Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminars 2009-10
Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies
Michaelmas Term 2009
Tuesday 13 October, 14:30
Professor Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham)
Byzantine Iconoclasm did not exist - Why did we have to invent it?
Tuesday 27 October, 14:30
Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)
The Last Statues of Antiquity
Tuesday 10 November, 14:30
Professor Paul Fouracre (University of Manchester)
St Wilfrid on the Continent: The view from across the Channel
Tuesday 24 November, 14:30
Professor Susanna Elm (University of California Berkeley)
Pagan Challenge-Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus
Lent Term 2010
Tuesday 19 January, 14:30
James Graham-Campbell (UCL)
The Vikings in Northumbria (793-876)
Tuesday 2 February, 14:30 cancelled
Judith Herrin (KCL)
At the cutting edge: the role of church councils in the growth of Christianity
Tuesday 16 February, 14:30
Julia Smith (University of Glasgow)
Leofric, Aethelstan and the Exeter Relic Collection
Tuesday 2 March, 14:30
Petra Sijpesteijn (Leiden University)
Witnesses and Documents in Islamic Law
Easter Term 2010
Tuesday 27 April, 14:30
John Blair (Queen's College, University of Oxford)
Can we know anything about the beliefs of the laity in pre-Christian and early Christian England?
Tuesday 11 May, 14:30
Gillian Clark (University of Bristol)
Body and soul: asceticism and gender roles in late antiquity
