19 XII 2024: Daniel Galadza (Pontificio Istituto Orientale), Piecing together Greek liturgy from Jerusalem after Late Antiquity
From Late Antiquity, liturgy in Jerusalem served as a model for the way Christians prayed throughout the Mediterranean world. Fourth-century pilgrim accounts describe worship at Jerusalem’s holy places and its ...
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12 XII 2024: Andrea Bernier (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Deconstructing the Theodosian Code. Archives and collections of laws in the later Roman empire
The Theodosian Code is a mine of information on all manner of subjects for modern historians of late Antiquity. Despite the wealth of data, however, there is a general problem ...
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5 XII 2024 Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh), Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: a new translation and a new edition
The Res gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus was transmitted through two closely-related Carolingian manuscripts, the better of which was lost in the sixteenth century and survives only in fragments and indirect ...
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28 XI 2024: Agata Deptuła & Adam Łajtar: Severus of Antioch in Nubia. Tracing early Christian traditions in Qasr Ibrim’s Greek manuscripts
Qasr Ibrim, located on the right bank of the Nile midway between the first and second cataracts, stands as a significant medieval settlement, seat of the civilian authorities of the ...
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21 XI 2024: Serena Ammirati (Università Roma Tre), References and cross-references in late antique law books: a few years after REDHIS
Abstract In this paper I seek to show how internal and external quotations and references contained in late antique law books (authors' works and commentaries) use somewhat recurrent expressions, which ...
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14 XI 2024: Basemah Hamarneh (Universität Wien), Iconophobia in the Churches of the Levant: (Re)inventing images or seeking salvation?
Abstract Excavations carried out in the Levant have yielded a wealth of archaeological documentation, which has demonstrated the extent of censorship, alteration, and intentional damage, particularly to images of living ...
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