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 […]
Second Advisory Workshop in Sheffield, 8th of January 2016
Our second advisory board workshop took place here at the Humanities Research Institute in Sheffield on the 8th of January. As with last year, we were pleased to host a number of distinguished scholars, working on databases, the late antique clergy and/or social network analysis from countries such as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain and […]
Oxford Patristics Conference August 2015
The Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies was hosted in Oxford in August 2015. Our research group presented the Clerical Exile project in the afternoon workshops on three consecutive days in the Examination School. Our workshop presenters (Jennifer Barry, Jakob Engberg, Eric Fournier, Uta Heil, Julia Hillner, Harry Mawdsley, Hiltrud Merten, Dirk Rohmann, Jörg Ulrich, […]
Forced Ascetic Conversion and Ascetic Networks in Late Antiquity
[This is a paper delivered by Julia Hillner at IMC 2015, Leeds, on 7 July 2015; altered and amended for this blog post] This paper looks at a momentous change in the late antique penal landscape that occurred in the course of the sixth century: the introduction, into written legislation, of the penalty of […]
Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XI
The biennial „Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity“ is the largest conference for the history of Late Antiquity in North America. This year’s meeting, the eleventh of its kind, took place at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, IA. Iowa City is perhaps a fairly unusual place to host a big conference, but the University […]
First Advisory Board Workshop, Sheffield 8-10 January 2015
[this post was written by our Co-I Dr Jakob Engberg, Aarhus University] January 8-10 we had the First Advisory Board Workshop in Sheffield. The workshop was attended by Hanns Christof Brennecke, John Drinkwater, Jill Harries, Uta Heil, Katie Hemer, Simon Loseby, Harry Mawdsley, Elisabeth O’Connell, Hannah Probert and the project team (Julia Hillner, Harry […]
Vienna trip
New Blog written by Harry Mawdsley: On the 11th of December, the project’s Sheffield contingent – Julia, Dirk and I – travelled to Vienna for the “Linking the Mediterranean” international workshop. The theme of the workshop, as implied by its title, was regional and trans-regional interactions during late-antiquity 300-800 AD. Given the persistent academic […]
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