Dr Neil McLynn M.A. D.Phil.

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

Tel: (01865) 276778

neil.mclynn@classics.ox.ac.uk

http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/15/

Profile

Neil McLynn joined Corpus on April 1 2007 as University Lecturer in Later Roman History, in the Faculty of Classics; he holds a stipendiary lectureship at the college and teaches undergraduates in both classics and history. He studied classics and did his doctorate at Oxford, before moving to Japan in 1990. Until 2007 he taught in the Faculty of Law at Keio University, where he gave courses on a variety of subjects ranging from Shakespeare to International Relations. The experience has left him with a weakness for Japanese history in particular and for other people's subjects in general. To maintain his Japanese ties he runs a summer school for Keio students in Oxford, a project which involves a small team of Corpus undergraduates. During term he is much involved in the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, which organizes and hosts a busy round of research seminars.

Research Interests

Ancient History (Late Antiquity)

Selected Recent Publications

1994: Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
2004: ‘The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century': in Approaching Late Antiquity, ed. M. Edwards and S. Swain, Oxford 2004, 235-270.
2005: ‘Disciplines of Discipleship in Late Antique Education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen': in Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions, ed. M. Vessey and K. Pollmann, Oxford 2005, 49-65.
2006: ‘Among the Hellenists: Gregory and the Sophists': in Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections, ed. J. Børtnes and T. Hägg, Copenhagen, 2006, 213-238.
2008: ‘Crying Wolf: The Pope and the Lupercalia', Journal of Roman Studies 98, 161,175.
2009: Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity (Variorum collected studies series: Ashgate, Aldershot).

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