{"title":"The Display of Heraldry: the heraldic imagination in arts and culture. Edited by Fiona Robertson and Peter N Lindfield. 238mm. Pp xii + 243, 97 figs mixed col and b&w. The Heraldry Society, London, 2019. isbn 9780904858044 £35 (pbk).","authors":"Paula Fox","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000421","url":null,"abstract":"cated numismatic department almost a century later in that transformed numismatics in Britain (p ), subsequently resulting in a various massive acquisitions and the inauguration of the series of British Museum catalogues that remain the standard references and continue to inform and stimulate further study. The model of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals provided Arthur Evans with an example that contributed to the formation of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in . The Department of Coins and Medals in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum was built on the same model (energetically supported by Phillip Grierson, a twentieth-century medieval scholar and coin collector who can stand comparison with the early modern figures who populate Burnett’s study). Dedicated numismatic departments within museums also contribute to the life and learning of numismatic societies, which became important in the nineteenth century, although numismatics figured largely in the meetings of the Society of Antiquaries since its foundation in . Universities, scholarly societies and museum numismatic departments provide an ideal environment for the study of coins, which can languish rapidly without such institutional support. It is hard to imagine that these meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced volumes could have been possible without the help of the British Museum, where Burnett spent his professional life, and the support of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"London in the Roman World. By Dominic Perring. 233mm. Pp xix + 573, 90 b/w figs, tabs. Oxford University Press, 2022. isbn 9870198789000. £40 (hbk).","authors":"B. Watson","doi":"10.1017/S0003581522000051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000051","url":null,"abstract":"Just as sculptors came from Gaul to work in Bath stone, surely it is possible that a Gaulish or Gaulish-trained bronze worker cast the Bath statue in situ. The remarkable images of deities generally published as being from the corners of the main altar, but with affinities to the Viergötterstein from the Rhineland, may well be part of some other monument, as Cousins suggests, an idea first proposed, I think, by our late Fellow, Tom Blagg. Other sculptures are equated with local dedications from other places in the Cotswold region of south-west Britain. Dedications to the Suleviae at both Bath and Chichester by a sculptor called Sulinus and the identical style and epigraphy inscribed on tablets by one Docili(a)nus at both Bath and Uley reveal not only an individual intent on bothering the gods, but connectivity and pilgrimage within the province and, indeed, beyond, as is implied by Solinus’s mention of what can only be coal being burnt on the altar of Minerva’s temple at Bath. While there is somuch to admire in Cousins’s work, Davenport gains in his descriptions of the actual archaeology of the structures as well as in fairly lavish use of colour. He inevitably builds on Barry Cunliffe’s Roman Bath Discovered published twenty years ago (Cunliffe ), but more has been discovered since and of particular importance is a raft of masonry to the east of the temple court, which he interprets as a theatre on the same magnificent scale as the baths. It will require a chance to excavate in the area of the putative cavea to prove it. If so, either the blocks identified as from a tholos will have to have been sited elsewhere, or they were, indeed, part of the ornamentation of the theatre. Also of great interest has been the excavation of houses; whether or not Bath is best described as a sanctuary, it developed urban features, including houses with mosaic floors. Of especial interest is the very rare discovery bust of a woman, unfortunately now headless, carved in local stone and found in a second-century house excavated in Hat and Feather Yard; it presumably came from a house shrine and is indicative of the Romanitas of the owner. The sanctuary certainly required many people to service it, and that meant dwelling places, guest houses, shops and cemeteries for the dead – and beyond the urban area Bath was ringed by suburban villas. Many exciting discoveries have been made in Bath, including the enormous Beau Street hoard of coins deposited in the late third century and never recovered. In short, both of these books are to be warmly commended as valuable contributions not just to the study of Roman Britain but to Classical archaeology in general.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EXTERIOR DECORATION AT SITES BELONGING TO THE NORMAN KINGS","authors":"Rita Wood","doi":"10.1017/S0003581522000099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000099","url":null,"abstract":"The five most complete royal buildings remaining from the post-Conquest period in Britain have exterior decoration resembling that at churches. It is widely appreciated that the scale of royal buildings demonstrated the earthly power of the Norman kings, but their decoration, largely overlooked, can be shown to proclaim that the power of God was also present there. The sacred power of the king was explicit in the coronation rite at the anointing, and the subsequent investiture with regalia was re-staged by the crown-wearing practised in varying degrees by the Norman kings.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42368738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ICONOCLASM AND PROFIT: SALES OF DESPOILED MONUMENTAL BRASSES AND TOMBS IN LONDON, 1547–53","authors":"R. Hutchinson","doi":"10.1017/S0003581522000075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000075","url":null,"abstract":"This analysis of the despoilation of monumental brasses and tombs in London during Edward vi’s reign is based on evidence provided by contemporary inventories of church goods and churchwardens’ accounts, supported by fieldwork and discoveries of recycled brasses during conservation. It reveals how the Reformation impacted the fortunes of the London marblers producing brasses, describes how plundered memorials were sold and provides evidence on their fate. Estimates, based on volumes of metal sold, create a potential range of 700–812 brasses lost from possibly forty-three London churches over 1548–53. After c 1550, marblers engraved 2mm thick hammered plate (cast from despoiled latten church goods, such as candlesticks and crucifixes) to sustain production when supplies of looted brasses diminished. The trade in plundered brasses ended after the accession of Edward’s Catholic half-sister, Mary, in August 1553.