The Cambridge WreckProtect Birds Dennis Jackson History of Western Decay and Protection of By Dale Serjeantson A Northamptonshire Archaeologist Textiles Archaeological Wooden Shipwrecks This book serves as a guide to the By Dennis Jackson By David Jenkins Edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup methods of study of bird remains This autobiography covers work on Björdal and David Gregory from the past and covers a wide Neolithic and Bronze Age burials, This two-volume set looks at the range of topics, including anatomy production and use of textiles with This book includes chapters on the numerous Iron Age and Roman and osteology, taphonomy, eggs, settlements and an Anglo-Saxon contributors taking archaeological, anatomy and structure of wood feathers, and bone tools. It examines curatorial, art historical and historical and the physical and biological cemetery. The book also includes the myriad ways in which people have reviews of pit alignments, Iron Age approaches to the evidence. The decay of shipwrecks under water. A interacted with birds in the past. different parts of the book look at: Textile Industries summary of available methods for the in-situ protection settlement studies and a proposed chronology for Iron of the Ancient World; The Medieval Period; The Early of wrecks is presented and a cost-benefit analysis of 486pp, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Age pottery assemblages in Northamptonshire. Modern Period; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth in-situ preservation versus conventional raising and Hardback, was £69.99 174pp, col illus, Northamptonshire County Council, 2010, Century. conservation is given. Now £14.95 Paperback, was £14.50 1500pp, b/w illus, 40 col pls, Cambridge University Press, 154pp, col illus, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2012, Hardback, Now £5.95 2003, Hardback, was £364.99 was £19.95 Now £99.95 Now £6.95

Conceptions of Dyes in History and Humanity's Burden Archaeomalacology Cosmos Archaeology 19 A Global History of Malaria Revisited From Myths to the Edited by Jo Kirby By James L.A. Webb Non-dietary use of molluscs Accelerating Universe Papers on dyes and dying with a Humanity's Burden provides a in archaeological settings By Helge S. Kragh particular focus on tartans. panoramic overview of the history Edited by Canan Cakirlar A historical account of how 158pp, b/w illus, col pls, Archetype, of malaria. It traces the long arc of These ten papers revisit important natural philosophers and scientists 2003, Paperback, was £40.00 malaria out of tropical Africa into archaeological issues such as Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas have endeavoured to understand Now £9.95 provenance of raw materials, dye the universe. Starting with the during the early years of the production and the secondary uses creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle of industrial shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the the book covers all the major events in theoretical latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth symbolic world of diverse civilisations, technology and and observational cosmology, from Aristotle’s cosmos century. early cross-regional exchange networks. over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the 248pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Paperback, was 104pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, accelerating universe in the late 1990s. £19.99 was £32.00 288pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Paperback, was Now £7.95 £22.99 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

The Oxford Marx's Ghost Peter Orlando Childhood and Encyclopedia of Conversations with Archaeologists Hutchinson's Diary of Violence in the Maritime History By Thomas C. Patterson a Devon Antiquary Western Tradition Edited by John B. Hattendorf This book explores the profound Illustrated Journals and By Laurence Brockliss and Here is an encyclopedia of maritime influence of Karl Marx on 20th Sketchbooks 1871-1894 Heather Montgomery history that, in scope and depth, rivals century archaeology. Patterson Edited by Jeremy Butler An examination of the role of the expansiveness of the sea itself. discusses the work of V. Gordon Hutchinson recorded a vast array of violence and neglect in the relations The Encyclopedia covers the entire Childe in applying Marxism to between parents/carers and history of seafaring, from ancient archaeology, then analyses his material of an antiquarian and natural historical interest, in diaries, sketchbooks and reports to children from the Bronze Age to the Egyptian shipbuilders to Viking sea-raiders, from Nelson imediate impact, before moving on to consider the present. By demonstrating how the boundary between and the Napoleonic Wars to the voyages of Cheng Ho, emergence of the "new" archaeology of the 60s and an the Society of Antiquaries reproduced here in glorious full colour. His pioneering geological observations and acceptable and unacceptable forms of childrearing from the European conquerors of the New World to the explicitly Marxist archaeology in the 1970s. Finally he has shifted through the ages, and not necessarily in a nuclear submarines and supertankers of today. looks at how archaeologies from differing theoretical archaeological researches are now of special value, particularly his mapping of Bronze Age burial mounds of linear direction, it emphasises how relatively recent our perspectives have continued to use, engage with and contemporary understanding of good and bad parenting 2912pp, Oxford University Press, 2007, Hardback, was critique Marxist ideas. south-east Devon, many of which have now disappeared. £370.00 is. 204pp, Berg Publishers, 2003, Paperback, was £18.99 192pp, Halsgrove, 2010, Hardback, was £34.99 Now £99.95 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £12.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

A History of the World An Invitation to Mapping Human Development-led in Twelve Maps Anthropology History Archaeology in North- By Jerry Brotton The Structure Evolution and Cultural Discovering the Past West Europe Jerry Brotton examines the Identity of Human Societies through Our Genes Edited by Richard Bradley, significance of 12 maps - from the By Josep R. Llobera By Steve Olson Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander almost mystical representations Linden and Leo Webley of ancient history to the satellite- Synthesising British, French and In a journey across four continents, derived imagery of today. He shows American traditions, this stimulating Steve Olson traces the origins of These 12 papers bring together that far from being purely scientific and accessible text presents a modern humans and the migrations data on developer-led archaeology objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological comprehensive and fascinating of our ancestors throughout the in Britain, Ireland, France, the Low and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of introduction to social and cultural anthropology. It world over the past 150,000 years. He draws on a wide Countries, Germany and Denmark in order to review power and authority of particular times and places. offers an original approach by placing social and cultural range of sources, including the latest genetic research, and evaluate key common issues relating to organisation, anthropology in wider contexts including those of linguistic evidence, and archaeological findings, to reveal practice, legal frameworks and quality management. 544pp, b/w illus, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2014, sociology and biological evolution. the surprising unity among modern humans. Paperback, was £12.99 200pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was 272pp, b/w illus, Berghahn, 2003, Hardback, was £75.00 304pp, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 2003, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £5.95 £11.99 Now £14.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95

Ancient Boats and Elixir World Without End? From These Bare Ships A History of Water and Humankind Environmental Disaster and Bones By Sean McGrail By Brian M. Fagan the Collapse of Empires Raw Materials and the Study of An introduction to boats and ships From the earliest hunter-gatherers, By Ian D. Whyte Worked Osseous Objects from the earliest examples to for whom knowing where to find Ian Whyte shows in this book Edited by Alice Choyke AD1500. Sean McGrail begins with an water was a matter of life and death, environmental factors (whether a and Sonia O'Connor introduction to maritime archaeology through the Greek and Romans, result of human actions or not) have and the methodology of maritime whose mighty aqueducts still provide The 20 papers presented here played a major role in the collapse explore a wealth of information archaeologists before turning to water for modern cities, every human of civilizations in the past. Examples water transport in north-west Europe and rafts, boats culture has been shaped by its relationship with water. pertaining to the use of osseous range from the end of the last glacial period and the materials over the long period of human craftsmanship and ships worldwide. Brian Fagan tells the story of 5,000 years of human extinction of mammoths, through the collapse of endeavour, and the ways in which water has been and tool manufacture by exploring raw material 72pp, Shire Publications, 1983, Paperback, was £6.99 civilizations such as the Maya, the impact of the Little Ice selection and curation within tool types, social aspects managed, controlled and fought over. Age and the effects of modern industry and tourism on Now £2.95 of raw material selection, and new methods of materials 384pp, Bloomsbury, 2011, Hardback, was £20.00 the landscape and environment. identification. 237pp, b/w illus and pls, I.B. Tauris, 2008, Hardback, was 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £39.95 Now £7.95 £25.50 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

An Edible History of Voices in the Past Material Engagements Great Excavations Humanity English Literature and Archaeology Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew Shaping the Archaeological By Tom Standage By John Hines By Neil Brodie and Catherine Hills Profession A pithy, entertaining account of how A pioneering exploration of the scope Papers which explore the engagement Edited by John Schofield a series of changes - caused, enabled for linking archaeology and the critical of human beings, now and in the This is a fascinating and entertaining or influenced by food - has helped reading of literature. Key topics past, with both the natural world retrospective documenting some to shape and transform societies considered are the functions and and the material world they have of the seminal British excavations, around the world. Standage surveys meanings of references and objects, created. Particular themes include the assessing why they were so significant the introduction of farming, the the physical surroundings of literary interactions of archaeology with the and why they persist in the memory importance of the spice trade in the age of exploration, performances, the emergence of books as commodities study of art and with the antiquities trade. and folklore of archaeologists today. Fourteen chapters the role of food in the industrial revolution and much and authorship as a profession, and the role of literature 180pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, describe specific projects, while six further chapters more. in responses to material change. 2004, Hardback, was £35.00 provide a thematic overview. 269pp, Walker and Company, 2009, Hardback, was £19.99 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was Now £12.95 368pp, b/w and col illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, Now £6.95 £50.00 was £36.00 Now £14.95 Now £12.95

2 • GENERAL INTEREST AND METHOD AND THEORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Interpreting The Archaeology of Archaeology From Paris to Pompeii Archaeological Politics and Power A Very Short Introduction French Romanticism and the Topography Where, When and Why the By Paul Bahn Cultural Politics of Archaeology First States Formed 3D Data, Visualisation This entertaining Very Short By Goran Blix and Observation By Charles Keith Maisels Introduction reflects the enduring Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its Edited by Rachel S. Opitz This book describes how states popularity of archaeology-a subject central example, and ranging widely which appeals as a pastime, career, and David C. Cowley formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, across French romantic culture, this China and the Andes, and also how and academic discipline, encompasses book examines the formation of This volume addresses the the Indus Civilization functioned the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 a modern archaeological gaze and implications of multi-scaled topographic data for without a state. It spans law, ideology, politics, economics, million years. From deserts to jungles, from deep analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, contemporary archaeological practice, drawing on and psychology, the ancient world and modern history, caves to mountain tops, from pebble tools to satellite and secular theology of memory, before turning to its examples of ongoing projects and reflections on best in order to show how power is obtained, sustained and photographs, from excavation to abstract theory, broader political implications practice. deployed, and in whose interests. archaeology interacts with nearly every other discipline 310pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Hardback, was in its attempts to reconstruct the past. 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £45.00 440pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2010, Paperback, was £39.00 Now £9.95 £36.00 102pp, Oxford University Press, 1996, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £12.95 Now £9.95 Now £3.95

Mobility, Meaning and The Death of From Stonehenge to Researching the Transformations of Archaeological Samarkand History of a Country Things Theory? An Anthology of Archaeological House shifting contexts of material Edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce Travel Writing By Richard Goodenough culture through time and space This book addresses the provocative By Brian M. Fagan Richard Goodenough takes the Edited by Hans Peter Hahn subject of whether it is time to An anthology of writings from some budding local historian through the and Hadas Weis discount the burden of somewhat of best known, most interesting and various classes of evidence which may dogmatic theory and ideology that most adventurous antiquarian travel be employed including oral history, This edited volume brings together has defined archaeological debate the landscape, architecture, early studies of material culture, materiality and value, with writers. Names such as Edward and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven Gibbon, John Lloyd Stephens, Sir Aurel Stein, Hiram written records and maps. He illustrates the process regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing chapters meet this controversial subject head on, also throughout with a case study of his own house at the ways in which societies constitute their valued Bingham, the Earl of Elgin, Amelia B. Edwards, Thomas assessing where archaeological theory is now, and future Cook and Paul Theroux, step from the pages, both in Trimworth, in Kent. objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon directions. society. their own words and those of Brian Fagan, whose own 164pp, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 2010, Paperback, was £17.99 96pp, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was insights link the texts together. 176pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £6.95 £12.95 291pp, Oxford University Press, 2006, Hardback, was Now £12.95 Now £4.95 £21.99 Now £7.95

Re-Presenting the Past The Environmental Soviet Archaeology Apocalypse Archaeology through Text and Image Archaeology of By Leo S Klejn Earthquakes, Archaeology Edited by Sheila Bonde and Industry Klejn examines the peculiar and the Wrath of God Stephen Houston By Peter Murphy and phenomenon which was Soviet By Amos Nur and Dawn Burgess Patricia E. J. Wiltshire archaeology, showing where it differs The archaeological past exists for from Western archaeology and the Amos Nur argues that archaeologists us through intermediaries. Some These papers address several major archaeology of pre-revolutionary and historians too often seek are written works, descriptions, issues including: the effects of mining Russia, and where it reveals man-made causes for destruction, narratives and field notes, while and smelting on sedimentation and similarities. He asks whether Soviet abandonment and the extinction of others are visual. These essays raise vegetation in river catchments, the archaeology can be regarded as civilisations, rather than adequately key questions about the function of re-presentations of environmental impact of industries which are based on Marxist, and, if so, whether Marxism was to Russian exploring natural causes. This study revisits a number the past in current archaeological practice. high-temperature processes and require reliable sources archaeology a help or a hindrance at that time. of ancient sites and cultures looking for possible 215pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £25.00 of fuel, the environmental impact of industrial processes earthquake damage in the archaeological and skeletal based on biological raw materials, and the effects of 411pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was records and evaluating seismic risks. £94.00 Now £9.95 industry on human health. 309pp, Princeton University Press, 2008, Hardback, was 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £19.95 £18.95 Now £12.95 Now £7.95

Shell Energy The Future from the The Past in Perspective Coin Finds in Britain Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources Past An Introduction to A Collector's Guide Edited by G. N. Bailey, Karen Archaeozoology in Human Prehistory By Michael J. Cuddeford Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara Wildlife Conservation and By Kenneth L. Feder A catalogue of commonly This volume brings together Heritage Management An engaging and accessible encountered coins, dating from information about little known, or By Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier and Ina Plug introduction to our Prehistoric past, ancient times until the modern day, explaining their historical context, recently discovered, concentrations These 18 papers are all which provides truly global coverage. of shell mounds. Discussions are Feder outlines the grand sweep of how they might have come to be lost concerned with the contributions and where they may be found today. presented on new approaches to archaeozoologists make to specific human evolutionary history and interpretation involving the use of ethnographic studies, problems encountered in the management and fundamental cultural developments, whilst selecting 64pp, col illus, Shire Publications, 2013, Paperback, was analysis of molluscs, the use of shell as a raw material for conservation of our natural and cultural heritage. key cultures, topics and controversies for in-depth £6.99 making artefacts and in construction, and the variable discussion. 184pp, Oxbow Books, 2003, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £2.95 formation processes associated with mound formation. 696pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, Paperback, was 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £4.95 £55.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Taphonomy and The Ritual Killing and Archaeological Results Textiles in Archaeology Interpretation Burial of Animals from Accelerator By John Peter Wild By Jacqueline Huntley European Perspectives Dating In this short guide to textiles in and Sue Stallibrass Edited by Aleksander Pluskowski By John Gowlett and Robert Hedges archaeology Wild explains the 13 Papers from the 1993 Association processes involved in textile The killing and burial of animals in 25 papers interpreting results from manufacture, from sheep to for Environmental Archaeology ritualistic contexts is encountered the Near East and Prehistoric Europe. conference at Durham. They examine finished garment. He examines the across Europe from Prehistory 176pp, Oxford University School of implements associated with textile ways in which material (pollen, insects, through to the historical period. bones etc.) came to be deposited Archaeology, 1987, Paperback, was production that are more commonly This volume presents the state of £12.50 found on archaeological sites, different in the context from which they were recovered, how research across Europe to illustrate how comparable surviving material might compare with what existed types of fibres and how they are prepared, techniques of interpretative frameworks are used by archaeologists Now £4.95 spinning and weaving, dyeing and needlework. in the past and how our methodologies can bias our working with both prehistoric and historical societies. results. 68pp, Shire Publications, 2003, Paperback, was £6.99 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £48.00 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2000, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £2.95 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

The Archaeology of The Social On the Theory and Visions of Antiquity Household Archaeology of Practice of The Society of Antiquaries Edited by Gabriella Kovacs, Funerary Remains Archaeological of London 1707-2007 Marco Madella, Ivan Briz i. By Rebecca Gowland and Computing Edited by Susan Pearce Godino and B. Berzsenyi Christopher Knusel By Gary Lock and Kayt Brown This fascinating portrait of the Society Household archaeology looks at the of Antiquaries of London, founded The interpretative value of human These nine papers, based on the detail of the living domain, exploring in 1707, assesses the impact that skeletal remains (within their 4th World Archaeological Congress the most essential elements of any individual Fellows and the Society as a burial context) in terms of past held in South Africa in 1999, take a social dynamic, the archaeology of whole have had in influencing the way social identity and organisation is critical view of computer usage in the small scale. Case studies include hunter-gatherer we visualise and understand the past. The contributions awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and societies in America, Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeside shed light on the Society’s achievements (and some of archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume especially in terms of archaeological method and theory. settlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region, Bronze are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural the accompanying conflicts between personalities and Age sites in Hungary and northern Europe and Archaic aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased. 154pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, ideas) over three hundred years. period Sicily. Paperback, was £20.00 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Paperback, was £40.00 463pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007, Hardback, 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £49.95 Now £5.00 was £75.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £10.00

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM METHOD AND THEORY • 3 Archaeological The Great Divide Landscape Landscapes Through Resource Management History and Human Nature in Community and the Lens in the UK the Old World and the New Colonisation Aerial Photographs and the By John Hunter and Ian B. M. Ralston By Peter Watson The North Somerset Levels During Historic Environment This book reviews the issues facing The end of the Ice Age saw the the 1st to 2nd Millennia AD Edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A. archaeologists in an increasingly populations of Old and New Worlds By Stephen Rippon Standring and Matthew J. Abicht complicated and diverse discipline, cut off from each other. Peter Watson This innovative study examines This volume presents the rich, and examines the implications of is thus able, in this ambitious study, to but under-utilised and in parts heritage management and legislation, compare the parallel development of the changing ways that human communities chose to exploit, modify and ultimately inaccessible, archival historic aerial stricter planning controls, changing land use and the the two human populations, their civilizations, cultures imagery for the exploration and management of cultural pressure of public interest and concern. The second and belief systems, to show how environmental factors transform their environment over two millennia. It combines field archaeology and documentary sources heritage. Case studies, illustrate the applications of this edition is substantially enlarged and completely influence human development. imagery across a wide range of heritage issues, from rewritten. to explore the origins and development of the North 640pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2012, Hardback, was Somerset Levels. prehistoric cultivation and settlement patterns, to the 402pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006, Hardback, was £25.00 £25.00 impact of recent landscape change. 317pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Paperback, Now £4.95 Now £9.95 was £38.00 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Paperback, was £45.00 Now £19.00 Now £14.95

Ancient Bodies, Time's Anvil The Archaeology of Late Quaternary Ancient Lives England, Archaeology English Battlefields Landscape Evolution Sex, Gender and Archaeology and the Imagination By Glenn Foard of the Swale-Ure By Rosemary Joyce By Richard Morris This volume presents the results Washlands, North Rosemary Joyce argues for much Zig-zagging between prehistoric of the first national assessment of Yorkshire English battlefields. The primary more diverse conceptions of gender stone tools and Tudor theatre, primal Edited by David Bridgland, Jim Innes, wildwood and mass-produced cars, written sources are complemented and sex in ancient societies, with Antony Long and Wishart Mitchell different stages in the life-cycle Time’s Anvil weaves a series of by the results of extensive corresponding to different roles, and interconnecting studies of apparently fieldwork, computer-based terrain This book seeks to reconstruct the with much more blurring of any boundary between ideas unrelated things and periods that are normally reconstruction, and scientific analysis of artefacts history since the last glaciation of the area between and of male and female within these roles. considered in isolation. Richard Morris combines the recovered from battlefields. including the middle reaches of the Rivers Swale and Ure personal with the academic and reflects on how and why in Yorkshire, including both natural changes, determined 152pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, Hardback, was £14.95 198pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2012, Paperback, archaeology goes about its business. was £25.00 from studies of landforms and sediments, and human- induced changes, recorded in archaeological and geo- Now £6.95 466pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2012, Hardback, was Now £12.50 £25.00 archaeological records. 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £32.00 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

The Stone of Life Art, Faith and Place in Trent Valley Managing By David Peacock East Anglia From Landscapes Archaeological This book is about the archaeology Prehistory to the By David Knight Landscapes in querns and mills, simple stone Present This synthesis of landscape change Northumberland instruments which are vital to survival and human occupation in the Trent in a society which adopts bread as By T. A. Heslop, Elizabeth Till Tweed Studies Volume 1 Mellings and Margit Thfner Valley is based on more than twenty its staple. They become the ‘stones years of research and includes much By D. G. Passmore and Clive Waddington of life’, an essential ingredient in An exploration of the relationship previously unpublished material. Each Written from a landscape, or the subsistence strategy of settled between religious or spiritual chapter focuses on a different period geoarchaeological perspective, this agriculturalists. artworks and the locality where from the Pleistocene landscape, Mesolithic hunter- study develops a methodology and management tool 220pp, The Highfield Press, 2013, Hardback, was £45.00 such objects are made and used. Case-studies are taken gatherers, Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, Late that will allow planners, curators and developers working from prehistory right up to the twenty-first century, and Now £22.50 Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Roman and medieval in the region to to easily access information across from a variety of media; famous sites examined include periods. sectors, and provide a record of sensitive archaeological Seahenge and Sutton Hoo. 202pp, Heritage Publications, 2004, Paperback, was £25.00 and palaeoenvironmental sites. 352pp, b/w illus, col pls, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2012, 416pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £45.00 Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

Piltdown Man Green Desire An Atlas of Modelling archaeology The Secret Life of Charles Dawson Imagining Early Modern Northamptonshire and By Miles Russell English Gardens The Medieval and Early- palaeoenvironments in The human and animal remains By Rebecca W. Bushnell Modern Landscape wetlands discovered at Piltdown, near Lewes Green Desire describes the By Tracey Partida, David The hidden landscape archaeology in Sussex almost 100 years ago were innovative design of early modern Hall and Glenn Foard of Hatfield and Thorne at the time hailed as the 'missing gardening manuals, examining how This is the first time a whole county Moors, eastern England link' between ape and man. It was writers and printers marketed them not until 1953 that modern analysis has had an accurate view of its By Henry P. Chapman as fiction as well as practical advice medieval landscape with details of conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the and Benjamin R. Gearey was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles the medieval fields, woods, pastures and meadows which delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and have been mapped by ground-survey of archaeological This study utilizes a range of quantitative and qualitative Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for pleasure of garden labour and the division of men's and methodologies and GIS modelling to investigate spatial sixteen other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime. remains confirmed where possible from aerial women's roles in creating garden art. photographs and early maps. and temporal patterns of Holocene landscape change for 272pp, b/w illus, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2003, Paperback, two raised mires in south Yorkshire: Hatfield and Thorne 224pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2003, Hardback, 280pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £36.00 was £14.99 was £36.50 Moors. Now £5.95 Now £12.95 Now £12.95 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £9.95

Piltdown Man Hoax Garden Archaeology Caves in Context Places in Between Case Closed A Handbook The Cultural Significance of Caves The Archaeology of Social, By Miles Russell By Christopher Currie and Rockshelters in Europe Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands In his earlier 2003 book Piltdown This handbook relates the historical Edited by Knut Andreas Man Miles Russell probed this great background to the sub-discipline of Bergsvik and Robin Skeates Edited by David Mullin archaeological hoax, proved beyond Garden Archaeology before discussing Caves and rockshelters are found all This book, which grew out of a doubt Dawson’s guilt in perpetrating the excavation techniques used to over Europe, and have been occupied session at TAG in 2008, explores the fraud, and ultimately established recover and record evidence of by human groups, from prehistory some of the possibilities offered that 38 other items in Dawson’s past garden designs and plants. This right up to the present day. The aim of by the study of borders from collections were also fakes. In this follow-up he explores reappraisal of current practice and techniques is well this book is to explore the multiple significances of these an archaeological point of view and presents new Dawson’s motivations, the steps he took in creating written and clearly presented and includes a series of natural places in a range of chronological, spatial, and perspectives on borders, both metaphorical and his remarkable sequence of frauds, and the cumulative case studies of formal, informal, water, town and unusual cultural contexts across Europe. geographical, from locations as diverse as Somerset and reasoning behind them. gardens from across the UK. 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £48.00 China, from the Neolithic to the Cold War. 168pp, The History Press, 2012, Paperback, was £14.99 178pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2005, Paperback, 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £36.00 was £12.50 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 Now £4.95

Surfaces Historic Landscape Enduring Records Somerset's Peatland A History Analysis The Environmental and Cultural Archaeology By Joseph Anthony Amato Deciphering the Countryside Heritage of Wetlands Managing and Investigating This theory-rich study spans a huge By Stephen Rippon By Barbara A. Purdy a Fragile Resource sweep of time, from early hominids Stephen Rippon reveals the These twenty-seven papers on By Richard Brunning to the present day and takes a techniques that can and have been wetland research across the This substantial monograph presents phenomenological approach to human used to analyse the history of the world, from America to Europe to the results of the MARISP project interaction with surfaces. Overall countryside, accompanied by a series Australasia, aim to raise the profile ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset it charts a transformation in that of case studies. Physical components of these fragile environments and the Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed relationship with humanity becoming a “knower and of the landscape are discussed along with more potential they have for shedding light on the past. the condition of the wetland monuments and the maker of surfaces and a self-conscious, self-directing and conceptual issues; for example, exchange and trade, 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, Hardback, was £60.00 ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer self-designing animal”. status and power, designed or ornamental landscapes key research questions about the sites through the 288pp, University of California Press, 2013, Hardback, was and the importance of a sense of place. Now £6.95 use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the £24.95 166pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2004, Paperback, development of future national and county wetland Now £9.95 was £12.00 strategies. Now £6.00 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 4 • METHOD AND THEORY AND LANDSCAPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Wellington Quarry, An Inventory of Cipières The Historic Herefordshire (1986- Archaeological Sites in Landscape and Community in Landscape of Devon 96) North-West Alpes-Maritimes, France A Study in Change and Continuity Investigations of a Landscape Northamptonshire By David Austin, Rosamond Faith, By Lucy Ryder Andrew Fleming and David Siddle in the Lower Lugg Valley Describes some 600 sites and The combined evidence for three By Robin Jackson and Darren Miller monuments from the Neolithic Thi interdisciplinary project explores case-study areas – the Blackdown to the 19th century, parish by the village’s morphology and Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South This volume presents the results of parish. Numerous plans. archaeology, including a landscape the first 10 years of archaeological Hams – is examined in detail. Key 222pp, The Stationery Office Ltd, 1981, survey and investigation of the investigation at Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire. issues addressed include: how far back Hardback, was £40.00 agrarian systems of the Plâteau de Calern, before moving patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or During this time a regionally unique archaeological and on to examine settlement patterns, population, politics, palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering Now £12.95 projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence social structure and the local economy from the fifth and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and century through to 1900 landscape change. spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements. 432pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £38.00 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £30.00 256pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £38.00 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

The Hermit in the The Conquest of Gardens in History William Faden and Garden Nature A Political Perspective Norfolk's Eighteenth From Imperial Rome to Water, Landscape and the By Louise Wickham Century Landscape Ornamental Gnome Making of Modern Germany An examination of the creation of A Digital Re-Assessment By Gordon Campbell By David Blackbourn gardens through a political 'lens' in of his Historic Map This book explores the the eccentric The Conquest of Nature traces order to move debate away from By Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson phenomenon of the ornamental the rise of Germany through the portraying the motivation behind 'garden-making' merely as painting William Faden’s map of Norfolk, hermit, which enjoyed its heyday in development of water and landscape. published in 1797, was one of a large the England of the eighteenth century, Blackbourn's study opens with a picture with plants and buildings. Gardens are looked at in relation to not only how they number of surveys of English counties produced in the when it became highly fashionable for owners of country Frederick the Great who transformed uninhabitable second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with estates to commission architectural follies, including marshlands into a modern state, and spans three are influenced by the political ideas of their creators but also how the gardens themselves provide support and accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of hermitages, peopled either with imaginary hermits or centuries to close with an examination of Nazi racial the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to with men employed as real hermits. policies and the natural world. legitimacy to those in government, either covertly or directly. produce a wealth of new historical information. 272pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was 480pp, b/w illus, W. W. Norton, 2007, Paperback, was 218pp, Windgather Press, 2010, Paperback, was £29.95 £16.99 £12.99 272pp, Windgather Press, 2012, Paperback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

Deserted Villages The Invention of the Hedgerow History The Return of Cultural By Trevor Rowley Western Garden Ecology, History and Treasures A basic guide to to recording and The History of An Idea Landscape Character By Jeanette Greenfield and identifying the remains of past By Matteo Vercelloni and By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson Magnus Magnusson settlements and placing them in their Virgilio Vercelloni This study asks why hedgerows vary Jeanette Greenfield analyses and `total landscape context'. As well discusses the historical, legal and as tracing the processes that led This book explores how the garden across different parts of Britain and has evolved, from the Classical investigates the ecological, economic political issues surrounding the to desertion, this book provides a return of cultural treasures to their guide to the type of remains to be world, through the spread of the and historical reasons for these Renaissance garden, the landscape variations. Drawing upon a unique homelands, involving not only art expected and describes some good treasures, but also palaeontological materials, such examples. gardens of the eighteenth century, and modern public computerised analysis of hedges in Norfolk, they explore gardens. Illustrated throughout with glorious plans and how hedges came into existence and how they have as those belonging to the Australian Aborigine, the 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2000, Paperback, was changed over time. American Indian and the Greenland Inuit. £6.99 photography. 288pp, col illus, Waverley Books, 2010, Hardback, was 152pp, Windgather Press, 2008, Paperback, was £25.00 520pp, Cambridge University Press, 1989, Hardback, was Now £2.95 £83.00 £29.99 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

Fields, Hedges and By River, Fields and Landscapes for the Renewed Life for Ditches Factories World Scottish Castles By Nigel Harvey The Making of the Lower Lea Valley Conserving a Global Heritage By Richard Fawcett and Allan Rutherford A brief guide to Britain's fields, By Andrew B. Powell By Peter Fowler Castles, both ruined and occupied, are examining their layout, and what this Extensive geoarchaeological and Since 1992 UNESCO has designated amongst the most deeply evocative can tell us about their development. palaeo-environmenal studies, coupled cultural landscapes as World Heritage buildings in the Scottish landscape. Methods of cultivation, enclosure and with a comprehensive radiocarbon Sites. This book asks what constitutes This book considers the history of drainage are all covered. dating programme, have enabled a cultural landscape, and looks the conservation and restoration of a 32pp, Shire Publications, 1979, the valley’s past environments to at the criteria and politics which number of those buildings against the Paperback, was £4.99 be reconstructed. As well as significant Neolithic finds, surround their selection. Lavish illustration accompanies background of what the idea of the castle has meant to Scots over the centuries. Now £2.95 the excavations revealed Bronze Age and Iron Age a subsequent tour of those already accorded World settlements, and some evidence for Roman, Saxon and Heritage listing. 178pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, medieval activity. 235pp, Windgather Press, 2004, Paperback, was £25.00 was £20.00 240pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2012, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £4.95 Now £10.00 Now £7.95

Landscape Plotted and Settling the Ebbsfleet Swaledale Ruins Reused Pieced Valley Valley of the Wold River Changing Attitutes to Ruins Landscape history and local By Phil Andrews, Edward By Andrew Fleming since the late 18th Century archaeology in Fyfield and Biddulph and Alan Hardy Now with an updated preface and By Michael Thompson Overton, Wiltshire Construction of the Channel colour illustrations throughout, this This book charts the development­ By Peter Fowler Tunnel Rail Link provided a unique beautiful book tells the story of of an active relationship between opportunity to undertake large- Swaledale, a well-loved part of the This project used a diverse the public and ruins as to how they scale investigations of Late Iron Age North Yorkshire Pennines. It shows can be preserved and used, looking range of research methods, from and Roman settlements, religious how the perspectives of archaeology, archaeological excavation and at developments throughout the complexes, cemeteries and a villa site, as well as three history and ecology can be linked to transform our nineteenth and twentieth centuries. experimental archaeology through the study of small Saxon settlements, two cemeteries and a watermill. understanding of the landscape. environmental and documentary evidence to the non- 110pp, Heritage Publications, 2006, Hardback, was £14.95 This volume describes the archaeological results of the 166pp, Windgather Press, 2010, Paperback, was £26.00 invasive techniques of geophysics and air photography, to excavations. Now £6.95 try to elucidate how and when the landscape came by its Now £9.95 present appearance in these two Wiltshire parishes. 384pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2011, Hardback, was £30.00 320pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2000, Hardback, Now £7.95 was £40.00 Now £9.95

Landscapes and Desire Ancient Trees in the The Black Poplar Global Ancestors Revealing Britain's Sexually Landscape Ecology, History and Conservation Understanding the Shared Inspired Sites Norfolk's arboreal heritage By Fiona Cooper Humanity of our Ancestors By Catherine E. Tuck By Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson This book is a cultural and ecological Edited by Rebecca Redfern et al. An elegant and sensitive study of This volume represents the first biography of the black poplar in These papers reflect on modern sexually inspired sites across Britain. detailed, published account of the Britain. Fiona Cooper explores its museological responses to the often From the blatant phallus of the ancient and traditionally managed historic place in the landscape, and complex and emotive relationship Cerne Abbas Giant and some rather trees of any English county. It how it has played a role in folklore that people have with the ancestors suggestive lumps and bumps in the discusses how accurately trees can and in the work of poets such as and objects which they created. Topics landscape, Catherine Tuck also introduces the reader be dated; explains why old trees are found in certain William Cowper. She explains how the tree has been include how indigenous peoples are represented in to the more discreet erotic tributes, secret grottos and contexts and not in others; discusses traditional used through the centuries as timber and in medicine, museums; the repatriation of human remains and objects; fertility symbols of the British landscape. management practices; and looks at the various ways in and then turns her attention to the question of and the ways in which archaeologists and indigenous 246pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2003, Hardback, was £20.00 which trees have been used in parks and gardens. conservation. communities interact. 116pp, Windgather Press, 2006, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £6.95 184pp, Windgather Press, 2011, Paperback, was £26.00 168pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £32.00 Now £7.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LANDSCAPE AND HERITAGE • 5 Heritage Transformed Social Anthropology The Improbable Human Roots By Ian Baxter and Human Origins Primate Africa and Asia in the How does "heritage" become By Alan Barnard How Water Shaped Middle Pleistocene objectified within public institutions Barnard argues that social Human Evolution By Larry Barham and and representative of a national past? anthropological theory has much to By Clive Finlayson Kate Robson-Brown This book proposes a model for contribute to our understanding of this process and contains five case Finlayson argues that environmental 16 papers focused on the question human evolution, including changes in of `how different were humans and studies that explore variety in the technology, subsistence and exchange, change, particularly availability of transformation of heritage. The model water, played a critical role in shaping human behaviour in Africa and the Far family and kinship, as well as to the east during the Middle Pleistocene’? proposes that heritage is transformed study of language, art, ritual and belief. the direction of human evolution, from concept to object and the agency of change is contributing to our spread and success. The challenges The contributors draw on evidence from recent "management". 192pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback, was of seeking water in a drying landscape moulded the archaeological fieldwork and represent different schools £20.99 of thought concerning the Out-of-Africa or Multi- 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £40.00 minds and bodies of early humans, and directed their Now £7.95 migrations and eventual settlements. Regional origins of man. Now £9.95 232pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hardback, was 263pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2001, £16.99 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Who Owns Antiquity Geology and The Human Brain Digging Up the Ice By James Cuno Paleontology of the Evolving Age A controversial look at the antiquities Miocene Sinap Edited by Douglas Broadfield, Michael By Simon Buteux, Jenni trade, and the legal framework which Formation, Turkey Yuan, Kathy Diane Schick and Nick Toth Chambers and Barbara Silva surrounds it which suggests that the A range of important studies focusing The sands and gravels laid down current set-up merely encourages the Edited by Mikael Fortelius and By John Kappelman on human brain evolution. Topics by rivers contain perhaps the most hoarding of antiquities by the states include theoretical concepts, studies important archives of the Ice Age that which now occupy the territories The Sinap Formation in central Turkey of fossil and modern brain endocasts, we possess, in the form of sediments, of ancient civilizations, and argues near the city of Ankara preserves a genetic studies, neurological structure fossils and human artefacts. This instead for the enabling of global rich record of mammalian evolution and development and brain evolution and its relation to handbook contains full guidance on working in British ‘encyclopedic museums’. The paperback edition contains from about 15 to 5 million years ago and is one of the behaviour. quarries, what to look out for and what it can tell us, and a new afterword in which Cuno repsonds to some of few sites in this region that also has fossil apes. The how to record sites and finds. his critics. authors have been able to piece together a detailed 331pp, Stone Age Institute Press, 2010, Hardback, was record of faunal change. £50.00 189pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2009, Paperback, was 244pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, Paperback, was £14.99 £14.95 448pp, Columbia University Press, 2003, Hardback, was Now £17.95 Now £5.95 Now £5.95 £60.00 Now £9.95

