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.

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