Oxbow Spring 2013.pdf - Oxbow Books

Welcome
We are delighted to bring you our latest collection of new and forthcoming titles for
the first half of 2013 from our own imprints Oxbow Books, Windgather Press and Aris &
Phillips alongside our many distributed publishers including the British Museum Press,
British School at Rome, Maney Publishing and many more.
We are delighted to welcome Pindar Press to Oxbow’s distribution list. Specialising in
the art, architecture and archaeology of the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Antiquity and the
Islamic World amongst other areas, you can see Pindar’s full back-list on our website, all
available at our usual trade and library terms.
Whether you are looking for your bookstore, your library or your own personal reading pleasure
we’re sure you’ll find plenty of interest. Here are just a few highlights that await.
The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone
See Page 31
Warwick Rodwell (Author)
Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the
most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It
incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following
his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated
on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious mythology had also become
attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the
Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth
century have been crowned in it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
9781782971528, £28.00, June 2013
HB, Oxbow Books
Celtic from the West 2
Rethinking the Bronze Age
and the Arrival of Indo-
European in Atlantic Europe
Barry Cunliffe (Editor)
John T Koch (Editor)
The Cyrus Cylinder
and Ancient Persia
A New Beginning for the
Middle East
Irving Finkel (Translator);
John Curtis (Author);
Neil MacGregor (Author)
Welcome
Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a
wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout the
Bronze Age remained plausible. Celtic from the West 2
explores the rapidly expanding evidence for the later
prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of the West
increasingly exclude that possibility.
9781842175293, £40.00, January 2013
HB, Oxbow Books
See Page 10
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous
objects to have survived from the ancient world.
Often described as the first bill of human rights this
catalogue also contains sixteen other objects from
the Britsh Museum’s collecton.
9780714111872, £18.99, April 2013
HB, 144p, 110 col illus., British Museum Press
See Page 18
Cover Image: Late Bronze Age shale vessel from Caergwrle, north Wales, with applied tin and gold, representing a ship,
shields, oars, and waves, by kind permission of the National Museum of Wales.
All prices and publication dates are accurate at time of printing but subject to change without notice.