Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar 2008-09
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Michaelmas Term 2008
Tuesday 14 October, 17:00
INAUGURAL LECTURE
Professpr Dame Averil Cameron (Keble, Oxford)
Late antiquity: grand narrative or dissolving the centre?
Wine reception afterwards – all welcome!
Tuesday 28 October, 14:30
Professor Martin Carver (York)
What were they thinking? Some reflections on the archaeology of Christianization
Tuesday 11 November, 14:30
Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Middle Eastern elites from late antiquity to early Islam: continuity or change?
Tuesday 25 November, 14:30
Professor Dame Janet Nelson (King’s College London)
Bits and pieces: why historians should think about small metal objects from the ninth century
Lent Term 09
Tuesday 20 January, 14:30
Dr Alan Thacker (IHR)
Bede and his martyrology.
Tuesday 3 February, 14:30
Professor Peter Heather (King’s College London)
Predatory migration and the first millennium
Tuesday 17 February, 14:30
Professor Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Constantine I, The Legislator
Tuesday 3 March, 14:30
Professor Mayke DeJong (Utrecht)
Looking back in anger? Paschasius Radbertus and Louis the Pious
Easter Term 09
Tuesday 12 May, 14:30
Professor Chris Wickham (All Souls, Oxford)
Social change in early medieval Rome
Tuesday 26 May, 14:30
Professor Wendy Davies (UCL)
Economic change in early medieval Ireland: the case for growth
