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General Interest and Method and Theory
2
Oxfordshire
Dogs
by Hilary L Turner.
by Catherine Johns.
A Look At the Past
A tour of the churches,
monuments, trackways,
markets, houses and colleges of
Oxfordshire, aimed at the resident
and visitor alike. Hilary Turner
reviews the evidence chronologically, describing the
sites and monuments, exploring human impact on the
landscape and building a picture of the changing lives
of the people of Oxfordshire.
128p, 30 col illus (Plotwood 1997) Pb was £9.75 now
£2.95
Perilous Glory
The Rise of Western Military
Power
by John France.
This expansive book surveys the
history of warfare from ancient
Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in
search of a deeper understanding
of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for
its eminence today. Its bold conclusions cast doubt on
well-entrenched attitudes about the development of
military strength, the impact of culture on warfare,
the future of Western dominance, and much more.
438p b/w pls (Yale UP 2011) Hb was £25.00 now £7.95
Living Archaeology
by Philip Rahtz.
An entertaining autobiography of
one of the best known and most
highly regarded archaeologists
of recent times. Rahtz excavated
many important sites, including
Bordesley Abbey, Glastonbury
Tor, Cannington Cemetery, the church at Deerhurst St
Mary and the Iron Age hillfort at Cadbury Congresbury,
and gained many great friends and colleagues along
the way.
288p b/w illus (Sutton 2001) Pb was £17.99 now
£5.95
Astrology From Ancient
Babylon to the Present
by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart.
This new history of astrology aims
to get away from the impression of
exoticism which has surrounded
it, stressing that for most of its
existence it was a science at the
forefront of intellectual speculation. Maxwell-Stuart
traces the development of the discipline, showing that
like a science it was not a static body of learning, but
one that was constantly reinterpreted and added to,
following theological, medical aesthetic and political
currents, and in turn influencing other areas of inquiry.
320p b/w pls (Amberley 2010) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Sites of Antiquity from
Ancient Egypt to the Fall of
Rome
by Charles Freeman.
Freeman selects 50 of the Ancient
World’s finest sites, using them to
trace the development of their
civilizations. The texts are wellwritten and convey a surprising amount of information,
focusing on the extant remains and what they can
tell us, rather than on excavations at the sites, and
each illustrated with useful plans and many colour
photographs.
248p col illus (Blue Guides 2008) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
History, Myth, Art
An attractive ‘souvenir’ history of
dogs illustrated by objects from
all areas of the British Museum’s
collection, arranged thematically
with a linking text setting the
illustrations in context.
208p col illus (British Museum Press 2008) Hb was
£16.99 now £5.95
Gold
by Susan La Niece.
Cultures as different as the
Mughals of India, the AngloSaxons and the pre-Hispanic
civilizations of the New World
have created precious objects of
gold and given special status to
their goldsmiths. Susan La Niece explores the long
and fascinating history of gold around the world and
across time, illustrated throughout with examples from
the collections of the British Museum. 128p col illus
(British Museum Press 2009) Hb was £9.99 now £4.95
Silver
by Philippa Merriman.
Silver has been used over
the centuries for coinage, for
jewellery and adornment, for
high-status vessels and plate. It
has been given as gifts on special
occasions and associated with
magic and the moon. Phillipa Merriman, herself a
professional silversmith, writes entertainingly about
the long and fascinating history of silver around the
world, illustrated throughout with examples from the
collections of the British Museum.
128p col illus (British Museum Press 2009) Hb was
£9.99 now £4.95
Coin Finds in Britain
by Michael J. Cuddeford.
A catalogue of commonly
encountered coins, dating from
ancient times until the modern
day, explaining their historical
context, how they might have
come to be lost and where they
may be found today.
64p b/w and col illus (Shire 2013) Pb was £6.99 now
£2.95
Glass of Four Millennia
by Martine Newby.
This
book
charts
the
development of Glass over four
millennia, from 18th Dynasty
Egypt, through to the present
day, illustrated by 56 examples
from the collections held by the
Ashmolean Museum.
80p col illus (Ashmolean Museum 2000) Hb was
£11.95 now £4.95
Nostratic
Examining a Linguistic
Macrofamily
edited by Colin Renfrew and Daniel
Nettle.
This volume of essays examines
the claim that a linguistic
macrofamily can be identified
which includes not only the Indo-European and
Afroasiatic language families but also the Kartvelian,
Uralic,Altaic and Dravidian families.
164p (McDonald Institute 1999) Pb was £30.00 now
£9.95
Clean
World Prehistory
by Virginia Smith.
edited by J Coles, R Bewley and P
Mellars.
A History of Personal Hygiene
and Purity
From pre-historic grooming
rituals to New Age medicine,
from ascetics to cosmetics, Smith
looks at how different cultures
have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness
and shows how, throughout history, this striving for
purity has brought great social benefits as well as
great tragedies.
457p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2007) Hb was £16.99 now
£7.95
Empires of Food
Feast, Famine and the Rise and
Fall of Civilizations
by Evan G. Fraser and Andrew
Rimas.
A lively account of the key role
which food and foodways have
played in human history from the
earliest cities to the present day. It takes the form of
a series of thematically linked case studies comparing
the ways which different civilizations have dealt with
challenges such as intensifying farming, irrigation,
storage, and food security, as well as what happens
when things go wrong. 302p (Random House 2010)
Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Studies in Memory of
Grahame Clark
Presents all new developments
and perspectives in G Clark’s
major fields of interest – ranging
from the origins of our own genus in Africa to issues
of the Later Stone Age, and the emergence of
civilization.
246p, b/w and col illus (Oxford UP/ British Academy
1999) Hb was £35.00 now £9.95
Taphonomy and
Interpretation
edited by Jacqueline P. Huntley
and Sue Stallibrass.
13 Papers from the 1993 Asso
ciation for Environmental Archae
ology conference at Durham. They
examine ways in which material
(pollen, insects, bones etc.) came to be deposited in the
context from which they were recovered, how surviving
material might compare with what existed in the past
and how our methodologies can bias our results.
120p (Oxbow 2000) Pb was £24.00 now £5.00
Method and Theory
Dyes in History and
Archaeology 16/17
edited by Jo Kirby.
Papers on dying technologies
in the past covering everything
from the use of indigo in
Senegal, Tunisia, silk dyeing
with cochineal, and scientific
techniques for the analysis of dyes to the medieval
woad vat.
222p b/w illus, col pls (Archetype 2001) Pb was
£40.00 now £9.95
Dyes in History and
Archaeology 20
edited by Jo Kirby.
The papers are centred around
the theme of dyestuff analysis,
from the application of relatively
new instumental methods to
the examination of dyes and the
information this examination can provide towards a
better understanding of a historical textile.
200p b/w illus, col pls (Archetype 2005) Pb £40.00
now £9.95
Marx’s Ghost
Conversations with
Archaeologists
by Thomas C. Patterson.
This book explores the profound
influence of Karl Marx on 20th
century archaeology. Patterson
discusses the work of V. Gordon
Childe in applying Marxism to archaeology, then
analyses trends including the “new archaeology” of
the 1960s. Finally he looks at how archaeologies from
differing theoretical perspectives have continued to
use, engage with and critique Marxist ideas.
204p (Berg 2003) Pb was £18.99 now £6.95
Archaeology and Heritage
by John Carman.
Largely theoretical in content,
the book focuses especially
on the relationship between
the interpreter of objects and
physical remains such as sites
and structures, addressing the
question of the categorisation of objects and the
purpose of heritage within the context of the public
and the wider world.
228p, b/w figs and pls (Continuum 2002) Hb was
£100.00 now £19.95
The Backbone of History
Health and Nutrition in the
Western Hemisphere
edited by Richard H. Steckel and
Jerome C. Rose.
An interdisciplinary assessment
of health and nutrition among
the inhabitants of the western
hemisphere from 5000 BC to the modern age.It
includes methodological papers, studies of specific
populations or skeletal remains, case studies from the
19th and 20th centuries, and more general studies of
changes in health patterns.
633p, tbs (Cambridge UP 2002, Pb 2005) Pb was
£27.99 now £12.95
Birds
by Dale Serjeantson.
This book serves as a guide to
the methods of study of bird
remains from the past and
covers a wide range of topics,
including anatomy and osteology,
taphonomy, eggs, feathers, and
bone tools. It examines the myriad ways in which
people have interacted with birds in the past.
486p b/w figs (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
2009) Pb was £33.00 now £9.95
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Substance, Memory, Display
Archaeology and Art
edited by Colin Renfrew, Chris
Gosden and Elizabeth DeMarrais.
This innovative volume explores
key themes, including the role
of display in art, in the practice
of archaeology and in daily life,
and the material transformations which underlie the
physical reality of the archaeological record as much
as the creative processes of the contemporary artist.
170p col illus (McDonald Institute 2004) Hb was
£45.00 now £14.95
Late Quaternary
Environments of the Soviet
Union
edited by A. A. Velichko.
The Late Quaternary saw not only
fluctuations of ice sheets and
mountain glaciers but also shifts
in the levels of lakes and seas, in
the extent of the permafrost and wind-borne deposits,
in the distribution of environmentally sensitive plants
and animals and in the development of human cultures
- areas covered in this book by Soviet specialists in the
earth sciences, palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology.
327p b/w illus (Minnesota UP 1984) Hb was £37.50
now £7.95
Mitigation of Construction
Impact on Archaeological
Remains
by M.J. Davis, K.L.A. Gdaniec, M.
Brice and L. White.
This volume aims to inform and
assist archaeologists in making
decisions where sites may be
threatened by development. Extensive information
on the range of construction techniques as well as a
range of suggested strategies to mitigate the impact
of the techniques outlined are provided.
91p b/w illus (MOLA 2004) Pb was £6.95 now £2.95
Past Lives
The Invisible Diggers
The Past in Perspective
by Ian Wilson.
by Paul Everill.
by Kenneth L. Feder.
Unlocking the Secrets of Our
Ancestors
With a fascinating combination of
archaeology and forensic science,
this well-illustrated volume aims
to literally reconstruct the faces of
our ancestors. Case studies include Homo Erectus , the
`Cheddar Caveman’, the Ìceman’, an Egyptian priest
of Amun, a Minoan priestess, Philip of Macedonia, a
Roman sailor, a Viking, an unknown soldier from the
Battle of Towton and Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
216p col illus (Casell 2001) Hb was £20.00 now £5.95
Managing the Marine
Cultural Heritage
edited by J. Stachell and P. Palma.
This volume presents a range
of international initiatives that
include examples of management
responses to regional, national,
and international situations. It
also discusses the principal challenges facing maritime
archaeology, which have relevance not just in the UK
but across the globe.
114p col illus (Council for British Archaeology 2007)
Pb was £18.50 now £3.95
A Study of British Commercial
Archaeology
This monograph examines the
situation within contemporary
‘commercial’ archaeology and
considers the challenges faced
by those employed within that sector, including
the impact of commercial working practices on pay
and conditions of employment and the process of
excavation and knowledge production.
216p (Heritage 2009) Pb was £24.95 now £6.95
Material Engagements
Studies in Honour of Colin
Renfrew
edited by N. Brodie and C. Hills.
Papers which explore the engage
ment of human beings, now and
in the past, with both the natural
world and the material world
they have created. Particular themes include the
interactions of archaeology with the study of art and
with the antiquities trade.
180p, col figs (McDonald Institute 2004) Hb was
£35.00 now £12.95
An Introduction to Human
Prehistory
An engaging and accessible
introduction to our Prehistoric
past, which provides truly global
coverage. Feder outlines the
grand sweep of human evolutionary history and
fundamental cultural developments, whilst selecting
key cultures, topics and controversies for in-depth
discussion.
546p, col illus (Oxford UP 5th ed 2011) Pb was £55.00
now £14.95
The Archaeology of Politics
and Power
Where, When and Why the
First States Formed
by Charles Maisels.
This book describes how states
formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia,
China and the Andes, and also
how the Indus Civilization functioned without a
state. It spans law, ideology, politics, economics, and
psychology, the ancient world and modern history, in
order to show how power is obtained, sustained and
deployed, and in whose interests.
440p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010) Pb was £35.00
now £9.95
Method and Theory
4
Archaeomalacology
Revisited:
Non-dietary use of molluscs in
archaeological settings
edited by Canan Cakirlar.
These ten papers revisit important
issues in archaeomalacology such
as provenance of raw materials,
dye production and the secondary uses of industrial
shell waste, the role of shell artefacts in the symbolic
world of diverse civilisations, technology and early
cross-regional exchange networks.
104p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was
£30.00 now £9.95
Assembling the Past
Studies in the
Professionalization of
Archaeology
edited by Alice B. Kehoe and Mary
Beth Emmerichs.
12 essays examine processes
whereby archaeology became
professionalized during the course of the twentieth
century, focusing in particular on the the increasing
participation of once marginalized groups, above all
women into the mainstream of the profession.
241p (University of New Mexico Press 1999) Hb was
£48.50 now £9.95
From Paris to Pompeii
French Romanticism and the
Cultural Politics of Archaeology
by Goran Blix.
Taking the iconic city of Pompeii
as its central example, and ranging
widely across French romantic
culture, this book examines
the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and
analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval,
and secular theology of memory, before turning to its
broader political implications.
310p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2009) Hb was
£39.00 now £12.95
St Peter’s, Barton-uponHumber, Volume 2
The Human Remains
by Tony Waldron.
The excavations at St Peter’s
church, Barton-upon-Humber,
between 1978 and 1984 have
yielded the largest collection
of human remains in the UK, dating from the late
tenth century to the mid-nineteenth. In total,
2,750 inhumations were examined, with the results
presented here.
216p b/w illus, col pls (Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was
£30.00 now £6.95
Development-Led
Archaeology in North-West
Europe
edited by Richard Bradley, Colin
Haselgrove, Mar vander Linden and
Leo Webley.
These
12
papers
bring
together data on developerled archaeology in Britain, Ireland, France, the
Low Countries, Germany and Denmark in order to
review and evaluate key common issues relating to
organisation, practice, legal frameworks and quality
management.
now £9.95
First Aid for the Excavation
of Archaeological Textiles
by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise
Nosch.
This small booklet is an important
conservation guide. It deals with
the special care required in order
to deal with these delicate fabrics
during their excavation and recording. It is included
as an appendix in Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts
and Society.
48p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2007) Pb was £3.95 now
£1.00
Researching the History of a
Country House
A Guide to Sources and their
use
by Richard Goodenough.
Richard Goodenough takes the
budding local historian through
the various classes of evidence
which may be employed including oral history, the
landscape, architecture, early written records and
maps. He illustrates the process throughout with a
case study of his own house at Trimworth, in Kent.
164p b/w illus (Phillimore 2010) Pb was £17.99 now
£6.95
The Oxford Companion to
Family and Local History
edited by David Hey.
Over 2000 entries lay bare the
background to the social histories
of communities and individuals.
The book contains introductory
essays which give the basics and
an A–Z of terms, key issues and so on. The second
edition takes into account all the latest scholarship,
and in particular the explosion of study in this area
made possible by the internet
517p (Oxford UP 1996, 2nd ed 2008) Hb was £25.00
now £9.95
Apocalypse
Earthquakes, Antiquity and the
Wrath of God
by Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess.
Amos Nur argues that
archaeologists and historians too
often seek man-made causes for
destruction, abandonment and
the extinction of civilisations, rather than adequately
exploring natural causes. This study revisits a number
of ancient sites and cultures looking for possible
earthquake damage in the archaeological and skeletal
records and evaluating seismic risks. 309p b/w illus
(Princeton UP 2008) Hb was £18.95 now £7.95
Time’s Anvil
Great Excavations
Gifts & Discoveries
by Richard Morris.
edited by John Schofield.
edited by Mark Elliott and Nicholas
Thomas.
England, Archaeology and the
Imagination
Zig-zagging between prehistoric
stone tools and Tudor theatre,
primal wildwood and massproduced cars, Time’s Anvil
weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently
unrelated things and periods that are normally
considered in isolation. Richard Morris combines the
personal with the academic and reflects on how and
why archaeology goes about its business. 466p b/w
illus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2012) Hb was £25.00
now £6.95
The Death of Archaeological
Theory?
Edited by John Bintliff and Mark
Pearce.
This book addresses the provocative subject of whether it is
time to discount the burden of
somewhat dogmatic theory and
ideology that has defined archaeological debate and
shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven
chapters meet this controversial subject head on,
also assessing where archaeological theory is now,
and future directions.
£4.95
Shaping the Archaeological
Profession
This is a fascinating and entertaining retrospective documenting
some of the seminal British
excavations, assessing why they
were so significant and why they persist in the memory
and folklore of archaeologists today.
368p b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2011) Pb was
£36.00 now £7.95
The Future from the Past
Archaeolozoology in Wildlife
Conservation and Heritage
Management
edited by Roel Lauwerier and
Ina Plug.
These 18 papers are all con
cerned with the contributions
archaeozoologists make to specific problems
encountered in the management and conservation of
our natural and cultural heritage.
184p b/w figs (Oxbow 2003) Hb was £45.00 now
£4.95
The Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology, Cambridge
This beautifully illustrated sample
of the Museum’s collect ions,
which illustrates and discusses
objects from all over the world, from the first stone
tools to modern indigenous art. Alongside information
on the artefacts themselves the text explores the
circumstances of their collection, illuminating aspects
of the history of archaeology and anthropology.
96p col illus (Scala 2011) Pb was £12.95 now £4.95
Experiments in the
Collection and Analysis of
Archaeological Survey Data
by S Shennan.
This survey of the archaeology
of eastern Hampshire is a case
study in archaeological method
involving fieldwalking over a
large area, the use of computer modelling of data,
and general considerations as to the significance of
data gathered from ground survey in this manner and
the attendant distorting factors.
130p, figs (Sheffield 1989) Pb was £14.95 now £4.95
Method and Theory and Landscape
The Animal Bones from
Exeter, 1971-75
by Mark Maltby.
A pioneering study of faunal
remains from the city of Exeter,
ranging from Roman to medieval
in date and documenting
changes in patterns of animal
husbandry and the economic life of the city over the
last 2000 years.
222p b/w illus (University of Sheffield 1979) Pb was
£7.95 now £3.95
Ancient Bodies, Ancient
Lives
Sex, Gender and Archaeology
by Rosemary Joyce.
Rosemary Joyce argues for
much more diverse conceptions
of gender and sex in ancient
societies, with different stages in
the life-cycle corresponding to different roles, and with
much more blurring of any boundary between ideas of
male and female within these roles.
152p b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 2008) Hb was
£14.95, now £6.95
Winds of Change
After Collapse
by Eugene Linden.
edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and
John J. Nichols.
Climate, Weather, and the
Destruction of Civilizations
A lively popular work which
argues for the force of climate
as a major factor in historical
change and, indeed the downfall
of civilizations such as the Vikings in Greenland, the
Maya and the Akkadians, whilst also charting the
effects of short-term fluctuations caused by El Nino,
and the implications of present day global warming.
319p (Simon & Schuster 2007) Pb was £9.99 now
£3.95
Archaeological Field Survey
in Britain and Abroad
edited by S Macready and F H
Thompson.
This collection of papers focuses
on the archaeological evidence
that can be discovered on and not
below the surface. Case studies
come from Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Greece and North Africa.
251p, 160 b/w pls (Soc of Antiquaries 1985) Pb was
£15.00 now £2.95
Visions of Antiquity
The Society of Antiquaries of
London 1707–2007
edited by Susan Pearce.
This fascinating portrait of
the Society of Antiquaries of
London assesses the impact
that individual fellows and the
Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we
visualise and understand the past. The contributors
shed light on the Society’s achievements (and some
of the accompanying conflicts between personalities
and ideas) over three hundred years.
463p, b/w and col illus (Society of Antiquaries 2007)
Hb was £75.00 now £30.00
Archaeological Resource
Management in the UK
by John Hunter and Ian Ralston.
The 22 contributions to this
book review the issues facing
archaeologists in an increasingly
complicated and diverse dis
cipline, and examine the implica
tions of heritage management and legislation, stricter
planning controls, changing land use and the pressure
of public interest and concern.
402p (Institute of Field Archaeologists/Alan Sutton
1993, 2nd ed 2006) Hb was £25.00 now £4.95
The Regeneration of Complex
Societies
This volume examines the
question of how and why early
complex urban societies have
reappeared after periods of decentralization and
collapse, ranging widely across the Near East, the
Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.
295p (University of Arizona Press 2006) Hb was £35.00
now £9.95
Fieldwork in Industrial
Archaeology
by J Kenneth Major.
Having first outlined the scope of
the subject, the author deals with
the many practical skills that the
industrial archaeologist needs
when working in the field – from
measured drawing and photography to research,
recording and publication. Although aspects of the
book are now somewhat dated, it nevertheless offers
an interesting overview of a then nascent branch of
archaeology.
176p, 28 figs, 39 b/w pls (Batsford 1975) Pb, now only
£2.95
The Historic Landscape of
Devon
by Lucy Ryder.
The combined evidence for three
case-study areas – the Blackdown
Hills, Hartland Moors, and the
South Hams – is examined in detail.
Key issues addressed include: how
far back patterns of 19th century landholding can be
traced, or projected, back into the medieval period; the
occurrence and extent of open field farming in Devon;
and the spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements.
256p col illus (Windgather Press 2013) Pb was £38.00
now £9.95
Caves in Context
edited by Knut Andreas Bergsvik
and Robin Skeates.
Caves and rockshelters are found
all over Europe, and have been
occupied by human groups, from
prehistory right up to the present
day. Some appear to have only
traces of short occupations, while others contain
deep cultural deposits, indicating longer and multiple
occupations. Above all, there is great variability in their
human use, both secular and sacred. The aim of this
book is to explore the multiple significances of these
natural places in a range of chronological, spatial, and
cultural contexts across Europe. 304p b/w illus (Oxbow
Books 2012) Hb was £48.00 now £9.95
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The Holocene Evolution of
the London Thames
by Jane Sidell, Keith Wilkinson,
Robert Scaife and Nigel Cameron.
A final report on the excavation
of the Jubilee Line Extension
project which revealed evidence
for the Holocene environment of
the Thames Valley. Excavations uncovered a 12 km
stretch of sedimentary deposits which contained a
number of rich archaeological sites that illustrated
the fluctuating nature of the Thames floodplain and
river.
Romney Marsh
Environmental Change and
Human Occupation in a
Coastal Lowland
edited by Jill Eddison, Mark
Gardiner and Antony Long.
Topics range from the physical
evolution and sediment layers to
landscape transformation in late medieval and early
modern times, and malarial trends.
220p with figs (OUCA 1998) Pb £25.00 now £5.00
Enduring Records
The Environmental and
Cultural Heritage of Wetlands
edited by Barbara A. Purdy.
These twenty-seven papers on
wetland research across the
world, from America to Europe
to Australasia, aim to raise
the profile of these fragile environments and the
potential they have for shedding light on the past.
320 pages, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2001) Hb was
£55.00 now £4.95
Landscapes Through the
Lens
edited by David C. Cowley, Robin A.
Standring and Matthew J. Abicht.
This volume presents the rich,
but under-utilised and in parts
inaccessible, archival historic
aerial imagery for the exploration
and management of cultural heritage. Case studies
illustrate the applications of this imagery across
a wide range of heritage issues, from prehistoric
cultivation and settlement patterns, to the impact of
recent landscape change.
£45.00 now £14.95
Late Quaternary Landscape
Evolution of the Swale-Ure
Washlands, North Yorkshire
edited by David Bridgland, Jim
Innes, Antony Long and Wishart
Mitchell.
This book seeks to reconstruct the
history since the last glaciation of
the area between the middle reaches of the Rivers
Swale and Ure in Yorkshire, including both natural
changes, determined from studies of landforms and
sediments, and human-induced changes, recorded in
archaeological and geo-archaeological records.
336p col pls, CD-Rom (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was
£32.00 now £4.95
Landscape
6
Managing Archaeological
Landscapes in
Northumberland: Till Tweed
Studies Vol. 1
by D.G. Passmore and Clive
Waddington.
Written from a landscape, or
geoarchaeological perspective,
this study develops a methodology and management
tool that will allow planners, curators and developers
working in the region to easily access information
across sectors, and provide a record of sensitive
archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sites.
416p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was £45.00
now £6.95
People and Places
edited by Michael Costen.
13 essays which celebrate the
career of Mick Aston on the
occasion of his retirement. They
reflect his enthusiam for lands
cape and monastic archaeology
in particular, and range in
time from prehistory to the nineteenth century.
224p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was £50.00
now £4.95
Places in Between
The Archaeology of Social,
Cultural and Geographical
Borders and Borderlands
edited by David Mullin.
This book explores some of the
possibilities offered by the study
of borders from an archaeological
point of view and presents new perspectives on
borders, both metaphorical and geographical, from
locations as diverse as Somerset and China, from the
Neolithic to the Cold War.
now £7.95
Wellington Quarry,
Herefordshire (1986-96)
Investigations of a Landscape
in the Lower Lugg Valley
by Robin Jackson and Darren Millar.
This volume presents the results of
the first 10 years of archaeological
investigation at Wellington
Quarry, Herefordshire. During this time a regionally
unique archaeological and palaeoenvironmental
sequence was recorded covering nearly 8000 years
of interrelated human activity and landscape change.
£30.00 now £4.95
Archaeology and Landscape
in Central Italy
edited by Gary Lock and Amalia
Faustoferri.
These seventeen papers address
topics including Ancient History,
new technologies and methods,
geomorphology and anthropology
and how they can all be combined in the study of past
landscapes. Case studies present various projects
based mainly in central Italy with seven of the papers
describing aspects of the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo.
253p, b/w illus (OUSA 2008) Hb was £38.00 now
£10.00
The English Urban
Landscape
edited by Philip Waller.
An exploration of the development
and significance of our towns and
cities. Different types of urban
development - industrial towns,
commercial cities, slums and
suburbs - are described and analysed, together with
issues such as transport, shopping, recreation, housing
and images of the town and city in literature, art and
film. 352p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2000) Hb was £51.00
now £14.95
Through Wet and Dry
Essays in Honour of David Hall
edited by Tom Lane and John Coles.
Essays on wetlands which par
ticularly feature the Fenland of
Eastern England. Several Essays
reflect on the English Heritage
Wetlands Survey, while others
explore land use, field systems, settlement and
colonisation, as well as the fenland beaver.
150p b/w illus (Lincolnshire Archaeology 2002) Pb
was £15.00 now £6.95
Discovering Battlefields of
England and Scotland
by John Kinross.
This illustrated guide presents
sixty-nine battles that took place
on English or Scottish soil, from
King Alfred’s defeat of the Danes
at Ashdown in 871 to the final
crushing of the Jacobite cause at Culloden in 1746. It
sets each battle in its historical context, describes the
action in relation to the landscape and gives a guide
to the site as it is today.
184p b/w illus (Shire 1968 repr.2004) Pb was £8.99
now £3.95
Landscapes and Desire
Revealing Britain’s Sexually
Inspired Sites
by Catherine E. Tuck.
An elegant and sensitive study
of sexually inspired sites across
Britain. From the blatant phallus
of the Cerne Abbas Giant and
some rather suggestive lumps and bumps in the
landscape, Catherine Tuck also introduces the reader
to the more discreet erotic tributes, secret grottos
and fertility symbols of the British landscape.
246p, col illus t/out (Sutton 2003) Hb was £20.00
now £6.95
Monuments in the
Landscape
edited by Paul Rainbird.
Many of the biggest names
in landscape archaeology are
represented in this collection of
essays which ably demonstrate
the continuing vitality of the
discipline. The focus is predominantly on the
landscapes of the Neolithic and Bronze Age although
essays cover periods right up to the present, and many
address wider issues of methodology.
256p b/w illus (Tempus 2008) Pb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Populating Clay Landscapes
by Jessica Mills and Rog Palmer.
An overview of the underdeveloped field of clayland
archaeology, which presents
fieldwork ranging from Romania
to Scotland which shows that
prehistoric settlement on clay
landscapes was more extensive than has often been
thought.
160p b/w illus (Tempus 2007) Pb was £19.99 now
£4.95
An English Countryside
Explored
The Land of Lettice Sweetapple
by Peter Fowler and Ian Blackwell.
An accessible synthesis of
the results of Peter Fowler’s
extensive work at the parishes of
West Overton and Flyfield, asking
the question “How has this landscape come to look
like it does?”
159p b/w illus, col pls (The History Press 1998, reprint
2009) Pb was £14.99 now £5.95
Human Impacts on Ancient
Marine Ecosystems
A Global Perpective
edited by Torben C. Rick and Jon M.
Erlandson.
In eleven case studies leading
re
searchers working in coastal
areas around the world cover
diverse marine ecosystems, reaching into deep
history to discover how humans interacted with and
impacted upon these aquatic environments.
319p b/w illus (University of California Press 2008) Hb
was £44.95 now £14.95
Medici Gardens
From Making to Design
by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
Drawing on Medici tax returns,
inventories, and correspondence,
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
examines the transformation of
their gardens from functional and
pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political
power and family prestige. 328p b/w illus (University
of Pennsylvania Press 2008) Hb was £39.00 now £12.95
Ancient Trees in the
Landscape
Norfolk’s Arboreal Heritage
by Gerry Barnes and Tom
Williamson.
This volume represents the first
detailed published account of the
ancient and traditionally managed
trees of any English county. It discusses how accurately
trees can be dated; explains why old trees are found in
certain contexts and not in others; discusses traditional
management practices; and looks at the various ways
in which trees have been used in parks and gardens.
184p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2011) Pb
was £26.00 now £7.95
Landscape
The Black Poplar
Ecology, History and
Conservation
by Fiona Cooper.
This book is a cultural and
ecological biography of the black
poplar in Britain. Fiona Cooper
explores its historic place in the
landscape, and how it has played a role in folklore
and in the work of poets such as William Cowper.
She explains how the tree has been used through the
centuries as timber and in medicine, and then turns
her attention to the question of conservation.
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Landscapes for the World
Swaledale
by Peter Fowler.
by Andrew Fleming.
Conserving a Global Heritage
Since 1992 UNESCO has desig
nated cultural landscapes as
World Heritage Sites. This book
asks what constitutes a cultural
landscape, and looks at the criteria
and politics which surround their selection. Lavish
illustration accompanies a subsequent tour of those
already accorded World Heritage listing.
235p b/w and col illus (Windgather 2004) Pb was
£16.99 now £4.95
Valley of the Wild River
Now with an updated preface
and
colour
illustrations
throughout, this beautiful book
tells the story of Swaledale, a
well-loved part of the North
Yorkshire Pennines. It shows how the perspectives
of archaeology, history and ecology can be linked to
transform our understanding of the landscape.
was £25.00 now £6.95
116p b/w and col illus (Windgather 2006) Pb was £19.00
now £4.95
Extinctions and Invasions
A Social History of British
Fauna
edited by Naomi Sykes and Terry
O’Connor.
This book examines how human
society, culture, diet, lifestyles
and even whole landscapes were
fundamentally shaped by the animal extinctions and
introductions that have occurred in Britain since
the last Ice Age. In its 22 chapters a wide range of
mammal, bird, fish, snail and insect species are
considered.
was £28.00 now £7.95
The Lincolnshire Wolds
edited by David N. Robinson.
This book is a collection of
papers on the landscape history
and regional geography of the
Lincolnshire Wolds, bringing to
gether the important known
historical, natural and cultural
information about the area.
160p, col illus throughout (Windgather Press 2009) Pb
was £20.00 now £7.95
Gardens of Earthly Delight
Oak
by John Fletcher.
by Esmond Harris.
The History of Deer Parks
This is a highly original, profusely
illustrated, and well researched
account of deer parks. Fletcher
draws on his lifetime working
with deer to formulate plausible
explanations as to, for example, why they were not
domesticated until the 20th century, how parks evolved
from haga and elricks , why deer parks were created
throughout Eurasia, why fallow so rapidly ousted red
deer from medieval British parks, and much more.
was £26.00 now £8.95
Hedgerow History
by Gerry Barnes & Tom
Williamson.
This study asks why hedgerows
vary across different parts of Britain
and investigates the ecological,
economic and historical reasons
for these variations. Drawing upon
a unique computerised analysis of hedges in Norfolk,
they explore how hedges came into existence and how
they have changed over time.
was £19.00 now £7.95
Landscape Encyclopaedia
by Bernard Muir.
This reference work contains
almost 1,000 entries which
provide explanations of terms,
features and concepts connected
with the history and archaeology
of
the
landscape.
Short
definitions and descriptions are joined by longer
discussions of themes, concepts and approaches
such as the origins of the village green, the parish,
milestones, and the meaning of words Dalloch,
souterrain and watergate.
was £26.00 now £7.95
A British History
An investigation of the speical
place of the Oak in Britain’s
history. The authors explore how
people managed and exploited
oakwoods since Neolithic times,
and the skills required in the use of timbers for shipbuilding, furniture and constructing houses. They also
explore the myths, symbols and cultural associations
that have connected people in Britain with the oak
tree over hundreds of years.
256p b/w and col illus (Windgather Press 2003) Pb was
£24.00 now £6.95
Post-Medieval Landscapes
edited by P.S. Barnwell and Marilyn
Palmer.
This book reflects some of the
most recent work in landscape
studies of the period since 1500.
It builds upon ideas and tech
niques pioneered by Hoskins in
fields such as Anglo-Saxon topography and vernacular
architecture, and also demonstrates how scholars
are developing the subject conceptually, to examine
landscapes as cultural artefacts, perceived differently
by different groups within society.
256p, 70 illus (Windgather Press 2007) Pb was £25.00
now £9.95
Sandlands
The Suffolk Coast and Heaths
by Tom Williamson.
This book explains how this
distinctive landscape evolved
over centuries through the inter
action of people and nature.
Tom Williamson examines the
origins and development of both the wildlife habitats
and the wider landscape of fields, farms, towns and
settlements.
164p b/w and col illus (Windgather 2005) Pb was
£17.00 now £7.95
The Archaeology of a Great
Estate
Chatsworth and Beyond
by John Barnatt and Nicola
Bannister.
This book tells the story of
Chatsworth’s historic landscape
and its archaeology. It includes
the whole of the Estate landscape, including the
extensive farmland and moorlands beyond the park
and concentrates on visible archaeology and what it
can tell us about the past.
232p (Windgather Press 2009) Pb was £20.00 now £7.95
William Faden and Norfolk’s
Eighteenth Century
Landscape
by Andrew MacNair and Tom
Williamson.
William Faden’s map of Norfolk,
published in 1797, was one of a
large number of surveys of English
counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth
century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents
a new digital version of the map, and explains how
this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new
historical information.
218p col illus, CD-Rom (Windgather Press 2010) Pb
was £29.95 now £7.95
Blood Sport
Hunting in Britain Since 1066
by Emma Griffin.
Hunting in Britain is deeply
entwined with questions of land
and power, class divisions and
social mores. This lively social
history explores these large
themes, illustrating them with surprising details and
vignettes, and considers how hunting traditions have
affected British national identity.
283p b/w illus (Yale UP 2007, Pb 2008) Pb was £14.99
now £6.95
Gardens of Their Dreams
Desertification and Culture in
World History
edited by Brian Griffith.
Griffith charts the historical effects
of the expanding wasteland which
now stretches from Mauretania to
the Great Wall of China on past
human society - the very different religious beliefs that
became dominant; huge shifts in the relative standing
of men and women; new, more antagonistic attitudes
to nature; and much more authoritarian systems of
government.
368p (Zed Books 2001) Hb was £60.00 now £14.95
Landscape and Heritage
8
A History of Bishop’s Cleeve
and Woodmancote
by David H. Aldred.
This book tells the story of Bishop’s
Cleeve and Woodmancote over a
period of 12,000 years. The story
follows the fortunes of the
inhabitants, from small groups of
prehistoric farmers, and on through the controlling
influence of the Bishop of Worcester in the Middle
Ages, to the traditional farming of the nineteenth
century which was swept away by the developments
following the arrival of Smiths’ factory in 1939.
252p b/w illus, col pls (Amberley 2009) Pb was £15.99
now £5.95
Northern Landscapes
Representations and Realities
of North East England
edited by Thomas Faulkner, Helen
Berry and Jeremy Gregory.
Covering a wide range of
subjects
including
country
house
landscapes,
village
landscapes and ‘townscapes’, including coverage of
how the region’s landscape has been perceived and
represented in literature and art, this book provides
a rich, detailed and well-illustrated overview of the
landscape of the North East of England.
324p b/w illus (Boydell 2010) Hb was £65.00 now
£14.95
Archaeology in
Northumberland National
Park
by Paul Frodsham.
This beautifully produced book
successfully combines an over
view of the archaeology of
Northumberland National Park,
from the Mesolithic to the present day, with a series
of fourteen case studies or projects written by those
carrying out research in the region.
382p col and b/w illus (CBA 2004) Pb was £19.95
now £7.95
Garden Archaeology
A Handbook
by Chris Currie.
This handbook relates the
historical background to the subdiscipline of Garden Archaeology
before discussing the excavation
techniques used to recover and
record evidence of past garden designs and plants.
This reappraisal of current practice and techniques
is well written and clearly presented and includes a
series of case studies of formal, informal, water, town
and unusual gardens from across the UK.
178p, 62 b/w figs and pls, 8 col pls (CBA 2005) Pb was
£12.50 now £4.95
Landscape, Community and
Colonisation
The North Somerset Levels
During the 1st to 2nd
Millennia AD
by Stephen Rippon.
This innovative study examines
the changing ways that human
communities chose to exploit, modify and ultimately
transform their environment over two millennia.
It shows how this individual area – in North West
Somerset – cannot be understood in isolation, but
must be seen in its wider regional context.
317 b/w illus (CBA 2006) Pb was £38.00 now £20.00
Lough Swilly
A Living Landscape
by Andrew Cooper.
This book explores Lough Swilly,
one of Ireland’s largest sea loughs,
from the evolution of the present
landscape during the geological
past through to contemporary
human uses of the Lough. Far from the remote
landscape that it is now widely regarded to be, it was
once a major oceanic hub for trans-Atlantic maritime
trade.
208p col illus (Four Courts Press 2011) Hb was £29.95
now £9.95
Thornham and the Waveney
Valley
by John Fairclough and Mike Hardy.
Farclough and Hardy describe the
history of Thornham from the
prehistoric period through to the
present day estate, placed within
the context of the Waveney
Valley and nearby estates such as at South Elmham.
227, 24 col pls, b/w figs (Heritage 2004) Pb was
£19.95 now £4.95
Trent Valley Landscapes
by David Knight and Andy J.
Howard.
This synthesis of landscape change
and human occupation in the
Trent Valley is based on more
than twenty years of research
and includes much previously
unpublished material. Each chapter focuses on a
different period from the Pleistocene landscape,
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic and the
Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, to
the Roman and medieval periods.
202p, b/w and col illus (Heritage 2004) Pb was £25.00
now £9.95
Wetlands of Greater
Manchester
by D. Hall, C.E. Wells and E.
Huckerby.
This study offers original research
on Chat Moss, Carrington Cross,
Red Moss, Ashton Moss and
Kearsley Moss, as well as a descrip
tion of smaller and former wetlands in the area. The
survey ranges from post-glacial periods to the most
recent past.
188p, 66 figs, 20 pl (Lancaster University 1995) Pb
was £24.00 now £5.00
A Mediterranean Valley
Landscape Archaeology and
Annales History in the Biferno
Valley
by Grahame Barker.
Extensive study which shows
how settlement in the valley is
inextricably linked to the parallel
story of landscape development. Covers settlement
from the Stone Age to the present day.
351p, figs and illus (Leicester UP 1995) Hb was
£100.00, now £9.95
Trees
Woodlands and Western
Culture
by Richard Hayman.
An exploration of how man has
perceived trees and woodlands
from prehistory to the early
modern period. Hayman looks
at the links between trees and mythology, hunting,
exiles and outlaws, poets and writers, woodlanders,
and the rise of country estates.
261p, 7 col pls (Hambledon 2003) Hb was £19.99
now £6.95
The Return of Cultural
Treasures
by Jeanette Greenfield.
Jeanette Greenfield analyses and
discusses the historical, legal
and political issues surrounding
the return of cultural treasures
to their homelands, involving
not only art treasures, but also palaeontological
materials, such as those belonging to the Australian
Aborigine, the American Indian and the Greenland
Inuit.
500p (Cambridge UP 3rd edition 2007) Hb was
£83.00 now £19.95
Who Owns Antiquity?
Museums and the Battle of
Our Ancient Heritage
by James Cuno.
A controversial look at the
antiquities trade, and the legal
framework which surrounds it
which suggests that the current
set-up merely encourages the hoarding of antiquities by
the states which now occupy the territories of ancient
civilizations, and argues instead for the enabling of
global ‘encyclopedic museums’. The paperback edition
contains a new afterword in which Cuno repsonds to
some of his critics. 228p (Princeton UP 2008, Pb 2010)
Hb was £16.95 now £6.95, Pb was £12.95 now £4.95
Delight in Diversity
edited by John Cherry and Susan
Walker.
A transcription of a day-long
seminar held at the British
Museum in 1995 to discuss
aspects of display at the
museum. It is structured around
the questions: What do we communicate? How do
we communicate? With whom do we communicate?
and With what success?
64p, 8 pls (British Museum Press 1996) Pb was
£12.50 now £5.00
The Museum of the Mind
Art and Memory in World
Cultures
by John Mack.
Published to coincide with the
BM’s 250th anniversary, this book
looks at the role of the museum
as a `theatre of memory’ and
examines `how and why we commemorate, indeed
how and why we remember’.
160p col illus (British Museum Press 2003) Pb was
£19.99 now £6.95
Heritage, Human Evolution and British Prehistory
Archaeology, Society and
Identity in Modern Japan
by Koji Mizoguchi.
By examining in parallel the
uniquely intense process of
modernisation experienced by
Japan and the history of Japanese
archaeology, Mizoguchi explores
the close interrelationship between archaeology,
society, and modernity, helping to explain why we do
archaeology in the way that we do.
183p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2006) Hb was £64.00
now £14.95
Breathing Life into Fossils
edited by Travis R. Pickering, Kathy
Diane Schick, and Nick Toth.
This important volume reveals
approaches taken to the study of
bone accumulations at prehistoric
sites in Africa, Eurasia, and
America, and provides fascina
ting insights into patterns produced by carnivores, by
hunter-gatherers, and by our human ancestors.
350p b/w illus (Stone Age Institute Press 2007) Hb
was £50.00 now £17.95
Ruins Reused
The Cutting Edge
by Michael Thompson.
edited by Kathy Diane Schick and
Nick Toth.
Changing Attitudes to Ruins
Since the Late Eighteenth
Century
This book charts the develop
ment of an active relationship
between the public and ruins
as to how they can be preserved and used, looking
at developments throughout the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
110p, 38 illus (Heritage Publications 2006) Hb was
£14.95 now £6.95
Terra Britannica
edited by John Hurd and Ben
Gourley.
These twelve essays are
À celebration of earthern
structures in Great Britain
and Ireland’ bringing together
different approaches to the
subject and the study of these structures in the
field. Case studies include: Walse, Solway Plain, East
Midlands, Scotland, East Anglia, Wessex, Devon and
Cornwall, Ireland.
59p, b/w figs and pls, col pls (English Heritage 2000)
Pb was £19.99 now £5.95
Heritage Transformed
by Ian Baxter.
How does “heritage” become
objectified within public
institutions and representative
of a national past? This book
proposes a model for this process
and contains five case studies that
explore variety in the transformation of heritage. It
explores management using strategic management
analysis to understand the relationship between public
institutions, heritage objects and their use.
now £9.95
Stone Knapping
The Necessary Conditions for a
Uniquely Hominin Behavior
edited by Valentine Roux and
Blandine Bril.
Chapters approach stone knap
ping from a multi-disciplinary
perspective that embraces
psyc hology, physiology, behavioural biology and
primatology as well as archaeology. The result is a
better understanding of early human engagement with
the material world and the complex actions required
for the creation of stone tools.
275p, 143 ills., 36 tables (McDonald Institute 2005)
Hb was £35.00 now £12.95
New Approaches to the
Archaeology of Human Origins
This book focuses on innovative
n e w a p p ro a c h e s to t h e
archaeological evidence for
protohuman behavior found in the Early Stone Age.
Major researchers in the field present important new
findings from a range of well-preserved archaeological
sites and critical experimental archaeological
investigations.
300p b/w illus (Stone Age Institute Press 2009) Hb
was £48.00 now £17.95
Timewalkers
The Prehistory of Global
Colonization
by Clive Gamble.
Human evolution tends to be
understood in terms of a develop
ment from primitive to advanced,
the simple to the complex. This
book attempts to dispel some of the myths and
distortions that this way of perceiving the human past
has produced. The result is a fresh approach to the
causes behind the dispersal of humans.
309p, illus (Sutton 1993, Pb 2003) Pb £12.99 now
£7.95
9
In Defence of Landscape
An Archaeology of Porton
Down
by David Ride.
This book explores the different
sites and monuments of the well
preserved prehistoric landscape
of Porton Down. These include
Neolithic flint mines, Bronze Age round barrows,
settlement, cemeteries and enclosures, Iron Age
features, a Georgian folly, the remains of a Victorian
mansion and, from more recent times, the World
War One experimental gas trenches.
160p b/w illus, col pls (Tempus 2006) Pb was £17.99
now £6.95
Excavation and Salvage at
Runnymede Bridge, 1978
The Late Bronze Age
Waterfront Site
by Stuart P Needham.
Report on a major rescue
excavation of a Late Bronze Age
waterfront site with exceptional
preservation of deposits buried under the Thames’
flood silts. Finds included the foundations of a Late
Bronze Age enclosure stockade.
276p, 138 illus, 78 pls, tbs (BMP 1992) Hb was £45.00
now £9.95
Graeanog Ridge
The Evolution of a Farming
Landscape and its Settlement
in North-West Wales
by PJ Fasham et Al.
Excavations in the 1970s and
1980s on the Llyn peninsula re
vealed evidence of settlement
ranging from the 2nd century BC to the early medieval
period. This study assesses the human impact on the
landscape from Neolithic to early modern times.
180p illus (Cambrian Archaeological Society 1998) Pb
was £21.00 now £4.95
Human Roots
Gwernvale and Penywyrlod
edited by Lawrence Barham and
Kate Robson-Brown.
by WJ Britnell and HN Savory.
Africa and Asia in the Middle
Pleistocene
16 papers focused on the
question of `how different were
humans and human behaviour
in Africa and the Far east during the Middle
Pleistocene’? The contributors draw on evidence
from recent archaeological fieldwork and represent
different schools of thought concerning the Out-ofAfrica or Multi-Regional origins of man.
263p (Western Academic & Specialist Press 2001) Hb
was £35.00 now £9.95
The Year of the Ghost
An Olduvai Diary
by Derek Roe.
The ‘ghost’ of this book is Derek
Roe himself. In January 1983 he
embarked on his first journey to
Tanzania as a ghost writer for an
autobiography by Mary Leakey, a
name linked for ever in the minds of archaeologists
with the famous palaeolithic site of Olduvai Gorge. This
diary covers Derek Roe’s three trips to visit Mary and
also includes other correspondence between them.
186p b/w and col illus (WASP2002) Hb was £14.95
now £4.95
Two Neolithic Long Cairns
in the Black Mountains of
Brecknock
This volume reports on the
excavation of two chambered
cairns, including one in Peny
wyriod which was only discovered in 1972 but found
to be the oldest known cairn in the Black Mountains.
163p b/w illus (Cambrian Archaeological Association
1984) Pb was £30.00 now £4.95
Conderton Camp,
Worcestershire
A Small Middle Iron Age
Hillfort on Bredon Hill
by Nicholas Thomas.
This report publishes the find
ings of an earthwork survey and
study of the environs of the site,
geophysical investigations and excavations carried out
in 1958 and 1959, along with specialist discussions
of the finds. The report concludes with an excellent
summary discussion of Conderton Camp and its people.
349p, b/w illus (CBA 2005) Pb was £32.00 now £6.95
British Prehistory
10
Excavations at Caldicot,
Gwent
Bronze Age Palaeochannels in
the Lower Nedern Valley
by Nigel Nayling and Astrid
Caseldine.
The report contains Bronze Age
worked-wood and a weir, Iron Age
bridge, a large faunal assemblage and a range of debris
and artefacts.
368p, 163 figs (CBA RR 108, 1997) Pb was £28.00
now £4.95
Sutton Common
The Excavation of an Iron Age
‘Marsh Fort’
by Robert van der Noort, Henry P.
Chapman and John Collis.
Sutton Common in South Yorkshire
is one of the best-known Iron
Age multivallate sites in lowland
Britain. This volume describes the results of the largescale excavations undertaken there between 1998
and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights
into the function and meaning of this 4th-century BC
‘marsh-fort’.
235p b/w and col illus (CBA 2007) Pb was £25.00
now £12.00
Towards a New Stone Age
edited by Jonathan Cotton and
David Field.
21 papers on the Neolithic of
south-east England. As well as
looking at evidence from par
ticular sites, the authors present
overviews on a range of subjects
including aerial survey, soils, the study of human
remains, landscapes and environments.
237p b/w illus (CBA 2004) Pb was £28.00 now £6.95
A Brief History of
Stonehenge
by Aubrey Burl
Burl’s
accessible
overview
provides a wealth of information
on Stonehenge, the history of
research at the site, and the
myths which have become
attached to it. He explores the wider landscape,
offering his own theories particularly as to the
construction of the monument and source of the
bluestones and as to its astronomical alignment.
368p b/w illus (Constable 2007) Pb was £8.99 now
£3.95
A Year at Stonehenge
by James O. Davies.
Over the last five years James
Davies has been photographing
Stonehenge at all times of the
day and night, and all through the
seasons. With privileged access
to the stone circle he has built
up a unique portfolio. A Year at Stonehenge brings
together the best of his work, while a short text by
Mike Pitts summarises our current understanding.
128p col illus (Frances Lincoln 2013) Hb was £16.99
now £6.95
The Land of Boudica
Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk
by John Davies.
This book traces the story of
Norfolk from the Ice Age and the
first appearance of people to the
end of Roman Britain. In particular
it focuses on the many remarkable
and exciting discoveries made across the region, often
through the contribution of amateur enthusiasts, and
how these have transformed our picture its history in
recent decades.
251p (Heritage, an imprint of Oxbow Books 2009) Pb
was £19.95 now £7.95
Beaker Domestic Sites in the
Fen Edge and East Anglia
by Helen M. Bamford.
An important assessment of
Beaker domestic sites, based
on the author’s 1970 thesis,
originally published in 1982,
but now available as a reprint.
Focusing on the finds from Hockwold-cum-Wilton,
but including comparative data from other East
Anglian sites, Helen Bamford discusses in particular
the significance of rusticated beaker pottery.
162p b/w illus (EAA 16, 1982, repr. 2005) Pb was
£19.50 now £6.95
The Archaeology of
Lancashire
edited by Richard Newman.
A comprehensive review of
Lancashire’s archaeology in which
each paper discusses a particular
period from the Upper Palaeolithic
and Mesolithic until the Industrial
Revolution. Topics discussed include the evolution of
the landscape and future directions for research.
212p, illus (Lancaster University 1996) Pb £9.95 now
£2.95
The Archaeology of the
Jubilee Line Extension
by Jonathan Hillier and David R.P.
Wilkinson.
Excavation
ahead
of
redevelopment by London
Underground Limited uncovered
f l i nt to o l s a n d d eb i ta ge
characteristic of the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods
and Early Bronze Age. Activity resumed in the Late
Bronze Age. A neonate skeleton of Early Iron Age date
was recovered from a rubbish pit near a probable
roundhouse. Two crouched adult inhumations are
atypically early Roman. 56p b/w illus (MOLA 2005) Pb
was £7.95 now £3.95
Excavations at 25 Cannon
Street, City of London
From the Middle Bronze Age
to the Great Fire
by Nicholas Elsden.
This
report
provides
a
chronological
account
of
excavation findings at 25 Cannon
Street, supported by many illustrations and specialist
contributions. The dig revealed a long sequence of
occupation, including Middle Bronze Age pottery,
Roman masonry buildings, and Anglo-Saxon and later
buildings and the Church of St Werburga.
The Prehistory and
Topography of Southwark
and Lambeth
by Jonathan Cotton, Louise Rayner,
Lucy Wheeler and Jane Sidell.
This volume provides the
first synthesis of the available
prehistoric and topographic
information from the area of north Southwark and
Lambeth, London, in the period c.9500 cal BA to
c.AD 50. The authors consider the interplay between
environmental and riverine change and ‘mobile’ and
‘settled’ human communities.
109p b/w illus (MOLA 2002) Pb was £12.95 now
£4.95
An Iron Age and RomanoBritish enclosed settlement
at Watkins Farm,
Northmoor, Oxon
by Tim Allen.
Report on 1983-5 excavation of a
low-lying gravel site close to the
Thames. A mid Iron Age ditched
enclosure with four huts, and evidence suggesting
horse-breeding rather than arable cultivation is
followed, after a break, by Roman period enclosures
that initially respect the earlier ditches but later
become rectangular
129p, b/w figs, pls (Oxford Archaeological Unit 1990)
Pb was £12.00 now £6.95
Green Park (Reading
Business Park) Phase 2
Excavations 1995
Neolithic and Bronze Age Sites
by Adam Brossler and Robert Early.
The Neolithic features included an
unusual segmented ring ditch, and
a number of pits and postholes.
A field system was laid out in the area prior to the
establishment of a late Bronze Age settlement which
included five roundhouses, and a number of post-built
structures.
180p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2003) Pb was
£14.99 now £5.00
Lines in the Landscape
Cursus monuments in the
Upper Thames Valley
by Alistair Barclay, George
Lambrick, John Moore and Mark
Robinson.
This
volume
reports
on
excavations
at
a
cursus
monument at Drayton, and includes an account of
small-scale excavations undertaken at the Lechlade
cursus. It also provides a gazetteer of known cursus
monuments in the Upper Thames Valley.
260p, many b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2003) Pb
was £24.95 now £10.00
Guernsey
An Island Community of the
Atlantic Iron Age
edited by B Burns, B Cunliffe and
H Sebire.
Excavations in the 1980s revealed
a late Iron Age settlement with a
smithy and numerous cist burials.
Includes gazetteer of sites and discussion of Guernsey’s
place in the trade between Armorica and Britain during
the Iron Age.
129p, many figs (OUCA Monograph 43, 1996) Pb was
£18.00 now £8.95
British Prehistory
A Tale of the Unknown
Unknowns
A Mesolithic Pit Alignment
and a Neolithic Timber Hall at
Warren Field, Aberdeenshire
by Hilary K. Murray, J. Charles Murray
and Shannon M. Fraser.
This report details the excavations
and reveals that the hall was associated with the
storage and or consumption of cereals. The pits are
fully documented and environmental evidence sheds
light on the surrounding landscape.
now £7.95
Beyond the Core
Reflections on Regionality in
Prehistory
edited by Graeme Kirkham and
Andy M. Jones.
These 12 papers identify distinctive
elements of the prehistoric
archaeology of a number of
discrete areas across the British Isles. Topics addressed
include how archaeologically coherent regions might
be defined, and how different patterns of contact may
have affected the construction of identities.
now £4.95
Carving a Future for British
Rock Art
edited by Tia Barnett and K. Sharpe.
This volume brings together
the experiences and informed
opinions of the key organisations
and stakeholders responsible for
the conservation, management
and accessibility of British rock art. An on-going
and exciting period of change is documented and
the main issues that underpin the survival of our
prehistoric carved heritage are addressed.
£65.00 now £7.95
Corrstown
A Coastal Community.
Excavations of a Bronze Age
Village in Northern Ireland
by Victoria Ginn and Stuart
Rathbone.
Corrstown is a highly important
Bronze Age site. A total of 74
Middle Bronze Age roundhouse platforms were
identified and organised into pairs or short rows, the
majority of which appeared to be contemporary, a
site type hitherto unknown in Britain and Ireland.
232p b/w and col illlus (Oxbow Books 2011) Pb was
£35.00 now £7.95
Defining a Regional
Neolithic
edited by Kenneth Brophy and
Gordon Barclay.
Papers
exploring
regional
diversity in the Neolithic of the
British Isles. Contributors focus
not on the traditional ‘cores’ of
Wessex and Orkney, but rather on other areas – the
‘Irish Sea Zone’, Ireland, Scotland, Yorkshire and the
Midlands.
138p, 60 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Pb was
£28.00 now £6.95
A Dreaming for the Witches
by Stephen Yeates.
Integrating archaeology with
Roman texts and Welsh folklore,
this sequel to A Tribe of Witches
delves deeper into the religious
practice of the Dobunni, explor
ing their pantheon of gods and
godesses, symbolism and iconography and their
sacred landscape.
200p (Oxbow Books 2009) Pb was £19.95 now £6.95
An Examination of
Prehistoric Stone Bracers
from Britain
by Ann Woodward, John Hunter,
David Bukach and Fiona Roe.
This volume present a detailed
study of the thin, usually
rectangular, pieces of pierced
fine stone that occur in inhumation graves of Beaker
date. The book tests the hypothesis that they, with
other grave goods, were originally designed for use as
components of ritual costume or as equipment for use
in religious acts and ceremonies.
£45.00 now £9.95
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The Lockington Gold Hoard
An Early Bronze Age Barrow
Cemetery at Lockington,
Leicestershire
by Gwilym Hughes.
The excavation of the Lockington
b a r ro w p ro v i d e d a ra re
opportunity for examining in
detail Bronze Age funerary practices and associated
ritual activity in a lowland context in the English
Midlands. In addition, a rich group of metalwork finds
was discovered - two gold armlets and a copper dagger.
128p b/w illus, b/w and col pls (Oxbow Books 2000)
Pb was £28.00 now £6.95
Origins and Early
Development of Witham
by W Rodwell.
Study of the settlement which
has yielded remains dating from
prehistory to the Middle Ages,
most significant being the Iron
Age earthworks.
128p, figs (Oxbow monograph 28, 1993) Pb £28.00
reduced to £4.95
Flag Fen, Peterborough
Place and Memory
edited by Francis Pryor and Michael
Bamforth.
edited by Julian Thomas.
Excavations and Research,
1995–2007
Includes detailed investigations
of the post alignment’s previously
unpublished eastern (Northey
Island) landfall. New research including oxygen isotope
analyses of animal teeth provides interesting, and at
times surprising, insights into the economy and the
complex role played by domestic animals. 160p (Oxbow
Books 2010) Hb was £25.00 now £4.95
Land and People
Papers in Memory of John
Evans
edited by Michael J. Allen, Niall
Sharples and Terry O’Connor.
Includes papers on aspects of
environmental archaeology,
experiments and philosophy; new
research on the nature of woodland on the chalklands
of southern England; coasts and islands; people,
process and social order, and snails and shells.
now £12.95
Landscape of the Megaliths
Excavation and Fieldwork on
the Avebury Monuments,
1997–2003
by Mark Gillings et al.
This report sheds new light on
the complexities and develop
ment of the monument rich area
around Avebury and consideration is given to the
questions of how and why such ceremonial centres
came into being in the 3rd millennium BC.
now £14.95
Excavations at the Pict’s
Knowe, Holywood and Holm
Farm, Dumfries and Galloway
investigation of three complexes
of
prehistoric
ceremonial
monuments. It considers the details of the excavated
features, environmental and artefactual evidence, as
well as more general concerns.
256p b/w illus, 67 b/w pls (Oxbow Books 2007) Hb
was £48.00 now £7.95
Prehistoric Houses at
Sumburgh in Shetland
by Jane Downes and Raymond
Lamb.
Excavations at Sumburgh Airport between 1967 and 1974
revealed stone-built houses of
the later Bronze Age and early
Iron Age. This report shows how one house was
added to another and demonstrates that the twohouse unit was a distinct feature of the later Bronze
Age in Scotland.
138p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2000) Pb £28.00 now
£4.95
A Slice of Rural Essex
Recent Archaeological
Discoveries from the A120
Between Stanstead Airport
and Braintree
by Jane Timby et al.
A diverse pattern of human
history was revealed including
earlier prehistoric flint knapping, later prehistoric
ritual activity, a Roman farmstead with accompanying
cemetery, a middle Saxon hall, medieval settlement,
pottery production and a windmill.
214p b/w illus, CD-Rom (Oxford Archaeology 2007)
Hb was £14.95 now £7.50
British Prehistory
12
Danebury Environs Project
Volume 1
by Barry Cunliffe.
Following his research on the
hillfort Barry Cunliffe has led a
massive campaign to explore the
surroundings of the site, and this
has resulted in a further series
of volumes, the first set on the Prehistoric evidence
and the second set on the Roman Period evidence.
This volume is the Introduction and overview to the
Prehistoric set.
238p (OUCA 2002) Hb was £49.95 now £10.00
Danebury Environs Project
Volume 2
by Barry Cunliffe.
Volume 2 comprises seven sepa
rate volumes reporting on the
Prehistoric evidence from the
excavations and research at sites
in the Danebury area during the
early 1990s.
842p in seven vols. (OUCA 2000) Hb was £60.00 now
£15.00
Fairfield Park, Stotfold,
Bedfordshire
Later Prehistoric Settlement in
the Eastern Chilterns
by Leo Webley, Jane Timby and
Martin Wilson.
The excavations at Fairfield Park
revealed a later Bronze Age
hilltop enclosure and an extensive early Iron Age
settlement. As one of the first large-scale excavations
of an early Iron Age settlement in eastern England,
the site makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of the later prehistory of the region.
176p (Bedfordshire Archaeology/Oxford Archaeology
2007) Pb was £14.95 now £7.50
Gravelly Guy
Excavations at Stanton
Harcourt
by George Lambrick and Tim Allen.
Archaeological evidence at
Gravelly Guy spans from the
Neolithic through to the Saxon
period. Structural evidence, finds
and environmental data is combined in a detailed study
of the site, its position in the landscape and relationship
to the contemporary archaeology of the surrounding
area.
520p, 179 b/w illus, 31 ls (Oxford Archaeology 2005)
Hb was £34.95 now £7.50
The Prehistoric Landscape
and Iron Age Enclosed
Settlement at Mingies Ditch
Hardwick-with-Yelford, Oxon
by T G Allen and M A Robinson.
The 1977-1978 excavation of the
Middle Iron Age enclosure at
Mingies Ditch and the prehistoric
evidence from the 1980 excavation of Smithfield,
the adjoining field. It includes a 90-page technical
appendix of figures and tables.
249p, b/w pls, figs (Oxford Archaeological Unit 1993)
Pb was £28.00, now £9.95
Segsbury Camp
by Gary Lock.
This volume describes the two
seasons of excavation at Segsbury
Camp which form a part of Oxford
University’s Hillforts of the
Ridgeway Project. The evidence
suggests that the large hillfort
of Segsbury was used during the period 6th to 2nd
century BC but was not densely and permanently
occupied.
158p (OUSA 2005) Hb was £35.00 now £10.00
Settlement on the
Bedfordshire Claylands
by Jane Timby et al.
Excavations at nine sites along the
route of the Great Barford Bypass
provided a rare opportunity to
investigate an extensive area of
the South Midlands claylands, a
landscape that has hitherto seen little archaeological
work. The excavations produced evidence for the
long-term development of the social landscape,
agrarian economy and environment of the area from
Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
430p (Oxford Archaeology 2007) Pb was £14.95 now
£7.50
Thornhill Farm, Fairford,
Gloucestershire
by David Jennings, Jeff Muir, Simon
Palmer and Alex Smith.