Finding Our Tongues Stone Knapping The Oldowan Dissent with Mothers, Infants and the The Necessary Conditions for a Case Studies into the Modification Origins of Language Uniquely Hominin Behaviour Earliest Stone Age Human Origins, Palaeolithic By Dean Falk By Valentine Roux and Blandine Bril Edited by Nick Toth and Archaeology and Evolutionary Falk's new take on the evolution Chapters approach stone knapping­ Kathy Diane Schick Anthropology in Britain 1859-1901 of language springs from a simple from a multi-disciplinary perspective This volume also shows how a By John McNabb observation: parents all over the that embraces psychology,­ physiology, range of probing, multidisciplinary, An exploration of the ‘eolith’ debate world, in all cultures, talk to infants behavioural biology and primatology experimental investigations - which took place between the late by using baby talk or "Motherese." as well as archaeology. The result is a including experimental tool-making, 1880s and the 1930s as well as the Falk shows how Motherese developed as a way of better understanding of early human engagement with comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical public perception of the whole ‘origins’ question and its reassuring babies when mothers had to put them down the material world and the complex actions required for analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us relationship with ‘race’. in order to do work. The melodic vocalizations of early the creation of stone tools. evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and Motherese not only provided the basis of language but appreciate its relevance to human evolution. 377pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2012, Paperback, was 275pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, £29.95 also contributed to the growth of music and art. 2005, Hardback, was £35.00 338pp, Stone Age Institute Press, 2006, Hardback, was 256pp, Basic Books, 2009, Hardback, was £17.99 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 £50.00 Now £6.95 Now £17.95

Neanderthal Man Casting the Net Wide Ardipithecus kadabba The Ringlemere Cup In Search of Lost Genomes Papers in Honor of Glynn By Yohannes Haile-Selassie Precious Cups and the Beginning By Svante Paabo Isaac and His Approach to and Giday WoldeGabriel of the Channel Bronze Age Human Origins Research What can we learn from the genomes This work contains the definitive By Stuart P. Needham, Keith of our closest evolutionary relatives? Edited by Jeanne Sept description of the geological context Parfitt and G. Varndell and paleoenvironment of the early Neanderthal Man tells the story of and David Pilbeam This volume provides the definitive geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. 16 papers on the archaeology of Compared to other assemblages of report on the early Bronze Age answer this question, and recounts human origins, focusing on issues of Ringlemere gold cup and its his ultimately successful efforts to similar age, the Middle Awash record early human diet, palaeolandscapes, is unparalleled in taxonomic diversity, immediate site context, as well as genetically define what makes us different from our lithics, and the archaeology of the Near East and Africa. contextual study of 15 comparable vessels from Britain, Neanderthal cousins. composed of 2,760 specimens representing at least sixty 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £20.00 five mammalian genera. Germany and Switzerland, from which a picture of a 288pp, Basic Books, 2014, Hardback, was £18.99 wider Maritime interaction network is posited. Now £7.95 641pp, University of California Press, 2009, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £55.00 120pp, British Museum Press, 2006, Paperback, was £23.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95

Evolutionary Human Social Rough and Tumble Archaeologia Linguistics Evolution Aggression, Hunting and Britannica By April McMahon The Foundational Works of Human Evolution Texts and Translations How did the biological, brain and Richard D. Alexander By Travis R. Pickering By Dewi W. Evans, Brynley F. behavioural structures underlying Edited by Bernard J. Crespi Pickering argues that the advent of Roberts and Edward Lhuyd human language evolve? When, why and Kyle Summers ambush hunting approximately two and where did our ancestors become Edward Lhwyd’s Archæologia Richard D. Alexander is an million years ago marked a milestone Britannica effectively marks the linguistic animals, and what has in human evolution, one that happened since? This book provides accomplished entomologist who discovery of the Celtic languages turned his attention to solving established the social dynamic that and the founding of Celtic Studies. a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. At interdisciplinary debates. some of the most perplexing problems associated with First published in 1707, this was a groundbreaking work the evolution of human social systems. Each chapter the same time he challenges the traditional link between in comparative philology, the result of first-hand study 330pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Paperback, was features an introduction highlighting the importance aggression and human predation. of the Celtic languages and an epic four-year journey £28.99 of Alexander's work and reviewing more recent 224pp, University of California Press, 2013, Hardback, was through the countries where they were spoken. Now £9.95 contributions to the topic. £19.95 320pp, Celtic Studies Publications, 2009, Hardback, was 496pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £29.95 £24.00 Now £11.95 Now £9.95

Living in a Dangerous The Artful Species Wired for Culture Conderton Camp, Climate Aesthetics, Art and Evolution Origins of the Human Social Mind Worcestershire Climate Change and By Stephen Davies By Mark Pagel A small middle Iron Age Human Evolution Stephen Davies considers the Mark Pagel investigates the hillfort on Bredon Hill By Renee Hetherington role that art has played in human evolutionary origins of culture, By N. Thomas This book provides a unique and evolution, and explores the idea revealing how an innate propensity This report publishes the findings­ of thought-provoking journey from early of aesthetic sensibility as part of to contribute and conform to the an earthwork survey and study of humans; evolutionary repsonse to human nature. He discusses the wide culture of our birth not only enabled the environs of the site, geophysical climate change, species extinctions, range of viewpoints and theories human survival and progress in the investigations and excavations carried and societal downfalls to today's global crisis. It links surrounding the subject, and issues such as universality past but also continues to influence our behaviour today. out in 1958 and 1959, along with specialist discussions scientific knowledge and presepctives of evolution, in art, aesthetic responses to animals, environment and 432pp, W. W. Norton, 2012, Hardback, was £19.99 of the finds. The report concludes with an excellent landscapes, and conceptions of human beauty. climate change and economics. Now £7.95 summary discussion of Conderton Camp and its people. 272pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Paperback, was 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was 349pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2005, Paperback, £24.99 £27.50 was £32.00 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

6 • HERITAGE, HUMAN EVOLUTION AND PREHISTORIC BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Mesolithic Occupation The Palaeolithic of A Tale of the Unknown Is There a British at Bouldnor Cliff and Britain and its Nearest Unknowns Chalcolithic? the Submerged Neighbours A Mesolithic Pit Alignment and a People, Place and Polity in Prehistoric Landscapes Recent Trends Neolithic Timber Hall at Warren the later Third Millennium of the Solent By S. N. Collcutt Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire Edited by Michael J. Allen, Julie By G. Momber, David J. Tomalin, Subjects include: Boxgrove; the blade By Hilary K. Murray, J. C. Gardiner and Alison Sheridan R. G. Scaife and J. Satchell industry of Stoneham's Pit, Crayford; Murray and Caroline Fraser The Chalcolithic, the phase in the handaxe assemblage from the prehistory when the important Finds at Bouldnor Cliff include This report details the excavations Wolvercote Channel, Oxford; technical development of adding tin worked wood, hearths, flint tools, food remains, twisted and reveals that the hall was Jersey during the middle and upper Palaeolithic; The to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, plant fibres and an enigmatic assemblage of timbers associated with the storage and or consumption of Palaeolithic Settlement of Wales project; French flints is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and dating to c8100 BP. cereals. The pits are fully documented and environmental and Palaeolithic; debris flow in caves; Picken's Hole, evidence sheds light on the surrounding landscape. whether there is even a definable phase is debated. Is 197pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, Somerset; and much more. there a British Chalcolithic? brings together many leading was £25.00 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £25.00 109pp, John Collis Publications, 1986, Paperback, was authorities in 20 papers that address this question. Now £12.50 £15.95 Now £9.95 336pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £42.00 Now £5.00 Now £14.95

Sutton Common Lines in the Landscape An Examination of Neanderthals in Wales The Excavation of an Iron Cursus monuments in the Prehistoric Stone Pontnewydd and the Age 'Marsh Fort' Upper Thames Valley Bracers from Britain Elwy Valley Caves By Robert Van de Noort, Henry By Alistair Barclay, George Lambrick, By Ann Woodward, John Hunter, Edited by Stephen Aldhouse-Green, P. Chapman and John Collis John Moore and Mark Robinson David Bukach and Fiona Roe Rick Peterson and Elizabeth A. Walker Sutton Common in South Yorkshire This volume reports on excavations This volume present a detailed study This monograph documents the is one of the best-known Iron Age at a cursus monument at Drayton, of the thin, usually rectangular, pieces results of 20 years of field research. multivallate sites in lowland Britain. and includes an account of small- of pierced fine stone that occur in It describes the traces of occupation This volume describes the results of scale excavations undertaken at the inhumation graves of Beaker date. The left around 225,000 years ago by the large-scale excavations undertaken there between Lechlade cursus. It also provides a gazetteer of known book tests the hypothesis that they, with other grave people who were ancestors of the Neanderthals. These 1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights cursus monuments in the Upper Thames Valley. goods, were originally designed for use as components of include stone tools, animal bones and the remains of the into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC 260pp, Lancaster, 2003, Hardback, was £24.95 ritual costume or as equipment for use in religious acts people themselves. ‘marsh-fort’. and ceremonies. Now £10.00 360pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £55.00 235pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2007, Paperback, 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £45.00 was £25.00 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.50

The New Antiquarians Excavations at 25 Beyond the Core Neolithic Archaeology 50 Years of Archaeological Cannon Street, City of Reflections on Regionality in the Intertidal Zone Innovation in Wessex London in Prehistory By E. J. Sidell and F. Haughey By Rowan Whimster From the Middle Bronze Edited by Graeme Kirkham This volume details and evaluates This book serves as an overview not Age to the Great Fire and Andy M. Jones the work of archaeologists working in fragile and rapidly only of the history of Wessex, but of By Nicholas Elsden The 12 contributions to the the development of archaeological collection identify distinctive elements eroding environments: the papers thinking and techniques during the This report provides a chronological of the prehistoric archaeology of a demonstrate the high quality research last 50 years. Interspersed amongst its account of excavation findings at number of discrete areas across the being undertaken around the British papers are profiles of the region’s most influential sites 25 Cannon Street, supported by many illustrations and British Isles, from Cornwall to Scotland and south-east coast to salvage archaeology by record and undertake and the memories of some of its leading characters. specialist contributions. The dig revealed a long sequence England to Ireland. detailed research to place it in its proper context. of occupation, including Middle Bronze Age pottery, 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Paperback, was £30.00 234pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, Roman masonry buildings, and Anglo-Saxon and later 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £38.00 was £20.00 buildings and the Church of St Werburga. Now £4.95 Now £12.95 Now £10.00 73pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2001, Paperback, was £7.95 Now £3.95

Towards a New Stone A Corridor Through Carving a Future for Prehistoric houses at Age Time British Rock Art Sumburgh in Shetland Aspects of the Neolithic the archaeology of the A55 New Directions for Research, By Jane Downes and Raymond Lamb in South-East England Anglesey Road Scheme Management and Presentation Excavations at Sumburgh Air-port By Jonathan Cotton and David Field By Richard Cuttler, Andrew Edited by Tertia Barnett and K. Sharpe between 1967 and 1974 revealed Davidson and Gwilym Hughes stone-built houses of the later Bronze 21 papers on the Neolithic of south- This volume brings together the Age and early Iron Age. This report east England. As well as looking at Five main sites and a series of experiences and informed opinions shows how one house was added to evidence from par­ticular sites, the prehistoric burnt mounds are of the key organisations and another and demonstrates that the authors present overviews on a range discussed. The route encountered stakeholders responsible for the two-house unit was a distinct feature of the later Bronze of subjects including aerial survey, soils, the study of remains of Neolithic pit groups; Bronze Age and Iron conservation, management and accessibility of British Age in Scotland. human remains, landscapes and environments. Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation rock art. An on-going and exciting period of change 138pp, Oxbow Books, 2000, Paperback, was £36.00 237pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2004, Paperback, cemetery; Romano-British settlements and a farmstead; is documented and the main issues that underpin the was £28.00 an early medieval inhumation cemetery, medieval survival of our prehistoric carved heritage are addressed. Now £4.95 agricultural features and a corn-drying kiln. Now £6.95 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £65.00 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £35.00 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

Where Rivers Meet A Dreaming for the Corrstown Quaternary History The Archaeology of Catholme and Witches A Coastal Community. and Palaeolithic the Thame-Trent Confluence By Stephen James Yeates Excavations of a Bronze Age Archaeology in the Village in Northern Ireland By Simon Buteux and Integrating archaeology with Roman Axe Valley at Broom, Henry P. Chapman texts and Welsh folklore, this sequel By Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone South West England This book is the story of an area of to A Tribe of Witches delves deeper Corrstown is a highly important into the religious practice of the Edited by C. P. Green and landscape in the English Midlands Bronze Age site. A total of 74 Middle Robert Hosfield from earliest prehistory to around Dobunni, exploring­ their pantheon Bronze Age roundhouse platforms AD 900. In the project has revealed of gods and godesses, symbolism and were identified and organised into The primary focus of this volume spectacular monuments from the Neolithic and Bronze iconography and their sacred landscape. pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to is the Broom site itself, seeking to explain the Age (including a ‘woodhenge-type’ monument, a 200pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Paperback, was £25.00 be contemporary, a site type hitherto unknown in Britain distinctive character of its Acheulean archaeology, ‘sunburst’ monument and a cursus) that represent a and Ireland. the environmental conditions in which the hominin Now £6.95 occupants of the Axe valley flourished, and for how long. regional expression of the monumental traditions of the 232pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £36.00 age of Stonehenge. 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 180pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2009, Paperback, Now £12.95 was £15.00 Now £7.50

The Land of Boudica A Late Iron Age Iron Age Ritual, a Fairfield Park, Stotfold, Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk farmstead in the Hillfort and Evidence Bedfordshire By John Davies Outer Hebrides for a Minster at Later Prehistoric Settlement This book traces the story of Norfolk Excavations at Mound 1, Aylesbury, in the Eastern Chilterns from the Ice Age and the first Bornais, South Uist Buckinghamshire By Jane R. Timby, Martin appearance of people to the end of Edited by Niall Sharples Wilson and Leo Webley Roman Britain. In particular it focuses By Mike Farley and Gillian Jones on the many remarkable and exciting The examination of the mound 1 The excavation of an area within the The excavations at Fairfield Park discoveries made across the region, deposits provides an important grounds of the Prebendal, Aylesbury, revealed a later Bronze Age hilltop often through the contribution of amateur enthusiasts, contribution to our understanding of the Iron Age Buckinghamshire, adjacent to the parish church of St enclosure and an extensive early and how these have transformed our picture its history sequence in the Atlantic province. The principal Mary's, showed that the town, which lies on a slight spur, Iron Age settlement. As one of the first large-scale in recent decades. contribution comprises the large quantities of mammal, is sited within a univallate Iron Age hillfort. Early-Middle excavations of an early Iron Age settlement in eastern fish and bird bones, carbonised plant remains and England, the site makes a significant contribution to our 251pp, Heritage Publications, 2009, Paperback, was £19.95 Iron Age activity included the creation of a notable ritual pottery, which can be accurately dated to a fairly precise area contaning the burials of four children and a young understanding of the later prehistory of the region Now £7.95 and narrow period in the 1st millennium AD. woman. 176pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, Paperback, was £14.95 280pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £35.00 184pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £7.50 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND • 7 Green Park (Reading The Danebury In Defence of A Forged Glamour Business Park) Phase 2 Environs Project Landscape Landscape, Identity and Material Excavations 1995 The Prehistory of a Wessex An Archaeology of Porton Down Culture in the Iron Age Neolithic and Bronze Age sites Landscape, Volume 2 By David Ride By Melanie Giles By Carol Allen, Adam Brossler By Barry Cunliffe An overview of excavations on the An exploration of the lives and and Robert Early Volume 2 comprises seven separate­ MOD land at Porton Down. Features deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular The Neolithic features included an volumes reporting on the Prehistoric include Neolithic flint mines, Bronze evidence from the excavations and Age round barrows, settlement, material culture, who lived in unusual segmented ring ditch, and a modern-day East and North Yorkshire, number of pits and postholes. A field system was laid out research at sites in the Danebury area cemeteries and enclosures, Iron Age during the early 1990s. features, a Georgian folly, the remains of a Victorian between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates in the area prior to the establishment of a late Bronze settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and Age settlement which included five roundhouses, and a 842pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, mansion and, from more recent times, the World War One experimental gas trenches. craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and number of post-built structures. Hardback, was £60.00 beliefs might have been. 180pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2004, Paperback, was £14.99 160pp, b/w illus, col pls, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, Now £15.00 Paperback, was £17.99 224pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £5.00 Now £6.95 Now £12.95

Settlement on the Home Excavation at Thames An Animate Landscape Bedfordshire Claylands By Francis Pryor Valley Park, Reading, Rock Art and the Prehistory Archaeology along the A421 Francis Pryor presents a view of 1986-88 of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland Great Barford Bypass British Prehistory which focuses on Prehistoric and Romano-British By Andrew Meirion Jones, Andrew Jones, its most important building block, By Richard Brown, Alan Hardy, occupation of the floodplain and Davina Freedman, Blaze O'Connor the family. He shows how the pursuit and Hugo Lamdin-Whymark Stephen Leech and Jane R. Timby of domesticity shaped Prehistoric a terrace of the River Thames Excavations at nine sites along the society, and in doing so promotes By I. Barnes Focusing on its landscape context route of the Great Barford Bypass the agency of ordinary people in our this study argues that the rock art Finds included Mesolithic flint of Kilmartin played an active part provided a rare opportunity to Prehistoric past. scatters, a butchered semi-articulated Bos skeleton, investigate an extensive area of the South Midlands of the process of socialising the landscape, in which 352pp, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2014, Hardback, was sporadic Neolithic activity and a Beaker burial associated the landscape became more organised from the Late claylands, a landscape that has hitherto seen little £20.00 with 18 barb-and-tanged. An enclosure of Iron Age to archaeological work. The excavations produced evidence Neolithic onwards, and that this organised landscape Roman date produced a variety of settlement features relates to broader cosmological concerns. for the long-term development of the social landscape, Now £7.95 and associated artefacts. agrarian economy and environment of the area from 400pp, Windgather Press, 2011, Paperback, was £38.00 Prehistory to the Middle Ages. 140pp, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1997, Paperback, was £12.50 Now £12.95 430pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2007, Paperback, was £14.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.50 The Emergent Past Early Celtic Art in A Slice of Rural Essex The Cave of A Relational Realist Archaeology of Britain and Ireland Recent Archaeological Discoveries Fontechevade Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices By J. Vincent S. Megaw from the A120 between Stansted By Philip G. Chase Airport and Braintree By Chris Fowler and M. Ruth Megaw A summary of the discoveries made A synthesis of Chalcolithic and Early An excellent guide to Celtic art and By Jane R. Timby, Richard Brown, during the course of excavations Bronze Age mortuary practices in society, describing and discussing E. Biddulph and Alan Hardy at the Paleolithic cave site of Northeast England (c.2500-1500 BC), art from the 4th century BC to A diverse pattern of human hist­ Fontéchevade, France, between 1994 taking into account how different the Roman Conquest. Furnished ory was revealed including earlier and 1998, including an important concepts and practices have changed throughout with lots of photographs prehistoric flint knapping, later reappraisal of the lithic evidence and the assemblage of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices of artefacts, including weapons, items of jewellery and prehistoric ritual activity, a Roman farmstead with of an early modern human skull. in the past 200 years. other pieces of personal adornment, figurines, vessels accompanying cemetery, a middle Saxon hall, medieval 270pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Hardback, was 352pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was and sculpture, the book also provides important insights settlement, pottery production and a windmill. £50.00 into Iron Age society and belief systems. £70.00 214pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2007, Hardback, was £14.95 Now £9.95 80pp, b/w and col illus, Shire Publications, 2005, Paperback, Now £24.95 was £6.99 Now £7.50 Now £2.95

Gravelly Guy Hillforts of England Landscape Evolution Tombs, Temples and Excavations at Stanton Harcourt and Wales in the Middle Thames their Orientations By George Lambrick and T. G. Allen By James Dyer Valley A New Perspective on Archaeological evidence at Gravelly An investigation of the function and By Framework Archaeology Mediterranean Prehistory Guy spans from the Neolithic through situation of hillforts, some of the Framework Archaeology By Michael Hoskin to the Saxon period. Structural most common of British ancient Excavations in advance of the monuments. Dyer examines the This study of archaeoastronomy looks evidence, finds and environmental construction of Terminal 5 at at more than 2,500 communal tombs data is combined in a detailed nature of the defences, the design Heathrow Airport uncovered a of the entrances, and the internal and sanctuaries from around the study of the site, its position in complex settlement and farming western Mediterranean. The author the landscape and relationship to the contemporary design of the monuments, using plenty of illustrations to landscape spanning later Neolithic to Saxon periods; the illuminate how and why they were created. concludes that in most of these regions the monuments archaeology of the surrounding area. area remaining as farmland into the 20th century. faced sunrise, or more generally the sun when it was 520pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, 64pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1981, Paperback, was 416pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2010, Hardback, was £20.00 rising or climbing in the sky. Hardback, was £34.95 £6.99 Now £7.95 264pp, b/w illus, Ocarina Books, 2001, Paperback, was Now £7.50 Now £2.95 £21.95 Now £9.95

Segsbury Camp Irish Megalithic Tombs Miss Layard Excavates Comparative Excavations in 1996 and 1997 By Elizabeth Shee Twohig the Palaeolithic site at Foxhall Archaeologies at an Iron Age Hillfort on the Supported by colour photographs, Road, Ipswich, 1903-1905 Edited by Katina T. Lillios Oxfordshire Ridgeway reconstruction drawings, plans and By Mark White and Steven Plunkett A discussion of current thinking maps, this book presents an invaluable By Gary Lock, Christopher A study of the pioneering excava­ on the dynamics and historical Gosden and Patrick Daly introductory guide to the megalithic trajectories of complex societies tombs of Ireland. It considers the tions of 1903–05 of Frances Layard This volume describes the two and a reappraisal of the importance in the American Southwest (AD history of megalithic tomb studies 900-1600) and the Iberian Peninsula seasons of excavation at Segsbury before looking at well-known and less of Foxhall Road, a site at which Camp which form a part of Oxford Palaeolithic humans gathered around (3000-1500 BC) through a focused well-known examples of each of the comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes, Bodies, University’s Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project. The four types: court, portal, passage and wedge tombs. the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving behind evidence suggests that the large hillfort of Segsbury was stone tools and manufacturing waste. Gender, and Art. used during the period 6th to 2nd century BC but was 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1990, Paperback, was 312pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £40.00 £6.99 196pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2005, not densely and permanently occupied. Hardback, was £48.00 Now £9.95 158pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2005, Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £35.00 Now £10.00

The Danebury Megalithic Tombs Westbury Cave Creating Communities Environs Programme By Frances Lynch By Peter Andrews, Jill Cook, Andrew New advances in Central The Prehistory of a Wessex The stone monuments of Scotland, Currant and Chris Stringer European Neolithic Research Landscape, Volume 1, Introduction Wales, Cornwall, and the Cotswolds, This volume assesses the new Edited by Daniela Hofmann and the earth and timber barrows of By Barry Cunliffe evidence produced by excava­ and By Penny Bickle Southern and North-Eastern England tions between 1976 and 1984: Following his research on the hillfort are described in this addition to sedi­mentary sequence, soil micro­ Although the LBK is one of the Barry Cunliffe has led a massive the Shire Archaeology series. From morphology, faunal assemblages, best researched Neolithic cultures campaign to explore the surroundings this material evidence, the author small mammal fauna, fossil ruminants, in Europe, here the material is of the site, and this has resulted in a sketches the outline of a system of larger carnivores, palaeoecological used in order to further explore further series of volumes, the first set on the Prehistoric widely held beliefs and social concerns. reconstruction, flint finds. the interconnection between individuals, households, settlements and regions, explicitly addressing questions evidence and the second set on the Roman Period 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1997, Paperback, was evidence. This volume is the Introduction and overview 309pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 1999, of Neolithic society and lived experience. £6.99 Hardback, was £60.00 to the Prehistoric set. 271pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 240pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, Now £9.95 Hardback, was £49.95 Now £10.00

8 • PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Dynamics of Iron Age and Roman Rock Art and War and Worship Neolithisation in Burials in Champagne Seascapes in Uppland Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century Europe By I. M. Stead, J-L Flouest By Johan Ling AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany Studies in honour of and Valery Rigby A detailed study of a selection of Andrew Sherratt This volume reports on the over 80 rock art panels, which include By Susan Möller-Wiering excavation of a series of six Iron some 2000 ship depictions among War and Worship concerns Edited by Angelos Hadjikoumis, Erick Age cemeteries in Champagne. It the varied figurative art. Using GPS Robinson and Sarah Viner-Daniels textile deposits from the bog sites describes the spatial arrangement of measurement combined with detailed of Thorsberg in Germany and This volume examines the each cemetery and its burials, and study of the terrain, topography and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe. consider the relative chronology of the series, from relative sea level data, the location and significance of Denmark. The research has extracted a large amount The contributors examine such significant factors as Hallstatt and La Tène to the Gallo-Roman period. the original positioning of rock art images in relation to of information allowing conclusions on status, origin, plant and animal domestication, social organisation, the 345pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, Hardback, was £60.00 their contemporaneous coastline is demonstrated and function and role in the deposits to be drawn. development of monumental architecture, exchange modelled. 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £32.00 and social identity and the cultural transmission of Now £14.95 124pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £20.00 technology. Now £7.95 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

Exchange Networks Living Well Together? Stone Axe Studies III Life and Death at the and Local Settlement and Materiality Edited by Vin Davis and Mark Edmonds Pestera Cu Oase Transformations in the Neolithic of South- This collection presents studies on Edited by Erik Trinkaus, Silviu By Maria Emanuela Alberti East and Central Europe stone axe techonology from a variety Constantin and Joco Zilhco and Serena Sabatini By Alasdair Whittle, Daniela of different approaches. Some papers The Pestera cu Oase is a sealed are united by specific material, such Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Hofmann and Douglass W. Bailey limestone cavern in southwestern as those working on Jadeite axe Romania which served principally as a Age, European and Mediterranean Investigates the development of the blades in western and Central Europe. societies appear to have been Neolithic in southeast and central hibernation den for Pleistocene cave For others, the link is analytical, bears and wolves, but also contained involved in complex systems of Europe from 6500–3500 cal BC with contextual, or conceptual. exchange networks which invariably affected local special reference to the manifestations of settling down. the fossil remains of the earliest modern humans in 448pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £55.00 Europe. This volume presents the results of mapping and customs and historical developments. These articles 178pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Paperback, was £40.00 explore the dynamic relationship between regionally Now £14.95 excavation of the cave and the analysis of the animal and contextualised transformations and inter-regional Now £14.95 human remains. exchange networks. 452pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £38.00 £115.00 Now £12.95 Now £24.95

From Surface Lower and Middle The Tripolye Culture Bronze Age Military Collection to Palaeolithic artefacts giant-settlements in Equipment Prehistoric Lifeways from deposits mapped Ukraine By Daniel Howard Making Sense of the Multi-Period as clay-with-flints Formation, development and decline This book is a fascinating discussion Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria By J. E. Scott-Jackson Edited by Francesco Menotti and of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized By John Chapman and ‘Clay-with flints’ refers to deposits Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy armies. Dan Howard describes the Bisserka Gaydarska lying on the hilltops and plateaux of An examination of the Tripolye development of weapons, armour An analysis of the rich collection of the Chalk Downlands of southern culture in the Ukraine, with a special and chariots, how they were made Neolithic and Chalcolithic finds from surface collection England. This study is based on emphasis placed upon the development of the so-called and their tactical use in battle. He draws on his own at the settlement of Orlovo, emphasising the diversity of the archaeology, geology and sedimentology of these ‘giant-settlements’. Chapters discuss the geographical experiences of using and making replica weapons and the objects and what they can tell us about the lifeways deposits and forms a comprehensive review of the and chronological context, highlighting the different armour, to challenge established views and bring fresh of this site. Palaeolithic stone tools found embedded within them. facets of the culture that resulted in the formation of the insights. 208pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £55.00 180pp, Oxbow Books, 2000, Paperback, was £30.00 giant-settlements 172pp, b/w illus, col pls, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2011, 174pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £4.95 Now £5.00 Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Guess Who's Coming Målsnes 1 Thinking Mesolithic The Ancient Paths To Dinner An Early Post-Glacial Site By Stefan K. Kozlowski Discovering the Lost Map Feasting Rituals in the in Northern Norway This book presents a comprehensive,­ of Celtic Europe Prehistoric Societies of By H. P. Blankholm re-edited selection of Kozlowski’s By Graham Robb Europe and the Near East most important writings on the The economy, seasonality, and Mesolithic, along with new papers An ambitious (if highly controversial Edited by Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, several models for the settlement written especially for this edition. and speculative) rethinking of Sandra Montón-Subias and pattern are examined and followed With his eye simultaneously on Celtic civilization which aims to Margarita Sánchez Romero by a discussion of this pioneering both the continental and local levels, demonstrate the sophistication of the settlement within its wider cultural Kozlowski offers a compelling portrait Celts as astronomers and surveyors This volume examines how specific and Scandinavian and northern European context. through the route of the via Herakleia. This, Robb claims types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting of a period in which Europe was characterised by a wide 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Hardback, was £40.00 range of different human ecologies. was designed to mirror the line of the rising sun at the rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near East. Summer Solstice, and that settlements were consciously 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 380pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £70.00 layed out according to the bearings involved. Now £9.95 Now £29.95 416pp, Picador, 2013, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £7.95

Image, Memory and Mesolithic Horizons Time and Change Prehistoric Henges Monumentality By Sinead McCartan, Rick Schulting, Archaeological and Anthropological By Aubrey Burl Archaeological Engagements Graeme Warren and Peter Woodman Perspectives on the Long Term Companion to Prehistoric Stone with the Material World This is an enormous compendium of in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Circles, this is an introduction to the henges; their characteristics, date and Edited by Andrew Meirion Jones, research published in two volumes By Dimitra Papagianni and Edited by with over 140 papers drawn from the Robert Layton and Herbert Maschner sometimes macabre finds suggesting Joshua Pollard, Julie Gardiner whole of Europe, ranging from the human sacrifice which hint at the and Michael J. Allen European Arctic to many parts of the This volume explores long-term power these huge enclosures once Leading scholars in these 29 Mediterranean, and from the British behavioural patterns and processes had. of change in hunter-gatherer societies commissioned papers in honour Isles to Russia. These papers cover 64pp, Shire Publications, 1991, Paperback, was £6.99 of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric recent research on virtually all aspects of the European from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. archaeology that have defined his career, such as Mesolithic. 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Paperback, was £34.00 Now £2.95 monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material 980pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £150.00 worlds and field practice Now £12.95 366pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £30.00 Now £49.95 Now £12.95

Interweaving Worlds Representations and Visualising the The Celts Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, Communications Neolithic By T.G.E. Powell 7th to the 1st Millennia BC Creating an Archaeological Matrix Edited by Andrew Cochrane A classic account of the language, Edited by Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan of Late Prehistoric Rock Art and Andrew Meirion Jones culture, and traditions of the Celts. Sherratt and John Bennet Edited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian This volume discusses visual Thames and Hudson, 1983, Paperback, How do we understand the systemic Kristiansen and Felipe Criado Boado expression across Neolithic Europe. It was £9.95 interactions that took place in is organised so that the rock art and Now £4.95 Nine papers summarize new passage tomb art traditions of the and between different regions excavation and survey results, of prehistoric Eurasia and their Neolithic in Britain and Ireland are advanced studies of iconography and compared for the first time to the rock art traditions consequences for individuals, groups and regions? This intriguing landscape studies. volume presents some diverse archaeological responses of Northern and Southern Europe, with the mortuary to this problem, from from “world-systems” through 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Paperback, was £25.00 costumes and figurines of South-eastern Europe. “ritual economies” to “textile rivalries”. Now £4.95 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £36.00 308pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM PREHISTORIC EUROPE • 9 The Early Upper Chinese Jade Soba II A Transportation Paleolithic Beyond By Ming Yu Renewed excavations within the Archive from Fourth- Western Europe The Chinese people have honoured, metropolis of the Kingdom Century Oxyrhynchus By P. Jeffrey Brantingham revered and cherished jade for over By D. A. Welsby (P. Mich. XX) 8,000 years. Jade carvings survive not Papers which bring a non-European simply as beautiful works of art, but This volume reports on the second By K. A. Worp and Edited by P. perspective to the `Out of also as cultural relics shedding light campaign of excavations by the BIEA J. Sijpesteijn, Klaas A. Worp, T. Africa’ debate, arguing that the on the spiritual life of ancient China. in the most southerly of the three Gagos and Arthur Verhoogt European Upper Palaeolithic is not Utilising a wealth of archaeological Nile Basin Nubian kingdoms. The representative despite its popularity report throws light on both local and This volume publishes 27 Greek evidence and illustrated with precious papyri concerned with the transport of grain from among scholars. The papers are arranged geographically, artifacts, this book provides an introduction to the imported artefacts, buildings and a vaulted tomb. discussing archaeological and material evidence in order Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text fascinating world of Chinese jade from ancient to 312pp, British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1998, Hardback, is presented with introduction, Greek text, English to look for signs of shifting behaviour between 45,000 modern times. was £70.00 and 25,000 years ago. translation and explanatory notes. 152pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback, was Now £14.95 240pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2011, Hardback, 295pp, University of California Press, 2004, Hardback, was £14.99 £52.00 was £30.00 Now £5.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

