The contributions to the present volume tackle the issue of material and symbolic spaces in the public and private sphere during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages through specific studies focused on written and material sources.

In this book, Robert Bork offers a sweeping reassessment of late Gothic architecture and its fate in the Renaissance.

This volume engages in the effort to shed light on Greek alchemy from the 1st century CE to the 18th century, discussing and presenting relative sources, as well as the reception, transformation and use of this 'art'. It also examines newly discovered manuscripts and offers a commented translation of Stephanos of Alexandria’s prayers.