Book reviewe: Michele Bacci, "The Many Faces of Christ. Portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300" by Lidova, M

“…The study demonstrates that the iconic representation of Christ portrayed as a handsome young man with a beard and long hair was neither the first nor the only option considered by Late Antique artists and medieval churchmen for the image of Jesus. …”

Glass finds and other artifacts from excavations of Area FW at the Kom el-Dikka site in Alexandria in 2018 by Renata Kucharczyk

“…The upper layers, associated with an extensive dumping of ashes from the nearby late antique bath and waste from the working of a complex of lime kilns situated in this area, yielded material typical of late Roman/early Byzantine glasses (4th–6th century AD) already known from the site and comprising mainly simple free-blown utilitarian wares with limited ornamentation.…”
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Religious Buildings in Early al-Andalus: Origins, Consolidation and Prevalence in Urban Contexts by Carmen González-Gutiérrez

“…The arrival of Islam to the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the 8th c. brought important changes to the urbanism of cities which contributed to turn the previous late-antique realities into medieval Islamic settlements. …”
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The Mosaic Pavements in Philippopolis, Thrace, in 6th c. CE. Some Considerations by Ivo TOPALILOV

“…Taken together, these factors led to a variety of iconography, intertwined motifs, and colours, which make some of the mosaics unique so far in Late antique Thrace.…”
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Exploitation végétale des oasis d’Arabie by Charlène Bouchaud

“…The recent excavations of Madâ’in Sâlih, ancient Hegra, have revealed the existence of a city inhabited from the 4th century BC and occupied during the Nabataean, Roman and Late Antique periods before its abandonment around the beginning of the 7th century AD. …”
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Considerazioni minime sulla terminologia tardoantica negli interventi sui testi classici by Ferdinando Zuccotti

“…Urgent then is the need to revise this tendency, aspiring to a «critical neo-interpolationism», centred on the historical study of the text and on the identification of its possible various drafts - focusing on the specific reasons that led the late antique jurist or the Justinian commissioner to that specific type of intervention on the classical text - with the consequent return of the sources to their intrinsic diachrony.…”
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Un nouveau bâtiment du cloître de Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand à Poitiers (xe-xive siècle) by Emmanuel Barbier, Anne Jégouzo

“…Covering an area of 170 m2 on two very well-preserved levels, it is a representative example of the architectural and topographical evolution of cloisters. Founded on a late antique base, this building went through five major construction phases until its reorganization in the 19th century. …”
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Isidore of Seville and Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada by Rodrigo Furtado

“…Isidore of Seville (c. 570–636) and Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170–1247) mark the beginning and end point of a type of historiography in Iberia that is still very dependent on late antique models. Isidore’s Chronicon (CPL 1205) and Historiae (CPL 1204) were considered canonical models of what “writing history” should mean, forming the backbone of all major texts and compilations written in Iberia until the thirteenth century. …”
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"Circus Basilicas", "coemeteria subteglata" and church buildings in the suburbium of Rome by Tomas Lehman

“…The fact that this focus on ground plans can sometimes lead to serious misunderstandings and erroneous conclusions may be demonstrated by the example of the so-called Circus Basilicas in the suburbium of late antique Rome. It will be here shown, that these hall buildings can neither architecturally nor ideologically be connected with the circus. …”
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Inscribing Authority: Female Title Bearers in Jewish Inscriptions by Carrie Duncan

“…The pertinent data are numerous dedicatory and funerary inscriptions linking individual Jews, men and women, with titles seemingly associated with leadership in Late Antique synagogues (ca. 200–600 CE). Bernadette Brooten’s influential 1982 monograph argued against the prevailing tendency to characterize these titles as indications of power, authority, and responsibility when associated with men but as meaningless flattery when applied to women. …”
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The Old Testament Prophecy of the Resurrection of the Dry Bones between the West and Byzantium by Yoanna Planchette

“…This paper examines the evolution of the theme from the first pictorial evidence from Mesopotamia through the Roman late antique funerary sculpture into the Catalan and Germanic illuminated manuscript production from 11th and 12th centuries. …”
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Early medieval large glass beads from Poland: utilitarian and social functions by Aleksandra Pankiewicz, Sylwia Siemianowska

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Management of Stress through Philosophical Reflections: Teachings by Boethius (d. 524) for Our Modern Life by Albrecht Classen

“…Already ca. 1.500 years ago, the late antique philosopher Boethius (d. ca. 524) had to answer for himself how to cope with this situation, being imprisoned and waiting for his last terrible moment. …”
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Hrabanus Maurus’ Post-Patristic Renovation of 1 Maccabees 1:1–8 by Djurslev Christian Thrue

“…I support this argument by focusing on Hrabanus’ recourse to Latin sources, primarily the late antique authors Jerome, Orosius, and Justin, an epitomist of Roman history. …”
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The evolution of types of saints from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era by N.I. Egorov

“…The typologies of “old” (late antique and medieval) and “new” (represented by the so-called beati moderni) saints were compared. …”
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On Aristotelian Category of Substance. Exegetic Variations from Plotinus to Ammonius by R. Loredana Cardullo

“…Unlike Plotinus, who recognized as ousia only that one intelligible, that is five genres of the Platonic Sophist, and unlike Porphyry, who defused the anti–Platonic fuse of the Categories, giving to this treaty a mainly semantic skopos, these philosophers, through their original study of the theory of the three states of katholou, already shed in the Porphyrian Eisagôgê, fit the immanent forms of Aristotle, recognized as substances and as a reflection of the transcendental universal, into the late antique Neoplatonic metaphysical triadic structure.…”
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The image of St Louis by Kauffmann, M

Bischof Eustathios im Paradies: Eine Kirche und ihr Stifter im kappadokischen Parnassos by Melih ARSLAN, Philipp PILHOFER, Yavuz YEĞİN

“…It is the first excavation in Parnassos, and a three-aisled basilica with formidable mosaics as well as a building inscription came to light, the latter giving us a glimpse of the church hierarchy in late antique Parnassos. Mosaics are very rare in Cappadocia. …”
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A Tale of Two Legacies: Byzantine and Egyptian Influences in the Manufacture and Supply of Glass Tesserae under the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 AD) by Sara Fiorentino

“…Results speak of a tale of two legacies, demonstrating that, parallel to a continuity with the manufacture of glass tesserae in the late antique Levant—pointing, more specifically, to a re-use of materials from abandoned buildings—legacies other than Byzantine occurred. …”
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New questions on old answers: towards a critical edition of the Answers to the Orthodox of pseudo-Justin by Tóth, P

“…The collection of some 150 chapters originally entitled <i>Answers to the Orthodox faithful concerning some necessary questions</i> (<i>Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos</i>) and attributed to Justin the Martyr is one of the earliest Christian representatives of the late antique genre of question-and-answer literature. …”