OXBOW BOOK NEWS 100

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TO CELEBRATE OUR 100TH EDITION SEE INSIDE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £100 OF BOOKS Welcome to the 100th issue of the Oxbow Book News. The Book News, and indeed Oxbow Books itself, was started in 1983 by David Brown with the aim of providing information about the latest archaeology titles, and a convenient means of getting hold of them. 35 years later we have included over 50,000 books, and our goal remains exactly the same. The fact that we have made it this far is a testament to the vitality of archaeology as a discipline. New discoveries, scientific advances, and theoretical approaches ensure that our view of the past is one that is continually evolving, with new lines of enquiry opening up and old ones being revisited. It is also a testament to the loyalty and support of you, our customers, for which you have our profound thanks. To mark the 100th edition of Book News our editorial team have picked some of their favourite Oxbow titles from over the years, and we are offering them all at special prices – see the back and inside back covers for the selection. We are also giving away £100 of books (as well as some great runner-up prizes) – see overleaf for details. On a personal note, this is also the 30th issue of Book News which I have had the privilege of compiling. It has been an absolute pleasure to witness the continuous stream of new books appearing on my desk, and frequently I’ve given in to temptation and ended up buying them for myself. If I’ve learned nothing else, it is how to assemble a Billy bookcase! There have been so many superb books that we’ve featured that it is an almost impossible task, but if I had to pick just one to take to a desert island, it would be the British Library’s glorious facsimile of the Luttrell Psalter with its effusion of medieval life. Maybe that would be a luxury item, though, leaving a bonus book to pick too…

Cover Image From: The Bir Messaouda Basilica: Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage Edited by Richard Miles and Simon Greenslade Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2018

This issue of Oxbow Book News has been compiled by Mike Schurer © Oxbow Books 2018

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TO CELEBRATE REACHING THIS MILESTONE, WE’RE GIVING YOU THE CHANCE TO WIN £100 OF BOOKS. Three runners-up will receive an Oxbow publication of their choice. To be entered into the draw simply order using the form in the centre of the catalogue, or if ordering online or by phone by using the code BN100. The competition will close on 31st May 2018, and the winners will be drawn and notified at the beginning of June. We wish you the best of luck. General Interest 50 Finds from Warwickshire Fishing Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme How the Sea Fed Civilization By Angie Bolton By Brian Fagan Over 27,500 Warwickshire finds have been recorded Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, including and often overlooked element in the growth of worked stone from the Palaeolithic onwards, civilization. It sustainably provided enough food metalwork and pottery from the Bronze Age to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it through to recent times. This book focuses on 50 of did so with a different emphasis. Where agriculture them which us a glimpse into aspects of everyday encouraged stability, fishing demanded movement. life, including the economy, fashions, migration, It frequently required a search for new and better trade and home life. fishing grounds; its technologies, centred on boats, 96p, col illus (Amberley Publishing 2017) 9781445665146 facilitated movement and discovery; Pb £14.99 and fish themselves, when dried and salted, were the ideal food- 50 Finds from Oxfordshire lightweight, nutritious, and long- Only Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme lasting-for traders, travellers, £20.00 until By Anni Byard and conquering armies. 31st May Covering all periods of 368p, b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) human history and every 9780300215342 Hb £25.00 corner of the county, 50 Who Built Scotland Finds from Oxfordshire highlights some of the best A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings archaeological artefacts By Kathleen Jamie, Alistair Moffat, Alexander McCall found by ordinary members Smith, James Robertson & James Crawford of the public and recorded Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration of with the Portable Antiquities Scotland’s social, political and cultural histories. Scheme, from ancient hand Moving from Neolithic families, exiled hermits axes and Roman coins, to and ambitious royal dynasties to highland sheiling Saxon jewellery and Civil girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers War cannonballs. and iconoclastic artists, it places people, ideas 96p, 140 illus, unspecified (Amberley Publishing 2017) and passions at the heart of architecture and 9781445670744 Pb £14.99 archaeology. 336p b/w illus (Historic Scotland 2017) 9781849172240 Hb £20.00 Method and Theory Cyber-Archaeology and Grand The Archaeology of Time Travel Narratives Edited by Bodil Petersson & Cornelius J. Holtorf Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives Time travel experiences and associated social on Culture Change in the Middle East practices have become ubiquitous and popular, Edited by Thomas Levy & Ian Jones increasingly replacing more knowledge-orientated This volume asks how the current Information and critical approaches to the past. Papers discuss Technology Revolution influences archaeological the implications and problems associated with interpretations of techno-social change. The the ubiquity and popularity of time travelling and contributions are drawn from long-term regional whether time travel is inherently conservative studies employing a cyber-archaeology framework, because of its escapist tendencies, primarily in the southern Levant, and provide or whether it might instead be critical analysis of the interface between digital considered as a fulfilment of the Only contemporary Experience or methods and grand narratives of long-term techno- £30.50 until Dream Society. social change. 31st May 238p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017) 214p, (Archaeopress 2017) 9783319656922 Hb £61.99 9781784915001 Pb £38.00

2 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Public Archaeology and Climate The Bioarchaeology of Ritual Change and Religion Edited by Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías Edited by Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick & López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire Santiago Riera Mora This volume promotes Building on recent debates new approaches to surrounding, for instance, studying and managing performance, materiality sites threatened by climate and the false dichotomy change, specifically actions between ritualistic and that engage communities secular behaviour, this or employ ‘citizen science’ book investigates notions of initiatives. With examples ritual and religion through from across the globe, the lens of perishable this selection of 18 papers material culture. It explores details the scale of the the diverse roles of plant, problem through a variety animal and other organic of case studies. Contributors examine differing remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, responses and proactive methodologies for the sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and protection, preservation and recording of sites at worked artefacts. It also provides insights into risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new how archaeological science can shed light on the approaches can better engage people with sites reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing that are under increasing threat of destruction. of rituals. The temporal and geographical extends 208p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) across Europe from the Mediterranean and 9781785707049 Pb £38.00 Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. Understanding Ancient Fortifications 288p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) Between Regionality and Connectivity 9781785708282 Hb £45.00 Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz & Dirk P. Mielke Care or Neglect? In many regions of Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology Europe and beyond Edited by László Bartosiewicz & Erika Gál fortifications belong to This volume presents a the most impressive of collection of studies in archaeological remains. the discipline of animal However, fortifications are palaeopathology. An generally examined in a international team of temporally, regionally or experts offer reviews of Method and Theory culturally limited context. animal welfare at ancient Going a step further, this settlements from both volume aims to bring prehistoric and historic into focus concepts of periods across Eurasia. fortifications, which can be socially, symbolically Several chapters are or functionally, but also chronologically and devoted to the diseases supra-regionally aligned. An important question of dog and horse, two animals of prominent is to determine which fortification elements emotional importance in many civilisations. are culture-specific, and which can be regarded Curious phenomena observed on the bones of as convergence or even universal phenomena. poultry, sheep, pig and even fish are discussed Adopting a comparative view, the central aim of within their respective cultural contexts. Some the volume is to highlight the diversity and the animal bones show signs of extreme cruelty but structural similarities of ancient fortifications. The others also reveal the great attention paid to the chronological framework goes from the Neolithic recovery of sick animals. Such attitudes tend to be to the Late Iron Age, and the geographical scope a largely hidden yet are characteristic aspects of from the Ural steppes to the Iberian Peninsula. how people relate to the surrounding world and, 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785707483 Hb ultimately, to each other. £55.00 304p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708893 Pb £40.00

Method and Theory 3 Archaeological Soil and Sediment Homeless Heritage Micromorphology Collaborative Social Archaeology as By Cristiano Nicosia & Georges R. Stoops Therapeutic Practice This volume goes beyond a mere review of By Rachael Kiddey current literature and features the most up to date Homeless Heritage describes the process of using contributions from numerous scientists working in archaeological methodologies to collaboratively the field. The book represents a groundbreaking document how contemporary homeless people and comprehensive resource covering the plethora use and experience the city. Drawing on fieldwork of applications of micromorphology in archaeology. undertaken in Bristol and York, the book first It describes the range of special analytical tools describes the way in which archaeological methods employed on thin sections, such as SEM/EDS, and theory have come to be usefully applied image analysis, fluorescence microscopy, and mass to the contemporary world, before exploring spectrometry, among others. the historical development of the concept of 496p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781118941058 Hb £100.00 homelessness. Working with homeless people, the author undertook surveys and two excavations of Applied Soils and Micromorphology contemporary homeless sites, and the team co- in Archaeology curated two public heritage exhibitions. By Richard Macphail & Paul Goldberg 240p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198746867 Hb £65.00 This volume provides the Archaeological Approaches to most up-to-date information on soil science and its Breaking Boundaries applications in archaeology. Interaction, Integration and Division It demonstrates how Edited by Rebecca O’Sullivan, Christina Marini & description protocols and Julia Binnberg complimentary methods These papers cover a range of periods and regions, (SEM/EDS, microprobe, but all share the focus of bridging boundaries, micro-FTIR, bulk soil whether these are theoretical, methodological chemistry, micro – and or geographic. Some contributors traverse macrofossils) are used traditional divisions between subjects by integrating in interpretations. It also computational approaches with early excavation focuses on key topics, such as palaeosols, cultivation, data or archaeology with historical sources to and occupation surfaces, and introduces a range of produce ‘thick interpretations’ of the past. Several current issues, such as site inundation, climate papers approach the past as a bilateral process, change, settlement morphology, herding, trackways, examining how people shaped and were in return industrial processes, funerary features, and site shaped by their interactions with the world around transformation. them. Others directly tackle the modern political 580p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107011380 Hb divides that influence our research. £85.00, 9781107648685 Pb £34.99 341p (BAR 2869, 2017) 9781407315133 Pb £51.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Geology for Archaeologists A short introduction By J.R.L. Allen This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology. Sections include coverage of main rock-forming minerals and classes of rocks. Geological maps and structures are introduced, and the elements of geological stratigraphy and dating are explained and related to archaeological experience. Fluvial and coastal environments are important archaeological landscapes and their formation processes, sediments and topography are outlined. Stone for building, implement-making, tool-making, and making mortar are all discussed, followed by an introduction to clays and Only ceramics. A final chapter introduces metallurgical landscapes: £20.00 until metalliferous ores, mining and smelting, and metal-making industries. Each chapter ends with a short reading list, and 31st May many have selected case-histories in illustration of the points made. Included is a glossary of technical terms. 148p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916879 Pb £25.00

4 Method and Theory Dwelling Reading the Bones Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality Activity, Biology, and Culture By Philip Tonner By Elizabeth Weiss This volume negotiates the discourses of What can bones tell us about past lives? Do different phenomenology, archaeology and palaeo- bone shapes, sizes, and injuries reveal more about anthropology in order to extend the `dwelling people’s genes or about their environments? perspective’, an approach in the social sciences that Elizabeth Weiss assembles evidence from developed out of an engagement with the thought of anthropological work, medical and sports studies, Martin Heidegger. Tonner reads Heidegger’s thought occupational studies, genetic twin studies, and of dwelling in connection to recent developments in animal research to illuminate which markers are the archaeology of mortuary practice amongst our mainly due to human biology and which are truly ancestors. useful in reconstructing lifestyle patterns of the past. 224p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138705425 Hb 188p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2017) 9780813054988 Hb £105.00 £90.95 Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Mortal Wounds Heritage The Human Skeleton as Evidence for Conflict Edited by Paul Newson & Ruth Young in the Past This volume draws together a series of papers from By Martin Smith archaeological and heritage professionals seeking This book brings together a wealth of recently positive, pragmatic and practical ways to deal recognised evidence from preserved human with conflict-damaged sites. It shows that conflict- skeletons to investigate the ways human beings damaged cultural heritage and archaeological sites have used violence to achieve their aims, from the are a valuable resource rather than an inevitable early Stone Age to the 19th century. Aimed at the casualty of war, and suggests that archaeologists use general reader, it addresses questions such as: Who their skills and knowledge to apply good practice, engaged in violence? How have styles and objectives protocols and procedures to bring communities of conflict changed over time? How old is war and together and give them identity and ownership of why did it appear when it did? their cultural heritage. 290p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473823181 Hb 320p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138296565 Pb £25.00 £29.99 Exploring Sex and Gender in Scribbling through History Bioarchaeology Graffiti, Places and People from Antiquity Edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal & Julie K. Wesp to Modernity Contemporary bioarchaeologists have begun to Edited by Chloe Ragazzoli, Omur Harmansah, Chiara challenge the theoretical and methodological Salvador & Elizabeth Frood basis for sex assignment from the skeleton. This book addresses graffiti practices, in cultures Simultaneously, they have started to consider the ranging from ancient China and Egypt through early cultural construction of the gendered body and modern Europe to modern Turkey, in illustrated gender roles, recognizing the body as uniquely short essays by specialists. It proposes a holistic fashioned from the interaction of biological, social, approach to graffiti as a cultural practice that plays and environmental factors. As the contributors a key role in crucial aspects of human experience to this volume reveal, combining skeletal data and how they can be understood. with contextual information can provide a richer 264p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781474288811 Hb understanding of life in the past. £85.00 312p (University of New Mexico Press 2017) 9780826352583 Hb £87.50 Material Worlds Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road A World View of Bioculturally to Modernity Modified Teeth Edited by Barbara J. Heath, Eleanor E. Breen & Lori Edited by Scott E. Burnett & Joel D. Irish A. Lee This volume explores the wide spectrum of Material Worlds examines consumption from an intentional dental modification in humans across archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the the globe over the past 16,000 years. Contributors intersection of social relations and objects through discuss how to distinguish between purposeful the processes of production, distribution, use, modifications of teeth and normal wear and tear reuse, and discard. The focus is on North America or disease and demonstrate what patterns of tooth from the seventeenth through the early twentieth modification can reveal about people and their centuries. cultures in the past and present. 312p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138101142 Hb 336p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2017) 9780813054834 Pb £110.00 £110.00 Method and Theory 5 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Manipulations Post-mortem du Corps Humain Market as Place and Space of Economic Exchange By Jennifer Kerner This volume includes the study of double- Perspectives from Archaeology and funeral ceremonies and manipulations of human Anthropology bones in funerary or ritual contexts and also Edited by Hans Peter Hahn & Geraldine Schmitz complicated pre-funerary treatments (exposure, In the context of commo- dismemberment, mummification) in a transcultural dification, material culture and transchronological perspective. Human remains has particular properties and spatial data from archaeological contexts hitherto considered have been analysed using bioanthropological and irrelevant or neglected. traceological approaches in order to reconstruct First, the market is a spatial complex mortuary operating sequences. structure, assigning special French Text, 400p, col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) properties to the things 9789088905445 Hb £180.00, 9789088905438 Pb £60.00, offered: the goods and NYP commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle AP2017: 12th International Conference of dealing with things, of Archaeological Prospection including them in some contexts, excluding them Edited by Benjamin Jennings, Christopher Gaffney, from others. The contributions to Market as Thomas Sparrow & Sue Gaffney Place and Space address a variety of aspects of This volume draws together over 100 papers markets within the framework of archaeological addressing archaeological prospection techniques, and anthropological case studies methodologies and case studies from around the and with a special focus on the world. Particular attention is focused on emerging indicators of practices attached Only techniques and technologies in the to the commodities and their £28.50 until fields of inter-tidal and marine valuation. publication archaeological prospection, and Only 240p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) low altitude archaeological 9781785708930 Pb £38.00 prospection. £28.00 until Making Journeys 288p, b/w illus, col pls 31st May Archaeologies of Movement (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916770 Pb £35.00 Edited by Catriona Gibson, Catherine Frieman & Kerri Cleary A Brief History of Everyone Who One route into exploring Ever Lived mobility in the past may By Adam Rutherford be through exploring the movements and biographies In this captivating journey through the expanding of artefacts. Discrete landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals and bounded ‘sites’ still what our genes now tell us about human history, dominate archaeological and what history can now tell us about our genes. inquiry, leaving the spaces From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to and connectivities between race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, features and settlements this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait unmapped. These are linked of who we are and how we came to be. to an under-explored middle- 432p, (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2017) 9781780229072 spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between Pb £9.99 everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. This collection of papers explores how these travels Innovative Approaches and involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, Explorations in Ceramic Studies objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing Edited by Sandra L. Lopez Varela and re-crossing cultural, contextual This volume celebrates thirty years of the and tenurial boundaries, such Ceramic Ecology symposium. Contributions in journeys could create diasporic Only this volume explore the application and novel communities, ideas of instrumental techniques and and materialities. £30.00 until experimental studies to analyse Only 256p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) publication ceramics and follow innovative 9781785709302 Pb £40.00 approaches to evaluate methods £23.00 until and theories. 31st May 150p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917364 Pb £28.00 6 Method and Theory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies Metals, Minds and Mobility Edited by Colin Renfrew, Iain Morley & Michael Boyd Integrating Scientific Data with Archaeological Theory This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times Edited by Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso until the development of early religion in the Near & Mike Charlton East, in China, in Peru, in Mesoamerica and beyond. Metals, Minds and It demonstrates the profound role of play, ritual and Mobility seeks to integrate belief systems and offer powerful new insights into archaeometallurgical data the emergence of early societies. with archaeological theory 360p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107143562 to address longstanding Hb £90.00 questions about mechanisms of exchange, mobility Tracing History Through Title Deeds and social complexity in A Guide for Family and Local Historians prehistory. Bringing together By Nat Alcock many leading expert contributions address topics This book is a thoroughly revised and updated that include the invention, successor to Nat Alcock’s Old Title Deeds. Alcock innovation and transmission of metallurgical outlines the use and value of deeds, how to access knowledge; archaeometric based models of information from record offices and online archives, exchange; characterization and discrimination and how to extract historical evidence from deeds. of different modes of material circulation; and His steers the reader through examples of fines, the impact of metals on social complexity. The 13 court rolls, bonds, quitclaims and transferences of papers are organised in three main sections dealing property dating from the 12th to 20th century. with key debates in archaeology: transmission of 224p b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781526703453 Pb metallurgical technologies, knowledge and ideas; £14.99 prestige economies and exchange; and circulation of metal as commodities and concludes A Life in Norfolk Archaeology with a review current approaches, Archaeology of an arable landscape 1950–2016 situating the volume in a broader By Peter Wade-Martins Only context and identifying future This is a history of archaeological endeavour in research directions. £36.00 until Norfolk set within a national context. It covers the 242p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books publication writer’s early experiences as a volunteer, the rise 2018) 9781785709050 Hb £48.00 of field archaeology as a profession and efforts to conserve the archaeological heritage, including the growth of rescue archaeology both in towns and in the countryside. The last section covers the recent The Oxford Handbook of Food History growth of the Norfolk Archaeological Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher Trust as an owner of some of the The twenty-seven essays in most iconic rural sites in Norfolk. The book concludes with a Only this book are organized into £20.00 until five sections: historiography, discussion of some issues facing disciplinary approaches, British field archaeology today. 31st May production, circulation, 404p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress and consumption of food. 2017) 9781784916572 Pb £24.99 Each section balances Photographing Historic Buildings material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, By Steve Cole whether juxtaposing This book looks at what motivates us to take questions of agriculture and photographs and at some of the methods of using the environment with the the camera to do so successfully. It also examines notion of cookbooks as historical documents; early some standards that should be applied to the human migrations with modern culinary tourism; photographs that we take of buildings to ensure or religious customs with social activism. that they will be useful documents in the record 344p (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2017) 9780199729937 Hb of the historic environment. Illustrated throughout £127.50, 9780190628246 Pb £37.99 with examples of good and bad practice, this book sets out techniques and strategies in a simple and straightforward way for those who want to make their photographs of buildings truly effective. 257p col illus (Historic England 2017) 9781848022690 Pb £20.00 Method and Theory 7 Isotopic Investigations of Pastoralism Megadrought and Collapse in Prehistory From Early Agriculture to Angkor Edited by Alicia R. Miller & Cheryl Makarewicz Edited by Harvey Weiss Drawing from the rich archaeological records This book explores of Asia, Africa, and Europe, this volume brings the palaeoclimatic and together the latest studies employing heavy and archaeological evidence light stable isotopic analyses of humans and for megadrought events animals to investigate pastoralist diets, movement, coincident with major and animal management strategies. Particular historical examples of attention is paid to how pastoralist decisions societal collapse. Included regarding animal pasturing and mobility can be are nine case studies that teased out of complex isotopic data sets, and also span the globe and stretch to the challenges in extracting information on the over fourteen thousand scales of human mobility in pastoralist landscapes. years, from the Palaeolithic 368p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138308589 Hb hunter-gatherer collapse of £105.00 the 12th millennium BC to the 15th century AD fall of the Khmer capital The Donkey in Human History at Angkor. The megadrought data are derived An Archaeological Perspective from all five archival paleoclimate proxy sources: By Peter Mitchell lake, marine, and glacial cores, speleothems (cave stalagmites), and tree rings. Donkeys were probably the first animals that 344p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199329199 Hb people ever rode, as well £47.99 as the first used on a large- Lithic Technological Organization scale as beasts of burden. Spanning the globe and and Paleoenvironmental Change extending from the donkey’s Global and Diachronic Perspectives initial domestication up to Edited by Erick Robinson the present, this book uses The objective of this edited volume is to bring archaeological evidence, together a diverse set of analyses to document in combination with how small-scale societies responded to insights from history and paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence anthropology, to resituate of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring the donkey (and its hybrid together an international forum for interpreting offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of changes in technological organization – embracing human history, looking not just at what donkeys a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and mules did, but also at how people have thought and methodological approaches. about and understood them. 341p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017) 320p, (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198749233 Hb £65.00 9783319644059 Hb £88.00 Heritage Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Marine Archaeology’s Greatest Threat? Management By Sean A. Kingsley Edited by Francis P. McManamon The profound threat of the global fishing industry This book describes the historic developments, remains a black hole in marine archaeology, poorly current challenges, and future opportunities understood and unmanaged. Fishing and Shipwreck presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Heritage is the first global analysis of the threat of Management (CRM). The chapters provide bottom fishing to underwater cultural heritage, perspectives on the methods, policies, and examining the diversity, scale and implications procedures of historical and contemporary CRM. on endangered finds and sites. Throughout, the Recommendations are provided on current practices key questions of whether it is too late to save the likely to be effective in the coming decades. planet’s three million wrecks and how sustainable 336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138101128 Hb management is achievable are debated. £105.00 176p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2015, Pb 2017) 9781472573605 Hb £60.00, 9781350037069 Pb £28.99

8 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Chemicals and Methods for Conservation and Restoration Culture and Perspective at Times Paintings, Textiles, Fossils, Wood, Stones, of Crisis Metals, and Glass State Structures, Private Initiative and By Johannes Karl Fink the Public Character of Heritage This book focuses on the chemicals used for By Ioannis Poulios, Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos conservation and restoration of various artefacts Vavouranakis & Pavlina Raouzaiou in artwork and archaeology, as well as special Culture and Perspective applications of these materials. Also the methods deals with a variety of key used, both methods for cleaning, conservation and aspects concerning heritage restoration, as well as methods for the analysis of management at times of the state of the respective artefacts. Topics include crisis and specifically with oil paintings, paper conservation, textiles and dyes the public character of for them, archaeological wood, fossils, stones, cultural heritage. Special, metals and metallic coins, and glasses, including but not exclusive emphasis, church windows. is on the case of Greece. 304p b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119418245 In order to understand, Hb £156.00 evaluate and reconsider the role of the state in heritage Natter’s Museum Britannicum management, contributors address a series of British gem collections and collectors of issues including the downgrading and shrinking the mid-eighteenth century of state structures, which have been the dominant By John Boardman, Julia Kagan & Claudia Wagner mechanisms in heritage management; the upgrading and expansion of the role of private initiative towards The German gem-engraver and amateur scholar covering the gap created by the insufficiency of the Lorenz Natter (1705 – 1763), was so impressed by the state; the public character of heritage, in terms size and quality of the collections of ancient and of ownership as well as access; and later engraved gems which he found in Britain that finally the synergies between state he proposed the publication of an extraordinarily structures and private initiatives ambitious catalogue – Museum Britannicum. Only in view of the public character On Natter’s death the single copy of his magnum of heritage. £30.00 until opus vanished mysteriously, presumed lost, until publication rediscovered in 1975. This is the first comprehensive 208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books publication of Museum Britannicum, offering full 2018) 9781785708596 Hb £40.00 discussion in English and presenting Natter’s drawings and comments alongside modern information Only on the gems that can be The Conservation and Presentation identified and located through £44.00 until of Mosaics fresh research. 31st May At What Cost? 316p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress By Jeanne Marie Teutonico, Leslie Friedman & Roberto 2017) 9781784917272 Hb £55.00 Nardi This handsome, Museum Storage and Meaning abundantly illustrated Tales from the Crypt proceedings volume Edited by Kavita Singh & Mirjam Brusius provides a comprehensive This book critically examines the physical space record of the twelfth of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical triennial meeting of the fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of International Committee publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects for the Conservation of deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for Mosaics. Its papers reflect display. In doing so, it explores issues including the the conference’s principal relationship between storage and canonization, the themes: cost, methods of politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as survey and documentation, a form of censorship, the architectural character conservation and management, education and of storage space, and the economic and epistemic training, backing materials and techniques, value of museum objects. presentation and display, and case studies. Papers 312p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138065970 Hb are presented either in English, French, or Italian. £105.00 422p col illus (Getty Trust Publications 2017) 9781606065334 Hb £75.00

