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...
Spoleto - a tutorial with John Mitchell
John Mitchell is here hot-foot from a conference of Lombard archaeology, art and history at Benevento. Thirty six years since we first...
San Vincenzo al Volturno (Molise) redux
San Vincenzo al Volturno, the best preserved Carolingian-period monastery in Europe, has new hope. This year the Abbot of Monte Cassino...
Debating the future of Cato's model farm at Pozzilli with Onorevale Patriciello
A member of the Soprintendenza in Molise long ago told me there’s nothing of archaeological importance in the regione. Exactly why this...
Dark Age Water Mills at San Vincenzo al Volturno
Water mills fascinate me. My first solo excavation was of a 17th-century mill in England, a large operation quite different from those we...
