Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 23 X: Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In-person and online.
21.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antoque Seminar on 16 November: 16 X Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder): 'A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.' In person and on Zoom
13.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 9 October (4.45 p.m.): Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania), "Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier". In person and online, as usual.
06.10.2025 06:25 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Credit: University of Oxford
Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 2 October: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back.
In person and online. For the full programme see: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl
30.09.2025 06:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look!
More on the seminar's website...
29.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on 25-27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw. If you happen to be in town, do join us!
Programme: bit.ly/42JturY
23.09.2025 07:23 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Ah, that was your Warsaw stay! See you in Leeds?
04.07.2025 07:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A medieval job. And a saintly one...
Warsaw is fun!
historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer...
04.07.2025 07:53 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 June : Thomas Laver (Cambridge) New Insights into the Organisation of Monastic Estates in Egypt, 5th-9th c. In-person and online
02.06.2025 05:19 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 29 MAY: Przemysław Nehring (UMK) & Aldona Glińska-Neweś (UMK): St Augustine’s Sermons 355-356 as an Example of Communication Strategy in an Institution’s Reputational Crisis – Rhetorical Analysis vs. Modern Crisis Management Theory. In person and on Zoom.
26.05.2025 06:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
James has helped organise four panels for the IMC, featuring @rorynaismith.bsky.social on shady deals in the Fens; Roy Flechner on redistribution & the Papacy; Bronwen Neil on monks & prostitution; @relicsclerics.bsky.social on priests & bankers - and much more besides, including a panel on slaving.
21.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 V: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria. As always in person and online...
19.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Peter Van Nuffelen, 'The Easter Date at the Council of Nicaea: Old and New Evidence'. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (15 May), 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online
12.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On 8 May Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon) will speak on "Religious Literacy in the Late Ancient Near East: Liturgical Catechesis and Not-So-Simple Believers of Roman Arabia". At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. 4.45 CET, in-person and online, as always.
05.05.2025 08:37 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Perrine Pilette (CNRS), 'Patriarchs, Month After Month : Rewritings of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion' at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 24 April, 4.45 p.m. In person and online.
22.04.2025 18:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the period up to 700 check the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database: csla.history.ox.ac.uk Choose Aspects of cult / relics / eating-drinking-inhaling relics...
13.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 10 April: Zachary Chitwood (München), Eastern Roman Law, Islam and the First Millennium: Prolegomena to a ius commune orientale. As always, in person and online.
07.04.2025 05:44 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Paweł Filipczak (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Commentary on John Malalas (XI, 3-4) on Emperor Trajan’s Expedition to the East. At Warsaw Late Antique seminar on Thursday, 3 April, 4.45 p.m. CET.
31.03.2025 08:41 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We could have bumped into each other. Returned only yesterday to Warsaw :(
26.03.2025 11:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wonderful tool, thanks a lot Matthieu!!! Look at this lion!
26.03.2025 11:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Thursday Daria Elagina (Hamburg Universität) & Dorota Dzierzbicka (UW) will speak An Ethiopian pilgrim at Old Dongola, Sudan. New insights from a Vatican manuscript. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 March (for the full programme see our website: tiny.pl/9499pyx2).
24.03.2025 08:33 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Credit: Byzantium 1200
Noel Lenski (Yale University) Feeding a Young Capital: The Food Supply of Constantinople in the Fourth Century. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (20 March) at 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online, as always.
17.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of the volume "Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood:
Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity" (ed. Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio, Brepols, 2025), including a detail from the painting "Project of an Icon" by Jerzy Nowosielski
Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social
28.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 13 March: Nicola Holm (UW): Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops. As always on 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in person and on Zoom.
10.03.2025 10:47 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 March (4.45 p.m. CET) : Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Ecclesiastical Rivalries and Urban Violence in Late Antique Rome: Evidence from Canonical Collections. Join us in person or on Zoom!
04.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 February: Julia Schwarzer (Universität Regensburg), Christian Brotherhoods and Liturgical Song during Long Late Antiquity. At 4.45 p.m. and as always in person and online
24.02.2025 14:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl
18.02.2025 11:36 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
"For Body and Soul. A Bath Complex and a Church, or on Monumentalism in Philoxenite on Lake Mareotis" (Tomasz Derda, Tomasz Borowski, Julia Burdajewicz & Piotr Zakrzewski). At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday, 4.45 p.m. This starts a new seminar series in summer semester.
18.02.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A piece of good news from Warsaw! Katinka Sewing and Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social were awarded MSC Individual Fellowships. Katinka will work with us on Euphratesia as a hub of late antique sacred architecture and Nicola on the urban dynamics of late antique Antioch. Sincere congratulations:)
10.02.2025 11:32 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar in summer semester. Still three weeks to go, so I will repost later, but cannot resist the temptation of publishing it now....
25.01.2025 06:42 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Assistant professor of ancient history at the University of Washington. Histories of the prison, book, rocks of note. Opinions are official communications from the provost.
Syriac, late antiquity, manuscripts, sheep and tea.
PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
Late antique archaeologist & Byzantine art historian at the University of Tübingen
| Previously: Koç University ANAMED / Philipps-Universität Marburg / LMU Munich
| Out now: https://brill.com/display/title/70278
The official Bluesky profile of the Chair of Epigraphy & Papyrology of the UniWarsaw Faculty of Archaeology.
Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Quondam Humboldt Fellow in Regensburg (2022-24), Postdoc in Trinity College, Cambridge (2018-22), and at the University of Notre Dame (2014-2017). History, manuscripts, liturgy, digital humanities.
The Mary Jaharis Center was established in 2010 to promote Byzantine studies, with a particular emphasis on Byzantine art and culture. Visit us at maryjahariscenter.org.
Assistant Professor of Theology. Teaching Pastor. Historical theology, Christology, and the early church. Book on Eusebius of Caesarea with Brepols.
Assistant Prof. of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Late antique historian, writer, tea addict (She/her)
Social and cultural aspects of the ancient and early medieval worlds: saints and martyrs, gender, inter-religious interactions, theatre and performance, automata
art historian | scholar | editor | researching medieval material culture, tracing echoes of byzantium, and navigating historiographical myths
Smith College/UMass Amherst | Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸
Visiting Researcher at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Late Antique/Byzantine Archaeology
Bollandiste. Médiéviste (Dr) | Hagiographie, saints, reliques, rituels de l'ancien monde | Administrateur de la Fondation Patrimoine, Art et Histoire en Hainaut | Ex-punk originaire de Mons, désormais à Bruxelles
Heinz Heinen Fellow at @dependencybonn.de Historian of Late Antiquity, interested mainly in Prosopography, Late Latin Historiography, Ethnic Identity and Systems of Dependencies.
Revue franco-belge d'histoire et de philologie publiée depuis 1888. | Édité par Cairn.info @cairninfo.bsky.social | Gestion du compte par Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (UNamur / Archives de l'État) @nruffini.bsky.social
PhD in Byzantine History, DUTh - MA in Local History - Researching late antique Thrace.
Social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Inscriptions, Burgundians. Postdoc on Land & Loyalty: Politics of Land in the Later Roman World at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Here for the CfPs and new publications.