Heritage 9 Landscape Trees in England NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Management and disease since 1600 New Forest By Tom Williamson, Gerry Barnes & ToBy Pillatt The Forging of a Landscape There is currently much concern about our trees and By Hadrian Cook woodlands. But the present Provides an historical state of our trees needs to narrative of the be examined critically, and occupation and use of from an historical as much as a vast area that was, for from a scientific perspective. centuries, important For English tree populations as a Royal Hunting have long been highly Forest and subject to unnatural in character, many contentious laws shaped by economic and regulations, but and social as much as by which includes much environmental factors. In reality, the recent history economically marginal of trees and woods in England is more complex land. Four critical themes and less negative than we often assume and any are explored through time: the shaping of the narrative of decline and loss is overly simplistic. natural environment into human prehistory; The results of an ambitious research project are human intervention through natural resource here shaped into a richly detailed survey of English Human Evolution management; governance and management arboriculture over the last four centuries. of the forest over time, stressing pressures on 256p, 61 full col illus (University of Hertfordshire Press resources and attempts at exclusion of certain 2017) 9781909291966 Pb £16.99 social groups; and policies and designations to conserve the New Forest. Cook aims to reflect An Anthropology of Landscape a complicated narrative around the evolution The Extraordinary in the Ordinary caused by changing management and economic By Christopher Tilley & Kate Cameron-Daum objectives reflecting governance arrangements at different times. An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west 232p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2017) England and the way different individuals and 9781911188193 Pb £34.99 groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. 346p, 203 illus, unspecified (UCL Press 2017) 9781911307440 Pb £22.99 EDITOR’S CHOICE Ancient Oaks In the English landscape By Aljos Farjon England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This story goes back to the Norman conquest and the creation of Royal Forests, chases and deer parks. This was, if you like, an early form of nature conservation, but for the sake of privileged hunting. Modernisation of forestry in England only took hold after 1920, and by that stage too late to destroy all of the old and worthless hollow trees. In this book Aljos Farjon combines Only history with science and tells the story of how ancient £25.00 until oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past 31st May 1000 years, using data made available by ‘citizen science’ (data gathered by volunteers across the country), and accompanied by photography as well as graphs and maps. 400p col illus (Kew Publishing 2017) 9781842466407 Hb £30.00

10 Landscape Landscape in the Longue Durée Walking into the Void Landscape A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled A Historical Sociology and Political Heathland Landscape Anthropology of Walking By Christopher Tilley By Arpad Szakolczai & Agnes Horvath Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4000 year The book starts by discussing the significance history of pebbles from the Bronze Age to the of walking for the experience of being human, twenty-first century, based on the results of a including a comparative study of the language and four-year archaeological excavation of a unique cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail two landscape in the UK consisting entirely of pebbles. turning points of human history: the emergence of Christopher Tilley asks that we re-think long- cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of term continuity and change in a radically new long-distance `pilgrimages’; and the abandonment way by considering embodied relations between of walking culture through settlement at the people, things and landscapes in relation to the end of the Ice Age, around the time when the temporalizing practices of people in particular visiting of cave sanctuaries also stopped. The book social and historical circumstances. closes by exploring the ambivalent relationship of 498p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2017) 9781787350823 Pb contemporary modernity to walking. £27.99 240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138214491 Pb £29.99 Human Evolution Crossing the Human Threshold Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places Early Humans and the Origins of Religion during the Middle Pleistocene By E. Fuller Torrey Edited by Clive Gamble, Matthew Pope & Beccy Scott Using data ranging from ancient skulls and This volume explores in a global overview the artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 development studies, this book traces how new to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviours. For cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to that the human threshold was crossed slowly, by a project ourselves backward and forward in time, variety of human ancestors, and was not confined gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. to one part of the Old World. The book focuses on However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, the emergence of persistent places, and associated spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the details the neurobiological sequence that control of fire, represented across the Old World by explains why the gods appeared when they did, deeply stratified cave sites. connecting archaeological findings including 336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138217782 Hb clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive £105.00 developments. 312p, (Columbia UP 2017) 9780231183369 Hb £27.95 The Social Origins of Language By Robert M. Seyfarth & Dorothy L. Cheney Religion in Human Evolution In the lead essay in this new exploration of the From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age origins of human language, Robert Seyfarth and By Robert N. Bellah Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long Robert Bellah identifies a range of cultural pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, the wild to show how primates use vocalizations and theorizing, whose emergence made this to modulate social dynamics. They argue that religious development possible. Deploying the key elements of human language emerged from latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and the need to decipher and encode complex social evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion interactions. In other words, social communication of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to is the biological foundation upon which evolution the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium B.C.E.), built more complex language. Seyfarth and when individuals and groups in the Old World Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for challenged the norms and beliefs of class societies responses from experts in linguistics, neuroscience, ruled by kings and aristocracies. philosophy, and psychology. 784p (Harvard UP 2011, Pb 2017) 9780674975347 Pb 184p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691177236 Hb £27.95 £19.95

11 British Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Written in Stone Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick Edited by Ruth Shaffrey This book brings together papers from 22 of Rhythms of Life on Iron Age Unst the UK’s archaeologists investigating the stone By Olivia Lelong objects that were fundamental to the daily lives The Iron Age settlement at of prehistoric people. Four sections provide an Milla Skerra was occupied introduction, and cover artefacts ranging from for at least 500 years before axeheads, maceheads and battle axes to querns, it was covered with storm- jewellery and loomweights. The use of material such blown sand and abandoned. as beach resources and chalk is also considered. Excavation revealed many 300p, 40 (The Highfield Press 2017) 9780992633684 Hb details of the life of the £55.00, NYP settlement and how it was reused over many The Chambered Tombs of the Isle generations. From the middle of Man of the 1st millennium BC A study by Audrey Henshall 1971–1978 people were constructing Edited by Frances Lynch & Peter Davey stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants This is the first book ever devoted to the chambered built a house on top, with a paved floor and tombs of the Isle of Man. Work on this book was successive hearths. Outside were new yards and begun in the 1960s by Audrey Henshall. It has been workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were edited and brought up to date for publication by remodelled several times. Thousands of artefacts Frances Lynch and Peter Davey and contains a and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal comprehensive study of previous work the everyday practices and seasonal on the tombs, new plans and rhythms of the people that lived in commentary on each site, and this windswept and remote island also a review of the associated Only settlement and their connections Only finds from excavation. £24.00 until to both land and sea. £18.75 until 180p, b/w and col illus 31st May 144p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784914684 Books 2018) 9781785703430 Hb Pb £30.00 £25.00 Life, Death and Landscape on the Abbeytown Ridge in the 2nd and 3rd Millennium BC Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts By David Jackson & Damion Churchill The Don Drainage Basin in Prehistory This book presents excavations at two sites on the By Tim Cockrell Solway Plain. At New Cowper a spread of artefacts In this book, largely reveals hints of human habitation from the end of unpublished data is used the Ice Age to potentially the early medieval period. for the first time in a work At OverBy, about a kilometre away, the Bronze Age of synthesis to reconstruct time span is more compact, and there it is possible, the prehistory of the earliest even at this distance in time, to discern suggestions communities across the of a single potter working on at least two of the River Don drainage basin vessels found on site. of South Yorkshire and 114p b/w illus (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian the North Midlands. The & Archaeological Society 2017) 9781873124765 Pb £15.00 author uses a relational approach to account for the Early Bronze Age Round Barrows complex and sophisticated of the Anglo-Welsh Border interaction between people and materiality. The By Neal Johnson author concludes that a region that was the centre This research focuses on the Early Bronze Age of dynamic interaction between round barrows of the central and northern Anglo- mobile groups in its earliest phase Welsh borderlands. The topographical context of gave way to a pastoral lifestyle Only a series of barrow clusters is examined in detail facilitated by extensive wetlands. to demonstrate subtle but important differences 236p, b/w and col illus £26.00 until in how these monuments were placed in the (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917012 31st May landscape. Pb £32.00 176p, (BAR BS 632, 2017) 9781407315966 Pb £35.00 12 Bronze Age Monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo- NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Saxon Landscapes at Cambridge Road, A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape Bedford Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle By Andy Chapman & Pat Chapman Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway Open area excavation was carried out in 2004-5 in By Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone advance of development. Two Early Bronze Age Cults Loch, at Castle ring ditches sat on a low lying gravel ridge between Kennedy in Dumfries & the River Great Ouse and the Elstow Brook. A Galloway, Scotland, loch causewayed ring ditch, 30m in diameter, had a lies within a landscape broad entrance to the southwest, where a shallow rich in prehistoric length of ditch either silted or had been filled in. cropmark sites and Adjacent to the shallow ditch was a pit containing within the loch itself three Middle Bronze Age crouched are two crannogs, one of burials, while a nearBy small which has been the focus round barrow enclosed a deep Only of this study. The Cults central grave containing the £24.00 until Loch crannog is only the crouched burial of a woman. 31st May second prehistoric site 160p (Archaeopress 2017) in Scotland to be dated by dendrochronology 9781784916046 Pb £30.00 and analysis has revealed the very short duration of activity on the crannog in the Hillforts and the Durotriges middle of the 5th century BC. The wealth of A geophysical survey of Iron Age Dorset well-preserved evidence from the crannog, By Dave Stewart & Miles Russell particularly the rich ecofactual assemblages, This volume sets out the results of a detailed as well as the higher chronological resolution programme of non-intrusive geophysical survey possible through the dendro-dating of conducted across the Dorset hillforts, generating waterlogged timbers, are brought to bear on detailed subsurface maps of archaeological features, our understanding of the evidence from the in the hope of better resolving the phasing, form cropmark sites around the loch. and internal structure of these iconic sites. The 304p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) dataset presented here not only helps to change 9781785703737 Hb £30.00 our perception of what hillforts were, how they functioned and what went on within them, but also provides a way of assessing their longevity, reconsidering how they were perceived and reused in Only subsequent periods. £24.00 until 186p, b/w illus, 115 col pls 31st May (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917159 Pb £30.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Stonehenge The Story So Far By Julian Richards Starting with a clear explanation of the structures of earth and stone that go to make up this enigmatic monument, this books charts the ways that Stonehenge has been visited, seen, explored and understood since medieval times. The excavations of the 20th century, part triumph, part disaster, are explained in detail as they are the foundations for our understanding of Stonehenge’s origins and development. The story that is told here is right up to date, including the results of the latest investigations in the landscape in 2016. This book then goes on to tackle the big questions: Who Only built Stonehenge? How was it built? And, perhaps the most £20.00 until difficult – Why was it built? In these chapters Julian takes a practical and critical look at some of the current ideas, trying 31st May to get into the minds and world of our prehistoric ancestors. 352p col illus (Historic England 2017) 9781848021006 Hb £25.00 British Prehistory 13 European Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Language & Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples Neolithic Bodies Edited by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Edited by Penny Bickle & Emilie Sibbesson Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen Papers are divided into This volume explores the arrival of Uralic and three themes; living bodies, Indo-European settlers in Europe, on the origins of the body in death and their languages, their customs, and pantheon. The the representation of the contributors are historical linguists, archaeologists body. In the first section, and geneticists; some interpret actual scientific papers present new findings, others go to the core of the methodology research assessing skeletal applied in the various subfields. evidence, alongside new 350p, col & b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2017) interpretations of the body 9788763545310 Hb £53.50 in the Southern British Neolithic to examine the The Middle Paleolithic Site of Pech lived experience of the body de l’Aze IV in the Neolithic. The second theme illustrates the variety of approaches arising from the Edited by Shannon McPherron & Harold Lewis Dibble study of death and burial. The third Pech de l’Aze IV is part of a complex of Lower theme examines the body as it and Middle Paleolithic cave sites in the Dordogne, is represented in Neolithic art, regularly occupied by groups of Neanderthals from through artefacts and the stone Only approximately 100,000 to 40,000 BP. This volume stele found in Western and £30.00 until provides comprehensive information on excavations Mediterranean Europe. publication both by Francois Bordes in the 1970s, and more 224p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) recently by the authors and their scientific team. It 9781785709012 Pb £40.00 presents detailed material on the formation of the site, its chronology and the nature of the hominin The Earliest Europeans - a Year occupations. in the Life 236p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017) Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic 9783319575223 Hb £100.00 By Rob Hosfield The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic The Earliest Europeans Transition in Northwestern Europe explores the early origins of man in Europe through the By Ann Van Baelen perspective of ‘a year in the Brickyard-quarrying activities at Kesselt-Op de life’: how hominins in the Schans (Limburg, Belgium) led to the discovery Lower Palaeolithic coped and excavation of a well-preserved early Middle with the year-round practical Palaeolithic level. The present volume offers a challenges of mid-latitude comprehensive report on the site, set against a wider Europe with its distinctive northwestern European context. An in-depth study temperatures, seasonality of the lithic assemblage, including an extensive patterns, and available refitting analysis, provides detailed information on resources. Using a season-by the technological behaviour of prehistoric hominins -season chapter structure to in the Meuse basin during this crucial time period. explore, for example, the contrasting demands and 250p, b/w figs (Leuven UP 2017) 9789462700987 Pb opportunities of winter versus summer survival, £52.00 Hosfield explores how foods and other resources would vary across the four seasons in quantity Espacio gráfico, visibilidad y tránsito and quality, and the resulting implications for cavernario / Graphic Space, Visibility hominin behaviours. by testing the likelihood and Cave Transit of different scenarios by comparing short-term, By Blanca Ochoa site-based insights with long-term, The primary goal of this book is to determine regional trends, Hosfield is able whether there are convergences or divergences in to out forward ideas on how Only the positioning of cave art, through the combined our earliest European ancestors study of the parietal art and the specific space in survived and what their lives £11.99 until publication which it was executed, focusing on eight sites in the were like. Cantabrian region. 160p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2018) Spanish text. 480p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2875, 2017) 9781785707612 Pb £15.99 9781407316154 Pb £83.00 14 Recorded Places, Experienced Places Times of Neolithic Transition along The Holocene Rock Art of the Iberian Atlantic the Western Mediterranean North-West Edited by Oreto Garcia Puchol & Domingo Carlos Edited by Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Manuel Santos Salazar Garcia Estevez, Hugo A. Sampaio & Daniela Cardoso This volume focuses on investigating the This book springs from 2013 and 2014 Enardas neolithisation process at the periphery of one of Colloquia. Papers are grouped in four parts: the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Concepts and tools to study rock art; From sub- Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent naturalistic to Schematic rock art tradition, which advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and discusses various expressions of recorded art in computational models, archaeometric analysis the hinterland area of northwest Iberia, as well and biomolecular techniques, together with new as expressions of the schematic art tradition from archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights north-central Portugal; Atlantic tradition rock art; into this topic. and Other styles. 417p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017) 222p b/w and col illus (BAR 2878, 2017) 9781407314846 9783319529370 Hb £88.00 Pb £46.00 Submerged Landscapes of the Rock Art and the Wild Mind European Continental Shelf Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe Quaternary Paleoenvironments By Ingrid Fuglestvedt Edited by Jan Harff, Nicholas Coit Flemming, Delminda Rock Art and the Wild Moura, Anthony Burgess & Geoffrey N. Bailey Mind presents a study of This volume examines the Mesolithic rock art on the drowned landscapes exposed Scandinavian Peninsula, as extensive and attractive including the large rock art territory for prehistoric sites in Alta, Namforsen and human settlement during the Vingen. The various types Ice Ages of the Pleistocene. It of compositions are defined provides an overview of the as visual thematisations of geological, geomorphological, the enigmatic relationship climatic and sea-level history between human and big of the European continental game. The transition from shelf as a whole, as well as ‘animic’ to ‘totemic’ rock a series of detailed regional art is traced and interpreted as representing an reviews. The nature and variable attractions of increasing focus on human society towards the end the landscapes and resources available for human of the Mesolithic. exploitation are examined, as are the conditions 448p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138090538 Hb under which archaeological sites and landscape £105.00 features are likely to have been preserved, destroyed or buried by sediment during sea-level rise. 552p (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781118922132 Hb £80.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE On the Ocean The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500 By Barry Cunliffe Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas – the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Only Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the £24.00 until ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the 31st May contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history. 480p, 220 illus, 114 Maps (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198757894 Hb £30.00 European Prehistory 15 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Storie di Paesaggi e Uomini Alle Pendici del Mont Fallere Nell’olocene The Times of their Lives Antico e Medio Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe Edited by Luca V. M. Raiteri The aim of the research project here presented By Alasdair Whittle was to investigate prehistoric occupations in the The Times of their Lives Mont Fallère district (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) and explains how archaeologists to reconstruct the main phases of the Holocene can now move away from environmental history of the area. The research thinking about history in highlighted the fact that the area was settled by terms of thousands of years, Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups, but it also to periods from one or two yielded evidence of the vertical transhumance centuries down to lifetimes practices that occurred during the Copper Age (4th and generations — a little millennium BC). more than two decades. This vastly improved precision Italian text. 146p (BAR 2866, 2017) 9781407315577 Pb comes from the application £29.00 of Bayesian chronological Elements of Continuity frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon Stone Cult in the Maltese Islands dates. This book shows how temporally much more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, By George Azzopardi across a broad range of contexts and situations. It The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural offers a series of case studies across much of the (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural, material continent, to provide much more precise timings of representations of divine presence that are also key features and trends in the European Neolithic worshipped. Worship of stones in representation of sequence than are currently available, and to divine presence is found on the Maltese islands since construct much more precise estimates of the prehistoric times. But the practice survived several duration of events and phenomena. From these centuries under different cultures represented there is the possibility to open up new insights into by unknown communities during the islands’ the tempo of change through the detailed study prehistory and the Phoenicians / Carthaginians and of selected sites and situations across the span of the Romans in early historic times. the European Neolithic, from the sixth to the early 106p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916954 Pb third millennia cal BC. At stake is £18.00 our ability to study the lives of Vida y Muerte en el Asentamiento del Neolithic people everywhere Only at the scale of lifetimes, Neolítico Antiguo de el Prado £30.00 until something unimaginable even Edited by Carmen Alonso-Fernandez publication a few years ago. El Prado is one of the few open-air Early Neolithic 240p, (Oxbow Books 2018) sites in the northern half of Spain. Excavation 9781785706684 Hb £40.00” documented fifty negative structures associated with an Early Neolithic settlement with absolute datings ca. 5295-4690 cal BC. This study contains analyses of the use of space, ceramics, lithic tools, funerary Time and Stone ritual, bioarchaeology, the palaeoenvironment and The Emergence and Development of Megaliths faunal remains. and Megalithic Societies in Europe Spanish text. 218p, (BAR 2876, 2017) 9781407316253 Pb By Bettina Schulz Paulsson £40.00 This analysis is concerned with the dating of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 L’industrie lithique des populations available radiocarbon results from pre-megalithic blicquiennes and megalithic sites, and to the megaliths By Solene Denis contemporaneous contexts and the application of In the north of France and Belgium, the Blicquy/ a Bayesian statistical framework. Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture marks the end It attempts to establish a supra- of the Danube traditions (Early Neolithic Period). regional synthesis on the Only This volume presents an analysis of the technical emergence and development £36.00 until and economic characteristics of the Blicquian lithic of megaliths in Europe. 31st May industry, in order to reconstruct the socio-economic 392p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress organisation of lithic production as well as the 2017) 9781784916855 Pb £45.00 relationships between the different settlement areas of this culture. French text. 283p b/w and col illus (BAR 2873, 2017) 9781407316246 Pb £52.00 16 European Prehistory An Archaeology of Skill NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization North Meets South in Early Bronze Age Central Europe Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and By Maikel H. G. Kuijpers Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia The core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling & Ulf between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, Bertilsson and material culture. Through a detailed study This latest volume in of early Bronze Age axes the author asks what it the Swedish Rock Art involves to be skilled, providing an evidence based series bridges the gap argument about levels of skill. A large corpus between analysis and of axes is compared in terms of what skills and interpretation of rock attention were given at the different stages of their art imagery, location production. and chronology in 308p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138718098 Hb the northern and £105.00 southern regions of Scandinavia. Long Sailing Rock Art Boats viewed as belonging By Boel Bengtsson to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities, This book argues that the use of sail as a themes and formats in common, overlain by complement to paddling formed an integral part regional complexities and variations. Even of the development of centres of power in the early though there are obvious differences in space Scandinavian Bronze Age. This reassessment derives and time regarding these two traditions, there are mainly from an examination of the Bronze Age also features and formats in common across both rock art (c. 1800-500 BC) in southern Scandinavia time and space, and a significant theme running containing imagery of boats with attributes that can through the contributions presented here is to be interpreted as masts and sails, in combination highlight the interaction between these rock with experimental sail trials in Bronze Age type art traditions. A major conclusion to be drawn boats, and using early sailing in ancient Egypt and from this exercise is the great complexity and Oceania as a backdrop. variation of rock art and the need for perspectives 172p, (BAR 2865, 2017) 9781407315690 Pb £38.00 comparing various regions across Scandinavia. Las poblaciones de la Prehistoria 176p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785708206 Hb £20.00 reciente (VIº – IIº milenio a.n.e.) en la Campiña Litoral y Banda Atlántica de Cádiz The Celts By Adolfo Moreno-Marquez A History from Earliest Times to the Present This volume combines the study of funerary By Bernhard Maier contexts and skeletal remains, with a focus on Now in its second edition, burials from the Bronze and Iron Age Campiña this comprehensive history Litoral and Atlantic band of Cadiz. of the Celts draws on Spanish text. 79p, (BAR 2867, 2017) 9781407316185 Pb archaeological, historical, £16.00 literary and linguistic evidence to provide a Current Approaches to Collective comprehensive and colourful Burials in the Late European Prehistory overview from origins to the Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress present. Beginning with the Edited by Tiago Tome, Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Ana West Hallstatt Culture of Maria Silva, Claudia Cunha & Rui Boaventura the 5th and 6th centuries The articles in this volume provide examples of BC, Maier charts the Celtic different approaches currently being developed expansion across Europe on Prehistoric collective burials before examining the revival of southern Europe, mostly of the insular Celts in post-Roman Britain and focusing on case studies, but Only Ireland. The final third of the book focuses on the also including contributions of £20.00 until fortunes of the Celts in post-medieval and modern a more methodological scope. 31st May Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. 140p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 256p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474427203 Pb 9781784917210 Pb £25.00 £19.99

