OXBOW BOOK NEWS 98

New and forthcoming titles for Summer 2017 The Ancient World Greece and Rome The Middle Ages A warm welcome to the Summer edition of the Book News, in which you will find a veritable hoard of books on everything from the invention of numbers to the subterranean landscapes of the Western Front. Egypt and the Near East are particularly well represented in this catalogue, from texts to tombs, and urbanism to agriculture. The Romans feature strongly in our Autumn publishing programme. Britannia Romana by R. S. O. Tomlin draws on the work of the Roman Inscriptions of Britain project to tell the story of Roman Britain through its epigraphy. Combining historical narrative with themed explorations of Roman society, it shows just how much we can learn from inscriptions, and how they shed light on the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Roman Britain. The House of the Surgeon, Pompeii edited by Michael Anderson and Damian Robinson publishes the first results from the important Anglo-American excavations in Pompeii, providing a full account of one of the most iconic houses in one of the world’s most iconic sites. It adds considerable detail to our knowledge of Pompeii’s urban development. The work of Alan Sorrell will be immediately familiar from countless guidebooks and museums from Roman sites across Britain. Alan Sorrell: The Man Who Created Roman Britain by Julia Sorrell and Mark Sorrell tells the story of this peerless archaeological illustrator and the processes which informed his detailed and evocative reconstructions. Winchester is the subject of the next volume in the hugely popular series of atlases from the Historic Towns Trust. Edited by Martin Biddle and Derek Keene this large format work traces the development of Winchester in maps and text from Roman times to the early modern era. Winchester also forms the focus of a new archaeological synthesis by Patrick Ottaway – Winchester: An Archaeological Assessment, while the latest in the Winchester Studies series publishes and analyses the vast and important skeletal remains spanning 1300 years from Roman to medieval from excavations in and around Winchester, and features as an Editor’s Choice.

Cover Image: Rock art in south-east Scania by Peter Skoglund © Peter Skoglund reproduced with permission. From: North Meets South: Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling and Ulf Bertilsson Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in 2017.

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Objects from the Portable The Sea in History Series Antiquities Scheme Series How important has In the 20 years since the sea been in the it was set up The development of human Portable Antiquities history? Very important Scheme, which records indeed is the conclusion finds made by the of this important four public, has had a huge volume work. The impact on Britain’s books bring together the archaeology. The vast world’s leading maritime amounts of data which historians, who consider, it has produced have across the entire world, enabled the location subjects related to of many new sites, and human migration, proved a watershed in relationships between trade, economic development, warfare, the archaeologists and the wider public, metal- building of political units including , the detectorists in particular. This series explores dissemination of ideas, culture and religion, and the past region by region by presenting 50 finds much more, showing how the sea was crucial to which combine the representative with the all these aspects of human development. spectacular or unusual, and together shed light on trade, religion, warfare and daily life from The Sea in History to the modern age. The Ancient World Edited by Christian Buchet 50 Finds from Hampshire 300p, 48 b/w illus. (Boydell & Brewer 2017) By Katie Hinds 9781783271573 Hb £125.00 96p, col illus (Amberley 2017) 9781445662343 Pb £14.99 The Sea in History The Medieval World 50 Finds from Yorkshire Edited by Michel Balard By Amy Downes & Rebecca Griffiths 1086p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445661469 Pb £14.99 9781783271597 Hb £125.00 50 Finds from Manchester and The Sea in History Merseyside The Early Modern World By Vanessa Oakden Edited by Christian Buchet & Gerard Le Bouedec 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658551 Pb £14.99 1072p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271580 Hb £125.00 50 Finds from Lancashire By Stuart Noon The Sea in History The Modern World 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658377 Pb £14.99 Edited by N. A. M. Rodger 50 Finds from 848p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) By Ben Paites 9781783271603 Hb £125.00 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658353 Pb £14.99 50 Finds From Nottinghamshire and Coins of & Derbyshire The By Alistair Willis Standard Catalogue of British Coins 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658537 Pb £14.99 Edited by Emma Howard This historic reference work for British coins is still the 50 Finds from Surrey only catalogue to feature every major coin type from By David Williams Celtic to the present day, arranged in chronological 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658735 Pb £14.99 order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. Under 50 Finds from Cumbria Elizabeth II the decimal issues are separated from the By Dot Boughton pre-decimal coinages, with all decimal coinage since 1968 listed in a separate volume. 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445658230 Pb £14.99 808p, col illus (Spink Books 50th ed. 2017) 9781907427633 Hb £30.00, NYP General Interest 1 Method and Theory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Engaging with the Dead Public Archaeology and Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Climate Change Death, Mortality and the Human Body Edited by Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías Edited by Jennie Bradbury & Chris Scarre López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire Engaging with the Dead This volume promotes adopts a cross-disciplinary, new approaches to archaeologically focused, studying and managing approach to explore a sites threatened by climate variety of themes linked change, specifically actions to the interpretation of that engage communities mortuary traditions, death or employ ‘citizen science’ and the ways of disposing of initiatives. With examples the dead. Nineteen papers from across the globe, this highlight the current vitality selection of 18 papers details of ‘death studies’ and the the scale of the problem potential of future research through a variety of case and discoveries. Contributors explore changing studies. Contributors examine differing responses beliefs and practices over time, considering how and proactive methodologies for the protection, modern archaeology, ethnography and historical preservation and recording of sites at risk from records can aid our interpretations of the past, natural forces and demonstrate how as well as considering how past new approaches can better engage practices may have influenced people with sites that are under Only increasing threat of destruction. understandings of death and Only £28.50 until dying within the modern world. £41.25 until 208p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707049 Pb publication 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785706639 Hb £38.00 £55.00 Archaeologies of Gender Children, Death and Burial and Violence Archaeological Discourses Edited by Bo Jensen & Uroš Matić Edited by Eileen Murphy & Mélie Le Roy Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen Children, Death and Burials have brought together a team assembles a panorama of of both young and senior studies with a focus on researchers from many juvenile burials; the 16 papers different countries in this first have a wide geographic volume that aims to explore and temporal breadth the complex intersection and represent a range of between archaeology, gender methodological approaches. and violence. Papers range All have a similar objective from theoretical discussions in mind, however, namely on previous approaches to to understand how children gender and violence and the were treated in death by ethical necessity to address these questions today, different cultures in the past; to gain insights to case studies dealing with gender and violence concerning the roles of children of different ages from prehistoric to early medieval Europe, but also in their respective societies and to find evidence including studies on , Persia and Peru. of the nature of past adult–child relationships The contributors deal both with representations of and interactions across the life course. A broad violence and its gendered background range of issues are addressed within the volume, in images and text, and with including the inclusion/exclusion bioarchaeological evidence for Only of children in particular burial violence and trauma with a £27.00 until environments and the impact Only gendered background. of age in relation to the place of publication £30.00 until 252p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books children in society. 2017) 9781785706882 Pb £36.00 publication 240p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707124 Pb £40.00

2 Baroque Antiquity Archaeological Imagination in Early NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Modern Europe By Victor Plahte Tschudi Antiquarianisms Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so Contact, Conflict, Comparison spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what Edited by Benjamin Anderson & Felipe Rojas ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately Scholars have made distorted the representation of them in print. significant progress in This pioneering study uncovers an antiquity born the documentation and with print culture itself and from the need to analysis of indigenous accommodate competitive publishers, ambitious antiquarian traditions, but patrons and powerful popes. Instead of being the clear-cut distinction testimonies of failed archaeology, these depictions between “indigenous” and emerge as complex architectural messages “colonial” archaeologies responding to moral, political, and religious issues has obscured the intense of the day. and dynamic interaction 326p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2016) between these seemingly 9781107149861 Hb £64.99 different endeavours. This book concerns the divide Travels with an Archaeologist between local and foreign antiquarianisms Finding a Sense of Place focusing on case studies drawn primarily from By Richard Hodges the Mediterranean and the Americas. Points of This entertaining new book from Richard Hodges comparison and contrast provide a framework functions both as a memoir, offering personal for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid reminiscences of the many important excavations or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than which he has directed, and as a reflection upon assuming that interest in antiquity is a human archaeology as a whole. The five senses are used as universal, this book explores the circumstances a framing device, and it is these physical interactions under which the past itself is produced and with the past and its remains which form the key transformed through encounters between theme of the book. antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation. 184p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781350012646 Hb £20.00 232p, (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706844 Pb £35.00 Three Stones Make a Wall Dress and Society The Story of Archaeology Contributions from Archaeology By Eric H. Cline Edited by T. F. Martin & R. Weetch This book traces the history of archaeology from The social context an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it of costume is now a is today by taking the reader on a tour of major major research area in archaeological sites and discoveries, from Pompeii archaeology. Not only to Petra, Troy to the Terracotta Warriors, and does dress constitute an Mycenae to Megiddo and Masada, bringing to life important means by which the personalities behind these digs. people integrate and segregate to form group 480p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691166407 Hb identities, but interactions £27.95 between objects and Percy Manning bodies, quintessentially The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire illustrated by dress, can By Michael Heaney also form the basis of much wider symbolic systems. Dress and Society illustrates the range of Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary current archaeological approaches to dress using who amassed enormous collections about the history a number of case studies drawn from prehistoric of Oxford and Oxfordshire. He was interested in all to post-medieval Europe. Presenting the eight periods of history and prehistory, collecting Stone papers together creates a strong argument for a Age tools, Roman coins, medieval tiles, and relics of theoretically informed and integrated approach ways of life that were disappearing in to dress as a specific category of archaeological his own day. This volume provides evidence, emphasising that the study of dress the first detailed biography of Only not only draws openly on other disciplines, but Manning, together with in-depth £24.00 is also a sub-discipline in its own right. studies examining specific parts until 30th of his collections. 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703157 Pb September £36.00 332p (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915285 Pb £30.00 Method and Theory 3 European Archaeology as Anthropology Interdisciplinarity between Humanities Essays in Memory of Bernard Wailes and Science Edited by Pam J. Crabtree & Peter Bogucki A Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Henk Kars The essays in this volume Edited by Sjoerd Kluiving, Lisette Kootker & Rita highlight the contribution of Hermans the European archaeological This festschrift for Henrik Kars combines papers record to our understanding on landscape archaeology, bioarchaeology and of the emergence of social archaeometry. Topics include palaeolandscapes of complexity. The abundant the Netherlands, isotope research, and a quartzite data show that technological Neolithic axe. innovations such as 184p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) metallurgy appeared very 9789088904042 Hb £95.00, 9789088904035 Pb £35.00 early, but urbanism and state formation are comparatively Archaeology with Art late developments. The Edited by Helen Chittock & Joana Valdez-Tullett papers provide case studies in how ancient Europe Archaeology with Art can inform anthropological archaeology, providing explores the relationship important comparisons for the construction of between archaeology and models for cultural development for other regions art practice, the interactions of the world. between materials and 288p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) practitioners, and the 9781934536896 Hb £47.00 processes that result in the objects and images we A Critique of Archaeological Reason call ‘art’. The book offers Structural, Digital, and Philosophical Aspects of new approaches to the the Excavated Record study of creative practices By Giorgio Buccellati in archaeology, ranging Giorgio Buccellati presents a theory of excavation from experimental investigations to philosophical that aims at clarifying the nature of archaeology and explorations and contains a diverse its impact on contemporary thought. Integrating set of papers that use insights epistemological issues with methods of data from contemporary art practice Only collection and the role and impact of digital to examine the making of past £24.00 technology on archaeological work, the book artworks. until 30th explores digital data in order to comprehend its 196p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September role in shaping meaning and understanding in 9781784914929 Pb £30.00 archaeological excavation. He uses the site of Urkesh in Syria, where he has worked for decades, as a case study to demonstrate his theory. 388p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107046535 Hb £85.00, 9781107665484 Pb £27.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Social Archaeology of Food Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present By Christine A. Hastorf This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in Only foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages £52.00 with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, until 30th identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it September created past societies. 414p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107153363 Hb £64.99

4 Method and Theory Geographical Information Systems Forthcoming from Oxbow Books in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning Not Just for Show A Case Study of a Modern Greek City Built The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and on Top of an Ancient City Personal Ornaments By Helene Simoni Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Clive Bonsall & Alice M. Choyke This book focuses on the implications of discovering archaeological layers during These papers discuss the social construction works in modern cities for both narratives behind bead and urban archaeology and urban planning. Patras, beadwork manufacture, use Greece was selected as the case study. G.I.S. and and disposal; the way beads statistics are used to demonstrate the statistical work visually, audibly and relationship between data from urban planning even tactilely to cue wearers and urban archaeology, enabling the prediction of and audience to their social the existence of antiquities and their depth. message(s). Understanding the entangled social and 83p, b/w illus (BAR 2812, 2016) 9781407314778 Pb £17.00 technical aspects of beads Making Visible require a broad spectrum of Three-Dimensional GIS in Archaeological technical and methodological Excavation approaches including the identification of the sources By Stefania Merlo for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances This book explores the extent to which archaeological with experimentation to clarify the data and GIS structures parallel one another and, manner in which beads were through this discussion, it challenges ideas around produced and used in past Only the ability of the traditional archaeological record to societies. represent multidimensional spaces. The book then £36.00 until argues that three-dimensional data and the use of 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication modelling techniques in a three-dimensional GIS Books 2017) 9781785706929 Hb allow for a better and more nuanced understanding £48.00 of the excavated archaeological record. Understanding Ancient 186p, b/w and col figs (BAR 2801, 2016) 9781407314723 Fortifications Pb £39.00 Between Regionality and Connectivity Recent Advances in Laser Ablation Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz & ICP-MS for Archaeology Dirk P. Mielke Edited by Laure Dussubieux, Mark Golitko & Bernard In many regions of Europe Gratuze and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive This book explores different aspects of LA-ICP- of archaeological remains. MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma- However, fortifications mass spectrometry). It presents a large array of are generally examined in new analytical protocols for elemental or isotope a temporally, regionally or analysis. LA-ICP-MS is a powerful tool that culturally limited context. combines a sampling device able to remove very Going a step further, this small quantities of material without leaving visible volume aims to bring into damage at the surface of an object. focus concepts of fortifications, 358p, (Springer Verlag 2016) 9783662498927 Hb £66.99 which can be socially, Gatherings: Past and Present symbolically or functionally, but also chronologically Proceedings from the 2013 Archaeology of and supra-regionally aligned. An important question is Gatherings International Conference at it Sligo, to determine which fortification elements are culture- Ireland specific, and which can be regarded as convergence or even universal phenomena. Adopting a comparative Edited by Fiona Beglane view, the central aim of the volume is to highlight The aim of the conference and of this volume was the diversity and the structural similarities of ancient to take a multidisciplinary approach to explore the fortifications. The chronological structures, material culture and psychology behind framework goes from the Neolithic gatherings of people. The papers seek to contribute to the Late Iron Age, and the Only to the study of varied types of temporary gatherings geographical scope from the Ural £41.25 until both from the contemporary world and from the steppes to the Iberian Peninsula. past, from religious and political assemblies, to publication 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) social interactions and to exchange commodities 9781785707483 Hb £55.00 and ideas. 136p (BAR 2832, 2017) 9781407314587 Pb £28.00 Method and Theory 5 Cremation and the Archaeology of Death NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Jessica Cerezo-Roman, Howard Williams & Molluscs in Archaeology Anna Wessman Methods, Approaches and Applications Seeking to challenge Edited by Michael J. Allen simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and The subject of ‘Molluscs present, the studies in this in Archaeology’ has volume seek to confront and not been dealt with explore the challenges of collectively for several interpreting the variability decades. This new volume of cremation by contending in Oxbow’s Studying with complex networks Scientific Archaeology of modern allusions and series addresses many imaginings of cremations aspects of molluscs in past and present and archaeology. It gives the ongoing debates regarding how we identify and reader an overview of the interpret cremation in the archaeological record. whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It 368p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198798118 Hb £85.00 aims to be a broad based text book giving readers A Shadow of War an insight of how to apply analysis to different Archaeological approaches to uncovering the present and past landscapes and how to interpret darker sides of conflict from the 20th century those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics By Claudia Theune such as diet, economy, climate, environmental This book presents archaeological research from and land-use, isotopes and molluscs as artefacts. places of war, violence, protest and oppression It aims to provide archaeologists and students of the 20th and the 21st century. Through careful with the first port of call giving them a) methods archaeological investigation, it presents different and principles, and b) the potential information and new perspectives that are not recorded clearly molluscs can provide. in existing written, pictorial or oral archives. The merging and examination of all sources together is 200p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706080 Pb £25.00 what enables us to understand the complexity of Economic Zooarchaeology the history. Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Heritage 150p, col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904547 Hb Agriculture £25.00, NYP Edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson & Forensic Archaeology Paul Halstead The Application of Comparative Excavation These 33 papers discuss Methods and Recording Systems key research issues concerning hunting, By Laura Evis herding and early This book evaluates current archaeological agriculture through the excavation methods and recording systems in analysis of zoological and relation to their use in providing forensic evidence, archaebotanical remains. and their ability to satisfy the admissibility tests Aspects of method and introduced by the Law Commission, and other theory, animal bone internationally recognised bodies. The four identification, human defined methodological approaches were assessed palaeopathology, experimentally, using a grave simulation of known prehistoric animal properties to test the excavation, utilisation in South America, and the study of recording, and interpretation of Only dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running material evidence, the definition controversy over the milking of animals and the of stratigraphic contexts, and £30.50 use of dairy products by humans is discussed as understanding of stratigraphic until 30th is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, relationships. September with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, 248p, (Archaeopress 2016) coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via 9781784914844 Pb £38.00 the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, through considerations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. 296p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704451 Hb £40.00

6 Method and Theory Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology Interpreting Violence in Past Lives Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah By Rebecca C. Redfern Russ, Kim Vickers & Sarah Viner-Daniels Synthesising the latest research, this book critically A cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the examines the sources of evidence used to understand world over that transcends environmental, economic, and interpret violence in bioarchaeology, exploring and social approaches, seeking instead to provide a the significant light such evidence can shed on holistic view of the roles played by animals in past past hierarchies, gender roles and life courses. It human cultures. Studies of hunter-gatherers, farmers, examines injury patterns in different groups as herders, fishermen, and even traders and urban well as the biological, psychological and cultural dwellers highlight the importance that animals have factors that make us behave violently, how our living had in all forms of human societies. environment influences injury and violence, the 816p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199686476 Hb £110.00 models used to identify and interpret violence in the past, and how violence is used as a social tool. Atlas of Mammal Distribution through 362p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9780521115735 Hb £49.99 Africa from the LGM (~18 ka) to Modern Times Applied Zooarchaeology Five Case Studies By Helene Jousse This work provides the first overview of mammal By Torben Rick, Lisa Nagaoka & Stephen J. Wolverton species distributions in Africa since the Last Glacial This book uses a series of case studies to explore Maximum to modern times. The occurrences of taxa the types of interdisciplinary challenges that in archaeological sites on the African continent were zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of recorded in a database, integrating environmental management and animal conservation. geographical and chronological Never has there been a greater need for multi-vocal information to produce a Only perspectives in conservation biology. This book shows chronological atlas of mammalian £36.00 zooarchaeologists how to use zooarchaeological distributions on successive maps until 30th perspectives to help meet those needs, while crossing over the last 18 ky. traditional academic disciplinary boundaries. September 316p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 130p (Eliot Werner Publications 2016) 9780989824965 2017) 9781784915407 £45.00 Pb £25.00 Heritage Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Managing Archaeological Collections Archaeoastronomy in the context in Middle Eastern Countries of the UNESCO World Heritage By Dianne Fitzpatrick Convention Collections management practice is an often ignored A Thematic Study. Volume 2 aspect of archaeological research in many Middle Edited by Clive Ruggles & Michel Cotte Eastern countries, yet literally thousands of artefacts This volume examines a number of key questions are recovered every year with no real strategies relating to astronomical heritage sites and for managing them sustainably into the future. In their potential recognition as World Heritage, this guide, archaeologist Dianne Fitzpatrick sees attempting to identify what might constitute archaeological collections management “outstanding universal value” in relation to as a means of integrating achievable astronomy. Case studies include seven-stone good-practice strategies into Only antas (prehistoric dolmens) in Portugal and Spain, research designs and site £21.00 the thirteen towers of Chankillo in Peru, the management plans. until 30th 115p (Archaeopress 2016) astronomical timing of irrigation in Oman, Pic du September Midi de Bigorre Observatory in France, Baikonur 9781784914882 Pb £26.00 Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and Aoraki– Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve in New The Western Front Landscape, Tourism and Heritage Zealand. A case study on , already a World Heritage Site, focuses on preserving the By Stephen Thomas Miles integrity of the solstitial sightlines. For the first time this book brings together the three 298p (Ocarina Books 2017) 9780954086763 Pb £25.00, strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide NYP a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front. Two dominant interpretations of the region’s landscape – commemorative and heritage – are highlighted and their relationship to tourism explored. 256p (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781473833760 Hb £19.99 7 Landscape Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Living on the Edge Archaeological Investigations at Steart Point, Archaeology and Land-use of South- Somerset East England to 1066 By Lorrain Higbee & Lorraine Mepham Edited by Michael J. Allen & David Rudling A number of significant sites and areas of past In this new authoritative human activity and inhabitation from the Iron textbook on the archaeology Age, the Romano-British period, the medieval and of South-East England early post-medieval periods have been recorded. over 30 leading authors The results follow broad regional patterns seen in provide a comprehensive the Severn Estuary Levels, with the more regularly overview of the South-East planned farming landscapes and permanent as an informed narrative settlement evidence from the Romano-British and interpretation of the period onwards, developing from seasonal, episodic prehistory and history of exploitation of this resource-rich salt-marsh the region. Chronological landscape. chapters tell the story of 100p, b/w and col illus ( Archaeology 2017) the development of the 9781874350897 Pb £7.50 South-East by period from the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest. Others focus on either specific Archaeology and Landscape at areas within the region, or aspects of material the Land’s End, Cornwall culture and the economy. This is the first book to The West Penwith Surveys, 1982-2010 look at the region as a whole for a generation and By Peter Herring, Nicholas Johnson, Andy M. Jones, since the advent of developer-funded archaeology, Jacqueline A. Nowakowski, Adam Sharpe & Andrew and it will have an important place Young in the archaeology of the South- Land’s End has long attracted the attention of East. It is offered in memory Only archaeologists with its numerous prehistoric of Sussex Archaeologist Peter £25.00 until ceremonial monuments and deeply embedded Drewett. publication imprints of early settlement. This book is the result b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books of over 270 pioneering archaeological surveys and 2017) 9781782979623 Hb £35.00 conservation projects carried out over the past 35 New Forest years. The Forging of a Landscape (Cornwall County Council 2016) 9780993392924 Hb £29.00 By Hadrian Cook Provides an historical Dry Stone Walls narrative of the occupation History and Heritage and use of a vast area that By Angus Winchester was, for centuries, important Dry stone walls create much of the character of as a Royal Hunting Forest and upland landscapes across Britain. How do we go subject to many contentious about dating dry stone walls? Why were they built laws and regulations, but and by whom? This book seeks answers to these which includes much questions and also suggests how walls themselves economically marginal may be ‘read’ as historical evidence, shedding light land. Four critical themes on past farming practice and the history of local are explored through time: communities. the shaping of the natural environment into human prehistory; human 96p, b/w and col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445651484 intervention through natural resource management; Pb £14.99 governance and management of the forest over time, The Making of the British Landscape stressing pressures on resources and attempts at From the Ice Age to the Present exclusion of certain social groups; and policies and By Nicholas Crane designations to conserve the New Forest. Cook aims to In this accessible work Nicholas Crane tells the story reflect a complicated narrative around of the British landscape. He traces its transformation the evolution caused by changing from a European peninsula of glacier and tundra management and economic Only to an island of glittering cities and exquisite objectives reflecting governance £26.25 until countryside, exploring the relationship between arrangements at different times. publication people and place and the deep-rooted tensions 232p b/w and col illus (Windgather between town and countryside. Press 2017) 9781911188193 Pb £34.99 592p, col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2016) 9780297856665 Hb £20.00 8 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Historic Gardens and Parks of Street Trees in Britain Derbyshire A History Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920 By Mark Johnston By Dianne Barre This is the first book on the The open hilly terrain of history of Britain’s street much of Derbyshire has trees and it gives a highly long been a challenge to readable, authoritative and gardeners and landscapers, often amusing account of but has produced some their story, from the tree- spectacular walled and lined promenades of the terraced gardens. In this seventeenth century to the lavishly illustrated and majestic boulevards that lively new study Dianne grace some of our modern Barre looks not just at city centres. The impact such beautifully restored of the Victorian street tree and accessible gardens as movement is examined, not only in the major Haddon, Melbourne and Renishaw but also lost cities but also in the rapidly developing suburbs gardens and parks at Swarkeston, Knowle Hill, that continued to expand through the twentieth Sutton Scarsdale, Wingerworth and Drakelow and century. While much of the book focuses on the considers the importance of gardens at Derbyshire social and cultural history of our street trees, Spa towns. There are many surprises as the author the last three chapters look at the practicalities re-examines the fashionable, the quirky, the of how these trees have been engineered into accessible and the lost and little known. concrete landscapes. 272p, b/w and colour (Windgather 2017) 352p, b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2017) 9781911188049 Pb £25.00 9781911188230 Pb £30.00

World Prehistory Stone Tools in Human Evolution Numbers and the Making of Us Behavioral Differences Among Technological Counting and the Course of Human Cultures Primates By Caleb Everett By John J. Shea Numbers and the Making John J. Shea argues that over of Us is a sweeping account the last three million years of how numbers radically hominins’ technological enhanced our species’ strategies shifted from cognitive capabilities and occasional tool use, much sparked a revolution in like that seen among living human culture. Caleb non-human primates, to a Everett brings new insights uniquely human pattern in psychology, anthropology, of obligatory tool use. primatology, linguistics, Examining how the lithic and other disciplines archaeological record to bear in explaining the changed over the course of myriad human behaviours and modes of thought human evolution, he compares tool use by living numbers have made possible, from enabling us humans and non-human primates and predicts how to conceptualize time in new ways to facilitating the archaeological stone tool evidence should have the development of writing, agriculture, and other changed as distinctively human behaviours evolved. advances of civilization. 306p, (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107123090 Hb £64.99, 312p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674504431 Hb £22.95 9781107554931 Pb £22.99

9 The Oxford Handbook of NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Prehistoric Figurines The Diversity of Hunter Gatherer Edited by Timothy Insoll Figurines dating from Pasts prehistory have been found Edited by Bill Finlayson & Graeme Warren across the world but have This thought provoking never before been considered collection of new globally. The Oxford research papers explores Handbook of Prehistoric the extent of variation Figurines is the first book to amongst hunting and offer a comparative survey of gathering peoples past this kind, bringing together and present and the approaches from across the considerable analytical landscape of contemporary challenges presented research into a definitive by this diversity. This resource in the field. Specific themes that are problem is especially discussed by contributors include theories of important in archaeology, figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and where increasing empirical evidence illustrates contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and ways of life that are not easily encompassed disposal, and the cognitive and social implications within the range of variation recognised in of representation. the contemporary world of surviving hunter- 976p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199675616 Hb gatherers. Discussion of hunter-gatherers £110.00 shows them to be varied and flexible, but modelling of contemporary hunter-gatherers Myths about Rock Art has reduced them into essential categories, By Robert G. Bednarik portraying them as static and without history. It Rather than considering the myths supposedly is often said that the study of hunter-gatherers depicted in the world’s rock art, this book examines provides insight into past forms of social the myths archaeologists and others have created organisation and behaviour; unfortunately about the meanings and significance of rock art. it often limits our understandings of these Here these constructs are subjected to detailed societies. Here, contributors explore past analysis and are found to consist largely of hunter-gather diversity over time and space to misinterpretations. In particular the provide critical perspectives on general models claims about a connection between of ‘hunter-gatherers’ and attempt to provide rock art and the neuropathologies Only new perspectives on hunter-gatherer societies. of its producers are assessed, and £24.00 192p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705885 the neuroscience of rock art until 30th Pb £36.00 interpretation is reviewed. 220p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Septmeber 2016) 9781784914745 Pb £30.00 The Science of Human Evolution Cave Art Getting It Right By Bruno David By John H. Langdon Bruno David tells the story This textbook provides a of the world of decorated collection of case studies caves, from the oldest in paleoanthropology known ‘painting kits’, found demonstrating the method virtually intact after their use and limitations of science. 100,000 years ago in South These cases introduce the Africa, to the magnificent reader to various problems murals of the European and illustrate how they have Ice Age that are so famous been addressed historically. today. Showcasing the most The various topics selected astounding discoveries represent important made in the past 150 years of corrections in the field, archaeological exploration, Cave Art explores these some critical breakthroughs, creative achievements, from our remotest ancestors models of good reasoning and experimental design, to recent times, and what they tell us about the and important ideas emerging from normal science. human past and ourselves today. 220p b/w and col figs (Springer Verlag 2016) 256p, b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9783319415840 Hb £48.99 9780500204351 Pb £12.95

