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The Cambridge Companion to SenecaEdited by Shadi Bartsch & Alessandro Schiesaro This Companion thoroughlyexamines the completeSenecan corpus, with specialemphasis on the aspects of hiswritings that have challengedinterpretation. The authorsplace Seneca in the context ofthe ancient world and tracehis impressive legacy inliterature, art, religion, andpolitics from Neronian Rometo the early modern period.366p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP2015) 9781107035058 Hb £55.00, 9781107694217 Pb£19.99

Varro Varius: The Polymath of the RomanWorldBy D.J. ButterfieldWith over seventy works to his name, MarcusTerentius Varro (116-24 B.C.) was arguably thegreatest scholar of the Roman world. This volumeof essays addresses his often neglected output,shedding new light on the intellectual activity ofthe late Roman republic. 220p (Cambridge PhilologicalSociety 2015) 9780956838148 Hb £45.00 ***NYP***

Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambitionin the Tales of Early RomeBy Jaclyn NeelIn Legendary Rivals Jaclyn Neel argues for a newinterpretation of the foundation myths of Rome.Accounts from the triumviral period stress thedysfunctional nature of the city’s foundation tocapture the memory of Rome’s civil wars. Republicanevidence suggests a different emphasis. Throughdiachronic analyses of the tales of Romulus andRemus, Amulius and Numitor, Brutus andCollatinus, and Camillus and Manlius Capitolinus,Neel shows that Romans of the Republic and earlyPrincipate would have seen these stories as examplesof competition that pushed the bounds of propriety.290p (Brill 2015) 9789004272699 Hb £105.00

Art of Caesar’s Bellum Civile: Literature,Ideology and CommunityBy Luca GrilloReading strategies typical of scholarship on Latinpoetry, like intertextuality, narratology, semantic,rhetorical and structural analysis, cast a new lighton the Bellum Civile: Ciceronian language advancesCaesar ’s claim to represent Rome; technicalvocabulary reinforces the ethical division between‘us’ and the ‘barbarian’ enemy; switches offocalization guide our perception of the narrative;invective and characterization exclude thePompeians from the Roman community, accordingto the mechanisms of rhetoric; and the very structureof the work promotes Caesar’s cause. 218p (CambridgeUP 2012, Pb 2015) 9781107009493 Hb £59.99,9781107470675 Pb £21.99

Suetonius: Life of AugustusBy D. WardleThis volume provides the first large-scalecommentary on Suetonius’ work in English,drawing out what is unique about Suetonius’information, discussing how it relates to otherancient accounts, and assessing its historicalreliability. It is accompanied by an introductionwhich investigates the career of Suetonius, the dateof the Lives of the Caesars, the structure of the Lifeof Augustus, and the various sources utilized bySuetonius. 624p (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199686452Hb £100.00, 9780199686469 Pb £35.00

A History of the Later Roman Empire: AD 284-641By Stephen MitchellBeginning with the accession of the emperorDiocletian, this book presents a historical survey ofthe Roman Empire in Late Antiquity from AD 284to 641. It contains a substantial narrative of politicaland military events, highlighting major episodessuch as the conversion of Constantine, the creationin the east of the pious Christian state, and theresurgence of Roman ambition under the emperorJustinian. The second edition is revised andexpanded with the biggest updates in the sectionson Constantine, Egypt and the state, whilst acompletely new chapter explores the debatessurrounding the end/decline of the Roman Empire.568p, b/w illus, maps (Wiley-Blackwell, 2nd ed 2015)9781118312421 Pb £29.99

Contested Monarchy: Integrating the RomanEmpire in the Fourth Century ADEdited by Johannes WienandThis volume aims toreappraise the wide-rangingand lasting transformation ofthe Roman monarchybetween the Principate andLate Antiquity. During thisperiod, the stability ofmonarchical rule dependedheavily on the emperor ’smobility, on collegial ordynastic rule, and on themilitary resolution of internalpolitical crises. At the sametime, profound religious changes modified thepremises of political interaction and symboliccommunication between the emperor and hissubjects, and administrative and militaryreadjustments changed the institutional foundationsof the Roman monarchy. This volume concentrateson the measures taken by Roman emperors of thisperiod to cope with the changing framework of theirrule. It examines monarchy along three distinct yetintertwined fields: Administering the Empire,Performing the Monarchy, and Balancing ReligiousChange. 530p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199768998 Hb£64.00

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Local Economies?: Production and Exchange ofInland Regions in Late AntiquityEdited by Luke LavanThe Late Roman economy was operated significantlyabove subsistence level, with production beingstimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regionsbecame wealthy on the basis of exporting low-valueagricultural products across the Mediterranean. Incontrast, it has usually been assumed that the highcosts of land transport kept inland regions relativelypoor. This volume challenges these assumptions bypresenting new research on production andexchange within inland regions. The papers,supported by detailed bibliographic essays, rangefrom Britain to Jordan. They reveal robustagricultural economies in many interior regions.Here, some wealth did come from high valueproducts, which could defy transport costs.However, ceramics also indicate local exchangesystems, capable of generating wealth without beingintegrated into inter-regional trading networks.638p, b/w figs (Brill 2015) 9789004277038 Hb £72.00

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The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius - Warlordand Comes AfricaeBy Jeroen P. WijnendaeleDespite his critical role in the western Roman Empireduring the early fifth century AD, Bonifatius remainsa neglected figure in the history of the late Empire.This book presents a new political and militarybiography of Bonifatius, analysing his rise throughthe higher echelons of imperial power andexamining themes such as the role of the buccellariias contemporary semi-private armies. AlthoughProcopius termed Bonifatius and Aetius the last ofthe Romans, this volume argues that they were thefirst of Rome’s late imperial warlords. 182p,(Bloomsbury 2015) 9781780937175 Hb £50.00Theodohad: A Platonic King of the Collapse ofOstrogothic ItalyBy Massimiliano VitielloEducated in Platonic philosophy rather than themilitary arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad wasnever meant to rule. Massimiliano Vitiello rigorouslyinvestigates the ancient sources in order toreconstruct the events of Theodahad’s life and thecontours of sixth-century diplomacy and politicalintrigues. Painting a picture of an unlikely kingwhose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy,Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s ownlife but also offers new insight into the sixth-centuryMediterranean world. 333p, (University of Toronto Press2014) 9781442647831 Hb £51.99

The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes &Imperial PretendersBy Peter HeatherPeter Heather continues where his hugely successful“Fall of the Roman Empire” left off, exploring theenduring legacy of the Roman Empire through thecareers of three towering figures of the Early MiddleAges - Theoderic, Justinian and Charlemagne. Henarrates their campaigns and conquests anddiscusses their appeal to the Roman Imperial past asa fundamental part of their ideology of rulership.Ultimately he shows how the theme of a Europe-wide Roman Imperium was picked up by the papalreform movement, reaching its highest point in thepapal monarchy of Innocent III. 496p, col pls(Macmillan 2013, Pb 2014) 9781447241072 Pb £12.99

Constructing Communities in the Late RomanCountrysideBy Cam GreyThis book is the first comprehensive treatment ofthe ‘small politics’ of rural communities in the LateRoman world. It places the diverse fates of thosecommunities within a generalized model forexploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, socialinteractions in rural contexts in the period revolvedaround the desire of individual households to insurethemselves against catastrophic subsistence failureand the need of the communities in which they livedto manage the attendant social tensions, inequalitiesand conflicts. 269p (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2015)9781107011625 Hb £69.99, 9781107500013 Pb £22.99

Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers:Armies and Their Architecture in LateAntiquityedited by Rob Collins, Matt Symonds and MeikeWeberThe late Roman army wasa vital and influentialelement in the late antiqueempire. A growing body ofresearch is revealing adynamic, less-predictableforce that was adapting toa changing world, in termsof both external threats andits own internal structures.This volume explores theways in which theseadaptations can be seen in late Roman militaryarchitecture, focusing on spatial and functionaltransformations in existing forts, as well as newmilitary installations, both full sized forts orincreasingly frequent ‘fortlets’. An opening essayby Whatley provides a rapid but sweeping overviewof documentary sources, and the difficulties that canbe encountered when these sources are applied to aspecific region, in this case Moesia; the frustrationsof the Notitia Dignitatum and other sources areabundantly clear. Following this consideration ofthe written sources, coverage is extended into eachmajor frontier zone of the Empire, from northernBritannia (Collins; Petts; Symonds) to the Rhine andDanube (Vanhoutte; Mosser; Lemke), over to theLimes Arabicus (Arce) and finally to North Africa(Rushworth). 208p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books2015) 9781782979906 Hb £42.00

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Inside and Out: Interactions between Rome andthe Peoples on the Arabian and EgyptianFrontiers in Late AntiquityEdited by J. H. F. Dijkstra & G. FisherIn recent years, exciting new discoveries ofinscriptions and archaeological remains on theArabian Peninsula have led to a re-evaluation of thepeoples on the Arabian frontier, which throughtheir extensive contacts with Rome and Persia arenow seen as dynamic participants in the LateAntique world. The present volume contributes tothis recent trend by focusing on the contrastbetween the ‘outside’ sources on the peoples of thefrontier - the Roman view - and the ‘inside’ sources,that is, the precious material produced by the Arabsthemselves, and by approaching these sources withinan anthropological framework of how peripheralpeoples face larger powers. For the first time, thesituation on the Arabian frontier is also comparedwith that on the southern Egyptian frontier, wheresimilar sources have been found of peoples such asthe Blemmyes and Noubades. 481p, b/w and col illus(Peeters Press 2014) 9789042931244 Hb £94.00

The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in lateAntiquityBy Mark J. JohnsonThis work is dedicated to the distinctive mausoleaof the later Roman Emperors and Imperial familieswhich took the form of domed rotunda and wereconstructed between 244 and 450 AD. Johnsonprovides a synthesis of our existing knowledge,describing the extant remains alongside copiousphotographs and plans. He also analyses thestructures, their evolution and development, andwhat they symbolise about Roman attitudes toImperial death and the Imperial cult. 296p, b/w illus,col pls (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2014) 9780521513715£64.99, 9781107644410 Pb £23.99

The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architectureand Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the EarlyMiddle AgesBy Hendrik W. DeyThis new study suggeststhat the tenaciouspersistence of leading citiesacross most of the Romanworld was due, far morethan previously thought, tothe persistent inclination ofkings, emperors, caliphs,bishops, and their leadingsubordinates to manifest theglory of their offices on anurban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Longafter the dissolution of the Roman Empire in thefifth century, these communal leaders continued tomaintain and embellish monumental architecturalcorridors, in which their parades and solemn publicappearances consistently unfolded. 296p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107069183 Hb £65.00

Children and Family in Late Antiquity: Life,Death and InterractionEdited by Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio& V. VuolantoThis volume concentrates on three interlinkedaspects of family life and interaction: liminalsituations regarding demography and ecologicalfactors that lay down the framework for family life,liminal conditions on the edges of familial liferegarding child labour, child slaves and sexualattitudes towards children, and local traditionswhich confront us with people and cultures at theborders of the Roman Empire. 374p (Peeters 2015)9789042931350 Pb £72.00

Libanius: A Critical IntroductionEdited by Lieve Van HoofThis volume offers a criticalintroduction to Libanius theman, his texts, their contextand reception. Clear present-ations of the orations,progymnasmata, declam-ations and letters unlock thecorpus, and a survey of allavailable translations isprovided. At the same time,the volume explores newinterpretative approaches ofthe texts from a variety of angles, substantiallyreassessesing works such as the Autobiography, theJulianic speeches and letters, and Oration 30 Forthe Temples. 387p, (Cambridge UP 2014)9781107013773 Hb £75.00

Causation and Creation in Late AntiquityEdited by Anna Marmodoro & Brian D. PrinceThese essays investigate the views of both paganand Christian philosophers on causation and thecreation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, thevolume first looks at divine agency and how lateantique thinkers tackled questions such as: is thecosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or fromsomething pre-existing? How was it caused to comeinto existence? Is it material or immaterial? Thesecond part looks at questions concerning humanagency and responsibility, including the problem ofevil and the nature of will. 280p, (Cambridge UP 2015)9781107061538 Hb £60.00

Shifting Genres in Late AntiquityEdited by Geoffrey Greatrex & Hugh EltonThis collection examines the transformations thattook place in a wide range of genres, both literaryand non-literary, in this dynamic period. A commontheme that emerges from the chapters is the flexibilityand adaptability of genres in the period: late antiqueauthors, whether orators or historians, were notslavish followers of their classical predecessors. Theywere capable of engaging with their models,adapting them to their own purposes, and producingwork that deserves to be considered on its ownmerits. 341p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2015) 9781472443489Hb £75.00