For over 500 years, from the
middle Iron Age to the early
Roman period, Thornhill Farm
appears to have been lived in and
worked as a cattle ranch. Extensive excavations by
Oxford Archaeology between 1986 and 1989 revealed
large parts of the settlement, including paddocks,
stock enclosures and droveways, all designed to
control and manage the herds of animals.
200p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2004) Hb was
£24.95 now £7.50
Metallurgical Reports on
British and Irish Bronze Age
Implements and Weapons in
the Pitt Rivers Museum
by I.M. Allen, D. Britton and H.H.
Coughlan.
Metallurgical reports on the
Museum’s collection of copper
and bronze tools and weapons with a chronological
illustrated catalogue of objects.
283p, 28 b/w pls, b/w figs (Pitt Rivers Museum 1970)
Pb only £3.95
North-East Perth
An archaeological landscape
The Royal Commission survey
of 1990 covering the area north
from Blairgowrie up Strathardle
and Glen Shee. It includes con
siderable upland tracts contain
ing extensive cultivation and
settlement remains which now lie beyond the limits
of cultivation, but which have not previously been
recorded despite their exceptional preservation.
180p b/w illus(Royal Commission Scotland 1990) Pb
was £35.00 now £4.95
Early Celtic Art in Britain and
Ireland
by Ruth and Vincent Megaw.
An excellent guide to Celtic art and
society, describing and discussing
art from the 4th century BC to
the Roman Conquest. Furnished
t h ro u g h o u t w i t h l o t s o f
photographs of artefacts, including weapons, items
of jewellery and other pieces of personal adornment,
figurines, vessels and sculpture, the book also provides
important insights into Iron Age society and belief
systems.
80p col illus (Shire 2nd ed 2005) Pb was £6.99 now
£2.95
Irish Megalithic Tombs
by Elizabeth Shee Twohig.
An invaluable introductory guide
to the megalithic tombs of Ireland.
Twohig considers the history of
megalithic tomb studies before
looking at well-known and less
well-known examples of each
of the four types: court, portal, passage and wedge
tombs.
72p col and b/w illlus (Shire 1990, 2nd ed 2004) Pb
was £6.99 now £2.95
Prehistoric Astronomy and
Ritual
by Aubrey Burl.
A fascinating description of how
astronomical customs and beliefs
developed in the British Isles and
the importance of megalithic
monuments to the ritual year.
72p b/w illus (Shire 2nd ed 2005) Pb was £6.99 now
£2.95
Mount Pleasant, Dorset
Excavations 1970–71
by G.J. Wainwright.
A detailed study of an 11-acre
enclosure at Dorchester, contain
ing 4 entrances and a large timber
structure built around 2500 BC.
Includes specialist reports on the
pottery, environmental evidence and dating.
266p, 181 illus (Society of Antiquaries of London,
1979) Hb was £20.00 now £4.95
The Ringlemere Cup
Precious Cups and the
Beginning of the Channel
Bronze Age
edited by Stuart Needham, Keith
Parfitt and Gill Varndell.
This volume provides the definitive
report on the early Bronze Age
Ringlemere gold cup and its immediate site context, as
well as contextual study of 15 comparable vessels from
Britain, Germany and Switzerland, from which a picture
of a wider Maritime interaction network is posited.
120p, 57 b/w illus, 4p col pls (British Museum Press
2006) Pb was £23.00 now £7.95
European Prehistory
Miss Layard Excavates
a Palaeolithic Site at Foxhall
Road, Ipswich
by Mark White and Steven Plunkett.
A study of the pioneering excava
tions of 1903–05 of Frances
Layard and a reappraisal of the
importance of Foxhall Road, a
site at which Palaeolithic humans gathered around
the edges of an erstwhile lake and/or river, leaving
behind stone tools and manufacturing waste.
195p b/w illus (WASP 2004) Hb was £48.00 now £9.95
Catalogue of the ‘Germanic’
Antiquities from the Klemm
Collection in the British
Museum
by Grazyna Orlinska.
Gustav Friedrich Klemm was a
19th century scholar and col
lector of antiquities. Part of
his collection which was purchased by the British
Musuem in 1868, forms the subject for this book. It
largely comprises a catalogue of material from the
Old Germanic Confederation, with objects dating
from the Neolithic to post-Medieval period.
174p, b/w illus, 4 maps (British Museum Press 2001)
Hb was £125.00 now £9.95
Westbury Cave
The Archaeology of Solvieux
edited by Peter Andrews, Jill Cook,
Andrew Currant and Christopher
Stringer.
by James Sackett.
This volume assesses the new
evidence produced by excava
tions between 1976 and 1984:
sedimentary sequence, soil micro
morphology, faunal assemblages, small mammal fauna,
fossil ruminants, larger carnivores, palaeoecological
reconstruction, flint finds.
309p, b/w figs and pls, tbs (WASP 1999) Hb was
£60.00 now £9.95
Snail Down
by Nicholas Thomas et al.
Snail Down is an Early Bronze Age
barrow cemetery on Salisbury
Plain. Thirty-three mounds
include examples of almost every
type of Wessex barrow: bowl, bell,
disc, saucer and pond type have all
been excavated there between 1953–7. This publication
presents detailed analysis of an extraordinary variety of
finds, backed up with illustrative material.
324p b/w illus (Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural
History Society 2005) Hb was £25.00 now £15.00
An Animate Landscape
Rock Art and the Prehistory of
Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
by Andrew Meirion Jones et al.
Focusing on its landscape context
this study argues that the rock
art of Kilmartin played an active
part of the process of socialising
the landscape, in which the landscape became more
organised from the Late Neolithic onwards, and
that this organised landscape relates to broader
cosmological concerns.
was £38.00 now £12.95
Prehistoric Rock Art in the
North York Moors
by Paul Brown and Graeme
Chappell.
A comprehensive account of
the little known prehistoric rock
carvings in the North York Moors.
Details of all known rock art sites
in the region are included with particular reference
to the diversity and variety of motifs, together with
information on the associated archaeology of the
surrounding landscape.
288p b/w and col pls (The History Press 2005) Pb was
£19.99 now £6.95
An Upper Palaeolithic Open Air
Site in France
Report on one of the largest
open-air Palaeolithic sites ever
excavated, revealing a seemingly
unique stone tool industry termed
Beauronnian. The history of the project, methodologies,
results and analysis of finds are complemented by a
large number of drawings, outlines of typologies and
essays.
327p, 72 b/w pls (California UP 1999) Hb was £55.00
now £4.95
The Cave of Fontechevade
by Philip G. Chade, Andre Debenath,
Harold L. Dibble and Shannon P.
McPherron.
A summary of the discoveries
made during the course of
excavations at the Paleolithic
cave site of Fontéchevade,
France, between 1994 and 1998, including an
important reappraisal of the lithic evidence and of an
early modern human skull.
now £9.95
Les fouilles du Yaudet en
Ploulec’h, Cotes-d’Armor
edited by Barry Cunliffe and Patrick
Galliou.
This study, written entirely in
French, it provides an overview
of the site, giving insight into the
physical geography, the town’s
history prior to excavation, and the archaeological
research programme.
302p, 142 b/w illus and pls (OUSA 2004) Hb was
£50.00 now £15.00
Ploulec’h, Cotes-d’Armor,
volume 2
Le site: de la Préhistoire à la fin
de l’Empire gaulois
by Barry Cunliffe and Patrick
Galliou.
This second volume deals with
the Prehistoric period, continuing up until the end of
the Gallic Empire.
French text. 390p, 267 b/w illus (OUSA 2005) Hb was
£75.00 now £15.00
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The Guadajoz Project
Andalucía in the First
Millennium BC, Volume 1
by Barry Cunliffe and María Cruz
Fernández Castro.
This volume presents the results
of the fieldwork and specialist
studies: ceramics, small finds,
figurines, fauna, botanical remains and settlement
history. This evidence is then used to postulate
about the overall development of societies in central
Andalucía from the Neolithic to the Medieval period.
469p, many b/w figs and pls (OUCA 1999) Hb was
£85.00 now £15.00
Comparative Archaeologies
The American Southwest (AD
900-1600) and the Iberian
Peninsula (3000-1500 BC)
edited by Katina T. Lillios.
A discussion of current thinking
on the dynamics and historical
trajectories of complex societies
in the American Southwest (AD 900-1600) and the
Iberian Peninsula (3000-1500 BC) through a focused
comparison of five themes: Histories, Landscapes,
Bodies, Gender, and Art.
312p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2011) hb was £40.00
now £9.95
Creating Communities
New Advances in Central
European Neolithic Research
edited by Daniela Hofmann and
Penny Bickle.
Although the LBK is one of the best
researched Neolithic cultures in
Europe, here the material is
used in order to further explore the interconnection
between individuals, households, settlements and
regions, explicitly addressing questions of Neolithic
society and lived experience. 271p, 118 b/w illus, 16
tbls (Oxbow Books, 2009) Pb was £40.00 now £7.95
Dynamics of Neolithisation
edited by Angelos Hadjikoumis,
Erick Robinson and Sarah Viner.
development of early agriculture
in Neolithic Europe, drawing on
the work of the late Professor
Andrew Sherratt. The contributors
examine such significant factors as plant and animal
domestication, social organisation, the development of
monumental architecture, exchange and social identity
and the cultural transmission of technology.
208p (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95
From Surface Collection to
Prehistoric Lifeways
Making Sense of the MultiPeriod Site of Orlovo, South
East Bulgaria
by John Chapman.
An analysis of the rich collection
of Neolithic and Chalcolithic
finds from surface collection at the settlement of
Orlovo, emphasising the diversity of the objects and
what they can tell us about the lifeways of this site.
now £4.95
European Prehistory
14
Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner?
Feasting Rituals in the
Prehistoric Societies of Europe
and the Near East
edited by Gonzalo Aranda Jimenez,
Sandra Monton-Subias and
Margarita Sanchex Romero.
This volume examines how specific types of food
were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in
prehistoric Europe and the Near East.
Lower and Middle
Palaeolithic Artefacts from
Deposits Mapped as Claywith flints
by J E Scott-Jackson.
‘Clay-with flints’ refers to
deposits lying on the hilltops and
plateaux of the Chalk Downlands
of southern England. This study is based on the
archaeology, geology and sedimentology of these
deposits and forms a comprehensive review of the
Palaeolithic stone tools found embedded within them.
180p, b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2000) Pb was £30.00
now £5.00
Interweaving Worlds
Malsnes 1
edited by Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan
Sherratt and John Bennett.
by H.P. Blankholm.
Systemic Interactions in Eurasia,
7th to the 1st Millennia BC
How do we understand the
systemic interactions that took
place in and between different
regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences
for individuals, groups and regions? This volume
presents some diverse archaeological responses to this
problem, from from “world-systems” through “ritual
economies” to “textile rivalries”.
£55.00 now £12.95
Iron Age and Roman Burials
in Champagne
by I.M. Stead.
excavation of a series of six Iron
Age cemeteries in Champagne.
It
describes
the
spatial
arrangement of each cemetery
and its burials, and consider the relative chronology
of the series, from Hallstatt and La Tène to the GalloRoman period.
345p col and b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2006) Hb was
£60.00 now £12.95
Landscapes in Flux
Central and Eastern Europe
in Antiquity
edited by John Chapman and Pavel
Dolukhanov.
Landscape archaeology, a recent
theoretical discovery in the west,
has long been practised by eastern
european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers
ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe
and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods.
340p with maps. (Colloquia Pontica, Oxbow 1997) Pb
£48.00 now £4.95
Living Well Together?
Settlement and Materiality
in the Neolithic of SouthEast and Central Europe
edited by Douglass Bailey, Alasdair
Whittle and Dani Hofmann.
Investigates the development of
the Neolithic in southeast and
central Europe from 6500–3500 cal BC with special
reference to the manifestations of settling down.
178p (Oxbow Books 2008) Pb was £38.00 now
£10.00
An Early Post-Glacial Site in
Northen Norway
The economy, seasonality, and
several models for the settlement
pattern are examined and
followed by a discussion of this
pioneering settlement within its wider cultural and
Scandinavian and northern European context.
120p, 76 b/w illus, 21 tabs (Oxbow Books 2008) Hb
was £35.00 now £9.95
Mesolithic Horizons
edited by Sinéad McCartan, Rick
Schulting, Graeme Warren and
Peter Woodman.
This is an enormous compendium
of research published in two
volumes with over 140 papers
drawn from the whole of Europe,
ranging from the European Arctic to many parts of the
Mediterranean, and from the British Isles to Russia.
These papers cover recent research on virtually all
aspects of the European Mesolithic.
2 volumes, 980p (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was
£150.00 now £49.95
Terry Jones’ Barbarians
by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira.
This lively, but deceptively wellresearched book explores the
history and culture of those
labelled “Barbarians” by the
Romans, through a wide sweep
of history from the fifth century
BC to the 500s AD. Terry Jones emphasises the
sophistication of these societies, covering Celts,
Goths and other German tribes, Persians, Huns and
Vandals, as well as the extent to which the Greeks
who originally coined the term were considered to
be barbarians by Rome.
288p col pls (BBC 2006) Hb was £18.99 now £6.95
Rock Art and Seascapes in
Uppland
by Johan Ling.
A detailed study of a selection
of over 80 rock art panels, which
include some 2000 ship depictions
among the varied figurative
art. Using GPS measurement
combined with detailed study of the terrain,
topography and relative sea level data, the location
and significance of the original positioning of rock art
images in relation to their contemporaneous coastline
is demonstrated and modelled.
124p col illus (Oxbow Books 2012) Pb was £20.00 now
£4.95
Stone Axe Studies III
edited by Vin Davis and Mark
Edmonds.
This collection presents studies
on stone axe techonology from
a variety of different approaches.
Some papers are united by specific
material, such as those working on
Jadeite axe blades in western and Central Europe. For
others, the link is analytical, contextual, or conceptual.
£48.00 now £12.95
The Rhyton from Danilo
Structure and Symbolism of a
Mid-Neolithic Cult Vessel
by Omer Rak.
An in -depth study of the
rhyton, a four-legged Neolithic
vessel made of fired clay that
according to the consensus of
archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel
used in rituals of unknown origin and content.
208p (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was £50.00
now £14.95
Thinking Mesolithic
by Stefan Karol Kozlowski.
This book presents a com
prehensive, re-edited selection
of Kozlowski’s most important
writings on the Mesolithic,
along with new papers written
especially for this edition. With
his eye simultaneously on both the continental and
local levels, Kozlowski offers a compelling portrait of
a period in which Europe was characterised by a wide
range of different human ecologies.
380p, 200 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was
£60.00 now £17.95
Representations and
Communications
Time and Change
edited by Asa C. Fredell, Kristian
Kristiansen and Felipe Criado
Boado.
edited by Dimitra Papagianni, Robert
Layton and Herbert Maschner.
Creating an Archaeological
Matrix of Late Prehistoric Rock
Art
Nine papers summarize new excavation and survey
results, advanced studies of iconography and intriguing
landscape studies.
now £6.95
Archaeological and
Anthropological Perspectives
on the Long Term in HunterGatherer Societies
This volume explores long-term
behavioural patterns and processes of change in
hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic
to the present.
160p, 38 b/w illus 7 tabs (Oxbow Books 2008) Pb was
£30.00 now £7.95
Asia and Africa
War and Worship
Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century
AD Weapon Deposits in
Denmark and Northern Germany
by Susan Moller-Wiering.
War and Worship concerns
textile deposits from the bog
sites of Thorsberg in Germany
and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. The
research has extracted a large amount of information
allowing conclusions on status, origin, function and
role in the deposits to be drawn.
£30.00 now £7.95
Rock Art of the Caribbean
edited by Michele H. Hayward,
Lesley-Gail Atkinson and Michael A.
Cinquino.
A substantial synthesis of
Caribbean rock art studies.
Thorough and comparative, it
includes data on the history of
rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages
(image numbers, types, locations), and the legal,
conservation, and research status of the image sites.
304p b/w illus (Alabama UP 2009) Hb was £44.50
now £9.95
The Celts
by T.G. Powell.
A classic account of the
language, culture, and traditions
of the Celts. Using the evidence
of history, archaeology and
linguistics it portrays the rich
variety of Celtic life, art and
religion across the whole of barbarian Europe, from
the Balkans in the east to France, Spain and Great
Britain in the west.
232p b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 2nd ed 1983) Pb
was £9.95 now £4.95
edited by P. Jeffrey Brantingham,
Steven L. Kuhn and Kristopher W.
Kerry.
Papers which bring a non-Euro
pean perspective to the ‘Out of
Africa’ debate, arguing that the
European Upper Palaeolithic is not representative
despite its popularity among scholars.
295p, b/w figs, maps (California UP 2004) Hb was
£52.00 now £9.95
Images of the European
Bronze Age
by Richard J. Harrison.
This detailed study of the imagery
and ideology of Bronze Age Spain
and Portugal draws on a corpus
of more than one hundred stelae.
Describing them as `multi-vocal monuments’ Richard
Harrison examines how they embody ideological codes
centred around militarism, masculinity and hierarchy.
360p, many b/w illus (Western Academic Specialist
Press 2004) Hb was £48.00 now £9.95
Life and Death at the
Pestera Cu Oase
edited by Erik Trinkaus, Silviu
Constantin and Joco Zilhco.
The Pestera cu Oase is a
sealed
limestone
cavern
in
southwestern
Romania
which served principally as a
hibernation den for Pleistocene cave bears and
wolves, but also contained the fossil remains of the
earliest modern humans in Europe. This volume
presents the results of mapping and excavation of
the cave and the analysis of the animal and human
remains.
£24.95
by Robert Finlay.
This study explores the remarkable
cultural influence of Chinese
porcelain around the globe.It
tells the fascinating story of how
porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and
assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs
across vast distances - from Japan and Java to Egypt
and England.
440p col illus (University of California Press 2010) Hb
was £28.95 now £9.95
by Vadime Elisseeff.
by David W. Phillipson.
A Brief History of Khubilai
Khan
by Jonathan Clements.
The grandson of bloodthirsty
Mongol leader Genghis Khan,
Khubilai Khan was groomed
for authority from childhood
and garnered the position of
Great Khan, establishing his reign as one of the
most legendary figures in Chinese history. This book
explores his control over Mongolia, his attempts
to invade Japan, his imperialistic foreign policy, his
relationship with Marco Polo, and his overall impact
on world history. 352p (Constable 2010) Pb was £7.99
now £3.95
Dragon Sea
by Frank Pope.
A gripping retelling of the attempt
to salvage a cargo of fifteenth
century porcelain from the wreck
of the Hoi An junk off the coast of
Vietnam. Frank Pope who acted as
archaeological manager describes
the characters involved in the expedition, led by Mesun
Bound, the dangers they faced, and their dealings with
the project’s financial backers to whom archaeological
concerns were far from paramount.
341p b/w illus (Harcourt 2007) Pb was £9.99 now
£3.95
Calendars and Years II
edited by John M. Steele.
This second volume of Calendars
and Years explores the calendars
of ancient and medieval China,
India, the ancient Jewish world,
the medieval Islamic world, and
the Maya. Particular attention
is given to the preserved evidence on which our
understanding of these calendars lie, the modern
historiography of their study, and the role of calendars
in ancient and medieval society.
now £4.95
Cultures of Porcelain in World
History
Archaeology at Aksum
A selection from the research
undertaken by the UNESCO
Silk Roads project, which
demonstrate the importance of
the Silk Roads not just as trade
routes, but for movement and cultural contact.
Essays take a variety of approaches from the study
of individual artefacts and sites to much broader
overviews to explore the role of the Silk Roads in
shaping identities and relationships between east
and west. 332p (Berghahn 2000) Pb was £17.00 now
£5.95
Symbols and Warriors
Pilgrim Art
The Silk Roads
Highways of Culture and Power
The Early Upper Palaeolithic
Beyond Western Europe
15
Ethiopia, 1993–7
The research here described
was designed to provide a com
prehensive view of ancient
Aksum, including aspects which
had received little attention. Dr
Phillipson and his colleagues describe royal tombs
and commoner graves, domestic economy and
international trade, monumental architecture and
farming settlements, finely carved ivory and flaked
stone tools.
2 vols, 538p b/w illus (British Institute in Africa 2000)
Hb was £95.00 now £14.95
Nyanga
Ancient Fields, Settlement
History and Agricultural
History in Zimbabwe
by Robert Soper.
The stone ruins of the Nyanga
area of eastern Zimbabwe have
intrigued observers since they
were first reported to the outside world at the end of
the 19th century. In this book, Robert Soper and his
colleagues sets out the accumulated evidence for the
Nyanga complex as far as we now know it.
277p b/w illus (British Institute in East Africa 2002)
Hb was £50.00 now £9.95
Catalogue of Stone Age
Artefacts from Southern
Africa in the British Museum
by Peter Mitchell.
This book aims to provide not
only a gazetteer and catalogue
of the British Museum holdings
in this field, but also to present
sufficient additional information to place them within
their historical and contemporary archaeological
context.
233p b/w illus (BMP 2002) Pb was £23.00 now £4.95
Soba II
Renewed excavations
within the metropolis of the
Kingdom of Alwa in Southern
Sudan
by Derek A Welsby.
second campaign of excavations
by the BIEA in the most southerly of the three Nile
Basin Nubian kingdoms. The report throws light on
both local and imported artefacts, buildings and a
vaulted tomb.
312p, 70 b/w pls (BIEA/BMP 1998) Hb was £70.00
now £14.95
Egypt
16
Libyan Studies
Select Papers of the Late R G
Goodchild
edited by Joyce Reynolds.
Twenty papers, some published
for the first time, resulting
from Goodchild’s work in Libya
between 1946 and 1967. Papers
focus on specific Roman, medieval and Islamic sites,
finds and inscriptions.
345p, 96 b/w pls, b/w figs (Elek Books 1976) Hb was
£17.50 now £6.95
The Archaeology of
Christianity in Africa
by Niall Finneran.
Investigates the archaeological
evidence for the Christian faith
from its emergence in the first
millennium AD through to
European colonialism and the
missionaries of the 19th century; it is an ‘investigation
of diversity and change on a massive continent’.
192p b/w illus col pls (Tempus 2002) Pb was £19.99
now £9.95
The Middle Stone Age of
Zambia
by Lawrence Barham.
A detailed study of prehistoric
sequences in south central Africa,
largely based around the results
of investigations at the sites of
Mumbwa and Twin Rivers. An
introductory chapter provides the background context
to the prehistory of Zambia followed by studies of
the Mumbwa Caves and their chronology, faunal,
micro-fauna and human remains, ecological and
environmental evidence.
303p b/w illus (WASP 2000) Hb was £55.00
now £9.95
The Rock Tombs of ElHawawish 2
by N. Kanawati.
Reports on the excavation of the
tomb of Shepsi-Pu-Min/Kheni,
Tomb H25, Tomb H28, Tomb
H28a, Tomb H29, Tomb H30 and
Tomb H31.
(Australian Centre for Egyptology 1981) Pb was
£34.50 now £9.95
by N. Kanawati.
tombs of Tjeti/Kai-Hep, WenuMin, Tombe H-26, and the Tomb
of Nebet.
b/w and col pls (ACEG 1982) Pb
was £34.50 now £9.95
by N. Kanawati.
tombs of Hesi-Min and KheniAnkhu, the stela of ShepsitKau, the coffins of Hetepet and
Shepsi-Pu-Min and tombs M27,
M28, M29 and H14.
(ACEG 1983) was £34.50 now £9.95
by N. Kanawati.
tomb of Hem-Min (M43), tombs
in the forecourt of M43, The
tomb of Memi (M23), tombs in
the forecourt of M23, the tomb
of Ankhu (M21), and the coffins from Akhmin.
(ACEG 1986) Pb was £34.50 now £9.95
The Akhenaten Temple
Project, Volume 2
Rwd-mnw and Inscriptions
by Donald Redford.
This volume contains hitherto
unpublished talatat scenes from
the temple Rwd-Mnw, matched
from blocks in the concession
of the Akhanaten Temple Project. As well as these
reliefs, the volume contains five papers on previously
published material.
177p, 16p b/w figs, 43p b/w pls (Aegypti Texta
Propositaque I, Akhenaten Temple Project 1988) Pb
was £30.00 now £7.95
Horemheb
The Forgotten Pharaoh
by Charlotte Booth.
Horemheb ruled Egypt after
Tutankhamun,
and
was
fundamental in bringing Egypt
back to the rich and powerful
nation it was before Akhenaten
took the throne. Rather than simply clearing up the
mess left behind after the Amarna period, he lay the
foundations for the kings who were to come, and was
seen by the ancients as the start of the Ramessid era,
achievements which are chronicled in this study.
160p b/w illus (Amberley 2009, repr. 2012) Pb was
£9.99 now £4.95
The Myth of Ancient Egypt
by Charlotte Booth.
In this book, Charlotte Booth sets
out to investigate eight facets
of Ancient Egypt around which
popular myths have sprung up,
the origins of such myths, and
how they have developed. These
range from the River Nile itself, through the pyramids
and mummification, to three of the most famous
names to have come out of ancient Egypt.
223 b/w illus, col pls (Amberley 2011) Pb was £18.99
now £6.95
Deir el-Ballas
Preliminary Report on the Deir
el-Ballas Expedition, 19801986
by Peter Lacovara.
This preliminary report covers
the results of four brief seasons
of survey and limited excavation
undertaken by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, partly
as a followup to the Hearst Expedition excavations
originally conducted at the site by George Reisner in
1900-1901.
67p (American Research Center in Egypt 1990) Hb
was £25.00 now £5.95
The Tomb Chamber of Hsw
the Elder, Part 1
Illustrations
by David P. Silverman.
Publishes reliefs and inscriptions
from this significant tomb at the
site of Kom el-Hisn.
146p b/w illus (American
Research Center in Egypt 1988) Hb was £25.00 now
£6.95
Essays and Texts in Honour
of J Thomas
edited by T. Gagos and Roger
Bagnall.
A collection of nine essays
focused
on
military
and
administrative
institutions
in the ancient world, and
supplemented by a presentation of thirty texts in
Greek and Latin written on papyrus and wooden
fragments, some previously unpublished.
290P (American Society of Papyrologists 2001) Hb
was £45.00 now £19.95
Herakleopolite Nome
by Maria Rosaria Falivene.
Falivene presents an A-Z listing
of names in the Herakleopite
nome, a district of Middle Egypt,
largely based on Greek papyri
dating from the third century BC
to the eighth century AD. The
importance of the Herakleopite villages is discussed
along with the likely provenance of the documents
upon which this study is based.
324p (American Society of Papyrologists 1998) Hb
was £41.95 now £6.95
In Pursuit of Invisibility
Ritual Texts from Late Roman
Egypt
by Richard Phillips.
A close examination of invisibility
in the context of the Greco-Roman
world, from the role invisibility
enjoys as a literary motif to the
ritual spells whose logos and praxis in magic papyri
promise the individual that he will move about unseen
by others.
160p b/w illus and pls (American Society of Papyrologists
2009) Hb was £35.00 now £9.95
Egypt
Papyri in Memory of P. J.
Sijpesteijn
edited by A.J.B. Sirks and K.A. Worp.
Presents 61 previously unedited
papyri from Hellenistic, Roman
and Byzantine Egypt on a wide
range of literary, documentary
and religious themes.
445p, 65 b/w pls (American Society of Papyrologists
2007) Hb was £70.00 now £12.95
A Yale Papyrus
ASP 41 (P Yale III 137)
by Paul Schubert.
This papyrus is a return of taxable
private land for the village of
Philadelphia dating from AD
216/217. The document assesses
the amount of land retained
by individuals in the village, the basis forwhich
contributions to the armies of Emperor Caracalla were
determined.
123 p, b/w pls (American Society of Papyrologists
2001) Hb was £24.95 now £9.95
Ancient Egypt
by Farid Atiya.
Beautifully illustrated in full colour
throughout, this informative
coffee-table style book takes
the reader on a tour of the sites
of Ancient Egypt. Organised
geographically rather than
chronologically, but with sections on the historical
and religious background, the glorious photographs
illustrate a text which describes a wealth of tombs
and monuments, their construction, function and
excavation.
228p col illus (American University in Cairo Press
2006) Hb was £36.50 now £9.95
Art and Archaeology of
Ancient Egypt
by Giorgio Agnese and Maurizio Re.
This gazetteer of the most
important Egyptian sites provides
a sumptuous photographic
record
along
with
brief
descriptions. An introductory
section gives background on Ancient Egyptian culture
and the history of archaeology in Egypt.
256p col illus t/out (American University in Cairo
Press 2004) Hb was £24.99 now £7.95
Description de l’Egypte
edited by Franco Serino.
Announced in 1802, the
Description de l’Egypte took
twenty years to complete
and published the work of
archaeologists, scientists, artists
and engravers. Its stunning plates
bring Napoleon’s Egypt and the discoveries of his
archaeologists and scientists to life. This large-format
book is a `condensed’ version, supported by examples
of the most representative engravings and paintings. It
presents 128 images, mostly in colour, of monuments,
tomb paintings and temple plans.
2003) Hb was £22.95 now £7.95
Egypt
The World of the Pharaohs
edited
by Regine Schulz and Matthias
Seidel.
A huge lavishly illustrated
introduction to ancient Egyptian
history and culture, which
explores the achievements of Egypt under the
pharaohs through archaeological sites, monuments
and artefacts, as well as examining the functions of
the state, and religion.
540p col and b/w illus (American University in Cairo
Press 1998) Hb was £35.00 now £14.95
Egypt - Yesterday and Today
Lithographs and Diaries by
David Roberts
edited by Fabio Bourbon.
This is a beautifully presented
tour down the Nile, through large,
colour reproductions of 124 of
David Robert’s lithographs,first
published in the 1840s. Each lithograph is
accompanied by a smaller colour photograph of the
site or monument today, revealing how much or, as in
some cases, how little Egypt has changed during the
last 150 years. 272p col illus (American University in
Cairo Press 2011) Pb was £25.00 now £9.95
Golden King
The World of Tutankhamun
by Zahi Hawass.
This
beautifully
illustrated
book provides an ideal general
introduction to both the
reign of Tutankhamun and its
background in Akhenaten’s
relgious iconoclasm, and to the history of excavations
in the Valley of the Kings and Howard Carter’s famous
discovery of his tomb.
2004, Pb 2006) Pb was £25.00 now £6.95
In Search of Cosmic Order
Selected Essays on Egyptian
Archaeoastronomy
edited by Juan Antonio Belmonte
and Mosalam Shaltout.
These essays bring together
Spanish
and
Egyptian
specialists in Ancient Egyptian
archaeoastronomy. Among the subjects examined
are the constellations of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian
calendar, and landscape and symbolism, especially
how they relate to the orientation of temples and
royal tombs.
360p b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press
2009) Pb was £24.95 now £9.95
Monarchs of the Nile
by Aidan Dodson.
A revised edition of Adrian
Dodson’s concise and highly
readable collection of royal
biographies. Beginning with the
reign of Horus Djer in c.2975
BC and ending with Nektanebo
II’s flight from Egypt in 342 BC, Dodson introduces
the reader to renowned, recently rediscovered or
forgotten kings and Pharaohs.
256p b/w illus (American University in Cairo Press 2nd
ed 2001) Pb was £14.95 now £5.95
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The Pyramids and the
Sphinx
by Corinna Rossi
Replete with full-color
photographs and drawings,
this beautifully illustrated
book explains the history and
significance not only of the
famous Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza - the emblems
and legacy of the powerful Fourth Dynasty - but also
of the lesser-known tombs that stretch from Saqqara
to Meidum and Dahshur.
160p col illus (American University in Cairo Press 2005)
Pb was £14.95 now £4.95
Tutankhamun: Eternal
Splendour of the Boy
Pharaoh
by T.G.H. James.
In this large book T.G.H. James
provides an authoritative
account of the discovery of the
tomb, an overview of the reign of
Tutankhamun and a description of the tomb and the
objects found within it. The photographs are stunning
in their beauty and attention to detail and form one of
the best visual archives to the tomb of Tutankhamun
published to date.
319p, many col pls (American University at Cairo Press
2000) Hb was £59.50 now £14.95
Tomb KV39 in the Valley of
the Kings
by John Rose.
John Rose’s search for the tomb
of Amenhotep led him to direct
a series of excavations at Tomb
KV39 in the Valley of the Kings.
This report on the excavations
includes details on the tomb itself, the finds and
specialist reports on the human remains, pottery,
mummy cloth, mud seals, chemical analyses, geology
and restoration.
158p, 226 b/w pls (Western Academic & Specialist
Press 2000) Hb was £35.00 now £9.95
Ancient Egypt on 5 Deben
a Day
by Donald P. Ryan.
This guidebook takes the
armchair tourist/time traveller
back to Egypt in the Ramesside
period. The reader can find
advice on where to stay, what
to eat, what to wear, culture and customs and a
few useful phrases. The key sites are all explained,
but as functioning temples and so on, rather than
archaeological sites.
144p b/w illus, col pls (Thames & Hudson 2010) Pb
was £12.95 now £5.95
Letters From the Desert
by Margaret Drower.
During his long career Flinders
Petrie revolutionised Egyptian
archaeology but this book is not
about his scientific work or finds,
but his letters and journals. They
are selected for the vivid picture
they paint of living in Egypt and Palestine over sixty
years. They describe Petrie’s austere approach to
excavating and life on a dig where creature comforts
were non-existent.
£35.00 now £10.00
Egypt
18
A Late Paleolothic KillButchery-Camp in Upper
Egypt
by Fred Wendorf et al.
An excavation report which
charts the perils of archaeology
in the face of Egyptian farmers
keen to reclaim and thus destroy
the site. Icludes a detailed assesment of methodology
and of the lithic artefacts.
63P b/w figs (Southern Methodist UP 1997) Pb was
£20.00 now £4.95
Studies on Scarab Seals,
Volume 1
by William A. Ward.
A study of the chronology and
classification of scarab seals.
Volume I deals with the early
history of scarab manufacture
down to Amenemhet I. An
Appendix by Dr. S.I. Bishara describes the life cycle
and habits of the scarab beetle, and Professor Ward
also discusses the significance of the scarab form.
(Aris & Phillips 1992) Hb was £35.00 now £7.95
The Tomb of Simut Called
Kyky
by Maged Negm.
This book provides the first full
record of Theban Tomb 409, that
of Simut called Kyky, the Chief
Counter of Cattle of Amun during
the reign of Rameses II. The
decoration of the tomb is interesting for its subject
matter, variety of detail and artistic presentation, and
in particular for its funerary and religious scenes and
texts.
47p, 63 b/w pls (Aris and Phillips 1997) Pb was £45.00
now £7.95
Ancient Egypt
by P.R.S. Moorey.
A revised edition of Roger
Moorey’s guide to the Ashmolean
Museum Egyptian collections.
This attractive, slim volume
combines informative text and a
useful bibliography with a good
selection of photographs, many of which are in colour.
64p b/w and col illus (Ashmolean Museum rev ed
2000) Pb was £7.95 now £2.95
Egypt Through the Eyes of
Travellers
edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia
El Kholy.
Investigates the 18th and 19th
Century European fascination
with Egypt. This interest had
begun during the Enlightenment
and was fuelled by the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon
in 1798. For many Europeans of this age, Egypt
represented all the exoticism, sensuality and mystery
of the Orient, and these nine papers (one of which is
in French) seek to explore this relationship.
187p (ASTENE 2002) Pb was £19.95 now £6.50
Tutankamen
The Search for an Egyptian
King
by Joyce Tyldesley.
The first part of this book details
Howard Carter’s search for the
tomb and its discovery, going on to
describe the grave goods in detail,
and to explain and appraise the various studies which
have been made of the mummy itself. The second
part is dedicated to the myths and conspiracy theories
surrounding Tutankamun which have proliferated in
the years since the discovery of the tomb. 316p col pls
(Basic Books 2012) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Die Magischen Gemmen im
Britischen Museum
by Simone Michel.
An impressive catalogue of the
649 magical gems in the BM.
Includes Egyptian gems dedicated
to the sun or moon, Jewish and
Christian gems, medicinal gems,
astrological gems and more recent examples.
German text. 2 vols: 424p of text, many b/w pls and
illus (BMP 2001) Hb was £195.00 now £19.95
Mummy
The Inside Story
by John Taylor.
This richly illustrated and
accessible study, squarely aimed
at general readers, presents the
results of the British Museum’s
non-invasive investigation of the
3000-year old mummy of the priest Nesperennub.
The book combines an analysis of the tecniques
involved in the analysis and the forensic results along
with a consideration of the priest’s life and work in
the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak.
48p, col illus (British Museum Press 2011) Pb was
£12.99 now £4.95
The Secret Lore of Egypt
Its Impact on the West
by Erik Hornung.
Western culture regularly adopts
and appropriates themes and
motifs from ancient Egyptian art,
religious practices, and literature.
Hornung here looks at the history
of one aspect of this process, the idea of ancient Egypt
as the source of esoteric lore and traces the influence
of the esoteric image of Egypt on European intellectual
history from antiquity to the present.
229p, 37 b/w figs (Cornell UP 2001) Hb was £26.95
now £9.95
Egyptology Today
edited by Richard Wilkinson.
This book, at the more academic
end of those designed for
the non-specialist, takes an
interesting tack - it isn’t the usual
introduction to Ancient Egypt,
but to Egyptology as a discipline
in the modern age. Topics range from how tombs
and other monuments are discovered, excavated,
recorded and preserved, to the study of Egyptian
history, art, artifacts, and texts.
now £14.95
Abusir IX
The Pyramid Complex of
Raneferef, I: The Archaeology
by Miroslav Verner.
The main archaeological results
of the excavation of the pyramid
complex of Neferre in Abusir are
published in this report. Chapters
on the structural analysis of Neferre’s mortuary
temple, the chronology of the complex and the shape
and meaning of the pyramid in the Old Kingdom
complement the archaeology.
500p b/w illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2006)
Hb was £110.00 now £20.00
Joseph Lindon Smith
Abusir VI
edited by Barbara S. Lesko.
by Vivienne G. Callender and
Miroslav Verner.
Paintings from Egypt
Catalogue of an exhibition of
Smith’s paintings held at Brown
University in 1998. This slim
volume includes introductions to
the artist’s life (Barbara S. Lesko)
and to his work (Diana Wolfe Larkin). The forty plates
are nicely reproduced in color.
60p, 40 color plates (Brown University 1998) Pb was
£19.95 now £5.95
The Remarkable Women of
Egypt
by Barbara S. Lesko.
Third edition of readable
survey of women in Ancient
Egypt. Chapters include: Divine
Women/Royal Women; The
Average Woman; Public Life/
Private Life; Women in the Cults; Sex, Marriage and
Family Life.
68p, b/w illus, col pls (Brown UP 1996) Pb was £14.95
now £4.95
Djedkare’s Family Cemetery
Verner and Callender describe
the structure and archaeology
of the tomb including plans
of the rooms, its owner, wall
paintings and finds from the tomb. These chapters
are suceeded by a discussion of the chronology of the
tombs, a typology and details on the skeletal remains.
Appendices look at the role of female members of
the Djedkare family in the old Kingdom.
164p, 32 b/w and col pls (Czech Institute of
Egyptology 2002) Hb was £45.00 now £10.00
Abusir XII
Minor Tombs in the Royal
Necropolis I (The Mastabas
of Nebtyemneferes and
Nakhtsare, Pyramid Complex
Lepsius no. 24 and Tomb
Complex Lepsius no. 25)
by Jaromir Krejci, Vivienne Gae
Callender and Miroslav Verner.
This monograph presents the results of archaeological
excavations undertaken from 1987 until 2004 and held
in the area of the Abusir minor tombs clustered around
the tombs of the 5th Dynasty kings.
284p b/w and col illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology
2008) Hb was £106.00 now £20.00
Egypt
Abusir XIII
edited by Miroslacv Barta.
The first of the three planned
publications dedicated to the
complex of the vizier Qar and
his sons, dating to the Sixth
Dynasty, reign of Teti - Pepy II.
It comprises a full record of the
tombs accompanied by chapters on the geology
and geophysical survey of Abusir South, faunal and
floral remains from the tombs, and anthropological
evaluation of the human remains.
380p b/w illus, col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology
2009) Hb was £120.00 now £20.00
Abusir XIX
Tomb of Hetepi (AS 20), Tombs
AS 33-35 and AS 50-53
by Miroslav Barta, Filip Coppens
and Hana Vymazalova.
The tombs published in this
volume of the Abusir series have
been excavated during several
seasons at Abusir South. They do not form a single
cemetery; rather, they represent different groups of
sacral structures that illustrate very well the diachronic
development of the Abusir South necropolis during
the Old Kingdom and the Late Period-Ptolemaic era.
387p, 38 col pls, b/w illus (Czech Institute of
Egyptology 2010) Hb was £125.00 now £20.00
Abusir XVI
Sahure - The Pyramid
Causeway. History and
Decoration Program in the Old
Kingdom
by Tarek El-Awady.
The sixteenth volume in the
Abusir series contains the
publication of the blocks with relief decoration found
by the Supreme Council of Antiquities along the
causeway of the pyramid complex of Fifth Dynasty
ruler Sahure in Abusir.
264p b/w illus, col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology
2009) Hb was £84.00 now £20.00
Abusir XVII
The Shaft Tomb of Iufaa,
Volume 1: Archaeology
by Kveta Smolarikova and Ladislav
Bares.
This volume describes
archaeological situation and finds
from the main burial chamber
and the funerary cult area in front of the eastern
enclosure wall of the tomb, including the subsidiary
burial chambers.
401p b/w illus (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2008) Pb
was £73.00 now £20.00
Abusir XX
Lesser Late Period Tombs at
Abusir. The Tomb of Padihor
and the Anonymous Tomb R3
by Kveta Smolarikova and Filip
Coppens.
The present volume offers the
results of the excavations in two
shaft tombs of small dimensions which have been
unearthed in the Late Period (Saite-Persian) cemetery
at Abusir: the tomb of Padihor and the anonymous
tomb R3.
139p b/w and col pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology
2009) Pb was £42.50 now £10.00
Abusir
Secrets of the Desert and the
Pyramids edited
by Petra Vlckova and Hana
Benesovska.
This is the catalogue of the
exhibition Abusir , held at the
Náprstek Museum in 2005. It
presents for the first time a complete overview of the
archaeological work and its results at Abusir, showing
the activities of Czech and German archaeological
teams.
2007) Hb was £55.00 now £5.00
Altagyptisch,
Hamitosemitisch und ihre
Beziehungen zu einigen
Sprachfamilien
by K. Petracek.
An important text for discussing
the relationship between Egypt
and the rest of Africa, this
monograph by an eminent Czech scholar traces the
linguistic roots of Egyptian and Semitic languages.
156p (Czech Institute of Egyptology 1988) Pb was
£15.00 now £3.00
Egypt and Austria II
edited by Johanna Holaubek, Hana
Navratilova and Wolf B. Oerter.
This is the second collection of
proceedings from the workshop
of the Austrian and Czech
Egyptologists and historians. The
contributions are connected by
the theme of Egyptomania, and the use of Ancient
Egypt as an inspirational source to modern art.
2006) Pb was £15.00 now £3.00
Egypt and Austria III
edited by Johanna Holaubek, Hana
Navratilova and Wolf B. Oerter.
This is the third collection of
proceedings from the workshop
of the Austrian and Czech
Egyptologists and historians.
280p b/w and col illus (Czech
Institute of Egyptology 2007) Pb was £15.00 now
£3.00
The Egyptian Revival in
Bohemia
by Hana Navratilova.
This study looks at the Egyptian
revival in the second half of the
19th century within Czech society.
Asking who these Egyptomaniacs
were and why they chose Egypt,
Hana Navrátilová looks at the historical and cultural
background of the period, arguing that Egyptian
revivalism was important for both Czech cultural
development and the formation of national identity.
300p (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2003) Pb was
£25.00 now £5.00
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Old Kingdom Art and
Archaeology
edited by Miroslav Barta.
Conference proceedings containing papers by more than 30
archaeologists specialising in Old
Kingdom topics.
300p, b/w illus, col pls (Czech
Institute of Egyptology 2007) Hb was £50.00 now
£10.00
The Scribe of the Place of
Truth
The Biography of Egyptologist
Jaroslav Cerny
by J. Ruzova.
A biography of Jaroslav Cerny,
one of the world’s leading
Egyptologists. He became the
most famous expert in hieratic texts of the New
Kingdom. He was a devoted teacher, an altruistic and
constant friend to Egyptologists around the world, as
well as a loving husband and father.
250p pls (Czech Institute of Egyptology 2010) Hb was
£21.00 now £5.00
Shadow King
The Bizarre Afterlife of King
Tut’s Mummy
by Jo Marchant.
This gripping, journalistic account,
tells the story of Tutankhamun’s
mummy and the various scientific
analyses it has undergone. After
first sketching the nineteenth century background to
the study of mummies Jo Marchant guides the reader
through the techniques, tests and diagnoses as well as
the controversies and personalities involved.
288p b/w pls (Da Capo 2013) Hb was £17.99 now
£6.95
The Royal Mummies
by G. Elliot Smith.
A new edition of a classic text,
first published in 1912, which
reports on the mummies of
kings, queens and lesser nobles
found at Deir el-Bahri and in the
tomb of Amenophis. It includes
discussions of the mummies of Ahmose, Tuthmosis
III, Amenophis III, Akhenaten and more besides. With
many photographs of the human remains.
224p with 103 b/w pls, 20 figs (Duckworth 2000) Pb
was £25.00 now £7.95
The Tomb of Siphtah with
the Tomb of Queen Tiyi
by Theodore M Davis.
Davis’ excavations (1905–8) of
the tomb of Siphtah uncovered
the greatest hoard of 19th
Dynasty jewellery ever found
along with a colllection of
mummified pets, including a dog, a duck and several
monkeys.
162p b/w pls (Duckworth 2001) Pb was £25.00 now
£7.95
Egypt
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Tomb of Thoutmosis IV
edited by Theodore M. Davis.
First published in 1904, this is
Davis’ full report on Howard
Carter’s discovery of Tuthmosis
IV’s rich tomb which had not been
disturbed for 3,000 years. Much of
the volume comprises Carter and
Newberry’s illustrated catalogue of the large number
of antiquities that were found.
28 b/w pls, b/w illus (Constable 1904, Duckworth
2002) Pb was £25.00 now £7.95
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
The Annexe and the Treasury
by Howard Carter.
Originally published in 1933, this
third volume in Howard Carter’s
trilogy of books describes the
discovery and investigation of
the annexe and treasury, two
store rooms containing a wealth of funerary gifts for
the king.
256p, 80 b/w pls (Duckworth 2000) Pb was £18.99
now £6.95
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
The Burial Chamber
by Howard Carter.
This is a reprint of Howard Carter’s
report on the second and third
seasons of excavations at the
tomb of Tutankhamun, originally
published in 1927. It details `the
opening of the four protective shrines; the discovery
within Tutankhamun’s quartz-sandstone sarcophagus;
the extraction of the king’s three anthropoid coffins...
and the final examination of the pharaoh’s splendidly
bejewelled mummy’.
367, 88 b/w pls (Duckworth 2001) Pb was £18.99
now £6.95
Tombs of Harmhabi and
Toutankhamanou
by Theodore M. Davis.
A reissue of Davis’ account of
his last great discovery in the
Valley of the Kings. In 1908 Davis
discovered the rchly decorated
tomb and ornate sarcophagus
of Horemheb [Harmhabi], Tutankhamun’s general
and the founder of the 19th Dynasty. The other tomb
described here was mistakenly interpreted as that of
Tutankhamun himself.
135p, 91 b/w pls, b/w illus (1912, Duckworth 2001)
Pb was £25.00 now £4.95
Egypt Exploration Society:
The Early Years
edited by Patricia Spencer.
Published to celebrate the
Society’s 125th Anniversary
in 2007, this volume gives a
fully illustrated account of the
earliest years (1883-1915) of the
Society’s work in Egypt, describing life on excavations
run by pioneers such as Flinders Petrie and setting
major discoveries in their archaeological and cultural
contexts.
272p (EES 2007) Pb was £22.00 now £6.95
The Roman Imperial
Quarries
Survey and Excavation at
Mons Porphyrites, 1994-1998,
Volume 2: The Excavtions
by David Peacock and Valerie
Maxfield.
Mons Porphyrites, in the heart
of the Red Sea mountains, was the only source of
imperial porphyry known to the ancient world, and
was quarried from the Tiberian period to the fifth
century. This volume reports on the excavations and
provides a review of the overall development of the
quarry complex. 450p b/w illus (Egypt Exploration
Society 2007) Hb was £65.00 now £19.95
Egyptian Fakes
by Jean-Jacques Fiechter.
The enormous popular appeal
of Egyptian antiquities from the
end of the 18th century to the
present day has led to a thriving
market for fakes and forgers, and
it is these fakes which Fiechter
examines in his well-written narrative. He investigates
the background and techniques of the great forgers,
alongside the evolving techniques used to spot them.
252p b/w illus (Flammarion 2009) Hb was £22.50
now £7.95
The Tombs of Amenhotep,
Khnummose and Amenose
at Thebes
by Nigel Strudwick.
Publishes three 18th Dynasty
tombs arranged round a single
courtyard on the Theban West
Bank. Also contains a catalogue
of finds, discussion of the human remains, and
Appendices of archive photos.
2 Vols, 203p, col and b/w pls (Griffith Inst, Ashmolean
1996) £120.00 now £79.95
Topographical Bibliography of
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic
Texts, Reliefs, Statues and
Paintings, Vol. VIII
Objects of Provenance Not
Known; Parts 1 and 2
by Jaromir Malek.
This three volume set consists
of; Part 1: Royal and Private Statues (Predynastic to
Dynasty XVII), Part 2: Private Statues (Dynasty XVIII
to the Roman Period) and Statues of Deities, and an
index to parts 1 and 2.
3 vols, 1300p (Griffiths Institute 1999) Hb was
£145.00 now £50.00
A Dedicated Life
Tributes Offered in Memory of
Rosalind Moss
edited by TGH James and J Male.
Between 1924 and 1972 Rosalind
Moss (1890–1990) edited the
Topographical Bibliography of
Ancient Egypt forming a major
contribution to Egyptology. These 20 reminiscences
by friends and colleagues present a vivid picture of
the Egyptological community during these years.
128p 12 illus (Griffith Institute 1990) Hb was £21.00
now £4.95
Game Boxes from
Turankhamun’s Tomb
by W.J. Tait
This fascicle covers the gaming
material found in the tomb,
namely the gameboxes and
the playing pieces, the sets of
casting-sticks, and the knucklebones. The several items are fully described in the
catalogue, with individual comments on matters of
interest, and there is a general discussion concerning
the method of play.
63p b/w pls (Griffith Institute 1982) Hb was £20.00
now £9.95
Hieratic ostraca in the
Hunterian Museum,
Glasgow
by AG McDowell.
This volume presents the 27
limestone and hieratic ostraca
collected by Rev. Colin Campbell
in Egypt at the turn of the century
and donated by him to the Hunterian Museum. All
but one come from the New Kingdom community of
Deir el-Medina, the exception being a Ptolemaic copy
of the Offering of the mnw-vase.
34p with 33 plates. (Griffith Institute 1993) Hb was
£25.00 now £12.95
Model Boats from
Tutankhamun’s Tomb
by Dilwyn Jones
This volume publishes the thirtyfive wooden model boats found
in the tomb of Tutankhamun,
the only complete group known
from the 18th Dynasty. It also
includes a study of eleven magical oars discovered in
the Burial Chamber.
126p, 38 b/w pls (Griffith Institute 1990) Hb was
£42.00 now £19.95
Ramesside Administrative
Documents
by AH Gardiner.
This volume contains hieroglyphic
tran
s criptions of 26 hieratic
documents, inckuding such texts
as the Turin Strike papyrus, the
Gurob fragments and parts of the
Journalk of the Theban Necropolis.
125p (Griffith Institute 1995) Hb was £25.00 now
£12.95
Self Bows and other Archery
Tackle from Tutankhamun’s
Tomb
by W. McLeod
This catalogue deals in detail
with the fourteen self bows
and the many arrows found in
the tomb, together with the
decorated bow-case, the bow box, the two quivers,
and two pairs of bracers.
75p, b/w pls (Griffith Institute 1982) Hb was £20.00
now £9.95
Egypt
Stone Vessels, Pottery and
Sealings from the Tomb of
Tutankhamun
edited by John Baines
A complete publication of four
important and closely related
groups of material from the tomb
of Tutankhamun: the plain vases
manufactured in a variety of stones; the pottery,
much of which contained wine from a wide variety
of vintages; the jar sealings; and the door sealings
removed in the clearance of the tomb as well as the
object seals.
177p, 66 b/w pls (Griffith Institute 1993) Hb was
£60.00 now £29.95
Weavings from Roman,
Byzantine and Islamic Egypt
by Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Dating primarily from the third to
seventh centuries, these handwoven fabrics from the collection
of Rose Choron showcase
colourful images of dancers,
haloed saints with hands raised in prayer, and a
plethora of flowers and animals. Eunice Daughterman
Maguire illuminates the objects by providing a rich
historical and mythical context, as well as detailed
technical explanations.
176p, col illus (Krannert Art Museum 2005) Pb was
£16.99 now £6.95
Catalogue of Egyptian Art
Ancient Egypt as it Was:
by Lawrence Berman and Kenneth
J. Bohac.
by Charlotte Booth.
The Cleveland Museum
A complete catalogue of
Egyptian objects held by the
Cleveland Museum of Art.
Includes a detailed history of
the collection, followed by the catalogue of objects
(sculpture, vessels, jewellery, scarabs, seals, cosmetic
objects, inlays, furniture, implements and funerary
equipment) dating from c.5000 BC to the Roman
period.
584p, 46 col pls, b/w illus (Hudson Hill 1999) Hb was
£55.00 now £19.95
Marsa Matruh I
The Excavation
by Donald White.
These at Marsa Matruh on Bates’s
Island, which is located on the
seacoast at the north of Egypt’s
western desert, uncovered a
small site with a metalworking
workshop and nearby houses. This volume provides
an overview of the excavations at the site, the Late
Bronze Age and historical period occupations, and an
introduction to the environmental morphology and
history of the island.
126p b/w illus, 47 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2002)
Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Marsa Matruh II
The Objects
by Donald White.
This volume of the report
on the excavations at Marsa
Matruh on Bates’s Island, which
is located on the seacoast at
the north of Egypt’s western
desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the
crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the
organic finds (including ostrich egg shells), and the
other discoveries made at the site.
174p, 20 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2002) Hb
was £59.50 now £29.95
Acta Nubica
Proceedings of the Tenth
International Conference of
Nubian Studies
edited by I. Caneva and Alessandro
Roccati.
In these numerous archaeological,
archaeometrical, and epigraphical
contributions, scientists present new groundwork for
the understanding of Egypt, not as a lone oasis of
civilization, but rather as a key part of a larger ancient
world. Most essays are in English, though some are in
French or Italian.
497p b/w and col illus (Libreria Dello Stato 2006) Pb
was £150.00 now £19.95
Exploring the City of Thebes in
1200 BC
Written in the style of a
contemporary guidebook, Ancient
Egypt As it Was paints a vivid
picture of the sights and sounds
of the ancient world through a combination of historical
fact and practical advice. Focusing on Thebes in the
year 1200 BC it is packed with useful information on
everything from where to stay and eat to visiting iconic
sites.
(Lyons Press 2008) Hb was £9.99 now £3.95
A Secret History of
Tutankhamun
by Paul Doherty
Paul
Doherty
re-examines
scientific, forensic, and archaeological evidence, as well as the
historical accounts of Howard
Carter, to reconstruct the life,
death and burial of Tutankhamun. His reconstruction
is set within the context of political rivalry at court,
especially amongst Tutankhamun’s closest advisers
(Ay and Horemheb), and is set against a backdrop of
social and religious dissent in Egypt as a whole.
260p col illus (Magpie 2002) Pb was £9.99 now £3.95
Giza au Premier Millenaire
by Christiane M. Zivie-Coche.
Publication of the Kate Period Isis
Temple in the Eastern Cemetery,
along with a large number if Late
Period objects relating to the
history of Giza Necropolis.
362p 31 b/w figsd (Museum of
Fine Arts Boston) Pb was £35.00 now £6.95
Giza Mastabas VII
The Senedjemib Complex Part I
by Edward Brovarski
The tombs of Senedjemib Inti
(G2370), Khnumenti (G2374) and
Senedjemib Mahi (G2378) which
form the focus of this publication
are three of the largest tombs
in the complex, located at the northwest corner of
the Great Pyramid. Volume one includes a complete
history and description of all three tombs.
2 vols: vol 1, 185p, 126 b/w pls; vol 2, 131 b/w figs
and fold-outs (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2002)
was £150.00 now £65.00
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Ancient Byblos
Reconsidered
by Alessandra Nibbi.
This study aims to debunk
much of what has been written
about links between Byblos and
Ancient Egypt, finding no real
evidence for the large scale trade
in cedar wood which is often postulated.
127p b/w illus (Alessandra Nibbi 1985) Pb was £9.50
now £3.95
Ancient Egyptian Anchors
and the Sea
This work presents a catalogue
of more than 200 anchors
found at Maersa Matruh and
compares them to other anchors
found along the Nile, ultimately
questioning the attribution to the Ancient Egyptians.
120p b/w figs (A. Nibbi 2002) Pb was £15.00 now
£4.95
Some Geographical Notes
on Ancient Egypt
Collected papers by Alessandra
Nibbi. They are largely concerned
with the physical aspects of
ancient Egypt – the identification
of places, the meaning of words,
plant types, interpetation of hieroglyphs and Egyptian
concepts of geography
423p b/w illus (DE Publications 1997) Pb was £40.00
now £4.95
The Official Gift in Ancient
Egypt
by Edward Bleiberg.
Economic anthropology is used
here to gain a fuller understanding
of the long-standing practice of
the official exchanging of gifts
between individuals of unequal
status ( inw -exchange). To overcome the problem of
patchy and biased sources, the author first proposes
a model to study this social obligation. This identifies
reciprocity and redistribution at work, instead of the
profit-making goal usually assumed active
174p. (Oklahoma UP 1996) Hb £29.95 now £8.95
The Boy Behind the Mask
by Charlotte Booth.
Charlotte Booth’s popular history
takes a different tack to most
books on Tutankamun - instead
of focusing on his tomb, its
rediscovery and its spectacular
treasures, she attempts to
reconstruct his life. She explores the religious revolution
of Akhenaten as the backdrop to his childhood, and
shows how his short reign was spent not only restoring
the old gods, but also Egypt’s capital, and diplomatic
and economic relations.
176p b/w illus and pls (Oneworld 2007) Hb was
£14.99 now £4.95
Egypt
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Excavations at Serra East,
Parts 1-5
by Bruce Beyer Williams.
In the New Kingdom, Serra East
was the site of an important
centre, one closely connected to
the family of rulers of Teh-Khet.
This volume, the first in a series
of reports, looks at the ancient burials and outlying
structures.
236p, 44 b/w pls, b/w illus (Oriental Institute 1993)
Hb was £42.00 now £12.95
The Crown of Arsinoe II
The Creation of an Image of
Authority
by Maria Nilsson.
A detailed study of a unique crown
that was created for the Ptolemaic
Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II. Images
of Arsinoë are represented in a
broad spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this
historical figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural
setting, and as queen and goddess alike.
£55.00 now £19.95
Current Research in
Egyptology 10 (2009)
edited by Judith Corbelli, Claire
Malleson and Dan Boatright
The tenth annual Current
Research in Egyptology confer
ence was held at the University
of Liverpool in January 2009 and
welcomed Egyptology graduates from all over the
world. This volume is a compilation of some of the
papers that were given at the conference, that show
the diverse nature of current research in Egyptology.
Current Research in
Egyptology 2010
edited by Martin Horn et al.
Topics covered include Egyptian
religion, ranging from the Coffin
Texts to the decoration of temple
walls in Ptolemaic times, as well as
sociological issues in the Middle
and New Kingdom. Other contributions focus on
the study of the chronology of the Middle Kingdom
with the help of lunar ephemerides or well-stratified
radiocarbon data versus pottery data.
now £6.95
Current Research in
Egyptology 2011
edited by Heba Abd El Gawad.
Contributors to this volume
approach a broad range of
subjects spanning from Prehistory
to modern Egypt, including: selfpresentation, identity, provenance
and museum studies, funerary art and practices,
domestic architecture, material culture, mythology,
religion, commerce, economy, dream interpretation
and the birth of Egyptology as a discipline.
now £8.95
Current Research in
Egyptology 4 (2003)
edited by Katryn Piquette and
Serena Love.
Thirteen papers illustrate a
range of subject areas and
approaches; an underlying theme,
though, is apparent; a greater
degree of reflexivity and a wider engagement with
interdisciplinary research. 224p (Oxbow Books 2004)
Pb was £28.00 now £6.95
Current Research in
Egyptology 5 (2004)
edited by Rachael J Dann.
The fifth annual Current Research
in Egyptology Symposium was held
in January 2004, at the University
of Durham. The conference offers
the majority of postgraduates
researching Egyptology their first opportunity to
present academic work to their peers, and to receive
critical feedback. An interesting development in the
direction of research in this volume is the emphasis
on aspects of identity and individuality. 168p (Oxbow
Books 2006) Pb was £28.00 now £6.95
Encyclopaedia of the
Pharaohs, Volume 1
Predynastic to the Twentieth
Dynasty, 3300 - 1069 BC
by Darrell D. Baker.
A comprehensive guide to the
known rulers of ancient Egypt.
Each entry includes: a brief
biography of the reign; tomb location and number (if
known); location of known mummies; chief consorts;
hieroglyphs and transliterations of each form of the
pharaoh’s name; pertinent biographical references.
587p b/w illus (Stacey International 2008) Hb was
£45.00 now £12.95
Reports from the Survey of
the Dakhleh Oasis 1977-87
edited by C.S. Churcher and A.J.
Mills.
The survey’s major aspects archaeological, anthropological,
biological - provide a general
introduction to the oasis.
The major topics presented are geomorphology,
stratigraphy,
palaeontology,
recent
biology,
Pleistocene and Holocene lithic cultures, pottery
from Neolithic to Islamic times, and Roman period
settlement.
271p (Oxbow 1999) Hb was £45.00 now £4.95
Dakhleh Oasis Project
Medusa’s Gaze
edited by Colin Hope and Anthony
J Mills.
by Marina Belozerskaya.
Preliminary reports 1992–94
This volume contains progress
reports on the work of these two
seasons as well as a number of
short reports on excavations at
the Roman site of Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab).
152p (Oxbow 1999) Hb was £30.00 now £4.95
Egypt and Cyprus in
Antiquity
edited by D. Michaelides, V.
Kassianidou and R. Merillees.
While the island’s links with the
Aegean and the Levant have
been well documented and con
tinue to be the subject of much
archaeological attention, the exchanges between
Cyprus and the Nile Valley are not as well known and
have not before been comprehensively reviewed.
They range in date from the mid third millennium
B.C. to Late Antiquity and encompass every kind of
interconnection, including political union. 288p b/w
illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was £45.00 now £12.95
Greek Painted Pottery
From Naukratis in Egyptian
Museums
by Marjorie Susan Venit.
This book introduces the
pottery and provides a rationale
behind the classifications of
individual fragments, including a
description of each fragment.
224p and 85 plates (ARCE 1988) Hb was £32.50 now
£12.95
The Extraordinary Journey of
the Tazza Farnese
The banded agate bowl known
as the Tazza Farnese is a libation
bowl carved from banded
agate, it features Medua’s head
on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian
Gods. This book traces its remarkable story, from its
creation in Ptolemaic Egypt, to Rome, Constantinople,
Sicily, Sarkand, and finally back to Europe, to inspire
antiquarians from the Renaissance to the modern age.
