6 XI 2025: David Addison (University of Liverpool), Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea
    
            
        It is well known that in late antiquity many clerics, including bishops, were married. Though enjoined to live a life of sexual continence after ordination or promotion, they continued to ...    
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        30 X 2025: Robert Wiśniewski (UW), Was St Peter a popular saint?
    
            
        St. Peter, the patron saint of Rome, is mentioned tens of thousands of times in late antique literature across various regions of Christendom. Numerous churches were dedicated to him, inscriptions ...    
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        23 X 2025: Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    
            
        Throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a vast corpus of potentially dangerous texts was dismissed as unorthodox and unauthorised by Christian scholars and policy makers. These texts exposed ...    
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        16 X  Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder):  A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.
    
            
        Modern readers experience imperial constitutions through vast multiauthor compilations like the Codices Justinianus et Theodosianus. These compilations organize the writings of many different people by subject matter, and thus present ...    
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        MOVED TO A LATER  DATE 9 X  2025: Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier
    
            
        The competition between the Roman and Sasanian empires for control of the frontier has been told many times, but typically from an imperial perspective. This lecture shifts the focus to ...    
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        2 X 2025: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back
    
            
        The quaestio prima of the juristic papyrology has been since its beginning the problem of law application in Egypt under the Roman rule. In the last half of the century two ...    
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