After Rome Seminar

After Rome: Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the 5th to 7th Centuries:
5pm Thursdays, Sutro Room, Trinity College

1st Week (5 May): Khodadad Rezakhani (LSE)
‘Agriculture, commerce, and growth: the Sasanian economy in the late antique world, 500-700’

2nd Week (12 May): Marek Jankowiak (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘All Christians under my authority should hold the faith of Armenia: Khusro II and the Churches’

3rd Week (19 May): Peter Talloen (University of Kent)
'The Christianization of Pisidia'

4th Week (26 May): Renan Baker (Classics, Oxford)
'Written in stone: Theoderic Augustus and imperial propaganda in Ostrogothic Italy'

5th Week (2 June): Shane Bjornlie (Claremont McKenna College, California)
‘The last of the Romans: Cassiodorus between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople’

6th Week (9 June): Konstantin Klein (Classics, Oxford)
‘In search of Lot’s wife: old and new saints for Jerusalem’

7th Week (16 June): Nicolai Sinai (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘Towards a contextual reading of the Qur'anic corpus: promises, problems, and pitfalls’

8th Week (23 June): Arezou Azad (Oriental Institute, Oxford)
‘Bactra: From Buddhism to Islam’

Conveners: James Howard-Johnston, Bryan Ward-Perkins

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