Medieval & Viking
Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781785702358
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks.
RRP: £50.00
Cod and Herring Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
ISBN: 9781785702396
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Quests for cod, herring and other sea fish had profound impacts on medieval Europe. This interdisciplinary book combines history, archaeology and zooarchaeology to discover the chronology, causes and consequences of these fisheries. It crosscuts traditional temporal and geographical boundaries, ranging from the Migration Period through the Middle Ages into early modern times, and from Iceland to Estonia, Arctic Norway to Belgium.
Les mosquées ibadites du djebel Nafūsa Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9781900971416
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2016
Imprint: Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Description:
The mosques of the Djebel Nafūsa, little known and under threat, personify the continuity of traditions and faith of the Ibadites, who have retained their grip over the centuries on this rugged landscape, despite their many trials and tribulations. This book is the result of a mission carried out in 2010 with the photographer Axel Derriks and examines twenty or so mosques, bringing to light their architectural features and linking them to medieval Ibadite texts.
Sylloge of Anglo-Saxon Coins II Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780714118246
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2016
Illustrations: 55 b&w plates
Description:
This publication catalogues the British Museum’s uniquely important collection of coins from southern England of the period c. 760–880. During these years, the broad and thin silver penny became established as the standard denomination, used by multiple kingdoms including East Anglia, Kent, Mercia and Wessex, and issued in the names of kings such as Offa of Mercia and Alfred the Great.
A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian Sites Lincolnshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9780993033940
Pub Date: 31 May 2016
Imprint: Guy Points
Illustrations: 31 Black & White Illus
Description:
This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artefacts and material of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian (Viking) stone interest in Lincolnshire. Part 1 provides background material to put the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Scandinavians 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 117 “sites” with the aim of enabling the reader to know exactly what they are looking for and where exactly to find it: there is a site index.
In William the Conqueror's Footsteps Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9782815102957
Pub Date: 31 May 2016
Imprint: OREP
Description:
In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, raised an army to invade England and to seize the throne. Maixent, a young boy from a poor family, became the unexpected companion of a nobleman named Tancrède de Hautmesnil on his way to join the Norman chief on the coast. From there, on the 28th of September and taking advantage of favourable winds, the fleet set off to launch the assault on England.
RRP: £14.00
The Marys of Medieval Drama Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9789088903670
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 6 full colour
Description:
Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary continue to intrigue and fascinate us to this day. Their appearances in the Bible are brief, piquing our curiosity and compelling speculation about the unknown years of their lives. This volume contains modern translations of plays performed during the late Middle Ages in England about the lives of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.
EAA 157: Early to Middle Iron Age Settlement and Early Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Harston Mill, Cambridgeshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780993247705
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2016
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Description:
A Bronze Age barrow, one of several in the Rhee valley, was encircled by two concentric rings of posts in the early to middle Iron Age, and a single crouched inhumation was buried nearby. A small group of roundhouses and granaries was built on the clays c.100m from the river, and nearly 200 possible grain storage pits were dug on chalk deposits next to the river.
The Archaeology of the Lower City and Adjacent Suburbs Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 550
ISBN: 9781782978527
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Lincoln Archaeology Studies
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
This volume contains reports on excavations undertaken in the lower walled city at Lincoln, which lies on sloping ground on the northern scarp of the Witham gap, and its adjacent suburbs between 1972 and 1987, and forms a companion volume to LAS volumes 2 and 3 which cover other parts of the historic city. The earliest features encountered were discovered both near to the line of Ermine Street and towards Broadgate. Remains of timber storage buildings were found, probably associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the later 1st century AD.
RRP: £55.00
A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian & Hiberno-Norse Sites: Cumbria, Dumfriesshire & Wigtownshire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780955767999
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2016
Imprint: Guy Points
Illustrations: 36 colour photographs
Description:
For over 35 years the author has travelled and researched extensively in the UK. His first publications were concise guides to historic Orkney and Shetland, and Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, covering places of interest from prehistory to the twentieth century. In the last 20 years he has focussed on the Anglo-Saxon period producing gazetteers of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian sites as indicate above, as well as “The Combined Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: A Ready-Reference Abridged Chronology” a single narrative in chronological order of the information provided in the extant manuscripts identifying in the process the source manuscripts.
Practices of Wealth Depositing in the 1st–9th Century AD Eastern Baltic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789088903076
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2016
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This PhD thesis discusses the practices of wealth depositing in the 1st–9th century AD eastern Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Wealth deposits are one or more valued object/s that is/are hidden deliberately as an intended separate deposition in a selected place in a specific, distinguishable manner. Wealth depositing is regarded as an important cultural practice which relates to and derives from various past social phenomena and changes respectively in spatial and temporal terms.
De stad, het vuil en de beerput Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9789088903144
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
There has been a lot of new data discovered on Medieval Dutch cities in recent decades. This has provided new insights on the develeopment, topography, material culture and the functioning of cities. This study combines and synthesizes data from several Dutch Medieval cities.
Medieval Archaeology in Scandinavia & Beyond Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 406
ISBN: 9788771243789
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Description:
This book presents, in twenty international papers, the origin and development, and some of the main characteristics and diversities, of the academic discipline of medieval - and later - archaeology in a number of countries in northern Europe. Denmark is the main focus, together with the four other Scandinavian countries, the Faroes and Greenland. The book also provides an insight into some of the discipline's major achievements and fascinating discoveries in these parts of the world, as well as into some of the current research agendas, with their new perspectives, including developments towards the inclusion of the archaeology of more recent periods.
Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781785701030
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: col illus
Description:
The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued to grow and the palace-fortress was in the ascendancy. Seats of Power in Europe is a major new study of the residences of the crowned heads and the royal ducal families of the countries involved in the Hundred Years’ War.
Verwerkt verleden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789088903298
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
This book, aimed at a general audience, presents the results of all archeological research performed in the Dutch city of Helmond during several decades. Starting in the early prehistory the authors present the earliest evidence of people living in the current region of Helmond, the rise of the city up until recent times.
A Medieval Woman's Companion Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781785700798
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: black/white illustrations
Description:
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature.