OXBOW BOOK NEWS 103

New and forthcoming titles for Spring 2019 Archaeology The Ancient World Greece and Rome The Middle Ages A warm welcome to the Spring edition of the Oxbow Book News, packed as ever with all the latest titles across our range of archaeological, Classical and medieval specialisms. From the first in the series of final reports from the Stonehenge Riverside Project to twentieth century combat archaeology, we hope you will find plenty here to tempt you.

As you may be able to tell from the front and back covers of this Book News, we have been getting excited about the imminent publication of the long-awaited The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia by Neil Price. In a tour-de-force of historical writing Neil Price delves into the cognitive archaeology of the Viking Age, reconstructing their beliefs and society in a strikingly new way which will challenge many preconceptions. In particular, he explores the fundamental importance of magic to the Viking mental landscape, and the centrality of gender and sexual identity to the practice and functioning of sorcery. The Viking Way will be out in April and forms the centrepiece of our Spring publishing program.

Looking forward to the Autumn, The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire edited by Peter Halkon presents a major new survey of Yorkshire’s remarkable Iron Age archaeology within its wider context. A wealth of new data includes the recent discovery of two chariot burials at Pocklington, which featured on BBC 4’s Digging for Britain series. The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey by Warwick Rodwell and David S. Neal publishes the first detailed record and analysis of an internationally important group of monuments, decorated with the only examples of cosmatesque mosaic outside Italy. Stunning full colour illustration by David Neal of every piece of mosaic completes the work.

The Book News is rounded off with its bargain section, including a new list from Boydell and Brewer and a generous selection of our own titles, all reduced in price for the first time. Numbers are limited, so get them while you can!

Cover Image: The Karlevi runestone (photo by Jochka, Creative Commons) From: The Viking Way by Neil Price (Oxbow Books 2019)

This issue of Oxbow Book News has been compiled by Mike Schurer © Oxbow Books 2019

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/oxbowbooks @oxbowbooks General Interest Living with the Gods Forthcoming from Oxbow Books 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs By Neil MacGregor A Taste for Green No society on Earth lacks A Global Perspective on Ancient Jade, beliefs about where it has Turquoise and Variscite Exchange come from, its place in the Edited by Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán, Ben Nelson and world, and the connection Ramón Fábregas Valcarce of individuals to the eternal. A Taste for Green addresses Neil MacGregor’s new latest research into the book traces how different acquisition of jade, turquoise societies have understood or variscite, all of which and articulated their place share a characteristic in the cosmic scheme. greenish colour and an He brilliantly turns his engaging appearance once kaleidoscope of objects, they are polished in the monuments and ideas shape of axes or assorted to examining mankind’s beliefs – not from the adornments. Papers perspective of institutional religions, but by focusing explore how, in addition on the shared narratives that have shaped our to constituting economic societies, and our relationships with each other. transactions, the transfer of these materials 624pp, col illus (Penguin 2018) 9780241308295 Hb were also statements of social liaisons, personal £30.00 capacities, and relation to places or to unseen forces. The volume centres on two study areas, Western The Great Leveler Europe and México/Southwest US, which are far Violence and the History of Inequality from apart not just in geographical terms but also with the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century regard to their chronology and socioeconomic By Walter Scheidel features. By contrasting the archaeological evidence Tracing the global history of inequality from the from diverse areas we may gain insights into the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it role that production/movement of never dies peacefully. He charts the crucial role these green stones played in their of violent shocks – mass-mobilization warfare, respective political and ritual Only economies. transformative revolutions, state collapse, and £36.00 until 208pp b/w and col illus catastrophic plagues – in reducing inequality over publication the full sweep of human history around the world, (Oxbow Books 2019) and in doing so provides important new insights 9781789252743 Hb £45.00 about why inequality is so persistent. 528pp, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691183251 Pb £14.99 Bestiary The Witch Animals in Art from the Ice Age to Our Age A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to By Christopher Masters the Present Bestiary is a wonderfully By Ronald Hutton visual, thematic exploration of animals – real, surreal In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces and imaginary – as depicted witchcraft from the ancient world to the early- on beautiful ritual objects modern stake. He combines Anglo-American and works of art. Famous and continental scholarly approaches to examine artworks mix with little- attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of seen artefacts from every suspected witches across the world, including in age and around the globe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and drawing out contrasts and North and South America. His fresh anthropological connections between many and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural different civilizations. inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, 256pp col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated. 9780500480236 Hb £16.95 376pp, 16 b/w illus. (Yale UP 2017, Pb 2018) 9780300229042 Hb £25.00, 9780300238679 Pb £11.99

1 Method and Theory The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Sandra L. Lopez Varela Reinventing Sustainability Comprised of over 480 entries contributed by How Archaeology Can Save the Planet scholars from all over the world and managed by 11 section editors, this comprehensive encyclopedia By Erika Guttmann-Bond provides a broad overview of the scientific This book is about principles and techniques that allow for a more sustainable agriculture and rigorous interpretation of archaeological data. architecture in the past, It outlines how to study the characteristics and and the engineering works properties of materials, as well as instrumental that supported them, but techniques and relative methods currently applied it also looks to the future. in field and laboratory work. Ancient technologies are 1992pp (Wiley-Blackwell 2018) 9780470674611 Hb what engineers define £527.00 as ‘intermediate’, which means that they are often Three Stones Make a Wall simple, low in cost and The Story of Archaeology they depend on local materials. Significantly, they don’t require fossil By Eric H. Cline fuels. There is a lot that we in the West can learn This book traces the history of archaeology from from the past and from developing countries an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it where people still practice traditional agriculture, is today by taking the reader on a tour of major and there is now broad agreement among many archaeological sites and discoveries. Along the way, governments, non-government organisations, it addresses the questions archaeologists are asked engineers and agronomists, as well as the United most often: How do you know where to dig? How are Nations, that intermediate technologies are often excavations actually done? How do you know how the most appropriate way forward in developing old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? countries. 480pp, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017, Pb 2018) 160p (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781785709920 9780691166407 Hb £27.00, 9780691183237 Pb £14.99 Pb £25.00 CAA2016: Oceans of Data Archaeology in the PPG16 Era Proceedings of the 44th Conference on Investigations in England 1990–2010 Computer Applications and Quantitative By Timothy Darvill, Kerry Barrass, Vanessa Methods in Archaeology Constant, Ehren Milner & Bronwen Russell Edited by Mieko Matsumoto & Espen Uleberg Planning Policy Guidance These papers address one of the greatest present Note 16: Archaeology and challenges in this field: the use and re-use of Plannin, published in 1990, large datasets that result both saw the formal integration from digitalisation and digital of archaeological documentation of archaeological Only considerations with the excavations and surveys. £81.00 until UK town and country 564pp, b/w and col illus planning system and set 31st May (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917302 out processes for informed Pb £95.00 decision-making and the implementation of post- Understanding Architectural determination mitigation Drawings and Historical Visual Sources strategies. This comprehensive review of the Edited by Susie Barson project presents a wealth of data. A series of case This book explains the provenance, purpose and studies examines the illustrate different types terminology of a range of visual sources from the of development project, revealing many ways 16th to the 20th centuries, and how they can help in which projects develop, how archaeology is – or sometimes hinder – an understanding of the integrated with planning and execution, and original form and subsequent changes to a building, the range of outputs documenting the process. site or landscape. In addition, they list the most 320p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018) widely used archives and online and published 9781789251081 Hb £25.00 databases of historic visual sources. 96pp b/w and col illus (Historic England 2019) 9781848023703 Pb £20.00 2 Digital Imaging of Artefacts Developments in Methods and Aims NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Kate Kelley & Rachel K. L. Wood Ancient Textiles Modern Science II In light of rapid technological developments in Edited by Heather Hopkins & Katrin Kania digital imaging, thee papers aim to inform specialist and general readers about some of the ways in Ancient Textiles Modern, which imaging technologies are transforming Science II follows the the study and presentation of archaeological and success of the first cultural artefacts. What advantages do they offer, proceedings, published whether in research or museum contexts, what in 2013, that catalogued limitations are still faced, and how the Forum’s formative can technological development years. This proceedings encourage new types of research Only highlights the range of and public engagement? subjects and approaches, £38.50 until from improved forms of 190pp b/w and col illus 31st May notation for nålbinding (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789690255 and terminology for non- Pb £45.00 woven fabric structures, to presentation and Archaeology of Identity and practical interpretation of new and unique discoveries from Lengberg Castle and of Dissonance Roman leather underpants. The significance Contexts for a Brave New World of unrealised assumptions and unappreciated Edited by Diane F. George & Bernice Kurchin historic decisions is shown through the discovery This volume demonstrates how humans adapt to of weaving tablets unrecognised during their new and challenging environments by building excavation and the effects of water supply on and adjusting their identities. The essays focus on the outcome of dyeing in Pompeii. Practical situations across the globe where humans have investigations of historic resist dyeing, methods experienced dissonance in the form of colonization, to selectively colour early Byzantine embroidery migration, conflict, marginalization, and other after its completion, and how the choice of metal cultural encounters. in dyeing kettles influences dyeing outcomes 320pp (UP of Florida 2019) 9780813056197 Hb £92.95 make up the rest of this volume. 144pp, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) The Tiny and the Fragmented 9781789251203 Pb £35.00 Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World Edited by S. Rebecca Martin & Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper Playing with Things Ths book presents a remarkable diversity of case The Archaeology, Anthropology and studies which are united in considering the little Ethnography of Human-Object Interactions and broken things of the past as objects in their own in Atlantic Scotland right. Overall they make the case that it was because By Graeme Wilson of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state This book addresses that these objects were valued parts of the personal the nature of play and its and social worlds they inhabited. relationships with the world, 248pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190614812 Hb £55.00 as well as the relationships between people and objects. The Reality of Artifacts It begins with an account A Perspective from the Archaeology of ethnographic fieldwork of Human Evolution among chess and card players By Michael Chazan in Edinburgh and Orkney and moves on to consider In recent years, a wide range of disciplines, the findings in the light including cognitive science, sociology, art history, of archaeological sources, and anthropology have all grappled with the nature focusing for the most part on the first millennium of artifacts. This volume develops an argument AD in Atlantic Scotland. The study represents for the artifact as a status conferred by human a reappraisal of the relationship engagement with material. On this basis, artifacts between play and everyday life; it are considered first in terms of their relationship to leads towards the conclusion that concepts and cognitive functions, and then to the Only play is not in fact so separate as physical body and sense of self. £24.00 until is often assumed. 146pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138217805 Hb 31st May 156pp, b/w figs (Archaeopress 2018) £85.00, 9781138635777 Pb £24.99 9781789690750 Pb £28.00 Method and Theory 3 The Oxford Handbook of Historical Elements in Religion and Violence Ecology and Applied Archaeology Human Sacrifice: Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Christian Isendahl & Daryl Stump from around the World The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology By Laerke Recht and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical Sacrifice is not simply an discussions, methodological outlines, and case- expression of religious studies describing the field of overlap between beliefs. Its highly symbolic historical ecology and the emerging sub-discipline nature lends itself to various of applied archaeology to highlight how modern kinds of manipulation by environments and landscapes have been shaped by those carrying it out, who may humans. Some chapters present examples of how use the ritual in maintaining ancient or current societies have modified their and negotiating power environments in sustainable ways, while others and identity in carefully highlight practices that had unintended long-term staged ‘performances’. This consequences. Element is brought to the 656pp (Oxford UP 2019) 9780199672691 Hb £110.00 fore in an examination of some of the many different types of sacrifice and Finds Identified ritual killing of human beings through history, Portable Antiquities Scheme from Bronze Age China and the Near East to By Kevin Leahy & Michael J. Lewis Mesoamerica to Northern Europe. The team at the British 75pp col illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108728201 Pb Museum and the £15.00 Portable Antiquities Managing Archaeology in Dynamic Scheme have spent years collating, identifying and Urban Centres photographing finds from Edited by Paul Belford & Jeroen Bouwmeester the Stone Age through to This book looks at how archaeologists in the the 20th century, and for early 21st century are dealing with the challenges the first time, this book pulls and opportunities presented by development together a selection of the in archaeologically sensitive urban centres. It most interesting items in features case studies from across Europe and one beautiful volume. It is beyond – including Norway, Lithuania, Belgium, organised on a thematic basis with similar types the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, of objects being placed together to show how they Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy and Israel. The changed over time with the introduction of new chapters look both at individual projects and larger materials, techniques and styles. thematic issues. 360pp, col illus (Greenlight Publishing 2018) 240pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) 9781897738634 Hb £30.00 9789088906053 Hb £120.00, 9789088906046 Pb £40.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers Edited by Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan & Marek Zvelebil This volume provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social Only relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management £34.00 until of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations. 31st May 1360pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9780198831044 Pb £40.00

4 Method and Theory Globalization in Prehistory The Oxford Handbook of Contact, Exchange, and the ‘People Disability History Without History’ Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick & Edited by Nicole Boivin & Michael D. Frachetti Kim Nielsen Globalization in Prehistory challenges traditional Disability history exists historical and archaeological discourse about outside of the institutions, the drivers of social and cultural connectivity in healers, and treatments it the ancient world. The volume focuses on those often brings to mind. It is a societies and communities that history has bypassed history where the disabled – nomads, pastoralists, fishers, foragers, pirates and live not just as patients or traders, among others. It aims for a more complex cure-seekers, but rather as understanding of the webs of connectivity that people living differently shaped communities living outside and beyond the in the world. The Oxford urban, agrarian states that are the mainstay of books Handbook of Disability and courses on ancient civilizations and trade. History is the first volume 368pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108429801 of its kind to represent this Hb £90.00 history and its global scale, from ancient Greece to British West Africa. The Time and History in Prehistory twenty-seven articles, written by thirty experts from Edited by Stella Souvatzi, Adnan Baysal & across the field, capture the diversity and liveliness Emma Baysal of this emerging scholarship. Drawing equally on 552pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190234959 Hb contemporary theory and £97.00 illustrative case-studies and firmly rooted in Roots of Nationhood material evidence, this book The Archaeology and History of Scotland rearticulates concepts of Edited by Louisa Campbell, Dene Wright & time and history, questions Nicola A. Hall the kind of narratives This volume sets out to develop multi-disciplinary to be written about the approaches in the study of identity in general past and underlines the and aspects in the formation of national identity fundamentally historical in particular. The entanglement of identity and nature of prehistory. From nationhood is explored from the prehistory of a range of multi-disciplinary northern Britain; the establishment of a proto- perspectives, the authors of this volume address Scottish identity in the early Middle the scales at which archaeological evidence and Ages; facets of Scottish identity at narrative are interwoven, from a single day to deep home and in the wider diaspora Only history and from a solitary pot to a complete city. of Empire; and the more recent £24.00 until 288pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138692701 Pb heralding of Scottish identity as £28.99 a multiethnic construction. 31st May 218pp b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress Fiscal Regimes and the Political 2018) 9781784919825 Pb £28.00 Economy of Premodern States Edited by Andrew Monson & Walter Scheidel Humans, Animals and the Craft of Inspired by the New Fiscal History, this book Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies represents the first global survey of taxation in By Krish Seetah the premodern world. What emerges is a rich In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a variety of institutions, including experiments with point of departure for exploring the changing sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt historical relationships between animal utility, and fiduciary money, challenging the notion ofa symbolism, and meat consumption. Seetah brings typical premodern stage of fiscal development. The together several bodies of literature – on meat, studies also reveal patterns and correlations across cut marks, craftspeople, and the role of craft in widely dispersed societies that shed light on the production – that have heretofore been considered basic factors driving the intensification, abatement, in isolation from one another. Situating the and innovation of fiscal regimes. relationship between practice, practitioner, material 602pp b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) and commodity, this imaginative study offers new 9781107089204 Hb £85.99, 9781107460966 Pb £29.99 insights into food production, consumption, and the craft of cuisine. 283pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108428804 Hb £75.00

Method and Theory 5 Artistic Practices and Archaeological Massacres Research Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu and Theodor Barth Approaches This anthology contains articles from professional Edited by Cheryl P. Anderson & Debra L. Martin archaeologists, artists and designers. The contributions This volume integrates data from researchers cover a scale ranging from theoretical reflections on in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to pre-existing archaeological finds/documentation, to explain when and why group-targeted violence reflective field-practices where acts of ‘making’ are occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and used to interface with the site. These modern societies, and by analysing skeletal remains acts feature a manufacturing range from these events within their broader cultural and from ceramics, painting, drawing, Only historical contexts this volume opens up important type-setting and augmented new understandings of the underlying social £34.00 until reality (AR). processes that continue to lead to these tragedies. 186pp b/w and col illus 31st May Many of these studies examine bones found in mass (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789691405 graves, while others focus on victims whose bodies Pb £40.00 have never been buried. 272pp (UP of Florida 2018) 9781683400691 Hb £103.00 The Face Our Human Story The Backbone of Europe By Debra N. Mancoff Health, Diet, Work and Violence over How have different cultures Two Millennia depicted faces, whether a Edited by Richard Steckel, Clark Larsen, Charlotte likeness or idealized, whether Roberts & Joerg Baten masked or revealed, whether Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces newborn, in the prime of health, workload and violence in the European life, dying or even deceased? population over the past 2,000 years. Health was Why has the depiction of the surprisingly good for people who lived during human face been so central the early Medieval Period. Increasing population to artistic expression in all density and inequality in the following centuries world cultures, and why has imposed an unhealthy diet – poor in protein – on it sometimes even been defaced or destroyed by the European population. While some aspects iconoclasts and others? In this superbly illustrated of health declined, other attributes improved, book, Debra N. Mancoff explores the depiction of for example during the early modern period, the human face through the full range of objects and interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined. works of art in the collection of the British Museum. 430pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108421959 Hb £74.99 304pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) 9780500518625 Hb £16.95 Heritage Collecting the World Local Antiquities, Local Identities The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane Art, Literature and Antiquarianism in Europe, By James Delbourgo c.1400–1700 This is the first biography Edited by Francesco Benelli, Kathleen Christian, Bianca of Hans Sloane in over sixty de Divitiis, Krista de Jonge & Joao R. Figueiredo years and the first based This collection investigates the wide array of local on his surviving collections antiquarian practices that developed across Europe which formed the nucleus in the early modern era, c. 1400-1700. Contributors of the newly founded British consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and Museum. Early modern literary works were used to demonstrate a particular science and collecting idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt are shown to be global civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied endeavours intertwined subjects as municipal antiquities collections in with empire and slavery but Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response which nonetheless produced to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the one of the great public Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. race of Giants. 544pp (Penguin 2017, Pb 2018) 9780718194437 Pb £12.99 368pp, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2018) 9781526117045 Hb £80.00 6 Matters of Belonging Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe Edited by Wayne Modest, Nicholas Thomas, Doris Heritage Under Pressure Prlić & Claudia Augustat Edited by Michael Dawson, Edward James and Matters of Belonging foregrounds critical practices Mike Nevell within ethnographic museums, with a special Heritage under Pressure focus on collaboration with artists and differently examines the relationship constituted, self-identified communities. The between the political articles seek to question the role of ethnographic perspective of the UK and world cultures museums within contemporary government on ‘soft power’ negotiations of how to define Europe, Europeans, and the globalising effect and European heritage, especially mindful of the of projects carried out by region’s colonial and migratory pasts. archaeologists and heritage 150pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) professionals working in 9789088907784 Hb £90.00, 9789088907777 Pb £30.00, the historic environment. NYP It exemplifies the nature of professional engagement KYMISSALA and the role of the profession in working towards Archaeology – Education – Sustainability a theory of practice based on the integrity of data, Edited by Manolis I. Stefanakis the recovery and communication of information, The area of Kymissala on the southwest coast of and the application of data in real world situations. Rhodes has systematically been researched during Individual papers raise complex and challenging the past 10 years , with the ultimate goal of promoting issues, such as commemoration, identity, and the antiquities of the area, its educational value and political intervention. Papers also contribute to its historical and cultural continuity the emerging agenda developing as a result of within a protected natural the re-orientation of the UK following the Brexit vote, at once emphasising the global aspiration of environment, in the context of an Only ecological-archaeological park. the Uk’s professional archaeological £36.00 until body – the Chartered Institute 208pp, b/w and col illus 31st May for Archaeologists – in relation (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784917685 to the global reach of UK Only Pb £42.00 academic practice. £30.40 until The Law of Treasure 288pp (Oxbow Books publication By A.G. Guest 2019) 9781789252460 Pb £38.00 The importance of the Law of Treasure is largely the result of the spectacular growth in the activity of metal detecting which now brings to our knowledge of more than a thousand objects each year of The Archaeology of Mediterranean historical, cultural or archaeological interest. This Placemaking book aims to provide a reliable guide to the Law of Treasure in England, Wales Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry and Northern Ireland and also By Richard Hodges to explain the role played by Only Through this set of legal institutions, such as the £19.00 until interwoven reflections about its archaeology and Coroner, in that process. 31st May 168pp (Archaeopress 2018) cultural heritage history 9781784919740 Pb £22.00 Richard Hodges considers how the Butrint Foundation Collecting and Collectors has protected and enhanced From Antiquity to Modernity Butrint’s spirit of place Edited by Alexandra Carpino, Tiziana D’Angelo, Maya for future generations. Muratov & David Saunders He reviews Virgil’s long influence on Butrint and how This volume is a timely exploration of many its topographic archaeology facets of collecting and collectors. The papers has now helped to invent a new narrative and explore three topics: collecting and presenting the identity. He finally asks who matters in the shaping Etruscans in North America; collecting Classical of a place – international regulations, the nation, gems from Antiquity through the 19th Century; and the archaeologist, the visitor, the local community researching ownership histories for antiquities in or some combination of all of these stakeholders? museum collections. 184pp b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350069596 Pb 267pp (Archaeological Institute of America 2018) £28.99 9781931909365 Pb £20.00 Heritage 7 Biodeterioration and Preservation in The Oxford Handbook of Public Art, Archaeology and Architecture Heritage Theory and Practice Edited by Ralph Mitchell & Jennifer Clifford Edited by Angela M. Labrador & Neil Asher Silberman In this book, contributors Heritage now includes vernacular architecture, have focused on the intangible cultural practices, knowledge, and essential role that language, performances and rituals, as well as biodeterioration plays in cultural landscapes. Heritage protection now both the deterioration and encompasses a growing set of methodological preservation of a wide range approaches whose objectives are not necessarily of materials. The volume focused upon the maintenance of material fabric, brings together recent which has traditionally been cultural heritage’s research by conservation primary concern. The Oxford Handbook of Public microbiologists working in Heritage Theory and Practice charts some of the diverse environments. In major sites of convergence between the humanities addition papers are included and the social sciences, where new disciplinary on the effects of microbial biofilms and climate perspectives are being brought to bear on heritage. change on the biodeterioration process. 456pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190676315 Hb £97.00 160pp (Archetype 2018) 9781909492646 Pb £35.00 Landscape The archaeology of Lough Gur Parterres Bright with Flowers By Rose Cleary A History of the Walled Gardens at Alnwick Lough Gur is one of the Castle as Revealed through Excavations and richest landscapes of field Standing Building Survey monuments in Ireland and By Victoria Ridgeway & Jennifer Proctor the lake and hinterland This volume reports on excavation and a standing have been the focus of building recording survey within Alnwick Castle’s archaeological research walled kitchen garden. The gardens, first established including excavation and in 1760, formed a small part of the castle grounds survey over the past 150 years. and parkland designed by the pre-eminent architect Many portable antiquities of the period, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. The have been recovered from book charts the changing fortunes of the garden, the lake and the surrounding including detailed descriptions and illustrations countryside. The information of the layout of successive gardens and of the gleaned from the results of excavations, surveys and hothouses and conservatories which supplied the from the finds is gathered together here to present household with fresh produce and flowers. a synthesis of the archaeology of Lough Gur, and 264pp, b/w and col illus (Pre-Construct Archaeology where possible a chronology and interpretation of 2018) 9781999615505 Hb £28.00 its sites. 400pp b/w illus (Wordwell 2018) 9781999790974 Pb The Immortal Yew £31.00 By Tony Hall Past Landscapes Yew trees are some of the oldest living organisms in Europe, with particular individuals thought The Dynamics of Interaction between Society, to be over 2,000 years old. Tony Hall takes the Landscape, and Culture reader on a fascinating journey to the ancient Edited by Annette Haug, Lutz Käppel & Johannes yew trees of Britain and Ireland, exploring their Müller mythology and folklore. He provides profiles on This book presents theories, concepts, approaches over 75 publicly accessible yews, with details on and case studies dealing with human development their appearance, location, folklore and history. in landscapes. On the one hand, it becomes evident Many of the magnificent ancient yew trees alive that only an interdisciplinary approach can cover today are situated in churchyards, but are thought the manifold aspects of the topic. On the other to be pre-Christian, pre-dating the churches they hand, this also implies that the very different sit beside. approaches cannot be reduced to a simplistic 224pp, b/w and col illus (Kew Publishing 2018) uniform definition of landscape. 9781842466582 Hb £25.00 350pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088907296 Hb £135.00, 9789088907319 Pb £45.00, NYP 8 Trading Territories NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Mapping the Early Modern World The Land Was Forever: 15000 Years By Jerry Brotton in North-East Scotland This book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of the New World Excavations on the Aberdeen Western obscured the ongoing importance of mapping Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty territories that have since been defined as ‘eastern’. By Matt Kirsty Dingwall, Richard Ginnever, Jürgen Jerry Brotton shows that trade and diplomacy van Tipping & Don Wilson Wessel defined the development of maps and globes in this Eight sites were excavated period, far more than the disinterested pursuit of along the route of the scientific accuracy and objectivity, and challenges Aberdeen Western our preconceptions about not just maps, but also the Peripheral Route between history and geography of what we call East and West. Balmedy to Tipperty. The 208pp col illus (Reaktion 2018) 9781780239293 Pb £9.99 sites are mostly multi- period. One site on the Fishing banks of the River Dee, How the Sea Fed Civilization revealed nine phases of By Brian Fagan activity extending from the Upper Palaeolithic Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable through to the post- and often overlooked element in the growth of Medieval. Extensive civilization. Where agriculture encouraged stability, specialist analysis has been undertaken on all fishing demanded movement. It frequently required sites, along with a programme of radiocarbon a search for new and better fishing grounds; its dating, OSL dating and Bayesian analysis. technologies, centred on boats, facilitated movement During the excavations, it was apparent how and discovery; and fish themselves, when dried and the specific landscape of each site was key to salted, were the ideal food for traders, travellers, and the activities taking place there, the periods conquering armies. and duration of activity and the extent to 368pp, b/w illus (Yale UP 2017, Pb 2018) 9780300240047 which people were passing through or settling. Pb £11.99 This was chosen as the overarching theme for Waddenland Outstanding analysis and publication, and the geological and topographical background is woven through the Edited by Meindert Schroor & Linde Egberts presentation of each site. The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709883 embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Hb £40.00 Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Its settlement history of more than two thousand years is unrivalled. This book offers an overview of current research on its history, landscape and cultural heritage. 300pp b/w and col illus (Amsterdam UP 2018) 9789462986602 Hb £92.55

