OXBOW BOOK NEWS 99

New and forthcoming titles for Autumn 2017 Archaeology The Ancient World Greece and Rome The Middle Ages Welcome to the ninety-ninth edition of the Oxbow Book News, packed as ever with all of the latest archaeological, classical and medieval releases, as well as a cracking selection of new bargain books. You will find titles ranging in scale from a new synthesis covering two and a half million years of environmental change in the Levant, to reports covering a single site, or monographs focusing on the activities of a single family. We have two major publications in the Oxbow list coming up in early 2018. The use of a Bayesian statistical framework in the interpretation of radiocarbon dates has revolutionised our sense of scale in the Neolithic. Where once it was necessary to think in terms of thousands of years, it is now becoming possible to think in terms of centuries or even single generations. In The Times of their Lives: Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe Alasdair Whittle explains this dramatic leap forward, and teases out the implications for our understanding of sequences and rhythms of change in the European Neolithic. The discovery of two mass burials in the north-east of England formed the starting point which led to Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 by Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell, Chris Gerrard, Pam Graves and Andrew Millard. The skeletons proved to be the remains of prisoners captured and executed after the battle, and the book brings together archaeologists and historians to reconstruct their lives, and also those of the prisoners who survived. The bargain section to be found in the centre of the catalogue is also a real highlight, with a superb range of new deals and big savings to be had, including over twenty of our own titles reduced in price for the first time. I hope that you find something to tempt you.

Cover Image: Incomplete circle of stones TF0-38 west of TF1 Study Area (Northern Sector). From: The Archaeology of Western Sahara Edited by Joanne Clark and Nick Brooks Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2018.

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/oxbowbooks @oxbowbooks General Interest Childhood in History The Witch Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to Medieval Worlds the Present Edited by Reidar Aasgaard & Cornelia B. Horn By Ronald Hutton This volume presents nineteen studies which In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton examines explore ideas about children and childhood in attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of the pre-modern history of European civilization. suspected witches across the world, and from Drawing on a range of sources in genres that extend ancient pagan times to current interpretations. His from philosophical, theological, and educational fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach treatises, to law, art, and poetry, hagiography and focuses on cultural inheritance and change while autobiography, to school lessons and sagas, these considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of studies aim to bring together these diverse fields and witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might source materials, and to allow the development of be eradicated. new conversations. 376p, b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) 9780300229042 Hb 400p, 14 b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472468925 Hb £25.00 £120.00 Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity A Foot in the River to the Enlightenment Why Our Lives Change – And the Limits of Edited by Jennifer Rampling & Peter M. Jones Evolution This volume reveals how physicians practiced By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto offers some radical Adopting a longue duree approach to explore these answers to very big questions about the human connections, the sixteen essays each address a species and its history, arguing that culture is exempt key topic in the history of alchemy and medicine, from evolution. Ultimately, no environmental including the relationship between court and city, conditions, no genetic legacy, no predictable print and manuscript, and theoretical and practical patterns, no scientific laws determine our behaviour. knowledge; the circulation of “secrets” literature; the A revolutionary book which challenges scientistic role of chemical medicine in courts and universities; assumptions about culture and how and why and the material and economic context of alchemy. cultural change happens. 272p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138286368 Hb 304p (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780198744429 Hb £95.00 £20.00, 9780198806806 Pb £12.99 Method & Theory Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? Understanding Collapse By Scott A.J. Johnson Ancient History and Modern Myths This engaging volume offers a new theory of By Guy D. Middleton collapse, that of social hubris. Hubris blinds people In this lively survey, Guy to evidence that would allow them to adapt. D. Middleton critically Comprehensive and well-written, this volume examines our ideas about serves as an ideal text for undergraduate courses on collapse – how we explain it ancient complex societies, as well as appealing to and how we have constructed the scholar interested in societal collapse. This book potentially misleading myths Evaluates current theories on the collapse of ancient around collapses – showing societies and discusses why they are incomplete in how and why collapse of their ability to explain the failure of past civilizations societies was a much more Concludes that the population and leadership must complex phenomenon than have been aware impending collapse at some is often admitted. Rather point, but acted too late to reorganize and sustain than positing a single their way of life Demonstrates the theory through explanatory model of collapse – economic, social, or examination of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, environmental – Middleton gives full consideration Maya, Inca, and Aztec societies, with implications to the overlooked resilience in communities of for contemporary societies. ancient peoples and the choices that they made. 280p, (Routledge 2017) 9781629582832 Pb £33.99 300p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107151499 Hb £94.99, 9781316606070 Pb £29.99 1 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Children, Death and Burial Not Just for Show Archaeological Discourses The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork and Edited by Eileen Murphy & Mélie Le Roy Personal Ornaments Children, Death and Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Clive Bonsall & Burials assembles a Alice M. Choyke panorama of studies with These papers discuss the a focus on juvenile burials; social narratives behind the 16 papers have a wide bead and beadwork geographic and temporal manufacture, use and breadth and represent a disposal; the way beads range of methodological work visually, audibly and approaches. All have even tactilely to cue wearers a similar objective in and audience to their social mind, however, namely to message(s). Understanding understand how children the entangled social and were treated in death by different cultures in technical aspects of beads the past; to gain insights concerning the roles require a broad spectrum of children of different ages in their respective of technical and methodological approaches societies and to find evidence of the nature of including the identification of the sources for the past adult–child relationships and interactions raw material of beads. These scientific approaches across the life course. A broad range of issues are also combined in some instances with are addressed within the volume, including the experimentation to clarify the manner in which inclusion/exclusion of children in particular beads were produced and used in past societies. burial environments and the impact of age in 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) relation to the place of children in society. 9781785706929 Hb £48.00 240p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707124 Pb £40.00 Engaging with the Dead Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Archaeologies of Gender and Death, Mortality and the Human Body Violence Edited by Jennie Bradbury & Chris Scarre Edited by Bo Jensen & Uroš Matić Engaging with the Dead Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen adopts a cross-disciplinary, have brought together a archaeologically focused, team of both young and approach to explore a senior researches from variety of themes linked many different countries in to the interpretation of this first volume that aims mortuary traditions, death to explore the complex and the ways of disposing intersection between of the dead. Nineteen archaeology, gender and papers highlight the violence. Papers range from current vitality of ‘death theoretical discussions on studies’ and the potential previous approaches to of future research and discoveries. Contributors gender and violence and the ethical necessity explore changing beliefs and practices over to address these questions today, to case studies time, considering how modern archaeology, dealing with gender and violence from prehistoric ethnography and historical records can aid our to early medieval Europe, but also including interpretations of the past, as well as considering studies on ancient Egypt, Persia and Peru. The how past practices may have influenced contributors deal both with representations of understandings of death and dying within the violence and its gendered background in images modern world. and text, and with bioarchaeological evidence for 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) violence and trauma with a gendered background. 9781785706639 Hb £55.00 252p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706882 Pb £36.00

2 General Interest The Evolution of Human Co-operation Archaeological Research Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies A Brief Introduction By Charles Stanish By Peter N. Peregrine How do people living in small groups without This book introduces the basic methods of money, markets, police and rigid social classes archaeological research, including data collection, develop norms of economic and social cooperation analysis, interpretation, as well as a consideration that are sustainable over time? This book addresses of the state of archaeology today. New to the Second this fundamental question and explains the origin, Edition is updated information on geographic structure and spread of stateless societies. Stanish information systems and remote sensing strategies, shows how ritual – broadly defined – is the key. and a greatly expanded discussion of practices in Ritual practices encode elaborate rules of behaviour cultural resource management archaeology. and are ingenious mechanisms of organizing society 240p b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed 2017) 9781629583426 in the absence of coercive states. Hb £110.00, 9781629583433 Pb £31.99 352p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107180550 Hb £85.00 The Routledge Handbook of Human Dispersal and Species Movement Archaeology and Globalization From Prehistory to the Present Edited by Tamar Hodos Edited by Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia & Remy This unique collection applies globalization Crassard concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a This collection of essays explores human movement wide range of global case studies from a group of through time, the impacts of these movements on international specialists. The volume spans from as landscapes and other species, and the ways in which early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing species have co-evolved and transformed each the relationship between material culture, complex other as a result. Exploring the spread of people, connectivities between communities and groups, plants, animals, and diseases through processes and cultural change. Papers consider social practices of migration, colonisation, trade and travel, it shared between different historic groups, and also assembles a broad array of case studies from the the expression of their respective identities. Pliocene to the present. 994p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9780415841306 Hb 572p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) £175.00 9781107164147 Hb £89.99 Archaeological Theory in Ancient Complex Societies the New Millennium By Jennifer C. Ross & Sharon R. Steadman By Oliver J.T. Harris & Craig N. Cipolla Ancient Complex Societies examines the This book provides an account of the changing world archaeological evidence for the rise and functioning of archaeological theory and a challenge to more of politically and socially “complex” cultures in traditional narratives of archaeological thought. antiquity. Particular focus is given to civilizations It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on exhibiting positions of leadership, social and relations as well as engaging with other current administrative hierarchies, emerging and already theoretical trends and the thinkers archaeologists developed complex religious systems, and economic regularly employ, highlighting potential strengths differentiation. Using case studies from Africa, and weaknesses of different approaches. Polynesia, and North America, discussion is 254p (Routledge 2017) 9781138888708 Hb £110.00, dedicated to identifying what “complex” means 9781138888715 Pb £29.99 and when it should be applied to ancient systems. 550p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781611321951 Hb European Archaeology £110.00, 9781611321968 Pb £28.99 Identities & Migrations Ancient States and Infrastructural Power Edited by Laurence Manolakakis, Nathan Schlanger & Europe, Asia, and America Anick Coudart With contributions (written in French and in Edited by Clifford Ando & Seth F. C. Richardson English) spanning from prehistory to the modern While ancient states are often characterized in terms world, this volume in honour of Jean-Paul Demoule of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book brings new insights and data to such issues as the argues that they were in fact fundamentally weak, processes of identity construction at different scales, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in migratory movements in Europe, the status of the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such gender, the role of prestige objects and megalithic force would, in theory, defend. The contributions monuments in the emergence of social hierarchy examine the ways in which early states built their and in the semiology of power. territorial, legal, and political powers before they 520p, 62fc / 36bw (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088905216 had the capabilities to enforce them. Hb £195.00, 9789088905209 Pb £65.00 NYP 352p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) 9780812249316 Hb £58.00 General Interest 3 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Public Archaeology and Climate Change The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Edited by Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías Religion López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire Edited by Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick & This volume promotes new Santiago Riera Mora approaches to studying and Building on recent debates managing sites threatened by surrounding, for instance, climate change, specifically performance, materiality actions that engage and the false dichotomy communities or employ between ritualistic and ‘citizen science’ initiatives. secular behaviour, this book With examples from across investigates notions of ritual the globe, this selection of 18 and religion through the papers details the scale of the lens of perishable material problem through a variety culture. It explores the of case studies. Contributors diverse roles of plant, animal examine differing responses and proactive and other organic remains methodologies for the protection, preservation and in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or recording of sites at risk from natural forces and healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artefacts. demonstrate how new approaches It also provides insights into how archaeological can better engage people with science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual sites that are under increasing Only processes and the framing of rituals. The temporal threat of destruction. £28.50 until and geographical extends across Europe from the 208p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication Mediterranean and Aegean to the Books 2017) 9781785707049 Pb Baltic and North Atlantic regions £38.00 and from the Mesolithic to the Only medieval period. Making Journeys £33.75 until 288p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication Archaeologies of Movement Books 2017) 9781785708282 Hb Edited by Catriona Gibson, Catherine Frieman & £45.00 Kerri Cleary Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, Care or Neglect?: much of the archaeological literature on mobility Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric Edited by László Bartosiewicz & Erika Gál gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of This volume presents a collection of studies in materials. One route into exploring mobility in the the discipline of animal palaeopathology. An past may be through exploring the movements international team of experts offer reviews of animal and biographies of artefacts. Challenges lie not welfare at ancient settlements from both prehistoric only in tracing the origins and final destinations and historic periods across Eurasia. Several chapters of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ are devoted to the diseases of dog and horse, two journeys and the hands they passed through, an animals of prominent emotional importance in under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, many civilisations. Curious phenomena observed a range nestled between everyday movements on the bones of poultry, sheep, pig and even fish and one-off ambitious voyages. This collection are discussed within their respective cultural of papers explores how these travels involved contexts. Some animal bones show signs of extreme entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, cruelty but others also reveal the great attention knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and paid to the recovery of sick animals. re-crossing cultural, contextual and Such attitudes tend to be a largely tenurial boundaries, such hidden yet are characteristic Only journeys could create diasporic Only aspects of how people relate and novel communities, ideas £30.00 until £30.00 until to the surrounding world and, and materialities. ultimately, to each other. publication publication 256p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 304p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785709302 Pb £40.00 9781785708893 Pb £40.00

4 General Interest History and its Objects Archaeology and Geomatics Antiquarianism and Material Culture Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training Since 1500 in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015) By Peter N. Miller Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero- From the efforts of Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez Renaissance antiquarians, This volume consists of various studies on the who reconstructed life in use of methods such as LiDAR, archaeological the ancient world from prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of coins, inscriptions, seals, the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, and other detritus, to applied in various contexts. The case studies vary amateur historians in widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the the nineteenth century Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican working within burgeoning period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the national traditions, Miller Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. connects collecting to the 285p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) professionalisation of the 9789088904523 Hb £135.00, 9789088904516 Pb £45.00 historical profession. He situates the struggle to NYP articulate the value of objects as historical evidence at the heart both of academic history-writing and of Quantitative Methods in Archaeology the popular engagement with things. Using R 320p, b/w illus (Cornell UP 2017) 9780801453700 Hb By David L. Carlson £32.95 This is the first hands-on guide to using the R The Archaeological Activities of statistical computing system written specifically for archaeologists. Part I includes tutorials on James Douglas in Sussex between R, with applications to real archaeological data 1809 and 1819 showing how to compute descriptive statistics, By Malcolm Lyne create tables, and produce a wide variety of charts James Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well and graphs. Part II addresses the major multivariate ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology approaches used by archaeologists, while Part III and earth-sciences. His Nenia Britannica, published covers specialized topics, including intra-site spatial in 1793, reveals a remarkably accurate grasp of the analysis, seriation, and assemblage diversity. dating of Anglo- Saxon burials; further illuminated 440p, 94 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107040212 by the contents of his common-place book for 1814-16, Hb £77.99, 9781107655577 Pb £29.99 discovered by the author in a second-hand bookshop. This common-place book, correspondence with his The Oxford Handbook of contemporaries and other sources resulted in the Archaeological Ceramic Analysis present publication recounting his Edited by Alice M. W. Hunt archaeological and other activities This volume draws together topics and in Sussex during the first two Only methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, decades of the 19th century. £12.00 until mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of 68p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st January archaeological ceramic. It provides a common 2017) 9781784916480 Pb £15.00 vocabulary and offers practical tools and guidelines for ceramic analysis using techniques and Archaeology of the methodologies ranging from network analysis and Communist Era typology to rehydroxylation dating and inductively A Political History of Archaeology of coupled plasma mass spectrometry. the 20th Century 600p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780199681532 Hb £110.00 Edited by Ludomir R. Lozny This book contributes to better recognition and Integrative Approaches in Ceramic comprehension of the interconnection between Petrography archaeology and political pressure, especially By Mary F. Ownby & Maria A. Masucci imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes. This book highlights new results from this field It explains why, under such political conditions, and incorporates it prominently within current some archaeological reasoning and practices were archaeological work. Case studies provide practical resilient, while new ideas leisurely penetrated the examples by combining petrography with scientific, local scenes. It attempts to critically evaluate the ethnographic, and experimental methods. The political context and its impact on archaeology varied uses of ceramic petrography and the insights during the communist era world-wide. Included it has generated illustrate the significance of this are discussions about the perception of archaeology method for understanding past societies. and its findings by the public in communist states. 288p, b/w illus (University of Utah Press 2017) 360p (Springer Verlag 2017) 9783319451060 Hb £82.00 9781607815068 Hb £74.50 General Interest 5 Drawing Lithic Artefacts Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Yannick Raczynski-Henk Understanding Ancient Fortifications Drawings are often the most informative images Between Regionality and Connectivity when it comes to the study of lithic artefacts because the lines and symbols in these drawing Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz & contain technological information which tells the Dirk P. Mielke audience how the artefact depicted was made. In many regions of Conversely, making these drawings is an excellent Europe and beyond way of learning to recognise and understand this fortifications belong to technological information. This book is a concise the most impressive of how-to guide. archaeological remains. 52p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) However, fortifications are 9789088905308 Pb £20.00, NYP generally examined in a temporally, regionally or Fibres culturally limited context. Microscopy of Archaeological Textiles and Furs Going a step further, this By Antoinette Rast-Eicher volume aims to bring into focus concepts of Fibres used in the manufacture of archaeological fortifications, which can be socially, symbolically textiles are full of information. A variety of or functionally, but also chronologically and archaeological examples and their modern day supra-regionally aligned. An important question counterparts are assembled as well as a chapter is to determine which fortification elements devoted to the historical background of each fibre are culture-specific, and which can be regarded and its use in Europe. as convergence or even universal phenomena. 359p, b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911789 Hb Adopting a comparative view, the central aim of £49.95 the volume is to highlight the diversity and the Mobility and Pottery Production structural similarities of ancient fortifications. The chronological framework goes Archaeological and Anthropological from the Neolithic to the Late Perspectives Iron Age, and the geographical Only Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer scope from the Ural steppes to £41.25 until Pottery vessels can move with their owners or be the Iberian Peninsula. publication passed on and may thus shift between spatial, 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) temporal, social, economic and cultural contexts. 9781785707483 Hb £55.00 This volume presents contributions which address mobility and social ties by focusing on variability in pottery production within, as well as between, settlements and regions. Others take more actor- Working with the Past centred perspectives of making, distributing and Towards an Archaeology of Recycling using pottery. Edited by Dragos Gheorghiu & Paul Mason 270p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) Recycling is a basic 9789088904615 Hb £135.00, 9789088904608 Pb £45.00 anthropological process NYP of humankind. The reutilization of materials Exploring Sex and Gender in or of ideas from the Past Bioarchaeology is a process determined by Edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal & Julie K. Wesp various natural or cultural Archaeologists have long used skeletal remains to causes. Recycling can be identify gender. Contemporary bioarchaeologists, motivated by a crisis or by a however, have begun to challenge the theoretical complex symbolic cause like and methodological basis for sex assignment the incorporation of the Past from the skeleton. Simultaneously, they have into the Present. This book started to consider the cultural construction of the invites archaeologists to approach gendered body and gender roles, recognizing the the significant process of recycling body as uniquely fashioned from the interaction within the archaeological record Only of biological, social, and environmental factors. As at two different levels: of artefacts £20.00 until the contributors to this volume reveal, combining and of landscape. 31st January skeletal data with contextual information can 144p, col illus (Archaeopress 2017) provide a richer understanding of life in the past. 9781784916299 Pb £25.00 312p (University of New Mexico Press 2017) 9780826352583 Hb £88.95

6 General Interest Exploring the Materiality of Food The Interactive Past ‘Stuffs’ Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Edited by Angus A.A. Mol, Csilla E. Ariese- Embodiments Vandemeulebroucke, Krijn H.J. Boom & Edited by Louise Steel & Katharina Zinn Aris Politopoulos This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs The Interactive Past brings together a diverse group past and present, examining humanity’s intriguingly of thinkers — including archaeologists, heritage complex relationships with, and experiences of, scholars, game creators, conservators and more — food. The book also makes a fresh contribution to who explore the interface of video games and the our understanding of materiality through a novel past in a series of unique and engaging writings. focus on material culture, analysing objects used They address such topics as how thinking about to prepare, wrap, serve and consume food and and creating games can inform on archaeological the tactile experiences involved in its production method and theory, how games can be studied and consumption. Papers consider a wide range of archaeologically and the challenges they present cultures, spanning from ancient China to modern- in terms of conservation, and why the deaths of day Kenya. virtual Romans and the treatment of video game 320p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138941199 Hb chickens matters. £110.00 220p, col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904370 Hb £120.00, 9789088904363 Pb £40.00 Digital Atlas of Traditional Agricultural Practices and Food Processing Ships And Maritime Landscapes Proceedings of the Thirteenth International By R.T.J. Cappers, R. Neef, R. M. Bekker, F. Fantone & Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Y. Okur Amsterdam 2012 This atlas documents the various processes involved in the production of food-from working the fields By Joost Schokkenbroek, André van Holk & Jerzy through to processing the crops for food, fodder, Gawronski and other purposes. It aims to define and describe This volume gathers 88 contributions related to these various processes unambiguously by using a the theme ‘Ships and Maritime Landscapes’ of the standardized vocabulary and by explicitly taking Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and into account the intention behind each process. Ship Archaeology (2012). The contributions deal not The atlas also includes detailed case studies of the only with the theme of maritime landscapes but also practices and processes involving grapes, olives, date with a variety of ship related subjects, like regional palms, barley, and wheat. watercraft, construction and typology, material 1990p, col illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789492444004 Hb applications and design, outfitting, reconstruction £305.00 and current research. 525p, b/w and col illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789492444141 Hb £95.00 Heritage Ancient Monuments and Modern Engaging Heritage Identities Engaging Communities By S. Voutsaki & Paul Cartledge Edited by Bryony Onciul, Michelle L. Stefano & This volume investigates the role of archaeology Stephanie Hawke in the creation of ethnic, national and social This volume critically engages with and explores identities in 19th and 20th century Greece. The the latest debates and practices surrounding essays examine the development of interpretative community collaboration. By exploring the different and methodological principles guiding the recovery, ways in which communities participate in heritage protection and interpretation of material remains projects, the book questions the benefits, costs and and their presentation to the public. The role of limitations of community engagement. Whether archaeology is examined alongside prevailing communities are engaging through innovative perceptions of the past, and is thereby situated in initiatives or in response to economic, political or its political and ideological context. The book is social factors, there is a need to understand how organized chronologically and follows the changing such engagements are conceptualised, facilitated attitudes to the past during the formation, expansion and experienced by both the organisations and the and consolidation of the Modern Greek State. communities involved. 236p (Routledge 2017) 9780754652892 Hb £105.00 208p, col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271658 Hb £60.00 7 Museums and Archaeology The Restoration of Blythburgh Church, Edited by Robin Skeates 1881-1906 Museums and Archaeology Edited by Alan Mackley provides a combination of In 1881, after decades of issue- and practice-based mouldering into ruin, the perspectives. The volume’s grand fifteenth-century balance of theory and church of Blythburgh, practice and its thematic Suffolk, “The Cathedral of and geographical breadth is the Marshes”, was closed as explored and explained in unsafe. Its rescue involved a an extended introduction, bitter twenty-five year long which situates the readings dispute between Blythburgh in the context of the extensive vicars and committees, and literature on museum William Morris and his archaeology, highlighting the many tensions that Society for the Protection of exist between idealistic ‘principles’ and real-life Ancient Buildings, who feared that the medieval ‘practice’ and the debates that surround these. fabric would be over-restored and the character of 684p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138026223 Hb the building lost forever. This volume presents an £155.00, 9781138026230 Pb £43.99 edition, with notes and introduction, of original documents from both sides – providing unique Analysing Maritime Archaeological insights into a rancorous conflict. Archives 362p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271672 Hb £25.00 Collections Access and Management Research to understand the nature and scale of the Place-Names of Flintshire problems faced by maritime archaeological archives By Hywel Wyn Owen & Ken Lloyd Gruffydd is presented within this volume. Subjects covered This is the first thorough, authoritative study of the include a review of coastal museums and their place-names of the entire pre-1974 Flintshire. The approach to maritime archaeological archives and entry for each of the 800 names presents a grid presentation of the results of an extensive survey reference, documentary and oral evidence with which sought to discover where archives are held, dates, derivation and meaning, and a discussion their composition and issues of access ownership of the significance of the name in terms of history, and storage. language, landscape and industrial associations. 180p (BAR BS 628, 2016) 9781407315669 Pb £37.00 272p (University of Wales Press 2017) 9781786831101 Hb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Collecting the World The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane By James Delbourgo Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. Sloane’s dream of universal knowledge, of a gathering together of every kind of thing in the world, was enabled by Britain’s rise to global ascendancy. Shortly after his death, Sloane’s vast collection was then acquired – as he had hoped – by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world’s first national public museum, the British Museum, which opened in 1759.This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years and the first based onhis surviving collections. Early modern science and collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with imperial enterprise and slavery but which nonetheless gave rise to one of the great public Only institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities £20.00 until gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern 31st January knowledge, and brings this totemic figure back to life. 544p (Penguin Books 2017) 9781846146572 Hb £25.00

8 Heritage Landscape Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Draining of the Fens Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building New Forest in Early Modern England The Forging of a Landscape By Eric H. Ash By Hadrian Cook The draining of the Fens in Provides an historical eastern England was one narrative of the occupation of the largest engineering and use of a vast area that projects in seventeenth- was, for centuries, important century Europe. A series as a Royal Hunting Forest and of Dutch and English subject to many contentious “projectors,” working over laws and regulations, several decades and with the but which includes much full support of the Crown, economically marginal transformed hundreds land. Four critical themes of thousands of acres of are explored through time: putatively barren wetlands the shaping of the natural into dry, arable farmland. Eric H. Ash provides environment into human prehistory; human a detailed history of this ambitious undertaking. intervention through natural resource management; He explores the drainage from the perspectives of governance and management of the forest over political, social, and environmental history, arguing time, stressing pressures on resources and attempts that the efficient management and exploitation of at exclusion of certain social groups; and policies fenland natural resources in the rising nation-state and designations to conserve the New Forest. Cook of early modern England was a crucial problem for aims to reflect a complicated narrative the Crown, one that provoked violent confrontations around the evolution caused by with fenland inhabitants, who viewed the drainage changing management and Only (and accompanying land seizure) as a grave threat economic objectives reflecting to their local landscape, economy, and way of life. £26.25 until governance arrangements at 416p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2017) 9781421422008 different times. publication Hb £40.50 232p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2017) 9781911188193 Pb £34.99