10 World Prehistory Prehistoric Britain and Ireland Archaeology and Environment NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS on the Littoral An Upland Biography A Case Study from Low Hauxley Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom’s Edge, By Clive Waddington and Clive Bonsall Derbyshire The sequence of excavations at Low Hauxley By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan & Mark Edmonds uncovered a truly remarkable archaeological site where layer upon layer of had Gardom’s Edge is an survived in a discrete parcel of land as sediments area of gritstone upland had built up during the Holocene. The remains situated on the Eastern date from the Mesolithic to the modern period and Moors of the Derbyshire include particularly well-preserved features thanks Peak District. Like other to their burial under a metre of dune sand in a parts of the Eastern benign geochemical environment. Moors, Gardom’s Edge has long been renowned for 323p, b/w and col illus (Northumberland Wildlife Trust the wealth of prehistoric 2016) 9780993078910 Hb £30.00 field systems, cairns and Yarnton other structures which Neolithic and Bronze Age Settlement can still be traced across and Landscape the surface. Drawing on the results of original By Gill Hey, Christopher Bell, Caroline Dennis & survey and excavation, An Upland Biography Mark Robinson documents prehistoric activity across this area, exploring the changing character of occupation This fascinating study examines a 2500 year from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. It also tacks settlement history and its changing landscape back and forth between local detail and regional with evidence related to house construction, patterns, to better understand the broader social burial practices, pit digging, craft activity, farming worlds in which Gardom’s Edge was set. strategies, and interaction and exchange with nearby and distant communities. 200p, b/w and colour (Windgather 2017) 9781911188155 Pb £34.99 812p, b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) 9781905905379 Hb £29.95 The Making of Prehistoric Wiltshire Art and Architecture in Neolithic Life, Ceremony & Death from the Earliest Times Orkney to the Roman Invasion Process Temporality and Context By David Field & Dave McOmish By Antonia Thomas This volume provides an up-to-date account of the prehistory of Wiltshire from the earliest evidence Until recently relatively for human occupation to the influence on the little has been known about Romano-British countryside; it outlines the effect the decoration of Orkney’s of past climate change on the topography and how uniquely important Neolithic animals and people established the landscape sites. This book addresses that we know today. The story is one of exuberant that gap, providing the first but excessive monument building, of innovation major discussion of Orkney’s potentially fuelled by competition to impress, and Neolithic carvings, and of the struggle to subsist. using these as a springboard to challenge many of the 176p, b/w and col illus (Amberley 2017) 9781445648415 traditional assumptions £16.99 relating to Neolithic art and Pembrokeshire County History, architecture. by foregrounding the architectural context of mark-making, the book explores how both Volume 1 buildings and carvings emerge though By Timothy Darvill, Heather James, Kenneth Murphy, the embodied social practice of Geoffrey Wainwright and Elizabeth A. Walker working stone, and how this Only This long-awaited volume completes the relates to the wider context of £36.00 Pembrokeshire County History, and provides an life in Neolithic Orkney. excellent and beautifully illustrated up-to-date until 30th synthesis of its archaeology from earliest times to 274p, col illus (Archaeopress 2016) September 9781784914332 Pb £45.00 the Norman Conquest. Contents: Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers; Neolithic and Bronze Age; Later Prehistoric; Roman; Early Medieval. 552p col illus (Pembrokeshire County History Trust 2016) 9780903771160 Hb £35.00 11 The Beaker Phenomenon? Celtic Wales Understanding the Character and Context of By Miranda Aldhouse-Green Social Practices in Ireland 2500-2000 BC Celtic Wales explores the By Neil Carlin early history of Wales The nature and social from its Celtic Iron Age significance of the Beaker beginnings until the early phenomenon, as well as the medieval period. It engages reasons for its rapid and with controversial current widespread transmission issues such as the ‘Celtic have been much debated. Debate’ (whether or not it is The adoption of these valid to call later prehistoric new ideas and objects in Europe, including Wales, Ireland provides a highly ‘Celtic’). It places Wales suitable case study in which in its wider European to investigate these issues. context, explaining shared and divergent values, Significantly, this integrated belief-systems and communication with the wide regional study reveals that the various Beaker- world. The book takes as its building-blocks of related objects found in Ireland were all deposited evidence both ancient and medieval literature and during a series of highly structured and rule-bound archaeology, with a final chapter that looks at the activities which were strongly influenced by pre- fascinating world of Celtic mythology in Wales. existing Irish traditions. 192p, col illus (University of Wales Press 2017) 500p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9781786830425 Pb £11.99 9789088904646 Hb £195.00, 9789088904639 Pb £65.00, NYP A Celtic Feast The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Archaeological excavations in Moneen Wiltshire Cave, the Burren, Co. Clare By Alexandra Baldwin & Jody Joy By Marion Dowd This volume presents for the first time the results In 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on of the excavation and scientific analysis between Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of 2005 and 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery discovered in a large pit on farmland in the and an antler implement. An archaeological parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire. The assemblage is excavation followed, leading to the discovery of unprecedented in many respects and is the largest large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered known single deposit of prehistoric cauldrons from animal bones and oyster shells. The Europe. Thought to be vessels made and used for material suggests that Moneen feasting, the capacity represented by the Chiseldon Cave was visited intermittently Only Hoard indicates the potential in these societies to as a sacred place in the Bronze £22.50 host feasts with many hundreds, if not thousands Age landscape. until 30th of participants, demonstrating considerable levels 108p col illus (Archaeopress 2016) September of sophistication and organisation. 9781784914547 Pb £28.00 160p, col illus ( Press 2017) 9780861592036 Pb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Exploring Avebury The Essential Guide By Steve Marshall This superbly illustrated book serves as an excellent introduction to the entire Avebury landscape, with full coverage of the famous stone circle and other well-known monuments such as Silbury Hill and the West Kennet long-barrow, but also of elements of the landscape which no longer remain such as the huge timber West Kennet Palisade enclosures. As well as providing an up-to- date synthesis, Stephen Marshall also gives insights Only from his own experimental research, most notably £12.00 reconstructing acoustic aspects of the monuments, until 30th as well as shedding light on the importance of September water in the landscape. 144p, col illus (The History Press 2016) 9780750967662 Pb £14.99

12 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape Made for Trade Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle A New View of Icenian Coinage Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway By John Talbot By Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone In Made for Trade, John Cults Loch, at Castle Talbot presents the findings Kennedy in Dumfries & of a decade-long investigation Galloway lies within a that has challenged many landscape rich in prehistoric pre-conceptions about the cropmark sites and within Late Iron Age. A die-study the loch itself are two was performed on every crannogs, one of which has known example of the been the focus of this study. coinage of the Iceni – over The Cults Loch crannog is 10,000 – coins, which enabled only the second prehistoric definitive chronologies site in to be dated to be constructed and by dendrochronology and the underlying organisation of the coinage to be analysis has revealed the very short duration of fully appreciated for the first time. Talbot further activity on the crannog in the middle of the 5th explores production, weight and metal content century BC. The wealth of well-preserved evidence as the coinage evolved, the use of imagery and from the crannog, particularly the rich ecofactual inscriptions, and patterns of hoarding. These assemblages, as well as the higher chronological various threads demonstrate that the resolution possible through the dendro-dating of coinage was economic in nature waterlogged timbers, are brought and reflected development of a Only to bear on our understanding of more sophisticated monetary £41.25 until the evidence from the cropmark Only society than had previously been publication sites around the loch. £22.50 until thought possible. 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703737 Hb Books 2017) 9781785708121 Hb £55.00 £30.00 Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick Neolithic Stepping Stones Rhythms of Life on Iron Age Unst Excavation and Survey Within the Western By Olivia Lelong Seaways of Britain, 2008-2014 The Iron Age settlement at Edited by Duncan Garrow & Fraser Sturt Milla Skerra was occupied This book’s primary focus is for at least 500 years Early Neolithic settlement on before it was covered with islands within the ‘western storm-blown sand and seaways’ – sites that offer abandoned. Excavation significant insight into the revealed many details of character of the Mesolithic– the life of the settlement Neolithic transition in this and how it was reused over particular maritime zone. many generations. From the At the heart of the book middle of the 1st millennium lie the results of three BC people were constructing substantial excavations at stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth L’Erée, Guernsey; Old Quay, waste and midden material. Later inhabitants St Martin’s (Isles of Scilly); and An Doirlinn, built a house on top, with a paved floor and South Uist. Key findings include: the first major successive hearths. Outside were new yards and Mesolithic flint assemblage recovered from Scilly; workshops for crafts and metalworking, which one of the most extensively excavated and long- were remodelled several times. Thousands of lasting Neolithic/Bronze Age occupation sites in artefacts and environmental remains from Milla the Channel Islands; the first substantial Neolithic Skerra reveal the everyday practices and seasonal settlement on Scilly; and the rhythms of the people that lived in longest sequence of Neolithic/ this windswept and remote island Early Bronze Age occupation Only settlement and their connections Only on a single site from the Outer £28.50 until to both land and sea. £18.75 until Hebrides. publication 144p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 192p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) Books 2017) 9781785703430 Hb 9781785703478 Pb £38.00 £25.00

Prehistoric Britain and Ireland 13 Hill-Forts of the Cotswolds Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon By Sean Campbell Settlement along the Empingham This book provides a detailed to Hannington Pipeline in background to the many Northamptonshire and Rutland hill-forts situated in the Cotswolds - how they were By Simon Carlyle, Jason Clarke & Andy Chapman structured, what materials Nineteen sites were investigated, dating primarily were used to build them, and to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. the different defences built to The Iron Age and Roman sites were small rural protect the sites. The author settlements comprising ditched enclosures, the also surveys interpretations remains of roundhouses and pits. A Roman site of their purpose, then gives near Rushton, Northamptonshire may be associated an A-Z guide to each of the with a villa estate. An Anglo-Saxon cremation thirty four known enclosures in the Gloucestershire cemetery dated to the late 5th century area. to mid-7th century AD contained 16 cremation burials along with Only 96p, b/w and col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445660028 small assemblages of grave goods. £21.00 Pb £14.99 144p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress until 30th Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge 2017) 9781784915346 Pb £26.00 September By Dan Garner Dress and Identity in Iron This volume details the results of the four year Habitats and Hillforts Project, and sets out how Age Britain these contribute to a deeper understanding of the By Elizabeth M. Foulds ordering of the landscape in western Cheshire Through an analysis of glass during the later prehistoric period and beyond. beads from four key study Their chronology can now be seen to have regions in Britain, the book developed from middle/late Bronze Age origins, aims not only to address much earlier than traditionally accepted. regional differences in The possible development of appearance and chronology, distinct architectural styles in their Only but also to explore the role that this object played construction can be suggested £36.00 and an enhanced understanding within the networks of their surrounding landscape until 30th and relationships that has been achieved. September constructed Iron Age society. 277p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress It seeks to understand how 2016) 9781784914660 Pb £45.00 they were used during their lives and how they came to be deposited within the Iron Age Hillfort Defences and archaeological record, in order Only to establish the social processes the Tactics of Sling Warfare £40.00 By Peter Robertson that glass beads were bound within. until 30th Was the purpose of an September Iron Age hillfort to defend 352p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress people and resources or was 2017) 9781784915261 Pb £50.00 it there to show the power Brochs and the of the community and its The Impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland leaders? This book reports as Seen in the Leckie Broch Excavations an investigation of these issues. Sling accuracy at a By Euan W. MacKie hillfort was measured for The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in the first time, in a controlled Stirlingshire, Scotland, during the 1970s revealed experiment comparing Roman finds of considerable quality. Many of them attack and defence across seemed like gifts to the broch chief, despite the clear single and developed ramparts. Tactical scenarios evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a modelled from the results showed that hillfort later date. This study interprets the finds development gave defenders and the destruction of the broch in increased advantage. These the context of Roman expansion Only into southwest Scotland, and in results support defence as the Only £24.00 explanation for the features of £20.00 particular the campaigns and strategy of Agricola. until 30th the enclosing works of hillforts. until 30th 122p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September 144p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September 9781784914103 Pb £25.00 2016) 9781784914400 Pb £30.00

14 Prehistoric Britain and Ireland European Prehistory Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Appropriating Innovations First Textiles Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000–1500 BCE The Beginnings of Textile Production in Europe Edited by Joseph Maran & Philipp Stockhammer and the Mediterranean Appropriating Innovations Edited by Małgorzata Siennicka, Lorenz Rahmstorf & aims to shed light on Agata Ulanowska conditions that may This book is devoted to the facilitate the rapid spread early textile production of technological innovation in Europe and the and on processes involved Mediterranean and aims in the integration of new to collect and investigate technologies into the life the combined evidence of world of the appropriating textile and leather remains, societies. In particular, tools, workplaces and textile papers concentrate on two iconography. The chapters key innovations, namely the discuss recent achievements transmission of the various components of the so- in research on ancient textiles called “Secondary Products Revolution” in parts of and textile production, the Near East and Europe during the 4th millennium textile techniques such as spinning, fabric and skin BCE and the appropriation of early manufacture, use of textile tools and bronze casting technology, which experimental textile archaeology. spread from the Near East to The volume explores important Only Only Europe and China in the late 3rd cultural and social aspects £34.00 until and early 2nd millennium BCE. £36.00 until of textile production, and its publication 296p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication development. Books 2017) 9781785707247 Hb 272p, b/w and colour illus. (Oxbow £48.00 Books 2017) 9781785707988 Hb £45.00 The Earliest Europeans – a Year in the Bodies of Clay Life On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg & Valeska Becker By Rob Hosfield Since the earliest use of The Earliest Europeans pottery, vessels have been explores the early origins associated with both the of man in Europe through general shape and specific the perspective of ‘a year parts of the human body. in the life’: how hominins This collection of 12 papers in the Lower Palaeolithic stems from work on coped with the year-round anthropomorphic features practical challenges of of Neolithic communities mid-latitude Europe with between the Near East and its distinctive temperatures, Europe. Contributors are seasonality patterns, and engaged in questions about available resources. Using the analysis of human features and characteristics a season-by-season chapter on vessels, their occurrence, function and disposal. structure Hosfield explores how foods and other Beginning with the European Neolithic and moving resources would vary across the four seasons in on through the Bronze and Iron Ages, papers quantity and quality, and the resulting implications focus on diachronic archaeological patterns and for hominin behaviours. by testing the likelihood contexts as well as on the theoretical background of different scenarios by comparing short-term, of this particular type of container in order to site-based insights with long-term, shed light on similarities and regional trends, Hosfield is able differences through the ages and to understand possibilities and to out forward ideas on how our Only Only earliest European ancestors limits of interpretation. £11.99 until £28.50 until survived and what their lives 160p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) were like. publication 9781785706967 Pb £38.00 publication 160p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707612 Pb £15.99 15 The Northern Rock Art Tradition Dwelling on the edge of the Neolithic in Central Investigating Human Behaviour through the By Kalle Sognnes Spatial Analysis of Corded Ware Settlement This book examines the Northern (Stone Age) Material in the Dutch Coastal Wetlands rock art of central Norway, which is dominated by (2900-2300 calBc) images of marine and terrestrial motifs. It focuses By Gary Robert Nobles on how these images were drawn and are classified, This volume presents a on the topographical location of the sites, on their detailed spatial analysis of dating and cultural context, and on the relationship the sites of Keinsmerbrug, between rock art and material culture, and offers Mienakker, and Zeewijk. possible interpretations. These Late Neolithic 208p, b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports 2017) settlement sites define 9781407315164 Pb £37.00 the westernmost edge of the Corded Ware Culture The People of Palomas (c. 2900-2300 cal BC). The Neandertals from the Sima de Las Palomas people took part in a broad del Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain spectrum of activities: Edited by Erik Trinkaus & Michael J. Walker hunting, gathering, fishing, The Neanderthal site at agriculture, animal husbandry, and artisan crafts. Sima de las Palomas del They maintained their regional traditions while Cabezo Gordo, located in dwelling on the edge of this Neolithic cultural Murcia in southeastern group. The study depicts Neolithic households Spain consists of the remains as highly mobile with sedentary and seasonal of multiple individuals, settlements. adding appreciable breadth 355p (Barkhuis 2016) 9789492444073 Pb £70.00 to the available data for a greater understanding Fluvial Processes in the Pleistocene of Neanderthals. Further, of its location in the Iberian By Wei Chu Peninsula south of Building on previous models characterizing fluvial the Pyrenees suggests potential for studying a disturbance, the research presented in this volume population that may have been somewhat isolated focuses on identifying new ways of understanding from contemporaneous groups of early humans. how lithic assemblages are affected by rivers This comprehensive analysis represents the first through a series of experiments. It is argued that detailed overview of the human fossil assemblage these effects are predictable, but dependent on found at the Sima de las Palomas site. aspects of river and artefact morphology. It is 328p b/w illus (Texas A&M UP 2017) 9781623494797 suggested that this new knowledge improves our Hb £65.95 understanding of the earliest human occupations of Northern Europe. 180p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2797, 2016) 9781407314617 Pb £36.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Woodland in the Neolithic of Northern Europe The Forest as Ancestor By Gordon Noble The dramatic changes of the Neolithic period occurred in environments that were radically different to those that exist today, and in northern Europe many landscapes would have been dominated by woodland. This book explores how human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of farming, and how the Neolithic in northern Europe was made possible through new ways of living in and understanding the environment. Drawing Only on a broad range of evidence, from pollen data and stone axes £60.00 to the remains of timber monuments and settlements, the until 30th book analyses the relationship between people, their material September culture, and their woodland environment. 205p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107159839 Hb £75.00

16 European Prehistory at the Crossroads NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A Consideration of Archaeological and Historical Connectivity The Neolithic of Europe Edited by David Davison, Vincent Gaffney, Preston Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle Miracle & Joanna Sofaer Edited by Penny Bickle, Vicki Cummings, Daniela The papers published here arise from the conference Hofmann & Joshua Pollard Croatia at the Crossroads. Each of them takes The Neolithic of Europe Croatia’s particular interconnectedness in terms comprises eighteen of social and cultural relationships with the wider specially commissioned region as the starting point for exploring issues papers on prehistoric across a broad chronological range, from human archaeology, written by origins to modernity. Within this, contributors pick leading international up on a variety of different fields of scholars. The coverage interconnectedness and forms of is broad, ranging interaction including biological, Only geographically from cultural, religious, military, £32.00 south-east Europe to trade, craft and maritime until 30th Britain and Ireland and relationships. September chronologically from the 278p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with a decided 2016) 9781784915308 Pb £40.00 focus on the former. Several papers discuss new scientific approaches to key questions in Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta Neolithic research, while others offer interpretive in the British Museum accounts of aspects of the archaeological record. By Josef Mario Briffa SJ & Claudia Sagona Thematically, the main foci are on Neolithisation; the archaeology of Neolithic daily life, settlements Ancient finds from Malta are rare, and those held in and subsistence; as well as monuments and the British Museum form an important collection. aspects of worldview. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, 340p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) Roman and more recent historic periods. Artefacts 9781785706547 Hb £48.00 excavated by notable Maltese archaeologist, Sir Themistocles Zammit, at the key Neolithic site of Tarxien, and New Perspectives on the Bronze Age those uncovered by Margaret Only Proceedings of the 13th Murray at Borg in-Nadur form £40.00 Symposium 2015 a crucial part of the collection. until 30th Edited by Sophie Bergerbrant & Anna Wessman 334p, b/w and col illus September This collection of articles helps to explain why the (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915889 Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination Pb £50.00 within modern Scandinavian archaeological research. by providing new theoretical and analytical Connecting Elites and Regions perspectives on the evidence new interpretative Perspectives on Contacts, Relations and avenues have opened, it situates the Differentiation During the Early Iron Age history of the Bronze Age in both Hallstatt C Period in Northwest and Central a local and a global setting. Only Europe 460p, b/w and col illus (Archaeo- £48.00 Edited by Robert Schumann & Sasja Van der Vaart- press 2017) 9781784915988 Pb until 30th Verschoof Connecting Elites and Regions brings together £60.00 September scholars from several research traditions and The Copper Age in Spain nations who present regional overviews and By Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla discussions of Early Iron Age elite burials and This investigation uses bioarchaeological methods, material culture from all over Northwest and such as osteological, palaeopathological and Central Europe. In many cases these are the first biochemical approaches (stable isotopes), in overviews available in English and together they combination with funerary context to reconstruct make regional research accessible to a wider the mortality, morbidity, dietary and mobility audience. As such this volume contributes to and patterns of two human skeletal populations from hopes to stimulate research on the Early Iron Age the Copper Age (c. 3300-2100 cal BC). The main Hallstatt C period on a European scale. objective was to test whether social differences were 325p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) already present during the 3rd millennium BC in 9789088904424 Pb £50.00, NYP southern Iberia. 287p, b/w and col figs (BAR 2840, 2017) 9781407315096 Pb £51.00 European Prehistory 17 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Eurasia at the Dawn of History Urbanization and Social Change Movement, Exchange and Identity in Edited by Manuel Fernandez-Gotz & Dirk Krausse Europe in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC The authors of this volume analyse the processes Beyond Frontiers of centralisation, cultural interaction, and social Edited by Anne Lehoërff & Marc Talon differentiation that led to the development of the Recent decades have first urban centres and early state formations of since a massive increase ancient Eurasia, from the Atlantic coasts to China. in large-scale excavation The chronological framework spans a period from programmes on either the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age, with a special side of the Channel in focus on the early first millennium BC. The book advance of major infra- adopts an interdisciplinary approach structured structure and urban around the concepts of identity and materiality. development, resulting in 420p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107147409 Hb £110.00 the acquisition of huge, complex new datasets The Black Sea in the Light of New enabling new insights into Archaeological Data and Theoretical later prehistoric life in this Approaches crucially important region. Papers consider the Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop role of several key archaeologists in transforming on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in our appreciation of the connectivity of the sea Thessaloniki, 18-20 September 2015 in prehistory; consider the extent to which the Edited by Manolis Manoledakis Channel zone developed into a closely unified This volume contains 19 papers on the archaeology cultural zone during later Bronze Age in terms and of the Black Sea region, covering of communities that serviced the movement of a vast period of time, from the Early Iron Age until artefacts across the Channel with both sides the Late Roman – Early Byzantine Periods. The sharing widely in the same artefacts and social majority of papers present archaeological material practices; examine funerary practices and that has come to light during the last few years, in settlement evidence and consider the relationship excavations that have been taking place in several between communities in social, parts of Pontus. Additionally, there are papers cultural and ideological terms; that present theoretical approaches to historical and consider mechanisms for Only issues concerning the Black Sea, its the transmission of ideas and £36.00 until local peoples, cultural aspects or Only how they may be reflected in publication specific sites, as well as a section the archaeological record. on the connections between the £40.00 256p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) Black Sea and northern Greece. until 30th 9781785707162 Hb £48.00 298p, col illus (Archaeopress 2016) September 9781784915100 Pb £50.00 World Archaeology Siruthavoor Prehistory and Archaeology An Iron Age-Early Historical burial site, of Northeast India Tamil Nadu, South India Multidisciplinary Investigation in By Smriti Haricharan an Archaeological Terra Incognita This study aims at using and understanding man- By Manjil Hazarika land relationships in order to better comprehend The book is multi-disciplinary in its scope and has the megalithic burials of Tamil Nadu. Many as its objective the reconstruction of the subsistence questions remain unanswered for the Iron Age strategies and way of life of the prehistoric of south India, and the megalithic burials are an communities in Northeast India and their important piece of this puzzle. This movements, dispersals, and settlements. Evidence site specific study helps us better has been gathered from ecological, ethnographical, understand some aspects such as Only anthropological, and genetic sciences to inspire spatial distribution, chronology £17.50 an interpretation of the available archaeological and post depositional changes until 30th data for examining linguistic hypotheses of early of the burials at Siruthavoor. September migration and dispersals of people in this region. 102p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 378p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199474660 Hb 2016) 9781784914356 Pb £22.00 £43.99 18 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Man and Environment in Prehistoric and Protohistoric South Asia Resistance at the Edge of Empires New Perspectives the Archaeology and History of the Bannu Edited by Aurore Didier & Benjamin Mutin Basin (Pakistan) from 1000 BC to AD 1200 This volume focuses mainly on the complex By C.A. Petrie and P. Magee relationships between man and a changing From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research environment in prehistoric and protohistoric South initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Asia. It presents 22 papers from the 2012 conference Project conducted archaeological explorations of The European Association for South Asian and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was Archaeology and Art. then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of 384p (Brepols 2016) 9782503568034 Pb £75.00 Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final An Illustrated Companion to Japanese reports of the exploration and excavations carried Archaeology out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. It presents Edited by Werner Steinhaus & Simon Kaner the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic The Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period provides, for the first time a comprehensive visual when the first large scale empires expanded to introduction to a wide range of sites and finds the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of from the earliest occupation of the Japanese Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first archipelago prior to 35,000 years and beginning of the second millennium BC. The ago to the early historical periods Bannu region provides specific insight into early and the establishment of the Only in South Asia, as throughout this Chinese-style capital at Heijō, £28.00 protracted period, it was able to modern-day Nara, in the 8th until 30th maintain a distinctive regional century AD. identity in the face of recurring Only September phases of imperial expansion 349p, col illus (Archaeopress 2016) £37.50 until 9781784914257 Pb £35.00 and integration. publication 416p (Oxbow Books 2017) Bioarchaeology and Climate Change 9781785703034 Hb £50.00 A View from South Asian Prehistory Puşpika¯ Volume 4 By Gwen Robbins Schug Tracing Ancient India Through Text During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), and Traditions agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they Edited by Lucas den Boer & Daniele Cuneo precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains integrates the most recent paleoclimate the proceedings of the reconstructions with an innovative analysis of seventh International skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned Indology Graduate Research villages to provide a new interpretation of the Symposium (Leiden 2015). archaeological record of this period. Her work The first four articles focus clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change on the Sanskrit language, paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human- from the strictly linguistic environmental transformations. World Archaeology and historical perspective to the wider political issue 192p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2016) 9780813054124 Pb of its uses and abuses. The £22.95 second section deals with Amaravati issues in poetry, aesthetics and performative arts, The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument ranging from classical Sanskrit mahākāvyas to in Context contemporary Kathak dance. The third section is Edited by Akira Shimada & Michael Willis focused on the philosophical traditions of South The Andhra region, located along the south-east Asia (and beyond), with an eye to both a strictly coast of India, welcomed Buddhism in the third historical approach and a more Century BCE and a stūpa, probably built to house a argumentative and evaluative relic of the Buddha from the north, was constructed one. Finally material culture Only at Amaravati. The papers in this book address and its relations to both the aspects of Amaravati and its sculpture. Subjects historical and the ideological £22.50 until covered in this volume include the rediscovery of are the themes treated in the last publication the stūpa at the end of the 18th century as well as section of the volume. its recreation in the 21st century. 182p, b/w figures (Oxbow Books 2017) 152p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2016) 9780861592074 9781785707568 Pb £30.00 Pb £40.00

World Archaeology 19 The White Shaman Mural new from oxbow books By Carolyn E. Boyd The prehistoric hunter- Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas gatherers of the Lower Forests Pecos Canyonlands of Texas By Tim Perttula and Coahuila, Mexico, In this major, highly created some of the most illustrated, new study spectacularly complex, Tim Perttula explores colourful, extensive, and the cultural and social enduring rock art of the landscape of the Caddo ancient world. Perhaps the Indian peoples (hayaanuh) greatest of these masterpieces for about 1000 years is the White Shaman mural. between c. 900 and 1900 Unlike previous scholars AD. There were continual who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and changes in the character indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White and extent of ancestral Shaman mural was intentionally composed as landscapes, through a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as images to communicate multiple levels of meaning in relationships between different communities and function. of Caddo peoples dispersed or concentrated 288p, col illus (University of Texas Press 2016) across the landscape at different points in time. 9781477310304 Hb £56.00 Caddo Landscapes explores the ancestral Caddo constructed landscape, providing detailed An Ice Age Mystery information on earthen mounds, specialized Unearthing the Secrets of the Old Vero Site non-mound structures, domestic settlements and By Rody L. Johnson their key facilities as well as associated gardens In 1916, to the shock and Egypt and fields, and places where salt, clay, lithic raw scepticism of the science materials, and other materials were obtained world, a Florida geologist and the social ties that linked communities in discovered human remains numerous ways. The character and key sequences mixed with the bones of of ceramics are discussed and radiometric dating prehistoric animals in a Vero evidence provided. Beach canal and proclaimed 264p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) that humans had lived in 9781785705762 Pb £38.00 North America since the Ice Age. One hundred years after the first Vero discovery, excavations were reopened. Discovering North American Rock Art Archaeologists uncovered 14,000-year-old burnt Edited by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Christopher mammal bones and charcoal, signs of a human Chippindale & David S. Whitley presence. This book draws readers into the past, This book explores the present, and future of one of the most historic history of rock art research in discoveries in American archaeology. North America and provides 224p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2016) 9780813054377 Hb coverage of the subject on a £27.95 continental scale. Written by contributors active in rock The Protohistoric Pueblo World, art research, it examines A.D. 1275-1600 sites that provide a cross- Edited by Charles E. Adams section of regions and topics This book describes and interprets the period of and complements existing southwestern history immediately before and after books on rock art by offering initial European contact, AD 1275-1600 – a span new information, insights, of time during which Pueblo peoples and culture and approaches to research. were dramatically transformed. It summarises one 346p, b/w illus (University of Arizona Press 2016) hundred years of research and archaeological data 9780816534104 Pb £37.95 for the Pueblo IV period as it explores the nature of the organisation of village clusters and what they meant in behavioural and political terms. 229p, b/w illus (University of Arizona Press 2016) 9780816533633 Pb £37.95

