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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7 III: Philippe Blaudeau (Université d’Angers): Seeking to re-establish contact in the midst of the Acacian schism. Study of an attempt to renew contact between the sees of Alexandria and Rome under imperial auspices in 497
The collectio Avellana is an exceptional collection of documents, consisting of 244, or rather 243, papal and imperial documents, mostly letters, dating from the schism of Ursinus, under the pontificate ...
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29 II: Haggai Olshanetsky (UW) & Lev Cosijns (Oxford), Using macro-scale data to understand the relationship between climate, demography and economy in Late Antiquity
In the last few decades, there is growing interest in the effects of climate on ancient societies, such as the end of the Roman Climate Optimum in the 2nd to ...
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22 II: Alexandra Madeła (UW), Mapping out mythical Troy: The spaces of Dares Phrygius’ De Excidio Troiae and ancient scholarship on Homer’s geography
Abstract Whereas modern audiences tend to treat Homer’s Iliad as predominantly a work of fiction, ancient readers viewed it as a poeticized account of a true historical event, the Trojan ...
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25 I Yaniv Fox (Bar Ilan), The limits of allegory: biblical exegesis and political commentary in Justus of Urgell and Caesarius of Arles
Abstract This presentation analyzes the creative limits of allegorical biblical interpretation as both an exegetical methodology and a vehicle for societal commentary in the late antique and early medieval West. ...
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