Oxbow 2017

Method and Theory 50 Finds From Cheshire

Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

By Vanessa Oakden By looking at objects discovered in Cheshire, recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, we can re-evaluate our knowledge of the past within the county. This book examines a representative selection of 50 objects, both functional and decorative, to tell us more about the people who lived and worked in Cheshire from Prehistory to the present day.

96p col illus (Amberley Publishing 2016) 9781445646909 Pb £14.99

A History of Money

By Glyn Davies A broad survey of money and barter from 3000 BC to the development of the banking system and the global economies of today.

Davies also chronicles the evolution of the philosophy of money, debt and trade and discovers echoes of modern recession and prosperity in prehistoric, Roman and medieval societies.

808p (University of Wales Press, 4th ed 2016) 9781783163090 Pb £39.99

History of Archaeology

International Perspectives Edited by Geraldine Delley, Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Francois Djindjian, Victor M. Fernandez & Alessandro Guidi This volume gathers the communications of the three at the 2014 UISPP World Congress. The first deals with ‘International relations in the history of archaeology’. The second, entitled ‘The Revolution of the Sixties in prehistory and protohistory’ strives to document and analyse a recent past, which is still often burdened with the weight of teleological and presentist appraisals. The third addresses Only ‘Lobbying for Archaeology’. £31.00 until 246p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913977 Pb £38.00

Archaeology and Neoliberalism

Edited by Pablo Aparicio Resco The effects of neoliberalism as ideology can be seen in every corner of the planet, worsening inequalities and empowering markets over people.

How is this affecting archaeology? Can archaeology transcend it? This volume delves into the context of archaeological practice within the neoliberal world and the opportunities and challenges of activism from the profession.

200p (JAS Arqueologia 2016) 9788494436871 Pb £18.00, NYP

Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology

By Robert Chapman & Alison Wylie How do archaeologists actually work with the forms of data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis? To answer these questions, the authors identify key examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, as pivotal to the development of the field, or as instructive failures, and build nuanced analyses of the forms of reasoning they exemplify.

264p, b/w figs (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781472525277 Hb £60.00

Boundaries, Borders and Frontiers in Archaeology

A Study of Spatial Relationships

By Bryan Feuer Drawing on contemporary and ethnographic accounts, historical data and archaeological evidence, this book covers more than 30 years of research on boundaries, borders and frontiers. The author discusses various theoretical and methodological issues concerning peripheries as they apply to the archaeological record. Political, economic, social and cultural processes in border and frontier zones are described in detail, through case-studies on China, Rome and Mycenaean Greece.

164p (McFarland & Company 2016) 9780786473434 Pb £37.95

Rescue Archaeology

Edited by Paul Everill & Pamela Irving Mirroring the structure of the 1974 publication, RESCUE, edited by Philip Rahtz, this book is organised into several distinct sections which outline the current frameworks within which archaeologists operate; their experiences; significant threats to the historic environment; and how current practitioners view the future of the profession.

320p, col illus (Rescue 2015) 9780903789202 Pb £29.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Archaeologies of Waste

Encounters with the Unwanted Edited by Daniel Sosna and Lenka Brunclíková This interdisciplinary book brings together scholars who demonstrate the potential of research into waste for understanding humans, non-humans and their inter-relations.

In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging from the relationship between waste and identity in early agricultural settlements to the perception of contemporary nuclear waste.

Although archaeological approaches dominate the contributions, there are also chapters that represent the results of anthropological and historical research. The book is structured into three main sections that explore the relationship between waste and three domains of interest: value, social differentiation, and space. Archaeologies of Waste will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other readers intrigued by the potential of things, which were left behind, to shed light on social life.

182p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703270 Pb £36.00

Care in the Past

Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Lindsay Powell, William SouthwellWright and Rebecca Gowland From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. These 12 papers examine the topic of care in past societies and specifically how we might recognise the provision of care in archaeological contexts and to open up an inter-disciplinary conversation, including historical, bioarchaeological, faunal and philosophical perspectives. The topic of ‘care’ is examined through three different strands: the provision of care throughout the life course, namely that provided to the youngest and oldest members of a society; care-giving and attitudes towards impairment and disability in prehistoric and historic contexts, and the role of animals as both recipients of care and as tools for its provision.

208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703355 Pb £38.00

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Forms of Dwelling

20 Years of Taskscapes in Archaeology Edited by Ulla Rajala & Phil Mills The concept of a socially constructed space of human activity in areas of everyday actions, as initially proposed in the field of anthropology by Tim Ingold, has actually been much more applied in archaeology. In this wide-ranging collection of 13 papers, including a re-assessment by Ingold himself, contributors show why it has been so influential, with papers ranging from the study of Mesolithic to historic and contemporary archaeology, revisiting different research themes, such as Ingold’s own Lapland study, and the development of landscape archaeology. While exploring new frontiers, the papers contrast British, Nordic and Mediterranean archaeologies to showcase the study of material culture and landscape and conclude with an assessment of the concept of taskscape and its further developments.

272p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703775 Pb £38.00

Underground Archaeology

Studies on Human Bones and Artefacts from Ireland’s Caves Edited by Marion Dowd The 15 expert contributions presented here shine a light on the use and perception of caves at different times in the past, from the Early Mesolithic through to post-medieval times. The book opens with osteoarchaeological analyses of human bones from 24 caves, revealing co m p l ex a n d va r i e d funerary practices and rituals. Studies on lithics, stone axes and prehistoric pottery highlight the changing roles of caves as places for shelter, occupation, burial and ritual practices during the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. An examination of the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age metalwork contributes to wider evidence of votive deposition. Several chapters focus on the wealth of early medieval and Viking-age activities.

232p, b/w and colour illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703515 Hb £48.00

The Life Cycle of Structures in Experimental Archaeology

An Object Biography Approach Edited by Linda Hurcombe & Penny Cunningham T h i s vo l u m e ex p l o re s the research and visitor agendas of structures and their life cycles as they are experienced by experimental archaeology projects and Archaeological Open-Air Museums. Structures include houses, boats, forges, and other diverse constructions, and the papers consider the planning phase, the assembling of materials, the construction period and then the maintenance and repair needs and the change of use of structures as they age.

230p b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088903892 Hb £120.00, 9789088903656 Pb £40.00, NYP

Preservation of Archaeological Remains In-Situ

Edited by Christopher Caple Offering contemporary and classic readings, this companion provides professionals and students alike with a strong understanding of contemporary preservation practice. The book illustrates the wide variety of threats to in-situ archaeological remains, develops the concept of a holistic appreciation of the threats, and appreciates the need to prioritise the appropriate forms of response and to developing appropriation mitigation strategies.

546p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9780415832540 Pb £36.99

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Dress and Society

Contributions from Archaeology Edited by T. F. Martin & R. Weech The social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. Not only does dress constitute an important means by which people integrate and segregate to form group identities, but interactions between objects and bodies, quintessentially illustrated by dress, can also form the basis of much wider symbolic systems.

Dress and Society illustrates the range of current archaeological approaches to dress using a number of case studies drawn from prehistoric to postmedieval Europe. Individually, each chapter makes a strong contribution in its own field whether through the discussion of new evidence or new approaches to classic material. Presenting the eight papers together creates a strong argument for a theoretically informed and integrated approach to dress as a specific category of archaeological evidence, emphasising that the study of dress not only draws Only openly on other disciplines, but £27.00 until is also a sub-discipline in its own right. publication 192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703157 Pb £36.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Archaeologists and the Dead

Edited by Howard Williams & Melanie Giles This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice - disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Reframing funerary archaeologists as ‘death-workers’ of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that Only we have a central role to play in engaging the public with £70.00 until themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens 31st April of the past.

496p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780198753537 Hb £85.00

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This Mortal Coil

The Human Body in History and Culture

By Fay Bound Alberti This cultural history of the body explores our key organs and systems from the inside out, from blood to guts, brains to sex organs. The understanding of the ‘modern body’ revealed in the process is far removed from the ‘eternal’ or timeless object of common assumption. In fact, Alberti argues, its roots go back no further than the sixteenth century at the earliest - and it has only truly existed in its current form since the nineteenth century.

304p (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780199599035 Hb £20.00

Disturbing Bodies

Perspectives on Forensic Anthropology Edited by Zoe Crossland & Rosemary Joyce As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of “disturbing bodies” has a double valence, evoking both the work that anthropologists do and also the ways in which the dead can, in turn, disturb the living through their material qualities, through dreams and other forms of presence, and through the political claims often articulated around them. This volume offers a range of anthropological perspectives on the work of exhumation and the attendant issues.

248p (SAR Press 2016) 9781938645556 Pb £43.50

Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry

Edited by Effie Photos-Jones This volume comprising thirty-two papers is divided in two parts: the first deals with materials (ceramics, glass, metal, paintings, paper) and the second with the landscape and its multifaceted aspects (dating, prospection, visualisation). Within each section issues of conservation, dating, and computer applications are interwoven together with aspects of intangible heritage.

236p, b/w illus (BAR 2780, 2016) 9781407314303 Pb £42.00

The Three Dimensions of Archaeology

Edited by Hans Kamermans, Wieke de Neef, Chiara Piccoli, Axel Posluschny & Roberto Scopigno This volume brings together presentations from two sessions at the 2014 World UISPP Conference: The scientific value of 3D archaeology, and Detecting the Landscape(s) – Remote Sensing Techniques from Research to Heritage Management. The common thread amongst the papers is the application of digital recording techniques to enhance the documentation Only and analysis of the spatial £23.50 until component intrinsically present in archaeological data.

31st April 150p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784912932 Pb £29.00

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Economic Zooarchaeology

Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture Edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Sergeantson & Paul Halstead These 33 papers discuss key research issues concerning hunting, herding and early agriculture through the analysis of zoological and archaebotanical remains.

Aspects of method and t h e o r y, a n i m a l b o n e identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America, and the study of dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products by humans is discussed as is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, Only through considerations of the £30.00 until Neolithic and Bronze Age. publication 296p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704451 Hb £40.00

Molluscs in Archaeology

Methods, Approaches and Applications Edited by Michael J. Allen The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology. It gives the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and landuse, isotopes and molluscs as artefacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, Only and b) the potential information £20.00 until molluscs can provide. publication 200p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706080 Pb £25.00

Cooking Cultures

Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling Edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube This volume offers a study of food, cooking and cuisine in different societies and cultures over different periods of time. It highlights the intimate connections of food, identity, gender, power, personhood and national culture, and also the intricate combination of ingredients, ideas, ideologies and imagination that go into the representation of food and cuisine.

255p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107140363 Hb £64.99

New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care

Further Case Studies and Expanded Theory Edited by Lorna Tilley & Alecia A. Schrenk This volume represents the work of an international, diverse, cross-disciplinary group of contributors, each bringing their own particular focus, style and expertise to analysing past health-related care.

Nineteen chapters offer content that ranges from an introduction to the basic ‘bioarchaeology of care’ approach, through original case studies of care provision, to new theoretical perspectives in this emerging area of scholarship.

385p, col figs (Springer 2016) 9783319399003 Hb £82.00

Arqueología y Comunidad

Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present Edited by Melissa Calaresu & Danielle van den Heuvel Street vendors are ubiquitous across the world and throughout history.

They are part of almost any distribution chain, and play an important role in the marketing of consumer goods particularly to poorer customers. This multidisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of street selling and its impact on society. Covering a time span of approximately two millennia, from antiquity to the present, the book includes chapters on Europe and Asia, and covers a diverse range of themes such as the identity of food sellers (in terms of gender, ethnicity, and social status); the role of the street seller in the distribution of food; the marketing of food; food traders and the establishment; the representation of food hawkers; and street traders and economic development.

259p (Routledge 2016) 9781409450429 Hb £95.00

Heritage

El valor social del Patrimonio Arqueológico en el siglo XXI Edited by Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Ana Pastor Pérez & Apen Ruiz Martínez This volume compiles the papers held at the workshop about the value of heritage and public interaction with archaeology organized by GAPP in Barcelona in February 2015. Spanish text.

296p (JAS Arqueologia 2016) 9788494436888 Pb £13.00

Possession

Food Hawkers

The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

By Erin Thompson Erin Thompson explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world’s most renowned museums. She s h ows h ow co l l e c t i n g antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way.

232p, b/w illus (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300208528 Hb £20.00

Cultural Property and Contested Ownership

The Trafficking of Artefacts and the Quest for Restitution Edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin & Lindel V. Prott This collection considers the impact of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the way antiquity dealers, museums and auction houses, as well as nation states and local communities, address issues of provenance, contested ownership, and the trafficking of cultural property. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in the Epilogue.

264p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138188839 Hb £85.00

The Return of Curiosity

What Museums are Good for in the TwentyFirst Century

By Nicholas Thomas Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to make new things in the present. They stimulate a curiosity that is vital to understanding and negotiating the cosmopolitan but dangerous world we all now inhabit.

144p (Reaktion Books 2016) 9781780236568 Pb £12.95

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Landscape NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Shades of Green

An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce

By Ruth Tittensor This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of north-west Europe. The historical background to the modern use of Sitka spruce is explored. The lack of cultural reference may explain negative public response when tree-less uplands in the UK and Ireland were afforested with introduced conifer species, particularly Sitka spruce, following two World Wars. The multi-purpose forestry of today recognises that Sitka spruce is the most important tree to the timber industry and to a public which uses its many products but fails to recognise the link between growing trees and bought goods.

208p, (Windgather Press 2016) 9781909686779 Pb £29.95

The Ancient Yew

By Robert Bevan-Jones With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the first time all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and cultural connections of the yew.

R o b e r t B eva n - Jo n e s discusses its history, biology, the origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain, means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, springs, preReformation wells and as landscape markers.

This third edition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections to the main text.

216p col illus (Windgather Press, 3rd ed 2015) 9781785700781 Pb £29.95

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Landscape and Englishness

By David Matless David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body.

He first examines the inter-war period, showing how a vision of Englishness and landscape as both modern and traditional, urban and rural, progressive and preservationist, took shape, before tracing out the story down to the present day.

368p b/w illus (Reaktion 2016) 9781780235813 Pb £9.95

Site, Sight, Insight

Essays on Landscape Architecture

By John Dixon Hunt This collection’s common theme is a focus on sites of landscape architecture, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one’s own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. He addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space.

208p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9780812248005 Hb £36.00

Water as a Morphogen in Landscapes / L’eau Comme Morphogene Dans les Paysages

Edited by Sandrine Robert & Benoit Sittler Topics include the geography of river basins as factors of circulation and settlement of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers; the settlement of the River Jabalon valley in the 2nd Millennium BC; the organization of territories in late Hallstatt era; the role of river crossings in setting cattle trails in Brazil; water meadows that were used in historical times in the upper Rhine Valley; the Seine Only and the layout of Paris; and Inca £21.00 until sites and rivers.

31st April 116p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912871 Pb £26.00

The Maltese Island and the Sea

Edited by Timmy Gambin This volume is divided in two sections. Four historical essays in Part I cover the maritime history of the Maltese Islands from the ancient period to the British era, while part II is dedicated to maritime heritage.

240p b/w and col illus (Midsea Books 2016) 9789993275510 Pb £21.00

Archaeology of the Ouse Valley Sussex to AD 1500 Edited by Dudley Moore, Michael J. Allen & David Rudling The Ouse valley, East Sussex, is a key communication route from the Channel coast, via the Downs (and the historic county town of Lewes), to the wide expanse of the Weald. This is the first review of the archaeology of this important landscape from Palaeolithic to medieval times by contributors all routed in the archaeology of Sussex.

Binding together the archaeology is a review of the geoarchaeology Only and palaeo-environment. £23.50 until 160p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913779 Pb £29.00

Britain’s Tudor Maps, County

by County

By John Speed This stunning large-format book reproduces the maps of John Speed’s 1611 collection The Theatre of Great Britaine in large, easy-to-read format for the first time. Compiled from 1596, these richly detailed maps show each county of Great Britain individually and as they existed at the time, complete with a wealth of heraldic decoration, illustrations and royal portraits. A commentary by Alasdair Hawkyard, elaborates on both the topographical features and the social conditions of each county at the time.

150p col illus (Batsford 2016) 9781849943840 Hb £30.00

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Archaeology and Land-use of SouthEast England to 1066

Edited by Michael J. Allen & David Rudling In this new authoritative textbook on the archaeology of South-East England intended for students, researchers, and those working in commercial a r c h a e o l o gy, o ve r 3 0 leading authors provide a comprehensive overview of the South-East as an informed narrative and i n t e r p re t a t i o n o f t h e prehistory and history of the region. Chronological chapters tell the story of the development of the South-East by period from the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest. Others focus on either specific areas within the region, or aspects of material culture and the economy. This is the first book to look at the region as a whole for a generation and since the advent of developer-funded archaeology, and it will have an important place in the archaeology of the SouthEast. It is offered in memory Only of Sussex Archaeologist Peter £25.00 until Drewett. publication b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979623 Hb £35.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Farmers, Consumers, Innovators

The World of Joan Thirsk Edited by Richard Jones and Christopher Dyer Joan Thirsk’s agrarian research revealed rural England to be a rich mosaic of distinct farming regions, each with its own way of working the land. It had been supposed that, before the Agricultural Revolution, peasants were dull conservatives who resisted innovation and had to be forced into modernity.

Thirsk’s work, by contrast, highlighted farmers’ ability to respond to the demands of consumers and the capacity of industries to satisfy changing fashions. The contributors to this book have been inspired by Joan Thirsk’s revelation of a lively, varied and developing rural scene, and pursue themes that extend her pioneering work in new ways. Their chapters on regional differences, farming methods, conflicts over the use of land, Only shopping opportunities, fashion and consumption resonate £14.00 until with each other and present fresh insights into a world that 31st April was undergoing transformation well before the Agricultural Revolution.

174p b/w illus (University of Hertfordshire Press 2016) 9781909291560 Pb £16.99

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Small Isles

By John Hunter John Hunter searches for the stories of the Small Isles of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck in the evidence that survives - from the fragmentary physical remains of dwellings, defences, places of worship and monuments, to the records of early antiquarians, historians and travellers. This is a journey to rediscover communities that were erased by the mass migrations of the nineteenth century, and the rise of the Victorian sporting estate.

320p, b/w and col illus (RCAHMS 2016) 9781902419923 Hb £25.00

Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men

Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England

By David Brown & Tom Williamson Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is often thought of as an innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, ‘naturalistic’ style of landscape design. But he was only one of many landscape designers in Georgian England, albeit the most commercially successful. This innovative book investigates the nature and organization of Brown’s business, and draws insightful comparisons with similar providers of ‘taste’ such as the Adam brothers, Thomas Chippendale and Josiah Wedgwood.

352p, b/w and col illus (Reaktion 2016) 9781780236445 Hb £30.00

Observations on Modern Gardening by Thomas Whately

An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden Edited by Michael Symes Thomas Whately’s Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden. This first modern edition of the text is accompanied by an introduction and full commentary, covering both general considerations and specific points and topics.

200p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2016) 9781783271023 Hb £25.00

The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

By Kate Felus This book about the private life of the Georgian garden reveals its previously untold secrets. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks.

240p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2016) 9781784535728 Hb £20.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Historic Gardens and Parks of Derbyshire

Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920

By Dianne Barre The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscapers, but has produced some spectacular walled and terraced gardens.

In this lavishly illustrated and lively new study Dianne Barre looks not just at such beautifully restored and accessible gardens as Haddon, Melbourne and Renishaw but also lost gardens and parks at Swarkeston, Knowle Hill, Sutton Scarsdale, Wingerworth and Drakelow and considers the importance of gardens at Derbyshire Spa towns. There are many surprises as the author re-examines the fashionable, the quirky, the Only accessible and the lost and little £18.75 until known. publication 272p, b/w and colour (Windgather 2017) 9781911188049 Pb £25.00

New Forest

The Forging of a Landscape

By Hadrian Cook Provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, i m p o r t a nt a s a Roya l Hunting Forest and subject to many contentious laws and regulations, but which includes much economically marginal land. Four critical themes are explored through time: the shaping of the natural environment into human prehistory; human intervention through natural resource management; governance and management of the forest over time, stressing pressures on resources and attempts at exclusion of certain social groups; and policies and designations to conserve the New Forest. Cook aims to reflect a complicated narrative around the evolution caused by changing management and economic objectives reflecting Only governance arrangements at £26.25 until different times. publication 232p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2017) 9781911188193 Pb £34.99

World Prehistory Networks of Trade in Raw Materials and Technological Innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory

Edited by Davide Delfino, Paolo Piccardo & Joao Carlos Baptista These papers from the 17th UISPP conference debate, from different perspectives, the networks in raw materials and technological innovation in Prehistory and Protohistory, involving investigation topics ty p i c a l o f a rc h a e o m e t r y: Only archeometallurgy, petrography, £20.00 until and mineralogy.

31st April 112p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784914233 Pb £25.00

Monumental Earthen Architecture in Early Societies: Technology and Power Display

Edited by Daneels. Annick These papers from the 17th UISPP conference discuss the archaeology of earthen architecture in pre- and protohistoric cultures, with an emphasis on constructive techniques and systems, and Only diachronic changes in those £16.00 until aspects.

31st April 68p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912833 Pb £20.00

Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Peoples

Edited by Emmanuel Anati This session from the 17th UISPP congress brought together experts from various disciplines to share experience and scientific approaches for a better understanding of human creativity and behaviour Only in prehistory. £44.00 until 400p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784912819 Pb £55.00

Rock Art Studies

News of the World V Edited by Paul Bahn, Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker & Ekaterina Devlet Like the previous editions in the News of the World Serie, this volume covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive. A constant theme is the impact of new techniques Only of recording rock art. £56.00 until 372p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913533 Pb £70.00

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

The Diversity of Hunter Gatherer Pasts

Edited by Bill Finlayson & Graeme Warren Discussion of huntergatherers shows them to be varied and flexible, but modelling of contemporary hunter-gatherers has reduced them into essential categories, portraying them as static and without history. It is often said that the study of huntergatherers provides insight into past forms of social organisation and behaviour; unfortunately it often limits our understandings of these societies. Here, contributors explore past hunter-gather diversity over time and space to provide critical perspectives on general models of ‘huntergatherers’ and attempt to provide Only new perspectives on hunter£27.00 until gatherer societies. publication 192p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705885 Pb £36.00

Public Images Private Readings

Edited by Ramon Fabregas Valcarce & Carlos Rodriguez-Rellan The approaches collected in these papers on Holocene rock art range from the archaeological definition of the artistic phenomena to those concerning themselves with the symbolic and ritual nature of those practices, including their audience and role in the creation of social Only identities and the enforcement £17.50 until of territorial claims.

31st April 76p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912895 Pb £22.00

Paleoart and Materiality

Edited by Robert G. Bednarik, Danae Fiore & Mara Basile The core topic of this book is the presentation of scientific approaches to the materiality of rock art, ranging from recording and sampling methods to data analyses. These include fieldwork methods, laboratory work techniques and/ or data analysis protocols , and provide new insights into rock Only art production, display and use. £32.00 until 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784914295 Pb £40.00

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Prehistoric Britain & Ireland Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

An Upland Biography

Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom’s Edge, Derbyshire

By John Barnatt, Bill Bevan & Mark Edmonds Gardom’s Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom’s Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. Drawing on the results of original survey and excavation, An Upland Biography documents prehistoric activity across this area, exploring the changing character of occupation from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. It also tacks back and forth between local detail and regional patterns, to better understand the broader Only social worlds in which Gardom’s £26.25 until Edge was set. publication 200p, b/w and colour (Windgather 2017) 9781911188155 Pb £34.99

Written in Stone

Papers on the function, form, and provenancing of prehistoric stone objects in memory of Fiona Roe Edited by Ruth Shaffrey Prehistoric Britain has generated an enormous number and wide variety of stone objects, but few books deal specifically with stone tools that are not flint. This book brings together papers from 22 of the UK’s archaeologists investigating the stone objects that were fundamental to the daily lives of prehistoric people. Four sections provide an introduction, and cover artefacts ranging from axeheads, maceheads and battle axes to querns, jewellery and loomweights. The use of material such as beach resources and chalk is also considered.

300p, 40 (The Highfield Press 2017) 9780992633684 Hb £55.00, NYP

Mining and Materiality

Neolithic Chalk Artefacts and Their Depositional Contexts in Southern Britain

By Anne M. Teather Anne Teather draws together the results of an extensive analysis of archival records and material to illustrate how the flint mines of southern Britain and the activities that took place in them can be seen as integral to Neolithic life. There is compelling evidence that the voids - shafts and galleries created through the process of flint extraction were not merely the abandoned features of flint exploitation but instead should be seen as dynamic and monumental architectural spaces where Only creative and meaningful social £21.00 until actions took place.

31st April 124p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912659 Pb £26.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Stonehenge

The Story of a Sacred Landscape

By Francis Pryor Francis Pryor delivers a rigorous account of the nature and history of Stonehenge, emphasising its evolution as a ritual and monumental landscape, and shining a particular light on the site “before the great stones”. He also places the stones in a wider cultural context, exploring how antiquarians, Only scholars, writers, artists, ‘the heritage industry’ - and £14.00 until even neopagans - have interpreted the site over the 31st April centuries.

210p, col illus (Head of Zeus 2016) 9781784974619 Hb £16.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Use and Reuse of Stone Circles

Fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications Edited by Courtney Nimura & Richard Bradley This major new assessment first presents the results of fieldwork undertaken at the Scottish recumbent stone circle of Hillhead; the stone circles of Waulkmill and Croftmoraig, the stone circle and henge at Hill of Tuach at Kintore; and the small ring cairn at Laikenbuie in Invernessshire. Part 2 brings together the results of these five projects and puts forward a chronology for the construction and primary use of stone circles, particularly the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age examples. It considers the reuse of stone circles, long after they were built, and discusses four neighbouring stone circles in Aberdeenshire which display both similarities and contrasts in their architecture, use of raw materials, associated artefacts and structural sequences.

240p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702433 Pb £39.95,

Prehistory without Borders

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Tyne-Forth Region Edited by Richard Tipping, Chris Fowler & Rachel Crellin M o d e r n b o rd e r s o f all kinds, political, geographical and social, affect the kinds of prehistoric narratives archaeologists can write.

This volume works across such borders and focuses specifically on the region between the Rivers Forth and Tyne, an area divided by the modern political border between Scotland and England. The introduction and opening chapters consider the impact of the Anglo-Scots and similar borders on our understanding of prehistoric patterns of activity. The introduction also asks whether, when, and to what extent this could be considered a coherent region in the prehistoric past. Further chapters explore the history of research in the region, including field survey and aerial photography. Another nine chapters discuss the results of recent research, including new and older excavations, or conduct regional analyses of artefacts and mortuary practices.

260p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701993 Hb £45.00

Westward on the High-Hilled Plains

The Later Prehistory of the West Midlands Edited by Derek Hurst In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second volume in a series – The Making of the West Midlands – that aims to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain.

160p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704116 Hb £30.00

Preserved in the Peat

An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context

By Andy M. Jones Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out.

Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; wo pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed.

328p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702600 Hb £30.00

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The Timber Monuments of Neolithic Scotland

By Kirsty Millican Through an examination of the cropmark and excavation records, this volume considers the variety of timber monuments built during the Neolithic period in Scotland. It shows that timber monuments were important spaces and places used by Neolithic communities for many different purposes, closely tied to their location and context and reflecting changing relationships with the landscape and the environment.

150p, b/w illus (BAR BS 623, 2016) 9781407318059 Pb £30.00

In Search of the Irish Dreamtime

Archaeology and Early Irish Literature

By J. P. Mallory In this book J. P. Mallory interrogates what he calls the ‘Irish Dreamtime’: the native Irish retelling of their own origins, as related by medieval manuscripts. By comparing the world depicted in the earliest Irish literary tradition with the archaeological evidence available on the ground, Mallory explores Ireland’s rich mythological tradition and tests its claims to represent reality.

320p, b/w illus, col pls (Thames and Hudson 2016) 9780500051849 Hb £18.95

Controlling Colours

Function and Meaning of Colour in the British Iron Age

By Marlies Hoecherl This book revisits well known and well documented Iron Age sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration or the colour Only connotations of death. £27.50 until 154p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2015) 9781784912253 Pb £34.00

Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium, Edinburgh

Edited by Graeme J.R. Erskine, Piotr Jacobsson, Paul Miller & Scott Stetkiewicz This proceedings volume, is organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment). It provides an accessible survey of emerging concepts, ideas, methods, and fieldwork that will shape future Only study of the Iron Age. £27.50 until 180p, b/w and col illus 31st April (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913571 Pb £34.00

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Neolithic Stepping Stones

Excavation and survey within the western seaways of Britain, 2008-2014 Edited by Duncan Garrow and Fraser Sturt The ‘western seaways’ are an arc of sea extending from the Channel Islands in the south, through the Isles of Scilly around to Orkney in the north.

This book’s primary focus is Early Neolithic settlement on islands within the ‘western seaways’ – sites that offer significant insight into the character of the Mesolithic– Neolithic transition in this particular maritime zone. At the heart of the book lie the results of three substantial excavations at L’Erée, Guernsey; Old Quay, St Martin’s (Isles of Scilly); and An Doirlinn, South Uist. Key findings include: the first major Mesolithic flint assemblage recovered from Scilly; one of the most extensively excavated and long-lasting Neolithic/Bronze Age occupation sites in the Channel Islands; the first substantial Neolithic settlement on Scilly; and the longest sequence Only of Neolithic/Early Bronze Age £28.50 until occupation on a single site from publication the Outer Hebrides.