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Foreigners and Their Food: ConstructingOtherness in Jewish, Christian and IslamicLawBy David M. FreidenreichDavid M. Freidenreich explores how Jews,Christians, and Muslims conceptualize us” andthem” through rules about the preparation of foodby adherents of other religions and the act of eatingwith such outsiders. He demonstrates how thesedistinctive self-conceptions shape ideas aboutreligious foreigners and communal boundaries. 352p,b/w illus (University of California Press 2015)9780520286276 Pb £24.95

The Final Pagan GenerationBy Edward J. WattsThe fourth century emperorswho legislated against paganpractices, the imperial officialscharged with implementingthem, and the Christianperpetrators of religiousviolence were almostexclusively young menwhose attitudes and actionscontrasted markedly withthose of the earliergeneration, who sharedneither their juniors’ interest in creating sharplydefined religious identities nor their propensity forviolent conflict. Watts examines why this “finalpagan generation” proved both unable to anticipatethe changes that imperially sponsored Christianityproduced and unwilling to resist them. 327p,(University of California Press 2015) 9780520283701 Hb£24.95

Christianity in Roman Africa: TheDevelopment of Its Practices and BeliefsBy Robin Margaret Jensen & J. Patout BurnsThis in-depth book documents the development ofChristian practices and doctrine in Roman Africafrom the second century through the Arab conquestin the seventh century. It explores the developmentof key rituals and practices such as baptism andeucharist, the election and ordination of leaders,marriage, and burial. Numerous site drawings andcolour photographs of the archaeological remainsilluminate the discussions. 736p, b/w illus, 64 col pls(Eerdmans 2014) 9780802869319 Hb £35.99

The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Functionin Latin ChristianityBy Peter BrownIn this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown exploreshow the worship of saints and their corporealremains became central to religious life in WesternEurope after the fall of the Roman Empire. Anessential text by one of the foremost scholars ofEuropean history, this expanded edition includes anew preface from Brown that presents new ideasbased on subsequent scholarship. 224p, (Universityof Chicago Press, 2nd ed 2014) 9780226175263 Pb £12.50

The Popes and the Church of Rome in LateAntiquityBy John MoorheadThis new study offers a broad perspective of rise ofthe papacy, comparing Rome with other major seesto show how it differed from these, evaluatingdevelopments beyond Rome which created openingsfor the extension of papal authority. Closer to home,the book considers the ability of the Roman churchto gain access to wealth, retain it in difficult times,and disburse it in ways that enhanced its authority.These and other themes are structured around anarrative of the papacy’s history from the accessionof Leo the Great to the death of Zacharias II. 384p,(Routledge 2015) 9780415883658 Hb £85.00

John Chrysostom on Divine Pedagogy: TheCoherence of His Theology and PreachingBy David RylaarsdamChrysostom depicts God as a teacher of philosophywho adaptably guides people toward salvation. Sincethe theme of divine adaptability influences everymajor area of Chrysostom’s thought, tracing thisconcept provides a thorough introduction to histheology. It also explains, at least in part, severalstriking features of his homilies, including hissupposed inconsistencies, his harsh rhetoric andapparent political naivete, his intentionally abridgedand exoteric theological discussions, and his lack ofallegiance to an “Antiochene school.” 336p (OxfordUP 2014) 9780198715382 Hb £65.00

Justinian’s Balkan Wars: Campaigns,Diplomacy and Development in Illyricum,Thrace and the Northern World A.D. 527-65By Alexander SarantisJustinian’s Balkan Wars argues that the Emperor wasfully aware of the region’s vital strategic importance,and frequently committed more effort and resourcesthere than in other theatres of operation. It offers adetailed reconstruction of military and diplomaticrelations between the Germanic, Hunnic and Slavicpeoples north of the Danube frontier and Justinian’seastern Roman Empire. It shows the importance ofinfrastructure, logistical preparation, politicalcontrol and the support of local hearts and mindsfor successful campaigning in Late Antiquity. 480p,b/w and col pls (Francis Cairns 2015) 9780905205588Hb £85.00 ***NYP***

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (680-850)By Leslie Brubaker & John F. HaldonThe authors of this wide -ranging overview aim toget away from a focus solely on iconoclasm, to surveychanges across Byzantine society and economy, andhow these interacted with the iconoclast controversy.They provide a comprehensive overview of thevisual, written and other materials that together helpclarify the complex issues of iconoclasm inByzantium. 918p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb2015) 9780521430937 £121.00, 9781107626294 Pb£27.99

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The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New RomeBy Anthony KaldellisIn a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellisreconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfthcenturies CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with powerexercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republicrecovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whoseGreek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speakingancestors. Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy isa misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With courtproclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingshipemerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacyof the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on thepopularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite thestability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantineconcept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the lawand the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. Therebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, butan essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy. 274p, (Harvard UP2015) 9780674365407 Hb £25.95

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Law, Power and Imperial Ideology in theIconoclast Era, c.680-850By M.T.G. HumphreysThis study uses Roman lawand canon law to chart thevarious responses to thechanges of the Iconoclast era,especially the rise of Islam, fromJustinian II’s Christocentricmonarchy to the OldTestament-inspired Isauriandynasty. The Isaurianemperors sought to imposetheir control and morallypurge the empire through the just application of law,sponsoring the creation of a series of concise,utilitarian texts that punished crime, upheldmarriage, and protected property. This volumeexplores how such legal reforms were part of areformulation of ideology and state structures thatunderpinned the transformation from the lateantique Roman Empire to medieval Byzantium. 376p,(Oxford UP 2015) 9780198701576 Hb £70.00

A Companion to Latin GreeceEdited by Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis & Peter LockThe conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the armiesof the Fourth Crusade resulted in the foundation ofseveral Latin political entities in the lands of Greece.The Companion to Latin Greece offers thematicoverviews of the history of the mixed societies thatemerged as a result of the conquest. With dedicatedchapters on the art, literature, architecture,numismatics, economy, social and religiousorganisation and the crusading involvement of theseLatin states, the volume offers an introduction tothe study of Latin Greece and a sampler of thedirections in which the field of research is moving.529p, col illus (Brill 2015) 9789004284029 Hb £160.00

A New Herodotos: Laonikos Chalkokondyleson the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium,and the Emergence of the WestBy Anthony KaldellisThis companion to Kaldellis’ edition of The Historiesby Laonikos Chalkokondyles is the first book-length investigation of an author who has beenpoorly studied. Providing biographical andintellectual context, Anthony Kaldellis shows howthe author synthesized his classical models tofashion his own distinctive voice and persona as ahistorian. Indebted to his teacher Plethon for hisglobal outlook, Laonikos was one of the firsthistorians to write with a pluralist’s sympathy fornon-Greek ethnic groups, including Islamic ones.336p, (Harvard UP 2014) 9780884024019 Hb £18.95

Law and Legality in the Greek East: TheByzantine Canonical Tradition, 381-883By David WagschalConfronting the traditionalnarratives of decline andprimitivism Wagschal arguesthat a close reading of thecentral monuments ofByzantine canon law c. 381-883 reveals a much moresophisticated and coherentlegal culture than is generallyassumed. He explores topicssuch as compilation,jurisprudence, profession-alization, definitions of law, the language of thecanons, and the relationship between the civil andecclesiastical laws. It challenges conventionalassumptions about Byzantine law while suggestingmany new avenues of research in both late antiqueand early medieval law, secular and ecclesiastical.368p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198722601 Hb £75.00

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Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, BiblicalNarrative and the Formation of the Self inByzantiumBy Derek KruegerLiturgical Subjects examines the history of the self inthe Byzantine Empire, chall-enging narratives ofChristian subjectivity that focus only on classicalantiquity and the Western Middle Ages. Focusingon Christian practice in Constantinople from thesixth to eleventh centuries, Krueger charts the impactof the liturgical calendar, the eucharistic rite, hymnsfor vigils and festivals, and scenes from the life ofChrist on the making of Christian selves. 311p, b/willus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014)9780812246445 Hb £49.00

Byzantine To Modern Pottery In The Aegean:An Introduction and Field GuideBy Joanita VroomThis reference work offers a detailed description ofthe most important wares from the Early Byzantineperiod to the Modern age. In addition, it includes adiscussion of the chronological problems, anoverview of the main shapes of wares in the Aegean,as well as a glossary of technical terms and theessential literature for each period. The secondedition is revised and updated to include the latestdiscussions and findings. 224p, col and b/w illus(Brepols, 2nd ed 2014) 9782503553146 Pb £65.00

Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art andArchaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur deLionEdited by Charles Anthony Stewart, Thomas W.Davis & AnneMarie Weyl CarrThese archaeological papers focus on thearchaeology of Cyprus under Byzantine rule. Keythemes include: the impact of recent archaeologicaldiscoveries; the shift from studying Late Antiqueurbanism to rural development; indicators ofCypriot identity; shifts in population settlement,production and trade; cultural interaction betweenIslam and Christianity; the significance of ceramicand numismatic evidence; monumental figural artsand their iconographical interpretation. 268p, b/wand col illus (ASOR 2014) 9780897570732 Hb £48.00

Corpus of Byzantine Church MosaicPavements in Israel and the PalestinianTerritoriesBy A.M. MaddenThis is a catalogue of church, chapel and monasterymosaic pavements discovered within the borders ofIsrael and the Palestinian Territories (RomanPalestine). For each site, a map reference is givenfor the Israel grid, followed by a brief outline of itsexcavation or survey, a thorough description of thepavements including the coding system,inscriptions (if present), a commentary includingproposed dates (if given) and bibliography. 242p,b/w pls (Peeters Publishers 2014) 9789042930612 Hb£78.00

Bir Umm Fawakhir 3: Excavations 1999-2001By Carol Meyer et al.Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reportson the archaeological surveys and excavations at theByzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the centralEastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the onlyintensively studied ancient Egyptian gold-miningoperation, and one of very few completely mappedtowns of the era. The excavations on which thisvolume reports were centred on sample houses andmiddens, with specialist reports on pottery, smallfinds, faunal and archaeobotanical remains. 172p, 132b/w pls (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago2014) 9781614910206 Hb £48.50

A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, andJews in Old CairoEdited by T. Vorderstrasse & Tanya TreptowThis exhibition catalogue showcases themulticultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt.Essays examine the different religions and languagesfound at Fustat, as well as cultural aspects of dailylife such as food, industry, and education. Thelavishly illustrated catalogue highlights the OrientalInstitute’s collection of artefacts and textual materialsfrom 7th through 12th-century Egypt. 232p col illus(Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 2015)9781614910268 Pb £19.50

In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and theCreation of an Islamic EmpireBy Robert G. HoylandScholarly but accessible tothe general reader this studyprovides a compelling newanalysis of the Islamicexpansion. Robert Hoylanddraws on a vast range ofsource material, fore-grounding those sourceswhich are closest in date tothe events they describe (theIslamic sources largely datefrom the ninth-century) toreveal the perspectives and responses ofcontemporaries, and to place the conquests morefirmly in the complex world of the Late Antique NearEast. Hoyland’s approach allows a longer view ofthe conquests, emphasising Arab integration withinthe Late Antique world and earlier contact withByzantine and Sassanian powers, as well as the nearcontemporary successes of other “peripheral peoples”such as the Turks, Avars and Khazars. The speed ofthe conquests, so often remarked upon, is seen asresulting from the widespread recruitment of nomadsinto the Arab armies, and their canny use of non-Arabic collaborators. More outstanding, particularlywhen viewed against the experience of other nomadicempires, is the sustainability of the Arab conquestsand it is here that Hoyland sees the crucial role ofIslam, in providing a cohesive identity, despitepolitical unity remaining relatively short-lived. 304p,b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199916368 Hb £18.99

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Diplomacy in the Early Islamic WorldBy Maria Vaiou Arab messengers played a vital role in the medievalIslamic world and its diplomatic relations withforeign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10thCentury (“Rusul al-Muluk”, “Messengers of Kings”)is perhaps the most important account of thediplomacy of the period, and it is here translatedinto English for the first time. “Rusul al-Muluk”draws on examples from the Qur ’an and othersources which extend from the period of al-jahiliyyato the time of the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tasim (218-227/833-842). In the only medieval Arabic workwhich exists on the conduct of messengers and theirqualifications, the author Ibn al-Farr rejects jihadistpolicies in favor of quiet diplomacy and a pragmaticoutlook of constructive realpolitik. 353p (I.B. Tauris2015) 9781845116521 Hb £68.00

Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia:A New Social HistoryBy Nicolas TrepanierGrounded in the many ways food enters the humanexperience, Nicolas Trepanier’s comprehensive studydelves into the medieval Anatolian preparation ofmeals and the social interactions that mealtime entails- from a villager’s family supper to an elaboratelyarranged banquet - as well as the productionactivities of peasants and gardeners; the marketplaceexchanges of food between commoners, merchants,and political rulers; and the religious landscape thatunfolded around food-related beliefs and practices.264p, (University of Texas Press 2014) 9780292759299Hb £36.00

Hajj: Global Interactions through PilgrimageEdited by Luitgard Mols & Marjo BuitelaarThe central theme that runs through this book ishow Hajj practices, representations of Mecca and theexchange of Hajj-related objects have changed overtime. The chapters in the first part of the book discussreligious, social, and political meanings of the Hajj,while those in the second take material expressionsof the Hajj as their starting point. They demonstratethat while the rites that make up the Hajj wereformulated and recorded in normative texts in earlyIslam, details in the actual performance andinterpretations of these rites are by no means static,but rather have evolved over time in tandem withchanging socio-political circumstances. 275p b/w andcol illus (Sidestone Press 2015) 9789088902857 Pb £50.00

The Age of the SeljuqsEdited by Edmund Herzig & Sarah StewartThis latest volume in The Idea of Iran series focuseson a system of government based on Turkic ‘men ofthe sword’ and Persian ‘men of the pen’ that theSeljuqs consolidated in a form that endured forcenturies. The book further explores key topicsrelating to the innovative Seljuq era, including:conflicted Sunni-Shi’a relations between the SunniSeljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art,culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture.192p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781780769479 Hb £39.50

The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History ofthe CrusadesBy P. M CobbPaul Cobb aims to “relate thehistory of the Crusades asmedieval Muslims understoodthem”, and to that end hegives a lively, accessiblenarrative which explores theimpact of western expansionthroughout the Muslimworld. In this way theNorman Conquest of Sicilyand the reconquista in Spainform a fundamental part of the picture, and the bookencompasses the Ottoman conquests in the Balkansand the fall of Granada in 1492. Diversity andcomplexity are the overwhelming themes that emergewith different rulers and polities at different timespursuing policies which ranged from Holy War andits legitimising force, to co-existence and theeconomic benefits which trade might bring, whilsteveryday interactions and cultural exchange are alsoexplored. 335p col pls (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199532018Hb £20.00

People of the Prophet’s House: Artistic andRitual Expressions of Shi’i IslamEdited by Fahmida SulemanThe 22 essays in this volume, richly illustrated withover 200 coloured images, present a diversity of beliefsand practices expressed through the arts,architecture, material culture and ritual that spansShi’i history from the tenth century to the presentday. With contributions from experts in the fields ofanthropology, religious studies, art and architecturalhistory, numismatics, film studies and contemporaryart, the book also calls attention to the globaldiversity of the artistic and devotional expressionsof Shi’a Muslims from across Trinidad, Senegal,Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India and China.272p, 250 images, full color throughout (Azimuth Editions2015) 9781898592327 Hb £35.00

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: History, Languageand Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters fromAlfred to EdgarBy Ben SnookAs responsibility for their production wasincreasingly centralised at the royal court in theninth and tenth centuries, charters also becamevehicles for royal and religious propaganda,reflecting the dynamic and creative culture of tenth-century England. Through an analysis of theextraordinarily sophisticated Latin in which thesedocuments were written, this book demonstrates theliterary ambitions of their draughtsmen (who maycertainly be considered as Anglo-Latin literaryauthors in their own right), and also sheds light onthe political ideologies of Anglo-Saxon England’smost powerful and enigmatic kings and churchmen.234p (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2015) 9781783270064 Hb£60.00

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Charters of Chertsey AbbeyEdited by Susan KellyThis is the first complete modern edition of the earlycharters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey. The pre-Conquest archive is fairly small and has a poorreputation; indeed, the majority of the sixteenextant charters are obvious fabrications. In thisvolume all the extant diplomas are expertly edited,with extensive commentaries on their content andimplications. A thorough introduction comprises anew synthesis of Chertsey’s early history, discussionof the history of the archive and of the later medievalbackground to the fabrication of the purportedlyearly documents, and painstaking analysis of thehistory of the landed endowment. 200p, 2 maps(Oxford UP 2015) 9780197265567 Hb £45.00

A Companion to Alfred the GreatEdited by Nicole Guenther Discenza & Paul E.SzarmachEleven major scholars of theAnglo-Saxon period considerAlfred the Great, his culturalmilieu, and his achievements.The collection features themethods of history, arthistory, and literature in anewer key and with aninterdisciplinary view on aperiod that offers less evidencethan inference. Major themeslinking the essays includeauthorship, translation practice and theory, patristicinfluence, Continental connections, and advancesin textual criticism. 469p, b/w and col illus (Brill 2014)9789004274846 Hb £160.00

The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-SaxonChronicle: Rewriting Post-Conquest HistoryBy Malasree HomeThis study, however, breaks new ground byconsidering the Peterborough Chronicle as muchmore than just an example of the accidental longevityof the Chronicle tradition. Close analysis revealsunique interpretations of events, and a very strongsense of communal identity, suggesting that theconstruction of this text was not a marginal activity,but one essential to the articulation of the abbey’simage. 184p (Boydell & Brewer 2015) 9781783270019Hb £60.00

Bede and the FutureEdited by Peter Darby & Faith WallisThis collection examines a number of questionsabout Bede’s attitude towards, and ideas about, thetime to come. This encompasses the short-term future(Bede’s own lifetime and the time soon after his death)and the end of time. Whilst recognising that thesetemporal perspectives may not be completely distinct,the volume shows how Bede’s understanding of theirrelationship undoubtedly changed over the courseof his life. 269p (Ashgate 2014) 9781409451822 Hb£70.00

Danes in Wessex: The Scandinavian Impact onSouthern England, c. 800–c. 1100Edited by Ryan Lavelle & Simon RoffeyThere have been manystudies of the Scandina-vians in Britain, but thisis the first collection ofessays to be devotedsolely to their engagem-ent with Wessex. Newwork on the early MiddleAges, not least theexcavations of massgraves associated withthe Viking Age in Dorsetand Oxford, drewattention to the gaps in our understanding of thewider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britainnot traditionally associated with them. Here, amulti-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approachto the problems of their study is presented. Twomajor topics, the Viking wars and the Danishlandowning elite, figure strongly in this collectionbut are shown not to be the sole reasons for thepresence of Danes, or items associated with them,in Wessex. Multi-disciplinary approaches evokeVikings and Danes not just through the writtenrecord, but through their impact on real andimaginary landscapes and via the objects theyowned or produced. The papers raise widerquestions too, such as when did aggressive Vikingsmorph into more acceptable Danes, and what issuesof identity were there for natives and incomers in aprovince whose founders were believed to have alsocome from North Sea areas, if not from parts ofDenmark itself? 288p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books2015) 9781782979319 Pb £45.00

Trees in the Religions of Early MedievalEnglandBy Michael D J BintleyTrees were of fundamental importance in Anglo-Saxon material culture - but they were also apowerful presence in Anglo-Saxon religion beforeand after the introduction of Christianity. Treesymbolism helped early English Christians tounderstand how the beliefs of their ancestors abouttrees, posts, and pillars paralleled the appearance ofsimilar objects in the Old Testament. In this way,the religious symbols of their forebears were alignedwith precursors to the cross in Scripture. Literaryevidence from England and Scandinavia similarlyindicates a shared tradition of associations betweenthe bodies of humans, trees, and other plant-life.Though potentially ancient, these ideas flourishedamongst the abundance of vegetative symbolismfound in the Christian tradition. 194p, b/w illus(Boydell & Brewer 2015) 9781843839897 Hb £50.00

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Digging Sedgeford: A People’s ArchaeologyBy the SHARP TeamThe Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project undertook its firstdig in the Norfolk village in 1996. Every year since a team of volunteer archaeologistshas camped in a field to continue exploring 5,000 years of history from the StoneAge to the First World War. Experts and amateurs work side by side to learn howour ancestors lived, work and died in a very ordinary piece of English countryside.This is the book of the story so far. Pulled together by an editorial team but usingcontributions from the many hundred of archaeologists - amateur and professional- who have worked on the site, it provides a fascinating insight into one EastAnglian settlement and tells a story which was probably repeated in othersettlements across the region. The results are of particular importance for thedevelopment of Anglo-Saxon and medieval settlement and landscape, but also forthe light they shed on Sedgeford’s pioneering democratic archaeology and what itcan achieve. 236p col illus (Poppyland Publishing 2015) 9781909796089 Pb £19.95

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Liturgy, Architecture and Sacred Places inAnglo-Saxon EnglandBy Helen GittosChurch rituals were a familiar feature of lifethroughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. Inthis innovative study, Helen Gittos examinesceremonies for the consecration of churches andcemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, PalmSunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal ritualssuch as baptisms and funerals. Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as otherwritten evidence, archaeology, and architecture, sheconsiders the architectural context in which suchrites were performed. 350p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013,Pb 2015) 9780199270903 Hb £68.00, 9780198737056Pb £24.99

The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-SaxonEnglandBy Toby F. MartinThis book provides amultifaceted, holistic andcontextual analysis of morethan 2,000 Anglo-Saxoncruciform brooches. It offersa critical examination ofidentity in Early Medievalsociety, suggesting that theidea of being Anglian inpost-Roman Britain was nota primordial, tribal identitytransplanted from northern Germany, but was atleast partly forged through the repeated, prevalentuse of dress and material culture. Additionally, theparticular women that were buried with cruciformbrooches, and indeed their very funerals, played animportant role in the process. These ideas areexplored through a new typology and an updatedchronology for cruciform brooches, alongsideconsiderations of their production, exchange anduse. 352p, b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2015)9781843839934 Hb £75.00

Early Medieval Monetary HistoryEdited by Rory Naismith, Martin Allen & ElinaScreenThis memorial volume ofessays commemorates MarkBlackburn’s considerableachievement and impact onthe field, builds on hisresearch and evaluates avibrant period in the studyof early medieval monetaryhistory.Containing a broadrange of high-qualityresearch from both establish-ed figures and youngerscholars, the essays in this volume maintain a tightfocus on Europe in the early Middle Ages (6th-12thcenturies), reflecting Mark’s primary researchinterests. In geographical terms the scope of thevolume stretches from Spain to the Baltic, with aconcentration of papers on the British Isles. 646p, b/w illus, col pls (Ashgate 2014) 9781409456681 Hb £85.00

Before Sutton Hoo: the Prehistoric Remains andEarly Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at TranmerHouse, Bromeswell, SuffolkBy Christopher FernIn 2000, a second early Anglo-Saxon cemetery wasfound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, 500m north of thefamous royal burial-ground. The new burial-ground probably began as a ‘folk’ cemetery wherethe rites of cremation and inhumation werepracticed. Nevertheless, the findings suggest awealthy local population in the period just prior tothe founding of the mound cemetery at Sutton Hoo.A small Bronze Age barrow and part of an Iron Agefield system were recorded. It is argued that theseearthworks survived to at least the time of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and that they influenced its locationand layout. Just over thirty early Anglo-Saxongraves were recorded, including thirteen weapon-burials. 200p, b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2015)9780956874757 Pb £20.00 ***NYP***

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A Late Saxon Village and Medieval Manor:Excavations at Botolph Bridge, OrtonLongueville, PeterboroughBy Paul Spoerry & Rob AtkinsBotolph Bridge lay beside animportant crossing of theRiver Nene and once formedpart of a well-knownmedieval vill, referenced inDomesday Book. BotolphBridge was noted for its wellpreserved medieval earth-works but since the late1980s these have graduallybeen destroyed by housingdevelopment. An earthworksurvey carried out in 1982amply demonstrated the complexity and importanceof the site, showing a church and manorial complexwith house plots strung out along an adjacent roadand fields separated from the main settlement by ahollow way. Excavation demonstrated that themanorial enclosure had replaced earlier house plotsby c.1200. 200p b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology 2015)9781907588051 Pb £20.00

Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea inthe Middle Ages, 800-1200Edited by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson and Timothy BoltonThis collection of papers offers historical,archaeological, art-historical, religious-historicaland philological views of the interaction andinterdependence of Celtic and Norse populations inthe Irish Sea region. Topics include Viking settlementin Ireland, names for the Vikings in the Irish annals,saints’ cults in the Cumberland coast and the Isle ofMan, a comparison of Orkney and Man, Paganmyth and Christian doctrine, slavery, ceramics inthe Hebrides, Norse identity, Viking weapons, andthe English and the Irish Sea. 223p b/w and col illus(Brill 2014) 9789004255111 Hb £105.00

