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An ongoing, collaborative project, which looks at accumulations and collections in sacred spaces around the world.
An open access edited volume about material religion in Pompeii, published in Autumn 2021.
Contribution to a 2020 ‘In Conversation’ piece on “Sensual Religion” for the journal Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Beliefs. The other essays in the conversation are by Professor Graham Harvey, Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, and Dr Patricia Rodrigues de Souza.
A 2017 article (originally published in the journal Religions of the Roman Empire) about votives as 'souvenirs of the self'.
A short reflective piece on votives - part of a 2017 conversation on 'Votives: Material Culture and Religion'.
Interview with Monsignor Pietro Caggiano about the votive offerings in the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary in Pompeii.
A 2015 book chapter about the history and symbolism of ruins in the 'presepe napoletano' (nativity scenes from Naples).
Slightly modified version of a 2014 article about the Arch of Constantine and its intersections with memory.
Published in May 2017, this book brings together anatomical votives from four ancient contexts: Classical Greece, Hellenistic Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman Asia Minor.
'Remembering Parthenope: Receptions of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present', co-edited by Jessica Hughes and Claudio Buongiovanni. A 2015 edited volume in the Oxford University Press Classical Presences series.
This 2010 volume (edited with Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen) grew out of an interdisciplinary Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
Pre-print version of a 2011 article about sculptural restorations, originally published in Classical Receptions Journal.
A version of a 2009 article about the sculptures from the Temple of Hadrian (‘Hadrianeum’) in Rome.
A 2008 article in the journal Social History of Medicine. Parts of this article were reworked in my 2017 book Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion.
A 2018 book co-edited with Professor Graham Harvey from OU Religious Studies