192p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703478 Pb £38.00

A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape

Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway

By Graeme Cavers and Anne Crone The Cults Loch project has sought to bridge the apparent divide between ‘wetland’ and ‘dryland’ by focusing on a wetland site, the crannog, which lies at the centre of a prehistoric landscape, rather than being peripheral to it.

Thus, the wealth of wellpreserved evidence from the crannog, particularly the rich ecofactual assemblages, as well as the higher chronological resolution possible through the dendro-dating of waterlogged timbers, are brought to bear on our understanding of the evidence from the cropmark sites around the loch. The role and function of crannogs are also explored via the relationship between the crannog in Cults Loch and its Only social and physical landscape. £22.50 until 304p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785703737 HB £30.00

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Hayton, East Yorkshire

Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes Edited by Peter Halkon, Martin Millett & Helen Woodhouse A series of excavations examined a number of sites within a 3 km square block on the York to Brough Roman road and focused on the Hayton settlement. The excavations are complemented by a range of survey techniques and extensive studies of artefactual and ecofactual material. The volumes conclude with two substantial discussion chapters that provide an in depth consideration of the Hayton settlement and seek to understand it in the wider context of Iron Age and Romano-British studies.

607p, b/w illus (Yorkshire Archaeological Society 2015) 9780993238321 Pb £30.00

A Late Iron Age and Romano-British Farmstead at Cedars Park, Stowmarket, Suffolk

By Kate Nicholson & Tom Woolhouse This volume details excavations at Cedars Park, which revealed a late Iron Age farmstead which remained occupied until the mid-4th century AD. There is further evidence of Romano-British usage and some finds indicating later Roman activity.

The site thus fits in with other late Roman rural sites in East Anglia, where cut features are rare but continuing occupation is represented by 3rd- and 4th-century material.

250p, b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 160, 2016) 9780993247712 Pb £20.00

European Prehistory Une Histoire des Premières Communautés Mésolithiques au Portugal

By Ana Cristina Araujo This overview of the earliest Mesolithic communities in Portugal is mainly based on the study of three key-early Mesolithic sites, Toledo, Areeiro III and Barca do Xerez de Baixo, with a principal focus on their lithic industries (recreating all the production processes), although other archaeological components are also presented and discussed. Each of these sites represents a distinct way of using space and the available local resources.

295p, b/w illus (BAR 2782, 2016) 9781407314532 Pb £51.00

What Is Paleolithic Art?

Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

By Jean Clottes Jean Clottes presents a personal reflection on how we have viewed rock art paintings in the past, what we learn from looking at them across geographies, and what these paintings may have meant - what function they may have served for their artists. Steeped in Clottes’s shamanistic theories of cave painting, “What Is Paleolithic Art?” travels from well-known Ice Age sites like Chauvet, Altamira, and Lascaux to visits with contemporary aboriginal artists, evoking a continuum between the cave paintings of our prehistoric past and the living rock art of today.

207p, b/w illus (University of Chicago Press 2016) 9780226266633 Pb £12.50

Megalithismes Vivants et Passés

Approches Croisées / Living and Past Megalithisms: Interwoven Approaches Edited by Christian Jeunesse, Pierre le Roux & Bruno Boulestin Through both case studies and more synthetic works, these papers discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of ‘living’ megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light on the functioning of European Neolithic societies, the epistemological problems raised by this transposition and the relevance of ethnologybased archeological explanations. The book is composed of three sections: the first one deals with some methodological reflections, the second and third ones with the ‘living’ or recent megalithisms Only of respectively the Indonesian £40.00 until Archipelago and Ethiopia.

306p, col illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913458 Pb £50.00

Styles Techniques et Expression Graphique Dans l‘Art sur Paroi Rocheuse (Styles Techniques and Graphic Expression in Rock Art)

Edited by Marc Groenen & Marie-Christine Groenen This volume comprises an art historical study of rock art. Among the questions which it sets out to answer are: How were the techniques used put to the service of the aesthetic project? How can the iconographic study and the stylistic analysis contribute to the understanding of the decorated site? Can we approach the “short time” of the realisation of cave or rock art sets? Is it possible to target regional particularisms?

226p, b/w illus (BAR 2787, 2016) 9781407314464 Pb £41.00

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Post-Palaeolithic Filiform Rock Art in Western Europe

Edited by Fernando Coimbra & Umberto Sansoni Filiform rock art appears as a spontaneous technique, more simple and immediate than pecking, good either for autonomous strands of expression, or for sketches and first drafts regarding works of painting or pecking. These papers focus in the main on Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, and present typologies, examine issues of dating and Only chronology, and provide new £19.50 until interpretations.

31st April 96p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913670 Pb £24.00

Deathways at Lepenski Vir

Patterns in Mortuary Practice

By Dusan Boric Lepenski Vir is one of the best known Mesolithic and Early Neolithic sites in Europe and the world. This book is the first volume of a com­ prehensive archaeological and anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from this site. Bringing various strands of mortuary evidence together for the first time the author provides a more com­plete picture of life and death at Lepenski Vir, including comparisons of the many contexts in which human remains have been found as well as details of biological characteristics of the people who created such distinctive material culture at the site.

(Serbian Archaeological Society 2016) 9788680094038 Hb £65.00

Artisans Versus Nobility?

Multiple identities of elites and ‘commoners’ viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean Edited by Ann Brysbaert & Alexis Gorgues This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with the demands connected with elite identity formation. Innovations and the development of new technologies designed to satisfy the needs of ostentatious behaviour and achieving prestige are key issues of this volume.

220p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) 9789088903977 Hb £135.00, 9789088903960 Pb £45.00, NYP

Giants in the Landscape

Monumentality and Territories in the European Neolithic Edited by Vincent Ard & Lucile Pillot These papers consider the various manifestations of the relationship between Neolithic enclosures and tombs in different contexts of Europe, notably through spatial analysis; the concept of landscape appropriation, combining domestic, symbolic, economic or natural spaces; and the patterns of territorial organization, in which enclosures and tombs have a fundamental role in some Only Neolithic contexts. £21.00 until 100p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784912857 Pb £26.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Tale of the Axe

How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

By David Miles Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic - through the most iconic artefact of its time: the polished stone axe. Mixing anecdote, ethnography and archaeological analysis, the author vividly demonstrates how the archaeology on the ground reveals to us the evolving worldview of a Only species increasingly altering their own landscape; settling down together, investing in agricultural plots, and collectively £16.00 until erecting massive ceremonial monuments to cement new 31st April communal identities.

432p, b/w illus, col pls (Thames and Hudson 2016) 9780500051863 Hb £19.95

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden

By Mats Larsson Over the last 20 years a vast number of new and important Swedish Mesolithic sites have been excavated and published in different ways as articles, books and site reports.

As yet there has been no study that tries to bring the loose ends together and so the main task of this important new work by one of Sweden’s leading prehistorians is to provide an extensive overview of some of the main sites and results. The timespan is long: c. 10 0004000 BC and the amount and choice of data very large so rather than attempt to describe everything in detail Mats Larsson focuses on a series of fundamental research perspectives concerning Mesolithic lifeways and settlement patterns and chooses key sites to illustrate them. The emphasis is on southern and middle Sweden, though the country’s northern regions are in no way forgotten.

144p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785703850 Pb £38.00

Sagaholm

North European Bronze Age rock Art and Burial Ritual

By Joachim Goldhahn This major new study by one of Europe’s leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from Sagaholm Bronze Age barrow, situated in the central part of southern Swe d e n , t h e l a rge s t group of rock engravings discovered in a burial co ntext i n n o r t h e r n Europe. Joachim Goldhahn addresses a number of aspects of the use of rock engravings in burial rituals during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC), combining the antiquarian and scientific history of this extraordinary find.

Special concern is given to the frequent horse motifs at Sagaholm, and it is argued that they, and the morphology of this particular barrow, can be seen as a metaphor for a new and exotic cosmology that reached southern Scandinavia during the Middle Bronze Age. 192p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702648 Pb £36.00

Iconic Costumes

Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography

By Ulla Mannering This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 4001050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source material consists of five object categories: gold foils, gold bracteates, helmet plaques, jewellery, and textile tapestries and comprises over 1000 different images of male and female costumes which are then systematically examined in conjunction with our present knowledge of archaeological textiles.

288p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702150 Hb £38.00

Celtic from the West 3

Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language Edited by Barry Cunliffe & John T. Koch The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines—archaeology, genetics, and linguistics— the background in later European prehistory to these developments. There is a traditional scenario, according to which, Celtic speech and the associated group identity came in to being during the Early Iron Age in the north Alpine zone and then rapidly spread across central and western Europe. This idea of ‘Celtogenesis’ remains deeply entrenched in scholarly and popular thought. But it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent discoveries pointing towards origins in the deeper past.

It should no longer be taken for granted that Atlantic Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC were pre-Celtic or even pre-Indo-European.

The explorations in Celtic from the West 3 are drawn together in this spirit, continuing two earlier volumes in the influential series.

480p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702273 Hb £45.00

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Analysis of the Economic Foundations Supporting the Social Supremacy of the Beaker Groups

Edited by Elisa Guerra Doce & Corina Liesau Von Lettow-Vorbeck At present, the idea that the Beaker package is best interpreted as a symbol of power common to socially-prominent individuals by the mid-to-late third millennium BC is widely acknowledged.

This volume analyses the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups on a European level. The papers suggest that Beaker groups may have controlled certain Only products and technologies. £24.00 until 164p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913076 Pb £30.00

Warriors and Other Men

Notions of Masculinity from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Scandinavia

By Lisbeth Skogstrand Starting from broad discussions of feminist theory and critical men’s studies, this study examines how notions of masculinity are expressed in cremation burials from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Period (1100 BC - 400 AD) in Eastern Norway and Funen in Denmark. It is argued that notions of masculinity were deeply intertwined with society, and when central aspects like war systems, task differentiation, or technology changed, so did gender and Only ideas of masculinity and vice £31.00 until versa.

31st April 194p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784914172 Pb £38.00

Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia

By Miroslaw Masojc This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. The excavated material from Jutland abounds in flint artefacts, which nearly always constitute the predominating category of Only finds. £24.00 until 276p, b/w and col illus 31st April (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913793 Pb £30.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS A Geography of Offerings

Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe

By Richard Bradley A Geography of Offerings has been written to provoke a reaction from archaeologists and has two main aims. The first is to move this kind of archaeology away from the minute study of ancient objects to a more ambitious analysis of ancient places and landscapes. The second is to recognise that problems of interpretation are not restricted to the pre-Roman period. Rather than offer a comprehensive survey, this is an extended essay about the strengths and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised deposits, which encompass both sacrificial deposits characterised by large quantities of animal and human bones and other collections which are dominated by finds of stone or metal artefacts. It considers current approaches and theory, the histories of individual artefacts and the landscape and physical context of the places where they were deposited, the character of materials, the importance of animism and the character of ancient cosmologies.

160p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785704772 Pb £15.99

Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia

By Sebastian Celestino & Carolina Lopez-Ruiz Endowed with extraordinary we a l th i n m e t a ls a n d strategically positioned between the Atlantic and Mediterranean trading routes at the time of Greek and Phoenician colonial e x p a n s i o n , Ta r t e s s o s flourished in the eightseventh centuries BCE. This book combines the expertise of its two authors in archaeology, philology, and cultural history to present a comprehensive, coherent, theoretically up-to-date, and informative overview of the discovery, sources, and debates surrounding this puzzling culture of ancient Iberia and its complex hybrid identity visa-vis the western Phoenicians.

384p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780199672745 Hb £80.00

Making a Mint

Comparative Studies in Late Iron Age Coin Mould

By Mark Landon This book presents the first large-scale comparative study of Iron Age coin moulds. In addition to examining in detail approximately 20% of all the coin moulds ever found, the book also addresses the lack of an agreed reporting protocol, the main Only and considerable obstacle to £27.50 until progress in this field.

210p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784914080 Pb £34.00

Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture

By Dan Monah Dan Monah (11 February 1943 – 21 September 2013) was a specialist in the Neo-Eneolithic of Romania, a staunch critic of the dominant cultural-historic paradigm and its natural interpretative consequences: the supremacy of typological description, the Cartesian ranking of religious systems from simple to complex, and the avoidance of ‘unclassable’ o c c u r re n c e s . T h i s vo l u m e embodies his vision applied to Only the analysis of the Cucuteni£44.00 until Tripolye anthropomorphic representations.

31st April 454p, (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912321 Pb £55.00

Late Prehistory and Protohistory

Bronze Age and Iron Age: (1. The Emergence of Warrior Societies and its Economic Social and Environmental Consequences; 2. AegeanMediterranean Imports and Influences in the Graves from Continental Europe) Edited by Fernando Coimbra, Davide Delfino, Valeriu Sirbu & Cristian Schuster This volume comprises the proceedings of two sessions of the XVIIth UISPP congress. The first session explores the evidence for the first warrior societies in Europe and their impact on material culture and landscapes. The second aims to highlight the role of Mediterranean imports in the evolution of the elites of northern European communities, and the possible meanings of their Only deposit in burials. £31.00 until 234p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784912970 Pb £38.00

A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes

Edited by Oleg D. Mochalov, Pavel F. Kuznetsov, Aleksandr A. Khokhlov, Dorcas R. Brown & David W. Anthony This volume, the final report of the Samara Valley Project, explores the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies from the Eneolithic through the Late Bronze Age across a steppe-and-river valley landscape in the middle Volga region, with particular attention to the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures.

512p, col illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2016) 9781938770050 Hb £95.95

Il Funerario in Friuli e Nelle Regioni Contermini tra l’Eta del Ferro e l’Eta Tardoantica

Edited by Tiziana Cividini & Giovanni Tasca These conference proceedings present a comprehensive overview of funerary archaeology in the North Adriatic region from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity, with a review and update of old excavation data and the presentation of unpublished reports resulting from very recent archaeological research.

For the Roman age in particular, discussion focuses on funerary equipment outside of large urban centres. Italian text.

250p, b/w and col illus (British Archaeological Reports 2795, 2016) 9781407314761 Pb £45.00

Archäologische Demographie

Methoden, Daten und Bevölkerung der Europäischen Bronze- und Eisenzeiten

By Frank Nikulka This publication is devoted to demography in archaeology. It presents methodology and theoretical approaches with a European focus and deals with demographic developments in the Bronze and Iron Ages throughout Central and Northern Europe in their social contexts. Text in German and English 285p, 50bw/5fc (Sidestone Press 2016) 9789088903946 Hb £180.00, 9789088903939 Pb £60.00

The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic

Edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason In this new handbook, each arctic cultural tradition is described in detail, with up-to-date coverage of recent interpretations of all aspects of their lifeways.

Additional chapters cover broad themes applicable to the full range of arctic cultures, such as trade, stone tool technology, ancient DNA research, and the relationship between archaeology and modern arctic communities.

988p b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780199766956 Hb £115.00

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World Archaeology Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics

Rethinking Temporality and Community in Eurasian Archaeology Edited by Kathryn O. Weber, Emma Hite, Lori Khatchadourian and Adam T. Smith Traditionally, archaeological research in Eurasia has focused on assembling normative descriptions of monolithic cultures that endure for millennia, largely immune to the forces of historical change.

The papers in this volume seek to document forces of difference and contestation in the past that were produced in the perceptible engagements of peoples, things, and places. The research gathered here convincingly demonstrates that these forces made social life in ancient Eurasia rather more fitful and its publics considerably more unruly than archaeological research has traditionally allowed.

346p (Brill 2017) 9789004324978 Hb £120.00

Nart Sagas

Myths and Legends from the Ancient Caucasus Edited by John Colarusso Nart Sagas presents a wide selection of fascinating myths preserved among the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz and Ubyks - four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread, but who have retained the Nart sagas as a living tradition.

The collection makes clear that these tales share much with the lore of ancient India, classical Greece and pagan Scandinavia, and are as deserving of a place in the canon of world mythology.

448p (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691169149 Pb £17.95

Tales of the Narts

Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians Edited by John Colarusso Tales of the Narts, a companion volume to Nart Sagas, presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic identities have been maintained for thousands of years in the face of major cultural upheavals.

510p (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691170404 Hb £29.95

Holocene Foragers of North India

The Bioarchaeology of Mesolithic Damdama

By John R. Lukacs & Jagannath Pal This volume forms the first comprehensive bioarchaeological study of an early Holocene human skeletal series from the Gangetic Plain of North India. The integrative analysis of skeletal preservation includes documenting bone microstructure and chemical composition, and a taphonomic approach to skeletal representation.

328p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2783 2016) 9781407314525 Pb £49.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests

By Tim Perttula I n t h i s m a j o r, h i g h l y illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between c. 900 and 1900 AD. There were continual changes in the character and extent of ancestral landscapes, through times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as in relationships between different communities of Caddo peoples dispersed or concentrated across the landscape at different points in time. Caddo Landscapes explores the ancestral Caddo constructed landscape, providing detailed information on earthen mounds, specialized non-mound structures, domestic settlements and their key facilities as well as associated gardens and fields, and places where salt, clay, lithic raw materials, and other materials were obtained and the social ties that linked communities in numerous ways. The character and key sequences of ceramics are discussed and radiometric dating Only evidence provided. £28.50 until 264p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785705762 Pb £38.00

Rock Art of the Vindhyas

An Archaeological Survey: Documentation and Analysis of the Rock Art of Mirzapur District Uttar Pradesh

By Ajay Pratap Rock paintings and petroglyphs are a record of human memories, in fact this function defines in essence all archaeological objects. Yet some objects such as tools, beyond their symbolic value, are clearly fashioned for their utility. How does rock art as an object fashioned by human hands then differ from tools? What utility does it have beyond its symbolic value?

This book analyses the Vindhyan Only corpus of rock paintings to £36.00 until consider such questions.

31st April 186p (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912451 Pb £45.00

Osaka Archaeology

By Richard Pearson This book is an archaeological study of the Ōsaka region, Japan, from the about 20,000 years ago to 1868 AD. Its purpose is to introduce the recently excavated rich archaeological heritage of the Ōsaka area and to show how archaeology contributes to our general knowledge of Ōsaka in unique ways. The study focuses on excavations, environmental Only data, sites, and artefacts and £23.00 until their interpretation.

31st April 136p (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913755 Pb £28.00

Bioarchaeology of Ancient Northern Vietnam

By Marc Fredrick Oxenham Using dental and skeletal samples excavated by Vietnamese archaeologists from the 1960s through to 1990s, this study compares and contrasts the human condition in two key temporal periods in Vietnamese prehistory: mid-Holocene sedentary hunter-gathers and the emerging Bronze and Iron Ages. Specifically, osteoarthritis, oral health, markers of physiological stress in childhood (enamel hypoplasia and cribra orbitalia), general disease and traumatic injury are explored and discussed in detail.

270p (BAR 2781, 2016) 9781407324210 Pb £48.00

The Archaeology and Rock Art of Swordfish Cave

By Clayton G. Lebow Swordfish Cave is a well-known rock art site located on Vandenberg Air Force Base in southcentral California. Named for the swordfish painted on its wall, the cave is a sacred Chumash site.

Well illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings of the rock art, the excavations, and the artifacts revealed therein, the book presents a rare opportunity to directly link archaeology and rock art and to examine the spatial organization of prehistoric human habitation.

224p, b/w illus, col pls (University of Utah Press 2016) 9781607814573 Pb £46.50

Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico

Edited by Eduardo Williams & Blanca Maldonado This book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacán on September 18-19, 2014. They are grouped into three thematic areas: Cultural dynamics in Western Mexico; Production of strategic resources; Only and Trade and exchange. £32.00 until 250p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913557 Pb £40.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Battlespace 1865

Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska

By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed & Amanda Renner For a period of about week in February 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle, especially along the Platte River. The North Platte Campaign offers a good basis for the application of landscape approaches to conflict archaeology if only because of its scale. There were probably far fewer than 1000 fighters involved in those skirmishes, but before, after, and between them, they involved substantial movements of people and of equipment that was similar to the arms and gear in service to other Civil War era combatants. This study draws on techniques of battlefield archaeology, focusing on the concept of ‘battlespace’ and the recovery, distribution and analysis of artifacts and weaponry, as well as historical accounts of the participants, LiDAR-informed terrain assessment, and theoretical consideration of the strategic thinking of the combatants.

144p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703393 Pb £38.00

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

Edited by Deborah L. Nichols & Christopher A. Pool This volume provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, the Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by a rc h a e o l o g i s t s o n t h e Colonial and Republican periods. The first section provides an overview of national archaeology programs and practice. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, while topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook.

1000p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9780195390933 Hb £127.00, 9780190230807 Pb £35.99

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Building Colonialism

Archaeology and Urban Space in East Africa

By Daniel T. Rhodes Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centres of Africa’s more recent past.

192p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2014, Pb 2016) 9781472512598 Hb £60.00, 9781474288804 Pb £28.99

Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa

Edited by Jasper Knight & Stefan W. Grab This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region.

468p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107055797 Hb £99.99

Forest Fires and Abandonment Patterns from the Aguada Culture Northwest Argentina

A Paleoenvironmental Study Based on the Analysis of Microcharcoals

By Henrik B. Lindskoug This book deals with the disappearance of the Aguada Culture, focusing on the abandonment of several settlements in the Ambato Valley, which has shown evidence of fire and a rapid abandonment dated to around 900-1000 AD. A new method of analysing forest fires using microcharcoals was developed to examine the relationship between the abandonment and forest fires.

194p (BAR 2803, 2016) 9781407314693 Pb £39.00

Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk

By Cameron Gokee Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye in eastern Senegal, this book explores social life in medieval Bambuk from the standpoint of a village o cc u p i e d ove r s eve ra l centuries (1000-1400 CE). It explores how interatcionts among neighboring houses, between cultural and craft traditions, and within a much broader political economy created both possibilities for and challenges to the ongoing production of a local community at Diouboye.

256p, b/w illus (Equinox 2016) 9781781790403 Hb £85.00

Holocene Prehistory in the Telidjene Basin Eastern Algeria

Capsian Occupations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia Edited by David Lubell Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia are stratified Capsian escargotieres (one openair, the other a rockshelter) in the Telidjene Basin, Eastern Algeria. They were excavated in the 1970s but have remained incompletely published. The sites are the only modern excavations of a Capsien Typique/ Capsien Superieur sequence, demonstrating that this is indeed a chronological progression related to the 8200 cal BP climate event. The technological (introduction of pressure flaking), palaeoeconomic and palaeoecological changes related Only to this event are examined in £31.00 until these contributions.

232p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913731 Pb £38.00

Egypt Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw 29.07—3.08 2013

Volume 1, 2 and 3 Edited by Tomasz Derda, Adam Lajtar, Jakub Urbanik, Andrzej Mironczuk & Grzegorz Ochala These three volumes collect the Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, 2013. Vol. I: Literary Papyri: Texts and studies; Vol. II: Subliterary papyri. Documentary papyri. Scribal practices, linguistic matters; Vol. III: Studying papyri.

2100p, b/w illus (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2016) 9788393842582 Hb £150.00

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Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections

Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications

By Thomas Christiansen & Kim Ryholt Thia volume presents an exhaustive catalogue of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. Most of the manuscripts are guides to the afterlife; eighteen of them contain texts and vignettes from the Book of the Dead, while a minor fragment preserves an illustration from the Book of Amduat.

156p, 106 col pls (Museum Tusculanum Press 2016) 9788763543743 Hb £73.50

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume I

4000-1300 BC

By Geoffrey Killen This revised second edition examines the common forms of furniture used in ancient Egypt, so much of which has been preserved by the dry Egyptian climate and has long been admired for the quality of its design and construction. This first volume deals with furniture materials, tools, bedframes, stools, chairs, tables and vase stands.

160p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704819 Hb £45.00

Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume II

Boxes, Chests and Footstools

By Geoffrey Killen In this, the second volume of the revised edition, Dr Killen continues his survey of Egyptian furniture-making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstool. Their evolution is traced from the earliest times, from the simple boxes and chests of the Old Kingdom down to the sophisticated construction and decoration of later periods.

168p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 97817857049857 Hb £45.00

Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume III

Ramesside Furniture

By Geoffrey Killen In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and Memphite tombs. The author also provides a distribution list with illustrations of a number of replica pieces of woodwork.

160p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704895 Hb £45.00

Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volumes I-III

By Geoffrey Killen All three volumes for a special price.

3 vols, 472p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704932 Hb £125.00

Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt

Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David Edited by Paul Nicholson, Roger Forshaw, Andrew Chamberlain & Campbell Price This volume, published in honour of Rosalie David, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. A number of leading experts in their fields combine both traditional Egyptology and innovative scientific approaches to ancient material. The resulting overview presents the state of Egyptology in 2016, how it has developed over the last forty years, and how many of its big questions still remain the same.

504p, b/w illus, col pls (Manchester University Press 2016) 9781784992439 Hb £60.00

The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000 - 1550 BC), Volume II

Edited by Gianluca Miniaci & Wolfram Grajetzki This volume continues the scope and method of the first World of Middle Kingdom Egypt collection, containing a selection of contributions from established scholars on a variety of topics, ranging in date from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the early New Kingdom. The cardinal focus is on the archaeology including objects from museum collections or from hitherto unpublished excavations. Other contributions relate to written sources, religion, and contacts between Egypt and the neighbouring regions.

360p, b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2016) 9781906137489 Pb £75.00

The Ancient Egyptian Economy

3000-30 BCE

By Brian Muhs This book is the first economic history of ancient Egypt covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE, and employing a New Institutional Economics approach. It argues that the ancient Egyptian state encouraged an increasingly widespread and sophisticated use of writing through time, primarily in order to better document and more efficiently exact taxes for redistribution. The increased use of writing, however, also resulted in increased documentation and enforcement of private property titles and transfers, gradually lowering their transaction costs relative to redistribution.

404p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107113367 Hb £64.99

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Tomb Security in Ancient Egypt from the Predynastic to the Pyramid Age

By Reg Clark This book presents an in-depth analysis of the a rc h i t e c t u re o f t o m b security in Egypt from the Predynastic Period (c.

5000–4000 BC) until the early Fourth Dynasty (c.

2500 BC) by extrapolating data on the security features of published tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the first time in one accessible database. By thematically analysing these features in order to draw conclusions it also demonstrates that many aspects of the architecture of the Egyptian tomb over this period, in both royal and private contexts – whilst subject to changing tastes, needs and ideologies – had in fact originated as the result of Only the need to protect the tomb or £56.00 until improve its security.

31st April 566p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912994 Pb £70.00

Engineering and Construction in Egypt’s Early Dynastic Period

By Angela Sophia La Loggia The precursors to the pyramids, the massive mud brick tombs of the First and Second Dynasties, reveal a high degree of proficiency, ingenuity and capability by the architects, engineers and builders of that time. This study of building techniques in the Early Dynastic period reveals a structured and well organised society with well-developed construction and management skills. In fact, the construction time and labour force requirements in these earlier structures were efficient and small in comparison to ventures in the proceeding Dynasties.

218p (Peeters Press 2015) 9789042931817 Hb £90.00

Cleopatra’s Needles

The Lost Obelisks of Egypt

By Bob Brier In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenthcentury engineers entrusted w i t h t ra n s p o r t i n g t h e obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. When the obelisks finally arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra’s Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies’ necks. This era, caught up in obelisk mania, is recreated by Bob Brier in all its glory.

240p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781474242936 Hb £21.99

Problems of Canonicity and Identity formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Edited by Kim Ryholt & Gojko Barjamovic From early on, texts from the written traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were accumulated, codified, and to some extent canonized, as various collections developed mainly in the environment of the temple and the palace. This volume addresses the interrelations between various forms of canon and identity formation in different time periods, genres, regions, and contexts, as well as the application of contemporary conceptions of canon to ancient texts.

357p (Museum Tusculanum Press 2016) 9788763543729 Hb £59.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt

By Nadine Moeller In this book, Nadine Moeller challenges prevailing views on Egypt’s nonurban past and argues for Egypt as an early urban society. She traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic Period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (c.3500-1650 BC). She also discusses households and the Only layout of domestic architecture, which are key elements for £60.00 until understanding how society functioned and evolved over time.

31st April 450p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107079755 Hb £74.99

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

Edited by Ilaria Incordino and Pearce Paul Creasman In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view (ethnolinguistics, geobotanics). This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect of foreign trade: the importation of aromatic products. Contributors present the results of the latest researches into the origin and meaning of foreign aromatic products imported in Egypt from the south (Nubia, Punt, Arabia, Horn of Africa) from the beginning of the Dynastic period. The quest for aromata has been of a crucial importance in Egypt, since it was closely connected with economic, political, ideological, religious and mythic spheres. Through archaeological research, epigraphic analysis and iconographic investigations new evidence is explored supporting the most likely hypothesis Only about the sources of these raw materials. £22.50 until 112p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785706363 Pb £29.99

Birth Tusks

The Armoury of Health in Context - Egypt 1800 BC

By Stephen Quirke One highly distinctive ancient Egyptian product is the hippopotamus tusk section, incised with series of divine forms to protect mother and child. Here the “birth tusks” are explored in five movements: linear description of Petrie Museum examples; contexts from pre2000 excavations; corpus of pre-1973 acquisitions; comparison with late Middle Kingdom iconography, and then with material of other periods. Closing reflections on wider research horizons address the problems posed by the narrow chronological and social distribution of an object type.

