22 V 2025: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria

Although the PCMA UW excavations at the Kom el-Dikka site, conducted since 1960, have uncovered numerous examples of brick or mixed stone-brick constructions, Alexandria remains comparatively underexplored in the field ...

8 V 2025 Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon): Religious Literacy in the Late Ancient Near East: Liturgical Catechesis and Not-So-Simple Believers of Roman Arabia

Recent scholarship on late antique Near Eastern religious culture has rightly brought renewed attention to questions of literacy. It is well established that most Christians—and others—in the region were functionally ...

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 ...