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The focus of its publications lies in "source-works" from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. By this is meant critical editions of original texts and documents in their original language, reference works such as encyclopaedias, handbooks and bibliographies, as well as monograph studies and cutting-edge research. Fundamental series like the Corpus Christianorum and online datab

ases like the Library of Latin Texts, as well as the co-operation with highly respected institutes like I.R.H.T. (Paris) and the Institute for Medieval Studies (Leeds), explain and testify why Brepols works are being used in every well-respected academic library all over the world. Harvey Miller Publishers (an imprint of Brepols) has established a reputation for the quality and authority of its scholarly monographs and catalogues raisonnés in the field of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art. Besides publications under its own imprint Brepols distributes works from many world-class academic institutions. The mediums in which Brepols Publishers operates are the printed book (monographs, miscellanies and journals), microfiche, CD-ROM, online publishing (BREPOLiS) and online journals. Languages: English and French but also German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch (as well as old languages like Latin, Greek, Occitan etc.) Brepols Publishers has been founded in 1796 and is located in a 17th century building of the historic beguinage of Turnhout. Brepols Publishers has an editorial office for art history in New York (Harvey Miller / Brepols). The CTLO, a centre for computer-assisted research of classical languages, is also organised by Brepols Publishers and is housed in the Corpus Christianorum Library & Knowledge Centre.

17/06/2026

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗻,
𝗰. 𝟭𝟯𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬
𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲
Edited by Eleni Tounta, and Nikolaos Chrissis

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Travel and mobility for political, military, economic, religious, and intellectual purposes were crucial in shaping the medieval eastern Mediterranean through the interaction of travellers with the diverse cultures of the region (Latin, Muslim, Byzantine, etc.). This volume aims to shed light on the agency of travellers to create politics, space, and cultural memory in the period c. 1300 to c. 1500, an era in which transcultural contact in the eastern Mediterranean world was reshaped through developments such as the Ottoman expansion, while new conceptual tools of the Renaissance period allowed both individuals and communities to be perceived and described in different ways.

Bringing together case-studies of travel accounts and other relevant texts by authors with differing backgrounds and wide-ranging life experiences, this volume aims to shed light on this aspect of cultural history through the exploration of four key themes: individuality and the shaping of the self as traveller and author; the production of space, in particular via critical engagement with the modern analytical tools of orientalism and colonialism in medieval studies; the intersections of these themes with the activities of pilgrims and merchants; and the way in which travellers and their narratives interacted with both their own and foreign communities. This approach offers fresh insights in our understanding of mobility, identity, and cultural interaction in the late medieval eastern Mediterranean.

15/06/2026

OPEN ACCESS
𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗶 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲
𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗺
Edited by Fraser Hunter, Arkadiusz Dymowski, and Dorota Dzierzbicka

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This volume explores the remarkable history of the Roman denarius, a coin that dominated the ancient world for over four centuries, as seen from outside the frontiers of the Empire — from Scotland to India, and from Ukraine to Sweden. Introduced in the Roman Republic around 211 BCE, the denarius retained its form and function well into the third century CE, even as its silver content declined. While its official use then faded within the Empire, the coin continued to circulate and thrive in barbaricum, outside the Roman limes. Drawing on archaeological discoveries and numismatic analysis, the book examines how the denarius migrated beyond the Roman frontier, influenced local economies, and became embedded in cultural memory. A central focus is the coin’s enduring presence in Northern and Eastern Europe, where thousands have been found. This volume offers fresh perspectives on Roman monetary history and relations across the frontier, showcasing the power of denarii to migrate, to influence, and to transform.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: The Influence of the Denarius Beyond the Roman Frontiers
Fraser Hunter and Arkadiusz Dymowski

2. Roman Imperial Silver Coins, their Imitations and Copies in Barbaricum
Aleksander Bursche, Arkadiusz Dymowski, and Kyrylo Myzgin

3. Denarii Finds in Western Moldavia (Romania): A General Overview
Lucian Munteanu

4. Roman Denarii from the Germanic Settlement Era (First to Sixth Century AD) in the Territory of the Czech Republic
Jiří Militký

5. New Insights into the Outflow of Denarii to the Northern German Barbaricum
David Wigg-Wolf

6. The Roman Denarii Found on Gotland: Some Considerations about their Continental Origin
Lennart Lind

7. Denarius Finds from Denmark: Finds from 2009–2018 and Beyond
Helle W. Horsnæs

8. Denarii in Roman Iron Age Scotland: Their Occurrence, Meanings, and Impacts
Fraser Hunter

9. Denarii in Southern Britain Before the Claudian Invasion: The Scale of Their Presence and Methodological Challenges
John Creighton

