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Powerplay in Troy's Children Politics of Desire Band of Angels Tibullus Lost Generations in Virgil's Aeneid Propertius IV The Forgotten World of By Parshia Lee-Stecum By John K. Newman and By Micaela Janan Early Christian Women This criticism, assuming a traditional Frances Stickney Newman Janan uses modern psychoanalytical­ By Kate Cooper linear reading of Tibullus’ Book 1, This study analyses the ambiguous methods to examine Propertius Though they are often forgotten, examines the relationships described role of children in Virgil’s Aeneid. It (c.54–2 BC), who helped to shape the women from all walks of life played in his work for imbalance of power suggests that, by its entire stylistic form of the Latin elegy, and explores an invaluable role in Christianity’s and its effects on various areas of bias, the Aeneid was incapable of the social and political forces that growth to become a world religion. daily life, for example, the relationship picturing the vigour and life of a new helped to create his poems. Following By mobilizing friends and family to of poet and patron.This is a refreshing criticism, generation. an introduction to the study’s concepts, each chapter spread the word from household to household, they uncovering the unstable basis of Tibullan elegy. 400pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2005, Paperback, was £45.00 concentrates on specific poems with extracts in Latin created a wave of change not unlike modern ‘viral’ 328pp, Cambridge University Press, 1998, Hardback, was and in English translation. marketing. £50.00 Now £7.95 244pp, University of California Press, 2001, Paperback, was 368pp, Atlantic Books, 2014, Paperback, was £9.99 £18.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £6.95

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The Shadow of Function of Humour It is Our Father Who Unclassical Callimachus in Roman Verse Writes Traditions Studies in the reception of Satire Orders from the Monastery Volume I, Alternatives to the Hellenistic poetry at Rome Laughing and Lying of Apollo at Bawit Classical Past in Late Antiquity By Richard Hunter By Maria Plaza By S. J. Clackson By Michael Stuart Williams and Edited by Christopher Kelly, Richard Through a series of critical readings Maria Plaza analyses the function Editions of ninety-one papyri this book builds a picture of the of humour in Horace, Persius, and associated with the day-to-day Flower and Michael Williams Roman reaction to, and adoption of, Juvenal. She argues that, while the administration of the Monastery From the Chronological Tables of the Greek poetry of the last three Roman satirist needs humour for his of Apollo at Bawit during the 8th Eusebius of Caesarea to the Byzantine pre-Christian centuries. The singularity of the poetry of work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers century, seventy-eight of which are published for the first liturgy, eight papers explore how the persistence, Catullus and Virgil, of Horace and the elegists, emerges from the ambivalence that humour brings with it. time. Many of the papyri are orders issued by the head dominance and normative nature of the classical as more rich and complex than has hitherto been of the monastery to various subordinates, and the texts’ tradition in its various forms could be negotiated, appreciated. 370pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, Paperback, was contents are minutely analysed in the introduction. £28.00 undermined, ironised or even flatly denied in Late 162pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Hardback, was 265pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2008, Hardback, Antiquity. £69.99 Now £12.95 was £40.00 192pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 2010, Hardback, was Now £14.95 Now £9.95 £45.00 Now £14.95 28 • Latin Literature and Late Antiquity www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 Unclassical Contra Marcellum St Peter Chrysologus Approaching the Traditions. Volume Marcellus of Ancyra and Selected Sermons Volume 2 Apocalypse Fourth-Century Theology II By William Palardy A Short History of Christian Edited by Christopher Kelly, Richard By Joseph T. Lienhard Peter Chrysologus was appointed Millenarianism Flower and Michael Stuart Williams Marcellus of Ancyra (ca. 285-374) bishop of Ravenna in 426. This By John M. Court was a controversial figure in the Ranging from Armenian eccle-siastical book presents annotated English Ideas about divinely-inspired Trinitarian debate after Nicaea. histories, Egyptian alchemy and Jewish translations of over fifty sermons by disaster have an enduring place in Lienhard provides a complete analysis power politics, to the challenges Chrysologus which not only throw the history of Christian thought. of Marcellus’s theology, and traces raised by shifting circumstances in light on the bishop’s theology and Charting a steady course between the reactions to his teaching--from those who remained 5th-century North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, the eight interpretation of specific Gospel texts, but also provide the feverish predictions of early Christian heretics like sympathetic to him, to those who rejected his theology papers in this volume seek to establish the persistent valuable information about life in Ravenna and Italy the Montanists, and the febrile outpourings of modern- outright, and finally to those who partially accepted his importance of the classical tradition in Late Antiquity. during the second quarter of the 5th century, as well as day millennialists such as the Branch Davidians and theses. church politics and the barbarian threat. 160pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 2011, Hardback, was Christian Zionists in America, John M Court explores £45.00 280pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1999, 310pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, the continuities and differences between their violent Hardback, was £51.50 Hardback, was £32.95 visions of cataclysm. Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 240pp, I.B. Tauris, 2008, Paperback, was £17.99 Now £7.95

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Plato and Theodoret Oecumenius: Theodoret of Cyrus: Politics, Philosophy The Christian Appropriation Commentary on the The Questions on and Empire in the of Platonic Philosophy and the Apocalypse the "Octateuch" Fourth Century Hellenic Intellectual Resistance Translated by John N. Suggit On Leviticus, Numbers, Select Orations of Themistius By Niketas Siniossoglu This is the first complete translation Deuteronomy, Joshua, By Peter Heather and David Moncur Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Judges and Ruth in English of Oecumenius’s This book includes a selection of Graecarum Affectionum Curatio, commentary, which is the first known Edited by John Petruccione and Themestius’ speeches, grouped either Dr Siniossoglou examines the Greek commentary on the book Translated by Robert C. Hill by period or by their reference to a philosophical, rhetorical and political of Revelation, written in the sixth particular sequence of events, with a dimensions of the Neoplatonic-Christian conflict of Parallel Greek text and English translation of Theodoret century. commentary on the historical background and context interpretations over Plato. of Cyrus’ monumental work of exegesis, presented in a 217pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2006, question and answer format. in which they were delivered. 267pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was Hardback, was £30.50 £59.99 431pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, 361pp, Liverpool University Press, 2001, Paperback, was Now £9.95 Paperback, was £25.95 £16.50 Now £14.95 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

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The Dark Side of Constantine the The Latin Alexander Augustine's Childhood in Late Great Trallianus Manichaean Antiquity and the Warlord of Rome The Text and Transmission of Dilemma, Volume 1 Middle Ages By Elizabeth James a Late Latin Medical Book Conversion and Apostasy, Edited by Katariina Mustakallio Elizabeth James sets the scene with By D. R. Langslow 373-388 CE and Christian Laes a discussion of the nature of the The present work offers an By Jason BeDuhn Essays on three broad topics: Roman army as it emerged from the extensive introduction to the text BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine’s “Unwanted” deals with parents who Third Century Crisis and the impact and transmission of the ancient decade-long adherence to were unable to bring up their baby. of Constantine's policies and reforms. Latin version of the medical works Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent “Disabled” addresses what we would label as children’s She then examines each of Constantine's campaigns and “Therapeutica” and “On Fevers” of the great sixth– conversion to Nicene Christianity. He explores illnesses since disability was a concept largely unknown battles to show that he deserves to be remembered as a century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. Augustine’s commitment to the sect, while pointing out to ancient people. “Nearly Lost” examines demons, great general as well as a great emperor. 320pp, Roman Society Publications, 2006, Paperback, was ways he failed to understand or put into practice key viewed as destructive forces with the ability to destroy 171pp, b/w illus, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, £65.00 parts of the Manichaean system. children. was £19.99 Now £6.95 402pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, Hardback, 104pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £32.00 Now £7.95 was £45.50 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

30 • Late Antiquity and Byzantium www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 A Day of Gladness Sacred Swords Studies in Early A Gazetteer of The Sabbath Among Jews and Jihad in the Holy Land, 1097-1295 Medieval Coinage 2 Anglo-Saxon and Christians in Antiquity By James Waterson New Perspectives Viking Sites By Herold Weiss From initial disunity on the eve of By Tony Abramson County Durham and the First Crusade, Waterson shows This study looks at the differences Going beyond the traditional Northumberland how civil war and the resultant between the two faiths in the examinations of moneyers, mint political centralisation and increasingly By Guy Points Classical era in terms of their marks and monarchs, these essays, by effective military organisation A comprehensive guide to places, religious concerns and ideologies many of the leading scholars currently combined to create forces capable artefacts and material of Anglo- about the Sabbath, viewed through a working in the field, draw upon the of defeating and finally ejecting the Crusaders (and the Saxon and Viking interest in County Durham and broad range of textual material. imagery present upon the coins themselves to offer new Mongols) from the Holy Land. Northumberland (pre 1974 borders). 262pp, University of South Carolina Press, 2003, Hardback, insights into Anglo-Saxon art and society. 288pp, Frontline Books, 2011, Hardback, was £19.99 490pp, Guy Points, 2012, Paperback, was £30.00 was £34.95 261pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Paperback, was Now £6.95 Now £7.95 £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

Art of Late Rome Islamic Land Tax - Aspects of Anglo- The Combined and Byzantium in Al-Kharaj Scandinavian York Anglo-Saxon the Virginia Museum From the Islamic Conquests By R. A. Hall Chronicles of Fine Arts to the Abbasid Period The ten chapters in this book, By Guy Points By Anna Gonosova and By Ghaida Khazna Katbi each written by a specialist, place Today some nine manuscripts survive Christine Kondoleon the Coppergate discoveries within in whole or in part to make up A comprehensive and minutely the wider context of Viking Yorvik This catalogue is divided into two detailed history of a practice which what is known as the “Anglo-Saxon whilst demonstrating `how far the Chronicle”. The author provides a parts, jewelry and domestic art. 136 evolved from an exigency of conquest study of Anglo-Scandinavian York has objects are analysed from stylistic and into an essential pillar of the early narrative in chronological order of progressed in the last quarter century’ since the `Viking the information provided by the extant manuscripts. iconographic viewpoints in which appearance, function Islamic state. At the time of the Muslim conquests, Dig’. and meaning are described. al-Kharaj constituted a tax on lands owned by non- Unique to his presentation is the device of using Muslims. It gradually developed into an instrument of 228pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2004, Paperback, different print font types in the text to identify each of 451pp, University of Virginia Press, 1994, Paperback, was state under 'Umar bin al-Khattab and reached its most was £19.95 the source manuscripts. £25.00 refined and complex form under theA bbasids. Now £6.95 136pp, Guy Points, 2013, Paperback, was £12.95 Now £9.95 352pp, I.B. Tauris, 2010, Hardback, was £68.50 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

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Augustine and the Saracen Strongholds The Hamwic Glass Early English Jews 1100-1500 By J. R. Hunter and M. P. Heyworth Arbitration A Christian Defense of By David Nicolle The assemblage of glass fragments By Derek Roebuck Jews and Judaism A well-illustrated guide to Islamic from Saxon Hamwic is one of the Derek Roebuck here examines the most important in Europe. This book By Paula Fredriksen fortifications as far apart as North methods and procedures adopted Africa, Afghanistan and northern India, details the range of different coloured to settle disputes in England from A detailed yet accessible examination including urban citadels, palaces, town glass, vessel types and decorative Prehistory until Henry II’s legal of Augustine's thought regarding the walls and castles and caravanserais. elements. Through an innovative reforms of 1154. As befits the Jews and their status in a Christian Nicolle explores their design and approach to the study of glass evidence the majority of the book Empire, which is contrasted with development and their use in peacetime and war. fragments, including compositional concentrates on the Anglo-Saxon period, the early more mainstream, and markedly less positive Christian and colour analysis, insights into glass production in 64pp, Osprey, 2009, Paperback, was £11.99 dooms and the laws of Alfred. He places particular thought at the time, and integrated with Augustine's Middle Saxon times are revealed. emphasis on the importance of communities in own thought on heresy. Now £5.95 140pp, Council for British Archaeology, 1998, Paperback, overseeing and enforcing arbitration. 528pp, Yale University Press, 2011, Paperback, was £15.00 was £28.00 312pp, Holo Books, 2008, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £5.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

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+44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Late Antiquity, Islamic and Anglo-Saxon • 31 England's Darling The Early Medieval The Anglo-Saxon Arthurian Sources, The Victorian Cult of Settlement Remains Church of All Saints, Volume 3 Alfred the Great from Flixborough, Brixworth, Persons By Joanne Parker Lincolnshire Northamptonshire By John Morris For much of the nineteenth century, The Occupation Sequence, Survey, Excavation and A prosopography of ecclesiastics Alfred was as important as Arthur in c. AD 600-1000 Analysis, 1972-2010 and lay people active in sub-Roman the British popular imagination. This By Christopher Loveluck By David Parsons and Diana Sutherland Britain, with biographical details book examines the ways in which and full citations and bibliographical­ Alfred was rewritten by nineteenth- and David Atkinson An unprecedented account of one information, as well as cross- century authors and artists, and asks how beliefs about 1989–91 excavations at Flixborough­ unearthed remains of the most important buildings of its period surviving referencing. the Saxon king's reign and achievements related to in England. The building of the main body of the church of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of 172pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 1995, Hardback, was £19.95 nineteenth-century ideals about leadership, law, religion, the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet was towards the end of the 8th century, with a western commerce, education and the Empire. found on such a site. Volume 1 focuses on the lengthy tower, stair turret and polygonal apse added before the Now £6.95 256pp, Manchester University Press, 2007, Hardback, was occupation sequence. end of the 9th. Major modifications were made during £55.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hardback, was £30.00 the early and later medieval periods. 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £90.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £29.95

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The Vikings Myth and History The Anglo-Saxon The Book of Kells Voyagers of Discovery and Plunder Ethnicity and Politics in the Cemetery at Worthy By Bernard Meehan By R. Chartrand, Keith Durham, First Millennium British Isles Park, Kingsworthy, This edition includes the most Ian Heath and Mark Harrison By Stephen James Yeates important of the fully decorated near Winchester, pages plus a series of enlargements This book includes three previously In this book Stephen Yeates Hampshire revealing the detail of the spiral published studies in the Osprey range: reassesses the first MillenniumAD , By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Guy and interlace patterns and human The Vikings, by Ian Heath; Viking and demonstrates that the evidence Grainger, E. Biddulph and Anne Dodd and animal ornaments. Meehan's Hersir, by Mark Harrison; Viking that has been used to construct the accompanying text discusses the Longship, by Keith Durham. With lots story of an Anglo-Saxon migration, The cemetery was excavated in 1961–2 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes; this volume draws book and its historic background, of colour photographs, drawings and reconstructions, with an incoming population replacing most, if not all, of decorative influences and parallels, the decorative the authors look at the military side of the Vikings, their the British population has been found wanting. Instead to­gether all of her chapters and drawings relating to the site, including a detailed catalogue of burials, a report on scheme and its themes, its scribes and artists, and their army, its weapons and tactics, raiding and battles. he sees the major migration periods in Europe as production methods. occurring in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. the human bone, and a gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon sites in 208pp, col illus, Osprey, 2006, Paperback, was £12.99 95pp, Thames and Hudson, 1994, Paperback, was £9.95 496pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £29.95 Hampshire. Now £5.95 225pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003, Now £4.95 Now £7.95 Hardback, was £22.50 Now £10.00

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Burial in Later St Peter's, Barton- An Alternative Poems of Alcimus Anglo-Saxon upon-Humber, History of Britain: Acdicius Avitus England, c.650-1100 Lincolnshire The Anglo-Saxon Translated by George W. Shea AD Volume 1, History, Archaeology Age Presents an English translation By Jo Buckberry and Annia Cherryson and Architecture By Timothy Venning and discussion of the six poems of Avitus, the sixth century Bishop of The overarching theme of this book By Warwick Rodwell This book forms a chronological Vienne, along with their two related is differential treatment in death, St Peter’s, Barton-upon-Humber, history of the Anglo-Saxon age, prologues addressed to his brother- which is examined at the site-specific, is a redundant medieval church in which identifies key turning points in-law Sidonius Apollinaris. The first settlement, regional and national the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major and processes of change, and asks five provide narratives on Biblical themes, the sixth is a level. More specifically, the symbolism of conversion- programme of research carried out between 1978 'what if?' of each of them. Questions include whether a meditation in praise of chastity. period grave good deposition, the impact of the church, and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish predominantly Celtic Christianity could have prevailed in and aspects of identity, burial diversity and biocultural England, and if the unity of England under Wessex would 170pp, Arizona State University, 1997, Hardback, was church in the UK. Volume 1 sets out the architectural £21.00 approaches to cemetery analysis are discussed. history and setting of this complex, multi-period building. have been possible without the Viking invasions among many others. 156pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £38.00 944pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £4.95 256pp, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2013, Hardback, was Now £14.95 Now £24.95 £19.99 Now £19.99 32 • Anglo-Saxon www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 Creating the Divorce of Lothar II England Arise Gender, Nation and Monastic Past in By K. Heidecker The People the King and the Conquest in the Medieval Flanders In 857, Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, Great Revolt of 1381 Works of William of decided to divorce Theutberga. Karl By Karine Uge By Juliet Barker Heidecker’s dramatic and engaging Malmesbury The creation of a past for themselves narrative untangles the chaos that Juliet Barker, acclaimed for her studies By Kirsten A. Fenton of the latter half of the Hundred Years was of pressing importance to resulted, illuminating the origin and This innovative study provides a War, here turns her attention to the religious communities, enabling them development of Western notions gendered reading of Malmesbury’s Great Revolt of 1381. She is anxious to increase their status and legitimise of marriage and divorce and the works. It considers Malmesbury’s to avoid the title “Peasant’s Revolt”, their existence. This book examines separation of church and state. presentation of men and women for as the considerable evidence which is marshalled the process in a group of communities in the southern (both lay and religious) through categories based on 240pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, Hardback, was here makes clear, the revolt was much more than a part of Flanders over a period running from the ninth to attributes, such as sexual behaviour and violence, rather £40.95 rural phenomenon, and united people from a wide the end of the eleventh century. than the more familiar professional or familial roles, such spectrum of social statuses, from members of the gentry, 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was Now £12.95 as warrior and wife. £50.00 merchants and urban tradesmen, to the more usually recognised villeins. 163pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £14.95 528pp, Abacus, 2015, Paperback, was £10.99 Now £4.95 Now £9.95

Rulers and Ruled in The Transformation William of Ipswich Frontier Catalonia, of a Religious Newburgh: The Recognizance Rolls, 880-1010 Landscape History of English 1294-1327 By Jonathan Jarrett Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150 Affairs Book 2 Edited by G. H. Martin Through the use of charters, the By Valerie Ramseyer By P. G. Walsh and M. J. Kennedy The recognizance rolls of Ipswich are author traces previously hidden A detailed study of the religious life Covers the years 1154-75, and a register of titles to property in the social networks in the complex of the principality of Salerno in the incorporates the murder of Thomas borough and are among the most and fragmented frontier society early Middle Ages, and in particular of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, varied and interesting of the court’s of Catalonia; webs of association the reform program spearhead by the the capture of the King of Scots records. The contents of the first stretched from counts, the Church and even kings to the Archbishop of Salerno and the abbey of the Holy Trinity at Alnwick, and the first subjugation of Ireland by the twenty-one rolls are presented in an English paraphrase ambitious and the locally powerful, the pioneering and of Cava. English. Parallel Latin text and English translation. that takes account of all significant variations in the the humble, and the standing populations in areas newly original Latin, and also indicates the clerk’s marginal brought under government. 222pp, Cornell University Press, 2006, Hardback, was 200pp, Aris and Phillips, 2007, Paperback, was £19.99 notes and memoranda. £44.95 208pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was Now £4.95 151pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1970, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 £25.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

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Cin Chille Cuile - Past Convictions Anglo-Norman Leiston Abbey Texts, Saints and The Penance of Louis the Pious and Studies 33 Cartulary and Butley Places the Decline of the Carolingians By C. P. Lewis Priory Charters Essays in Honour of Padraig O Riain By Courtney M. Booker Topics include Alexander III's 'Rules Edited by Richard Mortimer By John Carey, Marie Herbert This volume examines the on the Formation of Marriage'; Butley Priory was a house of religious life in Rouen; Orderic and Kevin Murray controversial divestiture and public Augustinian canons, Leiston Abbey penance of Charlemagne’s son, the Vitalis; Robert of Torigni; William of a foundation for Premonstratensian An attractive volume containing 28 Emperor Louis the Pious, in 833, Malmesbury; St Anselm and art; the canons. This volume is largely an substantial studies focusing on the exploring how both contemporaries Domesday boroughs; and architecture edition of the Leiston cartulary and subjects of Celtic Saints, Irish placenames, Irish literature and subsequent generations thought about Louis’s in the Bayeux Tapestry. although the introduction covers aspects of the history and language of all periods. 8 chapters are in Gaelic. forfeiture of the throne. 172pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, of both houses, it is chiefly concerned with Leiston as 406pp, Celtic Studies Publications, 2004, Hardback, was 420pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Hardback, was was £45.00 the better documented and less investigated of the two. £29.95 £49.00 Now £12.95 187pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1979, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £11.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Landscape Irish Biblical Blythburgh Priory Sibton Abbey Perception in Early Apocrypha Cartulary: Pt.1 Cartularies and Celtic Literature Edited by Marie Herbert Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill Charters Part III By Francesco Benozzo and Martin McNamara The priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary Edited by Philippa Brown This pioneering work shows how A collection of translations of at Blythburgh was one of the earliest Sibton Abbey, founded in 1150, was Celtic cultures understood the place apocryphal material from early of the many houses of Augustinian the only Cistercian house in Suffolk. of human beings in their natural medieval Ireland. Some are canons established in the diocese of This volume publishes the fifteenth environment in ways fundamentally straightforward Irish translations of Norwich; the beginnings of conventual century cartulary, providing an different from our own. Benozzo well-known Latin writings. Others are life most likely date from the mid- unusually comprehensive survey explores the unique unfolding of landscapes in early Irish translations of early, rare or little attested Apocrypha. 12th century. The documents in the Priory’s cartulary, of the house, its properties, tenants and patrons. and Welsh texts, including Tain Bo Cuailgne, The Voyage 196pp, T and T Clark, 2004, Paperback, was £37.99 predominantly private charters, are given here in Latin, Documents are presented in Latin with extensive English of Bran, the Gododdin and the mythological Taliesin with an English summary or, for documents dated summaries. beyond 1250, in a full English abstract. poem on the Battle of the Trees. Now £9.95 268pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1987, Hardback, was 260pp, Celtic Studies Publications, 2004, Paperback, was 149pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1980, Hardback, was £25.00 £19.95 £25.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Yr Hen Iaith Celtic Saints of Commune, Country Texts and Traditions Studies in Early Welsh Ireland and Commonwealth of Medieval Pastoral By Paul Russell By Elizabeth Rees The People of Cirencester, Care A collection of 10 essays on Early Combining archaeology and place- 1117-1643 Essays in Honour of Bella Millett Welsh. The cover a wide range of name studies with early documentary By David Rollison Edited by Cate Gunn and fields from Indo-European etymology sources, Elizabeth Rees reconstructs the landscapes and material world of Focused on a town that made highly Catherine Innes-Parker to detailed syntactic analysis of a significant interventions in national single Middle Welsh text, as well early Christianity in Ireland, paying Pastoral and devotional literature particular attention to its saints. constitutional development, this flourished throughout the middle as matters of orthography and study describes recurring struggles phonology. 192pp, The History Press, 2013, Paperback, was £16.99 ages, and its growth and transmutations form the to achieve communal solidarity and independence in a focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its 280pp, Celtic Studies Publications, 2003, Paperback, was society continuously and prescriptively divided by gross development and its transformation into the literature of £25.00 Now £6.95 inequalities of class and status. vernacular spirituality. Now £9.95 283pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was £60.00 £50.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Early Medieval Europe and Medieval Britain • 33 The Anglo-Norman Magna Carta The Yeomen of the Rethinking the Language and Its Law, Liberty, Legacy Guard and the Early South English Contexts Edited by Claire Breay Tudors Legendaries By Richard Ingham and Julian Harrison The Formation of a Royal Bodyguard Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne The essays in this volume examine This exhibition catalogue takes us By Anita Hewerdine and Heather Blurton the development and role of Anglo- on a journey from the charter's The South English Legendary is the medieval origins through to what it Anita Hewerdine here provides the Norman from a variety of different first comprehensive study of the early major collection of saints' lives in perspectives and contexts, though means to people around the world medieval English. This collection draws today. Drawing on the rich historical years of the Yeomen of the Guard with a concentration on the theme during the reigns of Henry VII and on the new hagiographic scholarship, of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, collections of the British Library - including two original attends to textual, socio-cultural, political and other copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to Henry VIII, examining the variety of roles performed by seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time the Guard, both within and outside the Court, as well issues, reprints a handful of earlier key articles now than has hitherto been the case. life the history and contemporary resonance of this difficult to obtain, and includes a special section on globally important document. as detailing the apparel worn by the yeomen and the 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was weaponry with which they were equipped. performance. 272pp, col illus, British Library, 2015, Paperback, was £50.00 325pp, col pls, I.B. Tauris, 2012, Hardback, was £62.00 400pp, b/w illus, Manchester University Press, 2011, £25.00 Hardback, was £70.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

The Fifteenth Ethics and Power in Bosworth 1485 The Unorthodox Century IX Medieval English Psychology of a Battle Imagination in Late English and Continental Perspectives Reformist Writing By Michael Jones Medieval Britain Edited by Linda Clark By Edwin David Craun Michael Jones provides a lively Edited by Sophie Page The essays here provide a series The late medieval Church obliged reconstruction of the usurpation These essays explore how medieval of unusual, varying and complex all Christians to rebuke the sins of and reign of Richard III as well as the people responded to images, stories, perspectives on late-medieval society, others. Craun traces how major course of the Battle of Bosworth beliefs and practices which were at with a particular focus on the English reformist writers expanded itself. Throughout he attempts to odds with the normative world view, European context. the practice to justify their protests, see the story from Richard's point from the heretical and subversive to of view, depicting a man in no doubt that he was the 228pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was to protect themselves from repressive elements in the the marvellous and exotic. They show that unorthodoxy late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to rightful King of England, and supremely confident on the was embedded in mainstream medieval culture. £50.00 battlefield itself. urge their readers to mount effective protests against 272pp, Manchester University Press, 2010, Hardback, was Now £12.95 religious, social, and political abuses. 288pp, b/w pls, John Murray, 2014, Paperback, was £9.99 £60.00 232pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £59.99 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

