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SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses.
The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately and together, involved participants in religious performance. Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of light and dark played as great a role as belief or observance in generating religious experience.
Together they contribute to an original understanding of the Roman sensory universe, and add an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived Ancient Religion.
Contributors are Martin Devecka; Visa Helenius; Yulia Ustinova; Attilio Mastrocinque; Maik Patzelt; Mark Bradley; Adeline Grand-Clément; Rocío Gordillo Hervás; Rebeca Rubio; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García, Marco V. García-Quintela; Jörg Rüpke; Rosa Sierra del Molino; Israel Campos Méndez; Valentino Gasparini; Nicole Belayche; Antón Alvar Nuño; Jaime Alvar Ezquerra; Clelia Martínez Maza.
The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately and together, involved participants in religious performance. Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of light and dark played as great a role as belief or observance in generating religious experience.
Together they contribute to an original understanding of the Roman sensory universe, and add an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived Ancient Religion.
Contributors are Martin Devecka; Visa Helenius; Yulia Ustinova; Attilio Mastrocinque; Maik Patzelt; Mark Bradley; Adeline Grand-Clément; Rocío Gordillo Hervás; Rebeca Rubio; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García, Marco V. García-Quintela; Jörg Rüpke; Rosa Sierra del Molino; Israel Campos Méndez; Valentino Gasparini; Nicole Belayche; Antón Alvar Nuño; Jaime Alvar Ezquerra; Clelia Martínez Maza.
Price: $166.00
Pages: 460
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Publication Date:
03 June 2021
ISBN: 9789004459731
Format: Hardcover
Antón Alvar Nuño is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Málaga. His research is focused on Roman religion, with a special interest in Roman magic, on which he has published two monographs, Envidia y fascinación. El mal de ojo en el Occidente romano, Madrid, 2012, and Cadenas invisibles: Los usos de la magia entre los esclavos en el Imperio romano, Besançon, 2017.
Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History at Carlos III University of Madrid. His research areas include the protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula (specially Tartessos), and Roman religion with a special interest in the cults of Mithras, the gens isiaca and Mater Magna, on which he has published Romanising Oriental Gods (Brill, 2008) and El culto a Mitra en Hispania (Madrid-Besançon, 2018).
Greg Woolf is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London, and is also Honorary Professor of Archaeology at University College London. During 2018 he held a Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. His latest book is The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History, New York, 2020.
Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is Professor of Ancient History at Carlos III University of Madrid. His research areas include the protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula (specially Tartessos), and Roman religion with a special interest in the cults of Mithras, the gens isiaca and Mater Magna, on which he has published Romanising Oriental Gods (Brill, 2008) and El culto a Mitra en Hispania (Madrid-Besançon, 2018).
Greg Woolf is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London, and is also Honorary Professor of Archaeology at University College London. During 2018 he held a Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. His latest book is The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History, New York, 2020.