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46672543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANT volume 102 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0003581522000233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581522000233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42044889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANT volume 102 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0003581522000245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581522000245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49225759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500–1650. By Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes. 245mm. Pp xx + 363, 93 figs (mostly col), 11 tabs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021. isbn 9780192894892. £85.00 (hbk).","authors":"S. Rippon","doi":"10.1017/s000358152200021x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000358152200021x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44932251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Agincourt Campaign of 1415: the retinues of the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. By Michael P Warner. Pp xi + 239. The Boydell Press Woodbridge, 2021. isbn 9781783276363. £60 (hbk).","authors":"Nigel Saul","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000470","url":null,"abstract":"trenches, including two on the motte summit, revealed almost nothing. The only structural evidence was a solitary posthole, perhaps for the palisade. It would appear that the site was abandoned before completion, which in itself is of interest to students of castle studies. About half a mile to the north of Ponthendre lies the village of Longtown, with its masonry castle, the prominent feature being the round keep on the motte. The castle has an inner and outer bailey, with the rampart running on the east side of Castle Green. This eastern rampart, together with the bailey defences, combine to give the appearance of a Roman fort, and the archaeology did indeed reveal Roman material of the late first century AD and into the second. Of more interest to medievalists was the discovery that the rampart at Longtown had been heightened before the castle was built, and the authors have suggested that this work was undertaken by Harold Godwinson in the s as part of his campaign against Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, ruler of much of Wales until his death at the hands of his compatriots in . The study of the de Lacy great tower will be of particular interest to castellologists. There are two schools of thought regarding the date of construction. Most would accept a date in the opening decades of the thirteenth century, a time when most of the round keeps in south-east Wales and the Marches were built. However, this theory is at odds with the Norman carved masonry roundels used in one of the windows, suggesting a later twelfth century date, products of the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture. However, the window voussoirs were clearly not designed for Longtown, and this reviewer would still argue for a date in the early thirteenth century for the tower. The authors’ study of the great tower at Longtown does suggest that, assuming the text was subject to a peer review, the reviewer was not a castellologist. It is stated that there are no great round towers in Scotland when there are two, at the castles of Bothwell and Kildrummy. This book is more than an excavation report, itself covered in some fifty pages in part one. Part two, the core of the book, over pages, is a ‘new’ history of Ewyas and the family with which it is strongly associated, the de Lacy dynasty, a family strongly associated with Ludlow in Shropshire and Trim in Co. Meath. Four appendices shed more light on certain aspects of the de Lacys. Logaston has already published studies of the de Clare, Fitzalan and Mortimer families, three other great Marcher dynasties, and it is useful to have the Lacy contribution. Logaston Press, founded originally by Andy Johnson in , has a long history of producing fine books on a whole range of aspects of the history of the Welsh Marches. The imprint remains, but the press was taken over by Su and Richard Wheeler of the Fircone Press in , and long may it thrive. Under the Wheelers there has been an improvement in the quality of production, ","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42126203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: the Eglantine Table. Edited by Michael Fleming and Christopher Page. 245mm. Pp xviii + 291, 34 b/w figs, 16 col pls. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2021. isbn 9781783274215. £40 (hbk).","authors":"S. Jervis","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000445","url":null,"abstract":"they are known certainly to have resided. A number of chapters cover the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. First, Jane Eade delineates the important convergence of portraiture and heraldry, a link that she underscores with the little-known fact that William Segar, Garter King of Arms (d. ), was both a herald and a portrait painter. Eade provides some interesting examples of heraldic symbolism from this context, beautifully illustrated. KathrynWill demonstrates that the wide interest in, and study of, heraldry by the aspiring new men of this era led to a popularisation of heraldic parody in literature, some of it with decidedly sexual undertones. Adrian Ailes considers how popular awareness of heraldic symbolism spilled over into satirical artwork well into the eighteenth century. Continuing the literary theme, Fiona Robertson notes the popular use of heraldry in nineteenth-century fiction, making the interesting observation that the sloppy use of the term ‘crest’ instead of coat of arms saw its origins in Sir Walter Scott’s novels. Shaun Evans deals with the Five Courts of Mostyn in Tudor Wales. Michael Snodin provides a synthesis of Horace Walpole’s interest in heraldry as displayed at Strawberry Hill; Walpole enjoyed creating heraldic ‘pedigrees’ for his cherished objects as a means of vaunting previous distinguished owners. Peter Lindfield considers what drove the eighteenthcentury Lancashire saddler Thomas Barritt to become an important collector of heraldic art. Clive Cheesman gives us a fascinating insight into the rising interest in the swastika in the early twentieth century, such that it rather unexpectedly came to be used in English heraldry. Interest was sparked by Schliemann’s discoveries at Troy, following which the device became elevated to ‘an unprecedented pitch of semiotic potency’. This led the Norfolk historian, Walter Rye, to adopt a shield charged with three swastikas, which to modern eyes appear disturbingly National Socialist. The volume is rounded off by Patric Dickinson’s consideration of personal symbolism displayed on coats of arms, with examples ranging from the medieval to the modern. This beautifully illustrated volume both titillates and inspires. It successfully captures the theme of the symposium, which sought to bring together historians frommany different disciplines in an appreciation of the diverse roles that heraldry has played over the centuries.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47620672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}