Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. For the beginning of the new semester we have this: 8 October, 4.45 p.m. CET. Jakub Urbanik (UW) Temples Sold and Restored to the Gods. I. Kyme 17 and the Emergence of the ‘Imperial’ Law. In-person and online. 0104
Reposted by Robert WiśniewskiMateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026First online public lecture happening today! Matthew Dillon (University of New England), "When the Enquirer Misinterprets: Veracity and Prophetic Non-fulfilment in Greek Oracular Divination"; 5pm (CET) on Zoom. Drop me a line (mateusz.kusio[at]kuleuven.be) in order to receive the link 011
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: Winter Semester 2026/7: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl 02110
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Job offer. 3-years postdoctoral position on the on the project "Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity" led by Marta Szada at Nicolaus Copernicu University in Toruń. More here: bitly.is/4cmwGyW 176
Reposted by Robert WiśniewskiMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Friends, 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...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1This 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 ... 212869
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 16/06/2026That'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)csla.history.ox.ac.ukSearch | The Cult of Saints 130
Reposted by Robert WiśniewskiSt Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"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 075
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Warsaw 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:) 0118
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Warsaw 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. 065
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026CfC 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 031
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Warsaw 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. 031
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Warsaw 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 041
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Warsaw 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. 051
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Warsaw 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. 031
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Warsaw 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. 084
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 9 April (4:45 CET): John Merrington (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Oxford), Rationality after Rome. 040
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Warsaw 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". 050
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Warsaw 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:) 0125
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Warsaw 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. 1125
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Julia 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. 064
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Warsaw 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. 010
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Warsaw 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. 040
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme. 1166
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A 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:) 0113
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:) 0112
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Warsaw 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. 0102
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Today (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. 053
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Warsaw 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. 1104
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Warsaw 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. 062
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 4 XII : Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati 0100
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Warsaw 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. 031
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Warsaw 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 021
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Today (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. 0117
Reposted by Robert WiśniewskiBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 03/11/2025📬 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 0148
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Warsaw 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. 042
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 30 October, Robert Wiśniewski, 'Was St Pater a popular saint?' As always im person and online 000
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Warsaw 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. 040
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Warsaw 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 140
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Warsaw 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. 082
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Warsaw 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 021
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look! More on the seminar's website... 0105
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 23/09/2025CRAC 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 1154
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A medieval job. And a saintly one... Warsaw is fun! historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer... 0123
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Warsaw 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 080
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Warsaw 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. 030
Reposted by Robert WiśniewskiDoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 21/05/2025James 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. 142
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 V: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria. As always in person and online... 051