John Blair

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to...

A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries. This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses,...