examination decorate the Duomo of Florence in victims - of the legal system. Rather, medieval women devotional books from France, the Netherlands and of Isabelle's career, Sean Field explores issues including the first decades of the 1400s. There are also detailed actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, renaissance Italy. It includes "Books of Hours", a the possibilities for women's religious authority, the discussions of the gilded bronze doors Ghiberti made engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of Bridgettine Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a creation and impact of royal sanctity, and the relationship for the neighboring Florence Baptistery. between men and women within the mendicant orders. their litigation strategies. Psalter of c 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. 217pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 209pp, Bodleian Library, 2001, 9781851240593, 200pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2015, 9781907804564, 296pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, Hardback, was £34.95 9780268028800, Paperback, was £42.50 9780812242560, Hardback, was £50.00 Paperback, was £20.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Making Difference in The Maid and the The Medieval Book The Art of Empathy Medieval and Early Queen and a Modern By David S. Areford Modern Iberia By Nancy Goldstone Collector One of only a handful of extant By Jean Dangler A popular and dramatic history, which Essays in Honour of works attributed to the anonymous Nuremberg artist, the Master of the Jean Dangler traces shifts in con­ narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin’s Toshiyuki Takamiya party from their lowest ebb to the Stotteritz Altarpiece, the Mother ceptions of alterity from medieval Edited by Takami Matsuda, Richard of Sorrows is a fine example of the to early modern Spain through a revival of the French monarchy. In particular Nancy Goldstone focuses Linenthal and John Scahill heightened realism that characterised detailed study of four writing genres: much Northern European painting muwashshah/jarcha poems from on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, Essays focus on the study of English the Dauphin’s chief supporter and strategist, and Joan of medieval manuscripts and early printed books., including during the early Renaissance. David Al-Andalus, Andalusi “cutting poems”, medical literature Areford explores the artist’s technique in creating about the body and discourse about the monster. Arc, whom she argues, was championed by Yolande. items in Takamiya's own collection. The subjects range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular emotional drama. 218pp, b/w illus, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 296pp, b/w illus, Viking, 2012, 9780670023332, Hardback, was £20.00 concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious 64pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804267, 9780268025762, Paperback, was £27.95 and historical writings of the late middle ages. Paperback, was £11.95 Now £4.95 Now £4.95 512pp, b/w and col illus, Boydell and Brewer, 2015, Now £3.95 9781843844051, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95

The Writings of Agnes Irresistible North The Ark of God: Part Uneasy Communion of Harcourt By Andrea Di Robilant A, Volumes 1 and 2 By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen Edited by sean L. Field Journalistic in style Di Robilant’s Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke Agnes of Harcourt became abbess at book retraces and provides an By John James A fascinating study of the iconography imaginative reconstruction of the of altarpieces and the artistic the new royal abbey of Longchamp, The Ark of God is a comprehensive founded by Isabelle of France, sister voyages of the Venetian Zen brothers collaboration between Jews and and investigates the claims of their pictorial history of Early Gothic Christians. In the multi-cultural of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote churches in the Paris Basin. Part A a substantial biography of Isabelle as sixteenth century descendant that society of late medieval Spain, they included an exploration of the in two volumes contains over 9,000 Jewish and Christian artists worked well as a brief letter detailing Louis photos of the capitals with an analysis. IX’s involvement with the abbey. This volume contains New World as early as the 1380s. together to produce retablos (large The capitals of this period are more natural in style than multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew the old French texts with a facing English translation, 228pp, b/w illus, Vintage Books, 2011, 9780307269850, those that went before, confirmed in those buildings for Hardback, was £20.00 religious manuscripts. as well as a substantial introduction to Agnes’ life and which we have documentary dates, which may then be works. Now £4.95 used to establish a chronology for other works from 176pp, b/w and col illus, D Giles Limited, 2010, 120pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, these times. 9781904832706, Hardback, was £35.00 9780268044039, Hardback, was £40.50 1632pp, 9000 b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Now £9.95 Now £4.95 9780959600582, Hardback, was £695.00 Now £99.95

Tabula Picta Ambiguous Realities The Ark of God: Part Immagine Antica By Marta Madero Edited by Carole Levin B, Volume 3 Edited by Marco Ciatti To whom does a painted tablet and Jeanie Watson Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 and Cecilia Frosinini belong? To the owner of the physical Topics include the changes in attitude By John James This volume reports on the piece of wood on which an image is toward women, the role and status conservation of a superb panel, the painted? Or to the person who made of women, the dichotomy between This book presents a complete Madonna and child of Santa Maria the painting on that piece of wood? the public and private spheres, the collection and photographic record Maggiore in Florence. As well as Marta Madero turns to the extensive prescriptions for women's behaviour of all the capitals carved in the Paris scientific analyses it also contains glosses and commentaries by and the image of the ideal woman, Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few papers exploring the artists behind its medieval jurists, articulating a notion and the difference between the of which have never been published creation and issues of dating, with a of intellectual and artistic property radically different perceived and the actual audience of medieval and before. James has dated nearly every building campaign revised 12th century date proposed. from our own. Renaissance writers. in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement possible only because every one of the 147 remaining 182pp, b/w illus, col pls, Edifir Editizione Firenze, 2003, 160pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, 264pp, Wayne State University Press, 1987, works have been included. 9788879701624, Paperback, was £25.00 9780812241860, Hardback, was £37.00 9780814318737, Paperback, was £15.95 740pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Now £4.95 Now £5.95 Now £2.95 9780959600599, Hardback, was £395.00 Now £69.95

Taxonomies of The Discovery of The Ark of God: Part Translating the Past Knowledge Mankind B, Volumes 4 and 5 Laurent de Premierfait and Edited by Emily Steiner Atlantic Encounters in the Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 Boccaccio's De Casibus and Lynn Ransom Age of Columbus By John James By Anne D. Hedeman These six essays demonstrate By David Abulafia Over 13,000 photos, being about In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait how the technologies of the book, Emphasizing contact between peoples half of the capitals carved during produced a French translation of including the types of material used, rather than the discovery of lands, these years. They are formal-abstract Boccaccio's De casibus virorum choices of textual arrangement, and using archaeological findings as in style. The analysis of the foliate illustrium, a fourteenth-century text format, script, layout, decoration, well as eyewitness accounts, David carving, including the capitals on the containing cautionary historical tales and overall design, make it possible to determine what Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World great portals, helps to identify individual carvers through about the corrupting effects of power. This gloriously medieval readers and writers thought information was, inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first their way of working, from which the key buildings may illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent's work what they determined was useful to know, and through transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation be dated and through this a consistent chronology from the first copies made for the dukes of Berry and which categories they decided it could be transmitted of wonder to vicious exploitation. established for the period. Burgundy to manuscripts independently produced by effectively to others. artists and booksellers in Paris. 408pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300158212, 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9780975742525, 176pp, col illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, Paperback, was £18.00 Hardback, was £695.00 240pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2009, 9780812247596, Hardback, was £37.00 9780892369355, Hardback, was £41.95 Now £7.95 Now £99.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The History of Anti- The Medieval Heart Faces of Power and Decoding Old Masters Semitism By Heather Webb Piety Patrons, Princes and Enigmatic From the Time of Christ In this book Heather Webb studies By Erik Inglis Paintings of the 15th Century to the Court Jews medieval notions of the heart. An introduction to medieval By Abolala Soudavar Drawing from the works of Dante, By Leon Poliakov portraiture lavishly illustrated Abolala Soudavar examines seven Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, throughout with full colour images Chiefly the history of prejudice Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other paintings by some of the great from the collections of the British masters of the 15th century and against the Ashkenazim, and its literary, philosophic, and scientific Library and the Getty Museum. origins in medieval Europe. Jews texts, she reveals medieval answers to demonstrates how we can better A huge gulf exists between our understand the state of international were accused of countless crimes, such fundamental questions as: Where own notion of a portrait, and medieval priorities, and from causing the Black Death to practicing ritual is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it relations and the political rivalries of the time by in his text Erik Inglis sets out why this was, and the decoding the figures, their postures and gestures, the murder, and the author attempts throughout to reveal begin? And how does it end? ways in which portraits were intended to preserve the sociological and psychological forces behind these background scenes, the compositions and much else in 241pp, Yale University Press, 2010, 9780300153934, a recognisable image of virtues rather than a lifelike these paintings. irrational charges. Hardback, was £57.00 depiction. 340pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 154pp, col illus, I.B. Tauris, 2007, 9781845116583, Now £9.95 88pp, col illus t/out, British Library, 2008, 9780712309813, Hardback, was £70.00 9780812237665, Hardback, was £54.00 Hardback, was £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £2.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE, ART AND ARCHITECTURE BARGAINS • 41 The Badia of Florence Homo Memento Finis Echoing Helicon The Caporali Missal Art and Observance in a The Iconography of Just Judgement Music, Art and Identity in the A Masterpiece of Renaissance Monastery in Medieval Art and Drama Este Studioli, 1440-1530 Renaissance Illumination By Anne Leader Edited by David Bevington Edited by Tim Shephard By Stephen N. Fliegel In 1418, 17 Benedictine monks The contributions to this volume Drawing examples from the Este The sumptuously illuminated journeyed to Florence from Padua explore the Last Judgement as it was dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara Caporali Missal was created by the to save one of their order's oldest depicted in the medieval cycle plays, throughout the Renaissance - Caporali brothers for the Franciscan houses from ruin. Realizing that with comparative insights from other author Tim Shephard reaches new community in the hillside town of reformed spiritual practice alone arts forms. conclusions about the integration of Montone, near Perugia, in 1469. would not save the Badia, Abbott Gomezio di Giovanni 219pp, b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of This exhibition catalogue celebrates this important commissioned the creation of a new cloister, to be 9780918720610, Paperback, was £9.99 renaissance Italy, and about the cultural work required of manuscript, elucidating the history, style, content, decorated with vivid and engaging frescoes. Leader's music and of images by those who paid for them. function, and authorship of the missal. study examines the Badia during this crucial period of Now £2.95 184pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199936137, 132pp, col illus, Prestel Verlag, 2013, 9783791352718, reform and rebirth. Hardback, was £38.99 Hardback, was £22.50 340pp, col illus, Indiana University Press, 2011, 9780253355676, Hardback, was £56.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

