Medieval & Viking
Environment, Society and the Black Death Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781785700545
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have been the matter of continuous debate.

The British Museum Citole

New Perspectives
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780861591862
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2015
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
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.
Middle English Romances in Translation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9789088903397
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle English romance has only recently begun to attain critical respectability, dismissed as "vayn carpynge" in its own age and generally treated by twentieth-century critics as a junk-food form of medieval literature.
Conservation and Discovery Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 193
ISBN: 9781907586392
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2015
Description:
A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europe's greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conservation workin the former Benedictine abbey church of Peterborough. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made during that time, as well as the conservation programme itself, are documented and fully illustrated here.
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture & Anglo-Saxon & Anglo- Scandinavian Stone Sculpture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9780993033902
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2015
Imprint: Guy Points
Illustrations: 25 Black & White Illustrations 148 Colour Photographs
Description:
The aim of this book is to provide an informed introduction to the subjects so that the reader will be able to confidently recognise Anglo-Saxon church architectural features and Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian stone sculpture. The contents, including illustrations and photographs, all meticulously checked on site, are drawn from the author’s extensive research and travels over many years. Especially useful is the gazetteer section offering a selection of 127 sites providing excellent examples of the features described.
A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780861591985
Pub Date: 16 Jun 2015
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
A key publication on the British Museum’s internationally renowned Late Antique gold glass collection, this is the first publication in 50 years to offer new ideas on Late Antique gold glass, one of the most important areas in the field of ancient glass studies. It provides new insights into Early Christian iconography and will appeal to specialists and non-specialists as well as museums and collectors. Includes a full catalogue of the British Museum’s collection with beautiful colour illustrations.
Am Rande des Grabs Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9789088902956
Pub Date: 07 May 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
The original circumstances in which archaeological remains came into being are crucial for the interpretation of the material record. 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.
English Inland Trade 1430-1540 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781782978244
Pub Date: 01 May 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illus.
Description:
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.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 19 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781905905348
Pub Date: 21 Apr 2015
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
Description:
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is a series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period.ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an inter- and multi-disciplinary forum that allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions placing Anglo-Saxon England in its international context are as warmly welcomed as those that focus on England itself.
RRP: £40.00
Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780854312993
Pub Date: 26 Mar 2015
Description:
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; among the others were the rebuilding of Old Sarum cathedral and castles at Devizes and Malmesbury. Although Sherborne Old Castle was altered over the next four centuries, most of its original structural elements were retained until the buildings were slighted in 1645.
RRP: £35.00
Matter of Faith Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780861591954
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Description:
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.
Windsor and Eton Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781782978282
Pub Date: 12 Mar 2015
Series: British Historic Towns Atlas
Description:
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.The atlas contains high-quality and original maps of the two towns at key periods between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries.
RRP: £55.00
1453: The Conquest of Constantinople Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9789490258108
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2015
Imprint: Karwansaray Publishers
Illustrations: 95
Description:
The 2014 Medieval Warfare Special issue is entirely dedicated - all 84 pages - to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. It's like a normal issue, except it'll have more pages, more articles, more maps and more illustrations! Medieval Warfare Special 2014: 1453 - The Conquest of Constantinople with: - Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction – the destruction of the Oikoumeni - Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI – no room to maneuver - Murat Özveri, Mehmed ‘the Conqueror’ – A sultan of paradoxes - Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium – difficult ‘trio' - Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople - Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople - Murray Dahm, Fallout – Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople - Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the “Polish janissary” - Raffaele D’Amato, The last defenders – the Roman army - Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents – the Ottoman army - Ben Sheppard, Aftermath
RRP: £14.99
EAA 153: A Late Saxon Village and Medieval Manor Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781907588051
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2015
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Description:
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.
The Evolution and Exploitation of the Avon Flood Plain at Bath and the Development of the Southern Suburb Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781907586286
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2015
Description:
The construction of a new shopping centre afforded MOLA the opportunity to investigate a 3.55ha site located between the north bank of the River Avon and the southern defences of Roman and later Bath. Extensive geoarchaeological work allowed the modelling and dating of the main stages in the evolution of this part of the Avon flood plain from at least the Late Devensian (23–11.
Roman and medieval revetments on the Thames waterfront Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 137
ISBN: 9781907586309
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2015
Description:
Archaeological investigations were carried out in 2006–9 on the north bank of the River Thames at Riverbank House, City of London, just upstream of the modern London Bridge and its medieval predecessor, in the heart of the medieval port. An extensive watching brief had taken place on the site in the early 1980s (the Swan Lane car park), but these new excavations were in undisturbed areas around the perimeter. A 2nd-century AD revetment and part of the late Roman riverside wall were recorded, while a sequence of timber revetments, some dated by dendrochronology, witness the growth of the medieval port from the 12th to the 15th centuries.