Oxbow Spring 2013.pdf - Oxbow Books

Welcome
We are delighted to bring you our latest collection of new and forthcoming titles for
the first half of 2013 from our own imprints Oxbow Books, Windgather Press and Aris &
Phillips alongside our many distributed publishers including the British Museum Press,
British School at Rome, Maney Publishing and many more.
We are delighted to welcome Pindar Press to Oxbow’s distribution list. Specialising in
the art, architecture and archaeology of the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Antiquity and the
Islamic World amongst other areas, you can see Pindar’s full back-list on our website, all
available at our usual trade and library terms.
Whether you are looking for your bookstore, your library or your own personal reading pleasure
we’re sure you’ll find plenty of interest. Here are just a few highlights that await.
The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone
See Page 31
Warwick Rodwell (Author)
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the
most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It
incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following
his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated
on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious mythology had also become
attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the
Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth
century have been crowned in it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
9781782971528, £28.00, June 2013
HB, Oxbow Books
Celtic from the West 2
Rethinking the Bronze Age
and the Arrival of Indo-
European in Atlantic Europe
Barry Cunliffe (Editor)
John T Koch (Editor)
The Cyrus Cylinder
and Ancient Persia
A New Beginning for the
Middle East
Irving Finkel (Translator);
John Curtis (Author);
Neil MacGregor (Author)
Welcome
Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a
wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout the
Bronze Age remained plausible. Celtic from the West 2
explores the rapidly expanding evidence for the later
prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of the West
increasingly exclude that possibility.
9781842175293, £40.00, January 2013
HB, Oxbow Books
See Page 10
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous
objects to have survived from the ancient world.
Often described as the first bill of human rights this
catalogue also contains sixteen other objects from
the Britsh Museum’s collecton.
9780714111872, £18.99, April 2013
HB, 144p, 110 col illus., British Museum Press
See Page 18
Cover Image: Late Bronze Age shale vessel from Caergwrle, north Wales, with applied tin and gold, representing a ship,
shields, oars, and waves, by kind permission of the National Museum of Wales.
All prices and publication dates are accurate at time of printing but subject to change without notice.

Contents
Method and Theory Page 2
Landscape & Gardens Page 5
Journals Page 6
Anthropology & Family History Page 7
British Archaeology – Multi-period excavations Page 8
Contents
Prehistory – Britain & Ireland Page 9
Prehistory – Europe Page 10
Prehistory – Aegean Page 14
Prehistory – World Page 15
Ancient Near East Page 17
Ancient Egypt Page 19
Classical World – Ancient Greece Page 23
Classical World – Ancient Rome Page 24
Classical World – Roman Britain Page 26
Classical Texts Page 27
Late Antiquity & Byzantium Page 28
Islamic World Page 29
Anglo Saxon & Viking Page 30
Medieval/Post Medieval Page 31
Underwater & Maritime Archaeology Page 33
The Americas Page 34
Sociology & Psychology Page 35
Language & Literature – Hispanic Classics Page 36
Language & Literature Page 37
Architecture Page 42
Art - Renaissance Page 44
Art - Modern Period Page 46
Military History Page 49
Medical Sciences Page 50
Insights and American Landscapes Series Page 51
Publishing Index Page 52
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Mobility, Meaning and Transformation of Things
Shifting Contexts of Material Culture Through Time and Space
Hans Peter Hahn (Editor); Hadas Weis (Editor)
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or
transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile,
not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest
traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of
things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects
are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with
lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they
may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in
perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While
travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial
mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As
objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them.
Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp
the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken
on by its valued ‘stuff’. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality,
through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space. This
edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value,
with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which
societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material
reflects upon society.
9781842175255, £35.00, January 2013
9781842175255, £35.00, January 2013
PB, 176p, b/w illus., Oxbow Books
PB, 176p, b/w illus., Oxbow Books
Method and Theory
Geophysical Data in Archaeology
A Guide to Good Practice
Armin Schmidt (Author)
Anyone who has tried to archive archaeological geophysics data will have
wondered what might be the most comprehensive and practical approach. This
question is addressed by this Guide’s extensively revised 2nd edition, which
systematically explores what should be included in an Archive, illustrated with
relevant examples. A conceptual framework is developed that allows assembling
data and meta-data so that they can be deposited with an Archiving Body. This
framework is also mapped onto typical database structures, including OASIS
and the English Heritage Geophysics Database. Examples show step-by step
how an Archive can be compiled for deposition so that readers will be able to
enhance their own archiving practice. Geophysical data are sometimes the only
remaining record of buried archaeological features when these are destroyed
during commercial developments (e.g. road schemes). To preserve them in
an Archive can therefore be essential. However, it is important that data are
made available in formats that can still be read in years to come, accompanied
by documentation that gives meaningful archaeological context. This Guide
covers the creation of the necessary metadata and data documentation. There
is no point preserving data if they cannot be used again; therefore this Guide is
essential for anyone using geophysical data.
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9781782971443, £15.00, February 2013
PB, 88p, Oxbow Books

Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones
The Interplay Between Objects and Objectives
Krish Seetah (Editor); Brad Gravina (Editor)
Animal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected
components of human behaviour. The interaction between these fundamental
activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days
of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench
specialist study. This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too
often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. In taking a
more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of
early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological
associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the interdependence
of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a
first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions
between humans and the world around them.
9781902937595, £45.00, January 2013
HB, 164p, 99 b/w figs, 26 tables, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
David Gregory (Editor); Henning Matthiesen (Editor)
The PARIS 4 conference, which took place at the National Museum of Denmark
in 2011, attracted over 100 participants from 18 countries. Delegates presented
and discussed the latest developments in the field of Preserving Archaeological
Remains In Situ. These proceedings explore four major themes: rates of
degradation in archaeological remains and the limits of acceptable change;
the techniques and duration of monitoring on archaeological sites; the role of
multinational standards when the sites and national legislations are so variable;
reviewing the effectiveness of in situ preservation, after nearly two decades of
research.
9781907975875, £55.00, Available Now,
HB, 489p, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites Special Issue, Maney Publishing
The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use
Understanding Archaeological Open-Air Museums and their Visitors
Roeland Paardekooper (Author)
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history
goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to
the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor
sceneries based on archaeology. They have an important role as educational
facilities and many showcase archaeology in a variety of ways. Compared to
other museum categories, archaeological open-air museums boast a wide variety
of manifestations. This research assesses the value of archaeological open-air
museums, their management and their visitors, and is the first to do so in such
breadth and detail. After a literature study and general data collection among
199 of such museums in Europe, eight archaeological open-air museums from
different countries were selected as case studies including both public and
privately funded examples.
9789088901034, £35.00, Available Now
PB, 300p, 210 x 280 mm, 109 col & 29 b/w illus., Sidestone Press
5Method and Theory

The Death of Archaeological Theory?
edited by John Bintliff and Mark Pearce
9781842174463, £12.95, 2011,
PB, 96p, 9 b/w illus, Oxbow Books
Interpreting Archaeological Topography
edited by R. Opitz and D. C. Cowley
9781842175163 , £40.00, HB, January 2013
288p, 185 col illus, Oxbow Books
The Archaeology of Household, edited by
M. Madella, G. Kovács, B. Berzsényi & B. i Godino
9781842175170, £49.95, May 2013
HB, 248p, 125 b/w + col illus, Oxbow Books
Method and Theory & Archaeological Biography
Embodied Knowledge
edited by M. L. Stig Srensen & K. Rebay-Salisbury
9781842174906, £30.00, January 2013
HB, 176p, 42 b/w illus, Oxbow Books
Without Having
Seen the Queen
The 1846 European
Travel Journal of
Heinrich Schliemann,
A Transcription and
Annotated Translation
Christo Thanos (Author);
Wout Arentzen (Author)
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), a shrewd trader
and later in life one of the best known archaeologists
of the 19th century, made many travels around the
world. He recorded his experiences in several diaries.
This publication is a transcription and translation of
Schliemann’s first travel diary: his European journey
in the winter of 1846/47. “Without having seen the
Queen” comprises an introduction to the diary, a
transcription of the diary, and a full English translation
with annotations. This publication unlocks Schlieman’s
first travelogue and presents a unique view of his life
before rising to fame as the discoverer of Troy.
Heritage Transformed
Ian Baxter
9781842174579 , £40.00, 2011 ,
PB, 128p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books
Materiality and Social Practice
Edited by J. Maran and P. W. Stockhammer
9781842174586, £36.00, 2012
HB, 224p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books
Schliemann
en Nederland.
Een leven vol
verhalen
Wout Arentzen (Author)
This book describes the life of the famous archaeologist
and shrewd trader Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890)
from a Dutch perspective since his commercial succes
started in the Netherlands. We see how two myths
meet: the myth of the ancient city Troy and the the
myth of the poor boy that was determined to find the
remains of this legendary city. Dutch text.
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9789088900877, £28.00, Available Now
PB, 212p, 14 b/w, 11 col illus., 182 x 257 mm
Sidestone Press
9789088900914, £30.00, 31 December 2012
PB, 300p, 68 b/w, 17 col images, 182 x 257mm
Sidestone Press

The Historic
Landscape of
Devon
A Study in Change and
Continuity
Lucy Ryder (Author)
Somerset’s
Peatland
Archaeology
Managing and
Investigating a Fragile
Resource
Richard Brunning (Author)
This book discusses the 19th–century historic
landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation
and querying of a Geographical Information Systems
(GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change
and development through field and settlement
patterns. Making use of tithe surveys, the relationship
between field and settlement morphologies and
patterns of landholding is discussed for three casestudy
areas in Devon, developing the idea of landscape
pays and the identification of regional differences in
the study of the historic landscape.
9781905119387, £38.00, April 2013
PB, 256p, col illus, Windgather Press
Rousseau’s
Elysium.
Ermenonville
Revisited
Gerard J. Van den Broek
(Author)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is generally seen
as one of the most important figures whose ideas had
a great influence on the French Revolution (1789).
Many immediately associate him with the concept of
“the noble savage.” However, just as with his political
and philosophical writings, his love for botany and
scenery would change the landscape of continental
Europe, if not the world. This book presents a unique
view of the young Rousseau’s awakening love for
plants, and his sometimes euphoric appreciation of
the scenery during his endless walks
9789088900907, £24.00, 31 December 2012
PB, 104p, 40b/w, 2 col figures, 21 x 21cm,
Sidestone Press
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series
of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the
Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene
environmental histories and contain a wealth of
waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete
monuments. This substantial monograph presents the
results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in
Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the
condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing
threats to their survival and aimed to answer key
research questions about the sites through the use
of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the
development of future wetland strategies.
9781842174883, £40.00, May 2013
HB, 352p, b/w & colour illus, Oxbow Books
De Nederlandse
Landschapsstijl
in de Achttiende
Eeuw
Heimerick Tromp (Author)
This richly illustrated book deals with Dutch landscape
and garden architecture in the 18th century. After
exploring the developments in adjacent countries,
the Dutch developments are described using famous
manorial estates like Biljoen en Beekhuizen, Het
Loo en Elswout as well as some lesser known sites.
The research has a strong focus on the owners of
these estates since knowledge on their background,
education and interests can support the interpretation
of the revolutionary changes that took place in garden
design. Dutch language edition
9789088901003, £60.00, Available Now
PB, 400p, 100 col, 80 b/w illus, Sidestone Press
7Landscape & Gardens

From Primitives to Primates
A History of Ethnographic and Primatological Analogies in the Study of Prehistory
David Van Reybrouck (Author)
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating indepth
study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography
and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th
century to this day – often far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars
were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to
understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. The belief that the contemporary
world provides ‘living links’ still goes strong. Such primate models, Van Reybrouck
argues, continue the highly problematic ‘comparative method’ of Victorian
times. Overviewing two centuries of intellectual debate in fields as diverse as
archaeology, ethnography and primatology, Van Reybrouck asks that the past be
understood on its own terms, not as facile projections from the present.
9789088900952, £32.00, Available Now
PB, 384p, Sidestone Press
The Archaeology of Politics and Power
Charles Maisels
9781842173527, £35.00, 2010
PB, 440p, b/w illus, Oxbow Books
Counting People
A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historians
John Moore (Author)
Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in
their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical
work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of agriculture,
industry and social history. Counting People shows how amateur historians can
use computers with appropriate programs to provide numerical illustrations of
various historical topics as well as easing their researches. A final chapter covers
research and publishing in local history. The Bibliography provides advice on local
historical studies in England and Wales and a full list of sources for population
history in England and Wales as well as guidance on the use of computers in
local studies.
9781842174807, £17.95, 30 March 2013
PB, 140p, Oxbow Books
Melanesia, edited by L. Bolton, N.
Thomas. E. Bonshek, J. Adams & B. Burt
9780714125961, £75.00, 2013
384p, 306 col illus, 12 line drawings
British Museum Press
The Ritual Killing & Burial of Animals
edited by A. Pluskowski
9781842174449 , £48.00, 2011
224p, col & b/w illus, Oxbow Books
9Anthropology / Local & Family History

A Road Through the Past
Archaeological discoveries on the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham road-scheme in Kent
Alan Hardy (Author); Kelly Powell (Author); Tim Allen (Author); Michael Donnelly (Author)
Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human
activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the
head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to
the sixteenth century AD. Most exciting were rich cremation burials of the late
Iron Age and early Roman periods, probably successive generations of a local
family, whose rise to prominence coincides with the growth of the cult centre at
Springhead nearby. The metal vessels include types new to Britain, the pottery
stamps suggest the movement of continental potters to Kent, and one grave has
the clearest evidence of furniture yet found from early Roman Britain. Medieval
settlements of the late 11th–14th centuries mirror the renewed importance of
Watling Street after the Norman conquest, and its eventual return to obscurity
due to competition from the ferry from London to Gravesend.
9780904220681, £32.00, Available Now
HB, 620p, 267 illus & 91 plates (mostly colour), OA Monograph Series 16, Oxford Archaeology
British Archaeology – Multi-Period Excavations
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From Mesolithic to Motorway
The Archaeology of the M1 (Junction 6a–10) Widening Scheme, Hertfordshire
Andrew Simmonds (Editor); Paul Booth (Editor); Dan Stansbie (Editor); Valerie Diez (Editor)
Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from Junctions 6a to
10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed significant archaeological
remains of wide-ranging date. Important evidence for late Mesolithic and early
Neolithic activity, including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric
features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late Iron Age
and Roman features were most common, with significant rural settlements at
Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackways and enclosures elsewhere.
Occupation was most intensive in the 1st–2nd centuries AD and on a reduced
scale in the late Roman period. At Junction 8, however, an east-west trackway
apparently survived as a landscape feature and in the 12th and 13th centuries
was adjoined by a ditched enclosure containing structures belonging to a
substantial farmstead.
9780904220650, £20.00, January 2013
PB, 230p, 110 illus., Oxford Archaeology Monographs 14, Oxford Archaeology
London Gateway
Iron Age and Roman salt making in the Thames Estuary, Excavation at Stanford
Wharf Nature Reserve, Essex
Edward Biddulph (Editor); Elizabeth Stafford (Editor); Stuart Foreman (Editor); Dan
Stansbie (Editor)
Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 during construction of the Stanford
Wharf Nature Reserve, funded and supported by the developer, DP World London
Gateway, uncovered remarkable evidence for Iron Age and Roman-period salt
making and associated activities. Structures included a probable boathouse,
unique in Roman Britain. The excavations shed new and important light on
evolving methods of salt production, which reflect wider changes in economy and
society in the Thames Estuary between c. 400 BC and AD 400. Salt had a particular
economic importance in the ancient world as a food preservative – changing scale
and methods of production provide an essential background for understanding
processes such as urbanisation, civilian trade and military supply.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9780904220711, £20.00, January 2013
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 209p, 178 (mostly col.), Oxford Archaeology Monographs 18, Oxford Archaeology

Longbridge
Deverill Cow
Down
An Early Iron Age
Settlement in West
Wiltshire
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes
(Author); Christopher
Hawkes (Author); Lisa
Brown (Author)
The early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge Deverill
Cow Down, Wiltshire is justly regarded as one of the
type sites of the British Iron Age. During four brief
seasons of excavation between 1956 and 1960 Sonia
Chadwick Hawkes investigated three enclosures and
revealed the well-preserved remains of four impressive
timber roundhouses. A remarkable collection of
pottery associated with the fiery destruction of the
roundhouses offers a wealth of new material to
consider in the light of other important collections
from the region. The release of Hawkes’ archaeological
data marks a major contribution to our insight into
this intriguing phase of British prehistory.
9781905905256, £25.00, Available Now
HB, OUSA MONOGRAPH 76
Oxford University School of Archaeology
Landscape and
Prehistory of
the East London
Wetlands
Investigations along
the A13 DBFO
Roadscheme, Tower
Hamlets, Newham and
Barking and Dagenham,
2000–2003
Elizabeth Stafford (Author) et al.
Archaeological investigations carried out during
improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of
the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs
of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham
have revealed evidence for activity spanning the
Mesolithic through to the post-Roman period. The
greatest concentration of activity dates to the 2nd
Millenium BC and includes several waterlogged wooden
structures and trackways, burnt mounds and other
evidence associated with wetland edge occupation.
Extensive sampling provides an important record of
landscape evolution and periods of major change can be
detected, both natural and anthropogenically induced.
9780904220704, £25.00, June 2012
PB, 313p, col & b/w, Oxford Archaeology Monograph
17, Oxford Archaeology
Cairns, Fields, and
Cultivation
Jamie Quartermaine
(Author); Roger H
Leech (Author)
The uplands of the Lake District are famed for their
rugged natural beauty, but the reality is that this
landscape has been modified and changed by man since
the mesolithic period. The remains for this exploitation,
particularly from the Bronze Age onwards, survive in
abundance across the marginal uplands, particularly
in the form of cairnfields. This volume presents the
results of a programme of detailed archaeological
survey undertaken in the Lake District between 1982
and 1989, mainly on the fells above the west Cumbria
coastal plain. It recorded some of the most remarkable
cairnfields, field systems, and settlements in England,
mostly of late prehistoric date.
9781907686078, £25.00, Available Now
HB, 396p, col images, Lancaster Imprints 10
Oxford Archaeology
The Neolithic
and Bronze
Age Enclosures
at Springfield
Lyons, Essex
Excavations 1981–91
Maria Medlycott (Author);
Nigel Brown (Author)
Excavation of the enclosure at Springfield Lyons quickly
established its Late Bronze Age date, and the site now
lends its name to a settlement type characteristic,
particularly in eastern England, of the Late Bronze Age
and earliest Iron Age. Excavation revealed a substantial
enclosure ditch divided by causeways of undisturbed
natural gravel, and with entrances facing east and
west. Remarkable amongst the finds assemblage
were two large deposits of clay refractory material,
recovered from the ditch by both the east and west
entrances. Apart from some crucible fragments, the
mould material was almost without exception derived
from moulds for casting Ewart Park type swords.
9781841940984, £20.00, June 2013
PB, 200p, 115 illus., East Anglian Archaeology
Prehistory – Britain & Ireland
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9781842175293, £40.00,
January 2013
HB, 237p, Oxbow Books
Celtic from the West 2
Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in
Atlantic Europe
Barry Cunliffe (Editor); John T Koch (Editor)
Europe’s Atlantic façade has long been treated as marginal to the
formation of the European Bronze Age and the puzzle of the origin
and early spread of the Indo-European languages. Until recently
the idea that Atlantic Europe was a wholly pre-Indo-European world
throughout the Bronze Age remained plausible. Rapidly expanding
evidence for the later prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of
the West increasingly exclude that possibility. It is therefore time to
refocus on a narrowing list of ‘suspects’ as possible archaeological
proxies for the arrival of this great language family and emergence of
its Celtic branch. This reconsideration inevitably throws penetrating
new light on the formation of later prehistoric Atlantic Europe and
the implications of new evidence for inter-regional connections. Celtic
from the West 2 continues the series launched with Celtic from the
West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language
and Literature (2010; 2012) in exploring the new idea that the Celtic
languages emerged in the Atlantic Zone during the Bronze Age. This
Celtic Atlantic hypothesis represents a major departure from the
long-established, but increasingly problematical scenario in which the
Ancient Celtic languages and peoples called Keltoi (Celts) are closely
bound up with the archaeology of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures
of Iron Age west-central Europe.
Prehistory – Europe
Table of Contents:
Prologue: Ha C1a ≠ PC (‘The Earliest Hallstatt Iron Age cannot equal
Proto-Celtic’) (John T. Koch)
1. The Indo-Europeanization of Atlantic Europe (J. P. Mallory)
2. The Arrival of the Beaker Set in Britain and Ireland (A. P.
Fitzpatrick)
3. Beakers into Bronze: Tracing connections between Western Iberia
and the British Isles 2800–800 BC (Catriona Gibson)
4. Out of the Flow and Ebb of the European Bronze Age: Heroes,
Tartessos, and Celtic (John T. Koch)
5. Westward Ho? Sword-Bearers and All the Rest of it . . . (Dirk
Brandherm)
6. Dead-Sea Connections: A Bronze Age and Iron Age Ritual Site on
the Isle of Thanet (Jacqueline I. McKinley, Jörn Schuster, & Andrew
Millard)
7. Models of Language Spread and Language Development in
Prehistoric Europe (Dagmar S. Wodtko)
8. Early Celtic in the West: The Indo-European Context (Colin
Renfrew)
Epilogue: The Celts—Where Next (Barry Cunliffe)
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The First Farmers of Central Europe
Diversity in LBK Lifeways
Alasdair Whittle (Editor); Penny Bickle (Editor)
From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first
farmers of central Europe, the LBK (Linearbandkeramik or Linienbandkeramik),
are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms and location,
landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the
five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be
seen. This major study takes a large regional sample, from northern Hungary
westwards along the Danube to Alsace in the upper Rhine valley and addresses
the lifeways of developed and late LBK people through aspects of diet, lifetime
mobility, health and physical condition and the presentation of bodies in mortuary
ritual using a combination of isotopic, osteological and archaeological analysis
coupled with a detailed programme of radiocarbon dating.
9781842175309, £48.00, June 2013
HB, 608p, 210 x 297 mm, b/w illustrations, Cardiff Studies in Archaeology, Oxbow Books
Prehistory – Europe
Monuments on the Horizon
The formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd
millennium BC
Quentin Bourgeois (Author)
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In
some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations
such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting
vast areas with hundreds of mounds. These vast barrow landscapes came about
through thousands of years of additions by several successive prehistoric and
historic communities. Yet little is known about how these landscapes developed
and came about. That is what this research set out to do. By unravelling the
histories of specific barrow landscapes in the Low Countries, several distinct
activity phases of intense barrow construction could be recognised. This
publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University
of Leiden.
9789088901041, £32.00, Available Now
PB, 252p, 210 x 280 mm, 78 fc / 74 bw, Sidestone Press
Background to Beakers
Inquiries into the Regional Cultural Background to the Bell Beaker Complex
Harry Fokkens (Editor); Franco Nicolis (Editor)
Background to Beakers is the result of an inspiring session at the yearly conference
of European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague in September 2010.
The conference brought together thirteen speakers on the subject Beakers in
Transition. Together we explored the background to the Bell beaker complex in
different regions, departing from the idea that migration is not the comprehensive
solution to the adoption of bell Beakers. Therefore we asked the participants
to discuss how in their region Beakers were incorporated in existing cultural
complexes, as one of the manners to understand the processes of innovation
that were undoubtedly part of the Beaker complex. This volume demonstrates
how scholars in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Poland, Switzerland, France,
Morocco even, struggle with the same problems, but have different solutions
everywhere.
9789088900846, £30.00, Available Now
PB, 200p, 49 b/w, 18 col images, 182 x 257mm, Sidestone Press
13

Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro. Proceedings from the
Munro International Seminar
The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh
Magdalena S. Midgley (Editor); Jeff Sanders (Editor)
In 1885 Dr. Robert Munro undertook a review of all lacustrian research in Europe,
travelling widely to study collections and visit sites. The results of this work formed
the basis for the prestigious Rhind Lectures at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
in 1888. These were then published as The Lake-Dwellings of Europe, a landmark
publication for archaeology and one that cemented Munro’s archaeological
reputation. The collected papers explore the historical context of Munro’s work,
as well as introducing current research from across Europe. The book will appeal
to both the professional and the interested amateur, of which Munro himself
represented such an exciting synthesis.
9789088900921, £28.00, Available Now
PB, 190p, 182 x 257 mm, 29 col & 43 b/w, Sidestone Press
Pterosaurs
Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs
Andre J Veldmeijer (Author); Mark Witton (Author); Ilja Nieuwland (Author)
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant
relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200
million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a span
of some 135 million years. After a short introduction to palaeontology as a science
and its history related to pterosaurs, it explains what pterosaurs were, when and
where they lived, and what they looked like. Topics such as disease, injury and
reproduction are also discussed. They show how diverse pterosaurs were, from
small insectivorous animals with a wingspan of nearly 40 centimetres to the biggest
flying animals ever to take to the air, with wingspans of over 10 metres and with a
way of life comparable to modern-day storks. The text is illustrated with many full
colour photographs and beautiful palaeo-art prepared by experts in the field.
9789088900938, £25.00, Available Now
PB, 134p, 152 col & 29 b/w figures, 21 x 25cm, Sidestone Press
Prehistory – Europe
14
Beyond Barrows
Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric
Landscape through Monuments
David R Fontijn (Editor); Karsten Wentink (Editor); Sasja van der Vaart (Editor); Arjan J.
Louwen (Editor)
Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of
their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric
landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together
at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague
to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the
proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and
the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in
the southeast of North America. The book contains an important contribution
by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius, his last article, written
briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9789088901089, £35.00, 30 April 2013
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
PB, 280p, 182 x 257 mm, 50 col & 100 b/w illus., Sidestone Press