In Search of Vikings: InterdisciplinaryApproaches to the Scandinavian Heritage ofNorth-West EnglandEdited by Stephen E. Harding, David Griffiths &Elizabeth RoylesThe Viking presence in north-west England is well-

attested, with considerableevidence for settlement aswell as burials, silverhoards, and suggestiveresults from DNA samplingof the modern population.This book presents anoverview of the latestresearch in the region,bringing together chaptersfrom historians andarchaeologists as well asexperts in place-name

studies, linguistics and genetics. 193p, b/w and colillus (CRC Press 2015) 9781482207576 Pb £31.99

The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the GreatNorse VoyagersBy Kirsten A. SeaverSaddled with a bit of a misleading title, this is actuallya well researched general history of the Norsecolonisation of Greenland. Combining archaeologywith the sagas, and meagre mentions in otherEuropean sources, Kirsten Seaver looks at theexploration westward attributed to Eirik the Red andLeif Eirikson, and the colonies and trading postswhich were established. Social structure, andrelations with Europe are also examined, and thereis an interesting and sensible speculative discussionas to the reasons behind the colony’s late medievaldisappearance. An epilogue debunks some of themyths surrounding Viking North America. 277p, b/w illus (I.B. Tauris 2010, Pb 2015) 9781784530570 Pb£10.99Les bateaux vikingsBy Damien BouetSince 2013 Damien Bouet has led an experimentalarchaeological project “Les Voiles Norroises” whichhas aimed to relearn ancient building techniques toreconstruct a relica of the elevent century shipSkuldelev V. This book forms a popular introductionto the ships of the Vikings, drawing on theexperiences of the project. Based primarily on thearchaeological remains Bouet traces the developmentof the ships and their design from Hjortspring tothe Skuldelev ships. He reflects on the iconographyand meaning of the famous prow carvings, andincludes details of navigation techniques, beforedevoting the core of the book to a study of Vikingage shipbuilding tecniques, with plentiful diagramsand photographs of the replica tools employed bythe project. 80p, col illus (Heimdal 2014) 9782840484141Hb £28.00

The Story of the Drinking Horn: DrinkingCulture in Scandinavia during the MiddleAgesBy Vivian EttingNorse mythology and thesagas are full of references tothe drinking horn; thisbeautifully illustratedvolume provides anoverview of the vessel andits use, both in the Vikingage and in the later MiddleAges, when from thethirteenth century onwardsits fortunes were revived.An introductory section looks at Classicalantecedents, whilst the text explores issues oftypography and decoration, as well as social andreligious contexts and artistic representations. Acatalogue of the important collection of medieval andrenaissance drinking horns in the National Museumof Denmark rounds off the volume. 157p, col illus(UP of Southern Denmark 2013) 9788776021894 Hb£27.00

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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The World Tree,Middle Earth and the Sun in ArchaeologicalPerspectivesBy Anders AndrenA study of some fundamental cosmological elementsin Old Norse religion, such as the sun, the world-tree and the concept of Midgard. Andren argues thatrepresentations of all these elements can be tracesthrough images and material culture duringdifferent parts of Scandinavian prehistory. Bystudying the history of these representations it ispossible to outline a long-term perspective on OldNorse religion, including periods of fundamentalchanges. 248p, b/w and col illus (Nordic Academic Press2014) 9789185509386 Pb £29.95

Woodstown: a Viking settlement in Co.WaterfordEdited by Ian Russell & Maurice F. HurleyOccupation at Woodstownencompassed domestic,industrial and craftworkingactivities and it was also animportant centre for tradeand exchange withabundant evidence of an on-site trading economy. Thesite is also notable for thepresence of one of the mostrichly furnished Vikingwarrior burials in Ireland orBritain. This monograph isthe definitive report on the archaeologicalexcavations undertaken at Woodstown, as it drawstogether all the existing evidence from the site andplaces it in its national and international context.436p, col. illus (Four Courts Press 2014) 9781846825361Pb £35.00

Bodzia: A Late Viking-Age Elite Cemetery inCentral PolandEdited by Andrzej BukoThis work makes the elite cemetery of Bodziaaccessible to an English speaking audience. Theburials there included people whose origins wereconnected with the Slavic, Nomadic-Khazarian andScandinavian milieus. The book combines analysesand syntheses of the source material, and adiscussion of its ethno-cultural and politicalsignificance, putting the discoveries in a broaderEuropean context. 832p, b/w and col illus (Brill 2015)9789004278295 Hb £200.00

Guta Lag and Guta Saga: The Law and Historyof the GotlandersEdited by Christine PeelGuta Lag, the law of the independent island ofGotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia.The historical appendix to the law, Guta Saga, waswritten in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Thisbook provides both in an English translation,accompanied by an extensive commentary andhistorical contextualisation. 334p, (Routledge 2015)9781138804210 Hb £100.00

A Sense of Belonging: Morkinskinna andIcelandic IdentityBy Armann Jakobsson & Fredrik HeinemannMorkinskinna is a thirteenth-century Icelandic sagathat portrays the kings who ruled Norway in theeleventh and twelfth centuries. The author describesMorkinskinna as a quest for an identity for bothauthor and audience, an identity in which both theroyal court and poetry play a pivotal part. Acharacter frequently recurrs, an Icelander whomakes the Norwegian court his own society andthe Norwegian king his leader. Thus the Icelandicaudience of the saga could hear about Norwegiancourt life and feel they belonged there. 406p, (UP ofSouthern Denmark 2014) 9788776748456 Hb £55.00

Why Is Your Axe Bloody?: A Reading of NjalsSagaBy William Ian MillerNjals saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders,was written around 1280. Law and feud featurecentrally in the saga, Njal, its hero, being the greatestlawyer of his generation. No reading of the sagacan do it justice unless it takes its law, its feudingstrategies, as well as the author ’s stunningmanipulation and saga conventions. Here W.I.Miller offers a lively, entertaining, and completelyoriginal personal reading of this lengthy saga. 368p,(Oxford UP 2015) 9780198704843 Hb £55.00

The splendour of power: Early medievalkingship and the use of gold and silver in thesouthern North Sea area (5th to 7th centuryAD)By J.A.W. NicolayFrom the 5th to the 7th century AD, the southernNorth Sea area functioned as an important culturaland political bridge, linking two power blocks: thelate Roman Empire and its Frankish successorkingdom to the south, and the Scandinaviankingdoms to the north. This book examines howthe region’s intermediary position is reflected in thejewellery and other ornaments of gold and silverfound along the southern North Sea coasts, andhow it relates to the formation of kingdoms and theexpression of group identity. 429p, col illus (Barkhuis2014) 9789491431746 Hb £39.95

Am Rande des Grabs: Todeskonzepte undBestattungsritual in der frühmittelalterlichenAlamanniaBy Barbara HausmairUsing the cemeteries of Bad Mingolsheim, Horb-Altheim and Weingarten as case studies, Hausmaircompares archaeological patterns based on gravegoods and grave arrangements with anthropologicaldata on age, sex, pathologies, trauma and migrationpatterns of the deceased. She dissects the complexnetwork of the burial communities’ social structures,death concepts and the newly constructed identitiesof the dead in the afterlife. German text. 250p, b/wand col illus (Sidestone Press 2015) 9789088902956 Pb£55.00

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The Mortuary Archaeology of the MedievalBanat (10th-14th Centuries)By Silviu OtaIn The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat(10th-14th centuries) Silviu Ota highlights theinteractions between different ethnic groups asreflected in burial customs and funerary practices.The book deals with the Banat as a whole (as opposedto the Romanian, Serbian or Hungarian parts of theregion) since the modern political borders are notidentical with the cultural boundaries in the MiddleAges. On a more general level, the goal of this bookis to analyse the social dynamics in the region. Theauthor rejects the idea that any of the “archaeologicalcultures” identified in the Banat (e.g. the Bjelo Brdoculture) may be associated with any single ethnicgroup. 385p, b/w illus (Brill 2015) 9789004214385 Hb£165.00

The World of Saint PatrickBy Philip FreemanThis volume gatherstogether all of the sourcesfor Saint Patrick’s life andfor the beginnings ofChristianity in Ireland in anew English translation.Included are Patrick’s Letterto the Soldiers of Coroticus,Saint Patrick’s Confession,the First Synod of SaintPatrick, the Hymn of SaintSecundinus, Saint Patrick’sBreastplate, Muirchu’s Life of Saint Patrick, the Lifeof Saint Brigid and the Voyage of Saint Brendan.240p, (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199372584 Hb £14.99

The Origins of Ireland’s Holy WellsBy Celeste RayThis book re-assesses archaeological research intoholy well sites in Ireland and the evidence for votivedeposition at watery sites throughout northwestEuropean prehistory. Drawing on the early Irishliterature (the myths, hagiographies, penitentialsand annals), the author gives an account of pre-Christian supermundane wells in Ireland and whatwe know about their early Christian use for baptism,and concludes by considering the origins of“rounding” rituals at holy wells. 172p b/w and colillus (Archaeopress Archaeology 2014) 9781784910440Pb £33.00

In Search of the First Venetians:Prosopography of Early Medieval VeniceBy Luigi Andrea BertoThis prosopographical study provides informationabout each Venetian living in the early Middle Ages,from the invasion of the Lombards in 569 to therule of Duke Petrus Ursoylus II (991-1008). There isan entry for each individual listing all availableinformation and quoting the full text of primarysources within the footnotes. 485p, (Brepols 2014)9782503541013 Hb £105.00

Healthcare in Early Medieval Northern Italy:More to Life than LeechesBy Clare PilsworthThis volume not only puts forward newclassifications of illness and understandings of diet,but it also demonstrates the centrality of medicineto everyday life in Northern Italy. Using charterevidence and literary sources, the author expandsour understanding of the literacy levels and socialcircles of the elite medical practitioners, the medici,and their lesser counterparts. 269p, (Brepols 2015)9782503528557 Hb £70.00

Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle AgesBy Jesse KeskiahoDreams and visions played important roles in theChristian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But notonly did tradition and authoritative texts teach thatsome dreams were divine, some also pointed out thatthis was not always the case. Keskiaho argues thatthe early medieval processes of reception in a sensecreated patristic opinion about dreams and visions,resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that couldbe used both to defend and to question reports ofindividual visionary experiences. 329p (Cambridge UP2015) 9781107082137 Hb £65.00

The Resources of the Past in Early MedievalEuropeEdited by Clemens Gantner, RosamundMcKitterick & Sven MeederThis volume analyses the importance of history, thetextual resources of the past and the integration ofChristian and imperial Rome into the culturalmemory of early medieval Europe within the widerquestion of identity formation. The authorsdemonstrate how particular texts and their earlymedieval manuscript representatives in Italy, Francia,Saxony and Bavaria not only reflect ethnic, socialand cultural identities but themselves contributedto the creation of identities, gave meaning to socialpractice, and were often intended to inspire, guide,change, or prevent action, directly or indirectly. 354p(Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107091719 Hb £65.00

The Apocalypse in the Early Middle AgesBy James PalmerThis groundbreaking studyreveals the distinctive impactof apocalyptic ideas abouttime, evil and power onchurch and society in theLatin West, c.400–c.1050.Drawing on evidence fromlate antiquity, the Frankishkingdoms, Anglo-SaxonEngland, Spain andByzantium and sociologicalmodels, James Palmer showsthat apocalyptic thought was a more powerful partof mainstream political ideologies and religiousreform than many historians believe. 254p (CambridgeUP 2014) 9781107085442 Hb £55.00, 9781107449091Pb £19.99

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The Conquest of Saxony 782-785 AD:Charlemagne’s defeat of Widukind ofWestphaliaBy David NicolleCharlemagne’s conquest ofthe Saxons was the hardestfought and mostprotracted of his wars; itinvolved 18 campaignsspread across 33 years, agreat deal of lower-levelfighting and the harshestfinal peace settlement thatCharlemagne ever imposedupon a defeated foe. Thiswell-illustrated book surveys the leadership, armiesand strategies of the opposing forces, and gives anarrative of the campaigns as they unfolded. 96p, b/w and col illus (Osprey 2014) 9781782008255 Pb £14.99

