Late Antiquity: Lectures on Religion and Culture by Leading Scholars

Angelova, Diliana- “Eros and Dionysus: Love, Beauty, and Living Well on Late Antique Textiles” (2020)

Canepa, Matthew- “Memory and the Sacred in Ancient Iran” (2017)

Codou, Yann- “L’Île de Lérin” (2019)

Daryaee, Touraj, Ida Meftahi, Samra Elodie Azarnouche, Scott McDonough, Simcha Gross, Khodadad Rezakhani, Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, Judith A. Lerner- “From Oxus to the Euphrates: Sasanian Empire Symposium” (2017)

Haensch, Rudolf- “Des églises à la place des temples: un phénomène commun de l’antiquité tardive?” (2017)

Hedstrom, Darlene Brooks- “The Search for Early Christian Egypt: Archaeology and the Treasures of the Desert” (2018)

Hoskins, Nancy Arthur- “The Tapestries of Coptic Egypt” (2017)

Peppard, Michael- “The World’s Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria” (2016)

Reed, Annette- “The Lod Mosaic and the Religious Landscapes of Late Antiquity” (2013)

Schick, Robert Edwin, Arnold Franklin, Gabriele Mietke, Annie Labatt, and Claus-Peter Haase- “Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium” (2012)

Talgam, Rina- “Late Antique Synagogues and Churches in the Holy Land” (2015)

Bartsch, Shadi- “The Wisdom of Fools: Christianity and the Break in the Classical Tradition” (2011)

Bratož, Rajko- “Hieronymus als Zeithistoriker: Sein Blick auf die Krisenerscheinungen und auf den Untergang des Imperium Romanum” (2019)

Brock, Sebastian- “The Syriac Tradition and East- West Christian Ecumenism” (2018)

Brown, Peter- “‘Remember the Poor’: Leadership and Giving from Paul to Cyprian” (2012)

Bumazhnov, Dmitrij- “Isaak von Ninive und die ostsyrischen ‘Schulphilosophen’” (2016)

Burns, James P.- “To Have and to Share: An Augustinian Approach to Christian Marriage” (2012)

Caldwell III, Craig H.- “In mea patria rusticitatis vernacula: Jerome and Illyricum in Late Antiquity” (2019)

Cameron, Alan- “Palladas and Constantinople” (2014)

Cameron, Averil- “Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity: Episode 3” (2020)

Clark, Gillian- “What happened? Augustine and the History of Late Antiquity” (2019)

Conybeare, Catherine- “Augustine’s Confessions and Language” (2016)

Demacopoulos, George-  “The Politics of War in Early Christianity” (2011)

Elm, Susanna- “Sold to Sin Through Origo: Augustine of Hippo on the Slave-trade” (2014)

Gemeinhardt, Peter and Tobias Georges- “Vom philosophischen Schulbetrieb zum kirchlichen Katechumenat” (2017)

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook- “Voices of the Liturgy: Models from Ancient Syriac Christianity“(2019)

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook- “Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity: Episode 1” (2020)

Hayes, Christine- “Divine Contingency: Law, history, performance, and play” (2021)

Hedstrom, Darlene Brooks, Tom Davis, Maged Mikhail, and Charles Stewart- “Coptic Christianity: History, Theologians & Legacy” (2018)

Himmelfarb, Martha- “Armilos and Antichrist: Polemical Eschatology in Late Antiquity” (2017)

Keenan, James- “The Will of Flavius Phoibammon and the Late Antique Mentalité” (2017)

Kitchen, Robert- “Trying to be Perfect: The Latest Adventures in the Syriac Book of Steps” (2014)

Krašovec, Jože- “The Development of Jerome’s Views on the Translation and Interpretation of the Bible” (2019)

Lizzi, Rita- “St. Ambrose of Milan” (2018)

Markschies, Christoph- “Geheime Evangelien in der Spätantike: Über die Apokryphen-Texte des frühen Christentums” (2020)

Muehlberger, Ellen- “The Ignoble Death of Heretics and the Ingressive Memory of Place in Christian Historiography” (2011)

Müller, Andreas- “Anfänge christlicher Mystik in der Spätantike” (2018)

Nicholson, Oliver- “The Deaths of Persecutors and the Anger of God: Lactantius and the Great Persecution” (2016)

Pérez, Carles Buenacasa- “Le rôle du donatisme dans l’heresiologie de Jerôme” (2019)

Perrone, Lorenzo- “Origen and His Legacy in the Holy Land” (2017)

Polcar, Philip- “Unciales Litterae and the pauperes Christi: The Economics of Jerome’s Ecclesiastical Influence” (2019)

Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole- “Models of Holiness in Syriac Hagiography” (2012)

Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole- “Ephrem’s Mary: A Poetics of Wonder” (2017)

