Author Archives: RMBLF

Over the course of a century and a half more than forty late Gothic sculptures have been recognized as sharing a vocabulary of figure and facial types, drapery, wings, and hair. Despite the fact that all the works date from … Lire la suite →

A carefully-integrated group of studies begins with the so-called “Chertsey” ceramic tiles, depicting combat between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Found at Chertsey Abbey not far outside London and admired since the nineteenth century, we present here a new … Lire la suite →

A partire dal Duecento si verificano processi culturali di grande rilevanza e mutamenti di carattere epocale nel vissuto religioso del popolo cristiano. Per Giacomo da Vitry, illustre iniziatore del nuovo genere letterario dell’agiografia mistica, si apre una nuova età, quella … Lire la suite →

This book compares the ways in which new powers arose in the shadows of the Roman Empire and its Byzantine and Carolingian successors, of Iran, the Caliphate and China in the first millennium CE. These new powers were often established … Lire la suite →