Byzantine Church History Seminar
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Byzantine Church History Seminar

Trinity Term 2011

Byzantine Church History Seminar

Thursdays, 2:15-3:30pm

***ALL WELCOME***

Convenors:
Dr Jane Baun
Dr Julia Konstantinovsky
Dr Meredith Riedel
(meredith.riedel@orinst.ox.ac.uk)

Week 1: 5 May
Irene Kukota (Wolfson)
‘Calcatio colli as an Iconographic Element of Christ’s Descent into Hades’

Week 2: 12 May
David Taylor (Oriental Institute)
‘Return to Eden? The changing theology and mapping of Paradise in Syriac literature’

Week 3: 19 May
Maja Kominko (Theology Faculty)
‘Ugly as Sin: Monsters and Barbarians in Late Antiquity’

Week 4: 26 May
Jane Baun (St Benet’s)
‘Gregory the Great between East, West and the End’

Week 5: 2 June
Julia Konstantinovsky (Christ Church)
‘Praxis and contemplation in the Byzantine tradition – the case of Evagrius and Maximus’


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