Outputs (384)

Bear Journeys in Early Modern England (2025)
Journal Article
Davies, C., Bloxam, A., O’Regan, H., Charlton, S., Lewis, L., & Wright, E. (2025). Bear Journeys in Early Modern England. Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2461368

This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record.... Read More about Bear Journeys in Early Modern England.

Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community (2025)
Book
Davies, P. (2025). Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community. Bloomsbury Publishing

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality – each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.

This volume seeks to interrogate how rightly we may apply... Read More about Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community.

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ (2025)
Journal Article
Wright, E., Davies, C., Lamb, A., Miller, H., Rielly, K., Charlton, S., Kesson, A., Larson, G., Lewis, L., & O'Regan, H. (2025). What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’. Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.228

Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope... Read More about What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’.

Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda (2025)
Journal Article
Mullen, A., Meyer, A., & Roger, T. (2025). Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda. Britannia, 55, 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X24000230

A Roman stylus tablet discovered at Vindolanda in 2014 preserves the partial text of a deed-of-sale for an enslaved person, only the second such document from Britain. This article presents the results of multiple techniques used to reveal the almost... Read More about Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda.

Multilingualism, Language Management, and First Encounters in the Roman and American Colonial Experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2024). Multilingualism, Language Management, and First Encounters in the Roman and American Colonial Experience. In M. Mass, & F. A. Yarnborough (Eds.), Empires and Indigenous Peoples: Comparing Ancient Roman and North American Experiences. University of Oklahoma Press

The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1 (2024)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2024). The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 167(3/4), Article 403

The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories (2024)
Journal Article
Lennon, J. J., & Wilshere, N. (2024). The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 78, 7-28

Throughout Agathias’s Histories, he makes frequent use of religious pollution. This has often gone unnoticed in discussions of his work, as scholars have typically approached the debate in terms of his attitudes to sin. This article aims to correct t... Read More about The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories.

Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism (2024)
Book Chapter
Jim, T. (2024). Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism. In A. Palamidis, & C. Bonnet (Eds.), What’s in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean (59-78). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326511-004

The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2025). The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen. In M. Cariou, & N. Zito (Eds.), Μάρτυρι μύθῳ Poésie, histoire et société aux époques impériale et tardive: Actes du colloque international Paris, Sorbonne Université, 8-10 septembre 2022 (103-132). Edizioni dell’Orso

Colluthus’ 'Abduction of Helen' depicts Paris as a shepherd who leaves his native Trojan mountains on an audacious sea-journey, touring the monuments of Sparta and bearing back to his homeland a Helen who fantasises about seeing the spectacular walls... Read More about The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen.

Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West (2024)
Book
Mullen, A., & Willi, A. (Eds.). (2024). Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West. Oxford University Press (OUP)

This volume explores Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, the Germanies, and Britain in the later Iron Age and Roman period. We use a combination of various sets of evidence and an... Read More about Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West.