2020

Viet Cuong gives a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere of an unconventional piece

The changes support native animals and reduce insecticide needs without disturbing iconic Beatrix Farrand designs

Alasdair Grant explodes the geography of the Late Byzantine world by studying the lives of captive and enslaved Greeks

Michelle Young reconstructs ancient rituals and reveals the long-distance connections in ancient Peru

Anthony Kaldellis rethinks a thousand years of history from the Persian occupation to Byzantine society as the law in motion

Jakub Kabala looks at papal traces in the language of an iconic medieval Christian mission to the Slavs

What is the value of the humanities in a time of crisis?

Iyaxel Cojti Ren tracks the emergence of the ancient Kaqchikel polity in the Guatemalan highlands during the Late Postclassic period

Victor Castillo finds evidence that sixteenth-century Maya nobles revived ancient religious architecture while claiming Christian identities

Stephanie Strauss conducts the first art historical assessment of Epi-Olmec elite visual culture

Stephanie Caruso reveals how a group of gold pendants created a sense of wonder in late antique viewers

Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape

Viet Cuong makes relatable the seemingly magical process of composing music

Sarah Kennedy establishes why food is key to understanding power, identity, and status in colonial Peru

Mikael Muehlbauer identifies medieval churches in Ethiopia that evoke a lost Byzantium

Four recently acquired lead seals illuminate Byzantine lives and fill collection gaps

The only complete English translation of Eriugena’s magnum opus

Michael McCormick combines science, archaeology, and history to solve puzzles from the past

W. Sasson Chahanovich explains how the conquest of Constantinople kickstarted Ottoman enthusiasm for the end-times

Robyn Bollinger revives the macabre Paganini, “The Hot Canary,” and other touchstones of an indulgent musical tradition