Francesco Massa Maureen Attali (eds.)
The book aims at analyzing shared religious sites in the microcosm of the multireligious and multicultural Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. The main objective is to understand if some religious sites of the Eastern Roman Empire were the object of a shared attendance by groups or individuals from different religious backgrounds, and, for those which may have been, how and why this sharing happened. To facilitate comparison and to draw up models of occupancy dynamics, the contributions focus on a limited geographical and chronological area: the Eastern provinces from the 4th century onward, a turning-point in the Empire’s religious transformations. This collective work offers a series of case-studies where polemical discourses are intersected not only with legal documents, but also with epigraphy, iconography, and archeology – including architecture and artefacts. Francesco Massa is Assistant Professor
Maureen Attali has a PhD in History
of History of Religions at the Depart-
and Anthropology of Ancient religions
ment of Historical Study of the University
( Sorbonne Université, 2017 ) and is
of Turin. From 2019 to 2023, he led a
currently an Advanced Postdoctoral
research project on “Religious Competi-
researcher at the Institute of Historical
tion in Late Antiquity: A Laboratory
Theology of the University of Bern
of New Categories, Taxonomies and
( Switzerland ). From 2020 to 2023, she
Methods” ( ReLAB ) at the University of
was a Postdoctoral researcher in the
Fribourg, funded by the Swiss National
ReLAB research project at the University
Science Foundation ( 2019–2023 ).
of Fribourg ( Switzerland ).
SHARED RELIGIOUS SITES IN LATE ANTIQUITY
SHARED RELIGIOUS SITES IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Francesco Massa and Maureen Attali (eds.)
SHARED RELIGIOUS SITES IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Negotiating Cultural and Ritual Identities in the Eastern Roman Empire
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