24 IV: Perrine Pilette (CNRS – UMR8167 Orient & Méditerranée) Patriarchs, Month After Month : Rewritings of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion

The Coptic-Arabic Synaxarion, compiled at the turn of the Mamluk period, organizes the commemorations of saints and martyrs according to the Coptic calendar. Among these holy figures, the patriarchs hold a prominent ...

10 IV: Zachary Chitwood (München), Eastern Roman Law, Islam and the First Millennium: Prolegomena to a ius commune orientale

The scholarship on Roman law in the Middle Ages has focused to a large degree on the ius commune, the shared wellspring of the Roman legal tradition that served as ...

3 IV: Paweł Filipczak (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Commentary on John Malalas (XI, 3-4) on Emperor Trajan’s Expedition to the East

The purpose of the paper is to analyse a short passage from the Chronicle of John Malalas (1st half of the 6th century AD), describing the initial phase of Emperor ...

27 III: Daria Elagina (Hamburg Universität) & Dorota Dzierzbicka (UW), An Ethiopian pilgrim at Old Dongola, Sudan. New insights from a Vatican manuscript

In 1596, Takla ʾAlfā found himself stranded in Old Dongola, Sudan, during his pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Our paper discusses the Ethiopian monk’s first-hand account concerning his stay in the city, ...

20 III: Noel Lenski (Yale), Feeding a Young Capital: The Food Supply of Constantinople in the Fourth Century

When he dedicated his new eastern capital in 330, Constantine gave clear signs that he intended it to be a ‘Second Rome.’ As such, he endowed Constantinople with distinct privileges ...

13 III Nicola Holm (UW): Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops

The reigns of Constantine I’s three sons, Constantine II (r.337-340), Constantius II (r.337-361), and Constans (r.337-350) saw a period of intense development of not only the Christian church but also ...