Symbols and Warriors Environmental History The Art of Benin In Pursuit of Invisibility Images of the European Bronze Age of Early India By Nigel Barley Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt By Richard J. Harrison A Reader This sumptuous photographic book By Richard Phillips This detailed study of the imagery By Nandini Sinha Kapur showcases a series of specially taken A close examination of invisibility photographs of key pieces in the and ideology of Bronze Age Spain and This reader provides a multilayered in the context of the Greco-Roman Portugal draws on a corpus of more British Museum's collection. It opens world, from the role invisibility enjoys analysis of different aspects of history, with an introduction to the kingdom, than one hundred stelae. Describing politics, economy and its interface as a literary motif to the ritual spells them as `multi-vocal monuments’ court and culture of Benin, which whose logos and praxis in magic with environment and ecology in is followed by thematic sections Richard Harrison examines how they early India. Sections focus on forests papyri promise the individual that he embody ideological codes centred around militarism, including kingship, ceremony, women, will move about unseen by others. and settlement patterns; water resources and irrigation; Europeans, and animals. masculinity and hierarchy. sacred landscapes; agricultural expansion, pastorialism 160pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2009, Hardback, 360pp, Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2004, and ecology; and botany. 144pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2010, Hardback, was was £35.00 £19.99 Hardback, was £48.00 344pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, Hardback, was Now £9.95 Now £9.95 £35.00 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

Traditional Pottery of The Pilgrim Art Outsiders and Ancient Egypt India Cultures of Porcelain in Strangers By Farid Atiya By Jame Perryman World History An Archaeology of Liminality Beautifully illustrated in full colour Pottery has a long history in India. By Robert Finlay in West Africa throughout, this informative coffee- Over the centuries it has been used table style book takes the reader on This study explores the remarkable By Anne Haour a tour of the sites of Ancient Egypt. for domestic ware, votive pieces and cultural influence of Chinese for architecture. Each area of the Outsiders can be found everywhere Organised geographically rather than porcelain around the globe.It tells the in the West African past: rulers show chronologically, but with sections country is known for its different fascinating story of how porcelain styles, decorations and ways of off their foreign descent, traders on the historical and religious became a vehicle for the transmission migrate to new areas, potters and background, the glorious photographs making. In this book, the author, not only looks at Indian and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs pottery but also at the communities who make it, their blacksmiths claim to be apart from society. The book illustrate a text which describes a wealth of tombs and across vast distances - from Japan and Java to Egypt and looks looks in detail at the role they played in the past monuments, their construction, function and excavation. organization, history and philosophy. England. 1000 years of the West African past, in particular in the 228pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2006, Hardback, 192pp, col illus, A and C BLACK, 2000, Hardback, was 440pp, University of California Press, 2010, Hardback, was construction of great empires. £35.00 was £36.50 £28.95 224pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was Now £9.95 Now £9.95 £53.00 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

China's Cultural Relics Ancient Peoples of the Deciphering Ancient Description de By Li Li American Southwest Minds l'Egypte Utilising a wealth of archaeological By Stephen Plog The Mystery of San By Franco Serino evidence, China's Cultural Relics This is an up-to-date introduction to Bushman Rock Art Announced in 1802, the Description provides an illustrated introduction a region famous for its mysterious de l’Egypte took twenty years to to the artifacts that survive from By David Lewis-Williams cliff-dwellings as well as its extensive and Sam Challis complete and published the work of different periods of Chinese history, pueblo towns. Plog aims "write a archaeologists, scientists, artists and and the collection and preservation summary of Southwestern Prehistory Reveals how the rock paintings engravers. This large-format book of these precious relics in modern that focuses as much on social and engravings of the San people is a `condensed’ version, supported times. It covers a wide range of topics relations as on environmental change, as much on ritual of southern Africa can be made to by examples of the most representative engravings and representative of Chinese culture, including pottery, and exchange as on pottery and projectile point types". yield insights into their beliefs and ways of thought. The paintings. It presents 128 images, mostly in colour, of porcelain, jade and bronze. picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: 224pp, b/w illus, col pls, Thames and Hudson, 2008, monuments, tomb paintings and temple plans. 168pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback, was this art is not a naïve narrative of daily life but rather is Paperback, was £18.95 imbued with power and religious depth. 128pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2003, Hardback, £14.99 was £22.95 Now £7.95 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2011, Hardback, was £18.95 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 Now £7.95

Chinese Bronze Ware The First North The Myth of Ancient Golden King By Song Li Americans Egypt The World of Tutankhamun China enjoys a unique position in By Brian M. Fagan By Charlotte Booth By Zahi Hawass world history because of the great An accessible overview of Pre- In this book, Charlotte Booth sets out This beautifully illustrated book variety of innovative and beautiful Columbian North America. Fagan to investigate eight facets of Ancient provides an ideal general introduction bronze ware that has been unearthed describes the controversies over Egypt around which popular myths to both the reign of Tutankhamun and on China's vast territory. This first settlement, and the debates over have sprung up, the origins of such its background in Akhenaten’s relgious book introduces the reader to this the routes used as humans moved myths, and how they have developed. iconoclasm, and to the history of magnificent culture with thorough south into the heart of the continent. These range from the River Nile itself, excavations in the Valley of the Kings discussion of the context and The author traces the origins and development of the through the pyramids and mummification, to three of the and Howard Carter’s famous discovery of his tomb. significance of bronze production, vivid descriptions and Moundbuilder societies of the Eastern Woodlands, most famous names to have come out of ancient Egypt. full color illustrations. 164pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2004, Paperback, the spectacular Pueblo societies of the Southwest, 223pp, Amberley Publishing, 2011, Paperback, was £18.99 was £25.00 164pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Paperback, was the flamboyant Mississippian culture of the South and £14.99 Southeast and the mounds of the ancient city of Cahokia. Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2011, Hardback, was £19.95 Now £7.95

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The Art of the The Rock Tombs of Who Were The Abusir XIV Pharaohs El-Hawawish 4 Pharaohs? A Guide to Faience Inlays from the Funerary By Georgio Ferrero By N. Kanawati their Names, Reigns Temple of King Neferre: Neferre's Substitute Decoration Programme This truly gigantic book (more Reports on the excavation of the and Dynasties dining table than coffee table) traces tombs of Hesi-Min and Kheni-Ankhu, By Stephen Quirke By Renata Landgráfová the depiction of Egypt's rulers the stela of Shepsit-Kau, the coffins This is an accessible and informative A full report on around 2000 from the Narmer palette to a bust of Hetepet and Shepsi-Pu-Min and fragments of faience inlays and tablets of Cleopatra VII. The magnificent tombs M27, M28, M29 and H14. guide to the major pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, their names and their of Egyptian blue bearing texts and illustrations are accompanied by a Australian Centre for Egyptology, 1983, scenes in relief which were found text which includes information on the reigns of the cartouches. The author unpacks Paperback, was £34.50 the meanings of the royal hieroglyphs, and traces their during the excavation of the funerary temple of King pharaohs in question and examines the changing artistic Neferre. styles. Now £9.95 evolution from the dawn of Egyptian writing to their last use under the Roman emperors. 120pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2007, Paperback, was 175pp, col illus, American University in Cairo Press, 2010, £35.00 Hardback, was £45.00 112pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2010, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £5.00 Now £14.95 Now £3.95

The Monuments of The Rock Tombs of The Book of the Egypt and Austria II Egypt and Nubia El-Hawawish 5 Pharaohs Proceedings of a Symposium By Ippolito Rossellini By N. Kanawati By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte By Johanna Holaubek, Wolf B. This large-format book includes an Reports on the excavation of the and David Lorton Oerter and Hana Navratilova introduction to the 1828 expedition tomb of Hem-Min (M43), tombs in Now available in English, this is `an This is the second collection of led by Jean-François Champollion and the forecourt of M43, The tomb of encyclopedia of short essays on proceedings from the workshop of Ippolito Rosellini to record Egypt’s Memi (M23), tombs in the forecourt the pharaohs themselves, as well as the Austrian and Czech Egyptologists ancient monuments, although the of M23, the tomb of Ankhu (M21), and on palaces, dynasties, personages, and historians. The contributions largest part of the book comprises the coffins from Akhmin. subjects, and themes relating to the are connected by the theme of many of Rosellini’s illustrations arranged thematically 68pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, 1986, Paperback, kings and their rule'. Egyptomania, and the use of Ancient Egypt as an into historic, civil and religious monuments. was £34.50 233pp, Cornell University Press, 1996, Hardback, was inspirational source to modern art. 128pp, American University in Cairo Press, 2003, Hardback, £45.95 200pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, Paperback, was was £34.95 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 £15.00 Now £9.95 Now £3.00

Treasures of the Tutankhamen The Secret Lore of Egyptian Revival in Egyptian Museum in The Search for an Egyptian King Egypt Bohemia Cairo By Joyce A. Tyldesley Its Impact on the West By Hana Navratilova By Francesco Tiradritti The first part of this book details By Erik Hornung and David Lorton This study looks at the Egyptian A spectular guide to the Howard Carter’s search for the Western culture regularly adopts revival in the second half of the archaeological wonders in the Cairo tomb and its discovery, going on to and appropriates themes and motifs 19th century within Czech society. Museum, discovered during a century describe the grave goods in detail, and from ancient Egyptian art, religious Asking who these Egyptomaniacs of excavation. Over 600 colour to explain and appraise the various practices, and literature. Hornung were and why they chose Egypt, Hana photographs illustrate sculptures, studies which have been made of the here looks at the history of one Navrátilová looks at the historical and reliefs, inscriptions, structures, jewels and many other mummy itself. The second part is dedicated to the myths aspect of this process, the idea of ancient Egypt as the cultural background of the period, arguing that Egyptian objects and artworks that span over 5,000 years of and conspiracy theories surrounding Tutankamun which source of esoteric lore and traces the influence of the revivalism was important for both Czech cultural history and the length of the country. have proliferated in the years since the discovery of the esoteric image of Egypt on European intellectual history development and the formation of national identity. tomb. 416pp, col illus, American University in Cairo Press, 1999, from antiquity to the present. 300pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2003, Paperback, was Hardback, was £57.95 316pp, col pls, Basic Books, 2012, Hardback, was £20.00 229pp, Cornell University Press, 2001, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £19.95 Now £7.95 £26.95 Now £5.00 Now £9.95

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The Rock Tombs of Egyptian Mummies Abusir XII Egypt Exploration El-Hawawish 2 By John H. Taylor Minor Tombs in the Royal Society, The Early By N. Kanawati This is a short, illustrated Necropolis I (The Mastabas of Years Nebtyemneferes and Nakhtsare, Reports on the excavation of the introduction to the ever-fascinating Edited by Patricia Spencer tomb of Shepsi-Pu-Min/Kheni, Tomb topic of Egyptian mummies. It Pyramid Complex Lepsius no. 24 addresses the most frequently asked and Tomb Complex Lepsius no. 25) Published to celebrate the Society’s H25, Tomb H28, Tomb H28a, Tomb 125th Anniversary in 2007, this H29, Tomb H30 and Tomb H31. questions about Egyptian mummies: By Jaromir Krejci, Vivienne Gae how and why they were made, the volume gives a fully illustrated 51pp, Australian Centre for Egyptology, religious beliefs which underpinned Callender and Miroslav Verner account of the earliest years (1883- 1981, Paperback, was £34.50 mummification, the preservation of This monograph presents excavations 1915) of the Society’s work in Egypt, Now £9.95 animals, and how the mummies have been treated from undertaken from 1987 until 2004 in the area of the describing life on excavations run by pioneers such as ancient times until the present day. minor tombs clustered around the tombs of the 5th Flinders Petrie and setting major discoveries in their archaeological and cultural contexts 160pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2010, Paperback, Dynasty kings. was £9.99 284pp, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2008, Hardback, was 272pp, Egypt Exploration Society, 2007, Paperback, was £106.00 £22.00 Now £4.95 Now £20.00 Now £6.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT • 11 Egyptian Fakes The Tombs of Life Everlasting Current Research in By Jean-Jacques Fiechter Harmhabi and By Bill Manley and Aidan Dodson Egyptology 2009 The enormous popular appeal of Toutânkhamanou This catalogue presents the collection Proceedings of the Tenth Egyptian antiquities from the end By Theodore M. Davis, Gaston of Ancient Egyptian coffins and Annual Symposium of the 18th century to the present Maspero and George Daressy related artefacts held by National day has led to a thriving market for Museums Scotland. All pieces are Edited by Daniel Boatright, Judith fakes and forgers, and it is these A reissue of Davis’ account of his photographed in colour together with Corbelli and Claire Malleson fakes which Fiechter examines in his last great discovery in the Valley of details of dating, dimensions, materials, The tenth annual Current Research well-written narrative. He investigates the Kings. In 1908 Davis discovered provenance, and lengthy descriptions in Egyptology confer­ence was held at the background and techniques of the the rchly decorated tomb and ornate and analysis. Highlights include the the University of Liverpool in January great forgers, alongside the evolving techniques used to sarcophagus of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Tutankhamun’s royal burial group from Qurna, the coffin of the priest 2009 and welcomed Egyptology graduates from all over spot them. general and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other Iufenamun, and the double coffin and mummies of the the world. This volume is a compilation of some of the tomb described here was mistakenly interpreted as that young half-brothers, Petamun and Penhorpabik. papers that were given at the conference, that show the 252pp, Flammarion, 2009, Hardback, was £22.50 of Tutankhamun himself. 176pp, NMS ENTERPRISES LTD, 2010, Hardback, was diverse nature of current research in Egyptology. Now £7.95 135pp, Duckworth, 1912, Paperback, was £25.00 £30.00 190pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £36.00 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

The Royal Mummies Code-breaker's Secret The Official Gift in Current Research in By G. Elliot Smith Diaries Ancient Egypt Egyptology 2010 A new edition of a classic text, first By Jean-Francois Champollion By Edward Bleiberg Proceedings of the Eleventh published in 1912, which reports on This book contains the letters and Economic anthropology is used Annual Symposium the mummies of kings, queens and diaries of Champollion, whose work here to gain a fuller understanding Edited by Maarten Horn, Joost Kramer, lesser nobles found at Deir el-Bahri deciphering the Rosetta Stone paved of the long-standing practice of the and in the tomb of Amenophis. It Daniel Soliman, Nico Staring, Carina the way for a huge upsurge in interest official exchanging of gifts between van den Hoven and Lara Weiss includes discussions of the mummies in the world of the ancient Egyptians. individuals of unequal status ( inw of Ahmose, Tuthmosis III, Amenophis In particular it contains his account of -exchange). 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12 • EGYPT WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Crown of Arsinoë The Quest for Egyptian Pottery The Encyclopedia of II Immortality By Colin A. Hope the Pharaohs Vol 1 The Creation of an Treasures of Ancient Egypt A short but informative guide to Predynastic to the Twentieth Image of Authority By Erik Hornung and Betsy M. Bryan pottery use and production in Egypt Dynasty, 3300 - 1069 BC from c.3000BC to the conquest of By Maria Nilsson This colour catalogue, from an Alexander the Great in 332BC. Colin By Darrell D. Baker A detailed study of a unique crown exhibition held at the National Hope discusses the different types A comprehensive guide to the known that was created for the Ptolemaic Gallery of Art in Washington during of vessels produced, their various rulers of ancient Egypt. Each entry Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II. Images of the summer of 2002, mostly presents functions, techniques of decoration includes: a brief biography of the reign; Arsinoë are represented in a broad objects drawn from the collection and the historical development of tomb location and number (if known); spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical of the Cairo Museum. These are complemented by four vessel forms. location of known mummies; chief consorts; hieroglyphs essays that discuss the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and 64pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1987, Paperback, was and transliterations of each form of the pharaoh’s name; as queen and goddess alike. with emphasis on the artistic achievements of the reign pertinent biographical references. of Thutmose III and the New Kingdom in general. £6.99 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £55.00 587pp, Stacey International, 2008, Hardback, was £45.00 240pp, Prestel Verlag, 2002, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £14.95

The Oasis Papers 1 City of the Ram-Man Egyptian Textiles The Gold of the Proceedings of the First The Story of Ancient Mendes By R. A. Hall Pharaohs International Symposium of By Donald B. Redford A brief study of the importance By Henri Stierlin the Dakhleh Oasis Project In this richly illustrated book, of textiles and woven garments A stunningly illustrated study of By C.A Marlow Donald Redford draws on the latest in ancient Egypt. Rosalind Hall masterpieces of the goldsmith’s combines archaeological discoveries The first Dakhleh Oasis Project discoveries to tell the story of the art, with special emphasis on the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes. with related textual material and treasures of Tutankhamun in the Valley seminar held at Durham University in iconographic evidence in her 1994 was the occasion for discussion He traces its development from its of the Kings, and of Psusennes I at prehistoric founding, through its discussions of woven fabrics, the the Delta site of Tanis. With general of topics ranging from the Pleistocene dyeing process, spinning and weaving, to paleoepidemiology and papyri. development of a great society and its brief period as the discussion of metallurgical technology and specialisms, capital of Egypt, up to its final decline and abandonment sewing and darning, Egyptian laundry service, the status and plans of the two royal tombs. 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, Hardback, was £55.00 in the 1st century BC. of dress and the wardrobes of Tutankhamun and the pharaohs. 216pp, Terrail, 1997, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £4.95 240pp, Princeton University Press, 2010, Hardback, was £27.95 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2001, Paperback, was Now £4.95 £6.99 Now £12.95 Now £2.95

The Oasis Papers 6 Egypt Egyptian The Pharaohs Proceedings of the Sixth A Short History Woodworking and Master Builders International Conference of By Robert Tignor Furniture By Henri Stierlin the Dakhleh Oasis Project This ambitious work covers the By Geoffrey Killen This is a popular account of Egyptian Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Paola whole of Egyptian history from the This book gives a comprehensive architecture which discusses building Davoli and Colin A. Hope Old Kingdom to the rule of Mubarak. description of Egyptian woodworking techniques and technologies before 41 papers with a wealth of new As well as narrating the sequence from the earliest times to the Late examining the great monuments research and significant discoveries, of events and the development of Period. It examines the sources of of Egypt in roughly chronological from Prehistory, through Pharaonic Egyptian culture, Tignor also offers wood and other materials used by succession, ending with the temples at and Roman times to the Christian period. comparative reflections across this broad sweep of Egyptian carpenters, their techniques, and describes the Philae. Very attractively illustrated in colour, this remains history. a serious book which juxtaposes glossy (and some 512pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £90.00 woodworking tools and processes used throughout the 363pp, Princeton University Press, 2011, Hardback, was Dynastic Period. unusual) photos with temple plans and other pictorial Now £19.95 £20.95 sources for reconstructing the architects and builders 64pp, b/w ilus, Shire Publications, 1994, Paperback, was lives. £6.99 Now £6.95 221pp, Terrail, 2007, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £2.95 Now £4.95

Imagining the Past Private Life in New The Hyksos Period in Abydos By Colleen Manassa Kingdom Egypt Egypt Egypt's First Pharaohs and This volume provides complete By Lynn Meskell By Charlotte Booth the Cult of Osiris translations and commentary for the Drawing on archaeological, This book explore the religion, By David O'Connor historical fiction composed during iconographic and documentary politics and customs of the Hyksos, Egypt's New Kingdom. Four tales are The first overview of the remarkable evidence, this is a scholarly showing that they were opportunists site of Abydos in over thirty years. included: The Quarrel of Apepi and reconstruction of the lives of men rather than 'barbaric invaders', and it Seqenenere; The Capture of Joppa; David O’Connor, who has been and women during the 450 years that provides a clear and concise overview excavating at Abydos for 40 years Thutmose III in Asia; and The Libyan comprised the New Kingdom. Meskell of this short but controversial period Battle Story. is uniquely qualified to describe the considers the role of communities and social groups, of Egyptian history. extraordinary excavations and discoveries, analysing the 400pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hardback, was the importance of love and sex and the ways in which 56pp, b/w and col illus, Shire Publications, 2005, Paperback, role of Abydos as an important centre of power and £51.00 Egyptians understood the structure of their lives and was £6.99 religion during the entire period of ancient Egyptian Now £14.95 their fate after death. civilization, and setting out the crucial evidence it 238pp, Princeton University Press, 2002, Paperback, was Now £2.95 provides for early state formation. £21.95 216pp, Thames and Hudson, 2009, Paperback, was £18.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Papyrus Egyptian Games and Tutankhamun's Egypt Ancient Egypt on Five The Plant that Changed the World Sports By Frances Welsh Deben a Day By John Gaudet By Joyce A. Tyldesley This book discusses the historical, By Donald P. Ryan Ecologist and conservationist John This book traces the evidence for archaeological and artistic aspects This guidebook takes the armchair Gaudet provides an engaging history sport and games from Predynastic of Tutankhamun’s brief reign and tourist/time traveller back to Egypt of the papyrus plant and its central times to the end of the New interprets the objects from his tomb, in the Ramesside period. The reader role in civilisation. He first traces the Kingdom, combining archaeological, the paintings on its walls and its can find advice on where to stay, plant's pivotal role in the rise of Egypt, pictoral and textual sources to bring location. what to eat, what to wear, culture and and its use as paper, but also for Egyptian leisure time to life. 80pp, Shire Publications, 1993, customs and a few useful phrases. The shelter, building, shipbuilding and more. He then traces 64pp, Shire Publications, 2007, Paperback, was £6.99 Paperback, was £6.99 key sites are all explained, but as functioning temples and the draining of the papyrus swamps in the medieval Now £2.95 so on, rather than archaeological sites. and modern world and its consequences not only for Now £2.95 144pp, Thames and Hudson, 2010, Hardback, was £12.95 papyrus, but for the wider environment. Now £5.95 272pp, col pls, Pegasus Books, 2014, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £7.95

Untersuchungen im Egyptian Models and The Millionaire and the Cracking the Egyptian Totentempel des Scenes Mummies Code Merenptah in Theben By Angela M. J. Tooley Theodore Davis's Gilded Age The Revolutionary Life of Band IV: The Pottery A discussion of Egyptian models, in the Valley of the Kings Jean-Francois Champollion By David A. Aston, Brigitte Dominicus, where they are found, who owned By John M. Adams By Andrew Robinson them, what purpose they served, Benjamin L. Ford and Horst Jaritz where in the tomb they were placed A fast-paced biography of Theodore Robinson traces Champollion’s This substantial volume presents the and how they relate to tomb scenes. Davis, the wealthy discoverer of 18 career from obscure beginnings pottery found on or under the Temple tombs in the Valley of the Kings at the to his seminal work in deciphering 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1995, turn of the 20th century. John Adams hieroglyphic script. He explores of Merenptah, the majority of which can be dated to Paperback, was £6.99 the New Kingdom, from the reign of Amenophis II until traces his career from the nefarious ways in which he Champollion’s many rivalries, in particular with Thomas sometime late in the Twentieth Dynasty. Now £2.95 amassed his wealth, to his pioneering of systematic Young, and describes the expedition to Egypt which he methods of excavation and his later reputation, led with Rosellini. 426pp, b/w illus and pls, Philipp von Zabern, 2008, overshadowed by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2012, Hardback, was £19.95 Hardback, was £80.00 by Howard Carter. Now £14.95 363pp, b/w illus, St Martin's Press, 2013, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £18.99 Now £6.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM EGYPT • 13 Exploring the World of Royal Mummies Every City Shall Be The Early Prehistory the Pharaohs Immortality in Ancient Egypt Forsaken of Wadi Faynan, A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt By Francis Janot Urbanism and Prophecy in Ancient Southern Jordan By Christine Hobson This lavishly illustrated book acquaints Israel and the Near East By Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen An invaluable popular guide to the the readers with both the physical By Lester L. Grabbe This edited volume provides a full history, people and archaeology of procedures and the religious rites Topics include positive and negative report on the Pre-Pottery Neo­ Ancient Egypt. Illustrations, charts and involved in preparing a royal corpse responses to the city in prophetic lithic A site of WF16, southern chronologies support the detailed for eternity. The modern discovery discourse, social-scientific method Jordan. Excavations have shown that and informative discussions about of the royal mummies is described, in the study of urbanism, the the site contains a highly dynamic many of Egypt’s most important sites and archaeologists, and the latest research on the mummies themselves is reconstruciton of the socio-economic urban background use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage reveals all aimed at helping the visitor to make the most from presented, including X-rays and CT scans, which help us to Haggai, and the definition of the city. new information on the processes that lead to the their visit to understand not only how particular pharaohs died domestication of the goat. but also what ailments they may have suffered in life, and 234pp, Continuum International Pub., 2001, Hardback, was 192pp, Thames and Hudson, 1987, Paperback, was £12.95 in some cases what the living person actually looked like. £80.00 640pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2007, Hardback, was £75.00 Now £5.95 368pp, col illus, White Star Publishers, 2008, Hardback, was Now £12.95 £40.00 Now £10.00 Now £17.95

Genesis of the The Great Pharaohs Ancient Jordan from Adapa and the South Pharaohs By T. G. H. James the Air Wind By Toby Wilkinson This gloriously illustrated book By Robert Bewley and David Kennedy Language Has the Power The ancestors of the pyramid-builders combines T.G.H. James’ publications Sites are everywhere in this vast open of Life and Death Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of were not village-dwelling farmers, museum, one tally has calculated By Shlomo Izre'el but wandering cattle-herders, and the Boy Pharaoh and Ramesses II in 25,000 visible from above ground pharaonic civilization was forged in a single volume. The format is slightly alone, and as is so often the case the Izre’el explores the myth of Adapa one of the most forbidding places smaller, but this is still a sumptuous best view is seen from the air. This and the South Wind, originally on Earth: the Eastern Desert. Here undertaking, with the history of the book contains over 200 high quality discovered on a tablet from the hundreds of intricate rock carvings have been found in two pharaohs’ reigns juxtaposed colour photos illustrating the range of sites together Amarna archive, as mythos, as story. which the origins of later pharaonic imagery is clearly with discussion and illustrations of the monuments with full descriptions and an overview of Jordan’s He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, discernible. Toby Wilkinson traces the discovery of these and artefacts which can be associated with them, most fascinating history. including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, notably the finds from Tutankamun’s tomb. and a philological commentary. ancient records, dates them, and identifies the artists 282pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2004, who made them. 640pp, White Star Publishers, 2011, Hardback, was £25.00 Hardback, was £30.00 180pp, Eisenbrauns, 2001, Hardback, was £36.00 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, Hardback, was £18.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95

The Complete Gifts for the Gods Archaeology and Roads of Arabia Pyramids Images from Ancient Desertification The Archeological Treasures By Mark Lehner Egyptian Temples The Wadi Faynan Landscape of Saudi Arabia A sumptuously illustrated survey By Marsha Hill Survey, Southern Jordan Edited by Joachim Gierlichs which provides information on each The images to which the title refers By Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson and Ute Franke one of Egypt’s pyramids. It explores are metal Egyptian anthropomorphic and David J. Mattingly This beautifully illustrated volume the legends surrounding them, the statues designed for use in a religious explores the archaeology of the Saudi activities of archaeologists, the towns An inter-disciplinary study of context. The accompanying essays landscape change in the Wadi Faynan, Arabia, providing both a chronological which grew around them, the priests place the works in context, offering overview and a diachronic and servants who had responsibility for them, and with the goal of contributing to a detailed historical survey, together with notes on present-day desertification debates by providing a examination its place as a hub of trade, pilgrimage most of all the construction and craftsmanship of the their production and use and reports on the statuary at and cultural exchange. As well as presenting some structures themselves long-term perspective on the relationship between specific sites. environmental change and human history. 400 objects from Neolithic arrowheads to Ottoman 256pp, Thames and Hudson, 1997, Paperback, was £14.95 240pp, Yale University Press, 2007, Hardback, was £25.00 manuscripts, the substantial text forms an ideal guide to 510pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2008, the region's archaeology. Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £70.00 308pp, col illus, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2012, Paperback, Now £10.00 was £45.00 Now £14.95

The Egyptians Hacksilber to Coinage Crossing the Rift A Quest in the Middle By Cyril Aldred New Insights into the Monetary Resources, Settlements Patterns East A revised and updated edition of History of the Near East and Greece and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah Gertrude Bell and the Cyril Aldred’s classic text. The text By Miriam S. Balmuth By Piotr Bienkowski and Making of Modern Iraq retains its original lucidity, while new Katharina Galor discoveries and ideas have been taken Ancient Near Eastern hoards of By Liora Lukitz into account, the dating revised, new randomly shaped silver pieces, The Wadi Arabah falls between the Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell photographs and a chronology added, generically called Hacksilber, have two areas of southern Jordan and was a commanding figure: scholar, and the bibliography amended and come increasingly to be interpreted Negev, and has traditionally been linguist, archaeologist, traveller expanded. as hoards of pre-coinage currency. seen as a barrier and border. This and "orientalist". This book offers These papers present new insights into the circulation book (and the conference it came out of) is an attempt 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 1998, Paperback, was £9.95 a contribution to the study of Bell's colourful life - and use of these hoards, drawing on new scientific and to look at this neglected area anew: bridge, rather than exploring the personal passions, desires and relationships Now £3.95 documentary analyses. barrier. that drove her. 136pp, American Numismatic Society, 2001, Hardback, was 288pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2006, 328pp, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2006, Hardback, was £31.00 £30.00 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 Now £8.95 Now £10.00

The Eternal Light of Preliminary Excavations by K M Scriptural Geography Egypt Excavation Reports Kenyon in Jerusalem, Portraying the Holy Land By Sarite Sanders Sardis, Idalion, and Tell El- Volume 4 By Edwin James Aiken This book of stunning black and Handaquq North The Iron Age Cave Deposits For nineteenth century scholars white photography captures a sense By W. G. Dever By Itzak Eshel and K. Prag the Holy Land was not just a region of timelessness, calm and stillness This volume reports on excavations of the globe - it was an idea, an about Egypt’s ancient monuments. This volume concentrates on finds intellectual and moral space charged The photographs are set alongside at Sardis, 1992 and 1993, on two Late outside the walls of the Iron Age city, Roman Wells at Sardis, on the site of with the heat of debate between quotations from ancient sources and and particularly on the enigmatic, those trying to understand the the thoughts of more modern travellers to Egypt, and Idalion in Cyprus and on early town pottery-rich depositis in Caves I and development and water management in the Jordan Valley. religious, social and scientific upheavals of the time. the photos themselves seem to consciously reference II to the south east of the city. Eshel’s analysis of the Edwin Aiken explores the various ways in which the drawings and etchings of the nineteenth century, 154pp, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1996, pottery leads him to suggest a 7th-century BC date. geographical knowledge was used in these debates. Hardback, was £60.00 adding an enigmatic slant to the remains. 278pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 1995, 256pp, b/w illus, I.B. Tauris, 2009, Hardback, was £59.00 219pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, Hardback, was £24.95 Now £6.95 Hardback, was £45.00 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

The Thames and Historical Topography Excavations by K. M. Archaeology and the Hudson Dictionary of of Samarra Kenyon in Jerusalem Land of the Bible Ancient Egypt By A. Northedge 1961-1967 10,000 - 586 BCE By Toby A. H. Wilkinson Northedge sets out to explain the Volume V Edited by Amihai Mazar This new illustrated dictionary history and development of this By K. Prag An overview of the archaelogical enormous site, 45 km long, using both provides a comprehensive, Describes the discoveries made research in the land of the Bible. authoritative reference guide to archaeological and textual sources Israeli archaeologist Amihai Mazar to weave a new interpretation of in six sites in the ancient city and an endlessly fascinating subject. It places them in the archaeological­ and introduces the achievements of the covers queens and courtiers, gods how the city worked: its four caliphal research in Israel and Jordan and palaces, four Friday mosques, cantonments for the historical context of Jerusalem and and goddesses, temples and tombs, as well as literature, the surrounding lands. Issues include the extent of the discusses the implications for our knowledge of the language and medicine. military and for the palace servants, houses for the men world of the Old Testament. The volume covers the of state and generals. occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the location 272pp, Thames and Hudson, 2005, Paperback, was £9.95 of the southern defence line in Herodian and Roman period starting with the first permanent settlements 426pp, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2008, times, and the date of the destruction of an Umayyad around 10,000 BCE, and ends with the destruction of Now £4.95 Paperback, was £40.00 palatial structure. the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. Now £10.00 592pp, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2008, 572pp, Lutterworth Press, 1990, Hardback, was £42.00 Hardback, was £75.00 Now £9.95 Now £15.00 14 • EGYPT AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Megiddo Towards Reflexive Nishapur Revisited The Neolithisation of By Graham I. Davies and Method in Stratigraphy and Ceramics Iran Graham Davies Archaeology of the Qohandez Edited by Roger Matthews During the past eighty years German, The Example of Catalhöyuk By Rocco Rante and Annabelle Collinet and Hassan Fazeli Nashli American and Israeli archaeologists By Ian Hodder The Irano-French archaeological These studies, many of them by have uncovered the remains of the Iranian scholars, consider patterns The aim of the volume is to mission at Nishapur (2004-07) ancient city of Megiddo. Davies of change and/or continuity across a discuss some of the reflexive or focused on the Qohandez, or citadel. provides a comprehensive and variety of topographical landscapes; postprocessual methods that have After an introduction to the site this illustrated account of these finds investigate Neolithic settlement been introduced at Catalhoyuk in book presents the stratigraphy and and the vigorous debates about patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and the work there since 1993. These methods involve the pottery of the site. The combination of the data from their interpretation. It includes chapters about the environmental indicators and present new insights into reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or stratigraphical and laboratory analyses gives an accurate interpretation and geographical setting of the site, the and completely new chronology of the site. some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The different expeditions which have worked there, and the relationality. 144pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £40.00 results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the history of the city from before 3000BC until Roman 300pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, transition to sedentary farming. times. 2000, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £7.95 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Paperback, was £40.00 128pp, Lutterworth Press, 1986, Paperback, was £19.75 Now £14.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

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Çatalhöyuk Cyprus: An island Siraf State Correspondence Perspectives culture History, Topography and Environment in the Ancient World Themes from the 1995-99 Seasons Society and Social Relations from the By Cameron A. Petrie, David Whitehouse, From New Kingdom Egypt By Ian Hodder Bronze Age to the Venetian Period Donald Whitcomb and T. J. Wilkinson to the Roman Empire This volume, number six in the Edited by Artemis Georgiou Siraf played a leading role in the Edited by Karen Radner Çatalhöyük Research Project series, This volume presents a diversity network of maritime trade that This book introduces the reader draws on material from Volumes 3 to of excavation, material culture, supplied Western Asia with the to the state correspondences of 5 to deal with broad themes. Data iconographic and linguistic evidence products of India, the Far East and centralized states and empires of the from architecture and excavation to explore the themes of ancient Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and Mediterranean and the Middle East contexts are linked into broader discussion of topics landscape, settlement and society; religion, cult and 1050. This volume synthesises the written evidence of from the 15th century BC to the 6th century AD, and such as seasonality, art and social memory. iconography; and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean. the history of Siraf, and introduces the results of seven analyses their role in ensuring the success and stability of seasons of excavation and survey. 246pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £52.00 these geographically extensive state systems. 2006, Hardback, was £39.00 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £45.00 Now £9.95 320pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hardback, was Now £12.95 Now £14.95 £51.00 Now £19.95