The Formation of Christian Europe: TheCarolingians, Baptism, and the ImperiumChristianumBy Owen M. PhelanThis study analyses the Carolingians’ efforts to forma Christian Empire. Owen M. Phelan argues thatbaptism provided the foundation for this society,and offered a medium for the communication andthe popularization of beliefs and ideas, throughwhich the Carolingian Renewal established thevision of an imperium christianum in Europe. Heanalyses how baptism unified people theologically,socially, and politically and helped Carolingianleaders order their approaches to public life. 336p,(Oxford UP 2014) 9780198718031 Hb £65.00

Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda,c.744 - c.900By Janneke RaaijmakersThe monastic community of Fulda was one of themost powerful institutions in early medieval Europe.This book traces the development of the communityfrom its foundation in the 740s over one and a halfcenturies, a period richly documented by a varietyof texts and archaeological remains. Its closeconnection to the Carolingian royal court makesFulda a fascinating case study of how local eventsinfluenced life in the palace and vice versa. 356p,(Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107002814 Hb £65.00,9781107460201 Pb £21.99

The Clergy in the Medieval World: SecularClerics, Their Families and Careers in North-western Europe, c.800-1200By Julia BarrowThis first broad-ranging study in English of thesecular clergy examines how ordination provided aframework for clerical life cycles and outlines theinfluence exerted on secular clergy by monastic idealsbefore tracing typical career paths for clerics,concentrating on northern France, England andGermany. 447p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107086388Hb £65.00

Domesday: Book of JudgementBy Sally HarveyIn this new study Sally Harvey depicts theDomesday Book as the written evidence of apotentially insecure conquest successfullytransforming itself, by a combination ofadministrative insight and military might, into apermanent establishment. She considers the Anglo-Saxon background and the architects of the survey.She also discusses at length the core information inthe Survey: coinage, revenues from landholding,fiscal concessions, and taxation, as well as somecentral tenurial issues. The volume newly arguesthat the Domesday survey also became an inquestinto individual sheriffs and officials, thereby layinga foundation for reinterpreting the size of towns inEngland. 360p (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199669783 Hb£35.00

Officers and Accountability in MedievalEngland, 1170-1300By John SabapathyThe later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were apivotal period for the development of Europeangovernment and governance. During this period amentality took hold which trusted to procedures ofaccountability as a means of controlling officers’conduct. This comparative study surveys theseofficers and the practices used to regulate them inEngland. It places them not only within a Britishcontext but also a wide European one and exploreshow administration, law, politics, and norms triedto control the insolence of office. 312p (Oxford UP2014) 9780199645909 Hb £60.00

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon PastEdited by Martin Brett & D.A. WoodmanThis volume provides a series of essays that movesscholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly,it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continuedto be reused and recycled throughout the longuedurée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the earlydecades that are usually covered. Secondly, bybringing together scholars who are experts invarious different scholarly disciplines, the volumedeals with a much broader range of historical,linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and culticevidence than has hitherto been the case. 423p,(Ashgate 2015) 9781472428172 Hb £85.00

With All for All: The Life of Simon de Montfortby Darren BakerA fast-paced new biography of Simon de Montfortwhich reassesses his remarkable career, his rebellionagainst the king, and his important role in thedevelopment of parliament. Baker is notably moresympathetic than most writers on de Montfort,seeing him as not only a terrifically able man, butone motivated by genuine ideals, rather than simplepersonal gain. He also provides a fresh take on deMontfort’s quarrel with the King, his marriage toEleanor of Leicester and his Franciscan advisors. 320pcol pls (Amberley 2015) 9781445645742 Hb £20.00

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North-West England from the Romans to theTudors: Essays in Memory of John MacNairToddEdited by Keith J StringerThese eight essays range broadly over theinterconnected fields of economic, political, religiousand socio-cultural history. The themes exploredinclude how deeply the North West was affected bythe Romans; the political and cultural achievementsof the kingdom of Northumbria; the impact andconsequences of Viking expansion; the earlymedieval church in Cumbria; twelfth-centuryCarlisle’s burgess community, and the city’s role asa centre for royal visits and diplomacy; the relativeimportance of crown power and aristocratic lordshipas forces for organising people’s lives and allegiancesin peace and war from c.1240; the fortunes of theLucies, from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries;the achievements of Laurence Nowell (d. c.1569); andthe career of Bishop May of Carlisle (1577-98). 288p,b/w illus (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society 2014) 9781873124659 Hb £40.00

The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the ThirteenthCenturyBy Marc MorrisRoger III Bigod (c.1209-70) and his nephew RogerIV (1245-1306), successive earls of Norfolk, weremembers of a powerful and important medievalfamily. This study of these two earls examines theirlives, personalities, politics and actions, most notablytheir challenging of Henry III and Edward Irespectively. Based on unpublished manuscripts,charters and accounts, Marc Morris examines theirmotives for political, public action, as well as theirprivate affairs, the extent of their landed estates, theirincomes, relationships and affiliations, and buildingworks. 261p (Boydell & Brewer 2005, Pb 2015)9781783270095 Pb £17.99

Scotland, England and France After the Lossof Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie’By M.A. PollockThis book argues that the loss of Normandy usheredin a deep and profound shift in the political andcultural mentality of the Anglo-Scottish nobility. Bythe end of the thirteenth century, the number ofScottish families who still held land in France ormade French marriages was slashed by two thirds.Ironically, it was precisely this disintegration of kin-based, personal relations between the nobility ofthese three polities that made it necessary for a formalbond to be forged between France and Scotland in1295, referred to as an “Auld Amitie”. 272p (Boydell& Brewer 2015) 9781843839927 Hb £60.00

The Revolt of Owain Glyndwr in MedievalEnglish ChroniclesBy Alicia MarchantThe revolt of Owain Glyndwr (1400-c.1415) wasnarrated by a number of chroniclers, including AdamUsk, John Capgrave, Thomas Walsingham andEdward Halle. This book studies the representationsof the revolt in English chronicles, from 1400 up to1580. It focuses on the narrative strategies employed,offers a new reading of the texts as literaryconstructs, and explores the information theypresent. 240p (Boydell & Brewer 2015) 9781903153550Hb £60.00

The Foremost Man of the Kingdom: John deVere, Thirteenth Early of Oxford, 1442-1513By James RossEarl of Oxford for fifty years during the political strifeof the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere’s careerincluded more changes of fortune than almost anyother. This is the first full-length study of de Vere’slife. It reconsiders the role of the nobility underHenry VII, challenging the common perception ofHenry as an anti-aristocratic king. It also exploresEast Anglian political society in the second half ofthe fifteenth century, how the earl came to dominateit, how successfully he exercised his power, and thepersonnel, including the Paston family, he used torun the region. 281p (Boydell & Brewer 2015)9781783270057 Pb £17.99

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English Inland Trade 1430-1540: Southamptonand its regionEdited by Michael HicksBetween 1430 and 1540 thebrokage series records alldepartures throughSouthampton’s Bargate, theowner, carter, commodity,quantity, destination anddate, and many deliveriestoo. Twelve such yearsmake up the database thatilluminates Southampton’strade with its extensiveregion at the time when the city was at its mostimportant as the principal point of access to Englandfor the exotic spices and dyestuffs imported by theGenoese. If Southampton’s international traffic wasparticularly important, the town’s commerce wasrepresentative also of the commonplace trade thatoccurred throughout England. Seventeen papersinvestigate Southampton’s interaction withSalisbury, London, Winchester, and many otherplaces, long-term trends and short-term fluctuations.The rise and decline of the Italian trade, thedominance of Salisbury and emergence of Jack ofNewbury, the recycling of wealth and metals fromthe dissolved monasteries all feature here.Underpinning the book are 32 computer-generatedmaps and numerous tables, charts, and graphs, withguidance provided as to how best to exploit andextend this remarkable resource. An accompanyingweb-mounted database enables the changingcommerce to be mapped and visualised through mapsand trade to be tracked week by week and over acentury. 184p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015)9781782978244 Hb £45.00

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Population, Welfare and Economic Change inBritain, 1290-1834Edited by Chris Briggs, Peter Kitson & StephenThompsonPopulation, Welfare and Economic Change presents thelatest research on the causes and consequences ofBritish population change from the medieval periodto the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both townand countryside. Its overarching concern is withthe economic and demographic decision-making ofindividuals and groups and the extent to whichthese were constrained by institutions and resources.320p, (Boydell & Brewer 2014) 9781843839552 Pb £25.00

The Medieval MerchantBy Caroline Barron & Anne F. SuttonThe twenty-one essays printedin this volume examine themedieval merchant in theround. They look beyond theways in which merchantshave made money to considertheir origins and dynasticambitions, their particularpious and charitable concerns,their literary and culturalpreoccupations, and theirsense of themselves whenalive, and after death.Collectively the essays suggest that there was adistinctive merchant outlook on life and death, anda class consciousness which derived from anawareness both of lowly origins and gentryaspirations. 480p, 64 col pls (Paul Watkins 2015)9781907730368 Hb £49.50

Trade and Shipping in the Medieval West:Portugal, Castile and EnglandBy Wendy Rosemary ChildsThis book begins with a survey of Europeantravellers (who travelled, why, where, and whatsources they left behind), and includes a discussionof the economic developments that encouraged tradeand travel. It then focusses on general Iberianconnections to northern Europe, which pre-datedthe early voyages of discovery and continued duringthem, before concentrating on Portuguese tradewith the north, especially with England. 160p,(Brepols 2014) 9782503551289 Pb £40.00

Rome Across Time and SpaceBy Claudia Bolgia, Rosamund McKitterick & JohnOsborneMedieval Rome was uniquely important, both as aphysical city and as an idea with immense culturalcapital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancientEmpire, the glorious world of the martyrs and thetriumph of Christian faith. Rome Across Time andSpace explores these twin dimensions of ‘place’ and‘idea’ and analyses Rome’s role in the transmissionof culture throughout the Middle Ages. 351p, b/willus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9780521192170 Hb£64.99, 9781107460195 Pb £20.99

Jerusalem the Golden: The Origins and Impactof the First CrusadeEdited by Susan Edgington & Luis Garcia-GuijarroThis collection brings together new work by aninternational cast of distinguished scholars, whoexplore areas as diverse as the military andecclesiastical aspects of the First Crusade; itsrepresentation in contemporary sculpture; and theway it has been portrayed in modern fiction andfilm. Other contributions analyse and compareprimary sources and historiography, consider thecrusade in its Mediterranean context; the ‘emotionallanguage’ used in the narrative sources; thememorialization of the crusades; and the use ofliterary sources for crusade studies. 420p, (Brepols2014) 9782503551722 Hb £90.00

Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the MiddleAgesBy John FranceThis volume brings together a series of articles byJohn France, published over a span of more thanforty years, covering a number of aspects of themilitary and crusading history of the Middle Ages,both in Europe and the Near East. An interest inunderstanding how war worked and why informsa first group of articles, ranging from Carolingianarmies to the organisation of war in the 13th century.The focus then turns to the Crusades, includingmajor unpublished analysis of the problems facedby the local Islamic powers in the early Crusadingperiod. 370p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472428202 Hb £90.00

Crusade and Christendom: AnnotatedDocuments in Translation from Innocent III tothe Fall of Acre, 1187-1291Edited by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters,This collection of extensively annotated andtranslated documents illustrates the transformationof the crusade movement. Crusade and Christendomexplores the way in which the crusade was used todefine and extend the intellectual, religious, andpolitical boundaries of Latin Christendom. It alsoillustrates how the very concept of the crusade wasshaped by the urge to define and reform communitiesof practice and belief within Latin Christendom andby Latin Christendom’s relationship with othercommunities, including dissenting political powersand heretical groups, the Moors in Spain, theMongols, and eastern Christians. The relationshipof the crusade to reform and missionary movementsis also explored, as is its impact on individual livesand devotion. 536p, (University of Pennsylvania Press2013, Pb 2015) 9780812223132 Pb £23.00

Law and History in the Latin EastBy Peter W. EdburyThis second collection of papers by Peter Edburyfocuses primarily on the literature either composedin the Latin East or closely associated with it.Prominent themes include John of Ibelin, Philip ofNovara, William of Tyre and his continuators andthe history of Lusignan Cyprus. 346p (Ashgate 2014)9781472441966 Hb £90.00

