Medieval World  /  Viking & Early Medieval Europe
The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650-1100 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781789253726
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society. Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of all known Anglo-Saxon vessel glass of middle Anglo-Saxon date as a group has enabled the first quantification of form, colour, and decoration, and provided the structure for a new typological, chronological and geographical framework. The quantification and comparison of the vessel glass fragments and their attributes, and the mapping of the national distribution of these characteristics (forms, colours and decoration types), both represent significant developments and create rich opportunities for the future.
RRP: £35.00
The Staffordshire Hoard Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781527233508
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2019
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Illustrations: 355
Description:
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture. Key chapters discuss the decoration and meaning of the Hoard’s intricate ornament, the techniques of Anglo-Saxon craftsmen, the religious and historical background, and hoarding practice in Britain and Europe, to place this most exceptional find in context. Finally, the text explores the impact that the find has had locally, nationally and internationally in the twenty-first century.
RRP: £49.95
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 728
ISBN: 9781789250466
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Description:
The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to drastic changes. The islands were systematically ravaged by Viking raiders and then colonised by Norse settlers.
Settlement change across Medieval Europe Cover Settlement change across Medieval Europe Cover
Format: 
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9789088908071
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 135fc/51bw
Pages: 446
ISBN: 9789088908064
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 135fc/51bw
Description:
The idea that the past was an era with long periods of little or no change is almost certainly false. Change has always affected human society. Some of the catalysts for change were exogenous and lay in natural transformations, such as climate change or plant and animal diseases.
Looting or Missioning Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781789253184
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour
Description:
Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought these objects back to their homeland where they were often broken up and used as jewellery or got alternative functions. Looting or Missioning looks at the use and functions of these sacred objects in their original Christian contexts.
RRP: £48.00
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe Cover Scotland in Early Medieval Europe Cover
Format: 
Pages: 175
ISBN: 9789088907517
Pub Date: 15 May 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 28fc/8bw
Pages: 175
ISBN: 9789088907524
Pub Date: 15 May 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 28fc/8bw
Description:
This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900) was a crucible of different languages and cultures, the world of the Picts, Scots, Britons and Anglo-Saxons. Though long regarded as somehow peripheral to continental Europe, people in Early Medieval Scotland had mastered complex technologies and were part of sophisticated intellectual networks.
RRP: £30.00
The Viking Way Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9781842172605
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned.
RRP: £35.00
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 21 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9781905905447
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
Description:
A selection of papers on the Anglo-Saxon period, including papers on non-ferrous dress-accessories from early medieval Lincoln; The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire; transformation and use of insular mounts from Viking-Age burials in TrØndelag central Norway, and evidence from two rural Anglo-Saxon sites in Suffolk.
Horcott Quarry, Fairford and Arkell’s Land, Kempsford Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 552
ISBN: 9781905905386
Pub Date: 31 May 2017
Illustrations: 259 illustrations, 134 tables
Description:
Excavations in advance of gravel quarrying in the Upper Thames Valley at Horcott Quarry, Fairford, and nearby Arkell’s Land, Kempsford, revealed contrasting pictures. At Horcott, on the second terrace, there was periodic activity from the early Mesolithic onwards. A major earlier Iron Age settlement contained roundhouses and at least 135 four-post structures, suggesting an exceptional focus on grain storage.
Vikings and the Danelaw Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
ISBN: 9781785704444
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw.
Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781785704659
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in Lincolnshire; Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental sculpture from St David's in South Wales; Martin Carver reviews the politics of monumental sculpture and monumentality; and Catherine Hills reassesses the significance of imported ivory found in graves. Richard Bailey, Christopher Morris and Derek Craig top and tail the book with tributes to Rosemary Cramp and a bibliography of her work.
Art in England Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781785702235
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 270
Description:
Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole.
RRP: £60.00
The World in the Viking Age Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788785180704
Pub Date: 28 Apr 2014
Description:
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, however. Ships, laden with cargo and with seafarers who met foreign cultures, created unexpected connections between people from the Arctic Circle to the oceans south of the equator.
The Stone of Life Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9780992633608
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: The Highfield Press
Description:
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. It might be expected that as querns and mills are commonplace in archaeology, they would be key artefacts, studied exhaustively.
RRP: £45.00
British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780714118239
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2013
Description:
This volume is dedicated to the British Museum’s collection of early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage as well as the Anglo-Saxon and Continental silver coinage of the North Sea area, dating from the early seventh to the mid-eighth centuries. This was the coinage which circulated during the age of Bede, the Lindisfarne Gospels and Sutton Hoo, and which is widely celebrated for its historical significance and artistic accomplishment. Both these features are well illustrated in this volume by more than 850 coins, which together form one of the largest, oldest and most representative collections of this complex coinage.
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 18 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781905905287
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2013
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History