Publications

In Press

“Christianity in the Roman villa: Practice and discourse.” In Roman Villas in the Mediterranean Basin. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, In Press.

“House, villa, church: Domestic architecture and cult in Late Antiquity.” In Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture. Vol. 2 Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, In Press.

2015

“At home.” In A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World, 209-219. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.at_home_archaeolgy_of_religion_.pdf

Bowes, K., A. Mercuri, E. Rattigheri, R. Rinaldi, A. Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, M. Ghisleni, C. Grey, M. MacKinnon, and E. Vaccaro. “Palaeoenvironment and land-use of Roman peasant farmhouses in southern Tuscany.” Plant Biosystems 149 (2015): 174-184.bowes_et_al._2015_pb.pdf

“The ritual individual: Private chapels and the reserved Eucharist in the sixth-century East.” In A Multitude of Religious Roles: Confronting Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity, 54-88., 2015.chapels_and_individual_.pdf

2014

“Christians in the amphitheater? A brief note on the ‘Christianization’ of spectacle buildings and martyrial memory.” Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité (2014).

2013

Vaccaro, E., M. Ghisleni, A. Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, C. Grey, and K. Bowes. “Excavating the Roman peasant II: Excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR),.” Papers of the British School at Rome 81 (2013): 129-179.pbsr_vaccaro_et_al.pdf

“Villas, taxes and trade in fourth-century Hispania.” In Local Economies: Production and Exchange in Late Antiquity, 177-212. Leiden: Brill, 2013.laa_taxes_and_trade.pdf

2011

“Christian images in the home.” Antiquité Tardive 19 (2011): 171-190.antiquite_tardive.pdf

M. Ghisleni, E. Vaccaro, Bowes K. “Excavating the Roman peasant: Excavations at Pievina.” Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (2011): 1-49.ghisleni_et_al_pbsr.pdf

“Inventing ascetic space: Houses, monasteries and the archaeology of asceticism.” In Western Monasticism Ante Litteram: The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.inventing_ascetic_space_2011.pdf

K. Bowes, F. LaTorre, Vaccaro E. “New work in the hinterland of Piazza Armerina: Sofiana/mansio Philosophiana.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 24 (2011): 141-167.sofiana_preliminary_report_2011.pdf

2010

Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire. London: Duckworth, 2010.

2009

“The main chapel of the Durres amphitheater: Decoration and chronolog.” Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité 121 (2009): 569-595.durres_amphitheater_chapel_proofs_mefra.pdf

2008

“Early Christian archaeology: A state of the field.” Religion Compass 2 (2008): 575-619.religion_compass_early_christian_archaeology.pdf

Private Worship, Public Values and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

2007

Bowes, K., K. Francis, and R. Hodges. Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno . London: British Academy, 2007.

“Out of Pirenne’s shadow? Late antique San Vincenzo reconsidered.” In Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno. London: BritishAcademy, 2007.sv4_pirennes_shadow.pdf

““‘Christianization’ and the rural home.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007): 143-170.jechs_christization_and_the_home.pdf

2006

“Building sacred landscapes: Villas and cult.” In Villas tardoantiguas en el Mediterraneo occidental. Madrid: C.S.I.C., 2006.villas_tardoantiquas_building_sacred_landscapes.pdf

“The Dürres amphitheater: Archaeology and memory.” In New Directions in Albanian Archaeology. Studies Presented to Muzafer Korkuti. Tirana: QNASH, 2006.archaeology_and_memory_korkuti_festschrift.pdf

2005

Bowes, K., and M. Kulikowski. Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

“Personal devotions and private chapels.” In Late Ancient Christianity: Articles (cont.) A People’s History of Christianity, Vol. 2.. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.peoples_history_personal_devotions.pdf

Bowes, K., and A. Gutteridge. “Rethinking the later Roman landscape.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005): 405-418.jra_countryside_article_bowes_and_gutteridge.pdf

““‘Une coterie espagnole pieuse:’ Christian archaeology and Christian communities in Theodosian Hispani.” In Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches. Leiden: Brill, 2005.hispania_coterie_pieuse.pdf

2004

“Architecture, Domestic.” In Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

2003

Bowes, K., and A. Hoti. “An amphitheatre and its afterlives: Survey and excavation in the Durres amphitheatre.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 16 (2003): 380-394.jra_durres_amphitheater.pdf

2001

“Ivory lists: Consular diptychs, Christian appropriation and polemics of time in Late Antiquity .” Art History 24 (2001): 338-357.art_history_consular_lists.pdf

“Villa Sacra: The transformation of domestic space in some late Roman villas of Hispani.” In Arqueologia da Antiquidade na Península Ibérica. Actas do III Congreso de Arqueología Peninsular. Porto, 2001.

““ ‘…Nec sedere in villam.’ Villa-churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy .” In Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquit. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2001.

2000

Arubas, B., K. Bowes, and H. Goldfus. “New excavations in the East Church of Halutza.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (2000): 331-342.

Bowes, K., and H. Goldfus. “New late Roman bone carvings from Halutza and the problem of regional bone carving workshops in Palestine.” Israel Exploration Journal 50 (2000): 185-202.