10. Finds of Roman Denarii from India: A Biographical Approach
Emilia Smagur

Index

12/06/2026

Newsletter - June 2026
𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
New & Forthcoming Titles

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12/06/2026

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆
Edited by Giulia Pedrucci, Francesca Fulminante, and Martina Seifert

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Religious spaces in Antiquity could be urban (located in a densely populated area), suburban (within a day’s walk of the city), or even extra-urban (located far outside the city walls, and away from the hustle of densely populated areas). They also served very different purposes, with urban sanctuaries often serving local socio-political dynamics, while extra-urban spaces were often founded to allow meditation — or for the exercise of political control over a particular territory. But while the importance of different religious spaces has long been known, up to now, very little attention has been paid to the activities of women and children within these religious spaces. This volume aims to investigate the role that these actors played in Antiquity, both in urban and non-urban sanctuaries and in funerary contexts, in order to see how they fitted into this sacral environment, and in turn, how such sanctuaries were shaped by their presence. Different chapters within the volume explore key questions such as: can religious experiences shape urban landscapes? can urban space influence religious experiences and activities? and what role did women and children play in shaping and linking religious activities and spaces? The result is a far-reaching volume that seeks to highlight the hitherto unrecognized role of women and children in shaping the social, economic, sacral, and even political landscapes of sacred spaces.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Giulia Pedrucci, Francesca Fulminante, and Martina Seifert

1. Spazi della morte e infanzia: Riflessioni a partire dalla documentazione archeologica nell’Italia preromana
Daniela Costanzo

How Urban, Non-Urban, and Funerary Spaces Intertwine with Women and Children: General Remarks and ‘Interspatial’ Perspectives

2. Infancy and Archaeology in Sacred Areas in Etruria
Elisabetta Govi
3. The Infancy of Dionysus and the Sacred: Evidence between Etruscan Bologna and Vulci
Chiara Pizzirani
4. Distribuzione e funzione delle statuette votive fittili raffiguranti adulti con bambini nell’Italia antica fra VII e I secolo a.C.: differenze fra spazi urbani, non urbani e funerari
Giulia Pedrucci
5. Le statuette votive fittili raffiguranti adulti con bambini nell’Italia antica e lo spazio. Tre casi di studio a confronto: il cosiddetto tempio di Minerva Medica a Roma, il santuario di Fondo Patturelli a Capua e il santuario di Bitalemi a Gela
Giulia Pedrucci
6. Religious Agency of Children and Youths in the Roman Greece of Pausanias
Ville Vuolanto

Urban and Suburban Spaces

7. Women and Female Deities in the Urban and Suburban Sanctuaries of Pompeii
Maria Teresa D’Alessio
8. ‘Worshipping Women’: Case Studies from Urban and Suburban Holy Places in Southern Apulia (Sixth-Third Century BC)
Giovanni Mastronuzzi
9. Megara Hyblaea: Donne e bambini nelle aree sacre e nelle necropoli della città
Lorenzo Guzzardi
10. Donne e bambini nel santuario urbano di Griso Laboccetta a Rhegion: Immagini, offerte, praxis rituale
Daniela Costanzo
11. Women and Performative Space in the Cults of Meter: Epigraphic Evidence from Asia Minor and the Black Sea

Marios Kamenou
12. Women and their Clothing Styles in Sacred Spaces: The Case of Palmyra
Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja

Extra-urban Spaces

13. Back to Brauron: Hippocrates, Artemis, and Girls in Extra-urban Sanctuaries
Laurence Totelin
14. Female Offerings and Slf-representation in Mid-Republican Votive Deposits: A Case Study from Fidenae
Letizia Ceccarelli
15. La munificenza femminile nei luoghi di culto dell’Italia Romana: Alcuni esempi
Silvia Gazzoli
16. ‘Empty Spaces’: The Rejection of Motherhood in Female Ascetic Contexts of Late Antiquity, with Reference to Syriac Linguistic and Cultural Environments
Claudia Tavolieri
17. Engaging with the World of the Medieval Anchoress in the Twenty-First Century
Emily Bowyer-Kazadi

Funerary Spaces

18. Motherhood (and by Comparison Fatherhood) Indicators in Funerary Ritual Spaces in Proto-historic Central Italy (Latium vetus and Osteria dell’Osa 1100/1050–580 BC)
Francesca Fulminante
19. Women and Infants in Urban Funerary Sacred Spaces in Campania
Mariassunta Cuozzo
20. Iulia Florentina’s Burial in Catania: Urban and Suburban Religious Spaces in Connection
Cristina Soraci
21. Saint Agatha’s Burial in Catania: New Discoveries
Cristina Soraci
22. Women and Children in Funerary Practices in the Cemetery of Vaste (Fourth–Sixth Century AD): A Visible Care for Invisible People
Giovanni Mastronuzzi and Giorgia Tulumello

