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The Cambridge Luxury Fire and Sand Cosmopolitan History of Western A Rich History By Anastassios Antonaras Archaeologies Textiles By Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello For the first time, this important By Lynn Meskell By David Jenkins Luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. volume features nearly all of the The essays in this volume address Today's obsession with luxury brands ancient glass objects in the collection archaeological ethics, exploring the This two-volume set looks at the of the Princeton University Art production and use of textiles with and services is just one of the many obligations to local communities manifestations that luxury has Museum. Taken together, the 509 which archaeologists increasingly contributors taking archaeological, ancient glass vessels and plaques curatorial, art historical and historical assumed. From palaces to penthouses, observe, and the global political from couture fashion to lavish provide a timeline of archaeological contexts in which they operate, approaches to the evidence. The and cultural history from the middle different parts of the book look at: Textile Industries jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to drawing on recent developments in cosmopolitan theory easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the of the second millennium B.C. to the rise of Islam in the and ethics. of the Ancient World; The Medieval Period; The Early 7th century. Modern Period; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to 296pp, Duke University Press, 2009, 9780822344445, Century. the twenty-first century. 398pp, Yale University Press, 2013, 9780300179811, Paperback, was £21.99 Hardback, was £50.00 1500pp, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 368pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780199663248, Now £4.95 9780521341073, Hardback, was £365.00 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £19.95 Now £99.95 Now £9.95

Maps of War Early Ships and WreckProtect Innovation in Cultural Mapping Conflict Through Seafaring Decay and Protection of Systems the Centuries Water Transport Beyond Europe Archaeological Wooden Shipwrecks Contributions in Evolutionary By Jeremy Black By Sean McGrail Edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Anthropology Björdal and David Gregory From the 17th century onwards, In this book, Professor McGrail’s Edited by Michael J. O'Brien military commanders and strategists study of European Water Transport This book includes chapters on the and Stephen Shennan began to document the wars in which is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, anatomy and structure of wood The contributors to this volume they were involved and later, to use Southeast Asia, China, Australia, and the physical and biological consider innovation in biological mapping to actually plan the progress Oceania and the Americas. The early decay of shipwrecks under water. A terms; they discuss modern insights of a conflict. This sumptuous new volume covers the rafts and boats of those regions were, as in Europe, summary of available methods for the in-situ protection into innovation; and they offer case studies of innovation history of the mapping of war on land and shows the hand-built from natural materials and were propelled of wrecks is presented and a cost-benefit analysis of from archaeological and ethnographic records, examining way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war. and steered by human muscle or wind power. in-situ preservation versus conventional raising and developmental, behavioral, and social patterns. conservation is given. 224pp, Conway Maritime, 2016, 9781844863440, 220pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2016, 9781473825598, 288pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262013338, Hardback, was Hardback, was £30.00 Hardback, was £19.99 154pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2012, 9781905739486, £37.95 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Great City Maps Oxfordshire Dyes in History and Dennis Jackson By Jeremy Black A Look at the Past Archaeology 20 A Northamptonshire Archaeologist This beautifully illustrated book By Hilary L. Turner By Jo Kirby By Dennis Jackson explores the world's most celebrated A tour of the churches, monuments, Technical and specialised This autobiography covers work on historical city maps in stunning detail. trackways, markets, houses and papers focus on new methods for Neolithic and Bronze Age burials, It follows the history of over 70 colleges of Oxfordshire, aimed at the analysing and processing ancient numerous Iron Age and Roman maps and their stories, with profiles resident and visitor alike. and historical dyes. Case studies settlements and an Anglo-Saxon of iconic cartographers and artists 128pp, Plotwood Press, 1997, include ancient Near Eastern and cemetery. The book also includes showing you who created each map, Mediterranean dyes, Tyrian purple, reviews of pit alignments, Iron Age how, and why 9780952992004, Paperback, was £9.75 8th-century Japanese dyeing, Japanese indigo, Malachite settlement studies and a proposed chronology for Iron 256pp, Dorling Kindersley, 2016, 9780241238981, green, Chinese green, and Polish workshops. Age pottery assemblages in Northamptonshire. Hardback, was £20.00 Now £1.95 200pp, Archetype, 2005, 9781873132296, Paperback, was 174pp, Northamptonshire County Council, 2010, Now £9.95 £40.00 9780950715148, Paperback, was £14.50 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Masters of the Word Beadwork Microanalysis of A Geography of How Media Shaped History from A World Guide Parchment Offerings the Alphabet to the Internet By Caroline Crabtree and By Rene Larsen Deposits of Valuables in the By William J. Bernstein Pam Stallebrass Microanalysis of Parchment Landscapes of Ancient Europe Bernstein takes a thematic look at From Greenland to Bali, from the presents sampling techniques and By Richard Bradley non-destructive, microanalytical communication technologies from Ukraine to France, beadwork from A provocative study of current the dawn of writing to the present all around the world is illustrated and semi-microanalytical methods for the analysis and testing of approaches to and theories regarding day, emphasising their fundamental and its history revealed. After an the character, location, social and role in shaping societies and power introduction and an in-depth survey historic parchment based on visual, microscopical as well as chemical and physical physical context and object histories structures. of bead manufacturing centres in Europe and Asia, the of specialised deposits in the European archaeological book is organized into five principal sections, with over techniques.The contributions in this volume represent 420pp, Grove Press, 2013, 9780802121387, Hardback, the main achievements of the European joint project on record. This is an extended essay about the strengths was £18.99 forty topics in all. parchment Methods in the Microanalysis of Parchment and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2009, 9780500288016, sponsored by the European Commission. deposits. Now £6.95 Paperback, was £16.95 180pp, Archetype, 2002, 9781873132685, Paperback, was 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785704772, Paperback, Now £7.95 £47.50 was £15.99 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

Lives in Ruins The Mapmakers' Textiles and Text Archaeologies of Archaeologists and the Seductive World Re-establishing the Links between Gender and Violence Lure of Human Rubble A Cultural History of the Archival and Object-based Research Edited by Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen By Marilyn Johnson European World Map Edited by Maria Hayward The contributors deal both with Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an Other Juha Nurminen and Edited by and Elizabeth Kramer representations of violence and its absorbing and entertaining look at the Peter Barber and By Marjo Nurminen This publication focuses on the gendered background in images and lives of contemporary archaeologists. interrelationship between archival text, and with bioarchaeological The Mapmakers’ World illuminates evidence for violence and trauma Johnson digs and drinks alongside the fascinating cultural history of and bibliographic research and the archaeologists, chases them through study of extant objects. Papers with a gendered background. Case European world maps: what do studies are principally drawn from prehistoric to early the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu historical world maps tell of us, of our perception of the consider how archival and bibliographic research can Picchu, and excavates their lives. inform our knowledge of textiles and dress in terms medieval Europe, but also included are studies on world, and of places and peoples that are foreign to us? ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru 288pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2014, 9780062127181, Who were the makers of these early world maps? How of their production, consumption, dissemination and Hardback, was £15.99 were the maps created and for whom were they drawn deterioration and in turn, how the study of extant 252pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706882, Paperback, objects can give added depth to this analysis. was £36.00 Now £6.95 and printed? For what purposes were they used? 360pp, The Pool of London Press, 2015, 9781910860007, 282pp, Archetype, 2007, 9781904982265, Paperback, was Now £14.95 Hardback, was £50.00 £49.50 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 2 • GENERAL INTEREST AND METHOD AND THEORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Archaeologies of Creating Material Ethnozooarchaeology Re-Presenting the Past Waste Worlds The Present and Past of Human- Archaeology through Text and Image Encounters with the Unwanted Edited by Adrián Maldonado, Animal Relationships Edited by Sheila Bonde and Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell Edited by Daniel Sosna and Edited by Umberto Albarella Stephen Houston and Louisa Campbell Lenka Brunclíková and Angela Trentacoste The archaeological past exists for Explores new theoretical approaches A multi-disciplinary exploration This book examines how the study us through intermediaries. Some to the relationship between people of the relationship between waste of human-animal relations can help us are written works, descriptions, and objects, demonstrating how and human societies in terms of interpret archaeological evidence. An narratives and field notes, while identity can be seen as an emergent value, social differentiation, and international range of contributors others are visual. These essays raise property of living in a material world, and including a space. In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering key questions about the function of re-presentations of critical review of theories of identity. Research areas from the relationship between waste and identity in and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and the past in current archaeological practice. span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with early agricultural settlements to the perception of techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional 215pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972310, Paperback, case studies from the Mesolithic to the contemporary contemporary nuclear waste. societies. was £25.00 world by emerging voices in the field. 182pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703270, Paperback, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179970, Hardback, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701801, Paperback, was £48.00 Now £5.00 was £36.00 was £36.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Archaeology for the Death embodied Forms of Dwelling Shell Energy People Archaeological approaches to 20 Years of Taskscapes Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources Joukowsky Institute Perspectives the treatment of the corpse in Archaeology Edited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Edited by John Cherry and Felipe Rojas Edited by Zoë L. Devlin and By Ulla Rajala and Edited by Philip Mills Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara Emma-Jayne Graham All of the articles collected in this An important new collection of This volume brings together book combine sophisticated analysis Archaeological interpretations of theoretical and case study papers information about little known, or of an exciting archeological problem burial remains can often suggest that assessing the continued importance recently discovered, concentrations with prose geared at a non-specialized the skeletons which we uncover, and and value of the taskscapes approach of shell mounds. Discussions are audience. It also offers a series of therefore usually associate with past in archaeological research 20 years presented on new approaches to reflections on how and why to engage in dialogues about funerary practices, were what was actually deposited in after its conception.While exploring new frontiers, interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, archaeology with people who are not specialists. graves, rather than articulated corpses. The nine papers the papers contrast British, Nordic and Mediterranean analysis of molluscs, the use of shell as a raw material for provide a series of theoretically informed, but not archaeologies to showcase the study of material culture making artefacts and in construction, and the variable 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701078, Paperback, and landscape and conclude with an assessment of the formation processes associated with mound formation. was £28.00 constrained, case studies which focus predominantly on the corporeal body in death. concept of taskcape and its further developments. 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842177655, Hardback, Now £9.95 174pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979432, Paperback, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703775, Paperback, was £60.00 was £38.00 was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Archaeomalacology Development-led Incomplete Skyscapes Revisited Archaeology in North- Archaeologies The Role and Importance of Non-dietary use of molluscs West Europe Edited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn the Sky in Archaeology in archaeological settings Edited by Richard Bradley, J. Franklin and James A. Johnson Edited by Fabio Silva and Edited by Canan Cakirlar Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander This collection focuses on the actions, Nicholas Campion These ten papers revisit important Linden and Leo Webley practices and processes leading Eleven papers extend discussion archaeological issues such as These 12 papers bring together to the formation of archaeological of the role and importance of the provenance of raw materials, dye data on developer-led archaeology assemblages. The ultimate aim is landscape and the wider environment production and the secondary uses in Britain, Ireland, France, the Low to reassert an awareness of the to past societies, and to the of industrial shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the Countries, Germany and Denmark in order to review incompleteness of assemblage, and thus the importance understanding and interpretation of their material symbolic world of diverse civilisations, technology and and evaluate key common issues relating to organisation, of practices of assembling (whether they seem at first remains, into consideration of the significance of the early cross-regional exchange networks. practice, legal frameworks and quality management. creative or destructive) for understanding social life in celestial environment: the skyscape. the past as well as the present. 104pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174364, Paperback, 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174661, Paperback, 210pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978404, Paperback, was £32.00 was £38.00 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701153, Paperback, was £38.00 was £36.00 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Bones and Identity Dress and Society Locating the Sacred The Archaeology of Edited by Nimrod Marom, Contributions from Archaeology Theoretical Approaches to the Darkness Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Edited by T. F. Martin and R. Weetch Emplacement of Religion Edited by Marion Dowd Weissbrod and Guy Bar-Oz Presents a refreshingly new, Edited by Claudia Moser and Robert Hensey Seventeen papers demonstrate theoretically informed and integrated and Cecelia Feldman Archaeology shows us that over the how zooarchaeologists engage with approach to dress as a specific These essays, with a wide whole human journey people have questions of identity through culinary category of archaeological evidence chronological and geographical sought out dark places, for burials, for references, livestock husbandry by focusing on the close relationship coverage, aim at an understanding of votive deposition and sometimes for practices and land use. Contributions between dress, identity, bodies and religious ritual not as a disembodied retreat or religious ritual away from combine hitherto unpublished material culture event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and the wider community. Thirteen papers examine how the zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated senses are affected in caves and monuments that were geographic expanse between Greece in the West and 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703157, Paperback, was £36.00 material objects. used for ritual activities, from Bronze Age miners in India in the East and spanning a time range from the Wales, to initiands in Italian caves, to a modern caver’s latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Now £12.95 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976165, Paperback, experience in one of the world’s deepest caves in Russia. was £25.00 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701726, Paperback, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701917, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £7.95 was £32.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Care in the Past Engaging with the Paradigm Found The Death of Edited by Lindsay Powell, William Dead Archaeological Theory – Present, Archaeological Southwell-Wright and Rebecca Gowland Exploring Changing Human Past and Future. Essays in Theory? The 12 papers in this volume bring Beliefs about Death, Mortality Honour of Evžen Neustupný Edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce together archaeological, historical, and and the Human Body Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, This book addresses the provocative philosophical perspectives to examine Ladislav Šmejda and Jan Turek the topic of care in past societies, and Edited by Jennie Bradbury subject of whether it is time to how we might recognise the provision and Chris Scarre These 23 papers provide a discussion discount the burden of somewhat of care in archaeological contexts. Engaging with the Dead explores of the issues currently re-appearing dogmatic theory and ideology that The topic of care is examined a variety of themes linked to the in the focal point of theoretical has defined archaeological debate through three different strands: care throughout the life interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the debates in archaeology such as the role of the discipline and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest ways of disposing of the dead. Contributors explore in the present-day society, problems of interpretation in chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also members of society; care-giving and attitudes towards changing beliefs and practices over time, considering archaeology, approaches to the study of social evolution, assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future impairment and disability; and the role of animals as both how modern archaeology, ethnography and historical as well as current insights into issues in classification and directions. recipients of care and as tools for its provision. records can aid our interpretations of the past. construction of typologies. 96pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174463, Paperback, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703355, Paperback, 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706639, Hardback, 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782977704, Hardback, was £12.95 was £38.00 was £55.00 was £45.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Children, Spaces and Environment and People with Animals The Diversity of Identity Aggregate-Related Perspectives and Studies in Hunter Gatherer Pasts Edited by Margarita Sánchez Archaeology Ethnozooarchaeology Edited by Bill Finlayson Romero, Eva Alarcón García and By Tony Brown Edited by Lee G. Broderick and Graeme Warren Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez This volume provides a synthetic People with Animals emphasises Explores the extent of variation Specialists from archaeology, history, review of the background and the interdependence of people and amongst hunting and gathering literature, architecture, didactics, archaeology that has emerged animals in society, and contributors peoples past and present and the museology and anthropology through archaeological interventions examine the variety of forms and considerable analytical challenges build a body of theoretical and associated with the quarrying of time-depth that these relations presented by this diversity to methodological approaches about how space is sand, gravel, and rock for aggregates. The book covers all can take. The types of relationship studied include the archaeologists and anthropologists attempting to articulated and organised around children and how this periods from the Lower Palaeolithic to Medieval, and is importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as understand and reconstruct past lifeways. disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social organized on a regional basis. livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, 204pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705885, Paperback, identities. 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781905223022, Paperback, butchery, symbolism and food. was £36.00 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979357, Paperback, was £38.00 156pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702471, Paperback, was £45.00 was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM METHOD AND THEORY • 3 The Future from the Crossing Frontiers Visions of Antiquity Surfaces Past By H. Schroeder, P. Bray, P. The Society of Antiquaries A History Archaeozoology in Gardner and V. Jefferson of London 1707-2007 By Joseph Anthony Amato Wildlife Conservation and With the ever-increasing Edited by Susan Pearce This theory-rich study spans a huge Heritage Management specialisation of archaeological This fascinating portrait of the Society sweep of time, from early hominids methods and techniques, it By Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier and Ina Plug of Antiquaries of London, founded to the present day and takes a becomes more and more difficult phenomenological approach to human These 18 papers are all in 1707, assesses the impact that to communicate across disciplinary individual Fellows and the Society as a interaction with surfaces. Overall concerned with the contributions boundaries. These papers explore it charts a transformation in that archaeozoologists make to specific whole have had in influencing the way the challenges and opportunities of we visualise and understand the past. The contributions relationship with humanity becoming a “knower and problems encountered in the management and interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology. maker of surfaces and a self-conscious, self-directing and conservation of our natural and cultural heritage. shed light on the Society’s achievements (and some of 160pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, the accompanying conflicts between personalities and self-designing animal”. 184pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842171158, Hardback, 9780954962777, Paperback, was £30.00 ideas) over three hundred years. 288pp, University of California Press, 2013, was £50.00 Now £9.95 463pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007, 9780520272774, Hardback, was £27.00 Now £4.95 9780854312870, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £5.95 Now £10.00

Trends in Biological Production Technology Discovering The Past Assembling the Past Anthropology 1 of Faience and Related Through Archaeology By A. B. Kehoe and Mary Edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonić Early Vitreous By Chris Catling Beth Emmerichs and Kathleen McSweeney Materials A well-illustrated introduction 12 essays examine processes whereby archaeology became professionalized The first in a new series on By M. S Tite and Andrew J. Shortland to archaeology, which not only biological anthropology presents 11 presents the more spectacular during the course of the twentieth papers comprising assessments of The vitreous materials considered are sites and discoveries, as do many century, focusing in particular on the methodological practices and case glazed steatite, faience, Egyptian blue similar offerings, but also includes the increasing participation of once studies in palaeopathology. and green frits, and glazed pottery information on how archaeologists marginalized groups, above all women and bricks from the 5th millennium go about their task, with sections on fieldwork and into the mainstream of the profession. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978367, Paperback, BC through to the Roman period. For each group of was £49.95 exacavation, scientific techniques, post-excavation 241pp, University of New Mexico Press, 1999, material, the emphasis is on presenting the available analysis, and the development of archaeological thought. 9780826319395, Hardback, was £48.50 Now £9.95 analytical and microstructural data which are then interpreted to provide information on the raw materials 128pp, Southwater, 2011, 9781844769957, Paperback, Now £7.95 and production. was £8.99 232pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, Now £4.95 9781905905126, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 Underground The Memory Code Archaeological Golden Ages and Archaeology By Lynne Kelly Resource Management Barbarous Nations Studies on Human Bones and Lynne Kelly presents a new theory in the UK Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Artefacts from Ireland's Caves about the function of Prehistoric By John Hunter and Ian B. M. Ralston Politics in Ireland, C.1750-1800 monuments. She argues that the Edited by Marion Dowd stone circles across Britain and This book reviews the issues facing By Clare O'Halloran This book brings together a series of northern Europe, the elaborate archaeologists in an increasingly This book, the first major study ground-breaking studies on human stone houses of New Mexico, huge complicated and diverse discipline, of Irish antiquarian and historical bones and artefacts recovered from animal shapes in Peru, the statues of and examines the implications of writing during the turbulent second Irish caves principally between 1870 Easter Island - all served as a memory heritage management and legislation, half of the eighteenth century, charts and 1990.The 15 expert contributions presented here system. They allowed people in non-literate cultures to stricter planning controls, changing land use and the the ways in which contemporary politics, notably the shine a light on the use and perception of caves at memorize the vast amounts of information they needed pressure of public interest and concern. The second Catholic question, legislative independence and the different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic to survive. edition is substantially enlarged and completely gathering agrarian and political crises from the late rewritten. through to post-medieval times. 336pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681773254, Hardback, 1780s, shaped articulations of the remote and recent 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703515, Hardback, was £20.00 402pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006, 9780750927895, past. was £48.00 Hardback, was £25.00 280pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Now £7.95 9780268037215, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

Weben und Gewebe in Women in Genes, Memes and The Dancing der Antike / Texts and Archaeology Human History Goddesses Textiles in the Ancient By Cheryl Claassen Darwinian Archaeology Folklore, Archaeology, and the World Women in Archaeology documents and Cultural Evolution Origins of European Dance By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and discusses attempts to exclude By Stephen Shennan By Elizabeth Wayland Barber women from the discipline of Texts and Textiles in the Ancient archaeology and the resulting Shennan explores the potential for a From southern Greece to northern World: Materiality – Representation androcentrism of archaeological neo-Darwinian evolutionary approach Russia, people have long believed in – Episteme – Metapoetics presents knowledge. to some of the major concerns female spirits, bringers of fertility, who 12 papers arranged under the four and issues within archaeology. spend their nights and days dancing headings of the title which focus on the process of 252pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 1994, He reviews the concept of memes and applies it to in the fields and forests. Drawing on archaeological and textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the 9780812215090, Paperback, was £23.99 human exploitation of resources, population histories, folklore this book traces these goddesses and the rituals materiality of fabric. Now £9.95 the transmission of cultural traditions, male-female surrounding them back through the Romans and Greeks 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700620, Hardback, relationships and social evolution, competition and to the first farmers of Europe. was £38.00 warfare. 448pp, W W Norton, 2014, 9780393348507, Paperback, 304pp, Thames and Hudson, 2002, 9780500051184, was £15.99 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Wild Harvest Apocalypse People and the Sky The Strait Gate Plants in the Hominin and Pre- Earthquakes, Archaeology By Anthony F. Aveni Thresholds and Power in Agrarian Human Worlds and the Wrath of God People and the Sky explores the Western History Edited by Karen Hardy and By Amos Nur and Dawn Burgess history of mankind's intimate By Daniel Jutte Lucy Kubiak-Martens relationship with the sky, and how the Amos Nur argues that archaeologists lives of our ancestors were cosmically The Strait Gate demonstrates how A major new textbook discussing and historians too often seek grounded. He discusses why doors, gates, and related technologies the role of plants in hominin and man-made causes for destruction, constellations were invented, how such as the key and the lock have pre-agrarian human societies with abandonment and the extinction of stars were used in navigation, how the shaped the way we perceive and case studies drawn from ethnography, civilisations, rather than adequately cosmos acted as a seasonal clock for navigate the domestic and urban ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods exploring natural causes. This study revisits a number farmers, the importance of the sky in urban design and spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jutte of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical of ancient sites and cultures looking for possible in legitimating the power and ancestry of rulers, and the reveals how doors have served as sites of power, assemblages may be used and interpreted. earthquake damage in the archaeological and skeletal development of timekeeping. exclusion, and inclusion-and, by extension, as metaphors records and evaluating seismic risks. for salvation-in the course of Western history. 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701238, Paperback, 252pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500051528, was £32.00 309pp, Princeton University Press, 2008, 9780691016023, Hardback, was £18.95 384pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300211085, Hardback, was £21.00 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

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Caves in Context Wellington Quarry, Deer and People The Ancient Yew The Cultural Significance of Caves Herefordshire (1986- Edited by Karis Baker, Ruth A History of Taxus Baccata and Rockshelters in Europe 96) Carden and Richard Madgwick By Robert Bevan-Jones Edited by Knut Andreas Investigations of a Landscape This volume draws together research Robert Bevan-Jones discusses the Bergsvik and Robin Skeates in the Lower Lugg Valley on deer from wide-ranging disciplines history of the yew, its biology, the and in so doing substantially advances Caves and rockshelters are found all By Robin Jackson and Darren Miller origins of its name, the yew berry our broader understanding of human- and its toxicity, its distribution across over Europe, and have been occupied deer relationships in the past and by human groups, from prehistory This volume presents the results of Britain, means of dating examples, and the first 10 years of archaeological the present. Themes include species their association with folklore, with right up to the present day. The aim of dispersal, exploitation patterns, this book is to explore the multiple significances of these investigation at Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire. churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and During this time a regionally unique archaeological and symbolic significance, material culture and art, effects on as landscape markers. natural places in a range of chronological, spatial, and the landscape and management. cultural contexts across Europe. palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and 216pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781785700781, 248pp, Windgather Press, 2014, 9781909686540, Paperback, was £29.95 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174746, Hardback, landscape change. Paperback, was £45.00 was £50.00 Now £12.95 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842173664, Hardback, Now £9.95 Now £14.95 was £30.00 Now £4.95

Enduring Records Archaeology and Dury and Andrews’ The Archaeology of a The Environmental and Cultural Landscape in Central Map of Hertfordshire Great Estate Heritage of Wetlands Italy By Andrew Macnair, Anne By Nicola Bannister and John Barnatt By Barbara A. Purdy Edited by Gary Lock and Rowe and Tom Williamson This book tells the story of These twenty-seven papers on Amalia Faustoferri This book describes the creation of Chatsworth’s historic landscape and wetland research across the These seventeen papers address a new, digital version of an important its archaeology. It includes the whole world, from America to Europe to topics in Ancient History, new county map that throws important of the Estate landscape, including the Australasia, aim to raise the profile technologies and methods, new light on Hertfordshire’s extensive farmland and moorlands of these fragile environments and the geomorphology and anthropology landscape and society in the middle beyond the park and concentrates on potential they have for shedding light on the past. and how they can all be combined in the study of past decades of the eighteenth century when it was visible archaeology and what it can tell us about the past. 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, 9781842170489, Hardback, landscapes. Case studies present various projects based produced, and in more remote periods. 232pp, Windgather Press, 2009, 9781905119271, was £60.00 mainly in central Italy with seven of the papers describing 240pp, Windgather Press, 2015, 9781909686731, Paperback, was £28.00 aspects of fieldwork in the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo. Paperback, was £35.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 253pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008, Now £9.95 9781905905065, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £10.00

Exploring and An Inventory of Historic Gardens and William Faden and Explaining Diversity in Archaeological Sites in Parks of Derbyshire Norfolk's Eighteenth Agricultural North-West Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 Century Landscape Technology Northamptonshire By Dianne Barre A Digital Re-Assessment Edited by Annelou van Gijn, John Describes some 600 sites and A lavishly illustrated study of nearly of his Historic Map Whittaker and Patricia C. Anderson monuments from the Neolithic 100 gardens in Derbyshire from the By Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson to the 19th century, parish by fabulously wealthy stately home to Each chapter provides an parish. Numerous plans. William Faden’s map of Norfolk, interdisciplinary overview of the the smallest hidden delights. The book published in 1797, was one of a large skills used and the social context 222pp, The Stationery Office Ltd, 1981, considers the importance of gardens number of surveys of English counties produced in the of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of 9780117009004, Hardback, was £40.00 in Derbyshire Spa towns, discusses the role of inherited second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with and new wealth of the industrial revolution on the tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to Now £12.95 accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of cereal processing and food preparation. design of both private estates and public gardens. the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842175156, Hardback, 272pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188049, produce a wealth of new historical information. was £50.00 Paperback, was £25.00 218pp, Windgather Press, 2010, 9781905119349, Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95

Living with the Flood An Inventory of Local Places, Global Back to the Garden Mesolithic to post-medieval Archaeological Sites in Processes By James H. S. McGregor archaeological remains at Mill South-West Edited by Peter Coates, David A cultural and ecological history Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Moon and Paul Warde of the Mediterranean region and – a wetland/dryland interface This book investigates the humankind's broken covenant with Parish by parish descriptions of nature. Traditional agriculture in the By Samantha Paul, Kevin Colls some 500 sites and monuments, relationship between perceptions and Henry P. Chapman of environmental change at a local ancient Mediterranean mimicked numerous plans and folding map. the key traits of naturally occurring This volume integrates archaeological 226pp, The Stationery Office Ltd, 1982, scale and the wider forces of transformation, addressing influential ecosystems. It was diverse, complex, and palaeoenvironmental analysis to 9780117009974, Hardback, was self-regulating, and resilient. provide a detailed picture of life in an area of wetland/ £40.00 ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’. It uses case studies on conservation, This relationship effectively came to an end in the dryland interface from the late glacial to the post- late eighteenth century, when "nature" was steadily medieval periods. It compares the nature and utilisation Now £9.95 landscape change and management to examine how perceptions of environmental change have emerged or equated with the untamed landscape devoid of human of built structures from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and intervention. Saxon period in their environmental contexts. been discarded over time 272pp, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686939, 320pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300197464, 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979661, Paperback, Hardback, was £30.00 was £19.95 Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

Modelling Archaeology Essay on Gardens Norfolk Gardens and The Gardens of Their and Palaeo- A Chapter in the French Picturesque Designed Landscapes Dreams environments in Edited by Samuel Danon By Patsy Dallas, Tom Williamson Desertification and Culture Wetlands Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens and Roger Last in World History The hidden landscape archaeology is one of the earliest texts showing This beautifully produced volume By Brian Griffith of Hatfield and Thorne Moors the progressive shift in French provides a detailed exploration of the Griffith charts the historical effects of taste from the classical model of history of gardening and landscape the expanding wasteland which now By Henry P. Chapman and the gardens at Versailles to the architecture in Norfolk, from the Benjamin R. Gearey stretches from Mauretania to the picturesque or natural style of garden geometric gardens of the sixteenth Great Wall of China on past human This study utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitative design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation and seventeenth centuries, through the landscape society - the very different religious beliefs that became methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet parks of the eighteenth century and the civic spaces of dominant; huge shifts in the relative standing of men and and temporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for describes an ideal farm and also his own very real the nineteenth, to the emergence of modern ideas of women; new, more antagonistic attitudes to nature; and two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. ecological and ‘minimalist’ garden design. much more authoritarian systems of government. Moors. 104pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 472pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188308, 368pp, Zed Books, 2001, 9781856497992, Hardback, was 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971740, Hardback, 9780812237221, Hardback, was £41.00 Paperback, was £25.00 £70.00 was £30.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LANDSCAPE • 5 Archaeology, the Who Owns Antiquity Living in a Dangerous How Compassion Public and the Recent By James Cuno Climate Made Us Human Past A controversial look at the antiquities Climate Change and The Evolutionary Origins of Edited by Chris J. Dalglish trade, and the legal framework which Human Evolution Tenderness, Trust and Morailty surrounds it which suggests that the Heritage, memory, community current set-up merely encourages the By Renee Hetherington By Penny Spikins archaeology and the politics of the hoarding of antiquities by the states This book provides a unique and Penny Spikins argues that compassion past form the main strands running which now occupy the territories thought-provoking journey from early lies at the heart of what makes us through the papers in this volume. of ancient civilizations, and argues humans; evolutionary repsonse to human. She takes us on a journey The essays deal with an interest in instead for the enabling of global climate change, species extinctions, from Stone Age societies living the meaning, value and contested nature of the recent ‘encyclopedic museums’. The paperback edition contains and societal downfalls to today's global crisis. It links millions of years ago to those of Ice Age Europe, drawing past and in the theory and practice of archaeological a new afterword in which Cuno repsonds to some of scientific knowledge and presepctives of evolution, on the latest research from primatology, psychology, engagements with that past. his critics. climate change and economics. neuroscience and social anthropology as well as that 179pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838517, 244pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, 9780691148106, 272pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, from the material record to demonstrate the central Hardback, was £30.00 Paperback, was £14.99 9781107694736, Paperback, was £26.99 role that emotional connections had in human evolution. Now £12.95 278pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2015, 9781781593103, Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £7.95

The Conservation Museums and Casting the Net Wide The Story of Movement in Norfolk Communities Papers in Honor of Glynn Stonehenge A History The Politics of Public Culture Isaac and His Approach to By Patricia Southern Human Origins Research By Susanna Wade Martins Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Patricia Southern ventures outside Edited by Jeanne Sept Norfolk played a unique role in Kreamer and Steven D. Lavine her usual Roman specialism with the development of conservation. and David Pilbeam this concise, intorductory guide Contributors to this volume to Stonehenge and its history. Her This book narrates the story of examine and illustrate struggles 16 papers on the archaeology of the movement, from its origins five human origins, focusing on issues of account synthesises existing work on and collaborations among the subject rather than attempting hundred years ago to the present day. museums, festivals, tourism, and early human diet, palaeolandscapes, lithics, and the archaeology of the Near East and Africa. to put forward any new theory. The bulk of the book is 187pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2015, 9781783270071, historic preservation projects and the communities comprised of a description of the stones themselves and Paperback, was £19.99 they represent and serve. Essays include the role of 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174548, Hardback, their arrangement, with discussion of how they were museums in civil society, the history of African-American was £35.00 transported and how the monument was built. Now £4.95 collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society. Now £7.95 158pp, Amberley Publishing, 2012, 9781445605630, Hardback, was £16.99 624pp, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, 9781560981893, Paperback, was £22.70 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Historical Redress The Acquisition and Human Social Warriors and Kings Must We Pay for the Past? Exhibition of Classical Evolution The 1500-Year Battle By Richard Vernon Antiquities The Foundational Works of for Celtic Britain This title provides an introduction to By Robin Francis Rhodes Richard D. Alexander By Martin Wall the philosophical implications of the These papers consider the Edited by Kyle Summers A popular look at the celts from recent surge of political and ethical implications of buying, selling, and and Bernard J. Crespi prehistory to the present day, focusing interest in historical redress. The exhibiting antiquities. To whom should Richard D. Alexander is an in particularly on Wales and the book addresses all the main issues they belong? What circumstances, Welsh, and on folklore and mythology and arguments relating to justice, accomplished entomologist who if any, demand the return of those turned his attention to solving as well as history. memory, apology and citizenship, and concludes by antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a 304pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445658438, arguing for a forward-looking approach that focuses on some of the most perplexing problems associated with consensus among archaeologists and museum directors the evolution of human social systems. Each chapter Hardback, was £20.00 the right of future generations to live just lives. about these issues? features an introduction highlighting the importance Now £7.95 192pp, Continuum International Pub., 2012, 175pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, of Alexander's work and reviewing more recent 9781441121318, Paperback, was £18.99 9780268040277, Paperback, was £25.95 contributions to the topic. Now £3.95 Now £9.95 496pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199791750, Hardback, was £29.99 Now £6.95

Ruins Reused Recording Britain Neanderthals in Coin Hoards in Iron Changing Attitutes to Ruins By Gill Saunders Context Age Britain since the late 18th Century Recording Britain was an artistic A Report of the 1995-1998 By P. de Jersey By Michael Thompson documentary project compiled as the Excavations at Gorhams and Between the mid-seventeenth country was facing the potentially Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar century and 2010, almost 350 hoards This book charts the development­ devastating impact of the Second of an active relationship between By R. N. E. Barton, C. B. Stringer, of Iron Age coins were discovered in World War. The resulting collection Britain. This volume provides the first the public and ruins as to how they of more than 1500 watercolours and J. C. Finlayson and Edited by N. can be preserved and used, looking Barton and C. B. Stinger fully comprehensive account of these drawings, by artists such as John Piper, hoards, each of which is described in at developments throughout the Michael Rothenstein, Barbara Jones nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 24 chapters by leading specialists detail, together with an analysis of the main features of and Stanley Badmin, is a rich visual record of buildings, cover a range of topics from information concerning the hoarding in the late Iron Age and early Romano-British 110pp, Heritage Publications, 2006, 9781905223046, landscapes and livelihoods under threat. The highlights nature and sequence of Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal period. Hardback, was £14.95 are presented here. occupations to the reconstruction of the environmental 474pp, London, British Numismatics Society, 2015, Now £6.95 288pp, V and A Publications, 2011, 9781851776610, context of these activities. 9781907427381, Hardback, was £65.00 Hardback, was £30.00 352pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2012, Now £14.95 Now £12.95 9781905905249, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £14.95

Global Ancestors Buildings, Landscapes, The Strange Case of A Brief History of Understanding the Shared and Memory the Rickety Cossack Stonehenge Humanity of our Ancestors By Daniel Bluestone By Ian Tattersall By Aubrey Burl Edited by Rebecca Redfern, This book explores historically and Ian Tattersall argues that a long Burl’s accessible overview provides a Jelena Bekvalac, Heather critically the historic preservation tradition of "human exceptionalism" wealth of information on Stonehenge, Bonney and Margaret Clegg movement in the United States. in paleoanthropology has distorted the history of research at the site, These papers reflect on modern Analysing ten extraordinary places, the picture of human evolution. and the myths which have become museological responses to the often it examines assumptions about why He offers an idiosyncratic look attached to it. He explores the wider complex and emotive relationship history, heritage, and place should at the competitive world of landscape, offering his own theories that people have with the ancestors and objects matter. It ranges broadly from a discussion of the paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 particularly as to the construction of the monument which they created. Topics include how indigenous commemoration of place in the Marquis de Lafayette’s years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in and source of the bluestones and as to its astronomical peoples are represented in museums; the repatriation triumphal tour of the United States in 1824–25 to Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings alignment. of human remains and objects; and the ways in which speculation about the cultural and political import of in the Caucasus. 368pp, Constable and Co. Ltd., 2007, 9781845295912, archaeologists and indigenous communities interact. interpreting history on EPA Superfund toxic waste sites. 256pp, Palgrave, 2015, 9781137278890, Hardback, was Paperback, was £9.99 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175330, Paperback, 304pp, W.W. Norton and Company Ltd, 2011, £18.99 9780393733181, Hardback, was £37.00 Now £3.95 was £32.00 Now £7.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

Heritage Transformed Finding Our Tongues The Upright Thinkers The Land of Boudica By Ian Baxter Mothers, Infants and the The Human Journey from Living in Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk How does "heritage" become Origins of Language Trees to Understanding the Cosmos By John Davies objectified within public institutions By Dean Falk By Leonard Mlodinow This book traces the story of Norfolk and representative of a national past? from the Ice Age and the first This book proposes a model for Falk's new take on the evolution Leonard Mlodinow guides us through of language springs from a simple the critical eras and events in the appearance of people to the end of this process and contains five case Roman Britain. In particular it focuses studies that explore variety in the observation: parents all over the development of science, all of which, world, in all cultures, talk to infants he demonstrates, were propelled on the many remarkable and exciting transformation of heritage. The model discoveries made across the region, proposes that heritage is transformed by using baby talk or "Motherese." forward by humankind's collective Falk shows how Motherese developed as a way of struggle to know often through the contribution of amateur enthusiasts, from concept to object and the agency of change is and how these have transformed our picture its history "management". reassuring babies when mothers had to put them down 352pp, Pantheon Books, 2015, 9780307908230, in order to do work. The melodic vocalizations of early Hardback, was £20.00 in recent decades. 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174579, Paperback, Motherese not only provided the basis of language but 251pp, Heritage Publications, 2009, 9781905223336, was £40.00 also contributed to the growth of music and art. Now £7.95 Paperback, was £19.95 Now £9.95 256pp, Basic Books, 2009, 9780465002191, Hardback, was £17.99 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 6 • HERITAGE, HUMAN EVOLUTION AND PREHISTORIC BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 A Corridor Through Gristhorpe Man. Quaternary of the The Archaeology of Time A Life and Death in the Bronze Age Trent the Gravel Terraces of the archaeology of the A55 Edited by Nigel D. Melton, Christopher Edited by David R. Bridgland, Andy J. the Upper and Middle Anglesey Road Scheme Knusel and Janet Montgomery Howard, Mark J. White and Tom S. White Thames By Richard Cuttler, Andrew Research report on an early This volume is an integrated overview Late Prehistory 1500 BC-AD 50 Davidson and Gwilym Hughes discovery of a very well-preserved and synthesis of available data relating British Bronze Age bog body. A log- to the Quaternary evolution of By George Lambrick, Mark Five main sites and a series of coffin excavated in the early 19th the River Trent. It provides detailed Robinson and Anne Dodd prehistoric burnt mounds are century proved to be well enough descriptions of the Pleistocene discussed. The route encountered This account of the Thames Valley in preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest remains of Neolithic pit groups; Bronze Age and Iron armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its related drainage systems. Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation seeks to examine change in human society from a occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a 416pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842174616, Hardback, thematic point of view, examining patterns of settlement cemetery; Romano-British settlements and a farmstead; new date. an early medieval inhumation cemetery, medieval was £30.00 and landuse, political boundaries, and human impact on agricultural features and a corn-drying kiln. 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972075, Hardback, the environment. was £55.00 Now £9.95 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174234, Hardback, 428pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2009, was £35.00 Now £19.95 9780954962791, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

A Lake Dwelling in Its Hunters, fishers and Ritual in Early Bronze The Archaeology of Landscape foragers in Wales Age Grave Goods the Gravel Terraces of Iron Age settlement at Towards a social narrative An examination of ritual and dress the Upper and Middle Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, of Mesolithic lifeways equipment from Chalcolithic and Thames Dumfries and Galloway By Malcolm Lillie Early Bronze Age graves in England Early Prehistory to 1500 BC By Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone A major new holistic appraisal of By John Hunter and Ann Woodward By Tony Morigi, Danielle Schreve, Presents the full results of excavations the evidence for the Mesolithic An extensive and intensively Mark White and Gill Hey at an important, short-lived crannog occupation of Wales. Chapters illustrated overview and study of a site of the 5th century at Cults Loch, follow a sequence from the large proportion of the grave goods Part 1 of this volume covers the Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and explores both palaeoenvironmental background, through a from English Early Bronze Age burial sites. It shows that Pleistocene, the epoch of the Ice Ages, in an integrated the relationship between the crannog and its social and consideration of the use of stone tools, settlement many items of adornment formed elements of elaborate review of the geological, palaeontological and physical landscape and the wider role and function of patterning and evidence for subsistence strategies and costumes, probably worn by individuals who held archaeological data. Part 2 takes up the story from the crannogs. the range of available resources. important ritual roles within society beginning of the Holocene, the warm period in which we are still living, which began around 11,500 years ago. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703737, Hardback, 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979746, Paperback, 616pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782976943, Hardback, was £36.00 was £40.00 was £90.00 582pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2011, 9780954962784, Hardback, was £34.99 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £29.95 Now £14.95

Corrstown Huntsman’s Quarry, The Use and Reuse of The Danebury A Coastal Community. Kemerton Stone Circles Environs Programme Excavations of a Bronze Age By Robin Jackson Fieldwork at five Scottish The Prehistory of a Wessex Village in Northern Ireland A report on excavations which monuments and its implications Landscape, Volume 1, Introduction By Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone uncovered Late Bronze Age Edited by Richard Bradley By Barry Cunliffe Corrstown is a highly important occupation areas and field systems and Courtney Nimura spreading across more than 8 Following his research on the hillfort Bronze Age site. A total of 74 Middle This volume presents all new data Barry Cunliffe has led a massive Bronze Age roundhouse platforms hectares. Limited evidence for Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and resulting from the excavation and campaign to explore the surroundings were identified and organised into cross-comparison of 5 Scottish stone of the site, and this has resulted in a pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to Beaker activity was also recovered together with an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. circles of varying type, size and sequence, as well as further series of volumes, the first set on the Prehistoric be contemporary, a site type hitherto unknown in Britain reassessing the construction sequences and use histories evidence and the second set on the Roman Period and Ireland. 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979944, Hardback, of stone circles in Britain evidence. This volume is the Introduction and overview was £30.00 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174647, Paperback, 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702433, Paperback, to the Prehistoric set. was £36.00 Now £7.95 was £39.95 240pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, 9780947816483, Hardback, was £49.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £10.00

Down By The River Lives in Land – Archaeology of the The Danebury By Henry Chapman, Andy Mucking Excavations Wallingford Bypass, Environs Project Howard and Benjamin Gearey By Christopher Evans, Grahame 1986-92 The Prehistory of a Wessex This series of detailed studies Appleby and Sam Lucy Late Bronze Age Ritual and Landscape, Volume 2 presents the results of This volume comprises a Habitation on a Thames Eyot at By Barry Cunliffe palaeoenvironmental, archaeological comprehensive account of the Whitecross Farm, Wallingford Volume 2 comprises seven separate­ and geoarchaeological investigations prehistoric archaeology of the focused on the Post-Glacial record By Anne Marie Cromarty, Alistair Barclay, volumes reporting on the Prehistoric mucking landscape from the evidence from the excavations and preserved in the valleys of the Suffolk Mesolithic to Iron Age. It presents a George Lambrick and Mark Robinson rivers. Five floodplain sites (Beccles, research at sites in the Danebury area synthesis of landscape development through 5 thousand The site at Whitecross Farm, included timber structures during the early 1990s. Hoxne, Hengrave, Ixworth and Brandon) were cored for years of prehistory including settlement histories, located on the edge of the eyot, and a substantial midden palaeoenvironmental assessment, further sampling and changing land-use, death and burial, industry and craft and occupation deposit. The late Bronze Age artefact 842pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, radiocarbon dating and the resulrs are described. activities. assemblages are suggestive of a high-status site, with a 9780947816490, Hardback, was £60.00 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701689, Hardback, 640pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701481, Hardback, range of domestic and ritual activities represented. Now £15.00 was £25.00 was £40.00 264pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2006, 9780947816674, Hardback, was £26.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Excavations at Cill Movement, Exchange Longbridge Deverill Thornhill Farm, Donnain and Identity in Europe Cow Down Fairford, A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron in the 2nd and 1st An Early Iron Age Settlement Gloucestershire Age Wheelhouse in South Uist Millennia BC in West Wiltshire An Iron Age and Roman pastoral By Mike Parker Pearson Edited by Anne Lehoërff and Marc Talon By Christopher Hawkes, Lisa Brown site in the Upper Thames Valley and Marek Zvelebil Brings together leading scholars and Sonia Chadwick Hawkes By D. Jennings, Jeff Muir, S. A report on an Iron Age wheelhouse from the UK and northern Europe During four brief seasons of Palmer and A. Smith and Bronze Age settlement, including in a thought-provoking and revealing excavation between 1956 and 1960 From the middle Iron Age to the early pottery, faunal remains and a variety new examination of the relationship Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated Roman period, Thornhill Farm appears to have been lived of bone and metal tools. between communities in the ‘Transmanche Zone’ in the three enclosures and revealed the well-preserved in and worked as a cattle ranch. Extensive excavations 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976271, Hardback, Bronze and Iron Ages. The premise is that the English remains of four impressive timber roundhouses. The revealed large parts of the settlement, including was £25.00 Channel was a conduit for connectivity and exchange release of Hawkes' archaeological data marks a major paddocks, stock enclosures and droveways. of ideas, artefacts and social practices and rather than a contribution to the pursuit of insight into this intriguing Now £7.95 barrier or frontier. phase of British prehistory. 200pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2004, 9780947816728, Hardback, was £24.95 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707162, Hardback, 321pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2012, was £48.00 9781905905256, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £7.50 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Gathering Time Prehistory without Segsbury Camp Stonehenge Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures Borders Excavations in 1996 and 1997 By Rosemary Hill of Southern Britain and Ireland Edited by Rachel Crellin, Chris at an Iron Age Hillfort on the Instead of trying to uncover the By Alasdair Whittle, Frances Fowler and Richard Tipping Oxfordshire Ridgeway prehistoric mysteries of Stonehenge Healy and Alex Bayliss This book assesses the impact of By Gary Lock, Christopher and its purpose and/or meaning for the Anglo-Scots and similar borders Gosden and Patrick Daly its creators, Rosemary Hill examines Gathering Time presents the results what the stone monument has meant of a major dating programme that re- on our understanding of prehistoric This volume describes the two patterns of activity. It provides to the people of recorded history. writes the early Neolithic of Britain seasons of excavation at Segsbury The book largely begins with the by more accurately dating enclosures, a regional synthesis based on Camp which form a part of Oxford topography, geography and archaeology which transcends post-Reformation antiquaries, before a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: University’s Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project. The moving on to the likes of Inigo Jones and John Wood, the places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and modern political boundaries and considers the extent to evidence suggests that the large hillfort of Segsbury was which the Tyne-Forth does or does not form a coherent Romantics, Victorians and to the modern age of scientific deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new used during the period 6th to 2nd century BC but was archaeology and neo-paganism. radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using regional unit at various periods in prehistory. not densely and permanently occupied. a Bayesian statistical framework. 260pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701993, Hardback, 242pp, Profile Books Ltd, 2008, 9781861978653, 158pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, Hardback, was £15.99 992pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174258, Hardback, was £45.00 9780947816681, Hardback, was £35.00 was £45.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £10.00 Now £19.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND • 7 A Slice of Rural Essex Seabed Prehistory Appropriating Exchange Networks Recent Archaeological Discoveries By Louise Tizzard, Andrew Bicket, Dimitri Innovations and Local from the A120 between Stansted De Loecker and Edited by Jonathan Entangled Knowledge in Transformations Airport and Braintree Benjamin and Philippa Bradley Eurasia, 5000-1500 BCE By Maria Emanuela Alberti By Jane R. Timby, Richard Brown, This volume reports on Edited by Joseph Maran and and Serena Sabatini E. Biddulph and Alan Hardy archaeological investigations of Philipp Stockhammer Early Middle Palaeolithic flint tools, Throughout the local Bronze and Iron A diverse pattern of human hist­ including hand axes, and faunal This volume seeks to turn its head Age, European and Mediterranean ory was revealed including earlier remains in the North Sea, as well as the familiar idea that the spread of societies appear to have been prehistoric flint knapping, later examining submerged and buried innovations is a gradual and linear involved in complex systems of prehistoric ritual activity, a Roman farmstead with landscapes process bringing progress in the development of exchange networks which invariably affected local accompanying cemetery, a middle Saxon hall, medieval societies, especially during the late Neolithic to Early customs and historical developments. These articles settlement, pottery production and a windmill. 152pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2015, 9781874350804, Bronze Age in the Near East and Europe. explore the dynamic relationship between regionally Hardback, was £33.00 214pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2007, 9780954597023, contextualised transformations and inter-regional 296pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707247, Hardback, exchange networks. Hardback, was £14.95 Now £14.95 was £48.00 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174852, Paperback, Now £7.50 Now £14.95 was £38.00 Now £12.95

An Iron Age enclosure An Upland Biography Bodies of Clay Exploring Prehistoric and Romano-British Landscape and Prehistory on On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery Identity in Europe features at High Post, Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg Our Construct or Theirs? near Salisbury By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan and Valeska Becker Edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca By Andrew B. Powell and Mark Edmonds This collection of papers explores Enlander and Rebecca Crozier common themes in the social context, Archaeological works at High Post Gardom's Edge has long been Sixteen papers investigate aspects of manufacture, characteristcs and near Salisbury have confirmed the renowned for the wealth of prehistoric identity and how it was disposal of human-shaped pots. It presence of an Iron Age hilltop prehistoric field systems, cairns and constructed. They range widely in considers the relationship between enclosure on the southern margins other structures which can still be their geographical and chronological anthropomorphic ceramics and various forms of figural of Salisbury Plain. More significantly, lying beneath the traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of coverage and are grouped into four sections: material art in the Neolithic of the Near East and Europe. line of the bank was a large spread of mostly articulated original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography culture of the dead; material culture of the living; animal bone, dating to the Early Iron Age. documents prehistoric activity across this area, 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706967, Paperback, architectural and ritual expressions; and our construct exploring the changing character of occupation from the was £38.00 or theirs? 130pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2011, 9781874350576, Mesolithic to the Iron Age. Paperback, was £5.95 Now £12.95 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781842178133, Paperback, 200pp, Windgather Press, 2017, 9781911188155, was £36.00 Now £2.95 Paperback, was £34.99 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Cliffs End Farm Isle of Landscapes in the Communicating with Fingerprinting the Iron Thanet, Kent Broekpolder the World of Beings Age By Jacqueline I. McKinley, Matt By Linda L. Therkorn and Elles Besselsen The World Heritage rock art Approaches to identity in Leivers, Jörn Schuster, Peter Marshall, Excavations in Beverwijk and sites in Alta, Arctic Norway the European Iron Age Alistair Barclay and Nick Stoodley Heemskerk in North Holland By Knut Helskog Edited by Cătălin Nicolae Excavations uncovered Bronze Age revealed finds from the Bronze Age to Popa and Simon Stoddart the Early Middle Ages. Twenty insets This study of the rock art of Alta in barrows and enclosures, and a large Arctic Norway explores its role as The 24 contributions to this volume prehistoric mortuary feature, as well about various aspects of archeology have been added to the main text. In an expression of animistic belief: that focus on the south east Europe, as a small Anglo-Saxon inhumation through it people might have been and the wide array of approaches cemetery. An extraordinary series of human and animal the appendices a large part of the prehistoric pottery is described and illustrated able to communicate with other-than-human beings who to identity reflect the continuing debate on how to remains were recovered from the Late Bronze Age– ruled parts of the environment – in order to petition integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely Middle Iron Age mortuary feature, revealing a wealth Amsterdams Archeologisch Centrum, 2013, favours for themselves or others. classical authors looking in on first millennium BC of evidence for mortuary rites including exposure, 9789078863557, Hardback, was £28.00 societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. excarnation and curation. 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974116, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £35.00 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976752, Hardback, 288pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2015, 9781874350705, was £48.00 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Landscape Evolution Connecting Networks Creating Communities Flint Daggers in in the Middle Thames Characterising Contact by New advances in Central Prehistoric Europe Valley Measuring Lithic Exchange in European Neolithic Research Edited by Catherine Frieman By Framework Archaeology the European Neolithic Edited by Daniela Hofmann and Berit Valentin Eriksen Framework Archaeology Edited by Tim Kerig and and By Penny Bickle The present volume brings together Excavations in advance of the Stephen Shennan Although the LBK is one of the papers that address questions of the construction of Terminal 5 at These papers contribute to the new best researched Neolithic cultures regional variability and socio-technical Heathrow Airport uncovered a interdisciplinary field of cultural in Europe, here the material is complexity of flint daggers and their complex settlement and farming evolution that has developed over the used in order to further explore production. It focuses on the typology, landscape spanning later Neolithic to Saxon periods; the last 30 years, and at the same time use these ideas and the interconnection between individuals, households, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint area remaining as farmland into the 20th century. methods to address specific questions concerning the settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, links between demographic, economic, social and cultural of Neolithic society and lived experience. but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in 416pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2010, 9780955451928, prehistory. Hardback, was £20.00 patterns and processes in the first farming societies of 271pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173534, Paperback, temperate Europe was £40.00 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700187, Hardback, Now £7.95 was £45.00 177pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015, 9781784911416, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £34.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Prehistoric Activity The Archaeology of Decoding Neolithic From Surface and a Romano-British Solvieux Atlantic and Collection to Settlement at An Upper Palaeolithic Open- Mediterranean Island Prehistoric Lifeways Poundbury Farm, Air Site in France Ritual Making Sense of the Multi-Period Dorchester, Dorset By James Sackett Edited by George Nash and Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria By Philipa Bradley and Report on one of the largest open-air Andrew Townsend By John Chapman and Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy Palaeolithic sites ever excavated, The 16 papers presented here Bisserka Gaydarska revealing a seemingly unique stone explore the physicality, and levels of An analysis of the rich collection of Excavations revealed pits containing a tool industry termed Beauronnian. number of Neolithic Artefacts, Middle and Late Bronze insularity of individual islands and Neolithic and Chalcolithic finds from surface collection The history of the project, methodologies, results and island groups during prehistory through a series of case at the settlement of Orlovo, emphasising the diversity of Age field systems, pits, possible roundhouses and analysis of finds are complemented by a large number of creamtion burails, and a small Romano-British farmstead. studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic the objects and what they can tell us about the lifeways drawings, outlines of typologies and essays. and Mediterranean regions. of this site. 192pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2011, 9781874350569, 328pp, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 1999, Hardback, was £25.00 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700507, Hardback, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173916, Hardback, 9780917956911, Hardback, was £58.00 was £50.00 was £60.00 Now £7.95 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Renewing the Past Animal Secondary Elevated Rock Art Image, Memory and By Andrew B. Powell Products By Johan Ling Monumentality A popular account of the buried Edited by Haskel J. Greenfield This volume aims to shed light on the Archaeological Engagements history of the 2012 Olympic Park Animal Secondary Products process of shore displacement and with the Material World site. Archaeologists have unearthed its social and cognitive implications investigates domestic animal Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, prehistoric settlements, a medieval exploitation and the animal for the interpretation of rock art in millstream and a Victorian riverboat, the prehistoric landscape of Bohuslän. Joshua Pollard, Julie Gardiner economy from the Palaeolithic and Michael J. Allen and they traced the area's industrial to the Bronze and Iron Ages The findings clearly show that in the heritage. across Eurasia. Incorporating Bronze Age, the majority of rock Leading scholars in these 29 44pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2012, 9781874350606, current zooarchaeological theory and cutting-edge art sites had a very close spatial commissioned papers in honour Paperback, was £4.95 methodological developments, it critically assesses connection to the sea. of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric Andrew Sherratt’s concept of a Secondary Products 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977629, Hardback, archaeology that have defined his career, such as Now £1.95 Revolution at the end of the Neolithic. was £40.00 monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds and field practice 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974017, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £65.00 366pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782973928, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

8 • PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Life and Death in the Rock Art Studies - The Tripolye Culture China's Cultural Relics Mesolithic of Sweden News of the World giant-settlements in By Li Li By Mats Larsson Volume 3 Ukraine Utilising a wealth of archaeological Over the last 20 years a vast number By Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Formation, development and decline evidence, China's Cultural Relics of new and important Swedish Strecker and Edited by Paul Bahn provides an illustrated introduction Edited by Francesco Menotti and to the artifacts that survive from Mesolithic sites have been excavated This is the third in the five-yearly and published in different ways as Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy different periods of Chinese history, series of surveys of what is happening and the collection and preservation articles, books and site reports. As in rock art studies around the world, An examination of the Tripolye yet there has been no study that tries culture in the Ukraine, with a special of these precious relics in modern covering the years 1999-2004. times. It covers a wide range of topics to bring the loose ends together and so the main task As always, the texts reflect something of the great emphasis placed upon the development of the so-called of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading ‘giant-settlements’. Chapters discuss the geographical representative of Chinese culture, including pottery, differences in approach and emphasis that exist in porcelain, jade and bronze. prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of different regions. and chronological context, highlighting the different some of the main sites and results. facets of the culture that resulted in the formation of the 168pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, 9781842173169, Paperback, giant-settlements 9780521186568, Paperback, was £14.99 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703850, Paperback, was £65.00 was £38.00 174pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174838, Paperback, Now £4.95 Now £19.95 was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Mesolithic Horizons Rock Art Through Wild Things The Language of By Sinead McCartan, Rick Schulting, Time Recent advances in Palaeolithic Adornment Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman Scanian rock carvings in the and Mesolithic research Chinese Ornaments of Jade, Crystal, This is an enormous compendium of Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age Edited by Frederick W. F. Foulds, Helen Amber and Glass from the Neolithic research published in two volumes By Peter Skoglund C. Drinkall, Angela R. Perri, David T.G. Period to the Qing Dynasty with over 140 papers drawn from the Clinnick and James W.P. Walker whole of Europe, ranging from the This beautifully illustrated book By Filippo Salviati European Arctic to many parts of the presents a detailed reassessment of Topics include: the chronology This volume explores how personal Mediterranean, and from the British the Simrishamn rock art in Sweden of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic of ornaments functioned as symbols Isles to Russia. These papers cover and examines the close relationship European Russia; territorial use of which identified social and cultural recent research on virtually all aspects of the European between iconography displayed on metals and that found Alpine high altitude areas by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers; status within Chinese society from the Neolithic to Mesolithic. in rock art. reconstructing Neanderthal demography to examine the beginning of the modern era. Personal adornments their extinction; the funerary contexts from the 980pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173114, Hardback, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701641, Hardback, in China were used to convey messages through the was £20.00 Mesolithic burials at Muge; and an analysis of Mesolithic/ materials used and the motifs chosen. was £150.00 Neolithic trade in Europe. 152pp, Myrna Meyers, 2002, 9782951883604, Hardback, Now £49.95 Now £7.95 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977469, Paperback, was £45.00 was £38.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Paths to Complexity The Bell Beaker The Later Prehistory Ancient Irrigation Centralisation and Urbanisation Transition in Europe of North-West Europe Systems of the Aral in Iron Age Europe Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto The Evidence of Development- Sea Area Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Martínez and Laure Salanova Led Fieldwork By B. V. Andrianov and Edited Holger Wendling and Katja Winger The 17 papers presented here By Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander by Simone Mantellini The 21 papers in this volume cover offer a range of new and different Linden, Leo Webley and Richard Bradley Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral perspectives on the Beaker the whole Iron Age from ca. 800 BC By surveying changes in social forms, Sea Area is the English translation to the beginning of the Common Era, phenomenon across Europe. The of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery landscape organization, monument exploring the origins of urbanism. types, and ritual practices this volume work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977230, Hardback, extended or nuclear families), using technological studies reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from was £65.00 the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron systems and the settlement pattern in the historical and physical anthropology to understand mobility region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). Now £14.95 patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. Age. It explores how far common patterns of social development are apparent, and whether there were 300pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781842173848, Hardback, 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979272, Hardback, periods when local differences were emphasized instead. was £35.00 was £45.00 480pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199659777, Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £102.50 Now £29.95

Paths Towards a New The end of the lake- A Valley in La Rioja Archaeology of East World dwellings in the By Barry Cunliffe and Gary Lock Asia Neolithic Sweden Circum-Alpine region Report on excavation of two Iron Age The Rise of Civilisation in By Mats Larsson, Geoffrey Edited by Francesco Menotti hilltop settlements, Castillo Antiguo China, Korea and Japan and Cerro Molino. The work on Lemdahl and Kerstin Lidén A comprehensive analysis of socio- Cerro Molino was the most extensive By Gina L. Barnes Covering the approximately 6,500 economic and environmental factors and exposed close-spaced buildings This book is a detailed introduction years from the beginning of the behind the abandonment of 3500 of mud-brick and timber belonging to to the social and political Late Mesolithic to the transition to years of prehistoric occupation of the Celtiberian period. development of China, Korea, Japan the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine and their peripheries from the region. 250pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2010, the reader on a journey through the development of 9781905905157, Hardback, was £68.00 Palaeolithic to the 8th-century early historic times. It Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978602, Paperback, incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual backdrop of climatic and landscape change. was £45.00 Now £19.95 advances of the last two decades, including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782972570, Paperback, Now £9.95 was £36.00 extensive excavation results. 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706677, Paperback, Now £12.95 was £36.00 Now £12.95

Prehistoric Rock Art in The Neolithic of Scientific Research on Epigraphic Approaches Scandinavia Europe Ancient Asian to Indus Writing By Courtney Nimura Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle Metallurgy By Bryan Wells This comprehensive review is based Edited by Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings, Edited by Paul Jett, Blythe This book presents the analysis of on the creation of a Scandinavia- Daniela Hofmann and Joshua Pollard McCarthy and Janet Douglas a comprehensive, computer-based wide GIS database for prehistoric The use of scientific methods to corpus using the most detailed sign rock art and re-examines theoretical Eighteen papers on prehistoric list yet compiled for the Indus script. archaeology, written by leading study works of art began at the Freer approaches and interpretations, Gallery of Art in 1951 with the work Custom computer programs allowed in particular with regard to the international scholars. Thematically, the verification of the sign list and the main foci are on Neolithisation; of R. J. Gettens. These proceedings, significance of the ship and its relationship to a maritime and their companion symposium, commemorate that the compilation of statistics regarding sign distribution landscape. the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements and use. and subsistence; as well as monuments and aspects of work and also present recent studies on ancient Chinese 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785701191, Paperback, worldview. A number of contributions highlight the bronzes and Southeast and West Asian copper alloys. 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179949, Hardback, was £25.00 recent impact of techniques on our understanding of 180pp, Archetype, 2012, 9781904982722, Hardback, was was £35.00 Now £9.95 mobility, diet, lifestyles, events and historical processes. £65.00 Now £7.95 340pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706547, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Representations and The Rhyton from Scientific Research on Environmental History Communications Danilo Historic Asian of Early India Creating an Archaeological Matrix Structure and Symbolism of a Ceramics A Reader of Late Prehistoric Rock Art Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel Proceedings of the Fourth By Nandini Sinha Kapur Edited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian By Omer Rak and Translated by Forbes Symposium at the This reader provides a multilayered Kristiansen and Felipe Criado Boado Theresa Alt and Wayles Browne Freer Gallery of Art analysis of different aspects of history, Nine papers summarize new An in -depth study of the rhyton, a Edited by Blythe McCarthy politics, economy and its interface excavation and survey results, four-legged Neolithic vessel made with environment and ecology in These papers define ceramic early India. Sections focus on forests advanced studies of iconography and of fired clay that according to the technologies, examine their similarities and differences, intriguing landscape studies. consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a and settlement patterns; water resources and irrigation; and explore broader questions regarding their historical sacred landscapes; agricultural expansion, pastorialism 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842173978, Paperback, cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. and cultural context, such as trade and technology and ecology; and botany. was £25.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842179772, Hardback, transfer between East and West Asia. was £50.00 344pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780198070009, Now £4.95 246pp, Archetype, 2009, 9781904982463, Hardback, was Hardback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 £65.00 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC EUROPE AND ASIA • 9 The Origins of Ancient The Four Great Turquoise Mosaics Gifts from the Vietnam Temples from Mexico Ancestors By Nam C. Kim Buddhist Art, Archaeology, and By Colin McEwan Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait This book explores the origins of an Icons of Seventh-century Japan The nine turquoise mosaics from Edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Aron ancient state in northern Vietnam, an By Donald F. McCallum Mexico are some the most striking L. Crowell and Julie Hollowell area long believed to be the cradle of pieces in the collections of the British Vietnamese civilization. In doing so, Donald McCallum seeks in this Museum. They all originate from the This volume examines ancient it analyzes the archaeological record volume to restore the four great Mixtec and Aztec civilizations first ivories from the coast of Bering and the impact of new information on temples to their proper place in the encountered by Europeans during Strait, western Alaska, and the extant legends about the region and its history. history of Japanese Buddhism and the Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century. islands in between, illuminating their Buddhist architecture. In his detailed analyses of each of Illustrated with more than 160 color images, this book sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural complexity, and 354pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780199980888, the four temples, McCallum considers historiographical individual histories. Many of the pieces discussed are Hardback, was £54.00 describes the recent scientific findings about the mosaics issues, settings and layouts, foundations, tiles, relics, and in detail, revealing them to be rich repositories of from recent Russian excavations and are presented here Now £14.95 icons and allows readers to follow their chronological information about ancient Mexico. for the first time in English; others are from private evolution collections not usually open to the public. 140pp, Duke University Press, 2006, 9780822339243, 360pp, University of Hawai'i Press, 2008, 9780824831141, Paperback, was £20.99 320pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300122060, Hardback, was £41.50 Hardback, was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

Terracotta Warriors Dragons and Lotus Ancient Peoples of the Churches of Ethiopia By Edward Burman Blossoms American Southwest By Stanislas Chejnacki, Mario di The Terracotta Warriors seeks to Vietnamese Ceramics from the By Stephen Plog Salvo and Osvaldo Rainieri examine one of China's most famous Birmingham Museum of Art This is an up-to-date introduction to Narga Sellase's monastery sits on a archaeological discoveries in light By John A. Stevenson and a region famous for its mysterious tiny islet in the middle of Lake Tana. of new findings from an ongoing Founded in 1748, it is noted for Donald A. Wood cliff-dwellings as well as its extensive international project which started pueblo towns. Plog aims "write a the superb quality of the paintings in 2011. Burman describes the tomb Through a series of judicious summary of Southwestern Prehistory which completely cover the walls and its Qin dynasty context, before purchases that began in the 1970s, the that focuses as much on social of the "maqdas". This volume sets discussing the warriors themselves Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, relations as on environmental change, as much on ritual the monastery in its historical and and their function in the afterlife. has created an extraordinary collection of Vietnamese and exchange as on pottery and projectile point types". architectural context, before going on to analyse the 304pp, Pegasus Books, 2018, 9781681777962, Hardback, ceramic art. Essays by three noted experts introduce the paintings themselves. collection. 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500286937, was £17.99 Paperback, was £18.95 240pp, Skira editore, 1999, 9788881185290, Hardback, 320pp, University of Washington Press, 2011, was £45.00 Now £7.95 9780295991627, Paperback, was £37.00 Now £7.95 Now £17.95 Now £12.95

The Ancient History of The Landscape of The Fall of the Ancient The Nile U Thong City of Gold Words Maya A Journey Downriver Through By Anna Bennett Stone Inscriptions from Early Solving the Mystery of Egypt's Past and Present U Thong, 100 or so km north of and Medieval China the Maya Collapse By Toby Wilkinson Bangkok, has been an important site By Robert E. Harrist By David L. Webster Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey for over 2,000 years, as witnessed by In this fascinating and meticulously The fall of the ancient Mayan up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, the discovery of a 3rd century Roman from Cataract to Cataract, past the coin. The author is a trained research researched book on the Chinese civilisation is one of the most landscape as a medium for literary enigmatic questions in history and has Aswan Dam, to the delta. Along the metallurgy scientist, and these skills way he explores the critical role of have been brought to bear on the highly significant inscription, Robert E. Harrist Jr. been a hotly debated issue for many focuses on the period prior to the eighth century C.E. years. In this new book David Webster assesses the the river in Egypt's past, and describes some of the many corpus of early gold artefacts found in and around the sites along its banks. moated city, the largest accumulation of such artefacts to demonstrate that the significance of inscriptions on theories put forward by others, dispelling many myths from any of the ancient muang of Thailand. stone embedded in nature depends on the interaction of along the way, and presents his own thoughts taking a 292pp, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, 9780385351553, Hardback, words with topography multi-causal approach. was £20.00 168pp, River Books, Thailand, 2017, 9786167339818, Hardback, was £25.00 424pp, University of Washington Press, 2008, 368pp, Thames and Hudson, 2002, 9780500051139, Now £5.95 9780295987286, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Oceanic Art Cast for Eternity The Maya An Illustrated By Nicholas Thomas Ancient Ritual Bronzes from By Michael D. Coe and Introduction to Until recently, the tendency in the the Shanghai Museum Stephen Houston Ancient Egypt West has ben to view the art of By Yang Liu and Ya Zhou Coe and Houston update this classic By Charlotte Booth Oceania as "primitive", mysterious, This volume showcases thirty account of the New World's greatest shrouded in taboo. Nicholas Thomas, ancient civilization, incorporating This beautifully illustrated, accessible in this survey, goes beyond this bronzes which date from the 18th introduction to Ancient Egypt covers to the 1st century B.C.E. and span the most recent research in a fast- view to discover the meaning and changing field. all the major aspects of religion, daily numerous dynasties. An accessible life, childhood, politics and finally significance of art for the people of 320pp, Thames and Hudson, 2015, the Pacific. essay serves as an introduction to death rites, through the words and these masterpieces, and sumptuous, newly commissioned 9780500291887, Paperback, was £16.95 possessions of the people who lived there. 216pp, Thames and Hudson, 1995, 9780500202814, photography makes this publication a standout addition Paperback, was £12.95 Now £7.95 94pp, Amberley Publishing, 2014, 9781445633657, to the literature on Asian bronze sculpture. Paperback, was £9.99 Now £5.95 144pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300207897, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £3.95 Now £12.95

Eyes of the Ancestors The Formation of Is It a House? Cleopatra: Fact and The Arts of Island Southeast Asia Chinese Civilization Archaeological Excavations at English Fiction at the Dallas Museum of Art An Archaeological Prespective Camp, San Juan Island, Washington By Barbara Watterson By Reimar Schefold and Edited by Sarah Allan and Xu Pingfang Edited by Amanda K. Taylor Barbara Watterson takes a two Stephen G. Alpert and Julie K. Stein Scholars from China and America pronged approach in this biography Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in- show how archaeological evidence Is It a House? uses multiple lines of of Cleopatra, focusing just as much depth look at the Dallas Museum of proves that Chinese culture did not evidence to investigate whether the on how she was and is perceived as Art's world-renowned collection of spread from a single central area, U-shaped depression surrounded by on her life itself. She first surveys the artworks from Island Southeast Asia. as has previously been assumed, shells at the English Camp site on ancient sources before describing her The text describes the contexts, purposes, and aesthetic but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting San Juan Island was originally a house constructed by reign and then her afterlife on stage and on screen. influences of a range of objects, from intricately woven Neolithic cultures. Taking us into the great archaeological native peoples. Each chapter addresses a different kind 304pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445669656, sacred and ceremonial textiles to carved ancestor finds of the past 100 years - tombs, temples, palaces, of evidence, including artifacts, sediment, faunal remains, Hardback, was £20.00 figures and stratigraphy. cities - they seek to shed light on many aspects of Now £7.95 192pp, Tuttle Publishing, 2017, 9780804848589, Chinese life. 180pp, University of Washington Press, 2011, Paperback, was £29.99 288pp, Yale University Press, 2005, 9780300093827, 9780295991474, Paperback, was £23.99 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £7.95 Now £29.95

Pastoralist Landscapes Exploring Art of the Fiery Pool Women in Ancient and Social Interaction Ancient Americas The Maya and the Mythic Sea Egypt in Bronze Age Eurasia The John Bourne Collection Edited by Daniel Finamore By Barbara Watterson By Michael D. Frachetti By Dorie Reents-Budet and Stephen Houston Barbara Watterson shows that the This work reconceptualizes the This volume features fine examples Most scholarly interpretations of lives of ancient Egyptian women were Bronze Age prehistory of the of painted earthenware vessels and Maya art and culture have emphasized remarkably free of the restraints vast Eurasian steppe. Michael D. figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery that this ancient civilization was normally placed upon women in the Frachetti combines an analysis of and vessels from Mesoamerica, oriented toward inland centers rest of the ancient world, allowing newly documented archaeological Central America and Andean America. and preoccupied with the blood of them to play a full part in society, sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan Each section opens with an introductory text on the art, royal lineage and ritual sacrifice. This volume presents a recognised as equal with men under the law. The types of with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed revisionist reading emphasising the mythic power of the occupations and careers open to women are described, to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and by discursive entries accompanying each work. sea as the basis of a larger, deeper cultural narrative and as are their domestic and personal lives - marriage, rock art. history for the Maya. health and childbirth; family life; running a home; clothing, 264pp, D Giles Limited, 2012, 9781907804052, Hardback, jewellery and beauty preparations. 213pp, University of California Press, 2008, was £39.95 328pp, Yale University Press, 2010, 9780300161373, 9780520256897, Hardback, was £66.00 Hardback, was £60.00 160pp, Amberley Publishing, 2013, 9781445610207, Now £14.95 Paperback, was £9.99 Now £7.95 Now £19.95 Now £4.95

10 • ASIA, AMERICA, AFRICA AND EGYPT WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Egypt: The World of Mummy Egyptian Mummies The Secrets of Tomb the Pharaohs The Inside Story Unraveling the Secrets 10A By Regine Schulz By John Taylor of an Ancient Art By Rita E. Freed The contributions in this book, by a This richly illustrated and accessible By Bob Brier A beautifully illustrated study team of leading international scholars, study, squarely aimed at general This is a good, popularly written book of the Middle Kingdom tomb of explore the intriguing legacy of readers, presents the results of about an eternally interesting topic. It Djehutynakht in Deir el-Bersha ancient Egypt. The book ranges from the British Museum's non-invasive includes a complete analysis of the art and its spectacular collection of the pre-dynastic to the Greco-Roman investigation of a 3000-year old of mummification, a comprehensive artefacts. As well as describing its period and presents illustrated mummy. It combines an analysis of the listing and description of the known rediscovery and excavation, the book discussions of the art, architecture, sculpture, painting, tecniques involved in the analysis and the forensic results royal mummies, stories of grave robberies and stolen provides information on the Middle Kingdom political society, state and religion. along with a consideration of the priest's life and work in mummies and a detailed look at the mummies in and religious context, and a detailed examination of the 537pp, American University in Cairo Press, 1998, the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. Tutankhamun's tomb. burial goods. 9789774246616, Hardback, was £39.95 48pp, British Museum Press, 2011, 9780917046988, 352pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 1996, 9780688146245, 224pp, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2009, Paperback, was £12.99 9780878467488, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £12.99 Now £2.95 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

Golden King Sacred and Profane A Passion for Egypt Life Everlasting The World of Tutankhamun By Martin Bommas, Eurydice Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and By Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson By Zahi Hawass S. Georganteli, Maria Michela the 'Curse of the Pharaohs' This catalogue presents the collection Luiselli and Michael Sharp This beautifully illustrated book By Julie Hankey of Ancient Egyptian coffins and provides an ideal general introduction This volume publishes more than related artefacts held by National Arthur Weigall was Chief Inspector Museums Scotland. All pieces are to both the reign of Tutankhamun and eighty artefacts from the collection of of Antiquities in Upper Egypt in its background in Akhenaten’s relgious William Joseph Myers (1858-99), and photographed in colour together with its remarkable Edwardian heyday, details of dating, dimensions, materials, iconoclasm, and to the history of now housed at Eton College, including and was brought into contact with excavations in the Valley of the Kings statuettes of mortals and gods, provenance, and lengthy descriptions all the leading figures in Egyptian and analysis. Highlights include the and Howard Carter’s famous discovery of his tomb. mummy masks, jewellery, pottery and archaeology at the time, including Lord Carnarvon papyri as well as Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine coins. royal burial group from Qurna, the coffin of the priest 164pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2004, and Howard Carter - with whom relations soon grew Iufenamun, and the double coffin and mummies of the 128pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, 9781904832805, Hardback, 9789774249327, Paperback, was £25.00 strained. This biography concentrates of his career as an young half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. was £24.95 Egyptologist and his achievements in bringing Egyptian Now £4.95 archaeology to the masses. 176pp, NMS ENTERPRISES LTD, 2010, 9781905267170, Now £9.95 Hardback, was £30.00 392pp, I.B. Tauris, 2007, 9781845114350, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Masterpieces of Egypt Exploration Acta Nubica The Official Gift in Ancient Egypt Society, The Early Edited by I. Caneva and Ancient Egypt By Nigel Strudwick Years Alessandro Roccati By Edward Bleiberg Features over 180 of the most Edited by Patricia Spencer This substantial volume resulting Economic anthropology is used stunning and important Egyptian and from the Tenth International here to gain a fuller understanding Published to celebrate the Society’s Conference of the Nubian Society, Sudanese artefacts in the Museum, 125th Anniversary in 2007, this of the long-standing practice of the including not only internationally held in 2002, surveys the recently official exchanging of gifts between volume gives a fully illustrated discovered antiquities of the Nile famous items such as the Rosetta account of the earliest years (1883- individuals of unequal status ( inw Stone, but also a wealth of lesser- Valley and beyond, throughout Egypt -exchange). To overcome the problem 1915) of the Society’s work in Egypt, and the Sudan. In these numerous known but equally significant or beautiful pieces. describing life on excavations run by pioneers such as of patchy and biased sources, the author first proposes archaeological, archaeometrical, and epigraphical a model to study this social obligation. This identifies 352pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2006, Flinders Petrie and setting major discoveries in their discoveries, scientists present new groundwork for the 9789774160356, Hardback, was £25.00 archaeological and cultural contexts reciprocity and redistribution at work, instead of the understanding of Egypt, not as a lone oasis of civilization, profit-making goal usually assumed active Now £7.95 272pp, Egypt Exploration Society, 2007, 9780856981852, but rather as a key part of a larger ancient world. Paperback, was £22.00 173pp, Oklahoma UP, 1996, 9780806128719, Hardback, 497pp, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca, 2006, 9788824013147, was £29.95 Now £4.95 Paperback, was £150.00 Now £8.95 Now £19.95

Tutankhamun The Royal Mummies Ancient Egypt Catalog of Demotic Eternal Splendour of By G. Elliot Smith Transformed Texts in the Brooklyn the Boy Pharaoh A new edition of a classic text, first The Middle Kingdom Museum By T. G. H. James published in 1912, which reports on By Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, By George R. Hughes the mummies of kings, queens and In this large book T.G.H. James lesser nobles found at Deir el-Bahri Dieter Arnold and Kei Yamamoto A checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's provides an authoritative account and in the tomb of Amenophis. It This comprehensive volume presents collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian of the discovery of the tomb, an includes discussions of the mummies a detailed picture of the art and texts. Samples of each type of text overview of the reign of Tutankhamun of Ahmose, Tuthmosis III, Amenophis culture of the Middle Kingdom. (papyri, ostraca, inscribed stone and and a description of the tomb and the III, Akhenaten and more besides. With Thematic sections explore art wooden pieces) are illustrated on objects found within it. The photographs are stunning many photographs of the human remains. produced for different strata of Egyptian society, the plates and only the more interesting passages in the in their beauty and attention to detail and form one of including the pharaoh, royal women, the elite, and the texts are given in transliteration and translation. the best visual archives to the tomb of Tutankhamun 224pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2000, 9780715629598, Paperback, was £25.00 family, while other chapters provide insight into Egypt's 113pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, published to date. expanding relations with foreign lands and the themes of 9781885923271, Paperback, was £58.00 319pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2000, Now £4.95 Middle Kingdom literature. Now £12.95 9789774245862, Hardback, was £39.95 400pp, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015, Now £9.95 9781588395641, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £24.95

Tutankhamen:The The Tomb of Siphtah Egyptian Art at Eton Excavations at Serra Search for an Egyptian with The Tomb of College East, Parts 1-5 King Queen Tîyi Selections from the Myers Collection A-Group, C-Group, Pan Grave, By Joyce A. Tyldesley By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston Maspero, By Stephen Spurr, Nicholas New Kingdom, and X-Group Remains from Cemeteries The first part of this book details Edward Ayrton and George Daressy Reeves and Stephen Quirke A-G and Rock Shelters Howard Carter’s search for the Davis’ excavations (1905–8) of the The core of Eton College’s fine tomb and its discovery, going on to tomb of Siphtah uncovered the collection of Egyptian decorative By Bruce B. Williams describe the grave goods in detail, greatest hoard of 19th Dynasty objects was collected by old Etonian In the New Kingdom, Serra East was and to explain and appraise the jewellery ever found along with a Major W J Myres during his posting in the site of an important centre, one various studies which have been made of the mummy colllection of mummified pets, including a dog, a duck Cairo during the late 19th century. The stunning objects closely connected to the family of rulers of Teh-Khet. itself. The second part is dedicated to the myths and and several monkeys include ceramics, model figures, faience items, cosmetic This volume, the first in a series of reports, looks at the conspiracy theories surrounding Tutankamun which have 72pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 1908, implements, scarabs, shawabti, chalices, jewellery and ancient burials and outlying structures. proliferated in the years since the discovery of the tomb. Romano-Egyptian portraits. 9780715630730, Paperback, was £25.00 236pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993, 316pp, Basic Books, 2012, 9780465020201, Hardback, 64pp, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, 9780918986924, Hardback, was £43.00 was £22.99 Now £4.95 9780300086904, Paperback, was £13.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £5.95

Egyptian Mummies The Tombs of In the Light of Amarna Excavations Between By John H. Taylor Harmhabi and 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery Abu Simbel and the This is a short, illustrated Toutânkhamanou Edited by Friedrerike Seyfried Sudan Frontier, Part 6 introduction to the ever-fascinating By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston An accompaniment to the Egyptian New Kingdom Remains from topic of Egyptian mummies. It Maspero and George Daressy Museum of Berlin's special exhibition Cemeteries R, V, S, and W at Qustul addresses the most frequently asked A reissue of Davis’ account of his celebrating the discovery of the and Cemetery K at Adindan questions about Egyptian mummies: Nefertiti bust in 1912, this catalog how and why they were made, the last great discovery in the Valley of By Bruce B. Williams and the Kings. In 1908 Davis discovered presents never-before-seen artefacts religious beliefs which underpinned and objects from the Amarna period William J. Murnane mummification, the preservation of the rchly decorated tomb and ornate sarcophagus of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Tutankhamun’s of Egyptian history. The book also explores religion, This volume provides lavish details on the animals, and how the mummies have been treated from craftsmanship, daily life, and sculpture in Amarna and the New Kingdom remains from the Nubian sites of Qustul ancient times until the present day. general and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other tomb described here was mistakenly interpreted as that world famous Nefertiti bust. and Adindan. Egyptian influence and Nubia's prosperity 160pp, British Museum Press, 2010, 9780714150581, of Tutankhamun himself. 496pp, Michael Imhof Verlag GmbH, 2013, are clearly depicted in the burials. Paperback, was £9.99 135pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 1912, 9783865688484, Hardback, was £32.00 479pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1992, 9780918986863, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £3.95 9780715630723, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT • 11 Excavations Between Ancient Egyptian The Kellis Isokrates Egyptian Games and Abu Simbel and the Furniture Volume II Codex Sports Sudan Frontier, Parts By Geoffrey Killen By K. A. Worp and A. Rijksbaron By Joyce A. Tyldesley 2, 3, and 4 In this revised second edition Dr This volume of the Dakhleh Oasis This book traces the evidence for Neolithic, A-Group, and Post Killen continues his survey of Egyptian Project presents a first edition sport and games from Predynastic A-Group Remains from furniture-making techniques with a of the texts of three orations by times to the end of the New study of boxes, chests and footstools or attributed to Isocrates (Ad Kingdom, combining archaeological, Cemeteries W, V, S, Q, T, and a and traces their evolution from the Demonicum, Ad Nicolem and the pictoral and textual sources to bring Cave East of Cemetery K earliest times. Nicocles) as found in a new 4th Egyptian leisure time to life. By Bruce B. Williams 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704857, Hardback, century AD codex from Ismant el-Kharab in the Dahkleh 64pp, Shire Publications, 2007, 9780747806615, This volume, the second to publish the results of Seele's was £60.00 Oasis (ancient Kellis). Paperback, was £6.99 two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Neolithic, 320pp, Oxbow Books, 1997, 9781900188432, Hardback, A-Group, and Post-A-Group remains from Qustul, Now £14.95 was £70.00 Now £1.95 Ballana, and Adindan. Now £14.95 388pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1989, 9780918986542, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95