Human Evolution Prehension Evolution’s Bite The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins By Colin McGinn By Peter S. Ungar Drawing on evolutionary Peter Ungar brings together biology, anatomy, cutting-edge advances archaeology, linguistics, in understanding human psychology, and philosophy, evolution and climate among other disciplines, change with new approaches McGinn examines the role of to uncovering dietary clues the hand in shaping human from fossil teeth to present a evolution. He finds that the remarkable investigation into development of our capacity the ways that teeth – their to grasp, to grip, to take hold shape, chemistry, and wear (also known as prehension) – reveal how we came to be. is crucial in the emergence He traces how diet and an of Homo sapiens. He speculates that the hand unpredictable climate determined who among our played a major role in the development of language, ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as and presents a theory of primitive reference as an well as why we transitioned from the role of forager outgrowth of prehension. to farmer. 208p (MIT Press 2015, Pb 2017) 9780262533645 Pb 248p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691160535 Hb £14.95 £22.95 9 The Invaders Palaeolithic Pioneers How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Behaviour, abilities, and activity of early Homo Neanderthals to Extinction in European landscapes around the western By Pat Shipman Mediterranean basin ~1.3-0.05 Ma. Pat Shipman musters By Michael J. Walker compelling evidence to Archaic humans were present for over a million show that the major factor years in western Mediterranean Europe where in the Neanderthals’ demise they left very many traces of their early stone-age was direct competition with activities and behaviour, and sometimes even newly arriving humans. human skeletal remains. This book evaluates She also reveals fascinating archaeological findings about their life-ways at confirmation of humans’ many important sites in Italy, southern France, and partnership with the first Spain, from the earliest ones 1,300,000 years ago, domesticated wolf-dogs soon to those of Neanderthals fifty-thousand years ago, after Neanderthals first began just before they were superseded to disappear. This alliance by skeletally-”modern” humans. between two predator species, she hypothesizes, The book focuses on their Only made possible an unprecedented degree of success remarkable capacity to adapt. £20.00 until in hunting large Ice Age mammals—a distinct and 206p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 31st January ultimately decisive advantage for humans over 9781784916206 Pb £25.00 Neanderthals at a time when climate change made both groups vulnerable. Early Humans 288p (Harvard UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780674975415 Pb By Nicholas Ashton £15.95 This book provides an up to date synthesis of the Evolving God British Palaeolithic, drawing A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, on recent discoveries and Expanded Edition employing evidence from By Barbara J. King a range of disciplines. Evolving God draws on King’s own fieldwork among Ashton tells the story of the primates in Africa and palaeoanthropology of our fauna, flora and developing extinct ancestors to offer a new way of thinking geography of Britain against about the origins of religion, one that situates it the backdrop of an ever- in a deep need for emotional connection with changing climate. Above all, others, a need we share with apes and monkeys. he explores how early people She traces an evolutionary path that connects us to began as brief visitors to this wild remote land, but other primates, who, like us, display empathy, make over time through better ways of acquiring food and meanings through interaction, create social rules, developing new technologies, they began to tame, and display imagination the basic building blocks shape and dominate the countryside we see today. of the religious imagination. 368p b/w illus (William Collins 2017) 9780008150334 Hb 304p (University of Chicago Press 2017) 9780226360898 £60.00, 9780008150358 Pb £35.00 Pb £13.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE The First Artists In Search of the World’s Oldest Art By Paul Bahn & Michel Lorblanchet Where do we find the world’s very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Overturning the traditional Eurocentric vision of our artistic origins, which has focused almost exclusively on the Franco-Spanish cave art, Paul Bahn and Michel Lorblanchet take the reader on a search for the earliest art across the whole world. They show that our earliest ancestors were far from being the creatively impoverished primitives of past accounts, and Europe was Only by no means the only ‘cradle’ of art; the artistic impulse £16.00 until developed in the human mind wherever it travelled. The long universal history of art mirrors the development of humanity. 31st January 240p b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500051870 Hb £19.95

10 Landscape Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Neolithic Stepping Stones The Earlier Iron Age in Britain Excavation and survey within the western and the Near Continent seaways of Britain, 2008-2014 Edited by Rachel Pope & Colin Haselgrove By Duncan Garrow & Fraser Sturt The twenty-six papers This book’s primary focus is in the book seek to Early Neolithic settlement establish what we now on islands within the know (and do not know) ‘western seaways’ – sites about Earlier Iron Age that offer significant communities in Britain insight into the character and their neighbours on of the Mesolithic–Neolithic the Continent. The authors transition in this particular engage with a variety of maritime zone. At the current research themes, heart of the book lie the seeking to characterise the results of three substantial Earlier Iron Age via the excavations at L’Erée, topics of landscape, environment, and agriculture; Guernsey; Old Quay, St Martin’s (Isles of Scilly); and material culture and everyday life; architecture, An Doirlinn, South Uist. Key findings include: the settlement, and social organisation; and with the first major Mesolithic flint assemblage recovered issue of transition – looking at how communities from Scilly; one of the most extensively excavated of the Late Bronze Age transform into those of and long-lasting Neolithic/Bronze Age occupation the Earlier Iron Age, and how we understand the sites in the Channel Islands; the first substantial social changes of the later first millennium BC. Neolithic settlement on Scilly; and the longest 416p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2006, Pb 2017) sequence of Neolithic/Early Bronze Age occupation 9781785709098 Pb £56.00 on a single site from the Outer Hebrides. 192p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703478 The Later Iron Age in Britain Pb £38.00 and Beyond Made for Trade Edited by Tom Moore, Elizabeth Moore & Colin Haselgrove A New View of Icenian Coinage The thirty-one papers By John Talbot collected here seek to re- In Made for Trade, John conceptualise our visions Talbot analyses the coinage of Later Iron Age societies of the Iceni in East Anglia in Britain by examining with a view to establishing regions and topics that its original purpose and have received less attention what it can tell us about in the past and by breaking society and the use of down the artificial coinage in the Late Iron barriers often erected Age of this region. A die- between artefact analysis study was performed on and landscape studies. every known example – Themes considered include the expansion and over 10,000 coins, which enclosure of settlement, production and exchange, enabled definitive chronologies to be constructed agricultural and social complexity, treatment of and the underlying organisation of the coinage the dead, material culture and identity, at scales to be fully appreciated for the first time. Talbot ranging from the household to the supra-regional. further explores production, weight and metal At the same time, the inclusion of papers on content as the coinage evolved, the use of imagery Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, and inscriptions, and patterns of hoarding. These Denmark, and Germany allows insular Later various threads demonstrate that the coinage was Iron Age developments to be placed in a wider economic in nature and reflected development of geographical context, ensuring that Britain is no a more sophisticated monetary society than had longer studied in isolation. previously been thought possible. 536p, (Oxbow Books 2006, Pb 2017) 9781785709104 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) Pb £70.00 9781785708121 Hb £55.00

11 William Boyd Dawkins and the Ceremonial Living in the Third Victorian Science of Cave Painting Millennium BC By Mark White By Keith Parfitt & Stuart Needham William Boyd Dawkins was The discovery in 2001 of an exquisite Early Bronze a controversial Victorian Age gold cup at Ringlemere Farm in Kent prompted geologist, palaeontologist an extensive survey and excavation of the site from and archaeologist. For 2002–2006. Excavation revealed a site with a long some, he was a pioneer history of use, the most striking evidence being of Darwinian science as a for intensive activity in the third millennium BC member of the Lubbock- associated with a henge monument, the interior of Evans network, while for which was later buried beneath an Early Bronze others he was little more Age mound. This volume presents a detailed report than a reckless vandal who on a rich array of structural and artefactual evidence destroyed irreplaceable spanning a few thousand years of prehistory, evidence and left precious and the site’s subsequent slide into agricultural little for future generations to assess. In this anonymity. volume, Professor Mark White provides a balanced 200p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2018) archaeological and geological account of Boyd 9780861592173 Pb £40.00, NYP Dawkins’ career and legacy. At the heart of this book is a detailed study of the circumstances surrounding Hillforts, Warfare and Society in the Victorian excavations at Creswell Crags, which Bronze Age Ireland became a cause celebre. By William O’Brien & James O’Driscoll 302p b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473823358 Hb This project combines £25.00 remote sensing and GIS- The Origins of the Irish based landscape analysis with conventional By J. P. Mallory archaeological survey and In this study J. P. Mallory emphasizes that the Irish excavation, to investigate ten did not have a single origin, but are a product of prehistoric hillforts across multiple influences that can only be tracked by southern Ireland. The results employing the disciplines of archaeology, genetics, provide new insights into geology, linguistics, and mythology. Beginning with the design and construction the collision that fused the two halves of Ireland of these immense sites, together, the origins of its first farmers and their as well as details of their monumental impact on the island is followed by an occupation and abandonment. The project provides exploration of how metallurgists in copper, bronze, a challenging insight into the relationship of and iron brought Ireland into increasingly wider hillforts to warfare, social complexity and the orbits of European culture. political climate of late prehistoric Ireland. 328p, b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2013, Pb 2017) 538p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916558 9780500293300 Pb £9.99 Pb £60.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland By Vicki Cummings The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to the early Beaker period. Drawing on new excavations and the application of new scientific approaches to data from this period, this book considers both life and death in the Neolithic. It offers a clear and concise introduction to this period but with an emphasis on the wider and on-going research questions. The book begins by considering the Mesolithic prelude, specifically the millennium prior to the start of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland. It then goes on to consider what life was like for people at the time, alongside the monumental Only record and how people treated the dead. This is presented £25.00 until chronologically, with separate chapters on the early Neolithic, middle Neolithic, late Neolithic and early Beaker periods. 31st January Finally it considers future research priorities for the study of the Neolithic. 310p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138857186 Pb £29.99

12 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Horcott Quarry, Fairford and Arkell’s Land, Kempsford A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle and Burial in the Upper Thames Valley in Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway Gloucestershire By Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone By C. Hayden, R. Early, E. Biddulph, P. Booth, Cults Loch, at Castle A. Dodd, A. Smith, Granville Laws & K. Welsh Kennedy in Dumfries & At Horcott, on the second terrace, there was periodic Galloway, Scotland, loch lies activity from the early Mesolithic onwards. A major within a landscape rich in earlier Iron Age settlement contained roundhouses prehistoric cropmark sites and at least 135 four-post structures, suggesting an and within the loch itself exceptional focus on grain storage. Later occupation are two crannogs, one of comprised a Romano-British farmstead and a which has been the focus substantial Anglo-Saxon settlement. By contrast, of this study. The Cults at Arkell’s Land, on the first gravel terrace, activity Loch crannog is only the on a significant scale only began in the later 1st second prehistoric site in century AD, comprising enclosures, field systems Scotland to be dated by and trackways, with no post-Roman occupation. dendrochronology and analysis has revealed the 552p, 259 illustrations, 134 tables (Oxford Archaeology very short duration of activity on the crannog in the 2017) 9781905905386 Hb £25.00 middle of the 5th century BC. The wealth of well- preserved evidence from the crannog, particularly The Iron Age in Northern Britain the rich ecofactual assemblages, as well as the Britons and Romans, Natives and Settlers higher chronological resolution possible through the dendro-dating of waterlogged By Dennis William Harding timbers, are brought to bear The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the on our understanding of the Only archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age evidence from the cropmark £22.50 until communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of sites around the loch. publication 304p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books Roman expansion on local populations, through to 2017) 9781785703737 Hb £30.00 the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick comprehensively revised and expanded to include Rhythms of Life on Iron Age Unst new discoveries and to take account of advanced techniques, and also addresses the key issues By Olivia Lelong of social reconstruction, gender, and identity, as The Iron Age settlement at well as assessing the impact of developer-funded Milla Skerra was occupied archaeology on the discipline. for at least 500 years before 420p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2nd ed 2017) it was covered with storm- 9781138126312 Hb £105.00, 9781138126305 Pb £39.99 blown sand and abandoned. Excavation revealed many Late Iron Age Calleva details of the life of the The Pre-Conquest Occupation At Silchester settlement and how it was Insula IX. Silchester Roman Town: The Insula IX reused over many generations. Town Life Project: Volume 3 From the middle of the 1st By Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke, Emma Durham millennium BC people were & Nicholas Pankhurst constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden The late Iron Age oppidum of Calleva underlies the material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a Roman town at Silchester. Excavation (1997-2014) paved floor and successive hearths. Outside were new revealed evidence of a rectilinear, NE/SW-NW/SE- yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, oriented layout of the interior of the oppidum, dating which were remodelled several times. Thousands from 20/10BC, with the remains of the larger part of of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla one compound separated from its neighbours by Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal fenced trackways. Within the compound was a large, rhythms of the people that lived in 47.5m long hall surrounded by smaller, rectangular this windswept and remote island buildings associated with groups of rubbish pits. A settlement and their connections Only concluding discussion characterises the oppidum, to both land and sea. integrating and contextualising a series of major £18.75 until contributions reporting the pre-conquest finds and 144p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication environmental evidence with the structural story. Books 2018) 9781785703430 Hb £25.00 480p, b/w illus (Roman Society Publications 2018) 9780907764458 Pb £75.00, NYP Prehistoric Britain and Ireland 13 European Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Across the Alps in Prehistory Isotopic Mapping of the Brenner Passage by The Earliest Europeans – a Year in Bioarchaeology the Life Edited by Gisela Grupe, Angela Grigat & George C. Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic McGlynn By Rob Hosfield This book demonstrates how isotopic landscapes The Earliest Europeans combined with data mining can provide insights explores the early origins of on prehistoric migration and cultural transfer. An man in Europe through the interdisciplinary research group focused on the perspective of ‘a year in the archaeological isotopic landscape of the transalpine life’: how hominins in the migration route via the Brenner Pass which has Lower Palaeolithic coped been in use since the Mesolithic. A systematic and with the year-round practical large scale investigation of cremated remains was challenges of mid-latitude conducted, an isotopic map was established, and Europe with its distinctive innovative methods of data mining and similarity temperatures, seasonality research have been applied. patterns, and available 252p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017) resources. By testing the 9783319415482 Hb £100.50 likelihood of different scenarios by comparing short-term, site-based Soilscapes in Archaeology insights with long-term, regional trends, Settlement and Social Organization in the Hosfield is able to put forward ideas Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain on how our earliest European By Roderick B Salisbury Only ancestors survived and what In this book, the author uses the soilscapes from their lives were like. £11.99 until small Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age 160p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2017) publication settlements in the Körös Region of the Great 9781785707612 Pb £15.99 Hungarian Plain to explore the relationship between spatial distributions and community The Times of their Lives organization during the major social and economic Hunting History in the Archaeology of transformations that occurred at the turn of the Neolithic Europe Neolithic and Copper Age. Focusing on soil, rather By Alasdair Whittle than on artefact distributions or architecture, reveals The Times of their Lives patterns of continuity in spatial organization at small explains how archaeologists settlements in contrast with large, nucleated Late can now move away from Neolithic settlements, which differ considerably. thinking about history in 329p b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911796 Hb terms of thousands of years, £50.00 to periods from one or two centuries down to lifetimes Going West? and generations — a little The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations more than two decades. This Between the Bosporus and the Carpathians vastly improved precision Edited by Agathe Reingruber, Zoi Tsirtsoni & Petranka comes from the application Nedelcheva of Bayesian chronological The seventeen authors of this book have dedicated frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon their research to a renewed evaluation of an dates. This book shows how temporally much old problem: namely, the question of how the more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, complex transformations at the transition from across a broad range of contexts and situations. It the Mesolithic to the Neolithic can be explained. offers a series of case studies across much ofthe They have focused their studies on the vast area of continent, to provide much more precise timings the eastern Balkans and the Pontic region between of key features and trends in the the Bosporus and the rivers Strymon, Danube European Neolithic sequence than and Dniestr. Going West? thus offers an overview are currently available, and to of the current state of research concerning the construct much more precise Only £30.00 until Neolithisation of these areas, considering varied estimates of the duration of viewpoints and also providing useful starting points events and phenomena. publication for future investigations. 240p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 194p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138714830 9781785706684 Hb £40.00 Hb £105.00 14 Territoires et Ressources des Sociétés The Metal Hoard from Pile in Scania, Néolithiques du Bassin Parisien Sweden Le Cas du Neolithique Moyen Place, Things, Time, Metals & Worlds Around (4500 – 3800 av. n. e.) 2000 BCE By Claira Lietar By Helle Vandkilde The aim of this book is to In 1864, a large metal hoard study forms of territorial of copper, bronze and silver patterning and resource objects was discovered at management in the middle Pile in Scania. The hoard has Neolithic I and II, between been dated to the onset of 4500 and 3800 BC in the Paris the Nordic Bronze Age, and basin. Using a database of emerges as the earliest, finest middle Neolithic occupation, and one of the largest of the integrated in a geographic Nordic sacrificial deposits of information system, a metalwork in or near water. multiscalar spatial analysis This volume provides the was undertaken. The models first detailed documentation, of occupation that are revealed show diversity in scientific examination and historical interpretation forms of territorial patterning, derived from regional of the assemblage. development processes, between 250p b/w illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788771841435 Hb the middle of the 5th and the £25.00 beginning of the 4th millennium. Only French text. 178p, b/w and col illus £23.00 until Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916527 31st January A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Pb £28.00 Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps Balkan Dialogues By Laura Perucchetti This volume considers the early copper and copper- Negotiating Identity Between Prehistory alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum- Alpine region. and the Present It introduces a new approach to the interpretation Edited by Maja Gori & Maria Ivanova of chemical composition data sets, which has been This timely volume fulfils the need for an up-to- applied to a comprehensive regional database for date and theoretically informed dialogue on group the first time. An extensive use of GIS has been identity in Balkan prehistory. Thirteen case studies applied to investigate the role of topography in the covering the beginning of the Neolithic to the distribution of metal and to undertake Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists spatial and geostatistical analysis conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by that may highlight patterns of Only ethnologists with a research focus on material distribution of some specific key culture and identity, provide a robust foundation for compositional elements. £28.00 until exploring these issues. 186p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st January 294p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138941137 Hb 2017) 9781784916145 Pb £35.00 £110.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Warfare in Neolithic Europe An Archaeological and Anthropological Analysis By Julian Heath There is a considerable (and growing) body of archaeological data that is indicative of episodes of warfare between Neolithic communities. This evidence should not be taken as proof that warfare was endemic across Neolithic Europe, but it does strongly suggest that it was more common than some scholars have proposed. Here Julian Heath provides an accessible synthesis, explaining how violence and warfare can be identified in the archaeological record (and how warfare might be Only distinguished from interpersonal violence), and setting £16.00 until out the debates about the prevalence of warfare between 31st January Neolithic groups. 138p b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473879850 Hb £19.99

European Prehistory 15 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books North Meets South Appropriating Innovations Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000–1500 Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia BCE Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling & Ulf Bertilsson Edited by Joseph Maran & Philipp Stockhammer This latest volume in the Appropriating Swedish Rock Art series Innovations sheds light bridges the gap between on conditions that may analysis and interpretation facilitate the rapid of rock art imagery, spread of technological location and chronology in innovation and on the northern and southern processes involved in regions of Scandinavia. the integration of new Long viewed as belonging technologies into the life to distinctive regional world of the appropriating traditions, there are many societies. In particular, underlying similarities, papers concentrate on two themes and formats in common, overlain by key innovations, namely the transmission of the regional complexities and variations. Even though various components of the so-called “Secondary there are obvious differences in space and time Products Revolution” in parts of the Near East regarding these two traditions, there are also and Europe during the 4th millennium BCE features and formats in common across both and the appropriation of early bronze casting time and space, and a significant theme running technology, which spread from the Near East to through the contributions presented here is to Europe and China in the late 3rd and early 2nd highlight the interaction between these rock art millennium BCE. traditions. A major conclusion to be drawn from 296p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) this exercise is the great complexity 9781785707247 Hb £48.00 and variation of rock art and the need for perspectives Only Movement, Exchange and Identity in comparing various regions Europe in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC across Scandinavia. £15.00 until Beyond Frontiers 176p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Edited by Anne Lehoërff & Marc Talon Books 2017) 9781785708206 Hb Recent decades have £20.00 since a massive increase in large-scale excavation programmes on either side Frozen Saqqaq Sites of Disko Bay, of the Channel, resulting in the acquisition of huge, West Greenland complex new datasets Qeqertasussuk & Qajaa (2400-900 BC) enabling new insights By Bjarne Gronnow into later prehistoric life. Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa Papers consider the role of are the only known sites several key archaeologists of the Early Arctic Small in transforming our Tool tradition in the appreciation of the connectivity of the sea Eastern Arctic, where all in prehistory; consider the extent to which kinds of organic materials the Channel zone developed into a unified wood, bone, baleen, hair, cultural zone during later Bronze Age in terms skin are preserved in of communities that serviced the movement of permafrozen culture layers. artefacts across the Channel with both sides Together, the sites cover sharing widely in the same artefacts and social the entire Saqqaq era in practices; examine funerary practices and Greenland (c. 2400-900 settlement evidence and consider the relationship BC). Technological and contextual analyses of between communities in social, cultural and the excellently preserved archaeological materials ideological terms; and consider mechanisms for from the frozen layers form the core of this the transmission of ideas and how they may be publication. Bjarne Gronnow draws a new picture reflected in the archaeological record. of a true Arctic pioneer society with a remarkably 256p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707162 Hb complex technology. £48.00 592p b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2017) 9788763545617 Hb £66.50 16 European Prehistory Fragmenting the Chieftain NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Bodies of Clay Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery By Sasja Van der Vaart-Verschoof There is a cluster of Early Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg & Valeska Becker Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite Since the earliest use of burials in the Low Countries pottery, vessels have been in which bronze vessels, associated with both the weaponry, horse-gear and general shape and specific wagons were interred as parts of the human body. grave goods. This volume This collection of 12 presents the results of an papers stems from work in-depth and practice-based on anthropomorphic archaeological analysis of features of Neolithic these Dutch and Belgian communities between the elite graves and the burial Near East and Europe. practice through which they were created. It Contributors are engaged establishes that the elite burials are embedded in in questions about the analysis of human features the local burial practices – as reflected by the use and characteristics on vessels, their occurrence, of the cremation rite, the bending and breaking function and disposal. Beginning with the of grave goods, and the pars pro toto deposition of European Neolithic and moving on through human remains and objects, all in accordance with the Bronze and Iron Ages, papers focus on the dominant local urnfield burial practice. diachronic archaeological patterns and contexts 300p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) as well as on the theoretical background of this 9789088905124 Hb £135.00, 9789088905117 Pb £45.00 particular type of container in order to shed light NYP on similarities and differences through the ages and to understand possibilities and limits of Fragmenting the Chieftain – Catalogue interpretation. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials 160p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706967 in the Low Countries Countries Pb £38.00 By Sasja Van der Vaart-Verschoof This catalogue presents the first comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves (in Cultural Encounters in Iron Age Europe English) and the objects they contain. 330p col and b/w illus (Sidestone Press 2017) Edited by Ian Armit, Hrvoje Potrebica, Matija Cresnar, 9789088905155 Hb £195.00, 9789088905148 Pb £65.00 Philip Mason & Lindsey Buster NYP Cultural encounters form a dominant theme in the The Human Body in Early Iron Age study of Iron Age Europe. Central Europe This was particularly acute Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt in regions where urbanising World Mediterranean civilisations came into contact with By Katharina Rebay-Salisbury ‘barbarian’ worlds. This This study tracks changing identities of early Iron volume presents preliminary Age people in central Europe through body-related work from the ENTRANS practices: the treatment of the body after death and Project, which explores the human representations in art. The human remains nature and impact of such themselves provide information on biological encounters in south east Europe, alongside a series parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and of papers on analogous European regions. A range health status. Objects associated with the body of theoretical perspectives and methodological in the grave and funerary practices give further approaches are offered in an effort to promote insights on how people of the early Iron Age dialogue around these central issues in European understood life and death, themselves, and their protohistory. place in the world. 324p, (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911833 Pb £35.00 332p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472453549 Hb £115.00

European Prehistory 17 World Archaeology The World from 1000 BCE to 300 CE By Stanley M. Burstein NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS This book provides the first Pus.pikā Volume 4 comprehensive history of Tracing Ancient India Through Text and Afro-Eurasia during the Traditions first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first Edited by Lucas den Boer & Daniele Cuneo millennium CE. The history Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains of these 1300 plus years can the proceedings of the be summed up in one word: seventh International connectivity. The growth Indology Graduate in connectivity during Research Symposium this period was marked (Leiden 2015). The fourteen by increasing political, papers included here cover economic, and cultural interaction throughout a rich variety of topics the region, and the replacement of the numerous related to the intellectual political and cultural entities by a handful of great traditions of South Asia empires at the end of the period. such as grammar, poetry 176p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199336135 Pb £12.99 and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with South Asian Religions and Visual Forms a particular emphasis on philology, history and in Their Archaeological Context sociology. Edited by Vincent Lefevre 182p, b/w figures (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707568 Pb £30.00 This volume reflects the new directions of research in South Asian archaeology and art. Priority is given to work with primary sources: results of recent fieldwork, including the study of museum collections, results of previous unpublished field A Time of Change work and new discoveries, interpretations and Questioning the “Collapse” of Anuradhapura, supporting documentation, highlighting new Sri Lanka trends. Twenty-six contributions have been By Keir Magalie Strickland arranged according to a chronological and thematic The study of Anuradhapura’s terminal period has perspective. This book deals with the material long been dominated by an over-reliance upon expression of diverse religious trends. textual sources, resulting in the establishment of a 402p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503568041 Pb £55.00 monocausal narrative that depicts a violent eleventh century invasion by the South Indian Chola Relics and Relic Worship in the Early Empire as the primary cause of Anuradhapura’s Buddhism of South Asia and Burma collapse. This book re-examines the Edited by Janice Stargardt issue, synthesising and analysing archaeological data from over a The papers in this volume, Only the culmination of a research century of investigation. £22.50 until project focussing on relic 200p, b/w and col illus worship and Buddhism, (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916329 31st January cover a rich variety of themes. Pb £28.00 Subjects include a discussion of what constitutes a relic; First Islanders the placement and treatment Prehistory and Human Migration in Island of relics in situ, in addition Southeast Asia to the wider archaeological By Peter Bellwood contexts for relics, relic Incorporating research findings over the last twenty chambers and reliquaries; years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory the relics and reliquaries themselves; and the of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is vibrant relic culture of Burma. explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary 130p b/w and col illus (British Museum Press 2018) perspectives and pays close attention to migration 9780861592180 Pb £35.00, NYP in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE. 384p (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119251545 Hb £60.00 18 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Extracting Stone Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes Upper Midwestern North America By Anne S. Dowd & Mary Beth D. Trubbitt By Robert A. Birmingham This exciting new addition Ancient Effigy Mound to the American Landscapes Landscapes provides an series provides an in-depth overview of the effigy mound account of how flintknappers phenomenon of the Upper obtained and used stone Midwest centred on southern based on archaeological, Wisconsin. It documents geological, landscape, the nature of these unique and anthropological data. landscapes, describing Featuring case studies from the use of topography and three key regions in North natural features to create the America, this book gives ceremonial landscapes, and readers a comprehensive provides the interpretation view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting that these were living landscapes in which ancestral the raw material to creating finished stone tools. animals and supernatural beings were ritually Authors Dowd and Trubitt show how sites brought back to life at places where the spirits are functioned in a broad landscape context, which site best evoked in a continuous cycle of death and locations or raw material types were preferred and rebirth of the earth and its people. These monuments why, what cultures were responsible can often only be fully appreciated by modern for innovative or intensive quarry observers from the air and Robert Birmingham resource extraction, as well as includes both high quality historical and modern how land use changed over Only maps, aerial photographs and the results of the time. £28.50 until very latest LIDAR imagery to reveal 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication detail of the stunning complexity Books 2018) 9781785706240 Pb and ordered layouts of these Only £38.00 mysterious spiritual landscapes. £28.50 until 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Transforming the Landscape Books 2018) 9781785700873 Pb publication Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos £38.00 Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo, Mark Wagner & James R. Duncan This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive The Caribbean Before Columbus region of eastern North America during the By William F. Keegan & Corinne L. Hofman Mississippian Period (post AD 900). The focus is The Caribbean before on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted Columbus is a new synthesis in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach of the region’s insular history. anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs The presentation operates and themes within a powerful framework for on multiple scales: temporal, cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on spatial, local, regional, ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and environmental, social, religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive and political. In addition, perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection individual sites are used to of landscape cosmograms from various parts highlight specific issues. of North America and Europe taken from the The authors challenge the ethnographic records are examined and an overview long-held conventional of American Indian cosmographic wisdom concerning island colonization, societal landscapes provided to illustrate organization, interaction and transculturation, inter- and intra-regional transactions (exchange), their centrality to indigenous Only religious traditions across North and other basic elements of cultural development America. £28.50 until and change. 240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 360p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190605254 Pb Books 2018) 9781785706288 Pb £26.49 £38.00

