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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS
Public Archaeology and Climate The Bioarchaeology of Ritual
Change and Religion
Edited by Tom Dawson, Courtney Nimura, Elías Edited by Alexandra Livarda, Richard Madgwick &
López-Romero & Marie-Yvane Daire Santiago Riera Mora
This volume promotes Building on recent debates
new approaches to surrounding, for instance,
studying and managing performance, materiality
sites threatened by climate and the false dichotomy
change, specifically actions between ritualistic and
that engage communities secular behaviour, this
or employ ‘citizen science’ book investigates notions of
initiatives. With examples ritual and religion through
from across the globe, the lens of perishable
this selection of 18 papers material culture. It explores
details the scale of the the diverse roles of plant,
problem through a variety animal and other organic
of case studies. Contributors examine differing remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings,
responses and proactive methodologies for the sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and
protection, preservation and recording of sites at worked artefacts. It also provides insights into
risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new how archaeological science can shed light on the
approaches can better engage people with sites reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing
that are under increasing threat of destruction. of rituals. The temporal and geographical extends
208p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) across Europe from the Mediterranean and
9781785707049 Pb £38.00 Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions
and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period.
Understanding Ancient Fortifications 288p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018)
Between Regionality and Connectivity 9781785708282 Hb £45.00
Edited by Ariane Ballmer, Manuel Fernandez-Götz &
Dirk P. Mielke Care or Neglect?
I n m a ny re g i o n s o f Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology
E u ro p e a n d b e yo n d Edited by László Bartosiewicz & Erika Gál
fortifications belong to This volume presents a
the most impressive of collection of studies in
archaeological remains. the discipline of animal
However, fortifications are p a l a e o p a t h o l o gy. A n
generally examined in a international team of
temporally, regionally or experts offer reviews of
culturally limited context. animal welfare at ancient
Going a step further, this settlements from both
volume aims to bring prehistoric and historic
into focus concepts of periods across Eurasia.
fortifications, which can be socially, symbolically Several chapters are
or functionally, but also chronologically and devoted to the diseases
supra-regionally aligned. An important question of dog and horse, two animals of prominent
is to determine which fortification elements emotional importance in many civilisations.
are culture-specific, and which can be regarded Curious phenomena observed on the bones of
as convergence or even universal phenomena. poultry, sheep, pig and even fish are discussed
Adopting a comparative view, the central aim of within their respective cultural contexts. Some
the volume is to highlight the diversity and the animal bones show signs of extreme cruelty but
structural similarities of ancient fortifications. The others also reveal the great attention paid to the
chronological framework goes from the Neolithic recovery of sick animals. Such attitudes tend to be
to the Late Iron Age, and the geographical scope a largely hidden yet are characteristic aspects of
from the Ural steppes to the Iberian Peninsula. how people relate to the surrounding world and,
192p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785707483 Hb ultimately, to each other.
£55.00 304p, (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781785708893 Pb £40.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Geology for Archaeologists
A short introduction
By J.R.L. Allen
This short introduction aims to provide archaeologists of all backgrounds
with a grounding in the principles, materials, and methods of geology.
Sections include coverage of main rock-forming minerals and classes of rocks.
Geological maps and structures are introduced, and the elements of geological
stratigraphy and dating are explained and related to archaeological experience.
Fluvial and coastal environments are important archaeological landscapes and
their formation processes, sediments and topography are outlined. Stone for
building, implement-making, tool-making, and making mortar
are all discussed, followed by an introduction to clays and
Only ceramics. A final chapter introduces metallurgical landscapes:
£20.00 until metalliferous ores, mining and smelting, and metal-making
industries. Each chapter ends with a short reading list, and
31st May
many have selected case-histories in illustration of the points made. Included is a
glossary of technical terms.
148p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916879 Pb £25.00
Heritage
Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage New Perspectives in Cultural Resource
Marine Archaeology’s Greatest Threat? Management
By Sean A. Kingsley Edited by Francis P. McManamon
The profound threat of the global fishing industry This book describes the historic developments,
remains a black hole in marine archaeology, poorly current challenges, and future opportunities
understood and unmanaged. Fishing and Shipwreck presented by contemporary Cultural Resource
Heritage is the first global analysis of the threat of Management (CRM). The chapters provide
bottom fishing to underwater cultural heritage, perspectives on the methods, policies, and
examining the diversity, scale and implications procedures of historical and contemporary CRM.
on endangered finds and sites. Throughout, the Recommendations are provided on current practices
key questions of whether it is too late to save the likely to be effective in the coming decades.
planet’s three million wrecks and how sustainable 336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138101128 Hb
management is achievable are debated. £105.00
176p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2015, Pb 2017) 9781472573605
Hb £60.00, 9781350037069 Pb £28.99
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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Chemicals and Methods for
Conservation and Restoration
Culture and Perspective at Times Paintings, Textiles, Fossils, Wood, Stones,
of Crisis Metals, and Glass
State Structures, Private Initiative and By Johannes Karl Fink
the Public Character of Heritage This book focuses on the chemicals used for
By Ioannis Poulios, Sophia Antoniadou, Giorgos conservation and restoration of various artefacts
Vavouranakis & Pavlina Raouzaiou in artwork and archaeology, as well as special
Culture and Perspective applications of these materials. Also the methods
deals with a variety of key used, both methods for cleaning, conservation and
aspects concerning heritage restoration, as well as methods for the analysis of
management at times of the state of the respective artefacts. Topics include
crisis and specifically with oil paintings, paper conservation, textiles and dyes
the public character of for them, archaeological wood, fossils, stones,
cultural heritage. Special, metals and metallic coins, and glasses, including
but not exclusive emphasis, church windows.
is on the case of Greece. 304p b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119418245
In order to understand, Hb £156.00
evaluate and reconsider the
role of the state in heritage Natter’s Museum Britannicum
management, contributors address a series of British gem collections and collectors of
issues including the downgrading and shrinking the mid-eighteenth century
of state structures, which have been the dominant By John Boardman, Julia Kagan & Claudia Wagner
mechanisms in heritage management; the upgrading
and expansion of the role of private initiative towards The German gem-engraver and amateur scholar
covering the gap created by the insufficiency of the Lorenz Natter (1705 – 1763), was so impressed by the
state; the public character of heritage, in terms size and quality of the collections of ancient and
of ownership as well as access; and later engraved gems which he found in Britain that
finally the synergies between state he proposed the publication of an extraordinarily
structures and private initiatives ambitious catalogue – Museum Britannicum.
in view of the public character Only On Natter’s death the single copy of his magnum
of heritage. £30.00 until opus vanished mysteriously, presumed lost, until
rediscovered in 1975. This is the first comprehensive
208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books publication
publication of Museum Britannicum, offering full
2018) 9781785708596 Hb £40.00 discussion in English and presenting
Natter’s drawings and comments
alongside modern information
on the gems that can be Only
The Conservation and Presentation identified and located through £44.00 until
of Mosaics fresh research. 31st May
At What Cost? 316p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress
By Jeanne Marie Teutonico, Leslie Friedman & Roberto 2017) 9781784917272 Hb £55.00
Nardi
This handsome, Museum Storage and Meaning
abundantly illustrated Tales from the Crypt
proceedings volume Edited by Kavita Singh & Mirjam Brusius
provides a comprehensive This book critically examines the physical space
re co rd o f t h e twe l f t h of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical
triennial meeting of the fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of
International Committee publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects
for the Conservation of deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for
Mosaics. Its papers reflect display. In doing so, it explores issues including the
the conference’s principal relationship between storage and canonization, the
themes: cost, methods of politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as
survey and documentation, a form of censorship, the architectural character
conservation and management, education and of storage space, and the economic and epistemic
training, backing materials and techniques, value of museum objects.
presentation and display, and case studies. Papers 312p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138065970 Hb
are presented either in English, French, or Italian. £105.00
422p col illus (Getty Trust Publications 2017)
9781606065334 Hb £75.00
Heritage 9
Landscape
Trees in England
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Management and disease since 1600
New Forest By Tom Williamson, Gerry Barnes & ToBy Pillatt
The Forging of a Landscape There is currently much
concern about our trees and
By Hadrian Cook woodlands. But the present
Provides an historical state of our trees needs to
narrative of the be examined critically, and
occupation and use of from an historical as much as
a vast area that was, for from a scientific perspective.
centuries, important For English tree populations
a s a Roya l Hu nt ing have long been highly
Forest and subject to unnatural in character,
many contentious laws shaped by economic
and regulations, but and social as much as by
which includes much environmental factors. In reality, the recent history
economically marginal of trees and woods in England is more complex
land. Four critical themes and less negative than we often assume and any
are explored through time: the shaping of the narrative of decline and loss is overly simplistic.
natural environment into human prehistory; The results of an ambitious research project are
human intervention through natural resource here shaped into a richly detailed survey of English
management; governance and management arboriculture over the last four centuries.
of the forest over time, stressing pressures on 256p, 61 full col illus (University of Hertfordshire Press
resources and attempts at exclusion of certain 2017) 9781909291966 Pb £16.99
social groups; and policies and designations to
conserve the New Forest. Cook aims to reflect An Anthropology of Landscape
a complicated narrative around the evolution The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
caused by changing management and economic By Christopher Tilley & Kate Cameron-Daum
objectives reflecting governance arrangements
at different times. An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating
story of a heathland landscape in south-west
232p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2017) England and the way different individuals and
9781911188193 Pb £34.99 groups engage with it. Based on a long-term
anthropological study, the book emphasises
four individual themes: embodied identities, the
landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted
upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as
contested, and its relation to emotion.
346p, 203 illus, unspecified (UCL Press 2017)
9781911307440 Pb £22.99
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Ancient Oaks In the English landscape
By Aljos Farjon
England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined.
How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do
with climate or soil factors. This story goes back to the Norman conquest
and the creation of Royal Forests, chases and deer parks. This was, if you like,
an early form of nature conservation, but for the sake of privileged hunting.
Modernisation of forestry in England only took hold after
1920, and by that stage too late to destroy all of the old and
worthless hollow trees. In this book Aljos Farjon combines
Only history with science and tells the story of how ancient
£25.00 until oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past
31st May 1000 years, using data made available by ‘citizen science’
(data gathered by volunteers across the country), and
accompanied by photography as well as graphs and maps.
400p col illus (Kew Publishing 2017) 9781842466407 Hb £30.00
10 Landscape
Landscape in the Longue Durée Walking into the Void
A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled A Historical Sociology and Political
Heathland Landscape Anthropology of Walking
By Christopher Tilley By Arpad Szakolczai & Agnes Horvath
Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4000 year The book starts by discussing the significance
history of pebbles from the Bronze Age to the of walking for the experience of being human,
twenty-first century, based on the results of a including a comparative study of the language and
four-year archaeological excavation of a unique cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail two
landscape in the UK consisting entirely of pebbles. turning points of human history: the emergence of
Christopher Tilley asks that we re-think long- cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of
term continuity and change in a radically new long-distance `pilgrimages’; and the abandonment
way by considering embodied relations between of walking culture through settlement at the
people, things and landscapes in relation to the end of the Ice Age, around the time when the
temporalizing practices of people in particular visiting of cave sanctuaries also stopped. The book
social and historical circumstances. closes by exploring the ambivalent relationship of
498p, b/w illus (UCL Press 2017) 9781787350823 Pb contemporary modernity to walking.
£27.99 240p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138214491 Pb
£29.99
Human Evolution
Crossing the Human Threshold Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
during the Middle Pleistocene By E. Fuller Torrey
Edited by Clive Gamble, Matthew Pope & Beccy Scott Using data ranging from ancient skulls and
This volume explores in a global overview the artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child
archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 development studies, this book traces how new
to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviours. For
cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to
that the human threshold was crossed slowly, by a project ourselves backward and forward in time,
variety of human ancestors, and was not confined gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage.
to one part of the Old World. The book focuses on However, it also led to comprehension of mortality,
the emergence of persistent places, and associated spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey
developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the details the neurobiological sequence that
control of fire, represented across the Old World by explains why the gods appeared when they did,
deeply stratified cave sites. connecting archaeological findings including
336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138217782 Hb clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive
£105.00 developments.
312p, (Columbia UP 2017) 9780231183369 Hb £27.95
The Social Origins of Language
By Robert M. Seyfarth & Dorothy L. Cheney Religion in Human Evolution
In the lead essay in this new exploration of the From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
origins of human language, Robert Seyfarth and By Robert N. Bellah
Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long Robert Bellah identifies a range of cultural
pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling,
the wild to show how primates use vocalizations and theorizing, whose emergence made this
to modulate social dynamics. They argue that religious development possible. Deploying the
key elements of human language emerged from latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and
the need to decipher and encode complex social evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion
interactions. In other words, social communication of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to
is the biological foundation upon which evolution the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium B.C.E.),
built more complex language. Seyfarth and when individuals and groups in the Old World
Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for challenged the norms and beliefs of class societies
responses from experts in linguistics, neuroscience, ruled by kings and aristocracies.
philosophy, and psychology. 784p (Harvard UP 2011, Pb 2017) 9780674975347 Pb
184p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691177236 Hb £27.95 £19.95
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British Prehistory
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Written in Stone
Edited by Ruth Shaffrey
Excavations at Milla Skerra, Sandwick This book brings together papers from 22 of
Rhythms of Life on Iron Age Unst the UK’s archaeologists investigating the stone
By Olivia Lelong objects that were fundamental to the daily lives
The Iron Age settlement at of prehistoric people. Four sections provide an
Milla Skerra was occupied introduction, and cover artefacts ranging from
for at least 500 years before axeheads, maceheads and battle axes to querns,
it was covered with storm- jewellery and loomweights. The use of material such
blown sand and abandoned. as beach resources and chalk is also considered.
Excavation revealed many 300p, 40 (The Highfield Press 2017) 9780992633684 Hb
details of the life of the £55.00, NYP
settlement and how it
was reused over many The Chambered Tombs of the Isle
generations. From the middle of Man
of the 1st millennium BC A study by Audrey Henshall 1971–1978
people were constructing
Edited by Frances Lynch & Peter Davey
stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth
waste and midden material. Later inhabitants This is the first book ever devoted to the chambered
built a house on top, with a paved floor and tombs of the Isle of Man. Work on this book was
successive hearths. Outside were new yards and begun in the 1960s by Audrey Henshall. It has been
workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were edited and brought up to date for publication by
remodelled several times. Thousands of artefacts Frances Lynch and Peter Davey and contains a
and environmental remains from Milla Skerra reveal comprehensive study of previous work
the everyday practices and seasonal on the tombs, new plans and
rhythms of the people that lived in commentary on each site, and
this windswept and remote island also a review of the associated Only
settlement and their connections Only finds from excavation. £24.00 until
to both land and sea. £18.75 until 180p, b/w and col illus 31st May
144p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784914684
publication
Books 2018) 9781785703430 Hb Pb £30.00
£25.00
Life, Death and Landscape
on the Abbeytown Ridge in the 2nd
and 3rd Millennium BC
Remembered Places, Forgotten Pasts By David Jackson & Damion Churchill
The Don Drainage Basin in Prehistory This book presents excavations at two sites on the
By Tim Cockrell Solway Plain. At New Cowper a spread of artefacts
I n t h i s b o o k , l a rge l y reveals hints of human habitation from the end of
unpublished data is used the Ice Age to potentially the early medieval period.
for the first time in a work At OverBy, about a kilometre away, the Bronze Age
of synthesis to reconstruct time span is more compact, and there it is possible,
the prehistory of the earliest even at this distance in time, to discern suggestions
communities across the of a single potter working on at least two of the
River Don drainage basin vessels found on site.
of South Yorkshire and 114p b/w illus (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian
the North Midlands. The & Archaeological Society 2017) 9781873124765 Pb £15.00
author uses a relational
approach to account for the Early Bronze Age Round Barrows
complex and sophisticated of the Anglo-Welsh Border
interaction between people and materiality. The By Neal Johnson
author concludes that a region that was the centre This research focuses on the Early Bronze Age
of dynamic interaction between round barrows of the central and northern Anglo-
mobile groups in its earliest phase Welsh borderlands. The topographical context of
gave way to a pastoral lifestyle a series of barrow clusters is examined in detail
facilitated by extensive wetlands. Only
to demonstrate subtle but important differences
236p, b/w and col illus £26.00 until in how these monuments were placed in the
(Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917012 31st May landscape.
Pb £32.00 176p, (BAR BS 632, 2017) 9781407315966 Pb £35.00
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Bronze Age Monuments and Bronze
Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo- NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS
Saxon Landscapes at Cambridge Road, A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape
Bedford Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle
By Andy Chapman & Pat Chapman Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway
Open area excavation was carried out in 2004-5 in By Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone
advance of development. Two Early Bronze Age Cults Loch, at Castle
ring ditches sat on a low lying gravel ridge between Kennedy in Dumfries &
the River Great Ouse and the Elstow Brook. A Galloway, Scotland, loch
causewayed ring ditch, 30m in diameter, had a lies within a landscape
broad entrance to the southwest, where a shallow rich in prehistoric
length of ditch either silted or had been filled in. c ro p m a r k s i t e s a n d
Adjacent to the shallow ditch was a pit containing within the loch itself
three Middle Bronze Age crouched are two crannogs, one of
burials, while a nearBy small which has been the focus
round barrow enclosed a deep Only of this study. The Cults
central grave containing the £24.00 until Loch crannog is only the
crouched burial of a woman. second prehistoric site
31st May
160p (Archaeopress 2017) in Scotland to be dated by dendrochronology
9781784916046 Pb £30.00 and analysis has revealed the very short
duration of activity on the crannog in the
Hillforts and the Durotriges middle of the 5th century BC. The wealth of
A geophysical survey of Iron Age Dorset well-preserved evidence from the crannog,
By Dave Stewart & Miles Russell particularly the rich ecofactual assemblages,
This volume sets out the results of a detailed as well as the higher chronological resolution
programme of non-intrusive geophysical survey possible through the dendro-dating of
conducted across the Dorset hillforts, generating waterlogged timbers, are brought to bear on
detailed subsurface maps of archaeological features, our understanding of the evidence from the
in the hope of better resolving the phasing, form cropmark sites around the loch.
and internal structure of these iconic sites. The 304p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017)
dataset presented here not only helps to change 9781785703737 Hb £30.00
our perception of what hillforts were, how they
functioned and what went on within them, but also
provides a way of assessing their
longevity, reconsidering how they
were perceived and reused in Only
subsequent periods.
£24.00 until
186p, b/w illus, 115 col pls
31st May
(Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917159
Pb £30.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Stonehenge
The Story So Far
By Julian Richards
Starting with a clear explanation of the structures of earth and stone that go to
make up this enigmatic monument, this books charts the ways that Stonehenge
has been visited, seen, explored and understood since medieval times. The
excavations of the 20th century, part triumph, part disaster, are explained in
detail as they are the foundations for our understanding of Stonehenge’s origins
and development. The story that is told here is right up to date, including the
results of the latest investigations in the landscape in 2016.
This book then goes on to tackle the big questions: Who
Only built Stonehenge? How was it built? And, perhaps the most
£20.00 until difficult – Why was it built? In these chapters Julian takes a
practical and critical look at some of the current ideas, trying
31st May
to get into the minds and world of our prehistoric ancestors.