Gold of Praise Ancient Egyptian The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Egyptian Models and Studies on Ancient Egypt in Furniture Volume III Chancellor Senneferi Scenes Honor of Edward F. Wente By Geoffrey Killen at Thebes (TT99) By Angela M. J. Tooley By Emily Teeter and John A. Larson In this third volume Dr Killen Edited by Nigel Strudwick A discussion of Egyptian models, This Festschrift in honor of investigates how woodworking in This book presents a fascinating where they are found, who owned Prof. Edward F. Wente contains ancient Egypt developed in the 19th account of the life, career and tomb them, what purpose they served, contributions by forty-three of his and 20th dynasties. It establishes of Senneferi, Chancellor to Thutmose where in the tomb they were placed colleagues and friends. A particular the range of wooden furniture III (c. 1430 BC) as revealed by and how they relate to tomb scenes. focus is on texts and iconography, manufactured during this period by excavation and detailed analysis of 72pp, Shire Publications, 1995, particaulrly in religious and ritual contexts. surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and the tomb contents and decoration. The book focuses on 9780747802853, Paperback, was £6.99 Memphite tombs. 494pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1999, the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, Now £1.95 9781885923097, Paperback, was £58.00 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704895, Hardback, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). was £60.00 Now £14.95 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703317, Hardback, Now £14.95 was £70.00 Now £19.95

Tax Receipts, Coptic Documentary Untersuchungen im Egyptian Towns and Taxpayers, and Taxes in Texts From Kellis Totentempel des Cities Early Ptolemaic Volume 2 P. Kellis VII Merenptah in Theben By E. P. Uphill Thebes By Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock Band IV: The Pottery A short guide to the history of By Brian Muhs and Wolf-Peter Funk By David A. Aston, Brigitte Dominicus, urbanism and town planning in ancient Egypt. Uphill discusses The author lays out the early Contains 75 fourth century Coptic Benjamin L. Ford and Horst Jaritz the reasons for urban growth and Ptolemaic tax system and letters and household accounts from This substantial volume presents the describes the various different types then reconstructs the prosopography Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis. 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He then provides editions of sixty-one communications and travel, multilingual society and sometime late in the Twentieth Dynasty. ostraca from Harold Nelson's collection that include normative forms of belief and practice. 72pp, Shire Publications, 2002, 9780852639399, an important group of early Ptolemaic Demotic, Greek, 426pp, Philipp von Zabern, 2008, 9783805338035, Paperback, was £6.99 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976516, Hardback, Hardback, was £80.00 and bilingual ostraca, mostly tax receipts. was £75.00 Now £1.95 Now £9.95 283pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, Now £12.95 9781885923301, Hardback, was £85.00 Now £19.95 Temple of Khonsu, Dakhleh Oasis and the The Quest for The Art of Death in Volume 3 Western Desert of Immortality Graeco-Roman Egypt The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Egypt under the Treasures of Ancient Egypt By Judith A. Corbelli Roof at Karnak: A Manifestat Ptolemies By Erik Hornung and Betsy M. Bryan A wide-range of material is presented By Helen Jacquet-Gordon By James C. R. Gill This colour catalogue, from an - tomb decoration, stelae, sarcophagi, coffins, mummy cases, funerary masks, Far from being casual tourists, it Through an analysis of recently exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington during portraits and cinerary urns - in order was mostly the priestly personnel discovered Ptolemaic pottery from to give the reader an overview of the of the temple itself whose graffiti Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re- the summer of 2002, mostly presents objects drawn from the collection various categories of funerary art have been preserved there. The 334 examination of pottery collected from Graeco-Roman Egypt and their inter-relationship. graffiti recorded in the volume are richly illustrated by by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the of the Cairo Museum. These are complemented by four photographs and facsimile drawings. Transliterations, oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common essays that discuss the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt 80pp, Shire Publications, 2006, 9780747806479, translations, line notes, and commentaries are provided. perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden with emphasis on the artistic achievements of the reign Paperback, was £6.99 150pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2004, increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise of Thutmose III and the New Kingdom in general. Now £1.95 9781885923264, Hardback, was £140.00 in population during the Roman Period. 240pp, Prestel Verlag, 2002, 9783791327358, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £29.95 504pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701351, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Theban Desert Road Dakhleh Oasis Project City of the Ram-Man Tutankhamun's Egypt Survey in the Egyptian Preliminary Reports on the 1992- The Story of Ancient Mendes By Frances Welsh Western Desert, 1993 and 1993-1994 Field Seasons By Donald B. Redford This book discusses the historical, Volume 1 By Colin A. Hope and A. J. Mills In this richly illustrated book, archaeological and artistic aspects Donald Redford draws on the latest of Tutankhamun’s brief reign and By John Coleman Darnell This volume contains progress interprets the objects from his tomb, and Deborah Darnell reports on the work of these two discoveries to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes. the paintings on its walls and its seasons as well as a number of short location. This volume publishes forty-five reports on excavations at the Roman He traces its development from its inscriptions from Gebel Tjauti and site of Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab). prehistoric founding, through its 80pp, Shire Publications, 1993, forty-five inscriptions from Wadi development of a great society and its brief period as the 9780747806653, Paperback, was £6.99 el-Hôl, two major concentrations of rock inscriptions 152pp, Oxbow Books, 1999, 9781900188951, Paperback, was £40.00 capital of Egypt, up to its final decline and abandonment Now £1.95 and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of the Egyptian in the 1st century BC. Western Desert. The inscriptions range in date from Now £4.95 predynastic to Christian times. 240pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, 9780691142265, Hardback, was £37.00 174pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2002, 9781885923172, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

Ancient Egyptian The Crown of Arsinoë The Obelisk and the The Secret of the Furniture Volume I II Englishman Great Pyramid 4000 – 1300 BC The Creation of an By Dorothy U. Seyler By Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin By Geoffrey Killen Image of Authority William John Bankes (1786 1855) was This book provides a novel solution This revised second edition examines By Maria Nilsson a pioneer in the nascent study of the to the problem of how the Great the common forms of furniture language, history, and civilization of Pyramid was built, proposing an A detailed study of a unique crown ancient Egypt. Enhanced by many of internal ramp corkscrewing up the used in ancient Egypt, so much of that was created for the Ptolemaic which has been preserved by the dry Bankes's drawings and paintings, this inside of the pyramid. Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II. Images of engaging story is full of vivid detail Egyptian climate and has long been Arsinoë are represented in a broad 224pp, Smithsonian Institution Press, admired for the quality of its design and construction. about the beginnings of Egyptology, Regency England, and 2008, 9780061655524, Hardback, was £16.99 spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical a fascinating individual, and it sets the record straight 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704819, Hardback, figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and about Bankes's crucial role in setting the stage for the Now £7.95 was £60.00 as queen and goddess alike. work of later scholars. Now £14.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174920, Paperback, 300pp, Prometheus Books, 2015, 9781633880368, was £55.00 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

12 • EGYPT WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 After the Pyramids Sunken Cities Temples and Tombs Excavations at Qasrij The Valley of the Kings and Beyond Egypt's Lost Worlds Treasures of Egyptian Art Cliff and Khirbet By Aidan Dodson Edited by Franck Goddio and from the British Museum Qasrij A chronological overview of the Aurelia Masson-Berghoff By Edna Russmann, Nigel By John Curtis funerary monuments of Egypt, Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, Strudwick and T. G. H. James Qasrij Cliff, a small Late Assyrian beginning with the last pyramids at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the Presented here are a wide variety site of the 8th–7th centuries BC has and ending with the tombs of the submerged remains of the ancient of objects - sculpture, relief, produced an interesting range of Ptolemaic Period in the Nile Delta. Egyptian cities Naukratis and Thonis- papyri, ostraca, jewellery, cosmetic Assyrian pottery. Khirbet Qasrij is The architecture and decoration of Heracleion. Accompanying a 2016 objects, and funerary items - in a later, dating from the obscure period the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in British Museum exhibition this book showcases some of variety of media, including stone, wood, terracotta, gold, between the fall of Assyria in 612 BC and the start of detail, including the results of more recent excavation in the most spectacular finds and explores the distinctive glass, and papyrus, each categorised according to its use the Achaemenid era in 539 BC. the Valley of the Kings. culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. in ancient Egyptian culture. 75pp, British Museum Press, 1989, 9780714111230, 234pp, Stacey International, 1999, 9780948695520, 256pp, Thames and Hudson, 2016, 9780500292372, 136pp, University of Washington Press, 2006, Paperback, was £25.00 Paperback, was £16.95 Paperback, was £25.00 9781885444325, Paperback, was £19.99 Now £3.95 Now £6.95 Now £11.95 Now £7.95

Cracking the Egyptian The Complete Valley Dawn of Egyptian Art Ur Excavation Texts VI Code of the Kings By Diana Patch Literary and Religious The Revolutionary Life of By Nicholas Reeves and R. H. Wilkinson With illustrations of more than Tests - Third Part Jean-Francois Champollion A tour through the history and 180 objects created from about By Aaron Shaffer and Marie- 4000 to 2650 BC, Dawn of Egyptian By Andrew Robinson archaeology of the Valley of the Kings. Christine Ludwig The text looks at the topography of Art presents the art forms and Robinson traces Champollion’s iconography in which the early These texts, some 500 in number, the site, its construction and history cover almost the whole range of career from obscure beginnings and then at the early investigations Egyptians recorded their beliefs about to his seminal work in deciphering the land where they lived, the yearly Sumerian literature as known from by travellers and antiquaries. The the Old Babylonian period. hieroglyphic script. He explores major excavations are discussed in terms of the key events that took place there, and Champollion’s many rivalries, in particular with Thomas personalities, the tombs dug and important finds. what they thought was important to the eternal survival 136pp, British Museum Press, 2006, 9780714111612, Young, and describes the expedition to Egypt which he of their world. Hardback, was £45.00 led with Rosellini. 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 1996, 9780500284032, Paperback, was £16.95 256pp, Yale University Press, 2012, 9780300179521, Now £12.95 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500051719, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £19.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Exploring the World of The Egyptians Gifts for the Gods Every City Shall Be the Pharaohs By Cyril Aldred Images from Ancient Forsaken A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt A revised and updated edition of Egyptian Temples Urbanism and Prophecy in Ancient By Christine Hobson Cyril Aldred’s classic text. The text By Marsha Hill Israel and the Near East retains its original lucidity, while new An invaluable popular guide to the discoveries and ideas have been taken The images to which the title refers By Lester L. Grabbe history, people and archaeology of into account, the dating revised, new are metal Egyptian anthropomorphic Topics include positive and negative Ancient Egypt. Illustrations, charts and photographs and a chronology added, statues designed for use in a religious responses to the city in prophetic chronologies support the detailed and the bibliography amended and context. The accompanying essays discourse, social-scientific method and informative discussions about expanded. place the works in context, offering in the study of urbanism, the many of Egypt’s most important sites and archaeologists, a detailed historical survey, together with notes on 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 1998, 9780500280362, reconstruciton of the socio-economic urban background all aimed at helping the visitor to make the most from their production and use and reports on the statuary at to Haggai, and the definition of the city. Paperback, was £9.95 specific sites. their visit 234pp, Continuum International Pub., 2001, 192pp, Thames and Hudson, 1987, 9780500275603, Now £2.95 240pp, Yale University Press, 2007, 9780300124088, 9781841272023, Hardback, was £140.00 Paperback, was £12.95 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Genesis of the The Thames and Pharaoh Myth and Politics in Pharaohs Hudson Dictionary of King of Ancient Egypt Ancient Near Eastern By Toby Wilkinson Ancient Egypt By Marie Vandenbeusch, Aude Semet Historiography The ancestors of the pyramid-builders By Toby A. H. Wilkinson and Margaret Todd Maitland By Mario Liverani were not village-dwelling farmers, This new illustrated dictionary This book introduces readers to These essays focus on two central but wandering cattle-herders, and provides a comprehensive, three thousand years of Egypt's themes in the historical texts of the pharaonic civilization was forged in authoritative reference guide to ancient history by unveiling its famous ancient near east: myth and politics. one of the most forbidding places an endlessly fascinating subject. It rulers - the pharaohs - using some There is a close connection, Liverani on Earth: the Eastern Desert. Here covers queens and courtiers, gods of the finest objects from the vast finds, between the writing of history hundreds of intricate rock carvings have been found in and goddesses, temples and tombs, as well as literature, holdings of the British Museum, along with masterworks and the validation of political order and political action. which the origins of later pharaonic imagery is clearly language and medicine. from the collection fo the Cleveland Museum of Art. discernible. Toby Wilkinson traces the discovery of these 240pp, Cornell University Press, 2007, 9780801473586, ancient records, dates them, and identifies the artists 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2005, 9780500203965, 180pp, Yale University Press, 2016, 9781935294412, Paperback, was £24.99 Paperback, was £10.95 Paperback, was £30.00 who made them. Now £6.95 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, 9780500051221, Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £18.95 Now £6.95

Lives of the Ancient Slab Stelae of the Giza Tell Taannek 1963-1968 Sasanian and Post- Egyptians Necropolis IV/2 Sasanian Glass in the By Toby A. H. Wilkinson By Peter Der Manuelian The Iron Age Cultic Structure Corning Museum of Thisl book takes the form of a series Fifteen slab stelae and stela fragments By Frank S. Frick and Garth Gilmour Art of 100 short biographies of Ancient were found set into the exterior walls This book, the latest in a series of By David Whitehouse Egyptians. Some are well known of the Giza mastaba tombs from the excavation reports from the ancient This catalogue contains 72 objects such as Akhenaten, Hatshepsut and reign of Khufu and his successors. site of Tell Taannek, examines an Iron Cleopatra, but most are much more Taken as a group, they provide one that are believed to be Sasanian or Age Cultic Structure and its contents. "post-Sasanian" (ie, made in Sasanian obscure, such as Ahmose son of of the most important sources of Frick explores the question of how Abana, a naval officer under three successive Pharaohs, Egyptian artistic and historical documents of the early style in the centuries immediately one might, on the basis of archaeological data, determine following the fall of the Sasanid dynasty). Each entry is and Paneb, a tomb robber, as well as Hesira the court Old Kingdom. the likelihood that a structure had a cultic function. dentist and Hemira a priestess. accompanied by a colour photograph and comment on 278pp, The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale 360pp, American Schools of Oriental Research, 2000, technical and stylistic matters, and appendices contain 356pp, Thames and Hudson, 2007, 9780500051481, University and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of 9780897570503, Paperback, was £27.50 data from chemical analyses. Hardback, was £24.95 Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, 9780974002514, Hardback, was £31.00 Now £7.95 112pp, Corning Museum of Glass, 2007, 9780872901582, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £37.50 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Pharaoh Violence in Roman The Ark Before Noah Adapa and the South By Garry J. Shaw Egypt Decoding the Story of the Flood Wind Garry Shaw covers, through eight By Ari Z. Bryen By Irving Finkel Language Has the Power themed chapters, all aspects of This study draws on over a hundred In 2009 Irving Finkel became the of Life and Death the realities of pharaohs life, from papyrus petitions, submitted to first to translate a cuneiform tablet By Shlomo Izre'el mornings waking in the palace to local and imperial officials, in which which, it transpired, contained a new Izre’el explores the myth of Adapa evenings spent banqueting, with all individuals from the Egyptian version of the Babylonian flood myth, his duties and activities in between. countryside sought redress for and the South Wind, originally including detailed instructions for discovered on a tablet from the He charts the development of a acts of violence committed against the construction of an ark. Here he uniquely Egyptian vision of kingship, them. Rather than a simple force of imperial power, Amarna archive, as mythos, as story. makes his findings available to a non-specialist readership, He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, exemplified by the men and women who ascended the an open legal system allowed petitioners to define and outlines a new theory as to the transmission of the throne their relationships with their local adversaries while including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, flood myth. and a philological commentary. 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500051740, contributing to the body of rules and expectations by 480pp, Anchor Books, 2015, 9780345804396, Paperback, Hardback, was £24.95 which they would live in the future. 180pp, Eisenbrauns, 2001, 9781575060484, Hardback, was £14.99 was £39.95 Now £9.95 363pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 9780812245080, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £17.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST • 13 Hittite Studies in Shechem 1 Jerusalem 1 Nippur III Honour of Harry A The Middle Bronze IIB Pottery By Graeme Auld and M. L. Steiner Kassite Buildings in Area WC-1 Hoffner Jr. By Dan P. Cole A book which demonstrates that By Richard L. Zettler Edited by Gary M. Beckman This volume reports on, and there is more to the archaeology Details the construction and rebuild­ ­ catalogues, the pottery from the of Jeruslem than the city of David ings of a large Kassite private house These 34 papers focus on Hittite and Herod's temple. Tracing the language and texts but also examine Middle Bronze IIB period (c.1750- near the western city wall (Area 1650 BC) recovered during development of the city from the WC–1), which furnished information aspects of Hittite society. They Bronze Age to 200 BCE, the book include detailed analyses of Hittite excavations of Tell Balatah, otherwise on Kassite architectural practice as known as Shechem. The material is culminates in a tour around the well as unanticipated patterning in kingship, Gilgamesh, foreign policy, perimeter of the ancient city. religious rituals as revealed in texts, Hittite gods, seals, also contrasted with pottery found elsewhere, on the intramural burials. sources, mythology, political and moral texts. coast and in the Jordan Valley. 100pp, Lutterworth Press, 1996, 9780718829018, 347pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993, Paperback, was £19.75 406pp, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060798, Hardback, 203pp, Eisenbrauns, 1984, 9780897572064, Hardback, 9780918986917, Hardback, was £54.00 was £41.00 was £46.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians Tell el-Hesi IV Archaeology of the Nippur V Vol 2 The Site and the Expedition Bronze Age, The Area WF Sounding: The Early General Studies and Edited by Frances Dahlberg Hellenistic, and Roman Dynastic to Akkadian Transition Excavations at Nuzi This volume combines reports Remains at an Ancient By Augusta McMahon, McGuire Gibson, By MA Morrison on the excavations at Tell el- Town on the David Reese and Pamela Vandiver A mixed bag of essays on Nuzi, Hesi with analysis of the 19th Euphrates River The excavation of area WF in the century excavations and changing eighteenth and nineteenth seasons some important new texts, and the Excavations at Tell Es- first part of volume 9 of Lachemans methodology in the ongoing work at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was excavations at Nuzi. there, as well as on the physical Sweyhat, Syria Volume 2 aimed specifically at delineating the environment of the site. transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian 723pp, Eisenbrauns, 1987, 9780931464379, Hardback, By T. A. Holland 240pp, Eisenbrauns, 1991, 9780931464577, Hardback, periods, and this goal has been realised. was £63.95 This large two volume set (text and plates) focuses on was £47.95 206pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, Now £14.95 excavation in the lower town, its rampart and the main Now £5.95 mound, and on a detailed analysis of the pottery finds. 9781885923387, Hardback, was £74.00 650pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, Now £19.95 9781885923332, Hardback, was £143.00 Now £39.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians Uncovering Ancient Chogha Mish, Volume On the Margin of the Vol 3 Stones 2 Euphrates Joint Expedition with the By Lewis M. Hopfe Final Report on the Last Six Settlement and Land Use at Iraq Museum at Nuzi VII This volume contains nineteen Seasons of Excavations, 1972-1978 Tell es-Sweyhat and in the By Ernest R. Lacheman and D. I. Owen essays on Old Testament archaeology By Abbas Alizadeh Upper Tabqa Area, Syria and Biblical studies collected in By Tony Wilkinson and T. J. Wilkinson The publication of 200 tablets memory of H. Neil Richardson. They In addition to the materials and excavated by the American Schools are grouped in three sections: the records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh The present study forms part of the of Oriental Research and the Iraq Hebrew Bible in its time; Archaeology uses the data available from the author's long-term research strategy Museum, based on preliminary and the Bible; and the Hebrew Bible and its later uses. excavations of the neighboring sites that is aimed at examining the growth copies by the late Ernest R. Lacheman and prepared of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape for publication by Maynard P. Maidman with collations, 270pp, Eisenbrauns, 1994, 9780931464737, Hardback, reconstruction of Susiana prehistoric development, over much of the last ten thousand years.It comprises additions, and corrections, including an annotated was £45.00 poisiting a more substantial role for the ancient mobile detailed studies of some 60 sq. km of land around Tell catalogue. Now £5.95 pastoralists of the region. es-Sweyhat, Syria, and the thirty sites therein. 307pp, Eisenbrauns, 1989, 9780931464454, Hardback, 396pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008, 267pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, was £59.50 9781885923523, Hardback, was £70.00 9781885923295, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians God's Gold Cuneiform Texts from The Amuq Valley Vol 4 By Sean Kingsley the Ur III Period in the Regional Projects, The Eastern Archives of Nuzi A sort of archaeological detective Oriental Institute, Volume 1 and Excavations at Nuzi 9/2 story, God's Gold aims to track Volume 2 Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and down the final resting place of the Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002 By Ernest R. Lacheman, MA treasures of the Second Temple taken Drehem Administrative Documents Morrison and D. I. Owen by the Emperor Titus in AD 71 and from the Reign of Amar-Suena By K. Ashhan Yener and Edited Dr. Morrison’s study of the portrayed on the Arch of Titus in By Clemens D. Reichel by K. Aslihan Yener Eastern Archives combines both Rome. and Markus Hilgert The results of the Amuq Valley archaeological and philological 318pp, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008, 9780060853990, Regional Projects (AVRP) presented in this volume are data bringing order to the organization of the Eastern The main publication of the 605 cuneiform tablets in Paperback, was £10.99 the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum the outcome of eight seasons of intensive fieldwork Archives and showing how they might have been (1995-2002) representing the first phase of a long-range, grouped originally when excavated. The second part of Now £4.95 that were found at the site of the ancient administrative center Puzriå-Dagan (Drehem) and date to the reign of broadly-based archaeological investigation in the Hatay the late E. R. Lacheman’s Excavations at Nuzi, volume 9 is region of southern Turkey. also published in this volume. Amar-Suena (2046-2038 b.c.),. 650pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003, 352pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, 420pp, Eisenbrauns, 1993, 9780931464645, Hardback, 9781885923325, Hardback, was £78.00 was £63.95 9781885923240, Hardback, was £109.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £24.95

Nuzi and the Hurrians Scriptural Geography Excavations at the The Origins of State Vol 5 Portraying the Holy Land prehistoric mound of Organizations in General Studies and By Edwin James Aiken Chogha Bonut, Prehistoric Highland Excavations at Nuzi 9/3 For nineteenth century scholars Khuzestan, Iran Fars, Southern Iran By Ernest R. Lacheman and D. I. Owen the Holy Land was not just a region Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 Excavations at Tall-e Bakun of the globe - it was an idea, an The first part of the volume contains By Abbas Alizadeh By Abbas Alizadeh 7 articles on various facets of Nuzi, intellectual and moral space charged the texts found there and the with the heat of debate between This volume presents the results Based on the analysis of the available archaeology of the site. Part two those trying to understand the of three seasons of excavations at archaeological data as well as completes the publication of the excavations at Nuzi religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. Chogha Bonut, which pushed the earliest period of historical and ethnographic sources, Alizadeh argues that series begun by E.R. Lacheman. Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in which occupation of Susiana to the aceramic phase, ca. 7200 the specialised manufacture and administrative aspects geographical knowledge was used in these debates. BC. The results of these excavations add to the already at Tall-e Bakun A indicate the existence of differential 357pp, Eisenbrauns, 1995, 9780931464676, Hardback, rich picture of cultural development in the region. status at the site, where a few families or ranking was £63.95 256pp, I.B. Tauris, 2009, 9781845118181, Hardback, was £77.00 186pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003, individuals controlled the manufacture and flow of goods. Now £5.95 9781885923233, Hardback, was £74.00 300pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2006, Now £12.95 9781885923363, Hardback, was £58.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Reconstructed Excavation in Palestine Megiddo 3 A Wayside Shrine in Chronology of the By Roger Moorey Final Report on the Stratum Northern Moab: Divided Kingdom An introductory guide to the VI Excavations Excavations in Wadi By M .Christine Tetley archaeology of the Biblical world, By Timothy Harrison ath-Thamad which addresses both general issues The common response to any relating to the whys and wherefores Ever since its discovery, there Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau attempt to read the chronological of excavation, and discussion of has been considerable debate and and Margreet L. Steiner speculation both about the cultural notations associated with the kings Biblical archaeology in particular, Presents the results of recent of Israel and Judah in the time of the what it can and can't tell us, and how character of Stratum VI, and the cause and date of its destruction. Whatever excavations at a small, isolated but divided monarchy is, perhaps, a shrug archaeology relates to the Bible itself very important Iron Age shrine in of the shoulders, or a statement to the effect that the as a source. the precise historical case, it is clear nevertheless that Stratum VI represents the initial Iron Age (or Iron I) Moab, southern Palestine. A rich assemblage of cultic problem is insoluble. Now Christine Tetley has attacked objects, including figurines and statues, shed much light this knottiest of problems with fresh vigor and assayed a 128pp, Lutterworth Press, 1981, 9780718824327, settlement at Megiddo. Paperback, was £20.25 on religious practices in the region. new solution. 168pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2005, 9781885923318, Hardback, was £78.00 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785707087, Hardback, 208pp, Eisenbrauns, 2005, 9781575060729, Hardback, Now £4.95 was £60.00 was £43.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

14 • EGYPT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Archaeology in the Nishapur Revisited The Neolithisation of Ancient Israel 'Land of Tells and Stratigraphy and Ceramics Iran The Old Testament in Ruins' of the Qohandez Edited by Roger Matthews Its Social Context A History of Excavations in the Holy By Rocco Rante and Annabelle Collinet and Hassan Fazeli Nashli By Philip F. Esler Land Inspired by the Photographs The Irano-French archaeological These studies, many of them by This book explores the use of the and Accounts of Leo Boer mission at Nishapur (2004-07) Iranian scholars, consider patterns social sciences in Old Testament focused on the Qohandez, or citadel. of change and/or continuity across a Edited by Bart Wagemakers Biblical research. Chapters focus on After an introduction to the site this variety of topographical landscapes; issues such as tribalism, polygamy, An exploration of Near Eastern book presents the stratigraphy and investigate Neolithic settlement rituals and in particular sacrifice, archaeology through nine sites: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell, the pottery of the site. The combination of the data from patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and examine specific Biblical texts, and look at psychological Samaria and Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan stratigraphical and laboratory analyses gives an accurate environmental indicators and present new insights into and political interpretations, and identity theory. (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet and completely new chronology of the site. some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The She’an. 440pp, SCM-CANTERBURY PRESS LTD, 2005, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174944, Hardback, results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the 9780334040170, Paperback, was £25.00 264pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782972457, Hardback, was £50.00 transition to sedentary farming. was £49.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782971900, Paperback, Now £9.95 was £40.00 Now £14.95

Archaeozoology of the Painting Pots – The Proto-Elamite Qumran Questions Near East 9 Painting People Settlement and Its By James H. Charlesworth Edited by Marjan Mashkour Edited by Walter Cruells, Inna Neighbors This collection of ten studies aims to and Mark Beech Mateiciucová and Olivier Nieuwenhuyse Tepe Yaya Period IVC reconstruct the history and theology This two part volume brings together The 19 papers presented here of early Judaism. Various topics By Benjamin Mutin and Edited are covered, such as the progress over 60 specialists to present 31 bring together specialists discussing by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky papers on the latest research into Neolithic ceramics from the Near made on the new edition of the archaeozoology of the Near East. East in the broadest sense. There is a In addition to a synthesis of the Genesis Apocryphon, the philological The papers are wide-ranging in terms general focus on decorated pottery Proto-Elamite period and the material understanding of Psalm 155, the of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic traditions. What raw materials and ceramic technologies assemblage at Tepe Yahya, This volume provides an laws regarding prophets in Early rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in did Late Neolithic peoples employ? How did they paint updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Judaism, and an examination of literatures predicting the Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. their designs? How may we analyze decorated ceramics Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and destruction of the Temple its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. 464pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781782978442, Hardback, to explore social networks and identities? What did 210pp, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 9781850757702, was £70.00 these decorated pottery traditions mean socially? 350pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782974192, Hardback, Paperback, was £19.99 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704390, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £19.95 Now £2.95 was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Carchemish in Petra Great Temple Cypro-Minoan Society and Polity at Context Volume 3 Inscriptions, Volume 2 Bronze Age Pella By T. J. Wilkinson, Edgar Peltenburg Brown University Excavations The Corpus By A. Bernard Knapp and Eleanor Barbanes Wilkinson 1993–2008, Architecture By Silvia Ferrara Employing a framework based on and Material Culture This volume provides an overview This volume is the first Annales socio-historical methodology, of the main trends of settlement in By Martha Sharp Joukowsky comprehensive archaeological this study examines the uncritical the region of Carchemish over 8000 and often unquestioned comparison Definitive third volume on the catalogue of all the extant inscriptions years, using a combination of survey written in the un-deciphered syllabary or contrast of archaeological data databases to both north and south of excavations of the Great Temple and ancient documentary evidence, at Petra focusing on aspects of of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500- the Syrian-Turkish border and with a focus on the earlier 1200 BC): the so-called Cypro-Minoan script. It focuses relating to Middle and Late Bronze Age Palestine and phases of settlement from the Neolithic until the end of Nabataean material culture, construction design and Transjordan. history, and economy. on the physical reality of the inscribed objects containing the Bronze Age when Carchemish became an outpost of Cypro-Minoan and the archaeological contexts in which 116pp, Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, 9781850753476, the Hittite empire. 622pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785706127, Hardback, Hardback, was £40.00 was £60.00 they were found. 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701115, Hardback, 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199693825, Now £4.95 was £48.00 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £112.50 Now £14.95 Now £29.95

Defining the Sacred Siraf Nomadism in Iran Antioch and Jerusalem Approaches to the Archaeology History, Topography and Environment By D. T. Potts The Seleucids and of Religion in the Near East By Cameron A. Petrie, David Whitehouse, This book argues that what has been Maccabees in Coins Edited by Nicola Laneri Donald Whitcomb and T. J. Wilkinson interpreted in the past as an enduring By David Jacobson pattern of nomadic land use on the These essays aim to bridge the divide Siraf played a leading role in the Iranian plateau is, by archaeological This book recounts the heroic story between evidence for religious belief network of maritime trade that standards, very recent. Since the early of the Maccabees and explains how and religious practice in the Ancient supplied Western Asia with the Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural they successfully took on the might of Near East. They include important products of India, the Far East and communities in Iran had kept herds of the Seleucid realm, illustrated by the contributions on temples, metallurgy, Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and sheep and goat, but the communities coins issued by the main protagonists. sacrifice and animal burials, with coverage extending 1050. This volume synthesises the written evidence of themselves were sedentary: only a few of their members 168pp, Spink Books, 2015, 9781907427541, Hardback, from the pre-pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age. the history of Siraf, and introduces the results of seven were required to move with the herds seasonally. was £30.00 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782976790, Paperback, seasons of excavation and survey. 558pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199330799, Now £12.95 was £38.00 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173947, Hardback, Hardback, was £75.00 was £48.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Dynamics of The Earliest Neolithic The Troad Coins and the Bible Production in the of Iran An Archaeological and By Richard Abdy and Amelia Dowler Ancient Near East 2008 Excavations at Topographical Study Some of the most famous stories Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia Sheikh-E Abad and Jani By J. M. Cook in the Bible revolve around coins. From the widow’s mite to Judas’s The 17 essays collected here analyse Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy A study of the Troad, the region in thirty pieces of silver, the original the economic transformations in Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar which Troy was situated, based on the narratives and their later translations the ancient near east which affected Describes the excavation of two Early author's fieldwork between 1960 and have used local coins to make the the old dominant powers of the Neolithic mounds: Sheikh-e Abad 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts Gospels relate to audiences over the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation in the high Zagros and Jani, in the of more recent travellers, maps and ages. In turn, early Biblical writings to a new economic environment, the emergence of foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of have directly inspired the earliest artistic expression of new economic actors and the impact of these changes, up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to Christian faith on coin designs. from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian the present day. spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for 121pp, Spink Books, 2013, 9781907427305, Paperback, Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in diachronic and spatial analyses. 443pp, Oxford University Press, 1973, 9780198131656, Mesopotamia. was £15.00 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781782972235, Hardback, Hardback, was £19.99 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702839, Paperback, was £45.00 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 was £45.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Jerusalem Throne The Emergence of En Boqeq 2 The Herodian Dynasty Games Pottery in West Asia Excavations in an Oasis Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse The battle of Bible stories Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier on the Dead Sea By Nikos Kokkinos after the death of David Nieuwenhuyse and Stuart Campbell By Moshe Fischer The remarkable Herodian dynasty By Peter Feinman Through analysis of many This volume reports on the flourished from the second century Jerusalem Throne Games puts archaeological site assemblages and excavation of an early Roman building BCE to the second century CE. This forward a new assessment of the collections these papers explore which served as a workshop for the book examines its origins, measures authorship of key sections of the Old the evidence for the origins and manufacture of cosmetic products. its impact on Jewish society, and Testament, and aims to understand development of pottery production Three strata of occupation are discusses the influence it had beyond the creation and meaning of those stories in their against the wider technological background. identified and specialist reports detail pottery, stone Judaea. original political context. Feinman explores the political 196pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705267, Hardback, vessels, glass vessels, metal artefacts, coins, industry, 530pp, Spink Books, 2010, 9781907427039, Paperback, battle for power to succeed David expressed through was £70.00 dendroarchaeological remains and animal bones was £12.50 selected stories from the Book of Genesis. Now £19.95 211pp, Philipp von Zabern, 2000, 9783805317917, Now £5.95 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706165, Paperback, Hardback, was £60.00 was £30.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ANCIENT NEAR EAST • 15 Copper Scroll Studies Alexander to An Archaeology Social Change in Edited by George J. Brooke Constantine of Prehistoric Bodies Aegean Prehistory and Philip R. Davies By Eric M. Meyers and Mark A Chancey and Embodied Edited by Corien Wiersma These papers cover the history of the This comprehensive and richly Identities in the and Sofia Voutsaki Scroll’s interpretation; how it should illustrated book explores the Eastern This volume discusses the processes be conserved, restored and read; archaeological record of the land of social and economic change from how it was produced; the meaning of the Bible from its conquest by Mediterranean the Early Bronze Age III to the Late of its technical terms; its genre; Alexander the Great in the fourth Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 - 1600 its geography; its correlation with century B.C.E. until the reign of the Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos BC) in the southern Aegean, using archaeological remains; and not least Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century pottery, burials and settlement evidence. A wide variety who wrote it, when and why. This book presents a series of thematically organised C.E. In particular the authors explore the impact of papers exploring the anthropology of the body and of factors is considered including demographic changes, 344pp, T and T Clark, 2004, 9780567084569, Paperback, Hellenism on the evolution of Judaism and Christianity its role in the construction and performance of social reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, household was £59.99 during this period. identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean. organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, internal tensions, connectivity and mobility. Now £4.95 400pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300205831, 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702914, Hardback, Paperback, was £21.00 was £48.00 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702198, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Persia and the West From Nineveh to New Beyond Tools, Textiles and By John Boardman York Thalassocracies Contexts This study by John Boardman By John M. Russell Edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter Textile Production in the Aegean and discusses in detail the architecture, The strange story of the Assyrian Pavúk and Luca Girella Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age sculpture and monumental arts of the Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum The 14 chapters which comprise Persians; their experimentation, the Edited by Eva Andersson Strand and the Hidden Masterpiece at this book examine various aspects and Marie-Louise Nosch sources of their artistic styles and the Canford School. With an interesting of the phenomena of Minoanisation creation of a distinctly Persian style. discussion of the English reception and Mycenaeanisation, both of which This volume combines experimental 255pp, Thames and Hudson, 2000, of Ninevite art, and the Assyrian share the basic underlying defining archaeology, analyses of textile 9780500051023, Hardback, was £36.00 Revival, the book continues with the events surrounding feature of material culture change in communities tools and find contexts to provide unique insights into both the production processes and, Now £9.95 the rediscovery of the Ninevah Porch and the last of around the Aegean. It focuses on regions of the Aegean Layard's sculptures recently sold at auction. basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting significantly, into the range of types of textiles that could have been produced at specific sites. 232pp, Yale University Press, 1997, 9780300064599, their similarities and differences. Hardback, was £60.00 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702037, Hardback, 484pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781842174722, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £17.95 was £45.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Sasanian Jewry and Its Neo-Sumerian Burial and social Woven Threads Culture Account Texts from change in first Edited by Maria C. Shaw By Daniel M. Friedenberg Drehem millennium BC Italy and Anne. P. Chapin This volume presents fifty-seven Edited by Clarence Elwood Edited by Elisa Perego and This volume investigates evidence Jewish seals from the Sasanian Keiser and Shin Theke Kang Rafael Scopacasa for patterned textiles that were Empire, as well as comparative seals produced by two early Mediterranean The mound of Drehem was occupied The chief aim of this collection of civilisations: the Minoans of Crete and other Sasanian artefacts. The text for only a short period of time 14 papers is to harness innovative identifies their provenance (if known), and the Mycenaeans of mainland toward the end of the second approaches to the exceptionally rich Greece. Only a few small scraps translates their inscriptions, and millennium BC, and served as a depot mortuary evidence of first millennium organizes them by their depiction or reference. of textiles survive but evidence for the many payments in kind to which the kings of BC Italy, in order to investigate the roles and identities for their production is abundant and frescoes supply 74pp, University of Illinois Press, 2009, 9780252033674, Ur subjected their people. The more than 600 texts of social actors who either struggled for power and detailed information about a wide variety of now-lost Hardback, was £36.00 published in this volume all emanate from Drehem, and social recognition, or were manipulated and exploited by textile goods from luxurious costumes and beautifully Now £9.95 throw light on the political, religious, and economic life superior authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio- patterned wall hangings and carpets, to more utilitarian of the neo-Sumerian period. political change. decorated fabrics. 192pp, Yale University Press, 1977, 9780300012965, 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701849, Paperback, 264pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700583, Hardback, Hardback, was £40.00 was £40.00 was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Lost Treasures of the Social Archaeology of Early Cycladic Religious Architecture Bible Households in Sculpture in Context in Latium and Etruria By Clyde E. Fant and Mitchell G. Reddish Neolithic Greece Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin c. 900-500 BC This book describes and analyses By Stella Souvati Renfrew and Michael Boyd By Charlotte R. Potts over one hundred artefacts on display Using detailed case studies from This volume presents the first The first part of this study examines in museums around the world, linking Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi comprehensive reassessment of the processes by which religious them into a roughly chronological examines how the household is Early Bronze Age sculpture from the buildings changed from huts and overview of Ancient Near Eastern defined socially, culturally, and Cycladic islands in a generation. The shrines to monumental temples, history. historically; she discusses household contributors examine sculpture from and explores apparent differences 471pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, 9780802828811, and community, variability, production and reproduction, settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, between these processes in Latium and Etruria. The Paperback, was £23.99 individual and collective agency, identity, change, with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of second part analyses the broader architectural, religious, manufacture. Now £5.95 complexity, and integration. and topographical contexts. 309pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 544pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701955, Hardback, 208pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780198722076, 9780521836890, Hardback, was £82.00 was £40.00 Hardback, was £96.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Piety and Politics Stone Vessels and From Cooking Vessels Economics of Religion The Dynamics of Royal Authority Values in the Bronze to Cultural Practices in the Mycenaean in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, Age Mediterranean in the Late Bronze World and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia By Andrew Bevan Age Aegean By Lisa Bendall and Lisa Maria Bendall By Dale Launderville Andrew Bevan explores this diverse Edited by Julie Hruby and Debra Trusty This book uses the economic Focusing on Homeric Greece, Biblical and prolific industry in all its many The contributors utilise a wide information about religion contained Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, this facets, bringing some clarity to an variety of analytical approaches and in the Mycenaean Linear B tablets to comparative and thematic study artefact which has the potential to demonstrate the impact that cooking ask a simple but important question: assesses the role of the king as a reveal much about the nature of vessels can have on the archaeological What proportion of the resources divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety Bronze Age production, the function and use of certain interpretation of sites and their inhabitants. These sites available to the palaces was directed towards support to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of objects, the movement of people, ideas and goods, as include major Late Bronze Age citadels and smaller for religion? his subjects. well as the value ascribed to such objects, all of which settlements throughout the Aegean and surrounding 350pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, 407pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2003, 9780802839947, are covered in the book. Mediterranean area. 9781905905027, Hardback, was £40.00 Hardback, was £75.00 301pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785706325, Paperback, Now £14.95 Now £7.95 9780521880800, Hardback, was £72.00 was £38.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

The Sword and the Helen of Troy Of Odysseys and Morgantina Studies IV Stylus By Bettany Hughes Oddities The Protohistoric settlement An Introduction to Wisdom Focusing on the 'real' Helen (the Edited by Barry Molloy on the Cittadella in the Age of Empires possibility of a flesh and blood Of Odysseys and Oddities is about By Robert Leighton Helen), Bettany Hughes reconstructs By Leo G. Perdue scales and modes of interaction The protohistoric settlement at the context of life in Bronze Age in prehistory, specifically between In this introduction to ancient Greece for this elusive prehistoric Morgantina was the first substantial societies on both sides of the Aegean habitation site of the period to have wisdom literature, Leo Perdue princess. Through the eyes of a young and with their nearest neighbours argues that it can only be properly aristocratic Mycenaean woman, been revealed in central Sicily, and overland to the north and east. The valuable information was obtained understood in its historical and Hughes looks at the social and 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how social contexts. He shows how wisdom texts reflect political minutiae that would have made Helen who she regarding the nature of dwellings and burials, together we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly with a wide range of artifacts. a vast array of different and changing moral systems, was: her palaces, her slaves, her jewellery, her feasts, her the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and epistemologies, and religious understandings. games, the religious rituals she would have presided over. material encounters or displacements. 240pp, Princeton University Press, 1993, 9780691040158, Hardback, was £120.00 502pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, 9780802862457, 458pp, Jonathan Cape, 2013, 9781400076000, Paperback, 400pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702310, Paperback, Paperback, was £29.99 was £16.99 was £38.00 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 Now £12.95

