Claudia Moser

The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium

Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428859
• ISBN-10: 1108428851
• Artikelnr.: 52959910

Autorenporträt

Claudia Moser is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she is the co-director of an archaeological field school at Settecamini, Italy and co-editor of Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion (2014) and Ritual Matters: Material Remains and Ancient Religion (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The organization and boundaries of sacred places
2. The economy of ritual: the site-specificity of votive offerings
3. The seasonality of ritual: animal sacrifice
4. Material memory.