World Archaeology 19 Archaeological Survey and Excavations Ancient Settlement Patterns in the Area at Mikindani, Southern Tanzania of Aksum (Tigray, Northern Ethiopia) – By Matthew Pawlowicz Ca. 900 BCE–800/850 CE The archaeological project detailed in this book By Luisa Sernicola explores the functioning of Swahili networks in This study provides an updated assessment of the early second millennium CE by examining the archaeological area of Aksum, including an their influence in the region around the town overview of the taphonomic processes affecting the of Mikindani in southern Tanzania through a preservation of archaeological sites, and presents thorough programme of survey and excavations. In the results of the statistical and spatial analysis so doing, it reveals historical trajectories for coastal undertaken for the reconstruction of the ancient communities that rely more heavily on interior settlement pattern and for the investigation of than Indian Ocean connections, recognizing that the ancient dynamics of human-environmental elements thought ‘characteristic’ of Swahili culture interactions in the area. were part of social and economic strategies that 150p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2860, 2017) 9781407314747 were adopted, or not, to suit regional circumstances. Pb £30.00 196p b/w and col illus (BAR 2859, 2017) 9781407314860 Pb £39.00 Nubia in the New Kingdom Excavations at Kranka Dada Edited by Neal Spencer, A. Stevens & M. Binder These papers focus on the relationship between An Examination of Daily Life, Trade, and Ritual Egypt and Nubia during the New Kingdom (1550- in the Bono Manso Region 1070 BC). Until recently characterised in terms By Anne Compton that mirror the ideology promulgated on ancient The Bono Manso region of central Ghana was temple walls – the pharaonic state enjoying occupied from the late 12th to mid-18th centuries complete political control and cultural dominance CE, spanning much of the zenith of the sub-Saharan over ‘wretched Kush’ – the re-assessment of this and Atlantic Trade eras. The author discusses how relationship has foregrounded models of cultural the satellite village of Kranka Dada and its domestic entanglement and hybridisation. The papers reflect economies were shaped by regional, continental a variety of disciplinary approaches – archaeological, and global trade and interaction, in particular with epigraphic, architectural, environmental and the urban centre of Bono Manso. bioarchaeological. 189p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2857, 2017) 9781407315843 642p (Peeters Publishers 2017) 9789042932586 Hb Pb £38.00 £140.00 Egypt Lost and Now Found Collections at Risk Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and New Challenges in a New Environment the Near East Edited by Claire Derricks & Luc Delvaux Edited by Neil Cooke & Vanessa Daubney Conflicts and wars, and The 18 papers in this rich and more specifically the varied collection include: 2011 Revolution in Egypt, the lost diary of a member have brought to light the of the Prussian scientific worrying question of the expedition to Egypt of 1842- preservation of the country’s 45; the illustrated journal of cultural heritage. The a Croatian travelling through organizers devoted the 29th Egypt, Nubia and Sudan Annual Meeting of ICOM’s in 1853-4; the competition International Committee for between Officers of the East Egyptology (CIPEG) to the India Company to find the theme of Collections at Risk: fastest trade routes through New Challenges in a New Environment and several Syria between India and the Red of the papers are published here. Sea; and identifying the Dutch 360p (Lockwood Press 2017) 9781937040604 Pb £41.00 artist who made paintings of Only Constantinople. 330p, b/w illus, 42 col pls £26.00 until (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916275 31st January Pb £32.00 20 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh The Theban Case Study Oasis, Egypt By Jeanette Li By Ashton R. Warfe This volume clarifies the role of women in Egyptian This book presents a major society during the first millennium BCE, allowing study on the ceramics for more nuanced discussions of women in the recovered from early and Third Intermediate Period. Unlike past studies mid-Holocene sites in Egypt’s which have relied heavily on literary evidence, Li Dakhleh Oasis, which come presents a material culture-based analysis of identity from 96 registered sites construction in elite female burial practices. This and five other findspots close examination of the archaeology of women’s and comprise more than burial presents an opportunity to investigate the 10,000 sherds. None of the social, professional and individual identities of ceramic objects come from women beyond the normative portrayals of the burials. They derive instead subordinate wife, mother and daughter. from settlement sites that 196p (Routledge 2016) 9781138125421 Hb £115.00 display evidence of living activities (hut circles, hearths, chipped stone scatters, etc.), or sites Egypt at Its Origins 4 for which there is no other evidence of human Edited by Matthew Douglas Adams activity. Through detailed description, classification and quantification, a detailed cultural sequence 31 articles on the rise of the early Egyptian state are has been determined, demonstrating descrete organised under three major headings: Tell el-Farkha stylistic variations between sites and over time, and Lower Egyptian Sites; Abydos, Hierakonpolis and and highlighting growing diversity Upper Egyptian Sites; Objects and Iconography. Recent and innovation in local pottery- discoveries from major sites such as Hierakonpolis, making from the late seventh to Only Abydos, and Tell el Farkha, are the subject of different mid-third millennia cal. BC. articles, but also other sites, such as Abu Rawash and £33.75 until the area of the First Cataract, are discussed. 144p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785708244 Hb 620p b/w illus (Peeters 2016) 9789042933859 Hb £120.00 £45.00 Mrs. Naunakhte & Family Ancient Egyptian Coffins The Women of Ramesside Deir Al-Medina Past – Present – Future By Koenraad Donker van Heel Edited by Julie Dawson & Helen Strudwick The so-called Will of Naunakhte (1154 BCE) has This collection of papers by leading international become rightly famous in Egyptology. By carefully experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, studying the documents mentioning members of builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam the family and including all the material mentioning Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail the women of the New Kingdom village of Deir al- its collection. Papers address a series of topics Medina and other sources, the author once again including: the development of coffins in antiquity, puts to the forefront the remarkable role played by including iconographic and text-based studies; ordinary women in ancient Egypt. the post-antiquity history of coffins, including 264p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press their acquisition and subsequent treatment in 2016) 9789774167737 Hb £24.95 museums around the world; developments in technical examination and methods of studying Resurrection in Alexandria coffins, especially the use of multispectral imaging The Painted Greco-Roman Tombs of to provide non-invasive analysis of materials; Kom Al-Shuqafa and increasing evidence of the re- By Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets, Andre Pelle & Mervat use of materials and complete Seif El-Din re-working of coffins for new Only In 1993 in the Greco-Roman catacombs of owners. £52.50 until Alexandria, researchers discovered faint traces of paintings on walls previously thought to be blank, 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2018) 9781785709180 Hb or underneath other painted scenes. Then in 2012, £70.00 new computer technology was used to reveal the lost images and colours even more clearly. Here the team present, examine, and interpret what they found, teasing meaning and intent from the alternating scenes of Greek and Egyptian mythology. 176p, b/w and col illus (American University in Cairo Press 2017) 9789774168291 Hb £35.00

Egypt 21 Nefertiti’s Sun Temple Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis A New Cult Complex at Tell El-Amarna New Discoveries and Research 2012-2014: By Jacquelyn Williamson Volume 2 This book publishes stone Edited by Elena Pischikova relief fragments excavated This volume reports on from the site of Kom el-Nana three seasons of work at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, (2012-14) dedicated to the dating to approximately 1350 clearing, restoration, and BCE. Jacquelyn Williamson reconstruction of the tombs reconstructs the architecture, of Karabasken (TT 391) and art, and inscriptions from Karakhamun (TT 223) of the the site to demonstrate Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and that Kom el-Nana is the the tomb of Irtieru (TT 390) location of Queen Nefertiti’s of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, ‘Sunshade of Re’ temple and on the West Bank of Luxor. to challenge assumptions about Nefertiti’s role in Essays concentrate on new Pharaoh Akhenaten’s religious movement dedicated archaeological finds, reconstruction of the tombs’ to the sun god Aten. decoration and introduction of the high officials 2 vols, 436p illus (Brill 2016) 9789004325524 Hb £172.00 who usurped the tombs of Karakhamun and Karabasken in the Twenty Sixth Dynasty. Company of Images 352p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2017) Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle 9789774167249 Pb £49.50 Kingdom Egypt (2000-1500 BC) Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Marilina Betro & Stephen The Survey of Memphis IX: Kom Rabi’a Quirke The Objects from the Late Middle Kingdom This volume explores the fertile imaginary world of Installations (Levels VI-VIII) Middle Bronze Age Egypt (2000-1500 BC). Images do By Lisa Giddy not exist in their ontological isolation, but they form This volume presents over a complex agency network with other images and twelve hundred objects with the society that produced them, hence the title found at the site of Kom “Company of Images”. Eighteen papers focus on Rabia from 1986 to 1990, this intricate web, tackling the topic from different when late Middle Kingdom perspectives: material culture, archaeological finds, installations were excavated. anthropological and social relations, iconographic It completes the publication representations, and analysis of the written sources, of a sequence of objects including linguistic approaches. that spans many centuries 525p (Peeters Publishers 2017) 9789042934955 Hb of the ‘life’ of one sector £115.00 of Memphis, from the late Middle Kingdom through the New Kingdom dynasties and into the Third Ancient Near East Intermediate Period. 254p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2017) 9780856982286 Pb £70.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Pharaoh’s Land and Beyond Ancient Egypt and its Neighbors Edited by Richard H. Wilkinson & Pierce Paul Creasman Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands, and these interconnections form the subject of this edited volume. Essays are grouped thematically and explore: the Only geographical contexts of interconnections; the human £22.00 until principals of association; the impact of natural events; physical manifestations of interconnections in the form of 31st January objects; and ideas. 352p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190229078 Hb £25.99

22 Egypt Through Hermopolitan Lenses The Erbstreit Papyri Studies on the So-Called Book of Two Ways By K. Vandorpe & S. P. Vleeming in Ancient Egypt The Erbstreit papyri, nineteen papyri with twenty By Wael Sherbiny texts, now dispersed over five different collections, The so-called Book of Two represent a bilingual dossier that was collected in Ways is a long and complex Antiquity as a result of inheritance disputes. The composition containing dossier is composed of written evidence produced both texts and images. It by the parties, court minutes, court decisions, reached us on the insides copies of temple oaths and amicable settlements. of some coffins and tomb This volume provides a substantial introduction walls, principally from the outlining the respective stages in the juridical Hermopolitan nome in the dealings as well as (re-)editions of and comments in Egyptian Middle Kingdom detail on the Greek and demotic texts. (2055-1650 BC). This volume 267p (Peeters 2017) 9789042931886 Pb £102.00 challenges many of the traditional views related to The Coffins of the Priests of Amun this composition as part of the Coffin Texts. It also Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in provides an integrated pictorial and textual analysis. the collection of the National Museum of 724p (Brill 2017) 9789004336711 Hb £210.00 Antiquities in Leiden Edited by Lara Weiss Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary This edited volume focusses Literature on the lavishly decorated Edited by Susanne Bickel & Lucia Diaz-Iglesias coffins of the Priests of Ancient Egyptian funerary literature encompasses Amon that are currently a complex, dynamic, and open group of texts in the collection of the and images selected to be deposited in mortuary Dutch National Museum of settings. The twenty contributions assembled in Antiquities in Leiden. Six this volume have the three-fold objective of: offering chapters present the history new theoretical and methodological perspectives to of the Priests of Amon, the evaluate the structure, content, and history of these production of their coffins compositions; opening challenging avenues for new and use-life of the coffins interpretations; and presenting novel textual and from Ancient Egypt until iconographic sources. modern times. 673p (Peeters Publishers 2017) 9789042934627 Hb 150p, col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) 9789088904936 Hb £115.00 £100.00, 9789088904929 Pb £35.00 NYP Ancient Near East The Role of Women in Work and At the Dawn of History Society in the Ancient Near East Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. Edited by Brigitte Lion & Cecile Michel N. Postgate This book examines occupations involving women Edited by Martin Worthington & Adam N. Stone over the course of three millennia of Near Eastern Nearly 50 students, colleagues, and friends of history. It presents the various aspects of women as Nicholas Postgate join in tribute to an Assyriologist economic agents inside and outside of the family and Archaeologist who has had a profound influence structure. The contributions address issues in on both disciplines. The essays embrace the full various domains: social, economic, religious etc., range of Postgate’s interests, including government and from varied points of view: archaeological, and administration, art history, population studies, historical, sociological, anthropological, and with a the economy, religion and divination, foodstuffs, gender perspective. ceramics, and Akkadian and Sumerian language— 585p (Walter de Gruyter 2016) 9781614519133 Hb £150.00 in a word, all of ancient Mesopotamian civilisation. 1032p b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2017) 9781575064710 Hb £140.00

23 Engraved Gems The Persians From antiquity to the present By Geoffrey Parker & Brenda Parker Edited by B.J.L Van den Bercken & V.C.P. Baan In this book, Geoffrey and Brenda Parker tell the This edited volume discusses some of the finest story of the Persian Empire and its enduring legacy precious and semi-precious stones from the to the world. They examine the environmental collection of the Dutch National Museum of difficulties the early Persians encountered and how, Antiquities – more than 5,800 engraved gems in overcoming them, they were able to develop a from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the classical unique culture that would culminate in the massive, world, renaissance and 17th-20th centuries. Papers first empire, the Achaemenid Empire. And the investigate the engravers, the people that used the authors paint vivid portraits of Persian cities and gems, the people that re-used them and above all their spectacular achievements, including road the gem collectors. networks and irrigation sytems. 230p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 224p, b/w illus (Reaktion Books 2017) 9781780236506 9789088905063 Hb £150.00, 9789088905056 Pb £50.00 Hb £15.00 NYP Semiramis’ Legacy The Late Third Millennium in the Persian History According to Diodorus of Sicily Ancient Near East By Jan P. Stronk Chronology, C14, and Climate Change In this book Jan Stronk provides the first complete Edited by Felix Höflmayer translation of Diodorus’ account of the history Three major topics are covered in this collection of Persia. He also examines and evaluates both of papers: The radiocarbon evidence for the Diodorus’ account and the sources he used to mid to late third millennium BC Near East, the compose his work, taking into consideration the chronological implications of new dates and how historical, political and archaeological factors that historical/archaeological chronologies should/could may have played a role in the transmission of be adapted, and — based on this evidence — if and the evidence he used to acquire the raw material how climate change can be related to transitions in underlying his Bibliotheca. the late Early Bronze Age. 606p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474414258 Hb £120.00 510p (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago The Economy of Late Achaemenid 2017) 9781614910367 Pb £20.95 and Seleucid Babylonia Ancient Ivory By Reinhard Pirngruber Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire Reinhard Pirngruber provides a full reassessment of By Georgina Herrmann the economic structures and market performance in During the early first millennium BC literally Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. He draws thousands of carved ivories found their way to the heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well Assyrian capital city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud, as providing the first exhaustive contextualisation in northern Iraq. The majority were not made of the price data contained in the Babylonian there, but arrived as gift, tribute or booty gathered Astronomical Diaries. Investigations include the by the Assyrian kings from neighbouring states. impact of imperial politics on prices in the form of Ancient Ivory documents these outstanding works exogenous shocks affecting supply and demand, as and includes a general history of the art of ancient well as the amount of money in circulation. ivory, creating a resource of exceptional importance, 260p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107106062 as so many works have been destroyed or lost in the Hb £64.99 sacking of the Iraq Museum. 208p, b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) The Socio-Economic Organisation of 9780500051917 Hb £40.00 the Urartian Kingdom By Ali Cifci The Religious Aspects of War in the Ali Cifci presents a detailed study of the life of the Ancient Near East Greece and Rome, highland communities of eastern Anatolia, Armenia Volume 1 and north-west Iran between the 9th and 6th Edited by Krzysztof Ulanowski centuries BC. He investigates various aspects of the Urartian Kingdom from its economic resources and With coverage of the Ancient Near East, Greece and the movement of commodities to the management of Rome, the contributors focus on the theology of war, those resources and the administrative organisation the role of priests in warfare, natural phenomena as of the state. This includes the Urartian concept signs for military activity, cruelty, piety, the divinity of kingship and the king’s role in administration, of humans in specific martial cases, rituals of war, construction, the division of the kingdom, as well iconographical representations and symbols of war, as the income generated by warfare. and even the archaeology of war. 374p (Brill 2017) 9789004347588 Hb £88.00 440p, b/w illus (Brill 2016) 9789004324756 Hb £153.00 24 Ancient Near East Sasanian Persia At the Northern Frontier of Near Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia Eastern Archaeology / An Der Edited by Eberhard W. Sauer Nordgrenze Der Vorderasiatischen This volume explores the Archaologie Sasanian Empire’s relations Recent Research on Caucasia and Anatolia i: 3 with its neighbours and (Subartu) key phenomena which Edited by Elena Rova & Monica Tonussi contributed to its wealth and power, from the 35 papers present archaeological research on the empire’s armed forces pre-classical cultures of the Caucasus and Anatolia. to agriculture, trade and The volume covers a wide chronological span – treatment of minorities. The from the late 5th to the early 1st millennium BC, latest discoveries, notably and includes contributions about a wide range of major urban foundations, topics (reports of archaeological excavations and fortifications and irrigations surveys, chronology, economy, social organization systems, feature prominently. of the ancient populations, technology, long- distance exchange of raw materials and artefacts, 256p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474401012 Hb archaeometallurgy, landscape archaeology, etc.). £80.00 500p b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503548975 Pb £115.00 The Armies of Ancient Persia The Archaeobotany of Aşvan The Sassanians Environment & Cultivation in Eastern Anatolia By Kaveh Farrokh from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period The Sassanians, the native Iranian dynasty By Mark Nesbitt, Jennifer Bates, Gordon Hillman & that ousted their Parthian overlords in AD 226, Stephen Mitchell developed a highly sophisticated army that was able for centuries to hold off all comers. They continued This volume contains the final publication of the the Parthians’ famous winning combination of swift archaeobotanical remains recovered from four sites horse archers with heavily-armoured cataphract at the village of Aşvan in eastern Turkey, which cavalry, also making much use of war elephants, were excavated between 1968 and 1973. The report but Kaveh Farrokh interestingly demonstrates traces the evolution of cultivation in the region from that their oft-maligned infantry has been much the Chalcolithic to the Medieval period, charting underestimated. He draws on the latest research the dominance of emmer and hulled barley in and new archaeological evidence, to focus on the Chalcolithic period, the emergence of free- the organization, equipment and tactics of the threshing wheats in the Early Bronze Age and the Sassanian armies. introduction of irrigated summer crops, especially millet, by the Hellenistic period. 256p, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781848848450 Hb £30.00 244p, b/w illus (British Institute at Ankara 2017) 9781898249177 Hb £45.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Treasures from the Oxus The Art and Civilization of Central Asia By Massimo Vidale In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands. It was for centuries central to Achaemenid and later Persian power. But, as the author shows, it has a prehistory which goes very much further back: and a succession of skilled yet still elusive Bronze Age cultures flourished here well before the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE. This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating history, art and archaeology of the region, including its primal trade in silk and foodstuffs; the mineral wealth of the Oxus basin; its exotic myths and beliefs; and the converging tribes and peoples which led to a Only new stability, economic growth and urbanism. The volume £25.50 until contains 150 full-colour photographs of notable artefacts, 31st January including silver decorated vessels, inlaid stone pots, agate beads and 25 ‘Bactrian Princesses’: remarkable statuettes made in chlorite and limestone. 264p, col illus (I.B. Tauris 2017) 9781784537722 Hb £30.00

Ancient Near East 25 Bordered Places – Bounded Times Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Emma. L. Baysal & Leonidas Karakatsanis A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab This volume presents crossdisciplinary Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad communication on the study of borders, frontiers and boundaries through time, with a focus on Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau & Margreet L. Turkey. Turkey emerges as a place carrying a rich Steiner history of multiple layers of borders that have An isolated shrine site been drawn, shifted or unmade: from Palaeolithic at Wadi ath-Thamad hunter-gatherers to the period of early states Site WT-13 in northern in the Bronze Age, from the poleis of classical Moab which contained antiquity to the period of the empires defined by numerous finds of Iron the Roman expansion and Byzantine rule, from the Age figurines and statues imprints of the Ottoman state’s expanded frontiers has been the subject of to contemporary Turkey’s national borders. detailed excavation. The 224p, b/w illus (British Institute at Ankara 2017) rich harvest of figurines, 9781898249382 Hb £45.00, NYP ceramic statues, beads, miniature ceramic vessels, Syria’s Monuments architectural models, Their Survival and Destruction faunal remains and shells and fossils constitutes the evidence for repeated cultic activities. The By Michael Greenhalgh links between WT-13 and the surrounding town This volume examines the fate of the various sites are only now coming to light with excavation monuments in Syria (including present-day at Atarus and Khirbat al-Mudayna, as well as at Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late the Ammonite site of Tall Damiyah in the Jordan Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the Valley, where a comparable shrine has recently early 20th century. The book charts the reasons why been uncovered. WT-13 clearly serves as a link monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes between the Jordan Valley and the Negev, adding and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets to our knowledge of local and foreign influences the political and social context for the Empire’s in the region during the Iron Age. transformation toward a modern state, provoked by 272p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707087 Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses Hb £50.00 the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection. Jerusalem Throne Games 490p (Brill 2017) 9789004329577 Hb £180.00 The battle of Bible stories after the death Quaternary of the Levant of David Environments, Climate Change and Humans By Peter Feinman Jerusalem Throne Edited by Yehouda Enzel & Ofer Bar-Yosef Games puts forward a Focusing on southeast new assessment of the Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, authorship of key sections Jordan and Israel, this of the Old Testament, and volume brings together aims to understand the over 80 contributions creation and meaning from leading researchers of those stories in their to review 2.5 million years original political context. of environmental change Feinman explores and human cultural the political battle for evolution. Information power to succeed David from prehistoric sites and expressed through selected stories from the Book palaeoanthropological of Genesis. Wielding a new weapon of war that studies contributing to our understanding of ‘out was changing the course of human history – the of Africa’ migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of alphabet prose narrative – competing factions modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are or priesthoods vying for power battled for the assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial throne through storytelling. In this book six of cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, those stories from Gen. 4-11 are analysed through geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and the lens of the succession of Solomon and the genetics. collapse of his kingdom. 785p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 352p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706165 9781107090460 Hb £110.00 Pb £25.00