Het
handgevormde
aardewerk uit
de ijzertijd en de
Romeinse tijd
van Oss-Ussen
Studies naar
typochronologie,
technologie en herkomst
P.W. van den Broeke (Author)
Peter van de Broeke has studied the pottery from
the late prehistoric settlement at Oss-Ussen, where
habitation was (more or less) continuous for over a
thousand years (800 BC – 250 AD). A typochronoly
consisting of 14 phases is introduced, stretching
from the late bronze age into the Roman period.
Furthermore, the pottery from Oss-Ussen is studied
using several different approaches including chemical
and technological analyses and diatom analysis. Dutch
language edition.
Noord-Brabantse
Oudheden.
Facsimile-editie van
Noordbrabants Oudheden
aangevuld
met enkele Archeologische
Mengelwerken
C. R. Hermans (Author)
et al.
C.R. Hermans is one of the founding fathers of
archaeology in the Dutch Brabant-region. In 1865
he published the first collection of archaeological
finds and find spots in this region. This publication
is now reprinted in a facsimile-edition with an
extensive introduction that puts the original book into
perspective and supplies the reader with biographical
information about Hermans. Dutch text.
Prehistory – Europe
9789088900976, £55.00, January 2013
PB, 452p, 10 fc / 125 b/w, Sidestone Press
9789088900860, £32.00, Available Now
PB, 368p, 35 b/w, 7 col images, 182 x 257mm,
Sidestone Press
Transformation through Destruction
A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the
ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
David Fontijn (Editor); Sasja van der Vaart (Editor); Richard Jansen (Editor)
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the
Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local
communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended with the
construction of an impressive barrow. Based on the meticulous excavation and a
range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now
can be brought to life in surprising detail. An Iron Age community used extraordinary
objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in
Central Europe. This book will discuss how lavishly decorated items were dismantled
and taken apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be destroyed
by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto ritual, the remains of his
body, the pyre, and the objects were searched through and moved about, with
various elements being manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed.
In essence, a person and a place were transformed through destruction. The book
shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered the funeral remains with
a barrow. Attention is also given to another remarkable monument, long mound 6,
located immediately adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of
an age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured during the Early Iron
Age, when it became the setting for the building of no less than three huge Hallstatt
C barrows. Thousands of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape
underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric barrows
became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of executed criminals.
9781842175187, £65.00, May 2013
HB, 320p, 260 col illus., Oxbow Books
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Kavousi IIB
The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery
Leslie Preston Day (Author); Kevin T. Glowacki (Author)
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning
and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern
Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings
on the slopes of the Vronda ridge: Building Complexes E, I-O-N, and L-M, Building
F, and the pottery kiln, as well as areas excavated on the periphery that did not
belong to any of these buildings. It also presents lists, catalogs, and images of
artifacts and ecofacts that were uncovered at the site.
Table of Contents: 1. Building Complex E; 2. Building F; 3. Kiln and Surrounding
Area; 4. Building Complex I-O-N, 5. Building Complex L-M; 6. Other Areas in
the Environs of the Vronda Ridge; Appendix A. Archaeomagnetic Results from
Kavousi
9781931534697, £53.00, Available Now, HB, 444p, 70 B/W charts, 136 B/W figures, 30 B/W plates,
Prehistory Monographs 39, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea
T. Cullen (Author); L. E. Talalay (Author); W. R. Ferrand (Author); D. R. Keller (Author)
The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation
at Plakari (near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the
Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern
Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea
Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the
study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea
for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists
once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region
in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and
social landscape that characterised the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the
Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and
vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork.
9781931534703, £46.00, April 2013, HB, 280p, 22 tables, 37 B/W figures, 47 B/W plates,
Prehistory Monographs 40, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Prehistory – Aegean
Aphrodite’s Kephali
An Early Minoan I Defensive Site in Eastern Crete
Philip P. Betancourt (Author)
The small site of Aphrodite’s Kephali, among several other Minoan and later sites,
took advantage of the valley topography in the Isthmus of Ierapetra in eastern Crete
by establishing themselves along the nearby hills, resulting in easy access to the
natural trade route between the Aegean and the Libyan Seas. A discussion of the
architecture, artifacts, and ecofacts are presented from the excavation of this Early
Minoan I watchtower. The conclusions challenge some of the commonly held views
about Crete in the third millennium B.C. It is suggested that rather than being a
precursor to a socially complex state that would arise later, early polities involving
several communities probably already existed in the isthmus during the EM I period.
Social and economic differentiation existed on a regional, not just a local level, and
decisions for mutual defense could involve collaboration by groups of workers,
including the building of the watchtower that is the focus of this volume.
9781931534710, £46.00, April 2013, HB, 272p, 30 tables, 97 B/W figures, Prehistory Monographs 41
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
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Parallel Lives
Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus
M Iacovou (Author); Gerald Cadogan (Author); James Whitley (Author); Katerina Kopaka (Author)
How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the two great islands of the eastern
Mediterranean, compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium
to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social
and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and
behaviours, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements? Why, and
how, did convergences and divergences come about? These are among the important
questions that a leading group of experts on the two islands addressed at Parallel
Lives, a pioneering conference in Nicosia organised by the British School at Athens, the
University of Crete and the University of Cyprus, to compare and discuss the islands’
cultural trajectories diachronically from c. 3000 BC through their Bronze Ages and
down to their loss of independence in 300 BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete.
9780904887662, £98.00, Available Now
HB, 382p, b/w illus, BSA Studies 20, British School at Athens
Prehistory – World
Cultural landscapes, social networks and historical
trajectories
A data-rich synthesis of Early Bronze Age networks (c. 2200–1700 BC) in
Abruzzo and Lazio (Central Italy)
Erik van Rossenberg (Author)
It’s about time that Central Italy claims its place in Bronze Age studies. This study
wants to fill this gap and make a crossover between landscape and network
approaches in archaeology. It starts from a methodological consideration of
archaeological synthesis in Bronze Age studies. Approaching landscapes as
networks of places, this study advocates a data-rich form of synthesis of Bronze
Age trajectories, one that avoids a selective focus on particular places. This datarich
synthesis of the Early Bronze Age in Central Italy takes all types of place
making up cultural landscapes and social networks into account, in this case
metalwork deposition, burial, cave use and settlement patterns.
9789088900990, £55.00, January 2013
PB, 350p, Sidestone Press
Well Built Mycenae Fascicule 34.1
Technical Reports. The Results of Neutron Activation Analysis
of Mycenaean Pottery
E B French (Author); J.E. Tomlinson (Author)
Since 1890 when Sir Flinders Petrie first realised the importance of the Aegean
pottery he had found in Egypt further discoveries of these wares have been noted
with more than superficial interest. Early studies, however, right up to the mid
20th century, had to be based on stylistic, and thus often subjective, criteria. It
is only more recently with the development of a range of scientific techniques
that it has become possible to make serious attempts to ascertain the exact
sources of this imported pottery. This fascicule of the Well Built Mycenae series
presents for the first time the raw data as well as the statistical analyses based
on it and assesses the impact of the various methods on the archaeological
value of the research. Includes a DVD with accompanying material for 34.1 and
all previous fascicules.
9781842175286, £25.00, Available Now
PB, 62p, Oxbow Books
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Seeing Lithics
A Middle-Range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene
Gilbert B. Tostevin (Author)
There is substantial debate over the extent to which the Middle to Upper
Paleolithic transition and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans from
Africa into Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene were the result of the same
process, related processes, or unrelated but coincident processes. The current
debate shows a gap in archaeological method and theory for understanding
how different cultural transmission processes create patterning in the material
culture of foragers at the resolution of Paleolithic palimpsests. This research
project attempts to bridge this gap with a middle-range theory connecting
cultural transmission and dual inheritance theory with the archaeological study
of flintknappers’ flake-by-flake choices in the production of lithic assemblages.
9781842175279, £25.00, March 2013
HB, 608p, American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph, Oxbow Books
A Forged Glamour, Melanie Giles
9781905119462, £ 30.00, January 2013
PB, 224p, 50 b/w + col illus.
Windgather Press
Is Their a British Chalcolithic?
Edited by M. J. Allen, J. Gardiner & A. Sheridan
9781842174968 , £39.95, 2012, 336p, b/w illus
HB, Prehistoric Society Research Papers vol 4
Oxbow Books
Image, Memory & Monumentality
A. M. Jones, J. Pollard, M. Allen & J. Gardiner
9781842174951, £35.00, 2012, 366p, 60 illus
HB, Prehistoric Society Research Papers vol 5
Oxbow Books
Prehistory – World
The First Mediterranean Islanders
Neanderthals in Context
Celtic From the West
edited by N. Phoca-Cosmetatou
edited by R. Barton, C. Stringer & J. Finlayson
edited by B. Cunliffe & J. T. Koch
9781905905201, £35.00, 2011, 176p, b/w illus
9781905905249, £38.00, 2012
9781842174753 , £36.00, 2012
PB, OUSA Monograph series, vol 74
OUSA Monograph series, vol 75
PB, 384p, 83 b/w illus, 39 colour & b/w maps
Oxford University School of Archaeology
Oxford University School of Archaeology
Oxbow Books
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Later Prehistory of the Badia
Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2
A. V. G. Betts (Author); D. Cropper (Author); L. Martin (Author); C. McCartney (Author)
The Jordanian Badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern
development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record
of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive
surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over
the period 1979–1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of
the eastern badia. Over time, an outline prehistory of the region has emerged.
Late Epipaleolithic campsites have been found in the north-west of the harra
in the foothills of Jebel Druze, while the central basalt region saw a floruit of
activity in the late Aceramic Neolithic, when it was used extensively for hunting.
This volume covers the following period, which witnessed a further spread of
campsites and short-term occupation out around the edges of the harra and
across the hamad as far as the lands bordering the Euphrates to the north and
east. This period was marked by the first appearance of sheep and goat as one
element of the steppic economy alongside traditional practices of hunting and
foraging. The concluding chapter discusses these changes and proposes models
for the introduction of domesticated animals into the steppe as a precursor to
a full nomadic pastoral economy.
Ancient Near East
9781842174739, £48.00, May 2013
HB, 240p, Levant Supplementary Series 11, Oxbow Books in association with Council for British Research in the Levant
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area
The History Origin and Development of Irrigated Agriculture
B. V. Adrianov (Editor); Maurizio Tosi (Editor); Simone Mantellini (Editor)
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area , is the English translation of Boris
Vasilevich Andrianov’s work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning
the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical
region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). This work holds a special
place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained
through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork,
surveys, and excavations. This translation has been enriched by the addition
of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding
the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and
the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 years after
the original publication.
9781842173848, £20.00, June 2013
HB, 300p, American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph, Oxbow Books
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The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia
A New Beginning for the Middle East
Irving Finkel (Author); John Curtis (Author); Neil MacGregor (Translator)
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient
world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian
King Cyrus the Great after he captured Babylon in 539BC. It is often referred to as
the first bill of human rights as it appears to permit freedom of worship throughout
the Persian Empire and to allow deported people to return to their homelands. This
catalogue is being published in conjunction with the first ever tour of the object to the
United States, along with sixteen other objects from the British Museum’s collection.
This book discusses how these objects demonstrate the innovations initiated by Persian
rule in the Ancient Near East and offers a new authoritative translation of the Cyrus
Cylinder by Irving Finkel. Two fragments of a cuneiform tablet show how the Cyrus
Cylinder was most probably a proclamation and not just a foundation deposit.
9780714111872, £18.99, April 2013
HB, 144p, 110 col illus., British Museum Press
Heaven on Earth
Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World
Deena Ragavan (Editor)
The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental
Institute Seminar, held on March 2–3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the
US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and
cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical perspectives.
The seminar revisited a classic topic, one with a long history among scholars of
the ancient world: the cosmic symbolism of sacred architecture. Archaeologists,
art historians, and philologists working not only in the ancient Near East, but
also Mesoamerica, Greece, South Asia, and China, re-evaluated the significance
of this topic across the ancient world.
19 chapters are divided into seven parts: Part I: Architecture and Cosmology; Part II: Built Space
and Natural Forms; Part III: Myth and Movement; Part IV: Sacred Space and Ritual Practice;
Part V: Architecture, Power, and the State; Part VI: Images of Ritual ; Part VII: Responses
9781885923967, £18.00, April 2013, PB, 460p, 189 illus., Oriental Institute Seminars 9,
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Ancient Near East
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Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The “Megiddo Stages”)
A Report on the Early Occupation of the East Slope of Megiddo. Result of the
Oriental Institute’s Excavations, 1925–1933
Eliot Braun (Author); Sariel Shalev (Author); David Ilan (Author); Ofer Marder (Author)
This report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy
(1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy
and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the
slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim).
That area, labeled by the excavators the “East Slope,” and identified by them
in their notations as “ES,” was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the
years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently
cleared down to bedrock. While the primary focus of this report is on Square
U16 (an area of 25 × 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e., of the Early
Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals
with the later remains within that same, limited precinct.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9781885923981, £55.00, June 2013, HB, 156p, 138 figures, 120 plates, 21 tables
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
Oriental Institute Publications 139, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

TEL ANAFA II, ii
Glass Vessels, Lamps, Objects of Metal, and Groundstone and Other Stone Tools
and Vessels
Andrea Berlin (Editor); Sharon C. Herbert (Editor)
Ten seasons of excavation at Tel Anafa (at the foot of the Golan Heights in the Upper
Galilee of modern Israel) revealed the remains of a rich and remarkably well-preserved
Hellenistic settlement showing great cultural and ethnic diversity. The richness of the
finds, coupled with the clear chronological context and careful recording techniques
employed by the excavators, have made Tel Anafa extremely valuable to all those
interested in the Hellenistic world, providing a rare opportunity to study Greek culture
in direct contact with Phoenician. Indeed, for many bodies of Hellenistic material, Tel
Anafa serves as a typological and chronological “type site,” presenting a broader and
more closely dated range of material than ever before possible. This volume covers
the glass from the excavation, including many expensive glass drinking vessels, as
well as the lamps, metal objects and stone tools and vessels.
9780974187372, £30.00, Available Now
HB, 482p, more than 10 plates and figures, one colour plate, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ancient Egypt
Living with the Dead
Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt
Nicola Harrington (Author)
Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt,
using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to
examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and
terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between
the blessedness and malevolence and that the potent spirit of the dead required
constant propitiation in the form of worship and offerings. A range of evidence
is presented for mortuary cults that were in operation throughout Egyptian
history and for the various places, such as the house, shrines, chapels and tomb
doorways, where the living could interact with the dead. This significant study
furthers our understanding of the complex relationship the ancient Egyptians
had with death and with their ancestors; both recently departed and those in
the distant past.
9781842174937, £38.00, Available Now
PB, 208p, 75 colour & b/w illustrations, Studies in Funerary Archaeology 6, Oxbow Books
Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I
Footwear from the Ottoman Period
Andre J Veldmeijer (Author)
Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752–656 BC) to
the Ottoman Period (c. 1500–1811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the most important
settlements in Egyptian Nubia. The site has produced an unprecedented wealth
of material and due to the – even for Egypt – extraordinary preservation
circumstances, includes objects that are made of perishable organic materials,
such as wood, leather, and flax. The present volume focuses on one of these
groups: footwear that is made from leather and dated to the Ottoman Period.
The footwear, recovered during the years that the Egypt Exploration Society
worked at the site, is described in detail, including a pictorial record consisting
of photographs and drawings (both technical and artist’s impressions). This is
the first time that Ottoman footwear from Egypt (and outside of Egypt) has
been analyzed in detail.
9789088900969, £80.00, February 2013
PB, 462p, 210 x 297 mm, 500 fc, 20 b/w illus, Sidestone Press
21

Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian
Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings
VIII Objects of Provenance Not Know, part 4: (Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period)
Bertha Porter (Author)
This volume, which is the fourth part of Topographical Bibliography VIII, Objects
of Provenance Not Known, presents accessible references for unprovenanced
stelae dating from Dynasty XVIII to the end of the Roman Period. The coverage
includes monuments in museums and private collections, as well as those
which have surfaced in sales and auctions only to disappear from sight once
again. Volume VIII, Parts 3 and 4, provide the first comprehensive survey of
unprovenanced stelae ever undertaken. The number and range of the stelae
open up many new areas for further research, making possible an altogether
fuller coverage of the material than has been possible hitherto. This volume
contains extensive indices.
9780900416903, £85.00, Available Now
HB, Topographical Bibliography, Griffith Institute
Journey to the West
The world of the Old Kingdom tombs
Miroslav Bárta (Author)
This book is intended as a commented summary of some of the major trends
and most important features that can be encountered when analysing ancient
Egyptian society of the Old Kingdom. The goal for writing this book was to
outline general trends in the history of the non-royal tomb development of
the period. The reason is rather simple and straightforward: ancient Egyptians
considered the tomb to be their afterlife residence for eternity. In the afterlife
they replicated the life they experienced during the lifetime. Thus the tomb
architecture, decoration, inscriptions and equipment paradoxically represent a
major tool for our understanding of the everyday life of the ancient Egyptians
and enable a better comprehension of the development and dynamics of the
Old Kingdom.
9788073083830, £21.00, Available Now
PB, 342p, Czech Institute of Egyptology
Ancient Egypt
Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010
2 volume set
Filip Coppens (Author); Jaromir Krejci (Editor); Miroslav Bárta (Editor)
The Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague has since the
start of the third millennium established the tradition of organising on a regular
basis a platform for scholars, active in the pyramid fields and the cemeteries of
the Abusir-Saqqara-Dahshur region, to meet, exchange information and establish
further cooperation. The present two part volume, containing 51 contributions
in total, is the result of the already third “Abusir and Saqqara” conference held
in late May and early June 2010. The focus of the majority of the articles is on
these cemeteries of the Memphite region at the time of the Old Kingdom, but
not a single period is left untouched. A number of articles also move outside
the core region, studying material and developments elsewhere in Egypt, but
always against the background of the Memphite necropolis.
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9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9788073083847, £93.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 904p, 45 colour plates, Czech Institute of Egyptology