668p, b/w illus, col pls (Golden House Publications 2016) 9781906137496 Hb £75.00

The Tomb of Amenhotep Chief Physician in the Domain of Amun Theban Tomb -61-

Archaeology and Architecture

By Gabor Schreiber Theban Tomb -61-, commenced in the Eighteenth Dynasty for an unknown owner, was only finished in the Twentieth Dynasty by one Amenhotep, Chief Physician in the Domain of Amun. Amenhotep made several architectural alterations and added a new burial chamber accessible from a sloping passage, to the original structure. Besides a description of the architectural features, this book gives a detailed analysis of the finds and discusses all historical phases of the tomb.

186p (Archaeolingua 2016) 9789639911741 Hb £60.00

Kom El-Hisn (ca. 2500-1900 BC)

An Ancient Settlement in the Nile Delta Edited by Robert J. Wenke, Richard W. Redding and Anthony J. Cagle This volume presents the findings of three seasons of excavation in the 1980s at Kom el-Hisn ‘the mound of the fortress,’ in the northwest Nile Delta. The findings presented here reveal the complexity of small Old Kingdom settlements in the context of the Memphite state organization and shed light on the changing relationships of this administrative centre with its provincial communities. Kom el-Hisn’s faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are presented and discussed in detail, as are some theoretical and methodological issues relevant to this research.

478p b/w illus (Lockwood Press 2016) 9781937040536 Hb £90.00

Non-Textual Marking Systems in Ancient Egypt (and Elsewhere)

Edited by Slawomir Rzepka, Frank Kammerzell & Julia Budka This volume aims to summarize the present stateof-the-art about non-textual marking systems in Pharaonic Egypt and to clear the way for a possible future analysis of the subject on a broader, crosscultural level. The broad variability of use and function of these marking systems which occur irrespectively of whether or not the particular community has a script is illustrated by case studies and by a close comparison of material originating from different time periods and from various places in Egypt and elsewhere.

334p, b/w and col illus (Widmaier Verlag 2015) 9783943955163 Hb £55.00

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The Theology of Hathor of Dendera

Aural and Visual Scribal Techniques in the Per-Wer Sanctuary

By Barbara A. Richter The Ptolemaic period witnessed an enormous increase in the number of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements. The ancient scribes exploited this complexity, selecting particular words, hieroglyphic signs, and iconographic elements in order to create interconnected multiple layers of meaning. This study examines these techniques, synthesizing their use in the three-dimensional space of the most important cult chamber in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, to reveal the most essential characteristics of the local theology, and show how the ancient scribes envisioned the universe and the place of humankind within it.

600p (Lockwood Press 2016) 9781937040512 Hb £119.00

An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Papyrus of Sobekmose Edited by Paul F. O’Rourke The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre, and one of the longest surviving examples from the New Kingdom. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text that can speak to us from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed.

216p col illus (Thames & Hudson 2016) 9780500051887 Hb £24.95

Lotus and Laurel

Edited by Rune Nyord & Kim Ryholt Lotus and Laurel brings together a wealth of essays in celebration of Paul John Frandsen, who has had a distinguished career as a scholar of ancient Egyptian language and religion. They touch on a breadth of topics, including religious thought and representation; social questions of gender, kinship, and temple slavery; and studies of grammar and etymology.

521p, b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2015) 9788763542081 Hb £66.50

From Alexander to the Theoi Adelphoi

Foundation and Legitimation of a Dynasty

By S. G. Caneva This book explores the rise of the concept of dynastic continuity in the Ptolemaic kingdom from political, cultural and sociological perspectives, focusing on the first century of Macedonian rule in Egypt, from Alexander’s conquest to the early years of Ptolemy III. The analysis focuses on the actors involved in the processes of negotiation of Ptolemaic power as well as on the way they interacted by adapting ideological themes to different media and socio-cultural contexts.

289p (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042932890 Pb £100.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Dakhleh Oasis and the Western Desert in Egypt under the Ptolemies

By James C. R. Gill Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a re-examination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase in agricultural exploitation and a dramatic rise in population during the Roman Period. It argues that such changes had already begun to take place during the Ptolemaic Period, likely as the result of a deliberate strategy directed toward this region by the Ptolemies. This book focuses on the ceramic remains in order to determine the extent of Ptolemaic settlement in the oases and to offer new insights into the nature of this settlement. It presents a corpus of Ptolemaic pottery and a catalogue of Ptolemaic sites from Dakhleh Oasis.

504p, (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701351 Hb £75.00

The Tomb of Senneferi, Pharaoh’s Chancellor, at Thebes (TT99)

Edited by Nigel Strudwick Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor. This first of two volumes focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). It begins with an account of Senneferi himself, looking at his career, his family and other monuments made in his name. The central section deals with the development of the layout of the tomb during this period and its recent exploration.

The remaining chapters detail the decoration and finds from the excavations, including a painted statue of Senneferi’s son-in-law and a unique set of implements from the Opening of the Mouth ritual, as well as possibly the largest ceramic assemblage yet known in a tomb of this date.

432p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703317 Hb £70.00

Ancient Near East The Adventure of the Human Intellect

Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub This work offers a new approach to an old debate a b o u t t h e b e g i n n i n gs of intellectual history and rational thinking. It examines the worldviews of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine, and illuminates a wide array of responses to particular environments, circumstances and challenges.

296p (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) 9781119162551 Hb £120.00

Making Pictures of War

Realia et Imaginaria in the Iconology of the Ancient Near East Edited by Laura Battini These papers explore the iconography of war in the Ancient Near East and span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the NeoAssyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war: what is ‘warrior’ iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures of wartime (such as periods of great change)?

Were the war scenes referring to specific historical events or were Only they generic representations? £19.50 until 106p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784914035 Pb £24.00

Envisioning the Past Through Memories

How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies Edited by Davide Nadali The chapters of the volume analyse the value and function of memory within ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, textual and iconographical evidence. It moves from the analysis of the archaeological landscape, as the container of single and multiple memories, to material culture (things and objects) to shed light of the impact of memory on individuals and community.

196p (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781474223966 Hb £90.00

Being a Man

Negotiating Ancient Constructs of Masculinity Edited by Ilona Zsolnay Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient Near East a n d b eyo n d . T h ro u g h a juxtaposition of studies into Neo-Assyrian artistic representations and omens, biblical hymns and narrative, Hittite, Akkadian, and Indian epic, as well as detailed linguistic studies on gender and sex in the Sumerian and Hebrew languages, the book challenges traditional understandings and assumed homogeneity for what it meant “to be a man” in antiquity.

360p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138189362 Hb £85.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE In the Land of a Thousand Gods

A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World

By Christian Marek This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. Blending rich narrative history with in-depth analyses of political, social, and economic achievements, it traces Asia Minor’s shifting orientation between East and West in the ancient world and examines Only its roles as both a melting pot of nations and a bridge for £31.00 until cultural transmission.

31st April 808p, b/w illus (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691159799 Hb £37.95

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East

Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs”, the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, smallscale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyse the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia.

368p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702839 Pb £45.00

Archaeozoology of the Near East

Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark Beech This two part volume presents 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and specific analyses of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan.

464p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782978442 Hb £38.00

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Gods, Kings and Merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

By Dominique Charpin Gods, kings and merchants, a way of designating religion, politics and the economy: three spheres which in the modern world are quite distinct, even if they do interact constantly. The aim of this book is to show that their boundaries were far more fluid in the Mesopotamian civilisation. D. Charpin here examines the situation which existed in Mesopotamia in the first half of the second millennium BC, using texts discovered in numerous archives throughout the entire Near East, especially those found at Mari eighty years ago.

223p (Peeters Press 2015) 9789042932753 Pb £41.00

For the Gods of Girsu

City-State Formation in Ancient Sumer

By Sebastien Rey Girsu was the sacred metropolis and central pole of a city-state that lay in the Southeasternmost part of the Mesopotamian floodplain. Because of the richness of information related in particular to the city’s spatial organization and geographical setting, and thanks to the availability of recently declassified Cold War space imagery, Girsu stands out as a primary locale for re-analyzing through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological and textual evidence the origins of Only the Sumerian city-state. £20.00 until 84p, col illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913892 Pb £25.00

Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization

Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq Edited by Norman Yoffee & Jeffrey J. Clark Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from pre-agricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. This volume brings together translations of Russian articles along with new work.

306p, b/w illus (University of Arizona Press 1994, Pb 2016) 9780816532810 Pb £43.50

Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Glyphs and Stamp Seals in the British Museum

By Simon Denham This volume focuses on the British Museum’s collection of Middle Eastern Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic (7000–5000 BC) seals. In addition to a catalogue, the volume presents a new interpretation of these objects by discussing the role of stamp seals in prehistoric society and considers how they were used and why they were made.

176p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592081 Pb £40.00, NYP

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Painting Pots – Painting People

Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia Edited by Walter Cruell, Inna Mateiciucová & Olivier Nieuwenhuyse Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption in the Late Neolithic (ca. 7000–5000 cal.

BC). The 19 papers presented here bring together specialists discussing Neolithic ceramics from the Near East in the broadest sense, with a general focus on decorated pottery traditions. What raw materials and ceramic technologies did Late Neolithic peoples employ? How did they paint their designs? How may we analyse decorated ceramics to explore social networks and identities? What did these decorated pottery traditions Only mean socially? £33.75 until 272p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785704390 Hb £45.00

The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia

Edited by Akiri Tsuneki, Olivier Nieuwenhuyse & Stuart Campbell Porcelain production in West Asia played an important role as the root of many leading-edge technologies, such as metallurgy and glassworking, which signified the beginning of genuine pyrotechnology. Through the combined analysis of many archaeological site assemblages and collections, the papers brought together in this volume explore the evidence for the origins and the development of pottery production against the Only wider technological background £52.50 until of the period. publication 196p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705267 Hb £70.00

From the Mari Archives

An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters Edited by Jack M. Sasson Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments.

454p (Eisenbrauns 2015) 9781575068305 Hb £59.00

Ancient Cookware from the Levant

By Gloria A. London To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study explores how food traditionally was processed, preserved, cooked, stored, and transported in clay containers. It begins with a description of five data sources: excavations, ancient and medieval texts, 20th century government reports, early accounts of potters, and ethnoarchaeological studies. The final section focuses on the shape, style, and manufacture of cookware for the past 12,000 years.

312p, b/w illus (Equinox 2016) 9781781791998 Hb £95.00

In the Garden of the Gods

Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

By Eva Anagnostou-Laou Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods, through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest As another Gilgameš and, later, as a pious servant of Marduk, the king renewed divine favour for his subjects, enabling them to share the ‘Garden of the Gods’.

274p, (Routledge 2016) 9781472428684 Hb £95.00

Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace

Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s Reconstruction

By Ada Cohen & Steven E. Kangas One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century colour lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, it was published by Austen Henry Layard. This book studies this influential image in depth, both at the time of its creation in London in the eventful year 1848 and in terms of its afterlife.

112p, b/w and col illus (University Press of New England 2016) 9781611689976 Pb £21.00

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Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum (Volume 4)

Cylinder Seals

By Edith Porada & Dominique Collon This volume continues the story of the cylinder seal styles of the second millennium BC beyond Babylonia in this internationally recognized series documenting the British Museum’s cylinder seals collection. Between 2000 and 1000 BC whole series of regional glyptic styles were developed in various autonomous kingdoms and city states. Each of these has merited its own chapter or section within this current volume, with its own selection of photographs and catalogue entries.

272p, 49 b&w plates; 1 col plate (British Museum Press 2016) 9780714111308 Hb £60.00

The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions

Edited by Konstantinos Kopanias & John MacGinnis Kurdistan is home to some of the most important archaeological sites in the world, ranging from the Stone Age to the most recent past, and the past ten years has seen a burgeoning of cuttingedge archaeological field projects across the region, documented in this book.

Together these endeavours are generating basic new data which is leading to a new understanding of the arrival of mankind, the development of agriculture, the emergence of cities, the evolution of complex societies and the Only forging of the great empires in £64.00 until this crucible of mankind.

31st April 474p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913939 Pb £80.00

Archaeological Rescue Excavations on Packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway Sultanate of Oman

By Ben Saunders 2014 Excavations recorded over 60 archaeological sites over the 200km stretch of roadway cutting through the Batinah plain, north-west of Muscat.

The majority of these sites were prehistoric tombs of varying ages. These excavations have allowed a re-thinking of the dating of some of these tombs, looking particularly at the structural styles of the Only tombs as well as their location £36.00 until in the landscape.

31st April 220p, col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913953 Pb £45.00

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Arsacids, Romans and Local Elites

Edited by Jason Schulde & Benjamin Reubin For almost 500 years (247 BCE–224 CE), the Arsacid kings of Parthia ruled over a vast multi-cultural empire, which encompassed much of central Asia and the Near East. This collection of new papers examines interactions among the Arsacids, Romans, and local elites from a variety of scholarly perspectives.

The seven chapters investigate different aspects of war, diplomacy, trade, and artistic production as mechanisms of cross-cultural communication and exchange in the Parthian empire. Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites will prove significant for those interested in the legacy of Hellenistic and Achaemenid art and ideology in the Parthian empire, the sometimes under-appreciated role of diplomacy in creating and maintaining peace in the ancient Middle East, and the importance of local dynasts in kingdoms like Judaea, Osrhoene, and Hatra in shaping the geopolitical landscape of Only the Near East, alongside the imperial powerhouses of Rome £27.00 until and Parthia. publication 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705922 Pb £36.00

Nomadism in Iran

From Antiquity to the Modern Era

By D. T. Potts Nomadism in Iran recasts o u r u n d e rs t a n d i n g o f this “timeless” tradition.

Far from constituting a natural adaptation on the Iranian Plateau, nomadism is a comparatively late introduction, which can only be understood within the context of certain political circumstances. Since the early Holocene, most, if not all, agricultural communities in Iran had kept herds of sheep and goat, but the communities themselves were sedentary. It wasn’t until later in the eleventh century that an influx of Turkic speaking Oghuz nomadic groups began the modification of the demography of the Iranian Plateau that accelerated with the Mongol conquest.

592p (Oxford University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9780199330799 Hb £59.00, 9780190600594 Pb £29.99

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

Adaptation and expansion Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth Pendleton, Touraj Daryaee & Michael Alram Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sasanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture.

Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate entities. Although an attempt has been made by several scholars in the west to place the important Pathian dynasty in its proper cultural context, the traditional GrecoRoman influenced approach is still prevalent. The present volume presents 15 papers covering various aspects of Parthian and early Sasanian history, material culture, linguistics and religion which demonstrate a rich surviving heritage and provide many new insights into ideology, royal genealogy, social organisation, military tactics, linguistic developments and trading contacts.

160p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702075 Hb £38.00

A State of Mixture

Christians, Zoroastrians and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity

By Richard E. Payne Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in the Sasanian Empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. The rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion.

320p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2015, Pb 2016) 9780520286191 Hb £70.95, 9780520292451 Pb £24.95

A New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar Iran

By Ayse Gursan-Salzmann This monograph provides a stratigraphically based chronology for the Early Bronze Age settlement at Tepe Hissar. The clarified sequence provides ample evidence for the nature of the evolution and the abandonment of the site, situating it in time and space between Turkmenistan and Bactria on the one hand and Mesopotamia on the other.

405p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9781934536834 Hb £45.50

A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites

Edited by Youssef Kanjou & Akira Tsuneki T h i s vo l u m e p re s e nt s the long history of Syria through its most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume. Based on these contributions the volume offers a detailed summary of the history of Syria, a history as Only important as any in terms of the £64.00 until development of human society.

460p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913816 Pb £80.00

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BCE)

By Sharon R. Steadman & Gregory McMahon The contributors to this handbook combine descriptions of current scholarship on important discussion and debates in Anatolian studies with new and cutting edge research for future directions of study.

The fifty-four chapters are presented in five separate sections that range in topic from chronological and geographical overviews to anthropologically based issues of culture contact and imperial structures, and from historical settings of entire millennia to crucial data from key sites across the region.

1174p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2011, Pb 2016) 9780195376142 Hb £127.50, 9780199336012 Pb £41.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times

Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, Gro Bjørnstad & Sven Ahrens Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from pagan to Christian topography, changing tomb typologies, funerary costs, family organization, funerary rights, rituals and practices among pagans, Jews, and Christians, inhumation and Early Byzantine cremations and use and reuse of tombs. The bioarchaeology chapters use DNA, isotope and osteological analyses to discuss, both among children and adults, questions such as demography and death rates, pathology and nutrition, body actions, genetics, osteobiography, and mobility patterns and diet.

432p (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703591 Hb £65.00

Petra Great Temple Volume 3

Brown University Excavations 1993-2008, Architecture and Material Culture

By Martha Sharp Joukowsky This third volume devoted to the Great Temple, builds on the previous two volumes of excavation reports to examine many facets of Nabataean m a te r i a l c u l t u re . I t exposes a cross-section of the material culture, from water-supply systems and architectural designs to studies of artefacts (sculpture, ceramics, numismatics, metal and bone) and subsistence patterns. Part I explores the principles of the temple layout and how it was built, while Part II is devoted to additional aspects of Nabataean material culture, with chapters devoted to the site databases, ceramics and Nabataean potting traditions, lamps, figurines, glass, coins, faunal and worked bone analyses, metal objects, ballista balls, and sculpture.

622p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785706127 Hb £60.00

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The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan

Edited by Kevin M. McGeough This volume is devoted to studies of botanical and faunal remains from three major sites in Jordan: Tall al’Umayri (Bronze to early Iron Age), Karak Castle (Middle and Late Islamic Period), and Khirbet al-Mudayna al-’Aliya (early Iron Age). Each paper offers insight into contextually specific historical circumstances but also insight into agriculture and pastoralism more broadly.

144p, b/w illus (American Schools of Oriental Research 2016) 9780897570947 Hb £70.00

Portable Shrine Models

Ancient Architectural Clay Models from the Levant

By Hava Katz This book discusses portable shrine models from the Land of Israel, with comparisons to models from the geographic-historical units of the Levant.

Religious, ethnical, political and social aspects of the models are examined in reference to written evidence, and the archaeological assemblages in which they are found. Although these models were not as common as other cult objects such as altars and figurines, their wide distribution provides further evidence of the close relationship between the diverse peoples of the region.

172p, b/w illus (BAR 2791, 2016) 9781407318936 Pb £34.00

The Tall al-Hammam Excavations

By Steven Collins, Carroll Kobs & Michael C. Luddeni This volume presents an overview of the site, with a period-by-period overview of Tall al-Hammam and its relationship to other sites in the vicinity in the Jordan Valley. It also includes the pottery profiles and assemblages and artefacts discovered in the course of these seasons. Future volumes will include in-depth excavation reports for specific areas of the Tall.

362p, col illus (Eisenbrauns 2015) 9781575063690 Hb £89.00

Ancient Antioch

From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest

By Andrea U. De Georgi From late fourth century BC Seleucid enclave to capital of the Roman east, Antioch on the Orontes was one of the greatest cities of antiquity and served as a hinge between east and west. This book offers a new narrative of Antioch’s origins and growth, as well as its resilience, civic pride, and economic opportunism. It brings into focus the archaeological data, thus proposing a concrete interpretative framework that, grounded in the monuments of Antioch, enables the reader to move beyond textbased reconstructions of the city’s history.

245p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107130739 Hb £64.99

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Jerusalem Throne Games

The Battle of Bible Stories After the Death of David

By Peter Feinman Jerusalem Throne Games puts forward a new assessment of the authorship of key sections of the Old Testament, and aims to understand the creation and meaning of those stories in their original political context. Feinman explores the political battle for power to succeed David expressed through selected stories from the Book of Genesis. Wielding a new weapon of war that was changing the course of human history – the alphabet prose narrative – competing factions or priesthoods vying for power battled for the throne through storytelling. In this book six of those stories from Gen. 4-11 are analysed through the lens of the succession of Solomon and the collapse of his kingdom. A new Documentary Hypothesis is proposed for the writer known as J, the traditional author of these six stories. It presents the creation of supplemental and interactive writing by the Levites, Zadokites, and Aaronids who battled for Only power to name, dominate, and £18.75 until influence the person on the publication throne 352p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706165 Pb £25.00

The Land Before the Kingdom of Israel

A History of the Southern Levant and the People Who Populated it

By Brendon C. Benz T h i s vo l u m e f o r m s a n original reconstruction of the sociopolitical landscape of the Late Bronze Age Levant that exposes points of continuity between the polities and populations that inhabited the land and those that were later identified with Israel. In addition to shedding light on historical memories embedded in the books of Judges and Samuel that do not conform to conventional wisdom regarding Israel’s early history, Benz demonstrates that a contingent of the early Israelites was heir to the social and political structures of their Late Bronze Age Levantine predecessors.

496p, (Eisenbrauns 2016) 9781575064277 Hb £69.99

Sepphoris II

The Clay Oil Lamps of Sepphoris in Galilee

By Eric C. Lapp Sepphoris was an important Galilean site from Hellenistic to early Islamic times. The Duke University excavations of the 1980s and 1990s uncovered a large corpus of clay oil lamps in the domestic area of the western summit, and this volume presents these vessels. Richly illustrated with photos and drawings, it describes the various shape-types and includes a detailed catalogue of 219 lamps. It also explores the origins of the Sepphoris lamps and establishes patterns of their trade, transport, and sale in the lower city’s marketplace.

262p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2016) 9781575064048 Hb £59.99

Sennacherib’s Campaign Against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 B.C

A Historical Reconstruction

By Nazek Khalid Matty This study offers a reconstruction of Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah and Jerusalem in 701 BC. It contrasts and compares various, partly contradictious readings of this event and challenges established narratives. By giving equal weight to a great variety of different sources, whether literary or archaeological, the author comes to a new and profound understanding of this complex military conflict.

230p, b/w illus (Walter de Gruyter 2016) 9783110447880 Hb £90.00

Ashkelon 5

The Land Behind Ashkelon

By Yaakov Hustler Combining old surveys with new material from salvage excavations, The Land behind Ashkelon provides a wide regional context for the excavations at Tel Ashkelon. Yaakov Huster has not only revisited older surveys but has also taken into account the enormous amount of new information collected by the archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority over the last several decades.

222p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2015) 9781575069524 Hb £49.00

Lahav V: The Iron Persian and Hellenistic Occupation Within the Walls at Tell Halif

Excavations in Field II: 1977-1980 (Lahav Reports)

By Dan P. Cole This volume focuses on the Lahav Research Project’s efforts in Field II during three excavation seasons between 1977 and 1980. The excavations uncovered twelve phases and sub-phases of occupation, stretching from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the late Roman period. Included were six phases of Iron Age domestic architecture (Strata VIIB-A and VID-A) revealing especially the vitality of the Iron II Judahite settlement during the 9th and 8th centuries B.C.E. 267p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2015) 9781575063003 Hb £79.99

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Mediterranean Prehistory NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Social Change in Aegean Prehistory

Edited by Corien Wiersma & Sofia Voutsaki T h i s vo l u m e b r i n gs together papers that discuss social change.

The main focus is on the Early Helladic III to Late Helladic I period in southern Greece, but also touches upon the surrounding islands.

This specific timeframe enables us to consider how mainland societies recovered from a ‘crisis’ and how they eventually developed into the differentiated, culturally receptive and competitive social formations of the early Mycenaean period. Material changes are highlighted in the various papers, ranging from pottery and burials to domestic architecture and settlement structures, followed by discussions of how these changes relate to social change.

192p (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702198 Pb £36.00

An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean

Edited by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou & Yiannis Papadatos In these 28 thematically arranged papers, specialists in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean confront the perceived invisibility of past bodies and ask new research questions.

Contributors discuss new and old evidence; they examine how bodies intersect with the material world, and explore the role of body-situated experiences in creating distinct social and other identities. Papers range chronologically from the Palaeolithic to the Early Iron Age and cover the geographical regions of the Aegean, Cyprus and the Near East. They highlight the new possibilities that emerge for the interpretation of the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean through a combined use of body-focused methodological and theoretical perspectives that are nevertheless grounded in the archaeological record.

248p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702914 Hb £45.00

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Early Cycladic sculpture in context

Edited by Marissa Marthari, Colin Renfrew & Michael Boyd The study of the sculpture of the early bronze age Cy c l a d e s h a s b e e n hampered by the fact that so many finds come from unauthorised excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the chronology, the function and the meaning. This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive re-asssement sets out to rectify that situation by publishing finds which have been recovered in controlled excavations in recent years, as well as earlier finds for which better documentation can now be provided. Beginning with early examples from Neolithic settlement sites and extending into a consideration of material found in later contexts, the 35 chapters are divided into sections which examine sculpture from settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, concluding with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of manufacture.

576p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701955 Hb £40.00 £32.00

Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy

Approaching Social Agents Edited by Rafael Scopacasa & Elisa Perego This collection of 14 papers harnes s es innovative approaches to the exceptionally rich mortuary evidence of first millennium BC Italy, in order to investigate the roles and identities of social actors who either struggled for power and social recognition, or were manipulated and exploited by superior authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio-political change throughout the entire Mediterranean basin. Contributors provide a diverse range of approaches in order to examijne how power operated in society, how it was exercised and resisted, and how this can be studied through mortuary evidence.

336p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785701849 Pb £40.00

The Pottery from Dhaskalio

Achaios

Prehistoric Aegean and Near Eastern Metal Types

The Wall Paintings of the West House at Mycenae

The Sanctuary on Keros and the Origins of Aegean Ritual Practice

By Peggy Sotirakopoulou & Colin Renfrew This volume treats in detail the pottery from the settlement on the islet of Dhaskalio. Much of the importance of this material lies in the undisturbed stratigraphy of the settlement, a fact that allowed for the recognition of three successive phases of occupation of the site with considerable ceramic continuity between them, as well as for safe inferences about its chronology, with wider implications for the later early bronze age of the Cyclades.

477p, b/w illus (McDonald Institute 2016) 9781902937762 Hb £64.00

By Soren Dietz, Thanasis J. Papadopoulos & Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulou This publication catalogues the collection of Prehistoric Aegean and Near Eastern bronzes in the National Museum of Denmark, with the exception of the material from Hama.

52p, 32 b/w and col pls (Aarhus University Press 2015) 9788771249385 Hb £20.00

Studies Presented to Professor Thanasis I. Papadopoulos Edited by Evangelia Papadopoulou-Chrysikopoulou, Vassilis Chrysikopoulos & Gioulika Christakopoulou In a career spanning more than forty years Prof.

Thanasis I. Papadopoulos exhibited his intensive devotion to the Bronze Age of Greece, and especially to Mycenaean Achaea. This honorary volume expands to diverse eras, from Neolithic to Byzantine times, following Only Mycenaean paths that lead even £35.50 until to Egypt and to Jordan.

31st April 300p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913410 Pb £44.00

By Iphiyenia Tournavitou The wall paintings from the West House at Mycenae are discussed in relation to their context within the building. Their iconography and stylistic details are explored in relation to other Aegean Bronze Age wall paintings. The fragments are fully catalogued and illustrated with drawings and photos.

282p, b/w and col illus (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534888 Hb £55.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World

Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age

By Margaretha Karmer-Hajos In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this ‘provincial’ coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly Only centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and £64.00 until analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean 31st April collapse.

218p b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107107540 Hb £80.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Treasures from the Sea

Purple Dye and Sea Silk Edited by Alice Feiring & Francesco Meo In this new review of the latest research, 17 papers concentrate on two marine resources used in ancient textile manufacture: shellfish purple dye and sea silk. Papers include the study of epigraphical and historical sources, and practical experiments, as well as highlighting the presence of purple dye in the Mediterranean area in the archaeological data and in new research contexts; linguistic issues pertaining to terminology, archaeological investigation, the study of the physical and Only chemical properties of sea silk and the step-by-step practical £28.50 until working of sea silk fibres. publication 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704352 Hb £38.00

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece

Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty and Panagiotis Karkanas As a sealed, singlecomponent, archaeological site, the Neolithic settlement complex of Alepotrypa Cave is one of the richest sites in Greece. This edited volume offers a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the results of approximately 40 years of excavation and analysis.

I t i n c l u d e s nu m e ro u s chemical analyses and a much needed long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools, faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific locations of human activities and ceremonies inside the cave, as well as a site description and the history of the excavation conducted by G. Only Papathanasopoulos. £52.50 until 488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785706486 Hb £70.00

Akrotiri, Thera

An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old

By Clairy Palyvou This volume provides an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbours in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is confined to the last phase of habitation and the uniquely preserved houses that are seen today.

244p, 4 tables, b/w illus, col pls (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534871 Pb £34.00, NYP

The Early Iron Age

The Cemeteries

By John K. Papadopoulos & Evelyn Lord Smithson This volume publishes all the tombs from the Athenian Agora from the end of the Bronze Age to the Late Geometric period. An introduction deals with the layout of the four cemeteries of the period, the topographical ramifications, periodization, and a synthesis of Athens in the Early Iron Age. Individual chapters offer a complete catalogue of all the tombs and their contents, an analysis of the human remains from the inhumations and cremations and of the fauna found in graves, and a full analysis of the burial customs and funerary rites.

1088p, b/w illus (ASCSA 2017) 9780876612361 Hb £95.00, NYP

Metaphysis

Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age Edited by Eva Alram-Stern, Fritz Blakolmer, Sigrid Deger-Jaltotzy, Robert Laffineur & Jorg Weilhartner These papers address a large range of issues of ritual, myth and symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, such as ritual places and ritual landscapes, sacral and sepulchral rituals, social and political ceremonies, ritual acts and performances, the supernatural realm, liminality, irrationality and magic, mythology, hybrid creatures, heroes/heroines, divinities, symbols, emblems and iconography, images of power, and cosmology.

616p, b/w and col illus (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042933668 Hb £145.00

The Galatas Survey

By L. Vance Watrous, D. Matthew Buell, Eleni Kokinou, Pantelis Soupios & Apostolos Sarris This volume explores the results of the American archaeological survey (2005–2007) carried out around the area of Galatas in Central Crete. It traces the socioeconomic and political development of the area and its relations with other areas of Crete during the Neolithic–Ottoman periods. Changes in local socioeconomic and political conditions are documented as Galatas came under the direct control of states elsewhere in Crete and overseas.

460pb/w illus (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534895 Hb £55.00, NYP

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The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria

Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy Edited by Antonella Traverso, John Robb, Eugenia Isetti & Ernestine S. Elster This significant site is finally published in one comprehensive volume (and in an online archive of additional data and photographs) that gathers together the archaeological data from the upper and lower chambers of the cave. These data indicate intense ritual and quotidian use during the Neolithic period (circa 5600-5300 BCE). The Grotta Scaloria project is also important as historiography, since it illustrates a changing trajectory of research spanning three generations of European and American archaeology.

464p, b/w and col illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2016) 9781938770074 Hb £95.95

A History of Disease in Ancient Times

More Lethal than War

By Philip Norrie This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. It examines all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and argues that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world.

168p (Palgrave 2016) 9783319289366 Hb £66.99

Classical World Circum Mare

Themes in Ancient Warfare Edited by Jeremy Armstrong This volume presents a thematic approach to current directions in ancient military studies with case studies on topics including the economics of warfare, military cohesion, military authority, irregular warfare, and sieges. Bringing together work from across the Mediterranean world, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe and from Punic Spain to Persian Anatolia, the collection demonstrates both the breadth of the current field and a surprising number of synergies.

320p, (Brill 2016) 9789004284845 Hb £125.00

The Horse in the Ancient World

From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome

By Carolyn Willekes Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses – Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern – the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types.

Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the battlefield – through grand strategy, singular tactics and general deployment – she focuses on Egypt, Persia and the Hittites, as well as Greece and Rome.

304p, b/w illus, col pls (I.B. Tauris 2016) 9781784533663 Hb £64.00

The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World

Edited by Werner Riess & Garret G. Fagan These essays examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. After an introduction explaining the “spatial turn” in the theoretical study of violence, “paired” chapters review political assassination, the battlefield, violence against women and slaves, and violence at Greek and Roman dinner parties.

432p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472119820 Hb £69.95

Women’s Life in Greece and Rome

A Source Book in Translation Edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz & Maureen B. Fant This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers.

496p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury , 4th ed 2016) 9781472578471 Pb £28.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30BC

By John Morrison This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion.

The book includes a catalogue and discussion of the iconography of the ships with over fifty illustrations from coins, sculptures and other objects. John Coates discusses reconstructions, crews, ships and tactics illuminated by the recent experiments with the reconstructed trireme Olympias . Complete with gazetteer, glossary, bibliography and indexes.

420p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 1996, Pb 2016) 9781785704017 Pb £40.00

Ancient Historiography on War and Empire

Edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller & Richard Stoneman Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Pe r s i a n , A t h e n i a n , Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of character in the AlexanderCaesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority.

304p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702990 Hb £48.00

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Food, Identity and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World

Edited by Wim Broekaert, Robin Nadeau & John Wilkins The current volume brings together a collection of papers investigating the nexus between food and identity in cross-cultural settings from Classical Greece until the rise of Christianity. Whenever different cultures engage in a process of exchange, food and cuisine are among the first aspects of identity to meet, clash and enrich each other.

The authors analyse the various channels of mutual influence between different cultures and the deliberate choices made by producers and consumers.

106p, b/w illus (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042933040 Pb £25.00

Icon Cult and Context

Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World Edited by Maura K. Heyn & Ann Irvine Steinsapir The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main themes of this book. Authors examine such subjects as painting from Dura-Europos, Hellenistic sculpture at Saqqara in Egypt, Roman cameo glass, Pompeian fresco, and aspects of Venus in portrait sculpture.

224p b/w and col illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2016) 9781938770067 Pb £64.95

Housing and Habitat in the Ancient Mediterranean

Cultural and Environmental Responses Edited by A. Andrea Di Castro & Colin A. Hope The papers in this volume deal with the development and internationalisation of domestic architecture in the Mediterranean, the transformation and diffusion of different housing typologies, the implications for social interaction, and the adaptation to varying regional environments of Classical models of housing.

The contributors present new archaeological data and fresh interpretations, various theories, methods and evidence to investigate the characteristics of and change in social space and dynamics in both the urban and rural environment.

331p, col illus (Peeters Press 2015) 9789042933262 Pb £100.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom

The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature Edited by Marie Louise Nosch, Mary Harlow & Giovanni Fanfani Spanning mainly Greek and Latin poetic genres, yet encompassing comparative evidence from other Indo-European languages and literatures, these 18 chapters draw a various yet consistent picture of the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing. Topics include refreshing readings of tragic instances of deadly peploi and fatal fabrics, situating them within a Near Eastern tradition of curse as garment, explore female agency in the narrative of their production, and argue for broader symbolic implications of textile-making within the sphere of natural wealth The concepts and technological principles of ancient weaving emerge as cognitive patterns that, by means of analogy rather than metaphor, are reflected in early Greek mathematic and logical thinking, and in archaic poetics. The significance of weaving technology in early philosophical conceptions of cosmic order is revived by Lucretius’ account of atomic compound structure whilst clothing imagery is at the centre of the sustained intertextual strategy built by Statius.

(Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701603 Hb £38.00

Drawings in Greek and Roman Architecture

By Antonio Corso This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. The first chapter is focused on the possibility that ancient treatises of architectures were endowed with drawings in order to make clear expositions which sometimes were not easily explainable only with words. Then the drawings which once clarified the treatise of Vitruvius are considered. The references to architectural drawings in literary and epigraphical testimonia are collected and a catalogue of the surviving Greek and Roman drawings of buildings or of parts Only of them is given. £20.00 until 118p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913717 Pb £25.00

Writing Biography in Greece and Rome

Narrative Technique and Fictionalization Edited by Koen de Temmerman & Kristoffel Demoen This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality.

372p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107129122 Hb £74.99

Divination and Human Nature

A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

By Peter T. Struck This study casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination. Examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Neoplatonists, Struck demonstrates that they all observed how some people had premonitions defying the typical bounds of rationality. For the philosophers, such unexplained insights invited a speculative search for an alternative and more naturalistic system of cognition. They thus interpreted the phenomena of divination as a practice closer to intuition and instinct than magic.

280p, (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691169392 Hb £34.95

Facing the Gods

Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion

By Verity Platt This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations both in art and in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts.

The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period to the Roman Empire.

In particular, a surprisingly large number of the images that have survived from antiquity are not only religious but epiphanically charged.

502p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2011, Pb 2016) 9780521861717 Hb £88.00, 9781316619193 Pb £24.99

Disability in Antiquity

Edited by Christian Laes Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round.

490p (Routledge 2016) 9781138814851 Hb £150.00

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Greece Conceptualising Early Colonisation

Edited by Valentino Nizzo, Gert-Jan Burgers & Lieve Donnellan This volume focuses on various ways scholars represent ancient Greek colonisation in Italy. The complexity of the phenomenon in Antiquity does not allow for a straightforward equation with modern colonisation, but alternative concepts for this ancient “colonisation” appear to be equally elusive. Conceptualising early colonisation needs to take the entanglement with other processes into account, state formation, urbanisation, technological innovations, increasing connectivity and identity formation, among others.

248p, b/w and col illus (Brepols 2016) 9789074461825 Pb £75.00

Athens and Sparta

Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC

By Anton Powell Beginning in 478 BC Anton Powell presents an excellent, well-written account of 5th-century Greek history and society, contrasting the two rival powers of Athens and Sparta. The new third edition includes discussion of the latest scholarship on this crucial period, and for the first time it includes numerous photographs of Greek sites and archaeological objects discussed in the text.

464p, b/w illus (Routledge 3rd ed, 2016) 9781138778467 Pb £26.99

Athens

The City as University

By Niall Livingstone In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of the everyday life of ancient Athenians. In the streets, shops and other meetingplaces of the city people from all levels of society, from slaves to the very wealthy, exchanged knowledge and competed for power and status. The City as University explores the spaces and occasions where Athenians practised the arts of citizenship for which they and their city became famous.

124p (Routledge 2016) 9780415212960 Hb £85.00

Hallowed Stewards

Solon and the Sacred Treasurers of Ancient Athens

By William S. Bubelis Hallowed Stewards closely examines those magistracies that were central to Athenian religious efforts, and which are best described as “sacred treasurers.” It not only provides a wealth of detail concerning these hitherto badly understood offices, but also the larger diachronic framework within which they operated.

288p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472119424 Hb £66.95

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The Athenian Adonia in Context

The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice

By Larialan Reitzammer Ancient sources and modern scholars have often represented the Athenian festival of Adonis as a marginal and faintly ridiculous private women’s ritual. Laurialan Reitzammer resourcefully examines a wide array of surviving evidence about the Adonia, arguing for its symbolic importance in fifth and fourth-century Athenian culture as an occasion for gendered commentary on mainstream Athenian practices.

264p, b/w illus (University of Wisconsin Press 2016) 9780299308209 Hb £70.50

Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

By David M. Pritchard Sportsmen in democratic Athens continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens.

This book is a bold and novel exploration of this apparent contradiction, which examines three of the fundamental aspects of Athens in the classical period – democratic politics, public commitment to sport and constant warfare.

264p (Cambridge University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9781107007338 Hb £67.00, 9781316610305 Pb £19.99

Law and Order in Ancient Athens

By Adriaan Lanni Lanni argues that law and formal legal institutions played a greater role in maintaining order in ancient Athens than is generally acknowledged. The legal system did encourage compliance with law, but not through the familiar deterrence mechanism of imposing sanctions for violating statutes. Lanni shows how formal institutions facilitated the operation of informal social control in a society that was too large and diverse to be characterized as a ‘face-to-face community’ or ‘close-knit group’.

240p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9780521198806 Hb £80.00

The Isthmus of Corinth

Crossroads of the Mediterranean World

By David K. Pettegrew David Pettegrew’s new book investigates the Isthmus of Corinth from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. He outlines how the Isthmus became the most famous land bridge of the ancient world, central to maritime interests of Corinth, and a medium for Rome’s conquest, annexation, and administration in the Greek east. A fresh synthesis of archaeological evidence describes the physical development of fortifications, settlements, harbours, roads, and sanctuaries in the region.

352p, b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472119844 Hb £69.95

Gods and Mortals at Olympus

Ancient Dion, City of Zeus Edited by Dimitrios Pandermalis Located on the eastern slopes of Mount Olympus, the city of Dion and its natural environment were interpreted by the ancient Greeks as divine, prompting the area’s critical role in establishing the identity of the royal house of Philip and Alexander the Great. Generations of royalty and their followers celebrated their dedication to the god with sanctuaries, festivals, temples, statues, and public buildings. This exhibition catalogue presents highlights of the finds of the last fifty years of archaeological excavations.

160p col illus (Hellenic Museums Shop 2016) 9780990614227 Pb £21.00

Boiotia in Antiquity

Selected Papers

By Albert Schachter Boiotia was one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers (two previously unpublished, others revised and updated) which display a compelling intellectual coherence and a narrative style refreshingly immune to jargon. All major topics of Boiotian history from early Greece to Roman times are touched upon, and the book can be read as a history of Boiotia, in pieces.

430p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107053243 Hb £84.99

Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City

The Origins of Euergetism

By Marc Domingo Gygax This volume presents for the first time an in-depth analysis of the origins of Greek euergetism. Derived from the Greek for ‘benefactor’, ‘euergetism’ refers to the process whereby citizens and foreigners offered voluntary services and donations to the polis that were in turn recognised as benefactions in a formal act of reciprocation. Euergetism is key to our understanding of how city-states negotiated both the internal tensions between mass and elite, and their conflicts with external powers.

336p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9780521515351 Hb £64.99

On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower

By Mika Ojakangas This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of the state and its inhabitants is as old as the western political thought itself: the politico-philosophical categories of classical thought, particularly those of Plato and Aristotle, were already biopolitical categories.

124p (Routledge 2016) 9781138659438 Hb £90.00

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With Alexander in India and Central Asia

Moving East and Back to West Edited by Claudia Antonetti & P. Biagi Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab.

According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle.

Twelve papers in this volume examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian campaign, the relationship between him and his generals, the potential to use Indian sources, and evidence for the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring areas such as Only Iran and Russia. £30.00 until 304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2017) 9781785705847 Pb £40.00

The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought

By Fiona Hobden This book investigates the place of the symposion in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive understandings of the event and its participants. Sympotic representations thus communicated ideas which, set within broader cultural conversations, could possess a discursive edge.

314p (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) 9781107026667 Hb £67.00, 9781316613733 Pb £30.00

In Bed with the Ancient Greeks

By Paul Chrystal An analysis of the many layers of sex and sexuality in the various Greek societies – from the Minoan civilisation, through Athens and the other city states, through Sparta and Hellenistic Greece. It examines attitudes to, and the practice of, sex in Greek mythology, literature and real life; in love, marriage and adultery; in religion and philosophy; in the visual arts; of sexual medicine and erotic magic; and the vocabulary of sex.

288p col pls (Amberley Publishing 2016) 9781445654126 Hb £20.00

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Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas, Edited by Roger D. Woodard. After a

brief historical introduction there are entries on nine different language groups: Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Old Tamil, Old Persian, Avestan, Pahlavi, Ancient Chinese, Mayan and Epi-Olmec. Each chapter includes sections on writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. 264p, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Pb was £35.99 now £14.95

Writing About Archaeology, By Graham

Connah. In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. His overall premise is that those who write about archaeology need to be less concerned with content and more concerned with how they present it. 210p, b/w illus, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Pb was £22.99 now £9.95

Embodied Knowledge, Historical Perspectives

on Belief and Technology, Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury.

Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a series of historical and archaeological case studies. They share a focus on knowledge as it is implicit and expressed through the human body and bodily action, and as it formed through intentional practices. 176p, 42 b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hb was £36.00 now £9.95

Locating the Sacred, Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion, Edited by Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman. These essays, with a wide chronological and geographical coverage, aim at an understanding of religious ritual not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated material objects.

144p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £25.00 now £7.95 Medicine, Healing and Performance, Edited

by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes and Rhiannon Pettitt.

Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. These papers take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick. 176p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £36.00 now £9.95

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Wetland Archaeology and Environments,

Regional issues, global perspectives, By M. C. Lillie and S. Ellis. In this volume contributors demonstrate the rich heritage resource that wetlands can contain and highlight the ways in which archaeologists excavate and interpret the evidence. The chapters cover a wide range of site types, methodological approaches and geographical areas. 336p, 127 b/w illus, 13 tabs, Oxbow Books, 2006, Pb was £30.00 now £9.95

Deer and People, Edited by Karis Baker, Ruth Carden and Richard Madgwick. This volume draws together research on deer from wide-ranging disciplines and in so doing substantially advances our broader understanding of human-deer relationships in the past and the present. Themes include species dispersal, exploitation patterns, symbolic significance, material culture and art, effects on the landscape and management. 248p, b/w and col. illus, Windgather Press, 2014, Pb was £45.00 now £9.95 The Humber Wetlands, The Archaeology of a Dynamic Landscape, By Robert Van de Noort.

The Humber Wetlands Project (1992-2000) sought to identify, survey and study the archaeology of an extensive wetland area of the Humber basin lowlands. This book draws on the findings of that project, to trace the occupation and exploitation of the wetlands over a 10,000 year period. 196p, 79 b/w illus, Windgather Press, 2004, Pb was £24.00 now £9.95 The Making of the English Gardener: Plants

Books and Inspiration 1560-1660, By Margaret Willes. This book describes the “horticultural revolution” which took place in England between the middle of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the network of enthusiasts and the growing vernacular book trade which allowed new ideas to spread. 336p, b/w illus, col pls, Yale University Press, 2011, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95

British Prehistory Excavations at Cill Donnain, A Bronze Age

Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist, By Mike Parker Pearson and Marek Zvelebil. A report on an Iron Age wheelhouse and Bronze Age settlement, including pottery, faunal remains and a variety of bone and metal tools. 272p, 190 images, 63 tables, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £25.00 now £7.95

Huntsman’s Quarry, Kemerton, By Robin

Jackson. A report on excavations which uncovered Late Bronze Age occupation areas and field systems spreading across more than 8 hectares. Limited evidence for Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic,

Neolithic and Beaker activity was also recovered together with an Early Bronze Age ring-ditch. 192p, Oxbow Books, 2015, Hb was £30.00 now £7.95

European Prehistory The Creative Ice Age Brain, Cave Art in the

Light of Neuroscience, By Barbara Olins Alpert.

In this substantial new study, scholar Barbara Alpert approaches Ice Age art using information from psychology and discoveries in neuroscience to explore the impulses which underlie its creation, and arguing for an artistic continuum linking the distant past with the present. 248p, Foundation 20 21, 2009, Hb was £58.00 now £14.95

The end of the lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine region, Edited by Francesco

Menotti. A comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic and environmental factors behind the abandonment of 3500 years of prehistoric occupation of lake-dwellings in the Circum-Alpine region. 208p, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, Pb was £45.00 now £9.95

Paths to Complexity, Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe, Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling and Katja Winger. The 21 papers in this volume cover the whole Iron Age from ca. 800 BC to the beginning of the Common Era, exploring the origins of urbanism. 248p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £65.00 now £14.95 Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age, Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate, Edited by Cătălin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart. The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the south east Europe, and the wide array of approaches to identity reflect the continuing debate on how to integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely classical authors looking in on first millennium BC societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. 336p, b/w and colour images, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £48.00 now £12.95 Rock Art Studies, News of the World IV, Edited by Paul Bahn, Natalie R. Franklin and Matthias Strecker. This is the fourth in the fiveyearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. Papers consider the distribution of sites, chronology, interpretation, new surveys and publications, management and site conservation. 400p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hb was £85.00 now £14.95 Communicating with the World of Beings, The World Heritage rock art sites in Alta, Arctic Norway, By Knut Helskog. This study of the rock art of Alta in Arctic Norway explores its role as an expression of animistic belief: that through it people might have been able to communicate with other-than-human

beings who ruled parts of the environment – in order to petition favours for themselves or others. 240p, colour illustrated throughout, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £35.00 now £9.95

Exploring Prehistoric Identity in Europe,

Our Construct or Theirs? Edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca Enlander and Rebecca Crozier. Sixteen papers investigate aspects of prehistoric identity and how it was constructed. They range widely in their geographical and chronological coverage and are grouped into four sections: material culture of the dead; material culture of the living; architectural and ritual expressions; and our construct or theirs.

176p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £36.00 now £9.95

Prehistoric Journeys, Edited by Vicki

Cummings. Ideas of journeys and travel are integral to many traditions of interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record. The contributors to this volume see journeys as an integral part of prehistoric life - socially meaningful - which must be understood within their (pre)historic contexts.

152p, Oxbow Books, 2007, Pb was £38.00 now £12.95

An Enquiring Mind, Studies in Honor of Alexander Marshack, By Paul Bahn. Alexander Marshack single-handedly revolutionized the field of Paleolithic art research. To honor his memory, in this book, scholars from many parts of the world contribute papers about some of the many problems that interested him and to which he made such a massive contribution. 352p, Oxbow Books, 2010, Hb was £20.00 now £7.95 World Archaeology Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing,

By Bryan Wells. This book presents the analysis of a comprehensive, computer-based corpus using the most detailed sign list yet compiled for the Indus script. Custom computer programs allowed the verification of the sign list and the compilation of statistics regarding sign distribution and use. 272p, figs, tbls, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hb was £20.00 now £7.95

The Traditional Ceramics of Southeast Asia, By Mick Shippen. In this book, Mick Shippen

provides a comprehensive survey of the ceramic craftsmen of Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. He describes the life and work and history of these individuals and their communities, as well as including information about making and firing techniques and the aesthetics and function of the ceramics they produce. 224p, University of Hawai’i Press, 2005, Pb was £21.99 now £7.95

Archaeoastronomy and the Maya, Edited

by Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos and Edwin L. Barnhart. Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to

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ancient Mayan cultural production. Concepts of time and space, meanings encoded in religious art, intentions underlying architectural alignments, and even methods of political legitimization are all illuminated through the study of Mayan astronomy.

176p, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £45.00 now £9.95

Egypt and the Near East An Illustrated Introduction to Ancient Egypt, By Charlotte Booth. This beautifully illustrated, accessible introduction to Ancient Egypt covers all the major aspects of religion, daily life, childhood, politics and finally death rites, through the words and possessions of the people who lived there. 96p, col illus, Amberley Publishing, 2014, Pb was £9.99 now £4.95

Every Traveller Needs a Compass, Travel

and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East, Edited by Neil Cooke and Vanessa Daubney. A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience. 272p, Oxbow Books, 2015, Pb was £28.00 now £4.95

Coptic Documentary Texts From Kellis,

Volume 2 P. Kellis VII, By Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock and Wolf-Peter Funk. Contains 75 fourth century Coptic letters and household accounts from Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis. They give voice to ordinary people and provide genuine insights into literacy and the role of women, communications and travel, multilingual society and normative forms of belief and practice. 320p, b/w illus +CD of photographs, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £75.00 now £12.95

Out of Arabia, By Warwick Ball. This volume

exploring the spread of cultures into Europe focuses on the Arabs and their Phoenician predecessors, looking both at their colonisation of European lands, and the spread of ideas and culture which this prompted. Starting with Bronze Age colonisation by the Phoenicians, he examines eastern influences on the Roman Empire, and the Islamic conquests in the Mediterranean. 208p, col pls, East and West Publishing, 2009, Pb was £16.00 now £5.95

Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’, A History of Excavations in the Holy

Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer, Edited by Bart Wagemakers. An exploration of Near Eastern archaeology through nine sites: Jerusalem, Khirbet et-Tell (Άi?), Samaria & Sebaste, Tell Balata (Shechem), Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Khirbet Qumran, Caesarea, Megiddo, and Bet She’an. Rather than focusing on the history of

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these sites, the contributors describe the history of the archaeological expeditions. 264p, b/w and col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £49.95 now £9.95

Mari, Capital of Northern Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium. The archaeology

of Tell Hariri on the Euphrates, By Jean-Claude Margueron. An overview and summary of over thirty years excavation and research at Mari, the ancient capital of Mesopotamia. It covers the development of the city, architecture, palaces, religious monuments, everyday objects and art, and summarises the historical data than can be gleaned from the archaeology. 176p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £45.00 now £12.95

An Examination of Late Assyrian Metalwork, By John Curtis. This volume

makes available for the first time a vast amount of previously unpublished metalwork, much of it from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud, excavated first by Sir Henry Layard between 1845 and 1851 and then by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq between 1949 and 1963. It emerges that Assyria had a thriving metalworking industry probably superior to any contemporary state in the region. 330p, Oxbow Books, 2012, Hb was £50.00 now £14.95

Mediterranean Prehistory Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece, By Anthony Snodgrass. Collected essays.

The initial papers illustrate how classical studies, or classical archaeology, has changed over the past forty years, the subjects that are now considered, the approaches taken and methods of reserach applied.

Subsequent papers are arranged thematically into the early Iron Age, the early polis at home and abroad, the early polis at war, early Greek art, and archaeological survey. 484p, Cornell University Press, 2006, Pb was £40.50 now £9.95

The Emergence of Civilisation, The Cyclades

and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC,

By Colin Renfrew and John Cherry, This new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew’s groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, 650p, Oxbow Books, 2011, Hb was £80.00 now £14.95

Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, By Nancy Thomson de Grummond.The

study of Etruscan myth is a notoriously tricky business, since there are no written accounts to use as evidence. Nevertheless in this massively detailed account de Grummond argues that a distinctly Etruscan mythology can be discerned, and describes its features as well as Etruscan religious practice.

270p, col and b/w illus, CD Rom, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95

Classical World Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Edited by D.

Michaelides. These papers grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. 446p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £60.00 now £14.95

The Genuine Teachers of This Art:

Rhetorical Education in Antiquity, By Jeffrey Walker. Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations of rhetorical theories and schoolroom practices from early to late antiquity as the true aim of the philosophical rhetoric of Isocrates and as the distinctive expression of what Cicero called the genuine teachers of this art. He makes a case for considering rhetoric not as an Aristotelian critical-theoretical discipline, but as an Isocratean pedagogical discipline, an art of producing speakers and writers. 352p, University of South Carolina Press, 2012, Hb was £53.95 now £12.95

Greece The Parthenon Enigma, By Joan Breton Connelly.

A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world’s most iconic buildings.

Joan Breton Connelly proposes that the Parthenon frieze depicts not the celebration of the Panathenaic festival, but instead the sacrifice of his daughter by King Erectheus, the founder King of Athens. In so doing she presents a far darker picture of Athenian relgion and identity. 485p, b/w illus, Alfred A Knopf, 2014, Hb was £25.00 now £7.95

Poseidon and the Sea, Edited by Seth D.

Pevnick. This volume is a fascinating exploration of the myths and iconography of the Greek god Poseidon and the cult objects offered to him in his numerous manifestations across the Mediterranean world. Six essays by leading specialists examine the cult of Poseidon and the myths surrounding him, as well as the significance of the sea and seafaring in daily life. 200p, col illus, D Giles Limited, 2014, Hb was £32.50 now £14.95

Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic

Memory in Ancient Athens, By Andrew Wolpert.

This volume explores the settlement which emerged in Athens after defeat in the Peloponnesian, and the overthrow of the oligarchic regime which followed it. Wolpert uses public speeches of the early fourth century to consider how the Athenians confronted the troubling memories of defeat and civil war, and how they explained to themselves an agreement that allowed the oligarchic conspirators and their collaborators to go unpunished. 208p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Hb was £40.00 now £12.95

Poiesis, By Peter Acton. Poiesis brings together ancient texts and inscriptions, recent scholarly analysis, archaeological finds, and the expertise of modern craftsmen to investigate every known facet of Athens’ manufacturing activities. The framework explains why certain segments were suited to the sole craftsman and others to teams of slaves, and deduces earnings potential based upon competitive differentiation. 408p, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hb was £51.00 now £14.95 Greek Literature The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, By Jonathan S. Burgess.

Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer’s authority on the Trojan War and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought. 295p, 24 b/w illus, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Hb was £40.00 now £14.95

One and Many in Aristotles Metaphysics:

The Central Books, By Edward C. Halper. The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognized as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work.

Halper uses the problem of the one and the many as a lens through which to examine the Central Books.

What he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency and argumentative coherence in a work that almost everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. 374p, Parmenides Publishing, 2006, Hb was £50.95 now £9.95

Rome Gardens of Pompeii, By Annamaria Ciarallo.

This lavishly illustrated volume combines botanical images depicted in Pompeiian art with presentday photographs of gardens in the region to give a complete understanding of the fruits, vegetables, pollens, seeds, and other plants of Pompeii. 73p, Getty Trust Publications, 2001, Hb was £20.00 now £6.95 Carving as Craft, Palatine East and the Greco-

Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition, By Archer St Clair. This book includes an illustrated catalogue of 648 bone and ivory objects found duting excavations on the Palatine Hill as well as introductory chapters that provide background information on the excavations themselves, the properties of bone and ivory and artisanal practices, comparing this assemblage with material from Olympia and Alexandria in particular and with earlier and later traditions. 228p, 58 b/w pls, 47 b/w figs, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, Hb was £78.00 now £14.95

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Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing, By Susan P. Mattern. Through her readings of hundreds of Galen’s case histories, Susan P. Mattern presents the first systematic investigation of Galen’s clinical practice. She describes the public, competitive, and masculine nature of medicine among the urban elite and analyzes the relationship between clinical practice and power in the Roman household. 300p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, Hb was £44.50 now £14.95 The Army of the Roman Republic, The Second Century BC, Polybius and the Camps at Numantia, Spain, By Mike Dobson. A study of the camp sites at Numantia, which not only form the main source of archaeological evidence for Late Republican camps, but provide evidence for the form of camp for both the late manipular army and the early cohort one. 436p, 282 illus, Oxbow Books, 2007, Hb was £45.00 now £9.95 Celti (Penaflor), The Archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica. Survey and

Excavations 1987-1992, By Simon Keay, J. Creighton and Jose Remesal Rodriguez. These excavations at the important settlement of Celti aimed to establish, amongst other things, the date and cultural context for the first establishment of the site, the site’s regional context and the Romanisation of the town during the late Republican period. 224p, many b/w figs, Oxbow Books, 2000, Pb was £45.00 now £5.00

Glass of the Roman World, Edited by Justine

Bayley, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson. These papers both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific methods. 272p, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2015, Hb was £40.00 now £9.95

Mastering the West, Rome and Carthage at War, By B. Dexter Hoyos. Dexter Hoyos offers

a thoroughly engrossing narrative of the century long Punic Wars, while treating a full range of themes: the antagonists’ military, naval, economic, and demographic resources; the political structures of both republics; and the postwar impact of the conflicts on the participants and victims. 337p, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 2015, Hb was £18.99 now £7.95

Rome’s Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization), By Richard Alston. In an original account of what he calls Rome’s revolution, Richard Alston explores the experience of the ordinary inhabitants of Rome during the fall of the Republic.

