Casemate Academic 2015 Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Medieval Studies Catalog by Casemate Publishers Ltd

Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Medieval Studies

ANGLO-SAXON, VIKING & MEDIEVAL STUDIES

WELCOME Here are the most recent titles in AngloSaxon, Viking and Medieval Studies from publishers distributed by Casemate Academic. Contained within these pages is a wide assortment of books covering everything from Anglo-Saxon coinage from the North Sea area to the Mediterranean context of art and architecture in the Maltese islands. Don’t miss Viking Language 1 & 2 (p14) from Jules William Press. These two books are handy tools for learning Old Norse and Icelandic and perfect for classroom teaching with graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and pronunciation. Book 2 builds on what has been learnt in book 1 and includes readings from a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, and runic inscriptions.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (ARRANGED BY PUBLISHER)

Oxbow Books Windgather Press ADEVA Amber Books Amberley Anglo-Saxon Books Archaeolingua Barkhuis Archaeopress Archaeology British Institute for the Study of Iraq British Museum Press Canterbury Archeological Trust Celtic Studies Publications Christianity and Culture Cotswold Archaeology Council for British Archaeology East Anglian Archaeology Edizioni Polistampa English Heritage Fonthill Media Frontline Books Guy Points Heimdal Historic Towns Trust James Clarke & Co Lutterworth Press Jules William Press Legenda Maney Publishing McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Midsea Books Museum of London Archaeology Oxford Archaeology Oxford University School of Archaeology Pen & Sword Pen & Sword Digital Pindar Press Sidestone Press Society for Medieval Archaeology Society of Antiquaries of London SPA Uitgevers Spire Books The Highfield Press University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Viking Ship Museum Wessex Archaeology

Front cover image from the title, “Anglo-Saxon Art” by Leslie Webster, courtesy of The British Museum Press.

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A MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY OF SHIPS

CELTIC FROM THE WEST

INNOVATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL

ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM ARCHAEOLOGY,

AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE

GENETICS, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

By J. R. Adams

Edited by Barry Cunliﬀe & John T. Koch

In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs. 9781842172971, $50, PB, b/w & col illus, 272p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $40 9781782970453, $25, ePub 9781782970477, $25, pdf

This book is an exploration of the idea that the Celtic languages originated in the Atlantic Zone during the Bronze Age, approached from various perspectives pro and con, archaeology, genetics, and philology. This Celtic Atlantic Bronze Age theory represents a major departure from the long-established, but increasingly problematical scenario in which the story of the Ancient Celtic languages and that of peoples called Keltoí. The present collection is intended to determine whether this earlier and more westerly starting point might now be developed as a more robust foundation for Celtic studies. Celtic Studies Publications 15 9781842174753, $60, PB, 83 b/w illus, 39 col & b/w maps, 384p, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48

A MEDIEVAL WOMAN'S COMPANION

CELTIC FROM THE WEST 2

WOMEN'S LIVES IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES

RETHINKING THE BRONZE AGE AND THE ARRIVAL OF INDO-EUROPEAN IN ATLANTIC EUROPE

By Susan Signe Morrison Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, This book offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theatre, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficing and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. 9781785700798, $24.95, PB, 176p, NYP - due February 2016, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 BOSWORTH 1485 A BATTLEFIELD REDISCOVERED

By Glenn Foard & Anne Curry Bosworth 1485: A battlefield rediscovered is the result of an intensive program of research utilizing a wide range of academic disciplines in a single large-scale systematic investigation. Utilizing data gained from a range of sources including historical documents, landscape archaeology, historical geography and metal detecting, the volume explores in detail each aspect of the investigation— from the size of the both armies, their weaponry and the use of early gunpowder weapons to the physical and tactical landscape of the battlefield— in order to identify where the fighting took place. It provides a fascinating and intricately researched new perspective on the event which, perhaps more than any other, marked the transition between medieval and early modern England. 9781782971733, $65, HB, col illus, 264p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $52 9781782971801, $32.50, pdf BRITAIN'S MEDIEVAL EPISCOPAL THRONES

By Charles Tracy & Andrew Budge This beautifully illustrated volume is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology. It presents a detailed study of surviving medieval episcopal thrones: two stone thrones at Wells and Durham, three timber monuments, at Exeter, St Davids and Hereford, and the mid-14th-century bishop's chair at Lincoln. The Exeter throne is the largest and most impressive in Europe. It exemplifies most of the historical and formal strands that suffuse the book—visual appearance, distinctiveness within the building, prestige, construction, stylistic context, finance, and the patronage and personal role of the bishop himself. 9781782977827, $85, HB, col illus, 4 fold-outs, 192p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $68 9781782977834, $51, ePub 9781782977858, $51, pdf

Edited by John T. Koch & Barry Cunliﬀe 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 Studies Publications 16 9781842175293, $70, HB, 237p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $56 DANES IN WESSEX THE SCANDINAVIAN IMPACT ON SOUTHERN ENGLAND, C. 800–C. 1100

Edited by Ryan Lavelle & Simon Roﬀey There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not traditionally associated with them. Here, a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. 9781782979319, $90, PB, b/w & col illus, 288p, NYP - due August 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $72 ENGLISH INLAND TRADE 1430-1540 SOUTHAMPTON AND ITS REGION

Edited by Michael Hicks The Southampton brokage books are the best source for English inland trade before modern times. Internal trade always matched overseas trade. Between 1430 and 1540 the brokage series records all departures through Southampton’s Bargate, the owner, carter, commodity, quantity, destination and date, and many deliveries too. Twelve such years make up the database that illuminates Southampton’s trade with its extensive region at the time when the city was at its most important as the principal point of access to England for the exotic spices and dyestuffs imported by the Genoese. Seventeen papers investigate Southampton’s interaction with Salisbury, London, Winchester, and many other places. 9781782978244, $90, HB, b/w & col illus, 184p, NYP - due May 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $68

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN VIKING-AGE TOWNS

POTTERY AND SOCIAL LIFE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

SOCIAL APPROACHES TO

By Ben Jervis

TOWNS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND, C. 800-1100

Edited by Letty ten Harkel & D. M. Hadley The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. The emphasis of the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological, paying homage to the wealth of new material that has become available since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s. 9781842175323, $65, HB, b/w & col illus, 272p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $52 9781782970095, $32.50, ePub 9781782970118, $32.50, pdf

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EVERYDAY PRODUCTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

SEALS AND THEIR CONTEXT IN THE MIDDLE AGES

CRAFTS, CONSUMPTION AND

Edited by Phillipp R. Schofield

THE INDIVIDUAL IN NORTHERN EUROPE C. AD 800-1600

Edited by Gitte Hansen, Steven Ashby & Irene Baug Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. 9781782978053, $60, HB, b/w & col illus, 352p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 9781782978060, $36, ePub 9781782978084, $36, pdf MEDIEVAL CHILDHOOD ARCHAEOLOGICAL

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages offers an extensive overview of approaches to and the potential of sigillography, as well as introducing a wider readership to the range, interest and artistry of medieval seals. The fourteen papers presented here, which originate from a conference held in Aberystwyth in April 2012, focus primarily on British material but there is also useful reference to continental Europe. The volume is divided into three sections looking at the history and use of seals as symbols and representations of power and prestige in a variety of institutional, dynastic and individual contexts, their role in law and legal practice, and aspects of their manufacture, sources and artistic attributes. 9781782978176, $150, HB, b/w & col illus, 208p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $120 9781782978183, $75, ePub 9781782978206, $75, pdf

THE FUNCTIONS OF MEDIEVAL UPPER SPACES

By Toby Huitson Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeological materials. 9781842176658, $60, PB, b/w & col illus, 264p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 9781842178614, $30, ePub 9781842178638, $30, pdf TEXTILES AND THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY PRODUCTION, TRADE, AND CONSUMPTION OF TEXTILES,

8TH–16TH CENTURIES

Edited by Angela Ling Huang & Carsten Jahnke 16 papers investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence provides an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organization of trade. Ancient Textiles Series 16 9781782976479, $60, HB, b/w & col illus, 232p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 9781782976486, $36, ePub 9781782976509, $36, pdf THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BRIXWORTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

APPROACHES

SILK FOR THE VIKINGS

SURVEY, EXCAVATION AND

Edited by D. M. Hadley & K.A. Hemer

By Marianne Vedeler

ANALYSIS, 1972-2010

The nine papers presented set out to broaden the recent focus of archaeological evidence for medieval children and childhood and to offer new ways of exploring their lives and experiences. The everyday use of space and changes in the layout of buildings are examined and aspects of work and play are explored. Funerary aspects are considered and the volume concludes with an exploration of what archaeologists can draw from other disciplines and the approaches that they take to the study of childhood and thus the enhancement of our knowledge of medieval society in general. Childhood in the Past Monograph 3 9781782976981, $55, PB, b/w & col illus, 160p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $44 9781782976998, $35, ePub 9781782977018, $35, pdf

Utilizing an interpretive framework which focuses upon the relationships between people, places and things, the effect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery is considered, to see pottery not as reflecting medieval life, but as one factor which contributed to the development of multiple experiences and realities in medieval England. The case studies presented here explore how we might use relational approaches to re-consider our approaches to medieval landscapes, overcome the methodological and theoretical divisions between documents and material culture and explore how the use of objects could have multiple implications for the formation and maintenance of identities.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Ancient Textiles Series 15 9781782972150, $50, PB, b/w & col illus, 120p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $40 9781782972167, $25, ePub 9781782972181, $25, pdf

By David Parsons & Diana Sutherland The church of All Saints, Brixworth, is a 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. Drawing on the results of documentary research, excavation, geophysical and detailed structural surveys, and extensive fabric analysis of building materials, this volume presents a comprehensive description of one of the most important surviving early churches in the country and its architectural history. 9781842175316, $180, HB, col illus, inc. foldouts, 336p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $144 9781842179369, $90, ePub 9781842179383, $90, pdf

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LOWER CITY AND ADJACENT SUBURBS

By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Jones, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince & Jane Young This book contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the 1st century AD. Urban occupation did not recommence until the 9th century with the first phases of Anglo-Scandanavian occupation. From the late 13th century the fringe sites became depopulated. There was a revival in the later post-medieval period, but much of the earlier fabric, and surviving stretches of Roman city wall, were swept away in the 19th century. Lincoln Archaeology Studies 4 9781782978527, $110, HB, b/w illus, 608p, NYP - due April 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $88 THE CORONATION CHAIR AND STONE OF SCONE

THE MEDIEVAL KIRK, CEMETERY AND HOSPICE AT KIRK NESS, NORTH BERWICK

TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN THE OXFORD REGION

By John Steane & James Ayres

Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness. This book presents the results of these works but its scope is much broader. Against the background of important new discoveries made at the site it brings together and re-examines all the evidence for early North Berwick and includes much previously unpublished material. It opens a fascinating window on the history of the ancient burgh.

The pivotal position of the Oxford region in the geological and therefore building history of England is of fundamental importance to the study of traditional construction. Oxford occupies a central position on the ancient route between Northampton and Southampton and on the east - west road between London, The West Country, Wales and Ireland. For this reason, unusually for vernacular architecture, the buildings of the region were subject to a wide range of influences. This book, the fruit of twenty years research provides an account of vernacular architecture in the Oxford region from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century.

