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Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — February 2008
Arrangement is by title.

Introducing archaeology.

Muckle, Robert J.
Broadview Press, ©2006    257 p.    $39.95    CC165
1-55111-505-0

Muckle (archaeology, Capilano College, Vancouver, BC) offers a concise and economical text for introductory archaeology courses as they are taught in most colleges and universities in North America: with a focus on methods. The development of the book has been guided by recent principles of curriculum reform set form by the Society for American Archaeology. In addition, it aims to situate archaeology in the contemporary world much more than similar textbooks, including contextualizing the field in academia, industry, global social movements, politics, and popular culture; places greater emphasis on heritage resources management; and openly identifies disagreements, ambiguities, and gray areas within the discipline. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Medieval towns; a reader.

Ed. by Maryanne Kowaleski. (Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures; 11)
Broadview Press, ©2006    405 p.    $34.95    HT115
978-1-55111-449-1

Kowaleski (medieval studies, Fordham U., New York) has assembled 153 primary documents relating to medieval towns in Europe. She focuses on the ones large enough to be called cities — because they produced more documents and are generally of more interest — but also includes texts from and relating to smaller towns. Though one section covers the early Middle Ages, most of the material is from after 1100 when urbanization quickened, and especially after the demographic crises following the Black Death in 1348-49. Discussion questions follow each selection. Three maps are included. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Reading the Middle Ages; sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world; v.1: From c.300 to c.1150.

Ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Broadview Press, ©2007    354 p.    $52.95    D113
978-1-55111-695-2

Sinbad the Sailor traveled to many far corners of the world, but until now perhaps had never reached an anthology of readings for an undergraduate medieval history course. His tale is one of the Islamic and Byzantine texts that Rosenwein (history, Loyola U., Chicago) has incorporated alongside traditional Western European literature in her two-volume anthology. Though usable with any history text, it is formatted to accompany A Short History of the Middle Ages volume one, the chapters having the same titles and chronological scope. Among the texts are records of sales, poems, histories, and of course fanciful tales. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Reading the Middle Ages; sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.

Ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Broadview Press, ©2006    594 p.    $52.95    D113
1-55111-693-6

Rosenwein (history, Loyola U. Chicago) has collected a very lively set of Western, Byzantine and Islamic documents and readings from the later Roman world to the beginning of the sixteenth century. She includes commentary and contexts for each, covering such topics as imperial politics, orthodoxy, thought, the emergence of sibling cultures and the creating of new identities, political reorganizations, the expansion of the concept of "Europe," the Crusades, the Norman conquest of England, the institutionalization of aspiration, catastrophe, creativity and the New World. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)