16 • THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Ancient Bronzes Performance and Spinning Fates and the Chronicles of the through a Modern Identity in the Song of the Loom Ancient World Lens Classical World The Use of Textiles, Clothing and By John Haywood Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus By Anne Duncan Cloth Production as Metaphor, Interweaving Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Symbol and Narrative Device Featuring significant bronzes from This study traces attitudes towards Persian, Greek and Roman history, the Harvard Art Museums' holdings actors in Greek and Roman culture in Greek and Latin Literature this book follows these burgeoning as well as other museum collections, as a means of understanding ancient Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie Louise empires over 4,000 years, examining the volume's eight essays present conceptions of, and anxieties about, Nosch and Giovanni Fanfani the delicate balance of power as they technical and formal analyses. The text the self. Numerous sources reveal vied for territory, conquest and glory. Spanning mainly Greek and Latin provides an overview of ancient manufacturing processes an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the From Alexander the Great's 22,000-mile march on Persia poetic genres, yet encompassing comparative evidence as well as modern methods of scientific examination, and writings of elite intellectuals to the abundant theatrical to Attila the Hun's plunder of the Roman empire, John from other Indo-European languages and literatures, it focuses on objects as diverse as large-scale statuary anecdotes that can be read as a body of “popular Haywood brings the most crucial battles and decisive these 18 chapters draw a various yet consistent picture and more utilitarian armor, vessels, and lamps. performance theory”. campaigns to vivid life, and examines the extraordinary of the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and cultural achievements of these civilizations. 208pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300207798, 242pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing. Paperback, was £35.00 9780521852821, Hardback, was £67.00 256pp, Quercus, 2015, 9781848668966, Paperback, was 300pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701603, Hardback, £9.99 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 was £40.00 Now £3.95 Now £14.95 Classical Literature Enduring Bronze Treasures from the Sea Victor's Crown By Richard Jenkyns By C. C. Mattusch Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple A History of Ancient Sport A dynamic and comprehensive This book, richly illustrated with Dye in Antiquity from Homer to Byzantium introduction to Greek and Roman works from the J. Paul Getty Museum Edited by Hedvig Landenius By David Potter literature. Richard Jenkyns explores a and other important collections, Enegren and Francesco Meo thousand years of classical civilization, provides an engaging overview of This engaging study takes a look carrying readers from the depths classical bronzes. discusses the many Presents new research on the at the role of sport in the ancient of the Greek dark ages through the roles bronze objects played in ancient extraction and physical and chemical world. It begins by looking at the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Greece and Rome and analyzes properties of, and the use and social emergence of competitive sport in significance of mollusc-extracted Greece in the archaic period, before 288pp, Basic Books, 2016, 9780465097975, Hardback, discoveries made at ancient foundries and by contemporary scientists. purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in the ancient moving on to the original Olympic Games, the disciplines was £20.00 Mediterranean. Papers include the study of epigraphical in which athletes competed and the conditions for the 168pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2014, 9781606063262, Now £7.95 and historical sources, practical experiments as well participants and spectators. The book is rounded off Paperback, was £24.99 as, highlighting the presence of purple dye in select with a look at the gladiatorial games and chariot races of Now £7.95 archaeological data. ancient Rome. 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704352, Hardback, 416pp, Quercus, 2011, 9781849162524, Hardback, was was £38.00 £25.00 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Cambridge World Politics From Polypragmon to Full Circle History of Slavery, By Kostas Vlassopoulos Curiosus By Ferdinand Mount Volume 1 This concise volume deftly examines Ancient Concepts of Curious In this free-ranging discussion of The Ancient Mediterranean World the impact of Classical political and Meddlesome Behaviour contemporary society, the former thinking on subsequent generations editor of the TLS argues that many By Keith R. Bradley and Paul Cartledge of politicians and theorists down to By Matthew Leigh aspects of life today are eerily close A detailed survey of slavery in our own day. Vlassopoulos produces study of how Greek and Latin writers echoes of the ancient world. He the ancient Mediterranean world. a nuanced and on occasion surprising describe curious, meddlesome, and takes a look, inter alia , at food, sex, Although chapters are devoted to argument, showing that reception is exaggerated behaviour. Founded on exercise, art and science and the the ancient Near East and the Jews, rarely straightforward, and that the a detailed investigation of a family of ways in which modern patterns of its principal concern is with the societies of ancient lessons and theory drawn from aspects of the Classical Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each behaviour unconsciously echo the past. Greece and Rome. In twenty-two chapters, leading tradition are seldom consistent, just as the idea a other, and of the Latin words used to describe them, 448pp, Simon and Schuster Ltd, 2010, 9781847377982, scholars explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Classical tradition is itself a modern imposition on an opening chapters survey how they were used in Greek Hardback, was £20.00 Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and originally diverse body of thought. and latin literature, while later chapters adopt a more material evidence. 168pp, I.B. Tauris, 2009, 9780195380897, Paperback, was thematic approach. Now £7.95 620pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, £12.99 262pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199668618, Hardback, was £79.00 9780521840668, Hardback, was £141.00 Now £4.95 Now £39.95 Now £14.95 Critical Moments in Sibyls Luck, Fate and Studies in Ancient Classical Literature Prophecy and Power in Fortune Coinage By Richard Hunter the Ancient World Antiquity and Its Legacy In Honour of Andrew Burnett Through a series of innovative critical By Jorge Guillermo By Esther Eidinow By R. Bland and D. Calomino readings Richard Hunter builds a In his definitive and erudite book, Why and how the ancient Greeks This volume of essays is offered by picture of how the ancients discussed Jorge Guillermo tracks the story tried to foretell the outcome of his teachers, colleagues and friends to the meaning of literary works and of Sibyls through polytheism (in the present is the subject of Esther the greatest exponent of the study of their importance in society. Attention Greece and Rome), paganism, and Eidinow's lively appraisal, which ancient coinage of our generation. is given both to the development of into the seemingly disparate tenets of explores the legacy of ancient Greek a history of criticism, as far as our sources allow, and to Christianity. With a remarkably rich set of historical and 316pp, London, Spink Books, 2015, notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era, drawing 9781907427572, Hardback, was £50.00 the constant recurrence of similar themes across the artistic examples that range from Homer to Virgil, from on approaches to cognitive anthropology. centuries. Boccaccio to Michelangelo, Guillermo pays tribute to the Now £14.95 surprising and enduring history of these singular women. 213pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, 9780195380798, 217pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Paperback, was £12.99 9780521519854, Hardback, was £52.00 240pp, Overlook Press, 2013, 9781468306842, Hardback, Now £3.95 Now £14.95 was £18.99 Now £7.95

Domestic Space in Koine The Individual in the Panorama of the Classical Antiquity Mediterranean Studies in Religions of the Classical World By Lisa C. Nevett Honor of R. Ross Holloway Ancient By Nigel Jonathan Spivey Housing is shaped by culturally- Edited by Derek Counts Mediterranean Avoiding the chronological format specific expectations about the kinds and Anthony Tuck Edited by Jörg Rupke that is usual in this type of broad of architecture and furnishings that survey, this panorama adopts a 24 papers grouped in four sections: I. The essays in this volume focus are appropriate; about how and A View of Classical Art: Iconography thematic approach, looking at how where different activities should be on the individual and individuality men and women lived their lives and in Context; II. Crossroads of in everyday religious practices in carried out; and by and with whom. It the Mediterranean: Cultural constructed the world around them is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural Phoenicia, various Greek cities, and for over a thousand years. The scholarly yet accessible Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as Rome, and as identified in institutional developments and systems of which they are a part, that are explored in Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery narrative is supported by many colour photographs of this volume. philosophical reflections on the self as exemplified by Greek and Roman works of art, of buildings and ruins, and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation. the Stoic Seneca. 178pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, portraits and artefacts, as well as numerous extracts 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, 9781842173794, Hardback, 560pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199674503, from contemporary sources. 9780521789455, Paperback, was £26.99 was £50.00 Hardback, was £132.50 368pp, Thames and Hudson, 2004, 9780500287712, Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £34.95 Paperback, was £18.95 Now £6.95

Growing Up Fatherless Life and Death in Asia A Brief Guide to The Seventy Wonders in Antiquity Minor in Hellenistic, Classical Civilization of the Ancient World By Sabine Hubner and David M. Ratzan Roman and Byzantine By Stephen Kershaw By Christopher Scarre Ancient historians and classicists Times Written in a conversational tone, Expanding on the traditional seven have rarely explored ancient father- Studies in Archaeology this book forms a reliable basic wonders of the world, this book absence, despite the likelihood that and Bioarchaeology introduction to the world of Greece presents seventy examples of ancient nearly a third of all children in the and Rome. The historical narrative is 'wonders' including the Great Temple ancient Mediterranean world were Edited by J. Rasmus dealt with swiftly with the majority of of the Aztecs, Stonehenge, the Nazca fatherless before they turned fifteen. Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, the book given over to introducing lines in Peru, the Egyptian obelisks, This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels Gro Bjørnstad and Sven Ahrens society, religion, art, architecture and literature. the Colossal Buddha of Bamiyan. of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, Twenty papers combining archaeology and 448pp, Perseus Press, 2010, 9780762439867, Paperback, 304pp, Thames and Hudson, 1999, 9780500050965, and families of the ancient world. bioarchaeology to give a sophisticated picture of life and was £7.99 Hardback, was £24.95 333pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, death in Asia Minor from ca. 200 BC – to AD 1300. Now £2.95 Now £9.95 9780521490504, Hardback, was £67.00 432pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703591, Hardback, Now £19.95 was £65.00 Now £19.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM THE CLASSICAL WORLD • 17 The Genuine Teachers A Shorter History of Greek Warriors The Colors of Clay of This Art Greek Art Hoplites and Heroes Special Techniques in Athenian Vases Rhetorical Education in Antiquity By Martin Robertson By Carolyn Willekes By Beth Cohen By Jeffrey Walker This is the shorter work of the two This expert introduction explores This catalogue documents a major Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations volume set A History of Greek Art, the life and training of the citizen exhibition at the Getty Villa that was of rhetorical theories and intended for a general readership. soldiers of the Greek city states, and the first ever to focus on ancient schoolroom practices from early The abbreviation has been achieved how they fought against other Greek Athenian terracotta vases made by to late antiquity. He makes a case by the selection of fewer objects for citizen armies and against the threat techniques other than the well- for considering rhetoric not as an discussion rather than by a more of Persia. known black- and red-figure styles. Aristotelian critical-theoretical discipline, but as an summary treatment and the particular qualities of the 160pp, Casemate UK, 2017, 9781612005157, Paperback, The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, Isocratean pedagogical discipline, an art of producing larger History have been preserved. was £7.99 coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and speakers and writers. 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, Six’s technique, as well as examples with added clay and Now £3.95 gilding, and plastic vases and additions. 352pp, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, 9780521280846, Paperback, was £36.99 9781611170160, Hardback, was £49.50 376pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2008, 9780892369423, Now £5.95 Paperback, was £37.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Persian Fire Classical Greece and Sophocles and Land of Lost Gods The First World Empire and the Birth of Western Alcibiades The Search for Classical Greece the Battle for the West Art Athenian Politics in Ancient By Richard Stoneman By Tom Holland By Andrew Stewart Greek Literature From Cyriac of Ancona to the A stylish popular narrative history of This introductory guide provides By Michael Vickers dawn of the age of archaeology the Persian Wars, with the focus far historical context for the ‘Classical It has long been assumed that as a science, Richard Stoneman more traditionally Greek than the revolution’ in art. Andrew Stewart the plays of Sophocles were not narrates the rediscovery of Greece's title might suggest. examines Greek architecture, painting, intended to mirror political events in Classical remains. Drawing on 447pp, Abacus, 2011, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth contemporary Athens, an assertion their own accounts he explores 9780349117171, Paperback, was £12.99 centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, which Michael Vickers here sets about refuting. He looks the achievements and motivations of travellers and cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. specifically at Sophocles’ attitude towards Alcibiades, antiquaries, and the enthusiasm for the Hellenic which Now £3.95 they rekindled in western culture. 376pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, the most prominent and flamboyant Athenian politician 9780521618359, Paperback, was £18.99 during the height of Sophocles’ career. 384pp, I.B. Tauris, 2010, 9781848854239, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £5.95 205pp, Cornell University Press, 2008, 9780801447327, Hardback, was £44.00 Now £3.95 Now £12.95

The Parthenon Enigma Pity and Power in Poseidon and the Sea Remembering Defeat By Joan Breton Connelly Ancient Athens Edited by Seth D. Pevnick Civil War and Civic Memory A radical new interpretation of the Edited by Rachel Sternberg This volume is a fascinating in Ancient Athens meaning and purposes of one of This book argues that the exercise exploration of the myths and By Andrew Wolpert the world's most iconic buildings. of power in democratic Athens, iconography of the Greek god Joan Breton Connelly proposes that Poseidon and the cult objects offered This volume explores the settlement especially during its brief fifth-century which emerged in Athens after defeat the Parthenon frieze depicts not empire, raised troubling questions to him in his numerous manifestations the celebration of the Panathenaic across the Mediterranean world. Six in the Peloponnesian War, and the about the alleviation and infliction overthrow of the oligarchic regime festival, but instead the sacrifice of of suffering, and pity emerged as a essays by leading specialists examine his daughter by King Erectheus, the the cult of Poseidon and the myths which followed it. Wolpert uses topic in Athenian culture at this time. The ten essays public speeches of the early fourth century to consider founder King of Athens. In so doing she presents a far collectively examine the role of pity in the literature, surrounding him, as well as the significance of the sea darker picture of Athenian relgion and identity. and seafaring in daily life. how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories art, and society of classical Athens by analyzing evidence of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to 485pp, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, 9780307593382, Hardback, from tragedy, philosophy, historiography, epic, oratory, 200pp, D Giles Limited, 2014, 9781907804304, Hardback, themselves an agreement that allowed the oligarchic was £25.00 vase painting, sculpture, and medical writings. was £32.50 conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. Now £6.95 360pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, Now £14.95 208pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, 9780521845526, Hardback, was £77.00 9780801867903, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Dream and Reality Plague and the The Trial of Socrates The Hunt in Ancient Danish Antiquaries, Architects Athenian Imagination By I. F. Stone Greece and Artists in Greece Drama, History and the Stone set out to discover how a so- By Judith Barringer By Ida Haugsted Cult of Asclepius called "free" society, such as existed Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, in Athens, could try and condemn to This book provides an outline of the By Robin Mitchell-Boyask inscriptions, and other literary death its most renowned philosopher. evidence, Judith Barringer reexamines story of Danish travellers in Greece, This volume studies the impact of the He examines what Plato does not tell illuminating aspects of both the the theme of the hunt and shows plague on Athenian tragedy early in us - the Athenian side of the story how the tradition it depicts helped cultural history of Greece and the the 420s and argues for a significant - to see whether he can mitigate period of the Danish golden age in maintain the dominance of the ruling relationship between drama and the the city's crime and thereby remove social groups. the first half of the nineteenth century. development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in some of the stigma the trial left on democracy and on 395pp, Archetype, 1996, 9781873132753, Hardback, was the next decade, during a period of war and increasing Athens. 312pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 9780801866562, Hardback, was £45.00 £85.00 civic strife. 282pp, Doubleday, 1989, 9780385260329, Paperback, Now £19.95 224pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, was £12.00 Now £12.95 9780521873451, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

Ancient Greek Pottery The Conquests of Sparta At War The Litigious Athenian By Michael Vickers Alexander the Great Strategy, Tactics and By Matthew R. Christ This full colour guide showcases By Waldeman Heckel Campaigns, 950-362 BC Athens saw frequent debates about a selection of vessels from the Heckel provides a revisionist By Scott Rusch the manipulation of the legal process Ashmolean's collection. Most of overview of the conquests of by unscrupulous individuals. Christ's the pots were made in Corinth and Scott Rusch provides a narrative book discusses how these debates Alexander the Great. Emphasising history of Sparta's wars, not only Athens and transported to Italy the aims and impact of his reveal contemporary Athenian and Sicily where they served as describing the various campaigns attitudes to problems in their legal military expeditions, the political in detail, but also aiming to explain grave offerings. Many are decorated consequences of military action, system, and their ability to define the with figures, which give an insight Sparta's rise to becoming the premier limits of ethical behaviour through and the use of propaganda, both for motivation and Greek military power, her defeat of Persia and Athens, into Greek religion, warfare, sport, party-going and justification, Heckel rejects notions of Alexander as such public discussions. craftmanship. and her ultimately irreversible decline in the fourth irrational, showing that his aims were in accord with century BC. 317pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 80pp, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1999, those of the military aristocracy which backed them. 9780801858635, Hardback, was £40.50 9781854441140, Paperback, was £8.95 272pp, Frontline Books, 2011, 9781848325302, Hardback, 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, was £25.00 Now £12.95 9781107645394, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Parthenon Sculptures Women and Humor in Thucydides' War The Return of Ulysses By Ian Jenkins Classical Greece Accounting for the Faces of Conflict A Cultural History of This book serves as a superb visual By Laurie O'Higgins By Neil Morpeth Homers Odyssey introduction to these magnificent This study explores the role of This specialist study takes a close By Edith Hall sculptures. It showcases a series of women in the production of joking look at Thucydides’ use of numbers specially taken photographs of the This wonderful book takes the reader speech and their active participation - his estimations of the sizes of on a journey with as many twists and different sculptural elements: the in cultic joking, especially with armies and naval forces and of pediments, metopes and Ionic frieze. turns as the Odyssey itself, tracing its reference to the cults of Demeter troop movements. This information enormous influence from antiquity 144pp, British Museum Press, 2007, and Dionysus. O'Higgins examines is presented in table form, with to the present day. It is arranged 9780674026926, Hardback, was £22.95 the contexts in which women may have produced jokes a detailed commentary, and an extended critique of thematically rather than chronologically, allowing the Now £7.95 and those where they formed the butt of men's jokes, concepts of scale in Thucydides reader to compare the ways in which the poem's central arguing that women and the tradition of cultic joking 348pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2006, 9783487132563, ideas have been treated across the centuries and over acted as an important source of inspiration in the Paperback, was £45.00 the world's continents. development of iambic poetry and Attic old comedy. 304pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 282pp, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Now £9.95 9780801888694, Hardback, was £20.00 9780521822534, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

18 • ANCIENT GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Corpus Vasorum Autopsy in Athens Textile Production in The Rule of Law in Antiquorum Recent Archaeological Research Classical Athens Action in Democratic Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, on Athens and Attica By Stella Spantidaki Athens Fasc 1 (USA Fasc 21) Edited by Margaret M. Miles This book presents a detailed By Edward M. Harris By Ann Steiner These papers offer perspectives on consideration of the historical and Harris examines how the Athenians a range of issues relating to Classical social context of textile production A diverse collection, including attempted to enforce and apply the Athens: the ambience of the ancient in classical Athens. It examines and Cypriot, Attic and South Italian pieces, law when judging disputes in court. city for passers-by, filled with roadside discusses evidence for the equipment, mostly previously unpublished. He reveals that the Athenians were shrines; techniques of architectural materials, processes and techniques much more sophisticated in their 50pp, Joslyn Art Museum, 1986, 9780936364148, construction and sculpting; religious expression in employed at each stage of the full production sequence, approach to law than many modern scholars have Hardback, was £50.00 Athens including cults of Asklepios and Serapis; the and discusses the organisation of production and trade. assumed, but also examines the weaknesses of their Now £4.95 precise procedures for Greek sacrifice; how the borders 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702525, Hardback, legal system and its contribution to their defeat in the of Attica were defined over time, and details of its road- was £40.00 Peloponnesian War. system. Now £14.95 496pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199899166, 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978565, Hardback, Hardback, was £65.00 was £60.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Ancient Greece As It Gods and Garments The Macedonians in Women's Bodies in Was Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in Athens, 322-229 B.C. Ancient Greek Science By Eric Chaline the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC Proceedings of an International By Lesley Dean-Jones Written in the style of a modern By Cecilie Brøns Conference held at the University A close analysis of theories travel guide, this book covers A new investigation into and of Athens, May 24-26, 2001 concerning women's bodies in such everything the visitor to fifth century interpretation of the role of textiles By Olga Palagia and Stephen V. Tracy authors as the Hippocratics and Athens might need, with historical and clothing accessories in the Aristotle. The book demonstrates background and practical advice on These papers focus on various the centrality of menstruation in performance and materialisation of aspects of Athenian art, archaeology matters from where to stay and eat ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the classical theories of female physiology, to visiting iconic sites. and history in the century of pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had 7th–1st centuries BC. Among the questions posed are Macedonian domination. They consider Athens' new role 160pp, Lyons Press, 2008, 9780762770496, Paperback, how and where we can detect the use of textiles in the both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes as a political stepping stone for potential Successors to towards women's bodies in that society. was £10.95 sanctuaries, and how they were used in rituals including the throne of Macedon, and the ways in which Athenian their impact on the performance of these rituals and the culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. 293pp, Oxford University Press, 1994, 9780198150466, Now £2.95 people involved. Paperback, was £40.99 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842170922, Hardback, 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703553, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £12.95 was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Tarentine Horsemen Greece, Macedon and With Alexander in Macedonian War of Magna Graecia, Persia India and Central Asia Machine, 359-281 BC 430-190 BC Edited by Timothy Howe, Erin Moving east and back to west By David Karunanithy By Nic Fields Garvin and Graham Wrightson Edited by Claudia Antonetti and P. Biagi This study aims to shed light on a Taras was the leading power of the This book contains a collection of Twelve papers in this volume wealth of understudied aspects of scattered Greek states of southern papers related to the history and examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian the Macedonian military, with a focus Italy and built their reputation on historiography of Warfare, Politics and campaign, the relationship between on five specific areas: Preparation; the unmatched horse warriors who Power in the Ancient Mediterranean him and his generals, the potential to Support; Dress and Battle Equipment; helped the Tarantines claim and world. The contributions, written by use Indian sources, and evidence for Alexander's Veterans; and Life on maintain their power. In this book Nic Fields examines 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring Campaign. the Tarentine horsemen in detail, discussing their and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples areas such as Iran and Russia. 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781848846180, tactics, weapons and equipment and detailing how they considered war and conflict at the heart of social, Hardback, was £25.00 political and economic activity. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785705847, Paperback, operated as mercenaries throughout the region. was £40.00 Now £7.95 64pp, Osprey, 2008, 9781846032790, Paperback, was 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782979234, Hardback, £11.99 was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £3.95 Now £12.95

Ancient On the Fascination of Envy and Jealousy in Spartan Way Historiography on War Objects Classical Athens By Nic Fields and Empire Edited by John Boardman, Andrew By Ed Sanders For a period of some 200 years, Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Parkin and Sally Waite Building on recent developments in Sparta was acknowledged throughout Müller and Richard Stoneman The 14 papers presented here reflect reading emotion "scripts" in classical the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers. Nic Fields explains the This volume shows the ways in which the broad scope of the Shefton texts, this book applies to Athenian collection of Greek and Etruscan culture and literature insights on the reasons for this superiority, how their the literary genre of writing history reputation for invincibility was earned developed to guide empires through art; ranging across pottery, jewellery, contexts, conscious and subconscious terracottas and metalwork. The motivations, subjective manifestations, (and deliberately manipulated) and their wars. Taking key events from the how it was ultimately shattered. Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman contributions focus on specific objects or groups of and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way objects in the Collection, providing new interpretations emotions, derived from modern philosophical, 208pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848848993, Hardback, was £25.00 events and the accounts of those events interact. and bringing previously unpublished items to light. psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702990, Hardback, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700064, Hardback, Now £7.95 was £48.00 was £60.00 224pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199897728, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

Archaeology in the Onomatologos Invention of Greek Sparta's Kings Peloponnese Studies in Greek Personal Names Ethnography By John Carr New Excavations and Research presented to Elaine Matthews By Joseph Skinner In ancient Greece, Sparta was By Kenneth A. Sheedy Edited by R. W. V. Catling and By Greek ethnography is commonly unique in having a dual kingship - F. Marchand and M. Sasanow two kings from different clans, the The contributors include: P believed to have developed during the Greeks’ “encounter with the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning Themelis ( Damophon of Messene: These papers reveal some of the simultaneously. John Carr offers a New evidence ); E Ostby ( Recent potential that has been unlocked by barbarian” - Achaemenid Persia. Skinner argues that, on the contrary, chronological account of the kings excavations in the Sanctuary of the systematic documentation of the and their accomplishments (or Athena Alea at Tegea ); B Wells ( evidence for personal names across ethnographic discourse was already ubiquitous throughout the archaic Greek world, not lack thereof), from the founding A prehistoric environmental catastrophe: the case of the Ancient Greek world that has accumulated over the Herakleidai clan to Kleomenes III and his successor, the Berbati and Limnes ); N Fields ( Apollo: God of war, last century. They amply demonstrate the value of this only in the form of texts but also in a wide range of iconographic and archaeological materials. dictator Nabis, and the Roman conquest in the middle of protector of mercenaries ). raw material for linguists and philologists, students of the 2nd century BC. 154pp, Oxbow Books, 1995, 9780946897773, Paperback, Greek and Latin literature, epigraphists, papyrologists, 343pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199793600, numismatists and prosopographers. Hardback, was £75.00 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848848498, was £30.00 Hardback, was £19.99 680pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, 9781842179826, Hardback, Now £12.95 Now £4.95 was £90.00 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

Athenian Potters and Sailing to Classical Poiesis The Sieges of Painters III Greece By Peter Acton Alexander the Great Edited by John Oakley Papers on Greek Art, Poiesis brings together ancient texts By Stephen English Athenian Potters and Painters III Archaeology and Epigraphy and inscriptions, recent scholarly English analyses Alexander’s sieges in presents a rich mass of new material presented to Petros Themelis analysis, archaeological finds, and depth, investigating strategy, tactics, on Greek vases, including finds the expertise of modern craftsmen and technical aspects, such as the Edited by Olga Palagia and to investigate every known facet from excavations at the Kerameikos Hans Rupprecht Goette innovative and astoundingly ambitious in Athens and Despotiko in the of Athens' manufacturing activities. siege engines used. Individual sieges Cyclades. Some contributions focus This volume of 15 papers is a tribute The framework explains why are explored from the shocking on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, to Petros Themelis for his significant certain segments were suited to destruction of Thebes, through the epic siege of Tyre, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the sole craftsman and others to teams of slaves, and to his final (and nearly fatal) combat at the town of the Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the excavation, study and conservation of the ancient deduces earnings potential based upon competitive Malli. site of Messene in the Peloponnese. New, previously differentiation. the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. 168pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2010, 9781848840607, unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and 408pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199335930, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976639, Hardback, elsewhere is here presented for the first time. Hardback, was £19.99 was £80.00 Hardback, was £62.00 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9781842174227, Paperback, Now £9.95 Now £19.95 was £32.00 Now £14.95 Now £6.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM GREECE • 19 The Tyrants of The Spartans Athenian Black Figure The History of Greek Syracuse: Vol. II 367- The World of the Warrior- Vases Vases 211 BC Heroes of Ancient Greece By John Boardman By John Boardman By Jeff Champion By Paul Cartledge In this introductory survey Boardman John Boardman sketches the stylistic In this second volume of his military Interspersed with the personal enables the reader to study the many history of Greek vases and goes on history of Syracuse, Jeff Champion biographies of leading figures, and aspects of the vases, and to grasp to explore the many other matters follows the course of the city' s wars based on 30 years' research, The the essential style of a painter or a that make the subject so fruitful: the from the death of Dionysius II down Spartans tracks the people from group of painters from the period process of identifying artists; the to the final epic siege of the city in 480 to 360 BC charting Sparta's between 630 and 470 BC. He devotes methods of making and decorating 213-211 BC, and its fall to the Romans. progression from the Great Power of the Aegean Greek an entire section to the mythological scenes and other the vases and the problems in doing so; the life of the world to its ultimate demise. decorative features of the vases, as well as their shapes potter; the pots' dissemination beyond Greece; and their 272pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848843677, and functions. functions in life, cult and as messengers of style and Hardback, was £25.00 320pp, Random House, 2004, 9781400078851, subject. Paperback, was £13.99 252pp, Thames and Hudson, 1974, 9780500201381, Now £7.95 Paperback, was £16.95 320pp, Thames and Hudson, 2001, 9780500285930, Now £4.95 Paperback, was £19.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Wars of Alexander's The Elgin Affair Early Greek Vase Civic Rites Successors, Volume The True Story of the Painting Democracy and Religion One Greatest Theft in History 11th-6th Centuries BC in Ancient Athens Commanders and Campaigns By Theodore Vrettos By John Boardman By Nancy Evans By Bob Bennett and Mike Roberts Almost two hundred years after The later achievements of Greek Nancy Evans vividly depicts the they were "purchased" from Greece, physical environment and the This first volume introduces the key art can only be understood in the the finest and most famous marbles context of this period, which saw the ancestral rituals that nourished the personalities - characters such as of antiquity still remain a burning people of the earliest democratic Antigonos Monopthalmus and his transition from the Geometric style issue. This compelling, controversial to the Orientalising and then to the state, demonstrating how religious son Demetrius Poliorcetes, Seleucus story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental Nicator and Ptolemy Soter - and gives a narrative of dominance of work from Corinth and Athens. A succinct detail "the greatest art theft in history," a steamy tale of and comprehensive guide to art which is the principal processes the causes and course of these wars from the death of obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin Alexander to the Battle of Corupedium (281 BC) when means of dating for its period. 272pp, University of California Press, 2010, the last two original Diadochi faced each other one final 256pp, Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, 9781611453157, 287pp, Thames and Hudson, 1998, 9780500203095, 9780520262034, Paperback, was £21.95 Paperback, was £10.99 time. Paperback, was £9.95 Now £5.95 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008, 9781844157617, Now £4.95 Now £4.95 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 City-State Civism in The Art and Greek Gems and Excavations at Nemea Ancient Athens Architecture of Finger Rings III Its Real and Ideal Expressions Ancient Greece By John Boardman The Coins By Thomas L. Dynneson By Nigel Rodgers A large and comprehensive account By Robert C. Knapp, John D. Mac The author presents an extensive This title offer a sumptuously of gem engraving from the Early Isaac and Stephen G. Miller Bronze Age through to the Hellenistic description of the intellectual forces illustrated introductory account of The vast majority of the 4,092 coins that attracted "international" scholars classical Greek buildings, sculptures period. John Boardman discusses the history of engraving, the subject recovered from the Greek city of and teachers to Athens, who in turn and paintings. The first half of the Nemea have secure archaeological established important schools of book analyses the rise of Greek matter, materials and techniques and their relationship with other artistic media. contexts and are identifiable. The higher learning as they labored to develop and advance architecture from its Minoan roots to the creation of the majority of the coins date from the heyday of the site the study of rhetoric and philosophy as competing Parthenon. The second part covers the skill of ancient 480pp, Thames and Hudson, 2000, 9780500237779, during the early Hellenistic period when the Nemean alternative approaches for addressing the perceived Greek sculptors and artists, and looks in detail at their Hardback, was £75.00 Games were at their height. techniques. weakness of the democratic system. Now £19.95 290pp, University of California Press, 2005, 222pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9781433103117, 128pp, Southwater, 2016, 9781844768028, Paperback, 9780520231696, Hardback, was £100.00 Hardback, was £55.95 was £9.99 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

The Sites of Ancient Attrition Greek Sculpture Stephanos Greece Aspects of Command in The Archaic Period Edited by K. J. Hartswick By Georg Gerster the Peloponnesian War By John Boardman and Mary C. Sturgeon From the Acropolis to Mount By Godfrey Hutchinson Traces the development of Archaic Classical Greek sculpture forms the Olympus, The Sites of Ancient Greece A military narrative of the Greek sculpture in terms of styles and focus of the majority of these essays. offers a birds-eye view of some Peloponnesian War, focusing on the regions, providing a comprehensive Discussions tackle interpretations of the most famous and evocative strategies employed by the generals range of pictures for the period that of technique and style, consider landscapes, cities and buildings in who dominated the different stages includes coverage of unfamiliar, rarely single sculptures, groups, and whole history, many of them UNESCO of the war - Pericles, Brasidas, Kleon, reproduced sculptures. monuments, the well-known as World Heritage sites. Alcibiades, Lysander et al. well as the unusual. Approaches are 252pp, Thames and Hudson, 1978, 9780500181669, traditional, art historical, as well as semiotic, and make 160pp, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2012, 9780714860848, 304pp, Spellmount Ltd, 2008, 9781862273238, Hardback, Hardback, was £10.95 use of ancient literary sources, architectural contexts, Hardback, was £39.95 was £25.00 Now £6.95 epigraphy and recent investigation into Greek religion, Now £14.95 Now £4.95 the emerging polis and the status of women. 300pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, 9780924171529, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £6.95

Alexander Coinage in the Greek The Greek World Folds of Parnassos The Ambiguity of Greatness World Classical, Byzantine and Modern Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis By Guy MacLean Rogers By Ian Carradice and Martin J. Price By Robert Browning By Jeremy McInerney In this fast-paced narrative history The development and use of coinage A wonderfully illustrated book that This study explores how ecological Guy MacLean Rogers charts in the Greek world is surveyed in this celebrates the history, culture and conditions, land use, and external Alexander's extraordinary career and book from its introduction in the 7th achievements of the Greeks and links factors such as invasion contributed attempts to reconstruct his character, century BC to the late Hellenistic Greece and the Greek people of to the formation of a Phokian focusing in partcular on his military period. Coins can illuminate many different periods from ancient times territory. McInerney shows how prowess, the motivation behind his facets of history and here the focus is to the modern world. shared myths, hero cults and military conquests, and his fascination with Persian customs. on the reasons why they were circulated and how they 328pp, Thames and Hudson, 1985, 9780500281628, alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region 464pp, Random House, 2005, 9780812972719, were used. Paperback, was £19.95 together over centuries despite repeated invasions. Paperback, was £12.99 154pp, London, Spink Books, 1988, 9780900652820, 407pp, University of Texas Press, 1999, 9780292752306, Paperback, was £20.00 Now £7.95 Paperback, was £33.00 Now £6.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

The Rise of Athens Greek Vase Painting The Greeks in Asia The Hemlock Cup The Story of the World's Form, Figure and Narrative By John Boardman Socrates, Athens and the Greatest Civilization By P. Gregory Warden John Boardman examines a wealth Search for the Good Life By Anthony Everitt At the heart of this study of the of art and artifacts as well as literary By Bettany Hughes sources to reveal the remarkable The Rise of Athens' celebrates relationship between Greek vases Socrates lived and contributed to a and their decoration - and between influence of Greek culture on peoples the city-state that cradled the - Anatolians, Levantines, Persians, city that nurtured key ingredients world's first democracy - from its the decoration and the function of of contemporary civilisation - the vase - is a very well presented Asiatics, Indians, and Chinese - whose revolutionary beginnings through to civilizations were far older, with their democracy, liberty, science, drama, flowering of its intellectual and artistic catalogue of 43 Greek and Etruscan rational thought - yet, as he wrote vases exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum own strong traditions in government, achievements - and explores its eventual decline into a the arts, and daily life nothing in his lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. conquered and pleasant 'university town'. in Madrid. Bettany Hughes has painstakingly pieced together 168pp, Texas AandM University Press, 2004, 240pp, Thames and Hudson, 2015, 9780500252130, Socrates' life, following in his footsteps across Greece 576pp, Random House, 2017, 9780812984989, Hardback, was £32.00 Paperback, was £14.99 9780870744891, Hardback, was £30.50 and Asia Minor, and examining the new archaeological Now £14.95 discoveries that shed light on his world. Now £6.95 Now £9.95 528pp, Vintage Books, 2012, 9781400076017, Paperback, was £15.99 Now £5.95 20 • GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Parthenon Sappho In Search of the Frontiers of Pleasure By Vincent J. Bruno By Marguerite Johnson Sorcerer's Apprentice Models of Aesthetic Response in Originally published in 1974 this Sappho's poetry, essentially The Traditional Tales of Archaic and Classical Greek Thought classic work provides an overview preserved in tantalising fragments, Lucian's Lover of Lies By Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi of the Parthenon, its history, is discussed in a series of thematic architecture, building techniques, chapters that include her religious By Daniel Ogden Anatasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that sculptures and significance. writings, particularly directed to the This is the first book in English to although the Greek language had goddess of love, Aphrodite; personal no formal term equivalent to the 351pp, W W Norton, 1996, be devoted to Lucian’s Philopseudes interpretations of mythological or Lover of Lies (ca. 170s AD). It “aesthetic,” the notion was deeply 9780393314403, Paperback, was rooted in Greek thought. Her analysis £17.99 themes; marriage hymns; and love comprises an extensive discussion, songs to female companions. with full translation. Among the themes of the work are centers on a dominant aspect of beauty - the aural - associated with a highly influential sector of culture that Now £6.95 144pp, Bloomsbury, 2007, 9781853996900, Paperback, Lucian’s methods of adapting motifs from traditional narratives, and the text’s overlooked Cynic voice. comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the was £19.99 “activity of the Muses,” or mousike. 312pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2007, 9781905125166, Now £5.95 Hardback, was £62.00 206pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199798322, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Greece Euripides and the Masks of Authority Homer's Cosmic History and Treasures of an Poetics of Nostalgia Fiction and Pragmatics in Fabrication Ancient Civilization By Gary S. Meltzer Ancient Greek Poetics Choice and Design in the Iliad By Stefano Maggi This book provides detailed studies By Claude Calame By Bruce Heiden A sumptuous coffee-table style of four of Euripides' plays (Hippolytus, These interlinked essays explore the A new attempt to get to the bottom presentation of some of the glories Hecuba, Ion and Helen), looking at means used by ancient Greek poets of the organisation and construction of Greek art, from the frescos of the tension between nostalgia and to create in their works a fictional of the Iliad, which proposes that the Knossos to the Hellenistic age. skepticism. Whilst Euripides has often authorship. The volume shows that poem is structured in such a way The accompanying text provides an been seen as shockingly new, Gary they made of their poems, through as to make reading it profitable, as outline historical narrative and explains the main artistic Meltzer argues that there is another side to his work, a various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with opposed to the standard conception of its being an developments. deep nostalgia for the past and a belief in a golden age of the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the oral experience. Heiden notes that the division of the simplicity and truth. 207pp, White Star Publishers, 2007, 9788854404588, ideas of craft and performance. work into books also creates a structure to the work Hardback, was £19.99 266pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 248pp, Cornell University Press, 2005, 9780801438929, as it is read, which flags up major events, and delineates 9780521858731, Hardback, was £67.00 Hardback, was £61.00 sub-plots. Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 254pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, 9780195341072, Hardback, was £71.00 Now £12.95

A Visitor's Guide to Performing Oaths in Wooden Horse Plutarch's Practical the Ancient Olympics Classical Greek Drama By Keld Zeruneith Ethics By Neil Faulkner By Judith Fletcher Taking as his starting point the Illiad By Lieve Van Hoof Written in the style of a modern Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in and Odyssey of Homer, specifically A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, travel guide, Neil Faulkner here ancient Athenian legal, commercial, Odysseus’ use of guile rather than a group of twenty-odd texts within provides a light-hearted, but civic and international spheres. Their force to prevail, Keld Zeruneith the Moralia designed to help powerful informative introduction to the importance is reflected by the fact argues that the heroic age of Greece Greeks and Romans manage their ancient Olympics, bringing to life that much of surviving Greek drama represented a major turning point ambitions and society's expectations all of the sights and smells of the features a formal oath sworn before in the history of human thought, successfully. Lieve Van Hoof combines games. As well as describing the events themselves he the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of opening the way for modern ideas of a systematic analysis of the general principles underlying looks at the religious aspects of the games, and also the that phenomenon. philosophy, poetry and society. Plutarch's practical ethics, including the author's target more practical dimension, painting a picture of a vast 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 606pp, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd., 2007, readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, unsanitary tent city, alive with hedonism, politics and 9780521762731, Hardback, was £67.00 9781585678181, Hardback, was £30.00 with five innovative case studies. poetry. Now £4.95 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2010, 9780199583263, 263pp, Yale University Press, 2012, 9780300159073, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £100.00 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

Democracy's Relative Chronology in At the Limits of Art One and Many in Beginning Early Greek Epic A Literary Study of Aelius Aristotles Metaphysics: The Athenian Story Poetry Aristides' Hieroi Logoi The Central Books By Thomas Mitchell By Oivind Andersen By Janet Downie By Edward C. Halper Thomas N. Mitchell addresses the This book sets out to disentangle Setting this dream-memoir of illness The Central Books of the most crucial issues surrounding the complex chronology of early and divine healing in the context of Metaphysics are widely recognized Greek democracy, including what Greek epic poetry, which includes Aristides' professional concerns as as the most difficult portion of a initially inspired the political beliefs Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. an orator, this book investigates the most difficult work. Halper uses the underpinning it, the ways the system Some contributions offer statistical Hieroi Logoi's rhetorical aims and problem of the one and the many as a succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis literary aspirations. Incorporating numerous dream lens through which to examine the Central Books. What a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical accounts and narratives of divine cure in a multi- he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of and argumentative coherence in a work that almost hastened the demise of Athenian democracy. seek to track the development and interrelationship of rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. is transparent to the divine. 350pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300215038, epic contents. 374pp, Parmenides Publishing, 2006, 9781930972056, Hardback, was £25.00 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199924875, Hardback, was £50.95 9780521194976, Hardback, was £67.00 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £9.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Myth and Tragedy in The Narrator in Dithyramb Tragedy Arion's Lyre Ancient Greece Archaic Greek and and Comedy Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry By Jean-Pierre Vernant and Hellenistic Poetry By A. W. Pickard-Cambridge By Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Pierre Vidal-Naquet By Andrew Morrison A history of the earliest stages of This study examines how Hellenistic In this work, published here as a This book examines the ways Greek drama. The study begins by poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, single volume, the authors present a in which the great poets of the bringing together what was known and transformed Archaic Greek lyric disturbing and decidedly non-classical Hellenistic age were influenced by of the dithyramb, and argues against through a complex process of textual, reading of Greek tragedy that insists their Archaic forebears. It focuses on Aristotle's statement that tragedy cultural, and creative reception. on its radical discontinuity with narrative poetic texts and examines originated from the leaders of the It explores the ways in which our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and the role of the narratorial voice. dithyramb, and against the theory that it originated in the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and psychological categories. performances at the tombs of dead heroes. Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic 358pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, scholars and poets. 538pp, Zone Books, 1989, 9780942299182, Hardback, 9780521874502, Hardback, was £77.00 346pp, Oxford University Press, 1962, 9780198142270, was £22.00 Hardback, was £14.99 252pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, 9780691095257, Now £19.95 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £12.95

Arguing with Socrates Theocritus and the Dumb Beasts and From Protagoras to An Introduction to Plato's Invention of Fiction Dead Philosophers Aristotle Shorter Dialogues By Mark Payne Humanity and the Humane in Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy By Christopher Warne The bucolic poetry of Theocritus is Ancient Philosophy and Literature By Heda Segvic An overview of the key themes of the the first literature to invent a fully By Catherine Osborne These papers range from a literary dialogues, their political and cultural fictional world that is not an image study of Homer’s influence on of reality but an alternative to it. Animal rights are, one might think, context and Socrates' philosophical a fairly modern concept. This study Plato’s Protagoras to analytic studies method. Christopher Warne explores This book examines these poems of Aristotle’s metaphysics and his in the light of ancient and modern shows that this is emphatically not each dialogue in turn, encouraging the the case and reveals a rich vein of ideas about deliberation. Most of reader to engage with the questions raised by Socrates' conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic’s idea fictional world is mediated by form and how this world Classical thought on the treatment of animals and the thought. relationship between humans and their environment. that both Socrates’ and Aristotle’s universalism and appears as an object of desire for the characters within objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2013, 9781441195449, Paperback, it. 262pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780199282067, was £20.00 opposition to Protagorean relativism. 192pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Hardback, was £84.00 Now £5.95 196pp, Princeton University Press, 2009, 9780691131238, 9780521865777, Hardback, was £67.00 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £53.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