292p (Oxford UP 2012) Hb was £16.99 now £6.95
A History of Ancient Egypt
From the First Farmers to the
Great Pyramid
by John Romer.
In this engaging and ambitious
work, John Romer explores
the Egyptian Neolithic, and the
growth of a centralised state. He
traces fifteen hundred years of development, from
the emergence of farming communities along the
route of the Nile to the creation of the sophisticated
administrative, transport and supply systems which
allowed the construction of the Great Pyramid.
512p pls (Penguin 2012) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95
The Quest for Immortality
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
by Erik Hornung and Betsy M.
Bryan.
This colour catalogue, from an
exhibition held at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington
during the summer of 2002,
mostly presents objects drawn from the collection of
the Cairo Museum. These are complemented by four
essays that discuss the religious beliefs of ancient
Egypt with emphasis on the artistic achievements of
the reign of Thutmose III and the New Kingdom in
general. 240p col illus (Prestel 2002) Hb was £45.00
now £14.95
Egypt
City of the Ram Man:
The Story of Ancient Mendes
by Donald B. Redford.
In this richly illustrated book,
Donald Redford draws on the
latest discoveries to tell the story
of the ancient Egyptian city of
Mendes, home of the mysterious
cult of the ‘fornicating ram who mounts the beauties’.
He traces its development from its prehistoric founding,
through its development of a great society and its brief
period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline and
abandonment in the 1st century BC.
240p col and b/w illus (Princeton UP 2010) Hb was
£27.95 now £12.95
Cleopatra of Egypt
From History to Myth
edited by Susan Walker and Peter
Higgs.
This stunning collection of essays
and images accompanies a 2001
exhibition at the British Museum.
Eleven essays are divided into four
main subjects areas (The Ptolemies and Alexandria;
Cleopatra, Lady of the Two Lands; Cleopatra and the
Power of Rome; Egypt in Rome/The Myth of Cleopatra)
each section being followed by a catalogue of objects.
304p, col illus (Princeton UP 2001) Hb was £49.95
now £19.95
Egypt
A Short History
by Robert L. Tignor.
This ambitious work covers the
whole of Egyptian history from
the Old Kingdom to the rule of
Mubarak. As well as narrating
the sequence of events and the
development of Egyptian culture, Tignor also offers
comparative reflections across this broad sweep of
history.
363p col pls (Princeton UP 2011) Hb was £20.95 now
£6.95
Tutankhamun’s Funeral
by H.E. Winlock.
This beautifully illustrated book
reprints Winlock’s 1941 essay
describing the cache of artefacts,
discovered in 1907 by Theodore
Davis, but only later identified
as materials used in the
embalming and funeral ceremony of Tutankhamun.
Dorothea Arnold introduces the essay, and provides a
commentary, reviewing Winlock’s work in the light of
subsequent research.
79p, col illus (Yale UP 2010) Pb was £10.99
now £4.95
The Art of Death in GraecoRoman Egypt
by Judith A. Corbelli.
Some of the most spectacular
discoveries made in Egypt during
the twentieth century were in the
field of Graeco-Roman funerary
archaeology - the poignant
mummy portraits and stelae, the extensive cemeteries
of Alexandria, Marina el-Alamein and Tuna el-Gebel,
the magnificent golden mummies of Bahariya - and this
work brings together in one volume an introduction to
all the categories of funerary art of the period.
80p b/w illus (Shire 2006) Pb was £6.99 now £2.95
Egyptian Models and Scenes
by Angela M.J. Tooley.
A discussion of Egyptian models,
where they are found, who owned
them, what purpose they served,
where in the tomb they were
placed and how they relate to
tomb scenes.
Egyptian Statues
by Gay Robins.
A guide to the variety of statues
of Egyptian deities, kings and
other
authoritarian
figures
erected in tombs and temples
over a three thousand year
period. Gay Robins considers
the materials used, techniques of production, the
different types and styles, the subjects, inscriptions
and their historical and social context.
Egyptian Towns and Cities
by E.P. Uphill.
A short guide to the history of
urbanism and town planning in
ancient Egypt. Uphill discusses
the reasons for urban growth and
describes the various different
types of centres that developed:
provincial centres, workmen’s villages, royal residences,
military and frontier towns, religious centres.
72p b/w illus (Shire 1988, repr 2002) Pb was £6.99
now £2.95
Tutankhamun’s Egypt
by Frances Welsh.
This book discusses the historical,
archaeological
and
artistic
aspects of Tutankhamun’s brief
reign and interprets the objects
from his tomb, the paintings on
its walls and its location. 80p with
65 figs and illus. (Shire Egyptology 19, 1993, 2nd ed
2007) Pb was £6.99 now £2.95
Their Bones Shall Not Perish
by Patricia V Podzorski.
An examination of predynastic
human skeletal remains from
Naga-ed-Der in Egypt. Excavated
around the turn of the century,
the bones are now inevitably
dispersed and partly destroyed.
What survives is here subjected to modern analysis:
determination of age, sex and study of pathological
and congenital perculiarities.
166p (SIA Publishing 1990) Hb was £20.00 now £3.95
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The Secret of the Great
Pyramid
by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre
Houdin.
This book provides a novel
solution to the problem of how
the Great Pyramid was built,
proposing an internal ramp
corkscrewing up the inside of the pyramid.
224p b/w illus, col pls (Smithsonian Institute 2008) Hb
was £19.99 now £7.95
The Prehistory of Wadi
Kubbaniya, Volume 2 and 3
edited by Fred Wendorf and
Romauld Schild.
Two volumes which report on
excavations in 1978 and 198184 of Late Palaeolithic sites
in southern Egypt. Volume
2 provides a detailed study of stratigraphy and
environmental evidence, whilst Volume 3 presents the
Late Palaeolithic archaeology, building up a detailed
reconstruction of diet and subsistence strategies.
2 vols 863p b/w illus (Southern Methodist UP 1989)
Hb was £56.95 now £12.95
The Gold of the Pharaohs
by Henri Stierlin.
A stunningly illustrated study of
masterpieces of the goldsmith’s
art, with special emphasis on
the treasures of Tutankhamun
in the Valley of the Kings, and
of Psusennes I at the Delta site
of Tanis. With general discussion of metallurgical
technology and specialisms, and plans of the two
royal tombs.
216p col illus (Terrail 1997) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95
The Pharaohs
Master Builders
by Henri Stierlin.
This is a popular account of
Egyptian architecture which
discusses building techniques and
technologies before examining
the great monuments of Egypt
in roughly chronological succession, ending with the
temples at Philae. Very attractively illustrated in colour,
this remains a serious book which juxtaposes glossy
(and some unusual) photos with temple plans and
other pictorial sources for reconstructing the architects
and builders lives. 221p col illus (Terrail 1995, reprint
2007) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95
Akhenaten
Egypt’s False Prophet
by Nicholas Reeves.
This fascinating, well-illustrated
study, which makes full use of
archaeological and documentary
sources, searches for the truth
about Akhenaten, his family,
including his nephew Tutankhamun, his political
and religious revolution, the city of Amarna and
the systematic eradication of the pharaoh by his
successors.
208p, 23 col and 118 b/w illus (Thames and Hudson
2001, Pb 2005) Pb was £14.95 now £6.95
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Exploring the World of the
Pharaohs
by Christine Hobson.
An invaluable popular guide to the
history, people and archaeology
of Ancient Egypt. Illustrations,
charts and chronologies support
the detailed and informative
discussions about many of Egypt’s most important sites
and archaeologists, all aimed at helping the visitor to
make the most from their visit.
192p col and b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 1987, repr.
2002) Pb was £12.95 now £5.95
The Egyptians
by Cyril Aldred, revised by Aidan
Dodson.
A revised and updated edition
of Cyril Aldred’s classic text. The
text retains its original lucidity,
while new discoveries and ideas
have been taken into account, the
dating revised, new photographs and a chronology
added, and the bibliography amended and expanded.
224p b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 1961, 3rd ed 1998)
Pb was £9.95 now £3.95
The Eternal Light of Egypt
A Photographic Journey
by Sarite Sanders.
This book of stunning black and
white photography captures a
sense of timelessness, calm and
stillness about Egypt’s ancient
monuments. The photographs are
set alongside quotations from ancient sources and
the thoughts of more modern travellers to Egypt, and
the photos themselves seem to consciously reference
the drawings and etchings of the nineteenth century,
adding an enigmatic slant to the remains.
219p b/w illus on every page (Thames & Hudson 2008)
Hb was £24.95 now £7.95
Lives of the Ancient
Egyptians
by Toby Wilkinson.
This slightly unusual book takes
the form of a series of 100 short
biographies of Ancient Egyptians.
Some are well known such as
Akhenaten, Hatshepsut and
Cleopatra, but most are much more obscure and thus
allow the reader to build up a more complete picture
of life in Egypt.
356p b/w and col illus (Thames & Hudson 2007) Hb was
£24.95 now £9.95
The Nile and Its People
7000 Years of Egyptian History
by Charlotte Booth.
This accessible volume looks
at the centrality of the Nile
to Egyptian history. Much of
the book concentrates, as one
might expect, on the Pharaonic
period, but Booth shows how the Nile and its cycles
of innundation provides a common thread linking
Egyptian history through the Middle Ages and right
up to the cruises of the present day. 191p, b/w illus, col
pls (The History Press 2010) Pb was £16.99 now £6.95
A Biographical Dictionary of
Ancient Egypt
by Rosalie and Anthony E. David.
Important historical and cultural
figures as well as some wellknown individuals in Egypt’s long
history (c 3100 BC - c AD 600)
are incorporated in this work
of reference. Rulers and members of their families,
significant figures and important foreigners with whom
the Egyptians came into contact are all included. The
entries are based on original source material and there
are bibliographies for each entry.
179p (University of Oklahoma Press 1992) Pb was
£24.95 now £6.95
Cleopatra and Antony
by Diana Preston.
An unashamedly popular
approach to the lives of the
famous lovers. Diana Preston
tells the story well from the rise
of Caesar to the final defeat of
Cleopatra and Antony at the hands
of Octavian. She aims to bring the ancient world to
life with plentiful descriptive passages and to present
her characters as properly three-dimensional human
beings, rather than the propagandist stereotypes of
the Augustan sources.
333p col pls (Walker 2009) Hb was £20.00 now £6.95
The Great Pharaohs
by T.G.H. James.
This gloriously illustrated
book combines T.G.H. James’
publications Tutankhamun:
The Eternal Splendor of the Boy
Pharaoh and Ramesses II in a single
volume. The format is slightly
smaller, but this is still a sumptuous undertaking, with
the history of the two pharaohs’ reigns juxtaposed
with discussion and illustrations of the monuments
and artefacts which can be associated with them, most
notably the finds from Tutankamun’s tomb.
640p col illus on every page (White Star 2011) Hb was
£25.00 now £9.95
Gifts for the Gods
Images From Ancient Egyptian
Temples
by Marsha Hill.
The images to which the title
refers are metal Egyptian
a n t h ro p o m o r p h i c sta t u e s
designed for use in a religious
context. The accompanying essays place the works in
context, offering a detailed historical survey, together
with notes on their production and use and reports on
the statuary at specific sites.
240p col illus (Yale UP 2007) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Bersheh Reports I
by Edward Brovarski et al.
This cemetery on the east bank
of the Nile is a vast site with a
long history from the Predynastic
Period through the Coptic era.
This volume summarises the
1990 season of the Bersheh
Expedition.
77P (Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1992) Pb was £25
now £6.95
Coins of Ancient Meiron
by Joyce Raynor and Ya’akov
Meshorer.
This volume contains 1017
coin specimens, presented
chronologically by period and
reign. Also included are a Meiron
coin profile organized by mint, a
catalogue of selected Meiron coins, and an index of
coins by area and locus.
140p b/w pls (ASOR 1988) Hb was £25.00 now £4.95
Desire, Discord and Death
Approaches to Near Eastern
Myth
by Neal H. Walls.
The three essays presented in
this volume reveal the symbolic
complexity and poetic visions of
ancient Near Eastern mythology.
The author explores the interrelated themes of erotic
desire, divine conflict and death’s realm in selected
ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythological
narratives using contemporary methods of literary
analysis.
212p (ASOR 2001) Pb was £22.95 now £6.95
Late Bronze Palestinian
Pendants
Innovation in a Cosmpolitan
Age
edited by Patrick E. McGovern.
Late Bronze Age Palestine
witnessed a remarkable floruit of
ornamental and amuletic jewelry
pendants. This study presents a typology of the major
classes and types, drawing on over 600 examples,
many unpublished, supported in particular by an
analysis of the material from Beth Shan.
184p b/w pls (JSOT 1985) Hb was £65.00 now £9.95
Preliminary Excavation
Reports
Bab edh-Dhra, Sardis, Meiron,
Tell el-Hesi, Carthage (Punic)
edited by David Noel Freedman.
This volume of the Annual Schools
of Oriental Research presents
various preliminary excavation
reports from sites around the Mediterranean and the
Near East.
190p (ASOR Vol 43, 1978) Hb £30.00 reduced to £7.95
Living the Lunar Calendar
edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne
Horowitz and John M. Steele.
The papers in this volume
address the question of how
ancient and medieval societies
lived with the uncertainties of a
lunar calendar, and the effects
it had on administration, record keeping and the
planning of festivals. They address this topic from
the perspectives of a variety of Ancient Near Eastern,
Jewish, Ancient and Medieval European, Asian and
American cultures.
350p b/w figs (Oxbow Books 2012) Pb was £34.00
now £7.95
Near East
Anatolian Iron Ages 5
edited by A. Cilingiroglu and G.
Darbyshire.
The papers gathered in this
volume cover the area from
Urartu in the east to Phrygia in the
west, and range from the dis
cussion of broad problems of
chronology and cultural interaction to the presentation
of new material from both major and less well known
sites.
240p b/w illus (British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara 2005) Hb was £40.00 now £14.95
The Asvan Sites 3
The Early Bronze Age
by A.G. Sagona.
The three sites discussed in
this volume provide a series of
overlapping sequences that flesh
out the cultural developments in
East-Central Anatolia during most,
if not all, of the third millennium BC. The ceramic
evidence, forming the greater part of the material
remains, is generously illustrated.
260p with 160 figs and 3 col pls (British Institute of
Archaeology at Ankara 1994) Pb was £35.00 now
£12.95
Beycesultan Vol.III Pt.I
by Seton Lloyd.
Covers the Late Bronze Age archi
tecture from the excavations at
Beycesultan in Turkey. The report
contains sections on the secular
buildings at the walled settlement
on the eastern summit, and at the
western summit area, as well as religious buildings on
the northern periphery of the western hill.
37p 22 b/w pls (British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara 1972) Hb was £16.00 now £8.95
The Black Sea
Past, Present and Future
edited by Gulden Erkut and Stephen
Mitchell.
These papers cover a period from
the first appearance of human
settlers in the Black Sea region to
the present day, and all emphasize
the significance of the sea itself, linking communities
and histories in a wider regional context, extending
westward along the Danube basin, northward into the
Ukraine and south Russia, east into the Caucasus and
southward over the Anatolian hinterland.
172p, b/w illus, 6 col illus (British Institute at Ankara
2007) Hb was £30.00 now £12.95
An Epigraphical Survey in
the Kibyra-Olbasa Region
by N.P. Milner.
This volume presents (with
text, translations and brief com
mentary) some 160 ancient stones
and inscriptions recorded by the
late Alan Hall in 1984 and 1985
which attest to the influence of the Hellenistic and
Roman kingdoms.
127p, 23 b/w pls (British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara 1998) Hb was £35.00 now £12.95
Studies in the History and
Topography of Lycia in
Memoriam AS Hall
edited by David French.
A collection of unpublished
papers by Alan Hall a leading
authority on the history and
epigraphy of classical Asia Minor,
supported by contributions from scholars associated
with him.
120P b/w pls (BIAA 1994) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95
The Madra River Delta
Environment, Society
and Community Life from
Prehistory to the Present
by Kyriacos Lambrianides and Nigel
Spencer.
The results presented here
shed important new light on
environmental changes in this part of the Anatolian
coastal region, on their long-term impact on the
inhabitants of the Delta, and cultural ties with the island
of Lesbos from the prehistoric to the Roman period.
158p, b/w illus, 65 col pls (BIAA 2007) Hb was £50.00
now £14.95
Tille Hoyuk 1
The Medieval Period
by John Moore.
Between the 12th and 15th
centuries the prehistoric mound
was occupied by the fortified
residence of a local chieftain. This
volume contains a discussion of
the methodology and stratigraphy of the excavation,
followed by catalogues of the pottery, metal objects
and coins.
205p b/w pls (British Institute of Archaeology at
Ankara 1993) Hb was £45.00 now £12.95
Catalogue of the Babylonian
Tablets in the British
Museum Vol VIII
Tablets from Sippar 3
by Erle Leichty JJ Finklestein and
CBF Walker
The third and final Sippar
volume catalogues some 12,000
Babylonian tablets acquired by the British Museum
between 1882 and 1895. The tablets, which are
catalogued by date, include a large number of Old
Babylonian examples.
442p (BMP 1988) Hb was £50.00 now £9.95
Catalogue of Babylonian
Museum Vol II
by M Sigrist et al.
Second in a series publishing
the entire Babylonian and
Sumerian cuneiform holdings
of the Department of Western
Asiatic Antiquities. Over 8000 examples aquired
by the British Museum in the years 1892-8 are
described including the major archives of Ur III and
Old Babylonian periods.
368P (BMP 1996) Hb was £45.00 now £6.95
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Museum, Volume III
by M. Sigrist, R. Zadok and C.B.F.
Walker.
Over 7,000 tablets acquired in the
years 1898-9 are described. They
include Sumerian tablets from the
administrative archives of the district of Lagash of the
time of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylonian tablets
from the cities of Kisurra, Larsa, Sippar and Uruk, and
tablets of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods
from Babylon and Borsippa.
352p (British Museum Press 2006) Hb was £45.00
now £12.95
Excavations at Qasrij Cliff
and Khirbet Qasrij
by John Curtis with contributions by
Dominique Collon.
Qasrij Cliff, a small Late Assyrian
site of the 8th–7th centuries BC
has produced an interesting range
of Assyrian pottery. Khirbet Qasrij
is later, dating from the obscure period between the fall
of Assyria in 612 BC and the start of the Achaemenid
era in 539 BC.
75p plus 49p of figs and 13p of b/w plates (British
Museum Press 1989) Pb was £25.00 now £4.95
Museum VI
Tablets from Sippar I
by E Leichty.
Publishes over 10,000 Babylonian
Tablets acquired by the British
Museum in 1882, the majority of
which come from the archives of the Shamash temple
at Sippar and date from 625–331 BC.
308p (BMP 1986) Hb was £35.00 now £12.95
Archaeological Field Survey
in Cyprus
edited by Maria Iacovou.
The volume contains fifteen
papers. Ten of them record the
genesis and the development of
archaeological survey in Cyprus;
the ‘biographies’ of eight very
different projects offer a representative sample
of survey archaeology in Cyprus in the last quarter
of the 20th century. The others offer comparative
perspectives and place the research in a wider
Mediterannean context.
208p b/w illus (British School at Athens 2004) Hb was
£49.00 now £9.95
Abu Salabikh Excavations
volume 1
West Mound Surface
Clearance
by J.N. Postgate.
A report on the surface clearnce
from a 4th to 3rd Millennium
city site, which allowed for the
mapping of walls and other features on a wide scale.
Specialist reports detail the pottery and other finds.
111P, 12 pls (British School of Archaeology in Iraq
1983) Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
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Cuneiform Texts from
Nimrud 2
Ivories from Nimrud Volume
3
Governor’s Palace Archive
Furniture from SW7, Fort
Shalmaneser
By J.N. Postgate
Tablets dating from 802 to 710
BC, and comprising private legal
documents, administrative texts
and letters.
283p 98 pls (British School in Iraq 1973) Hb was
£18.00 now £9.95
by Max Mallowan and Georgina
Herrmann
This volume illustrates a unique
set of ivory panels discovered in
a single chamber of Fort Shalmaneser and discusses
their iconography and their arrangement and
function as palace furniture.
120p, 111 pls (British School in Iraq 1974) Hb was £18.00
now £9.95
Excavations at ‘Ana
by Alastair Northedge, Andrina
Bamber and Michael Roaf.
A report on a rescue project in
the basin of the Qadisiyya Dam.
‘Ana, on the Middle Euphrates
some 150 km below the modern
Iraqi-Syrian border was the centre
of an autonomous governorate under the Assyrians,
a border fortress under the Parthians, Romans and
Sasanians, and a caravan town and bedouin centre
under Islam.
192p pls (British School in Iraq 1998) Pb was £48.00
now £25.00
Elmali-Karatas I
The Neolithic and Chalcolithic
Periods
by Christine Eslick.
The first volume to publish the
final results from excavations at
Elmali-Karatas (1963-1975) on
the Lycian coast of southwestern
Anatolia focuses on the area’s earliest material.
The volume reports on Neolithic and Chalcholithic
structural remains from Bagbasi and other sites as
well as ceramics and environmental evidence.
103p, 113 b/w pls and illus, tbs (Bryn Mawr 1992) Hb
was £35.00 now £9.95
Excavations at Tell Al Rimah
Elmali-Karatas II
by Caroline Postgate, David Oates
and John Oates.
by Jayne L Warner.
The Pottery
Introductory report and a
detailed catalogur of the pottery
finds from this second millenium
BC Assyrian site, in modern Iraq.
275p illus (British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1998)
Pb was £48.00 now £25.00
Excavations at Tell
Rubeidheh
by RG Killick.
A report on the excavation of an
Uruk period mound dug as part
of the Hamrin Dam rescue project
in East Iraq. It includes sections
on the archaeology, finds, animal
bones and flints.
210p illus (British School in Iraq 1989) Pb was £35.00
now £4.95
Historical Topography of
Samarra
by Alastair Northedge.
Northedge sets out to explain
the history and development
of this enormous site, 45 km
long, using both archaeological
and textual sources to weave a
new interpretation of how the city worked: its four
caliphal palaces, four Friday mosques, cantonments
for the military and for the palace servants, houses
for the men of state and generals.
426p, 91 pls, 116 b/w illus (British School of
Archaeology in Iraq 2006, paperback reprint with
corrections 2007) Pb was £40.00 now £10.00
The Early Bronze Age Village
of Karatas
This volume examines the archi
tecture and arrangement of
the Karatas settlement which
surrounded a fortified central
complex (Elmali-Karatas I) and was itself surrounded
by an extensive cemetery.
219p, 206pl (Brym Mawr 1994) Hb was £35.00 now
£9.95
Ancient Jordan from the Air
by David Kennedy and Robert
Bewley.
Sites are everywhere in this vast
open museum, one tally has
calculated 25,000 visible from
above ground alone, and as is so
often the case the best view is
seen from the air. This book contains over 200 high
quality colour photos illustrating the range of sites
together with full descriptions and an overview of
Jordan’s fascinating history.
282p, 214 col pls (Council for British Research in the
Levant 2004) Hb was £30.00 now £12.00
Euphrates River Valley
Settlement
The Carchemish Sector in the
Third Milennium BC
edited by Edgar Peltenberg.
This well-illustrated book ex
am
i nes recently discovered
evidence from the hinterlands of
archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional
context.
286p b/w illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was
£55.00 now £10.00
Excavations by Kathleen
Kenyon at Jerusalem V
by K. Prag.
Describes the discoveries made
in six sites in the ancient city
and places them in the archae
ological and historical context of
Jerusalem and the surrounding
lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent
of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the
location of the southern defence line in Herodian and
Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an
Umayyad palatial structure.
592p, b/w illus, col pls (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2008) Hb
was £75.00 now £15.00
Excavations at Jericho
Volume V
The Pottery Phases of the Tell
and Other Finds
by Kathleen Kenyon and T.A.
Holland.
The final Jericho report with
further description, classification
and discussion of the pottery and other finds ranging
from flints to jewellery.
864p, 40 b/w pls (British School of Archaeology in
Jerusalem 1983) Hb was £75.00 now £5.00
Geology and Paleontology
of the Miocene Sinap
Formation, Turkey
by Mikael Fortelius and John
Kappelman.
The Sinap Formation in central
Turkey near the city of Ankara
preserves a rich record of
mammalian evolution from about 15 to 5 million years
ago and is one of the few sites in this region that also
has fossil apes. The authors have been able to piece
together a detailed record of faunal change.
448p, illus. (Columbia UP 2003) Hb was £60.00 now
£9.95
Can a History of Ancient
Israel be Written?
edited by Lester L. Grabbe.
The question of writing the
‘history of ancient Israel’ has
become fiercely debated in recent
years. The European Seminar on
Methodology in Israel’s History
was founded specifically to address this problem, and
this volume contains the papers prepared for their
first meeting, asking if, and if so how a history of Israel
might be written, and the place of the Hebrew Bible
as a source.
201p (T&T Clark 1997, Pb 2004) Pb was £39.99 now
£9.95
Copper Scroll Studies
edited by George J. Brooke and
Philip R. Davies.
These papers cover the history of
the Scroll’s interpretation; how
it should be conserved, restored
and read; how it was produced;
the meaning of its technical
terms; its genre; its geography; its correlation with
archaeological remains; and not least who wrote it,
when and why.
344p b/w illus (T&T Clark 2002, Pb 2004) Pb was
£42.99 now £9.95
Near East
Every City Shall Be Forsaken
Urbanism and Prophecy in
Ancient Israel and the Near
East
edited by Lester L. Grabbe and
Robert D. Haak.
Topics include positive and
negative responses to the city in
prophetic discourse, social-scientific method in the
study of urbanism, the reconstruciton of the socioeconomic urban background to Haggai, and the
definition of the city.
226p (Sheffield Academic Press 2001) Hb was £80.00
now £12.95
Myth and Politics in Ancient
Near Eastern Historiography
by Mario Liverani.
This collection publishes earlier
articles by Mario Liverani, all
written during the 1970s and
1990s and now translated into
English for the first time. They
are all `rigorous investigations of how the historian
makes meaning of an ancient document’ which, in
this case, is a Near Eastern inscription, stele, tablet
or Biblical text.
214p (Cornell UP 2004) Pb was £17.99 now £6.95
Piety and Politics
The Dynamics of Royal
Authority in Homeric Greece,
Biblical Israel, and Old
Babylonian Mesopotamia
by Dale Launderville.
Focusing on Homeric Greece,
Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, this comparative and thematic study assesses
the role of the king as a divine messenger and his use
of, and reliance on, piety to legitimate his position and
ensure the compliance of his subjects.
407p (Eerdmans 2003) Hb was £75.00 now £14.95
Adapa and the South Wind
Language has the Power of Life
and Death
by Shlomo Izre’el.
Izre’el explores the myth of Adapa
and the South Wind, originally
discovered on a tablet from the
Amarna archive, as mythos, as
story. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of
the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a
translation, and a philological commentary.
180p b/w pls (Eisenbrauns 2001) Hb was £36.00 now
£9.95
Nuzi and the Hurrians,
Volume 2
edited by D.I. Owen and M. A.
Morrison.
A mixed bag of essays on Nuzi,
some important new texts, and
the first part of volume 9 of
Lacheman’s excavations at Nuzi.
723p b/w illus (Eisenbrauns 1987) Hb was £70.00
now £14.95
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Volume 3
Tell el-Hesi IV
The Site and the Expedition
by E.R. Lacheman and M.P.
Maidman.
The publication of 200 tablets
excavated by the American
Schools of Oriental Research
and the Iraq Museum, based on
preliminary copies by the late Ernest R. Lacheman
and prepared for publication by Maynard P. Maidman
with collations, additions, and corrections, including
an annotated catalogue.
now £14.95
edited by Bruce T. Dahleberg abd
Kevin G. O’Connell.
This volume combines reports
on the excavations at Tell el-Hesi
with analysis of the 19th century
excavations
and
changing
methodology in the ongoing work there, as well as
on the physical environment of the site.
233p, 5 inserts (Eisenbrauns 1989) Hb was £48.00
now £7.95
Volume 4
Uncovering Ancient Stones
edited by Lewis M. Hopfe.
by E.R. Lacheman, M.A. Morrison
and D.I. Owen.
Dr. Morrison’s study of the
Eastern Archives combines both
archaeological and philological
data bringing order to the
organization of the Eastern Archives and showing
how they might have been grouped originally
when excavated. The second part of the late E. R.
Lacheman’s Excavations at Nuzi, volume 9 is also
published in this volume.
now £14.95
Shechem I
The Middle Bronze IIB Pottery
by Dan P. Cole.
This volume reports on, and
catalogues, the pottery from the
Middle Bronze IIB period (c.17501650 BC) recovered during
excavations of Tell Balatah,
otherwise known as Schechem. The material is also
contrasted with pottery found elsewhere, on the
coast and in the Jordan Valley.
203p, b/w figs, fold-outs (ASOR 1984) Hb was £55.00
now £9.95
Volume 5
by E.R. Lacheman and D.I. Owen.
The first part of the volume
contains 7 articles on various
facets of Nuzi, the texts found
there and the archaeology of
the site. Part two completes the
publication of the excavations at Nuzi series begun by
E.R. Lacheman.
now £14.95
£45.00 now £9.95
This volume contains nineteen
essays on Old Testament
archaeology and Biblical studies
collected in memory of H. Neil
Richardson.
270p (Eisenbrauns 1994) Hb was
Seals, Finger Rings, Engraved
Gems and Amulets in the
Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, Exeter
by Sheila Hoey Middleton.
Well illustrated catalogue of the
fine collection of seals at the
Exeter Museum, which docu
ment the history of seal engraving from 3000 BC to
the nineteenth century, from the Near East, Greece
and Rome, and the Renaissance; from Akkadian
cylinder seals to Sassanian stamp seals and Bactrian
ringstones.147pb/w illus (Exeter City Museums 1998)
Hb was £26.00 now £7.95
Spies of the Bible
by Rose Mary Sheldon.
This work highlights the
importance of espionage and
guerilla warface in ancient Israel
and traces the role intelligence
has played from the Jewish
exodus from Egypt to the Bar
Kochba Revolt.
304p (Greenhill Books 2007) Hb was £25.00 now
£7.95
Tell el-Hesi III
From Egypt to Babylon
by W.J. Bennett Jr. and Jeffrey A.
Blakely.
by Paul Collins.
The Persian Period (Stratum V)
This volume presents an analysis
of all the remains of Stratum V
(The Persian Period) excavated at
Hesi. Specific chapters present the
results of the analysis of recovered ceramic materials,
with special emphasis on imported Aegean fine ware,
as well as faunal, floral, lithic, and artifactual materials.
Concluding chapters present an interpretation of the
use and function of the site during the 5th century
B.C.E.
510p, 23 plans (Eisenbrauns 1989) Hb was £95.00 now
£9.95
The International Age, 1550500 BC
The eastern Mediterranean
was linked during this period by
military expansion, diplomatic
exchanges and movements of
goods and peoples over enormous distances, resulting
in cultural transfers and technological and social
revolutions. This book explores these interactions and
interconnections.
208p col illus (Harvard UP 2008) Hb was £24.95 now
£9.95
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Catalhoyuk Perspectives
Themes from the 1995–99
Seasons
edited by Ian Hodder.
This volume, number six in the
Çatalhöyük Research Project
series, draws on material from
Volumes 3 to 5 to deal with
broad themes. Data from architecture and excavation
contexts are linked into broader discussion of topics
such as seasonality, art and social memory.
246p b/w illus (McDonald Institute 2006) Hb was
£39.00 now £12.95
Changing Materialities at
Catalhoyuk
Reports from the 1995–99
Seasons
Discusses the changing materi
ality of life at the site over its
1100 years of occupation. It in
cludes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay
material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone
and basketry.
395p b/w illus, CD-Rom (McDonald Institute 2005) Hb
was £59.00, now £14.95
Excavations at Tell Brak 4
Exploring an Upper
Mesopotamian Regional
Centre, 1994–96
by Roger Matthews.
Provides an account of the
architecture, artefacts, and
environm ental evidence, sup
ported by a program of radiocarbon dating. The
results emphasize the indigenous nature of cultural
development in Upper Mesopotamia during the early
4th to 2nd millennia BC.
512p b/w illus (McDonald Institute 2003) Hb was
£75.00 now £19.95
Inhabiting Catalhoyuk
Reports from the 1995–99
Seasons
Deals with various aspects of the
habitation of Çatalhöyük, including
the relationship between the site
and its environment, diet, lifestyle
and population size, and ways in which houses and
open spaces in the settlement were lived in.
446p b/w illus, CD-Rom (McDonald Institute 2005) Hb
was £60.00 now £14.95
Towards a Reflexive Method
in Archaeology
The Example of Catalhoyuk
The aim of the volume is to
discuss some of the reflexive or
postprocessual methods that have
been introduced at Catalhoyuk in
the work there since 1993. These methods involve
reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality
or relationality.
300p, b/w pls (McDonald Institute 2000) Hb was
£40.00 now £14.95
Catalogue of Cuneiform
Tablets in Birmingham City
Museum, Volume 2
Neo-Sumerian Texts from
Umma and Other Sites
by P.J. Watson.
This second volume of cuneiform
tablets in Birmingham City
Museum presents some 300 neo-Sumerian economic
texts, mainly from Umma, formerly in the Wellcome
Collection.263p with figs. (Aris and Phillips 1993) Pb
was £18.00 now £3.95
Busayra
Excavations by Crystal M
Bennett 1971-1980
by Piotr Bienkowski
Busayra, identified with the
Biblical site of Bozrah, is the
largest Iron Age site in southern
Jordan. This volume forms the
final report of the site and includes detailed chapters
on architecture and stratigraphy, pottery and small
finds such as bone, ivory and metal objects, stone
vessels, beads, figurines, coins and faience, glass and
crystal. 500p (Oxford UP 2002) Hb was £99.00 now
£20.00
Nippur III
Kassite Buildings in Area WC–1
by Richard L. Zettler.
Details the construction and
reb uildi ngs of a large Kassite
private house near the western
city wall (Area WC–1), which
furnished information on Kassite
architectural practice as well as unanticipated
patterning in intramural burials.
347p b/w illus (Oriental Institute 1993) Hb was
£52.00 now £9.95
The Excavations at Tawilan
in Southern Jordan
by Crystal M Bennett and Piotr
Bienkowski.
First report on the Iron Age site of
Tawilan, in the Biblical kingdom
of Edom. Particular attention is
paid to the cuneiform tablet and
gold jewellery hoard. The stratigraphy, ceramics and
other finds are also comprehensively analysed and
an overview of the development and nature of the
site is provided.
300p, pls, illus (British Academy 1995) Hb was £60.00
now £10.00
Excavations by K.M. Kenyon
in Jerusalem 1961-67
Volume IV
edited by I Eshel and Kprag.
The Iron Age cave deposits
on the south-east hill and
isolated burials and cemeteries
elsewhere.
278P b/w figs (OUP 1995) Hb was £45.00 now
£14.95
Water Engineering in the
Ancient World
by Charles Ortloff.
Charles Ortloff provides a new
perspective on archaeological
studies of the urban and
agricultural water supply and
distribution systems of the major
ancient civilizations of South America, the Middle
East and South-East Asia, by using modern computer
analysis methods to extract the true hydraulic/
hydrological knowledge base available to these
peoples. 424p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2009) Hb was
£102.00 now £39.95
The Stamp Seals of Ancient
Cyprus
by A.T. Reyes.
This study examines stamp seals
in order to discover what they
reveal about society at the end
of the Bronze Age when they first
appear and the subsequent Iron
Age when they proliferated and moved into common
use within the island.
304p, b/w illus throughout (Oxford University School
of Archaeology Monograph 52, 2001) Pb £45.00 now
£5.00
Cyprus: An island culture
Society and Social Relations
from the Bronze Age to the
Venetian Period
edited by Artemis Georgiou.
This volume presents a diversity
of excavation, material culture,
iconographic and linguistic
evidence to explore the themes of ancient landscape,
settlement and society; religion, cult and iconography;
and Ancient Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
256p b/w illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) Hb was £52.00,
now £9.95
Archaeology and
Desertification
The Wadi Faynan Landscape
Survey, Southern Jordan
edited by Graeme Barker, David
Gilbertson and David Mattingly.
An inter-disciplinary study of
landscape change in the Wadi
Faynan, with the goal of contributing to presentday desertification debates by providing a longterm perspective on the relationship between
environmental change and human history.
510p, b/w illus, CD-Rom (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2008)
Hb was £70.00 now £10.00
Crossing the Rift
Resources, Settlements,
Patterns and Interactions in
the Wadi Arabah
edited by Piotr Bienkowski and
Katharina Galor.
The Wadi Arabah falls between
the two areas of southern Jordan
and Negev, and has traditionally been seen as a barrier
and border. This book (and the conference it came out
of) is an attempt to look at this neglected area anew:
bridge, rather than barrier.
288p b/w illus (CBRL/Oxbow Books) Hb was £45.00
now £10.00
Near East
The Development of PreState Communities in the
Ancient Near East
edited by Diane Bolger and Louise
C. Maguire.
This book explores the dynamics
of small-scale societies in the
ancient Near East by examining
the ways in which particular communities functioned
and interacted and by moving beyond the broad neoevolutionary models of social change which have
characterised many earlier approaches.
now £9.95
The Early Prehistory of the
Wadi Faynan
edited by Bill Finlayson and Steven
Mithen.
This edited volume provides a full
report on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic
A site of WF16, southern Jordan.
Excavations have shown that the
site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and
the faunal assemblage reveals new information on the
processes that lead to the domestication of the goat.
640p (CBRL/Oxbow Books 2007) Hb was £75.00 now
£10.00
Gilgal
Early Neolithic Occupations in
the Lower Jordan Valley
edited by Ofer Bar-Iosef, A. Nigel
Goring-Morris and Avi Gopher.
The Gilgal Neolithic sites are
among the first sites where
cultivation emerged in the
Levant. This book provides the full report of the
late Tamar Noy’s excavations including stratigraphy,
architecture, artifacts, art objects, faunal, and
botanical collections.
Saddling the Dogs
Journeys Through Egypt and
the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry and
Deborah Manley.
An investigation of the experience
of travel in Egypt, Greece, the
Ottoman Balkans and the Near
East from the 17th to the early 20th century, looking
not so much at what was seen as the process of travel
itself; the vicissitudes and travails, both expected and
strange that characterised the passage.
Siraf
History, Topography and
Environment
by David Whitehouse.
Siraf played a leading role in
the network of maritime trade
that supplied Western Asia with
the products of India, the Far
East and Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and 1050.
This volume synthesises the written evidence of the
history of Siraf, and introduces the results of seven
seasons of excavation and survey.
now £12.95
South Eastern
Mediterranean Peoples
Between 130,000 and
10,000 Years Ago
edited by Elena A.A. Garcea.
This book highlights and syn
thesizes the latest research and
current scientific debate on the
archaeology of the Pleistocene in North Africa and
the Near East.
now £9.95
300p b/w ilus (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was £20.00
now £7.95
Knowledge Is Light
Travellers in the Near East
edited by Katherine Salahi.
Essays which explore the
experience of travel in Egypt
and the Near East from the
17th to the 19th centuries.
The book features travellers of
great character who visited Egypt and the Near East
seeking trade, adventure and knowledge.
now £4.95
On the Margins of
Southwest Asia
by Joanne Clarke.
This book examines social change
in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th
millennia BC. It is proposed that
many of the observable differ
ences between mainland south
west Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result
of divergent adaptive strategies in response to different
environmental conditions, low population density and
low resource stress.
now £9.95
Tell Kosak Shamali Vol II
The Archaeological
Investigations on the Upper
Euphrates, Syria.
edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki and
Toshio Matsutani.
The four seasons of excavation at
Tell Kosak Shamali yielded around
33,000 flaked stone artefacts from the Chalcolithic
period. The tools are described and documented within
their chronological context, and their functional and
morphological properties discussed.
now £9.95
The Dead Sea Scrolls: What
Have We Learned?
by Eileen M. Schuller.
This stimulating overview of
Dead Sea Scroll studies first
recounts the key phases of
fifty years of scholarship, then
explores the value of the scrolls
for our knowledge of ancient Jewish scripture and
its formation, prayers and liturgy, and the place of
women in the Qumran community.
126p (SCM Press 2006) Pb was £16.99 now £5.95
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Qumran Questions
edited by John Charlesworth.
This collection of ten studies
aims to reconstruct the history
and theology of early Judaism.
Various topics are covered,
such as the progress made on
the new edition of the Genesis
Apocryphon, the philological understanding of Psalm
155, the laws regarding prophets in Early Judaism, and
an examination of literatures predicting the destruction
of the Temple.
210p (Sheffield Academic Press 1995) was £14.95
now £3.95
Society and Polity at Bronze
Age Pella
An Annales Perspective
by A Bernard Knapp.
Employing a framework based
on
Annales socio-historical
methodology,
this
study
examines the uncritical and
often unquestioned comparison or contrast of
archaeological data and ancient documentary
evidence, relating to Middle and Late Bronze Age
Palestine and Transjordan.
116p, b/w figs (Sheffield Academic Press 1993) Hb
was £29.95 now £9.95
Nineveh and its Remains
by Austen Henry Layard.
Sir Austen Henry Layard (181794) carried out major excavations
in Mesopotamia between 1845
and 1851, uncovering important
evidence of ancient Assyrian
civilisation. First published in
1849, his journals form a mixture of excavation
report, ancient history, anthropology and travel
writing.
518p (Skyhorse Publishing 2013) Pb was £14.95
now £4.95
Solomon’s Temple
Myth and History
by William Hamblin.
This book looks principally not
at the Temple as a building or
archaeological site, but rather as
an idea which runs through all
the monotheistic religions. The
central premise, that the Temple is a unique place of
communication between God and man has proved a
captivating one, and William Hamblin shows how much
the architecture and conceptualisation of subsequent
places of worship has been influenced by it.
224p col and b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 2007) Hb
was £19.95 now £7.95
The Cemetery at Tell EsSa’idiyeh, Jordan
by James B. Pritchard.
Tell es-Sa’idiyeh is a large double
mound, situated immediately
south of the Wadi Kufrinjeh,
1.8 km east of the River Jordan.
A mound was used for burials
during the Bronze Age. A summary of the pottery
types is followed by a description of the contents of
each of the 45 tombs.
103p, b/w pls (University Museum, Pennsylvania
1980) Pb £16.50 now £4.95
Mediterranean Prehistory
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Dictionary of the Ancient
Near East
by Piotr Bienkowski.
More than 500 cross-referenced
entries in one compact volume,
presenting explanations and
descriptions of all manner of
subjects from the Palaeolithic to
539 BC: architecture, literature and literary works,
religion, social and political institutions, archaeological
sites, notable personalities, and so on. Also includes
maps, chronological summaries, plans, drawings and
reconstructions.
342p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press/BMP
2010) Pb was £23.00 now £7.95
Orientalizing Bucchero from
the Lower Building at Poggio
Civitate (Murlo)
by Jon Berkin.
This volume presents the
reconstruction and study of a
large assemblage of bucchero
pottery recovered from the
Lower building at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate
in deposits dating to the late Orientalizing period.
200P b/w pls (AIA 2003) Hb was £29.95 now £6.95
En Boqeq 2
Before Knossos
by Moshe Fischer.
by Ann C. Brown.
Excavations in an Oasis on the
Dead Sea
excavation of an early Roman
building which served as a
workshop for the manufacture
of cosmetic products. Three strata of occupation are
identified and specialist reports detail pottery, stone
vessels, glass vessels, metal artefacts, coins, industry,
dendroarchaeological remains and animal bones.
181p b/w illus and pls (Philip von Zabern 2000) Hb
was £60.00 now £19.95
From Nineveh to New York
by John M. Russell.
The strange story of the Assyrian
Reliefs in the Metropolitan
Museum and the Hidden
Masterpiece at Canford School.
With an interesting discussion of
the English reception of Ninevite
art, and the Assyrian Revival, the book continues
with the events surrounding the rediscovery of the
Ninevah Porch and the last of Layard’s sculptures
recently sold at auction.
232p b/w and col illus (Yale UP 1997) Hb was £45.00
now £17.95
Neo-Babylonian Letters and
Contracts from the Eanna
Archive
edited by Eckart Frahm and
Michael Jursa.
This new volume presents
facsimile copies of over two
hundred previously unpublished
Babylonian letters and documents written in cuneiform
script. The texts, dating from the sixth century B.C.,
mainly originate from the archives of the Eanna temple
in Uruk in southern Mesopotamia.
83p, 125 b/w pls (Yale UP 2011) Hb was £85.00 now
£14.95
Arthur Evans’ Travels in the
Balkans and Crete
Before making his name at
Knossos, Evans had already
travelled in Scandinavia and the
Balkans; this book reconstructs
his early journeys. It also makes use of Evans’
previously unpublished work describing many
archaeological sites in remote areas of Crete which
are still unexcavated.
96p b/w and col illus (Ashmolean 1994) Hb was
£12.95 now £3.95
Etruscan Mirrors
Archaic and Classical
by Judith Swaddling.
The British Museum houses one
of the most important collections
of Etruscan and Greek mirrors,
including 140 highly decorated
examples. This fascicule focuses
on Archaic and Classical examples which depict
scenes from everyday life, religious and mythological
scenes and inscriptions.
192p, 118 b/w figs and pls (British Museum Press
2001) Hb was £75.00 now £9.95
Archaeoseismology
edited by S. Stiros and R.E. Jones.
The papers in this volume, which
have sprung from collaboration
between archaeologists and seis
mologists, investigate the social,
historical and physical effects of
ancient earthquakes. Sites where
archaeological and historical evidence of palaeoseismic
events is investigated include Mycenae, Late Helladic III
Kynos, 13th century BC Tiryns and Late Minoan Crete.
£35.00 now £9.95
Cretan Quests
British Explorers, Excavators
and Historians
edited by Davina Huxley.
Seven introductory essays provide
a chronological overview of British
research in Crete, whilst the bulk
of the book takes a more thematic
approach, discussing the Neolithic and Bronze Ages,
Linear A and B, Minoan religion, Greek, Hellenistic and
Roman Crete, Byzantine and Arab Crete and the role
of the British School at Knossos.
£27.00 now £4.95
Explorations in Albania
1930–1939
by Karen Francis.
1999 saw the rediscovery of
Luigi Cardini’s site notebooks,
photographs, drawings and maps
relating to work carried out in
Albania from 1930–39 where he
was sent on a governmental mission to `reinforce
Italian supremacy in Albania through archaeological
research’. This monograph publishes extracts from
these notebooks within a historical, political and
archaeological context.
222p, b/w figs and pks (British School at Athens 2005)
Hb was £56.00 now £9.95
Knossos
The Protopalatial Deposits
in Early Magazine A and the
South-West Houses
by Colin F. MacDonald and Carl
Knappett.
This volume represents the first
complete publication of sub
stantial deposits dating to this period, specifically the
Middle Minoan IB and IIA phases. They are presented
with their contexts, the stratified pottery and small
finds.
204p (British School at Athens 2007) Hb was £68.00
now £14.95
Knossos
The South House
by P.A. Mountjoy.
The South House, located im
mediately south of the Palace
of Knossos was first excavated
by Arthur Evans in 1908, with
subsequent work carried out in
1924, but was never published. This volume pieces
together evidence from the finds from the excavation
housed in the Stratigraphical Museum, as well as the
Daybooks of Duncan Mackenzie, to form an overview
of the excavation and the history of the building.
224p, b/w illus and pls (British School at Athens 2003)
Hb was £65.00 now £9.95
The Archaeology of Heinrich
Schliemann
Ayios Stephanos
Markiani, Amorgos
An Annotated Bibliographic
Handlist, 2nd Edition
Excavations at a Bronze Age
and Medieval Settlement in
Southern Laconia
edited by Curtis Runnels.
by W.D. Taylour and R. Janko.
by Lila Marangou, Colin Renfrew,
Christos Doumas and Giorgos
Gavalas.
This engaging extended essay
offers a critical appreciation of
Schliemann’s archaeological work
based on his many publications. A complete listing
of all of Schliemann’s archaeological publications is
provided.
(Archaeological Institute of America 2007) Pb was
£12.99 now £5.95
The Bronze Age port of Ayios
Stephanos lay on an important
Minoan trade route and played a
crucial part in exporting lapis lacedaemonius to Cretan
workshops. This publication studies the architecture
and stratigraphy, the burials, the Medieval period, the
pottery and small finds, the human and other organic
remains, the settlement pattern and the regional and
historical context. 710p, b/w illus and pls (British School
at Athens 2008) Hb was £150.00 now £19.50
An Early Bronze Age Fortified
Settlement
Markiani in Amorgos is the first
rural settlement of the Early
Cycladic period to be excavated systematically and
published comprehensively. The abundant finds
contrast strikingly with the elite products recovered
from the Cycladic cemeteries.
312p, 56 pls. (British School at Athens 2007) Hb was
£85.00 now £19.95
Palaikastro
Ustica I
by J.A. MacGillivray, L.H. Sackett
and J.M. Driessen.
by R. Ross Holloway and Susan S.
Lukesh.
Two Late Minoan Wells
This volume gives the first
detailed template of LM IB to LM
IIIA2 pottery at Palaikastro along
with final reports on the wells’
excavation and complete contents.
£85.00 now £14.95
Servia I
Anglo-Hellenic Rescue
Excavations 1971-73
by Cressida Ridley, K.A. Wardle and
Catharine A. Mould.
A report on excavations at the
Neolithic-Early Bronze Age site
of Servia in Thessaly. Sections are
given on the stratigraphy of the site, which includes
five successive building levels, chronology, small finds
and the environmental evidence.
370p, b/w pls, figs and tbs, CD-rom (British School at
Athens 2000) Hb was £90.00 now £9.95
The Latest Sealings from
the Palaces and Houses at
Knossos
by Mervyn R. Popham and
Margaret A.V. Gill.
All the sealings of known and
unknown context are illustrated
here. Margaret Gill’s original
study of the sealings made in the 1960s has been
updated following more recent work on material in
the Heraklion Museum.
65p with 48pls (British School at Athens 1996) Pb was
£24.00 now £9.95
Excavations of 1990 and 1991
of excavations at the site of the
Bronze Age Citadel at I Faraglioni
on the island of Ustica. The walls
of the citadel are the best preserved defenses of this
period known in Italy or Sicily.
105p b/w illus (Brown UP 1995) Pb was £26.00 now
£6.95
Ustica II
Excavations of 1994 and 1999
by R. Ross Holloway and Susan S.
Lukesh.
Among the subjects of special
attention are a second cult place
discovered within the citadel,
new domestic structures long the
interior of the citadel’s fortifications, and the relation
of this island and its fortress to the Mycenean world.
83p, 90 b/w illus. (Brown UP 2001) Pb was £26.00
now £6.95
Cretan Offerings
Studies in Honour of Peter
Warren
edited by Olga Krzyszkowska.
Essays on Bronze Age Crete.
Among the topics addressed are
material culture and iconography,
including frescoes, pottery, seals
and stone vases; chronology, inter-site relationships,
overseas connections and religion; Knossos and the
legacy of Sir Arthur Evans; and the natural world,
Minoan and modern.
400p b/w and col illus (BSA 2010) Hb was £79.00 now
£25.00
La Muculufa
The Pottery from Karphi
by R. Ross Holloway, Martha S.
Joukowsky and Susan S. Lukesh.
by Leslie Preston Day.
the Early Bronze Age Cemetery
This publication presents the
discovery of the first known
federal sanctuary of the Early
Bronze Age in Sicily and the finely
decorated pottery dedicated there. It also records
the first phases of the work in the village site at La
Muculufa which is the subject of La Muculufa II.
57p, 90 b/w illus (Brown UP 1990, rep 2001) Pb was
£13.00 now £5.95
La Muculufa II
by Brian E. McConnell.
This volume presents the final
report of the excavations. It
documents a village belonging
to the later 3rd millenium BC, its
Castellucian architecture being
amongst the most extensively
recorded of any site.
210p b/w illus (Brown UP 1995) Pb was £42.00 now
£6.95
A Re-examination
The site of Karphi, high above the
Lasithi plateau, remains one of
the most extensively investigated
settlements of Early Iron Age
Greece; it was excavated by the
British School at Athens under the direction of John
Pendlebury in 1937-39. This volume now presents a
thorough study of the Karphi pottery, much hitherto
unpublished, accompanied by copious new drawings
and photographs.
£95.00 now £29.50
The Hill-Forts of the
Samnites
by S P Oakley.
As the Roman state emerged
people of surrounding areas
became increasingly concerned
about their security. This volume
describes all the fortified centres
which are known in Samnium and interprets their date
and purpose.
164p, illus (British School at Rome 1995) Pb was
£37.50 now £15.00
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The Archaeology of Etruscan
Society
by Vedia Izzet.
The late sixth century was a
period of considerable change
in Etruria; this change is
traditionally seen as the adoption
of superior models from Greece.
In a re-alignment of agency, this book examines a
wide range of Etruscan material culture - mirrors,
tombs, sanctuaries, houses and cities - in order to
demonstrate the importance of local concerns in the
formation of Etruscan material culture.
now £24.95
Stone Vessels and
Values in the Bronze Age
Mediterranean
by Andrew Bevan.
Andrew Bevan explores this
diverse and prolific industry in
all its many facets, bringing some
clarity to an artefact which has the
potential to reveal much about the nature of Bronze
Age production, the function and use of certain objects,
the movement of people, ideas and goods, as well as
the value ascribed to such objects, all of which are
covered in the book.
301p, b/w figs and pls (Cambridge UP 2007) Hb was
£79.99 now £19.95
A Social Archaeology of
Households in Neolithic
Greece
An Anthropological Approach
by Stella G. Souvatzi.
Using detailed case studies from
Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi
examines how the household
is defined socially, culturally, and historically; she
discusses household and community, variability,
production and reproduction, individual and
collective agency, identity, change, complexity, and
integration. 309p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2008) Hb
was £66.00 now £19.95
Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta
by Robert B. Koehl.
This comprehensive study of
Bronze Age rhyta from the
Aegean builds on nearly a
century of discoveries and
scholarly contributions, and
addresses questions of typology,
function, context, and the uses of these vessels. The
volume includes a thoroughly illustrated catalogue,
an index of sites and the present locations of rhyta.
450p, b/w illus, 59 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press
2006) Hb was £75.00 now £36.00
Ayioryitika
The 1928 Excavations of Carl
Blegen at a Neolithic to Early
Helladic Settlement in Arcadia
by Susan L. Petrakis.
Ayioryitika, a large open-air
settlement in Arcadia, in central
Greece, was inhabited during
the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The site is
particularly important for its beautifully decorated
Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of
human figures and animals. This volume gathers
together the scattered and fragmentary evidence for
the excavation and its finds. 144p, 40 b/w pls (INSTAP
Academic Press 2002) Hb was £49.50 now £24.95
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The Cave of the Cyclops
Mesolithic and Neolithic
Networks in the Northern
Aegean, Greece, Volume I
by Adamantios Sampson.
The setting and stratigraphy of this
cave on the island of Youra and a
survey of the area are discussed.
The Mesolithic and Neolithic ceramic, lithic, and small
finds are organised into catalogues. Additionally,
this volume presents the connections between this
outlying area and mainland Greece.
430p b/w illus, 37 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press
2008) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Crete Beyond the Palaces
edited by James D. Muhly, Leslie
Preston Day and Margaret S. Mook.
This volume is divided into the
following sections: Trade, Society
and Religion, Chronology and
History, Landscape and Survey,
and Technology and Production.
340p b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2004) Hb was
£53.00 now £24.95
Kingship in the Mycenaean
World and Its Reflections in
the Oral Tradition
by Ione Mylonas Shear.
This investigation of the
character of Mycenaean kingship
surveys the conclusions drawn
by individual scholars studying
the Linear B tablets, contrasts their theories with our
knowledge of the Mycenaean kingdoms as derived
from the archaeological record, and finally compares
this evidence with possible reflections in the oral
tradition, specifically in the Iliad and Odyssey.
120p b/w pls (INSTAP 2004) Hb was £39.50 now
£19.95
Krinoi kai Limenes
Studies in Honor of Joseph and
Maria Shaw
edited by Philip P. Betancourt,
Michael C. Nelson and Hector
Williams.
Topics include Aegean Bronze
Age
architecture,
harbors,
frescoes, and trade.
315p, b/w illus, 16 col pls (INSTAP Academic Press
2007) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
The Hagia Photia Cemetery I
Midea
by Costis Davaras and Philip P.
Betancourt.
by Gisela Walberg.
The Tomb Groups and
Architecture
This large Early Minoan burial
ground with over fifteen hundred
Cycladic imports was discovered
in 1971. A total of 263 tombs were excavated, and
among the 1800 artefacts are some of the earliest
known Cretan discoveries of several types.
290p, b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2004) Hb was
£53.00 now £24.95
Kavousi I
The Archaeological Survey of
the Kavousi Region
by Donald C. Haggis.
Provides a comprehensive look
at the topography of the area, its
natural resources, and the way in
which the local people interacted
with them over time, as shown in the changing
pattern of settlement.
£53.00 now £24.95
Kavousi IIA
The Late Minoan IIIC
Settlement at Vronda. The
Buildings on the Summit
by Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L.
Klein and Lee Ann Turner.
Kavousi IIA is devoted to the
excavation of material from the
Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Vronda, particulary the
houses on the summit of the Vronda ridge (Buildings
A-B, C-D, J-K, and Q), along with earlier (Building P)
and later (Building R) structures around them.
£53.00 now £24.95
The Megaron Complex and
Shrine Area
This volume presents the 19941997 excavation of the Lower
Terraces of the Mycenaean
citadel of Midea in the Argolid
Plain of Greece. The stratigraphy, architecture,
pottery, lithics, small finds, and human and faunal
remains dating from the Final Neolithic through
Byzantine periods are discussed and catalogued.
550p, 2 vols, b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2007)
Hb was £86.00 now £39.95
Mochlos IA: Period III
Neopalatial Settlement on
the Coast: The Artisans’
Quarter and the Farmhouse
at Chalinomouri. The Sites
by Jeffrey S. Soles.
The Artisans’ Quarter consisted
of a series of workshops with
evidence for pottery manufacture, metalworking,
and weaving. Chalinomouri was a semi-independent
farmhouse. This volume, Mochlos IA, presents the
process of excavation and the architecture. 337p b/w
illus, 36 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2003) Hb was
£53.00 now £24.95
Mochlos IB: Period III
at Chalinomouri. The
Neopalatial Pottery
by Kellee A. Barnard and Thomas
M. Brogan.
This volume, Mochlos IB presents the pottery from the
site. 345p b/w illus, 25 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press
2003) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Mochlos IC: Period III
at Chalinomouri. The Small
Finds
This volume, Mochlos IC, presents
the small finds from the site. 300p, b/w illus, 24 b/w
pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2004) Hb was £53.00 now
£24.95
Mochlos IIA: Period IV
The Mycenaean Settlement
and Cemetery: The Sites
The results of excavations carried
out at two Late Minoan III sites
at Mochlos in eastern Crete are
presented. The stratigraphy and
architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are
discussed together with a complete list of artefacts,
ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context.
2008) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Mochlos IIB: Period IV
The Mycenaean Settlement
and Cemetery: The Pottery
by R. Angus K. Smith.
Excavations carried out at two
Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos
in eastern Crete yielded a pottery
assemblage from 31 tombs
and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and
illustrated together with petrographic analyses.
2010) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Monastiraki Katalimata
Excavation of a Cretan Refuge
Site, 1993-2000
by Krzysztof Nowicki.
This monograph provides a
detailed discussion of the six
occupational phases recorded
on the largest of Monastiraki
Katalimata’s terraces (Final Neolithic, MM II, LM IBIIIA1, LM IIIC, Early Byzantine, and Late Venetian to the
17th century A.D.) and offers a reconstruction of the
site’s role in the context of Cretan history. 275p, b/w
illus, 32 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2008) Hb was
£46.00 now £22.00
Moni Odigitria
A Prepalatial Cemetery and
Its Environs in the Asterousia,
Southern Crete
edited by Andonis Vasilakis and
Keith Branigan.
This volume presents the final
report on the excavation of two
Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains
at Chatzinas Liophyto in south-central Crete. The
grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal
objects, chipped stones, stone vases, gold and stone
jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. 530p
b/w illus (INSTAP Academic Press 2010) Hb was £53.00
now £24.95
The Politics of Storage
Pseira IX
by Kostandinos S. Christakis.
by Richard Hope Simpson, Philip
P. Betancourt, Costis Davaras and
Jacqueline Simpson.
Storage and Sociopolitical
Complexity in Neopalatial
Crete
This study reassesses the intrinsic
relationship between storage
and sociopolitical complexity by
combining testimonies on the storage of staples from
palatial, nonpalatial elite, and ordinary domestic
contexts dated to the LM I period.
£39.95 now £19.95
The Pseira Island Survey, Part
2: The Intensive Surface Survey
The
Temple
University
excavations (1985-1994) under
the direction of Philip P. Betancourt and Costis
Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the
island, the results of which are published here.
2005) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
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Soil Science and
Archaeology
Three Test Caves from Minoan
Crete
by Michael W. Morris.
In this book Michael Morris
presents a detailed study of the
prehistoric landscape in three
regions of Crete. He examines the development,
stability, and physio-chemical composition of
selected soils near three archaeological sites.
181p, 39 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2002) Hb
was £39.50 now £19.95
Pseira I
Pseira VI
Tholos Tomb Gamma
by Philip P. Betancourt.
by Costis Davaras and Philip P.
Betancourt.
by Yiannis Papadatos.
The Minoan Buildings on the
West Side of Area A
The site is a seaport dating from
the end of the Final Neolithic
until the Late Minoan period.
This volume presents a series
of houses whose main period of occupation is Late
Minoan IB. The architecture is constructed of stone
and remarkably well preserved.
1995) Hb was £39.50 now £19.95
The Pseira Cemetery I. The
Surface Survey
T h i s v o l u m e c o v e rs t h e
methodology that was employed in
the investigation, the topography
of the cemetery area, and the ceramic petrography
for the cemetery pottery. The survey showed that the
cemetery was first used in the Neolithic period, and
that it was abandoned in Middle Minoan II, before
the expansion of the nearby town in the Late Minoan I
period. 188p, 19 b/w pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2002)
Hb was £53.00 now £19.95
Pseira II
Pseira VII
by Philip P. Betancourt.
by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis
Davaras.
Building AC (the `shrine’) and
Other Buildings in Area A
new researches on building AC,
the Late Minoan I shrine. The
recent excavations have paid
particular attention to the architecture including the
reconstruction of the wall paintings, and the textile
patterns from stucco reliefs, which are reported in
full in this volume. 150p, 48 b/w pls, 8 col pls (INSTAP
Pseira III
The Plateia Building
by Cheryl Floyd.
This third volume focuses on the
Plateia building discovered in
1986. This report on the findings
includes an introduction to the
project, followed by a detailed
discussion of the architecture and small finds:
pottery, stone tools, terracotta objects, sealstones,
shell artefacts, faunal remains, charcoal, lithics,
plaster and so on. 329p, b/w illus, 21 b/w pls (INSTAP
Pseira IV
Minoan Buildings in Areas B
CDF
by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis
Davaras.
Volume four in the series of final
reports on the Bronze Age town
of Pseira located on Pseira island
just off the coast of Crete. This volume reports on
the architectural remains and associated finds from
Areas B, C, D and F, including pottery, stone tools,
lithics, fauna and micro-fauna.