European Prehistory 17 Weapons, Warriors and Battles of The Archaeology of the Caucasus Ancient Iberia From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age By Fernando Quesada Sanz By Antonio Sagona In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula was home to Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive warriors of great renown. Spanish and Celtiberian survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from warriors, both infantry and cavalry, provided the the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural Italy under Hannibal and proved even more complexes found in the region, he draws on both ferocious in defence of their homeland against later Soviet and post-Soviet investigations and synthesises Roman occupation. Professor Quesada Sanz details the vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented the arms, armour and equipment of the various evidence across the region’s frontiers. The volume warriors of the region in fantastic detail, drawing on focuses on the most significant sites and cultural his intimate knowledge of the latest archaeological traditions, highlighting the accomplishments of the and historical research. Caucasian communities and situating them within 304p, col pls (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781781592755 Hb the broader setting of their neighbours in Anatolia, £35.00 Iran, and Russia. 590p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107016590 Connecting Elites and Regions Hb £110.00 Perspectives on Contacts, Relations and Differentiation During the Early Iron Age Hallstatt By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean C Period in Northwest and Central Europe The Birth of Eurasia Edited by R. Schumann & S. Van der Vaart-Verschoof By Barry Cunliffe The Early Iron Age Hallstatt C period in Northwest Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to and Central Europe is marked by the emergence China, this book covers over 10,000 years of history, of monumental tumuli with lavish burials, some of from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to which are known as chieftain’s or princely graves. the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth This volume brings together scholars from several century AD. An unashamedly ‘big history’, it research traditions and nations who present regional charts the development of European, Near Eastern, overviews and discussions of elite burials and and Chinese civilizations and the material culture from all over Northwest and Central growing links between them by Europe. In many cases these are the first overviews way of the Indian Ocean, the Only available in English and together they make regional silk Roads, and the great steppe £19.00 until research accessible to a wider audience. corridor. 31st May 386p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 544p, col illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 9789088904431 Hb £150.00, 9789088904424 Pb £50.00 2017) 9780199689187 Pb £22.99 World Archaeology Scythians Charles Masson and the Buddhist Warriors of Ancient Siberia Sites of Afghanistan By St John Simpson & Svetlana Pankova Explorations, Excavations, Collections This book offers unique 1832–1835 insights into the life and By Elizabeth Errington funerary customs of the From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was Scythians with exceptionally employed by the British East India Company to well preserved organic explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan. objects buried in conditions During this period, he surveyed over a hundred of permanent frost in the sites around Kabul, Jalalabad and Wardak, making high Altai mountains. Some numerous drawings of the sites. These together with of the objects are from new his correspondence and other documents provide excavations and others come the means for a comprehensive reconstitution of from the famous Siberian Collection of Peter the the archaeological record of the sites. The volume Great. They include many rare finds of personal also provides a study of the archaeological artefacts garments and possessions made from gold, leather, from the sites, now housed in the British Museum. fur, and felt and reveal the impact and achievements 250p, b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) of one of the earliest great nomadic peoples. 9780861592159 Pb £40.00 368p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500021286 Hb £40.00 18 Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History First Islanders Edited by Zoltan Biedermann & Alan Strathern Prehistory and Human Migration in Island This interdisciplinary volume shows how the latest Southeast Asia wave of scholarship has explored the island as a By Peter Bellwood crossroads. Experts in the history, archaeology, Incorporating research findings over the last literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE twenty years, First Islanders examines the human to c.1850 CE address concepts such as ethnicity, prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. In particular cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating it pays close attention to migration in the period the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development and embraced at the same time. of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE. 354p, 34 illus, unspecified (UCL Press 2017) 9781911307846 384p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119251545 Hb £60.00, Pb £25.00 9781119251552 Pb £24.99 China Fighting Fibres A History in Objects Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections By Jessica Harrison-Hall Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence & Alison Clark From the earliest archaeological relics and rituals, This book considers the significance of coconut through the development of writing and state, to fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. It includes the advent of empire, the author charts China’s essays that discuss the challenges of caring for transformation from ancient civilization into the coconut fibre armour. Other contributions focus world’s most populous nation and influential on the construction and variety of the armour and economy, offering the reader a myriad historical helmets. insights and cultural treasures along the way. 300p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2016) 352p, 650 col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9789088905667 Hb £180.00, 9789088905650 Pb £60.00 9780500519707 Hb £29.95 Investigating Restricted Knowledge Ancient China and its Eurasian in Lithic Craft Traditions among the Neighbors Pre-contact Coast Salish of the Pacific Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, Northwest Coast of North America 3000-700 BCE By Adam N. Rorabaugh By Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao & Yuanqing Liu This book examines the transitions in craft apprenticeship of formed lithic tools among This volume examines the role of objects in the the precontact Coast Salish as hereditary social frontier region north of early dynastic state centres, at inequality emerged. Stylistic variation in lithics and the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, from assemblage heterogeneity suggests that lithic craft c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. Types of knowledge became increasingly restricted through objects, styles, and iconography were often hybrids time with the emergence of large sedentary or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages populations. World Archaeology in which they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that marked a symbolic vision 230p, b/w illus (BAR 2863, 2017) 9781407315836 Pb of place and person and that could mobilize support, £51.00 legitimize rule, and bind people together. On the Road of the Winds 288p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108418614 An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Hb £85.00 Before European Contact The Hunting Farmers By Patrick Vinton Kirch Understanding Ancient Human Subsistence in This book synthesizes the the Central Part of the Korean Peninsula During grand sweep of human the Late Holocene history in the Pacific By Seungki Kwak Islands, beginning with the movement of early people This volume investigates the role of intensive rice out from Asia more than farming as a subsistence strategy, using organic 40,000 years ago, and geochemical analysis and luminescence dating on tracing the development of potsherds. The central hypothesis myriad indigenous cultures of this research is that there up to the time of European was a wide range of resource Only contact. The new edition, is utilization along with rice £23.00 until fully updated with the latest farming around 3,400-2,600 BP. 31st May archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries. 132p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 408p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2nd ed 2017) 9781784916756 Pb £28.00 2017) 9780520292819 Pb £37.95 World Archaeology 19 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Cahokia Extracting Stone City of the Cosmos The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes By John Kelly & James A. Brown By Anne S. Dowd & Mary Beth D. Trubbitt The large American This exciting new addition Indian city of Cahokia sits to the American Landscapes amidst a diverse natural series provides an in-depth landscape within the larger account of how flintknappers central Mississippi river obtained and used stone valley. Over 300 sites with based on archaeological, earthen mounds have been geological, landscape, documented in the region and anthropological data. and range from isolated Featuring case studies from mounds honouring the dead three key regions in North thousands of years ago to an America, this book gives array of over 100 mounds readers a comprehensive in the case of Cahokia that in some instances view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting honoured the ancestors individually and collectively. the raw material to creating finished stone tools. The editor’s investigations over nearly 25 years Authors Dowd and Trubitt show how sites have helped elucidate the significance of Cahokia functioned in a broad landscape context, which site as an urban centre and the processes leading locations or raw material types were preferred and to its creation. The history of this why, what cultures were responsible sacred place is highlighted by a for innovative or intensive quarry number of major discontinuities Only resource extraction, as well as Only that represent intellectual “axis how land use changed over time. £28.50 until mundi” of this discussion. £28.50 until 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 256p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2018) 9781785706240 Pb Books 2018) 9781785708855 Pb £38.00 £38.00 Transforming the Landscape Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos Upper Midwestern North America Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George By Robert A. Birmingham Sabo, Mark Wagner & James R. Duncan Ancient Effigy Mound This beautifully illustrated Landscapes provides volume examines American an overview of the effigy Indian rock art across an mound phenomenon expansive region of eastern of the Upper Midwest North America during centred on southern the Mississippian Period Wisconsin. It documents (post AD 900). The focus the nature of these unique is on the widespread use landscapes, describing of cosmograms depicted the use of topography and in Mississippian rock art natural features to create imagery. This approach the ceremonial landscapes, and provides the anchors broad distributional interpretation that these were living landscapes in patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful which ancestral animals and supernatural beings framework for cultural interpretation, yielding were ritually brought back to life at places where new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, the spirits are best evoked in a continuous cycle of ceremonialism, and religion. 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20 World Archaeology Cultural and Environmental Change Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain on Rapa Nui Comparing Material Worlds, Metaphor and Edited by Sonia H. Cardinali, Kathleen B. Ingersoll, the Agency of art in the Preclassic Maya Daniel W. Ingersoll & Christopher M. Stevenson and Mycenaean Early Civilisations This volume brings together the latest studies by By Marcus Jan Bajema prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over This book provides a comparative study of the art the world to explore the island’s past and present, of earliest urban civilisations of the Late Preclassic from its discovery by Polynesians, through the lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The first documented contact with Western culture in approach used seeks to combine more traditional 1722, to the 20th century. It looks beyond the moai iconographic approaches with more recent models to examine such questions as: was there was a on metaphor and the social agency of things. The cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to book shows art to have played a more Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui active role in the development of the earliest urban civilisations, develop to adjust to naturally – or humanly-induced Only environmental change? rather than passively reflecting £32.00 until 280p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138240018 Hb economic and political trends. £105.00 360p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st May 2017) 9781784916916 Pb £40.00 Talking Stone Rock Art of the Cosos Health Among the Maya By Paul Goldsmith By Hannah Plumer Hidden away in the canyons This book examines health indicators in sites in of a highly restricted northern Belize and compares the results to the military base on the edge larger context of the health of the ancient lowland of the Mojave Desert is the Maya. The research was completed through the largest concentration of analysis of the skeletal populations of three sites rock art in North America, and by comparing results both within and among possibly in the world. those sites. Acclaimed cinematographer 182p (BAR 2879, 2017) 9781407316277 Pb £43.00 Paul Goldsmith takes the reader on a visual journey through this limited The Cutting Edge access area with more than 160 stunning colour Khoe-San Rock-Markings at the photographs. The book is structured around Gestoptefontein-Driekuil Engraving Complex Goldsmith’s treks into the remote desert canyons By Jeremy Charles Hollmann and his meetings with archaeologists, Native This book addresses the rock engravings on the Americans, a psychologist, an artist, bow hunters, wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, North West and the commanding officer in charge of the province, South Africa. It argues military base. that the rock art was made by 112p, col illus (University of Utah Press 2017) Khoe-San people during the Only 9781607815570 Pb £20.95 performance of important £48.00 until ceremonies and other activities. 31st May The Oxford Handbook of Southwest 418p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2017) 9781784917036 Pb £60.00 Edited by Barbara Mills & Severin M. Fowles This volume marks the most Trade in the Ancient Sahara ambitious effort to take stock and Beyond of the empirical evidence, Edited by D. J. Mattingly, Victoria Leitch, C. N. theoretical orientations, and Duckworth, A. Cuenod & Martin Sterry historical reconstructions The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade of the American Southwest. have been hotly contested over the years, mainly Themed chapters on methods due to a lack of evidence. However, new research and theories are accompanied on the Garamantes and on their trading partners by comprehensive overviews in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires of the culture histories of us to revise our views substantially. In this volume particular archaeological experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, sequences, from the initial including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, Paleoindian occupation, to the rise of a major ritual and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, centre in Chaco Canyon, to the onset of the Spanish demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a and American imperial projects. more connected region than previously thought. 888p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199978427 Hb 480p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107196995 Hb £90.00 £115.00 World Archaeology 21 Egypt Finding Home Global Egyptology The Diniacopoulos Family and Collection Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges By Nadine Blumer, Clarence Epstein & Imogen Bryant on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts Vincent and Olga Diniacopoulos were guardians Edited by Christian Langer of what has become one of the most important This volume stresses the interconnection of collections of antiquities in Canada. This book Egyptology and global political developments, recounts the story of their immigration in the past and present, and highlights the role of early 1950s, from France to Montreal, and their multidisciplinary ventures in developing new encyclopaedic collection of Egyptian, Greek and interpretations. In three parts, the contributions Roman art objects and artefacts. engage with issues of theory and methodology 144p, col illus (Concordia University 2017) 9781525103230 in Egyptology, political and social history of Pb £23.50 Pharaonic Egypt, late pharaonic and Graeco- Roman ideology and interconnections, as well as Sir John Soane’s Greatest Treasure national implementations of Egyptology. Histories The Sarcophagus of Seti I of research on Egypt in global South countries are By John H. Taylor & Helen Dorey introduced, challenging the traditional European Re-discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the framework as the model of choice for the future of Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant explorer Egyptology. Giovanni Belzoni, the famous sarcophagus now 224p, (Golden House Publications 2017) 9781906137557 resides in Sir John Soane’s Museum. John H. Pb £45.00 Taylor outlines the life of Seti I, the background The Medinet Habu Records of the to the creation of the sarcophagus, the excitement surrounding its re-discovery and its acquisition by Foreign Wars of Ramesses III Sir John Soane. By Donald Bruce Redford 96p, col illus (Pimpernel Press 2017) 9781910258873 Pb This volume presents a new translation and £9.99 commentary of the textual record of Ramesses III’s military activity. As such it dwells heavily upon the Proceedings of the XI International inscriptions dealing with Libyans and Sea Peoples. Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, The new insights into the period covered by the Italy 23–30 August 2015 inscriptions leads to a new appraisal of the identity of Egypt’s enemies, as well as events surrounding Edited by M. Cristina Guidotti & Gloria Rosati the activity of the Sea Peoples. The exercise is not Around 130 papers are presented here on topics intended to dismiss, but rather to complement the ranging from animal mummies to archaeological evidence. Ancient Egyptian vocabulary to 212p, (Brill 2017) 9789004354173 Hb £100.00 Imperial Cult Temples. Papers in Only English and Italian. £96.00 until Warfare in New Kingdom Egypt 1100p, b/w illus, 100 col pls 31st May By Paul Elliott (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916008 The New Kingdom of Pb £120.00 Egypt marks the apogee Aristocrats and Archaeologists of military organisation An Edwardian Journey on the Nile and preparedness. Using the newest battlefield By Toby Wilkinson & Julian Platt technologies (bows, chariots In 1907/08 Ferdinand Platt travelled to Egypt and hand weapons) the as personal physician to the ailing 8th Duke of new pharaohs pushed Devonshire, recounting his adventure in letters the frontiers of the New to his young wife in England. Throughout the Kingdom into Syria and journey Ferdy reported on the sights of the country Ethiopia. This book narrates around him, with his amateur Egyptologist’s eye, this incredible rise to power and the people he met along the way (including and then describes in detail the way in which the Howard Carter and Winston Churchill). The letters Egyptian war machine was structured, how it was open an intriguing window onto supplied, and how it fought. travel in Egypt during the Belle 192p, col illus (Fonthill Media 2017) 9781781555804 Hb Epoque and the golden age of Only £20.00 Egyptology. £20.00 until 216p (American University in 31st May Cairo Press 2017) 9789774168451 Hb £24.95 22 War and Trade with the Pharaohs Foreigners in Ancient Egypt An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt’s Theban Tomb Paintings from the Early Foreign Relations Eighteenth Dynasty By Garry J. Shaw By Flora Brooke Anthony This book explores Egypt’s connections with Since the beginning of the wider world over the course of 3,000 years, Egyptian history, images introducing readers to ancient diplomacy, travel, of foreigners were used as trade, warfare, domination, and immigration – symbols of chaos. During the both Egyptians living abroad and foreigners living 18th Dynasty, however, new in Egypt. It covers military campaigns and trade orderly images of foreigners in periods of strength as well as Egypt’s foreign bearing tribute became relations during times of political weakness, when popular in the tombs of foreign dynasties ruled parts of the country. the necropolis at Thebes. 213p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781783030460 Hb This volume examines these £19.99 images, proposing that this orderliness reflects the Technology and Urbanism in ability of the Egyptian state to impose order on Late Bronze Age Egypt foreign lands, but also crucially symbolises the By Anna K. Hodgkinson tomb owner’s ability to overcome the chaos of death and achieve a successful afterlife. This book provides the first systematic and 184pb/w and col illus (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781474241571 comprehensive discussion of Pb £24.99 the intra-urban distribution Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt of high-status goods, and their production or role as a Image and Ideology Before the New Kingdom marker of the nature of the By Laurel Bestock settlements known as royal This book examines the use of Egyptian pictures cities of New Kingdom Egypt of violence prior to the New Kingdom. Starting (c.1550-1069 BC). Using spatial with the assertion that making and displaying such analysis to detect patterns images served as a tactic of power, related to but of artefact distribution, the separate from the actual practice of violence, the study focuses on Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, book explores the development and deployment of incorporating Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison. this imagery across different contexts. by cataloguing Analysis of the evidence of high-status industrial and querying Egyptian imagery of violence from processes throughout the urban settlements leads different periods and different contexts the author to the conclusion that materials were processed at highlights the nuances of the relationship between different levels throughout the settlements and were aspects of royal ideology, art, and its audiences in subject to a strict pattern of control. the first half of pharaonic Egyptian history. 336p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198803591 Hb £85.00 336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138685055 Hb £105.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Ancient Egyptian Scribes A Cultural Exploration By Hana Navratilova & Niv Allon The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society. And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left us, we know relatively little about what underpinned their world, about their mentality and about their everyday life. Tracing ten key biographies, Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines how these figures kept both the administrative life and cultural memory of Egypt running. Case studies look at accountants, draughtsmen, scribes with military and dynastic roles, the Only authors of graffiti and literati who interacted in different ways £72.00 until with Pharaohs and other leaders. They explore their cultural 31st May identity and self-presentation, and provide an insight into the making of Egyptian written culture. 216p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781472583956 Hb £85.00

Egypt 23 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Discarded, Discovered, Collected The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Ancient Egyptian Coffins By Arthur Verhoogt Past – Present – Future This volume provides an accessible introduction to Edited by Julie Dawson & Helen Strudwick the University of Michigan’s collection of papyri and This collection of papers related ancient materials, the widest and deepest by leading international resource of its kind in the Western hemisphere. experts on the subject of Extensively illustrated with some of the collection’s ancient Egyptian coffins, more spectacular pieces, it describes what the builds on a project based at collection is, what kinds of ancient texts it contains, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and how it has developed from Francis Kelsey’s day Cambridge, to study to the present, as well as providing translations of and record in detail its the texts. collection. Papers address 216p b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2017) a series of topics including: 9780472073641 Hb £64.99, 9780472053643 Pb £33.95 the development of coffins in antiquity, including The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous iconographic and text-based studies; the post- Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity antiquity history of coffins, including their By Mark Wildish acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums around the world; developments in technical The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a examination and methods of studying coffins, philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of especially the use of multispectral imaging to Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of provide non-invasive analysis of hieroglyphic writing. It explores the range of signs materials; and increasing evidence and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in of the re-use of materials and giving explanations, whether there are characteristic Only types of explanations given, what conception of complete re-working of coffins £52.50 until for new owners. language in general and of hieroglyphic Egyptian in publication particular the explanations of the meanings of the 288p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books glyphs presuppose, and what explicit indications 2018) 9781785709180 Hb £70.00 there are of having been informed or influenced by philosophical theories of meaning, signs, and interpretation. Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the 232p (Routledge 2017) 9781138837812 Hb £105.00 New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Book of the Dead Period Becoming God in Ancient Egypt Edited by Eitan Grossman & Jennifer Cromwell Edited by Foy Scalf While traditional research This volume includes fourteen essays showcasing has focused on identifying the latest research on the Book of the Dead as well a ‘pure’ or ‘original’ as a complete catalogue of the forty-five objects text behind the actual on display in an associated exhibit at the Oriental manuscripts that have Institute Museum. Two famous Book of the Dead come down to us from pre- papyri, Papyrus Milbank and Papyrus Ryerson, modern Egypt, this volume are reproduced in their entirety with full-colour looks instead at variation photographs. – different ways of saying 376p col illus (Oriental Institute of the University of the same thing – as a rich Chicago 2017) 9781614910381 Pb £34.95 source for understanding the complex social and Exorcism, Illness and Demons in cultural environments in an Ancient Near Eastern Context which scribes lived and worked, breaking with The Egyptian Magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’. As By Susanne Beck such, it sees scribes as agents embedded in Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most particular geographical, temporal, and socio- extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper cultural environments. insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt. 416p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198768104 Hb This re-edition the text is a revised transliteration, £90.00 transcription, translation and up-to-date commentary. 175p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088905407 Hb £120.00, 9789088905391 Pb £40.00, NYP 24 Egypt Catalogo degli Ushabti del Museo Tutankhamun’s Regent Egizio di Firenze, Volume II By G.T. Martin By Giacomo Cavillier A revised and slightly This second volume of the catalogue concludes expanded edition of the the study of artefacts dating to the New Kingdom: 1989 volume, The Memphite a collection of 128 records pertaining to funerary Tomb of Horemheb, statues and their boxes. The volume contains the Commander-in-Chief abbreviations and textual codes, the records, a of Tutankhamun (vol. I. photographic section, an index and a bibliography. The Reliefs, Inscriptions, Italian text. 310p, b/w illus (BAR 2872, 2017) and Commentary), with 9781407315997 Pb £46.00 changes made to reflect finds and publications of the Egyptian Art intervening years. It includes a small new chapter By Bill Manley on the tympanum and jambs Louvre C68-70 [N221], on Louvre pieces bearing the names and titles of Ancient Egyptian art, and Horemheb as a state official, before he ascended the ideas it articulated, the throne. was refined and reinvented through dozens of centuries, 183p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2017) until scenes first created for 9780856982248 Hb £70.00 the earliest kings, around Reconstructing Pharaonic Architecture 3000 BC, were used to represent Roman emperors. in Nubia Bill Manley’s account of that The Case Study of SAV1, Sai Island art draws on the finest works By Ingrid Adenstedt of a uniquely successful The orthogonally planned fortified town on Sai , and enduringly compelling dated to the 18th Dynasty, was in parts excavated civilization, including celebrated masterpieces, from by a French team in the 1950s and 1970s.During the Narmer palette to Tutankhamun’s gold mask, as two field campaigns in 2013 and 2014, the southern well as their contexts of origin in the tombs, temples part of the settlement was revisited and newly and palaces of the pharaohs and their citizens. assessed; the results are presented here. Next to 320p b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) a detailed description and building-historical 9780500204283 Pb £12.95 assessment of the individual structures, the building remains are illustrated by manifold plans and 3-D From Workshop to Sanctuary the reconstructions. Production of Late Middle Kingdom 212p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) Memorial Stelae 9783700179528 Pb £70.00 By Alexander Ilin-Tomich Abusir This study is the evaluation of more than 1000 stelae The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun dating to the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (1800 to 1550 BC). The stelae are By Miroslav Verner grouped into workshops. The place of production At the centre of the world- for these workshops is discussed. famous pyramid field of 350p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2017) the Memphite necropolis 9781906137540 Pb £75.00 lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named Following Osiris after the nearBy village Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four of Abusir. This area has Millennia been the site, for the last By Mark Smith fifty years, of an extensive operation to discover its past. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian This thoroughly updated in- conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and depth study documents the the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian uncovering by a dedicated afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship team of Czech archaeologists of was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying a hitherto neglected wealth of its benefits. It focuses on five distinct periods in ancient remains dating from the Only its development, spread over four millennia. The Old Kingdom to the Late Period. periods in question are ones in which significant £32.00 until changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead 352p, col illus (American University 31st May are known to have occurred. in Cairo Press new ed 2017) 9789774167904 Hb £40.00 672p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199582228 Hb £125.00 Egypt 25 The Survey of Memphis X NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Kom Rabia: The Blue-Painted Pottery Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh By Colin A. Hope Oasis, Egypt This volume presents the blue-painted pottery from the EES excavations at Kom Rabia, one of the By Ashten R. Warfe few specific site collections that spans the entire This book presents a period of manufacture of this distinctive type of major study on the ceramics. All of the fragments studied by the author ceramics recovered from are presented within their find contexts arranged early and mid-Holocene according to the main chronological phases into sites in Egypt’s Dakhleh which activity at the site can be divided. Oasis, which come from 174p b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2017) 96 registered sites and 9780856982330 Pb £60.00 five other findspots and comprise more than Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile 10,000 sherds. None of Volume 2: Excavations from Meroe to Atbara the ceramic objects 1994 come from burials. They derive instead from settlement sites that display By Michael Mallinson & Laurence Smith evidence of living activities (hut circles, hearths, This volume reports on rescue excations undertaken chipped stone scatters, etc.), or sites for which in advance of the construction of the North there is no other evidence of human activity. Challenge Road between Geili and Atbara in the Through detailed description, classification Middle Nile. Eight sites with 30 and quantification, a detailed cultural sequence archaeological structures were has been determined, demonstrating descrete excavated in the available time Only stylistic variations between sites and over of three weeks that the funds £27.50 until time, and highlighting growing diversity and would accommodate. 31st May innovation in local pottery-making from the late 196p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress seventh to mid-third millennia cal. BC. 2017) 9781784916466 Hb £34.00 144p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) Protecting Pharaoh’s Treasures 9781785708244 Hb £45.00 My Life in Egyptology By Wafaa el Saddik & Rudiger Heimlich At a time when Egyptology was dominated by The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated men, especially those with close connections to the The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape regime, Wafaa El Saddik became the first female Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt general director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Edited by Willeke Wendrich In this very personal memoir, she looks back at The Neolithic is thought to her career and at the history of her have arrived in Egypt via country. Her first concern remains: diffusion from an origin in How can the ancient legacy of Only southwest Asia, relatively late her country truly be protected? £16.00 until compared to neighbouring 248p, b/w illus (American 31st May locations. The authors University in Cairo Press 2017) suggest an alternative 9789774168253 Hb £19.95 approach to understanding the development of food Life and Death on the Nile production in Egypt based A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian on the results of new Communities fieldwork in the Fayum. By George J. Armelagos While domestic plants and animals were indeed A monumental synthesis of a half century of introduced from elsewhere, when a number of research, this volume presents studies of cranial aspects of the archaeological record are compared, morphology and evolution in Nubian populations. a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious They look at patterns of physiological stress and analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. disease, as well as growth and development in 292p, b/w illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2017) infants and children. They study bone fractures 9781938770098 Hb £98.95 and age-related bone loss in adults, and they discuss case studies of diseases such as cancers and congenital defects. 288p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2017) 9780813054452 Hb £95.95

26 Egypt Across Borders I The Family in Roman Egypt The New Kingdom of Sai Island, Sector A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational SAV1 North Solidarity and Conflict Edited by Julia Budka By Sabine R. Huebner With its so-called Egyptian temple town and This study explores the adjacent pyramid cemeteries, Sai Island is one of dynamics of the everyday the prime examples for settlement policy of New family life of the common Kingdom Egypt (c. 1530-1070 BC) in Upper Nubia people of Roman Egypt. The and is the focus of this project. The principal book discusses such things focus of the book is the physical remains of SAV1 as family composition and North: the architecture and material culture, with household size, and the emphasis on the pottery and small finds. differences between urban 337p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) and rural families, exploring 9783700180715 Pb £120.00 what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt considerations and/or An Edition, Translation and Commentary for individual preferences by setting the family in the Edfu Land Survey (P. Haun. IV 70) Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern Edited by Thorolf Christensen, Dorothy J Thompson & societies where families adopted such strategies to Katelijn Vandorpe deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives. This book provides the first 274p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107011137 Hb edition with an extensive £67.00, 9781108438698 Pb £19.99 introduction and full The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Studies in Waterborne Power Greek which derives from Edited by Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou & Dorothy that area of southern Egypt J. Thompson known as the Apollonopolite With its emphasis on the dynasty’s concern for (or Edfu) nome and is now control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the preserved in Copenhagen. Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and Dating from the late second original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key century BC, this survey period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing provides a new picture of both landholding and Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the taxation in the area with significant implications navy is examined together with that of its admirals. for the nature of the relations of the Ptolemaic Egypt’s close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to royal administration with local grandees, Egyptian scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the temples and the army. transport of goods on the Nile and by sea. 198p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107159105 Hb 296p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107033351 Hb £79.99 £67.00, 9781108436663 Pb £24.99 The Near East Ancient Near Eastern History Overturning Certainties in Near and Culture Eastern Archaeology By William H. Stiebing & Susan N. Helft A Festschrift in Honor of K. Aslihan Yener Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires Edited by Cigdem Maner, Mara T. Horowitz & Allan generally used in ancient Near Eastern political S. Gilbert history, this text interlaces social and cultural The thirty-five chapters include a broad, history with a political narrative. The third edition interdisciplinary range of studies in archaeology, includes reorganization of the chapters on the early archaeometry, art history, and epigraphy of the periods with discussions incorporating the latest Ancient Near East, especially reflecting Prof Yener’s archaeological finds. New “Debating the Evidence” interests in metallurgy, small finds, trade, Anatolia, sections discuss current controversial issues in and the site of Tell Atchana/Alalakh. Near Eastern history. And a new chapter “Ancient 690p b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004353565 Hb £175.00 Israel and Judah” has been added to cover more completely the crucial issues of ancient Israelite history and religion. 480p, b/w illus (Routledge 3rd ed 2017) 9781138686410 Pb £32.99 27 Women’s Writing of Ancient Highlights of the Collections of Mesopotamia the Oriental Institute An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors Edited by Jean M Evans, Jack Green & Emily Teeter Edited by Charles Halton & Saana Svard This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections This book presents fresh of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of and engaging translations of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, works that were composed or Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and edited by female scribes and objects from the Islamic collection. It features all elite women of the ancient new photography, provenance information, and a Near East. The translations brief description of each object, as well as a history cover a range of genres, of the collections and a concordance. including hymns, poems, 152p, col illus (Oriental Institute of the University of prayers, letters, inscriptions, Chicago 2018) 9781614910053 Pb £14.95, NYP and oracles. Each text is accompanied by a short The Construction of Time in Antiquity introduction that situates Ritual, Art, and Identity the composition within its ancient environment and Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov & Lutz Doering explores what it reveals about the lives of women This book offers a series of innovative studies within the ancient world. by both senior and younger experts on various 258p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107052055 Hb £75.00 aspects of the construction of time in antiquity. Contributions focus on rituals, festivals, astronomy, Dolmens in the Levant calendars, medicine, art, and narrative. By James A. Fraser 360p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107108967 Hb Drawing on historical, £75.00 archaeological and geological sources, this volume shows Registers and Modes of that dolmens in the Levant Communication in the Ancient mostly concentrate in the Near East eastern escarpment of the Getting the Message Across Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean hills. They Edited by Kyle H. Keimer & Gillan Davis cluster near proto-urban The chapters in this volume address some of settlements of the Early the registers and modes of communication in Bronze I period (3700-3000 the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are BCE) in particular geological imperial and court communications between zones suitable for the extraction of megalithic slabs. rulers and ruled, communications intended for a Rather than approaching dolmens as a regional given community, and those between families and phenomenon, this book considers dolmens as part individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological of a local burial tradition whose tomb forms varied period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium depending on geological constraints.. AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and 374p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138551855 Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily Hb £105.00 diverse plurality of human experience. 304p (Routledge 2017) 9781138635302 Hb £105.00 Losing One’s Head in the Ancient Near East Prophets and Profits Interpretation and Meaning of Decapitation Ancient Divination and Its Reception By Rita Dolce Edited by Richard Evans This volume explores representations of This volume examines the ways in which divination, decapitation in both texts and images in a trans- often through oracular utterances and other chronological perspective that aims to highlight a mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and number of conditions, relations and meanings of places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical this specific act in times of war, recognizing the and religious environment. It also addresses severed head as a “coveted object” for the many questions related to the reception of Greco-Roman individuals who interact with it and determine its divination, oracles and prophecy, in all media, fate. Examples are drawn from Anatolia, Syria and including literature and film, from Late Antiquity Mesopotamia between the 3rd and 1st millennium to the present day. BC. 252p (Routledge 2017) 9781138290150 Hb £105.00 128p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138067486 Hb £115.00

