Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.comeditorial matter and organisation Peter Candy and Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, 2022 © the chapters their several authors, 2022 Cover image: wall painting of a ship with a square sail crossing the harbour of a port, in the House with Nymphaeum, Pompeii (VIII.2.28). Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9460. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Cover design: www.hayesdesign.co.uk Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun -Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson's Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 10/12 Goudy Old Style by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library