25 IV 2024: Maya Maskarinec (USC) Property and Piety: The Houses of Saints in Late Antique and Early Medieval Rome
This talk examines the nexus between property and piety in late antique and early medieval Rome, and the repercussions that this had for sacred space in medieval Rome. Its guiding ...
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19 IV (on Friday and at 3 P.M.!) Roberto Alciati (Firenze), Before the relics: Cases of Christian resistance to the agency of objects
Religious beliefs seem universally rooted in materiality, to the extent that they are often sustained by this materiality. It is the things endowed with a particular agency (images, artifacts, bodily ...
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11 IV 2024: Paweł Nowakowski (UW), ‘I pray, do not focus on their barbarous tongue.’ The written and spoken languages in monasteries of early Byzantine Syria
The complex issue of written and spoken languages used in Eastern monastic communities of the early Byzantine period was discussed in detail, especially regarding the coenobia and laurae of Palestine. ...
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4 IV 2024: Katinka Sewing (Heidelberg), Broken and buried. The curious case of the marble slabs from the Bishop’s church in Doliche (Southeast Turkey)
The city of Doliche was part of the cultural landscape of ancient Northern Syria and belonged to the province of Euphratesia. So far, it remains largely unexplored concerning late antique ...
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21 III 2024 (4.45 p.m.) Jerzy Szafranowski (UW), The founder, the cleric, and the bishop. Private churches in the sixth-century West
In this paper, I will provide a preliminary investigation into the lay ecclesiastical foundations in the sixth-century West. Drawing upon various primary sources, such as the writings of Gregory of ...
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14 III: Maria Nowak, Kontantinos Balamoshev & Marzena Wojtczak (UW), Law in Social Networks of late antique Aphrodite – preliminary results and a case study
Papyri from Aphrodite are a treasure trove for anyone interested in legal history because they offer examples of almost every legal tool used in Late Antiquity and some that are ...
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