Valentino Gasparini
Biographic Data
| ID | 252888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentino Gasparini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentino |
| FAMILY NAME | Gasparini |
| SIGNATURE | GASPARINI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3345-0062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Culture-Historical Models: Reframing Religious Change in Second–Third Century AD North Africa
This paper examines the dynamics of religious transformation in North Africa during the second and third centuries AD, challenging traditional narratives rooted in culture-historical models and simplistic cultural labels, such as the purported ‘Africanisation’ of cults under the Severan dynasty. While past scholarship has often framed these changes in terms of cultural permanence, resistance, or renaissance, this study shows that they are instead…
Religious Individualisation: Archaeological, Iconographic and Epigraphic Case Studies from the Roman World
Mackey, Jacob L. (2022). Belief and Cult. Rethinking Roman Religion. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press
Estoy convencido de que, en este preciso momento histrico, un libro sobre la religin romana difcilmente podra ser ms desafiante y controvertido que
Muros, turres, portas faciendas coeravit. Remarks on the chronology of the foundation of Barcino
Recent research has significantly improved our knowledge about the foundation of the Roman city of Barcino (Barcelona, Spain). However, while these studies have collected some encouraging evidence for a late-Republican chronology, the Augustan chronology traditionally granted to this foundation (around B.C. 10) has not been questioned at all. This article aims to analyse old and new literary, epigraphic, topographic, architectural, and archaeolog…
Rurification of Religion. Foci and Suggrundaria at the Roman Vicus of Falacrinae (Cittareale, Rieti, Italy)
The results of the archaeological exploration of the Roman vicus of Falacrinae, placed in the Upper Sabina 78 miles north-east of Rome, represent excellent first-hand material for testing the concept of “rurification” of religion. The frequentation of the area goes back over time at least to the late Neolithic, but it is only in the Archaic period that a temple was built, soon converting itself into a sort of pole of attraction of the local commu…
Renewing the past: Rufinus’ appropriation of the sacred site of Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal)
The topic of "lived places" is here approached through the analysis of the rock sanctuary of Panias (Assento de Valnogueiras, Vila Real de Trs-os-Montes), one of the most popular archaeological sites in Portugal. When the Roman senator Gaius C(?) Calpurnius Rufinus, between the late 2nd and the mid-3rd century CE, had to choose the most appropriate location for his intervention, he decided to build a shrine far away from an urban center, preferri…
Introduction to Section 3
Pursuing lived ancient religion
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by spec…
Religious Agency and Time Regimes in the Roman Empire: The Cult of Anubis as a Case Study
This article analyzes three different case studies related to the Graeco-Roman cult of Anubis, located in different historical periods (Early, Middle, and Late Roman Empire) and approached by the study of different types of material (namely literary, epigraphic/archaeological, and iconographic sources). The goal of this study is to explore the social dimension of religious practice, stressing its variety, creativity, multiplicity, fluidity, and f…
Dall’Oriente a Roma. Cibele, Iside e Serapide nell’opera di Varrone, written by Alessandra Rolle
Les acteurs sur scène. Théâtre et théâtralisation dans les cultes isiaques
Egyptianism: Appropriating ‘Egypt’ in the ‘Isiac Cults’ of the Graeco-Roman World
When dealing with Isis, Serapis and the other members of the so-called ‘ gens isiaca ’, scholars have hesitated whether to emphasize their (indisputable) historico-geographic origin in the Nile valley or their (no less indisputable) character as Graeco-Roman cults. We thus find these deities referred to as ‘Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Roman’, ‘Greek’, ‘Roman’ and, again, ‘Oriental’, ‘Orientalized Roman’, and so on. Each of these definit…
Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET): Agents, Images, and Practices
In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a lo…
Religion in the making: The Lived Ancient Religion approach
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Les cultes isiaques et les pouvoirs locaux en Italie
Religion is present in all the acts and decisions of political life. A clear distinction between religious bodies and government thus remains totally anachronistic. But the concept of civitas- or polished-religion emerges from a much broader sociocultural mesh networks and linkages between actors. The participation of civic authorities in Italy does not imply the expression of their personal religious preference: in many cases, the role played by…
Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World
The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. In the history of scholarship on religion in Mediterranean antiquity, scholars have focused on the emotional dimension of both terms by employing the concepts of 'Christianity' and its derivative, 'oriental religion'. Only recently analyses in this field started focusing on interaction and individual experience. Research initiatives at Paler…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports
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Isis and Osiris: Demonology vs. Henotheism
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
La "Palaestra" d'Herculanum: Un sanctuaire d'Isis et de la Mater Deum
The concentration of a large quantity of material linked to isiac and metroac cults inside and round the so-called Palaestra at Herculanum and the connotations of certain pieces which point to their original belonging to a context of religious and public nature induce us to look for a different interpretation of the building’s function. The architectural analysis reveals anomalies which do not correspond to the typical characteristics of Roman pa…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Excavations at Falacrinae (Cittareale, Rieti)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by spec…
Religion in the making: The Lived Ancient Religion approach
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Egyptianism: Appropriating ‘Egypt’ in the ‘Isiac Cults’ of the Graeco-Roman World
When dealing with Isis, Serapis and the other members of the so-called ‘ gens isiaca ’, scholars have hesitated whether to emphasize their (indisputable) historico-geographic origin in the Nile valley or their (no less indisputable) character as Graeco-Roman cults. We thus find these deities referred to as ‘Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Roman’, ‘Greek’, ‘Roman’ and, again, ‘Oriental’, ‘Orientalized Roman’, and so on. Each of these definit…
