New Publication: ‘Behind the Scenes of Medieval Roofs: An Overview of the Roofing Systems of Italian Churches’, edited by Angelo Passuello and Michalis Olympios

The volume investigates the roofing systems of Italian churches from the Middle Ages to the early modern period through a multidisciplinary approach combining architectural history, art history, archaeology, archaeometry, and conservation studies. Despite the fundamental role played by timber roofs, vaults, and domes in shaping medieval sacred architecture, these structures have received relatively limited scholarly attention, particularly within the Italian context.

Bringing together contributions from specialists working across the Italian peninsula, the book offers the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of medieval roofing systems at a national scale. It explores both well-known and lesser-known case studies, highlighting the technological, artistic, and symbolic dimensions of these complex structures while also proposing future directions for their study, protection, and valorisation.

The publication forms part of the CaMeRoofs (Cataloguing Medieval Roofs) project, coordinated by the University of Cyprus and funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Grant Agreement No. 101104788).

The publisher’s page is available here: https://www.lerma.it/libro/9788891334305

As the volume derives from a HORIZON project funded by the European Commission, it is also freely available in Open Access through ZENODO: https://zenodo.org/records/18742052