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).
