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THE LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER
December, 1997
Table of Contents
*Introductory Notes*
*Conference Announcements*
*Seminars, Colloquia, Workshops, and Lectures*
*Centers, Institutions, Programs, Projects, Collaborations*
*New Books*
*Journal Announcements*
*Museum Exhibits
*Job Openings*
*Fellowships and Grants*
*Computer Notes: WEB Sites and Discussion Lists*
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Publication information:
The Late Antiquity Newsletter 2.1 (December, 1997)
"*LAN*" is published several times a year under the auspices of the
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bi-annual Late Antiquity conferences. It is distributed gratis over the
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The Second Annual "Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity" Conference was held at the University of South Carolina in March, 1997. There were over 40 presenters, and over 100 in attendance. The general excellence of the papers was matched by the fine weather. Negotiations are currently underway to publish two volumes of papers from the conference. The conference program can be found on the Society of Late Antiquity Web Page (http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc). Plans for the Shifting Frontiers III, to be held at Emory University in March, 1999, are currently well in hand, and an announcement and Call for Papers is appended below. LAN now has nearly 1,000 subscribers, and the list continues to grow. The vitality of the field of Late Antiquity is indicated not only by the great number of activities that are underway, as will readily be seen below, but also by the increasing number of professional positions that specify "Late Antiquity", only some of which also are included below.
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Emory University
11-14 March 1999
The THIRD conference on "Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity" will be held at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 11-14, 1999 on the topic of "Urban and Rural in Late Antiquity" [ca. 200-600 AD].
We will restrict the number of papers more severely than in former meetings so as to allow each presenter more time and to provide at least 90 minutes each day to have true symposia at which the goal will be to press those presenters specializing in Urban to struggle with those more knowledgible in Rural settings so as to discover regional patterns and variations.
For example, in a certain Roman city Christianity was rapidly gaining ground but in its countryside the story was different. Why? How do we know? How does the area around this town thencompare to other regions? What about gender roles in cities ascontrasted to rural areas?
We will also have three plenary papers by prominent researchers, at least two of those from abroad. The final day's symposium will sculpt the regional syntheses into multi-regional theses, perhaps for the entire Empire. By making very specific comparisons, this final discussion should also underscore those regions and themes needing further investigation as well as clarify the specific contributions being made by the various disciplinary approaches represented. All symposia will be recorded and the discussions will be included as a major section of the published conference proceedings.
Please direct inquiries concerning the Program to:
Prof. John W. Eadie, Department of History, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824
EMAIL: jweadie@pilot.msu.edu
For all other matters contact:
Prof. Thomas S. Burns, Department of History, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA, 30322
EMAIL: histsb@emory.edu
From: HISTSB@learnlink.emory.edu (Thomas S. Burns)
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The third annual edition of the Society's Forum on Arab-Byzantine numismatics took place on Saturday, November 15. Specialists in the Byzantine-style coinage issued under Arab rule in the eastern Mediterranean lands will exchange reports of their new finds and findings. The forum was co-sponsored by the Oriental Numismatic Society.
From: "Michael L. Bates" -------------------------------------------------------------
The First Birmingham Colloquium on the textual criticism of the New
Testament was held 14-17 April 1997. Several papers dealt with topics
relating to Late Antiquity, including:
G. Childers, "The Georgian versions of the NT"
D.G.K. Taylor, "Pre-Peshitta Citations in the Syriac corpus of Basil
of Caesarea"
W.J. Elliott, "Tachygraphy and Nomina Sacra"
David Parker
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The Dept. of Religious Studies and Theology at the University of
Wales, Cardiff, held a research in progress day in the field of late
antiquity on Thursday 8 May 1997. Papers from graduate students, and
those who have completed their doctorates, were presented.
Geoffrey Greatrex, Dept. of Religious Studies & Theology, Univ. of
Wales, Cardiff, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF1 3EU,
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CENTRE FOR LATE ANTIQUITY. Faculty of Arts, Victoria University of
Manchester, in association with LE PROJET VOLTERRA, History Department,
University College, Gower Street, London, presented LAW AND SOCIAL ORDER:
A RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM, SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 1997.
Simon Corcoran (Nottingham) Diocletian, incest and related legislation
Jill Harries (St. Andrew's) Ambrosiaster and the authority of law
Tony Honore/ (Oxford) Christian quaestors in East and West
Bernard Jackson (Manchester) Legal culture: from oral to written
Enquiries to Marios Costambeys
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February 26 1998: Dr Benet Salway (Department of History, University
College, London), "Journeying in the Roman World and the Genesis of the
Tabula Peutingeriana"
Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg Institute,
Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB (i.e. quite close to the British Museum)
at 5.00 pm on a THURSDAY.
Convened by Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) and Catherine
Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London).
Enquiries to the following:
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A series of lectures and seminars on the Mediterranean world from he
later Roman empire to Byzantine, Islamic, and medieval times were
presented in the Spring of 1997, including:
Assoc. Prof. Ted Nixon (Macquarie University), "Sozomen: A Plethora
of Historians"
Emeritus Prof. Edwin Judge (Macquarie University), "*Christianitas*:
Why Did They Belatedly Need This Word?"
Dr Brian Brennan (Macquarie University), "The Cult of the Cross
Between Byzantium and Francia"
Dr Katherine Adshead (University of Christchurch), "With What Was
Procopius Disillusioned?"
Professor Garry Trompf (University of Sydney), "The Consolations of
History in a Declining Empire: Orosius and Retributive Logic"
Dr Averil Keely (Sydney College of Divinity), "The Function of Arians
and Jews in the *Histories* of Gregory of Tours"
Dr Andrew Gillett
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A series of lectures and seminars on the Mediterranean world from the
late Roman empire to Byzantine, Islamic, and medieval times were held:
Dr Geoffrey Greatrex (Cardiff), "The Abolition of a Late Antique
Festival"
Dr Kathryn Ringrose (California, San Diego), "Eunuchs and Angels in
Byzantium"
Dr Alan Walmsley (Sydney), "The Decapolis After Rome: Elements of
Continuity/Evidence for Change"
Professor Benjamin Isaac (Tel Aviv), "Roman Frontier Studies: Current
Theories"
Dr John Koenig (Macquarie), "Christian Charity and Prisoner
Supplications in the Late Antique/Early Medieval Period"
Professor Fergus Millar (Oxford), "Jerome and the Near East"
From: "Andrew Keith Gillett" -------------------------------------------------------------
In 1998 the Centre for Medieval Studies in Toronto will offer summer
courses at the MA and PhD levels. The courses will be concurrent and
will last seven weeks (22 June to 7 August). Prospective students must
take the Centre's MA Latin examination in April; admission and placement
will depend on performance in this exam. A pass on the MA exam is
required for admission to the PhD Latin course. The fee for the courses
is $600 (Cdn) for Canadians and $600 (US) for non-Canadians. Some
scholarship support may be available.
NATURE OF COURSES
Both MA and PhD courses will meet five days each week for an hour and
a half; the instructor will also be available half an hour each day
for consultation.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AT THE CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES BY 1 MARCH,
1998 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION and sample Latin exams, please see the
Centre's homepage:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~medieval/www/programs/latinp.html
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The Ottawa Christianity Group met on November 28 to discuss a text
prepared by Theodore de Bruyn on "Flogging a Son: Representation and
Practice in Latin Christian Discourse from Tertullian to Augustine." De
Bruyn contends that flogging (*flagellare*) was a punishment reserved in
the early Roman empire for slaves. Thus one would not speak of flogging
one's own children, though they might be beaten (with the hand or a rod).
By the time one reaches Augustine, however, the rhetoric has shifted, and
he alludes often to punishment of one's children with *flagella*. Whereas
earlier Christian preachers spoke in a similar vein, they did so less
often and usually in a metaphorical application of certain biblical texts
such as Pro. 3:12/Heb. 12:6. Augustine employs the texts but seems to
mean in certain instances that parents should apply the *flagellum* to
their children. De Bruyn feels that this reflects a broadening in the
notion of *flagellum* and *flagellare* to include beatings with something
other than whips, rather than an extension of a punishment once reserved
only to slaves.
From: Kevin Coyle
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Chairpersons:
Megan Williams (Princeton University) meganw@panix.com
Jay Treat (University of Pennsylvania) jtreat@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Secretaries:
Brad Kirkegaard (University of Pennsylvania)
bkirkega@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Beth Pollard Lisi (University of Pennsylvania)
elisi@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Coordinator:
Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania) kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
For 1997-98, the PSCO is bringing together scholars of early Judaism,
early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world to examine interpretation
as a social practice in the Mediterranean world from Philo of Alexandria
through Augustine of Hippo. Our focus is on textual commentaries and
related texts. In order to make sense of commentary writing in late
antiquity, we wish to situate it within the context of ancient modes of
reading, ancient modes of construing the relation of text and meaning,
and ancient modes of transmitting knowledge, as these can be
reconstructed within particular communities and cultures.
PROGRAM:
6 November 1997
David Dawson, Haverford College, "Figural Reading and the Fashioning
of Christian Identity: Origen on Body, History and Narrative"
FUTURE MEETINGS:
22 January 1998
Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley, "Who Wrote the
Dominant Fiction? On the History of the Early Phallus" (This meeting will
take place in Princeton.)
March 1998
Robert Lamberton, Washington University, "Interpretation in the Neo-
Platonist Tradition"
9 April 1998
James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, "Christian Interpretation
in Late Antiquity"
For for further information, visit the PSCO web site:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/
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The annual UNB Ancient History Colloquium was held this year on the
Saint John Campus of the University of New Brunswick on March 15,
1997.
The theme of the colloquium was "Religion in the Roman Empire" and the
keynote speaker was Professor T.D. Barnes of the University of
Toronto.
Dr T.E. Goud:
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Alexander the Great founded several cities under his own name, from
the Dardanelles to the Punjab. But the city which he founded in 332 BC
at the mouth of the Nile Delta, and where he was buried, is by far the
most famous of all these Alexandrias. The ancient site is now covered
partly by the sea and partly by centuries of later habitation so its
reality is hard to reconstruct. Images of Alexandria and of its
cosmopolitan culture abound, however, and have been appropriated by many
societies. The powerful allure of the city, and of its reputation as a
centre of learning, is reflected in the current UNESCO project, to build
a modern successor to the ancient library of Alexandria, which
disappeared at the end of antiquity (see
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alex/mileston.htm).
The aim of this conference, at King's College, London, was to explore,
and juxtapose, many of the representations of Alexandria both across time
and across cultural divides.
The conference was organised by the Centre for Hellenic Studies at
King's College London, (Professor Judith Herrin, Director, Mr. Nicholas
Egon and Mrs. Charlotte Rouech) with the British Museum (represented by
Dr. Susan Walker), the Friends of the Alexandria Library (represented by
Professor Maurice Line and Professor Herwig Maehler) and the School of
Oriental and African Studies (represented by Professor M. A. S. Abdel
Haleem)
The opening lecture was given by Professor J.-Y. Empereur (CNRS,
Paris/Alexandria), presenting his underwater excavations of ancient
Alexandria. The first session, chaired by Professor Peter Parsons
(Christ Church, Oxford) looked at the creation of a tradition of
Alexandrianism. Professor R. Sorabji (King's College London) talked
about the tradition of Alexandrian philosophy; Professor M. Silk (King's
College London) talked about Alexandrianism in literature, and Professor
M. Zahran (Alexandria) spoke about the place of the new Library building
within the architectural tradition of Alexandria. Dr. Lucilla Burn
(British Museum) then gave a lecture on Alexandria at the British Museum,
examining the issues involved in identifying and displaying Alexandrian
artefacts in the Hellenistic Gallery of the Museum. The next session,
chaired by Professor Roland Mayer (King's College London), dealt with
Perspectives on Alexandria. Dr. Jane Rowlandson (King's College London)
spoke about the view of Alexandria from the Egyptian hinterland in the
Graeco-Roman period; Dr. Michael Trapp (King's College London) presented
the view from the Roman Empire; Professor G.Curatola (Udine) presented
the Venetian view, and Dr. O. Weintritt (Freiburg) the view from the
Muslim world. The next session, chaired by Dr. Larry Conrad (Wellcome
Institute, London), was on Self-representations of Alexandria, looking
at the images of themselves and each other of the various communities of
the city. Professor H. Maehler (University College London) looked at the
original construction of the image of Alexandria by the Ptolemies; Dr.
M. Seif El-Din (Alexandria) presented a series of parallel painted images
from the city drawing on the Greek and the Egyptian traditions; Dr. J.
Carleton Paget (Cambridge) considered the relationship of the Jewish and
the Christian communities to each other and to the city's past; Kostis
Moskof (Alexandria) examined the attitudes of the modern Greek community;
Dr. G. Contis (Washington, D.C.) showed how the modern city is
confronting the traditional problems of its environment. The Final
address, by Professor M. el-Abbadi (Alexandria), was on The Alexandrian
Library in history
The conference web-site:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/byzmodgreek/centre/index.html
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A conference held 28-31 August 1997 at Durham University (UK); papers
included:
John Matthews: "Ammianus and the Barbarian Mind"
Doug Lee: "Ammianus and the dark side of late Roman diplomacy"
John Drinkwater: "Ammianus and the Rhine Germans"
Keith Hopwood: "Ammianus on Isauria"
Rowland Smith: "Ammianus' narrative of Julian" (?)
Frank Trombley: "Ammianus Marcel1inus and fourth-century warfare:
battle-piece v. empirical observation"
David Woods: "The Comites Sagittarii at Amida: Ammianus 18.9.4"
Hans Teitler: "Ammianus on Persia and the Persians"
Jan Willem Drijvers: "Ammianus on Arsaces and early Parthian history"
Jan den Boeft: "Pure religious rites 23.6.33"
John Hind: "Ammianus on the Iranian Nomads: Alans and others on the
northern frontier"
Roger Rees: "The outsider inside: Ammianus and Rome"
Tom Harrison: "Ammianus Marcellinus and a religious ideal of Rome"
Ad Hereijgers: "Constantius' visit to Rome: an alternative View of
Ammianus' attitude towards the Romans"
Michael Whitby: "A tetragonos aner: three panegyrics and a historian
on Constantius II"
Mark Humphries: "Symmachus, Ammianus and the image of Valentinian I"
David Hunt: "The outsider inside: Ammianus and the rebellion of
Silvanus"
Shaun Tougher: "Ammianus and the eunuchs"
Brian Warmington: "Ammianus and Constantine"
Peter Heather: "Ammianus on Jovian: history or literature?"
Jill Harries: "Power, communication and response: Julian as
legislator"
Theresa Urbaincyk: "Proper History and Church History: Ammianus and
the church historians"
Daan den Hengst: "Ammianus, the Historia Augusta, and Julian"
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/ammianus.html
Dr. David Hunt,
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Liste des communications
B. Aggoula, "Hatris/Hatra de la Tabula Peutingeria et les itineraires
Sirgora/Singara-Ctesiphon"
(College de France, Institut Catholique, Institut Protestant et CNRS)
http://webhome.infonie.fr/scientechnix/
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The First Annual Medieval Origins Graduate Conference, on the topic
of CHRISTIANIZATION IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, 400-1000, was held at
Princeton University on October 18, 1997, sponsored by The Group for the
Study of Late Antiquity and the Medieval Studies Program. This one-day
conference explored aspects of late antique and medieval Christianiza-
tion, from the eastern frontiers of Byzantium to northern Europe, from
the destruction of the Serapeum to the conversion of Iceland. Keynote
speaker was Professor Dennis Trout of Tufts University, who presented a
paper on Christianization at the shrine of Saint Felix in early fifth
century Nola.
From: jmgaddis@phoenix.princeton.edu
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The Second Annual Graduate Student Conference at UCLA on Late
Antiuqity was held on 19 April 1977. The UCLA Graduate Student
Association for the Study of Late Antiquity seeks to facilitate
interdisciplinary exchange on the profound tensions and conflicts, the
political, religious, cultural and socioeconomic transformations and the
communal and institutional developments in the Mediterranean region from
the second to the seventh centuries.
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"The Pictish Symbol Stones: A Ritual of Magic": Christine Lovasz,
Boston University
"Exploring the Demography of Ritual in Roman Funerary Customs": Laurel
L. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
"The Decennalia of Gallienus and the Construction of Roman Imperial
Ideology" Paul Legutko, University of Michigan
For further information contact one of the conference chairs:
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This conference organized by Baltimore Hebrew University, co-sponsored
by The Walters Art Gallery, and The College of Notre Dame of Maryland,
and held 4-6 May 1977, included several items of late antiqueinterest.
"Highlights of the Late Roman and Byzantine Collections," Gary Vikan
Lawrence Schiffman, New York University, "The Early History of Public
Torah Reading"
Stuart Miller, University of Connecticut, "Ancient Synagogues in the
Galilee: Rabbinic Evidence"
Lee I. Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Patriarchate and
the Ancient Synagogue"
Tessa Rajak, University of Reading, "The Synagogue Within the Greco-
Roman City"
Robin Jensen, Andover-Newton Theological School, "The Dura Europos
Synagogue, Early Christian Art and Religious Life in Dura Europos"
John S. Crawford, University of Delaware, "Jews, Christians and
Polytheists in Late Antique Sardis"
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A conference held at the American Academy in Rome and the Universita`
di Roma "la sapienza"
Organized by William V. Harris and Andrea Giardina
SETTING THE STAGE FOR A DISCUSSION OF LATE-ANTIQUE ROME
1. Filippo Coarelli (Perugia), La riorganizzazione urbanistica
dell'urbs tra Diocleziano e Massenzio
2. Javier Arce (Spanish School, Rome), L'inventario di Roma. Il
curiosum e la notitia
3. Kate Cooper (Manchester), The gesta martyrum and the topography of
fifth-century Rome
4. F. Guidobaldi (Rome), Le domus tardoantiche di Roma come "sensori"
delle trasformazioni culturali e sociali
5. Letizia Pani Ermini (Rome), Lo spazio urbano tra Alarico e
Teoderico
BETWEEN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
1. Alan Cameron (Columbia University, New York), The Last Pagans of
Rome
2. Beat Brenk (Basel), The Christianization of the Domus of the
Valerii on the Caelian
3. Carlo Pavolini & Elisabetta Giuliani (Rome), La cosiddetta
Biblioteca di Papa Agapito a la Basilica di Sant'Agnese
4. Michele Salzman (University of California at Riverside), Social
Status and Social Networks in the Conversion of the Roman Aristocracy
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS
1. Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), The plebs urbana: Problems of
Classification and Comparison
2. Elio Lo Cascio (Naples), Canon frumentarius, suarius, vinarius:
stato e privati nell'approvvigionamento dell'urbs
3. Frank Kolb (Tuebingen), Population Numbers and Food-supply Problems
in the Late-antique City
4. Francesca De Capraris (Rome), I porti di Roma nel IV secolo
5. Clementina Panella (Rome), Sviluppi recenti nello studio della
cultura materiale di Roma nel IV secolo
PUBLIC SPACE AND POLITICAL POWER
1. Augusto Fraschetti (Rome), "Quando reges Romam veniunt"
2. Silvia Orlandi (Rome), Il Colosseo nel IV e V secolo
3. Richard Lim (Smith College, Northampton, Mass.), Desacralization
and the Survival of the ludi: Public Spectacles and the Elite in Late-
antique Rome (4th-6th c.)
http://italia.hum.utah.edu/gruppo/volta/cirt.html
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At this conference, held at the University of Wisconsin 21-23
September 1997, Susanna Elm presented a workshop on "Apocalyptic
Expectations and Ascetic Response: The Case of Montanism in the Fourth
Century", and Richard Landes and Randolph Daniel and Fannie LeMoine led
workshops on topics of importance for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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The 24th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference will be held at the Univ.
of Kentucky, Lexington, from Thursday, November 4 through Sunday,
November 8, 1998. The conference is an annual forum for the presentation
and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine history and culture
and is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status.
Abstracts must be postmarked no later then march 15, 1998, or March
2, if submitted from abroad, and sent to Claudia Rapp, Program Chair,
Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.
E-Mail: clrapp@ias.edu
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Organised by the Society for Hellenic Cartography and the National
Hellenic Research Foundation, in collaboration with Imago Mundi Ltd.
Conference theme: 'The Cartography of the Mediterranean World' - and any
other aspect of the history of cartography. Languages: the conference
will be conducted in English, French and Greek, with simultaneous
translation. If you are working on ANY ASPECT of the history of
cartography and are interested in receiving further information, which
will be issued in the 'Call for Papers' in Spring 1998, please complete
the form below. This does not commit you in any way. [If you have
already made a return by mail please let the Conference Secretary have
your email address].
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ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY, ATHENS, 11-16 JULY 1999
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Suite aux deliberations de l'Assemblee Generale du 21e Congres
International de Berlin (aout 1995), le prochain Congres International
de Papyrologie se tiendra a Florence du 23 au 29 aout 1998, organise par
l'Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli". L'Institut et la ville de Florence
sont heureux d'accueillir le Congres, pour la seconde fois depuis 1935,
lorsque Girolamo Vitelli etait encore en vie. Nous esperons que les
participants y trouveront la plus grande satisfaction quant aux resultats
scientifiques et a l'accueil a Florence. Nous avons donc le plaisir
d'inviter au Congres tous les membres de l'Association, ainsi que tous
les savants interesses. Etant donne l'important afflux touristique a
Florence, nous prions toutes les personnes interessees de renvoyer au
plus vite le formulaire ci-inclus, et au plus tard le 30 avril 1997. Les
participants qui ont l'intention de presenter une communication sont
pries d'en indiquer le titre ou le sujet general en specifiant la
categorie de travaux dans laquelle il pourrait s'inserer (voir liste ci-
dessous). Le Congres accueillera vraisemblablement un nombre eleve de
participants; aussi le Secretariat regroupera-t-il les communications par
themes, qui pourraient etre les suivants:
* nouveaux papyrus grecs ou latins de contenu litteraire (y compris
les sujets chretiens)
Certains participants auront la charge de diriger des seminaires
specifiques sur des textes ou des themes susceptibles
d'approfondissements ulterieurs.
Comme d'habitude, les communications se feront dans une langue
largement connue, comme le francais, l'anglais, l'allemand, ou l'italien.
Les seances ordinaires du Congres se tiendront dans le centre de la
ville, pres de la gare Santa Maria Novella, au Palazzo degli Affari.
A l'occasion du Congres aura lieu l'inauguration, dans un ancien
palais florentin, d'une exposition consacree a des antiquites retrouvees
en Egypte, et intitulee "Antinoe cent'anni dopo", fruit de la
collaboration entre plusieurs institutions italiennes et etrangeres.
Diverses excursions sont prevues dans des localites toscanes d'interet
archeologique et artistique. En outre, apres la conclusion du Congres,
monsieur le prof. Marcello Gigante aura le plaisir d'inviter les
participants a une excursion d'une journee a Naples, avec visite de la
collection des papyrus d'Herculanum, du Musee archeologique, des fouilles
d'Herculanum.
Nous nous permettons de signaler que les frais d'inscription au
Congres seront d'environ 400.000 lires, reduites a 250.000 lires pour les
membres de l'A.I.P. et a 200.000 pour les jeunes papyrologues 1997 de
l'A.I.P. Pour les accompagnateurs, les frais d'inscription prevus seront
de 100.000 lires.
XXII CONGRESSO INTERNAZIONALE DI PAPIROLOGIA
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The congress will be inaugurated at the city hall of Vienna on
Sunday, September 20, 1999. The sessions will be held at the
Archaeologiezentrum from Monday Sept. 21 to Wednesday Sept. 23. Thirty
minute papers will be given in the morning, twenty minute papers and the
poster session will be presented in the afternoon according to sections.
On Sept. 20 a trip to Carnuntum is scheduled. Two tours will be offered,
both leaving Sept. 24-27. One will take participants to the Danube Limes
and Carinthia, the other to Ephesos in Turkey. A topic pertaining to a
specific section (architecture, ecclesiastical history, epigraphy, minor
arts, mosaics, numismatics, painting, sculpture, topography, written
sources, and the history of research) should always relate to the general
theme EARLY CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE. An additional
section on Christian Archaeology in Austria is planned. Also papers
regarding the Instrumenta Studiorum and Novitates are welcome. Congress
languages are English, French, German, Italian.
Your form for preliminary registration, including information
regarding your paper, should be sent to us by January 31, 1997. The
acceptance of your paper will be confirmed when the congress organizers
receive your abstract. It should arrive no later than January 31, 1999,
be ready for publication, and not exceed one page.
Registration fee: If received by January 31, 1999, ATS 2.000.-
(approx. DM 285 or US$ 200), after this date ATS 2.500.-. There will be
a special rate for students and accompanying guests. Fees include all
meeting materials, attendance of sessions as well as scheduled social
events. However, fees do not include tours or additional events for
guests.
Further circulars will only be sent to registered participants and
institutions.
Please send registration by January 31, 1997, to:
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We have the pleasure to announce that the Center of Papyrological
Studies and Inscriptions in Ain-Shams University has undertaken the
organizing of this International Congress. The main theme is "PALESTINE
IN THE LIGHT OF PAPYRI AND INSCRIPTIONS', from antiquity to the middle
ages. This Congress will take place from Saturday the 5th to Wednesday
the 9th September 1998. The meeting will be held in the Guest-House of
Ain-Shams University.
The Organizing Committee invites abstracts on one of the following
topics:
1- Geography of Palestine
The deadline for abstracts is 1st February 1998. Those wishing to
participate are kindly requested to contact:
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Call for Papers: "Byzantium: Sexualities, Boundaries, Limits," panel
for Conference on the "Queer Middle Ages" November 5-7, 1998, at the
Graduate Center of CUNY in New York. The panel will focus on Byzantine
Sexualities/Queering Byzantium. Some of the most interesting writing on
western Medieval history is coming from scholars who have taken "Queer
Theory" seriously. Within Byzantine studies such perspectives have, as
yet, had little impact. lthough some interesting writing has taken place
on Byzantine homosexuality the subject is dominated by a documentary
approach. Such approaches are, of course, essential first steps. So what
is "Queer Theory"? Very briefly it involves a particular attitude to
past societies. Rather than looking at majorities and norms, it looks at
what was marginal, non normative, and "queer" within a society. This is
done because of intrinsic interest, and because consideration of limits
may also give a good deal of insight into what was taken as "normal".
"Normality" and "queerness" do vary between societies. For example,
traditional Chinese society, before the 18th century at least, did not
regard male homosexuality as specially problematic, but eunuchs were
despised; in Byzantium, although active opposition to homosexuality seems
to have waned in later centuries, we have, it seems, a contrast to the
Chinese case - Byzantine eunuchs could achieve high political and
ecclesiastical office, and even sainthood, whereas homosexual activity
was frowned on. What does this difference say about social constructions
of masculinity in Byzantine society? Consideration of such issues raises
new questions about societies to which a "Queer Theory" approach is
applied. The conference "Queer Middle Ages" it is rapidly becoming clear,
will be a seminal event in the use of "Queer Theory" in medieval studies.
Even though some of the jargon of Queer Theory may fade, the issues
raised and papers delivered at this conference will have some
significance for the field as a whole. Byzantinists were very late in
taking academic feminist analysis seriously, although this has now
changed. The texts we deal with are replete with marginalization, and so
it seem to be be possible to put together a panel of Byzantinists for
this conference. A number of paper suggestions have already been made,
but, since some are provisional, I am keen to receive other suggestions.
Please send:
1. A very brief bio [affiliation, research interests], and paper
title.
2. A draft abstract needs. It need not, of course, be the final
summation, but it should represent the questions you intend to raise and
the sorts of sources you envision using. Papers should show some
awareness of "queer studies" - even if you reject the "queer" project -
should be built into the paper for the benefit of the other participants.
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ALSO ENDORSED BY: The Society for
Medieval Feminist Scholarship; CEMERS (Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton); the Society for the Study of
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages; The Center for Research in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, New York University. This conference is dedicated
to "queering" the Middle Ages: to the pursuit of methodologies of
interpretation and documentation of the same-sex choices of women and men
who resisted hetero -normativity in their sexual and affective bonds
during the period we have come to call the "Middle Ages." We seek to
expand knowledge of resistance to compulsory heterosexuality in a wide
range of the globe's cultural areas, such as the Arab and Islamic worlds,
China, and the pre-colonial Americas. We understand "middle ages" to be
a flexible, not prescriptive term, which can begin, depending on the area
under consideration, as early as the 4th century CE and end as late as
the end of the 16th century CE. The conference aims to articulate the
reasons why the "Middle Ages" have remained separate from far-reaching
inquiries in lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender studies. While queer
studies have made significant impact in the study of the early modern
period, the Middle Ages have only sporadically been the object of
"queering," and we have only begun to document lives shaped by same-sex
desire. This period plays a potentially critical role in current debates
over the historical parameters of the construction of homosexuality,
offering a counterpoint to theories that deny the possibility of its
existence before the modern age. The particularities of same-sex, non-
heteronormative behaviors in the Middle Ages also provide rich material
for a better understanding of many aspects of gendered identities.
Four plenary speakers have agreed to participate in the conference:
*Judith Bennett
Two-page abstracts of papers are due by *December 31, 1997*.
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An international conference to honour Donald Bullough on the occasion
of his 70th birthday University of St Andrews, 11-14 June, 1998.
Speakers include:
Giles Constable: Confraternity and commemoration in the early Middle
Ages
Federico Marazzi: Rome in transition: recent approaches to the study
of political and economic changes in Rome between the 5th and the 8th
centuries
Thomas F X Noble: Papal sources and Roman society in the ninth century
Tom Brown: Between Franks and Byzantines: Rome c.840-962
Andrea Augenti: Continuity and discontinuity in a seat of power: the
Palatine Hill in the early Middle Ages
Alessia Rovelli: Coin production and monetary circulation in early
medieval Rome
R Santangeli Valenzani: Residential building in early Medieval Rome
Per-Jonas Nordhagen: Constantinople on the Tiber: the Byzantine Greeks
in Rome and their images
Chris Wickham: Early medieval Rome: a typical Italian city?
Paolo Delogu: Rome as regional centre in central Italy, 8th-10th
centuries
Nicholas Brooks: Canterbury, Rome and the construction of English
identity
Alan Thacker: In search of saints: Roman martyrs and the insular
churches in the seventh and eighth centuries
David Ganz: Roman books revisited
Herbert Schneider: Roman liturgy and Frankish allegory
Julia M H Smith: Old saints, new cults: Roman relics in Carolingian
Francia.
For full details, please send an e-mail with your full postal address
to: SCHLHIST@ST-AND.AC.UK
or write/fax Mrs E Johnstone, Conference Secretary, School of History,
St Katharine's Lodge, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16
9AL, Scotland. Fax: +44 (0)1334-462914.
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A graduate student symposium will be held at Stanford University, with
papers ranging from the early classical through the late antique periods,
February 27-28, 1998.
For more information: Send e-mail to polis-urbs@lists.stanford.edu
From: Adam C Serfass The Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Miami a conference
on the topic of *Identity* in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque
may be explored from multiple perspectives encompassing such diverse
fields as literature, history, architecture, philosophy and religion as
well as the fine arts, the social sciences and the natural sciences.
*Identity* is meant to be taken in its broadest sense. It includes, but
is not limited to, constructions of self and others, questions of local,
national, geographic, cultural and social borders and communities,
history and memory. Papers bridging different periods and disciplines are
especially welcome.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: October 31, 1997.
Send a one-page abstract and a c.v. to
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Pain, of all sensations, is the least susceptible to expression
and empathy; it defies verbalization and description. And yet, for the
sufferer, it is the most vivid and powerful experience of all. Between
the two states, experience and description, would appear to be, then, an
unbridgeable gap. To quote Elaine Scarry from *The Body in Pain* (New
York-Oxford, 1985), "To have pain is to have *certainty*; to hear about
pain is to have *doubt*." The question this session would address is,
therefore, how does medieval art make the sufferings of others
apprehensible in a way that provides *faith*? Pain and suffering are
central to the Christian view of history: the Fall is the initiation of
all pain: the patriarchs knew of God's existence and presence through
their discomfort; the Son of God was truly human through his agonizing
end; and the apostles and martyrs, like many medieval Christians,
identified themselves with Christ by spanning description in scripture
and the experience of pain and death. The representation of pain in
medieval Christian art was consequently ubiquitous and depictions of the
crucifixion, martyrdoms and the consignment of sinners to hell are
commonplace to art historians. But to eyes conditioned to other, more
baroque or documentary modes of describing, medieval representations are
often strangely muted in their displays of suffering. Contemporaries saw
these representations with different eyes as the tears of Gregory of
Nyssa (ca. 335-ca. 395) and Ignatius the Deacon (ca. 770/80-d.after 845),
for example, attest. Communicating the sufferings of others did not
necessarily depend on outward displays of pain.
The expression of pain in art, and the affective response that brings
the viewer nearer to faith, are complex activities whose structures need
careful examination and contextualization. Such expression demand
analysis in light of larger cultural concerns about punishment (legal,
ecclesiastical, etc.), the physiology of suffering, and perception of
'eternal torment', as expressed in hagiographies, for instance. With a
range of papers from different chronological and geographical
perspectives, visual descriptions of pain will be seen to be highly
charged rhetorical acts with emotional, social and political obligations.
Possible topics are: the body beyond pain and the ability to believe,
Christ and Thomas; visible sufferings in Last Judgement scenes and the
empathy of the viewer; the face of the torturer as the other; signs of
interior torment and misery; the monitory rhetoric of iniquitous killing
in art.
Anyone interested in participating in this session is encouraged
to send an abstract BEFORE 1 JULY 1997 to:
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We are happy to announce here that we will be organizing an
International Colloquium on "Platonic Theology", to celebrate the
completion of the Bud edition of Proclus' "Theologia Platonica", in
honour of its editor, H.-D. Saffrey. Leuven (Belgium), Hoger Instituut
voor Wijsbegeerte, De Wulf-Mansioncentrum. In his "Platonic Theology",
Proclus for the first time in the history of Platonism offers a fully
elaborated systematic exposition of the theology of Plato. In the
Platonic school it was generally recognized that the theological
doctrines of Plato are 'scattered' throughout his dialogues, and attempts
were made to systematize the material, but they all were surpassed by the
grandiose synthesis of Proclus. Discussing the texts of Plato and
situating them within the scientific framework of the "Parmenides",
Proclus (re)constructs Plato's doctrines on the First One, the gods and
the hierarchical procession of reality. The colloquium will be devoted
in the first place to the study of the "Theologia Platonica", to its
conception of theology, to its structure, its logical and hermeneutical
principles. Some speakers will also present a paper on the different
classes of gods, on the use of specific passages of Plato, and on the
antecedents of this theological project or its influence on later
philosophy.
Conference languages are English, French, and German.
Organizing Committee: C. Steel (Leuven) - A. Segonds (Paris);
Secretary: G. Van Riel (Leuven).
Confirmed speakers (provisional list, updated July 1st, 1997): W.
Beierwaltes (Germany), H. Blumenthal (U.K.), L. Brisson (France), J.
Bussanich (U.S.A.), J. Cleary (Ireland-U.S.A.), J. Combes (France), C.
D'Ancona (Italy), J. Dillon (Ireland), S. Gersh (U.S.A.), L. Gerson
(Canada), P. Hoffmann (France), C. Luna (Italy), P. Meijer (the
Netherlands), D. O'Meara (Switzerland), J. Opsomer (Belgium), J. Pepin
(France), I. Perczel (Hungary), F. Romano (Italy), A. Segonds (France),
A. Sheppard (U.K.), L. Siorvanes (U.K.), A. Smith (Ireland), R. Sorabji
(U.K.), C. Steel (Belgium), B. Van den Berg (the Netherlands), G. Van
Riel (Belgium), K. Verrycken (Belgium).
For further information, please contact the secretary of the
Colloquium: Dr. Gerd Van Riel
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
From: Gerd Van Riel --------------------------------------------------------------------
Les 27, 28 et 29 novembre 1998 la Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeen-
schap van het Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen "Maat-
schappij en Administratie in de Hellenistische en Romeinse Wereld"
(president L. MOOREN) organise avec le concours de la Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, de la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven et la Fondation Egyptolo-
gique Reine Elisabeth, un Colloque International: Le Role et le Statut
de la Femme en egypte Hellenistique, Romaine et Byzantine
PROGRAMMA / PROGRAMME (Selected presentations):
F. Colin (IFAO, Le Caire), "Le clerge feminin dans l'Egypte greco-
romaine"
E. Wipszycka (Warszawa), "L'ascetisme feminin en Egypte"
T. Saavedra (Heidelberg), "Women as property-owners in Roman
Egypt and Roman Spain. Some Points of Comparison"
R. Mazza (Bologna), "Women, land and administration in Byzantine
Egypt"
A. Arjava (Helsinki), "Women and Law in Roman Egypt"
M. Parca (Urbana-Champaign), "Violence by and against Women in
Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt"
J. Beaucamp (Aix en Provence), "Assistance judiciaire aux femmes
et role du mari d'apres les papyrus byzantins"
I. Muller (Heidelberg), "Widows and their Social Relations in Roman
Egypt"
R. Cribiore (New York), "The women in the Apollonios Archive and their
use of literacy"
P. Heilporn (Ann Arbor), "Sentiments de femmes et d'hommes dans les
lettres"
Si vous voulez vous inscrire, vous pouvez Employer le formulaire
d'inscription qui est joint. Si vous souhaitez recevoir un programme et
un formulaire d'inscription par courrier postal, contactez-moi.
Coordinator : H. Melaerts
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Vol. 9 (1997). Selected contents:
Ellen Johnston Laing, "Recent Finds of Western-Related Glassware,
Textiles, and Metalwork in Central Asia and China"
Chuimei Ho, "Turquoise Jars and Other West Asian Ceramics in China"
A. S. Melikian-Chirvani, "The Wine Birds of Iran from Pre-Achaemenid
to Islamic Times"
Guitty Azarpay, "A Jataka Tale on a Sasanian Silver Plate"
Richard Salomon, "Three Dated Kharosthi Inscriptions"
Martha L. Carter, "OESHO or Shiva"
Tigran Mkrtychev, "New Buddhist Sculpture from Kara-Tepe"
H.-P. Francfort, F. Soleilhavoup, J.-P. Bozelle, P. Vidal, F.
D'Errico, D. Sacchi, Z. Samashev, et A. Rogozhinskij, "Les ptroglyphes
de Tamgaly" David Frendo, "The Early Exploits and Final Overthrow of
Khusrau II (591-628): Panegyric and Vilification in the Last Byzantine-
Iranian Conflict"
Albert de Jong, "Shadow and Resurrection"
Joseph Gutmann, "Ancient Synagogues: Archaeological Fact and Scholarly
Assumption"
Review Articles
P. O. Skjrva, "The Manichean Polemical Hymns in M 28 I"
Martha L. Carter, "A Note on Metalwork from the Hellenistic East"
Reviews
GYSELEN. Au carrefour des religions: Mlanges offerts Philippe
Gignoux (Carol Altman Bromberg)
GYSELEN. Circulation des monnaies, des marchandises et des biens
(Carol Altman Bromberg)
DE CALLATAY. Les ttradrachmes d'Orodes II et de Phraate IV: Etude du
rhythme de leur production montaire la lumi
re d'une grande trouvaille
(A.D.H. Bivar)
GYSELEN. Sceaux magiques en Iran sassanide (P. O. Harper)
Studies. Vol. 2 (Martha L. Carter)
INVERNIZZI. In the Land of the Gryphons: Papers on Central Asian
Archaeology in Antiquity (Carol Altman Bromberg)
Clothbound, printed on acid-free paper
From: BAI34@aol.com: Carol Bromberg
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Classics Ireland volume 4 (1997) is now available. If anyone is
interested in obtaining a copy, contact please contact me (Theresa
Urbainczyk email - urbain@macollamh.ucd.ie).
Earlier volumes can be seen at
http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/ClassicsIreland.html
Contents of Classics Ireland volume 4(1997)
Several contributions of potential late antique interest:
"Carpets of Stone: the Graeco-Roman Legacy in the Levant", Claudine
Dauphin
"Fifth-Century Athenian and Augustan Images of the Barbarian Other,"
Philip Hardie
"In Search of Diocletian," Adrian Higham
"Zeno and Gallienus: Two Gentlemen of Verona," Mark Humpheries
Contents of Classics Ireland 3(1996)
"The Bones of St Peter?", John Curran
"Brothels, Baths and Babes: prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land,"
Claudine Dauphin
"Slavery in the Roman Empire: numbers and origins," John Madden
From: Theresa Urbainczyk --------------------------------------------------------------------
A new edition of the German language numismatic journal
Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten (GN) is published since 1966 by the
Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Geldgeschichte (GIG) in Frankfurt am
Main with 6 issues per year.
The new issue is No. 176 for November 1996, including:
Michael Matzke: Antikenrezeption am Beispiel der Mnzen Karls des
Grossen.
Information on forthcoming expositions, congresses, coin fairs,
auctions. 21 reviews, including Lukanc, Diocletianus; Mangieri, La
monetazione medievale di Salerno; Krumbach, Aachener Muenzen des
Mittelalters; Oresmius, Tractatus de origine et natura, jure et
mutationibus monetarum.
Write to:
Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Geldgeschichte (GIG)
Ilse WAGNER, Postfach 2140
D - 64532 Moerfelden-Walldorf, Germany
Tel +49 - 6105 - 65 05
Fax +49 - 6105 - 7 13 56
Dr. Hubert Emmerig
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Published by Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Hellenic
College
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. Reports on Greek Theological Journals
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cultural background, Church Fathers and Mothers, personalities, events,
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emphasis on Greek Orthodoxy.
Recent Issue:
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Contents of Volume 41 - 1;
Articles
"Philosophy and Theology: The Demonstrative Method in the Theology of
St. Gregory Palamas," Stavros Yangazoglou
The stance of St. Gregory Palamas in face of ancient Greek philosophy
is generally critical. On the basis of the dual gnosiological methodology
of the Greek Fathers, the subject matter of philosophy is differentiated
from the sphere of knowledge of theology. Philosophy, however, is not
rejected, but it is appropriated by theology, critically and
supportively. Greek patristic theology employed even diverse elements,
essential to philosophy, after previously transforming and harmonizing
them in the Holy Spirit, in the context and the presuppositions of its
own ontology.
"Theodoret of Kyros on the Relationship of the Body and the Soul
Before Birth," Paul Crego
An examination of the patristic tradition on the creation of the soul
in relationship to the body, with a background on patristic embryology,
is followed by an examination of key exegetical positions in the writings
of Theodoret of Kyros related to the issue and its theological
implications for the doctrines of creation, original sin, free will and
baptism.
"Dorylaion: Bulwark of the Byzantine Frontier," Clive Foss
The strategic location of Dorylaion made it one of the Byzantine
Empire's most important cities, particularly militarily. The history of
the city is outlined from its Roman roots to its fall to Turkish forces
in the twelfth century. Based upon medieval sources and modern research,
the city's archaeological remains are described.
"Review Essay: John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe,"
Kenneth W. Kemp & Robert Kennedy
A careful and detailed analysis of Boswell's controversial work,
thoroughly examining the literary, historical, and interpretive
foundations of Boswell's understanding of the practice of adelphopoiesis
as "same-sex marriages" in pre-modern Europe. The evidence raises serious
questions regarding the adequacy and validity of Boswell's thesis.
ORTHODOX ACTIONLINE ONLINE
http://www.goarch.org/access/actionline
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Heights of Galilee is an electronic Journal established by the Safad
and Galilee Research Center. This Reserach Center was established some
time ago in Safad Regional College which is one of the branches of Bar
Ilan University. This Journal will deal with all aspects of the region
(the northern part of Israel). The journal will include several sections:
* Earth Sciences
* History and Archaeology
* Sociology and Anthropology
* Social Sciences
The journal will focus mainly on History and Archaeology. Nevertheless
as a regional research center each Issue will include papers submitted
in different aspects and research areas. The papers submitted will be
refereed and then published electonicaly in this electronic journal.
Future plans are made to publish hard copies of the issues previously
published through the electronic media.
The editorial comitee:
* Prof. Zeev Safrai - Land of Israel Studies Department - Bar Ilan
University
* Prof. Nissan Rubin - Sociology Department - Bar Ilan Unversity
* Dr. Baruch Ophir - School of Education - Bar Ilan University
* Dr. Ben Zion Rosenfeld - Jewish History Department - Bar Ilan
University
* Dr. Shakib Sallah - History Department - Bar Ilan University
* Mr. Hagi Amitzur - Safad Regional College - Bar Ilan Branch
First issue is planed for publication on 1/11/97.
Deadline for papers to be published in the first issue 1/10/97.
Further information about the research center and its activities can be
found:
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~amitzh/reserach/index.htm
For any further details please contact:
Hagi Amitzur, Executive Director
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A new journal edited by Tom O'Loughlin and published by TNT Clark. Its
aim is to be thoroughly interdisciplinary but to focus on ecclesiastical
issues ranging from Theology and structural organisation to scholarship
and interaction with secular interests. The primary concern will be with
interaction between the Churches with the Hiberno-British archipelago but
contributions concerning related issues will be considered.
Manuscripts or further enquiries should be directed to Tom O'Loughlin
at:
The Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
From: Alex Woolf -------------------------------------------------------------
The Syriac Computing Institute (SyrCOM) is proud to announce its new
electronic journal, *Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies*
For more info:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/gk105/syrcom/Hugoye/index.html
Articles, squibs, project reports and book reviews on all topics
related
to Syriac studies in all its aspects are welcome. Four copies of all
submissions should be sent to the General Editor in hard-copy form
(i.e., printed on paper) at the following address:
George Anton Kiraz (Hugoye Journal)
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Vol XLII, 2 - June 1997
Andr Laks (Universit Charles de Gaulle, Lille III): Between Religion
and Philosophy: the Function of Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus
Paul Kalligas (Athens): Forms of Individuals in Plotinus: A Re-
examination
Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly
journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought (ancient
philosophy, including logic, physics, ethics, political philosophy,
psychology, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of science and
medicine) from its origins down to the end of the sixth century.
Phronesis offers the reader specialist articles, discussion notes and
book notes from top scholars in Europe and North America. The language
of publication is in practice English, although papers in Latin, French,
German and Italian are also published.
* Published: three times a year in March, July and November
* Vol. 42, 1997 (approx. 360 pp. per volume)
* Subscription prices:
Individuals: NLG. 135.- / US$ 84.50 (incl shipping and handling)
Back volumes and individual issues available on request
* ISSN 0031-8868
Mirjam Hartman
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http://www.pomoerium.de
A Web site containing 'Pomoerium. Studia et commentarii ad orbem
classicum spectantia' (electronic version of a classical journal, full-
text).
Included are links to other classical web Sites and private
homepage(s)
too.
Dr. Ryszard Pankiewicz
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Back numbers of PROSOPON can now be accessed at our Web site:
http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/prosop/home.stm
David E. Thornton
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H.W. Pleket - A.M.F.W. Verhoogt (eds), *Aspects of the Fourth Century
A.D. Proceedings of the symposium Power and Possession: State, Society
and Church in the Fourth Century A.D., held on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of the interdisciplinary debating society AGAPE, Leiden 3-5
June 1993*
AGAPE Leiden, 1997, ISBN 90-9010514-X, 146 pp. ,ca. Dfl. 49,90
Can be ordered from:
J.C. Gieben, Nieuwe Herengracht 35, 1011 RM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contents:
G. Bartelink, Die Vita Antonii des Athanasius
A. Cameron, Christianity and Communication in the Fourth Century: the
Problem of Diffusion
J. Gaudemet, L'Edit de Thessalonique: police locale ou declaration de
principe?
F. Guidobaldi, Transformation urbaines, sociales et religieuses a Rome
au IVeme siecle
R. Lane Fox, Power and Possession in the first Monasteries
D. Liebs, Landraub eines grossgrundbesitzers 384 n.Chr. (Symmachus,
Rel. 28)
R. MacMullen, Tracking Value Changes
From: VERHOOGT@rulub.LeidenUniv.nl
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Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. V,
Helsinki 1996. ISBN 951-95295-6-X. ii + 329 pages + 39 figures + 56
plates. 300 FIM. Distribution: Bookstore Tiedekirja, Kirkkokatu 14, FIN-
00170 Helsinki, Finland (fax: +358-9-635017)
Dr. Arja Karivieri
E-mail:arja.karivieri@orebro.mail.telia.com
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Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 56, Institutum Patristicum
Augustinianum (Via Paolo VI, 25 - 00193 Roma), Roma 1997, pp. 358, ISBN
88-7961-041-4.
This book provides an overview to Egyptian Christianity about III-VI
centuries AD. It covers such topics as the main trends of Alexandrian
theology, the origin and development of Coptic literature with special
attention given to the origenistic controversy, the circulation of
gnostic texts in Coptic, the origins of the Greek and Coptic monastic
literature, the cultural and social features of the ecclesiastical
hierarchy (from the bishop of Alexandria to the most humble subdiacon)
and the functioning of the Church structures, the typology of the
papyrological documentation, the evolution of art and architecture of
churches and monasteries. Special emphasis is laid on the problems
involved in the interpretation of literary, historical, and documentary
sources, and on the cultural background of a bilingual society.
Contents:
Prefazione - Teologia e cristologia dell'Egitto cristiano (M.
Simonetti) - Letteratura copta e cristianesimo nazionale egiziano (T.
Orlandi) - Sulla trasmissione di testi gnostici in copto (A. Camplani) -
Il mondo spirituale e intellettuale del primo monachesimo egiziano (M.
Sheridan) - Le istituzioni ecclesiastiche in Egitto dalla fine del III
secolo all'inizio dell'VIII secolo (E. Wipszycka) - Egitto cristiano:
testimonianze papirologiche (M. Naldini) - Arte e archeologia copte:
principali testimonianze (M. Rassart Debergh) - Indici: indice delle
fonti - indice degli autori moderni - indice delle cose notevoli.
Tito Orlandi CISADU - Fac. di Lettere, P.zale Aldo Moro, 5; 00185 Roma
Enquiries to the University of Pennsylvania Press (USA) or to
Liverpool University Press (Europe) (or to egclark@liv.ac.uk if you want
to ask whether a specific title is in preparation).
*Titles Available*
The Lives of the Ninth-century Popes (Liber Pontificalis) (1996); The
Lives of the Eighth-century Popes AD 715-817 (1992); The Book of Pontiffs
(Liber Pontificalis to 715 AD) (1989), all translated with annotation and
introduction by Raymond Davis
Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Martyrs ((1988); Glory of the
Confessors (1988), both by Raymond Van Dam; and Life of the Fathers (ed.
2 1991) by Edward James
Bede: On the Temple (1996) Sean Connolly, introduction by Jennifer
O'Reilly; and On the Tabernacle (1994) Arthur G. Holder
Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus (1994), Harry Bird
Eutropius: Breviarium (1993), Harry Bird
Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science (ed. 2 1996), Nicholas Milner
Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and Political Poems (1996), Judith
George
Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters (1994), William
Klingshirn
Cassiodorus: Variae (1992), Sam Barnish
Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecutions (1992), John
Moorhead
Donatist Martyr Stories (1996), Maureen A.Tilley
Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain (1990), Kenneth
Baxter Wolf
The Goths in the Fourth Century (1991), Peter Heather and John
Matthews
The Emperor Julian: panegyric and polemic (ed. 2 1989), Sam Lieu
Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD (1989), Michael and Mary Whitby
The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles (1993), Andrew
Palmer, Sebastian Brock and Robert Hoyland
Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre: Chronicle, part III (1996), Witold
Witakowski
Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life (1989), Gillian Clark
Forthcoming 1997:
Optatus: Against the Donatists, Mark Edwards
Lives of the Visigothic Saints, Andrew Fear
Hilary of Poitiers: Against Valens and Ursacius; Letter to
Constantius, Lionel Wickham
Hilary of Poitiers, Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-
Century Church (Against Valens and Ursacius; Letter to Constantius): ed.
L.R. Wickham
Expected 1998:
Cassiodorus: Institutes and On the Soul
Themistius: Selected Orations
Bede's Exegesis
Lives of the Visigothic Fathers (Sisebut, Life of Desiderius; Braulio,
Life of Aemilian the Confessor; Lives of the Fathers of Merida;
Ildefonsus of Toledo, Lives of Famous Men; Life of Fructuosus of Braga):
ed. A.T.Fear
Order information, and further information on the series, is on the
TTH webpage at:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~egclark/tth.html
The General Editors, Gillian Clark (egclark@liv.ac.uk) and Mary Whitby
(m.whitby@rhbnc.ac.uk) are always interested to hear of projects to
translate and annotate texts from the period c.300-900. There are several
other texts in preparation: please consult one of the general editors,
Gillian Clark (egclark@liv.ac.uk) or Mary Whitby (m.whitby@ rhbnc.ac.uk)
if you are interested in a particular text from c.300-800 AD or would
like to make a suggestion.
From: "Dr E.G. Clark" The American Society of Papyrologists, American Studies in Papyrology,
volume 36:
This book is a study of how writing was taught and learned in Graeco-
Roman Egypt. It brings together the evidence for teachers and school
probided by the papyri and it is based on a thorough study of the school
exercises which have survived from Graeco-Roman Egypt. A discussion of
the texts and the evidence they furnish about ancient education is
followed by a new catologue of school exercises. The book offers some
important corrections of traditional views about learning to write and
provides a more realistic picture of the role of teachers and students
in the ancient classroom. It will be of interest not only to
papyrologists but also to general classicists and ancient historians
interested in education and literacy.
The book is available for $49.95 ($33.50 for members of the ASP) from:
jsherid@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Jennifer Sheridan)
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This doctoral thesis, successfully examined in October 1995, arose
from the concern that while many scholars have recently dealt with the
Byzantine army from a socio-economic perspective, research into how the
army actually conducted its operations was neglected. Sieges in
particular were largely ignored although they constituted over half of
the military engagements in the period from Constantine to Heraclius.
Investigations covered how the Byzantines and their enemies attacked and
defended fortifications, what weapons they used, why they attacked them,
how they treated them after capture, and how the cities were defended.
It also examines the changes over time in this area of late antique
military operations. This diachronic work was concerned not only with the
Byzantine forces, but also with their enemies. Literary statements by
late antique authors, to the effect that the 'barbarians' were useless
when it came to attacking walled cities, had been accepted without
question but the fact remained that they captured many. This needed to
be examined. To facilitate this, the various armies were grouped
according to their level of urbanisation, since siege warfare naturally
involves attacks on cities. The aim was to see whether urbanised peoples
conducted siege warfare in a more advanced fashion than their less
settled counterparts. The conclusion of the thesis suggests that
experience of urban living does not improve poliorcetic ability in its
own right. The Visigoths roamed inside the empire for 40 years before
settling in Aquitaine, but even then they could still not take cities by
assault, and they show no sign of having acquired siege weapons. Yet the
nomadic Avars were able to assault cities successfully almost from their
first contact with the empire. Thus association with urban living was not
the sole determinant of poliorcetic capability, at least not for storming
operations. If cities were to be assaulted it was the side with the best
weaponry which achieved most, and the urban lifestyle of various peoples
seems to have little bearing on this. The significant feature appears to
have been the use of the bow. The western barbarian peoples did not make
much use of archers and consequently struggled to take towns by force,
but when they incorporated the former imperial institutions of the
regions they inhabited, including their military establishments, their
ability to assault cities improved dramatically. The fact that many
former imperial units contained archers would appear to be the key factor
in this. In terms of simply gaining control of cities by any means
possible, an urban background seems to have influenced the ability of the
various peoples. Once they started to live in and around cities, the
barbarians understood what urban life required in order to function. It
is no coincidence that after the Goths had been living in Italy for a
while they appreciated the importance of supplies for a city's survival.
Rather than simply sitting around towns trying to prevent provisions
reaching those inside, they actually tried to control possible sources
of supply. Hence their capture and garrisoning of Portus every time they
besieged Belisarius in Rome. The value of treachery and deception was not
lost on them either, witnessed particularly by their attempts to bribe
gate-keepers. Thus the various barbarians were just as effective as their
more settled counterparts when it came to taking cities. They used
different tactics, based on a recognition of their own abilities and
deficiencies, to conduct sieges. Successful storming operations were
admittedly rare, but it must be pointed out that the Byzantine military
handbooks themselves suggested that direct assaults were the last resort
rather than the preferred way of taking objectives. Therefore, by
avoiding assaults, the barbarian forces were achieving success with the
minimum number of casualties, which is arguably military ability at its
best. Other aspects touched on the doctoral work included technology
transfer, particularly the introduction of the trebuchet. I believe it
may have appeared as early as the 580s, being brought west by the Avars
and rapidly copied by the Byzantines and then the Persians. Another point
was the increasing influence of Christian beliefs in warfare. The siege
of 626 is not unique in terms of popular piety as similar incidents of
supernatural defenders of cities appear as early as 337 at Nisibis. It
is put into context by demonstrating that divine protection did not only
take the form of phantom apparitions, but is evident in reports of
bishops manning ballistae, monks defending walls, cities falling because
they had not fasted piously enough and other similar beliefs. Finally,
a comparison with former Roman siege operations showed that the
Byzantines were not as effective as their predecessors. less effort and
energy appears to have been expended in the military conduct of sieges
than before. Even the nomadic tribes seem to have been more forceful in
their poliorcetic operations, while the Persians appear to have been the
most successful and competent of all the forces in late antiquity. While
the Roman legions had easily been the preeminent military force in their
time, the fourth-seventh centuries were times of crisis when the empire
was overwhelmed by widespread military problems and the fact that it
conducted as many sieges as successfully as it did is testimony to its
ability.
Gouden Hoorn vol. 4 issue 2
From: Annabelle.Parker@pjmi.knaw.nl (Annabelle Parker)
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Gregorian Chant is our only source of the music of the Early Middle
Ages, deeply rooted in traditions of Late Antiquity. This book contains
the Concordance of the Graduale Romanum (1974 edition) and several other
indexes and lists. Some of them are of lexicographic interest, others are
of musicological and/or palaeographic pertinence (and they refer to the
Graduale Triplex). The introduction is written by Mirella Ferrari, a well
known scholar of Latin palaeography. This work is
complete. It lists *all* the words, including et, ad, etc.: this is
of crucial importance for studying the style and the "formulae", and from
a paleographic point of view. The reverse index is important particularly
for those who study fragments (to locate a chant).
CONTENTS: Introduction (Mirella Ferrari); Preface; Sigla; Fontes;
Concordantia; Computationes; Index retrogradus (reverse index); Index
iuxta frequentiam verborum (list of words by number of occurrences);
Index cantuum iuxta modum (list of chants by "modes"); Index cantuum
iuxta speciem et modum (list of chants by category and "modes"); Index
cantuum sine neumis in libro G.T. (chants without neumes in the Graduale
Triplex); Index cantuum sine neumis in indice Hesbertiano inscriptorum
(chants without neumes in the Graduale Triplex but listed in the
Antiphonale Missarum of Dom Hesbert); Index locorum variantium in libro
G.T. (list of chants where there are textual differences among the mss
used in the Graduale Triplex); Index verborum extremorum cantuum (list
of the final words of chants)
ISBN: 88-8055-151-5, Pages: 550
Guido Milanese
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Bezalel Porten (with J.J. Farber, C. Martin, G. Vittmann, L. MacCoull,
S. Clackson, S. Hopkins, R. Katzoff)
(Brill. Leiden, 1996), ca 650 pp. NLG 402/$259.50. ISBN 90 04 10197
7.
Contains 175 formatted documents in translation with commentary--
hieratic, demotic, aramaic, greek, coptic, arabic, latin.
List of documents treated available upon request. Bezalel Porten,
Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
LEXIKON ZUR BYZANTINISCHEN GRAEZITAET besonders des 9.-12.
Jahrhunderts, 2. Faszikel (argyrothorax-dysauchenos), ed. Erich TRAPP
(with Wolfram HOERANDNER, Johannes DIETHART, Astrid STEINER-WEBER,
Elisabeth SCHIFFER et al.), Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Vienna 1996, 223 pp., ISBN 3-7001-2552-6.
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Mit einem Appendix ueber den praepositus sacri cubiculi, den
"allmaechtigen" Eunuchen am kaiserlichen Hof (Hermes Einzelschrift 73)
Stuttgart 1996 ISBN 3-515-06975-5, 128 DM
Aus dem Inhalt
Die Arbeit behandelt ein Schluesselproblem der spaetantiken
Sozialgeschichte: Was war der spaetantike Senatsadel? Welchen Typus von
"Adel" repraesentiert er? Was konstitutiert diesen Adel als Stand? Durch
einen sozial- und mentalitaetsgeschichtlichen Ansatz, der "Realitaeten"
und "Mentalitaeten" in den Blick nimmt, wird der spaetantike Senatsadel
als "Stand" erfasst. Ausgehend vom kulturwissenschaftlichen Begriff des
"Standes" (Max Weber) werden die normativen Texte (Codex
Theodosianus/Codex Iustinianus) sowie die res gestae des Historiographen
Ammianus Marcellinus als Deutungsschemata der sozialen Wirklichkeit
untersucht und gedeutet. In diesen Fallstudien kristallisieren sich zwei
Bilder des Senatsadels heraus, die besonders in der staendischen Lage
uebereinstimmen: Es sind vor allem Geburt und Herkunft, welche den
Senatsadel als Stand
konstituieren. Zweitens die Verbindung von Sozialprestige und
politischer Funktion, die ueber den reziproken Gabentausch von Herrscher
und Senator organsisiert war. Dazu ein staendischer Lebensstil, der auf
der Grundlage des adligen Hauses und des familiaeren Besitzes beruhte und
ueber das Prinzip der imitatio maiorum den Fortbestand adliger Handlungs-
und Verhaltensweisen sicherte.
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http://www.unc.edu/campus/sigs/asgle/
Current content: information about the society, membership and
executive board as well as announcements of interest to epigraphers and
the epigraphically inclined. Coming soon: links to other epigraphical
resources and discussion/presentation of works in progress by members of
the society. Please visit the site and provide us with your comments and
suggestions.
If you have a problem or question about reaching the site, please
email:
asgle@unc.edu
From: Tom Elliott -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Reference.COM has begun archiving this list as of: Jan. 6, 1997
- Searchable archives for the lists are available at:
http://www.reference.com/cgi-
bin/pn/listarch?list=ELENCHUS@mercury.cc.uottawa.ca
From: Quyen Lam -----------------------------------------------------------------
Tthere is an archaeological server in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, put on
line some months ago. The server belongs to the Department of
Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and is under
a kind of permanent construction. Among other informations, there are two
archaeological sites from Yugoslavia presented that may be of interest
for someone who is involved in early byzantine and byzantine studies.
This considers first of all the Gradina on the Jelica mountain near the
town of Cacak in today's western Serbia. This site is an fortified 6th
century mountain settlement, a regional centre in northern Illyricum with
five basilicas discovered untill now, also houses, workshops, "city"
walls, necropoles etc. The inhabitant have been Romanians and partly
Germans. You are invited to visit the site
http://arheo.f.bg.ac.yu/projekti/jelica/index.html
or the site
http://arheo.f.bg.ac.yu/projekti/rose/index.html
where a little presentation of an roman, early byzantine and medieval
(preromanic) settlement on the Adriatic (Bay of Kotor) is placed.
On both presentations there are papers with original pagination and
quotations kept.
The address of the server is:
http://arheo.f.bg.ac.yu
The content of the server will soon be updated with new presentations
of yugoslav archaeological sites and institutions.
From: Mihailo Milinkovic Mihailo Milinkovic, M. A., Research Assistent in Medieval Archaeology
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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This website includes the entire catalogue of the exhibit:
www.culture.gr/2/21/218/index.html
From: Kathleen Maxwell
Kmaxwell@mailer.scu.edu
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Please see,
The British Library Map Library homepage
http://wwww.bl.uk/ [click 'Collections', then 'Maps']
The History of Cartography homepage
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/
From: tony.campbell@bl.uk
Tony Campbell, British Library Map Library
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http://www.nwmissouri.edu/~0500074/cyrlhome.html
I have set up (and will continue to add to) a web site for Bishop of
Cyril of Alexandria. At present there are only a couple (4) translations
of his on the site, and a couple of links, but I will be adding more in
the months that lie ahead. Any comments about Cyril, or information about
where to find more information about him on the Web, would be
appreciated.
Ted Mayes
0500074@acad.nwmissouri.edu
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This is to announce the creation of classicists@liv.ac.uk. The
original invitation was sent to names on a list created by and for the
Classical Association, and the core membership will always be similar.
The list's purpose is to permit the rapid dissemination of information
about conferences and jobs, especially in the British Isles. Discussion
is not forbidden, but will be the secondary objective. To subscribe,
mail:
SUBSCRIBE CLASSICISTS yourname
to
listserv@liv.ac.uk
From: Stephen Clark
srlclark@liv.ac.uk
Listowner pro tem
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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America also has an official web
site on the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople at:
http://www.patriarchate.org
This site is being done with the knowledge and blessings of His All
Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as is the one in Thessaloniki,
Greece. Our site has one of the most comprehensive sections on the
churches and holy sites of Constantinople available anywhere on the
Internet as well as a rich introduction and introductory information on
the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. We would appreciate a link
to this official site.
Theo Nicolakis
Also:
Greek hymns at the Church of Cyprus homepage:
http://www.logos.cy.net/cyprus/chmain.html
slavonic at http://www.comet.chv.va.us/seraphim
News of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate at
http://www.yale.edu/eox/Diaspora
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Gouden Hoorn, the Netherlands-based journal about 'Byzantine topics',
has its own website, where in due time all the volumes can be read. The
URL is:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5157/
Annabelle Parker
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The OSU Excavations at Isthmia:
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/history/isthmia/isthmia.html
and Investigations at Kenchreai:
http://home.mtholyoke.edu/~klconner/Kenchreai.html
These sites have much Late Antique material.
From: "Richard M. Rothaus" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
An internet application of the Index of Christian Art database is
available to the public for a period of 6 weeks (until the end of March).
This database contains over 26,000 Subject Headings used by the Index,
9,000 Bibliographic Records and over 2,6000 Work of Art Records. The
database is periodically being updated.
You are invited to use this resource at the following address:
http://index2.Princeton.Edu:4001/ALEPH/
From: "Kevin R. Uhalde" -----------------------------------------------------------------
I am glad to announce a new mailing list on the Internet. The list is
called IusRomanum. It run in the framework of the Roman Law branch of the
Law-related Internet Project at the University of Saarbruecken.
IusRomanum has been initiated with the purpose to create a forum for
scholarly discussion of all aspects of Roman Law. Possible topics include
the history of Roman Law from the Twelve Tables to Justinian's codes as
well as its continued presence in the early Middle Ages, its renaissance
in 12th century Bologna, the development of the Ius Commune and the
importance of Roman Law for the understanding of modern legal systems and
the formation of European Private Law. The use of modern electronic
resources for research in related field may be a subject as well. The
list is open to everyone interested in the discussion of questions
connected to Roman Law. Jurists and historians are invited to take part.
The participation of persons from a large variety of professional
backgrounds will add to the list's value.
All postings to the list will be archived. The archive will be
accessible through the World Wide Web. Thus a database containing
information on Roman Law will come into existence.
To subscribe, send a message containing the following text in its body
(NOT in the subject line):
subscribe IusRomanum Majordomo@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
Please note that you have to put your mail address in place where you
would have to put your name with other list management programs.
Postings to the list have to be directed to:
IusRomanum@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
This text and eventually some further information is available on the
World Wide Web under the URL:
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/IusRomanum-
e.html
The Roman Law web pages at Saarbruecken have now been thoroughly
updated.
New features include:
- The homepage for IusRomanum, the new Roman Law mailing list
- Some introductory information on Roman Law (in German only)
- Another fragment of the Digest (D.12.1.1)
- An index of all source texts available on the server
- An enlarged and updated list of external links
The URLs are:
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/origo.html
for the Latin version
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/english.html
for the English version
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/italiano.html
for the Italian version
http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/deutsch.html
for the German version
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The site has been rearranged into three main "pages" and a number of
supplementary pages. The main pages are now:
-Selected Sources
-Full Text Sources
-Saints' Lives
An increasing number of new translations has been added.
Especially notable recently are
Jo Ann McNamara:
Translation (from Latin) of the Life of St. Liutberga, 9th Century,
Translation (from Latin) of Dado of Rouen: The Life of Eligius, 588-
660 CE
Robert T. Miller:
Translation (from Latin) of Thomas Aquinas: On Being and Essence (De
Ente et Essentia),
Tony Devaney Morinelli:
Translation (from Anglo Norman) of Chardri: The Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus
Translation (from Medieval French) of The Life of Julian the
Hospitaller
The URL for the Sourcebook is:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The URL for the Sourcebook: Saints' Lives page is:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html
I have moved the URL of the Byzantine and Medieval Links page. The
new URL, leading to a Frames Site, is:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/
To access all the same information without frames, use the URL:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/links.htm
The old URL
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/medweb.html
Will be maintained as a direction page for as long as necessary.
From: Paul Halsall
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There is a discussion list for Middle Eastern and North African
History,
MENA-H, but there are hardly any names of well-known historians on the
subscriber list. I'm told that there was only one message on the list
in the previous month. The cure for that, obviously, is for Middle
Eastern and North African historians to join the list and use it. It is
surprising that there is no lively discussion group for Middle Eastern
history. Maybe it's because many historians don't know of the existence
of MENA-H. Or maybe Middle Eastern historians don't like electronic
communications media; or maybe they have better things to do with their
time.
The list is for the history of the lands from the Atlantic Ocean to
Central Asia, from 500 CE to nearly the present. Whereas the sister list
ISLAM-L (same listserver address) is for the history of Islam the
religion, MENA-H is for general history of all Middle Eastern cultures
and peoples.
The subscription address is Listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu The sign-up
message is "subscribe MENA-H Firstname Lastname".
Historians of the Middle East should sign up and get a discussion
going. I have a trivia question to ask, but I'm waiting until there is
a critical mass of participants who might be able to answer.
Michael L. Bates
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Medievalists may be interested to know that the *Monumenta Germaniae
Historica* (Institut fuer Erforschung des Mittelalters, Munich) have a
new official homepage (in German), with, among other things, complete
listings of their publications and info on their ongoing project to make
the complete edition of sources available on CD (eMGH):
http://www.mgh.de/
From: lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de (Otfried Lieberknecht)
Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin
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The Harry Bass Research Foundation (HBRF) announces new additions to
its WWW searchable numismatic literature indexes. These indexes may be
accessed through the Home page index of the ANS WWW site (American
Numismatic Society).
http://www.amnumsoc2.org
To the Numismatic Indexes Project (NIP) has been added an index
for The Celator, Vols. 1-10, 1987-1996. The Celator (ISSN #10480986)
is an independent commercial journal published monthly in an 8-1/2x11"
magazine format. Its content is primarily centered on ancient Greek and
Roman numismatics.
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http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
This site has links to the following dictionaries, plus other
interesting links.
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The Ontario Classical Association,
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~lneuru/oca.html
has a fairly hefty Resources subpage with many links relevant to late
antiquity and the medieval period. I have also added a subpage 'Do it
yourself homepage helps' with sites which offer free downloadable
backgrounds, icons, etc.
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We would like to submit our exhibit web site which you will find at
the following adress:
http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~beaudryn/reims/clovis.html
contient maintenant quelques images et un peu de dossier de presse)
From: Levac Christian Christian Levac levacc@ere.umontreal.ca
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An entry point for useful Early Christian resources on the internet:
http://www.hooked.net/~bless/
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The ANS web page (http://www.amnumsoc2.org) now includes a longish
bibliography of Roman numismatics arranged topically and by period.
William E. Metcalf, Chief Curator metcalf@amnumsoc.org
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Here is the URL for our excavation of a Roman villa rustica in
southern Hungary:
http://wcw.emory.edu/worldclasses/rome/hungary.htm
From: Tom Burns
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RomanSites' address is:
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/
Roman/RomanSites*/home.html
Bill Thayer
RomanSites-L
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If anyone wants the life of one of a saint, you may find them at
http://www.goarch.org/access/calendar
I think Logos has put their icons and hymns in audio format at
http://www.logos.cy.net/cyprus/chmain.html or /music.html,
by choosing "MHNOLOGION" and then the month NOEMBRIOS. There may be
magnificent icons at
http://www.novsu.ac.ru/novgorod/novgorod.html
and additional information at
http://www.stjohndc.org/saints/life.htm
I also see here that St.Stylianos exists on
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/ocf/stylianos.html
Greek Hymns
You may find Greek hymns at the Church of Cyprus homepage,
http://www.logos.cy.net/cyprus/chmain.html
Slavonic at
http://www.comet.chv.va.us/seraphim
and news of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate at
http://www.yale.edu/eox/Diaspora
Minos Orphanides
minos@logos.cy.net
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http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~lneuru/oca.html
This site has a fairly hefty Resources subpage with many links
relevant to late antiquity and the medieval period.
Lucinda Neuru
University of Waterloo
lneuru@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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We are pleased to announce the establishment of a Research Center.
The Safad and Galilee Research Center is located in the Safad Branch of
Bar Ilan University and is headed by Prof. Zeev Safrai. The Center's main
fields of interest are History and Archaeology of the Galilee Region,
especially during the Roman and Byzantine Periods. Nevertheless we will
be happy to promote any research from any field as long as it has to do
with the regional aspects of Safad and/or Galilee. The Center is run by
an academic comitee of 6 members.
1. Prof. Zeev Safrai - Land of Israel Studies - Bar Ilan University.
2. Dr. Baruch Ophir - Academic Head Of Safad Branch
3. Prof. Nissan Rubin - Sociology Dept. - Bar Ilan University
4. Dr. Ben Zion Rosenfeld - Jewish History Dept. - Bar Ilan University
5. Dr. Shakib Salah - History Dept. - Bar Ilan University
6. Mr. Hagi Amitzur - Executive Director
The center is planning the following activities:
- Organizing conferences presenting researches done on the region of
Galilee.
- Publishing researches
- Publishing Bibliography on the internet for the use of researchers
around the world.
- Publishing a Bimonthly Electronic Journal
- Publishing Books
For further information:
http://www.biu.ac.il/~amitzh/research/index.htm
some bibliography is already available (temporarily) from:
http://www.biu.ac.il/~amitzh/index.htm
From: Chagy Amizur Hagi Amitzur, Safad and Galilee Research Center
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Il CENTRO DI STUDI PAOLINIANO:
1) raccoglie tutto il materiale bibliografico antico e recente
riguardante a vita e l'opera di Paolino di Nola; 2) cura la traduzione
in lingua italiana dell'opera omnia di P.; 3) pubblica periodicamente
studi e ricerche su P.
Il CENTRO DI STUDI pubblica la collana di Studi e Testi
STRENAE NOLANAE
diretta dal Prof. Antonio V. Nazzaro [ord. lett. crist. ant. Univ.
Napoli
1. Serafino Prete, Motivi ascetici e letterari in Paolino di Nola,
LER, Napoli-Roma 1987
2. Teresa Piscitelli Carpino, Epistole ad Agostino, LER, Napoli-Roma
1989
3. Andrea Ruggiero, Il ritorno di Paolino. A dalla traslazione a Nola.
Atti, documenti, testimonianze letterarie, LER, Napoli-Roma 1990
4. Giovanni Santaniello, Paolino di Nola. Le lettere vol.I: 1-23, LER,
Napoli-Roma 1992 (intr., trad., note)
5. Giovanni Santaniello, Paolino di Nola. Le lettere vol.II: 24-51 +
Passio Genesii, LER, Napoli-Roma 1992 [trad., note + indici /curante
C.Iannicelli/]
6. Andrea Ruggiero, Paolino di Nola. I carmi, vol.I: 1-20, LER,
Napoli-Roma 1996 (intr., trad., note)
7. Andrea Ruggiero, Paolino di Nola. I carmi, vol.II: 21-33 + Elogium
Cynegi Appendix, LER, Napoli-Roma 1996 [trad., note + indici /curante
Di prossima pubblicazione:
8. AA.VV., Atti del II Convegno . XVI Centenario del ritiro di Paolino
a Nola (395-1995), Nola 18-20 maggio 1995, a cura di Gennaro Luongo
9. Carmine Iannicelli, Index Paulinianus
Rendo noto che e' stata pubblicata pochi giorni fa una bibliografia
aggiornata su PAOLINO DI NOLA dal titolo:
C. IANNICELLI, Rassegna di studi Paoliniani (1980-1997), in Impegno
e Dialogo 11, 1994-96 (1997), pp. 279-321
Per informazioni bibliografiche, referenze linguistiche e lemmatiche,
ordini, fotocopie, suggerimenti, rivolgersi al seguente indirizzo di E-
Mail:
CENTRO DI STUDI E DOCUMENTAZIONE SU PAOLINO DI NOLA
Biblioteca Diocesana "S. Paolino"
Via Seminario - Seminario
80035 Nola (Napoli - Italia)
Tel. +39 81 512 15 11
From: Carmine Iannicelli Carmine Iannicelli [CI]
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The first meeting of PENATES, the Southern California reading group
in Late Antiquity, took place on Saturday, 6 June 1997, on the UCLA
campus. It was attended by twenty faculty members and graduate students
from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Riverside, Long Beach, and
Claremont. The rest is included in the report by Hal Drake that you
find below.
From: rapp@history.ucla.edu (Claudia Rapp)
Minutes of the First Meeting, Saturday, June 7, 1997, 6255 Bunch Hall,
UCLA.
1. Hal Drake conducted the inaugural discussion on the role of
Classical
rhetoric in Eusebius of Caesarea. Discussion was lively and wide-
ranging,
but since one or two problems in late antiquity were not resolved, the
group agreed to continue meeting on a twice-yearly basis.
1. By the happy suggestion of Richard Frank, and in a show of
solidarity
with our Northern colleagues in LARES, we will be known as PENATES
(Politics, Economy, Narratology, Art, Texts, Ecclesiastics, Society).
3. Our next meeting will be at UCLA on October 18. Teresa Shaw has
agreed
to conduct a discussion of texts relating to Arianism.
4. Hal Drake will offer a seminar Winter and Spring quarters of 1998
on the general topic of bishops in the fourth century. Students who wish
to take just the first quarter will be able to enrol under the "201"
rubric. The day will probably be Mondays, although Drake had the
subsequent thought of meeting on Sundays, in emulation of the Peter Brown
seminar at Princeton. He will explore the possibility of using the UCSB
Learning Center in Ventura as a meeting place.
5. In Winter quarter, Barbara Zeitler of the Department of Art History
at UCLA will offer a seminar that will feature reports by prominent
archaeologists in Europe and the US on recent finds. The seminar will
meet on Mondays.
6. MaryHope Griffin suggested the possibility of a future joint
meeting with LARES via teleconferencing.
On a personal note, let me please say what a fortunate and long-
overdue occasion this is. If memory serves, the impetus was provided by
the UCLA trinity of Villagomez, Bisbee and Trenchard-Smith, who found
time in their demanding graduate schedules to organize two UCLA
conferences in late antiquity. If I had had the presence of mind I should
have had, the meeting would have closed with three rousing cheers for
them.
Here follows a list of current members' snail mail and email
addresses. For now, please send the names and addresses of additional
members to me, so that there will be a uniform master list somewhere.
PENATES
Prof. Michelle Salzman
Prof. Claudia Rapp
H. Drake
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Note a few presentations of Late Antique interest:
"Ambitiosius solito: Formal Speeches and Characterisation in Ammianus'
Res Gestae 20 and 21," Peter O'Brien, Boston University
"The use of humour and ridicule to correct religious belief in Clement
of Alexandria, Protrepticus," M. Eleanor Irwin, University of Toronto at
Scarborough.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/KFLC/welcome.html
James A. Francis, Ph.D.
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In anticipation of a greatly expanded public role, the ANS has
established a new administrative position of Assistant Director and is
now seeking a highly qualified candidate to join the staff early in 1998.
The Assistant Director reports to the Executive Director and serves
as deputy administrative officer of the Society. He/she is expected to
acquire competence in ANS management policies and procedures in the areas
of administration, finance, plant and equipment, safety and security,
fund raising, public relations, personnel, and technological
developments. The Assistant Director will have direct administrative
responsibility for coordinating interdepartmental programs and projects,
including exhibitions, public programs, marketing ventures and revenue
opportunities, ANS membership promotion and retention, and will supervise
the recruitment, deployment, and well-being of museum volunteers. The
ANS is seeking to move to new and larger quarters in lower Manhattan some
time in the next several years. The Assistant Director will assume
responsibility for many aspects of this important change in the lifeand
mission of the ANS and should expect to devote a significant portion of
his/her time and energies toward this objective.
The Assistant Director will have a degree or demonstrated competence
in a humanities discipline. Preference will be given to candidates with
at least two years' experience in a managerial capacity at a museum or
other cultural institution and a proven track record in successful grant
writing for museum or other cultural-related programs and administration
of funded projects. The Assistant Director will possess the leadership
and organizational skills necessary to oversee and coordinate museum-wide
projects. The Assistant Director will coordinate the implementation of
the Society's future exhibition and educational programs, both at the ANS
and elsewhere. He/she will direct the work of teams (staff, contract
employees, consultants, volunteers) brought together for specific
projects, and will have primary responsibility for soliciting the
necessary financial support. He/she will have or acquire an
understanding of the role of numismatics as a humanistic discipline and
of the objects as historical artifacts and artistic creations, and be
capable of articulating, in private and public forums, the importance of
the Society's mission and the unique quality of the Society's library,
collections, and professional staff. He/she will be expected to possess
or acquire sufficient computer skills to assure that ANS programs fully
realize the potential of electronic media in reaching and holding the
interest of our audiences. The Assistant Director may be expected to
administer the Society's Museum Store at the new location, including
staffing, inventory, and marketing aspects.
Mr. Leslie A. Elam, Executive
Director, ANS, Broadway at 155th Street, New York, NY 10032 or by e-
mail
to elam@amnumsoc.org.
From: Harry Bass
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The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
Claremont McKenna College invites applications for a tenure track
position in religious studies at the assistant or associate professor
level, beginning in July 1998. The Ph.D. is required at the time of
appointment. The successful candidate will have expertise in Jewish
religious thought, philosophy, and culture with (1) competence in the
history and key texts of the Jewish tradition, including Second Temple
Judaism and/or medieval Jewish thought and culture, as well as in
contemporary topics, and (2) familiarity with current theoretical and
methodological issues in the study of religion. The ability to approach
the Jewish tradition from comparative perspectives, and from those of the
sociology of religion, is also desirable. In addition to offering courses
in the area of specialization, one should expect to teach introductory
level courses such as introduction to Western Religious Traditions,
possibly team-teach the senior seminar in religious studies, or teach a
methodology course on a rotating basis. The teaching load is five courses
per year, two in one semester and three in the other. Supervision of
senior research theses is also expected.
Applicants should send a letter describing teaching and research
philosophy, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation.
Review of applications will begin in early November, so that interviews
can be scheduled at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, and will continue until
the position is filled. CMC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity
employer.
Send all materials to:
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The Department of Classics invites applications for the James Hutton
Assistant Professorship of Classics, to begin in the fall of 1998 for a
term of three years (non-renewable). The salary for 1998 will be $30,000.
The Hutton Assistant Professor is expected to combine a program of
research with the teaching of one course each semester; classicists of
any specialty are encouraged to apply, but we would especially welcome
those with additionalinterests in any of the following: The Classical
Tradition, Cultural History, Later Roman History, Ancient Science,
Technology or Music, or Byzantine Studies. The selected applicant must
have finished his/her Ph.D. prior to the start date of the appointment,
July 1, 1998.
Applications (including curriculum vitae, at least three letters of
reference, and a writing sample) should be received by December 1 at this
address: Hutton Assistant Professorship, Department of Classics, Cornell
University, 120 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3201. Interviews
will be conducted at the AIA/APA Annual Meeting in Chicago. Cornell is
an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and encourages
applications from women and minorities.
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The History Department at Florida International University is seeking
applications for up to two tenure-track positions in Ancient or Medieval
history, field open. Both positions are at the rank of Assistant
Professor. Candidates will be expected to teach courses in their
specialization at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and to
participate in the History Department's Atlantic Civilization Ph.D.
program. Florida International University, with over 30,000 students, is
part of the State University System of Florida. Send c.v., writing sample
and three letters of recommendation to Prof. Alan Kahan, Chair, Search
Committee, Dept. of History, DM 397, Florida International University,
Miami FL 33199. Deadline for postmark on completed files is December 5,
1997. Interviews will be conducted at the AHA. AA/ADA/EOE
From: felice lifshitz -----------------------------------------------------------------
One (1) post at the level of Assistant Professor in Roman History.
The deadline for candidates to express their interest and submit
qualifications ends on 23/12/1997. All interested parties holding
appropriate formal qualifications including their ability to teach in
Modern Greek, are invited to apply for consideration, providing all the
necessary prerequisites that would justify their prospective appointment.
Applications should be directed to the Secretariat of the Faculty of
History / Archaeology of the University of Ioannina.
For further information candidates should contact the Secretariat of
History / Archaeology, tel. (30-651)97180-81, fax 97180.
address: The Secretary, Faculty of History / Archaeology, University
of Ioannina, Dourouti, GR-451 10 IOANNINA, GREECE
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The Department of Classics at the University of Maryland, College
Park, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Latin
languageand literature at the rank of Assistant Professor effective Fall
1998. Theapplicant must have the Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 1998. Salary
will be commensurate with experience. Previous teaching experience and
a record ofpublications are desirable. The candidate should demonstrate
strong promise of future scholarly productivity. We are looking for a
specialist in Latin language and literature who is able and willing to
teach Latin classes at alllevels from introductory courses through
graduate seminars in our MA program.We would especially welcome
candidates with research and teaching interests in one or more of the
following areas: Latin pedagogy and linguistics, late and medieval
Latin, and Greco-Roman cultural studies. Applicants should also be
prepared to teach courses in English translation: for example, Roman
literature; classics and cinema; race and ethnicity in classical
antiquity; the classical tradition.
For best consideration, qualified applicants should submit a letter of
application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference by November
15 to:
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The Department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University is seeking
applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant
Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Greek beginning September 1998.
Only applicants with expertise in the literature and culture of the
period will be considered. The successful candidate will be expected to
complement the existing strengths of the department and to devote time
and energy toward the creation of a coherent Ph.D. program in Greek
Studies from Ancient to Byzantine to Modern. The eventual appointee can
expect to do some teaching in either the Modern Greek or the Ancient
Greek program until enrollments can justify a full teaching schedule in
Medieval or Renaissance Greek. Promise in teaching and scholarship is
essential and evidence of accomplishments in both is desirable. Teaching
responsibilities will include graduate courses and a variety of
undergraduate courses (both in the original languages and in
translation). The deadline for receipt of completed applications
(including dossiers, three letters of recommendation and a writing sample
of 25-40 pages typescript) is December 1. Successful candidates will be
invited to campus for a lecture and interview. Applications should be
sent to Professor Stephen V. Tracy, Chair of the Byzantine Search
Committee, c/o The Department of Greek and Latin, 414 University Hall,
230 N. Oval Mall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. The Ohio
State University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
Minority and women candidates are encouraged to apply.
From: "Timothy E. Gregory" -----------------------------------------------------------------
The Department of Classics of Princeton University seeks to appoint
an associate of full professor (with continuing tenure) with expertise
in some combination of the following fields: papyrology, Greco-Roman
religions, ancient magic, ancient medicine. Along with a distinguished
record of publication, demonstrated excellence as a teacher is regarded
as extremely important. Please send letters of application, cv and
letters of recommendation to: Senior Search Committee, Department of
Classics, 104 East Pyne, Princeton University.
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UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
TEL. 0121-414 3613
FAX 0121-414 6866
E-MAIL PARKERDC@M4-ARTS.BHAM.AC.UK
LATE ANTIQUITY DAY AT CARDIFF
LAW AND SOCIAL ORDER: A RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
e-mail: marios.costambeys@man.ac.uk
'MAPS AND SOCIETY' LECTURES AT THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
tony.campbell@bl.uk
Tony Campbell, Map Librarian
British Library Map Library
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY LATE ANTIQUITY RESEARCH
SEMINARS
School of History, Philosophy and Politics
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW Australia 2109
email agillett@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY LATE ANTIQUITY RESEARCH SEMINARS
Second semester, 1997
MEDIEVAL LATIN AT TORONTO
SUMMER COURSES IN MEDIEVAL LATIN
or e-mail medieval@chass.utoronto.ca
or write to A.G. Rigg, Medieval Latin Committee, Centre for Medieval
Studies, 39 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C3
OTTAWA EARLY CHRISTIANITY GROUP
jkcoyle@AIX1.UOTTAWA.CA
PHILADELPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
TOPIC FOR 1997-98: TEXTUAL COMMENTARY AS SOCIAL
PRACTICE
UNB ANCIENT HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
"Religion in the Roman Empire"
e-mail: goud@unbsj.ca
CONFERENCES
REPORTS OF PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
ALEXANDRIA CONFERENCE
11-13 September 1997,
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS
Rome, The Imperial Court, and the World
Beyond
Dept. of Classics, University of Durham
38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, UK;
E-mail: E.D. Hunt@durham.ac.uk
Dr. Jan Willem Drijvers, Dept. of History, University of Groningen
P.O. Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands
E-mail: Drijvers@let.rug.nl
lVe COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
LA TRANSEUPHRATENE A L'EPOQUE PERSE: ECONOMIE,
COMMERCE ET MONNAIE
20-22 novembre 1997
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
THIRD ANNUAL OPEN FORUM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
ARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL
NOVEMBER 8, 1997
Clint Chamberlain cchamber@bu.edu
Cassandra Michaud cassm@bu.edu
Steve Morandi smorandi@bu.edu
JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND POLYTHEISTS IN THE ANCIENT
SYNAGOGUE:
CULTURAL INTERACTION DURING THE GRECO-ROMAN
PERIOD
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBS ROMA IN LATE
ANTIQUITY
William V Harris
Franco A. Volta
WAITING IN FEARFUL HOPE:
APPROACHING A NEW MILLENIUM
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
XXIV BYZANTINE STUDIES CONFERENCE
University of Kentucky
4-8 November 1998
18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF
CARTOGRAPHY
ATHENS
11-16 JULY 1999
Dr George Tolias
18th International Conference on the History of Cartography, The
National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Konstantinou
Avenue, GR-116 35, Athens, Greece
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Telephone: +301 721 0554
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XXII CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE PAPYROLOGIE
Florence, 23-29 aout 1998
* textes documentaires grecs ou latins concernant le developpement
de l'administration centrale de l'Egypte
* textes documentaires grecs ou latins contenant des nouveautes dans
le domaine du droit prive
* textes particulierement interessants pour l'histoire de la
litterature, de la pensee et des sciences de l'antiquite
* recuperation et conservation du materiel
* bibliologie et paleographie des papyrus
* nouveaux textes litteraires coptes
* nouveaux textes hieratiques ou demotiques
* histoire de la langue, de la culture et de la religion
* histoire socio-economique de l'Egypte byzantine et arabe
* etudes sur les papyrus d'Herculanum
* instrumenta studiorum
Studio Oliva Scaramuzzi, Viale Milton 81, I-50129 Firenze
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Tel.+ 39 55 476377 (ou 494949) fax 476393
From: marcand@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT
CONGRESSUS INTERNATIONALIS XIV ARCHAEOLOGIAE
CHRISTIANAE
Vienna, 20-27 September 1999
EARLY CHRISTIANITY BETWEEN ROME AND
CONSTANTINOPLE
Kongress Sekretariat
Abteilung fur Fruhchristliche Archaologie am Institut fur Klassische
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PALESTINE IN THE LIGHT OF PAPYRI AND
INSCRIPTIONS
5-9 September 1998
2 - History of Palestine
3- Population and Emigration to or from Palestine
4 - Linguistic studies such as Syriac, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew,
and Arabic, etc.
5 - Cults, religions and places of worship in Palestine
6 - Social and economic study
7 - Literature and arts in Palestine
8 - The relationship between Palestine and its neighbors: Egypt and
Mesopotamia
9 - Palestine in ancient and medieval sources: Analytical,
statistical and descriptive study
10 - Edition of new texts: Papyri, inscriptions, ostraca and coins
Languages of the conference are English, French, German, Italian and
Arabic.
Prof. Dr. Alia HANAFI
Director of Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions (CPSI)
Ain Shams University, Abbassia / Cairo / Egypt / Postal code 11566
Tel. (00202) 2844283. Fax. (00202) 2859251 and (00202) 2830963
BYZANTIUM: SEXUALITIES, BOUNDARIES, LIMITS
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5-7 NOVEMBER 1998
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From: Paul Halsall EARLY MEDIAEVAL ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WEST
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
POLIS AND URBS: INTERPRETING CIVIC SPACE AND IDENTITY
IDENTITY
20-21 February 1998
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