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research overview |
<ol><li>Roman death, particularly cremation and deathbeds.</li><li>Inscriptions as
evidence for social history, e.g. migration, Jews in the Roman Empire.</li><li>Medieval
Latin documents such as court rolls and wills.</li><li>Collecting classical objects
in the 18th century.</li></ol><h2>Selected publications</h2><h3>Books</h3><p><em>Dr
Johnson’s Friend and Robert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk</em>(Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars, 2016)</p><p><em>Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers</em>(Duckworth/Classical
Press of Wales, 2000)</p><p><em>Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis I: Eastern Europe</em>(Mohr-Siebeck,
2004, co-authored with Hanswulf Bloedhorn and Alexander Panayotov) </p><p><em>Inscriptiones
Judaicae Orientis III: Syria and Cyprus</em>(Mohr-Siebeck, 2004, co-authored with
Hanswulf Bloedhorn) </p><p><em>The Winslow Manor Court Books, 1322-1377 and 1423-1460.</em>Buckinghamshire
Record Society vols 35-36, 2011</p><h3>Articles</h3><p>“Jews and Christians
in the City of Rome: epigraphic evidence”, in<em>Jews and Christians in Antiquity:
A Regional Perspective</em>, ed. Pierluigi Lanfranchi& Joseph Verheyden (Interdisciplinary
Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 18, Leuven: Peeters, 2018), 229–241.
ISBN: 978-90-429-3461-0.</p><p>“Social structure and the<em>plebs Romana</em>”,
in<em>A Companion to the City of Rome</em>, ed. C. Holleran& A. Claridge (Chichester:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), 155–171. DOI: 10.1002/9781118300664.ch7.</p><p>“La
Magna Grecia ebraica: Sicilia e Calabria”, in<em>Ebrei, una storia italiana.
I primi mille anni</em>, ed. Anna Foa, Giancarlo Lacerenza& Daniele Jalla (Milan:
Electa, 2017), 100–108. ISBN: 978-88-918-1716-7.</p><p>“Dr Johnson’s
friend Molly Aston”,<em>Transactions of the Johnson Society</em>(2016), 31-43.</p><p>“Extended
families and family substitutes among migrants in the Roman World”, in<em>Mediterranean
Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space</em>, ed.
Sabine Huebner& Geoffrey Nathan (Chichester: Wiley, 2016), 121–136.</p><p>“Winslow
in 1341: the<em>Nonarum Inquisitiones</em>and the reliability of medieval tax self-assessment”,<em>Records
of Buckinghamshire</em>55 (2015), 137-46.</p><p>“The antiquities collection
of Topham Beauclerk and Richard Topham”,<em>Journal of the History of Collections</em>25.2
(2013), 185-193.</p><p>“‘Dreams inspired by Phoebus’: western visitors
to Delos from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century”,<em>International Journal
of the Classical Tradition</em>18.3 (2011), 373-393.</p><p>“Foreign families
in Roman Italy”,<em>A Companion to the Greek and Roman Family</em>ed. B. Rawson
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 145-160</p><p>“Goodbye Livia: Dying in the Roman home”,
in<em>Memory and Mourning</em>, ed. V. Hope& J. Huskinson (Oxford: Oxbow, 2011),
1-20.</p><p>“The Jewish life course in the Roman Empire”, in<em>Age and
Ageing in the Roman Empire</em>, ed. M. Harlow& R. Laurence (<em>JRA</em>supplement
65, 2007), 81-94.</p><p>“‘Half-burnt on an emergency pyre’: Roman
cremations which went wrong”,<em>Greece& Rome</em>47 (2000), 186-196.</p><p>“Building
a Roman funeral pyre”,<em>Antichthon</em>34 (2000), 30-45.</p><p> </p> |