28 The Near East The Comparable Body The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine Fortification and Treasury Archives Edited by John Wee By Mark B. Garrison This volume explores how The focus of this book is a corpus of glyptic imagery analogy and metaphor preserved as impressions on two large archives illuminate and shape of administrative tablets from Persepolis, the conceptions about the Persepolis Fortification archive and the Persepolis human body and disease, Treasury archive, representations of what have through 11 case studies from been traditionally termed “fire altars” and/or “fire ancient Mesopotamian, temples.” The book explores the significance of Egyptian, and Greco- this visual language for our understanding of ritual Roman medicine. Topics traditions emerging within the heart of the empire address the role of analogy at its formative period, the reign of Darius I. and metaphor as features 448p, b/w illus (Oriental Institute of the University of of medical culture and Chicago 2017) 9781614910343 Pb £59.95 theory, while questioning their naturalness and inevitability, their limits, their situation between the Persepolis West (Fars, Iran) descriptive and the prescriptive, and complexities in Report on the field work carried out by the their portrayal as a mutually intelligible medium for Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission communication and consensus among users. in 2008–2009 440p, (Brill 2017) 9789004356764 Hb £125.00 By Alireza Askari Chaverdi & Pierfrancesco Callieri Bridging Times and Spaces This book represents the final report on field work at Persepolis West, where parts of the town adjacent Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean to the well-known Achaemenid monumental and Armenian Studies: Honouring Gregory E. terrace have been located. The results represent the Areshian on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth first stratigraphic excavations ever carried out on Birthday this site, the dating of which is supported by a rich Edited by Pavel S. Avetisyan & Yervand H. Grekyan series of radiocarbon datings. The reportincludes a The range of papers in this volume covers topics geophysical study of the topographical context and in Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian a detailed analysis of pottery and other finds. archaeology, theory of interpretation in archaeology 310p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2870, 2017) 9781407316086 and art history, interdisciplinary Pb £56.00 history, historical linguistics, art history, and comparative Only To the Madbar and Back Again mythology. The volume opens £44.00 until Studies in the languages, archaeology, and with an extensive interview cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. given by Gregory Areshian. 31st May Macdonald 428p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Edited by Laila Nehme 2017) 9781784916992 Pb £55.00 This volume gathers thirty-two innovative Ancient Prophecy contributions from leading scholars in the field covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near By Martti Nissinen East, and the modern dialects and languages of Martti Nissinen introduces Arabia. a wealth of ancient 756p (Brill 2017) 9789004356122 Hb £140.00 sources documenting the prophetic phenomenon Arabs and Empires Before Islam around the ancient Eastern Edited by Greg Fisher Mediterranean, whether This book illuminates the history of the Arabs cuneiform tablets from before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly 250 Mesopotamia, the Hebrew translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient Bible, Greek inscriptions, or sources. Drawn from a broad period between ancient historians. Nissinen the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the contends that, even though sources include texts originally written in Greek, the view of the ancient Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a prophetic landscape is restricted by the fragmentary variety of languages and alphabets, and discussions and secondary nature of the sources, it is possible to of archaeological sites from across the Near East. reconstruct essential features of prophetic divination 608p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) at the socio-religious roots of the Western civilization. 9780199654529 Hb £120.00, 9780198810148 Pb £30.00 480p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198808558 Hb £95.00 The Near East 29 Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Agricultural Sustainability and Arabia Environmental Change at Ancient By Nadia Jamil Gordion This study demonstrates Gordion Special Studies 8 what is implicit in its title: By John M. Marston that the ethics and poetry This book publishes the results of 220 botanical of sixth-century Arabia are samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations, an inseparable equation. with the aim of reconstructing agricultural decision Offering, first, a critical making and environmental and agricultural overview of key figures from changes at the site. It argues that different political the last hundred years who and economic systems implemented over time have substantially exploited at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural this corpus to advance views decision making that were well adapted to the social on early Arabian ethos setting of farmers in each period, but that these and religion, and, then, an practices had divergent environmental impacts, with analytic survey of recent major approaches to some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural interpreting its meanings and forms, the study practices and others leading to significant proceeds to a graded semantic analysis of select environmental change. poems to build a ‘vocabulary’ that elucidates 184p, b/w illus, col pls (University of Pennsylvania Press both the mechanisms of the poetry’s content and 2017) 9781934536919 Hb £50.00 structure, and its profoundly psychological character. 304p (Gibb Memorial Trust 2017) 9781909724969 Hb Hittite Landscape and Geography £44.00 Edited by Mark Weeden & Lee Z. Ullmann The Archaeology of North Arabia, This book presents an up-to- Oases and Landscapes date account of research on the Geography of Late Bronze Edited by Marta Luciani Age Anatolia (second half A rich list of contributions both on recent results of of the second millennium field activities and new considerations on different BC) using information settlement patterns and historical and cultural both from cuneiform texts processes within North Arabia Topics range from and from archaeological the oasis formation paradigm, the debate on crops, excavation and survey. This on local types of agriculture and water management is the first time an attempt systems in different desert and oases landscapes, has been made to present a and on the date of appearance of date palm co-ordinated monograph- cultivation, to funerary and ceremonial landscapes length view of Hittite geography since 1959, and in their transition and transformation from the the first time that any work has tried to balance Chalcolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages. archaeological and textual data for the same 365p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2016) geographical areas. 9783700180029 Hb £120.00 416p b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004341746 Hb £200.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Çukuriçi Höyük 1 By Barbara Horejs This volume is the first of the final reports on the Çukuriçi Höyük excavations. The prehistoric tell site at the Aegean coast of Turkey close to the antique metropolis of Ephesos was excavated between 2007 and 2014. The study includes a general outline of the research project, its main methodological and analytical approaches, and its main outcomes after seven excavation seasons. It then provides more detailed coverage of several new results of Çukuriçi Höyük research in a diachronic perspective. The Neolithic settlements dating to the 7th millennium BC are presented in aspects Only of technology and raw material procurement. The Late £55.00 until Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements of 4th and 3rd millennia BC are presented in various aspects highlighting 31st May distinct regional and trans-regional networks. 138p b/w illus (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) 9783700181064 Hb £65.00

30 The Near East The Funerary Monuments of Rough The Countryside of Aphrodisias Cilicia and Isauria By Christopher Ratte & Angela Commito By Yasemin Er Scarborough Aphrodisias is one of the most important This book is an investigation of the funerary archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods monuments of Rough Cilicia and Isauria. Rock- in Turkey. A survey of the surrounding territory cut tombs, tower tombs, temple tombs, grave undertaken between 2005 and 2009 resulted in the houses, barrel-vaulted aedicula tombs, tombs discovery of hundreds of new sites spanning three with monumental columns, sarcophagi, larnaces, millennia of human occupation in the region. This rectangular funerary altars and stelae, mostly book presents the rich archaeological remains of the from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, all occur countryside of Aphrodisias, ranging from isolated in Rough Cilicia and Isauria. Selected tombs farmsteads to fortified citadels, from burial mounds are considered, site-by-site, with comments on to marble quarries, and from Roman aqueducts to characteristic features, typical of the funerary Ottoman cisterns. architecture of the district. A noteworthy aspect is 167p, (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 2017) the movement of itinerant artists, who contributed 9780990662358 Pb £15.50 to the transmission of funerary forms and motifs. 289p, (BAR 2846, 2017) 9781407315287 Pb £47.00 The Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age The Archaeology of Greek and Edited by Lester L. Grabbe Roman Troy This volume provides a series of contributions on By Charles Brian Rose crucial issues relating to the Bible and the Late This book provides an overview of all excavations that Bronze Age period. The history of Egypt’s dealing have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth with Canaan is surveyed in chapters by Grabbe century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and Dijkstra. The Amarna texts are also dealt with and the present. Charles Brian Rose traces the social by Lemche, Mayes and Grabbe. The archaeology is and economic development of the city and related surveyed by van der Steen. Finally several contributors sites in the Troad, as well as the development of address the question of the origins of Israel. its civic and religious centres from the Bronze Age 256p (Bloomsbury 2017) 9780567672810 Hb £85.00 through the early Christian period, with a focus on the settlements of Greek and Roman date. Palmyra 446p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) A History 9780521762076 Hb £82.00, 9781108446259 Pb £27.99 By Michael Sommer An account of Palmyra, from its beginnings in Kataret es-Samra, Jordan the Bronze Age, through the classical period and By Albert Leonard its discovery and excavation, to the present day. It This volume reports on the excavation of a Middle aims at reconstructing Palmyra’s past from literary Bronze/Late Bronze (MB/LB) Age tomb that accounts – classical and post-classical – as well as contained eleven interments strengthening the material evidence of all kinds: inscriptions, coins, art argument, suggested by earlier salvage work at and of course the remains of Palmyra’s monumental the site, that this is part of an extensive cemetery. architecture. The volume also examines the century- Examination of the faunal remains by Priscilla long history of archaeological and historical Lange suggest that the settlement at Kataret es- research at Palmyra, from its beginnings under Samra was based primarily on a pastoral economy. Ottoman rule and the French mandate in the 1920s 140p, (American Schools of Oriental Research 2017) to the recent satellite based prospection carried out 9780897570992 Hb £61.00 by German archaeologists. 296p (Routledge 2017) 9780415720021 Hb £105.00 Walking Through Jordan Essays in Honor of Burton Macdonald The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima Edited by Geoffrey A. Clark & P. M. Michele Daviau By Jane DeRose Evans Contributing scholars from around the world This volume reports on the excavation of a vault reflect on three important areas of MacDonald’s on the south side of the Inner Harbour of Caesarea archaeological contributions: archaeological Maritima, Israel. The original construction phase, survey in general, including those focusing on the vault’s transformation into a Mithraeum methodology; MacDonald’s five major surveys – (a sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras), papers that incorporate data from his field projects abandonment, and final use as a “charnel house” are and sites tested or excavated by others that were first discussed in detail. The book also includes detailed identified by his work; and the archaeology of the studies of the fragmentary wall paintings depicting Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as the Roman Period Mithraic iconography, and of the medallion found and the early Christian era. inside the vault. 422p, b/w and col illus (Equinox 2017) 9781781792834 112p (American Schools of Oriental Research 2017) Hb £90.00 9780897570978 Hb £61.00 The Near East 31 Palmyrena Erimi Laonin tou Porakou Palmyra and the Surrounding Territory from A Middle Bronze Age Community in Cyprus the Roman to the Early Islamic Period By Luca Bombardieri By Jorgen Christian Meyer A long and uninterrupted history of archaeological This book is the first investigation of the relationship research in the Kourion region has made this area between Palmyra and its surrounding territory into one of the archaeologically most interesting from the Roman to the early Islamic period since regions on the island. The ancient site of Erimi D. Schlumberger’s pioneer campaigns in the Laonin tou Porakou was first identified in 2007 as mountains northwest of Palmyra in the late 1930s. It the result of a survey project focusing on the middle discusses the agricultural potential of the hinterland, and lower Kouris valley. its role in the food supply of the 430p, (Paul Astroms Forlag 2017) 9789170812279 Hb city, and the interaction with the £100.00 nomadic networks on the Syrian Only dry steppe. £28.00 until A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus 230p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st May The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations 2017) 9781784917074 Pb £35.00 with Greek, c.1600–300 BC Alexandria and Qumran By Philippa M. Steele This pioneering volume Back to the Beginning approaches the languages By Kenneth Silver and scripts of ancient Cyprus This book addresses the proto-history and the from an interdisciplinary roots of the Qumran community and of the point of view, with a primarily Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of contemporary linguistic and epigraphic scholarship in Alexandria. The relationship of approach supplemented this context to the thoughts of the Essenes, the by a consideration of their Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, the Jewish historical and cultural Therapeutae of Egypt living in the neighbourhood context. The focus is on of Alexandria and the Pythagoreans furthering our knowledge are highlighted, as well as the of the non-Greek languages/ formation of libraries in the Only scripts, as well as appreciating their place in relation Hellenistic period including that £36.00 until to the much better understood Greek language on of Qumran. 31st May the island. 612p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 299p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107042865 Hb 2017) 9781784917289 Pb £45.00 £67.00, 9781107617414 Pb £27.99 Mediterranean Prehistory Lithics past and present “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date Perspectives on chipped stone studies in Edited by Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge Greece This volume presents up-to-date research on the Sea Edited by Elefanti Paraskevi, Niels Andreasen, P. Nick Peoples phenomenon during the so called “crisis Kardulias & Gilbert Marshall years” at the end of the Bronze Age. The papers This volume is dedicated to studies of chipped are presented in five sections: “Overviews: From stone, the most long-lived, widespread and Italy to the Levant”; “Climate and Radiocarbon”; fundamental artefact type for the study of human “Theoretical Approaches on Destruction, Migration prehistory. Chipped stone tools have persisted in and Transformation of Cultures”; “Case Studies: use from the dawn of humanity until very recently, Cyprus, Cilicia and the Northern and Southern often in concert with other forms of technology Levant”; and “Material Studies”. Overall it becomes such as metallurgy. Through their morphology clear that the changes discussed include numerous and typology, stone tools form the backbone of underlying factors: One single wave of migration, our chrono-cultural understanding of early human one general military campaign and other simple history. explanations should be dismissed. 180p, b/w illus (Paul Astroms Forlag 2016) 9789170812101 500p b/w illus (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) Hb £70.00 9783700179634 Pb £150.00

32 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, A Retrospective Greece Edited by Jack L. Davis & John Bennet Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. This volume represents the Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & product of 25 years of study Panagiotis Karkanas conducted by the Pylos As a sealed, single- Regional Archaeological component, archaeological Project. An introduction, site, the Neolithic settlement setting the project in context, complex of Alepotrypa and an extensive gazetteer of Cave is one of the richest sites precede a collection of sites in Greece and Europe eight previously published in terms of number of articles, which appeared artefacts, preservation of in Hesperia between 1997 biological materials, volume and 2010. Taken together, of undisturbed deposits, these contributions document a comprehensive and horizontal exposure of methodological approach by an archaeological archaeological surfaces of project that was one of the first to incorporate new past human activity. This edited volume offers technologies such as digital mapping tools and a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and online databases. interpretation of the results of approximately 588p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at 40 years of excavation and analysis. It includes Athens 2018) 9780876619681 Pb £45.00, NYP numerous chemical analyses and a much needed long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding Women in Mycenaean Greece microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools, faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific By Barbara A. Olsen locations of human activities and ceremonies This book offers a systematic inside the cave, as well as a site analysis of women’s tasks, description and the history of holdings, and social and the excavation conducted by G. Only economic status in the Papathanasopoulos. Linear B tablets from Pylos £52.50 until and Knossos, identifying 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2018) 9781785706486 Hb how Mycenaean women £70.00 functioned in the economic institutions where they were best attested – production, Mediterranean Prehistory property control, land tenure, Magoúla Pavlína and cult. Throughout, the book seeks to establish A Middle Bronze Age Site in the Soúrpi Plain whether gender practices (Thessaly, Greece) were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed By Corien Wiersma, Dimitris Agnousiotis, Karimali from site to site, and to gauge the relationship of Karimali, Wietske Prummel & Reinder Reinders the roles and status of Mycenaean women to their Magóula Pavlína is located Archaic and Classical counterparts. in the Soúrpi plain in 380p, b/w illus (Routledge 2014, Pb 2017) 9780415725156 Thessalía. The site was Hb £110.00, 9781138085831 Pb £36.99 inhabited during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. The Alatzomouri Rock Shelter A survey at the site was An Early Minoan III Deposit in Eastern Crete carried out in 1996 after the Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan & field was ploughed for the Philip P. Betancourt first time. The recovery of This handsome volume describes and illustrates tableware – including many the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete, fragments of Grey Minyan Greece. Minoan pottery and small finds such as – grinding and pounding stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains tools, saddle querns and animal remains show that were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style Magoúla Pavlína was not a temporary site for special and chronology of East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware, activities, but a permanent settlement. which dates to the end of the Early Bronze Age. 276p, b/w illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789491431975 Hb £44.95 226p b/w illus (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534932 Hb £55.00

Mediterranean Prehistory 33 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology Communities in Transition Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Edited by Maria Relaki & Yiannis Papadatos Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Evaluating the general Tankosić & Turan Takaoğlu frameworks within which Minoan archaeology Communities in operates, scholars assess the Transition brings usefulness of chronological together scholars from horizons in understanding different countries and continuity and change backgrounds united by a and providing a critical common interest in the framework for the diachronic transition between the analysis of culture, the Neolithic and the Early degree to which the study Bronze Age in the lands of settlement patterns can around the Aegean. The reveal structural continuity through time and the 5th to 4th millennium political reach of territorial states. The largest BC transition is one of portion of discussion is devoted to mortuary inclusions, entanglements, connectivity, and practices. Some contributors focus on reassessing exchange of ideas, raw materials, finished the significance of micro-patterns in the articulation products and, quite possibly, worldviews and of mortuary behaviour, while others belief systems. Most of the papers presented emphasize broader temporal here are multifaceted and complex in that they do not deal with only one topic or narrowly and spatial processes that affect Only practices of ostentatious display focus on a single line of reasoning or dataset. £28.50 until in burial. Arranged geographically they explore a series of publication key themes: Chronology, cultural affinities, and 320p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) synchronization in material culture; changing 9781785709265 Pb £38.00 social structure and economy; inter – and intra- Crafting Minoanisation site space use and settlement patterns, caves and Textiles, Crafts, Production and Social include both site reports and regional studies. Dynamics in the Bronze Age southern Aegean 616p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785707209 Hb £70.00 By Joanne Cutler The mid second millenn- ium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete evidence of strong Cretan Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen By Ellen Adams in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, This book explores and but the nature and degree celebrates the rich, diverse of Cretan influence, and the and dynamic culture of process/processes by which Neopalatial Crete through it was spread and adopted, analyses of important have been widely debated. sites, as well as Minoan This new study addresses the question through administration, writing, a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in economy and ritual. Key the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving themes include the role of technology. by examining how technological skills Knossos in wider Minoan and techniques are learned and considering possible culture and politics, mechanisms for the transmission of such technical the variable modes of knowledge, new perspectives centralization and power relations detectable across can be proposed concerning the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control. the processes through which Only 400p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107197527 Cretan techniques were taken £36.00 until up and imitated abroad. Hb £90.00 publication 544p (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709661 Hb £48.00

34 Mediterranean Prehistory The Mycenaean Cemetery at Agios Caria and Crete in Antiquity Vasileios, Chalandritsa, in Achaea Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and By Konstantina Aktypi, Olivia A. Jones & the Aegean Vivian Staikou By Naomi Carless Unwin The Mycenaean chamber- A persistent tradition existed tomb cemetery at Agios in antiquity linking Caria Vasileios, near Chalandritsa with the island of Crete. This in Achaea, was first central theme of regional investigated in the late history is mirrored in the 1920s, followed by small- civic mythologies, cults and scale research in 1961. In toponyms of southwestern the years 1989-2001 further Anatolia. This book explains rescue excavations were why by approaching this conducted, revealing 30 diverse body of material chamber tombs, some with a broad chronological looted. Based mostly on the view, taking into account latest research, this study is the both the origins of this regional narrative and its first major presentation of the endurance. It considers the mythologies in the cemetery, detailing 45 chamber Only light of archaeologically attested contacts during tombs and the assemblage of £33.50 until the Bronze Age, exploring whether such interaction the 260 artefacts found in them. 31st May could have left a residuum in later traditions. 310p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 284p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107194175 Hb £75.00 2017) 9781784916978 Pb £42.00 Analisi tecnologica e funzionale The Galatas Survey dell’industria in pietra non scheggiata The Socio-Economic and Political Development del Neolitico medio dell’Italia of a Contested Territory in Central Crete settentrionale During the Neolithic to Ottoman Periods By Anna Lunardi By L. Vance Watrous, D. Matthew Buell, Eleni Kokinou, Pantelis Soupios & Apostolos Sarris This volume is a synthesis of the management systems of the macrolithic tools from three key This volume explores the results of the American Square Mouthed Pottery Culture sites located in archaeological survey (2005–2007) carried out Northeastern Italy. The tools were examined with around the area of Galatas in Central Crete. It traces an integrated approach that involves morphology, the socioeconomic and political development of technology, use-wear analysis and experiments. The the Galatas area and its relations with other areas stone assemblages are classified into the following of Crete during the Neolithic–Ottoman periods. categories: tools for grinding, tools for abrading/ The changes in local socioeconomic and political polishing, tools for cutting, percussion tools and conditions are documented as Galatas came under multifunctional implements. the direct control of states elsewhere in Crete and overseas. Italian text. 292p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2864, 2017) 9781407316024 Pb £53.00 460p, b/w illus (INSTAP 2018) 9781931534895 Hb £55.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Rise of Rome 1000 BC – 264 BC By Kathryn Lomas In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. by the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of Rome during this period, and the nature of its control over Italy, considering why and how the Romans achieved this Only spectacular dominance. For Rome was only one of a number £21.00 until of emerging centres of power during this period. From its 31st May complex forms of government, to its innovative connections with other states, Kathryn Lomas shows what set Rome apart. 416p col pls (Profile Books Ltd 2017) 9781846684111 Hb £25.00