The Mirror of The Early Art of Love and Marriage in Saint Francis Salvation Coventry, Stratford- Renaissance Florence Patriarchal Basilica in Assisi; Artistic Speculum Humanae Salvationis Upon-Avon Warwick By Caroline Campbell Testimony, Evangelical Message - An Edition of British Library and Lesser Sites in A detailed examination of the By Roberto Caravaggi Blockbook G.11784 Warwickshire celebrated Morelli-Nerli wedding A huge book, which forms a chests, ordered by Lorenzo Morelli Edited by Albert C. Labriola By Clifford Davidson and comprehensive photographic record and John W. Smeltz when he married Vaggia Nerli in of the Basicilica of St Francis in Assisi. Jennifer S. Alexander 1472. Chapters explore the history Accompanying essays explore the art A full translation, and reproduction of This volume seeks to aid those of the wedding chest and issues of and architecture as well as religious all 58 woodcuts, of this 15th century studying the early art of Warwickshire, including relics iconography and meaning, and production. and historical contexts. blockbook. The translators have provided detailed and musical iconography. The subject lists found within commentary to explain the blockbook's biblical passages 128pp, 80 illustrations, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2009, 220pp, Rizzoli International, 1991, 9789110865815, provide information from records and antiquarian 9781903470916, Paperback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £75.00 and mythological legends, and to illuminate its central accounts of both lost and extant early art from the focus on the roles of the Virgin Mary and Christ in region. Now £6.95 Now £19.95 human salvation. 237pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, 208pp, James Clarke and Co, 2002, 9780227679692, 9780918720634, Hardback, was £62.00 Hardback, was £54.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Building the Kingdom The Early Art of Art of Estrangement: Church Monuments Giannozzo Manetti on the Norfolk Redefining Jews in By Brian Kemp Material and Spiritual Edifice A Subject List of Extant and Reconquest Spain Originally published in 1985, and now By Christine Smith Lost Art Including Items By Pamela A. Patton reprinted unaltered, this (very) brief Relevant to Early Drama guide covers the multitude of late Building the Kingdom examines how Pamela Patton traces the medieval and early modern funerary Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), by By Ann E. Nichols transformation of Iberia's Jews in monuments found in churches interpreting the great architectural This book contains a detailed list of the visual culture of twelfth and throughout England. Kemp looks at projects of his day within historical, early art in the county of Norfolk, thirteenth century Spain's Christian- their development and elaboration, literary, and spiritual contexts, turning to a geographically defined ruled kingdoms as those rulers and the messages which they convey articulated their relevance for his contemporaries as database of evidence to examine the development of strove to affiliate with mainstream Europe and distance about their patrons. cultural paradigms of the Early Italian Renaissance. The regional styles and devotional preferences. The subject themselves from an uncomfortably multicultural past. book includes texts and translations of his key works. 32pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1985, 9780852637685, of much of the art revolves around devotional life and 220pp, 23 Halftones, color; 59 Halftones, black and white, Paperback, was £4.99 536pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, local saints. Penn State University Press, 2012, 9780271053837, 9780866983624, Hardback, was £60.00 357pp, 43 b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Hardback, was £65.95 Now £2.50 Now £14.95 9781580440349, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Spanish Medieval Art Art in England The Bernward Gospels: Medieval Castles Recent Studies The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 Art, Memory, and the By Robert Higham and O. H. Creighton Edited by Colum Hourihane By Sara N. James Episcopate in Medieval An introduction to castles and castle Focusing on style, iconography, A single volume overview of artistic Germany studies answering such questions as who built castles, when and why, function, and reception, in the movements in Medieval and Early By Jennifer P. Kingsley religious as well as secular milieus, Renaissance England. The media and assessing how they have been these studies examine influences studied include architecture and Jennifer Kingsley offers the first studied in the past. Individual chapters within the country and outside it in related sculpture, both ecclesiastical interpretive study of the pictorial are devoted to exploring the social, an attempt to contextualize Spain in and secular; tomb monuments; murals, program of this famed eleventh- domestic and military functions of the larger European framework. panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript century manuscript and considers castles and sites are approached how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and through archaeological and landscape perspectives. 298pp, b/w and col illus, Medieval and Renaissance Texts illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons. future viewers to remember its patron, Bishop Berward 72pp, 58 b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2003, Society, 2007, 9780866983945, Hardback, was £55.00 of Hildesheim 352pp, 270, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702235, 9780747805465, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £60.00 228pp, 18 Halftones, color; 34 Halftones, black and white, Penn State University Press, 2014, 9780271060798, Now £2.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £63.95 Now £19.95

Chester Art Seats of Power in The Italian Piazza St George's Chapel, A Subject List of Extant and Europe during the Transformed Windsor, in the Late Lost Art Including Items Hundred Years War Parma in the Communal Age Middle Ages Relevant to Early Drama By Anthony Emery By Areli Marina By Colin Richmond and E. Scarff By Sally-Beth Maclean A major new overview of the castles, Areli Marina examines the radical 10 essays explore different aspects Though it may not contain the fortresses, palaces and manor houses transformation of Parma's urban of the history and architecture of St bumper-crop of surviving subject- of the ruling elites of England, France center in the thirteenth century by George’s Chapel in the 15th Century, art as a city such as York possesses, and further afield in Europe during reconstructing the city's two most when it was an important Yorkist Chester nevertheless holds much the Hundred Years War, covering significant public spaces: its cathedral symbol of culture, religious devotion of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly the period 1330 – 1480. Analyses over sixty buildings, and communal squares. She documents and discusses and artistic splendour. demonstrates. extensively illustrated in colour with photographs and the evolution of each site tracing their construction by 214pp, St George's Chapel, 2001, 9780953967605, 115pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1982, plans. opposing political factions within the city's ruling elite. Hardback, was £45.00 9780918720207, Hardback, was £38.50 352pp, col illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701030, 192pp, b/w and col illus, Penn State University Press, 2012, Now £6.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £49.95 9780271050706, Hardback, was £74.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Early Art of the West The Lantern Tower of The Classical Tradition English Stained Glass Riding of Yorkshire Westminster Abbey in Czech Medieval Art By Painton Cowen A Subject List of Extant and 1060-2010 By Jan Bazant This album of medieval (c.1100-1530) Lost Art Including Items Reconstructing its History In this volume, Jan Bažant analyses the stained glass in England's churches Relevant to Early Drama and Architecture tradition of ancient Greece and Rome is among the finest to be found. A geographical sweep of the nation By Barbara D. Palmer in the art of Bohemia from the 10 th By Warwick Rodwell to the 14 th century. Bohemia is of takes in over 100 windows along with Prior to Henry VIII’s earlier acts A study of the different physical great interest in this respect because short descriptions, from the greatest of redistribution, the West Riding’s struc­tures and prospective designs for it was never part of the Roman Cathedrals to isolated examples in religious establishments numbered towers to occupy the central crossing at Westminster Empire and there was, consequently, no Roman tradition out of the way parish churches. a minimum of 334 that have left record of their Abbey, from the tower depicted on the Bayeux tapestry per se. 128pp, col illus on every page, Thames and Hudson, 2008, foundation. Some 194 of those churches also have left to plans by Wren and Hawksmoor. 9780500238462, Hardback, was £14.95 record of their art, which constitutes the larger part of 333pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820460970, this volume’s subject entries. 112pp, full colour illus throughout, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £50.95 Now £7.95 9781842179796, Paperback, was £15.00 363pp, 44 b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Now £9.95 9780918720320, Hardback, was £39.50 Now £3.95 Now £9.95

42 • MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Splendour, Gravity and Preaching, Building The Archaeology of Castles and the Anglo- Emotion and Burying the Medieval Suburb Norman World The World of French Medieval By Caroline Bruzelius of Broadmead, Bristol Edited by John A. Davies, Angela Illuminated Manuscripts Friars transformed the relationship By Reg Jackson Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque of the church to laymen by and Charlotte Lapiche Edited by A.S. Kortweg This report describes the results taking religion outside to public of a large and important excavation Castles and the Anglo-Norman World This book provides an overview of and domestic spaces. Mendicant on a domestic site between Union draws together a series of 20 papers ninety French manuscripts that are convents became urban cemeteries, Street and Fairfax Street in central by 26 French and English specialists currently in Dutch collections. They warehouses filled with family tombs, Bristol. An outstanding sequence of in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. are illustrated in full colour and linked flags, shields and private altars. This is the first book medieval and post-medieval pottery and other finds, It includes summaries of current knowledge and new by a text which explores their roles as monastic prayer to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and including environmental material, was obtained from the research into important Norman castles in England books, scholarly works, aristocratic markers of status, transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. and reflections of lay piety. archaeological deposits. and Normandy, drawing on information from recent 224pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, excavations. 224pp, Uitgeverij Matrijs, 2004, 9789040096303, 9780300203844, Hardback, was £45.00 154pp, col illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2010, Hardback, was £45.00 9780956737106, Paperback, was £25.00 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700224, Hardback, Now £14.95 was £48.00 Now £12.95 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

Corpus of Early Italian Religious Poverty, Three Medieval Sites Environment, Society Paintings in North Visual Riches in Gloucestershire and the Black Death American Public By Joanna Cannon By Niall Oakey An interdisciplinary approach to Collections: The South At the heart of this book is the A medieval building and occupation at the late-medieval crisis in Sweden By Perri Lee Roberts Dominicans' evolving relationship Maidenhill, Stonehouse; Medieval field Edited by Per Lagerås with the laity, expressed at first by systems at Tinker's Close, Moreton in The South is the first in the series of the partitioning of their churches, Marsh; A medieval occupation site at This volume uses evidence and Corpus catalogues to be published and subsequently by the ever- Westward Road, Ebley. techniques from archaeology and and covers Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, increasing sharing of space, and of the the natural sciences to focus on Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North 34pp, b/w illus, Cotswold Archaeology, environmental and social changes production and use of art. Joanna Cannon's magisterial 2000, 9780952319641, Paperback, was £9.95 Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Puerto study uses chronicles, legislation, liturgy, sermons and in the wake of the Black Death using Sweden as a case Rico. Three volumes' worth of entries provide full other sources to explore the place of art in the lives of Now £4.95 study. Pollen analysis provides new light on the impact on information, bibliography and scholarly commentary on the friars and the urban laity of Central Italy. agriculture, and urban archaeology and skeletal analysis each work of art, all of which are illustrated. provides evidence of changing living conditions. 368pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2013, 801pp, col illus, University of Georgia Press, 2009, 9780300187656, Hardback, was £50.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700545, Paperback, 9780915977642, Hardback, was £150.00 was £36.00 Now £24.95 Now £39.95 Now £9.95

Judaism and Christian Touching Objects The Window Glass of Seals and their Art By Adrian W.B. Randolph the Order of St Context in the Middle Aesthetic Anxieties from the Addressing painted and sculpted Gilbert of Ages Catacombs to Colonialism portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, Sempringham Edited by Phillipp R. Schofield and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses Edited by Herbert Kessler themes such as family and individual A York-based Survey This volume is divided into three and David Nirenberg memory, windows, perspectival By C. Pamela Graves sections looking at the history This volume is the first dedicated to and use of seals as symbols and space, and touch to investigate how The excavation of St Andrew, the long history, from the catacombs representations of power and these items were experienced in late Fishergate uncovered the largest to colonialism but with special prestige in a variety of institutional, 14th and early 15th century Italy, quantity of window glass from any house of this emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and particularly by women. monastic order. Research on this glass provided the the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources 328pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, opportunity to study all other known assemblages of "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, and artistic attributes 9780300204780, Hardback, was £60.00 window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the defend, and explore its own territory. results and interpretations are presented here. 208pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2015, Now £19.95 9781782978176, Hardback, was £90.00 456pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 575pp, 236 b/w and col illus, Council for British Archaeology, 9780812222531, Paperback, was £26.99 2000, 9781902771151, Paperback, was £26.00 Now £24.95 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Jean de Carpentin’s Translating Truth The Castles of Kent, The Archaeology of Book of Hours Ambitious Images and Religious Surrey and Sussex Medieval Novgorod in By Alixe Bovey Knowledge in Late Medieval By Mike Salter Context France and England In the 1470s, one of the most This book is a comprehensive guide A Study of Centre/ innovative artists working in Bruges By Aden Kumler to the history and architecture of Periphery Relations illuminated a Book of Hours for This handsomely produced volume castellated buildings dating from the Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and late 11th century to the mid 16th Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj examines manuscript illumination Makarov and Evgenij Nosov prominent citizen of Normandy. and changing conceptions of the century in the counties of Kent, The manuscript is enriched with importance of the visual in conveying Surrey and Sussex. Eighty buildings in This volume includes papers on miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders religious truth following the increased emphasis placed the three counties are described in detail with the aid of aspects of the environmental and technological context in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). old and new photographs, prints and plans reproduced of the relationship between urban centre and rural framed by twisting branches of acanthus.. to a set of common scales. hinterland. It examines the environmental context for 290pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2011, the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to 184pp, col illus, Sam Fogg, 2011, 9781903470954, 9780300164930, Hardback, was £65.00 Folly Publications, 2016, 9780993187933, Paperback, was Hardback, was £50.00 £9.95 15th centuries. Now £14.95 528pp, b/w and colour illus and accompanying CD with Now £14.95 Now £4.95 supp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842172780, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £19.95 Orsanmichele and the Excavations in the Archaeological The Bull Ring History and medieval suburb of Approaches to Uncovered Preservation of the Redcliffe, Bristol, 1980 Medieval Europe Excavations at Edgbaston Civic Monument By Bruce Williams Edited by Kathleen Biddick Street, Moor Street, Park Street and The Row, Birmingham Edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke This volume presents a summary This volume presents a series of City Centre, 1997-2001 This book makes important new account of the results of excavations papers which showcased the potential information about the history and in Redcliff Street. Features include of archaeology for the study of the By Catharine Patrick and restoration of the church available part of the city wall, a 13th century Middle Ages, at a time when medieval Stephanie Ratkai slipway, 14th century dyers archaeology was still a relatively for the first time, and examines the These excavations in the centre of workshops and a 15th century bakery. Also included is young discipline. Contributions include Glanville Jones on monument in its broadest context as a civic and religious Birmingham uncovered plentiful material from the 12th an outline history of Redcliffe. the multiple estate; David Hall on field systems; Oliver center from the Middle Ages to the present day, revealing to 19th centuries: artefacts, environmental­ samples and Rackham on forest and woodland; Richard Hodges on the historic building's evolving role as repository of 30pp, b/w illus, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1981, structural remains. Evidence of the medieval industrial pre-Viking trade in the North Sea region; and Pamela history and living institution. 9780900199141, Paperback, was £6.00 past was of particular interest, including tanning and the Crabtree on the Zooarchaeology of West Stow. 416pp, col and b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2012, Now £2.00 manufacture of hemp and linen. 9780300135893, Hardback, was £50.00 310pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, 9780918720528, Paperback, was £31.50 440pp, 136 b/w illus, 42 col pls, Oxbow Books, 2008, Now £24.95 9781842172858, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Postcards on Mary-le-Port, Bristol A Maritime Towns and Topography Parchment By Lorna and Rahtz, Philip Archaeology of Ships Essays in Memory of David H. Hill The Social Lives of Medieval Books Watts and Philip Rahtz Innovation and Social Change in Late Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker By Kathryn M. Rudy A report on excavations at the Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Susan D. Thompson church and street of St Mary-le Port, Medieval prayer books held not By J. R. Adams Fifteen papers examine a variety of Bristol, an important early example of aspects of medieval towns and their only the devotions and meditations both urban and church archaeology. In this book Jon Adams evaluates of Christianity, but also housed, key episodes of technical change in topography. Topics include place-name The report posits a tenth century studies, monasteries, mints, Anglo- slipped between pages, sundry date for the origins of both church the ways that ships were conceived, notes, reminders, and ephemera, designed, built, used and disposed of. Saxon settlements, and medieval and street, and also includes a mapping to name a few. such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted historical and topographical survey of the area. 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Now £6.95 272pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, 360pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, 9781842172971, Paperback, was £29.95 9780300209891, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £12.95 Now £24.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BARGAINS • 43 Traditional Buildings in Castles in Context Chartier in Europe The Poetic Voices of the Oxford Region Power, Symbolism and Edited by Emma Cayley John Gower By John Steane and James Ayres Landscape, 1066 to 1500 and Ashby Kinch Politics and Personae in This book, the fruit of twenty years By Robert Liddiard A sustained enquiry into the the Confessio Amantis research, provides an account of Castle studies have been transformed distinctive influence of the fifteenth- By Matthew W. Irvin vernacular architecture in the Oxford century French poet and diplomat, in recent years with a movement This volume concentrates on the region from Anglo-Saxon times to away from the traditional Alain Chartier, on the reading and the 19th century. At the heart of the writing cultures of England, Italy, dialogue of Amans and Genius in interpretation of castles as static the Confessio Amantis. It argues book are surveys of cruck buildings, military structures towards a wider Scotland, and Spain, as well as France. manorial and moated sites, town houses with particular that Gower negotiates problems of view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a 228pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2008, 9781843841760, politics and problems of love through their discourse, emphasis on Abingdon, and houses in the countryside more complicated relationship with the landscape. 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A Place to Believe in Interpreting the Chaucer and Array Fifteenth-Century Locating Medieval Landscapes English Village Patterns of Costume and Fabric Studies Volume 26 By Clare Lees Landscape and Community Rhetoric in The Canterbury By Edelgard E. DuBruck Tales, Troilus and Criseyde This volume brings together scholars at Shapwick, Somerset and Barbara I. Gusick and Other Works of medieval literature, archaeology, By Mick Aston and Christopher Gerrard Seventeen papers, plus tributes and By Laura F. Hodges history, religion, art history, and The Shapwick Project examined book reviews, on the history and environmental studies to explore the development and history of an An analysis of the ways in which culture of 15th-century Europe. the idea of place in medieval English parish and village over a ten Chaucer uses details of costume, Subjects include: Crusade propaganda religious culture.A strength of the thousand-year period. The result is clothing and fabric. In particular, it in the court of Philip the Good; Pope collection is its awareness of the fact that medieval and a fascinating study about how the community lived and addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's Joan; Froissart's Chroniques ; Pierre Gringor; Margery modern viewpoints converge in an experience of place prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group expectations, derived from their knowledge of the Kempe; French farce; misogyny; the Dominican Convent and frame a newly created space where the literary, the of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy of S. historical, and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation story. passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but 303pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2001, 9781571132284, with the geographical, the personal, and the material. 416pp, 233 illus, Windgather Press, 2013, includes them in some of his comedic works. Hardback, was £75.00 288pp, b/w illus, Penn State University Press, 2006, 9781905119455, Paperback, was £25.00 254pp, col pls, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843689, Now £2.95 9780271028606, Paperback, was £28.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Pilgrim Routes of the Medieval Rural Comic Drama in the Heroes of the French British Isles Settlement Low Countries Epic By Emma J. Wells Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 C.1450-1560 Heroes of the French Epic This book leads the modern By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper A Critical Anthology By Michael A. Newth traveller along some of the key A major assessment and review of Edited by Bas Jongenelen The poems translated in this volume medieval walking routes of Britain, the origins, forms and evolutions of - Gormont and Isembart, The song taking in world-famous sites such and Ben Parsons medieval rural settlement in Britain Drama formed a central aspect of William, Charlemagne's Pilgrimage, as Canterbury and Lindisfarne and Ireland across the period c. AD Raoul of Cambrai, Girart of Vienne in addition to out-of-the-way of public life in the cities of the 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive Netherlands. This collection brings together the original and The Knights of Narbonne - are places along paths not so widely travelled. As well as analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, taken from all three Old French epic song cycles, and suggesting some fresh walking ideas, the book offers an Middle Dutch text of ten comic plays, with facing economics and population, bringing together evidence translation into modern English. The selection is divided apart from their individual merits, display the complete understanding of the history, significance and practices drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, range of themes, episodes and character types which surrounding the pilgrim routes. evenly between formal stage-plays and monologues, and historical geographical analysis and documentary and provides a representation of the full range of rederijker were the life-blood of the chanson de geste genre. 240pp, col illus, Robert Hale Ltd, 2016, 9780719817076, place-name study. 697pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831471, Hardback, was £19.99 drama. 304pp, 112 illus, Windgather Press, 2011, 308pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, 9781843842910, Paperback, was £25.00 9781905119424, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Heilig en Profaan 3 Wyclif: Summa Fatherhood and its Images of Kingship in By H. J. E. Van Beuningen Insolubilium Representations in Chaucer and His In this book over 1,300 badges are Translated by Paul V. Spade Middle English Texts Ricardian shown full-size, together with data Latin text of Wyclif's logical treatise By Rachel E. Moss Contemporaries concerning sites, measurements, on paradoxes. material, methods of attachment, The figure and role of the late- By Samantha J. Rayner dating and any inscriptions. In a 176pp, Arizona State University, 1986, medieval father is reappraised Through detailed examination of the separate section authors deal 9780866980746, Hardback, was through a close reading of a range of texts, this study analyses the works with related topics, such as moulds £20.00 documents from the period, including of Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the and the casting process, the site of Now £4.95 both letters and romances. Gawain poet, to set out exactly what Arnemuiden, depictions of pilgrim badges in medieval 208pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843580, each has to say about kingship, looking for common books and badges in the shape of buttons. Dutch text Hardback, was £60.00 themes and attempting to relate them to the concrete with English summaries. Now £12.95 kingship of Richard II. 400pp, col illus t/out, Stichting Middeleeuwse Religieuze, 177pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9781843841746, 2012, 9789090266190, Hardback, was £55.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Digging for Richard III Dante in Love Heroines of the Interlace Structure of By Mike Pitts By A.N. Wilson French Epic the Third Part of the No archaeological project of recent A.N. Wilson's book serves as a A second selection of Prose Lancelot years has captured the public well-written introduction to Dante, chansons de geste By Frank Brandsma imagination like the discovery of the mixing biography with a detailed grave of Richard III. Mike Pitts tells exposition of the political and literary Edited by Michael A. H. Newth Thematically and as a narrative the full story, including the dramatic background to his work, as well as The chanson de geste was technique, interlace, the complex unearthing of the king's bones and discussion of its principal themes, and increasingly influenced by the ethos weaving together of many different the scientific studies which proved a look at his reputation and influence of romance, and the present volume story-telling strands, comes to its their identity as well as the picture down to our own time. offers full English verse translations full development in the intriguing conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. This study explains they give of Richard's appearance, diet, death and the 386pp, col pls, Atlantic Books, 2011, 9781848879492, of six examples, each chosen to illustrate the range of treatment of his corpse. roles gradually accorded to women in these originally how the interlace works and shows that it is the perfect Hardback, was £14.99 vehicle for the relation of the events. 208pp, b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 2014, militaristic narratives. 9780500252000, Hardback, was £18.95 Now £4.95 434pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843610, 278pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, 9781843842576, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95 Now £5.95

