In February 2022 the Oxford University Byzantine Society will host the 24th OUBS International Graduate Conference in Oxford, with papers live-streamed online. Under the overarching theme ‘Reshaping the World: Utopias, Ideals and Aspirations in Late Antiquity and Byzantium’ this conference “seeks to explore the impact utopias, ideals and aspirations had in changing the course of […]
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 […]
Drs. Martine de Marre (UNISA) and Rajiv Bhola (Macquarie University) are pleased to announce the success of their proposal for the peer-reviewed publication of the partial proceedings of the 19th UNISA Classics Colloquium (7-10 November 2018). The volume is now under contract with Routledge Press and will be appearing sometime in 2020 under the title […]
C.L. de Wet and W. Mayer (eds.) (Brill; Leiden, 2019) In Revisioning John Chrysostom, Chris de Wet and Wendy Mayer harness and promote a new wave of scholarship on the life and works of this famous late-antique (c. 350-407 CE) preacher. New theories from the cognitive and neurosciences, cultural and sleep studies, and history of […]