The Fifteenth The Cambridge The King's Grave Henry V Century X History of Libraries The Search for Richard III By Marcus Cowper Parliament, Personalities and Power in Britain and By Michael Jones and Philippa Langley A concise look at the campaigns Edited by Hannes Kleineke Ireland: Volume 1 To This popular book juxtaposes two and military leadership of Henry V, sets of chapters: Philippa Langley, accompanied by plentiful illustrations, These essays focus above all on 1640 battle plans and photographs of the Parliament and the personalities that who initiated the quest to find Edited by Teresa Webber and Richard’s remains gives a highly surviving castles which he besieged served in its chambers, but they also Elisabeth Leedham-Greene and captured. illuminate a wider range of themes personal account of the search from that have long concerned students This volume is a survey of libraries its conception to discovery and 64pp, Osprey, 2010, Paperback, was £11.99 of the later middle ages, including the lawlessness of the in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the identification, whilst Michael Jones provides a historical transition from collections of books without a fixed local account of Richard’s life, usurpation, brief reign and gentry and nobility, the acquisition and management of Now £3.95 their estates, and their self-expression in pageantry and habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much defeat at Bosworth. legend. as we know it today. 320pp, John Murray, 2014, Paperback, was £8.99 708pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Hardback, was 265pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Now £3.95 £50.00 £129.99 Now £12.95 Now £24.95

The Sea and Writing to the King Archives of New The Great Englishness in the By David Matthews College, Oxford Chevauchee Middle Ages In political verse of the fourteenth By F. W. Steer John of Gaunt's Raid on France, 1373 Maritime Narratives century poets write as if addressing This substantial volume catalogues By David Nicolle Identity and Culture the king himself, drawing on their the holdings of the College of St sense of the rights granted by Magna In an attempt to restore England's Mary of Winchester in Oxford, fortunes in the Hundred Years war By Sebastian I. Sobecki Carta. As David Matthews shows commonly known as New College This volume traces the many literary in this book, the form of address 1373 saw John of Gaunt lead a large providing a meticulous record of the army to France, which ultimately origins of insular identity from local was a rhetorical stance revealing administration of a medieval college. much about the position from which raided from Calais to Bordeaux, communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the 581pp, Leopard's Head Press, 1974, Hardback, was £50.00 continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with writers were composing, the audiences they wished to causing widespread destuction in the French countryside, but falling prey to starvation, disease and ambush, English identity in a British context. reach, and their construction of political and national Now £4.95 subjects. and achieving little of lasting military worth. Nicolle 274pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was reconstructs the course of the campaign, highlighting the £60.00 221pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback, was logistical, financial and political setbacks which it faced, £59.99 Now £14.95 and featuring a detailed narrative of events. Now £14.95 80pp, col illus, Osprey, 2011, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £4.95

Thirteenth Century Legal history in the The Wars of the Papal Judges England X Making Roses Delegate in the By Michael Prestwich By W. M. Gordon By Trevor Royle Province of Among the varied topics discussed A collection of 15 papers given at the An entertaining popular narrative of Canterbury are: the meetings of Henry III and 9th British Legal History Conference the Wars of the Roses, which takes Louis IX; the financial implications of in 1989. They range from early the long view, beginning in 1399 1198–1254 the loss of Normandy; royal stewards; Anglo-Saxon dispute settlement and with the usurpation of Henry IV A Study in Ecclesiastical Joan, wife of Llywelyn the Great; Medieval marcher law up to the 19th and including the Perkin Warbeck Jurisdiction and Administration the English and Ireland; Yorkshire century. rebellion against Henry VII. Trevor By Jane Sayers nunneries; taxation in medieval Devon; Edward II’s Royle tells the story with gusto, focusing on political 216pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1991, Hardback, was This book is concerned with the ecclesiastical courts set household knights; English and Welsh political exiles. £70.00 events rather than producing a predominantly military account. up by the papacy to hear specific cases on its behalf in 226pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was the localities. It describes the central judicial structures £55.00 Now £4.95 496pp, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, Paperback, was of the church, the procedure of the local courts and the £14.99 Now £12.95 personnel - the judges, the proctors and the parties. Now £4.95 398pp, Oxford University Press, 1971, Hardback, was £12.99 Now £5.95

Thirteenth Century 1215 The Making of the Richard II England XI The Year of Magna Carta Middle Ages Manhood, Youth, and Politics 1377-99 By Janet E. Burton, Bjorn K. U. By Danny Danziger and John Gillingham Liverpool Essays By Christopher Fletcher Weiler and Phillipp Schofield A popular exploration of English Edited by Marios Costambeys, This study takes issue with a common The thirteenth century brought the society in 1215 and the events which Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale feature of Richard’s modern portrayal British Isles into ever closer contact led to the signing of Magna Carta. This collection of essays is a – the idea that he was effeminate, and with one another, and with medieval Each chapter adopts a theme, such fitting publication for Liverpool’s unable to fit in with contemporary Europe as a whole. This international as the castle, the countryside, town, octocentenery. The essays in the first ideas of masculinity. Flatcher argues dimension forms a dominant theme school, tournaments and battles, King section of the book outline the scope that looked at in terms of medieval of this collection: it features essays on England’s relations John, the English, the Church, and Christianity, to look at of the medievalist tendency as it rolled out across the concepts of youth and manhood rather than effeminacy, with the papal court; the adoption of European cultural how rich and poor lived their lives and how they viewed British Isles from the eighteenth century onwards, while Richard’s actions look far more conventional for his age. norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading; English their changing world. the second section of the book examines medievalism in 316pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, Paperback, was landholding in Ireland; and dealings between the kings of 324pp, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, Paperback, was Liverpool itself. £29.99 England and Navarre. £12.99 256pp, Liverpool University Press, 2007, Hardback, was Now £12.95 229pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, Hardback, was £50.00 £60.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 34 • Medieval Britain www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 An Alternative Thomas Becket Venomous Tongues Angela of Foligno History of Britain: By John Guy Speech and Gender in Memorial The War of the John Guy aims to explore Becket’s Late Medieval England By Cristina Mazzoni complex motivations and psychology, By Sandy Bardsley Roses and it is a sympathetic take on A selection of excerpts from the By Timothy Venning Becket’s actions, with the blame Sandy Bardsley examines the complex memorial written by a mystical relationship between speech and Italian woman of the Middle Ages This book forms a chronological for the conflict between King and gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth to record her suffering, visions, history of the Wars of the Roses, Archbishop, seen as the result of centuries. Focusing on England, she joy and relationships with Christ. which identifies key turning points Henry’s petulence and unprincipled uses a combination of legal, literary, The translation is preceded by an and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As behaviour much more than of and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was introduction placing the work in context. much as exploring alternative paths of history, however, obstinacy on Becket’s part. increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. Venning's approach focuses on why they happened as 424pp, Random House, 2012, Hardback, was £25.00 132pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1999, Paperback, was they did, asking how forces were weighted, and where 214pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, Hardback, £14.99 Now £9.95 was £39.00 luck or judgement had a decisive say. Now £4.95 224pp, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2013, Hardback, was Now £12.95 £19.99 Now £7.95

Victory at Poitiers Calendar of the The Rise of the Artillery of the By Christian Teutsch Cartularies of John Tudors Dukes of Burgundy A popular reassessment of the Black Pyel and Adam The Family That Changed By Kelly DeVries and Prince's famous victory, surveying Fraunceys English History Robert Douglas Smith the bacground to the battle, the This volume combines a detailed development of the English military By S. O'Connor By Martine Newby This lively narrative history traces study of the physical remains of strategy employed to such effect, the The cartularies of Adam Fraunceys Burgundian artillery pieces with course of the engagement and its and John Pyel offer a rare detailed the fortunes of the Tudor family and the future Henry VII from the mid an examination of the rich archival aftermath. description of the land acquisitions evidence, bringing new and fresh 224pp, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was of two wealthy merchants of the fifteenth century before presenting a detailed account of the Bosworth campaign. insights into the development and use of artillery in the £19.99 late 14th century. Both men rose from lowly origins to 15th century. become members of the elite which governed the city, 437pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2014, Hardback, was Now £7.95 and ultimately to be mayors of London. £20.00 377pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was £55.00 478pp, Royal Historical Society, 1994, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £19.50 Now £12.95 Now £3.95

War for the Throne Robin Hood The Wars of the Jousting in Medieval The Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403 By J. C. Holt Roses and Renaissance By John Barratt In this definitive work on the famous By Michael A. Hicks Iberia In this account of the first, deeply outlaw J.C. Holt traces back the As well as providing a crisp clear By Noel Fallows troubled years of Henry IV’s reign, various elements of the Robin Hood narrative of the famous fifteenth legend, using evidence from surnames How was the score determined and John Barratt concentrates on the century wars, Michael Hicks aims to kept? How and why did jousting warfare, in particular on the setpiece and nicknames to extend it back into explain why they occured, arguing the 13th century, and looking at the armour evolve, how effective was it, pitched battles fought at Homildon that dynastic concerns were of less and how did it differ from the field Hill, Pilleth and Shrewsbury. He audience for Robin Hood tales, the importance than the desire for good actual background to outlawry in armour worn by knights in battle? describes in vivid detail the tactics and fighting methods governance, itself fuelled by economic slump and the What constituted technical virtuosity in the lists? And of the day, which were dominated by the devastating medieval England and the various places which have been crown’s financial difficulties. linked to Robin Hood. why did jousting die out? This book uses previously power of the English longbow. 332pp, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £28.00 untapped Iberian source material (and includes editions 160pp, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was 265pp, Thames and Hudson, 1982, Paperback, was £12.95 and translations) to provide answers to such questions. Now £9.95 £19.99 Now £5.95 541pp, col and b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Now £7.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £14.95

Edward III and the The Normans Millennium Letters, Orders and Triumph of England By Trevor Rowley The End of the World and the Musters of Bertrand By Richard Barber Aimed at the general reader, this is Forging of Christendom du Guesclin, 1357- Edward III’s great victory at Crecy a book examining the origins of the By Tom Holland 1380 and the new Order of the Garter Normans, their impact on Anglo- Saxon England, the relationship Millenium takes us ‘from the By Michael Jones which celebrated it form the twin crucifixion to the First Crusade, and between England and Normandy in This book brings together for the subjects of this detailed study. Barber from the glitter of Constantinople to the eleventh and twelfth centuries, first time the wealth of archival both examines and acclaims the the bleak shores of Canada. It was the and the creation of the Norman evidence relating to du Guesclin's King’s military strategy, and shows age of Otto the Great and William Kingdom of Sicily. Trevor Rowley career, making available the full range how a core leadership came to form the nucleus of the the Conqueror, of caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, uses up-to-date archaeological and historical evidence in of diplomatic, administrative and financial evidence Garter knights. The order is examined as part of a wider monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the examining the Normans and their achievements. for his public and private life found in more than fifty European cultural and intellectual chivalric ethos. invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal archives in western Europe. 650pp, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2013, Hardback, was 240pp, The History Press, 2009, Paperback, was £12.99 monarchy and the emergence of Western Europe for the £30.00 first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.’ 415pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was Now £5.95 £95.00 Now £9.95 476pp, Abacus, 2008, Paperback, was £9.99 Now £4.95 Now £24.95

Her Life Historical Sanctifying Signs Studies in the Medieval Exemplarity and Female Saints Making Christian Tradition Portuguese Anchoritisms Lives in Late Medieval England in Late Medieval England Discoveries 1 Gender, Space and the Solitary Life By Catherine Sanok By David Aers By Tom Earle By Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy This study argues that late medieval In this book David Aers examines Papers which explore the impact This book investigates the wider writers and readers used religious Christian literature, theology of the Portuguese discoveries. They cultural importance of medieval narrative, and specifically the legends and culture in the late medieval include a biography of Prince Henry anchoritism within the different of female saints, to think about the period and especially debates over the Navigator, a history of the Maldive religious landscapes and climates of historicity of their own ethical lives orthodoxy. By studying a range of Islands, and studies of the movement the period. Drawing upon a range of and of the communities they inhabited. texts including Piers Plowman, and those by John Wyclif, of populations, the technologies of ship-building, and of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it focuses on 256pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2007, Hardback, was William Langland and Walter Brut, he asks why some astronomical navigation, as well as a computer analysis of the gender dynamics of this remarkable way of life, and £42.50 were considered orthodox and others heretical. Joao de Barros’ Décadas. the material spaces which they generated and within 281pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, 128pp, Aris and Phillips, 1991, Paperback, was £15.00 which they operated. Now £12.95 was £21.50 201pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Now £4.95 Now £5.95 £55.00 Now £14.95