Changing Materialities Forces of South-Eastern The Troad at Çatalhöyuk Transformation Mediterranean An Archaeological and Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons The End of the Bronze Age Peoples Between Topographical Study By Ian Hodder in the Mediterranean 130,000 and 10,000 By J. M. Cook Discusses the changing materiality­ of Edited by Christoph Bachhuber Years Ago A study of the Troad, the region in life at the site over its 1100 years of and Gareth Roberts Edited by Elena A. A. Garcea which Troy was situated, based on the occupation. It includes­ a discussion of This volume presents new author's fieldwork between 1960 and ceramics and other fired clay material, This book highlights and synthesizes­ 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts interpretive approaches to the the latest research and current chipped stone, groundstone, worked problems of the Bronze Age to Iron of more recent travellers, maps and bone and basketry. scientific debate on the archaeology of the Pleistocene archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of Age transformation, as well as re-assessments of a wide in North Africa and the Near East. range of high profile sites and evidence ranging from the patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to 506pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the present day. 2006, Hardback, was £59.00 Ugaritic archives, Hazor, the Medinet Habu reliefs, Tiryns 192pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £55.00 and Troy. 443pp, Oxford University Press, 1973, Hardback, was Now £14.95 Now £9.95 236pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £38.00 £19.99 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Excavations at Tell Knowledge is Light The Development of Wars of the Maccabees Brak 4 Travellers in the Near East Pre-State By John D. Grainger Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Edited by Katherine Salahi Communities in the Explains the causes of the revolt Regional Centre, 1994-1996. Essays which explore the experience Ancient Near East and traces the course of the various of travel in Egypt and the Near East campaigns of the Maccabees, first By Roger Matthews and Studies in Honour of against the Seleucids and then the Wendy Matthews from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Edgar Peltenburg The book features travellers of great Romans who captured Jerusalem in Provides an account of the character who visited Egypt and the Edited by Diane Bolger and 63BC and partitioned the kingdom. architecture, artefacts, and environ­ Near East seeking trade, adventure Louise C. Maguire The last chapters consider the mental evidence, supported­ by a and knowledge. continued Jewish resistance to Roman program of radiocarbon dating. The results emphasize This book explores the dynamics of small-scale societies rule and factional fighting, until the crowning of Herod, the indigenous nature of cultural development in Upper 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £20.00 in the ancient Near East by examining the ways in which marked the end of the Hasmonean dynasty. Mesopotamia during the early 4th to 2nd millennia BC particular communities functioned and interacted and Now £4.95 by moving beyond the broad neo-evolutionary models 224pp, b/w pls, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2011, Hardback, 512pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, of social change which have characterised many earlier was £19.99 2003, Hardback, was £75.00 approaches. Now £7.95 Now £19.95 256pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £9.95

Inhabiting Çatalhöyuk Living the Lunar The Earliest Neolithic Nineveh and Its Reports from the 1995-99 seasons Calendar of Iran Remains By Ian Hodder Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne 2008 Excavations at By Austen Henry Layard Deals with various aspects of the Horowitz and John M. Steele Sheikh-E Abad and Jani Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94) habitation of Çatalhöyük, including The papers in this volume address the Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy carried out major excavations in the relationship between the site question of how ancient and medieval Matthews and Yaghoub Mohammadifar Mesopotamia between 1845 and and its environment, diet, lifestyle societies lived with the uncertainties 1851, uncovering important evidence and population size, and ways in of a lunar calendar, and the effects it Describes the excavation of two Early of ancient Assyrian civilisation. which houses and open spaces in the had on administration, record keeping Neolithic mounds: Sheikh-e Abad First published in 1849, his journals settlement were lived in. and the planning of festivals. They address this topic from in the high Zagros and Jani, in the form a mixture of excavation report, ancient history, the perspectives of a variety of Ancient Near Eastern, foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising anthropology and travel writing. 446pp, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation 2005, Hardback, was £60.00 Jewish, Ancient and Medieval European, Asian and 518pp, Skyhorse Publishing, 2013, Paperback, was £14.95 American cultures. spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for diachronic and spatial analyses. Now £4.95 Now £14.95 350pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £34.00 224pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £42.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ANCIENT NEAR EAST • 15 Arabia Felix Neo-Sumerian Stone Vessels and Escaping the Labyrinth An Exploration of the Account Texts from Values in the Bronze The Cretan Neolithic in Context Archaeological History of Yemen Drehem Age Mediterranean By Valasia Isaakidou and P. Tomkins By Alessandro de Maigret Edited by Shin Theke Kang and By Andrew Bevan Thirteen papers explore two aspects Yemen's archaeological treasures Clarence Elwood Keiser Andrew Bevan explores this diverse of the Cretan Neolithic: the results tell the story of a rich pre- The mound of Drehem was occupied and prolific industry in all its many of recent re-analysis of a range of Islamic civilisation of international for only a short period of time facets, bringing some clarity to an bodies of material from J.D. Evans’ significance. Alessandro de Maigret, toward the end of the second artefact which has the potential to excavations at EN-FN Knossos; and doyen of the archaeologists of the millennium BC, and served as a depot reveal much about the nature of new insights into the Cretan Late and region, sifts through all the archaeological evidence for the many payments in kind to which the kings of Bronze Age production, the function and use of certain Final Neolithic and the contentious belated colonisation to present a definitive account of the evolution of a Ur subjected their people. The more than 600 texts objects, the movement of people, ideas and goods, as of the rest of the island, drawing on both new and old civilisation of high significance. published in this volume all emanate from Drehem, and well as the value ascribed to such objects, all of which fieldwork. 384pp, b/w illus, Stacey International, 2009, Hardback, was throw light on the political, religious, and economic life are covered in the book. 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Paperback, was £30.00 £19.95 of the neo-Sumerian period. 301pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Hardback, was Now £9.95 Now £7.95 192pp, Yale University Press, 1977, Hardback, was £40.00 £79.99 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

Copper Scroll Studies STEGA From Ishtar to Exotica in the Edited by George J. Brooke The Archaeology of Houses and Aphrodite Prehistoric and Philip R. Davies Households in Ancient Crete 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism Mediterranean These papers cover the history of the Edited by Kevin T. Glowacki and Edited by S. Hadjisavvas Edited by Andrea Vianello Scroll’s interpretation; how it should Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan be conserved, restored and read; An exhibition highlighting the This book examines how exotic how it was produced; the meaning The 38 papers presented here range influence of Hellenism on ancient materials were exchanged and used of its technical terms; its genre; from a discussion of household Cyprus. Essays discuss themes across the Mediterranean from the its geography; its correlation with activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos such as the importance of Cyprus Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing archaeological remains; and not least to the domestic correlates of in Mediterranean trading routes, on the Bronze Age. A variety of who wrote it, when and why. “globalization” during the early Roman Empire. They ashlar architecture and tomb finds that provide a vivid materials and interpretative approaches are presented demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches glimpse into the sophistication of societies in Bronze through several case studies. These emphasise how the 344pp, T and T Clark, 2004, Paperback, was £42.99 currently employed for understanding houses and Age Cyprus, as well as the importance of Cyprus in the value of exotic materials depended on the context in Now £9.95 household activities. Ptolemaic period. which they were consumed. 520pp, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 146pp, Hellenic Museums Shop, 2003, Paperback, was 216pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £34.00 2011, Paperback, was £50.00 £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £24.95 Now £3.95

Dictionary of the Intermezzo Warships of the On the Margins of Ancient Near East Intermediacy and Regeneration Ancient World, 3000- Southwest Asia By Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard in Middle Minoan II Crete 500 BC Cyprus during the 6th More than 500 cross-referenced Edited by Colin F. Macdonald By Adrian K. Wood to 4th Millennia BC entries in one compact volume, and Carl Knappett Covering a vast sweep, this well- By Joanne Clarke presenting explanations and These papers cover most key sites illustrated book provides a concise descriptions of all manner of This book examines social change where Middle Minoan III occupation exploration of pre-Classical naval in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th subjects from the Palaeolithic to has been identified. The aim has been warfare in the Mediterranean. Adrian 539 BC: architecture, literature and millennia BC. It is proposed that to rehabilitate Middle Minoan III as a Wood examines the vessels, naval many of the observable differ­ences literary works, religion, social and political institutions, dynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, in order to techniques and strategy, and prominent engagements archaeological sites, notable personalities, and so on. Also between mainland southwest­ Asia and Cyprus during provide a better understanding of socio-political change fought by the Egyptians, Minoans, Hittites, Phoenicians this period are the result of divergent adaptive strategies includes maps, chronological summaries, plans, drawings across the island and beyond in the latter part of the and Greeks. and reconstructions. in response to different environmental conditions, low Middle Bronze Age. 48pp, b/w and col illus, Osprey, 2013, Paperback, was £9.99 population density and low resource stress. 342pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, Paperback, 227pp, British School at Athens, 2013, Hardback, was 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hardback, was £45.00 was £23.00 £79.00 Now £3.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £19.95

Lost Treasures of the Palaikastro Block M Back to the Beginning Textile Production in Bible The Proto- and Reassessing Social and Political Pre-Roman Italy By Clyde E. Fant and Mitchell G. Reddish Neopalatial Town Complexity on Crete during the By Margarita Gleba Early and Middle Bronze Age This book describes and analyses By Carl Knappett and Tim Cunningham This book examines the over one hundred artefacts on display Block M is a substantial architectural Edited by I. Schoep, P. Tomkins archaeological evidence for textile in museums around the world, linking complex comprising three large and J. M. Driessen production in Italy from the transition them into a roughly chronological buildings at the heart of the These papers re-evaluate our between the Bronze Age and Early overview of Ancient Near Eastern Minoan town of Palaikastro. These theories and models and ask anew Iron Ages until the Roman expansion history. investigations have helped to elucidate what we really know about social (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on 471pp, b/w illus, col pls, William B. Eerdmans, 2008, the character of this important town during the Middle and political complexity on Crete from the end of the both the process of technological development and the Paperback, was £21.99 and early Late Bronze Ages, and offer valuable evidence Neolithic to Middle Minoan II (c.3600-1750/00 BC). emergence of large urban centres with specialised crafts Now £9.95 for relations between eastern Crete and sites in the 352pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £40.00 280pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Hardback, was £40.00 centre of the island such as Knossos. Now £14.95 338pp, British School at Athens, 2012, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £115.00 Now £29.95

Piety and Politics The Pottery from Chariots and Other Athlone History of The Dynamics of Royal Authority Karphi Wheeled Vehicles in Witchcraft and Magic in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, By Leslie Preston Day Italy Before the in Europe Volume 2 and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia The site of Karphi, high above the Roman Empire Ancient Greece and Rome By Dale Launderville Lasithi plateau, remains one of By J. H. Crouwel By Valerie I. J. Flint, Richard Gordon, Focusing on Homeric Greece, Biblical the most extensively investigated settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; This book presents evidence for Georg Luck and Daniel Ogden Israel, and Old Meso-potamia, this transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy comparative and thematic study it was excavated by the British School Contains essays on: curse tablets and at Athens under the direction of before the Roman Imperial period. voodoo dolls (D Ogden); witches assesses the role of the king as a The major part is concerned with divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety John Pendlebury in 1937-39. This volume now presents and sorcerers in Classical literature (G Luck); Imagining a thorough study of the Karphi pottery, much hitherto the vehicles themselves - two-wheeled chariots and Greek and Roman magic (R Gordon); Demonisation of to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of carts and four-wheeled wagons - their construction, the his subjects. unpublished, accompanied by copious new drawings and magic and sorcery in Late Antiquity (V Flint). photographs. ways in which their draught animals were harnessed and 407pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2003, Hardback, was £75.00 controlled, and the uses to which the equipages were 395pp, Athlone Press, 1999, Paperback, was £34.99 392pp, British School at Athens, 2011, Hardback, was put. Now £7.95 Now £14.95 £95.00 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £48.00 Now £9.50 Now £9.95

Qumran and Social Archaeology of Communicating The Classical World Jerusalem Households in Identity in Italic Iron An Epic History from Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls Neolithic Greece Age Communities Homer to Hadrian and the History of Judaism By Stella Souvati Edited by Margarita Gleba By Robin Lane Fox By Lawrence H. Schiffman Using detailed case studies from and Helle W. Horsnaes This new history takes a Although the Dead Sea Scrolls Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi Explores the many and varied chronological approach, encompassing preserve the peculiar ideology of the examines how the household is identities of the Italic peoples of the the entire breadth of the classical Qumran sect, much of the material defined socially, culturally, and Iron Age, and how specific objects, world, from archaic Greece to the also represents the common beliefs historically; she discusses household places and ideas might have been height of Imperial Rome. Robin Lane and practices of the Judaism of the time. Here Lawrence and community, variability, production and reproduction, involved in generating, mediating and communicating Fox makes this enormous topic endlessly fascinating, Schiffman mines these incredible documents to reveal individual and collective agency, identity, change, these identities. A wide range of evidence is discussed his narrative is engaging and amusing, and the move their significance for the reconstruction of the history of complexity, and integration. including funerary iconography, grave offerings, pottery, away from a thematic structure makes the book wholly Judaism, as well as exploring aspects of law, religion and 309pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was vase-painting, coins, spindles and distaffs and the approachable. literature in the Qumran sect itself and its relation to £66.00 excavation of settlements. 672pp, b/w illus, Basic Books, 2008, Paperback, was £16.99 and relations with wider Judaism. Now £19.95 228pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hardback, was £38.00 Now £6.95 500pp, William B. Eerdmans, 2010, Paperback, was £26.99 Now £9.95 Now £9.95 16 • THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN PREHISTORY WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Masterpieces of Reading Ancient Gender: Antiquity and Mercenaries in the Classical Art Slavery its Legacy Classical World By Dyfri Williams By Richard Alston By Brooke Holmes By Stephen English 158 artefacts from the British Twelve essays develop a variety In this short, lively book, the author A study of the developing role of Museum's world class Classical of theoretical positions, reading offers a sophisticated and historically mercenary troops in the armies of collections are beatifully presented in practices and interpretive strategies rounded reading of gender in Greece and Persia, as well as the this full colour book. The text draws for recovering the psychological, antiquity in order to map out the Greek city states in Sicily and Magna out significant and unusual features of emotional and social impact of future of contemporary gender Grecia. Stephen English first explores the works, discusses their historical ancient slavery. Subjects include studies. By re-examining ancient methods, rates and regularity of and archaeological context and in some cases acquisition Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman notions of sexual difference, bodies, culture, and identity, payment, as well as the parallel place of plunder, before and conservation. poetry and imperial Roman dream interpretation. Holmes shows that Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans setting out a chronological discussion of the employment 360pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2009, Hardback, was 320pp, Duckworth, 2011, Paperback, was £25.00 and others force us to reassess what is at stake in and deployment of mercenaries, alongside the overall present-day discussions about gender. growing professionalism of warfare. £19.99 Now £9.95 213pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Paperback, was 192pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £16.99 £19.99 Now £5.95 Now £7.95

Cambridge World Common Ground Politics: Antiquity and Snakes, Sands and History of Slavery, Archaeology, Art, Science and Its Legacy Silphium Volume 1 Humanities: The Proceedings of By Kostas Vlassopoulos Travels in Classical Libya the 16th International Congress The Ancient Mediterranean World This concise volume deftly examines By Paul Wright of Classical Archaeology By Keith R. Bradley and Paul Cartledge the impact of Classical political This collection of extracts from By Carol C. Mattusch and A. A. Donohue thinking on subsequent generations A detailed survey of slavery in classical authors on subjects relating This volume contains over 150 papers of politicians and theorists down to ancient Libya presents more than the ancient Mediterranean world. to our own day. Vlassopoulos Although chapters are devoted to presented at the Classical Congress fifty writers from Homer to the end held in Boston, Massachussetts in produces a nuanced and on occasion of the Roman Empire and provides the ancient Near East and the Jews, surprising argument, showing that reception is rarely its principal concern is with the societies of ancient August 2003. an eclectic mixture of descriptions of Libya, its people, straightforward, and that the lessons and theory drawn flora, fauna, climate, geography and episodes in its history Greece and Rome. In twenty-two chapters, leading 640pp, Oxbow Books, 2006, Hardback, was £90.00 from aspects of the Classical tradition are seldom scholars explore the centrality of slavery in ancient as presented by politicians, poets, philosophers, priests, Now £24.95 consistent, just as the idea a Classical tradition is itself historians and soldiers, both native and foreign. Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and a modern imposition on an originally diverse body of material evidence. thought. 272pp, Silphium Press, 2011, Paperback, was £15.00 620pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Hardback, was 168pp, I.B. Tauris, 2009, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £5.95 £130.00 Now £4.95 Now £39.95 Critical Moments in Graeco-Roman Slave Race: Antiquity and Its Panorama of the Classical Literature Markets Legacy Classical World By Richard Hunter Fact or Fiction? By Denise McCloskey By Nigel Jonathan Spivey Through a series of innovative critical By Monika Truemper As Denise McCoskey shows, the Avoiding the chronological format readings Richard Hunter builds a This book critically examines the ancient Greeks and Romans did that is usual in this type of broad picture of how the ancients discussed existence and identification of not use skin colour as the basis for survey, this panorama adopts a the meaning of literary works and purpose-built slave markets in the categorising ethnic disparity. In fifth thematic approach, looking at how their importance in society. Attention Graeco-Roman world from a cross- century Athens, racial theory during men and women lived their lives and is given both to the development of cultural perspective. It investigates the Persian Wars produced the constructed the world around them a history of criticism, as far as our sources allow, and to whether certain ancient monuments were designed categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal for over a thousand years. The scholarly yet accessible the constant recurrence of similar themes across the specifically for use as slave markets and whether they opposition to one another: a process that could be as narrative is supported by many colour photographs of centuries. required special equipment and safety precautions, intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own Greek and Roman works of art, of buildings and ruins, 217pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Hardback, was allowing them to be clearly distinguished from other age. portraits and artefacts, as well as numerous extracts £64.99 nonspecific commercial buildings and marketplaces. 250pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Paperback, was from contemporary sources. Now £14.95 160pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £35.00 £12.99 368pp, Thames and Hudson, 2004, Paperback, was £18.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Domestic Space in KOINE Religion: Antiquity and The Seventy Wonders Classical Antiquity Mediterranean Studies in Its Legacy of the Ancient World By Lisa C. Nevett Honor of R. Ross Holloway By Jörg Rupke By Christopher Scarre Housing is shaped by culturally- Edited by Derek Counts Examining such topics as the Expanding on the traditional seven specific expectations about the kinds and Anthony Tuck functions of priests and religious wonders of the world, this book of architecture and furnishings that 24 papers grouped in four sections: I. functionaries; religious individualism; presents seventy examples of ancient are appropriate; about how and A View of Classical Art: Iconography the relationship between religion 'wonders' including the Great Temple where different activities should be in Context; II. Crossroads of and political identity; the acceptance of the Aztecs, Stonehenge, the Nazca carried out; and by and with whom. It the Mediterranean: Cultural of the pagan Julian calendar by lines in Peru, the Egyptian obelisks, is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as Christians; and contrasting ancient and modern the Colossal Buddha of Bamiyan. systems of which they are a part, that are explored in Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery understandings of divination, Rupke shows that study of 304pp, Thames and Hudson, 1999, Hardback, was £24.95 this volume. and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation. pre-modern culture enables us more daringly to explore the contemporary religious world. Now £9.95 178pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Paperback, was 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £45.00 £24.99 192pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Paperback, was Now £9.95 Now £6.95 £12.99 Now £4.95

Performance and Rough Cilicia Slavery: Antiquity and Persian Fire Identity in the New Historical and Its Legacy The First World Empire and Classical World Archaeological Approaches By Page Dubois the Battle for the West By Anne Duncan Edited by Michael C. Hoff As well as detailing the practical By Tom Holland This study traces attitudes towards and Rhys F. Townsend aspects of slavery through the ages, A stylish popular narrative history of actors in Greek and Roman culture The region of Rough Cilicia (modern duBois sets aside the majority of the the Persian Wars, with the focus far as a means of understanding ancient area the south-western coastal work for discussion of theoretical more traditionally Greek than the conceptions of, and anxieties about, area of Turkey), known in antiquity issues, such as the definition of title might suggest. the self. Numerous sources reveal as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the slavery, and ancient and modern conceptions of slavery and freedom. She attempts as far 447pp, col pls, Abacus, 2011, an uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. The twenty- Paperback, was £12.99 writings of elite intellectuals to the abundant theatrical two papers presented here give a useful overview on as is possible to present the experience of slavery in the anecdotes that can be read as a body of “popular current research on the region, from the Bronze Age to words of slaves as much as masters, exploring tactics of Now £4.95 performance theory”. the Byzantine period, with a variety of methods, from resistance and revolt. 242pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Hardback, was surveys to excavations. 154pp, Oxford University Press, 2010, Paperback, was £69.99 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £65.00 £12.99 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £4.95

Theatrokratia From Polypragmon to The Art of the Body: Ancient Greek Pottery Collected Papers on the Politics and Curiosus Antiquity and Its By Michael Vickers Staging of Greco-Roman Tragedy Ancient Concepts of Curious Legacy This full colour guide showcases By William M. Calder III and Meddlesome Behaviour By Michael Squire a selection of vessels from the Ashmolean's collection. Most of The volume gathers for the first time By Matthew Leigh This book tackles the wide-ranging the pots were made in Corinth and thirty-five scattered articles by Calder study of how Greek and Latin writers legacy of Classical depictions of Athens and transported to Italy published 1958-1998 concerned describe curious, meddlesome, and the body: it explores the complex and Sicily where they served as with the political content of selected exaggerated behaviour. Founded on relationship between Graeco-Roman grave offerings. Many are decorated tragedies and their staging from a detailed investigation of a family of images of the body and subsequent with figures, which give an insight Thespis to Seneca. Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each western engagements with them, from the Byzantine into Greek religion, warfare, sport, party-going and 434pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2006, Paperback, was £50.00 other, and of the Latin words used to describe them, icon to Venice Beach (and back again). craftmanship. Now £14.95 opening chapters survey how they were used in Greek Oxford University Press, 2011, Paperback, was £12.99 80pp, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1999, Paperback, and latin literature, while later chapters adopt a more was £7.95 thematic approach. Now £4.95 262pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was Now £3.95 £61.00 Now £19.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM THE CLASSICAL WORLD • 17 Athens The Conquests of Archaic Korai Mysteries of the A History Alexander the Great By Katerina Karakasi Oracles By Robin Waterfield By Waldeman Heckel Karakasi explores the meanings and By Philipp Vandenberg In this well-written and accessible Heckel provides a revisionist functions of these figures, as well as In a first person narrative Philipp study, Robin Waterfield describes overview of the conquests of the historical and cultural contexts Vandenberg recounts his travels the `tragic drama’ that is Athenian Alexander the Great. Emphasising in which they were produced. She to the sites of the fifteen ancient history, focusing on the events of 480 the aims and impact of his presents a survey of all the known oracles, and explores the history of to 340 BC. This is not a conventional military expeditions, the political korai in existence and catalogues archaeological research, as well as narrative history, although consequences of military action, valuable information about the korai’s how the oracles functioned and how chronological discussions are included, instead, Robin and the use of propaganda, both for motivation and sizes, conditions and materials, as they were perceived by contemporaries. well as the sculptors who made them. Also included is Waterfield focuses on key themes as well as the people justification, Heckel rejects notions of Alexander as 291pp, I.B. Tauris, 2007, Paperback, was £11.99 who shaped Athenian history and formed its legacy. irrational, showing that his aims were in accord with a discussion of the motives and social positions of the patrons who commissioned them. Now £4.95 410pp, Basic Books, 2004, Hardback, was £19.99 those of the military aristocracy which backed them. 240pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Paperback, was 470pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2003, Hardback, was Now £5.95 £12.99 £105.00 Now £4.95 Now £39.95

The Acropolis Sociable Man Meals and Recipes Morality and Custom Global Fame, Local Claim Essays on Ancient Greek Social from Ancient Greece in Ancient Greece By Eleana Yalouri Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher By Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti By J. M. Dillon This book looks at the meaning of the Edited by S. D. Lambert This book combines an introductory A lively introductory survey of the Acropolis in contemporary Greece Themes include politics and law; social guide to food and drink in Ancient customs, attitudes and beliefs of and how the Greeks deal with the values, including honour, dishonour Greece, exploring both the cuisine the ancient Athenians, which draws national and international features of and hybris; social relations in the itself and its social context, with 56 primarily on literary sources to build their ancient classical heritage. Athenian navy; gender and power; recipes taken from ancient sources up a picture of daily life. Topics include 238pp, Berg Publishers, 2001, citizen identity, Athenian and Arcadian; and updated for the modern cook. the family, marriage, non-citizen Paperback, was £18.99 and sexuality. Quotations, principally from Athenaeus, are included women, inheritance, friendship, homosexual relationships, throughout. slavery, religion and more. Now £6.95 350pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2011, Hardback, was £62.00 122pp, b/w illus, Getty Trust Publications, 2007, Hardback, 217pp, Indiana University Press, 2004, Paperback, was was £16.99 £16.99 Now £19.95 Now £6.95 Now £6.95

The Body Beautiful in Sophocles and The Colors of Clay Sanctuary of Apollo Ancient Greece Alcibiades Special Techniques in Athenian Vases Hyoakraios and By Ian Jenkins and Victoria Turner Athenian Politics in Ancient By Beth Cohen Imperial Athens This sumptuously produced book Greek Literature This catalogue documents a major By Peter E. Nulton accompanied a touring exhibition of By Michael Vickers exhibition at the Getty Villa that was The Cave Sanctuary of Apollo on 100 works of Greek and Graceo- It has long been assumed that the first ever to focus on ancient the North Slope of the Acropolis at Roman art from the British Museum, Athenian terracotta vases made by Athens was investigated in 1896-97 which focus on Greek depictions of the plays of Sophocles were not intended to mirror political events in techniques other than the well- and produced a rich collection of the body and conceptions of beauty. known black- and red-figure styles. inscriptions relating to the cult. These An introduction explores the meaning of nudity in contemporary Athens, an assertion which Michael Vickers here sets about refuting. He looks The exhibition comprised vases executed in bilingual, inscriptions are published in full for the first time in this Greek art, while the artefacts are arranged thematically, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and work. allowing an examination of topics such as the divine specifically at Sophocles’ attitude towards Alcibiades, the most prominent and flamboyant Athenian politician Six’s technique, as well as examples with added clay and body, citizen and athlete, sex and desire and outsiders. gilding, and plastic vases and additions. 96pp, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient during the height of Sophocles’ career. World, 2003, Paperback, was £29.00 175pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2012, Hardback, was 376pp, Getty Trust Publications, 2008, Paperback, was £19.99 205pp, Cornell University Press, 2008, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £42.95 £34.99 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

A History of Greek Art Ambush Sicily The Gods of Olympus By Martin Robertson Surprise Attack in Ancient Art and Invention between A History Classic but never bettered this Greek Warfare Greece and Rome By Barbara Graziosi massive two volume work takes the By Rose Mary Sheldon Edited by Claire L Lyons, Michael This book traces the travels and reader through developments in Bennett and Clemente Marconi transformations of the Olympian Greek art from the archaic to the A reappraisal of the importance of irregular warfare in the strategy of This is a richly illustrated volume that Gods over more than two millenia, Hellenistic period. The coverage is from archaic Greek beginnings, chronological rather than thematic, the Ancient Greeks. Chapters cover demonstrates Sicily's essential role ambush tactics, night attacks, surprise in the development of the ancient through adaptation in Hellenistic allowing changes in style and focus Egypt and Imperial Rome, suvival as to be seen fully in their historical seaborne landings and the use of Mediterranean world. It focuses on trickery to capture towns and cities. the watershed period between 480 B.C. and the Roman demons, metaphors, allegories and astrological principles context. The second volume contains a full and under Christianity and Islam, to their rebirth as symbols beautifully selected array of illustrations. 322pp, Frontline Books, 2012, Hardback, was £25.00 conquest of Syracuse in 212 B.C. Essays investigate Sicily not simply as a destination for adventurers and settlers, of Renaissance humanism. 835pp, Cambridge University Press, 1975, Hardback, was Now £7.95 but as a catalyst that shaped Greek culture at its peak 290pp, b/w illus, Metropolitan Books, 2014, Hardback, was £194.99 and transmitted Hellenism to Rome. £18.99 Now £49.95 254pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2013, Hardback, was Now £7.95 £39.95 Now £14.95

Classical Greece and Sparta At War In the Footsteps of the Alexander the Great the Birth of Western Strategy, Tactics and Gods at War Art Campaigns, 950-362 BC Travellers to Greece and the By Ruth Sheppard By Andrew Stewart By Scott Rusch Quest for the Hellenic Ideal Nicely designed and well illustrated, This introductory guide provides Scott Rusch provides a narrative By David Constantine this book gathers together sections historical context for the ‘Classical history of Sparta's wars, not only of the many previous Osprey books With lively accounts of their on Alexander, linking them together revolution’ in art. Andrew Stewart describing the various campaigns adventurous journeys and vivid examines Greek architecture, painting, in detail, but also aiming to explain coherently with narrative and analysis descriptions of what they saw, by Ruth Sheppard. and sculpture of the fifth and fourth Sparta's rise to becoming the premier discovered, collected and published centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, Greek military power, her defeat of Persia and Athens, about the remains of ancient Greece, David Constantine 256pp, col illus, Osprey, 2008, Paperback, was £12.99 and her ultimately irreversible decline in the fourth cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. reveals the extraordinary effects that travellers' accounts Now £5.95 376pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Paperback, was century BC. had on the poets and scholars of the west, who in turn £19.99 272pp, b/w pls, Frontline Books, 2011, Hardback, was were influential in creating the idea and ideal of Greece, £25.00 which became such a powerful force in the arts and Now £7.95 Now £9.95 politics of the 18th and early 19th centuries. 264pp, I.B. Tauris, 2011, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £5.95

Plague and the Thucydides' War Land of Lost Gods Macedonian Armies Athenian Imagination Accounting for the Faces of Conflict The Search for Classical Greece After Alexander Drama, History and the By Neil Morpeth By Richard Stoneman 323-168 BC Cult of Asclepius This specialist study takes a close From Cyriac of Ancona to the By Nicholas Sekunda By Robin Mitchell-Boyask look at Thucydides’ use of numbers dawn of the age of archaeology In this brief guide to the armies of the This volume studies the impact of the - his estimations of the sizes of as a science, Richard Stoneman Hellenistic Age, Nicholas Sekunda first plague on Athenian tragedy early in armies and naval forces and of narrates the rediscovery of Greece's sketches the historical background, the 420s and argues for a significant troop movements. This information Classical remains. Drawing on the examines in turn the army staff, relationship between drama and the is presented in table form, with their own accounts he explores infantry and cavalry - their equipment, development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in a detailed commentary, and an extended critique of the achievements and motivations of travellers and organisation, recruitment and tactical deployment. concepts of scale in Thucydides antiquaries, and the enthusiasm for the Hellenic which the next decade, during a period of war and increasing 48pp, b/w and col illus, Osprey, 2012, Paperback, was £9.99 civic strife. 348pp, Georg Olms Verlag, 2006, Paperback, was £45.00 they rekindled in western culture. Now £4.95 224pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Hardback, was Now £12.95 384pp, b/w pls, I.B. Tauris, 2010, Paperback, was £11.99 £69.99 Now £5.95 Now £19.95

18 • GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Pylos and Sphacteria After Thermopylae The Rise of the Greek The Spartan Way 425 BC The Oath of Plataea and the End Aristocratic Banquet By Nic Fields By William Shepherd of the Graeco-Persian Wars By Marek Wecowski For a period of some 200 years, A well illustrated look at the Pylos By Paul Cartledge A comprehensive account of the Sparta was acknowledged throughout and Sphacteria campaign, a devastating Paul Cartledge provides a fascination origins of the symposion and its the Greek world as the home of the defeat for Sparta, and a major dent re-examination of the Battle of Platea, close relationship with the rise of the finest soldiers. Nic Fields explains the in their military reputation. The text its decisive end to the Persian wars, Greek city-state or polis. Cultural reasons for this superiority, how their reviews the Peloponnesian War up and the struggle between Athens skills and abilities were a prerequisite reputation for invincibility was earned to that point, profiles the opposing and Sparta over their memory. He in order for one to be included in (and deliberately manipulated) and armies and commanders, and narrates the course of the examines the Oath of Platea made before the battle and elite drinking circles, and, as such, the symposion served how it was ultimately shattered. action. how it illuminates the propaganda wars between Athens as a forum for the natural selection of Greek aristocracy. 208pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, was 96pp, col illus, Osprey, 2013, Paperback, was £14.99 and Sparta. 472pp, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hardback, was £25.00 £95.00 Now £5.95 240pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £16.99 Now £39.95 Now £6.95

Salamis 480 BC Age of Titans The Rule of Law in Sparta's Kings By William Shepherd By William M. Murray Action in Democratic By John Carr Using archaeological evidence, and In what has been described as Athens In ancient Greece, Sparta was findings from reconstructed triremes, an ancient naval arms race, the By Edward M. Harris unique in having a dual kingship - as well as the narrative in Herodotus, successors of Alexander produced two kings from different clans, the this lavishly illustrated book offers a the largest warships of antiquity, some Harris examines how the Athenians Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning solid general history of the Salamis as long as 400 feet carrying as many attempted to enforce and apply the simultaneously. John Carr offers a campaign. Shepherd introduces the as 4000 rowers and 3000 marines. law when judging disputes in court. chronological account of the kings background to the Persian invasion, Representing the fruits of more than He reveals that the Athenians were and their accomplishments (or looks at Greek and Persian naval thirty years of research, The Age of much more sophisticated in their lack thereof), from the founding equipment, tactics and organisation, and finally examines Titans provides the most vibrant account to date of approach to law than many modern scholars have Herakleidai clan to Kleomenes III and his successor, the the course of the famous battle itself. Hellenistic naval warfare. assumed, but also examines the weaknesses of their dictator Nabis, and the Roman conquest in the middle of legal system and its contribution to their defeat in the the 2nd century BC. 96pp, col illus, Osprey, 2010, Paperback, was £14.99 384pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, Peloponnesian War. was £32.99 256pp, b/w pls, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, Now £5.95 496pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was was £19.99 Now £14.95 £51.00 Now £7.95 Now £14.95

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Trireme Olympias Invention of Greek Alcibiades Twilight of the The Final Report Ethnography Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor Hellenistic World Edited by Boris Rankov By Joseph Skinner By P. J. Rhodes By Mike Roberts and Bob Bennett This volume represents the final Greek ethnography is commonly Famed for his wealth, good looks and A military history of the complex publication of the Olympias project, believed to have developed during charisma as well as his relationship series of conflicts between the which saw the building of a full-scale the Greeks’ “encounter with the with Socrates, Alcibiades has attracted Hellenistic states in the generation reconstruction of a 170-oared barbarian” - Achaemenid Persia. the attention of many historians. P.J. before the interventions of the Athenian trireme of the 4th century Skinner argues that, on the contrary, Rhodes, a distinguished specialist Romans. The authors describe BC and its operation in sea-trials. As ethnographic discourse was already in Greek history, offers a lively and Macedon’s war with Cleomenes well as presenting evidence from the project the papers ubiquitous throughout the archaic Greek world, not thorough account of his life, his love-hate relationship III and the final crushing of Sparta as an independent here offer a critical analysis, suggest improvements that only in the form of texts but also in a wide range of with Athens, and the turbulent times in which he lived. power; and the campaigns in the east through which could be made to the trireme, and discuss the light it iconographic and archaeological materials. 143pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Antiochus became known as ‘the Great’. sheds on the functioning of Greek warships. 343pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £19.99 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, was £55.00 £19.99 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £9.95 Now £16.95 Now £19.95 Now £7.95

