Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Leonidas Pittos will present “Aesthesis and Aesthetics in Nicholas Kabasilas’ Mystagogic Works.” The relationship between Hesychasm and the liturgical theology of the lay theologian and humanist Nicholas Kabasilas has … Continue reading →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Carlos Grenier will present “To String the Pearls of Orthodoxy: Vernacular Sunni Apologetics in Fifteenth Century Gallipoli in its Borderland Context.” This paper assesses vernacular Turkish Sunni dogmatic and catechistic writing … Continue reading →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Nathan Leidholm will present “The Representation and Appropriation of the Persian Past in Middle Byzantine Court Rhetoric.” It is commonly acknowledged that Byzantine culture owed a particular debt to … Continue reading →