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Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo asCultural PracticeBy Stefan K. StantchevBased on a large and varied body of archival andprinted, papal and secular sources, this inquirycovers Europe and the broader Mediterranean fromc. 1150 to c. 1550. During this time of an increasingpapal role within Christian society, the churchemployed restrictions on trade with Muslims,pagans, ‘heretics’, ‘schismatics’, disobedient Catholiccommunities and individual Jews in order to facilitatepapally-endorsed warfare against external enemiesand to discipline internal foes. These restrictions,however, were shaped by the premise that sin andthe defense of the decorum of the faith andChristendom condoned, or even required, papalintervention into the lives of the laity and by thetext-based approach of popes and canonists. Theimplications of this are explored in this study. 238p,(Oxford UP 2015) 9780198704096 Hb £65.00

Medieval Christianity: A New HistoryBy Kevin MadiganThis new narrative historyof medieval Christianity,spanning 500 to 1500 A.D.,attempts to combine bothwhat is unfamiliar andfamiliar to readers. Elementsof novelty in the bookinclude a steady focus on therole of women in Christ-ianity, the relationshipsbetween Christians, Jewsand Muslims, the experienceof ordinary parishioners, the adventure ofasceticism, devotion and worship, and instructionthrough drama, architecture and art. Madiganexpertly integrates these focuses with moretraditional themes, such as the evolution anddecline of papal power, the nature and repressionof heresy, sanctity and pilgrimage, the conciliarmovement, and the break between the old Westernchurch and the Reformers. 510p, b/w illus (Yale UP2015) 9780300158724 Hb £25.00

The Benedictines in the Middle AgesBy James G. ClarkThis study offers an overview of the Bendictine orderacross the Middle Ages, tracing institutional andreligious developments from their sixth centurybeginnings and spread throughout Europe downto the Reformation. Topics include the growingwealth of the houses as major landowners, and itsimplications for relations with secular society; thediversity of conditions within the order, and theinitial lack of impetus towards any central corporateidentity and structures; and the daily life of themonks, intellectual and spiritual currents and theresponse to the new orders of mendicants and tothe Reformation. 374p, b/w pls (Boydell & Brewer 2011,Pb 2014) 9781843839736 Pb £17.99

The Other Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian,Sack and Pied Friars in the Middle AgesBy Frances AndrewsIn 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end ofvarious ‘new orders’ of Mendicants. The Franciscansand Dominicans were explicitly excluded, while theCarmelites and Austin friars were eventually able toacquire approval, but other smaller groups, inparticular the Friars of the Sack and Pied Friars, wereforced to disband. This book outlines the history ofthose who were threatened by 1274, tracing thedevelopment of the two larger orders down to theCouncil of Trent, and following the fragmentarysources for the brief histories of the discontinuedfriaries. 272p (Boydell & Brewer 2006, Pb 2015)9781783270040 Pb £17.99

Matter of Faith: An Interdisciplinary Study ofRelics and Relic Veneration in the MedievalPeriodEdited by James Robinson, Lloyd de Beer & AnnaHarndenThis book is the outcome of the conference ‘Matterof Faith’, held to accompany the British Museum’sexhibition Treasures of Heaven, which broughttogether over thirty international experts in this fieldto present new research around the themes ofmedieval reliquaries and relic veneration. The resultis an interdisciplinary study of a thought provokingand controversial topic featuring some of the period’smost beautiful and iconic objects. 206p, b/w and colillus (British Museum Press 2015) 9780861591954 Pb£40.00

Landscapes of Pilgrimage in Medieval BritainBy Martin LockerThis book seeks to address the journeying contextof pilgrimage within the landscapes of MedievalBritain. An interdisciplinary methodology developedby the author is applied to four differentgeographical and cultural areas of Britain (Norfolk,Wiltshire/Hampshire, Flintshire/Denbighshire andCornwall), to investigate the practicalities of travelalong the Medieval road network including theroutes themselves, accommodation, the builtenvironments and natural topographiesencountered. 292p b/w illus (Archaeopress Archaeology2015) 9781784910761 Pb £43.00

Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethicsin Peter Abelard’s Carmen Ad Astralabium andPlanctusBy Juanita Feros RuysThe Repentant Abelard argues that later in his life,Abelard’s thoughts turned again towards his ownfamily, and it explores the works he wrote at thistime for his former wife Heloise and son Astralabe.This book offers a new Latin edition of these textscomplete with first-time full English translation andcomprehensive notes. The works are introduced bythematic, stylistic, and reception studies which revealhow powerful and unique these texts are withinMedieval Latin literature. 355p, (Palgrave 2015)9780312240028 Hb £55.00

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The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial RomanRevival in a German EmpireBy Emily AlbuThe Peutinger Map remains the sole medievalsurvivor of an imperial world-mapping tradition. Itdepicts most of the inhabited world as it was knownto the ancients, from Britain’s southern coastline tothe farthest reaches of Alexander’s conquests in India,showing rivers, lakes, islands, and mountains whilealso naming regions and the peoples who onceclaimed the landscape. Onto this panorama, themapmaker has plotted the ancient Roman roadnetwork, with hundreds of images along the routeand distances marked from point to point. This bookchallenges the artifact’s self-presentation as a Romanmap by examining its medieval contexts of crusade,imperial ambitions, and competition between theGerman-Roman Empire and the papacy. 169p, b/willus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107059429 Hb£55.00

Paint and Piety: Collected Essays on MedievalPainting and Polychrome SculptureEdited by Noelle L.W. Streeton & KajaKollandsrudA collection of papers whichshowcase current approachesto the study of medievalpainting and polychromesculpture, as well as itsphysical contexts, changingfaces and meanings. Themajority of authors focus onnorthern Europe: Scandina-vian objects, those importedto Norway, English roodscreens and Netherlandishartistic production. Topics include the liturgicalcontexts of medieval art, techniques, processes andcontexts of production, and issues of conservation.203p, col illus (Archetype 2014) 9781909492103 Hb £55.00

Medieval Art and Architecture

The Experience of Beauty in the Middle AgesBy Mary CarruthersMary Carruthers shifts thefocus of previous studies ofmedieval beauty and aestheticpleasure from theological ideasto the human experiences ofbeauty, grounded in sensoryperceptions and in the biologyof human beings, as it was thenunderstood. Through detailedlexical analysis of several keyterms employed by medievalpeople to evaluate their ownaesthetic feelings - including ‘various’, ‘sweet’,‘honest’ and ‘beautiful - Carruthers shows how fluxand change, and the creative tension of theantithetical physical qualities from which thingswere thought to be made (cold, hot, dry, wet) governthe pleasures which medieval arts sought to producethrough the variety of styles they employed in theworks. 233p, b/w pls (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2014)9780199590322 Hb £82.00, 9780198723257 Pb £24.99

The medieval manuscripts at MaynoothBy Peter J. Lucas & Angela M. LucasThe aim of this book is to provide an in-depth guideto the Maynooth medieval manuscripts (some 16 ofthem plus fragments) with illustrations. Thedescriptions of the manuscripts include fullpalaeographical/ codicological details and fullinformation on the contents of the manuscripts andtheir history as far as it is known. For the first time,consideration is also given to the collection as awhole, and how its make-up may reflect the historyand character of the institution where it was builtup. In the absence of any one major donor whoseinterests might have dominated, the collection grewover decades mainly in the 19th century. 276p, col.illus (Four Courts Press 2014) 9781846825347 Hb £35.00

Abbeys and Priories of Medieval WalesBy Janet Burton & Karen StoberAbbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales is a comprehensive, illustrated guide to thereligious houses of Wales from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. It offers athorough introduction to the history of the monastic orders in Wales (theBenedictines, Cluniacs, Augustinians, Premonstratensians, Cistercians, the militaryorders, and the friars), and to the life inside medieval Welsh monasteries andnunneries, as well as providing the histories of almost sixty communities of religiousmen and women, and descriptions of the standing remains of their buildings. Aswell as a being a scholarly book, a number of maps, ground plans, and practicalinformation make this moreover an indispensable guide for visitors to Wales’smonastic heritage. The monastic houses of medieval Wales were of great culturaland political, as well as religious significance, yet to many they remain picturesqueruins of a bygone age. This book brings these institutions to life for readers, andlocates them firmly within the broader history of Wales and the Welsh. 260p, b/willus, col pls (University of Wales Press 2015) 9781783161805 Pb £24.99

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Architecture in Giotto’s PaintingsBy Francesco BenelliThis book offers an analysis of Giotto’s paintedarchitecture, focusing on issues of structural logic,clarity of composition, and its role within thenarrative of the painting. It argues that Giotto’sinnovation was driven by a new attention toclassical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics,mural paintings, coins, and Roman ruins. 276p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014)9781107016323 Hb £64.99, 9781107699434 Pb £22.99

Cistercian Arts: From the 12th to the 21stCenturyEdited by Terryl N. Kinder & Roberto CassanelliIn this work the theological and spiritual aspectsand material culture of the Cistercian world areanalyzed in depth by more than thirty internationalspecialists in a forty-chapter overview. Althougharchitecture and manuscript illumination occupy aprominent place in the book, art is definined broadlyto encompass all aspects of the daily creativeendeavours of the order, and music, libraries, watermanagement, metallurgy, farming, liturgical arts,sacred reading, and many other facets of monasticlife are traced from the founding of the order in 1098to the present day. 432p, col illus (McGill-Queen’s UP2014) 9780773544123 Hb £42.00

The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction ofa Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture inThirteenth-Century ParisBy Meredith CohenThis book offers a novel perspective on one of themost important monuments of French Gothicarchitecture, the Sainte-Chapelle. Meredith Cohenargues that the chapel’s architecture, decoration, anduse conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to itsaudience in Paris and in greater Europe, therebyimplicitly elevating the French king to the level ofsuzerain, and establishing an early visual precedentfor the political theories of royal sovereignty andFrench absolutism. 293p, b/w illus, col pls (CambridgeUP 2015) 9781107025578 Hb £75.00

The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City:Synagoga and Ecclesia in the ThirteenthCenutryBy Nina RoweIn the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagogaand Ecclesia paired female personifications of theSynagogue defeated and the Church triumphantbecame a favored motif on cathedral façades in Franceand Germany. Nina Rowe examines the sculpturesas defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christianencounter. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royaland ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious,social and economic lives of Jews in the earlythirteenth century found a material analogue inthese renderings of a downtrodden Synagoga, placedin the public arena of the city square. 326p, b/w illus(Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9780521197441 Hb£59.99, 9781107649989 Pb £24.99

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Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thronesby Charles Tracy with Andrew BudgeThis book is the firstmajor investigation of asubject of seminalimportance in the study ofchurch history andarchaeology. The twostone thrones, at Wellsand Durham, in thiscollection, the threetimber monuments, atExeter, St Davids andHereford, and with them i d - 1 4 t h - c e n t u r ybishop’s chair at Lincoln, all come under a searchingempirical enquiry. The Exeter throne is the largestand most impressive in Europe. It exemplifies mostof the historical and formal strands that suffuse theentire book – visual appearance, distinctivenesswithin the building, prestige, construction, stylisticcontext, finance, and the patronage and personal roleof the bishop himself; as well as the subtler issues ofthe personal and collective politics of bishop andchapter, the monument’s liturgical applications, itsrelationship with the cathedral’s relics, its symbolismand what it tells us about the aspirations of theinstitution within the existing ecclesiasticalhierarchy. 192p, fully colour illustrated, 4 fold-outs(Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782977827 Hb £50.00

The Lewis Chessmen: New PerspectivesEdited by David CaldwellThis book presents recent research and ideas about

the Lewis Chessmen. Someessays focus on thegaming pieces themselvesand their characteristics,placing them either in awider artistic context ordemonstrating theirsignificance in thedevelopment of boardgames. The possiblelocation of the workshopwhere the chess pieceswere carved is also re-

exmained. Other papers look at the social andcultural context of the pieces, how and why theywere in Lewis, and how they and the playing ofgames were an important part of a widerScandinavian world in the late 12th and early 13thcentury. Lewis has sometimes been seen as ofperipheral interest to the story of these pieces, even asurprising place for them to have been discovered.These are views that are rejected in this volume, andthe position of Lewis in a separate kingdom of theIsles is highlighted. 344p, b/w and col illus (NationalMuseum of Scotland 2014) 9781905267859 Hb £35.00

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Castles and the Anglo-Norman WorldEdited by John A. Davies, Angela Riley, Jean-MarieLevesque & Charlotte LapicheCastles and the Anglo-Norman World is a majornew synthesis drawingtogether a series of 20 papersby 26 French and Englishspecialists in the field ofAnglo-Norman studies. Itincludes summaries ofcurrent knowledge andnew research intoimportant Norman castlesin England and Normandy,drawing on informationfrom recent excavations. Sections consider theevolution of Anglo-Norman castles, the architectureand archaeology of Norman monuments,Romanesque architecture and artefacts, the BayeuxTapestry and the presentation of historic sites to thepublic. These studies are presented together with aconsideration of the 12th century cross-ChannelNorman Empire, which provides a broader context.336p (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700224 Hb £48.00

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Environment, Society and the Black Death: Aninterdisciplinary approach to the late-medievalcrisis in Swedenedited by Per LageråsIn the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death

ravaged Europe, leading todramatic population dropand social upheavals. Thedominating perspective ofmuch research hitherto hasbeen that of economichistory. A different approachis presented here by usingevidence and techniquesfrom archaeology and thenatural sciences. Pollen andtree-ring data are used togain new insights into farm

abandonment and agricultural change, and to pointto the important environmental and ecologicalconsequences of the crisis. The archaeological recordshows that the crisis was not only characterised byabandonment and decline, but also how families andhouseholds survived by swiftly developing newstrategies during these uncertain times. Finally,stature and isotope studies are applied to humanskeletons from medieval churchyards to revealchanges in health and living conditions during thecrisis. 208p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700545Pb £36.00

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Danish Medieval CastlesBy Rikke Agnete OlsenThis gloriously illustrated book provides the firstoverview in English of the development andfunctions of the castle in medieval Denmark.Chapters are arranged chronologically, tracing trendsin architecture and fortification from the twelfthcentury and the earliest known castles such asBastrup and Pedersborg to the building works ofChristian III in the first half of the sixteenth century.The text also provides a narrative of Denmark’smedieval conflicts and the part played in them bycastles. Throughout key castles are highlighted ascase studies, informed by the latest archaeologicaldiscoveries. 302p, col illus (Aarhus UP 2014)9788771241792 Hb £40.00

Chateau Gaillard 26: Chateau et frontiereEdited by Peter Ettel, Anne-Marie FlambardHericher & Kieran O’ConnorThis volume collects the papers given at the 2012Chateau Gaillard conference. Castle building isexplored along a substantial number of frontier areas,including Brabant and Holland, the western borderof the county of Champagne, Scottish shire borders,the Meuse frontier between Lotharingia and thelands of the bishops of Liege. Other papers focus oncastles in Wales, Ireland, Russia, Scandinavia andmore, while some papers present more technical ortheoretical discussions. 20 papers in English, 11 inGerman, 4 in French. 408p, b/w and col illus (Brepols2014) 9782841335022 Hb £40.00

Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset: Archaeologicalinvestigations 1930–90By Peter White & Alan CookRoger, Bishop of Salisbury (1102–39, built SherborneOld Castle within his episcopal estate at Sherborne,in north-west Dorset, in about 1122–35. This reportdescribes and analyses the information obtained fromall the archaeological investigations undertaken atthe castle since the early twentieth century, revealingmuch more about the major periods of the castle’sconstruction and use. It is now possible to describeand source more exactly the sophisticated design ofRoger ’s castle and the high quality of thecraftsmanship employed in its construction anddecoration; as well as later phases of development.200p, b/w illus (Society of Antiquaries of London 2015)9780854312993 Hb £35.00

Wigmore Castle, North Herefordshire:Excavations 1996 and 1998by Stephanie RatkaiExcavations at Wigmore Castle were carried out in1996 and 1998 as a precursor to repair andconsolidation of the castle by English Heritage.Evidence of the earliest castle was found during theexcavations, including part of a substantial 12th-century timber building, part of which had beenused as a kitchen. 250p b/w illus (Society for MedievalArchaeology 2015) Pb £30.00

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Haughmond Abbey: Excavation of a 12th-Century Cloister in its Historical andLandscape ContextBy Jeffrey J. West & Nicholas PalmerHaughmond Abbey was aprosperous house ofAugustinian Canonsnorth-east of Shrewsbury.The work reported on hadits origins in excavationscarried out in and near thecloister in 1975-79, but thescope has been broadened toplace the site in itshistorical, theological,architectural and landscapecontext. The finds from theexcavations and previous clearance work, includingsignificant groups of Romanesque sculpture,funerary monuments, pottery and floor tiles, are thesubject of a full range of specialist reports. There is acomprehensive analysis of the surviving claustralbuildings, while a survey of the earthworkssurrounding the site has revealed the precinctboundary, water management systems and a seriesof formal gardens. 416p, 254 (English Heritage 2014)9781848020627 Pb £100.00

Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architectureand Archaeology in NorwichEdited by Sandy Heslop & Helen LunnonThe importance of Norwich as the second city ofEngland for 500 years is explored in this volume innineteen essays and seven site reports. The castleand cathedral are addressed in several papers, eitherby means of direct architectural study or in relationto issues such as patronage and influence.Norwich’s outstanding parish churches andmerchant houses, both barometers of continuity andchange across the medieval and early modernperiods, are the subject of five further papers. 384p(Maney Publishing 2015) 9781909662773 Hb £92.00,9781909662780 Pb £42.00 ***NYP***

Medieval NunneriesBy Mike SalterThis book describes thehistory and remains of twohundred nunneries whichonce existed in Britain andIreland. Only a third of thesebuildings are nowrepresented by obviousstanding remains butearthworks or minor relicssurvive of many others. Thebook comprises a gazetteerwhich provides historical details and descriptionsof any remains, as well as reuse of the fabric.Photographs and plans illustrate the best preservedexamples. 117p, b/w and col illus (Folly Publications 2015)9780993187902 Pb £9.95

Water in the City: The Aqueducts andUnderground Passages of ExeterBy Mark StoyleWater in the City provides a richly illustrated historyof Exeter’s famous under-ground passages and of

Exeter’s system of publicwater supply during themedieval and early modernperiods. Mark Stoyleshows how and why thepassages and aqueductswere originally built,considers the technologiesthat were used in theirconstruction, explainshow they were funded andmaintained, and reveals thevarious ways in which the

water fountains were used and abused by thetownsfolk. 312p, b/w and col illus (University of ExeterPress 2014) 9780859898775 Hb £45.00

Bones of a King: Richard III RediscoveredBy the Greyfriars Research Team with Maev Kennedy and Lin FoxhallThe dramatic story of Richard III, England’s last medieval king, captured the world’sattention when an archaeological team from the University of Leicester identifiedhis remains in February 2013. The Bones of a King presents the official behind-the-scenes story of the Greyfriars dig and the subsequent archaeological and scientificanalyses, drawing throughout on the research of the specialists directly involvedin the discovery. It presents the details of Richard’s life, health, diet and death, aswell as the wider archaeological settings of the events leading up to his burial inthe Grey Friars church. It also covers the DNA retrieval and match to the moderndescendants of Richard III’s sister that played a role in allowing experts to make apositive identification. 219p, b/w illus, col pls (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781118783146Hb £18.99

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Seals and their Context in the Middle AgesEdited by Phillipp R. SchofieldSeals were used throughout medieval society in a wide range of contexts: royal,governmental, ecclesiastical, legal, in trade and commerce and on an individualand personal level. The fourteen papers presented here are divided into three sectionslooking at the history and use of seals as symbols and representa-tions of powerand prestige in a variety of institutional, dynastic and individual contexts, theirrole in law and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources and artisticattributes. Importantly and distinctively, the volume moves beyond the study ofhigh status seals to consider such themes as the social and economic status of seal-makers, the nature and meaning of specific motifs employed at various levels ofsociety, and the distribution of seals. 208p, b/w and colour illustrations (Oxbow Books2014) 9781782978176 Hb £90.00

Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumptionof Textiles, 8th–16th CenturiesEdited by Angela Ling Huang & Carsten JahnkeArchaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate theproduction, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts ofnorthern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeologicalevidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of inter-national tradeand to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in orderto understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they werebeing used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile namesto places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changingeconomics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. 232p, b/w andcolour illustrations (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782976479 Hb £35.00

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Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and theindividual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600edited by Gitte Hansen, Steven Ashby and Irene BaugThe medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts ofthe Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in thetransactions that took place there, or about the complex networks of individualswhose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored andultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edgetechniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives ofthese much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits toexplore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects ofbone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use inmedieval northern Europe. 352p, b/w & col illus (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782978053 Hb£42.00

Windsor and Eton: British Historic Town Atlas IVBy David LewisThis atlas is the definitive account in maps and words of the historic royal towns ofWindsor and Eton. The atlas contains high-quality and original maps of the twotowns at key periods between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. At the heart ofthe atlas lies a detailed and minutely researched map showing all the major medievaland post-medieval features in the context of a large-scale map of the towns around1870, using Ordnance Survey maps as a source. The substantial introduction tothe history of these distinctive towns charts their development over eight centuries.The atlas is presented as a large-format, high-quality A3 folder, with maps andillustrations printed at A2, allowing clear detail to be seen. A3 maps and folder (HistoricTowns Trust 2014) 9781782978282 Hb £55.00

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A House That Thieves Might Knock At: TowerStudies 1 & 2edited by Richard OramAcross Europe the toweris recognised as thedominant physicalexpression of lordship inthe late medieval andearly modern periods.These essays are theproceedings of the firsttwo Turris conferencesand aim to exmaine thetower in its wider physical, cultural and sociallandscapes; the economic and social structureswithin and around the tower and the planningand function of the buildings themselves. Theyare grouped under the two broad headings of TheTower as Lordly Residence, and The Tower andthe Household. 304p col illus (Shuan Tyas 2015)9781907730405 £45.00

Architettura e Potere in una terra di confine:Edilizia vescovile nella Diocesi di Luni fra XI eXIV SecoloBy Daniele FerdaniThis volume explores the development and theorganisation of the fortified architecture, settlementsand centres during the medieval age in the region ofLuni. The author portrays the power of the bishopas promoter of seigniorial territorialization andcastle-building. The study of the historicalarchitecture adopts a multifaceted methodology thatcombines building archaeology such as wallstratigraphic relationships, building phases, type-chronology of the architectural elements, and analyisof masonry techniques with more recent dense imagemodeling and 3D reconstruction techniques. Italiantext. 241p b/w illus (BAR 2680, Archaeopress 2015)9781407313245 Pb £37.00

Bridgwater: Personality, Place and the BuiltEnvironmentBy David SivierThis study traces the history and development ofthe town of Bridgwater from its origins to 1700. Thisincludes not only the physical layout of the townas a whole, but also the plan and structure of itsindividual plots and buildings. These have beenreconstructed through hundreds of leases from themedieval period and sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies. The book places the settlement anddevelopment of the town within the context of widerchanges in the landscape of Somerset, such as thecolonisation and drainage of the Levels, theexpansion of road and river communications andthe urbanisation of Europe from the tenth centuryonwards. 219p b/w illus, col pls (BAR BS 605,Archaeopress 2014) 9781407313276 Pb £36.00

The Medieval Royal Palace at Visegradedited by Gergely Buzas and Jozsef LaszlovszkyThe royal palace at Visegrad was continuously built,altered and enlarged for two hundred years, andemerged as a sophisticated complex of dwellingrooms, spaces of status display, ecclesiasticalbuildings (royal chapel and Franciscan friary),kitchens, workshops, storage buildings, gardens,loggias, balconies and fountains.offers a summaryof the previous and recent excavations since 1934and the interpretation of the palace in its Europeanarchaeological and art historical context. It alsocontains the functional analysis of the palacecomplex and the discussion of the interactionsbetween the residence and the Franciscan friary.Some chapters focus on the most important groupof finds (pottery, stove tiles, worked bone material,etc.) along with their detailed catalogue. 397p col andb/w illus (Archaeolingua 2013) 9789639911383 Hb £50.00

The Medieval Royal Town at Visegrad: RoyalCentre, Urban Settlement, Churchesedited by Gergely Buzas, Jozsef Laszlovszky andOrsolya MeszarosWhy did Visegrád became aroyal seat, how did itfunction as such, and whathappened to the town afterthe moving of the royalcourt to Buda? Thesequestions are raised in thisvolume with an analysis ofurban development, whichincludes the interpretationof the location, topography,population, churches, publicand private buildings. It also publishes Englishsummaries and full-text Latin editions of the medievaldocuments that contain relevant information onVisegrád’s topography and ecclesiastic institutions.272p col and b/w illus (Archaeolingua 2014)9789639911581 Hb £30.00

On the Road: The History and Archaeology ofMedieval Communication Networks in East-Central EuropeBy Magdolna SzilagyiThe social, political and economic factors as well asthe physical landscape created different types ofmedieval roads in terms of function and physicalproperties. The purpose of this book is todemonstrate the variability of these roads throughEast-Central European examples, and stimulatefurther investigations both within and outside theregion. At the same time, it offers a well-selectedcollection of features, archaeological sites andhistorical representations with the relevant researchmethods on the means and ways of medievalcommunication networks. 254p b/w illus(Archaeolingua 2014) 9789639911574 Pb £28.00

