Category Archives: Publication

European Perceptions of Terra Australis – Book Annoucement

A new book which may be of interest to members, especially those in Australia:

European Perceptions of Terra Australis

Edited by Anne M. Scott, University of Western Australia, Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Claire McIlroy, University of Western Australia, and Christopher Wortham, University of Western Australia.

Hardback, 334 pages, includes 52 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-4094-2605-9
RRP £65.00

Terra Australis, the southern land, was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the Southern seas had been prevalent since classical Antiquity. Through interdisciplinary contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women’s and post-colonial studies.

For more information, including the contents page, bios of the editors, and to read an extract from European Perceptions of Terra Australis please visit the Ashgate web catalogue page: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426059.

To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com. Please note that all online orders made via the Ashgate website receive a discount.

Helen Cox – “The Battle of Wakefield Revisited”, and, “Walk Wakefield 1460” – Book Annoucements

Two recent books by Helen Cox on the Battle of Wakefield may be of interest to members:

The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York’s Final Battle, December 1460

Medieval history/non-fiction
Paperback, 140 pages, 16 black-and-white plates, 5 line drawings
Published by Herstory Writing & Interpretation/York Publishing Services, 2010
ISBN 978-0-9565768-0-4
R.R.P. £12.00

The Battle of Wakefield Revisited: A Fresh Perspective on Richard of York’s Final Battle, December 1460 is a full history/re-evaluation of the evidence for the battle.

On 30th December 1460, the veteran warlord Richard of York led his small army to catastrophe at the Battle of Wakefield. Traditionally, York is thought to be a poor commander deservedly mocked in nursery rhyme; or an heroic failure who gallantly attempted to rescue a foraging party or avenge insults to his honour. But The Battle of Wakefield Revisited explores a more convincing explanation, using historical and archaeological evidence to dispel popular misconceptions about York and his ill-fated northern campaign.

Walk Wakefield 1460: A Visitor Guide to Battle-Related Sites

Medieval history/non-fiction
Paperback, 50 pages, 16 colour plates, 8 black-and-white plates, 6 line drawings
Published by Herstory Writing & Interpretation/York Publishing Services, 2011
ISBN 978-0-9565768-1-1
Price: £7.50

Walk Wakefield 1460: A Visitor Guide to Battle-Related Sites gives a potted history/interpretation of the battle through sites associated with it in Wakefield and Worksop.

Five hundred and fifty years ago, Richard, Duke of York attempted to take the crown from his cousin King
Henry VI. The outcome, on 30th December 1460, was one of the most decisive encounters in the Wars of the Roses – the Battle of Wakefield. Walk Wakefield 1460 tells the story of this fateful winter campaign, from its opening skirmish at Worksop to the grisly aftermath in York, through sites connected with the battle. Each section of the concise illustrated guide features a brief history, directions to the sites (including maps), and up-to-date information on opening times and admission charges for visiting:

  • Worksop Priory & Castle
  • Sandal Castle
  • Duke of York’s Monument
  • The Battlefield at Wakefield Green
  • St Mary’s Chantry Chapel
  • Pontefract Castle
  • Micklegate Bar & York City Walls

For further details about the books and author Helen Cox please visit her website: www.helencox-herstorywriting.co.uk.

Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou – Book Annoucement and Preview

Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou
Mount Athos

www.en.iconskarakallou.gr

For the first time in its history Karakallou Monastery of Mount Athos is revealing its iconographic treasures to the general public. Karakallou Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries on Holy Mountain, is celebrating its millennium of uninterrupted coenobitic life with the publication of a richly illustrated volume devoted to its portable holy icons; thereby bringing to light a virtually unknown part of late Byzantine culture and Athonite spiritual heritage.

From among the hundreds of portable icons in the monastery’s possession 152 were carefully selected for this edition and were reproduced at a stunning quality. Historically, they span from the late 14th to the early 19th century and include masterpieces that are inaccessible to most of the monastery’s pilgrims. Quite significantly, the Karakallou monastery’s holdings feature the largest collection of works by Dionyssios of Fourna, a prominent Greek iconographer of the 18th century.

The book’s rich visual content combined with an extensive and well documented analysis of the artistic and historical background of each icon provides a unique insight into post-Byzantine Athonian iconography and imparts a superb experience to admirers of this sacred art.

You may find more information on this edition, view sample pages at: www.en.iconskarakallou.gr.

The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World – Free Download

The Role of Latin in the Early Modern World: Linguistic identity and nationalism 1350-1800, ed. Alejandro Coroleu, Carlo Caruso, and Andrew Laird, is now available, at no charge, online:

http://www.renaessanceforum.dk/rf_8_2012.htm

You can read or download the Preface and single chapters by clicking on their titles, or download the whole volume.

The collection includes papers by David Cowling, Geoffrey Eatough, Felipe González Vega, Andrew Laird, Eulàlia Miralles, Marianne Pade, Keith Sidwell and Nienke Tjoelker on the uses of Latin in a variety of domains, including the British Isles, France, Italy, Iberia and Spanish America.