Annual Report 2008-9 - The British School at Rome

P UBLICATIONS
Anticipation and expectation — these have been the
key words for the publications programme in 2008–9.
At the meeting of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and
Letters in November, the Chair of Publications was able to
report that, after a puzzling hiatus, we expected some seven
volumes, all of them closely linked to School projects, to be
submitted within the following twelve months for
consideration for publication by the School. Four of these
have been submitted, have been assessed by external
readers, and have been accepted for publication. Thus
2009–10 will be an exceptionally busy year, preparing the
volumes and then publishing them. The range of titles
hopefully will prove attractive to many: Roma Britannica. Art
Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-century Rome,
edited by David R. Marshall, Susan Russell and Karin
Wolfe; San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops, by Richard
Hodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell; ‘Veii. The
Historical Topography of the Ancient City’. A Restudy of John
Ward-Perkins’s Survey, edited by Helen Patterson, Roberta
Cascino and Helga Di Giuseppe; and Recent Archaeological
Research at Portus and in its Hinterland, edited by Simon Keay
and Lidia Paroli.
Those volumes that have been published continue to
receive excellent reviews. Of Archives & Excavations, edited
by the late Ilaria Bignamini, ‘This is an illuminating volume
of collected papers … a fascinating and well-produced
volume, which reveals the wealth of tapped and untapped
archive material for Rome … [Contributions] all are
extremely accessible and suitably illustrated’, Journal of
Medieval Archaeology 52 (2008); of Between Text and Territory,
edited by Kim Bowes, Karen Francis and Richard Hodges,
‘un’importante pubblicazione … la sintesi … sulla quasi
ventennale attività della missione britannica nel territorio
circostante la fondazione monastica molisana … Il bel titolo
del volume ricorda la fortuna di S. Vincenzo, fondazione
ricca tanto di fonti scritte quanto di evidenze materiali, ed è
anche ripreso [nel] capitolo conclusivo che, non a caso, si
chiude ricordando l’opzione metodologica di tutto il lavoro,
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cioè l’integrazione tra fonti scritte e reperti archeologici’,
Quellen und Forschungen 88 (2008).
Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008) was published
in December. This was the first volume with a new design.
It contains a range of papers, including contributions on a
possible painting of Cleopatra in Pompeii (by Susan Walker,
Balsdon Fellow 2006–7), on the walls of Rome between the
Porta Latina and the Appia (by Lucos Cozza, Honorary
Fellow), on the Jerusalem Temple treasure and the church
of Santi Cosma e Damiano in Rome (by John Osborne,
Rome Scholar 1978–9, Honorary Fellow), on a portrait of
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna (by Piers Baker Bates, Rome
Scholar 2002–3), on the use of events in the Middle Ages
(especially the barbarian migrations) in Risorgimento
literature and music (by Ian Wood, Balsdon Fellow 2005–6),
and on recent migration to Italy, and in particular the
verbalisations of power relations between hosts and
migrants, and the verbal and visual representations of
migrants (by David Forgacs, Rome Scholar 1977–8,
currently BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies).
We can also report that an agreement has been signed
with JSTOR, so that back issues of the Papers will be
included in their digital archive. This should be of
enormous value to the School and the academic community
more generally.
Academic validation for the formal academic
publications of the School rests with the Faculty of
Archaeology, History and Letters. We are grateful to all
members of the Faculty for their contribution, and in
particular to the Chair of Publications, Bryan Ward-Perkins,
and the Editor of the Papers, Josephine Crawley Quinn, who
are extremely generous with their time and knowledge.
Gill Clark
Publications Manager
A list of publications in print and details of how to order books appear on
pages 52–3. Any enquiries should be addressed to the School’s London office.