Bones of a King Adams Grace Romance and its Late-Medieval German By The Grey Friars Research Team, Fall and Redemption in Contexts in Fifteenth- Women's Poetry Lin Foxhall and Maev Kennedy Medieval Literature Century England Secular and Religious Songs The Bones of a King presents the By Brian Murdoch Politics, Piety and Penitence By Albrecht Classen official behind-thescenes story of the The theme of "Adam's Grace" is the By Raluca L. Radulescu Translations of both religious and Greyfriars dig and the subsequent interplay of theology and literature archaeological and scientific analyses, By examining a broad cultural and secular verse written during the across a wide range of genres and 15th and 16th centuries by German drawing throughout on the research vernaculars: in particular, the use of political framework stretching from of the specialists directly involved in Richard II's deposition to the end women. The first part presents medieval literary texts to explain numerous, largely anonymous, love the discovery. It presents the details the balance of the Fall and Redemption, the universality of the Wars of the Roses through of Richard’s life, health, diet and death, as well as the the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author poems and songs whilst the second comprises religious of original sin, and the identity of mankind with its first songs composed by aristocratic women. wider archaeological settings of the events leading up to parents, Adam and Eve. draws attention to the specific circumstances in which his burial in the Grey Friars church. Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry 157pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781843840213, 218pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2000, 9780859915595, Lovelich's History of the Holy Grail and Malory's Morte Hardback, was £40.00 232pp, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 9781118783146, Hardback, Hardback, was £60.00 was £18.99 were read in fifteenth-century England. Now £4.95 Now £5.95 252pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843843597, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 44 • MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND LITERATURE BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Poetry, Knowledge and Ovid's Art and the The Prose Brut John Gower Community in Late Wife of Bath The Development of a Recent Readings Medieval France The Ethics of Erotic Violence Middle English Chronicle Edited by R.F. Yeager Edited by Rebecca Dixon By Marilynn Desmond By Lister M. Matheson Essays in this volume, presented by and Finn E. Sinclair This volume explores the enormous This is not a new edition of the scholars at meetings of the John This collection examines the role of influence of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Middle English text that survives in Gower Society at the International poetry in medieval French culture in on the later Middle Ages, looking more manuscripts than almost any Congress on Medieval Studies transmitting and shaping knowledge. in particular at how his ironic other. Rather, this work classifies and (Western Michigan University, It reveals the interplay between poet, conception of the erotic potential of groups the manuscripts and early 1983–88), unpublished elsewhere and text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of violence was taken up by authors such as Heloise, Jean printed editions, and comments on the relationships rewritten exclusively for this collection, take a series later medieval French poetry and of the communities in de Meun and Guillaume de Loris, Chaucer and Christine that developed among them from the late 14th to and of fresh approaches to the study of the works of John which it was produced. de Pisan. sometimes beyond the 15th century. Gower. 250pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 206pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2006, 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1998, 366pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1989, 9781843841777, Hardback, was £60.00 9780801473173, Paperback, was £22.99 9780866982221, Hardback, was £26.00 9780918720993, Hardback, was £78.00 Now £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

Court Poetry in Late Intellectual Life in the Three Medieval John Wyclif: On the Medieval England and Middle Ages Rhetorical Arts Truth of Holy Scotland By Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward Edited by James J. Murphy Scripture By Anthony J. Hasler The variety of experience available to This book charts the development of Edited by Ian Christopher Levy Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, medieval scholars and the vitality of Glass over four millennia, from 18th A condensed English translation Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, medieval thought are both reflected Dynasty Egypt, through to the present of Wyclif's 1378 treatise, which this study examines the paths by in this collection of original essays. day, illustrated by 56 examples from emphasises the ultimate authority of which court poetry and its narrators 336pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, the collections held by the Ashmolean scripture as the basis for the reform seek multiple forms of legitimation: 1992, 9781852850692, Hardback, Museum. and ordering of the church and from royal and institutional sources, but also in the was £180.00 259pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2001, Christian life. 9780866982702, Hardback, was £22.00 media of script and print. Now £6.95 378pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, 269pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Now £9.95 9781580440318, Paperback, was £27.50 9780521809573, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Ethics and Enjoyment Collected Works of Ava's New Testament Middle English Marian in Late Medieval Gonzalo de Berceo in Narratives Lyrics Poetry English Translation When the Old Law Passed Away Edited by Karen Saupe By Jessica Rosenfeld Edited by Jeannie K. Bartha, Annette Edited by James A. Rushing The poems selected for this volume Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history Grant Cash and Richard Terry Mount Ava is the first woman whose name provide a sampling of the rich of the ethics of medieval vernacular Berceo, a thirteenth century priest, we know who wrote in German. She tradition of Marian devotion as love poetry by tracing its engagement was the first Spanish poet whose wrote her poem - or poems - on the expressed in Middle English. Taken with the late medieval reception of name is known to us. This volume lives of John the Baptist and Jesus together, the poems express the Aristotle. The chapters reveal that makes available his complete works in Christ sometime early in the twelfth full range of a people’s effort to 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often English translation for the first time. century, no later than 1127. voice anxieties and joys through Mary. The texts are accompanied by introductory material, gloss and notes. characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but 544pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2008, 254pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and 9780866983730, Hardback, was £60.00 9781580440370, Paperback, was £15.50 312pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, earthly happiness. 9781580440066, Paperback, was £19.50 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 257pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Now £6.95 9781107000117, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £7.95

Vernacular Translation New Directions in Closure in The Sovereignty and in Dante's Italy Oral Theory Canterbury Tales Salvation in the Illiterate Literature Essays on Ancient and The Role of The Parson's Tale Vernacular 1050-1150 By Alison Cornish Medieval Literatures By David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley Edited by James A. Schultz While Dante is usually the starting Edited by Mark C. Amodio These ten papers reject the tradition This volume offers some of the point for histories of vernacular Rejecting the view that orality and that assumes that The Parson's earliest texts in Middle High German, translation in Europe, this book literacy are mutually exclusive and Tale has little literary merit. The Das Ezzolied, Das Annolied, Die demonstrates that The Divine contradictory cultural forces, these contributors search for Chaucer's Kaiserchronik VV. 247-667, Das Lob Comedy places itself in opposition to essays focus on the mix of oral authorial and narrative voices and Salomons, and the Historia Judith, a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among and literate poetics discoverable in a wide range of examine the role of The Parson's Tale in closing The with an introduction and notes. its readers. ancient and medieval texts. In the explorations of texts Canterbury Tales . 176pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 287pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, produced in cultures situated at various points along the 268pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 9781580440622, Paperback, was £15.50 9781107001138, Hardback, was £62.00 oral-literate continuum, the authors reveal how deeply 9781580440127, Paperback, was £31.50 and inextricably intertwined orality and literacy are. Now £3.95 Now £7.95 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, Now £4.95 9780866983303, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £12.95

St. Thomas Aquinas: Songs of Holy Mary of Gavin Douglas: The Technology, Guilds and An Exposition of the Alfonso X, the Wise Palis of Honoure Early English Drama 'On the Hebdomads' A Translation of the Cantigas Edited by David Parkinson Edited by Clifford Davidson of Boethius de Santa María Gavin Douglas's The Palis of This book attention to both social Translated by Janice L. Edited by Kathleen Kulp-Hill Honoure is a dream poem from organization and material culture as Schultz and E. Synan early sixteenth-century Scotland. It integrally related to the civic drama This collection of the Cantigas de operates within the courtly tradition of England in cities such as Coventry, In his sixth-century work known as Santa Maria consists of 420 poems of Scottish poetry, establishing a York, and Chester, to explore the the De hebdomadibus, Boethius poses and songs gathered and set down dichotomy of earthly and heavenly sources and design of those things the question of how created things or by Alfonso X, "El Sabio" (The Wise) things. This edition includes an ample gloss and notes, as that were used in the production of plays. substances can be good just as they are, without being in the 13th century, recounting miracles performed by well as an informative introduction and glossary. the same as the source of all goodness, God. St. Thomas the Virgin Mary. This volume comprises the first English 138pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, 9781879288805, Paperback, was £19.50 Aquinas sets out to explain the problem Boethius is translation of this important work. 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, 9781879288256, Paperback, was £12.00 treating as well as to elucidate Boethius's solution. 542pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, Now £4.95 65pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780866982139, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £4.95 9780813209951, Paperback, was £24.50 Now £12.95 Now £3.95

