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 […]
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 […]
19th UNISA Classics Colloquium “The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects relating to the building, dismantling and reconstructing of memory and reputation across the various cultures bordering on the ancient Mediterranean, and over a wide time-frame. We know that memory and history are not fixed, objective occurrences, but are subjective representations of […]
W. Mayer and C.L. de Wet (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2018) Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections […]
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 […]
By Leonela Fundic Macquarie University Over the period from the fourth to the beginning of the eighth centuries, sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean underwent fundamental changes, which were caused by (or were the reflection of) cultural and artistic interactions between different religions and their utopian ideals. Firstly, the expansion of Christianity and decline of paganism […]