Lectures & Seminars from previous terms: Hilary Term 2011
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Convenors: Prof Marc Lauxtermann
and Dr Mark Whittow
Hilary Term 2011, WEDNESDAYS 5 pm
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 1 (19 January)
Professor Caroline Macé (Leuven):
‘Pseudo-Gregorius' Contra Astronomos and the Theory of the Four Humors in Late Antiquity
WEEK 2 (26 January)
Dr Phil Booth (Oxford):
New Evidence for the Circus Factions from Maurice to Heraclius (Re-reading John of Nikiu)
WEEK 3 (2 February)
Professor Paul Magdalino (Istanbul):
Topographical Problems and Literary Sources in 12th-century Constantinople
WEEK 4 (9 February)
Professor Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway/Oxford):
Spaces of Healing: Byzantium and Medieval Islam Compared
WEEK 5 (16 February)
Dr Vivien Prigent (Oxford):
The Origins of the European Economy and The Myth of the Mancus
WEEK 6 (*23 February)
Professor Slobodan Ćurčić (Princeton):
The Roots of the 'Balkanization' of Historiography of Medieval Architecture in the Balkans
WEEK 7 (*2 March)
Dr David Frankfurter (Boston):
Workshops, Shrines and 'Pagan Survivals': Re-modelling the Christianization of Egypt
WEEK 8 (*9 March)
Dr Irene Giviashvili (Florence):
Oshki Monastery Church as the Reflection of Political and Cultural History of Georgia
* jointly with the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Convenors: Lukas A. Schachner and Georgi R. Parpulov
THURSDAYS 12:00-1:00, Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 1 (20 January)
Michael Vickers (Ashmolean Museum):
Early Christian and Jewish Antiquities in Oxford from the Roman Catacombs
WEEK 2 (27 January)
Ebru Fındık (Haçetepe University, Istanbul):
New Finds from the Church of St Nicholas in Myra/Demre
WEEK 3 (3 February)
Mark McKerracher (St Cross):
Agricultural Development in Middle Saxon England
WEEK 4 (10 February)
Paul Hetherington (London):
Fragile Gems: The Diaspora of Byzantine Enamels
WEEK 5 (17 February)
Mark Whittow (Corpus Christi):
Reframing Early Medieval Byzantium: Archaeology for a New Agenda?
WEEK 6 (24 February)
Slobodan Ćurcić (Princeton University):
Columns, Towers and Holy Men: Physical and Spiritual Aspects of Height in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
WEEK 7 (3 March)
Elizabeth Montgomerie (Exeter):
Images of Time in Late Antique Floor Mosaics
WEEK 8 (10 March)
John Lansdowne (St Cross):
The ‘New Jerusalem’ in Fifteenth-century Florence