Leonard Rutgers
Research Institute for History and Art History (OGK) - Ancie
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof.dr. LV Rutgers is Professor of Late Antiquity. His research interests focus on processes of identity formation, migration, and violence and religion in the period from 0-600 AD. Rutgers studies these phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective, including using archaeological and scientific research methods. He is the author of the award-winning The Jews in Late Ancient Rome. Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora (2000), various other books and a groundbreaking publication about the rise of Rome's catacombs in the journal Nature (2005).
Research Interest
Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (RMA)
Publications
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Rutgers, LV (2016). Review of F. Bisconti, L'ipogeo degli Aureli in Viale Manzoni. Restauri, tutela, valorizzazione e aggiornamenti interpretativi. Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum , 56-57, (pp. 195-96).
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Rutgers, LV (2016). Review of B. Mazzei (ed.), Il cubicolo degli Apostoli nelle catacombe romane di Sancta Tecla. Cronaca di una scoperta. Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum , 56/57, (pp. 199-200).
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Rutgers, LV (2016). Next year in Sardis: Reflections on whether the Jewish Diaspora of the Roman Era was Diasporic at all. In Constanza Cordoni & Gerhard Langer (Ed.), "Let The Wise Listen And Add To Their Learning" (Prov 1: 5). Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday (pp. 167-196). Berlin: the Gruyter.