A Culture of Freedom The Ancient Olympics Expedition to Disaster Wars of Alexander's Ancient Greece and the By Nigel Jonathan Spivey The Athenian Expedition Successors, Volume Origins of Europe Nigel Spivey reveals that the to Sicily 415 BC One By Christian Meier ancient games was no friendly By Philip Matyszak Commanders and Campaigns competition and celebration of unity In this beautifully written book, and togetherness as the modern A gripping narrative history of the By Bob Bennett and Mike Roberts summing up a life-time's research, Athenian expedition to Sicily and its Olympics promotes, but a contest of This first volume introduces the key Christian Meier enquires into the intense rivalry with great kudos to be decisive defeat. Philip Matyszak first origins of the Greek achievement, examines the context of the Athenian personalities - characters such as won or lost. The place of athletics and Antigonos Monopthalmus and his asking what the factors were which the gymnasium in Greek society, and empire and the Peloponnesian War enabled such a remarkable cultural, social, political and as well as outlining the political situation on Sicily, before son Demetrius Poliorcetes, Seleucus the citizen's civic duty to be in good shape are discussed Nicator and Ptolemy Soter - and gives a narrative of scientific effloressence. before Spivey turns to ancient Olympia where it all examining Athenian strategy and the sequence of events from initial Athenian sucesses to ultimate defeat the causes and course of these wars from the death of 315pp, Oxford University Press, 2011, Hardback, was started. Alexander to the Battle of Corupedium (281 BC) when £20.00 273pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Paperback, was 167pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2012, Hardback, was the last two original Diadochi faced each other one final Now £7.95 £9.99 £19.99 time. Now £3.95 Now £7.95 256pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM GREECE • 19 Lords of the Sea Excavations at Nemea To Mega Biblion Performing Oaths in The Epic Story of the Athenian III Book-ends, End-Titles, and Classical Greek Drama Navy and the Birth of Democracy The Coins Coronides in Papyri with By Judith Fletcher Hexametric Poetry By J. R. Hale By Robert C. Knapp, John D. Mac Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in An eminently readable naval history Isaac and Stephen G. Miller By Francesca Schironi ancient Athenian legal, commercial, of Athens, covering the years from A systematic and chronological civic and international spheres. Their The vast majority of the 4,092 coins importance is reflected by the fact the Battle of Salamis to the death of recovered from the Greek city of investigation into the nature and Alexander in 323BC. Hale, a maritime development of end-titles in papyrus that much of surviving Greek drama Nemea have secure archaeological features a formal oath sworn before archaeologist, focuses his narrative contexts and are identifiable. The rolls and codices of hexameter on the great naval battles of the Peloponnesian War, the poetry from the 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD. the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of majority of the coins date from the heyday of the site that phenomenon. tactics and strategies employed, and the construction during the early Hellenistic period when the Nemean The bulk of the evidence for presentation of hexametric and logistics of the Athenian navy. Games were at their height. verse derives from Homeric papyri. 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £64.99 395pp, b/w illus, Penguin Books Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was 290pp, 32 b/w pls, University of California Press, 2005, 250pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2010, Hardback, £20.00 Hardback, was £100.00 was £44.00 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £24.95 Now £9.95

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The Creativity of A Visitor's Guide to Plato's Symposium: A Plato's Myths Crete the Ancient Olympics Readers Guide By Catalin Partenie By Malcolm Cross By Neil Faulkner By Thomas L. Cooksey This volume is a collection of ten In this detailed and well argued Written in the style of a modern This introductory guide to Plato’s studies by eminent scholars that focus study Malcolm Cross explores the travel guide, Neil Faulkner here Symposium first sketches the on the ways in which some of Plato’s Classical and Hellenistic achievement provides a light-hearted, but historical background, then its key most famous myths are interwoven of Crete's city states, arguing that informative introduction to the philosophical themes, before providing with his philosophy. The myths in many respects, not least their ancient Olympics, bringing to life a section by section reading of the discussed include the eschatological longevity they surpassed that of all of the sights and smells of the text, and an overview of its influence. myths of the Gorgias, the Phaedo, the Republic and Laws 10, the central the more famous city states of mainland Greece. games. As well as describing the events themselves he 192pp, Bloomsbury, 2010, Paperback, was £15.99 He discusses their laws, consitutions and practical looks at the religious aspects of the games, and also the myths of the Phaedrus and the Statesman, and the so- governance, as well as social structures and economies, more practical dimension, painting a picture of a vast Now £6.95 called myth of the Noble Lie from the Republic. highlighting significant developments and presenting a unsanitary tent city, alive with hedonism, politics and 255pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Hardback, was picture of an advanced and commericialised society. poetry. £69.99 299pp, Signal Books Ltd, 2011, Paperback, was £12.99 263pp, Yale University Press, 2012, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £4.95

Ancient Athens on Ancient Oracles Plato's Arguments for Potamo of Alexandria Five Drachmas a Day By Richard Stoneman Forms and the Emergence of By Philip Matyszak This colourful and wide-ranging By Robert William Jordan Eclecticism in Late Written in the style of of modern survey encompasses the entire This study of Plato’s Forms Hellenistic Philosophy history of Greek oracles and focuses travel guide this fun book takes demonstrates his concern with the By Myrto Hatzimichali the reader around the sights of fresh attention on philosophical, nature of knowledge and explanation fifth century Athens. There's advice psychological, and anthropological and his interest in the contradictions In this book the historical and on eating and drinking, on the aspects of oracular consultation. It that he thought to be presented to interpretative problems associated correct protocol at the theatre or a also examines how Greek oracles’ the intellectual by the sensible world; with eclecticism are for the first symposium on where to stay and so on. practices were distinctive compared contradictions that could not be resolved without time approached from the point of to those of their neighbors, especially in Egypt, Babylon, knowledge of the Forms. view of the only self-described eclectic philosopher 135pp, Thames and Hudson, 2008, Paperback, was £12.95 and Israel. from Antiquity, Potamo of Alexandria. The evidence is 103pp, Cambridge Philological Society, 1983, Paperback, Now £5.95 288pp, Yale University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £25.00 examined in detail with reference to the philosophical was £15.00 and wider intellectual background of the period. Now £9.95 Now £2.95 208pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £14.95

Athenian Black Figure Myth and Tragedy in Euripides and the Relative Chronology in Vases Ancient Greece Poetics of Nostalgia Early Greek Epic By John Boardman By Jean-Pierre Vernant and By Gary S. Meltzer Poetry In this introductory survey Boardman Pierre Vidal-Naquet This book provides detailed studies By Oivind Andersen enables the reader to study the many In this work, published here as a of four of Euripides' plays (Hippolytus, This book sets out to disentangle aspects of the vases, and to grasp single volume, the authors present a Hecuba, Ion and Helen), looking at the complex chronology of early the essential style of a painter or a disturbing and decidedly non-classical the tension between nostalgia and Greek epic poetry, which includes group of painters from the period reading of Greek tragedy that insists skepticism. Whilst Euripides has often Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. between 630 and 470 BC. He devotes on its radical discontinuity with been seen as shockingly new, Gary Some contributions offer statistical an entire section to the mythological scenes and other our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and Meltzer argues that there is another side to his work, a analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis decorative features of the vases, as well as their shapes psychological categories. deep nostalgia for the past and a belief in a golden age of of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical and functions. 538pp, Zone Books, 1989, Hardback, was £32.95 simplicity and truth. approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise 252pp, b/w illus, Thames and Hudson, 1974, Paperback, 266pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Hardback, was seek to track the development and interrelationship of was £16.95 Now £9.95 £69.99 epic contents. Now £6.95 Now £14.95 277pp, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £64.99 Now £14.95

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20 • GREECE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Theocritus and the Sophocles: Oedipus at Frontiers of Pleasure The Ancient Romans Invention of Fiction Colonus Models of Aesthetic Response in By Michael Vickers By Mark Payne By Adrian Kelly Archaic and Classical Greek Thought An introduction to life in Rome and The bucolic poetry of Theocritus is In his final play, Sophocles returns By Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi its Empire from the first century the first literature to invent a fully to the ever-popular character BC to the end of the fourth century Anatasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that AD, based on the collections of the fictional world that is not an image of Oedipus, the blind outcast of although the Greek language had of reality but an alternative to it. Thebes, the ultimate symbol of Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Looks no formal term equivalent to the at the differences between town and This book examines these poems human reversal, whose fall he had so “aesthetic,” the notion was deeply in the light of ancient and modern memorably treated in the 'Oedipus country, at food and drink, medicine, rooted in Greek thought. Her analysis religion, and the army. conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this Tyrannus'. This useful companion provides background, centers on a dominant aspect of beauty - the aural - fictional world is mediated by form and how this world context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play. associated with a highly influential sector of culture that 64pp, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 1992, Paperback, appears as an object of desire for the characters within 144pp, Duckworth, 2009, Paperback, was £15.99 comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the was £7.95 it. Now £5.95 “activity of the Muses,” or mousike. Now £2.95 192pp, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Hardback, was 206pp, Oxford University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £69.99 £47.99 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

In Search of the Ancient Fable Homer's Cosmic Caesar: A Biography Sorcerer's Apprentice An Introduction Fabrication By Christian Meier The Traditional Tales of By Niklas Holzberg Choice and Design in the Iliad Christian Meier's classic biography has Lucian's Lover of Lies This unique `introduction’ to the By Bruce Heiden been hailed as the finest in what is a history of the fable looks at both crowded field. His Caesar is a man By Daniel Ogden A new attempt to get to the bottom of exceptional ability and ambition, This is the first book in English to literary form and structure, and at of the organisation and construction generic history through the works of whose intention was not necessarily be devoted to Lucian’s Philopseudes of the Iliad, which proposes that the to destroy the Republic, but who was or Lover of Lies (ca. 170s AD). It Greek and Roman authors and those poem is structured in such a way fabulists who re-shaped the material ultimately unable to operate within its comprises an extensive discussion, as to make reading it profitable, as institutions. of their predecessors to form new fables. Among the opposed to the standard conception of its being an with full translation. Among the themes of the work are Basic Books, 1997, Paperback, was £15.99 Lucian’s methods of adapting motifs from traditional fables discussed are the books of Phaedrus (1st century oral experience. Heiden notes that the division of the narratives, and the text’s overlooked Cynic voice. AD), Babrius (3rd century AD), Avianus (4th-5th century work into books also creates a structure to the work Now £6.95 AD), and the Aesopic tradition. 312pp, Classical Press of Wales, 2007, Hardback, was as it is read, which flags up major events, and delineates £62.00 128pp, Indiana University Press, 2002, Paperback, was sub-plots. £11.50 254pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, Hardback, was Now £14.95 Now £4.95 £52.00 Now £19.95

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+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROME • 23 Roman Villas Ancient Rome on Five The Sons of Caesar Ancient Rome By David Johnston Denarii a Day Imperial Romes' First Dynasty By Thomas R. Martin An informative discussion of villas, the By Philip Matyszak By Philip Matyszak Interweaving social, political, religious, significance of which far exceeded Written in the style of a modern Matyszak tells the story of imperial and cultural history, Martin interprets their role as country homes of travel guide, this entertaining little Rome’s first dynasty through the lives the successes and failures of the the elite. Johnston considers their book shows the reader around the of six men, Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Romans in war, political organization, function as farms, sometimes sights of Imperial Rome. Sections Gaius Caligula, Claudius and Nero, quest for personal status, and in managed by tenant farmers for include "Where to stay", "Medical set against the background of the the integration of religious beliefs absentee landlords, their equipment emergencies", "Dining out" and changing social and political climate in and practices with government. He and outbuildings, their relationship "Shopping", and there is a walking tour of the "Must-see Rome, foreign wars, the strain of an expanding empire, focuses on the central role of social with towns, and the fate of villas and their estates when sights". domestic crises and disputes, and rivalries for power. and moral values in determining individual conduct as Roman rule ended. well as decisions of state, from monarchy to republic to 144pp, Thames and Hudson, 2007, Paperback, was £12.95 296pp, Thames and Hudson, 2006, Hardback, was £18.95 72pp, b/w and col illus, Shire Publications, 2004, Paperback, empire. was £6.99 Now £5.95 Now £7.95 320pp, Yale University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £2.95 Now £7.95

The Death of Caesar Chronicle of the Rome's Last Citizen Romanization in the The Story of History's Most Roman Emperors By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni Time of Augustus Famous Assassination By Christopher Scarre A well written biography of Cato By Ramsay MacMullen By Barry Strauss A highly accessible account the Younger and his struggle to During the lifetime of Augustus, defend the institutions of the Roman A lively account of the famous of the men at the helm of the Roman civilization spread at a Roman Empire. Scarre presents a Republic in its dying days. In a lively, remarkable rate throughout the assassination of Julius Caesar, which journalistic style Goodman and explores the motivations of the chronological biography of emperors ancient world. Ramsay MacMullen and their acheivements, noting key Soni trace Cato’s career, seeing investigates why the adoption of assassins, the extent of the conspiracy, his unbending nature as both as and the aftermath. Strauss shows how events and turning points in the Roman ways was so prevalent during fortune of the Imperial world as reflected by their formidably principled, but ultimately this period, arguing that the acculturation of the ancient meticulously it was planned and emphasises the key role damaging to the cause for which he fought. of the general Decimus. reigns. Includes extracts from classical writers, many world was due not to cultural imperialism on the part of illustrations and a clear `time-line'. 368pp, Thomas Dunne Books, 2012, Hardback, was £19.99 the conquerors but to eagerness of imitation among the 352pp, b/w pls, Simon and Schuster, 2015, Hardback, was conquered. £16.99 240pp, Thames and Hudson, 1995, Paperback, was £14.95 Now £7.95 222pp, Yale University Press, 2000, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

Farming the Desert: Chronicle of the Augustus Whispering City The UNESCO Libyan Roman Republic From Revolutionary to Emperor Rome and Its Histories Valleys Archaeological The Rulers of Ancient Rome By Adrian Goldsworthy By R.J.B. Bosworth Survey from Romulus to Augustus Adrian Goldsworthy here follows up An exploration of the many layers Volume 1, Synthesis By Philip Matyszak his earlier biography of Julius Caesar of history found within the Eternal with a full study of the life of the man City. Often beginning his analysis Edited by Graeme Barker From Romulus and Remus and other rulers shrouded in the mist of Rome's who was to portray himself as his with sites and monuments that These two volumes present a detailed foundation legends, through Lucius successor, Augustus. Ambition is the can still be found in contemporary inter-disciplinary study of a single Iunius Brutus in the 6th century BC main factor which shapes Augustus' Rome, Bosworth expands his scope region, the basins of the Wadis Sofeggin and ZemZem in to Lepidus and Octavian, this well-illustrated book guides actions in this account, ruthless or pragmatic as each to review how political groups of different eras-the Tripolitania. the general reader through 600 years of the Roman situation demanded, his power built through control of Catholic Church, makers of the Italian nation, Fascists, 424pp, Society for Libyan Studies, 1996, Hardback, was Republic. the military and the promotion of his aupporters to key and "ordinary" Romans (be they citizens, immigrants, or positions to establish what was, at the outset at least, a tourists)-read meaning into the city around them. £20.00 240pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, Paperback, was £14.95 military dictatorship. 358pp, b/w illus, Yale University Press, 2011, Hardback, was Now £5.95 Now £7.95 610pp, col pls, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2015, Paperback, £25.00 was £9.99 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Farming the Desert: The Complete Roman Caesar Excavations at The UNESCO Libyan Army The Life of a Colossus Kingscote and Valleys Archaeological By Adrian Goldsworthy By Adrian Goldsworthy Wycomb, Survey A guide to the Roman Army packed In his trademark readable style, Gloucestershire Volume 2, Gazetteer and Pottery with battle plans, recreations of army Adrian Goldsworthy tackles the A Roman Estate Centre and fortifications, reconstruction drawings vast subject of Caesar's life, death, Small Town in the Cotswolds Edited by David J. Mattingly of equipment and armour, biographies and all the bits in between. While A gazetteer of sites and specialist of commanders, plans of camps, emphasis is placed on the military By Jane R. Timby reports on the pottery. maps, photographs of key pieces of career of this great general (this Detailed report into all aspects of 417pp, Society for Libyan Studies, 1996, Hardback, was archaeological evidence, literary extracts, and much is, after all, Goldsworthy's speciality), the book also these two Roman sites, an estate centre and a small £20.00 more besides. Key battles are explored, tactics discussed, seeks to concentrate on his personal relationships, town; method, excavations, architectural features,­ a huge the lives of the soldiers, their equipment, diet, pay and his development as a politician, and his unrivalled range of finds and environmental and skeletal evidence. Now £5.95 conditions, their careers and experiences are revealed, commentaries on his military campaigns. 476pp, Cotswold Archaeology, 1989, Paperback, was £39.00 bringing the literary and archaeological evidence to life. 583pp, b/w pls, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2006, Paperback, 224pp, Thames and Hudson, 2003, Paperback, was £14.95 was £14.99 Now £6.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

Roman Material The Complete Roman In the Name of Rome Environmental Culture Emperor The Men who Won the Evidence from the By Harry Van Enckevort and Translated By Michael Sommer Roman Empire Colonia by Xandra Bardet and By Henk This book looks at the business By Adrian Goldsworthy By A. R. Hall Hiddink, Glenn Story and Clive Bridger of ruling the empire from the This study focuses on the generals This report deals with biological 18 papers on aspects of Roman perspective of its emperors. It asks whose victories forged and sustained evidence from two sites within the material culture. Individual objects how men rose to the purple, how the Roman Empire, focusing less on area of the Roman civil town or are published and discussed, including the emperor actually lived, with the minutiae of battle strategy than colonia close to the River Ouse and an asparagus-knife handle, plugs from examinations of palaces and daily on the reasons for actions and their the probable Roman river crossing. Roman taps, a cloisonne-decorated sword scabbard life, and what roles the emperor was expected to fulfil, consequences for Roman government and history. Both sites were extensively sampled and the material has including military, administrative and religious functions. mouthpiece, and miniature amphorae from a Roman 480pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2004, Paperback, was provided the first opportunity in York to examine richly sanctuary. Broader articles evaluate brooch production, 208pp, Thames and Hudson, 2010, Hardback, was £19.95 £9.99 organic waterlogged Roman deposits formed on surfaces and pottery in the Netherlands. Now £7.95 rather than as the fills of wells or other subsurface 306pp, SPA Uitgevers, 2009, Paperback, was £28.00 Now £4.95 features. Now £9.95 148pp, Council for British Archaeology, 1990, Paperback, was £10.00 Now £4.95

Roman Art The Enemies of Rome Catiline the Monster Finds from the By Michael Siebler From Hannibal to Attila the Hun of Rome Frontier A beautifully illustrated introduction By Philip Matyszak An Ancient Case of By Rob Collins and Lindsay Allason-Jones to Roman art. Opening with a This extremely enjoyable and well- Political Assassination Papers which elucidate the life of consideration of the development written history of Rome's troubles By Francis Galassi the 4th-century limitanei of Britain and, in particular the purpose of tells its story from the point of through their material culture. They Roman art, the book then presents This lively biography aims to rescue consider whether the excavated view of seventeen remarkable the reputation of Catiline, arguing and discusses some of the finest figures, including Hannibal, Jugurtha, artefacts justify the traditional statues, mosaics, paintings and that his goal was genuine and radical implication that the period is one of Mithridates, Spartacus, Vercingetorix, reform of a corrupt Roman system, monumental art from museums and Cleopatra, Boudicca, Zenobia and Attila. The stories of declining standards. cities across Europe, with Rome itself best represented. and that he represented a real threat to the senatorial each are told in an accessible and dramatic narrative 161pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2010, Paperback, 96pp, Taschen, 2007, Paperback, was £6.99 order, reflected in the charges of immorality laid against supported by extracts from contemporary sources. him by Cicero. was £35.00 Now £2.95 296pp, Thames and Hudson, 2004, Paperback, was £12.95 187pp, Westholme Publishing, 2014, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £20.00 Now £5.95 Now £7.95

24 • ROME WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Londinium and Becoming Roman Roman Defences and Haltonchesters Beyond Excavation of a Late Iron Age to Medieval Industry Excavations Directed by J. P. Gillam By John Clark, Jonathan Cotton, Roman Landscape at Monkston Excavations at Baltic House, at the Roman Fort, 1960-61 Jenny Hall and Roz Sherris By Raoul Bull and Simon Davis City of London By J. N. Dore This collection begins with a section Occupation along the east side of By Elizabeth Howe A report on excation of the western the Ouzel valley included a Late Iron on the chronology and cartography Excavations at the site of Baltic part of the central range of the fort, Age field system and a cremation of Roman London. Other topics House uncovered evidence of a section of the west wall of the fort cemetery, with Catuvellauni funerary include landscape and environment, occupation dating from Roman times (including the porta quintana ), the traditions continuing into the Roman education, cults, attitudes to death onward. This included a large V-shaped north end of the west half of the post-conquest period. Later 1st-century AD fields, and burial, and artefacts, including brooches, inkwells and ditch which formed part of a late 1st-century defensive retentura and part of an annexe attached to the west timber structures and a large enclosure were associated toilet implements. boundary along the northeast side of the Roman side of the fort. with farming near Roman Watling Street. 294pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2008, Paperback, settlement and evidence for industrial activity between 128pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £20.00 was £35.00 73pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, the 13th and 15th centuries. Paperback, was £7.95 Now £4.95 Now £17.50 122pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2002, Now £3.95 Paperback, was £12.95 Now £4.95

Roman Alcester Pre-Boudican and The Roman Tower at Roman Inscriptions of Volume 3 later activity on the Shadwell Britain Volume III Northern Extramural Area, site of the forum A Reappraisal By R. S. O. Tomlin, R. P. Wright 1969-1988 Excavations By Lesley Dunwoodie By David Lakin, Fiona Seeley, and M. W. C. Hassall By Paul Booth and Jeremy Evans New evidence of Londinium’s Joanna Bird and Kevin Rielly This volume is the long-promised The volume includes reports pre-Boudican origins and its first A new analysis and reinterpretation continuation of Roman Inscriptions on ceramics and metal objects and second fora has been found at of the fascinating site at Shadwell, of Britain. It presents some 550 which were associated with the a site on Cornhill. In the AD 50s located on the north bank of the inscriptions in geographical sequence, original military settlement and the commercial or military storage Thames. Lakin et al argue that early with individual commentaries and development of the town in the early 60s AD. In addition, buildings were established, including a granary, with a Roman quarrying gave way to a cremation cemetery accompanying drawings, as well as re-examining many of evidence was found for the first civilian structures which marketplace or open public area to the west. during the 2nd century. The construction of the 9m the originals. were built on top of early, regular and possibly military 67pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, square ‘tower’, dated to the 2nd century or later, is 524pp, Oxbow Books, 2009, Hardback, was £70.00 buildings. Paperback, was £7.95 consistent with that of a mausoleum. Now £24.95 328pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2001, Paperback, Now £3.95 72pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2002, was £36.00 Paperback, was £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £2.95

Women in Roman Prehistoric Landscape Urban Development in The Best Training Britain to Roman Villa North-west Roman Ground for By Lindsay Allason-Jones Excavations at Beddington, Southwark Archaeologists Chronicles the latest discoveries – Surrey, 1981-7 By Carrie Cowan Francis Haverfield and the Invention tombstones, writing tablets, curse By Isca Howell Excavations at Courage’s Brewery of Romano-British Archaeology tablets, burials and artefacts – to Excavations at Beddington have revealed an archaeological sequence By P. W. M. Freeman create a vivid picture of the lives, dating back to Prehistoric times. The habits and thoughts of women in uncovered a long occupation A biography of Francis Haverfield, the sequence which includes Late Bronze Roman remains begin from AD 40-55 Britain over four centuries. Diversity and show the development of the site ‘father of Romano-British studies’, of backgrounds, traditions and tastes lies at the heart Age or Early Iron Age fields, a Late and a history of the development of Romano-British Iron Age enclosed settlement and early Roman finds. A from the 1st to the 4th centuries, as the area increased of the book – displaying the cosmopolitan nature of the in wealth before the occupation phase ended to be archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth Romano-British society. Lindsay Allason-Jones explores villa was established at the site in the late 2nd century centuries. AD and included a house, bathhouse and five other replaced with a cemetery. all aspects of women’s life – from social status to 688pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Paperback, was £30.00 hairstyles. buildings. 208pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, Paperback, was £15.95 Now £4.95 209pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2005, Paperback, 135pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2005, was £14.95 Paperback, was £10.95 Now £6.95 Now £4.95 Now £4.95

The Roman Baths and Roman and medieval Ariconium, Between Villa and Macellum at Wroxeter Cripplegate, City of Herefordshire To w n Excavations by Graham London an Iron Age settlement and Excavations of a Roman Roadside Webster 1955-85 Archaeological excavations 1992-8. Romano-British 'small town' Settlement and Shrine at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire By Peter Ellis By Elizabeth Howe and David Lakin By Robin Jackson By Alex Smith, Steve Lawrence Report from the 1955–85 excava­ This volume presents the results of The Roman ‘small town’ of Ariconium tions on the southern part of an work from five separate developer- in southern Herefordshire has long and Alexander Smith insula containing a market hall. Much funded excavations between 1992-8. been known as an important iron This volume presents the results of the volume reports on the large Bronze Age field ditches were sealed production centre but has remained of archaeological investigation of a assemblage of finds, many of which date to the original by domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early very poorly understood. Rapid expansion during the substantial Roman settlement. Established along the building campaign, including coins, small finds, brooches, Roman London after AD 70. Extensive reoccupation second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the eastern side of a road in the early 2nd century AD gems, glass, pottery and industrial and environmental came with the establishment of burgage plots after AD local population was able to articulate rapidly with the with an array of circular stone buildings, it underwent a remains 1050. economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. significant transformation around 100 years later. 394pp, English Heritage, 2000, Paperback, was £55.00 160pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2004, 304pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £25.00 361pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2009, Hardback, was £19.99 Now £9.95 Paperback, was £13.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.50 Now £5.95

Excavations At Barrow Roman and Medieval Becoming Roman, The Roman Roadside Hills, Radley, Development South of Being Gallic, Staying Settlement at Oxfordshire, 1983-5 Newgate British Westhawk Farm, Volume 2: The Romano Excavations at 3-9 Newgate Street Research and Excavations at Ditches Ashford, Kent British Cemetery and Anglo and 16-17 Old Bailey, City of London 'hillfort' and villa 1984-2006 By Paul Booth, Anne-Marie Saxon Settlement By Ken Pitt By Stephen Trow, Simon Bingham and Steve Lawrence By R. A. Chambers and E. McAdam Important new evidence of Londons James and Tom Moore Publishes the excavations at a large The Romano-British cemetery 2nd-century AD Roman pottery Excavations carried out from 1984– Roman settlement established­ at an consisted of 69 burials dating to the 3rd and 4th industry. Up to eight kilns, producing Verulamium region 1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire­ identified a large, important road junction shortly after centuries; both inhumations and cremations were found. white ware, and a probable potters workshop represent late Iron Age enclosure which contained­ a remarkably the Roman conquest. It contained contrasting groups of The Anglo-Saxon settlement dates by finds evidence to two phases of production. early Roman villa. This long awaited excavation report carefully laid out plots and unplanned areas. Excavated the 4th-early 7th centuries. 84pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2006, reinterprets this evidence in the light of more recent timber buildings included circular and rectilinear structures and a polygonal shrine. 280pp, Lancaster, 2007, Hardback, was £24.99 Paperback, was £9.95 studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition. 420pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2008, Hardback, was £25.00 Now £7.50 Now £4.95 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2008, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £9.95 Now £7.50

A prestigious Roman Roman and Medieval Dating and Art and Society in building complex on Townhouses on the interpreting the past Fourth-Centry Britain the Southwark London Waterfront in the western Roman Villa Mosaics in Context waterfront Excavations at Governor's Empire By Sarah Scott By B. Yule House, City of London Edited by David Bird This volume builds upon the copious Excavations upstream of Roman By Trevor Brigham and Aidan Woodger This volume presents a collection and varied research on villa mosaics London bridge in north Southwark This volume presents the results of more than 30 papers in honour in Roman Britain and evaluates it uncovered evidence for mid 1st- of the archaeological work at of Brenda Dickinson. Divided into within the context of elite social life century AD land reclamation and the this important site in a clear chronological narrative thematic sections, papers are mostly in the 4th century AD. It argues that establishment of a road and buildings. In the early 2nd supported by many detailed illustrations and specialist concerned with her principal area of study, samian, with the mosaics were an integral part of the rich lifestyle of century a prestigious new building complex, established reports. topics including production and organisation, decoration, the elite in this period and played an important role in on a different alignment, may have had a military or stamps and other marks, the use of samian ware in defining their status. administrative purpose. 140pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2001, illuminating aspects of life and death, and aspects of Paperback, was £12.95 120pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000, 189pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2005, cooking methods and dining. Paperback, was £28.00 Now £4.95 Paperback, was £16.95 384pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £5.00 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM ROMAN BRITAIN • 25 Elginhaugh Medicine and Health Roman Mosaics of The Roman A Flavian Fort and Its Annexe Care in Roman Britain Britain Volume III Inscriptions of Britain By William S. Hanson By Nicholas Summerton South-East Britain Vol. II, Fasicule 6 Elginhaugh is the most completely This short but well illustrated By David S. Neal and Stephen R. Cosh By Sheppard S. Frere excavated timber-built auxiliary fort book surveys health care in Roman The third volume covers the areas of This fascicule covers dipinti and in the Roman Empire. This report Britain from a largely archaeological Britain that were first to come under graffiti on amphorae and mortaria, provides an assessment of all the perspective. Nicholas Summerton Roman control and where some of inscriptions in white barbotine, dipinti structures, with particular emphasis examines the remains of hospitals Britain’s most impressive mosaics are on coarse pottery, samian barbotine on the identification of stable- and instruments used for surgical to be found - in Colchester, Silchester, or moulded inscriptions. barracks and the implications for the identification of proceedures, but also looks at less obviously related London and Verulamium, and in villas and palaces at 102pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1994, Hardback, was £35.00 garrisons based on fort plans. subjects, such as the cult of Asclepius and Roman Brading, Bignor, Fishbourne and Rockbourne. 672pp, Roman Society Publications, 2007, Paperback, was attitudes to hygiene and bath houses, as well as methods Now £6.95 of waste disposal. 600pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009, Hardback, £58.00 was £200.00 56pp, col illus, Shire Publications, 2007, Paperback, was Now £20.00 £6.99 Now £50.00 Now £2.95

Excavations in Roman Pottery in Roman Roman Mosaics of The Roman Carmarthen Britain Britain Volume IV Inscriptions of Britain 1973-1993 By Guy de la Bedoyere Western Britain Volume II, Fascicule 7 By Heather James A short introduction to the By Stephen R. Cosh and David S. Neal By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin This report presents the evidence abundance of Romano-British The area covered by the fourth and This fascicule is devoted to graffiti from a series of excavations around ceramic finds. The author examines final volume in the corpus is one on samian ware, of which 879 the town, including Spilman Street, their production and distribution of the richest regions of Britain in examples have been collected. This Priory Street, Church Street and the and use, ranging from kitchenware to economic as well as architectural and large number, and the fact that samian Parade, in order to answer questions lamps, tiles figurines and even moulds artistic terms and this is reflected in sherds can usually be dated, provides about the Roman presence in the town, particularly for metalworking, in an attempt to identify patterns in the quantity and quality of the region’s mosaics, which a valuable statistical basis for the study of nomenclature, the puzzle of why no evidence of a vicus has been decoration, colour, fabric and sources, elucidating aspects include the largest figured mosaic ever found in Britain - abbreviations, the growth of basic literacy and other discovered despite the existence of a fort. of trade and daily life in four centuries of Roman Britain. the Woodchester Orpheus pavement. epigraphic questions. 416pp, Roman Society Publications, 2003, Paperback, was 72pp, Shire Publications, 2000, Paperback, was £6.99 480pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2010, Hardback, 152pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995, Hardback, was £35.00 £60.00 Now £2.95 was £160.00 Now £6.95 Now £20.00 Now £50.00

Fosse Lane, Shepton Roman Baths in Verulamium The Roman Mallet 1990 Britain Excavations, Volume 2 Inscriptions of Britain Excavations of a Romano- By Tony Rook By Sheppard S. Frere Volume II, Fascicule 8 British Roadside Settlement at This short guide to baths in Britain This report covers the work at By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin Shepton Mallet, Somerset outlines the construction methods Verulanium (St Albans) carried out This fascicule covers graffiti on coarse By Peter E. Leach used, the architectural development between 1955 and 1961. This include pottery cut before and after firing; a of buildings, their layout and structure, the Belgic mint, the Roman defences, A detailed report on the excava­ stamp on coarse pottery and addenda how they operated and how they the forum, the northern monumental and corrigenda to fascicules 1-8. tion of a Romano-British roadside were used. It is also a guide to the arch, and various intra- and extra- settlement in Somerset. Sections remains of these buildings that can be visited today mural sequences. 165pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1995, examine the buildings, structures, burials and the finds Hardback, was £35.00 and Rook includes a gazetteer of sites with short 392pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 1983, Hardback, as well as consider the date and significance of the descriptions and directions. settlement. was £30.00 Now £6.95 64pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1992, Paperback, was 348pp, Roman Society Publications, 2001, Paperback, was £6.99 Now £4.95 £47.00 Now £2.95 Now £7.50

Life and Labour in Romano-British Coin Roman Inscriptions of The Roman Late Roman Silchester Hoards Britain Volume II, Inscriptions of Britain, Excavations in Insula IX since 1997 By Richard Abdy fascicule 2 Volume II, Fascicule 4 By Michael Fulford, Amanda This is not a study of Romano-British Edited by Sheppard S. Frere By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin Clarke and Hella Eckhardt coins per se , but rather a study of and By R. S. O. Tomlin This fascicule includes inscriptions hoards found in the former provinces These excavations show that the Covers inscriptions on weights, metal on wooden objects (barrels, waxed of Britannia. It combines both an vessels (gold, silver, bronze, lead and tablets); leather; oculists’ stamps; Insula underwent radical change, c. introduction to hoarding, discussing AD 250/300, with the construction pewter), shale and glass vessels and wallplaster and mosaics; handmills; some of the major discoveries in spoons. stone tablets, balls, pebbles, votives; of new workshop and residential recent times, and an outline history of hoards and buildings on the orientation of the Roman street- 142pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991, Hardback, was £35.00 jet; caly figurines and objects; antefixes; tile-stamps (Leg coinage from the early conquest period to the 5th II, Leg VI, Leg IX, Leg XX and auxiliary units). grid, following the demolition of mid-Roman buildings century AD arranged on different, pre- and early Roman alignments. Now £6.95 256pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1992, Hardback, was £35.00 72pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 2002, Paperback, was 404pp, Roman Society Publications, 2006, Paperback, was £6.99 Now £6.95 £68.00 Now £25.00 Now £2.95