26 Ancient Near East Revolutions in the Desert The Archaeology of the Ostraca House The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the at Israelite Samaria Southern Levant By Ron E. Tappy By Steven Rosen The Israelite Ostraca, discovered in 1908, depict Revolutions in the Desert investigates the Hebrew-character inscriptions of Biblical names development of pastoral nomadism in the arid and memoranda of commercial shipments, but the regions of the ancient Near East, challenging precise provenance of these historic inscriptions has the prevailing notion that such societies left few remained unclear. This new book considers in great remains appropriate for analytic study. Rosen detail the depositional history of the Ostraca House offers the first archaeological analysis of the rise of and its immediate surroundings. It seeks to clarify herding in the desert, from the first introduction of the date and nature of the archaeological contexts domestic goats and sheep into the arid zones, more from which excavators recovered the inscriptions, than eight millennia ago, to the evolution of more and evaluates the quantity and quality of data recent Bedouin societies. presented in the official excavation report. 330p (Routledge 2017) 9781629585437 Hb £100.00, 240p (American Schools of Oriental Research 2017) 9781629585444 Pb £28.99 9780897570954 Hb £74.00 A Short History of the Phoenicians The Shephelah During the Iron Age By Mark Woolmer Recent Archaeological Studies Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of the Edited by Oded Lipshits Phoenicians. Discussing material culture, language The current volume includes reports from eight and alphabet, religion, funerary custom and trade excavations currently being conducted in the and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Judaean foothills (Azekah, Beth Shemesh, Gezer, Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Above all Khirbet Qeiyafa, Tel Burna, Tel Halif, Tell es-Safi/ he shows them to have been to have been masters of Gath, and Tel Zayit), as well as a general study of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated the region by Ido Koch. Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama. 250p, col illus (Eisenbrauns 2017) 9781575064864 Hb 234p (I.B. Tauris 2017) 9781780766188 Pb £10.99 £50.00 Expressions of Cult in the Southern What are the Stones Whispering? Levant in the Greco-Roman Period Ramat Rahel Manifestations in Text and Material Culture 3,000 Years of Forgotten History Edited by Oren Tal & Zeev Weiss By Oded Lipschits This volume explores processes of change and The excavations at Ramat Raḥel, just south of continuity in the cults of the Greco-Roman southern Jerusalem, revealed a complex of structures that Levant both synchronically and diachronically, existed for hundreds of years in which the Kingdom along three different axes – cultic places, personnel, of Judah was a vassal of diverse empires. Over some and objects. The 18 articles investigate whether 500 years, jars bearing seals were stored at the cultic practices formed a coherent cultural site. The findings throw new light on the late First system and consider the co-existence and Temple period and on most of that of the Second competition of the different religious systems. The Temple. During these centuries Ramat Raḥel was approaches presented in the volume are varied the administrative contact point between Judah and and interdisciplinary, combining archaeological, the ruling empires. philological, historical, and art-historical analyses 189p (Eisenbrauns 2017) 9781575064987 Pb £65.00 of multiple bodies of evidence. 300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503553351 Pb £102.00 Socoh of the Judean Shephelah 2010 Survey Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5 By Yosef Garfinkel, Michael G. Hasel & Shifra Weiss This is the first monograph dedicated to the site Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Socoh in the Judean Shephelah. A history of Edited by P. M. Michele Daviau the research conducted over the past 190 years This volume brings together regional survey, salvage by explorers, geographers, and archaeologists is excavation, zooarchaeology, ceramic typology, compiled, before providing the full report on the experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. results of an intensive site survey conducted at Socoh It illustrates areas threatened and later destroyed in 2010. Finally, specialized studies of the finds and by modern development and is a contribution to a report of recent salvage excavations of burial heritage documentation. These studies illuminate caves nearby give a state-of-the-art presentation of aspects of family and town life in the Iron Age, the latest information known about this important Roman, Byzantine and Late Ottoman–Early biblical site in southern Judah. Mandate periods in central Jordan. 240p, (Eisenbrauns 2017) 9781575067667 Hb £65.00 571p, b/w illus (Brill 2016) 9789004316195 Hb £185.00 Ancient Near East 27 The Akko Marina Archaeological The King and the Land Project A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical By Ehud Galili World This book analyses archaeological finds retrieved By Stephen C. Russell from the Akko marina and its surroundings. Stephen C. Russell offers Analysis of structures and installations casts light a history of space and on the harbour’s building and destruction cycles, power in the biblical world while finds including ceramic, glass, shipwrecks and by demonstrating how the anchors demonstrate the harbour’s international monarchies in ancient Israel connections. A unique 13th century hoard of gold and Judah asserted their florins reveals the last days of Crusader Akko. power over strategically 352p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2862, 2017) 9781407315027 important spaces such Pb £59.00 as privately-held lands, religious buildings, Babatha’s Orchard collectively-governed towns, The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family and urban water systems. Tale Retold Steeped in archaeological and textual evidence, By Philip F. Esler this book contextualizes Israelite and Judahite royal and tribal politics within broader patterns of In 1961 archaeologists ancient Near Eastern spatial power. discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199361885 Hb £74.00 the Dead Sea where their Human Interaction with the owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them Environment in the Red Sea in 135 CE at the end of the Selected Papers of Red Sea Project: No. 6 Bar Kokhba revolt. This Edited by Dionysius Agius, Emad Khalil, Eleanor book uses the documents Scerri & Alun Williams to reconstruct the events This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers surrounding the purchase presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at of a date-palm orchard by Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Babatha’s father that he later 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the gave to her, throwing light on Nabataean law and environmental and biological perspectives, history, society, including the high status of Nabataean archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, women. opening the door to more interdisciplinary research 288p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198767169 Hb £30.00 in the region. 360p, col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004326033 Hb £135.00 Mediterranean Prehistory Le Guerrier, le Chat, l’Aigle, le Poisson Knossos and the Near East et la Colonne: la Voie Spiralée des A contextual approach to imports and Signes imitations in Early Iron Age tombs Approche semiologique, structurale et By Vyron Antoniadis archéologique du disque de Phaistos This book presents a contextual study of the Near By Serge Collet Eastern imports which reached Crete during Collet brings a new approach to the study of the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the the Phaistos Disc. It is not a deciphering but Knossian tombs. It reveals the ways in which an interpretation, a depiction of the Minoan imported commodities were used to create or Weltanschauung through the symbols on the Disc enhance social identity in the Knossian context. The and their connections with reality. This begins with author explores the reasons that made Knossians the spiral-shaped construction of the inscription deposit imported objects in their graves as well as and its possible temporal allusions, and investigates whether specific groups could control moves on to a structuralist view not only the access to these objects of use of the signs, in which the but also the production of local repetitions take on almost ritual Only imitations. Only significance. £11.50 until 184p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress £24.00 until French text. 90p (Archaeopress 31st January 2017) 9781784916404 Pb £30.00 31st January 2017) 9781784916169 Pb £14.00 28 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Communities in Transition From the Foundations to the Legacy The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and 4th of Minoan Archaeology Millennia BC Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić Evaluating the general & Turan Takaoğlu frameworks within which Communities in Transition Minoan archaeology brings together scholars operates, scholars assess the from different countries usefulness of chronological and backgrounds united horizons in understanding by a common interest in continuity and change the transition between the and providing a critical Neolithic and the Early framework for the diachronic Bronze Age in the lands analysis of culture, the around the Aegean. The degree to which the study 5th to 4th millennium BC of settlement patterns can transition is one of inclusions, reveal structural continuity through time and the entanglements, connectivity, political reach of territorial states. The largest and exchange of ideas, raw materials, finished portion of discussion is devoted to mortuary products and, quite possibly, worldviews and belief practices. Some contributors focus on reassessing systems. Most of the papers presented here are the significance of micro-patterns in the articulation multifaceted and complex in that they do not deal of mortuary behaviour, while others emphasize with only one topic or narrowly focus on a single line broader temporal and spatial processes that affect of reasoning or dataset. Arranged geographically they practices of ostentatious display in burial, all being explore a series of key themes: Chronology, cultural unified under the overarching perspective provided affinities, and synchronization in material by recent osteoarchaeological culture; changing social structure studies which throw critical light and economy; inter- and intra- on mortuary ritual and the Only Only site space use and settlement constitution of the social units £28.50 until patterns, caves and include both £52.50 until using the cemeteries. publication site reports and regional studies. publication 320p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) 616p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 9781785709265 Pb £38.00 2017) 9781785707209 Hb £70.00 Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece Excavations at the Mycenaean Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Cemetery at Aigion – 1967 Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & Rescue Excavations by the late Ephor of Mediterranean Prehistory Panagiotis Karkanas Antiquities, E. Mastrokostas As a sealed, single- By Thanasis I. Papadopoulos & Evangelia component, archaeological Papadopoulou-Chrysikopoulou site, the Neolithic settlement In this monograph the authors complex of Alepotrypa present the finds of four Cave is one of the richest Mycenaean chamber tombs, sites in Greece and Europe from the rescue excavation of in terms of number of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion artefacts, preservation of in 1967. In contrast 11 other biological materials, volume excavated tombs from the of undisturbed deposits, site, they produced a much and horizontal exposure of greater number of finds, archaeological surfaces of indicating richer burials. past human activity. The goal of this edited volume Furthermore, some of these is to offer a full scholarly interdisciplinary study finds are rare and unique in and interpretation of the results the Achaean Mycenaean ceramic of approximately 40 years of repertory, while the total absence excavation and analysis in one Only of terracotta figurines as well Only book. £52.50 until as the rarity of small objects is £16.00 until 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication surprising. 31st January Books 2017) 9781785706486 Hb 132p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress £70.00 2017) 9781784916183 Pb £20.00 Mediterranean Prehistory 29 Minoan Earthquakes Kythera Excavations and Studies Breaking the Myth Through Interdisciplinarity By J.N. Coldstream & G.L. Huxley Edited by Manuel Sintubin Nicolas Coldstream and George Huxley began In spite of more than a century of archaeological excavations on the Greek island of Kythera in 1963. explorations on the island of Crete, researchers Their mission was to find out if the Minoans of still do not have a clear understanding of the ancient Crete had established a maritime empire, effects of earthquakes on Minoan society. This as Herodotus, Aristotle and other classical authors volume, gathering the contributions of Minoan claimed. Digging in the fertile valley of Paleopoli, archaeologists, geologists, seismologists, they were quickly successful, finding plentiful palaeoseismologists, geophysicists, architects, and evidence of homes, agriculture, trade, shipping, engineers, provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary cults and burials. Over the next nine years they appraisal of the role of earthquakes in Minoan made further visits to the island, studying the rich society and in Minoan archaeology – what we know, archaeological finds and writing up the results what are the remaining issues, and where we need in this remarkable book, originally published in to go. 1972, but long out of print, which includes articles 440p, 128 figures, 10 tables (Leuven UP 2017) commissioned from leading scholars on Kythera’s 9789462701052 Hb £60.50 history, geology and topography. 458p, b/w pls (Genius Loci Publications 2017) Petras, Siteia. The Pre- and Proto- 9781907859229 Pb £35.00 palatial cemetery in context Acts of a two-day conference held at the SOMA 2014. Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens, 14-15 February 18th Symposium on Mediterranean 2015 Archaeology Edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou Wroclaw – Poland, 24-26 April 2014 An international group of specialists present Edited by Blazej Stanislawski & Hakan OEniz and discuss various aspects of one of very few The 18th SOMA provided a forum for presentations excavations started in Crete in the 21st century – related to connectivity across the Mediterranean, the remains of the large, unplundered cemetery as well as general themes such as the role of at Petras, Siteia and the adjacent settlements the sea, trade, colonization, even piracy, ranging traces. In contextualizing the cemetery they try chronologically from the Prehistoric to understand it in the historical, economic and to Medieval periods. This current political framework of Pre- and Proto-palatial Crete volume contains 22 papers Only in general, and Eastern Crete in particular. selected from the 90 presented. £24.00 until 448p b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788771841572 200p, b/w and col illus 31st January Hb £50.00 (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784914943 Pb £30.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Minoan Architecture and Urbanism New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment Edited by Quentin Letesson & Carl Knappett Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. Analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions Only with detailed case studies across the different scales of £76.00 until buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a 31st January new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment. 416p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198793625 Hb £90.00

30 Mediterranean Prehistory Landscape and Land Use in First Picenum Millennium BC Southeast Italy A Landscape of Ritual and Myth Planting the Seeds of Change By Eleanor Betts By Daphne Lentjes This book explores the sacred landscape of the This book offers a comprehensive overview of region and interprets the evidence for Picene (ca. landscape and land use in southeast Italy in the 900-268 BCE) religion for the first time. The book first millennium BCE. Using the most up-to- explores the relationship between the material date techniques, it combines archaeobotanical evidence (votive deposits of figurines and pottery, and archaeozoological data with information monumentalised inscriptions), the topographical from excavations, field surveys, and ancient landscape and the people who used them. It written texts to place the relationship between considers how the Picenes may have experienced people and landscapes in a broad geographical their environment and given it meaning, with a and chronological framework. It also confronts particular emphasis on sacred sites which have a questions of food habits, the scale and organisation mountain peak, water feature or cave as their cult of agricultural production, the influx of Greek and focus. Roman colonists, and the effects of globalisation on 256p (Routledge 2017) 9781472429575 Hb £105.00 local and regional land use. 306p, col illus (Amsterdam UP 2016) 9789089647948 Hb £70.00 Classical World Women in Antiquity Popular Culture in the Ancient World Real Women across the Ancient World Edited by Lucy Grig Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin & Jean MacIntosh Traditionally neglected by Turfa classical scholars, popular This volume gathers brand new essays from some culture provides a new of the most respected scholars of ancient history, window through which we archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an can view the ancient world. engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. An international group of The book is divided into ten sections covering scholars tackles a fascinating Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, range of subjects and the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe. Women’s objects – from dice oracles experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to dressing up, from toys to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, to theological speculation. childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic Diverse comparative and evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of theoretical approaches are used alongside many ancient women. different ancient sources to provide a wide-ranging 1074p (Routledge 2016) 9781138808362 Hb £175.00 and rigorous approach to ancient popular culture. 320p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107074897 Hb £75.00 The Amazons The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World Taste and the Ancient Senses By John Man By Kelli Rudolph Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few elusive tribe of ruthless, hard-fighting, horse-riding items of food and drink. But how were their tastes female warriors. Drawing on recent archaeological different from ours? How did they understand the discoveries, John Man travels to the grasslands of sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies Central Asia, from the edge of the ancient Greek and to other modes of sensory experience? This world to the borderlands of China, to discover volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient the truth about the warrior women mythologized sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, as Amazons. In this deeply researched, sweeping history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity historical epic, Man redefines our understanding to provide answers to these central questions. of the Amazons and their culture, and examines the 290p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781844658688 Hb significance of their legend today. £110.00, 9781844658695 Pb £23.99 328p (Transworld Publishers 2017) 9780593077597 Hb £20.00

