Publications

A selection of recent books and articles published by members of the Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.

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Reinventing the Amphaireion at Oropos

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Wilding, A., 2021. Reinventing the Amphaireion at Oropos, Leiden, Brill.

Hughes, J., (ed.) 2021. Material Religion in Pompeii. Open University: Open Arts Journal.

Graham, E-J., 2021. Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy, Abingdon and New York, Routledge.

Harvey, G. 2020. ‘Bear Feasts in a land without wild bears: experiments in creating animist rituals‘ in Harvey, Graham ed. Indigenizing movements in Europe (In Press).

Graham, E-J., 2020. ‘Hand in hand: Rethinking anatomical votives as material things’, in V. Gasparini, M. Patzelt, R. Raja, A-K. Rieger, J. Rüpke, E. Urciuoli (eds) Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, Berlin, De Gruyter: 209–235.

Hughes, J., 2019. ‘Anchoring devotion in a layered terrain’, The Jugaad Project, Summer 2019 Landscapes.

Hope, V., 2019. ‘Vocal Expression in Roman Mourning’, in Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter (eds) Sound and the Ancient Senses, Routledge, Abingdon and New York: 61-76.

Graham, E-J., 2019. ‘Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium’, in Jenni Kuuliala and Jussi Rantala (eds) Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, New York and Abingon, Routledge: 15–36.

Rothe, U., 2019. ‘Veiling in Pannonia’. in Ivleva, Tatiana; De Bruin, Jasper and Driessen, Mark (eds.) Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions (pp. 93-100).

Bowman, M., and Sepp, T., 2019. ‘Caminoisation and Cathedrals: replication, the heritagisation of religion, and the spiritualisation of heritage’, Religion, 49(1) pp. 74–98.

Hope, V., 2018. ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori': the practical and symbolic treatment of the Roman war dead’, in Mortality, 23(1) (pp. 35-49)

Harvey, G. and Hughes, J., (eds) 2018. Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses. Equinox, Sheffield.

Hughes, J., 2018. The texture of the gift: religious touching in the Greco-Roman world. Body and Religion, 2(1) pp. 88–112.

Parker, A. and McKie, S., 2018. Material Approaches to Roman Magic: Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances. TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology, Oxbow Books.