352p col illus (Historic England 2017) 9781848021006 Hb £25.00
British Prehistory 13
European Prehistory
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Language & Prehistory of
the Indo-European Peoples
Neolithic Bodies Edited by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas
Edited by Penny Bickle & Emilie Sibbesson Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen
Papers are divided into This volume explores the arrival of Uralic and
three themes; living bodies, Indo-European settlers in Europe, on the origins of
the body in death and their languages, their customs, and pantheon. The
the representation of the contributors are historical linguists, archaeologists
body. In the first section, and geneticists; some interpret actual scientific
papers present new findings, others go to the core of the methodology
research assessing skeletal applied in the various subfields.
evidence, alongside new 350p, col & b/w illus (Museum Tusculanum Press 2017)
interpretations of the body 9788763545310 Hb £53.50
in the Southern British
Neolithic to examine the The Middle Paleolithic Site of Pech
lived experience of the body
in the Neolithic. The second theme illustrates de l’Aze IV
the variety of approaches arising from the Edited by Shannon McPherron & Harold Lewis Dibble
study of death and burial. The third Pech de l’Aze IV is part of a complex of Lower
theme examines the body as it and Middle Paleolithic cave sites in the Dordogne,
is represented in Neolithic art, regularly occupied by groups of Neanderthals from
through artefacts and the stone Only approximately 100,000 to 40,000 BP. This volume
stele found in Western and £30.00 until provides comprehensive information on excavations
Mediterranean Europe. both by Francois Bordes in the 1970s, and more
publication
224p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) recently by the authors and their scientific team. It
9781785709012 Pb £40.00 presents detailed material on the formation of the
site, its chronology and the nature of the hominin
The Earliest Europeans - a Year occupations.
in the Life 236p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017)
Survival Strategies in the Lower Palaeolithic 9783319575223 Hb £100.00
By Rob Hosfield The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic
The Earliest Europeans Transition in Northwestern Europe
explores the early origins of
man in Europe through the By Ann Van Baelen
perspective of ‘a year in the Brickyard-quarrying activities at Kesselt-Op de
life’: how hominins in the Schans (Limburg, Belgium) led to the discovery
Lower Palaeolithic coped and excavation of a well-preserved early Middle
with the year-round practical Palaeolithic level. The present volume offers a
challenges of mid-latitude comprehensive report on the site, set against a wider
Europe with its distinctive northwestern European context. An in-depth study
temperatures, seasonality of the lithic assemblage, including an extensive
patterns, and available refitting analysis, provides detailed information on
resources. Using a season-by the technological behaviour of prehistoric hominins
-season chapter structure to in the Meuse basin during this crucial time period.
explore, for example, the contrasting demands and 250p, b/w figs (Leuven UP 2017) 9789462700987 Pb
opportunities of winter versus summer survival, £52.00
Hosfield explores how foods and other resources
would vary across the four seasons in quantity Espacio gráfico, visibilidad y tránsito
and quality, and the resulting implications for cavernario / Graphic Space, Visibility
hominin behaviours. by testing the likelihood and Cave Transit
of different scenarios by comparing short-term, By Blanca Ochoa
site-based insights with long-term, The primary goal of this book is to determine
regional trends, Hosfield is able whether there are convergences or divergences in
to out forward ideas on how Only the positioning of cave art, through the combined
our earliest European ancestors study of the parietal art and the specific space in
survived and what their lives £11.99 until
which it was executed, focusing on eight sites in the
were like. publication
Cantabrian region.
160p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2018) Spanish text. 480p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2875, 2017)
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14
Recorded Places, Experienced Places Times of Neolithic Transition along
The Holocene Rock Art of the Iberian Atlantic the Western Mediterranean
North-West Edited by Oreto Garcia Puchol & Domingo Carlos
Edited by Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Manuel Santos Salazar Garcia
Estevez, Hugo A. Sampaio & Daniela Cardoso This volume focuses on investigating the
This book springs from 2013 and 2014 Enardas neolithisation process at the periphery of one of
Colloquia. Papers are grouped in four parts: the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in
Concepts and tools to study rock art; From sub- Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent
naturalistic to Schematic rock art tradition, which advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and
discusses various expressions of recorded art in computational models, archaeometric analysis
the hinterland area of northwest Iberia, as well and biomolecular techniques, together with new
as expressions of the schematic art tradition from archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights
north-central Portugal; Atlantic tradition rock art; into this topic.
and Other styles. 417p, b/w and col illus (Springer Verlag 2017)
222p b/w and col illus (BAR 2878, 2017) 9781407314846 9783319529370 Hb £88.00
Pb £46.00
Submerged Landscapes of the
Rock Art and the Wild Mind European Continental Shelf
Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe Quaternary Paleoenvironments
By Ingrid Fuglestvedt Edited by Jan Harff, Nicholas Coit Flemming, Delminda
Rock Art and the Wild Moura, Anthony Burgess & Geoffrey N. Bailey
Mind presents a study of This volume examines the
Mesolithic rock art on the drowned landscapes exposed
Scandinavian Peninsula, as extensive and attractive
including the large rock art territory for prehistoric
sites in Alta, Namforsen and human settlement during the
Vingen. The various types Ice Ages of the Pleistocene. It
of compositions are defined provides an overview of the
as visual thematisations of geological, geomorphological,
the enigmatic relationship climatic and sea-level history
between human and big of the European continental
game. The transition from shelf as a whole, as well as
‘animic’ to ‘totemic’ rock a series of detailed regional
art is traced and interpreted as representing an reviews. The nature and variable attractions of
increasing focus on human society towards the end the landscapes and resources available for human
of the Mesolithic. exploitation are examined, as are the conditions
448p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138090538 Hb under which archaeological sites and landscape
£105.00 features are likely to have been preserved, destroyed
or buried by sediment during sea-level rise.
552p (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781118922132 Hb £80.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
On the Ocean
The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500
By Barry Cunliffe
Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and
the Atlantic, two contrasting seas – the Mediterranean without a significant
tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening
tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic
hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple
vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end
in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from
Only Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the
£24.00 until ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the
31st May contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force,
perhaps the driving force, in human history.
480p, 220 illus, 114 Maps (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198757894 Hb £30.00
European Prehistory 15
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Storie di Paesaggi e Uomini Alle
Pendici del Mont Fallere Nell’olocene
The Times of their Lives Antico e Medio
Hunting History in the Archaeology
Edited by Luca V. M. Raiteri
of Neolithic Europe
The aim of the research project here presented
By Alasdair Whittle
was to investigate prehistoric occupations in the
The Times of their Lives Mont Fallère district (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) and
explains how archaeologists to reconstruct the main phases of the Holocene
can now move away from environmental history of the area. The research
thinking about history in highlighted the fact that the area was settled by
terms of thousands of years, Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups, but it also
to periods from one or two yielded evidence of the vertical transhumance
centuries down to lifetimes practices that occurred during the Copper Age (4th
and generations — a little millennium BC).
more than two decades. This
Italian text. 146p (BAR 2866, 2017) 9781407315577 Pb
vastly improved precision
£29.00
comes from the application
of Bayesian chronological Elements of Continuity
frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon
dates. This book shows how temporally much Stone Cult in the Maltese Islands
more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, By George Azzopardi
across a broad range of contexts and situations. It The stones dealt with in this study are non-figural
offers a series of case studies across much of the (or aniconic) or, sometimes, semi-figural, material
continent, to provide much more precise timings of representations of divine presence that are also
key features and trends in the European Neolithic worshipped. Worship of stones in representation of
sequence than are currently available, and to divine presence is found on the Maltese islands since
construct much more precise estimates of the prehistoric times. But the practice survived several
duration of events and phenomena. From these centuries under different cultures represented
there is the possibility to open up new insights into by unknown communities during the islands’
the tempo of change through the detailed study prehistory and the Phoenicians / Carthaginians and
of selected sites and situations across the span of the Romans in early historic times.
the European Neolithic, from the sixth to the early 106p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916954 Pb
third millennia cal BC. At stake is £18.00
our ability to study the lives of
Neolithic people everywhere Only
Vida y Muerte en el Asentamiento del
at the scale of lifetimes, Neolítico Antiguo de el Prado
something unimaginable even £30.00 until
Edited by Carmen Alonso-Fernandez
a few years ago. publication
El Prado is one of the few open-air Early Neolithic
240p, (Oxbow Books 2018) sites in the northern half of Spain. Excavation
9781785706684 Hb £40.00” documented fifty negative structures associated with
an Early Neolithic settlement with absolute datings
ca. 5295-4690 cal BC. This study contains analyses
of the use of space, ceramics, lithic tools, funerary
Time and Stone ritual, bioarchaeology, the palaeoenvironment and
The Emergence and Development of Megaliths faunal remains.
and Megalithic Societies in Europe Spanish text. 218p, (BAR 2876, 2017) 9781407316253 Pb
By Bettina Schulz Paulsson £40.00
This analysis is concerned with the dating
of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 L’industrie lithique des populations
available radiocarbon results from pre-megalithic blicquiennes
and megalithic sites, and to the megaliths By Solene Denis
contemporaneous contexts and the application of In the north of France and Belgium, the Blicquy/
a Bayesian statistical framework. Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture marks the end
It attempts to establish a supra- of the Danube traditions (Early Neolithic Period).
regional synthesis on the Only This volume presents an analysis of the technical
emergence and development £36.00 until and economic characteristics of the Blicquian lithic
of megaliths in Europe. industry, in order to reconstruct the socio-economic
31st May
392p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress organisation of lithic production as well as the
2017) 9781784916855 Pb £45.00 relationships between the different settlement areas
of this culture.
French text. 283p b/w and col illus (BAR 2873, 2017)
9781407316246 Pb £52.00
16 European Prehistory
An Archaeology of Skill
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization
in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
North Meets South By Maikel H. G. Kuijpers
Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and
Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia The core thesis that is developed in this book
identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link
Edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling & Ulf between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation,
Bertilsson and material culture. Through a detailed study
This latest volume in of early Bronze Age axes the author asks what it
the Swedish Rock Art involves to be skilled, providing an evidence based
series bridges the gap argument about levels of skill. A large corpus
between analysis and of axes is compared in terms of what skills and
interpretation of rock attention were given at the different stages of their
art imagery, location production.
and chronology in 308p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138718098 Hb
the northern and £105.00
southern regions of
Scandinavia. Long Sailing Rock Art Boats
viewed as belonging By Boel Bengtsson
to distinctive regional
traditions, there are many underlying similarities, This book argues that the use of sail as a
themes and formats in common, overlain by complement to paddling formed an integral part
regional complexities and variations. Even of the development of centres of power in the early
though there are obvious differences in space Scandinavian Bronze Age. This reassessment derives
and time regarding these two traditions, there are mainly from an examination of the Bronze Age
also features and formats in common across both rock art (c. 1800-500 BC) in southern Scandinavia
time and space, and a significant theme running containing imagery of boats with attributes that can
through the contributions presented here is to be interpreted as masts and sails, in combination
highlight the interaction between these rock with experimental sail trials in Bronze Age type
art traditions. A major conclusion to be drawn boats, and using early sailing in ancient Egypt and
from this exercise is the great complexity and Oceania as a backdrop.
variation of rock art and the need for perspectives 172p, (BAR 2865, 2017) 9781407315690 Pb £38.00
comparing various regions across Scandinavia.
176p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017)
Las poblaciones de la Prehistoria
9781785708206 Hb £20.00 reciente (VIº – IIº milenio a.n.e.) en
la Campiña Litoral y Banda Atlántica
de Cádiz
The Celts By Adolfo Moreno-Marquez
A History from Earliest Times to the Present This volume combines the study of funerary
By Bernhard Maier contexts and skeletal remains, with a focus on
Now in its second edition, burials from the Bronze and Iron Age Campiña
this comprehensive history Litoral and Atlantic band of Cadiz.
of the Celts draws on Spanish text. 79p, (BAR 2867, 2017) 9781407316185 Pb
archaeological, historical, £16.00
literary and linguistic
evidence to provide a Current Approaches to Collective
comprehensive and colourful Burials in the Late European Prehistory
overview from origins to the Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress
present. Beginning with the Edited by Tiago Tome, Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Ana
West Hallstatt Culture of Maria Silva, Claudia Cunha & Rui Boaventura
the 5th and 6th centuries The articles in this volume provide examples of
BC, Maier charts the Celtic different approaches currently being developed
expansion across Europe on Prehistoric collective burials
before examining the revival of southern Europe, mostly
of the insular Celts in post-Roman Britain and focusing on case studies, but Only
Ireland. The final third of the book focuses on the also including contributions of
fortunes of the Celts in post-medieval and modern £20.00 until
a more methodological scope.
Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. 140p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017)
31st May
256p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474427203 Pb 9781784917210 Pb £25.00
£19.99
European Prehistory 17
Weapons, Warriors and Battles of The Archaeology of the Caucasus
Ancient Iberia From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
By Fernando Quesada Sanz By Antonio Sagona
In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula was home to Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive
warriors of great renown. Spanish and Celtiberian survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from
warriors, both infantry and cavalry, provided the the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron
backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural
Italy under Hannibal and proved even more complexes found in the region, he draws on both
ferocious in defence of their homeland against later Soviet and post-Soviet investigations and synthesises
Roman occupation. Professor Quesada Sanz details the vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented
the arms, armour and equipment of the various evidence across the region’s frontiers. The volume
warriors of the region in fantastic detail, drawing on focuses on the most significant sites and cultural
his intimate knowledge of the latest archaeological traditions, highlighting the accomplishments of the
and historical research. Caucasian communities and situating them within
304p, col pls (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781781592755 Hb the broader setting of their neighbours in Anatolia,
£35.00 Iran, and Russia.
590p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107016590
Connecting Elites and Regions Hb £110.00
Perspectives on Contacts, Relations and
Differentiation During the Early Iron Age Hallstatt By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean
C Period in Northwest and Central Europe The Birth of Eurasia
Edited by R. Schumann & S. Van der Vaart-Verschoof By Barry Cunliffe
The Early Iron Age Hallstatt C period in Northwest Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to
and Central Europe is marked by the emergence China, this book covers over 10,000 years of history,
of monumental tumuli with lavish burials, some of from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to
which are known as chieftain’s or princely graves. the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth
This volume brings together scholars from several century AD. An unashamedly ‘big history’, it
research traditions and nations who present regional charts the development of European, Near Eastern,
overviews and discussions of elite burials and and Chinese civilizations and the
material culture from all over Northwest and Central growing links between them by
Europe. In many cases these are the first overviews way of the Indian Ocean, the Only
available in English and together they make regional silk Roads, and the great steppe
research accessible to a wider audience. corridor. £19.00 until
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9789088904431 Hb £150.00, 9789088904424 Pb £50.00 2017) 9780199689187 Pb £22.99
World Archaeology
Scythians Charles Masson and the Buddhist
Warriors of Ancient Siberia Sites of Afghanistan
By St John Simpson & Svetlana Pankova Explorations, Excavations, Collections
This book offers unique 1832–1835
insights into the life and By Elizabeth Errington
funerary customs of the From 1833–8, Charles Masson (1800–1853) was
Scythians with exceptionally employed by the British East India Company to
well preserved organic explore the ancient sites in south-east Afghanistan.
objects buried in conditions During this period, he surveyed over a hundred
of permanent frost in the sites around Kabul, Jalalabad and Wardak, making
high Altai mountains. Some numerous drawings of the sites. These together with
of the objects are from new his correspondence and other documents provide
excavations and others come the means for a comprehensive reconstitution of
from the famous Siberian Collection of Peter the the archaeological record of the sites. The volume
Great. They include many rare finds of personal also provides a study of the archaeological artefacts
garments and possessions made from gold, leather, from the sites, now housed in the British Museum.
fur, and felt and reveal the impact and achievements 250p, b/w illus (British Museum Press 2017)
of one of the earliest great nomadic peoples. 9780861592159 Pb £40.00
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18
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History First Islanders
Edited by Zoltan Biedermann & Alan Strathern Prehistory and Human Migration in Island
This interdisciplinary volume shows how the latest Southeast Asia
wave of scholarship has explored the island as a By Peter Bellwood
crossroads. Experts in the history, archaeology, Incorporating research findings over the last
literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE twenty years, First Islanders examines the human
to c.1850 CE address concepts such as ethnicity, prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. In particular
cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating it pays close attention to migration in the period
the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development
and embraced at the same time. of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.
354p, 34 illus, unspecified (UCL Press 2017) 9781911307846 384p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119251545 Hb £60.00,
Pb £25.00 9781119251552 Pb £24.99
China Fighting Fibres
A History in Objects Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
By Jessica Harrison-Hall Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence & Alison Clark
From the earliest archaeological relics and rituals, This book considers the significance of coconut
through the development of writing and state, to fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. It includes
the advent of empire, the author charts China’s essays that discuss the challenges of caring for
transformation from ancient civilization into the coconut fibre armour. Other contributions focus
world’s most populous nation and influential on the construction and variety of the armour and
economy, offering the reader a myriad historical helmets.
insights and cultural treasures along the way. 300p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2016)
352p, 650 col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9789088905667 Hb £180.00, 9789088905650 Pb £60.00
9780500519707 Hb £29.95
Investigating Restricted Knowledge
Ancient China and its Eurasian in Lithic Craft Traditions among the
Neighbors Pre-contact Coast Salish of the Pacific
Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, Northwest Coast of North America
3000-700 BCE
By Adam N. Rorabaugh
By Katheryn M. Linduff, Yan Sun, Wei Cao &
Yuanqing Liu This book examines the transitions in craft
apprenticeship of formed lithic tools among
This volume examines the role of objects in the the precontact Coast Salish as hereditary social
frontier region north of early dynastic state centres, at inequality emerged. Stylistic variation in lithics and
the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, from assemblage heterogeneity suggests that lithic craft
c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. Types of knowledge became increasingly restricted through
objects, styles, and iconography were often hybrids time with the emergence of large sedentary
or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages populations.
in which they were deposited and found. Patrons
commissioned objects that marked a symbolic vision 230p, b/w illus (BAR 2863, 2017) 9781407315836 Pb
of place and person and that could mobilize support, £51.00
legitimize rule, and bind people together. On the Road of the Winds
288p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108418614 An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands
Hb £85.00 Before European Contact
The Hunting Farmers By Patrick Vinton Kirch
Understanding Ancient Human Subsistence in This book synthesizes the
the Central Part of the Korean Peninsula During grand sweep of human
the Late Holocene h is tory in the Pa cific
By Seungki Kwak Islands, beginning with the
movement of early people
This volume investigates the role of intensive rice out from Asia more than
farming as a subsistence strategy, using organic 40,000 years ago, and
geochemical analysis and luminescence dating on tracing the development of
potsherds. The central hypothesis myriad indigenous cultures
of this research is that there up to the time of European
was a wide range of resource Only contact. The new edition, is
utilization along with rice £23.00 until fully updated with the latest
farming around 3,400-2,600 BP. archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries.
31st May
132p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 408p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2nd ed
2017) 9781784916756 Pb £28.00 2017) 9780520292819 Pb £37.95
World Archaeology 19
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books
Cahokia Extracting Stone
City of the Cosmos The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
By John Kelly & James A. Brown By Anne S. Dowd & Mary Beth D. Trubbitt
The large American This exciting new addition
Indian city of Cahokia sits to the American Landscapes
amidst a diverse natural series provides an in-depth
landscape within the larger account of how flintknappers
central Mississippi river obtained and used stone
valley. Over 300 sites with based on archaeological,
earthen mounds have been ge o l o g i c a l , l a n d s c a p e ,
documented in the region and anthropological data.
and range from isolated Featuring case studies from
mounds honouring the dead three key regions in North
thousands of years ago to an America, this book gives
array of over 100 mounds readers a comprehensive
in the case of Cahokia that in some instances view of quarrying activities ranging from extracting
honoured the ancestors individually and collectively. the raw material to creating finished stone tools.
The editor’s investigations over nearly 25 years Authors Dowd and Trubitt show how sites
have helped elucidate the significance of Cahokia functioned in a broad landscape context, which site
as an urban centre and the processes leading locations or raw material types were preferred and
to its creation. The history of this why, what cultures were responsible
sacred place is highlighted by a for innovative or intensive quarry
number of major discontinuities resource extraction, as well as Only
Only
that represent intellectual “axis how land use changed over time. £28.50 until
mundi” of this discussion. £28.50 until
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Transforming the Landscape
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Upper Midwestern North America Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George
By Robert A. Birmingham Sabo, Mark Wagner & James R. Duncan
Ancient Effigy Mound This beautifully illustrated
Landscapes provides volume examines American
an overview of the effigy Indian rock art across an
mound phenomenon expansive region of eastern
of the Upper Midwest North America during
centred on southern the Mississippian Period
Wisconsin. It documents (post AD 900). The focus
the nature of these unique is on the widespread use
landscapes, describing of cosmograms depicted
the use of topography and in Mississippian rock art
natural features to create imagery. This approach
the ceremonial landscapes, and provides the anchors broad distributional
interpretation that these were living landscapes in patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful
which ancestral animals and supernatural beings framework for cultural interpretation, yielding
were ritually brought back to life at places where new insights on ancient concepts of landscape,
the spirits are best evoked in a continuous cycle of ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a
death and rebirth of the earth and its people. These unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian
monuments can often only be fully appreciated symbolism. A selection of landscape cosmograms
by modern observers from the air and Robert from various parts of North America and Europe
Birmingham includes both high taken from the ethnographic records are examined
quality historical and modern and an overview of American
maps, aerial photographs and Only Indian cosmographic landscapes
the results of the very latest provided to illustrate their Only
LIDAR imagery. £28.50 until
centrality to indigenous religious £28.50 until
240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication traditions across North America.
publication
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£38.00 Books 2018) 9781785706288 Pb £38.00
20 World Archaeology
Cultural and Environmental Change Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain
on Rapa Nui Comparing Material Worlds, Metaphor and
Edited by Sonia H. Cardinali, Kathleen B. Ingersoll, the Agency of art in the Preclassic Maya
Daniel W. Ingersoll & Christopher M. Stevenson and Mycenaean Early Civilisations
This volume brings together the latest studies by By Marcus Jan Bajema
prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over This book provides a comparative study of the art
the world to explore the island’s past and present, of earliest urban civilisations of the Late Preclassic
from its discovery by Polynesians, through the lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The
first documented contact with Western culture in approach used seeks to combine more traditional
1722, to the 20th century. It looks beyond the moai iconographic approaches with more recent models
to examine such questions as: was there was a on metaphor and the social agency of things. The
cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to book shows art to have played a more
Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui active role in the development of
develop to adjust to naturally – or humanly-induced the earliest urban civilisations,
Only
environmental change? rather than passively reflecting
280p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138240018 Hb economic and political trends. £32.00 until
£105.00 360p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st May
2017) 9781784916916 Pb £40.00
Talking Stone
Rock Art of the Cosos Health Among the Maya
By Paul Goldsmith By Hannah Plumer
Hidden away in the canyons This book examines health indicators in sites in
o f a h ig hl y re st r ic te d northern Belize and compares the results to the
military base on the edge larger context of the health of the ancient lowland
of the Mojave Desert is the Maya. The research was completed through the
largest concentration of analysis of the skeletal populations of three sites
rock art in North America, and by comparing results both within and among
possibly in the world. those sites.
Acclaimed cinematographer 182p (BAR 2879, 2017) 9781407316277 Pb £43.00
Paul Goldsmith takes the
reader on a visual journey through this limited The Cutting Edge
access area with more than 160 stunning colour Khoe-San Rock-Markings at the
photographs. The book is structured around Gestoptefontein-Driekuil Engraving Complex
Goldsmith’s treks into the remote desert canyons By Jeremy Charles Hollmann
and his meetings with archaeologists, Native This book addresses the rock engravings on the
Americans, a psychologist, an artist, bow hunters, wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, North West
and the commanding officer in charge of the province, South Africa. It argues
military base. that the rock art was made by
112p, col illus (University of Utah Press 2017) Khoe-San people during the Only
9781607815570 Pb £20.95 performance of important
ceremonies and other activities. £48.00 until
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest 418p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 31st May
Archaeology 2017) 9781784917036 Pb £60.00
Edited by Barbara Mills & Severin M. Fowles
This volume marks the most Trade in the Ancient Sahara
ambitious effort to take stock and Beyond
of the empirical evidence, Edited by D. J. Mattingly, Victoria Leitch, C. N.
theoretical orientations, and Duckworth, A. Cuenod & Martin Sterry
historical reconstructions The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade
of the American Southwest. have been hotly contested over the years, mainly
Themed chapters on methods due to a lack of evidence. However, new research
and theories are accompanied on the Garamantes and on their trading partners
by comprehensive overviews in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires
of the culture histories of us to revise our views substantially. In this volume
particular archaeological experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods,
sequences, from the initial including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass,
Paleoindian occupation, to the rise of a major ritual and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture,
centre in Chaco Canyon, to the onset of the Spanish demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a
and American imperial projects. more connected region than previously thought.
888p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199978427 Hb 480p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107196995 Hb £90.00
£115.00
World Archaeology 21
Egypt
Finding Home Global Egyptology
The Diniacopoulos Family and Collection Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges
By Nadine Blumer, Clarence Epstein & Imogen Bryant on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts
Vincent and Olga Diniacopoulos were guardians Edited by Christian Langer
of what has become one of the most important This volume stresses the interconnection of
collections of antiquities in Canada. This book Egyptology and global political developments,
recounts the story of their immigration in the past and present, and highlights the role of
early 1950s, from France to Montreal, and their multidisciplinary ventures in developing new
encyclopaedic collection of Egyptian, Greek and interpretations. In three parts, the contributions
Roman art objects and artefacts. engage with issues of theory and methodology
144p, col illus (Concordia University 2017) 9781525103230 in Egyptology, political and social history of
Pb £23.50 Pharaonic Egypt, late pharaonic and Graeco-
Roman ideology and interconnections, as well as
Sir John Soane’s Greatest Treasure national implementations of Egyptology. Histories
The Sarcophagus of Seti I of research on Egypt in global South countries are
By John H. Taylor & Helen Dorey introduced, challenging the traditional European
Re-discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the framework as the model of choice for the future of
Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant explorer Egyptology.
Giovanni Belzoni, the famous sarcophagus now 224p, (Golden House Publications 2017) 9781906137557
resides in Sir John Soane’s Museum. John H. Pb £45.00
Taylor outlines the life of Seti I, the background
to the creation of the sarcophagus, the excitement The Medinet Habu Records of the
surrounding its re-discovery and its acquisition by Foreign Wars of Ramesses III
Sir John Soane. By Donald Bruce Redford
96p, col illus (Pimpernel Press 2017) 9781910258873 Pb This volume presents a new translation and
£9.99 commentary of the textual record of Ramesses III’s
military activity. As such it dwells heavily upon the
Proceedings of the XI International inscriptions dealing with Libyans and Sea Peoples.
Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, The new insights into the period covered by the
Italy 23–30 August 2015 inscriptions leads to a new appraisal of the identity
of Egypt’s enemies, as well as events surrounding
Edited by M. Cristina Guidotti & Gloria Rosati the activity of the Sea Peoples. The exercise is not
Around 130 papers are presented here on topics intended to dismiss, but rather to complement the
ranging from animal mummies to archaeological evidence.
Ancient Egyptian vocabulary to 212p, (Brill 2017) 9789004354173 Hb £100.00
Imperial Cult Temples. Papers in Only
English and Italian. £96.00 until Warfare in New Kingdom Egypt
1100p, b/w illus, 100 col pls 31st May By Paul Elliott
(Archaeopress 2017) 9781784916008
T h e New K i n gd o m o f
Pb £120.00
Egypt marks the apogee
Aristocrats and Archaeologists of military organisation
and preparedness. Using
An Edwardian Journey on the Nile the newest battlefield
By Toby Wilkinson & Julian Platt technologies (bows, chariots
In 1907/08 Ferdinand Platt travelled to Egypt and hand weapons) the
as personal physician to the ailing 8th Duke of n ew p h a ra o h s p u s h e d
Devonshire, recounting his adventure in letters the frontiers of the New
to his young wife in England. Throughout the Kingdom into Syria and
journey Ferdy reported on the sights of the country Ethiopia. This book narrates
around him, with his amateur Egyptologist’s eye, this incredible rise to power
and the people he met along the way (including and then describes in detail the way in which the
Howard Carter and Winston Churchill). The letters Egyptian war machine was structured, how it was
open an intriguing window onto supplied, and how it fought.
travel in Egypt during the Belle 192p, col illus (Fonthill Media 2017) 9781781555804 Hb
Epoque and the golden age of Only £20.00
Egyptology. £20.00 until
216p (American University in 31st May
Cairo Press 2017) 9789774168451
Hb £24.95
22
War and Trade with the Pharaohs Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt’s Theban Tomb Paintings from the Early
Foreign Relations Eighteenth Dynasty
By Garry J. Shaw By Flora Brooke Anthony
This book explores Egypt’s connections with Since the beginning of
the wider world over the course of 3,000 years, Egyptian history, images
introducing readers to ancient diplomacy, travel, of foreigners were used as
trade, warfare, domination, and immigration – symbols of chaos. During the
both Egyptians living abroad and foreigners living 18th Dynasty, however, new
in Egypt. It covers military campaigns and trade orderly images of foreigners
in periods of strength as well as Egypt’s foreign bearing tribute became
relations during times of political weakness, when popular in the tombs of
foreign dynasties ruled parts of the country. the necropolis at Thebes.
213p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781783030460 Hb This volume examines these
£19.99 images, proposing that this
orderliness reflects the
Technology and Urbanism in ability of the Egyptian state to impose order on
Late Bronze Age Egypt foreign lands, but also crucially symbolises the
By Anna K. Hodgkinson tomb owner’s ability to overcome the chaos of death
and achieve a successful afterlife.
This book provides
the first systematic and 184pb/w and col illus (Bloomsbury 2016) 9781474241571
comprehensive discussion of Pb £24.99
the intra-urban distribution
of high-status goods, and
Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt
their production or role as a Image and Ideology Before the New Kingdom
marker of the nature of the By Laurel Bestock
settlements known as royal This book examines the use of Egyptian pictures
cities of New Kingdom Egypt of violence prior to the New Kingdom. Starting
(c.1550-1069 BC). Using spatial with the assertion that making and displaying such
analysis to detect patterns images served as a tactic of power, related to but
of artefact distribution, the separate from the actual practice of violence, the
study focuses on Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, book explores the development and deployment of
incorporating Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison. this imagery across different contexts. by cataloguing
Analysis of the evidence of high-status industrial and querying Egyptian imagery of violence from
processes throughout the urban settlements leads different periods and different contexts the author
to the conclusion that materials were processed at highlights the nuances of the relationship between
different levels throughout the settlements and were aspects of royal ideology, art, and its audiences in
subject to a strict pattern of control. the first half of pharaonic Egyptian history.
336p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198803591 Hb £85.00 336p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138685055 Hb £105.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Ancient Egyptian Scribes
A Cultural Exploration
By Hana Navratilova & Niv Allon
The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a
scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels
of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society.
And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left us, we know relatively
little about what underpinned their world, about their mentality and about their
everyday life. Tracing ten key biographies, Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines
how these figures kept both the administrative life and cultural
memory of Egypt running. Case studies look at accountants,
draughtsmen, scribes with military and dynastic roles, the
Only authors of graffiti and literati who interacted in different ways
£72.00 until with Pharaohs and other leaders. They explore their cultural
31st May identity and self-presentation, and provide an insight into the
making of Egyptian written culture.
216p, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781472583956 Hb £85.00
Egypt 23
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Discarded, Discovered, Collected
The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Ancient Egyptian Coffins By Arthur Verhoogt
Past – Present – Future This volume provides an accessible introduction to
Edited by Julie Dawson & Helen Strudwick the University of Michigan’s collection of papyri and
This collection of papers related ancient materials, the widest and deepest
by leading international resource of its kind in the Western hemisphere.
experts on the subject of Extensively illustrated with some of the collection’s
ancient Egyptian coffins, more spectacular pieces, it describes what the
builds on a project based at collection is, what kinds of ancient texts it contains,
the Fitzwilliam Museum, and how it has developed from Francis Kelsey’s day
Cambridge, to study to the present, as well as providing translations of
and record in detail its the texts.
collection. Papers address 216p b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2017)
a series of topics including: 9780472073641 Hb £64.99, 9780472053643 Pb £33.95
the development of coffins
in antiquity, including The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous
iconographic and text-based studies; the post- Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity
antiquity history of coffins, including their By Mark Wildish
acquisition and subsequent treatment in museums
around the world; developments in technical The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a
examination and methods of studying coffins, philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of
especially the use of multispectral imaging to Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of
provide non-invasive analysis of hieroglyphic writing. It explores the range of signs
materials; and increasing evidence and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in
of the re-use of materials and giving explanations, whether there are characteristic
complete re-working of coffins
Only types of explanations given, what conception of
for new owners. £52.50 until language in general and of hieroglyphic Egyptian in
publication particular the explanations of the meanings of the
288p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books glyphs presuppose, and what explicit indications
2018) 9781785709180 Hb £70.00 there are of having been informed or influenced
by philosophical theories of meaning, signs, and
interpretation.
232p (Routledge 2017) 9781138837812 Hb £105.00
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the
New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Book of the Dead
Period Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Edited by Eitan Grossman & Jennifer Cromwell Edited by Foy Scalf
While traditional research This volume includes fourteen essays showcasing
has focused on identifying the latest research on the Book of the Dead as well
a ‘ p u re ’ o r ‘o r i g i n a l ’ as a complete catalogue of the forty-five objects
text behind the actual on display in an associated exhibit at the Oriental
manuscripts that have Institute Museum. Two famous Book of the Dead
come down to us from pre- papyri, Papyrus Milbank and Papyrus Ryerson,
modern Egypt, this volume are reproduced in their entirety with full-colour
looks instead at variation photographs.
– different ways of saying 376p col illus (Oriental Institute of the University of
the same thing – as a rich Chicago 2017) 9781614910381 Pb £34.95
source for understanding
the complex social and Exorcism, Illness and Demons in
cultural environments in an Ancient Near Eastern Context
which scribes lived and worked, breaking with The Egyptian Magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345
the traditional conception of variation in scribal
texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’. As By Susanne Beck
such, it sees scribes as agents embedded in Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most
particular geographical, temporal, and socio- extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper
cultural environments. insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt.
416p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198768104 Hb This re-edition the text is a revised transliteration,
£90.00 transcription, translation and up-to-date
commentary.
175p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2018)
9789088905407 Hb £120.00, 9789088905391 Pb £40.00,
NYP
24 Egypt
Catalogo degli Ushabti del Museo Tutankhamun’s Regent
Egizio di Firenze, Volume II By G.T. Martin
By Giacomo Cavillier A revised and slightly
This second volume of the catalogue concludes expanded edition of the
the study of artefacts dating to the New Kingdom: 1989 volume, The Memphite
a collection of 128 records pertaining to funerary To m b o f H o r e m h e b ,
statues and their boxes. The volume contains the Commander-in-Chief
abbreviations and textual codes, the records, a of Tutankhamun (vol. I.
photographic section, an index and a bibliography. The Reliefs, Inscriptions,
Italian text. 310p, b/w illus (BAR 2872, 2017) and Commentary), with
9781407315997 Pb £46.00 changes made to reflect
finds and publications of the
Egyptian Art intervening years. It includes a small new chapter
By Bill Manley on the tympanum and jambs Louvre C68-70 [N221],
on Louvre pieces bearing the names and titles of
Ancient Egyptian art, and Horemheb as a state official, before he ascended
the ideas it articulated, the throne.
was refined and reinvented
through dozens of centuries, 183p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2017)
until scenes first created for 9780856982248 Hb £70.00
the earliest kings, around
3000 BC, were used to
Reconstructing Pharaonic Architecture
represent Roman emperors. in Nubia
Bill Manley’s account of that The Case Study of SAV1, Sai Island
art draws on the finest works By Ingrid Adenstedt
of a uniquely successful The orthogonally planned fortified town on Sai ,
and enduringly compelling dated to the 18th Dynasty, was in parts excavated
civilization, including celebrated masterpieces, from by a French team in the 1950s and 1970s.During
the Narmer palette to Tutankhamun’s gold mask, as two field campaigns in 2013 and 2014, the southern
well as their contexts of origin in the tombs, temples part of the settlement was revisited and newly
and palaces of the pharaohs and their citizens. assessed; the results are presented here. Next to
320p b/w and col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) a detailed description and building-historical
9780500204283 Pb £12.95 assessment of the individual structures, the building
remains are illustrated by manifold plans and 3-D
From Workshop to Sanctuary the reconstructions.
Production of Late Middle Kingdom 212p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017)
Memorial Stelae 9783700179528 Pb £70.00
By Alexander Ilin-Tomich
This study is the evaluation of more than 1000 stelae
Abusir
dating to the late Middle Kingdom and Second The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun
Intermediate Period (1800 to 1550 BC). The stelae are By Miroslav Verner
grouped into workshops. The place of production At the centre of the world-
for these workshops is discussed. famous pyramid field of
350p b/w illus (Golden House Publications 2017) the Memphite necropolis
9781906137540 Pb £75.00 lies a group of pyramids,
temples, and tombs named
Following Osiris after the nearBy village
Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four of Abusir. This area has
Millennia been the site, for the last
By Mark Smith fifty years, of an extensive
operation to discover its past.
Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian This thoroughly updated in-
conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and depth study documents the
the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian uncovering by a dedicated
afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship team of Czech archaeologists of
was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying a hitherto neglected wealth of
its benefits. It focuses on five distinct periods in ancient remains dating from the Only
its development, spread over four millennia. The Old Kingdom to the Late Period.
periods in question are ones in which significant £32.00 until
changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead 352p, col illus (American University 31st May
are known to have occurred. in Cairo Press new ed 2017)
9789774167904 Hb £40.00
672p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199582228 Hb £125.00
Egypt 25
The Survey of Memphis X
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Kom Rabia: The Blue-Painted Pottery
Prehistoric Pottery from Dakhleh By Colin A. Hope
This volume presents the blue-painted pottery
Oasis, Egypt from the EES excavations at Kom Rabia, one of the
By Ashten R. Warfe few specific site collections that spans the entire
This book presents a period of manufacture of this distinctive type of
major study on the ceramics. All of the fragments studied by the author
ceramics recovered from are presented within their find contexts arranged
early and mid-Holocene according to the main chronological phases into
sites in Egypt’s Dakhleh which activity at the site can be divided.
Oasis, which come from 174p b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society 2017)
96 registered sites and 9780856982330 Pb £60.00
five other findspots and
comprise more than Road Archaeology in the Middle Nile
10,000 sherds. None of Volume 2: Excavations from Meroe to Atbara
the ceramic objects 1994
come from burials. They
derive instead from settlement sites that display By Michael Mallinson & Laurence Smith
evidence of living activities (hut circles, hearths, This volume reports on rescue excations undertaken
chipped stone scatters, etc.), or sites for which in advance of the construction of the North
there is no other evidence of human activity. Challenge Road between Geili and Atbara in the
Through detailed description, classification Middle Nile. Eight sites with 30
and quantification, a detailed cultural sequence archaeological structures were
has been determined, demonstrating descrete excavated in the available time Only
stylistic variations between sites and over of three weeks that the funds £27.50 until
time, and highlighting growing diversity and would accommodate.
31st May
innovation in local pottery-making from the late 196p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress
seventh to mid-third millennia cal. BC. 2017) 9781784916466 Hb £34.00
144p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018)
9781785708244 Hb £45.00 Protecting Pharaoh’s Treasures
My Life in Egyptology
By Wafaa el Saddik & Rudiger Heimlich
At a time when Egyptology was dominated by
The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated men, especially those with close connections to the
The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape regime, Wafaa El Saddik became the first female
Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt general director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Edited by Willeke Wendrich In this very personal memoir, she looks back at
The Neolithic is thought to her career and at the history of her
have arrived in Egypt via country. Her first concern remains:
diffusion from an origin in How can the ancient legacy of Only
southwest Asia, relatively late her country truly be protected? £16.00 until
compared to neighbouring 248p, b/w illus (American
31st May
locations. The authors University in Cairo Press 2017)
suggest an alternative 9789774168253 Hb £19.95
approach to understanding
the development of food Life and Death on the Nile
production in Egypt based A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian
on the results of new Communities
fieldwork in the Fayum. By George J. Armelagos
While domestic plants and animals were indeed A monumental synthesis of a half century of
introduced from elsewhere, when a number of research, this volume presents studies of cranial
aspects of the archaeological record are compared, morphology and evolution in Nubian populations.
a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious They look at patterns of physiological stress and
analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. disease, as well as growth and development in
292p, b/w illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2017) infants and children. They study bone fractures
9781938770098 Hb £98.95 and age-related bone loss in adults, and they
discuss case studies of diseases such as cancers and
congenital defects.