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THE SCOTTISH SEABIRD CENTRE EXCAVATIONS 1999-2006

By Thomas Addyman, Kenneth Macfadyen, Tanja Romankiewicz, Alasdair Ross & Nicholas Uglow

VIKING WORLDS

HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY

THE MEDIEVAL PEASANT HOUSE IN MIDLAND ENGLAND

AND CONSERVATION

By Nat Alcock & Dan Miles

Edited by Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen & Heidi Lund Berg

By Warwick Rodwell 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. Now somewhat battered through age, the Chair was once highly ornate. Until now it has never been the subject of detailed archaeological recording. 9781782971528, $45, HB, 320p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $16.98 9781782971535, $19.99, ePub 9781782971559, $19.99, pdf THE EARLY ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN AD 450-650

The aim of this 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 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 documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. 9781782977148, $75, PB, 280 b/w & col illus, 272p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $60 9781782971191, $55, pdf

BENEATH THE TRIBAL HIDAGE

TOWNS AND TOPOGRAPHY

By Sue Harrington & Martin Welch

ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF

The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities of the communities documented. The authors have adopted a new approach to these issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and 28,000 objects of the period AD 450–650. The nature, distribution and spatial relationships of settlement and burial evidence are examined over time against a background of the productive capabilities of the environment in which they are set. 9781782976127, $105, HB, b/w & col illus, 240p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $84 9781782976134, $60, ePub 9781782976158, $60, pdf

DAVID H. HILL

THINGS, SPACES AND MOVEMENT

Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multidisciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialized methodologies and/or empirical studies, place-name research, the history of religion and technological advancements, such as isotope analysis. Together these generate new insights into the technology, social organization and mentality of the worlds of the Vikings. Viking Worlds provides the reader with a sense of current and forthcoming issues, debates and topics in Viking studies. 9781782977278, $60, HB, b/w & col illus, 176p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 INTERPRETING THE ENGLISH VILLAGE

Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker & Susan D. Thompson Fifteen papers examine a variety of aspects of medieval towns and their topography. The first part of the volume comprises essays on the excavations in the Frankish emporium of Quentovic, directed by David Hill; London; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian mints; the burhs of Somerset; and urban perspectives in literature. The second part concentrates on topographical subjects including an examination of the significance of the distribution through trade of Mayen Lava quernstones in early medieval north-west Europe and the evidence of a charter for the topography of late Anglo-Saxon Worcester which reveals that standing crosses were, by then, considered old fashioned. 9781782977025, $120, HB, b/w & col illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $96

LANDSCAPE AND COMMUNITY AT SHAPWICK, SOMERSET

By Mick Aston & Dr. Christopher Gerrard An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. The Shapwick Project examined the development and history of an English parish and village over a ten thousand-year period. Not only were a battery of archaeological and historical techniques explored but numerous other techniques such as building analysis, dendrochronological dating and soil analysis were undertaken on a large scale. 9781905119455, $46, PB, 233 illus, 416p, 2013, Windgather Press Special Oﬀer Price $36.80 9781909686069, $24.99, ePub 9781909686083, $24.99, pdf

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THE BERTHOLD SACRAMENTARY VOLUME I

The Berthold Sacramentary is held in safekeeping today in the Morgan Pierpont Library and Museum in New York and is one of the most important and beautiful manuscripts from the European Middle Ages during the transition from the Romanesque period to the Gothic period. It contains 21 full-page and 5 half-page miniatures, block pictures, decorated pages with initials and historicized and ornamented initials, which use a dramatic and striking composition to express different scenes and in which one also finds the free interpretation of well-known themes. All of these features, along with the color modelling used, make it one of the most unique examples of Middle Age book illumination. Glanzlichter of Book Art 22/1 9783201019804, $137, HB, 288p, 2014, German/English text, ADEVA Special Oﬀer Price $109.60 FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 500–1500 EQUIPMENT, COMBAT SKILLS AND TACTICS

By Matthew Bennett et al. Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in what has been characterized as the ‘age of chivalry’. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how the development of such weapons technology changed the face of the battlefield. Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles, equipment and tactics of the era, this book shows in detail the methods by which armies gained and lost ascendancy on the battlefield. 9781909160477, $17.98, PB, 20 color maps, 25 photographs and 100 artworks, 256p, 2013, Amber Books Special Oﬀer Price $14.38 THE WARS OF THE ROSES THE STRUGGLE THAT INSPIRED GEORGE R R MARTIN'S A GAME OF THRONES

By Martin J. Dougherty The history of the Wars of the Roses is so filled with drama that it feels like fiction. In fact, it has inspired fiction including the Game of Thrones series. Telling the story of the fifteenth century wars between Lancastrians and Yorkists, this book follows the course of the conflict from the succession of infant King Henry VI right through to the defeat of rebellions under Henry VII. Illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white photographs, artworks and maps, The Wars of the Roses reveals the scheming and betrayal, the skullduggery and murder behind the struggle to gain power—and then hold on to it. 9781782742395, $34.95, HB, 200 col illus, 224p, NYP - due June 2015, Amber Books Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 ALFRED THE GREAT

By David Horspool King Alfred's historical achievements, saving his kingdom from invasion by marauding Vikings and attempting both to expand and educate his realm, made him the founding mythic figure of England. In stripping away the myths, recent historians have left an Alfred whose place in the popular imagination has all but vanished. David Horspool offers a memorable portrait of a great ruler—he attempts to recover a popular Alfred, understanding how he came to be 'Great' and how much myth had to do with that. 9781445639369, $16, PB, 16pp col, 256p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $12.80

ANNE NEVILLE

By Amy Licence Shakespeare’s enduring image of Richard III’s queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. But who was the real Anne? As the Kingmaker’s daughter, she played a key role in his schemes for the throne. In 1483 Anne found herself catapulted into the public eye and sitting on the throne beside Richard. The circumstances of their reign put unprecedented pressure on their marriage; amid rumors of affairs and divorce. This fascinating and elusive woman is shrouded in controversy and unanswered questions. Amy Licence reassesses the long-standing myths about Anne’s role, her health and her marriages, to present a new view of the Kingmaker’s daughter. 9781445633121, $18, PB, 30 illus, 288p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $14.40 CECILY NEVILLE MOTHER OF KINGS

By Amy Licence Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville's marriage to Richard, Duke of York, was successful and she traveled with him wherever his career dictated, bearing his children in England, Ireland and France, including the future Edward IV and Richard III. What was the substance behind her claim to be ‘queen by right’? Would she indeed have made a good queen during these turbulent times? One of a huge family herself, Cecily would see two of her sons become kings of England but the struggles that tore apart the Houses of Lancaster and York also turned brother against brother. 9781445621234, $34.95, HB, 16pp col, 256p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 DEUS VULT: A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES

By Jem Duducu The story of the crusades is also the story of Europe. It is the story of great bravery, sheer folly and, surprisingly, diplomacy between East and West. The conflict takes place in the giant and ancient cities of the near East, the mist-filled forests of the Baltic, the baking deserts of North Africa and the Christian epicenter of Europe—France. The story charts the origins of Holy War to the fading away of one of the most prevalent movements in European history. Deus Vult takes you on an exotic journey where often politics and dynastic squabbles take precedence over the will of God. 9781445640556, $16, 192p, NYP - due June 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $12.80 DRAGON'S BLOOD & WILLOW BARK THE MYSTERIES OF MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

By Toni Mount A time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians—the phrase ‘Medieval Medicine’ conjures up horrors for us with our modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. Surgeons performed life-saving procedures, sometimes using anaesthetics, with post-operative antibiotic and antiseptic treatments to reduce the chances of infection. This is the weird, wonderful and, occasionally, beneficial world of medieval medicine. In her new book, popular historian Toni Mount guides the reader through this labyrinth of strange ideas and such unlikely remedies as leeches, meadowsweet, roasted cat and red bed-curtains. 9781445643830, $34.95, PB, 304p, NYP - due June 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $27.96

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EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

EVERYDAY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL LONDON

By Peter Rex

By Toni Mount

Between these pages, the critically acclaimed historian Peter Rex masterfully tells the story of Saint Edward the Confessor. Born when England was besieged by bloodthirsty Vikings, the future King of England was forced into exile in Normandy to escape the Danish invasion. Often portrayed as a holy simpleton, Edward was in fact a wily and devious King. To most kings a childless marriage would have been an Achilles heel to their reign, but Edward turned this to his advantage. He cunningly played off his potential rivals and successors to his advantage using the prize of the throne as leverage. Edward’s posthumous reputation grew as the monks of his magnificent foundation, Westminster Abbey, spread stories. The childless King was transformed through the monks’ vision into a chaste, pious and holy man. In 1161, he was canonized as Saint Edward the Confessor and is the patron saint of the Royal Family. 9781445604763, $19.95, PB, 30 illus, 288p, 2013, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 ELEANOR OF CASTILE

By Sara Cockerill Eleanor of Castile has been effectively airbrushed from history, portrayed as the archetypal submissive queen. In fact Eleanor had perhaps one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. She was a highly dynamic, forceful personality who acted as part of Edward I’s innermost circle of advisers, and successfully accumulated a vast property empire for the English Crown. In cultural terms her influence in architecture, design and even gardening can be discerned to this day, while her idealized image speaks to us from Edward’s beautiful memorials to her, the Eleanor crosses. This book presents Eleanor's story. 9781445635897, $42, HB, 16pp col, 416p, 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $33.60

London has always been a thriving and colorful place, full of diverse and determined individuals, developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business. Abandoned by the Romans, rebuilt by the Saxons, occupied by the Vikings and reconstructed by the Normans, it would become the largest trade and financial center, dominating the world in later centuries. London has always been a brilliant, vibrant and eclectic place but beneath the color and pageantry lay dirt, discomfort and disease, the daily grind for ordinary folk. Like us, they had family problems, work worries, health concerns and wondered about the weather. This book tells their story. 9781445615417, $34.95, HB, 256p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 HEREWARD

By Peter Rex After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror’s oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction, culminating in the brutal Harrying of the North and the deaths of 100,000 people. Returning from Flanders to find his country taken over by the Normans, Hereward, known traditionally as ‘the Wake’, embarked on a path of resistance. Hereward found himself the object of William’s personal hatred and his desire to stamp out the last remnants of English resistance. Peter Rex rescues Hereward from the myths associated with his life and career, and finally reveals the mystery of his parentage and baffling disappearance into the mists of the Fens. 9781445604770, $20, PB, b/w & col illus, 192p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $16

ELFRIDA

IN SEARCH OF ALFRED THE GREAT

By Elizabeth Norton

THE KING, THE GRAVE, THE LEGEND

Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar’s imperial coronation at Bath in 973. The couple made a love match, with claims that they plotted the death of her first husband to ensure that she was free. Wife, mother, murderer, ruler, crowned queen, the life of Queen Elfrida was filled with drama as she rose to become the most powerful woman in Anglo-Saxon England. 9781445637655, $16, PB, 224p, 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $12.80 ELIZABETH WOODVILLE

By David MacGibbon

By Edoardo Albert & Katie Tucker Buried in 899 AD as the King of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great’s bones were thought to have ultimately been moved to an unmarked grave. His remains had been completely lost to us for centuries until researchers at the University of Winchester discovered what is in all probability a piece of his pelvis in a cardboard box. The only English monarch ever to have had the epithet ‘the Great’, Alfred’s reputation reaches down to us through the years. Christian hero, successful defender of England against the Vikings, social and educational reformer. There is a man and a life buried amid the myths. Within these pages, discover Alfred’s dramatic story. 9781445638942, $34.95, HB, 16pp col, 288p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $27.96

Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified and defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress, an ambitious advancer of her family’s fortunes, or a courageous and tragic figure who lost husbands, brothers and sons during this turbulent period? Discover the real story of the white queen. Born into a family of Lancastrians, the exceptionally beautiful Elizabeth captured the heart of the young Yorkist king, Edward IV, and found herself caught in the complex web of rivalries, loves and conspiracies that lay at the heart of the Wars of the Roses. She would wield immense influence as queen, watch her brother-in-law confine her sons to the Tower of London to face an unknown fate, and ultimately unite the Houses of Lancaster and York through the marriage of her daughter to Henry Tudor.

In the centuries after the end of Roman rule England and Wales emerged as literate and Christian peoples from the debris of the former Roman provinces. This story begins in the fortress of the Second Augustan Legion at Caerleon in 244 with the core of the legion making a ritual sacrifice. Over the next century and a half, the fortress fell into disuse. After Roman rule in Britain unraveled, new secular and ecclesiastical power structures began to form. This book focuses on one small area to trace the process from late Roman times to the advent of the full medieval period in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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SOUTH WALES FROM THE NORMANS TO THE ROMANS

By Jeremy Knight

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THE ENGLISH RESISTANCE

By Peter Rex In 1066 the English were conquered by the infamous William the Conqueror. For over five years the English violently rebelled against the invading Norman people, murdering quislings, burning towns and sacking cathedrals. Peter Rex tells the story of each rebellion, their often colorful leaders (including Hereward the Wake, Edgar the Aetheling and Eadric the Wild) and the rebels themselves, whom the Normans called ‘silvatici’ or forest dwellers. He also considers William’s pacification attempts, especially his notorious ‘harrying’ of the north, which amounted to genocide. If you thought it was all over with King Harold’s death, this book reinforces the view that the English are not so easily overcome. 9781445604794, $20, PB, 256p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $16 THE KINGS & QUEENS OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

By Timothy Venning The Anglo-Saxon era is one of the most important in English history, covering the period from the end of Roman authority in the British Isles to the Norman Conquest of 1066 in which the very idea of England was born. Here, Venning examines the rulers of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with the legendary leaders of the Anglo-Saxon invasion as Hengest and Horsa or Cerdic and Cynric and moving on through such figures as Aethelbert of Kent, the first king to be converted to Christianity and his daughter Aethelburh, whose marriage began the conversion of Northumbria, to Alfred of Wessex and his dynasty, the Viking invasions, and the last of the Anglo-Saxon kings, Harold Godwineson. 9781445608976, $19.95, PB, 15 illus, 232p, 2013, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 THE KINGS & QUEENS OF WALES

By Tim Venning The Welsh kings and queens who ruled prior to the Norman Conquest of Wales are shrouded in mystery. Most of what we know is from legend, names in annals, and from their opponents. This book sets out to identify what we know or can reasonably surmise about these rulers, to disentangle their history, and to assess their achievements. Venning explores these the 'High Kings' before discussing the kings and queens of each area of what we now know as Wales—the north, the center and south-west, and the south-east—as well as the short-lived Welsh states in the rest of Britain. 9781445609058, $29.95, PB, 20 illus, 256p, 2013, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 THE MAN WHO KILLED RICHARD III