Schlange-Schöningen, Heinrich- Hieronymus und Rufinus: Freundschaft und Theologie in der Spätantike” (2019)

Brown, Peter- “Celtic Christianity” (2003)

Brown, Peter- “Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE” (2011)

Brown, Peter- “Monks, Labour and the ‘Holy Poor’: Early Christian Monasticism between Egypt and Syria” (2014)

Drijvers, Jan Willem- “The Christianization of Jerusalem in the Fourth Century” (2015)

Frenkel, Luis- “Egyptian Female Coenobitic Monasticism During the Early Arab Conquest: Maximus the Confessor on Alexandrian Nuns in Exile” (2017)

Heather, Peter- “The conversion of Constantine and the Christianisation of Europe” (2012)

Hedstrom, Darlene Brooks- “The Search for Early Christian Egypt: Archaeology and the Treasures of the Desert” (2018)

Kaegi, Walter- “North Africa’s Transition from Christianity to Islam” (2014)

Reed, Annette- “Great Religions of the Silk Road: Christianity and Judaism” (2011)

Payne, Richard- “The Rise of Christianity in Iran” (2014)

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali- “Composer, écrire et transmettre le Coran au premier siècle de l’islam” (2019)

Cameron, Averil- “Patristic Studies and the Emergence of Islam” (2013)

Cameron, Averil- “The Hour is at Hand: Apocalyptic Ideas and the Emergence of Islam” (2013)

Donner, Fred- “Islam’s Origins: Myth and Material Evidence” (2019)

Donner, Fred- “The Origins of Islam and Muslim Identity – An Interview” (2020)

Hoyland, Robert- “‘Arabi and A’jami in the Qur’an: The Language of Revelation” (2020)

Kaegi, Walter- “North Africa’s Transition from Christianity to Islam” (2014)

Neuwirth, Angelika- “The Late Antique Qur’an” (2009)

Neuwirth, Angelika- “Relocating the Qur’an in ‘Abrahamitic Religions’: Straight Trajectories or Dead Alleys” (2013)

Penn, Michael Philip- “Early Syriac Christian Reactions to the Rise of Islam” (2016)

Sahner, Christian- “Christian ‘neomartyrs’ of the early Islamic period” (2018)

Said Reynolds, Gabriel and Mohsen Goudarzi- “On Gabriel Said Reynold’s The Qur’an and the Bible” (2020)

Schick, Robert Edwin, Arnold Franklin, Gabriele Mietke, Annie Labatt, and Claus-Peter Haase- “Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium” (2012)

Sijpesteijn, Petra- “Did the Early Muslim Empire have a Language Policy?” (2020)

Vanthieghem, Naïm and Alain Delattre- “Monks and Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period: Insights from Documentary Sources” (2017)

von Sivers, Peter- “Islamic Origins” (2017)

Demirci, Yunus and Alexander Panayotov- “Mapping the Jewish Diaspora of Late Antiquity: First Session, Asia Minor and the Balkan” (2016)

Frankfurter, David- “Exorcism and Demons in Early Judaism” (2010)

Herman, Geoffrey and Sergey Minov- “Mapping the Jewish Diaspora of Late Antiquity: Second Session, Beyond Babylonia” (2016)

Reed, Annette- “Great Religions of the Silk Road: Christianity and Judaism” (2011)

Robin, Christian Julian and Oded Irshai- “Mapping the Jewish Diaspora of Late Antiquity: Third Session, Arabia” (2016)

Stemberger, Gunter- “Jewish and Christian Co-existence in Byzantine Palestine” (2017)

Talabardon, Susanne- “LernOrte im spätantiken Judentum” (2017)

Talgam, Rina- “Late Antique Synagogues and Churches in the Holy Land” (2015)

Ando, Clifford- “The Long Defeat: The Fall of the Roman Empire” (2013)

Bratož, Rajko- “Hieronymus als Zeithistoriker: Sein Blick auf die Krisenerscheinungen und auf den Untergang des Imperium Romanum” (2019)

Bowersock, Glen- “The Three Romes” (2006)

Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh- “Kingship and Religion: The Coins of Sasanian Iran” (2011)

Daryaee, Touraj- “From Oxus to Euphrates: Approaching the History of Late Antique Iran” (2011)

Daryaee, Touraj, Ida Meftahi, Samra Elodie Azarnouche, Scott McDonough, Simcha Gross, Khodadad Rezakhani, Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, Judith A. Lerner- “From Oxus to the Euphrates: Sasanian Empire Symposium” (2017)

Demacopoulos, George-  “The Politics of War in Early Christianity” (2011)

Eigler, Ulrich- “Migration, Kulturkontakt und Kulturkonflikt im Spiegel der Antike” (2019) 

Elton, Hugh and Mark Jackson- “Isauria and the end of the Roman Empire” (2019)