The Hanged Man The Written World The Abacus and the Olivier de la Marche A Story of Miracle, Memory and Past and Place in the Work Cross and the Rhetoric of Colonialism in the Middle Ages of Orderic Vitalis The Story of the Pope 15th-Century By Robert Bartlett By Amanda Jane Hingst Who Brought the Light of Historiography William Cragh was a Welsh rebel An investigation, focusing on Orderic Science to the Dark Ages By Catherine Emerson hanged in 1290, pronounced dead Vitalis, of the ways in which high By Nancy Marie Brown Oliver de la Marche’s Mémoirs of and then later found to be very much medieval historians understood An accessible biography of Gerbert Burgundy was written over a fifty alive. Cragh claimed to have been geographical space to be a temporally of Aurillac (c.946-1003), and his rise year period in the 15th century and is saved by Thomas de Cantilupe to meaningful framework for human from shepherd to Pope, as Sylvester a real mix of disjointed episodes. This whom he had prayed. This book examines Cragh's story affairs. Hingst explores Orderic’s manipulation of the II. It focuses on Gerbert’s scientific and mathematically detailed study re-examines the Mémoires in order to and the supposed miracle that had taken place through a classical geographical tradition and his balancing of spatial enquiries and achievements, his theological vision, and determine the method beind the work’s structure and number of eyewitness accounts and other evidence that scale between the local and the universal. his fractious political career, in particular his partnership design and to uncover the agenda of the author which was given at a commission held to consider Thomas de 272pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, Paperback, with the Emperor Otto I. led to particular interpretations of certain events. Cantilupe's canonisation. was £35.95 328pp, Basic Books, 2010, Hardback, was £20.99 247pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was 168pp, Princeton University Press, 2004, Paperback, was £45.00 £16.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Medieval Britain and Europe • 35 Pain and Suffering in First Among Abbots Letters of Saint Robert the Medieval Theology The Career of Abbo of Fleury Peter Damian, Burgundian and the Academic Debates at the University By Elizabeth Dachowski 91–120 Counts of Anjou of Paris in the Thirteenth Century Abbo of Fleury (c.945-1004) had an By Owen J. Blum c.1025–1098 By David Mowbray extraordinary, if disperate life, and Written during the years 1062-1066, By W. Scott Jesse made important contributions to Questions of pain and suffering occur these letters deal with a wide variety Robert the Burgundian, a castellan of frequently in medieval theological many fields of medieval endeavour, of subjects. Some letters are of including the politics of the Kingdom Anjou wrote his own history of the debate. Here, Dr Mowbray examines historical interest, others approach region and described his motives for the innovative views of Paris’s masters of France and the Papal court, as a the size and scope of philosophical monastic reformer, and as a scholar and hagiographer. joining the First Crusade at the end of theology in the thirteenth century, illuminating or theological treatises. Damian’s correspondents range of his long life. Jesse’s detailed study analyses the military how they constructed notions of pain and suffering This, however, is the first modern attempt to write on from simple hermits in his community to abbots, bishops, his multi-faceted career as a whole. structure of Anjou, and the stormy relationship between by building a standard terminology and conceptual cardinals, and even to Pope Alexander II. the counts of Anjou and their castellans. framework. 299pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2008, 418pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1998, Hardback, was £65.50 206pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2000, 192pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was Hardback, was £36.95 Hardback, was £51.95 £60.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95

Rites of Passage God's Scribe Letters of Saint Imperial Lives and Cultures of Transition in the The Historiographical Art Peter Damian Letters of the 11th Fourteenth Century of Galbert of Bruges 121–150 Century By Nicola McDonald By Jeff Rider By Owen J. Blum By Theodor Mommsen Essays explore the ritual marking Galbert of Bruges wrote an This volume, the fifth in a series to Translations of "The Deeds of Conrad of transitional periods in life in the eyewitness account of the 1127 publish all 180 letters by the monk II" (1024-1139) by Wipo, "Life of 14th century. Subjects include the assassination of Charles the Good, Peter Damian, presents Letters 121- Emperor the Henry IV" (1056-1106) `peculiar funeral’ of Edward II, the Count of Flanders, and the ensuing 150 which were written between and the Letters of Henry IV. accession of boy kings, becoming a civil war. Jeff Rider argues that this 1065 and 1071. The correspondence 223pp, Columbia University Press, priest, becoming a man, rites of passage in English and is not a true journal but a revised and edited history includes letters to the Empress Agness, to lay officials 2000, Paperback, was £23.00 French romances, Chaucer’s women, Gower’s Confessio of events. He discusses how the chronicle developed, and nobles, to monastic communities and to his nephew. Amantis , and initiation in Froissart’s Dits amoureux . Galbert’s sources, how he organised his notes and wrote 195pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, Now £4.95 176pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was his text and its literary qualities. Hardback, was £34.50 £45.00 360pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, Hardback, was £55.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Seafarers, Merchants Henry of Suso Letters of Saint Fama and Pirates in the Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours Peter Damian, 151- The Politics of Talk and Middle Ages Translated by E. Colledge 180 Reputation in Medieval Europe By Dirk Meier Written by Dominican preacher and Translated by Owen J. Blum By Thelma S. Fenster and Edited In recent years archaeologists mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), and I. M. Resnick by Daniel Lord Smail have discovered much about the Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom’s This volume concludes the series These nine papers from a conference development of ships: the Viking Watch upon the Hours, was one of of Peter Damian’s Letters in English held at Fordham University in 2000 longboat, the ubiquitous cog, the hulk the most successful religious writings translation. Among Letters 151-180 focus on fama, or talk in the medieval and the caravel. In this engaging and of its time. Essentially a dialogue readers will find some of Damian’s period and how it was regarded as highly illustrated volume, Dirk Meier brings to life the between the author and Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells most passionate exhortations on behalf of eremitic both sinful gossip and hearsay, and something that could world of the medieval seaman, based on evidence from of Suso’s service to and espousal of Wisdom, his “most ideals. have a beneficial and honest purpose.T he contributors cruel bride”. ship excavations and contemporary accounts of voyages. 336pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2005, discuss the interaction between fama and the law, its 184pp, col illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1994, Hardback, was £34.50 links with reputations won and lost, and with speech. was £19.99 Hardback, was £34.50 228pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2003, Paperback, Now £9.95 was £25.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

The Medieval Letters of Saint Petrus Alfonsi: The Out of Love for My Traveller Peter Damian, 1-30 Dialogue Against the Kin By Norbert Ohler By Owen J. Blum Jews Aristocratic Family Life in the This book makes an extensive Peter Damian (1007-1072), an Translated by I. M. Resnick Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 examination of how and why people eleventh-century monk and man of Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogue Against By Amy Livingstone travelled in the period AD 500 to letters, left a large and significant body the Jews (ca. 1109) breaks new Livingstone examines the personal 1500. The second edition contains a of correspondence. This first volume ground in the history of Christian substantial (40 page) afterword, which contains the first thirty letters, and dimensions of the lives of aristocrats anti-Jewish polemics. As a recent in the Loire region of France during surveys the twenty years research covers the period before 1049. convert from Judaism, Alfonsi since the book's original publication, and contains new Here we see Peter Damian as an untiring preacher and the eleventh and twelfth centuries. introduced an intimate knowledge of Jewish literature She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic thoughts and evidence on many of the sections of the uncompromising reformer, both of the monastic world and contemporary practice absent from earlier Christian original book. and of the church at large. family life based on an ethos of inclusion, evident in the sources. care that aristocrats showed toward their families. 296pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Paperback, 312pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1989, 288pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2006, was £19.99 Hardback, was £34.50 296pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, Hardback, was Hardback, was £34.50 £40.50 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Council and Letters of Saint Pope Innocent III: Passion and Order Hierarchy Peter Damian, 31-60 Between God and Restraint of Grief in the The Political Thought of By Owen J. Blum Man Medieval Italian Communities Willam Durant the Younger This volume contains Letters 31-60 Translated by Corinne J. Vause By Carol Lansing By C. Fasolt of Peter Damian. While his epistolary and Frank C. Gardiner A fascinating cultural history, this style is varied - exhortatory, Detailed examination of the The major theme throughout these book looks at a period of great occasional, pastoral, reforming - his six sermons is the responsibility of change in perceptions of grief in development of conciliar theory message is singular and simple in and humanism through the political clergy to function as intermediaries thirteenth century Italy. Carol Lansing urging strict adherence to the canons between divinity and humanity, argues that as the well-being of the thought of the French bishop William of the Church. Durant the Younger (c 1266-1330). particularly in preaching and in administering the state came to be associated with orderly behaviour 422pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1990, sacraments. public displays of grief became seen as disorderly and 437pp, Cambridge University Press, 1991, Hardback, was Hardback, was £34.50 were associated increasingly with women. £45.00 161pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, Paperback, was £21.50 244pp, Cornell University Press, 2008, Hardback, was Now £14.95 Now £9.95 £42.50 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

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Tournament The Transformation A Hound of God Under Crescent and By David Crouch of the Year One Pierre de la Palud and the Cross In Tournament David Crouch has Thousand fourteenth century church The Jews in the Middle Ages produced a book on all aspects of By Guy Bois By Jean Dunbabin By Mark R. Cohen the tournament experience, from speculating on its place and date of A Marxist socio-economic history Traces the career of Pierre de la Mark Cohen offers a systematic origin and its functions, to exploring of the village of Lournand near Palud from his early reflections on comparison of Jewish life in medieval those that sponsored and financed Cluny. In tracing the development­ contemporary moral issues, including Islam and Christendom, and the first the events, and those that took part. of the community from antiquity to papal prerogatives, contraception and in-depth explanation of why medieval The choice of site, the make-up of feudalism, the author presents the usury, to his political and diplomatic Islamic-Jewish relations, though not the gathering, and the itinerary of the day - from the case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a sharply defined activities as titular Patriarch of Jerusalem. utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those moment the town woke up, to the prize giving at the era of dramatic change. 208pp, Oxford University Press, 1991, Hardback, was between Christians and Jews in the West. end, as well as the action itself are all covered in depth. 171pp, Manchester University Press, 1992, Paperback, was £91.00 280pp, Princeton University Press, 1994, Paperback, was £16.99 235pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2005, Paperback, was Now £12.95 £24.95 £17.99 Now £3.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Medieval Europe • 37 Friar of Carcassonne Jan Van Ruusbroec, The Writings of Empire without End Revolt against the Inquisition in Mystical Theologian Agnes of Harcourt Antiquities Collections in the Last Days of the Cathars of the Trinity Edited by Sean L. Field Renaissance Rome, c.1350–1527 By Stephen O'Shea By Rik van Nieuwenhove Agnes of Harcourt became abbess at By Kathleen Wren Christian A lively study of the revolt against the Jan van Ruusbroec (1293—1381), the new royal abbey of Longchamp, A new overview of the collecting of inquisition in the early years of the a Flemish mystical theologian, was founded by Isabelle of France, sister antiquities in early renaissance Rome, fourteenth century centred on the one of the most original Trinitarian of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote from the time of Petrarch to the Languedoc and led by the Franciscan thinkers in the medieval West. In this a substantial biography of Isabelle as Sack of Rome in 1527. The author friar, Bernard Delicieux. book, Rik Van Nieuwenhove presents well as a brief letter detailing Louis examines shifts in the response IX’s involvement with the abbey. This volume contains 280pp, Profile Books Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was £17.99 the first major study in English of Ruusbroec’s thought. of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological He explores in detail Ruusbroec’s theology of the Trinity, the old French texts with a facing English translation, discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in Now £6.95 his anthropology, Christology, and his understanding of as well as a substantial introduction to Agnes’ life and the public life of Roman elites. The book culminates in union with God. works. a detailed catalogue of the thirty-six most important 256pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, Paperback, 120pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, Hardback, antiquities collections formed before the Sack. was £20.50 was £34.95 440pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £6.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

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Columbus and the Love of Self and Consuming Raven King Quest for Jerusalem Love of God in Narratives Matthias Corvinus and the By Carol Delaney Thirteenth Century Gender and Monstrous Appetite in Fate of his Lost Library This new biography sets Columbus’ Ethics the Middle Ages and the Renaissance By Marcus Tanner life and voyages against the backdrop By Thomas M. Osborne By Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary of his eschatological beliefs, arguing from 1443-90 enjoyed one of the This book covers an important 18 papers examine perceptions and that Columbus’ primary motivation in most dazzling careers of the fifteenth aspect of medieval ethics, namely the representations of the human body, attempting to chart a western route century. It is as a lover of learning controversy over whether or not it particularly female, in literature and in to the East Indies lay in his desire to that he is principally remembered, is possible to love God more than medieval and early modern ideology raise funds for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem as assembling one of the largest libraries in Europe, and it oneself through natural powers alone. In debating this in general. Papers focus on sexual appetite, depictions of the first step in the fulfilment of history and the coming is on this aspect of his kingship which this biographical topic, thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians the `monstrous female body’ and the use of the body as apocalypse. account particularly focuses, looking at the status introduced a high level of sophistication to the study of a metaphor for the state and for a race. conferred by knowledge, and the role of the entourage 319pp, Simon and Schuster, 2011, Hardback, was £20.00 how one’s own good is achieved through virtuous action. 257pp, University of Wales Press, 2002, Paperback, was of his Italian wife Beatrice in promoting the library's Now £6.95 352pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Paperback, £19.99 acquisition. was £27.50 Now £6.95 265pp, Yale University Press, 2008, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

