Ancient Religions // Religionen in der Antike // Les religions en Antiquité

Research Interests regarding ancient religions:
  • Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity
  • Cults, deities, religious communication in the Roman empire, notably the Roman West
  • Religious developments between Iron Age and Principate
    • Impact of Roman imperialism on local religions
    • Persistence and Change
    • "De-Romanizing" ancient religions in the Roman West
    • Religious individualisation vs. polis religion
    • and many more
  • Wolf deities and myths across the world
  • Main geographical focus: Britain, Gallia Narbonensis, Cisalpine Gaul, Eastern Gaul, Upper Germany,...
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Altar to the "wheel-god" that is common in Southern Gaul in the Roman period, esp. around Nimes, Vaison-la-Romaine, etc. Identified as Jupiter, representing a thundering god (the Celtic word "taranis" meaning "thunderer"), Musée de Nimes (photo: author)

Participation in Research Projects:

  • You can download some of my articles on ancient religions on www.academia.edu 
  • F.E.R.C.AN. Project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: an international and interdisciplinary research project. For more details, cf. my page on "Research"
    • Publications:
      • Corpus-F.E.R.C.AN. for Britannia (in preparation)
      • Corpus-F.E.R.C.AN. for Gallia Narbonensis (in preparation)
      • 2005 proceedings of the F.E.R.C.AN Workshop at UCL, London (published by JRA, suppl. 67, 2 vols)
      • 2013 proceedings of the F.E.R.C.AN. Workshop at UWTSD, Lampeter (to be published 2017)
  • A two-volume monograph on "The Transformation of the Sacred Landscapes in Gallia Narbonensis" (finished since 2012, but still no time to find a publisher...)
  • DFG Project "Imperial and Provincial Religions" - organised by Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt) (2005-2007)
  • Sacred Ways Research Project, based at UWTSD, Lampeter. http://viasacra.org.uk/sacred-ways-project/

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Altar to the so-called Hammer God (or Mallet God), Sucellos "The Good Striker", identified as Silvanus in Roman Gaul (Musée Archéologique d'Apt [Vaucluse]) (photo: author)
Organisation of Ancient Religion Conferences at the University of Wales, TSD, Lampeter:
  • May 2014 - Organisation of a conference on Sacred Landscapes: see www.viasacra.org.uk
  • October 2014 - Organisation of a conference on Celtic and Romano-Celtic cults, deities, theonyms and religion(s), in Lampeter: the 13th F.E.R.C.AN. Workshop see www.viasacra.org.uk/f-e-r-c-a-n/
  • January 2016 - Sacred Nature & Structuring the Sacred: Constructing and Re-Writing Sacred Landscapes in the Ancient Near East, conference section during the BANEA conference in Lampeter (http://viasacra.org.uk/banea/)
Poster Sacred Landscapes Conference
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Poster F.E.R.C.AN. Workshop
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