EDITOR’S CHOICE Vast Expanses A History of the Oceans By Helen M. Rozwadowski Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe. Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied with industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. This book argues Only that knowledge about the ocean has played a central role £13.60 until in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless and 31st May opaque place. 264pp b/w illus (Reaktion 2018) 9781780239972 Hb £16.00

Landscape 9 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Freshwater Fish in England The Tundzha Regional Archaeology A Social and Cultural History of Coarse Fish Project from Prehistory to the Present Day Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated By Alison Locker Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, Much has been written on 2009–2015 Final Report marine fishing and for the Edited by Shawn A. Ross, Adela Sobotkova, Julia migratory eel and salmon. Tzvetkova, Georgi Nekhrizov & Simon Connor Less attention has focused This volume presents on the obligate freshwater the results of diachronic species, primarily the archaeological and native pike, perch, palaeoecological research cyprinids and introduced conducted in two study species of which the most areas: the intermontane significant is carp. Their Kazanlak Valley along exploitation by man has the Upper Tundzha River changed from food to of central Bulgaria, and sport more dramatically the Thracian Plain along in England and the British Isles than in Europe. the Middle Tundzha They have also been used as elite statements, River south of the city of symbols of lineage, in religion and art. Much Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. Major field of the early evidence is confined to fish bones activities of the project included over 100 sq from archaeological sites and indicators of km of systematic pedestrian survey, legacy data diet from isotopic analyses of human bones. verification and mapping, trial excavations, From the Medieval period these data sources artefact processing, and environmental sampling are increasingly complemented and ultimately in and around the study areas. Through this superseded by documentary sources and research, TRAP inventoried over 100 surface material culture. artefact concentrations and 800 burial mounds. 160p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2019) At the heart of the volume is a geospatial analysis 9781789251128 Pb £38.00 of settlement patterns derived from the survey dataset, which relates the footprint of past human activities to environmental and sociocultural drivers. 286p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789250541 Hb £60.00

Human Evolution Evolution’s Bite Where Are We Heading? A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins The Evolution of Humans and Things By Peter Ungar By Ian Hodder Peter Ungar brings together for the first time Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes cutting-edge advances in understanding human of thought about human evolution: the older idea of evolution with new approaches to uncovering constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and dietary clues from fossil teeth. The result is a the newer one of a directionless process of natural remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth selection. Instead, he proposes a theory of human – their shape, chemistry, and wear – reveal how evolution and history based on “entanglement,” we came to be. Traveling the four corners of the the ever-increasing mutual dependency between globe and combining scientific breakthroughs with humans and things. Not only do humans become vivid narrative, Evolution’s Bite presents a unique dependent on things, Hodder asserts, but things dental perspective on our astonishing human become dependent on humans, requiring an development. endless succession of new innovations. It is this 248pp, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691182834 mutual dependency that creates the dominant trend Pb £14.99 in both cultural and genetic evolution. 200pp b/w illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300204094 Hb £20.00 10 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Enclosing Space, Opening New The Selhurst Park Project Ground Middle Barn, Selhurstpark Farm, Eartham, Iron Age Studies from Scotland to Mainland West Sussex 2005–2008 Europe By George Anelay Edited by Tanja Romankiewicz, Manuel Fernández- Excavations at Middle Götz, Gary Lock & Olivier Büchsenschütz Barn, Selhurst Park, Enclosures are among the Eartham uncovered a most widely distributed Middle Iron Age to early features of the European Roman farmstead, sitting Iron Age. From fortifications upon the southern slopes to field systems, they of the South Downs in West demarcate territories and Sussex, and overlooking the settlements, sanctuaries Sussex coastal plain. While and central places, burials the structural remains were and ancestral grounds. This unremarkable for a site dividing of the physical of this type, the recovered and the mental landscape artefact assemblages were substantial and between an ‘inside’ and an important. Of particular note were three large pits, ‘outside’ is investigated anew in a series of essays cut into the chalk, and backfilled with structured by some of the leading scholars on the topic. A deposits of pottery, animal bone, grain and fired recurring theme considers how Iron Age enclosures clay. Not only do these bear testimony to notable created, curated, formed or deconstructed memory Iron Age feasting events, but their assemblages fill and identity, and how by enclosing space, these significant gaps in our understanding of regional communities opened links to an earlier past in pottery traditions and agricultural practices from order to understand or express their Iron the Middle to the Late Iron Age. Age presence. 152pp, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2019) 240pp b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789251166 Pb £40.00 9781789252019 Hb £48.00 Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick Making a Mark Rhythms of Life in Iron Age Shetland Image and Process in Neolithic Britain By Olivia Lelong and Ireland The Iron Age settlement at By Andrew Meirion Jones & Marta Díaz-Guardamino Milla Skerra was occupied Using cutting edge digital for at least 500 years imaging techniques, the before it was covered with Making a Mark project storm-blown sand and examined Neolithic abandoned. Excavation Human Evolution decorated portable artefacts revealed many details of of chalk, stone, bone, antler, the life of the settlement and wood from three key and how it was reused regions: southern England over many generations. and East Anglia; the Irish From the middle of the Sea region; and Northeast 1st millennium BC people Scotland and Orkney. were constructing stone-walled yards and filling Digital analysis revealed, them with hearth waste and midden material. for the first time, the prevalence of practices of Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved erasure and reworking amongst a host of decorated floor and successive hearths. Outside were new portable artefacts. The volume visually documents yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, and discusses the contexts of the decorated portable which were remodelled several times. Thousands artefacts from each region, discusses the significance of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla and chronology of practices of erasure and Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal reworking, and compares these practices with those rhythms of the people that lived in this windswept found in other Neolithic contexts, such as passage and remote island settlement and their connections tomb art, rock art and pottery decoration. to both land and sea. 352pp, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2019) 144p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781789251883 Pb £40.00 9781785703430 Hb £25.00 11 Stonehenge for the Ancestors Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Part 1: Landscape and Monuments By Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin The Beaker People Richards, Julian Thomas & Kate Welham Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric This is the first of four Britain volumes which present the Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, results of the Stonehenge Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Richards & Riverside Project (2003-2009). Jane Evans It includes investigations The Beaker People: Isotopes, of the monuments and Mobility and Diet in landscape that pre-dated Prehistoric Britain presents Stonehenge on Salisbury the results of a major project Plain as well as of that sought to address excavation at Stonehenge a century-old question itself. The main discovery about the people who at Stonehenge was of were buried with Beakers cremated human remains from many individuals, – the distinctive pottery of allowing their demography, health and dating to Continental origin that was be established. The different types of stone from current, predominantly in which Stonehenge is formed – bluestones from equally distinctive burials, Wales and sarsen silcretes from more local sources in Britain from around 2450 BC. Who were these – are investigated both at Stonehenge and in its people? Were they immigrants and how far did surroundings. they move around? What did they eat? What was 520pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) their lifestyle? How do they compare with Britain’s 9789088907036 Hb £180.00, 9789088907029 Pb earlier inhabitants and with contemporaries who £90.00, NYP did not use Beaker pottery? An international team of leading archaeologists and scientists, Stonehenge for the Ancestors led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson, was Part 2: Synthesis assembled to address these questions. Around By Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin 300 skeletons were subjected to isotope analysis Richards, Julian Thomas & Kate Welham to explore patterns of mobility and diet, and 150 new radiocarbon dates were obtained. While This second volume includes studies of the lithics the genetic data provide convincing evidence for from excavations, both from topsoil sampling immigration by Continental Beaker users, the and from excavated features, as well as of the isotopic data indicate a more detailed picture of petrography of the famous bluestones, as identified movements, mostly of fairly short from chippings recovered during excavations. distances within Britain, by the Other specialist syntheses are those of the land descendants of the first Beaker mollusca. The volume provides an overview of Only users. Stonehenge in its landscape over millennia from £37.50 until before the monument was built to the last of its five 672p, b/w and col illus publication constructional stages. (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781789250640 Hb £49.99 260pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2020) 9789088907067 Hb £90.00, 9789088907050 Pb £45.00, NYP The Beaker Phenomenon? The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Understanding the Character and Context of A477 St Clears to Red Roses Road Social Practices in Ireland 2500–2000 BC Improvement Scheme 2012 By Neil Carlin By Alistair Barber, Alan Hardy, Andrew Mudd & The nature and social significance of the Beaker Mary Alexander phenomenon, as well as the reasons for its rapid and A Mesolithic site in the lower Tâf valley. Early widespread transmission have been much debated. Neolithic pits and a post-built structure at Cildywyll. The adoption of these new ideas and objects in Near St Clears the remains of an Early Bronze Age Ireland provides a highly suitable case study in barrow, 38 burials (some urned) and pyre site, also which to investigate these issues. Significantly, this a Middle Bronze Age drying oven. A Bronze Age integrated regional study reveals that the various burnt mound near Red Roses. Beaker-related objects found in Ireland were all 180pp, (Cotswold Archaeology 2019) 9780993454554 Hb deposited during a series of highly structured £19.95, NYP and rule-bound activities which were strongly influenced by pre-existing Irish traditions. 500p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904646 Hb £120.00, 9789088904639 Pb £40.00 12 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland Neolithic and Bronze Age Funerary Forthcoming from Oxbow Books and Ritual Practices in Wales, 3600–1200 BC The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire Celebrating the Iron Age By Genevieve Tellier This volume presents an up-to-date synthesis Edited by Peter Halkon of monument form and mortuary practice in In 1817 a group of East Neolithic and Bronze Age Wales. This comprises Yorkshire gentry opened the osteological analysis of over 250 human bone barrows in a large Iron Age deposits, with new observations and interpretations. cemetery on the Yorkshire The book engages with current debates on the Wolds at Arras, near changing character and significance of burial rites Market Weighton, including in later prehistory. a remarkable burial 214pp, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 642, 2018) accompanied by a chariot 9781407316499 Pb £39.00 with two horses, which became known as the King’s Cannington Bypass, Somerset: Barrow. Since then further Excavations in 2014 remarkable finds have been made in the East Yorkshire region, including 23 Middle Bronze Age Enclosure at Rodway and chariot burials, most recently at Pocklington in 2017 Roman Villa at Sandy Lane and 2018, where both graves contained horses, and By Jonathan Hart & Andrew Mudd were featured on BBC 4’s Digging for Britain series. Two enclosures were recorded – near Rodway was This volume bring together papers presented by discovered a small Middle Bronze Age farmstead leading experts to celebrate the bicentenary of containing evidence of two roundhouses, with the Arras discoveries. The remarkable Iron Age associated pottery and plant remains; and at Sandy archaeology of eastern Yorkshire is set into wider Lane a Roman villa was shown to have developed context by views from Scotland, the south of from a Late Iron Age ridge-top settlement. England and Iron Age Western Europe. The book 157pp, (Cotswold Archaeology 2018) 9780993454547 Hb covers a wide variety of topics including migration, £19.95, NYP settlement and landscape, burials, experimental chariot building, finds of various EAA 168: Small Communities kinds and reports on the major Life in the Cam Valley in the Neolithic, Late sites such as Wetwang/Garton Only Iron Age and Early Anglo-Saxon Periods: Slack and Pocklington. £30.40 until Excavations at Dernford Farm, Sawston 192pp b/w and col illus publication By Andrew A.S. Newton (Oxbow Books 2019) Excavation revealed five phases of archaeological 9781789252583 £38.00 activity, beginning in the Neolithic period with evidence for episodic or seasonal occupation and burial. After a gap of several centuries, there were EAA 166: Late Bronze Age Hoards three phases of Middle Iron Age to early Roman New Light on Old Norfolk Finds activity. The final phase of occupation is a small rural Anglo-Saxon settlement comprising seven By Andrew J. Lawson sunken-featured buildings and associated pits. This report presents evidence 206pp b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) for the discovery of Late 9780993247743 Pb £25.00 Bronze Age hoards in Norfolk before 1950. The evidence Thurrock’s Deeper Past: A Confluence has been derived from of Time the historic manuscripts, correspondence, drawings By Christopher John Tripp and publications of a small This book looks at the evidence for human activity group of antiquaries, most in Thurrock and this part of the Thames estuary of whom lived in the county. since the last Ice Age, and how the river crossing The enhancement of the point here has been of great importance to the collection of bronzes from a development of human settlement and trade in the site at Snettisham (IV), as well as the discoveries of British Isles. It takes in all periods new hoards at Snettisham (V), Hockwold and Great and most of the sites which have Melton, all with the use of detectors, are described been excavated in the borough Only to illustrate the range of objects that may have of Thurrock over the last sixty £21.25 until occurred in the earlier discoveries. or more years. 31st May 112pp, b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) 208pp, b/w illus, cols pls (Archaeopress 9780905594545 Pb £20.00 2018) 9781789691115 Pb £25.00 Prehistoric Britain & Ireland 13 Multi-period Occupation at Football A GIS-based Analysis of Hillfort Field, Worth Matravers, Dorset Location and Morphology By Lilian Ladle By Jessica Murray This book presents the detailed results of The location and morphology of hillforts excavations at a small multi-period site in south- in Ceredigion, Dartmoor, Aberdeenshire, The east Dorset. The site provided evidence for an Gower and Warminster are investigated through a Early Neolithic enclosure, a timber-framed, Late combination of GIS-based analysis and field visits. Bronze Age roundhouse, Late Bronze Age/Early An innovative approach of integrating movement Iron Age middening activities, Iron Age and Roman with visibility is employed to investigate whether settlement and a post-Roman inhumation cemetery. movement, visibility and topography influenced the The midden and its associated features and finds location and morphology of these hillforts. are of particular significance, with evidence for 246pp, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 644, 2018) deposition and accumulation over several centuries. 9781407316079 Pb £51.00 355pp, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 643, 2018) 9781407316741 Pb £61.00 European Prehistory Early Mesolithic Technical Systems of The Human Occupation of the Southern France and Northern Italy Southern Central Pyrenees in the By Davide Visentin Sixth–Third Millennia cal BC The Sauveterrian represents one of the main By Niccolò Mazzucco cultural aspects of the European Early Mesolithic. In This book presents an updated overview of the this work, its presumed uniformity – mostly based human occupation process of the Southern Central on typological grounds – is questioned with the Pyrenees during the Neolithic. Data obtained purpose of assessing and verifying from the analysis of the lithic assemblages from the relationships existing between four sites (Cueva Chaves, Espluga de la Puyascada, the two central areas of diffusion Only Cova de Els Trocs, Cova del Sardo) located at of this complex: southern France £49.50 until different altitudes (600-1800 m a.s.l.) are presented. and northern Italy. 31st May Integrating the study of the lithic raw-material 360pp b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) provenance with technological and use-wear 9781784919276 Pb £58.00 analysis of the flaked stone tools, the book provides insights into the economic and mobility patterns of The Grotte du Placard at 150 the first Neolithic settlers. New Considerations on an Exceptional 313pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2905, 2018) 9781407316611 Prehistoric Site Pb £47.00 By Christophe Delage The prehistoric site of Contacts, Boundaries and Innovation Le Placard, located in in the Fifth Millennium Southwest France, was Exploring Developed Neolithic Societies in discovered and first explored Central Europe and Beyond 150 years ago. This milestone Edited by Ralf Gleser & Daniela Hofmann gives us an opportunity to Contributors in this volume provide up-to-date look back at this exceptional regional overviews of the main developments in the site. The various chapters fifth millennium and discuss, amongst others, in cover multiple aspects of how far ceramically-defined ‘cultures’ can be seen the history of research and as spatially coherent social groups with their own of the collections, present way of life and worldview, and how processes of detailed studies on the innovation can be understood. Case studies range material culture (osseous industry, spearthrowers, from the Neolithisation of the Netherlands, hunter- musical instruments), and address gatherer – farmer fusions in the Polish Lowlands, to specific issues related to parietal the Italian Neolithic. art, social networks and the Only 335pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) political nature of these £30.00 until prehistoric communities. 9789088907159 Hb £135.00, 9789088907142 Pb £45.00, 31st May NYP 210pp, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919603 Pb £35.00

14 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Tracing the Indo-Europeans Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic New Evidence From Archaeology and Historical Europe Linguistics A Social Perpsective Edited by Birgit A. Olsen, Thomas Olander and Edited by Anne Teather, Peter Topping & Jon Baczkowski Kristian Kristiansen The aim of this volume Two revolutionary in the Neolithic Studies genetic studies, published Group Papers is to explore independently in Nature, new findings on extraction 2015, showed that prehistoric sites and their products. Europe underwent two How did the acquisition of successive waves of migration, raw materials fit into other one from Anatolia consistent aspects of Neolithic life with the introduction of and social networks? How agriculture, and a later influx did these activities merge from the Pontic-Caspian in creating material items steppes which without any that underpinned cosmology, reasonable doubt pinpoints status and identity? What are the geographic European Prehistory the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of similarities, constraints and variables between the (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first various raw materials, and how does the practise of time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible stone extraction in the UK relate to wider extractive for the fields of genetics, archaeology and historical traditions in northwestern Europe? linguistics to cooperate in a constructive fashion to Eight papers address these refine our knowledge of the Indo- questions and act as a useful European homeland, migrations, overview of the current state of Only society and language. Only research on the topic. £30.40 until 160pp b/w and col illus £20.00 until 176pp, b/w (Oxbow Books publication (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 2019) 9781789251487 Pb 9781789252705 Pb £25.00 £38.00

Wild Things 2.0 First Farmers of the Carpathian Basin Further Advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Changing Patterns in Subsistence, Ritual Research and Monumental Figurines Edited by David Clinnick, Helen Drinkall, Stephanie By Eszter Bánffy Piper and James Walker This study explores and Building on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow demonstrates processes of Books 2014) which aimed to showcase the cultural change in the first research putting archaeologists researching the half of the 6th millennium Palaeolithic and Mesolithic at the cutting edge cal BC, among the Körös of understanding humanity’s past, this collection and Starčevo groups of the of contributions presents recent research from northern marginal zones an international group of both early career and of the Balkans. Eszter established scientists. Covering aspects of both Bánffy takes a holistic Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order approach to the definition of to encourage dialogue between practitioners of monumental early Neolithic archaeology of both periods, contributions are clay figurines, analogies over also geographically diverse, touching on British, South-east Europe, and the reconstruction of European, North American and Asian archaeology. rituals involved in the making and using figurines. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer She reviews a broad scope of environmental and and people, stone tool technologies, pottery, (social) zooarchaeological analyses to examine land-use, antler frontlets, and the concomitant development and significance the development of prehistoric of early dairying. The target is to present one archaeology an ‘age of wonder’. Only possible narrative on the fading of the 160pp (Oxbow Books £28.50 until South-east European ’clayscapes‘, 2019) 9781785709463 Hb publication towards the birth of the LBK and £38.00 the Central European Neolithic. Only 192pp, b/w and colour £28.00 until (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 9781789251647 Hb £35.00

European Prehistory 15 Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and Traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS 1500–1100 BC Big Men or Chiefs? By Heide W. Norgaard Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe Bronze ornaments of the By Jaroslav Řídký, Petr Květina, Petr Limburský, Nordic Bronze Age (neck Markéta Končelová, Pavel Burgert & Radka collars, belt plates, pins Šumberová and tutuli) were elaborate This volume discusses objects that served as status the circular architecture symbols to communicate of the Central European social hierarchy. The Neolithic. The authors of magnificent metalwork the book ask whether these studied here dates from 1500- structures, most often 1100 BC. An interdisciplinary termed rondels, can be investigation of the artefacts regarded as ‘architecture was adopted to elucidate of power’ – the first clear their manufacture and origin. Based on the habitus evidence of thought- concept, which situates the craftsmen within their out power strategies of social and technological framework, some individuals or their individual artefact characteristics groups. Using anthropological terms – were they and metalworking techniques Only skilful and exceptional entrepreneurs with an ad can be used to identify different £72.50 until hoc status (such as Big Men) living in egalitarian/ craft practices, even to identify segmented communities, or rather powerful individual craftsmen. 31st May Chiefs living in rank and hereditary based 520pp b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress societies/chiefdoms? 2018) 9781789690194 Pb £85.00 184pp, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Brazaletes de Piedra Neolíticos en la 2019) 9781789250268 Hb £38.00 Península Ibérica (VI–V milenio a.C.) First Textiles By Francisco Martinez-Sevilla The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in This book presents a petrological, technological, Europe and the Mediterranean typological and traceological study of stone bracelets Edited by Małgorzata Siennicka, Lorenz Rahmstorf in the Iberian Peninsula. Through these analyses, & Agata Ulanowska based on the use, distribution and production of the The beginning of textile bracelets, the author identifies two cultural groups manufacture is still vague, with different and parallel social developments. but can be traced back 355pp, b/w illus (BAR 2913, 2018) 9781407316468 Pb to the upper Palaeolithic. £54.00 Important developments in textile technology, e.g. Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig- weaving, spinning with a Holstein spindle, introduction of By Sebastian Schultrich wool, appeared in Europe This book offers a comprehensive study of the and the Mediterranean Younger Neolithic period (c. 2850 – 2250 BC) of throughout the Neolithic, Schleswig-Holstein. Apart from presenting all Chalcolithic and Early currently known artefacts and contexts of that Bronze Age. This book is devoted to early textile period in detail, a particular focus was placed production in Europe and the Mediterranean on the examination of YN battle axes. While and aims to collect and investigate the combined battle axes of the early stage are shaped more or evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, less equally elaborately, late specimens exhibit workplaces and textile iconography. The chapters significant morphological variation and difference. discuss the recent achievements in the research It is suggested that this difference reflects the of ancient textiles and textile production, emergence of a more stratified society. textile techniques such as spinning, fabric German text. 488pp b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and 2019) 9789088907432 Hb £195.00, 9789088907425 Pb experimental textile archaeology. The volume £65.00, NYP explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development. 272p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785707988 Hb £45.00

16 European Prehistory Embracing Bell Beaker The Zooarchaeology of the Late Adopting New Ideas and Objects Across Neolithic Strymon River Valley Europe During the Later 3rd Millennium BC By George Kazantzis (c. 2600–2000 BC) Excavations on the border between Greece (sector By Jos Kleijne Promachon) and Bulgaria (sector Topolniča) in This book deals with the the basin of the river Strymonas, in Macedonia question how communities northern Greece, have revealed a ‘flat-extended’ across Europe during the settlement dating to the Late Neolithic. In addition later 3rd millennium BC to the rich array of material culture evidence, the adopt and transform the excavation yielded a substantial quantity of animal Bell Beaker phenomenon bones, thus offering an unparalleled opportunity to differently. Settlements from study the human-animal relationships. various regions of Europe 218pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2908, 2018) 9781407316581 are studied at the same Pb £46.00 level and compared using modern research methods Beyond Provenance such as aoristic frequency New Approaches to Interpreting the Chemistry distributions, the Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon of Archaeological Copper Alloys dates and network analyses. Temporal and spatial Edited by Mark Pollard variability in the regional processes that lead to the adoption (and rejection!) of Bell Beaker innovations This book represents a are described in detail. concerted effort to think about the composition 290pp col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) 9789088907548 Hb of Bronze Age metal as £150.00, 9789088907555 Pb £50.00, NYP the product of human Local Communities in the Big World of intentionality as well as of geology. It considers the Prehistoric Northwest Europe trace element composition Edited by Corrie C. Bakels, Quentin P.J Bourgeois, of the metal, the alloying David R. Fontijn & Richard Jansen elements, and the lead Communities from the deep past managed to isotopic composition, make a living in landscapes we tend to perceive showing how a combination as inconvenient, build complex and elaborate of these aspects, along with monuments with relatively simple tools, and by archaeological context and typology, can reveal shaping their landscape carved out a place for much more about the life history of such artefacts, themselves in a much bigger social world. The expanding considerably upon the rather limited contributions in this volume underscore how small ambition of knowing where the ore was extracted. worlds can be big at the same time. 234pp (Leuven UP 2018) 9789462701625 Hb £35.00 156pp b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088907470 Hb £95.00, 9789088907463 Pb £35.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe Edited by Chris Fowler, Jan Harding & Daniela Hofmann The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic — from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta —offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; Only subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and £34.00 until other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and 31st May themes for future work in the field. 1200pp, 197 illustrations (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2019) 9780198832492 Pb £40.00

European Prehistory 17 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia Edited by Chris Scarre Exploring Celtic Origins This volume takes recent Edited by Barry Cunliffe & John Koch excavations at Lajinha, a Exploring Celtic Origins small megalithic tomb in is the fruit of collaborative the hill-country north of the work by researchers in River Tagus, and the adjacent archaeology, historical site of Cabeço dos Pendentes linguistics, and as the starting point for a archaeogenetics over the broader consideration of the past ten years. Led by Sir megalithic tombs of western Barry Cunliffe and John Iberia. Key themes addressed Koch, the contributors are relevant to megalithic present multidisciplinary tombs more generally, chapters in a lively user- including landscape, chronology, settlement and friendly style, aimed at interregional relationships. Over what period of accessibility for workers in the other fields, time were these tombs built and used? Do they form as well as general readers. The collection a horizon of intensive monument construction, or stands as a pause to reflect on ways forward were the tombs the product of a persistent, long-lived at the moment of intellectual history when tradition? How do they relate to the famous rock art the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA of the Tagus valley, and to the cave (a.k.a. ‘the archaeogenetic revolution’) has burials and open-air settlements of suddenly changed everything in the study of later the region, in terms of chronology Only European prehistory. How do we deal with what and landscape? appears to be an irreversible breach in the barrier £33.75 until between science and the humanities? 208p, b/w illus publication (Oxbow Books 2019) 224p, col illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709807 Hb £45.00 9781789250886 Hb £45.00 The Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe Etude Paleoanthropologique et Analyse The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective des Rituels Funéraires de Deux Sites Edited by Alex M. Gibson Lateniens Valaisans European studies of the Randogne – Bluche et Sion – Parking des Bell Beaker phenomenon Remparts have concentrated on burial By Tobias Hofstetter and artefacts that constitute This volume concerns the its most visible aspects. bioanthropological analysis This volume concentrates and the investigation of on the domestic sphere – Second Iron Age (also assemblage composition, known as the La Tene domestic structures (how period: 470-25 BC) funerary they differ, if at all, from practices in central Valais. previous types, legacies), More precisely, it deals with and provides the first pan- the study of two necropolises European synthesis of its kind. It is a Europe-wide lately discovered in this survey and analysis of Bell Beaker settlement mountainous region of structures; this is particularly important as we southern Switzerland: cannot understand the Bell Beaker phenomenon Randogne-Bluche (excavated between by analysing graves alone. Each chapter deals with 2001 and 2005) and Sion-Parking a defined region or country and is fully illustrated, des Remparts (excavated in including a corpus of Beaker houses 2006). Only and comparing then with Late 250pp, b/w and col illus £38.50 until Neolithic domestic structures Only (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919375 31st May where they are known to exist. £28.00 until Pb £45.00 336pp, b/w and col illus publication (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789251241 Hb £35.00

18 European Prehistory World Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Angkor and the Khmer Civilization Puspika¯ V: Tracing Ancient India, By Michael D. Coe & Damian Evans ̇ In recent years our knowledge of the Angkor through Texts and Traditions civilisation has been revolutionized by cutting-edge Contributions to Current Research in Indology technology. LiDAR has revealed entire cities that Edited by Heleen De Jonckheere, Marie-Hélène Gorisse were previously unknown and a complex urban & Agnieszka Rostalska landscape with highways and waterways. In this This edition of Puṣpikā takes comprehensively updated edition of Angkor and “Jains and the others” main the Khmer Civilization, Michael Coe is joined by theme. The purpose of such Damian Evans, who led this remarkable programme a theme is to contribute of scientific exploration, to present the results and to determine the input implications of these ground-breaking discoveries. of Jainism in the broader 256pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2018) framework of South Asian 9780500052105 Hb £24.95 traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond Liangzhu Culture boundaries of religious or Society, Belief and Art in Neolithic China cultural identity. In this Edited by Bin Liu & Qin Ling dynamic, two papers deal With a wide sphere of influence centred near with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives present day Hangzhou city, the Liangzhu Site and two others with the relation between textual Complex is considered one of the earliest urban tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. centres in China. This volume contextualises In concert, other innovative papers Liangzhu in broad socioeconomic and cultural elaborate on Puranic and kāvya backgrounds and provides new, first-hand data literature, include technical Only to help explain its development and structure. It discussions on linguistics and reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring £24.00 until engage in philosophical studies. social power. 176pp (Oxbow Books publication 248pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138557406 Hb 2019) 9781789252828 Pb £115.00 £30.00 Relic Hunters Archaeology and the Public in 19th Century A Population History of India America From the First Modern People to the Present Day By James E. Snead By Tim Dyson Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship This book provides an account of the size and between the people of 19th century America characteristics of India’s population stretching from with the material antiquities of North America’s when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in indigenous past. At the center of the story is the first the country – very roughly seventy thousand years iconic find of American archaeology, known as “the ago – until the modern day. It addresses mortality, Kentucky Mummy.” fertility, the size of cities, patterns of migration, and 336pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198736271 Hb £70.00 the multitude of famines, epidemics, invasions, wars, and other events that affected the population. Art of the Ancestors 320pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198829058 Hb £35.00 Spatial and Temporal Patterning in the Ceiling Rock Art of Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem A Zooarchaeological Study of the Land, Australia Haimenkou Site, Yunnan Province, China By Robert G. Gunn By Juan Wang This volume presents a new systematic approach This volume investigates the human-animal to the archaeological recording and documentation relationships at Haimenkou through a time span of rock art developed to analyse the spatial and running from the late Neolithic Period to the middle temporal structure of complex rock art panels. Bronze Age (ca. 5000-2400 BP). Animal exploitation Focusing on the ceiling art at Nawarla patterns, local animal domestication processes, Gabarnmang in Arnhem Land human subsistence strategies and communication the approach utilised DStretch- Only networks linking Haimenkou and other regions in enhanced photographs to record £127.50 prehistoric China are studied. 1391 motifs from 42 separate art until 218pp, b/w illus (BAR 2902, 2018) 9781407316130 Pb panels across the ceiling. £45.00 918pp, col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 31st May 9781789690705 Pb £150.00 19 Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dearchaizing the Archaic the Ancient Maya Underworld Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Andrzej T. Antczak By Shawn Gregory Morton This volume offers a This book aims to highlight and, within a specific comprehensive coverage of regional context, to address, the tendency of the the most recent advances in speleoarchaeology of the Maya area to isolate itself interdisciplinary research from broader topics of discourse. To this end, it on the early human settling explicitly contextualizes primary research in several of the Caribbean islands. It caves along a chain of related concepts and datasets, provides new data in the fields extending from the broad body of literature on of archaeology, collection ritual and religion, through discussion of the studies, palaeobotany,­ conceptual cave context drawn from epigraphic geomorphology, paleoclimate and iconographic sources, as well as ethnographic and bioarchaeology that contexts. challenge currently existing 205pp, b/w illus (BAR 2910, 2018) 9781407316666 Pb perspectives on early human settlement patterns, £37.00 subsistence strategies, migration routes and mobility and exchange. From Cambridge to Lake Chad 320pp b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) Life in Archaeology 1956–1971 9789088907814 Hb £135.00, 9789088907807 Pb £45.00, By Graham Connah NYP This book is about how the author became an The Archaeology of Caribbean and archaeologist and how he became one of the pioneers of Nigerian archaeology during a decade in that Circum-Caribbean Farmers country. It is not so much a study of the archaeology (6000 BC – AD 1500) that was done, as an account of how Edited by Basil A Reid it was done; its circumstances, This book explores a variety organization, and economic and Only of issues, including the social and cultural context. £32.50 until introduction and dispersal 294pp, b/w illus, col pls 31st May of early cultivars, plant (Archaeopress 2019) 9781784919580 manipulation, animal Pb £38.00 domestication, dietary profiles, and landscape An Engraved Landscape modifications. Contributors Rock Carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya, discuss their findings within Volume 1: Synthesis multiple constructs such By Tertia Barnett as neolithisation, social An Engraved Landscape is a contextual analysis of interaction, trade, mobility, a substantial new corpus of engravings from the social complexity, migration, Wadi al-Ajal, situated in the Central Saharan region colonisation, and historical ecology. of south west Libya. The wadi is renowned as the 454pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815347385 Hb heartland of the Garamantian civilization, which £110.00, 9780815347408 Pb £29.99 emerged from local mobile Pastoral communities in the 1st millennium BC, and dominated trans- The Hydraulic System of Uxul Saharan trade and politics for over a thousand years. Origins, functions, and social setting Around 2,500 previously unknown or unpublished By Nicolaus Seefeld engraved and inscribed rock surfaces were recorded. The issue of water supply in Classic Maya society Volume 1 offers a synthetic discussion. has been a matter of controversial debate. Due to 310pp (Society for Libyan Studies 2019) 9781900971515 the annually recurring dry seasons the availability Hb £80.00, NYP of water during this period is and has always been problematic. The main body of this monograph An Engraved Landscape focuses on the archaeological investigation of the Rock Carvings in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libya, hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya Volume 2: Gazetteer centre. It is used as a central point By Tertia Barnett of reference for the evaluation of Volume 2 comprises a detailed gazetteer. the socio-political relevance of Only 582pp (Society for Libyan Studies 2019) 9781900971522 water management in the Maya £76.50 until Hb £80.00, NYP Lowlands. 31st May 540pp, col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919290 Pb £90.00

20 World Archaeology Ancient Egypt From Siena to Nubia Tombs Trowels and Treasures Alessandro Ricci in Egypt and Sudan, 1817–22 The First 40 Years of Egyptology at Macquarie Edited by Daniele Salvodi & Daniele Salvodi University Alessandro Ricci travelled Edited by Leonie Donovan & Susanne Binder extensively throughout To celebrate 40 years of Egyptology at Macquarie Egypt and Sudan between University, Tombs, Trowels and Treasures provides 1817 and 1822. During his stay, an overview of the fieldwork undertaken in Egypt he worked as an epigraphist from the early days until the present and records for Giovanni B. Belzoni in the University’s engagement in teaching, research the tomb of Seti I and later and community outreach. It presents the fieldwork entered into the service of projects conducted by Macquarie in over 20 sites British consul general Henry and 80 tombs. Salt and English explorer 368pp, b/w illus (Australian Centre for Egyptology 2018) William John Bankes, on 9780856688577 Pb £50.00 whose behalf he visited and documented Siwa (1820), Sinai (1820), and The Art of Describing Nubia (1818–19 and 1821–22). This book contains an Studies in Honour of Yvonne Harpur English-translated critical edition, with notes and Edited by Peter Jánosi, Hana Vymazalová, Geoffrey introductory chapters, of Ricci’s travel account. Martin, Paolo Scremin & Hartwig Altenmüller 472pp, 104 col pls (American University in Cairo Press This volume covers a 2018) 9789774168543 Hb £50.00 wide array of subject- Wonderful Things: A History of matter dealing with the visual culture of the Old Egyptology Kingdom. The topics range 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century from in-depth studies of By Jason Thompson various two-dimensional This, the third of a three-volume history of motifs as well as sculpture Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline encountered in the tombs of from the trauma of the First World War, through the Memphite necropolises, the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into the presentation of complete Egyptology’s new horizons at the beginning of the overviews of wall scenes, and twenty-first century. Wonderful Things affirms that the art of carving, to selected royal scenes as well as the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually the decorative programme of burial chambers. fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history 307pp b/w and col illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology of Egyptology is no less so. 2018) 9788073087708 Hb £65.00 448pp b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2018) 9789774167607 Hb £35.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Nile Basin Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments By Martin Williams This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Only Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and £95.00 until consequences of plant and animal domestication in this 31st May region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. 440pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2019) 9781107179196 Hb £105.00

21 Akhenaten Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Egypt’s False Prophet By Nicholas Reeves Ancient Egyptian Warfare In this immensely readable re- Pharaonic Tactics, Weapons and Ideology evaluation, Nicholas Reeves By Ian Shaw takes issue with the existing A concise introduction to view of Akhenaten, presenting Ancient Egyptian warfare an entirely new perspective on from the Neolithic period the turbulent events of his through to the Iron Age, seventeen-year reign. Reeves covering everything from argues that, far from being battle tactics to weaponry the idealistic founder of a new and battle injuries. The faith, Akhenaten cynically excellent preservation of used religion for purely Egyptian artefacts including political ends in a calculated bows, axes and chariots, attempt to reassert the authority of the king. means that it is possible 224pp, b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2001, Pb 2019) to track the changing 9780500294697 Pb £10.99 nature of Egyptian military technology, as well as the Pharaoh Seti I equipment and ideas that were adopted from other Father of Egyptian Greatness civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean and By Nicky Nielsen Near East. As well as discussing such crucial issues Pharaoh Seti I ruled Egypt for only 11 years (1290- as military strategy, martial ideology, construction 1279 BC), but, as this new biography makes plain, of fortresses and waging of siege warfare, this book his reign marked a revival of Egyptian military and includes the study of practical questions­ of life, economic power, as well as cultural and religious death and survival of individual soldiers life. He reasserted Egypt’s might with a series of on the battlefield. campaigns across the Levant, Libya and Nubia, 160pp, 30 b/w photos and diagrams (Casemate and oversaw one of the most ambitious building UK 2019) 9781612007250 Pb £7.99 projects of any Egyptian Pharaoh. Ultimately, his actions allowed his son, Ramesses the Great to rule in relative peace and stability for 69 years. The Ancient Egyptian Economy 192pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526739575 Hb 3000–30 BCE £19.99 By Brian Muhs Amenemhat IV and the End of the This book is the first Twelfth Dynasty economic history of ancient Between the End and the Beginning Egypt covering the entire By Stefania Pignattari pharaonic period, 3000-30 This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the BCE, and employing a New short reign of Amenemhat IV in the context of the end Institutional Economics of the Twelfth Dynasty. In defining Amenemhat IV’s approach. It argues that role, and establishing whether his reign represented the ancient Egyptian an element of continuity or of fracture, the author state encouraged an seeks to clarify the causes and mechanisms that led increasingly widespread and to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty. sophisticated use of writing through time, primarily in 228pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2907, 2018) 9781407316352 order to better document and more efficiently exact Pb £41.00 taxes for redistribution. The increased use of writing, In Bed With the Ancient Egyptians however, also resulted in increased documentation and enforcement of private property titles and By Charlotte Booth transfers, gradually lowering their transaction costs Sex was a prominent part of ancient Egyptian relative to redistribution. The book also argues that society. It featured heavily in religion, mythology the increasing use of silver as a unified measure of and artwork, and was not considered the taboo it value, medium of exchange, and store of wealth also is sometimes treated as in modern cultures. This lowered transaction costs for high value exchanges. book examines all aspects of ancient Egyptian sex The increasing use of silver in turn allowed the state lives, from idealised beauty and attitudes towards to exact transfer taxes in silver, providing it with sexuality, to representations of fertility in art and the an economic incentive to further document and relationship between sex and religion. enforce private property titles and transfers. 304pp, (Amberley 2015, Pb 2018) 9781445686585 Pb 404pp (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781107113367 Hb £9.99 £77.00, 9781107533950 Pb £22.99 22 Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Scribes The Materiality of Texts from A Cultural Exploration Ancient Egypt By Hana Navratilova & Niv Allon New Approaches to the Study of Textual Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines how these Material From the Early Pharaonic to the Late figures kept both the administrative life and cultural Antique Period memory of Egypt running. Case studies look at By F.A.J. Hoogendijk & Steffie van Gompel accountants, draughtsmen, scribes with military The contributors to this volume discuss the and dynastic roles, the authors of graffiti and literati materiality of ancient writing and writing supports who interacted in different ways with Pharaohs and from the early Pharaonic to the Late Antique other leaders. The various roles and identities of the periods in Egypt, including Greek and Egyptian scribes are presented in a way that offers structured papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. The information on their cultural identity and self- articles present new approaches to the study of presentation, and provides readers with an insight textual material and scribal practice, especially into the making of Egyptian written culture. in the light of the ongoing development of digital 216pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017, Pb 2018) techniques that uncover new information from 9781472583956 Hb £90.00, 9781472583963 Pb £28.99 ancient writing materials. Peace in Ancient Egypt 144pp (Brill 2018) 9789004375284 Hb £190.00 By Vanessa Davies Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky One of the world’s oldest treaties provides the Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia backdrop for a new analysis of the Egyptian concept Edited by S. Porcier, S. Ikram & S. Pasquali of hetep (“peace”). Vanessa Davies explores battles This volume presents well against Egypt’s enemies, royal offerings to deities, over 30 contributions that and rituals of communing with the dead. She argues explore Human-Animal that hetep is the result of action that is just, true, and relationships in Egypt in accord with right order (maat). from the Predynastic to the 212pp (Brill 2018) 9789004380219 Hb £161.00 Roman period. The essays cover topics such as animal The Notebook of Dhutmose husbandry, mummification, P. Vienna AES 10321 species-specific studies, the By Regina Hoelzl, Michael Neumann & archaeology and economy Robert J. Demaree of the animal cults, funerary The twenty-four columns of text presented practices, iconography and here constitute a unique notebook of the Scribe symbolism. Dhutmose, active as chief administrator of the 310pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) institution responsible for the creation of royal 9789088907715 Hb £165.00, 9789088907722 Pb £55.00, tombs in Western Thebes at the end of the NYP Ramesside Period. The texts concern financial accounts relating to the acquisition of copper Loaves, beds, plants and Osiris tools and weapons, but also private affairs like an Considerations About the Emergence of inventory of his amulets and jewelry and a report the Cult of Osiris about the robbery of his personal belongings. By Leo Roeten 80pp (Brill 2018) 9789004381575 Hb £146.00 The emergence of the cult of Osiris is, in most cases, dated Demotic Literary Texts from the to the end of the 5th dynasty Tebtunis Temple Library and it is commonly held that By Kim Ryholt before this period not a trace The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient of the cult can be discerned. Egyptian temple library of which substantial This study gathers evidence remains are still preserved. This book contains to suggest this appearance a wide selection of demotic texts from its stores, was preceded by a period of including a theological treatise; manuals on dream development of the theology interpretation and one on birth prognosis; several and mythology of the cult. lists of professions, plant life, and titles of cultic To this end it investigates treatises; newly discovered fragments of the Great the chronological development of Demotic Book of Wisdom; and an astronomical text. the rebirth connotations of the 500pp, b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2019) various decoration themes that Only 9788763526074 Hb £57.99 were used in the chapel of Old £29.00 until Kingdom tombs. 31st May 254pp b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919665 Pb £34.00 Ancient Egypt 23 Arts of Ancient Nubia By Denise M. Doxey NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has the most Ancient Egyptian Coffins extensive and important collection of ancient Past – Present – Future Nubian art outside of Khartoum, mostly gathered during the pioneering Harvard University–Boston Edited by Helen Strudwick & Julie Dawson Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in the first This collection of papers half of the 20th century. The objects highlighted by leading international in this volume include refined early ceramics, experts on the subject of monumental statues and relief carvings made ancient Egyptian coffins, for royal pyramids, exquisite gold and enamel builds on a project jewelry, playful decorations for furniture and based at the Fitzwilliam clothing, and luxury goods traded from around the Museum, Cambridge, Mediterranean world. to study and record in 168pp col illus (Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2018) detail its collection. 9780878468539 Pb £15.00 Papers address a series of topics including: the Greek Ostraca from ‘Marea’ development of coffins in By Tomasz Derda & Joanna Wegner antiquity, including iconographic and text-based In 2011, Polish archaeological team excavating the studies; the post-antiquity history of coffins, site conventionally called ‘Marea’ discovered over including their acquisition and subsequent a hundred inscribed pottery sherds, a collection of treatment in museums around the world; documentary texts written on ostraca. The present developments in technical examination and book offers an edition of ninety-nine documents methods of studying coffins, especially the use from this lot, some of which have been assembled of multispectral imaging to provide non-invasive from smaller fragments. analysis of materials; and increasing evidence of the re-use of materials and complete re-working (Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 35, 2019) of coffins for new owners , leading us to question 9788394684853 Hb £58.50, NYP fundamental attitudes to the purpose of coffins as The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus a containers of human remains and the practices of craftsmen in the funerary industry. The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom 288p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781785709180 Hb £70.00 By Christian H. Bull Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized Photographing Tutankhamun brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive directed by Egyptian priests educated in the By Christina Riggs traditional lore of the temples, but also conversant with Greek philosophy. The volume contains a This book undertakes the comprehensive analysis of the myths of Hermes first critical analysis of Trismegistus, a reevaluation of the Way of Hermes, the photographic archive and a contextualization of this ritual tradition. formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb of 548pp (Brill 2018) 9789004370814 Hb £164.00 Tutankhamun, and in doing Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating so explores the interface between photography and 24 Centuries archaeology at a pivotal time Edited by Christos S. Zerefos & Marianna V. for both. Photographing Vardinoyannis Tutankhamun foregrounds In this volume 28 papers present a variety of new photography as a material, data on Hellenistic Alexandria, from its foundation, technical, and social process in early 20th- to comparison between Ptolemaic Alexandria and century archaeology, in order to question how the Ptolemaic Greece through philosophy, culture and photograph made and remade ‘ancient Egypt’ in the drama to the revolution of science, and medicine waning age of colonial order. which took place in the city, and 272pp b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press the prevailing climatological and 2019) 9781350038516 Pb £19.99 geophysical conditions during Only the Hellenistic Period. £58.00 until 322pp, b/w and col illus 31st May (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789690668 Pb £68.00 24 Ancient Egypt The Tomb of the Priests of Amun Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Burial Assemblages in the Egyptian Museum Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt of Florence By Maciej Paprocki Edited by Rogerio Sousa This volume examines The Tomb of the Priests of evidence for desert roads in Amun was uncovered in Roman Egypt and assesses 1891 at Deir el-Bahari , and Roman influence on the contained the intact burials road density in two select of 153 individuals that lived desert areas: the central under the 21st Dynasty. and southern section of This outstanding find the Eastern Desert and the was subsequently divided central Marmarican Plateau. in lots of antiquities and It discusses geographical and dispersed by 17 nations. This social factors influencing volume presents the first road use in the period, comprehensive publication demonstrating that Roman overseers of these of the Italian Lot, kept in the lands adapted remarkably well to local desert Egyptian Museum of Florence. Besides the formal conditions, improving roads and developing the description of the objects, a critical assessment of trail network. Roman administration in Egypt not the collection is provided. only increased the density of local desert ‘node’ 576pp (Brill 2018) 9789004386495 Hb £205.00 networks, but also facilitated internodal connections with camel caravans and transformed Handel in Krisenzeiten the Sahara by establishing new, Agyptische-Mykenische Handelsbeziehungen or embellishing existing, nodes, in der Ramessidenzeit effectively funnelling desert Only By Birgit Schiller traffic into discernible corridors. £30.40 until This book provides an 288pp, b/w illus (Oxbow publication overview of the sites of Books 2019) 9781789251562 Mycenaean pottery finds Pb £38.00 in Egypt and Nubia. Data from thirty-six sites in Egypt The Egyptian Collection at Norwich and twelve sites in Nubia are Castle Museum presented. The context of the Catalogue and Essays vessels and sherds dates from By Faye Kalloniatis the reign of Akhenaten (18th This book is the first full Dynasty) to that of Ramesses publication of this important VI (20th Dynasty). Copies of collection which contains Mycenaean stirrup jars made several outstanding objects. from clay, faience and stone were Part 1 begins with an outline also found. German text. Only of the acquisition history of 218pp, b/w and col illus £30.00 until the Egyptian collection and (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784918675 31st May its display within Norwich Pb £35.00 Castle in 1894, when it was converted from a prison to Beni Hassan Volume lV a museum. Also included in The Tomb of Baqet lll this part are essays on several By Naguib Kanawati & Linda Evans of the museum’s outstanding items – Ipu’s shroud, a Baqet III was the ‘great overlord’ of the Oryx rare early 18th Dynasty example with fragments also province, located in the most fertile region of Egypt. held in Cairo; the 22nd Dynasty finely decorated and The well-preserved wall scenes in his chapel record well-preserved cartonnage and wooden lid of the activities undertaken in the desert, on land and priest, Ankh-hor; and the exceptional model granary river, in workshops as well as those of wars and of Nile clay painted with lively scenes, one showing entertainments. Dated to the end of the Eleventh the owner, Intef, playing senet. Part 2 is a detailed Dynasty, the tomb documents one of the critical catalogue of the complete collection. The inscribed times in Egyptian history. The architectural features materials have all been translated and and the scenes and inscriptions are published in individual entries give examples or colour photographs and detailed line drawings, parallels. Seventy colour plates Only accompanied by explanatory text. illustrate each object. £36.00 until 51pp, 100 col pls, 32 b/w foldouts (Australian Centre for 464p b/w and col illus publication Egyptology 2018) 9780856688676 Pb £80.00 (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789251968 Hb £45.00 Ancient Egypt 25 The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project Naga el-Deir in the First Intermediate Final Archaeological Analysis Period By André Veldmeijer By Edward Brovarski This volume evaluates, In the course of excavations summarises and discusses at Naga-ed-Dêr, George the results of the study of Reisner discovered in footwear carried out by the addition extensive remains AEFP for the last 10 years. of the First Intermediate The work on physical period-decorated tombs, examples of footwear has steles, and inscribed coffins- brought to light exciting belonging to the period new insights into ancient extending from the end of Egyptian technology and the Sixth to the Eleventh craftsmanship, establishing Dynasties. This volume and refining the dating of endeavours to date the technologies and styles of footwear, the diversity material found by Reisner with a view to elucidating of footwear, provided a means of identification of the history of the site in the period between the Old provenance for unprovenanced examples, and the and Middle Kingdoms. relationship between footwear and socio-economic 704pp (Lockwood Press 2018) 9781937040666 Hb status. £125.00 244pp, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) 9789088907333 Hb £165.00, 9789088907326 Pb £55.00, North Kharga Oasis Survey NYP Explorations in Egypt’s Western Desert Quesna I By Corinna Rossi & Salima Ikram This book presents the results of archaeological Investigations in the Ptolemaic-Roman exploration carried out over seven years in the Cemetery 2006–2013 (Excavation Memoir) northern part of Kharga Oasis. The survey has Quesna I concerns investigations in the Ptolemaic- discovered and documented sites dating to all Roman cemetery. The volume includes the results eras, ranging from the Prehistoric to the Late of the preliminary magnetic survey, a general Antique. They include temporary camps, rock art description of the site, and a main catalogue sites, settlements, tombs, temples, industrial areas, that presents information on each of the burials Roman forts, fields, complex irrigation systems, and excavated and analysed (bioanthropological data, a network of routes that connect the sites together, information relating to the graves, documentation as well as linking Kharga to the Nile Valley, Dakhla of grave goods). This is followed by a synthesis of Oasis, Sudan, and beyond. demographic data. 620pp, b/w illus (Peeters 2018) 9789042936218 Hb 350pp (Egypt Exploration Society 2018) 9780856982217 £150.00 Pb £70.00 Ancient Near East

Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern Migration, Diaspora and Identity in the History Ancient Near East Edited by Mogens Troile Larsen & Thomas Hertel Edited by Andrea Zerbini & Justin Yoo Contributors look at the interactions of nomads, By drawing upon the experiences of previously traders, religious groups, armies, and more to neglected migrant and diaspora communities in the help answer questions about cultural encounters eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic period through both theoretical and empirical lenses. to the early medieval world, this collection of essays They present cases drawn from a range of fields approaches migration studies with new perspectives within the overall history of the Near East, including and methodologies, shedding light not only on the Mesopotamian history, the rise of Islam, and the study of migrants in the ancient world, but also on effects of Hellenism. broader issues concerning the rationale for mobility 224pp, b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2018) and the creation and features of diaspora identities. 9788763543873 Hb £42.99 296pp, (Routledge 2018) 9781472450661 Hb £115.00

26 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Fashioned Selves Understanding Relations Between Dress and Identity in Antiquity Scripts II Edited by Megan Cifarelli Early Alphabets The contributions to this Edited by Philippa M. Steele & Philip J. Boyes volume study varied This book brings together materials, including ten experts on ancient physical markings on writing, languages and the body, durable goods archaeology to present related to dressed bodies a set of diverse studies on in archaeological contexts, the early development of dress as represented in the alphabetic writing systems visual arts as well as in texts, and their spread across the most bringing overlapping Levant and Mediterranean bodies of evidence into during the second and first play. Examining materials millennia BC. By taking an from a range of geographic and chronological interdisciplinary perspective, contexts including the prehistoric Caucasus, Iran, it sheds new light on alphabetic Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, the Aegean, writing not just as a tool for Greece, the Roman world and Late Antique Central recording language but also as Asia, this volume takes as its starting point that an element of culture. Only dress does not simply function as a static expression 272p, (Oxbow Books £37.50 until of identity or status, inscribed on the body to be 2018) 9781789250923 Hb publication “read” by others, but is a dynamic £50.00 component in the construction, embodiment, performance and Only Nairi Lands transformation of identity. £30.40 until The Identity of the Local Communities of 256pp b/w and col illus publication Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery (Oxbow Books 2019) During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. 9781789252545 Pb £38.00 A Reassessment of the Material Culture and Personal Ornaments in the Socio-Economic Landscape Prehistory By Guido Guarducci This study analyses the Beads, Bracelets and other Adornments from social and symbolic value the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age of the material culture, By Emma L. Baysal in particular pottery This book considers how production and architecture, and why the human and the social structure of relationship with ornaments the local communities of a developed and continued broad area encompassing over tens of thousands of Eastern Anatolia, the South years, from expedient use of Caucasus and North-western natural resources to complex Iran during the last phase technologies. Using evidence of the Late Bronze Age and from archaeological sites the Early Iron Age. This broad area is known across Turkey, the Near East from the Assyrian texts as ‘Nairi lands’. The book and the Balkans, it explores furnishes a reassessment of pottery production the history of personal characteristics and theories, as well as of the socio- ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic economic structure and issues, tied to the sedentary until the rise of urban centres in the Early Bronze and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands. It Age and encompassing technologies ranging from brings into focus the characteristics, the extension stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the and the distribution of Grooved pottery, along roots of glass manufacture. The development of with other pottery typologies, by providing an theoretical and practical approaches accompanying online catalogue to ornaments and the current with detailed descriptions and state of research are illustrated Only high-resolution images. Only with a wide variety of examples. £30.40 until 288pp b/w and col illus £48.00 until 176pp (Oxbow Books publication (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 2019) 9781789252866 Pb 9781789252781 Hb £60.00 £38.00

Ancient Near East 27 The Sumerian Texts From Ancient Iraq Discovering Babylon From Ur III to 9/11 By Rannfrid Thelle By Benjamin Studevent-Hickman This volume presents Babylon as it has been passed The 145 tablets presented in this volume are among down through Western culture: through the Bible, a larger group of 302 tablets confiscated by U.S. classical texts, in Medieval travel accounts, and customs, and which were being stored in a World through depictions of the Tower motif in art. It Trade Center building when it was destroyed then details the discovery of the material culture on 9/11. The 145 tablets, which come from an remains of Babylon from the middle of the 19th unknown site near Nippur in Southern Iraq, are century and through the great excavation of 1899- the documents of a high official named Aradmu 1917, and focuses on the encounter between the that detail routine agricultural operations, including Babylon of tradition and the Babylon unearthed by receipts and grain loans. the archaeologists. 500pp (Lockwood Press 2018) 9781937040857 Hb £70.00 188pp (Routledge 2018) 9781138058316 Hb £120.00 Sumerian Literary and Historical The Art of Divination in the Ancient Inscriptions Near East By William W. Hallo, Harold Torger Vedeler, Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth Mark E. Cohen & Ulla Kasten By Stefan M. Maul This volume provides reproductions of over one- Maul surveys the “art” of hundred plates drawn from the Yale Babylonian divination as it expanded Collection. It features an introduction by William from Sumerian roots W. Hallo and seventy-two Sumerian literary texts to Babylonian mastery, and inscriptions that include hymns, prayers, cataloguing its evolving incantations, model legal documents, and royal methodology and the class of correspondence, shedding light on Mesopotamian experts who performed it. He culture as transmitted through ancient Sumerian argues that the discernment documentation. of the will of the gods, though 128pp, b/w illus. (Yale UP 2018) 9780300230765 Hb vital for political counsel, was £105.00 far from a cynical ploy of the elite: at root this was a Archaeozoology of the Near East XII genuine attempt to unite Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium Mesopotamian cultures under a common purpose. of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia 359pp (Baylour UP 2018) 9781481308595 Hb £57.00 and Adjacent Areas Working Group, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, June 14–15 2015, The Politics of the Past University of Groningen, the Netherlands The Representation of the Ancient Empires Edited by C. Çakırlar, J. Chahoud, R. Berthon & by Iran’s Modern States S. Pilaar Birch By Maryam Dezhamkhooy, Leila Papoli-Yazdi & This volume is full of novel theoretical and Ali Roustaeeyanfard methodological approaches and new research results, This book examines the tackling a large variety of topics, from the geometric highly problematic politics morphometrics of sheep in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the past surrounding Period to Predynastic fishing in the Upper Nile, to the archaeology of ancient the biogeography of hartebeest and hemione, and empires in Iran. The covering the vast region stretching between Hungary authors regard the relations in the west and Azerbaijan in the east. between archaeological 262pp, (Barkhuis 2018) 9789492444745 Pb £50.00 remains, (negative) heritage, and modern strategies of Hatra: Il territorio e l’urbanistica suppression. The chapters Prefazione di Roberta Venco Ricciardi provide a detailed analysis By Enrico Foietta of how the practice of In this volume are published the results of more archaeology could be biased and ideologically than four years of research into the ancient urban charged. Discussing their own personal and centre of Hatra and its environs. A multilayer professional experiences, the authors exemplify GIS was created, containing the real (ethical) dilemmas that published and unpublished data archaeologists confront in belonging (mainly) to the Italian Only the Middle East, calling for Only Archaeological Expedition. £75.00 until reflectivity and awareness among £27.50 until the archaeologists of the region. 570pp, b/w and col illus 31st May 31st May (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789690057 160pp, col pls (Archaeopress 2018) Pb £88.00 9781789690934 Pb £32.00 28 Ancient Near East Landscape Archaeology in Southern Çukuriçi Höyük 2 Caucasia By Christoph Schwall Finding Common Ground in Diverse Environment This volume focuses on the Edited by Abby Robinson, Kristen Hopper & William 5th and 4th millennia BC in Anderson Western Anatolia and the East The contributions in this Aegean. The starting point volume cover a broad for this is the investigation of timescale, from the the Chalcolithic settlement Neolithic through the phases at Çukuriçi Höyük. medieval period and into Following a detailed the modern day, and deal assessment of the stratigraphy with such themes as the and the architecture of the relationship between past settlement phases, analyses of and present landscapes, the find material is provided. heritage management, These include pottery, small the use of remote sensing, finds, metal finds and stone objects. Moreover, 31 the value of integrating radiocarbon dates are included for absolute dating historical texts and legacy of the site. data into new projects, survey methodologies, and 815pp, b/w illus (Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie patterns of movement. 2018) 9783700182078 Hb £240.00 167pp, b/w illus (Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie In the Land of a Thousand Gods 2018) 9783700182047 Pb £120.00 A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World Studies in the Sogdian Epistolary By Christian Marek Tradition Spanning a vast time-frame Edited by Adam Benkato from Prehistory to the The first part of this work Roman Empire, Christian is an effort to present a Marek shows Asia Minor’s comprehensive edition of the shifting orientation between Sogdian epistolary fragments East and West and its in the Turfan collections role as both a melting pot of Berlin, Kyoto, and St. of nations and a bridge Petersburg. In the second for cultural transmission. part a comparative study of Marek employs ancient Sogdian epistolography is sources to illuminate civic undertaken, based on the institutions, urban and rural editions made in the first society, agriculture, trade and part, together with previously published work on money, the influential Greek writers of the Second other Sogdian epistolary corpora, including studies Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the of layout, external addresses, and stamps. gladiatorial arena, and more. 300pp, (Brepols 2018) 9782503578767 Pb £90.00 824pp, 109 b/w illus (Princeton UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780691182902 Pb £27.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE Warriors of Anatolia A Concise History of the Hittites By Trevor Bryce In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity’s most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites’ social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he Only shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers £18.00 until of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their 31st May authority for centuries. 304pp (I.B. Tauris 2018) 9781788312370 Hb £20.00