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Taking Her Seriously Divine Interiors Religion in Republican The Gladiator Penelope and the Plot of By Eric M. Moormann Italy The Secret History of Homer's Odyssey Divine Interiors is an investigation Edited by Celia Schultz Rome's Warrior Slaves By Richard Heitman into the decoration of Greek and Paul B. Harvey Jr. By Alan Baker and Roman temples with wall In this new analysis Penelope comes Using archaeological and epigraphic This popular history of ancient paintings. While the official temples, evidence as well as the literary into focus as a loving wife whose role which were connected to the city Rome's gladiators charts the is far more important than passive sources the 10 essays presented evolution of the games; introduces or state, usually had a simple but here aim to shed light on the fidelity to a wandering husband. Her solemn appearance, the more popular us to the legendary fighters, trainers, integrity and wisdom in Odysseus' ‘Romanisation’ of religion in the and emperors who participated in the buildings were true multi-colour Italian penninsula in the mid to late republic. Attempts absence set the stage for his violent and triumphant expressions of religiosity. violent sport; and re-creates in detail a day at the games. return, and secure her place as a female role model in are made to define precisely what Roman as opposed 223pp, Da Capo Press, 2002, 9780306811852, Paperback, even the most modern of contexts. 296pp, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, to Etruscan, Italic or Latin religion actually was and how 9789089642615, Hardback, was £89.00 was £9.99 135pp, University of Michigan Press, 2005, religious practices interlinked and influenced each other 9780472033171, Paperback, was £22.50 Now £29.95 through the period. Now £2.95 299pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Now £6.95 9780521863667, Hardback, was £72.00 Now £19.95

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Cave Canem Settling in a Changing Gladiators Gardens of Pompeii Animals in Roman Civilization World Fighting to the Death in By Annamaria Ciarallo By Iain Ferris By Diederick Habermehl Ancient Rome This lavishly illustrated volume Iain Ferris explores the significance of This volume reconstructs the colonial By M. C. Bishop combines botanical images depicted in Pompeiian art with present-day animals in Roman society, discussing villa from social and economic This expert introduction explores the extraordinary slaughter of huge perspectives to create a broad photographs of gardens in the region the world of the gladiator in Ancient to give a complete understanding of numbers of animals for entertainment geographical and chronological Rome: their weapons, fighting in the Roman arena, their association framework that sheds light on the fruits, vegetables, pollens, seeds, techniques and armour. The cult of and other plants of Pompeii. with the gods, their place in both local and regional patterns. the gladiator is explored, alongside mythology and symbolism and their use in Roman Considering data from the Netherlands, Belgium, their less glamorous fates which more often than not 73pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2001, 9780892366293, religious practice. Many of their actions towards animals Germany, and France, Diederick Habermehl analyzes, ended in violent death. Hardback, was £20.00 are seen today as cruel, but what did animals mean for visualizes, and reconstructs the developments in settlement space and architecture 160pp, Casemate UK, 2017, 9781612005133, Paperback, Now £6.95 the Romans and how did they view their own actions? was £7.99 288pp, Amberley Publishing, 2018, 9781445652931, 252pp, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, Hardback, was £20.00 9789089645067, Hardback, was £89.00 Now £3.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

The Mirror of Venus The Ancient Romans Roman Perspectives Letter and Report on Women in Roman Art By Michael Vickers Studies in Political and the Discoveries at By Iain Ferris An introduction to life in Rome and Cultural History, from the Herculaneum First to the Fifth Century This is the first general book to its Empire from the first century By Johann Joachim Winckelmann present a coherent, broad analysis BC to the end of the fourth century By John Matthews AD, based on the collections of the This gloriously illustrated new of the numerous images of women The fifteen papers in this volume translation brings to light the early in Roman art and to interpret their Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Looks at the differences between town and discuss issues of Roman social, days of scientific archaeology and the meaning and significance, all set cultural and political history from unearthing and study of Herculaneum against the broader geographical, country, at food and drink, medicine, religion, and the army. the foundation of the Principate to and Pompeii as observed byJohann chronological, political, religious and cultural context of the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). His Letter, published the world of the Roman republic and empire and of Late 64pp, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1992, imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they in German in 1762, offers a scathing critique of the Antiquity. 9781854440266, Paperback, was £7.95 show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire Spanish Bourbon excavations around the Bay of Naples 256pp, Amberley Publishing, 2015, 9781445633725, Now £1.95 between its early and later periods, and reveal the roots and of the officials involved. He further discusses these Hardback, was £20.00 of political behaviour in social practice. topics in his equally controversial Report of 1764. Now £6.95 350pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2010, 9781905125395, 230pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2011, 9781606060896, Hardback, was £62.00 Paperback, was £37.00 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

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Caesar's Footprints Augustus Judaea and Rome in Rome's Last Citizen Journeys to Roman Gaul The Life of Rome's First Emperor Coins 65 BCE-135 CE By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni By Bijan Omrani By Anthony Everitt Edited by David M. Jacobson A well written biography of Cato Julius Caesar's conquests in Gaul As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus and Nikos Kokkinos the Younger and his struggle to in the 50s BC were bloody, but the transformed the unruly Republic into These papers focus on the relations defend the institutions of the Roman cultural revolution they brought in the greatest empire the world had between Rome and Judaea as Republic in its dying days. In a lively, their wake transformed forever the ever seen. He worked extraordinarily reflected in the numismatic record, journalistic style Goodman and ancient Celtic culture of that country. hard, and, within a generation, had during a period which spans the Soni trace Cato’s career, seeing From the amphitheatres of Arles rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Roman conquest of Judaea by Pompey his unbending nature as both as and Nimes to the battlefield of Chalons, Bijan Omrani splendid metropolis and centre for civil government and through to the last major Jewish uprising against Roman formidably principled, but ultimately explores archaeological sites, artefacts and landscapes to the arts. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony rule under Simon Bar-Kokhba, and encompasses the damaging to the cause for which he fought. reveal how the imprint of Rome shaped France. Everitt uncovers the deeply human character of this birth of Christianity. 368pp, Thomas Dunne Books, 2012, 9780312681234, 416pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681775661, Hardback, extraordinary man. 252pp, Spink Books, 2012, 9781907427220, Hardback, Hardback, was £19.99 was £25.00 377pp, Random House, 2007, 9780812970586, was £50.00 Now £7.95 Paperback, was £12.99 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

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Catiline The Monster Roman Settlement Journal of Roman The Edge of the of Rome and Medieval Manor Pottery studies, Empire An Ancient Case of House in South Bristol Volume 11 A Journey to Britannia: From the Political Assassination By Reg Jackson Edited by Pamela Irving Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall By Francis Galassi This report describes excavations Nine papers, predominantly on the By Bronwen Riley This lively biography aims to rescue at Inss Court, Bristol. Evidence study of Roman pottery in Britain. Bronwen Riley describes an epic the reputation of Catiline, arguing was found for occupation starting 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2005, journey from Rome to Hadrian's that his goal was genuine and radical in the late Iron Age, with three 9781842171400, Paperback, was Wall at Britannia's - and the empire's reform of a corrupt Roman system, Romano-British buildings with stone £24.00 - northwestern frontier. In this and that he represented a real threat to the senatorial foundations dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The strikingly original snapshot of Roman Britain, she brings order, reflected in the charges of immorality laid against excavations also uncovered the west and North ranges Now £7.95 vividly to life the smells, sounds, colours and textures of him by Cicero. of a medieval manor house, dated to the 14th and 15th travel in the second century AD. centuries. 187pp, Westholme Publishing, 2014, 9781594161964, 272pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681774350, Paperback, Hardback, was £19.99 116pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2007, was £13.99 9780900199561, Paperback, was £15.00 Now £4.95 Now £5.95 Now £4.95

Ennion Roman Alcester Romano-British Chichester Master of Roman Glass Volume 3 Settlement and Excavations 6 By C. S. Lightfoot Northern Extramural Area, Cemeteries at By Alec Down This publication examines the 1969-1988 Excavations Mucking Excavations around the town most innovative and elegant known By Paul Booth and Jeremy Evans By Sam Lucy and Christopher Evans between 1978 and 1982 produce examples of Roman mold-blown glass, evidence for: early Bronze Age, late The volume includes reports A comprehensive account of the Iron Age (pre-Conquest amphorae), providing a uniquely comprehensive, on ceramics and metal objects up-to-date study of these exceptional Romano-British archaeology of the massive defensive ditch of time of which were associated with the Mucking landscape with detailed Cogidubnius, evidence for Leg II Aug works. Included are some twenty-six original military settlement and the remarkably preserved examples of drinking cups, bowls, description and discussion of an in AD 43, a drainage system; 2-4 century cattle and sheep development of the town in the early 60s AD. In addition, extensive rural farming settlement and its industries in stockades, granaries and heaters, etc. All here described and jugs signed by Ennion himself, as well as fifteen evidence was found for the first civilian structures which additional vessels that were clearly influenced by him. its landscape setting, including important implications for in detail with extensive finds report. were built on top of early, regular and possibly military the transition from Roman occupation to Anglo-Saxon 160pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300208771, buildings. settlement. 306pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1989, 9780850336634, Paperback, was £18.99 Hardback, was £36.00 328pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2001, 456pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702686, Hardback, Now £7.95 9781902771229, Paperback, was £36.00 was £40.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Language and Literacy The Roman Baths and The Archaeology of My Roman Britain in Roman Judaea Macellum at Wroxeter the Lower City and By Richard Reece A Study of the Bar Excavations by Graham Adjacent Suburbs A personal view - stimulating and Kokhba Documents Webster 1955-85 By Kate Steane et al. provoking - of Romano-British studies. By Michael Owen Wise By Peter Ellis This volume contains reports on 164pp, Richard Reece, 1988, This comprehensive exploration Report from the 1955–85 excava­ excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln. Remains of 9780905853215, Paperback, was of language and literacy in the tions on the southern part of an £14.95 multi-lingual environment of Roman insula containing a market hall. Much timber storage buildings were found, Palestine is based on Michael Wise's of the volume reports on the large probably associated with the Roman Now £3.95 extensive study of 145 Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and assemblage of finds, many of which date to the original legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD. Larger Nabataean contracts and letters preserved among the building campaign, including coins, small finds, brooches, aristocratic residences came to dominate the hillside. Bar Kokhba texts. He explores questions of who could gems, glass, pottery and industrial and environmental Sequences of increasingly intensive occupation from the read, what they read, and how language worked in this remains 10th century were identified, with plentiful evidence for industrial activity. complex multi-tongued milieu. 394pp, English Heritage, 2000, 9781850746065, 544pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300204537, Paperback, was £55.00 550pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781782978527, Hardback, Hardback, was £70.00 was £55.00 Now £6.95 Now £19.95 Now £19.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROME AND ROMAN BRITAIN • 25 Fosse Lane, Shepton Art and Society in Cicero: De Oratore Gendered Dynamics in Mallet 1990 Roman Britain Book III Latin Love Poetry Excavations of a Romano- By Jennifer Laing Edited by David Mankin By Ronnie Ancona British Roadside Settlement at Laing examines the development Cicero's De Oratore is one of the This volume, the first to focus Shepton Mallet, Somerset of Romano-British art and discusses masterpieces of Latin prose. This specifically on gender dynamics in By Peter E. Leach the artistic acheivements of the era edition of Book III is the first since Latin love poetry, moves beyond through examples of mosaics, 1893 to provide a Latin text and full the polarized critical positions that A detailed report on the excava­ sculptures, metalwork, architecture introduction and commentary in argue that this poetry either confirms tion of a Romano-British roadside and pottery. Setting art and culture English. traditional gender roles or subverts settlement in Somerset. Sections in its context she also examines life in the towns and them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the examine the buildings, structures, burials and the finds 358pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, countryside, the army and the realtionship of patrons 9780521596572, Paperback, was £28.99 ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, as well as consider the date and significance of the towards funding craftmenship. shifting power back and forth between male and female. settlement. 188pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, 9780905778501, Now £7.95 372pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 348pp, Roman Society Publications, 2001, Paperback, was £19.99 9780801881985, Hardback, was £46.50 9780907764274, Paperback, was £47.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.50

Life and Labour in Roman Inscriptions of Pliny's Women Intertextuality and the Late Roman Silchester Britain, Volume II, By Jaqueline Carlon Reading of Roman Excavations in Insula IX since 1997 Fascicule 3 Combining detailed prosopo-graphy Poetry By Michael Fulford, Amanda By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin with close literary analysis, Jacqueline By Lowell Edmunds Carlon examines the identities of Clarke and Hella Eckhardt Inscriptions on brooches, rings, gems, the women whom Pliny includes in Edmund's discussion of current These excavations show that the bracelets; helmets, shields, weapons, his letters, and how they and the debates in the study of Roman poetry Insula underwent radical change, c. and other military equipment; iron men with whom they are associated asks how we can explain the process AD 250/300, with the construction tools; baldric and belt fittings; votives contribute both to this presentation by which a literary text refers to of new workshop and residential in gold, silver and bronze; lead pipes, of exemplary Romans and particularly another text. Individual theoretical buildings on the orientation of the Roman street- roundels, sheets and other lead objects; stone, bone and to his own self-promotion. chapters on the concepts of `text', `poet', `reader' and grid, following the demolition of mid-Roman buildings pottery roundels, and other objects of bone. `persona' are applied to passages from Virgil, Horace, 270pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Ovid and Catullus. arranged on different, pre- and early Roman alignments. 176pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991, 9780862999353, 9780521761321, Hardback, was £67.00 404pp, Roman Society Publications, 2006, Hardback, was £35.00 201pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Now £9.95 9780801865114, Hardback, was £42.00 9780907764335, Paperback, was £68.00 Now £6.95 Now £25.00 Now £6.95

Longthorpe II The Roman The Art of Pliny's Exemplary Traits The Military Works Depot: An Inscriptions of Britain Letters Reading Characterization Episode in Landscape History Vol. II, Fasicule 6 By Illaria Marchesi in Roman Poetry By G. B. Dannell and John Peter Wild By Sheppard S. Frere This study looks at the strategies By J. Mira Seo This volume describes the pottery- This fascicule covers dipinti and adopted by Pliny to attempt to ensure Exemplary Traits examines how making depot attached to the graffiti on amphorae and mortaria, that his letters could not only be Roman poets used models pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of inscriptions in white barbotine, dipinti published and continue to be read dynamically to create character, and Longthorpe near Peterborough and on coarse pottery, samian barbotine but would achieve canonical literary how their referential approach to and throws light on the problems or moulded inscriptions. status. The collection of letters is character reveals them mobilizing of supply of the Roman army during the conquest carefully structured to be able to be profitably read the literary tradition. By tracing the philosophical and 102pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1994, 9780750905367, cover to cover, and Ilaria Marchiesi argues that a central campaigns. Hardback, was £35.00 rhetorical concepts that underlie characterization part of this structuring is the inclusion of allusions from as a literary technique, this study illuminates an 206pp, Roman Society Publications, 1987, other Classical authors, already established parts of the 9780907764083, Paperback, was £15.75 Now £6.95 underestimated aspect of this poetic technique and its canon. relation to a larger intellectual context. Now £5.00 278pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199734283, 9780521882279, Hardback, was £67.00 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £19.95 Now £7.95

Central and East The Roman Writing and Empire in Figuring Genre in Gaulish Mould- Inscriptions of Britain Tacitus Roman Satire Decorated Samian Volume II, Fascicule 8 By Dylan Sailor By Catherine Keane Ware in the Royal By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin Sailor looks at the direct contrast In a fresh comparative study that Ontario Museum This fascicule covers graffiti on coarse between Tacitus’ own glittering career combines literary and cultural and the oppositional authorial voice analysis, Catherine Keane reveals By Alison Harle Easson pottery cut before and after firing; a stamp on coarse pottery and addenda in his historical oeuvre, and maintains how the satirists, Horace, Persius and Most of the 111 pieces described and and corrigenda to fascicules 1-8. that the latter is conditioned by the Juvenal create such a vivid and incisive illustrated (with line drawings) in this particular circumstances of a political portrayal of the Roman social world. catalogue come from Roman London. 165pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995, career under the principate. Sailor argues that through 9780750909167, Hardback, was £35.00 182pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, 9780195183306, 49pp, Royal Ontario Museum, 1988, 9780888543240, his writing Tacitus attempts to position himself within Hardback, was £66.00 Paperback, was £11.00 Now £6.95 the growing popularity of martyrs in contemporary political culture. Now £9.95 Now £2.95 359pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 9780521897471, Hardback, was £77.00 Now £19.95

Roman Mosaics of The Work of Giants Horace: A Life Function of Humour Britain Volume III Stone and Quarrying By Peter Levi in Roman Verse Satire South-East Britain in Roman Britain This biography attempts to present Laughing and Lying By David S. Neal and Stephen R. Cosh By Andrew Pearson a complete picture of Horace's life By Maria Plaza and world. It considers the details of The third volume covers the areas of Andrew Pearson examines evidence Horace's romantic liaisons and why Maria Plaza analyses the function Britain that were first to come under for stone quarrying and building from he never married, what the status of of humour in Horace, Persius, and Roman control and where some of the late Iron Age and throughout his father - a freedman - meant to Juvenal. She argues that, while the Britain’s most impressive mosaics are the Roman period, the types of the poet, and his distinctive brand of Roman satirist needs humour for his to be found - in Colchester, Silchester, stone exploited, how the stone was philosophy. work's aesthetic merit, his proposed London and Verulamium, and in villas and palaces at procured and transported, the tools and techniques message suffers from the ambivalence that humour Brading, Bignor, Fishbourne and Rockbourne. used, native versus imported stone and how the use of 288pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781780761398, Paperback, was brings with it. local stone influenced architectural styles. £12.99 600pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009, 370pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, 9780199237937, 9780854312894, Hardback, was £200.00 160pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, 9780752435916, Now £4.95 Paperback, was £45.99 Paperback, was £19.99 Now £50.00 Now £4.95 Now £6.95

Roman Mosaics of The Romans Who Virgil: A Life The Cosmic Viewpoint Britain Volume IV Shaped Britain By Peter Levi A Study of Seneca's Western Britain By Sam Moorhead Peter Levi here reconstructs the Natural Questions By Stephen R. Cosh and David S. Neal In this new narrative history of poet's life, from a childhood largely By Gareth D. Williams Roman Britain, Moorhead and shrouded in mystery to his work as a The area covered by the fourth and great literary genius and revolutionary A study of Seneca’s innovative final volume in the corpus is one Stuttard take an unashamedly meteorological treatise, in which traditional approach, focusing on the poet, by examining archaeological and of the richest regions of Britain in historical evidence from Augustan technical coverage of natural economic as well as architectural and deeds and motivations of the Roman phenomena is combined with ethical emperors, generals and governors Rome, as well as through close artistic terms and this is reflected in readings of the poet's own work. reflections on human nature in one the quantity and quality of the region’s mosaics, which who conquered, pacified and ruled Britain, as well as stoic philosophical whole. include the largest figured mosaic ever found in Britain - exploring the actions of some of the principal British 264pp, I.B. Tauris, 2012, 9781848859043, Paperback, was tribal leaders. £12.99 392pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199731589, the Woodchester Orpheus pavement. Hardback, was £40.49 288pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 9780500251898, 480pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010, Now £5.95 Now £7.95 9780854312948, Hardback, was £160.00 Hardback, was £18.95 Now £50.00 Now £6.95

26 • ROMAN BRITAIN AND LATIN LITERATURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 The Deaths of Seneca Byzantine Jewry in the Hilary of Poitiers Inventing Latin By James Ker Mediterranean Conflicts of Conscience and Law Heretics The forced suicide of Seneca is Economy in the Fourth-Century Church Byzantines and the Filioque one of the most tortured-and By Joshua Holo By Lionel R. Wickham in the Ninth Century most revisited-death scenes from This study sheds light on a neglected classical antiquity. James Ker offers a Two works supporting the Nicene By Tia M. Kolbaba aspect of both Byzantine and Jewish comprehensive analysis of the scene, faith by Hilary of Poitiers. The first Focusing on the ninth-century history - the role of Jews in the situating it in the Roman imagination is what remains of a historical beginnings of Byzantine writings Middle Byzantine economy. Whilst and tracing its many subsequent work Hilary wrote against two against the Latin addition of the acknowledging that overall the interpretations. At the book's centre distinguished contemporary bishops, Filioque to the creed, Inventing economic influence and clout of Byzantine Jewry was is an exploration of Seneca's own prolific writings about which throws light upon the violence and betrayal in Latin Heretics illuminates several aspects of Byzantine not large, Holo is able to identify a number of key areas death. church life. The second text is an open letter to the thought—their self-definition, their theology, their and industries (notably tanning and textiles) in which Emperor Constantius urging him to throw his weight uniquely constituted state. 432pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199959693, they played a major part. behind the Nicene creed. Paperback, was £32.49 205pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, 285pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 176pp, Liverpool University Press, 1997, 9780853235729, 9781580441339, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £7.95 9780521856331, Hardback, was £72.00 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £3.95

Recognizing Persius Jewish Martyrs in the Pseudo-Dionysius of Bir Umm Fawakhir By Kenneth J. Reckford Pagan and Christian Tel-Mahre Survey Project 1993 A passionate and in-depth exploration Worlds Chronicle, Part III A Byzantine Gold-Mining of the libellus of six Latin satires left By Shmuel Shepkaru By Witold Witakowski Town in Egypt by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of This book presents a linear history Although the chronicle dates to the By Carol Meyer, Lisa A. Heidorn, twenty-seven. In this comprehensive of Jewish martyrdom, from the end of the 8th century the third part, W. E. Kaegi and Terry G. Wilfong and reflectively personal book, Hellenistic period to the high Middle translated here is taken from the This report reflects on the aims Kenneth Reckford fleshes out Ages. It shows how Jewish thought otherwise lost John of Ephesus (d. of the 1993 season which was to the primary importance of this on martyrdom was influenced by c.588) and covers the reigns of Zeno, continue mapping the site, to expand mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. the centrality of self-sacrifice to Roman and Christian Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian. the pottery corpus, to seek for some specific features thought, even as martyrdom was used to define Jewish 192pp, Liverpool University Press, 1995, 9780853237600, not found in 1992 such as defensive structures and 240pp, Princeton University Press, 2009, 9780691141411, religiosity and delegitimise their persecutors. Hardback, was £49.00 Paperback, was £25.00 churches, and to carrry out a more general survey of the 428pp, Cambridge University Press, 2005, site's immediate vicinity. Now £3.95 Now £6.95 9780521842815, Hardback, was £77.00 92pp, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2000, Now £9.95 9781885923165, Paperback, was £31.00 Now £9.95

Pliny's Statue Plato and Theodoret Byzantine Art Butrint 4 Pliny's Statue The Christian Appropriation Recent Studies The Archaeology and Histories By John Henderson of Platonic Philosophy and the Edited by Colum Hourihane of an Ionian Town Hellenic Intellectual Resistance John Henderson gives a completely Studies on the architecture and art Edited by Inge Lyse Hansen, Richard fresh and enthusiastic re-reading By Niketas Siniossoglu of the Byzantine world from the Hodges and Sarah Leppard of Pliny's Letters. We are shown a Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ tenth to the fifteenth centuries. This richly illustrated volume confidant of emperors obsessed with Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, Underpinned by iconography, style, discusses the histories of the port city his own monumentalization - both in Dr Siniossoglou examines the reception and date, these essays of Butrint, and its intimate connection his writings and in the art works he philosophical, rhetorical and political attempt to contextualize the eastern to the wider conditions of the handles. dimensions of the Neoplatonic-Christian conflict of world and the west, the Muslim and the Christian, the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the 226pp, The Exeter Press, 2002, 9780859897204, interpretations over Plato. specific detail and the larger picture. site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean Hardback, was £75.00 267pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 207pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, urban history over the longue durée. 9780866984263, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £19.95 9780521880732, Hardback, was £62.00 250pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842174623, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Encounters Iberian Fathers, Coptic Legal Neighbours and Travel and Money in the Volume 2 Documents Successors of Rome Byzantine World Translated by Claude W. Barlow Edited by Leslie MacCoull Traditions of Glass Production and By Eurydice S. Georganteli An English translation of the works This volume contains annotated use in Europe and the Middle East and Barrie Cook of two seventh-century writers. From English translations of fifty selected in the Later 1st Millennium AD The study of Byzantine coins the first of these, bishop Braulio legal documents originally written in Edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer is essentially the study of of Saragossa, comes an extensive the Coptic language, dating from the Price and Caroline Jackson collection of letters, whilst Fructuosus mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. communications and movement of Presented through 20 case studies people and ideas, within and outside of Braga is represented by two They include land transfers, sales, wills, monastic rules. property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. covering Europe and the Near Byzantium. This highly illustrated volume, focuses on over East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates 50 coins to explore the empire's political and socio- 243pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1969, 248pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, development in the production of glass and the economic development and cultural relations with its 9780813200637, Hardback, was £25.50 9780866984256, Hardback, was £46.00 mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a neighbours. Now £9.95 Now £14.95 wider material culture in Europe and the Near East 72pp, Art Books International, 2006, 9781904832270, around the later first millennium AD. Paperback, was £6.95 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782973973, Hardback, Now £2.95 was £50.00 Now £14.95 Ten Gifts of the Cage Cups Michael Attaleiates Pilgrimage in Early Demiurge Late Roman Luxury Glasses and the Politics of Christian Jordan By Emilie Kutash By David Whitehouse Imperial Decline in A Literary and Archaeological Guide Proclus' commentary on Plato's A comprehensive survey that Eleventh-Century By Burton MacDonald "Timaeus" is perhaps the most presents chapters on the discovery Byzantium After a general introduction to important surviving Neoplatonic and study, characteristics, distribution By Dimitris Krallis each site, its biblical significance and commentary. This book provides an and date, and manufacture of cage a citation of the relevant biblical essential companion to this rich but cups. The book includes a catalogue This book examines the place of sources with commentary, the author complex and densely wrought text, of 69 vessels and fragments, nine historical narratives in Byzantine lists the literary sources that pertain providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that appendixes, and an addendum containing 13 objects that political and cultural discourse of the 1060s and 1070s. specifically to early Christian pilgrimage activity. This it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent was written following the author’s death. It specifically construes Byzantine historiography as an information is complemented with a description of the whole. 255pp, Corning Museum of Glass, 2015, 9780872902008, eminently political enterprise that allowed Attaleiates to early Christian archaeological remains found at the site 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2011, 9780715638545, Hardback, Hardback, was £60.00 express his ideas about the empire’s military and political and their interpretation. was £120.00 crisis. Now £14.95 264pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, 9780977409495, Paperback, 336pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, was £26.00 Now £24.95 9780866984706, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

Unearthing the Truth Donatist Martyr Church and Society in Constantine the Egypt's Pagan and Coptic Sculpture Stories Late Byzantium Emperor By Edna R. Russmann The Church in Conflict in Edited by Dimiter Angelov By David Potter This volume presents the Brooklyn Roman North Africa The essays in this collection seek to As its title suggests David Potter’s Museum’s permanent collection By Maureen A. Tilley shed light on various aspects of the authoritative biography of of Late Antique Egyptian stone church’s role in late Byzantine society, Constantine focuses on his exercise A collection of hagiography from especially on the relationship between of power, and his conception of the sculptures (C.E. 395–642), including the 4th century Donatist sect in several reworked or repainted the church and the lay world and imperial office. He sees Constantine North Africa, famously opposed by the response of individuals to the as a ruthless and highly efficient ruler objects and some that appear to be St. Augustine. Their literature was modern forgeries. The ancient reliefs were made for use challenges faced by Orthodoxy. fired with a genuine sense of mission in governing the suppressed and remains little known and consequently empire and enforcing justice, and whose religious policy in pagan and Coptic Christian cemeteries as well as in the debate has only been understood from the winning 253pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, Christian churches and monasteries. 9781580441438, Paperback, was £24.99 was guided by a desire for peace and stability within the side. empire rather than by missionary zeal. 91pp, Brooklyn Museum, 2009, 9780872731622, 137pp, Liverpool University Press, 1996, 9780853239314, Hardback, was £17.99 Now £6.95 384pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780190231620, Paperback, was £25.00 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £4.95 Now £3.95 Now £5.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE • 27 Explaining the Cosmos The Oxford Illustrated An Introduction to the Arts of the City By Michael W. Champion History of Christianity Coinage of the Empire Victorious This volume analyzes the writings of Edited by J. McManners of Trebizond By Jonathan M. Bloom three thinkers associated with Gaza: This richly illustrated book tells the By Simon Bendall The Fatimids ruled in North Africa Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. story of Christianity from its origins and Egypt from 909-1171 and Together, they offer a case study for This introduction gives a brief history to the present day. The opening of the Empire and its coinage, along produced some distinctive and the appropriation, adaptation, and chapters cover broad chronological spectacular art and architecture, transformation of classical philosophy with information about metrology., periods, whilst the later essays look mints, silver sources, legends, symbols, which this lavishly illustrated book in late antiquity, and for cultural at different regions of the globe, synthesises into an impressively transitions more generally in Gaza. sigla, sceptres and more. Different and aspects of Christianity as it is practised around the types are comprehensively illustrated with photographs. detailed one volume study. 256pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199337484, world today. 236pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2007, Hardback, was £62.00 72pp, Spink Books, 2015, 9781907427596, Paperback, 736pp, Oxford University Press, 2001, 9780192854391, was £20.00 9789774161292, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £25.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Font of Life Constantine the Great The Beginner's Guide Persian Ceramics Ambrose, Augustine and Warlord of Rome to Identifying From the Collections of the Mystery of Baptism By Elizabeth James Byzantine Coins the Asian Art Museum By Garry Wills Elizabeth James sets the scene with By Prue Fitts By Aimee Froom Prompted by the recent discovery of a discussion of the nature of the This book covers coins of the Eastern This beautifully illustrated volume the fourth century baptistry beneath Roman army as it emerged from Roman Empire from Anastasius I presents highlights from the rich the Duomo in Milan, this book the Third Century Crisis and the (491-518) to Constantine XI (1448- collection of Persian ceramics recreates the baptism there in 387 of impact of Constantine's policies and 1453) with an overview of the period from the Asian Art Museum in San St. Augustine by St. Ambrose. It charts reforms. She then examines each of of Diocletian in 284 to the succession Francisco, ranging from 4000 BCE to the often fractious relationship between the two men Constantine's campaigns and battles to show that he of Anastasius I as an introduction. It is aimed at the the 18th century. Many objects illustrate how Persian and their fundamental importance in the history of the deserves to be remembered as a great general as well as collector and contains information which enables the ceramics were enhanced by trade with East Asia and church and Christian thought. a great emperor. idenfication of coins where designs may be worn or Europe, as well as Islamic lands such as Iraq, Egypt and 194pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199768516, 171pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848841185, legends only partially legible. Syria. Hardback, was £16.99 Hardback, was £19.99 136pp, Spink Books, 2015, 9781907427558, Spiralbound, 104pp, Asian Art Museum, 2008, 9780939117444, Paperback, was £24.00 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 was £20.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Literary Territories Imperial Brothers Romans and Christians Islamic Glass in the Cartographical Thinking By Ian Hughes By Dominic Janes Corning Museum, in Late Antiquity This book tackles the careers of the A visual history of Christianity and its Volume One By Scott Fitzgerald Johnson brother emperors, Valentinian seen as artistic and architectural interaction By David Whitehouse a strong and successful ruler of the with the Roman Empire, from From accounts of Holy Land western Empire, and Valens, whose persecution and co-existence in the This hefty and beautifully produced pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, rule in te east saw the catastrophic Pagan Empire, to the adaptation and catalogue presents 595 objects and to the systematization of Ptolemy's defeat at Adrianople (378). By construction of a new visual language fragments with scratch-engraved and scientific works, Literary Territories tracing the careers of both men in in the Christian Empire. A case study wheel-cut ornament made in the argues that very different forms tandem, Ian Hughes compares their of Late Roman Gaul and Britain Islamic world between the eighth of literature in Late Antquity nevertheless shared an achievements and analyzes the extent to which they rounds off the book. and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited with description and comments on technical and stylistic deserve the contrasting reputations handed down by 159pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002, 9780752419541, world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the history. matters, dating and provenance. collection and organization of knowledge. Paperback, was £17.99 208pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781848844179, 430pp, Hudson Hill Press, 2010, 9781555953553, 192pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780190221232, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £3.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £62.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

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Saint Augustine of Spiritual Marriage Ascetic Culture Archaeology of the Hippo Sexual Abstinence in Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau Early Islamic An Intellectual Biography Medieval Wedlock Edited by Blake Leyerle and Settlement in By Miles Hollingworth By Dyan Elliott Robin Darling Young Palestine In a stimulating and provocative Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, These essays explore how quickly By Jodi Magness theology, canon law, and pastoral the industrious and imaginative reinterpretation of Augustine's Archaeological evidence is frequently sources, Dyan Elliott traces the practitioners of asceticism, from the ideas and their position in the cited by scholars as proof that history of spiritual marriage, in early fourth through the mid-fifth Western intellectual tradition, Miles Palestine declined after the Muslim which husband and wife mutually and century, adapted the Greco-Roman Hollingworth draws his inspiration conquest, and especially after the voluntarily relinquish sexual activity for reasons of piety, social, literary, and religious culture in which they had largely from the actual narrative of Augustine's life. By rise of the Abbasids in the mid-eighth century. Instead, in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the been raised. Far from rejecting the life of the urban this means he reintroduces a cardinal but long-neglected Magness argues that the archaeological evidence sixteenth century. centres of the ancient world, they refined and elaborated fact to the centre of Augustinian studies: that there is a supports the idea that Palestine and Syria experienced that life in their libraries, households, and communities. direct line from Augustine's own early experiences of life 392pp, Princeton University Press, 1995, 9780691010885, a tremendous growth in population and prosperity to his later commentaries on humanity. Paperback, was £43.00 432pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, between the mid-sixth and mid-seventh centuries. 9780268033880, Hardback, was £71.95 312pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, 9780199861590, Now £12.95 248pp, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060705, Hardback, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £14.95 was £47.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Saving the Holy The Latin Alexander The Key to the Brescia Artisans of Empire Sepulchre Trallianus Casket Crafts and Craftspeople How Rival Christians Came Together The Text and Transmission of Typology and the Early Under the Ottomans to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine a Late Latin Medical Book Christian Imagination By Suraiya Faroqhi By Raymond Cohen By D. R. 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A Handbook of Islamic John the Baptist's Walk into the Dark Early Medieval English Coins Prayer or the Descent Ages Texts and By Michael Broome into Hell from the By Bill Bevan Interpretations This book provides an introduction to Exeter Book This gloriously illustrated book Studies Presented to the coinages of the Near and Middle By M R Rambaran-Olm introduces the reader to early Donald G. Scragg East, issued by the various dynasties medieval Britain and Ireland through that emerged from the religious This first full-length study offers a 35 chronologically arranged sites Edited by Elaine Treharne state established by the Prophet full account of the Old English poem from the broch of Moura and the and Susanne Rosser Muhammad. The Islamic coinages of known popularly as the Descent into Saxon Shore forts to the battlefield These original essays include work on India and South East Asia are excluded because they are Hell, together with an edition of the at Hastings and the Norman motte and bailey castle the sources and dissemination of prose and verse texts, derived from different monetary concepts and cultural text and facing translation. It aims to resolve some of the at Painscastle via Tintagel, Dunadd, and Skellig Michael on palaeography, lexicography and semantics, the editing backgrounds. poem's vexing issues and provides a variety of possible among many others. Each entry is accompanied by a of manuscripts, and post-Conquest use of Old English interpretations of the poem. 236pp, London, Spink Books, 1985, 9780900652660, route map, but this is as much for the armchair explorer texts. Paperback, was £25.00 249pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9781843843665, as the walker. 391pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, Hardback, was £60.00 208pp, Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2014, 9780711234116, 9780866982955, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

The Minbar of Saladin Saints and Scholars Water and Fire Heimskringla: An By Lynette Singer Edited by Stuart McWilliams The Myth of the Flood in Interpretation The minbar (pulpit) of Saladin dated Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, Anglo-Saxon England By Birgit Sawyer to the mid twelfth century, and and their subsequent appropriations, By Daniel Anlezark A detailed and comprehensive analysis stood in the Al-Aqsa mosque until unite the essays collected here. of the text of Snorri Sturluson's its destruction by flames in 1969. Prominent themes include This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations Heimskringla. Sawyer concludes This book details the difficult process hagiography and issues of community that it was written during the reign of reconstruction, introducing the and reception. of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event of Hakon Hakonsson (1217-1263) reader to the key principles of 288pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2012, to criticize the development of the Islamic art along the way. Many of in God's ongoing war with his more 9781843843030, Hardback, was £60.00 rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery central power of king and church at the expense of the the necessary skills necessary to design and carve traditional authority of chieftains. the inticrate geometric patterns had to be learned Now £14.95 of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range experimentally from scratch, involving contributions of texts against their historical background, and discusses 178pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2015, from a large team of scholars and craftsmen. shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted 9780866985383, Hardback, was £40.00 for diverse audiences. 206pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500238431, Now £14.95 Hardback, was £29.95 384pp, Manchester University Press, 2006, 9780719063985, Hardback, was £80.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

In the Shadow of the Two Decades of Anglo-Saxon England How Tradition Works Sword Discovery and the Continent A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of The Birth of Islam and the Rise By Tony Abramson Edited by Hana Sauer and Joanna Story the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century of the Global Arab Empire 12 essays and two catalogues make This volume explores some aspects By Michael D. C. Drout By Tom Holland up this book which grew out of the of the relations between Anglo-Saxon Expanding and revising “memetic” Cambridge International Sceatta England and the Continent, and the theory, this book analyzes the This gripping (and controversial) book symposium. Essays on early Saxon scholars and texts which moved recounts the momentous events of culture of the tenth-century English Sceatta coinage look at new finds, in both directions throughout the Benedictine Reform. It shows how Late Antiquity, exploring the rise of classification and different coin series, period. Islam, the fall of Persia and the drastic this flowering of culture can be traced locations of mints and areas of circulation, orthography 384pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, to the reliance by Anglo-Saxon monks upon unchanging shrinking of the Byzantine empire. In particular Holland and iconography and the place of the coinage in the explores the processes whereby all three Abrahamic 9780866984423, Hardback, was £66.00 written rules, the Rule of St. Benedict and the Regularis wider economy. Concordia. religions came to be canonically defined, arguing Now £14.95 especially for a sceptical approach to the Arabic sources 204pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9781843833710, 342pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, for early Islam, and questioning its Meccan origin. Paperback, was £50.00 9780866983501, Hardback, was £41.00 526pp, Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd, 2013, Now £9.95 Now £12.95 9780307473653, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £5.95

Living in Historic Buckland Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxons and the Intertexts Cairo Cemetery, Dover North Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture By Farhad Daftary By Keith Parfitt and Trevor Anderson Edited by Matti Kilipio and Presented to Paul E. Szarmach This illustrated book examines The 1994 excavations at Buckland, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka Edited by Virginia Blanton Cairo from the first century AH / Dover, uncovered another 244 Essays which examine cultural and Helen Scheck seventh century AD until the present, graves in the extensive Anglo-Saxon contacts between Anglo-Saxon This collection of essays explores considering the relationships between cemetery first excavated by Professor England and Scandinavia. They are the interconnectedness of a variety the physical layout of the city and its Vera Evison in 1951-3. Just over two broadly divided between literary and of Anglo-Saxon texts, including historic buildings, its economy, and thirds of the burials contained grave material culture approaches, with literary, cultural, historical, scholarly, its social, cultural, and religious life. It also discusses the goods. Several male burials contained a sword, others a topics including comparison between Eddic and Old and ecclesiastical. It is organized into three sections programs of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, both for spear and sometimes a shield. Women's graves included English meter, the "Leningrad Bede", agriculture and ship that consider scholarly reception, material texts and restoring historic monuments in the district of al-Darb brooches and beads and a variety of other objects terminology. contexts, and textual transmission. al-Ahmar and for reviving and improving the social and 606pp, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2012, 191pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, economic life of the old city. 448pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, 9781870545235, Hardback, was £35.00 9780866984126, Hardback, was £39.00 9780866983822, Hardback, was £51.00 300pp, University of Washington Press, 2010, 9781898592280, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

Gifts of the Sultan Vikings Beatus Vir Language and Style in The Arts of Giving at Raiders from the Sea Studies in Early English Old English the Islamic Courts By Kim Hjardar and Norse Manuscripts In Composite Homilies Memory of Phillip Pulsiano By Linda Komaroff From the 9th to the 11th century, By Hiroshi Ogawa This gloriously illustrated catalogue Viking ships landed on almost Edited by A. N. Doane By examining the compilers’ language is the first investigation of gift-giving every shore in the Western world. This is a collection of fourteen essays and style in eight works that utilize a and its impact on the development Employing sail technology and using dealing with various aspects of Old variety of sources (including works by of art in the Islamic world. Presenting unpredictable strategies, the Vikings English and Old Norse manuscript Ælfric and Wulfstan, and anonymous some 240 rare and costly works of could strike suddenly, attack with study. The work includes essays on Vercelli homilies and Old English art associated with gift exchanges among the courts of great force, then withdraw with stolen goods or captives. textual editing, codicology, the interrelation of text and poems), the author shows that these composite homilies, Islam, Byzantium, western Europe, and eastern Asia, the This short history of the Vikings discusses their ships, manuscript, manuscript backgrounds, and librarianship. far from being unreflective pastiches, are products of weapons and armour, and unique way of life. book provides a wide-ranging view of Islamic art and 575pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, compilation, not imitation, made by individual minds with culture from the 8th through the 19th century. 160pp, Casemate UK, 2017, 9781612005195, Paperback, 9780866983648, Hardback, was £57.00 their own designs and purposes. 352pp, Yale University Press, 2011, 9780300171105, was £7.99 Now £14.95 224pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £3.95 9780866984096, Hardback, was £46.00 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ISLAMIC AND ANGLO-SAXON • 29 Myth in Early Anglo-Saxon Books The Recovery of Old The Anglo-Saxon Northwest Europe and Their Readers English Cemetery at Worthy Edited by S. O. Glosecki Edited by Thomas N. Hall By Thomas Graham Park, Kingsworthy, Myth in Early Northwest Europe and D. G. Scragg chart the progress of Old English near Winchester, examines the confrontation of Essays focus on the scribes, contents, studies from the earliest work of Hampshire classical, biblical, Celtic, and Germanic circumstances of production, and the mid 16th century through to cultures and how they interplay intended uses of selected manuscripts the heyday of the early 18th century. By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Guy during the Carolingian and Viking from the late Anglo-Saxon period, Subjects include the movement of Grainger, E. Biddulph and Anne Dodd periods. It shows how Christian and as well as the fates of Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon studies from London The cemetery was excavated in native religions engaged with each other. The studies deal manuscripts at the hands of sixteenth- and seventeenth- to Cambridge and, finally, to Oxford, the influence of 1961–2 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes; this volume draws with current myth theory and analyze myths embedded century antiquaries. Richard Verstegen's engraved depictions of pagan Saxon to­gether all of her chapters and drawings relating to the within Old Norse, Old English, and other Germanic 198pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, gods, the early history of printed Anglo-Saxon texts, the site, including a detailed catalogue of burials, a report on literatures from, or set in, this era. 9781580441377, Hardback, was £35.00 evidence of handwritten workbooks, lexicography and a the human bone, and a gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon sites in 380pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, bibliography. Hampshire. 9780866983655, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £12.95 422pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 225pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003, 9781580440134, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £12.95 9780947816605, Hardback, was £22.50 Now £9.95 Now £10.00