Abusir XXV
The Shaft Tomb of Menekhibnekau, Vol. I: Archaeology
Květa Smoláriková (Author); Ladislav Bareš (Author); Renata Landgrafova (Author);
Jiri Janak (Author)
The tomb published in this volume is the third large Late Period shaft tomb that
has been excavated in the south-western part of the Abusir cemetery. It belongs
to Menekhibnekau, who held a number of important titles (among the “General”,
“Overseer of Libyans”, “Overseer of the kbnwt-vessels”, etc) under Ahmose II and
may have lived until the beginning of Dynasty 27. Although his tomb had been
robbed, a number of important and interesting pieces from his burial equipment,
including a seal of the necropolis and a faience menit with the name of Ahmose
II, have been found in his burial chamber. In a separate shaft, large embalmer’s
cache has been found that contained more than three hundred large storage
vessels and a number of smaller receptacles of different kind.
Ancient Egypt
9788073083809, £84.00, Available Now
HB, 360p, 39 coloured plates and 230 figures, Czech Institute of Egyptology
In Hathor’s Image I
the Wives and Mothers of Egyptian Kings from Dynasties I–VI
Vivienne G. Callender (Author)
This study of individual Egyptian queens is based on an earlier study, The Wives
of the Egyptian Kings, Dynasties I–XVII, which was a doctoral dissertation this
author presented at Macquaire University in 1992. This book differs from the
first in many ways because we now understand much more about these royal
women.
9788073083816, £84.00, Available Now
HB, 405p, 122 b/w illus, Czech Institute of Egyptology
New Epigrams of Palladas
A Fragmentary Papyrus Codex (P.CtYBR inv. 4000
Kevin Wilkinson (Author)
P.CtYBR inv. 4000, owned by Yale University’s Beinecke Library, is a fragmentary
papyrus codex that comprises parts of six bifolia (24 pages) and contains Greek
elegiac epigrams. In spite of the fact that there is no explicit declaration of
authorship in the remaining portions of the codex, all signs point to a single
author that can be identified with confidence as Palladas of Alexandria, who
is known from approximately 150 epigrams preserved in the Greek Anthology.
Palladas has a distinctive poetic voice - highly personal and topical, with a
tendency towards bitterly pessimistic observation on the world around him.
Among other points of interest, there is a satire of the victory titles claimed by
the emperors Diocletian and Galerius, a lament on the destruction of Alexandria,
a curious mention of the sufferings of the Egyptian goddess Triphis, and lampoons
of men from Hermopolis.
9780979975851, £40.00, January 2013
HB, 236p, American Studies in Papyrology 52, American Society of Papyrologists
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Papyrological
Texts in Honor of
Roger S. Bagnall
Hélène Cuvigny (Editor);
Todd Hickey (Editor);
Rodney Ast (Editor);
Julia Lougovaya (Editor)
The Old
Kingdom Tombs
at Tehna Vol. I
The Tombs of
Nikaiankh I, Nikaiankh
II and Kaihep
Elizabeth M. Thompson
(Author)
Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall
contains 70 new or substantially revised editions
of documentary and non-documentary papyri and
ostraca from Egypt edited by an international team of
specialists. Texts span the 7th century B.C.E. to the 9th
century C.E. They are written mainly in Greek but also
in Latin, Egyptian, and Arabic. Each text is accompanied
by a translation, line-by-line commentary, and photo.
The volume includes the standard indices found in
papyrological text editions.
The early Old Kingdom tombs at Tehna are cut into
the eastern escarpment bordering the Nile, some
12kms north of Minya in Upper Egypt. The cemetery
consists of more than 15 rockcut tombs, 3 of which
are illustrated and described in this first volume of
the site. Complete with detailed colour illustrations
and line drawings, the book records the wall scenes,
sculpture, architecture, finds and a translation of
inscriptions including a rare legal document in the
tomb of Nikaiankh I.
9780979975868, £40.00, February 2013
HB, 392p, American Studies in Papyrology 53, American
Society of Papyrologists
Behind the
Scenes
Daily Life in Old
Kingdom Egypt
A. McFarlane (Editor);
A. L. Mourad (Editor)
9780856688652, £75.00, March 2013
PB, 102p, 48 col. plates, 18 b/w plates inc. 12 folded
plates, ACE Reports 33, Australian Centre for Egyptology
Egyptian Stelae
in the British
Museum from
the 13th – 17th
Dynasties
Volume I, Fascicule I:
Descriptions
D. Franke (Author);
M. Marée (Author)
Ancient Egypt
Scenes from the Old Kingdom tombs represent our
main sources for the study of daily life of private
individuals. Written by a number of specialists
with years of research, this monograph deals with
various aspects of life in ancient Egypt, presented in
an accessible manner to the scholar and lay-person
alike. Richly illustrated with an excellent selection of
photographs and drawings, the book aims to bring the
reader as close as possible to the Egyptian sources,
allowing them to delve into the world behind the
scenes.
The British Museum holds the largest collection of
Middle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is the
first full publication of the collection: the scenes and
inscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described in
detail, with textual notes and explanatory diagrams.
This is an outstanding work of scholarship by
unrivalled authorities in the field.
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9780856688607, £50.00, March 2013
PB, 196p, 59 col. plates, 167 b/w drawings, ACE:
Studies 10, Australian Centre for Egyptology
9780714119878, £65.00, March 2013
HB, 288p, 48 b/w plates, 6 col. plates, 1,
British Museum Press

Archaeological Survey and the City
Paul Johnson (Editor); Martin Millett (Editor)
In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the
practice of Classical Archaeology. During this time, approaches have developed
from the systematic collection of artefacts to include the routine deployment of
various geophysical and remote sensing techniques. 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 and in
particular discusses the ways in which the subject might develop in the future,
with an emphasis on the integration of different strands of evidence and issues
of archaeological interpretation rather than on the technicalities of particular
methodologies.
9781842175095, £36.00, Available Now
PB, 288p, 275 illus., University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs 2, Oxbow Books
A Culture of Translation
British and Irish Scholarship in the Gennadius Library (1740–1840)
Lynda Mulvin (Editor)
This volume of essays focuses principally on the collection of books of British and
Irish antiquarian scholars held in the Gennadius Library. Collectively, the essays are
the product of two thematically-linked conferences; the major premise explored in
the paper sessions of those conferences, and in this volume, concerns the work of
some of the most pioneering British and Irish 18– and early 19–century antiquarians,
artists, and architects who voyaged into the Mediterranean. The publication of
their findings in architectural treatises, travelogues and illustrated books came, in
turn, to inform international movements of art and architecture; specifically, the
Neoclassical and Greek Revival styles. Collectively, these books capture the allure of
the broader Mediterranean world for scholars of antiquity ever expanding beyond
the well-traveled boundaries enjoyed by Grand Tourists exploring issues such as
topography, history, cultural mores, dress and, of course, art and architecture.
Classical World – Ancient Greece
9789609994514, £13.00, Available Now
PB, 126p, 40 col & b/w figs, The New Griffon 13, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth
Drain 1971–1 in the Forum Southwest
Ian MacPhee (Author); Elizabeth G. Pemberton (Author)
In 1971, in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth, a roundbottomed
drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of
pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, as well as some coins, terracotta
figurines, and metal and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery and
metal and stone objects, and includes a re-examination of the coins by Orestes
Zervos. Some of the cooking ware has been subjected to neutron activation
analysis, and a statistical analysis of all recovered pottery has been completed. The
contents of Drain 1971–1 are important for the function of the Classical buildings
in this part of Corinth, especially Buildings I and II, and for the chronology of the
renovation program that included the construction of the South Stoa, which was
probably not built before the last decade of the 4th century.
9780876610763, £100.00, Available Now, HB, 318p, 1 col. frontispiece, 74 b/w figs., 4 b/w ills., 52 b/w pls.,
18 charts, 4 tables, Corinth Series VII.6, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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TRAC 2012
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Conference, Frankfurt 2012
Stefan Krmnicek (Editor) et al.
Papers include: Marks of Imitation or Signs of Originality? An Approach to Structural
Supports in Roman Marble Statuary; Equites and Senators as Agents of Change: Urban
Culture and Elite Self-Representation in Thamugadi and Lepcis Magna (Second–third
Centuries A.D.); Sacra Volsiniensia. Civic Religion in Volsinii after the Roman Conquest
(Annalisa Calapà); The Internal Frontier: An African Model for Culture Change in
South Central Italy (Fourth-third Centuries B.C.); Street Activity, Dwellings and
Wall Inscriptions in Ancient Pompeii: A Holistic Study of Neighbourhood Relations;
Understanding Neighbourhood Relations Through Shared Structures: Reappraising
the Value of Insula-Based Studies; Secondary Doors in Entranceways at Pompeii:
Reconsidering Access and the ‘View from the Street’ and more.
9781782971979, £35.00, April 2013
PB, 220p, Oxbow Books
Classical World – Ancient Rome
26
Hadrian
Arts, Politics and Economy
Thorsten Opper (Editor)
This book presents the proceedings of the 2009 conference relating to the
2008 exhibition at the British Museum entitled “Hadrian: Empire and Conflict”
and complements and expands upon the exhibition catalogue. It covers such
subjects as architecture, sculpture, archaeology, economics, numismatics and
philhellenism and ranges over the Roman Empire from Britain and Spain in the
West to Turkey and Georgia in the East. The original contributions by international
scholars present the latest state of research and the first publication of some
new material. Thorsten Opper is a curator of Greek and Roman sculpture at the
British Museum. He organised the internationally acclaimed 2008 exhibition
“Hadrian: Empire and Conflict” and authored the accompanying catalogue (British
Museum Press 2008). He currently directs a fieldwork project at Hadrian’s Villa,
near Rome.
9780861591756, £40.00, May 2013, PB, 260p, 200 illus, 100 col plates, maps and tables
British Museum Research Publication 175, British Museum Press
Magnus Pius
Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic
Kathryn Welch (Author)
Tacitus suggested that resistance to the onset of the Roman Principate was
negligible, that the aristocracy of Rome ‘rushed head-long into slavery’. He and a
long tradition of scholarship, ancient and modern, have maintained this position
mostly by savagely compressing the history of the period between 42 and 27BC
and especially by characterising Sextus Pompeius, the younger son of Pompey the
Great, as an adventurer with no legitimate cause. Welch attempts to reverse this
tradition through a study of the opposition to Julius Caesar and his political heirs
from 49 to 27BC. Sextus Pompeius provides the key; his use of the navy offers the
evidence; his supporters, especially L. Scribonius Libo, provide the link backwards to
Cn. Pompeius Magnus and forward to the future Princeps. By paying full attention
to the sea throughout the period, Welch reintegrates the history of Sextus Pompeius
into the better-known narrative of the opposition to Caesar and Caesarism.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9781905125449, £50.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 350p, b/w illus, Classical Press of Wales

Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City
A Restudy of John Ward-Perkins’s Survey
Roberta Cascina (Editor); Helga Di Giuseppe (Editor); Helen Patterson (Editor)
During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell and George
Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii, some 15 km north of Rome, and noted the
rapid destruction of its archaeology. The city continued under to be under threat,
and in the 1950s was the subject of ground-breaking survey and excavation by
John Ward-Perkins. However, the results of his fieldwork were never published
fully. Knowledge and understanding of material culture (especially pottery, votive
objects and architectural terracottas) has increased dramatically over the past
fifty years, so allowing the authors to reveal the full potential of the data. This
publication reaffirms many of Ward-Perkins’s original insights, and contextualizes
his research within the new discoveries of the past fifty years; whilst an important
contribution to our knowledge, it is also a spur to further work.
9780904152630, £85.00, February 2013, HB, 432p, 142 illus, 2 colour plates
Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 19, British School at Rome
Vesuvian Sigillata at Pompeii
Jaye McKenzie-Clark (Author)
The destruction of Pompeii in AD79 provides a unique opportunity to explore the
use of everyday items. It allows us to identify the source and variety of products
available within the city, and enables us to track changes in the consumption of
goods over time. In this volume, Jaye McKenzie-Clark presents the far-reaching
results of her examination of the red slip tableware within three regions of the city.
It pinpoints the initial supply and use of Vesuvian Sigillata, and investigates factors
that may have led to the popularity of this style of pottery. The investigation
maps the on-going manufacture of these ceramics and identifies changes in
production and consumption up to the time of the eruption. Examination of the
distribution within contexts of different social use also reveals distinct patterns
of consumer demands and consumption within Pompeian society. Such research
helps us to explore and understand the use of goods within the city of Pompeii
and throughout the Roman world.
Classical World – Ancient Rome
9780904152623, £19.95, February 2013, PB, 162p, 32 illus, 4 colour plates
Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 20, British School at Rome
Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean
Simon Keay (Editor)
One of the greatest consequences of Rome’s expansion across the Mediterranean
world in the course of the Republic and the earliest years of the Empire was an
exponential growth in the population and extent of the city itself. The emperors of
the first three centuries ad faced major strategic challenges in ensuring a regular
annual supply of food to the city, as well as other goods. This volume brings together
various contributions, to assess how far Portus, as the maritime port of Imperial
Rome from the mid-first century ad, was the principal conduit for supplying Rome
and the extent to which the commercial links that fed Portus were part of a single
overarching network or a series of interlinked networks that extended across the
Mediterranean. The volume begins with a detailed reconsideration of Portus and
its relationship to Ostia and Rome, continuing with studies that deal with a range
of broader issues concerning the relationship of Mediterranean ports to Rome,
Portus and Ostia before returning to more general considerations of connectivity,
networks, coastal geo-archaeology and computational methods.
9780904152654, £90.00, February 2013, HB, 454p, 158 illus, 14 colour plates,
Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 21, British School at Rome
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Classical World – Roman Britain
28
Domus
Augustana
Archäologische und
bauhistorische Dokumentationsarbeiten
auf
dem Palatin in Rom
Natascha Sojc (Author)
This book is the result of an interdisciplinary research
into the foundations, brickwork, brickstamps,
architecture, waterworks and room decoration of
Domus Augustana, one of the central tracts of the
imperial palace on the Palatine in Rome. The project
has brought a new chronology and interpretation of
room use.
9789088900402, £35.00, Spring 2013
PB, 250p, 35 b/w, 100 col illus., Sidestone Press
Roman and
medieval
development
south of
Cheapside
Excavations at Bow
Bells House, City of
London, 2005–6
Isca Howell (Author) et al.
Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found
evidence for Roman timber buildings and pits dating
to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and a masonry
building constructed after c AD 125. The main
west–east road through Londinium lay immediately
north of the site. Evidence for later Roman occupation
was limited by modern truncation. No medieval
ground surfaces survive, but the site was reoccupied
from the 10th century with at least one substantial
building existing by the 13th century. Pit and well
groups include late 13th– or early 14th–century
vessels associated with the wine trade and early
14th–century kitchenware.
9781907586170, £15.00, June 2013
PB, 120pp, col illus. throughout, Archaeology Studies
series 26, Museum of London Archaeology
The Iron Age
and Roman
landscape of
Marston Vale,
Bedfordshire
Investigations
along the A421
Improvements, M1
Junction 13 to Bedford
Andrew Simmonds(Author)
Ken Welsh (Author)
A programme of improvements to the A421 south-west
of Bedford afforded Oxford Archaeology an opportunity
to investigate early settlement along a corridor of
the clay landscape of Marston Vale. The majority
of the remains uncovered dated from between the
middle Iron Age and the late Roman period, and were
consistently rural in character, consisting of a series of
small farming settlements. The report describes the
evolution of settlement within the Vale as evidenced
by the changes to settlement forms, landscape
organisation, economic strategies and material
culture, brought about by the effects of an increasing
population and the imposition of Roman rule.
9780904220728, £20.00, February 2013
PB, 330p, 204 illus., 57 tables, OA Monograph 19,
Oxford Archaeology
A Romano-British
Settlement in the
Waveney Valley
Excavations at Schole,
1993–4
Trevor Ashwin (Editor);
Andrew Tester (Editor)
The Roman settlement at Scole was located at the
point where the main road from Camulodunum to
Venta Icenorum crossed the River Waveney. As well as
describing settlement morphology and development
over an extensive area, this report includes a number of
specialist studies of exceptional importance — notably
those dealing with a large body of waterlogged Roman
structural timber, with the character and context of
metalworking within the settlement, and with the
environmental sequence recorded in a palaeochannel
of the river. Other highlights include an account of a
possible maltings complex, and a critical study of the
formation of a variety of ‘dark earth’ deposits.
£25.00, May 2013
PB, 275p, 204 illus, East Anglian Archaeology

Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
A. J. Bowen (Author)
Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign
costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives
from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who
want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Accepting the
girls’ claim to Argive ancestry as decendants of Io, the king perceives that if he
grants the petition there will be war. The sighting of an Egyptian fleet leads the
girl’s father Danaus to abandon his daughters and go in search of help, leaving
the girls to exchange threats and insults with the Egyptians before the king
arrives in the nick of time. This vibrant and lyrical new translation of one of the
lesser known of Aeschylus’ plays is accompanied a full commentary on the text
and substantial introduction. Ancient Greek text with facing-page translation,
introduction and commentary.
Classical Texts
PB, 9781908343345, £19.99, April 2013
HB, 9781908343789, £50.00, April 2013
148 x 210 mm, Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips
Euripides: Electra
2nd revised edition
M. J. Cropp (Author)
King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from
exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer
Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression and
restore Orestes to his home and kingdom. This is the only episode from Greek
legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of
the fifth century B.C. — Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the Oresteia
trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra. The three plays
provide a unique record of development and divergence in the content and
style of Athenian tragic drama. In Euripides’ hands the story becomes a tragedy
of all too human emotions and illusions. This edition of Euripides’ play was first
published in 1988. The second edition is extensively revised to reflect more
recent work on the text of the play and its interpretation. Ancient Greek text
with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.
9781908343697, £18.00, March 2013
PB, Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips
Augustine: De Civitate Dei X
P. G. Walsh (Author)
This edition of St Augustine’s City of God is the only one in English to provide
a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential
document in the history of western Christianity. 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. Following on from Book IX, this
book discusses the issue of demons and their role in Platonism as being partly
identical with the lesser gods. Having previously argued that in order to achieve
the blessed life, we must worship one true God alone, Augustine’s main concern
in this volume is to deliver his message that the sole path to blessedness after
death is acknowledgement of the Incarnation and Christ as Mediator. Latin text
with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.
PB, 9780856688485, £24.99, June 2013
HB, 9780856688492, £50.00, June 2013
Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips
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New Light on Old Glass
Recent Research on Byzantine Glass and Mosaics
Chris Entwistle (Editor); Liz James (Editor)
This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe,
America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of
Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. New Light on Old Glass
explores how mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine
art which survive; revealing changing aesthetics and issues surrounding the
technical production of glass in medieval artistic practices. This is the first time
that so many diverse papers, ranging from art history, archaeology, chemistry,
physics and Byzantine studies have been assembled in one volume, and is the
culmination of a five-year research programme on the Composition of Byzantine
Glass Mosaic Tesserae, conducted by the University of Sussex in conjunction with
the British Museum and sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
9780861591794, £45.00, 25 March 2013
PB, 250p, 500 col & b/w illus., British Museum Research Publication 179, British Museum Press
Late Antiquity & Byzantium
30
An Obscure Portrait
Imaging Women’s Reality in Byzantine Art
Rudolf Meyer (Author)
Recent discussions on Byzantine art have been dominated by the question of
representing realia . Among these, however, the way works of art reflect the
daily life of women have not received much space or attention. The present
book studies various images representing women’s status and her performative
tasks, and their significance from the fourth century to the fall of the Empire,
through analysis of archaeological evidence and works of art. It addresses a wide
range of questions, some pertaining both to pictorial traditions and to their late
antique antecedents, others peculiar to changing and evolving Byzantine culture
and mentality. The book aims to lift a veil from known and less known works
of art and to present the rarely described picture of the daily life of women in
Byzantine art over a very wide chronological span of time, in an effort to expand
our knowledge of women in Byzantium and their realia.
9781904597322, £150.00, Available Now
HB, 575p, 258 illus., Pindar Press
Colours, Symbols, Worship
The Mission of the Byzantine Artist
George Galavaris (Author)
Trained as an archaeologist and art historian and being a practising painter, Professor
Galavaris has been able to relate diverse disciplines in his work, as shown by the
wide range of his numerous publications. He moves from the early history of the
eucharistic bread in the Orthodox Church, the dramatic impact of the Liturgy on
illuminated Byzantine manuscripts, to the role of the icon in: the life of the Church,
the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and the European painting of the 20th century.
He is a leading authority on the study of the relationship between worship, Liturgy
and art. Whether it is the cult of the Byzantine Emperor or the Eucharistic Liturgy,
manifested in numismatics, illuminated manuscripts, icons, church lights (candles
and oil lamps) – all witnesses of the creative forces of the Byzantine artist - Galavaris’
interests are symbols, forms and their meaning. He investigates their contribution
to worship, to the visual shaping of the Liturgy and how they reveal the freedom
and the mission of the artist in realizing the Unseen in everyday life.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9781899828685, £150.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 576p, 379 illus., Pindar Press

The Principles of Arab Navigation
William Facey (Editor); Anthony R. Constable (Editor)
Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between
far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by
the Gulf and Red Sea. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime
history and culture of the Arabs this book makes a new and vital contribution
to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share
of attention, and which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history.
Drawing on source material such as the guides by the renowned southern
Arabian navigators Ahmad ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri in the 15th and 16th
centuries AD, as well as surviving logbooks of dhow captains in the early 20th, the
volume covers the principal ideas, techniques, instruments and calculations used,
deploying astronomy, geometry and mathematics to explain their methods.
Islamic World
9780957106017, £35.00, February 2013
HB, full col throughout; 11 maps, Arabian Publishing Ltd
Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date
mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting
of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran dominated the art
of book painting in the Islamic world. Two major leitmotifs are explored in this
selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying interpretations
of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian national epic, and especially
the tendency of painters to interpret this familiar text in terms of contemporary
politics. The other is the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency
of painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text progressively
further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots of their own. These
enquiries are set within the context of a concerted effort to explore in detail
how Persian painters achieved their most spectacular visual effects.
9781904597490, £150.00, Available Now
HB, 556p, 258 illus., Pindar Press
Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature
Zoltan Szombathy (Author)
This book is about an aspect of medieval Arabic culture and literature known in
Arabic as mujūn (roughly ‘libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy,
shamelessness, impertinence’, etc.), a concept that students of medieval Arabic
texts may find rather hard to define but which is a recurrent term and a widespread
phenomenon in medieval Arabic literature, and probably common in real life. The social
implications and the background of mujūn are focussed on in an attempt to learn what
the popularity of mujūn during a specific period of the medieval Middle East can tell us
about the society and the culture that produced such works. It is a study of the society
in which such literature flourished, of the values and norms of that society, and of the
mājin (the man who does or writes mājin) rather than of mujūn in itself. The author uses
many excepts from primary source texts to explore the nature, concepts and content
of mujÙn. It provides a critical inventory of the varied motifs of mujūn in literature so
as to define this elusive term by way of an accumulation of concrete examples.
9780906094617, £45.00, 30 July 2013
HB, 256p, 170 x 240 mm, Gibb Memorial Trust
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The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth,
Northamptonshire
Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972–2010
David Parsons (Author); Diana Sutherland (Author)
The church of All Saints, Brixworth, is an historic building of outstanding importance
nationally and internationally. Built in a number of stages during the late 8th and early 9th
centuries, it is one of a small number of churches in England surviving above ground from
that relatively remote period and is one of the most complete – and is still in use. Its layout
and general appearance are strikingly different from others in the region and its unique
features, complexity of structure and striking variety of its building materials have been
explained by the suggestion that it is Roman in origin rather than early medieval. Drawing
on the results of extensive documentary research, excavation, geophysical and detailed
structural surveys, and extensive fabric analysis of building materials, this beautifully
illustrated volume presents a comprehensive description and account of one of the most
important surviving early churches in the country and its architectural history.
9781842175316, £90.00, May 2013
HB, 420p, col illus, inc. foldouts, Oxbow Books
British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I
Early Anglo-Saxon Gold and Continental Silver Coinage of of the North Sea
Area, c. 600–760
Anna Gannon (Author); Gareth Williams (Author); Duncan R. Hook (Author); Marion Archibald (Author)
This volume is dedicated to the British Museum’s collection of early Anglo-Saxon
gold coinage as well as the Anglo-Saxon and Continental silver coinage of the
North Sea area, dating from the early seventh to the mid-eighth centuries. This
was the coinage which circulated during the age of Bede, the Lindisfarne Gospels
and Sutton Hoo, and which is widely celebrated for its historical significance and
artistic accomplishment. Both these features are well illustrated in this volume
by more than 850 coins, which together form one of the largest, oldest and
most representative collections of this complex coinage. The last catalogue of
this part of the British Museum’s collection was published in 1887 and since
then the collection has more than tripled in size. A major introduction sets the
coins in context and reassesses their classification.
9780714118239, £45.00, March 2013
HB, 304p, 37 b/w plates, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 63, British Museum Press
Anglo-Saxon & Viking
32
A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & Viking Sites
County Durham & Northumberland
G Points (Author)
This book aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artefacts and material of
Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest in County Durham and Northumberland (pre 1974
borders). Four sites in Roxburghshire are included because of their proximity to the
Northumberland border. PART 1 provides background material to put the Anglo-
Saxons and Vikings into their historical context, plus a glossary of terms, plans and
features of Anglo-Saxon churches, and features relating to crossheads, cross-shafts,
grave covers and grave markers. PART 2 identifies 123 “sites” with the aim of enabling
the reader to know exactly what they are looking for and where exactly to look: there
is a site index. In alphabetical order and divided into County Durham, Northumberland
and The Borders (Roxburghshire), each entry is: Star rated to indicate the quality
of what there is to see and how easy it is to find. Precisely located and described,
including measurements and descriptions of decoration where appropriate.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9780955767913, £30.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
PB, 490p, 52 b/w & 58 col photos, Guy Points

Hedingham Ware
A Medieval Pottery Industry in North Essex; its Production and Distribution
Helen Walker (Author)
Between the 12th and 14th centuries, the Hedingham pottery industry produced
decorated and glazed finewares, mainly jugs, and grey-firing coarsewares. This
study provides a synthesis of Hedingham Ware production and explores its
distribution within East Anglia. A gazetteer of the fourteen known production sites
is provided, and the pottery is used to create a typology of fabric types, vessel
forms and decoration for both fine and coarse wares. The industry appears to have
evolved from the early medieval tradition, although it has similarities with Late
Saxon Thetford-type ware. The coarsewares are most similar to those produced
near Colchester and show some similarities to coarsewares produced in Suffolk.
The Hedingham industry did not die out in the 14th century but became subsumed
into the sandy orange ware tradition and lost its identity as Hedingham Ware.
9781841940977, £20.00, Available Now
PB, 200p, 96 illus, East Anglian Archaeology 148, East Anglian Archaeology
The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone
Warwick Rodwell (Author)
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst
the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle
Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at
Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings
had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious
mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy
relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most
English monarchs since the fourteenth century have been crowned in it, the last
being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
Medieval / Post Medieval
The Chair and the Stone have had eventful histories: in addition to physical
alterations, they suffered abuse in the eighteenth century, suffragettes attached
a bomb to them in 1914, they were hidden underground during the Second
World War, and both were damaged by the gang that sacrilegiously broke into
Westminster Abbey and stole the Stone in 1950. It was recovered and restored
to the Chair, but since 1996 the Stone has been exhibited on loan in Edinburgh
Castle.
Now somewhat battered through age, the Chair was once highly ornate, being
embellished with gilding, painting and coloured glass. Yet, despite its profound
historical significance, until now it has never been the subject of detailed
archaeological recording. Moreover, the remaining fragile decoration was in need
of urgent conservation, which was carried out in 2010−12, accompanied by the
first holistic study of the Chair and Stone. In 2013 the Chair was redisplayed to
celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation of HM The Queen.
The latest investigations have revealed and documented the complex history of
the Chair: it has been modified on several occasions, and the Stone has been
reshaped and much altered since it left Scone. 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. Their combined significance to the British Monarchy and
State – and to the history and archaeology of the English and Scottish nations – is
greater than the sum of their parts.
9781782971528, £28.00, June 2013
HB, 320p, Oxbow Books
33

The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the
many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their
historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon
dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both
their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new
and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction
between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how
its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive
documentary evidence for the use of space within the house.
Oxbow Books
www.oxbowbooks.com
Medieval to
early postmedieval
tenements and
Middle Eastern
imports
Excavations at
Plantation Place, City of
London, 1997–2003
Ken Pitt (Author) et al.
Excavations at Plantation Place provided evidence for
medieval and early post-medieval occupation of an
entire block in the eastern part of the City of London
near the Thames waterfront. Contemporary ground
surfaces and buildings did not survive, but associated
pits and wells have been related by documentary and
cartographic research to identified tenements in this
thriving area of shops, warehouses and merchants’
residences. Important assemblages from pits and
wells include vessels used in refining gold, crucibles
and moulds from bronze casting, and the largest
assemblage of late medieval Islamic-style glass yet
found in Britain, alongside Middle Eastern ceramics.
9781907586163, £22.00, April 2013
HB, 140pp, col illus. throughout, Monograph 66,
Museum of London Archaeology
Under the Oracle
Excavations at the
Oracle Shopping
Centre site 1996–8:
the medieval and
post-medieval urban
development of the
Kennet floodplain in
Reading
Ben M. Ford (Editor) et al.
Excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology in
advance of the building of the Oracle shopping centre
revealed a long sequence of development of the
Kennet floodplain at Reading. This volume reports
on the substantial evidence recovered for medieval
and post-medieval water management, milling at the
Minster Mill and St Giles Mill, the tanning, leather
working and dyeing industries, and an unusual
building interpreted as the Substantial specialist
reports include pottery, glass, leatherworking,
dendrochronology and clay pipes.
9781905905270, £25.00, February 2013
HB, 340p, 98 figs, 105 plates, 8 tables, CD, Thames
Valley Landscapes Monograph 36, Oxford Archaeology
The Medieval Peasant House
in Midland England
The Medieval Peasant House
in Midland England
The Medieval Peasant House
in Midland England
Nat Alcock & Dan Miles
Nat Alcock & Dan Miles
Medieval / Post Medieval
Interpreting the English Village
Mick Aston; Chris Gerrard
9781905119455, £25, PB
Windgather Press
Wharram XIII
Stuart Wrathmell
9780946722228, £33.50, HB
York Archaeological Publications
The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England
Nat Alcock, Dan Miles
9781842175064, £45, HB
Oxbow Books
Beyond the Dead Horizon
Shakespeare’s London Theatreland
A Glorious Empire
edited by Nicholas J. Saunders
Julian Bowsher
edited by Eric Klingelhofer
9781842174715, £38, PB
9781907586125, £18, PB
9781842175101, £40, HB
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Museum of London Archaeology
Oxbow Books

