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Hagiography Society Article Prize-winner Dina Boero tells us about “stylites,” Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns.

Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.

by Jonas Borsch, author of "God’s Wrath over Antioch, 525–540 CE: Beginning of the End?" from the new special issue of Studies in Late AntiquityThe Tyche (or "Fortune") of Antioch (modern Antakya), now at the Vatican Museum in Rome. The statue is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bronze original

By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban WorldsI was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One image of t