They, like the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were political agents, negotiating their positions in the context of a “failed state.”, 408p, b/w

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illus, Oxford University Press, 2015, Hb was £20.00 now £9.95

Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest

of Greece, By Robin Waterfield. Robin Waterfield combines narrative with analyis to unfold the story of the Roman conquest of Greece. He explores Rome’s methods, emphasising the use of diplomacy and client rulers over standing armies, as well as the extent tro which the conquest was planned, or the result of a structural aggressiveness on the part of the Roman state. 320p, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hb was £20.00 now £7.95

Roman Homosexuality, By Craig A. Williams.

Williams discusses the ideology of masculinity and Roman male sexuality. He argues that concepts of homosexuality and heterosexuality were structured around the distinction between free versus slave, dominant versus subordinate, masculine versus effeminate, and so forth. The second edition responds to new research and to critiques of the first. 471p, b/w illus, Oxford University Press, 1999, Pb was £25.00 now £12.95

Roman Glass, Reflections on Cultural Change,

By Stuart Fleming. This volume follows the way social attitudes and historical events-among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plaguesinfluenced how glassworking developed in the Roman world from the mid-first century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. Woven into this story is the place of glassware in Roman everyday life, from the lady-of-the-house’s cosmetic preparations each morning to the setting of table for the evening meal.

220p, b/w and col illus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, Hb was £47.00 now £12.95

Excavations in the Middle Walbrook Valley, By Tony Wilmott. A synthesis of material

excavated by the Guildhall Museum along the course of the Walbrook stream between 1927 and 1960. Noted for their Roman finds, seven sites are discussed and a history of the development of the area is created. 189p, 117 b/w figs and pls, London & Middlesex Arch Soc, 1991, Pb was £19.95 now £6.95

Latin Literature Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, By Lowell Edmunds. Edmund’s discussion

of current debates in the study of Roman poetry asks how we can explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text. Individual theoretical chapters on the concepts of ‘text’, ‘poet’, ‘reader’ and ‘persona’ are applied to passages from Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Catullus. 201p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, Hb was £42.00 now £12.95

Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry,

By Ronnie Ancona. This volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that

argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female. 372p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, Hb was £46.50 now £14.95

Hughes compares their achievements and analyzes the extent to which they deserve the contrasting reputations handed down by history. 208p, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2013, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95

The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca, By Emily Wilson. Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality. 253p, Oxford University Press, 2014, Hb was £26.00 now £7.95

Between Revolution and State: The Path to

Late Antiquity The Roman Self in Late Antiquity, Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul, By Marc Mastrangelo. This study aims to restore Prudentius and late Roman poetry in general to a more central place in the formation of a new Christian intellectual tradition in the fourth century AD. Marc Mastrangelo shows how Prudentius was able to fuse ideas from Virgil and Horace with Platonism and biblical exegesis to explore the idea of self in a newly Christian world. 259p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, Hb was £52.00 now £12.95

Pilgrimage in Early Christian Jordan, A

Literary and Archaeological Guide, By Burton MacDonald. After a general introduction to each site, its biblical significance and a citation of the relevant biblical sources with commentary, the author lists the literary sources that pertain specifically to early Christian pilgrimage activity. This information is complemented with a description of the early Christian archaeological remains found at the site and their interpretation. 264p, Oxbow Books, 2016, Pb was £25.00 now £6.95

Neighbours and Successors of Rome, Traditions of Glass Production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD, Edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson. Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. 352p, 81 colour illus, 95 b/w figs, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £48.00 now £12.95

Imperial Brothers, By Ian Hughes. This

book tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian seen as a strong and successful ruler of the western Empire, and Valens, whose rule in te east saw the catastrophic defeat at Adrianople (378).

By tracing the careers of both men in tandem, Ian

Islam Fatimid Statehood, By Sumaiya Hamdani. This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period.

It argues that Qadi al-Nu’man’s works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi’i literature, an emergence necessitated by the Fatimids’ transition from revolutionary movement to statehood, and by their desire to establish their authority as a Shi’i alternative to the Sunni Abbasid caliphate. 230p, I.B. Tauris, 2006, Hb was £27.00 now £9.95

Anglo-Saxon Painted Labyrinth, The World of the

Lindisfarne Gospels, By Michelle P. Brown.

This guide outlines the history and production of the Lindisfarne Gospels and discusses their religious context, the labyrinthine web of words and images, production of the manuscripts and their significance to those who made them and to the kingdom of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria as a whole. 48p, col illus, British Library, 2003, Pb was £5.95 now £2.95

Between Earth and Heaven, By Johanna

Kramer. Between earth and heaven examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, arguing that Anglo-Saxon authors recognise the Ascension as fundamentally liminal in nature, as concerned with crossing boundaries and inhabiting dual states. 250p, b/w pls, Manchester University Press, 2014, Hb was £70.00 now £14.95

Medieval Britain With All for All, The Life of Simon de Montfort, By Darren Baker. A fast-paced biography of Simon de Montfort which favourably reassesses his remarkable career, his rebellion against the king and his important role in the development of parliament. 320p, col pls, Amberley Publishing, 2015, Hb was £20.00 now £7.95 Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation, By

Alistair Moffat. A new narrative treatment of the Batle of Bannockburn. In addition to setting the battle within its historical and political context Alistair Moffat captures all the fear, heroism, confusion and desperation of the fighting itself as he describes the tactics and manoeuvres that led to Scottish victory. 160p, Birlinn, 2014, Hb was £12.99 now £5.95

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Life and Thought in the Northern Church c.1100-1700, By Diana Wood. This collection of

essays focuses on ecclesiastical life in the medieval and early modern period in the north of England. It includes discussions of lay men and women, Puritan earls, preachers, heretics, bishops and archbishops, priests and monks. 595p, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999, Hb was £40.00 now £9.95

England and the Avignon Popes, The

Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe,

By Karsten Ploger. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished sources, Plöger explores the techniques of communication employed by the English Crown in its dealings with the Avignon popes Clement VI (1342-52) and Innocent VI (1352-62). 318p, Legenda, 2003, Pb was £55.00 now £6.95

St Edmund of Abingdon, A Study of Hagiography and History, By C. H. Lawrence. St Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. This book offers a careful scrutinisation of the hagiographic tradition and the primary texts.

339p, Oxford University Press, 1960, Hb was £14.99 now £6.95 The Letters of Osbert of Clare, Prior of Westminster, By E. W. Williamson. The latin text

of the letters of Osbert of Clare, active from the 1120s to the 1150s. Osbert promoted reform, was twice exiled by his superiors at Westminster, and was one of the most prolific hagiographers and forgers of charters of his age. 232p, Oxford University Press, 1998, Hb was £12.99 now £5.95

Bannockburn 1314: The Battle 700 Years On, By Chris Brown. Bannockburn English would suffer throughout the Middle Ages, and a huge personal humiliation for King Edward II. Chris Brown’s startling account recreates the campaign and battle from the perspectives of both the Scots and the English, drawing on both documentary accounts and a fresh look at the landscape of the battlefield. 304p, The History Press, 2015, Pb was £12.99 now £6.95

Medieval Europe Dragon’s Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine, By Toni Mount. Medieval Surgeons performed life-saving procedures, sometimes using anaesthetics, with post-operative antibiotic and antiseptic treatments to reduce the chances of infection. Yet alongside such expertise, some still believed that unicorns, dragons and elephants supplied vital medical ingredients and the caladrius bird could diagnose recovery or death. Toni Mount guides the reader through the world of medieval medicine, its underlying philosophy and the remedies and procedures employed. 304p, Amberley Publishing, 2015, Hb was £20.00 now £7.95

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Imperial Lives and Letters of the 11th Century, By Theodor Mommsen. Translations of

“The Deeds of Conrad II” (1024-1139) by Wipo, “Life of Emperor the Henry IV” (1056-1106) and the Letters of Henry IV. 223p, Columbia University Press, 2000, Pb was £23.00 now £4.95

The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria,

By Tracy Adams. Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) was the wife of Charles VI of France, whose weak rule and periodic bouts of madness left her as effective regent for much of her reign. Tracy Adams tackles her posthumous reputation for incompetence, debauchery and adultery, finding her actions to be politically astute given the almost impossible circumstances in which she found herself. 338p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Hb was £43.00 now £12.95

Medieval Art Mediaeval Painters Materials and Techniques: the Montpellier Liber Diversarum

Arcium, By Mark Clarke. The anonymous Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium contains the most complete set of instructions in the craft of medieval painting to have survived to the present day, a complete practical painting course: drawing, water-based tempera, oil and fresco. This volume contains the first ever published translation of the Liber diversarum arcium together with an extensive technical and historical commentary. 365p, Archetype, 2011, Pb was £45.00 now £19.95

The Medieval Flower Book, By Celia Fisher.

Celia Fisher explores the beautiful flower illustration in medieval herbals and manuscripts, illustrating around 140 different flowers and plants in glorious full colour. 128p, col illus, British Library, 2013, Pb was £14.99 now £5.95 Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, By Caroline Campbell. A detailed

examination of the celebrated Morelli-Nerli wedding chests, ordered by Lorenzo Morelli when he married Vaggia Nerli in 1472. Chapters explore the history of the wedding chest and issues of iconography and meaning, and production. 128p, 80 illus, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2009, Pb was £25.00 now £9.95

Medieval Archaeology Excavations at South Mimms Castle, Hertfordshire, 1960-91, By Derek Renn.

Anthony Streeten and John Kent, The final report of the archaeological and documentary investigation of a motte-and-bailey castle at South Mimms. Smallscale excavations of the 1960s by the late John Kent produced important results, not least in offering a fixed point for pottery and artefacts in the region north of London in the 12th century. 98p, London & Middlesex Arch Soc, 2013, Pb was £30.00 now £9.95

The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England, By Nat Alcock and Dan Miles. An in-

depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. 272p, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £48.00 now £14.95

Medieval Adaptation, Settlement and Economy of a Coastal Wetland, The

Evidence from Around Lydd, Romney Marsh, Kent, By Luke Barber and Greg Priestley-Bell.

Features uncovered include 12th-13th century drainage ditches, ditched field systems and sea defences. Also of particular significance is the identification of a series of occupation sites and their enclosures. 336p, 16p col pls, Oxbow Books, 2008, Hb was £30.00 now £7.95

Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North,

An Archaeological Assessment, By C.P. Graves and D. H. Heslop. This volume brings together the archaeological evidence for occupation in the historic core of Newcastle between the prehistoric period and 1650. It places the evidence in the context of the evolving historical communities who made and occupied the site, and in the wider context of European urban life. 288p, b/w illus Oxbow Books, 2013, Hb was £45.00 now £12.95

The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick, the Scottish

Seabird centre Excavations 1999-2006, By Thomas Addyman et al. Against the background of important new discoveries made at the site of Kirk Ness, this volume brings together and reexamines all the evidence for early North Berwick – archaeological, historical, documentary, pictorial and cartographic – and includes much previously unpublished material. 256p, b/w & col. illus, Oxbow Books, 2013, Hb was £30.00 now £9.95

Medieval Literature Boccaccio: The Latin Eclogues, Translated

by David Slavitt. Boccaccio modeled his poems on Petrarch’s eclogues and, before him, those of Virgil and Theocritus. Slavitt provides an English translation, with introductory material which elucidates the poet’s intended meaning and frames the poems for the reader. 160p, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, Pb was £20.50 now £6.95 The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, By Lister M. Matheson. This is not a new edition of the Middle English text that survives in more manuscripts than almost any other. Rather, this work classifies and groups the manuscripts and early printed editions, and comments on the relationships that developed among them from the late 14th to and sometimes beyond the 15th century.

352p, Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1998, Hb was £26.00 now £7.95

Langland, The Vision of William concerning

Piers the Plowman, Edited by W. W. Skeat. Three parallel texts of Piers Plowman, together with ‘Richard the Redless’. 1112p, in two vols. Oxford University Press, 1963, Hb was £45.00 now £9.95

Post-Medieval The British Witch: The Biography, By P. G.

Maxwell-Stuart. This new history describes witches, their magic, and the attempts to eradicate them throughout the British Isles, and alters our picture of who those witches were and why people employed them but also tried to suppress them. 464p, Amberley Publishing, 2014, Hb was £25.00 now £9.95

Sveti Pavao Shipwreck, A 16th century Venetian Merchantman from Mljet, Croatia, By Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Gelichi and Igor Miholjek. A report on the excavation of a fifteenth century Venetian merchantman. Many personal possessions of the crew were preserved as well as a number of bronze artillery pieces and the remains of a cargo of luxury and richly decorated ceramic material from Iznik and other oriental workshops. 200p, b/w and colour illus, Oxbow Books, 2014, Pb was £40.00 now £7.95 Fashionable Encounters, Edited by Tove

Engelhardt Mathiassen, Marie-Louise Nosch, Maj Ringgaard, Kirsten Toftegaard and Mikkel Venborg Pederson. These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as an empirical manifestation in the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encountered fashionable impressions in clothing and related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire, and far beyond.

256p, colour illustrated throughout, Oxbow Books, 2014, Hb was £40.00 now £9.95

Old and New Worlds, By Geoff Egan and Ronn Michael. This book discusses the unique methodologies which historical archaeologists (in both Britain and the US) have developed to study early modern and industrial societies, new theoretical approaches focusing on ethnicity and domestic space, and new practical techniques using environmental as well as artifactual evidence. 396p, with illus, Oxbow Books, 1999, Hb was £50.00 now £9.95 European Ceramics, By Robin Hildyard. This classic V&A book draws on the Museum’s extensive collection to trace the story of European ceramics from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Key developments, techniques, discoveries and styles - from earthenware, stoneware and tinglaze to the invention of porcelain and the impact of industrialisation - are highlighted in this richly illustrated volume. 144p, V & A Publications, 1999, Pb was £19.99 now £6.95

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Greek Art & Archaeology La Ceramica a Decorazione Geometrica Dipinta da Segesta nel Quadro delle Produzioni della Sicilia Occidentale

By Alfonsa Serra A complete analysis of matt-painted pottery from Segesta, Sicily is presented in this volume.

The analysis is based on direct examination of thousands of pottery fragments excavated from different contexts, both public and domestic, and from which the author derives a detailed typological and chronological order. The core of the study is the analysis of the functional aspects of the pottery.

222p, b/w illus, col pls (British Archaeological Reports 2016) 9781407314679 Pb £39.00,

Geometric Period Plithos Burial Ground at Chora of Naxos Island Greece

Anthropology Report

By Anagnostis P. Agelarakis This report aims to offer glimpses of the human condition on Naxos island, Greece, focusing on the archaeoanthropologic study of the human skeletal remains along with associated contexts of faunal materials recovered from the Geometric (9th – 7th c BC) component of the burial ground Only site of Plithos in Chora at Naxos £25.50 until island.

31st April 94p, col illus (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784913038 Pb £28.00

Dangerous Perfection

Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy

By Ursula Kaestner In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. In addition to lavish illustrations, two indepth essays on the history of the vases and on their nineteenth century reconstruction by Raffaele Gargiulo, as well as detailed conservation notes for each object, this publication also features the first English translation of Gargiulo’s original text on his understanding as to how ancient Greek vases were manufactured.

176p, col illus (Getty Trust Publishing 2016) 9781606064764 Hb £40.00

Conservation of Classical Monuments in the Mediterranean Region

A Study of Anastylosis with Case Studies from Greece and Turkey

By Kalliopi Vacharopoulou This work studies the conservation of classical monuments in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on a specific method, anastylosis, and its application to classical monuments. The terminology, philosophy, theoretical principles and technical issues of anastylosis are explored within the wider context of cultural heritage management, through case studies from Greece and Turkey, a survey of anastylosis practitioners, and a short visitor survey.

259p (BAR 2800, 2016) 9781407314853 Pb £46.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Trophies of Victory

Public Building in Periklean Athens

By T. Leslie Shear Jr. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon’s revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he Only looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. £45.00 until Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings 31st April proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city’s cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.

476p b/w illus (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691170572 Pb £54.95

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Textile Production in Classical Athens

By Stella Spantidaki In ancient Greece, textiles were considered among the principal and most fundamental cultural expressions. In Textile Production in Classical Athens Stella Spantidaki provides the first synthesis of the available evidence from textual, iconographic and archaeological sources on textile production in 5th and 4th century BC Athens, employing an interdisciplinary perspective that sets the frame for future research in the field.

She presents a detailed consideration of the historical and social context of textile production in classical Athens, examines and discusses evidence for the equipment, materials, processes and techniques employed at each stage of the full production sequence, and discusses the organisation of production and trade.

256p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702525 Pb £38.00

Gods and Garments

Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC

By Cecilie Brøns The aim of this volume is to introduce textiles into the study of ancient G re e k re l i g i o n a n d thereby illuminate the roles textiles played in the performance of Greek ritual and their wider consequences. Chapters centre on three themes: first, the dedication of textiles and clothing accessories in Greek sanctuaries is investigated through a thorough examination of the temple inventories. Second, the use of textiles to dress ancient cult images is explored. The examination of Hellenistic and Roman copies of ancient cult images from Asia Minor as well as depictions of cult images in vase-painting in collocation with written sources illustrates the existence of this particular ritual custom in ancient Greece.

Third, the existence of dress codes in the Greek sanctuaries is addressed through an investigation of the existence of particular attire for ritual personnel as well as visitors to the sanctuaries with the help of iconography and written sources.

384p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703553 Hb £40.00

Samothrace IX

The Monuments of the Eastern Hill

By Bonna D. Wescoat In this volume, the key monuments that form the Theatral Complex are presented in their archaeological, architectural, and historical contexts.

The potential significance of the Complex within the mystery cult is considered, both as the place that initially gave shape to the group of pilgrims undergoing initiation, and as the place where new initiates ultimately departed the Sanctuary.

640p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2017) 9780876618509 Hb £125.00, NYP

Dinamiche Insediative nel Territorio di Canicattini Bagni e nel Bacino di Alimentazione del Torrente Cavadonna (Siracusa) Tra Antichita e Medioevo

By Santino Alessandro Cugno An exploration of the spatial planning and dynamics of rural settlements located in the catchment of the River Cavadonna in antiquity and the Middle Ages.

It draws on new archaeological and topographical data that has emerged from recent surveys, along with a preliminary review of documentary sources and place names, together with a preliminary census of all archaeological evidence. Italian text.

151p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2802, 2016) 9781407314945 Pb £31.00

The Chora of Metaponto 6

A Greek Settlement at Sant’Angelo Vecchio

By Francesca Silvestri & Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry This volume forms a study of the Greek settlement at Sant’Angelo Vecchio. Excavators brought to light a Late Archaic farmhouse, evidence of a sanctuary near a spring, and a cluster of eight burials of the mid-fifth century BC, but the most impressive remains belong to a production area with kilns, active in the Hellenistic to Early Imperial periods.

688p, col illus (University of Texas Press 2016) 9781477309476 Hb £65.00

Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios

A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity Edited by Nicholas J. Molinari & Nicola Sisci Potamikon attempts to solve a question that has perplexed scholars for hundreds of years: Who exactly is the man-faced bull featured so often on Greek coinage? It approaches this question by examining the origin of the iconography and traces its development throughout various Mediterranean cultures, finally arriving in Archaic and Classical Only Greece in the first millennium BC. £40.00 until 366p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784914011 Pb £50.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS

The Ancient Greek Farmstead

Archaeology and the Homeric Epic

By Maeve McHugh T h e i n t e r p re t a t i o n o f archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in s c h o l a rs h i p re ga rd i n g their role, identification, and even their existence.

Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for farmsteads dating to the Classical– Hellenistic period of mainland Greece, with the purpose of understanding how these sites fulfilled agricultural roles as centres for occupation, storage, and processing for those working the land. The conclusions reached here stress the connected nature of the agricultural landscape, and Only demonstrate how farmsteads £27.00 until played a fundamental role in publication ancient Greek agriculture.

2 0 8 p ( O x b o w B o o k s 2 0 17 ) 9781785706400 Pb £36.00

Houses of Ill Repute

The Archaeology of Brothels Houses and Taverns in the Greek World Edited by Alison Glazebrook & Barbara Tsakirgis Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing private and semiprivate spaces. While others have studied houses or brothels, this volume looks at both together. Presenting several approaches to identifying and studying distinctions between domestic residences and houses of ill repute, and drawing on the fields of literature, history, and art history and theory, the volume’s contributors provide a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.

256p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9780812247565 Hb £45.50

Edited by Susan Sherratt & John Bennet The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology h a s l o n g s u f f e re d mixed fortunes, sw i n g i n g b e t we e n ‘fundamentalist’ attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their ‘prehistory’, and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history.

176p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702952 Pb £36.00

A Dignified Passage through the Gates of Hades The Burial Custom of Cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutheria

By Anagnostis P. Agelarakis This volume reports on the excavation of a hand carved tomb with a drómos in the softer bedrock material of Orthi Petra. It yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly o f b u r i a l a r te f a c t s o f exquisite wealth.

24p, col illus (Archaeopress Only Archaeology 2016) 9781784913830 £6.50 until Pb £8.00

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Greek Literature The First Poets

Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets

By Michael Schmidt A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary Orpheus and the possibly mythical Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears.

416p (Head of Zeus 2016) 9781784975975 Hb £25.00

Pindar’s Poetics of Immortality

By Asya C. Sigelman In this book, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to the odes, exploring the fact that Pindar’s language and imagery suggest that the athlete’s victory is only a weaker version of the poet’s immortalizing feat. Examining several central Pindaric images, Sigelman shows that they are fundamentally reflexive, structured as expressions of poetic creativity engaged in a perpetual synthesis of intra-poetic time – of the unity of the past, present and future of the world of Pindar’s song.

234p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107135017 Hb £64.99

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

By Richard Seaford From the sixth century BCE onwards there was a revolution in thought, sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred – independently it seems – in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. This book brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them.

310p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9781474410991 Hb £80.00

Reading the Victory Ode

Edited by Peter Agocs, Chris Carey and Richard Rawles This collection of essays examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its genesis and evolution, the nature of the commissioning process, the patrons, context of performance and re-performance, and the poetics of the victory ode and its exponents.

From these different perspectives the contributors offer both a panoramic view of the genre and an insight into the modern research positions on this complex and fascinating subject.

410p (Cambridge University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9781107007871 Hb £77.00, 9781107527515 Pb £22.99

Hellenistic Tragedy

By Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma This volume offers a comprehensive picture of tragedy and the satyr play from the fourth century BCE. The surviving fragments of this dramatic genre are presented, alongside English translations and critical analysis, as well as a survey of the main writers involved and an exploration of the genre’s formation, later influence and staging.

344p (Bloomsbury 2014, Pb 2016) 9781472524218 Hb £90.00, 9781474288651 Pb £28.99

When Heroes Sing

Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy

By Sarah Nooter This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles’ heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power. It shows how the voice of each hero is inflected by song and other markers of lyric poetry, and then argues that the heroes’ lyrical voices set them apart from their communities and lend them the authority and abilities of poets.

210p (Cambridge University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9781107001619 Hb £67.00, 9781316613474 Pb £19.99

Moral History

From Herodotus to Diodorus

By Lisa Hau Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future.

She shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period.

384p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9781474411073 Hb £80.00

Theater Outside Athens

Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy Edited by Kathryn Bosher This volume brings together archaeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theatre was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted.

Themes include theatre as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theatre in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights.

472p (Cambridge University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9780521761789 Hb £88.00, 9781107527508 £22.99

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Rome War and Society in Early Rome

From Warlords to Generals

By Jeremy Armstrong This book presents a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city’s various social, political, religious, and economic institutions.

Largely casting aside the anachronistic assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the basic form of Roman society and then to ‘re-map’ that on to the extant tradition.

338p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107093577 Hb £64.99

Rome Spreads Her Wings

Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars

By Gareth Sampson This volume reassesses the wars of the two decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second. It argues that Rome faced a far graver threat in the form of the Gauls of Northern Italy than she had faced at the hands of the Carthaginians in the First Punic War; and secondly, that the foundations for Rome’s overseas empire were laid in these very decades.

224p (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781783030552 Hb £25.00

Pax Romana

War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

By Adrian Goldsworthy Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of the creation of the Empire, revealing how and why the Romans came to control so much of the world and asking whether the favourable image of the Roman peace is a true one.

He chronicles the many rebellions by the conquered, and describes why these broke out and why most failed. At the same time, he explains that hostility was only one reaction to the arrival of Rome, and from the start there was alliance, collaboration and even enthusiasm for joining the invaders, all of which increased as resistance movements faded away.

520p, col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2016) 9780297864288 Hb £25.00

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

From the First Century CE to the Third

By Edward N. Luttwak In his seminal work Edward N. Luttwak contended that Roman defence was not based on ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. This updated edition has been extensively revised to incorporate recent scholarship and archaeological findings. A new preface explores Roman imperial statecraft.

272p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins University Press 2nd ed, 2016) 9781421419459 Pb £22.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Roman Power

A Thousand Years of Empire

By William V. Harris William V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community’s internal power structures (political power, social power, gender power and economic power). He traces this linkage between the external and the internal through three very long periods, and part of the originality of the book is that it almost Only uniquely considers both the gradual rise of the Roman Empire and its demise as an empire in the fifth and seventh £24.00 until centuries AD. 31st April 360p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107152717 Hb £30.00

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Aspects of the Roman East Volume II

Papers in Honour of Professor Sir Fergus Millar Fba: 2 Edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu & Paul McKechnie This is the second of two volumes of papers in honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA, formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and the leading scholar of Roman History of his generation. This second volume contains papers on the Hellenistic and Roman East by scholars mainly based in the Southern Hemisphere.

284p, b/w and col illus (Brepols 2016) 9782503528755 Pb £60.00

The Roman Army

A History, 753 BC – AD 476

By Patricia Southern This book covers the complete history of the Roman Army from 753 BC to AD 476, including its successes and failures against Rome’s enemies such as Gauls, Carthaginians, Goths and Persians. Around a third of a million men policed and protected the Empire; Soldiers, centurions and commanding officers left behind a variety of documents, many of which are used in this book to reconstruct their daily lives and their combat experience.

560p, b/w illus, col pls (Amberley Publishing 2014, Pb 2016) 9781445620893 Hb £25.00, 9781445655338 Pb £14.99

Sea Eagles of Empire

The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain

By Simon Elliott Britain’s navy, known as Classis Britannica until the mid-third century, was a strong fighting force in its own right. Simon Elliott examines its vessel types, personnel, tactics, and technology, discussing the important role it played in military campaigns all across Europe and in policing the waters of the Roman Empire in Britain.

224p, b/w pls (The History Press 2016) 9780750966023 Hb £25.00

Rome in the East

The Transformation of an Empire

By Warwick Ball This seminal work examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball includes analysis of Roman archaeological and architectural remains in the East, as well as links to the Roman Empire as far afield as Iran, Central Asia, India, and China. The new edition is updated with the latest research and findings from a range of sources including field work in the region and new studies and views that have emerged since the first edition.

592p, b/w illus (Routledge , 2nd ed 2016) 9780415717779 Pb £29.99

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Sinews of Empire

Edited by Eivind Seland & Hakon Terigon A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, Only te c h n o l o gy, re l i g i o n a n d municipal life in the Roman £30.00 until Near East and adjacent regions. publication 240p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705960 Hb £40.00

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes

The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China

By Raoul McLaughlin This volume investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian, Kushan and Han Empires. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China. The book explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.

282p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781473833746 Hb £25.00

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Globalisation and the Roman World

World History, Connectivity and Material Culture Edited by Martin Pitts & Miguel John Versluys This volume provides the first sustained critical exploration of globalisation theories in Roman archaeology and history. It is written by an international group of scholars who address a broad range of subjects, including Roman imperialism, economics, consumption, urbanism, migration, visual culture and heritage. The contributors explore the implications of understanding material culture in an interconnected Roman world, highlighting several novel directions for future research.

308p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9781107043749 Hb £67.00, 9781107619005 Pb £20.99

The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order

By Lisa Marie Mignone The Aventine has long been identified as the city’s plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political headquarters, religious citadel, and social bastion of those seeking radical reform of the Republican constitution.

Lisa Marie Mignone’s The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order challenges the plebeianAventine paradigm through a multidisciplinary review of the ancient evidence, and it demonstrates that this construct proves to be a modern creation.

280p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472119882 Hb £57.95

Money and Power in the Roman Republic

Edited by Hans Beck, Martin Jehne & John Serrati Rome’s transformation from a regional force in Latium into a Mediterranean superpower (4th to 1st centuries BCE) was accompanied by an accelerated change of economic realities. Examining monetary and financial assets, this volume discloses how economic power and ‘real’ capital augmented the nature of aristocratic power at Rome. Papers are grouped in three topical clusters: Currencies of Power, Money and State Action, Wealth and Status.

238p (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042933026 Pb £50.00

A History of the Jewish War, AD 66-74

By Steve Mason A conflict that erupted between Roman legions and some Judaeans in late AD 66 had an incalculable impact on Rome’s physical appearance and imperial governance; on ancient Jews bereft of their mothercity and temple; and on early Christian fortunes.

In this volume, Steven Mason re-examines the war in all relevant contexts (such as the Parthian dimension, and Judaea’s place in Roman Syria) and phases, from the Hasmoneans to the fall of Masada.

735p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9780521853293 Hb £89.99

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Crisis and Constitutionalism

Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution

By Benjamin Straumann Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw the development of a normative concept of constitution – the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual.

The increasing use of emergency measures and extraordinary powers in the late Republic provoked Cicero and some of his contemporaries to turn a hitherto implicit, inchoate constitutionalism into explicit constitutional argument and theory.

432p (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780199950928 Hb £55.00

Ceremony and Power

Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire

By Geoffrey Sumi This book explores the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the Roman Republic, with particular focus on the critical months following Caesar’s assassination and later as Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. It traces the use of a variety of public ceremonies, including assemblies of the people, triumphs, funerals, and games, as a means for politicians in this period of instability and transition to shape their public images and consolidate their power and prestige.

378p (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472036660 Pb £48.50

Power and Privilege in Roman Society

By Richard Duncan-Jones How far were appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit? Did experience matter? What difference did social rank make? This innovative study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of senators and knights by social category through a new database of senatorial careers. Although some appointments can be seen to reflect experience social rank emerges as the key factor at all levels.

230p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107149793 Hb £64.99

Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy

By Cameron Hawkins By employing a sophisticated methodology based upon comparative evidence and contemporary economic theory, the author develops interlocking arguments about the relationship between four key attributes of urban economic life in Roman antiquity: the nature and magnitude of consumer demand; the structure of urban labour markets; the strategies devised by urban artisans in their efforts to navigate their social and economic environments; and the factors that served to limit both the overall performance of the Roman economy, and its potential for intensive growth.

307p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107115446 Hb £80.00

Recht haben und Recht bekommen im Imperium Romanum. Das Gerichtswesen der römischen Kaiserzeitt und seine dokumentarische Evidenz

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 24 Edited by Rudolf Haensch The large amount of epigraphical and papyrological documents published during the last century provides detailed and authentic information on the reality of the legal system, its strengths and weaknesses, especially during the High Empire.

These papers explore these sources by publishing new documents, and providing overviews of the state of source material regarding different aspects of Roman jurisdiction, studied both from the side of the central institutions and from the provincial milieu.

790p (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2016) 9788393842537 Hb £70.00

Imperial Transportation and Communication from the Third to the Late Fourth Century

The Golden Age of the Cursus Publicus

By Lukas Lemcke This study aims, firstly, to explore the factors that led to the establishment of the cursus publicus with its two sub-divisions (cursus uelox, curus clauulari(u) s); and, secondly, to show through a comprehensive review of the structure, history, and development of the cursus publicus that this system was firmly integrated into the imperial administration and streamlined to such a degree that it could be used with unprecedented effectiveness by the end of the fourth century.

161p, (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042933569 Pb £35.00

Economy, Family and Society from Rome to Islam

A Critical Edition, English Translation and Study of Bryson’s Management of the Estate

By Simon Swain Bryson’s Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, and bringing up children. Bryson’s book was almost certainly written in the mid-first century AD, but survives mainly in Arabic.

It had a profound effect on Islamic thinking on the economy and on marriage, but is virtually unknown to classicists. This new edition of the text also includes the first English translation.

588p (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) 9781107025363 Hb £104.99, 9781107615137 Pb £25.00

The Mind of Mithraists

Historical and Cognitive Studies in the Roman Cult of Mithras

By Luther H. Martin The only characteristics common to all Mithraic temples were the fundamental architecture of their design, and the cult image of Mithras slaying a bull.

How were these two features so faithfully transmitted through the Empire by a non-centralized, nonhierarchical religious movement? The papers in this volume address these questions as well as the relationship of Mithraism to Christianity, explanations of the significance of the tauroctony and of the rituals enacted in the mithraea, and explanations for the spread of Mithraism (and for its resistance in a few places).

208p (Bloomsbury 2014, Pb 2016) 9781472584199 Hb £85.00, 9781474288699 Pb £28.99

Legible Religion

Books Gods and Rituals in Roman Culture

By Duncan Macrae Duncan MacRae delves i n t o R o m a n re l i g i o u s culture to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books i n a re l i g i o n w i t h o u t scripture? The contents o f e a r l y t re a t i s e s o n religion by authors such as Varro comprise Rome’s “civil theology”—not a description of an official state religion but one limited to the civic role of religion in Roman life.

Legible Religion further shows how two major developments—the establishment of the Roman imperial monarchy and the rise of the Christian Church—shaped the reception and interpretation of Roman civil theology.

258p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674088719 Hb £36.95

Religious Deviance in the Roman World

Superstition or Individuality?

By Jorg Rupke Authors from Cicero in the first century BC to the law codes of the fourth century AD share the assumption that authentic and binding communication between individuals and gods is possible and widespread, even if problematic in the case of divination or the confrontation with images of the divine. This volume explores a change in practices and assumptions throughout the imperial period. It might be characterised as ‘individualisation’ and informed the Roman law of religions, which attempted to give freedom of religion and to regulate religion at the same time.

156p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107090521 Hb £64.99

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Roman Art & Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Death as a Process

The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral Edited by J. Pearce & J. Weekes This volume draws on largescale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities who buried them. In particular the volume seeks to establish how the ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing the dead in the earth to the return of the living to commemorate them, may be studied from archaeological evidence.

Case studies span a cross-section of Roman society, from the cosmopolitan merchants of Corinth to salt pan workers at Rome and the rural poor of Only Britannia and Germania. £28.50 until 272p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) publication 9781785703232 Pb £38.00

Insularity and Identity in the Roman Mediterranean

Edited by Anna Kouremenos The papers in this book explore the concepts of insularity and identity in the Roman period by addressing some of the following questions: what does it mean to be an island? How has insularity shaped ethnic, cultural, and social identity in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How were islands connected to the mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How has maritime interaction shaped the economy and culture of specific islands? Can we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman period? The twelve papers presented here each deal with specific islands or island groups, thus allowing for an integrated view of Only Mediterranean insularity and £28.50 until identity. publication 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705809 Pb £38.00

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Die Antike Munze Als Fundgegenstand

Kategorien Numismatischer Funde Und Ihre Interpretation

By Gunther E. Thury This book tries to face the problems involved in the interpretation of coin finds by: proposing clear definitions for categories and sub-categories of coin finds; by collecting and interpreting written testimonies (from ancient literature, epigraphy and papyrology) casting light on reasons and circumstances of coin deposition and coin loss in antiquity; by describing differences of composition between the categories; by discussing difficulties of Only ‘differential diagnosis’; and the £28.00 until role of secondary finds.

31st April 206p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784914158 Pb £35.00

Moneda Antigua y Vias Romanas en el Noroeste de Hispania

By Maria Isabel Vila Franco This work seeks to understand the process of monetization within the economy of Galicia and Asturia. Numismatic remains are studied in depth, found on four of the roads crossing the territory in Roman times. All the coins discovered were imported, and so it was possible to mark precisely where the greatest influx of individuals and materials came from, as well as areas and zones of different speeds of monetization and, Only thus, Romanization. Spanish £60.00 until text.

31st April 588p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913991 Pb £75.00

The Material Life of Roman Slaves

By Sandra R. Joshel & Lauren Hackworth Petersen This book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves’ lives and experiences.

Interweaving literature, law, and material evidence, it searches for ways to see slaves in the various contexts – to make them visible where evidence tells us they were in fact present. Individual chapters explore the dichotomy between visibility and invisibility and between appearance and disappearance in four physical and social locations – urban houses, city streets and neighborhoods, workshops, and villas.

350p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9780521139571 Pb £29.99

Disenos Geometricos en los Mosaicos del Conventus Astigitanus

By Sebastian Vargas Vazquez This volume focuses on the study of the geometric designs documented in the mosaics of the Conventus Astigitanus, one of the four conventi iuridici of Roman Baetica. It includes a very significant number of designs and provides the basis for a completely open catalogue, to which new models may be added as they become available Only through the continual study of £48.00 until new mosaics.

31st April 348p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912734 Pb £60.00

Caddeddi on the Tellaro

A Late Roman Villa in Sicily and Its Mosaics

By R. J. A. Wilson The late Roman villa of Caddeddi, near Noto in south-east Sicily, first came to light over forty years ago.

Built in the second half of the fourth century AD, it is chiefly known for its three figured mosaic pavements.

This book describes in detail these and other pavements at Caddeddi, and concludes that, as at the more famous villa of Casale near Piazza Armerina a generation before, they are likely to be the work of North African mosaicists fulfilling an overseas commission for the villa’s owner.

208p, many col illus (Peeters Press 2016) 9789042933880 Pb £85.00

The Roman Settlement Patterns in the Western Facade of the Conventus Bracarensis

By Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho The main aim of this study was to analyse the Roman settlement patterns of the western part of the Conventus Bracarensis, located within a vast province of the Iberian Peninsula: the Hispania Citerior or Tarraconensis. The nature of the available data was analysed through G.I.S. and four operative concepts: entities, relationships between entities, scales and limits to those relationships.

252p, b/w illus (BAR 2789, 2016) 9781407314310 Pb £44.00

Inter Moesos et Thraces

The Rural Hinterland of Novae in Lower Moesia (1st – 6th Centuries AD)

By Agnieszka Tomas The rural hinterland of Novae is exceptional and fascinating for the historian and archaeologist, not only due to the importance of the site itself, but also due to its location. The legionary camp was located halfway between the outlets of two rivers.

The special position of the lands between the Osăm and Jantra rivers is well-expressed by a series of boundary stones set up in AD 136 by Emperor Hadrian, who divided the tribal territories of Moesos and Thraces. This special geopolitical situation must have caused considerable difficulties Only in administering the area by £32.00 until the Romans.

31st April 244p, b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784913694 Pb £40.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Roman West AD 200-500

An Archaeological Study

By A. S. Esmonde Cleary This book describes and analyses the development of the Roman West from Gibraltar to the Rhine, using primarily the extensive body of published archaeological evidence rather than the textual evidence underlying most other studies. It situates this development within a longerterm process of change, proposing the later second century rather than the ‘third-century crisis’ as the major turningOnly point, although the latter had longer-term consequences £20.00 until owing to the rise in importance of military identities.

31st April 550p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) 9781316625644 Pb £24.99

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Silk

Trade & Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity Edited by Berit Hildebrandt These collected papers connect research from d i f f e re nt a re a s a n d disciplines dealing with exchange along the Silk Roads.

Historical, philological and archaeological contributions highlight silk as a commodity, gift and tribute, and as a status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. The main period concerns Rome and China in antiquity, ending in the late fifth century CE, with the Roman Empire being transformed into the Byzantine Empire, while the Chinese chronology covers the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms, ending in 420 CE. 224p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702792 Hb £40.00

Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire

Edited by Stefanie Hoss & Alissa Whitmore Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other “mundane” artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities.

By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places.

200p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702563 Pb £38.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers

Archaeology, Ideology and Identities in the North Edited by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez & Alexandra Gugliemi This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman A rc h a e o l o gy b r i n g s renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the north-western regions of Europe. Case studies presented here span across disciplines and territories, from American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman-Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative exercise on frontier cultures. The volume is framed by a brilliant theoretical introduction

by Prof. Richard Hingley and Only a comprehensive concluding discussion by Prof. David £28.50 until Mattingly. publication 176p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706042 Pb £38.00

Villa Magna

An Imperial Estate and its Legacies: Excavations 2006-10 Edited by Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline Goodson, Marco Maiuro, Margaret Andrews & J. Andrew Dufton The evocative site of Villamagna has enormous importance; but its imperial villa has been largely ignored until recently, with interest focusing upon the medieval monastery that occupied the site. This volume presents the fascinating story of the site, from imperial villa, to a late antique successor, monastic complex, village, cemetery and late medieval castrum. Each period of the site is considered separately, with the buildings described and the related finds (including pottery, glass, bones and environmental data) discussed.

552p, b/w and col illus (British School at Rome 2016) 9780904152746 Hb £90.00, NYP

L’Artisanat de l’Os à l’époque GalloRomaine: De l’Osteoarcheologie Experimentale

By Marc Barbier Marc Barbier draws on an assemblage of GalloRoman bone combs from excavations at Sens, for this experimental investigation into the production processes utilised by Gallo-Roman bone workshops, including the tools, techniques and workflow Only involved. £28.00 until French text . 142p, col pls 31st April (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784914219 Pb £35.00

The 2003-2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata

By Gwyn Davies & Jodi Magness The Late Roman fort at Yotvata is located in the southern Arava some 40 km north of Eilat/Aqaba (ancient Aila). This volume provides the results of excavations which took place between 2003 and 2007, adding substantially to our knowledge of Roman defences in the third and fourth centuries of the Common Era, along the trade route that traversed the southern Arava and on the eastern frontier of the Empire.

280p, b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 2015) 9781575063478 Hb £79.99

Roman Britain

The Real Lives of Roman Britain

By Guy de la Bedoyere In this book Guy de la Bedoyere focuses not on military campaigns and imperial politics but on individual, personal stories.

He introduces Fortunata the slave girl, Emeritus the frustrated centurion, the grieving father Quintus Corellius Fortis, and the brilliant metal worker Boduogenus, among numerous others. Through a wide array of records and artefacts, the author introduces the colourful cast of immigrants who arrived during the Roman era while offering an unusual glimpse of indigenous Britons, until now nearly invisible in histories of Roman Britain.

264p, col pls (Yale University Press 2015, Pb 2016) 9780300207194 Hb £20.00, 9780300223491 Pb £12.99

The Romans Who Shaped Britain

By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard I n this new narrative history of Roman Britain, Moorhead and Stuttard take an unashamedly traditional approach, focusing on the deeds and motivations of t h e Ro m a n e m p e ro rs , generals and governors who conquered, pacified and ruled Britain, as well as exploring the actions of some of the principal British tribal leaders. What is already a gripping account is further enlivened by short fictional vignettes which aim to capture something of the atmosphere of the era.

288p, b/w illus, col pls (Thames and Hudson 2016) 9780500251898 Hb £18.95, 9780500292600 Pb £9.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Roman London’s First Voices

Writing Tablets from the Bloomberg Excavations, 2010–14

By Roger Tomlin This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg. The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first decades of Londinium are revealed, with appearances from slaves, freedmen, traders, soldiers and the judiciary. Aspects of the tablets considered Only include their manufacture, analysis of the wax applied to £26.00 until their surfaces, their epigraphy and the content of over 80 31st April legible texts.

312p, b/w and col illus (MOLA 2016) 9781907586408 Hb £32.00

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Romano-British Settlement and Cemeteries at Mucking

Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones, 1965–1978

By Sam Lucy & Christopher Evans Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and five a s s o c i ate d ce m e te r y areas with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement.

The settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding Iron Age occupation with unbroken sequences of artefacts and enclosures through the first century AD, followed by rapid and extensive remodelling, which included the laying out a Central Enclosure and an organised water supply with wells. After the mid-second century AD the Central Enclosure was largely abandoned and settlement shifted its focus more to the Southern Enclosure system with a gradual decline though the 3rd and 4th centuries.

456p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702686 Hb £40.00

Agriculture and Industry in SouthEastern Roman Britain

Edited by David Bird The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have been comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the ‘civilian’ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in Kent Surrey and Sussex, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London.

368p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2106) 9781785703195 Pb £40.00

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The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain

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

464p, 400 colour illus. (Roman Society Publications 2016) 9780907764434 Pb £40.00

A Mosaic Menagerie

Creatures of Land Sea and Sky in RomanoBritish Mosaics

By Patricia Witts Over 700 creatures of land, sea and sky have been recorded from at least 140 Romano-British mosaics.

This comprehensively illustrated book is the first detailed study of them. It identifies and discusses the animals, assesses their role in floor decoration, and explains how they were much more than appealing decoration.

286p, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 625, 2016) 9781407315416 Pb £53.00

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain

Edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell & Alison Moore This book provides a twentyfirst century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province.

The majority of the chapters a re t h e m a t i c , d e a l i n g with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life.

Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns.

This handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology.

930p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780199697731 Hb £110.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Segedunum

Excavations By Charles Daniels In The Roman Fort At Wallsend (1975-1984)

By Alexandra Croom & Alan Rushworth Between 1975 and 1984 almost the entire area of the Roman fort of Segedunum in Wallsend was excavated under the direction of Charles Daniels, senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Newcastle University. It is these excavations which form the subject of this publication. This comprehensive report on the structural remains (Vol. 1) and finds (Vol. 2) show clearly that Daniels’ work represented one of the most ambitious and prolonged programmes of fieldwork attempted on the northern frontier up to that point and has made Wallsend one of the most fully investigated of Roman forts in Britain.

816p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785700262 Hb £55.00

Bearsden

The Story of a Roman Fort

By David J. Breeze The Roman fort at Bearsden and its annexe, together with areas beyond its defences, were extensively excavated from 1973 to 1982.

This ‘popular’ account of the discoveries looks at the material recovered from the site, examining the process of archaeological excavation, the life of the soldiers at the fort based on the results of the excavation as well as material from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, the presentation and interpretation of the bath-house and latrine, Only and a discussion of possible future work arising out of the £16.00 until excavation.

31st April 124p b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784914905 Pb £19.00

The Ruin of Roman Britain

An Archaeological Perspective

By James Gerrard How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an economic collapse.

Instead, the structure of late antique society, based on the civilian ideology of paideia, was forced to change by the disappearance of the Roman state.

By the fifth century elite power had shifted to the warband and the edges of their swords.

366p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) 9781107038639 Hb £82.00, 9781316625682 Pb £21.99

Newnham

A Roman bath house and estate centre east of Bedford

By David Ingham, Jeremy Oetgen & Anna Slowikowski Excavations were conducted i n t h e e a r l y 19 7 0 s at the site of an elaborate Roman farmstead at Newnham, Bedfordshire.

The excavations, under the direction of the late Angela Simco, recorded part of the core area of the farmstead and recovered significant assemblages of artefacts and animal bone. Post-excavation analysis and publication was not completed at the time and this volume now publishes the results of fieldwork. Elements of the finds assemblage also suggest that the site had a higher status than that of other farmsteads in the region.

100p (East Anglian Archaeology 158, 2016) 9780955654671 Pb £14.00

Silchester: Changing Visions of a Roman Town

Integrating geophysics and archaeology: the results of the Silchester mapping project 2005-10

By John Creighton & Robert Fry This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town.

The core of the volume contains the empirical data, mapping the past excavations alongside evidence from aerial photography, fieldwalking, LiDAR and geophysics.

448p, 195 (Roman Society Publications 2016) 9780907764427 Pb £55.00

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Latin Literature Caesar

Civil War Edited by Cynthia Damon This edition of the “Civil War” replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by A. G. Peskett (1914) with new text, translation, introduction, and bibliography.

450p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674997035 Hb £16.95

An Anthology of Informal Latin 200 BC – AD 900

By J. N. Adams This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader, but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. ‘Informal’ texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration.

718p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107039773 Hb £120.00

Roman Literary Cultures

Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle Edited by Alison Keith & Jonathan Edmondson Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from midrepublican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws.

336p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442629677 Hb £41.95

Latin Inscriptions

By Dirk Booms Deciphering Latin inscriptions is fun, rewarding and, as this engaging book demonstrates, does not necessarily require a prior knowledge of the language. Most are easy to puzzle out because they are extremely formulaic, using a standardized system of abbreviation that ensured Romans from all areas of the Empire could understand them. Drawing on examples from the British Museum’s wide collection, the author explains the conventions, demystifies the grammar and introduces the key vocabulary, taking the reader step by step through each inscription.

112p, col illus (British Museum Press 2016) 9780714122885 Pb £9.99

Late Antiquity & Byzantium The Life and Legacy of Constantine

Traditions through the Ages Edited by M. Shane Bjornlie The modern demarcation of the post-classical period is often inseparable from the reign of Constantine.

What receives less-frequent attention is the fact that our modern appreciation of Constantine as a pivotal historical figure is itself a direct result of the manner in which Constantine’s memory was constructed by the human imagination over the course of centuries. The essays are divided into three broad, chronological categories: Constantine and his memory in the fourth century, the reception of Constantine in early-medieval contexts from the sixth century to the Carolingian period, and Constantine’s representation and meaning from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

248p, bw illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472433244 Hb £95.00

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Ammianus’ Julian

By Alan J. Ross In this book Alan J. Ross argues for a re-examination o f A m m i a nu s ’ a ge n d a and methods in narrating the reign of Julian. It s u g ge s t s t h at t h e Re s Gestae presents a Latinspeaking, western audience with an idiosyncratic and ‘Romanized’ depiction of the philhellene emperor a n d t h a t, co n s c i o u s l y exploiting his position as a Greek writing in Latin and as a contemporary of Julian, Ammianus wished his work to be considered a culminating and definitive account of the man and his life.

(Oxford University Press 2016) 9780198784951 Hb £65.00

Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean

Edited by Rhoads Murphey This volume investigates the balance between continuity and change adopted at various historical conjunctures when new imperial regimes were established. Each essay explores the shared theme of imperial identity and legacy in the Mediterranean World of the pagan, Christian and Muslim eras.

230p b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781409466789 Hb £95.00

Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean 700-1500

Edited by Sonja Brentjes & Jurgen Renn The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of question, ranging from how history-writing drew on cross-culturally constructed stories and shared sets of skills and values, to how an ancient warlord was transformed into the iconic hero of a newly created monotheistic religion.

234p, col pls (Routledge 2016) 9781472456564 Hb £95.00

From Constantinople to the Frontier

The City and the Cities Edited by Theofili Kampianki, Lorenzo M. Bondioli & Nicholas S.M. Matheou Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, these papers reveal the range of factors involved in the dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic history, and covering geographical areas throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean, the volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human actions and relationships worked with, within, and between urban spaces and the periphery, and how these spaces and relationships were themselves ideologically constructed and understood.

520p (Brill 2016) 9789004307735 Hb £150.00

Motions of Late Antiquity

Essays on Religion, Politics and Society in Honour of Peter Brown Edited by Jamie Kreiner & Helmut Reimitz The essays of this volume demonstrate that Late Antiquity is not just a period in which the late Roman world grew into the three successor cultures of the Roman Empire — the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic world — but also a set of hermeneutical tools for exploring historical transformation. A late antique view considers both the profound plurality of past societies and the surprising instances when a culture coheres out of those differences.

360p (Brepols 2016) 9782503549118 Hb £76.50

Education and Religion in Late Antique Christianity

Reflections, social contexts and genres Edited by P. Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof & Peter Gemeinhardt This book studies the complex attitude of late ancient Christians towards classical education.

It focuses on a series of lesser-known texts in order to study the impact of specific literary and social contexts on late ancient educational views and practices. Instead of seeing attitudes towards education in late antique texts as applications of theoretical positions, it reads them as complex negotiations between authorial intent, the limitations of genre, and the context of performance.

228p (Routledge 2016) 9781472434760 Hb £95.00

A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy

Edited by Kristina Sessa, M. Shane Bjornlie & Jonathan J. Arnold This comprehensive survey of the Ostrogothic state contains 18 essays providing readers with probing syntheses of recent scholarship on key topics, from the Ostrogothic army and administration to religious diversity and ecclesiastical development, ethnicity, cultural achievements, urbanism, and the rural economy. Significantly, the volume also presents innovative studies of hitherto under-examined topics, including the Ostrogothic provinces beyond the Italian lands, gender and the Ostrogothic court, and Ostrogothic Italy’s environmental history.

551p, b/w illus (Brill 2016) 9789004313767 Hb £155.00

Spaces in Late Antiquity

Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Ulla Tervahauta, Maijastina Kahlos, Raimo Hakola & Juliette Day The essays in this volume explore how various groups in Late Antiquity rooted their identity in special places that were imbued with meanings derived from history and tradition. In Part I, essays explore the tension b e twe e n t h e C l a s s i c a l heritage in public, especially urban spaces, and the Church’s appropriation of that space through doctrinal disputes and rival public performances. Parts II and III investigate how particular locations expressed, and formed, the theological and social identities of Christian and Jewish groups by bringing together fresh insights from the archaeological and textual evidence.

242p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472450166 Hb £95.00

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The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture

Late Antique Responses and Practices Edited by Troels Myrup Kristensen & Lea Stirling This volume explores the destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. The volume opens with a discussion of the complexity of the archaeological record and a preliminary chronology of the fate of statues across b o t h t h e e a s te r n a n d western imperial landscape.

Contributors address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation, as well as factors such as earthquake damage, late antique views on civic versus “private” uses of art, urban construction, and deeper causes underlying the end of the statuary habit.

448p, b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2016) 9780472119691 Hb £69.95

Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature

By N.K. Rollason This book focuses on gifts of elite male clothing in Late Antique literature in order to show, that when they appeared in texts, these items were not only functioning in an historical or a ‘real-life’ sphere but also as a literary space within which authors could discuss ideas of social relationships and authority.

This book suggests that authors used items which usually formed part of the costume of authority of the period to ‘over-write’ wearers and donors as confident figures of ‘official’ authority when this may have been open to doubt.

240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472435736 Hb £95.00

The Archaeology and History of the Church of the Redeemer and the Muristan in Jerusalem

A Collection of Essays from a Workshop on the Church of the Redeemer and its Vicinity held on 8th/9th September 2014 in Jerusalem Edited by Dieter Vieweger & Shimon Gibson The Muristan is situated in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem and was a prime property in medieval times with numerous churches, a hospice, and a large hospital complex. This explores archaeological and historical aspects of the Muristan from the Iron Age through to Ottoman times. A number of chapters also address its immediate urban surroundings, notably the complex of structures associated with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the north and the Church of St John the Baptist Only to the south-west. £36.00 until 322p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784914196 Pb £45.00

Ostia in Late Antiquity

By Douglas Boin Ostia in Late Antiquity, the first academic study on Ostia to appear in English in almost 20 years and the first to treat the Late Antique period, tackles the dynamics of this transformative time. Drawing on new archaeological research, including the author’s own, and incorporating both material and textual sources, it presents a social history of the town from the third through the ninth century.

308p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107024014 Hb £67.00, 9781316601532 Pb £29.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Designing Identity

The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity Edited by Thelma K. Thomas Textiles from Late Antiquity document transformations of cultural traditions and societal values at the most intimate level of the individual body and the home. This exhibition catalogue explores the parallel histories of ancient textile production Only and consumption, and the modern business of collecting £18.50 until Late Antique textiles.

31st April 160p, col illus (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691169422 Pb £22.95

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Augustine

Confessions Volume II: Books 9-13 Edited by Carolyn J R Hammond This edition replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition of “Confessions” by William Watts.

585p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674996939 Hb £16.95

Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion

By Stephen J. Shoemaker This volume explores the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries.

Shoemaker reveals that Marian devotion played a far more vital role in the development of early Christian belief and practice than has been previously recognized, finding evidence that dates back to the latter half of the second century.

320p, (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300217216 Hb £25.00

Ricerche Archeologiche a Santandrea di Loppio (Trento Italia)

Il Castrum Tardoantico-Altomedievale

By Barbara Maurina A report on a multi-layered site with finds ranging from the prehistoric age to late antiquity, medieval times and right through to even the First World War. Most notable is a fortified settlement with a complex series of construction periods dated between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Numerous examples of armoury and military clothing clearly suggest the military function of the site.

Only Italian text. £64.00 until 810p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913618 Pb £80.00

Hadrianopolis III

Ceramic Finds from Southwestern Paphlagonia

By Ergun Lafli & Gulseren Kan Sahin Pottery finds collected from Hadrianopolis in southwestern Paphlagonia (north-central Turkey), are presented in detail in this volume. Between 2005 and 2008 1550 sherds ranging between the Pre-Iron Age (2nd millennium BC) and the Middle Byzantine period (late 11th-early 12th century AD) were collected, most of which consist of Late Roman-Early Byzantine (late 5th-mid 8th century AD) coarse ware.

472p, b/w illus (BAR 2786, 2016) 9781407314365 Pb £64.00

Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia

By Gawdat Gabra The contributors to this volume examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in Aswan and Nubia over the past centuries. The complexity of Christian identity in Nubia, as distinct from Egypt, is examined in the context of church ritual and architecture. The archaeological and artistic heritage of monastic sites in Edfu, Aswan, Makuria, and Kom Ombo are highlighted, attesting to their important legacies in the region.