By Susan Fern On 22 August 1485 on a battlefield in Bosworth, Leicestershire, King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet kings, was dealt a death blow by the man who had sworn loyalty to him only a few months earlier. That man was Rhys ap Thomas, a Welsh lord, master of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire. For his service that day he was knighted on the field of battle by Henry Tudor. Rhys ap Thomas’s life had been inextricably linked with both Richard and Henry; all three young men grew under the shadow of the Wars of the Roses, suffering losses and betrayals. This is the story of the man who helped forge the course of British history. 9781445619804, $29.95, HB, 8pp col, 192p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $23.96

THE MEDIEVAL HOUSEWIFE & OTHER WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES

By Toni Mount Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this fascinating book. Female authors of the medieval period have been rediscovered and translated. In this book we will look at the lives of medieval women in a more positive light, finding out what rights and opportunities women did enjoy, attempting to uncover the real women beneath the layers of dust accumulated over the centuries. 9781445643700, $16, PB, 96p, 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $12.80 WIRRAL'S WATERLOO THE SEARCH FOR BRUNANBURH

By Peter France In 937, a monumental battle took place, uniting England under a single king for the first time. Fresh from his final defeat of the Vikings at York ten years earlier, Athelstan and his brother Edmund faced a combined enemy force, emerging as the victors. Described as the 'greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before the Battle of Hastings' (Alfred Smyth), the Battle of Brunanburh was a bloody assertion of Wessex's dominance in medieval England and a key turning point in British history. In The Battle of Brunanburh, expert Peter France tells the story of this explosive clash from buildup to aftermath. 9781445632933, $20, PB, 30 illus, 128p, NYP - due August 2015, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $16 RICHARD III

By David Baldwin The DNA tests of the bones found in a Leicester car park reveal that they DO belong to Richard III beyond all reasonable doubt. This is the only biography of Richard to incorporate the results of the discoveries under the car park in Leicester. This B-format paperback edition will include an extra chapter analyzing the findings. Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters and other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is 'what was Richard III really like'. 9781445615912, $19.95, PB, 87 b/w & col illus, 272p, 2013, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 RICHARD III THE KING IN THE CAR PARK

By Terry Breverton The bloody Wars of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York ended with the killing of Richard III. With the recent discovery of his skeleton, and the consequent controversy over his final resting place, it is time to reexamine the life of Richard as a duke and king. This biography sifts the contemporary evidence, placing Richard in the context of his times, and assesses the likelihood of other candidates put forward to have killed the Princes in the Tower. John Locke wrote that ‘the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts’ and upon this basis the investigation leads to one conclusion. 9781445621050, $29.95, HB, 192p, 2014, Amberley Special Oﬀer Price $23.96

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LEARN OLD ENGLISH WITH LEOFWIN

THE MEDIEVAL ROYAL PALACE AT VISEGRÁD

By Matt Love

Edited by Gergely Buzás & Jozsef Laszlovszky

This is a new approach to learning old English—as a living language. Leofwin and his family are your guides through six lively, entertaining, topic-based units. New vocabulary and grammar are presented in context, step by step, so that younger readers and non-language specialists can feel engaged rather than intimidated. The author has complemented the text with a wealth of illus throughout. This volume is the first part of the course. 9781898281672, $34, PB, col illus, 158p, 2013, Anglo-Saxon Books Special Oﬀer Price $27.20 AVARS, BULGARS AND MAGYARS ON THE MIDDLE AND LOWER DANUBE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BULGARIAN-HUNGARIAN

Visegrád stands out among the medieval sites of Hungary and the royal palace complex can be regarded as one of the most important monuments for the artistic and architectural production of the royal court during the period of the late Middle Ages. This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the archaeological investigations, objects, finds, reconstruction and restoration of the palace complex published in English. It offers a summary of the previous and recent excavations since 1934 and the interpretation of the palace in its European archaeological and art historical context. Main Series 27 9789639911390, $108, HB, 398p, 2013, Archaeolingua Special Oﬀer Price $86.40

MEETING, SOFIA, MAY 27–28, 2009

THE MEDIEVAL ROYAL TOWN AT VISEGRÁD

Edited by Lyudmila Doncheva-Petkova, Csilla Balogh & Attila Türk

ROYAL CENTRE, URBAN SETTLEMENT, CHURCHES

The most recent result of the study of the relationship between the Bulgars and Hungarians, which has a long history in the research of the early Middle Ages, is the volume of archaeological essays entitled Avars, Bulgars and Magyars on the Middle and Lower Danube, which contains the written versions of the presentations from the Bulgarian-Hungarian international archaeological conference held in Sofia on the 27th–28th of May, 2009, supplemented by a few more essays. The book sums up the most recent research results from the last couple of decades in the light of the historical/archaeological problems in the Balkans and the Carpathian Basin from the 7th–11th centuries and the relationships between the two regions as well as all of eastern Europe. Archaeological Studies of Pázmány Péter Catholic University Department of Archaeology 1 9789639911550, $55, HB, 264p, 2014, German/English text, Archaeolingua Special Oﬀer Price $44 ON THE ROAD

Edited by Gergely Buzás, Jozsef Laszlovszky & Orsolya Mészáros Visegrád is the most enigmatic town in medieval Hungary. It was the site of the royal residence (palace and castles) of the Angevin dynasty and for most of the fourteenth century it was the capital of the kingdom. It is challenging to explain Visegrád’s rise and decline between the early fourteenth century and the Ottoman occupation three hundred years later. Why did Visegrád became a royal seat, how did it function as such, and what happened to the town after the moving of the royal court to Buda? These questions are raised in this volume with an analysis of the urban development factors, which include the interpretation of the location, topography, population, churches, public and private buildings. Medieval Visegrád Series 2 9789639911581, $54, HB, 272p, 2014, Archaeolingua Special Oﬀer Price $43.20 RITUAL BONES OR COMMON WASTE A STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BONE DEPOSITS IN

THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL

NORTHERN EUROPE

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE

By J. Thilderkvist

By Magdolna Szilágyi The present volume is dedicated to the different approaches and research strategies of medieval roads and tracks. It is mainly based on historical and archaeological source materials from East-Central Europe, but the research problems are discussed in a wider European context. The book introduces readers to the wide range of sources and methods available for the investigation of this noteworthy, but so far regrettably neglected and understudied, topic. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the variability of these roads through East-Central European examples, and stimulate further investigations both within and outside the region. At the same time, it offers a collection of features, archaeological sites and historical representations with the relevant research methods on the means and ways of medieval communication networks. Series Minor 35 9789639911574, $50, PB, 250p, 2014, Archaeolingua Special Oﬀer Price $40

This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits. In order to formulate a methodological framework for approaching the identification of ritual deposits, different methods are tested on four Early Medieval case study-sites: Dongjum and Leeuwarden, two artificial dwelling mounds situated in the then undiked salt marches of the Northern Netherlands, Midlaren, an inland settlement in Drenthe, also in the Northern Netherlands, and finally Uppåkra, a central place in the South of Sweden. The results of analysis lead to a methodological framework for understanding individual deposits based on a holistic perspective. Groningen Archaeological Studies 24 9789491431319, $37, PB, illus, 187p, 2013, Barkhuis Special Oﬀer Price $29.60 THE SPLENDOUR OF POWER EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGSHIP AND THE USE OF GOLD AND

PEOPLES OF EASTERN ORIGIN IN MEDIEVAL HUNGARY

SILVER IN THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA AREA

THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PECHENEGS, UZES, CUMANS

(5TH TO 7TH CENTURY AD)

AND THE JÁSZ

By J.A.W. Nicolay

By András Pálóczi Horváth This book familiarizes the reader with the history and the culture of the tribes and splinter groups from the Eastern European steppe who settled in medieval Hungary, and later were assimilated into the Hungarian people. This is done on the basis of the results of the related historical, archaeological, linguistic and ethnographic research. Of the various eastern and foreign ethnic groups living in Early Árpád Period Hungary, who most likely arrived together with the conquering Hungarians, the book discusses the data on Muslims in particular depth. Archaeological Studies of PPCU Department of Archaeology 2

From the 5th to the 7th century AD, the southern North Sea area functioned as an important cultural and political bridge, linking two power blocks: the late Roman Empire and its Frankish successor kingdom to the south, and the Scandinavian kingdoms to the north. This book examines how the region’s intermediary position is reflected in the jewellery and other ornaments of gold and silver found along the southern North Sea coasts, and how it relates to the formation of kingdoms and the expression of group identity after the collapse of the West-Roman Empire. This book makes compulsive reading for anyone interested in the fascinating world of early medieval Europe. Groningen Archaeological Studies 28

9789639911628, $50, HB, 312p, 2014, Hungarian/English text, Archaeolingua Special Oﬀer Price $40

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IL DUOMO DI SIENA

LANDSCAPES OF PILGRIMAGE IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN

EXCAVATIONS AND POTTERY BELOW THE SIENA CATHEDRAL

By Martin Locker

By Gabriele Castiglia This book is the result of the processing of the excavation data and of the pottery coming from the stratigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between August 2000 and May 2003 by the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of the University of Siena, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. Marco Valenti and the collaboration of the Opera del Duomo di Siena. The ultimate goal is to trace a view of the settlement types and economic framework that has affected the hill of the Cathedral from the Classical age to the late Middle Ages, combining stratigraphic data and the study of materials. 9781905739745, $60, PB, b/w illus, 160p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48 LANDSCAPES AND ARTEFACTS STUDIES IN EAST ANGLIAN ARCHAEOLOGY PRESENTED

This book seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of Britain (Norfolk, Wiltshire/Hampshire, Flintshire/Denbighshire and Cornwall), to investigate the practicalities of travel along the Medieval road network including the routes themselves, accommodation, the built environments and natural topographies encountered. Within the final section of the book themes are compared and expanded into the broader context of pilgrimage not only in Medieval Christendom, but within Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic religious traditions, in order to demonstrate the methodology's validity and flexibility in addressing pilgrimage holistically. 9781784910761, $86, PB, b/w illus, 292p, 2015, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $68.80

TO ANDREW ROGERSON

SAMARRA STUDIES II

Edited by Steven Ashley & Adrian Marsden

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF SAMARRA

By A. Northedge & Derek Kennet

Andrew Rogerson is one of the most important and influential archaeologists currently working in East Anglia. The various essays in this volume, presented to him by friends and colleagues from both the university sector and public archaeology, closely reflect his diverse interests and his activities in the region over many decades. They include studies of ‘small finds’ from many periods; of landscapes, both urban and rural; and of many aspects of medieval archaeology and history. This important collection will be essential reading for all those interested in the history and archaeology of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the interpretation of artifacts within their landscape contexts, and in the material culture of the Middle Ages.

Samarra in central Iraq was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate from 836 to 892 AD. The Archaeological Atlas of Samarra sets out to map and catalogue the site and buildings of the Abbasid capital at Samarra in the period 836 to 892 AD, preserved as they were until the middle years of the 20th century. Site maps and catalogues are provided of all the approximately 5819 building and site units identified. This is the first time that it has been possible to catalogue nearly all the buildings of one of the world’s largest ancient cities, from the caliph palaces to the smallest hovels. Samarra Studies

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TOWNS IN THE DARK URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS FROM LATE ROMAN BRITAIN TO ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

By Daniel Howells

By Gavin Speed What became of towns following the official end of ‘Roman Britain’ at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders? Developed new archaeologies are starting to offer alternative pictures to the traditional images of urban decay and loss revealing diverse modes of material expression, of usage of space, and of structural change. The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. 9781784910044, $68, PB, b/w illus, 205p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $54.40 ARCHEOLOGIA A FIRENZE: CITTÀ E TERRITORIO ATTI DEL WORKSHOP. FIRENZE, 12-13 APRILE

2013

Edited by Valeria d'Aquino, Guido Guarducci, Silvia Nencetti & Stefano Valentini This volume presents the proceedings of the workshop ‘Archeologia a Firenze: Città e territorio’, organized by CAMNES, in collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, in April 2013. Almost twenty years after the exhibition ‘Alle origini di Firenze’ and the publication of its Catalogo, which is considered a signal point in Florentine archaeology, the workshop provided an opportunity for discussion between all those who conducted research, protection and enhancement of the archaeological heritage of Florence thanks to the presentation of the most recent excavations. 9781784910587, $116, PB, b/w illus, 438p, 2015, Italian text, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $92.80

A CATALOGUE OF THE LATE ANTIQUE GOLD GLASS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heaven conference at the British Museum, exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages. British Museum Research Publication 198 9780861591985, $80, PB, 250 illus, 206p, NYP - due June 2015, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $64

BRITISH MUSEUM ANGLO-SAXON COINS I EARLY ANGLO-SAXON GOLD AND CONTINENTAL SILVER COINAGE OF OF THE NORTH SEA AREA, C. 600-760

By Anna Gannon This volume is dedicated to the British Museum’s collection of early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage as well as the AngloSaxon and Continental silver coinage of the North Sea area, dating from the early seventh to the mid-eighth centuries. This catalogue includes comprehensive coverage of all new acquisitions, among them material from several significant hoards, as well as full details on the provenance and identification of individual coins. A major introduction sets the coins in context and reassesses their classification. New metallurgical analyses of the gold coinage and authoritative interpretation of the results, as well as a survey of the history of the collection, constitute further valuable supplements to the catalogue. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 63 9780714118239, $100, HB, 37 b/w plates, 304p, 2013, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $80

