October 2006 Issue
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From duck to dormouse - exploring the recipes of Apicius The Roman gourmet Apicius was the Jamie Oliver of his day, a 'hands-on' cook who created an 'urban and cosmopolitan' collection of recipes for a ravenous audience. Two new books from Christopher Grocock and Sally Grainger explore the culinary world and dishes of Apicius and set a new standard for Apician studies. | |||||||
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Romanitas: Sheppard Frere at 90 Sheppard Frere was the guest of honour at a party in celebration of his ninetieth birthday in Abingdon in September. Friends and fomer students had gathered from far and wide, from all corners of Britannia, and from Germania, and from lands beyond the then known world, to present him with Romanitas, a volume of essays in his honour. | |||||||
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Best sellers from the EAA, Krakow Once again, Oxbow's intrepid travellers have been jetting off around the globe... Here are the best-selling books from the EAA in Krakow | |||||||
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We don't like to blow our own trumpet, but... The arrival of a new independent magazine at the office recently caused quite a stir, not least as Oxbow were featured very favourably! Take a look to see what was said, and for links to the 'Pen Pusher' website. Well worth a read - and not just because we're in it! | |||||||
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Of all the new books that have passed over the desks of the Oxbow staff this month, these, for whatever reason, are the ones that grabbed their attention.
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Summoning St Michael: Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire
The earliest Romanesque towers of Lincolnshire constitute one of the most remarkable groupings of architectural remains at parish level, of the era of the Norman conquest of England. Forming west towers to a series of ordinary parish churches rather than parts of cathedrals or great monastic institutions, they are a distinctive feature of a number of the county's towns and villages. They have been variously described – as a group or individually – as Late Anglo-Saxon, Norman, or overlap in period. The fieldwork on which this study was based was undertaken as part of the British Academy's Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture series. Given their late date, however, (all the sculptural material post-dated, and was probably stylistically derived from, work on the new Lincoln Cathedral of 1073 onwards) it was recognised that the value of the Lincolnshire material, and the way to extract a rich understanding from it, lay in treating the architecture of the towers as a whole, rather than soley cataloguing items of sculpture. The present book, while fully reporting on the sculptural details, also addresses the towers as whole architectural artefacts. It seeks an understanding of the social context in which late 11-Century buildings were erected, and explores the role of towers in the contemporary liturgy. |
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Romanitas: Essays on Roman Archaeology in Honour of Sheppard Frere on the Occasion of his Ninetieth Birthday
This volume is a collection of essays to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sheppard Frere, formerly Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford. Most concern the archaeology of Roman Britain, which has been at the heart of Sheppard's research interests, and to which he has made such a distinguished contribution. The book covers such varied themes as early urban defences in Britain, the status of London, the employment of civilian building-gangs on Hadrian's Wall, iron weapons from Newstead, military vici in Britain, the terminology and use of samian cups, the text of a travel diary about the Antonine Wall in 1697, attitudes towards conserving Hadrian's Wall for posterity, and red-slip pottery from the Egyptian fort of Nag el-Hagar. |
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Conferences we will be attending BRONZE AGE CONNECTIONS |
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