20 World Archaeology The White Lady and Atlantis: Eastern Sudan in its Setting Ophir and Great Zimbabwe The Archaeology of a Region Far from Investigation of an Archaeological Myth the Nile Valley By Jean-Loic Le Quellec By Andrea Manzo This book tells the story The ongoing research project in Eastern Sudan of the discovery of a rock by the University ‘L’Orientale’ has provided a art image in the 1950s – preliminary reconstruction of the history of the the so-called White Lady region from c. 6000 BC to AD 1500. This publication - and its interpretation by outlines this reconstruction, highlighting several the abbe Breuil and his key aspects: the spread of domestic crops and pupil Henri Lhote, as well animals towards the Ethio-Eritrean highlands, as how this fitted into their the spread of the Sahelian crops towards India via wider theories about a the Red Sea and Arabia, as well as prehistoric white presence the long-distance trade network in southern Africa, how it characterizing northeastern Only filtered into and amplified Africa in the 3rd and 2nd £20.00 millennia BC. until 30th popular myth and culture, and Only ultimately how it was used in 100p, col illus (Archaeopress 2017) September the service of apartheid South £36.00 9781784915582 Pb £25.00 Africa. until 30th 330p, col illus (Archaeopress 2016) September 9781784914707 Pb £45.00 Egypt Pharaoh Egypt 2015 of Ancient Egypt Perspectives of Research: Proceedings of the By Aude Semet, Margaret Todd Maitland & Marie Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists Vandenbeusch (2nd-7th June, 2015, Zagreb - Croatia) This book provides an overview of the Ancient Edited by Mladen Tomorad Egyptian Pharaohs and their material culture This volume is divided into six sections: language, through artefacts from the collections of the literature and religious texts; art, iconography and British Museum. In an introductory essay, Margaret architectural studies; funerary and burial studies; Maitland looks at Egyptian kingship in terms of material culture and museum both ideology and practicality. Then Aude Semat studies; historical studies; and Only considers the Egyptian image of kingship, its roles Egyptomania and modern and its uses. In ten additional sections, Marie travellers to Egypt. £40.00 Vandenbeusch delves into themes related to the 370p, b/w and col illus until 30th land of ancient Egypt, conceptions of kingship, the (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915841 September exercise of power, royal daily life, and death and Pb £50.00 afterlife. 180p, col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9780300218381 Hb £40.00 Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar, Volume 19 (2015) Illuminating Osiris The Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Mark Smith Studies in Honor of Dorothea Arnold Edited by Richard Jasnow & Ghislaine Widmer Edited by Ogden Goelet Illuminating Osiris contains twenty-seven articles by This volume contains seventy articles by sixty-four students, friends, and colleagues in honour of Mark Egyptologists, conservators, and scientists, who Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of examine aspects of art history, archaeology, burial Oxford. The contributions in this volume naturally customs, language, chronology, conservation, and reflect his particular interests in the religion and museum studies covering all periods of ancient literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing Egypt. with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among 696p, b/w Illus (Egyptological Seminar of New York other subjects. The book includes many editions or 2016) 9780981612027 Pb £80.00 reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. 496p (Lockwood Press 2017) 9781937040741 Hb £90.00

21 Rich and Great new from oxbow books Studies in Honour of Anthony J. Spalinger on the Occasion of His 70th Feast of Thoth Flora Trade between Egypt and Africa Edited by Renata Landgrafova & Jana Mynarova in Antiquity Professor Spalinger’s scholarship spans from the Edited by Ilaria Incordino & Pearce Paul Creasman Old Kingdom down to the Late Period. The subjects This collection of on which he has published range from problems papers focuses on one connected with the Egyptian army and military particularly important documents to literature, narrative strategies in royal aspect of foreign trade: the inscriptions and monumental relief decoration. importation of aromatic He has studied Egyptian calendrics and rituals products. Contributors connected with feasts in great detail. The articles present the results of the assembled in the present volume reflect Professor latest researches into the Spalinger’s wide range of interests in celebration of origin and meaning of his 70th birthday. foreign aromatic products 346p, col and b/w illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology imported in Egypt from 2016) 9788073086688 Hb £70.00 the south (Nubia, Punt, Arabia, Horn of Africa) from the beginning of Psammetichus II the Dynastic period. The quest for aromata has Reign, Documents and Officials been of a crucial importance in Egypt, since it By Roberto B. Gozzoli was closely connected with economic, political, This volume employs royal monuments, papyri ideological, religious and mythic spheres. and graffiti, to provide a comprehensive study of Through archaeological research, epigraphic the reign of Psammetichus II (ruled 595 589 BC.). In analysis and iconographic investigations new Egyptology he is best known for leading a Nubian evidence is explored supporting the most likely campaign in a period when Egypt was fighting hypothesis about the sources of these raw for its life against the more powerful Babylonian materials. kingdom. 112p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 280p (Golden House Publications 2017) 9781906137410 9781785706363 Pb £29.99 Pb £49.00 Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art Warfare and Weaponry in Edited by Lubica Hudáková, Peter Jánosi & Dynastic Egypt Andrea Kahlbacher By Rebecca Angharad Dean The creativity of artistic production during the Rebecca Dean here provides Middle Kingdom is vast and highly appreciated, an overview of warfare in but still far from fully understood. The studies Ancient Egypt. She looks presented in this volume aim to present this at the place of warfare in extraordinary output of two and three-dimensional Ancient Egyptian society, artworks in a critical reevaluation of old ideas and the organisation of Egyptian convictions while advancing new methods and armies, the tactics and exchanging ideas. strategy employed and the 144p, b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2016) defence of the Kingdom. 9781906137502 Hb £45.00 Above she draws on experimental archaeology Dossiers of Ancient Egyptian Women to provide insights into the The Middle Kingdom and Second weapons which were used and how they handled, Intermediate Period also exploring the archaeological evidence for By Danijela Stefanovic trauma and battle wounds. Discussion also takes in The book collects more than 400 dossiers of the the role of women in warfare. Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period 182p, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473823556 Hb non-royal women. This work is complementary £19.99 to D. Franke Personendaten aus dem Mittleren Reich (Wiesbaden 1984), and to W. Grajetzki and D. Stefanović, Dossiers of Ancient Egyptians –the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period addition to Franke’s ‘Personendaten’ ( 2012) establishing sets of data for women known from more than one source. 252p (Golden House Publications 2016) 9781906137519 Pb £30.00 22 Egypt Liber Amicorum–Speculum Siderum The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt Nu¯t Astrophoros By Richard H. Wilkinson Edited by Nadine Guilhou & Antigone Maniati Egyptian temples had a In this book are gathered papers that deal mainly variety of functions and with the goddess Nūt and her mythology and social meanings, from being cosmographic notions related to her, the stars houses for the gods, focal and other celestial luminaries, orientations of points of worship, funerary monuments, ancient Egyptian constellations monuments for pharaohs and decans, the notion of time, calendars, and other important religious and funerary observances related to individuals, often also the sky, ancient Egyptian religion, religious and doubling up as fortresses, amuletic artefacts, religious mythology, as well as administrative centres, archaeoanthropological and medicinal studies, expressions of propaganda papers on ancient Egyptian and status. This `complete’ Mathematics, Egyptophilia, guide covers all these aspects, accompanied by a Only Egyptomania and ancient host of building plans, colourful reconstructions Egyptian collections. £45.00 and photographs of excavated buildings and 400p, b/w and col illus until 30th artefacts. (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784915223 September 256p, b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2000, Pb Pb £56.00 2017) 9780500283967 Pb £18.95 The Complete Gods and Digital Giza Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Visualizing the Pyramids By Richard H. Wilkinson By Peter Der Manuelian Here is a comprehensive and With the advent of many new technologies in the authoritative guide to the twenty-first century, the Giza Necropolis is available deities that lay at the heart of in two, three, and even four dimensions. However, Egyptian religion and society. these new approaches do raise questions: Does 3-D It examines the evolution, modeling and animation truly improve scholarly worship and eventual comprehension and interpretation? Where is the decline of the numerous border between academic knowledge and mere gods and goddesses - from entertainment? Through specific case studies and minor household figures an in-depth history of this important project, Peter such as Bes and Taweret Der Manuelian provides an excellent model for to the all-powerful deities other digital visualization initiatives. He also offers Amun and Re - that made more general philosophical reflection on the nature Egypt the most completely theocratic society of the of visualization in archaeology and speculates about ancient world, and made Egyptians, according to emerging technologies and how they may be useful Herodotus, ‘more religious than any other people’. in the future. 256p, b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2003, Pb 270p, col illus (Harvard UP 2016) 9780674731233 Pb 2017) 9780500284247 Pb £18.95 £19.95

EDITOR’S CHOICE A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2 From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom By John Romer This definitive, multi-volume history of the world’s first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. He reveals how the grand narratives of nineteenth and twentieth-century Egyptologists Only have misled us by portraying a culture of cruel monarchs and chronic war. Instead, based in part on discoveries of the past £24.00 two decades, this extraordinary account shows what we can until 30th really learn from the remaining architecture, objects and September writing: a history based on physical reality. 672p, (Penguin 2016) 9781846143793 Hb £30.00

Egypt 23 Beni Hassan Burial Assemblages from Bab El-Gasus Volume II: Two Old Kingdom Tombs in the Geographical Society of Lisbon By Miral Lashien, Anna-Latifa Mourad & By Rogerio Sousa Ashraf Senussi The objects published in this book are from the This volume is devoted to the recording and undisturbed collective tomb of the priests and study of the only decorated Old Kingdom tombs priestesses of Amun (Theban necropolis, 21st at the site. The examination comprises detailed Dynasty). Combining new conceptual frameworks coloured plates, complete line drawings as well as with epigraphic methods of survey, this catalogue the translation and interpretation of all the scenes proposes a thorough methodology for the textual and inscriptions in the tombs. The commentary description and visual documentation of each additionally includes a report on the tombs’ object. architecture as well as a study of a large amount of 305p, b/w illus (Brepols 2017) 9782503565750 Pb £85.00 pottery discovered in the shafts and dating to the period from the Sixth to the Twelfth Dynasty. Studies on the Vignettes from Chapter 52p, 32 col pls, 15 b&w folded pls (Australian Centre for 17 of the Book of the Dead Egyptology 2016) 9780856688614 Pb £60.00 I: The Image of ms´.w Bdšt in Ancient Egyptian Beni Hassan Mythology Volume III: The Tomb of Amenemhat By Mykola Tarasenka Among the numerous deities in the ancient By Naguib Kanawati, Linda Evans & Anna-Latifa Egyptian mythology, whose nature and function Mourad are still vague and obscure, are mś.w Bdšt – The third volume of the Beni Hassan series is ‘Children of Weakness’. These beings are twice devoted to the recording and study of the Twelfth mentioned in the Book of the Dead chapter 17. This Dynasty tomb of Amenemhat, great overlord of book is a comprehensive study of the ‘Children the Oryx nome. It presents a new and complete of Weakness’ myth and the scene record of the tomb’s scenes in drawing and coloured depicting the cat, cutting off the photographs, and comrpises the translation and head of the serpent under the Only interpretation of all scenes and inscriptions in the branches of the išd-tree found £24.00 tomb, including that of Amenemhat’s biography on the number of Book of the until 30th which recounts in detail his career and participation Dead chapter 17 vignettes. in military campaigns. September 159p (Archaeopress 2016) 60p, 80 col pls; 30 b/w folded pls (Australian Centre for 9781784914509 Pb £30.00 Egyptology 2016) 9780856688669 Pb £85.00 The Terracotta Figurines from Tell Timai Chronological Developments in the 2009-2013 Old Kingdom Tombs in the Necropoleis By James E. Bennett, Robert J. Littman & of Giza, Saqqara And Abusir Jay Silverstein By Leo Roeten This study documents the corpus of terracotta The dimensions of tombs have been chosen as the figurines that were found during excavations at Tell subject of this study. The conclusion Timai between 2009 and 2013. The study assesses is that economic decline had the locations in which terracotta figurines have already set in during the early Only been found both at Tell Timai and across Egypt, dynastic period and was not £24.00 and discusses their usage within the settlements of a result of collapse of the Old until 30th Pharaonic and Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt. Kingdom. September 93p, b/w illus (BAR 2834, 2016) 9781407315621 Pb £19.00 158p (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914608 Pb £30.00 The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Catalogo Degli Ushabti Del Museo Akhenaten Egizio Di Firenze Volume I By Josef Wegner II Periodo Intermedio - Nuovo Regno The quartzite block E16230 is one of the few large By Giacomo Cavillier architectural pieces in the world surviving from The Egyptian Museum of Florence contains around the much-debated reign of the “heretic” king eight hundred ushabtis belonging to the end of Akhenaten. This volume represents the first full the Second Intermediate and Roman Period. This publication of the object and provides for the first volume contains a general introduction about the time a translation and discussion of its important history of the collection, the abbreviations and texts, along with analysis of the architectural textual codes, the records, a photographic section, a evidence it provides. useful index and a bibliography. Italian text. 184p, b/w and col illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 367p, b/w illus (BAR 2828, 2016) 9781407314884 Pb 2017) 9781934536872 Hb £47.00 £65.00 24 Egypt From Aswan to Khartoum Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt Czech Archaeological Explorations Between the By Youssri Ezzat Hussein Nile Cataracts This book examines different forms of ritual By Lenka Varadzinova activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman This book is concerned with the field research Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record carried out in the Middle Nile region by the of rural housing and evidence from literature or expeditions of the Czech Institute of Egyptology. papyrological references to both urban The overview of the field projects is set into a and rural housing, suggesting that broader context of the civilizational developments the house was the locus of social, Only in the Middle Nile region and the history of its religious, and funerary rituals in £20.00 uncovering from the 19th century onwards. Graeco-Roman Egypt. until 30th 55p, col illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2016) 112p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September 9788073086725 Pb £13.00 2016) 9781784914370 Pb £25.00 The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the De l’Oreille a l’Ecoute Suzuki Collection of Tokai University Etude des Documents Votifs de l’Ecoute Japan By Nathalie Toye-Dubs By Kyoko Yamahana, Joseph Manning & Richard This book deals with a category of documents Jasnow which develops the topic of a god who listens to This volume publishes, for prayer - stelae with depictions of one or more the first time, approximately human ears and votive ears, along with prayers on fifty late Egyptian texts from various objects where the invoked deity is referred the Suzuki collection held to as the god who listens to prayer. A surprising at Tokai University, Japan. chronological partition emerges which enables a They present an interesting link to be established between the abandonment range of document types of ear stelae and the development of oracular and examples of demotic consultations by individuals. handwriting, and a few 224p (BAR 2811, 2016) 9781407314600 Pb £40.00 surprises. Among the more intriguing pieces are Old Kingdom Copper Tools and a fine word list and a new Model Tools mythological narrative. By Martin Odler 200p (Lockwood Press 2016) 9781937040628 Hb £45.00 It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from the Old Kingdom is meagre. A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic and Temple Library palaeographic evidence and examines Old Kingdom By Rana Serida artefacts in order to revise this view. Furthermore, This volume presents the first edition of a hitherto he provides updated definitions of tool classes and unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple tool kits, together with the context of their use. library (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to The long-standing division in the have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle; Egyptological literature between full-size tools and model tools is Only it is set in the reign of king Necho I (672-664 BC), £36.00 who is mainly known for his rebellion against the questioned. Assyrians, and also mentions general Anosis. The 308p, b/w and col illus until 30th text makes repeated mention of the castration of an (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914424 September individual, who is made into a eunuch. Pb £45.00 122p (Museum Tusculanum Press 2016) 9788763544320 Chariots in Ancient Egypt Hb £49.99 The Tano Chariot, A Case Study Theological Defences of the Canopic By André J. Veldmeijer, Salima Ikram, Ole Herslund, Gate in the Saïte Period Lisa Sabbahy & Lucy Skinner This book publishes 60 leather fragments which By Anne-Sophie von Bomhard all came from a single chariot, including portions This work explores the theological defences of the bow-case, the body’s casing and the horse conceived by the Egyptians at Thonis-Heracleion housing. The find is put into context with chapters to guard the Canopic gate, the main entrance to on relevant hieroglyphic texts, and a study of the port, and the entry-point to Egypt for foreign representations of chariots that help identify the vessels. The divine forces, including Khonsu-Thoth various parts, and highlight the role of the chariot in and Neith, were deployed alongside military forces Egyptian religion, propaganda, and culture. that were also located at the Canopic gate, and also served to legitimate the power of the Saïte . 550p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904677 Hb £375.00, 9789088904660 Pb 200p, b/w illus (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology £125.00, NYP 2017) 9789781905902 Hb £45.00, NYP Egypt 25 Ptolemy I Sailors, Musicians and Monks King and Pharaoh of Egypt The Leatherwork from Dra Abu el Naga By Ian Worthington (Luxor, Egypt) This is the first full-lenth By André J. Veldmeijer biography of Ptolemy I This volume describes, in English. It traces his illustrates, and analyses remarkable career from the leather finds from the boyhood friend of Alexander excavations at Dra Abu the Great, fighting with el-Naga, an important him in the epic battles and necropolis on the east bank sieges which toppled the of the Nile in Luxor (Egypt), Persian Empire, and after including footwear, musical Alexander’s death taking objects, loincloths as well as over Egypt, where he reigned parts of furniture. The dating as Satrap then Pharaoh for of these objects, mirroring forty years. Worthington sets out his military the variety, ranges from achievements and strategy, his intellectual and Pharaonic to Ottoman. cultural patronage, and his administration of Egypt, 200p col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904165 Hb and provides a reinterpretation of his “History of £180.00, 9789088904158 Pb £60.00 Alexander”. 280p, (Oxford UP 2016) 9780190202330 Hb £22.99 Excavations of Gebel Adda (Lower Nubia) Honor Among Thieves Ancient Nubian Leatherwork. Part I. Craftsmen, Merchants and Associations in Sandals and Shoes Roman and Late Roman Egypt By André J. Veldmeijer By Philip F. Venticinque The excavations of Gebel Philip F. Venticinque’s new volume examines Adda (Lower Nubia) in 1962- associations of craftsmen in the framework of 1966 yielded large quantities ancient economics and transaction costs. The of objects, including an analysis presented here concentrates on how impressive collection of craftsmen, merchants, and associations interacted leatherwork. This volume with each other and with elite and non-elite presents the footwear (sandals constituencies; managed economic, political, social, and shoes). It includes detailed and legal activities; represented their concerns to the descriptions, accompanied authorities; and acquired and used social capital - a by colour photographs and, new and important view of these economic engines. where necessary, drawings, 277p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472130160 as well as discussion of topics Hb £65.95 such as typological development, diachronic change, and geographical variations. 300p, col illus (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088904134 Hb £220.00, 9789088904127 Pb £90.00 Ancient Near East Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Parcours d’Orient Classical World and the Near East Recueil de Textes Offert à Christine Kepinski In the Crucible of Empire Edited by Berengere Perello & Aline Tenu Edited by J. G. Manning The topics addressed in these papers reflect the The essays in this volume consider some of the ways scientific work of Christine Kepinski, who always in which imperial rule was resisted and challenged, promoted interdisciplinary approaches and in the Assyrian, Persian, and Hellenistic (Seleucid developed multi-scale analysis from the object and Ptolemaic) empires, from resistance to unrest, itself to regional study. Several papers are directly to grain riots and peasant rebellions. Discussions connected to fieldwork she conducted in Iraq and focus on the nature and the drivers of resistance in Turkey: Haradum and the Middle Euphrates and revolution, the motivations for them as well as area, Tilbeshar and Kunara. Others are devoted to material study, a summary of the events that have left their mark on Only our historical sources long after the dust had settled. notably glyptic, seals and sealing £36.00 304p, (Brill 2016) 9789004330177 Hb £130.00 practices. Papers in French and English. until 30th 256p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September 9781784914585 Pb £45.00 26 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Painting Pots – Painting People Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Jerusalem 1961–1967, Volume VI Mesopotamia Sites on the Edge of the Ophel Edited by Walter Cruells, Inna Mateiciucová & By Kay Prag Olivier Nieuwenhuyse In this volume the principal Over the past decade there focus is on the presence/ has been a huge increase absence of the city walls in research focusing on on the east side of the city various aspects of ceramic from the Iron Age onwards. production, its origins and The evidence for major evolution, distribution walls and their structure and consumption in from Iron Age II to the the Late Neolithic (ca. Byzantine periods in Sites 7000–5000 cal. BC). The S.II and R.II is described 19 papers presented here and substantial revisions bring together specialists suggested, as inter alia discussing Neolithic no evidence for the tenth century/Solomonic ceramics from the Near East in the broadest date in Site S.II as suggested by E. Mazar was sense, with a general focus on decorated pottery uncovered. Additionally John Hayes presents traditions. What raw materials and ceramic the catalogue of all the Late Roman fine wares technologies did Late Neolithic peoples employ? from all remaining unpublished sites excavated How did they paint their designs? How may we by the Joint Expedition. A major contribution to analyse decorated ceramics to explore social the study of Ayyubid ceramics is provided by an networks and identities? What did these decorated assemblage from a large dump of the period. pottery traditions mean socially? 324p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706530 Hb £50.00 272p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704390 Hb £45.00 Arsacids, Romans and Local Elites Cross-Cultural Interactions of The Emergence of Pottery in the West Asia Edited by Jason Schlude & Benjamin Rubin Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse & For almost 500 years (247 Stuart Campbell BCE–224 CE), the Arsacid In recent years, however, kings of Parthia ruled over a there has been a vast multi-cultural empire, tremendous increase in which encompassed much research in various parts of central Asia and the of West Asia focusing Near East. This collection explicitly on the emergence of new papers examines of pottery production. interactions among the It has generally become Arsacids, Romans, and accepted that the adoption local elites from a variety Ancient Near East of pottery in West Asia of scholarly perspectives. happened relatively late The seven chapters investigate different aspects in the history of ceramics. of war, diplomacy, trade, and artistic production For the first time, The as mechanisms of cross-cultural communication Emergence of Pottery in West Asia examines and exchange in the Parthian empire. Arsacids, in detail the when, where, how and why of the Romans, and Local Elites will prove significant arrival of the first pottery in the region. A key for those interested in the legacy of Hellenistic insight that emerges is that we must not confuse and Achaemenid art and ideology in the Parthian the reasons for pottery adoption with the long- empire, the sometimes under-appreciated role of term consequences. Neolithic peoples in West diplomacy in creating and maintaining peace in Asia did not adopt pottery because of the many the ancient Middle East, and the importance of uses and functions it would gain many centuries local dynasts in kingdoms like Judaea, Osrhoene, later and the development of ceramic technology and Hatra in shaping the geopolitical landscape of needs to be examined in the context of its original the Near East, alongside the imperial powerhouses cultural and social milieu. of Rome and Parthia. 196p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705922 Pb 9781785705267 Hb £70.00 £36.00

Ancient Near East 27 Stone Vessels in the Near East During Nineveh, the Great City the Iron Age and the Persian Period Symbol of Beauty and Power (C. 1200-330 BCE) Edited by Lucas P. Petit & Daniele Morandi Bonacossi By Andrea Squitieri This volume contains more than 65 articles, This book focuses on the characteristics and providing the reader with a detailed and thorough the development of the stone vessel industry study of the site of Nineveh, the once-flourishing in the Near East during the Iron Age and the capital of the Assyrian Empire, destroyed in 612 BC. Persian period. Three main aspects of this industry It describes the history of the city, the excavations are investigated. First, the technology behind and its material culture. Special attention is paid to the manufacture of stone vessels, the tools and the endangered heritage of Nineveh, which recently techniques, and how these changed across time. faced destruction for the second time in its history. Second, the mechanisms of exchange of stone 330p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) vessels and how these were affected by the changing 9789088904974 Hb £195.00, 9789088904967 Pb £65.00, political landscape through time. NYP Third, the consumption patterns Only of stone vessels in both elite and The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran non-elite contexts. £36.00 Edited by D. T. Potts 288p, (Archaeopress 2017) until 30th This comprehensive survey, 9781784915520 Pb £45.00 September authored by specialists based both inside and outside of Iran, Mesopotamia is divided into chronological Ancient Art and Architecture sections covering the region By Zainab Bahrani from earliest Prehistory This book presents a comprehensive survey of to the Arab conquest. In art and architecture in Mesopotamia, from 8000 addition, more specialized BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE. It addresses chapters are included which such essential art historical themes as the origins treat numismatics, religion, of narrative representation, the first emergence languages, political ideology, of historical public monuments and the earliest calendrics, the use of colour, aesthetic commentaries. It explains how images and textiles, Sasanian silver and reliefs, and political monuments were made and how they were viewed. relations with Rome and Byzantium. 376p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500519172 1064p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9780199733309 Hb £45.00 Hb £120.00, 9780190668662 Pb £35.99 A Companion to Tang-E Bolaghi (Fars) Sites TB76 Edited by Eckart Frahm and TB77 This wide-ranging Companion is broken down into Rural Settlements of the Achaemenid and Post- sections covering the political, social and economic Achaemenid Periods history of Assyria from the third millennium BCE By Alireza Askari Chaverdi & Pierfrancesco Callieri to the post-imperial period (609 BCE to 222 CE). It In three campaigns of stratigraphic excavations, very includes discussion of cities, art, religion, literature, important evidence of rural settlements was brought technology, and military history, as well as Assyria’s to light in two sites, TB76 and TB77. They are the role in the Bible and in Greek and Roman sources. first documented sites of rural occupation in the 648p, b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781444335934 Achaemenid period, an age hitherto known mainly Hb £120.00 through the imperial monuments of Pasargadae, Persepolis and Susa. Simboli e associazioni astrali nella 405p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2799, 2016) 9781407322452 glittica mesopotamica del Bronzo Tardo Pb £61.00 By Sara Pizzamenti The present book focuses on astral symbols as they Mountains and Lowlands are represented on Mitannian, Cassite and Middle Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia Assyrian seals and seal impressions. The comparison By Paul Collins of the representations with textual sources and the The developments that lie at the root of our own reconstruction of the Mesopotamian sky in the world - farming, cities, writing, organised religion, Late Bronze Age Period yields an understanding warfare - were forged in the tensions and relations of the Mitannian, Cassite and Middle Assyrian between the inhabitants of lowland Mesopotamia perception of the heavens and of its link with and the highlands of Iran. Mountains and Lowlands religious behaviour and divination. explores this relationship providing a detailed but Italian text, 444p, b/w illus (BAR 2841, 2017) accessible account from the development of the first 9781407315041 Pb £67.00 agricultural communities to the coming of Islam. 200p, (Ashmolean Museum Publications 2016) 9781910807088 Pb £15.00 28 Ancient Near East From Sasanian Mandaeans to Sabians Économie des Matières Premières de of the Marshes la Pierre Taillée d’Anatolie Centrale au By Kevin van Bladel Chalcolithique Ancien (6000-5500 cal. This historical study argues that the Mandaean BC/ECA IV) religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth By Sonia Ostaptchouk century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. This book presents a detailed study of the West This religion, along with several other, shorter-lived Mound Çatalhöyük chipped stone, flint and new faiths, such as Kentaeism, began in a period obsidian, using an interdisciplinary and multi- of state-sponsored persecution of Babylonian scale approach. It contributes to discussion of paganism. Rather than seeking to elucidate the the nature of the technological changes through history of Mandaeism in terms of other religions to time at Çatalhöyük from the Neolithic to the which it can be related, this study approaches the Early Chalcolithic period, and the nature of lithic religion through the history of its social contexts. productions, from local and domestic productions 154p (Brill 2017) 9789004339439 Pb £38.00 of flint to specialized production of flint and Sasanian Clay Sealings in the Bandar obsidian from a regional perspective. French text. 228p, (BAR 2820, 2016) 9781407315614 Pb Abbas Museum £41.00 By Kamal Aldin Niknami This book presents the newly discovered The Archaeobotany of Aşvan assemblage of 800 Sasanian clay sealings which is Environment & Cultivation in Eastern Anatolia now kept in the Persian Gulf Museum of Bandar from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period Abbas, Iran. Unfortunately the provenance of the By Mark Nesbitt, Jennifer Bates, Gordon Hillman & collection is still unknown, but in comparison with Stephen Mitchell the large Sasanian archives of Qasr- ῑ Abu Nasr and This report traces the evolution of cultivation in the Taxt- i Soleymān, which comprise 505 and 241 clay region from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval period, sealings, respectively, such a large number of clay charting the dominance of emmer and hulled sealings is remarkable. barley in the Chalcolithic period, the emergence 179p, b/w illus (BAR 2819, 2016) 9781407314877 Pb of free-threshing wheats in the Early Bronze Age £42.00 and the introduction of irrigated summer crops, especially millet, by the . The Maritime Traditions of the 244p, b/w illus (British Institute at Ankara 2017) Fishermen of Socotra, Yemen 9781898249177 Hb £45.00, NYP By Julian Jansen van Rensburg This volume analyses the Socotri maritime Bordered Places - Bounded Times traditions and investigates how they have been Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey shaped by social, environmental and Edited by Emma. L. Baysal & Leonidas Karakatsanis technological factors. It combines This volume presents crossdisciplinary Only ethnographic fieldwork with communication on the study of borders, frontiers historical, archaeological and £26.50 and boundaries through time, with a focus on environmental evidence. until 30th Turkey. Turkey emerges as a place carrying a rich 196p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September history of multiple layers of borders that have 9781784914820 Pb £33.00 been drawn, shifted or unmade from Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to contemporary Turkey’s national The Bronze Age Towers at borders. Bat Sultanate of Oman 224p, b/w illus (British Institute at Ankara 2017) Research by the Bat Archaeological Project 9781898249382 Hb £45.00, NYP 2007-12 Edited by Gregory L. Possehl, Charlotte M. Cable & The Diffusion of Neolithic Practices Christopher P. Thornton from Anatolia to Europe Tepe Hissar is a large Bronze A contextual study of residential construction, Age site in northeastern 8,500–5,500 BC cal. Iran notable for its By Maxime Nicolas Brami uninterrupted occupational Beyond farming practices - this book argues - the history from the fifth to Neolithic witnessed the inception of a new set the second millennium of residential and construction practices. The B.C.E. This monograph argument is substantiated by a detailed review of brings to final publication Neolithic house forms and settlement structures in a stratigraphically based Anatolia and the Aegean Basin, combined with a chronology for the site. re-examination of the absolute chronology for the 256p, b/w illus (University arrival of the first farmers. of Pennsylvania Press 2017) 250p (BAR 2838, 2017) 9781407315782 Pb £35.00 9781934536063 Hb £58.00 Ancient Near East 29 Homesteads on the Khabur Precious Commodities Tell Ziyadeh and Other Settlements The Socio-Economic Implications of Edited by Frank Hole & Yukio Tonoike the Distribution of Juglets in the Eastern In 1994-1997, the Yale University Khabur Basin Project Mediterranean During the Middle and excavated Tell Ziyadeh on the Middle Khabur River Late Bronze Age of Northeastern Syria. This monograph describes By Lesley Bushnell two pioneering settlements: fifth millennium BC This research represents the first systematic Ubaid and early third millennium. It discusses the investigation of the circulation of ceramic juglets research programme and strategies; reviews the in the eastern Mediterranean of the Middle to modern and palaeoenvironments; and provides Late Bronze Age, as functionally distinct forms separate chapters describing the various excavation which offer a fine-grained dataset for examining areas, as well as the ceramic, lithic, faunal and wider issues related to commodity production, botanical remains found in them. distribution and consumption. The analysis 535p, (BAR 2827, 2016) 9781407314624 Pb £80.00 presented here addresses patterns of production (including evidence for regionalism and specialist Aleppo manufacture), consumption strategies within A History and between societies and over time, as well as By Ross Burns producer-consumer dynamics such as bilateral Aleppo is one of the longest- trade links, selective marketing and branding. surviving cities of the 216p, b/w illus (BAR 2826, 2016) 9781407315652 Pb ancient and Islamic Middle £39.00 East. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid Wealth and Warfare and above it looms the great The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria Citadel, which contains By Frédérique Duyrat recently-uncovered remains This volume is the first comprehensive look at of a Bronze/Iron Age temple Syrian coin hoards and contains a catalogue of complex, suggesting an even every coin hoard discovered in what is now modern earlier role as a ‘high place’ Syria through 2010. Duyrat explores the definitions in the Canaanite tradition. of “hoard” and “treasure”, explores the circulation In this volume, Ross Burns explores the rich of currency in the ancient Levant, and considers history of this important city, from its earliest excavation coins as well as the phenomenon of coin history through to the modern era. hoard discoveries during times of regional conflict. 330p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9780415737210 Hb 600p, b/w illus (American Numismatic Society 2017) £110.00 9780897223461 Hb £160.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Palmyra An Irreplaceable Treasure By Paul Veyne Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian Desert. It became a Roman province under Tiberius and served as the most powerful commercial centre in the Middle East between the first and the third centuries CE. But when the citizens of Palmyra tried to break away from Rome, they were defeated, marking the end of the city’s prosperity. The magnificent monuments from that earlier era of wealth, a resplendent blend of Greco-Roman architecture and local influences, stretched over miles and were among the most significant buildings of the ancient world until the arrival of ISIS and their systematic destruction of the ancient Only city. In this concise and elegiac book, Paul Veyne, one of Palymra’s most important £14.00 experts, offers a beautiful and moving look at the history of this significant lost until 30th city and why it was and still is important. Today, we can appreciate the majesty of Palmyra only through its pictures and stories, and this book offers a beautifully September illustrated memorial that also serves as a lasting guide to a cultural treasure. 128p, col pls (University of California Press 2017) 9780226427829 Hb £17.00