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MASTERPIECES EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

By Sonja Marzinzik This beautiful volume presents a history of Europe and the Mediterranean from the end of the Roman Empire to the twelfth century, as told through objects in the British Museum. Richly illustrated, this book will showcase some of the collection’s most outstanding and internationally renowned artefacts, such as the Projecta Casket, the treasures from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Fuller Brooch. The discussion of each object will provide a fascinating insight into their makers and owners as well as the world in which they were created. Drawn from all the major cultures of the period and covering an extensive geographical and chronological sweep, this publication celebrates the artistic accomplishment of objects made from a varied and attractive array of materials such as gold, silver, precious stones, ivory, glass, ceramics and textiles. This approach bridges the gap that is commonly presented between the Mediterranean and the North of Europe, the Empire (whether Roman or Byzantine) and the ‘barbarian’ world in a period that saw Christianity established as a major religion as well as the rise of Islam. 9780714123202, $50, HB, 250 col illus including maps, 366p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $40 MATTER OF FAITH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF RELICS AND RELIC VENERATION IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

Edited by James Robinson, Lloyd de Beer & Anna Harnden A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heaven conference at the British Museum, exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages. British Museum Research Publication 195 9780861591954, $80, PB, 250 illus, 206p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $64

THE CUERDALE HOARD AND RELATED VIKING-AGE SILVER AND GOLD FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

By James Graham-Campbell The catalogue focuses on the entire non-numismatic contents of the Cuerdale hoard (discovered in 1840), together with all the other hoards and single-finds of gold and silver artifacts (ornaments and ingots) of Viking character in the British Museum, found in Britain and Ireland, up to the end of the year 2000, with each piece individually catalogued and illustrated. There is also a full chapter discussing the coins from Cuerdale, together with summary descriptions. Written by the leading authority on the subject, James Graham-Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. British Museum Research Publication 185 9780861591855, $90, PB, 130 b/w line drawings & halftones integrated throughout the volume, with maps & tables & separate plates section, 400p, 2012, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $72 THE FRANKS CASKET

By Leslie Webster This concise, beautifully illustrated guide explores the enigmatic Franks Casket, carved from whalebone in 8th century northern England, and decorated with scenes from tales both pagan and Christian, as well as runic inscriptions. Leslie Webster helps the general reader to make sense of its iconography and meaning, the processes of its manufacture, and its somewhat confused history - it was rediscovered in modern times in France, whilst one panel remains in Florence. Objects In Focus 9780714128184, $10, PB, 27 col & 6 b/w illus, 55p, 2012, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $8 THE LACOCK CUP

TALE OF KING HARALD THE LAST VIKING ADVENTURE

By Thomas Williams Based on a true story, Harald’s adventure takes him from a frightened teenager to wealthy and powerful warrior and finally, to a ruthless and tyrannical king, whose ambition leads him to a futile, yet glorious death at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. This delightful children’s book is provides an accessible history to youth. 9780714123448, $14.95, PB, 50 illus, 96p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $11.96 THE BRITISH MUSEUM CITOLE NEW PERSPECTIVES

Edited by James M. Robinson, Naomi Speakman & Kate Buehler-McWilliams

By Naomi Speakman & Lloyd DeBeer The Lacock Cup is a rare object with a unique English history. Made in the 1430s, it is one of a handful of pieces of secular silver from the Middle Ages, which both survived the changing culture of Tudor fashion and the turmoil of the Reformation. Originally created as a drinking cup for feasting in the fifteenth century, the Cup later became a sacred chalice for the community of Lacock in Wiltshire at the parish church of Saint Cyriac. With an unbroken local heritage of over 400 years, this piece was a central feature of religious ceremony until the late twentieth century. Objects in Focus 9780714150819, $8.50, PB, 30 col illus, 64p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $6.80 THE VIKING SHIP

By Gareth Williams

The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. This new publication includes selected papers from the first international symposium on the British Museum citole, held in November 2010 to highlight recent new research, conservation work and scientific findings related to the British Museum citole. Highly illustrated to reflect the visual richness of this beautiful instrument, The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives features a wide range of academic approaches to the subject, drawing together experts from the fields of history, art history, music, organology, conservation and science and performance practice. British Museum Research Publication 186

The Viking ship is one of the most iconic images of the Viking Age. As well as including well-known vessels such as the spectacular ship-burials from Gokstad and Oseberg in southern Norway, Viking Ships introduces the newly-conserved Roskilde 6 ship from Denmark. Measuring at over 37 meters, this is the longest Viking ship ever discovered and will form the core of the touring exhibition Vikings: life and legend. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to command the sea; their famous ships permitted the exploration, colonization and the raids for which they are best known. This book will explore the evolution of their sea-going vessels and celebrate this outstanding feature of the Viking Age.

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FOLKESTONE TO 1500 A TOWN UNEARTHED

Edited by Ian Coulson, Paul Dalton, Lesley Hardy, Keith Parfitt & Andrew Richardson This book is a product of the community history and archaeology project ‘A Town Unearthed: Folkestone before 1500’ which between 2010 and 2013 investigated the ancient history of the town and its immediate area. The authors provide, for the first time, a detailed and authoritative account of Folkestone from prehistory to the Reformation. 9781870545273, $30, PB, 46 b/w & 52 col plates, 208p, NYP - due June 2015, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Special Oﬀer Price $24 PREHISTORIC AND ANGLO-SAXON DISCOVERIES ON THE EAST KENT CHALKLANDS INVESTIGATIONS ALONG THE WHITFIELD-EASTRY BY-PASS

1991-1996 By Paul Bennett, Keith Parfitt & Jon Rady This latest volume in Canterbury Archaeological Trust’s Occasional Paper series describes discoveries along the route of the Whitfield-Eastry by-pass. An extensive program of fieldwalking and evaluation investigated a number of sites: two sites were subject to full excavation. At Eastling Wood a prehistoric barrow proved to be the focus of burial and ritual from the late Neolithic until the late Iron Age. At Church Whitfield two successive Iron Age farmsteads and an Anglo-Saxon hamlet with at least two hall-houses were situated at the crossing point of two downland trackways—a crossroads that survived until the new road was pushed through in 1995. CAT Occasional Paper 9 9781870545266, $30, PB, 192p, 2014, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Special Oﬀer Price $24 THE END AND BEYOND MEDIEVAL IRISH ESCHATOLOGY

Edited by John Carey, Emma Nic Cárthaigh & Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity. Under the headings ‘Soul and Body’, ‘The Seven Heavens’, ‘The Next World’, and ‘The Judgement and its Signs’, this book presents critical editions, with translation and commentary, of 26 eschatological texts from the Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish periods, together with related material in Latin and Old English. Some of these works are here edited for the first time. Extended essays survey Irish eschatological literature a whole, and place it in its wider context; and the volume concludes with a comprehensive handlist of Irish eschatological compositions. 9781891271205, $119.95, HB, 964p, 2014, Celtic Studies Publications Special Oﬀer Price $95.96

CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE 3-DISC BOXED SET PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGE,

MEDIEVAL AND POSTMEDIEVAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN BRISTOL'S INNER SUBURBS

AND THE ENGLISH PARISH

Edited by Martin Watts

IMAGES OF SALVATION,

CHURCH THROUGH THE CENTURIES

Edited by Dee Dyas This three-disc boxed set contains all currently-available C&C digital resources: Images of Salvation, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, The English Parish Church The discs included are the full working versions of the above products and are presented in an attractive slipcase. 9780955067341, $65, Cd-Rom, 3-Disc Boxed Set, 2012, Christianity and Culture Special Oﬀer Price $52 ENGLISH CATHEDRALS AND MONASTERIES THROUGHTHE CENTURIES HISTORY, COMMUNITY, WORSHIP,

This volume contains the results of four archaeological projects undertaken within the historic suburbs of Bristol. Excavations at nos 26–28 and at nos 55–60 St Thomas Street were both within the 12th-century planned suburb of Redcliffe, just to the southeast of the medieval city. Investigations at Harbourside and at Cabot House, Deanery Road, were undertaken in the medieval district of Billeswick, to the southwest of the city centre and in the vicinity of Bristol Cathedral, formerly the church of the 12th-century St Augustine’s Abbey. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Report 7 9780955353444, $29.95, PB, 13 b/w & 41 col illus, 144p, 2013, Cotswold Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $23.96

ART, ARCHITECTURE, MUSIC

HISTORIC WIGTOWN

Edited by Dee Dyas

ARCHAEOLOGY AND

This interactive DVD-ROM from Christianity and Culture traces the development of England's cathedrals and religious houses across the centuries, from the earliest foundations to the present day. Created as the partner to the 2010 disk ‘English Parish Church through the Centuries’, it combines easily accessible introductions to the latest academic research on England’s cathedrals and religious houses, which in turn were closely connected with those of continental Europe. It synthesises work on the influence of these religious powerhouses on national and international history, the evolution of communities, and their roles as drivers for development in worship, music, art and architecture with images from national and international collections. The Story of the Church in England 2 9780955067365, $35, Dvd-Rom, 2014, Christianity and Culture Special Oﬀer Price $28 FRIARS, QUAKERS, INDUSTRY AND URBANISATION THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF

DEVELOPMENT

By R.D. Oram, P.F. Martin, C. McKean & S. Anderson Situated in what now seems a remote corner of south-west Scotland, Wigtown was once an important county town. With its harbor and location at the lowest fording point of the River Cree, Wigtown was at one time part of a major network of land and sea routes, including a pilgrim route to Whithorn. This book examines both the town’s political history, as it passed between the earldoms of Wigtown and Douglas, and its economic history, as it competed with Whithorn, before its eventual decline in the later nineteenth century. The authors use the surviving buildings to examine the development of the town from the medieval to the modern period. Scottish Burgh Survey 9781909990005, $19, PB, 45 b/w & col illus, 152p, 2014, Council for British Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $15.20 LA GRAVA THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF A ROYAL MANOR

THE BROADMEAD EXPANSION

AND ALIEN PRIORY OF

PROJECT, CABOT CIRCUS,

FONTEVRAULT

BRISTOL, 2005-2008

By Evelyn Baker

Edited by Victoria Ridgeway & Martin Watts The development of Cabot Circus shopping center presented a rare opportunity for the archaeological investigation of a large part of the Broadmead suburb of Bristol. The former presence of a Dominican Friary and later Friends’ Meeting House were already well known, and surviving buildings from both remain within a large open piazza in the west of the new development. Further elements of the friary complex, including remains of the church and two cloisters, were revealed in various archaeological interventions within the area of the former precinct, enabling a reconstruction of the precinct and its environs to be made. CA monograph/PCA monograph 5/16 9780956305480, $69.95, HB, 107 col & 116 b/w, 450p, 2013, Cotswold Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $55.96

The site of La Grava in Bedfordshire, excavated in advance of quarrying between 1973 and 1985, was one of the most extensive monastic/manorial projects of the 20th century in the UK. Excavated originally as a medieval religious house, identified as an alien priory of the Order of Fontevrault in Anjou, the site was to reveal settlement from the Romano-British period to the 16th century. The excavations were notable for several reasons, including their extent, the stratification in the remains, and the continuity of settlement from the late Saxon period onwards. Post-excavation analysis and reconstruction of building plans has led the author to suggest detailed sequences of spatial planning across the site. CBA Research Report 167 9781902771878, $100, PB, 260 figs incl col, 424p, 2013, Council for British Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $80

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A LATE SAXON VILLAGE AND MEDIEVAL MANOR

NEL CANTIERE DEGLI UMANISTI

EXCAVATIONS AT BOTOLPH BRIDGE, ORTON

Edited by Lucia Berolini, Donatella Coppini & Clementina Marisco

LONGUEVILLE, PETERBOROUGH

By Paul Spoerry & Rob Atkins Botolph Bridge, now within urban Peterborough, lay beside an important crossing of the River Nene and once formed part of a well-known medieval vill, referenced in Domesday Book. Botolph Bridge was noted for its well preserved medieval earthworks but since the late 1980s these have gradually been destroyed by housing development. An earthwork survey carried out in 1982 amply demonstrated the complexity and importance of the site, showing a church and manorial complex with house plots strung out along an adjacent road and fields separated from the main settlement by a hollow way. East Anglian Archaeology 153 9781907588051, $40, PB, 84 illus, 200p, NYP - due April 2015, East Anglian Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $32 STAUNCH MEADOW, BRANDON, SUFFOLK A HIGH STATUS MIDDLE SAXON SETTLEMENT

By Andrew Tester, Sue Anderson, Ian Riddler & Robert Carr Excavations revealed evidence of a settlement dating from the mid 7th to late 9th centuries. Remains of a wooden bridge and 35 buildings were found, some with timber surviving in post-holes, also a smithy, a possible bakery and two churches. Part of the waterfront was given over to textile processing. Amongst thousands of artifacts, some provided compelling evidence for literacy. 9780956874740, $90, PB, 275 illus, 450p, 2014, East Anglian Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $72

PER MARIANGELA REGOLIOSI

The book, a tribute to the career of the philologist Mariangela Regoliosi, collects the writings of colleagues, students and friends, both Italian and international. The essays largely focus on the 15th century and on humanists such as Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti, ranging in different areas, reflecting the broad spectrum of research interests that characterized the work of the scholar: latin and vulgar poetry, scholarship and science, literal exegesis, history of ideas and ideologies, history and popularity of classic and modern texts, documents, books and documentaries, art history and iconology. 9788859611776, $200, HB, 1512p, 2014, Italian text, Edizioni Polistampa Special Oﬀer Price $160 HAUGHMOND ABBEY EXCAVATION OF A 12TH-CENTURY CLOISTER IN ITS HISTORICAL AND LANDSCAPE CONTEXT

By Jeﬀrey J. West & Nicholas Palmer Haughmond Abbey was a prosperous house of Augustinian Canons north-east of Shrewsbury. Today it is an extensive ruin in the guardianship of English Heritage. The work reported on had its origins in excavations carried out in and near the cloister in 1975-79, but the scope has been broadened to place the site in its historical, theological, architectural and landscape context. The finds from the excavations and previous clearance work, including significant groups of Romanesque sculpture, funerary monuments, pottery and floor tiles, are the subject of a full range of specialist reports. There is a comprehensive analysis of the surviving claustral buildings. 9781848020627, $200, PB, 254 illus, 416p, 2014, English Heritage Special Oﬀer Price $160

TYTTEL’S HALH: THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT TITTLESHALL, NORFOLK THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BACTON TO KING’S LYNN GAS PIPELINE, VOLUME 2

By Penelope Walton Rogers The cemetery lay south of the modern village of Tittleshall, on the side of a Bronze Age barrow. It was founded in the 5th century, and was in use throughout the 6th and early 7th century. One male burial may belong to the later 7th century. The graves of 28 men, women and children were recorded, and the cemetery has been interpreted as the burial plot of a small farming household. The range of artifacts in the graves indicates that the people who lived here were well provided with material goods. It is probable that the cemetery ceased to be used when occupation moved to settlements of the Middle Anglo-Saxon period which developed into the modern village of Tittleshall. 9780957228818, $30, PB, 100 illus, 150p, 2013, East Anglian Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $24 LOOKING AT PAINTING IN FLORENCE 13TH-16TH CENTURIES A LEARNER'S HANDBOOK

By Richard Peterson Richly illustrated in color, this handbook aims to impart the skills that allow the reader to answer the question, “Why does this painting matter?” Organized chronologically, with passages of historical background, we follow Richard Peterson’s probing descriptions of painting in Santa Croce, the Brancacci Chapel at the Carmine, the Uffizi and Accademia, Santa Maria Novella and San Marco, and other remarkable repositories of the city’s masterpieces. 9788859613275, $39, PB, 240p, 2014, Edizioni Polistampa Special Oﬀer Price $31.20

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HILL FARMING ON EXMOOR

By Cain Hegarty & Robert Wilson-North The story of hill farming on Exmoor is told here for the first time through archaeological evidence newly revealed after two years of systematic survey work. This compelling narrative of human endeavor against a beguiling, yet harsh landscape takes the reader from the pioneer farmers of the medieval period through to the inexhaustible energy of the Victorian ‘improvers’ who transformed the landscape of Exmoor. The focus of the book is the battle—and it is a battle—to make the wastes and moorland of this upland landscape as productive as possible. Meticulous survey work is presented showing how nearly 700 years of ‘reclamation’ on the royal forest of Exmoor, its surrounding commons and its hill farms, has helped to shape the landscape of Exmoor National Park. 9781848020825, $40, PB, 116 illus, 128p, 2014, English Heritage Special Oﬀer Price $32 THE TOWN HOUSE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRISTOL

By Roger H. Leech This study, covering the period c.1000 to c.1800 AD, is of the medieval and early modern houses of Bristol, England’s second city in the later middle ages and again in the 18th century. Based partly on the survey of surviving early buildings, the study also makes extensive use of documentary evidence and records of houses now demolished to analyze how town houses reveal the social structure and aspirations of Bristol’s citizens in this period. The development of the town and city in the medieval and the early modern period is examined, then aspects of life on the urban tenement plot. The principal house types of the medieval period are fully explored, showing the aspirations and separate identity of the urban elite in the largest of such houses. 9781848020535, $200, HB, 680 illus, 432p, 2014, English Heritage Special Oﬀer Price $160

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EDWARD IV

THE COMBINED ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES

FROM CONTEMPORARY CHRONICLES, LETTERS AND RECORDS

By Guy Points

By Keith Dockray Edward IV, so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III, is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and licentious lightweight who much preferred his mistresses to his ministers and had little taste for the arduous day-to-day business of government? Or was he, rather, a wise and successful monarch who laid the foundations for over a century of Tudor rule? This documentary study presents contemporary and near-contemporary sources for Edward IV and his reign, enabling the reader to appreciate why the king’s reputation has fluctuated so markedly, and provides and indispensable compendium for all who wish to enter the political world of Yorkist England. 9781781554166, $26.99, PB, 27 b/w illus, 224p, 2015, Fonthill Media Special Oﬀer Price $21.56 MEDIEVAL COMBAT A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MANUAL OF SWORDFIGHTING AND CLOSE-QUARTER COMBAT

By Hans Talhoﬀer Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the 'judicial duel' (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat. Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword's inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. This unparalleled guide to medieval combat provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness. 9781848327702, $24.95, PB, illus, 320p, 2014, Frontline Books Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 9781473835177, $24.95, ePub 9781473836938, $24.95, pdf THE AGINCOURT WAR

9780955767920, $19.95, PB, 136p, 2013, Guy Points Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 9780955767968, $9.99, ePub 9780955767982, $9.99, pdf JARDIN MÉDIÉVAL ET BIODIVERSITÉ

By Josy Marty-Dufaut Reconstructing a medieval garden is part of the concerns of the modern man conscious of biodiversity, the environment and the balance of nature.The medieval garden was the epitome of early eco-gardening. In the Middle Ages, the work of the earth was a fight against hunger but, little by little, man discovered the pleasure of living in nature and expressed this in one of the most famous texts in French literature, The Novel of the Rose. The medieval garden, a closed space, gradually becomes a place of delight. They cultivated the garden with love, ate vegetables that they grew themselves, decorated its interior with cut flowers and found a sort of lost paradise. This is a book concerning those gardens. 9782840483342, $43, HB, 80p, 2013, Heimdal Special Oﬀer Price $34.40

A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR FROM

THE MEDIEVAL COSTUME FROM 1320 TO 1480

1369 TO 1453

By Florent Veniel

By Alfred H. Burne Henry V’s stunning victory at Agincourt was a pivotal battle of the Hundred Years War, reviving England's military fortunes and changing forever the course of European warfare. In this exciting and readable account Colonel Burne recreates the years leading up to Agincourt and its bitter aftermath. He also puts the battle in the perspective of the other important, yet less well known, engagements of the war such as the battles of Verneuil and Fresnay. This reconstruction of the war is written for layman and historian alike and conveys the drama that Agincourt and its heroes have always so vividly evoked. 9781848327658, $29.95, PB, 360p, 2014, Frontline Books Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 9781473838307, $29.95, ePub 9781473839014, $29.95, pdf A GAZETTEER OF ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING SITES COUNTY DURHAM

& NORTHUMBERLAND

By Guy Points This book aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artifacts and material of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest in County Durham and Northumberland (pre 1974 borders). 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. 9780955767913, $60, PB, 52 b/w illus & 58 col photos, 490p, 2012, Guy Points Special Oﬀer Price $12.98 9780955767937, $30, ePub 9780955767951, $30, pdf

This book enables rapid access to the events recorded in any one year in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which was created in the late ninth century. The author provides a narrative in chronological order of the information provided by the extant manuscripts using as his principal source “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, translated by G N Garmonsway. Unique to Guy Points’ presentation is the device of using different print font types in the text to identify each of the source manuscripts. The font index is supplied at the foot of every single page of the narrative. Thus, the year, content and origin can be instantly correlated by eye. Overall, the condensed narrative and unique methodology of presentation make the wealth of material in the several manuscripts more easily accessible to everyone.

Finally a modern book, detailed and accurate on the costume to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1320-1480), taking further work Viollet-le-Duc and Adrien Harmand. The first part is devoted to jewelry and utensils costume, the second to male costume, and the third suit female. Rich iconography in colors. 9782840483793, $87, PB, 216p, NYP - due June 2015, Heimdal Special Oﬀer Price $69.60 WINDSOR AND ETON BRITISH HISTORIC TOWN ATLAS IV

By David Lewis This atlas is the definitive account in maps and words of the historic royal towns of Windsor and Eton. There has never been an account of the history of Eton town, and although Windsor Castle has been much studied, the last historical account of the town of Windsor was published as long ago as 1858. All the buildings, historic sites and streets named on the maps are comprehensively documented in a detailed gazetteer, covering the history of the sites and the many sources used in compiling the maps. The value of the atlas is enhanced by the inclusion of numerous color illustrations, including early maps and views of the towns, many of them previously unknown. For the first time, new research by historians, archaeologists and cartographers has been brought together to compile this unique and original portfolio. 9781782978282, $99.95, HB, A3 maps & folder, 2015, Historic Towns Trust Special Oﬀer Price $79.96

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ALCUIN

A CELTIC CHRISTOLOGY

HIS LIFE AND LEGACY

THE INCARNATION ACCORDING TO JOHN SCOTTUS ERIUGENA

By Douglas Dales

By John F. Gavin

Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin was a person of deep Christian faith, tenacious in his loyalty to orthodox Catholic theology. He had a seminal influence upon his own generation and those that came after him. Although he remained a Northumbrian Christian at heart, the part of his life about which most is known was spent on the Continent. He never lost contact with his homeland; but his most significant and lasting work was evidently accomplished in Europe and his influence on the early medieval Western Church was an abiding one. This book examines his life and career in England and on the continent; it also considers his legacy as a churchman and a leading political figure.

John Scottus Eriugena, the brilliant and controversial Irishman in the court of Charles the Bald (823–877), grandson of Charlemagne, drew upon both the Latin and Greek patristic traditions in order to present a bold and original Christian vision. A philosopher, theologian, translator, poet, and mystic, he may be considered the ideal Carolingian Renaissance man. This volume examines his understanding of the Incarnation, the enfleshment of the Word. On the one hand, Eriugena's Christology creatively appropriates traditional categories in order to explain God's philanthropia in creating, sustaining, and restoring the cosmos. On the other hand, it also provides a guide for the believer's mystical participation in the life of Jesus and return to divine union.

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ALCUIN

DUNSTAN

THEOLOGY AND THOUGHT

By Douglas Dales & Rowan Williams Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin can be seen as a true hidden saint of the Church, of the same stature and significance as his predecessor Bede. His love of God and his grasp of Christian theology were rendered original in their creative impact by his gifts as a teacher and poet. In his hands, the very traditional theology that he inherited, and to which he felt bound, took new wings. In that respect, he must rank as one of the most notable and influential of Anglo-Saxon Christians, uniting English and continental Christianity in a unique manner, which left a lasting legacy within the Catholic Church of Western Europe. 9780227173947, $50, PB, 360p, 2013, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $40 ALLEGORIZING HISTORY THE VENERABLE BEDE, FIGURAL EXEGESIS AND HISTORICAL THEORY

SAINT AND STATESMAN

By Douglas Dales St Dunstan of Canterbury (909-88) was the central figure in the development of English church and society after the death of King Alfred. Douglas Dales traces Dunstan's life beginning with his education at the great monastery of Glastonbury of which he became abbot. He was a central figure at the court of the kings of Wessex but was banished, partly because of his hostility to the king's mistresses, and went to exile in Flanders. After his return he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. This re-examination sets Dunstan’s achievements against the social and religious background of the day. 9780227173923, $40, PB, 230p, 2013, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $32 9780227900802, $40, pdf THE GOD WHO IS BEAUTY BEAUTY AS A DIVINE NAME IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE

By Brendon Thomas Sammon

By Timothy J. Furry What is history? This question can be taken in many ways, including radically skeptical ones, but in 'Allegorizing History' Timothy J. Furry asks the questions not with that axe to grind but because it has become clear to him, through study of Bede and other ancient Christians, that history is not so simple. To be sure, many, if not all scholars, know that thanks to the work of postmodern philosophers and twentieth-century historical theorists like R.G. Collingwood, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Hayden White. 9780227174241, $39, PB, 172p, 2014, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $31.20 AQUINAS ON ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH THE QUESTION OF SUPERSESSIONISM IN THE THEOLOGY OF THOMAS AQUINAS

By Matthew A. Tapie

In the beginning was beauty, and beauty was with God, and beauty was God. If the tradition of divine names, that (in its Christian form) originates with Dionysius the Areopagite and includes among its ranks Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and others, is correct in identifying God with the name beauty, then repurposing the Prologue to John’s Gospel in this way seems hardly controversial. For if beauty is a divine name then not only is it fitting to say God is beautiful, but it is equally fitting to say that God is beauty itself. However, like most arguments from fittingness—that is to say, arguments whose veracity derives from the congruency, proportion, or harmony between the various elements of a proposition or idea rather than from some categorically higher, or univocally determinate, logical necessity—the simplicity of its utterance stands in stark contrast to the complexity of its intelligible content. 9780227174296, $50, PB, 400p, 2014, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $40 ON THE TRINITY