Oceans Odyssey 3
The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida: A Merchant Vessel from
Spain’s 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet
Greg Stemm (Editor); Sean A. Kingsley (Editor)
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa commenced the world’s first
archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in
the Straits of Florida. From a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artifacts were recovered
using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle. The Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario
was a small Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622
Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when a hurricane
struck. Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artifact collection – today
owned and curated by Odyssey Marine Exploration – ranging from gold bars to pearls,
ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell and seeds, including detailed
studies of the animal bones and silver coins. The Tortugas shipwreck reflects the daily
life of trade with the Americas at the end of the Golden Age of Spain.
9781782971481, £25.00, April 2013
HB, col illus throughout, 201p, Oxbow Books
London Gateway
Maritime Archaeology in the Thames Estuary
Anthony Firth (Editor); Niall Callan (Editor); Graham Scott (Editor); Toby Gane (Editor)
The DP World London Gateway Port, on the north bank of the Thames, is a
major development of a new container terminal. Its construction has been
accompanied by a major dredging scheme that has increased the depth of
sections of the approach channel over a length of c. 100km, from the outer
reaches of the Thames to the new terminal. From its beginning, this scheme
included careful consideration of the archaeological consequences of dredging in
such a historically-important estuary. Over the course of a decade, investigations
by Wessex Archaeology have provided a new perspective on the historic
environment of the Thames, and explored innovative archaeological approaches
and methodologies for addressing marine developments of this type and scale.
This volume sets out the challenges, results and history of these investigations,
and the context and constraints encountered.
Underwater & Maritime Archaeology
9781874350613, £15.00, Available Now
HB, 88p, 210 x 297 mm, 55 illus, line and photo, Wessex Archaeology
Weapons of Warre:
The Ordnance of the Mary Rose
Alexzandra Hildred
9780954402938, £49.95, HB, 2 vol set
The Mary Rose Trust
Oceans Odyssey
Edited by Greg Stemm & Sean A. Kingsley
9781842174159, £25, HB
Oxbow Books
Oceans Odyssey 2
Edited by Greg Stemm & Sean A. Kingsley
9781842174425, £25, HB
Oxbow Books
35

American
Journal of
Numismatics 23
(2011)
Oliver Hoover (Editor);
Andrew Meadows (Editor)
American
Journal of
Numismatics 24
(2012)
Oliver Hoover (Editor);
Andrew Meadows (Editor)
American
Numeristics
Society
American
Numeristics
Society
Contents includes: A Note on the Laurium Stratigraphy
and the Early Coins of Athens: The Work of D. Morin
and A. Photiades and its Impact on the Study of
Athenian Coinage; From the Types of Alexander to
Lysimachus: The Chronology of Some Mesembrian
and Other West Pontic Staters; New Light on Coin
Production under Seleucus II in Northern Syria,
Commagene, and Mesopotamia; Irregular Coins
of Judaea, First Century bce–First Century ce: New
Insights from Comparisons of Stylistic, Physical, and
Chemical Analyses; More Than It Would Seem: The
Use of Coinage by the Romans in Late Hellenistic Asia
Minor (133–63 bc) and more.
9780897223201, £50.00, Available Now
HB, 284p, 45 plates, American Journal of Numismatics
23, American Numismatic Society
Amotopoan
Trails
A recent archaeology
of Trio movements
Jimmy Mans (Author)
Contents includes: Fluctuations in the Composition
of the Silver Coinage of Byblos (Fifth–Fourth Century
bc); Obols, Drachms, and Staters of Bronze during
the Hellenistic Period ; An Egyptian Interpretation of
Alexander’s Elephant Headdress ; Dating the Portrait
Coinage of Ptolemy I; A Note on Two Ptolemaic
Bronze Coins from Israel; The Second Syrian War and
Gold Staters of Alexander Type struck at Istros ; The
Serapis and Isis Coinage of Ptolemy IV; Le monnayage
civique non datée de Sidon: Opportunisme civique et
pragmastisme royal (169/8–111/0 av. J.-C.); Cinq trésors
romains de Syrie and more.
9780897223249, £50.00, February 2013
HB, 204p, 38 plates, American Journal of Numismatics
24, American Numismatic Society
Collecting
Kamoro
Objects, Encounters
and Representation on
the Southwest Coast of
Papua
Karen Jacobs (Author)
The Americas
36
In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the
archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region.
As a result of technological and methodological
progress in archaeology, mobility has become
increasingly visible on the level of the individual.
However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with
current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which
favour a move away from viewing small mobile
groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of
ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book
they are considered to be essential for arriving at a
different past.
9789088900983, £33.00, Available Now
PB, 330p, 43 b/w & 71 col illus, Sidestone Press
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of crosscultural
encounters. This book focuses on collecting
encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the
earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring
the links between representation and collecting, the
author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency
of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. By
considering objects as visualizations of social relations,
and as enactments of personal, social or historical
narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature
on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions
that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting,
representation, patronage and objectification.
9789088900884, £30.00, Available Now
PB, 280p, 10 b/w, 36 col images, 182 x 257mm
Sidestone Press

Intergenerational transmission of criminal and violent
behaviour
Sytske Besemer (Author)
This dissertation investigates mechanisms that might explain why children
with criminal parents have a higher risk of committing crime. Sytske Besemer
investigated this in England as well as in the Netherlands. She answers questions
such as: does it matter when the parents committed crime in the child’s life?
Do more persistent offenders transmit crime more than sporadic offenders?
Do violent offenders specifically transmit violent behaviour or general crime to
their children? Might the police and courts be biased against certain families?
Could a deprived environment explain why parents as well as children show
criminal behaviour? Does parental imprisonment pose an extra risk? This
dissertation is the first study to specifically investigate these mechanisms of
intergenerational continuity.
9789088901010, £30.00, February 2013
PB, 198p, 182 x 257 mm, 5 fc, 7 b/w illus, Sidestone Press
Personality Dynamics
Meaning Construction, the Social World, and the Embodied Mind
Tomasz Maruszewski (Editor); Malgorzata Fajkowska (Editor); Michael W. Eysenck
(Editor); Daniel Cervone (Editor)
This series grows out of the Biennial Symposia on Personality and Social
Psychology (BSPSP; http://www.bspsp.edu.pl), which are intended to become
a regular forum for psychologists and representatives of allied disciplines.
The goal of BSPSP is to understand and analyze the integrative approach to
studying human psychology. The growing achievements of psychology allow
us to conceptualize, measure, and influence complex behavior. Research
has become more specialized, resulting in difficulties in communication and
collaboration. BSPSP is an important forum for cross-disciplinary discussions
concerning important aspects of the human brain and mind.
Sociology & Psychology
9780979773198, £42.00, February 2013
HB, 210p, Warsaw Lectures in Personality and Social Psychology 3, Eliot Werner Publications
Personality Coherence and Incoherence
A Perspective on Anxiety and Depression
Malgorzata Fajkowska (Author)
From the Foreword . . .“In this detailed and thought-provoking book, Małgorzata
Fajkowska provides a novel perspective on personality and its expressions in
anxiety and depression. Her theory is well founded, resplendent in factual
description and theoretical nuance, and is bound to stimulate new thinking
and research.” —Philip J. Corr, University of East Anglia
9780979773143, £55.00, May 2013
HB, 300p, Eliot Werner Publications
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Ar i s & Ph i l l i p s Hi s pa n i c Classics
Cervantes
The Complete Exemplary Novels
Translated with Introduction and Notes by
B. W. Ife and J. Thacker
Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels
B. W. Ife (editor); Jonathan Thacker (editor)
Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas
Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an
individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation
and notes. Barry Ife’s re-written authoritative general introduction explores
specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes’s interest
in the mixing of genre and in the virtuoso aspects of storytelling. Ife calls the
Exemplary Novels “one of the most original, entertaining, and provocative
collections of short novels in any language.”
9780856687747, £30.00, June 2013
HB, 9780856687693, £50.00, June 2013, 960p, 149 x 210mm, Hispanic Classics, Aris & Phillips
Language & Literature - Hispanic Classics
Valle-Inclán: The Dead Man’s Finery and The Captain’s
Daughter
Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man’s Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The
Captain’s Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farces written by Ramón del
Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, Las
galas del difunto/ The Dead Man’s Finery is a short dramatic incursion into the life
of Juanito Ventolera/Johnny Bluster, a decommissioned veteran of the Spanish-
American War who steals a dead man’s clothes in order to woo a prostitute. La
hija del capitán/ The Captain’s Daughter is the most historically and politically
oriented of Valle-Inclán’s works for the theatre. A man is killed and the accident of
his death sets off a chain of events in which exploitation and self-interest are the
orchestrating forces, concluding in a military coup that topples the government.
The plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes, both fine examples
of Valle-Inclán’s expressionistic and experimental theatre.
9780856683701, £18.00, February 2013
HB, 9780856683695, £50.00, February 2013, 240p, 149 x 210 mm, Hispanic Classics, Aris & Phillips
Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine
Juan Valera: Pepita Jiménez
Dear Diego
Harley Erdman
R. M. Fedorchek, introduction by J. Whiston
E. Poniatowska & N. Gardner
9781908343017, £15, 2012
9780856688867 , £18.00, PB, 2012
9780856688812, £15, 2012
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PB, 112p, Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics
297p, Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics
PB, 96p,Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics

Rigmaroles and Ragamuffins
Unpicking Words we Derive from Textiles
Elinor Kapp (Author)
The English language has developed over many centuries from many diverse
languages and cultures, some now lost. If we want to bring to life something of its
impressive history, we might use the metaphor of a great river into which streams and
rivulets constantly flow. Alternatively we could liken it to a mighty tree that has grown
organically from buried roots, spreading out into a living canopy of innumerable
and constantly renewed twigs and leaves. Elinor Kapp prefers to think of English as
a wonderful piece of embroidery, stitched with a multitude of varied threads onto
a base of primitive communication. The upper surface dazzles us with its range of
colours, tones and textures. But to understand its construction, we need to take a
look at the underside of the work. Here we can see the untidiness – the awkward
seams, peculiar knots and frayed ends. In places, time has worn away our words to
leave threadbare gaps; in others, swathes have been cutaway by changing tastes and
trends, allowing flamboyant new threads to be spliced in. When we unpick the English
language, it is quite startling to find how many of our common words, sayings, figures
of speech, folklore, myths, nursery rhymes and stories come from thread and all the
fascinating processes it had to go through to create textiles. The author is fascinated
by the way English weaves the threads of our past into today’s figures of speech,
bringing richly layered meaning to our lives.
Language & Literature
9780957475908, £9.99, 31 January 2013
PB, 160p, 155 x 235 mm, illus, Elinor Kapp
Form and
Feeling in
Modern
Literature
Essays in Honour of
Barbara Hardy
William Baker (Editor);
Isobel Armstrong (Editor)
After Reception
Theory
Fedor Dostoevskii in
Britain, 1869–1935
Lucia Aiello (Author)
Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative
writers, critics and scholars from three continents
celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara
Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical
reading in the latter half of the twentieth century
and today. Her work, as the essays in the volume
bear witness, encompasses 19th and 20th century
British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. In addition
to an introduction outlining and assessing Hardy’s
career and writing, ere is an extensive bibliography
of her work.
This study deals with the reception of Fedor
Dostoevskii in Britain from a double perspective. The
detailed analysis of primary sources such as reviews,
essays and monographs on Dostoevskii is associated
here with a critical investigation of the dynamics of
the reception process. On the one hand, the available
sources are examined with the intention of exposing
their underlying ideological tensions and impact on
British literary circles. On the other hand, Fedor
Dostoevskii’s novels are shown to function as a prism,
through which significant aspects of nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century British intellectual life are
refracted.
9781907975370, £45.00, January 2013
HB, 226p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
9781907975448, £45.00, January 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
39

Childhood as
Memory, Myth
and Metaphor
Proust, Beckett, and
Bourgeois
Catherine Crimp (Author)
Dissonance in
the Republic of
Letters
The Querelle des
Gluckistes et des
Piccinnistes
Mark Darlow (Author)
A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois
(1911–2010) and the writers Samuel Beckett (1906–89) and
Marcel Proust (1871–1922). But while many commentators
have traced their childhood images back to memories of lived
experiences, there is more to their mythologies of childhood
that waits to be explored. The haunting child figures of
Bourgeois, Beckett and Proust echo each other as they show
how imagining origins — for a life, for a work of art — involves
paradoxes that test the limits of our forms of expression. Art
meets literature, profusion meets concision, French meets
English, and images of childhood reveal new insights in this
encounter between three great figures of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century culture.
9781907975394, £45.00, January 2013
HB, 200p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often
characterised by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese
composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was
no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press
controversy which featured a rival Neapolitan composer,
Niccolò Piccinni. However, the controversy was about far
more than French operatic reform. A consideration of
cultural politics in 1770s Paris shows that a range of issues
were at stake: court versus urban taste as the proper judge
of music, whether amateurs or specialists should have the
right to speak of opera, whether the epic or the tragic mode
is more suited for drama reform, and even: why should the
public argue about opera at all?
9781907975547, £45.00, January 2013
HB, 240p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Method and
Variation
Narrative in Early
Modern French
Thought
Emma Gilby (Editor); Paul
White (Editor)
Goethe’s
Poetry and the
Philosophy of
Nature
Gott und Welt
1798–1827
Regina Sachers (Author)
Language & Literature
French philosophical and scientific writers of the early
modern period made various use of forms of narrative
language that aims to tell a story in their texts. Equally,
authors of fiction often sought to appropriate the
language and tools of philosophical and scientific
investigation. The contributions in this collection, from
some of the most distinguished and exciting scholars
working in French Studies today, aim to bring into
question oppositional relationships between terms
such as ‘philosophy’ and ‘fiction’ when these are
applied to early modern texts. They consider authors
as diverse as Montaigne, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld,
Mme de Villedieu and Mme de Lafayette.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy
and theology come under increasing pressure owing to
the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection
Gott und Welt is Goethe’s poetic contribution to this
conflict, in which an alternative to orthodox Christianity
was being sought. Following the collection’s various stages
of composition and publication, this study offers new
readings of some of Goethe’s best known poems: Die
Metamorphose der Pflanzen, Dauer im Wechsel, Urworte.
Orphisch and Wiederfinden. Sachers shows that Gott und
Welt is the long poem on nature which Goethe attempted
to write for the last third of his life. As such it represents
Goethe’s unique answers to the intellectual challenges
posed by the dawning age of science.
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9781907975363, £45.00, January 2013
HB, 130p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
9781907747977, £45.00, January 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda

Photobiography
Photographic Self-
Writing in Proust,
Guibert, Ernaux, Macé
Akane Kawakami (Author)
Why do photographs interest writers, especially
autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention,
photographs have featured — as metaphors, as absent
inspirations, and latterly as actual objects — in written
texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised
particularly acute questions about the rivalry between
these two media, their relationship to the ‘real’, and
the nature of the constructed self. In this timely study,
based on the most recent developments in the fields of
photography theory, self-writing and photo-biography,
Akane Kawakami offers an intriguing narrative which
runs from texts containing metaphorical photographs
through ekphrastic works to phototexts.
9781907975868, £45.00, May 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Chicago of the
Balkans
Budapest in Hungarian
Literature 1900–1939
Gwen Jones (Author)
At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was
intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness,
high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel
in the national crown. From the turn of the century
to World War II, however, the Hungarian capital
was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful
city, not in Hungary, and the Chicago of the Balkans.
This is the first English-language study of competing
metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that
spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal,
Christian-national eras, at the same time as the Jewish
Question became increasingly inseparable from
representations of the city.
9781907975578, £45.00, May 2013
HB, 168p, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
Language & Literature
Taboo
Corporeal Secrets in
Nineteenth-Century
France
Hannah Thompson
(Author)
The Present
Word. Culture,
Society and the
Site of Literature
Essays in Honour of
Nicholas Boyle
John Walker (Editor)
French realist texts are driven by representations of the body
and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue.
But anxieties around bodily representation undermine realist
claims of objectivity and transparency. Aspects of bodily
reality which threaten les bonnes moeurs – gender confusion,
sexual appetite, disability, torture, murder, child abuse and
disease – rarely occupy the foreground and are instead
spurned or only partially alluded to by writers and critics.
Thompson reads texts by Sand, Rachilde, Maupassant, Hugo,
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Mirbeau and Zola alongside modern
theorists of the body to show how the figure of the taboo
plots an alternative model of author-reader relations based
on the struggle to speak the unspeakable.
This book addresses three key areas of intellectual
enquiry: literary criticism, cultural critique, and
philosophical theology. Once closely related, especially
in the Catholic tradition, they often appear to be
separate and unconnected domains in the modern
university. The work of Nicholas Boyle is one of
the most significant recent attempts to reconnect
them. Responding to that initiative, The Present
Word challenges this fragmentation of knowledge.
Essays investigate the reconnection of an idea of
literary criticism closely related to the experience of
reading, and the wider societal and political concerns
addressed by Cultural Studies.
9781907975554, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
9781907975615, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Main Series, Legenda
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Edoardo
Sanguineti
Literature, Ideology
and the Avant-Garde
John Picchione (Editor);
Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor)
Furetière’s
Roman
bourgeois and
the Problem of
Exchange
Titular Economies
Craig Moyes (Author)
Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator,
politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930–
2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian
intellectuals of the second post-war period. With their
variety of topics and critical perspectives, the essays
assembled in this volume explore both the relevance
of his theoretical postures and the ideological
and formal fabric of his literary production. They
highlight his subversive objectives, the complexity
of the language, the astonishing linguistic ingenuity,
metaliterary significance, whimsical disposition, and
provocative social critique.
9781907975783, £45.00, April 2013
HB, 244p, Italian Perspectives 26, Legenda
Dada as Text,
Thought and
Theory
Stephen Forcer (Author)
‘One cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to
a period and a moment in our literary history.’ So writes
Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century
French literature. But can we really say that the Roman
bourgeois bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes
shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the
Roman bourgeois, Furetière - the titular abbot, the sitting
academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental
novelist - was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary
economy marked by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the decline
of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of
artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and
the new administration of Colbert.
9781907747991, £40.00, January 2013
HB, 168p, Research Monographs in French Studies 34,
Legenda
Likenesses
Translation, Illustration,
Interpretation
Matthew Reynolds
(Author)
Language & Literature
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The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form
of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century
Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which
cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda.
Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada
work in its original form this major reappraisal looks at a
broad range of media and topics — including poetry, film,
philosophy, and quantum physics — in order to get beyond
Dada’s typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero and present Dada
in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle;
intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable
and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of
all, conformist and reactionary.
9781907975837, £40.00, May 2013
HB, Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
39, Legenda
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least
two things in common. They all begin when sense is
made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative
images and explanatory words begin to form. And they
all ask to be understood in relation to the works from
which they have arisen: reading them is a matter of
reading readings. Likenesses explores this palimpsestic
realm, with examples from Dante to the contemporary
sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The complexities that
emerge are different from Empsonian ambiguity or
de Man’s unknowable infinity of signification: here,
meaning dawns and fades as the hologrammic text is
filled out and flattened by successive encounters.
9781907975820, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 30
Legenda

Uncovering the Hidden
The Works and Life of Der Nister
Gennady Estraikh (Editor); Mikhail Krutikov (Editor); Kerstin Hoge (Editor)
Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic
author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as ‘The Hidden
One’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist
poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic. Although part of the Kiev
Group of Yiddish writers, which also included David Bergelson and Peretz Markish,
Der Nister remained at the margins of the Yiddish literary world throughout his life,
mainstream success eluding him both in- and outside the Soviet Union. Yet, to judge
from the quantity of recent research and translation work, der Nister is today one of
the best remembered Yiddish modernists. The present collection of twelve original
articles by international scholars re-examines Der Nister’s cultural and literary legacy,
bringing to light new aspects of his life and creative output.
9781907975844, £45.00, June 2013
HB, Legenda Studies in Yiddish 12, Legenda
Language & Literature
John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1833
Edited by K. Hanley & Caroline S. Hull
9781906540852, £45, September 2012
HB, 250p, Legenda Main Series, Maney
Publishing
Childhood as Memory, Myth & Metaphor
Catherine Crimp
9781907975394, £45, September 2012
HB, Legenda Main Series
Maney Publishing
Shandean Humour in English & German
Literature & Philosophy , K. Vieweg,
J. Vigus & K. M. Wheeler
9781907975318, £45, September 2012
HB, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the
French Revolution, K. Astbury
9781907975424, £45, September 2012
HB, Legenda Main Series, Maney Publishing
Symbol and Intuition
Edited by H. Hhn & J. Vigus
9781907625046, £45, September 2012
HB, 200p, Legenda Main Series,
Maney Publishing
Dream Cities Urban Utopia and Prose by
Poets in Nineteenth Century France, Greg Kerr
9781907975530, £45, November 2012
HB, Legenda Main Series
Maney Publishing
43

The Practice of
Architecture
eight architects
1830–1930
Christopher Webster
(Editor)
Chichester
A Walk in the City
Sue Finniss (Author);
John Elliott (Author)
The Institute of British Architects was established
in 1834 with the published aim of establishing
uniformity in the profession, yet, for the each of the
eight architects included in this book, architectural
practice involved a different set of principles and
activities. Together they provide a revealing picture
of the profession in this seminal period of its
development.
“Chichester is a major cathedral city which has also
managed to retain a very rich architectural heritage
with an important cathedral building, architecturally
important buildings in the Close and equally important
structures in the city. This book attempts to capture
the spirit of this heritage by mixing the visual with
the descriptive: mixing pictures and words to describe
one of the major UK cathedral cities.
Sue Finniss is a watercolour artist of some distinction.
Her style is precise and descriptive. John Elliott is an
architectural historian and publisher. This book is a
fusion of these talents.
9781904965350, £34.95, Available Now
HB, 240p, 141 b/w illus, Spire Books
9781904965398, £22.95, Available Now
HB, 96p, 44 col illus, Spire Books
The Glossary
of Ecclesiastical
Ornament and
Costume
A.W.N Pugin (Author)
John Tweed
Sculpting the Empire
Nicola Capon (Author)
Architecture
44
The Glossary is Pugin’s largest and most magnificent
book. He intended that his two Dublin Review articles
of 1842 would be accompanied by a third dealing with
ornament and decoration. However, this developed
into a grand survey church ornaments, vessels
and vestments which are dealt with alphabetically,
including long-forgotten ones he hoped to revive. This
masterly survey reveals the extraordinary breadth and
depth of Pugin’s researches. Its chief glory lies in 73
superb chromolithographs showing ‘correctly’ vested
clergy and a wide range of patterns for embroidery,
monograms and emblems. ‘Never – in modern days at
least – were illuminations more exquisite, concluded
The Ecclesiologist (1844).
9781904965428, £69.95, Available Now
HB, 350p, 73 illus., Spire Books
John Tweed (1869–1933) was a hugely successful
artist who, during his lifetime, became known as ‘The
Empire Sculptor’. After training at the Glasgow School
of Art, he moved to London and then spent six months
in Paris. There he met August Rodin and went on to
become his principal agent and friend in England.
Tweed worked at the very heart of the London art
world and created lasting images of many leading
Victorian and Edwardian figures such as Cecil Rhodes
and Lord Kitchener. His legacy of public sculptures is to
be found ranged across the British Empire. This is the
first book to consider John Tweed’s place in art history
and is the result of a four-year project to catalogue
the sculptor’s archive at Reading Museum.
9781904965435, £14.95, March 2013
PB, 112p, 56 b/w illus, Spire Books

Anglican Church-
Building in
London
1946–2012
Michael Yelton (Author);
John Salmon (Author)
In the post-war period as many as 250 new churches
were built within Greater London, a very large
corpus of work which has been largely overlooked
by commentators. Many of the buildings were
replacements for ones destroyed in the war or of
large Victorian churches in the suburbs. The range
of buildings is wide and includes work by well-known
architects N.F. Achemaille-Day and Maguire & Murray
as well as many lesser figures who deserve to be
better known. The book consists of a wide-ranging
introduction followed by a gazetteer in which most
churches are illustrated by both an exterior and an
interior view.
9781904965442, £29.95, March 2013
HB, 260p, 430 illus., Spire Books
The Bishop’s
Palace at
Salisbury
Peter L. Smith (Author)
One of the least known yet most important buildings
in Salisbury is the former Bishops’ Palace. First built
when the city was established in the 1220s, it was
home to successive bishops for over 700 years until
becoming the Cathedral School in 1946. This book
traces the evolution of the palace, chronicles the
most important bishops who lived there and sets the
story within the relevant contexts of English history.
It also describes the other (numerous) palaces of the
bishops of Salisbury and catalogues the portraits that
have hung in the Salisbury Palace.
9781904965411, £29.95, April 2013
HB, 224p, 21 col., 96 b/w, Spire Books
Architecture
Stones of Faith
Ttombstones, Funerary
Rites and Customs at
the Gozo Matrice
Charles R. Cassar (Author)
H20 Architects to
2012
Elizabeth Jarrelly (Author);
Brian Sadgrove (Editor)
The Cathedral of Gozo perched atop the Castello is
renowned for its art treasures, drawing many visitors
throughout the year. A little known feature is the
wonderful array of marble tombstones that cover
the whole floor of the church. The tombstones,
which were produced at different periods, exhibit
various styles and are a testimony of skilful artistic
craftsmanship in marble intarsia. replete with
memento mori symbols and intended to appeal to
the senses, these ledger stones provide an enduring
tribute to the people who sought to be laid to rest
in the sacred confines of the church.
The buildings of H20 architects Tim Hairburgh and Mark
O’Dwyer have been praised for their design commitment
to sustainability, playfulness and their intelligent responses
to a variety of sites and purposes. These architects practice
what they call ‘expensive modernism’ in their design which
are predominantly for schools, government buildings and
universities. No two alike, the buildings can be brilliantly
coloured like Avondale Heights Library and Learning Centre
or rough and timbered like RMIT’s Textile Faculty in South
Brunswick. Swinburne and Deakin Universities have also
benefited from H20’s unique designs, as has Victoria’s State
Emergency Service Headquarters. This is architecture with a
difference – beautifully illustrated in the book.
9789993274117, £36.50, Available Now
HB, 224p, 170 x 240 mm, colour section, Midsea Books
9781921394980, £25.00, Available Now
PB, 96p, Macmillan Art Publishing
45

Mattia Preti
The Triumphant Manner
Keith Sciberras (Author)
2013 will mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the artist Mattia Preti
(1613–1699), who spent forty years of his working life in Malta. Midsea Books,
in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of Malta,
are working together to publish an outstanding book that discusses critically
the artist’s oeuvre in Malta. Research for this superb book is co-ordinated by
Professor Keith Sciberras, who is also the author of the two critical essays which
compose the first part of the book. Over 150 catalogue entries are co-authored
by Professor Sciberras and Ms Jessica Borg M.A. The book includes over 270
paintings. The images of the paintings in Malta are being taken purposely for this
book by master photographer Mr Joe P. Borg.Born in Taverna, Calabria, in 1613,
Mattia Preti emerged as a leading exponent of the forceful Baroque of mid-17th
century Italy, working in a tradition which brilliantly captured the characteristics
of monumental dynamism and theatrical appeal. An extraordinary draughtsman
and painterly virtuoso, he was quick with his brush and produced hundreds of
pictures which spanned a career of some seventy years. The artist’s technique
and method of painting was fast and he could rapidly execute large scale works.
His inventive genius kept up with the pace of his technique and the artist thus
produced a large corpus of paintings. This lavish publication, which will mark
the 400th anniversary from the master’s birth, will be another outstanding
contribution for all enthusiasts of Maltese art and history.
9789993274070, £141.50, Available Now
HB, 496p, 240 x 300 mm, full col throughout, Midsea Books
Art – Renaissance
Whitewash and the New Aesthetic of the Protestant
Reformation
Victoria George (Author)
This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors
during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It is the first detailed study of its kind which challenges the view that whitewash
was always only a ‘cheap coat of paint’. Victoria George pulls together several
histories: of the colour white from the biblical period to the present, and ideas
about the colour white in philosophy, theology, art, and architecture from
antiquity to the present. She links them to case studies of the ways in which
reformers Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin thought about colour in a careful
analysis of the role of colour-thinking in their theological writings. The social
meanings embodied in the word, ‘whitewash’ as it entered the printed media in
the 17th century is explored as part of a chapter on the history of whitewashing
itself. The long-term symbolic and aesthetic implications of the practice of
whitewashing are examined in the larger context of material culture; in terms
of their value as a metaphor, for both the Reformed Protestant and the Catholic
in opposition to them; and for the uses to which whitewash has been put over
time. George proposes that the practice was not only visually transformative
but held importance for religious aesthetics as an agent of change, and for an
aesthetics of minimalism generally, especially evident in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Victoria George received an MFA from the Royal College
of Art (London), an MA from The Architectural Association, and a Ph.D. from
Cambridge. She has taught religion and the arts at the University of Richmond
in Virginia.
9781904597643, £150.00, January 2013
PB, 506p, 117 illus., Pindar Press
46

Visible Spirit II
The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Volume II
Irving Lavin (Author)
Irving Lavin is best known for his array of fundamental publications on the Baroque
artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). These include new discoveries and
studies on the master’s prodigious childhood, his architecture and portraiture, his
invention of caricature, his depictions of religious faith and political leadership,
his work in the theatre, his attitude toward death and the role of the artist in
the creation of a modern sense of social responsibility. All of Professor Lavin’s
papers on Bernini are here brought together in three volumes. The studies have
been reset and in many cases updated, and there is a comprehensive index.
Volume II Contents: Bernini and Antiquity - The Baroque Paradox. ; A Poetical
View ; Bernini’s Portraits of No-Body; Bernini’s Bust of Francesco I d’Este. “Impresa
quasi impossibile” ; Bernini’s Bust of the Medusa: An Awful Pun ; Bernini’s Bust
of the Savior and the Problem of the Homeless in Seventeenth-Century Rome;
Bernini’s Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch ; Bernini’s Bumbling Barberini
Bees ; Bernini-Bozzetti: One More, One Less. ; A Berninesque Sculptor in Mid-
Eighteenth Century France ; Bernini’s Death ; Visions of Redemption ; The Rome
of Alexander VII. ; Bernini and the Reverse of the Medal ; The Young Bernini ;
“Bozzetto Style”: The Renaissance Sculptor’s Handiwork ; The Regal Gift. Bernini
and his Portraits of Royal Subjects ; Urbanitas urbana . The Pope, the Artist, and
the Genius of the Place
Art – Renaissance
9781904597452, £150.00, Available Now
HB, 680p, 318 illus., Pindar Press
Visible Spirit III
The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Volume III: Bernini at St. Peter’s. The
Pilgrimage
Irving Lavin (Author)
Bernini at St. Peter’s may be a unique case in history: a single artist in change
of a grandiose monument in a continuous state of creativity under constantly
changing patrons and a variety of projects, for nearly six decades. This book
argues that a continuous thread of thought may be discerned underlying and
connecting the vicissitudes of this spectacular display. From first to last, Bernini
conceived of St. Peter’s as a pilgrimage church, a kind of pilgrimage of human
life, his own and of the believers who visited the basilica to worship and give
testimony. The book is in large format and richly illustrated with 272 colour
illustrations. It represents a fitting tribute to the artist and his monument, St.
Peter’s Basilica.
Volume III Contents: Preamble; St. Peter’s as summa ecclesiarum; The apse and
crossing; The high altar; Baldachins and ciboria; The baldacchino (1624–35); Paired
tombs; The tomb of Urban VIII (1627–47); The crossing piers (1627–41); The nave:
continuity; “Feed my sheep” (pasce oves meas) (1633–46); The tomb of Matilda
of Tuscany (1633–44); The nave decoration (1645–9); Ingress – egress; The piazza
and colonnades (1656–67); Commemoration; The cathedra petri (1657–66); The
equestrian monument of Constantine and the Scala Regia (1662–70); The tomb
of Alexander VII (1671–8); Passage to the Holy City; The Ponte Sant’Angelo and
Castel Sant’Angelo (1667–71); Consummation; The Sacrament Altar (1673–5); The
church, the city, and the artist; Roma alessandrina: urban unity, public welfare,
and universal Christian charity; The blood of Christ (1669–70)
9781904597469, £195.00, January 2013
HB, 386p, 21 x 30 in, 272 colour illus., Pindar Press
47

Artists’ Art in the Renaissance
Marilyn A Lavin (Author)
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University,
the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Università di Roma, La Sapienza.
Specializing in Italian 13th16th century painting, she is internationally known
for her books and articles on Piero della Francesca. Her other books include
The Place of Narrative: Mural Painting in Italian Churches, 1600 AD., and
Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, both of which
were recipients of international prizes for distinguished scholarship. She is one of
the leaders in the use of computers and digitized imagery for research, teaching,
and publication in the history of art.
This book offers a series of case studies intended to introduce and define an
important class of fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It
is argued that the paintings and sculptures discussed were created privately
by artists for personal satisfaction and internal needs, outside the traditional
framework of patronage and commercial gain. Since there is no direct
documentation from this period of a work being privately made, the selection
presented here is necessarily speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works by
Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear
in the artists testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and inventories showing
ownership at the time of death. The task at hand is to uncover the motivation
and meaning of works of art in which the medieval craftsman began to rise to
the status of independent artist, and the maker and the viewer confront each
other face to face for the first time.
9781904597438, £75.00, Available Now
HB, 230p, 86 col & b/w illus., Pindar Press
Hieronymus Bosch
Late Work
Charles D. Cuttler (Author)
Professor Charles D. Cuttler changed from artist to art historian at New York
University s Institute of Fine Arts, studying under distinguished teachers such as
Walter Friedlaender and Erwin Panofsky. A specialist in Flemish painting, he spent
the major part of his career teaching at the University of Iowa. He has published
reviews, articles, and a well known text, Northern Painting, and lectured on
Bosch on three continents. Retired in 1983, this enabled him to devote to further
research, much of it on Bosch. A result is Hieronymus Bosch: Late Work .
Art – Modern Period
This new book presents his discoveries in three late triptychs, a major trio of
Boschs maturity: the Haywain, The Temptation of St. Anthony (Lisbon), and
The Garden of Earthly Delights . He presents Boschs unique view of Christ and
salvation in union with hagiography, the Devotio moderna (modern devotion),
and medieval hermeneutics, a revelation of Boschs immense erudition and
overwhelming artistry. Bosch reinforced his concepts with supporting casts of
animals, natural and demonic, birds, and other iconographic elements. Analysis
of Berlin s picture of St. John the Evangelists apocalyptic vision of the Virgin Mary,
the Madrid Seven Deadly Sins tondo, and Vienna s drawing of the Tree-Man
expands our understanding. Other influences affecting Boschs art, whether he
traveled, or used contemporary prints, whether he drew upon Dantes Inferno
(he did), or religious tracts, and the attitudes of his ambience are also examined.
The Epilogue presents the authors understanding of Bosch in his time and place,
his religiosity and his genius.
9781904597445, £150.00, Available Now
HB, 436p, 216 col & b/w illus., Pindar Press
48

In Praise of Landscape
The Art of John Borrack
Lucy Grace Ellem (Author)
This magnificent book, authored by Lucy Ellem, outlines the life and career of a major
proponent of the art of watercolour. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape
artist who has travelled the country recording its extraordinary land forms. The more than
270 pages are fully colour illustrated with hundreds of reproductions. John Borrack, born
in 1933 and a renowned Australian landscape painter whose career spans more than 50
years, continues to paint full-time in his studio north of Melbourne where the once rural
landscape of the Plenty Valley is being overtaken by suburban development. His landscapes,
mainly executed in water colour and lavishly reproduced in this book record the beauty of
this region and then extend to many remote areas of the continent – particularly in the north
– where extraordinary land formations range from the ‘picturesque’ to the ‘sublime’.
9781921394843, £65.00, Available Now
HB, 280p, full col throughout, Macmillan Art Publishing
Art – Modern Period
Vassilieff and His Art
Felicity St John Moore (Author)
Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the
Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing
link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia. The author suggests that
the emotionalism and originality of his art, and his unconventional lifestyle, had
a leavening effect on the art of Nolan, Tucker, Hester, Percival, Blackman, and
Arthur Boyd, giving the artists courage to paint their original visions in a society
largely unready for them. Vassilieff’s immediate and imaginative response to
the Australian landscape deepened this impact. This critical survey of Vassilieff’s
painting and sculpture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogues of
his creative output in both areas. It also provides the moving story of a legendary
character who died poverty-stricken, in 1958, at the age of 60. His struggle to
prove himself as an individual and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel.
9781921394874, £45.00, Available Now
PB, 240p, Macmillan Art Publishing
Di Bresciani
Compositions in Colour
Di Bresciani (Author)
The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at
the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned
Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Texts in this multiauthored, richly colour
illustrated publication focus on relationships between music and art and colour
and sound. The paintings reflect strong technical and personal development
towards an invidual style largely based on the exploration of colour and its
perception – whether it be in music or art.
Di Bresciani is well known in Australia and overseas as an artist, musician
and educator. Since the first solo exhibition of her paintings in 1995, she has
participated in many exhibitions in Australia as well as London, Paris and new
York. Her work is represented in more than 150 collections across Australia and
in the UK, France, USA, Germany and Japan.
9781921394959, £65.00, Available Now
HB, 175p, Macmillan Art Publishing
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Hot Springs
The Northern Territory and Contemporary Australian Artists
Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author)
Dr. Daena Murray, former and now Emeritus Curator of the Museum and Art
Gallery of The Northern Territory, has collected together an extraordinary range of
contemporary artworks with qualities that clearly identify them with the Northern
Territory. Created by both indigenous and non-indigenous artists resident and
active in the Northern Territory, these artworks share characteristics that include
references and responses to the land and its unique colours and geographic
formations; to the diverse culture and cultural changes that have occurred; to
specialist local developments in various art forms such as printmaking, woven
constructions in natural materials, site specific installation art and sculpture; and
to Darwinian origins. Daena Murray’s richly detailed and well informed text, with
introduction by Nicolas Rothwell, appears alongside the chosen artworks.
9781921394416, £70.00, Available Now
HB, 320p, Macmillan Art Publishing
An Interpretation of This Title/Waiting For - (Texts for Nothing)
Nitzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content (Vol 1)/Samuel Beckett, in Play (Vol 2)
Joseph Kosuth (Author)
This two-volume set documents installations by acclaimed American artist Joseph
Kosuth which have been commissioned by Juliana Engberg of the Australian
Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Kosuth’s work,
executed principally in text formed of neon lighting, first appeared in the 1960s
and has consistently explored the role of language and its meanings in art. The
two volumes contain texts by Joseph Kosuth, Jualan Engberg of ACCA, and Pat
Fisher from the Talbot Rice Gallery as well as significant essays by John Welchman,
noted Art historian and Professor of Modern History at the University of California,
San Diego, and Ronald Jones, an artist and critic who leads the Experience Design
Group at Konstfack University College in Stockholm. The photography of the
installations is simply stunning.
9781921394553, £52.00, Available Now
HB, 184p, Macmillan Art Publishing
Art – Modern Period
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Power + Colour
New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art
Jane Raffan (Author)
The enthralling power and colour of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (Law) and
country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice
in Australia. Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of
Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native Title Jurisprudence. 2012 marked the
twentieth anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Mabo, which
overturned the British doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) – the false premise
on which the colony was founded – and forever changed the legal landscape for
Indigenous rights. The thesis of Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan
Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art charts the history of Aboriginal art’s
impact on Australian law, and explores the inextricable nexus of Aboriginal law
and sense of self – an entirety that is inseparable from country.
9789491431074, £42, August 2012
9781921394744, £80.00, Available Now
HB, 475p, Groningen Archaeological Studies 19, Barkhuis
HB, 368p, Macmillan Art Publishing

Operation
Pedestal
The Story of the Santa
Marija Convoy
John Mizzi (Author)
In 1942 an epic naval operation was mounted so as to relieve
Malta from the onslaught of attacks by the forces of the Axis.
This operation was codenamed “Pedestal”- or “il-Convoy
ta’ Santa Marija” as it is better known in Malta and Gozo.
The men taking part in Pedestal must have gone through
hell. For example, the gallant tanker SS Ohio withstood
persistent Stuka dive bomber attacks, had a Ju87 crash on
her deck and when a Ju88 was brought down it bounced off
the water and crashed into the vessel’s side! Yet Ohio, after
much effort by the Royal Navy, her captain and crew, and
survivors from other ships, still made it to Grand Harbour in
Malta! Il–Convoy ta’ Santa Marija is undoubtedly an iconic
landmark event in the history of Malta.
Why Germany
Nearly Won
A New History of the
Second World War
Steven D. Mercatante
(Author)
Why Germany Nearly Won challenges the conventional
wisdom in highlighting how the re-establishment of
the traditional German art of war paved the way for
Germany to forge a considerable military edge over its
much larger potential rivals by playing to its qualitative
strengths as a continental power. The book examines how
the German economy and military prepared for war, the
German military establishment’s formidable strengths,
and its weaknesses. It them demonstrates how Germany,
through its invasion of the Soviet Union, came within a
whisker of cementing a European-based empire that
would have allowed the Third Reich to challenge the
Anglo-American alliance for global hegemony.
Military History
9789993274063, £14.50, Available Now
PB, 96p, Midsea Books
9781612001630, £20.00, April 2013
HB, 400p, Casemate
Holy Wars
3000 Years of
Battles in the Holy
Land
Gary L. Rashba (Author)
Imperial Designs
War, Humiliation &
the Making of History
Deepak Tripathi (Author)
Holy Wars describes 3,000 years of war in the Holy
Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal
battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites’
capture of Jericho and ending with Israel’s last fullfledged
assault against Lebanon. Its 17 chapters
stop along the way to examine key battles fought
by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs,
Crusaders, and Mamluks, the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut,
comprimising the first time the Mongols suffered a
decisive defeat.
From the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign
armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia
to plunder their vast trasures. In Imperial Designs,
Tripathi offers a powerful and uniquue analysis of
how this volatile region has endured the manipulation
and humiliation of such wars. Reffering to declassified
official documents, Imperial Designs offers an
authoritative analysis of Middle Eastern history.
9781612001531, £11.99, December 2012
3120, 32 pages of illus, Casemate
9781612346243, £16.99, April 2013
HB, 208p, Casemate
Casemate books available from Orca Book Services or www.casematepublishing.co.uk
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Chimes of Time
Wounded Health Professionals. Essays on Recovery
Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author)
This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture
drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational
sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and
health specialists - many of whom are a rare assemble of outstanding academics and
clinicians - with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes.
It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many
contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and
suffering with critical life events including either physical or psychological illnesses,
and a description of their own resources and strengths. There are also chapters
provided by academics with creative and novel ideas drawing on insight derived from
literature, arts and psychology as well as medicine, creating models for encouraging
personal development coping despite adversity and eventually finding meaning
towards recovery both physically and psychologically. This process of recovery
frequently required the support of trusted families and friends, teachers, and fellow
physicians and psychologists, enabling them to pursue interesting and outstanding
careers “despite” these apparent disadvantages. The authors are all very reflective,
providing good advice for young practitioners and “afflicted” alike. The distinguished
contributors show the power of the role of psycho-history and biography in
understanding who researchers have been influenced by, and what and why. This
book will be useful for practitioners and researchers, but also for laymen and social
policy makers. The intended readership thus includes those interested in health
psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health and mental health sciences.
9789088900945, £42.00, 2013
PB, 280p, Sidestone Press
Medical Science
Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men
Excavations in the 19th-century Burial Ground of the
London Hospital, 2006
Louise Fowler (Author); Natasha Powers (Author)
In 2006, archaeological excavations in the grounds of the Royal London Hospital
uncovered the remains of a burial ground used primarily for deceased but
unclaimed patients. The buried population included at least 259 people who died
between c 1825 and 1841. These were mostly adult and male, and many, prior to
the Anatomy Act of 1832, had been dissected or subjected to autopsy; this took
place alongside the vivisection of animals, including exotic species.
A wealth of primary documentation is combined with the archaeological evidence
to reveal the day-to-day life of the hospital and the complex relationship between
medical innovation and criminal activity in the early 19th century.
The wealth of primary documentation, combined with the recovered artefacts
and faunal remains, reveals details of the daily life of the wards and accident and
emergency centre, the treatment of patients, the politics associated with running
a large institution and the individuals who made this possible. The experiences of
William Valentine, house governor, illustrate the frustrations of balancing medical
teaching with ethical and practical concerns.
9781907586132, £26.00, 2013
HB, 250p, col illus throughout, volume 62, MoLas Monograph
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Aris & Phillips 27, 36
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Barkhuis 8
British Museum Press 18, 22, 24, 28, 30
British School at Athens 15
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Casemate Publishing 49
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East Anglian Archaeology 9, 26, 31
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Legenda 37, 38,, 39, 40, 41
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Spire Books 42, 43, 44
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York Archaeological Publications 32

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