Index

11/06/2026

Now Available from the American Numismatic Society
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻
𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗵𝘂𝘆𝘂𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
By Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert and Ute Wartenberg

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The exhibition catalogue for When Coinage Was Born - Treasures from the Zhuyuetang Collection (held at the Royal Spanish Mint from June 2025 through June 2026) showcases 148 coins illustrating the development of early coinage around the Mediterranean Sea. The many spectacular coins of the Zhuyuetang Collection provide a deep dive into the wonderful world of Archaic Greek numismatic imagery, so different from the aesthetic language of later Hellenistic and Roman coins, and a vivid tableau of monsters, gods, heroes, and animals. More than a mere assortment of metal objects, these coins tell stories from 2500 years ago about war and international conflict, natural disasters, communities, religion, wealth, and much more. Printed in full color with over 180 images and text masterfully researched and written by two of the leading scholars in Archaic Greek numismatics.

09/06/2026

OPEN ACCESS
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524 and 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
By Rémi Gounelle, Aidan Conti, and Zbigniew Izydorczyk

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In 1904, Edward Kennard Rand published a Latin sermon by an unknown author from a single manuscript of the ninth century that recounts the amazement of the devil at the crucifixion of Jesus and the devil’s defeat at the coming of Christ into the underworld, or the Harrowing of Hell. This Sermo de confusione diaboli et inferni added a new dimension to the already complex body of research on the sermons attributed to pseudo-Eusebius of Alexandria and the Gospel of Nicodemus. A century later, new witnesses of the text edited by Rand and an unedited Latin translation of pseudo-Eusebius’ Sermo 17 have begun to shed new light on the interconnectedness of all these materials.

The present book critically edits the newly identified Latin documents and discusses them in relation to their Greek source(s) and to one another. It retraces the paths from the protean forms of pseudo-Eusebius’ Greek sermons 15 and 17 to their Latin translations, to the Sermo de confusione diaboli et inferni, and to the Gospel of Nicodemus. In the process, it highlights the creativity of the copyists and translators of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and demonstrates their profound interest and investment in the story of Christ’s Descent into Hell.

09/06/2026

La naissance du catholicisme noir dans le monde atlantique
Histoire des connexions entre le Portugal, l'Afrique occidentale et les Amériques (XVe-XVIIIe siècles)
Jeroen Dewulf

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Pourquoi le christianisme devint-il si important pour les communautés noires des Amériques — la même religion que celle des asservisseurs de leurs ancêtres ? Les récits traditionnels réduisent la christianisation des Afro-Américains à un simple produit du colonialisme et de l’esclavage. Jeroen Dewulf propose une relecture novatrice en mettant en lumière les interactions transculturelles transatlantiques par lesquelles les Africains s’approprièrent le christianisme et l’intégrèrent au tissu socioculturel des Amériques.

Dewulf montre comment, dans le cadre de l’expansion ultramarine portugaise, le christianisme s’entremêla aux croyances et pratiques locales de l’Afrique occidentale. Il révèle que des Africains originaires de ces régions s’identifièrent comme chrétiens bien avant leur déportation et qu’ils cultivèrent le christianisme de manière dynamique en Amérique latine, aux Caraïbes et en Amérique du Nord. L’auteur souligne la vitalité des confréries catholiques, et en montrant comment ces structures de solidarité jetèrent les bases du développement religieux, social et politique des communautés chrétiennes noires des Amériques, il en établit la portée fondatrice et durable.

En mobilisant un large éventail de sources historiques et anthropologiques, Dewulf attire l’attention sur la créativité et la résilience des Afro-Américains, fiers à la fois de leur identité chrétienne et de leurs origines africaines.