Longthorpe II Excavations at Roman Inscriptions of The Work of Giants The Military Works Depot: An Brough-on-Humber, Britain, Volume II, Stone and Quarrying Episode in Landscape History 1958-1961 Fascicule 3 in Roman Britain By G. B. Dannell and John Peter Wild By John S. Wacher By Sheppard S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin By Andrew Pearson This volume describes the pottery- Report on the results and finds from Inscriptions on brooches, rings, gems, Andrew Pearson examines evidence making depot attached to the the excavation of the Romano-British bracelets; helmets, shields, weapons, for stone quarrying and building from pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of town of Petuaria. and other military equipment; iron the late Iron Age and throughout Longthorpe near Peterborough and 243pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, tools; baldric and belt fittings; votives the Roman period, the types of and throws light on the problems 1969, Hardback, was £15.00 in gold, silver and bronze; lead pipes, stone exploited, how the stone was of supply of the Roman army during the conquest roundels, sheets and other lead objects; stone, bone and procured and transported, the tools and techniques campaigns. Now £4.95 pottery roundels, and other objects of bone. used, native versus imported stone and how the use of 206pp, Roman Society Publications, 1987, Paperback, was 176pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1991, Hardback, was £35.00 local stone influenced architectural styles. £15.75 160pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, Paperback, was Now £6.95 Now £5.00 £19.99 Now £7.95

Central and East Roman Mosaics of The Roman To Rule Britannia Gaulish Mould- Britain volume II Inscriptions of Britain The Claudian Invasion Decorated Samian South-West Britain Vol. II, Fasicule 5 of Britain, AD 43 Ware in the Royal By David S. Neal and Stephen R. Cosh By Sheppard S. Frere By John Waite Ontario Museum Presented in the form of a county The fifth fasicule of RIB II covers An in depth look at the Roman By Alison Harle Easson gazetteer, each mosaic is described, inscriptions on the tile stamps of invasion of Britain. John Waite pays with drawings, photographs of the Classis Britannica ; imperial, particular attention to logistical Most of the 111 pieces described and figured elements and references. The procuratorial and civic tile stamps; matters, such as the size of the illustrated (with line drawings) in this South West has Britain’s greatest stamps of private tilers; inscriptions army, aspects of provisioning and catalogue come from Roman London. concentration of figured mosaics, including, at Hinton St on relief-patterned tiles and graffiti on tiles. the shipping necessary for transport, as well as the 49pp, Royal Ontario Museum, 1988, Paperback, was Mary, one of the earliest depictions of Christ. 162pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1993, Hardback, was £35.00 considerations involved in choosing a landing site. £15.00 The History Press, 2011, Paperback, was £17.99 406pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2006, Hardback, Now £6.95 Now £2.95 was £160.00 Now £6.95 Now £50.00

26 • ROMAN BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Settling the Ebbsfleet The Art of Pliny's Exemplary Traits Prosopography of Valley vol 3 Letters Reading Characterization Byzantine Aphrodito By Catherine Barnett, Jessica M. By Illaria Marchesi in Roman Poetry By Giovanni Ruffini Grimm, Jacqueline I. McKinley This study looks at the strategies By J. Mira Seo This volume, which replaces Girgis’s and Chris J. Stevens adopted by Pliny to attempt to ensure Exemplary Traits examines how outdated prosopography from 1938, The detailed specialist reports in this that his letters could not only be Roman poets used models is an annotated record of every volume cover the late Iron Age and published and continue to be read dynamically to create character, and person attested in the Byzantine- Roman human bone and animal bone but would achieve canonical literary how their referential approach to era papyri from the middle Egyptian assemblages recovered during the status. The collection of letters is character reveals them mobilizing village of Aphrodito. Its papyri make reported excavations, as well as environmental remains carefully structured to be able to be profitably read the literary tradition. By tracing the philosophical and Aphrodito the best attested village for this time period and dating evidence relating to contemporary landscape, cover to cover, and Ilaria Marchiesi argues that a central rhetorical concepts that underlie characterization with implications for the study of rural life throughout subsistence and economy. part of this structuring is the inclusion of allusions from as a literary technique, this study illuminates an Late Antiquity. other Classical authors, already established parts of the 240pp, Wessex Archaeology, 2011, Hardback, was £30.00 underestimated aspect of this poetic technique and its 624pp, American Society of Papyrologists, 2011, Hardback, canon. relation to a larger intellectual context. was £59.00 Now £7.95 278pp, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Hardback, was 240pp, Oxford University Press, 2013, Hardback, was Now £29.95 £69.00 £53.00 Now £19.95 Now £14.95

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The War of the Three Romans and Christians The Ottoman House Imagining the Anglo- Gods By Dominic Janes By S. Ireland Saxon Past By Peter Crawford A visual history of Christianity and its This book contains 17 papers By Eric Gerald Stanley War of the Three Gods is a military artistic and architectural interaction by architects and archaeologists This book combines the first history of the first half of seventh with the Roman Empire, from looking at how the Ottoman house publication in English of Anglo-Saxon century, with heavy focus on the persecution and co-existence in the was structured, how it varied over Trial by Jury, with a reprint of The reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Pagan Empire, to the adaptation and time and space and how surviving Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism, Heraclius (AD 610-641). Peter construction of a new visual language examples are faring in a world of originally published in 1975. Both Crawford narrates the three-way in the Christian Empire. A case study breeze-block construction. texts examine the influence of 19th- struggle between the Christian Byzantine, Sassanid of Late Roman Gaul and Britain 133pp, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1998, century German politics on the historical perception and Persian and Islamic empires, with detailed descriptions of rounds off the book. Hardback, was £25.00 glorification of Anglo-Saxon society and paganism. campaigns, battles and sieges. 159pp, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2002, Paperback, was Now £9.95 173pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2000, Hardback, was 256pp, maps, col pls, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2014, £17.99 £50.00 Hardback, was £25.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

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+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM LATE ANTIQUE, ISLAMIC AND ANGLO-SAXON • 29 Writing Power in The Combined Anglo- Water and Fire Poetry, Place and Anglo-Saxon England Saxon Chronicles The Myth of the Flood in Gender By Catherine A. M. Clarke By Guy Points Anglo-Saxon England Studies in Medieval Culture in This book explores how power is Today some nine manuscripts survive By Daniel Anlezark Honor of Helen Damico shaped and negotiated in later Anglo- in whole or in part to make up This study reveals both an imaginative Edited by Catherine Karkov Saxon texts, focusing in particular on what is known as the “Anglo-Saxon diversity and shared interpretations A collection of papers primarily on how hierarchical, vertical structures Chronicle”. The author provides a of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons are presented alongside patterns of narrative in chronological order of Anglo-Saxon subjects, embracing saw the Flood as a climactic event Old English poetry, archaeology, reciprocity and economies of mutual the information provided by the in God's ongoing war with his more obligation, especially within the context of patronage extant manuscripts. Unique to his presentation is the art history, palaeography, liturgy, rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery landscape, and gender. Each of the essays contributes relationships (whether secular, spiritual, literal or device of using different print font types in the text to of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range symbolic). identify each of the source manuscripts. new interpretations, new evidence, even new of texts against their historical background, and discusses technologies to further the study of some key medieval 191pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2012, Hardback, was 136pp, Guy Points, 2013, Paperback, was £12.95 shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted works. £50.00 for diverse audiences. Now £4.95 380pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Hardback, Now £14.95 384pp, Manchester University Press, 2006, Hardback, was was £69.99 £60.00 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

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30 • ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Burial in Later Anglo- The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Alcimus Divorce of Lothar II Saxon England, c.650- Cemetery at Worthy Acdicius Avitus By K. Heidecker 1100 AD Park, Kingsworthy, Translated by George W. Shea In 857, Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, By Jo Buckberry and Annia Cherryson near Winchester, Presents an English translation decided to divorce Theutberga. Karl Heidecker’s dramatic and engaging The overarching theme of this book Hampshire and discussion of the six poems of Avitus, the sixth century Bishop of narrative untangles the chaos that is differential treatment in death, By Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Guy Vienne, along with their two related resulted, illuminating the origin and which is examined at the site-specific, Grainger, E. Biddulph and Anne Dodd development of Western notions settlement, regional and national level. prologues addressed to his brother- The cemetery was excavated in in-law Sidonius Apollinaris. The first of marriage and divorce and the More specifically, the symbolism of separation of church and state. conversion-period grave good deposition, the impact 1961–2 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes; this volume draws five provide narratives on Biblical themes, the sixth is a of the church, and aspects of identity, burial diversity to­gether all of her chapters and drawings relating to the meditation in praise of chastity. 240pp, Cornell University Press, 2010, Hardback, was and biocultural approaches to cemetery analysis are site, including a detailed catalogue of burials, a report on 170pp, Arizona State University, 1997, Hardback, was £40.95 discussed. the human bone, and a gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon sites in £21.00 Hampshire. Now £12.95 156pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £38.00 225pp, Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2003, Now £4.95 Now £14.95 Hardback, was £22.50 Now £10.00

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Anglo-Norman Studies Records of Gender, Nation and Texts and Traditions of II Convocation IV: Conquest in the Works Medieval Pastoral Proceedings of the Battle Canterbury 1377-1414 of William of Care Conference 1979 Edited by Gerald L. Bray Malmesbury Essays in Honour of Bella Millett Edited by R. Allen Brown This volume contains the acts of By Kirsten A. Fenton Edited by Cate Gunn and Topics include: Carmen de Hastingae convocation during the reigns of This innovative study provides a Catherine Innes-Parker Proelio; Battle c.1100; Military Richard II and Henry IV, extensively gendered reading of Malmesbury’s reconstructed from the archbishops' Pastoral and devotional literature architecture; Piety of Anglo-Norman works. It considers Malmesbury’s flourished throughout the middle Knightly Class; Military Architecture registers (which are in disorder for presentation of men and women much of this period) and other sources. Latin text. ages, and its growth and transmutations form the c.1200; The Byzantine View of the Normans; Henry I and (both lay and religious) through categories based on focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its Anglo-Norman Magnates; Anglo-Norman as a Spoken 458pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2011, Hardback, was £95.00 attributes, such as sexual behaviour and violence, rather development and its transformation into the literature of Language; Magnates, Curiales and the Wheel of Fortune; than the more familiar professional or familial roles, such vernacular spirituality. Bishop's Lynn; Battle Abbey Now £19.95 as warrior and wife. 216pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2009, Hardback, was 224pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer, 1980, Hardback, was 163pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £50.00 £50.00 £45.00 Now £22.50 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

32 • EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE AND MEDIEVAL BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Anglo-Norman Thirteenth Century 1215 John Capgrave: The Language and Its England XI The Year of Magna Carta Life of Saint Katherine Contexts By Janet E. Burton, Bjorn K. U. By Danny Danziger and John Gillingham Edited by Karen A. Winstead Weiler and Phillipp Schofield By Richard Ingham A popular exploration of English John Capgrave’s The Life of Saint The essays in this volume examine The thirteenth century brought the society in 1215 and the events which Katherine, written c. 1463 in Lynn in the development and role of Anglo- British Isles into ever closer contact led to the signing of Magna Carta. Norfolk, is, according to the editor, Norman from a variety of different with one another, and with medieval Each chapter adopts a theme, such “. . . the longest and most intricate perspectives and contexts, though Europe as a whole. This international as the castle, the countryside, town, Katherine legend written during the with a concentration on the theme dimension forms a dominant theme school, tournaments and battles, King Middle Ages, either in Latin or in any of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, of this collection: it features essays on England’s relations John, the English, the Church, and Christianity, to look at vernacular.” seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time with the papal court; the adoption of European cultural how rich and poor lived their lives and how they viewed 332pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Paperback, than has hitherto been the case. norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading; English their changing world. was £20.99 landholding in Ireland; and dealings between the kings of 324pp, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003, Paperback, was 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was England and Navarre. Now £7.95 £50.00 £12.99 229pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, Hardback, was Now £12.95 £60.00 Now £4.95 Now £12.95

The Fifteenth Century Magna Carta Bosworth 1485 Love and Marriage in X Law, Liberty, Legacy Psychology of a Battle Late Medieval London Parliament, Personalities and Power Edited by Claire Breay By Michael Jones By Shannon McSheffrey Edited by Hannes Kleineke and Julian Harrison Michael Jones provides a lively This book examines the public and These essays focus above all on This exhibition catalogue takes us reconstruction of the usurpation private relationship of marriage, Parliament and the personalities that on a journey from the charter's and reign of Richard III as well as the as well as its religious and social served in its chambers, but they also medieval origins through to what it course of the Battle of Bosworth connotations, through translations illuminate a wider range of themes means to people around the world itself. Throughout he attempts to of depositions, or testimonies, from that have long concerned students today. Drawing on the rich historical see the story from Richard's point marriage cases brought before 15th- of the later middle ages, including the lawlessness of the collections of the British Library - including two original of view, depicting a man in no doubt that he was the century English church courts. gentry and nobility, the acquisition and management of copies of Magna Carta from 1215 - the book brings to rightful King of England, and supremely confident on the 89pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, Paperback, was their estates, and their self-expression in pageantry and life the history and contemporary resonance of this battlefield itself. £10.99 globally important document. legend. 288pp, b/w pls, John Murray, 2014, Paperback, was £9.99 Now £4.95 265pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was 272pp, col illus, British Library, 2015, Paperback, was Now £4.95 £50.00 £25.00 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

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The Foundations of Writing to the King Rethinking the South Studies on the Medieval English By David Matthews English Legendaries Personal Name in Ecclesiastical History In political verse of the fourteenth Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Later Medieval Studies Presented to David Smith century poets write as if addressing and Heather Blurton England and Wales the king himself, drawing on their The South English Legendary is the By Christopher N. L. Brooke, Philippa sense of the rights granted by Magna Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal Hoskin and Barrie Dobson major collection of saints' lives in and David Postles Carta. As David Matthews shows medieval English. This collection draws These essays demonstrate the in this book, the form of address on the new hagiographic scholarship, Collected papers on medieval importance of critical editions of was a rhetorical stance revealing attends to textual, socio-cultural, England's names and naming patterns- primary documents editions to a proper understanding much about the position from which political and other issues, reprints a handful of earlier -mostly forenames or Christian and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval writers were composing, the audiences they wished to key articles now difficult to obtain, and includes a special names, but with some attention to family names. ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century reach, and their construction of political and national section on performance. 398pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, Paperback, forgery to diocesan administration, from the church subjects. was £35.99 courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish 400pp, b/w illus, Manchester University Press, 2011, 221pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback, was Hardback, was £70.00 clergy to the papacy. £59.99 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 284pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was Now £14.95 £60.00 Now £14.95 The Sea and A Brief History of the The Unorthodox William Caxton: The Englishness in the Battle of Agincourt Imagination in Late Game and Playe of the Middle Ages By Christopher Hibbert Medieval Britain Chesse Maritime Narratives There can be few military victories Edited by Sophie Page Edited by Jenny Adams Identity and Culture so complete, or achieved against such These essays explore how medieval Despite its title, Caxton's "Game heavy odds, as that won by Henry V By Sebastian I. Sobecki people responded to images, stories, and Playe of the Chesse" does not, on 25 October 1415 against Charles beliefs and practices which were at in fact, have much to say about a This volume traces the many literary VI's army at Agincourt. Christopher odds with the normative world view, game or about playing it. Instead, the origins of insular identity from local Hibbert's wonderfully concise from the heretical and subversive to work uses the chessboard and its communities to the entire archipelago, laying open the account draws on the unusual number of contemporary the marvellous and exotic. They show that unorthodoxy pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens continuities and disruptions in the sea's relationship with sources available to historians to describe in lucid detail was embedded in mainstream medieval culture. contribute to the common good. English identity in a British context. not only what happened, but how it happened. 272pp, Manchester University Press, 2010, Hardback, was 164pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, Paperback, 274pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was 192pp, b/w pls, Constable and Co. Ltd., 2015, Paperback, £60.00 was £14.99 £60.00 was £8.99 Now £14.95 Now £5.95 Now £14.95 Now £3.95

Thirteenth Century From Alfred the Great A Slice of life The Great Chevauchee England X to Stephen Selected Documents of Medieval John of Gaunt's Raid on France, 1373 By Michael Prestwich By R. H. C. Davis English Peasant Experience By David Nicolle Among the varied topics discussed Twenty teo collected essays on Late By Edwin Brezette DeWindt In an attempt to restore England's are: the meetings of Henry III and Anglo-Saxon and Norman history. An opening essay explores the types fortunes in the Hundred Years war Louis IX; the financial implications of Two broad topics predominate: the of documents which survive for the 1373 saw John of Gaunt lead a large the loss of Normandy; royal stewards; Norman Conquest and the sources study of the medieval peasantry, and army to France, which ultimately Joan, wife of Llywelyn the Great; for it, and King Stephen's reign and their potential and shortcomings. raided from Calais to Bordeaux, the English and Ireland; Yorkshire the extent of the so-called anarchy. The findings are illustrated with causing widespread destuction in nunneries; taxation in medieval Devon; Edward II’s 318pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 1991, Hardback, was selected documents concerning the village of Warboys in the French countryside, but falling prey to starvation, household knights; English and Welsh political exiles. £60.00 Cambridgeshire. disease and ambush, and achieving little of lasting military worth. Nicolle reconstructs the course of the campaign, 226pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was Now £9.95 110pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Paperback, £55.00 was £10.99 highlighting the logistical, financial and political setbacks which it faced, and featuring a detailed narrative of Now £12.95 Now £4.95 events. 80pp, col illus, Osprey, 2011, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £4.95 +44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL BRITAIN • 33 The Longbow Her Life Historical The Written World Artillery of the Dukes By Mike Loades Exemplarity and Female Saints Past and Place in the Work of Burgundy A practical guide to the longbow, Lives in Late Medieval England of Orderic Vitalis By Kelly DeVries and drawing on modern ballistic testing By Catherine Sanok By Amanda Jane Hingst Robert Douglas Smith to illlustrate its power. Mike Loades This volume combines a detailed first outlines the construction of bow, This study argues that late medieval An investigation, focusing on Orderic writers and readers used religious Vitalis, of the ways in which high study of the physical remains of arrows and arrow heads, then looks Burgundian artillery pieces with at the use of the longbow in battle, narrative, and specifically the legends medieval historians understood of female saints, to think about the geographical space to be a temporally an examination of the rich archival its range, effectiveness and tactical evidence, bringing new and fresh applications. historicity of their own ethical lives meaningful framework for human and of the communities they inhabited. affairs. Hingst explores Orderic’s manipulation of the insights into the development and use of artillery in the 80pp, col illus, Osprey, 2013, Paperback, was £12.99 256pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2007, Hardback, was classical geographical tradition and his balancing of spatial 15th century. Now £5.95 £42.50 scale between the local and the universal. 377pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was £55.00 Now £12.95 272pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, Paperback, was £35.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Papal Judges Delegate For Honour and Fame Venomous Tongues Jousting in Medieval in the Province of Chivalry in England 1066-1500 Speech and Gender in and Renaissance Iberia Canterbury 1198-1254 By Nigel Saul Late Medieval England By Noel Fallows A Study in Ecclesiastical A survey of chivalry - the value By Sandy Bardsley How was the score determined and Jurisdiction and Administration system of the medieval aristocracy. Sandy Bardsley examines the complex kept? How and why did jousting armour evolve, how effective was it, By Jane Sayers Focusing on England, Saul discusses its relationship between speech and origins, its martial aspects, its impact gender in the fourteenth and fifteenth and how did it differ from the field This book is concerned with the on art and architecture, and on centuries. Focusing on England, she armour worn by knights in battle? ecclesiastical courts set up by literature, its religious aspects, and its uses a combination of legal, literary, What constituted technical virtuosity the papacy to hear specific cases on its behalf in the broader impact on social relations. and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was in the lists? And why did jousting die out? This book localities. It describes the central judicial structures of 432pp, Pimlico Publishing Ltd, 2012, Paperback, was £16.99 increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages. uses previously untapped Iberian source material (and the church, the procedure of the local courts and the includes editions and translations) to provide answers to personnel - the judges, the proctors and the parties. 214pp, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, Hardback, such questions. Now £6.95 was £39.00 398pp, Oxford University Press, 1971, Hardback, was 541pp, col and b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, £12.99 Now £12.95 Hardback, was £60.00 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

Richard II The Hanged Man The Rise of the Tudors Medieval Anchoritisms Manhood, Youth, and Politics 1377-99 A Story of Miracle, Memory and The Family That Changed Gender, Space and the Solitary Life By Christopher Fletcher Colonialism in the Middle Ages English History By Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy This study takes issue with a common By Robert Bartlett By Chris Skidmore This book investigates the wider feature of Richard’s modern portrayal William Cragh was a Welsh rebel This lively narrative history traces cultural importance of medieval - the idea that he was effeminate, and hanged in 1290, pronounced dead the fortunes of the Tudor family and anchoritism within the different unable to fit in with contemporary and then later found to be very much the future Henry VII from the mid religious landscapes and climates of ideas of masculinity. Flatcher argues alive. Cragh claimed to have been fifteenth century before presenting the period. Drawing upon a range that looked at in terms of medieval saved by Thomas de Cantilupe to a detailed account of the Bosworth of contemporary gender and spatial concepts of youth and manhood rather than effeminacy, whom he had prayed. This book examines Cragh's story campaign. theories, it focuses on the gender dynamics of this Richard’s actions look far more conventional for his age. and the supposed miracle that had taken place through a 437pp, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2014, Hardback, was remarkable way of life, and the material spaces which 316pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, Paperback, was number of eyewitness accounts and other evidence that £20.00 they generated and within which they operated. £29.99 was given at a commission held to consider Thomas de 201pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Cantilupe's canonisation. Now £7.95 Now £12.95 £55.00 168pp, Princeton University Press, 2004, Paperback, was Now £14.95 £16.95 Now £6.95

An Alternative History Thomas Becket Millennium Rites of Passage of Britain: The War of By John Guy The End of the World and the Cultures of Transition in the the Roses John Guy aims to explore Becket’s Forging of Christendom Fourteenth Century By Timothy Venning complex motivations and psychology, By T. A. Holland By Nicola McDonald and it is a sympathetic take on This book forms a chronological Becket’s actions, with the blame Millenium takes us ‘from the Essays explore the ritual marking history of the Wars of the Roses, for the conflict between King and crucifixion to the First Crusade, and of transitional periods in life in the which identifies key turning points Archbishop, seen as the result of from the glitter of Constantinople to 14th century. Subjects include the and asks 'what if?' of each of them. As Henry’s petulence and unprincipled the bleak shores of Canada. It was the `peculiar funeral’ of Edward II, the much as exploring alternative paths of behaviour much more than of age of Otto the Great and William accession of boy kings, becoming a history, however, Venning's approach focuses on why they obstinacy on Becket’s part. the Conqueror, of caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, priest, becoming a man, rites of passage in English and happened as they did, asking how forces were weighted, monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the French romances, Chaucer’s women, Gower’s Confessio and where luck or judgement had a decisive say. 424pp, Random House, 2012, Hardback, was £25.00 invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal Amantis , and initiation in Froissart’s Dits amoureux . 224pp, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, Hardback, was Now £9.95 monarchy and the emergence of Western Europe for the 176pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2004, Hardback, was £19.99 first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.’ £45.00 476pp, Abacus, 2008, Paperback, was £9.99 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

England's Medieval Winter King Queens Regents and Seafarers, Merchants Navy 1066-1509 Henry VII and the Dawn Potentates and Pirates in the By Susan Rose of Tudor England Edited by Theresa M. Vann Middle Ages A well illustrated overview of By Thomas Penn Queens, Regents and By Dirk Meier England's navy in the Middle Ages. A lively treatment of the reign of Potentatesconcentrates on the theme In recent years archaeologists The design and building of ships and Henry VII, focusing on his struggle for of women and royal power, examining have discovered much about the harbour facilities, the development legitimacy, the rebellions which he the available information about development of ships: the Viking of navigation, ship handling, and the faced and the increasingly arbitrary specific royal women and reassessing longboat, the ubiquitous cog, the hulk world of the seaman are all described, and paranoid nature of his rule. their access to and use of power and and the caravel. In this engaging and while comparisons with the navies of England's closest authority, and drawing significant new conclusions about 448pp, Simon and Schuster, 2013, Paperback, was £9.99 highly illustrated volume, Dirk Meier brings to life the neighbours, with particular focus on France and Scotland, internal politics and international relations in medieval world of the medieval seaman, based on evidence from are made, and notable battles described. Now £4.95 Europe. ship excavations and contemporary accounts of voyages. 224pp, b/w and col illus, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2013, 166pp, Boydell and Brewer, 1995, Hardback, was £60.00 184pp, col illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £12.95 was £19.99 Now £9.95 Now £7.95

Edward III and the Sanctifying Signs Angela of Foligno The Hospitallers and Triumph of England Making Christian Tradition Memorial the Holy Land By Richard Barber in Late Medieval England By Cristina Mazzoni Financing the Latin East, 1187 - 1274 Edward III’s great victory at Crecy By David Aers A selection of excerpts from the By Judith Bronstein and the new Order of the Garter In this book David Aers examines memorial written by a mystical An investigation of the organisation which celebrated it form the twin Christian literature, theology Italian woman of the Middle Ages of the Hospitallers in the east. It subjects of this detailed study. Barber and culture in the late medieval to record her suffering, visions, focuses on the impact of the various both examines and acclaims the period and especially debates over joy and relationships with Christ. crises in the East upon the Order, King’s military strategy, and shows orthodoxy. By studying a range of The translation is preceded by an looking at how it reacted to events, how a core leadership came to form the nucleus of the texts including Piers Plowman, and those by John Wyclif, introduction placing the work in context. the contributions that western priories played in the Garter knights. The order is examined as part of a wider William Langland and Walter Brut, he asks why some 132pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1999, Paperback, was rehabilitation of the East, and the various efforts made to European cultural and intellectual chivalric ethos. were considered orthodox and others heretical. £14.99 restore its economic and military strength. 650pp, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2013, Hardback, was 281pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, Now £4.95 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was £30.00 was £21.50 £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £5.95 Now £14.95

34 • MEDIEVAL BRITAIN WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Medieval Traveller Letters of Peter Imperial Lives and Joan of Arc By Norbert Ohler Damian, 61-90 Letters of the 11th By Helen Castor This book makes an extensive By Owen J. Blum Century Acclaimed historian Helen Castor examination of how and why people Letters 61-90 reveal the author’s By Theodor Mommsen brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan travelled in the period AD 500 to concern with the contemporary need of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives Translations of "The Deeds of Conrad 1500. The second edition contains a for reforms, centering on the clerical, us a living, breathing young woman; II" (1024-1139) by Wipo, "Life of substantial (40 page) afterword, which especially episcopal, celibacy and on a roaring girl fighting the English, and Emperor the Henry IV" (1056-1106) surveys the twenty years research the “heresy” of simony which involved taking sides in a bloody civil war that and the Letters of Henry IV. since the book's original publication, the purchase of ecclesiastical offices. was tearing fifteenth century France and contains new thoughts and 397pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1992, 223pp, Columbia University Press, apart. evidence on many of the sections of the original book. Hardback, was £31.95 2000, Paperback, was £23.00 352pp, col pls, Faber Book Services, 2015, Paperback, was 296pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Paperback, £9.99 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 was £19.99 Now £4.95 Now £7.95

Captives and their Letters of Peter Fama Tournament Saviors in the Medieval Damian 91-120 The Politics of Talk and By David Crouch Crown of Aragon By Owen J. Blum Reputation in Medieval Europe In Tournament David Crouch has By Jarbel Rodriguez Written during the years 1062-1066, By Thelma S. Fenster and Edited produced a book on all aspects of the tournament experience, from Given the endemic warfare between these letters deal with a wide variety by Daniel Lord Smail of subjects. Some letters are of speculating on its place and date of Christians and Muslims in medieval These nine papers from a conference origin and its functions, to exploring Spain the taking of prisoners was a historical interest, others approach held at Fordham University in 2000 the size and scope of philosophical those that sponsored and financed common feature on both sides. This focus on fama, or talk in the medieval the events, and those that took part. book examines what life was like for or theological treatises. Damian’s period and how it was regarded as correspondents range from simple hermits in his The choice of site, the make-up of Christian captives, attitudes towards captivity and the both sinful gossip and hearsay, and something that could the gathering, and the itinerary of the day - from the structures put in place for their ransoming. community to abbots, bishops, cardinals, and even to have a beneficial and honest purpose. The contributors Pope Alexander II. moment the town woke up, to the prize giving at the 225pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2007, discuss the interaction between fama and the law, its end, as well as the action itself are all covered in depth. 418pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1998, links with reputations won and lost, and with speech. Hardback, was £60.50 235pp, Hambledon and London Ltd, 2005, Paperback, was Hardback, was £36.95 228pp, b/w illus, Cornell University Press, 2003, Paperback, Now £14.95 £17.99 Now £36.95 was £25.95 Now £7.95 Now £6.95

God's Scribe Letters of Peter Gendering the Master Encyclopedia of the By Jeff Rider Damian 121-150 Narrative Middle Ages Galbert of Bruges wrote an By Owen J. Blum Women and Power in By Andre Vauchez eyewitness account of the 1127 This volume, the fifth in a series to the Middle Ages A comprehensive volume of reference assassination of Charles the Good, publish all 180 letters by the monk By M. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski with contributions from over 600 Count of Flanders, and the ensuing Peter Damian, presents Letters 121- scholars, this book improves with civil war. Jeff Rider argues that this is 150 which were written between This book provides a much- each edition. It was published first in not a true journal but a revised and 1065 and 1071. The correspondence needed theoretical and historical French, and with each new edition edited history of events. He discusses includes letters to the Empress reassessment of medieval women's there have been additions to the how the chronicle developed, Agness, to lay officials and nobles, to monastic power. It describes women's progress contents. It justly claims to provide `a magisterial sweep' Galbert’s sources, how he organised his notes and wrote communities and to his nephew. toward power as a push-pull movement, showing with `a fresh approach' ensuring its constant use as a his text and its literary qualities. how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled 195pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, modern work of reference. 360pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2001, women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their Hardback, was £34.50 authority as well. 1356pp, James Clarke and Co, 2000, Hardback, was Hardback, was £55.95 £243.00 Now £9.95 269pp, Cornell University Press, 2003, Paperback, was Now £14.95 £23.95 Now £69.95 Now £6.95

Henry of Suso Letters of Peter So Great a Light, So Inventing the Middle Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours Damian, 151-180 Great a Smoke Ages Translated by E. Colledge Translated by Owen J. Blum The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc Lives, Works and Ideas of the Great Written by Dominican preacher and and I. M. Resnick By Louisa A. Burnham Medievalists of the 20th Century mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 1300-1366), This volume concludes the series The Beguins were a small sect of By Norman F. Cantor Horologium Sapientiae, or Wisdom’s of Peter Damian’s Letters in English priests and lay people allied to the A notoriously controversial Watch upon the Hours, was one of translation. Among Letters 151-180 Spiritual Franciscans. Burnham follows examination of the work of twenty the most successful religious writings readers will find some of Damian’s the lives of nine Beguins as they key scholars, mainly from the first of its time. Essentially a dialogue most passionate exhortations on conceal themselves in cities, solicit half of the century, which aims to between the author and Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells behalf of eremitic ideals. clandestine donations in order to bribe inquisitors, show how the events of their lives and their spiritual and of Suso’s service to and espousal of Wisdom, his “most 336pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2005, escape from prison, and venerate the burned bones of political outlooks shaped their research. cruel bride”. Hardback, was £34.50 their martyred fellows as the relics of saints. 480pp, Lutterworth Press, 1992, Hardback, was £28.75 346pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1994, 234pp, Cornell University Press, Hardback, was £35.95 Hardback, was £34.50 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95 Now £9.95

Letters of Peter Robert of Arbrissel City of Fortune Sacred City Damian, 1-30 A Medieval Religious Life How Venice Won and Consecrating Churches By Owen J. Blum By Bruce L. Venarde Lost a Naval Empire and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy Peter Damian (1007-1072), an This collection of contemporary By Roger Crowley eleventh-century monk and man of sources on Robert of Arbrissel A gripping narrative account of By Louis I. Hamilton letters, left a large and significant body provides an insight into the man, his the rise of Venice from 1000 to The so-called Investiture Conflict of correspondence. This first volume life and actions, the world in which he the start of the sixteenth century. was a watershed moment in the contains the first thirty letters, and preached and how others viewed him. Crowley shows how warfare and political life of the Latin West and covers the period before 1049. Two Lives are included by Baudri of crusading, trade and commerical the history of the papacy. Less Here we see Peter Damian as an untiring preacher and Dol and Andreas of Fontevraud, followed by two highly rivalry with Genoa and Pisa and the creation of a well known, however, is the conflict which occurred uncompromising reformer, both of the monastic world critical letters addressed to Robert, a letter by him to network of colonies all played their part, and describes over the dedication of churches. This book provides and of the church at large. the Countess of Brittany, as well as various charters. the city’s wealthy mercantile elite and unique system of an examination of that issue, placing the fundamental 312pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1989, 155pp, Catholic University of America Press, 2003, governance. questions of the Gregorian Reform and Investiture Hardback, was £34.50 Paperback, was £19.95 432pp, Faber Book Services, 2012, Paperback, was £9.99 Conflict back into their original liturgical framework. Now £9.95 Now £7.95 272pp, Manchester University Press, 2010, Hardback, was Now £3.95 £60.00 Now £14.95

Letters of Peter The Deeds of Pope Hundred Years War III Classical Rhetoric and Damian, 31-60 Innocent III Divided Houses, 1369-1393 Medieval By Owen J. Blum By James M. Powell By Jonathan Sumption Historiography This volume contains Letters 31-60 "The Deeds of Pope Innocent This long-awaited third volume of Edited by Ernst Breisach of Peter Damian. While his epistolary III", composed before 1210 by an Jonathan Sumption’s monumental Essays dedicated to the influence style is varied - exhortatory, anonymous member of the papal history of the war narrates the of Classical rhetoric on medieval occasional, pastoral, reforming - his curia, provides a unique window into period from 1369 to 1393, a span history writing. Topics include the message is singular and simple in the activities, policies, and strategies marked by the slow decline of English use of language by twelfth century urging strict adherence to the canons of the papacy and the curia during fortunes and the subsequent rise of historians; John of Salisbury's Historia of the Church. one of the most important periods in the history of the the French. Marshaling a wide range of contemporary Pontificalis; and sense of time in medieval historical 422pp, Catholic University of America Press, 1990, medieval church. sources, both printed and manuscript, French and English, narrative. Hardback, was £34.50 286pp, b/w illus, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, Sumption recounts the events of this critical period of the Hundred Years War in unprecedented detail. 243pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, Paperback, Now £9.95 Paperback, was £33.50 was £24.99 1006pp, Faber Book Services, 2009, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £9.95 Now £6.95 Now £14.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE • 35 Comparative Marvels, Monsters and The Intellectual Book of Michael of Perspectives on Miracles Climate of the Early Rhodes, Volume 1: History and Historians Studies in the Medieval and University Facsimile Essays in Memory of Bryce Early Modern Imaginations By Nancy Van Deusen Edited by David McGee, Alan M. Lyon (1920-2007) Edited by David A. Sprunger Nine essays examine the nature, Stahl and Pamela O. Long Edited by James M. Murray, David and Timothy S. Jones purpose and curriculum of medieval In the fifteenth century, a Venetian Nicholas and B. S. Bachrach These essays, in fact almost entirely Universities. Subjects include mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote 12th- and 13th-century theology, and illustrated a text describing his These essays are grouped medieval in their subject matter, trace the development of representations 13th-century mathematics, Robert experiences in the Venetian merchant according to the major areas on which Lyon’s research Grosseteste, scholastic musical thought, understanding and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial concentrated: the legacy of Henri Pirenne, constitutional of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyse the importance of of Aristotle's natural philosophy and the condemnations mathematics and treatments of contemporary and legal history of England and the Continent, and the of 1277. shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical systems, economic history of the Low Countries. marvellous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities. 218pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1997, Paperback, and astrological ideas. Volume 1 is a facsimile of the 376pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2012, Hardback, was £24.99 manuscript, reproduced in full colour. was £69.99 332pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Paperback, was £29.99 Now £7.95 534pp, col illus, MIT Press, 2009, Hardback, was £44.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

