Medieval World  /  Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Britain
The Vikings in the Hebrides Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781914427398
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 200 B/W and color illustrations
Description:
The Vikings in the Hebrides provides an introduction to the Viking colonization and Norse occupation of the Outer Hebrides. Our knowledge of this period in the Hebrides has until recently been minimal as the historic evidence was negligible and the archaeology limited. However, two recent excavations at Bornais and Cille Pheadair have transformed our understanding of the period in the region.
RRP: £38.00
Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia  AD400-800 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 535
ISBN: 9780854313075
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Illustrations: 209
Description:
This is an inter-disciplinary study of pathways to regional rulership and territorial lordship in early post-Roman Britain which takes as its starting point the East Anglian royal centre at Rendlesham and its contexts.This book examines the origins and development of the East Anglian kingdom in the fifth to eighth centuries AD through the lens of the elite settlement complex at Rendlesham, Suffolk using an interdisciplinary approach involving field survey, landscape history, excavation and metal-detecting finds. It also examines the wider regional context and proposes a new narrative of kingdom formation.
Cultural Landscapes of Northeast Scotland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9798888571576
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 90 b/w, 60 colour
Description:
The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary collection uses a deep temporal perspective at a range of scales, from microlandscape studies to largescale geological and archaeological environments. It presents collaborative research carried out by a local conservation group, the Bailies of Bennachie, and the University of Aberdeen across a twelveyear period – the ‘Bennachie Landscapes Project’.
RRP: £45.00
Strøby Toftegård Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9798888571491
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Pre-Christian Cult Sites
Illustrations: 312 color plans, drawings, photos, 34 b/w
Description:
Strøby Toftegård: Halls, Hierarchies and Social Dynamics in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Denmark presents and considers the archaeological material from the site of Strøby Toftegård in the eastern part of Zealand, Denmark, where comprehensive excavations took place between 1994 and 2013. The book seeks to qualify the interpretation of Farm 1 as the residence of a magnate from c. AD 650 to c.
RRP: £55.00
Carved stones and Christianisation Cover Carved stones and Christianisation Cover
Format: 
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789088909818
Pub Date: 10 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 85bw/315fc
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9789088909801
Pub Date: 10 Nov 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 85bw/315fc
Description:
The early medieval period witnessed one of the deepest and most significant transformations of European societies and cultures with the process of Christianisation. The emergence and establishment of Christianity created a new dimension of power in society with an appeal to supernatural forces combined with an access to a broader transnational authority. Carved stones did not merely reflect these changes, but enabled them within northern societies with traditions of sculpture and epigraphic representations.
RRP: £180.00
RRP: £60.00
EAA 181: An Early Medieval Craft Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780956874771
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2023
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 297
Description:
This monograph is based on the study of 1,341 antler and bone objects and 2,400 fragments of antler and bone waste from excavations in Ipswich between 1974 and 1994. Most of the material comes from contexts of the 7th to the 12th century, although there are small quantities of medieval objects and waste. The monograph is focused on the local craft activity in Ipswich in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.
EAA 180: Salt-Winning on the Lyn Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9781907588143
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2023
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 73
Description:
Beneath the housing estates of Gaywood within the urban reach of modern King’s Lynn lies a former saltmarsh — Gaywood’s North Marsh — which once played an important role in the economic and physical development of this dynamic coastal and estuarine landscape. Focused on the eastern side of the Wash and to the north of an ancient inlet known as the Lyn, this marshland was rich in salt or ‘white gold’, gathered from the brine-saturated muds and processed using the post-Roman technique of sand-washing or sleeching. Often the only traces left behind of this once important coastal industry are the denuded hillocks or mounds representing the accumulated waste deposits associated with salt-winning, dozens of which have been mapped in this area.
The History of King Richard the Third: by Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780854313044
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2023
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Description:
Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I, a position in which he was responsible for censorship of Shakespeare’s later plays. His own work has never received the attention and assessment it merits. In 1619 Sir George wrote The History of King Richard the Third, a study of Richard’s life and reign and a defence of his historical reputation against the Tudor chroniclers’ slanders.
Medieval Bridges of Southern England Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781914427138
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2022
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no coincidence that all four of the earliest human civilisations were formed on great rivers: the Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers all saw great human aggregation along them. The most ancient and vital architectural structures linked to the use of rivers are bridges.
British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781789253269
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2021
Series: British Historic Towns Atlas
Illustrations: b/w and colour including 16 large folded maps
Description:
The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas series covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical development. From its prehistoric setting, through its contentious Anglo-Saxon foundation, the medieval establishment of its university, and its sporadic growth after that, the Atlas charts how it became a nineteenth-century city dominated by colleges, churches, university buildings, and its associated publishing industry.
Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside Cover
Format: 
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464270105
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 117fc/22bw
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9789464270099
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2021
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Illustrations: 117fc/22bw
Description:
For the first time seasonality is placed at the centre of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year.
London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789257519
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the houses and the people who lived and worked in them.
Interpreting Medieval Effigies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9781789256857
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
This innovative study examines and analyses the wealth of evidence provided by the monumental effigies of Yorkshire, from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including some of very high sculptural merit. More than 200 examples survive from the historic county in varying states of preservation. Together, they present a picture of the people able to afford them, at a time when the county was frequently at the forefront of national politics and administration, during the Scottish wars.
Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 656
ISBN: 9781789256192
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Exeter: A Place in Time
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together the evidence for the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town. Chapter 4 presents the medieval documentary evidence relating to the excavations at three sites in central Exeter (High Street, Trichay Street and Goldsmith Street), with the excavation reports being in Chapter 5-7.
RRP: £35.00
Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781789256154
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Exeter: A Place in Time
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD 55 as one of the most important legionary bases within early Roman Britain, and for two brief periods in the early and late 60s AD, Exeter was a critical centre of Roman power within the new province.
The Wandering Herd Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781911188797
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2021
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US-style factory farming and the promotion of ‘rewilding’ initiatives, never before has so much uncertainty and opportunity surrounded our landscape. How we shape our prospective environment can be informed by bygone practice, as well as through engagement with livestock and landscapes long since vanished.
RRP: £34.99