13 VI 2024: Phil Booth (Oxford) John of Ephesus as historian
This paper explores various apologetic elements within the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus, which blends elements of historiography, apology, and autohagiography. Starting from the ambiguous status of John and ...
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6 VI 2024: Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille Université), Identifying the governor’s secretaries in eighth-century Fustat: another look at the Aphrodito archive
The Greek letters of the governor Qurra b. Sharīk have been studied repeatedly since their publication, mainly for their content – all the more so as they were translated by ...
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23 V 2024: Anna Sitz (Tübingen), The writing on the wall: the fates of ancient inscriptions in late antique cities
While the fates of ancient statues and temples in late antiquity have been well-researched, what happened to ancient inscriptions in the period of Christianization has not. This lecture examines both ...
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16 V 2024: Alexander Sarantis (Mainz), The Byzantine-Islamic Frontier in Cappadocia and Cilicia, 640-750: Strategy, Warfare, and Socio-Economic Trends
Historians have long agreed that the survival of the Byzantine empire in the face of the threat posed by the Early Islamic Caliphate from the 7th c. rested on the ...
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9 V 2024: Tomasz Waliszewski (UW), Contemporary approaches to the study of the Roman city: a multi-disciplinary dialogue around processes of urbanisation and Romanisation in Mustis (Africa)
The degree of urbanisation of Roman Africa astounds us with each new piece of information about the study of yet another urban centre, of which there were some two hundred ...
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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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