Cults, Cacti, and Chavín
Michelle Young reconstructs ancient rituals and reveals the long-distance connections in ancient Peru
A New History of Byzantium
Anthony Kaldellis rethinks a thousand years of history from the Persian occupation to Byzantine society as the law in motion
Recovering Our History
Iyaxel Cojti Ren tracks the emergence of the ancient Kaqchikel polity in the Guatemalan highlands during the Late Postclassic period
Slavonic Beyond Byzantium
Jakub Kabala looks at papal traces in the language of an iconic medieval Christian mission to the Slavs
Tracing the Enormous Byzantine Diaspora
Alasdair Grant explodes the geography of the Late Byzantine world by studying the lives of captive and enslaved Greeks
Digging into the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library: Spotlight on “On Morals, or Concerning Education”
What is the value of the humanities in a time of crisis?
Conquest as Revival
Victor Castillo finds evidence that sixteenth-century Maya nobles revived ancient religious architecture while claiming Christian identities
Monuments, Hieroglyphs, and Native Fauna
Stephanie Strauss conducts the first art historical assessment of Epi-Olmec elite visual culture
Wearing Wonder
Stephanie Caruso reveals how a group of gold pendants created a sense of wonder in late antique viewers
Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses
Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape