Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

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This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

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That's a perfect question for our CSLA Database! csla.history.ox.ac.uk/search.php Go to 'Aspects of cult' and choose 'relics'. In the drop-down menu mark 'eating/drinking relics'. You can combine this search with a relevant category in 'Rejection, condemnation' (remember to choose the operator AND)

Adam Bursi@adambursi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For late antiquity folks: Do sources come to mind regarding critique/uneasiness with consumption (literally eating or drinking) of ‘sanctified’ materials, like eulogia distributed during pilgrimages, etc? I have a couple of things in mind but wondering if I’m missing others. Appreciate suggestions!

"Land and Power in the Later Roman World " #Conference 📆 29 June to 1 July 2026 📍 Tübingen 🔗 View details: bit.ly/4tsST40 Please send enquiries to Dr Giordana Franceschini, giordana.franceschini@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de #AllWelcome

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:)

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 21 May: Giulia Rosetto (University of Vienna), The Sinai Palimpsests and Their Contributions to the Study of Late Antique Greek Scripts and Texts. In person and on Zoom.

CfC at the University of Warsaw: The ERC-funded project PeriPolis (A Provincial Capital Polis at the End of the Roman Era: Periphery or Centre of Power?) has announced a call for applications for a research assistant position. More details here (scroll down for English): surl.li/yfjuuf

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 14 V 2026, 4.45 p.m. (CET): Elisabeth R. O’Connell (British Museum), From Byzantium to Aksum: Displaying the Red Sea port of Adulis at the British Museum.

Warsaw Late Antque seminar on 7 May 2026: Mischa Meier (University of Tübingen), Jerusalem under Heraclius (610-641): Christians, Jews, Muslims, and the End of the World, Inperson and online. As always

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 30 April, 4.45 CET: Anastasiia Liakhovich (UW), Between Languages, Landscapes, and Power: Linguistic Strategies of Naming Space in Middle Byzantine and Medieval Armenian Hagiography. In person on line.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 23 April, 4.45 CET: Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert (CNRS, Orient et Méditerranée / UW), Silk in Late Antique Egypt: Texts and Textiles. Everybody is welcome, be it in person or online.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 16 April (4:45 CET): Andrew Wilson (Oxford), The Archaeology of the Third-Century Crisis. In person and online - as always.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 9 April (4:45 CET): John Merrington (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Oxford), Rationality after Rome.

Warsaw Late Antiqiue seminar on 26 IMarch (4.45 CET): Haggai Olshanetsky & Lev Cosijns (Oxford), "Cluedo in the Eastern Desert: Who, or What, Killed Berenice and Myos Hormos? Plague, Climate, War or Competing Trade Routes".

Warsaw Late Antoque Seminar on Thursday, 19 March (4.45 p.m. CET): Korshi Dosoo (Paris), Magic by the Psalms in the Coptic Tradition. In person and on Zoom. As always:)

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 12 March (4.45 p.m.): Aaron Butts (Hamburg), 'The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians'. In person and on line.

Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar this Thursday, 26 February (4.45 p.m.): Mariusz Gwiazda (UW), 'Marmora Christiana? Marble Use and Distribution Patterns in the Early Byzantine Southern Levant'. In person in Warsaw, but also on Zoom.

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on Thursday, 19 February: Agnieszka Lic (IMOC), 'Eastern Arabia and the Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: Archaeological Perspectives on the Christianisation, Islamisation, and Urbanisation of the Region'. As always, in person (-14C in Warsaw this morning:) and online.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme.

A new issue of Viator with a thematic cluster: 'Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair', edited by Dawn LaValle Norman and Lea Niccolai. If you feel un urgent need to read why clerics started to shear their heads (or why the bishops made them to), let me know:)

Going to Marburg!

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:)

Right now in Warsaw...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 15 January: Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton), 'Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus'. In person and online, as always.

Today (8 I 2025) at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar : Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier. As always in person (in snow-covered Warsawa) and online.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 18 December: Grzegorz Ochała (UW) "Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia". As always in person and online.

On my way to Bamberg...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 11 December: Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy. In-person in now terribly grey Warsaw and on Zoom.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 4 XII : Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 November: Jean-Michel Carrié (EHESS), Origins and pagan precedents of christian military chaplains in the late Roman army. In person, in snow-covered Warsaw, and online.