Mediterranean Prehistory 35 Punctuated Insularity Etruscology The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Edited by Alessandro Naso Sardinia This monumental work By Gary Webster & Maud Webster is organised in two parts. Sardinia preserves an exceptional record of its The first is dedicated to Final Neolithic and Copper Age cultures, with a methodology and leading diverse crafts repertory, henges and dolmens, statue- themes in current research, menhirs, chamber tombs – and the only known organized thematically, ziggurat in Europe. The present study provides whereas the second part a synthesis in English for a scholarly readership offers a diachronic account interested in Mediterranean adaptations during of Etruscan history, culture, this earliest period of metallurgy. Spanning two religion, art & archaeology, millennia, these changes are studied in terms of and social and political material cultures known as Ozieri, Sub-Ozieri, relations and structures, as Filigosa-Abealzu, Monte Claro and Bell Beaker. well as a systematic treatment of the topography of 172p (BAR, 2871 2017) 9781407316192 Pb £34.00 the Etruscan civilization and sphere of influence. 2000p (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9781934078488 Hb Early States, Territories and Settlements £320.00 in Protohistoric Central Italy Proceedings of a Specialist Conference Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology World Museum, Liverpool of the University of Groningen, 2013 By Jeann MacIntosh Turfa & Georgina Muskett Edited by Peter Attema, Jorn Seubers & Sarah One of the finest collections of Etruscan artefacts Willemsen outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by This volume is the second Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. Much of the of the series Corollaria original material came from the necropolis of Vulci Crustumina concerning (Canino) when it was excavated the Latin settlement of by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Crustumerium and Italian Canino, while additional objects Only represent several other cities protohistory. It contains £33.50 until multidisciplinary papers of and sites. 31st May an international group of 268p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress archaeologists discussing 2017) 9781784916381 Pb £42.00 new fieldwork data and theories with specific The Etruscans and the relevance to the study of History Crustumerium’s settlement, cemeteries and material of Dentistry culture in light of the site’s cultural identity. The Golden Smile Through the Ages 152p col illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789491431999 Pb £42.00 By Jean MacIntosh Turfa & Marshall Joseph Becker The Etruscan World This book offers a study of the construction and use Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa of gold dental appliances In recent years striking in ancient Etruscan advances have been made culture, and their place in scholarship and research within the framework of a techniques for Etruscan general history of dentistry, Studies. Archaeological with special emphasis on and scientific discoveries appliances, from Bronze Age have changed our picture Mesopotamia and Egypt of the Etruscans, allowing to modern Europe and the discussion of topics that Americas. Included are many could not previously be of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry researched, such as Etruscan - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well mining and metallurgy, textile as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, health. The book challenges many past works in over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient of Etruscan culture, and more, as well as highlighting dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible profitable directions for future research. evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern 1168p, b/w illus (Routledge 2013, Pb 2017) 9780415673082 attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. Hb £210.00, 9781138060357 Pb £39.99 416p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138677913 Hb £125.00 36 Mediterranean Prehistory Ancient World Lost Civilizations The books in the Lost Civilizations series explore the rise and fall of the great civilizations and peoples of the ancient world. Each book considers not only the history but the art, culture and lasting legacy and examines why they remain important and relevant in our world today. The Indus The Greeks By Andrew Robinson By Philip Matyszak The Indus civilization flourished for half a Philip Matyszak illuminates millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC. 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Peter Bogucki highlights important The Etruscans discoveries and situates them in a narrative of long- By Lucy Shipley term continuous development and Covering colonialism and conquest, misogyny and modern understanding of the mystique, Etruscan history is woven with the very nature of ancient societies, as Only well as considering the rich and latest archaeological evidence to provide a unique £12.00 until varied legacy left to us today. perspective on this enigmatic 31st May culture, revealing how much we 248p b/w and col illus (Reaktion now know, and how much still Only 2017) 9781780237183 Hb £15.00 remains undiscovered. £12.00 until The Goths 216p b/w and col illus (Reaktion 31st May 2017) 9781780238326 Hb £15.00 By David M. Gwynn This engaging history brings together the interwoven The Persians stories of the original Goths and the diverse Gothic By Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker legacy: a legacy that continues to shape our modern The Persians tells the captivating story of this world. From the ancient migrations to contemporary beguiling ancient civilization, and its influence Goth culture, through debates over democratic through the centuries. It paints a vivid picture of freedom and European nationalism, the many great Persian cities and their spectacular David M. 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The first section of the book analyzes the technology, techniques, history, and asia cultural context of Egyptian art, while the second compares selected monumental works across Scientific Research on Historic Asian different periods and places, detailing their artistic Ceramics, Proceedings of the Fourth Forbes and spiritual significance. 392p, col illus, Abbeville Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art, Edited Press, 2008, 9780789210050, Hb was £106.99 now by Blythe McCarthy, Asian ceramics in their many £39.95 forms and functions - utilitarian, aesthetics, and religious - are the subject of this volume. Through The Obelisk and the Englishman, By analysis of their composition, technology, typology, Dorothy U. Seyler, William John Bankes (1786 1855) and use, researchers define ceramic technologies, was a pioneer in the nascent study of the language, examine their similarities and differences, and history, and civilization of ancient Egypt. 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Signature Date B67 Oxbow Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AS new address Tel: +44 (0)1226 734350 | Fax: +44 (0)1226 734438 E-mail: [email protected] with homilies on the theme of the Gospel texts), medieval europe its widespread and enduring popularity witnessed by three distinct recensions and twenty surviving Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder, The Humanist manuscripts ranging from the early fourteenth to as Orator, By John M. McManamon, A biography the mid-fifteenth centuries.304p, Medieval Institute of Pierpaolo Vergerio the elder (ca. 1369-1444) who Publications, 2008, 9781580441261, Pb was £18.99 was influential in the devlopment of the humanist now £7.95 movement in several areas: its epistemology, ideology, educational curriculum, emphasis on King John, England, Magna Carta and ethos and its relationship to the university, to the Making of a Tyrant, By Stephen Church, political authority, to religious belief and to the In 1199 King John took possession of a vast - and visual arts. 240p, Medieval and Renaissance Texts vastly wealthy - inheritance. But by his death in Society, 1996, 9780866982047, Hb was £16.00 now 1215, he had squandered it all, and come close to £5.95 losing his English kingdom, too. Stephen Church vividly recounts exactly how John contrived to History and Community, Norman Historical lose so much, so quickly and in doing so, tells Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, the story of Magna Carta. 334p, col pls, Pan, 2016, By Leah Shopkow, A study of the Norman historical 9781447241959, Pb was £9.99 now £4.95 tradition which considers the historians and their methods and models, and also the ways in which Political Thought in Early Fourteenth- histories were used, and by whom they were read. Century England, By Cary J. Nederman, These Shopkow argues that historical writing reflected three treatises, all translated and introduced by and helped to create particular views of Norman Nederman, comprise: Walter of Milemete’s On the identity. 327p, Catholic University of America Press, Nobitlity, Wisdom and Prudence of Kings; William 1997, 9780813208831, Pb was £21.50 now £7.95 of Pagula’s Mirror of King Edward III; William of Ockham’s Whether a Prince Can Receive the Goods Bartolomeo Scala, Humanistic and Political of the Church for His Own Needs, Namely, in Case Writings, Edited by Alison Brown, Contains almost of War, Even Against the Wishes of the Pope. 209p, the entirety of the extant works of Bartolomeo Scala Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2003, (1430-1497), a key figure in Florentine politics and 9780866982924, Hb was £26.00 now £9.95 in the emergent humanist movement. The texts are in Latin or Italian and include letters, orations, Tales from the Long Twelfth Century, dialogues, poetry and sermons. 572p, Medieval and The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire, By Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, 9780866981996, Hb Richard Huscroft, This intriguing book tells the was £35.00 now £9.95 story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual The Holy Bureaucrat, Eudes Rigaud and king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead Religious Reform in Thirteenth Century centers each of his chapters on the experiences of Normandy, By Adam J. Davis, Explores the a particular man or woman who contributed to the fascinating career of Eudes Rigaud (1210-1275), the broad sweep of events. 320p, b/w pls, Yale UP, 2016, Franciscan theologian at the University of Paris and 9780300187250, Hb was £20.00 now £9.95 archbishop of Rouen. Davis describes the collision between the world as it was and as Eudes Rigaud Widows, Heirs, and Heiresses in the Late wished it to be, as well as the mechanisms that the Twelfth Century, The Rotuli de Dominabus Et archbishop used in trying to transform the world Pueris Et Puellis, Edited by John Walmsley, This he found. 268p, Cornell University Press, 2006, work is a new critical edition and translation of the 9780801444746, Hb was £42.50 now £12.95 late-twelfth-century Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records were the result of a little The Customs of Catalonia between Lords known Domesday-like royal enquiry into the status and Vassals by the Barcelona Canon, Pere and assets of widows and wards on estates held Albert, A Practical Guide to Castle Feudalism in directly by the Crown in 1185. 146p, Medieval and Medieval Spain, Edited by Donald J. Kagay, Kagay Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9780866983532, Hb provides an English translation of this medieval was £36.00 now £9.95 practical guide to feudal relations in Catalonia, and places the work and its author in the context of King Rufus, The Life & Murder of William other thirteenth-century legal handbooks as well II of England, By Emma Mason, Emma Mason’s as the “feudalism debate” of the twentieth century. biography tells the story of William Rufus, King 160p, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, of England from 1087-1100. She shows him to have 9780866982856, Hb was £23.99 now £7.95 been a vigorous, and on the whole successful ruler, and offers a new theory as to his death, which she Medieval Book of Birds, Hugh of Fouilloy’s argues was not a hunting accident, but a case of “Aviarium”, Edited by Willene B. Clark, Latin text assassination. 288p, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2005, with facing English translation. Composed between 9780752435282, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95 1132 and 1152 the work mirrors the bestiary tradition, vii Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals with its discussion of the natural world as moral El Libro Del Conoscimiento De Todos Los theology. The book also includes illustrations from Reinos (the Book of Knowledge of aAll the many surviving manuscripts containing the Kingdoms), Edited by Nancy F. Marino, The text Aviary and related texts. 464p, 75ill. Medieval and and translation (presented on facing pages) of an Renaissance Texts Society, 1992, 9780866980913, Hb apocryphal travelogue purporting to be the travels was £51.00 now £14.95 of a 14th century friar through Europe, Africa, and Asia. An introductory essay explains the work’s Crusade Charters 1138-1270, Edited by significance and its impact upon early navigators. Hugh Feiss and Corliss Slack, Latin text, with 138p, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1999, facing English translation, of thirty-one charters 9780866982405, Hb was £21.00 now £7.95 which record gifts to Premonstratensian abbeys in northern France. Slack identifies a network of family Saints, Studies in Hagiography, Edited by Sandro connections and political alliances behind the Sticca, These fifteen essays study the cult of saints donors whom, he argues, were ‘new men’ of minor in the Middle Ages and to a lesser extent in the nobility who made their fortune in the Crusades. early Renaissance. 352p, Medieval and Renaissance 229p, 7 b/w illus, Arizona State University, 2001, Texts Society, 1996, 9780866981798, Hb was £35.00 9780866982399, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95 now £9.95 An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing, Hugh of Poitiers, The Vezelay Chronicle, By Lianna Farber, Lianna Farber restores the core Edited by John Scott and John O. Ward, This economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, Chronicle, which Abbot Pons (1138-1161) ordered showing that it contains three component parts: his notary Hugh of Poitiers to write, is a passionate value, consent, and community, each of which were and detailed account of the litigation and violence deeply contested. In the end, Farber reveals, writing that marked the emergence of urban institutions about trade was not descriptive but argumentative, at Vezelay and the fighting between abbot, count analyzing the act in an attempt to justify it. 235p, and bishop. This first English translation also Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444128, Hb includes other relevant documents as well as an was £36.95 now £12.95 introduction and notes. 402p, Pegasus Press, 1992, 9780866980951, Pb was £10.99 now £4.95 Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity, Essays in Honor of Joan M. 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The book concludes with a idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal gazetteer of around 100 sites. 274p, illus, Smith Settle, life history, and declared political affiliations— 2004, 9781841030265, Pb was £14.95 now £6.95 loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy—make him worthy of careful study beside Preaching, Building and Burying, By Caroline his better-known contemporaries. This volume Bruzelius, Friars transformed the relationship of contains the Middle English texts of his devotional the church to laymen by taking religion outside to poetry. 404p, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, public and domestic spaces. Mendicant convents 9781580441315, became urban cemeteries, warehouses filled with Pb was £30.99 now £9.95 family tombs, flags, shields and private altars. This is The Fabliaux, A New Verse Translation, the first book to analyze the friars’ influence on the Translated by Nathaniel E. 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Words Derived from Old Norse in Early Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory Middle English, Studies in the Vocabulary on Florentine public life and how it could have of the South-West Midland Texts, By Richard triggered the custodians of the Brancacci Chapel, Dance, Dance grapples with a number of questions the Carmelite friars, to seek the completion of concerning the considerable borrowing of words frescoes by Masolino (c.1383-c.1436) and Masaccio from various Scandinavian languages in the English (1401-c.1428). 284p, b/w and col illus, Yale University dialect spoken and written in western England, far Press, 2014, 9780300187663, Hb was £40.00 now £19.95 from the Danelaw where Scandinavian influence is The Miraculous Image in Renaissance easily explained. 542p, Medieval and Renaissance Florence, By Megan Holmes, In Renaissance Texts Society, 2003, 9780866982887, Hb was £35.00 Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of now £12.95 the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to Moral Love Songs and Laments, have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent By Susanna sacred intercession. 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Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, 9780300176605, Hb was £45.00 now £19.95 9781879288973, Pb was £29.99 now £9.95 ix Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews the texts with English translation and discussion of in Dialogue, The Apparicion Maistre authorship. 174p, Medieval Institute Publications, Jehan de Meun of Honorat Bovet, By 2009, 9781580441322, Pb was £15.95 now £5.95 Michael Hanly, In Honorat Bovet’s reformist dream vision (1398), the shade of Jean de Meun leads a Wace: Le Roman de Brut, Edited by Arthur panel of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish speakers Wayne Glowka, Wace’s verse chronicle recounts in castigating European chivalry and clergy for the legendary history of the kings of Britain and their dereliction during a time of war and schism. includes the timeless tales of Brutus, Lear, Belin This critical edition presents the French text and Brennes, Vortigern, Uther Pendragon, Arthur, accompanied by a page-facing English translation and others. 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Aviation Archaeology in Britain, 288p, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, By Guy 9781580440356, Pb was £18.99 now £7.95 de la Bedoyere, During the Second World War an average of five aircraft crashed every day in the The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection, British Isles. Their remains provide an opportunity Edited by Kathleen Forni, The poems in this for archaeological and historical study. This book volume were prized and preserved because of is a wide-ranging introduction to the aircraft, their association with Chaucer’s name. They the airfields, the documentary record and the include dream visions, good counsel, female memorials to the men and women who gave their panegyric, mass parody, proverbial wisdom, lovers’ lives in the air war. 64p, b/w and col illus, Shire dialogue, prophecy, advice to princes, elegiac Publications, 1999, 9780747804901, Pb was £6.99 complaint, courtly parody, and anti-feminist now £2.95 satire. 169p, Medieval Institute Publications, 2005, 9781580440967, Pb was £15.95 now £6.95 Chaucer and the Poems of “Ch”, Edited by James I. Wimsatt, On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer’s French poems. This volume contains Bargains and good deals x Greece A Companion to Sparta NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Anton Powell Slave-Wives, Single Women and In this two–volume collection, authors combine “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek cutting-edge research and World innovative insights of their Law and Economics Perspectives own with accessible surveys By Morris Silver of recent scholarship on The author proposes Sparta’s archaeology and and tests radically new history - from its mist- interpretations of three shrouded origins in the important status groups Greek Dark Ages to the in Greek history: the waning days of the late pallakē, the hetaira, and Roman Empire. Along with the nothos. 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Greece 41 Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic Autour de l’Infanterie d’élite World 350 – 30 BC Macédonienne à l’époque du Royaume By John D. Grainger Antigonide Rather than attempting Cinq Études Militaires Entre Histoire, Philologie a narrative of the various et Archéologie kingdoms, John Grainger By Pierre O. Juhel takes a thematic approach, This volume presents five articles relating to considering various aspects military studies in the context of Macedonia of of Hellenistic kingship in the Antigonids. Combining literary studies and turn. This allows him archaeological research, the author proposes to highlight the common several new concepts on Hellenistic Macedonian features as well as the military studies. Articles consider the differences across the various Macedonian phalanx, Antigonid dynasties, asking questions Redcoats, heavy infantry and Only such as How did one become defensive weaponry under the £23.00 until king? 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While the Romans dreamed of these life stories, Rogerson conquering the Persian realm, the Persians of describes ruins which the Parthian and Sasanian dynasties dreamed of tell their own tales and regaining the lands of the eastern Mediterranean demonstrates the multiple snatched from their Achaemenid ancestors by interconnections that bind the culture of this region Alexander. with the wider world, particularly the spiritual 192p, 20 illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781526703002 Hb traditions of the ancient Near East. £19.99 336p, b/w pls (Haus 2017) 9781909961548 Hb £20.00 Rome, Empire of Plunder Security in Roman Times: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation Italy, Rome and the Emperors Edited by Matthew Loar, Carolyn MacDonald & Dan- By Cecilia Ricci el Padilla Peralta In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus The studies gathered in this volume range from continued to provide for his physical safety in the the literary thefts of the first Latin comic poets to same way as in the old Republic while, at the same the grand-scale spoliation of Egyptian obelisks time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the by a succession of emperors, and from Hispania city. This volume examines both the circumstances to Pergamon to Qasr Ibrim. Applying a range of in which these security forces intervened and the theoretical perspectives on cultural appropriation, strategies that they adopted. The final section contributors probe the violent interactions and expands the focus from the city of Rome to the chance contingencies that sent cargo of all sorts Italian peninsula where the security of the emperor into circulation around the Roman Mediterranean, as he travelled to his country residences required causing recurrent distortions in their individual and advance planning and implementation. aggregate meanings. 256p (Routledge 2018) 9781472460158 Hb £115.00 336p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108418423 Hb £90.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden Religion at the Roman Street Corner By Harriet I. Flower Throughout the Roman world, neighbourhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, to whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors – gods of place, especially the household and the neighbourhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honouring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography. She also looks at Compitalia, Only a popular midwinter neighbourhood festival in honour of £32.00 until the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out 31st May to ordinary people. 416p, b/w and col illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691175003 Hb £37.95

46 Rome Sociological Studies in Roman History Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire By Keith Hopkins to AD 300 This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins’ essays By John D. Grainger on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, This book is a consideration, based on original demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, sources, of the means by which Syrians, whose imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, country was only annexed to the empire in 64 and the social and political structures of the ancient BC, saw their influence penetrate into all levels world. The papers have been re-edited and revised of Roman society. Attention is given to Syria’s with accompanying essays by Hopkins’ colleagues, place in the imperial economy, the major military friends and former students. contribution of Syrian auxiliary regiments, and the 612p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107018914 Hb influence of Syrian religious cults. £110.00 336p (Routledge 2017) 9781138071230 Hb £105.00 Trade, Commerce, and the State in The Demography of Roman Italy the Roman World Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Edited by Alan Bowman & Andrew Wilson Society 201 BCE–14 CE This volume presents eighteen papers by leading By Saskia Hin Roman historians and archaeologists discussing This book provides a fresh perspective on the trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 population history of Italy during the late Republic. BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary Roman state in shaping the institutional framework approach to investigate demographic trends and the for trade within and outside the empire, in taxing demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin that trade, and in intervening in the markets to shows how they adapted to changing economic, ensure the supply of particular commodities, climatic and social conditions in a period of especially for the city of Rome and for the army. intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the 688p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198790662 Hb demographic toll taken by warfare and rising social £110.00 complexity leads her to a revisionist ‘middle count’ scenario of population development in Italy. When in Rome 420p, b/w figs (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) Social Life in Ancient Rome 9781107003934 Hb £77.00, 9781108406536 Pb £27.99 By Paul Chrystal Paul Chrystal gives us a vibrant, accessible social Migration, Mobility and Place history of Rome, featuring hundreds of translations in Ancient Italy of inscriptions and graffiti and evidence culled By Elena Isayev from the visual arts, curse tablets, official records Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy and letters both private and official. He explores challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie how Roman men, women and children lived their to the land and a demographically settled world. lives on a daily basis taking in marriage, slavery, It argues that much human mobility in the last gladiators, medicine, magic, religion, superstition millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In and the occult; sex, work and play, education, death, particular, outside the military context ‘the foreigner housing, country life and city life. in our midst’ was not regarded as a problem. 288p, col pls (Fonthill Media Ltd 2017) 9781781556047 Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were Hb £25.00 those difficult to cross. The Roman Community at Table during 502p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107130616 Hb £105.00 the Principate Religious Networks in the Roman Empire By John F. Donahue By Anna Collar Donahue’s study demonstrates the integral place of Anna Collar explores the relationship between feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique social networks and religious transmission to power of food to unite and to separate its recipients explore why some religious movements of the along class lines throughout the Empire. This Roman Empire succeeded, while others, seemingly expanded edition includes significant new material equally successful at a certain time, ultimately on current trends in food studies, including the failed. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar archaeology and bioarchaeology of ancient food provides new interpretations of the diffusion of and drink; an additional collection of inscriptions ideas across the social networks of the Jewish on public banquets from the Roman West; and an Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and extensive bibliography of scholarship produced in Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important the last ten years. reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations 392p (University of Michigan Press 2nd ed 2017) in the Roman Empire. 9780472036950 Hb £33.95 331p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107655041 Pb £27.99 Rome 47 The Roman Mithras Cult Beyond Priesthood A Cognitive Approach Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in By Olympia Panagiotidou & Roger Beck the Roman Empire In this ground-breaking study on one of the Edited by Georgia Petridou, Richard L Gordon & Jorg most intriguing and mysterious ancient cults, Rupke Olympia Panagiotidou, with contributions from Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies Roger Beck, shows how cognitive historiography of civic priests, the papers presented here examine can supplement our historical knowledge. It a wider range of religious professionals, their identifies the cognitive and psychological processes dynamic interaction with established religious which would have taken place in the minds and authorities and institutions, and their contributions bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean and participation in the mysteries, enabling the world, from the late Hellenistic period through to perception, apprehension, and integration of the Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland essential images and assumptions of the cult in its Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek worldview system. civic practice to ancient Judaism. 240p, 15 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781472567413 Hb 460p (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9783110447019 Hb £85.00 £110.00 Celtic Religions in the Roman Period Word and Context in Latin Poetry Personal, Local, and Global Studies in Memory of David West Edited by Ralph Haeussler & Thomas King Edited by A. J. Woodman & J. Wisse This multi-authored book brings together new This volume of essays is intended to commemorate work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are Shakespeare. The authors covered are Empedocles, the work of international experts in the fields of Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, studies. Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of 552p, b/w and col illus (Celtic Studies Publications 2017) Lavardin. 9781891271250 Pb £39.95 182p (Cambridge Philological Society 2017) 9780956838155 Hb £45.00 Roman Art & Archaeology The Late Proconsular Cistophori La ceca de Ilduro By William Metcalf By Alejandro G. Sinner This volume treats the This book is devoted to the cistophoric coinage bearing mint of Ilduro (province the names of Roman of Barcelona) during the magistrates, most commonly second century BC, its main proconsuls, struck in 58–48 goal being to study not only BC, as well as other issues the issues produced by the which depart from the workshop in detail, but also traditional paradigm. It the role that this coinage catalogues and illustrates had in the monetarization some 523 cistophori and of a changing society, that fractions from the mints of of the Laietani, which had Ephesus, Pergamum, Tralles, never previously needed to and Apameia, as well as use coinage. the “ATA” series and related issues. A detailed Spanish text. 189p b/w and col illus commentary discusses the Roman magistrates and (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917234 Only the Greek signers of their coinages as well as well as Pb £30.00 £24.00 until the metrology and fineness of the cistophori. 31st May 200p, b/w illus (American Numismatic Society 2017) 9780897223478 Hb £55.00, NYP

48 Roman Art & Archaeology The Mirror of Venus Author and Audience in Vitruvius’ Women in Roman Art De Architectura By Iain Ferris By Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols Though images of women In this book, Marden were ubiquitous in the Fitzpatrick Nichols reveals Roman world, these were how Vitruvius pitched seldom intended to be taken the Greek discipline of simply at face value. The architecture to his Roman importance of marriage, readers, most of whom motherhood and political were undoubtedly laymen. stability was often conveyed Nichols argues that the to the Roman people through author never intended to carefully constructed provide an accurate view representations of the of contemporary buildings. women of the ruling house. Instead, Vitruvius crafted his Mythological representations were used to present authorial persona and remarks on architecture to moral and political lessons to the women of Rome. appeal to elites (and would-be elites) eager to secure This accessible book explores these representations their positions within an expanding empire. and interprets their meaning and significance. 251p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107003125 Hb £75.00 240p col pls (Amberley Publishing 2017) 9781445660288 Pb £9.99 Immagini del Tempo degli Dei, Immagini del Tempo degli Uomini The Image of Political Power in Un’Analisi delle Iconografie dei Mesi the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98 nei Calendari Figurati Romani e Bizantini By Nathan T. Elkins e del Loro Contest Storico-Culturale Nerva, who ruled from 18 By Ciro Parodo September AD 96 to 27 A characteristic shared by the Roman and by January AD 98, left little zantine illustrated calendars is that they represent for the art historian or the twelve months of the year, referable to an archaeologist on account of iconographic repertoire which is divided into his short reign. This book three themes: the astrological-astronomical, the takes the entire imperial festive-ritual and the rural-seasonal. The aim of coinage program issued by research presented in this volume is the in-depth the mint of Rome to examine study of the connections between the self-representation, and, the meaning of the iconography by extension, the policies and of the Roman and by zantine ideals of Nerva’s regime, in illustrated calendars and their Only the process avoiding the problems of retrospection historical and cultural context. £34.00 until caused by privileging posthumous literary sources. Italian text. 346p, b/w illus 31st May 232p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190648039 Hb (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917340 £55.00 Pb £42.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE The Traffic Systems of Pompeii By Eric E. Poehler Eric E. Poehler distills over five hundred instances of street-level “wear and tear” to reveal for the first time the rules of the ancient road. From his analysis of curbstones, cobbled surfaces, and ruts emerge the intricacies of the Pompeian traffic system and the changes to its operation over time. Though archaeological expertise forms the backbone of this book, its findings have equally important historical and architectural implications. Later chapters probe the impact of design and infrastructure on social roles and hierarchies among property owners in Pompeii, illuminating the economic forces Only that push and pull upon the shape of urban space. The £47.00 until final chapters set the road system into its broader context as 31st May one major infrastructural and administrative artefact of the Roman empire’s deeply urban culture. 288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190614676 Hb £55.00

Roman Art & Archaeology 49 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Material Approaches to Roman Magic The Transition to Late Antiquity on Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances the Lower Danube Edited by Adam Parker & Stuart McKie Excavations at Dichin: An Extraordinary Late This second volume in Roman and Early Byzantine Fort, Intensive Site- the new TRAC Themes in Specific Survey and a Unique Roman Aqueduct Roman Archaeology series By Andrew Poulter seeks to push the research Excavations on the site agendas of materiality and of this remarkable fort in lived experience further into northern Bulgaria (1996– the study of Roman magic, a 2005) formed part of a field that has, until recently, long-term programme of lacked object-focused excavation and intensive analysis. by concentrating field survey, aimed at tracing primarily on the Imperial the economic as well as period and the western physical changes which provinces, the various contributions demonstrate mark the transition from very clearly the exceptional range of influences the Roman Empire to the and possibilities open to individuals who sought Middle Ages. The analysis of to use magical rituals to affect their well-dated finds and their full publication provides lives in these specific contexts a unique data-base for the late Roman period in – something that would have Only the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery, glass, been largely impossible in £30.00 until copper alloy finds, inscriptions and dipinti as well earlier periods of antiquity. as quantified environmental reports on 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) publication animal, birds and fish. In addition, 9781785708817 Hb £40.00 there is a tailed report on a most remarkable and well-preserved Only Insularity and Identity in aqueduct which employed the £52.50 until the Roman Mediterranean largest siphon ever discovered publication Edited by Anna Kouremenos in the Roman Empire. The papers in this book 640p, (Oxbow Books 2018) explore the concepts of 9781785709586 Hb £70.00 insularity and identity in the Roman period by addressing House of the Surgeon, Pompeii some of the following Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo questions: what does it mean (VI 1, 9-10.23) to be an island? How has Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian Robinson insularity shaped ethnic, The House of the Surgeon cultural, and social identity has been one of the most in the Mediterranean during frequently cited houses in the Roman period? How the ancient city since its were islands connected to the discovery in 1771. The results mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce of the exhaustive study of isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean the house within its urban islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ context not only challenge culture? How has maritime interaction shaped many of the conclusions of the economy and culture of specific islands? Can previous research, but also we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during make it possible at last for the Roman period? The twelve papers presented this important property here each deal with specific islands to contribute information to the full history or island groups, thus allowing of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating for an integrated view of Only the chronology of urban change, the processes Mediterranean insularity and £28.50 until involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects identity. of the ancient environment, and 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) publication changing socio-political and 9781785705809 Pb £38.00 economic conditions within Italy Only throughout the middle to late £52.50 until Republic and early Empire. publication 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £70.00

50 Roman Art & Archaeology The Temple of Peace in Rome The Archaeology of Lucanian By Pier Luigi Tucci Cult Places In this magisterial two- Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age volume book, Pier Luigi By Ilaria Battiloro Tucci offers a comprehensive With a detailed analysis of the archaeological record, examination of one of the key this study traces the historical and archaeological complexes of Ancient Rome, narrative of Lucanian cult places from their the Temple of Peace. Volume creation to the Late Republican Age. Battiloro 1 focuses on the foundation offers insight into the diachronic development of of the complex under sacred architecture and ritual customs in ancient Vespasian until its restoration Lucania, and crucial new evidence from the most under Septimius Severus and recent archaeological investigations is explored in challenges the accepted views order to define dynamics of contact and interaction about the ancient building. between Lucanians and Romans on the eve of the Volume 2 begins with the remodelling of the library Roman conquest. hall and the construction of the rotunda complex, 344p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472423917 Hb and examines the dedication of the Christian £115.00 Basilica of SS Cosmas and Damian. 1024p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) Architecture and Politics in 9781107174214 Hb £180.00 Republican Rome Pompeii By Penelope J. E. Davies An Archaeological Guide This volume explores By Paul Wilkinson the intersection between Roman Republican building Illustrated throughout with practices and politics (c.509- maps, plans, diagrams and 44 BCE). At the start of other images, this handy the period, architectural guidebook offers a general commissions were carefully introduction to Pompeii controlled by the political followed by an authoritative system; by the end, buildings summary and survey of were so widely exploited and the buildings, artefacts and so rhetorically powerful that paintings themselves. There Cassius Dio cited abuse of is coverage of the forum, visual culture among the reasons that propelled temples, brothels, bath- Julius Caesar’s colleagues to murder him in order to houses, bakeries, gymnasia, safeguard the Republic. Penelope J. E. Davies traces amphitheatre, necropolis and the journey between these two points, as politicians other site buildings – including developed strategies to manoeuver within the perennial favourites like the Only system’s constraints. House of the Faun, named after its celebrated dancing satyr. £12.00 until 366p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107094314 Hb £44.99 352p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2017) 31st May 9781784539283 Pb £14.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Decorated Roman Armour From the Ages of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great By Raffaele D’Amato & Andrey Evgenevich Negin This book presents a richly illustrated examination of Roman decorated armour. Its chronological chapters comprise detailed description of individual pieces, discussion of typology and iconography, Only and analysis of manufacturing processes and practical usage. Overall the authors contend that this was not gear designed £24.00 until solely for the parade ground and the triumph, but also had 31st May a real role to play in battle. 256p, col illus (Frontline 2017) 9781473892873 Hb £30.00

Roman Art & Archaeology 51 The Roman Garden The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Space, Sense, and Society Glass from Cosa By Katharine T. von Stackelberg By David Frederick Grose & Russell Scott In this study Katharine von Over 15,000 fragments of glass tableware, ranging Stackelberg examines how in date from the mid-second century BCE to the the garden functioned as early fifth century CE, were found at Cosa, a small a conceptual, sensual and town in Etruria (modern Tuscany). This study physical space in Roman traces the evolution of manufacturing techniques society, and its use as a vehicle from core-formed vessels to free blown glass, of cultural communication. and it documents changes in taste and style that It includes a detailed were characteristic of the western glass industry original analysis of garden throughout its long history. terminology and concludes 304p, b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2017) with three case studies on the 9780472130627 Hb £68.50 House of Octavius Quartio and the House of the Menander in Pompeii, Pliny’s Die Ausrustung der romischen Armee Tuscan garden, and Caligula’s Horti Lamiani in Rome. auf der Siegessaule des Marcus 182p b/w illus (Routledge 2009, Pb 2017) 9780415438230 Aurelius in Rom Hb £110.00, 9781138243064 Pb £43.99 By Boris Alexander Nikolaus Burandt Writing and Power in the Roman World This volume presents a detailed comparison Literacies and Material Culture between archaeological remains of military equipment from excavations at sites linked to the By Hella Eckardt wars with the Marcomanni on the Danube frontier In this book, Hella Eckardt and the famous depictions of soldiers from those offers new insights into same wars on the Column of Marcus literacy in the Roman Aurelius in Rome. The result is a world by examining the broad picture of the Roman army tools that enabled writing, under Marcus Aurelius and of Only such as inkwells, styli and Rome’s depiction of their forces £36.00 until tablets. She explores how in state propaganda. 31st May writing equipment shaped 418p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) practices such as posture 9781784916930 Pb £45.00 and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial Protecting the Empire data shows considerable Fortlets, Frontiers, and the Quest for numbers of women and children interred with Post-Conquest Security writing equipment in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. By Matthew F. A. Symonds 282p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) When it came to suppressing 9781108418058 Hb £75.00 counterinsurgencies, or deterring the depredations Glassware and Glassworking in of bandits, the Roman army Thessaloniki frequently deployed small 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD groups of infantry and cavalry based in fortlets. By Anastassios Ch. Antonaras This remarkable installation This is a detailed examination of the production of type has never previously glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean, been studied in detail, and during the Roman period, analysing production shows a new side to the techniques and decoration. The volume establishes Roman army. Rather than the socio-economic framework of glassmaking and displaying the aggressive uniformity for which glassmakers’ social status in the Roman world the Roman military is famous, individual fortlets generally and in Thessaloniki specifically, while were usually bespoke installations tailored to local identifying probable local products. Presented are needs. Examining fortlet use in north-west Europe all the excavation glass finds from helps explain the differing designs of the Empire’s Thessaloniki and its environs most famous artificial frontier systems: Hadrian’s found between 1912 and 2002. Wall, the Antonine Wall, and the Upper German A typological classification Only and Raetian limites. The archaeological evidence is is presented for almost 800 £40.00 until fully integrated with documentary sources, which objects. 31st May disclose the gritty reality of life in a Roman fortlet. 400p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 266p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108421553 Hb £75.00 2017) 9781784916794 Pb £50.00 52 Roman Art & Archaeology Roman Britain The Western Cemetery of Roman NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Cirencester Alan Sorrell Excavations at the Former Bridges Garage, Tetbury Road, Cirencester, 2011-2015 The Man Who Created Roman Britain By Neil Holbrook, Jamie Wright, E.R. McSloy & By Julia Sorrell & Mark Sorrell Jonny Geber Alan Sorrell’s archaeo- Excavations in 2011 to 2015 within the Western logical reconstruction Cemetery of Roman Cirencester resulted in the drawings and paintings discovery of 118 inhumation and 8 cremation burials, remain some of the best, the largest investigation of a Roman cemetery in most accurate and most Cirencester since the Bath Gate excavations of accomplished paintings of the 1970s. A greater quantity of grave goods was their genre. So influential recovered from this cemetery compared to the Bath were Sorrell’s images Gate cemetery, testifying to the higher status of of Roman towns such those buried here. as London, Colchester, Wroxeter, St Albans and 170p, b/w illus (Cotswold Archaeology 2017) Bath, buildings such as 9780993454530 Hb £19.95, NYP the Heathrow temple and the forts of Hadrian’s A Romano-British-Roadside Settlement Wall, that he became known as the man who invented Roman Britain. In this affectionate near Beanacre, Wiltshire but objective account, Sorrell’s children, both By Cai Mason also artists, present a brief pictorial biography Archaeological excavation followed by more detailed descriptions of the during the construction of genesis, research and production of illustrations a new supply line for the that demonstrate the artist’s integrity and vision, electrification of the Great based largely on family archives and illustrated Western Railway Main throughout with Sorrell’s own works. Line, uncovered part of a 192p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) large, previously unknown, 9781785707407 Pb £29.99 Romano-British settlement along the main road between The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester the Roman towns of Aquae Volume 1 Sulis and Cunetio. The full The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology extent of the settlement is unknown but evidence from metal detector finds By Tony Wilmott & Dan Garner and field names suggests that it may have extended This is the first of two for at least 0.9 km along the Roman road. volumes dealing with 120p, b/w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology 2018) the major research 9781911137085 Pb £15.00, NYP excavations on the Chester Amphitheatre Hadrian’s Wall in 2004–2006. The first By Adrian Goldsworthy amphitheatre was built in the 70s AD. Amphitheatre Located at the far-flung and 2, probably built in the wild edge of the Roman later second century, Empire, Hadrian’s Wall was was the largest and most constructed by Emperor impressive amphitheatre Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in Britain, featuring elaborate entrances, internal in size and stretching from stairs and decorative pilasters on the outer wall. the east to the west cost of This fully integrated volume tells the story the province of Britannia, it of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of took ten years and thousands the life of the amphitheatre. It contains full of hands to build the seventy- stratigraphic and structural detail, including CGI three miles of wall and its reconstruction of Amphitheatre 2, artefactual impressive forts. Adrian and ecofactual evidence. Goldsworthy considers why and how the Vallum Aelium was built and discusses the fascinating 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) history, afterlife and archaeology of this unique 9781785707445 Hb £30.00 ancient monument. 256p col illus (Head of Zeus 2018) 9781784974725 Hb £18.99 53 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards Clash of Cultures? in Britain The Romano-British Period in the By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, West Midlands Colin Haselgrove & David J. Mattingly Edited by Roger White & Mike Hodder More coin hoards have The general perception of been recorded from Roman the west midlands region in Britain than from any other the Roman period is that it province of the Empire. This was a backwater compared to comprehensive and lavishly the militarised frontier zone illustrated volume provides of the north, or the south of a survey of over 3260 hoards Britain where Roman culture of Iron Age and Roman coins took root early – in cities found in England and Wales like Colchester, London and with a detailed analysis St Albans – and lingered and discussion. Theories late at cities like Cirencester of hoarding and deposition and Bath with their rich, and examined, national and regional patterns in late Roman villa culture. Where the west midlands the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, differed, and why, are important questions in together with an analysis of those hoards whose understanding the regional diversity of Roman findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found Britain. They are addressed by this volume which in archaeological excavations. It also includes an details the archaeology of the Roman period unprecedented examination of the containers in for each of the modern counties of the region, which coin hoards were buried and the objects written by local experts who are or have been found with them. The patterns of hoarding in responsible for the management and exploration Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th of their respective counties. These are placed century AD are discussed. The volume also provides alongside more thematic takes on elements of a survey of Britain in the 3rd century Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery, AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the are known from the period from Only important transitional period of the fifth and sixth AD 253–296. £48.75 until centuries. This is the third volume in a series – The Making of the West Midlands – that 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2018) 9781785708558 Hb explores the archaeology of the £65.00 English west midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic Only Journal of Roman Pottery onwards. £22.50 until Studies Volume 17 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication Edited by Steven Willis Books 2018) 9781785709227 Hb Topics include: evidence £30.00 of Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery forms and fabrics from west and east Kent; ceramic fire-dogs Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology, discovered in the area Issue 8 (2017) of the Dutch Lowlands Edited by David Mason and Flanders; portable A bumper edition of the annual round-up of Roman ceramic ovens and archaeological work on Hadrian’s Wall. Articles baking plates recorded report on a substantial number of projects at sites in recent years in Britain; including the vicus at Dorcas Avenue, Benwell, amphorae from the eastern Vindolanda, Piercebridge, Netherby, Binchester, Mediterranean in northern Europe and pottery Haltwhistle Burn and Lanchester, as well as on two used in Roman ritual and religion; events - the Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology Forum for and the pottery production site 2016 and the spectucular re-enactment of a series at Snape, Suffolk, and the types Only of maneouvres from the time of Hadrian by a full produced. £28.50 until cavalry squadron. 96p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books publication 72p col illus (Durham County Council 2017) 2018) 9781785709340 Pb £38.00 9781907445835 Pb £6.00

54 Roman Britain Late Antiquity & Byzantium Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and Amalasuintha the Early Middle Ages The Transformation of Queenship in Contact and Exchange between the Graeco- the Post-Roman World Roman World, Inner Asia and China By Massimiliano Vitiello Edited byHyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet & In this book, Massimiliano Selim Ferruh Adali Vitiello situates the life and This collection of studies examines the history, career of the Ostrogothic literature and archaeology of empires such as queen Amalasuintha (c. ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, 494/5-535), in the context of the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks among the transitional time, after the others, as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. fall of Rome, during which It highlights in particular the critical role of Inner new dynastic regimes were Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts experimenting with various and exchange across the Eurasian continent in forms of political legitimation. antiquity and the early Middle Ages. He argues that Amalasuintha’s 346p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107190412 Hb story reveals a key phase in £75.00 the transformation of queenship in which royal women slowly began exercising political power. The Two Eyes of the Earth 344p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome 9780812249477 Hb £58.00 and Sasanian Iran Gaiseric By Matthew P. Canepa The Vandal Who Sacked Rome This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning By Ian Hughes the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates While Gaiseric has not become a household name the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged like other ‘barbarian’ leaders such as Attila, his sack in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals, the traditional divide between classical and Iranian synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric, history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of however, was no mindless thug, proving himself a two global powers that deeply affected the cultures highly skilful political and military leader and one of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, of the dominant forces in Western Mediterranean and China. region for almost half a century. Ian Hughes 456p b/w illus (University of California Press 2010, pb provides a predominantly military account of 2017) 9780520257276 Hb £70.95, 9780520294837 Pb Gaiseric’s career, focusing on his conquest of North £27.95 Africa and his involvement in Imperial politics. 278p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781781590188 Hb £25.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Fate of Rome Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire By Kyle Harper The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power - a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its Only unravelling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the £24.00 until Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental 31st May stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague. 440p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691166834 Hb £27.95 55 Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in Late Roman North Africa By Shira L. Lander The Bir Messaouda Basilica In this study Lander examines the rhetorical Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban and physical battles for sacred space between Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage practitioners of traditional Roman religion, By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. This volume charts the He demonstrates that the quantity and harshness radical transformation of an of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces inner city neighbourhood directly correlates to their symbolic value. This in late antique Carthage. heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals It remained primarily were willing to violate conventional Roman norms residential from the second of property rights to display spatial control. century until 530s AD when 266p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107146945 a substantial basilica was Hb £75.00 constructed over the eastern half of the insula. Further The Darkening Age extensive modifications The Christian Destruction of the Classical World were made to the basilica By Catherine Nixey half-a-century later. The Bir Messaouda basilica Catherine Nixey here contends that Christianity provides important insights into the transition comprehensively and deliberately extinguished between Vandal and Byzantine control of the the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in city, the development of a new Christian inter- centuries of unquestioning adherence to ‘one true mural urban landscape in the sixth faith’. From the 1st century to the 6th, those who century AD, and the significance didn’t fall into step with its beliefs were pursued of the pilgrimage in reinforcing Only in every possible way: social, legal, financial and ecclesiastical authority in post- £41.25 until physical. Their altars were upturned and their Justinianic North Africa. publication temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) and their priests killed. 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 352p col pls (Pan 2017) 9781509812325 Hb £20.00 Butrint 5: Life and Death at The Early Christian World a Mediterranean Port Edited byPhilip F. Esler The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch The Early Christian World provides comprehensive Palace coverage of the origins, development, character By William Bowden and major figures of early Christianity. For the This is the second volume new edition, a quarter of the text is entirely new arising from the 1994–2003 and the remaining essays have all been carefully excavations of the Triconch revised and updated by their authors. New material Palace at Butrint (Albania), discusses book culture, canonical and non- which charted the history canonical scriptures, saints and hagiography, and of a major Mediterranean translation across cultures, as well as Jewish and waterfront site from the 2nd Christian interaction in the early centuries, ritual, to the 15th centuries AD. This the New Testament in Roman Britain, Manichaeism, volume reports on the finds Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. from the site (excluding the 1250p b/w illus (Routledge, 2nd ed 2017) 9781138200074 pottery), which demonstrate Hb £175.00 the ways in which the lives, diet and material culture of a Mediterranean The Key to the Brescia Casket population changed across the arc of the late Roman Typology and the Early Christian Imagination and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the By Catherine Brown Tkacz environmental evidence, the human and faunal The elusive rationale for the Brescia Casket, an remains, metal-working evidence, and the major ivory reliquary carved in northern Italy ca. 390, has assemblages of glass, coins and small finds, giving an long tantalized scholars. This book argues that its insight into the health, subsistence meaning lies in exegetical typology-the interpretation base and material culture of the of Old Testament people and events as prefiguring population of a Mediterranean Only the Messiah. Tkacz contends that the Casket is in site across more than 1000 years. £33.75 until 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow effect a visual sermon on the unity of the Bible’s two publication testaments, an important theological issue of the time. Books 2018) 9781785708978 Hb 280p, b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2017) £45.00 9780268160449 Hb £100.00 56 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Jewish Glass and Christian Stone Marcus Simaika Pasha A Materialist Mapping of the ‘Parting of the Ways’ Father of Coptic Archaeology By Eric C. Smith By Samir Simaika & Nevine Henein This book takes up the question of the divergence of Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was a visionary Judaism and Christianity in terms of material - the administrator who used his status to pursue stuff made, used, and left behind by the persons relentlessly his dream of founding a Coptic that lived in and between these religions as they Museum and preserving endangered monuments. were developing. Considering the glass, clay, stone, This fascinating biography draws upon Simaika’s paint, vellum, and papyrus of ancient Jews and unpublished memoirs as well as on other Christians, this book maps the “parting” in new documents and photographs to ways, and argues for a greater role for material and explore the development of materialism in our reconstructions of the past. Coptic archaeology and heritage Only 200p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138202122 Hb studies. £24.00 until £95.00 224p, 30 b/w illus (American 31st May University in Cairo Press 2017) The Religious Worlds of the Laity 9789774168239 Hb £29.95 in Late Antique Gaul By Lisa Kaaren Bailey Christianizing Egypt This volume explores the role of the laity in Gaul, Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity bringing together the fields of history, archaeology By David Frankfurter and theology. First, this book follows the ways This book looks at the construction of Christianity in which clergy and monks tried to shape and in the various social and creative worlds active manufacture lay religious experience. The book in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. then focuses on how the laity experienced their Reintroducing the term “syncretism”, the book religion, how they interpreted it and how their addresses the various formations of Egyptian decisions shaped the nature of the Church and of Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, their faith. the creative worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, 256p (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2017) 9781472519030 Hb the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture £90.00, 9781350052239 Pb £28.99 of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself. Monasteries and the Care of Souls 352p, b/w and col illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176970 in Late Antique Christianity Hb £32.95 By Paul C. Dilley Christianity and Monasticism in In this volume, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the Northern Egypt thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored Beni Suef, Giza and the Nile Delta and trained to purify the mind and help them Edited by Gawdat Gabra & Hany Takla achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the The contributors to this volume examine various interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies, especially aspects of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt over anthropology, in his analysis of key monastic the past two millennia. The studies explore Coptic ‘cognitive disciplines’, such as meditation on art and archaeology, architecture, scripture, the fear of God, and prayer. language, and literature, in 358p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107184015 Hb £90.00 particular highlighting the Only artistic heritage of monastic sites. £40.00 until Crisis of Empire 384p col illus (American University 31st May Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity in Cairo Press 2017) 9789774167775 By Phil Booth Hb £49.95 This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics - John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt Maximus Confessor - to determine the Church’s By Ryan McConnell power and place during a period of profound This volume investigates precisely how the Apions’ crisis. By asserting visions which reconciled wealth was generated and what role the Egyptian long-standing intellectual tensions between estate played in that growth by engaging directly asceticism and Church, these authors established with broader questions of the relationship between the framework for their subsequent emergence as public and private economic actors in Late Antiquity, Constantinople’s most vociferous religious critics rational management in ancient economies, the size and their radical rejection of imperial interference of estates in Byzantine Egypt, and the role of rural in matters of the faith. estates in the Byzantine economy. 416p, (University of California Press 2017) 160p (University of Michigan Press 2017) 9780472130382 9780520296190 Pb £27.95 Hb £54.95

Late Antiquity & Byzantium 57 Armenia Christiana Writing about Byzantium Armenian Religious Identity and the Churches of The history of Niketas Choniates Constantinople and Rome (4th – 15th Century) By Theresa Urbainczyk By Krzysztof Stopka This volume is an introduction to the history of This book presents the dramatic and complex story Niketas, and to the author’s views of why this period of Armenia’s ecclesiastical relations with Byzantine saw such catastrophe for the Byzantines. It looks and subsequently Roman Christendom in the at Niketas’ thoughts about history-writing, the Middle Ages. It is built on a broad foundation emperors, and the Comnene dynasty in particular, of sources–Armenian, Greek, Latin, and Syrian about the presence of God in man’s affairs, and the chronicles and documents, especially the abundant historian’s attitudes to the women of the imperial correspondence between the Holy See and the family. Armenian Church. 160p, (Routledge 2017) 9781138738683 Hb £105.00 400p, (Jagiellonian UP 2017) 9788323341901 Pb £45.95 John Kaminiates A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities The Capture of Thessaloniki Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from By David Frendo & Athanasios Fotiou History’s Most Orthodox Empire In 904 a Saracen force led by Leo of Tripoli sacked By Anthony Kaldellis Thessaloniki for ten days, then departed taking as This fun little book collects a cornucopeia of many prisoners as they could hold on board their anecdotes and short pieces relating to the more ships. One of these prisoners was Kaminiates, who unusual aspects of Byzantine civilization. Stories of was later set free in an exchange of prisoners. He saints, relics, and their miracles–from the hilarious subsequently wrote a detailed account of the siege. to the revolting – abound, along with court scandals, This book presents the Greek text, together with and the elaborate penal code. The book also the first English translation and an introduction contains sections on daily life that are equally and notes. eye-opening, including food (from aphrodisiacs 189p (Brill 2017) 9781876503000 Pb £50.00 to fermented fish sauce), games such as polo and acrobatics, and obnoxious views of foreigners and Justiniana Prima others (e.g., Germans, Catholics, Arabs, dwarves). An Underestimated Aspect of Justinian’s 256p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190625948 Hb £12.99 Church Policy Theodora By Stanislaw Turlej The book explores the history of Justiniana Prima, Actress, Empress, Saint a city built by Emperor Justinian I (527-565) in his By David Potter birthplace near Nis in present-day Serbia. Using Theodora was one of the dominant political figures information from Emperor Justinian’s Novels, as of her era, helping shape imperial foreign and well as Procopius’s De aedificiis, Stanislaw Turlej domestic policy and twice saving her husband from endeavours to show that Justiniana Prima’s historic threatened deposition. David Potter penetrates the significance resulted from granting its Church the highly biased accounts of her found in the writings status of an archbishopric with its own province of her contemporaries and takes advantage of in 535, which was independent of Rome. Justinian the latest research on early Byzantium to craft a wanted to introduce profound changes to the modern, well-rounded, and engaging narrative of ecclesiastical organization based on state law. Theodora’s life. 272p, (Jagiellonian UP 2017) 9788323341895 Pb £41.95 288p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780190692759 Pb £14.99 The Universal History of Step’anos Taro¯nec’i The Politics of Heresy in Ambrose Introduction, Translation, and Commentary of Milan Edited byTim Greenwood By Michael Stuart Williams The Universal History (Patmut’iwn tiezerakan) of Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his Step’anos Taronec’i is a history of the world in three struggle with ‘Arian’ heresy. Yet, almost all of the books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the evidence comes from Ambrose’s own writings, end of the tenth century and extending from the and from historians of the next generation who era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. represented him as a champion of orthodoxy. This It was completed in 1004/5 CE, at a time when the study argues instead that an ‘Arian’ opposition in Byzantine Empire was expanding eastwards across Milan was largely conjured up by Ambrose himself, the districts of historic Armenia and challenging key lumping together critics and outsiders in order to aspects of Armenian identity. This volume presents secure and justify his own authority. the first ever English translation of this work with 356p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107019461 Hb £90.00 notes and a full introduction. 384p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198792512 Hb £90.00

58 Late Antiquity & Byzantium The Alexiad of Anna Komnene The Oxford Handbook of Maximus Artistic Strategy in the Making of a Myth the Confessor By Penelope Buckley Edited by Pauline Allen & Bronwen Neil This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Maximus the Confessor Anna Komnene’s Alexiad. It argues that the work (c.580-662) has become one is both history and tragedy; the characterization of the most discussed figures of Alexios I Komnenos is cumulative; it develops; in contemporary patristic the models for his idealization change; much of studies. The impact of his the action takes place in his mind and the narrative works reached far beyond the relays and amplifies his thought while building a Greek East, for together with dense picture of the world in which he acts. Pope Martin I (649-53 CE), 334p, (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107037229 Hb Maximus and his circle were £72.00, 9781108401944 Pb £25.99 the most vocal opponents of Constantinople’s intro- Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood duction of the doctrine of The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to monothelitism. This impressive volume provides the First Crusade the political and historical background to Maximus’ By Anthony Kaldellis activities, as well as a summary of his achievements In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium in the spheres of theology and philosophy, especially embarked on a series of spectacular conquests, yet neo-Platonism and Aristotelianism. this imperial project came to a crashing collapse 640p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198779339 Pb £30.00 fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic Seljuks in the east and the Normans in the west Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. In addition of Aachen (812) to providing a badly needed narrative of this critical Edited by Mladen Ancic, Jonathan Shepard & period of Byzantine history, Streams of Gold, Rivers Trpimir Vedris of Blood offers new interpretations of key topics Although often mentioned in textbooks about the relevant to the medieval era. Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of 440p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190253226 Hb £25.99 Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to Land and Privilege in Byzantium view the episode through both micro- and macro- The Institution of Pronoia lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of By Mark C. Bartusis relations between Byzantium and the Frankish A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the realm in the eighth and early ninth century, crises emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and facing Byzantine emperors much closer to home, privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive and the relevance of the Bulgarian problem to study of the institution, this book examines the affairs on the Adriatic. The three-way play between origin, evolution and characteristics of pronoia, the two empires and ‘in-between’ parties is a focusing particularly on the later thirteenth and particular theme. fourteenth centuries. It incorporates the latest 392p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138225947 Hb understanding of Byzantine agrarian relations, £105.00 taxation, administration and the economy. The Cambridge Intellectual History 747p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107009622 Hb £103.00, 9781108439039 Pb £42.99 of Byzantium Edited by Anthony Kaldellis Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem This volume provides an authoritative history of By Daniel Galadza intellectual endeavours from Late Antiquity to The sources for this study are rediscovered the fifteenth century. Case studies introduce the manuscripts of Jerusalem’s liturgical calendar and major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and lectionary. When examined in context, they reveal particular emphasis is placed on the reception of that the devastating events of the Arab conquest ancient thought and its significance for secular in 638 and the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. in 1009 did not have as detrimental an effect on New insights are offered regarding controversial, liturgy as previously held. Instead, they confirm understudied, or promising topics of research, such that the process of Byzantinization was gradual and as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, locally-effected, rather than an imposed element of and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world. Byzantine imperial policy or ideology of the Church 800p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107041813 Hb £120.00 of Constantinople. 432p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198812036 Hb £85.00