352p, b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2016) 9789774167645 Pb £19.50

Epiphanius of Cyprus

A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity

By Andrew S. Jacobs Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus from 367 to 403 C.E., was incredibly influential in the last decades of the fourth century. Whereas his major surviving text, the Panarion, is studied for lost sources, Epiphanius himself is often dismissed as an anti-intellectual eccentric, a marginal figure of late antiquity. In this book, Andrew Jacobs moves Epiphanius from the margin back toward the centre and proposes we view major cultural themes of late antiquity in a new light altogether.

352p (University of California Press 2016) 9780520291126 Hb £70.95

A Tale of Two Saints

The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints Theodore the Recruit and the General

By John F. Haldon St. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ was one of the bestknown of the so-called ‘military saints’, particularly in the Byzantine, and the eastern Christian world.

Ranging in date from the fifth to the eleventh century CE, five accounts of the martyrdom of the saint together with two sets of miracles have been selected, texts that testify to the growth and to the evolution of the martyrdoms and miracle collections associated with him.

160p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781381663 Pb £18.99

The Donatist Schism

Controversy and Contexts Edited by Richard Miles In order to reappraise the Donatist Controversy for the first time in many years, 14 specialists in the religious, cultural, social, legal and political history as well as the archaeology of Late Antique North Africa have examined what was one of the most significant religious controversies in the Late Roman World through a set of key contexts that explain its significance the Donatist Schism not just in North Africa but across the whole Roman Empire, and beyond.

368p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781382813 Hb £80.00

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Arguing it Out

Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

By Averil Cameron This study focuses on t we l f t h - c e n t u r y p ro s e dialogues in Greek and on what they can tell us about Byzantine society and culture of the era when western Europe was itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and scholars. Yet it was also the period in which Byzantium felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204.

Despite revisionist attempts to play down the extent of this disaster, it was a blow from which, arguably, the Byzantines never fully recovered.

256p (Central European University Press 2016) 9789633861110 Pb £15.99

Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals

A Study of the Extant Formularies

By David Bennett A number of texts compiled shortly before or during the late period of Byzantium (here broadly 1204-1453) and shorter fragments preserved in Byzantine and later manuscripts record remedies which, according to the titles, were used in Byzantine hospitals (xenônes). Although they have been remarked since the nineteenth century, such texts have not been studied in depth or collectively, nor has their authenticity been tested; the late David Bennett was the first to undertake these tasks, and the results of his investigations are presented here.

264p (Routledge 2016) 9781409441656 Hb £95.00

The Byzantine Turks 1204–1461

By Rustam Shukurov Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires.

The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.

513p (Brill 2016) 9789004305120 Hb £150.00

John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

In the Shadow of Father and Son Edited by Alessandra Bucossi & Alex Rodriguez Suarez H ow c a n t h e re l a t ive o b s c u r i t y o f Jo h n I I Komnenos be explained in the light of his military successes, Byzantine territorial expansion in Asia Minor, and the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfthcentury Constantinople?

Why has John been neglected by modern historians? What new historical evidence can lead to a reassessment of the achievements his reign? This book sets out to answer these questions.

It combines overviews of the reign with detailed analysis of events and problematic issues. Coverage is interdisciplinary, from art history to literature, from theology to diplomatic history.

250p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472460240 Hb £95.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Empire That Would Not Die

By John F. Haldon In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the Byzantine Empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. The more the empire shrank, the more it became centred around Constantinople, whose ability to withstand siege after siege proved decisive. The crisis forced the imperial court, the provincial ruling classes, and the church closer together. Despite territorial losses, what remained became the heartland of a medieval Christian Roman state, Only with a powerful political theology that predicted the emperor £27.50 until would eventually establish Orthodox Christianity’s world 31st April dominion.

432p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674088771 Hb £33.95

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Epigram, Art and Devotion in Later Byzantium

By Ivan Drpic Epigrammatic poetry, Professor Drpić argues, constitutes a critical - if largely neglected - source for reconstructing aesthetic and socio-cultural discourses that informed the making, use, and perception of art in the Byzantine world. By attending to such diverse topics as devotional selffashioning, the aesthetics of adornment, sacred giving, and the erotics of the icon, this study offers a penetrating and highly original account of Byzantine art and its place in Byzantine society and religious life.

513p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107151512 Hb £108.00

Nectar and Illusion

Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature

By Henry Maguire An exploration of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. Henry Maguire shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but then adopted a much more cautious attitude toward the depiction of animals and plants in the Middle Ages, after the iconoclastic dispute of the eighth and ninth centuries. An important theme is the asymmetrical relationship between Byzantine art and literature with respect to the portrayal of nature.

224p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford University Press 2012, Pb 2016) 9780199766604 Hb £34.49, 9780190497101 Pb £22.99

Islam Imagining the Arabs

Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

By Peter Webb This volume argues that the time-honoured stereotypes depicting Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading: the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during the first centuries of Islam, emerging and evolving as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate. The idea of ‘the Arab’ was a device used by Muslims to articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam.

404p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9781474408264 Hb £75.00

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires

By Amira K. Bennison This volume charts the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west. Although both have often been seen as uncouth, religiously intolerant tribesmen who undermined the high culture of al-Andalus, this book argues that the eleventh to thirteenth centuries were crucial to the Islamisation of the Maghrib, its integration into the Islamic cultural sphere, and its emergence as a key player in the western Mediterranean, and that much of this was due to these oft-neglected Berber empires.

382p, b/w illus (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9780748646807 Pb £29.99

An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire

By Jamel Velji Through a detailed examination of some of the structural features of the Fatimid revolution, as well as early works of ta’wil, or symbolic interpretation, Jamel Velji illustrates how the Fatimids conceived of their mission as one that would bring about an imminent utopia. He then examines how the Fatimids reinterpreted their place in history when the expected end never materialised. The book ends with an extensive discussion of another apocalyptic event linked to a Fatimid lineage: the Nizari Ismaili declaration of the end of time on August 8, 1164.

182p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9780748690886 Hb £70.00

Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World

By Stephen Blake It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This nontechnical overview of the Islamic advances in the heavenly sciences allows the general reader to appreciate the absolutely crucial role that Muslim scientists played in the overall development of astronomy and astrology in the Eurasian world.

224p (Edinburgh University Press 2016) 9780748649099 Pb £24.99

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Landscapes of the Islamic World

Archaeology History and Ethnography Edited by Stephen McPhillips & Paul D. Wordsworth This volume presents new work by twelve authors on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central Asia. The focus looks beyond the city to engage with the predominantly rural and pastoral character of premodern Islamic society. The essays are grouped into four thematic sections: harnessing and living with water; agriculture, pastoralism, and rural subsistence; commerce, production, and the rural economy; and movement and memory in the rural landscape.

280p, b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9780812247640 Hb £65.00

Le Qsar, Type d’implantation humaine au Sahara

Architecture du Sud Algerien

By Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya The qsar corresponds to a type of human settlement widely distributed in the Sahara desert. This volume, through the systematic analysis and comparison of some qsur of southeastern Algeria (Rig, Mzab, Miya and al-Mani’a), reveals common architectural features that can be used to identify a common type of qsar in this region, and which would help position the qsar among the urban planning Only of the dar al-islam. French text. £40.00 until 356p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784913472 Pb £50.00

Medieval Islamic Maps

An Exploration

By Karen C. Pinto In this beautifully illustrated book Karen C. Pinto focuses on the distinct tradition of maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS), examining them from three distinct angles – iconography, context, and patronage. She untangles the history of the KMMS maps, traces their inception and evolution, and analyses them to reveal the identities of their creators, painters, and patrons, as well as the vivid realities of the social and physical world they depicted.

406p col illus (University of Chicago Press 2016) 9780226126968 Hb £42.00

In the Shadow of the Church

The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria

By Mattia Guidetti Mattia Guidetti examines the establishment of Muslim religious architecture within the Christian context in which it first appeared in the Syrian region. He scrutinizes the slow process of conversion to Islam of the most important town centres by looking at religious places of both communities between the seventh and the eleventh century.

The author assesses the relevancy of churches by analysing the location of mosques and by researching phenomena of transfer of marble material from churches to mosques.

212p b/w illus, col pls (Brill 2016) 9789004325708 Hb £129.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE The History of Central Asia

The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3)

By Christoph Baumer This third volume of Christoph Baumer’s extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of Central Asia is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering Only to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater £24.00 until mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and 31st April Western Europe.

392p, col illus (I.B. Tauris 2016) 9781784534905 Hb £30.00

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Anglo-Saxon & Viking In the Land of Giants

By Max Adams M a x Ad a m s e x p l o re s Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its paths and exploring its lasting imprint on valley, hill and field. From York to Whitby, from London to Sutton Hoo, from Edinburgh to Anglesey and from Hadrian’s Wall to Loch Tay, each of his ten walk narratives form both free-standing chapters and parts of a wider portrait of a Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone.

464p, b/w illus, col pls (Head of Zeus 2015, Pb 2016) 9781784080341 Hb £25.00, 9781784080334 Pb £9.99

Patterns in Stonework (Part B)

The Early Churches in Northern England: The Counties of Northumberland Nottinghamshire Staffordshire Westmorland and Yorkshire

By John F. Potter In this volume (Part B), the five counties of Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Westmorland and Yorkshire are examined. The details of 174 churches are analysed. Ten of them are designated Anglo-Saxon for the first time. It proved possible to determine the relative importance of the different building stones used; and to learn more about features like church security, cut backs, re-use of Roman masonry, and herringbone masonry.

270p, b/w illus (BAR BS 624, 2016) 9781407314938 Pb £49.00

A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & AngloScandinavian Sites

Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire

By Guy Points This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide to places (mostly churches and museums), with architectural features, stone sculpture, artefacts and material of Anglo-Saxon and AngloScandinavian (Viking) interest in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Part 1 provides background material on historical and architectural contexts.

Part 2 identifies 62 “sites” in alphabetical order with the aim of enabling the reader to know exactly what they are looking for and where exactly to find it.

184p, 33 b/w illus. & 67 colour photographs (Guy Points 2017) 9780993033957 Pb £16.95, NYP

Art of the Islands

Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture C. 450-1050

By Michelle Brown This book provides a highly illustrated overview of the early medieval art of the British and Irish archipelago.

It explores the interaction between its inhabitants, along with the formation of national and regional identities, through the lens of visual culture. Leading expert Michelle P. Brown explains the historical context within which key artworks of the period were made and used, and examines the ways in which their complex imagery can be interpreted.

240p col illus (Bodleian Library 2016) 9781851244461 Pb £25.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Aethelred The Unready

By Levi Roach The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred “the Unready” (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised. Infamous for his domestic and international failures, Aethelred was unable to fend off successive Viking raids, leading to the notorious St. Brice’s Day Massacre in 1002, during which Danes in England were slaughtered on his orders. Though Aethelred’s posthumous standing is dominated by his unsuccessful military leadership, his seemingly blind trust in disloyal associates, and his harsh treatment of political opponents, Roach suggests that Aethelred has been wrongly maligned. Drawing on extensive research, Roach Only argues that Aethelred was driven by pious concerns about sin, £24.00 until society, and the anticipated apocalypse. His strategies, in this 31st April light, were to honour God and find redemption.

390p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300196290 Hb £30.00

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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

By Susan Oosthuizen Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England continue to suggest that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of northwest European colonists in a largely empty landscape.

Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense RomanoBritish settlement appears to have been followed by consistent early medieval occupation on every island in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the region were organised within territorial groups in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, hierarchy Only of subordinate and dominant polities, principalities and £22.50 until kingdoms. publication 160p b/w and col illus (Windgather 2017) 9781911188087 Pb £29.95

Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’

An Archaeological Assessment

By Patrick Ottaway This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource for the city, which has seen many major programmes of archaeological investigation.

In the Late Anglo-Saxon period it became the pre-eminent royal centre for the Kingdom of Wessex. The city acquired a castle, cathedral and bishop’s palace under Norman kings but from the late 12th century onwards its status began to decline to that of a regional market town. The archaeological resource for Winchester is very rich and is a resource of national and, for the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Only periods, of international £30.00 until importance. publication 416p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704499 Hb £40.00

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Old English Philology

Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk Edited by Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual & Tom Shippey Scholarship on historical metrics and the dating, editing, and interpretation of Old English poetry forms the core of this book; other topics addressed include syntax, phonology, etymology, lexicology, and paleography. An introductory overview of Professor Fulk’s achievements puts these studies in context, alongside essays which assess his contributions to metrical theory and his profound impact on the study of Beowulf.

352p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781843844389 Hb £60.00

Old English Psalms

Edited by Patrick P. O’Neill The Latin psalms were translated by the AngloSaxons into Old English, first in prose and later in verse. Sometime in the middle of the eleventh century, the prose and verse translations were brought together and organized in a complementary sequence in a manuscript now known as the Paris Psalter. The complete text of all 150 prose and verse psalms is available here both in Old English and modern translation for the first time.

65p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674504752 Hb £19.95

Bede and Aethelthryth

An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics

By Stephen J. Harris This volume asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? The book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn to Aethelthryth. The reconstruction is hypothetical and derived from grammatical manuals, learned commentaries from the early medieval period (especially Servius’s commentary on Virgil), and a wide variety of aesthetic observations by classical and medieval readers.

216p (West Virginia UP 2016) 9781940425931 Pb £45.50

Early Medieval Kent 800-1220

Edited by Sheila Sweetinburgh The essays collected here provide insights into a range of topics of importance in the history of Kent during this seminal period. To provide a context for these, the opening essay presents an assessment of the kingdom of Kent. Subsequent chapters consider the development of first rural and then urban society, the impact of the Vikings, pilgrimage and the landscape, literacy and learning, the developing monastic way of life, and parish church architecture. Three multidisciplinary chapters discuss Canterbury as a case study, while a gazetteer of place-name elements closes the book.

320p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9780851155838 Hb £50.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture

Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text Edited by Charles Insley & Gale R. Owen-Crocker The five authoritative papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into AngloSaxon culture. All are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history and art; ecclesiasticalhistorical circumstances explain the adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended into the making of new books with multiple functions; religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes in burial ritual.

The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances.

144p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785704970 Pb £38.00

The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged

The Discovery of a Royal Stronghold at Trusty’s Hill, Galloway

By Ronan Toolis & Christopher Bowles The Pictish inscribed stone at the early medieval fort of Trusty’s Hill is unique in southern Scotland, and has long puzzled scholars as to why the symbols were carved so far from Pictland. The Galloway Picts Project, aimed to recover evidence for its archaeological context, but far from validating the existence of Picts in this southerly region of Scotland, the archaeological context instead suggests that the carvings relate to a royal stronghold and place of inauguration for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600.

Examined in the context of contemporary sites across southern Scotland and northern England, the archaeological evidence from Galloway suggests that this region may have been the heart of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged.

200p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785703119 Hb £35.00

Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture

By Samantha Zacher Most studies of Jews in medieval England begin with the year 1066, when Jews first arrived on English soil. Yet the absence of Jews in England before the conquest did not prevent early English authors from writing obsessively about them. These essays examine visual and textual representations of Jews, the translation and interpretation of Scripture, the use of Hebrew words and etymologies, and the treatment of Jewish spaces and landmarks.

336p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442646674 Hb £43.95

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies

The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature

By Megan Cavell Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery in Old English texts through intertextual analysis and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the poetry of Cynewulf, and other key texts. Megan Cavell highlights the prominent use of weaving and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on important tropes such as the lord-retainer “bond” and the gendered role of “peace-weaving” in AngloSaxon society.

356p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442637221 Hb £38.95

Living and Dying at Auldhame

The Excavation of an Anglian Monastic Settlement and Medieval Parish Church

By Anne Crone & Erlend Hindmarch Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed one thousand years of burial activity and liturgical practice, the nature of which changed over the course of the millennium. Undoubtedly, the most significant elements of the evidence are those for Anglian activity and for Norse contact.

Between the mid-seventh and mid-ninth centuries AD a para-monastic community, associated with the Anglian saint Balthere flourished on the headland.

256p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) 9781908332011 Hb £25.00

Faroe-Islander Saga

A New English Translation

By Robert K. Painter This book offers a new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga Saga), centred on the enduring animosity between Sigmundur Brestirsson and Thrandur of Gota, rival chieftains whose bitter disagreements on the introduction of Christianity to the Faroe Islands set the stage for much violence and a feud which unfolds over generations of their descendants.

171p (McFarland 2016) 9781476663661 Pb £33.50

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Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness

Changing Ideologies in North-East Scotland Sixth to Sixteenth Century AD

By Martin Carver, Justin Garner-Lahire & Cecily Spall Discoveries at Portmahomack in Easter Ross (1994 to 2008) were initially hailed as the first modern sighting of a Pictish monastery. This book is the final report on the campaign and the postexcavation analysis which followed, and defines six successive settlements on the same spot, including the eighth-century monastery with vellum and metal workshops and pieces from a dozen carved stone monuments.

552p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) 9781908332097 Hb £30.00

Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts

By Martin Carver This updated second edition continues and develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, with new chapters exploring Iron Age, Medieval and European contexts of the settlement. Martin Carver describes the discovery of the site and the design and execution of the research programme, then traces the events that occurred from the mid 6th century to the 11th century when the parish church was founded on the former monastic site and beyond to survey the subsequent history of the church.

256p, b/w illus, col pls (Edinburgh University Press, 2nd ed 2016) 9780748697670 Pb £29.99

Expanded Boats

By Ole Crumlin-Pedersen & Hanus Jensen During the summers from 2005 to 2007, the Viking Ship Museum reconstructed and built three boatfinds from the Iron Age and Viking Age. Common to all three boats is that they all have a thin, hollowedout log boat as their basic component, which is then heated and softened over fire and then expanded out into a new hull form. In this book Ole CrumlinPedersen presents the archaeological background of expanded boats, while boatbuilder Hanus Jensen describes how the three reconstructions were built.

128p (Viking Ship Museum 2017) 9788785180742 Pb £30.00, NYP

Why is your Axe Bloody?

A Reading of Njals Saga

By William Ian Miller Njals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. Law and feud feature centrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatest lawyer of his generation. No reading of the saga can do it justice unless it takes its law, its feuding strategies, as well as the author’s stunning manipulation and saga conventions. In ‘Why is your axe bloody’ W.I. Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completely original personal reading of this lengthy saga.

336p (Oxford University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9780198704843 Hb £55.00, 9780198768920 Pb £24.99

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NEW FROM CaSemate Vikings at War

By Kim Hjardar & Vegard Vike “Employing unorthodox and unpredictable strategies, which were hard for more organized forces to respond to, the most crucial element of the Viking’s success was their basic strategy of evading the enemy by arriving by sea, then attacking quickly and with great force before withdrawing quickly. Never before have the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests been presented together in such detail.

With over 380 colour illustrations including beautiful reconstruction drawings, maps, crosssection drawings of ships, line-drawings of fortifications, battle plan reconstructions and photos of surviving artefacts including weapons and jewellery. Vikings at War was awarded the Norwegian literary prize ‘Saga Prize’ in 2012; currently in its fourth printing in Norwegian, this translation makes it available for the first time in English.

The best synthesis of Viking warfare ever produced: clear, authoritative, occasionally controversial and superbly illustrated.

– Neil Price 400p, col illus (Casemate UK 2016) 9781612004037 Hb £29.95

A Handbook to Eddic Poetry

Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia Edited by Carolyne Larrington, Judy Quinn & Brittany Schorn A co m p re h e n s ive a n d accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society. The showcase the poetic riches of the eddic corpus, and reveal its relevance to the history of poetics, gender studies, pre-Christian religions, art history and archaeology.

413p, b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107135444 Hb £69.99

Early Medieval Europe Forthcoming from Oxbow Books

Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary

Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World Edited by Eric Cambridge & Jane Hawkes In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and offer new approaches.

The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, while new finds such as the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also published here for the first time . Important thematic surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers interacting with the political and intellectual concerns of the wider Insular and continental world.

Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, revealing how recent archaeological work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional categorisation of the Only Vikings as ‘incomers’. £41.00 until 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication Books 2016) 9781785703072 Hb £55.00

Fibulae uit de Lage Landen

Brooches from the Low Countries

By Stijn Heeren and Lourens van der Feijst For this comprehensive examination of brooches in the Netherlands as well as parts of Germany and Flanders, the authors have not only used the collections of museums and published finds from excavations, but also the extensive collections of metal detectorists. The first part gives a description of the 90 different types and the hundreds of variants, together with a drawing, date, provenance and distribution map. Part two provides analysis.

Brooches are followed from production and distribution to deposition and recycling. Dutch language with all captions in English, each type has a summary in English and each chapter also has a summary in English.

680p, b/w illus, 85 pls (SPA Uitgevers 2017) 9789082628500 Hb £65.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centuries Edited by Hajnalka Herold & Neil Christie 2 3 c o n t r i b u t i o n s by leading archaeologists from across Europe ex p l o re t h e va r i e d forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from north-west Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeologies of the distinctive settlement forms that characterised Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702358 Hb £50.00

Social Complexity in Early Medieval Rural Communities

The North-Western Iberia Archaeological Reocrd Edited by Juan Antonio Quiros Castillo The aim of this book is to discuss the theoretical challenges posed by the study of social inequality and social complexity in early medieval peasant communities in North-western Iberia. Traditional approaches have defined these communities as poor, simple and even nomadic, in the framework of a self-sufficient economy that prioritised animal husbandry over agriculture. The archaeological results and documentary analysis presented here however are centred on the emergence of villages, the formation of local elites, the creation of socio-political networks and the role of Only identities in the legitimation of £26.00 until local inequalities.

31st April 133p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2016) 9781784915087 Pb £32.00

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Isidore of Seville

On the Nature of Things

By Calvin. B. Kendall & Faith Wallis Isidore’s On the Nature of Things is the first work on natural science by a Christian author that is not a commentary on the creation story in Genesis. Instead, Isidore adopted a classical model to describe the structure of the physical cosmos, and discuss the principles of astronomy, physics, geography, meteorology and time-reckoning. This is the first translation of this work into English.

The introduction places the work in the context of Isidore’s milieu and concerns, and traces the remarkable diffusion of his book.

304p (Liverpool University Press 2016) 9781781382943 Pb £25.00

Isidore of Seville and His Reception in the Early Middle Ages

Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge Edited by A. T. Fear & Jamie Wood This volume represents a cross section of the various approaches scholars have taken toward Isidore’s writings. The essays explore his sources, how he selected and arranged them for posterity, and how his legacy was reflected in later generations’ work across the early medieval West. Rich in archival detail, this collection provides a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise on one of history’s greatest intellectuals.

256p (Amsterdam University Press 2016) 9789089648280 Hb £64.00

The Prague Sacramentary

Culture, Religion and Politics in Late EighthCentury Bavaria Edited by H.G.E. Rose, Rob Meens & Maximilian Diesenberger The Prague Sacramentary is a unique liturgical manuscript, written in the turbulent period when Charlemagne crossed Bavaria to fight the Avars and when his son Pippin rebelled against him, seeking support among the Bavarian nobility. It can be linked to specific groups of Bavarian elites that had to come to terms with this explosive political situation. This new study of the manuscript includes a discussion of the topics of the formal invocation of saints, vernacular understandings of Latin texts, marriage, politics, and concerns for ritual purity as well as the well-being of the conflictridden Carolingian family.

260p (Brepols 2016) 9782503549200 Hb £68.00

Hincmar of Rheims

On the Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga Edited by Rachel Stone & Charles West In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. This is the first professionally published translation of a key source for this extraordinary episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims’s De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. The translation includes a substantial introduction and annotations, putting the case into its early medieval context and explaining Hincmar’s sometimes dubious methods of argument.

388p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719082962 Pb £19.99

Medieval Britain The Continuity of the Conquest

Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism

By Wendy Marie Hoofnagle Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans’ ruling approach, including a program of conversion through “allurement,” political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court.

193p (Penn State University Press 2016) 9780271074016 Hb £53.95

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Orderic Vitalis Life, Works and Interpretations Edited by Charles C. Rozier, Daniel Roach, Giles E.M. Gasper and Elisabeth van Houts The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval history for students and scholars alike.

The essays here consider Orderic’s life and works, presenting new research on existing topics within Orderic studies and opening up new directions for future analysis and debate. They offer fresh interpretations from across the disciplines of medieval manuscript studies, English-language studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural memory studies; they also revisit established readings.

416p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271252 Hb £60.00

Henry the Young King 1155–1183

By Matthew Strickland Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power.

Matthew Strickland provides a richly coloured portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.

416p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300215519 Hb £30.00

The Plantagenet Empire, 1259–1453

Proceedings of the 2014 Harlaxton Symposium Edited by Peter Crooks, David Green & W. Mark Ormrod Grouped into four thematic sections, twenty-one original and innovative studies explore aspects of ‘Empire, dynasty and identity’, ‘Regional responses to empire’, ‘Networks and communications’ and ‘The empire in retrospect and prospect’. A frequent question running through the collection, and one brought into concentrated focus in the conceptual essay by the editors, is the meaning and meaningfulness of ‘empire’, both for those who inhabited the Plantagenet dominions in the Later Middle Ages and for modern scholars interrogating the dimensions of the imperial experience in comparative contexts.

448p, col pls (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730528 Hb £49.50

Christians and Jews in Angevin England

The York Massacre of 1190 Narratives and Contexts Edited by Sarah Rees Jones & Sethina Watson The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16 March 1190 is one of the most scarring events in the history of Anglo-Judaism.

This collection considers the massacre as central to the narrative of English and Jewish history around 1200.

Its chapters broaden the contexts within which the narrative is usually considered and explore how a narrative of events in 1190 was built up, both at the time and in following years.

375p (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2016) 9781903153444 Hb £60.00, 9781903153642 Pb £19.99

Medieval Powys

Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132– 1293

By David Stephenson This book provides the first full, authoritative history of Powys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It argues in particular that the Powysian rulers were dogged and resourceful survivors in the face of pressure from Welsh rivals and the problems of internal fragmentation; and that, paradoxically, co-operation with the English and intermarriage with marcher families underlay a Only desire to regain lands to the east £48.00 until lost in earlier centuries.

31st April 348p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271405 Hb £60.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE William the Conqueror

By David Bates In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and European history. Using a framework derived from studies of early medieval kingship, he assesses each phase of William’s life to establish why so many trusted William to invade England in 1066 and the consequences of this on the Only history of the so-called Norman Conquest after the Battle of £24.00 until Hastings and for generations to come.

31st April 595p b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300118759 Hb £30.00

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Bannockburn 1314–2014

Battle and Legacy Edited by Michael Penman The papers presented here bring fresh historical, archaeological and environmental perspectives to the study of Bannockburn and its medieval impact, as well as to the numerous literary, artistic, commemorative, heritage and historiographical contributions which have reflected on that famous encounter down to the present.

272p, col pls (Paul Watkins 2016) 9781907730504 Hb £35.00

The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales

Politics Identity and Affinity

By Matthew Ward This first book-length study of the livery collar examines its cultural and political significance.

It explores the principal meanings bestowed on the collar, considers the item in its various political contexts, and places the collar within the sphere of medieval identity construction. It also investigates the motives which lay behind its distribution, shedding new light on the nature and understanding of royal power at the time.

272p, b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271153 Hb £50.00

Henry of Lancaster’s Expedition to Aquitaine 1345–1346

Military Service and Professionalism in the Hundred Years War

By Nicholas A. Gribit In 1345 Henry of Lancaster led an English royal army to the duchy of Aquitaine and inflicted two devastating defeats on the French royal forces.

This reassessment of a neglected campaign draws on a wealth of original source material to furnish an examination of the campaign “in the round”; recruitment, preparations, and financial Only administration, as well as its £24.00 until events and achievements, are 31st April examined closely.

378p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271177 Hb £30.00

Chivalry, Kingship and Crusade

The English Experience in the Fourteenth Century

By Timothy Guard This book details extensive English involvement in fourteenth century crusading; details of participants and campaigns are chronicled and associated matters of tactics, diplomacy, organisation, and recruitment are minutely analysed. The book’s second theme traces the surprisingly strong grip the crusade-idea possessed at the height of politics, as an animating force of English kingship.

296p (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2016) 9781843838241 Hb £60.00, 9781783270910 Pb £19.99

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Henry V

The Conscience of a King

By Malcolm Vale Malcolm Vale draws on extensive primary archival evidence to present view of Henry V defined not simply by his military exploits: a multidimensional ruler of great piety, a hands-on governor who introduced a radically new conception of England’s European role in secular and ecclesiastical affairs, a composer of music, an art patron, and a dutiful king who fully appreciated his obligations toward those he ruled.

328p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300148732 Hb £20.00

The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England

From Bondage to Freedom

By Mark Bailey This dazzling study provides an accessible and upto-date survey of the decline of serfdom in England, applying a new methodology for establishing both its chronology and causes to thousands of court rolls from 38 manors located across the south Midlands and East Anglia. It presents a ground-breaking reassessment, challenging many of the traditional interpretations of the economy and society of lateOnly medieval England, and, indeed, £20.00 until of the very nature of serfdom itself.

