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 ...

6 III: Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Ecclesiastical Rivalries and Urban Violence in Late Antique Rome: Evidence from Canonical Collections

The city of Rome was always tumultuous. In Late Antiquity, ecclesiastical tensions compounded the existing social and economic factors, leading to several outbreaks of violence, sparsely documented in literary sources. ...

27 II 2025 Julia Schwarzer (Universität Regensburg), Christian Brotherhoods and Liturgical Song during Long Late Antiquity

Lay brotherhoods known as philoponoi or spoudaioi, “lovers of work” or “eager ones”, are an anomaly – but an exciting one. At home in late antique Egypt (beginning with the ...