288p, b/w illus (UP of Florida 2017) 9780813054452 Hb
£95.95
26 Egypt
Across Borders I The Family in Roman Egypt
The New Kingdom of Sai Island, Sector A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational
SAV1 North Solidarity and Conflict
Edited by Julia Budka By Sabine R. Huebner
With its so-called Egyptian temple town and This study explores the
adjacent pyramid cemeteries, Sai Island is one of dynamics of the everyday
the prime examples for settlement policy of New family life of the common
Kingdom Egypt (c. 1530-1070 BC) in Upper Nubia people of Roman Egypt. The
and is the focus of this project. The principal book discusses such things
focus of the book is the physical remains of SAV1 as family composition and
North: the architecture and material culture, with household size, and the
emphasis on the pottery and small finds. differences between urban
337p, (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) and rural families, exploring
9783700180715 Pb £120.00 what can be ascribed to
cultural patterns, economic
Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt c o n s i d e ra t i o n s a n d /o r
An Edition, Translation and Commentary for individual preferences by setting the family in
the Edfu Land Survey (P. Haun. IV 70) Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern
Edited by Thorolf Christensen, Dorothy J Thompson & societies where families adopted such strategies to
Katelijn Vandorpe deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives.
This book provides the first 274p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107011137 Hb
edition with an extensive £67.00, 9781108438698 Pb £19.99
i nt ro d u c t i o n a n d f u l l
commentary of a unique land The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile
survey written on papyrus in Studies in Waterborne Power
Greek which derives from Edited by Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou & Dorothy
that area of southern Egypt J. Thompson
known as the Apollonopolite With its emphasis on the dynasty’s concern for
(or Edfu) nome and is now control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the
preserved in Copenhagen. Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and
Dating from the late second original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key
century BC, this survey period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing
provides a new picture of both landholding and Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the
taxation in the area with significant implications navy is examined together with that of its admirals.
for the nature of the relations of the Ptolemaic Egypt’s close relationship to Rhodes is subjected to
royal administration with local grandees, Egyptian scrutiny, as is the constant threat of piracy to the
temples and the army. transport of goods on the Nile and by sea.
198p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107159105 Hb 296p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107033351 Hb
£79.99 £67.00, 9781108436663 Pb £24.99
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Women’s Writing of Ancient Highlights of the Collections of
Mesopotamia the Oriental Institute
An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors Edited by Jean M Evans, Jack Green & Emily Teeter
Edited by Charles Halton & Saana Svard This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections
This book presents fresh of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of
and engaging translations of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia,
works that were composed or Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and
edited by female scribes and objects from the Islamic collection. It features all
elite women of the ancient new photography, provenance information, and a
Near East. The translations brief description of each object, as well as a history
cover a range of genres, of the collections and a concordance.
including hymns, poems, 152p, col illus (Oriental Institute of the University of
prayers, letters, inscriptions, Chicago 2018) 9781614910053 Pb £14.95, NYP
and oracles. Each text is
accompanied by a short The Construction of Time in Antiquity
introduction that situates Ritual, Art, and Identity
the composition within its ancient environment and Edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov & Lutz Doering
explores what it reveals about the lives of women This book offers a series of innovative studies
within the ancient world. by both senior and younger experts on various
258p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107052055 Hb £75.00 aspects of the construction of time in antiquity.
Contributions focus on rituals, festivals, astronomy,
Dolmens in the Levant calendars, medicine, art, and narrative.
By James A. Fraser 360p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107108967 Hb
Drawing on historical, £75.00
archaeological and geological
sources, this volume shows Registers and Modes of
that dolmens in the Levant Communication in the Ancient
mostly concentrate in the Near East
eastern escarpment of the
Jordan Rift Valley, and in Getting the Message Across
the Galilean hills. They Edited by Kyle H. Keimer & Gillan Davis
cluster near proto-urban The chapters in this volume address some of
settlements of the Early the registers and modes of communication in
Bronze I period (3700-3000 the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are
BCE) in particular geological imperial and court communications between
zones suitable for the extraction of megalithic slabs. rulers and ruled, communications intended for a
Rather than approaching dolmens as a regional given community, and those between families and
phenomenon, this book considers dolmens as part individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological
of a local burial tradition whose tomb forms varied period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium
depending on geological constraints.. AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and
374p b/w and col illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138551855 Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily
Hb £105.00 diverse plurality of human experience.
304p (Routledge 2017) 9781138635302 Hb £105.00
Losing One’s Head in the Ancient
Near East Prophets and Profits
Interpretation and Meaning of Decapitation Ancient Divination and Its Reception
By Rita Dolce Edited by Richard Evans
This volume explores representations of This volume examines the ways in which divination,
decapitation in both texts and images in a trans- often through oracular utterances and other
chronological perspective that aims to highlight a mechanisms, linked mortals with the gods, and
number of conditions, relations and meanings of places the practice within the ancient sociopolitical
this specific act in times of war, recognizing the and religious environment. It also addresses
severed head as a “coveted object” for the many questions related to the reception of Greco-Roman
individuals who interact with it and determine its divination, oracles and prophecy, in all media,
fate. Examples are drawn from Anatolia, Syria and including literature and film, from Late Antiquity
Mesopotamia between the 3rd and 1st millennium to the present day.
BC. 252p (Routledge 2017) 9781138290150 Hb £105.00
128p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138067486 Hb
£115.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Çukuriçi Höyük 1
By Barbara Horejs
This volume is the first of the final reports on the Çukuriçi Höyük excavations.
The prehistoric tell site at the Aegean coast of Turkey close to the antique
metropolis of Ephesos was excavated between 2007 and 2014. The study
includes a general outline of the research project, its main methodological and
analytical approaches, and its main outcomes after seven excavation seasons. It
then provides more detailed coverage of several new results of Çukuriçi Höyük
research in a diachronic perspective. The Neolithic settlements
dating to the 7th millennium BC are presented in aspects
Only of technology and raw material procurement. The Late
Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements of 4th and 3rd
£55.00 until
millennia BC are presented in various aspects highlighting
31st May distinct regional and trans-regional networks.
138p b/w illus (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017) 9783700181064 Hb £65.00
Mediterranean Prehistory
Lithics past and present “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date
Perspectives on chipped stone studies in Edited by Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge
Greece This volume presents up-to-date research on the Sea
Edited by Elefanti Paraskevi, Niels Andreasen, P. Nick Peoples phenomenon during the so called “crisis
Kardulias & Gilbert Marshall years” at the end of the Bronze Age. The papers
This volume is dedicated to studies of chipped are presented in five sections: “Overviews: From
stone, the most long-lived, widespread and Italy to the Levant”; “Climate and Radiocarbon”;
fundamental artefact type for the study of human “Theoretical Approaches on Destruction, Migration
prehistory. Chipped stone tools have persisted in and Transformation of Cultures”; “Case Studies:
use from the dawn of humanity until very recently, Cyprus, Cilicia and the Northern and Southern
often in concert with other forms of technology Levant”; and “Material Studies”. Overall it becomes
such as metallurgy. Through their morphology clear that the changes discussed include numerous
and typology, stone tools form the backbone of underlying factors: One single wave of migration,
our chrono-cultural understanding of early human one general military campaign and other simple
history. explanations should be dismissed.
180p, b/w illus (Paul Astroms Forlag 2016) 9789170812101 500p b/w illus (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2017)
Hb £70.00 9783700179634 Pb £150.00
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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Pylos Regional Archaeological
Project
Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, A Retrospective
Greece Edited by Jack L. Davis & John Bennet
Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. This volume represents the
Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & product of 25 years of study
Panagiotis Karkanas conducted by the Pylos
As a sealed, single- Regional Archaeological
component, archaeological Project. An introduction,
site, the Neolithic settlement setting the project in context,
complex of Alepotrypa and an extensive gazetteer of
Cave is one of the richest sites precede a collection of
sites in Greece and Europe eight previously published
in terms of number of articles, which appeared
artefacts, preservation of in Hesperia between 1997
biological materials, volume and 2010. Taken together,
of undisturbed deposits, these contributions document a comprehensive
and horizontal exposure of methodological approach by an archaeological
archaeological surfaces of project that was one of the first to incorporate new
past human activity. This edited volume offers technologies such as digital mapping tools and
a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and online databases.
interpretation of the results of approximately 588p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at
40 years of excavation and analysis. It includes Athens 2018) 9780876619681 Pb £45.00, NYP
numerous chemical analyses and a much needed
long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding Women in Mycenaean Greece
microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos
sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools,
faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific By Barbara A. Olsen
locations of human activities and ceremonies This book offers a systematic
inside the cave, as well as a site analysis of women’s tasks,
description and the history of holdings, and social and
the excavation conducted by G. economic status in the
Only
Papathanasopoulos. Linear B tablets from Pylos
£52.50 until and Knossos, identifying
488p b/w and col illus (Oxbow
Books 2018) 9781785706486 Hb
publication how Mycenaean women
£70.00 functioned in the economic
institutions where they were
best attested – production,
property control, land tenure,
and cult. Throughout, the
Magoúla Pavlína book seeks to establish
A Middle Bronze Age Site in the Soúrpi Plain whether gender practices
(Thessaly, Greece) were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed
By Corien Wiersma, Dimitris Agnousiotis, Karimali from site to site, and to gauge the relationship of
Karimali, Wietske Prummel & Reinder Reinders the roles and status of Mycenaean women to their
Magóula Pavlína is located Archaic and Classical counterparts.
in the Soúrpi plain in 380p, b/w illus (Routledge 2014, Pb 2017) 9780415725156
Thessalía. The site was Hb £110.00, 9781138085831 Pb £36.99
inhabited during the Early
and Middle Bronze Age. The Alatzomouri Rock Shelter
A survey at the site was An Early Minoan III Deposit in Eastern Crete
carried out in 1996 after the Edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan &
field was ploughed for the Philip P. Betancourt
first time. The recovery of This handsome volume describes and illustrates
tableware – including many the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete,
fragments of Grey Minyan Greece. Minoan pottery and small finds such as
– grinding and pounding stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains
tools, saddle querns and animal remains show that were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style
Magoúla Pavlína was not a temporary site for special and chronology of East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware,
activities, but a permanent settlement. which dates to the end of the Early Bronze Age.
276p, b/w illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789491431975 Hb £44.95 226p b/w illus (INSTAP 2017) 9781931534932 Hb £55.00
Mediterranean Prehistory 33
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS
From the Foundations to the Legacy
of Minoan Archaeology Communities in Transition
Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and
4th Millennia BC
Edited by Maria Relaki & Yiannis Papadatos
Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko
Evaluating the general
Tankosić & Turan Takaoğlu
frameworks within which
Minoan archaeology Communities in
operates, scholars assess the Tr a n s i t i o n b r i n g s
usefulness of chronological together scholars from
horizons in understanding different countries and
continuity and change backgrounds united by a
and providing a critical common interest in the
framework for the diachronic transition between the
analysis of culture, the Neolithic and the Early
degree to which the study Bronze Age in the lands
of settlement patterns can around the Aegean. The
reveal structural continuity through time and the 5th to 4th millennium
political reach of territorial states. The largest BC transition is one of
portion of discussion is devoted to mortuary inclusions, entanglements, connectivity, and
practices. Some contributors focus on reassessing exchange of ideas, raw materials, finished
the significance of micro-patterns in the articulation products and, quite possibly, worldviews and
of mortuary behaviour, while others belief systems. Most of the papers presented
emphasize broader temporal here are multifaceted and complex in that they
and spatial processes that affect do not deal with only one topic or narrowly
practices of ostentatious display
Only focus on a single line of reasoning or dataset.
in burial. £28.50 until Arranged geographically they explore a series of
publication key themes: Chronology, cultural affinities, and
320p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018)
synchronization in material culture; changing
9781785709265 Pb £38.00
social structure and economy; inter – and intra-
Crafting Minoanisation site space use and settlement patterns, caves and
include both site reports and regional studies.
Textiles, Crafts, Production and Social
Dynamics in the Bronze Age southern Aegean 616p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2018)
9781785707209 Hb £70.00
By Joanne Cutler
The mid second millenn-
ium BC material record of
the southern Aegean shows Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete
evidence of strong Cretan Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period
influence. This phenomenon
has traditionally been seen By Ellen Adams
in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, This book explores and
but the nature and degree celebrates the rich, diverse
of Cretan influence, and the and dynamic culture of
process/processes by which Neopalatial Crete through
it was spread and adopted, analyses of important
have been widely debated. sites, as well as Minoan
This new study addresses the question through administration, writing,
a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in economy and ritual. Key
the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving themes include the role of
technology. by examining how technological skills Knossos in wider Minoan
and techniques are learned and considering possible culture and politics,
mechanisms for the transmission of such technical the variable modes of
knowledge, new perspectives centralization and power relations detectable across
can be proposed concerning the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining
the processes through which and articulating elite control.
Only
Cretan techniques were taken 400p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107197527
£36.00 until Hb £90.00
up and imitated abroad.
publication
544p (Oxbow Books 2018)
9781785709661 Hb £48.00
34 Mediterranean Prehistory
The Mycenaean Cemetery at Agios Caria and Crete in Antiquity
Vasileios, Chalandritsa, in Achaea Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and
By Konstantina Aktypi, Olivia A. Jones & the Aegean
Vivian Staikou By Naomi Carless Unwin
The Mycenaean chamber- A persistent tradition existed
tomb cemetery at Agios in antiquity linking Caria
Vasileios, near Chalandritsa with the island of Crete. This
in Achaea, was first central theme of regional
investigated in the late history is mirrored in the
1920s, followed by small- civic mythologies, cults and
scale research in 1961. In toponyms of southwestern
the years 1989-2001 further Anatolia. This book explains
rescue excavations were why by approaching this
conducted, revealing 30 diverse body of material
c h a m b e r to m b s , s o m e with a broad chronological
looted. Based mostly on the view, taking into account
latest research, this study is the both the origins of this regional narrative and its
first major presentation of the endurance. It considers the mythologies in the
cemetery, detailing 45 chamber Only light of archaeologically attested contacts during
tombs and the assemblage of £33.50 until the Bronze Age, exploring whether such interaction
the 260 artefacts found in them. 31st May could have left a residuum in later traditions.
310p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 284p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107194175 Hb £75.00
2017) 9781784916978 Pb £42.00
Analisi tecnologica e funzionale
The Galatas Survey dell’industria in pietra non scheggiata
The Socio-Economic and Political Development del Neolitico medio dell’Italia
of a Contested Territory in Central Crete settentrionale
During the Neolithic to Ottoman Periods
By Anna Lunardi
By L. Vance Watrous, D. Matthew Buell, Eleni
Kokinou, Pantelis Soupios & Apostolos Sarris This volume is a synthesis of the management
systems of the macrolithic tools from three key
This volume explores the results of the American Square Mouthed Pottery Culture sites located in
archaeological survey (2005–2007) carried out Northeastern Italy. The tools were examined with
around the area of Galatas in Central Crete. It traces an integrated approach that involves morphology,
the socioeconomic and political development of technology, use-wear analysis and experiments. The
the Galatas area and its relations with other areas stone assemblages are classified into the following
of Crete during the Neolithic–Ottoman periods. categories: tools for grinding, tools for abrading/
The changes in local socioeconomic and political polishing, tools for cutting, percussion tools and
conditions are documented as Galatas came under multifunctional implements.
the direct control of states elsewhere in Crete and
overseas. Italian text. 292p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2864, 2017)
9781407316024 Pb £53.00
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Rise of Rome
1000 BC – 264 BC
By Kathryn Lomas
In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few
hills. by the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with
monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered
the whole of Italy and was poised to establish an empire. But how did it
accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development
of Rome during this period, and the nature of its control over
Italy, considering why and how the Romans achieved this
Only spectacular dominance. For Rome was only one of a number
£21.00 until of emerging centres of power during this period. From its
complex forms of government, to its innovative connections
31st May
with other states, Kathryn Lomas shows what set Rome apart.
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Mediterranean Prehistory 35
Punctuated Insularity Etruscology
The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Edited by Alessandro Naso
Sardinia This monumental work
By Gary Webster & Maud Webster is organised in two parts.
Sardinia preserves an exceptional record of its The first is dedicated to
Final Neolithic and Copper Age cultures, with a methodology and leading
diverse crafts repertory, henges and dolmens, statue- themes in current research,
menhirs, chamber tombs – and the only known organized thematically,
ziggurat in Europe. The present study provides whereas the second part
a synthesis in English for a scholarly readership offers a diachronic account
interested in Mediterranean adaptations during of Etruscan history, culture,
this earliest period of metallurgy. Spanning two religion, art & archaeology,
millennia, these changes are studied in terms of and social and political
material cultures known as Ozieri, Sub-Ozieri, relations and structures, as
Filigosa-Abealzu, Monte Claro and Bell Beaker. well as a systematic treatment of the topography of
172p (BAR, 2871 2017) 9781407316192 Pb £34.00 the Etruscan civilization and sphere of influence.
2000p (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9781934078488 Hb
Early States, Territories and Settlements £320.00
in Protohistoric Central Italy
Proceedings of a Specialist Conference
Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in
at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology World Museum, Liverpool
of the University of Groningen, 2013 By Jeann MacIntosh Turfa & Georgina Muskett
Edited by Peter Attema, Jorn Seubers & Sarah One of the finest collections of Etruscan artefacts
Willemsen outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by
This volume is the second Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. Much of the
of the series Corollaria original material came from the necropolis of Vulci
Crustumina concerning (Canino) when it was excavated
the Latin settlement of by Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of
Crustumerium and Italian Canino, while additional objects
Only
protohistory. It contains represent several other cities
and sites. £33.50 until
multidisciplinary papers of
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archaeologists discussing 2017) 9781784916381 Pb £42.00
new fieldwork data and
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relevance to the study of History
Crustumerium’s settlement, cemeteries and material of Dentistry
culture in light of the site’s cultural identity. The Golden Smile Through the Ages
152p col illus (Barkhuis 2016) 9789491431999 Pb £42.00 By Jean MacIntosh Turfa & Marshall Joseph Becker
The Etruscan World This book offers a study of
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Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa of gold dental appliances
In recent years striking in ancient Etruscan
advances have been made culture, and their place
in scholarship and research within the framework of a
techniques for Etruscan general history of dentistry,
Studies. Archaeological with special emphasis on
and scientific discoveries appliances, from Bronze Age
have changed our picture Mesopotamia and Egypt
of the Etruscans, allowing to modern Europe and the
discussion of topics that Americas. Included are many
could not previously be of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry
researched, such as Etruscan - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well
mining and metallurgy, textile as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental
production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, health. The book challenges many past works in
over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient
of Etruscan culture, and more, as well as highlighting dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible
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Ancient World
Lost Civilizations
The books in the Lost Civilizations series explore the rise and fall of the great civilizations and peoples of
the ancient world. Each book considers not only the history but the art, culture and lasting legacy and
examines why they remain important and relevant in our world today.
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Classical World
Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Harry Sidebottom & Michael WhitBy
Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Focused on both land and sea battle narratives of
the classical world, this three–volume reference
Mediterranean covers archaic Greece in the eighth century BC to
Edited by Cecilie Brøns & Marie-Louise Nosch the rise of Islam in the seventh century AD, with
Recent scholarship has accounts of more than 400 battles and sieges. Each
illustrated how textiles article presents what is known of the ancient battle
played a large and very or siege, as well as what is uncertain or disputed,
important role in the and places the battle within the framework of the
ancient Mediterranean broader campaign or war in which it occurred.
sanctuaries. In Greece, 1496p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781405186452 Hb
the so-called temple £350.00
inventories testify to the
use of textiles as votive Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery
offerings, in particular By P. Hunt
to female divinities. This book provides an introduction to pivotal
Furthermore, in several issues in the study of Classical slavery. Introductory
cults, textiles were used to dress the images chapters provide historical context and a clear and
of different deities, as well as in the dress of concise discussion of the methodological difficulties
priests and priestesses, and in the furnishings of studying ancient slavery. The following chapters
of the temples. Essays examine the topics of are organized around central topics in slave studies:
textile production in sanctuaries, the use of enslavement, economics, politics, culture, sex and
textiles as votive offerings and ritual dress using family life, manumission and ex–slaves, everyday
epigraphy, literary sources, iconography and the conflict, revolts, representations, philosophy and
archaeological material itself. law, and decline and legacy.
320p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706721 Hb £48.00 264p, (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781405188050 Hb
£60.00, 9781405188067 Pb £24.99
Cityscapes and Monuments of
Western Asia Minor Material Aspects of Letter Writing
Memories and Identities in the Graeco-Roman World,
Edited by Eva Mortensen & Birte Poulson 500 BC – AD 300
The present volume By Antonia Sarri
publishes 25 contributions Through analysis of developments in the use
w r i tte n by s c h o l a rs of letters, variations in formatting conventions,
specializing in the history layout and authentication patterns according to the
a n d a rc h a e o l o gy o f sociocultural background and communicational
western Asia Minor. New needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing
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is presented and analyzed society over a period of roughly eight hundred
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diversity during changing political systems,
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The Oxford Handbook of Warfare
Archaic period through Athenian supremacy in the Classical World
and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period, Edited by Brian Campbell & Lawrence A. Tritle
then autocratic kingship in Hellenistic times This volume offers a critical examination of
until, finally, more than half a millennium of Classical war and organized violence. The volume’s
Roman rule. The studies provide new insights introduction begins with the ancient sources for
into how human beings chose, deliberately or the writing of war, preceded by broad surveys of
subconsciously, to commemorate their past and warfare in ancient Greece and Rome. Also included
their ancestors, and how identity was displayed are chapters analyzing new finds in battlefield
and expressed under shifting political rule. archaeology and how the environment affected the
400p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2017) ancient practice of war, as well as the nature of battle.
9781785708367 Hb £60.00 A final section offers six exemplary case studies.
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The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity The Diversity of Classical Archaeology
Networks, Connectivity, and Cultural Edited by Achim Lichtenberger & Rubina Raja
Interactions Themes presented in this volume include
Edited by Valeriya Kozlovskaya Greek and Roman portraiture and sculpture,
The chapters in this book, written by experts on iconography, epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics,
the northern Black Sea region, explore topics such the Mediterranean, settlement patterns, landscape
as the trade, religion, political culture, art and archaeology, historiography, and urban archaeology.
architecture, and the local non-Greek populations, The volume also offers discussions about a variety
from the foundation of the first Greek colonies on of material groups, time frames, and regions that
the North Pontic shores at the end of the seventh have recently come to the fore as areas that should
and sixth century BCE through the first centuries increasingly be considered as belonging to —and
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Interactions between Animals and
Splendide Mendax Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Rethinking Fakes and Forgeries in Classical, Edited by Thorsten Fogen & Edmund Thomas
Late Antique, and Early Christian Literature The seventeen contributions to this volume show
Edited by Edmund P. Cueva & Javier Martínez that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman
Scholars for centuries have regarded fakes and antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different
forgeries chiefly as an opportunity for exposing levels and that their encounters and interactions
and denouncing deceit, rather than appreciating often result from their belonging to the same
the creative activity necessary for such textual structures, ‘networks’ and communities. Papers
imposture. Here essays explore new approaches explore the concrete categories of interaction
to the subject of ancient fakes and forgeries, between animals and humans that can be identified,
displaying some of the many possibilities available in what contexts they occur, and what types of
to scholarship when the forger is regarded as evidence can be productively used to examine the
“splendide mendax” – splendidly untruthful. concept of interactions.
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METHOD & THEORY Conservation and Care of Glass Objects,
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development of astro-archaeology, and related cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean
theories about ancient sites from Cuzco to region and humankind’s broken covenant with
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Scientific Analysis of Ancient and Historic The Story of England, By Michael Wood,
Textiles, Informing Preservation, Display and Michael Wood’s book aims to tell the story of
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volume cover various aspects of the deterioration of through the inhabitants of just one village, Kibworth
textiles and the different scientific techniques that in Leicestershire. His approach combines an
can be applied to investigate the characteristics of extensive community archaeology project with
historic textiles, their fibres, dyes etc. 266p, b/w pls, 55 test-pits providing evidence for the prehistoric
figs, Archetype, 2005, 9781873132791, Pb was £47.50 and Roman activity, with insights from the rich
now £14.95 manorial documentary record held by Merton
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Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in
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half of the eighteenth century, charts the ways By Ian Tattersall, Ian Tattersall argues that a
in which contemporary politics, notably the long tradition of “human exceptionalism” in
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between Archival and Object-based Research,
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dress in terms of their production, consumption, to uncover the prehistoric mysteries of Stonehenge
dissemination and deterioration and in turn, how and its purpose and/or meaning for its creators,
the study of extant objects can give added depth Rosemary Hill examines what the stone monument
to this analysis. 282p, b/w and col illus, Archetype, has meant to the people of recorded history. The
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Britain, By Paul Newman, A volume of fascinating £14.95
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Metallurgy, Proceedings of the Fifth Forbes
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use of scientific methods to study works of art began selection of Coptic textiles in the collections of The
at the Freer Gallery of Art in 1951 with the work of R. Brooklyn Museum. Special problems connected
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Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Tell Taannek 1963-1968 IV/2: The Iron
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Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture, By Daniel nature and the cosmos - hark back to the convictions
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Jewish seals from the Sasanian Empire, as well as 9781848312319, Pb was £11.99 now £4.95
comparative seals and other Sasanian artefacts. The
text identifies their provenance (if known), translates Folds of Parnassos, Land and Ethnicity in
their inscriptions, and organizes them by their Ancient Phokis, By Jeremy McInerney, This study
depiction or reference. 74p, b/w illus, University of explores how ecological conditions, land use, and
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aegean prehistory alliances created an ethnic identity that held the
region together over centuries despite repeated
Knossos Monastiriako Kephali Tomb invasions. 407p, University of Texas Press, 1999,
and ‘Deposit’, Edited by Laura Preston, The 9780292752306, Pb was £33.00 now £7.95
archaeological sites analysed in this volume include
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Minoan centre of Knossos on the island of Crete. Levett, In Women of Trachis Sophocles presents
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‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’, originally excavated in the who unintentionally poisoned her husband in
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9780904887662, Hb was £98.00 now £19.95 Thornton and M. K. Thornton, A re-evaluation of
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greece era, which analyses manpower costs, and aims
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Luck, Fate and Fortune, Antiquity and projects prioritized according to their necessity in
Its Legacy, By Esther Eidinow, Why and how terms of food supply to the capital, and the available
the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome manpower allocated accordingly. 156p, Bolchazy-
of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow’s Carducci Publishers, 1989, 9780865162020, Pb was
lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of £19.00 now £6.95
ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in
our own era, drawing on approaches to cognitive Women and Beauty in Pompeii, By Antonio
anthropology. 213p, Oxford University Press, 2011, D’Ambrosio, A well illustrated book on the women
9780195380798, Pb was £12.99 now £4.95 of Pompeii, including a discussion of the means
by which they took care of their bodies and the
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Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply of hygiene and bathing, the use of cosmetics and
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Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England, contributed to a growing feeling of self-awareness
Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder, in late medieval society. 270p, Pennsylvania
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Aegean Interactions The Birth of the Athenian Community
Delos and its Networks in the Third Century From Solon to Cleisthenes
By Christy Constantakopoulou By Sviatoslav Dmitriev
This volume addresses the Undermining the current dominant approach,
history of interaction in the which seeks to explain ancient Athens in terms of
Aegean world in the 3rd citizens and non-citizens, this book rationalizes the
century BC by focusing on the development of Athens, and other Greek poleis, as
island of Delos, which housed a gradually rising complexity, rather than a linear
one of its most important progression. Instead it foregrounds the evolving
regional sanctuaries. It draws relationship between three major groups: the
on contemporary network kinship community of the astoi, whose privileged
theory and approaches to status was due to their origins; the legal community
regionalism, as well as of the politai, who enjoyed legal and social equality
thorough investigation of in the polis; and the political community of the
the Delian epigraphic and demotai, or adult males with political rights.
material evidence, to explore 448p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138083516 Hb
how and to what degree the islands of the southern £115.00
Aegean formed active networks of political, religious,
and cultural interaction. Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being
352p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198787273 Hb Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens
£80.00 By Claire Taylor
Poverty in fifth- and fourth-
Colonization and Subalternity in century BCE Athens was a
Classical Greece markedly different concept
Experience of the Nonelite Population to that with which we are
By Gabriel Zuchtriegel familiar today. The ‘poor’
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and were considered to be
reconstructs the experience of nonelite colonial not only those who were
populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to destitute, or those who
analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of were living at the borders of
the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs subsistence, but also those
the social and economic structures in which who were moderately well-
exploitation, violence, and subjugation were off but had to work for a
implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, living. This study examines
as well as archaeological and data from excavations the implications of this
and field surveys, much of it published here for the conceptualisation, exploring the discourses that
first time, that offer new insights into the lives and constructed poverty as something to fear and
status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. linking them with experiences of penia among
282p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108419031 Hb different social groups in Athens.
£75.00 336p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786931 Hb £75.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Edited by Sarah Hitch & Ian Rutherford
This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost
experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit
from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of
twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole
of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in
Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of
osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as
part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through
consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as
Only distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many
previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the
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type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial
31st May ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
348p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521191036 Hb £75.00
Greece 41
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic Autour de l’Infanterie d’élite
World 350 – 30 BC Macédonienne à l’époque du Royaume
By John D. Grainger Antigonide
Rather than attempting Cinq Études Militaires Entre Histoire, Philologie
a narrative of the various et Archéologie
kingdoms, John Grainger By Pierre O. Juhel
takes a thematic approach, This volume presents five articles relating to
considering various aspects military studies in the context of Macedonia of
of Hellenistic kingship in the Antigonids. Combining literary studies and
turn. This allows him archaeological research, the author proposes
to highlight the common several new concepts on Hellenistic Macedonian
features as well as the military studies. Articles consider the
differences across the various Macedonian phalanx, Antigonid
dynasties, asking questions Redcoats, heavy infantry and
such as How did one become defensive weaponry under the
Only
king? How was a smooth succession secured and following headings. £23.00 until
what happened when it was not? What were the 31st May
288p, b/w and col illus
duties of a king, and what were the rewards and
(Archaeopress 2017) 9781784917326
distractions?
Pb £28.00
262p (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473863750 Hb £25.00
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient
The Hellenistic Court Greek Religion
Monarchic Power and Elite Society from
Alexander to Cleopatra Edited by Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt
Edited by A. Erskine, L. Llewellyn-Jones & S. Wallace This handbook’s initial chapters lay out the key
dimensions of ancient Greek religion, approaches
This volume examines royal methods and ideologies. to evidence, and the representations of myths.
It treats the courts of the Ptolemies, Seleucids, The following chapters discuss the continuities
Attalids, Antigonids and of lesser dynasties. It also and differences between religious practices in
explores the influence, on Greek-speaking courts, different cultures, including Egypt, the Near
of non-Greek culture, of Achaemenid and other East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. The
Near Eastern royal institutions. It studies the careers range of contributions emphasizes the diversity of
of courtesans, concubines and ‘friends’ of royalty, relationships between mortals and the supernatural
and the intellectual, ceremonial, – in all their manifestations, across, between, and
and artistic world of the Greek beyond ancient Greek cultures – and draws attention
monarchies. Ultimately it Only to religious activities as dynamic, highlighting how
demonstrates the complexity they changed over time, place, and context.
and motivations of Hellenistic £72.00 until
royal civilisation. 31st May 736p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780199642038
Hb £95.00, 9780198810179 Pb £30.00
600p, (Classical Press of Wales 2017)
9781910589625 Hb £90.00
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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Archetype of Wisdom
A Phenomenological Research on
The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation the Greek Temple
Report, Volume I By Roberto Malvezzi
History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery T h i s vo l u m e a n a l yze s
and Coins as Evidence for Dating the birth of the
Edited by Susan W. Katsev & Laina W. Swiney earliest Greek temples
The Kyrenia ship, a Greek through an innovative
merchantman built around phenomenological
315 BC and sunk off the north approach, in which lived
coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, experiences are assumed as
was excavated between 1967 key tools of investigation.
and 1972 under the direction This framework sheds a new
of Michael Katzev. The light on the relationship
importance of this ship lies b e twe e n ‘ hu m a n’ a n d
in the extraordinary state ‘divine’ in the ancient Greek
of preservation of the hull, world, and it suggests that
allowing great insights into the archetypal structure of temple was devised to
ancient shipbuilding, and facilitate a particular kind of experience, that of
in the cargo it was carrying. Its hold was full of the divine.
Rhodian transport amphoras and its cabin pottery 120p, (Mimesis International 2018) 9788869771507 Pb
was also mostly made on Rhodes, which was £14.00, NYP
probably its home port. This first of a planned
multi-volume publication includes a detailed Parian Polyandreia
history of the excavation of the ship, as well as the The Late Geometric Funerary Legacy
most important objects for determining the date of Cremated Soldiers’ Bones on Socio-
of its sinking. These include the primary cargo, Political Affairs and Military Organizational
transport amphorae, with four different types Preparedness in Ancient Greece
from Rhodes; fewer examples from By Anagnostis P. Agelarakis
Samos and the Cyclades (Paros), This book centres on the anthropological study
and possibly northern Greece, Only of two late 8th century BC monumental graves,
Cyprus and the Levant. designated as T144 and T105, at the ancient necropolis
£45.00 until
464p, b/w and col + additional of Paroikia at Paros. The study investigates inter-
folder of plans (Oxbow Books 2018) publication
island features of the human record, observable
9781785707520 Hb £60.00 as ingrained traces in the skeletal
record. These have particular
significance as they may relate Only
to Parian endeavours in the
Akragas northern Aegean to colonise £36.00 until
Current Issues in the Archaeology of Thasos. 31st May
a Sicilian Polis 412p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress
Edited by Natascha Sojc 2017) 9781784917197 Pb £45.00
Over the past few years,
the archaeological and The Agora Bone Well
architectural investigation By Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff &
of ancient Akragas (modern Lynn M. Snyder
Agrigento) in Sicily has Located outside the northwest corner of the
gathered new momentum. Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter
This book brings together of the 2nd century B.C., the well contained the
various researchers who remains of roughly 460 newborn infants, as well as
investigate the Greek period a few older individuals. Also found in the well were
remains, with discussion the bones of almost 150 dogs and other animals,
ranging from methodological plus various artefacts. In addition to a thorough
approaches and the examination of the contents of the well, the authors
interpretation of fresh field-data, to concerns of site compare the deposit with similar accumulations
maintenance and the reconstruction of monuments. found elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
The outcome is presented in thirteen contributions, 136p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at
arranged into sections on extramural survey, Athens 2018) 9780876615508 Pb £45.00, NYP
urban sanctuaries, housing, and on the suburban
sanctuary at S. Anna.
174p (Leiden UP 2017) 9789087282981 Pb £39.50
Rome
Brutus Roman Legionary 109–58
The Noble Conspirator The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great
By Kathryn Tempest By Ross Cowan
Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and This period of reform in the Roman Army is often
statesman, promoter of peace and commander overlooked, but the invincible armies that Julius
in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a Caesar led into Gaul were the refined products
controversial and enigmatic man even to those who of 50 years of military reforms. Using specially
knew him. In this comprehensive and stimulating commissioned artwork and detailed battle reports,
biography Kathryn Tempest delves into Brutus’ this new study examines the Roman legionary
own correspondence with Cicero, and explores soldier at this crucial time in the history of the
the perceptions of his peers, and Roman Republic from its domination by Marius
the Roman aristocratic values and Sulla to the beginning of the rise of Julius
and concepts that held sway in Only Caesar.
his time, to bring to light the £20.00 until 64p col illus (Osprey 2017) 9781472825193 Pb £11.99
personal and political struggles
Brutus faced. 31st May Virtus Romana
336p, b/w illus (Yale UP 2017) Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians
9780300180091 Hb £25.00 By Catalina Balmaceda
The political transformation
The Cambridge Companion to that took place at the end
the Writings of Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic
Edited by Luca Grillo & Christopher B. Krebs was a particularly rich area
This Companion provides an accessible introduction for analysis by the era’s
to Caesar as an intellectual along with a scholarly historians. These writers
assessment of his multiple literary accomplishments drew significantly on the
and new insights into their literary value. The Roman idea of virtus as
Commentarii and Caesar’s lost works are presented a way of interpreting and
in their historical and literary context. The various understanding their past.
chapters explore their main features, the connection Examining the work of
between literature, state religion and politics, Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and
Caesar’s debt to previous Greek and Latin authors, Tacitus, Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these
and his legacy within and outside of Latin literature. historical narratives served as a form of self-definition
415p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107023413 £74.99, which fostered and propagated a new model of the
9781107670495 Pb £24.99 ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times.
304p (University of North Carolina Press 2017)
9781469635125 Hb £46.50
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Lucullus The Cambridge Companion to
The Life and and Campaigns of a Roman the Age of Nero
Conqueror Edited by Shadi Bartsch, Kirk Freudenburg & Cedric
By Lee Fratantuono Littlewood
The military achievements of Lucius Licinius This volume provides a lively and accessible guide
Lucullus (118-57/56 B.C.) have been the subject of to the various representations and interpretations
admiration and great respect throughout the history of the Emperor Nero. The major achievements of
of the study of warfare. Lee Frantantuono considers the period in the fields of literature, governance,
every aspect of Lucullus life, starting with the architecture and art are freshly described and
training and education of a future Roman officer, analysed, and special attention is paid to the
but the greatest emphasis is on his military strategy reception of Nero in the Roman and Christian eras
and tactics during the Third Mithridatic War and of the first centuries AD and beyond.
his military adventures in Armenia, including the 428p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107052208 Hb £74.99,
famous victory of Tigranocerta. 9781107669239 Pb £24.99
188p, Approx 32 col photos (Pen & Sword 2017)
9781473883611 Hb £19.99 Herod
King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
Rome, Blood and Politics By Peter Richardson & Amy Marie Fisher
Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the This book examines the life, work, and influence
Late Republic of the controversial figure of Herod, who remains
By Gareth C. Sampson the most highly visible of the Roman client kings
The last century of the Roman Republic saw the under Augustus. In this expanded second edition,
consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series additions to the original text include discussion
of high-profile politicians who proposed political of the archaeological evidence of Herod’s activity,
or social reform programmes. Each met a violent his building program, numismatic evidence, and
response from elements of the ruling order, leading consideration of the roles and activities of other
to murder and even battles on the streets of Rome. client kings in relation to Herod.
Covering the period 133 – 70 BC, this volume 456p, b/w illus (Routledge, 2nd ed 2017) 9781138803923
analyses each of the key reformers, what they were Hb £115.00
trying to achieve and how they met their end.
312p (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473887329 Hb £25.00 Rome and the Third Macedonian War
By Paul J. Burton
Emperor Alexander Severus This is the first full-
Rome’s Age of Insurrection, AD 222–235 length study of the final
By John S. McHugh war between Rome and
Alexander Severus’ is full of controversy and the ancient Macedonian
contradictions. He came to the throne through the monarchy and its last king,
brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was Perseus. The Roman victory
ultimately assassinated himself. The years between at the Battle of Pydna in June
were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, 168 BC was followed by the
court intrigue and foreign invasion. Yet the ancient abolition of the kingdom of
sources generally present his reign as a golden Macedon. The first historian
age of just government, prosperity and religious of Rome’s rise to world
tolerance. John McHugh re-assesses this fascinating power, and a contemporary
emperor in detail. of the war, Polybius of Megalopolis, recognized the
320p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473845817 Hb significance of these events in making Rome an
£25.00 almost global power beyond compare.
288p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107104440 Hb £75.00
Caracalla
A Military Biography The Afterlife of Cicero
By Ilkka Syvanne Edited by Gesine Manuwald
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any This volume publishes papers from a conference
Roman Emperor, but in this book Ilkka Syvanne which aimed to enlarge the basis for the study
explains how the biased ancient sources in of Cicero’s reception, by examining in detail new
combination with the stern looking statues of the aspects of its variety. It presents twelve case studies
emperor have created a distorted image of the man on the reception of ‘Cicero the writer’ and ‘Cicero
and then reconstructs the actual events, particularly the man’, ranging from thirteenth-century Italy to
his military campaigns and reforms, to offer a nineteenth-century England, including colonial
balanced view of his reign. Latin America.
