Yesterday, we launched Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity at Blackwell’s in Sheffield. We were blessed to be able to hold this as a joint event with the editors of Maths Meets Myths. Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives, so it was a Social Network Analysis fest all round! Thanks to the many colleagues, friends, students […]
A Year of Empresses
As this year is drawing to a close I start to realise that, for me, it has been a year of late Roman empresses, both with regard to Clerical Exile and to other research projects. It has also been a year of understanding better how research works. I have learned it is very much about […]
Gladiator!
To give a taster of our book and film club the Film Unit at the University of Sheffield is going to show Gladiator on 23 November, in collaboration with The Migration of Faith and the Sheffield Classical Association! Gladiator masterfully illuminates the themes of centre, periphery, captivity and forced movement in the Roman empire — all themes […]
Now on: Clerical Exile Book Club!
From March 2017, The Migration of Faith sponsors a book club in Sheffield, exploring early Christianity, the world of the Church fathers, mobility and exile. We’ll be reading modern novels with a unique and inspiring take on these themes that will throw an alternative light on our research. The novels show that the issues at the heart of our […]
Clerical Exile at Sheffield Cathedral
Our PI, Dr Julia Hillner, has been to Sheffield Cathedral to give a talk about the project. You can read a summary here.
Exile in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Halle Workshop, 2 September 2016
We’re back from our fantastic and productive workshop in Halle. We shall post a summary soon, but for now, thanks to all participants and to Jörg Ulrich and his team for flawless organisation and amazing hospitality!
Book announcement
My new book has just been published with De Gruyter. The title is “Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiqity: Studies in Text Transmission”. It has recently been endorsed by Forbes Magazine: As Dirk Rohmann has written in his new book, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity, early Christians often spoke of books as a kind of […]
Exile in the post-Roman law codes
This blogpost was written by Harry Mawdsley, PhD student on the project. Over the last couple of months I have been examining the so-called ‘barbarian’ law codes, as part of my research into the penalty of exile in the post-Roman period. Of particular interest are the three compilations of Roman law that were issued in […]
Late Antiquity, Digital Humanities and our European Friends
Term has finished, so over the last month I’ve been jetting around Europe, repaying visits to some dear late antique colleagues who came to our January workshop in Sheffield, to have a further look at their fantastic digital projects. First stop, Warsaw. This is the home of the Presbyters in the Late Antique West project, […]
Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity: Strategies, Experiences, Memories and Community
We’re in the final stages of preparing the volume based on our workshops at the Oxford Patristics conference last August to the publisher. Here is a taster from the introduction: “The chapters in this volume all engage to some degree with the central paradoxical tension between clerical exile’s value, on the one hand, as a […]
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