31 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Frame in Classical Art Cityscapes and Monuments of Edited by Verity J. Platt & Michael Squire This book argues for the integral role of framing Remembrance in Asia Minor within Graeco-Roman art. Contributors combine Edited by Eva Mortensen & Birte Poulson close formal analysis with more theoretical The present volume publishes approaches: chapters examine framing devices 25 contributions written by across multiple media (including vase and fresco scholars specializing in the painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, history and archaeology of manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis western Asia Minor. New and around the themes of framing pictorial space, well-known material – literary, framing bodies, framing the sacred and framing texts. epigraphical, numismatic, and 734p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107162365 Hb archaeological – is presented £105.00 and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and The Beverley Collection of Gems at identity. The contributions Alnwick Castle cover more than 1000 years of By Diana Scarisbrick, Claudia Wagner & John cultural diversity during changing political systems, Boardman from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic The range of objects in the Beverley Collection – period through Athenian supremacy and Persian cameos, intaglios and finger rings of the highest satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic quality – is considerable: Greek, Roman and kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than Etruscan, as well as a notable assemblage of half a millennium of Roman rule. Identities are voiced neoclassical signed gems by British artists. This through several media and visible at many levels book brings the collection to the attention of a wider of the ancient societies. The studies provide new audience. insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and 320p, col illus (Philip Wilson Publishers 2016) their ancestors, and how identity was 9781781300442 Hb £40.00 displayed and expressed under Excavating Pilgrimage shifting political rule. Only Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel 400p, b/w and colour (Oxbow £45.00 until and Movement in the Ancient World Books 2017) 9781785708367 Hb publication £60.00 Edited by Wiebke Friese & Troels Myrup Kristensen This volume sheds new light on the significance Textiles and Cult in the and meaning of material culture for the study of Ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage in the ancient world. The essays explore Edited by Cecilie Brøns & Marie-Louise Nosch some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint Recent scholarship has of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, illustrated how textiles the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the played a large and very wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the important role in the relationship between architecture, art and ritual. ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In Greece, the 306p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472453907 Hb so-called temple inventories £115.00 testify to the use of Votive Body Parts in Greek and textiles as votive offerings, in particular to female Roman Religion divinities. Furthermore, in By Jessica Hughes several cults, textiles were This book examines votive offerings in the shape of used to dress the images of different deities, as well parts of the human body. It collects examples from as in the dress of priests and priestesses, and in the four principal areas and time periods: Classical furnishings of the temples. Textiles and Cult in Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman the Ancient Mediterranean examines the topics of Asia Minor, highlighting differences between these textile production in sanctuaries, the sets of votives, and exploring the implications for use of textiles as votive offerings our understandings of how beliefs about the body changed across classical antiquity. Central themes and ritual dress using epigraphy, Only literary sources, iconography include illness and healing, bodily fragmentation, and the archaeological material £36.00 until human-animal hybridity, transmission and itself. publication reception of traditions, and the mechanics of 320p (Oxbow Books 2017) personal transformation in religious rituals. 9781785706721 Hb £48.00 234p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107157835 Hb £75.00 32 Classical World Where Dreams May Come Peace and Reconciliation in Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman the Classical World World Edited by E. P. Moloney & Michael Stuart Williams By Gil Renberg These essays stress the importance of ‘peace’ as In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient a positive concept in the ancient world (and not religious phenomenon of incubation, the ritual of just the absence of, or necessarily even related to, sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain war), and consider examples of conflict resolution, a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently conciliation, and concession from Homer to associated with the Panhellenic healing god Augustine. Comparing and contrasting theories and Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult practice across different periods and regions, this sites of numerous other divinities throughout the collection highlights, first, the open and dynamic Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near nature of peace, and then seeks to review a wide Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic variety of initiatives from across the Classical world. Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; 358p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472466358 Hb later, Christian worship came to include similar £110.00 practices. 900p ,2 vols (Brill 2017) 9789004299764 Hb £226.00 The Archaeology of Greece and Rome Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass Mass and Elite in the Greek and Edited by John Bintliff & Keith Rutter Roman Worlds In acknowledgement of Anthony Snodgrass’s From Sparta to Late Antiquity immense academic achievement, this collection Edited by Richard Evans of essays by a range of international scholars This volume examines mass and elite interaction reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek in ancient Mediterranean. They suggest that once prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, the concept of mass and elite was established in Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, the minds of Greeks and later Romans it became societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman a universal component of political life and from world, and Regional Field Survey. there was easily transferred to economic activity 392p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016) 9781474417099 Hb or religion. The contributors cast the net beyond £95.00 the confines of Athens (although the city is also represented here) to – amongst others – Syracuse, Science Writing in Greco-Roman the cities of Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to Antiquity literary and philosophical discourse. By Liba Taub 228p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472462077 Hb Liba Taub explores the rich variety of formats used £115.00 to discuss scientific, mathematical and technical subjects, from c.700 BCE to the sixth century CE. Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Each chapter concentrates on a particular genre Antiquity – poetry, letter, encyclopaedia, commentary and Explorations biography – offering an introduction to Greek and Edited by William V. Harris Roman scientific ideas, while using a selection of The history of healthcare in ancient writings to focus on the ways in which we the classical world suffers encounter them. from notable neglect in one 108p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521113700 Hb £59.99, crucial area. While scholars 9780521130639 Hb £18.99 have intensively studied both the rationalistic medicine that Knowledge, Text and Practice in is conveyed in the canonical Ancient Technical Writing texts and also the ‘temple Edited by Marco Formisano & Philip J. Van der Eijk medicine’ of Asclepius and These essays provide a complex and nuanced other gods, they have largely discussion of the relationship between theory and neglected to study popular practice as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman medicine in a systematic culture in a number of fields, such as agriculture, fashion. This volume, which for the most part is the architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, fruit of a conference held at Columbia University in mechanics, medicine, and pharmacology. The 2014, aims to help correct this imbalance. Using the main focus is on the textuality of processes of the full range of available evidence – archaeological, transmission of knowledge and its application in epigraphical and papyrological, as well as the literary various fields. texts – the international cast of contributors hopes 294p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107169432 to show what real people in Antiquity actually did Hb £75.00 when they tried to avert illness or cure it. 330p, (Brill 2016) 9789004325586 Hb £117.00 Classical World 33 Greece Cultural Contact and Appropriation in Elis the Axial-Age Mediterranean World Internal Politics and External Policy in Edited by Baruch Halpern & Kenneth Sacks Ancient Greece This volume explores adaptation, resistance and By Graeme Bourke reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange Elis examines the city of Elis from its earliest history, (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essays expand on an through the Archaic period and the Classical period international discussion about myth, to which even where it reached its zenith, to its decline in the the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore Hellenistic, Roman and later periods. Through questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how examining this prominent city-state, its role in the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. contemporary politics and the place of Olympia 316p (Brill 2017) 9789004194540 Hb £118.00 in its territory, Graeme Bourke also explores broader issues, such as the relationship between the Athens Burning Spartans and their allies, the connection between The Persian Invasion of Greece and the political structures and Panhellenic sanctuaries, Evacuation of Attica and the network of relationships between ancient By Robert Garland sanctuaries throughout the Greek-speaking world. Between June 480 and 304p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9780415749572 Hb August 479 BC, tens of £105.00 thousands of Athenians The Hellenistic Peloponnese evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Interstate Relations: A Narrative and Analytic Battle of Thermopylae. History, 371-146 BC Robert Garland explores By Ioanna Kralli the reasons behind the This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the decision to abandon political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 Attica, while analysing to 146 BC. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long the consequences, both shadow was cast by the geo-political changes of the material and psychological, 4th century. After Sparta’s long-invincible army was of the resulting invasion. He defeated at the battle of Leuktra, there was much in addresses questions that are largely ignored in Sparta’s influence which was far from crushed. Not other accounts of the conflict, including how the only did Sparta’s confidence persist, as she agitated evacuation was organized and what kind of facilities for centuries to renew her power; other states of the were available to the refugees along the way. Peloponnese conducted their own foreign policies 184p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2017) 9781421421964 in reaction either to Sparta’s decline or, especially, Pb £15.00 to her resurgence. 556p (Classical Press of Wales 2017) 9781910589601 Hb £75.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Classical Greek Oligarchy A Political History By Matthew Simonton Classical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government. Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but instead emerged alongside, and in reaction to, democracy. He establishes for the first time how oligarchies maintained power in the face of potential citizen resistance. The book argues that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions--such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants--to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within Only their own ranks. The book investigates topics such as control of public space, the manipulation of information, and the £32.00 until establishment of patron-client relations, frequently citing 31st January parallels with contemporary nondemocratic regimes. 320p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691174976 Hb £37.95 34 The Legend of Seleucus Greek Gods Abroad Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in Names, Natures, and Transformations the Ancient World By Robert Parker By Daniel Ogden Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction By the time of his death, Seleucus had reconstructed between Greek religion and the cultures of the bulk of Alexander’s empire, built Antioch, and the eastern Mediterranean with which it came become a king. It is his legendary afterlife, however, into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek on which this new study focuses. This legend told conventions for naming gods were extended and of Seleucus’ divine siring by Apollo, his escape adapted, providing bold new insights into religious from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his and psychological values across the Mediterranean. foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the 261p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520293946 help of Zeus’ eagles, his surrender of his new wife Hb £37.95 to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. Omens and Oracles 400p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107164789 Hb £90.00 Divination in Ancient Greece Benefactors, Kings, Rulers By Matthew Dillon Addressing the role which divination played in Studies on the Seleukid Empire Between ancient Greek society, this volume deals with East and West various forms of prophecy and how each was By D. Engels utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring The present volume contains a series of critical together key types of divining, such as from birds, studies devoted to the political, institutional and celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed ideological construction of the Seleukid empire, with animals and dreams, as well as written collections of particular focus on the complex interplay between oracles. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the Seleukids’ Graeco-Macedonian background and the future but also to ensure that the individual or their Achaemenid heritage. In order to explore to state employing divination acted in accordance with what extend the Seleukids can be considered heirs that divinely prescribed future. to the Achaimenids and precursors of the Parthians, 472p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472424082 Hb and to what extent they simply ‘imported’ cultural £135.00 and political behavioural patterns developed in Greece and Macedonia, the studies collected here Myths on the Map adopt a decidedly interdisciplinary and diachronic The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece approach. Edited by Greta Hawes 617p, (Peeters Publishers 2017) 9789042933279 Pb This volume brings together contributions from £120.00 leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, Greek Federal Terminology and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with By Jacek Rzepka the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. 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Signature Date B67 Oxbow Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AS NEW ADDRESS Tel: +44 (0)1226 734350 | Fax: +44 (0)1226 734438 E-mail: [email protected] physical landscape and within a social and political On the Fascination of Objects, Edited by context. 501p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, John Boardman, Andrew Parkin and Sally Waite 9780801862397, Hb was £56.50 now £12.95 The 14 papers presented here reflect the broad scope of the Shefton collection of Greek and Winckelmann’s Images from the Ancient Etruscan art; ranging across pottery, jewellery, World, Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian, terracottas and metalwork. The contributions Edited by Stanley Appelbaum This landmark 1767 focus on specific objects or groups of objects in publication boasts more than 200 outstanding the Collection, providing new interpretations and engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim bringing previously unpublished items to light. Winckelmann was the first to outline the distinctions 192p, Oxbow Books, 2015, 9781785700064, Hb was between works of Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman, and £60.00 now £14.95 Greek origin. In addition to reproductions of all the images from the original volume, this edition Poiesis, By Peter Acton Poiesis brings together includes newly translated text and captions and an ancient texts and inscriptions, recent scholarly introduction to Winckelmann’s life and work. 144p, analysis, archaeological finds, and the expertise of b/w illus, Dover Publications, 2010, 9780486472171, modern craftsmen to investigate every known facet Pb was £13.99 now £5.95 of Athens’ manufacturing activities. The framework explains why certain segments were suited to the Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity, sole craftsman and others to teams of slaves, and By Lisa C. Nevett Housing is shaped by culturally- deduces earnings potential based upon competitive specific expectations about the kinds of architecture differentiation. 408p, b/w illus, Oxford University and furnishings that are appropriate; about how Press, 2014, 9780199335930, Hb was £59.00 now £14.95 and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, The Complete Greek Temples, By Antony and the wider social and cultural systems of which Spawforth This book celebrates the aesthetic they are a part, that are explored in this volume., qualities of the Greek temple and, more importantly, 178p, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2010, reinstates the religious context in which they were 9780521789455, Pb was £24.99, now £6.95 conceived, built and functioned. Photographs, maps, plans and reconstruction drawings can be found GREECE throughout. 240p, col illus, Thames and Hudson, 2006, 9780500051429, Hb was £24.95 now £9.95 Alexander, The Ambiguity of Greatness, By Guy MacLean Rogers In this fast-paced narrative The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C. history Guy MacLean Rogers charts Alexander’s Proceedings of an International Conference held at extraordinary career and attempts to reconstruct the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001, By Olga his character, focusing in partcular on his military Palagia and Stephen V. Tracy These papers focus on prowess, the motivation behind his conquests, and various aspects of Athenian art, archaeology and his fascination with Persian customs. 464p, Random history in the century of Macedonian domination. House, 2005, 9780812972719, Pb was £15.99 now They consider Athens’ new role as a political £6.95 stepping stone for potential Successors to the throne of Macedon, and the ways in which Athenian Archaic Korai, By Katerina Karakasi Karakasi culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. explores the meanings and functions of these 272p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2003, 9781842170922, figures, as well as the historical and cultural contexts Hb was £75.00 now £14.95 in which they were produced. She presents a survey of all the known korai in existence and catalogues The Parthenon Enigma, By Joan Breton Connelly valuable information about the korai’s sizes, A radical new interpretation of the meaning and conditions and materials, as well as the sculptors purposes of one of the world’s most iconic buildings. who made them. Also included is a discussion of Joan Breton Connelly proposes that the Parthenon the motives and social positions of the patrons who frieze depicts not the celebration of the Panathenaic commissioned them. 470p, Getty Trust Publications, festival, but instead the sacrifice of his daughter by 2003, 9780892366996, Hb was £105.00 now £29.95 King Erectheus, the founder King of Athens. In so doing she presents a far darker picture of Athenian Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries relgion and identity. 485p, b/w illus, Alfred A Knopf, BC, By John Boardman The later achievements of 2014, 9780307593382, Hb was £25.00 now £7.95 Greek art can only be understood in the context of this period, which saw the transition from the The Landmark Herodotus, Edited by Robert B. Geometric style to the Orientalising and then Strassler Ten years in the making, Robert Strassler’s to the dominance of work from Corinth and magisterial new edition of “The Histories” is Athens. 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They, like the ruthless aristocrats Carving as Craft, Palatine East and the Greco- they swore allegiance to, were political agents, Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition, By negotiating their positions in the context of a Archer St Clair This book includes an illustrated “failed state.” 408p, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, catalogue of 648 bone and ivory objects found 2015, 9780199739769, Hb was £20.00 now £9.95 duting excavations on the Palatine Hill as well as introductory chapters that provide background The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles, By information on the excavations themselves, Michael Vickers The largest surviving portion of the properties of bone and ivory and artisanal the first major collection of Classical antiquities in practices, comparing this assemblage with material Britain - the sculptures and inscriptions collected in from Olympia and Alexandria in particular and the early 17th century by Thomas Howard, Earl of with earlier and later traditions. 228p, b/w illus Arundel for his London house and garden - is in the and pls, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, Ashmolean Museum. 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Scheindlin Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the best- Britain’s Medieval Episcopal Thrones, known and most beloved of premodern Hebrew By Charles Tracy and with Andrew Budge The poets, abandoned his home and family in Spain two stone thrones, at Wells and Durham, the and spent the last year of his life traveling to the three timber monuments, at Exeter, St Davids Land of Israel. This book tells the story of Halevi’s and Hereford, and the mid-14th-century bishop’s journey through selections from his letters, chair at Lincoln, all come under a searching and explores its meaning through discussions empirical enquiry. 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Davidson Castle studies have been transformed in recent the contemporary Narrative of the 1324 Sorcery years with a movement away from the traditional Proceedings against Alice Kyteler (of Kilkenny, interpretation of castles as static military structures Ireland) documents the first instance of a woman towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols being accused of witchcraft through intercourse of power, with a more complicated relationship with the Devil, and the first execution for heresy in with the landscape. This clearly written and very Ireland. This book provides an English translation accessible study makes the most current ideas together with an introduction providing historical about the role of the castle available to a wider and context., 100p, Pegasus Press, 2004, 9781889818429, more general readership. 178p, col illus, Windgather Pb was £6.99, now £2.95 Press, 2005, 9780954557522, Pb was £29.95 now £9.95 MEDIEVAL ART & ARCHAEOLOGY Excavations in the medieval suburb of Redcliffe, Bristol, 1980, By Bruce Williams This Resplendent Faith, By Stephen N. Fliegel This volume presents a summary account of the results examination of liturgical objects found in the of excavations in Redcliff Street. Features include medieval church treasury assesses their artistic part of the city wall, a 13th century slipway, 14th technique and method, placing the objects in the century dyers workshops and a 15th century bakery. context of medieval liturgical practice and piety. Also included is an outline history of Redcliffe. The book is a richly illustrated compendium 30p, b/w illus, Bristol & Regional Archaeology, 1981, of the typical objects found within medieval 9780900199141, Pb was £6.00 now £2.00 church treasuries and includes a discussion of their form and function and their significance in Rescue Archaeology in the Bristol Area 1, the medieval religious service. 120p, col illus, Kent By Nicholas Thomas A series of short papers State University Press, 2009, 9780873389792, Hb detailing finds from rescue archaeology. 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Trust, 2001, 9781870545044, Hb was £55.00 now Bristol Clay Pipes, A Study of Makers and £14.95 Their Marks, By Reg Jackson and R. H. Price The Archaeology of the Medieval Suburb The Bristol clay pipe industry is of particular of Broadmead, Bristol, By Reg Jackson This importance as one of the largest in the country and report describes the results of a large and important one of the chief exporters and because of the high excavation on a domestic site between Union Street incidence of makers marks. This reference guide and Fairfax Street in central Bristol. An outstanding first provides a history of the industry, then a list of sequence of medieval and post-medieval pottery Bristol pipe manufacturers and a guide to form and and other finds, including environmental material, identification of clay pipes. 152p, b/w illus, Bristol & was obtained from the archaeological deposits. Regional Archaeology, 1974, 9780900199028, Pb was 154p, col illus, Bristol & Regional Archaeology, 2010, £20.00 now £5.95 9780956737106, Pb was £25.00 now £9.95 Rebirth of a Palace, The Royal Court at English Stained Glass, By Painton Cowen This Stirling Castle, By John G. Harrison In 2001 album of medieval (c.1100-1530) stained glass in Historic Scotland launched a major programme of England’s churches is among the finest to be found. conservation and research at Stirling. A wealth of A geographical sweep of the nation takes in over new information was gathered about the Palace’s 100 windows along with short descriptions, from history, and about the nature and significance the greatest Cathedrals to isolated examples in out of its decoration. John G. Harrison describes the of the way parish churches., 128p, col illus on every revolutionary ideas that formed this magnificent page, Thames and Hudson, 2008, 9780500238462, building, the court it was designed to serve, and the Hb was £14.95, now £7.95 long, painstaking process that has brought Stirling Palace back to life. 166p, col illus, Historic Scotland, MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 2011, 9781849170550, Hb was £22.95 now £7.95 Chaucer’s Tale, 1386 and the Road to The Bristol Clay Tobacco-Pipe Industry, Canterbury, By Paul Strohm Paul Strohm brings By Iain Walker A brief guide to the important Chaucer’s world to vivid life, from the streets and Bristol clay tobacco-pipe industry, detailing its taverns of crowded medieval London to rural rapid expansion at the end of the 17th century, the seclusion in Kent, and reveals the year 1386 as a principal firms involved, and the substantial exports turning point in the fortunes of England’s most of clay pipes to north America. 40p, b/w illus, Bristol important poet. 304p, Penguin Books Ltd, 2016, & Regional Archaeology, 1971, Pb was £6.00 now 9780143127833, Pb was £9.99 now £4.95 £2.00 xii Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals The Fortifications of Arkadian City- Votive Reliefs States in the Classical and Hellenistic By Carol L. 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The Pistiros Hoard 544p, b/w and col illus (American School of Classical Edited by Jan Bouzek, Jiri Militky, Valentina Taneva & Studies at Athens 2018) 9780876613085 Hb £95.00, NYP Ewa Domaradzka The Minnesota Pylos Project Pistiros VI details a hoard 1990-98 consisting of 549 silver and three gold coins that probably Edited by Frederick A. Cooper & Diane Fortenberry belonged to a mercenary In 1990 the University of Minnesota carried out an serving in Lysimachus’s army. architectural survey of the standing remains of the The hoard is unique both Bronze Age Palace of Nestor, discovered by Carl Blegen in being uncovered during in 1939 and excavated from 1952 to 1966. The Blegen- regular archaeological period backfill covering the site was systematically excavation, which enabled removed so that a complete architectural plan could the team to record precisely be prepared. Although only backfill was removed, the situation of its deposition, numerous unexpected finds were recovered, ranging as well as in the types of coins from discarded Linear B tablets and wall painting it contained, imitated by the first coinage of Central fragments to roof tiles and pottery. European Celts just after the return of part of their 426p b/w and col illus (BAR 2856, 2017) 9781407315348 army to an area in modern Bohemia. Pb £66.00 246p, 57 col pls (Karolinum Press 2017) 9788024633015 Pb £26.50 Panhellenes at Methone Graphe in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Terracotta Lamps II Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE) 1967-2004 Edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin & Yannis By Birgitta Lindros Wohl Z. Tzifopoulos This volume catalogues more than 400 lamps and The papers in this volume discuss the unique, and lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds Byzantine periods found over several decades at from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, the Isthmian Sanctuary of Poseidon. As well as the which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks detailed descriptions of the lamps in the catalogue, inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted. the volume presents a commentary on the types 377p, b/w and col illus (Walter de Gruyter 2017) of lamps used at the Sanctuary that enriches our 9783110501278 Hb £120.00 knowledge of their manufacture, use, and artistic evolution over time. 256p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2017) 9780876619308 Hb £95.00 Greek Art & Archaeology 39 Classical Literature Plato’s Atlantis Story Greek Tragedy on the Move Text, Translation and Commentary The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form By Christopher Gill c. 500-300 BC This book aims to bring together all the evidence By Edmund Stewart relevant for understanding Plato’s Atlantis Story, This volume argues that the story of tragedy’s providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic development and dissemination is inherently one texts (the start of Plato’s Timaeus and the incomplete of travel and that tragedy grew out of, and became Critias), together with a commentary on language part of, a common Greek culture, rather than being and content, and a full vocabulary of Greek words. explicitly Athenian. The movement of professional This essential work also offers a new translation poets, actors, and audience members along the of these texts and a full introduction, focused on network of festivals from Sicily to Asia Minor and the philosophical meaning of the story and the from North Africa to the Black Sea allowed for significance of Plato’s presentation, and responding the exchange of poetry in general and tragedy in to recent scholarly discussion of these questions. particular. 216p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940155 Pb £19.95 288p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198747260 Hb £65.00 Moral History from Herodotus to The Birth of Comedy Diodorus Siculus Texts, Documents and Art from Athenian By Lisa Hau Comic Competitions, 486-280 Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Edited by Jeffrey Rusten Greek historians was the desire to use the past to This volume offers English translations of all of the teach lessons about the present and for the future. surviving fragments of Athenian comedy, leaving She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient out only those which are only of linguistic interest Greek writers of history and the techniques they or impossible to reconstruct with any certainty. used to bring them across. 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Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin. 432p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 166p (Cambridge Philological Society 2017) 9780520294875 Pb £27.95 9780956838155 Hb £45.00, NYP 40 Rome The Age of Tarquinius Superbus Edited by C. J. Smith & P. S. Lolof NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Tarquinius Superbus is one of the most vivid figures Empire State of archaic Rome, and the dramatic accounts of his How the Roman Military Built an Empire rise to power, and his expulsion, have shaped our perception of the late sixth century in central Italy. By Simon Elliott This volume asks how reliable is this narrative? The armed forces of What is the archaeological evidence for the late Rome, particularly those sixth century and is it compatible with a model of the later Republic and of a strong individual leader? 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42 Rome The Sons of Remus The Peace of the Gods Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain Elite Religious Practices in the Middle By Andrew C. Johnston Roman Republic Andrew Johnston explores how the inhabitants By Craige B. Champion of Gaul and Spain, though they willingly adopted The Peace of the Gods certain Roman customs and recognized imperial takes a new approach to authority, never became exclusively Roman. Their the study of Roman elites’ self-representations in literature, inscriptions, and religious practices and visual art reflect identities rooted in a sense of beliefs. The book examines belonging to indigenous communities. Provincials the nature and structure of performed shifting roles for different audiences, the major priesthoods in rehearsing traditions at home while subverting Rome itself, Roman military Roman stereotypes of druids and rustics abroad. commanders’ religious 384p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674660106 Hb £39.95 behaviours in dangerous field conditions, and the The Shape of the Roman Order state religion’s acceptance The Republic and its Spaces or rejection of new cults and By Daniel J. Gargola rituals in response to external events that benefited Daniel J. Gargola demonstrates how important the or threatened the Republic. Champion argues concept of space was to the governance of Rome. instead that Roman elites sincerely tried to maintain He explains how Roman rulers, without the means Rome’s good fortune through a pax deorum or for making detailed maps, conceptualized the peace of the gods. territories under Rome’s power as a set of concentric 304p, (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691174853 Hb £32.95 zones surrounding the city, and examines how this Empire and Religion idiosyncratic way of making sense of the world fundamentally informed the way they ruled over Religious Change in Greek Cities Under their dominion. Roman Rule 320p (University of North Carolina Press 2017) Edited by Elena Muniz Grijalvo, Juan Manuel Cortes 9781469631820 Hb £47.95 Copete & Lozano Gomez This volume explores the Official Power and Local Elites in the nature of religious change Roman Provinces in the Greek-speaking Edited by Rada Varga & Viorica Rusu-Bolindet cities of the Roman Empire. 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While some local potentates took pride of the cities; the active role in their relationship with Rome exhibiting their of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial allegiances publicly as well as privately, others religious policies; or the locally different responses preferred to keep this display solely for public to central religious initiatives, and the influence of manifestation. those local responses in other imperial contexts. 214p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472457318 Hb 222p (Brill 2017) 9789004347106 Hb £102.00 £110.00 Summoned to the Roman Courts Children and Everyday Life in the Famous Trials from Antiquity Roman and Late Antique World Edited by Christian Laes & Ville Vuolanto By Detlef Liebs Roman society was a community of young people, This book brings to life a thousand years of Roman with a third of the population younger than fifteen history through sixteen studies of famous court years old. This volume explores what it meant to be cases – from the legendary trial of Horatius for the a child in the Roman world – what were children’s killing of his sister, to the trial of Jesus Christ, to concerns, interests and beliefs – and whether we that of the Christian leader Priscillian for heresy. can find traces of children’s own cultures. The topics Drawing on a wide variety of ancient sources, the discussed include children’s living environments; author paints a vivid picture of ancient Roman clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure society. and play; health and disability; upbringing and 288p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520294851 schooling; and children’s experiences of death. Pb £27.95 404p (Routledge 2017) 9781472464804 Hb £110.00 Rome 43 The Economic Integration of L’artisanat dans les cités antiques Roman Italy de l’Algérie Rural Communities in a Globalising World (Ier Siècle Avant Notre Ère -Viie Siècle Après Edited by Tymon de Haas & Gijs Tol Notre Ère) This book presents a series of papers that explore By Touatia Amraoui the changes Rome’s territorial and economic Focusing on urban production in Algeria during expansion brought about in the countryside of Antiquity, this critical study reviews archaeological the Italian peninsula. By drawing on a variety of sites with workshops by defining their activities, source materials (e.g. pottery, settlement patterns, at the same time as analysing how they operated environmental data), they shed light on the and looking at them typologically. Based on a complexity of rural settlement and economies on comparison with documented workshops in the the local, regional and supra-regional scales. Western Roman world, the study of 514p (Brill 2017) 9789004325906 Hb £123.00 the techniques highlights the very strong similarities between these Only Work, Labour, and Professions in regions but also the specific the Roman World local variations of the methods £40.00 until 31st January Edited by Koenraad Verboven & Christian Laes used in Africa at this time. These papers discuss new insights, ideas and 446p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) interpretations on the role of labour and human 9781784916671 Pb £50.00 resources in the Roman economy. They study the The Goths various ways in which work was mobilised and organised and how these processes were regulated. By Simon MacDowall Work as a production factor, however, is not the Both western (Visigoth) and eastern (Ostrogoth) exclusive focus of this volume. 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By Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson & Deborah 176p, pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473837645 Hb £19.99 Thorpe Sir Thomas Smith was one of the most important Rome and the Classic Maya politicians and intellectuals of the Elizabethan age. Comparing the Slow Collapse of Ancient In this volume the text of his On the Wages of the Civilizations Roman Footsoldier is accompanied by Richard By Rebecca Storey & Glenn R. Storey Simpson’s personal and intellectual biography of this most important of the ‘missing persons’ of the Storey and Storey draw on 16th century. extensive archaeological evidence to consider the 222p b/w illus (American Numismatic Society 2017) ultimate failure of the 9780897223522 Hb £75.00, NYP institutions, infrastructure Rome and the Worlds Beyond and material culture of both Rome and the Classic Its Frontiers Maya. Detailing the relevant Edited by Danielle Slootjes & Michael Peachin economic, political, social This volume offers an expansive approach to and environmental factors interactions between Romans and those beyond behind these notable the borders of Rome. A number of important falls, they contend that a themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and phenomenon of “slow who the outsider? How were these categories of collapse” has repeatedly occurred in the course of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in human history: complex civilizations are shown antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What to eventually come to an end and give way to new are the categories, or standards, for measuring or cultures. determining inside and outside in the Roman world? 280p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781629584584 Pb £33.99 And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? 262p (Brill 2016) 9789004325616 Hb £113.00 44 Rome Roman Art & Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy The House of the Surgeon, Pompeii By Saskia Stevens Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) This book takes a new approach to Roman urban boundaries and city planning by exploring Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian Robinson the dynamics and interaction between urban The House of the Surgeon development processes, city limits and the law. 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The results and determined the use of urban space and its of the exhaustive study of boundaries; also conflicts and constant negotiations the house within its urban between law, culture and tradition, politics, and the context not only challenge dynamics of everyday urban life were important for many of the conclusions of the way the Romans approached urban limits. previous research, but also 335p (Peeters 2017) 9789042933057 Pb £74.00 make it possible at last for this important property The Roman Street to contribute information to the full history Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating Herculaneum and Rome the chronology of urban change, the processes By Jeremy Hartnett involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and Every day Roman urbanites changing socio-political and took to the street for economic conditions within Only myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping Italy throughout the middle to £52.50 until late Republic and early Empire. local deities to simply publication loitering and socializing. 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Hartnett takes readers 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £70.00 into this thicket of activity Insularity and Identity in the as he repopulates Roman Roman Mediterranean streets with their full range of sensations, participants, Edited by Anna Kouremenos and events that stretched The papers in this book far beyond simple movement. Combining textual explore the concepts of evidence, comparative historical material, and insularity and identity in the contemporary urban theory with architectural and Roman period by addressing art historical analysis, The Roman Street offers a some of the following social and cultural history of urban spaces that questions: what does it mean restores them to their rightful place as primary to be an island? How has venues for social performance in the ancient world. insularity shaped ethnic, 380p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) cultural, and social identity 9781107105706 Hb £79.99 in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in were islands connected to the the Cities of the Roman East mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce By Ross Burns isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ The colonnaded axes define the visitor’s experience culture? How has maritime interaction shaped of many of the great cities of the Roman East. the economy and culture of specific islands? Can Though adopted as a sign of cities’ prosperity we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly Roman period? The twelve papers ‘Roman’ in their origin. Rather, they reflected the presented here each deal with inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role specific islands or island groups, of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first Only thus allowing for an integrated two centuries under Rome. This study concentrates view of Mediterranean £28.50 until on the convergence of ideas behind these great insularity and identity. publication avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed. 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705809 Pb £38.00 400p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198784548 Hb £100.00 45 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Material Approaches to Roman Magic Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances Materialising Roman Histories Edited by Adam Parker & Stuart McKie Edited by Astrid Van Oyen & Martin Pitts This second volume in the new TRAC Themes The Roman period in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the witnessed massive research agendas of materiality and lived experience changes in the human- further into the study of Roman magic, a field that material environment, has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. from monumentalised Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and cityscapes to standardised Bremmer’s (2015) Materiality of Magic, the editors low-value artefacts of the present volume have collected contributions like pottery. This book that showcase the value of richly-detailed, context- explores new perspectives specific explorations of the magical practices of to understand this the Roman world. By concentrating primarily on Roman ‘object boom’ the Imperial period and the western provinces, the and its impact on Roman various contributions demonstrate very clearly the history. In particular, the book’s international exceptional range of influences and possibilities contributors question the traditional dominance open to individuals who sought to use magical of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, rituals to affect their lives in these whereby objects have come to stand for social specific contexts – something phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and that would have been largely Only impossible in earlier periods of economic growth. Drawing upon the recent antiquity. £30.00 until material turn in anthropology and related 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) publication disciplines, the essays in this volume examine 9781785708817 Hb £40.00 what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in The Transition to Late history, rather than what they represent. Antiquity on the Lower Danube 232p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706769 Pb £40.00 Excavations at Dichin: An Extraordinary Late Roman and Early Byzantine Fort, Intensive Site- specific Survey and a Unique Roman Aqueduct By Andrew Poulter Precinct, Temple and Altar in Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in Roman Spain northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a By Duncan Fishwick long-term programme of excavation and intensive The studies included in this field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well volume supplement the as physical changes which mark the transition from work already published by the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a programme the author on the imperial which commenced with the excavation and full cult in the Roman West, publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of focusing on the monuments Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well-dated of two cities in Roman Spain, finds and their full publication provides a unique Emerita (now Merida) and data-base for the late Roman period in the Balkans; Tarraco (now Tarragona), they include metal-work, pottery, glass, copper alloy and arguing in favour of finds, inscriptions and dipinti as well as quantified proactive initiative from the environmental reports on animal, birds and fish centre. The core of the book with specialist reports on the archaeobotanical is a study of the provincial material, glass analysis and querns. The report also forum at Emerita. It includes a historiographical details the results of site-specific intensive survey, a survey and discusses the plaza (location, portico, new method developed for use in the rich farmland “Arco de Trajano”), then surveys other structures of the central Balkans. In addition, there is a tailed and their general architectonic significance, as well report on a most remarkable and as providing detailed analysis of the inscriptions. well-preserved aqueduct which Other chapters analyse the ‘Temple of Augustus’ in employed the largest siphon Only Tarragona, and consider the numismatic evidence ever discovered in the Roman £52.50 until for an Ara Providentiae at Emerita. Empire. publication 320p, (Ashgate 2017) 9781472412652 Hb £95.00 640p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781107103573 Hb £70.00

46 Roman Art & Archaeology Roman Jerusalem From the Mountains to the Sea A New Old City The Roman Colonisation and Urbanisation Edited by Gideon Avni & Guy D. Stiebel of Central Adriatic Italy This collection showcases the latest work on By Frank Vermeulen the Roman colonia of Aelia Capitolina, founded From the Mountains to the Sea proposes an following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. innovative synthesis of recent archaeological Topics include the nature and development of the research on town formation and urbanisation, and urban layout, colonnaded streets, monumental connected Roman colonisation, of the central part arches and city gates, the necropoleis and the of Adriatic Italy, a region characterised by one of the city limits, tableware and lamps and the rural most dense town networks of the Roman Empire. hinterland. Some of the main themes include: town formation, 161p b/w and col illus (Journal of Roman Archaeology SS town planning, the structural relationship town- 105, 2017) 9780991373093 Hb £95.00 territory, religious aspects and urban sanctuaries, public buildings and domestic architecture, as well The Archaeology of Death in Roman as the wider context of territory, region and state. Syria 232p (Peeters 2017) 9789042934702 Pb £95.00 By Lidewijde de Jong Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited An eclectic collection of plain and embellished A re-assessment of the evidence and newly underground and above- informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman ground tombs filled the sanctuary in Gozo (Malta) cemeteries of the Roman By George Azzopardi province of Syria. Its Ritual activity at this Punic-Roman sanctuary seems inhabitants used rituals of to be evidenced from around the 3rd century BC commemoration to express to the 2nd century AD and, possibly, even as late messages about their local as the 4th century AD. This ritual activity was identity, family, and social focused in a small built temple and in a rock-cut position. Lidewijde de Jong cave that seems to have incorporated investigates these customs a built extension in a later stage. and the belief systems that governed the choices But the practised cult or cults Only made in the commemoration of men, women and were aniconic and remained so children. The book combines spatial analysis of largely throughout. £16.00 until cemeteries with the study of funerary architecture 88p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 31st January and decoration, grave goods, and information about 9781784916695 Pb £19.00 the deceased provided by sculptural, epigraphic, and osteological sources. 355p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107131415 Hb £74.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Limes XXI Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, August 2009 Edited by Nick Hodgson, Paul Bidwell & Judith Schachtmann The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums between Sunday 16 August and Wednesday 26 August 2009. The papers are organised into the same thematic sessions as in actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Only Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan £72.00 until Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies 31st January and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. 752p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915902 Pb £90.00

Roman Art & Archaeology 47 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Alan Sorrell Britain The Man Who Created Roman Britain By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, By Julia Sorrell & Mark Sorrell Colin Haselgrove & David Mattingly Alan Sorrell’s archaeological More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman recon-struction drawings and Britain than from any other province of the Empire. paintings remain some of the This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume best, most accurate and most provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age accomplished paintings of and Roman coins found in England and Wales their genre that continue to with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of inform our understanding hoarding and deposition and examined, national and appreciation of historic and regional patterns in the landscape settings of buildings and monuments coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of in Europe, the Near East those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of and throughout the UK. So those hoards found in archaeological excavations. influential were Sorrell’s It also includes an unprecedented examination of images of Roman towns such as London, Colchester, the containers in which coin hoards were buried Wroxeter, St Albans and Bath, buildings such as the and the objects found with them. The patterns of Heathrow temple and the forts of Hadrian’s Wall, hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to that he became known as the man who invented the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also Roman Britain. In this affectionate but objective provides a survey of Britain in the account, Sorrell’s children, both also artists, present 3rd century AD, as a peak of over a brief pictorial biography followed by more detailed 700 hoards are known from the Only descriptions of the genesis, research and production period from AD 253–296. of illustrations that demonstrate £48.75 until 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow the artist’s integrity and vision, publication Books 2018) 9781785708558 Hb based largely on family archives Only and illustrated throughout with £65.00 £22.50 until Sorrell’s own works. 192p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books publication 2017) 9781785707407 Pb £29.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology and History at the Limit of Rome’s Empire By Nick Hodgson Built around AD122, Hadrian’s Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible mark on the landscape of northern Britain. It was a wonder of the ancient world and is a World Heritage Site. Written by a leading archaeologist who has excavated widely on the Wall, this is an authoritative yet accessible treatment of the archaeological evidence. The book explains why the expansion of the Roman empire ground to a halt in remote northern Britain, how the Wall came to be built and Only the purpose it was intended to serve. It is not a guidebook to £17.00 until the remains, but an introduction to the Wall and the soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, who once peopled 31st January the abandoned ruins visited by tourists today. 192p, col illus (Robert Hale 2017) 9780719818158 Hb £19.99

48 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester Volume 1 Britannia Romana The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain By Tony Wilmott & Dan Garner By R. S. O. Tomlin This is the first of two Britannia Romana is volumes dealing with the based on the author’s major research excavations 40 years’ experience of on the Chester Amphitheatre the epigraphy of Roman in 2004–2006. The first Britain. It collects 487 amphitheatre was built in inscriptions (mostly on the 70s AD. Amphitheatre stone, but also on metal, 2, probably built in the wood, tile and ceramic), later second century, the majority from Britain was the largest and most but many from other impressive amphitheatre in Roman provinces and Britain, featuring elaborate Italy, so as to illustrate the entrances, internal stairs and decorative pilasters on history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43– the outer wall. This fully integrated volume tells the 410). Each inscription is presented in the original story of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by life of the amphitheatre. It contains full a translation and informal commentary; they stratigraphic and structural detail, are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, including CGI reconstruction of and more than half (236) are accompanied by Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and Only photographs. The author demonstrates his unrivalled ability to read and understand Roman ecofactual evidence. £22.50 until inscriptions and their importance as a source of 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication historical knowledge. Books 2017) 9781785707445 Hb £30.00 464p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707001 Hb £48.00 Clash of Cultures? The Romano-British Period in the West Midlands The Western Cemetery of Roman Edited by Roger White & Mike Hodder Cirencester The general perception of the west midlands region By Neil Holbrook, Jamie Wright, E.R. McSloy & in the Roman period is that it was a backwater Jonny Geber compared to the militarised frontier zone of the Excavations in 2011 to 2015 within the Western north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture Cemetery of Roman Cirencester resulted in the took root early – in cities like Colchester, London discovery of 118 inhumation and 8 cremation burials, and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like the largest investigation of a Roman cemetery in Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman Cirencester since the Bath Gate excavations of the villa culture. The west midlands region captures 1970s. the transition between these two areas of the ‘military’ north and ‘civilised’ south. Where the west 170p, b/w illus (Cotswold Archaeology 2017) midlands differed, and why, are important questions 9780993454530 Hb £19.95, NYP in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Birds, Beasts and Burials Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for By Brittany Elayne Hill each of the modern counties of the region, written Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal by local experts who are or have been responsible for relationships as found in the mortuary record the management and exploration of their respective within the area of Verulamium that is now situated counties. These are placed alongside more thematic in the modern town of St. Albans. The mortuary takes on elements of Roman culture, including the rites given to its people as suggested by co-burial Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an suggest high variabilities in the approach to the overview is taken of the important personhood of certain classes of both people and transitional period of the fifth and animals. Of major concern are the treatments to both the human and sixth centuries. Only 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow animal pre- and post- burial and Only £22.50 until Books 2018) 9781785709227 Hb the point at which the animal £24.00 until £30.00 publication enters into the funerary practice. 31st January 210p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915964 Pb £30.00 Roman Britain 49 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Constantine Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Religious Faith and Imperial Policy Edited by A. Edward Siecienski The Bir Messaouda Basilica Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Contents: Constantine and religious extremism Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage (H.A. Drake); The significance of the Edict of Milan (Noel Lenski); The sources for our sources: By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade Eusebius and Lactantius on Constantine in 312-313 This volume charts the (Raymond Van Dam); Constantine in the pagan radical transformation of an memory (Mark Edwards); Writing Constantine inner city neighbourhood in (David Potter) The Eusebian valorization of late antique Carthage which violence and Constantine’s wars for God (George was excavated over a five-year E. Demacopoulos); Constantine the Pious (Peter J. period by a team from the Leithart). University of Cambridge. The 160p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472454133 Hb neighbourhood remained £110.00 primarily a residential one from the second century until The Architecture of the Christian 530s AD when a substantial Holy Land basilica was constructed over Reception from Late Antiquity through the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive the Renaissance modifications were made to the basilica half-a- century later when the structures on the western half By Kathryn Blair Moore of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly Architecture took on a special representational role enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. The Bir associated with the bodily presence of the dominant Messaouda basilica provides important insights into figures of the religion. This study traces andre- the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control interprets the significance of the architecture of the of the city, the development of a new Christian inter- Holy Land within changing religious and political mural urban landscape in the sixth contexts, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. century AD, and the significance 436p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) of the pilgrimage in reinforcing 9781107139084 Hb £74.99 ecclesiastical authority in post- Only Justinianic North Africa. Procopius of Caesarea £41.25 until 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books publication Literary and Historical Interpretations 2018) 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 Edited by Christopher Lillington-Martin & Elodie Turquois This volume offers approaches that shed new light on Procopius’ texts by comparing them with Riot in Alexandria a variety of relevant textual sources. In particular, Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique the volume pays close attention to the text and Pagan and Christian Communities examines what it achieves as a literary work and By Edward J. Watts what it says as an historical product. This innovative study uses 316p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472466044 Hb one well-documented £105.00 moment of violence as a starting point for a wide- New Cities in Late Antiquity ranging examination of Documents and Archaeology the ideas and interactions Edited by Alessandra Ricci & Efthymios Rizos of pagan philosophers, This volume brings together studies by archaeologists Christian ascetics, and working on sites that were founded or developed as bishops from the fourth to urban centres during Late Antiquity. On the base of the early seventh century. case studies and synthetic approaches it attempts Edward J. Watts reconstructs to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of a riot that erupted in research and to provide discussion of the motives Alexandria in 486 when a group of students and characteristics of city-building and settlement attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly development in Late Antiquity. insulted the students’ teachers, and shows how 300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503555515 Pb £80.00 historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped reactions to the event. 312p b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 9780520294868 Pb £27.95 50 Divine Powers in Late Antiquity The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Edited by Anna Marmadoro & Irini-Fotini Viltanioti Church and its Leadership in Late Divided into two main sections, the first part of this Antiquity volume examines aspects of the notion of divine By Stephen J. Davis power as developed by the four major figures of This study analyses the development of the Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Egyptian papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. Proclus. Part two investigates the notion of divine Stephen J. Davis examines a wide range of evidence- power in early Christian authors, from the New letters, sermons, theological treatises, and church Testament to the Alexandrian school and, further, histories, as well as art, artefacts, and archaeological to the Cappadocian Fathers. The two groups of remains-to discover what the patriarchs did as thinkers share largely the same intellectual and leaders, how their leadership was represented in cultural heritage; they are concerned with the same public discourses, and how those representations fundamental questions; and they often engage in definitively shaped Egyptian Christian identity in more or less public philosophical and theological Late Antiquity. dialogue, directly influencing one another. 272p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2017) 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198767206 Hb £65.00 9789774168345 Pb £20.00 Pagans and Philosophers Tyconius of Carthage The Problem of Paganism from Augustine Exposition of the Apocalypse to Leibniz Edited by Francis X. Gumerlock & David C. Robinson By John Marenbon The Exposition of the Apocalypse by Tyconius From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of Carthage (fl. 380) was pivotal in the history of of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Gryson’s and troubled by the Problem of Paganism, which edition, which reconstructs the work from citations this book identifies and examines for the first time. in early medieval sources, was published in 2011 in How could the wisdom and virtue of the great Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. The present thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact translation of that edition, with introduction and that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? notes, exhibits Tyconius’s unique non-apocalyptic 328p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176086 Pb approach to the Book of Revelation. £19.95 277p (Catholic University of America Press 2017) The Dawn of Christianity 9780813229560 Hb £41.50 People and Gods in a Time of Magic and The Cross Miracles History, Art, and Controversy By Robert C. Knapp By Robin M Jensen Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual looks at why it was that people first in Judea and and spiritual journey through the two-thousand- then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean year evolution of the cross as an idea and an world became susceptible to the new religion. artefact, illuminating the controversies – along Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging with the forms of devotion – this central symbol exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 of Christianity inspires. His wide-ranging study BC to the end of the first century. focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the 320p, col pls (Profile Books 2017) 9781781252079 Hb quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the £25.00 symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars The Making of the Abrahamic Religions of colonial conquest. in Late Antiquity 280p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674088801 Hb £25.00 By Guy G. Stroumsa Making Amulets Christian This book explores the history of Christianity in Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts the context of other late antique religions, and in By Theodore de Bruyn particular through the lens of two main types of This volume examines Greek amulets with Christian religion, high and low intensity. The figures of the elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic reflect a the processes whereby a customary practice – the centripetal mode of religiosity that is characterized writing of incantations on amulets – changed in an by high intensity. The other mode of religiosity, increasingly Christian context. It considers how the obviously much more common than the first one, formulation of incantations and amulets changed is centrifugal and irenic, the mode of priests and as the Christian church became the prevailing bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. religious institution in Egypt and shows how 240p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786009 Pb £25.00 incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behaviour of Christians. 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199687886 Hb £65.00 Late Antiquity & Byzantium 51 Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Marriage, Sex and Death Power in Late Antiquity and the Early The Family and the Fall of the Roman West Middle Ages By Emma Southon Edited by Ildar H Garipzanov, Caroline Goodson & The political rise of the church in the Late Antique Henry Maguire west, alongside that of the Germanic kingdoms, In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of led to dramatic changes in law, politics, power, and graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and culture. Against the backdrop of that upheaval, monograms and the contexts that facilitated their the family became a vitally important area of dissemination in diverse media. They ask whether focus for cultural struggles related to morality, law, some culturally specific norms and practices of and tradition. This book explores those battles graphic composition and communication can be in order to demonstrate, through the family, the discerned behind the rising corpus of graphic signs intersections between Roman and Christian legal from the fourth to tenth centuries and whether culture, thought, and political power. common features can be found in their production 256p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789462980358 Hb £64.00 and use across various media and contexts. 412p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503567242 Hb £93.50 Sulpicius Severus’ Vita Martini Edited by Philip Burton Cyprus Between Late Antiquity and The Vita Martini or Life of Martin of Sulpicius the Early Middle Ages (CA. 600-800) Severus is one of the classic Latin hagiographies, An Island in Transition a brilliant combination of Christian and classical By Luca Zavagno culture, providing allusions both to the Bible and to authors such as Virgil and Sallust throughout. This This book proposes a new story of continuities edition provides a Latin text with facing English and slow transformations in the fate of Cyprus translation, along with a commentary addressing between the late sixth and the early ninth centuries. matters of linguistic, literary, theological, and wider Analysis of new archaeological evidence shows cultural interest, taking into account the revolution signs of a continuing link to Constantinople. in the study of ‘late antiquity’ in the last fifty years. Whereas the island retained sound commercial ties with the Umayyad Levant in the seventh and 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199676224 Hb £120.00 eighth centuries, at the same time politically and Christian Novels from the Menologion economically it remained part of the Byzantine sphere. of Symeon Metaphrastes 240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138243316 Hb Edited by Stratis Papaioannou £110.00 Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection Social Dynamics in the Northwest of rewritings of saints’ lives originally intended to be Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire read at services for Christian feast days. A landmark Beyond Transformation or Decline of Byzantine religious and literary culture, the Menologion was revered for centuries – copied Edited by Wim de Clercq, Stijn Heeren & Nico in hundreds of manuscripts, recited publicly, and Roymans adapted into other medieval languages. This edition This volume explores presents the first English translation of six Christian the final phase of the novels excerpted from Symeon’s text, all of them West Roman Empire, featuring women who defy social expectations. particularly the changing 395p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674975064 Hb £19.95 interactions between the imperial authority and The Laws of the Isaurian Era external ‘barbarian’ groups The Ecloga and its Appendices in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the Edited by Mike Humphreys fourth and fifth centuries. In 741 Leo III and Constantine V promulgated The contributions present the Ecloga, a concise legal handbook that proved valuable overviews of recent a watershed moment in Roman Law. Over the archaeological research combined with innovative next three decades, it is argued, the Ecloga was theoretical discussions. Key topics include the buttressed with several further texts, before Irene movement of precious metals, trajectories of used her own laws to attack the dynasty she had imperial power, the archaeology of migration, married into, and whose policy of iconoclasm she and material culture in relation to debates about had reversed. For the first time all these texts are ethnicity. gathered together and translated, providing new 230p, b/w and col illus (Amsterdam UP 2016) insights into this crucial but murky period. 9789462983601 Hb £80.00 208p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940087 Pb £16.99

52 Late Antiquity & Byzantium A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Theodore Metochites: Poems Manual Edited by I D Polemis The Sylloge Tacticorum Theodore Metochites (ca.1270-1332), an important By Georgios Chatzelis & Jonathan Harris writer of Late Byzantium, composed twenty The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example long Poems in dactylic verse. This translation of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika, is accompanied by notes clarifying the sense of one of a number produced during the tenth century difficult passages and giving references to the texts CE. This is the first complete translation of the that inspired Metochites directly or to parallel Sylloge into English. An introduction places the passages in the works of Metochites himself, or work in its historical and literary context and other Greek and Byzantine authors. considers some of the questions that have remained 377p (Brepols 2016) 9782503570396 Pb £48.00 unanswered over the centuries, such as its authorship and the date of its composition. Nicholas Mesarites 184p, (Routledge 2017) 9781472470287 Hb £110.00 His Life and Works Edited by Michael Angold Michael Psellos on Literature and Art The aim of this book is to make accessible to a A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, Edited by Charles Barber & Stratis Papaioannou an ecclesiastic, who provides a vivid record from Most famous for his personal experience of his troubled times, including Chronographia, a history of the loss of Constantinople in 1204. eleventh-century Byzantine 400p, b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940063 Hb emperors and their reigns, £85.00 Psellos also excelled in describing as well as Coinage and History in the Seventh prescribing practices and Century Near East 5 rules for literary discourse Edited by Tony Goodwin and visual culture. This The 18 articles mainly deal with Byzantine and volume introduces this Early Islamic coinage in Syria and Palestine, but aspect of Psellian writing to there are two articles on weights, one on lead seals a wider public. The editors and one historical essay. Well over 200 coins are of this volume present thirty illustrated, most of them for the first time. The Psellian texts in English translation, characterised definitive study of the Jerash mint will certainly by theoretical reflections on themes associated with be the fundamental reference for the foreseeable the modern terms “literature” and “art.” future and three other Arab-Byzantine mints are 430p, (University of Notre Dame Press 2017) published here for the first time. 9780268100490 Pb £41.50 198p, b/w illus (Archetype 2017) Pb £28.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Framing of Sacred Space The Canopy and the Byzantine Church By Jelena Bogdanovic The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures – typically comprised of four columns and a roof – canopies had a critical role in the modular processes of church design, from actual church furnishings in the shape of a canopy to the church’s structural core. As a crucial element of church design in the Byzantine world, a world that gradually abandoned the basilica as a typical building of Roman imperial secular architecture, the canopy carried tectonic and theological meanings and, through vaulted, canopied bays and recognizable Byzantine domed churches, established organic architectural, symbolic, and sacred ties between the Old and Only New Covenants. The book highlights significant factors in understanding canopies through specific architectural settings £33.00 until and the Byzantine concepts of space, thus also contributing to larger debates about the 31st January creation of sacred space and related architectural taxonomy. 408p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190465186 Hb £38.99

Late Antiquity & Byzantium 53 Chosen Places The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia From the End of Late Antiquity Until the Orthodoxa Coming of the Turks By Jelena Erdeljan Edited by Philipp Niewohner Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament This major work is divided into a dozen thematic topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem syntheses that each addresses an central issue for the and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, archaeology of Anatolia, alongside two dozen case process and media of formulating and disseminating studies on single sites that exemplify its richness. this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian The syntheses focus on historical geography; visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case transport and communication; urbanism; human of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine remains; coins; rural settlements; fortifications; Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation houses; monasteries; churches; rock cut architecture; to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of funerary archaeology; ceramics; and small finds. the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle 480p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190610463 Hb Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. £81.00 276p b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004314719 Hb £121.00 Byzantium and the Emergence of A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, CA. 1040-1130 Manuscripts By Alexander Daniel Beihammer Edited by Vasiliki Tsamakda The Turkish penetration of Byzantine Asia Minor This volume offers an overview of Byzantine is primarily conceived of as a conflict between manuscript illustration, a central branch of empires, sedentary and nomadic groups, or religious Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, and ethnic entities. This book proposes a new illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material narrative, which begins with the waning influence culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as of Constantinople and Cairo over large parts of well as to the development and spread of Byzantine Anatolia and the Byzantine-Muslim borderlands, art. The volume provides a comprehensive overview as well as the failure of the nascent Seljuk sultanate of the material, divided by text categories, including to supplant them as a leading supra-regional force. both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a leading which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how. role in this process, not because of their raids and 676p b/w and col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004343184 Hb conquests, but because of their intrusion into pre- £213.00 existing social networks. 458p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138229594 Hb £110.00 Islam In God’s Path The Near West The Arab Conquests and the Creation of Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and an Islamic Empire the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age By Robert G. Hoyland By Allen Fromherz Scholarly but accessible to the general reader this Examining shared comm- study provides a compelling new analysis of the erce, slavery, mercenary Islamic expansion. His approach allows a longer activity, art and intellectual view of the conquests, emphasising Arab integration and religious debates, this within the Late Antique world and earlier contact book argues that North with Byzantine and Sassanian powers, as well as the Africa was an integral near contemporary successes of other “peripheral part of western Medieval peoples” such as the Turks, Avars and Khazars. History. The book tells the The speed of the conquests, so often remarked history of North Africa upon, is seen as resulting from the widespread and Europe through the recruitment of nomads into the Arab armies, and eyes of Christian kings and their canny use of non- Arabic collaborators. It is Muslim merchants, Emirs in the sustainability of the conquests that Hoyland and Popes, Sufis, Friars and sees the crucial role of Islam, in providing a cohesive Rabbis. It argues North Africa and Europe together identity. experienced both the Twelfth Century Renaissance 320p (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780190618575 Pb and the Commercial Revolution. £12.99 320p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781474426404 Hb £70.00, 9780748642946 Pb £24.99 54 Moor’s Last Stand Medieval Damascus How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library Came to an End Edited by Konrad Hirschler By Elizabeth Drayson This book discusses The Moor’s Last Stand the largest and earliest presents the poignant medieval library of the story of Boabdil, the last Middle East for which we Muslim king of Granada. have documentation – the Betrayed by his family and Ashrafiya library in the undermined by faction and very centre of Damascus internal conflict, Boabdil – and edits its catalogue, was defeated in 1492 by the also exploring the spatial forces of King Ferdinand organisation of the collection. and Queen Isabella. The This catalogue shows that Christian victory marked even book collections the completion of the attached to Sunni religious long Christian reconquest institutions could hold rather unexpected titles. of Spain and ended seven centuries in which 352p (Edinburgh UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9781474408776 Hb Christians, Muslims and Jews had, for the most part, £85.00, 9781474426398 Pb £29.99 lived peacefully and profitably together. Elizabeth Drayson presents a vivid account of Boabdil’s life Arabian Drugs in Medieval and times and considers the impact of his defeat Mediterranean Medicine then and now. By Zohar Amar & Efraim Lev 224p col pls (Profile Books 2017) 9781781256862 Hb This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as £17.99 Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk of Arab medicine and pharmacology. Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Period Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean – including An Extract from Ibn Fadl Allah Al-’Umari’s Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, Masalik Al-Absar Fi Mamalik Al-Amsar sandalwood and turmeric – the authors show By D. S. Richards how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs Providing a modern English translation of a key influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-’Umari’s Masalik al- they look at how these substances merged with the absar, this book offers a rich description of Egypt development and distribution of new technologies and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages. the fourteenth-century AD. It provides a fascinating 256p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9780748697816 Hb £80.00 snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights Medieval Jerusalem into its society and the organization and functioning Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to of the Mamluk state. Christians and Jews 133p (Routledge 2016) 9781138208599 Hb £110.00 By Jacob Lassner Medieval Jerusalem Preaching Holy War examines an old question Crusade and Jihad, 1095-1105 that has recently surfaced By Niall Christie & Deborah Gerish and given rise to spirited About ten years after Urban first proclaimed the discussion among crusade, a jurisprudent from Damascus named Islamic historians and ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) dictated a call to archaeologists: what role did the jihad (holy war) against the European invaders. a city revered for its holiness In this groundbreaking book Niall Christie and play in the unfolding Deborah Gerish explore the similarities between politics of the early Islamic the messages of Urban and al-Sulami, examining period? Examining Muslim how far medieval understandings of holy war might historiography and religious have spanned these radically different cultures. The lore in light of Jewish traditions about the city, Jacob book includes a full text, translation and study of Lassner points out how these reworked Jewish the al-Sulami’s Kitab al-Jihad. traditions and the imposing monumental Islamic 200p (Routledge 2017) 9780754637295 Hb £95.00 architecture of the city were meant to demonstrate that Islam had superseded Judaism and Christianity as the religion for all monotheists. 288p (University of Michigan Press 2017) 9780472130368 Hb £63.95 Islam 55 Islamic Palace Architecture in the Tamta’s World Western Mediterranean The Life and Encounters of a Medieval A History Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia By Felix Arnold By Antony Eastmond This book offers a This book tells the compelling story of a thirteenth comprehensive and up-to- century Christian noblewoman named Tamta. date overview of Islamic Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen palace architecture in Spain, Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia nephews of Saladin after her father was captured and southern Italy. The during a siege. She was later raped and then author presents all Islamic married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage palaces known in the region by the Mongols, before being made an independent in ground plans, sections and ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. The book individual descriptions, and explores how women’s identities changed between discusses such topics as the different courts, with shifting languages, religions influence of the architecture and cultures, and between their roles as daughters, of the Middle East on the Islamic palaces of the wives, mothers and widows. western Mediterranean region, the role of Greek 400p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107167568 Hb £35.00 logic and scientific progress on the design of palaces, and the impact of Islamic palaces on Sweet Waste Norman and Gothic architecture. A View From the Mediterranean and From the 384p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190624552 Hb 2002 Excavations at the Tawahin Es-Sukkar £64.00 (Safi), Jordan By Richard E. Jones The Most Noble of People This volume reports on the excavation of a medieval Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity sugar refinery south of the Dead Sea in Jordan. in Muslim Spain There it was possible to explore many of the steps By Jessica Coope in the process from milling/crushing of the cane The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look to purifying the crude juice. At the same time, the at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the book reviews the available archaeological evidence Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to for sugar production across the Mediterranean 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations up to the time that the industry’s focus moved among different religious and ethnic groups, and increasingly west to the New World. between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers 245p b/w and col illus (Potingair Press 2017) the ways in which personal and cultural identity in al- 9780956824035 Pb £45.00 Andalus could be alternately fluid and contentious. 224p (University of Michigan Press 2017) 9780472130283 Hb £62.50

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Mongols and the Islamic World From Conquest to Conversion By Peter Jackson The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive array of primary sources as well as modern studies to demonstrate how Islam not only survived the savagery of the conquest, but spread throughout the empire. This unmatched study goes beyond the well-documented Mongol campaigns of massacre and devastation to explore different aspects of an immense imperial event that encompassed what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Only Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia and parts of eastern £25.00 until Europe. It examines in depth the cultural consequences for 31st January the incorporated Islamic lands, the Muslim experience of Mongol sovereignty, and the conquerors’ eventual conversion to Islam. 640p b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) 9780300125337 Hb £30.00

56 Islam Anglo-Saxon & Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Place-name Kingston and Royal Power in Middle Anglo-Saxon England Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England By Jill Bourne Jill Bourne presents the corpus of all 70 surviving Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century Kingston place-names, and investigates each one By Mark McKarracher within its historical and landscape context. The study Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen explores connections between Kingstons and the as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the cyninges-tūns and villæ regales of the documentary pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more sources; considers the concept and development of important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological early kingship and its possible origins, the laws of the data is now revealing the untold story of agricultural earliest kings, the petty kingdoms, and emergence of innovation, the beginnings of a revolution, in the the larger kingdoms; and pays particular attention to age of Bede. Farming Transformed is the first book Ancient Wessex, where more than half of the corpus to draw together the variegated evidence of pollen, of Kingston names are found. sediments, charred seeds, animal bones, watermills, 180p (BAR BS 630, 2017) 9781407315683 Pb £44.00 corn-drying ovens, granaries and stockyards on an extensive, regional scale. The result is an inter- A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & disciplinary dataset of unprecedented scope and Anglo-Scandinavian Sites size, which reveals how cereal cultivation boomed, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire and new watermills, granaries and ovens were By Guy Points erected to cope with – and flaunt – the fat of the land. As arable farming grew at the expense of pasture, This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide sheep and cattle came under closer management to places (mostly churches and museums), with and lived longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy architectural features, stone sculpture, artefacts and goods, and traction power for ploughing. These material of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian and other innovations are found to be concentrated interest in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, placing Part 1 provides background material, while Part lordship at the forefront of agricultural 2 identifies 62 “sites” with detailed descriptions, innovation, and farming as the information on location and a star rating system. force behind kingdom-formation 184p, b/w and col illus (Guy Points 2017) 9780993033957 and economic resurgence in the Only Pb £16.95 seventh and eighth centuries. £26.25 until St Samson of Dol and the Earliest 144p, b/w illus (Windgather Press publication 2018) 9781911188315 Pb £34.99 History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales Edited by Lynette Olson What emerges from the studies collected here is a context of greater plausibility for the First Life of St Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Samson of Dol as an early and essentially historical Anglo-Saxon England text, potentially at the centre of early British By Lindy Brady Christianity and its influence on the Continent. The This is the first study of the landscape of that Christianity is gradually emerging Anglo-Welsh border region from the shadows and it is a landscape in which the in the period before the career of St Samson, the first Insular peregrinus, is Norman arrival in England, shown to be of considerable importance. from the fifth to the twelfth 240p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272181 Hb £60.00 centuries. It demonstrates that the region which would The Arthurian Place Names of Wales later become the March of By Scott Lloyd Wales was not a military This new book examines all of the available source frontier in Anglo-Saxon materials, dating from the ninth century to the England, but a distinctively present, that have associated Arthur with sites in mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural Wales. The material ranges from Medieval Latin zone, one much more chronicles, French romances and Welsh poetry culturally coherent, and the through to the earliest printed works, antiquarian impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, notebooks, periodicals, academic publications than has been previously realised. and finally books, written by both amateur and 216p (Manchester UP 2017) 9781784994198 Hb £75.00 professional historians alike, in the modern period. 288p b/w illus (University of Wales Press 2017) 9781786830258 Pb £29.99 57 The Lindisfarne Gospels Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England New Perspectives By Tom Lambert Edited by Richard Gameson This volume explores The expert studies in this English legal culture and collection examine in turn practice across the Anglo- the archaeology of Holy Saxon period, beginning Island, relations between with the essentially pre- Ireland and Northumbria, Christian laws enshrined in early Northumbrian book writing by King Æthelberht culture, the relationship of of Kent in c. 600 and working the Lindisfarne Gospels to forward to the Norman the Church universal, the Conquest of 1066. The focus canon table apparatus of the of the volume is on the manuscript, the decoration maintenance of order: what of its Canon Tables, its constituted good order; what systems of liturgical readings, the mathematical forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what principles underlying the design of its carpet pages, roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals points of comparison and contrast with the Book of were expected to play in maintaining it; and how Durrow, the Latin and Old English texts, the nature that worked in practice. of the glossator’s ink, and the meaning of enigmatic 416p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786313 Hb £75.00 words and phrases within the vernacular gloss. 226p, b/w and col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004337831 Hb Offa and the Mercian Wars £139.00 The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom Islands in a Global Context By Chris Peers Edited by Conor Newman & Mags Mannion In England in the eighth This volume presents essays century, Offa ruled Mercia, from over forty leading one of the strongest Anglo- experts on Insular art c. AD Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 400–1500, across all media years he was the dominant including stone, vellum, warlord in the territory cloth, metal and glass. The south of the Humber and papers also consider the the driving force behind the contemporary European and expansion of Mercia s power. Mediterranean background It is Chris Peers s task in and context of Insular art, this new study to uncover under the headings of motif, the facts about Offa and the theme, symbol, transmission, other Mercian kings and to translation and scholarship. set them in the context of English history before the 304p, b/w and col illus (Four Courts Press 2017) coming of the Danes. 9781846825682 Hb £55.00 240p (Pen & Sword 2012, Pb 2017) 9781526711502 Pb £14.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Sutton Hoo Story By Martin Carver The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificed horses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know of this site, at which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signalled the pagan and maritime nature of their court. This is the story not only of this dramatic place, but also of its exploration over Only half a century, which amounts to a potted history of British archaeology. It is a revised, rewritten and updated version £16.00 until of the classic Burial Ground of Kings and takes into account 31st January new research and theories since its publication in 2005. 288p, col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272044 Pb £19.99