336p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473895249 Hb 200p (Institute of Classical Studies 2017) 9781905670642
£25.00 Pb £65.00
Rome 45
In Search of Ancient North Africa Emulating Alexander
A History in Six Lives How Alexander the Great’s Legacy Fuelled
By Barnaby Rogerson Rome’s Wars with Persia
This book, part history, By Glenn Barnett
part travel writing, explores This book gives an account of the Roman relationship
ancient North Africa through with Persia and how it was shaped by the desire
the lives of five men and one to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of
woman: Queen Dido, King Alexander. Even as the empire declined, court
Juba, Septimius Severus, propagandists and courtiers looked for flattering
St Augustine, Hannibal, ways to compare their now-throne-bound emperors
and Masinissa. In between with Alexander. While the Romans dreamed of
these life stories, Rogerson conquering the Persian realm, the Persians of
describes ruins which the Parthian and Sasanian dynasties dreamed of
tell their own tales and regaining the lands of the eastern Mediterranean
demonstrates the multiple snatched from their Achaemenid ancestors by
interconnections that bind the culture of this region Alexander.
with the wider world, particularly the spiritual 192p, 20 illus (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781526703002 Hb
traditions of the ancient Near East. £19.99
336p, b/w pls (Haus 2017) 9781909961548 Hb £20.00
Rome, Empire of Plunder
Security in Roman Times: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation
Italy, Rome and the Emperors Edited by Matthew Loar, Carolyn MacDonald & Dan-
By Cecilia Ricci el Padilla Peralta
In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus The studies gathered in this volume range from
continued to provide for his physical safety in the the literary thefts of the first Latin comic poets to
same way as in the old Republic while, at the same the grand-scale spoliation of Egyptian obelisks
time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the by a succession of emperors, and from Hispania
city. This volume examines both the circumstances to Pergamon to Qasr Ibrim. Applying a range of
in which these security forces intervened and the theoretical perspectives on cultural appropriation,
strategies that they adopted. The final section contributors probe the violent interactions and
expands the focus from the city of Rome to the chance contingencies that sent cargo of all sorts
Italian peninsula where the security of the emperor into circulation around the Roman Mediterranean,
as he travelled to his country residences required causing recurrent distortions in their individual and
advance planning and implementation. aggregate meanings.
256p (Routledge 2018) 9781472460158 Hb £115.00 336p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108418423 Hb
£90.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden
Religion at the Roman Street Corner
By Harriet I. Flower
Throughout the Roman world, neighbourhood street corners, farm boundaries,
and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of
cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by
ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, to whom the lares cult
provided a unique public leadership role. Harriet Flower offers a strikingly
original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived
experience of everyday Roman religion. She makes the case that they are not
spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors
– gods of place, especially the household and the neighbourhood, and of
travel. She examines the rituals honouring the lares, their cult
sites, and their iconography. She also looks at Compitalia,
Only a popular midwinter neighbourhood festival in honour of
£32.00 until the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing
violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out
31st May to ordinary people.
416p, b/w and col illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691175003 Hb £37.95
46 Rome
Sociological Studies in Roman History Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire
By Keith Hopkins to AD 300
This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins’ essays By John D. Grainger
on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, This book is a consideration, based on original
demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, sources, of the means by which Syrians, whose
imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, country was only annexed to the empire in 64
and the social and political structures of the ancient BC, saw their influence penetrate into all levels
world. The papers have been re-edited and revised of Roman society. Attention is given to Syria’s
with accompanying essays by Hopkins’ colleagues, place in the imperial economy, the major military
friends and former students. contribution of Syrian auxiliary regiments, and the
612p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107018914 Hb influence of Syrian religious cults.
£110.00 336p (Routledge 2017) 9781138071230 Hb £105.00
Trade, Commerce, and the State in The Demography of Roman Italy
the Roman World Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest
Edited by Alan Bowman & Andrew Wilson Society 201 BCE–14 CE
This volume presents eighteen papers by leading By Saskia Hin
Roman historians and archaeologists discussing This book provides a fresh perspective on the
trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 population history of Italy during the late Republic.
BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary
Roman state in shaping the institutional framework approach to investigate demographic trends and the
for trade within and outside the empire, in taxing demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin
that trade, and in intervening in the markets to shows how they adapted to changing economic,
ensure the supply of particular commodities, climatic and social conditions in a period of
especially for the city of Rome and for the army. intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the
688p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198790662 Hb demographic toll taken by warfare and rising social
£110.00 complexity leads her to a revisionist ‘middle count’
scenario of population development in Italy.
When in Rome 420p, b/w figs (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017)
Social Life in Ancient Rome 9781107003934 Hb £77.00, 9781108406536 Pb £27.99
By Paul Chrystal
Paul Chrystal gives us a vibrant, accessible social Migration, Mobility and Place
history of Rome, featuring hundreds of translations in Ancient Italy
of inscriptions and graffiti and evidence culled By Elena Isayev
from the visual arts, curse tablets, official records Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
and letters both private and official. He explores challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie
how Roman men, women and children lived their to the land and a demographically settled world.
lives on a daily basis taking in marriage, slavery, It argues that much human mobility in the last
gladiators, medicine, magic, religion, superstition millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In
and the occult; sex, work and play, education, death, particular, outside the military context ‘the foreigner
housing, country life and city life. in our midst’ was not regarded as a problem.
288p, col pls (Fonthill Media Ltd 2017) 9781781556047 Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were
Hb £25.00 those difficult to cross.
502p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107130616 Hb £105.00
The Roman Community at Table during
the Principate Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
By John F. Donahue By Anna Collar
Donahue’s study demonstrates the integral place of Anna Collar explores the relationship between
feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique social networks and religious transmission to
power of food to unite and to separate its recipients explore why some religious movements of the
along class lines throughout the Empire. This Roman Empire succeeded, while others, seemingly
expanded edition includes significant new material equally successful at a certain time, ultimately
on current trends in food studies, including the failed. Using extensive epigraphic data, Collar
archaeology and bioarchaeology of ancient food provides new interpretations of the diffusion of
and drink; an additional collection of inscriptions ideas across the social networks of the Jewish
on public banquets from the Roman West; and an Diaspora and the cults of Jupiter Dolichenus and
extensive bibliography of scholarship produced in Theos Hypsistos, and in turn offers important
the last ten years. reappraisals of the spread of religious innovations
392p (University of Michigan Press 2nd ed 2017) in the Roman Empire.
9780472036950 Hb £33.95 331p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107655041 Pb
£27.99
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The Roman Mithras Cult Beyond Priesthood
A Cognitive Approach Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in
By Olympia Panagiotidou & Roger Beck the Roman Empire
In this ground-breaking study on one of the Edited by Georgia Petridou, Richard L Gordon & Jorg
most intriguing and mysterious ancient cults, Rupke
Olympia Panagiotidou, with contributions from Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies
Roger Beck, shows how cognitive historiography of civic priests, the papers presented here examine
can supplement our historical knowledge. It a wider range of religious professionals, their
identifies the cognitive and psychological processes dynamic interaction with established religious
which would have taken place in the minds and authorities and institutions, and their contributions
bodies of the Mithraists during their initiation to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean
and participation in the mysteries, enabling the world, from the late Hellenistic period through to
perception, apprehension, and integration of the Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland
essential images and assumptions of the cult in its Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek
worldview system. civic practice to ancient Judaism.
240p, 15 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781472567413 Hb 460p (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9783110447019 Hb
£85.00 £110.00
Celtic Religions in the Roman Period Word and Context in Latin Poetry
Personal, Local, and Global Studies in Memory of David West
Edited by Ralph Haeussler & Thomas King Edited by A. J. Woodman & J. Wisse
This multi-authored book brings together new This volume of essays is intended to commemorate
work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known
on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and
provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are Shakespeare. The authors covered are Empedocles,
the work of international experts in the fields of Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus,
classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius,
studies. Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of
552p, b/w and col illus (Celtic Studies Publications 2017) Lavardin.
9781891271250 Pb £39.95 182p (Cambridge Philological Society 2017)
9780956838155 Hb £45.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii
By Eric E. Poehler
Eric E. Poehler distills over five hundred instances of street-level “wear and tear”
to reveal for the first time the rules of the ancient road. From his analysis of
curbstones, cobbled surfaces, and ruts emerge the intricacies of the Pompeian
traffic system and the changes to its operation over time. Though archaeological
expertise forms the backbone of this book, its findings have equally important
historical and architectural implications. Later chapters probe the impact of
design and infrastructure on social roles and hierarchies among
property owners in Pompeii, illuminating the economic forces
Only that push and pull upon the shape of urban space. The
£47.00 until final chapters set the road system into its broader context as
one major infrastructural and administrative artefact of the
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Roman empire’s deeply urban culture.
288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190614676 Hb £55.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Decorated Roman Armour
From the Ages of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great
By Raffaele D’Amato & Andrey Evgenevich Negin
This book presents a richly illustrated examination of Roman decorated
armour. Its chronological chapters comprise detailed description
of individual pieces, discussion of typology and iconography,
and analysis of manufacturing processes and practical usage.
Only
Overall the authors contend that this was not gear designed
£24.00 until solely for the parade ground and the triumph, but also had
31st May a real role to play in battle.
256p, col illus (Frontline 2017) 9781473892873 Hb £30.00
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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books
Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards Clash of Cultures?
in Britain The Romano-British Period in the
By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, West Midlands
Colin Haselgrove & David J. Mattingly Edited by Roger White & Mike Hodder
More coin hoards have The general perception of
been recorded from Roman the west midlands region in
Britain than from any other the Roman period is that it
province of the Empire. This was a backwater compared to
comprehensive and lavishly the militarised frontier zone
illustrated volume provides of the north, or the south of
a survey of over 3260 hoards Britain where Roman culture
of Iron Age and Roman coins took root early – in cities
found in England and Wales like Colchester, London and
with a detailed analysis St Albans – and lingered
and discussion. Theories late at cities like Cirencester
of hoarding and deposition and Bath with their rich,
and examined, national and regional patterns in late Roman villa culture. Where the west midlands
the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, differed, and why, are important questions in
together with an analysis of those hoards whose understanding the regional diversity of Roman
findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found Britain. They are addressed by this volume which
in archaeological excavations. It also includes an details the archaeology of the Roman period
unprecedented examination of the containers in for each of the modern counties of the region,
which coin hoards were buried and the objects written by local experts who are or have been
found with them. The patterns of hoarding in responsible for the management and exploration
Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th of their respective counties. These are placed
century AD are discussed. The volume also provides alongside more thematic takes on elements of
a survey of Britain in the 3rd century Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery,
AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the
are known from the period from Only important transitional period of the fifth and sixth
AD 253–296. £48.75 until
centuries. This is the third volume in a series – The
496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Making of the West Midlands – that
publication explores the archaeology of the
Books 2018) 9781785708558 Hb
£65.00 English west midlands region
from the Lower Palaeolithic Only
Journal of Roman Pottery onwards. £22.50 until
Studies Volume 17 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication
Edited by Steven Willis Books 2018) 9781785709227 Hb
Topics include: evidence £30.00
of Late Iron Age and early
Roman pottery forms and
fabrics from west and east
Kent; ceramic fire-dogs Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology,
discovered in the area Issue 8 (2017)
of the Dutch Lowlands Edited by David Mason
and Flanders; portable A bumper edition of the annual round-up of
Roman ceramic ovens and archaeological work on Hadrian’s Wall. Articles
baking plates recorded report on a substantial number of projects at sites
in recent years in Britain; including the vicus at Dorcas Avenue, Benwell,
amphorae from the eastern Vindolanda, Piercebridge, Netherby, Binchester,
Mediterranean in northern Europe and pottery Haltwhistle Burn and Lanchester, as well as on two
used in Roman ritual and religion; events - the Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology Forum for
and the pottery production site 2016 and the spectucular re-enactment of a series
at Snape, Suffolk, and the types Only of maneouvres from the time of Hadrian by a full
produced. £28.50 until cavalry squadron.
96p, b/w and col (Oxbow Books 72p col illus (Durham County Council 2017)
publication
2018) 9781785709340 Pb £38.00 9781907445835 Pb £6.00
54 Roman Britain
Late Antiquity & Byzantium
Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and Amalasuintha
the Early Middle Ages The Transformation of Queenship in
Contact and Exchange between the Graeco- the Post-Roman World
Roman World, Inner Asia and China By Massimiliano Vitiello
Edited byHyun Jin Kim, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet & In this book, Massimiliano
Selim Ferruh Adali Vitiello situates the life and
This collection of studies examines the history, career of the Ostrogothic
literature and archaeology of empires such as queen Amalasuintha (c.
ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, 494/5-535), in the context of
the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks among the transitional time, after the
others, as a single inter-connected subject of inquiry. fall of Rome, during which
It highlights in particular the critical role of Inner new dynastic regimes were
Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts experimenting with various
and exchange across the Eurasian continent in forms of political legitimation.
antiquity and the early Middle Ages. He argues that Amalasuintha’s
346p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107190412 Hb story reveals a key phase in
£75.00 the transformation of queenship in which royal
women slowly began exercising political power.
The Two Eyes of the Earth 344p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017)
Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome 9780812249477 Hb £58.00
and Sasanian Iran
By Matthew P. Canepa
Gaiseric
The Vandal Who Sacked Rome
This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in
the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning By Ian Hughes
the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates While Gaiseric has not become a household name
the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged like other ‘barbarian’ leaders such as Attila, his sack
in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals,
the traditional divide between classical and Iranian synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric,
history, this book brings to life the dazzling courts of however, was no mindless thug, proving himself a
two global powers that deeply affected the cultures highly skilful political and military leader and one
of medieval Europe, Byzantium, Islam, South Asia, of the dominant forces in Western Mediterranean
and China. region for almost half a century. Ian Hughes
456p b/w illus (University of California Press 2010, pb provides a predominantly military account of
2017) 9780520257276 Hb £70.95, 9780520294837 Pb Gaiseric’s career, focusing on his conquest of North
£27.95 Africa and his involvement in Imperial politics.
278p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781781590188 Hb
£25.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Fate of Rome
Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
By Kyle Harper
The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate
change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power - a story of
nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative
with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how
the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but
also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses
and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second
century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its
Only unravelling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically
fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the
£24.00 until Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental
31st May stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the
combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.
440p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691166834 Hb £27.95
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Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries Forthcoming from Oxbow Books
in Late Roman North Africa
By Shira L. Lander The Bir Messaouda Basilica
In this study Lander examines the rhetorical Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban
and physical battles for sacred space between Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage
practitioners of traditional Roman religion, By Richard Miles & Simon Greenslade
Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. This volume charts the
He demonstrates that the quantity and harshness radical transformation of an
of discursive and physical attacks on ritual spaces inner city neighbourhood
directly correlates to their symbolic value. This in late antique Carthage.
heightened valuation reached such a level that rivals It remained primarily
were willing to violate conventional Roman norms residential from the second
of property rights to display spatial control. century until 530s AD when
266p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107146945 a substantial basilica was
Hb £75.00 constructed over the eastern
half of the insula. Further
The Darkening Age extensive modifications
The Christian Destruction of the Classical World were made to the basilica
By Catherine Nixey half-a-century later. The Bir Messaouda basilica
Catherine Nixey here contends that Christianity provides important insights into the transition
comprehensively and deliberately extinguished between Vandal and Byzantine control of the
the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in city, the development of a new Christian inter-
centuries of unquestioning adherence to ‘one true mural urban landscape in the sixth
faith’. From the 1st century to the 6th, those who century AD, and the significance
didn’t fall into step with its beliefs were pursued of the pilgrimage in reinforcing Only
in every possible way: social, legal, financial and ecclesiastical authority in post- £41.25 until
physical. Their altars were upturned and their Justinianic North Africa.
publication
temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces 368p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017)
and their priests killed. 9781785706806 Hb £55.00
352p col pls (Pan 2017) 9781509812325 Hb £20.00
Butrint 5: Life and Death at
The Early Christian World a Mediterranean Port
Edited byPhilip F. Esler The Non-Ceramic Finds from the Triconch
The Early Christian World provides comprehensive Palace
coverage of the origins, development, character By William Bowden
and major figures of early Christianity. For the This is the second volume
new edition, a quarter of the text is entirely new arising from the 1994–2003
and the remaining essays have all been carefully excavations of the Triconch
revised and updated by their authors. New material Palace at Butrint (Albania),
discusses book culture, canonical and non- which charted the history
canonical scriptures, saints and hagiography, and of a major Mediterranean
translation across cultures, as well as Jewish and waterfront site from the 2nd
Christian interaction in the early centuries, ritual, to the 15th centuries AD. This
the New Testament in Roman Britain, Manichaeism, volume reports on the finds
Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. from the site (excluding the
1250p b/w illus (Routledge, 2nd ed 2017) 9781138200074 pottery), which demonstrate
Hb £175.00 the ways in which the lives,
diet and material culture of a Mediterranean
The Key to the Brescia Casket population changed across the arc of the late Roman
Typology and the Early Christian Imagination and Medieval periods. It includes discussion of the
By Catherine Brown Tkacz environmental evidence, the human and faunal
The elusive rationale for the Brescia Casket, an remains, metal-working evidence, and the major
ivory reliquary carved in northern Italy ca. 390, has assemblages of glass, coins and small finds, giving an
long tantalized scholars. This book argues that its insight into the health, subsistence
meaning lies in exegetical typology-the interpretation base and material culture of the
of Old Testament people and events as prefiguring population of a Mediterranean Only
the Messiah. Tkacz contends that the Casket is in site across more than 1000 years.
£33.75 until
effect a visual sermon on the unity of the Bible’s two 320p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow
publication
testaments, an important theological issue of the time. Books 2018) 9781785708978 Hb
280p, b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2017) £45.00
9780268160449 Hb £100.00
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Concubines and Courtesans Textiles of the Middle East and
Women and Slavery in Islamic History Central Asia
Edited by Matthew S. Gordon & Kathryn A. Hain The Fabric of Life
Concubines and Courtesans By Fahmida Suleman
contains sixteen essays that This well-illustrated book
consider, from a variety explores the significance and
of viewpoints, enslaved beauty of textiles from across
and freed women across this vast and culturally
medieval and pre-modern diverse region dating from
Islamic social history. the late eighteenth century
The essays bring together to the present day. The book
arguments regarding slavery, is arranged thematically,
gender, social networking, enabling cross-regional
cultural production (songs, comparisons of the function
poetry and instrumental and symbolic meaning of
music), sexuality, Islamic textiles. Five chapters relate
family law, and religion in the shaping of Near to facets or phases of a person’s life in which textiles
Eastern and Islamic society over time. feature prominently: childhood, marriage and
400p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190622183 Hb £64.00 ceremony, status and identity, religion and belief,
and house and homestead. A final chapter includes
Developing Perspectives in Mamluk contemporary works that grapple with modern
History political issues.
Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni 269p col illus (Thames and Hudson 2017) 9780500519912
Edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat Hb £29.95
T h i s vo l u m e co nt a i n s
seventeen essays on the Philosophy and The Intellectual Life
M a m l u k Su l t a n a t e . I t in Shiah Islam
discusses topics as varied as Symposium 2015
social and cultural issues, Edited by Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad & Sajjad H. Rizvi
women in Mamluk society, This volume offers insight into the rich intellectual
literary and poetical genres, history in Shīah Islam of examining enduring
the politics of material and integral theological, mystical, metaphysical,
culture, and regional and and epistemological questions. The chapters are
local politics. broad in scope, commencing from the classical
414p (Brill 2017) period of philosophical theology and proceeding
9789004340466 Hb £128.00 to examine philosophical aspects of the thought
of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd, Mīr Dāmād, and Mullā
Ṣadrā, amongst others.
276p, (The Shīah Institute Press 2017) 9780993588433
Hb £139.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Persian Historic Urban Landscapes
Interpreting and Managing Maibud Over 6000 Years
By Eisa Esfanjary
Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient
settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically. Maibud provides
the basis from which a new interpretive approach is developed, being a city that
has a history of several millennia yet has a scale that renders it manageable with
archaeological remains that range across several phases of building development.
Within this overall picture, a methodology is developed to explore
various morphological elements of the city, the three key
components of which are the town plan, the building type,
Only and construction materials. The inter-relationships between
£80.00 until these three components are explained in order to formulate
31st May an approach to support the management and conservation of
the historic urban landscape.
