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A Jewish Gold Glass from the Catacombs of Rome
Source in the Spotlight
A Jewish Gold Glass from the Catacombs of Rome
Gold-glasses are broken glass-vessel bases with gold leaf decoration. They were found in the catacombs of Rome, inserted into the mortar used for closing the grave’ niches in the walls. They sometimes depict portraits of the deceased ‒ alone, in a couple or as a family ‒ or portray figures from Greco-Roman narratives, biblical episodes or, as in the present case, Jewish ritual objects and iconography.
Event: Open Zoom Seminar
Open Seminar with Dina el-Omari (Münster)
Event: Open Zoom Seminar
Open Seminar with Cristiana Facchini (Bologna)
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The project is coordinated by Katharina Heyden, Professor for Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters at the University of Bern (Switzerland), and David Nirenberg, Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (U.S.), and includes a network of collaborators across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Co-producing Love and Paradise: The Sicilian school of poets
The idea of a sensual paradise might seem foreign to medieval Christian devotion. But it was an important motif in the love poetry of the Sicilian School, and likely emerged from interactions between Christian and Muslim poetic traditions in the island’s Norman and Swabian courts. This article explores these hybrid origins – and how nationalist accounts have historically silenced them in favour of exclusively domestic narratives.