08/06/2026

𝗨𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆. 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘀
Edited by Angela Cossu and Elvira Zambardi

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Manuscript books have many lives. Once assembled, they scarsely remain unchanged. They can be read and re-read, annotated, supplemented, dismembered, restored and physically moved, even more than once. The volume ‘Uses and Reuses of Medieval Manuscript Books. Southern Italy. Latin Manuscripts’ investigates these multiple lives through an interdisciplinary approach that embraces codicology, paleography, philology, and art history. With a focus on book circulation in Latin Southern Italy, the volume brings together 14 contributions written in three languages. Through rich and diverse case studies, the authors offer a new perspective on the history of the book. Divided into three thematic sections (‘Uses and Reuses of Classical Texts, ‘Manuscripts en route’, ‘Material and Immaterial Reuses’), the book explores the ‘marginal’ traces left by readers, the philological reception of texts, material transformations, and the journeys of codices. The volume reconstructs through these lenses the influence of manuscripts on medieval intellectual activity and offers insights that extend from the specific context of southern Italy to broader geographical and diachronic scales.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, Angela Cossu - Elvira Zambardi

I. Uses and Reuses of Classical Texts / Usi e riusi dei testi classici

Adriano Russo, Riuso dei libri e trasmissione dei classici: la tradizione della prima Deca in Italia centro-meridionale
Filomena Bernardo, L’Ovidius Neapolitanus: la storia di un manoscritto attraverso il suo (ri)uso come antigrafo
Caterina Pentericci, El Escorial Codex T. II. 8 and the beginning of Plautine Itala recension

II. Manuscripts en route / Manoscritti in viaggio

Andrea Puglia, Migrazioni di codici dall’Italia meridionale alla Toscana nordoccidentale tra XI e XII secolo. Prime ricerche
Valeria De Fraja – Francesco Siri, Dn 11, les craintes après les Vêpres siciliennes, et la bibliothèque de la cathédrale de Messine
Claudia D’Alberto, The ʻCronico del Re Giovanninoʼ in the Latin Barberini Fund of the Vatican Apostolic Library: Connections, Provenance and Reuses
Franco Benucci - Matteo Calzone, Da Padova a Parigi: usi e riusi d’un Giuseppe Flavio nel Medioevo meridionale

III. Material and Immaterial Reuses / Riusi materiali e immateriali

Jérémy Delmulle, Vittore, vescovo di Capua (541-554), lettore, annotatore e revisore di codici
Michele Campopiano, Storia e memoria nell’Italia meridionale. Rappresentazioni del passato e pratiche compilative: alcuni esempi e la loro influenza (secoli IX-XI)
Anna Gili, Lire la «　Pantegni　» entre le xiiie et le xive siècles : le témoignage du codex Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, VIII.D.39 dans son contexte
Chiara De Angelis – Elvira Zambardi, Reuses of Reuses: The Case of Glossed Biblical Fragments at Montecassino
Chiara Paniccia, Nuovi materiali per la storia della miniatura (secc. XII-XV). Le pergamene reimpiegate dell’Archivio di Stato di Viterbo e della Biblioteca degli Ardenti

Closing words, Marilena Maniaci - Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

05/06/2026

Newsletter - June 2026
𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁
New & Forthcoming Titles

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04/06/2026

Small Towns and Cities in World History
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Peter Clark

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This volume provides for the first time a comparative view of the development of small towns and smaller cities across the world from the Middle Ages to the present day. It examines the evolution of their role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It focuses on key topics and cutting edge questions relating to the urban economy, population, social life, governance and cultural life. Reassessing the conventional picture of small towns in decline, it argues for the dynamic dimension of their development and their importance for global urbanisation over the long run. This is a major pioneering study, bringing together the latest research by leading and younger scholars which sheds sustained light on a major component of the urban system in both the Global North and South thus makes an essential contribution to understanding world urban development over time.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Authors’ Biographies

Preface

1.Introduction
Peter Clark

2. Small towns and urbanization in medieval England
Christopher Dyer

3. Small towns in late medieval Hungary: levels and factors of urbanity
Katalin Szende

4. Small towns in China: History and policy from the Middle Ages to the Present
William T. Rowe

5. The evolution of Castilian small towns: context and forces for Change in regional Spain from the Pre-Modern Period to the Present
María A. Castrillo Romón, Marina Jiménez Jiménez, Miguel Fernández-Maroto and Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz

6. Small towns in Latin America: transformations during the 18th and 19th centuries
Mariana Canedo

7. Small towns or small cities: the non-metropolitan United States, 1820-2020
Carl Abbott

8. The rise and fall of small towns in Sweden, 1800-2020
Lars Nilsson

9. Small towns and cultural identity: heritage, regionalism and beyond in the Czech Lands, c. 1900-1950
Jaroslav Ira

10. Global connectivity and small towns in the Central African urban network during the Colonial Period before the Second World War
Johan Lagae

11. The changing importance of small towns: Malaya in the Modern Era
Lynn Hollen Lees

12. Smaller frontier cities of Jordan: Unveiling historical dynamics and paths to sustainable development in the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period
Janset Shawash

13. Greek small island towns in transition: 19th to 21st century
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou and Lydia Sapounaki-Dracaki

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