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Neil Christie and S.T. Loseby. Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. London: Scolar.Thomas Owen Clancy and Gilbert MÄrkus. Iona. The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Edited and translated by Diana Greenway. Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, ‘Historia Anglorum: the History of the English People’. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Dominic Janes. God and Gold in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Edited by J. Steen Jensen. Tusindtallets Danske Mønter fra Den kongelige Mønt‐og Medaillesamling. Danish coins from the 11th century in The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet.Hugh Kennedy. Muslim Spain and Portugal. A political history of al‐Andalus. London and New York: Longman.Simon Keynes. The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester, British Library Stowe 944, together with Leaves from British Library Cotton Vespasian A. viii and British Library Cotton Titus D. xxvii. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 26. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger. 1996. 132 pp. with 21 plates and 71 facsimile folios.Claus Krag. Vikingtid og Rikssamling 800–1130. (Aschehougs Norges Historie Bind 2). Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co (W. Nygaard).Niels Lund. Lið, leding og landeværn. Roskilde: Vikingeskibshallen.Ramsay MacMullen. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts. St. Mary's Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Archaeological Association).Marina Smyth. Understanding the Universe in Seventh Century Ireland. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.