Theologians have long debated the significance of the Jewish religion for the Christian Church. Some scholars see Thomas Aquinas as the leading advocate of the belief that Israel has been superceded by the Church, while others hold that Aquinas avoids supersessionism altogether. Drawing upon the Pauline commentaries, Matthew Tapie shows that while Aquinas’s most commonly articulated view is that the passion of Christ made Jewish worship and the Mosaic law obsolete, Aquinas also advanced views that set this into question, in ways that support Christian teachings affirming the value of post-biblical Judaism. 9780227175071, $33, PB, 214p, 2015, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $26.40

RICHARD OF SAINT VICTOR: ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY

By Ruben Angelici Angelici presents a trinitarian model, intelligible to a Western context but which could also awake admiration from Greek theologians. Today Richard's dogmatics could represent a bridge for dialogue between different traditions. For the first time this theological masterpiece is being made available, unabridged, in English to allow a broader theological public to benefit from Richard's accomplishments. 9780227679975, $39, PB, 262p, 2012, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $31.20

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THEOLOGIZING FRIENDSHIP

VIKING LANGUAGE 1

HOW AMICITIA IN THE THOUGHT OF AELRED AND

LEARN OLD NORSE, RUNES, AND ICELANDIC SAGAS

AQUINAS INSCRIBES THE SCHOLASTIC TURN

By Jesse L. Byock

By Nathan Lefler In Theologizing Friendship, Nathan Lefler revitalises Jean Leclercq’s defence of monastic theology, while expanding and qualifying some of the central theses expounded in Leclercq’s magisterial The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. His work contributes to a revised and updated status quaestionis concerning the relationship between classical monastic and scholastic theology, construed in more systematic and speculative terms than those of Leclercq and rendered here through the lens of friendship as a theological topos. In his novel proposal that within the monastic and scholastic milieux there are parallel threefold analogies between friendship, reading and theology, Lefler not only offers an original contribution to current scholarship, but gestures towards avenues for institutional self-examination much needed in contemporary—modern and post-modern—academia. 9780227174814, $40, PB, 194p, 2015, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $32 A WAY INTO SCHOLASTICISM A COMPANION TO ST. BONAVENTURE’S 'THE SOUL’S JOURNEY INTO GOD'

By Peter S. Dillard St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio's The Soul's Journey into God is a masterpiece of thirteenth-century Scholasticism. Unfortunately no comprehensive analysis of Bonaventure's seminal treatise exists that is accessible to contemporary audiences. Reinvigorating the medieval tradition of critical commentary for the twenty-first century, this book introduces readers to basic Scholastic concepts and arguments by expounding and evaluating Bonaventure's speculative system. Dillard also highlights the relevance of Bonaventure's thought for contemporary philosophical theology. 9780227679906, $35, PB, 228p, 2012, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $28 HEALTH AS A VIRTUE THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE PRACTICE OF HABITS OF HEALTH

By Melanie Dobson Melanie Dobson excavates from Thomas Aquinas an answer for how contemporary Christians might live well in the midst of a very sick culture. Through a close reading of Aquinas’s 'Treatise on Habit', Dobson reveals that the moral practice of habit does indeed include health. Thomas’s keen understanding of the human person and of human longings supports the book’s argument for a practice of health that directs us deep into the heart of God. Field research with clergy and missionaries offers concrete examples of the implementation of habits of health as part of the life of Christian virtue. The stories from the Clergy Health Initiative and Word Made Flesh missionary organization exhibit transformations that ushered Christian leaders into deeper love of God, neighbor, and themselves. 9780718893750, $35, PB, 168p, 2015, Lutterworth Press Special Oﬀer Price $28 THE LIFE OF THE SERVANT

By Henry Suso & Translated by James M. Clark 'The Life of the Servant' is one of the world's greatest religious biographies. It is the work of a saint - one of that remarkable trio of 14th century German mystics, of whom the others were Eckhardt and Tauler - who was also a poet. The book was never intended for publication, and owes its preservation to an accident. What Suso confided to his 'spiritual daughter' was meant for her ears alone. In order to console a highly gifted woman in the acute sufferings that preceded her death he unfolded his own hidden life. The value of the book lies in its remarkable simplicity coupled with its unsurpassed poetic beauty. 9780718893439, $35, PB, 148p, 2014, Lutterworth Press Special Oﬀer Price $28

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas (the first book in the Viking Language Series) is a new introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic. The beginner has everything in one book: Graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and pronunciation. A full complement of maps, runic inscriptions and culture sections explore the civilization, legends, and myths of the Vikings. The lessons follow an innovative word frequency strategy, a method that speeds learning. Because the grammar of Modern Icelandic has changed so little from Old Norse, the learner is well on the way to mastering Modern Icelandic. Viking Language Series 1 9781480216440, $39.99, PB, 57 illus, 384p, 2013, English/Old Norse/Icelandic text, Jules William Press Special Oﬀer Price $31.99 VIKING LANGUAGE 2 THE OLD NORSE READER

By Jesse L. Byock Viking Language 2: The Old Norse Reader (the 2nd book in the Viking Language Series) immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, runic inscriptions. There is a large vocabulary and a full reference grammar. Selections from Old Norse and rune texts range from the doom of the gods at the final battle Ragnarok to descriptions of the dwarves’ gold and the ring that inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and a host of modern fantasy. Viking Language Series 2 9781481175265, $39.99, PB, 57 illus, 384p, 2014, English/Old Norse/Icelandic text, Jules William Press Special Oﬀer Price $31.99 DESIRE IN DANTE AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi & Francesca Southerden This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante's work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish greater intellectual exchange between Dante scholars and those from other disciplines. Legenda Main Series 9781907747960, $99, HB, 250p, 2012, Legenda Special Oﬀer Price $79.20 MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY AT CANTERBURY

Edited by Alixe Bovey Focusing especially on Christ Church cathedral, this legacy is explored in seventeen essays concerned with Canterbury’s art, architecture and archaeology between the early Anglo-Saxon period and the close of the middle ages. Papers consider the relationship between between architectural setting and liturgical practice, and between stationary and movable fittings, while fresh insights are offered into the aesthetic, spiritual, and pragmatic considerations that shaped the fabric of Christ Church and St Augustine’s abbey, alongside critical reflections on Canterbury's historiography and relationship to the wider world. British Archaeological Association Transactions 35 9781909662209, $130, HB, 16pp col plates, 308p, 2013, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $104 9781909662216, $62, PB Special Oﬀer Price $49.60

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MEDIEVAL ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN CRACOW AND LESSER POLAND

Edited by Agnieszka Rożnowska-Sadraei & Tomasz Węcławowicz The papers in this volume explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city of Cracow and the surrounding region of Lesser Poland, as well as venturing into southern Silesia and the Baltic coast of the country. The contributors study a wide range of subjects, from the Italian influences on Polish Romanesque architecture and the originality of Cracow’s Romanesque churches to the impact of astronomical treatises on ecclesiastical sculpture and patronage. The contributors embrace a wide selection of media and approaches, from church architecture and monastic archaeology to sculpture, microarchitecture, manuscripts, and even medieval clocks. British Archaeological Association Transactions 37 9781909662391, $136, HB, 2014, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $108.80 9781909662407, $65, PB Special Oﬀer Price $52 NEWCASTLE AND NORTHUMBERLAND ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART

Edited by Jeremy Ashbee & Julian Luxford The long and vibrant history of north-eastern England has left rich material deposits in the form of buildings, works of art, books and other artefacts. This heritage is examined here in fifteen studies, ranging from the sculpture of the Roman occupation through the monuments and architecture of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods, to the manuscripts and fortified houses of the later Middle Ages. The monasteries at Hexham, Lindisfarne and Tynemouth, and the City of Newcastle itself, are all subjected to individual analysis, and there are papers on Alnwick and Warkworth castles, the great keep at Newcastle, the coffin of St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels. British Archaeological Association Transactions 36 9781907975929, $130, HB, 182 illus, 288p, 2013, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $104 9781907975936, $62, PB Special Oﬀer Price $49.60 ROMANESQUE AND THE PAST RETROSPECTION IN THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ROMANESQUE EUROPE

Edited by John McNeill & Richard Plant The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe. They arise from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in 2010, and reflect its interest in how and why the past manifested itself in the visual culture of the 11th and 12th centuries. This took many forms, from the casual re-use of ancient material to a specific desire to re-present or emulate earlier objects and buildings. Central to it is a concern for the revival of Roman and early medieval forms, spolia, selective quotation, archaism and the construction of histories. British Archaeological Association Transactions 9781909662100, $95, PB, 2013, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $76 ROMANESQUE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN PATTERNS OF EXCHANGE ACROSS THE LATIN, GREEK AND ISLAMIC WORLDS C. 1000

- C. 1250

By Rosa Bacile & John McNeill The sixteen papers in this volume explore the patterns of exchange across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds at the beginning of the Second Millennium AD focusing on topics including art, architecture, iconography, and sculpture. British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions Series 9781909662803, $55, PB, 16 pages col illus, NYP - due Oct 2015, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $44

THE MEDIEVAL CHANTRY IN ENGLAND

Edited by Julian Luxford & John McNeill The Medieval Chantry in England is a special themed issue of Volume 164 of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. The subject is one that has attracted considerable attention from archaeologists and historians of art, architecture and music over the last two decades, though relatively little has been published. Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead. To Church reformers, they exemplified some of medieval Catholicism’s most egregious errors; but to the orthodox they offered opportunities to influence what occurred in an unknowable afterlife. The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins and development of ‘stone-cage’ chapels, royal patronage of commemorative art and architecture, the chantry in the late medieval parish, the provision of music and textiles, and a series of specific chantries created for William of Wykeham, Edmund Audley, Thomas Spring and Abbot Islip, to the eventual history and the cultural consequences of their suppression in the mid-16th century. Journal of the British Archaeological Association 9781907975165, $88, HB, 368p, 2012, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $70.40 BEING AN ISLANDER PRODUCTION AND IDENTITY AT QUOYGREW, ORKNEY, AD 900-1600

Edited by James H. Barrett Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. Focusing on the archaeology of its first 700 years, this volume explores how 'small worlds' both reflected and impacted the fundamental panEuropean watersheds of the Middle Ages: the growth of population, economic production and trade from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries and the subsequent economic and demographic retrenchment of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Concurrently, it addresses the nature of island societies, with distinctive identities shaped by the interplay of isolation and interconnectedness. McDonald Institute Monographs 9781902937618, $118, HB, illus, 358p, 2012, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Special Oﬀer Price $94.40 THE MEDITERRANEAN ARTISTIC CONTEXT OF LATE MEDIEVAL MALTA, 1091-1530

By Charlene Vella This book studies the Mediterranean context of art and architecture in the Maltese Islands between 1091, when they made their first contact with the newly imposed Norman government of Sicily and South Italy, and 1530, when they passed under the control of the Knights of St John. A primary concern has been to establish a meaningful politicoeconomical and socioreligious context to the art and architecture of a period that can be loosely called Late Medieval. This was a time when the islands where very much a melting pot of cultural cross-currents blowing from Islamic North Africa and Latin Christian Europe. The coming together of these different and often antagonistic cultural traditions lie at the root of the Maltese national identity. This study also shows that influences came not only from Sicily, South Italy and North Africa, but also from more distant Mediterranean regions and sometimes from quite unexpected sources. The presumed sources of influence are discussed in a meaningful art historical context, but allowance is made for geophysical and climatic factors that sometimes produced similar architectural and settlement pattern solutions. Another important focus is to show that Malta before the Knights was not the artistic desert that it is often thought to have been. It shows that artistic patronage could sometimes be surprisingly well-informed and that the Renaissance had already manifested itself on the islands well before the coming of the Knights in 1530. 9789993274476, $85, HB, 198 illus, 240p, 2013, Midsea Books Special Oﬀer Price $68

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AT THE LIMITS OF LUNDENWIC

RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL LONDON

EXCAVATIONS IN THE NORTH-WEST OF MIDDLE SAXON

ARCHAEOLOGY AND BELIEF

LONDON AT ST MARTIN’S COURTYARD, 2007–8

By Bruno Barber, Christopher Thomas & Bruce Watson

By Louise Fowler & Ruth Taylor This thought-provoking volume presents the results of the archaeological investigation of a large site in Lundenwic. A fragmentary sequence nevertheless includes possible Early Saxon activity, 7th- and 8th-century settlement features including a cookshop, a workshop for non-ferrous metalworking and debris from a smithy, and the latest radiocarbon-dated inhumation in Lundenwic (cal AD 720–950). These excavations have made important contributions to our understanding of Lundenwic, which has been enhanced by the unprecedented level of organic preservation at the site. MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 27 9781907586187, $24, PB, col illus, 90p, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $19.20 LUNDENWIC EXCAVATIONS IN MIDDLE SAXON LONDON 1987-2000