31st April 385p, (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271283 Pb £25.00

Towns in Medieval England

Selected Sources Edited by Gervase Rosser Collectively, the texts and commentary in this anthology provide an overview of English medieval urban history, while the emphasis throughout is on the character and potential of each type of evidence, from legal and administrative records to inventories of shops, and from letters and poetry to legendary civic histories.

312p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719049095 Pb £18.99

The Later Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem

Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Rural Society Edited by Michael Hicks The Inquisitions post mortem (IPMs) are a truly wonderful source for many different aspects of late medieval countryside and rural life. The chapters here examine IPMs in connection with the landscape and topography of England, in particular markets and fairs and mills; and consider the utility of proofs of age for everyday life on such topics as the Church, retaining, and the wine trade.

226p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783270798 Hb £60.00

Medieval Europe Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean

By Charles D. Stanton Drawing from Latin, Greek, Jewish and Arabic sources, this book details how the House of Hauteville, particularly under Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, used sea power to accomplish the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily from Islam.

The subsequent establishment of an aggressive naval presence on Sicily, first by Roger de Hauteville and then by his son Roger II, effectively wrested control of the central Mediterranean from Byzantine and Muslim maritime hegemony, opening the sea to Only east-west shipping. £20.00 until 328p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 31st April 2011, Pb 2016) 9781783271382 Pb £25.00

Louis

The French Prince Who Invaded England

By Catherine Hanley In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with King John, decided that they needed a new monarch, and settled on Louis, eldest son and heir of the king of France.

In this fascinating biography of England’s least-known “king”, Catherine Hanley explores the life and times of “Louis the Lion” before, during, and beyond his quest for the English throne. She illuminates the national and international context of his 1216 invasion, and explains why and how after sixteen fruitless months he failed to make himself King Louis I of England.

304p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300217452 Hb £25.00

Mercenaries to Conquerors

Norman Warfare in the Eleventh and TwelfthCentury Mediterranean

By Paul Brown In this book Paul Brown analyses the Norman conquests across the Mediterranean, exploring the reasons for their considerable and swift success.

Throughout he focuses on the military side of their progress, as they advanced from mercenaries to conquerors, then crusaders. The dominant role played by a succession of Norman leaders is a key theme of the narrative - a line of ambitious and ruthless soldiers that ran from Robert Guiscard and Bohemond to Roger II and Tancred.

252p, col pls (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781473828476 Hb £25.00

Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France

The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398)

By Marguerite Keane Marguerite Keane considers the object collection (books, jewelry, reliquaries, and textiles, among others) of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre. She connects the patronage of Blanche of Navarre to her interest in her status and reputation as a dowager queen, as well as bringing to the life the material, adornment, and devotional interests of a medieval queen and her household.

262p, col illus (Brill 2016) 9789004248366 Hb £100.00

Frederick Barbarossa

The Prince and the Myth

By John Freed This new biography of Frederick Barbarossa paints a rich picture of a consummate diplomat and effective warrior. John Freed mines Barbarossa’s recently published charters and other sources to illuminate the monarch’s remarkable ability to rule an empire that stretched from the Baltic to Rome, and from France to Poland. Offering a fresh assessment of the role of Barbarossa’s extensive familial network in his success, the author also considers the impact of Frederick’s death in the Third Crusade as the key to his lasting heroic reputation.

704p, b/w pls (Yale University Press 2016) 9780300122763 Hb £30.00

Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

By William D. Paden Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval tollkeeping.

256p (University of Toronto Press 2016) 9781442629349 Hb £47.99

The Hundred Years War Volume IV

Cursed Kings

By Jonathan Sumption The fourth part of Jonathan Sumption’s magisterial history of the Hundred Years’ War tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. Into the void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of England, who conquered much of northern France before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months before he would have become King of France.

928p (Faber & Faber 2016) 9780571274567 Pb £22.00

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Crusade and Jihad

Origins, History, Aftermath

By Malcolm Lambert Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad. He describes the long and firecely fought struggles to control the sacred places of the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, as well as the more recent history of these ideas. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned two sides of the same coin, but this simple opposition, the author shows, conceals crucial differences and similarities between them.

320p, b/w and col pls (Profile Books 2016) 9781846685545 Hb £20.00

John of Brienne

King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople c.1175–1237

By Guy Perry John of Brienne’s progress, from mid-ranking knightly status to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, traces one of the most remarkable careers in the entire medieval period.

This biographical study of aristocratic social and geographical mobility in the ‘Age of the Crusades’ reassesses John’s fascinating life, and explores how families and dynasticism, politics, intrigue, religion and war all contributed to John’s unprecedented career.

236p (Cambridge University Press 2013, Pb 2016) 9781107043107 Hb £72.00, 9781316620298 Pb £18.99

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century

Converging and Competing Cultures Edited by Norman Housley This volume explores the range of interactions which took place between the three faith communities which were most affected by crusade in the fifteenth century, namely the Catholic and Orthodox worlds, and the adherents of Islam. Religious and ethnic identities were volatile, allegiances negotiable, and diplomacy, ideological exchange and human contact were constantly in operation between the period’s major religious groupings.

220p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472464712 Hb £95.00

Encountering Islam on the First Crusade

By Nicholas Morton This volume offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders’ attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered, offering a varied picture of cross cultural relations, and depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, many simply for survival.

326p (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9781107156890 Hb £64.99

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The Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal

By Jeffrey L. Forgeng Written around 1430, Duarte of Portugal’s remarkable treatise on chivalric horsemanship, the Livro do Cavalgar (Book on Riding), is the sole substantial contemporary source to survive on the definitive physical skill of the medieval knight.

Under the general rubric of horsemanship Duarte covers a range of topics that include jousting, tourneying, and hunting, as well as the physical apparatus of equestrianism and various cultural styles of riding.This first English translation also serves as a systematic introduction to medieval equestrianism in general.

172p, b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271030 Hb £25.00

Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective: From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus

Edited by Gerhard Jaritz & Katalin Szende Including fifteen original chapters from an interdisciplinary team of contributors, this collection begins by posing the question: “What is East Central Europe?” with three specialists offering different interpretations and presenting new conclusions. The book is then grouped into four parts which examine political practice, religion, urban experience, and art and literature. The essays point out themes and structures from town planning, to gender, to religious orders, that did not function according to political boundaries, and for which the inclusion of East Central European territories was systemic.

296p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781138923461 Hb £90.00, 9781138923478 Pb £29.99

Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders 1300-1500

By Laura Crombie In the towns of medieval Flanders a plethora of guilds existed which had little or nothing to do with the organisation of labour, including archery and crossbow guilds. This is the first full-length study of these guilds, encompassing not only the great urban centres of Ghent, Bruges and Lille but also numerous smaller towns. It examines guild membership, structure and organisation, revealing the diversity of guild brothers - and sisters - and bringing to life the elaborate social occasions when princes and plumbers would dine together.

264p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271047 Hb £60.00

Medieval Chivalry

By Richard W. Kaeuper In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry made sense of violence and war, making it tolerable for elite fighters rather than non-knightly or sub-knightly populations.

He discusses how chivalry b utt re s s e d st at us a nd profession, shaped active piety, and fostered intense warrior attachments and heterosexual relationships. Kaeuper engages with a wide range of evidence in his analysis, drawing on the chivalric literature, manuscript illumination, and sermon exempla and moral tales.

464p, b/w illus (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks 2016) 9780521137959 Pb £19.99

Legal Plunder

Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

By Daniel Lord Smail Focusing on the Mediterranean cities of Marseille and Lucca, Legal Plunder explains how the vigorous trade in goods that grew up in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe entangled households in complex relationships of credit and debt. In a world without banking, household goods became valuable commodities that often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers and resellers sprung up throughout European cities, helping push these goods into circulation. Simultaneously, a harshly coercive legal system developed to ensure that debtors paid their due.

320p (Harvard University Press 2016) 9780674737280 Hb £29.95

Journeying Along Medieval Routes in Europe and the Middle East

Edited by Marianne O’Doherty, Leonie V. Hicks & Alison L. Gascoigne Focusing on routes and journeys throughout medieval Europe and the Middle East in the period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth century, this multi-disciplinary book draws on travel narratives, chronicles, maps, charters, geographies, and material remains in order to shed new light on the experience of travelling in the Middle Ages. Many essays place a strong emphasis on the methodological problems associated with the study of travel and its traces.

300p, b/w illus (Brepols 2016) 9782503541730 Hb £76.50

Mapping Medieval Geographies

Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond 300-1600

By Keith D. Lilley Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical k n ow l e d ge , i d e a s a n d traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those ‘imagined geographies’ that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience.

348p b/w illus (Cambridge University Press 2014, Pb 2016) 9781107036918 Hb £72.00, 9781316620274 Pb £20.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE The Great Transition

Climate Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World

By Bruce M. S. Campbell In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends.

Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this ‘Great Transition’, Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of Only past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from £18.50 until the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and 31st April realignment of Western Europe’s late medieval commercial economy.

488p, (Cambridge University Press 2016) 9780521144438 Pb £22.99

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Fools and Idiots?

Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

By Irina Metzler This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as ‘idiocy’. The book demolishes a number of historiographic myths and stereotypes surrounding intellectual disability in the Middle Ages and suggests new insights with regard to ‘fools’, jesters and ‘idiots’.

256p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719096365 Hb £70.00

Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages

Constructions of Impairments in ThirteenthAnd Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes

By Jenny Kuuliala This volume offers new insights into medieval disability studies by analysing miracle testimonies from canonization processes as sources for the study of medieval attitudes to and understanding of childhood physical impairments: how they were defined, and the social consequences of childhood disability on the family, on the community, and on children themselves.

394p (Brepols 2016) 9782503551852 Hb £85.00

Medieval Religion Afterlives

The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

By Nancy Mandeville Caciola The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, evident in the widespread popularity of stories about the returned dead, who interacted with the living both as disembodied spirits and as living corpses or revenants. This book explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living’s relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year 1000. Caciola considers both Christian and pagan beliefs, showing how certain traditions survived and evolved over time, and how attitudes both diverged and overlapped through different contexts and social strata.

360p (Cornell University Press 2016) 9781501702617 Hb £26.95

Elf Queens and Holy Friars

Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church

By Richard Firth Green Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern literary scholarship: the omnipresent belief in fairyland. He argues that when medieval preachers inveighed against the demons that they portrayed as threatening their flocks, they were in reality often waging war against fairy beliefs. He offers a detailed account of the church’s attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers, changelings, and alternative versions of the afterlife.

285p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016) 9780812248432 Hb £47.00

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Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

By John Munns This book explores the extraordinarily rich and vibrant visual and religious culture of the twelfth century, offering new and exciting insights into its significance, and studying the dynamic relationships between ideas and images. In addition to providing the first extensive survey of surviving Passion imagery from the period, it explores those images’ contexts: intellectual, cultural, religious, and art-historical. It thus not only enhances our understanding of the place of the cross in Anglo-Norman culture; it also demonstrates how new image theories and patterns of Only agency shaped the life of the £48.00 until later medieval church.

31st April 312p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783271269 Hb £60.00

Cathars in Question

Edited by Antonio Sennis Focusing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in southern France, Italy and the Balkans, this volume considers a number of crucial issues.

These include: what constitutes popular belief; how (and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and economic relationships between the Balkans and more western Only regions of Europe in the £48.00 until Middle Ages.

31st April 332p (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781903153680 Hb £60.00

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

By Janet Burton & Julie Kerr This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order, drawing on recent research from various disciplines to consider what it was that made the Cistercians distinctive and how they responded to developments. The book addresses current debates regarding the origins and evolution of the Order; discusses the key primary sources for knowledge; and covers architecture, administration, daily life, spirituality, the economy and the monks’ ties with the world.

256p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2011, Pb 2016) 9781783271207 Pb £17.99

Painting the Hortus Deliciarum

Medieval Women Wisdom and Time

By Danielle Joyner Between 1170 and 1190 in Alsace, Abbess Herrad compiled for her canonesses an elaborate manuscript, the Hortus deliciarum, which combined resplendent images with quotations from more than fifty texts to portray a history of the Christian church across time and through eternity. Danielle Joyner shows how the book reflected twelfthcentury concerns, such as emphasizing a historical interpretation of the Bible and reconciling scientific and theological accounts of the cosmos.

256p, b/w and col illus (Penn State University Press 2016) 9780271070889 Hb £63.95

Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures, 1200-1450

Edited by Constant J. Mews & Anna Welch The papers in this volume are organised under three headings, prefaced with an introductory essay by the editors: Poverty and the Rule of Francis, exploring the interpretation of poverty in the Franciscan Order; Devotional Cultures, considering aspects of devotional life fostered by mendicant religious communities, Franciscan, Augustinian and Dominican; Preaching Poverty, on the way poverty was promoted and practiced within the Dominican Order in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance.

225p (Routledge 2016) 9781472437327 Hb £95.00

A Maid with a Dragon

The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England

By Juliana Dresvina This is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the cult of St Margaret of Antioch in medieval England. The cult grew in England from Anglo-Saxon times, with over 200 churches dedicated to Margaret and hundreds of images and copies of her life known to have been made. The book examines Greek, Latin, Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Norman versions of Margaret’s life, their mouvance and cultural context, providing editions of the hitherto unpublished texts.

400p, b/w illus (Oxford University Press 2016) 9780197265963 Hb £80.00

Peter the Venerable

Writings Against the Saracens

By I. M. Resnick A new English translation of Peter the Venerable’s twin polemics against Islam – A Summary of the entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect of the Saracens – as well as related correspondence.

These works resulted from a sustained engagement with Islam begun during Peter’s journey to Spain in 1142-43.

192p, (Catholic University of America Press 2016) 9780813228594 Hb £43.50

Pope Innocent II (1130-43)

The World vs the City Edited by John Doran & Damian J. Smith The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long been recognized as a watershed in the history of the papacy, marking the transition from the age of reform to the so-called papal monarchy. This volume brings together the authorities in the field to give an overarching view of his pontificate, and its importance in terms of the internationalization of the papacy, the internal development of the Roman Curia, the integrity of the papal state and the governance of the local church, as well as vital to the development of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Empire.

420p, b/w illus (Routledge 2016) 9781472421098 Hb £95.00

The Scottish Legendary

Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration

By Eva Von Contzen This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century, the only extant collection of saints’ lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland. Focusing on the role of the narrator, the depiction of the saintly characters, their interiority, as well as temporal and spatial parameters, it is demonstrated that the Scottish poet has adapted the traditional material to the needs of an audience versed in reading romance and other secular genres.

288p (Manchester University Press 2016) 9780719095962 Hb £70.00

The Church in Fourteenth Century Iceland

By Erika Sigurdson Erika Sigurdson provides a history of the fourteenthcentury Icelandic Church with a focus on the social status of elite clerics following the introduction of benefices to Iceland. The book further chronicles major developments in the Icelandic Church after the reforms of the late thirteenth century, including its emphasis on property and land ownership, and the growth of ecclesiastical bureaucracy.

208p (Brill 2016) 9789004301177 Hb £100.00

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Medieval Art & Archaeology NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Art in England

The Saxons to the Tudors: 600–1600

By Sara N. James Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England.

Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.

448p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702235 Hb £60.00

A Rothschild Renaissance

A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum Edited by Pippa Shirley & Dora Thornton A collection of papers which celebrate the opening of the new gallery housing the Waddesdon Bequest, one of the world’s finest collections of medieval and renaissance craftmanship. Subjects included new attributions for sculptures, a detailed discussion of the making and marketing of forgeries by Salomon Weininger, Frédéric Spitzer and Alfred André as well as new research on jewellery and its presentation both at Waddesdon Manor and in the new gallery at the BM. 200p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592128 Pb £40.00, NYP

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The Bayeux Tapestry

New Interpretations Edited by Martin K. Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey & Dan Terkla In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This volume demonstrates the value of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous and iconic artefact, by examining the textile’s materiality, visuality, reception and historiography, and its constructions of gender, Only territory and cultural memory. £20.00 until 248p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 31st April 2009, Pb 2016) 9781783271245 Pb £25.00

The Power of Place

Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities and Holy Places

By D. W. Rollason This study explores the nature of power – the power of kings, emperors, and popes – through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe from the first to the sixteenth centuries, David Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were.

464p, b/w illus, col pls (Princeton University Press 2016) 9780691167626 Hb £41.95

The North Transept of Reims Cathedral

Edited by Jennifer M. Feltman This book focuses on the north transept of Reims Cathedral. Essays address issues of the north transept’s evolving design and visual programs, thereby significantly clarifying and revising the building’s chronology. Essays also consider the meaning of its visual programs in light of architectural adaptation and contemporary sociohistorical events.

242p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2016) 9781472462466 Hb £95.00

Of Churches, Toothache and Sheep

Selected Papers from the Norwich Historic Churches Trust Conferences 2014 and 2015 Edited by Nicholas Groves Contents: Toothache, saints and churches in preReformation Norfolk (John F. Beal); Theology to liturgy: the material culture of change in Norwich and beyond, c.145-1640 (Victor Morgan); Norwich’s Catholic chapels (Francis Young); ‘The sheep hath paid for all’: church building and self-expression in the Late Middle Ages (Allan B. Barton); Valuations of churches in medieval Norfolk (Elizabeth Gemmill); The funeral of John Paston (Susan Curran).

128p, b/w and col illus (Lasse Press 2016) 9780993306921 Pb £14.99

Late Medieval Castles

Edited by Robert Liddiard The contents of this volume represent key works in castle scholarship. Topics discussed include castle warfare, fortress customs, architectural design and symbolism, spatial planning and the depiction of castles in medieval romance. The contributions also serve to highlight the diversity of approaches to the medieval castle, ranging from the study of documentary and literary sources, analysis of fragmentary Only architectural remains and the £48.00 until recording of field archaeology.

31st April 352p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781783270330 Hb £60.00

Steep Strait and High

Ancient Houses of Central Lincoln

By Christopher Johnson & Stanley Jones This volume illuminates the development of different building styles in timber, stone and brick over a period of 750 years, in one of the oldest areas of Lincoln. High quality and detailed architectural drawings are accompanied by documentary accounts which explain the historical context, and tell some of the fascinating and tragic stories of the people who lived and worked there from the midtwelfth century until the First World War, including the medieval Jewish community.

206p, col illus (Lincoln Record Society 2016) 9781910653012 Hb £40.00

Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant

The Archaeology and History of the Latin East Edited by Micaela Sinibaldi, Kevin J. Lewis, Balasz Major & Jennifer A. Thompson Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East. With a concentration on the areas corresponding to the crusader states during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the articles also offer research into the neighbouring areas of Cyprus, Anatolia, Greece and the West, and the legacy of the crusader period there, with results from recent archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East.

544p, b/w illus (University of Wales Press 2016) 9781783169245 Hb £95.00

Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries)

By Balasz Major After enumerating the historical events that influenced the settlement pattern of the Syrian coast in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, its centres, including the towns and castles (with special regard to the smaller fortifications of the countryside that seem to have been a Frankish introduction to the area) are analysed. A closer look at the villages and their environment aims to draw a general picture on Only the density of settlements and £42.00 until their basic characteristics.

31st April 288p (Archaeopress Archaeology 2016) 9781784912048 Pb £52.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Castle Builders

Approaches to Castle Design and Construction in the Middle Ages

By Malcolm Hislop In Castle Builders, Malcolm Hislop looks at the hugely popular subject of castles from the unusual perspective of design and construction. In this general introduction to the subject, we discover something of the personalities behind their creation - the architects and craftsmen - and, furthermore, the techniques they employed, and how style and technology was disseminated. Castle Builders takes both a thematic and a chronological approach to the design and construction of castles, providing the reader with clear lines of development. Themes include earth, timber and stone construction techniques, the evolution of the great tower, Only the development of military engineering, the progression of £20.00 until domestic accommodation, and the degree to which aesthetics 31st April contributed to castle design.

264p col illus throughout (Pen & Sword 2016) 9781781593356 Hb £25.00

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La Ceramica Bassomedievale a Pisa e San Genesio (San Miniato-Pi)

Citta e Campagna a Confronto: Cita e Campagna a Confronto

By Beatrice Fatighenti This book presents the study of pottery in two medieval contexts, Pisa (a city) and San Genesio (a central rural settlement in the Arno Valley). The research focuses on specific issues observed in the two contexts, like characteristics of production, specialization and circulation of the products; characteristics of consumption; and pottery as socioeconomic indicator. The data from this research helps define a picture of relations between town and Only countryside in the Arno Valley between Xth and XIVth century. £30.00 until 234p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st April Archaeology 2016) 9781784912772 Pb £37.00

The Production and Distribution of Medieval Pottery in Cambridgeshire

By Paul Spoerry This synthetic and analytical study examines evidence for pottery manufacture and its distribution and use, through the study of documents, publications, excavated assemblages and museum collections. The report is presented in two parts. Part 1 describes the results of the research programme, and also provides a consideration of period assemblages by ceramic sub-region with a synthesis of the results which examines in detail aspects such as pottery production and supply. Part 2 provides the illustrated type series and scientific analysis through the use of thin sections and ICPS investigation.

200p b/w illus (EAA 159, 2016) 9781907588082 Pb £30.00

A History of the County of Oxford XVIII (Victoria County History)

Benson Ewelme and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred) Edited by Simon Townley Occupying a varied landscape in south-east Oxfordshire, the fourteen rural parishes covered in this volume extend from the river valleys of the Thames and Thame up onto the Chiltern hills.

Nucleated villages and open fields dominated the vale, while the uplands feature dispersed settlement, early inclosure, and extensive woodpasture. Notable buildings include the fifteenthcentury brick-built almshouse complex at Ewelme, co-founded by Chaucer’s granddaughter Alice de la Pole, and the now largely demolished Tudor mansion at Rycote, while more recent additions include Nuffield Place, remodelled in 1933 for the Oxford car manufacturer William Morris.

336p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2016) 9781904356479 Hb £95.00

Medieval Dispersed Settlement on the Mid Suffolk Clay at Cedars Park, Stowmarket

By Tom Woolhouse Four phases of medieval and post-medieval land use were identified; the main period of activity was in the 13th–14th centuries AD. To the north of Cedars Park, where the hillside levels off to a plateau, excavation revealed part of an enclosed farmstead. The remains of two buildings with earthfast foundations were identified, as well as cobbled yard surfaces, numerous quarry and rubbish pits and a large pond or watering hole.

160p b/w illus (EAA 161, 2016) 9780993247729 Pb £15.00

Post Medieval EDITOR’S CHOICE Finding Shakespeare’s New Place

An Archaeological Biography

By Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls & William Mitchell This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare’s life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to Shakespeare and, in so doing, challenge some of the long-held assumptions of Shakespearian biography. New Place was the largest house in the borough and the only one Only with a courtyard, giving Shakespeare significant social status £13.00 until and was crucial to his relationship with Stratford-upon-Avon.

31st April 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Manchester University Press 2016) 9781526106490 Pb £15.99

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An Immense and Exceedingly Commodious Goods Station

The Archaeology and History of the Great Northern Railway’s Goods Yard at King’s Cross, 1849 to the Present Day

By Rebecca Haslam & Guy Thompson A redevelopment to the north of King’s Cross Passenger Station presented a unique opportunity to thoroughly investigate the archaeology, built heritage and history of one of the most important former railway termini in the country: King’s Cross Goods Yard, which forms the focus of this book.

Supported by thorough historical research and never-before published archaeological work, this monograph comprehensively presents the story of this extraordinary complex from its inception through to its regeneration and salvation in recent times.

340p, b/w illus (Pre-Construct Archaeology 2016) 9780992667269 Hb £30.00

The Changing Face of London Historic Buildings and the Crossrail Route

By Richard Brown, Julian Munby, Andy Shelley & Kirsty Smith Buildings have much to tell us about the lives and livelihoods of others, and Crossrail ensured that any building affected by the works was surveyed by their team of archaeologists before any work began. This book considers what the buildings and structures examined in this way have told us about the changing face of London.

Each chapter takes as its theme buildings that shared common functions or characteristics, such as the offices that lay in the way of the capital’s new stations or the former industrial buildings that clustered around the railway’s new tunnel portals.

152p, col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) 9780904220780 Pb £10.00

From Brunel to British Rail

The Railway Heritage of the Crossrail Route

By Andy Shelley & Richard Brown Crossrail ensured that any building affected by the works was surveyed by their team of archaeologists before any work began. This book considers what the buildings and structures examined in this way have told us about the changing face of London.

Each chapter takes as its theme buildings that shared common functions or characteristics, such as the offices that lay in the way of the capital’s new stations or the former industrial buildings that clustered around the railway’s new tunnel portals.

152p, col illus (Oxford Archaeology 2016) 9780904220780 Pb £10.00

NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS St Paul’s Cathedral

Archaeology and History

By John Schofield In this major new account, John Schofield examines the cathedral from an archaeological perspective, reviewing its history from the early 18th to the early 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological recording, documentary research and engineering asssessment. A detailed account of the construction of the cathedral is provided based on a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building accounts which have survived and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. The construction of the Wren building and its embellishments are followed by the main works of later surveyors such as Robert Mylne and Francis Penrose. The 20th century brought further changes and conservation projects, including restoration after the building was hit by two bombs in World War II, and all its windows blown out.

The 1990s and first years of the present century have witnessed considerable refurbishment and cleaning involving archaeological and engineering works. Archaeological specialist reports and an engineering review of the stability and character of the building are provided.

484p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702754 Hb £65.00

Excavations at the British Museum

An Archaeological and Social History of Bloomsbury

By Rebecca Haslam & Victoria Ridgeway In 1999 and 2007 respectively, the central courtyard and the northwest corner of the British Museum estate were redeveloped. This volume presents the results of the ensuing studies undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology and in so doing details the evolution of this area of London from the Roman period into modern times. Two key finds were the discovery of the hitherto elusive Civil War defences of London and the intriguing assemblage of dead cows recovered from an early 18th-century collection of graves buried underneath the site.

250p, 160 (British Museum Press 2017) 9780861592104 Pb £40.00, NYP

Post Medieval

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A Quaker Burial Ground at North Shields

Excavations at Coach Lane, Tyne and Wear

By Jennifer Proctor, Märit Gaimster & James Young Langthorne The archaeological excavation of 244 burials and associated charnel from a burial ground in North Shields, used by the Society of Friends between 1711 and 1829, provided a rare opportunity to examine a Quaker burial ground in its entirety.

The publication considers aspects of the layout and chronological use of the burial ground, use of coffins, coffin fittings and grave markers, treatment of the body and burial customs, demographics and health of the population.

211p, b/w and col illus (Pre-Construct Archaeology 2016) 9780992667276 Pb £20.00

The Birth of Industrial Glasgow

The Archaeology of the M74 2016

By Michael Nevell The excavations detailed here examined massive complexes such as the Govan Iron Works and the Caledonian Pottery as well as engineering works, foundries, lime works and a textile mill. Many different types of housing were also investigated, from purposebuilt workers’ rows to ‘Greek’ Thomson tenements. The world-famous industrial might of Glasgow in the form of businesses large and small, wideranging and specialised, and the homes of the people involved, is here described in detail in the archaeological reports and set in context by the principal author Michael Nevell.

216p, col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2016) 9781908332103 Hb £25.00

Welsh Slate

Archaeology and History of an Industry

By David Gwyn Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.

292p, col illus (Royal Commission (Wales) 2015) 9781871184518 Hb £45.00

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Architettura Militare di Fine Ottocento

La Difesa Costiera e Limpiego Delle Batterie Dello Stretto di Messina

By Armando Donato A study of the permanent system of coastal batteries of the Strait of Messina which was erected in the late nineteenth century which draws on newly discovered plans of the defences of the Kingdom of Italy. It was already conceptually obsolete during construction and progressively decommissioned.

92p, b/w illus (BAR 2784, 2016) 9781407314648 Pb £18.00

Technology in the Country House

By Marilyn Palmer & Ian West By the 19th century, life in most country houses changed as a result of various technical inventions such as improved water supplies, central heating, and better lighting by means of gas and electricity.

Country houses, however, were usually too far from urban centres to take advantage of centralised sources of supply and so were obliged to set up their own systems if they wanted any of these services to improve the comfort of daily living. Some landowners chose to do this; others did not, and this book examines the motivations for their decisions.

204p, col illus (Historic England 2016) 9781848022805 Hb £60.00

The Archaeology of the Cold War

By Todd A. Hanson In this book, Todd Hanson presents nine case studies of archaeological investigations conducted at famous-and some not so famous-historic American Cold War sites, including Bikini Atoll, the Nevada Test Site, and the Cuban sites of the Soviet Missile Crisis. By examining nuclear weapons test sites, missile silos, submarine bases, fallout shelters, and more, Hanson illustrates how archaeology can help strip away myths, secrets, and political rhetoric to better inform our understanding of the conflict’s formative role in the making of the contemporary American landscape.

192p (University Press of Florida 2016) 9780813062839 Hb £84.95

Victims of Ireland’s Great Famine

The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse

By Jonny Geber In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union workhouse inmates. In the first bioarchaeological study of Great Famine victims, Jonny Geber uses skeletal analysis to tell the story of how and why the Irish Famine decimated the lowest levels of nineteenth century society. By examining the physical conditions of the inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Geber sheds new light on Ireland’s Great Hunger.

288p, b/w illus (University Press of Florida 2015) 9780813061177 Hb £96.50