La Pompei del Medioevo
My new book about the excavations at San Vincenzo al Volturno, Molise has been published by Carocci (of Rome). The publisher has done a...
Remembering Fred Baker
Fred Baker has passed far too young. It is hard to take in. He was always a youthful energy, creative and gifted. They were qualities...
San Vincenzo al Volturno
Forty years since I was asked by the soprintendente if I would consider excavating at San Vincenzo al Volturno. Listen to (Prof) Andrea...
Seventy-Five Years On
15 February – 75 years since Flying Fortresses obliterated the monastery of Monte Cassino, the home of Benedictinism. Today as we pass...
The portrait of Abbot Epyphanius (824-42), San Vincenzo al Volturno
Portraits are rare before the High Middle Ages. This makes the vivid portrait of Abbot Epyphanius in the crypt of San Vincenzo al...
The Uffizi of Molise
Europe has privileged the humanism of the (late medieval/early modern) Renaissance above the earlier renaissances of the Carolingian and...