The latest, 23rd issue of Hortus Artium Medievalium, annual journal of the International Research Center for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Zagreb, has been presented to the public on May 25th 2017, during the Center’s 24th International colloquium in Pula, Croatia.

The largest part of the two volume issue is devoted to papers presented a year before in Zadar, during the 23rd IRCLAMA colloquium – Living and dying in the cloister. Monastic life from the 5th to the 11th centuries. The topic and the deriving problems was of course one of the milestones for the CROMART project. Containing contributions by project team members M. Guardia and G.P. Brogiolo, it gathers 51 papers divided in five sections: Structures of Monastic Life and Liturgical Spaces, Cloistered Forms and Religious Symbols, Building and Working in The Monastic World, Asceticism of The Food, Attendance and Charity and With a Glance Beyond Time.

The second part of the issue continues with the standard blocks Varia (16 papers with contributions of project team members G.-P. Brogiolo, A. Chavarria, C. Mancho, M. Jurković, M. Čaušević-Bully, S. Bully) and Book Reviews (with contributions by project team members P. Chevalier, V. Lucherini).  Hortus Artium Medievalium remains one of the world’s leading journals in medieval studies and as such is one of the essential contributions to the research in the context of CROMART project.