In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on monumental altars as the site for the act of sacrifice. Piecing together the fragments of the complex kaleidoscope of Roman religious practices, she shows how they fit together in ways that shed new light on the characteristic diversity of Roman religion. This study reorients the study of sacrificial practice in three principal ways: first, by establishing the primacy of sacred architecture, rather than individual action, in determining religious authority; second, by viewing religious activities as haptic, structured experiences in the material world rather than as expressions of doctrinal, belief-based mentalities; and third, by considering Roman sacrifice as a local, site-specific ritual rather than as a single, monolithic practice.
Article Collezionisti, accademie, musei: storie del mondo etrusco dal XVI al XIX secolo. Atti dei convegni internazionali “La tradizione etrusca e il collezionismo in Europa dal XVI al XIX secolo”, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2014-2016 was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
Article I sepolcreti etruschi di Bologna nei terreni De Luca e Battistini (fine VI – inizi IV secolo a.C.) was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
Article Colori degli Etruschi—Colors of the Etruscans. Tesori di Terracotta alla – Terracotta Treasures at the – Centrale Montemartini was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
AbstractThis paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical archaeology. First, we provide a few historiographical benchmarks for key epistemological developments, while evidencing the methodological difficulties inherent in the variability of our interpretations of burial practices and data. Then, in a second section, a case study focuses on simple objects of daily life. Discussing approaches inspired by gender studies, and considering the place of loom weights, we wish to tackle the presumption of textile work as an eminently female activity. The aim of this paper is to suggest a more nuanced and fluid approach to gender in relation to material culture.
Article Felsina vocitata tum cum princeps Etruriae esset. Raccolta di studi di Etruscologia e Archeologia italica, 2 vols was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
Article The Archaeology of Death. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16–18, 2016 was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
Article La città etrusca e il sacro. Santuari e istituzioni politiche. Atti del Convegno, Bologna 21–23 gennaio 2016 was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Etruscan and Italic Studies (volume 24, issue 1-2).
Abstract The Etruscans, ancient people of pre-Roman Italy, have been the subject of lively discussions among both scholars and disseminators of popular pseudo-scientific theories from the late Humanistic age, an interest and popularity that reached a crescendo in the 18th to 20th centuries. This paper aims to explore the ideological features of the foundation of the highly specialized but often self-referential discipline, the so-called “Etruscology” that finally developed in the 20th century, with particular reference to the complicated connections between the very Italian territorial context of Etruscan civilization and the European dimension of its reception and popularization.