Evers, Alexander- “Game of Thrones – East and West, Constantinople and Rome, Emperor and Bishop: Imperial Policy and the Authority of the See of Rome” (2015)

Geary, Patrick- “Rethinking Barbarian Invasions through Genomic History” (2013)

Haldon, John- “St. Theodore, Euchaïta and Anatolia, c. 500-1000 CE: Landscape, Climate and the Survival of an Empire” (2018)

Heather, Peter- “The conversion of Constantine and the Christianisation of Europe” (2012)

Heather, Peter- “The fall of the western Empire and a crisis of Christianity” (2019)

Herrin, Judith- “Imperial Capital, Gothic Kingdom, Byzantine Outpost: The Challenge of Understanding Early Christian Ravenna” (2021)

Kulikowski, Michael- “The Accidental Suicide of the Roman Empire” (2012)

Rebenich, Stefan- “Zustände wie in der Spätantike?” (2016)

Sijpesteijn, Petra- “Did the Early Muslim Empire have a Language Policy?” (2020)

Ward-Perkins, Bryan- “A Real Economic Meltdown: The End of Roman Britain” (2013)

Ward-Perkins, Bryan- “The Fall of Rome and the End of Western Civilisation” (2017)

Brock, Sebastian- “Deaconesses in the Syriac tradition” (2019)

Brown, Peter- “Celtic Christianity” (2003)

Brown, Peter- “Alms, Work, and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt” (2013)

Brown, Peter- “Monks, Labour and the ‘Holy Poor’: Early Christian Monasticism between Egypt and Syria” (2014)

Choat, Malcom- “Two Christian Monastic Communities in Late Antique Egypt” (2011)

Cooper, Kate- “Virgins, Mothers, and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Africa” (2015)

Codou, Yann- “L’Île de Lérin” (2019)

Darling Young, Robin- “Ascetic Inspection of the Natural World” (2020)

Frenkel, Luis- “Egyptian Female Coenobitic Monasticism During the Early Arab Conquest: Maximus the Confessor on Alexandrian Nuns in Exile” (2017)

Haldon, John- “St. Theodore, Euchaïta and Anatolia, c. 500-1000 CE: Landscape, Climate and the Survival of an Empire” (2018)

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook- “Voices of the Liturgy: Models from Ancient Syriac Christianity“(2019)

Hillner, Julia- “Clerical Exile and Late Antique Communities” (2019)

Kalvesmaki, Joel- “The Modes of Early Monasticism” (2020)

Müller, Andreas- “Anfänge christlicher Mystik in der Spätantike” (2018)

Rapp, Claudia – “The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscripts” (2021)

Sahner, Christian- “Christian ‘neomartyrs’ of the early Islamic period” (2018)

Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole- “Models of Holiness in Syriac Hagiography” (2012)

Sales-Carbonell, Jordina- “Jerome and the Western Monasticism in the Late Fourth Century Hispania” (2019)

Schroeder, Caroline- “Monks and Their Children: Family and Familial Renunciation in Late Antique Egypt” (2016)

Stewart, Fr. Columba- “The Origins of Christian Monasticism” (2020)

Vanthieghem, Naïm and Alain Delattre- “Monks and Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period: Insights from Documentary Sources” (2017)

Bagnall, Roger- “Family Archives in Pre-Transition Egypt” (2017)

de Blaauw, Sible- “Rome and Pilgrimage” (2017)

Brown, Peter- “Foucault’s Confessions 2” (2021)

Frank, Georgia- “Feeling Christian: Re-educating the Emotions in Late Antiquity” (2017)

Foletti, Ivan- “Liminal Zones from Late Antiquity to the Pilgrimage Churches in France” (2017)

Mangeot, Isabelle- “Appréhender l’alimentation à l’Antiquité tardive, de l’intérêt de croiser les sources pour une histoire du goût” (2020)

Moreira, Isabel- “Preparing for Death: Reflections on Possession and Loss in Late Antiquity” (2019)

Pergola, Philippe and Jean Castela- “La Corse dans l’Antiquité Tardive” (2018)

Brown, Peter- “Retrieving the Past in Late Antiquity” (2015)

Rippon, Stephen- “Land use and people in Late Antiquity” (2017)

Roosien, Mark- “Shifting Visions: Earthquake Rituals in Constantinople between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” (2020)

Saliou, Catherine- “L’antiquité tardive à Antioche sur l’Oronte” (2015)

Salvo, Irene and Maria Louise Munkholt- “Die Familie als Ort der religiösen Bildung: Das antike Athen und das spätantike Christentum” (2016)

Stenger, Jan and Glenn Peers- “Session 1- ‘New Perspectives in Late Antiquity,’ Israel Institute of Advanced Studies” (2016)