By Robert Cowie, Lyn Blackmore, A. Davis & Jackie Keily The development of the major settlement of Lundenwic in the late 7th century AD marked the rebirth of London as a town. In the following century the emporium served as a seaport for the landlocked kingdom of Mercia and played a significant role in the maritime trade of north-west Europe. This monograph provides the first detailed overview of the archaeological evidence for the trading port, placing it in its regional, national and international context. The results of fieldwork at 18 locations on the site of the former Middle Saxon settlement are followed by essays on various aspects of the settlement. The volume also includes a gazetteer of sites and a timeline for the settlement and its hinterland. MOLAS Monograph 63 9781907586149, $68, HB, col illus, 350p, 2012, Museum of London Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $54.40 MEDIEVAL HAYWHARF TO 20TH-CENTURY BREWERY EXCAVATIONS AT WATERMARK PLACE, CITY OF LONDON

By Louise Fowler & Anthony Mackinder

Religious belief was central to the lives - and deaths - of all medieval Londoners. Religion was fully integrated into the social and political order, providing the population with an understanding of their place in the world and inspiring artists, architects and craftspeople. Archaeology sheds light on many aspects of belief: from organized religion, both Christianity and Judaism, to superstition or witchcraft; places of worship from the smallest parish churches to the great Cathedral of St Paul; tiny objects of personal devotion to entire monastic landscapes. This fully illustrated book provides an introduction to the evidence of belief from the Museum of London's archaeological excavations in the capital. 9781907586071, $30, PB, col illus, 100p, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $24 ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL DEVELOPMENT SOUTH OF CHEAPSIDE EXCAVATIONS AT BOW BELLS HOUSE, CITY OF LONDON,

2005–6

By Isca Howell, Lyn Blackmore, Christopher Phillpotts & Amy Thorp 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. 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. MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 26 9781907586170, $30, PB, col illus, 120p, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $24 SHAKESPEARE'S LONDON THEATRELAND ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND DRAMA

By Julian Bowsher

Archaeological excavation by MOLA at Watermark Place in the City of London revealed evidence for the development of the city waterfront from the 13th century onwards. The remains of substantial and well-preserved timber river walls and timber/stone dock walls were recorded, and the use of tree-ring dating enabled the construction of one large timber river wall and dock to be dated to the year 1339. In common with other excavations of medieval waterfronts in the City, the waterlogged deposits associated with the structural remains produced a remarkable array of finds. Archaeology Studies Series 30

This guide to the unique theatrical venues of London, from 1567, when the first playhouse was built, to 1642, when Cromwell closed them down, sets out the rich dramatic history of this period in relation to the latest exciting archaeological evidence. The book also details the people involved - the builders, actors, playwrights and audiences - what they wore and what they ate, where they drank, where they fought, where they lived and died. There are theatrical quotes and jokes, and illus old and new, while a series of walks explores different areas of today's London, where glimpses of Shakespeare's London can still be caught.

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MEDIEVAL TO EARLY POST-MEDIEVAL TENEMENTS AND MIDDLE EASTERN IMPORTS EXCAVATIONS AT PLANTATION PLACE, CITY OF LONDON,

THE HOPE PLAYHOUSE, ANIMAL BAITING AND LATER INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY AT BEAR GARDENS ON BANKSIDE

1997–2003

EXCAVATIONS AT RIVERSIDE HOUSE AND NEW GLOBE

By Ken Pitt, Lyn Blackmore, Tony Dyson & Rachel Tyson

WALK, SOUTHWARK, 1999–2000

By Anthony Mackinder, Lyn Blackmore, Julian Bowsher & Christopher Phillpotts

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. Monograph Series 66

Southwark’s famous Bankside was long known as an entertainment area up to the 17th century. This volume provides evidence for the Barge, one of the medieval stewhouses (tavern/brothel) and the later Hope, a dual purpose building hosting animal baiting as well as play performances. The next phase in Bankside’s history was industrial and its glass and pottery products of the 17th and 18th centuries were much sought after. Evidence for their production was found on the sites. The remains of 19th-century brick buildings relate to a known iron foundry in the area. MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 25

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'GIVEN TO THE GROUND' A VIKING AGE MASS GRAVE ON RIDGEWAY HILL, WEYMOUTH

ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 18

By Louise Loe, Angela Boyle, Helen Webb & David Score

Edited by Helena Hamerow

This volume describes one of the most exciting and unexpected archaeological discoveries to have been made in Britain in recent years, that of a rare mass grave of executed Vikings on Ridgeway Hill, Dorset. The skeletons, around 50 in total, were predominantly of young adult males all of whom had been decapitated: heads had been deposited in a pile at the southern edge of the grave, while the beheaded bodies had been apparently thrown in with little care. Since their recovery experts have undertaken forensic studies of the bones and have applied cutting edge techniques to elicit the most information possible, in order to understand who the individuals were and what circumstances led to their demise. Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 22 9780900341588, $58, PB, 264 illus, 63 tables, 300p, 2014, Oxford Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $46.40

A collection of papers concerning studies in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and history. Topics include: Women, Knowledge and Power: The iconography of early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches; Grid-Planning in Anglo-Saxon Settlements: The short perch and the four-perch module; The Inscribed Gold Strip in the Staffordshire Hoard: The text and script of an early Anglo-Saxon biblical inscription; Lundenwic and the Middle Saxon Worked Bone Interlude; Rivers of Gold? The coastal zone between the Humber and the Wash in the Mid Saxon period; Anglo-Saxon Berkeley: History and topography; Urban Identity and Material Culture: A case study of Viking-Age Lincoln, c. AD 850–1000. 9781905905287, $80, PB, 180p, 2013, Oxford University School of Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $64 TRINKETS AND CHARMS

SHADOWS IN THE SAND

THE USE, MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF DRESS

EXCAVATION OF A VIKING-AGE CEMETERY AT CUMWHITTON

ACCESSORIES, AD 1300–1700

By Caroline Paterson, Adam J. Parsons, Rachel M. Newman, Nick Johnson & Christine Howard-Davis

By Eleanor Rose Standley

In 2004, a Cumbrian metal detectorist, Peter Adams, found a brooch in the ploughsoil, near Cumwhitton in the Eden Valley. This was identified as a rare Viking oval brooch of ninth- or tenth-century date. These are almost always found in pairs, and in a burial context, and a second brooch was subsequently found. An evaluation was then undertaken and a furnished grave was located. During a major excavation six burials were found, dating to the early tenth century, but almost no skeletal material survived. The burials were richly furnished, with a wide range of artifacts, including swords, spearheads, spurs, knives, and numerous other objects. Lancaster Imprints 22 9781907686160, $45, HB, 133 figures, 82 plates, 4 tables, DVD with appendixes, 195p, 2014, Oxford Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $36 UNDER THE ORACLE

This publication presents a study of a wide range of evidence to reveal the use and meaning of dress accessories in daily life in two regions of Britain, c. AD 1300-1700. Dress accessory evidence from a variety of sites is brought together to reveal how the small personal possessions were highly significant objects and held important meanings for their owners. The archaeological finds that form the basis of the study vary from large, elaborate gold rings to small, simple copper alloy lace ends, and have been collated from excavated archives and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The material is drawn from the eastern Anglo-Scottish and southern Anglo-Welsh border regions. A wide range of archaeological data is investigated alongside other evidence, namely contemporary artistic depictions, wills and literature. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 78 9781905905300, $70, HB, 65 col illus & 22 b/w illus, 140p, 2013, Oxford University School of Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $56

EXCAVATIONS AT THE ORACLE SHOPPING CENTRE SITE

AGINCOURT

1996-8: THE MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL URBAN

MYTH AND REALITY

DEVELOPMENT OF THE KENNET FLOODPLAIN IN READING

By Stephen Cooper

By Ben M. Ford, Daniel Poore, Ruth Shaﬀrey & David R. P. Wilkinson

1415-2015

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 12th- to 13th-century cookhouse of Reading Abbey. Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 36

The overwhelming victory of Henry V’s English army at Agincourt in October 1415 has passed into myth as one of the defining events of the Hundred Years War against France. This epic story of how an exhausted, outnumbered army, commanded by an inspirational leader, crushed a huge French force on French soil has given rise to legends and misconceptions that make it difficult for us to reach a clear understanding of what really happened on the battlefield 600 years ago. But that is what Stephen Cooper attempts in this thoroughgoing, perceptive and fascinating reconstruction and reassessment of the battle and its history.

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AGINCOURT 1415

MEDIEVAL WARFARE

A TOURIST ’S GUIDE TO THE CAMPAIGN

By James Grant & edited & introduced by Bob Carruthers

By Peter Hoskins & Anne Curry Henry V’s English army triumphed over the French at Agincourt in northern France on 25 October 1415 in one of the defining battles of the Hundred Years War. This epic story is transformed into a graphic narrative of the entire campaign, they take the motorist, cyclist and walker along the route of Henry’s army. The itinerary is divided into five tours which culminate in a vivid reconstruction of the Agincourt battle and a detailed guide to the battlefield. It will be an essential traveling companion for readers who are interested in medieval history and warfare.

Medieval Warfare collects Scottish Author, James Grant’s work from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to the Battle of Barnet in 1471, a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses. The book contains remarkably detailed accounts of many key battles from the period including the Battle of the Standard and Bannockburn to Poitiers and Agincourt from the Hundred Years’ War. The historically defining strategies employed during these battles are explored throughout. Illustrated with vivid portraits of battle and detailed drawings of the tools and weapons of the period, this is the definitive account of a trying and bloody period in history.

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RICHARD THE III AND THE BOSWORTH CAMPAIGN

100 YEARS WAR: AGINCOURT 1415

REVISED EDITION

By Tim Saunders

By Peter Hammond On 22 August 1485 the forces of the Yorkist king Richard III and his Lancastrian opponent Henry Tudor clashed at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire in one of the decisive battles of English history. Peter Hammond, in a vivid and perceptive account of one of the most famous battles of the Wars of the Roses, retells the story of the dynastic and personal rivalries that provoked the conflict, describes the preparations of the two armies and offers an analysis of the contest itself. The latest historical evidence is assessed, including the recent discovery of Richard III’s body in Leicester and considers the fascinating archaeological work in the battlefield. 9781783376162, $24.95, PB, 30 b/w illus, 224p, 2014, Pen & Sword Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 9781844687589, $24.95, ePub 9781783372430, $24.95, pdf THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE: ILLUSTRATED AND ANNOTATED

By Bob Carruthers & James Ingram The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. At present, there are nine known versions or fragments of the original 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' in existence. All of the versions vary in content and quality, and crucially all of the surviving manuscripts are copies, so it is not known where or when the first version of the Chronicle was composed. The translation that has been used for this edition is not a translation of any one Chronicle; rather, it is a conflation of readings from many different versions containing primarily the translation of Rev. James Ingram from 1828. 9781781591482, $24.95, PB, 384p, 2013, Pen & Sword Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 9781473838338, $24.95, ePub 9781473839045, $24.95, pdf THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066 THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH REVEALING THE TRUE LOCATION OF ENGLAND’S MOST FAMOUS BATTLE

By John Grehan & Martin Mace The Battle of Hastings is the most defining event in English history. As such, its every detail has been analyzed by scholars and interpreted by historians. Yet one of the most fundamental aspect of the battle—the place upon which it was fought—has never been seriously questioned, until now. The authors examine the early sources and the modern interpretations to unravel the compulsive evidence that historians have chosen to ignore because it does not fit the traditional view of where the battle was fought. They investigate the terrain of the battlefield and the archaeological data to reveal exactly where history was made. 9781848848276, $39.95, HB, 30 b/w illus, 192p, 2013, Pen & Sword Special Oﬀer Price $31.96 9781781599846, $39.95, ePub 9781783372690, $39.95, pdf TOWTON THE BATTLE OF PALM SUNDAY FIELD

By John Sadler The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461 was the largest, longest fought and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of the fighting, the quantity of casualties and the decisive nature of its outcome, Towton stands out from the long sequence of battles fought for control of England in the fifteenth century. This bitter contest of arms was a turning point in the Wars of the Roses. John Sadler, in this vivid reconstruction of the battle, offers a fresh view of a pivotal episode in English history and an unflinching insight into the cruelties of medieval warfare. 9781783461929, $24.95, PB, 20 illus, 224p, 2014, Pen & Sword Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 9781844682683, $24.95, ePub 9781783370610, $24.95, pdf

On October 25, 1415, Henry V’s small and dispirited Anglo/Welsh Army destroyed a vast French Army at Agincourt. This program looks at not just this iconic battle immortalized by Shakespeare and many other authors but the campaign that led up to this final great English victory of the 100 Years War when the Yeoman of England reigned supreme on the field of battle. Unlike the Crecy campaign of his great grandfather, Edward III this campaign nearly ended in disaster. England had been weakened by civil war and plague. Henry’s English Army did not have the experience and leadership of that of his great grandfather however it despite its weaknesses it still was to prove superior to the over proud French Army riven with jealousy and pride. Although the initial landings and encirclement of Harfleur went well the siege dragged on and the “Bloody Flux” the scourge of many a medieval army struck the English. Although they successfully captured Harfleur the army that was left was a shadow of its former self. The BHTV team examines the political, military and economic background to the campaign and brings the subject to life by visits to all the major locations, skillful use of maps and complimented by re-enactment footage and vignettes of life and combat. 5060247620329, $32.95, DVD NTSC, 2013, Pen & Sword Digital Special Oﬀer Price $26.36