1999) Hb was £56.00 now £24.95
The Pseira Cemetery II.
Excavation of the Tombs edited
This volume covers the excavation
and cleaning of the 19 tombs that
still exist at the Pseira cemetery.
The cemetery is remarkable for the diversity of its
communal tomb types including burials in cist graves
built of vertical slabs, in small tombs constructed of
fieldstones, in house tombs, and in jars. 192p, 167 b/w
pls (INSTAP Academic Press 2003) Hb was £49.50 now
£24.95
A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb at
Phouni, Archanes
This publication includes a
detailed discussion of the pottery,
the finds and their parallels, and
a reconstruction of both the
excavation and stratigraphy of Tholos Gamma in the
Bronze Age cemetery of Phourni at Archanes. This
evidence is used to give the historical outline of the
tomb from its foundation in Early Minoan IIA until its
excavation in 1972. 166p b/w illus (INSTAP Academic
Press 2005) Hb was £39.50 now £19.95
Faces of Archaeology in
Greece
Caricatures
by Piet de Jong by Rachel Hood.
Piet de Jong was draughtsman
and architect to Sir Arthur Evans
at Knossos, and worked with
numerous other archaeologists
on great sites in Greece. This book presents full colour
cartoons in a striking modernist style of 40 of his
archaeological colleagues together with biographies,
and a detailed biography of De Jong himself.
279P col illus (Leopards Head Press 1998) Hb was
£32.00 now £9.95
Pseira VIII
Klithi
edited by Costis Davaras, Philip
P. Betancourt and Richard Hope
Simpson.
edited by Geoff Bailey.
The Archaeological Survey of
Pseira Island, Part 1
The Temple University excavations
(1985-1994) under the direction
of Philip Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted
an intensive surface survey of the island. Pseira VIII
presents the results from the corollary studies that
accompany the surface survey.
2004) Hb was £49.95, now £24.95
Pseira X
The Excavation of Block AF
by Philip Betancourt.
Block AF provides the fullest
sequence of building phases
from any one area at Pseira, with
habitation extending from before
MM II to LM III. It has examples
of complex architectural details including a “pillar
crypt,” elaborate upstairs floors, a well-preserved
U-shaped staircase, and a well-designed kitchen, all
of which contribute significantly to our knowledge of
East Cretan building practices.
2009) Hb was £53.00 now £24.95
Palaeolithic Settlement and
Quaternary Landscapes in
Northwest Greece
A two volume set which sets
out the history of Palaeolithic
occupation in the Epirus region
of north-west Greece over the last 100,000 years,
bringing together the full range of studies carried out
between 1981 and 1983 as part of the Klithi project.
396p, 231 illus, 64 tables 2 Volume Set (McDonald
Institute 1998) Hb was £70.00 now £24.95
The Interpretation of
Mycenaean Greek Texts
by Leonard R. Palmer.
Intended as an introduction to
the information contained in the
Linear B texts from Mycenaean
sites and addressed to the nonspecialist, this book provides
a selection of the most interesting texts with a full
commentary. The introduction deals with epigraphy,
decipherment and the Mycenaean language,
together with questions of geography, social
structure, economy and religion.
488p (Oxford UP 1963, repr. 1998) Hb was £19.99
now £9.95
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Back to the Beginning
Reassessing Social and Political
Complexity on Crete during
the Early and Middle Bronze
Age
edited by I Schoep, P. Tomkins and
J.M. Driessen
These papers re-evaluate our
theories and models and ask anew what we really
know about social and political complexity on Crete
from the end of the Neolithic to Middle Minoan II
(c.3600-1750/00 BC).
now £7.95
Born to Rebel
The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
by Mary Allesbrook.
Harriet Boyd was the first
woman to lead an archaeological
investigation in the Aegean,
excavating at the Minoan town
of Gournia in Crete. Mary
Allesbrook’s lighthearted and extremely readable
account of her mother’s extraordinary experiences
shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America’s
pioneers.
236p illus (Oxbow Books revised ed 2002) Pb was
£12.95 now £4.95
Communicating Identity in
Italic Iron Age Communities
edited by Margarita Gleba and
Helle W. Horsnaes.
explores the many and much
varied identities of the Italic
peoples of the Iron Age, and how
specific objects, places and ideas
might have been involved in generating, mediating
and communicating these identities. A wide range of
evidence is discussed including funerary iconography,
grave offerings, pottery, vase-painting, coins, spindles
and distaffs and the excavation of settlements.
£30.00 now £7.95
Escaping the Labyrinth
The Cretan Neolithic in
Context
edited by V Isaakidou and P
Tomkins.
Thirteen papers explore two
aspects of the Cretan Neolithic:
the results of recent re-analysis
of a range of bodies of material from J.D. Evans’
excavations at EN-FN Knossos; and new insights
into the Cretan Late and Final Neolithic and the
contentious belated colonisation of the rest of the
island, drawing on both new and old fieldwork.
£24.00 now £9.95
Exotica in the Prehistoric
Mediterranean
edited by Andrea Vianello.
This book examines how exotic
materials were exchanged and
used across the Mediterranean
from the Neolithic era to the Iron
Age, focusing on the Bronze Age.
A variety of materials and interpretative approaches
are presented through several case studies. These
emphasise how the value of exotic materials depended
on the context in which they were consumed.
£25.00 now £9.95
Political Economies of the
Aegean Bronze Age
edited by Daniel J. Pullen.
These papers examine the political
economies of state (and prestate) entities within the Aegean
Bronze Age, including the issues
of centralization and multiple
scales of production, distribution, and consumption
within a polity; importance of extraregional trade; craft
specialization; the role of non-elite institutions, and the
political economy before the emergence of the palaces.
now £9.95
Textile Production in PreRoman Italy
by Magarita Gleba.
T h i s b o o k exa m i n e s t h e
archaeological evidence for
textile production in Italy from
the transition between the Bronze
Age and Early Iron Ages until the
Roman expansion (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on
both the process of technological development and
the emergence of large urban centres with specialised
crafts.
280p, 120 b/w figs, tbs, maps (Oxbow Books 2008) Hb
was £35.00 now £12.95
Well Built Mycenae Fasc 27
by Don Evely and Curtis Runnels.
This fascicule describes the
ground stone objects from the
1959-69 excavations at Mycenae.
Don Evely describes the vases
(36 complete and fragmentary
pieces including `Minoan’ birds’
nest bowls and Mycenaean piriform jars,, fragments
of rhyta and legged mortars) and other objects
(inlays in valuable stones such as lapis lazuli and
lapis lacedaemonius , mushroom shaped pommels,
a steatite jewellery mould and other items). Curtis
Runnels discusses sixteen domestic millstones.
44p 2 fiches (Oxbow 1992) Pb was £15.00 now £5.00
Well Built Mycenae Fasc 36
The Hellenistic Dye Works
by L.C. Bowkett.
The
structures,
building
techniques, distribution of finds
function of the complex and
parallels with similar sites. The
bargain copies no longer contain
the fiches.
55p, map (Oxbow 1995) Pb was £15.00 now £5.00
Well Built Mycenae, Fasc.24
The Ivories and Objects of Bones
and Antler and Boar’s Tusk
by Olga Krzyszkowska.
Provides a full discussion of the
material supported by a detailed
catalogue and wide range of
photographs and line drawings.
The material includes not only the well known head
and lion, fully published here for the first time, but also
an intriguing range of raw material, prepared blanks,
off-cuts and waste pieces.
86p, 2 CDs (Oxbow Books 2008) Pb was £26.00 now
£6.95
Rome: Day One
by Andrea Carandini.
Carandini, drawing on his own
excavations as well as historical
and literary sources, argues that
the core of Rome’s founding myth
is not purely mythical. He makes
the case that a king whose name
might have been Romulus founded Rome one April 21st
in the mid-eighth century BC, most likely in a ceremony
in which a white bull and cow pulled a plow to trace
the position of a wall, newly discovered by Carandini
himself, marking the blessed soil of the new city.
172p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2011) Hb was £16.95
now £7.95
Etruscan Treasures from the
Cini-Alliata Collection
by Francesco Buranelli and
Maurizio Sannibale.
This catalogue presents 225
pieces of jewellery, predominantly
Etruscan, but also including some
Classical Greek and Roman
artefacts. Objects include hairpins, hair ornaments,
wreaths and diadems, earrings, necklaces, pendants,
fibulae, bracelets, rings and gems, whilst appendices
detail production techniques and materials.
191p col illus (Crisalide 2004) Pb was £25.00 now
£7.95
Morgantina Studies Volume
4
The Proto-Historic settlement
on the Cittadella
by R Leighton.
A full study of this extensive
protohistoric settlement in Sicily.
The survival of long houses and
tombs with much of their structures and contents
preserved, permits a thorough examination of
indigenous cultural traditions prior to the foundation
of the Greek town in the Archaic period.
240p, 164 pls (Princeton UP 1993) Hb was £120.00
now £14.95
Greek, Roman and Byzantine
Coins from the Museum at
Amasya (ancient Amaseia),
Turkey
by S. Ireland
Over 4,500 coins held in the
museum are catalogued, ranging
in date from the 5th century BC
until the 11th century AD. Most are finds from the
surrounding region, but over 50 other mints in Asia
Minor are represented and some coins come from as
far afield as Alexandria in Egypt and Arles in Gaul.
132p, map, 61 b/w pls (BIAA 2000) Hb was £30.00
now £9.95
The Athlone History of
Witchcraft and Magic,
Volume 2
Ancient Greece and Rome
by Valerie Flint et al.
Contains four sections: curse
tablets and voodoo dolls (D
Ogden); witches and sorcerers
in Classical literature (G Luck); Imagining Greek and
Roman magic (R Gordon); Demonisation of magic and
sorcery in Late Antiquity (V Flint).
395p (Athlone Press 1999) Pb was £34.99 now £7.95
Classical World
The Cambridge Companion
to Ancient Rhetoric
edited by Erik Gunderson.
This Companion provides a
comprehensive overview of
rhetorical theory and practice in
the Classical world, from Homer
to early Christianity. Its basic
premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to
be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested
set of practices that include disputes over the very
definition of rhetoric itself.
368p (Cambridge UP 2009) Hb was £64.99 now
£14.95
Critical Moments in Classical
Literature
by Richard Hunter.
Through a series of innovative
critical readings Richard Hunter
builds a picture of how the
ancients discussed the meaning
of literary works and their
importance in society. Attention is given both to the
development of a history of criticism, as far as our
sources allow, and to the constant recurrence of
similar themes across the centuries.
£14.95
Growing Up Fatherless in
Antiquity
by Sabine Hubner and David M.
Ratzan.
Ancient historians and classicists
have rarely explored ancient
father-absence, despite the
likelihood that nearly a third
of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world
were fatherless before they turned fifteen. This
book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of
chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics,
and families of the ancient world.
£19.95
The Parallel Worlds of
Classical Art and Text
by Jocelyn Penny Small.
We are so used to seeing text
accompanied by pictures that we
perhaps inadvertently assume
that this was always the case.
However, with reference to art
from archaic Greece to the late Roman Republic, Small
argues that àrtists illustrate stories, not texts’.
253p, 74 b/w illus (Cambridge 2003, Pb 2008) Pb was
£21.99 now £9.95
Performance and Identity in
the Classical World
by Anne Duncan.
This study
traces attitudes
towards actors in Greek and
Roman culture as a means
of
understanding
ancient
conceptions of, and anxieties
about, the self. Numerous sources reveal an
uneasy fascination with actors and acting, from the
writings of elite intellectuals (philosophers, orators,
biographers, historians) to the abundant theatrical
anecdotes that can be read as a body of “popular
performance theory”. 242p (Cambridge UP 2006) Hb
was £69.99 now £19.95
Masterpieces of the J. Paul
Getty Museum
Antiquities
This volume illustrates a substantial
selection of Classical highlights
from the museum, among them a
rare life-size Greek bronze statue
depicting a victorious youth and
J. Paul Getty’s personal favorite, the marble statue
known as the Lansdowne Herakles. Also included are a
number of Greek and Etruscan terracotta vases, bronze
and marble sculpture, and delicate late Classical and
Ptolemaic gold jewelry. 127p col illus (Getty Museum
1997) Hb was £25.00 now £7.95
The Louvre and the Ancient
World
edited by Kelly Morris.
This
beautifully
illustrated
exhibition catalogue explores
the flourishing of archaeology
in the nineteenth century, the
part played by the Louvre in the
rediscovery of the Ancient world, and the growth
of the Louvre’s departments of Greek, Etruscan and
Roman Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities and Eastern
Antiquities. The text (in English translation), is by
current curators at the museum.
163p col illus (Louvre 2007) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Ancient and Medieval Siege
Weapons
by Konstantin Nossov.
This is a comprehensive and
massively detailed history of
siege weapons, from the first
use of scaling ladders in Ancient
Egypt to early cannon. The
development of all types of weapon are covered,
and the tables, charts and illustrations throughout
the book aid the reader in understanding how these
weapons were constructed and how they were used.
306p b/w illus (Lyons Press 2005, Pb 2012) Pb was
£11.95 now £4.95
The Art of the Body
Antiquity and Its Legacy
by Michael Squire.
This book tackles the wide-ranging
legacy of Classical depictions of
the body: it explores the complex
relationship between GraecoRoman images of the body and
subsequent western engagements with them, from
the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again).
240p b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2011) Pb was £12.99
now £4.95
Politics
by Kostas Vlassopoulos
This concise volume deftly
examines the impact of Classical
political thinking on subsequent
generations of politicians and
theorists. Vlassopoulos produces
a nuanced argument, showing that reception is rarely
straightforward, and that the lessons and theory drawn
from aspects of the Classical tradition are seldom
consistent.
168p (Oxford UP 2010) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95
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Slavery
by Page duBois.
As well as detailing the practical
aspects of slavery through the
ages, duBois sets aside the
majority of the work for discussion
of theoretical issues, such as
the definition of slavery, and ancient and modern
conceptions of slavery and freedom. She attempts as
far as is possible to present the experience of slavery
in the words of slaves as much as masters, exploring
tactics of resistance and revolt.
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows
and Scorpion Bombs
Biological and Chemical
Warfare in the Ancient World
by Adrienne Mayor.
Starting with Hercules’ poisontipped arrows, Adrienne Mayor
discusses ancient chemical and
biological weapons by class. Ancient recipes for arrow
poisons, booby traps rigged with plague, petroleumbased combustibles, choking gases and venomous
insects are all covered, as well as ancient thoughts on
the ethics of using them.
319p b/w illus (Overlook 2003) Hb was £20.00 now
£9.95
Bernard Ashmole
an Autobiography
edited by Donna Kurtz
R e c o u n t s t h e a u t h o r ’s
fascinating experiences as one
of the outstanding classical
archaeologists of the 20th century
and his armed service in both
world wars. Also included are a full bibliography of
Ashmole’s published writings, and essays on his work
at the British Museum and Kings College, London.
236P, b/w illus (Oxbow 1994) HB was £16.95 now
£4.95
Graeco-Roman Slave
Markets
Fact or Fiction?
By Monika Trumper.
This book investigates whether
certain ancient monuments were
designed specifically for use as
slave markets and whether they
required special equipment and safety precautions,
allowing them to be clearly distinguished from other
nonspecific commercial buildings and marketplaces of
the Graeco-Roman world.
now £9.95
Koine
Mediterranean Studies in
Honor of R. Ross Holloway
edited by Derek Counts and
Anthony Tuck.
24 papers grouped in four
sections (I. A View of Classical
Art: Iconography in Context;
II. Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Cultural
Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as
Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery
and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation).
now £14.95
Classical World
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Classical Mythology
edited by M.P.O. Morford.
A good introduction to Greek
and Roman mythology based
largely on literary works,
although with some mention of
art and architecture. The authors
divide their subject according to
the myths of creation, the Greek sagas, the nature
of Roman mythology and the survival of Classical
mythology.
864p, col illus (Oxford UP 9th edition 2012) Pb was
£34.99 now £12.95
Hellenistic and Roman Naval
Warfare, 336-31 BC
by John D. Grainger.
Battles at sea were a frequent
feature of Hellenistic warfare.
Grainger begins with Alexander
the Great’s expedition to Persia
and, focusing on other key figures
such as Demetrius, Hannibal and Philip V of Macedon,
examines the role of naval warfare as a factor in
winning control of the Mediterranean and, as time
went on, resisting Rome.
208p (Pen & Sword 2011) Hb was £19.99 now £7.95
The Victor’s Crown
by David Potter
This engaging study takes a look
at the role of sport in the ancient
world. It begins by looking at the
emergence of competitive sport
in Greece in the archaic period,
before moving on to the original
Olympic Games, the disciplines in which athletes
competed and the conditions for the participants and
spectators. The book is rounded off with a look at the
gladiatorial games and chariot races of ancient Rome.
416p (Quercus 2011) Hb was £25.00 now £6.95
Masters of Command
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar
and the Genius of Leadership
by Barry Strauss.
Aimed at the general reader and
delivered in a chatty style, Barry
Strauss’s new book provides
a comparative analysis of the
generalship of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius
Caesar, reconstructing their key campaigns and asking
what key strategies, tactics and methods contributed
to their military successes.
288p (Simon & Schuster 2012) Hb was £17.99 now
£6.95
Classical Compendium
by Philip Matyszak.
This light hearted little book
takes a similar format to the
Schott’s miscellany series, and
contains a wealth of trivia,
anecdotes, and so on about the
ancient world, with an eye for
the entertaining and the bizarre. The hundreds of
short entries range from curse tablets from Bath,
to the fratricidal Parthian royals, from the wit of
Socrates, to the interpretation of oracles and with
plenty of quotations from primary sources, Martial
getting a particular look-in.
£9.99 now £3.95
Mystery Cults in the Ancient
World
by Hugh Bowden.
Hugh Bowden sets out the
evidence for mystery cults in
a clear and accessible fashion,
assisted by a wide range of well
selected illustrations. He draws
equally on literary and archaeological sources, as well
as insights from anthropology and cognitive science
to reconstruct the practices of the cults - “where and
when they took place, what they involved, and what
they meant to those that underwent them”.
256p b/w illus, col pls (Thames & Hudson 2010) Hb
was £28.00 now £9.95
Panorama of the Classical
World
by Jonathan Spivey
Avoiding the chronological format
that is usual in this type of broad
survey, this panorama adopts a
thematic approach, looking at
how men and women lived their
lives and constructed the world around them for over
a thousand years. The scholarly yet accessible narrative
is supported by many colour photographs of Greek and
Roman works of art, of buildings and ruins, portraits
and artefacts.
368p col and b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 2004) Pb
was £18.95 now £7.95
Seventy Wonders of the
Ancient World
by Chris Scarre.
Expanding on the traditional
seven wonders of the world, this
book presents seventy examples
of ancient ‘wonders’ including
the Great Temple of the Aztecs,
Stonehenge, the Nazca lines in Peru, the Egyptian
obelisks, the Colossal Buddha of Bamiyan.
304p b/w and col illus (Thames & Hudson 1999) Hb
was £24.95 now £9.95
Some Talk of Alexander
by Frederic Raphael.
Do the ‘classics’ still have relevance
at the start of the 21st century?
Raphael answers resoundingly in
the affirmative, taking the reader
from his personal experiences
in modern Greece into the rich
store of Greek civilisation: its art, politics, philosophy,
warfare, ethics, personal relationships, government,
literature and much much more.
£24.95 now £6.95
Citizens to Lords
A Social History of Western
Political Thought from
Antiquity to the Middle Ages
by Ellen Meiskins Wood.
This book taces the development
of Western political theory from
classical antiquity through to the
Middle Ages. It shows how the canon, while largely
the work of members or clients of dominant classes,
was shaped by complx interactions among proprietors,
labourers and states. 246p (Verso 2008) Hb was £16.99
now £6.95
The John Max Wolfung
Collection in Washington
University
by Kevin Herbert.
An illustrated catalogue of 437
Greek, Roman and Byzantine
coins which Wolfung donated to
the Classics Dept of Washington
University in 1928.
30p 22 pls (ANS 1979) Hb was £15.50 now £4.95
Sylloge Nummorum
Graecorum, Great Britain
VII: Manchester
by John F. Healey
A corpus of the Güterbock and
Raby collections of Greek coins
in the Manchester University
Museum.
135p, b/w pls (British Academy/Oxford UP 1986) Hb
£60.00 now £19.95
Corinth 20
The Centenary, 1896-1996
by Charles K. Williams II and Nancy
Bookidis.
26 papers explore current research
on Ancient Corinth including its
geology, architecture, pottery
from the 8th century BC to the
Frankish period, bronze objects, figurines, sanctuaries,
trade, coinage, Roman portraiture and baths.
473p b/w illus (ASCSA 2003) Hb was £60.00 now
£12.95
Excavations at Pylos in Elis
by John E. Coleman.
This report is divided
chronologically: Middle Helladic,
Geometric, Archaic, Classical,
Roman, Byzantine and Frankish.
Each chapter consists of a brief
description of the remains in the
field, followed by a catalogue of the finds.
176p b/w illus (Hesperia Supplement 21, ASCSA 1986)
Pb was £20.00 now £4.95
Isthmia IV
Sculpture I (1952-1967)
by Mary C. Sturgeon.
The finds range in date from the
seventh century B.C. to third
century A.D. but are mostly
fragmentary objects of Roman
date. The two most important
works are the Archaic perirrhanterion (a large shallow
basin) from the sanctuary of Palaimon, and a cult statue
group of Amphitrite and Poseidon on a base decorated
with reliefs depicting the Calydonian board hunt and
the slaughter of the Niobids.
223p (ASCSA 1987) Hb was £47.50 now £6.95
Greece
The Argive Heraion I
The Architecture of the
Classical Temple of Hera
by Christopher A. Pfaff.
This work, the first monograph
devoted solely to the Classical
Temple and the first concerning
the site to be published in more
than fifty years, will be the definitive source for
scholars and students investigating the buildings of
the Argive Heraion and a vital tool for those researching
architectural trends of the period.
450p, 209 figs, 24 tbs (ASCSA 2003) Hb was £75.00
now £19.95
The Propylaia to the
Athenian Akropolis, Volume
1
by William B. Dinsmoor Jr.
The famous monumental gateway
to the Acropolis is a successor to
a Mycenaean building. But what
did this Bronze Age gateway, in
use up to the fifth century BC, look like? This detailed
architectural study explores this problem, and reveals
the existence of an earlier theatral area for viewing
the Panathenaic procession, and some half-built ‘trial
runs’, below the current Propylon.
87p 24 pls (ASCSA 1980) Hb was £20.00 now £8.95
Greek Architecture and Its
Sculpture
by Ian Jenkins.
Greek Architecture and Sculpture
is the first book to present this
fascinating subject as one story,
taking the British Museum’s
unique collection as its starting
point. It discusses remarkable works such as the archaic
and later temple of Artemis at Ephesos, the Parthenon
and other temples of the Athenian Acropolis, the
temple of Apollo at Bassai, the sculptured tombs of
Lycia, the Mausoleum at Halikarnossos and the temple
of Athena Polias at Priene. 252p col and b/w illus (British
Museum Press 2006) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95
Daidalikon
edited by Robert F Sutton Jr.
Thirty-four essays on classical
archaeology, history, literature
and art in memory of Father
Raymond Schoder. The diverse
collection covers topics including
Greek phonology, authors such
as Sophocles, Hesiod, Homer, Thucydides and Vergil,
red-figure vase painting and monuments such as the
Ara Pacis.
424p, b/w pls (Bolchazy-Carducci 1989) Pb was
£20.00 now £4.95
Summary Guide to Corpus
Vasorum Antiquorum,
second edition
Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum Great Britain
Fascicule 18
Compiled by Thomas H Carpenter,
updated by Thomas Mannack
In 1984, a handy Summary Guide
was published to help students
find their way around the 239 fas
cicules of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, with their
differing editorial systems. This essential reference tool
is brought up to date in this new edition, which adds
the details of a further sixty fascicules.
100p (BA/OUP 2000) Pb was £14.99 now £4.95
The Glasgow Collection
by Elizabeth Moignard.
Makes accessible the undeservedly
neglected collections of vases
in the Hunterian Museum, the
Burrell collection and Kelvingrove Museum. The
collections include Bronze Age, Etruscan, Archaic and
Classical Greek, and South Italian material. 54p, 60 pls
(British Academy 1997) Hb £60.00 reduced to £19.95
Athens
A History
by Robin Waterfield.
In
this
well-written
and
accessible
study,
Robin
Waterfield describes the `tragic
drama’ that is Athenian history,
focusing on the events of 480 to
340 BC. This is not a conventional narrative history,
although chronological discussions are included,
instead, Robin Waterfield focuses on themes as well
as the people who shaped Athenian history and
formed its legacy.
362p b/w pls (Basic Books 2004) Hb was £19.99 now
£5.95
Cleaning and Controversy
The Cleaning of the Parthenon
Sculptures, 1811–1939
edited by Ian Jenkins
The essays in this volume compile
documentary and visual evidence
for the cleaning, assess how and
to what extent it had altered the
surface of the affected sculptures, and look at wider
issues relating to the history and ideas of conservation.
84p, 21 colour plates, 12 b/w illus (British Museum
2001) Pb was £25.00 now £4.95
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum:
Canada, Fascicule 1
Royal Ontario Museum
37
Sculptors and Sculpture of
Caria and the Dodecanese
edited by I Jenkins and G B Waywell
21 papers, from a 1994 meeting
held in London to commemorate
the work of Sir Charles Newton
and Sir Bernard Ashmole, discuss
research into marble sculpture
from the south-east Aegean, with a particular focus
on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
272p, 21 col pls, 290 b/w illus (BMP 1997) Hb was
£65.00 now £19.95
The British School at Athens
The First Hundred Years
by Helen Waterhouse.
Published to celebrate the
BSA’s centenary in 1986, this
book reflects on its influence
in the development of Greek
archaeology
and
Hellenic
studies. Chapters look at the BSA in London, Athens
and Knossos, before providing a detailed overview of
the School’s various excavation campaigns and life at
the School more generally.
170p b/w illus (BSA 1986) Hb was £20.00 now £4.95
The Laconia Rural Sites
Project
by William Cavanagh, Christopher
Mee and Peter James
Over the past 30 years many
hundreds of small rural sites have
been identified in Greece (and
throughout the Mediterranean)
through intensive field survey. This volume reviews
the current theories on the variety and character of
rural sites, land tenure and residence in Prehistoric,
Classical, Roman and Byzantine Greece.
£49.00 now £9.95
Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum Canada,
Fascicule 1
Scholars, Travellers, Archives
by J.W. Hayes.
edited by M. Llewellyn Smith, P.M.
Kitromilides, and E. Calligas
Royal Ontario Museum
A fascicule of the Attic black
figure wares and related wares
in the collection of the Royal
Ontario Museum.
55p of text, 42 cards of b/w pls (British Academy/
Royal Ontario Museum 1981) Hb was £50.00 now
£14.95
Catalogue of Greek
Terracottas in the British
Museum Volume III
by Lucilla Burn and Reynold Higgins.
A catalogue of almost 1,000
Hellenistic terracottas, each of
which is illustrated and described
in full. Arranged geographically,
most of the Mediterranean is represented.
528p, 4 col and 160 b/w pls, 2 maps (BMP 2001) Hb
£145.00 reduced to £49.95
Greek History and Culture
through the British School at
Athens
Examines the contribution of
British scholars to the study
of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and
architecture, anthropology, geography, folklore,
history and language.
254p b/w illus 16 col pls (British School at Athens
2009) Hb was £55.00 now £9.95
The Theatre at Butrint
by Oliver Gilkes.
The Italian Archaeological Mission,
directed by Luigi Maria Ugolini,
undertook major excavations
of this Hellenistic and Roman
theatre between 1928 and 1932.
The original reports and surveys
are published here for the first time and provide a
significant contribution to our knowledge of the
development of Butrint.
£72.00 now £9.95
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Kerkyra
Artefacts from the Palaiopolis
(the Kasfiki site)
edited by Rolf Winkes.
Reports on finds from
excavations carried out at the
Kasfiki site from 1987-1996.
They include Greek docrative
pottery, loom weights, terracottas, bone tools,
Roman red slip ware, mould-made ceramics, glass
and mosaics.
78p illus (Brown UP 2004) Pb was £19.95 now £6.95
Love for Antiquity
Selections from the Joukowsky
Collection
edited by Rolf Winkes
Catalogue of an exhibit of Greek
and Roman pieces from the
collection of Artemis and Martha
Sharp Joukowsky, held at the Bell
Gallery, Brown University in 1985.
125p illus (Brown UP 1985) Pb £14.95 now £5.95
Miscellanea Mediterranea
edited by R. Ross Holloway.
These essays cover a variety of
subjects concerned with the
Mediterranean: the sanctuary
of Hercules-Melkart at Gades;
Iberian warrior figurines; Etruscan
Sigla (“graffiti”); Poseidonia;
unidentified Italic ‘touta’; the Parthenon program;
Theseus in the Parthenon metope; mutilation of
statuary; Binding Curse tablet; Boukephalas; RomanByzantine dwelling in Galilee and the Golan.
125p, b/w figs and pls (Brown UP 2000) Pb was
£29.00 now £5.95
The Sanctuary of Apollo
Hypoakraios and Imperial
Athens
by Peter E. Nulton.
The Cave Sanctuary of Apollo on
the North Slope of the Acropolis
at Athens was investigated in
1896-97 and produced a rich
collection of inscriptions relating to the cult. These
inscriptions are published in full for the first time in
this work.
96p, illustrated (Brown UP 2003) Pb was £29.00 now
£7.95
Knossos Pottery Handbook
Greek and Roman
by J.N. Coldstream, L.J. Eiring and
G. Forster.
A guide to pottery from the site
of Knossos dating from the 8th
century BC to the 5th century
AD. Each of the four chapters
addresses a different period (Subminoan to Late
Orientalising, Late Archaic and Classical, Hellenistic and
Roman), outlining both finewares and coarsewares,
with emphasis on local wares and some imports.
178p, 43 b/w pls (British School at Athens 2001) Hb
was £47.00 now £15.00
The Cambridge Illustrated
History of Ancient Greece
edited by Paul Cartledge.
This richly illustrated book sheds
light on both ends of the scale
of Greek life, from the great
philosophers, playwrights, rulers
and artists to the daily concerns of
men, women and children, at work and at leisure. The
contributors’ approach is often original, considering
the `big events’ of war and politics, yet also the effects
of a unique environment, and of the political system, at
once inclusive and divisive, on ordianary lives.
380p col illus (Cambridge UP 1998, Pb 2002) Pb was
£28.99 now £12.95
Classical Greece and the
Birth of Western Art
by Andrew Stewart.
This
introductory
guide
provides historical context for
the ‘Classical revolution’ in
art. Andrew Stewart examines
Greek architecture, painting,
and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC
in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and
intellectual issues of the period.
376p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2008) Pb was
£19.99 now £7.95
Sophocles and Alcibiades
Athenian Politics in Ancient
Greek Literature
by Michael Vickers.
It has long been assumed that
the plays of Sophocles were
not intended to mirror political
events in contemporary Athens,
an assertion which Michael Vickers here sets about
refuting. He looks specifically at Sophocles’ attitude
towards Alcibiades, the most prominent and
flamboyant Athenian politician during the height of
Sophocles’ career.
205p (Cornell UP 2008) Hb was £42.95 now £12.95
The Greek City State
A Sourcebook
by P.J. Rhodes.
Rhodes presents in translation a
selection of texts illustrating the
formal mechanisms and informal
workings of the Greek states in
all their variety. For this second
edition the book has been thoroughly revised and
three new chapters added (on women and children,
economic life, and religion).
339p (Cambridge UP 2nd ed 2007) Hb was £64.99
now £14.95
A History of Greek Art
by Martin Robertson.
Classic but never bettered this
massive two volume work takes
the reader through developments
in Greek art from the archaic
to the Hellenistic period. The
coverage is chronological rather
than thematic, allowing changes in style and focus to
be seen fully in their historical context. The second
volume contains a full and beautifully selected array
of illustrations.
2 vols, 835p, 192 b/w pls (Cambridge UP 1975) Hb
was £194.99 now £49.95
Plague and the Athenian
Imagination
Drama, History, and the Cult of
Asclepius
by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
This volume studies the impact
of the plague on Athenian
tragedy early in the 420s and
argues for a significant relationship between drama
and the development of the cult of the healing god
Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war
and increasing civic strife.
£19.95
Women and Humor in
Ancient Greece
by Laurie O’Higgins.
This study explores the role of
women in the production of
joking speech and their active
participation in cultic joking.
O’Higgins examines the contexts
in which women may have produced jokes and those
where they formed the butt of men’s jokes, arguing
that women and the tradition of cultic joking acted as
an important source of inspiration in the development
of iambic poetry and Attic old comedy.
262 (Cambridge UP 2003) Hb was £55.00 now
£19.95
Art in Athens During the
Peloponnesian War
edited by Olga Palagia.
This collection examines the
effects of the Peloponnesian War
on the arts of Athens and the
historical and artistic contexts
in which this art was produced.
During this period, battle scenes dominated much
of the monumental art, while large numbers of
memorials to the war dead were erected.
now £24.95
The Feminine Matrix of Sex
in Classical Athens
by Kate Giuly.
Explores the relationship between
the prostitute, the wife, and the
ritual performer in Athenian
literature. She suggests that these
three roles formed a symbolic
continuum that served as an alternative to a binary
conception of gender in classical Athens and provided
a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine
civic behaviour.
£14.95
Lord Elgin and Greek
Architecture
by Lauciana Gallo.
This book analyses the rich
and remarkable collection of
archaeological drawings, now
housed in The British Museum,
drawn in Greece by a team of
architects and artists in the service of Lord Elgin.
It offers a new interpretation of Elgin’s interest in
antiquities and reveals the aims, innovative approach,
and significant achievements of this specialised tour.
344p b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2009) Hb was
£99.99 now £24.95
Greece
Ambush
Surprise Attack in Ancient
Greek Warfare
by Rose Mary Sheldon.
A reappraisal of the importance
of irregular warfare in the
strategy of the Ancient Greeks.
Chapters cover ambush tactics,
night attacks, surprise seaborne landings and the use
of trickery to capture towns and cities.
282p (Frontline 2012) Hb was £25.00 now £7.95
Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum
Ancient Greek Pottery,
Joslyn Art Museum
by Ann Steiner and Charles Rowan
Beye.
A well illustrated exhibition
catalogue which showcases the
Greek pottery collection of the
Joslyn Art Museum through
commentary on 41 vases. Introductory essays explore
Greek culture through the vase painting, and give an
overview of the archaeology of Greek vases.
95p b/w illus (Joslyn Art Museum 1985) Pb was
£12.99 now £4.95
Ghost on the Throne
Joslyn Art Museum Omaha,
Fasc 1 (USA Fasc 21)
The Death of Alexander the
Great and the War for Crown
and Empire
by Ann Steiner.
by James S. Romm.
A diverse collection, including
Cypriot, Attic and South Italian
pieces, mostly previously
unpublished.
50p fold-out pls (Getty 1986) Hb was £50.00 now
£14.95
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
J Paul Getty Museum,
Fascicule 5
by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen.
Mycenaean faience, east Greek,
Proto-Corinthian, Corinthian,
Laconian, Euboean, Chalcidian,
Attic geometric, Attic blackfigure, Attic network, Attic black body, Attic black
glaze, Lead glaze and Arretine.
60p, 55 pls (Getty Museum 1994) Hb was £60.00
now £14.95
Baby and Child Heroes in
Ancient Greece
by Corinne Ondine Pache.
Babies and children may seem
the most unlikely heroes but
they frequently appear in ancient
Greek literature, iconography
and religious practices from the
5th century BC onwards. This book explores why this
was so. In studying literary, pictorial and numismatic
evidence, Pache seeks to identify who the child heroes
were, what myths were associated with them, what
rituals were performed in their honour and what this
meant for Greek religion.
234p (Illinois UP 2004) Hb was £27.99 now £12.95
Morality and Custom in
Ancient Greece
by J.M. Dillon.
A lively introductory survey
of the customs, attitudes and
beliefs of the ancient Athenians,
which draws primarily on literary
sources to build up a picture of
daily life. Topics include the family, marriage, noncitizen women, inheritance, friendship, homosexual
relationships, slavery, religion and more.
217p (Indiana UP 2004) Pb was £16.99 now £6.95
A gripping account, popular but
backed by rigorous scholarship,
which reconstructs the events
which followed the death of Alexander at the
height of his fame and power. Romm describes
the unsuccessful revolt of the Athenians, and the
struggles among Alexander’s generals to control the
two remaining representatives of the Argead line.
341p (Knopf 2012) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Ancient Greece As It Was
Exploring the City of Athens in
415 BC
by Eric Chaline
Written in the style of a modern
travel guide, this book covers
everything the visitor to fifth
century Athens needs, with
historical background and practical advice on matters
from where to stay and eat to visiting iconic sites.
160p b/w illus (Lyons Press 2008) Pb was £9.99 now
£3.95
Greek Vases in Cape Town
by John Boardman and Maurice
Pope.
Brief guide to Greek pieces in
the South African Museum.
The majority are Attic black
and red-figure ware, as well as
a Mycenaean stirrup jar, three
examples of early Corinthian ware, Italian red-figure
ware and Bucchero.
20p, 31 b/w pls (SA Museum 1961) Pb reduced to
£2.95
Alexander the Great
Treasures From an Epic Era of
Hellenism
edited by Dimitrios Pandermalis.
This catalogue explores the
historical and cultural context
of Alexander, including full
illustration and commentary on
a collection of rare and precious artifacts recently
excavated in Vergina from the tomb of an ancient queen
known as “The Lady of Aigai”.
152p col and b/w illus (Onassis Foundation 2005) Pb
was £7.95 now £3.95
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Tarentine Horsemen of
Magna Grecia
by Nic Fields.
Taras was the leading power of
the scattered Greek states of
southern Italy and built their
reputation on the unmatched
horse warriors who helped the
Tarantines claim and maintain their power. In this
book Nic Fields examines the Tarentine horsemen
in detail, discussing their tactics, weapons and
equipment and detailing how they operated as
mercenaries throughout the region.
64p col illus (Osprey 2008) Pb was £11.99 now £5.95
Archaic Pottery of Chios
The Decorated Styles
by Anna A. Lemos.
A major study of the decorated
pottery of Chios. It ranges from
the patterned chalices of the
seventh century, and the Wild
Goat style, through the Reserving
Styles of the sixth century to the Black-Figure Styles,
with full discussion of shapes and changing styles.
2 vols, 350p, 245 b/w and 5 col. pl. (Oxford University
Committee for Archaeology 1991) Hb was £75.00
now £20.00
Some Attic Vases in the
Cyprus Museum
by J D Beazley, revised by Donna
Kurtz.
A new edition of Beazley’s
account of 25 Athenian vases in
the Nicosia Museum. Each of the
vases introduces a theme relating
to Greek vases in general.
46p, 19 pls (Oxford University Committee for
Archaeology 1989) Pb £7.95 now £3.95
Athenian Homicide Law in
the Age of the Orators
by Douglas M. MacDowell.
A study of Athenian legal
procedures relating to homicide
which examines how the various
ideas of revenge, purification and
deterrence were translated into
a practical legal system.
161p (Manchester UP 1963, repr. 1999) Hb was £9.99
now £4.95
Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum Great Britain
Fasc 19, Winchester College
by John Falconer and Thomas
Mannack.
The collection of Winchester
College includes more than 80
Greek vases which are catalogued
here, some published for the first time.
25p, 16 b/w pls (Oxford UP for the British Academy
2002) Pb was £50.00 now £12.95
Greece
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Grain-mills and Flour in
Classical Antiquity
by L.A. Moritz.
Beginning with a review of the
milling implements and equip
ment of Greece and Rome, this
study argues that the grain-mill
underwent two fundamental
changes in its history and that one of these – the
invention of the rotary mill - took place in classical
antiquity at a time much later than used to be believed.
258p (1958 OUP reprint 2002) Hb was £25.00 now
£5.00
The Invention of Greek
Ethnography
From Homer to Herodotus
by Joseph Skinner.
Greek ethnography is commonly
believed to have developed during
the Greeks’ “encounter with the
barbarian” - Achaemenid Persia.
Skinner argues that, on the contrary, ethnographic
discourse was already ubiquitous throughout the
archaic Greek world, not only in the form of texts but
also in a wide range of iconographic and archaeological
materials.
Trademarks on Greek Vases
Addenda by Alan W. Johnston.
More than twenty years on from
the publication of Trademarks on
Greek Vases, this Addenda brings
up to date the evidence from finds,
improving on the cataloguing of
the original, and adding in newly
discovered examples, many sadly having surfaced via
the antiquities market.
241p b/w pls (Aris & Phillips 2006) Hb was £65.00
now £9.95
Trireme Olympias
The Final Report
edited by Boris Rankov
This volume represents the final
publication of the Olympias
project, which saw the building
of a full-scale reconstruction of a
170-oared Athenian trireme of the
4th century BC and its operation in sea-trials. As well as
presenting evidence from the project the papers here
offer a critical analysis, suggest improvements that
could be made to the trireme, and discuss the light it
sheds on the functioning of Greek warships.
now £14.95
Greek Art in View
Ancient Greece
edited by Simon Keay and
Stephanie Moser
by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley
M. Burstein, Walter Donlan and
Jennifer Tolbert Roberts.
Studies in Honour of Brian
Sparkes
Essays which seek to explore the
relationship between different
kinds of text and material culture
and the ways in which these can be interpreted.
now £9.95
Poetry, Theory, Praxis
The Social Life of Myth, Word
and Image in Ancient Greece.
Essays in Honour of William J
Slater
edited by Eric Caspo and Margaret
C Miller.
Looks at the social life of theories,
artifacts and poems in ancient Greece. The central
focus is on Greek theatre, but essays on ancient
scholarship, lyric poetry, art and inscriptions are also
included.
288p, 96 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2003) Hb was
£45.00 now £4.95
Sailing to Classical Greece
edited by Olga Palagia and Hans
Rupprecht Goette.
This volume of 15 papers is a
tribute to Petros Themelis for
his significant contribution to
Greek archaeology and especially
to the excavation, study and
conservation of the ancient site of Messene in the
Peloponnese. New, previously unpublished material
from Messenia, Athens and elsewhere is here
presented for the first time.
now £6.95
A Political, Social and Cultural
History
A ‘new history’ of ancient Greece
intended to represent the
latest generation of thinking on the Classical World.
The textbook style format spans the Bronze to the
Hellenistic age, exploring military, political, social and
economic matters, as well as selecting outstanding
persons or themes for more in-depth treatment.
568p b/w illus, col pls (Oxford UP 2nd ed 2008) Pb
was £37.50 now £9.95
The Ancient Olympics
by Nigel Spivey.
Nigel Spivey reveals that the
ancient games was no friendly
competition and celebration of
unity and togetherness, but a
contest of intense rivalry with
great kudos to be won or lost.
The place of athletics and the gymnasium in Greek
society, and the citizen’s civic duty to be in good shape
are discussed before Spivey turns to ancient Olympia
where it all started.
273p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2004, Pb 2012) Pb was £9.99
now £3.95
The Athenian Empire
by Russell Meiggs.
A comprehensive re-examination
of all the literary and epigraphic
evidence relating to the nature of
Athenian imperialism in the fifth
century BC. Meiggs’ classic study
in particular uses inscriptions
to reconstruct the empire’s development, both
institutionally, and in terms of how it was viewed by
the allies and by the Athenians themselves.
The Field Campaigns of
Alexander the Great
by Stephen English.
This book reconstructs the
campaigns, and in particular the
battles of Alexander, arguing that
the course of the initial phases
at least can be discerned with a
reasonable degree of accuracy. An overall picture is
built up of Alexander’s strategic and tactical brilliance.
Persian Invasions of Greece
by Arthur Keaveny.
This new account of the Persian
Wars takes a traditional narrative
approach, relying heavily on
Herodotus and retaining much of
his dramatic flavour. The story is
however, not told solely from a
Greek perspective, and in contextualising the events,
Keaveny gives space to explaining Persian kingship,
administration and warfare.
130p col pls (Pen & Sword 2011) Hb was £19.99 now
£7.95
Tyrants of Syracuse
War in Ancient Sicily
by Jeff Champion.
This book traces the course of
Syracuse’s wars under the tyrants
from the Battle of Himera (480 BC)
against the Carthaginians down to
the death of Dionysius I (367 BC),
whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city’s
power and influence.
249p col pls (Pen & Sword 2010) Hb was £25.00 now
£7.95
In Pursuit of the Absolute
Art of the Ancient World
The George Ortiz Collection
by George Ortiz.
This sumptuous volume presents
280 objects from the important
private collection of antiquities
assembled by George Ortiz. The
majority of the pieces are ancient Greek, but the
collection also covers Egypt, the Near East and the
wider Mediterranean as well as artefacts from further
afield.
450p, col illus (Benteli 1996) Hb was £60.00 now £19.95
The First Clash
The Miraculous Greek Victory
at Marathon and Its Impact on
Western Civilization
by Jim Lacey
A popular military history of the
events leading up to Marathon
and the battle itself, taking up
the position made famous by Victor Davis Hanson
that the strategy deployed by the Greeks marks the
beginning of a distinctive “western way of war”.
233p b/w illus (Bantam Books 2011) Hb was £20.00
now £7.95
Greece
The Sculpture of the
Sanctuary of Athena Polias
at Priene
by J C Carter.
Carter uses the notebooks of the
original excavators to construct a
detailed study of the Hellenistic
temple’s sculpture, now largely
preserved in the British Museum. He analyses the
material and advances suggestions for the original
position of the relief sculpture. Also contains a fully
illustrated catalogue.
412p, 45 b/w pls (Society of Antiquaries 1983) Hb
was £48.00 now £4.95
East Greek Influence on Attic
Vases
by D A Jackson.
A study of vase-painting in
the 6th and 7th centuries BC,
emphasising the importance of
Ionic appreciation of shape and
subsidiary decoration, whilst
stressing the independence of the Athenian tradition
of figure drawing.
86p, 33 b/w pls (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic
Studies 1976) Pb only £2.95
Attrition
Aspects of Command in the
Peloponnesian War
by Godfrey Hutchinson.
A military narrative of the
Peloponnesian War, focusing on
the strategies employed by the
generals who dominated the
different stages of the war - Pericles, Brasidas, Kleon,
Alcibiades, Lysander et al.
304p b/w pls (Spellmount 2006) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Studies in Greek
Numismatics in Memory of
Martin Jessop Price
edited by R Ashton and S Hurter.
42 essays covering a broad range
of subjects, including coins from
Phrygia, Pergamon, Samos,
Athens, Syracuse, Lydia, Cyprus,
the Black Sea and Poseidonia-Paestum, and questions
of history, iconography, subject matter, links to political
and social change and economic values.
400p, 79 b/w pls (Spink and Son 1998) Hb £90.00
now £19.95
The Great God Pan
by John Boardman.
A lively survey by a leading
expert on Greek art, examining
the representation of the clovenhoofed deity from archaic Greece,
through Pan’s `rediscovery’ in the
Renaissance and up to our own
times, accompanied by many illustrations of related
art and sculpture.
48p, 53b/w pls (Thames and Hudson 1997) Hb was
£7.95 now £3.95
Ancient Athens on 5
Drachmas a Day
by Philip Matyszak.
Written in the style of of modern
travel guide this fun book takes the
reader around the sights of fifth
century Athens. There’s advice on
eating and drinking, on the correct
protocol at the theatre or a symposium on where to
stay and so on.
135p b/w and col illus (Thames & Hudson 2008) Pb
was £12.95 now £5.95
Alexander at the Battle of
the Granicus
A Campaign in Context
by Rupert Matthews.
The majority of this book is a
detailed examination of Greek
and Macedonian equipment,
military organisation and tactics,
highlighting the different roles of troop types. The
background to the campaign is discussed before the
battle itself is the subject of a detailed reconstruction.
256p b/w illus and pls (The History Press 2008) Hb
was £20.00 now £7.95
Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum: Ireland,
Fascicule 1
University College Dublin,
University College Cork
by Alan W Johnston and Christina
Souyoudzoglou-Haywood.
A catalogue of 387 pieces including
Late Bronze Age, Athenian black figure and red figure,
Black-Glazed, Italian and Etruscan vases and sherds.
80p, 60 b/w pls, b/w figs (University College Dublin
Classical Museum Publications 2000) Hb was £55.00
now £19.95
The Mother of the Gods,
Athens and the Tyranny of
Asia
by Mark H. Munn
Mark Munn examines how the
cult of Mother of the Gods came
from Phrygia and Lydia, where
she was the mother of tyrants, to
Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian
democracy.
476p (University of California Press 2006) Hb was
£39.99 now £14.95
Language and History in
Ancient Greek Culture
by Martin Ostwald.
This volume of essays, selected
by Martin Ostwald from his work
over the last forty years, contains
significant contributions on Greek
(especially Athenian) political
culture and thought, both in theory and reality.
Prominent themes include the nature of Athenian
democracy and imperialism, the place of philosophy
and philosophers within this, and the political thought
of Herodotus and Thucydides.
£45.50 now £12.95
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Lords of the Sea
The Epic Story of the Athenian
Navy and the Birth of
Democracy
by J.R. Hale.
An eminently readable naval
history of Athens, covering the
years from the Battle of Salamis
to the death of Alexander in 323BC. Hale, a maritime
archaeologist, focuses his narrative on the great
naval battles of the Peloponnesian War, the tactics
and strategies employed, and the construction and
logistics of the Athenian navy. 395p b/w illus (Penguin
2009) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Why Socrates Died
by Robin Waterfield.
Waterfield brings to life the
background to the famous trial of
Socrates, and by placing the events
firmly in the context of Athenian
political (and to some extent
religious) culture he shows that
Socrates’ death was by no means the act of senseless
barbarism that it might seem to a modern observer.
Rather he sees Socrates as a scapegoat, punished as
the embodiment of a whole raft of political and social
trends.
253p b/w pls (WW Norton 2009) Hb was £20.00 now
£6.95
Greece
History and Treasures of an
Ancient Civilization
by Stefano Maggi
A
sumptuous
coffee-table
style presentation of some of
the glories of Greek art, from
the frescos of Knossos to the
Hellenistic age. The accompanying text provides an
outline historical narrative and explains the main
artistic developments.
207p col illus (White Star 2007) Hb was £19.99 now
£9.95
A Visitor’s Guide to the
Ancient Olympics
by Neil Faulkner.
travel guide, Neil Faulkner here
provides a light-hearted, but
informative introduction to
the ancient Olympics, bringing
to life all of the sights and smells of the games. As
well as describing the events themselves he looks
at the religious aspects of the games, and also the
more practical dimension, painting a picture of a vast
unsanitary tent city, alive with hedonism, politics and
poetry. 263p b/w illus (Yale UP 2012) Pb was £14.99
now £4.95
The Genius of Alexander the
Great
by Nicholas Hammond.
Based on a thorough analysis
of the ancient sources and
enriched by a lifetime of research,
Hammond’s narrative pronounces
the Macedonian conqueror a
man truly deserving of the title Alexander the Great.
According to Hammond, Alexander was a visionary
statesman and general, the force behind a kingdom
which rose above racism and nationalism to enjoy
peace and prosperity.
220p (Duckworth 1997) Pb was £12.99 now £3.95
Greek Literature and Philosophy
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Annotations in Greek and
Latin Texts from Egypt
edited by K. McNamee.
This Corpus of Marginal and
Interlinear Notes from the Greek
and Latin literary papyri of Egypt is
arranged alphabetically by author
(from Aeschylus to Xenophon). A
series of nine introductory essays sets the process
of annotating back into the various contexts from
which they derive - the scholar’s study, the teacher’s
schoolroom, etc. - and examines the ways in which
annotations were inscribed into the rolls and codices.
2007) Hb was £80.00 now £12.95
To Mega Biblon
Book-ends, End-Titles, and
Coronides in Papyri with
Hexametric Poetry
by Francesca Schironi.
A systematic and chronological
investigation into the nature
and development of end-titles in
papyrus rolls and codices of hexameter poetry from the
3rd century BC to the 6th century AD. The bulk of the
evidence for presentation of hexametric verse derives
from Homeric papyri.
250p b/w illus (American Society of Papyrologists 2010)
Hb was £44.00 now £9.95
Aris & Phillips
Classical Texts
Euripides
Sophocles
edited by C. Collard, M.J. Crop and J. Gilbert.
edited by Alan H. Somerstein and Thomas H. Talboy.
Euripides
Xenophon
Suppliant Women
Apology & Memorabilia I
edited by James Morwood.
edited by M.D. MacLeod.
Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction
and commentary.
260p (Aris & Phillips 2007) Hb was £45.00 now
£9.95, Pb was £18.00, now £4.95
and commentary.
250p (Aris & Phillips) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95, Pb
£18.00 now £4.95
Greek Orators I
The Old Oligarch
Fragmentary Plays, Volume II
This volume contains: Alexandros (together with
Palamedes and Sisyphus), Oedipus, Andromeda,
Antiope, Hypsipyle, Archelaus. Greek text with facingpage translation, introduction and commentary.
400p (Aris & Phillips 2004) Hb £45.00 now £9.95, Pb
was £22.50 now £4.95
Antiphon, Lysias
edited by M. Edwards and S. Usher.
and commentary.
84p (Aris & Phillips 2004) Hb was £45.00 now £9.95
Herodas
Mimiambs
edited by J.W. Rich.
and commentary.
272p (Aris & Phillips 1990) Hb was £40.00
now £9.95
Euripides
Medea
edited by Judith Mossman.
and commentary.
Euripides
Helen
edited by Peter Burian.
and commentary.
£9.95, Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
Aristotle
edited by Stanley Ireland.
Euripides
edited by C.J. Rowe.
Roman History, 53.1 - 55.9
and commentary.
Menander
Symposium
Cassius Dio
edited by J L Marr and P J Rhodes.
Greek text with parallel English translation, accom
panied by an introduction and notes.
Plato
and commentary.
£9.95, Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to
Xenophon
On Sleep and Dreams
Greek text with facing translation.
and commentary.
£9.95, Pb was £19.99 now £4.95
edited by A.J. Podlecki.
The plays included are The Epigoni, Oenomaus,
Palamedes, The Arrival of Nauplius, Nauplius and the
Beacon, The Shepherds and Triptolemus. Greek text
with facing-page translation.
£9.95, Pb was £24.99 now £4.95
edited by Graham Zanker.
The Shield and Arbitration
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Fragmentary Plays Volume II
and commentary.
240p (Aris & Phillips 1998) Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
Plutarch
Lives of Aristeides and Cato
edited by D. Sansone.
and commentary.
Sophocles
Ajax
edited by A.F. Garvie.
and commentary.
edited by David Gallop.
Children of Heracles
edited by William Allan.
and commentary.
Pindar
Selected Odes
edited by Stephen Instone.
and commentary.
Sophocles
Antigone
edited by A.L. Brown.
and commentary.
Thucydides
History, Book IV - V.24
edited by P.J. Rhodes.
and commentary.
Sophocles
Fragmentary Plays I
edited by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick and
Talboy Thomas.
The selection includes four plays about the Trojan
War and its aftermath, all concerned with Achilles or
his son Neoptolemus (The Diners, Troilus, Polyxene,
and Hermione), and two presenting episodes from
Athenian legend (Tereus and Phaedra). Greek text
with parallel English translation.
£9.95, Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
Xenophon and Arrian on Hunting
edited by A.A. Phillips and M.M. Willcock.
and commentary.
£9.95, Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
Xenophon
Symposium
edited by A.J. Bowen.
and commentary.
Greek Drama IV
edited by David Rosenbloom and
John Davidson.
Euripides forms the heart of the
volume. Eight of its fourteen
papers deal with his plays,
whilst two papers examine
plays by Sophocles, and one is
on Aescylus’ Persians. Other contributions look at
the democratic context of Athenian drama, and the
means of financing plays.
328p b/w illus (Aris & Phillips 2012) Hb was £48.00
now £9.95
Playing Around
Aristophanes
edited by Lynn Kozak and John Rich.
£35.00 now £10.00
Essays in celebration of the
completion of the edition of the
comedies of Aristophanes by
Alan Sommerstein
(Aris & Phillips 2006) Hb was
Iphigenias at Aulis
Textual Multiplicity, Radical
Philology
by Sean Alexander Gurd.
Gurd offers a new perspective
on modern textual criticism of
the classics based on the fact
that they are constantly in flux
as scholars continue to produce new translations and
commentaries on the different extant versions and
fragments that have survived. He takes the Euripidean
tragedy Iphigenias at Aulis as his case study, exploring
thirteen different versions of the piece.
Masks of Authority
Fiction and Pragamatics in
Ancient Greek Poetics
by Claude Calame.
These interlinked essays explore
the means used by ancient Greek
poets to create in their works a
fictional authorship. The volume
shows that they made of their poems, through various
discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the
collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the
ideas of craft and performance.
Thucydides
Simplicius
by N K Rutter.
translated by Barrie Fleet.
Books VI-VII (Companion)
A companion to the Penguin
translation with a commentary
on the historical intricacies.
Books VI and VII describe the
disastrous Athenian expedition
to Sicily and their powerful narrative reinforces
Thucydides’ own view of the scale on which the
war was fought and the amount of suffering and
destruction caused.
83p (Bristol CP 1997) Pb was £7.95 now £2.95
Aristotle and the Stoics
by F H Sandbach.
Sandbach argues that the influence
of Aristotle on the Stoics has often
been exaggerated and that there
is little evidence that Aristotle’s
importance as a philosopher was
known at the time.
88p (Cambridge Phil Soc Supplementary Vol 10, 1985) Pb
£15.00 now £3.95
The Eudemian and
Nicomachean Ethics
A Study in the Development of
Aristotle’s Thought
by C J Rowe.
A discussion of the authorship
and themes of these two texts
and the surviving manuscripts.
123p (Cambridge Phil Soc Supplementary Vol 3, 1971)
Pb £15.00 now £2.95
On Aristotle’s Categories 7-8
In Categories chapters 7 and
8 Aristotle considers his third
and fourth categories - those of
Relative and Quality. Critics of
Aristotle had suggested for each
of the non-substance categories that they could really
be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the
category of Relative is defined.
Simplicius
On Aristotle’s Physics 8.6-10
translated by Richard McKirahan.
Aristotle’s Physics is about the
causes of motion and culminates
in a proof that God is needed as
the ultimate cause of motion.
Simplicius reveals that his
teacher, Ammonius, harmonised Aristotle with Plato
to counter Christian charges of pagan disagreement,
by making Aristotle’s God a cause of beginningless
movement, but of beginningless existence of the
universe.
Plato’s Arguments for Forms
by R W Jordan.
This study of Plato’s Forms
demonstrates his concern with
the nature of knowledge and
explanation and his interest in the
contradictions that he thought to
be presented to the intellectual by
the sensible world; contradictions that could not be
resolved without knowledge of the Forms.
103p (Cambridge Phil Soc Supplementary Vol 9, 1983)
Pb was £15.00 now £3.95
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Plato’s Myths
edited by Catalin Partenie.
This volume is a collection of ten
studies by eminent scholars that
focus on the ways in which some
of Plato’s most famous myths are
interwoven with his philosophy.
The myths discussed include the
eschatological myths of the Gorgias, the Phaedo,
the Republic and Laws 10, the central myths of the
Phaedrus and the Statesman, and the so-called myth
of the Noble Lie from the Republic.
now £14.95
Theocritus and the
Invention of Ancient Fiction
by Mark Payne.
The bucolic poetry of Theocritus
is the first literature to invent
a fully fictional world that is
not an image of reality but
an alternative to it. This book
examines these poems in the light of ancient and
modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how
access to this fictional world is mediated by form and
how this world appears as an object of desire for the
characters within it.
£14.95
Tradition and Innovation in
Hellenistic Poetry
by Marco Fantuzzi.
This revised and expanded study,
translated into English from
Italian, examines Hellenistic
poetry of the 3rd and 2nd
centuries within its intellectual
and cultural context. The works of poets such as
Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Philodemus and
Theocritus are discussed in terms of the continuity of
genre and tradition, and striving for independence
from it.
£24.95
Ancient Epistemology
by Lloyd P/ Gerson.
Gerson explores ancient accounts
of the nature of knowledge and
belief from the Presocratics up to
the Platonists of late antiquity. He
argues that ancient philosophers
generally held a naturalistic view
of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge
was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically
determined type of belief, but was rather a real or
objectively determinable achievement.
179p (Cambridge UP 2009) Pb was £17.99 now £7.95
Euripides and the Poetics of
Nostalgia
by Gary S. Meltzer.
This book provides detailed
studies of four of Euripides’
plays (Hippolytus, Hecuba,
Ion and Helen), looking at the
tension between nostalogia and
skepticism. Whilst Euripides has often been seen
as shockingly new - in Aristophanes he represents
everything that is wrong about the questioning
sophistry of Athenian society - Gary Meltzer argues
that there is another side to his work, a deep nostalgia
for the past and a belief in a golden age of simplicity
and truth. 266p (Cambridge UP 2006) Hb was £69.99
now £14.95
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The Narrator in Archaic
Greek and Hellenistic Poetry
by A.D. Morrison.
This book examines the ways
in which the great poets of the
Hellenistic age were influenced
by their Archaic forebears. It
focuses on narrative poetic texts
and examines the role of the narratorial voice.
£19.95
The Household as the
Foundation of Aristotle’s
Polis
By D. Brendan Nagle.
The success of the polis in all
its forms lay in the reliability of
households to provide it with
the kinds of citizens it needed to
ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the
members of its households a unique opportunity for
humans to flourish. This book explains how Aristotle
thought household and state interacted within the
polis. 352p (Cambridge UP 2006) Hb was £69.99 now
£19.95
The Rape of Troy
Evolution, Violence and the
World of Homer
by Jonathan Gottschall.
The fierce competitiveness and
violence of Homeric society is
often remarked upon. Jonathan
Gottschall proposes a highly
original explanation for this phenomenon, that the
practice of enslaving the women of conquered enemies
and concentrating them in the hands of leading men
meant that there was a chronic imbalance of available
women to men within Homeric society.
221p (Cambridge UP 2008) Hb was £62.00 now £9.95
Alexander of Aphrodisias
On Aristotle Metaphysics 2
and 3
translated by William E Dooley and
Arthur Madigan
Aristotle’s Metaphysics 2 consists
of two chapters on methodology
flanking an important discussion
of the impossibility of infinite causal chains.
Alexander’s commentary was subsequently used
by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their
own commentaries, so that Alexander’s Aristotelian
interpretation can be compared with its rivals.
242p (Duckworth 1992) Hb was £75.00 now £10.00
Alexander of Aphrodisias
On Aristotle Prior Analytics
1.1-7
trans. by Jonathan Barnes, Susanne
Bobzien, Kevin Flannery and
Katerina Ierodiakonou
This
volume
contains
a
translation of the first third
of the commentary - the part dealing with nonmodal syllogistic. The translation is preceded by a
substantial introduction which discusses Alexander’s
place in the commentatorial tradition and his use of
logical terminology.
Euripides
Ancient Fable
by Emma Griffiths.
by Niklas Holzberg.
Heracles
This book is a useful companion
to the play, in which Emma
Griffiths analyses key themes and
characters, while situating the
drama in the wider context of
Greek tragedy and mythology. Euripides’ approach to
drama is illustrated through consideration of the hero’s
self-awareness, and the reception of the play in later
art and literature is discussed as part of an exploration
of the ‘universality’ of tragedy.
175p (Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman
Tragedy 2006) Pb was £11.99 now £4.95
An Introduction
This unique ìntroduction’ to the
history of the fable looks at both
literary form and structure, and at
generic history through the works
of Greek and Roman authors and
those fabulists who re-shaped the material of their
predecessors to form new fables. Among the fables
discussed are the books of Phaedrus (1st century AD),
Babrius (3rd century AD), Avianus (4th-5th century AD),
and the Aesopic tradition.
128p (Indiana UP 2002) Pb was £11.50 now £4.95
Philoponus
Pindar
translated by William Charlton
edited and translated by Anne
Pippin Burnett.
On Aristotle on the Intellect
In his commentary on a portion
of Aristotle’s de Anima (On the
Soul) known as de Intellectu
(On the Intellect), Philoponus
drew on both Christian and
Neoplatonic traditions as he reinterpreted Aristotle’s
views on such key questions as the immortality of the
soul, the role of images in thought, the character of
sense perception and the presence within the soul of
universals.
The Poetics of Aristotle
by S Halliwell.
An introduction, translation and
commentary providing a reliable
version of Aristotle’s Poetics and
guidance to their significance.
For each chapter of the Poetics
there is a running commentary
which explains the structure and detail of Aristotle’s
argument, attempts to provoke further thought about
the work’s strengths and weaknesses, and offers some
suggestions on relating the Poetics to later stages of
literary theory and practice.
198p (Duckworth 1987) Pb was £16.99 now £2.95
Simplicius
On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and
10-14
translated by J. O. Urmson
A translation of Simplicius’
commentary on the chapters
on place and time in Aristotle’s
Physics book 4. It is a rich source
for the preceding 800 years’ discussion of Aristotle’s
views.
Wooden Horse
The Liberation of the Western
Mind from Odysseus to
Socrates
by Keld Zeruneith.
Taking as his starting point the
Illiad and Odyssey of Homer,
specifically Odysseus’ use of
guile rather than force to prevail, Keld Zeruneith
argues that the heroic age of Greece represented a
major turning point in the history of human thought,
opening the way for modern ideas of philosophy,
poetry and society.
606p (Duckworth Overlook 2007) Hb was £30.00 now
9.95
Odes for Victorious Athletes
A new translation of Pindar’s
Victory Odes. Brief introductions
to each poem explain matters
of context and mythological
symbolism, as well as what we know of the victors
and their patrons.
191p (Johns Hopkins UP 2010) Pb was £10.50 now
£4.95
Aristeas of Proconnesus
by J.D.P. Bolton.
This study draws together and
classifies all of the fragments of
the Arimaspea of Aristeas known
to us from ancient texts. It also
examines in detail its status in
antiquity, and all the evidence of
Aristeas the journey which his poem describes and
his connection with Pythagoras.
258p b/w illus (Oxford UP 1962, repr. 1999) Hb was
£12.99 now £5.95
Heraclides of Pontus
by H.B. Gottschalk.
An outline of the life of Heraclides
and his fragmentary writings (on
the theory of matter, astronomy,
ethical and religious topics) is
followed by an attempt to recon
struct his thought. He emerges as
not so much a profound thinker as a many-sided writer
of considerable literary gifts and occasional flashes of
brilliance.
now £5.95
Homer’s Cosmic Fabrication
Choice and Design in the Iliad
by Bruce Heiden.
A new attempt to get to the
bottom of the organisation
and construction of the Iliad,
which proposes that the poem
is structured in such a way as to
make reading it profitable, as opposed to the standard
conception of its being an oral experience. Heiden
notes that Zeus provides a unifying plot driver, but
that the division of the work into books also creates a
structure to the work as it is read, which flags up major
events, and delineates sub-plots.
Simplicius
On Aristotle’s On the Heavens
1.1-4
translated by R.J. Hankinson.
In chapter 1 of On the Heavens
Aristotle instroduces a fifth
element, beyond Plato’s four,
to explain the rotation of the
heavens. In explaining the creation, Simplicius
follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle’s four
‘causes’ to six.
Arion’s Lyre
Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic
Poetry
by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes.
This study examines how
Hellenistic poetic culture adapted,
reinterpreted, and transformed
Archaic Greek lyric through a
complex process of textual, cultural, and creative
reception. It explores the ways in which the poetry
of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides
was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars
and poets.
252p (Princeton UP 2010) Hb was £32.95 now £12.95
From Protagoras to Aristotle
Essays in Ancient Moral
Philosophy
by Hilda Segvic.
These papers range from a literary
study of Homer’s influence on
Plato’s Protagoras to analytic
studies of Aristotle’s metaphysics
and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers
reflect directly or indirectly Segvic’s idea that both
Socrates’ and Aristotle’s universalism and objectivism
in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to
Protagorean relativism.
Thucydides
The Reinvention of History
by Donald Kagan.
This study of the great historian
of the Peloponnesian War gets
away from any idea of Thucydides
as a neutral observer, contrasting
his presentation of events
and politics with other contemporary accounts to
highlight his opinions and prejudices. Kagan reveals
a sophisticated historian who puts forward his own
agenda with great skill.
257p (Viking 2009) Hb was £22.95, now £9.95
The Masters of Truth in
Archaic Greece
by Marcel Detienne.
In archaic Greece, three figures
– the diviner, the bard and the
king – all shared the privilege of
dispensing truth by virtue of the
religious power of divine memory.
Beginning with this definition of the pre-rational
meaning of truth, Detienne examines the conceptual
and historical contexts for a notion of truth which still
influences modern Western philosophy.
231p (Zone Books 1996) Hb was £27.99 now £9.95
The Public and the Private
in Aristotle’s Political
Philosophy
by Judith A. Swanson.
A
detailed
discussion
of
Aristotle’s treatment of public
and private morality, focusing
on the household, mastery and
slavery, women, the economy, law, political education
and friends.
244p (Cornell UP 1992, Pb 1994) Pb was £16.50 now
£4.95
Thucydides
Ancient Rome
by Perez Zagorin.
by Pat Southern.
An Introduction for the
Common Reader
An exploration of Thucydides’
continuing importance and
profound originality as a
historian. The first half of the book
discusses the intellectual and historical background to
Thucydides’ work. The following chapters deal with
the portrayal of the Athenian leader Pericles and the
account of some of the main episodes of the war, as
well as Thucydides’ methodology.
190p (Princeton UP 2005) Pb was £14.95 now £5.95
Ancient Scepticism
by Harald Thosrund.
An engaging, rigorous introduction
to the arguments, central themes
and general concerns of ancient
Scepticism, from its beginnings
with Pyrrho of Elis (c.360c.270
BCE) to the writings of Sextus
Empiricus in the second century CE.
248p (University Press of California 2009) Pb was
£16.99 now £6.95
The Rise and Fall of an Empire,
753 BC - AD 476
A traditional narrative of Rome,
ab urbe condita to the abdication
of Romulus Augustulus. The
focus is overwhelmingly political
and military, but the clear and witty style means that
you never feel that you are simply reading an endless
list of emperors, battles and usurpations.
381p col pls (Amberley 2009) Hb was £20.00 now
£7.95
The Ancient Romans
by Michael Vickers.
An introduction to life in Rome
and its Empire from the first
century BC to the end of the
fourth century AD, based on the
collections of the Ashmolean
Museum in Oxford. Looks at the
differences between town and country, at food and
drink, medicine, religion, and the army.
64p b/w and col illus (Ashmolean 1992) Pb was £7.95
now £2.95
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Greek and Latin Inscriptions
in the Konya Archaeological
Museum
by B.H. McLean.
The texts here shed an
irreplaceable light on city and
country society around a major
centre from the early Roman to
the Byzantine period, and the photographs at the end
of the volume illustrate most of the characteristic
inscribed monuments for the first time.
192p, 189 b/w illus and 1 map (British Institute of
Archaeology at Ankara, Monograph 2002) Hb was
£40.00 now £12.95
Temples, Religion and
Politics in the Roman
Republic
by Eric M. Orlin.
This book explores the relationship
between the individual and the
community in the construction
of a new temple and analyses the
formal processes involved: the vow, the placing of a
contract and the dedication, as well as the importance
of the Sibylline books, use of war booty and the role
played by the senate, which Orlin argues is more
significant than previously thought.
240p (Brill 1997, Pb 2002) Pb was £45.00 now
£19.95
Archives and Excavations
Essays on the History of
Archaeological Excavations
in Rome and Southern Italy
from the Renaissance to the
Nineteenth Century
edited by Ilaria Bignamini.
Archives and Excavations aims to
stimulate a new approach to the history of excavation
by drawing attention to a vast and important area of
research that has been neglected for almost a century.
308p, 151 b/w illus (Archaeological Monograph 14,
British School at Rome 2004) Pb was £49.50 now
£22.50
Bridging the Tiber
Approaches to Regional
Archaeology in the Middle
Tiber Valley
edited by Helen Patterson.
Few river valleys can claim the
historical importance of the Tiber,
and an understanding of the river
and its valley is key to an understanding of Rome and
its place in the ancient world . Here 19 essays examine
the changing landscapes on both sides of the valley
from 1000 BC to AD 1300.
336p, 128 b/w figs, 8 col pls, 14 tabs (British School
at Rome 2004) Pb was £49.95 now £22.50
Excavations at the Mola di
Monte Gelato
A Roman and Medieval
Settlement in South Etruria
by T W Potter, A C King et al.
Reports on the excavations in the
late 1980s of an Augustan villa 30
km north of Rome as well as a 9thcentury fortified ecclesiastical centre and papal estate.
456p, 255 figs, tbs (British School at Rome 1997) Pb
was £55.00 now £15.00
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Portus
An Archaeological Survey of
the Port of Imperial Rome
by Simon Keay, Martin Millett, Lidia
Parolli and Kristian Strutt.
This volume presents the full
results of a survey undertaken
between 1997 and 2002 and
uses them as the basis for a re-evaluation of the
whole port complex. The geophysical survey results
are interpreted in the context of earlier work at the
site in order to offer new perspectives on the character
and development of the site.
360p, 233 b/w illus, one fold-out (British School at
Rome 2006) Pb was £49.50 now £35.00
Roman Bodies
Antiquity to the Eighteenth
Century
edited by Andrew Hopkins and
Maria Wyke.
This collection of seventeen essays
explores the dramatic changes in
Western conceptions of the body,
encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across
Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the
eighteenth century.
266p, b/w illus (British School at Rome 2005) Pb was
£32.00 now £16.00
Romans in Northern
Campania
by P Arthur.
Examines the archaeology and
history of the area round the
Massico and Garigliano Basin to
discuss the regions settlement
and land-use. Includes the famed
Ager Falernus and the Roman and Latin colonies of
Minturnae, Sinuessa and Suessa Aurunca.
137p, 22 figs, 20 pls (British School at Rome 1991) Pb
was £30.00 now £12.50
San Rocco Villa at Francolise
by M. Aylwin Cotton and Guy P. R.
Metraux.
Full report on the 1962-6
excavations of the villa and on
the finds, with discussion of the
region.
277p incl. 66 figs plus 1 foldout
and 98 photos (British School at Rome 1985) Hb was
£15.00 now £5.00
The Late Republican Villa at
Posto, Francolise
by M A Cotton.
Reports on the 1962-5 excavations
with a full description of pottery
and other finds, as well as
observations on the olive oil
industry at the site, and the rural
economy of the villa, more widely.
200p, 69 figs, 56 pls (British School at Rome 1979) Hb
was £15.00 now £5.00
Visions of Rome
Thomas Ashby, Archaeologist
by Richard Hodges.
An academic biography of
Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), the
first scholar and third Director of
the British School at Rome. His
‘Roman Campagna in Classical
Times’ remains a classic work of topographic research.
134p, 40 b/w figs (British School at Rome 2000) Hb
was £13.95 now £8.95
Interpretatio Rerum
edited by Susan S. Lukesh.
Eight essays by students of R
Ross Holloway discussing and
interpreting Greek and Roman
objects. Subjects: EBA Sicilian
geometric decoration; sociopolitical symbolism in Greek vasepainting; mortal and divine scenes on Greek vases; the
Herms of Hipparchos and the propaganda of wisdom;
female sexuality and Danae; cityscape in the Roman
world; family values; Augustan imagery on coinage
from Paphos.
97p, b/w figs and pls (Brown University 1999) Pb was
£29.00 now £6.95
Myth, Sexuality and Power
Images of Jupiter in Western
Art
edited by Frances Van Keuren.
These essays deal with themes
relating to Jupiter’s roles as
father and lover, looking at issues
of masculinity and sexuality in
Roman art.
114P b/w illus (Brown UP 1998) was £29.00 now
£6.95
Rome’s Alpine Frontier
edited by R. Ross Holloway.
Contains five papers: Frederick
J a c ks o n Tu r n e r a n d t h e
Roman Frontier in Italy; Signs,
Communications and Culture
Clash: Romans in Transalpine
Europe; Celtic Importation of
Roman Wine in the Second and First Centuries B.C.;
Correlational Comparison of Philip II Horses imitated
on Coins of Central and Northern Gaul; Alcuni aspetti
della presenza dei Celti nell’Italia settentrionale.
50p, illus. (Brown University 1990) Pb was £14.95
now £5.95
Samnium
Settlement and Cultural
Change
edited by Howard Jones.
This volume, publishing the
Proceedings of the Third E. Togo
Salmon Conference on Roman
Studies, includes papers by Emma
Dench, Gianfranco de Benedittis, Maurizio Gualtieri,
John Patterson, Helena Fracchia, Alexander G. McKay,
Gianluca Tagliamonte and Tim Cornell. Texts in English
and Italian.
133p, (Center for Old World Archaeology and Art,
2004) Pb was £40.00 now £9.95
Form and Fabric
Studies in Rome’s material
past in honour of B R Hartley
edited by J. Bird.
Colleagues, friends and
students pay tribute to Brian
Hartley’s contribution to Roman
archaeology and particularly to
samian studies..
324p (Oxbow Books 1998) Hb was £65.00 now £14.95
A Brief History of the Roman
Empire
by Stephen Kershaw.
A lively and entertaining narrative
history of the Roman Empire,
informal and colloquial in style,
but reliable, and packing in a vast
amount of information. Kershaw
takes a traditional approach, charting events from
the fall of the republic to the abdication of Romulus
Augustulus in 476 AD, and focusing overwhelmingly
on political and military events, as well as the lives and
characters who ruled Rome.
444p (Robinson 2013) Pb was £9.99 now £3.95
A Brief History of the
Private Lives of the Roman
Emperors
by Anthony Blond.
An entertaining, if hardly
historically rigorous, romp
through the lives of the JulioClaudian emperors (plus Julius
Caesar) along with chapters on aspects of Roman
society and culture.
The Aesthetics of Emulation
in the Visual Arts of Ancient
Rome
by Ellen Perry.
Perry looks at the aesthetics of
Roman imitation and studies
Roman literary evidence voicing
views on aesthetics and opinions
on art. Concepts of appropriateness (decorum),
eclecticism and phantasia emerge from the textual
evidence as principles by which the Romans produced
their `classicising creations’.
208p, 48 b/w figs (Cambridge UP 2005) Hb was
£58.00 now £19.95
Concrete Vaulted
Construction in Imperial
Rome
by Lynne Lancaster.
Fo c u s i n g o n st r u c t u ra l l y
innovative vaulting and the factors
that influenced its advancement,
Lynne Lancaster also explores a
range of related practices, including lightweight pumice
as aggregate, amphoras in vaults, vaulting ribs, metal
tie bars, and various techniques of buttressing. She
provides the geological background of the local building
stones and applies mineralogical analysis to determine
material provenance, which in turn suggests trading
patterns and land use. 274p b/w illus (Cambridge UP
2005) Hb was £84.99 now £19.95
Rome
Ordering Knowledge in the
Roman Empire
edited by Jason Konig.
This innovative volume gathers
together essays which consider
the place of knowledge in the
Roman Empire. They look at how
knowledge was conceived and in
what forms it was recorded, and how this relates to
the wider social and political structures and realities
of the Empire, with a broad assumption that methods
of presenting and processing knowledge are implicitly
grounded in ideology.
£14.95
A History of Exile in the
Roman Republic
by Gordon P. Kelly.
Despite its importance in the
political arena, Roman exile
has been a neglected topic in
modern scholarship. This study
examines all facets of exile in
the Roman Republic: its historical development,
technical legal issues, the possibility of restoration, as
well as the effects of exile on the lives and families of
banished men.
£14.95
Hostages and HostageTaking in the Roman Empire
by Joel Allen.
Hundreds of foreign hostages
were detained among the Romans
as the empire grew in the Republic
and early Principate. As prominent
figures at the centre of diplomacy
and as exotic representatives, or symbols, of the
outside world, they drew considerable attention in
Roman literature and other artistic media. By focusing
on the characterisations of hostages in Roman culture,
Joel Allen sheds light on Roman attitudes towards
ethnicity and imperial power. 291p b/w pls (Cambridge
UP 2006) Hb was £69.99 now £19.95
The Natural History of
Pompeii
edited by W.F. Jashemski and
Frederick G. Meyer.
This volume brings together the
work of geologists, soil specialists,
paleobotanists, botanists,
palaeontologists, biologists,
chemists, dendrochronologists, ichthyologists,
zoologists, ornithologists, mammalogists,
herpetologists, entymologists, and archaeologists,
affording a thorough picture of the landscape, flora,
and fauna of the ancient sites.
502p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2002) Hb was
£196.00 now £49.95
Religion in Republican Italy
edited by Celia Schultz and Paul B.
Harvey Jr.
Using archaeological and
epigraphic evidence as well as
the literary sources the 10 essays
presented here aim to shed light
on the ‘Romanisation’ of religion
in the Italian penninsula in the mid to late republic.
Attempts are made to define precisely what Roman as
opposed to Etruscan, Italic or Latin religion actually was
and how religious practices interlinked and influenced
each other through the period.
now £19.95
Roman Warfare
by Jonathan P. Roth.
Roth examines the evolution of
Roman warfare over its thousandyear history. He highlights the
changing arms and equipment of
the soldiers, unit organisation and
command structure, and the wars
and battles of each era. The military narrative is used
as a context for Rome’s changing tactics and strategy
and to discuss combat techniques, logistics, and other
elements of Roman warfare.
328p col illus (Cambridge UP 2009) Pb was £15.99
now £6.95
She-Wolf
The Story of a Roman Icon
by Cristina Mazzoni.
Cristina Mazzoni examines the
evolution of the she-wolf as a
symbol in western history, art,
and literature, from antiquity to
contemporary times. Used, for
example, as an icon of Roman imperial power, papal
authority, and the distance between the present and
the past, the she-wolf has also served as an allegory
for greed, good politics, excessive female sexuality, and,
most recently, modern, multi-cultural Rome.
282p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2010) Pb was £19.99
now £6.95
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Gladiators at Pompeii
by Luciana Jacobelli.
The Vesuvian eruption not only
sealed the oldest amphitheatre
to survive from antiquity, but also
grafitti, elaborate weaponry, stone
monuments and paintings which
all testify to the popularity of
gladiators, several of which are known to us by name.
This book presents the evidence from Pompeii in full
colour photographs, accompanied by reconstruction
drawings and an informative text that takes us through
the streets of Pompeii as the gladiators would have
known it. 128p col illus (Getty 2003) Hb was £24.95
now £7.95
The Lost World of Pompeii
by Colin Amery and Brian Curran.
An accessible look at everyday
life in Pompeii. Besides outlining
the history of the city and its
destruction, Amery and Curran
discuss the rediscovery of the site,
the excavations carried out there
since the early 18th century and attempts to restore
and conserve the site which is under attack from mass
tourism. ‘Voices’ from Pompeii are revealed through
the buildings and architecture, and the frescoes and
artefacts found there, accompanied by lots of superb
colour photographs. 191p col illus (Getty Trust 2002)
Hb was £35.00 now £12.95
Styling Romanisation
On The Spartacus Road
by Roman Roth.
by Peter Stothard.
Pottery and Society in Central
Italy
An analysis of black-gloss wares
from 3rd and 2nd century BC
Italy which emerged in large
numbers at this time. These show
both a broader cultural homogenisation and smaller
localised variations, which Roth argues shows that
non-elite populations were responding creatively to
Romanisation and engaging with cultural change.
£12.95
A Spectacular Journey Through
Ancient Italy
Peter Stothard retraces the
steps of Spartacus and his slave
army through Italy, interspersing
narrative and analysis of the
rebellion with modern travelogue.
368p, 70 b/w pls (Harper Collins 2010) Hb was
£18.99 now £7.95
The Great Fire of Rome
Hadrian’s Empire
by Stephen Dando-Collins.
by Danny Danziger and Nicholas
Purcell
The Fall of the Emperor Nero
and His City
Written in a novelistic style, this
book reconstructs the events
leading up to the Great Fire of
Rome in 64 AD, exploring the
rumours that it had been started by Nero, Nero’s
response to the fire (with a new suggestion as to how
he apportioned the blame) and the long term political
impact of the fire.
284p (Da Capo 2010) Hb was £16.99 now £6.95
Arms and Armour of the
Imperial Roman Soldier
From Marius to Commodus,
112 BC – AD 192
by Rafaele D’Amato and Graham
Sumner.
Raffaele D’Amato argues for a far
more diverse picture of Roman
military equipment, one that never saw a completely
standard issue set of kit, and which saw soldiers with
differing equipment fighting alongside each other.
290p col illus t/out (Frontline Books 2009) Hb was
£35.00 now £14.95
When Rome Ruled the World
Hadrian, as this book makes clear
was a remarkable emperor in many
ways: a superb administrator,
ceaselessly travelling throughout
his empire, unwarlike and philhellenic. In addition to
providing a thorough portrait of a somewhat complex
man, this book also introduces the reader to Hadrian’s
empire, to life within its borders and on its edges.
302p (Hodder 2005, Pb 2006) Pb was £8.99 now £3.95
Roman Arbitration
by Derek Roebuck.
This study examines the Roman
concept of the arbitrator, a duty
that any ‘good man’ could have
been called upon to perform,
the types of cases he might be
expected to settle, the settlements
and compromises, the hearings and the enforcement
measures available to him.
283p (Holo Books 2004) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95
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Aphrodisias Papers
Recent Work on Architecture
and Sculpture
edited by Charlotte Roueché and
Kenan T. Erim.
Twelve papers on the temple
and sculpture of the Roman and
Byzantine town in Asia Minor.
Contributors include: Joyce Reynolds (Inscriptions
of the temple of Aphrodite); Syhan Doruk (The
architecture of the temenos); R. R. R. Smith (Myth
and allegory in the Sebasteion); Kenan Erim (Portrait
sculpture of Aphrodisias).
160p, b/w pls, fold out plans (JRA Supplement 1, 1990)
Hb was £55.00 now £19.95
Ancient Rome As It Was
Exploring the City of Rome in
AD 300
by Ray Laurence.
Written in the style of a
contemporary guidebook, this
fun book shows the reader
around the sights and sites of
Ancient Rome, including “must-see baths”, temples,
fora and monuments. It also provides handy advice
on everything from transport to cuisine, and crime
to etiquette.
160p b/w illus (Lyons Press 2008) Pb was £9.99 now
£3.95
Julius Caesar
by Nic Fields.
A well-illustrated look at Caesar’s
military career, detailing each
of his campaigns and battles,
his opponents, and building a
picture of his overall strategy and
goals.
The Rise of Imperial Rome,
AD 14-193
by Duncan B. Campbell.
Between AD 14 and 193, the
emperors fought to secure their
frontiers and expand the empire,
conquering Britain, campaigning
on the Rhine and fighting
the Dacian and Jewish Wars. This well illustrted
book provides a concise overview of these wars,
developing imperial policy and the troops involved.
Rome and Her Enemies
An Empire Created and
Destroyed by War
edited by Jane Penrose.
This lavishly illustrated book
surveys the development of
the Roman army alongside the
fighting forces of its major foes,
including Carthaginians, the Hellenistic kingdoms of
the east, Gauls, Persians and Goths. The text covers
battles and campaigns, military equipment, troop
types, tactics and strategy.
304p col pls (Osprey 2005, Pb 2008) Pb was £14.99
now £6.95
Scipio Aemilianus
by A E Astin.
An assessment of Scipio as a
political figure and of the general
development of the Roman
Republic. His background, his
character and the manner of
his early success are examined
and his career as a whole is considered in relation
to issues of foreign policy, to social problems and to
various trends in political behaviour.
374p. (Oxford UP 1967, rep 2002) Hb was £18.00
now £4.95
Archaeological Survey and
the City
edited by Paul Johnson and Martin
Millett.
The ability of archaeologists to
reveal the topography of buried
urban sites without excavation has
now been demonstrated through
a wide range of projects across the ancient world.
Archaeological Survey and the City reviews the results
of such projects with a marked focus on the Roman
world, and in particular discusses the ways in which
the subject might develop in the future.
£9.95
Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies 14
edited by Pamela Irving and Steven
Willis.
Volume 14 contains papers on
recent and current work on
Roman pottery from around
Britain, with papers also on case
studies from the Netherlands and Gaul.
now £5.00
Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies 15
edited by Steven Willis.
This volume of JRPS carries a
broad range of papers reflecting
the detailed ongoing scholarship
in the field of Roman pottery
studies. There is a marked
international dimension to the eleven papers.
£28.00 now £5.00
Bringing Carthage Home
Pompeii
by Joann Freed.
edited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr
and Eric Poehler.
The Excavations of Nathan
Davis, 1856-1859
This book recounts for the first
time the extraordinary story of the
excavations at Carthage directed
by the British dilettante, Nathan
Davis, and the political and cultural rivalry between
representatives of the colonial powers as they asserted
their rights to explore the buried remains of one of the
ancient world’s greatest cities.
264p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2011) Hb was
£48.00 now £9.95
Rubicon
The Triumph and Tragedy of
the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
The end of the Roman Republic
is vividly brought to life by
Tom Holland. He looks at what
each sector of the community
wanted from the Republic, the violence that they
were so ready to use to achieve it, the squabbles of
the leaders and generals, the machinations of the
senate, and the high ideals of politicians, writers
and legislators. 430p, 38 col and b/w pls (Little Brown
2003, Pb 2004) Pb was £10.99 now £4.95
Journal of Roman Military
Equipment Studies 4
edited by M.C. Bishop
Topics include a new hoard
of objects from Belgium, two
dolphin scabbards, finds of
mail in the Netherlands, finds
of military equipment from
Switzerland and the question of the disposal of
arms in the later empire. The volume also features
a translation of Pseudo-Hyginus’ de munitionibus
castrorom, and papers on tents and palisades.
now £7.95
Art, Industry and
Infrastructure
Even after more than 250 years
since its discovery, Pompeii
continues to resonate powerfully
in both academic discourse and the popular
imagination. This volume brings together a collection
of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the
present conceptions of the city’s art, industry and
infrastructure.
now £9.95
Roman Butrint
edited by Inge Lyse Hansen and
Richard Hodges.
This volume is an assessment
of the Roman archaeology of
Butrint, a compilation of studies
and field reports that focuses
upon the foundation and early
history of the colony.
224p, b/w illus, tbs, 16p col section (Oxbow Books
2006) Hb was £30.00 now £9.95
Roman Imperial Armour
The production of early
imperial military armour
by D. Sim and J. Kaminski.
Roman Imperial Armour presents
an examination of the metals the
armour was made from, of how
the ores containing those metals
were extracted from the earth and transformed into
workable metal and of how that raw product was made
into the armour of the Roman army.
£7.95
Rome
Death in Ancient Rome
by Catharine Edwards.
This book provides insights not
just into beliefs and rituals,
but into people’s expectations,
anxieties and preoccupations with
death. Catharine Edwards looks in
turn at the glorious death of the
commander, death as spectacle in the arena, the fear of
death, defiance, complicity and self-destruction, ‘dying
in character: Stoicism and the Roman death scene’,
funereal image and metaphor at the dining table, the
death of women and martyrdom.
287p b/w illus (Yale UP 2007) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
The Ince Blundell Collection
of Classical Sculpture,
Volume I - The Portraits
Part 2: The Roman Male
Portraits.
By Jane Fejfer.
This book discusses the male
portraits in the Ince Blundell
collection. Fejfer’s text places the collection in its
archaeological context, and is accompanied by
excellent photographs.
224p, illus, and 64p of plates (Liverpool UP 1998) Hb
was £60.00 now £19.95
TRAC 2002
edited by Gilian Carr, Ellen Swift
and Jake Weekes
This selection of twelve papers
from the twelfth annual
Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Conference illustrates the broad
range of different theoretical
approaches applied to Roman archaeology today; one
trend, though, is apparent: a wider engagement with
interdisciplinary research, drawing theoretical ideas
from many diverse fields of study, including philosophy,
psychology, history of art, and consumer theory.
176p (Oxbow Books 2003) was £30.00 now £7.50
TRAC 2005
edited by Ben Croxford, Helen
Goodchild, Jason Lucas and Nick
Ray.
Of the twenty-three papers
delivered at TRAC 2005, this
volume presents eight, plus
three special contributions.
These three papers were commissioned to mark the
fifteenth year of TRAC with the intention that they
should take stock of TRAC to date and look to where
it may go in the future.
now £7.50
TRAC 2009
edited by Alison Moore, Geoff
Taylor, Emily Harris and Peter
Girdwood.
Among the topics and issues
discussed are a feminist
critique of Romanization, the
Herculaneum Amazon, GIS and
cooking wares in Gaul, hortii in the city of Rome,
cadastres in the Roman northwest, the elderly in
funerary contexts of southern Britain, Samnite grave
goods, and sub-Roman Baldock.
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Wearing the Cloak
A Jew Among Romans
edited by Marie-Louise Nosch.
by Frederic Raphael.
Dressing the Soldier in Roman
Times
Wearing the Cloak contains nine
stimulating chapters on Roman
military textiles and equipment
that take textile research to a new
level. Status, prestige and access are viewed in the
light of financial and social capacities and help shed
new light on the material realities of a soldier’s life in
the Roman world.
£25.00 now £9.95
Roman Conquests
Italy by Ross Cowan.
In this enjoyable narrative Ross
Cowan focuses on the earliest
years of Rome’s expansion
from the earliest struggles for
survival of the nascent republic
traditionally dated to around 500
BC, to the final conquest of Calabria in 265 BC, by
which point Roman authority stretched throughout
Italy.
162p, b/w maps (Pen & Sword Books 2009) Hb was
£19.99 now £7.95
Warlords of Republican
Rome
Caesar Versus Pompey
by Nic Fields.
Starting with the career of Marius
this fairly traditional narrative
traces the events of the final
decades of the Republic down
to the death of Caesar. Fields focuses on the military
side of things, and intersperses his narrative of the
various campaigns with analysis of the development
of the arms, tactics and institutions of the Roman
army during this period. 238p b/w pls (Pen and Sword
2009) Hb was £19.99 now £7.95
The Life and Legacy of Flavius
Josephus
An audacious history of Josephus,
the Jewish general turned Roman
historian whose emblematic
betrayal is a touchstone for the
Jew alone in the Gentile world. Raphael goes beyond
the fascinating details of Josephus’s life and his singular
literary achievements to examine how Josephus has
been viewed by posterity.
336p (Pantheon 2013) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Hadrian and the Triumph of
Rome
by Anthony Everitt.
A popular biography of Hadrian,
whom Everitt presents as
one of Rome’s very best
emperors. He offers a detailed
appraisal of Hadrian’s foreign
policy, characterised by diplomacy and an end to
expansionism, looks at his itineraries througout the
Empire, his building projects, and Hellenizing cultural
policy.
392p b/w pls (Random House 2009, Pb 2013) Hb was
£21.99 now £7.95, Pb was £16.99 now £5.95
Ceramiques engobees
et metallescentes galloromaines
edited by Raymond Brulet, Robin P
Symonds and Fabienne Vilvorder.
Ten papers, all in French, describe
production sites of colour-coated
pottery at Lezoux, in Bourgogne
and Franche-Comte, eastern France and the Rhineland.
420p illus (RCRF 1999) Pb was £60.00 now £19.95
Cannae
Rome
by Adrian Goldsworthy.
edited by Jon E. Lewis.
Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
Using primary sources and lots of
colour images and maps, Adrian
Goldsworthy tells the story
of this epic confrontation and
Hannibal’s devastating tactics.
He begins by discussing the background to Carthage,
Rome and the Punic Wars, and considers the two rival
armies, before looking in detail at the campaign of
216 BC, the battle itself and its consequences.
201p col pls (Phoenix 2001, Pb 2007) Pb was £14.99
now £5.95
The Ash Chests and Other
Funerary Reliefs
by Glenys Davies.
A comprehensive catalogue of the
Roman marble ash chests from the
collection of Henry Blundell, now
in Liverpool. It comprises fifty four
ash chests, forty six separate lids,
two cinerary vases, two grave altars, six gravestones
and some fragments, ranging in date from the JulioClaudian period to the mid/late second century.
186p, 116pls. (Von Zabern 2007) Hb was £69.00
now £9.95
The Autobiography
The history of Ancient Rome has
been passed down to us through
official accounts, personal letters,
annotated words of great orators
and the considered histories of
powerful men. It is found on inscriptions, in private
memoirs and official reports from every corner of the
Empire. Over 150 pieces are collected here, from the
written accounts of Caesars and slaves, generals and
poets on major battles, conspiracy and politics to the
minutiae of everyday life.
453p (Running Press 2009) Pb was £9.99 now £3.95
The Adam Brothers in Rome
by A.A. Tait.
This book presents full-colour
reproductions of drawings by
the Adam Brothers executed in
the main at Rome during their
Grand Tours, and forming a
superb visual archive of Classical
architecture and the visual arts. The accompanying
text details the tours and the influence of Classical
style on the Adam brothers’ work.
160p col illus (Scala 2008) Pb was £25.00 now £9.95
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Roman Provence
A History and Guide
by Edwin Mullins.
Mullins takes the reader on a
tour of Roman Provence, which
covered a much larger area of
southern France than its current
namesake. He describes each of
the principal monuments which are now to be found,
their ancient use and the surviving examples. Triumphal
arches, aqueducts, watermills, housing, bridges, roads,
temples and theatres are all illuminated and a picture
built up of daily life in Roman times.
182p, b/w illus (Signal 2011) Pb was £12.99 now
£4.95
Monuments from Appia
and the Upper Tembris
Valley, Cotiaeum, Cadi,
Synaus, Ancyra Sidera and
Tiberiopolis
edited by B. Levick and S. Mitchell.
Contains inscribed and unin
scribed monuments from the ter
ritories of Cadi, Tiberiopolis, Ancyra Sidera, and Synaus,
which lie west of Aezani (covered in MAMA 9), and
from Appia, Cotiaeum, and the Phrygo-Mysian border.
201p, pls, illus (MAMA 10, Society for the Promotion
of Roman Studies 1993) Hb £40.00 now £7.50
Roman Material Culture
Studies in Honour of Jan
Thijssen
edited by Harry van Enckevort.
18 papers on aspects of Roman
material culture. Individual
objects are published and
discussed,
including
an
asparagus-knife handle, plugs from Roman taps, a
cloisonne-decorated sword scabbard mouthpiece,
and miniature amphorae from a Roman sanctuary.
Broader articles evaluate brooch production, and
pottery in the Netherlands. 306p b/w illus (SPA
Uitgevers 2009) Pb was £28.00 now £9.95
Roman Art
by Michael Siebler.
A b e a u t i f u l l y i l l u s t ra t e d
introduction to Roman art.
Opening with a consideration
of the development and, in
particular the purpose of Roman
art, the book then presents and
discusses some of the finest statues, mosaics, paintings
and monumental art from museums and cities across
Europe, with Rome itself best represented.
96p col illus (Taschen 2007) Pb was £6.99 now £2.95
Chronicle of the Roman
Republic
by Philip Matyszak.
From Romulus and Remus and
other rulers shrouded in the mist
of Rome’s foundation legends,
through Lucius Iunius Brutus in
the 6th century BC to Lepidus and
Octavian, this well-illustrated book guides the general
reader through 600 years of the Roman Republic.
240p (Thames & Hudson 2003) Pb was £14.95 now
£7.95
The Complete Roman Army
This is the best book on the
Roman army around at the
moment and it has everything.
Key battles are explored, tactics
discussed, the lives of the soldiers,
their equipment, diet, pay and
conditions, their careers and experiences are revealed,
bringing the literary and archaeological evidence to life.
224p b/w and col illus (Thames & Hudson 2003) Pb
was £14.95 now £6.95
Enemies of Rome
by Philip Matyszak.
This extremely enjoyable and
well-written history of Rome’s
troubles tells its story from
the point of view of seventeen
remarkable figures, including
Hannibal, Jugurtha, Mithridates,
Spartacus, Vercingetorix, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Zenobia
and Attila. The stories of each are told in an accessible
and dramatic narrative supported by extracts from
contemporary sources.
296p, b/w illus and pls (Thames and Hudson 2004, Pb
2008) Pb was £12.95 now £5.95
The Roman Remains
John Izard Middleton’s Visual
Souvenirs of 1820–1823
edited with essays and a catalogue
commentary by Charles R Mack
and Lynn Robertson.
With additional views in Italy,
France and Switzerland. Many
black and white plates of the artist’s work.
203p, b/w pls (University of South Carolina Press
1997) Hb was £39.95 now £4.95
Storming the Heavens
Soldiers, Emperors and
Civilians in the Roman Empire
by Antonio Santossuoso.
This study provides a readable and
straightforward assessment of the
Roman army and, in particular, the
relationship between soldiers,
their imperial commanders and the citizens they were
supposed to protect, from the 3rd century BC to the
5th century AD.
265p, b/w illus (Westview 2001) Pb was £26.99 now
£6.95
Sons of Caesar
Ancient Rome
by Philip Matyszak.
by Thomas R. Martin
Imperial Rome’s First Dynasty
Matyszak tells the story of
imperial Rome’s first dynasty
through the lives of six men,
Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius
Caligula, Claudius and Nero, set
against the background of the changing social and
political climate in Rome, foreign wars, the strain of
an expanding empire, domestic crises and disputes,
and rivalries for power.
£18.95 now £7.95
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii
a Day
by Philip Matyszak.
travel guide, this entertaining little
book shows the reader around the
sights of Imperial Rome. Sections
include “Where to stay”, “Medical
emergencies”, “Dining out” and “Shopping”, and there
is a walking tour of the “Must-see sights”.
144p b/w illus, col pls (Thames & Hudson 2007) Pb
was £12.95 now £5.95
From Romulus to Justinian
Interweaving social, political,
religious, and cultural history,
Martin interprets the successes
and failures of the Romans in
war, political organization, quest
for personal status, and in the integration of religious
beliefs and practices with government. He focuses
on the central role of social and moral values in
determining individual conduct as well as decisions
of state, from monarchy to republic to empire.
237p b/w illus (Yale UP 2012) Hb was £20.00 now
£7.95
Antony and Cleopatra
Goldsworthy traces Antony and
Cleopatra’s political careers, and
attempts to reconstruct their
motivations and ambitions. He
sees the picture of Antony as a
military man first and foremost as
essentially inaccurate, noting that he in fact saw less
service than many of his senatorial contemporaries.
He is also keen to overturn current emphasis on the
Egyptian factor to Cleopatra’s queenship, seeing her as
fully integrated into the Roman political world.
470p col pls (Yale UP 2010) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Contested Triumphs
The Work of Giants
by Miriam Pelikan Pittenger.
by Andrew Pearson.
Politics and Performance in
Livy’s Republican Rome
Pittinger meticulously analyses
several of the set piece triumphs
in Livy, and the debates in the
senate which led to their award.
She emphasises the importance of the triumph
in forming a symbolic occasion for Rome’s elite to
perpetuate itself, and the triumph as the pinnacle of
those occasions when the glories of Rome’s foremost
families could be ritualised, memorialised and
performed. 365p (University of California 2008) Hb
was £44.95 now £17.95
Stone and Quarrying in Roman
Britain
Andrew
Pearson
examines
evidence for stone quarrying
and building from the late Iron
Age and throughout the Roman
period, the types of stone exploited, how the
stone was procured and transported, the tools and
techniques used, native versus imported stone and
how the use of local stone influenced architectural
styles.
160p b/w illus, 25 col pls (Tempus 2006) Pb was
£19.99 now £7.95
Roman Britain
The Hoxne Treasure
by Roger Bland and Catherine
Johns.
A full, illustrated guide to the
Hoxne hoard, one of the richest
Roman treasures to have been
discovered. Over 14,000 coins
and 200 gold and silver objects
were discovered in Suffolk in 1992.
32p, b/w and col illus (British Museum Press 1993)
was £4.95 now £1.95
Imagining Roman Britain
Victorian Responses to a
Roman Past
by Virginia Hoselitz.
Taking as a case study Victorian
exca
v ations in four British
pro
v incial towns [Caerleon,
Cirencester, Colchester and
Chester] Hoselitz explores how the unearthing of
Britain’s Roman past changed the Victorian view of
their Classical heritage in often contradictory ways,
interacting with ideas of Britain’s imperial destiny, and
the democratising nature of archaeology.
208p (Boydell 2007) Hb was £50.00 now £6.95
Corpus Signorum Imperii
Romani
Great Britain Vol I Fasc 2
by B W Cunliffe and M G Fulford.
A corpus of sculpture from Bath
and the central southern English
counties.
59p plus 48p of p/w pls (British
Academy/OUP 1982) Hb was £50.00 now £9.95
Romani
Great Britain Vol I Fasc 2
by B W Cunliffe and M G Fulford.
A corpus of sculpture from Bath
and the central southern English
counties. The stones include
religious sculptures, funerary
monuments and miscellaneous representations of
human figures, animals and other subjects
59p plus 48p of p/w pls (British Academy/OUP 1982)
Hb was £50.00 now £9.95
Roman Sculpture from
Eastern England
Romani: Great Britain 1, Fasc 8
by Janet Huskinson.
A complete catalogue of
Roman sculptures from
Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk,
Lincolnshire, South Humberside, Cambridgeshire,
Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and
Nottinghamshire, including such major sites as Lincoln
and Colchester. Contains descriptions and illustrations.
96p, 32 pls (British Academy 1994) Hb £45.00 now
£9.95
Monographs and Collections
1: Roman Sites
edited by George Boon.
This volume reports on excavations
of Roman sites of Roman sites in
Wales. Contents: Excavations
on the site of a Roman quay at
Caerleon and its significance;
Excavations at Great Bulmore near Caerleon;
Excavations at Brithdir, near Dolgellau; Excavations at
Church Street, Carmarthen; Remains of crops and other
plants from Carmarthen; Plant-remains from Caerwent;
A Roman pottery kiln at Llanedeyrn.
129P (Cambrian Archaeological Society 1978) Pb was
£10.00 now £4.95
Cataractonium, Part II
by P R Wilson.
The second and final volume to
publish the results of excavations
and research carried out at Roman
Catterick, North Yorkshire, (1958–
1997) focuses on the impressive
assemblage of small finds which
raise questions about the nature of the settlement.
524p, many b/w figs, tbs, CD-Rom (CBA 2002) Pb was
£32.00 now £6.95
Finds from the Frontier:
Material Culture in the 4th-5th
Centuries
edited by Rob Collins and Lindsay
Allason-Jones.
Papers which elucidate the life of
the 4th-century limitanei of Britain
through their material culture.
They consider whether the excavated artefacts justify
the traditional implication that the period is one of
declining standards.
161p b/w and col illus (CBA 2010) Pb was £35.00 now
£20.00
Londinium and Beyond
edited by John Clark et al.
This collection begins with a
section on the chronology and
cartography of Roman London.
The second section examines the
landscape and environment of
Roman London and its hinterland.
The third part of the book examines themes which are
more difficult to identify through the archaeological
record, such as education, cults and attitudes to death
and burial. The fourth section focuses on artefacts,
including brooches, inkwells and toilet implements.
294p b/w and col illus (CBA 2008) Pb was £35.00 now
£20.00
Roman Alcester 3
Northern Extramural Area
by Paul Booth and Jeremy Evans.
The volume includes reports
on ceramics and metal objects
which were associated with the
original military settlement and
the development of the town in
the early 60s AD. In addition, evidence was found for
the first civilian structures which were built on top of
early, regular and possibly military buildings.
328p, 177 b/w figs, fiche (CBA 2001) Pb was £36.00
now £4.95
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Roman Droitwich
by Derek Hurst.
This colume covers three major
sites in Roman Droitwich (Salinae).
The full extent and character of
the Neronian fort on Dodderhill
are explained, and the remains of
the large and spectacular villa at
Bays Meadow are also revealed. A third site provides
evidence for settlement alongside an adjacent Roman
road, and was notable for producing rich deposits of
charred grain.
265p, b/w pls, illus, CD Rom (CBA 2006) Pb was
£32.00 now £4.95
Roman Samian Pottery in
Britain
by Peter Webster.
An introduction to samian ware
in Britain: what it is and why it
is important; how it was made,
both plain and decorated; where
it was made, when, and with what
fabrics; and the systems of classification.
138p b/w illus (CBA 1996, repr. 2005) Pb was £7.95
now £2.95
Women in Roman Britain
by Lindsay Allason-Jones.
Chronicles the latest discoveries –
tombstones, writing tablets, curse
tablets, burials and artefacts – to
create a vivid picture of the lives,
habits and thoughts of women
in Britain over four centuries.
Diversity of backgrounds, traditions and tastes lies at
the heart of the book – displaying the cosmopolitan
nature of the Romano-British society. Lindsay AllasonJones explores all aspects of women’s life – from social
status to hairstyles.
209, b/w illus (1992, CBA new ed 2005) Pb £14.95
now £4.95
Excavations at Kingscote and
Wycomb, Gloucestershire
by Jane R. Timby.
Detailed report into all aspects of
these two Roman sites, an estate
centre and a small town; method,
excavations, architectural feat
ures, a huge range of finds and
environmental and skeletal evidence.
476p, b/w figs & illus (Cotswold Archaeological Trust
1989) Pb was £39.00 now £6.95
Excavations in Bath 19501975
edited by Barry Cunliffe.
19
contributions
on
the
excavation of Roman and
medieval Bath include reports
on ten excavations, prehistoric
through to post-medieval finds
and overviews of the work of the Bath and Camerton
Archaeological Society.
181p, 8 b/w pls, b/w figs (CRAAGS Excavation Report
1, 1979) Pb only £3.95
Roman Britain
52
Corstopitum
An Edwardian Excavation
by M C Bishop.
This little booklet contains a
selection of over forty old photo
graphs, with supporting text,
from the 1906–1914 excavations
of the Roman site at Corbridge,
Northumberland. It offers a fascinating insight into
archaeological techniques and discoveries early in the
century, and serves as a valuable source of unpublished
information for those interested in the site.
48p, many pls (English Heritage 1994) Pb was £2.95
now £1.00
The Roman Baths and
Macellum at Wroxeter
compiled and edited by Peter Ellis.
Report from the 1955–85 excava
tions on the southern part of an
insula containing a market hall.
Much of the volume reports on
the large assemblage of finds,
many of which date to the original building campaign,
including coins, small finds, brooches, gems, glass,
pottery and industrial and environmental remains
393p, b/w plns and illus (English Heritage 2000) Pb
was £55.00 now £9.95
The Romano-British Villa at
Castle Copse, Great Bedwyn
edited by E Hostetter and T N
Howe.
Results of the systematic study
of the ruins of the large Roman
courtyard villa at Castle Copse,
southwest England. It includes
overviews of the history and geography of the area,
as well as a complete survey of the site – topography,
geology, hydrology, and stratigraphy, and studies
of the architecture, mosaics, wall painting and
numerous finds.
550p, b/w pls, figs (Indiana UP 1997) Hb was £41.95
now £6.95
Excavations in Southwark
1973-76, Lambeth 1973-79
edited by Peter Hinton.
Excavations at a number of sites,
in particular a major Roman and
post-Roman urban settlement in
the Borough, north Soutwark.
497p, 9 b/w pls, many figs
(LAMAS and SAS Joint Publications 3, 1988) Pb was
£14.00 now £4.95
Transect Through Time
The Archaeological Landscape
of the Shell North Western
Ethylene Pipeline
edited by J Lambert, R Newman
and A Oliver.
A new chemical pipeline from
Scotland to Cheshire ran down the
west coast through areas of Roman interest. Excavation
was carried out at 4 sites as well as a more detailed
study of the Lune gorge.
122p, figs, tabs (Lancaster University 1995) Pb was
£20.00 now £5.00
A Romano-British Cemetery
on Watling Street
Excavations at 165 Great Dover
Street, Southwark
by Anthony Mackinder.
The cemetery was most extensive
in the early third century. The
arrangement of the structures and
lack of intercutting burials suggest that the cemetery
held private plots used by wealthy families for extended
periods of time. 74p b/w and col illus (MOLA 2000) Pb
was £5.00 now £1.95
Becoming Roman
Excavation of a Late Iron
Age to Roman Landscape at
Monkston
by Raoul Bull and Simon Davis.
Occupation along the east side
of the Ouzel valley included a
Late Iron Age field system and
a cremation cemetery, with Catuvellauni funerary
traditions continuing into the Roman post-conquest
period. Later 1st-century AD fields, timber structures
and a large enclosure were associated with farming
near Roman Watling Street.
Industry in Northwest
Roman Southwark
by Friederike Hammer.
An
examination
of
an
extensive sequence of Roman
metalworking workshops and
hearths, from the late 1st-late
4th centuries AD. The book is
split into discussions of the metalworking industry,
the period covered, and an analysis of the finds and is
extensively illustrated throughout.
186p b/w illus (MOLA 2003) Pb was £13.95
now £3.95
Roman and Later
Development East of the
Forum and Cornhill
Excavations at Lloyd’s Register,
71 Fenchurch Street, City of
London
by Richard Bluer, Trevor Brigham
and Robin Nielsen.
Excavations in 1996-7 uncovered important new
evidence for the development of the eastern part of
the Roman Londinium, as well as medieval and later
activity.
188p b/w and col illus (MOLA 2006) Pb was £20.95
now £7.95
Roman and Medieval
Cripplegate, City of London
by Elizabeth Howe and David Lakin.
of work from five separate
developer-funded excavations
between 1992-8. Bronze Age
field ditches were sealed by
domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early
Roman London after AD 70, contemporary with the
timber amphitheatre located nearby beneath the
Guildhall. Extensive reoccupation came with the
establishment of burgage plots after AD 1050.
£5.95
Roman and Medieval
Development South of
Newgate
Excavations at 3-9 Newgate
Street and 16-17 Old Bailey,
City of London
by Ken Pitt.
Important new evidence of
Londons 2nd-century AD Roman pottery industry. Up to
eight kilns, producing Verulamium region white ware,
and a probable potters workshop represent two phases
of production.
Pre-Boudican and Later
Activity on the Site of the
Forum
Roman and Medieval
Townhouses on the London
Waterfront
by Lesley Dunwoodie.
by Trevor Brigham and Aidan
Woodger.
Excavations at 168 Fenchurch
Street, City of London
New evidence of Londinium’s preBoudican origins and its first and
second fora has been found at a site on Cornhill. In the
AD 50s commercial or military storage buildings were
established, including a granary, with a marketplace or
open public area to the west.
A Prestigious Roman
Building Complex on the
Southwark Waterfront
Excavations at Winchester
Palace, London, 1983-90
by B. Yule.
Excavations upstream of Roman
London bridge in north Southwark
uncovered evidence for mid 1st-century AD land
reclamation and the establishment of a road and
buildings. In the early 2nd century a prestigious new
building complex, established on a different alignment,
may have had a military or administrative purpose.
now £6.95
Excavations at Governor’s
House, City of London
of the archaeological work at this important site in
a clear chronological narrative supported by many
detailed illustrations and specialist reports.
£4.95
Roman Defences and
Medieval Industry
Excavations at Baltic House,
City of London
by Elizabeth Howe.
Excavations at the site of Baltic
House uncovered evidence of
occupation dating from Roman
times onward. This included a large V-shaped ditch
which formed part of a late 1st-century defensive
boundary along the northeast side of the Roman
settlement and evidence for industrial activity
between the 13th and 15th centuries.
£4.95
Roman Britain
Roman Pottery in the
Walbrook Valley
by Fiona Seeley and James
Drummond-Murray.
Excavations have uncovered
important new evidence of
the second century AD Roman
pottery industry, with up to eight
kilns and a probable potters’ workshop recorded on
the west side of a major tributary of the Walbrook
stream. Two distinct phases of production can be
seen, and a stock of unused Samian ware from a pit
suggests that pottery may have been sold in a shop
attached to the production centre. 221p b/w and col
illus (MOLA 2006) Pb was £28.95 now £9.95
The Roman Tower at
Shadwell
A Reappraisal
by David Lakin, Fiona Seeley,
Joanna Bird and Kevin Riley.
A new analysis and reinterpretation
of the fascinating site at Shadwell,
located on the north bank of the
Thames. Lakin et al argue that early Roman quarrying
gave way to a cremation cemetery during the 2nd
century. The construction of the 9m square ‘tower’,
dated to the 2nd century or later, is consistent with
that of a mausoleum. 72p b/w illus (MOLA 2002) Pb
was £6.95 now £2.95
Urban Development
in North-West Roman
Southwark
by Carrie Cowan.
Excavations at Courage’s Brewery
revealed an archaeological
sequence dating back to Prehistoric
times. The Roman remains begin
from AD 40-55 and show the development of the site
from the 1st to the 4th centuries, as the area increased
in wealth before the occupation phase ended to be
replaced with a cemetery.
£6.95
Archaeology in Bath 19761985
edited by Peter Davenport.
This report describes three
excavations within the town and
some other fieldwork, including
Swallow Street where substantial
Roman foundations underlay late
Saxon material. In Abbey St a Roman mosaic and postRoman burials were excavated. The report includes
finds from these sites, and other field investigations
around the city.
166p, 129 figs, 1 fiche (OUCA 1991) Pb was £20.00
now £5.00
Art and Society in FourthCentury Britain
Villa Mosaics in Context
by Sarah Scott.
This volume builds upon the
copious and varied research on
villa mosaics in Roman Britain and
evaluates it within the context of
elite social life in the 4th century AD. It argues that
the mosaics were an integral part of the rich lifestyle
of the elite in this period and played an important role
in defining their status.
192p (b/w illus (OUSA 2000) Pb was £28.00 now
£5.00
Becoming Roman, Being
Gallic, Staying British
by Stephen Trow, Simon James and
Tom Moore.
Excavations carried out from
1984–1985 at Ditches in Glouces
tershire identified a large, late Iron
Age enclosure which contained
a remarkably early Roman villa. This long awaited
excavation report reinterprets this evidence in the
light of more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman
transition.
£35.00 now £9.95
Dating and Interpreting the
Past in the Western Roman
Empire
edited by David Bird.
This volume presents a collection
of more than 30 papers in honour
of Brenda Dickinson. Divided
into thematic sections, papers
are mostly concerned with her principal area of
study, samian, with topics including production and
organisation, decoration, stamps and other marks, the
use of samian ware in illuminating aspects of life and
death, and aspects of cooking methods and dining.
now £14.95
Haltonchesters
Excavations Directed by J. P.
Gillam at the Roman Fort,
1960–61
by J.N. Dore.
A report on excation of the
western part of the central range
of the fort, a section of the west
wall of the fort (including the porta quintana ), the
north end of the west half of the retentura and part
of an annexe attached to the west side of the fort.
now £4.95
Roman Inscriptions of
Britain, Volume III
Inscriptions on Stone
(1955–2006)
by R.S.O. Tomlin, The late R.P.
Wright and M.W.C. Hassall.
This volume is the longpromised continuation of
Roman Inscriptions of Britain. It presents some 550
inscriptions in geographical sequence, with individual
commentaries and accompanying drawings, as well as
re-examining many of the originals.
now £19.95
The Best Training Ground for
Archaeologists
by P.W.M. Freeman.
A biography of Francis Haverfield,
the ‘father of Romano-British
studies’, and a history of the
development of Romano-British
archaeology in the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. Haverfield’s view of the
Romanisation of Britain became so widely accepted
that it held sway for almost a century, and is only
now being re-examined by both positive and negative
interpreters of his views.
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Farewell Britannia
A Family Saga of Roman Britain
by Simon Young.
Simon Young has invented a
multi-generational family to tell
the story of 400 years of Roman
rule in Britain. The narrator is
writing this ‘family history’ in 430
AD. He chooses 14 of the most interesting, but not
always the most admirable, of his ancestors, whose
lives coincide with many of the most noteworthy
events in the history of Roman Britain.
286p (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2007) Hb was £16.99
now £6.95
Between Villa and Town
Excavations of a Roman
Roadside Settlement and
Shrine at Higham Ferrers,
Northamptonshire
by Steve Lawrence and Alex Smith.
of archaeological investigation of
a substantial Roman settlement. Established along
the eastern side of a road in the early 2nd century AD
with an array of circular stone buildings, it underwent
a significant transformation around 100 years later.
361p (Oxford Archaeology 2009) Hb was £19.99 now
£7.50
Excavations at Barrow Hills,
Radley, Oxfordshire, 198385, Volume 2
The Romano-British Cemetery
and Anglo-Saxon Settlement
by R.A. Chambers and E. McAdam.
The Romano-British cemetery
consisted of 69 burials dating
to the 3rd and 4th centuries; both inhumations and
cremations were found. The Anglo-Saxon settlement
dates by finds evidence to the 4th-early 7th centuries.
280p b/w illus (Oxford Archaeology 2006) Hb was
£24.99 now £7.50
The Roman Roadside
Settlement at Westhawk
Farm, Ashford, Kent
by Paul Booth, Mary-Anne
Bingham and Steve Lawrence.
Publishes the excavations at a large
Roman settlement established at
an important road junction shortly
after the Roman conquest. It contained contrasting
groups of carefully laid out plots and unplanned areas.
Excavated timber buildings included circular and
rectilinear structures and a polygonal shrine.
420p (Oxford Archaeology 2008) Hb was £25.00 now
£7.50
Chichester Excavations 1
by Alec Down
Begins with an essay on the origin
of Chichester by Barry Cunliffe;
provides a gazetteer of Roman
sites within the city; reports on
Roman and Medieval excavations,
a Romman cemetery at St Pancras,
in the Cathedral, a Medieval kiln.
172p b/w illus (Phillimore 1971) Hb was £24.00 now
£4.95
Roman Britain
54
by Alec Down
Reports on excavations and
Roman findss from the NW
quadrant of the Roman town;
on two Medieval pottery kilns;
gazetteer of post-Medieval sites;
discussion of post-Roman pottery;
discussion of Chichester’s early occupation by Barry
Cunliffe.
£4.95
by Alec Down
A full account of the excavation
of three Roman villas, two in
the Chilgrove valley and a third
to the west at Upmarden. Plans
and photos of excavations,
reconstructions of buildings,
illustration of finds: mosaics, pottery, objects.
202p, 20 b/w pls (Phillimore 1979) Hb was £24.00 now
£4.95
by Alec Down
Records a series of excavations
carried out within the historic
core of the city and outside the
walls. The work spans almost the
complete life of the town from
AD 43 until the 17th century.
It has resulted in fresh dating evidence for the final
phase of the large Roman house on Chapel Stret and
a reconsideration of the dating of some of the first
century timber buildings.
299p b/w pls (Phillimore 1981) Hb was £36.00 now
£4.95
by Alec Down
Excavations around the town
between 1978 and 1982 produce
evidence for: early Bronze Age,
late Iron Age (pre-Conquest
amphorae), massive defensive
ditch of time of Cogidubnius,
evidence for Leg II Aug in AD 43, a drainage system;
2-4 century cattle and sheep stockades, granaries and
heaters, etc. All here described in detail with extensive
finds report.
£4.95
by Alec Down
This volume contains reports on
excavations within the historic
centre of Chichester between
1982 and 1991. Important finds
included the first lead coffins from
the Roman period found in the
city, and a Roman mosaic from St. Peter’s, North Street.
£4.95
Cannington Cemetery
by Philip Rahtz, Sue Hirst and Susan
M. Wright.
A report on the excavations
(1962–63) at the Late and PostRoman site of Cannington in
Somerset. Individual chapters are
deal with the Roman inhumation
burials from the cemetery, the grave goods, dating and
phasing, the biology of the human remains including
pathology, health and dentition, physical characteristics
and age, sex and mortality profiles.
516p, b/w figs (Society for the Promotion of Roman
Studies 2000) Pb was £56.00 now £7.50
Elginhaugh
A Flavian Fort and Its Annexe
by W.S. Hanson.
Elginhaugh is the most completely
excavated timber-built auxiliary
fort in the Roman Empire. This
report provides an assessment of
all the structures, with particular
emphasis on the identification of stable-barracks and
the implications for the identification of garrisons
based on fort plans.
672p, 2 vols, 58 b/w pls (Society for the Promotion of
Roman Studies 2007) Pb was £58.00 now £20.00
Roman Carmarthen
Excavations, 1973–93
by Heather James.
This report presents the evidence
from a series of excavations
around the town, including
Spilman Street, Priory Street,
Church Street and the Parade, in
order to answer questions about the Roman presence
in the town, particularly the puzzle of why no evidence
of a vicus has been discovered despite the existence
of a fort.
416p, 23 plates (Society for the Promotion of Roman
Life and Labour in Late
Roman Silchester
Excavations in Insula IX Since
1997
by Michael Fulford.
These excavations show that
the Insula underwent radical
change, c. AD 250/300, with the
construction of new workshop and residential buildings
on the orientation of the Roman street-grid, following
the demolition of mid-Roman buildings arranged on
different, pre- and early Roman alignments.
404p, 125 illus (Roman Society 2006) Pb was £68.00
now £25.00
Longthorpe II
The Military Works Depot
by G.P. Dannell and J.P. Wild.
This volume describes the potterymaking depot attached to the
pre-Flavian vexillation fortress of
Longthorpe near Peterborough
and and throws light on the
problems of supply of the Roman army during the
conquest campaigns.
206p, 27 b/w pls (Society for the Promotion of Roman
Studies 1987) Pb was £15.75, now £5.00
Strageath
Excavations within the Roman
Fort, 1973–86
by S.S. Frere and J.J. Wilkes.
This volume describes the ex
ploration of three successive
forts at Strageath, Scotland, and
makes important contributions
to the study of the Roman North and to Roman
military archaeology.
360p, 40 b/w pls (Society for the Promotion of Roman
Caerleon Canabae
Excavations in the civil
settlement 1984–90
by Edith Evans.
This substantial volume con
centrates on the area around
Mill Street where excavators
uncovered a network of Roman
roads which fronted 22 buildings. The numerous
artefacts are also discussed in detail.
537p, b/w figs (Britannia Monograph 16, Roman
Society 2000) Pb was £52.00 now £7.50
Fosse Lane, Shepton Mallet
1990
by Peter Leach with C Jane Evans.
A detailed report on the excava
tion of a Romano-British roadside
settlement in Somerset. Sections
examine the buildings, structures,
burials and the finds as well as
consider the date and significance of the settlement.
349p, many b/w figs and pls, tbs (Society for the
Promotion of Roman Studies 2001) Pb was £47.00
now £7.50
Central and East Gaulish
Mould-Decorated Samian
Ware in the Royal Ontario
Museum
by Alison Harle Easson.
Most of the 111 pieces described
and illustrated (with line drawings)
in this catalogue come from
Roman London.
49p, illus (Royal Ontario Museum 1988) Pb was
£13.00 now £2.95
Architecture in Roman
Britain
by Guy de la Bedoyere.