Late Antiquity & Byzantium 59 Islam Cross Veneration in the Medieval An Early Ottoman History Islamic World The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle (Bodleian Christian Identity and Practice Under Library, Ms Marsh 313) Muslim Rule By Dimitri J. Kastritsis By Charles Tieszen The so-called Oxford One of the most common religious practices Anonymous chronicle is a among medieval Eastern Christian communities comprehensive history of was their devotion to venerating crosses and the Ottoman dynasty in crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in Turkish, compiled from predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice various sources to tell the often resulted in accusations of idolatry. How did story of the dynasty from its Christians respond to these allegations? Why did rise to the year 1484 (AH 889). they advocate the preservation of a practice that Like several other histories was often met with confusion or even contempt? produced around the To shed light onto these questions, same time, some of which Charles Tieszen looks at every it influenced, it presents known apologetic or polemical Only the Ottomans in the context of wider Islamic history and contains a coherent argument for text written between the eighth £48.00 until and fourteenth centuries to their superiority over other dynasties. This volume include a relevant discussion. 31st May presents an English translation together with an 256p (I.B. Tauris 2017) introduction and notes. 9781784536626 Hb £59.00 272p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940681 Hb £75.00 Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Islam Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia Culture and Caucasian Albania By Eve Krakowski By Alison Vacca This book explores Jewish In this book, Alison Vacca uses Arabic and Armenian women’s adolescence in texts to explore the Christian provinces of Armenia Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Caucasian Albania as part of the eighth- and and Syria (c. 969-1250). ninth-century Caliphate, identifying elements of Using hundreds of everyday continuity from Sasanian to caliphal rule, and, more papers preserved in the importantly, expounding on significant moments of Cairo Geniza, Eve Krakowski change in the administration of the Marwanid and follows the lives of girls from early Abbasid periods. Vacca examines historical different social classes–rich narrative and the construction of a Sasanian and poor, secluded and cultural memory during the late ninth and tenth physically mobile–as they centuries to place the provinces into a broader prepared to marry and context of Iranian rule. become social adults. She argues that the families on whom these girls depended were more varied, 280p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107188518 Hb £75.00 fragmented, and fluid than has been thought. Envisioning Islam 360p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691174983 Hb Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World £32.95 By Michael Philip Penn Ahmad Ibn Arabshah: Tamerlane Under Muslim rule from the seventh century The Life of the Great Amir onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive Introduction by Robert D. McChesney descriptions extant of early Islam. Envisioning Islam highlights the ways these neglected texts Arabshah’s biography of Tamerlane is that of a challenge the modern scholarly narrative of early contemporary, and was written soon after the events Muslim conquests, rulers, and religious practice, it describes. It is highly detailed and, in contrast revealing a culture of substantial interreligious to most biographies of Tamerlane, is also highly interaction in which the categorical boundaries critical, which makes it especially between Christianity and Islam were more interesting. This translation ambiguous than distinct. carries a new introduction by Only Robert D. McChesney. 304p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, Pb 2017) £60.00 until 9780812247220 Hb £48.00, 9780812224023 Pb £20.99 376p, (I.B. Tauris 2018) 31st May 9781784531706 Hb £75.00 60 Concubines and Courtesans Textiles of the Middle East and Women and Slavery in Islamic History Central Asia Edited by Matthew S. Gordon & Kathryn A. Hain The Fabric of Life Concubines and Courtesans By Fahmida Suleman contains sixteen essays that This well-illustrated book consider, from a variety explores the significance and of viewpoints, enslaved beauty of textiles from across and freed women across this vast and culturally medieval and pre-modern diverse region dating from Islamic social history. the late eighteenth century The essays bring together to the present day. The book arguments regarding slavery, is arranged thematically, gender, social networking, enabling cross-regional cultural production (songs, comparisons of the function poetry and instrumental and symbolic meaning of music), sexuality, Islamic textiles. Five chapters relate family law, and religion in the shaping of Near to facets or phases of a person’s life in which textiles Eastern and Islamic society over time. feature prominently: childhood, marriage and 400p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190622183 Hb £64.00 ceremony, status and identity, religion and belief, and house and homestead. A final chapter includes Developing Perspectives in Mamluk contemporary works that grapple with modern History political issues. Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni 269p col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500519912 Edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat Hb £29.95 This volume contains Philosophy and The Intellectual Life seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate. It in Shiah Islam discusses topics as varied as Symposium 2015 social and cultural issues, Edited by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad & Sajjad H. Rizvi women in Mamluk society, This volume offers insight into the rich intellectual literary and poetical genres, history in Shīah Islam of examining enduring the politics of material and integral theological, mystical, metaphysical, culture, and regional and and epistemological questions. The chapters are local politics. broad in scope, commencing from the classical 414p (Brill 2017) period of philosophical theology and proceeding 9789004340466 Hb £128.00 to examine philosophical aspects of the thought of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd, Mīr Dāmād, and Mullā Ṣadrā, amongst others. 276p, (The Shīah Institute Press 2017) 9780993588433 Hb £139.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE Persian Historic Urban Landscapes Interpreting and Managing Maibud Over 6000 Years By Eisa Esfanjary Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically. Maibud provides the basis from which a new interpretive approach is developed, being a city that has a history of several millennia yet has a scale that renders it manageable with archaeological remains that range across several phases of building development. Within this overall picture, a methodology is developed to explore various morphological elements of the city, the three key components of which are the town plan, the building type, Only and construction materials. The inter-relationships between £80.00 until these three components are explained in order to formulate 31st May an approach to support the management and conservation of the historic urban landscape. 256p, col illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474412780 Hb £95.00

Islam 61 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Alfred the Great NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Daniel Anlezark Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon This book provides an accessible reassessment England of the famous ruler of Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century Wessex, informed by current By Mark McKarracher scholarship, both on the Farming Transformed king as a man in history, and is the first book to draw the king as a subsequent together the variegated legendary construct. The evidence of pollen, book engages with current sediments, charred seeds, discussions about the animal bones, watermills, authenticity of attributions to corn-drying ovens, Alfred of works such as the granaries and stockyards Old English Boethius and on an extensive, regional Soliloquies, and explores scale. The result is an how this ninth-century king of Wessex came to inter-disciplinary dataset considered the ‘’Great’’ king of legend. of unprecedented scope 115p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401285 Pb £11.95 and size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, and new watermills, granaries and Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon ovens were erected to cope with – and flaunt England, 871–978 – the fat of the land. As arable farming grew Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle By Levi Roach came under closer management and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, Levi Roach argues that assemblies were not a check and traction power for ploughing. These and on kingship in the later Anglo-Saxon period, but other innovations are found to be concentrated rather an essential feature of it. In particular, he at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, highlights the role of symbolic communication at placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural assemblies, arguing that ritual and demonstration innovation, and farming as the force behind were as important in English politics as they were kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in elsewhere in Europe. Far from being exceptional, the seventh and eighth centuries. the methods of rulership employed by English kings look very much like those witnessed elsewhere on 144p, b/w illus (Windgather Press 2018) 9781911188315 the continent. Pb £34.99 316p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107036536 Hb The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of £62.00, 9781316648520 Pb £20.99 Southern Britain AD 450–650 Aelfred’s Britain By Martin Welch & Sue Harrington War and Peace in the Viking Age This volume adopts a new By Max Adams approach to the social and economic realities of Traditionally, Aelfred the the communities of early Great is cast as the central Anglo-Saxon England player in the story of Viking based on archaeological Age Britain. But Max Adams, information from 12,000 while stressing the genius burials and 28,000 objects. of Aelfred as war leader, The nature, distribution law-giver, and forger of the and spatial relationships English nation, has a more of settlement and burial nuanced and variegated evidence are examined narrative to relate. The over time against a background of the productive Britain encountered by the capabilities of the environment in which they are Scandinavians of the ninth set, the availability of raw materials, evidence for and tenth centuries was one metalworking and other industrial/craft activities, of regional diversity and self- and communication and trade routes. conscious cultural identities: of Picts, Dal Riatans and Strathclyde Britons; of Bernicians and Deirans, 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2014, Pb 2018) East Anglians, Mercians and West Saxons. 9781785709708 Pb £40.00 512p col pls(Head of Zeus 2017) 9781784080303 Hb £25.00 62 The Formation of the English Kingdom Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated in the Tenth Century Old English Hexateuch By George Molyneaux By Herbert R. Broderick The central argument of this study is that the In Moses the Egyptian, English kingdom which existed at the time of the Herbert Broderick analyzes Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical the iconography of Moses parameters of a set of administrative reforms in the famous illuminated implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, eleventh-century manuscript and not by a vision of English unity going back known as the Illustrated to Alfred the Great (871-899). Detailed analysis of Old English Hexateuch. coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests Broderick argues that the that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) visual construct of may that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively have been based on a Late standardised administrative apparatus of the so- Antique, no longer extant, called ‘Anglo-Saxon state’. prototype influenced 320p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780198717911 by works of Hellenistic £65.00, 9780198813460 Pb £24.99 Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king, Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo- military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe. Saxon England 368p b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2017) Edited by Rory Naismith & David A. Woodman 9780268102050 Hb £77.50 The essays which make Archetypal Narratives up this book explore the nexus between authority Pattern and Parable in the Lives of Three Saints and written sources from By Elizabeth M Krajewski Anglo-Saxon England. This book sets the earliest extant Lives of Sts Central themes include the Brigit, Samson, and Cuthbert in their specifically formation of power in early Christian and biblical context, recognizing that Anglo-Saxon kingdoms much of the anecdotal material in the narratives during the age of Bede (d. is modelled on biblical precedents, and that 735) and Offa of Mercia their authors and first audiences were Christian (757-96), authority and its monastics in regions that were in the process of articulation in the century becoming Christianized.It poses the possibility from Edgar (959-75) to 1066, that many of the stories within them are actually and the significance of books and texts in expressing parables – stories intended to be both metaphorical power across the period. and illustrative, but hardly factual. 360p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107160972 258p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577111 Pb £58.00 Hb £90.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Medieval European Coinage Volume 8, Britain and Ireland c.400-1066 By Rory Naismith This volume of Medieval European Coinage traces the coinage and monetary history of Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages, offering the first major single-volume treatment of the subject in decades. It examines the period from the end of the Roman province of Britain in the fifth century to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169-71. The volume re-evaluates the complex seventh- and eighth-century English coinages, follows the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon coinage into one of the most sophisticated monetary systems in medieval Europe, and also covers the coins issued by Viking settlers Only in parts of England and Ireland. This landmark volume £130.00 is supported by one of the most complete catalogues of until the period illustrating the world-class collection of the 31st May Fitzwilliam Museum. 922p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521260169 Hb £150.00

Anglo-Saxon & Viking 63 Scotland’s Early Silver Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Alice Blackwell, Martin Goldberg & Fraser Hunter It was silver, not gold, which Cille Pheadair was the most important and A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn powerful precious metal in South Uist in Scotland for over six By Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui hundred years and, as well Mulville & Helen Smith as showcasing some of the Cille Pheadair is one of finest silver objects from the more than 20 Viking Age collections of the National and Late Norse settlements Museums of Scotland, this discovered on the island book builds on the Glenmorangie Research Project of South Uist in the Outer to gives fresh insights into the development of Hebrides (Western Isles), off Scotland’s early kingdoms. the west coast of Scotland. 144p b/w and col illus (NMS 2017) 9781910682128 Pb Its unusually well-preserved £19.99 stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, Celtic Saints of Scotland, Northumbria including five longhouses and the Isle of Man and many smaller buildings, By Elizabeth Rees provides a remarkable insight into daily life on Most books about Celtic a Norse farmstead during two centuries of near- saints are based on their continuous occupation c. AD 1000 –1200. Although legendary medieval lives. the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue This book, however, focuses project undertaken before the site was destroyed on the sites where these early by coastal erosion, it provided an opportunity to Christians lived and worked. address important research questions about the Archaeology, combined domestic use of space, agricultural with early inscriptions and economy, and relationships with texts, offers us important the wider world beyond the Only clues which help us to piece Outer Hebrides. £26.75 until together something of the 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication fascinating world of early Books 2018) 9781785708510 Hb Christianity. £35.00 240p, b/w and col illus (Fonthill Media Ltd 2017) 9781781556016 Pb £16.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Early Medieval Europe Viking Britain By Tom Williams A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. Between the conventional beginning of the Viking Age in the late eighth century and its close in the eleventh, Scandinavian people and culture were involved with Britain to a degree that has left a permanent impression on these islands. They came to plunder and, ultimately, to settle, to Only colonize and to rule. By the time of the Norman Conquest, £21.00 until much of Britain might justifiably be described as ‘Viking’, and in language, literature, place-names and folklore, the 31st May presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt. 416p (William Collins 2017) 9780008171933 Hb £25.00

64 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Cnut How Thor Lost his Thunder The North Sea King The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God By Ryan Lavelle By Declan Taggart Stretching his authority across the North Sea to This geographically and chronologically far- become king of Denmark and Norway, and with reaching study considers the earliest sources close links to Ireland and an overlordship of in which Thor appears, including in evidence Scotland, Cnut created a Viking Empire at least as from the Viking colonies of the British Isles and plausible as the Anglo-Norman Empire that would in Scandinavian folklore. Through tracing the emerge in 1066. Ryan Lavelle’s illuminating book changes and variety that has occurred in Old cuts through myths and misconceptions to explore Norse mythology over time, this book provokes a this fascinating and powerful man in detail. He was questioning of fundamental popular and scholarly a conqueror, political player, law maker and empire beliefs about Thor, including whether he really builder on the grandest scale, one whose reign tells was a thunder god and whether worshippers truly us much about the contingent nature of history. believed they would encounter him in the afterlife. 128p (Penguin 2017) 9780141979878 Hb £12.99 240p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138058194 Hb £100.00 Old Norse Mythology Comparative Perspectives Islands in the West Edited by Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell & Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Jens Peter Schjodt Irish Geographical Imagination Old Norse mythology is By Matthias Egeler elusive: it is the label used This monograph traces the history of one of the to describe the religious most prominent types of geographical myths stories of the pre-Christian of the North-West Atlantic Ocean: transmarine North, featuring such otherworlds of blessedness and immortality, well-known gods as Odin including Vínland (‘Wine-Land’) Hvítramannaland and Thor, yet most of the (‘The Land of White Men’) and the Ódáinsakr/ narratives have come down Glæsisvellir (‘Field of the Not-Dead’/‘Shining to us in manuscripts from the Fields’). It follows how these Norse otherworld Middle Ages mainly written myths adopt, adapt, and transform concepts from by Christians. To overcome early Irish vernacular tradition and Medieval these limitations, this book Latin geographical literature, and pursues their assembles comparisons from a range of theoretical connection to the geographical mythology of and analytical perspectives–across media, cultures, classical antiquity. and disciplines. 400p, (Brepols 2017) 9782503569383 Hb £85.00 570p, (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674975699 Pb £23.95 Early Medieval Europe Frisians and their NorthSea Neighbours Saxon Identities, AD 150–900 From the Fifth Century to the Viking Age By Robert Flierman Edited by John Hines & Nelleke Ijssennagger This study provides a While the importance of linguistically Germanic comprehensive analysis of Frisians as neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Continental Saxon identity Saxons and Danes in the centuries immediately in antiquity and the early following the fall of the Roman Empire in the middle ages. Though the West is widely recognized, these folk themselves Saxons were mentioned as remain enigmatic, the details of their culture and early as AD 150, they left organization unfamiliar to many. These essays no written evidence of present the most up-to-date discoveries, research their own before c. 840. and interpretation, following the story of the Thus, for the first seven various Frisians through from centuries, we can only the Roman Period to next great look at the Saxons through period of disruption and change Only the eyes of their Roman introduced by the Viking £60.00 until enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. Significantly, these outside views Scandinavians. 31st May 299p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons 9781783271795 Hb £75.00 eventually came to think about themselves. 288p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781350019454 Hb £85.00 65 Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Graphic Devices and the Early Ages, c.AD 600–1150 Decorated Book A Comparative Archaeology Edited by Michelle Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov & By Christopher Loveluck Benjamin C. Tilghman Christopher Loveluck’s study explores the This volume illuminates transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily our understanding of Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the the processes of cultural first post-Roman ‘European Union’ under the transition from late Antiquity Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called ‘feudal’ to the Middle Ages. The age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. Loveluck provides essays add to the growing the most comprehensive comparative analysis of scholarship on the medieval the rural and urban archaeological remains in schematic and diagramming this area for twenty-five years, explaining how the imagination, exploring some power and intentions of elites were confronted of the many ways in which by the aspirations and actions of the diverse rural the spatial arrangement and peasantry, artisans and merchants, producing both patterning of text, graphic intended and unforeseen social changes. sign, and figural image generated meaning for 490p, b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) medieval viewers, readers, and performers of 9781107037632 Hb £93.00, 9781316648544 Pb £22.99 the written word. Among the individual topics addressed are monograms; the The Plow, the Pen and the Sword appearance of the cross in early Images and Self-Images of Medieval People medieval Christian manuscripts; Only in the Low Countries and Anglo-Saxon decorated £48.00 until initials. By Rudi Kunzel 31st May This book compares the cultures of the different 316p col illus (Boydell & Brewer social groups living in the Low Countries in the 2017) 9781783272266 Hb £60.00 early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and Venice and Its Neighbors townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labour, property, violence, and the handling and showing of from the 8th to 11th Century emotions. Four case studies explore the interaction Through Renovation and Continuity between group cultures, focusing respectively on the Edited by Sauro Gelichi & Stefano Gasparri influence of oral and written traditions on a literary An account of the formation and character of early work, rituals as a means of conflict management in Venice, drawing on archaeological evidence from weakly centralized societies, stories as an expression Venice and related sites, and written sources. The of an urban group mentality, and beliefs on death volume covers topics including: Venice’s role within and the afterlife. the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna during the 7th 408p (Routledge 2017) 9781472442109 Hb £105.00 century; its independence in the mid-8th century; and its position as a dominant European and Mediterranean power. 208p, (Brill 2017) 9789004352407 Hb £84.00 Medieval Britain Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Henry III Historical Writing The Great King England Never Knew It Had By Emily A. Winkler By Darren Baker This book illuminates the historical agendas of Henry III (1207-72) reigned for 56 years, the longest- four historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of serving English monarch until the modern era. Huntingdon, John of Worcester, and Geffrei Gaimar. Admired for his building projects like Westminster In their narratives of England’s eleventh-century Abbey, he is nevertheless dismissed by scholars as history, these twelfth-century historians expanded weak and inept, at least compared to his father King their approach to historical explanation to include John and son Edward I. This biography challenges individual responsibility and accountability within that perception and shows that he was in fact a more a framework of providential history. They share a than capable ruler. view of royal responsibility independent both of 384p col illus (The History Press 2017) 9780750968140 their sources (primarily the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) Hb £20.00 and of any political agenda that placed English and Norman allegiances in opposition. 352p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198812388 Hb £65.00 66 English Identity and Political Culture Maintenance in Medieval England in the Fourteenth Century By Jonathan Rose By Andrea Ruddick Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic another person’s litigation, was a source of repeated relationship between nationality and subjecthood in complaint in medieval England. Extensive study the king of England’s domains, a sense of English of the primary sources shows that the statutes identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their a significant section of political society during the objectives because legal proceedings were rarely fourteenth century. The book also reassesses the brought against those targeted by the statutes: the role of the English language in fourteenth-century great and the powerful. Furthermore, medieval national sentiment and questions the traditional judges recognized a number of valid justifications reliance on the English vernacular as an index of for intermeddling in litigation. national feeling. 200p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107043985 Hb £85.00 370p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107007260 Hb £67.00, 9781316648858 Pb £21.99 Ceremony and Civility Civic Culture in Late Medieval London Northern England and Southern By Barbara A. Hanawalt Scotland in the Central Middle Ages Barbara Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle Edited by Keith J. Stringer & Angus J.L. Winchester Ages, London’s elected officials and elites used This book provides the first comprehensive analysis ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy of the development of northern England and and power. These civic ceremonies helped delineate southern Scotland in the formative era of the the relationship between London’s mayors and twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Key questions the crown, but also between denizens and their addressed include: How did “middle Britain” government, between gild wardens and their come to be divided between two separate unitary members, between masters and apprentices, and kingdoms called “England” and “Scotland”? How, between parishioners and their churches. and how differently, was government exercised and 240p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190490393 Hb £64.00, experienced? What can be learned about the rural 9780190490409 Pb £16.99 and the emerging urban environments in terms of lordly exploitation and control, settlement patterns The Gentry of North Wales in and how the landscape itself evolved? the Later Middle Ages 384p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272662 By A. D. Carr Hb £60.00 This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth Early Common Petitions in the English century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor Parliament, c.1290–c.1420 state in the sixteenth. It describes the development Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Helen Killick & of the gentry in one part of Wales from an earlier Phil Bradford social structure and an earlier pattern of land In the process of compiling the common tenure, and how the gentry came to rule their petitions, much proposed business was set aside localities. and not committed to the permanent record of 304p (University of Wales Press 2017) 9781786831354 the parliament roll. A significant body of that Pb £24.99 ‘lost’ material is published here for the first time, providing a fresh understanding of the full range of Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval preoccupations of the medieval House of Commons and Early Modern England as it emerged as the mouthpiece of the political A History of Sorcery and Treason community before the king. By Francis Young 310p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108419673 Hb £44.99 Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of Edward I and the Governance of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else England, 1272–1307 manipulate the course of political events in England. By Caroline Burt He argues that while charges of treasonable Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, magic certainly were used to destroy reputations Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt examines or to ensure the convictions of how Edward’s governance at a national level was undesirables, magic was also reflected in different localities. She employs novel perceived as a genuine threat by Only methodology to measure levels of disorder and English governments into the £48.00 until Civil War era and beyond. the effects of government action, and uncovers a 31st May remarkably sophisticated approach to governance. 256p, (I.B. Tauris 2017) 314p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017) 9780521889995 Hb 9781788310215 Hb £59.00 £67.00, 9781108441216 Pb £22.99 Medieval Britain 67 Richard III NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Brother, Protector, King The Wealth of England By Chris Skidmore The medieval wool trade and its political By stripping back the legends that surround importance 1100–1600 Richard’s life and reign, and returning to original manuscript evidence, Chris Skidmore rediscovers By Susan Rose the man as contemporaries saw him. His compelling In The Wealth of England study presents every facet of Richard’s personality as Susan Rose brings together it deserves to be seen: as one of the most significant the social, economic figures in medieval history, whose actions and and political strands in behaviour underline the true nature of power in an the development of the age of great upheaval and instability. wool trade and show 464p, col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2017) how and why it became 9780297870784 Hb £25.00 so important. The author looks at the lives Cecily Duchess of York of prominent wool-men; By J. L. Laynesmith gentry who based their wealth on producing this This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward canny middlemen who rose to prominence IV and Richard III. From her childhood marriage in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre to Richard duke of York until her final decade as and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who grandmother of the first Tudor queen, the story acquired wealth and influence like William de of Cecily Neville’s life provides a rich insight into la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth national and local politics, women’s power and made by these and other wool-men transformed relationships, motherhood, household dynamics the appearance of the leading centres of the trade and the role of religion in fifteenth-century England. with magnificent churches and other buildings. 288p, 10 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781474272254 Hb The export of wool also gave England links with £85.00 Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The Stolen Women in Medieval England complex operation of the trade is also explained Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500 with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore By Caroline Dunn leading to a discussion on the way the policy In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non- of English kings, especially in the fourteenth normative marital practices, this work analyses the century, was heavily influenced by trade in this nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three one commodity. overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens 9781785707360 Hb £40.00 our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access The House of Beaufort to the courts; and reveals ways in which female The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such By Nathen Amin controls. Many books have been 273p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017) 9781107017009 Hb written about individual £67.00, 9781108441865 Pb £19.99 members of the Beaufort Chaucer’s People dynasty, but never has the whole family been explored Everyday Lives in Medieval England as one. This book uncovers By Liza Picard the rise of the Beauforts Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer from bastard stock of John selected for The Canterbury Tales, Liza Picard brings of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, medieval social history to life. By providing these to esteemed companions characters with a three-dimensional framework– of their cousin Henry the times in which they lived–Picard opens up V, celebrated victor of the fourteenth-century world to us. Drawing on Agincourt, and tracks their chastening fall with contemporary experiences of a vast range of subjects the House of Lancaster during the 1460s and 1470s. including trade, religion, toe-curling remedies and Finally it narrates the triumph of Margaret Beaufort hair-raising recipes, Chaucer’s People recreates the through her son who won the throne as Henry VII. medieval world in all its glorious detail. 344p b/w illus (Amberley Publishing 2017) 9781445647647 368p col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2017) Hb £20.00 9781474606318 Pb £14.99 68 Medieval Britain The Oxford English Literary History The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Volume 1: 1000–1350, Conquest and Literature in English Transformation Edited by Greg Walker & Elaine Treharne By Laura Ashe This Handbook contains 44 This book describes and newly commissioned essays seeks to explain the vast from both world-leading cultural, literary, social, and scholars and exciting new political transformations scholarly voices. Topics which characterized the covered range from the period 1000-1350. A new canonical genres of Saints’ philosophy of interiority lives, sermons, romance, lyric turned attention inward, poetry, and heroic poetry; to the exploration of self. major themes including The concept of love moved monstrosity and marginality, centre stage: in Christ’s patronage and literary love as a new explanation politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are for the Passion; and in the investigated; and there are close readings of key appearance of narrative fiction, where heterosexual texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and love was suddenly represented as the goal of secular Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to life. More generally, the social and ethical status of Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. secular lives was drastically elevated by the creation 792p (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2017) 9780199229123 Hb and celebration of courtly and chivalric ideals. £105.00, 9780198798088 Pb £30.00 496p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199575381 Hb £35.00 Medieval Europe Rebel Barons Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture Government, 1195–1218 By Luke Sunderland By G. E. M. Lippiatt This volume writes the history Through the vehicle of the Albigensian crusade, of Baronial ambivalence to Simon de Montfort cultivated autonomous power in royal authority, which was the liminal space between competing royal lordships especially acute in England, in southern France in order to build his own France, and Italy in the principality. This first English biographical study of twelfth to fifteenth centuries, his life examines the ways in which Simon succeeded when the modern ideology and failed in developing this independence in of sovereignty, arguing for France, England, the Midi, and on campaign to monopolies on justice and Jerusalem. Simon’s experience shows that barons the legitimate use of violence, themselves adopted methods of government that was developed. It argues that reflected a concern for accountability, public order, the chansons de geste, the and contemporary reform ideals. key genre for disseminating 288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198805137 Hb models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer £60.00 a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance. 320p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198788485 Hb £60.00 Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250–1400 Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai By Justine Firnhaber-Baker Edited by Bernard S. Bachrach & Michael Leese Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal The Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium, completed government eliminated so-called ‘private warfare’, shortly after the death of bishop Gerard in 1051 and the French judicial archives reveal nearly one translated in this volume into English for the first hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the time, provides unique insights into the relationship Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end between the German king and the bishops within of the fourteenth century. Much of the engagement the context of the so-called imperial church system, between royal officers and local elites came through the rise of both secular and ecclesiastical territorial informal processes of negotiation and settlement, lordships, the conduct of war, the cult of the saints, rather than through the imposition of official justice. monastic reform, and evolving conceptions of the 234p (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107039551 Hb proper social order of society. £67.00, 9781316635056 Pb £18.99 312p (Routledge 2017) 9781472462626 Hb £105.00 69 A Short History of the Hundred Medieval Trade in the Eastern Years War Mediterranean and Beyond By Michael Prestwich By David Jacoby The conflict that swept over The articles in this collection France from 1337 to 1453 cover the region extending remains the longest military from Italy to the Black struggle in history. Offering Sea and to Egypt, over a an up-to-date analysis period of seven centuries, of military organization, with an emphasis on the strategy and tactics, Michael considerable economic and Prestwich explains the social interaction between wider politics in a masterful the West and the regions of account of the War as a the Eastern Mediterranean. whole: from English victory They represent key works in at Sluys (1340) to the turn of the oeuvre of David Jacoby, the tide and French revival the doyen of scholars in the field over many decades. as the invader was driven back 346p, (Routledge 2017) 9781138743526 Hb £105.00 across the Channel. Only 256p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2017) £9.00 until Narrating the Crusades 9781788311380 Pb £10.99 31st May Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature Women, Crusading and By Lee Manion the Holy Land in Historical In Narrating the Crusades, Narrative Lee Manion examines By Natasha R. Hodgson crusading’s narrative- This book compares generating power as it perceptions of women from is reflected in English a wide range of historical literature from c.1300 to narratives. It addresses 1604. Surveying medieval how authors used events romances including Richard involving women and Coeur de Lion, Sir Isumbras, stereotypes based on gender, Octavian, and The Sowdone family role, and social status of Babylone alongside in writing their histories: historical practices, how they blended historia chronicles, and treatises, he and fabula, speculated on shows how different forms of crusading literature women’s motivations, and address cultural concerns about collective and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order private action. to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, 322p (Cambridge UP 2010, Pb 2017) 9781107057814 Hb and justify the crusade ideal. £62.00, 9781107664715 Pb £19.99 304p (Boydell & Brewer 2007, Pb 2017) 9781843833321 Hb £60.00, 9781783272709 Pb £17.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Medieval Ireland By Clare Downham Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes on the island. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society Only in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land- £20.00 until use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on 31st May Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes. 420p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107651654 Pb £22.99