100 YEARS WAR: CRECY 1346 On 11 July 1346, the Anglo/Welsh army of Edward III started to disembark in the bay at St Vaast in the Cotentin Peninsula. In a period of 12 months, this army won 3 major battles Caen, Blanchtaque and Crecy and captured Calais, which would remain in English hands until 1558 a thorn in the side of France. This campaign is not only notable for the military victories of Edward and his army but for the way it reshaped warfare on the continent, the English arrived as a major military player on the international stage of medieval Europe. The strategy of “Chevauchee” employed by Edward’s army whilst not being completely new was utilized in an intelligent and controlled manner to bring the French to battle. This campaign was the first major chapter in the story of the Anglo-French conflict that was later called the 100 years War. The BHTV team examines the political, military and economic background to the campaign and brings the subject to life through visits to the major locations, the use of maps and reenactment footage. 5060247620442, $29.95, DVD NTSC, 2013, Pen & Sword Digital Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 STUDIES IN THE ART AND IMAGERY OF THE MIDDLE AGES

By Richard Marks Professor Marks’ main interest is the religious imagery of medieval Europe, in all the visual arts. Much of his research has been on English stained glass, and, more recently, on the function and reception of devotional images. His works here include Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages (1993), The Medieval Stained Glass of Northamptonshire (1998), The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200–1500 (1981) and Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England (2004). This volume brings together thirty-one of Professor Marks’ studies, encompassing historiography, stained glass, manuscript illumination, screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments. 9781904597384, $300, HB, 456 illus, 830p, 2013, Pindar Press Special Oﬀer Price $240

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AM RANDE DES GRABS

THE HIRSEL EXCAVATIONS

TODESKONZEPTE UND BESTATTUNGSRITUAL IN DER

By Rosemary Cramp

FRÜHMITTELALTERLICHEN ALAMANNIA

By Barbara Hausmair Burials are first and foremost a result of a very traumatic event in a society—the death of one of its members. It is due to this context that burials represent a primary source for understanding past societies’ attitudes towards death. Barbara Hausmair traces death concepts and their influence on mortuary rituals in early medieval communities in what is today known as southwest Germany. Her thanatological approach provides original insights into the relationships between burial practices and ideas about death in Merovingian-period Alamannia by combining theoretical considerations with analysis of archaeological material. 9789088902956, $90, PB, 93 b/w & 7 full col images, 250p, NYP - due May 2015, German text, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $72

Excavations and surveys adjacent to Hirsel House, Coldstream, have revealed a remarkably detailed history of a proprietory church and its cemetery for a period when the parochial structure in Scotland was in course of development, and when very little is known about the fate of estate churches after they were donated to support the newly founded monasteries of the 12th century. Here, in an estate the boundaries of which has changed very little since the Middle Ages, a small unicellular drystone structure developed into a well-built Romanesque church with a rare example of its bell founding structure intact. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 36 9781909662353, $60, PB, 2014, Society for Medieval Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48 TRANSFORMING TOWNSCAPES FROM BURH TO BOROUGH: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF

ANIMALS IN SAXON AND SCANDINAVIAN ENGLAND

WALLINGFORD, AD 800-1400

BACKBONES OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

By Neil Christie, Oliver Creighton, Matt Edgeworth & Helena Hamerow

By Matilda Holmes In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarized in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future archaeozoological studies. Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England takes as its core four broad areas of analysis. The first is an investigation of the diet of the population, secondly, the role of animals in the economy is considered. The third deliberation takes into account the foodways and interactions between producer and consumer sites, considering the distribution of food and raw materials between farm, table and craft worker. 9789088902666, $50, PB, 203 b/w & 19 col illus, 222p, 2014, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $40 9789088902673, $30, pdf CROP PROTECTION IN MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURE STUDIES IN PRE-MODERN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

By Jan C. Zadoks Mediterranean and West European pre-modern agriculture (agriculture before 1600) was by necessity ‘organic agriculture’. Crop protection is part and parcel of this agriculture, with weed control in the forefront.Three medieval agronomists are at the heart of this book, but historical developments in crop protection from early Punic, Greek, and Roman authors to the first modern author are outlined. The readership of these writers was the privileged class of landowners but hints pointing to the exchange of ideas between them and the common peasant were found. 9789088901874, $65, PB, 13 col & 26 b/w illus, 330p, 2013, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $52 9789088901888, $20.99, pdf ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES AND GRAVE GOODS OF THE 6TH AND 7TH CENTURIES AD A CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK

By Alex Bayliss, John Hines, Karen Hoilund Nielsen, Gerry McCormac & Christopher Scull The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artifacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them. The evidence has now been studied afresh using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new: a review and revision of artifact-typology; seriation of grave-assemblages using correspondence analysis; highprecision radiocarbon dating of selected bone samples; and Bayesian modelling using the results of all of these. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 33 9781909662063, $90, HB, 500 illus, 616p, 2013, Society for Medieval Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $72

This monograph details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also contained a substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 35 9781909662094, $90, PB, over 250 b/w illus & 30 col plates, 2013, Society for Medieval Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $72 WIGMORE CASTLE, NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE EXCAVATIONS 1996 AND 1998

By Stephanie Ratkai Excavations at Wigmore Castle were carried out in 1996 and 1998 as a precursor to repair and consolidation of the castle by English Heritage. The castle had remained the honorial caput of the Mortimer family from the late 11th century through to 1425, an unusually long tenure amongst Marcher lordships. The Mortimer family became increasingly important players in the history of England. Here the excavations are presented. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 34 9781909662193, $60, PB, over 250 b/w illus, 250p, NYP - due June 2015, Society for Medieval Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48 MARITIME SOCIETIES OF THE VIKING AND MEDIEVAL WORLD

Edited by James H. Barrett & Sarah Jane Gibbon The idea behind this volume emerged from a conference of the same name, jointly organized by the Orkney Heritage Society and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, held in Kirkwall in May/June of 2008. The meeting aimed to set the semiindependent island polities of Viking Age and medieval Scotland in a context that went beyond the rural North Atlantic region to which they are often ascribed. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs (SMA) 37 9781909662797, $98, HB, 16 pages col illus, 386p, NYP - due Oct 2015, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $78.40 SHERBORNE OLD CASTLE, DORSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 1930–90

By Peter White & Alan Cook Roger, Bishop of Salisbury (1102–39), built Sherborne Old Castle within his episcopal estate at Sherborne, in north-west Dorset, in about 1122–35. The fortified palace was one of several major building projects undertaken by Bishop Roger. This report describes and analyzes the information obtained from all the archaeological investigations undertaken at the castle since the early 20th century. 9780854312993, $70, HB, 97 illus, 200p, 2015, Society of Antiquaries of London Special Oﬀer Price $56

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AMSTERDAM CERAMICS

QUERNS, MILLS AND

A CITY'S HISTORY AND

FLOUR PRODUCTION IN

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL

EUROPE UP TO C. 500 AD

CERAMICS CATALOGUE

By David Peacock

1175-2011

By Jerzy Gawronski Amsterdam Ceramics explores nine centuries of urban history and archaeological ceramics from the city of Amsterdam. A total of 1247 archaeological ceramic items are presented in a catalogue which is chronologically subdivided into nine chapters covering the period 1175-2011, and offers a representative selection of finds from over 200 excavation sites. In introductory chapters to each chronological period the finds are set alongside the changing topography of the city. 9789059372672, $80, PB, col illus, 334p, 2012, SPA Uitgevers Special Oﬀer Price $64 THE BISHOP'S PALACE AT SALISBURY

By Peter L. Smith 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, $60, HB, 21 col & 96 b/w illus, 224p, 2013, Spire Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 FARMING AND FISHING IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES AD 600 TO 1700

This book is about the archaeology querns and mills, simple stone instruments which are vital to survival in a society which adopts bread as its staple. They become the ‘stones of life’, an essential ingredient in the subsistence strategy of settled agriculturalists. Querns and mills have been woefully neglected, although in the last decade there has been burgeoning interest throughout much of Europe and because of this, it is timely to survey the subject, adopting a broad view 9780992633608, $72, HB, 98 figs many in col, 220p, 2013, The Highfield Press Special Oﬀer Price $57.60 CUNEDDA, CYNAN, CADWALLON, CYNDDYLAN FOUR WELSH POEMS AND

THE WORLD IN THE VIKING AGE

Edited by Søren M. Sindbaek & Athena Trakadas The Viking Age was ignited by the art of building seaworthy sailing ships and the skills to sail them on the open sea. The growth in seafaring, trade, piracy, and exploration that began to gather momentum during the 8th century CE was not limited to Europe’s northern seas. Ships, laden with cargo and seafarers, created unexpected connections between people from the Arctic Circle to the oceans south of the equator. It is archaeological discoveries which uncover the story of Viking-Age seafaring and voyages of exploration. This book reveals a global history concerning ships, people and objects on the move. 9788785180704, $36, PB, 115 illus, 140p, 2014, Viking Ship Museum Special Oﬀer Price $28.80 THOROUGHBRED OF THE SEA THE SEA STALLION FROM

BRITAIN 383–655

GLENDALOUGH: TRIAL

By John T. Koch

VOYAGE WITH A LONGSHIP

The early Welsh poems concern four independently documented military leaders of the post-Roman Migration Period: Cunedda son of Aeternus (active AD 383 × c. 490), Cynan son of Brochfael (active c. 570 × c. 610), Cadwallon son of Cadfan (active c. 620–634/635), and Cynddylan son of Cyndrwyn (active c. 635–655). New editions, translations, and interpretations are accompanied by notes and commentary. The principal focus is on the historical value and implications of the poems as primary evidence for the foundation of the kingdoms of Wales and Anglo-Saxon England. 9781907029134, $29.95, PB, 6 pages of b/w maps, 334p, 2013, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 LARGE CARGO SHIPS IN DANISH WATERS

By Louise Kaempe Henriksen, Vibeke Bischoﬀ, Tinna DamgardSorensen & Anton Englert The reconstructed longship Sea Stallion from Glendalough sailed from Roskilde to Dublin and back in the summers of 2007 and 2008, with an international volunteer crew of 60 men and women. The first results of this extraordinary voyage on the track of the Vikings are now available. This volume gives an account of the methodological considerations behind a trial voyage as experimental archaeology. The course of the voyage is mapped out historically, based on the weather conditions and the waters navigated. 9788785180223, $28, PB, illus, 68p, NYP - due June 2015, Viking Ship Museum Special Oﬀer Price $22.40 IMPERIAL COLLEGE SPORTS GROUNDS AND RMC LAND, HARLINGTON THE DEVELOPMENT OF

1000-1250

PREHISTORIC AND LATER

THE UDAL, NORTH UIST

EVIDENCE OF

COMMUNITIES IN THE

By Dale Serjeantson

SPECIALISED MERCHANT

COLNE VALLEY AND ON

Fifty years ago, Iain Crawford began a forty year program of excavation on the Udal peninsula, in North Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland. His excavations have acquired mythical status because Crawford only publicised the most spectacular elements, discouraged the visits of other academics, deterred researchers’ enquiries and never wrote up his finds. Since 2010, with the blessing of the Crawford family and the help of Historic Scotland and the Western Isles Council, a small team has assessed the documentary archive and the collections and work on publication has begun. This is the first report to appear. Southampton Monographs in Archaeology New Series 2 9780992633622, $31, PB, b/w & col illus, 164p, 2013, The Highfield Press Special Oﬀer Price $24.80

THE STONE OF LIFE

SEAFARING PRIOR TO THE

THE HEATHROW TERRACES

HANSEATIC PERIOD

By Andrew B. Powell, Alistair Barclay, Lorraine Mepham & Chris J. Stevens

By Anton Englert The medieval Hanseatic merchants are famous for their maritime trade network, which extended across Northern Europe from the 13th century onward. This volume presents the earliest archaeological evidence for specialized merchant seafaring in Danish waters. The cargo ship-finds of Eltang Vig, Lynæs, Karschau and Haderslev are explored in detail in order to illuminate the technology and style of a dynamic age of maritime enterprise and cultural transformation. Ships and Boats of the North 7

This volume brings together the results from the excavations at the former Imperial College Sports Ground, RMC Land and Land East of Wall Garden Farm, near the villages of Harlington and Sipson in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The excavations revealed parts of an archaeological landscape with a rich history of development from before 4000 BC to the post-medieval period. The opportunity to investigate two large areas of this landscape provided evidence for possible settlement continuity and shift over a period of 6000 years. Wessex Archaeology Reports 33

9788785180537, $100, HB, 240 illus, 378p, 2015, Viking Ship Museum Special Oﬀer Price $80

9781874350743, $60, HB, 110 b/w & col line drawings; 35 col plates, 250p, NYP - due June 2015, Wessex Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48

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