An investigation of the design and
construction of a wide range of
buildings in Roman Britain, both
public and private. It includes
discussion of forts, basilicas,
theatres, baths, arches, classical temples, villas and
lighthouses, along with reconstruction drawings and
photographs of existing remains.
Roman Britain
The Boudican Revolt Against
Rome
by Paul R. Sealey.
A concise study of the revolt of the
Iceni and Trinovantes who rebelled
against Roman rule in AD 60 led by
the warrior queen Boudica. The
book describes how the Britons
sacked Colchester, London and St Albans and how the
Romans countered and ultimately prevailed against
this most serious threat to their hold on Britain. The
contribution of the archaeological evidence to our
knowledge of the revolt is also discussed.
Medicine and Healthcare in
Roman Britain
by Nicholas Summerton.
This short but well illustrated
book surveys health care in
Roman Britain from a largely
archaeological perspective.
Nicholas Summerton examines
the remains of hospitals and instruments used for
surgical proceedures, but also looks at less obviously
related subjects, such as the cult of Asclepius and
Roman attitudes to hygiene and bath houses, as well
as methods of waste disposal.
56p col illus (Shire 2007) Pb was £6.99 now £2.95
Pottery in Roman Britain
by Guy de la Bedoyere.
A short introduction to the
abundance of Romano-British
ceramic finds, ranging from
kitchenware to lamps, tiles,
figurines and even moulds
for metalworking. The author
examines their production, distribution and use, in an
attempt to identify patterns in decoration, colour, fabric
and sources, and elucidating aspects of trade and daily
life in four centuries of Roman Britain.
Roman Forts in Britain
by David Breeze.
A concise study of Roman forts
in Britain from the 1st to 4th
century, looking at the different
types and sizes of forts, watchtowers and signal stations, their
layout and how they developed
from marching camps, how they were built and the
life of the men stationed there.
72p b/w illus (Shire 2nd ed 2002) Pb was £6.99 now
£2.95
Romano-British Mosaics
by Peter Johnson.
A concise introduction to the
floor mosaics of Roman Britain,
dealing with the different periods
of mosaic laying from the first
century pavements at Fishbourne,
to the Hadrianic and Antonine
periods, when mosaic was first established in towns.
It then traces the apparent collapse of the craft in the
third century, and the remarkable 4th century revival
when many villas were decorated with sophisticated
mosaics.
72p b/w illus (Shire 1982, 2nd ed 1987, repr. 2002) Pb
was £6.99 now £2.95
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The Excavation of the Shrine
of Apollo at Nettleton,
Wiltshire, 1956–71
Britain
by W J Wedlake.
edited by Sheppard S. Frere and
R.S.O. Tomlin.
The results of thirty years of
excavation at the sanctuary where
in the first century AD a small
temple was built, at first circular,
but later rebuilt in octagonal form. Also discovered
were various associated buildings-a priest’s house, a
hostelry, a shop and domestic buildings-designed to
serve the inhabitants of the sanctuary and worshipping
visitors.
316p, 49 illus (Soc of Antiquaries 1982) Hb was
£30.00 now £4.95
Excavations at Brough-onHumber 1958-1961
by J S Wacher.
Report on the results and finds
from the excavation of the
Romano-British town of Petuaria.
243p, many b/w figs and pls (Soc
of Antiquaries of London XXV,
1969) Hb only £4.95
Excavations at Richborough
5
edited by B W Cunliffe.
Reports on the 1931-38 excavations, including early timber
buildings and the monumental
arch. Further sections cover the
small finds, pottery and coins,
whilst a concluding part reassesses the excavations,
the development of the fort at Richborough and its
place in the defence of Roman Britain.
414p, 126 illus (Society of Antiquaries 1968) Hb was
£15.00 now £4.95
Verulamium Excavations,
Volume II
by Sheppard Frere.
This report covers the work at
Verulanium (St Albans) carried
out between 1955 and 1961. This
include the Belgic mint, the Roman
defences, the forum, the northern
monumental arch, and various intra- and extra-mural
sequences.
392p, 156 figs (Society of Antiquaries, 1983) Hb was
£30.00 now £4.95
Volume 2, Fascicule 3
Inscriptions on brooches, rings,
gems, bracelets; helmets, shields,
weapons, and other military
equipment; iron tools; baldric and belt fittings; votives
in gold, silver and bronze; lead pipes, roundels, sheets
and other lead objects; stone, bone and pottery
roundels, and other objects of bone.
176p b/w figs and pls (Sutton 1991) Hb was £35.00
now £6.95
Britain
R.S.O. Tomlin.
This fascicule includes inscriptions
on wooden objects (barrels,
waxed tablets); leather; oculists’
stamps; wallplaster and mosaics; handmills; stone
tablets, balls, pebbles, votives; jet; caly figurines and
objects; antefixes; tile-stamps (Leg II, Leg VI, Leg IX, Leg
XX and auxiliary units).
now £6.95
Britain
R.S.O. Tomlin.
The fifth fasicule of RIB II covers
inscriptions on the tile stamps of
the Classis Britannica ; imperial,
procuratorial and civic tile stamps; stamps of private
tilers; inscriptions on relief-patterned tiles and graffiti
on tiles.
now £6.95
Britain
edited by Sheppard S. Frere.
This fascicule covers dipinti and
graffiti on amphorae and mortaria,
inscriptions in white barbotine,
dipinti on coarse pottery, samian
barbotine or moulded inscriptions.
now £6.95
Britain
Britain
R.S.O. Tomlin.
R.S.O. Tomlin.
Covers inscriptions on weights,
metal vessels (gold, silver, bronze,
lead and pewter), shale and glass
vessels and spoons.
now £6.95
This fascicule is devoted to graffiti
on samian ware, of which 879
examples have been collected.
This large number, and the fact that samian sherds
can usually be dated, provides a valuable statistical
basis for the study of nomenclature, abbreviations, the
growth of basic literacy and other epigraphic questions.
now £6.95
Latin Literature
56
Britain
R.S.O. Tomlin.
This fascicule covers graffiti on
coarse pottery cut before and
after firing; a stamp on coarse
pottery and addenda and corrigenda to fascicules 1-8.
now £6.95
Stonea and the Roman Fens
by Tim Malin.
In this accessible and authoritative
volume Tim Malim presents a
synthesis of Stonea’s archaeology
and environment. He discusses
Stonea’s Roman town plan and
buildings, including temples,
administrative buildings, houses and service features
and the great number of finds that have been
discovered, such as coins, luxury items and debris from
everyday life and industrial activity.
256p b/w illus col pls (Tempus 2005) Pb was £19.99
now £9.95
Environmental Evidence
from the Colonia
by A.R. Hall and H.K. Kenward.
This report deals with biological
evidence from two sites within
the area of the Roman civil town
or colonia close to the River Ouse
and the probable Roman river
crossing. Both sites were extensively sampled and the
material has provided the first opportunity in York to
examine richly organic waterlogged Roman deposits
formed on surfaces rather than as the fills of wells or
other subsurface features.
148p b/w illus (Archaeology of York 14/6, 1990) Pb
was £10.00 now £4.95
Aris & Phillips
Classical Texts
Lucretius
Suetonius
by Monica R. Gale.
edited by D.C.A. Shotter.
De Rerum Natura V
Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction
and commentary.
Lives of Galba, Otho and Vitellius
and commentary.
Lucretius
Tacitus
edited by J. Godwin.
edited by Ronald Martin.
De Rerum Natura VI
and commentary.
Annals V and VI
and commentary.
Sallust
Terence
edited by Michael Comber and Catalina Balmaceda.
edited by A.S. Gratwick.
The War Against Jugurtha
and commentary.
The Brothers
and commentary.
Seneca
Terence
edited by Harry Hine.
edited by A.J. Brothers.
Medea
and commentary.
Terence
Phormio
edited by Robert Maltby.
and commentary.
160p (Aris & Phillips 2012) Hb was £50.00
now £9.95, Pb was £19.99 now £4.95
Terence
The Mother in Law
edited by Stanley Ireland.
and commentary.
Livy
Book 37
edited by P.G. Walsh.
and commentary.
Livy
Book 38
and commentary.
The Eunuch
and commentary.
£9.95, Pb was £18.00 now £4.95
Horace’s Odes and the
Mystery of Do-Re-Mi
edited with translation and
commentary by Stuart Lyons.
Lyons’s acclaimed verse translation
of the Odes is here fully revised
and included with revealing new
material on Horace and the nature
of his work. A final chapter, “Horace, Guido and the
Do-re-mi Mystery”, the result of careful research
and detective work, argues that Guido d’Arezzo, an
eleventh-century Benedictine choirmaster, used the
melody of Horace’s Ode to Phyllis to invent the dore-mi mnemonic.
Music in the Odes of Horace
by Stuart Lyons.
Challenging the perception of the
Odes as purely literary works and
drawing on extensive evidence in
Horace and other ancient sources,
Lyons argues that Horace’s
objective was to produce a unique
type of performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of
Greek lyric song to entertain the Roman elite.
208p b/w illus, col pls (Aris & Phillips 2010) Hb was
£40.00 now £4.95
Livy
Book 40
Catullus
The Shorter Poems
Latin text with introduction, notes and facing English
translation.
240p (Aris & Philips 1999) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95
Lucretius
De Rerum Natura IV
and commentary.
and commentary.
(Aris & Phillips 1996) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95, Pb
was £18.00 now £4.95
Plautus
Bacchides
edited by J.A. Barsby.
and commentary.
Cicero
Pro Roscio Amerino
edited by E Donkin.
Cicero’s speech on behalf of
Roscius of Ameria in Umbria re
presents his first public ‘cause
celebre’ in 80 BC when he was
just twenty-six. Cicero’s speech,
one of his most straightforward and yet powerful,
brought him into immediate political danger but at
the same time established him as a fearless forensic
orator. This volume Includes the Latin text of the
speech, an introduction, synopses and notes.
Latin Literature
Poems of Catullus
chosen and edited by G A
Williamson.
“Contains almost every poem that
can be read and explained without
embarrassment...” The Latin text
is accompanied by an introduction
to Catullus and his work and a
commentary providing advice on language and context,
as well as an appendix on the metres employed.
187p (Bristol Classical Press 1969, rep 1994) was
£9.95 now £2.95
The Poet Lucan
by M P O Morford.
Morford considers the rules of
ancient rhetoric and common
themes in Lucan’s epic on the
Civil War as well as the poem
itself, incorporating three new
translations.
93p (1967, Bristol Classical Press 1996) Pb was
£10.95 now £3.95
Roman Comedy
by Kenneth McLeish.
A short introduction to the plays
of Terence and Plautus describing
the social context in which they
worked and assessing their
significance in the development
of later dramatic traditions.
80p, b/w figs (1976, Bristol Classical Press 1986) Pb
£8.99 now £3.95
Terence
Eunuch, Phormio, Brothers
by J A Barsby.
An introductory companion
to the Penguin translation.
A detailed introduction sets
Terence in his context in the
Roman theatre, while the
commentaries provide the reader with valuable
information about the social and ethical background
as well as offering views on interpretation.
Greek Tragedy in Vergil’s
Aeneid
Ritual, Empire and Intertext
by Vassiliki Panoussi.
This book is a systematic study of
the importance of Greek tragedy
as a fundamental ‘intertext’ for
Vergil’s Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi
argues that the epic’s representation of ritual
acts, especially sacrifice, mourning, marriage, and
maenadic rites, mobilizes a connection to tragedy.
£14.95
Patterns of Redemption in
Virgil’s Georgics
by Llewelyn Morgan.
Presents a new interpretation
of the Georgics. Reconsiders
the background and underlying
message of the poems as an
exercise in Octavian propaganda
and a response to the Octavian regime following the
civil wars of th time.
296p (CUP 1999) Hb was £64.00 now £12.95
Horace and the Dialectic of
Freedom
Readings in Epistles 1
by W.R. Johnson.
Traces the key themes in
the poems, suchas Horace’s
relationship with his father and
with Rome his adoptive city,
and the conflicts between urban vitality and rustic
serenity and between inner freedom and outer
freedom.
The Curse of Exile
A Study of Ovid’s Ibis
by Gareth D Williams.
Shows how an understanding of
Ovid’s exile poetry is incomplete
without recognition of the con
tribution of Ibis, particularly for
its persona and mood.
146p (Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary
Vol 19, 1996) Pb was £15.00 now £2.95
Lands and Peoples in Roman
Poetry
The Ethnographical Tradition
by Richard F Thomas.
Shows how Greek ethnographical
prose influenced the poetry of
Virgil, Horace and Lucan and their
portrayal of real and imagined
Roman landscapes and environments.
144p (Cambridge Philological Society Vol 7, 1982) Pb
was £15.00 now £2.95
Ovid’s Metamorphoses and
the Traditions of Augustan
Poetry
by Peter E Knox.
Knox shows how Ovid combined
elements from the entire range of
Roman verse in the composition
of the Metamorphoses and
exploited the diction of elegy and epyllion to distinguish
his remarkable poem from traditional epic verse.
98p (Cambridge Phil Soc, 1986) Pb was £15.00 now
£2.95
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Studies in Latin Literature
and its Tradition in Honour
of C O Brink
edited by J Diggle, J B Hall and H D
Rocelyn.
Ten papers on Republican and
Augustan literature, including
Ovid’s Tristia, Catullus, Horace,
Livy, Cicero and Virgil.
145p (Cambridge Phil Soc Supplementary Vol 15,
1989) £15.00 now £3.95
The Art of Pliny’s Letters
by Illaria Marchesi.
This study looks at the strategies
adopted by Pliny to attempt to
ensure that his letters could not
only be published and continue
to be read but would achieve
canonical literary status. The
collection of letters is carefully structured to be able to
be profitably read cover to cover, and Ilaria Marchiesi
argues that a central part of this structuring is the
inclusion of allusions from other Classical authors,
already established parts of the canon.
£19.95
The Cambridge Companion
to the Roman Historians
edited by Andrew Feldherr.
Topics central to the entire
tradition, such as conceptions
of time, characterization, and
depictions of politics and the
gods, are treated synoptically,
while other essays highlight the works of less familiar
historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus
Marcellinus.
464p (Cambridge UP 2009) Hb was £79.99
now £14.95
Writing and Empire in
Tacitus
by Dylan Sailor.
Sailor looks at the direct contrast
between his own glittering career
and the oppositional authorial
voice in Tacitus’ historical oeuvre,
and maintains that the latter
is conditioned by the particular circumstances of a
political career under the principate. Sailor argues
that through his writing Tacitus attempts to position
himself within the growing popularity of martyrs in
contemporary political culture.
Pliny’s Women
by Jacqueline M. Carlon.
Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis,
Jacqueline Carlon examines the
identities of the women whom
Pliny includes in his letters, and
how they and the men with
whom they are associated contribute both to this
presentation of exemplary Romans and particularly
to his own self-promotion.
£19.95
Latin Literature
58
Powerplay in Tibullus
by Parshia Lee-Stecum.
This criticism, assuming a
traditional linear reading of
Tibullus’ Book 1, examines the
relationships described in his
work for imbalance of power
and its effects on various areas of
daily life, for example, the relationship of poet and
patron.This is a refreshing criticism, uncovering the
unstable basis of Tibullan elegy.
328p (Cambridge UP 1998) Hb £50.00 now £12.95
Acts of Silence
Civil War, Tyranny and Suicide
in the Flavian Epics
by Donald McGuire.
A comparative literary analysis
of the three epic poems of the
Flavian era (Statius’ Thebaid,
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and
Silius Italicus’ Punica) in light of their contemporary
political world, higlighting the significant body of
thematic material common to all three poems.
272p (Georg Olms Verlag 1997) Pb was £28.00 now
£9.95
Troy’s Children
Lost Generations in Virgil’s
Aeneid
by John K. Newman and Frances
Stickney Newman.
This study analyses the ambiguous
role of children in Virgil’s Aeneid. It
suggests that, by its entire stylistic
bias, the Aeneid was incapable of picturing the vigour
and life of a new generation.
400p (Georg Olms Verlag 2005) Pb was £45.00
now £7.95
The Cosmic Viewpoint
A Study of Seneca’s ‘Natural
Questions’
by Gareth D. Williams.
A study of Seneca’s innovative
meteorological treatise, in which
technical coverage of natural
phenomena is combined with
ethical reflections on human nature in one stoic
philosophical whole.
The Deaths of Seneca
by James Ker.
The forced suicide of Seneca,
former adviser to Nero, is one
of the most tortured-and most
revisited-death scenes from
classical antiquity. James Ker
offers a comprehensive analysis
of the scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and
tracing its many subsequent interpretations. At the
book’s center is an exploration of Seneca’s own prolific
writings about death, which offered the primary lens
through which Seneca’s contemporaries would view
the author’s death.
411p (Oxford UP 2009, Pb 2012) Pb was £22.99 now
£9.95
Tacitus: Agricola
edited by RM Oglivie and IA
Richmond.
This account of Agricola’s life,
written by his son-in-law Tacitus
is the primary source for the
Roman conquest of the North of
Britain. The text is amplified by an
extensive commentary enlarging on all sorts of details
about the country and people of Britain.
360p (Oxford UP reprint 2002) Hb was £20.00 now
£9.95
The Function of Humour in
Roman Verse Satire
by Maria Plaza.
Maria Plaza analyses the function
of humour in Horace, Persius, and
Juvenal. Her starting point is that
satire is driven by two motives,
which are to a certain extent
opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious
moral message. She argues that, while the Roman
satirist needs humour for his work’s aesthetic merit,
his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence
that humour brings with it.
370p (Oxford UP 2006, Pb 2008) Pb was £28.00 now
£12.95
Recognizing Persius
by Kenneth J. Reckford.
A passionate and in-depth
exploration of the libellus of six
Latin satires left by the Roman
satirical writer Persius when he
died in AD 62 at the age of twentyseven. In this comprehensive and
reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes
out the primary importance of this mysterious and
idiosyncratic writer.
It Is Our Father Who Writes
Orders from the Monastery of
Apollo at Bawit
edited by S.J. Clackson.
Editions of ninety-one papyri
associated with the day-to-day
administration of the Monastery
of Apollo at Bawit during the 8th
century, seventy-eight of which are published for the
first time. Many of the papyri are orders issued by
the head of the monastery to various subordinates,
and the texts’ contents are minutely analysed in the
introduction. 265p, 55 b/w pls (American Society of
Papyrologists 2008) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95
Augustine
City of God Books I & II
In these books, written in the
aftermath of the sack of Rome in
AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine
replies to the pagans, who
attributed the fall of Rome to the
Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship
of the pagan gods. Latin text with facing-page
translation, introduction and commentary.
Augustine
City of God Book V
In Book V Augustine accounts
for the prodigious growth and
continuance of the Roman
Empire, arguing for the universal
sway of divine providence. Latin
text with facing-page translation, introduction and
commentary.
The Politics of Desire
Augustine
by Micaela Janan.
Propertius IV
Janan uses modern psycho
analytical methods to examine
Propertius (c.54–2 BC), who
helped to shape the form of the
Latin elegy, and explores the social
and political forces that helped to create his poems.
Following an introduction to the study’s concepts, each
chapter concentrates on specific poems with extracts
in Latin and in English translation.
244p (University of California 2001) Pb was £18.95
now £6.95
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
by James J. O’Hara.
Building on recent work on both
Greek and Roman authors, this
book explores the possibility
of interpreting inconsistencies
in Roman epic. After a chapter
surveying Greek background
material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the
Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative
study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed
light on major problems in Catullus’ Peleus and
Thetis, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Vergil’s Aeneid,
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Lucan’s Bellum Civile.
165p (Cambridge UP 2007) Pb was £19.99 now £7.95
City of God VI & VII
Books VI and VII focus on the
figure of Terentius Varro, a man
revered by Augustine’s pagan
contemporaries. By exploiting
Varro’s
learned
researches
on Roman religion, Augustine condemns Roman
religious practices and beliefs. Latin text with facingpage translation, introduction and commentary.
Augustine
City of God VIII & IX
The main topic of these books
is demonology, with Augustine
using the De deo Socratis of
Apuleius, which places demons
as the intermediaries between
gods and men, as the foundation of his exploration
into this theme. Latin text with facing-page
(Aris & Phillips 2013) Pb was £24.99 now £4.95
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Augustine
Contra Marcellum
Oecumenius
edited by G. Watson.
by Joseph T. Lienhard.
translated by John N. Suggit.
Soliloquies and the
Immortality of the Soul
This early work focuses on the
primacy of mind over things of
sense, and the immortality of the
soul. Latin text with facing-page
The Conflict Between
Christianity and Judaism
by Leopold Lucas.
The Fourth Century was crucial
to both the Christian Church and
Judaism: it saw the formulation
of Christian doctrine and the
completion of the Palestinian
Talmud. In this meticulously researched study,
originally published in German in 1910, Leopold Lucas
explores the arguments and attitudes of the Church
Fathers from Basil to Augustine. A picture emerges of
a strenuous intellectual struggle between Christians
and Jews. 134p (Aris & Phillips 1993) Pb was £14.95
now £4.95
Augustine
The Confessions
by Gillian Clark.
The avowed approach of
this introductory book is to
`historicise’ - to set Augustine’s
own experiences of religion,
philosophy and Christian faith
against the long-standing political, cultural and
religious traditions of the classical world.
104p (Bristol Phoenix Press 2005) Pb was £12.99 now
£4.95
Ovidiana Graeca
Fragments of a Byzantine
Version of Ovid’s Amatory
Works
edited by Pat Easterling and E.J.
Kenney.
Fragments from Ovid’s poetry, in
medieval Greek, with the Latin
text reproduced opposite.
85p (Cambridge Philological Society 1965) Pb was
£15.00 now £2.95
Constructing Antichrist
Paul, Biblical Commentary, and
the Development of Doctrine
in the Early Middle Ages
by Kevin L. Hughes.
This book offers a detailed study
of the development of apocalyptic
thought in the Early Middle Ages,
in particular with regard to the nature and role of
the Antichrist. Kevin Hughes shows that a significant
element of this developing doctrine is formed from
the exegetical tradition surrounding Paul’s Second
letter to the Thessalonians, and traces commentaries
on this epistle from Ambrosiaster to Peter Lombard.
278p (Catholic University of America Press 2005) Hb
was £55.95 now £12.95
Marcellus of Ancyra and
Fourth-Century Theology
Marcellus of Ancyra (ca. 285-374)
was a controversial figure in the
Trinitarian debate after Nicaea.
Lienhard provides a complete
analysis of Marcellus’s theology, and traces the
reactions to his teaching--from those who remained
sympathetic to him, to those who rejected his theology
outright, and finally to those who partially accepted
his theses.
was £51.50 now £12.95
Didymus the Blind
Commentary on Zechariah
translated by Robert C. Hill.
In 386 Jerome visited the
Alexandrian scholar Didymus the
Blind and requested a work on
Zechariah. A disciple of Origen,
Didymus’s commentary on this
apocalyptic book illustrates the typically allegorical
approach to the biblical text that we associate with
Alexandria.
was £34.50 now £9.95
The Early Christian Book
edited by William E. Klingshirn and
Linda Safran.
The essays in this collection
focus on the ways in which
books were produced, used,
treasured, and conceptualized in
the early Christian centuries (AD
100-600). They invite readers into a world of writing
and reading practices, of copying and exchanging
texts, of persuading and debating with books, and of
representing holiness and power through codices of the
law, the scriptures, and the lives of the saints.
314p b/w pls (Catholic University of America Press
2007) Pb was £25.95, now £7.95
Commentary on the
Apocalypse
This is the first complete
translation in English of
Oecumenius’s commentary,
which is the first known Greek
commentary on the book of Revelation, written in the
sixth century.
was £30.50 now £9.95
The Orphans of Byzantium
by Timothy S. Miller.
This is a detailed study of the
institutions and programmes that
were developed to provide food,
shelter, education and care for
orphans in the Byzantine Empire.
Miller emphasises the long and
complex history of social welfare and highlights the
surprising degree of sophistication of the procedures
put in place to ensure the protection of children.
was £43.50 now £12.95
The Power of Sacrifice
Roman and Christian Discourses
in Conflict
by George Heyman.
Heyman offers a fresh perspective
on the similarities between pagan
Roman and Christian thinking
about the public role of sacrifice
in the first two and a half centuries of the Christian
era. He shows that both capitalized on the rhetoric of
sacrifice as a discursive means to craft their location,
their identity, and their social power within the cosmos.
was £64.50 now £14.95
Iberian Fathers, Volume 3
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
translated by Craig L. Hanson.
translated by Robert C. Hill.
Pacian of Barcelona and
Orosius of Braga
Included are are Pacian’s three
letters to the Novatianist
Sympronian, his tract on
repentance and penance, and his
sermon concerning baptism. Orosius’s works included
the Inquiry or Memorandum to Augustine on the Error
of the Priscilliantists and Origenists and the apologetic
Book in Defense against the Pelagians.
was £25.95 now £9.95
Iberian Fathers, Volume 2
Writings of Braulio of
Saragossa and Fructuosus of
Braga
translated by Claude W. Barlow.
An English translation of the works
of two seventh-century writers.
From the first of these, bishop
Braulio of Saragossa, comes an extensive collection of
letters, whilst Fructuosus of Braga is represented by
two monastic rules.
was £25.95 now £9.95
Commentary on the Twelve
Minor Prophets, Volume 1
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria
(412-444), is best known as a
protagonist in the christological
controversy of the second quarter
of the fifth century. Readers may be surprised therefore
to find such polemic absent from this early work on the
twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament.
was £34.50 now £9.95
Saint Jerome
Dogmatic and Polemical Works
translated by John N. Hritzu.
Contains English translations
of three of Jerome’s tracts
composed in the defence of
doctrinal orthodoxy: On the
Perpetual Virginity of the Virgin
Mary against Helvidius, the Apology against the books
of Rufinus and the Dialogue against the Pelagians.
403p (Catholic University of America Press 165, repr.
1981) Hb was £34.50 now £9.95
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St. Peter Chrysologus
Barsanuphius and John
translated by William Palardy.
translated by John Chryssavgis.
Selected Sermons, Volume 2
Peter Chrysologus was appointed
bishop of Ravenna in 426. This
book presents annotated English
translations of over fifty sermons
by Chrysologus which not only
throw light on the bishop’s theology and interpretation
of specific Gospel texts, but also provide valuable
information about life in Ravenna and Italy during the
second quarter of the 5th century, as well as church
politics and the barbarian threat.
was £32.95 now £9.95
St. Peter Chrysologus
Selected Sermons, Volume 3
translated by William B. Palardy.
With this third volume, all of the
authentic sermons of St Peter
Chrysologus (c.406-50) are now
available in new translations.
Over one hundred sermons by
the Archbishop of Ravenna are published here, the
majority homilies on texts from the Gospels, including
his preaching on the liturgical seasons.
was £32.95 now £9.95
Theodoret of Cyrus
Eranistes
translated by Gerald H. Ettlinger.
Theodoret was the leading
theologian of his time in the
Antiochene tradition, and in the
Eranistes (written in 447) he
offers a lengthy exposition of his
Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called
Monophysite Christology, condemned by the Council
of Chalcedon in 451.
was £34.50 now £9.95
Letters, Volume 2
A collection of monastic writings,
which provided both spiritual
and practical advice to a variety
of sixth-century interlocutors
from diverse walks of life. The
two anchorites, having settled in an isolated location
near Gaza, were in demand as trusted counselors,
responding to questions on topics ranging from
relationships within monasteries to problems of
municipal taxation.
was £34.50 now £9.95
Upper Zohar
An Early Byzantine Fort in
Palaestina Tertia
by Richard P. Harper.
The final report of excavations
undertaken by the British School
of Archaeology in Jerusalem
at the 5–7th century fort. The
preservation conditions in the dry sand resulted in some
remarkable finds and interesting zooarchaeological
records.
161p, 20 b/w plates, 25 figs (OUP for British Academy
1995) Hb was £55.00 now £5.00
Unclassical Traditions
Volume I, Alternatives to the
Classical Past in Late Antiquity
edited by Christopher Kelly,
Richard Flower and Michael Stuart
Willliams.
From the Chronological Tables
of Eusebius of Caesarea to the
Byzantine liturgy, eight papers explore how the
persistence, dominance and normative nature of
the classical tradition in its various forms could be
negotiated, undermined, ironised or even flatly denied
in Late Antiquity.
192p (Classical Philological Society 2010) Hb was
£45.00 now £14.95
Byzantine Jewry in the
Mediterranean Economy
by Joshua Holo.
This study sheds light on a
neglected aspect of both
Byzantine and Jewish history the role of Jews in the Middle
Byzantine economy. Whilst
acknowledging that overall the economic influence and
clout of Byzantine Jewry was not large, Holo is able to
identify a number of key areas and industries (notably
tanning and textiles) in which they played a major part.
£14.95
Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan
and Christian Worlds
by Shmuel Shepkaru.
This book presents a linear
history of Jewish martyrdom,
from the Hellenistic period to the
high Middle Ages. It shows how
Jewish thought on martyrdom
was influenced by the centrality of self-sacrifice to
Roman and Christian thought, even as martyrdom
was used to define Jewish religiosity and delegitimise
their persecutors.
£14.95
Law and Empire in Late
Antiquity
by Jill Harries.
This detailed examination of
public law in the later Roman
Empire between the 3rd and
5th centuries AD offers new
interpretations of central issues.
These include contemporary attitudes to torture and
punishment, the efficacy of the law, court systems,
judicial corruption and the settlement of disputes out
of court.
235p (Cambridge UP 2001) Pb was £28.99 now
£12.95
Theodoret of Cyrus
Unclassical Traditions
Plato and Theodoret
edited by John Petruccione and
Robert C. Hill.
edited by Christopher Kelly,
Richard Flower and Michael Stuart
Willliams.
by Niketas Siniossoglu.
The Questions on the
“Octateuch”, Volume 1, On
Genesis and Exodus
Parallel Greek text and English
translation of Theodoret of
Cyrus’ monumental work of exegesis, presented in a
question and answer format.
480p (Catholic University of America Press 2007) Pb
was £25.95 now £6.95
Theodoret of Cyrus
The Questions on the
“Octateuch”, Volume 2,
On Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
and Ruth
edited by John Petruccione and
Robert C. Hill.
Parallel Greek text and English translation of
Theodoret of Cyrus’ monumental work of exegesis,
presented in a question and answer format.
was £25.95 now £6.95
Volume II, Perspectives from
East and West in Late Antiquity
Ranging from Armenian ecclesiastical histories, Egyptian
alchemy and Jewish power politics, to the challenges
raised by shifting circumstances in 5th-century North
Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, the eight papers in this
volume seek to establish the persistent importance of
the classical tradition in Late Antiquity.
160p (Classical Philological Society 2011) Hb was
£45.00 now £14.95
The Origins of the Cult of
the Virgin Mary
by Chris Maunder.
These essays ask when and
how the cult of the Virgin
Mary first emerged, exploring
developments
from
the
beginnings of Christianity to the
eighth century. Topics include the New Testament;
the Catacombs; the Protevangelium of James; Mary
and Goddess worship; the origin of Marian feasts
and their Pagan connections; the Council of Ephesus;
Mary as Wisdom; and Marian Art.
206p b/w illus (Continuum 2008) Pb was £22.99 now
£7.95
The Christian Appropriation of
Platonic Philosophy and the
Hellenic Intellectual Resistance
Focusing on Theodoret of Cyrrhus’
Graecarum Affectionum Curatio,
Dr Siniossoglou examines the
philosophical, rhetorical and political dimensions of
the Neoplatonic-Christian conflict of interpretations
over Plato.
Thirteen Coptic Acrostic
Hymns
edited by K. H. Kuhn and W. J. Tait.
An edition and translation of
thirteen acrostic hymns from a
manuscript in the Sahidic dialect
of Coptic which were written for
the Monastery of the Archangel
St. Michael at Hamouli in the Fayyum. This edition has a
translation, Coptic text, lengthy introduction and notes.
162p, (Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum 1996)
Hb was £30 now £11.95
The Final Days of Jesus
The Archaeological Evidence
by Shimon Gibson.
Shimon Gibson brings his
extensive
experience
of
excavating in Jerusalem to bear
on this reconstruction of the
city as it would have appeared in
the time of Jesus. He discusses and where possible
identifies locations mentioned in the Bible, as well as
surveying the archaeological evidence for crucifixion
and burial in the First Century AD.
352p b/w illus, col pls (Harper Collins Larger Print
edition 2009) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95
The Myth of Persecution
How Early Christians Invented
a Story of Martyrdom
by Candida R. Moss.
Candida Moss explores the
construction of the concept of
an “Age of Martyrs”, arguing that
there was no sustained 300-yearlong effort by the Romans to persecute Christians.
Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations: highly
stylised rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble
death traditions designed to marginalise heretics,
inspire the faithful, and fund churches.
308p (Harper Collins 2013) Hb was £14.99 now £5.95
The Late Roman Church at
Maroni Petrera
by Sturt W Manning.
A report on survey work and
salvage excavations undertaken
at 5th century Roman church in
southern Cyprus. Finds included
ceramics, tiles (many with
embossed decoration), worked stone and building
materials and a cistern. The site is compared with
others of a similar date on the island.
84p b/w and col figs and pls (Leventis Foundation
2002) Pb was £25.00 now £15.50
A Christian’s Guide to Greek
Culture
The Pseudo-Nonnus
Commentaries on Sermons
4, 5, 39 and 43 by Gregory of
Nanzianus
edited and translated by Jennifer
Nimmo Smith.
These commentaries on Gregory of Nanzianus show
the continued importance of Classical Greek learning
in the 6th century.
156p (Liverpool UP 2001) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
Donatist Martyr Stories
The Church in Conflict in
Roman North Africa
translated with notes and
introduction by Maureen A. Tilley.
A collection of hagiography from
the 4th century Donatist sect in
North Africa, famously opposed
by St. Augustine. Their literature was suppressed and
remains little known and consequently the debate
has only been understood from the winning side
101p (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP
1996) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
Hilary of Poitiers
Conflicts of Conscience and
Law in the Fouth-century
Church
translated by Lionel R. Wickham.
Two works supprting the Nicene
faith by Hilary of Poitiers. The first
is what remains of a historical work
Hilary wrote against two distinguished contemporary
bishops, which throws light upon the violence and
betrayal in church life. The second text is an open letter
to the Emperor Constantius urging him to throw his
weight behind the Nicene creed.
128p (Liverpool UP 1997) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
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Claudian
Poetry and Propaganda at the
Court of Honorius
by Alan Cameron.
As a propagandist Claudian offers
unique insight into the rival courts
of Milan and Constantinople in
the decisive years following the
death of Theodosius the Great. The book studies
Claudian’s political techniques, his accounts of Stilicho’s
campaigns and rivals, his debt to Greek rhetorical
theory and contemporary poetry, his culture, attitudes
to Rome and its problems and not least his position as
a pagan at a Christian court. 528P (Oxford UP 1970) Hb
was £20.00 now £4.95
Iamblichus
Desiring Conversion
translated by Gillian Clark.
by B. Diane Lipsett.
On the Pythagorean Life
Written by one of the most
distinguished of Neoplatonists,
this is the most extensive surviving
source on Pythagoreanism and
also documents the religious
aspirations of Late Antiquity.
122P (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP
1989) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
Politics, Philosophy and
Empire in the Fourth
Century
Select Orations of Themistius
Hermas, Tecla, Aseneth
Self-restraint or self-mastery may
appear to be the opposite of erotic
desire. But in this nuanced, literary
analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the
intriguing interplay of desire and
self-restraint in three ancient tales of conversion: The
Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, and
Joseph and Aseneth.
Western Aristocracies and
the Imperial Court
AD 364–425
by John F. Matthews.
edited and translated by Peter
Heather and David Moncur.
Explores the lives, conduct,
attitudes and aspirations of the
Roman upper classes in the late
Western Empire. In particular,
Matthews focuses on the gradual shift in government
of the Empire from public to private hands, the role
of the imperial court and the Christianisation of the
governing classes.
now £6.95
Pseudo-Dionysius of TelMahre
Constantine
Chronicle Part III
Roman Emperor, Christian
Victor
translated by Witold Witakowski.
by Paul Stephenson.
This book includes a selection of
Themestius’ speeches, grouped
either by period or by their reference to a particular
sequence of events, with a commentary on the historical
background and context in which they were delivered.
361p (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP 2001)
Pb was £16.50 now £4.95
Although the chronicle dates
to the end of the 8th century
the third part, translated here
is taken from the otherwise lost
John of Ephesus (d. c.588) and covers the reigns of
Zeno, Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian.
153P (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP
1996) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
The Goths in the Fourth
Century
by Peter Heather.
A range of English translations
of important texts pertaining to
the history, politics, society and
religion of the Goths from the
mid-3rd century to the 380s. They
include two speeches by Themistius, the Canonical
Epistle of the Bishop of Pontus, the martyr-act Passion
of St Sabas , some letters written by Basil of Caesarea,
and a range of sources relating to the life and work of
Ulfila, one of the most renown bishops of the Goths.
196p (Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP
1991) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
A study not of Constantine
the man, but of Constantine
as a public figure and political
operator. Stephenson shows
how Constantine gained and maintained his grip on
power, primarily through his military victories and by
maintaining the loyalty of the army.
358p col pls (Overlook 2009) Pb was £9.99 now £4.95
Butrint 3
Excavations at the Triconch
Palace
edited by William Bowden and
Richard Hodges.
The book traces the changing
nature of this rich and varied
area. This is accompanied by
discussions of the elaborate mosaic decoration of the
palatial phase and their articulation of elite living, as
well as of in-depth discussions of the implications of
elite and domestic architecture in late antiquity and
the Mid Byzantine period.
£45.00 now £9.95
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The Dark Side of Childhood
in Late Antiquity and the
Middle Ages
edited by Katariina Mustakallio and
Christian Laes.
Essays on three broad topics:
“Unwanted” deals with parents
who were unable to bring up
their baby and handed it over to other people or
the cruel whims of destiny. “Disabled” addresses
what we would label as children’s illnesses since
disability was a concept largely unknown to ancient
people. “Nearly Lost” examines demons, viewed as
destructive forces with the ability to destroy children.
Byzantines and Crusaders in
Non-Greek Sources
edited by Mary Whitby.
A guide to working with the non
Greek sources which those who
are working on the Byzantine
Empire must inevitably come
across. The 14 chapters each give
an overview of the material from a particular region
or culture, highlighting the pitfalls which historians
using the sources may encounter. Latin, Arabic, Jewish,
Slavonic, Georgian, Armenian and Syriac sources are
all discussed.
Font of Life
Ambrose, Augustine and the
Mystery of Baptism
by Garry Wills.
Prompted by the recent discovery
of the fourth century baptistry
beneath the Duomo in Milan, this
book recreates the baptism there
in 387 of St. Augustine by St. Ambrose. It charts the
often fractious relationship between the two men and
their fundamental importance in the history of the
church and Christian thought.
£6.95
Christianity
A Global History
by David Chidester.
In this impressive history of
Christianity David Chidester
emphasises the diverse
manifestations of the religion, first
tracing its origins and theological
developments through the medieval centuries, before
concentrating on its expansion to all corners of the
globe and its varied local adaptations and challenges.
689p b/w pls (Penguin 2000, Pb 2001) Pb was £14.99
now £5.95
Spiritual Marriage
Sexual Abstinence in Medieval
Wedlock
by Dyan Elliott.
The early Christian and medieval
practice of spiritual marriage, in
which husband and wife mutually
and voluntarily relinquish sexual
activity for reasons of piety, played an important role
in the development of the institution of marriage.
Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon
law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history
of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to
the beginning of the sixteenth century. 392p (Princeton
UP 1993, Pb 1995) Pb was £32.95 now £12.95
Through the Eye of a Needle
by Peter Brown.
Peter Brown examines the rise
of the church in Late Antiquity
through the lens of money and
the challenges it posed to an
institution that espoused the
virtue of poverty and called avarice
the root of all evil. He examines the controversies and
changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx
of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the
spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their
growing influence in an empire beset with crisis.
816p col pls (Princeton UP 2012) Hb was £27.95 now
£12.95
Women in Purple
Rulers of Byzantium
by Judith Herrin
Irene, Euphrosyne and Theodora
were influential wives, mothers
and, as widows, rulers in their
own right during the 8th and 9th
centuries who are attributed with
restoring the veneration of icons after a long period
of iconoclasm. Judith Herrin examines their religious
policies and how they brought changes to the Byzantine
world that `profoundly altered the course of history’.
328p col pls (Princeton UP 2004) Pb was £19.95 now
£7.95
Archaeology in Architecture
Studies in Honour of Cecil L.
Striker
edited by Judson J. Emerick and
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis.
Essays on the archaeology and
architecture of Late Antiquity,
Byzantium and early medieval
Europe. Topics include art and ceremony, urban
religious topography, Byzantine and Ottoman domestic
architecture in town and country, architectual
proportion, historic construction techniques,
dendrochronological approaches, and building
materials. 14 essays in English, 5 in German. 216p b/w
illus (von Zabern 2005) Hb was £60.00 now £14.95
The Closing of the Western
Mind
by Charles Freeman.
This book explores how the
European mind was closed by the
Constantinian religious revolution
of the fourth century. It looks at
the rise of the ‘divine’ monarch,
the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself
from Judaism, the conflict between faith and reason,
and the problems in finding any kind of rational basis
for Christian theology.
432p b/w pls (Vintage 2002) Pb was £17.99 now £6.95
The Latin Alexander
Trallianus
The Text and Transmission of
a Late Latin Medical Book
by David R Langslow.
The present work offers an
extensive introduction to the text
and transmission of the ancient
Latin version of the medical works “Therapeutica”
and “On Fevers” of the great sixth–century Greek
doctor Alexander of Tralles.
320p, 12 pls. (Roman Society, 2006) Hb was £65.00
now £6.95
In the Beginning
Bibles Before the Year 1000
edited by Michelle P. Brown.
Michelle Brown gathers together
seventy fragile biblical treasures
in this sumptuously illustrated
volume that captures the
development of both Bible and
book, as well as a formative period of early Christian
history. Leading authorities in the field explore the
early history of the Bible in the accompanying essays,
revealing its transformation into the complex symbol
of faith that it is today.
360p col illus (Smithsonian 2006) Hb was £32.00 now
£9.95
A Day of Gladness
The Sabbath Among Jews and
Christians in Antiquity
by Herold Weiss.
This study looks at the differences
between the two faiths in the
Classical era in terms of their
religious concerns and ideologies
about the Sabbath, viewed through a broad range of
textual material.
262p (University of South Carolina 2003) Hb was
£34.50 now £6.95
Dynamics of Identity in the
World of the Early Christians
by Philip A. Harland.
This study sheds new light
on identity formation and
maintenance in the world of the
early Christians by drawing on
neglected archaeological and
epigraphic evidence concerning associations and
immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from
the social sciences.
239p b/w illus (T&T Clark 2010) Pb was £18.99 now
£6.95
Romans and Christians
by Dominic Janes.
A visual history of Christianity
and its artistic and architectural
interaction with the Roman
Empire, from persecution and coexistence in the Pagan Empire, to
the adaptation and construction
of a new visual language in the Christian Empire. A
case study of Late Roman Gaul and Britain rounds off
the book.
159p b/w illus (Tempus 2002) Pb was £17.99 now £4.95
The Christian World:
A Social and Cultural History
edited by Geoffrey Barraclough.
These twelve essays assess the
social and cultural impact of
Christian ideas on people from all
walks of life, across Europe, and
to places further afield such as
colonial America. Beginning in the Ancient World, they
trace the progress of the Christian faith in conquering
and converting the `barbarians’, the proliferation of
Christian values and beliefs in the Middle Ages, the
Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
328p b/w and col illus (Thames & Hudson 1981, Pb
2003) Pb was £19.99 now £7.95
Late Antiquity, Islam and Anglo-Saxon
Ambrose’s Patriarchs
Ethics for the Common Man
by Marcia Colish.
In this detailed study of the
patriarch treatises of Ambrose
of Milan Marcia Colish addresses
the question of their intended
audience, arguing that the
treatises were geared towards the average lay person
rather than those with special callings in the church.
193p (University of Notre Dame Press 2005) Pb was
£13.95 now £5.95
Monastic Estates in Late
Antique and Early Islamic
Egypt
edited by Anne Boud’hors et al.
Essays on the administration of
Late Antique monastic estates. The
contributions consist of editions
of previously unpublished ostraca
and papyri, or of revised and expanded editions of
previously published items, and nine essays addressing
socio-economic and religious issues that impacted
upon the monastic communities of Egypt during Late
Antiquity and the Early Islamic period.
2009) Hb was £45.00 now £9.95
Augustine’s Manichaean
Dilemma, Volume 1
The Iconography of Islamic
Art
by Jason BeDuhn.
edited by Bernard O’Kane.
Conversion and Apostasy, 373388 CE
BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine’s
decade-long adherence to
Manichaeism, apostasy from it,
and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity. He
explores Augustine’s commitment to the sect, while
pointing out ways he failed to understand or put into
practice key parts of the Manichaean system.
£45.50 now £14.95
Art of Late Antiquity and
Byzantium in the Virginia
Museum
by Anna Gonosova and Christine
Kondoleon.
This catalogue is divided into
two parts, jewelry and domestic
art. 136 objects are analysed
from stylistic and iconographic viewpoints in which
appearance, function and meaning are described.
451p b/w and col illus (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1994) Pb was £25.00 now £9.95
Empty Bottles of Gentilism
Kingship and the Divine in Late
Antiquity and the Early Middle
Ages
by Francis Oakley.
Examines the Classical inheritance
and early medieval theories
of kingship and regal sacrality.
Oakley argues that notions of divine kingship were
deeply embedded in Hellenistic and Roman thought,
and that this, rather than the more secular attitudes of
Classical Athens, was the main legacy of the Classical
era. 306p (Yale UP 2010) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95
The Cave Church of Paul the
Hermit
by William Lyster.
St. Paul is generally considered
the first Christian hermit, and the
monastery built around his cave
in Egypt is one of the very oldest.
This sumptuous volume grew out
of a conservation project of the monastery’s superb
wall paintings, which were broadly produced in two
phases in the 13th and 18th centuries. It provides a
full and detailed description of the paintings, their
iconography and conservation, as well as a general
history of the monastery, and the rise of Coptic
monasticism. 393p col illus throughout (Yale UP 2008)
Hb was £45.00 now £19.95
Studies in Honour of Robert
Hillenbrand
This book explores the iconography
of Islamic art and presents a
diverse range of appraoches,
although with an overarching theme - the linking of
the interpretation of objects to textual sources.
336p b/w and col illus (American University in Cairo
Press 2005) Hb was £45.00 now £12.95
The Ottoman House
edited by Stanley Ireland and
William Bechoefer.
This book contains 17 papers by
architects and archaeologists
looking at how the Ottoman
house was structured, how it
varied over time and space and
how surviving examples are faring in a world of breezeblock construction.
133p 194 b/w pls (BIAA 1998) Hb was £25.00 now
£9.95
Sacred Swords
Jihad in the Holy Land, 10971295
by James Waterson.
From initial disunity on the eve of
the First Crusade, Waterson shows
how civil war and the resultant
political centralisation and
increasingly effective military organisation combined to
create forces capable of defeateing and finally ejected
the Crusaders (and the Mongols) from the Holy Land.
288p b/w illus (Frontline 2011) Hb was £19.99 now
£7.95
Saracen Strongholds, 11001500
Central and Eastern Islamic
Lands
by David Nicolle.
A well-illustrated guide to Islamic
fortifications as far apart as
North Africa, Afghanisatan and
northern India, including urban citadels, palaces,
town walls and castles and caravanserais. Nicolle
explores their design and development and their use
in peacetime and war.
64p b/w and col illus (Osprey 2009) Pb was £11.99
now £5.95
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Medieval Nubia
A Social and Economic History
by Giovanni Ruffini.
This book analyses the stunningly
well-preserved medieval
documents from Qasr Ibrim to
present a more complex picture
of Nubian society and economy,
one which was monetized and which was linked to the
wider Mediterranean world.
Turks
A Journey of A Thousand
Years, 600-1600
edited by David J. Roxburgh.
This magnificent catalogue
accompanies an exhibition
devoted to the artistic and
cultural riches of the Turks. Essays
by leading scholars trace Turkic history and cultural
development, while paintings, sculpture, textiles,
metalwork and ceramics reflect the artistic influences
that the Turks assimilated.
392p col illus t/out (Royal Academy 2005) Hb was
£50.00 now £24.95
The Minbar of Saladin
by Lynette Singer.
The minbar (pulpit) of Saladin
dated to the mid twelfth century,
and stood in the Al-Aqsa mosque
until its destruction by flames
in 1969. This book details the
difficult process of reconstruction,
introducing the reader to the key principles of Islamic
art along the way. Many of the necessary skills
necessary to design and carve the inticrate geometric
patterns had to be learned experimentally from scratch,
involving contributions from a large team of scholars
and craftsmen. 206p col illus (Thames & Hudson 2008)
Hb was £29.95 now £14.95
The Archaeology of the EastAnglian Conversion
by Richard Hoggett.
Drawing both on the surviving
documentary sources, and
on the eastern region’s rich
archaeological record, this book
presents a multi-disciplinary
synthesis of the Christianisation of East Anglia. It
argues that the effectiveness of the Christian mission
is clearly visible in the region’s burial record, which
exhibits a number of significant changes, including
the cessation of cremation, and a new relationship
between settlements and cemeteries. 222p b/w illus
(Boydell 2010) Hb was £50.00 now £14.95
King Harold II and the
Bayeux Tapestry
edited by Gale Owen-Crocker.
These twelve papers approach
Harold from two angles: Harold’s
life, kingship and reputation;
and his depiction in the Bayeux
Tapestry and its judgement of
him. The scholarly essays include discussions of the
persistent Scandinavian legend that Harold survived
Hastings, the reasons why Harold was chosen to
succeed Edward the Confessor and the imagery
associated with him in the Tapestry.
202p b/w illus (Boydell 2005, Pb 2011) Pb was £17.99
now £6.95
Anglo-Saxon and Viking
64
Two Decades of Discovery
edited by Tony Abramson.
12 essays and two catalogues
make up this book which grew out
of the Cambridge International
Sceatta symposium. Essays on
early Saxon Sceatta coinage look
at new finds, classification and
different coin series, locations of mints and areas of
circulation, orthography and iconography and the place
of the coinage in the wider economy.
204p b/w illus (Boydell 2008) Pb was £40.00 now
£9.95
The Durham Liber Vitae
edited by D.W. Rollason and Lynda
Rollason.
The Durham Liber Vitae was
created in the mid-ninth-century,
as a deluxe manuscript containing
lists of royalty, aristocracy and
churchmen. It was revived around
1100 when it became the repository for the names of
monks at Durham Cathedral Priory, as well as several
thousand lay persons. This publication offers a text
edited to the highest standards, based on the various
periods in which names were entered into the book.
3 vols, 1540p, b/w illus, CD (British Library 2007) Hb
was £195.00, now £39.95
The Hamwic Glass
by J R Hunter and M P Heyworth.
The assemblage of glass fragments
from Saxon Hamwic is one of the
most important in Europe. This
book details the range of different
coloured glass, vessel types and
decorative elements. Through an
innovative approach to the study of glass fragments,
including compositional and colour analysis, insights
into glass production in Middle Saxon times are
revealed.
140p, 24 b/w figs, 8 col pls (CBA, 1996) Pb was
£28.00 now £4.95
Interrupting the Pots
The Excavation of Cleatham
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
by Kevin Leahy.
A Brief History of the Vikings
by Jonathan Clements.
A predominantly narrative history
of the Viking age focusing on
great personalities such as Harald
Fairhair and Erik Bloodaxe, Viking
expansion east and west, and the
evolution of the Scandinavian
kingdoms, drawing in particular on the Icealndic sagas.
273p (Constable & Robinson 2005) Pb was £8.99 now
£3.95
Sacred Time in Early
Christian Ireland
by Patricia M. Rumsey.
Rumsey uses two case studies
from early Christian Ireland, the
Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis
and the Rules of the Celi De to
demonstrate two different ways
of understanding sacred time. She shows that the
author of the navigatio saw time as part of a good
and holy creation, and therefore intrinsically good in
itself; whilst the Celi De saw time as part of a fallen
world needing redemption, and therefore in need of
sanctification.
258p (T&T Clark 2007) Hb was £80.00 now £9.95
The Sutton Hoo whetstone
sceptre is the most enigmatic and
mysterious emblem of kingship of
the early Middle Ages. Produced
c.600 AD and long held to be Anglo-Saxon, Enright
here establishes that the sceptre is undoubtedly a
British artefact, one that reflects a long history of Celtic
kingship theory.
387p b/w pls (Four Courts Press 2006) Hb was £50.00
now £12.95
A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon
and Viking Sites
County Durham and
Northumberland
by Guy Points.
A comprehensive guide to
places, artefacts and material of
Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest
in County Durham and Northumberland (pre 1974
borders).
490p b/w and col illus (Guy Points 2012) Pb was
£30.00 now £9.95
Yorkshire
The Site Atlas
A Gazetteeer of Anglo-Saxon
and Viking Sites
edited by Ann Clark.
by Guy Points.
Folder containing 25 large-scale
loose leaf plans, and a short
text giving a brief history of the
excavations and its aftermath, a
series of period summaries, and a number of specialist
reports. An indispensable source of reference for the
individual volumes that cover the multi-period site.
42p, 25 loose plans (English Heritage/British Museum
Press 1993) was £25.00 now £6.95
Bede
On Tobit and the Canticle of
Habakkuk
translated by S Connolly.
A translation of Bede’s Biblical
commentary on the Tobit and
the Canticle of Habakkuk - which
was sung in the monastic liturgy
every Friday. There is a useful introduction, notes and
bibliography supplemented by an index of names and
themes which allows easy cross-referencing.
141p (Four Courts 1997) Hb was £40.00 now £7.95
Two Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
at Beckford, Hereford and
Worcester
European Influence on Celtic
Art
Report on excavations carried
out in the mid-fifties of two
cemeteries which dated from
the late 5th to mid 6th century.
Grave goods included spears, shields, brooches and
beads, but there was a general lack of prosperity and
the authors argue that the community was isolated.
Includes analysis of the finds, skeletal analysis and
grave orientation.
168p, b/w illus (CBA 1996) Pb was £30.00 now £9.95
by Michael J. Enright.
Excavations at Mucking
Vol 1
The Cleatham cemetery in
North Lincolnshire is, with over
1200 cremations and 62 burials,
England’s third largest AngloSaxon cemetery. It was in use from the mid-5th century
to the late 7th century. Following full excavation, the
site was analysed in detail and it proved possible to
phase the 1204 inter-cut urns.
278p b/w and col illus (CBA 2007) Pb was £30.00
now £15.00
by Vera I Evison and Prue Hill.
The Sutton Hoo Sceptre and
the Roots of Celtic Kingship
Theory
Patrons and Artists
by Lloyd Laing.
Focusing on the period c.3501200, Lloyd Laing here returns to
the ongoing debates surrounding
Celtic art, and provides a useful
overview of the various external influences on its style,
techniques and iconography. He also looks at the ways
in which secular and ecclesiastical rulers used and
developed art to reinforce their power and identity.
247p b/w illus (Four Courts Press 2010) Hb was
£45.00 now £12.95
A comprehensive guide to
places, artefacts and material
in Yorkshire of Anglo-Saxon and
Viking interest comprising 282
sites. Each entry is rated to indicate the quality of
what there is to see and how easy it is to find, and the
sites are described in detail, including measurements
and descriptions of decoration where appropriate.
446p with illus. (Guy Points 2007) Pb was £24.99 now
£9.95
Early English Arbitration
by Derek Roebuck.
Derek Roebuck here examines the
methods and procedures adopted
to settle disputes in England from
Prehistory until Henry II’s legal
reforms of 1154. As befits the
evidence the majority of the book
concentrates on the Anglo-Saxon period, the early
dooms and the laws of Alfred. He places particular
emphasis on the importance of communities in
overseeing and enforcing arbitration.
312p (Holo Books 2008) Hb was £40.00 now £9.95
Excavations on St. Patrick’s
Isle Peel, Isle of Man, 1982–88
by David Freke.
A comprehensive account of
extensive excavations on this
strategically important Island.
Seperate chapters chart each
period from prehistoric to modern
but the focus is very much on the Viking Age. Reports
look at the cemeteries and skeletal remains and
artifacts and the standing structures, while the book
concludes with a series of specialist reports.
463p b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2002) Hb was £100.00
now £9.95
Saxon, Medieval and
Post-Medieval Settlement
at Sol Central, Marefair,
Northampton
by Pat Miller, Tom Wilson and Chiz
Harward.
Excavation work revealed activity
in the Late Saxon to Norman
period, when metalworking, crop processing and
bone working took place at the site. A cemetery
was established on the site in the 10th century and
associated with the chapel of St Martin in the 12th
century, from which 72 burials were excavated. 81p b/w
illus (MOLA 2006) Pb was £11.95 now £4.95
Catalogue of the AngloSaxon and Viking Antiquities
by Rosemary Cramp and Roger
Miket.
A catalogue of the early medieval
artefacts held by the Museum of
Antiquities Newcastle upon Tyne.
It is divided into two sections –
small finds and stone sculpture.
25p 35 b/w pls (Museum of Antiquities 1982) Pb only
£1.00
Catalogue of the Early
Northumbrian Coins in the
Museum of Antiquaries
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
by Elizabeth J.E. Pirie.
An illustrated catalogue of 476
Anglo-Saxon coins, arranged by
moneyer, accompanied by a
discussion of the genesis of the collection and remarks
on provenance.
30p b/w illus (Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle
1982) only £1.00
Andreas and the Fates of the
Apostles
edited by Kenneth R. Brooks.
An edition of the two Old English
poems, Andreas and The Fates
of the Apostles. The numerous
difficulties of interpretation and
syntax are fully discussed in the
textual commentary, and a glossary has been added.
now £5.95
Asser’s Life of King Alfred
Together with the Annals
of Saint Neots Erroneously
Ascribed to Asser
edited by William Henry Stevenson
Stevenson’s 1906 edition of Asser’s
Life of King Alfred, comprising the
Latin text and copious notes. An
article by Dorothy Whitelock surveys the debate on
the authenticity of the work.
386p (Oxford UP 1959, reprint 1998) Hb was £14.99
now £6.95
A Corpus of Late Celtic
Hanging Bowls
by Rupert Bruce-Mitford.
The first part of the publication
sets the bowls in their historical
and cultural context and discusses
all key aspects of hanging-bowl
research, including the muchdisputed topics of origin, use, and chronology. The
second part is a comprehensive and highly detailed
catalogue, dealing with the whole series from Britain
and Europe.
514p, 8 col pls, over a thousand b/w illus (Oxford UP
2005) Hb was £237.00 now £79.95
Interpreters of Early
Medieval Britain
edited by Michael Lapidge.
This volume gathers together
biographies of 28 members of the
British Academy who ‘transformed
our knowledge of all aspects of
the culture – philological, literary,
palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical – of
early medieval Britain’ during the late 19th and 20th
centuries.
565p (OUP/Brit Acad 2002) Hb was £55.00 now
£14.95
Aelfric’s Abbey
Excavations at Eynsham Abbey,
Oxfordshire, 1989–1992
by A Hardy, A Dodd and G D Keevill.
The minster church at Eynsham,
Oxfordshire, was founded in the
7th or 8th century and refounded
in 1005 as a Benedictine abbey.
The excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology
revealed substantial remains of the abbey, tracing
its history from its foundation until the Dissolution in
1538–9.
736p, many b/w figs, 47 b/w pls (Oxford Archaeology
2003) Hb was £49.95 now £7.50
Anglo-Saxon Studies in
History and Archaeology 3
edited by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes
Seven papers; half the volume is
devoted to a corpus of Hogback
tombstones by James Lang.
Other topics include the early
ecclesiastical
settlement
at
Sherborne, excavations at Burrow Hill, shield bosses,
the Kentish keystone-garnet disc brooches, the inlaid
buckle loop from Yeavering, and the case against a
coffin in the Sutton Hoo burial.
176p b/w illus (OUSU 1984) Pb was £20.00 now
£5.00
edited by William Filmer-Sankey
Nine papers including Werner’s
review of Sutton Hoo III, royal
graves, early units of government
in the West Midlands, Aelfric
and the perception of script and
picture, idolators and ecclesiasts.
150p b/w illus (OUSA 1992) Pb was £24.00 now
£5.00
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edited by David Griffiths and Tania
Dickinson.
Rather than debate location
and specifics, this collection
concentrates
on
the
interconnections and resonances
of kingdoms. It examines general models and research
agenda derived from archaeology and history;
the search for kingdoms on the ground (control
and mobilisation of resources through economic,
social and territorial organisations) and identifying
kingdoms of the mind.
224p (OUSA 1999) Pb was £35.00 now £5.00
Anglo-Saxon Somerset
by Michael Cotsen.
On the edge of the highland zone,
with its diverse topography, newly
conquered Somerset provided
the early Anglo-Saxon kings and
aristocracy with a rich prize. This
book traces the way in which the
king and his warrior followers shaped the countryside
to meet the needs of society. The book also examines
the response to the challenge presented by the
attacks of the Vikings and traces the impact of new
technologies introduced into agriculture.
£35.00 now £7.95
Early Medieval Settlement
Remains from Flixborough
The Occupation Sequence,
c.600–1000
by Chris Loveluck and David
Atkinson.
1989–91 excavations at Flix
borough unearthed remains of
an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of
the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones
yet found on such a site. Volume 1 focuses on the
lengthy occupation sequence.
208p, 150 b/w illus, 16p col plates (Oxbow Books
2007) Hb was £30.00 now £9.95
Life and Economy at Early
Medieval Flixborough,
c.600-1000
by D.H. Evans and Christopher
Loveluck.
This volume contains detailed
presentation of some 10,000
recorded finds, over 6,000 sherds
of pottery, and many other residues and bulk finds,
illustrated with 213 blocks of figures and 67 plates,
together with discussion of their significance.
534p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2009) Hb was
£30.00 now £9.95
Myth and History
Ethnicity & Politics in the First
Millennium British Isles
by Stephen Yeates.
In this book Stephen Yeates
reassesses the first Millennium
AD, and demonstrates that the
evidence that has been used
to construct the story of an Anglo-Saxon migration,
with an incoming population replacing most, if not
all, of the British population has been found wanting.
Instead he sees the major migration periods in Europe
as occurring in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic.
£7.95
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Spaces of the Living and the
Dead
edited by C E Karkov et al.
Initially concerned exclusively
with death and burial, this volume
grew to encompass the role of the
living and the towns they inhabit.
The ten papers take an informal,
relaxed tone, seeking to inspire discussion rather than
provide a definitive summary.
162p, pls, figs (Oxbow Books 1999) Pb was £24.00
now £4.95
St Peter’s Barton-uponHumber, Volume 1
History, Archaeology and
Architecture
by Warwick Rodwell
St Peter’s, Barton-upon-Humber,
is a redundant medieval church
in the care of English Heritage. As
a result of a major programme of research carried out
between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively
studied parish church in the UK. Volume 1 sets out the
architectural history and setting of this complex, multiperiod building. 2 vols, 944p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow
Books 2011) Hb was £75.00 now £19.95
The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
of Caistor-by-Norwich and
Markshall, Norfolk
by J.N.L. Myres and Barbara Green.
This massive excavtion report
describes the pagan cemetery
of Caistor-by-Norwich, excavated
in 1932-7, as well as the nearby
cemetery at Markshall, shedding light on the crucial
4th and 5th centuries and the process of Germanic
settlement.
338P, 24 pls (Society of Antiquities 1973) Hb was
£20.00 now £4.95
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy,
Hampshire
by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Guy
Grainger.
The cemetery was excavated
in 1961–2 by Sonia Chadwick
Hawkes; this volume draws to
gether all of her chapters and drawings relating to the
site, including an introduction to the site, a detailed
catalogue of burials, a report on the human bone, a
gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon sites in Hampshire, and a
small number of specialist reports.
225p, b/w figs, 10 b/w pls (OUSA 2003) Hb was
£22.50 now £10.00
Early Anglo-Saxon Buckets
A Corpus of Alloy and IronBound, Stave-Built Vessels
by Jean Mary Cook
edited by Birte Brugmann.
This posthumously published
corpus comprises 339 entries
on complete buckets, bucket
mounts and objects erroneously published as buckets,
many of them based on first-hand examination, with
information on their archaeological context.
128p, 22 b/w illus (Oxford University School of
Archaeology 2004) Hb was £18.00 now £10.00
Ceawlin
Freswick Links, Caithness
by Rupert Matthews.
by Christopher D. Morris, James
Rackham and Colleen E. Batey.
The Man Who Created
England
In place of the anarchy and
mayhem, Rupert suggests
that Romanised governmental
structures managed to survive
the economic collapse of the 5th century and the
population collapse of the early sixth century to
emerge in new and barbarianised form in the later
sixth century. He sees the reign of Ceawlin, King of
Wessex in the 570s as pivotal to this process.
Arthurian Sources, Vol. 3
Persons
by John Morris.
A prosopography of ecclesiastics
and lay people active in subRoman Britain, with biographical
details and full citations and
bibliographical information, as
well as cross-referencing.
172p (Phillimore 1995) Hb was £19.95 now £6.95
Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire
by Peter Sawyer.
Using new evidence from coins,
placenames, archaeology and
surviving Saxon architecture, the
author pieces together the history
of Lincolnshire from the collapse
of Rome to the Norman Conquest.
After reviewing the evidence and the topography of
the county, the book takes a chronological approach.
289p (History of Lincolnshire III, 2003) Hb was £25.00
now £6.95
The Birsay Bay Project,
Volume 1
Brough Road Excavations,
1976-82
by Christopher D. Morris.
A report on excavations at
three main areas - the Point of
Buckquoy, Red Craig and south of
Red Criag - yielding evidence for the three disctinct
periods of activity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze
Age, the Pictish period, and the Viking period.
308p b/w illus (University of Durham 1989) Hb was
£30.00 now £9.95
The Birsay Bay Project,
Volume 2
Sites in Birsay Village and on
the Brough of Birsay, Orkney
by Christopher D. Morris.
The archaeological importance
and significance of the Birsay Bay
area of Orkney, particularly in the
Viking and Late Norse periods, is again demonstrated in
this volume which concerns itself with the well-known
monumentsof St Magnus’ Kirk, the Earl’s Palace and the
Bourhg of Birsay, together with the newly-identified
site at Beachview, immediately to the south of the
Burn of Boardhouse in Borsay village. 302p b/w illus
(University of Durham 1996) Hb was £50.00 now £12.95
Excavation and Survey of a
Norse Settlement
A report on surveys and
excavation at an important Norse
site. Of particular interest is
the environmental data, comprising one of the first
detailed studies of middens on a Scandinavian rural
settlement in Britain.
295p b/w illus (Highland Libraries 1995) Hb was
£40.00 now £9.95
Beowulf and the Medieval
Proverb Tradition
by Susan E. Deskis.
"A companion to proverbial
passages in Beowulf and a
handy reference that offers
helpful commentary as well
as a treasure trove of parallels
and analogues." Susan Deskis argues that proverbs
formed an important function in the composition and
development of Beowulf and consituted a significant
part of the cultural discourse that the poet shared
with his audience.
192p (MRTS 1996) Hb was £19.00 now £6.95
Sutton Hoo and Its
Landscape
Tom Wiliamson.
The location of the Anglo-Saxon
burial ground at Sutton Hoo, on
a ridge overlooking the estuary
of the river Deben, has always
appeared strange and challenging.
Williamson argues that the cemetery was placed where
it was not in order to display power and dominance over
territory, but because the river, and its brooding estuary,
had long held a special and central place in the lives and
perceptions of a local society.
220p, 69 illus, 35 in col (Windgather Press 2008) Pb
was £20.00 now £7.95
Aspects of AngloScandinavian York
by R.A. Hall et al.
The ten chapters in this book, each
written by a specialist, place the
Coppergate discoveries within
the wider context of Viking Yorvik
whilst demonstrating `how far the
study of Anglo-Scandinavian York has progressed in the
last quarter century’ since the `Viking Dig’.
Pottery from 46-54
Fishergate
by A.J. Mainman.
This report contains a description
of the pottery resulting from
more than a millennium of
varied activity on the site. The
pottery from the Anglian levels
is, without a doubt, the most important part of the
assemblage.
128p b/w illus (Archaeology of York 16/6, 1993) Pb
was £15.00 now £4.95
Early Medieval Europe
Creating the Monastic Past
in Medieval Flanders
by Karine Ugo.
The creation of a past for
themselves was of pressing
importance to religious
communities, enabling them to
increase their status and legitimise
their existence. This book examines the process in a
group of communities in the southern part of Flanders
over a period running from the ninth to the end of the
eleventh century.
196p (York Medieval Press 2005) Hb was £50.00 now
£14.95
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier
Catalonia, 880-1010
by Jonathan Jarrett.
Through the use of charters to
generate new ways of looking at
medieval history, the author traces
previously hidden social networks
in the complex and fragmented
frontier society of Catalonia; webs of association
stretched from counts, the Church and even kings to
the ambitious and the locally powerful, the pioneering
and the humble, and the standing populations in areas
newly brought under government. 208p (Boydell 2010)
Hb was £50.00 now £14.95
Sedulius Scottus
De Rectoribus Christianis
edited by R.W. Dyson.
Sedulius Scottus [fl. ca 850] is
an important figure in the early
history of European political
thought, one of a group of ninthcentury authors who produced
short treatises in which they attempted to clarify the
proper relation between spiritual and secular power.
The Latin text of his De rectoribus Christianis [On
Christian Rulers] is here presented in a critical edition
more complete and accurate than anything hitherto
available, with a facing-page English translation.
San Vincenzo al Volturno 2
edited by R Hodges.
Contains discussion of the
Vestibule, the Assembly Room
containing the reconstructed wall
of painted prophets, the Refectory,
the terraces, the hilltop cemetery,
and the late Roman settlement. It
also includes essays on the historical context of the site.
200p, 140 b/w illus, 36 col pls (British School at Rome
1995) Pb was £37.50 now £12.50
Three South Etrurian
Churches
Santa Cornelia, Santa Rufina
and San Liberato
edited by N Christie.
This volume yields a wealth of
information about the transition
years between Roman and
medieval for the Churches were built amid the ruins
of Roman chapels, mausolea and other buildings.
374p, 109 figs, 94 pls (British School at Rome 1991)
Pb was £55.00 now £12.50
Irish Biblical Apocrypha
edited by Marie Herbert and Martin
J. McNamara.
A collection of translations of
apocryphal material from early
medieval Ireland. Some are
straightforward Irish translations
of well-known Latin writings.
Others are translations of early, rare or little attested
Apocrypha.
196p (T&T Clark 1989, Pb 2004) Pb was £37.99, now
£9.95
Between Text and Territory
The Divorce of Lothar II
edited by Kim Bowes, Karen Francis
and Richard Hodges.
by Karl Heidecker.
Excavations in the Terra of San
Vincenzo al Volturno
This volume summarizes the
archaeology of the territory,
placing emphasis upon the long
settlement history of which San Vincenzo al Volturno
was a part, as well as the dependent communities
of the Benedictine monastery identified during the
fieldwork.
356p, b/w illus (British School at Rome 2006) Pb was
£49.50 now £35.00
San Vincenzo al Volturno I
edited by R Hodges.
This volume gives a general intro
duction to this important project,
a description of the archaeological
remains, and then detailed
accounts of the excavation of
the Carolingian Crypt Church, the
‘South Church’, the Refectory, the Garden Court and the
Entrance Hall. Also included is a reappraisal of the cycle
of paintings in the crypt in the light of the excavations.
236p, 215 b/w illus, 23 col pls (British School at Rome
1993) Pb was £35.00 now £12.50
Christian Marriage and Political
Power in the Carolingian World
In 857, Lothar II, king of
Lotharingia, decided to divorce
Theutberga. Karl Heidecker’s
dramatic and engaging narrative
untangles the chaos that resulted, illuminating the
origin and development of Western notions of marriage
and divorce and the separation of church and state.
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Caesarius of Arles
Life, Testament, Letters
translated by William E. Klingshirn.
Caesarius was born in 469/70
and served as Bishop of Arles
from 502 to his death in 542.
The documents translated in this
volume illustrate his career and
the social and religious history of Provence at a time
of far-reaching political change.
157P (Liverpool UP 1994) Pb was £15.00 now £4.95
Poems of Alcimus Ecdicius
Avitus
by George W. Shea.
Presents an English translation
and discussion of the six poems
of Avitus, the sixth century Bishop
of Vienne, along with their two
related prologues addressed to
his brother-in-law Sidonius Apollinaris. The first five
provide narratives on Biblical themes, the sixth is a
meditation in praise of chastity.
170p (MRTS 1997) Hb was £21.00 now £4.95
The Gentle Voice of Teachers
Aspects of Learning in the
Carolingian Age
by Richard E. Sullivan.
Eight essays in which the authors
seek to define the cultural
‘renaissance’ of the Carolingian
period and to illuminate the part
played in this by learning and teaching.
361p (Ohio State UP 1995) Pb was £16.50 now £4.95
European Medieval Tactics
(1)
The Fall and Rise of Cavalry,
450-1260
by David Nicolle.
This book explains the varied
developments in early medieval
European battle tactics. The
author explains how other military traditions, from
the Eurasian steppes and the Islamic world, influenced
European tactics, and emphasises the importance of
balanced forces of horse and foot in almost every
instance. 64p b/w and col illus (Osprey 2011) Pb was
£11.99 now £4.95
The Transformation of a
Religious Landscape
The Name of the Saint
Medieval Southern Italy 8501150
The Martyrology of Jerome
and Access to the Sacred in
Francia, 627-827
by Valerie Ramseyer.
by Felice Lifshitz.
A detailed study of the religious
life of the principality of Salerno
in the early Middle Ages, and in
particular of the reform program spearhead by the
Archbishop of Salerno and the abbey of the Holy Trinity
of Cava.
A detailed examination of the
reception and recopying of
the (apocryphal) Martyrology
of Saint Jerome in the Early Middle Ages. The
Martyrology comprises a calendrically organised list
of names of saints, and offers a rather different form
of “access to the sacred” in a relic focused age.
230p (Notre Dame UP 2005) Hb was £34.50 now
£9.95
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Water and the Word,
Volume 1
William of Newburgh
by Susan A. Keefe.
edited and translated with an
introduction and commentary by
P.G. Walsh and M.J. Kennedy.
Commentary
A comprehensive analysis of the
genre of Baptismal Instructions,
designed for the education of the
Carolingian clergy. Volume one
examines the manuscipt tradition and discusses the
instructions themselves and their implications for our
understanding of the Carolingian reform movement.
208p (University of Notre Dame Press 2002) Hb was
£40.50 now £12.95
Water and the Word,
Volume 2
Texts and Notes
edited and translated by Susan A.
Keefe.
Volume two contains the Latin
text of sixty-six manuscripts,
as
well
as
descriptions,
introductions, and a topical survey of the contents of
these manuscripts.
£140.00 now £24.95
Faith, Art and Politics at
Saint-Riquier
by Susan A. Rabe.
This study argues that the
spirituality of St Riquier, expressed
in its monastic buildings, and life
grew out of dominant political,
aesthetic and theological concerns
of the Carolingian court of the 790s.
256p b/w illus (Pennsylvania UP 1995) Hb was £37.50
now £9.95
Past Convictions
The Penance of Louis the
Pious and the Decline of the
Carolingians
by Courtney M. Booker.
controversial divestiture and
public penance of Charlemagne’s
son, the Emperor Louis the Pious, in 833, exploring
how both contemporaries and subsequent generations
thought about Louis’s forfeiture of the throne.
420p b/w illus (Cornell UP 2009) Hb was £49.00 now
£14.95
Celtic Saints of Ireland
by Elizabeth Rees.
Combining archaeology and
place-name studies with early
documentary sources, Elizabeth
Rees reconstructs the landscapes
and material world of early
Christianity in Ireland, paying
particular attention to its saints.
192p b/w illus (The History Press 2013) Pb was
£16.99 now £6.95
The History of English Affairs,
Book 2
Covers the years 1154-75,
and incorporates the murder
of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, the
capture of the King of Scots at Alnwick, and the first
subjugation of Ireland by the English. Parallel Latin
text and English translation.
£9.95, Pb was 18.00 now £4.95
The Cross of St Andrew
by Ursula Hall.
Ursula Hall examines various
written accounts of St Andrew’s life
and death, analyses the functions
and context of the X-shaped cross
in Christian tradition and looks at
iconogrpahic representations of
his martyrdom, in order to to determine when, where
and how the X-shaped cross became associated with St
Andrew’s cult and in the depiction of his death.
180p b/w illus, col pls (Birlinn 2006) Pb was £10.99
now £4.95
Anglo-Norman Language
and Its Contexts
edited by Richard Ingham.
The essays in this volume
examine the development and
role of Anglo-Norman from a
variety of different perspectives
and contexts, though with a
concentration on the theme of linguistic contact
between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate
it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto
been the case. 196p b/w illus (Boydell 2010) Hb was
£50.00 now £12.95
Calendar of the Fine Rolls of
Henry III, Part 3, 1234-42
edited by David Carpenter, Paul
Dryburgh and Bth Hartland.
This volume covers in some
detail the first phase of Henry’s
personal rule, which began in
1234. The Latin rolls are presented
in English translation, with all identifiable place-names
modernised, although the original forms are preserved.
England and Scotland in the
Fourteenth Century
edited by Andy King.
Drawing together new
perspectives from new and
leading researchers, these essays
investigate the great complexity
of Anglo-Scottish tensions in this
most momentous of centuries and in doing so often
reveal a far more ambivalent and at times even a
peaceful and productive Anglo-Scottish dynamic.
Fifteenth Century IX
English and Continental
Perspectives
edited by Linda Clark.
The essays here provide a series
of unusual, varying and complex
perspectives on late-medieval
society, with a particular focus
on the European context.
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXII
Fourteenth Century England V
This latest collection in the series
reflects the full range and vitality
of the current work on the AngloNorman period, with papers
covering religious, economic,
topographic, social, political and
historiographic themes.
Among the topics considered are
the size and structure of mag
nates’ households and retinues,
Edward II’s relationship with Piers
Gaveston, court venues and the
image presented by royal justice,
the pattern of clergy ordinations, and the Despensers’
patronage of Tewkesbury Abbey. Three essays deal
with aspects of Richard II’s reign. The final essays look
at general but related themes, the administration of
royal justice and the role of morality in the exercise
of public office.
edited by C.P. Lewis.
Blythburgh Priory Cartulary,
Part 1
edited by Christopher Harper-Bill.
The priory of the Blessed Virgin
Mary at Blythburgh was one
of the earliest of the many
houses of Augustinian canons
established in the diocese of
Norwich; the beginnings of conventual life most likely
date from the mid-12th century. The documents in
the Priory’s cartulary, predominantly private charters,
are given here in Latin, with an English summary or,
for documents dated beyond 1250, in a full English
abstract.
edited by Nigel Saul.
Gender, Nation and
Conquest in the Works of
William of Malmesbury
by Kirsten A. Fenton.
This innovative study provides a
gendered reading of Malmesbury’s
works with special reference
to the themes of conquest and
nation. It considers Malmesbury’s presentation of men
and women (both lay and religious) through categories
based on attributes, such as sexual behaviour and
violence, rather than the more familiar ‘professional
or familial roles, such as warrior and wife.
Medieval Britain
Haskins Society Journal 18
edited by Stephen Morillo and
Diane Korngiebel.
A collection of papers on England
and its neighbours in the High
Middle Ages. Essays include two
on Geoffrey of Monmouth, one
on the chronicle of Fulk Le Rechin,
one on the Anglo-Saxon law code of Aethelberht, one
on the law code of Roger II of Sicily, one on the coinage
of Henry II, and one on twelfth century hospitality.
Ipswich Recognizance Rolls,
1294-1327
edited by G.H. Martin.
The recognizance rolls of Ipswich
are a register of titles to property
in the borough and are among the
most varied and interesting of the
courts records. The contents of
the first twenty-one rolls are presented in an English
paraphrase that takes account of all significant
variations in the original Latin, and also indicates the
clerk’s marginal notes and memoranda.
Law and Kinship in
Thirteenth-Century England
by Sam Worby.
Kinship laws determined whom
thirteenth century Englishmen
and women might marry (decided
in the canon law courts) and they
determined from whom they
might inherit (decided in the common law courts).
This book seeks to uncover the association between
the two legal systems, and their ideas about family
relationships.
Leiston Abbey and Butley
Priory Charters
edited by Richard Mortimer.
Butley Priory was a house of
Augustinian canons, Leiston
A b b ey a fo u n d at i o n fo r
Premonstratensian canons. This
volume is largely an edition of
the Leiston cartulary and although the introduction
covers aspects of the history of both houses, it is chiefly
concerned with Leiston as the better documented and
less investigated of the two.
The Medieval Mystical
Tradition in England V
edited by Marion Glasscoe.
The proceedings of the fifth
meeting include: studies of
medieval mystics in continental
Europe; Bridgettine spirituality;
Julian of Norwich and the
status of visionary autobiography as a literary
genre; comparison between modern philosophical
understanding and that of a medieval mystic; enquiry
as to what books were available and to whom in
fourteenth-century Cambridge.
221p (D S Brewer 1992) Hb was £45.00 now £9.95
Records, Administration and
Aristocratic Society in the
Anglo-Norman Realm
edited by Nicholas Vincent.
The major theme of this volume is
the records of the Anglo-Norman
realm, and how they are used
separately and in combination
to construct the history of England and Normandy.
The essays cover all types of written source material,
including private charters and the official records of
the chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal
sources such as letters.
Representatives of the
Lower Clergy in Parliament
1295-1340
by J H Denton and J P Dooley.
Study of the unsuccessful attempt
to summon to Parliament elected
members of the lower clergy
from the dioceses and cathedral
chapters.
142p (Boydell and Brewer 1987) Hb £29.50 reduced
to £4.95
Soldiers, Nobles and
Gentlemen
Essays in Honour of Maurice
Keen
edited by Peter Coss and
Christopher Tyerman.
These essays cover such topics
as nobility and mobility in AngloSaxon society; chivalry and courtliness; the crusade and
chivalric ideas; chivalry and art; devotional literature;
piety and chivalry; military strategy; the victualling
of castles; Bertrand du Guesclin; soldiers’ wives; and
much more.
371p col pls (Boydell 2009) Hb was £60.00 now £12.95
Syon Abbey and Its Books
edited by E.A. Jones and Alexandra
Walsham.
This volume of essays traces the
fortunes of Syon Abbey and the
Bridgettine order between 1400
and 1700, examining the various
ways in which reading and
writing shaped its identity and defined its experience,
and exploring the interconnections between late
medieval and post-Reformation monastic history
and the rapidly evolving world of communication,
learning, and books.
£14.95
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The Court Rolls of Walsham
le Willows, 1351-99
edited by Ray Lock.
Published in modern English, the
documents provide a wealth of
evidence for life during the postBlack Death years when conflict
and tension between landowners
and tenants often ended up in the courts. The
documents are presented in English translation, with
the original Latin also provided for the first two rolls.
234p (Suffolk Records Society 2002) Hb was £30.00
now £9.95
Thirteenth Century England
X
edited by Michael Prestwich,
Richard Britnell and Robin Frame.
Among the varied topics discussed
are: the meetings of Henry III and
Louis IX; the financial implications
of the loss of Normandy; royal
stewards; Joan, wife of Llywelyn the Great; the English
and Ireland; Yorkshire nunneries; taxation in medieval
Devon; Edward II’s household knights; English and
Welsh political exiles.
Thirteenth Century XI
edited by Bjorn Weiler, Janet
Burton, Phillipp Schofield and Karen
Stober.
The thirteenth century brought
the British Isles into ever closer
contact with one another, and with
medieval Europe as a whole. This
international dimension forms a dominant theme of
this collection: it features essays on England’s relations
with the papal court; the adoption of European cultural
norms in Scotland; Welsh society and crusading;
English landholding in Ireland; and dealings between
the kings of England and Navarre.
The Cartulary of the Knights
of St John of Jerusalem in
England, Part 2
Prima Camera, Essex
edited by Michael Gervers.
A critical edition of the charters
from the great Hospitaller
cartulary of 1442 that provides
a wealth of evidence for the study of both the
Hospitallers and Templars in the 12th to 14th Cs
AD. Some 230 documents, indices and a substantial
introduction.
324p (Oxford UP for the British Academy 1996) Hb
£50.00 now £14.95
Texts and Traditions of
Medieval Pastoral Care
Henry of Kirkstede
Essays in Honour of Bella
Millett
Catalogus de Libris Autenticus
et Apocrifis (Corpus of British
Medieval Library Catalogues)
edited by Cate Gunn and Catherine
Innes-Parker.
edited by R.H. Rouse and M.A.
Rouse
Pastoral and devotional literature
flourished throughout the middle
ages, and its growth and transmutations form the
focus of this collection.The individual essays survey its
development and its transformation into the literature
of vernacular spirituality.
In the middle years of the
fourteenth century, the monk
Henry de Kirkestede, librarian and later prior of Bury
St Edmunds abbey, set about compiling a universal
bibliography of writers and their works. His sources
included the Franciscan Union catalogue, ancient
bibliographers such as Jerome, and the library of Bury
St. Edmunds itself.
500p (British Library 2004) Hb was £90.00 now
£14.95
Medieval Britain
70
Printing in England in the
Fifteenth Century
by E. Gordon Duff, edited by Lotte
Heilinga.
Since its publication in 1917,
Duff’s bibliography has been the
standard reference for all printing
in England and continental
printing for the English market before 1501. This
edition revised by Lotte Hellinga, updates the work
by adding 46 new items, a new and extensive census
of copies, combined with a concordance to the main
incunabula bibliographies and catalogues.
344p b/w illus (British Library 2009) Hb was £40.00
now £9.95
Ramsey
The Lives of an English Fenland
Town, 1200-1600
by Anne Reiber DeWindt and Edwin
Brezette DeWindt.
In a vividly detailed study of the
small English market town of
Ramsey, the authors examine
the inner life of this fascinating community from the
twelfth century to the end of the sixteenth century.
The book centers on the lives of medieval men and
women and explores their social roles, activities, family
relationships, and religion.
455p, CD-Rom (Catholic University of America Press
2006) Hb was £68.95 now £19.95
Hundred Years War
by Desmond Seward.
A reprint of Desmond Seward’s
accessible work of 1978, a
chronological narrative focusing
on the personalities and military
engagements of the conflict.
296p b/w illus (Constable 1978, repr. 2003) Pb was
£8.99 now £3.95
Thomas Langley
The First Spin Doctor (c13631437)
by Ian Sharman.
This is the first biography of
Thomas Langley, Bishop of
Durham, Chancellor and mainstay
of the Lancastrian regime.
Langley’s role in the political affairs of the time is
explored in detail, revealing lesser known aspects of
life at court under Henry IV, V and VI.
253p b/w illus (Dovecote-Renaissance 1999) Pb was
£14.95 now £3.95
A History of Everyday Life
in Medieval Scotland, 10001600
edited by Edward J. Cowan and
Lizanne Henderson.
Twelve essays explore a wide
range of topics including
landscape, material culture,
the family, gaming, disease and death, the senses,
changing attitudes to witchcraft and Marian devotion.
319p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2011) Pb was £26.99
now £12.95
Native Lordship in Medieval
Scotland
The Earldoms of Strathearn
and Lennox, c.1140–1365
by Cynthia J. Neville.
Using the lordships of Strathearn
and Lennox as focal points, this
book explores the complex nature
of the encounter between the cultures of the Gaels
and the Europeans, and shows how important were
native customs and practices in the making of the later
medieval kingdom.
255p (Four Courts 2005) Hb was £55.00 now £12.95
England in the Fifteenth
Century
Collected Essays
by K B Mc Farlane.
Complete collection of articles
published during the author’s
lifetime. With an introduction by
G L Harriss. Prominent themes
include bastard feudalism, the career of Cardinal
Beaufort, the gains to be made in the Hundred Years
War and the fortunes of Sir John Fastolf, and the Wars
of the Roses.
279p (Hambledon 1981) Pb was £29.99 now £4.95
Late Monasticism and the
Reformation
by A G Dickens.
Collection of essays which include
a reprint of the author’s long
out-of-print Chronicle of Butley
Priory. Papers examine the nature
of English Protestantism, the
English Reformation and Luther the humanist, plus
local studies which look at the realities of practising
religion in London and Northamptonshire.
224p (Hambledon 1994) was £50.00 now £7.95
Legal History in the Making
edited by WM Gordon and TD
Fergus.
A collection of 15 papers given
at the 9th British Legal History
Conference in 1989. They range
from early Anglo-Saxon dispute
settlement
and
Medieval
marcher law up to the 19th
century.
216P (Hambledon 1991) Hb was £70.00 now £4.95
Regionalism and Revision
edited by Peter Fleming, Anthony
Gross and J R Lander.
Eight essays on the theme of
‘The Crown and its Provinces
in England 1250 to 1650’
Contributors: Anthony Gross,
J.R. Lander, Anne Polden, H.W.
Ridgeway, Anthony Verduyn, J.H. Bettey, Peter
Fleming, Richard Cust.
178p. (Hambledon 1998) Hb was £60.00 now £4.95
War, Politics and Culture in
14th-Century England
by James Sherborne, edited by
Anthony Tuck.
‘These essays offer a detailed
insight into the planning of English
campaigns in France in the late
14th century and into the struc
ture and financing of the English armies and navies.
James Sherborne’s scholarship went beyond military
matters and focused also on the wider political and
cultural scene.’
224p (Hambledon 1994) Hb £55.00, now £6.95
Longbow
by Robert Hardy.
First published in 1976, Robert
Hardy’s “Longbow”, which has
achieved an enviable reputation
as a classic book on the subject,
tells the story of this weapon
throughout British history with
drama, vigour and enthusiasm. As well as describing
the longbow’s development and military importance,
the book includes information on the archers
themselves and their equipment, training, way of life
and terms of service.
244p b/w illus, col pls (Haynes 5th edition 2012) Hb
was £25.00 now £9.95
A Companion and Guide to
the Norman Conquest
by Peter Bramley.
Aimed very much at the general
reader, this well illustrated
book combines the functions
of encyclopaedia and gazetteer,
covering not just the conquest
itself, but the Norman period in England as a whole. The
bulk of the book comprises a region-by-region guide
to some of the finest Norman period buildings and
other sites which can still be visited including castles,
churches and cathedrals.
237p b/w illus, col pls (The History Press 2012) Pb was
£16.99 now £5.95
Archives of New College,
Oxford
compiled by Francis E Steer.
This substantial volume catalogues
the holdings of the College of St
Mary of Winchester in Oxford,
commonly known as New College
providing a meticulous record of
the administration of a medieval college.
581p (Leopards Head Press 1974) Hb was £50.00
now £4.95
Names, Time and Place
Essays in Memory of Richard
McKinley
edited by Della Hooke and David
Postles.
R i c h a rd M c K i n l ey wa s a
distinguished historian and a
pioneer of surname studies. These
12 essays focus particularly on the surnames of late and
post medieval England.
264p 18 figs (Leopard’s Head Press 2003) Hb was
£30.00 now £7.95
Medieval Britain
Surnames of Leicestershire
and Rutland
by David Postles
Although
it
has
been
preconceived that there is little
to distinguish the surnames
of these two counties, Postles
argues that there are differences
which probably derive from different external
influences. Chapters look at the development of
hereditary surnames, toponyms, and bynames and
surnames, with special consideration to the names
of women.
now £4.95
Surnames of Oxfordshire
by Richard McKinley
Perhaps surprisingly considering
the importance of Oxford’s
university and the significance
of the city as a trading centre,
the county’s surnames display
much continuity over a long
period, from the time when hereditary surnames first
appeared to the 17th century and later.
now £4.95
Surnames of Sussex
by Richard McKinley
The surnames of Sussex are
different from those of most
other counties, largely because
the Sussex was isolated from
other counties until the 18th
century by the Weald and the
North Downs. The county also saw more settlers from
France than most.
now £4.95
The Making of the Middle
Ages
Liverpool Essays
edited by Marios Costambeys,
Andrew Hamer and Martin Heale.
This collection of essays is a
fitting publication for Liverpool’s
octocentenery. The essays in
the first section of the book outline the scope of the
medievalist tendency as it rolled out across the British
Isles from the eighteenth century onwards, while the
second section of the book examines medievalism in
Liverpool itself. 252p b/w illus (Liverpool UP 2007) Hb
was £50.00 now £9.95
The Medieval English
Borough
Studies on Its Origins and
Constitutional History
by James Tait.
Tait’s classic study explores the
origins and growth of English
towns, from their emergence
as a response to the Danish threat, to their later
constitutional affairs and municipal governance,
guilds and merchants.
371p (Manchester UP 1936, repr. 1999) Hb was
£14.99 now £6.95
The English Parliament in
the Middle Ages
edited by R.G. Davies and J.H.
Denton.
A review of the medieval origins
and development of the English
Parliament, dealing with themes
such as its origins, its development
in relation to royal demands and the needs of war and
the relationship between clerical and parliamentary
assemblies.
218p (Machester UP 1981, repr.1999) Hb was £9.99
now £4.95
Queens Consort
England’s Medieval Queens
by Lisa Hilton.
One very obvious consequence of
the Norman Conquest, where this
account starts was the preference
for choosing royal brides from the
great families of the continent.
Queens as foreigners could be viewed with suspicion,
and seldom had much of a power-base in England
before their accession. Lisa Hilton shows that these
obstacles could be transcended, and that it is possible
to discern individual personalities and policies among
the queens. 482p col pls (W.W. Norton 2010) Pb was
£12.99 now £4.95
Henry V
by Marcus Cowper.
A concise look at the campaigns
and military leadership of Henry
V, accompanied by plentiful
illustrations, battle plans and
photographs of the surviving
castles which he besieged and
captured.
64p, col illus (Osprey 2010) Pb was £11.99 now £3.95
English Episcopal Acta XXV
Durham 1196-1237
edited by M.G. Snape.
262p (British Academy 2002) Hb was £45.00 now
£9.95
English Episcopal Acta XXI
Norwich 1215-1243
edited by Christopher Harper-Bill.
£9.95
English Episcopal Acta XXII
Chichester 1215-1253
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The King’s Pardon for
Homicide Before 1307
by Naomi D. Hurnard.
This study seeks to explain why
the man who committed homicide
by misadventure or in self-defence
needed a pardon. It examines
the working of the system of
pardoning in England in the thirteenth century, its
effects on the claims of the victims’ kinsmen to secure
reparation or bring down retribution on the slayers,
and the risk to public order from the king’s clemency
to those who had killed feloniously.
394p (Oxford UP 1969, repr. 1997) Hb was £12.99 now
£5.95
Papal Judges Delegate in
the Province of Canterbury,
1198-1254
by Jane Sayers.
This book is concerned with the
ecclesiastical courts set up by the
papacy to hear specific cases on
its behalf in the localities. One
chapter outlines the central judicial structures of the
church; other chapters include detailed studies of the
procedure of the local courts and of the personnel the judges, the proctors and the parties.
now £5.95
Rural England, 1086-1135
by Reginald Lennard.
A classic study of socio-economic
history in England in the years
immediately following Domesday
Book, which makes extensive use
of Domesday to shed light on the
ordinary conditions of rural life.
409p (Oxford UP 1959, repr.1997) Hb was £13.99
now £6.95
The Creation of Lancastrian
Kingship
by Jenni Nuttall.
This study looks at the literature
of early Lancastrian England,
including such poets as Hoccleve,
Gower, and the anonymous
authors of Richard the Redeless
and Mum and the Sothsegger. It finds that these
poets seem all to have been closely connected to the
new regime, mostly as civil servants, and that both
they and their readership were intimately concerned
with the policies and priorities of the Crown.
£19.95
edited by Philippa M. Hoskin.
£9.95
English Episcopal Acta XXIII
Chichester 1254-1305
edited by Philippa M. Hoskin.
£9.95
English Episcopal Acta XXXIII
Worcester 1062-1185
edited by Mary Cheney, David Smith, Christopher Brooke
& Philippa M. Hoskin.
£9.95
Domesday Book: Bedfordshire
edited and translated by John Morris.
Domesday Book: Berkshire
160p (Phillimore 1979) Pb was £8.25 now £2.95
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72
Domesday Book: Devon
edited by John Morris.
2 vols, 768p (Phillimore 1985) Pb was £24.50 now
£6.95
Domesday Book: Huntingdonshire
Domesday Book: Leicestershire
Domesday Book: Middlesex
Domesday Book: Rutland
Domesday Book: Staffordshire
Domesday Book: Surrey
The Reign of Edward III
by W.M. Ormrod.
An account of the reign of one
of England’s most conspicuously
successful monarchs. His long
reign saw the start of the
Hundred Years War and the Black
Death, but this study focuses
as much on changes in society as events – after
a narrative survey the rest of the book is divided
thematically (King, magnates, clergy etc) and show
how the reign affected all social orders and political
institutions.
335P b/w illus (Tempus 2000) Hb was £19.99 now
£6.95
The Second Scottish Wars of
Independence
by Chris Brown.
Brown outlines the history of the
Second Scottish Wars. He exa
mines the composition of Edward
III’s army, how it was financed,
the major players, the arms and
armour, the battle plans, especially at the siege of
Berwick and the Battles of Halidon Hill and Neville’s
Cross, and how they were enacted and the political
and social implications on both sides.
157p, 64 b/w figs, 23 col pls (Tempus 2002) Pb was
£12.99 now £4.95
Queen of the Conqueror
Sanctifying Signs
by Tracy Borman.
by David Aers.
The Life of Matilda, Wife of
William I
A study of the life and career of
Matilda of Flanders, which builds
a remarkable picture of a skilled
administrator able to wield power
and influence in a manner hitherto unparalleled in
medieval England and Normandy.
295p col pls (Bantam 2011) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
Reading Abbey Cartularies I
General Documents and those
Relating to Counties Other
Than Berkshire
edited by BR Kemp.
Contains royal acts, documents
related to the abbey’s liberties,
Papal acts, Archepiscopal and
episcopal acts, and Abbatial acts, as well as documents
realting to English holdings other than Berkshire. Latin
text.
486p (Royal Historical Society 1986) Hb was £15.00
now £4.95
The Heads of Religious
Houses in Scotland from
12th to 16th Centuries
edited by D.E.R. Watt and N.F.
Shead.
A prosopography of the heads of
Scotlands seventy plus monastic
houses during the Middle Ages.
244p (Scottish Record Society 2001) Hb was £20.00
now £7.95
Making Christian Tradition in
Late Medieval England
In this book David Aers examines
Christian literature, theology and
culture in the late medieval period
and especially debates over
orthodoxy. By studying a range of texts including Piers
Plowman, and those by John Wyclif, William Langland
and Walter Brut, he asks why some were considered
orthodox and others heretical.
£21.50 now £5.95
Her Life Historical
Exemplarity and Female Saints
in Later Medieval England
by Catherine Sanok.
This study argues that late
medieval writers and readers used
religious narrative, and specifically
the legends of female saints, to
think about the historicity of their own ethical lives
and of the communities they inhabited.
£42.50 now £12.95
Venomous Tongues
Speech and Gender in Late
Medieval England
by Sandy Bardsley.
Sandy Bardsley examines
the complex relationship
between speech and gender
in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Focusing on England, she uses a combination
of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how
deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later
Middle Ages.
214p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press
2006) Hb was £39.00 now £12.95
The Late Medieval English
Church
Vitality and Vunerability
Before the Break With Rome
by G.W. Bernard.
A thorough reassessment of the
condition of the English church
prior to the reformation, which
demonstrates its vibrancy, whilst also seeking out those
weaknesses which made the reformation possible.
The King, the bishops, the clergy, lay knowledge and
activity, anticlericalism, monasticism and heresy are
examined in turn. 304p b/w pls (Yale UP 2012) Hb was
£25.00 now £9.95
The Wars of the Roses
by Michael Hicks.
As well as providing a crisp clear
narrative of the famous fifteenth
century wars, Michael Hicks aims
to explain why they occured,
arguing that dynastic concerns
were of less importance than
the desire for good governance, itself fuelled by
economic slump and the crown’s financial difficulties.
332p (Yale UP 2010) Hb was £28.00 now £9.95
Conquest
The English Kingdom of France
by Juliet Barker.
Following on from her highly
successful book on Agincourt,
Juliet Barker gives us a pacy
narrative history of the subsequent
fortunes of the English in France,
taking the story down to the loss of Normandy in the
1450s. Whilst the focus is overwhelmingly military,
events (or the lack of them) in the field were to a large
extent determined by political clashes, and these too
are explained well.
485p col pls (Abacus 2009) Pb was £9.99 now £4.95
People of the First Crusade
by Michael Foss.
A vivid retelling of the story of
the people who went on the
First Crusade. Foss uses many
original sources to construct
a highly readable narrative,
which combines descriptions
of campaigns and events with fascinating character
sketches of Crusaders and Saracens.
232p b/w illus (1997, Arcade Publishing reprint 2011)
Hb was £18.99 now £6.95
Medieval Warfare: A History
edited by Maurice Keen.
Explores over seven hundred
years of European warfare, from
the time of Charlemagne to the
end of the middle ages: an age
when organisation for war was
integral to social structure, when
the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior,
and whose culture was profoundly influenced by
martial ideas.
340p b/w and col illus (Oxford UP 1999) Hb was
£71.00 now £19.95
Medieval Europe
The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who
Brought the Light of Science to
the Dark Ages
by Nancy Marie Brown.
An accessible biography of
Gerbert of Aurillac (c.946-1003),
and his rise from shepherd to
Pope, as Sylvester II. It focuses on Gerbert’s scientific
and mathematically enquiries and achievements, his
theological vision, and his fractious political career,
in particular his partnership with the Emperor Otto I.
310p col pls (Basic Books 2010) Hb was £20.99 now
£7.95
Haskins Society Journal
Volume 1
edited by Robert B. Patterson.
This first volume of the journal is
dedicated to the memory of the
late Sidney Painter and includes
essays on subjects with which
he was associated, many by his
former pupils.
191P (Hambledon 1989) Hb was £35.00 now £9.95
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Pain and Suffering in
Medieval Theology
Academic Debates at the
University of Paris in the
Thirteenth Century
by David Mowbay.
Questions of pain and suffering
occur frequently in medieval
theological debate. Here, Dr Mowbray examines the
innovative views of Paris’s masters of theology in the
thirteenth century, illuminating how they constructed
notions of pain and suffering by building a standard
terminology and conceptual framework.
Armies of Heaven
Lord of the Pyrenees
Rites of Passage
by Jay Rubinstein.
by Richard Vernier.
edited by Nicola McDonald.
The First Cruasade and the
Quest for Apocalypse
This account of the First Crusade
emphasises the apocalyptic terms
in which it was conceptualized. by
contemporaries. Rubinstein pays
particular attention both to Millennial ideas which
were circulating and to the Crusade as a transformative
experience, both for those taking part, and in terms of
the way they structured history.
402p col pls (Basic Books 2011) Hb was £19.99
now £6.95
Holy Warriors
A Modern History of the
Crusades
by Jonathan Phillips.
A broad (including Crusading
in the Baltic and Spain) and
accessible introduction to the
Crusades. It also brings the
narrative right up to date with modern concerns,
with sections which feel like much more than an
afterthought on the continued (mis)use of the
concept of crusade (and jihad) in the modern world.
424p b/w pls (Bodley Head 2009) Hb was £20.00 now
£7.95
Dating Undated Medieval
Charters
edited by Michael Gervers.
It was only in the early 14th
century that charters were
issued with dates. These papers
report on the methods used to
date earlier charters, particularly
a computer system that matches word-strings.
237p (Boydell 2000, Pb 2002) Pb was £19.99 now
£6.95
Death in Fifteenth Century
Castile
Ideologies of the Elites
by Laura Vivanco.
Vivanco reveals two coherent
and sometimes conflicting
ideologies co-existing among two
elite groups, the oradores and
defensores . She discusses in detail the main features
of these belief systems with regard to the process of
dying, the journey and ultimate destination of the soul,
the importance of leading a good and noble life and
whether prayer and the role of the bereaved could
change the outcome of the afterlife. 211p (Boydell
2004) Hb was £50.00 now £14.95
Gaston Febus, Count of Foix
1331–91
The reign of Gaston III, Count of
Foix and self-proclaimed sovereign
Lord of Béarn, stands out as one
of the rare success stories of the
so-called `calamitous’ fourteenth century. By playing a
skilful game of shifting allegiances and timely defiance,
he avoided being drawn into the conflicts between his
more powerful neighbours. This book traces his career.
Medieval Religious Women
in the Low Countries
The Modern Devotion, the
Canonesses of Windesheim
and Their Writings
by Wybren Scheepsma.
Scheepsma’s
in-depth
and
specialised study of the women
who followed the Devotio Moderna examines
questions of female literacy, the introspection that
the movement required and the texts that ensued,
the choice of subject and the great outpouring of
manuscripts during the 15th century.
Medieval Saints’ Lives
The Gift, Kinship and
Community in Old French
Hagiography
by Emma Campbell.
Focusing on the depiction of
the gift, kinship and community,
the book maintains that social
and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular
hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires
they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to
hagiography’s religious functions, particularly its role
as a vehicle of community formation.
Olivier de la Marche and
the Rhetoric of Fifteenth
Century Historiography
by Catherine Emerson.
Oliver de la Marche’s Mémoirs
of Burgundy was written over
a fifty year period in the 15th
century and is a real mix of
disjointed episodes. This detailed study re-examines
the Mémoires in order to determine the method
beind the work’s structure and design and to uncover
the agenda of the author which led to particular
interpretations of certain events.
247p, col pls (Boydell 2004) Hb was £45.00 now £7.95
Cultures of Transition in the
Fourteenth Century
Essays explore the ritual marking
of transitional periods in life
in the 14th century. Subjects
include the `peculiar funeral’ of
Edward II, the accession of boy kings, becoming a
priest, becoming a man, rites of passage in English
and French romances, Chaucer’s women, Gower’s
Confessio Amantis , and initiation in Froissart’s Dits
amoureux .
Haskins Society Journal,
Vol. 13
edited by Richard Abels and
Stephen Morillo.
Contents include: The Cistercian
Mystery: how was the Order
formed and by whom?; The
coronation of Mathilda of
Flanders; The forgotton family in 12th-century England;
Owain ap Cadwgan: a rebel revisited; The memory
of Brian fitz Count; Robert de Gant (c.1085-c.1158);
Miracle stories and the violence of King Stephen’s
reign.
The Medieval Mystical
Tradition VII
edited by E.A. Jones.
Subjects include: Julian of
Norwich, the writings of Jan van
Ruusbroec, Anchoritic texts, St
Birgitta, holy women in print,
continenetal women mystics in
England during the 15th and 16th centuries, Margery
Kempe, devotional theology, The Book of the First
Monks , mystical desire and the English Syon Brethren.
£7.95
The Medieval Church in
Manuscripts
by Justin Clegg.
Clegg provides an overview
of the Medieval Church in the
14th and 15th centuries, looking
at spiritualism, the religious
orders, religious figures, the
church calendar, prayer and the sacraments, and the
relationship between the church and laity, all gloriously
illustrated with a wealth of illuminations from the
collections of the British Library.
64p, col illus (British Library 2003) Pb was £7.95, Pb
was £7.95 now £3.95
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The Trial of the Templars
by Malcolm Barber.
Barber’s detailed and vivid study
traces the events between Philip
IV’s arrest of the Templars in
1307 and the burning of Jacques
de Molay, Grand Master of the
Templars, at the stake in 1314.
This detailed account examines the motivation of
the chief participants, the charges and the Order’s
defence, the role of the papacy and the spread of
persecution across Europe.
398p (Cambridge UP 1st ed. 1978, repr. 2000) Pb was
£19.99 now £5.95
Henry Suso
Wisdom’s Watch Upon the
Hours
translated by Edmund Colledge.
Written by Dominican preacher
and mystic Bl. Henry Suso (c. 13001366), Horologium Sapientiae, or
Wisdom’s Watch upon the Hours,
was one of the most successful religious writings of its
time. Essentially a dialogue between the author and
Divine Wisdom, the Watch tells of Suso’s service to and
espousal of Wisdom, his “most cruel bride”.
was £34.50 now £9.95
The Letters of Peter Damian,
121-150
translated by Owen Blum.
This volume, the fifth in a series
to publish all 180 letters by the
monk Peter Damian, presents
Letters 121-150 which were
written between 1065 and 1071.
The correspondence includes letters to the Empress
Agness, to lay officials and nobles, to monastic
communities and to his nephew.
was £34.50 now £9.95
1-30
151-180
Given the endemic warfare
between Christians and Muslims
in medieval Spain the taking of
prisoners was a common feature
on both sides. This book examines what life was like for
Christian captives, attitudes towards captivity and the
structures put in place for their ransoming.
was £60.50 now £14.95
Peter Damian (1007-1072), an
eleventh-century monk and man
of letters, left a large and significant
body of correspondence. This
first volume contains the first
thirty letters, and covers the period before 1049.
Here we see Peter Damian as an untiring preacher
and uncompromising reformer, both of the monastic
world and of the church at large.
was £34.50 now £9.95
This volume concludes the series
of Peter Damian’s Letters in
English translation. Among Letters
151-180 readers will find some
of Damian’s most passionate
exhortations on behalf of eremitic ideals.
was £34.50 now £9.95
The Deeds of Pope Innocent
III
31-60
Written by an anonymous author,
The Deeds of Pope Innocent
III presents a contemporary
biography of the first ten years
(1198-1208) of the pontificate
of òne of the most important popes in history’.
It provides an invaluable record of papal politics,
particularly Innocent’s involvement in disputes and
conflicts in Sicily, Leon and Castile, in church reforms
and in the Crusades.
was £28.50 now £9.95
This volume contains Letters
31-60 of Peter Damian. While
his epistolary style is varied exhortatory, occasional, pastoral,
reforming - his message is singular
and simple in urging strict adherence to the canons
of the Church.
was £34.50 now £9.95
Captives and Their Saviors
in the Medieval Crown of
Aragon
by Jarbel Rodriguez.
translated by James M. Powell.
First Among Abbots
The Career of Abbo of Fleury
by Elisabeth Dachowksi.
Abbo of Fleury (c.945-1004) had
an extraordinary, if disperate life,
and made important contributions
to many fields of medieval
endeavour, including the politics
of the Kingdom of France and the Papal court, as a
monastic reformer, and as a scholar and hagiographer.
This, however, is the first modern attempt to write on
his multi-faceted career as a whole.
was £66.50 now £14.95
God’s Scribe
The Historiographical Art of
Galbert of Bruges
by Jeff Rider.
Galbert of Bruges wrote an
eyewitness account of the
assassination of Charles the Good,
Count of Flanders, in 1127 and the
ensuing civil war. Jeff Rider argues that this is not a
true journal but a revised and edited history of events.
He discusses how the chronicle developed, Galbert’s
sources, how he organised his notes and wrote his text
and its literary qualities.
was £55.95 now £14.95
translated by Owen J. Blum.
Letters of Peter Damian
61-90
translated by Owen J. Blum
Letters 61-90 reveal the author’s
concern with the contemporary
need for reforms, centering on
the clerical, especially episcopal,
celibacy and on the “heresy” of
simony which involved the purchase of ecclesiastical
offices.
was £31.95 now £9.95
Letters of Peter Damian,
91-120
Written during the years 10621066, these letters deal with a
wide variety of subjects. Some
letters are of historical interest,
others approach the size and
scope of philosophical or theological treatises.
Damian’s correspondents range from simple hermits
in his community to abbots, bishops, cardinals, and
even to Pope Alexander II.
was £36.95 now £9.95
Petrus Alfonsi
Dialogue Against the Jews
translated by Irven M. Resnick.
Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogue Against
the Jews (ca. 1109) breaks new
ground in the history of Christian
anti-Jewish polemics. As a recent
convert from Judaism, Alfonsi
introduced an intimate knowledge of Jewish literature
and contemporary practice absent from earlier
Christian sources.
was £34.50 now £9.95
Pope Innocent III
Between God and Man - Six
Sermons on the Priestly Office
translated by Corinne J. Vause and
Frank C. Gardiner.
The major theme throughout
these six sermons is the
responsibility of clergy to function
as intermediaries between divinity and humanity,
particularly in preaching and in administering the
sacraments.
was £21.50 now £6.95
Reject Aeneas, Accept Pius
Selected Letters of Aeneas
Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius
II)
edited by Thomas M. Izbicki, Gerald
Christianson and Philip D.W. Krey.
Though several biographies have
been written about “the humanist
pope,” this book allows Aeneas to tell his story in his
own words through a careful selection of seventyfive letters and two documents, ranging from short
personal reflections to a full scale history of the Council
of Basel.
was £66.50 now £14.95
Medieval Europe
Robert of Abrissel
A Medieval Religious Life
edited and translated by Bruce L.
Venarde.
This collection of contemporary
sources on Robert of Arbrissel
provides an insight into the man,
his life and actions, the world in
which he preached and how others viewed him. Two
Lives are included by Baudri of Dol and Andreas of
Fontevraud, followed by two highly critical letters
addressed to Robert, a letter by him to the Countess
of Brittany, as well as various charters.
was £19.95 now £7.95
Robert the Burgundian and
the Counts of Anjou c.10251098
by W. Scott Jesse.
Robert the Burgundian, a castellan
of Anjou wrote his own history
of the region and described
his motives for joining the First
Crusade at the end of his long life. Jesse’s detailed
study sifts through Robert’s words and examines
the legends that grew up around him to analyse the
military structure of Anjou, and the stormy relationship
between the counts of Anjou and their castellans.
was £51.95 now £12.95
Nicolas de Clamagnes
Spirituality, Personal Reform
and Pastoral Renewal on the
Eve of the Reformations
by Christopher M. Bellitto.
This study of the early humanist
Nicolas de Clamanges (1363/641437) focuses on his religious
thought, and in particular his proposals for the reform
of the church, which led him to be condemned as a
proto-protestant in later centuries.
was £43.50 now £7.95
A Brief History of Life in the
Middle Ages
by Martyn Whittock.
Drawing on archaeological as
well as documentary and literary
evidence, this is a well-researched
exploration of daily life in medieval
England, with an emphasis on
the later Middles Ages. Through plentiful examples
of individual experiences from the primary sources,
Whittock builds up a picture of rural and urban life and
work, of housing, food and diet, religion, crime and
punishment, disease and death, culture and leisure,
and the medieval worldview.
Knights Templar
by Helen Nicholson.
Rather than a blow-by-blow
account of events, this outline
history is aimed at a general
readership and begins with
the origins of the order before
outlining their activities in the Latin East, Iberia and
eastern Europe, their organisation, government,
religious life, commercial activities and their trial and
downfall. It is a revised edition of Nicholson’s 2001
book The Knights Templar: A New History.
368p b/w pls (Constable 2010) Pb was £8.99 now
£3.95
Catherine of Siena
by Giuliana Cavallini.
Written from an explicitly Christian
standpoint, this is a study of the
theology of Catherine of Siena,
exploring its central themes of
love and knowledge of God, as
well as her ecclesiastical and
political attitudes and use of symbolism and allegory.
163p (Continuum 1998, new ed 2005) Pb was £27.99
now £4.95
Tournament
by David Crouch.
In Tournament David Crouch has
produced a book on all aspects
of the tournament experience,
from speculating on its place and
date of origin and its functions, to
exploring those that sponsored
and financed the events, and those that took part.
The choice of site, the make-up of the gathering, and
the itinerary of the day - from the moment the town
woke up, to the prize giving at the end, as well as the
action itself are all covered in depth.
235p b/w illus (Hambledon 2005) Pb was £17.99 now
£7.95
The Bianchi of 1399
Popular Devotion in Late
Medieval Italy
by Daniel E. Bornstein.
A detailed study of the wave of
popular devotion which swept
Italy from the Alps to Rome in
1399. Dubbed “Bianchi because
of their white robes, men women and children from city
and countryside joined in pious processions, listened
to sermons, sang hymns, observed dietary restrictions
and prayed for peace and mercy.
Out of Love for My Kin
Aristocratic Family Life in the
Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200
by Amy Livingstone.
Livingstone examines the
personal dimensions of the
lives of aristocrats in the Loire
region of France during the
eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new
conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an
ethos of inclusion, evident in the care that aristocrats
showed toward their families.
Passion and Order
Restraint of Grief in the
Medieval Italian Communes
by Carol Lansing.
A fascinating cultural history, this
book looks at a period of great
change in perceptions of grief
in thirteenth century Italy. Carol
Lansing argues that as the well-being of the state
came to be associated with orderly behaviour public
displays of grief became seen as disorderly and were
associated increasingly with women.
244p b/w illus (Cornell UP 2008) Hb was £42.50 now
£12.95
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So Great a Light, So Great a
Smoke
The Beguin Heretics of
Languedoc
by Louisa A. Burnham.
The Beguins were a small sect of
priests and lay people allied to the
Spiritual Franciscans. Burnham
follows the lives of nine Beguins as they conceal
themselves in cities, solicit clandestine donations in
order to bribe inquisitors, escape from prison, and
venerate the burned bones of their martyred fellows
as the relics of saints.
Church and Chronicle in the
Middle Ages
edited by Ian Wood and Graham
Loud.
A collection of essays in honour
of John Taylor. The volume has
two clear foci: the study of
history-writing in the middle
ages and the late medieval church.
296p (Hambledon 1991) Hb was £110.00 now £9.95
The Culture of Christendom
edited by Marc Meyer.
Fifteen essays in Medieval
History in memory of Denis
Bethel; they range from the
fall of Rome to the fourteenth
century, and are centred on the
high medieval church.
Essays in Later Medieval
French History
by P S Lewis.
A collection of 17 essays by P.S.
Lewis. The book’s central theme
is the physcial and intellectual
structure of later medieval French
politics. Following a general
survey, Lewis illustrates his argument by examining a
series of institutions, attitudes and ideas.
In Search of the Holy Grail
by Veronica Ortenberg.
A survey of the influence of the
Middle Ages, and of medieval
attitudes and values, on later
periods and on the modern world,
taking in the romantic movement
and the influence of medievalism
on nationalism, the enduring popularity of all things
Celtic or Arthurian, and the Middle Ages on screen
from Robin Hood to Pasolini.
336p b/w illus (Hambledon 2006) Hb was £40.00
now £9.95
Medieval Europe
76
Warriors and Churchmen in
the High Middle Ages
edited by Timothy Reuter.
Essays presented to Karl Leyser,
the eminent historian of medieval
Germany, by his pupils, many of
them important historians in their
own right. A particular focus is on
the diverse roles of bishops in the High Middle Ages,
as churchmen, but also as administrators and even
military leaders.
256p (Hambledon 1992) Hb was £85.00 now £9.95
Francis and Clare of Assisi
Selected Writings
edited by Emile Griffin.
A collection of the writings of the
two thirteenth century saints,
founders of the mendicant
orders of the Franciscans and
Poor Clares, including prayers and
hymns, the rules of the respective orders, blessings
and testaments.
128p (Harper Collins 2006) Pb was £8.55 now £3.95
Primitivism and Related
Ideas in the Middle Ages
by George Boas.
These essays demonstrate the
growth of primitivism and antiprimitivism from the first to the
thirteenth centuries, and include
discussion of topics such as the
Noble Savage, earthly paradise, the original condition
of human beings, and cynicism and Christianity.
227p (Johns Hopkins UP 1948, Pb 1997) Pb was £16.50
now £6.95
The Transformation of the
Year One Thousand
by Guy Bois.
A Marxist socio-economic history
of the village of Lournand
near Cluny. In tracing the develop
ment of the community from
antiquity to feudalism, the author
presents the case for the ‘feudal transformation’ as a
sharply defined era of dramatic change.
171p (Manchester UP 1992) Pb £16.99 now £3.95
The Book of Michael of
Rhodes, A Fifteenth Century
Maritime Manuscript
Volume 2: Transcription and
Translation
edited by Pamela O. Long, David
McGee and Alan M. Stahl.
Michael’s book includes the
first extant treatise on naval architecture, a treatise
on mathematics in the tradition of medieval and
Renaissance abbacus manuscripts, texts on navigation,
and Michael’s autobiographical service record.
732p b/w illus (MIT Press 2009) Hb was £51.95 now
£14.95
Social Unrest in the Late
Middle Ages
edited by Francis X. Newman.
5 essays which explore the wave
of social unrest which swept
Europe in the later Middle Ages.
Contributors J.A. Raftis, Barbara
Hanawalt, D.W. Robertson, John
B. Friedman and Russel A. Peck.
160p (MRTS 1986) Hb was £18.00 now £5.95
Ducal Brittany, 1364-1399
by Michael Jones.
Traditionally John IV, Duke of
Brittany has been considered
an Anglophile. This book reexamines his role in Anglo-French
relations by a full study of the
diplomatic, administrative and
military evidence. It suggests that the Duke’s policies
were designed principally to create an autonomous
duchy.
now £5.95
A Hound of God
Pierre de la Palud and the
Fourteenth-Century Church
by Jean Dunbabin.
Traces the career of Pierre de la
Palud from his early reflections
on contemporary moral issues,
including papal prerogatives,
contraception and usury, to his political and diplomatic
activities as titular Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Knightly Piety and the
Lay Response to the First
Crusade
by Marcus Bull.
Concentrating on the aristocracies
of the Limousin and Gascony, this
study examines the religious
ideas of nobles and knights, with
particular reference to why men went on the First
Crusade. Bull argues that the Crusaders were inspired
by religious ideology and the influence of the church,
but he rejects the idea that there was a parallelism
between lay religous beliefs and the intellectual
position articulated by Urban II.
(Oxford UP ) Hb was £14.99 now £6.95
Landscape With Two Saints
by Lisa M. Bitel.
This intriguing book examines the
multifaceted careers and cults of
two fifth and sixth century saints,
Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of
Kildare, described by Bitel as
“peripatetic, influential women
responsible for building prestigious churches”. Gender
forms a key theme, for unlike the usual stereotype
of the female saint as pious virgin martyr, Genovefa
and Brigit were celebrated for the active part they
played in ordering and shaping their newly Christian
communities.
The Life and Afterlife of St.
Elizabeth of Hungary
Testimony from her
Canonisation Hearings
by Kenneth Baxter Wolf.
A study and translation of the
testimony given by witnesses at
the canonization hearings of St.
Elizabeth of Hungary, who died in 1231 in Marburg,
Germany, at the age of twenty-four. The bulk of the
depositions were taken from people who claimed to
have been healed by the intercession of this new saint.
The Battle for Christendom
The Council of Constance, the
East-West Conflict, and the
Dawn of Modern Europe
by Frank Welsh.
An accessible exploration of the
events of the early Fifteenth
Century - the three-way schism
in the church, the growing Ottoman threat, the
Hussite heresy, and the council of Constance which
was intended to resolve these problems.
283p b/w pls (Overlook Press 2008) Hb was £17.99
now £7.95
Introduction to Greek and
Latin Palaeography
by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson.
A guide to Greek and Latin
Palaeography from the earliest
manuscripts to the fifteenth
century. The core of the book –
which ensures its continuing value
– is a selection of 250 facsimiles of manuscripts ranging
from Greek cursive papyri to the book-hands of the
15th century.
616p, 250 b/w pls (OUP 1912 reprint 2002) Hb was
£26.00 now £9.95
Sir John Hawkwood
Chivalry and the Art of War
by Stephen Cooper.
This book explores the remarkable
career of Sir John Hawkwood, who
rose from humble beginnings in
England to become the foremost
mercenary commander of late
fourteenth century Italy. Stephen Cooper first provides
a narrative of his life and campaigns, then highlights
different aspects of late medieval warfare.
208p b/w pls (Pen & Sword 2008) Hb was £19.99
now £7.95
The Friar of Carcassonne
Revolt against the Inquisition
in the Last Days of the Cathars
by Stephen O’Shea.
A lively study of the revolt against
the inquisition in the early years
of the fourteenth century centred
on the Languedoc and led by the
Franciscan friar, Bernard Delicieux, as well as the
response by the Church and secular authorities.
288p col pls (Profile 2011) Hb was £17.99 now £6.95
Medieval Europe
Absolute Monarchs
The Roman Catholic Church
by John Julius Norwich.
by Edward Norman.
A History of the Papacy
An entertaining one-volume
history of the papacy. Rather
than aim at comprehensiveness
Norwich chooses to focus his
attention on a selection of
the most interesting and momentous papal reigns,
demonstrating periods of papal power and weakness,
political and doctrinal upheaval, centralisation and
schism.
512p col pls (Random House 2011) Hb was £25.00
now £9.95
An Illustrated History
A feast for the eyes, this beautiful
book covers the whole history
of the Catholic Church from
its beginnings to the present
day. Individual theologians are
highlighted such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas,
as well as the defining events that have shaped the
history of the church - the schism with the East, the
Crusades, the colonisation of the new world, right up
to the divergent movements of the modern age.
192p col and b/w illus (Thames & Hudson 2007) Pb
was £16.95 now £6.95
Feeling Persecuted
1494
by Anthony Bale.
by Stephen R. Bown.
Christians, Jews and Images of
Violence in the Middle Ages
The medieval Christian attitude
towards Jews included a pervasive
belief that Jews committed crimes
against Christian children, Christ’s
body and the Eucharist. This volume explores this part
of the medieval Christian imagination and how the
images of this Christian suffering and persecution were
central to their ideas of love, community and home.
254p b/w illus (Reaktion 2010) Hb was £29.00 now
£9.95
Siege Mines and
Underground Warfare
by Kenneth Wiggins.
This concise guide looks briefly
at ancient techniques of siege
warfare and subterranean mining,
before focusing on the medieval
and modern periods. Kenneth
Wiggins discusses changes in techniques of tunnelling,
attempts at countering such attacks through different
types and designs of fortifications, the impact of
gunpowder and the use of undermining during the
Crusades, the English Civil War and through to the
First World War.
Columbus and the Quest for
Jerusalem
by Carol Delaney.
This new biography sets
Columbus’ life and voyages against
the backdrop of his eschatological
beliefs, arguing that Columbus’
primary motivation in attempting
to chart a western route to the East Indies lay in his
desire to raise funds for a new Crusade to retake
Jerusalem as the first step in the fulfilment of history
and the coming apocalypse.
319p b/w illus (Free Press 2011) Hb was £20.00 now
£6.95
How a Family Feud in Medieval
Spain Divided the World in Half
A popular survey of the events
which led to the 1494 Treaty
of Tordesillas, which drew an
imaginary line in the Atlantic
dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
Bown explores the tensions between Ferdinand and
Isabella and Joao II and their lasting effects in world
history.
292p (Thomas Dunne Books 2011) Hb was £20.00 now
£6.95
Ceremonial Culture in PreModern Europe
edited by Nicholas Howe.
