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.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 20 November: Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg), Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt

Today (Thursday, 13 November, 4.45 p.m.) at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Body Horror of the Empress and Dark Palaces of the Emperor: Rulers and Resentment c.400-c.1100. In-persona and on Zoom.

📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo #Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 November: David Addison (University of Liverpool), "Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea". In person and online, as always.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 30 October, Robert Wiśniewski, 'Was St Pater a popular saint?' As always im person and online

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 23 X: Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In-person and online.

Warsaw Late Antoque Seminar on 16 November: 16 X Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder): 'A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.' In person and on Zoom

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 9 October (4.45 p.m.): Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania), "Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier". In person and online, as usual.

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 2 October: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back. In person and online. For the full programme see: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look! More on the seminar's website...

CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on 25-27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw. If you happen to be in town, do join us! Programme: bit.ly/42JturY

A medieval job. And a saintly one... Warsaw is fun! historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 June : Thomas Laver (Cambridge) New Insights into the Organisation of Monastic Estates in Egypt, 5th-9th c. In-person and online

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 29 MAY: Przemysław Nehring (UMK) & Aldona Glińska-Neweś (UMK): St Augustine’s Sermons 355-356 as an Example of Communication Strategy in an Institution’s Reputational Crisis – Rhetorical Analysis vs. Modern Crisis Management Theory. In person and on Zoom.

James has helped organise four panels for the IMC, featuring @rorynaismith.bsky.social on shady deals in the Fens; Roy Flechner on redistribution & the Papacy; Bronwen Neil on monks & prostitution; @relicsclerics.bsky.social on priests & bankers - and much more besides, including a panel on slaving.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 V: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria. As always in person and online...

Peter Van Nuffelen, 'The Easter Date at the Council of Nicaea: Old and New Evidence'. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (15 May), 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online

On 8 May Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon) will speak on "Religious Literacy in the Late Ancient Near East: Liturgical Catechesis and Not-So-Simple Believers of Roman Arabia". At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. 4.45 CET, in-person and online, as always.

Perrine Pilette (CNRS), 'Patriarchs, Month After Month : Rewritings of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion' at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 24 April, 4.45 p.m. In person and online.

For the period up to 700 check the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database: csla.history.ox.ac.uk Choose Aspects of cult / relics / eating-drinking-inhaling relics...

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 10 April: Zachary Chitwood (München), Eastern Roman Law, Islam and the First Millennium: Prolegomena to a ius commune orientale. As always, in person and online.

Paweł Filipczak (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Commentary on John Malalas (XI, 3-4) on Emperor Trajan’s Expedition to the East. At Warsaw Late Antique seminar on Thursday, 3 April, 4.45 p.m. CET.

Wonderful tool, thanks a lot Matthieu!!! Look at this lion!

On Thursday Daria Elagina (Hamburg Universität) & Dorota Dzierzbicka (UW) will speak An Ethiopian pilgrim at Old Dongola, Sudan. New insights from a Vatican manuscript. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 March (for the full programme see our website: tiny.pl/9499pyx2).

Noel Lenski (Yale University) Feeding a Young Capital: The Food Supply of Constantinople in the Fourth Century. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (20 March) at 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online, as always.

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 13 March: Nicola Holm (UW): Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops. As always on 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in person and on Zoom.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 March (4.45 p.m. CET) : Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Ecclesiastical Rivalries and Urban Violence in Late Antique Rome: Evidence from Canonical Collections. Join us in person or on Zoom!

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 February: Julia Schwarzer (Universität Regensburg), Christian Brotherhoods and Liturgical Song during Long Late Antiquity. At 4.45 p.m. and as always in person and online

...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

"For Body and Soul. A Bath Complex and a Church, or on Monumentalism in Philoxenite on Lake Mareotis" (Tomasz Derda, Tomasz Borowski, Julia Burdajewicz & Piotr Zakrzewski). At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday, 4.45 p.m. This starts a new seminar series in summer semester.

A piece of good news from Warsaw! Katinka Sewing and Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social were awarded MSC Individual Fellowships. Katinka will work with us on Euphratesia as a hub of late antique sacred architecture and Nicola on the urban dynamics of late antique Antioch. Sincere congratulations:)

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar in summer semester. Still three weeks to go, so I will repost later, but cannot resist the temptation of publishing it now....

Przemysław Piwowarczyk, "What did laypeople do during the Coptic Mass? – a non-liturgical perspective". At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 23 I 2025. This week, exceptionally, online only.

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 16 January: Łukasz Różycki (UAM), "Hush! The late Roman art of intimidation" (on the battlefield). In person and online.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 9 January" Cezary Rudnicki (UMCS), 'The long duration of the Augustinian admonitio: From theology to politics'. In-person and online. For the good beginning of the year:)

Daniel Galadza (Orientale), Piecing together Greek liturgy from Jerusalem after Late Antiquity. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 19 December, 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online. As always.

Friends, fellow late antiquity fans! The news are out! We are starting a new journal together with the amazing team at LUP. We want to foster interdisciplinary and exciting articles in essay form as well as peer-reviewed editions and translations of texts. Extremely excited about this!

In 2 hours. I suppose you can still make it, if you happen to be somewhere in Westphalia, can't you?

Hello World. As I am moving to this bluer pasture, I am beginning to say goodbye to the project that kept me busy for the last four years. The first full draft of my edition of the earliest known Christian poet, Commodianus, has just gone out to OUP. Long road ahead, so wish me luck

Inside: "Saints in the Latrine: Between Revealing and Relieving in the Late Antique Miracle Collections!" by Julia Doroszewska.

Going to Münster, where I will speak on the memory of the persecutions and their impact on Christian identity. Behold the joy of the morning train ride!

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 12 December, 4.45 p.m. CET: Andrea Bernier (Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy), Deconstructing the Theodosian Code. Archives and collections of laws in the later Roman empire. In person and online

I am thrilled to share the news that I was awarded #ERC_Consolidator Grant for studying the problem of Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Central Asia. Stay tuner for #INASIA project erc.europa.eu/news-events/...