58 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Anglo-Saxon England Winchester By Patrick McBrine Edited by Martin Biddle & Derek Keene This book provides an accessible introduction to Biblical epic poetry, an eclectic body of literature Combining many full- that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible colour maps with an across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and authoritative but very subsequently in Old English, biblical versification readable text, this atlas has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre shows how the Roman preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims city of Venta Belgarum of medieval Christian readers. became the second- most important city in 392p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9780802098535 England for several Hb £57.99 centuries, a walled town, Conceptualizing the Enemy in the seat of kings and an ecclesiastical centre Early Northwest Europe almost unparalleled in the country before gently By Karin Olsen declining into a judicial centre and county town. This volume provides the first comparative analysis The atlas is centred on a detailed map of the to explore conceptions of conflict and otherness in city at the scale of 1:2500, showing Winchester’s the literary and cultural contexts of the early North historic buildings and structures on a map of Sea world by investigating the use of metaphor the city as it was in 1800. A series of maps show in Old English, Old Norse, and Early Irish poetry. how Winchester was at key points in its history, Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory together charting its development and changing shape. with literary and anthropological analysis, the Like its companion volumes, the maps, text, study examines metaphors of conflict and alterity gazetteer and illustrations are presented in an A3 in a range of (pseudo-)mythological, heroic, and stiff card binder, and the format allows for maps occasional poetry, including Beowulf, Old Norse of different date to be compared side-by-side. skaldic and eddic verse, and poems from the 144p, col maps (Historic Towns Trust 2017) celebrated ‘Ulster Cycle’. 9781785706660 Hb £70.00, NYP 260p (Brepols 2017) 9782503552279 Hb £64.00 England in Europe English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, Forging the Kingdom c.1000-c.1150 Power in English Society, 973-1189 By Elizabeth Muir Tyler By Judith A. Green In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on Between the imperial two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, coronation of Edgar in 973 written for Emma the wife of the Aethelred II and and the death of Henry II Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith in 1189, English society was the wife of Edward the Confessor. She argues that transformed. This lively and both Emma and Edith’s negotiation of conquests wide-ranging study explores and factionalism created powerful models of social and political change in queenly patronage that were subsequently adopted England across this period, by individuals such as Queen Margaret of Scotland, and examines the reasons for Countess Adela of Blois, Queen Edith/Matilda, and such developments, as well Queen Adeliza. as the many continuities. By 464p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442640726 putting the events of 1066 Hb £64.99 firmly in the middle of her account, Judith Green casts new light on the King and Warrior in Early significance of the Norman Conquest. She analyses North-West Europe the changing ways that kings, lords and churchmen Edited by Jan Erik Rekdal & Charles Doherty exercised power, especially through the building of These essays, by scholars from the areas of Norse, massive stone cathedrals and numerous castles, and Celtic and Anglo-Saxon studies, examine how highlights the importance of London as the capital medieval writers highlighted the role of the warrior city. The book also explores themes such as changes in relation to kings, or to authority, and to society as in warfare, the decline of slavery and the integration a whole. The warrior who fought for his people was of the North and South West, as well as concepts also a danger to them. How was such a destructive such as state, nationalism and patriarchy. force to be controlled? 318p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521158299 Pb £19.99 400p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846825019 Hb £45.00 Anglo-Saxon & Viking 59 The Natural World in the Exeter Book Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon of Riddles Literature and Material Culture By C. E. Dale By James Paz This study offers fresh Nonhuman voices in Anglo- insights into the Exeter Saxon literature and material Book riddle collection, culture uncovers the voice investigating humanity’s and agency possessed by interaction with, and nonhuman things across attitudes towards, the Anglo-Saxon literature and rest of the created world. material culture. Anglo- Drawing on the principles Saxon writers and craftsmen of eco-criticism and eco- describe artefacts and theology, the study considers animals through riddling the cultural and biblical forms or enigmatic language, influences on the depiction balancing an attempt to of nature in the collection, speak and listen to things arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian with an understanding that these nonhumans often issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. elude, defy and withdraw from us. 200p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781843844648 Hb 272p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2017) 9781526101105 £60.00 Hb £25.00 Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes Archaeology of Touchstones Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination An Introduction Based on Finds From Birka, By Heide Estes Sweden This book investigates how Anglo-Saxons interacted By Martin Ježek with and conceived of their lived environments. This book explores the importance of touchstones, Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf tools used to determine the nature and test the and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural nature and value of non-ferrous metals. Drawing on events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other finds from Viking Age Birka, a key part of the book documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo- is formed by the results of chemical microanalyses Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically of metal streaks on the touchstones, a hitherto opposed to humans, and the natural world as unused source of information for the skills of designed for human use, have become deeply ancient metallurgists. In particular the study sheds embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and light on the role of touchstones in the culture of more. ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual. 308p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089649447 Hb £64.00 200p col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088905186 Hb £100.00, 9789088905179 Pb £35.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Conceiving a Nation Scotland to 1000 AD By Gilbert Markus This new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth’s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 1000 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources. Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well Only as its literary sources – what he calls’luminous debris’-as a £16.00 until method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has 31st January often been dismissed as a ‘dark age’. 280p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9780748678990 Pb £19.99

60 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100 Cille Pheadair Memory, History and Identity A Norse Farmstead in South Uist By Ann-Marie Long Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of By Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the Mulville & Helen Smith twelfth century. She discusses the place of Norway Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age in Icelandic cultural memory and how Icelandic and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island authors envisioned and reconstructed their past, of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), in particular how they instrumentalized Norway off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well- to explain the changing parameters of Icelandic preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases autonomy. of occupation, including five longhouses and 352p (Brill 2017) 9789004335622 Hb £94.00 many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during The Norse Myths two centuries of near-continuous occupation A Guide to the Gods and Heroes c. AD 1000 –1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue project undertaken By Carolyne Larrington before the site was destroyed by coastal erosion, Passages translated from the Old Norse bring their it provided an opportunity to address important legendary world to life, from the myths of creation research questions about the domestic use of space, to ragnarok and everything that comes in between. agricultural economy, and relationships with the Carolyne Larrington describes the myths’ origins wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides. A battery in pre-Christian Scandinavia and Iceland, and of scientific studies, including faunal and floral their survival in artefacts and written sources, from analyses, isotopic and lipid residue analyses, and Old Norse sagas and poems to the less approving soil chemistry, have revealed much about the social accounts of medieval Christian writers. She traces and economic dimensions of life on a Norse farm. their influences into the modern age. Cille Pheadair’s status as an ordinary, if wealthy, 208p b/w illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) farmstead can be contrasted with 9780500251966 Hb £12.95 the much larger and longer-lived Niorstigningar Saga high-status settlement at Bornais Only to the north. Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old £26.75 until 464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Norse “Descent into Hell Books 2018) 9781785708510 Hb publication By Dario Bullitta £35.00 Dario Bullitta traces the routes of transmission of the the Gospel of Nicodemus to Iceland and continental Scandinavia in the form of the Nidrstigningar saga. He argues that the saga is derived from a Into the Melting Pot less popular twelfth-century French redaction of By Unn Pedersen the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the This volume examines exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth- workshops and discusses the century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor. He craftspeople in the Viking provides a new edition and translation of the text. town of Kaupang including 256p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442697997 their activities, crafted Hb £44.99 products, raw materials, skills and networks. It Saxo Grammaticus focuses on artefacts used in Hierocratical Conceptions and Danish on-ferrous metalworking: Hegemony in the Thirteenth Century crucibles, moulds, matrix By Andre Muceniecks dies, tuyeres and a unique In this study of the Gesta Danorum Andre collection of lead models. Muceniecks identies what he terms the theme of The finds show that Kaupang was an important the Counsellor as principal narrative “kernel”. It is centre for the production of jewellery, and the not sufficient for the king to be strong; he needs to craftspeople appear to have had access to a range be wise, and have a wiser man to guide him, here of high quality raw materials including brass and represented by the Archbishopric. Muceniecks kaolin clay. identifies a defense of hierocratic conceptions, even 222p, b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788779343108 in books where Christianity is absent. The Gesta Hb £35.00 also defines a Danish hegemonic project in the Baltic, under guidance from the Archbishopric. 236p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401131 Hb £64.00 Anglo-Saxon & Viking 61 Early Medieval Europe Saint Brigid of Kildare Making Christian Landscapes in Life, Legend and Cult Atlantic Europe By Noel Kissane Conversion and Consolidation in the Early Despite being the female Middle Ages patron saint of Ireland and Edited by Tomas O Carragain & Sam Turner one of the most remarkable This book considers the imprint of early medieval women in Irish history, St Christianity on landscapes along the continent’s Brigid has always been an western shore from Galicia to Norway, and across elusive figure. This book the northern islands from Britain and Ireland to reviews the evidence – history, Iceland. The construction of new monuments legend and folklore – and clearly led to some major physical changes, but concludes that while she has landscapes are not just affected by tangible, material many of the pagan goddess’ alterations: they are also shaped by new types of attributes Brigid, she was knowledge and changing perceptions. certainly a real person. The 256p (Cork UP 2016) 9781782052005 Hb £35.00 book also reviews her cult and veneration in Ireland and overseas, from her lifetime down to the present day. The Narrative Worlds of Paul 352p, b/w illus (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826320 the Deacon Pb £22.50 Between Empires and Identities in Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 Lombard Italy By Daibhi O Croinin By Christopher Heath This impressive survey This study presents fresh interpretations of Paul covers the early history of the Deacon’s Historia Romana, Vita Sancti Gregorii Ireland from the coming of Magni, Gesta Episcopum Mettensium, and Historia Christianity to the Norman Langobardorum by focusing on him as an individual settlement. Within a broad and on his strategies of argumentation, ultimately political framework it explores advancing a new conception of Paul as a dynamic the nature of Irish society, the author whose development of multiple lines of spiritual and secular roles of thought deserves closer examination. the Church and the flowering 328p, b/w illus (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089648235 of Irish culture in the period. Hb £70.00 Other major themes are Venantius Fortunatus Ireland’s relations with Britain and continental Europe, the beginnings of Irish Poems feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman Edited by Michael Roberts invaders. The expanded second edition has been fully The sixth-century poet Venantius Fortunatus wrote updated to take into account the most recent research praising kings and elites of the Merovingian dynasty in the history of Ireland in the early middle ages, and describing the natural scenery and society including Ireland’s relations with the Later Roman of his adopted homeland of Gaul. This volume Empire, advances and discoveries in archaeology, and presents for the first time in English translation Church Reform in the 11th and 12th centuries. (with parallel Latin texts) all of his poetry, apart 432p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed. 2016) 9781138885431 from a single long saint’s life in verse. Pb £29.99 928p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674974920 Hb £19.95 The Early Finn Cycle Royal Bastards By Kevin Murray The Birth of Illegitimacy 800-1230 This study takes as its focus the early Finn Cycle, By Sara McDougall up to and including the composition of the most The stigmatization as ‘bastards’ of children born significant fíanaigecht tale, Acallam na senórach outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have (‘The colloquy of the ancients’), at the beginning emerged early in Medieval European history. As of the Early Modern Irish period. It deals in detail this volume demonstrates, however, well into the with topics such as the nature of the fían; the late twelfth century, ideas of what made a child a extent of early fragmentary Finn Cycle sources; legitimate heir had little to do with the validity of the background to Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus his or her parents’ union according to the dictates Ghráinne (‘The pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne’); of Christian marriage law. Instead a child’s prospects the boyhood deeds and death of Finn; and the depended upon the social status, and above all the development of the Fenian lay tradition. lineage, of both parents. 224p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826306 Pb £22.50 336p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198785828 Hb £65.00 62 Cosmos and Community in Early Power and Exploitation in the Czech Medieval Art Lands in the 10th – 12th Centuries By Benjamin Anderson A Central European Perspective Benjamin Anderson uses By Tomas Petracek thrones, tables, mantles, This book offers a unique analysis of the history of frescoes, and manuscripts early medieval Czech society. It draws new attention to show how cosmological to the role of serfdom and slavery in the early motifs informed early period of the Premyslid dynasty in the Czech lands, medieval relationships and the organization of land and property access between individuals, and ownership. Petracek analyses these issues especially the ruling elite, and comparatively, also taking into account Poland and communities, demonstrating Hungary. how domestic and global 384p (Brill 2017) 9789004284883 Hb £143.00 politics informed the production and reception of Late Antique Metal Vessels in the these depictions. He considers such imagery across Carpathian Basin the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Luxury and Power in the Early Middle Ages Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of By Tivadar Vida these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the This study explores the magnificent gold and silver centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of vessels that reached the Barbarian elites of the art history. Migration period either as diplomatic gifts or as 216p, col illus (Yale UP 2017) 9780300219166 Hb £50.00 war booty, as part of annual subsidies or through trade, and what they can tell us about the many A Sacred Kingdom forms of cultural exchange between the late antique Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300- civilisation of the Mediterranean and the tribal 850 kingdoms emerging on its fringes. Precious metal vessels played an important role in maintaining and By Michael Edward Moore cementing amicable relations and alliances between Religious imperatives shaped the understanding the late antique states and the Barbarian kingdoms, of early medieval political culture, alongside and were sometimes circulated as part of the gift aristocratic consensus and cooperation. Drawing on exchanges between Barbarian elites or between a the records of nearly 100 bishops’ councils spanning Barbarian king and his nobles. the centuries, alongside royal law, edicts, and 143p, b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911819 Pb capitularies of the same period, this study details £30.00 how royal law and the very character of kingship among the Franks were profoundly affected by The Village World of Early Medieval episcopal traditions of law and social order. Northern Spain 277p, b/w illus (Catholic University of America Press Local Community and the Land Market 2011, Pb 2016) 9780813218779 Hb £70.50, 9780813229621 Pb £36.50 By Robert Portass This book charts the social, Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain economic and political and Gaul, 500-700 development of Asturias- From Romans to Goths and Franks León from the Islamic conquest to 1031. Using By Erica Buchberger a forensic comparative Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western method, which examines the culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of abundant charter material Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting from two regions of northern the Romans themselves, in part because modern Spain – the Liébana valley in scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as Cantabria, and the Celanova one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. region of southern Galicia – As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval it sheds new light on village ‘Romanness’ also encompassed a sense of belonging society, the workings of government, and the to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia constant swirl of buying, selling and donating that and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in marked the rhythms of daily life. a more nuanced manner than has been previously 224p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9780861933440 Hb acknowledged. £50.00 218p (Amsterdam UP 2017) 9789089648808 Hb £64.00

Early Medieval Europe 63 Medieval Britain Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 Anglo-Norman Studies 39 By David Crouch By Elisabeth Houts Though England was the emerging super-state in This year’s volume continues to demonstrate the the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of of disciplines. Topics include the forging of the Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in one of how European Latin and French culture eleventh-century Rouen; the impact of the Conquest and ideals colonised the minds of all the British on England; the circulation of manuscripts between peoples. This engaging and accessible introduction England and Normandy; and Earl Harold and the offers a truly integrated perspective of medieval Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross. British history, emphasising elements of medieval 256p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272211 Hb £50.00 life over political narrative, and offering an up- to-date presentation and summary of medieval The Historians of Angevin England historiography. By Michael Staunton 388p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521149679 Pb The Historians of Angevin England sets out to £22.99 illustrate the historiographical achievements of this period, and to provide a sense of how writers Discovering William of Malmesbury such as Roger of Howden, Ralph of Diceto, William Edited by Rodney M. Thomson, Emily Dolmans & of Newburgh, Gerald of Wales, and Gervase of Emily Winkler Canterbury wrote, and their idea of history. But it Areas that receive particular attention in this is also about how medieval intellectuals thought collection are William’s historical writings, his and wrote about a range of topics: the rise and fall historical vision and interpretation of England’s past; of kings, victory and defeat in battle, church and William and kingship; William’s language; William’s government, and attitudes to women, heretics, and medical knowledge; the influence of Bede and other foreigners. ancient writers on William’s historiography; William 432p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198769965 Hb £75.00 and chronology; William, Anselm of Canterbury and reform of the English Church; William and the Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval Latin Classics; William and the Jews; and William North as hagiographer. The Norwegian-Scottish Frontier c. 1260-1470 244p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271368 Hb £70.00 By Ian Peter Grohse The Church at War Commonly portrayed as the epicentre of political The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and tension between Norwegian and Scottish fronts, Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200 Orkney appears here as a medium for diplomacy between monarchies and as an avenue for By Daniel M. G. Gerrard interface and cooperation between neighbouring This study addresses three main questions: which communities. Removed from the national clergy engaged in military activity in England, why heartlands of Scandinavia and Britain, Orcadians and when? By what means did they do so? And how fostered a distinctly local identity that, although did others understand and react to these activities? rooted in Norwegian law and civic organization, There was enormous variation in the character of featured a unique cultural accent engendered the clergy that became involved in warfare, their through Scottish immigration. circumstances, the means by which they pursued 308p (Brill 2017) 9789004342538 Hb £98.00 their military objectives and the way in which they were treated by contemporaries and described by Power, Identity and Miracles on chroniclers. a Medieval Frontier 334p (Routledge 2017) 9781472423757 Hb £110.00 Edited by Catherine A. M. Clarke Walter Map and the Matter of Britain As the principal town of the Marcher lordship of By Joshua Byron Smith Gower and seat of the Marcher lord’s rule, medieval Swansea was a site of contested authority, colonial Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French control and complex interactions – and collisions – prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to between different cultures, languages and traditions. Walter Map? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer This volume brings into focus questions of place, this and other questions and in so doing, he offers a power, identity and belief, bringing together inter- new explanation for how narratives about the pre- disciplinary perspectives which span history, literary Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including King Arthur studies and archaeology, and engaging with current and his knights, first circulated in England. debates in the fields of medieval frontier studies, 312p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) urban history, manuscript studies and hagiography. 9780812249323 Hb £58.00 130p (Routledge 2017) 9781138690875 Hb £100.00 64 The English Aristocracy at War Forthcoming from Oxbow Books From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn The Wealth of England By David Simpkin The Medieval Wool Trade and its Political Importance 1100–1600 This book utilises the records of central government – pay-rolls, horse inventories, wardrobe books By Susan Rose and others – to examine the military careers and In The Wealth of England activities of the men-at-arms who fought in the Susan Rose brings together armies of Edward I and his son, focusing on five the social, economic and main themes: mobilisation; military command; political strands in the service patterns among the gentry; retinues and development of the wool their composition; and ‘feudal’ service. trade and show how and 246p (Boydell & Brewer 2008, Pb 2017) 9781843833888 why it became so important. Hb £50.00, 9781783271825 Pb £19.99 The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent gentry who based their A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World wealth on producing this By Anthony Goodman commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to Joan Plantagenet, acclaimed prominence in the City of London like Nicholas in her youth as the ‘Fair Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men Maid of Kent”, became who acquired wealth and influence like William de notorious for making both a la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth they clandestine and a bigamous made transformed the appearance of the leading marriage in her teens and, centres of the trade with magnificent churches and in her thirties, a scandalous other buildings. The complex operation of the trade marriage to her kinsman, is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais Edward III’s son and heir, to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the Edward of Woodstock, the policy of English kings, especially Black Prince. This accessibly in the fourteenth century, was written account of her life heavily influenced by trade in Only sets her in the full context of her world, and vividly this one commodity. portrays a spirited medieval woman who was £30.00 until determined to be mistress of her fate and to make a 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication mark in challenging times. Books 2017) 9781785707360 Hb £40.00 232p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271764 Hb £25.00 The Black Prince The Fighting Essex Soldier The King That Never Was Recruitment, War and Society in By Michael Jones the Fourteenth Century Edward of Woodstock, Edited by Christopher Thornton, Jennifer Ward & eldest son and heir of Neil Wiffen Edward III of England, In a series of related chapters better known as ‘the Black which add up to a wide- Prince’, was England’s pre- reaching survey, leading eminent military leader researchers explore key during the first phase of the aspects of military, social Hundred Years War. Michael and economic history Jones uses a wide range of in fourteenth-century chronicle and documentary Essex. Topics include the material, including the raising of forces to serve Prince’s own letters and the king, through a study those of his closest followers, of aristocratic lawlessness to bring to life the dramatic and powerful story of which may have been linked the life and times of ‘the Black Prince’, and to paint to violent experiences on a memorable portrait of warfare and society in the the battlefield, to new ways of analysing data to tumultuous fourteenth century. give insights into men recruited as archers and 400p, col pls (Head of Zeus 2017) 9781784972936 Hb mariners, and a consideration of military aspects of £30.00 the Peasants’ Revolt. 256p, b/w illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2017) 9781909291881 Pb £18.99 Medieval Britain 65 The Soldier Experience in the Civic Community in Late Medieval Fourteenth Century Lincoln Edited by Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman Urban Society and Economy in the Age of & Andy King the Black Death, 1289-1409 Via a careful re-evaluation of original sources, and By Alan Kissane the use of innovative methodological techniques The later middle ages saw provincial towns and such as statistical analysis and the use of relational their civic community contending with a number of databases, the essays here bring new insights to economic, social and religious problems – including bear on soldiers, both as individuals and as groups. famine and the plague. This book, using Lincoln Topics addressed include military service and the – then a significant urban centre – as a case study, dynamics of recruitment; the social composition investigates how such a community dealt with these of the armies; the question of whether soldiers saw issues, looking in particular at the links between their role as a “profession”; and the experience of town and central government, and how they prisoners of war. influenced local customs and practices. 244p (Boydell & Brewer 2011, Pb 2017) 9781843836742 272p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271634 Hb £60.00 Hb £60.00, 9781783272433 Pb £19.99 The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages Henry IV Guilds in England 1250-1550 By Chris Given-Wilson By Gervase Rosser This comprehensive and This volume explores the motives and experiences nuanced biography restores of the many thousands of men and women who to his rightful place a king joined together in guilds and fraternities. Gervase often overlooked in favour of Rosser addresses the subject of medieval guilds in his illustrious progeny. Using the context of contemporary debates surrounding a wide variety of previously the identity and fulfilment of the individual, and untapped archival materials, the problematic question of his or her relationship Chris Given-Wilson reveals to a larger society. The peasants, artisans, and a cultured, extravagant, professionals who joined the guilds sought to and skeptical monarch change both their society and themselves. who crushed opposition 264p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015 Pb 2017) 9780198201571 ruthlessly but never quite Hb £65.00, 9780198735786 Pb £19.99 succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his own supporters. Contesting the City 608p, b/w pls (Yale UP 2016, Pb 2017) 9780300229714 The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, Pb £19.99 1250 – 1530 From England to France By Christian D. Liddy Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages This volume exploits the rich archival sources of Bristol, Coventry, London, Norwich, and York in By William Chester Jordan order to present a new picture of town government At the height of the Middle and urban politics over three centuries. There were Ages, a peculiar system multiple, and divergent, ideas about citizenship, of perpetual exile – or which encouraged townspeople to make demands, abjuration – flourished in to assert rights, and to resist authority. The power western Europe. It was a of urban governors was much more precarious than judicial form of exile, not historians have imagined. political or religious, and 288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198705208 Hb it was meted out to felons £75.00 for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment Medieval London or death. From England to Collected Papers of Caroline M. Barron France explores the lives of these men and women who Edited by Joel Rosenthal, Caroline M. Barron & were condemned to abjure the English realm, Martha Carlin and draws on their unique experiences to shed This collection of eighteen revised and updated light on a medieval legal tradition until now very papers deal with the Crown and the City; parish, poorly understood. It explores the judicial and church and religious culture; people of late- administrative processes that led to the abjuration of medieval London (including Richard Whittington) more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and the intellectual and cultural world of a city that and the circumstances of their exile and in a small soon grew into one of the most important in Europe number of cases, return. and the world. 240p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691176147 Pb £18.95 404p, b/w illus (Medieval Institute Publications 2017) 9781580442565 Hb £96.00 66 Medieval Britain Medieval Europe The Middle Ages The Routledge Handbook of Maritime By Johannes Fried Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes Edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom & a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz economic, and scientific developments that draws This collection takes as a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a its central question how culture of reason. Beginning with the rise of the shippers and merchants Franks, Fried uses individuals to introduce key were able to connect themes, bringing to life those who have too often regional and interregional been reduced to abstractions of the medieval trade circuits around and “monk” or “knight.” beyond Europe in the late 632p (Harvard UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780674975361 Pb medieval period. An opening £18.95 section addresses broad themes such as ships and Medieval Europe sailing routes, maritime By Chris Wickham law, financial linkages and Tracking the entire sweep linguistic exchanges. The following sections present of the Middle Ages across case studies addressing themes including conflict Europe, Wickham focuses on resolution, relations between different types of main important changes century ports and their hinterland, the local institutional by century, including arrangements supporting maritime trade, and the such pivotal crises and advantages and challenges of locations around the moments as the fall of the continent. western Roman Empire, 522p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138899506 Hb Charlemagne’s reforms, £175.00 the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the The Capetian Century, 1214 to 1314 destruction of the Byzantine Edited by William Chester Jordan & Jenna Rebecca Empire, the rebuilding of Phillips late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes century (1214-1314), a period that changed the that underscore how shifting social, economic, and cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation political circumstances affected individual lives and for the modernisation of the medieval West. international events. Essays are grouped in thematic sections: Royal 352p col pls (Yale UP 2016, 2017) 9780300208344 Hb Patronage and Expressions of Kingship; Power and £25.00, 9780300228823 Pb £10.99 its Representation; Philip the Fair and his Ministers; The Medieval Invention of Travel and Crusaders and Crusading Orders. 378p b/w nad col illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503567181 Hb By Shayne Aaron Legassie £85.00 Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine closely integrated, fostering the international and Problems and Perspectives intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, Edited by Guilhelm Pupin diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. These The political union between England and Gascony wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences or Aquitaine lasted from the early thirteenth in unprecedented numbers and transformed century until 1453, and the long series of Gascon traditional conceptions of human mobility. Rolls in the National Archives record some of the Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval business of Aquitaine during the union. These are Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array currently being calendared, and this volume reflects of sources to develop original readings of canonical some of the research which resulted. Topics include figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and the war of Saint-Sardos, the administration of the Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel Black Prince, and political allegiances in Gascony writers. and the neighbouring principalities. 304p (University of Chicago Press 2017) 9780226446622 256p, (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271979 Hb £60.00 Pb £22.00