An initial essay by Nicholas Howe
sets out some methodological
issues, developing themes of
space, both public and private,
of power and of meaning. The
following essays examine processions in medieval
Chartres, ceremonial events in late medieval Muscovite
Rus, sixteent h century civic ritual when receiving kings,
and ritual in the Italian renaissance.
160p b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2007)
Pb was £22.95 now £6.95
Home and Homelessness
in the Medieval and
Renaissance Worlds
edited by Nicholas Howe.
Contributors discuss the houses
of 16th-century Venice, Morisco
houses in 16th-century Spain,
poverty and vagrancy in Spain and
early colonial Peru, homelessness in medieval Iceland
and its sagas, and in Anglo-Saxon England.
170p b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2004)
Pb was £18.50 now £5.95
The Subject Medieval/
Modern
Lordship, Reform and the
Development of Civil Society
by Peter Haidu.
by David Foote.
Text and Governance in the
Middle Ages
By exploring English and French
literature of the Middle Ages
Haidu seeks to uncover how they
`participate in the cultural invention of the subject as
part of the political invention of the state’. This is a
specialist study of the development of subjectivity
which `defines subjecthood in relation to the state’.
446p (Stanford UP 2004) Pb was £27.50 now £7.95
The Bishopric of Orvieto,
1100–1250
Foote argues that all too often
secular affairs have been put
before ecclesiastical matters in
discussions of the development of the commune. He
explores the role of religious institutions in regulating
the intense competition and co-operation between
lords and the Church during the 12th and 13th
centuries.
£22.95 now £6.95
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Love of Self and God in
Thirteenth Century Ethics
by Thomas M. Osborne.
This book covers an important,
but often neglected, aspect of
medieval ethics, namely the
controversy over whether or not it
is possible to love God more than
oneself through natural powers alone. In debating this
topic, thirteenth-century philosophers and theologians
introduced a high level of sophistication to the study
of how one’s own good is achieved through virtuous
action.
£27.50 now £7.95
Making Difference in
Medieval and Early Modern
Iberia
by Jean Dangler.
Jean Dangler traces shifts in con
ceptions of alterity from medieval
to early modern Spain through a
detailed study of four writing
genres: muwashshah/jarcha poems from Al-Andalus,
Andalusi “cutting poems”, medical literature about the
body and discourse about the monster.
218p, b/w illus (University of Notre Dame Press 2005)
Pb was £24.95 now £7.95
Olivi and the Interpretation
of Matthew in the High
Middle Ages
by Kevin Madigan.
A study of the development and
union of scholastic, apocalyptic
and Franciscan interpretations
of the Gospel of Matthew from
1150 to 1350. Madigan uses the fortunes of the
Franciscan Peter Olivi (d. 1298) and his commentary
on Matthew as a lens through which to observe the
larger theological and ecclesiastical developments of
this era.
£22.95 now £7.95
Reading Medieval Culture
Essays in Honour of Robert W.
Hanning
edited by Robert M. Stein and
Sandra Pierson Prior.
Contributors cover a wide range
of fields within medieval studies,
from Anglo-Saxon England to
twelfth-century European intellectual culture, and
from Chaucer’s age to nineteenth– and twentiethcentury medievalism.
£34.50 now £7.95
The Writings of Agnes of
Harcourt
edited and translated by Sean L.
Field.
Agnes of Harcourt became
abbess at the new royal abbey of
Longchamp, founded by Isabelle
of France, sister of Louis IX. In the
1280s Agnes wrote a substantial biography of Isabelle as
well as a brief letter detailing Louis IX’s involvement with
the abbey. This volume contains the old French texts
with a facing English translation, as well as a substantial
introduction to Agnes’ life and works.
£34.95 now £7.95
Medieval Europe
78
The First Crusade and the
Idea of Crusading
by Jonathan Riley-Smith.
A classic work of Crusades history,
reissued with a new introduction.
Through the vivid presentation
of a wide range of European
chronicles and charter collections,
Jonathan Riley-Smith provides a striking illumination
of Crusader motives and responses and a thoughtful
analysis of the mechanisms that made the expedition
successful.
232p (1986, University of Pennsylvania Press 2009)
Pb was £16.50 now £6.95
eresy and Authority in
H
Medieval Europe
edited by Edward Peters.
This collection brings together
some of the most important
texts for the study of heresy
and heterodoxy as well as the
measures taken by the church
to combat it. An initial chapter surveys the patristic
background for the concept of heresy, while the bulk
of the book is arranged chronologically from the tenth
century to the Hussite heresy in the fifteenth.
312p (University of Pennsylvania Press 1980) Pb was
£19.00 now £6.95
A History of Anti-Semitism,
Volume 1
From the Time of Christ to the
Court Jews
by Leon Poliakov.
Chiefly the history of prejudice
against the Ashkenazim, and its
origins in medieval Europe. Jews
were accused of countless crimes, from causing the
Black Death to practicing ritual murder, and the author
attempts throughout to reveal the sociological and
psychological forces behind these irrational charges.
340p (1955, University of Pennsylvania Press repr.
2003) Hb was £42.50 now £12.95
The King’s Other Body
Maria of Castile and the Crown
of Aragon
by Theresa Earenfight.
Queen Maria of Castile, wife of
Alfonso V, “the Magnanimous,”
king of the Crown of Aragon,
governed Catalunya in the midfifteenth century while her husband conquered and
governed the kingdom of Naples. This book is both
a biography of Maria and an analysis of her political
partnership with Alfonso.
£32.50 now £12.95
Law and the Illicit in
Medieval Europe
edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel
Kaye and E. Ann Matter.
This collection of essays makes
the case that the development
of law is deeply implicated in the
growth of medieval theology and
Christian doctrine; the construction of discourses on sin,
human nature, honor, and virtue; the multiplying forms
governing chivalry, demeanor, and social interaction,
including gender relations; and the evolution of
scholasticism, from its institutional context within the
university to its forms of presentation, argumentation,
and proof. 315p (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008)
Pb was £16.50 now £6.95
The Measure of Woman
Law and Female Identity in the
Crown of Aragon
by Marie A. Kelleher.
This study explores the complex
relationship between women and
legal culture in Spain’s Crown of
Aragon during the late medieval
period. Kelleher argues that women were not passive
recipients - or even victims - of the legal system.
Rather, medieval women actively used the conceptual
vocabulary of the law, engaging with patriarchal legal
assumptions as part of their litigation strategies.
£36.00 now £12.95
The Maid and the Queen
The Secret History of Joan of Arc
by Nancy Goldstone.
A popular and dramatic history,
which narrates the fortunes of
the Dauphin’s party from their
lowest ebb to the revival of the
French monarchy. In particular
Nancy Goldstone focuses on the careers of Yolande of
Aragon, the Dauphin’s chief supporter and strategist,
and Joan of Arc, whom she argues, was championed
by Yolande.
296p b/w illus (Viking 2012) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95
No Place of Rest
Irresistible North
by Susan L. Einbinder.
by Andrea Di Robilant.
Jewish Literature, Expulsion
and the Memory of France
There are few direct references to
the catastrophic great expulsion
of 1306. Einbinder studies a
range of writings she reveals to
be commemorative. Her careful readings uncover the
ways in which medieval Jews asserted their identity in
exile and, perhaps more important, helped to preserve
or efface their history.
£39.00 now £12.95
Righteous Persecution
Inquisition, Dominicans and
Christianity in the Middle Ages
by Christine Caldwell Ames.
This study recounts how
inquisitors crafted and promoted
explicitly Christian meanings for
their inquisitorial persecution.
Inquisitors’ conviction that the sin of heresy constituted
the gravest danger to the Christian soul led to the belief
that bringing the individual to repentance was a pious
way to carry out their pastoral task.
£39.00 now £12.95
Tabula Picta
Painting and Writing in
Medieval Law
by Marta Madero.
To whom does a painted tablet
belong? To the owner of the
physical piece of wood on which
an image is painted? Or to the
person who made the painting on that piece of
wood? Marta Madero turns to the extensive glosses
and commentaries by medieval jurists, articulating a
notion of intellectual and artistic property radically
different from our own.
£29.95 now £9.95
From Venice to Greenland on
the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Journalistic in style Di Robilant’s
book retraces and provides an
imaginative reconstruction of
the voyages of the Venetian Zen
brothers and investigates the claims of their sixteenth
century descendant that they included an exploration
of the New World as early as the 1380s.
228p b/w illus (Alfred A. Knopf 2011) Hb was £20.00
now £6.95
Lady Queen
The Notorious Reign of Joanna I
by Nancy Goldstone.
This accessible narrative details all
of the twists and turns of Queen
Joanna of Naples’ extraordinary
life and rule. Nancy Goldstone
brings the complex politics of
the fourteenth century to life, exploring the nigh-on
impossible position in which Joanna found herself, as
the only woman of her age to rule in her own right.
365p col pls (Walker & Co 2009) Hb was £20.00 now
£6.95
The Medieval Heart
by Heather Webb.
In this book Heather Webb studies
medieval notions of the heart.
Drawing from the works of Dante,
Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio,
Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and
other literary, philosophic, and
scientific texts, she reveals medieval answers to such
fundamental questions as: Where is life located? What
does it consist of? Where does it begin? And how does
it end?
The Rusted Hauberk
The Mortgage of the Past
edited by Liam O.
by Francis Oakley.
Feudal Ideas of Order and
Their Decline
Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto.
These essays look at medieval
conceptions of the decline of
the feudal ideal, exploring the
relationship between the expressed ideals of the
feudal age and actually custom and practice.
338p (University Press of Florida 1994) Hb was
£51.95 now £9.95
Reshaping the Ancient Political
Inheritance (1050-1300)
Here, Oakley explores kingship
from the tenth century to the
beginning of the fourteenth,
showing how, under the stresses
of religious and cultural development, kingship
became an inceasingly secular institution.
Medieval Art and Architecture
The Raven King
Matthias Corvinus and the
Fate of His Lost Library
by Marcus Tanner.
Matthias Corvinus, King of
Hungary from 1443-90 is
principally remembered as a lover
of learning, assembling one of the
largest libraries in Europe, and it is on this aspect of his
kingship which this biographical account particularly
focuses, looking at the status conferred by knowledge,
and at the library’s acquisition.
263p b/w pls (Yale UP 2008) Hb was £20.00 now
£9.95, Pb was £12.99 now £5.95
A Continental Shelf
Books Across Europe from
Ptolemy to Don Quixote
edited by Kristian Jensen and
Martin Kauffmann.
This exhibition catalogue presents
some of the Bodleian’s finest
medieval and renaissance books,
tracing cultural diffusion and diversity across Europe.
The books are chosen to illustrate themes including
cartography, the rediscovery of the Classics, learning,
the spread of vernacular books, and influences from
outside Christendom.
140p col illus (Bodleian Library 1994) Pb was £25.00
now £6.95
The Madonna of Humility
Development, Dissemination
and Reception, c.1340-1400
by Beth Williamson.
This study explores the genesis
and development of one particular
image in medieval art - the
Madonna of Humility - a seated
Virgin Mary with the Christ-child. Beth Williamson
explores the different variations of the image, asking
what they would have meant to medieval viewers and
worshippers.
195p b/w illus, col pls (Boydell 2009) Hb was £50.00
now £14.95
Medieval Wall Paintings in
English and Welsh Churches
by Roger Rosewell.
Chapters examine the
development of wall painting in
England and Wales, and ask who
commissioned the paintings and
why, from the grandest cathedral
to the tiniest parish church, before going on to look at
the selection of subjects and their meaning. Includes
a full gazetteer of surviving paintings.
338p col illus (Boydell 2008, Pb 2011) Pb was £19.99
now £7.95
Courtly Love in Medieval
Manuscripts
by Pamela Porter.
In this book, Pamela Porter,
Curator of Manuscripts in the
British Library, looks at courtly love
within the context of romance,
chivalry and ‘real life’ relationships
in medieval society, accompanied by lots of lovely
colour photos.
64p col illus (British Library 2003) Pb was £7.99 now
£3.95
Faces of Power and Piety
by Erik Inglis.
An introduction to medieval
portraiture lavishly illustrated
throughout with full colour
images from the collections of
the British Library and the Getty
Museum. A huge gulf exists
between our own notion of a portrait, and medieval
priorities, and in his text Erik Inglis sets out why this
was, and the ways in which portraits were intended to
preserve a recognisable image of virtues rather than
a lifelike depiction.
88p col illus t/out (British Library 2008) Hb was
£12.95 now £4.95
Tradition and Innovation
in Later Medieval English
Manuscripts
by Kathleen L. Scott.
Examines a number of English
manuscripts of the 15th and
early 16th centuries, establishing
criteria for genuine artistic
originality. Each manuscript is assessed in detail
in terms of its text, scribe(s), artists, decorative
programme and circumstances of its creation, as well
as its context in terms of English and wider European
art.
194p col illus (British Library 2007) Hb was £45.00
now £19.95
The Priory and Parish Church
of St. Mary Beddgelert
by Alan Bott and Margaret Dunn.
A comprehensive illustrated guide
to the priory and parish church of
St. Mary, Beddgelert, comprising
detailed notes on the history
of Christianity in the area from
the third to the 20th century and information about
notable local personalities and clergy, as well as a full
description of the architecture, fixtures and fittings of
the church.
112p b/w illus, col pls (Coastline Publications 2005)
Pb was £9.99 now £4.95
The Troyes Memoire
The Bishop’s Palace
by Tina Kane.
by Maureen C. Miller.
The Making of a Medieval
Tapestry
The “Troyes Mémoire” is the sole
surviving example of the written
instructions used in designing
tapestries during the Middle Ages.
It is unique in its presentation of detailed information
on how patrons and church officials communicated
complex iconographic material to the medieval artists
commissioned to paint cartoons for tapestries. It is
here translated into English for the first time, with full
introduction and extensive notes. 196p, b/w illus, col
pls (Boydell 2010) Hb was £50.00 now £14.95
Architecture and Authority in
Medieval Italy
During the late 12th and 13th
centuries the city centres of
northern Italy were dominated
by the palatial residences of
bishops. Miller explores the relationship between
the bishop’s authority and his use of urban space
and argues that architectural splendour was used to
compensate for loss of temporal power.
307p b/w illus (Cornell UP 2000, Pb 2003) Pb was
£22.95, now £9.95
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Weaving Sacred Stories
French Choir Tapestries and
the Performance of Clerical
Identity
by Laura Weigert.
Spanning the backs of choir stalls,
large-scale tapestries functioned
as both architectural elements
and pictorial narratives. This book examines the role
of these tapestries in ritual performances, arguing that
they contributed to a process by which the clerical elite
legitimated and defended their social position.
264p col illus (Cornell UP 2004) Hb was £59.95 now
£19.95
Sienese Painting After the
Black Death
Artistic Pluralism, Politics and
the New Art Market
by Judith B. Steinhoff.
This book provides a new
perspective on Sienese painting
after the Black Death, asking
how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual
imagery and style.
264p b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2006) Hb was
£69.00 now £19.95
Immagine Antica
edited by Marco Ciatti and Cecilia
Frosinini.
conservation of a superb panel,
the Madonna and child of Santa
Maria Maggiore in Florence. As
well as scientific analyses it also
contains papers exploring the artists behind its creation
and issues of dating, with a revised 12th century date
proposed.
182p b/w illus, col pls (Edifir Edizioni Firenze 2003) Pb
was £25.00 now £7.95
Illuminated Manuscripts
Masterpieces of Art
by James Peacock and Michael
Kerrigan.
This book reproduces in full colour
over 80 examples of medieval
manuscript illumination, drawn
in the main from the collections
of the British Library. They are arranged thematically
according to their depictions of the lives of saints,
scenes from the Bible, the calendar and secular works.
127p col illus (Flame Tree 2014) Hb was £12.99 now
£5.95
The History of Castles
by Christopher Gravett.
A popular introduction to the
castle. The bulk of the book
comprises a region by region
tour of the finest and most
representative European castles
(with brief notes on castles
elsewhere in the world), illustrated with a wealth of
plans and photographs.
192p col illus (Lyons Press 2001, 2nd ed 2007) Pb was
£15.95 now £5.95
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Compostela and Europe
The Rose Window
by Manuel Castineras et al.
by Painton Cowan.
The History of Diego Gelmirez
This enormous and beautiful
book accompanies a travelling
exhibition on the pilgrim routes
to Santiago de Compostela and
the extraordinary flourishing
of Romanesque art which they witnessed in the
early twelfth century. It is much, much more than a
catalogue, however, and contains a wide range of new
research on the architecture and other artistic media,
and the religious and political contexts which provided
the backdrop to the Romanesque.
430p col illus (Skira 2010) Hb was £55.00 now £19.95
A History of the Stained
Glass of St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
edited by Sarah Brown.
In this volume the history of the
chapel’s stained glass is explored
by a team of distinguished stained
glass historians and heraldic
scholars for the first time, revealing a microcosm of
English stained glass design across the centuries.
263p, 98 b/w and 20 col pls (St George’s Chapel
2005) Pb was £30.00 now £7.95
Image and Idol
Medieval Sculpture
by Philip Lindley and Richard
Deacon.
This book accompanies an
exhibition of medieval sculpture
at the Tate Britain. The text
discusses the installation itself, as
well as an in-depth exploration of iconoclasm during
the Reformation.
72p col illus (Tate 2001) Pb was £14.99 now £4.95
Cloister, Abbot and Precinct
by Michael Thompson.
Looks at the relationship between
monastic philosophy, everyday
living, and architecture. Thompson
explores the origin and develop
ment of the cloister, the abbot and
his residence both inside and
outside of the monastery and the development of the
monastic precinct and its gatehouse.
160p, 70 b/w pls, illus, maps (Tempus 2001) Pb was
£16.99 now £6.95
English Stained Glass
by Painton Cowen.
This album of medieval (c.1100–
1530) stained glass in England’s
churches is among the finest to
be found. A geographical sweep
of the nation takes in over
100 windows along with short
descriptions, from the greatest Cathedrals to isolated
examples in out of the way parish churches.
128p, col illus t/out (Thames & Hudson 2008) Hb was
£14.99 now £7.95
Splendour and Symbol
This beautifully illustrated book is
the first systematic study of the
rose window, both as a feature
of Gothic architecture and as an
art-form in its own right. Four
chapters trace the evolution of the form across nine
centuries, from its origins and the early wheel windows
to the rapid spread of the Rayonnant rose, from
the phenomenal displays of the Flamboyant to the
powerful reinterpretations of the present day.
276p col illus (Thames & Hudson 2005) Hb was
£39.95 now £19.95
Medieval and Renaissance
Stained Glass in the Victoria
& Albert Museum
by Paul Williamson
The stained glass collection
of the Victoria and Albert
Museum is the largest in the
world, making it possible to
chart the development of the art in detail from the
middle of the twelfth century to about 1550. One
hundred colour plates, and selected details, show the
collection to full advantage, while commentaries on
each of the pieces reconstruct the original context of
the panels, and explain the imagery.
160p col illus (V&A 2003) Hb was £30.00 now £12.95
Medieval and Renaissance
Treasures
Building in Time
From Giotto to Alberti and
Modern Oblivion
by Marvin Trachtenberg.
In the pre-modern age in Europe,
the architect built not merely with
imagination, brick and mortar, but
with time, using vast quantities of
duration as the means to erect monumental buildings
that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve.
Trachtenberg argues that this was not mere medieval
muddling-through but entailed a highly developed set
of norms and effective practices.
272p col illus (Yale UP 2010) Hb was £45.00 now
£9.95
Defaced
The Visual Culture of Violence
in the Late Middle Ages
by Valentin Groebner.
From the fourteenth century
onward, pictorial representations
became increasingly violent,
whether in depictions of the
Passion, or in vivid and precise images of torture,
execution, and war. The profusion of violent
imagery provoked a question: how to distinguish
the illegitimate violence that threatened and
reversed the social order from the proper, “just,” and
sanctioned use of force?
217p b/w illus (Zone 2004) Hb was £22.95 now £9.95
Scottish Kirkyards
by Dane Love.
edited by Paul Williamson and Peta
Motture.
A rather whimsical look at the
Scottish Kirkyard, focusing on
the post-reformation era, and
examining tombstones for their
symbolism, information on cause
of death, interesting epitaphs,
and so on, as well as looking at funerary customs,
bodysnatching, and the legends that have grown
up around certain kirkyards. Includes a gazetteer of
noteworthy tombstones.
224p b/w illus (Amberley 1989, repr. 2010) Pb was
£14.99 now £5.95
St. George’s Chapel,
Windsor, in the Late Middle
Ages
St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
in the Fourteenth Century
Accompanying the refurbishment
of the Victoria and Albert
M u s e u m ’s m e d i e va l a n d
renaissance galleries, this
beautifully illustrated souvenir type book presents 37
of the finest pieces in the collection, including some
superb medieval ivory carvings, the magnificent
Limoges enamel Becket reliquary, tapesteries,
goldwork, manuscripts and stained glass.
edited by Colin Richmond and
Eileen Scarff.
10 essays explore different
aspects of the history and
architecture of St George’s
Chapel in the 15th Century, when it was an important
Yorkist symbol of culture, religious devotion and
artistic splendour.
214P col and b/w pls (Windsor 2001) Hb was £45.00
now £6.95
The Art of the Goldsmith
in Late Fifteenth Century
Germany
The Kimbell Virgin and Her
Bishop
by Jeffrey Chips Smith.
An examination of the creation
of the silver “Kimbell Virgin and
Child” (1486) statuette, its place in the context of
other works of art in Eichstatt, and the compelling
story of Bishop Reichenau and his intense devotion
to the Virgin Mary.
100p b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2006) Pb was £9.99
now £4.95
edited by Nigel Saul.
The collection of essays in this
volume sets Windsor in its context
at the forefront of the political
and cultural developments of
mid-fourteenth-century England.
Several papers are devoted to the mighty building
campaign at the Castle started by Edward III which
made Windsor the grandest royal residence of its day.
£12.95
Mapping Paradise
A History of Heaven and Earth
by Alessandro Scafi.
In his history of the cartography
of paradise, Alessandro Scafi
journeys from the beginning
of Christianity to the present
day. He explores the intellectual
conditions that made the mapping of paradise possible.
The challenge for mapmakers, he argues, was to make
visible a place that was geographically inaccessible and
yet real, remote in time and yet still the scene of an
essential episode in the history of salvation.
416p b/w and col illus (British Library 2007) Hb was
£35.00 now £16.95
Terra Incognita
Mapping the Antipodes Before
1600
by Alfred Hiatt.
Until the entire world was
mapped, terra incognita was not
a metaphor. It existed and was
acknowledged to exist. This study
examines how unknown lands were represented from
Late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of
written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts
and travel narratives.
298p col and b/w illus (British Library 2008) Hb was
£40.00 now £14.95
An Uneasy Communion
Jews, Christians and
Altarpieces of Medieval Aragon
edited by Vivian B. Mann.
A fascinating study of the icon
ography of altarpieces and the
artistic collaboration between
Jews and Christians. In the multicultural society of late medieval Spain, Jewish and
Christian artists worked together to produce retables
as well as Latin and Hebrew religious manuscripts.
176p, b/w and col illus (D Giles 2010) Hb was £39.95
now £14.95
Italian Paintings, 1250-1500
by Carl Brandon Strehlke.
This superbly illustrated book
provides a comprehensive
scholarly catalogue and study of
the John G. Johnson collection of
early Italian Renaissance art in the
Philadelphia Museum. Discussion
of such art historical questions as dating and attribution
combines extensive archival research with technical
study of the paintings.
556p, many col and b/w illus (Penn State University
Press 2004) Pb was £73.95 now £19.95
Fra Angelico
by Diana Cole Ahl.
This accessible yet authoritative
volume examines the life and work
of possibly the most celebrated
religious painter of the Italian
Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni
da Fiesole (c. 1390/95-1455),
known as Fra Angelico. Fra Angelico’s paintings are here
discussed in the context of the time and places in which
they were created, and are beautifully reproduced in
their true, glorious colours.
240p col illus (Phaidon 2008) Hb was £39.95 now
£14.95
Perspectives on Medieval
Art
Leaves of Gold
edited Ena Heller and Patricia P.
Pongracz.
edited by James R. Tanis.
Learning Through Looking
This volume examines medieval
culture from a number of different
viewpoints to reveal how the art
of the Middle Ages can provide a unique insight into
the wider issues of medieval politics and culture. The
essays also address the teaching of medieval art and
architecture as well as examining society’s longing for
ecclesiastical drama.
224p col illus (D Giles 2009) Hb was £40.00 now £14.95
The Romanesque Frieze and
its Spectator
edited by Deborah Kahn.
This collection of essays places
the frieze within its wider social
and cultural context and considers
conservation issues. Papers
include: Art History: problems
of narrative and iconography; regional groups and
filiations; Conservation: principles of restoration and
conservation; Lincoln Cathedral Romanesque friezes.
232p, 117 pls and illus (Harvey Miller 1992) Hb
£75.00 now £9.95
The Lantern Tower of
Westminster Abbey, 10602010
by Warwick Rodwell.
A study of the different physical
structures and prospective designs
for towers to occupy the central
crossing at Westminster Abbey,
from the tower depicted on the Bayeux tapestry to
plans by Wren and Hawksmoor.
112p, col illlus t/out (Oxbow Books 2010) Pb was
£15.00 now £3.95
Manuscript Illuminations from
Philadelphia Collections
This beautifully produced
exhibition catalogue showcases
80 of the finest illuminated
manuscripts held in libraries in
the Philadelphia area. Introductory essays provide
context on the production and use, and the individual
manuscripts are described and discussed.
242p b/w and col illus (Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001) Pb was £30.00 now £12.95
Romanesque Architecture
Design, Meaning, and
Metrology
by Eric Fernie.
This volume make available
thirty studies published over the
last twenty years on buildings
as varied as the pre-Conquest
Abbey at Westminster and the church of St Magnus
at Egilsay. There are two studies on sculpture,
and a number of studies on the St. Gall plan and
architectural proportions in English churches.
435p, 220 illus (Pindar Press 1995) Hb was £150.00
now £75.00
The Story of Gothic
Architecture
by Francesca Prina.
Gloriously
illustrated,
this
introductory guide to gothic
architecture first outlines the
main characteristics of the style,
before taking the reader on a
tour of Europe’s finest examples, including cathedrals,
palaces, castles and town houses.
144p col illus (Prestel 2011) Pb was £14.99 now £5.95
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The Story of Romanesque
Architecture
by Francesca Prina.
A well illustrated introductory
guide to Romanesque
architecture, which explores its
characteristic features, socioeconomic context and spread
across Europe. The second half of the book presents
a tour of some of the finest examples, principally
cathedrals and monasteries, but also castles, palaces
and bridges.
142p col illus (Prestel 2011) Pb was £14.99 now
£5.95
Discovering Abbeys and
Priories
by Geoffrey N. Wright.
A user-friendly handbook which
explores Britain’s abbeys and
priories, traces the history of
monasteries from Anglo-Saxon
times to the Dissolution, and
describes the different monastic orders, as well as
monastic architecture and the lives of the monks and
nuns. A gazetteer of 200 sites open to the public, with
black and white photographs,constitutes the rest of
the book.
160p col illus (Shire 1969, 3rd ed 1998) Pb was £8.99
now £3.95
Discovering Cathedrals
by David Pepin.
This full colour pocket-guide takes
us on a tour of the 48 Anglican
cathedrals of England and Wales,
providing a brief history of each
and pointing out particularly
notable architectural features.
168p col illus (Shire 1971, 7th ed 2004) Pb was £8.99
now £3.95
Discovering Churches and
Churchyards
by Mark Child.
An analysis of the architecture
of English parish churches from
Anglo-Saxon times to 1900. Child
guides you not only with detailed
descriptions, but with over 300
photographs and diagrams, to the buildings and their
construction, to the treasures to be found within their
walls and the fascinating and wildlife-rich grounds in
which they stand. There is also a gazetteer of the most
interesting churches in each county.
264p col illus (Shire 2007) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95
Discovering Stained Glass
by John Harries, revised by Carola
Hicks.
A handy guide to England’s
stained glass, including technical
information, a history of styles and
a gazetteer of the finest examples
to be found around the country.
96p b/w and col illus (Shire rev ed 1996) Pb was £6.99
now £2.95
Medieval Art, Architecure and Archaeology
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Medieval Castles
by Oliver Creighton and Robert
Higham.
An introduction to castles and
castle studies answering such
questions as who built castles,
when and why, and assessing
how they have been studied in
the past. Individual chapters are devoted to exploring
the social, domestic and military functions of castles
and sites are approached through archaeological and
landscape perspectives.
Medieval Wall Paintings
by E. Clive Rouse.
A guide to England’s often
fragmentary extant wall paintings,
focusing in particular on the
meaning of the paintings, their
decorative schemes and purpose.
80p b/w and col illus (Shire 4th ed
1991, repr 2004) Pb was £6.99 now £2.95
Shakespeare’s Church
A Parish for the World
edited by Val Horsler.
A well illustrated portrait of Holy
Trinity Church, Stratford-uponAvon, the parish church where
Shakespeare was baptised and
buried. Val Horsler takes the
reader through the church’s history from Anglo-Saxon
origins to present day site of tourism, also providing
a detailed look at its architectural developement, the
fixtures and fittings, and throwing light on the church
and town as they were in Shakespeare’s time.
160p col illus (Third Millennium 2010) Hb was £25.00
now £7.95
Painter and Priest
Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual
Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle
at La Brigue
by Veronique Plesch.
A detailed study of Canavesio’s
ambitious passion cycle at the
pilgrimage sanctuary of NotreDame des Fontaines at La Brigue in southern France,
completed in 1492.
458p, col illus t/out (University of Notre Dame Press 2006)
Hb was £50.50 now £14.95
The Visual Object of Desire
in Late Medieval England
by Sarah Stanbury.
This book explores the ethical
use of images in the later Middle
Ages, and how the debate over
devotional images and the line
between piety and idolatry plays
out in the literature of the period. It addresses medieval
concepts of vision and sensation, and the “culture of the
spectacle”, as well as the socio-economic backdrop to
the proliferation of devotional images in the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries.
290p b/w illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008)
Hb was £42.50 now £12.95
The Medieval World
The Walters Art Museum
by Martina Bagnioli and Kathleen
Gerry.
A superbly illustrated exploration
of medieval art through the
collection of the Walters Art
Museum. The book is organised
thematically with topics such as the classical tradition,
materials and manufacture, liturgical implements
and their context, relics and reliquaries and objects
from daily life.
216p col illus (Walters Art Museum 2011) Pb was
£20.00 now £7.95
Choirs of Angels
Painting in Italian Choir Books,
1300–1500
by Barbara Drake Boehm.
Slim but packed full of beautiful
colour illustrations, this book
examines the role and production
of illuminated chor books in late
medieval Italy. Boehm looks at how choir books were
used, at the development of musical notation, and
most of all at the interlinking of art and music in
medieval thought.
64p col illus t/out (Yale UP 2010) Pb was £11.99
now £4.95
Edward III’s Round Table at
Windsor
by Julian Munby, Richard Barber
and Richard Brown.
Essays on the excavation and
architecture of Edward III’s House
of the Round Table. There are also
essays on the chivalric background
to the building, and on its novelty – it formed a
centrepiece to the pageantry of Edward’s court and the
symbolism behind Edward’s desire to found an entirely
secular order of knights based on Arthurian legend.
282p b/w illus col pls (Boydell 2007) Pb was £14.99
now £5.95
Medieval Clothing and
Textiles 5
edited by Robin Netherton and Gale
R. Owen-Crocker.
The fifth volume of this annual
series features several articles
examining the interaction of
medieval romance with textiles
and clothing. Other papers look at ecclesiastical
attempts to restrict extravagance in women’s dress,
and the use of clothing references to signal impending
conflict in Icelandic sagas as well as many other topics.
The Medieval Horse and Its
Equipment
edited by John Clark.
This well-presented volume
publishes horse equipment and
associated objects discovered
during excavations in London
during the 1970s and early
1980s. An overview on the excavations is followed
by sections on the major find-types: harness-fittings,
horseshoes, spurs and spur-fittings and curry combs.
An appendix reports on the skeletal evidence. This
edition has a new introduction which summaries
recent discoveries and parallels. 185p b/w illus
(Boydell 2011) Pb was £19.99 now £7.95
Excavations at Chepstow
1973-74
by R Shoesmith.
The medieval border town of
Chepstow is one of the centre
points of Welsh archaeology.
Excavations uncovered medieval
structures
associated
with
the priory, including the monks living quarters, a
13th century house, and evidence of the Roman
settlement.
174P (Cambrian Archaeological Society 1991) Pb was
£34.00 now £4.95
Canterbury Excavations
Intra- and Extra-Mural Sites,
1949–55 and 1980–84
by S.S. Frere, Paul Bennett, J. Rady
and Sally Stow.
A compilation of reports from a
large number of excavations and
observations around the city of
Canterbury.
363p b/w figs (Canterbury Archaeological Trust 1987)
Hb now only £5.00
Excavations at Canterbury
Castle
by Paul Bennett, S.S. Frere and Sally
Stow.
Publishes large scale excavations
undertaken from the 70s as well
as older work by Sheppard Frere
in the 50s. The volume covers
the sites of Rosemary Lane car park and the Castle
Keep and assesses finds including pottery, jewellery
and human remains. 236p b/w figs (Canterbury
Archaeological Trust 1982) Hb now only £5.00
Excavations in the Marlowe
Car Park and Surrounding
Areas
by K. Blockley, M. Blockley, P.
Blockley, S.S. Frere and S. Stow.
Some of the largest and most
important urban excavations
ever undertaken in Europe are
presented in this publication. They were conducted
in the heart of the City of Canterbury, giving a record
of its occupation over the last 2,000 years. Part I
provides an interpretation of over 100 structures.
Part II contains extensive reports on the find.
580p, 163 pls (Canterbury Archaeological Trust 1995)
Hb was £60.00 now £19.95
Excavations in the St
George’s Street and Burgate
Street Areas, Canterbury
by S.S. Frere and Sally Stow.
Sites covered: St George’s Street
bath-building; apsed building;
excavations north and south of
the street; excavations east and
west of Canterbury Lane; excavations along Burgate
Street; Bus Station.
368p, figs, folding plans (Canterbury Archaeological
Trust 1983) Hb now only £5.00
Medieval Archaeology
Lepers Outside the Gate
Excavations at the Cemetery
of the Hospital of St. James
and St. Mary Magdalene,
Chichester
by John Magilton, Frances Lee and
Anthea Boylston.
This report includes a discussion
of leprosy, medieval hospitals and cemeteries and the
provision of charitable care. The cemetery provided the
largest sample of skeletons from an English medieval
leper hospital to date, and one of the most significant
assemblages of leper graves in Europe. 294p, b/w illus
(CBA 2008) Pb was £40.00 now £20.00
Town and Country in
England
Frameworks for Archaeological
Research
by Dominic Perring.
This study focuses on how urban
needs impacted on rural systems,
and how settlement hierarchies
were developed. Theoretical models are reviewed, and
the history of the English town traced from its late Iron
Age origins down to the late medieval period.
The Vicars Choral of York
Minster
The College at Bedern
by Julian D. Richards.
Established in 1252 the College at
Bedern was the religious house of
the priest-vicars who deputised
for the canons at the daily services
in York Minster. This report outlines the results of
excavations in the area known as Bedern undertaken
in the 1970s and the complex of buildings revealed.
2 vols: 676p, 391 b/w figs (The Archaeology of York
10/5, 2001) Pb was £34.00 now £4.95
The Red Tower (al-Burj al
Ahmar)
Settlement in the Plain of
Sharon at the Time of the
Crusaders and Mamluks, AD
1099–1516
by Denys Pringle.
Excavations report of the Red
Tower, a small Crusader castle in the centre of the
Sharon Plain, with chapters on the history and archi
tecture of the castle and a full survey of sites in the
plain with a gazetteer.
206p, 70 b/w figs (British School of Archaeology in
Jerusalem 1986) Pb was £35.00 now £5.00
Excavations at Medieval
Cripplegate
Archaeology after the Blitz
by Gustav Milne.
Milne discusses the methodology
of ‘archaeology after the Blitz’ and
reappraises Grimes’s work and the
dating of finds before reporting on
the post-Roman archaeological discoveries, including
medieval defences, Saxon buildings, three parish
churches and a medieval hospital.
153p, 149 b/w illus (English Heritage 2002) Pb £35.00
now £4.95
Medieval Life on Romney
Marsh, Kent
by Luke Barber.
This concise study reports on
investigations carried out at
Romney Marsh since 1991 around
the town of Lydd, largely as a result
of gravel extraction in the area.
The excavations revealed a complex story of occupation
and exploitation and provide evidence of how and
when the area was reclaimed.
44p col and b/w illus (Heritage 2006) Pb was £4.95
now £1.00
New Winchelsea Sussex
A Medieval Port Town
by David and Barbara Martin.
A report on excavations in the
cinque port, founded in the late
13th century, which proves that
in its 14th century heyday it was
larger and more influential than
has previously been supposed.
222p b/w illus (Heritage 2004) Pb was £24.50 now
£9.95
Glamorgan III
Medieval Non-defensive
Secular Monuments.
An inventory of over 500 nonecclesiastical and non-military
remains, including platform
houses, long-huts, moated sites,
houses, deserted and shrunken
villages, monastic granges, field systems, rabbit
warrens and roads.
398p plus 43p of b/w pls, b/w illus (RCAHM Wales
1982) Hb was £45.00 now £9.95
Glamorgan IV part I
The Greater Houses.
Herein described are the greater
houses built between the
Reformation and the Industrial
Revolution. Among the better
known buildings included is the
manor house, Beaupre, with its
famous early Renaissance porch and the great Orangery
at Margam. The main inventory, arranged in a historical
and typological order, elucidates the historical evolution
of building types
379p, many b/w illus (RCAHM Wales 1981) Hb was
£45.00 now £9.95
Excavations in Castledown,
Isle of Man, 1989-1992
by P J Davey, D J Freke and D A
Higgins.
Report on three excavations
carried out in Castletown: the
medieval and post-medieval
castle and the development of
the town.
256p, 70 illus (Liverpool UP 1994) Pb was £16.95 now
£4.95
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Diddlebury
The History of a Corvedale
Parish
by Martin Speight.
The result of many years’ research,
this history looks at land owner
ship and use to provide a picture
of agriculture, fluctuating personal
fortunes, and the scale of estates and their
management. The lives and influences of the land
owners are recounted, but so too are the lives and
conditions of many of the poorest.
192p b/w illus (Logaston 2007) Pb was £9.95 now
£4.95
A 14th-Century Pottery Site
in Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey
Excavations at 70-76 Eden
Street
by Pat Miller and Roy Stephenson.
Excavations exposed exposed four
14th century medieval Surrey
Whiteware kilns. A substantial quantity of Kingstontype Surrey whiteware pottery waster material was
recovered from kiln interiors, stoking pits and waster
pits, including many intact vessels, dating from 13001400. 54p b/w and col illus (MOLA 1999) Pb was £7.95
now £3.95
Bankside
Excavations at Benbow House,
Southwark
by Anthony Mackinder and Simon
Blatherwick.
The multi-period site of Benbow
House lies next to the Thames,
and is a fine example of the
multifarious and colourful activities that took place in
London over the centuries. Three phases of building
from the 13th century onwards were identified,
including probable medieval stews, 16th-17th
century buildings and an 18th-19th century foundry.
68p b/w and col illus (MOLA 2000) Pb was £5.00 now
£1.95
The Cistercian Abbey of St
Mary Stratford Langthorne,
Essex
by Bruno Barber, Steve Chew, T.
Dyson and Bill White.
Excavations 1973-94 recorded
large parts of the monastic church,
cemetery and related buildings.
Topics include the precinct arrangement, architecture
and decoration, and the way of life of the inhabitants.
The excavated burials (647) are the largest sample from
a Cistercian site in Europe.
now £7.95
Excavations at the Priory of
the Order of the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem,
Clerkenwell, London
by Barney Sloane and Gordon
Malcolm.
Several large-scale excavations
by the Museum of London in the
1980s and 90s have been combined with antiquarian
surveys in this monograph to produce a remarkable
picture of a priory. Founded in 1144, this highly unusual
religious house evolved from a round-naved church
and associated buildings into one of London’s premier
palatial residences. 430p b/w and col illus (MOLA 2004)
Pb was £31.95 now £12.95
Medival Archaeology
84
Holy Trinity Priory, Algate,
City of London
An Archaeological
Reconstruction and History
by John Schofield and Richard Lea.
Several modern excavations of
1977 to 1990, many antiquarian
drawings, and a ground-floor and
a first-floor plan of all the monastery buildings made
around 1585 are brought together here for the first
time, to reconstruct a fully illustrated and detailed
history and archaeology of the priory site.
now £12.95
London Bridge
2000 Years of a River Crossing
by Bruce Watson.
This volume is based on the 1984
investigation of the Southwark
medieval bridge abutment and
combines the archaeological,
architectural, historical and
pictorial evidence for London’s greatest bridge.
£7.95
Medieval and Later Urban
Development at High Street
Uxbridge
by Heather Knight and Nigel
Jeffries.
The excavations at the Chimes
Shopping Centre, have given
archaeologists the opportunity
to trace the development of the Medieval town
of Uxbridge. The central part of the town was set
out during the 12th century, perhaps as a planned
extension of an existing Saxon hamlet. The excavations
also produced evidence for a thriving medieval pottery
industry. 80p b/w illus (MOLA 2004) Pb was £7.95 now
£3.95
The Medieval Postern Gate
by the Tower of London
by David Whipp.
Excavations at Tower Hill in 1979
uncovered substantial remains of
the medieval postern gate at the
junction of the City’s defensive
wall and the moat of the Tower
of London. The postern gate was constructed
between 1297 and 1308, towards the close of the
reign of Edward I.
Roman Burials, Medieval
Tenements and Suburban
Growth
by Dan Swift.
The excavation at 201 Bishopsgate
in 1998-9 uncovered evidence for
Londinium’s northern cemetery,
roadside occupation along Roman
Ermine Street, and medieval and later development to
the west of Bishopsgate. This area has been extensively
used and re-used, from burials to refuse-disposal to
houses, as London has expanded.
Royal Palace, Abbey and
Town of Westminster on
Thorney Island
by Christopher Thomas, Robert
Cowie and Jane Sidell.
This book publishes the
archaeological work undertaken
for the Jubilee Line Extension
Project in the 1990s and a series of other archaeological
investigations in and around the Palace of Westminster.
224p col and b/w illus (MOLA 2006) Pb was £29.95
now £9.95
Old London Bridge Lost and
Found
by Bruce Watson.
A guide to the history and
archaeology of London Bridge
from prehistoric times to the
present day. Bruce Watson
describes the evidence for the
first timber river crossing of the Roman period, the
Saxon bridge and refortification of London c.AD 1000,
the medieval bridge as well as more recent periods of
collapse, dismantlement and rebuilding.
62p col illus (Museum of London Archaeology 2004)
Pb was £7.99 now £2.95
Old Abbey Farm, Risley
by Richard Haewood, Christine
Howard-Davis, Denise Drury and
Mick Krupa.
Excavation of a small moated site;
dated timbers have suggested that
a late thirteenth or possibly early
fourteenth century aisled hall
formerly stood on the moated platform. The project
provided a rare opportunity to record a building
during demolition and subsequently excavate below
it, thereby maximising the information retrieval.
200p illus and pls (Oxford Archaeology 2004) Pb was
£17.99 now £10.00
The Excavation of the
Medieval Manor House of
the Bishops of Winchester
at Mount House Witney,
Oxfordshire, 1984–1992
by Tim Allen with Jonathan Hiller.
This report documents the
discovery,
excavation
and
preservation of a Norman moated stone manor
house found in 1984 at the Mount House, Witney.
264p, b/w figs and pls, tbs 4 fold-out plans (Oxford
Archaeology 2002) Pb was £24.95 now £9.95
The Archaeology of Medieval
Novgorod in Context
A Study of Centre/Periphery
Relations
edited by Mark Brisbane, Nikolaj
Makarov and Evegenij Nosov.
This volume includes papers on
aspects of the environmental and
technological context of the relationship between
urban centre and rural hinterland. It examines the
environmental context for the settlement pattern that
developed from the 9th to 15th centuries.
£60.00 now £19.95
The Archaeology of Wigford
and the Brayford Pool
by Kate Steane, with Margeret J.
Darling, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince,
and Jane Young.
This volume publishes the results
of the excavation of several sites,
made possible by a series of
urban development schemes. Each of the excavations
differed in the extent and depth of the stratigraphy
uncovered and each belonged to a different period,
from the Iron Age to post-medieval.
360p, many b/w pls (Oxbow Books 2000) Hb was
£35.00 now £4.95
The Coronation Chair and
Stone of Scone
by Warwick Rodwell.
This volume assembles, for the
first time, the complementary
evidence derived from history,
archaeology and conservation,
and presents a factual account of
the Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone, not as
separate artefacts, but as the entity that they have
been for seven centuries.
£29.95 now £9.95
Discover Medieval Sandwich
A Guide to its History and
Buildings
by Helen Clarke.
This book describes the
development of Sandwich from
nothing more than a landmark
for Anglo-Saxon seafarers to
a Norman market town with 2,000 inhabitants.
Its houses are its chief glory and many of them are
illustrated here.
120p col illus (Oxbow Books 2011) Pb was £12.95 now
£5.95
The Medieval Broadcloth
Changing Trends in Fashion,
Manufacturing and
Consumption
edited by Katherine Vestergard
Pedersen and Marie-Louise Nosch.
These eight papers provide
an introduction to medieval
broadcloth, and a synthesis of current research.
Papers explore issues of production, manufacture and
trade as well as discussing examples of archaeological
textiles as they relate to textile terminology.
now £7.95
Shrewsbury
An Archaeological Assessment
of an English Border Town
by Nigel Baker.
This book is the first to pose
the question – how far has the
archaeological investigation of
Shrewsbury progressed? What is
now known? What is most significant? And, above all,
what are the mysteries that remain and what direction
should archaeological research take in the future?
288p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was
£40.00 now £9.95
Medieval Archaeology
The Archaeology of the
Upper City and Adjacent
Suburbs
by Kate Steane, with Margaret J
Darling, Michael J Jones, Jenny
Mann, Alan Vince, and Jane Young.
This volume contains reports
on sites excavated in the upper
walled city at Lincoln and adjacent suburbs between
1972 and 1987.
312p, c400 b/w figs and photos (Oxbow Books 2006)
Hb was £35.00 now £4.95
The Bull Ring Uncovered
edited by Stephanie Ratkai.
These excavations in the centre of
Birmingham uncovered plentiful
material from the 12th to 19th
centuries: artefacts, environ
mental samples and structural
remains. The medieval industrial
past was of particular interest, with tanning and the
manufacture of hemp and linen all playing a large role
in the city’s prosperity.
440p, 136 b/w illus, 42 col pls (Oxbow Books 2008)
Hb was £35.00 now £9.95
West Cotton, Raunds
by Andy Chapman.
A report on the large-scale
excavation of the small medieval
hamlet of West Cotton, Raunds
in Northamptonshire. The high
quality structural remains revealed
evidence for planned nucleation
in the ninth century, with later reorganisations and
grdual desertion during the late Middle Ages.
280p b/w illus, CD (Oxbow Books 2010) Hb was
£48.00 now £6.95
From Studium to Station
Rewley Abbey and Rewley
Road Station, Oxford
by Julian Munby, Andy Simmonds,
Ric Taylor and Dave Wilkinson.
This report presents the results
of over 40 years of excavation,
historic building survey and
documentary research that has been carried out
by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the
Cistercian house of Rewley, founded in 1280 as a
chantry, but quickly growing to become a fully-fledged
abbey and studium.
112p (Oxford Archaeology 2007) Pb was £7.50
now £5.00
Ploulec’h, Cotes-d’Armor,
volume 2
Le site: de la Préhistoire à la fin
de l’Empire gaulois
by Barry Cunliffe and Patrick
Galliou.
This second volume deals with
the Prehistoric period, continuing up until the end of
the Gallic Empire.
French text. 390p, 267 b/w illus (OUSA 2005) Hb was
£75.00
now £15.00
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Archaeology of the Frontier
in the Medieval Near East
Medieval Material Culture
Excavations at Gritille, Turkey
Studies in Honour of Jan
Thijssen
by Scott Redford.
edited by Hemmy Clevis.
This report provides the evidence
from the 11th to 13th century
levels of this rural settlement
and explores the socio-economic
dynamics of life in this march-land between the
disintegrating Byzantine Empire, the newly established
Crusader states and the Seljuk Empire.
315P b/w illus (Pennsylvania Museum 1998) Hb was
£72.00 now £6.95
Battle Abbey
The Eastern Range and the
Excavations of 1978–80
by J N Hare.
Battle Abbey was one of the
greater abbeys of medieval
England. Excavations in 1978-1980
at the eastern range uncovered
in entirety the chapter house and the reredorter.
The project also revealed the complete sequence of
development at the site from the time of the battle
through to the Dissolution.
208p, b/w pls, illus (English Heritage 1985) Pb was
£25.00 now £4.95
Excavations at Portchester
Castle Volumes II, IV and V.
Reports on a major campaign
of excavations at Portchester
between 1961 and 1972.
Vol II: Saxon (by Barry Cunliffe);
Vol IV: Medieval (by Barry Cunliffe
and Julian Munby); Vol V: PostMedieval (by Barry Cunliffe and Beverley Garratt).
(Society of Antiquaries 1975-1994) Hb Vol 2 £7.95; Vols
4-5 £9.95 each
Glamis Castle
by Harry Gordon Slade.
Using a combination of site
investigation and the examination
of material from the family
archives, the author presents a
comprehensive picture of the
Castle’s development from its
origins in the 14th century to the present day. He
describes its various incarnations: medieval castle,
royal palace, great house in the Scottish Baronial style,
baroque palace, late Victorian country house.
136p b/w illus (Society of Antiquaries 2000) Hb was
£29.95 now £4.95
The Fishermen’s Chapel,
Saint Brelade, Jersey
by Warwick Rodwell.
This book details the results of
an archaeological survey and
restoration/conservation project
carried out between 1982–1988
on one of the best-known buildings
in the Channel Islands. The walls and stone-vaulted
ceiling of the chapel, perched on the cliff edge above St
Brelade’s Bay, are decorated with vivid representations
of Old and New Testament scenes.
190p with 113 figs & 35 col plates (Societe Jersiaise
1990) Hb was £28.00 now £4.95
13 contributions about medieval
material culture from ceramics
to sailor’s knives, marlinespikes,
decorated leather and metalbase
mounts, linen smoothers, book clasps and miniatures.
228p b/w illus (SPA Uitgevers 2009) Pb was £26.00
now £9.95
Medemblik und
Monnickendam
Aspects of Medieval
Urbanization in Northern
Holland
edited by H A Heidinga and H H van
Regteren Altena.
Five English papers and one
Dutch, on the site and finds of this medieval trading
centre.
134p, b/w figs (Amsterdam Univ 1998) Hb was
£19.50 now £9.95
Ludgershall Castle
Excavations by Peter Addyman
1964–1972
edited by Peter Ellis.
A report on the excavation of a
medieval royal castle and hunting
lodge in east Wiltshire which was
constructed in the 12th-century,
on top of a prehistoric hillfort, and was greatly
expanded by Henry III in the mid 13th century.
268p, many b/w illus, microfiche (Wiltshire
Archaeological & Natural History Society 2000) Pb
was £24.50 now £9.95
Clarendon
Landscape of Kings
by Tom Beaumont James and
Christopher Gerrard.
This richly illustrated book tells
Clarendon’s story, from the
Neolithic through to the present.
It focuses in particular on the
palace and deer park’s medieval heyday a time when
gyrfalcons soared in pursuit of cranes, and kings
hunted roebuck and wolves.
256p col and b/w illus (Windgather 2007) Hb was
£60.00 now £12.95, Pb was £25.00 now £4.95
The Medieval Park
New Perspectives
edited by Robert Liddiard.
The park - a feature of the
landscape we always associate
with the hunting of deer - played
an important role in the psyche of
Britain’s medieval aristocracy. This
well-illustrated book offers a reappraisal of the park by
a new generation of landscape researchers, who use a
diversity of approaches to assess its economy, ecology
and social role.
256p, 69 illus, 35 in col (Windgather Press 2007) Pb
was £25.00 now £4.95
Medieval Literature and Post-Medieval Archaeology
86
Medieval Urbanism in
Coppergate
The N-Town Play
Refining a Townscape
Drama and Liturgy in Medieval
East Anglia
by R.A. Hall and K. Hunter-Mann.
by Penny Granger.
This new report on excavations in
the city of York focuses on three
sites in the Coppergate area, close
to the heart of the medieval town.
It traces the changing fortunes of the area from an
up-and-coming residential part of town inhabited by
the bourgeoisie to its decline from the 15th century
onwards.
203p, b/w illus (The Archaeology of York vol 10/6 2002)
Pb was £25.00 now £4.95
The Window Glass of
the Order of St Gilbert of
Sempringham
A York-based Study
by C. Pamela Graves.
The excavation of St Andrew,
Fishergate uncovered the largest
quantity of window glass from
any house of this monastic order. Here it is analysed
alongside all other known assemblages of window
glass associated with the Gilbertines.
575p, 236 b/w and col illus (Archaeology of York
11/3, 2000) Pb was £26.00 now £4.95
Women and Marriage in
German Medieval Romance
by D.H. Green.
D. H. Green argues that
around 1200 the conventional
relationship between men and
women was subject to significant
challenge through discussions in
the vernacular literature of the period. He shows how
some vernacular writers devised methods to debate
and challenge the undoubted antifeminism of the day
by presenting a Utopian model, supported by a revision
of views by the Church, to contrast with contemporary
practice. 274p (Cambridge UP 2009) Hb was £64.99
now £9.95
French Romance of the Later
Middle Ages
by Rosalind Brown-Grant.
This study investigates how the
views of gender found in earlier
romances were reassessed and
reshaped in the texts produced
in the moralising intellectual
environment of the later medieval period. In
order to explore these topics, this book discusses
fifteen historico-realist prose romances written
in the century from 1390, many of which were
commissioned at the court of Burgundy.
The Philosophical Vision of
John Duns Scotus
An Introduction
by Mary Elizabeth Ingham and
Mechthild Dreyer.
This text brings together key
insights of Scotus’s theory of
cognition, metaphysics, and
ethics in a comprehensive and unified manner.
The authors use critical texts and the most recent
scholarship on Scotus to introduce the intricate vision
of the Subtle Doctor to a wide audience.
was £25.95 now £6.95
This book, the first full-length
study to be devoted to the
“N-Town Play ”, provides a
complete reassessment of the
play, setting it in its geographical, religious and political
context.
The Letters of Peter Abelard
Beyond the Personal
translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski.
The love letters of Abelard and
Heloise are well known and widely
available. This volume presents 12
other much less famous letters of
Peter Abelard. One group shows
him engaging with Heloise and nuns of the Paraclete,
another with Bernard of Clairvaux, and a third with four
entirely different addressees on four entirely different
topics.
was £25.95 now £6.95
Lordship and Literature
John Gower and the Politics of
the Great Household
by Elliot Kendall.
Using Gower’s
Confessio
Amantis as a case study Elliot
Kendall shows how an ideology
of power based on the household
is a dominant theme throughout, albeit displaying
something of a siege mentality in the wake of the
upheavals of the Black Death and Peasants Revolt.
Shadows of Mary
Reading the Virgin Mary in
Medieval Texts
by Teresa Reed.
In this study Teresa Reed explores
five examples of Marian figuration
in Chaucer’s Constance, the Wife
of Bath, the medical women of
the English Trotula, St Margaret of Antioch and the
Pearl Maiden, showing how they illustrate medieval
concepts of ‘the feminine’ and womanhood, and were
a means for the church especially to express their
worldly concerns and anxieties. 171p (University of
Wales 2003) Pb was £17.99 now £6.95
The Text in the Community
Essays on Medieval Works,
Manuscripts, Authors, and
Readers
edited by Jill Mann and Maura
Nolan.
This volume brings together
essays by a diverse group of
medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which
readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of
“communities” of readers, authors, scribes, and
scholars.
£64.50 now £9.95
Images of Kingship in
Chaucer and His Ricardian
Contemporaries
by Samantha J. Rayner.
Through detailed examination
of the texts, this study analyses
the works of Chaucer, Langland,
Gower and the Gawain poet, to
set out exactly what each has to say about kingship,
looking for common themes and attempting to relate
them to the concrete kingship of Richard II.
The Voice of the Hammer
The Meaning of Work in
Middle English Literature
by Nicola Masciandaro.
A detailed study of the way
work was conceptualised in late
medieval England, grounded in
a close analysis of the Middle
English lexicon, accounts of the history of work and
Fragment VII of the Canterbury tales.
£22.95 now £6.95
Post-Medieval Pottery 16501800
by Jo Draper.
This reprint traces the major
characteristics of the pottery of
the early modern period, the
new types and shapes that were
introduced and new standards in
production and decoration that were reached.
64p b/w illus (Shire 1984, repr 2001) Pb was £6.99
now £2.95
English Pottery, 1620-1840
by Robin Hildyard
This study gives a broad picture
of the pottery trade in the 17th
to 19th centuries, covering
all the main types of ware. It
provides an overview of how
trade influenced production
and explores themes such as fashions for collecting
and the export market, illustrated throughout with
examples from the collections of the V&A.
240p b/w and col illus (V&A 2005) Hb was £50.00
now £19.95
Investigating the Maritime
History of Rotherhithe
by Kieron Heard and Damian
Goodburn.
Excavation of a site occupied
from the 17th to 19th centuries
and used successively as a
timber yard, a shipbuilders with
a wet dock, and a shipbreakers business. The findings
provide important insights into post-medieval
woodworking techniques, and other key aspects of
ship-building technology.
e Circles
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Post-Medieval Archaeology
Chinese Export Ceramics
The Doulton Stoneware
Pothouse in Lambeth
by Rose Kerr and Luisa Mengoni
This beautiful book tells the story
of Chinese ceramics exported
to Europe, the Middle East and
South-east Asia from the 14th
to the 19th century. Superb
photography showcases over
200 stunning pieces in the collections of the V&A,
and illustrates the extraordinary range of styles and
decorative patterns of Chinese export porcelain.
Excavations at 9 Albert
Embankment, London
by Kieron Tyler.
This small pottery factory operated
from the 1870s to 1926 and its
main products were stoneware
bottles, essentially the containers for products such as
ginger beer and ink. The remains of five ‘downdraught’
pottery kilns were recorded in the MoLAS excavations
of 2001-2.
Italian Renaissance Maiolica
Ships and Guns
by Elisa P. Sani
This book traces the use
of Maiolica objects in the
Renaissance, from birth through
courtship and marriage rituals
to death, and gives an engaging
insight into the life of noble
families in this period. Manufacturing processes
and stylistic developments are also highlighted. It
is illustrated throughout with examples from the
superb collection of Italian renaissance maiolica in
the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Early Modern Industry and
Settlement
Excavations at George Street,
Richmond, and High Street,
Mortlake, in the London
Borough of Richmond upon
Thames
by Barney Sloane.
Taken together, the Richmond and Mortlake sites
provide valuable evidence of the great increase in
development occurring in small towns on the outskirts
of London from the mid 17th century.
by Robert Lee.
To many who occupied the earlyVictorian countryside, injustice
seemed part of the landscape.
Robert Lee draws on a remarkable
set of historical sources from Norfolk which show how
the experience of poverty could lead people into social
transgression and political resistance.
162p b/w illus (Windgather Press 2005) Pb was £19.95
now £4.95
The Archaeology of Contact
in Settler Societies
edited by Tim Murray.
This edited work presents case
studies from nations developed
from British settlement so as to
allow historical archaeologists
to examine differences and
similarities between the histories of modern colonial
societies world-wide. The work shows that historical
archaeologies can assume marvellously different and
suggestive forms when examined from the periphery.
269p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2004) Pb was £31.99
now £12.95
by Nat Alcock and Cary Carson.
An examination of the ‘houseand-estate’ survey – which adds
detail of the village’s houses,
outhouses, and farm buildings to
the standard evidence of an estate survey. It provides
a detailed analysis of the twenty West Country
communities for which such surveys survive.
248p, 8p colour illustrations (Oxbow Books 2007) Hb
was £35.00 now £12.95
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John Baker’s Late 17th
Century Glasshouse at
Vauxhall
Table Settings
This publication describes the
edited by James Symonds.
The Material Culture and
Social Context of Dining, AD
1700–1900
by Kieron Tyler and Hugh Willmott.
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86120
demonstrates
how Vauxhall competed with
Londons other glasshouses and
discusses Londons late 17th-century glass industry.
Excavations in 1989 found a furnace, crucibles, tools,
working waste and finished vessels.
now £4.95
edited by Audrey Horning and
Marilyn Palmer.
Bowhill
The Archaeological Study of
a Building Under Repair in
Exeter
by Stuart R. Blaylock.
London’s Parish Churches
by John Leonard
This is a new edition of John
Leonard’s popular London’s
Parish Churches , first published
in 1997. With over 200 new colour
photographs by the author, it
provides both an historical
account of churches in the capital from Anglo-Saxon
beginnings to the dawn of the twenty-first century
and also an invaluable guide to over 120 of the finest
parish churches.
352p col and b/w illus (Spire 2011) Hb was £39.95
now £19.95
West Country Farms
House and Estate Surveys,
1598–1764
Future Directions in the
Archaeological Study of post1550 Britain and Ireland
An investiagation of the docu
mentary, pictorial and carto
graphic information on Bowhill, an
important late medieval and Tudor house as well as an
examination of the fabric, stratigraphy, architecture
and technologies employed in its construction.
393p, many b/w figs and pls (English Heritage 2004)
Pb was £65.00 now £7.95
Unquiet Country
Voices of the Rural Poor 18201880
Crossing Paths or Sharing
Tracks
These essays discuss the practice
of post-1550 archaeology and outline problems,
potential problems and future directions for the
discipline, and how the work of archaeologists ties into
and is affected by the museums and heritage sectors.
416p b/w illus, col pls (Boydell 2009) Hb was £50.00
now £14.95
edited by Carlo Beltrame and
Renato Gianni Ridella.
A series of papers which focus
on the development of naval
ordnance in Europe and,
especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries. Subjects include
Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean
and Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first
war of Morea, and Genoese ordnance aboard galleys
in the 16th century.
now £7.95
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How To Read Industrial
Britain
by Tim Cooper.
An introduction to industrial
archaeology, which aims to
promote an understanding of
the physical remains of Britain’s
industrial past. Tim Cooper takes
the reader through power sources and their extraction,
materials such as iron, steel and concrete, factories
and infrastructure including transport, and cultural
artefacts such as pubs and music halls.
198p b/w illus & pls (Ebury 2011) Hb was £12.99 now
£4.95
An Archaeology of Socialism
by Victor Buchli.
This book is a detailed casestudy of a particular building,
Moisei Ginzburg’s Narkomfin
Communal House, showing how
its inhabitants were influenced
by its architecture. Victor
Buchli demonstrates how such basics as principles
of hygiene and gender roles were shaped by the
building’s architectural form. However individuals also
appropriated architectural space and material culture,
reading the `message’ the architect had attempted to
`write’ in subversive ways.
256p b/w illus (Berg 1999) Pb was £18.99 now £6.95
WINDgather
The papers in this volume combine
archaeological and documentary
evidence to throw new light upon
early modern eating practices, including manufacturing
processes, feasting rituals, the rise of respectability,
and the inter-continental spread of the Victorian cult
of domesticity.
now £12.95
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