Muros, turres, portas faciendas coeravit. Remarks on the chronology of the foundation of Barcino
Recent research has significantly improved our knowledge about the foundation of the Roman city of Barcino (Barcelona, Spain). However, while these studies have collected some encouraging evidence for a late-Republican chronology, the Augustan chronology traditionally granted to this foundation (around B.C. 10) has not been questioned at all. This article aims to analyse old and new literary, epigraphic, topographic, architectural, and archaeolog…
Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET): Agents, Images, and Practices
In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a lo…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Excavations at Falacrinae (Cittareale, Rieti)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
La "Palaestra" d'Herculanum: Un sanctuaire d'Isis et de la Mater Deum
The concentration of a large quantity of material linked to isiac and metroac cults inside and round the so-called Palaestra at Herculanum and the connotations of certain pieces which point to their original belonging to a context of religious and public nature induce us to look for a different interpretation of the building’s function. The architectural analysis reveals anomalies which do not correspond to the typical characteristics of Roman pa…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Isis and Osiris: Demonology vs. Henotheism
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World
The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. In the history of scholarship on religion in Mediterranean antiquity, scholars have focused on the emotional dimension of both terms by employing the concepts of 'Christianity' and its derivative, 'oriental religion'. Only recently analyses in this field started focusing on interaction and individual experience. Research initiatives at Paler…
Les cultes isiaques et les pouvoirs locaux en Italie
Religion is present in all the acts and decisions of political life. A clear distinction between religious bodies and government thus remains totally anachronistic. But the concept of civitas- or polished-religion emerges from a much broader sociocultural mesh networks and linkages between actors. The participation of civic authorities in Italy does not imply the expression of their personal religious preference: in many cases, the role played by…
Dall’Oriente a Roma. Cibele, Iside e Serapide nell’opera di Varrone, written by Alessandra Rolle
Les acteurs sur scène. Théâtre et théâtralisation dans les cultes isiaques
Egyptianism: Appropriating ‘Egypt’ in the ‘Isiac Cults’ of the Graeco-Roman World
When dealing with Isis, Serapis and the other members of the so-called ‘ gens isiaca ’, scholars have hesitated whether to emphasize their (indisputable) historico-geographic origin in the Nile valley or their (no less indisputable) character as Graeco-Roman cults. We thus find these deities referred to as ‘Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Egyptian’, ‘Graeco-Roman’, ‘Greek’, ‘Roman’ and, again, ‘Oriental’, ‘Orientalized Roman’, and so on. Each of these definit…
Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis (SET): Agents, Images, and Practices
In Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a lo…
Religion in the making: The Lived Ancient Religion approach
For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…
Renewing the past: Rufinus’ appropriation of the sacred site of Panóias (Vila Real, Portugal)
The topic of "lived places" is here approached through the analysis of the rock sanctuary of Panias (Assento de Valnogueiras, Vila Real de Trs-os-Montes), one of the most popular archaeological sites in Portugal. When the Roman senator Gaius C(?) Calpurnius Rufinus, between the late 2nd and the mid-3rd century CE, had to choose the most appropriate location for his intervention, he decided to build a shrine far away from an urban center, preferri…
Introduction to Section 3
Pursuing lived ancient religion
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by spec…
Religious Agency and Time Regimes in the Roman Empire: The Cult of Anubis as a Case Study
This article analyzes three different case studies related to the Graeco-Roman cult of Anubis, located in different historical periods (Early, Middle, and Late Roman Empire) and approached by the study of different types of material (namely literary, epigraphic/archaeological, and iconographic sources). The goal of this study is to explore the social dimension of religious practice, stressing its variety, creativity, multiplicity, fluidity, and f…
Rurification of Religion. Foci and Suggrundaria at the Roman Vicus of Falacrinae (Cittareale, Rieti, Italy)
The results of the archaeological exploration of the Roman vicus of Falacrinae, placed in the Upper Sabina 78 miles north-east of Rome, represent excellent first-hand material for testing the concept of “rurification” of religion. The frequentation of the area goes back over time at least to the late Neolithic, but it is only in the Archaic period that a temple was built, soon converting itself into a sort of pole of attraction of the local commu…
Muros, turres, portas faciendas coeravit. Remarks on the chronology of the foundation of Barcino
Recent research has significantly improved our knowledge about the foundation of the Roman city of Barcino (Barcelona, Spain). However, while these studies have collected some encouraging evidence for a late-Republican chronology, the Augustan chronology traditionally granted to this foundation (around B.C. 10) has not been questioned at all. This article aims to analyse old and new literary, epigraphic, topographic, architectural, and archaeolog…
Mackey, Jacob L. (2022). Belief and Cult. Rethinking Roman Religion. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press
Estoy convencido de que, en este preciso momento histrico, un libro sobre la religin romana difcilmente podra ser ms desafiante y controvertido que
Religious Individualisation: Archaeological, Iconographic and Epigraphic Case Studies from the Roman World
Beyond Culture-Historical Models: Reframing Religious Change in Second–Third Century AD North Africa
This paper examines the dynamics of religious transformation in North Africa during the second and third centuries AD, challenging traditional narratives rooted in culture-historical models and simplistic cultural labels, such as the purported ‘Africanisation’ of cults under the Severan dynasty. While past scholarship has often framed these changes in terms of cultural permanence, resistance, or renaissance, this study shows that they are instead…
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