Publications
A selection of recent books and articles published by members of the Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.
A chapter by Valerie Hope in the final volume of the Routledge Senses in Antiquity series.
Edited by Graham Harvey and Jessica Hughes, Sensual Religion demonstrates the value of paying attention to the senses and materials in lived religion and also leads the way for improved studies of religion as sensuality.
An article by Emma-Jayne Graham, which examines ‘the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.’
A chapter by Jessica Hughes in The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete objects in the Ancient World, edited by S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper.
A chapter by Marion Bowman in a new volume which considers “how objects become and cease to be sacred, how materiality can be used to contest access to public space and resources, and how religion is embodied and performed by individuals in their everyday lives.”
This volume, edited by Eleanor Betts, develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history.
A volume edited by Emma-Jayne Graham and Jane Draycott, which scrutinises the phenomenon of anatomical votives, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions and simple categorisations.
A book edited by Adam Parker and Stuart McKie, which “seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic”
