Religious Participation in Ancient and Medieval Societies

Articles: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Ville Vuolanto, Religious Practices and Social Interaction in the Ancient and Medieval World; Maurizio Bettini, The Lar Familiaris of the Romans: A 'Simple' God; Marja-Leena Hänninen, Domestic Cult and the Construction of an Ideal Roman Peasant Family; Maria Niku, Spheres of Interaction and Cooperation between Citizens and Foreigners in the Religious Life of Hellenistic Athens; James MacGregor, Carter Knights, Guild Piety, and the Cult of Saint George in Fifteenth Century England; Maija Ojala, Religious Participation in the Craft Ordinances in the Baltic Sea Region; Elina Räsänen, Hoping for Heirs? The 'Lady of the Matrimony' and the Case of Clemet Hogenskild in the Late Medieval Finland; Christian Laes, Male Virgins in Latin Inscriptions from Rome; Outi Sihvonen, Fictores and the Cult of Vesta; Valerie L. Garver, Textiles as a Means of Female Religious Participation in the Carolingian World; Miikka Tamminen, Crusading in the Margins? Women and Children in the Crusade Model Sermons of the Thirteenth Century; Maijastina Kahlos, Polluted by Sacrifices. Christian Repugnance at Participation in Sacrificial Rituals in Late Antiquity; Eva-Maria Butz & Alfons Zettler, From Collective to Individual Commemoration of the Dead: Case Studies in Early Medieval Religious Practice; Rainer Opitz, God as a Court Witness ‒ Oaths in a Medieval Court; Celia E. Schultz, Divination and Community in Cicero's De Divinatione; Gábor Klaniczay, Ritual and Narrative in Late Medieval Miracle Accounts. The Construction of the Miracle; Katariina Mustakallio, Religion as Communication? Pudicitia and Gender