30 Ancient Near East Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Tracking the Master Scribe Revision Through Introduction in Biblical and Jerusalem Throne Games Mesopotamian Literature The Battle of Bible Stories After the Death By Sara J. Milstein of David In the ancient Near East, “master scribes” regularly By Peter Feinman modified their texts in the course of transmission. Jerusalem Throne Games One of the most effective techniques for change puts forward a new was to add something to the front—what Milstein assessment of the authorship calls “revision through introduction.” Working of key sections of the Old from the two earliest corpora that allow us to Testament, and aims to track large-scale change, the book provides broad understand the creation and overviews of evidence available for revision through meaning of those stories introduction, as well as a set of detailed case studies in their original political that offer fresh insight into well-known biblical and context. Feinman explores Mesopotamian literary texts. the political battle for power 264p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780190205393 Hb £64.00 to succeed David expressed through selected stories from Ancient Israel the Book of Genesis. Wielding a new weapon of war What Do We Know and How Do We Know it? that was changing the course of human history – the By Lester L. Grabbe alphabet prose narrative – competing factions or Grabbe focuses on original sources, including priesthoods vying for power battled for the throne inscriptions, papyri, and archaeology. He examines through storytelling. In this book six the problems involved in historical methodology of those stories from Gen. 4-11 are and deals with the major issues surrounding the analysed through the lens of the Only use of the biblical text when writing a history of this succession of Solomon and the £18.75 until period. For this new edition the entire text has been collapse of his kingdom. publication reworked to take account of new archaeological 352p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) discoveries and theories, and with expanded 9781785706165 Pb £25.00 coverage of David and Solomon, the historicity of the Exodus, and the later bronze age. A Wayside Shrine in 352p (Bloomsbury rev ed 2017) 9780567670434 Pb £21.99 Northern Moab Excavations in the Wadi ath-Thamad The Shammakh to Ayl Archaeological Edited by P. M. Michèle Daviau & Margreet L. Steiner Survey Southern Jordan (2010-2012) An isolated shrine site at By Scott Quaintance, Larry G. Herr, Hani Hayajneh, Wadi ath-Thamad Site WT- Jurg Eggler, Geoffrey A. Clark & Burton MacDonald 13 in northern Moab which Analysis of the materials, primarily lithics and contained numerous finds sherds, collected in the course of this project of Iron Age figurines and indicate that the area experienced its highest statues has been the subject density of population during the Middle Paleolithic, of detailed excavation. The Neolithic/Chalcolithic, Iron II, Nabataean and rich harvest of figurines, Roman, Byzantine, and Late Islamic periods. ceramic statues, beads, Relative to the settlement patterns of the area, it can miniature ceramic vessels, be concluded that the area was a rural one where architectural models, faunal the chief activities were agriculture and pastoralism. remains and shells and 570p, b/w illus (American Schools of Oriental Research fossils constitutes the evidence for repeated 2016) 9780897570930 Hb £78.00 cultic activities. The links between WT-13 and the surrounding town sites are only now coming Petra - The Mountain of Aaron II to light with excavation at Atarus and Khirbat al- The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Mudayna, as well as at the Ammonite site of Tall Monastery Damiyah in the Jordan Valley, where a comparable By Z. T Fiema, Jaakko Frosen & Maija Holappa shrine has recently been uncovered. WT-13 clearly Volume II, which is the third and final publication serves as a link between the Jordan of this series, is a major exposition of all excavated Valley and the Negev, adding structures and the material remains associated to our knowledge of local and Only with the entire occupation of the site (1st century foreign influences in the region £37.50 until A.D. – 11th/12th century A.D.), with the exception of during the Iron Age. publication the church and the chapel. This volume presents 272p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) a wide range of subjects related to the history and 9781785707087 Hb £50.00 archaeology of the site and its structures. 600p, col pls (Finnish Academy of Sciences 2016) 9789516534100 Hb £160.00 Ancient Near East 31 Mediterranean Prehistory Maritime Transport Containers in the Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze–Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Bronze Age Crete Mediterranean By Emily S. K. Andersen Edited by Stella Demestica & A. Bernard Knapp This study focuses on an Although studied systematically during later extraordinary corpus of periods, the early phases in the development of sealstones which have been maritime transport containers are relatively obscure, excavated across Crete. because their maritime function and attributes are Fashioned of imported ivory often overlooked. This volume provides an overview and engraved with images of these early stages — from the Early Bronze to of dashing lions, these Early Iron Ages in the Aegean, on Cyprus and in distinctive objects linked the Levant—in the emergence and development the identities of their distant of these vessels, and their diverse roles in trade owners. Anderson argues throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. that it was the repeated but 252p, b/w illus (Paul Astroms Forlag 2016) 9789170812118 pioneering actions of such Hb £70.00 diverse figures, people and objects alike, that dramatically changed the shape of social life in the Human Mobility and Technological Aegean at the turn of the second millennium BCE. Transfer in the Prehistoric 350p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107131194 Hb Mediterranean £85.00 Edited by Evangelia Kiriatzi & Carl Knappett The Alatzomouri Rock Shelter This volume engages An Early Minoan III Deposit in Eastern Crete thematically with a wide Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan & range of connectivities in Philip P. Betancourt the later prehistory of the This handsome volume Mediterranean, from the describes and illustrates the later Neolithic of northern excavation of an artificial Greece to the Levantine Iron rock shelter in Crete, Greece. Age, and with diverse forms Minoan pottery and small of materiality, from pottery finds such as stone tools, and metal to stone and glass. loomweights, and ecofactual With theoretical overviews remains were recovered. from leading thinkers in The ceramics elucidate the prehistoric mobilities, and commentaries from top style and chronology of East specialists in neighbouring domains, the volume Cretan White-on-Dark Ware, integrates detailed case studies within a comparative which dates to the end of the framework. Early Bronze Age. 300p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107142435 226p (INSTAP Academic Press 2017) 9781931534932 Hb Hb £75.00 £55.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Mediterranean Connections Maritime Transport Containers and Seaborne Trade in the Bronze and Iron Ages By A. Bernard Knapp & Stella Demesticha Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of the maritime transport container from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200-700 BC). This broad Only study presents these vessels as central to understanding £60.00 interregional connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, and also considers the role that until 30th shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in September interaction and exchange. 284p (Routledge 2016) 9781629583549 Hb £75.00

32 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Early Iron Age Greek Warrior 1100-700 BC Communities in Transition By Raffaele D’Amato & Andrea Salimbeti The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and In the Iron Age a new style of warfare based on 4th Millennia BC a group of heavily armed infantrymen organized Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić in a phalanx formation developed. This new title & Turan Takaoğlu details this pivotal period that saw the transition Communities in Transition from the Bronze Age warriors of Homer to the brings together scholars origins of the men who fought the Persian and from different countries Peloponnesian Wars. and backgrounds united 64p, b/w and col illus (Osprey 2016) 9781472815590 Pb by a common interest in £11.99 the transition between the Neolithic and the Early Pottery Production Technology and Bronze Age in the lands Long-distance Exchange in Late Neolithic around the Aegean. The Makrygialos, Northern Greece 5th to 4th millennium By Elissavet S. Hitsiou BC transition is one of This book investigates the production technology inclusions, entanglements, and inter-site circulation of a large and diverse connectivity, and exchange of ideas, raw materials, Late Neolithic ceramic assemblage from the flat- finished products and, quite possibly, worldviews extended settlement of Makrygialos (Phase II), and belief systems. Most of the papers presented in northern Greece. Comparative samples from here are multifaceted and complex in that they Dimini, in Thessaly, and Agrosykia A and Giannitsa do not deal with only one topic or narrowly focus B, in western Macedonia, are also incorporated. The on a single line of reasoning or dataset. Arranged use of macroscopic and petrographic analysis offers geographically they explore a series of key themes: a better understanding of the role of technological Chronology, cultural affinities, and synchronization choice in ceramic production, with locally produced in material culture; changing social and imported ceramic categories co-existing. structure and economy; inter- 339p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2843, 2017) 9781407314907 and intra-site space use and Only settlement patterns, caves and Pb £52.00 include both site reports and £52.50 until publication Petras, Siteia I regional studies. A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete. 616p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books Excavation of Houses I.1 and I.2 2017) 9781785707209 Hb £70.00 By Metaxia Tsipopoulou Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, This volume is the first of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial– Greece Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Parkinson, of Petras, Siteia. Individual chapters focus on Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & Panagiotis Karkanas the architecture, cooking wares, EM and MM I As a sealed, single-component, pottery, a unique example of an EM–MM amphora archaeological site, the stamped with a seal prior to firing, numerous Neolithic settlement complex miniature vessels and figurines, and a study of of Alepotrypa Cave is one of vessels (primarily Neopalatial) with potter’s marks. the richest sites in Greece and 436p, b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2017) Europe in terms of number 9781931534857 Hb £55.00 of artefacts, preservation of biological materials, volume House X at Kommos: A Minoan of undisturbed deposits, Mansion Near the Sea and horizontal exposure Part 2. The Pottery of archaeological surfaces By Rutter Jeremy of past human activity. The goal of this edited volume is to offer a full This volume presents the Late Bronze Age pottery scholarly interdisciplinary study from in and around House X, a large Minoan house and interpretation of the results at Kommos situated not far from the sea in South- of approximately 40 years of Central Crete. Rutter’s contribution complements Only the publication of the architecture, stratigraphy, and excavation and analysis in one £52.50 until book. small finds in Part 1 (Shaw and Shaw, eds., 2012). publication The Kommos series is now completed by the two- 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books volume publication on House X. 2017) 9781785706486 Hb £70.00 554p, b/w illus (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534918 Hb £55.00, NYP Mediterranean Prehistory 33 Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS of Pylos From Cooking Vessels to Cultural By Richard Hope Simpson This study outlines the state Practices in the Late Bronze Age of our present knowledge Aegean concerning the Mycenaean Edited by Julie Hruby & Debra Trusty settlements in Messenia and While many scholars examines the evidence for have focused on the reconstructing the political utility of painted fineware geography of the “Kingdom” vessels for chronological of Pylos. The author purposes, the contributors attempts to determine the to this volume maintain extent of the “Kingdom” and that cooking wares have to identify the locations of its the potential to answer main districts by correlating not only chronological the archaeological data from Mycenaean sites with but also economic, the inscriptions in Linear B found in the “Palace of political, and social Nestor” at Ano Englianos. questions when analysed 115p, 6 b/w maps, 7 b/w plates (INSTAP Academic Press and contrasted with assemblages from different 2017) 9781931534925 Pb £25.00 sites or chronological periods. This text is dedicated entirely to prehistoric cooking vessels, Ayia Sotira compiling evidence from a wide range of Greek A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemeteryin sites and incorporating new methodologies and the Nemea Valley, Greece evidence. In particular, contributors highlight By R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia socio-economic connections by examining Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou & James C. Wright the production methods, fabrics and forms of This volume is the final cooking vessels. publication of the results of 216p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) excavation of six Mycenaean 9781785706325 Pb £38.00 chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery Understanding Relations Between of Ayia Sotira within the Scripts Nemea Valley of the Argolid The Aegean Writing Systems region of Greece. The Edited by Philippa Steele work presented includes The question of how artifactual and ecofactual writing systems are remains such as pottery, related to each other, jewelry, figurines, metal and how we can study objects, human skeletons, and botanical remains. those relationships, has 368p, b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2017) not been studied in detail 9781931534901 Hb £55.00, NYP and this volume aims to fill a gap in scholarship Il Mesolitico in Emilia e Il Complesso by presenting a number Culturale Castelnoviano of case studies focused Dinamiche Insediative e Sistemi Tecnici Litici on the writing systems of By Sonia Ferrari & Federica Fontana the Bronze Age Aegean. This volume attempts the reconstruction of These include Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A settlement dynamics and lithic technical systems and Linear B, used predominantly in Crete in the Emilia region (Northern Italy) within the and mainland Greece, as well as the Cypro- wider context of southern Europe. The results Minoan script of Cyprus. Important questions obtained confirm the appearance in Emilia include: How and why did writing emerge in during the Castelnovian of important technical Crete in the Middle Bronze Age? What is the innovations, along with the persistence of some relationship between writing and art? Why did aspects which were characteristic of the previous different writing systems co-exist with each phase, while the settlement choices and mobility other? What changes were made when a new patterns do not seem to have changed significantly system was developed from an old one? Can from those identified for the ancient Mesolithic our understanding of how different systems are (Sauveterrian complex). related to each other help us to reconstruct the 271p, b/w illus (BAR 2807, 2016) 9781407317175 Pb values of script signs? £48.00 176p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706448 Pb £36.00

34 Mediterranean Prehistory La Valle del Taro Nelleta del Bronzo Continuity and Change in Etruscan Insediamenti ed Organizzazione Territoriale Domestic Architecture By Cristiano Putzolu By Paul M. Miller This book focuses on the Bronze Age population This book aims to reconsider of an area that corresponds to the modern the nature of architectural administrative Province of Parma, Italy. Due to the changes between the later position of the study area, at the western side of the Iron Age and archaic period Terramare Culture region, it has focused heavily on by focusing on the building exogenous material culture. Spatial analyses of the materials and techniques plain sites and viewshed analyses of the mountain used in the construction sites are employed. of domestic structures. It is Italian text, 299p, b/w ilus (BAR 2814, 2016) argued that changes occurred 9781407314792 Pb £54.00 in neither a synchronous nor a linear way, but separately Excavations at Francavilla Marittima and at irregular intervals, 1991-2004 resulting mainly from multigenerational habitual Finds Related to Textile Production from the changes, reflecting the relationship Timpone Della Motta. Volume 5: Spindle between human behaviour and the Whorls built and natural environments, Only By Marianne Kleibrink rather than choices between old £24.00 This fifth volume in a series of publications dealing and new materials. until 30th with the excavations by Groningen University in 288p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) September 1991-2004 at Francavilla Marittima largely consists 9781784915803 Pb £30.00 of a catalogue of 300 spindle whorls of various types. Their weights and types are compared with Caere spindle whorls from other Calabrian find spots and Edited by Nancy T. de Grummond & Lisa C. Pieraccini conclusions as to the development in indigenous Comprehensive in scope, Oenotrian spinning practices are suggested. Caere is the first English- 206p, b/w illus (BAR 2806, 2016) 9781407315409 Pb language book dedicated to £37.00 the study of this Etruscan city. Collecting the work of Excavations at Francavilla Marittima an international team of 1991–2004 scholars, it features chapters Finds Related to Textile Production from the on a wide range of topics, Timpone della Motta. Volume 6: Loom Weights such as Caere’s formation By Marianne Kleibrink and history, economy, foreign Locally produced material, together with impasto relations, trade networks, pottery, loom weights, cooking stove fragments, art, funerary traditions, built etc. was associated with an indigenous, Oenotrian environment, religion, daily life, and rediscovery. apsidal building dating from the 8th century BC. Extensively illustrated throughout, Caere presents The present volume largely consists of a catalogue new perspectives on and analysis of not just of loom weights of various types, among them Etruscan civilization but also the city’s role in the nicely decorated ones, and a description of their wider pan-Mediterranean basin. find circumstances. 320p, b/w and col illus (University of Texas Press 2016) 307p, b/w illus (BAR 2848, 2017) 9781407315423 Pb 9781477308431 Hb £47.00 £48.00 La Necropoli di Campovalano An Etruscan Affair Tombe Italico-Ellenistiche The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on By Vincenzo d’Ercole, Alberta Martellone & European Culture Deneb Cesana Edited by Judith Swaddling This final volume on the necropolis of Campovalano This fascinating new publication considers how the investigates the funerary contexts dating between discovery of Etruscan artefacts have inspired artists, IV and II century B.C. for a total of about 300 architects, nobility, scholars and travellers to Italy burials. 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Italian text, 384p, b/w illus (BAR 2804, 2016) 200p, b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9781407314914 Pb £58.00 9780861592111 Pb £40.00, NYP Mediterranean Prehistory 35 Classical World Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Fragments, Holes, and Wholes Reconstrucing the Ancient World in Theory Textiles and Cult in the Ancient and Practice Mediterranean Edited by Tomasz Derda, Jennifer Hilder & Edited by Cecilie Brøns & Marie-Louise Nosch Jan Kwapisz Recent scholarship has The present volume offers a variety of case studies illustrated how textiles rather than a theoretically oriented survey of trends played a large and very and overall approaches towards the fragmentarily important role in the preserved ancient material. The discussions of ancient Mediterranean specific cases, however, also formulate some new sanctuaries. In Greece, the theoretical proposals applicable to different kinds so-called temple inventories of material. testify to the use of 406p (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2017) textiles as votive offerings, 9788394684808 Hb £50.00 in particular to female divinities. Furthermore, in What Shall I Say of Clothes? several cults, textiles were Edited by Megan Cifarelli & Laura Gawlinski used to dress the images of different deities, as The essays in this volume engage explicitly in a well as in the dress of priests and priestesses, variety of theoretical and methodological strategies and in the furnishings of the temples. Textiles for the interpretation of dress, dressed bodies, and and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean examines their representations in the ancient world. 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Penguin Books Ltd, 2005, 9780142196335, monuments in the district of al-Darb al-Ahmar and Pb was £12.99 now £5.95 for reviving and improving the social and economic life of the old city. 300p, col illus, University of The Origin of Satan, By Elaine H Pagels, The Washington Press, 2010, 9781898592280, Hb was figure of Satan has been a standing puzzle in £50.00 now £19.95 the history of religion. This study examines his origins and his shifting functions. Satan is not ANGLO-SAXON present in classical Jewish sources (and scarcely present in traditional Judaism to this day). Images Anglo-Saxon England in 100 Places, By of Satan began to develop and proliferate in later David Edmondson, In this introductory guide Jewish sources not included in the Hebrew Bible. 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It also reveals the City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas, profound influence of the classical world on the By Roger Crowley, A gripping narrative account new political alliances formed during the Early of the rise of Venice from 1000 to the start of the Medieval period that united people from diverse sixteenth century. Crowley shows how warfare and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. 432p, col illus, crusading, trade and commerical rivalry with Genoa D Giles Limited, 2014, 9781907804250, Hb was and Pisa and the creation of a network of colonies £65.00 now £19.95 all played their part, and describes the city’s wealthy mercantile elite and unique system of governance. MEDIEVAL HISTORY black & white illustrations, colour illustrations,, Random House, 2013, 9780812980226, Pb was £9.99 Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary now £3.95 Culture, Edited by Jennifer N. 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Topics include the liturgical contexts of medieval art, techniques, processes and contexts The Greatest Knight, The Remarkable Life of of production, and issues of conservation. 203p, William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English col illus, Archetype, 2014, 9781909492103, Hb was Thrones, By Thomas Asbridge, Thomas Asbridge £55.00 now £14.95 draws upon an array of contemporary evidence, including the thirteenth-century biography, to Architecture and Interpretation, Edited by present a compelling account of William Marshal’s Jill A. Franklin, T. A. 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Colour reproductions of several culture, on her rich fabrics, brocades, silks, shoes, pages and initial letters from the Bible accompany and crown. 320p, b/w illus, Boydell & Brewer, 2013, this text, which details the early history of printing and the way the Gutenberg Bible was produced. viii Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals 48p, 23 color illustrations, 7 b/w illustrations, Pottery and Social Life in Medieval Vintage Books, 2004, 9780873281690, Hb was £8.95 England, By Ben Jervis, Utilising an interpretive now £3.95 framework which focuses upon the relationships between people, places and things, this study MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY considers the effect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery, to see pottery not as reflecting A Twelfth-Century Pottery Kiln at Pound medieval life, but as one factor which contributed Lane, Canterbury, By John Cotter, In 1986 to the development of multiple experiences and a medieval pottery kiln was excavated at Pound realities in medieval England. 160p, b/w and col. 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Here, the environmental remains. 223p, 100 b/w figs, tbs, York performance tradition is explored by combining Archaeological Publications, 2000, 9780946722181, textual, historical and musicological scholarship Hb was £18.00 now £6.95 with practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously unrecognised evidence, the Wharram IX, The North Manor Area and author reconstructs a realistic model of minstrel North-West Enclosure, By Lorna Watts and Philip performance, showing how a simple melody can Rahtz, The focus of this volume is the excavation interact with the text, and vice versa. 296p, Boydell from the northern end of the village, where aerial & Brewer, 2012, 9781843843238, Hb was £50.00 photos and geophysical survey revealed enclosures now £9.95 characteristic of medieval settlement. However, the principal themes of this book are the later Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France, prehistoric, Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods. Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, A major enclosure in the North Manor was in use Edited by Daniel E. O’Sullivan and Laurie Shepard, from the first century BC till the first century AD, The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this with the north-west enclosure being added during collection of essays. Focused on works written in the second century AD. 426p, York Archaeological the Francophone world between the twelfth and Publications, 2004, 9780946722198, Hb was £22.00 fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as now £9.95 both an historical privilege and a literary ideal, and as a concept that operated on and was informed Wharram XI, The Churchyard, By S. Mays, C. by complex social and economic realities. 312p, Harding and C. Heighway, This volume includes Boydell & Brewer, 2013, 9781843843351, Hb was the definitive reports on human remains and £60.00 now £9.95 associated mortuary practices extending from the 10th century to post-medieval times. Over a Violence and the Writing of History in the thousand skeletons were uncovered, and 687 of Medieval Francophone World, By Noah D. these were subject to detailed analysis, revealing Guynn, Taking violence as its point of departure, a wealth of information about the diet, health this volume focuses on medieval Francophone and mortality of the parishioners. 470p, 159 illus, texts to demonstrate how knowledge of the 120 plates, York Archaeological Publications, 2007, medieval past can be enhanced by approaching 9780946722204, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95 medieval modes of historical representation and consciousness on their own terms, and by Wharram XII, The Post-medieval and Vicarage acknowledging - and resisting - the desire to Sites, By C. Harding, E. Marlow-Mann and Edited subject them to modern conceptions of historical by S. Wrathmell, This volume charts the history intelligibility. 224p, b/w illus, Boydell & Brewer, of settlement at Wharram from the early 16th to 2013, 9781843843375, Hb was £60.00 now £9.95 the early 19th centuries, the period which began with the destruction of the medieval farming Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to community and its open-fields, and ended with Canterbury, By Paul Strohm, Paul Strohm brings the abandonment of the one remaining farmstead Chaucer’s world to vivid life, from the streets and occupying the former village site, and of the taverns of crowded medieval London to rural adjacent vicarage. The artefacts associated with seclusion in Kent, and reveals the year 1386 as a the two homesteads are catalogued, illustrated turning point in the fortunes of England’s most and discussed in detail. 456p, York Archaeological important poet. 304p, Viking, 2015, 9780670026432, Publications, 2010, 9780946722211, Hb was £27.50 Hb was £20.00 now £7.95 now £9.95 Wharram XIII, Edited by Stuart Wrathmell, The final volume in the series Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds charts the history of Wharram Percy from later prehistoric times x Bargains and good deals Bargains and good deals Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By David M. Pritchard With Alexander in India and This volume calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate Central Asia about what the ancient Athenians valued most Moving East and Back to West highly. The sums they chose to spend on festivals, Edited by Claudia Antonetti & P. Biagi politics, and the armed forces reflected the order Alexander conquered of the priorities that they had set for their state. most parts of the Western by calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly World, but there is a demonstrates that it was not religion or politics great deal of controversy but war that was the overriding priority of the over his invasion of Athenian people. India, the least known 209p (University of Texas Press 2015, Pb 2016) of his campaigns. In BC 9780292772038 Hb £41.00, 9781477311349 Pb £17.99 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross Pericles the Jhelum river for the A Biography in Context invasion, but was then By Thomas R. Martin confronted by King Porus Pericles was the most famous leader of the most who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. famous ancient Greek democracy - and also the According to Indian history he was stopped by most controversial in his own time and ever since. Porus at his entry into the country, but most of Thomas R. Martin’s emphasis on the effect on the world still believes that Alexander won the Pericles of his family’s notorious history, his youthful battle. Twelve papers in this volume examine experiences as a wartime refugee, and his unusual aspects of Alexander’s Indian campaign, the education reveals a brilliant politician whose hyper- relationship between him and his generals, the rationality could not, in the end, protect him or his potential to use Indian sources, and evidence community from tragedy. for the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring areas such as Iran and Russia. 256p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9780521116459 Hb £59.99, 9780521133357 Pb £19.99 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705847 Pb £40.00 The Plague of War Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece By Jennifer T. Roberts Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. A new narrative of the Peloponnesian War, Edited by Samuel D. Gartland which authoritatively examines its origins and its The breadth of essays in this impact on the culture and social structure of the volume is designed to give a Greece participants. Jennifer Roberts places the war in picture of the current state a wider historical context, continuing the story of scholarship on Boiotia all the way down to the Battle of Leuctra in 371, and to provide a series of in- a defeat which effectively ended Sparta’s martial depth studies of particular dominance forever. She also includes a discussion evidence, experience, of Greece’s rich cultural life of the period. and events. These studies 416p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199996643 Hb £20.00 present exciting new perspectives based on recent The Classical Art of Command archaeological work and the Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History discovery of new material of Warfare evidence. And rather than turning away from the By Joseph Roisman region following the famous Macedonian victory at This book looks at the many facets of Greek Chaironeia in 338 B.C., or the destruction of Thebes generalship through the careers of some of the three years later, the scholars cover the entire span best-known commanders, including Leonidas, of the century. Themistocles, Demosthenes, Lysander, and 248p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) Epaminodas. It discusses how they designed and 9780812248807 Hb £56.00 executed military campaigns and strategy, and to what degree they were responsible for the results. The book also looks at how far the Greek art of command changed during the Classical Age, and how adaptable it was to different challenges. 416p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199985821 Hb £22.99 Greece 39 Sparta Byzantium and the Bosporus Rise of a Warrior Nation A Historical Study from the Seventh Century By Philip Matyszak BC until the Foundation of Constantinople Philip Matyszak explores two themes: how Sparta By Thomas Russell came to be the unique society it was, and the rise of Byzantium and the Bosporus is a historical study the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military of the pre-Constantinian city of Byzantium and its superpower of Greece. But above all, his focus society, epigraphy, culture, and economy, which is on the Spartan hoplite, the archetypal Greek seeks to establish the significance of its geographical warrior who was respected and feared throughout circumstances and in particular its relationship Greece in his own day, and who has since become with the Bosporus strait. Examining the history a legend. The reader is shown the man behind the of the region through this lens reveals how over myth; who he was, who he thought he was, and the almost a millennium it came to shape many environment which produced him. aspects of the lives of its inhabitants, illuminating 192p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473874640 Hb not only the nature of economic exploitation and £19.99 the attitudes of ancient imperialism, but also local industries and resources and the genesis of The Spartan Regime communities’ local identities. Its Character Origins and Grand Strategy 320p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198790525 Hb By Paul A. Rahe £75.00 Paul Rahe presents a new view of Sparta by deploying Ctesias’ Persica in its Near Eastern the regime-oriented Context political science of the By Matt Waters ancient Greeks, pioneered The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and by Herodotus, Thucydides, Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who Plato, Xenophon, and served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes Polybius, in order to provide II around 400 BCE. Waters shows in detail a more coherent picture of how Ctesias’ history, though written in a Greek government, art, culture, and literary style, was infused with two millennia of daily life in Lacedaemon Mesopotamian and Persian motifs, legends, and than has previously appeared traditions. This Hellenized version of Persian in print, and to explore the grand strategy the culture was enormously influential in antiquity, Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians shaping Greek stereotypes of effeminate Persian in the Aegean. monarchs, licentious and vengeful queens, and 232p (Yale UP 2016) 9780300219012 Hb £25.00 conniving eunuchs. 176p, b/w illus (University of Wisconsin Press 2016) 9780299310905 Hb £69.95

EDITOR’S CHOICE A Portable Cosmos Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World By Alexander Jones In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. It was a machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it, with a half dozen dials displaying coordinated cycles of time and the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets. A Portable Cosmos presents the Antikythera Mechanism as a gateway to understanding Greek astronomy and scientific technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought. The most recent researches have revealed that its displays were designed so that an educated Only layman would see how astronomical phenomena were £19.00 intertwined with one’s natural and social environment. It was until 30th at once a masterpiece of the genre of wonder-working devices that mimicked nature by means concealed from the viewer, September and a mobile textbook of popular science. 320p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199739349 Hb £22.99

40 Greece Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Themes in Greek Society and Culture Religion An Introduction Volume I: Early Greek Religion Edited by Allison Glazebrook & Christina Vester By Andrej Petrovic Covering the Bronze Age, as well as the archaic, This book takes a radical new look at the Ancient classical, and early Hellenistic periods, Themes Greek notions of purity and pollution. It is a book in Greek Society and Culture introduces students about Greek worshippers’ inner attitudes towards to central aspects of ancient Greek society. Each the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner chapter covers a topic of importance to ancient attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect Greek society, and contributes to an understanding from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is of the Greeks’ institutions, structures, activities, a book about the role of belief in ancient Greek and cultural output. The volume brings together religion, and the significance of intrinsic, faith- 19 expert contributors who apply this thematic based elements in Greek religious practices. approach to ask what Greek society looked like and 368p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198768043 Hb £60.00 how its people lived. 504p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199020652 Pb £56.00 Greek Art & Archaeology Epigraphy of Art A Companion to Greek Architecture Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Edited by Margaret M. Miles Vase-Paintings A Companion to Greek Architecture provides By Dimitrios Yatromanolakis an expansive overview of the topic, including This book investigates design, engineering and construction as well epigraphic technicalities as theory, reception and lasting impact. The of Attic and non-Attic essays cover both sacred and secular structures inscriptions on pottery as well and complexes and pay particular attention as their broader iconographic to architectural decoration, such as sculpture, and sociocultural interior design, floor mosaics, and wall painting. significance. The ten They also investigate the influence and impact of chapters propose original Greek architecture on contemporary cultures and and expert methodological subsequent generations. approaches to the study 600p, b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) 9781444335996 of vase-inscriptions and Hb £120.00 vasepaintings, while also foregrounding the outstanding but not fully Social Identity and Status in the examined importance of the area Classical and Hellenistic Northern of vase-inscriptions for current Only Peloponnese research on ancient Greek visual The Evidence from Burials representations. £29.00 until 30th By Nikolas Dimakis 216p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique 2016) 9781784914868 Pb £36.00 September strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to Interpreting the Seventh the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese. Century BC by thoroughly reviewing published burials from Tradition and Innovation the regions of Achaia, Arcadia, the Argolid and Edited by Xenia Charalambidou & Catherine Morgan Cynouria, Corinthia, Elis and Triphylia, spatial This book explores the range of new archaeological and temporal variations which led to a change information now available for the seventh century in definitions of ‘society’ and perceptions of in Greek lands. It presents material data, combining ‘community’ on the basis of shifting reactions accounts of recent discoveries (which often enable to death and the dead are demonstrated. What reinterpretation of older finds), regional reviews, clearly emerges is the wide degree and archaeologically focused of variation in what are often critique of historical and art Only Only loosely termed ‘customary’ or historical approaches and unappealing Classical and £32.00 £52.00 interpretations. Hellenistic burial practices in until 30th until 30th 470p, b/w and col illus the Northern Peloponnese. September (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915728 September 368p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) Pb £65.00 9781784915063 Pb £40.00 41 Chalkis Aitolias III NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Emporion. Fortification systems at Aghia Triada & the Late Classical & Hellenistic The Ancient Greek Farmstead Habitation in AREA III. The Fortifications By Maeve McHugh at Pangali The interpretation of Edited by Soren Dietz & Lazaros Kolonas archaeological remains Chalkis Aitolias III is the as farmsteads has met third and final report of the with much debate in Danish/Greek archaeological scholarship regarding field work. It focuses on their role, identification, the dating, construction and even their existence. and re-construction of the Despite the difficult considerable terrace-and nature of scholarship fortification walls on Aghia surrounding farmsteads, Triada and the excavations of this site type is repeatedly the Late Classical and early used to describe small Hellenistic workshops and sites in the countryside which have varying storerooms on the north-east evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural side of the mound. Furthermore, this volume covers activity. The aim of this book is to engage scientific analysis of the general topography and with the archaeological and textual data for fortification systems including various studies of the farmsteads dating to the Classical–Hellenistic different time periods, geological investigations and period of mainland Greece, with the purpose examples of finds. of understanding how these sites fulfilled 279p, b/w and col illus (Aarhus UP 2016) 9788771249972 agricultural roles as centres for occupation, Hb £30.00 storage, and processing for those working the land. The conclusions reached here stress the Corinth VII.7 Hellenistic Pottery connected nature of the agricultural landscape, The Fine Wares and demonstrate how farmsteads played a By Sarah A. James fundamental role in ancient Greek agriculture. Using newly excavated deposits from the Panayia 208p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706400 Pb £36.00 Field, this volume offers a substantial revision to the absolute chronology of Corinthian Hellenistic pottery as established in Corinth VII.3 by G. Roger Edwards (1975). This new research, based The Serpent Column on quantitative analysis of over 80 deposits, A Cultural Biography demonstrates that the date range for most fine- By Paul Stephenson ware shapes should be lowered by 50–100 years The Serpent Column, from Edwards’ chronology. This allows the author a bronze sculpture that to conclude, contrary to previous assumptions, that has stood in Delphi and local ceramic production continued in Corinth after Constantinople, today the destruction of the city in 146 B.C. Istanbul, is a Greek 400p, 75 b/w pls (American School of Classical Studies at representation of the Near Athens 2018) 9780876610770 Hb £95.00, NYP Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon On the Agora defeated by Zeus, and also The Evolution of a Public Space in Hellenistic Python slain by Apollo. and Roman Greece (c. 323 BC - 267 AD) The column was created By Christopher Dickenson after the Battle of Plataia On the Agora traces the evolution of the main (479BC), where the sky was public square of the Greek polis for the six centuries dominated by serpentine constellations and by from the death of in 323 BC to the spiralling tails of the Milky Way. The column the height of the and the Herulian remained a monument to cosmic victory through invasion of Greece in 267 AD. Drawing on literary, centuries, but also took on other meanings. In this epigraphic and, especially, archaeological evidence, book, Paul Stephenson twists together multiple the book takes a comparative approach to consider strands to relate the cultural biography of a unique how the layout and function of agoras in cities monument. throughout Greece changed during centuries that 304p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016) 9780190209063 Hb witnessed far reaching transformations in culture, £47.99 society and political life. 482p, b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004326712 Hb £160.00

42 Greek Art & Archaeology Studia Calactina I - Research on In Celebration of Greek Coinage a Greek-Roman City of Sicily By Robin Eaglen Kale Akte - Calacte In Celebration of Greek Coinage is a readable but By Francesco Collura scholarly tribute to ancient Greek coins. Two initial Through the prosperous middle and late Hellenistic chapters relate the author’s devotion to numismatics period, coinciding with the birth of the Roman and his thoughts on Greek coins as art; fifty further Province, Calacte became a major trade centre of the essays seek to identify the formative geographical, Tyrrhenian. The research conducted by the author, historical, ethnic, political, religious, cultural, integrating and completing those conducted by the artistic, social, economic and commercial influences few other scholars to have studied the city, aims to behind the coins. increase the knowledge not only of Kale Akte, but 240p, col illus (Spink Books 2017) 9781907427770 Hb also of the events and roles in the history of a typical £40.00, NYP minor Graeco-Roman city of Sicily. 460p (BAR 2813, 2016) 9781407314808 Pb £69.00 Greek Literature Thucydides on the Outbreak of War The Cambridge Companion to Character and Contest Xenophon By S.N. Jaffe Edited by Michael A. Flower In this new political This Companion sets out psychological study of the major problems and Thucydides’ first book, S.N. issues that are at stake in the Jaffe shows how the History’s study of Xenophon’s writings, account of the outbreak of while simultaneously the war ultimately points pointing the way forward to toward the opposing newer methodologies, issues, characters of the Athenian and questions. Although and Spartan regimes, Xenophon’s historical, disclosing a Thucydidean philosophical, and technical preoccupation with the works are usually studied interplay between nature in isolation because they and convention. The political belong to different modern genres, the emphasis thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his here is on themes that cut across his large and distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of varied body of writings. particular events and more universal themes. 448p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107652156 Pb £26.99 256p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198716280 Hb £60.00 Greek Buddha The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster & Ryan Balot in Central Asia The Oxford Handbook By Christopher I. Beckwith of Thucydides contains Pyrrho of Elis went with essays on Thucydides as Alexander the Great to an historian, thinker, and Central Asia and India writer. It also features papers during the Greek invasion on Thucydides’ intellectual and conquest of the Persian context and ancient Empire in 334-324 BC. There reception. The creative he met with early Buddhist juxtaposition of historical, masters. Greek Buddha shows literary, philosophical, and how their Early Buddhism reception studies allows for shaped the philosophy of a better grasp of Thucydides’ Pyrrho, the famous founder complex project and its intellectual context, while of Pyrrhonian scepticism in at the same time providing a comprehensive ancient Greece. Beckwith demonstrates how the introduction to Thucydides’ ideas. teachings of Pyrrho agree particularly closely with 800p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199340385 Hb £97.00 those of the Buddha Sakyamuni, “the Scythian Sage”. 304p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780691176321 Pb £19.95 43 Hellenistic Poetry The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy A Selection Volume 1: Neglected Authors Edited by David Sider By Matthew Wright This collection of texts is designed to supplement This volume examines those currently available for use in courses the fragmentary remains on Hellenistic poetry. Most have never before of works by playwrights appeared in a similar collection; several have only such as Phrynichus, recently been discovered. The text of each poem Agathon, Neophron, Critias, is presented, together with basic help on obscure Astydamas, Chaeremon, vocabulary, morphology, dialect, meter, syntax, and many others who have and similar philological issues. The modern been forgotten or neglected. commentators also offer guidance on a poem’s How can we explain why literary significance and a brief introduction to all tragedians except the scholarship. Aeschylus, Sophocles and 424p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472053131 Euripides became neglected Pb £43.50 or relegated to the status of ‘minor’ poets? What changes and continuities can be detected in tragedy The Anatomy of Myth after the fifth century BC? This book answers such The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics questions through a detailed study of the fragments to the Church Fathers in their historical and literary context. By Michael Herren 312p (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781472567758 Pb £21.99 The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the different methods of interpreting myths From Bedroom to Courtroom developed by the Greeks, adopted by the Romans, Law and Justice in the Greek Novel and eventually passed to Jewish and Christian By Saundra Schwartz interpreters of the Bible. In the first instance, From Bedroom to Courtroom argues that the critics attempted to find in the intention of the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances authors some deeper truth, whether physical reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, or spiritual; in the second, they deemed it particularly relating to family and sexuality. Given necessary to clear away poetic falsehoods in the genre’s emphasis on love and chastity, the order to recapture an ancient revelation. Parallel spectre of adultery looms over most of the scenarios to the philosophical critiques were the efforts of that develop into elaborate trials. Such scenes shed early historians to explain myths as exaggerated light on the Greek reception of the criminalization history; myths could be purified by logos (reason) of adultery promulgated by the moral legislation and rendered believable. during the reign of Augustus. 216p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190606695 Hb £47.99 270p (Barkhuis 2017) 9789492444080 Hb £90.00 Rome The Army of the Roman Republic The Pilum From the Regal Period to the Army of The Roman Heavy Javelin Julius Caesar By M. C. Bishop By Michael M. Sage A heavy javelin, normally Michael Sage traces the development of the used as a shock weapon republic’s army from its foundation (having first immediately before contact, set the context of their regal antecedents), down to the pilum was designed with the time of Julius Caesar. The transition from clan- a particular speciality: it based forces, through the ‘Servian’ levy and the could penetrate a shield and development of the manipular and cohortal legion carry on into the individual is examined along with the associated weapons, behind it. Drawing upon tactics and operational capabilities. We see how recent major finds in the the legions shaped up against the challenges of Iberian Peninsula and the successive enemies from the Celts and Samnites, Balkans, as well as written the Carthaginians and the hitherto-dominant records and rigorous Hellenistic armies based on the Macedonian-style scientific analysis, this enthralling study lifts the pike phalanx. veil on the evolving nature of the pilum, the Roman 208p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781783463794 Hb heavy javelin that helped to conquer the known £19.99 world. 80p, b/w and col illus (Osprey 2017) 9781472815880 Pb £12.99 44 Hannibal’s Road Power and Public Finance at Rome, The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC 264-49 BCE By Mike Roberts By James Tan By 212 the wider war was Examining how imperial profits were distributed, definitely going against the Tan explores how imperial riches turned Roman Carthaginians. Yet Hannibal, public life on its head. Rome’s lofty aristocrats had despite being massively traditionally been constrained by their dependence outnumbered and with little on taxpayer money. They relied on the state to support from home, was able fund wars, and the state in turn relied on citizens’ to sustain his polyglot army taxes to fuel the war machine. The influx of wealth and campaign actively across meant that taxation at home was ended and citizens southern Italy for another promptly lost what bargaining power they had ten years. Mike Roberts enjoyed as a result of the state’s reliance on their follows the course of these fiscal contributions. remarkable events in detail, 248p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190639570 Hb £55.00 analysing Hannibal’s strategy and aims in this phase of the war and revealing a genius that had lost none Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of its lustre in adversity. of the Roman Empire 264p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473855953 Hb By Kit Morrell £19.99 Provincial governance under Lake Trasimene 217 BC the Roman republic has Ambush and Annihilation of a Roman Army long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy By Nic Fields tax-farmers, though this is The destruction of the Roman force at Lake far from being the whole Trasimene firmly established Hannibal as one of story. This book challenges the Ancient World’s greatest commanders thanks the traditional picture, to his use of innovative tactics, including the first contending that leading late recorded use of a turning movement. This new republican citizens were study, based on recent archaeological work on more concerned about the the battlefield itself, tells the full story of oneof problems of their empire Hannibal’s greatest victories with the help of maps, than is generally recognized, and took effective full-colour illustrations, and detailed sections on steps to address them. Attempts to improve the make-up of the armies and their commanders. provincial governance over the period 70-50 BC are 96p, b/w and col illus (Osprey 2017) 9781472816313 Pb examined in depth, with a particular focus on the £14.99 contributions of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and the younger Marcus Porcius Cato. Rome 320p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198755142 Hb £65.00 EDITOR’S CHOICE Imperial Triumph The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine By Michael Kulikowski Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Michael Kulikowski describes the empire’s cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome’s Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial Only institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor £24.00 Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes until 30th turned - the beginning of the parting of ways between the September eastern and western empires. 416p, col pls (Profile 2016) 9781846683701 Hb £30.00

Rome 45 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Exercitus Moesiae The Roman Army in Moesia from Augustus to Severus Alexander Empire State By Conor Whatley How the Roman Military Built an Empire This book is a military organisational history By Simon Elliott of the Roman Empire on the lower Danube. The armed forces of Rome, Using a diverse body of evidence, from Roman particularly those of the later military diplomas to funerary inscriptions and Republic and Principate, literary sources, the book looks at changes in troop are rightly regarded as disposition involving the legions, auxiliary units, some of the finest military the vexillations and the naval units based in Moesia formations ever to engage Superior and Inferior, and around the northern and in warfare. Less well known western coasts of the Black Sea. however is their use by 132p,b/w illus (BAR 2825, 2016) 9781407314754 Pb the State as tools for such £26.00 non-military activities in political, economic and Augustus at War social contexts. In this book The Struggle for the Pax Augusta the use of the military for such non-conflict related By Lindsay Powell duties is considered in detail for the first time. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the The first, and best known, is running the great Roman Army was in action somewhere, and over construction projects of the Empire in their capacity the same period Augustus succeeded in nearly as engineers. Next, the role of the Roman military doubling the size of the Empire. Powell reveals in the running of industry across the Roman Augustus as a brilliant strategist and manager of Empire is examined, particularly the mining and war. His genius was to build a loyal team of semi- quarrying industries but also others. autonomous deputies (legati) to ensure internal They also took part in agriculture, security and to fight his wars for him, claiming their administered and policed the Only achievements as his own. Lindsay Powell profiles Empire, provided a firefighting more than 50 of these men and their campaigns. resource and organised games £27.00 until in the arena. publication 288p (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781783831845 Hb £25.00 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow History After Liberty Books 2017) 9781785706585 Pb £36.00 Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans By Thomas Strunk This study explores Tacitus’ political thought through his understanding of liberty. It defines Praetorian Tacitean libertas as the freedom from the rule of The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard a dominus and as freedom to participate in the By Guy de la Bedoyere traditional politics of Rome through military service, Guy de la Bedoyere public service in the senate and magistracies, and provides a compelling public speech. The book argues that Tacitus is a first full narrative history republican who writes both to demonstrate that of the Praetorians, whose Rome had become a tyranny and to show a way out dangerous ambitions ceased of that tyranny. only when Constantine 232p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472130207 permanently disbanded Hb £71.50 them. de la Bedoyere introduces Praetorians of Diodorus Siculus and the World of all echelons, from prefects the Late Roman Republic and messengers to artillery By Charles Muntz experts and executioners. Here Charles Muntz analyzes the first three He explores the delicate books of Diodorus, which cover “barbarian” position of emperors for whom prestige and guile ethnography, myth, and early history. He shows were the only defences against bodyguards hungry how Diodorus defines the physical, political, and for power. Folding fascinating details into a broad cultural boundaries of the late Roman Republic assessment of the Praetorian era, the author sheds in these books and uses them to map out future new light on the wielding of power in the greatest possibilities for the Romans. Diodorus reveals of the ancient world’s empires. through the history, myths, and customs of the 344p, col pls (Yale UP 2017) 9780300218954 Hb £25.00 “barbarians” the secrets of successful states and rulers, and contributes to the debates surrounding the transition from Republic to Empire. 288p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190498726 Hb £55.00 46 Rome Roman Geographies of the Nile Gift and Gain From the Late Republic to the Early Empire How Money Transformed Ancient Rome By Andrew Merrills By Neil Coffee The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared In Gift and Gain Neil Coffee shows how a vibrant in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and commercial culture progressively displaced systems paintings of the developing empire. Andy Merrill of gift giving over the course of Rome’s classical examines the very different images of the river era. The change was propelled by the Roman that emerged from these descriptions - from elite, through their engagement in shipping, anthropomorphic figures, brought repeatedly into moneylending, and other enterprises. Members Rome in military triumphs, through the frequently of the same elite, however, remained habituated whimsical landscape vignettes from the houses of to traditional gift relationships, relying on them to Pompeii, to the limitless river that spilled through exercise influence and build their social worlds. The the pages of Lucan’s Civil War, and symbolised a result was a recurring clash across the contexts of conflict - and an empire - without end. Roman social and economic life. The book traces 354p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107177284 the conflict between gift and gain from Rome’s Hb £90.00 prehistory, down through the conflicts of the late Republic, into the early Empire, showing its effects The Atlas of Ancient Rome in areas as diverse as politics, government, legal Biography and Portraits of the City representation, philosophical thought, public Edited by Andrea Caradini morality, personal and civic patronage, marriage, The Atlas of Ancient Rome is monumental in scope. dining, and the Latin language. It examines the city’s topography and political- 288p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190496432 Hb £47.99 administrative divisions, trade and economic production, and social landscape and infrastructure The Romans and Trade - from residential neighbourhoods and gardens to By Andre Tchernia walls, roads, aqueducts, and sewers. It describes André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on the fourteen regions of Rome and the urban history amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of each one in unprecedented detail, and includes of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of profiles and reconstructions of major monuments articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. and works of art. This book brings together the author’s previously 1248p, col illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691163475 Hb published essays, updated and revised, with recent £148.95 notes and prefaced with an entirely new synthesis of his views on Roman commerce with a particular De Africa Romaque emphasis on the people involved in it. Merging cultures across North Africa 400p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198723714 Hb £85.00 Edited by Niccolo Mugnai, Julia Nikolaus & Nicholas Ray Trade and Taboo When the Roman Empire progressively expanded Disreputable Professions in the Roman its influence over the North African continent, it Mediterranean encountered a very heterogeneous mix of peoples By Sarah E. Bond with a long and diverse history. This collection of Trade and Taboo addresses papers explores the mutual relationships between the legal, literary, social, North African societies and Rome within this and institutional creation of context. Moving away from traditional narratives of disrepute in ancient Roman dominance and resistance, the discussions focus on society. Tracking the shifting bringing the local peoples of North Africa and their application of stigmas varied cultural features back into the fore. of disrepute between the 250p (Society for Libyan Studies 2016) 9781900971331 Republic and Late Antiquity, Pb £30.00 it follows particular groups of professionals - funeral Cassius Dio workers, criers, tanners, mint Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician workers, and even bakers Edited by Jesper Majbom Madsen & Carsten Lange - asking how they coped with stigmatization.It This book explores Dio’s Roman History, focusing expands on anthropological theories of pollution, on previously ignored or misunderstood aspects closely studying individuals who regularly came of his narrative. Its main purpose is to pursue a into contact with corpses and other polluting combined historiographic, literary and rhetorical materials, and considering communication and analysis of Dio’s work and of its political and network formation through the disrepute attached intellectual agendas. to town criers. 364p (Brill 2016) 9789004324169 Hb £140.00 277p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472130085 Hb £69.95

Rome 47 Strategies of Remembering in Greece Children in the Roman Empire Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) Outsiders Within Edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel By Christian Laes Moser & David Weidgenannt This book focuses on all ‘forgotten’ Roman The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman children: from child emperors to children in the responses to their changing relationship. Both slums of Rome, from young magistrates to little parties looked to the past in shaping their artisans, peasants and mineworkers. The author interactions, but how this was done varied widely. has managed to trace them down in a wide range This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of of sources: literature and inscriptions, papyri, remembering in city building, funerary culture, archaeological finds and ancient iconography. In festival and association, honorific practices, Greek Roman society, children were considered outsiders. literature, and political ideology. The variety of But at the same time they carried within them all these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In the hopes and expectations of the older generation, times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors who wanted them to become full-fledged Romans. use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, 350p (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2016) 9780521897464 Hb in order to build the present. £67.00, 9781107671225 Pb £21.99 285p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088904813 HHb £135.00, 9789088904806 Pb From Vines to Wines in Classical Rome £45.00, NYP By David L. Thurmond In this work, Thurmond surveys the biology of Rome and Judaea the vine, the protohistory, history, viticulture, International Law Relations 174-100 BCE winemaking, distribution and modes of consumption By Linda Zollschan of wine in classical Rome. He uses a close reading of Rome and Judaea explores the nature of Judaea’s the relevant Latin texts along with a careful survey first diplomatic mission to Rome during the of relevant archaeology and comparative practices Maccabean revolt. It breaks new ground in this from modern viticulture and oenology to elucidate debate by bringing to light the “Roman-Jewish this essential element of Roman culture. Friendship tablet,” a newly discovered piece of 276p (Brill 2017) 9789004334588 Hb £109.00 evidence that challenges the theory that Rome ratified an official treaty with Judaea. Instead the The Nature and Origin of the Cult book argues that Roman-Jewish relations during of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces the Maccabean revolt were motivated by the Roman of Dalmatia and Pannonia concept of diplomatic friendship, or amicitia. By Ljubica Perinić 340p (Routledge 2017) 9781138932913 Hb £115.00 The Nature and Origin of the Cult of Silvanus in the Roman Provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia Performance, Memory and Processions deals with the cult of Silvanus and presents the in Ancient Rome evidence and current state of research of the cult The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic in Dalmatia and Pannonia to the wider scholarly to Late Antiquity community. New perceptions on the By Jacob A. Latham subject are proposed and a fresh Only The pompa circensis, the standpoint from which certain procession which preceded problems may be (re)addressed £19.00 the chariot races in the is presented. until 30th arena, was both a prominent 132p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September political pageant and a 2017) 9781784915124 Pb £24.00 hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of Roman Portable Sundials memory, the procession The Empire in Your Hand wove together spaces and By Richard J. A. Talbert institutions, monuments Roman portable sundials, crafted in bronze, were and performers, gods and adjustable for the changes of latitude to be expected humans into an image on long journeys-say, for instance, from Britain to of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome Spain, or from Alexandria to Rome, or even on a changed. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores Mediterranean tour. For convenient reference, these the webs of symbolic meanings in the play sundials incorporated lists of twenty to thirty names between performance and itinerary, tracing the of cities or regions, each with its specific latitude. One transformations of the circus procession from the of the insights of Roman Portable Sundials is that the late Republic to late antiquity. choice of locations offers unique clues to the mental 418p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107130715 Hb world-map and self-identity of individuals able to £74.99 visualize Rome’s vast empire latitudinally. 264p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190273484 Hb £35.99 48 Rome Images of Mithra Celtic Religions in the Roman Period By Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey, Rachel Wood, Jas Personal, Local, and Global Elsner & Dominic Dalglish Edited by Ralph Haeussler & Thomas King What connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in This multi-authored book Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire brings together new work, to one another? Over the course of the volume, from a wide range of specialists in the material culture of these diverse disciplinary vantages, on regions explore appearances of the name Mithra pre-Christian religion in the from six distinct locations in antiquity. Careful Celtic-speaking provinces consideration of each example’s own context, of the Roman Empire. The situating it in the broader scheme of religious chapters are the work of traditions and on-going cultural interactions, is key international experts in the to this discussion. fields of classics, ancient 256p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198792536 Hb £30.00 history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. 400p, b/w and col illus (Celtic Studies Publications 2017) 9781891271250 Pb £39.95, NYP Roman Art & Archaeology An Urban Geography of the Roman Landliche Siedlungsstrukturen im World, 100 BC to AD 300 Romischen Spanien By J.W. Hanson Das Becken von Vera und das Camp de This book provides a new account of the urbanism Tarragona -Zwei Mikroregionen im Vergleich of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. By Jan Schneider To do so, it draws on a combination of textual The present study compares rural settlements and sources and archaeological material to provide a their hinterlands in the Iberian Peninsula during new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates the Roman era. Various aspects of rural settlements of their areas and uses a range of such as the dating, size or status of a place and its population densities to estimate location and environmental conditions are analysed their populations, and brings Only and related. Archaeological, geographic and together available information £52.00 statistical methods of investigation about their monumentality and until 30th are used. The Vera basin and the civic status for the first time. Camp de Tarragona were chosen Only September 825p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress as study areas. £28.00 2016) 9781784914721 Pb £65.00 German text, 220p, b/w illus, col pls until 30th (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915544 September Saxa Loquuntur Pb £35.00 Roman Epitaphs from North-Western Croatia By Branka Migotti Statio amoena This book examines Roman funerary material Sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane from three Roman cities of the south-western Edited by Patrizia Basso & Enrico Zanini regions of the Roman province of Pannonia: The Roman road system was the main service Andautonia (Scitarjevo near Zagreb), Siscia (Sisak), infrastructure for administrative management, and Aquae Balissae (Daruvar). The material economic operation and defence of the empire. chosen reflects the potential of Roman funerary Along with roads, a key element of this monuments and gravestones for gaining an infrastructure were the resting places more or less insight into the historical, social and directly linked with vehiculatio / cursus publicus, psychological aspects of Roman or with a system run or controlled by the state provincial society, in particular Only to ensure essential services to those traveling on the interaction between the £16.00 behalf of the public administration. until 30th individual and the community. These resting places form the Only 132p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September subject of this interdisciplinary £32.00 2017) 9781784915667 Pb £20.00 collection of papers. Italian text, 272p, b/w illus until 30th (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914981 September Pb £40.00

49 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Materialising Roman Histories Edited by Astrid Van Oyen & Martin Pitts Death as a Process The Roman period The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral witnessed massive changes Edited by J. Pearce & J. Weekes in the human-material This volume draws on environment, from large-scale fieldwork monumentalised cityscapes from across Europe, to standardised low-value methodological advan- artefacts like pottery. ces and conceptual This book explores new innovations to explore perspectives to understand new insights from this Roman ‘object boom’ analysis of the Roman and its impact on Roman dead, concerning both the history. In particular, the rituals which saw them book’s international contributors question the to their tombs and the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman communities who buried archaeology, whereBy objects have come to stand them. In particular the volume seeks to establish for social phenomena such as status, facets of group how the ritual sequence, from laying out the identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in the dead in the earth to the return of the living anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in to commemorate them, may be studied from this volume examine what it means archaeological evidence. Case studies span to materialise Roman history, a cross-section of Roman society, from the focusing on the question of what Only cosmopolitan merchants of Corinth to salt pan workers at Rome and the rural poor of objects do in history, rather than £30.00 until what they represent. Britannia and Germania. Some papers have a publication 232p (Oxbow Books 2017) methodological focus, considering how human 9781785706769 Pb £40.00 skeletal, faunal and plant remains illuminate the dead themselves and death rituals, while others examine how to interpret the stratigraphic signatures of the rituals practised before, around and after burial. Romano-Celtic Mask Puzzle Padlocks 272p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703232 A Study in Their Design, Technology Pb £38.00 and Security By Jerry Slocum & Dic Sonneveld This book presents a little- known and ingenious The Ince Blundell Collection of artefact of the Roman Classical Sculpture, Volume 3 world: a small puzzle The Ideal Sculpture padlock whose font plate By Elizabeth Bartman bears a face or ‘mask’ of This book investigates Celtic style. The padlocks the important antiquities were designed to secure collection formed by Henry small bags or pouches Blundell of Ince Blundell and their distribution Hall outside Liverpool in extended across Europe the late eighteenth century. with the majority found Consisting of more than 500 in the Danubian region and in the vicinity of ancient marbles it is the UK’s Aquileia. The authors examine the cultural largest collection of Roman context, the origins and uses of the padlocks, sculptures after that of the and provide detailed solutions to the puzzle British Museum. Because of mechanisms. The publication their extensive reworking, provides a fully-illustrated the statues are today not simply archaeological catalogue of the known Only specimens but rather, artistic palimpsests that are as 156 examples, categorises £30.00 much a product of the 18th century as of antiquity. their types according to until 30th Through them we can learn what antiquarians and construction and style. September collectors of the 18th century thought about antiquity. 144p, col illus (Archaeopress 272p, b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2016) 9781781383100 Hb 2017) 9781784915643 Hb £45.00 £75.00 50 Roman Art & Archaeology The Small Finds and Vessel Glass from Religion Society and Culture Insula VI.1 Pompeii at Dura-Europos By H. E. M. Cool Edited by Ted Kaizer This report presents the vessel glass and small finds This volume advances our understanding of the found during the excavations between 1995 and religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos. 2006 that took place in Insula VI.1, Pompeii. More Several features make the site potentially our best than 5,000 items are discussed, and the size of the source for day-to-day life in a small town situated assemblage has meant that the publication is in two on the periphery of the Roman world: inscriptions parts. This volume consists of the discussion with and graffiti in ten ancient languages; sculptures associated illustrations and the catalogue entries and frescoes combining elements of Classical and for a subset of the data. The other Oriental art; the most important papyrological half is available digitally on the dossier of any military unit in the Roman world; Archaeological Data Service and Only documents relating to the local economy; over a contains the full catalogue of £40.00 dozen pagan sanctuaries; plus a famously painted the material recorded. synagogue and the earliest Christian house church, until 30th 314p, b/w and col illus all set in a gridiron city plan and surrounded by (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914523 September well-preserved fortifications. Pb £50.00 320p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107123793 Hb £64.99 The Economy of Pompeii Edited by Miko Flohr & Andrew Wilson The Archaeology of the Roman Rural This volume presents Economy in the Central Balkan fourteen papers by Roman Provinces archaeologists and historians Rural Settlements and Store Buildings discussing approaches to the By Olivera Ilic economic history of Pompeii, The studies in this book investigate various and the role of the Pompeian elements relating to the Roman rural economy and evidence in debates about its development, as well as changes in its structure the Roman economy. Four arising from the establishment of Roman rule themes are discussed: the in the territory of modern Serbia. Of particular position of Pompeii and its importance is the complexity of economic relations, agricultural environment; as well as agriculture as a fundamental economic what Pompeians got out of activity (along with mining) in the territory of the their economy; economic Balkan region, and the creation of new forms of life in the city; and money and business. Together, organisation, in which the indigenous population the chapters of this volume highlight how Pompeii were gradually included. became a very rich community, and how it profited from its position in the centre of the Roman world. 102p, b/w illus (BAR 2849, 2017) 9781407315034 Pb £22.00 464p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786573 Hb £95.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Roman Artefacts and Society By Ellen Swift Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, this book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behaviour, and experience. Artefact types explored in the case studies include locks and keys, pens, shears, glass vessels, dice, boxes, and finger-rings, using material mainly drawn from the north-western Roman provinces, with some material also from Roman Egypt. The book examines topics such as the perceived agency of objects, differences in social practice across the provinces, cultural change and development in daily practice, and the persistence of Only tradition and social convention. It shows that design £70.00 intentions, everyday habits of use, and the constraints of until 30th production processes each contribute to the reproduction September and transformation of material culture. 304p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198785262 Hb £85.00

Roman Art & Archaeology 51 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The House of the Surgeon, Pompeii Sinews of Empire Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Networks in the Roman Near East (VI 1, 9-10.23) and Beyond Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian Robinson Edited by Eivind Heldaas Seland & Håkon Fiane The House of the Surgeon Teigen has been one of the most A recent surge of frequently cited houses interest in network in the ancient city since approaches to the study its discovery in 1771. The of the ancient world results of the exhaustive not only offers tools to study of the house within identify, map, visualize its urban context not only and, in some cases, even challenge many of the quantify interaction conclusions of previous based on a variety of research, but also make ancient source material, it possible at last for this but also provides a important property to contribute information to terminology to deal the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, with the everyday ties of power, trade, and illuminating the chronology of urban change, ideology that operated within, below, and the processes involved in ancient domestic beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. construction, aspects of the ancient environment, Thirteen contributions employ a range of and changing socio-political and quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network economic conditions within approaches in order to provide new perspectives Italy throughout the middle Only on trade, communication, administration, to late Republic and early £52.50 until technology, religion and municipal life in the Empire. Roman Near East and adjacent regions. 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication 240p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705960 Hb Books 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £40.00 £70.00 Romans and Barbarians Beyond Insularity and Identity in the Roman the Frontiers Mediterranean Archaeology, Ideology and Identities Edited by Anna Kouremenos in the North The papers in this book Edited by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez & Alexandra explore the concepts of Guglielmi insularity and identity These essays discuss in the Roman period by different aspects of addressing the following interactions between questions: what does it Romans and ‘barbarians’ mean to be an island? in the north-western How has insularity regions of Europe. Case shaped ethnic, cultural, studies presented here and social identity in the span across disciplines Mediterranean during the and territories, Roman period? How were from American islands connected to the mainland and other anthropological studies islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the on transcultural discourse populations of Mediterranean islands integrate and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How approaches to the propagandistic use of the has maritime interaction shaped the economy limes in the early 20th century ; and culture of specific islands? Can we argue from Danish research on warrior identities and for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman Roman-Scandinavian relations, to innovative period? The twelve papers presented ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and here each deal with specific from new views on Romano-Germanic relations islands or island groups, thus in Central European Barbaricum, to a British allowing for an integrated Only comparative exercise on frontier cultures. view of Mediterranean £28.50 until 176p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706042 insularity and identity. publication Pb £38.00 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705809 Pb £38.00 52 Roman Art & Archaeology Women and Visual Replication in Lusitanian Amphorae Roman Imperial Art and Culture Production and Distribution By Jennifer Trimble Edited by Ines Vaz Pinto, Rui Roberto de Almeida & Why did Roman portrait Archer Martin statues, famed for their More than a century of archaeological investigation individuality, repeatedly in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and employ the same body forms? study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, Trimble focuses on the ‘Large with their amphorae being widely distributed in Herculaneum Woman’ Lusitania. Were they all fish-product amphorae? statue type, a draped female Did they ever reach a significant market share in body particularly common the other provinces of Hispania? And what was their contribution in the second century CE, Only to assess how sameness to the supply of the city of Rome helped to communicate a or to other cities in the centre of £52.00 woman’s social identity. She the Empire? until 30th demonstrates how visual replication in the Roman 472p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September Empire thus emerged as a means of constructing 9781784914271 Pb £65.00 social power and articulating dynamic tensions between empire and individual localities. Amphorae from the Kops 500p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2016) Plateau (Nijmegen) 9780521825153 Hb £82.00, 9781316630266 Pb £24.99 Trade and Supply to the Lower-Rhineland From the Augustan Period to AD 69/70 Aphrodisias Papers 5 Edited by C. Carreras & J. van den Berg Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006- One of the first military camps at Nijmegen was 2012 Kops Plateau. This timber fortress dating from 12 BC Edited by R.R.R. Smith, J. Lenaghan, Alexander to AD 69, has provided an extraordinary amphora Sokolicek & Katherine Welch assemblage, which represents a singular example of Major field projects discussed in the volume Roman military supply in northern Europe at a very include: excavation in the Tetrapylon Street, a early date, with products coming from all over the major urban artery with fascinating late-antique, Mediterranean basin. The analysis of the amphorae Byzantine and Ottoman history; excavation in the sheds light on trading routes in the “South Agora” and its monumental pool, a grand Atlantic regions, and from Gaul Only complex that is turning out to be a tree-lined urban to ; indeed also on the park; conservation, doumentation and researchin Claudian invasion of Britain. £44.00 the Hadrianic Baths, the largest bathing complex in 414p, b/w and col illus until 30th the city; and anastylosis and study of the Sebasteion, (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915421 September a monument that made visible the special relation Pb £55.00 of Aphrodisias with Rome’s early emperors. 380p, b/w illus (Journal of Roman Archaeology 2016) 9780991373079 Hb £130.00 Roman Britain EDITOR’S CHOICE Pudding Pan A Roman Shipwreck and its Cargo in Context By Michael Walsh For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer Thames estuary have recovered Roman pottery in the vicinity of Pudding Pan. The exhaustive research presented in this book, the first detailed study of a seemingly predominantly samian cargo in British waters, Only convincingly argues that the material represents an unknown proportion of a cargo from a Roman trading ship en route £32.00 from northern France to London that was deposited on the until 30th seabed between AD 175 and 195. September 202p, col illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592029 Pb £40.00

Roman Britain 53 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Treasures of Roman Lincolnshire By Antony Lee Britannia Romana The county of Lincolnshire has a rich and varied Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain Roman heritage, from the major Colonia at Lincoln, By R. S. O. Tomlin to sweeping agricultural landscapes filled with Britannia Romana is based vibrant rural settlements, and nationally important on the author’s 40 years’ ceramic and salt industries. This book explores that experience of the epigraphy heritage through small finds and monuments, using of Roman Britain. It collects individual objects and physical remains to uncover 487 inscriptions (mostly on life in Roman Lincolnshire, from soldiers, priests stone, but also on metal, and politicians to slaves, farmers, craftsmen, women wood, tile and ceramic), the and children. majority from Britain but 96p, col illus (Amberley 2016) 9781445664705 Pb £14.99 many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as Hadrian’s Wall to illustrate the history Paintings by the Richardson Family and character of Roman By David J. Breeze Britain (AD 43–410). Each inscription is presented Brothers Henry, Charles and Thomas Richardson in the original (in Latin, except for eight in painted nearly 80 views of Hadrian’s Wall Greek), followed by a translation and informal between 1838 and the 1880s. Most were created commentary; they are linked by the narrative by Henry Burdon Richardson, who accompanied which they illustrate, and more than half (236) John Collingwood Bruce on his tour of Hadrian’s are accompanied by photographs. The author Wall in 1848. The production of the Richardson demonstrates his unrivalled paintings, Bruce’s contribution to Wall studies and ability to read and understand the achievement of John Clayton in conserving the Roman inscriptions and their Only Wall, are all explored, and over 70 of the paintings importance as a source of £36.00 until are included, most with Bruce’s original description historical knowledge. publication and a commentary by the author. 464p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 144p, col illus (John Donald 2016) 9781910900055 Hb 9781785707001 Hb £48.00 £25.00 Alan Sorrell First Stop North of Londinium The Man Who Created Roman Britain The Archaeology of Roman Enfield and its By Julia Sorrell & Mark Sorrell Roadline Settlement Alan Sorrell’s archaeological By Martin Dearne reconstruction drawings and A definitive description and analysis of all the paintings remain some of the known Roman archaeology in the north London best, most accurate and most borough of Enfield, this volume documents what accomplished paintings of is known of the settlement that grew up alongside their genre that continue to Ermine Street, the road itself, a possible tannery, inform our understanding other settlement sites and often higher status and appreciation of historic burials. It includes full illustrated stratigraphic and buildings and monuments finds reports for over 45 individual sites. in Europe, the Near East 355p b/w and col illus (Enfield Archaeological Society and throughout the UK. So 2017) 9780950187785 Hb £30.00 influential were Sorrell’s images of Roman towns such as London, Colchester, Ad Vallum Wroxeter, St Albans and Bath, buildings such as the Papers on the Roman Army and Frontiers in Heathrow temple and the forts of Hadrian’s Wall, Celebration of Dr Brian Dobson that he became known as the man who invented Edited by Adam Parker Roman Britain. In this affectionate but objective Papers are grouped in three sections: The Roman account, Sorrell’s children, both also artists, present Army; Frontiers and Military Installations; a brief pictorial biography followed by more detailed Sculpture, Text and Epigraphy, and address topics descriptions of the genesis, research and production including Roman bureaucracy, ‘priority milecastles’, of illustrations that demonstrate the Elginhaugh coin hoard, the columns of Trajan the artist’s integrity and vision, and Marcus Aurelius, and phallic carvings in the based largely on family archives Only north of Roman Britain. and illustrated throughout with £22.50 until 149p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 631, 2017) 9781407315867 Sorrell’s own works. publication Pb £30.00 192p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707407 Pb £29.99

54 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain, Volume 2 The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester The Rural Economy of Roman Britain Volume 1 By Martyn Allen, Lisa Lodwick, Tom Brindle, Michael The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology Fulford and Alexander Smith By Tony Wilmott & Dan Garner This second volume This is the first of two considers the rural economy volumes dealing with the of Roman Britain through major research excavations the lenses of the principal on the Chester Amphitheatre occupations of agriculture in 2004–2006. The first and rural industry. It amphitheatre was built in has two main concerns, the 70s AD. It had a stone the documentation of outer wall with external what is currently known stairs and timber framed of agricultural and seating, the structure of industrial production in which can be reconstructed. the countryside, and an Amphitheatre 2, probably exploration of the contribution that material built in the later second century, was the largest culture can make to our understanding of how and most impressive amphitheatre in Britain, those resources moved across the province to feed featuring elaborate entrances, internal stairs and and support military and civil populations and the decorative pilasters on the outer wall. Beneath the development of towns and infrastructure between seating banks of the amphitheatres evidence for the mid-first century A.D. and the beginning prehistoric settlement was recovered – the first of the fifth century A.D. At the same time, the substantial prehistoric archaeology to be found in classification and regional appraisal of rural Chester. This fully integrated volume tells the story settlement that is at the heart of Vol. 1, The of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the life Rural Settlement of Roman Britain, has enabled of the amphitheatre. It contains full this study to provide a social context for rural stratigraphic and structural detail, production and consumption. including CGI reconstruction of Only 480p b/w illus (Roman Society Publications 2017) Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and 9780907764441 Pb £36.00 NYP ecofactual evidence. £22.50 until 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785707445 Hb £30.00

Late Antiquity & Byzantium Late Antique Letter Collections The Last Pagan Emperor A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide Julian the Apostate and the War Against Edited by Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin & Christianity Edward J. Watts By H. C. Teitler This volume provides the Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to first comprehensive overview sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363), and of the extant Greek and during his short reign tried to revive paganism. Latin letter collections of The Christians reacted fiercely, and accused Julian late antiquity (ca. 300– of being a persecutor like his predecessors Nero, 600 C.E.). Each chapter Decius, and Diocletian. Violent conflicts between addresses a major collection pagans and Christians made themselves felt all of Greek or Latin literary over the empire. It is disputed whether or not Julian letters, examining their himself was behind such outbursts. Accusations assembly, publication, and against the Apostate continued to be uttered even transmission. In addition, after the emperor’s early death. In this book, the contributions reveals how feasibility of such charges is examined. late antique letter collections operated as a discrete 312p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190626501 Hb £19.99 literary genre with its own conventions, transmission processes, and self-presentational agendas. 464p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520281448 Hb £124.95 55 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Writing and Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism The Bir Messaouda Basilica Edited by Malcolm Choat & Mariachiara Giorda Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban This volume examines the presence and practice of Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage writing, modes of written communication, and the By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade symbolic and spiritual value of the written word This volume charts the in monastic communities. Contributions cover radical transformation of an evidence from papyri and inscriptions to literature inner city neighbourhood in transmitted in manuscripts, positioned within the late antique Carthage which shift in recent scholarship away from literature such was excavated over a five- as hagiography as a source of positivistic history, year period by a team from towards evidence that derives more directly from the University of Cambridge. the monk or period in focus. The neighbourhood 242p (Brill 2017) 9789004254657 Hb £105.00 remained primarily a residential one from the Melania second century until 530s AD Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family when a substantial basilica By Catherine M. Chin was constructed over the eastern half of the insula. Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania Further extensive modifications were made to the the Younger were major figures in early Christian basilica half-a-century later when the structures history, using their wealth, status, and forceful on the western half of the insula were demolished personalities to shape the development of nearly and the basilica greatly enlarged with the addition every aspect of the religion we now know as of a new east-west aisles, a large monumental Christianity. Instead of the traditionally patriarchal baptistery and a crypt. The Bir Messaouda basilica view, this study of their lives and influence gives a provides important insights into the transition poignant and sometimes surprising view of how the between Vandal and Byzantine control of the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire city, the development of a new Christian inter- shaped the understanding of women’s roles in the mural urban landscape in the sixth larger world. century AD, and the significance 328p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520292086 of the pilgrimage in reinforcing Only Hb £79.95 ecclesiastical authority in post- £41.25 until Justinianic North Africa. publication Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) Christianity 9781785706806 Hb £55.00 Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs By Paula Hershkowitz Paula Hershkowitz focuses on Prudentius’ La Ceramique du Groupe Episcopal Peristephanon, his collection of verses celebrating the deaths of martyrs, and places these poems dAradi/Sidi Jdidi (Tunisie) within the context of Prudentius’ world, employing By Tomoo Mukai material, visual and textual remains as evidence for This study focuses on ceramic finds from the its religious, social and cultural affiliations. She also excavations (1996-2006) of the Episcopal Group draws on this material evidence to contextualise of Sidi Jdidi, the ancient city of Aradi, in the Prudentius’ awareness of the significance of the hinterland of Hammamet in Tunisia. The ceramic visual as a means of promoting beliefs in a period assemblage is analysed to establish a chronology when many of his Spanish audience were not yet for the occupation sequence of the episcopal group fully committed to the Christian faith. and its strong rural and regional characteristics are 266p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107149601 Hb £75.00 highlighted: these are very different from those of the large-scale excavations at Carthage Rufinus of Aquileia and indicate a pattern of self- History of the Church sufficient consumption supplied Only By Philip R. Amidon by purely intra-regional trade. £64.00 Rufinus of Aquileia’s History of the Church, 446p, b/w and col illus until 30th published in 402 or 403, is a translation and (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784912611 September continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea. It Pb £80.00 was the first Latin Christian history, and as such it exerted great influence over his own generation and for a thousand years thereafter. This volume provides a modern English translation. 504p (Catholic University of America Press 2017) 9780813229027 Hb £43.50

56 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Hypatia Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land By Edward J. Watts The Collection of the Israel Antiquities A philosopher, mathema- Authority tician, and martyr, Hypatia is By Varda Sussman one of antiquity’s best-known This volume illustrates female intellectuals. Her lamps from the Byzantine great skill in mathematics period excavated in the Holy and philosophy redefined the Land and demonstrates the intellectual life of her home extent of their development city of Alexandria. Despite since the first enclosing/ this success, Hypatia fought capturing of light (fire) countless small battles to live within a portable man- the public and intellectual made vessel. Lamps, which life that she wanted. This held important material book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique and religious functions challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded during daily life and the spectacularly in a man’s world, and the tragic story afterlife, played a large role in of the events that led to her murder. conveying art and cultural and Only 224p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190210038 Hb £19.99 political messages through the £52.00 patterns chosen to decorate Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire them. until 30th A History of the Book of Zerubbabel 640p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress September By Martha Himmelfarb 2017) 9781784915704 Pb £65.00 The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Mifsas Bah. ri: a Late Aksumite Zerubbabel is the first full- Frontier Community in the Mountains fledged messianic narrative of Southern Tigray in Jewish literature. Martha Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 2013–16 Himmelfarb places Sefer Zerubbabel in the dual By Michela Gaudiello & Paul A. Yule context of earlier Jewish Mifsas Baḥri is the southernmost Late Aksumite eschatology and Byzantine (c. 550–c. 700 CE) site known in Tigray, the ruins Christianity. The role of of which dominate the amazing landscape of Lake the messiah’s mother, for Ḥashenge. The data collected from the excavation, example, reflects the survey, pottery and anthropological analysis, Byzantine notion of the Virgin Mary as the protector historical and linguistic researches contribute to of Constantinople. On the other hand, Sefer the knowledge of a region of southern Tigray during Zerubbabel shares traditions about the messiahs the so-called “Ethiopian dark age”. with rabbinic literature. But while the rabbis are 299p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2839, 2017) 9781407315799 ambivalent about these traditions, Sefer Zerubbabel Pb £55.00 embraces them with enthusiasm. 232p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674057623 Hb £31.95

EDITOR’S CHOICE Byzantine Athens. 10th-12th Centuries By Charalambos Bouras The book investigates Athens from the mid-10th century to 1204 through surviving architectural remains and the scarce relevant literature. The book defines the built-up areas, streets and fortifications of medieval Athens; and explores the evidence for the architectural Only plans of Byzantine houses. Above all, it studies the near £76.00 40 churches functioning in that period, and puts forward reconstruction for the plans of the destroyed and deformed until 30th ones. It constitutes an invaluable compendium of current September knowledge on the city. 416p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472479907 Hb £95.00

Late Antiquity & Byzantium 57 Due Antiche Diocesi dello Stretto Archeologia dell’acqua a Gortina di Messina di Creta in età protobizantina By Francesca Zagari By Elisabetta Giorgi This monograph is a comparative study of the Aqueducts have great potential for providing Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses’ information concerning at least two major aspects settlement in Late Antiquity and in the Early of ancient society: those relating to structural, Middle ages. Both regions overlook the Straits technical, and engineering matters, and those of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. The relating to building and construction technology. settlement reconstruction was carried out by These topics have enjoyed considerable attention examining topographical features, patterns and in past studies, and in recent years they have dynamics, material culture, degree of continuity and also been integrated with a multi-disciplinary discontinuity - especially compared and contextual approach. This study of the early to the Roman habitat - as well as Byzantine aqueduct of Gortyn Only agricultural and manufacturing (Crete) follows this tradition, Only systems and the road network. £26.50 but also explores aspects of the £32.00 Italian text, 190p, b/w illus until 30th town’s wider social history. (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915681 September Italian text, 298p, b/w illus until 30th Pb £33.00 (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914448 September Pb £40.00 Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium The Asanids Edited by Brooke Shilling & Paul Stephenson The Political and Military History of This book restores the the Second (1185-1280) fountains of Roman By Alexandru Madgearu Byzantium, Byzantine Alexandru Madgearu offers the first comprehensive Constantinople and Ottoman history in English of a state which played a major Istanbul, reviving the sounds, role in the evolution of the Balkan region during shapes, smells and sights of Middle Ages. This state emerged from the rebellion past water cultures. Scholars of two peoples, Romanians and Bulgarians, against address the delivery system Byzantine domination, within a few decades that conveyed and stored growing to a regional power that entered into water, and the fountains, conflict with Byzantium and with the large and small, from which of Constantinople. The founders were members it gushed. Papers consider of a Romanian (Vlach) family, whose intention spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable was to revive the former Bulgarian state, the only for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains legitimate political framework that could replace real, imagined and symbolic. the Byzantine rule. 364p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107105997 Hb £74.99 360p (Brill 2016) 9789004325012 Hb £135.00 Islam Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century The Crucible of Islam Arabia By G. W. Bowersock By Nadia Jamil G. W. Bowersock here explores why Arabia This study demonstrates what is implicit in its proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad’s title: that the ethics and poetry of sixth-century prophetic message, and why that message spread Arabia are an inseparable equation. Offering, first, so quickly to the wider world. Mecca, Muhammad’s a critical overview of key figures from the last birthplace, belonged to the part of Arabia recently hundred years who have substantially exploited conquered by the Ethiopian Christian king Abraha. this corpus to advance views on early Arabian But Ethiopia lost western Arabia to Persia following ethos and religion, and, then, an analytic survey Abraha’s death, while the death of the Byzantine of recent major approaches to interpreting its emperor in 602 further destabilized the region. In meanings and forms, the study proceeds to a a troubled age, Muhammad’s followers coalesced graded semantic analysis of select poems to build into a powerful force, conquering Palestine, Syria, a ‘vocabulary’ that elucidates both the mechanisms and Egypt and laying the groundwork of the of the poetry’s content and structure, and its . profoundly psychological character. 192p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674057760 Hb £18.95 304p (Gibb Memorial Trust 2017) 9781909724969 Hb £44.00, NYP 58 Islamic Arts and Crafts Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220 An Anthology The Patronage of Sultans By Marcus Milwright By Richard McClary This anthology of written This lavishly illustrated sources (dating from the volume presents the major seventh to the twentieth surviving monuments of centuries) explores the early period of the Rum numerous aspects of the Seljuqs. A palace, a minaret crafts of the Middle East and a hospital are studied from the processing of raw in detail, along with an materials to the manufacture overview of the decorative of finished artefacts. Topics portals attached to a wide include: the legal and ethical array of different building dimensions of the arts and types. The case studies are crafts, the organisation of used to demonstrate the key labour in urban and rural contexts, the everyday themes and processes of architectural synthesis and lives of artisans, the gendered dimensions of development that were under way at the time, and making things, and the impact of how they reflect the broader society. industrialisation upon traditional 272p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016) 9781474417471 Hb methods of manufacture. Only £95.00 Each chapter begins with an £20.00 introduction providing a wider until 30th Le Décor Architectural Artuqide en context for the primary sources. September Pierre de Mardin Placé Dans son 272p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP Contexte Regional 2017) 9781474409193 Pb £24.99 Contribution à L’histoire du Décor Géométrique The Architectural Form of the Mosque et Végétal du Proche-Orient des Xiie-Xve Siècles By Deniz Beyazit in the Central Arab Lands from the This book defines Mardin’s artistic context in Hijra to the End of the Umayyad relation to the other Artuqid centres, as well as the Period 1/622-133/750 neighbouring zones that encompass Anatolia, the By Thallein Antun Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt. Connected This book examines the development of the mosque with Christian traditions found in the Syriac Tur from the hijra (A.H.1/A.D.622) to the fall of the ‘Abdin and in Late Antique Syria, the decoration also Umayyad dynasty (A.H.133/A.D.750). The aims of compares with that of monuments in Armenia and the book are two-fold. Firstly, to consider how those Georgia, and resonates with artistic practices seen in areas controlled mosques for which we only have literary evidence Only may be approached for study; and secondly, by the regional Muslim powers to trace the development of the mosque in the of the time. £64.00 archaeological record. French text. 562p, col illus until 30th 210p, b/w illus (BAR 2790, 2016) 9781407314686 Pb (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784911225 September £38.00 Pb £80.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Ornament and Decoration in Islamic Architecture By Dominique Clevenot & Gerard Degeorge As human representation is forbidden in Islamic religious monuments, designers employed mosaics, stucco, brickwork and ceramics, and the vigorous use of brilliant colour to reach unparalleled heights of expression. It is this ornamental dimension of Islamic architecture that is explored in this magnificent volume. The first part offers an overview of Islamic architecture, discussing the great diversity it contains. The second part considers the materials most often used as well as the expertise of Only the builders and Muslim decorative artists, and the third part explores themes in Islamic ornamentation. Section £24.00 four discusses aesthetics, and studies the relationship until 30th between the buildings - the structures or their architectonic September components - and their ornamental coverings. 224p, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500343326 Hb £29.95

Islam 59 Islamic Coins and Their Values Volume 2 Medieval Urban Landscape in The Early Modern Period Northeastern Mesopotamia By Tim Wilkes Edited by Karel Novacek, Miroslav Melcak, Lenka This book is the second volume of an illustrated Starkova & Narmin Ali Muhammad Amin price guide to Islamic coins; the first volume was More than fifteen sites of either confirmed or published in 2015. It is intended as an introductory conjectured urban status existed between the guide, aimed at the general collector; suggestions 6th and 19th centuries in the particular region of for further reading are given throughout the book. northeastern Mesopotamia, bounded by the rivers 200p, col illus (Spink Books 2017) 9781907427626 Hb Great Zāb, Little Zāb and Tigris. This collective £40.00, NYP monograph puts together archaeological and historical data available for the individual sites, Ceramiche Vicinorientali Della including analyses of pottery obtained by surface Collezione Popolani survey. The materially rich final report of the three- By Stefano Anastasio & Lucia Botarelli year project is supplemented by an interpretative The volume illustrates the Popolani Collection, chapter that focuses on detailed topographical comparisons of the that was donated to the Archaeological Museum Only of Florence by Carlo Popolani, a physician who sites, their landscape contexts, lived in Damascus in the early 20th century. The and the dynamics of the urban £30.50 collection consists of ancient pottery vessels, system. until 30th terracotta oil-lamps, glazed Islamic tiles, Romano- 214p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September Byzantine glassware, as well as various objects from 2016) 9781784915186 Pb £38.00 the Damascene antique market. In particular, the rich group of glazed tiles is very representative of Architecture and Landscape the typical Mamluk and Ottoman in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 production that flourished in Only Edited by Patricia Blessing & Rachel Goshgarian Damascus between the 15th and This book looks beyond the multiple political £27.00 18th centuries. structures of medieval Anatolia and towards a Italian text. 206p, b/w and col illus until 30th reconsideration of the interactions between the (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914646 September rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships Hb £34.00 between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region’s multiple geographies. Court and Cosmos In order to expand historiographical perspectives The Great Age of the Seljuqs it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, By Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit & A. C. S. Peacock artistic, documentary and literary), including texts This book examines the roots and impact of the composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, formidable Seljuq empire, featuring 300 objects Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). as evidence of the artistic and cultural flowering 312p b/w and col illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474411295 that occurred under Seljuq rule. Beginning with Hb £80.00 a historical overview of the dynasty, it covers such topics as the rise of the Seljuq sultanate, the The Race for Paradise development of astrology and magic, the visual An Islamic History of the Crusades expression of discoveries in science, medicine, and By Paul M. Cobb technology, and the courtly, funerary, and literary Paul Cobb aims to “relate arts. the history of the Crusades 400p, col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9781588395894 Hb £40.00 as medieval Muslims understood them”, and to The Fatimid Empire that end he gives a lively, By Michael Brett accessible narrative which From the 10th century to the end of the 12th explores the impact of century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, western expansionism yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. throughout the Muslim This definitive account combines the histories of world. Diversity and Isma’ilism, North Africa and Egypt with that of complexity are the the dynasty. Topics covered include: the work of overwhelming themes Ibn Khaldun; the relationship of tribal to civilian that emerge with different economy and society; the formation and evolution rulers and polities at different times pursuing of the dynastic state; the relationship of the dynastic policies which ranged from Holy War and its state to economy and society; and, questions legitimising force, to co-existence and the economic of cultural change, specifically Arabisation and benefits which trade might bring, whilst everyday Islamisation. interactions and cultural exchange are also explored. 320p (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9780748640775 Hb £90.00, 360p (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2016) 9780199532018 Hb 9780748640768 Pb £29.99 £20.00, 9780198787990 Pb £12.99 60 Islam The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat The Last Civilized Place al-qulūb Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny By Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī, Guy Le Strange & Charles By Ronald A. Messier & James A. Miller Melville Set along the Sahara’s edge, Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī was a fourteenth-century Sijilmasa was the pivot in historian and geographer. His Nuzhat al-qulūb the gold trade between (Hearts’ delight) sets out to give a description of Iran ancient Ghana and the in the form of a gazetteer, and contains important Mediterranean world. information embedded in his descriptions of the The Moroccan-American various provinces and cities and villages. This Project at Sijilmasa draws accessible new edition will make this important on archaeology, historical work available to a new generation of scholars. texts, field reconnaissance, 340p (Gibb Memorial Trust 2017) 9781909724884 Pb oral tradition, and legend to £38.00 NYP weave the story of how this fabled city mastered its fate. Mázandarán and Astarábád Messier and Miller compare models of Islamic cities By H. L. Rabino & Charles Melville to what they found on the ground to understand Mázandarán and Astarábád was first published how Sijilmasa functioned as a city. as volume VII of the new series of the E.J.W. Gibb 296p, b/w illus (University of Texas Press 2015, Pb 2016) Memorial Series (1928). The book is a mixture of 9781477311356 Pb £25.99 gazetteer and travelogue, informed by detailed research not only in the historical sources available, The Mongols’ Middle East but also in the works of previous European and Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran local writers. Included with this new edition is a Edited by Bruno De Nicola & Charles Melville large-scale facsimile reproduction of the original Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol accompanying map. Empire, this volume focuses on the (1258- 300p, 1 A1 map (Gibb Memorial Trust 2017) 9781909724921 1335) with particular reference to its relations with Pb £40.00, NYP its immediate neighbours. It is divided into four parts, looking at the establishment, the internal and About Antiquities external dynamics of the realm, and its end. The Politics of Archaeology in the different chapters, covering several topics that have By Zeynep Celik received little attention before, aim to contribute to a About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study better understanding of Mongol rule in the Middle of the relationship between archaeology and East, its role in the broader medieval Eurasian empire-building around the turn of the twentieth world, and its links with China. century. Focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman 346p (Brill 2016) 9789004311992 Hb £100.00 territories, Zeynep Celik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Power, Politics and Tradition in the Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and and the Ilkhanate contrasts the experiences of Istanbul’s Imperial of Iran Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She By Michael Hope also unravels the complicated interactions among This study provides a individuals Westerners, Ottoman decision makers new interpretation of how and officials, and local labourers. political authority was 296p, b/w illus (University of Texas Press 2016) conceived and transmitted 9781477310199 Hb £70.00, 9781477310618 Pb £22.99 in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor Introduction à l’Histoire des Mongols state in the Middle East, de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din the Ikhanate (1258-1335). In By Edgard Blochet & Charles Melville the years after the death of The Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh has been described as the Chinggis Khan, two distinct first ‘world history’. It was written at the start of political traditions emerged the fourteenth century, in the Mongol Ilkhanate within the Mongol Empire, in Persia. This introductory volume does not offer the collegial and the patrimonialist championed conclusions, but it provides a valuable survey respectively by the military aristocracy and the of the place of Rashīd al-Dīn’s chronicle in the central government. Hope demonstrates that the historical literature of the time and its impact on policy and identity of both the Early Mongol later historiography. The original French text is re- Empire and the Ilkhanate were defined by the published here, accompanied by a new preface by conflict between these competing streams of Charles Melville. Chinggisid authority. 406p, (Gibb Memorial Trust 2017) 9781909724846 Pb 256p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198768593 Hb £60.00 £40.00 NYP Islam 61 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS and History 20 Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea The Anglo-Saxon Fenland Zone: Recent Research and New Perspectives By Susan Oosthuizen Edited by Gabor Thomas, Alexandra Knox & Helena Archaeologies and Hamerow histories of the fens of Drawing upon the contributions of leading eastern England continue historians and archaeologists, the volume provides to suggest that the early a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo- medieval fenland was Saxon Kent framed within its wider north-west dominated by the activities European context, together with a range of of north-west European complementary perspectives on the interlinked colonists in a largely themes of Christianisation, kingdom formation and empty landscape. Using monastic expansion vividly illuminated through the existing and new evidence archaeology of Lyminge. and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history 148p b/w illus (Oxford University School of Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another 2017) 9781905905393 Pb £30.00 interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians; The show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano-British settlement Battle of Tettenhall 910 AD; And Other appears to have been followed by consistent West Mercian Studies early medieval occupation on every island in By David Horovitz the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the This book seeks to investigate in detail the period impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the leading up to the battle of Tettenhall, to analyse region were organised within territorial groups early accounts of the conflict, to identify the in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, possible battlefield site, and to consider the roles hierarchy of subordinate and dominant polities, of AEthelred and AEthelflaed. It also considers the principalities and kingdoms. early history and topography of the area and its 160p b/w and col illus (Windgather 2017) archaeology and ancient monuments. 9781911188087 Pb £29.95 (David Horovitz 2017) 9781527206199 Hb £40.00 The Introduction of Christianity Into the Early Medieval Insular World Water and the Environment in Converting the Isles I the Anglo-Saxon World Edited by Roy Fletcher & Marie Ni Mhaonaigh Edited by Maren Clegg Hyer & Della Hooke This volume focuses on specific aspects of the The collected articles of conversion of the Insular world, including the nature Water and the Environment and degree of missionary activity involved, socio- in the Anglo-Saxon World economic stimulants, as well as the depiction and illuminate the impact of presentation of a Christian saint. It adopts a broad water features on the daily comparative and cross-disciplinary approach that lives of the people and the transcends national boundaries. environment of the Anglo- 485p (Brepols 2017) 9782503554624 Hb £102.00 Saxon world. Chapters shed A Persistence of Place light on water imagery in poetry, on place By Fiona Fleming names that delineate types In this volume patterns of settlement continuity and of watery bodies across the discontinuity between the late Roman and early Anglo-Saxon landscape, and on human interactions medieval periods are assessed in three regional (poetic and otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, case study areas: Norfolk, Kent and Somerset. sacred wells and springs, landing spaces, bridges, Quantitative and spatial data has been collected canals, watermills, and river settlements, as well as and stored within a GIS database and queried to a variety of other waterscapes. produce a series of spatial relationships. Using landscape archaeology principles the results have 384p b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940285 Hb been systematically assessed across a range of £80.00 distinctive character regions, or pays. 283p b/w illus (BAR BS 626, 2016) 9781407314822 Pb £46.00 62 NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Winchester Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Edited by Martin Biddle & Derek Keene Happiness and Good Fortune’ Combining many full- An Archaeological Assessment colour maps with an By Patrick Ottaway authoritative but very This critical assessment readable text, this atlas of the archaeology of the shows how the Roman city historic city of Winchester of Venta Belgarum became and its immediate the second-most important environs from earliest city in England for several times to the present day centuries, a walled town, is the first published the seat of kings and comprehensive review an ecclesiastical centre of the archaeological almost unparalleled in the resource for the city, country before gently declining into a judicial which has seen many centre and county town. The atlas is centred on major programmes a detailed map of the city at the scale of 1:2500, of archaeological investigation. In the Late showing Winchester’s historic buildings and Anglo-Saxon period it became the pre-eminent structures on a map of the city as it was in 1800. A royal centre for the Kingdom of Wessex. The series of maps show how Winchester was at key city acquired a castle, cathedral and bishop’s points in its history, charting its development and palace under Norman kings but from the changing shape. Like its companion volumes, the late 12th century onwards its status began maps, text, gazetteer and illustrations to decline to that of a regional market town. are presented in an A3 stiff card The archaeological resource for Winchester binder, and the format allows is very rich and is a resource of national and, for maps of different date to be Only for the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, of compared side-by-side. £55.00 until international importance. 144p, col maps (Historic Towns publication 416p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) Trust 2017) 9781785706660 Hb 9781785704499 Hb £40.00 £70.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Winchester Studies 9.i The People of Early Winchester Edited by Caroline M. Stuckert This volume traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester’s inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third century to the mid- sixteenth century, a period of over 1,300 years. Although the populations of other British urban areas, York and London in particular, have been studied over an extended period, this volume is unique in providing a continuous chronological window, rather than a series of isolated studies. It is particularly notable for the large sample of Anglo-Saxon burials dated to the 8th - 10th centuries, which provide a bridge between the earlier Romano-British material and the later medieval samples. This study includes information on demography, physical Only characteristics, dental health, disease, and trauma collected £100.00 from over 2,000 skeletons excavated from the Roman until 30th Cemetery at Lankhills and the Anglo-Saxon and medieval cemeteries of the Old September and New Minster and Winchester Cathedral, as well as other Early Anglo-Saxon sites in neighbouring areas of Hampshire. 496p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198131700 Hb £120.00

Anglo-Saxon & Viking 63 The Complete Old English Poems War Fleets By Craig Williamson Shipbuilding, resource management and In this landmark volume the entire Old English maritime warfare in 11th-century Denmark poetic corpus - including poems and fragments By Morten Ravn discovered only within the past fifty years - is The military operations of Scandinavian societies rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative in the Viking Age depended on their ships. Some verse in a masterful translation by Craig ships were designed to conduct the speedy transport Williamson. The poems are accompanied by an of large numbers of troops, while others were introduction by Tom Shippey on their literary specialised cargo vessels used in military operations scope and vision as well as Williamson’s own as carriers of supplies and sometimes troops as well. introductions to the individual works. This book examines the building and use of ships 1248p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) for warfare in 11th century Denmark. The subjects 9780812248470 Hb £52.00 are addressed through detailed analyses of aspects such as resources, organisational structures and Identity Formation and Diversity in naval warfare. the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond 164p, col illus (Viking Ship Museum 2016) 9788785180728 Communicators and Communication Hb £50.00 Edited by Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin & Mats Roslund Sturla Thordarson This volume makes the case for a more heterogenous , Chieftain, and Lawman view of the Viking world in the east. Ten scholars By Jon Vidar Sigurdsson & Sverrir Jakobsson approach the topic from different , with This volume is an introduction to Sturla Thordarson case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with (1214-1284), a leading figure in thirteenth-century horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long- Iceland. Thordarson is one of only a handful distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic known by name, and he is certainly one of the most Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus significant. In addition to his role as author and dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, compiler, he was in his day one of the most powerful and Dirhams in the Baltic region. men in Iceland and served as court poet, liegeman 300p, b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004292178 Hb £110.00 and lawman over the course of his life. 292p (Brill 2017) 9789004342354 Hb £100.00 Tales of the Iron Bloomery Ironmaking in Southeastern Norway - Viking Friendship Foundation of Statehood c. AD 700-1300 The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, By Bernt Rundberget c. 900-1300 Bernt Rundberget examines ironmaking processes By Vidar Jon Sigurdsson in southern Hedmark in Norway in the period AD In Viking Friendship, Jon Vidar Sigurdsson explores 700-1300. Excavations revealed extensive evidence the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic for iron extraction and bloomery iron-making, and Norwegian societies together, its role in power allowing assessment of subjects such as technology, struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped time, scale, resource utilization, distribution and religious beliefs and practices both before and after land-use. Rundberget’s main hypothesis is that the introduction of Christianity. iron became the economic basis for political 192p, b/w illus (Cornell UP 2017) 9781501705779 Hb developments, from chiefdom to kingdom. £32.95 484p, b/w and col illus (Brill 2017) 9789004278790 Hb £130.00 By Timothy Bolton Beyond the Northlands Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of Viking Voyages and the Sagas one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon By Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough kings: Cnut, the powerful Danish warlord who In Beyond the Northlands Eleanor Rosamund conquered England and created a North Sea empire Barraclough explores the vast horizons of the Norse in the eleventh century. He draws from a wealth of world through the stories that the told written and archaeological sources to provide the about themselves in their sagas. She illuminates most detailed accounting to date of the life and the saga accounts with a range of other evidence: accomplishments of a remarkable figure in European history, who archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world Only maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as created a new Anglo-Danish £24.00 far away as Byzantium and Baghdad, to understand regime through designed how the world was experienced, remembered, and internationalism. until 30th imagined by the Vikings. 272p b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) September 317p col illus (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198701248 Hb 9780300208337 Hb £30.00 £25.00 64 Anglo-Saxon & Viking Early Medieval Europe Pilgrimage to Heaven NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Eschatology and Monastic Spirituality in Early Medieval Ireland Crossing Boundaries By Katja Ritari Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, This book focuses on the expectation of the Material Culture, Language and Literature Judgment and the afterlife in early medieval of the Early Medieval World Irish monastic spirituality. Dr Ritari explores the Edited by Eric Cambridge & Jane Hawkes role of this eschatological expectation in various In this major collection sources, including hagiography produced by the of 27 papers, contributors monastic familia of St Columba, the sermons of transcend traditional St Columbanus, the Navigatio sancti Brendani disciplinary boundaries portraying St Brendan’s sea voyages, and the vision and offer new approaches. attributed to St Adomnán about Heaven and Hell. The main focus is on One recurrent image used by the Irish authors to material culture, but also portray the Christian path to Heaven is the image includes insights into the of peregrinatio, a life-long pilgrimage. compositional techniques 235p (Brepols 2016) 9782503565392 Pb £62.00 of Bede and the Beowulf- poet, and the strategies Perceptions of Femininity in Early adopted by anonymous Irish Society scribes to record information in unfamiliar By Helen Oxenham languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, This book examines the from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to sources surviving from fifth- the Ruthwell Cross, while new finds such as the to ninth-century Ireland, runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the aiming to offer a fresh view sword pommel from Beckley, are also published of authorial perceptions here for the first time . Important thematic surveys of femininity. It seeks to reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers highlight the complexities interacting with the political and intellectual of those perceptions, the concerns of the wider Insular and continental significance of authorial world. Other contributors consider what it is to aims and purposes in the be Viking, revealing how recent archaeological construction of femininity, work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional and the potential disjunction categorisation of the Vikings as ‘incomers’. between societal “reality” and the images presented to us in the sources. It 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) demonstrates how fluid constructions of gender 9781785703072 Hb £55.00 could be, and presents a new interpretation of the position of femininity in the thought world of early Irish authors. The Burial Dress of the Rus’ in the 256p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271160 Hb £60.00 Upper Volga Region (Late 10th-13th Jonas of Bobbio Centuries) Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Reome, By Iuliia Stepanova Life of Vedast This book is devoted to the Edited by Alexander O’Hara & Ian Wood Old Rus’ dress of the Upper The Life of Columbanus is a, perhaps the, central Volga area, as gleaned from text for the history of seventh-century monasticism. the archaeological evidence This volume contains a new English translation of burial sites. The organic of the work, as well as the Life of John of Reome, remains of dress and metal also written by Jonas, and the Life of Vedast, and glass ornaments and from the circle of Jonas if not his own work. The fasteners are considered. introduction and commentary take account of Issues such as the social recent archaeological work at Luxeuil which means status and age of the buried that the text now has to be seen as a programmatic individuals, as well as the work, advocating a particular monastic style, rather influence of various ethnic than as a record of fact. groups on the dress of the Old Rus’, are addressed 400p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781781381762 Hb £85.00, through the study of variants of male and female 9781781381779 Pb £25.00 headdresses, clothes and accessories. 394p, b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004314658 Hb £135.00 65 Visions of Unity After the A Saving Science Early Iberian Latin Chronicles and the Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Mediterranean World Manuscripts By Ksenia Bonch Reeves By Eric M. Ramirez-Weaver This study focuses on post- Eric Ramírez-Weaver Visigothic Latin chronicles explores the significance of as testimonies of an intense early medieval astronomy in search for models of the Frankish empire, using stability and social cohesion as his lens an astronomical on the Iberian Peninsula. masterpiece, the deluxe The book examines, firstly, manuscript of the Handbook the Andalusi Christian of 809, painted in roughly 830 narrative of Visigothic for Bishop Drogo of Metz, political demise; secondly, one of Charlemagne’s sons. the narrative of sovereignty, Created in an age in which developed in Asturias-León careful study of the heavens from the late ninth century onwards; and finally served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian the historiographical manipulation of both of these feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a traditions in Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s Historia de “heavenly” order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in rebus Hispanie (1243). The ongoing contact between the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the Iberian Latin textual communities and the broader intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Mediterranean is interpreted as central to both the 304p, col illus (Penn State UP 2017) 9780271071268 Hb development of Iberian historical mythology and its £63.95 historiographical renovation. 314p (Brepols 2016) 9782503565095 Hb £68.00 Heresy and Dissent in the Religious : Religion and Power The Case of Gottschalk of Orbais in the Frankish Kingdoms By Matthew Bryan Gillis Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong This study recounts the history of an exceptional Edited by Rob Meens & Janneke Raaijmakers ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of These twenty-five essays are focused upon the Orbais. Matthew Gillis analyzes Gottschalk’s literary importance of religion to Frankish politics and offer and spiritual self-representations, his modes of fresh perspectives on various themes such as the argument, his prophetic claims to martyrdom and nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, miraculous powers, and his shocking defiance to unity and dissent, ideas of correction and discipline, bishops as strategies for influencing contemporaries the power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power, and in changing political circumstances. In the larger the diverse ways in which power was institutionalised history of medieval heresy and dissent, Gottschalk’s and employed by lay and ecclesiastical authorities. case reveals how the Carolingian Empire preserved 584p, b/w illus (Manchester UP 2016, Pb 2017) order within the church through coercive reform. 9780719097638 Hb £75.00, 9781526118547 Pb £32.50 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198797586 Hb £65.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 By Alice Rio The periods at either end of the early middle ages are associated with iconic forms of unfreedom: Roman slavery at one end; at the other, the serfdom of the twelfth century and beyond. How and why this major change took place in the intervening period has been a long-standing puzzle. This study picks up the various threads linking this transformation across the centuries, and situates them within the full context of what slavery and unfreedom were being used for in the early middle ages. This volume adopts a broad comparative perspective, covering different regions of Western Europe over six centuries, to try to answer the following questions: who might Only become enslaved and why? What did this mean for them, and £55.00 for their lords? What made people opt for certain ways of exploiting unfree labour over others in different times and until 30th places, and is it possible, underneath all this diversity, to identify some coherent September trajectories of historical change? 304p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198704058 Hb £65.00

66 Early Medieval Europe Ottonian Queenship At the End of Great Moravia By Simon MacLean Skeletons from the Second Church Cemetery at Ottonian Queenship offers an original interpretation Pohansko-Brˇeclav (9th–10th Century A.D.) of Ottonian queenship through a study of the By Vladimir Sladek & Jiri Machacek sources for the dynasty’s six queens. Simon This monograph summarizes the first MacLean sees the spectacular status of Ottonian anthropological survey of human skeletons royal women not as a matter of extraordinary excavated at the second church cemetery in individual personalities, but as a distinctive product Pohansko-Břeclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery of the post-Carolingian era in which the certainties was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of the ninth century were breaking down amidst of Pohansko and represents one of the key pieces of overlapping struggles for elite family power, royal evidence about changes in human society at the end legitimacy, and territory. of the Great Moravian Empire (9th-10th century), 272p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198800101 Hb when Early Medieval societies transformed into a £65.00 new political organization. 254p, col illus (BAR 2836, 2017) 9781407315768 Pb £46.00 Medieval History Bishops in the Political Community of Kingmakers England 1213-1272 How Power in England Was Won and Lost By S.T. Ambler on the Welsh Frontier Thirteenth-century England By Timothy Venning produced an uncommonly During the course of the Middle Ages the great dedicated episcopate - lords of the Welsh Marches were granted ever dedicated not only to its greater authority. They intermarried, schemed for pastoral mission but also to extra lands and snatched power in a complex and the defence of the kingdom often violent political process. Due to their huge and the oversight of royal resources and unparalleled military experience, government. This volume they soon came to overawe weak kings and examines the interaction dominate national events. Timothy Venning between the bishops’ showcases the mentality of the Lords of the actions on the ground and Marches, and reveals the dramatic careers of those their culture, identity, and who prospered from their loyalty to the king, to political thought. In so doing those whose power was gained by treachery. it reveals how the Montfortian bishops were forced 336p, b/w illus (Amberley 2017) 9781445659404 Hb to construct a new philosophy of power in the £20.00 crucible of political crisis, and thus presents a new ideal-type in the study of politics and political King John’s Delegation to the Almohad thought: spontaneous ideology. Court (1212) 256p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198754022 Hb £60.00 Medieval Interreligious Interactions and Modern Historiography A Short History of the Normans By Ilan Shoval By Leonie V. Hicks Is Matthew Paris’s story of an English diplomatic In exploring Norman culture delegation, sent by King John to the caliph of in all its regions, Leonie V Morocco in the summer of 1212, nothing more Hicks places the Normans in than fiction, or does it report actual historical the context of early medieval events? Did King John really offer to subjugate society. Her comparative his kingdom to the Muslim caliph and did he perspective enables the consider converting to Islam? And how may a Norman story to be told in full, new reading of this medieval chronicle in its so that the societies of Rollo, appropriate historical context contribute to our William, Robert and Roger understanding of the professionalization of Guiscard are given the focused diplomatic practice, the emergence of European attention they deserve. bureaucratic kingship, Christian–Muslim political 272p (I.B. Tauris 2016) interaction, interreligious polemic, and conversion? 9781780762128 Pb £10.99 In this book, these questions are explored as part of the first full-scale study of Matthew Paris’s report. 233p (Brepols 2016) 9782503555775 Hb £64.00 67 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Rise and Fall of Owen Glyndwr England, France and Welsh Rebellion in The Wealth of England the Middle Ages The Medieval Wool Trade and its Political By Gideon Brough Importance 1100–1600 Owain Glyn Dwr is By Susan Rose one of the great figures In The Wealth of England of Welsh and military Susan Rose brings together history. He conceived and the social, economic and implemented a strategy political strands in the which saw his small, development of the wool poorly-equipped forces trade and show how and repeatedly defeat Crown why it became so important. troops and bring down the The author looks at the lives apparatus of governance of prominent wool-men, and in Wales. Following these examines how the wealth achievements, he held native they made transformed the parliaments and established appearance of the leading diplomatic contact with surrounding powers. It centres of the trade with magnificent churches and is this international activity which receives new other buildings. The complex operation of the trade emphasis in this study, which shows how Owain is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais was able to construct an alliance with France, to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the and repositions his rebellion as part of the wider policy of English kings, especially fifteenth century European political world in the in the fourteenth century, was context of the Hundred Years War. heavily influenced by trade in Only 320p, (I.B. Tauris 2017) 9781784535933 Hb £25.00 this one commodity. £30.00 until 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Medieval Women and Their Objects Books 2017) 9781785707360 Hb Edited by Jenny Adams & Nancy Mason Bradbury £40.00 These essays present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, Medieval St Andrews showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of Church, Cult, City gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions Edited by Michael Brown & Katie Stevenson of women’s bodies. Others reconsider the concept This volume provides the first full study of this special of objectification in the lives of medieval women - and multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. either fictional or historical - by looking closely at The fourteen chapters use St Andrews as a focus for their relation to gendered material objects, taken the discussion of multiple aspects of medieval life in literally as women’s possessions and as figurative Scotland. They examine church, spirituality, urban manifestations of their desires. society and learning in a specific context from the 368p (University of Michigan Press 2016) seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the 9780472130146 Hb £61.95 consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and political centres of medieval Europe. Sexuality in Medieval Europe 400p, b/w illus. (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783271689 Doing Unto Others Hb £60.00 By Ruth Mazo Karras Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views Peacemaking in the Middle Ages at the time were conflicted and complicated; Principles and Practice there was no single medieval attitude towards By J. E. M. Benham sexuality any more than there is one modern This book explores the making of peace in the late- attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the well as behaviour that was seen as transgressive, experiences of the kings of England and the kings the chapters cover such topics as chastity, the of Denmark. From dealing with owing allegiance to role of the church, and non-reproductive activity. powerful neighbours to conquering the ‘barbarians’, This fully revised third edition has been updated it offers a vision of how relationships between rulers to include the latest scholarship throughout, were regulated and maintained, and how rulers including expanded coverage of Islamic and negotiated, resolved, avoided and enforced matters Jewish cultures. in dispute in a period before nation states and 268p, b/w illus (Routledge, 3rd ed 2017) 9781138860896 international law. Pb £30.99 264p b/w illus (Manchester UP 2017) 9781526116680 Pb £25.00 68 Medieval History Blanche of Castile Queen of France The Prehistory of the Crusades By Lindy Grant By Burnam W. Reynolds This is the first modern Reynolds focuses on scholarly biography of the Baltic, or Northern, Blanche of Castile, whose Crusades, an aspect of the identity has until now been Crusades that has been little subsumed in that of her documented, thus bringing son, the saintly Louis IX. A a new perspective to their central figure in the politics historical and ideological of medieval Europe, Blanche origins. From the Emperor was a sophisticated patron Charlemagne’s wars against of religion and culture. the in the 8th and Through Lindy Grant’s 9th centuries to the Baltic engaging account, based on a Crusades of the 12th century, close analysis of Blanche’s household accounts and this book explores the sanctification of war in of the social and religious networks on which her creating the ideal of crusade. In so doing, it shows power and agency depended, Blanche is revealed as how crusading ultimately developed in the 12th a vibrant and intellectually questioning personality. and 13th centuries. The Prehistory of the Crusades 400p col pls (Yale UP 2016) 9780300219265 Hb £30.00 provides a valuable insight into the topic for students of medieval history and the Crusades. Flaying in the Pre-Modern World 271p, (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781441143891 Pb £21.99 Edited by Larissa Tracy From images of Saint Intricate Interfaith Networks in Bartholomew holding his the Middle Ages skin in his arms, to scenes Quotidian Jewish-Christian Contacts of execution in Havelok the Edited by Ephraim Shoham Steiner Dane, to laws that prescribed Recent scholarship has suggested that the religious it as a punishment for divide between Jews and Christians in the Middle treason, this volume explores Ages, although ever-present (and at times even the idea and the reality of violently so), did not stop individuals and groups skin removal - flaying - in from forming ties and expanding them in more the Middle Ages. Its two intricate ways than previously thought. In this parts consider practice and volume, the contributors explore a number representation, capturing the of phenomena through different disciplinary evolution of flaying as both approaches. Ties of an economic and cultural an idea and a practice in the premodern world. nature are examined, and attention is paid to social 400p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781843844525 contacts and networks in the fields of art and the Hb £60.00 sciences, and matters of daily life. 364p (Brepols 2016) 9782503544298 Hb £81.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris Artisanal Migration Technological Innovation and Gendered Experience By Sharon Farmer For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. According to Sharon Farmer, the key to the manufacture of silk lay not just with the availability and importation of raw materials but with the importation of labour as well. Farmer demonstrates the essential role that skilled Only Mediterranean immigrants played in the formation of Paris’s £47.00 population and in its emergence as a major centre of luxury until 30th production. She highlights the unique opportunities that September silk production offered to women and the rise of women entrepreneurs in Paris to the very pinnacles of their profession. 368p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9780812248487 Hb £58.00

Medieval History 69 Invisible Weapons A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology (1110-1167) By M. Cecilia Gaposchkin Edited by Marsha Dutton From the very beginning and This book explores the life, works, and thought throughout the history of the of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey Crusades, liturgical prayer, from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three masses, and alms were all genres of his works - sermons, spiritual teaching, marshalled in the fight and history - scholars survey such central topics against the Muslim armies. as Marian devotion, love and friendship, the Liturgy helped construct the sacramental nature of community, lay spirituality, devotional ideology of the and saints’ lives. crusading project, endowing 364p (Brill 2016) 9789004183551 Hb £160.00 war with religious meaning, placing crusading ideals Lordship and Faith at the heart of Christian The English Gentry and the Parish Church identity, and embedding crusading warfare squarely in the Middle Ages into the eschatological economy. By connecting By Nigel Saul medieval liturgical books with the larger narrative Lordship and Faith takes as its subject the many of crusading, Gaposchkin allows us to understand hundreds of parish churches built in England in a crucial facet in the culture of holy war. the Middle Ages by the gentry, the knights and 376p, b/w illus (Cornell UP 2017) 9781501705151 Hb esquires, and the lords of country manors. Nigel £57.50 Saul uses lordly engagement with the parish church as a way of opening up the piety and sociability of How to Plan a Crusade the gentry, focusing on the gentry as founders and Reason and Religious War in the High builders of churches, worshippers in them, holders Middle Ages of church advowsons, and patrons and sponsors of By Christopher Tyerman parish communities. In this highly original 384p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198706199 Hb and enjoyable new book, £75.00 Christopher Tyerman focuses on something Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles obvious but overlooked: the By Emma J. Wells massive, all-encompassing This book leads the modern traveller along some of and hugely costly business of the key medieval walking routes of Britain, taking actually preparing a crusade. in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and It provides a detailed Lindisfarne in addition to out-of-the-way places exploration of the logistical along paths not so widely travelled. Illustrated effort involved and the ways throughout in colour, this practical book provides that society responded, clear maps and informative commentary on the taking in diplomacy, communications, propaganda, history of each route, as well as its current landscape, the use of mass media, medical care, equipment, shrines, art and architecture. voyages, money, weapons, credit, wills, ransoms, 240p, col illus (Robert Hale 2016) 9780719817076 Hb animals, and the power of prayer. £19.99 432p (Penguin 2015, Pb 2016) 9780241954652 Pb £10.99 Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy Manors and Markets Economy and Society in the Low Countries Ad C.350-800 History and Hagiography in Ten Biographies 500-1600 By Nicholas Everett By Bas J. P. Van Bavel This book provides the first translation into English Providing a concise overview of social and economic of the Latin biographies of nine holy men and one changes over more than a thousand years, Bas archangel who became the patron saints of the van Bavel assesses the impact of the social and areas where they evangelized, documenting the institutional organization that saw the Low conversion of pagan Roman Italy to Christianity Countries become the most urbanized and densely at the dawn of the Middle Ages. It includes a populated part of Europe by the end of the Middle comprehensive introduction and historical Ages. He assesses the role of manorial organization, commentary to each biography, and assesses the the emergence of markets, the rise of towns, the technical problems relating to the origin and date quest for self-determination by ordinary people, of composition of each text. and the sharp regional differences in development that can be observed in the very long run. 287p (Brepols 2017) 9780888445650 Pb £30.00 512p, (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198783756 Pb £28.99”

70 Medieval History Medieval Art & Architecture The Reliquary Effect Art and Optics in the Hereford Map Enshrining the Sacred Object An English Mappa Mundi c. 1300 By Cynthia Hahn By Marcia Kupfer In this book, Cynthia Hahn explores the Features of the Hereford societal value of reliquaries, showing how they Mappa Mundi that baffle commemorate religious and historical events modern expectations and, more important, inspire awe, faith, and, for are typically dismissed many, the miraculous. Hahn looks deeply into the as the product of careless Christian tradition, examining relics and reliquaries execution. Kupfer argues throughout history and around the world, going that they should rightly be from the earliest years of the cult of saints through seen as part of the map’s to the post-Reformation response. She shows how encoded commentary on the architectural creation of sacred space and the the nature of vision itself. evocation of the biblical tradition of the temple is Optical conceits and central to the reliquary’s numinous power. perspectival games formed 304p, (Reaktion Books 2017) 9781780236551 Hb £35.00 part of the map’s language of vision, were central to its commission, and shaped its display, formal English Medieval Embroidery design, and allegorical fabric. The book thus sheds Opus Anglicanum new light on the impact of scientific discourses in Edited by M. A. Michael, Glyn Davies & Clare Browne late medieval art. Owing to their quality, complexity, and magnificence, 240p, col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9780300220339 Hb £60.00 English embroideries enjoyed international demand and can be traced in Continental sources as opus The Visual World of the Hungarian anglicanum. This sumptuously illustrated book Angevin Legendary draws on new research and detailed photography By Bela Zsolt Szakacs to offer an introduction to their design, production, The manuscript known as the Hungarian Angevin and use. Essays by leading experts explore the Legendary, created in Bologna in the early 14th embroideries’ artistic and social context, while century for Hungarian royal patrons, is a luxurious catalogue entries examine individual masterpieces. codex worthy of a ruler. Dispersed in four countries 336p col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9780300222005 Hb £40.00 and six collections, the 142 richly gilded leaves recount the legends of fifty-eight saints. This The Age of Opus Anglicanum analysis of the codex has three levels: identifying the Edited by Michael A Michael original criteria of saints selected, the presentation The essays included here break new ground in of the iconographic features of the respective the understanding of both liturgical and secular legends, and the exposure of the recurrent image embroidery, covering topics such as interesting types on the leaves. iconographic aspects found in Opus Anglicanum; 330p, col illus (Central European UP 2016) 9789637326257 hitherto unpublished data from the royal accounts Hb £77.00 of Edward III related to commissions and payments to embroiderers and embroideresses; and a detailed A Feast for the Senses study of late medieval English palls accompanied by Art and Experience in Medieval Europe a Handlist of the major extant examples. Edited by Martina Bagnoli 240p, col illus (Brepols 2016) 9781909400412 Hb £93.50 This sumptuous new book brings together sacred and How to Read Medieval Art secular art to reveal the By Wendy A. Stein shared intellectual culture This book introduces the art of the European that governed perception Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from in Europe in the 13th the Metropolitan Museum’s collection. Formal through the 16th centuries. explorations of individual works, chosen to A focused exploration exemplify key ideas crucial to understanding of the performative and medieval art, are accompanied by relevant multifaceted nature of information about the context in which they were medieval art underscores its direct appeal to the created, conveying the works’ visual nuances but senses, revealing the rich experiential world that also their broader symbolic meaning. informed its interpretation. Nine essays explore 136p, col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9781588395979 Pb £16.99 these themes through representations of religious practices, royal rituals, feasts and celebrations, music, and literature. 400p, col illus (Yale UP 2016) 9780300222951 Hb £45.00 71 The Marvellous and the Monstrous English Gothic Misericord Carvings in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century History from the Bottom Up Europe By Betsy Chunko-Dominguez By Kirk Ambrose Betsy Chunko-Dominguez Using examples of moves beyond textual Romanesque sculpture from dependence and traditional across Europe, with a focus iconographic analysis when on France and northern examining misericords and Portugal, the author builds a thorough discussion suggests that medieval of the relationship between representations of monsters the misericord’s several could service ideals, whether potential audiences - intellectual, political, including patron, craftsman, religious, and social, even as occupant of the seat, and they could simultaneously modern viewer. Beyond articulate fears; he argues the bounds of misericord that their material presence energizes works of art studies, there are implications here for study of in paradoxical, even contradictory ways. In this the relationship between centre and margin in late way, Romanesque monsters resist containment medieval art; and, indeed, what constitutes ‘centre’ within modern interpretive categories and offer and ‘margin’ as conceptual realms. testimony to the density and nuance of the medieval 192p, b/w illus (Brill 2017) 9789004341180 Hb £100.00 imagination. Romanesque Cathedrals in 208p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2017) 9781843838319 Hb £50.00, 9781783272426 Pb £19.99 Mediterranean Europe Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context The Castles of Kent, Surrey & Sussex Edited by Gerardo Boto Varela & J. E. A. Kroesen By Mike Salter This volume explores This book is a comprehensive guide to the history the architecture and and architecture of castellated buildings dating from layout of Romanesque the late 11th century to the mid 16th century in the cathedrals in Europe, counties of Kent, Surrey & Sussex. An introduction especially around the describes the development of fortified buildings in Mediterranean, paying these three counties as they were before boundary special attention changes saw parts of Kent and Surrey absorbed into to liturgical ritual, London. Eighty buildings in the three counties are church furnishings, then described in detail with the aid of old and new iconography, and urban photographs, prints and plans reproduced to a set context. The focus is of common scales. both on the influence of patrons and on more 124p, b/w and col illus (Folly Publications 2016) bottom-up factors, including community practices. 9780993187933 Pb £9.95 312p, b/w and col illus (Brepols 2016) 9782503552507 Pb £80.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Fifty English Steeples The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England By Julian Flannery This book presents the first systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some five hundred years. The introduction provides an overview of the technological and aesthetic development of towers and spires, and examines the evolution of their major architectural elements. The process of medieval steeple construction is also explored. The main part of the book is devoted to a richly illustrated survey of the steeples, Only from renowned Saxon churches such as Earls Barton, £40.00 Northamptonshire, to those of almost cathedral-like until 30th proportions such as Salle in Norfolk or Chipping Campden in the heart of the Cotswolds. September 496p, b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2016) 9780500343142 Hb £50.00 72 Medieval Art & Architecture Medieval Archaeology Malta and Water (AD 900 to 1900) Stone Carving of the Hospitaller Period Irrigating a Semi-Arid Landscape in Rhodes By Keith Buhagiar Displaced Pieces and Fragments This book synthesises archaeological and historical By Anna-Maria Kasdagli research in order to investigate Maltese water This work presents 230 stone carvings of the management technology between AD 900 and Hospitaller period in Rhodes (1309-1522), which AD 1900. Central to this publication are reservoirs, for various reasons are no longer in their original cisterns, wells and perched aquifer galleries, which setting. Most of them are cut in local stone or have for centuries provided farmers tilling arable reused antique marble and belong to three broad land with a supplementary water source other than groups: decorative architectural elements, funerary the limited and erratic seasonal rainfall. slabs and markers, and heraldry from secular 313p, b/w illus (BAR 2829, 2016) 9781407316291 Pb and religious buildings and fortifications. Their £47.00 architectural, artistic, inscriptional and social significance are discussed, providing insights into Medieval European Coinage, the way cultural influences from Volume 12 different parts of Western Europe Northern Italy were introduced, maintained Only By Andrea Saccocci, Michael Matzke & Jr. Day and adapted in an Eastern £29.00 This volume of Medieval Mediterranean context. until 30th European Coinage is the 214p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) September first comprehensive survey 9781784914783 Pb £36.00 of the coinage of north Italy c.950-1500, bringing The German Ocean the latest research to an Medieval Europe Around the North Sea international audience. It By Brian Ayers provides an authoritative During the medieval period and up-to-date account of trade links, fostered in the the coinages of Piedmont, two centuries prior to 1100, Liguria, Lombardy and the expanded in the 12th and greater Veneto, which have 13th centuries to ensure the never been studied together in such detail on a development of maritime broad regional basis. The volume reveals for the first societies around the North Sea time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of whose material culture was the region and offers new syntheses of the monetary often more remarkable for its history of the individual cities. similarity across distance than 1319p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521260213 for its diversity. This book £175.00 explores archaeological and historical evidence for this ‘diverse commonality’ Seals and Status: Power of Objects through the historic environment of the North Sea. Edited by John Cherry, Jessica Berenbeim & 292p, b/w and col illus (Equinox 2016) 9781904768494 Lloyd de Beer Hb £85.00 This publication deals specifically with aspects An Archaeological Study of of status in the history of the Bayeux Tapestry seals, exploring this theme The Landscapes Buildings and Places across a diverse range of By Trevor Rowley cultural contexts, from Trevor Rowley here analyses the tapestry through the 9th century up to the the landscapes, buildings and structures shown, Early Modern period, and such as towns and castles, while comparing them across the world, looking at to the landscapes, buildings, ruins and earthworks Byzantine, European, Islamic which can be seen today. This approach allows him and Chinese examples. It to challenge a number of assumptions regarding investigates seals used by all the location of several scenes in the tapestry, most members of society, from kings to fishmongers, controversially suggesting that William may never and examines the history of objects, with examples have gone to Hastings at all. Finally, Rowley tackles ranging from the medieval matrix with a classical gem the missing end of the tapestry, suggesting the showing the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius to the places and events which would have been depicted 17th-century Providence Island matrix from America. on this portion of William’s journey to Westminster. 225p, b/w and col illus (British Museum Press 2017) 192p b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781781593806 Hb 9780861592135 Pb £40.00, NYP £25.00 73 Landscape and History on Agrarian Technology in the Medieval the Medieval Irish Frontier Landscape The Kings Cantreds in the Thirteenth Century Edited by Jan Klapste By Thomas Finan Ruralia X includes 27 papers dealing with agrarian This work offers a new and innovative insight technologies in the medieval landscape as seen into the history of thirteenth-century Ireland by in different European countries. The subject exploring the interplay between Gaelic lords, Anglo- areas include cultivation, livestock husbandry, Norman lords, and the medieval environmental gardening, viticulture and woodland management landscape that connected them. Focusing on the – interpreting the concept of agrarian production king’s cantreds of Roscommon, the book explores in a broad sense – studied mainly on the basis the frontier landscape as an active player in its own of archaeology, but also using iconography, right within Irish history and discusses the way that documentary evidence and archaeo-environmental both Gaels and Anglo-Normans interacted with, approaches. and were in turn influenced by, this environment. 448p, b/w illus (Brepols 2016) 9782503551371 Pb £90.00 230p (Brepols 2016) 9782503542928 Hb £65.00 Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Castles, Siegeworks and Settlements Medieval Rural Environment Surveying the Archaeology of the Twelfth Edited by Christiane Bis-Worch & Claudia Theune Century These papers explore aspects Edited by Duncan W. Wright & O. H. Creighton of religion, cult and ritual This volume presents twelve in medieval rural settings. reports on archaeological Important religious sites investigations carried out like churches, monasteries, at sites across England mosques and synagogues as in support of a project well as caves, holy wells and investigating the so- hermitages are discussed. called ‘Anarchy’ of King Furthermore burials of Stephen’s reign in the children, revenants and the mid-twelfth century. condemned are analysed, Sites and their landscape as they often deviate from settings are analysed normal practice and shed light on particular through topographical and communities and their beliefs. Rituals concerning geophysical survey, as well as the protection of buildings and persons which focus LiDAR and viewshed analysis, Only on objects attributed with religious qualities are supported by cartographic and £36.00 another area explored. archival research. until 30th b/w and col illus (Ruralia XI, Sidestone Press 2017) 192p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September 9789088904868 Pb £60.00, NYP 2016) 9781784914769 Pb £45.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Anarchy War and Status in 12th-Century Landscapes of Conflict By O. H. Creighton & Duncan Wright The turbulent reign of Stephen, King of England (1135–54), has been styled since the late 19th century as ‘the Anarchy’, although the extent of political breakdown during the period has since been vigorously debated. Drawing on new research and fieldwork, this innovative volume offers the first ever overview and synthesis of the archaeological and material record for this controversial period. It presents and interrogates many different types of evidence at a variety of scales, ranging from nationwide mapping of historical events through to conflict landscapes of battlefields and sieges. The volume considers archaeological sites such as castles and other fortifications, churches, monasteries, bishops’ palaces and urban and rural settlements, alongside material culture Only including coins, pottery, seals and arms and armour. This £60.00 approach not only augments but also challenges historical narratives, questioning the ‘real’ impact of Stephen’s troubled reign on society, until 30th settlement, church and the landscape, and opens up new perspectives on the September conduct of Anglo-Norman warfare. 288p, b/w illus col pls (Liverpool UP 2016) 9781781382424 Hb £75.00

74 Medieval Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Between Carpentry and Joinery Wood Finishing Work in European Medieval and Modern Architecture The Houses of Hereford Edited by Paulo Charruadas, Pascale Fraiture, Patrice 1200-1500 Gautier & Mathieu Piavaux By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes and Richard K. Morriss This volume includes thirteen contributions The cathedral city of divided into two thematic sections. The first Hereford is one of the best- addresses the divide between structural and kept historical secrets of the finishing work via the question of flooring, ceiling Welsh Marches. Although its and roofing techniques. The second examines Anglo-Saxon development the contribution of this craft to the organisation, is well known from a series comfort and ornamentation of houses. of classic excavations in the 271p, b/w and col illus (Brepols 2017) 9782930054285 1960s and ’70s, what is less Hb £50.00 widely known is that the city boasts an astonishingly well- New Frontier preserved medieval plan and The Origins And Development Of West London contains some of the earliest By Richard Brown, Andy Shelley & Elizabeth Stafford houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. This book shines a spotlight on West London’s Three leading authorities on the buildings of the past. It is informed by historical research, site English Midlands have joined forces, combining excavations and archaeological monitoring carried detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical out before and during the construction of the research and topographical analysis, to examine 24 western arm of Crossrail which included the of the most important buildings, from the great hall discovery of ice age Bison and reindeer, the of the Bishop’s Palace of c.1190, to the first surviving rediscovery of long lost rivers and revealed the brick town-house of c.1690. Owners and builders history of Georgian property developers and the are identified from documentary sources wherever Great Western Railway. possible, from the Bishop of Hereford and the 119p, b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) medieval cathedral canons, through 9780904220803 Pb £10.00 civic office-holding merchant dynasties to minor tradesmen Only Coventry’s Medieval Suburbs otherwise known only for their £18.75 until By Iain Soden, Paul Mason & Danny McAree brushes with the law. publication Hill Street, Upper Well Street and Far Gosford 256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Street comprise three suburban streets which stood 2017) 9781785708169 Hb £25.00 directly outside the city gates of Coventry for much of the medieval period. 2003-2007 excavations allowed comparison in terms of land planning, Charterhouse Square construction methodologies, Black Death Cemetery and Carthusian character and relative fluctuations Only Monastery, Meat Market and Suburb in the long-term economy. The sites also contain substantial By Sam Pfizenmaier £24.00 portions of the city’s defences. The story of London’s until 30th Clerkenwell and Smithfield 208p, b/w and col illus September neighbourhood, from (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915629 prehistory through to the Pb £30.00 present day, is illustrated by The Comparative Palaeopathology of archaeological investigations undertaken as part of Males and Females in English Medieval the Crossrail Central Skeletal Samples in a Social Context development. Excavation By Clare Duncan showed how, from being This study investigates whether males and females on the margins of the city, in medieval England experienced differences in this area was occupied health and mortality. Palaeopathological data by religious houses and a cattle market, before pertaining to a total sample of 1,056 adult males and developing into a densely packed suburb as 674 adult females (c.1066-1540 AD) were compared London’s population exploded. Charterhouse statistically. The collective analysis of four stress Square was known to be the site of the West indicators (stature, enamel hypoplasia, cribra Smithfield cemetery, one of two London emergency orbitalia, non-specific infection) suggested males burial grounds established during the Black Death experienced poorer general health, although a (1348–9); the 25 individuals excavated are the first statistically significant sex difference in age at death large group of burials recovered. was not demonstrated. 152p, col illus (MOLA 2016) 9781907586415 Pb £10.00 240p (BAR BS 629, 2016) 9781407321578 Pb £43.00 Medieval Archaeology 75 Post Medieval Bejewelled Cloth Seals Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean An Illustrated Guide to the Identification England of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth By Natasha Awais-Dean By Stuart F. Elton Bejewelled offers an in-depth discussion of the This book is intended to be a repository of the contexts in which jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean salient information currently available on the England was circulated from a male perspective, identification of cloth seals, and a source of considering the jewels as valid items of material new material that extends our understanding of culture worthy of study and attention, rather than as these important indicators of post medieval and mere trifles of adornment. Amongst other subjects, early modern industry and trade. the book analyses the social and historical contexts It is, primarily, a guide to help in which jewellery was acquired, owned and with the identification of cloth Only circulated, interrogating the meanings that these seals, both those found within £48.00 jewels had for their male owners. and those originating from the until 30th 200p, b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) United Kingdom. September 9780861592098 Pb £40.00, NYP 414p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915483 Pb £60.00 The Archaeology of Kenilworth Castle’s Elizabethan Garden A Cromwellian Warship Wrecked off Excavation and Investigation 2004-2008 Duart Castle, Mull, Scotland, in 1653 By Stephen Parry, Brian F. Dix & Claire Finn By Colin J. M. Martin As part of the Property Development Programme This book records the excavation of the wreck of a for Kenilworth Castle created an small Cromwellian warship, believed to be Swan. ambitious reconstruction of the former Elizabethan Eleven chapters chart the project’s development, garden on the north side of the castle keep. Related the identification of the wreck and its archaeology, detailed studies have been assembled in a 2013 as well as explaining the historical background. Key English Heritage monograph, but a full account of finds include carvings from the decorated stern, the archaeological investigations in the garden area interior panelling, navigational, medical and food- could not be included due to space restrictions. processing equipment, and elements of the rigging The present report is therefore intended to provide and pump systems. the necessary detail relating to the 267p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2017) Elizabethan garden, as well as Only 9781908332110 Hb £25.00 medieval remains, later Civil War activity, and more recent £18.00 Robert Adam’s London land-use. until 30th By Frances Sands 80p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress September This book reviews a wide variety of Robert Adam’s 2017) 9781784915742 Pb £22.00 designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar The Deptford Royal Dockyard ones. Each of Adam’s projects and Manor of Sayes Court, London explored in this book is plotted Only Excavations 2000-12 on Horwood’s map of London £16.00 By Antony Francis (1792-99). until 30th Deptford royal dockyard 160p, (Archaeopress 2016) September was established in the early 9781784914639 Pb £20.00 16th century and closed in 1869. Most of the dockyard Beneath the Killing Fields buildings were levelled in the By Matthew Leonard 20th century, but important Beneath the Western Front still lies a hidden below-ground remains were landscape of industrialised conflict virtually investigated in 2000–12 in the untouched since 1918. With the aid of cutting largest-ever excavation of a edge fieldwork conducted by the author in these naval dockyard. Integrating subterranean locales, this book combines military archaeological evidence with history, archaeology and anthropology in order to maps and written sources, explore the realities of subterranean warfare on the this book traces the yard’s development as it was Western Front, and the effects on the human body developed and expanded to keep pace with advances and mind that living and fighting underground in naval technology and the demands of empire, and inevitably entailed. throws light on life outside the yard for the workforce. 176p b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781783463060 Hb 260p, col illus (MOLA 2017) 9781907586361 Hb £30.00, £19.99 NYP 76 NEW VISIONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ROMAN BRITAIN

THE RURAL SETTLEMENT VOL 1 AVAILABLE NOW OF ROMAN BRITAIN Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen,Tom Brindle and Michael Fulford With the huge mass of new data produced since the onset of developer-funded archaeology in 1990, the incredible diversity of Roman rural settlement across the landscape can now be demonstrated. A new regional framework for the study of rural Roman Britain is proposed, in which a rich characterisation has been developed of the mosaic of communities that inhabited the province and the way that they changed over time. Centre stage is the farmstead, rather than the villa; variations in farmstead type, building form and associated landscape context are all explored in order to breathe new life into our understanding of the Romano-British countryside.

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THE RURAL ECONOMY VOL 2 COMING SOON OF ROMAN BRITAIN Martyn Allen, Lisa Lodwick, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford and Alexander Smith

This second volume considers the rural economy of Roman Britain through the lenses of the principal occupations of agriculture and rural industry. It has two main concerns, the documentation of what is currently known of agricultural and industrial production in the countryside, and an exploration of the contribution that material culture can make to our understanding of how those resources moved across the province to feed and support military and civil populations and the development of towns and infrastructure between the mid-first century A.D. and the beginning of the fifth century A.D. At the same time, the classification and regional appraisal of rural settlement that is at the heart of Vol. 1, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain, has enabled this study to provide a social context for rural production and consumption.

ROMAN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS 2017 480 PAGES • 400 COLOUR ILLUS 9780907764441 • PAPERBACK • £36.00 THE ANGLO-SAXON FENLAND SUSAN OOSTHUIZEN

Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano-British settlement appears to have been followed by consistent early medieval occupation on every island in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the region were organised within territorial groups in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, hierarchy of subordinate and dominant polities, principalities and kingdoms. Their prosperous livelihoods were based on careful collective control, exploitation and management of the vast natural water-meadows on which their herds of cattle grazed. This was a society whose origins could be found in prehistoric Britain, and which had evolved through the period of Roman control and into the post-imperial decades and centuries that followed. The rich and complex history of the development of the region shows, it is argued, a traditional social order evolving, adapting and innovating in response to changing times.

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