70 Medieval Europe Medieval Urban Culture Heroines of the Medieval World Edited by Andrew Brown & Jan Dumolyn By Sharon Bennett Connolly The volume offers new insights into the nature of Heroines of the Medieval World looks at the lives medieval culture in towns of western Europe c.1150- of the women who broke the mould: those who 1550; and into how the spatiality, hybridity and fluid defied social norms, changing lives, society and nature of urban environments defines what made even the course of history. Some of the women are urban culture ‘urban’. The papers show how urban famous, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Others are culture involved a process of interaction with other more obscure but no less remarkable figures such as discourses (royal, noble, ecclesiastical) and that it Nicholaa de la Haye, who defended Lincoln Castle was not monolithic: the relationship between urban in the name of King John, and Maud de Braose, who environments and the cultures they generated were spoke out against the same king’s excesses. hybrid, fluid and dynamic. 320p, b/w illus (Amberley Publishing 2017) 238p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577425 Pb £75.00 9781445662640 Hb £20.00 Village Elites and Social Structures in Dissolving Royal Marriages the Late Medieval Campine Region A Documentary History, 860–1600 By Eline Van Onacker Edited by D. L. D’Avray The economy of the late medieval Low Countries is A comparative overview of royal divorce cases from often portrayed in terms of dynamism and economic the Middle Ages through to the Reformation period. growth. However, by focusing on ‘independent’ In his case-by-case exploration of elaborate witness peasant elites, this study explores the social statements, extensive legal negotiations and political structures and the characteristics of inequality of wrangling, d’Avray shows us how little the canonical the Campine region, showing how these factors law for the dissolution of marriage changed over led to a different, more stable mode of economic time in this fascinating new study of Church-state development. It looks past standard societal relations and papal power over princes. measurements such as property distribution, to 324p (Cambridge UP 2014, 2017) 9781107062504 Hb take into account other factors such as control over £72.00, 9781107643994 Pb £20.99 the commons, and market integration. 360p, (Brepols 2017) 9782503554594 Hb £85.00 Conduct Becoming Good Wives and Husbands in the Later The Kingdom of Rus’ Middle Ages By Christian Raffensperger By Glenn D. Burger This book challenges the perception of Rus’ as an In this exploration of conduct literature written for eastern “other”–advancing the idea of the Rus’ as a women, Glenn D. Burger argues that, over the course kingdom deeply integrated with medieval Europe, of the long fourteenth century, the “invention” of the through an innovative analysis of medieval titles. good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, Examining a wide range of medieval sources, this private devotion, and personal conduct reconfigures book exposes the common practice in scholarship how female embodiment is understood, moving of referring to Rusian rulers as princes as a relic of from a tradition that views the female body as early modern attempts to diminish the Rus’. Not naturally wayward and sensual, to a model of only was Rus’ part and parcel of medieval Europe, feminine virtue with positive influence in the world. but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Rus’ was 312p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) the largest kingdom in Christendom. 9780812249606 Hb £54.00 112p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401315 Pb £11.95 Strange Histories Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and 800–1250 Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Edited by Donald Ostrowski & Christian Raffensperger Renaissance Worlds This unusual book provides biographies of twenty By Darren Oldridge different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Strange Histories is an exploration of some of Europe from 800 to 1250. Among the figures are both the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in imagined and historical characters, including the the late Middle Ages through to the end of the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita, a Jewish seventeenth century. It presents serious accounts of traveller, a slave, the Mongol general Subodei, a the appearance of angels and demons, sea monsters woman from Novgorod, and a Rus’ pilgrim. A range and dragons within European and North American of different narrative styles are also used throughout history, and offers a new way of understanding the book, from omniscient third person narrators to the world in which dragons and witches were fact diary entries, letters and travel accounts. rather than fiction, and presents these riveting 256p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138637047 Hb phenomena as part of an entirely rational thought £110.00, 9781138701205 Pb £29.99 process for the time in which they existed. 240p (Routledge 2nd ed, 2017) 9781138830820 Pb £24.99 Medieval Europe 71 Medieval Religion Demons in the Middle Ages Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages By Juanita Feros Ruys Edited by Jinty Nelson & Damien Kempf This book explores the significance of demons This book’s focus is on how medieval people across fifteen hundred years of European history. accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing It argues that demons constituted a necessary part and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants of the cosmic structure, whether by defining a and hymns, or sermons explicating Scripture in monastic calling, fulfilling a role in God’s properly various vernaculars. Its contributors probe readers’ ordered universe, or in the case of the necromancer, motivations, intellectual resources and religious holding out the promise of untold wealth and concerns. They explore the identities of the readers, knowledge. and why writers chose to write about, or draw on, 131p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401261 Pb £11.95 certain parts of the Bible rather than others. 296p (Bloomsbury 2015, Pb 2017) 9781474245722 Hb Embracing the Darkness £90.00, 9781350036284 Pb £28.99 A Cultural History of Witchcraft By John Callow The Resurrection of the Body in John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, Western Christianity, 200–1336 mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating By Caroline Walker Bynum life. He takes us into a shadowy landscape where, A classic of medieval studies, this book traces ideas in an age before modern drugs, the onset of of death and resurrection in early and medieval sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent Christianity. This expanded edition includes spellcasting, and where the hoot of an owl or shriek Bynum’s 1995 article “Why All the Fuss About the of a fox became the desolate cries Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” which takes a of unseen spirits. Witchcraft has broader perspective on the book’s themes. It also profoundly shaped the western Only includes a new introduction, which discusses the imagination, and endures in the context in which the book and article were written forms of modern-day Wicca and £16.00 until and why the Middle Ages matter for how we think paganism. 31st May about the body and life after death today. 264p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 448p, (Columbia UP 2017) 9780231185295 Pb £27.95 9781845114695 Hb £19.50 The Landscape of Pastoral Care in Bishops, Authority and Community in 13th-Century England Northwestern Europe, c.1050–1150 By William Campbell By John S. Ott Even before Innocent III called the Fourth Lateran This important study of episcopal office and Council of 1215, reform-minded bishops and clerical identity examines the construction and scholars were focusing attention on the local church, representation of episcopal power and authority emphasising better preaching and more frequent in the archdiocese of Reims during the sometimes confession. This study examines the processes turbulent century between 1050 and 1150. John S. Ott by which these clerical reforms moulded the lay considers how bishops conceived of, and projected, religiosity of the thirteenth century, integrating the their authority collectively and individually. different aspects of church life, so often studied 392p (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9781107017818 Hb separately, and combining a broad investigation of £74.99, 9781108444637 Pb £22.99 the subject with a series of comparative case studies. 308p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781316510384 Hb £75.00 To Live Like a Moor Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in The Monks of Tiron Medieval and Early Modern Spain A Monastic Community and Religious Reform By Olivia Remie Constable in the Twelfth Century To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in By Kathleen Thompson Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of This book offers the first comprehensive history life which took place across the centuries between of the Order of Tiron. As a unique survey of the the early Reconquista and the final expulsions of Tironensian experience it sheds new light on Spain’s converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco traditional assumptions of twelfth-century monastic population in the seventeenth. Constable reveals history. Thompson outlines the rapid dissemination the complexities and contradictions underlying a of the Tironensian approach in the first thirty years historically notorious transition from pluralism to of its existence, its network of contacts with the lay intolerance. elite and the impact on the Tironensians of the 248p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) successes of the Cistercians and Mendicants. 9780812249484 Hb £44.00 280p (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107021242 Hb £72.00, 9781316648889 Pb £19.99 72 The Birgittines of Syon Abbey The Trauma of Monastic Reform Preaching and Print Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century By Susan Powell Germany This volume examines the By Alison I. Beach Birgittine Order of nuns This book opens a window on the lived experience as producers and readers of monastic reform in the twelfth century. It begins of texts in Britain from the with the local process of reform at the south fifteenth to the early sixteenth German monastery of Petershausen and moves century, through an analysis out into intertwined regional social, political, of medieval manuscripts and ecclesiastical landscapes. Beach reveals how and early printed books. It the shock of reform initiated decades of anxiety highlights the community’s at Petershausen and raised doubts about the response to teachings of St community’s communal identity, its shifting internal Birgitta, the dissemination contours and boundaries, and its place within of Birgittine texts, and Lady the broader spiritual and social landscapes of Margaret Beaufort’s role as intermediary between Constance and Swabia. Syon and the outside world. 200p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108417310 Hb 360p, (Brepols 2017) 9782503532356 Hb £85.00 £75.00 Medieval Art & Architecture Illuminated Manuscripts The Medieval World at Our Fingertips By Richard Hayman Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection This concise book describes of Sandra Hindman the origin and history of By Christopher De Hamel illumination in the Middle For thirty years Sandra Hindman has been selecting Ages, covering the artists and and refining a collection of perfect medieval their techniques, and the miniatures which are the quintessence of their time. patrons who commissioned The history of stained glass, architecture, fresco them. It explains the subject painting, tapestries and wood carving, as well as matter found in medieval medieval literature, religion, music and romance, works, such as saints and are all made slightly clearer and more focused by Bible stories and the use of looking at the illuminated miniatures which are ornamental flourishes, and presented here. is illustrated with many fine 320p col illus (Harvey Miller Publishers 2017) examples of the genre including the Lindisfarne 9781909400887 Hb £64.00 Gospels and the Book of Kells. 64p col illus (Shire 2017) 9781784422363 Pb £7.99 The Medieval Calendar Locating Time in the Middle Ages Making Medieval Manuscripts By Roger S. Wieck By Christopher de Hamel The intricacies of the Based principally on medieval calendar examples in the Bodleian are examined in this Library, this lavishly sumptuously illustrated illustrated account tells volume, featuring many of the story of manuscript the finest examples from production from the early The Morgan Library’s Middle Ages through unparalleled collection. to the high Renaissance. The lucid and concise text Each stage of production explains the complexities is described in detail, from the preparation of of Vigils, octaves, Egyptian the parchment, pens, paints and inks to the Days, Golden Numbers, writing of the scripts and the final Dominical Letters, movable feasts and the key role decoration and illumination played by the saints days, including the colours in of the manuscript. This book Only which they are written as well as their rankings and also explains the role of the gradings. stationer or bookshop in the £12.00 until 31st May 136p col illus (Scala Publishers 2017) 9781785511073 Pb commissioning of manuscripts. £25.00 176p, col illus (Bodleian Library 2017) 9781851244683 Pb £14.99 73 Paradise The Temple Church in London The World of Romanesque Sculpture History, Architecture, Art By Rita Wood Edited by David Park & Robin Griffith-Jones It is suggested here that Romanesque sculpture The Temple Church was one vehicle of the ‘Gregorian’ reforms of the is historically and Church: that sculpture was promoted to teach the architecturally one of the laity; that frequently-occurring motifs indicate most important medieval circulation of approved forms, and that the sources buildings in England. behind much of the imagery can be identified in Its round nave, modelled mainstream biblical and patristic texts. The carvings on the Holy Sepulchre in are not full of fear, punishment and dragons as is Jerusalem, is extraordinarily often assumed: rather the opposite, they depict the ambitious, combining lavish central Christian message about the availability of Romanesque sculpture with an after-life in Paradise for believers. some of the earliest Gothic 220p b/w and col illus (YPD Books 2017) 9780995588202 architectural features in Hb £25.00 any English building of its period. This volume considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its Sculpture foundation in the twelfth century to its war-time By Marian Bleeke damage in the twentieth. Building on theories of 213p b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2017) reception and response, 9781843834984 Hb £50.00, 9781783272631 Pb £19.99 this book focuses on The Gothic Screen interactions between women as beholders and a range of Space, Sculpture, and Community in sculptures made in France in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, the twelfth through sixteenth ca.1200–1400 centuries in order to provide By Jacqueline E. Jung insight into women’s This book draws together the most important experiences of motherhood. examples of choir screens from thirteenth- and These interactions show fourteenth-century France and Germany–some motherhood to have been fully extant, others known through fragments and a transformative and an ambivalent experience graphic sources. Through analyses of both their for medieval women as it brought architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline together empowerment and E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles subordination, intimacy and Only separation, joy and grief, life and of communication and shapers of a community death, salvation and suffering. £48.00 until centred on Christian rituals and stories. 216p b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & 31st May 300p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017) Brewer 2017) 9781783272501 Hb 9781107022959 Hb £72.00, 9781108430760 Pb £29.99 £60.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages By Gabriel Byng The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee design and management. Who took control and who provided the financing was deeply shaped by local patterns in wealth, authority and institutional development–from small villages with little formal government to settlements with highly unequal populations. This all took place during a period of great economic and social change as Only communities managed the impact of the Black Death, the end £65.00 until of serfdom and the slump of the mid-fifteenth century. This 31st May original and authoritative study provides an account of how economic change, local politics and architecture combined in late-medieval England. 320p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107157095 Hb £75.00

74 Medieval Art & Architecture The History of England’s Cathedrals Building Regulations and Urban Form, By Nicholas Orme 1200–1900 England’s sixty or so Anglican Edited by Terry R. Slater & Sandra M. G. Pinto and Roman Catholic The literature on urban cathedrals are among its most regulation is dispersed iconic buildings and attract about a large number of thousands of worshippers and academic specialisms and visitors every year. This book there are few texts which provides the first rounded bring these detailed studies account of the whole of their together. This book provides 1700 years from Roman times perspectives across the to the present day. It explains period between the high the layout of their buildings, medieval and the end of the people who ran them, the nineteenth century, their worship and music, their links with learning and across a geographical and education, and their outreach to society. breadth of European countries from Scandinavia 200p b/w illus (Impress Books 2017) 9781907605925 Pb to the southern fringes of the Mediterranean and £20.00 from Turkey to Portugal. 352p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472485373 Hb £105.00 Medieval Archaeology Medieval European Coinage Archaeology of Medieval Czech Lands, Volume 6, The Iberian Peninsula 1100–1600 By Dr. Miquel Crusafont, Dr. Anna M. Balaguer & By Jan Klapste Philip Grierson This book offers the first A major work of reference by leading numismatic comprehensive picture of experts, the volume provides an authoritative and the medieval archaeology of up-to-date account of the coinages of Aragon, the Czech Lands available Catalonia, Castile, Leon, Navarre and Portugal. It in English. Topics covered considers how money circulated throughout the explore both rural and urban peninsula, offering new syntheses of the monetary contexts, secular power history of the individual kingdoms and includes structures, and monastic an extensive catalogue of the Aragonese, Castilian, houses and parish churches. Catalan, Leonese, Navarrese and Portuguese coins Special attention is given to in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum. technology, crafts, industry 922p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) (including mining and glass 9780521260145 Hb £170.00, 9781316506745 Pb £49.99 production), housing culture and daily life across the various social strata. Divina Moneta 274p b/w illus (Equinox 2016) 9781845536336 Hb £85.00 Coins in Religion and Ritual Edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burstrom & Gitte Foreigners and Outside Influences Tarnow Ingvardson in Medieval Norway This edited collection Edited by Stian Suppersberger Hamre analyses the phenomenon The articles in this volume discuss different of coin use for religious and aspects of immigration and foreign influences in ritual purposes, focusing medieval Norway, from the viewpoint of different on the medieval period in academic disciplines. They shed light on how the Western Europe. Discussions population of medieval Norway are organized around three interacted with the surrounding themes: coin deposit and world, how and by whom it Only ritual practice, the coin as was influenced, and how the £13.00 until economic object and divine population was composed. mediator, and the value and 128p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st May meaning of coin offering. 2017) 9781784917050 Pb £16.00 272p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472485922 Hb £105.00

75 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Evolution of Scotland’s Towns Creation, Growth and Fragmentation The Houses of Hereford 1200–1700 By E. Patricia Dennison By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. Morriss This pioneering book tells the The cathedral city of story of urban development Hereford is one of the best- in Scotland over the course kept historical secrets of the of a millennium, drawing on Welsh Marches. Although its original research into more Anglo-Saxon development than thirty towns, from the is well known from a series smallest settlements to major of classic excavations in the cities. The changes in urban 1960s and ’70s, what is less society came at different widely known is that the city times and at different paces boasts an astonishingly well- for most towns and many preserved medieval plan and had to withstand crisis after contains some of the earliest crisis. The overall evolution houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. of urban life, in its different guises, is explored Three leading authorities on the buildings of the throughout the book. A further focus is on the lives English Midlands have joined forces, combining of people who lived in Scotland’s detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical towns, and the book also considers research and topographical analysis, to examine urban heritage and asks what we Only 24 of the most important buildings, have lost and may continue £20.00 until from the great hall of the Bishop’s to lose through neglect and 31st May Palace of c.1190, to the first Only fragmentation. surviving brick town-house of £18.75 until 256p, (Edinburgh UP 2017) c.1690. 9781474432979 Pb £24.99 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785708169 Hb From Bridgehead to Brewery £25.00 The Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Bristol: A Worshipful Town and Remains from Finzel’s Reach, Bristol Famous City By Ben M . Ford, Kate Brady & Steven Teague This richly illustrated book presents the results An Archaeological Assessment from a major project to examine the heritage of By Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones Finzel’s Reach, the site of the former Courage and This volume provides, for the Bristol Breweries. Archaeological, geoarchaeological first time, a comprehensive and historic building investigations have revealed overview of the historical a fascinating story of change and urban evolution development of Bristol, at the site. The area played an important role in based on archaeological and the late Saxon defensive system, while the Middle architectural evidence. Part Ages saw the growth of an established and densely 1 describes the geological populated area full of life, trade and production on and topographical context one of the town’s principal roads, Temple Street. of Bristol and discusses 156p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2017) 9780904220865 evidence for the environment Hb £27.00 prior to the foundation of the city. The history of Fishing and Managing the Trent in the archaeological work in Bristol is discussed in detail, Medieval Period (7th–14th Century) as is the pictorial record and the cartographic By Lynden P. Cooper & Susan Ripper evidence for the city. In Part 2, a series of period-based chapters considers the historical background and The present book describes the discoveries from archaeological evidence for Bristol’s development. 1998 to 2000 of numerous medieval riverine Each chapter discusses the major civic, military and structures. Three fish weir complexes of the late religious monuments of the time, and the complex 7th-12th centuries produced rare evidence for the topographical evolution of the city. capture of migrating silver eels. A 12th-century mill Part 3 assesses the significance dam was later reused as a basket fishery. A series of stone and timber bank-side structures of the 14th of Bristol’s archaeology, and Only presents a range of research century reflect a change in fishing technology: the £30.00 until themes for future research. cribs were used to manage the river and provide river conditions suitable for net fishing. 600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication Books 2018) 9781785708770 Hb 96p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 633, 2017) 9781407316178 £40.00 Pb £20.00

76 Medieval Archaeology The Moated medieval manor and Tudor royal residence at Woking Palace NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Excavations between 2009 and 2015 Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe By Rob Poulton Edited by Knut Bergsvik & Marion Dowd Community excavations Caves and ritual in from 2009 to 2016 have medieval Europe, AD revealed the development of 500–1500 focuses on Woking Palace. King Richard this neglected field of I granted the manor to Alan research – the ritual Basset and soon after he and religious use of created a moated residence. caves. It draws together By around 1300 the complex interdisciplinary studies included stone buildings that by leading specialists thereafter always formed the from across Europe: from core of the privy lodgings, Iberia to Crimea, and a great hall, household and from Malta to northern privy kitchens, and lodgings for courtiers. In 1620 Norway. Christianity was widespread and firmly the manor was granted to Sir Edward Zouch and established in most of Europe at this time, and soon after he carried out a thorough demolition. many of the contributions deal with different 228p b/w illus (SpoilHeap Publications 2017) types of Christian practices, such as the use 9781912331031 Pb £18.50 of rock-cut churches, unmodified caves for spiritual retreat, caves reputedly visited by saints, Management Analysis of Municipal and caves as places for burials. But parallel to Castles in the Province of Alicante this, some caves were associated with localised (Spain) popular religious practices, which sometimes By Juan Antonio Mira Rico had pre-Christian origins. Muslims in Iberia This volume focuses on cultural heritage used caves for spiritual retreat, and outside the management, and especially how castles are Christian domain in northern Europe, caves and managed, in the province of Alicante (Spain). To rockshelters were places for carving symbols do this, a qualitative research methodology and among Pictish groups, places for human burial, semi-structured interviews with specialists have for bear burials amongst the Sámi, and places been employed. This project shows the results for crafting and votive deposition for Norse of research applied to 42 fortifications, owned by populations. several municipalities of the province of Alicante. 376p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 204p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2868, 2017) 9781407315805 9781785708329 Hb £50.00 Pb £43.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Friaries of Medieval London From Foundation to Dissolution By Nick Holder The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city’s physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. This book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses, combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing and describing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts with burial grounds and gardens, it moves on to examine more Only general historical themes, including the spiritual life of the £40.00 until friars, their links to living and dead Londoners, and the role of the urban monastery. The closure of these friaries in the 31st May 1530s is also discussed, along with a brief revival of one friary in the reign of Mary. 384p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272242 Hb £50.00

Medieval Archaeology 77 Post-Medieval Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London Lost Lives, New Voices Their Lives and their Marks Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 By David M. Mitchell This book tells the story of the silversmiths’ trade By Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell, Chris Gerrard, Pam in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, including Graves & Andrew Millard the range of silver plate available between 1560 In November 2013 and 1700 and the many influences on silversmiths two mass burials and the wider trade. The second part of the were discovered book identifies previously unknown unexpectedly on a makers, containing attributions for construction site in 540 separate marks and some 400 Only the city of Durham in individual biographies compiled £100.00 north-east England. from the author’s research. Over the next two until 720p b/w and col illus (Boydell & 31st May years, a complex jigsaw Brewer 2017) 9781783272389 Hb of evidence was pieced together by a team of £125.00 archaeologists to establish the identity of the human remains. Today we know them to be some Living and Dying in Southwark of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn 1587–1831 of 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of By Louise Loe, Kate Brady, Lisa Brown, Mark Gibson Scotland. Using the latest techniques & Kirsty Smith of skeleton science, this book This volume reports on the excavation of 331 burials associated with Cure’s College Almshouse, St gives back to the men a voice Only through an understanding of Saviour’s parish, and dated between 1587 and 1831. their childhood and later lives. £15.00 until This is the first sizeable post-medieval almshouse 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication burial assemblage to be archaeologically examined Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb and, as such, provides a wealth of new information £20.00 on living – and dying – in London during the 16th to 19th centuries. Nineteenth Century Childhoods in 156p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2017) 9780995663619 Interdisciplinary and International Hb £13.00 Perspectives The Deptford Royal Dockyard and Edited by Jane Eva Baxter & Meredith a.B. Ellis Manor of Sayes Court, London The nineteenth century By Antony Francis was a time when the world was becoming increasingly Deptford royal dockyard was established in the connected through global early 16th century and closed in 1869. Most of forces and networks. This the dockyard buildings were levelled in the 20th dynamic environment was century, but important below-ground remains were the backdrop for a time when investigated in 2000–12 in the largest-ever excavation childhood was becoming of a naval dockyard. significantly elaborated as a 260p, col illus (MOLA 2017) 9781907586361 Hb £30.00 cultural category of identity. This volume brings together Voices from the Deep scholars from archaeology, The British Raj & Battle of the Atlantic art history, bioarchaeology, educational history, Edited by Sean A. Kingsley history, literary studies, and theatre history to The SS Gairsoppa, a British India steamer, was sunk in present studies of nineteenth century children December 1940 carrying goods for London desperately and childhood in Australia, the needed for the war effort. This book tells its story Bahamas, Canada, England, using the wreck’s wide-ranging finds, including 700 Ireland, Native North America, Only letters, the largest collection ever recovered. The cargo Romania, Russia, and the £30.00 until included tea and iron, while the small finds – teapots, United States. publication beer, medicine and liquor bottles, cups, coins, shoes 208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) and newspapers – are a vivid snapshot of life at sea for 9781785708435 Pb £40.00 Britain’s merchant marine. 176p col illus (Undertow Press 2018) 9781788080026 Pb £25.00 78 OUR EDITORS’ SELECTION

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