Ancient Near East 29 The Social Archaeology of the Levant Forthcoming from Oxbow Books From Prehistory to the Present Edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Eric H. Cline & The Southern Levant During the Yorke Rowan First Centuries of Roman Rule This volume offers a comprehensive introduction (64BCE–135 CE) to the archaeology of the southern Levant from the Interweaving Local Cultures Palaeolithic period to the Islamic era. It presents By Paolo Cimadomo central debates around a range of archaeological Starting from the issues of issues, including gender, ritual, the creation of globalisation and recent alphabets and early writing, biblical periods, studies about the mechanisms archaeometallurgy, looting, and maritime trade. of absorption of cultures into Collectively, the essays also engage diverse the Roman Empire, this book theoretical approaches to demonstrate the multi- focuses on the Near East. vocal nature of studying the past. Cimadomo seeks to develop 668pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107156685 new understandings of Hb £110.00 imperialism and colonialism, highlighting the numerous How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? and multiple cultural A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study elements that existed in the By Ronald Hendel & Jan Joosten eastern provinces and raising many questions, The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has such as the bilingualism of ancient societies, the sparked controversy and debate in recent years. This relationship between different impressive, broad-ranging book synthesizes recent cultures and the difficulty of using linguistic, textual, and historical research to clarify modern terminologies to explain Only the history of biblical literature, from its oldest texts ancient phenomena. £40.00 until and literary layers to its youngest. 224pp, b/w illus publication 240pp (Yale UP 2019) 9780300234886 Hb £30.00 (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789252385 Hb £50.00 A History of the Kingdom of Israel By E. Lipinski Inhabiting the Promised Land The framework of this history of the Kingdom of Israel is based on information provided by Exploring the Complex Relationship Between epigraphic sources. They show that the religion and Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the ethnic identity of Israel connect traditions of the Bible semi-nomadic tribes of the Cisjordanian highland By Margreet L. Steiner with conceptions and practices of pastoralists living The aim of this book is in Transjordan, Midian, Negeb, and Sinai. They are to describe the often- known as Shasu in Egyptian texts, which provide complicated relationship the earliest written sources. between archaeology and 212pp (Peeters 2018) 9789042936553 Hb £100.00 the Bible. It is not a book on ‘biblical archaeology’, and The History of Bronze and Iron Age archaeology is not used to Israel illustrate the biblical stories, By Victor H. Matthews let alone to prove that the Bible is right. On the contrary, This volume provides a basic introduction to the it focuses on the information historical, archaeological, and socio-contextual that archaeology can provide aspects of ancient Israel during its early foundation of the lives and beliefs of the ancient peoples that period through the end of the monarchy in inhabited the land in which the Bible was written, and Judah. Victor Matthews integrates extra-biblical on the question of how this information relates to the information on the physical realities of geo – and biblical stories. It aims at providing some examples super-power politics, international and interregional of how this interplay of archaeology and biblical movement of peoples, and the evolutionary process stories works, and how to interpret the discrepancy of complex states in the ancient Near East with that may exist between the results of archaeological information from biblical narratives in order to research and the biblical narrative. explore the development of ancient Israelites’ It thus offers an introduction into identity, cultural traditions, and interactions with the field from the standpoint of other major cultures. Only an archaeologist. 200pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190231149 Hb £64.00, £24.00 until 128pp b/w illus 9780190231156 Pb £12.99 publication (Oxbow Books 2019) 9781789253306 Pb £30.00 30 Ancient Near East Ashkelon 6 Funerary Representations of Palmyrene The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates Women of the North Slope and Later Fortifications From the First Century BC to the Third Edited by Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen & Century AD Ross J. Voss By Signe Krag Ashkelon 6 provides a study of the fortifications During the Roman era, when of the North Slope from the first gate and rampart Palmyra was at the height of in the Middle Bronze Age through mud-brick its powers, several hundred towers from the Iron Age. Within the extensive fill, funerary monuments were excavators uncovered indications of connections constructed in the city, and with Crete, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Egypt, while also within these, portraits of collecting evidence of local Bronze Age agriculture Palmyra’s inhabitants were and animal husbandry in an urban centre. once displayed. This volume 656pp b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2018) 9781575069807 Hb offers a study and catalogue £105.95 of the funerary portraits of Palmyrene women from the Metal Jewellery of the Southern Levant first century BC to the third and Its Western Neighbours century AD. It explores both the visual qualities of By J.A. Verduci the portraits themselves, and the complexities of the This volume contributes to the discussion of the space in which they were originally situated. origin of the Sea Peoples by examining the role 320pp (Brepols 2018) 9782503569659 Pb £120.00 of adornment in the portrayal of cultural identity. Metal jewellery is assessed from 29 sites in the Household Food Storage in Ancient southern Levant, the Aegean, and Cyprus, resulting Israel and Judah in the creation of the first multi-regional typology By Tim Frank of metal jewellery for the Iron Age I-IIA eastern On the basis of twenty-two well-excavated buildings Mediterranean. from thirteen Iron Age sites, representative 453pp (Peeters 2018) 9789042935365 Hb £148.00 archaeological data is examined. For each house the total preserved food storage capacity is calculated, Writing and Rewriting the Story activity areas are identified, and specific patterns are of Solomon in Ancient Israel noted. The data indicates that in Iron Age I food was By Isaac Kalimi stored mainly domestically or in shared community Isaac Kalimi highlights the uniqueness of each facilities, while redistributive food portrayal of Solomon – his character, birth, early storage became more common life, ascension, and temple-building – through in Iron Age II, with significant Only a close comparison of the early and late biblical domestic storage continuing. £30.00 until historiographies. Whereas the authors of Samuel- 198pp, b/w illus, col pls 31st May Kings stay closely to their sources and offer an (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919801 apology for Solomon’s kingship, including its more Pb £35.00 questionable aspects, the Chronicler freely rewrites his sources in order to present the life of Solomon Palmyra as he wished it to be. Mirage in the Desert 350pp, 5 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108471268 Edited by Joan Aruz Hb £90.00 In this important and timely publication, top Re-Excavating Jerusalem international scholars Archival Archaeology present current research and By Kay Prag developments about the art, This volume reflects on the excavations conducted archaeology, and history of by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s. Topics the ancient city of Palmyra, include the nature of a dispersed settlement a UNESCO World Heritage pattern in the second millennium BC; a fresh look site located in Syria. The at the vexed problems of the biblical accounts of essays in this book include the development of the city in the tenth and ninth new scholarship on Palmyra’s centuries BC; the nature of the defensive walls re- origins and evolution as well as developments established in the fifth century BC; some evidence from both before and after its damage by ISIS, of the Roman occupation following the destruction providing new information that will be relevant to of the city in AD 70; and an exploration in the current and future generations of art historians and Islamic city. archaeologists. 150pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2019) 9780197266427 Hb 160pp col illus (Metropolitan Museum of Art 2018) £35.00 9781588396310 Pb £25.00 Ancient Near East 31 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Magdala of Galilee A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus Roman Period Settlement and Cemeteries at Souskiou Edited by Richard Bauckham Edited by Edgar Peltenburg, Diane Bolger & Magdala of Galilee for the Lindy Crewe first time unifies the results The excavations of the of various excavations of settlement and cemetery at the Galilean city. After a Souskiou Laona reported comprehensive overview of on in this volume paint a the history and character of very different picture of life the city, the volume details on the island during the late the harbour, the domestic 4th and early 3rd millennia and mercantile sectors, the BC. Burial practices at other Jewish ritual baths, and the known sites are generally synagogue, with its unique single inhumations in and remarkable engraved intramural pit graves, stone. There is also a full study of Magdala’s fishing only rarely equipped with industry, and the production of salted fish. artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were 460pp, b/w illus (Baylour UP 2018) 9781481302937 Hb interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra- £76.00 mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with By Philippa M. Steele arrangements of disarticulated and articulated This volume explores the development and burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave importance of Cypriot writing over a period of more goods. This unusual treatment of the dead, which than 1,500 years in the second and first millennia has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts BC. Five themed chapters deal with issues ranging the focus from the individual to the communal, and from the acquisition of literacy and the adaptation provides evidence for significant of new writing systems to the visibility of writing changes involving kinship group and its role in the marking of identities. The agency links to common ancestors. Only of Cypriots in shaping the island’s literate landscape 288p (Oxbow Books £36.00 until is given prominence, and an extended consideration 2019) 9781789250190 Hb publication of the social context of writing leads to new insights £48.00 on Cypriot scripts and their users. 294pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107169678 Hb £75.00 Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory Eudaimón The Cultic Life of Trees in the Studies in Honor of Jan Bouzek Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt Edited by Peter Pavúk, Věra Klontza-Jaklová & and Cyprus Anthony Harding By C.J. Tully The papers in this volume This research examines 44 images of Minoan tree reflect Jan Bouzek’s many cult as depicted in sphragistic jewellery, portable interests. The world of objects and wall paintings from Late Bronze Age ancient Thrace is an Crete, mainland Greece and the Cyclades. The important focus, especially study also compares the Aegean images with in view of the excavations at evidence for sacred trees in the Middle and Late Pistiros (Bulgaria) which he Bronze Age Levant, Egypt and Cyprus. It argues led between 1993 and 2015. that Minoan images of tree cult depict elite figures Other contributions relate performing their intimate association with the to the prehistoric Aegean, to numinous landscape through the communicative Bronze and Iron Age central method of envisioned and enacted epiphanic ritual. Europe, to the Classical and 332pp b/w illus (Peeters 2018) 9789042937161 Pb £125.00 Hellenistic Balkans, and to the ancient Pontic world. 574pp (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2018) 9788073087678 Hb £35.00, NYP 32 The Marble Finds from Kavos and The Mycenaean Settlement the Archaeology of Ritual on Tsoungiza Hill Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, By Mary K. Dabney & James C. Wright Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas & Michael Boyd A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is This volume describes in located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel detail the marble sculptures of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the and marble vessels, almost remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood always broken in the course at its southern end. The authors demonstrate of ritual practice, which how agricultural production, craft activities, and formed the key part of ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of the systematic depositions Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within undertaken at Kavos during the Bronze Age world. the Early Bronze Age from 1140pp, b/w illus (ASCSA 2019) 9780876619247 Hb ca. 2750-2300 BC. The volume £95.00, NYP offers a systematic discussion of the Special Deposits at The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Kavos in relation to the adjacent settlement at Clauss near Patras Dhaskalio, seen in their Aegean perspective at People, Material Remains and Culture the conclusion of the excavations in 2008. The in Context sanctuary on Keros is recognized as a key site for the emergence of ritual practice in the Aegean. By Constantinos Paschalidis This book comprises the 600pp (McDonald Institute 2018) 9781902937779 Hb study of the finds from the £63.00 1988-1992 excavation of the Winifred Lamb Mycenaean cemetery of Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator Clauss near Patras. Fifteen chambered tombs were By David W.J. Gill located and researched in A biographical study of Winifred Lamb emphasising detail. Discussion ranges her pioneering work as an archaeologist in the from a general review of the Aegean and Anatolia. As WW1 drew to a close Lamb cemetery space and the sites, was appointed honorary keeper of Greek antiquities to analytical description of at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Over the next 40 years the excavation, remarks she created a prehistoric gallery, while also pursuing on the architecture, study of the finds, analysis a parallel career excavating in the Aegean. David of the burial customs and finally, Gill reviews her work at Mycenae, at narration of the overall history Sparta, on prehistoric mounds in of the cemetery according Only Macedonia, at a major Bronze to chronological period and £76.50 until Age site at Thermi on Lesbos Only generation of its occupants. Aegean and and directing a major project at £25.50 until 540pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st May Kusura in Turkey. 31st May 2018) Pb £90.00 284pp, b/w illus (Archaeopress Mediterranean Prehistory 2018) 9781784918798 Pb £30.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Cycladic and Aegean Islands in Prehistory By Ine Berg This book offers an up-to-date academic synthesis of the Aegean islands from the earliest Palaeolithic period through to the demise of the Mycenaean civilization in the Late Bronze III period. The book integrates new findings and theoretical approaches whilst, at the same time, allowing readers to contextualize their understanding through engagement with bigger overarching issues and themes, often drawing explicitly Only on key theoretical concepts and debates. It is structured £27.00 until according to chronological periods, with two dedicated chapters on Akrotiri and the debate around the volcanic 31st May eruption of Thera. 350p (Routledge 2019) 9780415811880 Pb £29.99

Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory 33 Popular Religion and Ritual in Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean Pantalica in the Sicilian Late Bronze and Iron Ages Edited by Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias & Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos Excavations of the Rock-cut Chamber Tombs by Paolo Orsi from 1895 to 1910 These papers explore popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the Edited by R. Leighton and R. M. Albanese Procelli eastern Mediterranean. The topics covered include Pantalica is a large limestone the interplay between elite and popular ritual at promontory in southeast cemeteries and peak sanctuaries at the time of the Sicily known chiefly for a establishment of the first palaces in Minoan Crete; series of extensive cemeteries the use of conical cups in Minoan ritual; the wide comprising thousands sharing of religious and other metaphysical beliefs of chamber tombs dating as expressed in the wall-paintings of mainly between the 13th Akrotiri on the island of Thera; and 7th centuries BCE. The the role of figurines and caves Only finds are only known from a small selection published by in popular cult in the classical £27.50 until period and much more. Orsi. This volume provides 31st May 184pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress a comprehensive study and 2018) 9781789690453 Pb £32.00 illustrated catalogue of all the finds from the Pantalica tombs, along with new information from Seafaring and Seafarers in the Orsi’s original excavation notebooks about their Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean original context. In addition, the authors discuss different aspects of the evidence, By A. Bernard Knapp including topography, funerary A wide-ranging study of Bronze Age seafaring architecture, funerary practices, and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from ceramics, metals and other Only Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west finds, and chronology. £32.00 until to Cyprus. It devotes significant attention to social 192pp b/w and col illus publication factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length (Oxbow Books 2019) and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the 9781789253023 Pb £40.00 knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access Death in Mycenaean Lakonia (17th to to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies. 11th c. BC) 285p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2019) A Silent Place 9789088905551 Hb £120.00, 9789088905544 Pb £40.00 By Chrysanthi Gallou The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Death in Mycenaean Interaction and Mobility at the Gates Lakonia is the first book- of Europe length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age burial People, Things and Networks Around the tradition in south-eastern Southern Adriatic Sea Peloponnese, Greece, and Classical World By Francesco Iacono the first to comprehensively The Bronze Age is the first present and discuss all period of intense interaction Mycenaean tombs and between early state societies funerary contexts excavated of the Eastern Mediterranean and/or simply reported in the and the small-scale region from the 19th century communities to the west to present day. The author proposes patterns of of Greece, with people and continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the goods moving at a scale Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) previously unprecedented. to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late This encounter is explored Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,and reconstructs from the vantage point of diachronic processes of invention of tradition and one of its main foci: Apulia, identity in Mycenaean communities, located in the southern on the basis of tomb types and Adriatic, at the junction between East and West their material culture. Only and the entryway of one of the major routes for the 288pp, b/w illus £38.40 until resource-rich European continent. (Oxbow Books 2019) publication 288pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350036147 Hb 9781789252422 Hb £48.00 £85.00 34 Aegean and Mediterranean Prehistory Studies of Homeric Greece The Early Mediterranean World, By Jan Bouzek 1200 – 600 BC Studies of Homeric Greece is Edited by Anne-Marie Wittke a comprehensive companion Ranging in time from the to the archaeology and end of the Bronze Age to history of Late Mycenaean the dawn of the so-called to Geometric Greece and historical period (12th- the koine of Early Iron Age 6th centuries BC), this Geometric styles in Europe compendium presents the and Upper Eurasia, circa first complete survey of 1300-700 BC, in relation the early history of all the to their Near Eastern cultures along the coasts neighbours. Jan Bouzek of the Mediterranean. In discusses this pivotal period addition to the Phoenicians, of human history, in an attempt to combine Greeks and Etruscans, these archaeological evidence with the words of Homer also include many other and Hesiod, and the first Phoenician and Greek peoples, such as the Iberians, Ligurians, Thracians, trading ventures. Phrygians, Luwians, Aramaeans and Libyans. The 320pp (Karolinum Press 2018) 9788024635613 Pb £23.00 main focus is on contacts, the transfer of culture and knowledge and key common themes, such as To Die in Style! mobility, religion, resources, languages and writing. The residential lifestyle of feasting and dying 592pp b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004339323 Hb £300.00 in Iron Age Stamna, Greece By Gioulika Christakopoulou & Olga Christakopoulou The Etruscans This book re-examines the cemeteries of Stamna, 9th–2nd Centuries BC highlighting tombs with unique architecture or By Raffaele D’Amato peculiar structures with individual features, in Drawing on archaeological evidence including order to investigate the complex identity of elite warrior tombs, paintings, sculptures, and fully group ideologies. The study of such a large number illustrated throughout, this study describes the of PRG tombs (c. 500) presents a remarkable Etruscans at war. Divided into two sections on representative example for discussion of the the Villanovan army and the Etruscan classical perception of death, confronting army respectively, each looks at arms and armour, it through the mourning ritual, clothing and display, infantry and cavalry, and but also examining the creation Only organisation and tactics. of an individual and collective £19.00 until 64pp col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472828316 Pb £11.99 memory. 31st May 84pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919351 Pb £22.00 Classical World The Cambridge History of Religions The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World in the Ancient World Volume 1: From the Bronze Age to Volume 2: From the Hellenistic Age to the Hellenistic Age Late Antiquity Edited by Michele Renee Salzman & Marvin A. Sweeney Edited by William Adler The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient The nineteen essays in World provides a comprehensive and in-depth this volume begin with analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East the Hellenistic age and and Mediterranean world. The fourteen essays in extend to the late Roman Volume 1 begin in the third millennium BCE with period. Its contributors, all the Sumerians and extend to the fourth century acknowledged experts in BCE through the fall of the Achaemenid Persian their fields, analyze a wide Empire and the demise of Alexander the Great. spectrum of textual and 464pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781108703130 material evidence. Pb £22.99 464pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781108703123 Pb £22.99

35 The Punic Mediterranean The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity Identities and Identification from Phoenician Political, Cultural, and Economic Impacts Settlement to Roman Rule Edited by Matthew Adam Cobb Edited by Josephine Crawley Quinn and Thanks to the Indian Ocean Nicholas C. Vella trade, peoples living in the The role of the Phoenicians Roman Empire, Parthia, in the economy, culture India, and Southeast Asia and politics of the ancient increasing had access to Mediterranean was as large exotic foreign products, as that of the Greeks and while the lands from which Romans, but their lack of they derived, and the peoples literature and their oriental inhabiting these lands, also associations mean that they captured the imagination, are much less well-known. finding expression in Focusing on a series of case- a number of literary and studies from the colonial poetic works. The three world of the western major themes of the book are the development Mediterranean, this volume asks what ‘Phoenician’ of this trade, how consumption and exchange and ‘Punic’ actually mean, how Punic or western impacted on societal developments, and how the Phoenician identity has been constructed by Indian Ocean trade influenced the literary creations ancients and moderns, and whether there was in of Graeco-Roman and Indian authors. fact a ‘Punic world’. 288pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138738263 Hb 404p b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP Pb 2014, 2018) £115.00 9781107055278 Hb £82.99, 9781107663787 Pb £27.99 The Story of Greece and Rome Maritime Networks in the Ancient By Tony Spawforth Mediterranean World This new history of the Edited by Justin Leidwanger and Carl Knappett Classical world reveals that For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Greek and Roman civilization, Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended to varying degrees, was on a distinct environment and technological supremely and surprisingly parameters that created diverse challenges and receptive to external opportunities, making the modelling of maritime influences, particularly from interaction a paramount concern for understanding the East. From the rise of cultural interaction more generally. Network- the Mycenaean world of inspired metaphors have long been employed the sixteenth century B.C., in discussions of this interaction, but increasing Spawforth traces a path theoretical sophistication and advances in formal through the ancient Aegean network analysis now offer opportunities to refine to the zenith of the Hellenic and test the dominant paradigm of connectivity. state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming Extending from prehistory into the Byzantine of Christianity and the consequences of the first period, the case studies here reveal the potential of caliphate. such network approaches. 392pp, col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300217117 Hb £20.00 272pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108429948 Hb £75.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Greek and Roman Religions By Rebecca I. Denova Rebecca Denova explores the presence of divinity in all aspects of ancient life and highlights the origins of myth, religious authority, institutions, beliefs, rituals, sacred texts, and ethics. Comprehensive in scope, the text focuses on myriad aspects that constitute Greco-Roman culture such as economic class, honour and shame, and slavery as well Only as the religious role of each member of the family. The £34.50 until integration of ethnic and community identity with divine elements are highlighted in descriptions of religious 31st May festivals. 348pp (Wiley-Blackwell 2018), 9781118542958 Pb £37.95

36 Classical World A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Jerry Toner The Ancient Art of Transformation The ancient world used the senses to express an Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects Edited by Renee M. Gondek & Carrie L. of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and Sulosky Weaver interconnected. This volume presents essays on the The Ancient Art of following topics: the social life of the senses; urban Transformation examines sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses the visual manifestation in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; of human transformation medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art in the ancient and early and the senses; and sensory media. medieval Mediterranean 280pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) world, exploring the role 9780857853394 Hb £75.00, 9781350077843 Pb £24.99 of art and visual culture in enabling, hindering, Tell Me Who You Are or documenting physical, Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World spiritual, personal, and social transitions such as Edited by Maria Nowak, Adam Łajtar & Jakub Urbanik pregnancy and birth, initiations, marriage, death The twelve articles which make up this volume and funerals. The definition of “transformation” focus on various issues surrounding personal is also expanded to address instances of less identification from the classical period through personal and more widespread transitions such Hellenistic and Roman times up to the early as shifts in political establishments and changes Byzantine era. in cultural identity in geographic locations. 299pp (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2018) 5550210059 Additionally, although the ancient material Pb £21.95, NYP record documents certain rites of passage such as marriage and death extensively, artefacts and their On Ancient Warfare accompanying images are often studied simply to By Richard A. Gabriel reconstruct these social processes. Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing 240p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2019) about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. 9781789251043 Pb £38.00 This book presents his thoughts and perspectives on a selection of aspects of ancient warfare from broad topics such as the origins of war, through logistics, military medicine and psychiatry or the Sound and the Ancient Senses origins of jihad, to specifics such as the generalship Edited by Shane Butler & Sarah Nooter of Alexander the Great (Gabriel’s not a fan), Scipio Sound has important and Hannibal. relevance to scholars of 336pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526718457 Hb ancient literature and of £25.00 its well-known sonorities but Sound and the Ancient Barbarians in the Greek and Senses goes beyond this Roman World traditional topic to engage By Erik Jensen with sound in a wide range of What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think aspects and areas of classical of the peoples they referred to as barbarians? culture. It offers a new set Did they share the modern Western conception of tools and perspectives of “barbarians” as brutish, unwashed enemies of for approaching the key civilization? Or our related notion of “the noble question of the “orality” of ancient culture and the savage?” Was the category fixed or fluid? Was it relation of oral performance and transmission to the based on race? Erik Jensen addresses these and circulation and uses of written texts. other questions through a copiously illustrated 320pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138120389 Hb introduction to the varied and evolving ways in £110.00, 9781138481664 Pb £23.99 which the ancient Greeks and Romans engaged with, and thought about, foreign peoples. 312pp (Hackett 2018) 9781624667121 Pb £15.00