256p, col illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474412780 Hb £95.00
Islam 61
Anglo-Saxon & Viking
Alfred the Great
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Daniel Anlezark
Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon This book provides an
accessible reassessment
England of the famous ruler of
Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century Wessex, informed by current
By Mark McKarracher scholarship, both on the
Farming Transformed king as a man in history, and
is the first book to draw the king as a subsequent
together the variegated legendary construct. The
ev i d e n ce o f p o l l e n , book engages with current
sediments, charred seeds, dis cus s ions about the
animal bones, watermills, authenticity of attributions to
corn-drying ovens, Alfred of works such as the
granaries and stockyards Old English Boethius and
on an extensive, regional Soliloquies, and explores
scale. The result is an how this ninth-century king of Wessex came to
inter-disciplinary dataset considered the ‘’Great’’ king of legend.
of unprecedented scope 115p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401285 Pb £11.95
and size, which reveals how cereal cultivation
boomed, and new watermills, granaries and Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon
ovens were erected to cope with – and flaunt England, 871–978
– the fat of the land. As arable farming grew Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages
at the expense of pasture, sheep and cattle By Levi Roach
came under closer management and lived
longer lives, yielding more wool, dairy goods, Levi Roach argues that assemblies were not a check
and traction power for ploughing. These and on kingship in the later Anglo-Saxon period, but
other innovations are found to be concentrated rather an essential feature of it. In particular, he
at royal, aristocratic and monastic centres, highlights the role of symbolic communication at
placing lordship at the forefront of agricultural assemblies, arguing that ritual and demonstration
innovation, and farming as the force behind were as important in English politics as they were
kingdom-formation and economic resurgence in elsewhere in Europe. Far from being exceptional,
the seventh and eighth centuries. the methods of rulership employed by English kings
look very much like those witnessed elsewhere on
144p, b/w illus (Windgather Press 2018) 9781911188315 the continent.
Pb £34.99
316p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107036536 Hb
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of £62.00, 9781316648520 Pb £20.99
Southern Britain AD 450–650 Aelfred’s Britain
By Martin Welch & Sue Harrington War and Peace in the Viking Age
This volume adopts a new By Max Adams
approach to the social
and economic realities of Traditionally, Aelfred the
the communities of early Great is cast as the central
Anglo-Saxon England player in the story of Viking
based on archaeological Age Britain. But Max Adams,
information from 12,000 while stressing the genius
burials and 28,000 objects. of Aelfred as war leader,
The nature, distribution law-giver, and forger of the
and spatial relationships English nation, has a more
of settlement and burial nuanced and variegated
evidence are examined narrative to relate. The
over time against a background of the productive Britain encountered by the
capabilities of the environment in which they are Scandinavians of the ninth
set, the availability of raw materials, evidence for and tenth centuries was one
metalworking and other industrial/craft activities, of regional diversity and self-
and communication and trade routes. conscious cultural identities: of Picts, Dal Riatans
and Strathclyde Britons; of Bernicians and Deirans,
240p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2014, Pb 2018) East Anglians, Mercians and West Saxons.
9781785709708 Pb £40.00
512p col pls(Head of Zeus 2017) 9781784080303 Hb
£25.00
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The Formation of the English Kingdom Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated
in the Tenth Century Old English Hexateuch
By George Molyneaux By Herbert R. Broderick
The central argument of this study is that the In Moses the Egyptian,
English kingdom which existed at the time of the Herbert Broderick analyzes
Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical the iconography of Moses
parameters of a set of administrative reforms in the famous illuminated
implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, eleventh-century manuscript
and not by a vision of English unity going back known as the Illustrated
to Alfred the Great (871-899). Detailed analysis of Old English Hexateuch.
coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests Broderick argues that the
that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) visual construct of may
that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively have been based on a Late
standardised administrative apparatus of the so- Antique, no longer extant,
called ‘Anglo-Saxon state’. prototype influenced
320p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9780198717911 by works of Hellenistic
£65.00, 9780198813460 Pb £24.99 Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses
the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king,
Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo- military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe.
Saxon England 368p b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2017)
Edited by Rory Naismith & David A. Woodman 9780268102050 Hb £77.50
The essays which make
up this book explore the
Archetypal Narratives
nexus between authority Pattern and Parable in the Lives of Three Saints
and written sources from By Elizabeth M Krajewski
A n g l o - S axo n E ng l a n d. This book sets the earliest extant Lives of Sts
Central themes include the Brigit, Samson, and Cuthbert in their specifically
formation of power in early Christian and biblical context, recognizing that
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms much of the anecdotal material in the narratives
during the age of Bede (d. is modelled on biblical precedents, and that
735) and Offa of Mercia their authors and first audiences were Christian
(757-96), authority and its monastics in regions that were in the process of
articulation in the century becoming Christianized.It poses the possibility
from Edgar (959-75) to 1066, that many of the stories within them are actually
and the significance of books and texts in expressing parables – stories intended to be both metaphorical
power across the period. and illustrative, but hardly factual.
360p b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107160972 258p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577111 Pb £58.00
Hb £90.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Medieval European Coinage
Volume 8, Britain and Ireland c.400-1066
By Rory Naismith
This volume of Medieval European Coinage traces the coinage and monetary
history of Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages, offering the first major
single-volume treatment of the subject in decades. It examines the period from
the end of the Roman province of Britain in the fifth century to the Norman
Conquest of England in 1066 and the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in
1169-71. The volume re-evaluates the complex seventh- and eighth-century
English coinages, follows the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon coinage into
one of the most sophisticated monetary systems in medieval
Europe, and also covers the coins issued by Viking settlers
Only
in parts of England and Ireland. This landmark volume
£130.00 is supported by one of the most complete catalogues of
until the period illustrating the world-class collection of the
31st May Fitzwilliam Museum.
922p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521260169 Hb £150.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Viking Britain
By Tom Williams
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of
the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked:
their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. Between the
conventional beginning of the Viking Age in the late eighth century and its
close in the eleventh, Scandinavian people and culture were involved with
Britain to a degree that has left a permanent impression on these
islands. They came to plunder and, ultimately, to settle, to
Only colonize and to rule. By the time of the Norman Conquest,
much of Britain might justifiably be described as ‘Viking’,
£21.00 until
and in language, literature, place-names and folklore, the
31st May presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt.
416p (William Collins 2017) 9780008171933 Hb £25.00
65
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Graphic Devices and the Early
Ages, c.AD 600–1150 Decorated Book
A Comparative Archaeology Edited by Michelle Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov &
By Christopher Loveluck Benjamin C. Tilghman
Christopher Loveluck’s study explores the This volume illuminates
transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily o u r u n d e rs t a n d i n g o f
Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the the processes of cultural
first post-Roman ‘European Union’ under the transition from late Antiquity
Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called ‘feudal’ to the Middle Ages. The
age, between c.AD 600 and 1150. Loveluck provides essays add to the growing
the most comprehensive comparative analysis of scholarship on the medieval
the rural and urban archaeological remains in schematic and diagramming
this area for twenty-five years, explaining how the imagination, exploring some
power and intentions of elites were confronted of the many ways in which
by the aspirations and actions of the diverse rural the spatial arrangement and
peasantry, artisans and merchants, producing both patterning of text, graphic
intended and unforeseen social changes. sign, and figural image generated meaning for
490p, b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) medieval viewers, readers, and performers of
9781107037632 Hb £93.00, 9781316648544 Pb £22.99 the written word. Among the individual topics
addressed are monograms; the
The Plow, the Pen and the Sword appearance of the cross in early
Images and Self-Images of Medieval People medieval Christian manuscripts; Only
in the Low Countries and Anglo-Saxon decorated £48.00 until
By Rudi Kunzel initials.
31st May
This book compares the cultures of the different 316p col illus (Boydell & Brewer
social groups living in the Low Countries in the 2017) 9781783272266 Hb £60.00
early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and Venice and Its Neighbors
townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labour,
property, violence, and the handling and showing of from the 8th to 11th Century
emotions. Four case studies explore the interaction Through Renovation and Continuity
between group cultures, focusing respectively on the Edited by Sauro Gelichi & Stefano Gasparri
influence of oral and written traditions on a literary An account of the formation and character of early
work, rituals as a means of conflict management in Venice, drawing on archaeological evidence from
weakly centralized societies, stories as an expression Venice and related sites, and written sources. The
of an urban group mentality, and beliefs on death volume covers topics including: Venice’s role within
and the afterlife. the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna during the 7th
408p (Routledge 2017) 9781472442109 Hb £105.00 century; its independence in the mid-8th century;
and its position as a dominant European and
Mediterranean power.
208p, (Brill 2017) 9789004352407 Hb £84.00
Medieval Britain
Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Henry III
Historical Writing The Great King England Never Knew It Had
By Emily A. Winkler By Darren Baker
This book illuminates the historical agendas of Henry III (1207-72) reigned for 56 years, the longest-
four historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of serving English monarch until the modern era.
Huntingdon, John of Worcester, and Geffrei Gaimar. Admired for his building projects like Westminster
In their narratives of England’s eleventh-century Abbey, he is nevertheless dismissed by scholars as
history, these twelfth-century historians expanded weak and inept, at least compared to his father King
their approach to historical explanation to include John and son Edward I. This biography challenges
individual responsibility and accountability within that perception and shows that he was in fact a more
a framework of providential history. They share a than capable ruler.
view of royal responsibility independent both of 384p col illus (The History Press 2017) 9780750968140
their sources (primarily the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) Hb £20.00
and of any political agenda that placed English and
Norman allegiances in opposition.
352p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198812388 Hb £65.00
66
English Identity and Political Culture Maintenance in Medieval England
in the Fourteenth Century By Jonathan Rose
By Andrea Ruddick Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in
Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic another person’s litigation, was a source of repeated
relationship between nationality and subjecthood in complaint in medieval England. Extensive study
the king of England’s domains, a sense of English of the primary sources shows that the statutes
identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of prohibiting maintenance did not achieve their
a significant section of political society during the objectives because legal proceedings were rarely
fourteenth century. The book also reassesses the brought against those targeted by the statutes: the
role of the English language in fourteenth-century great and the powerful. Furthermore, medieval
national sentiment and questions the traditional judges recognized a number of valid justifications
reliance on the English vernacular as an index of for intermeddling in litigation.
national feeling. 200p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107043985 Hb £85.00
370p (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) 9781107007260 Hb
£67.00, 9781316648858 Pb £21.99 Ceremony and Civility
Civic Culture in Late Medieval London
Northern England and Southern By Barbara A. Hanawalt
Scotland in the Central Middle Ages Barbara Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle
Edited by Keith J. Stringer & Angus J.L. Winchester Ages, London’s elected officials and elites used
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy
of the development of northern England and and power. These civic ceremonies helped delineate
southern Scotland in the formative era of the the relationship between London’s mayors and
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Key questions the crown, but also between denizens and their
addressed include: How did “middle Britain” government, between gild wardens and their
come to be divided between two separate unitary members, between masters and apprentices, and
kingdoms called “England” and “Scotland”? How, between parishioners and their churches.
and how differently, was government exercised and 240p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780190490393 Hb £64.00,
experienced? What can be learned about the rural 9780190490409 Pb £16.99
and the emerging urban environments in terms of
lordly exploitation and control, settlement patterns The Gentry of North Wales in
and how the landscape itself evolved? the Later Middle Ages
384p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272662 By A. D. Carr
Hb £60.00 This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales
from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth
Early Common Petitions in the English century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor
Parliament, c.1290–c.1420 state in the sixteenth. It describes the development
Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Helen Killick & of the gentry in one part of Wales from an earlier
Phil Bradford social structure and an earlier pattern of land
In the process of compiling the common tenure, and how the gentry came to rule their
petitions, much proposed business was set aside localities.
and not committed to the permanent record of 304p (University of Wales Press 2017) 9781786831354
the parliament roll. A significant body of that Pb £24.99
‘lost’ material is published here for the first time,
providing a fresh understanding of the full range of Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval
preoccupations of the medieval House of Commons and Early Modern England
as it emerged as the mouthpiece of the political A History of Sorcery and Treason
community before the king. By Francis Young
310p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108419673 Hb £44.99 Francis Young here offers the first concerted
historical analysis of allegations of the use of
Edward I and the Governance of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else
England, 1272–1307 manipulate the course of political events in England.
By Caroline Burt He argues that while charges of treasonable
Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, magic certainly were used to destroy reputations
Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt examines or to ensure the convictions of
how Edward’s governance at a national level was undesirables, magic was also
reflected in different localities. She employs novel perceived as a genuine threat by Only
methodology to measure levels of disorder and English governments into the £48.00 until
the effects of government action, and uncovers a Civil War era and beyond.
31st May
remarkably sophisticated approach to governance. 2 5 6 p , ( I . B . Ta u r i s 2 0 1 7 )
314p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017) 9780521889995 Hb 9781788310215 Hb £59.00
£67.00, 9781108441216 Pb £22.99
Medieval Britain 67
Richard III
NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Brother, Protector, King
The Wealth of England By Chris Skidmore
The medieval wool trade and its political By stripping back the legends that surround
importance 1100–1600 Richard’s life and reign, and returning to original
manuscript evidence, Chris Skidmore rediscovers
By Susan Rose the man as contemporaries saw him. His compelling
In The Wealth of England study presents every facet of Richard’s personality as
Susan Rose brings together it deserves to be seen: as one of the most significant
the social, economic figures in medieval history, whose actions and
and political strands in behaviour underline the true nature of power in an
the development of the age of great upheaval and instability.
wool trade and show 464p, col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2017)
how and why it became 9780297870784 Hb £25.00
s o i m p o r t a nt. The
author looks at the lives Cecily Duchess of York
of prominent wool-men; By J. L. Laynesmith
gentry who based their
wealth on producing this This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily
commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward
canny middlemen who rose to prominence IV and Richard III. From her childhood marriage
in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre to Richard duke of York until her final decade as
and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who grandmother of the first Tudor queen, the story
acquired wealth and influence like William de of Cecily Neville’s life provides a rich insight into
la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth national and local politics, women’s power and
made by these and other wool-men transformed relationships, motherhood, household dynamics
the appearance of the leading centres of the trade and the role of religion in fifteenth-century England.
with magnificent churches and other buildings. 288p, 10 bw illus (Bloomsbury 2017) 9781474272254 Hb
The export of wool also gave England links with £85.00
Italian trading cities at the very time that the
Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The Stolen Women in Medieval England
complex operation of the trade is also explained Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500
with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore By Caroline Dunn
leading to a discussion on the way the policy In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-
of English kings, especially in the fourteenth normative marital practices, this work analyses the
century, was heavily influenced by trade in this nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three
one commodity. overlapping offences that it could denote: rape,
304p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens
9781785707360 Hb £40.00 our understanding of the role of women in the
legal system; provides a means for analysing male
control over female bodies, sexuality and access
The House of Beaufort to the courts; and reveals ways in which female
The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such
By Nathen Amin controls.
Many books have been 273p (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017) 9781107017009 Hb
written about individual £67.00, 9781108441865 Pb £19.99
members of the Beaufort
dynasty, but never has the Chaucer’s People
whole family been explored Everyday Lives in Medieval England
as one. This book uncovers By Liza Picard
the rise of the Beauforts Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer
from bastard stock of John selected for The Canterbury Tales, Liza Picard brings
of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, medieval social history to life. By providing these
to esteemed companions characters with a three-dimensional framework–
of their cousin Henry the times in which they lived–Picard opens up
V, celebrated victor of the fourteenth-century world to us. Drawing on
Agincourt, and tracks their chastening fall with contemporary experiences of a vast range of subjects
the House of Lancaster during the 1460s and 1470s. including trade, religion, toe-curling remedies and
Finally it narrates the triumph of Margaret Beaufort hair-raising recipes, Chaucer’s People recreates the
through her son who won the throne as Henry VII. medieval world in all its glorious detail.
344p b/w illus (Amberley Publishing 2017) 9781445647647 368p col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2017)
Hb £20.00 9781474606318 Pb £14.99
68 Medieval Britain
The Oxford English Literary History The Oxford Handbook of Medieval
Volume 1: 1000–1350, Conquest and Literature in English
Transformation Edited by Greg Walker & Elaine Treharne
By Laura Ashe This Handbook contains 44
This book describes and newly commissioned essays
seeks to explain the vast from both world-leading
cultural, literary, social, and scholars and exciting new
political transformations scholarly voices. Topics
which characterized the covered range from the
period 1000-1350. A new canonical genres of Saints’
philosophy of interiority lives, sermons, romance, lyric
turned attention inward, poetry, and heroic poetry;
to the exploration of self. major themes including
The concept of love moved monstrosity and marginality,
centre stage: in Christ’s patronage and literary
love as a new explanation politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are
for the Passion; and in the investigated; and there are close readings of key
appearance of narrative fiction, where heterosexual texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and
love was suddenly represented as the goal of secular Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to
life. More generally, the social and ethical status of Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
secular lives was drastically elevated by the creation 792p (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2017) 9780199229123 Hb
and celebration of courtly and chivalric ideals. £105.00, 9780198798088 Pb £30.00
496p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780199575381 Hb
£35.00
Medieval Europe
Rebel Barons Simon V of Montfort and Baronial
Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture Government, 1195–1218
By Luke Sunderland By G. E. M. Lippiatt
This volume writes the history Through the vehicle of the Albigensian crusade,
of Baronial ambivalence to Simon de Montfort cultivated autonomous power in
royal authority, which was the liminal space between competing royal lordships
especially acute in England, in southern France in order to build his own
France, and Italy in the principality. This first English biographical study of
twelfth to fifteenth centuries, his life examines the ways in which Simon succeeded
when the modern ideology and failed in developing this independence in
of sovereignty, arguing for France, England, the Midi, and on campaign to
monopolies on justice and Jerusalem. Simon’s experience shows that barons
the legitimate use of violence, themselves adopted methods of government that
was developed. It argues that reflected a concern for accountability, public order,
the chansons de geste, the and contemporary reform ideals.
key genre for disseminating 288p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198805137 Hb
models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer £60.00
a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance.
320p, (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198788485 Hb £60.00 Violence and the State in Languedoc,
1250–1400
Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai By Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Edited by Bernard S. Bachrach & Michael Leese Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal
The Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium, completed government eliminated so-called ‘private warfare’,
shortly after the death of bishop Gerard in 1051 and the French judicial archives reveal nearly one
translated in this volume into English for the first hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the
time, provides unique insights into the relationship Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end
between the German king and the bishops within of the fourteenth century. Much of the engagement
the context of the so-called imperial church system, between royal officers and local elites came through
the rise of both secular and ecclesiastical territorial informal processes of negotiation and settlement,
lordships, the conduct of war, the cult of the saints, rather than through the imposition of official justice.
monastic reform, and evolving conceptions of the 234p (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107039551 Hb
proper social order of society. £67.00, 9781316635056 Pb £18.99
312p (Routledge 2017) 9781472462626 Hb £105.00
69
A Short History of the Hundred Medieval Trade in the Eastern
Years War Mediterranean and Beyond
By Michael Prestwich By David Jacoby
The conflict that swept over The articles in this collection
France from 1337 to 1453 cover the region extending
remains the longest military from Italy to the Black
struggle in history. Offering Sea and to Egypt, over a
an up-to-date analysis period of seven centuries,
of military organization, with an emphasis on the
strategy and tactics, Michael considerable economic and
Prestwich explains the social interaction between
wider politics in a masterful the West and the regions of
account of the War as a the Eastern Mediterranean.
whole: from English victory They represent key works in
at Sluys (1340) to the turn of the oeuvre of David Jacoby,
the tide and French revival the doyen of scholars in the field over many decades.
as the invader was driven back 346p, (Routledge 2017) 9781138743526 Hb £105.00
across the Channel. Only
256p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2017) £9.00 until Narrating the Crusades
9781788311380 Pb £10.99 31st May Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early
Modern English Literature
Women, Crusading and By Lee Manion
the Holy Land in Historical In Narrating the Crusades,
Narrative L e e Ma nion exa mines
By Natasha R. Hodgson c r u s a d i n g ’s n a r ra t ive -
This book compares generating power as it
perceptions of women from is reflected in English
a wide range of historical literature from c.1300 to
narratives. It addresses 1604. Surveying medieval
how authors used events romances including Richard
i nvo l v i n g wo m e n a n d Coeur de Lion, Sir Isumbras,
stereotypes based on gender, Octavian, and The Sowdone
family role, and social status of Babylone alongside
in writing their histories: historical practices,
how they blended historia chronicles, and treatises, he
and fabula, speculated on shows how different forms of crusading literature
women’s motivations, and address cultural concerns about collective and
occasionally granted them a literary voice in order private action.
to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, 322p (Cambridge UP 2010, Pb 2017) 9781107057814 Hb
and justify the crusade ideal. £62.00, 9781107664715 Pb £19.99
304p (Boydell & Brewer 2007, Pb 2017) 9781843833321
Hb £60.00, 9781783272709 Pb £17.99
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Medieval Ireland
By Clare Downham
Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending
in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend
the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this
up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes
on the island. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society
Only in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-
use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This
£20.00 until
concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on
31st May Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring
stereotypes.
