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Alpine History, Worship and Visual Arts of Valcamonica

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Monica Pavese Rubins

£64.99

This book explores the presence of female deities, like the Goddess Isis, in Valcamonica. In this UNESCO World Heritage Site, ancient Rock Art reveals how local traditions, ancestral worship, and official religion intersected through the centuries.

This book highlights all questions connected to the presence of specific female deities – as for example the Goddess Isis - in Valcamonica, where the…
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This book highlights all questions connected to the presence of specific female deities – as for example the Goddess Isis – in Valcamonica, where the local culture and economy have been linked to the surrounding mountains from Prehistory onwards. Today, the valley’s Rock Art is listed as a 94 UNESCO World Heritage Site, with ancestral habits and worship prospering through the centuries up to medieval and post-medieval times. Therefore, the visual and religious art has intersected local traditions, beliefs and official religion through the centuries.

Monica Pavese Rubins graduated in Classical Humanities and further specialised in Roman Archaeology at the University of Turin in Italy. She received a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France about the impact of Romans on Valcamonica, a valley in the middle of the Alps. Her research interest and publications focus on Latin Inscriptions, Roman History, Ethnography, Religion, Historiography, Prehistoric Rock Art and History in general.
For several years, she was part of the research team in Roman History at the University of Turin. She worked more than five years at the Embassy of Italy in Sweden on the promotion of Italian Science and Research abroad and she published a paper for the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences series analysing local historical newspapers, on the occasion of one hundred years since the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi. She has lived in London for ten years and since 2017 has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of several articles, paper conferences and three books.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6934-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6934-4

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBJD, HRAX, ABA
  • BISAC: HIS020000, HIS002020, HIS054000, REL033000, REL072000, REL114000
  • THEMA: NHD, QRAX, ABA
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