Classical World 37 Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals Individuals and Materials in the Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Edited by Sadie Pickup & Sally Waite Agents, Images, and Practices This volume comprises fifteen chapters covering Edited by Valentino Gasparini & Richard Veymiers a wide range of aspects associated with feet and This weighty collection focuses on the individuals footwear in classical antiquity. Contributions and groups which animated the diffusion and are grouped under four headings: ‘Envisaging reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods Footwear’, ‘Following Footprints’, ‘One from a Pair’ throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. The and ‘Between Representation and Reality’, reflecting 26 contributions divided into three sections devoted the broad range and interdisciplinary nature of the to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, approaches undertaken. shed new light on this religious movement that 272pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781472488763 Hb appears much more heterogeneous and colourful £115.00 than previously recognized. Prostheses in Antiquity 1146pp (Brill 2018) 9789004377837 Hb £293.00 Edited by Jane Draycott Classical Antiquities of Algeria The ancient literary and documentary evidence for A Selective Guide prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and By Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Claude Sintes & the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence Philip Kenrick is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not Algeria’s Roman monuments are particularly necessarily priorities. So, when, how and why did impressive. This is partly because they are well- individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to preserved, but also because the French, he colonial explore prostheses and prosthesis use in classical rulers, carried out extensive excavations and antiquity, seeks to answer these questions. restorations. This guidebook will take you to all 248pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781472488091 Hb the sites, with a historical introduction, a detailed £115.00 gazetteer of the principal museums and Roman sites Gender, Identity and the Body in and lavish provision of maps, plans and photographs. 328pp col illus (Society for Libyan Studies 2019) Greek and Roman Sculpture 9781900971546 Pb £20.00, NYP By Rosemary Barrow Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture The Oxford Handbook of Greek and offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient Roman Art and Architecture art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory Edited by Clemente Marconi from gender studies, body studies, art history and This Handbook seeks to explore key aspects of other related fields. The book raises important Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, and to questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting assess the current state of the discipline. After a responses that the individual works can be shown to framing introduction which compares ancient evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both and modern notions of art and architecture, the original context and modern experience. Handbook is divided into five sections: Pictures from 256pp, 33 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107039544 the Inside, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture Hb £75.00 in the Making, Ancient Contexts, Post-Antique Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Contexts, and Approaches. 728pp (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9780199783304 Hb Ancient World £120.00, 9780190887124 Pb £35.99 Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus The Materiality of Text Vessels shaped as bulls, lions, birds, donkeys, and Placement, Perception, and Presence of other animals were routinely used to pour and Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity drink liquids at feasts throughout the ancient Edited by Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic & world. Bringing together animal-shaped vessels Edmund Thomas from the Mediterranean, the Near and Far East, The Materiality of Text provides a multi-disciplinary and the Americas, this fascinating cross-cultural perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. study is the first large-scale consideration of this The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order phenomenon. Experts from around the world to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and reveal how these entertaining, often extremely perception: starting with an analysis of the forms lifelike vessels functioned not only as feasting of writing and its perception as an act of physical paraphernalia but also as ritual implements, and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to symbols of social status, and objects of artistic consider the texts’ ubiquity and strategic positioning exchange and experimentation. within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. 400pp, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300237030 436pp (Brill 2018) 9789004375505 Hb £119.00 Hb £40.00 38 Classical World Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and (2 volumes): Roman Comedy Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Edited by Michael Fontaine & Adele C. Scafuro Novels and Other Important Texts This volume provides a comprehensive survey Edited by Edmund Cueva of Greek and Roman comedy from the birth of This two volume set publishes the proceedings of comedy in Greece to its end in Rome, from the the Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Hellenistic diffusion of performances after the Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the death of Menander to its artistic, scholarly, and fall of 2015. The essays provide clear evidence that literary receptions in the later Roman Empire. the ancient novel has become a valuable part of 41 essays spread across Greek Comedy, Roman the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to Comedy, and the transmission and reception of understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Ancient comedy, while an introduction surveys 773pp, 2 vols (Barkhuis 2018) 9789492444561 Hb the major trends and shifts in scholarly study of £180.00 comedy from the 1960s to today. 912pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780199743544 Hb £137.50, 9780190887216 Pb £35.99 Greece How to Do Things with History Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily New Approaches to Ancient Greece A Social and Economic History Edited by Danielle Allen, Paul Christesen & By Franco de Angelis Paul Millett This book represents the How to Do Things with first ever systematic and History is a collection of comprehensive attempt to essays that explores current synthesize the historical and and future approaches to the archaeological evidence for study of ancient Greek cultural Greek society and economy history. Rather than focus in Sicily, and to deploy it to directly on methodology, the test the various historical essays demonstrate how some models proposed over the of the most productive and past two centuries. While significant methodologies for Sicily and Greece had studying ancient Greece can conjoined histories from the be employed to illuminate start, their relationship was a range of different kinds of not one of periphery and centre or of colony and subject matter. They are based on papers delivered at state in any sense, but of an interdependent and a conference held at Cambridge University in honour mutually enriching diaspora. of Paul Cartledge’s retirement. 464pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016, Pb 2018) 416pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190649890 Hb £55.00 9780195170474 Hb £71.00, 9780190887131 Pb £25.99 Foundation Myths and Politics Ancient Macedonians in Greek & in Ancient Ionia Roman Sources By Naoise Mac Sweeney From History to Historiography This book examines Edited by Tim Howe & Frances Pownall foundation myths told about The essays in this collection explore how Classical the Ionian cities during the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpret archaic and classical periods. and sometimes misinterpret information on ancient The Ionian cities seem to Macedonians to serve their own literary and have rejected oppositional political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the models of cultural difference historiographical tradition, this volume shows that which set in contrast East the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history and West, Europe and Asia, largely occurred much earlier. It reflected the Greek and Barbarian, opting complicated dynastic politics of the Argead royal instead for a more fluid and house, the efforts of Alexander himself to redefine nuanced perspective on Macedonian kingship, and the competing strategies ethnic and cultural distinctions. of the Successors to claim his legacy. 253pp b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2019) 301pp, (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589700 9781107037496 Hb £65.00, 9781108729963 Pb £19.99 Hb £60.00 39 Antipater’s Dynasty Myths and Tragedies in Their Ancient Alexander the Great’s Regent and his Successors Greek Contexts By John D. Grainger By Richard F. Buxton Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon This work brings together eleven of Richard under Philip II and instrumental in the succession Buxton’s studies of Greek mythology and Greek of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence between the two, and their importance to the and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. Antipater’s Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualizing eldest son Cassander later became regent of topics and themes, such as mountains, (were) Macedon but eventually had Alexander IV killed wolves, mythological names, movement/stillness, and made himself king. Three of his sons in turn blindness, and feminization, within the world briefly succeeded him but could not retain the of ancient Greece, Buxton traces the intricate throne. Antipater’s female heirs are shown to be variations and retellings which they underwent in just as important, both as pawns and surprisingly Greek antiquity. independent players. 304pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9780199557615 288pp (Pen & Sword 2019) 9781526730886 Hb £25.00 Hb £79.00, 9780198814573 Pb £25.00 Athenian Law and Society Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity By Konstantinos A. Kapparis By Greta Hawes In democratic Athens the law was both a product of This volume charts ancient dissatisfaction with democracy and a force for safeguarding democratic the excesses of myth, and the various attempts to practices. This study investigates the mutual cut these stories down to size by explaining them relationship between law and society in classical as misunderstood accounts of actual events. In the Athens and includes a detailed study of Athenian hands of ancient rationalizers, the hybrid forms legislation, constitution, finance, society, daily life, of the Centaurs become early horse-riders, seen gender relations, religion, and culture, and their from a distance; the Minotaur the result of an impact upon modern cultural values. illicit liaison, not an inter-species love affair; and 280pp (Routledge 2018) 9781472449184 Hb £125.00 Cerberus, nothing more than a notorious snake with a lethal bite. The Political Economy of Classical Athens 304pp (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9780199672776 Hb A Naval Perspective £81.00, 9780198831037 Pb £25.00 By Barry O’Halloran In the face of increasingly compelling arguments Myth, Literature, and the Creation of for the existence of a market economy in classical the Topography of Thebes Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally By Daniel W. Berman relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, The topography of Thebes, both natural and built, Barry O’Halloran contributes to this debate with very often plays a significant role in its myths. This an analysis of the economic foundations of Athens book explores the relationship between the city’s through the prism of its navy. His macroeconomic spaces as they were represented in the Greek literary approach utilises an employment-demand tradition and the physical realities of a developing model through which enormous naval defence city that had been continuously inhabited since at expenditures created an exceptional period of least the second millennium BC. It finds that the demand-led economic growth. urban topography of Thebes came more and more 395pp (Brill 2018) 9789004386143 Hb £120.00 to reflect the literary, even fictional, constructions of its mythic past. Great Naval Battles of the Ancient 200pp (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107077362 Hb Greek World £64.99, 9781107434363 Pb £23.99 By Owen Rees This book presents a selection of thirteen naval The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes battles that span a defining century in ancient Edited by Gunther Martin Greek history, from the Ionian Revolt and Persian As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Invasion to the rise of external naval powers in Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his the Mediterranean Sea, such as the Carthaginians. time. The Oxford Handbook sets out to explore The background, wider military campaigns, and the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving the opposing forces are discussed, followed by a particular weight to elucidating the settings and narrative and analysis of the fighting. Finally, the contexts of his activities, as well as some of the key aftermaths of the battles are dealt with, looking at themes dealt with in his speeches, and thereby the strategic implications of the outcome for both illustrating the interplay and mutual influence the victor and the defeated. between his rhetoric and the environment from 218pp (Pen & Sword 2019) 9781473827301 Hb £19.99 which it emerged. 456pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198713852 Hb £95.00 40 Greece Bargains and Good Deals Method and Theory Care in the Past, Archaeological and Inter- disciplinary Perspectives, Edited by Lindsay Powell, Lives in Ruins, Archaeologists and the William Southwell-Wright and Rebecca Gowland, The 12 Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, By Marilyn papers in this volume bring together archaeological, Johnson, Marilyn Johnson’s Lives in Ruins is an historical, and philosophical perspectives to examine absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of the topic of care in past societies, and how we might contemporary archaeologists. 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The topic of care is examined through through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and three different strands: care throughout the life even Machu Picchu, and excavates their lives. 288p, course, namely that provided to the youngest and Harper Collins Publishers, 2014, 9780062127181, Hb oldest members of society; care-giving and attitudes was £15.99 now £6.95 towards impairment and disability; and the role Wild Harvest, Plants in the Hominin and of animals as both recipients of care and as tools Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds, for its provision. 208p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, Edited by Karen 9781785703355, Pb was £38.00 now £14.95 Hardy and Lucy Kubiak-Martens, A major new textbook discussing the role of plants in hominin Underground Archaeology, Studies on Human and pre-agrarian human societies with case Bones and Artefacts from Ireland’s Caves, studies drawn from ethnography, ethnohistory Edited by Marion Dowd, This book brings together and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods of a series of ground-breaking studies on human analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical bones and artefacts recovered from Irish caves assemblages may be used and interpreted. 368p, b/w principally between 1870 and 1990.The 15 expert and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785701238, Pb contributions presented here shine a light on the was £32.00 now £12.95 use and perception of caves at different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic through to post- Archaeologies of Waste, Encounters with the Unwanted, medieval times. 232p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, Edited by Daniel Sosna and Lenka 2016, 9781785703515, Hb was £48.00 now £14.95 Brunclíková, A multi-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between waste and human societies From Antiquarian to Archaeologist, By Tim in terms of value, social differentiation, and space. 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Books, 2016, 9781785703270, Pb was £36.00 now The papers are accompanied by a new introduction £12.95 which surveys the development of the subject over Plants and People, Choices and Diversity the last 25 years as well as a reflection of what through Time, this means for the philosophy of archaeology and Edited by Alexandre Chevalier, theoretical archaeology. 261p, Pen & Sword Books Elena Marinova and Leonor Pena-Chocarro, By Ltd, 2014, 9781783463527, Hb was £25.00 now £7.95 means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and Landscape Archaeology temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use The Ancient Yew, A History of Taxus Baccata, of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices By Robert Bevan-Jones, Robert Bevan-Jones of food plants. 432p, col illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, discusses the history of the yew, its biology, the 9781842175149, Hb was £55.00 now £14.95 origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, People with Animals, Perspectives and its distribution across Britain, means of dating Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology, examples, and their association with folklore, with Edited by Lee churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells G. 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The types of relationship studied include the importance Shades of Green, An Environmental and of manure to farming societies, dogs as livestock Cultural History of Sitka Spruce, By Ruth guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, Tittensor, This book presents the first major butchery, symbolism and food. 156p, Oxbow Books, study of the importance of Sitka spruce in North 2016, 9781785702471, Pb was £38.00 now £14.95 America and the British Isles in terms of landscape Bargains and Good Deals i and landscape history, cultural perceptions and mobility patterns during the 3rd millennium reactions, and in economic terms. 375p, b/w and col BC. 216p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, illus, Windgather Press, 2016, 9781909686779, Pb 9781782979272, Hb was £45.00 now £14.95 was £29.95 now £9.95 Asia Prehistoric Europe Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Ireland’s First Settlers, Time and the Area, By B. V. 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It provides a regional synthesis impact of new information on extant legends about based on topography, geography and archaeology the region and its history. 354p, b/w illus, Oxford which transcends modern political boundaries and University Press, 2015, 9780199980888, Hb was considers the extent to which the tyne-forth does £54.00 now £14.95 or does not form a coherent regional unit at various periods in prehistory. 260p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, Ancient Egypt & Near East 2016, 9781785701993, Hb was £45.00 now £14.95 The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99), The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles, Edited by Nigel Fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its Strudwick, This book presents a fascinating implications, Edited by Richard Bradley and Courtney account of the life, career and tomb of Senneferi, Nimura, This volume presents all new data resulting Chancellor to Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC) as revealed from the excavation and cross-comparison of 5 by excavation and detailed analysis of the tomb Scottish stone circles of varying type, size and contents and decoration. The book focuses on the sequence, as well as reassessing the construction use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, sequences and use histories of stone circles in especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). 432p, Britain, 240p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785703317, 9781785702433, Pb was £39.95 now £14.95 Hb was £70.00 now £19.95 The Kellis Isokrates Codex, Image, Memory and Monumentality, By K. A. Worp Archaeological Engagements with the Material and A. Rijksbaron, This volume of the Dakhleh World, Oasis Project presents a first edition of the texts Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, Joshua of three orations by or attributed to Isocrates (Ad Pollard, Julie Gardiner and Michael J. Allen, Leading Demonicum, Ad Nicolem and the Nicocles) as scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour found in a new 4th century AD codex from Ismant of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric el-Kharab in the Dahkleh Oasis (ancient Kellis). archaeology that have defined his career, such 320p, b/w pls, Oxbow Books, 1997, 9781900188432, as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, Hb was £70.00 now £14.95 material worlds and field practice. 366p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, 9781842174951, Hb was £40.00 Dynamics of Production in the Ancient now £14.95 Near East, Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, The 17 essays collected here analyse the economic The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe, transformations in the ancient near east which Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd affected the old dominant powers of the Late millennium BC, Edited by Maria Pilar Prieto Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic Martínez and Laure Salanova, The 17 papers environment, the emergence of new economic presented here offer a range of new and different actors and the impact of these changes on very perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across different social sectors and geographic areas, from Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but small communities in the oases of the Egyptian on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in extended or nuclear families), using technological Mesopotamia. 368p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, studies and physical anthropology to understand 9781785702839, Pb was £45.00 now £14.95 ii Petra Great Temple Volume 3, Brown Latin poetic genres, yet encompassing comparative University Excavations 1993–2008, Architecture evidence from other Indo-European languages and Material Culture, By Martha Sharp Joukowsky, and literatures, these 18 chapters draw a various Definitive third volume on the excavations of yet consistent picture of the literary exploitation the Great Temple at Petra focusing on aspects of of the imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient Nabataean material culture, construction design textiles and clothing. 300p, Oxbow Books, 2016, and history, and economy. 622p, b/w illus, Oxbow 9781785701603, Hb was £40.00 now £14.95 Books, 2016, 9781785706127, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 Gods and Garments, Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries Aegean and Mediterranean BC, By Cecilie Brøns, A new investigation into and Prehistory interpretation of the role of textiles and clothing Burial and social change in first millennium accessories in the performance and materialisation BC Italy, Approaching social agents, Edited of ritual in Greek sanctuaries of the 7th–1st centuries by Elisa Perego and Rafael Scopacasa, The chief BC. Among the questions posed are how and where aim of this collection of 14 papers is to harness we can detect the use of textiles in the sanctuaries, innovative approaches to the exceptionally rich and how they were used in rituals including their mortuary evidence of first millennium BC Italy, impact on the performance of these rituals and the in order to investigate the roles and identities people involved. 384p, b/w and colour, Oxbow Books, of social actors who either struggled for power 2016, 9781785703553, Hb was £40.00 now £14.95 and social recognition, or were manipulated and Athenian Potters and Painters III, Edited exploited by superior authorities in a phase of by John Oakley, Athenian Potters and Painters III tumultuous socio-political change throughout the presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, entire Mediterranean basin. 336p, b/w illus, Oxbow including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos Books, 2016, 9781785701849, Pb was £40.00 now £14.95 in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies contributions focus on painters or workshops – and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of Mediterranean, Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on Triantaphyllou and Yiannis Papadatos, This book vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in presents a series of thematically organised papers shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. 272p, b/w exploring the anthropology of the body and its illus, col pls, Oxbow Books, 2014, 9781782976639, Hb role in the construction and performance of social was £80.00 now £19.95 identity in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean. Ancient Historiography on War and Contributors discuss new and old evidence; they Empire, Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller and examine how bodies intersect with the material Richard Stoneman, In the ancient Greek-speaking world, and explore the role of body-situated world, writing about the past meant balancing the experiences in creating distinct social and other reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the identities. 248p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, political interests and behaviours of the present. 9781785702914, Hb was £48.00 now £14.95 This volume shows the ways in which the literary Social Change in Aegean Prehistory, genre of writing history developed to guide empires Edited by Corien Wiersma and Sofia Voutsaki, through their wars. Taking key events from the This volume discusses the processes of social and Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and economic change from the Early Bronze Age III Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here to the Late Bronze Age I period (ca. 2200 – 1600 analyse the way events and the accounts of those BC) in the southern Aegean, using pottery, burials events interact. 304p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, and settlement evidence. A wide variety of factors 2016, 9781785702990, Hb was £48.00 now £14.95 is considered including demographic changes, Textile Production in Classical Athens, By reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, Stella Spantidaki, This book presents a detailed household organization and kin structure, age and consideration of the historical and social context of gender divisions, internal tensions, connectivity and textile production in classical Athens. It examines mobility. 192p, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702198, and discusses evidence for the equipment, materials, Pb was £36.00 now £12.95 processes and techniques employed at each stage of the full production sequence, and discusses the Greece organisation of production and trade. 256p, b/w and Spinning Fates and the Song of the col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702525, Hb was Loom, The Use of Textiles, Clothing and £40.00 now £14.95 Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature, Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie Louise Nosch and Giovanni Fanfani, Spanning mainly Greek and Bargains and Good Deals iii Rome Late Antique and Byzantine Judaea and Rome in Coins 65 BCE-135 CE, Nectar and Illusion, Nature in Byzantine Edited by David M. Jacobson and Nikos Kokkinos, Art and Literature, By Henry Maguire, An These papers focus on the relations between Rome exploration of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine and Judaea as reflected in the numismatic record, art and literature. Henry Maguire shows how the during a period which spans the Roman conquest of Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the Judaea by Pompey through to the last major Jewish decoration of their churches during the fifth to uprising against Roman rule under Simon Bar- seventh centuries but then adopted a much more Kokhba, and encompasses the birth of Christianity. cautious attitude toward the depiction of animals 252p, col illus, Spink Books, 2012, 9781907427220, Hb and plants in the middle ages, after the iconoclastic was £50.00 now £14.95 dispute of the eighth and ninth centuries. 224p, b/w illus, col pls, Oxford University Press, 2016, Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices 9780190497101, Pb was £29.49 now £9.95 in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire, Edited by Stefanie Hoss and Alissa Islamic Whitmore, This volume uses the analysis of ‘everyday’ objects to reconstruct social lives and Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. It in Palestine, By Jodi Magness, Archaeological takes a critical look at archaeological contexts and evidence is frequently cited by scholars as proof site formation processes in the formation of the that Palestine declined after the Muslim conquest, archaeological record and interpretations of past and especially after the rise of the Abbasids in the peoples and behaviours. 200p, b/w and col illus, mid-eighth century. Instead, Magness argues that Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702563, Pb was £38.00 the archaeological evidence supports the idea that now £12.95 Palestine and Syria experienced a tremendous growth in population and prosperity between the Segedunum, Excavations By Charles Daniels mid-sixth and mid-seventh centuries. 248p, b/w In The Roman Fort At Wallsend (1975-1984), By illus, Eisenbrauns, 2003, 9781575060705, Hb was Alexandra Croom and Alan Rushworth, Between £42.95 now £14.95 1975 and 1984 almost the entire area of the Roman fort of Segedunum in Wallsend was excavated Anglo-Saxon under the direction of Charles Daniels. It is these excavations which form the subject of this Yorkshire, A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and publication. This comprehensive report on the Viking Sites, By Guy Points, A comprehensive structural remains (Vol. 1) and finds (Vol. 2) show guide to places, artefacts and material in Yorkshire clearly that Daniels’ work represented one of the of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest comprising most ambitious and prolonged programmes of 282 sites. Each entry is rated to indicate the quality fieldwork attempted on the northern frontier up of what there is to see and how easy it is to find, to that point. 816p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, and the sites are described in detail, including 2016, 9781785700262, Hb was £55.00 now £19.95 measurements and descriptions of decoration where appropriate. 446p, b/w illus, Guy Points, Agriculture and Industry in South- 2007, 9780955767906, Pb was £24.95 now £4.95 Eastern Roman Britain, Edited by David Bird, This volume assesses our knowledge of the A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and Viking southern hinterland of Roman London. 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All the implications for the transition from Roman sites mentioned have been personally visited and occupation to Anglo-Saxon settlement. 456p, b/w assessed by the author. 216p, col illus, Guy Points, and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, 9781785702686, Hb 2016, 9780955767999, Pb was £16.95 now £6.95 was £40.00 now £14.95 vi The Old English Hexateuch, Aspects and Bright Lights of the Dark Ages, The Thaw Approaches, By Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin Collection of Early Medieval Ornaments, By C. Withers, Ten papers which reflect a wide range of Debra Noel Adams, The exceptionally broad scope of research interests into the Old English Hexateuch. the Thaw collection, spanning over a millennium, is Subjects include the contribution of Aelfric, the used here to illustrate the continuity and evolution dating evidence, the composition of the Old English of fine metalworking traditions. It also reveals the text including the personalities and motivations profound influence of the classical world on the new of the anonymous translators, the illustrations, political alliances formed during the Early Medieval male and female readers and the manuscript’s period that united people from diverse cultural and place in Anglo-Saxon literature and art. 358p, ethnic backgrounds. 432p, col illus, D Giles Limited, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 2014, 9781907804250, Hb was £65.00 now £19.95 9781580440509, Pb was £33.99 now £9.95 Classical Literature and Learning in Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old Medieval Irish Narrative, Edited by Ralph English Narrative Poems, By Elise Louviot, This O’Connor, From the tenth century onwards, Irish book uses linguistic theories to reassess the role scholars adapted Latin epics and legendary histories of Direct Speech in Old English narrative poetry. into the Irish language. Both the Latin originals and Beowulf is given a great deal of attention, because it their Irish adaptations had a profound impact on is a major poem and because it is the focus of much the ways in which Irish authors wrote narratives of the existing scholarship on this subject, but it is about their own legendary past, notably the great examined in a broader poetic context. 256p, Boydell & saga Táin Bó Cúailnge. The essays in this book Brewer, 2016, 9781843844341, Hb was £65.00 now £14.95 explore the ways in which these Latin texts and techniques were used. 254p, Boydell & Brewer, 2014, A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo- 9781843843849, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 Scandinavian Sites Lincolnshire, By Guy Points, This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive Medieval History guide to places, artefacts and material of Anglo- For Honour and Fame, Chivalry in England Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian (Viking) stone 1066–1500, By Nigel Saul, A survey of chivalry interest in Lincolnshire. Part 1 provides background – the value system of the medieval aristocracy. material to put the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo- Focusing on England, Saul discusses its origins, its Scandinavians into their historical context, and part martial aspects, its impact on art and architecture, 2 identifies 117 “sites”. 220p, b/w illus, Guy Points, and on literature, its religious aspects, and its 2016, 9780993033940, Pb was £16.95 now £6.95 broader impact on social relations. 432p, col pls, The Art of the Picts, Sculpture and Metalwork Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, 9781845951894, Pb was in Early Medieval Scotland, By George Henderson £16.99 now £6.95 and Isobel Henderson, This well-illustrated book The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British looks at the carved slabs, crosses, sculpture and Library, Additional MS 40,000, fols 1-12r), metalwork of the Picts from an art-historical Edition, Facsimile and Study, Edited by Lynda perspective. The authors argue that the Picts were a Rollason, Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) sophisticated society `capable of sustaining large- in the late eleventh century and continued into the scale art programmes’ and whilst being influenced late twelfth, the Throrney Liber Vitae purports to be by the art traditions of continental Europe, they a record of the names of confraters of the abbey, that maintained their own artistic identity. 256p, b/w is of those people who, through their friendship and illus, Thames and Hudson, 2004, 9780500289631, gifts to the abbey, were included in the daily prayers Pb was £28.00 now £12.95 of the monks of the community.The present volume is the first complete edition of this important text, Early Medieval Europe and includes a complete facsimile of the pages. 365p, col pls, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2015, 9781783270101, Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Hb was £95.00 now £19.95 Europe, Defended Communities of the 8th- 10th Centuries, Edited by Neil Christie and Rolls of Arms Henry III, The Matthew Paris Hajnalka Herold, Strongly informed by recent Shields (c.1244-59); Glover’s Roll (c.1253-8) fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where and Walford’s Roll (c.1273); Additions and available on the documentary record, this important Corrections to A Catalogue of English Mediaeval collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and Rolls of Arms, Edited by Thomas Daniel Tremlett and analyses of the archaeologies of the distinctive Hugh Stanford London, In the thirteenth century, settlement forms that characterised Europe in written records of the arms borne by knights the Early Middle Ages. Contains twenty-three first begin to appear, and the three manuscripts contributions by leading archaeologists from across described in this volume cover perhaps one-tenth Europe. 352p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, of those who might have been qualified to bear 9781785702358, Hb was £50.00 now £14.95 arms, 301p, Boydell & Brewer, 1958, 9781843834113, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 Bargains and Good Deals vii Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval translation) offering insights into the place of cloth Italy, c.1100 to c.1440, By Dennis Romano, and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Dennis Romano explores the significance of the Covering a wide range of genres, they include marketplace as the symbolic embodiment of the documents from the royal wardrobe accounts common good; its regulation and organization; the and petitions to king and Parliament, previously ethics of economic exchange; and how governments available only in manuscript form. 412p, col pls, and guilds sought to promote market values. 272p, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2014, 9781843839323, Hb was b/w and col illus, Yale University Press, 2015, £60.00 now £14.95 9780300169072, Hb was £35.00 now £12.95 Norwich Cathedral Close: The Evolution of Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600, the English Cathedral Landscape, By Roberta Edited by Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater, These essays Gilchrist, Using evidence from history, archaeology explore how violence and conflict were documented, and other disciplines, Professor Gilchrist depicted, narrated and debated during the Middle reconstructs both the landscape and buildings of Ages. They consider manuals created for and the close, and the transformations in their use and addressed directly to kings and aristocratic patrons; meaning over time. Much emphasis is placed on romances whose affective treatments of violence the layout and the ways in which buildings and invited profoundly empathetic, even troublingly spaces were used and perceived by different groups. pleasurable, responses; diaries and “autobiographies” 316p, col pls, b/w illus, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2016, compiled on the field and redacted for publication 9781783270965, Pb was £19.99 now £7.95 and self-promotion. 228p, Boydell & Brewer, 2016, 9781783271559, Hb was £50.00 now £12.95 Medieval Literature Bloodied Banners, By Robert Jones, This book Scribes and the City, London Guildhall re-evaluates the way that knights and their weapons Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English were viewed, showing that martial display was Literature, 1375-1425, By Linne R. Mooney and a vital part of the way in which war was waged Estelle Stubbs, Scribes played a crucial part in the in the middle ages. It maintains that heraldry flourishing and availability of literature in English and livery served not only to advertise a warrior’s during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for family and social ties, but also announced his the first time who they were, where and how they presence on the battlefield and right to wage war. worked, and the crucial role they played in bringing 205p, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2015, this literature to a wider public. 168p, Boydell & 9781783270279, Pb was £17.99 now £7.95 Brewer, 2013, 9781903153406, Hb was £45.00 now £14.95 Medieval Archaeology Middle English Texts in Transition, A Art in England, The Saxons to the Tudors: Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on 600-1600, By Sara N. James, A single volume his 70th birthday, Edited by Linne R. Mooney and overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Simon Horobin, This exciting collection of essays Early Renaissance England. The media studied is centred on late medieval English manuscripts include architecture and related sculpture, both and their texts. It offers new insights into the works ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by Hilton and Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known English artists and by foreign artists commissioned texts and manuscripts. It also considers medieval by English patrons. 352p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow books, their producers, readers, and collectors. Books, 2016, 9781785702235, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95 359p, b/w and col illus, Boydell & Brewer, 2014, 9781903153536, Hb was £60.00 now £12.95 Medieval Rural Settlement, Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600, By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper, A Post-Medieval major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in St Paul’s Cathedral, Archaeology and History, Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800- By John Schofield, John Schofield examines the 1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to cathedral from an archaeological perspective, late medieval settlement, land use, economics and reviewing its history from the early 18th to the early population, bringing together evidence drawn from 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological archaeological excavations and surveys, historical recording, documentary research and engineering geographical analysis and documentary and place- asssessment. A detailed account of the construction name study. 304p, b/w and col illus, Windgather Press, of the cathedral is provided based on a comparison 2011, 9781905119424, Hb was £35.00 now £12.95 of the fabric with voluminous building accounts and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain, 209p, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2016, Edited by Louise Sylvester, Mark C. Chambers and 9781785702754, Hb was £65.00 now £19.95 Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Texts (with modern English viii The Story of Myth The Early Seleukids, Their Gods and By Sarah Iles Johnston Their Coins Instead of looking for By Kyle Erickson hidden meanings, Sarah Iles This study argues that rather than projecting an Johnston argues that the very imperialistic Greek image of rule, the Seleukid kings nature of myths as stories deliberately produced images, particularly on their enabled them to do their most coinage, that represented their personal power, and important work: to create and that were comprehensible to the majority of their sustain belief in the gods and subjects within their own cultural traditions. These heroes who formed the basis images relied heavily on the syncretism between of Greek religion. She reveals Greek and local gods, in particular their ancestor the subtle yet powerful ways Apollo. in which these ancient Greek 252pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780415793766 Hb tales forged enduring bonds £140.00 between their characters and their audiences, created coherent story-worlds, and made it possible to believe The Rise of the Seleukid Empire in extraordinary gods. (323–223 BC) 350pp (Harvard UP 2019) 9780674185074 Hb £32.95 Seleukos I to Seleukos III The Derveni Papyrus By John D. Grainger Unearthing Ancient Mysteries John D Grainger relates Edited by Marco Antonio Santamaria Alvarez the remarkable twists of fortune and daring that saw The Derveni Papyrus is a Seleukos, an officer in an fascinating and challenging elite guard unit, emerge from document which, after the wars of the Diadochi some reflections on minor (Alexander’s successors) in divinities and unusual cults, control of the largest and comments upon a poem richest part of the empire attributed to Orpheus of the late Alexander the from an allegorical and Great. After his conquests philosophical perspective. and eventual murder, we This volume focuses on the then see how his successors continued his policies, restoration and conservation including the repeated wars with the Ptolemaic of the papyrus, the ideas rulers of Egypt over control of Syria. The volume of the anonymous author about Erinyes and ends with the deep internal crisis and the Wars of daimons, comparisons with Hesiod’s Theogony and the Brothers, which left only a single member of the Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the dynasty alive in 223 BC. commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology. 256pp (Pen & Sword 2014, Pb 2018) 9781526743763 Pb £12.99 182pp (Brill 2018) 9789004384842 Hb £117.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire By Paul J. Kosmin The Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to the Persian Gulf. In a radical move to impose unity and regulate behaviour, they introduced a linear and transcendent conception of time. Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire, changed how people did business, recorded events, and oriented themselves to the larger world. Challenging this order, however, were rebellious subjects who resurrected their pre-Hellenistic Only pasts and created apocalyptic time frames that predicted the £36.00 until total end of history. The interaction of these complex and competing temporalities, Kosmin argues, led to far-reaching 31st May religious, intellectual, and political developments. 390pp (Harvard UP 2019) 9780674976931 Hb £39.95

