Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Week 1 (16th January): David Gwynn (Royal Holloway)
"'If you enquire whether the bath is ready, the answer is that the Son was made out of nothing': Doctrinal Controversies and the Late Antique Historian."

Week 2 (23rd January): David Knipp (University of Freiburg)
"S. Maria Antiqua (Rome). The Pre-existing building and its last secular phase."

Week 3 (30th January): Aglae Pizzone (University of Durham)
"Readerships and readerly pleasure in Eustathios' Homeric Commentaries."

Week 4 (6th February): Ida Toth (Wolfson)
"The Making of the Byzantine Book of the Philosopher Syntipas."

Week 5 (13th February): Victor Walser (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"Servants of God, Heretics, and Musicians. New Inscriptions from Germia in Central Anatolia."

Week 6 (20th February): Catherine Jolivet-Levy (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
"Byzantine Monumental painting and its audience: Cappadocian case-studies."

Week 7 (27th February): Daniel Reynolds (University of Birmingham)
"Christian iconoclasm in Umayyad Palestine: social and economic perspectives."

Week 8 (6th March): Philipp Niewöhner (Brasenose)
"The Porphyry Tetrarchs at Venice, the Last Obelisk of Antiquity, and the first Monument of Theodosius I at Constantinople."


Data last updated 23 January 2013 , 02:07 PM.