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The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Kelly Andino will present “The Holy Sepulchre until the Siege of Jerusalem: An Examination of the Late Antique Texts, Archaeological Evidence, and Material Sources.” This paper will attempt to reconstruct … Continue reading →

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 →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Matthew Milliner will present “A Madonna of the Future: Rethinking the Afterlife of Icons.” Echoing Nicholae Iorga’s Byzance après Byzance, the art historical phrase “afterlife of icons” is intended to counter … Continue reading →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Jaś Elsner will present “Vrt‘anēs K‘ert‘oł and the Dynamics of Iconoclasm in Seventh Century Armenia.” This paper explores the seventh century response to iconoclasm made by the Armenian prelate Vrt‘anēs … Continue reading →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce our Spring 2016 schedule. All workshops will meet in CWAC 152 on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM. March 29 – Jaś Elsner will present “Vrtanes Kertogh and the Dynamics of Iconoclasm in Seventh … Continue reading →

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Deborah Deliyannis (Indiana University Bloomington) will present “Material Culture: Late Antique or Early Medieval?” Please join us on Wednesday, March 9th, at 4:30 pm in CWAC 152.

The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium is pleased to announce its next meeting. Nathan Hardy will present “Portraying Prototypal Presence: The Image of Edessa as an Exemplum of ‘Presence’ in John of Damascus and the Narratio de Imagine Edessena.” This paper examines two descriptions of the … Continue reading →