Perspectives on Lived Religion: Practices Transmission Landscape

ISBN-13: 9789088907920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 315 str.

Nico Staring;Huw Twiston Davies;Lara Weiss

Opis

The papers in this volume show how Cultural Geography was shaped in ancient and medieval cultures by means of religious practices, transmission of texts and images, as well as both the interaction with and creation of landscape.

O autorze

Dr Nico Staring is a postdoctoral research fellow (Chargé de recherches) at the F.R.S.-FRNS / Université de Liège (2021-2024). He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Leiden University's Walking Dead project and lectured at KU Leuven University. Staring received his doctorate from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Dr Huw Twiston Davies was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Vidi-project The Walking Dead at Saqqara, The Making of a Cultural Geography, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2018-2022), and was additionally Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester 2020-2021. Twiston Davies studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he received his doctorate in 2018. Dr Lara Weiss is Curator Egyptian Collections at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and one of the field directors of the Leiden-Turin Expedition to Saqqara. She initiated and leads the Walking Dead project (2017-2022) at Leiden University and received her habilitation from Erfurt University in the Study of Ancient Religions in 2022.