De Ore Domini Medieval Lives and the The Ordo Virtutum of Book of Michael of Preacher and Word in Historian Hildegard of Bingen Rhodes, Volume 2: the Middle Ages Studies in Medieval Prospography Critical Studies Transcription and Edited by Eugene A. Green, Beverly Edited by J-P. Genet and Neithard Bulst Edited by Audrey E. Davidson Translation Mayne Kienzle and Thomas L. Amos Essays which explore the potential The first collection of essays on Edited by Pamela O. Long, David Essays on medieval preaching and of prosopography as well as Hildegard’s wonderfully unique Ordo McGee and Alan M. Stahl sermons. They present a diverse methodological issues regarding Virtutum, along with a reduced edited by Pamela O. Long, David selection of historical periods, both its definition and application, facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden McGee and Alan M. Stahl. methodologies, and audiences, in particular noting the choices MS.2 that contain the drama. covering a broad timeframe, the 700s to 1511, and involved in grouping and classifying people. Topics Michael’s book includes the first extant treatise on naval 128pp, b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, architecture, a treatise on mathematics in the tradition including work on figures ranging from Bede to Ramon include ecclesiastical elites, social groups in town Hardback, was £49.99 Llull. and countryside, political and economic elites, and of medieval and Renaissance abacus manuscripts, texts 283pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Paperback, intellectual elites. 5 essays in English, 12 in French, 10 in Now £12.95 on navigation, and Michael’s autobiographical service was £24.99 German. record. 732pp, MIT Press, 2009, Hardback, was £51.95 Now £7.95 438pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1986, Hardback, was £37.99 Now £14.95 Now £6.95

History as Literature Medieval Notaries and The Salt of Common The Book of Michael of German World Chronicles of the Their Acts Life Rhodes, Volume 3: Thirteenth Century in Verse The 1327-1328 Register Individuality and Choice Studies Edited by Mike Graeme Florence of Jean Holanie in the Medieval Town Edited by David McGee, Alan M. This volume presents excerpts and Edited by Debra A. Salata Countryside and Church Stahl and Pamela O. Long translations of three thirteenth- and Kathryn L. Reyerson Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Nine essays examine the Venetian century South German verse This book explores the beginnings The essays within this volume, maritime world of the fifteenth chronicles: Rudolf von Ems’s of the continental European notarial produced in honor of J. Ambrose century, Michael's life, the discovery Weltchronik, the anonymous tradition, acquainting readers with Raftis, are united by two themes of the manuscript, the mathematics Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. the format of notarial documents, the books containing significant in Raftis’s career: a belief in the fundamental in the book, the use of illustration, the navigational These three works are close in language, in date, and in notarial acts, and with the variety of notarial acts. Sample individuality of medieval English men and women, and a directions, Michael's knowledge of shipbuilding in the conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing documents are drawn from the register of Jean Holanie, belief in their ability to make choices. Venetian context, and the manuscript's extensive the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval the royal public notary of Montpellier. calendrical material. society: courtly, monastic, and urban. 562pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Paperback, 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, Paperback, was £39.99 384pp, b/w illus, MIT Press, 2009, Hardback, was £31.95 194pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, Paperback, was £9.99 was £13.99 Now £9.95 Now £12.95 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

Journeys Toward God Personal Names The Study of Chivalry Forces of the Pilgrimage and Crusade Studies of Medieval Resources and Approaches Hanseatic League Edited by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur Europe Edited by Thomas H. Seiler 1200-1500 These essays explore “the Social Identity and Familial Structures and Howell Chickering By David Nicolle interconnectedness of pilgrimage Edited by Monique Bourin, Pascal This hefty volume provides a useful Lots of illustrations accompany this and crusade, and the central role of Chareille and George Beech introduction to the historiography concise guide to the armies and navy these enterprises for the history of and debates surrounding medieval of the Hanseatic League. The author European society and thought". Under the direction of Monique chivalry in its historical and literary first introduces the league itself Bourin an international team of manefestations, as well as a series then reviews military organisation, 241pp, Medieval Institute Publications, scholars has been considering onomastics from the 1992, Paperback, was £24.99 of reflections on the teaching of chivalry as a topic to maritime power, sieges and early gunpowder weaponry, perspective of history rather than that of linguistics undergraduates. Essays explore the material culture of and the commercial rivalries which necessitated such Now £7.95 or philology. This volume describes the methodology chivalry, as well as the vast wealth of medieval chivalric forces. employed and some of the results obtained. literature. 48pp, b/w and col illus, Osprey, 2014, Paperback, was £9.99 221pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Paperback, 710pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, Paperback, was £21.99 was £29.99 Now £4.95 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Ladies, Whores and Regular Life Women and Knight Holy Women Monastic Canonical and Monasticism in The Warrior and World of Chivalry A Sourcebook in Courtly Mendicant Rules Medieval Europe By Robert Jones Religious and Urban Cultures Edited by Douglas J. McMillan Sisters and Patrons of the A lavishly illustrated overview of of Late Medieval Germany and Daniel la Corta Cistercian Reform the medieval knight, examining his Edited by Sarah Westphal-Wihl Included are admonitions on and Edited by Constance Berman equipment, arms, and armour, his and Ann Marie Rasmussen examples of the various forms of steed, his 'career path', and of course and Michael J. Lepore his 'chivalric code'. It also investigates This sourcebook presents regular life by Antony, Syncletica, Pachomius, Basil, Cassian, Augustine, A selection of documents, translated the role of the knight in law and editions and translations of seven primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from justice, and in feudal warfare. fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our Caesarius of Arles, Benedict of Nursia, Columbanus, and Benedict of Aniane, plus selections from Rules for Old French, that shows how religious women and 240pp, col illus, Osprey, 2011, Hardback, was £20.00 understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late their patrons managed resources to make monastic medieval German-speaking world. Cluniacs, Carthusians, Cistercians, the Knights Templar, the Hospitallers, and the followers of Saints Francis, communities – particularly a variety of Cistercian Now £9.95 166pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Paperback, Clare, and Dominic. communities – work. was £14.99 177pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, Paperback, 146pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Paperback, Now £5.95 was £15.50 was £10.99 Now £5.95 Now £4.95

Law, Custom and the The Hands of the Women, Marriage and Ducal Brittany 1364- Social Fabric in Tongue Family in Medieval 1399 Medieval Europe Essays on Deviant Speech Christendom By Michael Jones Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon Edited by Edwin David Craun Essays in Memory of Michael Traditionally John IV, Duke of Brittany Edited by David Nicholas Presented in three sections—Sins of M. Sheehan C.S.B has been considered an Anglophile. This book re-examines his role in and B. S. Bachrach the Tongue, Punishing Deviant Speech, Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Deviant Speech and Gender— Anglo-French relations by a full study Topics include marriage rules as they These essays consider the role, of the diplomatic, administrative and relate to women and incest, Bernard the essays included here explore position, and contributions of what speech acts can tell us about military evidence. It suggests that the of Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval medieval women; the development of Christian marriage, Duke’s policies were designed principally to advance the Paris. gender, crime and punishment, agency, ethics, and literary especially in the High Middle Ages; and the secular family craftsmanship. creation of an autonomous duchy. 330pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Paperback, with its legal and emotional relationships. 232pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2008, Paperback, 250pp, Oxford University Press, 1970, Hardback, was was £29.99 431pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, Paperback, £12.99 was £21.99 was £37.99 Now £9.95 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95

36 • MEDIEVAL EUROPE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Medieval The Workers of Righteous Persecution Empire without End Expansion of Europe Renaissance Florence By Christine Caldwell Ames By Kathleen Wren Christian By J. R. S. Phillips By Richard C. Trexler This study recounts how inquisitors A new overview of the collecting of A Clarendon paperback edition, with A study of the great insurrection in crafted and promoted explicitly antiquities in early renaissance Rome, a new foreword and conclusion by 1378 of the Ciompi (day-labouring Christian meanings for their from the time of Petrarch to the the author, which looks at the voyages wool workers), the most important inquisitorial persecution. Inquisitors’ Sack of Rome in 1527. The author and new contacts made by Europeans proto-industrial revolt of the late conviction that the sin of heresy examines shifts in the response of in the period between 1000-1450 Middle Ages. constituted the gravest danger to the artists and writers to spectacular AD, which paved the way for the 130pp, Pegasus Press, 1993, Paperback, Christian soul led to the belief that archaeological discoveries and the better known discoveries of the late fifteenth and early was £9.99 bringing the individual to repentance new role of collecting antiquities in sixteenth century was a pious way to carry out their pastoral task. the public life of Roman elites. The book culminates in Now £4.95 312pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Hardback, was a detailed catalogue of the thirty-six most important 306pp, Oxford University Press, 1998, Paperback, was antiquities collections formed before the Sack. £62.00 £39.00 440pp, col illus, Yale University Press, 2010, Hardback, was Now £19.95 Now £12.95 £50.00 Now £19.95

Her Immaculate Hand Turn It Again Columbus and the Mortgage of the Past Selected Works by and About Jewish Medieval Studies Quest for Jerusalem Reshaping the Ancient Political the Women Humanists of and Literary Theory By Carol Delaney Inheritance (1050-1300) Quattrocento Italy Edited by Sheila Delany This new biography sets Columbus’ By Francis Oakley By Margaret L. King These essays deal with Jewish studies life and voyages against the backdrop Here, Oakley explores kingship from King and Rabil translate 24 texts- and the medieval historian; rabbinic of his eschatological beliefs, arguing the tenth century to the beginning of letters, orations, and encomia. Among ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea that Columbus’ primary motivation in the fourteenth, showing how, under other things, these texts reveal a and Yavneh; Jewish women martyrs; attempting to chart a western route the stresses of religious and cultural much wider range of literary and sexual politics and marriage; late to the East Indies lay in his desire to development, it became an inceasingly intellectual activity by women than hitherto supposed, medieval Castile; nation and miscegenation; cultural raise funds for a new Crusade to retake Jerusalem as secular institution. the first step in the fulfilment of history and the coming while also revealing the constraints placed on aspiring hybridity; and Kabbalistic anthropology. 336pp, Yale University Press, 2012, Hardback, was £40.00 women humanists. apocalypse. 234pp, b/w illus, Pegasus Press, 2004, Paperback, was Now £14.95 173pp, Pegasus Press, 2000, Paperback, was £9.99 £9.99 319pp, Simon and Schuster, 2011, Hardback, was £20.00 Now £9.99 Now £4.95 Now £6.95

Hugh of Poitiers: The Medieval Russia's Home and Raven King Vezelay Chronicle Epics, Chronicles and Homelessness in the Matthias Corvinus and the Edited by John O. Ward and John Scott Tales Medieval and Fate of his Lost Library This Chronicle, which Abbot Pons Edited by Serge Zenkovsky Renaissance World By Marcus Tanner (1138-1161) ordered his notary Hugh A generous anthology of material By Nicholas Howe Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary of Poitiers to write, is a passionate from 1443-90 enjoyed one of the from the Russian Middle Ages from This book collects five essays which and detailed account of the litigation most dazzling careers of the fifteenth the Russian Primary Chronicle to the approach `home and homelessness' and violence that marked the century. It is as a lover of learning seventeenth century. Included are using both archaeological and emergence of urban institutions that he is principally remembered, extracts from chronicles, homiletic documentary sources. Contributors at Vezelay and the fighting between abbot, count and assembling one of the largest libraries in Europe, and it works, hagiography, secular biography, poetry and letters, discuss the houses of 16th-century Venice, Morisco bishop. This first English translation also includes other is on this aspect of his kingship which this biographical and each is provided with an introduction and notes. houses in 16th-century Spain, poverty and vagrancy relevant documents as well as an introduction and notes. account particularly focuses, looking at the status 526pp, Penguin Books Ltd, 1991, Paperback, was £15.99 in Spain and early colonial Peru, and homelessness in conferred by knowledge, and the role of the entourage 402pp, Pegasus Press, 1992, Paperback, was £10.99 medieval Iceland and in Anglo-Saxon England. Now £6.95 of his Italian wife Beatrice in promoting the library's Now £4.95 170pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, acquisition. was £18.50 265pp, Yale University Press, 2008, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £5.95 Now £5.95

John of Caulibus: Venice: A New History Lordship, Reform and Medieval and Meditations on the By Thomas F. Madden the Development of Renaissance Stained Life of Christ An accessible, yet authoritative look Civil Society in Glass in the Victoria Edited by Anne Miller, C. Mary at the whole sweep of Venetian Medieval Italy and Albert Museum Stallings Taney and Francis X. Taney history, from its early medieval origins to the present day. It is the city’s The Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100-1250 By Paul Williamson One of the most influential and medieval heyday which occupies By David Foote The stained glass collection of the widely read Franciscan works, the the centre of Maddern’s work, as he This study places emphasis on the Victoria and Albert Museum is fourteenth-century Meditations focuses on the construction of the the largest in the world, making it on the Life of Christ exerted an important role of religious institutions city, its churches and palaces, and the in regulating the intense competition and co-operation possible to chart the development of incalculable influence on medieval spirituality, literature extension of its power across the eastern Mediterranean the art in detail from the middle of the twelfth century and art. At least 110 manuscripts are known today. Here between lords and the Church during the 12th and 13th through trade and naval conquest. centuries. to about 1550. One hundred colour plates, and selected it is presented in English translation with an introduction details, show the collection to full advantage, while which surveys the author's intent and the work's 465pp, col pls, Penguin Books Ltd, 2012, Paperback, was 254pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, £13.99 commentaries on each of the pieces reconstruct the considerable influence. was £22.95 original context of the panels, and explain the imagery. 358pp, col pls, Pegasus Press, 2000, Paperback, was £24.99 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 160pp, A and C Black, 2003, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

Platina's on Right Law and the Illicit in Olivi and the Medieval Manuscripts Pleasure and Good Medieval Europe Interpretation of from the Collection of Health Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Matthew in the High T.R. Buchanan in the A Critical Abridgement and Joel Kaye and E. Ann Matter Middle Ages Bodleian Library Translation of De Honesta This collection of essays makes the By Kevin Madigan Oxford Voluptate Et Valetudine case that the development of law is deeply implicated in the growth A study of the development and By Peter Kidd Edited by Mary Ella Milham of medieval theology and Christian union of scholastic, apocalyptic and This catalogue describes 24 Drawing upon sources from Pliny doctrine; the construction of Franciscan interpretations of the manuscripts. The collection consists to the Arab physician Ibn Butlan to the celebrated chef discourses on sin, human nature, honour, and virtue; the Gospel of Matthew from 1150 to primarily of late medieval devotional books from France, Martino d'Rossi, Platina in ten books explores all aspects multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanour, and 1350. Madigan uses the fortunes of the Franciscan Peter the Netherlands and renaissance Italy. It includes "Books of food and health: philosophic, dietetic, aesthetic, social interaction; and the evolution of scholasticism. Olivi (d. 1298) and his commentary on Matthew as a of Hours", half of which are French and date from dramatic. The mid fifteenth century text is here lens through which to observe the larger theological and the fifteenth or early sixteenth century, a Bridgettine 315pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2008, Paperback, was ecclesiastical developments of this era. presented in an abridged English translation. £16.50 Breviary, a Milanese Breviary, a ferial Psalter, a Psalter of c 220pp, Pegasus Press, 1999, Paperback, was £11.99 240pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, Paperback, 1300 and three Italian humanistic texts. Now £6.95 was £22.95 Now £11.99 209pp, Bodleian Library, 2001, Paperback, was £20.00 Now £7.95 Now £6.95

The Sorcery Trial of No Place of Rest The Maid and the The Ark of God: Part Alice Kyteler Jewish Literature, Expulsion Queen A, Volumes 1 and 2 A Contemporary Account (1324) and the Memory of France By Nancy Goldstone Foliate Capitals, 1170-1250 Edited by L. S. Davidson and By Susan L. Einbinder A popular and dramatic history, which By John James Richard de Ledrede There are few direct references to narrates the fortunes of the Dauphin’s The Ark of God is a comprehensive the catastrophic great expulsion party from their lowest ebb to the pictorial history of Early Gothic This work, the contemporary revival of the French monarchy. In Narrative of the 1324 Sorcery of the Jews from France in 1306. churches in the Paris Basin. Part A Einbinder studies a range of writings particular Nancy Goldstone focuses in two volumes contains over 9,000 Proceedings against Alice Kyteler (of on the careers of Yolande of Aragon, Kilkenny, Ireland) documents the first she reveals to be commemorative. photos of the capitals with an analysis. Her careful readings uncover the ways in which medieval the Dauphin’s chief supporter and strategist, and Joan of The capitals of this period are more natural in style than instance of a woman being accused of witchcraft through Arc, whom she argues, was championed by Yolande. intercourse with the Devil, and the first execution Jews asserted their identity in exile and, perhaps more those that went before, confirmed in those buildings for for heresy in Ireland. This book provides an English important, helped to preserve or efface their history. 296pp, Viking, 2012, Hardback, was £20.00 which we have documentary dates, which may then be translation together with an introduction providing 267pp, Pennsylvania University Press, 2009, Hardback, was Now £7.95 used to establish a chronology for other works from historical context. £39.00 these times. 100pp, Pegasus Press, 2004, Paperback, was £6.99 Now £12.95 1632pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Hardback, was £695.00 Now £2.95 Now £195.00 +44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL EUROPE • 37 The Ark of God: Part Medieval Maps of the Uneasy Communion The Mirror of B, Volume 3 Holy Land By Vivian B. Mann, Maria del Carmen Salvation Archaic Capitals, 1070 to 1130 By P. D. A. Harvey Lacarra Ducay and Marcus B. Burke Speculum Humanae Salvationis By John James This well illustrated book brings A fascinating study of the iconography - An Edition of British Library together and analyses the eight of altarpieces and the artistic Blockbook G.11784 This book presents a complete collaboration between Jews and collection and photographic record known medieval regional maps of Edited by John W. Smeltz the Holy Land produced from the Christians. In the multi-cultural of all the capitals carved in the Paris society of late medieval Spain, and Albert C. Labriola Basin before 1130 - over 4,000 - few Christian perspective from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Jewish and Christian artists worked A full translation, and reproduction of of which have never been published together to produce retablos (large all 58 woodcuts, of this 15th century before. James has dated nearly every building campaign P.D.A. Harvey explores the historical, literary and cartographic background to the maps, their production, multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew blockbook. The translators have provided detailed in the Basin to within 5 years - a unique achievement religious manuscripts. commentary to explain the blockbook's biblical passages possible only because every one of the 147 remaining and their importance as evidence for European attitudes towards the Holy Land. 176pp, D Giles Limited, 2010, Hardback, was £39.95 and mythological legends, and to illuminate its central works have been included. focus on the roles of the Virgin Mary and Christ in 740pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, 160pp, British Library, 2012, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £14.95 human salvation. was £395.00 Now £19.95 208pp, James Clarke and Co, 2002, Hardback, was £54.00 Now £95.00 Now £14.95

The Ark of God: Part Sienese Painting After Christ Church Chester Art B, Volumes 4 and 5 the Black Death Cathedral Dublin: A A Subject List of Extant and Formal Capitals 1130 to 1180 Artistic Pluralism, Politics History Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama By John James and the New Art Market By Kenneth Milne By Sally-Beth Maclean Over 13,000 photos, being about By Judith B. Steinhoff This book traces the history of half of the capitals carved during This book provides a new perspective Ireland’s most significant cathedral Though it may not contain the these years. They are formal-abstract on Sienese painting after the Black church from its foundation in the bumper-crop of surviving subject- in style. The analysis of the foliate Death, asking how social, religious, eleventh century to the present day. art as a city such as York possesses, carving, including the capitals on the and cultural change affect visual As well as the history of the church Chester nevertheless holds much great portals, helps to identify individual carvers through imagery and style. and its community it also explores the development of of value and interest, as the list in this book aptly its architecture, liturgy and music. demonstrates. their way of working, from which the key buildings may 264pp, Cambridge University Press, 2006, Hardback, was be dated and through this a consistent chronology £69.00 420pp, 32 b/w pls, Four Courts Press, 2010, Paperback, was 115pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1982, established for the period. £19.95 Hardback, was £35.99 Now £19.95 1748pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was Now £7.95 Now £9.95 £695.00 Now £195.00

The Master Masons of The Priory and Parish Translating the Past Early Art of the West Chartres Church of St. Mary Laurent de Premierfait and Riding of Yorkshire By John James Beddgelert Boccaccio's De Casibus A Subject List of Extant and Chartres survives almost unaltered By Alan Bott and Margaret Dunn By Anne D. Hebdeman Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama from its medieval heyday, when it A comprehensive illustrated guide In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait was constructed largely through to the priory and parish church of produced a French translation of By Barbara D. Palmer the labours of one generation of St. Mary, Beddgelert, comprising Boccaccio's De casibus virorum Prior to Henry VIII’s earlier acts craftsmen. John James shows how he detailed notes on the history of illustrium, a fourteenth-century text came to identify those master masons of redistribution, the West Riding’s Christianity in the area from the third containing cautionary historical tales religious establishments numbered from the stones themselves, as well as revealing much to the 20th century and information about notable local about the corrupting effects of power. This gloriously about design and construction processes. a minimum of 334 that have left record of their personalities and clergy, as well as a full description of illustrated volume traces the history of Laurent's work foundation. Some 194 of those churches also have left 208pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 1991, Hardback, the architecture, fixtures and fittings of the church. from the first copies made for the dukes of Berry and record of their art, which constitutes the larger part of was £25.00 112pp, Coastline Publications, 2005, Paperback, was £9.99 Burgundy to manuscripts independently produced by this volume’s subject entries. artists and booksellers in Paris. Now £9.95 Now £3.95 363pp, 44 b/w pls, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, 240pp, col illus, Getty Trust Publishing, 2009, Hardback, was Hardback, was £36.99 £41.95 Now £9.95 Now £14.95

The Troyes Memoire Weaving Sacred The History of The Early Art of The Making of a Medieval Tapestry Stories Dunster Church and Coventry, Stratford- By Tina Kane French Choir Tapestries and the Priory Upon-Avon Warwick The “Troyes Mémoire” is the sole Performance of Clerical Identity The Mohuns, the Luttrells and Lesser Sites in surviving example of the written By Laura Weigert and their Castle Warwickshire instructions used in designing Spanning the backs of choir stalls, By Joan Jordan By Clifford Davidson and tapestries during the Middle Ages. It is large-scale tapestries functioned unique in its presentation of detailed A comprehensive history of the Jennifer S. Alexander as both architectural elements church and priory of Dunster from information on how patrons and and pictorial narratives. This This volume seeks to aid those church officials communicated complex iconographic its foundation in the eleventh century to the civil war. As studying the early art of Warwickshire, including relics book examines the role of these tapestries in ritual well as tracing the architectural and institutional history material to the medieval artists commissioned to paint performances, arguing that they contributed to a process and musical iconography. The subject lists found within cartoons for tapestries. It is here translated into English of the priory, the book also focuses on its principal provide information from records and antiquarian by which the clerical elite legitimated and defended their patrons, the families of Mohun and Luttrell. for the first time, with full introduction and extensive social position. accounts of both lost and extant early art from the notes. 288pp, b/w pls, Halsgrove, 2007, Hardback, was £14.99 region. 264pp, Cornell University Press, 2004, Hardback, was 196pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2010, Hardback, was £59.95 Now £6.95 237pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, £50.00 Hardback, was £55.99 Now £19.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

Catalogue of Dated Perspectives on The Romanesque The Early Art of and Datable Medieval Art Frieze and its Norfolk Manuscripts: c.888- Learning Through Looking Spectator A Subject List of Extant and 1600 in London Edited by Ena Heller and Edited by Deborah Kahn Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama Libraries Patricia P. Pongracz This collection of essays places By P. R. Robinson This volume examines medieval the frieze within its wider social By Ann E. Nichols culture from a number of different and cultural context and considers This catalogue, with 285 illustrated This book contains a detailed list of viewpoints to reveal how the art of conservation issues. Papers include: entries, provides an invaluable early art in the county of Norfolk, the Middle Ages can provide a unique Art History: problems of narrative conspectus of histories and chronicle legal and medical turning to a geographically defined insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and and iconography; regional groups and filiations; manuscripts, Livery Companies Ordinance Books, as database of evidence to examine the development of culture. The essays also address the teaching of medieval Conservation: principles of restoration and conservation; well as literary works in a number of languages. It covers regional styles and devotional preferences. The subject art and architecture as well as examining society’s Lincoln Cathedral Romanesque friezes. all institutional libraries in London except the British of much of the art revolves around devotional life and longing for ecclesiastical drama. Library, dealt with elsewhere. 232pp, Harvey Miller Publishers, 1992, Hardback, was local saints. £75.00 118pp, British Library, 2003, Hardback, was £95.00 224pp, D Giles Limited, 2009, Hardback, was £40.00 357pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2002, Hardback, Now £9.95 was £69.99 Now £29.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

Manuscript and Print The Art of Empathy Decoding Old Masters Word, Picture and in London c. 1475-1530 By David S. Areford Patrons, Princes and Enigmatic Spectacle By Julia Boffey One of only a handful of extant Paintings of the 15th Century Edited by Clifford Davidson This study explores the continuing works attributed to the anonymous By Abolala Soudavar Topics covered include the symbolism Nuremberg artist, the Master of the relationship between manuscript Abolala Soudavar examines seven of scatological illustration in Gothic and printed material in London after Stotteritz Altarpiece, the Mother manuscripts, connections between of Sorrows is a fine example of the paintings by some of the great Caxton’s establishment of a printing masters of the 15th century and word and picture in religious art, business at Westminster in 1476, and heightened realism that characterised the relationship perceived between much Northern European painting demonstrates how we can better the different ways in which people understand the state of international divine and human creativity, and the adapted to the availability of new technology. during the early Renaissance. David phenomenology of space and time in medieval theatre. Areford explores the artist’s technique in creating relations and the political rivalries of the time by 312pp, British Library, 2012, Hardback, was £45.00 emotional drama. decoding the figures, their postures and gestures, the 197pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984, Hardback, background scenes, the compositions and much else in was £21.99 Now £19.95 64pp, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2013, Paperback, was these paintings. £11.95 Now £7.95 154pp, col illus, I.B. Tauris, 2007, Hardback, was £59.00 Now £4.95 Now £14.95

38 • MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Visual and the The Gothic Cathedral Companion to Defaced Visionary By Otto Von Simson Churches The Visual Culture of Violence Art and Female Spirituality in This seminal study of the origins of By Stephen Friar in the Late Middle Ages Gothic architecture focuses on three Late Medieval Germany This well-illustrated A-Z celebrates By Valentin Groebner early Gothic churches: St Denis, Sens parish churches, with informative By J. F. Hamburger and Chartres. Von Simson stresses From the fourteenth century entries on everything from church the importance of viewing the onward, pictorial representations In nine essays embracing the histories officials, liturgy, architectural features buildings as a whole, showing how became increasingly violent, whether of art, religion, and literature, and decoration, vestments, festivals, their form is born not of abstract in depictions of the Passion, or in Jeffrey Hamburger explores the accounts and churchyards to saints, aesthetic considerations, but as a vivid and precise images of torture, interrelationships between the sacraments, divorce, bridleways, inscriptions, monasteries, visual arts and female spirituality in the context of representation of the divine order of the cosmos. execution, and war. This provoked a question: how to pagan symbols, plague, wills, silverware and vaults. distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and the cura monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used 282pp, b/w illus, Princeton University Press, 1994, as instruments of instruction and inspiration, images 517pp, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996, Paperback, was £16.99 reversed the social order from the proper, “just,” and Paperback, was £28.95 sanctioned use of force? occupied a central place in debates over devotional Now £6.95 practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. Now £12.95 199pp, Zone Books, 2004, Hardback, was £22.95 580pp, MIT Press, 1998, Hardback, was £32.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

The Lantern Tower of 101 Medieval Romanesque Edward III's Round Westminster Abbey Churches in West By Norbert Richard Wolf Table at Windsor 1060-2010 Sussex: A Touring Norbert Wolf provides an overview By Julian Munby and Richard Barber Reconstructing its History Guide of Romanesque art and its Essays on the excavation and development through a selection and Architecture By Paul Coppin architecture of Edward III's house of of its most important works and the round table. There are also essays By Warwick Rodwell In this guidebook Paul Coppin impressive achievements. Architecture, on the chivalric background to the A study of the different physical describes the medieval churches of painting, sculpture, manuscript building, and on its novelty - it formed struc­tures and prospective designs for West Sussex: their architecture and illumination, mosaic, goldwork and a centrepiece to the pageantry of towers to occupy the central crossing at Westminster its development, fixtures and fittings, enamelling are all represented in Edward's court and the symbolism behind Edward's Abbey, from the tower depicted on the Bayeux tapestry their history and patrons, and post-medieval alterations glorious colour photography. desire to found an entirely secular order of knights to plans by Wren and Hawksmoor. and conservation. 96pp, Taschen, 2007, Paperback, was £6.99 based on Arthurian legend. 112pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Paperback, was £15.00 144pp, SB Publications, 2006, Paperback, was £9.95 Now £2.95 282pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2007, Paperback, was Now £3.95 Now £3.95 £14.99 Now £5.95

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Archaeology of The Coronation Chair Interpreting the Desire by Gender and Wigford and the and Stone of Scone English Village Genre in Trouvere Brayford Pool History, Archaeology Landscape and Community Song By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, and Conservation at Shapwick, Somerset By Helen Dell Jenny E. Mann and Alan G. Vince By Warwick Rodwell By Mick Aston and Christopher Gerrard This study argues that the trouvères This volume publishes the results This volume assembles, for the first The Shapwick Project examined distinguished between sexual need of the excavation of several sites, time, the complementary evidence the development and history of an or lust and desire, the latter usually made possible by a series of urban derived from history, archaeology English parish and village over a ten confined to the masculine voice in development schemes. Each of the and conservation, and presents a thousand-year period. The result is high style. Less exalted persons, in excavations differed in the extent and depth of the factual account of the Coronation Chair and the Stone a fascinating study about how the community lived and whose company women were already implicitly included, stratigraphy uncovered and each belonged to a different of Scone, not as separate artefacts, but as the entity that prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group appear as incapable of desire in the fin'amors register. period, from the Iron Age to post-medieval. they have been for seven centuries. of enthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this 254pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2008, Hardback, was £50.00 story. 368pp, Oxbow Books, 2001, Hardback, was £40.00 320pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £29.95 Now £9.95 Now £4.95 Now £9.95 416pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £9.95

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Discover Medieval Old Abbey Farm, Arthurian Literature French Arthurian Sandwich Risley XXIX Romance III: Le A Guide to its History and Buildings By Richard Heawood, Christine Howard- Edited by David F. Johnson Chevalier as deus By Helen Clarke Davis, Denise Drury and Mick Krupa and Elizabeth Archibald espees This book describes the development This small moated site, now in Topics addressed include the reasons Edited by Paul Rockwell of Sandwich from nothing more than Warrington Borough, was probably for Edward III's abandonment of constructed after the sub-division of the Order of the Round Table; the The Chevalier as deus espees is a landmark for Anglo-Saxon seafarers an anonymous Arthurian romance, to a Norman market town with 2,000 the manor of Culcheth in 1246. The 1368 relocation of Arthur's tomb at project provided a rare opportunity Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for belonging to a cluster of French inhabitants. Its houses are its chief verse works that were composed glory and many of them are illustrated here. to record a building during demolition and subsequently our knowledge of the French manuscript sources for excavate below it, thereby maximising the information Malory's first tale, in particular the Suite du Merlin; and in England during the first decades of the thirteenth 120pp, Oxbow Books, 2011, Paperback, was £12.95 retrieval. the central role played by Cornwall in Malory's literary century. This volume - offering a text and facing worldview. translation - represents the only dual-language edition of Now £4.95 200pp, Oxford Archaeology, 2004, Paperback, was £17.99 the romance. 256pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, Hardback, was £50.00 Now £10.00 656pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £7.95 Now £9.95

Shrewsbury Medieval Town Plans Arthurian Literature Jehan Wauquelin: The An Archaeological Assessment By Brian Paul Hindle XXVI Medieval Romance of of an English Border Town This concise, well-illustrated book Edited by David F. Johnson Alexander By Nigel Baker considers the archaeological, and Elizabeth Archibald Translated by Nigel Bryant documentary and cartographic This book is the first to pose The Arthurian material collected in The Deeds and Conquests of evidence for medieval town-planning this volume ranges widely in time and the question – how far has the and shows how survivng and lost Alexander the Great is Jehan archaeological investigation of space, from a Latin romance based on Wauquelin's superb compendium, features can be identified in the Welsh sources to the post-Christian Shrewsbury progressed? What is now modern townscape. Sections focus written for the Burgundian court known? What is most significant? Arthur of modern fiction and film. in the mid-fifteenth century, which on town layouts, streets, defences, It begins with a tribute to the late Derek Brewer, a And, above all, what are the mysteries that remain and markets, churches, suburbs and property boundaries. draws together all the key elements of the Alexandrian what direction should archaeological research take in reprinting of the classic introduction to his edition of the tradition. Nigel Bryant's is the first translation into the future? 64pp, b/w illus, Shire Publications, 1990, Paperback, was last two tales of Malory's Morte Darthur. English. £6.99 288pp, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hardback, was £40.00 228pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2009, Hardback, was £60.00 324pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £2.95 Now £9.95 Now £7.95 Now £12.95

The Archaeology of Ludgershall Castle Authorship and First- John Lydgate and the Medieval Novgorod in Excavations by Peter Person Allegory in Poetics of Fame Context Addyman 1964-1972 Late Medieval France By Mary C. Flannery A Study of Centre/ By P. V. Addyman and England Here, "fame" is identified as the key Periphery Relations A report on the excavation of a By Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning medieval royal castle and hunting in Chaucer's wake. Flannery situates Edited by Mark A. Brisbane, Nikolaj Through comparative analysis of the lodge in east Wiltshire which was Lydgatean fame within the literary, Makarov and Evgenij Nosov late medieval authors who shaped constructed in the 12th-century, on cultural and political landscape of French and English literary canons, This volume includes papers on top of a prehistoric hillfort, and was late-medieval England, indicating this study reveals the seminal, aspects of the environmental and technological context greatly expanded by Henry III in the mid 13th century. how Lydgate diverges from Chaucer's treatment of of the relationship between urban centre and rural communal model of vernacular authorship established by the subject by constructing a more confident model of hinterland. It examines the environmental context for 268pp, Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Society, the tradition of first-person allegory. authorship, according to which poets are the natural 2000, Paperback, was £24.00 the settlement pattern that developed from the 9th to 226pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, Hardback, was £60.00 makers and recipients of fame. 15th centuries. Now £9.95 Now £9.95 206pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2012, Hardback, was £50.00 528pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hardback, was £65.00 Now £12.95 Now £19.95

40 • MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND LITERATURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 Language and Piety in Italian Literature II Court Poetry in Late Early Prose in France Middle English Tristano Riccardiano Medieval England and Contexts of Bilingualism Romance By Gina Psaki Scotland and Authority By Roger Dalrymple The first English translation of the By Anthony J. Hasler By Jeanette Beer Middle English romances exhibit earliest Italian Tristan romance, the Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, In this volume Beer demonstrates the a distinctive piety, and yet were Tristano Riccardiano, preserved in MS Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, sophisticated stylistic propensities maligned by medieval moralists. 2543 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana this study examines the paths by of Early French prose, and calls Dalrymple seeks an answer to this in Florence. The text and translation which court poetry and its narrators into question the assumption that apparent contradiction by drawing are presented with an introduction, a seek multiple forms of legitimation: the lengthy prose chronicles and attention to the genre's myriad invocations of God select bibliography, and an index. from royal and institutional sources, but also in the encyclopedic works of the early thirteenth century and Christ, which, he argues, provoke a strong affective 400pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, was media of script and print. could have emerged out of poetry by a process of charge, conflating piety and blasphemy. £60.00 269pp, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Hardback, was "deversification". 280pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2000, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £9.95 £59.99 170pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, Hardback, was £55.99 Now £9.95 Now £14.95 Now £9.95

The Poetic Voices of Medieval Romance Ethics and Enjoyment Four Middle English John Gower Medieval Contexts in Late Medieval Romances Politics and Personae in Edited by Michael Cichon and R. Purdie Poetry Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir the Confessio Amantis The essays in this volume take a By Jessica Rosenfeld Eglamour of Artois, Sir Tryamour By Matthew W. Irvin representative selection of English Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history Edited by Harriet Hudson and Scottish romances from the of the ethics of medieval vernacular This volume concentrates on the medieval period and explore some The romances gathered in this dialogue of Amans and Genius in love poetry by tracing its engagement volume are Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir of their medieval contexts, deepening with the late medieval reception of the Confessio Amantis. It argues our understanding not only of the Eglamour of Artois and Sir Tryamour. that Gower negotiates problems of Aristotle. The chapters reveal that These are all important works in a romances concerned but also of the specific medieval 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often politics and problems of love through their discourse, contexts that produced or influenced them. major literary development of the fourteenth century: which produces a series of attempts to find a coherent characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but the flourishing of the Middle English popular romance. and rational union of lover and ruler. 208pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and The texts are presented with introductions, notes and £50.00 earthly happiness. 328pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, Hardback, was £60.00 gloss. Now £9.95 257pp, Cambridge University Press, 2011, Hardback, was 218pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, Paperback, Now £12.95 £59.99 was £14.99 Now £14.95 Now £5.95

Arthurian Literature New Perspectives on The Cambridge John Gower: Recent XXII Middle English Texts History of Literary Readings By Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple By Susan Powell Criticism Edited by R.F. Yeager The essays in this volume 13 papers which predominantly focus Volume 2, The Middle Ages Essays in this volume, presented by present the most recent fruits on the Middle English alliterative Edited by Ian Johnson and A. J. Minnis scholars at meetings of the John of Arthurian scholarship, on texts tradition and discuss the ways in Gower Society at the International from "Perlesvaus" to Albrecht's which texts relate to their historical, Starting with the study of grammar Congress on Medieval Studies "Juengerer Titurel" and the Prose linguistic and philosophical context. and the formal 'arts' of poetry, (Western Michigan University, "BrutChronicle", as well as an The papers include textual and letter-writing and preaching, this 1983–88), unpublished elsewhere and investigation of Arthurian prophecy and the deposition historical studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comprehensive collection proceeds rewritten exclusively for this collection, take a series of Richard II. Layamon's Brut, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, the to offer a full description of the Latin commentary of fresh approaches to the study of the works of John Canterbury Tales, feasting, medieval chronicles, editorial tradition on classical and classicising literature, followed Gower. 192pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Hardback, was by explanations of medieval views on literary imagination £50.00 considerations,and Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and memory and the ways in which certain texts were 366pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1989, Hardback, was £69.99 190pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2000, Hardback, was believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure. Now £7.95 £60.00 882pp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Paperback, was Now £9.95 Now £9.95 £34.99 Now £12.95 Heroes of the French Partonopeus de Blois Petrarch's Songbook John Gower: The Epic Romance in the Making A Verse Translation French Balades Heroes of the French Epic By Penny Eley By James Wyatt Cook Edited by R.F. Yeager By Michael A. Newth This first full-length study of the The complete Italian text of the 366 Contains two collections of French The poems translated in this volume romance brings together literary, poems which make up Petrarch's balades composed by John Gower, - Gormont and Isembart, The song historical and manuscript studies Rerum Vulgurium Fragmenta with a the Traitié selonc les auctours pour of William, Charlemagne's Pilgrimage, to explore its making as it evolved facing page English verse translation. essampler les amantz marietz and Raoul of Cambrai, Girart of Vienne through seven medieval "editions", the An introduction considers Petrarch's the Cinkante Balades, with facing and The Knights of Narbonne - are earliest of which probably predated life and poetic achievement. page translation, annotations, and taken from all three Old French epic song cycles, and most of Chrétien's romances. 445pp, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1995, introduction. apart from their individual merits, display the complete 270pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2011, Hardback, was Paperback, was £14.99 196pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, Paperback, was £14.99 range of themes, episodes and character types which £60.00 Now £5.95 were the life-blood of the chanson de geste genre. Now £9.95 Now £5.95 697pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2005, Paperback, was £25.00 Now £6.95

Hunting Law and Poetry, Knowledge and Antichrist and John Gower: The Ritual in Medieval Community in Late Judgment Day Minor Latin Works English Literature Medieval France The Middle French Jour Du Jugement with in Praise of Peace By William Perry Marvin Edited by Rebecca Dixon Edited by Richard K. Emmerson, Edited by R.F. Yeager and This study contrasts ancient custom and Finn E. Sinclair David F. Hult and Keith Glaeske Michael Livingston with forest law, Beowulf with Sir This collection examines the role of Translated for the first time into Fifteen of Gower's minor Latin poems Gawain, and law with poetry and poetry in medieval French culture in English, the 14th century French play with a facing page English translation, treatise, to examine motifs and tropes transmitting and shaping knowledge. Jour du Jugement stages two of the as well as his Middle English "In Praise that informed legal privilege, the It reveals the interplay between poet, most important events in Christian of Peace". heroic-chivalric subject, and aesthetics of violence. text, and audience, and explores the key dynamics of eschatology: the appearance, deception and persecution 152pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, Paperback, 198pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2006, Hardback, was later medieval French poetry and of the communities in of Antichrist; and the Last Judgement. The introduction was £10.99 £50.00 which it was produced. discusses the theological background, literary analogues and staging issues including possible effects and music. Now £4.95 Now £12.95 250pp, b/w illus, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was £55.00 109pp, Pegasus Press, 1998, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £9.95 Now £4.95

Images of Kingship in Writing Gender and Ava's New Testament John Lydgate: Chaucer and His Genre in Medieval Narratives Mummings and Ricardian Literature When the Old Law Passed Away Entertainments Contemporaries Edited by Elaine Treharne Edited by James A. Rushing Edited by Claire Sponsler By Samantha J. Rayner Six essays examine the ways in which Ava is the first woman whose name This volume presents John Lydgate's Through detailed examination of the literary genre shaped male and female we know who wrote in German. She brilliant and underappreciated texts, this study analyses the works identity. The contributors reflect on wrote her poem - or poems - on the dramatic texts written for both of Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the `what it means to be man or woman, lives of John the Baptist and Jesus private and public entertainment, Gawain poet, to set out exactly what husband, son, mother, daughter, wife, Christ sometime early in the twelfth encompassing both religious and each has to say about kingship, looking for common devotee or lover' in a wide range of Old and Middle century, no later than 1127. secular topics. They are published here with an extensive themes and attempting to relate them to the concrete English literary texts. 254pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, Paperback, gloss and notes, as well as a glossary and an introduction. kingship of Richard II. 142pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2002, Hardback, was was £14.99 192pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Paperback, £30.00 was £14.99 177pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2008, Hardback, was Now £5.95 £50.00 Now £9.95 Now £5.95 Now £9.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL LITERATURE • 41 John Lydgate: The Malory and Richard the Redeless Sovereignty and Siege of Thebes Christianity and Mum and the Salvation in the Edited by Robert R. Edwards Essays on Sir Thomas Sothsegger Vernacular 1050-1150 John Lydgate’s The Siege of Thebes, Malory's Morte Darthur Edited by James M. Dean Edited by James A. Schultz written c. 1421–22, is the only Middle Edited by Janet Jesmok and The texts, both anonymous, are This volume offers some of the English poetic text that recounts the D. Thomas Hanks Richard the Redeless, which concerns earliest texts in Middle High German, fratricidal struggle between Oedipus’s Essays which explore Malory's views the government style of Richard II Das Ezzolied, Das Annolied, Die sons Eteocles and Polynices as they (1367–1400; reigned 1377–99), and Kaiserchronik VV. 247-667, Das Lob contend for the lordship of Thebes. on and thematic use of Christianity. Topics include love, marriage and Mum and the Sothsegger, which Salomons, and the Historia Judith, 208pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Paperback, adultery, prayer, Christian ritual, Christianity and chivalry, addresses social issues in the reign of Henry IV (1367– with an introduction and notes. was £14.99 and secularisation. 1413; reigned 1399–1413), and are printed together with 176pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Paperback, background material, notes and a gloss. Now £5.95 214pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2013, Paperback, was £14.99 was £17.99 183pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £5.95 Now £6.95 Now £5.95

John Lydgate: Troy Material Culture and Saints Lives in Middle Technology, Guilds and Book - Selections Medieval Drama English Collections Early English Drama Edited by Robert R. Edwards Edited by Clifford Davidson Edited by Robert K. Upchurch, E. Edited by Clifford Davidson This volume presents the essential These essays demonstrate that Gordon Whatley and Anne B. Thompson This book attention to both social passages from John Lygate's Troy early drama depended on specific Middle English texts with notes and organization and material culture as Book, an ambitious attempt at developments in material culture in introductory remarks of St Andrew, integrally related to the civic drama recounting the Trojan War in Middle order to achieve its effects, which St George, St Jerome, St Thais, St of England in cities such as Coventry, English, and bridges any gaps with included both visual and auditory Benedict and St Scholastica, St Austin, York, and Chester, to explore the textual summaries. Also included are means of appealing to audiences. St Francis and St Julian, taken from the sources and design of those things an introduction, gloss, notes, and a glossary. Topics include costume, pyrotechnics, staging, musical South English Lengendary and the Scottish Legendary that were used in the production of plays. 440pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, Paperback, instruments, and the parchment and paper itself on among others. 138pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, was £29.99 which plays were written. 388pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2005, Paperback, Paperback, was £17.99 205pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, was £29.99 Now £9.95 Hardback, was £55.99 Now £7.95 Now £9.95 Now £12.95

John Metham: Medieval Translators Sentimental and The Cloud of Amoryus and Cleopes and Their Craft Humorous Romances Unknowing Edited by Stephen F. Page Floris and Blancheflour Sir Degrevant By Patrick Gallacher This fifteenth century romance, Edited by Jeanette Beer the Squire of Low Degree the The Cloud of Unknowing describes Tournament of Tottenham and the written by John Metham, creatively The variation and diversity of the contemplative method centered Feast of Tot (Middle English Texts) reworks Ovid’s tale of Pyramus and translation in the Middle Ages is around eliminating all noise and Thisbe. The Middle English text is demonstrated by the comparably Edited by Erik Kooper images from the mind, and in that accompanied by a contextualizing encounter with nothingness, finding diverse, wide variety of topics This volume presents a unique introduction, extensive notes, and covered in this anthology, including God. The Middle English text is helpful gloss. collection of Middle English romances, accompanied by an introduction, notes and gloss. vernacular translation, hagiographical translation, and each with a different view of society, accompanied by 142pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Paperback, translation of scientific volumes (an especially difficult introductions, notes and glosses. 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1997, Paperback, was £10.99 issue in the Middle Ages). was £12.00 234pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2006, Paperback, Now £4.95 438pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1989, Paperback, was £14.99 Now £4.95 was £36.99 Now £5.95 Now £7.95

John Stone's Chronicle Middle English Marian Siege of Jerusalem The Dialogue of Christ Church Priory Lyrics Edited by Michael Livingston Solomon and Marcolf Canterbury 1417-1472 Edited by Karen Saupe The Siege of Jerusalem is a fourteenth A Dual-Language Edition from Latin Edited by Meriel Connor The poems selected for this volume century alliterative poem which and Middle English Printed Editions describes the destruction of the This book offers the reader selections provide a sampling of the rich Edited by Scott Bradbury and tradition of Marian devotion as Second Temple by Roman forces in from Stone’s modest compilation of AD 70. Here it is presented with full Nancy Mason Bradbury the internal life of his own monastic expressed in Middle English. Taken together, the poems express the notes and gloss and an introduction The two texts of the Dialogue community - obituaries of monks, the which considers both its anti- presented here, a Latin version celebration of the liturgy, even the full range of a people’s effort to voice anxieties and joys through Mary. The texts are semitism and graphic violence. printed c. 1488 and a Middle English weather - set against the wider events of the tumultuous translation printed in 1492, preserve lively, entertaining, fifteenth century in England. accompanied by introductory material, gloss and notes. 154pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, Paperback, was £10.99 and revealing exchanges between the Old Testament 176pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Paperback, 312pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, Paperback, wisdom figure Solomon and Marcolf, a medieval peasant was £14.99 was £17.99 Now £4.95 who is ragged and foul-mouthed but quick-witted and Now £5.95 Now £6.95 verbally astute. 118pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2012, Paperback, was £10.99 Now £4.95

John Wyclif: On the Prik of Conscience Sir Perceval of Galles The Floure and The Truth of Holy Edited by James H. Morey and Ywain and Gawain Leafe, The Assembly of Scripture This famous fourteenth century Edited by Mary Flowers Braswell Ladies, The Isle of Edited by Ian Christopher Levy poem, attributed to Richard Rolle, This volume contains the only Ladies leads its audience on a path of A condensed English translation known English version of Chrétien By Derek Pearsall penance. This edition is the first to de Troyes’s romance of the naïve of Wyclif's 1378 treatise, which offer extensive annotations and a An asset to any study of gender emphasises the ultimate authority of knight Perceval, Sir Perceval of Galles. gloss. Accompanying this tale is Ywain and in medieval England, this volume scripture as the basis for the reform contains three poems that and ordering of the church and 288pp, Medieval Institute Publications, Gawain, a translation of a second 2012, Paperback, was £21.99 Chrétien poem, Le Chevalier au Lion. complement each other in their Christian life. treatments of relations between the sexes. All of the 378pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Paperback, Now £7.95 220pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, Paperback, poems include contextualizing introductions and helpful was £24.99 was £14.99 glosses. Now £7.95 Now £5.95 146pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Paperback, was £10.99 Now £4.95

Lancelot of the Laik Prose Merlin Six Ecclesiastical The Hero Recovered and Sir Tristrem Edited by John Conlee Satires Essays on Medieval Heroism Edited By Alan Lupack Written in the latter half of the By James M. Dean in Honor of George Clark Two significant Middle English fifteenth century, the Prose Merlin is This volume collects iers the Edited by James Weldon Arthurian romances: Lancelot of the the first work of Arthurian literature Plowman’s Crede, The Plowman’s and Robin Waugh Laik and Sir Tristrem. The former, a written in English prose. The highly Tale, Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, original poem, though based upon Essays on the heroic in medieval late fifteenth century romance, tells Upland’s Rejoinder, and Why I Can’t literature. Among the texts under of the adventures of Lancelot, bearing the French Vulgate cycle tradition of Be a Nun. These Middle English poems Arthurian legends, is full of episodes, discussion are Beowulf, The Battle of many similarities to the Vulgate Prose attack ecclesiastical corruption; most Maldon, the Passio Sancti Edwardi, Lancelot, but also includes a lengthy section of political motifs, and characters found nowhere of the poems were written by disgruntled Lollards about else in the entire Arthurian corpus. Hrafnkels saga Freysgoda, Vatnsdaela saga, the Exeter advice. The latter is an uncourtly, parodic poem about clerics and friars in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth Book riddles and Sir Thomas Gray’s Scalacronica. the knight Tristrem. 407pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, Paperback, century. was £29.99 263pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Hardback, 282pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1994, Paperback, 250pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1991, Paperback, was £64.99 was £17.99 Now £9.95 was £14.99 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

42 • MEDIEVAL LITERATURE WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM • +44 (0)1865 241249 The Kingis Quair and Thomas Hoccleve: The Vox Feminae Medieval French Other Prison Poems Regiment Studies in Medieval Woman's Song Literature Edited by Linne R. Mooney By C. Blyth Edited by John F. Plummer An Introduction and Mary-Jo Arn Written around 1411, Thomas Woman’s songs are found in all parts By Michel Zink Hoccleve's poem The Regiment This collection of fifteenth century and periods of medieval Europe; this Michel Zink's book is a lucid and Middle English "prison poems" commented on the deposition volume contains studies of examples of Richard II and the subsequent comprehensive introductory manual comprises a new edition of The in Latin, Portuguese, German, Irish of French literature in the Middle Kingis Quair by James I of Scotland, attempts by the Lancastrian crown to and Middle English, exploring the assert its authority and legitimacy. Ages. As much a well-reasoned a selection from Charles d’Orleans’ medieval use of the female persona. argument about the early evolution of Fortunes Stabilnes, a poem by George Ashby, who was 278pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Paperback, 223pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1981, Paperback, the French language as it is an account of that evolution, imprisoned in London’s Fleet prison, and the poems of was £17.99 was £9.99 it critically reviews and reforges everything that is two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about Now £7.95 currently known about medieval French literature and its physical and/or emotional imprisonment. Now £4.95 development. 214pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2005, Paperback, 172pp, Pegasus Press, 1993, Paperback, was £9.99 was £14.99 Now £4.95 Now £5.95

The Middle English Thomas of Usk: The Walter Hilton: The Medieval Welsh Poems Metrical Paraphrase of Testament of Love Scale of Perfection An Anthology the Old Testament By R. Allen Shoaf Edited by Thomas H. Bestul Edited by Richard Loomis Edited by Michael Livingston The first edition of The Testament This guide to the contemplative life, The leading poets of medieval Wales, This volume presents this mammoth of Love to be published since 1897 written in two books of more than including the acknowledged masters, verse paraphrase of the Old based on William Thynne's 1532 40,000 words each, is notable for its Dafydd ap Gwilym and Guto'r Testament, designed “for sympyll edition. With introduction and a list of careful explorations of its religious Glyn, are here made accessible to men” so that they might have access critical sources for further reference. themes and also as a monument of English speaking readers. Sixteen to the scriptures. 471pp, Medieval Institute Publications, Middle English prose. poets and 111 poems are translated with plentiful notes and an introduction tracing the 712pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, Paperback, 1998, Paperback, was £29.99 304pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001, Paperback, was £17.99 development of themes and forms of the poetry, its was £29.99 Now £9.95 roots in Celtic tradition and its assimilation of other Now £9.95 Now £7.95 influences. 216pp, Pegasus Press, 1991, Paperback, was £7.99 Now £3.95

The Poems of Thomasin Von Ziclaria: William Dunbar: The New Perspectives On Laurence Minot, Der Welsche Gast (the Complete Works Criseyde 1333-1352 Italian Guest) Edited by John Conlee Edited by Cindy L. Vitto and By Richard H. Osberg Edited by Winder McConnell Scottish poet William Dunbar is Marcia Smith Marzec The eleven extant poems attributed and Marion E. Gibbs usually considered one of the most Thirteen essays focusing on the to Laurence Minot celebrate a An English translation of Thomasin important figures of fifteenth- character of Criseyde in Geoffrey sequence of English victories on the von Zirclaria's thirteenth century century British literature. This edition Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Scottish border and on the continent didactic poem, which meticulously of eighty-four poems attributed Topics include: major critical trends; between 1333, the Battle of Halidon presents the moral and ethical code to Dunbar includes extensive romance genre and costume; Hill, and the surrender of the French town of Guînes in by which the author urged his aristocratic audience to background material and explanatory notes. the anti-widow tradition; "reading"; objectification; 1352. This edition contains a substantial introuduction, live their lives. 488pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, Paperback, gender roles; pedagogy and feminism; co-dependency; gloss and notes. was £29.99 performance theory; medieval and modern aesthetic 262pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2010, Paperback, theory; Criseyde's aube; Criseyde's own perspective on 150pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1996, Paperback, was £17.99 Now £9.95 the poem; a Criseydan reading of the poem. was £10.99 Now £6.95 336pp, Pegasus Press, 2003, Paperback, was £12.99 Now £4.95 Now £4.95

The Shewings of Julian Three Middle English Wynnere and Re-Visioning Gower of Norwich Charlemagne Wastoure and The Edited by R.F. Yeager By Georgia Ronan Crampton Romance Parlement of the Thre 15 essays, broadly concerned with the This fascinating first-person account By Alan Lupack Ages Middle English writer John Gower's of the visions experienced by the politics (of gender, the court and the Of the three groups of English By Warren Ginsberg Church), publication (in manuscript anchoress Julian of Norwich in May Charlemagne romances, the of 1373 is remarkable for its vivid This edition contains two poems and black-letter), and poetics. Ferumbras group, the Otuel group, valuable to the study of satire of prose and as an example both of and “detached romances,” the editor 303pp, Pegasus Press, 1998, Paperback, early autobiographical writing in the social abuses in the fourteenth was £17.99 has selected one of each: The Sultan century: Wynnere and Wastoure vernacular and of a spiritual document. This practical of Babylon, The Siege of Milan, and The Tale of Ralph the edition includes a gloss, an introduction, notes, and a and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. It includes notes, Now £6.95 Collier. They are accompanied by an introduction, notes glosses, an introduction, and a glossary. glossary and gloss. 218pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1994, Paperback, 82pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, Paperback, was 206pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1990, Paperback, £10.99 was £14.99 was £14.99 Now £4.95 Now £5.95 Now £5.95

The Wallace: Three Purgatory Lordship and Juan Ruiz: The Book of Selections Poems Literature Good Love Edited by Anne McKim The Gast of Gy, Sir Owain, John Gower and the Politics Translated by Mario A. Di One of the very first books printed the Vision of Tundale of the Great Household Cesare and Rigo Mignani in Scotland, The Wallace is a verse Edited by Edward E. Foster By Elliot Kendall Juan Ruiz's fourteenth century biography, composed c.1471-79, of Spanish narrative poem consists of the celebrated Scottish national hero, This volume presents three A sustained new reading of John fourteenth century Middle English Gower's major English poem, a loosely unified series of fourteen William Wallace. This book presents amorous adventures of the Archpriest the bulk of the poem, with only one poems which speculate about the Confessio Amantis, shows how deeply nature of purgatory, accompanied by the great household informed the of Hita, interlaced with debates, of its twelve books left out entirely (9) and four included fabliaux, fables and exempla. In their introduction the (1,2, 7 and 8) in their entireity. an introduction, notes and gloss. way Gower and his contemporaries imagined their world. Exploring royal government and gentry ambitions translators survey the major scholarly studies of the 298pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, Paperback, 312pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 2004, Paperback, poem, and offer their own critical reading of it. was £17.99 Kendall views the period's politics and literature in terms was £17.99 of a household-based economy of power. 365pp, State University of New York Press, 1970, Now £7.95 Now £7.95 301pp, Oxford University Press, 2008, Hardback, was Paperback, was £15.00 £79.00 Now £4.95 Now £19.95

The World and the Translation Theory and Medieval Dutch Poetry Does Theology Chylde Practice in the Middle Drama Poetry Does Theology Edited by Peter Happe Ages Four Secular Plays and Four Farces By Jim Rhodes The Worlde and the Chylde, issued By Jeanette Beer from the Van Hulthem Manuscript This detailed study argues that by the press of Wynkyn de Worde Topics include “Translation Edited by Joanna C. Prins theology and poetry enjoyed a in 1521, is one of the very earliest and Authority,” “Translation mutually beneficial and productive plays published in England. It also Four so-called abel plays in English and Gender,” “Translation and translation: Esmoreit, Gloriant, relationship during the 14th century has very considerable interest Literality,” “Translation in Contexts and that both poets and theologians, for its adaptation of the Ages of Lancelot of Denmark, and The Debate of Bilingualism,” and “Modern of Winter and Summer, along with the in this time of humanism, asserted the Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the Translations of Medieval Texts.” The volume concludes sanctity of the human body. introduction, notes, and illustrations. farces accompanying them in performance: Lippin, Blow- with two essays that consider modern translations of in-the-Box, The Witch, and Ruben. Prins's introduction 324pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, Hardback, 140pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, Paperback, works from the Middle Ages, the romances of Chrétien describes the manuscript and the language, style, and was £49.95 was £17.99 de Troyes. structure of the plays, and places their performance Now £12.95 Now £6.95 282pp, b/w illus, Medieval Institute Publications, 1997, history in socio-cultural context. Paperback, was £17.99 208pp, Pegasus Press, 1999, Paperback, was £11.99 Now £6.95 Now £4.95

+44 (0)1865 241249 • WWW.OXBOWBOOKS.COM MEDIEVAL LITERATURE • 43 Writing the Oral Anatomy of a Siege The Alderley Sandhills Archaeology of the Tradition King John's Castle, Limerick, 1642 Project Troubles Oral Poetics and Literate By Kenneth Wiggins By E. C. Casella and Sarah Croucher By Laura McAtackney Culture in Medieval England Extensive archaeological evidence of This book presents the results of a he only independent archaeological By Mark C. Amodio mines and countermines mean that project of excavation and research investigation of Long Kesh / Maze this siege can shed a great deal of at a domestic site near Manchester, prior to its partial demolition, this Mark Amodio's book focuses on the which during the course of its volume reveals the seminal role of influence of the oral tradition on light on C17th military tactics and techniques. occupation from 17th to 20th century material culture in understanding the written vernacular verse produced saw the transition from agriculture prison. It moves from traditional uses in England from the fifth to the 306pp, Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2001, Hardback, was £30.00 to industry and subsequent de-industrialistion. The book of solely documentary and oral evidence to exploring fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how emphasises the social nature of household archaeology, the full range of material remains of the prison as they a living tradition articulated only through the public, Now £9.95 drawing the reader from excavated artefacts into have been abandoned in situ or been dispersed and re- performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find domestic spaces, historic events, community identities contextualized into wider society. expression through the pens of private, literate authors. and family memories. 336pp, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hardback, 298pp, University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, Paperback, 232pp, b/w col pls, Manchester University Press, 2010, was £74.00 was £29.50 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £14.95 Now £7.95 Now £6.95

A Historical and English and Irish Iconoclasm vs. Art and Henley-on-Thames Economic Geography Delftware, 1570-1840 Drama Town, Trade and River of Ottoman Greece By Aileen Dawson Edited by Ann E. Nichols By Simon Townley The Southwestern Morea An extremely well produced and Clifford Davidson This book traces the history of in the 18th Century catalogue which presents 185 The radical Protestantism that led to the town and river over time, from pieces from the British Museum's By Fariba Zarinebaf, John the suppression of religious drama Henley's origins as a planned medieval magnificent collection of English in England also by the early years of market town and inland port shipping Bennet and Jack L. Davis and Irish Delftware. Each piece is Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps grain to London, through to its 18th- This volume combines the study photographed in full colour with the majority of ecclesiastical art in century development as a coaching of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical with accompanying descriptions and explanations of the the country. The essays in this book provide analysis centre and its present-day role as a small service, tourist sources, and the results of archaeological fieldwork in an decoration, whilst an introduction surveys the delfware of the intellectual and religious motivation as well as and commuting town. Separate chapters summarise the examination of the historical and economic geography of industry. new historical information concerning this phase of development of the Thames river trade, and the town's the Morea in the early 18th century. 320pp, col illus, British Museum Press, 2010, Hardback, was iconoclasm. striking buildings are fully discussed and set in context. 310pp, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, £35.00 260pp, Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, Paperback, 192pp, b/w and col illus, Phillimore and Co Ltd, 2009, 2005, Paperback, was £35.00 Now £12.95 was £24.99 Paperback, was £14.99 Now £12.95 Now £7.95 Now £5.95

Temple Beauties Infernal Traffic Early Modern Industry Hill Hall The Entrance-Portico in the Excavation of a Liberated and Settlement A Singular House Devised Architecture of Great Britain African Graveyard in Rupert's Excavations at George Street, by a Tudor Intellectual By Richard Riddell Valley, St Helena Richmond, and High Street, Mortlake By P. Drury and Richard Simpson The portico was a defining feature of By Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie By Barney Sloane and Stewart Hoad From 1557 Hill Hall was rebuilt in Witkin and Helen MacQuarrie the Classical architectural revival of Taken together, the Richmond and French-influenced classical style. the eighteenth and early nineteenth In 2008 archaeological excavations Mortlake sites provide valuable Archaeological excavation and century in Britain, but has been uncovered a small part of a graveyard evidence of the great increase in detailed recording of the surviving rarely studied in its own right. In this at Rupert's Valley, revealing the burials development occurring in small towns fabric took place prior to the well illustrated volume Richard Riddell first provides a of over 300 victims of the slave trade. This book presents on the outskirts of London from the mid 17th century. restoration of the house and its mural paintings, the definition for the portico, then explores its symbolism the finding of the archaeological and osteological study, results of which are now presented in this copiously and significance. He selects representative examples 92pp, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), 2003, illustrated account. and in so doing brings the inhumanity of the slave trade Paperback, was £9.95 of different portico types, relating them to stylistic into vivid focus. 544pp, Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009, Hardback, developments and influential models. 204pp, Council for British Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, Now £4.95 was £55.00 435pp, Archaeopress Archaeology, 2011, Paperback, was was £30.00 £35.00 Now £14.95 Now £15.00 Now £12.95

The Making of Home Voyage of the Vizcaina A Glorious Empire Italian Renaissance The 500-year Story of How The Mystery of Christopher Archaeology and the Tudor- Maiolica Our Houses Became Homes Columbus's Last Ship Stuart Atlantic World By Elisa P. Sani, Reino Liefkes By Judith Flanders By Klaus Brinkbaumer Edited by Eric C. Klingelhofer and John Mallet In The Making of Home, Flanders and Clemens Hoges Fifteen papers present the results of This book traces the use of Maiolica traces the evolution of the house This book describes the discovery new research into various aspects objects in the Renaissance, from across northern Europe and America and investigation of a shipwreck off of material culture and historical birth through courtship and marriage from the sixteenth to the early the coast of Panama. The authors archaeology that reflect culture, rituals to death, and gives an engaging twentieth century, and paints a believe it to be not only the oldest trade and social interaction shared by insight into the life of noble families striking picture of how the homes we know today differ wreck ever found in the Western Hemisphere, but also Britain and Colonial America during the Tudor and Stuart in this period. Manufacturing processes and stylistic from homes through history. The transformation of very likely the remains of the Vizcaina, one of the ships periods. developments are also highlighted. It is illustrated houses into homes, she argues, was not a private matter, Christopher Columbus took on his last trip to the 272pp, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hardback, was £40.00 throughout with examples from the superb collection but an essential ingredient in the rise of capitalism and New World. They intersperse their story with that of of Italian renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Columbus in a lively dramatic style. Now £7.95 Museum. 368pp, col pls, Atlantic Books, 2014, Hardback, was £20.00 328pp, Harvest Books, 2007, Paperback, was £9.99 176pp, V and A Publications, 2012, Hardback, was £30.00 Now £7.95 Now £3.95 Now £12.95

An Archaeology of The 1542 Inventory of Beyond the Dead A Veritable Eden'. The Socialism Whitehall Horizon Manchester Botanic By Victor Buchli The Palace and its Keeper Studies in Modern Conflict Garden This book is a detailed case-study By Maria Hayward Archaeology A History of a particular building, Moisei This book, published in two Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders By Ann Brooks Ginzburg's Narkomfin Communal volumes, contains transcripts of The new interdisciplinary study The Manchester Botanical and House, showing how its inhabitants four documents associated with the were influenced by its architecture. of modern conflict archaeology Horticultural Society was founded career of Sir Anthony Denny, Keeper has developed rapidly over the in 1827 to allow members the Victor Buchli demonstrates how such of the Palace of Whitehall. The first, basics as principles of hygiene and gender roles were last decade. Its anthropological opportunity to study botany and the 1542 Inventory itself contains over 4,100 entries, approach to modern conflicts, their material culture horticulture. Today only the former entrance gates and a shaped by the building's architectural form. However with particular detail given to fabrics and furnishings. individuals also appropriated architectural space and and their legacies has freed such investigations from street name remain. This book charts the history of the The other transcriptions are of the declarations of Sir the straitjacket of traditional ‘battlefield archaeology’. Garden and its international reputation in horticultural material culture, reading the `message' the architect had Anthony Denny of 1547 and 1548 and the declaration of attempted to `write' in subversive ways. These 18 papers offer a demonstration of what modern developments and many floral triumphs. his widow, Dame Joan Denny of 1551. conflict archaeology is and what it is capable of. 256pp, Berg Publishers, 1999, Paperback, was £18.99 176pp, Windgather Press, 2011, Paperback, was £26.00 624pp, Illuminata Publishers, 2004, Hardback, was 240pp, Oxbow Books, 2012, Paperback, was £38.00 £160.00 Now £4.95 Now £6.95 Now £9.95 Now £24.95

Social Relations and Regeneration and West Country Farms Ecology and Enclosure Urban Space Innovation House-and-Estate The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Norwich 1600-1700 By Jim Lewis Surveys, 1598-1764 Farming and the Environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850 By Fiona Williamson This book charts the dramatic By Nat Alcock, N. W. Alcock and Cary Carson By Shirley Wittering At the core of this study of change in the Lea Valley landscape seventeenth-century Norwich are from medieval farm to twenty-first Explores the ‘house-and-estate’ The Ecology of Enclosure breaks the interconnected themes of social century Olympic Village. It explores survey - which adds detail of the new ground in comparing the effect topographies and the relationships the region's rich heritage as a crucible village’s houses, outhouses, and farm of Parliamentary Enclosure with between urban inhabitants and their of world industrial and technological buildings to the standard evidence of the findings of the enthusiastic environment. It uncovers manifold possible landscapes, firsts, showing how the discoveries, inventions and an estate survey. It examines the twenty West Country 'Botanisers' from Cambridge; this reveals not only the including those belonging to the rich and to the poor, to entrepreneurs of the past have influenced and moulded communities for which such surveys survive, using these effect of enclosure on the ecology of the land but also men, to women, to 'strangers and foreigners', to political the way we live today. documents to paint landscapes of individual farming on the people whose link with the land was broken. actors of both formal and informal means. 156pp, Libri Publications Ltd, 2011, Paperback, was £9.99 communities caught at one moment in time. 192pp, Windgather Press, 2013, Paperback, was £35.00 246pp, Boydell and Brewer, 2014, Hardback, was £60.00 Now £3.95 248pp, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hardback, was £40.00 Now £6.95 Now £14.95 Now £14.95

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