Thursday, June 27th
13.30-14.00: Introduction and Welcome
14.00-16.00: Session I:
Chair: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Alexander Graumann-Kardan (Mainz), ‘Per litteras loqui: Augustine’s Means of Communication’
Guus van Loon, (Vienna), ‘Shifting Hierarchy? The disappearance of the praepositi pagorum in the late 4th and 5th century AD”
Isabelle Beaudoin (Oxford), ‘Lay piety as a reflection of loyalty to the king: unexpected insights from Ælfric’s Lives of Saints’
16:00-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-18.00: Session II:
Chair: Helmut Reimitz
Anna Gehler-Rachůnek (Berlin), "The Function of Pope Gregory the Great's Letter Epistola 9.214 in Early Medieval Canon Law Collections"
Michael Eber (Berlin), "Neither Councils nor Decretals: 'Non-Canonic' Material in Early Medieval Canon Law Collections"
Friday, June 28th
10.00-11.30: Session III:
Chair: Walter Pohl
Jakub Sypiański (Mainz), The Testimony of Manuscripts on the Connection between Intellectual Revival in Constantinople and the Arabic Translation Movement (750-900)
Adele Curness (Oxford), ‘A Calabrian microhistory: The anonymous author of the Life of St Elias Younger and his world’
Helen Flatley (Oxford), ‘Cutting the Ties of Bondage’: Ransoming and Manumission in Mozarabic Toledo
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.00: Session IV
Chair: Ida Toth
Anette Mazur, (Mainz), Observations on the Illustration and Function of the Byzantine Alexander Romance, Codex graecus 5
Alex MacFarlane (Oxford), “pitiable and lamentable”: The City of Bronze and Alexander’s pointless life
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break
14:00-15:30: Visit to Manuscript Notitia Dignitatum
16.00-18:00: Session V
Chair: Julia Smith
Canan Arikan (Vienna), ‘Inscribing Euergetism by Clerics in Early Byzantium’
Anya Raisharma (Oxford), ‘Gendered Spaces of Trust: Monks and the Natural World’
Alyssa Cady (Princeton), ‘Women’s Funerary Collegia: Rethinking an Antiochene Mosaic’
18.00-19:00 Drinks Reception
19:30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, June 29th
9.00-11.00: Session VI:
Chair: Claudia Rapp
Matthias Stern (Vienna), ‘Taxes, Land, and Power in Byzantine Egypt’
Lena Krastel, (Berlin), ‘"Remember me!". Coptic Inscriptions of the Upper Egyptian monastery Deir Anba Hadra’
Jelle Wassenaar, (Vienna), ‘The diocesan peoples of tenth-century Europe’
This event was made possible by the generous support of the
THE OXFORD CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE RESEARCH and
THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES
