Late Antiquity Network (CLANS) [2008-2015]

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Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CLANS)

Theme 2014-15:  A Global Late Antiquity
 

Late antique and early medieval studies have, in the past three decades, become an important growth area across several disciplines. This has been driven by a move away from the traditional narrative of “decline and fall” towards an approach that stresses elements of transformation and continuity linking the periods traditionally labelled as ‘Late Roman’, ‘Medieval’ and ‘Byzantine’. This revitalised interest has been reflected in the establishment of interdisciplinary research centres dedicated to the period at many universities, both in the UK and abroad. Cambridge has until now been lacking any such structure, with the result that academic staff and graduate students working on the late and post-Roman world, dispersed as they are across a number of different faculties and departments, have not had any regular opportunities for common discussion. The aim of this seminar is to bridge the gap between these different departments and facilitate exchanges between them, as well as fostering a greater sense of community among academics working on this period.

The seminar takes as its scope the period from the later third century down to the tenth, in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, approaching the question of the transition from the ancient to the medieval world from as wide a chronological and geographical angle as possible, in order to take fullest advantage of the broad range of academic talent and approaches within Cambridge. The seminar is intended primarily for papers by speakers from outside Cambridge, in order to create more opportunities to form links with specialists from other universities in an informal context.

 

Further information or to join our mailing list, email cambridgelateant@gmail.com

Conveners

Conveners

Douglas Whalin  (Faculty of History)
SamOtterwill-Soulsby (Faculty of History)
Robert Evans (Ordinand, Faculty of Divinity)
 

Previous Conveners
Robin Whelan  (Faculty of Classics)
Richard Flower (University of Cambridge)
Dr Alice Rio (university of Cambridge)

 

Faculty Advisors

Dr Thomas Graumann  (Faculty of Divinity)
Dr Christopher Kelly  (Faculty of Classics)
Professor Rosamond McKitterick  (Faculty of History)
Dr Peter Sarris  (Faculty of History)
Professor James Montgomery  (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Dr Sam Lucy (Department of Archaeology)
 

Past events

Late Antiquity Network
Late antiquity: grand narrative or dissolving the centre? 14 Oct 2008 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH
Middle Eastern elites from late antiquity to early Islam: continuity or change? 11 Nov 2008 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Bits and pieces: why historians should think about small metal objects from the ninth century 25 Nov 2008 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Byzantine Iconoclasm did not exist – Why did we invent it? 13 Oct 2009 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
The Last Statues of Antiquity 27 Oct 2009 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
St Wilfred on the Continent: The View from across the Channel 10 Nov 2009 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Pagan Challenge-Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus 24 Nov 2009 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
The Vikings in Northumbria (793-876) 19 Jan 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
CANCELLED At the cutting edge: the role of church councils in the growth of Christianity 2 Feb 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Leofric, Athelstan and the Exeter Relic Collection 16 Feb 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Witnesses and Documents in Islamic Law 2 Mar 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH
Can We Know Anything about the Beliefs of the Laity in pre-Christian and Early Christian England? 27 Apr 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Body and Soul: Asceticism and Gender Roles in Late Antiquity 11 May 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College
Sacred Books and Religious Pluralism in Late Antiquity 12 Oct 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews)
Politics and Warfare in the Seventh Century 26 Oct 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford)
From Galla Placidia to Eirene: the Development of the Imperial Office.’ 9 Nov 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof Judith Herrin (King's College London)
The Rise of Arabic and Demise of Aramaic in Late Antique Provincia Arabia 23 Nov 2010 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Dr Robert Hoyland (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
The End of the Late Antique State in the West 25 Jan 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof Guy Halsall (York)
Social Dynamics of Barbarian Settlement 8 Feb 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof Matthew Innes (Birkbeck, London)
The Liber Pontificalis, St Peter’s Basilica and the Politics of Papal Burial in the Early Middle Ages 22 Feb 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof. Rosamond McKitterick (Sidney Sussex College)
Can we Reconstruct the Colonate? 8 Mar 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Prof Boudewijn Sirks (All Souls, Oxford)
Anglo-Saxons, Rome, and the Coronation of Charlemagne 3 May 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Marios Costambeys (Liverpool)
Masters of Time and Space: The Universal Authority of the Carolingian Dynasty, 751 to 888 17 May 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Counting the Treasure: a Late Antique Framework for Valuing Gold and Silver in Germanic Europe 31 May 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge John Hines (Cardiff)
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages 14 Jun 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Ian Wood (Leeds)
Byzantium and the Feudal Revolution 11 Oct 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH Dr Mark Whittow (Oxford)
The Defense of Rome in Gothic Italy: Pope Symmachus and the Sylloge of Cambridge 25 Oct 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH Professor Claire Sotinel (Université Paris-Est, Créteil Val de Marne)
Anglo-Saxons, Rome, and the Coronation of Charlemagne 8 Nov 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH Dr Marios Costambeys (University of Liverpool)
Barbarians and pseudo-Barbarians in Late Antiquity 22 Nov 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm, CRASSH Dr Alex Woolf (St Andrews)
Kings, Franks and Pseudo-Isidore: Problems of Lordship in Late Ninth-Century Frankia 24 Jan 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Dr Charles West (Sheffield)
The Late Antique City: Models of Change 7 Feb 2012 All day, CRASSH Dr Luke Lavan (Kent)
Oh, Let us never, never doubt: The Churches of Early Medieval Spain before, during and after the Arab Conquest 21 Feb 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH Dr Roger Collins (Edinburgh)
Roman Law for Dummies: the Summa Perusina and Legal Learning in Early Mediaeval Italy 1 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Dr Simon Corcoran (UCL)
God’s Caliph Reconsidered: Authority in Early Islam 15 May 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* NB Different room today Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh). NB The group will meet on the First Floor today (S1)*
Cancelled-Late Antiquity (CLANS) 10 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor
‘After Rome’ in rural Britain? 24 Oct 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Ros Faith (Oxford)
The Carolingians and Old Saint Peter’s, Rome 7 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Jo Story (Leicester)
Towards a History of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity 21 Nov 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Stephen Mitchell
Otto I’s Invasion of Italy and the Writing of Ottonian Queenship 23 Jan 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Simon Maclean (St Andrews)
The divisio regni of 364: An End to Unity? 6 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen)
The Donatist Controversy, 250-1150: Purity, Memory, and Priestly Office in the Latin West 20 Feb 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Conrad Leyser (Oxford)
The Vandals’ Messiah: Another Look at King Gelimer 6 Mar 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Andy Merrills (Leicester)
Imperial Collegiality and its Implications (161-582) 1 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Timothy Barnes (Edingburgh)
Was the Qu’ran codified under ‘Abd al-Malik? 22 May 2013 3:30pm - 5:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* (NB The group will meet in a different room, date and time today*) Dr Nicolai Sinai (Oxford) NB The group will meet in a different room, date and time today*
Late Antiquity and World History 29 May 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Prof Mark Humphries (Swansea)
CANCELLED-CLANS ‘Rights and Sacraments’: The Ius Romanum and the Ius Ecclesiasticum in Late Antiquity 12 Jun 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London) NB Seminar starts at 6.00pm today
Gibbon on Islam 22 Oct 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Garth Fowden (Cambridge) at CLANS
The Late Roman Prison 5 Nov 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Julia Hillner (Bonn and Sheffield) at CLANS
Roman City and Byzantine Countryside 19 Nov 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Philipp Niewöhner (Oxford) AT CLANS
Bede and Easter Controversy 3 Dec 2013 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor Lord Rowan Williams (Cambridge) AT CLANS
Penal Enslavement 14 Jan 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Alice Rio (KCL) at Late Antiquity (CLANS)
Church Canons, 400-900 A.D. 11 Feb 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S1, First floor* Rachel Stone (KCL) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
Changing Perceptions of Romanitas 25 Feb 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room S3, 3rd floor* (NB Different room) Leslie Webster (BM/UCL) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
Imperial Relics in Gaul 11 Mar 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Stefan Esders (Berlin) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
Procopius and Malalas 6 May 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Professor Geoffrey Greatrex (University of Ottawa) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
Eschatological Thought around the Year 1000 20 May 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Katy Cubitt (York) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
Social History of Byzantium 3 Jun 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor Claudia Rapp (Viena) at Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)
The Roman Past of al-Andalus 22 Oct 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Ann Christys (Independent) at CLANS
CANCELLED -CLANS 5 Nov 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
The Legacy of a Late Antique Prophecy 19 Nov 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Levi Roach (Exeter) at CLANS
Historia Ecclesiastica and Bede after Bede 3 Dec 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Lesley Abrams (Balliol, Oxford) at CLANS
Constantine’s Conversion-Christianisation of the Empire 14 Jan 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Peter Heather (KCL) at CLANS
The End of Civilization: North Sea 28 Jan 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Catherine Hills (Cambridge) at CLANS
Visualising Dress and Personal Appearance 11 Feb 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Ellen Swift (Kent) -Late Antiquity CLANS
The Formation of Arian Identity in the Barbarian West 25 Feb 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion) at CLANS
How Can We Write Pre-Modern Global History? 11 Mar 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Naomi Standen (Birmingham) at  CLANS
Geopolitics or Geo-ecclesiology? Chalcedonian Conflict 22 Apr 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Philippe Bleaudeau (Angers) at CLANS
Court Cases: Northern Iberia 9th-10th Centuries 6 May 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Wendy Davies (UCL) at CLANS
The Birth of ‘Scientific’ Heresiology in Late Antiquity 20 May 2015 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Richard Flower (Exeter) at CLANS