Revealing Christian Heritage

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition.

By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a wider European and Mediterranean horizon (Greece, Holy Land, Eritrea, Malta, Norway), this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All articles deal with many topics of the field (museology, cultural heritage protection law, history of religious orders, field archaeology, military explorations), and therefore offer a strong interdisciplinary cut.

This book is first product of the international online workshop series ¿Revealing Christian Heritage. Talks on the rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860-1930¿.

Contents

Introduction

Mirella Romero Recio

A Brief History of Christian Archaeology between 1860 and 1930

Chiara Cecalupo

Byzantine Artefacts versus Classical Antiquities: Questioning the early Heritage Protection in Greece

Chiara Mannoni

Christian excavations in the Holy Land. The first explorations and the establishment of Archaeological Schools

Davide Bianchi

On Behalf of Her Majesty. Unveiling the Early Christian Heritage of the Aksumite Kingdom (Horn of Africa) in the 19th -20th Centuries

Marco Ciliberti, Gabriele Castiglia

Maltese Catacomb Study in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Historiographical Analysis

Rebecca Xerri

Medieval Church Art and Nation Building in Norway during the Nineteenth Century

Justin Kroesen

Discussion