Chaucer's The The Mirror of Jaume Global Perspectives on Ten Bourdes Canterbury Tales Roig Medieval English Edited by Melissa M. Furrow By Gail Ashton An Edition and an English Literature, Language, A bourde is an English comedic poem A concise guide to the Canterbury Translation of MS. Vat. Lat. 4806 and Culture similar to a French fabliau but with Tales, aimed primarily at students. a moralizing element and less of an Edited by Maria Celeste Delgado-Libero Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor emphasis on violence. This collection As well as providing background to and Richard Scott Noakes Chaucer’s life , historical and literary This is an annotated edition and includes contextualizing introductions, context, Gail Ashton explores the English translation of Jaume Roig’s Each of these essays presents a global copious notes, glosses, and a glossary. various critical approaches which Spill, a vast, mid-15th-century perspective on medieval literature, 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, have been taken to the Tales, discussing themes such as Iberian narrative poem composed whether by comparing texts, by 2013, 9781580441926, Paperback, was £23.50 ‘Englishness’, narrative voice, genre, language and form, in Valencian Catalan. The work is serves as a major considering textual transmission through translation or gender and authority. touchstone for knowledge of late medieval medicine by contrasting medieval issues with developing global Now £7.95 (Roig was a physician), misogyny, Marian theology, and a movements. 144pp, Continuum International Pub., 2007, huge array of cultural practices such as midwifery, wet 9780826489364, Paperback, was £15.99 nursing, marriage, and civil law. 328pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, 9781580441209, Hardback, was £70.00 Now £2.95 434pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866983983, Hardback, was £74.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL LITERATURE BARGAINS • 45 The Assembly of Gods The Worlde and the Crossing Borders Defining Acts By Jane Chance Chylde By Sahar Amer Drama and the Politics This anonymous English poem of Edited by Peter Happe This ambitious study looks at of Interpretation in Late Medieval England the later 15th century is written in The Worlde and the Chylde, issued the interaction between Arabic the tradition of Gower, Chaucer and by the press of Wynkyn de Worde and French medieval writing and By Ruth Nisse Lydgate, and tackles some of the specifically their representation of in 1521, is one of the very earliest This study examines the social, social, cultural and religious concerns plays published in England. It also gender, and female homo-eroticism. of the day. This study includes a full Amer contends, however, that by political and theological issues that has very considerable interest were brought to the late medieval version of the poem (Cambridge for its adaptation of the Ages of taking a comparative intertextual Trinity College Library MS R.3.19 (2) approach, and by examining stage. Examining plays, urban pageant Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the cycles and travelling `miracles' and morality plays, dating fols. 67b-97b) with introduction and notes. introduction, notes, and illustrations. French engagement with Arabic literary traditions hitherto unrecognised traces of cross-cultural exchange to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores 155pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, how these translated contemporary issues and especially 9781580440226, Paperback, was £15.50 and engagement with the idea of same-sex love can be 9781580440523, Paperback, was £17.99 discerned. vernacular theology through performance. Now £5.95 Now £4.95 252pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 226pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 9780812240870, Hardback, was £50.00 9780268036027, Paperback, was £107.00 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

The Complete Harley Thomasin Von Ziclaria: Mary Magdalene and Goddess Natura in 2253 Manuscript: Der Welsche Gast (the the Drama of Saints Medieval Literature Volume 1 Italian Guest) Theater, Gender, and Religion By George Economou Edited by Susanna Greer Fein Edited by Marion E. Gibbs in Late Medieval England Economou’s work focuses on the British Library MS Harley 2253 is one and Winder McConnell By Theresa Coletti renaissance of the twelfth century, of the most important literary works An English translation of Thomasin when a new kind of allegory appeared Through a detailed study of the Digby that celebrated and explored the to survive from the English medieval von Zirclaria's thirteenth century Mary Magdalene play, this study shows era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, didactic poem, which meticulously nature of the cosmos. He analyzes the the importance of Mary Magdalene in central role that Natura played in the its secular love lyrics comprise presents the moral and ethical code religious life, in providing a mediating an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are by which the author urged his aristocratic audience to writings of Bernard Silvestris, Jean de Meun, Alain de Lille, figure between “masculine and feminine religious and Geoffrey Chaucer. contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics live their lives. authority; institutional and individual modes of spiritual designed to inspire religious devotion. French and Middle 262pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, expression; authorized and unauthorized forms of 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, English text with facing translation, introduction, glossary 9781580441452, Paperback, was £19.50 revelation and sacred speech”. 9780268029555, Paperback, was £36.95 and notes. 342pp, b/w figs, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004, Now £7.95 516pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2015, Now £4.95 9780812238006, Hardback, was £62.00 9781580442053, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £7.95 Now £6.95

The Complete Harley Lordship and The Song of Troilus Salvation and Sin 2253 Manuscript: Literature By Thomas C. Stillinger By David Aers Volume 2 John Gower and the Politics Traces the origins of modern Salvation and Sin explores various Edited by Susanna Greer Fein of the Great Household authorship in the formal modes of displaying the mysterious experimentation of medieval writers. relations between divine and human French and Middle English text By Elliot Kendall Texts discussed include Dante’s Vita agency, together with different with facing translation, introduction, A sustained new reading of John Nuova and Chaucer’s Troilus and accounts of sin and its consequences. glossary and notes. Gower's major English poem, Criseyde. Theologies of grace and versions of 518pp, Medieval Institute Publications, Confessio Amantis, shows how deeply 291pp, Pennsylvania University Press, Christian identity and community 2014, 9781580441988, Paperback, the great household informed the 1992, 9780812231441, Hardback, was £50.00 are its pervasive concerns, and was £31.50 way Gower and his contemporaries imagined their it comprises close readings of Augustine, William of world. Exploring royal government and gentry ambitions Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Langland. Kendall views the period's politics and literature in terms 284pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, of a household-based economy of power. 9780268020330, Paperback, was £40.95 301pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780199542642, Hardback, was £105.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

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The Hero Recovered Christine de Pizan and Acts of Recognition: The Island Garden Essays on Medieval Heroism the Fight for France Essays on Medieval England's Language of Nation in Honor of George Clark By Tracy Adams Culture from Gildas to Marvell Edited by Robin Waugh Adams locates Christine de Pizan's By Lee Patterson By Lynn Staley and James Weldon works within a detailed narrative of This volume brings together Lee Identifying the concept of enclosure Essays on the heroic in medieval the complex history of the dispute Patterson's essays published in as key to Britain’s language of place, literature. Among the texts under between the Burgundians and the various venues over the past twenty- Lynn Staley traces the shifting discussion are Beowulf, The Battle of Armagnacs. Contrary to what many seven years. Two dialectics are at meanings of this concept in medieval Maldon, the Passio Sancti Edwardi, scholars have long believed, Christine work in this book: that between the and early modern histories, treatises, Hrafnkels saga Freysgoda, Vatnsdaela saga, the Exeter consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout past and the present and that between the individual and and poems. Book riddles and Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica. her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of the social, and both have moral significance. Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. 376pp, col illus, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 263pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, 400pp, 2 illustrated halftones, University of Notre Dame 9780268041403, Paperback, was £40.50 9781580441544, Hardback, was £70.00 232pp, Penn State University Press, 2018, Press, 2009, 9780268038373, Paperback, was £39.50 9780271050713, Hardback, was £58.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