Purloined Letters Poetry, Place and Catalogue of Early The Archaeology of The Twelfth-Century Gender Northumbrian Coins the Gravel Terraces of Reception of the Anglo-Saxon Studies in Medieval Culture in in the Museum of the Upper and Middle Illustrated Hexateuch Honor of Helen Damico Antiquities, Newcastle Thames By A. N. Doane and William P. Stoneman Edited by Catherine Karkov Upon Tyne The Early Historical An investigation into the extensive A collection of papers primarily on By E. J. E. Pirie Period: AD1-1000 set of Latin and English annotations Anglo-Saxon subjects, embracing An illustrated catalogue of 476 Anglo- By Paul Booth, Anne Dodd, Mark added in the late twelfth century. Old English poetry, archaeology, Saxon coins, arranged by moneyer, Robinson and Alexander Smith Among them are more than 30 art history, palaeography, liturgy, accompanied by a discussion of the genesis of the annotations in English, which are conventionally landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes A detailed account of the evolving settlement pattern. collection and remarks on provenance. explained as copies of notes composed in Old English new interpretations, new evidence, even new The authors then consider what archaeology can reveal at an earlier date. This book documents the fascinating technologies to further the study of some key medieval 30pp, Museum of Antiquities, 1982, 9780905423043, about the populations of the valley, and their changing discovery that these English notes are in fact the “last works. Paperback, was £4.20 lifestyles, culture, identities and beliefs. Old English,” coeval with the date of the handwriting. 380pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Now £1.00 470pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007, 416pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, 9781580441278, Hardback, was £78.00 9780954962753, Hardback, was £34.99 9780866984430, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

St. Oswald of Sources of Anglo- Crossing Boundaries Ceawlin Northumbria Saxon literary Culture Interdisciplinary Approaches By Rupert Matthews Continental Metamorphoses Abbo of Fleury, Abbo of to the Art, Material Culture, In place of anarchy and mayhem, Language and Literature of By Marianne Kalinke Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, Rupert Matthews suggests that and Acta Sanctorum the Early Medieval World Romanised governmental structures This study of the continental legend managed to survive the economic of St. Oswald is accompanied by an By F. M. Biggs Edited by Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes collapse of the 5th century and the edition and translation of Ósvalds This volume forms part of a project population collapse of the early saga, which represents the oldest by numerous scholars to map In this major collection of 27 papers, sixth century to emerge in new and vernacular legend on the continent, the sources which influenced the contributors transcend traditional barbarianised form in the later sixth and an edition and translation of Van sunte Oswaldo literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England. It aims at a disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a century. He sees the reign of Ceawlin, King of Wessex in deme konninghe, an abbreviated Low German legend comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity the 570s as pivotal to this process. deriving ultimately from the earliest version known known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material solely in Icelandic translation. 252pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, 9781848846760, 548pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, culture. Hardback, was £19.99 221pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 9781580440738, Paperback, was £38.99 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785703072, Hardback, 9780866983419, Hardback, was £38.00 was £55.00 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

Writing in a Speaking Sources of Anglo- Transformation in Bookmarks from the World Saxon Literary Anglo-Saxon Culture Past The Pragmatics of Literacy Culture Toller Lectures on Art, Studies in Early English in Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions The Apocrypha Archaeology and Text Language and Literature in and Old English Poetry Honour of Helmut Gneuss Edited by F. M. Biggs Edited by Charles Insley and By Peter Orton Gale R. Owen-Crocker Edited by Lucia Kornexl This book forms part of a A critical investigation of some longstanding project by numerous Presents five major cross-disciplinary and Ursula Lenker manifestations of literate ways scholars to map the sources which discourses on Anglo-Saxon culture The papers collected in this volume of thinking and expression in influenced the literary culture of seen through developments in reflect the long and distinguished Anglo-Saxon writings. Two of its main themes are the Anglo-Saxon England. It aims at a comprehensive, literary text, imagery, historical documents, art and career of Professor Helmut Gneuss in the fields of Early relationship between runic and Roman writing in both descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain archaeological material culture. The common element is English language, literature and culture. Topics include inscriptions and poetry, and certain distinctive deictic between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older Standard Old English, Old and Middle English poetry, usages, in particular the use of the first-person pronoun date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources material for new times and the necessary adaptation to medieval manuscript studies, palaeography, and the in reference to non-human subjects.. of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990). new circumstances. history of English language scholarship. 266pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2014, 117pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2017, 9781785704970, Paperback, 353pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820465203, 9780866984935, Hardback, was £48.00 9781580441193, Paperback, was £15.50 was £38.00 Hardback, was £66.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Aedificia Nova The Old English Andreas and the Fates King Alfred's Old Studies in Honor of Hexateuch of the Apostles English Translation of Rosemary Cramp Aspects and Approaches Edited by Kenneth R. Brooks Pope Gregory the Edited by Helen Damico By Rebecca Barnhouse and An edition of the two Old English Great's Regula and Catherine Karkov Benjamin C. Withers poems, Andreas and The Fates of the Pastoralis and Its Focusing on the material culture of Apostles. The numerous difficulties Ten papers which reflect a wide of interpretation and syntax are fully Cultural Context the Anglo-Saxon world, contributors range of research interests into the address the themes of time in history; discussed in the textual commentary, By Carolin Schreibner Old English Hexateuch. Subjects and a glossary has been added. societal and ideological change include the contribution of Aelfric, King Alfred the Great translated and continuity; iconic style and polysemous textuality; the dating evidence, the composition of the Old English 184pp, Oxford University Press, 1961, 9780198114222, Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis as part of symbolic and representational interpretation; gender- text including the personalities and motivations of the Hardback, was £12.99 his programme for the revival of learning. Three of the specific economic production; definitions of social and anonymous translators, the illustrations, male and female Now £4.95 surviving six pre-Conquest manuscripts are edited for political structures; and social processes of eclecticism readers and the manuscript's place in Anglo-Saxon the first time in substantial parts in this volume; the and adaptation. literature and art. edition is accompanied by a comprehensive commentary. 427pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, 358pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 674pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820460505, 9781580441100, Hardback, was £78.00 9781580440509, Paperback, was £38.00 Paperback, was £94.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £24.95

Aelfric of Eynsham The Preservation and Asser's Life of King Viking Art Of War His Life Times and Writings Transmission of Anglo- Alfred By Paddy Griffith By Helmut Gneuss Saxon Culture Together with the Annals of Saint This study of the Vikings establishes This little book, originally delivered Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal Neots Erroneously Ascribed to Asser the facts behind their rise to as a lecture, forms an introduction to and Paul E. Szarmach prominence, and cuts away the myths Edited by William Henry Stevenson about their military and seafaring Aelfric of Eynsham, described by the Seventeen papers discuss Stevenson’s 1906 edition of Asser’s author as "the first, and for a long skills, reputation, and exploits. It Historiography, Medieval Reception Life of King Alfred, comprising the examines their tactics, seamanship, time the only, master of prose written of Anglo-Saxon England, Art and Latin text and copious notes. An in English". Gneuss discusses Aelfric's mobility, strategy, and how they Archaeology, Literary Approaches, and article by Dorothy Whitelock surveys exploited victories and dealt with works and their influence in the context of the turbulent Manuscript Studies. A particular feature of many of the the debate on the authenticity of the work. late tenth and early eleventh centuries. defeats. papers is their north American perspective, examining 538pp, Oxford University Press, 1959, 9780198212010, 53pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, how Anglo-Saxon studies as a discipline has been 256pp, Pub Casemate Greenhill, 2010, 9781932033601, Hardback, was £14.99 Hardback, was £25.00 9781580441445, Paperback, was £12.00 conducted in the US. Now £6.95 Now £3.95 508pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1997, Now £9.95 9781879288911, Paperback, was £43.50 Now £5.95

30 • ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Pictorial Arts of the Theodulf of Orleans: Renovatio Monetae: Edward II the Man West, 800-1200 The Verse Bracteates and A Doomed Inheritance By C.R. Dodwell Edited by Theodore M. Andersson Coinage Policies in By Stephen Spinks A large and profusely illustrated A complete translation with Medieval Europe War, debt and baronial oppression commentary and introduction of the survey of medieval art extending By R. Svensson before 1307 ensured that Edward from Scandinavia to Jerusalem, and verse of Theodulf of Orleans (c.750- II inherited a toxic legacy that any ranging widely across its many forms 821), a key figure in the Carolingian Bracteates are thin, uni-faced coins successor would have found almost and history. Includes discussion of the Renaissance. that were struck with only one die. impossible to wrestle with. Stephen painters and craftsmen of the time, 220pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Although these coins were very Spinks explores that legacy using and the relationships between the arts and the history Society, 2014, 9780866985017, Hardback, was £46.00 fragile, they dominated the coinage a wide breadth of contemporary and later sources, and theology of the period. for 150-200 years in large parts of medieval Europe. focusinf on Edward's early years as much as the reign Now £14.95 This book is about the function of bracteates and how 461pp, Yale University Press, 1995, 9780300064933, itself to build up a picture of Edward as a man and the they can be linked to the evolution of coinage policies challenges which he faced. Paperback, was £35.00 especially re-coinage. 304pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445667669, Now £16.95 284pp, Spink Books, 2013, 9781907427299, Hardback, Hardback, was £20.00 was £50.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

Creating the Monastic Religion Culture and This is my Body Richard II Past in Medieval Society in the Early Representational Practices A True King's Fall Flanders Middle Ages in the Early Middle Ages By Kathryn Warner By Karine Uge Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble By Michal Kobialka In this book, Kathryn Warner paints The creation of a past for themselves Essays in this volume explore Kobialka takes four epistemological a portrait of the king with all of his was of pressing importance to wide-ranging topics: Constantinople, fragments to illustrate his argument strengths and imperfections left in the religious communities, enabling them Cloistered Women, Popes and Holy that images of the male and female picture. An aesthete and patron of the to increase their status and legitimise Images, Kingship, Pastoral Care, and body recreated in medieval drama arts as well as a person troubled by a their existence. This book examines Pilgrimages to the works or lives of and theatre were constantly changing much-maligned 'personality disorder', the process in a group of communities in the southern Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, John Damascene, and affected by different modes of seeing until they Richard II here emerges from behind the mask of a part of Flanders over a period running from the ninth to and Anselm of Havelberg. were stabilised by the constitutions of the Fourth Latern theatrical character. the end of the eleventh century. 256pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1987, Council in 1215. 372pp, Amberley Publishing, 2017, 9781445662787, 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781903153161, 9780918720849, Paperback, was £31.50 313pp, University of Michigan Press, 1999, Hardback, was £20.00 Hardback, was £50.00 9780472089383, Paperback, was £30.50 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

The Transformation of The Name of the Saint The Eucharist in Richard III a Religious Landscape By Felice Lifshitz Pre-Norman Ireland A Ruler and His Reputation Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150 This book presents a detailed By Neil Xavier O'Donoghue By David Horspool By Valerie Ramseyer examination of the reception and In addition to reassessing the David Horspool tells the story of recopying of the (apocryphal) available texts for the liturgy of the Richard, Duke of Gloucester's birth A detailed study of the religious life Martyrology of Saint Jerome in the of the principality of Salerno in the Eucharist in the pre-Norman Irish and upbringing and his part as a young Early Middle Ages. The author finds church this study considers the social man in the closing years of the Wars early Middle Ages, and in particular of that the manuscript tradition centres the reform program spearhead by the dimension of the Eucharist, and its of the Roses, describes what really around a group of individuals who treatment in art and architecture. happened to the Princes in the Tower, Archbishop of Salerno and the abbey actively promoted a form of name- of the Holy Trinity of Cava. Most importantly, O'Donoghue shows that pre-Norman and explains why this character has become one of the centred piety, including Willibrord-Clement, Winifried- Ireland was very much a part of the Western (Gallican) most compelling and divisive rulers in the history of the 222pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444036, Boniface and Witiza-Benedict of Aniane. all of whom had liturgical tradition British Isles. Hardback, was £49.00 ties to the Carolingian court. 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, 336pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781472902993, Hardback, Now £9.95 230pp, Notre Dame University Press, 2005, 9780268037321, Paperback, was £47.50 was £20.00 9780268033750, Hardback, was £41.50 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Bright Lights of the Fortified Settlements The Making and Fourteenth Century Dark Ages in Early Medieval Unmaking of a Saint England IV The Thaw Collection of Early Europe By Mathew Kuefler Edited by J.S. Hamilton Medieval Ornaments Defended Communities of This volume traces the rise and fall Topics include the cult of Thomas of By Debra Noel Adams the 8th-10th Centuries of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac Lancaster, royal landscapes, Edward through a millennium, from his III's fundraising, Thomas Hatfield, The exceptionally broad scope of Edited by Neil Christie and death in the tenth century to the Agnes Malatravers, John Mirk, the the Thaw collection, spanning over a Hajnalka Herold attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the statutes of Provisors and Premunire, millennium, is used here to illustrate This important collection nineteenth century. Mathew Kuefler the royal pardon, Thomas Despenser, the continuity and evolution of fine provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the makes a strong case for the sophistication of hagiography the deposition of Richard II, and the coal industry. metalworking traditions. It also reveals the profound archaeologies of the distinctive settlement forms that as a literary genre that can be used to articulate religious 204pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 9781843832201, influence of the classical world on the new political characterised Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Contains doubts and anxieties even as it exalts the saints. alliances formed during the Early Medieval period Hardback, was £60.00 twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists 320pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, that united people from diverse cultural and ethnic from across Europe Now £12.95 backgrounds. 9780812245523, Hardback, was £66.00 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702358, Hardback, 432pp, D Giles Limited, 2014, 9781907804250, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 was £65.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Religious Women in Landscape With Two Agincourt John Mirk's Festial Early Carolingian Saints The King; the Campaign; the Battle Orthodoxy, Lollardy and Francia By Lisa M. Bitel By Juliet Barker the Common People in Fourteenth-Century England A Study of Manuscript Transmission This intriguing book examines the Juliet Barker draws upon a huge and Monastic Culture multifaceted careers and cults of range of sources to give a compelling By Judy Ann Ford two fifth and sixth century saints, By Felice Lifshitz account of the Battle of Agincourt. Written with largely uneducated rural Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of But she also looks behind the action congregations in mind, John Mirk's This study of the intellectual and Kildare. Unlike the usual stereotype on the field to paint a portrait of Festial became the most popular monastic culture of the Main Valley of the female saint as pious virgin the age, moving from the ambition of vernacular sermon collection of late- during the eighth century, explores how one group of martyr, Genovefa and Brigit were celebrated for the kings to the dynamics of daily life in peace and war. medieval England. This book represents the first major religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval active part they played in ordering and shaping their examination of the Festial, looking in particular at the Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well 461pp, Abacus, 2005, 9780349119182, Paperback, was newly Christian communities. £11.99 issues of popular culture and piety; the oral tradition; as through their editorial interventions. 297pp, Oxford University Press, 2009, 9780195336528, biblical and secular authority; and clerical power. Now £4.95 368pp, Fordham University Press, 2014, 9780823256877, Hardback, was £31.49 176pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781843840015, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Old Irish Wisdom Croatia in the Early Owen Tudor Records of Attributed to Aldfrith Middle Ages Founding Father of the Convocation III: of Northumbria By Ivan Supicic Tudor Dynasty Canterbury 1313-1377 An Edition of Briathra This large book contains thirty papers By Terry Breverton Edited by Gerald L. Bray Flainn Fhina Maic Ossu in English, bringing to the fore-front In a popular style Terry Breverton This volume contains all the evidence the richness of Croatian history, By Colin A. Ireland traces the extraordinary life and for convocations and provincial artistic and cultural achievement career of Owen Tudor, his marriage councils during the reigns of Edward An edition and english translation in the Early Middle Ages. Spanning to Katherine of Valois, the widow II and Edward III, and reconstructs the of an Old Irish text, comprising a the period from the 7th to 12th of Henry V, and his capture and period from 1328 to 1349, for which series of three word maxims, attributed to King Aldfrith centuries, the papers explores the relationships between execution after the battle of Mortimer's Cross, where he the Canterbury registers have been lost. Latin text. of Northumbria (ca. 685-705) under his Irish name Croatia and the rest of Europe, especially the influence fought for the Lancastrians. Flann Fina. It seeks to demonstrate that these maxims of Roman, Byzantine and eastern cultures. 458pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2005, 9781843831785, represent a coherent text despite the varied contexts in 336pp, Amberley, 2017, 9781445654188, Hardback, was Hardback, was £95.00 633pp, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999, 9780856674990, £20.00 which they have been preserved. Hardback, was £73.00 Now £9.95 256pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, Now £9.95 9780866982474, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £24.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE AND MEDIEVAL BRITAIN • 31 Reimagining History in Angels on the Edge of John Trevisa and the Widows, Heirs, and Anglo-Norman Prose the World English Polychronicon Heiresses in the Late Chronicles Geography, Literature, and By Jane Beal Twelfth Century By John Spence English Community, 1000-1534 Jane Beal examines the rhetorical The Rotuli de Dominabus This book studies the essential By Kathy Lavezzo strategies John Trevisa used to Et Pueris Et Puellis establish his authority and justify his characteristics of the Anglo-Norman This study looks at how writers Edited by John Walmsley Prose chronicle for the first time, translation of Ranulf Higden’s Latin and cartographers engaged with the Polychronicon into English. She pays This work is a new critical edition and situating it within the multilingual perceived geographical marginality of cultures of late medieval England. particular attention to the translator’s translation of the late-twelfth-century England from the 10th century to the use of paratextual material, which includes two prefaces Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis. These records In particular, it explores how Anglo-Norman prose Reformation and how this influenced the tradition of chronicles rewrite the past with rhetorical flourish, and numerous intertextual notes. were the result of a little known Domesday-like royal mapmaking in England and emerging concepts of English enquiry into the status and assets of widows and wards in order to advance the contemporary political and nationhood. 186pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, personal agendas of their authors and patrons. 9780866984850, Hardback, was £50.00 on estates held directly by the Crown in 1185. 191pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801473098, 146pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, 236pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781903153451, Paperback, was £34.00 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £60.00 9780866983532, Hardback, was £36.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

John Wyclif on War Naming, Society and Matthew Paris: The John Stone's Chronicle and Peace Regional Identity History of Saint Christ Church Priory By Rory Cox Papers presented at a Symposium Edward the King Canterbury 1417-1472 From the writings of St Augustine of held at The Department Edited by Thelma S. Fenster Edited by Meriel Connor Hippo in the fifth century, Christian of English Local History, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne This book offers the reader selections University of Leicester justifications of war had revolved Paris’s French illustrated life of from Stone’s modest compilation of around three key criteria: just By David Postles Edward the Confessor was probably the internal life of his own monastic cause, proper authority and correct designed for presentation to Eleanor community - obituaries of monks, the intention. Using Wyclif's extensive These 10 papers focus on the celebration of the liturgy, even the development of personal naming of Provence on her marriage to Latin corpus, the author shows how he dismantled Henry III in 1236. This volume includes a translation of weather - set against the wider events of the tumultuous these three pillars of medieval "just war" doctrine, across a broad chronological and geographical span from fifteenth century in England. a variety of perspectives including Viking England, early the History and the rhymed rubrics Paris composed to demonstrating that he created a coherent doctrine of accompany his text and images and an introduction on pacificism and non-resistance which was at that time modern England and 19th century Sweden. 176pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, the historical, cultural, literary and stylistic contexts in 9781580441070, Paperback, was £15.50 unparallelled. 294pp, Leopard's Head Press, 2002, 9780904920291, which Paris wrote. Hardback, was £17.50 Now £5.95 200pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9780861933259, 182pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2008, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £4.95 9780866983891, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Memory and Myths of England, Arise Matthew Paris: The Love and Marriage in the Norman Conquest By Juliet Barker Life of Saint Alban Late Medieval London By Sarah Brownlie Juliet Barker, acclaimed for her studies Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne By Shannon McSheffrey This book offers a study of of the latter half of the Hundred Years and Thelma S. Fenster This book examines the public and contemporary British memory of War, here turns her attention to the This volume presents the first private relationship of marriage, the Norman Conquest, focussing Great Revolt of 1381. She is anxious translation of Matthew Paris’s Vie de as well as its religious and social on shared knowledge, attitudes and to avoid the title “Peasant’s Revolt”, seint Auban, the great thirteenth- connotations, through translations beliefs. I draws on a study of 807 for as the considerable evidence century chronicler’s life of the patron of depositions, or testimonies, from contemporary British newspaper which is marshalled here makes saint of his own monastery of St. marriage cases brought before 15th- articles, a quantitative survey of 2000 UK residents and clear, the revolt was much more than Albans. It includes a substantial introduction, a new century English church courts. a rural phenomenon, and united people from a wide contemporary books and films. translation of Paris’s chief source, the Vita sancti Albani 89pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, spectrum of social statuses, from members of the gentry, and two essays on the manuscript. 240pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2013, 9781843838524, merchants and urban tradesmen, to the more usually 9781879288539, Paperback, was £12.00 Hardback, was £60.00 recognised villeins. 239pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, 9780866983907, Hardback, was £53.00 Now £3.95 Now £7.95 528pp, Little, Brown and Company, 2014, 9781408703359, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

The Foundations of The Medieval English Personalities and Richard of Maidstone: Medieval English Borough Perspectives of Concordia (the Ecclesiastical History Studies on Its Origins and Fifteenth-Century Reconciliation of Studies Presented to David Smith Constitutional History England Richard II with By Christopher N. L. Brooke, Philippa By James Tait Edited by A. Compton Reeves London) Hoskin and Barrie Dobson Tait's classic study explores the The history and culture of Edited by David R. Carlson These essays demonstrate the origins and growth of English towns, fifteenth-century England have been and A. G. Rigg importance of critical editions of from their emergence as a response subjected to rigorous research by to the Danish threat, to their later The poem that Richard Maidstone primary documents editions to a proper understanding several generations of scholars. The wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval constitutional affairs and municipal governance, guilds international group of scholars who have contributed and merchants. information about the royal entry that concluded the ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century to this volume continue that effort by approaching crisis in greater detail than any other source. The latin forgery to diocesan administration, from the church 371pp, Manchester University Press, 1999, their particular subjects from such varied perspectives text is presented here with a facing verse translation, an courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish 9780719003394, Hardback, was £14.99 as scandal and warfare, people and politics, art and introduction and notes. clergy to the papacy. literature, and successions and processions. Now £6.95 144pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 284pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831693, 182pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, 9781580440806, Paperback, was £12.00 Hardback, was £60.00 9780866984621, Hardback, was £41.00 Now £3.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Magna Carta Early Rymes of Robyn Sex, Aging, and Death The Book of John Law, Liberty, Legacy Hood in a Medieval Medical Mandeville Edited by Claire Breay An Edition of the Texts, Compendium An Edition of the Pynson and Julian Harrison ca. 1425 to ca. 1600 Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina Text with Commentary on the Defective Version This exhibition catalogue takes us By Thomas H. Ohlgren and Trinity College Cambridge MS on a journey from the charter's Lister M. Matheson R.14.52 is one of the most important Edited by Tamarah Kohanski medieval origins through to what it This volume comprises new editions extant witnesses to vernacular In addition to printing the entire means to people around the world of all of the known works on Robin medical and scientific writing in late Pynson edition of Mandeville's today. Drawing on the rich historical Hood, ca. 1425 to ca. 1600, drawn medieval England. This two-volume text, this volume contains a lengthy collections of the British Library - including two original from the original manuscripts and early printed books. collection of essays and texts opens with studies of the discussion by Kohanski of the surviving texts, including a copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to Includes Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and physical manuscript, its contents and textual relations case for variance-and reception-based study. life the history and contemporary resonance of this the Potter, A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode and the plays: to other Middle English medical compendia, followed globally important document. by editions of over a dozen texts from the manuscript, 192pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Robynhod and the Shryff off Notyngham, Robin Hood 9780866982733, Hardback, was £25.00 272pp, British Library, 2015, 9780712357630, Paperback, and the Friar, Robin Hood and the Potter. nearly all unique and hitherto unpublished. was £25.00 310pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2013, 930pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, Now £9.95 Now £7.95 9780866984768, Hardback, was £57.00 9780866983358, Hardback, was £96.00 Now £14.95 Now £24.95

Writing to the King Familia and Household The Winchcombe and English Inland Trade By David Matthews in the Medieval Coventry Chronicles 1430-1540 In political verse of the fourteenth Atlantic Province Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to Southampton and its region century poets write as if addressing Edited by Benjamin T. Hudson the Work of John of Worcester Edited by Michael Hicks the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna These nine essays explore the use Edited by Paul Anthony Hayward A detailed examination of Carta. As David Matthews shows and importance of genealogy, the The Winchcombe and Coventry Southampton’s trade with its in this book, the form of address artificial family, literary images of Chronicles are the foremost extensive region and commercial was a rhetorical stance revealing kinship, and the political ramifications examples of ‘the breviate world development in the fifteenth and much about the position from which of family ties. They contribute to chronicle in annalistic format’ to sixteenth centuries. writers were composing, the audiences they wished to the investigation of domestic structure and family survive for twelfth-century England. This book edits 184pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978244, Hardback, reach, and their construction of political and national organization during a crucial time in European and translates both texts in full for the first time. It was £45.00 subjects. development. includes comprehensive source-critical and historical Now £14.95 221pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 232pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2011, commentaries, and an extensive introduction explaining 9780521111379, Hardback, was £62.00 9780866984409, Hardback, was £48.00 their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose. Now £14.95 788pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £9.95 9780866984218, Hardback, was £106.00 Now £24.95 32 • MEDIEVAL BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 St Edmund of Looking Inward Domesday Book: Tales from the Long Abingdon Devotional Reading and the Private Middlesex Twelfth Century A Study of Hagiography and History Self in Late Medieval England Edited by John Morris The Rise and Fall of the By C. H. Lawrence By Jennifer Bryan Facsimile text and translation of this Angevin Empire St Edmund was the last Archbishop An exploration of the popularity of fundamental source. By Richard Huscroft the English devotional treatise in the of Canterbury and the first Oxford 76pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1975, This intriguing book tells the story Later Middle Ages. Jennifer Bryan master to have been officially 9780850331318, Hardback, was of England's great medieval Angevin argues that these works encouraged canonized. This book offers a careful £12.00 dynasty in an entirely new way. readers to focus on themselves and scrutinisation of the hagiographic Departing from the usual king-centric their own identities, in effect they acted as a mirror Now £4.95 tradition and the primary texts. narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his on the soul, and their popularity both reflected and chapters on the experiences of a particular man or 339pp, Oxford University Press, 1960, 9780198212751, contributed to a growing feeling of self-awareness in late woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Hardback, was £14.99 medieval society. Now £6.95 270pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 320pp, Yale University Press, 2016, 9780300187250, 9780812240481, Hardback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £20.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Stephen Langton Textual Healing For Honour and Fame The Culture of Food in By Maurice Powicke Studies in Medieval English Medical, Chivalry in England 1066-1500 England, 1200-1500 Powicke's Ford lectures from 1928 Scientific and Technical Texts By Nigel Saul By C. M. Woolgar remain the principal study of Stephen Edited by Javier E. Diaz-Vera A survey of chivalry - the value C. M. Woolgar shows that food in Langton, exploring his role in the and Rosario Caballero system of the medieval aristocracy. late-medieval England was far more Magna Carta crisis, and the influence The studies presented in this volume Focusing on England, Saul discusses its complex, varied, and more culturally of scholastic philosophy on his origins, its martial aspects, its impact significant than we imagine today. actions. concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical on art and architecture, and on Drawing on a vast range of sources, 227pp, Oxford University Press, 1928, varieties of early English used in a literature, its religious aspects, and its he charts how emerging technologies 9780198269687, Hardback, was £12.99 wide range of medieval manuscripts. broader impact on social relations. as well as an influx of new flavors and trends from 432pp, Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, 9781845951894, abroad had an impact on eating habits across the social Now £4.95 213pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2009, 9783039118229, spectrum. Hardback, was £50.95 Paperback, was £16.99 360pp, Yale University Press, 2016, 9780300181913, Now £14.95 Now £6.95 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £14.95

The Letters of Osbert The King's Towns Henry V Queens, Regents and of Clare Identity and Survival in Late By John Matusiak Potentates Prior of Westminster Medieval English Boroughs This new biography takes a fresh Edited by Theresa M. Vann By E. W. Williamson By Lorraine C. Attreed look at Henry's entire life and nine Queens, Regents and Potentates year reign. John Matusiak shows that concentrates on the theme of women The latin text of the letters of Osbert A study of the relationship between the situation confronting Henry at of Clare, active from the 1120s to England's central government and and royal power, examining the the outset of his reign was far more available information about specific the 1150s. Osbert promoted reform, four royally constituted towns of favourable than is often supposed was twice exiled by his superiors at the provinces between the 14th and royal women and reassessing their but that he was nonetheless a man of access to and use of power and Westminster, and was one of the 16th centuries. The work reveals how prodigious gifts whose extraordinary most prolific hagiographers and forgers of charters of medieval towns embodied political philosophies of self- authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about achievements in battle left the deepest possible internal politics and international relations in medieval his age. determination as well as ideas of social and economic impression upon his contemporaries. advancement which are still familiar to us today. Europe. 232pp, Oxford University Press, 1998, 9780198206187, 304pp, Routledge, 2012, 9780415620277, Paperback, was 166pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, 9780851156491, Hardback, was £12.99 376pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2001, 9780820451633, £28.99 Hardback, was £51.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

An Alternative History Domesday Book: England's Empty The Fabric of Marian of Britain Bedfordshire Throne Devotion in Isabel de The War of the Roses Edited by John Morris Usurpation and the Language Villena's Vita Christi By Timothy Venning Facsimile text and translation of this of Legitimation, 1399-1422 By Lesley K. Twomey This book forms a chronological fundamental source. By Paul Strohm Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) became history of the Wars of the Roses, 176pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1977, In this boldly revisionary book, Paul abbess of the Poor Clare convent, which identifies key turning points 9780850331493, Hardback, was Strohm provides a new account of the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As £14.00 the Lancastrian revolution and its a position she held for almost thirty much as exploring alternative paths of Now £4.95 aftermath. Integrating techniques years until her death. This is the first history, however, Venning's approach focuses on why they of literary and historical analysis, Strohm reveals the full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary happened as they did, asking how forces were weighted, Lancastrian monarchs as masters of outward display, works. The author pays particular attention to the way and where luck or judgement had a decisive say. persuasively "performing" their kingship through a in which devotion to the Virgin Mary is manifested and 224pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 9781781591277, variety of novel ceremonies in a quest for legitimacy. described through material culture, on her rich fabrics, brocades, silks, shoes, and crown. Hardback, was £19.99 292pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 9780268041212, Paperback, was £36.95 320pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2013, 9781855662483, Now £5.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £12.95 Now £6.95

Summer of Blood Domesday Book: The Call to Read Death in Fifteenth- By Dan Jones Berkshire Reginald Pecock's Books and Century Castile A straightforward narrative account By Ian Morris Textual Communities Ideologies of the Elites of the Great Rising of 1381, written Facsimile text and translation of this By Kirsty Campbell By Laura Vivanco very much with the newcomer to fundamental source. medieval history in mind. It's fast Kirsty Campbell examines the Vivanco reveals two ideologies moving, gripping and full of chatty 160pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1979, important and innovative contribution co-existing among two elite groups, language and bucketloads of gore 9780850331721, Paperback, was Pecock made to late medieval debates the oradores and defensores. She £8.25 about the roles of the Bible, the discusses in detail the main features 288pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 2016, Church, the faculty of reason, and of these belief systems with regard 9780143111757, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £2.95 practices of devotion in fostering a vital, productive, and to the process of dying, the journey and ultimate Now £4.95 stable Christian community. destination of the soul, the importance of leading a good 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, and noble life and whether prayer and the role of the 9780268023065, Paperback, was £40.50 bereaved could change the outcome of the afterlife. Now £6.95 211pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781855661004, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £6.95

Her Life Historical Domesday Book: Venomous Tongues Letters, Orders and Exemplarity and Female Saints Devon Speech and Gender in Musters of Bertrand Lives in Late Medieval England By Ian Morris Late Medieval England du Guesclin By Catherine Sanok Facsimile text and translation of this By Sandy Bardsley 1357-1380 This study argues that late medieval fundamental source. Sandy Bardsley examines the complex By Michael Jones writers and readers used religious relationship between speech and 768pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1985, This book brings together for the narrative, and specifically the legends 9780850334920, Paperback, was gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth of female saints, to think about the £24.50 centuries. Focusing on England, she first time the wealth of archival historicity of their own ethical lives uses a combination of legal, literary, evidence relating to du Guesclin's and of the communities they inhabited. Now £6.95 and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was career, making available the full range increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. of diplomatic, administrative and financial evidence 256pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2007, for his public and private life found in more than fifty 9780812239867, Hardback, was £58.00 214pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, archives in western Europe. 9780812239362, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 415pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, 9781843830887, Now £12.95 Hardback, was £95.00 Now £24.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL BRITAIN • 33 The Hospitallers and Imperial Lives and In Search of the Holy Sacred City the Holy Land Letters of the 11th Grail Consecrating Churches Financing the Latin East, 1187 - 1274 Century The Quest for the Middle Ages and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy By Judith Bronstein By Theodor Mommsen By Veronica Ortenberg By Louis I. Hamilton An investigation of the organisation Translations of "The Deeds of Conrad A survey of the influence of the of the Hospitallers in the east. It II" (1024-1139) by Wipo, "Life of Middle Ages, and of medieval attitudes The so-called Investiture Conflict focuses on the impact of the various Emperor the Henry IV" (1056-1106) and values, on later periods and on was a watershed moment in the crises in the East upon the Order, and the Letters of Henry IV. the modern world, taking in the political life of the Latin West and looking at how it reacted to events, 223pp, Columbia University Press, romantic movement and the influence the history of the papacy. Less the contributions that western priories played in the 2000, 9780231121217, Paperback, was £27.00 of medievalism on nationalism, the enduring popularity well known, however, is the conflict which occurred rehabilitation of the East, and the various efforts made to of all things Celtic or Arthurian, and the Middle Ages on over the dedication of churches. This book provides restore its economic and military strength. Now £4.95 screen from Robin Hood to Pasolini. an examination of that issue, placing the fundamental 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831310, 336pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2006, questions of the Gregorian Reform and Investiture Hardback, was £50.00 9781852853839, Hardback, was £40.00 Conflict back into their original liturgical framework. 272pp, Manchester University Press, 2010, Now £9.95 Now £6.95 9780719080265, Hardback, was £80.00 Now £14.95

Council and Hierarchy A Brief History of the Dark Mirror The Transformation of The Political Thought of Knights Templar The Medieval Origins of the Year One Willam Durant the Younger By Helen Nicholson Anti-Jewish Iconography Thousand By C. Fasolt Rather than a blow-by-blow account By Sara Lipton By Guy Bois Detailed examination of the of events, this outline history is aimed In this work, Sara Lipton maps out A Marxist socio-economic history development of conciliar theory at a general readership and begins the complex relationship between of the village of Lournand near and humanism through the political with the origins of the order before medieval Christians' religious ideas, Cluny. In tracing the development­ thought of the French bishop William outlining their activities in the Latin social experience, and developing of the community from antiquity to Durant the Younger (c 1266-1330). East, Iberia and eastern Europe, their artistic practices that drove their feudalism, the author presents the organisation, government, religious life, commercial depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a sharply defined 437pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, activities and their trial and downfall. It is a revised 9780521392853, Hardback, was £45.00 connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious era of dramatic change. edition of Nicholson's 2001 book The Knights Templar: portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear Now £6.95 A New History 171pp, Manchester University Press, 1992, and hostility. 9780719035661, Paperback, was £16.99 351pp, Constable and Co. Ltd., 2010, 9781849011006, 416pp, Henry Holt, 2014, 9780805079104, Hardback, Paperback, was £9.99 was £22.00 Now £2.95 Now £3.95 Now £9.95

Canon Law and An Anatomy of Trade Henry Suso: Life of the Du fait de cuisine / On Cloistered Women in Medieval Writing Servant Cookery of Master Canon Law and Cloistered Women By Lianna Farber Translated by James M. Clark Chiquart (1420) By Elizabeth Makowski Lianna Farber restores the core A translation of Henry Suso's great “Aucune science de l’art de Periculoso was a decree published economic concept of trade to its mystical work, which written in cuysinerie et de cuysine” medieval contexts, showing that it response to the sufferings of a woman by Boniface VIII in 1298, which made Edited by Terence Scully the strict enclosure of nuns into a contains three component parts: approaching death, narrates his own value, consent, and community, each spiritual life and ascetic practices. Dated 1420, the Du fait de cuisine legal obligation both for the women sets out a vision of culinary best concerned to observe and their male of which were deeply contested. In 150pp, James Clarke and Co, 1990, the end, Farber reveals, writing about trade was not 9780227678626, Paperback, was £18.00 practice by presenting a pair of elegant two-day church superiors to enforce. Makowski examines the law, banquets, one for meat days, the other for lean days. its context, transmission and the legal comment that it descriptive but argumentative, analyzing the act in an attempt to justify it. Now £4.95 Thirty-three more recipes cover contingencies: a provoked up to its reaffirmation at the Council of Trent prolongation of the banquet and the presence of sick in 1545. 235pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, 9780801444128, Hardback, was £48.00 persons at the lord’s court. This is the first English 149pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1997, translation. 9780813209494, Paperback, was £20.95 Now £9.95 336pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2010, Now £6.95 9780866984027, Hardback, was £61.00 Now £14.95 God's Scribe Gendering the Master Primitivism and Medieval The Historiographical Art Narrative Related Ideas in the Constructions in of Galbert of Bruges Women and Power in Middle Ages Gender and Identity By Jeff Rider the Middle Ages By G. Boas Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante Galbert of Bruges wrote an By M. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski These essays demonstrate the growth Edited by Teodolinda Barolini eyewitness account of the 1127 This book provides a much- of primitivism and anti-primitivism assassination of Charles the Good, Sharing an interest in women and needed theoretical and historical from the first to the thirteenth identity formation, these essays range Count of Flanders, and the ensuing reassessment of medieval women's centuries, and include discussion civil war. Jeff Rider argues that this through time, covering the period power. It describes women's progress of topics such as the Noble Savage, from the tenth through the fifteenth is not a true journal but a revised and edited history toward power as a push-pull movement, showing earthly paradise, the original condition of human beings, of events. He discusses how the chronicle developed, century, and across languages, discussing sources in Latin, how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled and cynicism and Christianity. Italian, French, Occitan, English, and Hebrew. Galbert’s sources, how he organised his notes and wrote women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their 227pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1948, 204pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, his text and its literary qualities. authority as well. 9780801856105, Paperback, was £20.50 360pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 9780866983372, Hardback, was £36.00 269pp, Cornell University Press, 2003, 9780801488306, Now £4.95 9780813210186, Hardback, was £68.50 Paperback, was £23.99 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Henry of Suso Out of Love for My Kin Remembering the Negotiating the Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours Aristocratic Family Life in the Crusades Political in Northern Translated by E. Colledge Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 Myth, Image, and Identity European Urban Written by Dominican preacher and By Amy Livingstone By Nicholas Paul and Suzanne M. Yeager Society, C.1400-c.1600 mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), Livingstone examines the personal The contributors analyse how the Edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom’s dimensions of the lives of aristocrats events of the First Crusade resonated Essays on on the creation of identity Watch upon the Hours, was one of in the Loire region of France in a wide range of cultural artefacts, in late medieval and Renaissance the most successful religious writings during the eleventh and twelfth including literary texts, art and urban society. When negotiating of its time. Essentially a dialogue centuries. She argues for a new architecture, and liturgical ceremonies. relationship with the Church, between the author and Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an They discuss how Christians, Jews, and Muslims recalled the Crown, and within the town's own competing of Suso’s service to and espousal of Wisdom, his “most ethos of inclusion, evident in the care that aristocrats and interpreted the events of the crusades and what constituencies, townsmen were able to manipulate cruel bride”. showed toward their families. far-reaching implications that remembering had on their factors such as time and space in their pursuit of honour, 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1994, 296pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, 9780801448416, communities throughout the centuries status, commemoration, reputation, and power. 9780813207926, Hardback, was £34.50 Hardback, was £45.00 296pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, 222pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2013, Now £6.95 Now £9.95 9781421404257, Hardback, was £50.50 9780866984829, Hardback, was £49.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

The Deeds of Pope So Great a Light, So The Life and Afterlife Pietro da Eboli: Book Innocent III Great a Smoke of Isabeau of Bavaria in Honor of Augustus By James M. Powell The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc By Tracy Adams (libro ad honorem "The Deeds of Pope Innocent By Louisa A. Burnham Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) was Augusti) III", composed before 1210 by an The Beguins were a small sect of the wife of Charles VI of France, Edited by Gwyneth Hood anonymous member of the papal whose weak rule and periodic bouts priests and lay people allied to the A translation of Pietro da Eboli’s curia, provides a unique window into Spiritual Franciscans. Burnham follows of madness left her as effective the activities, policies, and strategies regent for much of her reign. Tracy Liber ad Honorem Augusti, published the lives of nine Beguins as they with the original Latin text. The of the papacy and the curia during conceal themselves in cities, solicit Adams tackles her posthumous one of the most important periods in the history of the reputation for incompetence, debauchery and adultery, Liber, completed around 1196–1197, clandestine donations in order to bribe inquisitors, follows the struggles of Henry VI of Hohenstaufen, Holy medieval church. escape from prison, and venerate the burned bones of finding her actions to be politically astute given the almost impossible circumstances in which she found Roman Emperor, to establish himself as king of Sicily 286pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, their martyred fellows as the relics of saints. after marrying its heiress, Constance of Hauteville. 9780813214887, Paperback, was £34.95 herself. 234pp, Cornell University Press, 2008, 9780801441318, 560pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Hardback, was £40.00 338pp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Now £9.95 9780801896255, Hardback, was £43.00 9780866984461, Hardback, was £70.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

34 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Saints: Studies in The Medieval Marriage Personal Names The Book of Michael of Hagiography Scene Studies of Medieval Rhodes Edited by Sandro Sticca Prudence, Passion, Policy Europe Volume 3: Studies These fifteen essays study the cult Edited by Sherry Roush and Social Identity and Familial Structures Edited by David McGee, Alan M. of saints in the Middle Ages and to a Cristelle L. Baskins Edited by Monique Bourin, Pascal Stahl and Pamela O. Long lesser extent in the early Renaissance. Papers on on fictive, artistic, legal, Chareille and George Beech Nine essays examine the Venetian 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance ethical, and economic facets of the Under the direction of Monique maritime world of the fifteenth Texts Society, 1996, 9780866981798, institution of marriage across Europe Bourin an international team of century, Michael's life, the discovery Hardback, was £35.00 between roughly 500 and 1550. scholars has been considering onomastics from the of the manuscript, the mathematics Now £9.95 216pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, perspective of history rather than that of linguistics in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational 9780866983433, Hardback, was £35.00 or philology. This volume describes the methodology directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the employed and some of the results obtained. Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive Now £12.95 calendrical material. 221pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, 9781580440646, Paperback, was £21.99 384pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262123082, Hardback, was £37.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

The Customs of The Medieval The Children of Battle for Catalonia between Shepherd Renaissance Florence Christendom Lords and Vassals by Jean de Brie's "Le Bon By Richard C. Trexler The Council of Constance, 1415, and the Barcelona Canon, Berger" (1379) This volume brings together four the Struggle to Unite Against Islam Pere Albert Edited by Carleton W. Carroll studies of Florentine youth. Topics By Frank Welsh and Lois Hawley Wilson include the great foundling home of A Practical Guide to Castle the Innocenti; infanticide; the changing An accessible exploration of the Feudalism in Medieval Spain Le Bon Berger, one of the earliest lives of adolescents during the events of the early Fifteenth Century “how-to” books in French, is a - the three-way schism in the church, Edited by Donald J. Kagay Renaissance; and the political games treatise full of practical information and plots of Florence's troublesome young men. the growing Ottoman threat, the Kagay provides an English translation of this medieval for the medieval shepherd. This critical edition of the Hussite heresy, and the council of Constance which was practical guide to feudal relations in Catalonia, and Middle French text is accompanied by a facing-page 133pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, intended to resolve these problems. 9780866981569, Paperback, was £8.99 places the work and its author in the context of other English translation. 283pp, Overlook, 2008, 9781590201237, Hardback, was thirteenth-century legal handbooks as well as the 234pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2012, Now £3.95 £18.99 "feudalism debate" of the twentieth century. 9780866984720, Hardback, was £38.00 160pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2002, Now £7.95 9780866982856, Hardback, was £23.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

The Late Medieval Wind and Water in the The Salt of Common A Hound of God Pope Prophecies Middle Ages Life Pierre de la Palud and the The "Genus Nequam" Group Fluid Technologies from Individuality and Choice fourteenth century church Edited by Martha H. Fleming Antiquity to the Renaissance in the Medieval Town By Jean Dunbabin Countryside and Church The Genus nequam group is the Edited by Steven A. Walton Traces the career of Pierre de la earliest manifestation of the 15 These collected essays examine the Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Palud from his early reflections on illuminated prophecies that captivated continuity of mill technology from The essays within this volume, contemporary moral issues, including readers and viewers for over three the ancient world to the Middle produced in honor of J. Ambrose papal prerogatives, contraception and centuries. They describe the progress Ages and its transfer between Raftis, are united by two themes usury, to his political and diplomatic of the Church from Nicholas III (1277-80) to the final Arabic and European cultures; the legal position of significant in Raftis’s career: a belief in the fundamental activities as titular Patriarch of Jerusalem. angelic pontiff, and include depictions of Martin IV, mills and millers; literary and artistic representations individuality of medieval English men and women, and a 208pp, Oxford University Press, 1991, 9780198222910, Honorius IV, and other intervening popes. Latin text with of these technologies; their urban, rural, and monastic belief in their ability to make choices. Hardback, was £115.00 commentary. contexts; and early modern adaptations of the medieval 562pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Now £4.95 240pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2000, technologies of wind and water. 9781879288478, Paperback, was £39.99 9780866982467, Hardback, was £22.00 328pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2006, Now £6.95 Now £6.95 9780866983679, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £14.95

The Latin Chronicle of History as Literature The Women of Holy Treasure and the Kings of Castile German World Chronicles of the Renaissance Florence Sacred Song Edited by Joseph F. O'Callaghan Thirteenth Century in Verse Power and Dependence in Relic Cults and their Liturgies The Chronica Latina Regum Edited by Mike Graeme Florence Renaissance Florence in Medieval Tuscany Castellae forms a history history This volume presents excerpts and By Richard C. Trexler By Benjamin Brand of the rulers of Castile from the translations of three thirteenth- death of Count Fernán González in Contents: Celibacy in the Renaissance: This book situates sacred music century South German verse The Nuns of Florence; Florentine at the centre of an examination 970 to the reconquest of Córdoba chronicles: Rudolf von Ems’s by King Ferdinand III in 1236–39. prostitution in the Fifteenth Century: of relic cults in medieval Tuscany. Weltchronik, the anonymous patrons and clients; A widows' asylum Benjamin Brand reveals that the music It is presented here in English translation with an Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. introduction. of the Renaissance: the Orbatello of Florence. composed to honor these local saints - no fewer than These three works are close in language, in date, and in ninety chants for the Mass and Divine Office - were 150pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2001, conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, 9780866981576, Paperback, was £9.99 essential components of larger devotional campaigns 9780866982788, Hardback, was £21.00 the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval that included the recording of their life stories and the society: courtly, monastic, and urban. Now £9.95 Now £4.95 building and decoration of their shrines. 194pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199351350, 9781580440424, Paperback, was £15.50 Hardback, was £43.49 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

The Letters of Pierre Journeys Toward God The Book of Michael of Robert Holcot de Cros: Chamberlain Pilgrimage and Crusade Rhodes By John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt to Pope Gregory XI Edited by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur Volume 1: Facsimile Holcot was a Dominican friar (1371–1378) These essays explore “the Edited by David McGee, Alan M. who flourished in the 1330's and produced a diverse body of work Edited by Daniel Williman interconnectedness of pilgrimage Stahl and Pamela O. Long and crusade, and the central role of including scholastic treatises, biblical Pierre de Cros, chamberlain to Pope In the fifteenth century, a Venetian commentaries, and sermons. Over these enterprises for the history of mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote Gregory XI from 1371 to 1378, European society and thought". the course of this introduction the was responsible for most of the and illustrated a text describing his authors unpack Holcot's views on accumulated worldly wealth of the 241pp, Medieval Institute Publications, experiences in the Venetian merchant faith and heresy, the divine nature Roman Church and for much of its activity not related 1992, 9781879288041, Paperback, was £27.50 and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial and divine foreknowledge, the sacraments, Christ, and to its religious character Now £7.95 mathematics and treatments of contemporary political philosophy. 126pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2009, shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, 384pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780199391257, 9780866984041, Hardback, was £52.00 and astrological ideas. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the Paperback, was £29.49 manuscript, reproduced in full colour. Now £12.95 534pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262135030, Hardback, was Now £9.95 £57.95 Now £9.95

The Medieval Gospel Law, Custom and the The Book of Michael of Song of the Distant of Nicodemus Social Fabric in Rhodes Dove Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts Medieval Europe Volume 2: Transcription By Raymond P. Scheindlin in Western Europe Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon and Translation Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the Edited by Zbigniew Izydosczyk Edited by B. S. Bachrach Edited by Pamela O. Long, David best-known and most beloved of McGee and Alan M. Stahl premodern Hebrew poets, abandoned This volume brings together a and David Nicholas his home and family in Spain and series of essays documenting and Topics include marriage rules as they edited by Pamela O. Long, David spent the last year of his life traveling exploring the presence of the Gospel relate to women and incest, Bernard McGee and Alan M. Stahl. to the Land of Israel. This book tells of Nicodemus in Western literary of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Michael’s book includes the first extant treatise on naval the story of Halevi's journey through selections from his traditions of the Middle Ages. The languages surveyed Paris. architecture, a treatise on mathematics in the tradition letters, and explores its meaning through discussions of include Latin, French, Catalan, Occitan and Italian; English, 330pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts his stirring poetry, presented in new verse translations High German, Dutch, Low German, and Norse; and Irish, on navigation, and Michael’s autobiographical service with full commentary. Welsh and Cornish. 9780918720313, Paperback, was £29.99 record. 328pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, 9780195315424, 570pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1997, Now £4.95 732pp, MIT Press, 2009, 9780262195904, Hardback, was Hardback, was £41.49 9780866981989, Hardback, was £26.00 £62.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE • 35 The Empire at the End Amerigo Law and the Illicit in Understanding Plague of Time By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Medieval Europe By Randal P. Garza Identity and Reform in Late Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, This volume studies the effects Medieval German Prophecy pages as an irresistible avatar for the Joel Kaye and E. Ann Matter of the Black Death in Spain, and age of exploration-and as a man of demonstrates how it changed By Frances Courtney Kneupper This collection of essays makes the genuine achievement as a voyager case that the development of law the societies it afflicted. Studying In this book, Frances Courtney and chronicler of discovery.His ability the medical and imaginative texts Kneupper examines the apocalyptic is deeply implicated in the growth to sell himself–evident now, 500 of medieval theology and Christian of medieval Spain reveals that prophecies of the late medieval years later, as an entire hemisphere the disease helped to change the Empire, which even within the doctrine; the construction of that he did not “discover” bears his discourses on sin, human nature, honour, and virtue; the perceived role of the medical sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably practitioner, the idea of public health, and the portrayal out for their bitter and violent nature. She argues that multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanour, and demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all social interaction; and the evolution of scholasticism. of death and dying. increased literacy, the development of strong urban the smoke 119pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, 9780820463414, centers, the drive for reform, and a connection to the 315pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 231pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 2008, 9780812972986, 9780812221060, Paperback, was £19.99 Hardback, was £45.95 imperial crown were behind their popularity. Paperback, was £10.99 280pp, Oxford University Press, 2016, 9780190279363, Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £59.00 Now £3.95 Now £14.95

The Medieval The Fight for Status Medieval Italy Blessed Louis, the Expansion of Europe and Privilege in Late By Katherine Ludwig Jansen, Joanna Most Glorious of Kings By J. R. S. Phillips Medieval and Early H. Drell and Frances Andrews Translated by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin A Clarendon paperback edition, with Modern Castile, 1465- Medieval Italy gathers together With the aim of showing Saint a new foreword and conclusion by 1598 an unparalleled selection of newly Louis as he was commemorated in the author, which looks at the voyages translated primary sources from the literature of the Middle Ages, and new contacts made by Europeans By Michael J. Crawford the central and later Middle Ages. this book presents six previously in the period between 1000-1450 Michael Crawford investigates The selection incorporates southern untranslated texts: two little-known AD, which paved the way for the conflicts about and resistance to Italy and Sicily, and includes Hebrew, but early and important vitae of Saint better known discoveries of the late fifteenth and early the status of hidalgo, conventionally understood as the Greek, Arabic and Lombard sources. Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher sixteenth century lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Castilian 624pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2010, Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and 306pp, Oxford University Press, 1998, 9780198207405, nobility. He presents and explains the contentious 9780812220582, Paperback, was £24.99 proper mass in his honor. realities and limitations of their legal privileges, Paperback, was £76.00 Now £9.95 322pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, particularly the claim of exemption from taxation. 9780268029845, Paperback, was £42.50 Now £19.95 256pp, Penn State University Press, 2014, 9780271062891, Hardback, was £51.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Thomas Aquinas: The Urban Legends No Place of Rest Engaging with Nature Power of God Civic Identity and the Classical Jewish Literature, Expulsion Essays on the Natural World in Translated by Richard Regan Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350 and the Memory of France Medieval and Early Modern Europe On Power (De Potentia) is one of By Carrie E. Benes By Susan L. Einbinder Edited by Barbara Hanawalt Aquinas's "Disputed Questions" Between 1250 and 1350, numerous There are few direct references to and Lisa J. Kiser (a systematic series of discussions Italian city-states jockeyed for the catastrophic great expulsion This collection of essays looks at the of specific theological topics). This position in a cutthroat political of the Jews from France in 1306. interaction between humans and the volume presents an abridged English climate. Each city-state appropriated Einbinder studies a range of writings natural world, at medieval ideas and translation of the work, which classical symbols, ancient materials, she reveals to be commemorative. conceptions of nature, and at the use discusses the trinity and creation. and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical Her careful readings uncover the ways in which medieval of animals and the natural world as literary and cultural 352pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, 9780199914623, successor to-or continuation of-Roman rule. In Urban Jews asserted their identity in exile and, perhaps more devices. Paperback, was £32.49 Legends, Carrie Benes illuminates this role of the important, helped to preserve or efface their history. 236pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian Now £9.95 267pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, 9780268030834, Paperback, was £32.50 urban identity. 9780812241150, Hardback, was £50.00 296pp, Penn State University Press, 2011, Now £9.95 9780271037653, Hardback, was £69.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

God`s Armies - Worlds of Difference Sea of Silk From Knowledge to Crusade and Jihad European Discourses of A Textile Geography of Women's Beatitude By Malcolm Lambert Tolerance c1100-c1550 Work in Medieval French Literature St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Malcolm Lambert investigates the By Cary J. Nederman By E. J. Burns Scholars, and Beyond histories of Christianity and Islam to Medieval Europe, with its crusading This intriguing book looks at the Edited by E. Ann Matter trace the origins and development fervour, is not generally thought of as depiction of female silk workers and Lesley Smith of crusade and jihad. They are often a place of tolerance; divergence from in Old French literature, arguing reckoned two sides of the same coin Essays on the intersection between the norm, whether social, political that literary portraits of medieval Christian theology and spiritual life but this simple opposition, the author or religious, was not acceptable. heroines who produce and decorate shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities. primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth Nederman argues, however, that tolerance and liberalism silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline centuries, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor. 352pp, Pegasus Books, 2017, 9781681775319, Paperback, had their supporters across Europe during this time and a metaphorical geography that includes France as an They range from the study of the exegetical school of was £13.99 that inter-religious and political dialogue took place important cultural player in the silk economics of the twelfth-century St. Victor and medieval glossed Bibles to Mediterranean. Now £5.95 157pp, Penn State University Press, 2000, the medieval cultural reception of women visionaries, 9780271020167, Hardback, was £49.95 264pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, preachers, and crusaders. 9780812241549, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 488pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Now £12.95 9780268035280, Hardback, was £77.50 Now £19.95

How to Plan a Authorship and The Bride of Christ Gendering Disgust in Crusade Publicity Before Print Goes to Hell Medieval Religious By Christopher Tyerman By Daniel Hobbins Metaphor and Embodiment in the Polemic Christopher Tyerman focuses the Daniel Hobbins argues for a Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 By Alexandra Cuffel massive, all-encompassing and new understanding of Jean Gerson as By Dyan Elliott Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval hugely costly business of actually a man of letters actively managing the This book uses Tertullian's epithet Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses preparing a crusade. Among the publication of his works in a period of gendered bodily imagery and areas under discussion are diplomacy, of rapid expansion in written culture. "bride of Christ" as a starting point to examine the ways in which this metaphors of impurity in their visual communications, propaganda, the use More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson and verbal polemic against one of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts metaphor was applied to pious women during the full sweep of the Middle Ages, and another. She shows that these religious traditions shared weapons, credit, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. notions of the human body as distasteful. In particular, of prayer. how it was used by the church to shape and restrict 352pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2013, female agency, as well as by women themselves to reflect she explores how authors from each religious tradition 432pp, Pegasus Books, 2018, 9781681778952, Paperback, 9780812222746, Paperback, was £23.99 a more intimate, mystical relationship with Christ. targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. was £14.99 Now £9.95 480pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2011, 448pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, Now £5.95 9780812243581, Hardback, was £54.00 9780268023676, Paperback, was £47.50 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Hugh of Poitiers: The Gibraltar Crusade A History of Medieval Gothic Song Vezelay Chronicle By Joseph F. O'Callaghan Christianity Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Edited by John Scott and John O. Ward The epic battle for control of the Prophecy and Order Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris This Chronicle, which Abbot Pons Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, By Jeffrey Burton Russell and By Margot E. Fassler Morocco, and Granada in the late (1138-1161) ordered his notary Hugh Douglas W. Lumsden This book demonstrates how the of Poitiers to write, is a passionate thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often In 1968, Dr Russell proposed that the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used and detailed account of the litigation an art of memory to build sonic and violence that marked the overlooked, chapter in the history history of Medieval Christianity could of the Christian reconquest of be best understood in terms of two models of the church. This musical emergence of urban institutions art developed over time, inspired by at Vezelay and the fighting between abbot, count and Spain. Although the Castilians seized opposing forces of `spirits' within Gibraltar in 1309 and Algeciras in 1344, the Moors the church - prophecy and order. This is an updated the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and bishop. This first English translation also includes other their understandings of image and the spiritual journey relevant documents as well as an introduction and notes. eventually repossessed them. version of this thinking, a concise general history of 392pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2014, the church which highlights aspects of spirituality and 536pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, 402pp, Pegasus Press, 1992, 9780866980951, Paperback, institutionalisation, and places the church within the 9780268028893, Paperback, was £57.95 was £10.99 9780812223026, Paperback, was £24.99 context of Medieval society. Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 205pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2000, 9780820445113, Paperback, was £16.95 Now £7.95 36 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Holy Scripture and the Unmarriages Medieval and The Troyes Memoire Quest for Authority at Women, Men and Sexual Renaissance Stained The Making of a Medieval Tapestry Unions in the Middle Ages the End of the Middle Glass in the Victoria By Tina Kane Ages By Ruth Mazo Karras and Albert Museum The “Troyes Mémoire” is the sole By Ian Christopher Levy What we think of as traditional By Paul Williamson surviving example of the written marriage was far from the only instructions used in designing Levy demonstrates that the available alternative to the single state The stained glass collection of the tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is Wycliffite/Hussite “heretics” and in medieval Europe. Many people lived Victoria and Albert Museum is unique in its presentation of detailed their opponents in fact shared a large together in long-term, quasimarital the largest in the world, making it information on how patrons and and undisputed common ground. heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in possible to chart the development of church officials communicated complex iconographic They held recognized licenses of expertise, venerated holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. the art in detail from the middle of the twelfth century material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint tradition, esteemed the church fathers, and embraced Unmarriages investigates structures and relations that to about 1550. One hundred colour plates, and selected cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated into English Holy Scripture as the ultimate authority in Christendom. medieval authors and record keepers did not address details, show the collection to full advantage, while for the first time, with full introduction and extensive Yet it is precisely this commonality, according to Levy, directly. commentaries on each of the pieces reconstruct the notes. that rendered the situation virtually intractable original context of the panels, and explain the imagery. 292pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, 9781843835707, 336pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 9780812222982, Paperback, was £21.99 160pp, A and C Black, 2003, 9781851774036, Hardback, Hardback, was £60.00 9780268034146, Paperback, was £39.50 was £30.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Isabelle of France Ambiguous Realities Paint and Piety Faces of Power and Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Edited by Carole Levin Edited by Noelle L.W. Streeton Piety Identity in the Thirteenth Century and Jeanie Watson and Kaja Kollandsrud By Erik Inglis By Sean L. Field Topics include the changes in attitude A collection of papers which An introduction to medieval Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was toward women, the role and status showcase current approaches to portraiture lavishly illustrated situated at the nexus of sanctity and of women, the dichotomy between the study of medieval painting and throughout with full colour images power during a significant era of the public and private spheres, the polychrome sculpture, as well as its from the collections of the British French culture and medieval history. prescriptions for women's behaviour physical contexts, changing faces and Library and the Getty Museum. In this ground-breaking examination and the image of the ideal woman, meanings. Topics include the liturgical A huge gulf exists between our of Isabelle's career, Sean Field explores issues including and the difference between the contexts of medieval art, techniques, own notion of a portrait, and medieval priorities, and the possibilities for women's religious authority, the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and processes and contexts of production, and issues of in his text Erik Inglis sets out why this was, and the creation and impact of royal sanctity, and the relationship Renaissance writers. conservation. ways in which portraits were intended to preserve between men and women within the mendicant orders. 264pp, Wayne State University Press, 1987, 203pp, Archetype, 2014, 9781909492103, Hardback, was a recognisable image of virtues rather than a lifelike depiction. 296pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 9780814318737, Paperback, was £15.95 £55.00 9780268028800, Paperback, was £42.50 Now £2.95 Now £14.95 88pp, British Library, 2008, 9780712309813, Hardback, was £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £2.95

Lordship, Reform and Daughter of Venice The Medieval Book Tradition and the Development of Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus, and a Modern Innovation in Later Civil Society in and Woman of the Renaissance Collector Medieval English Medieval Italy By Holly S. Hurlburt Essays in Honour of Manuscripts The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250 Caterina Corner, a Venetian Toshiyuki Takamiya By Kathleen L. Scott noblewoman and the last Queen Edited by Takami Matsuda, Richard Examines a number of English By David Foote of Cyprus, led a complex and Linenthal and John Scahill manuscripts of the 15th and early This study places emphasis on the remarkable life. This study considers 16th centuries, establishing criteria important role of religious institutions for the first time the strategies of Essays focus on the study of English for genuine artistic originality. in regulating the intense competition and co-operation her reign, negotiating Venetian encroachment, family medieval manuscripts and early printed books., including Each manuscript is assessed in detail in terms of its between lords and the Church during the 12th and 13th pressures, and the challenges of female rule. items in Takamiya's own collection. The subjects centuries. range from Saint Jerome to Tolkien, with particular text, scribe(s), artists, decorative programme and 348pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300209723, concentrations on Chaucer, Gower, Malory and religious circumstances of its creation, as well as its context in 254pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Hardback, was £40.00 terms of English and wider European art. 9780268028725, Paperback, was £25.95 and historical writings of the late middle ages. Now £14.95 512pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2015, 9781843844051, 208pp, British Library, 2007, 9780712349369, Hardback, Now £4.95 Paperback, was £35.00 was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Olivi and the Mortgage of the Past The Ark of God: Part Weaving Sacred Interpretation of Reshaping the Ancient Political A, Volumes 1 and 2 Stories Matthew in the High Inheritance (1050-1300) Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 French Choir Tapestries and the Middle Ages By Francis Oakley By John James Performance of Clerical Identity By Kevin Madigan Here, Oakley explores kingship from The Ark of God is a comprehensive By Laura Weigert the tenth century to the beginning of A study of the development and pictorial history of Early Gothic Spanning the backs of choir stalls, the fourteenth, showing how, under union of scholastic, apocalyptic and churches in the Paris Basin. Part A large-scale tapestries functioned the stresses of religious and cultural Franciscan interpretations of the in two volumes contains over 9,000 as both architectural elements development, it became an inceasingly Gospel of Matthew from 1150 to photos of the capitals with an analysis. and pictorial narratives. This secular institution. 1350. Madigan uses the fortunes of the Franciscan Peter The capitals of this period are more natural in style than book examines the role of these tapestries in ritual Olivi (d. 1298) and his commentary on Matthew as a 336pp, Yale University Press, 2012, 9780300176339, those that went before, confirmed in those buildings for performances, arguing that they contributed to a process lens through which to observe the larger theological and Hardback, was £52.00 which we have documentary dates, which may then be by which the clerical elite legitimated and defended their ecclesiastical developments of this era. used to establish a chronology for other works from social position. Now £14.95 these times. 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, 264pp, Cornell University Press, 2004, 9780801440083, 9780268037161, Paperback, was £31.50 1632pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, 9780959600582, Hardback, was £66.00 Hardback, was £695.00 Now £7.95 Now £19.95 Now £99.95

The Writings of Agnes The Discovery of The Ark of God: Part Revealing the of Harcourt Mankind B, Volume 3 Charterhouse Edited by sean L. Field Atlantic Encounters in the Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 The History of a London Landmark Agnes of Harcourt became abbess at Age of Columbus By John James Edited by Cathy Ross the new royal abbey of Longchamp, By David Abulafia This book presents a complete The Charterhouse, a former founded by Isabelle of France, sister collection and photographic record Carthusian monastery in the City of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, of all the capitals carved in the Paris of London, has served as private a substantial biography of Isabelle as Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few mansion, a boys' school, and, since well as a brief letter detailing Louis and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David of which have never been published 1611, as an almshouse, which it IX’s involvement with the abbey. This volume contains before. James has dated nearly every building campaign remains to this day. This richly illustrated volume features the old French texts with a facing English translation, Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement illustrated essays on its archaeology, history, landscape, as well as a substantial introduction to Agnes’ life and possible only because every one of the 147 remaining environment, and architecture. works. transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. works have been included. 224pp, D Giles Limited, 2016, 9781907804984, Hardback, 120pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, 408pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300158212, 740pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, 9780959600599, was £34.95 9780268044039, Hardback, was £40.50 Hardback, was £395.00 Paperback, was £18.00 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95 Now £69.95

The Measure of The Medieval Heart The Ark of God: Part The Art of Empathy Woman By Heather Webb B, Volumes 4 and 5 By David S. Areford By Marie A. Kelleher In this book Heather Webb studies Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 One of only a handful of extant This study explores the complex medieval notions of the heart. By John James works attributed to the anonymous relationship between women and Drawing from the works of Dante, Nuremberg artist, the Master of the Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Over 13,000 photos, being about Stotteritz Altarpiece, the Mother legal culture in Spain's Crown of half of the capitals carved during Aragon during the late medieval Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other of Sorrows is a fine example of the literary, philosophic, and scientific these years. They are formal-abstract heightened realism that characterised period. Kelleher argues that women in style. The analysis of the foliate were not passive recipients - or even texts, she reveals medieval answers to much Northern European painting such fundamental questions as: Where carving, including the capitals on the during the early Renaissance. David victims - of the legal system. Rather, medieval women great portals, helps to identify individual carvers through actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it Areford explores the artist’s technique in creating begin? And how does it end? their way of working, from which the key buildings may emotional drama. engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of be dated and through this a consistent chronology their litigation strategies. 241pp, Yale University Press, 2010, 9780300153934, established for the period. 64pp, D Giles Limited, 2013, 9781907804267, Paperback, Hardback, was £57.00 was £11.95 217pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9780975742525, 9780812242560, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £695.00 Now £3.95 Now £12.95 Now £99.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL HISTORY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE • 37 Uneasy Communion Chester Art Jerusalem 1000-1400 The Classical Tradition By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen A Subject List of Extant and Every People Under Heaven in Czech Medieval Art Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke Lost Art Including Items By Barbara Drake Boehm By Jan Bazant Relevant to Early Drama A fascinating study of the iconography and Melanie Holcomb In this volume, Jan Bažant analyses the of altarpieces and the artistic By Sally-Beth Maclean This beautifully illustrated work tradition of ancient Greece and Rome collaboration between Jews and Though it may not contain the explores the relationship between in the art of Bohemia from the 10 th Christians. In the multi-cultural the historical and the archetypal city to the 14 th century. Bohemia is of society of late medieval Spain, bumper-crop of surviving subject- art as a city such as York possesses, of Jerusalem, uncovering the ways in great interest in this respect because Jewish and Christian artists worked which the aesthetic achievements it it was never part of the Roman together to produce retablos (large Chester nevertheless holds much of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly inspired enhanced and enlivened the medieval world. Empire and there was, consequently, no Roman tradition multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew Patrons and artists from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic per se. religious manuscripts. demonstrates. traditions alike focused their attention on the Holy City, 333pp, Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 9780820460970, 176pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, 9781904832706, Hardback, 115pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1982, 9780918720207, Hardback, was £38.50 endowing and enriching its sacred buildings and creating Hardback, was £50.95 was £35.00 luxury goods for its residents. Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 400pp, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, 9781588395986, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95

Immagine Antica Early Art of the West Art in England The Caporali Missal Edited by Marco Ciatti Riding of Yorkshire The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 A Masterpiece of and Cecilia Frosinini A Subject List of Extant and By Sara N. James Renaissance Illumination This volume reports on the Lost Art Including Items A single volume overview of artistic By Stephen N. Fliegel conservation of a superb panel, the Relevant to Early Drama movements in Medieval and Early The sumptuously illuminated Madonna and child of Santa Maria By Barbara D. Palmer Renaissance England. The media Caporali Missal was created by the Maggiore in Florence. As well as studied include architecture and Prior to Henry VIII’s earlier acts Caporali brothers for the Franciscan scientific analyses it also contains related sculpture, both ecclesiastical community in the hillside town of papers exploring the artists behind its of redistribution, the West Riding’s and secular; tomb monuments; murals, religious establishments numbered Montone, near Perugia, in 1469. creation and issues of dating, with a panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript This exhibition catalogue celebrates this important revised 12th century date proposed. a minimum of 334 that have left record of their illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foundation. Some 194 of those churches also have left manuscript, elucidating the history, style, content, 182pp, Edifir Editizione Firenze, 2003, 9788879701624, foreign artists commissioned by English patrons. function, and authorship of the missal. Paperback, was £25.00 record of their art, which constitutes the larger part of this volume’s subject entries. 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702235, Hardback, 132pp, Prestel Verlag, 2013, 9783791352718, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £4.95 363pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, was £22.50 9780918720320, Hardback, was £39.50 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Translating the Past Homo Memento Finis Echoing Helicon Church Monuments Laurent de Premierfait and The Iconography of Just Judgement Music, Art and Identity in the By Brian Kemp Boccaccio's De Casibus in Medieval Art and Drama Este Studioli, 1440-1530 Originally published in 1985, and now By Anne D. Hedeman Edited by David Bevington Edited by Tim Shephard reprinted unaltered, this (very) brief guide covers the multitude of late In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait The contributions to this volume Drawing examples from the Este medieval and early modern funerary produced a French translation of explore the Last Judgement as it was dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara monuments found in churches Boccaccio's De casibus virorum depicted in the medieval cycle plays, throughout the Renaissance - throughout England. Kemp looks at illustrium, a fourteenth-century text with comparative insights from other author Tim Shephard reaches new their development and elaboration, containing cautionary historical tales arts forms. conclusions about the integration of and the messages which they convey about the corrupting effects of power. This gloriously 219pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of about their patrons. illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent's work 9780918720610, Paperback, was £9.99 renaissance Italy, and about the cultural work required of from the first copies made for the dukes of Berry and music and of images by those who paid for them. 32pp, Shire Publications, 1985, 9780852637685, Paperback, was £4.99 Burgundy to manuscripts independently produced by Now £2.95 184pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, 9780199936137, artists and booksellers in Paris. Hardback, was £38.99 Now £2.50 240pp, Getty Trust Publishing, 2009, 9780892369355, Hardback, was £41.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Romanesque The Early Art of Love and Marriage in Medieval Castles By Rolf Toman and Achim Bednorz Coventry, Stratford- Renaissance Florence By Robert Higham and O. H. Creighton A superbly illustrated introductory Upon-Avon Warwick By Caroline Campbell An introduction to castles and castle survey of romanesque art and and Lesser Sites in A detailed examination of the studies answering such questions architecture. The core of the book is Warwickshire celebrated Morelli-Nerli wedding as who built castles, when and why, devoted to a Europe-wide survey of chests, ordered by Lorenzo Morelli and assessing how they have been architectural change and innovation, By Clifford Davidson and when he married Vaggia Nerli in studied in the past. Individual chapters with plentiful plans and information Jennifer S. Alexander 1472. Chapters explore the history are devoted to exploring the social, on building styles and techniques. This volume seeks to aid those of the wedding chest and issues of domestic and military functions of 480pp, H.F Ullman, 2015, 9783848008407, Hardback, studying the early art of Warwickshire, including relics iconography and meaning, and production. castles and sites are approached through archaeological and landscape perspectives. was £25.00 and musical iconography. The subject lists found within 128pp, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2009, 9781903470916, 72pp, Shire Publications, 2003, 9780747805465, Now £9.95 provide information from records and antiquarian Paperback, was £25.00 accounts of both lost and extant early art from the Paperback, was £7.99 Now £6.95 region. Now £2.95 237pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, 9780918720634, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £9.95

The Mirror of The Early Art of The Bernward Gospels English Stained Glass Salvation Norfolk Art, Memory, and the Episcopate By Painton Cowen Speculum Humanae Salvationis A Subject List of Extant and in Medieval Germany This album of medieval (c.1100-1530) - An Edition of British Library Lost Art Including Items By Jennifer P. Kingsley stained glass in England's churches Blockbook G.11784 Relevant to Early Drama is among the finest to be found. A Jennifer Kingsley offers the first geographical sweep of the nation Edited by Albert C. Labriola By Ann E. Nichols interpretive study of the pictorial takes in over 100 windows along with and John W. Smeltz This book contains a detailed list of program of this famed eleventh- short descriptions, from the greatest early art in the county of Norfolk, century manuscript and considers Cathedrals to isolated examples in A full translation, and reproduction of how the gospel book conditioned all 58 woodcuts, of this 15th century turning to a geographically defined out of the way parish churches. database of evidence to examine the development of contemporary and future viewers to remember its blockbook. The translators have provided detailed patron, Bishop Berward of Hildesheim 128pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500238462, commentary to explain the blockbook's biblical passages regional styles and devotional preferences. The subject Hardback, was £14.95 and mythological legends, and to illuminate its central of much of the art revolves around devotional life and 228pp, Penn State University Press, 2014, focus on the roles of the Virgin Mary and Christ in local saints. 9780271060798, Hardback, was £63.95 Now £7.95 human salvation. 357pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Now £19.95 208pp, James Clarke and Co, 2002, 9780227679692, 9781580440349, Hardback, was £78.00 Hardback, was £54.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Building the Kingdom Word Picture and The Italian Piazza Sienese Painting Giannozzo Manetti on the Spectacle Transformed Art of a City Republic 1278-1477 Material and Spiritual Edifice Edited by Clifford Davidson Parma in the Communal Age By Timothy Hyman By Christine Smith Topics covered include the symbolism By Areli Marina This study looks at the defining Building the Kingdom examines how of scatological illustration in Gothic Areli Marina examines the radical characteristics of Sienese painting - Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), by manuscripts, connections between transformation of Parma's urban rich colour and spatial inventiveness interpreting the great architectural word and picture in religious art, center in the thirteenth century by - in panel painting, frescoes and projects of his day within historical, the relationship perceived between reconstructing the city's two most manuscript illumination. Painting is literary, and spiritual contexts, divine and human creativity, and the significant public spaces: its cathedral situated in its social and religious articulated their relevance for his contemporaries as phenomenology of space and time in medieval theatre. and communal squares. She documents and discusses context, with an emphasis on the Franciscan movement, cultural paradigms of the Early Italian Renaissance. The 197pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, the evolution of each site tracing their construction by the cult of the Virgin Mary and the veneration of local book includes texts and translations of his key works. 9780918720511, Hardback, was £62.00 opposing political factions within the city's ruling elite. saints, and discussion of Siena's civic self-consciousness and the dramatic impact of the Black Death. 536pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2007, Now £7.95 192pp, Penn State University Press, 2012, 9780866983624, Hardback, was £60.00 9780271050706, Hardback, was £74.95 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, 9780500203729, Paperback, was £8.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Now £3.95

38 • MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 Shakespeare's Church In and Out of the Touching Objects The Durham Mint A Parish for the World Marital Bed By Adrian W.B. Randolph By M. Allen Edited by Val Horsler Seeing Sex in Renaissance Art Addressing painted and sculpted Bishops of Durham had the right to A well-illustrated portrait of Holy By D. Wolfthal portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, mint coins from the late eleventh and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses century to the mid-sixteenth century. Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, This book explores images whose the parish church where Shakespeare themes such as family and individual This book provides a comprehensive sexual content has all too often memory, windows, perspectival account of the mint, reconstructing was baptised and buried. Val Horsler been either ignored or denied. Each takes the reader through the church’s space, and touch to investigate how its operation as a business at the chapter is devoted to a place that these items were experienced in late mercy of market forces, and assessing history from Anglo-Saxon origins to artists associated with sexual activity present day site of tourism, also providing a detailed look 14th and early 15th century Italy, its contribution to the exceptional or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the particularly by women. palatine privileges of the prince-bishops of Durham. at its architectural development. window and doorway, the bath, and the street. Wolfthal 160pp, Third Millennium Publishing, 2010, demonstrates how illicit forms of sexuality were linked 328pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300204780, 222pp, London, British Numismatics Society, 2003, 9781906507336, Hardback, was £25.00 to the "chaste sexuality" of marriage. Hardback, was £60.00 9781902040516, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £7.95 244pp, Yale University Press, 2010, 9780300141542, Now £19.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95

Splendour, Gravity and Make a Joyful Noise Translating Truth A Twelfth-Century Emotion Renaissance Art and Music Ambitious Images and Religious Pottery Kiln at Pound The World of French Medieval at Florence Cathedral Knowledge in Late Medieval Lane, Canterbury Illuminated Manuscripts By Gary M. Radke France and England By John Cotter Edited by A.S. Kortweg The interrelationship between the By Aden Kumler In 1986 a medieval pottery kiln was This book provides an overview of brilliant art and architecture and This handsomely produced volume excavated at Pound Lane, Canterbury ninety French manuscripts that are the Cathedral's musical program is examines manuscript illumination which appears to have been worked currently in Dutch collections. They explored in depth in this beautiful and changing conceptions of the by a continental potter, perhaps a are illustrated in full colour and linked book. Luca della Robbia's charming importance of the visual in conveying Norman, around the middle of the by a text which explores their roles as monastic prayer sculptures for the organ loft are examined alongside religious truth following the increased emphasis placed 12th century. The report contains a short account of the books, scholarly works, aristocratic markers of status, luxurious illuminated manuscripts commissioned for on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). site and excavation, followed by a detailed account of the and reflections of lay piety. musical performances. 290pp, Yale University Press, 2011, 9780300164930, kiln itself and an extensive typology of the kiln products. 224pp, Uitgeverij Matrijs, 2004, 9789040096303, 95pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300209181, Hardback, was £65.00 124pp, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, Hardback, was £35.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 9781870545075, Paperback, was £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95

Bound Fast With Painted Glories Oxford Goldsmiths St Gregory's Priory, Letters The Brancacci Chapel in Before 1800 Northgate, By R. H. Rouse and M. A. Rouse Renaissance Florence By Ann Natalie Hansen Canterbury Collected essays which study By Nicholas A. Eckstein This is the first study of goldsmiths Excavations 1988-1991 medieval manuscripts through the In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter who were apprenticed and/or By Martin Hicks and Alison Hicks prism of textual transmission and and Paul, Florence unexpectedly worked in the City of Oxford. manuscript production. The eighteen defeated Milanese forces near the Manuscripts in both Oxford and A detailed report on excavations essays collected here address town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. London reveal an enormous amount carried out at the site of St Gregory's medieval authors, craftsmen, book Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the of information regarding not only Priory that revealed two major producers, and patrons of manuscripts from different impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine public their work, but also their personal lives, relationships ecclesiastical buildings. The earliest epochs in the Middle Ages, extending from late antiquity life and how it could have triggered the custodians of and politics. church, founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in AD 1084 became a priory in 1133; it was rebuilt after a great fire to the early Renaissance, and ranging from North Africa the Brancacci Chapel, the Carmelite friars, to seek the 162pp, 1996, 9780961349134, Hardback, was £35.00 to northern England. completion of frescoes by Masolino (c.1383-c.1436) and in 1145, probably under the patronage of Archbishop Theobald, and was eventually dissolved in 1537. 600pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, Masaccio (1401-c.1428). Now £12.95 9780268040338, Paperback, was £91.50 284pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300187663, 431pp, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2001, 9781870545044, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £19.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Painter and Priest Postcards on Mary-le-Port, Bristol The Window Glass of By Veronique Plesch Parchment By Lorna and Rahtz, Philip the Order of St A detailed study of Canavesio’s The Social Lives of Medieval Books Watts and Philip Rahtz Gilbert of ambitious passion cycle at the By Kathryn M. Rudy A report on excavations at the Sempringham pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre- church and street of St Mary-le Port, Dame des Fontaines at La Brigue in Medieval prayer books held not Bristol, an important early example of A York-based Survey southern France, completed in 1492. only the devotions and meditations both urban and church archaeology. By C. Pamela Graves of Christianity, but also housed, The report posits a tenth century 458pp, University of Notre Dame Press, slipped between pages, sundry The excavation of St Andrew, 2006, 9780268038885, Hardback, date for the origins of both church notes, reminders, and ephemera, Fishergate uncovered the largest was £59.50 and street, and also includes a quantity of window glass from any house of this such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted historical and topographical survey of the area. Now £12.95 images.Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously monastic order. Research on this glass provided the unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding 208pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 1986, opportunity to study all other known assemblages of light into the everyday life and relationships of those in 9780900199264, Paperback, was £30.00 window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the the medieval Low Countries. Now £6.95 results and interpretations are presented here. 360pp, Yale University Press, 2015, 9780300209891, 575pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2000, Hardback, was £60.00 9781902771151, Paperback, was £26.00 Now £24.95 Now £3.95

Judaism and Christian Preaching, Building The Archaeology of Haughmond Abbey Art and Burying the Medieval Suburb Excavation of a 12th-Century Aesthetic Anxieties from the By Caroline Bruzelius of Broadmead, Bristol Cloister in its Historical and Landscape Context Catacombs to Colonialism Friars transformed the relationship By Reg Jackson Edited by Herbert Kessler of the church to laymen by This report describes the results By Jeffrey J. West and Nicholas Palmer and David Nirenberg taking religion outside to public of a large and important excavation Haughmond Abbey was a prosperous and domestic spaces. Mendicant on a domestic site between Union house of Augustinian Canons This volume is the first dedicated to convents became urban cemeteries, the long history, from the catacombs Street and Fairfax Street in central north-east of Shrewsbury. The warehouses filled with family tombs, Bristol. An outstanding sequence of work reported on had its origins in to colonialism but with special flags, shields and private altars. This is the first book emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of medieval and post-medieval pottery and other finds, excavations carried out in and near the cloister in 1975- to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and including environmental material, was obtained from the 79, but the scope has been broadened to place the site the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, archaeological deposits. in its historical, theological, architectural and landscape defend, and explore its own territory. 224pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300203844, 154pp, Bristol and Regional Archaeology, 2010, context. Hardback, was £45.00 456pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 9780956737106, Paperback, was £25.00 416pp, English Heritage, 2014, 9781848020627, Paperback, was £100.00 9780812222531, Paperback, was £26.99 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £29.95

Taxonomies of Religious Poverty, The Abbey and Mint of Archaeological Knowledge Visual Riches Bury St Edmunds Approaches to Edited by Emily Steiner By Joanna Cannon from 1279 Medieval Europe and Lynn Ransom At the heart of this book is the By R. J. Eaglen Edited by Kathleen Biddick These six essays demonstrate Dominicans' evolving relationship This volume concentrates on the This volume presents a series of how the technologies of the book, with the laity, expressed at first by abbey and mint from 1279 until papers which showcased the potential including the types of material used, the partitioning of their churches, the closure of the mint c. 1329. of archaeology for the study of the choices of textual arrangement, and subsequently by the ever- A concluding chapter summarizes Middle Ages, at a time when medieval format, script, layout, decoration, increasing sharing of space, and of the major events affecting the abbey until archaeology was still a relatively and overall design, make it possible to determine what production and use of art. Joanna Cannon's magisterial its dissolution in 1539. The Catalogue in this volume young discipline. Contributions include Glanville Jones on medieval readers and writers thought information was, study uses chronicles, legislation, liturgy, sermons and incorporates a die study of almost 2,500 coins struck at the multiple estate; David Hall on field systems; Oliver what they determined was useful to know, and through other sources to explore the place of art in the lives of Bury during the fifty year period to c. 1329. Rackham on forest and woodland; Richard Hodges on which categories they decided it could be transmitted the friars and the urban laity of Central Italy. pre-Viking trade in the North Sea region; and Pamela effectively to others. 300pp, British Numismatics Society, 2006, 368pp, Yale University Press, 2013, 9780300187656, 9781907427374, Hardback, was £45.00 Crabtree on the Zooarchaeology of West Stow. 176pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, Hardback, was £50.00 310pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, Now £9.95 9780812247596, Hardback, was £37.00 Now £24.95 9780918720528, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY • 39 A Maritime A Place to Believe in Interpreting the Images of Kingship in Archaeology of Ships Locating Medieval Landscapes English Village Chaucer and His Innovation and Social Change in Late By Clare Lees Landscape and Community Ricardian Medieval and Early Modern Europe This volume brings together scholars at Shapwick, Somerset Contemporaries By J. R. Adams of medieval literature, archaeology, By Mick Aston and Christopher Gerrard By Samantha J. Rayner history, religion, art history, and In this book Jon Adams evaluates The Shapwick Project examined Through detailed examination of the key episodes of technical change in environmental studies to explore the development and history of an the idea of place in medieval texts, this study analyses the works the ways that ships were conceived, English parish and village over a ten of Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the designed, built, used and disposed of. religious culture.A strength of the thousand-year period. The result is collection is its awareness of the fact that medieval and Gawain poet, to set out exactly what Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most a fascinating study about how the community lived and each has to say about kingship, looking for common complex artefacts made, changes in their technology modern viewpoints converge in an experience of place prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group and frame a newly created space where the literary, the themes and attempting to relate them to the concrete provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this kingship of Richard II. strategies and agency of social change. historical, and the cultural are in ongoing negotiation story. with the geographical, the personal, and the material. 177pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, 9781843841746, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842172971, Paperback, 416pp, Windgather Press, 2013, 9781905119455, Hardback, was £50.00 was £29.95 288pp, Penn State University Press, 2006, Paperback, was £25.00 9780271028606, Paperback, was £28.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Castles and the Anglo- Further Excavations at Chaucer and Array The N-Town Play Norman World the Dominican Priory, Patterns of Costume and Fabric Drama and Liturgy in Edited by John A. Davies, Angela Beverley Rhetoric in The Canterbury Medieval East Anglia Riley, Jean-Marie Levesque By Martin Foreman Tales, Troilus and Criseyde By Penny Granger and Charlotte Lapiche and Other Works Includes an extensive discussion of This book, the first full-length study Castles and the Anglo-Norman World the architectural development of By Laura F. Hodges to be devoted to the “N-Town Play”, draws together a series of 20 papers several medieval buildings. Extensive An analysis of the ways in which provides a complete reassessment of by 26 French and English specialists finds, environmental and analytical Chaucer uses details of costume, the play, setting it in its geographical, in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. reports provide detailed insights into clothing and fabric. In particular, it religious and political context. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new the activities of the Priory, as well as parallels to finds addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's 246pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, 9781843841890, research into important Norman castles in England published from other sites within the medieval town. expectations, derived from their knowledge of the Hardback, was £50.00 and Normandy, drawing on information from recent literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy 300pp, Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 9781850755135, Now £9.95 excavations. Hardback, was £60.00 passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785700224, Hardback, includes them in some of his comedic works. was £48.00 Now £9.95 254pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843689, Now £14.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95

Seals and their Digging for Richard III Heroines of the Knowing God by Context in the Middle By Mike Pitts French Epic Experience Ages No archaeological project of recent A second selection of The Spiritual Senses in the Edited by Phillipp R. Schofield years has captured the public chansons de geste Theology of William of Auxerre imagination like the discovery of the This volume is divided into three grave of Richard III. Mike Pitts tells Edited by Michael A. H. Newth Translated by Boyd Taylor Coolman sections looking at the history the full story, including the dramatic The chanson de geste was This study of William of Auxerre and use of seals as symbols and unearthing of the king's bones and increasingly influenced by the ethos traces the motif of the spiritual representations of power and the scientific studies which proved of romance, and the present volume senses through his Summa Aurea, prestige in a variety of institutional, their identity as well as the picture offers full English verse translations using it as an illuminating and unifying dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and they give of Richard's appearance, diet, death and the of six examples, each chosen to illustrate the range of lens through which to appreciate his theology, and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources treatment of his corpse. roles gradually accorded to women in these originally exploring his influence on later scholastic thought. and artistic attributes 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2014, 9780500252000, militaristic narratives. 255pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781782978176, Hardback, Hardback, was £18.95 434pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, 9781843843610, 9780813213682, Hardback, was £54.50 was £90.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £24.95 Now £12.95

The Archaeology of Medemblik and John Lydgate and the The Philosophical Medieval Novgorod in Monnickendam Poetics of Fame Vision of John Duns Context Aspects of medieval Urbanization By Mary C. Flannery Scotus A Study of Centre/ in Northern Holland Here, "fame" is identified as the key An Introduction Periphery Relations By H. A. Heidinga and H. H. to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning By Mary Elizabeth Ingham van Regteren Altena in Chaucer's wake. Flannery situates Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj Lydgatean fame within the literary, and Mechthild Dreyer Makarov and Evgenij Nosov Five English papers and one Dutch cultural and political landscape of This text brings together key insights This volume includes papers on on the site and finds of this medieval late-medieval England, indicating of Scotus’s theory of cognition, aspects of the environmental and technological context trading centre. how Lydgate diverges from Chaucer's treatment of metaphysics, and ethics in a comprehensive and unified of the relationship between urban centre and rural 134pp, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1998, the subject by constructing a more confident model of manner. The authors use critical texts and the most hinterland. It examines the environmental context for 9789070319113, Hardback, was £19.50 authorship, according to which poets are the natural recent scholarship on Scotus to introduce the intricate vision of the Subtle Doctor to a wide audience. the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to Now £2.95 makers and recipients of fame. 15th centuries. 206pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, 9781843843313, 256pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 528pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842172780, Hardback, Hardback, was £50.00 9780813213705, Paperback, was £31.50 was £65.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £19.95

Towns and Topography A Medieval Manor Art and Context in The Letter of the Law Essays in Memory of David H. Hill House at Longforth Late Medieval English Legal Practice and Literary Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Farm, Wellington, Narrative Production in Medieval England and Susan D. Thompson Somerset By Robert R. Edwards Edited by Emily Steiner and Fifteen papers examine a variety of By Simon Flaherty, Phil Papers cluster around two topics: the Candace Barrington aspects of medieval towns and their Andrews and Matt Leivers writing of Langland and Chaucer, and References to the law and legal topography. Topics include place-name practices can be found in much Excavations revealed a previously writing as historical process. There studies, monasteries, mints, Anglo- medieval English literature and it is unknown high status medieval is a discussion of the working of Saxon settlements, and medieval the aim of this collection of essays to building complex. This is thought to memory in The Knight's Tale. On debt, mapping to name a few. explore the material and conceptual links between the have been a manor house and though heavily robbed, key on Langland's Christology and on revelry, some very two. 196pp, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782977025, Hardback, elements identified include a hall, solar with garderobe interesting ideas are put foward. was £60.00 and service wing. There was a notable group of medieval 205pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1994, 9780859914079, 257pp, Cornell University Press, 2002, 9780801487705, Now £14.95 floor tiles and roof furniture. Hardback, was £60.00 Paperback, was £20.95 100pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2016, 9781874350859, Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Paperback, was £7.50 Now £3.95

Trinkets and Charms Castles in Context Heroes of the French Intellectual Life in the By Eleanor Rose Standley Power, Symbolism and Epic Middle Ages Gold signet rings, jet pendants Landscape, 1066 to 1500 Heroes of the French Epic By Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward or simple lace ends – all dress By Robert Liddiard By Michael A. Newth The variety of experience available to accessories were highly significant and medieval scholars and the vitality of meaningful objects used in everyday Castle studies have been transformed The poems translated in this volume in recent years with a movement - Gormont and Isembart, The song medieval thought are both reflected life in later medieval Britain. This in this collection of original essays. study of archaeological finds, artistic away from the traditional of William, Charlemagne's Pilgrimage, depictions and literature reveals the interpretation of castles as static Raoul of Cambrai, Girart of Vienne 336pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, intricate uses and life-histories of military structures towards a wider and The Knights of Narbonne - are 1992, 9781852850692, Hardback, dress accessories from two regions of Britain. view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a taken from all three Old French epic song cycles, and was £180.00 more complicated relationship with the landscape. This apart from their individual merits, display the complete Now £6.95 140pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2013, clearly written and very accessible study makes the most range of themes, episodes and character types which 9781905905300, Hardback, was £35.00 current ideas about the role of the castle available to a were the life-blood of the chanson de geste genre. wider and more general readership. Now £14.95 697pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, 9781843831471, 178pp, Windgather Press, 2005, 9780954557522, Paperback, was £25.00 Paperback, was £29.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 40 • MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND LITERATURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 New Directions in Lancelot of the Laik The Complete Harley Crossing Borders Oral Theory and Sir Tristrem 2253 Manuscript: By Sahar Amer Essays on Ancient and Edited By Alan Lupack Volume 3 This ambitious study looks at Medieval Literatures Two significant Middle English Edited by Susanna Greer Fein the interaction between Arabic Arthurian romances: Lancelot of the and French medieval writing and Edited by Mark C. Amodio French and Middle English text Laik and Sir Tristrem. The former, a specifically their representation of with facing translation, introduction, Rejecting the view that orality and late fifteenth century romance, tells gender, and female homo-eroticism. glossary and notes. literacy are mutually exclusive and of the adventures of Lancelot, bearing Amer contends, however, that by contradictory cultural forces, these many similarities to the Vulgate Prose 420pp, Medieval Institute Publications, taking a comparative intertextual essays focus on the mix of oral Lancelot, but also includes a lengthy section of political 2014, 9781580441995, Paperback, approach, and by examining and literate poetics discoverable in a wide range of advice. The latter is an uncourtly, parodic poem about was £31.50 French engagement with Arabic literary traditions ancient and medieval texts. In the explorations of texts the knight Tristrem. hitherto unrecognised traces of cross-cultural exchange produced in cultures situated at various points along the Now £6.95 and engagement with the idea of same-sex love can be oral-literate continuum, the authors reveal how deeply 282pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1994, 9781879288508, Paperback, was £19.50 discerned. and inextricably intertwined orality and literacy are. 252pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2005, Now £7.95 9780812240870, Hardback, was £50.00 9780866983303, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

The Middle English Moral Love Songs and The Middle English Mary Magdalene and Mirror Laments Metrical Paraphrase of the Drama of Saints Edited by Kathleen Marie Blumreich By Susanna Greer Fein the Old Testament Theater, Gender, and Religion Robert de Gretham's Mirror is Editions of Thomas of Hales, Love Edited by Michael Livingston in Late Medieval England a collection of sixty sermons for Rune, In a Valley of This Restless Mind, This volume presents this mammoth By Theresa Coletti Sundays and feast-days throughout The Dispute between Mary and the verse paraphrase of the Old Through a detailed study of the Digby the liturgical year. Originally Cross, The Four Leaves of the Trulove, Testament, designed “for sympyll composed in Anglo-Norman (c. The Bird with Four Feathers, Pety Mary Magdalene play, this study shows men” so that they might have access the importance of Mary Magdalene in 1250-1300), and later translated into Job and the Sinner's Lament, with to the scriptures. Middle English, the texts was dedicated to 'Aline', a lady extensive notes and an introductory materials. religious life, in providing a mediating 712pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, figure between “masculine and feminine religious of high status whose literary tastes ran more towards 411pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, romaunces and gestes than prayer books. 9781580441506, Paperback, was £31.50 authority; institutional and individual modes of spiritual 9781879288973, Paperback, was £31.50 expression; authorized and unauthorized forms of 558pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 2003, Now £9.95 revelation and sacred speech”. 9780866982245, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £9.95 342pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004, Now £14.95 9780812238006, Hardback, was £62.00 Now £7.95

The Prose Brut: The Saints Lives in Middle The Trials and Joys of Singing The New Song Development of a English Collections Marriage By Katherine Zieman Middle English Edited by Robert K. Upchurch, E. Edited by Eve Salisbury Katherine Zieman examines the Chronicle Gordon Whatley and Anne B. Thompson The disparate texts in this anthology, institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late By Lister M. Matheson Middle English texts with notes and produced in England between introductory remarks of St Andrew, the late thirteenth and the early medieval English understandings of This is not a new edition of the St George, St Jerome, St Thais, St sixteenth centuries, challenge, and the written word. Where previous Middle English text that survives in Benedict and St Scholastica, St Austin, in some cases parody and satirize, studies have described how writing more manuscripts than almost any St Francis and St Julian, taken from the the institution of marriage. The texts comes to supplant oral forms of other. Rather, this work classifies and South English Lengendary and the Scottish Legendary bridge generic categories. Some are obscure, written by communication or how it objectifies groups the manuscripts and early printed editions, and among others. anonymous authors; others are familiar, written by the relations of power formerly transacted through ritual comments on the relationships that developed among likes of John Lydgate, John Wyclif, and William Dunbar. and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the them from the late 14th to and sometimes beyond the 388pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2005, ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy— 15th century. 9781580440899, Paperback, was £31.50 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, effectively changing the focus from writing to reading. 9781580440356, Paperback, was £19.50 352pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1998, Now £9.95 294pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, 9780866982221, Hardback, was £26.00 Now £5.95 9780812240511, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

John Gower: Recent Ten Bourdes The Wallace: Riddle and the Knight Readings Edited by Melissa M. Furrow Selections By Giles Milton Edited by R.F. Yeager A bourde is an English comedic poem Edited by Anne McKim This book charts Milton's fascination Essays in this volume, presented by similar to a French fabliau but with One of the very first books printed with the work of John Mandeville, scholars at meetings of the John a moralizing element and less of an in Scotland, The Wallace is a verse ostensibly a description of the travels Gower Society at the International emphasis on violence. This collection biography, composed c.1471-79, of of a fourteenth century knight, far Congress on Medieval Studies includes contextualizing introductions, the celebrated Scottish national hero, outstripping those of Marco Polo, but (Western Michigan University, copious notes, glosses, and a glossary. William Wallace. This book presents also packed full of obviously fantastic 1983–88), unpublished elsewhere and 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, the bulk of the poem, with only one elements. Milton attempts to follow in rewritten exclusively for this collection, take a series 2013, 9781580441926, Paperback, was £23.50 of its twelve books left out entirely (9) and four included Mandeville's footsteps, and the result of fresh approaches to the study of the works of John (1,2, 7 and 8) in their entireity. is an entertaining exploration, both of what Mandeville Gower. Now £7.95 may have been up to, and of the more realistic of the 298pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, lands which he claimed to have visited. 366pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1989, 9781580440769, Paperback, was £19.50 9780918720993, Hardback, was £78.00 230pp, Picador, 1996, 9780312421298, Paperback, was Now £7.95 £9.99 Now £5.95 Now £2.95

John Metham: The Complete Harley Thomas of Usk: The The Wisdom of the Amoryus and Cleopes 2253 Manuscript: Testament of Love Middle Ages Edited by Stephen F. Page Volume 1 By R. Allen Shoaf By Michael K. Kellogg This fifteenth century romance, Edited by Susanna Greer Fein The first edition of The Testament This engaging survey of important written by John Metham, creatively British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of Love to be published since 1897 works from late antiquity to the reworks Ovid’s tale of Pyramus and of the most important literary works based on William Thynne's 1532 beginning of the Renaissance reveals Thisbe. The Middle English text is to survive from the English medieval edition. With introduction and a list of the depth of thought and the diversity accompanied by a contextualizing era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, critical sources for further reference. of expression that characterized the introduction, extensive notes, and its secular love lyrics comprise 471pp, Medieval Institute Publications, Middle Ages. The author examines helpful gloss. an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are 1998, 9781580440011, Paperback, was £31.50 philosophical treatises, memoirs, letters, tales, romances, 142pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics and epics, documenting the unique array of evolving 9781580440165, Paperback, was £12.00 designed to inspire religious devotion. French and Middle Now £6.95 concerns that drove the medieval search for wisdom. English text with facing translation, introduction, glossary 390pp, Prometheus Books, 2016, 9781633882133, Now £4.95 and notes. Hardback, was £22.50 516pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2015, Now £7.95 9781580442053, Paperback, was £31.50 Now £6.95

John the Blind Audelay: The Complete Harley Aquinas's Way to God Courts of Love, Poems and Carols 2253 Manuscript: By Gaven Kerr Castles of Hate Edited by Susanna Greer Fein Volume 2 This book focuses upon St Thomas By Aubrey Burl Audelay’s idiosyncratic devotional Edited by Susanna Greer Fein Aquinas's much neglected proof for An accessible account of the the existence of God in De Ente et tastes, interesting personal life history, French and Middle English text poetry and cultural world of the and declared political affiliations— Essentia Chapter 4. It offers both troubadours. Aubrey Burl looks at the with facing translation, introduction, a contemporary presentation and loyalty to king, upholder of estates, glossary and notes. conditions in Southern France which anxiety over heresy—make him interpretation of this proof and also led to a very different art form to the worthy of careful study beside his 518pp, Medieval Institute Publications, a defense. chansons de gestes then prevalent better-known contemporaries. This volume contains the 2014, 9781580441988, Paperback, 232pp, Oxford University Press, 2015, 9780190224806, in Europe's northern courts. He gives the reader a real Middle English texts of his devotional poetry. was £31.50 Hardback, was £59.00 flavour of the poetry, including numerous extracts from 404pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, Now £6.95 Now £14.95 such well-known figures as William IX of Aquitaine, 9781580441315, Paperback, was £31.50 Bernart de Ventadorn and Bertran de Born, as well as their female counterparts like the Countess of Die. Now £9.95 270pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2008, 9780750945363, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £5.95

+44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL LITERATURE • 41 Confession and Sartorial Strategies Crossing Paths or Christopher Resistance Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Sharing Tracks Columbus's Defining the Self in Late Conduct in Late Medieval Literature Future Directions in the Discoveries in the Medieval England By Nicole Smith Archaeological Study of Post- Testimonials of Diego By Katherine C. Little This volume considers how 1550 Britain and Ireland Alvarez Changa and Katherine C. Little cautions that representations of clothing in By Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer medieval literature respond to clerical Andres Bernáldez medieval selfhood should not be These essays discuss the practice of By Anna Unali, G Triolo and L F Farina understood merely in terms of discourses that sought to regulate post-1550 archaeology and outline confessional practice. She points to contemporary aristocratic fashion. problems, potential problems and Presents together two fundamental the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay Nicole D. Smith establishes that writers of romances future directions for the discipline, and how the work of works relating to the voyages of Christopher Columbus, instruction that was generated in late medieval England redirect the negative depictions of the courtly body archaeologists ties into and is affected by the museums composed in 1494 and 1513. around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). found in clerical chronicles and penitential writings into and heritage sectors. 380pp, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca, 1992, 9788824002677, positive images that convey virtue. This controversy, she maintains, reveals the contested 416pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, 9781843834342, Hardback, was £62.00 nature of the language of medieval selfhood. 288pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £7.95 192pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 9780268041373, Paperback, was £36.50 Now £14.95 9780268033767, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Disseminal Chaucer The Island Garden British Ceramics, Painted Enamels Rereading the "Nun's Priest's Tale England's Language of Nation 1675-1825 An Illustrated Survey, 1500-1920 By Peter W. Travis from Gildas to Marvell Edited by Brian Gallagher By Erika Speel Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale" By Lynn Staley The Mint Museum's collection of this comprehensive reference work is one of the most popular of "The Identifying the concept of enclosure British ceramics is one the best provides lists of artists and technical Canterbury Tales". It is only 646 as key to Britain’s language of place, and largest in the United States, information within discursive chapters lines long, yet it contains elements Lynn Staley traces the shifting numbering over two thousand on the historical developments of of a beast fable, an exemplum, a meanings of this concept in medieval items. This important and visually the different classes of enamel work. satire, and other genres. Peter Travis and early modern histories, treatises, stunning new publication features two Including details on the recognition of provides a new analysis of the work, highlighting issues and poems. hundred highlights selected on account of their rarity, the painting methods for each era and the calibre of the of its reception, and of genre, ultimately arguing that the craftsmanship, or as important examples of particular paintings, the supporting texts also show the historical 376pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, methods of production or decoration. There are work functions as self-parody, and a reflection on poetic 9780268041403, Paperback, was £40.50 and technical changes that gave the impetus for various method. scholarly entries, two illustrated essays on the collection, innovations and developments of painted enamels. 432pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, Now £9.95 and a bibliography. 256pp, Lund Humphries, 2008, 9780853319351, 9780268042356, Paperback, was £43.50 272pp, D Giles Limited, 2015, 9781907804366, Hardback, Hardback, was £100.00 was £49.95 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £19.95

Goddess Natura in William Ockham Limoges Enamels at A Glorious Empire Medieval Literature By Marylin McCord Adams the Frick Collection Archaeology and the Tudor- By George Economou This landmark study offers a clear By Ian Wardropper and Julia Day Stuart Atlantic World Economou’s work focuses on the and concise account of Ockham’s Limoges enamels, named for the town Edited by Eric C. Klingelhofer renaissance of the twelfth century, philosophical positions (his ontology, in which they were produced, are one logic, epistemology, and natural Fifteen papers present the results of when a new kind of allegory appeared of the most distinctive art forms of new research into various aspects that celebrated and explored the philosophy), along with the arguments the French Renaissance. This stunning for them. It then shows how of material culture and historical nature of the cosmos. He analyzes the handbook - the first book dedicated archaeology that reflect culture, central role that Natura played in the Ockham’s theological disagreements to Henry Clay Frick's important with his most eminent predecessors trade and social interaction shared by writings of Bernard Silvestris, Jean de Meun, Alain de Lille, collection of forty-six Limoges enamels - reflects the Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart and Geoffrey Chaucer. are a logical consequence of underlying philosophical jewel-like character of the objects it describes. differences. periods. 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, 80pp, D Giles Limited, 2015, 9781907804373, Hardback, 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, 9781842175101, Hardback, 9780268029555, Paperback, was £36.95 1402pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987, was £12.95 9780268019457, Paperback, was £67.50 was £45.00 Now £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £24.95 Now £7.95

Julian of Norwich and Writing the Oral Devon Thatch St Paul's Cathedral the Mystical Body Tradition By Jo Cox and John R. L. Thorp Archaeology and History Politic of Christ Oral Poetics and Literate Using many interesting archive By John Schofield By Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Culture in Medieval England photographs as well as images of John Schofield examines the cathedral thatchers at work, this book traces Frederick Bauerschmidt provides By Mark C. Amodio from an archaeological perspective, the history of thatching in Devon reviewing its history from the early a reading of Julian’s Revelation of Mark Amodio's book focuses on the from the earliest times, celebrating Love that addresses the relationship influence of the oral tradition on 18th to the early 21st century, as the skills and traditions of the craft illustrated by recent archaeological between our understanding of God written vernacular verse produced and exploring some of the most and our vision of human community. in England from the fifth to the recording, documentary research interesting thatched buildings in the and engineering asssessment. A detailed account of He argues that Julian presents an alternative account fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how county today. of divine power in which the crucified body of Christ a living tradition articulated only through the public, the construction of the cathedral is provided based on becomes the locus and shape of divine omnipotence. 208pp, Devon Books, 2001, 9781855227972, Hardback, a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find was £30.00 expression through the pens of private, literate authors. accounts and evidence from recent archaeological 290pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 1999, investigation. 9780268022082, Paperback, was £36.50 298pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Now £9.95 9780268020248, Paperback, was £28.95 209pp, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702754, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £65.00 Now £5.95 Now £19.95

Politique Antoine de la Sale: The Architecture of Hill Hall Languages of Statecraft Between Jean de Saintré Sharpe, Paley and A Singular House Devised Chaucer and Shakespeare A Late Medieval Education Austin by a Tudor Intellectual By Paul Strohm in Love and Chivalry By Geoff Brandwood By P. Drury and Richard Simpson In this book Paul Strohm argues that Edited by Roberta L. Krueger One of England's greatest Victorian From 1557 Hill Hall was rebuilt in England experienced its own ""pre- and Jane H. M. Taylor architectural practices was based, French-influenced classical style. Machiavellian"" moment between Written in 1456 and purporting not in London, but in the relatively Archaeological excavation and 1450 and 1485. These turbulent to be the biography of the actual quiet town of Lancaster. The firm detailed recording of the surviving decades encouraged new pragmatic fourteenth-century knight of its title, established a national reputation, fabric took place prior to the discussions of political policies of a sort not previously Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel especially for its many fine churches, ranging from great restoration of the house and its mural paintings, the seen and not to be seen again until the middle of the in French and one of the first historical novels in any urban masterpieces to delightful country ones, which are results of which are now presented in this copiously sixteenth century. language. This new translation contextualizes the story imbued with the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement. illustrated account. 298pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, with a rich introduction and a glossary 282pp, English Heritage, 2012, 9781848020498, 544pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009, 9780268041144, Paperback, was £34.95 264pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, Hardback, was £50.00 9780854312917, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £5.95 9780812245868, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Salvation and Sin Internal Difference A Voyage Long and Glazed Charm By David Aers and Meanings in the Strange Edited by Nora de Nas, de Ree Salvation and Sin explores various Roman de la Rose Rediscovering the New World Ger J.M. and Bert-Jan Baas modes of displaying the mysterious By Douglas Kelly By Tony Horwitz Tiles form an important part of relations between divine and human the great Dutch tradition of tin- agency, together with different Kelly interprets the Roman de la Rose This history of early European glazed earthenware, internationally accounts of sin and its consequences. in the context of known medieval voyages to North America focuses renowned as ‘Delftware’. This Theologies of grace and versions of reading strategies elaborated by Jean on the neglected period between catalogue brings together and Christian identity and community de Meun himself in the course of the Columbus's voyage of 1492 and illustrates nearly 600 tiles with are its pervasive concerns, and poem. He probes the modes used by the Pilgrims arrival in 1620. Tony descriptions, dating, dimensions and it comprises close readings of Augustine, William of Jean, examining the text from their different perspectives Horwitz traces the early voyages of exploration and the provenances. The tiles cover a chronological range of Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Langland. and drawing out the multiple readings and allegories enduring legacy of early contacts with native American over 400 years, although with a particular focus on the present in the poem. civilisations, revealing along the way just how much of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 284pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, the popular imagination of these centuries is the result 9780268020330, Paperback, was £40.95 240pp, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, of 19th century myth-making. 344pp, SPA Uitgevers, 2013, 9789089321152, Hardback, 9780299147846, Paperback, was £16.95 was £60.00 Now £6.95 464pp, Henry Holt, 2008, 9780805076035, Hardback, Now £3.95 was £25.00 Now £20.00 Now £9.95 42 • MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND POST-MEDIEVAL WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350 A Dictionary of English The Banknote Book The Uniform Coinage A Renaissance Woman Numismatic Terms Volume 1 of India The Life of Vittoria Colonna By Harrington E. Manville Abyssinia - French Sudan 1835 to 1947: A Catalogue By Ramie Targoff For any member of the general public Edited by Owen Linzmayer and Pricelist Renaissance Woman' tells of the who wishes to understand more This is the first edition of a By Paul Stevens and Randy Weir most remarkable woman of the about the history of coins and medals completely new reference work on The introductory material on Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, or who simply has a question on the World Banknotes containing detailed Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has subject, this book should provide the denominations, reverse types, mints, information, full colour images, mintmarks and dating presents a long been celebrated by scholars answer. For those that then want to accurate valuations and additional of Michelangelo as the artist's best go on to investigate the given topic a little further, they useful background, as do the succinct bibliographies for 203 countries, published in three biographical details that precede the listing of coins friend, but she was also not only a critical political actor are given the opportunity to do so, for the fruits of volumes. and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a Manville's own extensive knowledge are supplemented issued by emperors and members of the imperial family. 788pp, Spink Books, 2014, 9781907427404, Hardback, Previous editions have been acknowledged by collectors, book of poems in Italy. here by mini-essays contributed by a range of specialists 342pp, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018, 9780374140946, from the United Kingdom and the United States. was £60.00 Roman historians and scholars alike as the most useful single volume reference work in the field. Hardback, was £21.99 301pp, London, Spink Books, 2014, 9781907427367, Now £14.95 Hardback, was £45.00 360pp, Spink Books, 2012, 9781907427237, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £75.00 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

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Coinage and Currency The Coins of the On the Trail of Bosch The Eye of the in Eighteenth Century English East India and Bruegel Connoisseur Britain Company Four Paintings United Under Authenticating Paintings by The Provincial Coinage Presidency Series. A Cross-examination Rembrandt and His Contemporaries By D. W. Dykes Catalogue and Pricelist By Erma Hermens By Anna Tummers This book puts eighteenth-century By Paul Stevens The four paintings investigated in This book focuses on the challenges provincial token coinage into the This catalogue presents a list of all this book all depict Christ driving of attributing seventeenth-century context of the currency problems of coins known to have been issued by the traders from the temple. They Dutch and Flemish art, then turns the time. On the basis of a wide- the East India Company for use in their Presidencies of are alike yet different with echoes of to investigating connoisseurship, range of both documentary and secondary sources it Bengal, Bombay and Madras. Each of the main sections Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch, but all arguing that to evaluate authenticity, it is necessary to examines its major manufacturers and their intentions, covers the coins of one Presidency with chapters on the were presumed to have been painted in Antwerp in the understand what it meant when the paintings were and through profiles of many of the issuers involved it coins issued from the main mint in the area – Calcutta, 16th century. created. sets out to give a living dimension to a bygone monetary Bombay or Madras – as well as chapters on coins issued 120pp, Archetype, 2012, 9781904982784, Paperback, was 400pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2011, 9781606060841, phenomenon. from local and transitional mints. £39.50 Hardback, was £60.00 383pp, London, Spink Books, 2005, 9781907427169, 562pp, Spink Books, 2017, 9781907427725, Paperback, Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £65.00 was £40.00 Now £19.95 Now £9.95 Financing the World The English Civil Wars The Rape of Europa Drama and Devotion By Keith Hollender Medals, Historical Commentary The Intriguing History of Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Financing the World focuses on and Personalities Titian's Masterpiece Altarpiece From Warsaw the events and entrepreneurs that By Jerome Platt and Arleen Platt By Charles Fitzroy By Anne T. Woollett shaped the world of finance we know today. It describes the period The English Civil Wars saw the `The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's Maerten van Heemskerck (1498- of initial industrialisation and the introduction of medals as rewards for great masterpieces, a work charged 1574) was one of the most active regular stock market crashes that gallantry and campaign service. This with eroticism and classical mystique and inventive Dutch painters of accompanied it, in a concise and book places these medals within the behind which lies a tale as compelling the 16th century. One of his extant interesting style aimed at both the historical context of the times. as the painting itself. Here Charles masterpieces, the "Ecce Homo" novice and the expert. 808pp, Spink Books, 2014, 9781907427152, Hardback, FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the triptych of 1544, was brought from the National was £175.00 painting's movement following the rise and fall of the Museum in Warsaw for treatment and study at the J. Paul 176pp, Spink Books, 2017, 9781907427749, Hardback, countries in which it has been housed. Getty Museum. Richly illustrated, this book documents was £25.00 Now £49.95 224pp, Bloomsbury, 2015, 9781408192092, Hardback, the dramatic process of revealing the brilliance of a 16th- Now £9.95 was £16.99 century masterpiece. 112pp, Getty Trust Publishing, 2012, 9781606061121, Now £6.95 Paperback, was £18.99 Now £7.95 +44 (0)1226 734350 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM POST-MEDIEVAL AND HISTORY OF ART • 43 The Last Days of El Greco to Velazquez Leonardo and the Pietro Bembo and the Pompeii Art During the Reign of Philip III Artes Mechanicae Intellectual Pleasures Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection Edited by Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer By Romano Nanni of a Renaissance By Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Kenneth Focusing on the careers of the mature The extraordinary technological Writer and Art D. S. Lapatin and Jon L. Seydl El Greco and the young Velázquez, innovations and revolutionary Collector which bookend the reign of Philip III, machines from the collection of This lavishly illustrated volume - the Leonardo Museum in Vinci. By Susan Nalezyty featuring the works of artists such as a period of resurgent court culture, This beautifully illustrated volume Susan Nalezyty analyzes how Bembo’s Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, this volume also investigates the discovers the multiple interests of incredible collection of art and Chassériau, and Alma-Tadema, as well works of lesser-known but highly Leonardo the technologist, the architect, the man of antiquities functioned as a source of inspiration for as Duchamp, Dalí, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol - talented artists who exerted a critical influence on the science and, more generally, the history of Renaissance artists like Titian and writers like Giovanni della Casa. surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination development of Spanish painting. techniques. Bembo encouraged investigations into the ways in which under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, 272pp, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008, contemporary art compared with ancient objects. apocalypse, and resurrection. 9780878467266, Hardback, was £51.00 319pp, Skira editore, 2014, 9788876245749, Hardback, was £50.00 288pp, Yale University Press, 2017, 9780300219197, 264pp, Getty Trust Publishing, 2012, 9781606061152, Now £19.95 Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £29.95 Now £19.95 Now £12.95 Now £24.95

Velazquez and the Visions of Paradise Illuminating Luke Raphael and the Surrender of Breda Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Beautiful Banker The Making of a Masterpiece By Jennifer Sliwka Renaissance and Baroque Painting By David Alan Brown and By Anthony Bailey Visions of Paradise showcases By Heidi J. Hornik and Jane Van Nimmen Mikael C. Parsons What began as propaganda art to new scholarly research on the Focusing on viewers' responses celebrate a rare Spanish victory in monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by This book examines visual to Raphael's portrait of Bindo the Eighty Years' War with Holland, Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). representations of the public Altoviti, this book describes the The Surrender at Breda is today The painting, which depicts the ministry of Christ in scenes unique transformation of the picture from recognized as Velázquez's narrative Assumption of the Virgin, was made to the Gospel of Luke. The book a family treasure into a supposed masterpiece. Anthony Bailey examines earlier treatments for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Matteo demonstrates how this 'visual exegesis' informed the self-portrait of the artist; its public display in Munich, of the "surrender" subject to explore Velazquez's artistic Palmieri (1406-1475). In addition to its religious content, contemporary faith community's interpretation of where it was first celebrated, then dismissed by sceptics innovations and the importance of the painting in his the altarpiece depicts a panoramic landscape that serves Scripture. claiming that it was neither of nor by Raphael; and its oeuvre. as a very early example of a "city portrait" of Florence. acquisition by canny English dealers who lured the panel 208pp, T and T Clark, 2005, 9780567028204, Paperback, out of Nazi Germany 288pp, Henry Holt, 2011, 9780805088359, Hardback, 112pp, National Gallery of Art, 2015, 9781857095944, was £34.99 was £20.00 Paperback, was £14.95 240pp, Yale University Press, 2005, 9780300108248, Now £9.95 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Verrocchio's David The Life of Titian Illuminating Luke Raphael's Tapestries Restored Edited by Julia Bondanella, The Infancy Narrative in The Grotesques of Leo X A Renaissance Bronze from Bruce Cole, Jody Robin Shiffman Italian Renaissance Painting By Lorraine Karafel and Peter Bondanella the National Museum of By Heidi J. Hornik and Around 1515, Raphael designed a the Bargello, Florence After Vasari's Lives of the Most Mikael C. Parsons set of tapestries for Leo X. Each was By Gary M. Radke Famous Artists,The Life of Titian by Through their close readings of sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and the seventeenth-century Venetian famous paintings illustrating stories silk, and depicted scenes from classical A well illustrated study of the history, artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi is mythology with inventive grotesques. art, and significance of Verrocchio's from Luke, the authors ask: How the most important contemporary did Renaissance artists and their Now lost, these spectacular, grand- David, along with the story of its documentary source for our scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael’s Tapestries recent restoration in Florence. patrons understand the gospel? And what traditions of understanding of the great Renaissance artist. This faith guided them in translating biblical text and Church and set among a series of unprecedented decorative 110pp, High Museum of Art, 2005, 9781932543001, new critical edition, the first translation into English tradition into paint? projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. Hardback, was £20.00 of Ridolfi's biography, illuminates his life, his artistic production, and his early critical reputation. 176pp, Trinity Press, 2003, 9781563384059, Paperback, 200pp, Yale University Press, 2017, 9780300181999, Now £6.95 was £27.99 Hardback, was £45.00 152pp, Penn State Press, 1996, 9780271016276, Paperback, was £33.95 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

The Art of Law Masters of Venice Circa 1700 Small Bronzes in the Three Centuries of Justice Depicted Renaissance Painters of By Henry A. Millon Renaissance Edited by Vanessa Paumen, Tine Passion and Power from the Twelve distinguished contributors By Debra Pincus Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Van Poucke, Stefan Huygebaert provide a comprehensive look at The contributors to the volume and Georges Martyn Edited by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Lynn the design, renewal, and expansion analyze the production and collecting Federle Orr and M.H. de Young of capitals and countries including of small bronze sculptures from In this book, depictions of the Last Naples, Rome, Vienna, Stockholm, Judgement and other justice scenes, Focusing on canonical works from the fifteenth through the early Saint Petersburg, England, Amsterdam, seventeenth century in both Italy as well as allegories and visualisations Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, Cádiz, Lisbon, Quebec City, and of (sometimes gruesome) torture and this book's lavish illustrations and the North. They offer new Lima. The result is a fascinating cross assessments and attributions of these fascinating works execution practices are placed within an art-historical and illuminating essays offer a rich introduction to section that allows a comparative reading of baroque and legal-historical context. the treasures of the Venetian Renaissance. Artists of art, the result of an intense collaboration between architecture: from country to country, from region to artists and collectors. 208pp, Lannoo Publishers, 2017, 9789401440417, represented include Mantegna, Titian, Giorgione, region, and from the Old World to the New. Paperback, was £29.95 Veronese, Palma Vecchio, Bordone, and Bassano. 277pp, Yale University Press, 2001, 9780300090420, 247pp, Yale University Press, 2006, 9780300114751, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 159pp, Prestel Verlag, 2011, 9783791351681, Hardback, Hardback, was £38.00 was £24.99 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Apollo and Vulcan Saint Francis Delacroix and the The Plains of Mars The Art Markets in Italy, 1400-1700 Patriarchal Basilica in Assisi; Artistic Matter of Finish European War Prints, 1500-1825, By Guido Guerzoni Testimony, Evangelical Message Edited by Eik Kahng, Marc Gotlieb from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Dedicating equal attention to current By Roberto Caravaggi and Michele Hannoosh thought in the fields of economics, A huge book, which forms a This groundbreaking publication Edited by Leslie Scattone economic history, and art history, comprehensive photographic record centres on a previously unknown and James Clifton Guerzoni offers a broad and far- of the Basicilica of St Francis in Assisi. variation of Eugene Delacroix's This handsome volume is the first reaching analysis of the Italian scene, Accompanying essays explore the art (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece graphic print survey of the theme highlighting the existence of different and architecture as well as religious The Last Words of the Emperor of war in the early modern period. forms of commercial interchange and diverse kinds of and historical contexts. Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time.The Featuring work by such artists as Dürer, Goya, and art markets. In doing so he ranges beyond painting and 220pp, Rizzoli International, 1991, 9789110865815, authors reinterpret Delacroix's lineage to such fellow Géricault, the book presents varied images of soldiers; sculpture, to examine as well the economic drivers Hardback, was £75.00 artists as Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) battles (including specific historical events); production, behind architecture, decorative and sumptuary arts, and and Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) innovation, and instruction in arms and armor; and performing or ephemeral events. Now £19.95 168pp, Yale University Press, 2014, 9780300199444, representations of war and peace. 384pp, Michigan State University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £25.00 254pp, Yale University Press, 2009, 9780300137224, 9781611860061, Hardback, was £49.50 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £65.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

The Renaissance Portrait of the Artist European Tapestries in Venice Disputed A Short History By Anna Reynolds the Art Institute of Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian By Paul Johnson This volume showcases images of Chicago Architecture, 1550-1600 This period of profound evolution artists within the Royal Collection. It Edited by Konrad Brosens and By Deborah Howard examines a range of themes played in European thought is credited Christa C. Mayer Thurman In the councils and magistracies of the with producing the most astonishing out within these works, from the cult of the artist to the symbolism evoked This lavishly illustrated book Venetian Republic, politicians argued outpouring of artistic creation the presents a rich variety of European intently over civic building projects world has ever known. Paul Johnson through images of the artist’s studio, and looks at the role of the monarch tapestries from the Art Institute of in a manner curiously reminiscent explains the economic, technological, Chicago. These exquisite tapestries of a modern democracy, taking and social developments that provide a backdrop to the in commissioning, collecting and displaying portraits. include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, advice from architects, engineers, and members of the age's achievements and focuses closely on the lives and manufactured at almost all the major centers of public. Venice Disputed explores the complex dialectic works of its most important figures. 256pp, Royal Collection Trust, 2016, 9781909741324, production in many of the foremost workshops between theory and practice, between utopia and reality, 208pp, Modern Library, 2002, 9780812966190, Hardback, was £29.95 and between design and technology that infused these 408pp, Yale University Press, 2008, 9780300119602, disputes. Paperback, was £12.99 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £40.00 320pp, Yale University Press, 2011, 9780300176858, Now £4.95 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 44 • HISTORY OF ART WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1226 734350