Series: International

Widely recognised as an important example of late Byzantine monasticism in the Balkans, the monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodromos on Mount Menoikeion near the city of Serres in Northern Greece provides an instructive paradigm for the ways monastic tradition framed the foundation, refoundation, and architectural development of monasteries in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period. Architecture and Sacred Landscape in Byzantium...

Il volume affronta la scoperta di un'officina con fornace di età rinascimentale per la produzione di maioliche scoperta a Roma, nell'area del Foro di Traiano, grazie agli scavi archeologici realizzati dalla Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma, tra il 1998 e il 2017. Il ritrovamento si tratta della prima scoperta del genere documentata archeologicamente a Roma. In precedenza,...

This volume offers a renewed perspective on the study of wood in ancient Egypt—a material long underestimated in Egyptology despite the country's exceptional preservation conditions. It stems from the online conference NetWood: Wood Networks in Egypt from Antiquity to Islamic Times (June 2021), which brought together specialists from various disciplines to foster interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue on this material. The...