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Antoine de la Sale: Devon Thatch St Paul's Cathedral The Rape of Europa Jean de Saintré By Jo Cox and John R. L. Thorp Archaeology and History The Intriguing History of Edited by Roberta L. Krueger Using many interesting archive By John Schofield Titian's Masterpiece and Jane H. M. Taylor photographs as well as images of John Schofield examines the cathedral By Charles Fitzroy thatchers at work, this book traces Written in 1456 and purporting from an archaeological perspective, `The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's to be the biography of the actual the history of thatching in Devon reviewing its history from the early from the earliest times, celebrating great masterpieces, a work charged fourteenth-century knight of its title, 18th to the early 21st century, as with eroticism and classical mystique Jean de Saintré has been called the the skills and traditions of the craft illustrated by recent archaeological and exploring some of the most behind which lies a tale as compelling first modern novel in French and recording, documentary research as the painting itself. Here Charles one of the first historical novels in any language. This interesting thatched buildings in the and engineering asssessment. A detailed account of county today. FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the new translation contextualizes the story with a rich the construction of the cathedral is provided based on painting's movement following the rise and fall of the introduction and a glossary 208pp, Devon Books, 2001, 9781855227972, Hardback, a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building countries in which it has been housed. was £30.00 264pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, accounts and evidence from recent archaeological 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781408192092, Hardback, 9780812245868, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 investigation. was £16.99 209pp, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, 2016, Now £14.95 9781785702754, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £6.95 Now £19.95

Culture and History, A Voyage Long and Sveti Pavao Shipwreck Painting Life 1350-1600 Strange A 16th century Venetian The Art of Pieter Brueghel the Elder Edited by David Aers Rediscovering the New World Merchantman from Mljet, Croatia By Robert L. Bonn Chapters consider the self fashioning By Tony Horwitz By Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Painting Life explores the paintings of Gelichi and Igor Miholjek of male identities within court This history of early European the old Flemish master Pieter Bruegel culture, medieval Christianity and voyages to North America focuses A report on the excavation the Elder (1520/5-1590). Robert L. eucharistic discourses, the emergence on the neglected period between of a fifteenth century Venetian Bonn guides the reader through the of a commercial and national theatre Columbus's voyage of 1492 and merchantman. Many personal scenes depicted in these remarkable in the sixteenth century, the position the Pilgrims arrival in 1620. Tony possessions of the crew were works of art, including the social of working women across the period and the history of Horwitz traces the early voyages of exploration and the preserved as well as a number of bronze artillery context in which they were painted, and how they relate the subject. enduring legacy of early contacts with native American pieces and the remains of a cargo of luxury and richly to our lives today. 214pp, Wayne State University Press, 1992, civilisations, revealing along the way just how much of decorated ceramic material from Iznik and other 174pp, col illus, Chaucer Press Books, 2007, 9780814324165, Paperback, was £15.50 the popular imagination of these centuries is the result oriental workshops. 9781884092121, Hardback, was £25.50 Now £2.95 of 19th century myth-making. 200pp, b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 2014, Now £7.95 464pp, Henry Holt, 2008, 9780805076035, Hardback, 9781782977063, Paperback, was £40.00 was £25.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Temple Beauties Painted Enamels The Lost Battles British Portrait The Entrance-Portico in the An Illustrated Survey, 1500-1920 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Miniatures Architecture of Great Britain By Erika Speel and the Artistic Duel That Cleveland Museum of Art Defined the Renaissance By Richard Riddell this comprehensive reference work By Cory Korkow By Jonathan Jones The portico was a defining feature of provides lists of artists and technical This beautifully illustrated volume the Classical architectural revival of information within discursive chapters In 1504 Leonardo and Michelangelo showcases over 70 exquisite pieces the eighteenth and early nineteenth on the historical developments of competed with each other directly, from the Cleveland Museum of Art's century in Britain, but has been the different classes of enamel work. to paint the walls of a room in internationally important collection rarely studied in its own right. In this Including details on the recognition of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. But this of British portrait miniatures which well illustrated volume Richard Riddell first provides a the painting methods for each era and the calibre of the competition has been largely forgotten because the rival range in date from the 17th to the 19th century. It definition for the portico, then explores its symbolism paintings, the supporting texts also show the historical works did not survive. This great artistic clash, Jonathan features the work of leading miniaturists, including and significance. He selects representative examples and technical changes that gave the impetus for various Jones argues in this riveting account, marks the true Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, as well as of different portico types, relating them to stylistic innovations and developments of painted enamels. beginning of the High Renaissance. an extensive collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway developments and influential models. 256pp, col illus, Lund Humphries, 2008, 9780853319351, 320pp, b/w illus, col pls, Alfred A Knopf, 2012, 288pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804236, 435pp, many col pls, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2011, Hardback, was £100.00 9780307594754, Hardback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £40.00 9781905739448, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £19.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Crossing Paths or A Glorious Empire Picturing Art History Manhood, Marriage, Sharing Tracks Archaeology and the Tudor- The Rise of the Illustrated History and Mischief Future Directions in the Stuart Atlantic World of Art in the Eighteenth Century Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Archaeological Study of Post- Edited by Eric C. Klingelhofer By Ingrid R. Vermeulen Other Dutch Group Portraits 1550 Britain and Ireland Fifteen papers present the results of Books on art history are nearly By Harry Berger By Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer new research into various aspects always lavishly illustrated with quality A study of the theory and practice These essays discuss the practice of of material culture and historical colour reproductions of famous of seventeenth-century Dutch group post-1550 archaeology and outline archaeology that reflect culture, masterpieces. Yet this has not always portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and problems, potential problems and trade and social interaction shared by been the case: it was only in the Mischief offers an account of the future directions for the discipline, and how the work of Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart eighteenth century that art books came to be illustrated genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as archaeologists ties into and is affected by the museums periods. with beautiful images. Picturing Art History shows how comments on the social context of portrait sitters who and heritage sectors. 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175101, Hardback, the fundamentally new notion of the history of art as a are husbands and householders as well as members of visual history was responsible for this development. 416pp, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, was £45.00 civic and proto-military organizations. 360pp, b/w illus, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 9781843834342, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £7.95 192pp, b/w and col illus, Fordham University Press, 2006, 9789089640314, Paperback, was £46.50 9780823225576, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Historic Mauchline Art, Artisans and On the Trail of Bosch Andrea Mantegna - Archaeology and Development Apprentices and Bruegel The Adoration of the By E. Patricia Dennison, Dennis Apprentice Painters and Sculptors in Four Paintings United Under Magi Gallagher and Gordon Ewart the Early Modern British Tradition Cross-examination By Dawson M. Carr This volume examines the By James Ayres By Erma Hermens Dawson Carr explores Mantegna's life development of Mauchline from its James Ayres provides a lively account The four paintings investigated in and milieu in fifteenth-century Padua medieval origins as a monastic estate of the inter-relationship between this book all depict Christ driving and provides a fascinating closer centre through its association with artists and artisans in the late 17th to the traders from the temple. They look at the painting itself, considering Burns to the present day. The authors early 19th centuries, in both Britain are alike yet different with echoes of Mantegna's innovative treatment look at the archaeological potential of key sites in the and North America. He demonstrates how the crafts of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch, but all of the subject, the relationship of the narrative to the town, to direct more detailed research and further the the visual arts were once acquired via apprenticeships were presumed to have been painted in Antwerp in the viewer, and problems associated with the conservation conservation of Mauchline’s heritage. in contradistinction to the aesthetic-based methods of 16th century. of its beautiful, but fragile, distemper medium. 70pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2006, later academies of art. 120pp, b/w and col illus, Archetype, 2012, 96pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publications, 2006, 9781902771595, Paperback, was £9.50 536pp, 136 b/w and colour illustrations, Oxbow Books, 9781904982784, Paperback, was £39.50 9780892362875, Paperback, was £16.99 2014, 9781782977421, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM POST-MEDIEVAL AND ART HISTORY BARGAINS • 47 Pontormo - The Visions of Paradise Michelangelo Making Renaissance Halberdier Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece Drawings and Other Treasures from Art By Elizabeth Cropper By Jennifer Sliwka the Casa Buonarroti, Florence By Kim W. Woods Much has been written about the Visions of Paradise showcases By Pina Ragionieri This book explores key themes in identity of the sitter in this portrait. new scholarly research on the This volume includes drawings the making of Renaissance painting, In 1568, Vasari noted that Pontormo monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by usually kept in storage to protect sculpture, architecture, and prints: painted a beautiful work, a portrait Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). them from exposure to damaging the use of specific techniques and of Francesco Guardi.In this volume, The painting, which depicts the light and air, among them sketches materials, theory and practice, change Cropper argues that the subject of Assumption of the Virgin, was made and preparatory studies for such and continuity in artistic procedures, the painting is indeed Francesco Guardi. She discusses for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Matteo important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici conventions and values. It also reconsiders the not only the specific determination of the sitter but the Palmieri (1406-1475). In addition to its religious content, tombs. It affords an extraordinary view of Michelangelo importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation tools and methods used in general for establishing the the altarpiece depicts a panoramic landscape that serves through personal sketches, writings, and studies from the of the antique revival, and the illusion of life. people and places portrayed in works of art. as a very early example of a "city portrait" of Florence. artist's notebooks. 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2006, 136pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publications, 2006, 112pp, col illus, National Gallery of Art, 2015, 152pp, col illlus, University of Washington Press, 2019, 9780300121896, Paperback, was £22.50 9780892363667, Paperback, was £14.99 9781857095944, Paperback, was £14.95 9780939802944, Hardback, was £25.99 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

Sebastiano Del Luxury for Export Titian Raphael and the Piombo Artistic Exchange Between India The Last Days Beautiful Banker A Venetian in Rome and Portugal Around 1600 By Mark Hudson By David Alan Brown and By Kia Vahland By Pedro Moura Carvalho Produced with his fingers as much as Jane Van Nimmen During his lifetime, painter Sebastiano By the early 1500s, the courts and with the brush, Titian's last paintings Focusing on viewers' responses del Piombo (ca. 1485-1547) was the cities of Europe had become avid are imbued with a unique rawness to Raphael's portrait of Bindo considered, along with Giorgione, consumers of luxury goods imported and immediacy without precedent Altoviti, this book describes the the great hope of the Venetian from South Asia. This book shows in the history of Western art. This transformation of the picture from School. His reputation has suffered how the trade in exotica spurred book describes artist's life and the a family treasure into a supposed from the disparagements of both Michelangelo and the development of an extraordinary hybrid art, at once devleopment of his work toward the physical and self-portrait of the artist; its public display in Munich, Vasari, however, and this book makes the case for his Indian and Portuguese. spiritual landscape of those last paintings. where it was first celebrated, then dismissed by sceptics importance, and status as an innovator. 77pp, col illus, Periscope Publications, 2009, 320pp, Walker and Company, 2009, 9780802710765, claiming that it was neither of nor by Raphael; and its 9781934772966, Hardback, was £12.99 Hardback, was £20.00 acquisition by canny English dealers who lured the panel 144pp, Hatje Cantz, 2008, 9783775721455, Hardback, out of Nazi Germany was £17.99 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 240pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2005, Now £5.95 9780300108248, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95

Velazquez and the The Dragon's Trail David After David Sculpture in Britain Surrender of Breda The Biography of Raphael's Edited by Mark Ledbury 1530-1830 The Making of a Masterpiece Masterpiece This important book explores By Margaret Whinney By Anthony Bailey By Joanna Pitman David's grand projects of the Empire This comprehensive survey of period and the often mysterious What began as propaganda art to Raphael's St. George and the sculpture in Britain from the works produced in his last years as a Reformation to the accession of celebrate a rare Spanish victory in Dragon is the work of a genius - political exile. It features twenty-one the Eighty Years' War with Holland, an exquisitely rendered vision of Queen Victoria aims to shed light essays that discuss these later works on English taste in the period. It The Surrender at Breda is today heroism and innocence by one of the in the aesthetic, political, and social recognized as Velázquez's narrative greatest painters of all time. Yet the examines the family tomb and the contexts of their production and portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in masterpiece. Anthony Bailey examines earlier treatments painting's creation is only the beginning of its fascinating reception. of the "surrender" subject to explore Velazquez's artistic story, which spans centuries of power play and intrigue, Britain at that time. innovations and the importance of the painting in his and has made it a witness to the rise and fall of the 376pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 522pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 1992, 9780300121513, Hardback, was £40.00 oeuvre. great powers of the Western world, from Henry VIII to 9780300053173, Hardback, was £40.00 Catherine the Great and Joseph Stalin. 288pp, b/w illus, col pls, Henry Holt, 2011, Now £9.95 Now £12.95 9780805088359, Hardback, was £20.00 310pp, Simon and Schuster, 2008, 9780743265140, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Verrocchio's David Illuminating Luke Delacroix and the Seeing Through Restored Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Matter of Finish Paintings A Renaissance Bronze from Renaissance and Baroque Painting Edited by Eik Kahng, Marc Gotlieb Physical Examination in the National Museum of By Heidi J. Hornik and and Michele Hannoosh Art Historical Studies the Bargello, Florence Mikael C. Parsons This groundbreaking publication By Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson By Gary M. Radke This book examines visual centres on a previously unknown This prize-winning book offers the representations of the public variation of Eugene Delacroix's only comprehensive discussion A well illustrated study of the history, (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece art, and significance of Verrocchio's ministry of Christ in scenes unique available on materials, techniques, to the Gospel of Luke. The book The Last Words of the Emperor and condition issues in Western David, along with the story of its Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time.The recent restoration in Florence. demonstrates how this 'visual exegesis' informed the easel paintings from medieval times to the present. "An contemporary faith community's interpretation of authors reinterpret Delacroix's lineage to such fellow 110pp, col illus, High Museum of Art, 2005, essential handbook for the pro, and also a beautifully Scripture. artists as Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) illustrated primer for the layperson". 9781932543001, Hardback, was £20.00 and Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) 208pp, b/w and col illus, T and T Clark, 2005, 344pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2002, Now £6.95 9780567028204, Paperback, was £34.99 168pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300094084, Paperback, was £35.00 9780300199444, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Imperial China Illuminating Luke European Tapestries in Viewing Renaissance The Art of The Horse in The Infancy Narrative in the Art Institute of Art Chinese History Italian Renaissance Painting Chicago Edited by Kim W. Woods, Carol M. By Bill Cooke By Heidi J. Hornik and Edited by Konrad Brosens and Richardson and Angeliki Lymberopoulou This exhibition catalogue contains Mikael C. Parsons Christa C. Mayer Thurman This book focuses on the values, numerous plates and illustrations, plus Through their close readings of This lavishly illustrated book priorities, and motives of patrons and a timeline and a useful introduction to famous paintings illustrating stories presents a rich variety of European the purposes and functions of art the horse in Chinese art and history. from Luke, the authors ask: How tapestries from the Art Institute of works produced north and south of 182pp, full col, Kentucky Horse Park, did Renaissance artists and their Chicago. These exquisite tapestries the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. 2000, 9781564690715, Paperback, was £18.99 patrons understand the gospel? And what traditions of include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, It begins by considering the social range and character faith guided them in translating biblical text and Church manufactured at almost all the major centers of of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Now £7.95 tradition into paint? production in many of the foremost workshops Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England 176pp, b/w and col illus, Trinity Press, 2003, 408pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2008, 9781563384059, Paperback, was £27.99 9780300119602, Hardback, was £40.00 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300123432, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Apollo and Vulcan Young Leonardo Locating Renaissance Views of Difference The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700 The Evolution of a Revolutionary Art Different Views of Art By Guido Guerzoni Artist, 1472-1499 By Carol M. Richardson Edited by Catherine E. King Dedicating equal attention to current By Jean-Pierre Isbouts and This book explores the dynamic In a fascinating series of case studies, thought in the fields of economics, Christopher Heath Brown interchange between European this book looks at the ways in which economic history, and art history, Isbouts and Brown depict Leonardo's artistic centers and artists and the European colonizers interpreted the Guerzoni offers a broad and far- seminal years in Milan from an trade in works of art. It also considers arts of the people they colonized, reaching analysis of the Italian scene, entirely new perspective: that of the the impact of differing locations as well the ways in which they have highlighting the existence of different Sforza court. They show that much of on art and artists and some of the tended to view art produced by the forms of commercial interchange and diverse kinds of the Sforza patronage was directed on vast projects, such economic, political, and cultural factors crucial to the colonized and their descendants in post-colonial times. art markets. In doing so he ranges beyond painting and as the Milan Cathedral, favoring a close circle of local emergence of an artistic center. 272pp, b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 1999, sculpture, to examine as well the economic drivers artists to which Leonardo never gained entry. As a result, 352pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300077643, Paperback, was £22.00 behind architecture, decorative and sumptuary arts, and his exceptional talent remained largely unrecognized 9780300121889, Paperback, was £19.95 performing or ephemeral events. right up to the Last Supper. Now £7.95 Now £7.95 384pp, col illus, Michigan State University Press, 2011, 240pp, Thomas Dunne Books, 2017, 9781250129352, 9781611860061, Hardback, was £49.50 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 48 • ART HISTORY BARGAINS WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350