67 The Irish Church, its Reform and The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, the English Invasion 1190-1291 By Donnchadh O Corrain By Nicholas Morton This book radically reassesses the reform of the This book – the first Irish Church in the twelfth century, on its own comprehensive analysis of terms and in the context of the English Invasion the Order in the Holy Land that it helped precipitate. Professor Ó Corráin re- – explores the formative examines how Canterbury’s political machinations years of this powerful drew its archbishops into Irish affairs, considers international institution and the successes and failures of the major reforming places its deeds in the Levant synods, and reassesses impact of the actions of within the context of the St Malachy of Armagh in replacing indigenous wider Christian, pagan and Irish monasticism with Cistercian abbeys and Islamic world. It examines Augustinian priories. the challenges that shaped 160p (Four Courts Press 2017) 9781846826672 Hb £30.00 its identity and the masters who planned its policies. Noble Society 242p (Boydell & Brewer 2009, Pb 2017) 9781843834779 Five Lives from Twelfth-Century Germany Hb £60.00, 9781783271818 Pb £25.00 Edited by Jonathan R. Lyon The Principality of Antioch and its This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding Frontiers in the Twelfth Century of the culture and society of the twelfth-century By Andrew D. Buck German kingdom. The sources bring to life the Situated in northern Syria, activities of five noblemen and noblewomen, and on the eastern-most frontier demonstrate how interconnected political, military, of Latin Christendom, the economic, religious and spiritual interests could principality of Antioch was be for some of the leading members of medieval a medieval polity bordered German society – and for the authors who wrote by a host of rival powers, about them. presenting a challenge to its 288p (Manchester UP 2017) 9780719091025 Hb £70.00, survival. This book examines 9780719091032 Pb £19.99 how its ruling elites sought to manage these threats, in The “Chivalric Biography” of Boucicaut order to maintain Antioch’s (Jean II le Meingre) existence during the troubled By Craig Taylor & Jane H. M. Taylor twelfth century. It explores the principality’s diplomatic This account of the life of Jean le Maingre, Maréchal and military endeavours, its internal power structures Boucicaut (1364-1421) is one of the most important of and its interaction with indigenous peoples. a series of chivalric biographies from the end of the 288p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271733 Hb £60.00 Middle Ages. This first English translation makes The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon available to a wider audience a text that sheds light on the history of France, on crusading in Prussia in the Twelfth Century and the Mediterranean, and on the complicated Sons of Saint-Gilles politics of Italy and the papacy during the Great By Kevin James Lewis Schism as well as on chivalric mentalities and The county of Tripoli is attitudes in late-medieval France. arguably the most neglected 240p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271665 Hb £60.00 of the so-called ‘crusader states’. The present work An Introduction to the Crusades is the first monograph on By S. J. Allen the county to be published This accessible book begins with a brief overview in English, and the first of the Crusades before immersing the reader in in any western language the logistics of crusading and the day-to-day life of since 1945. What emerges a crusader, explaining arms and armour, strategy is an intriguing portrait and tactics, and siege warfare. Topics explored in of the county in which its depth include women on crusade, pilgrimage, the rulers struggled to exert Mongols, crusade charters, and the use of crusader their power over Lebanon in the face of this rhetoric throughout history. region’s insurmountable geographical forces and its 216p (University of Toronto Press 2017) 9781442600232 sometimes bewildering, always beguiling diversity Pb £17.99 of religions, languages and cultures. 354p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472458902 Hb £105.00 68 Medieval Europe Medieval Religion The Avignon Papacy Contested Saints and Sainthood Around the An Intellectual History from Dante to Baltic Sea Catherine of Siena Orality, Literacy and Communication in By Unn Falkeid the Middle Ages The Avignon papacy (1309– By Carsten Selch Jensen 1377) represented the zenith This book demonstrates the importance of the cult of papal power in Europe. of saints in the cultural transformation of the regions The Roman curia’s move to around the Baltic Sea. It addresses a wide range of southern France enlarged topics, for example the introduction of foreign (and its bureaucracy, centralized ‘old’) saints into new regions, the creation of new its authority, and initiated local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, closer contact with secular the cult of saints in the creation of political and institutions. But a crisis of lay identities, the adaption of cult of saints in folk legitimacy was brewing poetry and the use of saints in times of war. among leading thinkers of 268p (Routledge 2017) 9781472409508 Hb £95.00 the day. This study considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who Saints and Cults in Medieval England waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s Edited by Susan Powell increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics Saints have been a significant element of the from every corner of Europe. Christian church from early times. Saints were part of the liturgical year and also the focus of 288p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674971844 Hb £39.95 indulgences, relic-lists and pilgrimage. Their lives The Oxford Handbook of Medieval were the subject of prose and poetry. Their shrines were accessible and images and symbols decorated Christianity stained glass, sculpture in wood and stone, and Edited by John H. Arnold precious manuscripts. All these aspects of saints This volume explores the beliefs, practices, and and cults in medieval England are handled in this institutions of the Christian Church between 400 new volume of 22 essays from the 2015 Harlaxton and 1500 AD. It addresses topics ranging from Symposium. early medieval monasticism to late medieval 448p , 97 col pls (Paul Watkins 2017) 9781907730597 mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church Hb £49.50 to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. William of Malmesbury The Handbook is arranged thematically, seeking Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity Edited by Michael Winterbottom of religion throughout this long period, and Written around 1135 by the Benedictine monk, the numerous different ways in which modern historian and scholar William of Malmesbury, The scholarship can approach it. Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary belongs in the 608p (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9780199582136 Hb first wave of collected miracles of the Virgin. This £95.00, 9780198811176 Pb £35.00 paperback takes the translation from the original Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth- hardback, retaining the introduction, notes and appendices. Century England 214p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271962 Pb £19.99 Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils Religion, Time and Memorial Culture By Alexander Russell in Late Medieval Ripon Fusing the history of political thought with the By Stephen Werronen study of institutional practices, this innovative This book charts the developments in the practice study relates the procedural innovations of the of religion, and in particular the commemoration of general councils of Constance and Basle and the deceased, from the late fourteenth to the early their anti-heretical activities to wider trends sixteenth centuries, in the important parish of Ripon. in corporate politics, intellectual culture and It shows how the twin necessities of honouring the pastoral reform. Alexander Russell argues that the minster’s patron saint and remembering the parish acceptance of collective decision-making at the dead had a profound effect on the practice of councils was predicated upon the prevalence of religion in late medieval Ripon, shaping everything group participation and deliberation in small-scale from the ritual calendar to weekly and daily corporate culture. religious routines. 232p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107172272 Hb £75.00 224p (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9780861933457 Hb £50.00 69 The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Caring for the Living Soul Plantagenet World, c.1170-c.1220 Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Edited by Paul Webster & Marie-Pierre Gelin Medieval Mediterranean This book examines the development of the cult By Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and the impact of the legacy of Saint Thomas within Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental the Plantagenet orbit of the late twelfth and early role emotions played in the development of learned thirteenth centuries. Traditional textual and archival medicine and in the formation of the social sources, such as miracle collections, charters, and role of the “physicians of the body” in western royal and papal letters, are used in conjunction Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book with the material culture inspired by the cult, to explores theoretical debates and practical advice emphasise the wide-ranging impact of the murder concerning the treatment of the “accidentia anime” and of the cult’s emergence in the century following in diverse medical sources. the martyrdom. 250p (Brill 2017) 9789004341517 Hb £92.00 224p b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271610 Hb £60.00 The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary Edited by Michael Robson in Medieval Scotland This volume explores the rich diversity of the Edited by Stephen Ian Boardman & Eila Williamson Franciscan contribution to the life of the order and This volume examines the phenomena of the cult of its ministry throughout England between 1224 and c. saints and Marian devotion as they were manifested 1350. The 21 contributions examine the friars’ impact in Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period across the different strata of English society, from to the sixteenth century. It combines general surveys the parish churches, the missions, the royal courts of the development of the study of saints in the early and the universities. and later middle ages with more focused articles on 516p (Brill 2017) 9789004331617 Hb £127.00 the cults of specific saints, and on the way in which Marian devotion permeated late medieval Scottish Hospitals and Charity society. Religious Culture and Civic Life in Medieval 226p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2010, Pb 2017) Northern Italy 9781843835622 Hb £60.00, 9781783272464 Pb £25.00 By Sally Mayall Brasher A comprehensive examination of the hospital Death in Medieval Europe movement that arose and prospered in northern Death Scripted and Death Choreographed Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Edited by Joelle Rollo-Koster Throughout this flourishing urbanised area This volume presents new cultural research into hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and appeared, offering care for the ill, the poor and demonstrates the important relationship between pilgrims en route to holy sites in Rome and the death and the world of the living. Essays discuss eastern Mediterranean. Over three centuries they overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, became mechanisms for the appropriation of civic revenants, mourning practices and funerals, authority and political influence in the communities capital punishment, suspicious death, and death they served, and created innovative experiments in registrations using case studies from across Europe healthcare and poor relief which are the precursors including England, Iceland, and Spain. to modern social welfare systems. 256p (Routledge 2016) 9781138802124 Hb £100.00, 200p (Manchester UP 2017) 9781526119285 Hb £70.00 9781138802131 Pb £32.99 Franciscans and the Elixir of Life Clerical Households in Late Medieval Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages Italy By Zachary A. Matus By Roisin Cossar This volume focuses on alchemy as a material Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history practice and investigates the Franciscan discourses of the Christian church in fourteenth century Italy by and traditions that shaped the pursuit of the elixir, examining how clerics managed efforts to reform their providing a rich examination of alchemy and domestic lives in the decades after the arrival of the religiosity. Zachary A. Matus makes new connections Black Death. She refutes the longstanding charge that between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the the late medieval clergy were corrupt, living licentious particular commitment of the Franciscan Order lives that failed to uphold priestly obligations. In to the natural world, shedding new light on the fashioning a domestic culture that responded flexibly question of why so many people claimed to have to their own needs, priests tempered the often made, seen, or used alchemical compounds that unrealistic expectations of their superiors. could never have existed. 240p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674971899 Hb £39.95 216p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) 9780812249217 Hb £52.00 70 Medieval Religion Medieval Art & Architecture Cultural Exchange Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Marketplace By Sarah Kay By Joseph Shatzmiller Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin Demonstrating that bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this similarities between Jewish prominent genre challenged the boundary between and Christian art in the its human readers and other animals. Using a rich Middle Ages were more array of examples, she shows how the content than coincidental, Cultural and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the Exchange meticulously continual references in the texts to the skins of other combines a wide range of animals, as well as the ways in which the pages sources to show how Jews themselves repeatedly and at times, it would seem, and Christians exchanged deliberately intervene in the reading process. artistic and material culture. 232p b/w illus, col pls (University of Chicago Press 2017) It examines objects pawned 9780226436739 Hb £37.00 with Jewish money-lenders by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged A Rothschild Renaissance by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the given up by the Christian well-to-do who required British Museum financial assistance. The work also explores how Jews Edited by Pippa Shirley & Dora Thornton hired Christian artists and craftsmen and vice versa. The Waddesdon Bequest contains some of the most 208p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2013, Pb 2017) beautiful examples of medieval and Renaissance 9780691176185 Pb £14.95 craftsmanship, including exquisite pieces of St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter jewellery, silver plate, painted enamels of Limoges, glass and microcarvings in boxwood. Subjects Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England in this collection on all aspects of the collection Edited by Kristen Collins & Matthew Fisher include new attributions for sculptures, a detailed One of the most compelling and provocative books discussion of the making and marketing of forgeries of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter by Salomon Weininger, Frédéric Spitzer and Alfred was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between André as well as new research on jewellery and its 1120 and 1140. Here leading scholars of twelfth- presentation both at Waddesdon Manor and in the century manuscript studies explore the Psalter, new gallery at the BM. understanding it through new methodologies, 20op col illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592128 pursuing innovative lines of inquiry, and broadening Pb £40.00 the discourse about the book and its readers. 413p, b/w and col illus (Medieval Institute Publications 2017) 9781580442589 Hb £80.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Ormesby Psalter Patrons and Painting in Medieval England By Frederica C. E. Law- Turner The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Fantastic imagery proliferates: musicians, mermaids, lovers and warriors are juxtaposed with scenes from everyday life, from chivalric legend, and from folk-tales, fables and riddles. It was the work of four or five scribes and up to seven illuminators and its pages show a panorama of stylistic development. This book casts an entirely new light on its history, not only clarifying and dating the successive phases of production, but associating the main work on the manuscript with Only the patronage of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. It is £25.00 until extensively illustrated with full-page colour reproductions of the manuscript’s main decorated folios, as well as many 31st January smaller initials and numerous comparative illustrations. 224p col illus (Bodleian Library 2017) 9781851243105 Pb £30.00 71 Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims English Parish Churches and Chapels By Roger Rosewell Art, Architecture and People This well illustrated guide takes the reader across By Matthew Byrne Britain, providing a map of the most important There are over 40,000 churches and chapels in religious shrines that pilgrims would travel vast the United Kingdom. The earliest were built by distances to reach, as well as descriptions and the first Anglo-Saxon Christians and about 10,000 images of the shrines themselves. It explains the were built before the Reformation in the sixteenth history of pilgrimage in Britain and the importance century. This beautifully illustrated book features that it played in medieval life, and describes the photographic portraits and descriptions of 26 impact of the Reformation. English churches and chapels: ancient and modern, 80p b/w and col illus (Shire 2017) 9780747814023 Pb large and small, urban and rural. £8.99 192p, col illus (Shire 2017) 9781784422394 Hb £20.00 Stained Glass at York Minster Materia y Accion en las Catedrales By Sarah Brown Medievales (SS. IX-XIII) Sarah Brown introduces the magnificent stained Edited by Gerardo Boto Varela glass at York Minster. She provides an holistic This book is intended to help shed light on the overview, starting with evidence for the glazing of material properties, visual layouts and ceremonial the pre-Conquest Minster and the earliest surviving attributes of a representative selection of medieval glazing from the twelfth-century church. She then cathedrals built from the 9th to 13th centuries. The embarks on an extended tour of the Minster’s analyses in this collection examine the historical windows, including the Five Sisters in the north and artistic contexts in which different cathedrals transept, the Rose Window in the south transept, emerged. Spanish text. the famous Bell-Founder’s Window in the north 371p, b/w illus (BAR 2017) 9781407315928 Pb £56.00 nave aisle, the Great West Window, often called the Heart of Yorkshire, and the magnificent Great East Princes of the Church Medieval Archaeology Window. Bishops and Their Palaces 104p col illus (Scala 2017) 9781785510731 Pb £15.00 Edited by David Rollason England’s Cathedrals Princes of the Church brings together the latest By Simon Jenkins research exploring the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape Gloriously illustrated throughout, England’s history, architectural history and archaeology. Cathedrals acts as a companion to Simon Jenkins’ Including contributions from the late Antique earlier England’s Thousand Best Churches. 53 period through to the eighteenth and nineteenth cathedrals are included with entries detailing their centuries, it deals with bishops’ residences in history, architectural development, fixtures and England, Scotland, Wales, the Byzantine Empire, fittings, and above all Jenkins’ personal thoughts France, and Italy. It is structured in three sections: and interpretations. design and function; landscape and urban context; 384p col illus (Little, Brown 2016) 9781408706459 Hb and architectural form. £30.00 476p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138714946 San Lorenzo Hb £105.00 A Florentine Church Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Edited by Robert W. Gaston & Louis A. Waldman Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection Augustus to the Franciscans, C. 500-1450 illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending By Claudia Bolgia from its Early Christian foundation to the modern Prominently located on the Arx, the northern era. The papers investigate: the urban setting of summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in the church and its parish; San Lorenzo’s relations Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church with other ecclesiastical institutions; the genesis of Rome to survive to the present day. On the of individual major buildings of the complex and basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining their decorations; the clergy, chapels and altars; the archaeological analysis with the finding of new chapter’s administration and financial structure; archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents lay and clerical patronage; devotional furnishings, and literary and epigraphic sources, this book music, illuminated liturgical manuscripts, and offers a reconstruction of the original church, its preaching; as well as the annual or ephemeral festal monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ practices on the site. ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically 752p col illus (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674975675 Hb from earlier hypotheses. £79.95 480p, b/w and col illus (Routledge 2017) 9781409417613 Hb £95.00 72 Medieval Art & Architecture Medieval Castles of England and Wales Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval By Bernard Lowry England Designed to dominate the Readings, Representations and Realities surrounding area, to house By Hollie L. S. Morgan powerful garrisons, offer This volume offers the first sumptuous quarters for local interdisciplinary study of nobility, and to discourage the cultural meanings of and repel enemy attacks, beds and chambers in late- castles dominated England medieval England. It draws and Wales for more than on a vast array of literary, half a millennium. This pragmatic and visual book examines why castles sources, including romances, were so essential to medieval saints’ lives, lyrics, plays, warfare, their importance in wills, probate inventories, domestic politics, and the day-to-day lives of those letters, church and civil court who lived and worked within them. It also shows documents, manuscript how the development of new technologies affected illumination and physical objects, to shed new their construction and design, and why they light on the ways in which beds and chambers eventually fell into disrepair in the late Middle Ages. functioned as both physical and conceptual spaces. 80p, col illus (Shire 2017) 9781784422141 Pb £8.99 224p col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781903153710 Hb £60.00 Medieval Archaeology Medieval Cross Slabs of Derbyshire Crusader Archaeology By Peter Ryder The Material Culture of the Latin East This book charts the discovery of the 12th and 13th By Adrian J. Boas century gravestones across the county. It follows an This new edition of Crusader Archaeology updates, 18 year study, which found 457 slabs and fragments with recent excavation results and research, the at 98 sites across the county. As well as taking a close only detailed study of the material culture of the look at Bakewell’s collection of cross slabs, where Crusades in Israel, Cyprus, Syria and Jordan. It over 100 are built into the internal walls of the south examines what life was like for the Crusaders in porch, the book also features similar stones found in their territory and how they were influenced by churches in Baslow, Barlow, Bolsover, Chesterfield, their new-found neighbours. Chapters discuss: Chelmorton, Darley Dale, Hartington and Derby. urban and rural settlements, surveying agriculture, 87p b/w illus (Peak District National Park Authority industry, the military, the church, public and private 2017) 9780907543770 Pb £7.99 architecture, arts and crafts, leisure pursuits, death and burial and building techniques. The History and Archaeology of 306p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed, 2016) 9781138900257 Cathedral Square Peterborough Hb £110.00 By Stephen Morris Archaeological work in 2008-2011 identified a Arabic Script on Christian Kings succession of stone surfaces from the creation of Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from the market square in the 12th century through to Norman Sicily the 19th century. The cobbled surface of the original By Isabelle Dolezalek market square was overlaid by an accumulation of Roger II’s famous mantle and other royal garments dark organic silts, containing finds dating through to from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily the 16th century. At the start of the 15th century the prominently display Arabic inscriptions. This case parish church of St John the Baptist was constructed study of the inscribed garments from Norman over the western half of the medieval Sicily draws attention to the diverse functions of market square with a cemetery Arabic textile inscriptions using various contextual immediately to the west of the frames. While the phenomenon is highly unusual church. Only in the context of Latin Christian kingship, the use 96p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress £20.00 until of inscriptions as a textile ornament was common 2017) 9781784916619 Pb £25.00 31st January and imbued with political functions in the Islamic courts of the medieval Mediterranean. 255p, col illus (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9783110532029 Hb £73.99 73 Medieval Masterchef An Historical Map of Kingston Edited by Joanita Vroom Upon Hull The focus in this varied From Medieval Town to Industrial City collection of studies by By David Neave, Susan Neave & D. E. Evans key scholars in the field is As with other maps in the series produced by the on cuisine and foodways Historic Towns Trust, this new publication shows in the Mediterranean and the locations of the city’s many medieval and north-western Europe post-medieval buildings. The map shows medieval during Medieval and and post-medieval major buildings, fortifications, Post-Medieval times (ca. ancient water-courses (including the possible 6th- 20th centuries). The old route of the River Hull). However, instead of scope of the contributions being based on a time-shot of the city in the mid encompasses archaeological nineteenth century, the map has in the background and historical perspectives an Ordnance Survey of 1928, and thus also shows on eating habits, cooking techniques, diet practices the many manufacturies, shipyards and warehouses and table manners in the Byzantine Empire, the which dominated the character of the city in its Islamic World, the Crusader States, Medieval and Edwardian heyday. Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire. (Historic Towns Trust 2017) 9780993469824 map £8.99 400p b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503575797 Pb £95.00 Italian Maiolica and Europe Archaeology of the 11th Century Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in Continuities and Transformations the Ashmolean Museum Edited by Dawn M. Hadley & Christopher Dyer By Timothy Wilson The impact of the Conquest This book, containing of England by the Normans 289 catalogue entries, is the central focus of this completely encompasses the book, which not only Ashmolean’s outstanding assesses the destruction collection of postclassical and upheaval caused by the Italian pottery, including invading forces, but also pieces from excavations. examines how the Normans In addition it includes contributed to local culture, catalogue entries for some religion, and society. The seventy selected pieces of volume explores a range of pottery from France, the Low topics including food culture, Countries, England, Spain, funerary practices, the development of castles and Portugal, Germany, and Mexico, in order to present a their impact, and how both urban and rural life wide-ranging picture of the development of tin-glaze evolved during the 11th century. pottery from Islamic Spain through to recent times. 326p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138201156 Hb 520p, col illus (Ashmolean Museum Publications 2017) £115.00 9781910807163 Hb £60.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Place of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 950-1150 Edited by P. S. Barnwell This volume in a series on places of worship in Britain and Ireland covers the age of reform, during which western Christianity acquired most of its distinctive features: the diocesan system of administration, the parish and the foundation and spread of the monastic orders which were to be such an important feature of the central middle ages. Eric Fernie contributes an introduction; John Harper examines liturgy and music; Marie-Pierre Gelin writes on the monastic cathedrals; Julian Luxford on Benedictine art and architecture; Lyn Coppack on Cistercian monasteries; Richard Fawcett on the Tironensians; Paul Everson and David Stocker on the Premonstratensians Only at Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire; Richard Oram on Northern £30.00 until monasteries and schools; P. S. Barnwell on the cure of souls; Tomás Ó Carragáin on buildings of worship in Ireland; and 31st January Barnwell again provides a conclusion. 208p col illus (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730566 Hb £35.00

74 Medieval Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700 Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. Morriss Edited by Knut Bergsvik & Marion Dowd The cathedral city of Caves and ritual in medieval Hereford is one of the best- Europe, AD 500–1500 focuses kept historical secrets of the on this neglected field of Welsh Marches. The city research – the ritual and boasts an astonishingly well- religious use of caves. It draws preserved medieval plan and together interdisciplinary contains some of the earliest studies by leading specialists houses still in everyday use from across Europe: from anywhere in England. Three Iberia to Crimea, and from leading authorities on the Malta to northern Norway. buildings of the English Christianity was widespread Midlands have joined forces, and firmly established combining detailed archaeological surveys, primary in most of Europe at this time, and many of historical research and topographical analysis, to the contributions deal with different types of examine 24 of the most important Christian practices, such as the use of rock-cut buildings, from the great hall of the churches, unmodified caves for spiritual retreat, Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the caves reputedly visited by saints, and caves as first surviving brick town-house Only places for burials. But parallel to of c.1690. £18.75 until this, some caves were associated publication with localised popular religious 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Only Books 2017) 9781785708169 Hb practices, which sometimes had £25.00 pre-Christian origins. £37.50 until 376p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Bristol: A Worshipful Town Books 2017) 9781785708329 Hb and Famous City £50.00 An Archaeological Assessment from Prehistory to 1900 By Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones The Urban Graveyard This volume provides, for the Archaeological perspectives first time, a comprehensive overview of the historical Edited by Roos Van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Kerry Fast, development of Bristol, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester based on archaeological and The medieval graveyards in architectural evidence. Part which the deceased were 1 describes the geological interred, then still located and topographical within town limits, are context of Bristol and an invaluable source of discusses evidence for knowledge for reconstructing the environment prior to past lives. The urban the foundation of the city. graveyard presents several The history of archaeological work in Bristol is studies in which the results discussed in detail, as is the pictorial record and the of older archaeological and cartographic evidence for the city. In Part 2, a series osteoarchaeological research of period-based chapters considers the historical are compared to more recent background and archaeological evidence for excavation data from several Dutch, Belgian and Bristol’s development. Each chapter discusses the Danish cities and towns. Both the archaeological major civic, military and religious monuments of data concerning burial position, orientation, and the time, and the complex topographical evolution grave goods as well as osteoarchaeological data of the city. Part 3 assesses the significance of Bristol’s such as demographic information and pathological archaeology, and presents a range observations are discussed. of research themes for future 320p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018) research. Only 9789088905032 Hb £150.00, 9789088905025 Pb £50.00 600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow £30.00 until NYP Books 2018) 9781785708770 Hb publication £40.00

Medieval Archaeology 75 Urban Consumption Animaltown Tracing Urbanity in the Archaeological Record Beasts in Medieval Urban Space of Aarhus c. AD 800-1800 Edited by A. L. Choyke & Gerhard Jaritz By Jette Linaa The medieval animals found in the articles of Based on excavations and finds from Aarhus and its Animaltown appear in text and image, as well periphery this volume analyses the development of as archaeological find materials in the form the town and its network from the Viking Age to of butchery waste, kitchen refuse, debris from mid-1800. Central is the special urban way of living manufacturing osseous objects, and the objects which makes town dwellers into citizens. The urban themselves. This multiplicity of sources sheds communities are in focus as well as their challenges: light on the ways towns fed themselves, protected division between town and countryside, but also themselves and created their personal landscapes social divisions of the townspeople, and between and views of themselves through the power of newcomers and born and bred citizens. metaphor and symbol involving the array of beasts, 239p col illus (Aarhus UP 2017) 9788793423060 Hb great and small, surrounding them. £29.00 217p b/w illus (BAR 2858, 2017) 9781407315720 Pb £41.00 Post Medieval Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Lost Lives, New Voices Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at Interdisciplinary and International the Battle of Dunbar 1650 Perspectives By Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell, Chris Gerrard, Pam Edited by Jane Eva Baxter & Meredith a.B. Ellis Graves & Andrew Millard The nineteenth century was a time when the In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered world was becoming increasingly connected unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of through global forces and networks. This dynamic Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 environment was the backdrop for a time when years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced childhood was becoming significantly elaborated as together by a team of archaeologists to establish a cultural category of identity. Institutions, objects, the identity of the human remains. Today we know and places specifically designed for children were them to be some of the Scottish prisoners who multiplying at an unprecedented rate; writing died in the autumn of 1650 in Durham cathedral about children in fiction and non-fiction became and castle following the battle of Dunbar on the increasingly prolific; and the concern for children’s south-east coast of Scotland. Fought between the health and well-being in life and death was English and the Scots, this was one of the key paramount in many communities. This volume engagements of the War of the Three Kingdoms. brings together scholars from archaeology, art Using the latest techniques of skeleton science, history, bioarchaeology, educational history, this book gives back to the men a voice through history, literary studies, and theatre history to an understanding of their childhood and later present studies of nineteenth century children lives. Archaeological and historical evidence also and childhood in Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, allows us to reconstruct with vivid accuracy how England, Ireland, Native North America, Romania, and why these men vanished off the historical Russia, and the United States. The interdisciplinary radar. Of the prisoners who survived their ordeal focus of this volume illustrates the wealth of after Dunbar, new evidence has emerged about sources, methods, and perspectives that can be their involvement in local industries and in one used to develop our understandings of childhood of the great infrastructural projects of the day, in the nineteenth century, and the international the draining of the Fens. Others were sent far scope of the studies offers a platform to engage away, transported to the colonies commonalities in an increasingly as indentured servants to begin globalized world alongside an a new life at the edge of the Only appreciation for local, regional, known world. Only £15.00 until and national variations 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow in the cultural creation and £30.00 until publication Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb experiences of childhood. publication £20.00 208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708435 Pb £40.00

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The Times of their Lives explains how archaeologists can now move away from thinking about history in terms of thousands of years, to periods from one or two centuries down to lifetimes and generations — a little more than two decades. This vastly improved precision comes from the application of Bayesian chronological frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates. If they do the right things, archaeologists in general and prehistorians in particular need not confine themselves any longer to the long term, which has often been seen as the defining currency of the discipline.

Many prehistorians are still uncomfortable with the choice of narratives now available — or have not yet critically rethought old habits. This book will show how temporally much more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, across a broad range of contexts and situations. It offers a series of case studies across much of the continent, to provide much more precise timings of key features and trends in the European Neolithic sequence than are currently available, and to construct much more precise estimates of the duration of events and phenomena. From these there is the possibility to open up new insights into the tempo of change through the detailed study of selected sites and situations across the span of the European Neolithic, from the sixth to the early third millennia cal BC. At stake is our ability to study the lives of Neolithic people everywhere at the scale of lifetimes, something unimaginable even a few years ago.

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