Oxbow Books: 346 books
Environment, Society and the Black Death
An interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
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...
by Maeve McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside...
by Laurence Brockliss, Heather Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
The violence and neglect suffered by children today is a common subject of media attention and much political hand-wringing, not just in Britain but in other parts of the western world. As yet, however, there has been no attempt to explore this concern historically and look at how the boundary between...
TRAC 2015
Proceedings of the 25th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The 2015 TRAC proceedings feature a selection of 14 papers summing up some of the key sessions presented at the conference held at the University of Leicester in March 2015, which drew over 180 delegates of 17 nationalities from a variety of universities, museums, and research institutions in the...
TRAC 2011
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This volume was derived from the twenty-first annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of Newcastle (14-17 April 2011).
by Duncan Garrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context...
by Marianne Vedeler
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
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...
Northern Archaeological Textiles
NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden...
Dress and Society
Contributions from Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and...
Gods and Garments
Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this important category of material culture, partly due to the textiles themselves being only rarely preserved in the archaeological...
Iconic Costumes
Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source material consists of five object categories: gold foils,...
Fashionable Encounters
Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and...
Material Approaches to Roman Magic
Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's...
Archaeology and Anthropology
Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated....