07-19-2008, 04:50 PM
Lorica Segmentata: A Handbook and Catalogue of Finds of Articulated Roman Plate Armour, edition 2
Mike Thomas and I have now agreed to go ahead with our revision and uniting of LSI & LSII into one volume (provisionally entitled Lorica Segmentata: A Handbook and Catalogue of Finds of Articulated Roman Plate Armour, edition 2). This will of course include the latest information available. The loricasegmentata.org website will be updated at the same time and may even acquire the long-promised patterns for cardboard models (but don't hold your breath ;-).
As yet we have no publisher, but will be looking to make this as widely available as possible and not prohibitively expensive (which may be a tall order these days). There is no date for publication, for obvious reasons, but we hope to have the manuscript finished in the first half of 2009.
If the worst comes to the worst (publishers are a funny bunch: one once told me 'you'll never be able to sell a book entitled Lorica Segmentata'), we will publish it online.
To mark this announcement of the new edition, Mike Thomas has kindly agreed to make available online Volume II (which has long been out of print). This will be released at midnight GMT tonight (1am BST etc etc), Saturday 19th/Sunday 20th July 2008.
It is worth pointing out that Volume I of the first edition is still available from Oxbow Books at a price of £25 (my enquiry earlier this week showed they had 25 copies left). That too will be put online in due course. Why buy the physical book if you can read the PDF? If you have to ask that question, you should have all your books confiscated in a public ceremony of humiliation and be left with just a collection of PDFs with which to ponder the sorry state in which you find yourself.
Mike Bishop
Mike Thomas and I have now agreed to go ahead with our revision and uniting of LSI & LSII into one volume (provisionally entitled Lorica Segmentata: A Handbook and Catalogue of Finds of Articulated Roman Plate Armour, edition 2). This will of course include the latest information available. The loricasegmentata.org website will be updated at the same time and may even acquire the long-promised patterns for cardboard models (but don't hold your breath ;-).
As yet we have no publisher, but will be looking to make this as widely available as possible and not prohibitively expensive (which may be a tall order these days). There is no date for publication, for obvious reasons, but we hope to have the manuscript finished in the first half of 2009.
If the worst comes to the worst (publishers are a funny bunch: one once told me 'you'll never be able to sell a book entitled Lorica Segmentata'), we will publish it online.
To mark this announcement of the new edition, Mike Thomas has kindly agreed to make available online Volume II (which has long been out of print). This will be released at midnight GMT tonight (1am BST etc etc), Saturday 19th/Sunday 20th July 2008.
It is worth pointing out that Volume I of the first edition is still available from Oxbow Books at a price of £25 (my enquiry earlier this week showed they had 25 copies left). That too will be put online in due course. Why buy the physical book if you can read the PDF? If you have to ask that question, you should have all your books confiscated in a public ceremony of humiliation and be left with just a collection of PDFs with which to ponder the sorry state in which you find yourself.
Mike Bishop