Greece 41 Orphic Traditions and the Birth of The Seleukid Empire 281–222 the Gods War Within the Family By Dwayne A. Meisner Edited by Kyle Erickson Meisner applies a new The contributors to this book theoretical model for argue that in the decades studying Orphic theogonies after Seleukos the empire and suggests certain features developed flexible structures that characterize them as that successfully bound it different from Hesiod. Most together in the face of a importantly, he argues that series of catastrophes. The the Orphic myths of Phanes strength of the Seleukid emerging from the Cosmic realm lay not simply in its Egg and Zeus swallowing vast swathes of territory, but Phanes are at least as rather in knowing how to important as the well-known tie the new, frequently non- myth of Dionysus being Greek, nobility to the king dismembered by the Titans, long thought to have through mutual recognition of sovereignty. been the central myth of Orphism. 315pp (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589717 Hb 320pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190663520 Hb £55.00 £60.00 Greek Art and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Cutting-edge Technologies in Greek Colonization in Local Context Ancient Greece Case Studies in Colonial Interactions Edited by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos and Fotios Edited by Jason Lucas, Carrie Ann Murray & Sara Papadimitrakopoulos Owen This volume examines materials produced with Greek Colonization in Local the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln Context takes a fresh look (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The at Greek colonies around technologies based on fire have been considered Europe and Black Sea. The high-tech technologies and they have contributed emphasis is on cultural to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers interaction, transformation highlight technical innovations of the technician/ and the repercussions and artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean local reactions to colonization (mainland Greece and the islands) in social, religious and cultural during the Bronze Age, the terms. Papers examine the Classical and the Byzantine Only archaeological evidence periods. £32.00 until for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the 256pp b/w and col illus publication (Oxbow Books 2019) Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of 9781789252989 Hb £40.00 scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent Only regions. £32.00 until 224pp, b/w (Oxbow Books publication 2019) 9781789251326 Pb £40.00

42 Eye and Art in Ancient Greece Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Christopher Witcombe Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory This book examines various key aspects of Greek visual Settlement, Trade and Production on the culture, such as continuity Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC–AD 500 and change, nudity, identity, By Adam Lindhagen lifelikeness, mimesis, This volume investigates personation and enactment, the interaction between the symmetry, dance, harmony, natural environment, market and the representation of forces and political entities emotions, to ask how and in an ancient Sicilian town why choices were made in and its surrounding micro- the conception and making region over the time-span of of artefacts. Special attention a thousand years. Focusing is given to factors contributing to the formation of on the ancient polis of Kale taste and the emergence and transmission over time Akte (Caronia) and the of concepts of art and beauty and the means by surrounding Nebrodi area which they were identified and judged. on the north coast of Sicily, 250pp, b/w illus (Brepols 2018) 9781909400030 Hb the book examines the city’s archaeology and £81.00 history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have Art & Archaeology of the Greek World had a greater economic importance for Sicily and By Richard T. Neer the wider Mediterranean world than its size and Greek Art and Archaeology Celebrated for its abundant lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed illustrations and accessible is the gradual population shift away from the voice, Art & Archaeology of hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at the Greek World arrives in Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock. The book its second edition with more is particularly important for the comprehensive coverage of the earliest Bronze analysis of the 1999–2004 excavations at the latter, Age and latest Hellenistic with fresh interpretations of the function of the periods, and increased buildings excavated and their chronology, as well archaeological context; the for reviewing the present state of picture of ancient Greek art our knowledge about Kale Acte/ is expanded to help readers Calacte, and defining research Only better understand how the questions for the future. £48.00 until subject connects to, and reflects, the historical 464pp, b/w and col illus publication developments of the time. (Oxbow Books 2019) 408pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2nd ed 2019) 9781789252507 Hb £60.00 9780500052082 Hb £45.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. By William A. P. Childs Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the Only contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious £42.50 until devotion. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the 31st May increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. 592pp, col illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691176468 Pb £50.00

Greek Art and Archaeology 43 Corinth, Volume 22 The Agora Bone Well The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, By Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff & Lynn M. Snyder Epigraphy Even though Dorothy By Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool & Paul D. Scotton Thompson excavated the Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Agora Bone Well in 1938, Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early the well and its remarkable imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. finds have never been fully The structure stood on a podium over four meters studied until now. Dating high, and dominated the east end of the forum until to the second quarter of its destruction in the 4th century A.D. Within it was the 2nd century B.C., the one of the largest known shrines to the imperial cult well contained the remains and the likely site of the imperial court of law for the of roughly 460 newborn Roman province of Achaia. This richly illustrated infants, as well as a few older volume provides a thorough, contextual study of individuals. Also found in the well were the bones this important building. of over 150 dogs and an assortment of other animals, 448pp, b/w illus, col pls (ASCSA 2019) 9780876610237 plus various artifacts, including an intriguing herm Hb £95.00, NYP and an ivory chape. 200pp, b/w illus(ASCSA 2018) 9780876615508 Pb £45.00 Lerna 8 The Historical Greek Village Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth By Brice L. Erickson Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970–175 B.C.) from ASCSA By Eleni Hasaki excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the An unparalleled assemblage Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites of Archaic black-figure painted in Greece. The material derives from two main plaques was uncovered near sources: burials from a Geometric cemetery near Penteskouphia, a village the settlement and Late Archaic, Classical, and west of ancient Corinth, Hellenistic wells from the mound proper. Although over a century ago. In this the material consists primarily of pottery and other volume, the findspot of the ceramic finds, it also includes human remains, plaques is identified and the animal bones and shells, coins, inscriptions, and assemblage as a whole is bronze and stone objects. fully contextualized within 520pp b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2018) 9780876613085 the Archaic world. Then, by Hb £95.00 focusing specifically on the images of potters at work, the author illuminates the Oikema ou Piece Polyvalente relationship between Corinthian and Athenian art, Recherches sur une Installation Commerciale the technology used in ancient pottery production, de l’Antiquite Grecque and religious anxiety in the 6th century B.C. By Pavlos Karvonis 456pp, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2019) 9780876615539 This volume discusses the Pb £45.00, NYP evolution of oikema – is Vrysaki the most common type of A Neighborhood Lost in Search of commercial facility in ancient the Athenian Agora Greece – presenting the architectural characteristics By Sylvie Dumont and the equipment of oikemata Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was and discussing their location transformed by the expropriation and demolition and relationship with other of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the buildings. The ownership, use Acropolis. More than 5,000 inhabitants were and maintenance of oikemata displaced and 348 properties were torn down so are also discussed. It is argued that the American School of Classical Studies at that oikemata provided merchants and craftsmen Athens (ASCSA) could excavate the ancient Agora. with a suitable working space and contributed to the Using materials from the ASCSA Archives and a gradual abandonment of houses large collection of photographs from the 1930s, this as working places, especially volume details the history of the negotiations, the in cities that developed in the Only expropriations, and, most importantly, the Vrysaki Hellenistic period. £29.00 until neighbourhood itself. 224pp, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2019) 9780876619698 136pp, b/w and col illus 31st May (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919399 Hb £60.00, NYP Pb £34.00 44 Greek Art and Archaeology Greek Literature Tombs of the Ancient Poets The Returning Hero Between Literary Reception and Material Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Culture Settlement Edited by Nora Goldschmidt & Barbara Graziosi Edited by Simon Hornblower & Giulia Biffis This volume explores the A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek ways in which the tombs of literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly – the ancient poets – real or but by no means only – of mythical Greek heroes imagined – act as crucial sites from Troy. This volume offers a truly interdisciplinary for the reception of Greek exploration of the concept of nostos in ancient and Latin poetry. Drawing Greek culture. The chapters examine both literary together a range of examples, and material evidence in order to achieve a better the collection makes a understanding of the nature of Greek settlement distinctive contribution to in the Mediterranean zone, and of sometimes the study of literary reception equivocal Greek and Roman perceptions of home, by focusing on the materiality displacement, and returning. of the body and the tomb, 352pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198811428 Hb and the ways in which they £75.00 mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient 384pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198826477 Hb Greece £80.00 Selected Essays The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod By Richard Seaford This volume brings together a wide range of papers Edited by Alexander Loney & Stephen Scully written with a focus on Greek tragedy. Several are This volume brings together 29 scholars to discuss pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and aspects of Hesiod’s poetry and its milieu and to representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, explore questions of reception. It first addresses the wedding, and death ritual. The other key factor questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature in the historical context of tragedy is the recent of composition of the Theogony and Works and monetisation of Athens. Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and 496pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107171718 Hb £100.00 economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century the sorts of questions that have been asked rather A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400 than an attempt to resolve debate. Edited by Vayos Liapis & Antonis K. Petrides 528pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190209032 Hb £97.00 This volume contains in-depth discussions of Hesiod all available textual evidence, but also provides historical perspectives on every aspect of the The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other post-fifth-century history of tragedy. Oft-neglected Fragments plays are studied alongside such topics as the Edited by Glenn W. Most expansion of Greek tragedy beyond Athens, theatre This second volume contains The Shield and performance, music and dance, society and politics, extant fragments of other poems, including the as well as the reception of Greek tragedy in the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Second Sophistic and in Late Antiquity. Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought 410pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107038554 Hb £90.00 to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. Glenn W. Most has Parody, Politics and the Populace thoroughly revised his edition to take account of in Greek Old Comedy the textual and interpretive scholarship that has By Donald Sells appeared since its initial publication. This book argues that Old Comedy’s parodic and 448pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997219 Hb £18.95 non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, Hesiod and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the Edited by Glenn W. Most enduring significance of parody in the specific The first volume of this revised Loeb Classical cultural, social and political subtexts that often Library edition offers Hesiod’s two extant poems frame Old Comedy’s bold experiments with other and a generous selection of testimonia regarding his genres and drive its rapid evolution. life, works, and reception. 304pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350060517 Hb 408pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997202 Hb £18.95 £85.00 45 Xenophon and the Graces of Power Hippocrates By Vincent Azoulay Diseases of Women 1–2 Vincent Azoulay analyses across Xenophon’s diverse Edited by Paul Potter texts the techniques by which the Greek writer This is the eleventh and final volume in the Loeb recommends that leaders should manipulate. Classical Library’s complete edition of. Here, Paul Through gifts and personal allure, though mystique, Potter presents the Greek text with facing English dazzling appearance, exemplary behaviour, strategic translation of Diseases of Women 1 and 2, which absences – and occasional terror, Xenophon analyses represent the most extensive accounts in the ways in which a powerful few might triumphantly Hippocratic collection of female reproductive life, triumphantly replace the erratic democracies and the pathological conditions affecting the female selfindulgent oligarchies of his day. reproductive organs, and their proper terminology 430pp (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589694 and recommended treatments. Hb £65.00 528pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674996571 Hb £18.95 Ptolemy’s Philosophy The Cambridge Companion to Mathematics as a Way of Life Hippocrates By Jacqueline Feke Edited by Peter E. Pormann Claudius Ptolemy is In this companion, an remembered today for international team of authors his astronomy, but his introduces major themes in philosophy is almost Hippocratic studies, ranging entirely lost to history. This from textual criticism and groundbreaking book is the the ‘Hippocratic Question’ to first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s problems such as aetiology, general philosophical system- physiology and nosology. -including his metaphysics, Emphasis is given to the epistemology, and ethics – afterlife of Hippocrates from and to explore its relationship Late Antiquity to the Modern to astronomy, harmonics, period. Hippocrates had as element theory, astrology, much relevance in the fifth- cosmology, psychology, and theology. Feke reveals century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique world, and he remains with us today in both of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception medical and non-medical contexts. of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. 320pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107695849 Pb £26.99 256pp b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691179582 Hb £30.00 Rome Rome Victorious Rome after Sulla The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire By J. Alison Rosenblitt By B. Dexter Hoyos Rome after Sulla offers a new Perhaps the most famous perspective on the damaged, example in history of volatile, and conflictual modest beginnings rising political culture of the late to greatness, Rome’s empire Roman republic. The book was never static or uniform. begins with a narrative of the Over the centuries, under years immediately following the ‘boundless grandeur of the dictatorship of Sulla (80- the Roman peace’ (as the 77 BC). Arguing that Sulla’s Elder Pliny put it), imperial settlement was never stable, law, civilisation and language the book posits that the vigorously interacted with events and the unresolved and influenced local cultures traumas of the first civil war across western and central of the Roman republic triggered profound changes Europe and North Africa. However, as Dexter Hoyos in Roman political culture, to which Sallust’s reveals, the empire was not won cheaply or fast, and magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is did not always succeed. our best guide. 272pp, col pls (I.B. Tauris 2019) 9781780762746 Hb 240pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2019) 9781472580573 Hb £25.00 £85.00 46 Prostitutes and Matrons in Forthcoming from Oxbow Books the Roman World By Anise K. Strong Julius Caesar Rome’s Greatest Warlord Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the By Simon Elliott first substantial account of Julius Caesar has been the elite Roman concubines inspiration to countless and courtesans. Exploring military commanders over the blurred line between the last two millennia. This proper matron and wicked concise history details his prostitute, it illuminates the military life, and how it lives of sexually promiscuous impacted with his political women like Messalina and career, from his youth Clodia, as well as prostitutes through the civil wars that with hearts of gold who resulted in his becoming saved Rome and their lovers the dictator of Rome, and in times of crisis. It also offers insights into the his legacy. multiple functions of erotic imagery and the 160pp, b/w illus circumstances in which prostitutes could play (Casemate UK 2019) prominent roles in Roman public and religious life. 9781612007090 Pb £7.99 314pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781107148758 Hb £77.00, 9781316602645 Pb £20.00 Politics and Philosophy at Rome Mutina 43 BC Collected Papers Mark Antony’s Struggle for Survival By Miriam T. Griffin & Catalina Balmaceda By Nic Fields This volume presents the collected papers of In the aftermath of the Miriam T. Griffin, whose work has played a central murder of Gaius Julius role in forging links between scholarship on Caesar, his self-declared the history of the Graeco-Roman world and its successor Mark Antony philosophies. The collection covers a range of struggled to hold together his topics in Roman Republican and Imperial history, legacy. Following an abortive Roman historiography, and the interplay of Latin coup attempt by Caesar’s philosophy and Roman politics, as well as featuring adopted son Octavian, two a host of key Latin authors, most notably Cicero, of Antony’s legions declared Seneca, and Tacitus. for him, leading to a renewed 832pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198793120 Hb outbreak of civil war. Fully £120.00 illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and maps, this is the full Rome Dionysius of Halicarnassus and story of the battles which would see Octavian move Augustan Rome from being a young, inexperienced aristocrat to the Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography dominating figure of Augustus. 96pp,col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472831200 Pb £14.99 Edited by Richard Hunter & Casper C. de Jonge This volume examines Beyond Greek how Dionysius’ critical The Beginnings of Latin Literature and rhetorical works are connected with his history of By Denis Feeney Rome, and the complex ways Beyond Greek traces the emergence of Latin literature in which both components of from 240 to 140 BCE, beginning with Roman stage this dual project – rhetorical productions of plays that represented the first criticism and historiography translations of Greek literary texts into another – fit into the social, language. In an ancient Mediterranean world made intellectual, literary, cultural up of many multilingual societies with no equivalent and political world of Rome to the text-based literature of the Greeks, literary under Augustus. How does translation was unusual if not unprecedented. Feeney Dionysius’ interpretation of shows how it allowed Romans to systematically the earliest Romans resonate take over Greek forms of tragedy, comedy, and epic, with the political reality of the Principate? And how making them their own and giving birth to what has do his views relate to those of Cicero, Livy and Horace. become known as Latin literature. 304pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108474900 Hb £75.00 400pp (Harvard UP 2016, Pb 2019) 9780674986589 Pb £17.95 Rome 47 The Function of the Roman Army in A History of the Roman Equestrian Southern Arabia Petraea Order By Mariana Castro By Caillan Davenport In the region of Arabia there is still little Throughout more than a consensus about the purpose of the Roman thousand years of Roman military presence, its fluctuating functions, history, equestrians played or the role of hundreds of fortified buildings prominent roles in the scattered across the landscape. This study aims Roman government, army, to provide a fresh perspective on these issues and society as cavalrymen, by employing a landscape approach, paralleling officers, businessmen, it with the ancient sources which describe the tax collectors, jurors, roles of the Roman military in the East. It uses administrators, and writers. a variety of digital resources to This book offers the first contextually map and model the comprehensive history of the ancient system of fortifications, Only equestrian order, covering settlements, and trade routes. £34.00 until the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth 226pp, b/w and col illus 31st May century AD. It examines how Rome’s cavalry became (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919528 the equestrian order during the Republican period, Pb £40.00 before analysing how imperial rule transformed the role of equestrians in government. Roman Heavy Cavalry 1 678pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2019) 9781107032538 Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC– Hb £130.00 5th Century AD By Raffaele D’Amato Law and Power in the Making of From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century the Roman Commonwealth BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured By Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi cavalry to serve in their military alongside the With a broad chronological sweep, this book legions. These troops, both from the northern provides an historical account of Roman law steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an and legal institutions which explains how they ancient tradition of using heavy armour and long were created and modified in relation to political lances, and fought in a compact formation for developments and changes in power relations. It maximum shock effect. This first book in a two part underlines the constant tension between two central series on Roman Heavy Cavalry examines their use aspects of Roman politics: the aristocratic nature over the Imperial period up to the fall of Western of the system of government, and the drive for Empire in the 5th century A.D. increased popular participation in decision-making 64pp, col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472830043 Pb £11.99 and the exercise of power. 402pp (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9781107071971 Hb £69.99, 9781107420465 Pb £27.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Zenobia Shooting Star of Palmyra By Nathanael J. Andrade Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her Only clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious £19.50 until practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with 31st May her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. 304pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190638818 Hb £22.99

48 Rome The Roman Agricultural Economy Making Mesopotamia Organization, Investment and Production Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Edited by Alan K. Bowman & Andrew Wilson Borderland This volume is a collection of By Hamish Cameron studies which presents new Hamish Cameron examines the representation of analyses of the nature and the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical scale of Roman agriculture writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, in the Mediterranean world the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and from c. 100 BC to AD 350. Ammianus Marcellinus. The region provided Moving substantially beyond fertile ground for these authors to articulate their the simple assumption ideas about space, boundaries, and imperial power. that agriculture was the Cameron shows how each author constructed an dominant sector of the image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals ancient economy, the volume and context of their own work, while collectively explores what was special creating a vision of Mesopotamia as a borderland and distinctive about it, space of movement, inter-imperial tension, and especially with a view of its development and global engagement. integration during a period of expansion and 388pp (Brill 2019) 9789004388628 Hb £133.00 prosperity across the empire. 352pp (Oxford UP 2013, 2018) 9780199665723 Hb £105.00, Pb 9780198788522 Pb £27.50 Roman Art and Archaeology Roman Turdetania Settlement, Urbanization, and Romanization, Identity and Socio-Cultural Population Interaction in the South of the Iberian Peninsula Edited by Alan Bowman & Andrew Wilson between the 4th and 1st centuries BCE This volume presents a collection of studies Edited by Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti focusing on population and settlement patterns Roman Turdetania makes use of the literary and in the Roman empire between 100 BC and AD archaeological sources to provide an updated state 350. The analyses highlight issues of regional and of knowledge from a postcolonial approach about temporal variation. The chapters fall into two the socio-cultural interaction processes and the main groups, the first dealing with the evidence subsequent romanisation of the populations in the for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological southern Iberian Peninsula from the 4th to the 1st field surveys, and the attendant methodological centuries BCE. The resulting communities shaped a problems of extrapolating from that evidence a view new identity, hybrid and converging, resulting from of population; and the second with city populations the previous Phoenician-Punic substrate vigorously and the phenomenon of urbanization. coexisting with the new Hellenistic-Roman imprint. 384pp, (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2018) 9780199602353 Hb 256pp (Brill 2018) 9789004373402 Hb £124.00 £105.00, 9780198788515 Pb £25.00 Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily Estudios Sobre el Africa Romana By Laura Pfuntner Culturas e Imaginarios en Transformacion Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily offers the Edited by Fabiola Salcedo Garces, Estefania Benito first comprehensive English-language overview of Lazaro & Sergio Espana-Chamorro the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. These essays explore the mosaic of cultures that J. A. Wilson’s Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). was the world of the Roman province of Africa Laura Pfuntner traces the development of cities and Proconsularis. Most of the articles are dedicated settlement networks in Sicily in order to understand to the world of images, but others also treat many the island’s political, economic, social, and cultural other issues such as historiography, the archaeology role in Rome’s evolving Mediterranean hegemony. of architecture, Libyan-Berber She identifies and examines three main processes ethnicities and even cultural traceable in the archaeological record of settlement parallels between North Africa Only in Roman Sicily: urban disintegration, urban and the Iberian Peninsula. £37.50 until adaptation, and the development of alternatives to Spanish text. 368pp b/w and urban settlement. col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 31st May 320pp b/w illus (University of Texas Press 2019) 9781784919078 Pb £44.00 9781477317228 Hb £45.00

49 Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia The Hypogeum of the Aurelii Materiality and Religious Experience A New Interpretation as the Collegiate Tomb By Csaba Szabo of Professional Scribae This work looks at the role of ‘sacralised’ spaces, By John Bradley or sanctuaries, in the religious communication of The three chambers of the Hypogeum of the Dacia. The author analyses the role Aurelii, so-named from a mosaic inscription of space sacralisation, religious in one of the surviving chambers, contain a appropriation, embodiment and Only varied series of images that have long been the social impact of religious considered an example of early Christian or £34.00 until communication in urban, Gnostic iconography. One hundred years after military and rural contexts. 31st May the monument’s discovery, the author challenges 254pp, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) earlier theories and concludes that, far from having 9781789690811 Pb £40.00 religious significance, the pictures reveal a world of professional Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran as pride among a group of what we Only Part of a Broader Network of the Near might today call ‘white collar’ £32.50 until workers. East (100 BC–AD 300) 31st May By Francesca Mazzilli 206pp, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2019) 9781789690477 Pb £38.00 The book challenges earlier scholars’ emphasis on the The Archaeology of Early role played by local identities Roman Religion and Romanisation in religion and religious architecture in By Elizabeth Colantoni the Roman Empire through The religion of the people of Rome in the first the first comprehensive centuries of the city’s history has long been a topic multidisciplinary analysis of interest for scholars, but it has been investigated of rural cult centres in the primarily through literary evidence. This book uses Hauran (southern Syria) the archaeological data to construct a new narrative from the pre-Roman to the about early Roman religious practices, examining Roman period (100 BC-AD the role and nature of sacred space; the religious 300). The author also re-assesses the social meaning calendar; gods, priests and worshippers; ritual of these sanctuaries, discusses the identity of the elite and sacrifice; and death rites and ancestor cult in group that contributed financially early Rome as they can be understood through the to the building of sanctuaries, and archaeological evidence. attempts to reconstruct ritual and Only 208pp (Routledge 2018) 9780415836647 Hb £105.00 economic activities in cult centres. £27.50 until 220pp b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st May 2018) 9781784919542 Pb £32.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Decoration and Display in Rome’s Imperial Thermae Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla By Maryl B. Gensheimer Maryl B. Gensheimer takes an interdisciplinary approach to existing archaeological data, textual and visual sources, and anthropological theories in order to generate a new understanding of the visual experience of the Baths of Caracalla and show how the decoration played a critical role in advancing imperial agendas. The case studies addressed herein – ranging from architectural to freestanding sculpture and mosaic – demonstrate that sponsoring monumental baths was hardly an act of altruism. Rather, even while they provided recreation for elite and sub-altern Romans alike, such buildings were concerned primarily with dynastic legitimacy and imperial largess. Decorative programs articulated these themes by Only consistently drawing analogies between the subjects of the £54.50 until decoration and the emperor who had paid for it. The unified 31st May decorative program – and the messages of imperial power therein – adroitly honoured the emperor and consolidated his reputation. 408pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190614782 Hb £64.00 50 Roman Art and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Domus del Ninfeo at Ostia (III, VI, 1-3) The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube By Alessandra Batty This book is the first in-depth analysis of one of the Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman most remarkable monuments of Ostia, the Domus to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct del Ninfeo. Originally built as a multi-storey complex By Andrew Poulter during the reign of Hadrian, in Late Antiquity it was Excavations on the site converted into a ground-floor mansion. This study of this remarkable fort in aims to present a comprehensive picture of the northern Bulgaria (1996– Domus, analysing not only the many structural 2005) formed part of a changes but also its topographical setting, historical long-term programme of context and social inferences. It also presents the excavation and intensive results of a clearance in a previously neglected area field survey, aimed at tracing of the house. the economic as well as 252pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2909, 2018) 9781407316147 physical changes which Pb £57.50 mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the The Pantheon Middle Ages, a programme From Antiquity to the Present which commenced with the excavation and full Edited by Tod A. Marder & Mark Wilson Jones publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city The Pantheon gives an up- of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well- to-date account of recent dated finds and their full publication provides a research on the best unique data-base for the late Roman period in the preserved building in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery, glass, corpus of ancient Roman copper alloy finds, inscriptions architecture from the and dipinti as well as quantified time of its construction to environmental reports on Only the twenty-first century. animal, birds and fish. £52.00 until Together, the essays shed 640p, (Oxbow Books publication light on all aspects of the 2019) 9781785709586 Hb Pantheon’s creation, and £70.00 establish the importance of Army of the Roman Emperors the history of the building to an understanding of its ancient fabric and heritage, its present state, and its Archaeology and History special role in the survival and evolution of ancient By Thomas Fischer architecture in modern Rome. The Roman army acted not 503pp, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) only as an armed power of 9780521809320 Hb £80.00, 9780521006361 Pb £24.99 the state in external and internal conflicts, but also Building Mid-Republican Rome carrying out functions which Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy nowadays are performed by By Seth Bernard police, local government, Building Mid- customs and tax authorities, Republican Rome offers as well as constructing roads, a holistic treatment of the ships, and buildings. With development of the Mid- this opulent volume, Thomas Republican city from 396 Fischer presents a comprehensive and unique to 168 BCE. It describes exploration of the Roman military of the imperial the city’s transformation in era. With over 600 illustrations, the costumes, terms of both new urban weapons and equipment of the Roman army are architecture and new explored in detail using archaeological finds dating socioeconomic structures, from the late Republic to Late Antiquity, and including slavery, coinage, from all over the Roman Empire. and market-exchange. These Originally published as Die physical and historical Armee der Caeseren (2012). Only developments were closely linked: building the 496pp, col and b/w illus £36.00 until Republican city was expensive, and meeting such (Oxbow Books 2019) publication costs had significant implications for urban society. 9781789251845 Hb £45.00 336pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190878788 Hb £55.00

Roman Art and Archaeology 51 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Introduzione alle Antichita di Ventotene Ricerche Archeologiche nell’Isola di Ventotene 1 Beyond the Romans Edited by Giovanni Maria De Rossi & Salvatore Medaglia Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology Ventotene is a small island located in the Tyrrhenian Edited by Irene Selsvold & Lewis Webb sea, known in Antiquity as Pandateria. The site Posthumanism constitutes hosts the ruins of a large Roman villa where, a multitude of theoretical during the first century AD, many women related positions characterised to imperial families were exiled. The book reviews by common critiques of the studies and excavations carried out in Ventotene anthropocentrism and since the 18th century, and provides a synthesis of its human exceptionalism. Roman age archaeology, including This is the first volume on the numerous discoveries made these themes in Roman in the waters surrounding the Only Archaeology, aimed island. £27.50 until at providing valuable Italian text. 128pp, b/w illus, col pls 31st May perspectives into Roman (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789690170 myth, art and material Pb £32.00 culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist La Delimitación de los subjectivity. Contributions consider non- Espacios Públicos en Pompeya human agencies, particularly animal, material, By Noemí Raposo Gutiérrez environmental, and divine agencies, critiques The delineation of public spaces in Pompeii has here of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the been examined through a study of the boundary Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress stones known as termini. These stones were strongly that humans and non-humans are controlled by municipal legislation, but they were entangled and imbricated in also protected by customary law and religious Roman Britain larger systems: we are all post- Only precepts. Those who damaged or moved the termini human. £32.00 until had to pay a penalty, which was imposed by the 160pp, b/w (Oxbow Books municipal council or, in some cases, by the emperor. 2019) 9781789251364 Hb publication Spanish text. 280pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2974, 2018) £40.00 9781407316765 Pb £51.00 The Fortifications of Pompeii and The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Ancient Italy Nutrition in the Roman World By Ivo van der Graaff This study redefines Pompeii’s fortifications as a Edited by Paul Erdkamp & Claire Holleran central monument that physically and symbolically This handbook presents a shaped the city. It considers the internal and comprehensive overview external forces that morphed its appearance, and of the sources, issues and traces how the fortifications served to foster a sense methodologies involved of community. The defences emerge as a dynamic in the study of the Roman ideologically freighted monument, subject to diet. Part I introduces the manipulation and appropriation that was critical to reader to the wide range the image and identity of Pompeii. of textual, material and bioarchaeological evidence. 272pp, b/w illus, col pls (Routledge 2018) 9781472477163 Part II offers an overview Hb £105.00 of various kinds of food From Caesar to Augustus, and drink and the social c. 49 BC–AD 14 setting of their consumption. Part III widens the Using Coins as Sources perspective with articles on women and children, regional studies, and on Jews and Christians. By Clare Rowan Part IV showcases the contribution of physical An accessible and detailed introduction to Roman anthropology. The final section puts food supply and provincial coinage in the late Republic and early and its failure in the context of community and Empire. Almost two hundred different coins are empire. illustrated at double life size, with each described in 366pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815364344 Hb detail, and technical Latin and numismatic terms are £175.00 explained. Chapters are arranged chronologically, and iconography, archaeological contexts, and the economy are clearly presented. 264pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107675698 Pb £17.99 52 Roman Art and Archaeology Die Bleifunde der Romisch- Roman Amphorae in Neuss Republikanischen Anlage von Sanisera, Augustan to Julio-Claudian Contexts Menorca Edited by Horacio Gonzalez Cesteros & Archaologische und Archaometrische Analyse Piero Berni Millet By Regine Muller This book provides an in-depth study of one of This volume includes the archaeological and the most important archaeological artefacts for archaeometrical analysis of the lead finds from understanding military supply along the Rhine the Roman Republican military fort of Sanisera frontier: the amphorae. Deliveries arrived at in northern Minorca. The fort was built after the different military camps established in the the Roman conquest of the island in 123 BC and intersection between Erf and Rhine from 16 BC until abandoned during the last third of the 1st century the Claudian principate. The study of this material BC. By correlating typological-archaeological and is essential not only for understanding Neuss, but scientific methods, the site’s unusual large number for further understanding of the of lead objects/artefacts are examined within whole Rhine and the logistics of their find context and reviewed the Roman army and its supply Only from very distant areas. for superregional connections to £30.00 until contemporary sites within the Only 144pp, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2019) 9781789690521 31st May Mediterranean. £32.50 until Pb £35.00 German text. 266pp, b/w and 31st May col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919887 Pb £38.00 Roman Britain Footprints from the Past Thwing, Rudston and the Roman-Period The South-Eastern Extramural Settlement of Exploitation of the Yorkshire Wolds Roman Alchester and Rural Occupation in its Edited by Rose Ferraby, Paul Johnson, Martin Millett Hinterland: The Archaeology of East West Rail & Lacey Wallace Phase 1 A report principally on the investigation of a By Andrew Simmonds & Steve Lawrence Romano-British ladder settlement at Thwing, carried This volume presents excavations which out between 2004 and 2008. The comprehensive investigated part of the south-eastern extramural geophysical survey and field-walking strategy settlement associated with the Roman fortress and enhanced previous cropmark plots. The main subsequent town at Alchester, Oxfordshire, as well excavation at Thwing focused upon a substantial as rural settlements in its rural hinterland. The rectangular stone structure dating to the later investigations extended across two successive routes Roman period. The penultimate chapter addresses south. Stone-founded buildings were constructed the landscape evidence for the nearby Rudston villa, during the late 1st-early 2nd century, including two whilst the final chapter consider the Thwing and single-celled structures of uncertain function that Rudston sites in a broader context. Comprehensive may represent a gatehouse or a pair of shrines. finds reports are integrated throughout the volume. 298pp, 72 tables (Oxford Archaeology 2018) 272pp, col illus (Yorkshire Archaeological Society 2017) 9780904220827 Hb £20.00 9780993238376 Pb £25.00 EAA 167 The Origin of Roman London A Romano-British Industrial Site at East Winch, By Lacey M. Wallace Norfolk This book presents a detailed archaeological By Mike Lally, Kate Nicholson, Andrew Peachey, account of the first decade of one of the best- Leonora O’Brien & Andrew A. S. Newton excavated cities in the Roman Empire. Delving Excavations at East Winch in north-west Norfolk, into the artefact and structural reports from all revealed a Romano-British pottery production site excavations of pre-Boudican levels in London, it — part of the Nar Valley industry — as well as brings together vast quantities of data which are more limited evidence of iron smelting and possible discussed and illustrated according to a novel habitation. The pottery assemblage adds considerably methodology that address both the difficulties and to our understanding of this industry. Of principal complexity of ‘grey literature’ and urban excavation. importance is the occurrence within the pottery 272p b/w and col pls (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2019) assemblage of tightly dated imports which assist in 9781107047570 £80.99, 9781108730013 Pb £22.99 developing a chronology for the Nar Valley industry. 104pp b/w illua (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) 9780993247736 Pb £20.00 53 The Crosby Garrett Helmet Romans and Natives in Central Britain Edited by David Breeze Edited by R.D. Martlew The discovery of a Roman sports helmet at Crosby What happened to the Garrett, Cumbria, in 2010 aroused considerable Brigantes when Rome took public interest. Subsequent field work and over? How were they affected excavation demonstrated that the helmet had been by military events? Can we buried in a farm of the Romano-British period, see sub-territories in their dated by two coins of the 330s and contemporary material culture? How did pottery finds. The helmet itself is a unique type of they react to the opportunities ‘sports’ helmet worn at Roman military exercises that Rome offered? Was and dates to the 3rd century AD. In this book, David their way of looking at the Breeze brings together the results of the field work world altered? This book and excavation along with discussions of the helmet summarises current opinion. and its significance and an account of its discovery. 84pp col illus (Yorkshire 112p col illus (CWAAS 2018) 9781873124796 Pb £18.00 Archaeological Society) Pb £12.00 Late Antique and Byzantine Beyond Intolerance Armies of the Late Roman Empire The Meeting of Milan of 313 AD and the AD 284 to 476 Evolution of Imperial Religious Policy from the History, Organization and Uniforms Age of the Tetrarchs to Julian the Apostate By Gabriele Esposito Edited by Davide Dainese & Viola Gheller Gabriele Esposito challenges The papers summoned in this volume tackle the many stereotypes and complex historical phase following the edict of misconceptions regarding Milan a number of perspectives (from Church the Late Roman Army; for history and theology to political and juridical example, he argues that the history). The chronological scope, stretching from Roman military machine the decades preceding the meeting of 313 to the remained a reliable and reign of Julian the Apostate, allows a focus on efficient one until the very the cultural, political and juridical premises of last decades of the Western Constantine and Licinius’ decisions and the way Empire. He describes the they affected a number of aspects of everyday life organization, structure, within the Empire’s borders, until Julian’s pagan equipment, weapons, combat history and tactics of “restoration” and beyond it. Late Roman military forces. The origins and causes 220pp (Brepols 2019) 9782503574493 Pb £120.00 for the final military fall of the Empire are discussed in detail, as well as the influence of the ‘barbarian’ Emperor and Senators in the Reign peoples on the Roman Army. of Constantius II 208pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526730374 Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Hb £19.99 Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD By Muriel Moser The Military History of Late Rome In this book, Muriel Moser AD 361–395 investigates the relationship By Ilkka Syvanne between the emperors This is the second volume in an ambitious series Constantine I and his giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late son Constantius II (AD Roman military history from AD 284-641. It gives 312-361) and the senators a detailed account of the changes in organization, of Constantinople and equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Rome. She examines and Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant contextualizes the integration period, while also giving a detailed but accessible of the social elites of Rome account of the campaigns and battles. This volume and the Eastern provinces covers the tumultuous period from the death of into the imperial system and Constantius II in AD 361 to the death of Theodosius. demonstrates their increased 256pp (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781783462735 Hb £30.00 importance for the maintenance of imperial rule in response to political fragility and fragmentation. 434pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108481014 Hb £90.00 54 The Specter of the Jews Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch The Caspian Gates in the Caucasus By Ari Finkelstein from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns In early 363, while living in Syrian Antioch, Julian and the Middle Ages redoubled his efforts to hellenize the Roman The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Empire by turning to an unlikely source: the Excavations & Surveys of 2013–2016 Jews. Ari Finkelstein examines Julian’s writings By Eberhard Sauer and views on Jews as Judeans, a venerable group Featuring in the works of whose religious practices and values would help literary giants, no other delegitimize Christianity and, surprisingly, shape a mountain pass in the ancient new imperial Hellenic pagan identity. and medieval world matches 269pp (University of California Press 2018) Dariali’s fame. A team of 9780520298729 Hb £74.00 archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major Theoderic and the Roman Imperial gorge-blocking fort and a Restoration barrier wall on a steep rocky By Jonathan J. Arnold ridge further north. The walls Focusing in particular on the works of Cassiodorus still standing today were built Late Antique and Byzantine and Ennodius, Arnold argues that contemporary around the time of the first Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century. as the Western Roman Empire and its ‘barbarian’ The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation king, Theoderic (r.489/93–526), as its emperor. for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold controlled Trans-Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects explains how the Roman past, both immediate and and human remains reveal harsh living conditions distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find and close connections to the Muslim acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential South, as well as the steppe world to the Empire’s perceived recovery. of the north. Only 352pp, (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9781107054400 704pp, 700 b/w & colour £60.00 until Hb £85.00, 9781107679474 Pb £19.99 images (Oxbow Books publication 2019) 9781789251920 Hb Attila the Hun £75.00 Arch-Enemy of Rome Change and Resilience By Ian Hughes The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, Attila in Late Antiquity dominated European history for the next two decades, bullying and manipulating both halves Edited by Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros & of the Roman empire, forcing successive emperors Catalina Mas Florit to make tribute payments or face invasion. Ian Change and Resilience Hughes recounts Attila’s rise to power, attempting offers a view of the main to untangle his character and motivations. A major Mediterranean islands from theme is how the two halves of the empire finally West to East in Late Antiquity. united against Attila, prompting his fateful decision A first group of papers covers to invade Gaul and his subsequent defeat at the islands and island groups Battle of the Catalaunian Plain in 451. in the Central and Western 256pp, b/w illus, col pls (Pen & Sword 2019) Mediterranean, highlighting 9781781590096 Hb £19.99 the role of the rural economy. The second group emphasizes Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political the impacts external shifts in Theory under Rome political power and economic Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works ties in the Eastern Mediterranean had on island landscapes, as well as the connected relationship By Simon Swain between sacred space and territorial occupation This volume presents a new critical edition, across many of these islands. The translation and analysis of Themistius’ letter to final group of papers pivots on Julian about kingship and government, together changing perceptions of island Only with texts, translations and analyses of Julian’s Letter landscapes in Late Antiquity. £25.60 until to Themistius and Sopater’s Letter to Himerius as 256pp, b/w illus publication well as the Letter of Aristotle to Alexander. (Oxbow Books 2019) 230pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781107633766 9781789251807 Pb £32.00 Pb £23.99 Late Antique and Byzantine 55 My Lots are in Thy Hands Authority and Control in Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity the Countryside Edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk & William E. Klingshirn From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean Sortilege – the making of and Near East (6th–10th Century) decisions by casting lots – Edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre & Petra was widely practiced in the Sijpesteijn Mediterranean world in Late This volume looks at the economic, religious, Antiqiuty. Employing the political and cultural instruments that local and overlapping perspectives of regional powers in the late antique to early medieval religious studies, classics, Mediterranean and Near East used to manage anthropology, economics, their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control and history, contributors – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons study a variety of topics, and fortifications, religious and administrative including the hermeneutics appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect and operations of divinatory control – monuments and landmarks, cultural texts, the importance of diviners and their styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard- the search for hidden order in a seemingly random setting – are examined to reconstruct the various world. means by which authority was asserted over the 410pp (Brill 2018) 9789004384101 Hb £130.00 countryside. Life in an Egyptian Village in Late 612pp (Brill 2018) 9789004386358 Pb £70.00 Antiquity Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity Aphrodito Before and After the Islamic Conquest Selected Essays By Giovanni R. Ruffini By Jairus Banaji Aphrodito, a village in This collection of essays sixth-century AD Egypt, is provides a stimulating antiquity’s best source for rebuttal to the prevailing micro-level social history. minimalism in late antique The archive of Dioskoros studies. Successive chapters of Aphrodito introduces discuss the scale of the late thousands of people living Roman gold currency, the the normal business of their economic nature of the lives: loans, rent contracts, aristocracy, the importance work agreements, marriage, of trade, relations between divorce. The emerging the state and the ruling picture is a different vision class, and the problem of of Roman late antiquity than what we see from the continuity into the early Middle Ages. A substantial view of the urban elites. It is a world of free peasants introduction pulls together the themes of the book building networks of trust largely beyond the reach into a coherent synopsis. of the state. 273pp (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107101944 Hb 300pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107105607 Hb £28.99 £67.99, 9781107499539 Pb £24.99

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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