420p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107651654 Pb £22.99
70 Medieval Europe
Medieval Urban Culture Heroines of the Medieval World
Edited by Andrew Brown & Jan Dumolyn By Sharon Bennett Connolly
The volume offers new insights into the nature of Heroines of the Medieval World looks at the lives
medieval culture in towns of western Europe c.1150- of the women who broke the mould: those who
1550; and into how the spatiality, hybridity and fluid defied social norms, changing lives, society and
nature of urban environments defines what made even the course of history. Some of the women are
urban culture ‘urban’. The papers show how urban famous, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Others are
culture involved a process of interaction with other more obscure but no less remarkable figures such as
discourses (royal, noble, ecclesiastical) and that it Nicholaa de la Haye, who defended Lincoln Castle
was not monolithic: the relationship between urban in the name of King John, and Maud de Braose, who
environments and the cultures they generated were spoke out against the same king’s excesses.
hybrid, fluid and dynamic. 320p, b/w illus (Amberley Publishing 2017)
238p (Brepols 2018) 9782503577425 Pb £75.00 9781445662640 Hb £20.00
Medieval Europe 71
Medieval Religion
Demons in the Middle Ages Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages
By Juanita Feros Ruys Edited by Jinty Nelson & Damien Kempf
This book explores the significance of demons This book’s focus is on how medieval people
across fifteen hundred years of European history. accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing
It argues that demons constituted a necessary part and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants
of the cosmic structure, whether by defining a and hymns, or sermons explicating Scripture in
monastic calling, fulfilling a role in God’s properly various vernaculars. Its contributors probe readers’
ordered universe, or in the case of the necromancer, motivations, intellectual resources and religious
holding out the promise of untold wealth and concerns. They explore the identities of the readers,
knowledge. and why writers chose to write about, or draw on,
131p (Arc Medieval Press 2017) 9781942401261 Pb £11.95 certain parts of the Bible rather than others.
296p (Bloomsbury 2015, Pb 2017) 9781474245722 Hb
Embracing the Darkness £90.00, 9781350036284 Pb £28.99
A Cultural History of Witchcraft
By John Callow The Resurrection of the Body in
John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, Western Christianity, 200–1336
mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating By Caroline Walker Bynum
life. He takes us into a shadowy landscape where, A classic of medieval studies, this book traces ideas
in an age before modern drugs, the onset of of death and resurrection in early and medieval
sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent Christianity. This expanded edition includes
spellcasting, and where the hoot of an owl or shriek Bynum’s 1995 article “Why All the Fuss About the
of a fox became the desolate cries Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” which takes a
of unseen spirits. Witchcraft has broader perspective on the book’s themes. It also
profoundly shaped the western includes a new introduction, which discusses the
Only
imagination, and endures in the context in which the book and article were written
forms of modern-day Wicca and £16.00 until and why the Middle Ages matter for how we think
paganism. 31st May about the body and life after death today.
2 6 4 p , ( I . B . Ta u r i s 2 0 1 5 ) 448p, (Columbia UP 2017) 9780231185295 Pb £27.95
9781845114695 Hb £19.50
The Landscape of Pastoral Care in
Bishops, Authority and Community in 13th-Century England
Northwestern Europe, c.1050–1150 By William Campbell
By John S. Ott Even before Innocent III called the Fourth Lateran
This important study of episcopal office and Council of 1215, reform-minded bishops and
clerical identity examines the construction and scholars were focusing attention on the local church,
representation of episcopal power and authority emphasising better preaching and more frequent
in the archdiocese of Reims during the sometimes confession. This study examines the processes
turbulent century between 1050 and 1150. John S. Ott by which these clerical reforms moulded the lay
considers how bishops conceived of, and projected, religiosity of the thirteenth century, integrating the
their authority collectively and individually. different aspects of church life, so often studied
392p (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2017) 9781107017818 Hb separately, and combining a broad investigation of
£74.99, 9781108444637 Pb £22.99 the subject with a series of comparative case studies.
308p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781316510384 Hb £75.00
To Live Like a Moor
Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in The Monks of Tiron
Medieval and Early Modern Spain A Monastic Community and Religious Reform
By Olivia Remie Constable in the Twelfth Century
To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in By Kathleen Thompson
Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of This book offers the first comprehensive history
life which took place across the centuries between of the Order of Tiron. As a unique survey of the
the early Reconquista and the final expulsions of Tironensian experience it sheds new light on
Spain’s converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco traditional assumptions of twelfth-century monastic
population in the seventeenth. Constable reveals history. Thompson outlines the rapid dissemination
the complexities and contradictions underlying a of the Tironensian approach in the first thirty years
historically notorious transition from pluralism to of its existence, its network of contacts with the lay
intolerance. elite and the impact on the Tironensians of the
248p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2017) successes of the Cistercians and Mendicants.
9780812249484 Hb £44.00 280p (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2017) 9781107021242 Hb
£72.00, 9781316648889 Pb £19.99
72
The Birgittines of Syon Abbey The Trauma of Monastic Reform
Preaching and Print Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century
By Susan Powell Germany
This volume examines the By Alison I. Beach
Birgittine Order of nuns This book opens a window on the lived experience
as producers and readers of monastic reform in the twelfth century. It begins
of texts in Britain from the with the local process of reform at the south
fifteenth to the early sixteenth German monastery of Petershausen and moves
century, through an analysis out into intertwined regional social, political,
of medieval manuscripts and ecclesiastical landscapes. Beach reveals how
and early printed books. It the shock of reform initiated decades of anxiety
highlights the community’s at Petershausen and raised doubts about the
response to teachings of St community’s communal identity, its shifting internal
Birgitta, the dissemination contours and boundaries, and its place within
of Birgittine texts, and Lady the broader spiritual and social landscapes of
Margaret Beaufort’s role as intermediary between Constance and Swabia.
Syon and the outside world. 200p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781108417310 Hb
360p, (Brepols 2017) 9782503532356 Hb £85.00 £75.00
73
Paradise The Temple Church in London
The World of Romanesque Sculpture History, Architecture, Art
By Rita Wood Edited by David Park & Robin Griffith-Jones
It is suggested here that Romanesque sculpture T h e Te m p l e C h u r c h
was one vehicle of the ‘Gregorian’ reforms of the is historically and
Church: that sculpture was promoted to teach the architecturally one of the
laity; that frequently-occurring motifs indicate most important medieval
circulation of approved forms, and that the sources buildings in England.
behind much of the imagery can be identified in Its round nave, modelled
mainstream biblical and patristic texts. The carvings on the Holy Sepulchre in
are not full of fear, punishment and dragons as is Jerusalem, is extraordinarily
often assumed: rather the opposite, they depict the ambitious, combining lavish
central Christian message about the availability of Romanesque sculpture with
an after-life in Paradise for believers. some of the earliest Gothic
220p b/w and col illus (YPD Books 2017) 9780995588202 architectural features in
Hb £25.00 any English building of its period. This volume
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle
Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Ages, and all aspects of the church itself from its
Sculpture foundation in the twelfth century to its war-time
By Marian Bleeke damage in the twentieth.
Building on theories of 213p b/w and col illus (Boydell & Brewer 2013, Pb 2017)
reception and response, 9781843834984 Hb £50.00, 9781783272631 Pb £19.99
this book focuses on
interactions between women
The Gothic Screen
as beholders and a range of Space, Sculpture, and Community in
sculptures made in France in the Cathedrals of France and Germany,
the twelfth through sixteenth ca.1200–1400
centuries in order to provide By Jacqueline E. Jung
i n s i g h t i n t o wo m e n’s This book draws together the most important
experiences of motherhood. examples of choir screens from thirteenth- and
These interactions show fourteenth-century France and Germany–some
motherhood to have been fully extant, others known through fragments and
a transformative and an ambivalent experience graphic sources. Through analyses of both their
for medieval women as it brought architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline
together empowerment and E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from
subordination, intimacy and being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles
Only
separation, joy and grief, life and of communication and shapers of a community
death, salvation and suffering. £48.00 until centred on Christian rituals and stories.
216p b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & 31st May 300p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2017)
Brewer 2017) 9781783272501 Hb 9781107022959 Hb £72.00, 9781108430760 Pb £29.99
£60.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages
By Gabriel Byng
The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding
events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay
of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee
design and management. Who took control and who provided the financing
was deeply shaped by local patterns in wealth, authority and institutional
development–from small villages with little formal government
to settlements with highly unequal populations. This all took
place during a period of great economic and social change as
Only communities managed the impact of the Black Death, the end
£65.00 until of serfdom and the slump of the mid-fifteenth century. This
31st May original and authoritative study provides an account of how
economic change, local politics and architecture combined in
late-medieval England.
320p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107157095 Hb £75.00
Medieval Archaeology
Medieval European Coinage Archaeology of Medieval Czech Lands,
Volume 6, The Iberian Peninsula 1100–1600
By Dr. Miquel Crusafont, Dr. Anna M. Balaguer & By Jan Klapste
Philip Grierson This book offers the first
A major work of reference by leading numismatic comprehensive picture of
experts, the volume provides an authoritative and the medieval archaeology of
up-to-date account of the coinages of Aragon, the Czech Lands available
Catalonia, Castile, Leon, Navarre and Portugal. It in English. Topics covered
considers how money circulated throughout the explore both rural and urban
peninsula, offering new syntheses of the monetary contexts, secular power
history of the individual kingdoms and includes structures, and monastic
an extensive catalogue of the Aragonese, Castilian, houses and parish churches.
Catalan, Leonese, Navarrese and Portuguese coins Special attention is given to
in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum. technology, crafts, industry
922p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2017) (including mining and glass
9780521260145 Hb £170.00, 9781316506745 Pb £49.99 production), housing culture and daily life across
the various social strata.
Divina Moneta 274p b/w illus (Equinox 2016) 9781845536336 Hb £85.00
Coins in Religion and Ritual
Edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burstrom & Gitte Foreigners and Outside Influences
Tarnow Ingvardson in Medieval Norway
This edited collection Edited by Stian Suppersberger Hamre
analyses the phenomenon The articles in this volume discuss different
of coin use for religious and aspects of immigration and foreign influences in
ritual purposes, focusing medieval Norway, from the viewpoint of different
on the medieval period in academic disciplines. They shed light on how the
Western Europe. Discussions population of medieval Norway
are organized around three interacted with the surrounding
themes: coin deposit and world, how and by whom it Only
ritual practice, the coin as was influenced, and how the
economic object and divine population was composed. £13.00 until
mediator, and the value and 128p b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 31st May
meaning of coin offering. 2017) 9781784917050 Pb £16.00
272p, b/w and col illus
(Routledge 2017) 9781472485922 Hb £105.00
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Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Evolution of Scotland’s Towns
Creation, Growth and Fragmentation
The Houses of Hereford 1200–1700 By E. Patricia Dennison
By Nigel Baker, Pat Hughes & Richard K. Morriss This pioneering book tells the
The cathedral city of story of urban development
Hereford is one of the best- in Scotland over the course
kept historical secrets of the of a millennium, drawing on
Welsh Marches. Although its original research into more
Anglo-Saxon development than thirty towns, from the
is well known from a series smallest settlements to major
of classic excavations in the cities. The changes in urban
1960s and ’70s, what is less society came at different
widely known is that the city times and at different paces
boasts an astonishingly well- for most towns and many
preserved medieval plan and had to withstand crisis after
contains some of the earliest crisis. The overall evolution
houses still in everyday use anywhere in England. of urban life, in its different guises, is explored
Three leading authorities on the buildings of the throughout the book. A further focus is on the lives
English Midlands have joined forces, combining of people who lived in Scotland’s
detailed archaeological surveys, primary historical towns, and the book also considers
research and topographical analysis, to examine urban heritage and asks what we
24 of the most important buildings, Only
have lost and may continue
from the great hall of the Bishop’s to lose through neglect and £20.00 until
Palace of c.1190, to the first Only fragmentation. 31st May
surviving brick town-house of 256p, (Edinburgh UP 2017)
c.1690. £18.75 until
9781474432979 Pb £24.99
256p b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication
Books 2017) 9781785708169 Hb From Bridgehead to Brewery
£25.00 The Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological
Remains from Finzel’s Reach, Bristol
Bristol: A Worshipful Town and By Ben M . Ford, Kate Brady & Steven Teague
Famous City This richly illustrated book presents the results
An Archaeological Assessment from a major project to examine the heritage of
By Nigel Baker, Jonathan Brett & Robert Jones Finzel’s Reach, the site of the former Courage and
This volume provides, for the Bristol Breweries. Archaeological, geoarchaeological
first time, a comprehensive and historic building investigations have revealed
overview of the historical a fascinating story of change and urban evolution
development of Bristol, at the site. The area played an important role in
based on archaeological and the late Saxon defensive system, while the Middle
architectural evidence. Part Ages saw the growth of an established and densely
1 describes the geological populated area full of life, trade and production on
and topographical context one of the town’s principal roads, Temple Street.
of Bristol and discusses 156p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2017) 9780904220865
evidence for the environment Hb £27.00
prior to the foundation
of the city. The history of Fishing and Managing the Trent in the
archaeological work in Bristol is discussed in detail, Medieval Period (7th–14th Century)
as is the pictorial record and the cartographic By Lynden P. Cooper & Susan Ripper
evidence for the city. In Part 2, a series of period-based
chapters considers the historical background and The present book describes the discoveries from
archaeological evidence for Bristol’s development. 1998 to 2000 of numerous medieval riverine
Each chapter discusses the major civic, military and structures. Three fish weir complexes of the late
religious monuments of the time, and the complex 7th-12th centuries produced rare evidence for the
topographical evolution of the city. capture of migrating silver eels. A 12th-century mill
Part 3 assesses the significance dam was later reused as a basket fishery. A series of
of Bristol’s archaeology, and stone and timber bank-side structures of the 14th
presents a range of research
Only century reflect a change in fishing technology: the
themes for future research. £30.00 until cribs were used to manage the river and provide
river conditions suitable for net fishing.
600p, b/w and colour (Oxbow publication
Books 2018) 9781785708770 Hb 96p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 633, 2017) 9781407316178
£40.00 Pb £20.00
76 Medieval Archaeology
The Moated medieval manor and Tudor
royal residence at Woking Palace NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS
Excavations between 2009 and 2015 Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe
By Rob Poulton Edited by Knut Bergsvik & Marion Dowd
Community excavations Caves and ritual in
from 2009 to 2016 have medieval Europe, AD
revealed the development of 500–1500 focuses on
Woking Palace. King Richard this neglected field of
I granted the manor to Alan research – the ritual
Basset and soon after he and religious use of
created a moated residence. caves. It draws together
By around 1300 the complex interdisciplinary studies
included stone buildings that by leading specialists
thereafter always formed the from across Europe: from
core of the privy lodgings, Iberia to Crimea, and
a great hall, household and from Malta to northern
privy kitchens, and lodgings for courtiers. In 1620 Norway. Christianity was widespread and firmly
the manor was granted to Sir Edward Zouch and established in most of Europe at this time, and
soon after he carried out a thorough demolition. many of the contributions deal with different
228p b/w illus (SpoilHeap Publications 2017) types of Christian practices, such as the use
9781912331031 Pb £18.50 of rock-cut churches, unmodified caves for
spiritual retreat, caves reputedly visited by saints,
Management Analysis of Municipal and caves as places for burials. But parallel to
Castles in the Province of Alicante this, some caves were associated with localised
(Spain) popular religious practices, which sometimes
By Juan Antonio Mira Rico had pre-Christian origins. Muslims in Iberia
This volume focuses on cultural heritage used caves for spiritual retreat, and outside the
management, and especially how castles are Christian domain in northern Europe, caves and
managed, in the province of Alicante (Spain). To rockshelters were places for carving symbols
do this, a qualitative research methodology and among Pictish groups, places for human burial,
semi-structured interviews with specialists have for bear burials amongst the Sámi, and places
been employed. This project shows the results for crafting and votive deposition for Norse
of research applied to 42 fortifications, owned by populations.
several municipalities of the province of Alicante. 376p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017)
204p, b/w and col illus (BAR 2868, 2017) 9781407315805 9781785708329 Hb £50.00
Pb £43.00
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Friaries of Medieval London
From Foundation to Dissolution
By Nick Holder
The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city’s physical
and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. This
book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses,
combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence
to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing and
describing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts
with burial grounds and gardens, it moves on to examine more
Only general historical themes, including the spiritual life of the
friars, their links to living and dead Londoners, and the role
£40.00 until
of the urban monastery. The closure of these friaries in the
31st May 1530s is also discussed, along with a brief revival of one friary
in the reign of Mary.
384p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2017) 9781783272242 Hb £50.00
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Post-Medieval
Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Silversmiths in Elizabethan and
Stuart London
Lost Lives, New Voices Their Lives and their Marks
Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers By David M. Mitchell
at the Battle of Dunbar 1650
This book tells the story of the silversmiths’ trade
By Richard Annis, Anwen Caffell, Chris Gerrard, Pam in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, including
Graves & Andrew Millard the range of silver plate available between 1560
I n Nove m b e r 2 0 1 3 and 1700 and the many influences on silversmiths
two mass burials and the wider trade. The second part of the
were discovered book identifies previously unknown
unexpectedly on a makers, containing attributions for
construction site in 540 separate marks and some 400 Only
the city of Durham in individual biographies compiled
north-east England. £100.00
from the author’s research.
Over the next two 720p b/w and col illus (Boydell &
until
years, a complex jigsaw Brewer 2017) 9781783272389 Hb 31st May
of evidence was pieced together by a team of £125.00
archaeologists to establish the identity of the
human remains. Today we know them to be some Living and Dying in Southwark
of the Scottish prisoners who died in the autumn
of 1650 in Durham cathedral and castle following 1587–1831
the battle of Dunbar on the south-east coast of By Louise Loe, Kate Brady, Lisa Brown, Mark Gibson
Scotland. Using the latest techniques & Kirsty Smith
of skeleton science, this book This volume reports on the excavation of 331 burials
gives back to the men a voice associated with Cure’s College Almshouse, St
Only Saviour’s parish, and dated between 1587 and 1831.
through an understanding of
their childhood and later lives. £15.00 until This is the first sizeable post-medieval almshouse
224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication burial assemblage to be archaeologically examined
Books 2018) 9781785708473 Pb and, as such, provides a wealth of new information
£20.00 on living – and dying – in London during the 16th
to 19th centuries.
Nineteenth Century Childhoods in 156p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2017) 9780995663619
Interdisciplinary and International Hb £13.00
Perspectives The Deptford Royal Dockyard and
Edited by Jane Eva Baxter & Meredith a.B. Ellis
Manor of Sayes Court, London
The nineteenth century
By Antony Francis
was a time when the world
was becoming increasingly Deptford royal dockyard was established in the
connected through global early 16th century and closed in 1869. Most of
forces and networks. This the dockyard buildings were levelled in the 20th
dynamic environment was century, but important below-ground remains were
the backdrop for a time when investigated in 2000–12 in the largest-ever excavation
childhood was becoming of a naval dockyard.
significantly elaborated as a 260p, col illus (MOLA 2017) 9781907586361 Hb £30.00
cultural category of identity.
This volume brings together Voices from the Deep
scholars from archaeology, The British Raj & Battle of the Atlantic
art history, bioarchaeology, educational history, Edited by Sean A. Kingsley
history, literary studies, and theatre history to The SS Gairsoppa, a British India steamer, was sunk in
present studies of nineteenth century children December 1940 carrying goods for London desperately
and childhood in Australia, the needed for the war effort. This book tells its story
Bahamas, Canada, England, using the wreck’s wide-ranging finds, including 700
Ireland, Native North America, Only letters, the largest collection ever recovered. The cargo
Romania, Russia, and the £30.00 until included tea and iron, while the small finds – teapots,
United States. beer, medicine and liquor bottles, cups, coins, shoes
publication
208p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) and newspapers – are a vivid snapshot of life at sea for
9781785708435 Pb £40.00 Britain’s merchant marine.
176p col illus (Undertow Press 2018) 9781788080026
Pb £25.00
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