The Templars and Making Difference in The Maid and the The Medieval Heart the Shroud of Christ Medieval and Early Queen By Heather Webb By Barbara Frale Modern Iberia The Secret History of Joan of Arc In this book Heather Webb studies This book investigates the possibility By Jean Dangler By Nancy Goldstone medieval notions of the heart. that the the Holy Shroud of Christ Drawing from the works of Dante, Jean Dangler traces shifts in con­ A popular and dramatic history, which Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, came into the possession of the ceptions of alterity from medieval narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin’s Templars, explores its possible Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other to early modern Spain through a party from their lowest ebb to the literary, philosophic, and scientific identification with the Mandylion detailed study of four writing genres: revival of the French monarchy. In of Edessa, and speculates as to its texts, she reveals medieval answers to muwashshah/jarcha poems from particular Nancy Goldstone focuses such fundamental questions as: Where possible influence onT emplar theology, and connection Al-Andalus, Andalusi “cutting poems”, medical literature on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, the Dauphin’s chief to the charges of idolatry for which they were tried. is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it about the body and discourse about the monster. supporter and strategist, and Joan of Arc, whom she begin? And how does it end? 296pp, Skyhorse Publishing, 2012, Hardback, was £18.99 argues, was championed by Yolande. 218pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Paperback, 241pp, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £5.95 was £24.95 296pp, Viking, 2012, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

The Rusted Hauberk Olivi and the To Wake the Dead Medieval and Feudal Ideas of Order Interpretation of A Renaissance Merchant and Renaissance Stained and their Decline Matthew in the High the Birth of Archaeology Glass in the Victoria By Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto Middle Ages By Marina Belozerskaya and Albert Museum These essays look at medieval By Kevin Madigan A popular survey of the extraordinary By Paul Williamson conceptions of the decline of the career of Cyriacus of Ancona, a A study of the development and The stained glass collection of the feudal ideal, exploring the relationship fifteenth century merchant who made union of scholastic, apocalyptic and Victoria and Albert Museum is between the expressed ideals of the the first serious studies of Classical Franciscan interpretations of the the largest in the world, making it feudal age and actually custom and buildings, inscriptions, and sculpture, a Gospel of Matthew from 1150 to possible to chart the development of practice. pioneer in the field of archaeology.A s well as his tireless 1350. Madigan uses the fortunes of the Franciscan Peter the art in detail from the middle of the twelfth century attempts to record and preserve ancient remains, the 338pp, University of Florida Press, 1997, Hardback, was Olivi (d. 1298) and his commentary on Matthew as a to about 1550. One hundred colour plates, and selected book looks at his parallel career as diplomat, spy and £51.95 lens through which to observe the larger theological and details, show the collection to full advantage, while Crusade propagandist. Now £6.95 ecclesiastical developments of this era. commentaries on each of the pieces reconstruct the 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, Paperback, 308pp, W W Norton, 2009, Hardback, was £17.99 original context of the panels, and explain the imagery. was £22.95 Now £6.95 160pp, A and C Black, 2003, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

Home and Reading Medieval The Lady Queen Medieval Homelessness in the Culture The Notorious Reign of Manuscripts from Medieval and Essays in Honour of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, the Collection of Renaissance World Robert W. Hanning Jerusalem and Sicily T.R. Buchanan in the By Nicholas Howe Edited by Robert M. Stein By Nancy Goldstone Bodleian Library This book collects five essays which and Sandra Pierson Prior This accessible narrative details all of By Peter Kidd the twists and turns of Queen Joanna approach `home and homelessness' Contributors cover a wide range This catalogue describes 24 using both archaeological and of fields within medieval studies, of Naples' extraordinary life and rule. Nancy Goldstone brings the complex manuscripts. The collection consists documentary sources. Contributors from Anglo-Saxon England to primarily of late medieval devotional books from France, discuss the houses of 16th-century Venice, Morisco twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and from politics of the fourteenth century to life, exploring the nigh-on impossible position in which Joanna found the Netherlands and renaissance Italy. It includes "Books houses in 16th-century Spain, poverty and vagrancy Chaucer’s age to nineteenth– and twentieth-century of Hours", half of which are French and date from in Spain and early colonial Peru, and homelessness in medievalism. herself, as the only woman of her age to rule in her own right. the fifteenth or early sixteenth century, a Bridgettine medieval Iceland and in Anglo-Saxon England. 504pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Hardback, Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a Psalter of c 170pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, was £34.50 365pp, Walker and Company, 2009, Hardback, was £20.00 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. was £18.50 Now £7.95 Now £6.95 209pp, Bodleian Library, 2001, Paperback, was £20.00 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 38 • Medieval Europe www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 Flint Flushwork The Master Masons Medieval Maps of Perspectives on A Medieval Masonry Art of Chartres the Holy Land Medieval Art By Stephen Hart By John James By P. D. A. Harvey Learning Through Looking An examination of flint flushwork on Chartres survives almost unaltered This well illustrated book brings Edited by Ena Heller and East Anglia's ecclesiastical buildings. from its medieval heyday, when it together and analyses the eight Patricia P. Pongracz As well as being descriptive, the book was constructed largely through known medieval regional maps of the labours of one generation of the Holy Land produced from the This volume examines medieval also looks for parallels in flushwork culture from a number of different between buildings in an attempt craftsmen. John James shows how he Christian perspective from the came to identify those master masons twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. viewpoints to reveal how the art of to identify the work of particular the Middle Ages can provide a unique masons, and comparison is made to flushwork in brick. from the stones themselves, as well as revealing much P.D.A. Harvey explores the historical, literary and about design and construction processes. cartographic background to the maps, their production, insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and A large gazetteer of sites is provided at the back of the culture. The essays also address the teaching of medieval book. 208pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1991, Hardback, and their importance as evidence for European attitudes towards the Holy Land. art and architecture as well as examining society’s 175pp, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, was £25.00 longing for ecclesiastical drama. 160pp, British Library, 2012, Hardback, was £50.00 Hardback, was £30.00 Now £9.95 224pp, D Giles Limited, 2009, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

Medieval Wall The Troyes Memoire Tradition and An Uneasy Paintings in English The Making of a Medieval Tapestry Innovation in Later Communion and Welsh Churches By Tina Kane Medieval English Jews, Christians and Altarpieces By Roger Rosewell The “Troyes Mémoire” is the sole Manuscripts of Medieval Aragon Chapters examine the development surviving example of the written By Kathleen L. Scott By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen of wall painting in England and Wales, instructions used in designing Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is Examines a number of English look at who commissioned the manuscripts of the 15th and early A fascinating study of the iconography paintings and why, from the grandest unique in its presentation of detailed information on how patrons and 16th centuries, establishing criteria of altarpieces and the artistic cathedral to the tiniest parish church, for genuine artistic originality. collaboration between Jews and before going on to look at the selection of subjects church officials communicated complex iconographic material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint Each manuscript is assessed in detail in terms of its Christians. In the multi-cultural society of late medieval and their meaning. Includes a full gazetteer of surviving text, scribe(s), artists, decorative programme and Spain, Jewish and Christian artists worked together to paintings. cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated into English for the first time, with full introduction and extensive circumstances of its creation, as well as its context in produce retablos (large multi-paneled altarpieces) as well 380pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Paperback, was notes. terms of English and wider European art. as Latin and Hebrew religious manuscripts. £19.99 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was 208pp, British Library, 2007, Hardback, was £45.00 176pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, Hardback, was £39.95 Now £7.95 £50.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

The Ark of God: Catalogue of Dated Views of Transition Immagine Antica Part A, Volumes 1 and Datable Liturgy and Illumination Edited by Marco Ciatti and 2 Manuscripts: c.888- in Medieval Spain and Cecilia Frosinini Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 1600 in London By Rose Walker This volume reports on the conservation of a superb panel, the By John James Libraries (2 Volume In the 11th century the Spanish Church was required to abandon the Madonna and child of Santa Maria The Ark of God is a comprehensive Set) Mozarabic liturgy in favour of Roman Maggiore in Florence. As well as pictorial history of Early Gothic By P. R. Robinson texts. Walker examines the effect of scientific analyses it also contains churches in the Paris Basin. Part A this change by looking at liturgical papers exploring the artists behind its in two volumes contains over 9,000 This catalogue, with 285 illustrated creation and issues of dating, with a entries, provides an invaluable conspectus of histories manuscripts contemporary with this upheaval, and the photos of the capitals with an analysis. The capitals of this textual and visual strategies employed in implementing revised 12th century date proposed. period are more natural in style than those that went and chronicle legal and medical manuscripts, Livery Companies Ordinance Books, as well as literary works liturgical change. 182pp, Edifir Editizione Firenze, 2003, Paperback, was before, confirmed in those buildings for which we have £25.00 documentary dates, which may then be used to establish in a number of languages. It covers all institutional 264pp, British Library, 1998, Hardback, was £45.00 a chronology for other works from these times. libraries in London except the British Library, dealt with Now £7.95 elsewhere. Now £12.95 1632pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Hardback, was £695.00 118pp, British Library, 2003, Hardback, was £95.00 Now £195.00 Now £29.95 The Ark of God: Courtly Love in Sienese Painting Illuminated Part B, Volume 3 Medieval After the Black Manuscripts Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 Manuscripts Death By James Peacock and Michael Kerrigan By John James By Pamela Porter Artistic Pluralism, Politics This book reproduces in full colour This book presents a complete In this book, Pamela Porter, Curator and the New Art Market over 80 examples of medieval manuscript illumination, drawn in collection and photographic record of Manuscripts in the British Library, By Judith B. Steinhoff looks at courtly love within the the main from the collections of the of all the capitals carved in the Paris This book provides a new perspective Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few context of romance, chivalry and ‘real British Library. They are arranged life’ relationships in medieval society, on Sienese painting after the Black thematically according to their of which have never been published Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change before. James has dated nearly every building campaign accompanied by lots of lovely colour photos. depictions of the lives of saints, scenes from the Bible, affect visual imagery and style. the calendar and secular works. in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement 64pp, British Library, 2003, Paperback, was £7.95 possible only because every one of the 147 remaining 264pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Hardback, was 127pp, Flame Tree Publishing, 2014, Hardback, was £12.99 works have been included. Now £3.95 £69.00 Now £5.95 740pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, Now £19.95 was £395.00 Now £95.00

The Ark of God: Faces of Power and The Priory and Christ Church Part B, Volumes 4 Piety Parish Church of St. Cathedral Dublin: A and 5 By Erik Inglis Mary Beddgelert History Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 An introduction to medieval By Alan Bott and Margaret Dunn By Kenneth Milne By John James portraiture lavishly illustrated A comprehensive illustrated guide This book traces the history of throughout with full colour images to the priory and parish church of Ireland’s most significant cathedral Over 13,000 photos, being about from the collections of the British half of the capitals carved during St. Mary, Beddgelert, comprising church from its foundation in the Library and the Getty Museum. detailed notes on the history of eleventh century to the present day. these years. They are formal-abstract A huge gulf exists between our in style. The analysis of the foliate Christianity in the area from the third As well as the history of the church own notion of a portrait, and medieval priorities, and to the 20th century and information about notable local and its community it also explores the development of carving, including the capitals on the great portals, in his text Erik Inglis sets out why this was, and the helps to identify individual carvers through their way of personalities and clergy, as well as a full description of its architecture, liturgy and music. ways in which portraits were intended to preserve the architecture, fixtures and fittings of the church. working, from which the key buildings may be dated and a recognisable image of virtues rather than a lifelike 420pp, 32 b/w pls, Four Courts Press, 2010, Paperback, was through this a consistent chronology established for the depiction. 112pp, Coastline Publications, 2005, Paperback, was £9.99 £19.95 period. 88pp, British Library, 2008, Hardback, was £12.95 Now £3.95 Now £7.95 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £695.00 Now £4.95 Now £195.00 The Madonna of Manuscript and Print Weaving Sacred The Arts of Fire Humility in London c. 1475- Stories Islamic Influences on Glass and Development, Dissemination 1530 French Choir Tapestries and the Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance and Reception, c.1340-1400 By Julia Boffey Performance of Clerical Identity By Catherine Hess By Beth Williamson This study explores the continuing By Laura Weigert Hess demonstrates how many of This study explores the genesis and relationship between manuscript Spanning the backs of choir stalls, the techniques of glass and ceramic development of one particular image and printed material in London after large-scale tapestries functioned production and ornamentation in medieval art - the Madonna of Caxton’s establishment of a printing as both architectural elements were first developed in the Islamic Humility - a seated Virgin Mary with business at Westminster in 1476, and pictorial narratives. This East between the eighth and twelfth the Christ-child. Beth Williamson explores the different and the different ways in which people adapted to the book examines the role of these tapestries in ritual centuries. These techniques - enamel and gilding on variations of the image, asking what they would have availability of new technology. performances, arguing that they contributed to a process glass and tin-glaze and lustre on ceramics - transformed meant to medieval viewers and worshippers. 312pp, British Library, 2012, Hardback, was £45.00 by which the clerical elite legitimated and defended their these crafts, for the first time, into works of art and true luxury commodities. 195pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was social position. £50.00 Now £19.95 264pp, Cornell University Press, 2004, Hardback, was 184pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2006, Paperback, was £59.95 £29.99 Now £14.95 Now £19.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Medieval Art and Architecture • 39 Translating the Past: The Lantern Tower Discovering Stained Romanesque Laurent de Premierfait and of Westminster Glass By Norbert Richard Wolf Boccaccio's De Casibus Abbey 1060-2010 By J. Harries and Carola Hicks Norbert Wolf provides an overview By Anne D. Hebdeman Reconstructing its History A handy guide to England’s stained of Romanesque art and its development through a selection In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait and Architecture glass, including technical information, a history of styles and a gazetteer of its most important works and produced a French translation of By Warwick Rodwell impressive achievements. Architecture, Boccaccio's De casibus virorum of the finest examples to be found A study of the different physical around the country. painting, sculpture, manuscript illustrium, a fourteenth-century text illumination, mosaic, goldwork and containing cautionary historical tales struc­tures and prospective designs for 96pp, Shire Publications, 1996, towers to occupy the central crossing at Westminster enamelling are all represented in about the corrupting effects of power. This gloriously Paperback, was £6.99 glorious colour photography. illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent's work Abbey, from the tower depicted on the Bayeux tapestry from the first copies made for the dukes of Berry and to plans by Wren and Hawksmoor. Now £2.95 96pp, Taschen, 2007, Paperback, was £6.99 Burgundy to manuscripts independently produced by 112pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Paperback, was £15.00 artists and booksellers in Paris. Now £2.95 Now £3.95 240pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2009, Hardback, was £41.95 Now £14.95

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The Romanesque Leaves of Gold Compostela and Shakespeare's Frieze and its Manuscript Illuminations from Europe Church Spectator Philadelphia Collections The History of Diego Gelmirez A Parish for the World Edited by Deborah Kahn Edited by James Tanis By Manuel Castineiras, Quitterie Edited by Val Horsler This collection of essays places This beautifully produced exhibition Cazes, Klaus Herbers and A well-illustrated portrait of Holy the frieze within its wider social catalogue showcases 80 of the Fernando Lopez Alsina Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, and cultural context and considers finest illuminated manuscripts This enormous and beautiful book the parish church where Shakespeare conservation issues. Papers include: held in libraries in the Philadelphia accompanies a travelling exhibition was baptised and buried. Val Horsler Art History: problems of narrative area. Introductory essays provide on the pilgrim routes to Santiago takes the reader through the church’s and iconography; regional groups and filiations; context on the production and use, and the individual de Compostela and the extraordinary flourishing of history from Anglo-Saxon origins to present day site of Conservation: principles of restoration and conservation; manuscripts are described and discussed. Romanesque art which they witnessed in the early tourism, also providing a detailed look at its architectural Lincoln Cathedral Romanesque friezes. 242pp, Philadelphia Museum, 2001, Paperback, was twelfth century. It contains a wide range of new research development. 232pp, Harvey Miller Publishers, 1992, Hardback, was £30.00 on the architecture and other artistic media, and the 160pp, Third Millennium Publishing, 2010, Hardback, was £75.00 religious and political contexts which provided the £25.00 Now £12.95 backdrop to the Romanesque. Now £9.95 430pp, Skira editore, 2010, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

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History of Castles The Story of Gothic St George's Chapel, Painter and Priest By Christopher Gravett Architecture Windsor, in the Late Giovanni Canavesio's Visual A popular introduction to the castle. By Francesca Prina Middle Ages Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle The bulk of the book comprises Gloriously illustrated, this By Colin Richmond and E. Scarff By Veronique Plesch a region by region tour of the introductory guide to gothic finest and most representative 10 essays explore different aspects A detailed study of Canavesio’s architecture first outlines the main of the history and architecture of St ambitious passion cycle at the European castles (with brief notes characteristics of the style, before on castles elsewhere in the world), George’s Chapel in the 15th Century, pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre- taking the reader on a tour of when it was an important Yorkist Dame des Fontaines at La Brigue in illustrated with a wealth of plans and Europe’s finest examples, including photographs. symbol of culture, religious devotion southern France, completed in 1492. cathedrals, palaces, castles and town houses. and artistic splendour. 192pp, Lyons Press, 2007, Paperback, was £15.95 458pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, Hardback, 144pp, Prestel Verlag, 2011, Paperback, was £14.99 214pp, St George's Chapel, 2001, Hardback, was £45.00 was £50.50 Now £5.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

The Visual and the Discovering Companion to Medieval and Visionary Cathedrals Churches Renaissance Art and Female Spirituality in By David Pepin By Stephen Friar Treasures from the Late Medieval Germany This full colour pocket-guide takes This well-illustrated A-Z celebrates V and A By J. F. Hamburger us on a tour of the 48 Anglican parish churches, with informative By Paul Williamson and Peta Motture cathedrals of England and Wales, entries on everything from church In nine essays embracing the histories providing a brief history of each and officials, liturgy, architectural features Accompanying the refurbishment of art, religion, and literature, pointing out particularly notable and decoration, vestments, festivals, of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Jeffrey Hamburger explores the architectural features. accounts and churchyards to saints, medieval and renaissance galleries, this interrelationships between the beautifully illustrated souvenir type 168pp, Shire Publications, 1971, Paperback, was £8.99 sacraments, divorce, bridleways, inscriptions, monasteries, visual arts and female spirituality in the context of pagan symbols, plague, wills, silverware and vaults. book presents 37 of the finest pieces in the collection, the cura monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used Now £3.95 including some superb medieval ivory carvings, the as instruments of instruction and inspiration, images 517pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996, Paperback, was £16.99 magnificent Limoges enamel Becket reliquary, tapesteries, occupied a central place in debates over devotional Now £6.95 goldwork, manuscripts and stained glass. practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. 96pp, V and A Publications, 2010, Hardback, was £14.99 580pp, MIT Press, 1998, Hardback, was £32.95 Now £4.95 Now £12.95

40 • Medieval Art and Architecture www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 Building-in-time Edward III's Round Excavations at Medieval and later from Giotto to Alberti Table at Windsor Medieval urban development and Modern Oblivion By Julian Munby and Richard Barber Cripplegate, London at High Street, By Marvin Trachtenberg Essays on the excavation and Archaeology After the Blitz Uxbridge architecture of Edward III's house of In the pre-modern age in Europe, By Gustav Milne By Heather Knight and Nigel Jeffries the architect built not merely with the round table. There are also essays These excavations trace the imagination, brick and mortar, but on the chivalric background to the Milne discusses the methodology development of the medieval town with time, using vast quantities of building, and on its novelty - it formed of ‘archaeology after the Blitz’ and of Uxbridge. The central part of the duration as the means to erect a centrepiece to the pageantry of reappraises Grimes’s work and the town was set out during the 12th monumental buildings that otherwise would have been Edward's court and the symbolism behind Edward's dating of finds before reporting on century, perhaps as a planned extension of an existing impossible to achieve. Trachtenberg argues that this was desire to found an entirely secular order of knights the post-Roman archaeological discoveries, including Saxon hamlet. The excavations also produced evidence not mere medieval muddling-through but entailed a based on Arthurian legend. medieval defences, Saxon buildings, three parish churches for a thriving medieval pottery industry. highly developed set of norms and effective practices. 282pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, Paperback, was and a medieval hospital. £14.99 153pp, English Heritage, 2002, Paperback, was £35.00 80pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, 272pp, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £45.00 Paperback, was £7.95 Now £5.95 Now £4.95 Now £19.95 Now £3.95

In and Out of the Medieval Clothing Medieval Life on Roman Burials, Marital Bed and Textiles 5 Romney Marsh Kent Medieval Tenements Seeing Sex in Renaissance Art By Robin Netherton and Archaeological Discoveries and Suburban By D. Wolfthal Gale R. Owen-Crocker from Around Lydd Growth This book explores images whose The fifth volume of this annual series By Luke Barber By Dan Swift features several articles examining sexual content has all too often This concise study reports on The excavation at 201 Bishopsgate been either ignored or denied. Each the interaction of medieval romance investigations carried out at Romney with textiles and clothing. Other in 1998-9 uncovered evidence for chapter is devoted to a place that Marsh since 1991 around the town Londinium’s northern cemetery, artists associated with sexual activity papers look at ecclesiastical attempts of Lydd, largely as a result of gravel to restrict extravagance in women’s dress, and the use roadside occupation along Roman or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the extraction in the area. The excavations revealed a Ermine Street, and medieval and later development to window and doorway, the bath, and the street. Wolfthal of clothing references to signal impending conflict in complex story of occupation and exploitation and Icelandic sagas as well as many other topics. the west of Bishopsgate. This area has been extensively demonstrates how illicit forms of sexuality were linked provide evidence of how and when the area was used and re-used, from burials to refuse-disposal to to the "chaste sexuality" of marriage. 208pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was reclaimed. houses, as London has expanded. £30.00 244pp, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £25.00 44pp, Heritage Publications, 2006, Paperback, was £4.95 88pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, Paperback, was £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £1.00 Now £4.95

Jean Fouquet and St. Peter's in the New Winchelsea Archaeology of the Invention of Vatican Sussex Wigford and the France Edited by William Tronzo A Medieval Port Town Brayford Pool By Erik Inglis This edited volume focuses on By David Martin By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Jean Fouquet was France’s most a series of key periods in the A report on excavations in the cinque Jenny E. Mann and Alan G. Vince important 15th-century artist, architectural history of both Old and port, founded in the late 13th century, This volume publishes the results painting for the courts of Charles New St Peter’s, from a reassessment which proves that in its 14th century of the excavation of several sites, VII and Louis XI. Erik Inglis links of Constantine’s role in the founding heyday it was larger and more made possible by a series of urban Fouquet’s style, iconography, and of the Basilica, to its place as an influential than has previously been development schemes. Each of the audience to explain how his art helped define French architectural icon in the modern world. supposed. excavations differed in the extent and depth of the identity, a project of great importance for anxious 336pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Paperback, was 222pp, Heritage Publications, 2004, Paperback, was £24.50 stratigraphy uncovered and each belonged to a different courtiers in the wake of the Hundred Years War. £39.99 period, from the Iron Age to post-medieval. 280pp, Yale University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £19.95 Now £4.95

Kings Queens and Lepers Outside the Excavations in Beyond Pilgrim Courtiers Gate Castletown, Isle of Souvenirs and Art in Early Renaissance France Excavations at the Cemetery of Man, 1989-1992 Secular Badges By Martha Wolff the House of St. James and St. By P. J. Davey Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer Mary Magdalene, Chichester This sumptuous catalogue provides Report on three excavations carried Edited by Sarah Blick By John Magilton, Frances an overview of French art circa out in Castletown: the medieval A collection of papers on medieval 1500, a dynamic, transitional period Lee and Anthea Boylston and post-medieval castle and the pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges, when the country, resurgent after This report includes a discussion development of the town. presenting new finds, and addressing the dislocations of the Hundred of leprosy, medieval hospitals and 256pp, Liverpool University Press, 1994, issues of iconography, beliefs and Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished.W hat cemeteries and the provision of charitable care. The Paperback, was £16.95 practices. followed was the emergence of a unique art: the fusion cemetery provided the largest sample of skeletons from 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hardback, was £40.00 of the Italian Renaissance with northern European an English medieval leper hospital to date, and one of the Now £4.95 Gothic styles. most significant assemblages of leper graves in Europe. Now £12.95 208pp, Yale University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £40.00 294pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2008, Paperback, Now £14.95 was £40.00 Now £20.00

Translating Truth The Window Glass Bankside Discover Medieval Ambitious Images and Religious of the Order of St Excavations at Benbow House, Sandwich Knowledge in Late Medieval Gilbert of Southwark, London, SE1 A Guide to its History and Buildings France and England Sempringham By Anthony Mackinder and By Helen Clarke By Aden Kumler Simon Blatherwick A York-based Survey This book describes the development This handsomely produced volume By C. Pamela Graves The multi-period site of Benbow of Sandwich from nothing more than examines manuscript illumination House lies next to the Thames, and is a landmark for Anglo-Saxon seafarers and changing conceptions of the The excavation of St Andrew, a fine example of the multifarious and to a Norman market town with 2,000 importance of the visual in conveying Fishergate uncovered the largest colourful activities that took place inhabitants. Its houses are its chief religious truth following the increased emphasis placed quantity of window glass from any house of this in London over the centuries. Three phases of building glory and many of them are illustrated here. monastic order. Research on this glass provided the on pastoral work at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). from the 13th century onwards were identified, including 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £12.95 290pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2011, Hardback, was opportunity to study all other known assemblages of probable medieval stews, 16th-17th century buildings £45.00 window glass associated with the Gilbertines, and the and an 18th-19th century foundry. Now £4.95 results and interpretations are presented here. 68pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2000, Now £19.95 575pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2000, Paperback, Paperback, was £5.00 was £26.00 Now £1.95 Now £4.95

Defaced Battle Abbey Holy Trinity Priory, Shrewsbury The Visual Culture of Violence The Eastern Range and the Aldgate, City of An Archaeological Assessment in the Late Middle Ages Excavations of 1978-1980 London of an English Border Town By Valentin Groebner By J. N. Hare An archaeological By Nigel Baker From the fourteenth century Battle Abbey was one of the Reconstruction and History This book is the first to pose onward, pictorial representations greater abbeys of medieval England. By John Schofield and Richard Lea the question – how far has the became increasingly violent, whether Excavations in 1978-1980 at the archaeological investigation of in depictions of the Passion, or in eastern range uncovered in entirety Several modern excavations of 1977 Shrewsbury progressed? What is now vivid and precise images of torture, the chapter house and the reredorter. to 1990, many antiquarian drawings, known? What is most significant? execution, and war. This provoked a question: how to The project also revealed the complete sequence of and a ground-floor and a first-floor plan of all the And, above all, what are the mysteries that remain and distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and development at the site from the time of the battle monastery buildings made around 1585 are brought what direction should archaeological research take in reversed the social order from the proper, “just,” and through to the Dissolution. together here for the first time, to reconstruct a fully the future? sanctioned use of force? illustrated and detailed history and archaeology of the 208pp, English Heritage, 1985, Paperback, was £25.00 priory site. 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £40.00 199pp, Zone Books, 2004, Hardback, was £22.95 Now £4.95 285pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2005, Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £32.95 Now £12.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology • 41 The Archaeology of Glamorgan IV part I Wyclif: Summa Medieval Romance Medieval Novgorod The Greater Houses Insolubilium Medieval Contexts in Context By Martine Newby Translated by Paul V. Spade Edited by Michael Cichon and R. Purdie A Study of Centre/ Herein described are the greater Latin text of Wyclif's logical treatise The essays in this volume take a Periphery Relations houses built between the on paradoxes. representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj Reformation and the Industrial 176pp, Arizona State University, 1986, Revolution. Among the better known Hardback, was £26.00 medieval period and explore some Makarov and Evgenij Nosov buildings included is the manor of their medieval contexts, deepening This volume includes papers on house, Beaupre, with its famous Now £5.95 our understanding not only of the aspects of the environmental and technological context early Renaissance porch and the great Orangery at romances concerned but also of the specific medieval of the relationship between urban centre and rural Margam. The main inventory, arranged in a historical and contexts that produced or influenced them. hinterland. It examines the environmental context for typological order, elucidates the historical evolution of 208pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to building types. £50.00 15th centuries. 379pp, The Stationery Office Ltd, 1981, Hardback, was 528pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £65.00 £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £19.95 Now £9.95

The Archaeology of Excavations in German Romance New Directions in The Upper City and Newbury, Berkshire IV: Lanzelet Arthurian Studies Adjacent Suburbs 1979-1990 Edited by Kathleen J. Meyer By Alan Lupack By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, By Alan G. Vince Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, 11 essays by leading scholars aiming Michael J. Jones and Jenny E. Mann Evidence was recovered helping to dating from the end of the twelfth to bring Arthurian studies into the This volume contains reports on sites chart the development of the town century, is a verse translation into 21st century. They range over Malory, excavated in the upper walled city at from the 11th century, possibly Middle High German of what was Latin Arthurian literature, 'Gawain Lincoln and adjacent suburbs between earlier, throughout the medieval probably an Anglo-Norman romance, and the Green Knight', Merlin in the 1972 and 1987. period. Well-stratified sequences of now lost. It presents the story of twenty-first century,T ennyson's 'Idylls', Lanzelet (Lancelot), but in quite a different version Arthur in African-American culture, current trends in 312pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, Hardback, was £35.00 pottery, metalwork, faunal and environmental data were recovered but no trace was found of the 12th century from Chretien de Troyes' Chevalier de la charrette. This criticism, Arthurian fiction, andA rthurian film. Now £4.95 castle. volume presents the first full translation into English, 168pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Hardback, was with a new, facing edition of the Middle High German £50.00 180pp, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1997, Paperback, was text. £16.00 530pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Now £7.95 Now £4.95 £60.00 Now £9.95

The Bull Ring Ludgershall Castle Images of Kingship Partonopeus de Uncovered Excavations by Peter in Chaucer and His Blois Excavations at Edgbaston Addyman 1964-1972 Ricardian Romace in the Making Street, Moor Street, Park Street By P. V. Addyman Contemporaries By Penny Eley and The Row, Birmingham A report on the excavation of a By Samantha J. Rayner This first full-length study of the City Centre, 1997-2001 medieval royal castle and hunting Through detailed examination of the romance brings together literary, lodge in east Wiltshire which was By Catharine Patrick and texts, this study analyses the works historical and manuscript studies constructed in the 12th-century, on Stephanie Ratkai of Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the to explore its making as it evolved top of a prehistoric hillfort, and was Gawain poet, to set out exactly what through seven medieval "editions", the These excavations in the centre of greatly expanded by Henry III in the mid 13th century. Birmingham uncovered plentiful material from the 12th each has to say about kingship, looking for common earliest of which probably predated most of Chrétien's to 19th centuries: artefacts, environmental­ samples and 268pp, Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Society, themes and attempting to relate them to the concrete romances. structural remains. Evidence of the medieval industrial 2000, Paperback, was £24.00 kingship of Richard II. 270pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was past was of particular interest, including tanning and the Now £9.95 177pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £60.00 manufacture of hemp and linen. £50.00 Now £9.95 440pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

The Coronation Clarendon Interlace Structure Poetry, Knowledge Chair and Stone of Landscape of Kings of the Third Part of and Community in Scone By Thomas Beaumont James the Prose Lancelot Late Medieval History, Archaeology This richly illustrated book tells By Frank Brandsma France and Conservation Clarendon’s story, from the Neolithic Thematically and as a narrative Edited by Rebecca Dixon By Warwick Rodwell through to the present. It focuses technique, interlace, the complex and Finn E. Sinclair in particular on the palace and deer weaving together of many different This collection examines the role of This volume assembles, for the first park’s medieval heyday - a time when story-telling strands, comes to its time, the complementary evidence gyrfalcons soared in pursuit of cranes, poetry in medieval French culture in full development in the intriguing transmitting and shaping knowledge. derived from history, archaeology and conservation, and and kings hunted roebuck and wolves. conclusion of the Prose Lancelot. This study explains presents a factual account of the Coronation Chair and It reveals the interplay between poet, text, and audience, 256pp, Windgather Press, 2007, Paperback, was £26.00 how the interlace works and shows that it is the perfect and explores the key dynamics of later medieval French the Stone of Scone, not as separate artefacts, but as the vehicle for the relation of the events. entity that they have been for seven centuries. poetry and of the communities in which it was produced. Now £4.95 278pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £29.95 250pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, £60.00 was £55.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95

West Cotton, Interpreting the Late-Medieval The N-Town Play Raunds English Village German Women's Drama and Liturgy in By Andy Chapman Landscape and Community Poetry Medieval East Anglia A report on the large-scale at Shapwick, Somerset Secular and Religious Songs By Penny Granger excavation of the small medieval By Mick Aston and Dr. By Albrecht Classen This book, the first full-length study hamlet of West Cotton, Raunds in Christopher Gerrard to be devoted to the “N-Town Play”, Northamptonshire. The high quality Translations of both religious and provides a complete reassessment of structural remains revealed evidence The Shapwick Project examined secular verse written during the the development and history of the play, setting it in its geographical, for planned nucleation in the ninth 15th and 16th centuries by German religious and political context. century, with later reorganisations and gradual desertion an English parish and village over women. The first part presents during the late Middle Ages. a ten thousand-year period. The result is a fascinating numerous, largely anonymous, love poems and songs 246pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was study about how the community lived and prospered whilst the second comprises religious songs composed £50.00 280pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £48.00 in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group of by aristocratic women. Now £9.95 Now £6.95 enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this story. 157pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was 416pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £25.00 £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

Salisbury Museum Medieval Rural Medieval Latin and Love, War and the Medieval Catalogue Settlement Middle English Grail Part 3 Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 Literature Templars, Hospitallers and Bone Objects, Enamels, Glass Vessels, By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper Essays in Honour of Jill Mann Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance 1150-1500 Pottery, Jettons, Cloth Seals, Bullae A major assessment and review of Edited by Maura Nolan and and other Base Metal Objects the origins, forms and evolutions of Christopher Cannon By Helen Nicholson By Peter Saunders medieval rural settlement in Britain Essays which explore new aspects An interesting study of the role of the and Ireland across the period c. AD Bone objects, enamels, glass vessels, of medieval Latin and Middle English Military Orders in medieval literature 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive literature, looking again at the literary kinds and ideas that examines the continued support pottery, jettons, cloth seals, bullae and base metal analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, objects. The distinguished team of contributors includes most important in Jill Mann's own work, and at the poets for the Orders’ cause but also the medieval convention economics and population, bringing together evidence she has been most drawn to. that fiction should be `realistic’. Arthur MacGregor, Rachel Tyson, John Cherry and Geoff drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, 273pp, Brill, 2001, Paperback, was £40.00 Egan. historical geographical analysis and documentary and 280pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was 271pp, Salisbury Museum, 2001, Paperback, was £36.00 place-name study. £60.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 304pp, Windgather Press, 2011, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

42 • Medieval Archaeology and Literature www.oxbowbooks.com • +44 (0)1865 241249 Robert Grosseteste Troilus and Criseyde The Germanic Hero The Voice of the and the Origins of A Reader's Guide Politics and Pragmatism in Hammer Experimental By Jenni Nuttall Early Medieval Poetry The Meaning of Work in Science 1100-1700 This reader's guide, written By Brian Murdoch Middle English Literature By A. C. Crombie specifically for students of medieval Focusing on texts in Old English, By Nicola Masciandaro literature, provides a scene-by-scene Old and Middle High German, In the 13th century the Oxford A detailed study of the way work paraphrase and commentary on the Old Norse, Latin and Old French, School with Grosseteste as its was conceptualised in late medieval whole text. Each section explains Murdoch examines the ways in which founder assumed a paramount England, grounded in a close analysis matters of meaning, interpretation, the warrior-hero played out his role importance in the beginning of the of the Middle English lexicon, plot structure and character development, the role of within social and political constraints. modern tradition of experimental science. The first half the first-person narrating voice, Chaucer's use of his accounts of the history of work and Fragment VII of the of the book is devoted to Grosseteste and the Oxford source materials and elements of the poem's style. 188pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1996, Hardback, was Canterbury tales. School; the second half deals with their influences. £65.00 216pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Paperback, was 208pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, Paperback, 390pp, British Academy, 2002, Hardback, was £25.00 £17.99 Now £9.95 was £22.95 Now £5.00 Now £6.95 Now £6.95

Court Poetry in Late Vernacular Geoffrey Chaucer's Shadows of Mary Medieval England Translation in The Canterbury Reading the Virgin Mary and Scotland Dante's Italy Tales in Medieval Texts By Anthony J. Hasler Illiterate Literature A Casebook By Teresa Reed Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, By Alison Cornish By Lee Patterson In this study Teresa Reed explores five examples of Marian figuration Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, While Dante is usually the starting This book collects some of the most this study examines the paths by in Chaucer's Constance, the Wife point for histories of vernacular important and influential essays on of Bath, the medical women of the which court poetry and its narrators translation in Europe, this book aspects of the Canterbury Tales, seek multiple forms of legitimation: English Trotula, St Margaret of Antioch demonstrates that The Divine together with a general introduction and the Pearl Maiden. As Reed illustrates, medieval from royal and institutional sources, but also in the Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular and advice on further reading. media of script and print. concepts of 'the feminine' and womanhood can be literature already in circulation among its readers. 252pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, Paperback, was traced through the figure of the Virgin Mary and were a 269pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback, was 287pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £27.50 £59.99 means for the church especially to express their worldly £59.99 concerns and anxieties. Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 171pp, University of Wales Press, 2003, Paperback, was £17.99 Now £6.95

Ethics and Knowing God by Lordship and Internal Difference Enjoyment in Late Experience Literature and Meanings in the Medieval Poetry The Spiritual Senses in the John Gower and the Politics Roman de la Rose By Jessica Rosenfeld Theology of William of Auxerre of the Great Household By Douglas Kelly Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history Translated by Boyd Taylor Coolman By Elliot Kendall Kelly interprets the Roman de la Rose of the ethics of medieval vernacular This study of William of Auxerre A sustained new reading of John in the context of known medieval love poetry by tracing its engagement traces the motif of the spiritual Gower's major English poem, reading strategies elaborated by Jean with the late medieval reception of senses through his Summa Aurea, Confessio Amantis, shows how deeply de Meun himself in the course of the Aristotle. The chapters reveal that using it as an illuminating and unifying the great household informed the poem. He probes the modes used by 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often lens through which to appreciate his theology, and way Gower and his contemporaries imagined their Jean, examining the text from their different perspectives characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but exploring his influence on later scholastic thought. world. Exploring royal government and gentry ambitions and drawing out the multiple readings and allegories also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and Kendall views the period's politics and literature in terms present in the poem. earthly happiness. 255pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, Hardback, was £51.95 of a household-based economy of power. 240pp, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, Paperback, was 257pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Hardback, was 301pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, Hardback, was £16.50 £59.99 Now £12.95 £79.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £19.95

Paradoxes of Letters of Peter Mary Magdalene and Songs of the Women Conscience in the Abelard the Drama of Saints Trouvères High Middle Ages Beyond the Personal Theater, Gender, and Religion By Eglal Doss-Quinby, Joan Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet Translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski in Late Medieval England Tasker Grimbert, Wendy Pfeiffer and Elizabeth Aubrey By Peter Godman The love letters of Abelard and By Theresa Coletti This anthology of over 70 Old French The autobiographical and confessional Heloise are well known and widely Through a detailed study of the Digby available. This volume presents 12 Mary Magdalene play, this study shows songs, accompanied by parallel English writings of Abelard, Heloise and verse translation, aims to identify the Archpoet were concerned other much less famous letters of the importance of Mary Magdalene in Peter Abelard, affording insight into religious life, in providing a mediating female authorship, based on the with religious authenticity, spiritual evidence of lyrics, linguistics and associated manuscript sincerity and their opposite - fictio.T his study his thinking over a much longer sweep of time and figure between “masculine and feminine religious offers snapshots of the twelfth-century philosopher and authority; institutional and individual modes of spiritual details. The extensive introduction discusses the female demonstrates that how and why moral identity could voice in a range of lyric types, including `chanson de be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary theologian in a variety of contexts. expression; authorized and unauthorized forms of revelation and sacred speech”. femme’ laments, romances and indecent vernacular importance. 288pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2008, songs, and considers the controversial role of women 242pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Hardback, was Paperback, was £25.95 342pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2004, Hardback, was poets and musicians in medieval society. £49.00 £61.00 Now £6.95 283pp, Yale University Press, 2001, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

The Cambridge St. Thomas Aquinas: Filming the Middle A Historical and History of Literary An Exposition of the Ages Economic Geography Criticism: Volume 2, 'On the Hebdomads' By Bettina Bildhauer of Ottoman Greece The Middle Ages of Boethius This book discovers the unwritten The Southwestern Morea Edited by Ian Johnson and A. J. Minnis Translated by Janice L. history of the medieval in film. From in the 18th Century Schultz and E. Synan the earliest silent films to recent Starting with the study of grammar blockbusters, medieval topics and By Fariba Zarinebaf, John and the formal 'arts' of poetry, In his sixth-century work known as plots set between AD 500 and Bennet and Jack L. Davis letter-writing and preaching, this the De hebdomadibus, Boethius poses 1500 have played an important but This volume combines the study comprehensive collection proceeds the question of how created things or overlooked role in the development of cinema. This is of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical to offer a full description of the Latin commentary substances can be good just as they are, without being the first book to define ‘medieval films’ as a group, and sources, and the results of archaeological fieldwork in an tradition on classical and classicising literature, followed the same as the source of all goodness, God. St. Thomas to trace their history from silent film via Nazi cinema to examination of the historical and economic geography of by explanations of medieval views on literary imagination Aquinas sets out to explain the problem Boethius is Hollywood and recent European co-productions. the Morea in the early 18th century. and memory and the ways in which certain texts were treating as well as to elucidate Boethius's solution. believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure. 248pp, REAKTION BOOKS, 2011, Hardback, was £25.00 310pp, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 65pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, 2005, Paperback, was £35.00 882pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Paperback, was Paperback, was £19.95 Now £7.95 £34.99 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £12.95

The Poetry of The Philosophical Petrarch's Guide to Temple Beauties François Villon Vision of John Duns the Holy Land The Entrance-Portico in the Text and Context Scotus Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Architecture of Great Britain By Jane H. M. Taylor An Introduction Our Lord Jesus Christ By Richard Riddell This detailed study looks at the By Mary Elizabeth Ingham By Theodore J. Cachey The portico was a defining feature of many voices that can be found in the and Mechthild Dreyer Although Petrarch had never the Classical architectural revival of ballads of François Villon. Taylor's aim journeyed to the Holy Land, because the eighteenth and early nineteenth This text brings together key insights century in Britain, but has been is to show that Villon did not present of Scotus’s theory of cognition, of his fear of the sea and his aversion himself as an alienated outsider, as has to seasickness, this did not prevent rarely studied in its own right. In this metaphysics, and ethics in a comprehensive and unified well illustrated volume Richard Riddell first provides a been suggested, but instead celebrated life and society manner. The authors use critical texts and the most him from writing a ‘Guide to the Holy Land’. Here, with a vigour that makes his verse so appealing. Cachey presents a facsimile of the text alongside a Latin definition for the portico, then explores its symbolism recent scholarship on Scotus to introduce the intricate and significance. He selects representative examples 234pp, Cambridge University Press, 2001, Hardback, was vision of the Subtle Doctor to a wide audience. transcription and an English translation. Also includes an introduction and notes. of different portico types, relating them to stylistic £70.00 256pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, developments and influential models. Paperback, was £25.95 235pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £33.95 435pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, was Now £6.95 £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • www.oxbowbooks.com Medieval Literature • 43 An Archaeology of Voyage of the Beyond the Dead London's Parish Socialism Vizcaina Horizon Churches By Victor Buchli The Mystery of Christopher Studies in Modern Conflict By John Leonard This book is a detailed case-study Columbus's Last Ship Archaeology This is a new edition of John of a particular building, Moisei By Klaus Brinkbaumer Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders Leonard’s popular London’s Ginzburg's NarkomfinC ommunal and Clemens Hoges Parish Churches , first published in House, showing how its inhabitants The new interdisciplinary study 1997. With over 200 new colour were influenced by its architecture. This book describes the discovery of modern conflict archaeology photographs by the author, it provides Victor Buchli demonstrates how such and investigation of a shipwreck off has developed rapidly over the both an historical account of churches basics as principles of hygiene and gender roles were the coast of Panama. The authors last decade. Its anthropological in the capital from Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the dawn shaped by the building's architectural form. However believe it to be not only the oldest wreck ever found approach to modern conflicts, their material culture of the twenty-first century and also an invaluable guide individuals also appropriated architectural space and in the Western Hemisphere, but also very likely the and their legacies has freed such investigations from to over 120 of the finest parish churches. remains of the Vizcaina, one of the ships Christopher the straitjacket of traditional ‘battlefield archaeology’. material culture, reading the `message' the architect had 352pp, Spire Books, 2011, Hardback, was £39.95 attempted to `write' in subversive ways. Columbus took on his last trip to the New World. They These 18 papers offer a demonstration of what modern intersperse their story with that of Columbus in a lively conflict archaeology is and what it is capable of. 256pp, Berg Publishers, 1999, Paperback, was £18.99 Now £12.95 dramatic style. 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £38.00 328pp, Harvest Books, 2007, Paperback, was £9.99 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Anatomy of a Siege The 1542 Inventory Finds from the Well The Textile Industry King John's Castle, Limerick, 1642 of Whitehall at St Paul-in-the- of South-West By Kenneth Wiggins The Palace and its Keeper Bail, Lincoln England Extensive archaeological evidence of By Maria Hayward By Jenny Mann and Edited A Social Archaeology mines and countermines mean that This book, published in two by Jenny E. Mann By Marilyn Palmer this siege can shed a great deal of volumes, contains transcripts of The assemblage from the 17th- A look at how the buildings and light on C17th military tactics and four documents associated with the century backfill represents the largest techniques. other physical remains associated career of Sir Anthony Denny, Keeper group of artefacts of this period with textile production can provide a 306pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2001, of the Palace of Whitehall. The first, to have been recovered in the city better understanding of manufacturing Hardback, was £30.00 the 1542 Inventory itself contains over 4,100 entries, of Lincoln and contains a high proportion of organic industry and those involved with it. Besides exploring with particular detail given to fabrics and furnishings. material. The artefacts show a wide range in type and Now £9.95 the function of these buildings, the author examines the The other transcriptions are of the declarations of Sir quality, including both common household articles and materials used in their construction, the symbolism of Anthony Denny of 1547 and 1548 and the declaration of items indicating a relatively high social status. the mills, as well as the nature of the domestic buildings his widow, Dame Joan Denny of 1551. 106pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Hardback, was £25.00 of the workers and clothiers. 624pp, Illuminata Publishers, 2004, Hardback, was Now £4.95 160pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2005, Paperback, was £160.00 £17.99 Now £24.95 Now £6.95 Crossing Paths or Regeneration and West Country Farms English Pottery: Sharing Tracks Innovation House-and-Estate 1620 - 1840 Future Directions in the By Jim Lewis Surveys, 1598-1764 By Robin Hildyard Archaeological Study of Post- This book charts the dramatic By Nat Alcock, N. W. Alcock This study gives a broad picture of 1550 Britain and Ireland change in the Lea Valley landscape and Cary Carson the pottery trade in the 17th to 19th By Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer from medieval farm to twenty-first Explores the ‘house-and-estate’ centuries, covering all the main types century Olympic Village. It explores survey - which adds detail of the of ware. It provides an overview of These essays discuss the practice of the region's rich heritage as a crucible how trade influenced production and post-1550 archaeology and outline village’s houses, outhouses, and farm of world industrial and technological buildings to the standard evidence of explores themes such as fashions for problems, potential problems and firsts, showing how the discoveries, inventions and collecting and the export market, illustrated throughout future directions for the discipline, and how the work of an estate survey. It examines the twenty West Country entrepreneurs of the past have influenced and moulded communities for which such surveys survive, using these with examples from the collections of the VandA. archaeologists ties into and is affected by the museums the way we live today. and heritage sectors. documents to paint landscapes of individual farming 240pp, V and A Publications, 2005, Hardback, was £50.00 156pp, Libri Publications Ltd, 2011, Paperback, was £9.99 communities caught at one moment in time. 416pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was Now £19.95 £50.00 Now £3.95 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Infernal Traffic Shropshire Derwentcote Steel Italian Renaissance Excavation of a Liberated Almshouses Furnace Maiolica African Graveyard in Rupert's By Anne Watts An Industrial monument By Elisa P. Sani, Reino Liefkes Valley, St Helena Accompanied by a wealth of fine in County Durham and John Mallet By Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie photography and illustration, this neat By D. Cranstone This book traces the use of Maiolica Witkin and Helen MacQuarrie little book contains a gazetteer of This report publishes the results objects in the Renaissance, from In 2008 archaeological excavations the 40 or so surviving almshouses in birth through courtship and marriage Shropshire and surveys the history from an English Heritage programme uncovered a small part of a graveyard of historical research, structural rituals to death, and gives an engaging at Rupert's Valley, revealing the burials of almshouses as an institution, insight into the life of noble families both within the county and further afield. Entries trace recording and exavation at this of over 300 victims of the slave trade. This book presents remarkable relic from the early phases of the Industrial in this period. Manufacturing processes and stylistic the finding of the archaeological and osteological study, the history of the houses as well as analysing their developments are also highlighted. It is illustrated architectural development, detailing foundations dating Revolution, when the Derwent Valley was the cradle of and in so doing brings the inhumanity of the slave trade the British Steel industry. throughout with examples from the superb collection into vivid focus. from the Middle Ages right up to the 20th century. of Italian renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert 145pp, Oxford Archaeology, 1997, Paperback, was £20.00 Museum. 204pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, 138pp, Logaston Press, 2010, Paperback, was £12.95 176pp, V and A Publications, 2012, Hardback, was £30.00 was £30.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £15.00 Now £12.95

How to Read Early Modern Griffin A Veritable Eden'. Industrial Britain Industry and On the Route of an Indiaman The Manchester By Tim Cooper Settlement By Franck Goddio, Evelyne Jay Botanic Garden An introduction to industrial Excavations at George Street, and Guyot de Saint Michel A History archaeology, which aims to promote Richmond, and High Street, Mortlake In this publication, Franck Goddio By Ann Brooks an understanding of the physical By Barney Sloane and Stewart Hoad presents the results of fifteen years remains of Britain's industrial past. patient research, restoration and The Manchester Botanical and Tim Cooper takes the reader through Taken together, the Richmond and preservation work on the thousands Horticultural Society was founded power sources and their extraction, Mortlake sites provide valuable of items found on the wreck of the in 1827 to allow members the materials such as iron, steel and concrete, factories and evidence of the great increase in development occurring Honourable East India Company ship, the Griffin. opportunity to study botany and infrastructure including transport, and cultural artefacts in small towns on the outskirts of London from the mid horticulture. Today only the former entrance gates and a such as pubs and music halls. 17th century. 351pp, Periplus Publishing London Ltd, 1999, Hardback, street name remain. This book charts the history of the was £126.00 Garden and its international reputation in horticultural 192pp, Ebury Press, 2011, Hardback, was £12.99 92pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, Paperback, was £9.95 Now £19.95 developments and many floral triumphs. Now £4.95 176pp, Windgather Press, 2011, Paperback, was £26.00 Now £4.95 Now £4.95

Bowhill A Glorious Empire Hill Hall Ecology and The Archaeological Study of Archaeology and the Tudor- A Singular House Devised Enclosure a Building Under Repair in Stuart Atlantic World by a Tudor Intellectual The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Exeter, Devon, 1977-95 Edited by Eric C. Klingelhofer By P. Drury and Richard Simpson Farming and the Environment in By S. R. Blaylock Fifteen papers present the results of From 1557 Hill Hall was rebuilt in South Cambridgeshire, 1798–1850 A specialist team from various fields, new research into various aspects French-influenced classical style. By Shirley Wittering including archaeologists, building of material culture and historical Archaeological excavation and The Ecology of Enclosure breaks historians, architects, conservators archaeology that reflect culture, detailed recording of the surviving new ground in comparing the effect and a range of craftsmen, were trade and social interaction shared by fabric took place prior to the of Parliamentary Enclosure with the brought together to investigate the documentary, Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart restoration of the house and its mural paintings, the findings of the enthusiastic 'Botanisers' from Cambridge; pictorial and cartographic information on Bowhill, an periods. results of which are now presented in this copiously this reveals not only the effect of enclosure on the important late medieval and Tudor house and examine 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £40.00 illustrated account. ecology of the land but also on the people whose link the fabric, stratigraphy, architecture and technologies 544pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009, Hardback, with the land was broken. employed in its construction. Now £7.95 was £55.00 192pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £35.00 393pp, English Heritage, 2004, Paperback, was £65.00 Now £14.95 Now £6.95 Now £7.95

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