Abstract: This paper takes the position that the best way to identify figures of children participating in scenes of early Christian ritual is through a comparison of child figures in Roman art and ritual. For the purpose of this comparison we refer to Roman scenes showing children in processions, offerings/sacrifices and banquets. Early Christian scenes of offerings which continued the representation of children but omitted the priest and musicians may have aided the identification of the scene as a gift or donation rather than a Roman sacrifice. While there is no ambiguity as to the figures in many of the early Christian baptism scenes being children, there is a long standing debate whether the child figures symbolically represent Jesus ’...
Monastic texts from early Christian Egypt demonstrate a remarkable ambivalence toward children. On t...
This article focuses on Ordo Romanus XI, a liturgical script that describes the process for performi...
This paper focuses on the representation of Roman girls in the visual arts of antiquity (portrait sc...
Abstract: This paper takes the position that the best way to identify figures of children participat...
Whereas researchers were hitherto focused on literary sources and monuments from ancient Rome this a...
Baptism and the interpretation of early Christian artThe aim of this article is to stress the necess...
This was a paper given at a conference looking at ancient and medieval childhood. It addresses some ...
This study examines the depictions of girls in Minoan and Mycenaean art and their relation to Aegean...
THE ICON AND THE CHILD This scientific study traces the paths of Orthodox icon de-velopment. A key q...
This essay concludes a series of studies on the problem of images in Roman cult and the varied conte...
What would life have been like for a child growing up in Rome or in any part of Italy during the fi...
The paper presents the results of studies of epitaphs for children up to almost eight years of age f...
Iconography has always been an outstanding tool for analysing the preception of childhood and childr...
The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful and longest-lasting empires of all times. It was home ...
The scene of the Nativity in late antique monumental painting, i.e. the fresco decoration of the cat...
Monastic texts from early Christian Egypt demonstrate a remarkable ambivalence toward children. On t...
This article focuses on Ordo Romanus XI, a liturgical script that describes the process for performi...
This paper focuses on the representation of Roman girls in the visual arts of antiquity (portrait sc...
Abstract: This paper takes the position that the best way to identify figures of children participat...
Whereas researchers were hitherto focused on literary sources and monuments from ancient Rome this a...
Baptism and the interpretation of early Christian artThe aim of this article is to stress the necess...
This was a paper given at a conference looking at ancient and medieval childhood. It addresses some ...
This study examines the depictions of girls in Minoan and Mycenaean art and their relation to Aegean...
THE ICON AND THE CHILD This scientific study traces the paths of Orthodox icon de-velopment. A key q...
This essay concludes a series of studies on the problem of images in Roman cult and the varied conte...
What would life have been like for a child growing up in Rome or in any part of Italy during the fi...
The paper presents the results of studies of epitaphs for children up to almost eight years of age f...
Iconography has always been an outstanding tool for analysing the preception of childhood and childr...
The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful and longest-lasting empires of all times. It was home ...
The scene of the Nativity in late antique monumental painting, i.e. the fresco decoration of the cat...
Monastic texts from early Christian Egypt demonstrate a remarkable ambivalence toward children. On t...
This article focuses on Ordo Romanus XI, a liturgical script that describes the process for performi...
This paper focuses on the representation of Roman girls in the visual arts of antiquity (portrait sc...