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Large Cargo Ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250:Evidence of specialised merchant seafaringprior to the Hanseatic PeriodBy Anton EnglertThis volume presents the earliest archaeologicalevidence for specialised merchant seafaring in Danishwaters. The cargo ship-finds of Eltang Vig, Lynæs,Karschau and Haderslev are explored in detail inorder to illuminate the technology and style of adynamic age of maritime enterprise and culturaltransformation. 378p, 240 illustrations (Viking ShipMuseum 2015) 9788785180537 Hb £50.00

Early German StonewareBy Robert Attard, Romina Azzopardi & KevinCashaGerman stoneware, highfired, nearly waterproofbefore light salt glazing,and extremely durable, hasbeen described as “themost important andspecific contribution thatGermany made to themedieval European ceramicarts.”This book interpretsarcheological remains in abid to explore the spreadof German stoneware to Britain, ContinentalEurope, and Colonial America. It interpretsarcheological remains in a bid to explore the spreadof German stoneware to Britain, ContinentalEurope, and Colonial America. 175p, col illus (SchifferPublishing 2014) 9780764346422 Hb £49.99

The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contents: AReassessmentBy Elizabeth Pastan, Stephen D. White & KateGilbertAspects of the Bayeux Tapestry have alwaysremained mysterious, despite much scholarlyinvestigation, not least its design and patron, issueswhich are considered here. From the study of art-historical, archaeological, literary, historical anddocumentary materials, the authors conclude thatthe monks of St Augustine’s designed the hangingfor display in their abbey church to tell their ownstory of how England was invaded and conqueredin 1066. 432p, b/w illus, col pls (Boydell & Brewer 2014)9781843839415 Hb £60.00

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11Edited by Robin Netherton & Gale R. Owen-CrockerThe second decade of this acclaimed and popularseries begins with a volume that will be essentialreading for historians and re-enactors alike. Twopapers consider cloth manufacture in the Viking age;one examines the shirt attributed to King Louis IXof France (St Louis); three consider fashionableclothing and morality; and two textual studiesshow the importance of textiles in daily life. 189p b/w illus (Boydell & Brewer 2015) 9781783270026 Hb£35.00

West Country Households, 1500-1700Edited by John Allan, Nat Alcock & David DawsonDuring the last forty years,South-West England hasbeen the focus of some of themost significant work on theearly modern house andhousehold in Britain. Itsremarkable wealth ofvernacular buildings hasbeen the object of muchattention, while the area hasalso seen productiveexcavations of early modernhousehold goods, sheddingnew light on domestic history. This collection ofpapers presents a number of essays summarizing theoverall understanding of particular themes andplaces, alongside case studies which publish someof the most remarkable discoveries. They include theextraordinary survival of wall-hangings in a SouthDevon farm, the discovery of painted rooms in anElizabethan town house, and a study of a table-setting mirrored on its ceiling. Also considered areforms of decoration which seem specific to particularareas of the West Country houses. 439p, b/w illus, colpls (Boydell & Brewer 2015) 9781843839941 Hb £30.00

Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640:Eating to ImpressBy Paul S. LloydThis study connects early modern Englishconsumption practices with ideas of ‘self ’ and‘otherness’ in wider contexts of society and the classsystem. Examining the diets of various socialgroups, ranging from manual labourers to thearistocracy, special foods and their preparation, aswell as festive events and gift foods, this all-encompassing study reveals the extent to whichindividuals and communities identified themselvesand others by what and how they ate between theReformation of the church and the English CivilWars. 245p (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472514431 Hb£65.00

The Spitalfields suburb 1539–c 1880:Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1,1991–2007By Chiz Harward, Nick Holder & Nigel JeffriesOne of London’s largest archaeological excavationstook place at Spitalfields Market, on the north-eastern fringe of the historic city, between 1991 and2007. This book presents an archaeological historyfrom the 16th to the 19th centuries, reconnectingthe archaeological assemblages with documentaryevidence in order to describe the place, people andpossessions of the early modern suburb ofSpitalfields. A series of essays bring an archaeologicalperspective to wider historical themes such as thereligious life, architecture, sanitation andadministration of this flourishing post-medievalsuburb. 360p b/w illus (Museum of London Archaeology2015) 9781907586293 Hb £35.00 ***NYP***

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Cooking & Dining in Tudor & Early Stuart EnglandBy Peter BrearsBringing both a wealth of practical experience of cooking in the kitchens at HamptonCourt and an unrivalled knowledge of the documentary sources, Peter Brearsdelivers a vast and comprehensive panorama of cookery and food culture fromc.1500-1660. The focus is overwhelmingly on the great (in the main royal) household,and Brears delas not only with practical matters, such as cooking techniques,ingredients, the combination of flavours, scents and dishes, and the composition ofmeals, but also provides numerous recipes. Logistical matters such as finance andhousehold management are also covered in full, along with kitchen design, watersupply, baking and brewing, food storage, and the employment and status of cooks.Finally dining itself is explored, including elaborate banquets and feasts, as well asmatters such as table manners, seating plans and other matters of etiquette. 400p,b/w illus (Prospect Books 2014) 9781909248328 Hb £36.00

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The Underwater Archaeology of Red Bay:Basque shipbuilding and whaling in the 16thcenturyEdited by Robert Grenier, Marc-André Bernier &Willis StevensIn 1978 underwaterarchaeologists discoveredthe wreck of a 16th-century Basque whalingvessel in Red Bay,Labrador, believed to bethe San Juan (1565). Thisfive-volume publication isthe culmination of over 25years of research. Itdescribes not only theunderwater archaeologyas practiced at Red Bay but also 16th-century shipconstruction, whaling and material cultural studies.5 vols, 1561p, b/w and col illus (Parks Canada 2007)9780660196527 Hb £75.00

The Gresham Ship Project II: A 16th-CenturyMerchantman Wrecked in the Princes Channel,Thames Estuary Volume II: Contents andContextEdited by Gustav Milne Milne & Dean SullyThis second volume on the Gresham Ship,rediscovered in 2003, describes the wider maritimecontext, the conservation process and the analysisof the contents recovered from the wreck site.Prominent in the cargo were 42 iron bars thoughtto be of a type sometimes traded to West Africa asthe first stage of the transatlantic slave trade. Witha tonnage of some 150 tons, the Gresham Shipemerges from this research as an all too rare exampleof typical armed merchantman of the age, capable ofocean passages, operating as a privateer or evenserving with the Queen’s Navy against the Armada.144p, b/w and col illus (BAR BS 606, Archaeopress 2014)9781407312118 Pb £32.00

Maritime Archaeology of Alum Bay: Twoshipwrecks on the north-west coast of the Isleof Wight, EnglandBy Julie Satchell & Julian WhitewrightIn 1991, sports divers discovered a previouslyunknown section of wooden shipwreck,subsequently named Alum Bay 1. This monographidentifies the wreck as the 38-gun frigate HMSPomone, lost in 1811. Archaeological work on thesite since 1993 has comprised a seabed survey of thesite, targeted excavation of specific areas andsampling of structural remains fordendrochronological and metallurgical analysis. In2001, a second shipwreck was discovered a shortdistance away and named Alum Bay 2. This vesselwas also subject to archaeological survey andinvestigation, including dendrochronologicalanalysis. On the basis of the ship structure survivingon the seabed, Alum Bay 2 has been classified as arelatively small vessel that was likely to have beeninvolved in local transport or coastal trade in thevery late 18th century and early decades of the 19thcentury. 168p b/w and col illus (BAR BS 608,Archaeopress 2015) 9781407313368 Pb £30.00

Eel Drifters: Building a traditional fishing boatfrom the Danish island of FejøBy Morten GøthcheIn the autumn of 2010, the Viking Ship Museum inRoskilde launched a newly built eel-drifter(åledrivkvase), a type of fishing boat traditionallyused on the waters between Zealand, Lolland andFalster. Eel-drifters were developed for fishing witheel-seine nets. With a large net played out betweenbooms fore and aft, the boat would drift sidewaysthrough the water with all sails set. Here, in textand pictures, Morten Gøthche provides a shortaccount of the history of the boat type, theboatbuilders behind them and the subsequentconstruction of the new eel-drifter at the Viking ShipMuseum’s boatyard. 80p col illus (Viking Ship Museum2015) 9788785180674 Pb £18.00

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What the Victorians Threw AwayBy Tom LicenceDigging up th refuse of theVictorian age is like peepingthrough the keyhole. If wewant to know what theybought in the village store,how they stocked the kitchencupboard, and how they fed,pampered, and cared forthemselves there is no betterarchive than a rubbish tipwithin which each objectreveals a story. A simple glassbottle can reveal what people were drinking, how agreat brand emerged, or whether an inventortriumphed with a new design. An old tin tells usabout advertising, household chores, or foreignimports, and even a broken plate can introduce usto the children in the Staffordshire potteries, whopainted in the colours of a robin, crudely sketchedon a cheap cup and saucer. In this highly readableand delightfully illustrated little book Tom Licencereveals how these everyday minutiae, dug from theground, contribute to the bigger story of how ourgreat grandparents built a throwaway society fromthe twin foundations of packaging and massconsumption and illustrates how our ownthrowaway habits were formed. 208p, 90 col illus(Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782978756 Pb £9.99

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Rethinking Colonial Pasts ThroughArchaeologyEdited by Rodney Harrison, Michael V. Wilcox &Neal FerrisThese essays explore the archaeologies of daily livingleft by the indigenous and other displaced peoplesimpacted by European colonial expansion over thelast 600 years. Case studies from North America,Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Irelandsignificantly revise conventional historical narrativesof those interactions, their presumed impacts, andtheir ongoing relevance for the material, social,economic, and political lives and identities ofcontemporary indigenous and other peoples (e.g.metis or mixed ancestry families, and other displacedor colonized communities). 552p, b/w illus (OxfordUP 2014) 9780199696697 Hb £100.00

Archaeology at the Waterfront: 1: InvestigatingLiverpool’s Historic DocksBy Richard A. Gregory et al.This volume presents the findings of the largestcampaign of archaeological investigation yetundertaken along Liverpool’s historic waterfront.This work centred on the areas of Mann Island, PierHead, and the Central Docks, and uncoverednumerous remains relating to eighteenth- andnineteenth-century dock building and landreclamation, as well as concomitant evidence for theuse and occupation of the waterfront, and the widertown, during these periods. 266p, col illus (OxfordArchaeology 2014) 9781907686184 Pb £20.00

Steelworks, Crucible Furnaces and Workers’Housing: Archaeological Investigations atHoyle Street SheffieldBy Andrew PowellArchaeological excavations have revealed significantevidence for crucible steelmaking; documentaryresearch has helped elucidate details of this industrythat made Sheffield world famous for the productionof cutlery and tools in the 19th and 20th centuries.Evidence for domestic occupation was also foundtogether with evidence for possible cottage industry.65p, b/w and col illus (Wessex Archaeology 2014)9781874350798 Pb £7.50

Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of theHorse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492By Peter MitchellHorse Nations provides the first wide-ranging and

up-to-date synthesis of theimpact of the horse on theIndigenous societies of Northand South America, southernAfrica, and Australasiafollowing its introduction as aresult of European contactpost-1492. Drawing onsources in a variety oflanguages and on the evidenceof archaeology, anthropology,and history, the volumeoutlines the transformations

that the acquisition of the horse wrought on adiverse range of groups within these fourcontinents. It explores key topics such as changesin subsistence, technology, and belief systems, thehorse’s role in facilitating the emergence of morehierarchical social formations, and the interplaybetween ecology, climate, and human action inadopting the horse, as well as considering how farequestrian lifestyles were ultimately unsustainable.444p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198703839Hb £35.00

The Maritime Archaeology of a ModernConflictBy Innes McCartneyThrough a series of systemic dives Innes McCartneyhas surveyed and recorded U-boat wrecks in theEnglish Channel, discovering that their distributionand number conflicted with the published historiesof U-boat losses. He found that some 41% wereheretofore unaccounted for in the historical literatureof World War I and World War II. This bookreconciles these inaccuracies with the archaeologicalrecord by presenting case studies of a number of divesconducted in the English Channel. It investigatespossible reasons historical inconsistencies persist andwhat Allied operational and intelligence-basedprocesses caused them to occur in the first place. 344p,b/w illus (Routledge 2015) 9781138814356 Hb £80.00

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