Some of the excellent and ground-breaking research produced by contributors to the ARC Discovery project ‘Memories of Utopia: Destroying the Past to Create the Future (300–650 CE)’ is now available open access: All Essays Available All essays published in Memories of Utopia—The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity (eds. Bronwen Neil and Kosta […]
Bronwen Neil and Kosta Simic (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2020) These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. […]
Éric Fournier and Wendy Mayer (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2020) The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the […]
In association with the Memories of Utopia project, post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Rajiv Bhola and Dr. Ryan Strickler (University of Queensland) have organised a workshop to take place at the 18th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University (19-23 August 2019). Details below: Description In Antiquity, the remembrance of the shared past – both […]
By Ryan Strickler In September 2018, Ryan Strickler completed his PhD in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. His thesis, titled “Coping with Crisis: Invasion, Defeat, and Apocalyptic Discourse in Seventh-Century Byzantium”, addresses the use of apocalyptic discourse by Byzantine/Roman authors to rhetorically transform their religious and political identity in the wake of […]
Session One – Hermeneutics of Preaching The Homiletic Audience as Embodied Hermeneutic: Scriptural Interpretation as Psychagogy in the Preaching of John Chrysostom Professor Wendy Mayer John Damascene’s Homily on the Withered Fig Tree: Exegetical and Panegyrical Preaching in Interaction Fr Dr Damaskinos Olkinuora John Damascene on the Transfiguration of the Lord: Mystical Homiletic Performance and […]