LATE
ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER 3.2 (2005)
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L.A.N. THE LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER
Volume 3
no.2
March, 2005
Conferences in 2005
4-6 April 2005.
"Innovation and Continuity in Romano-Celtic Religion",
University College London. The aim of
the conference is to improve our understanding on the evolution, the origin and
the raison d’etre of local religions in the Roman West. In the Roman Empire we witness the
interaction and integration of different polytheist religions in a drastically
changing environment. At the centre of this conference, we therefore attempt to
focus on transitional places, i.e. pre-Roman cult places that continued to be
occupied and that were transformed during the Roman period. Obvious examples
are Hayling Island in Britain, as well as Ganum, Nimes and Ribemont in France.
Furthermore there are cult places on hilltop sites whose architectural form
acquired typically Roman features. But we also know of rituals that are
non-Roman in character, like the many horse sacrifices, even in the highly
‘Romanised’ Gallia Narbonensis. All these places serve to illustrate the
romanisation of cults, rituals, cult architecture, sculptures and epigraphy. As
a result, a number of questions regarding cult continuity will be rasied on the
continuity of cult places. How different was the cult activity in the Empire
from its pre-Roman predecessor? The conference will provide a venue which
brings together scholars from different countries and disciplines:
archaeologists, ancient historians, epigraphists, sociologists, art historians,
and linguists.
Speakers include: Isabelle Faudut (Paris), Tony King (Winchester),
Martin Henig (Oxford), Roger Tomlin (Oxford), Manfred Hainzmann (Graz),
Elixzabeth Jerem (Budapest), Wolfgang Spickermann (Osnabruck), Patricia De
Bernardo and Joaquin Gorrochategui (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), Francisco Marco
Simón and Francisco Beltrán Lloris (Zaragoza), Karlheinz Dietz (Würzburg),
Gerhard Bauchhenss (Bonn).Further info: ralph.haussler@gmx.net.
8-9 April 2005. 'The
Parables of Jesus Conference'. Amherst
College, Amherst, Mass. URL: http://www.amherst.edu/~religion/ParablesConference/conf.html.
15-16 April 2005. Graduate
Student Conference focused on topics in the field of patristics and the history
of Christianity in Late Antiquity. Holy
Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Mass. To register, please email Megan Nutzman,
conference coordinator, at mnutzman@hchc.edu.
17-18 April 2005.
"Shaping the Middle East: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an Age
of Transition, ca. 500-800 c.e."
University of Maryland, College Park.
Keynote Lecturer: Oleg Grabar ("Late Antique, Christian, and Islamic:
The Many Facets of Middle Eastern Art in the Seventh and Eighth
Centuries"). Conference
program: www.jewishstudies.umd.edu/events. Contact info: 301 405 4975 or jwst@arhu.umd.
22–24 April 2005. "Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and
the Levant, 500-1000: New Evidence from Archaeology." Dumbarton Oaks
Program in Byzantine Studies annual spring symposium. Keynote lecture by Prof.
Cyril Mango scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 April, this lecture will be
open to the public. Contact: Caitlin McGurk (202-339-6940); byzantine@doaks.org. URL:
http://www.doaks.org/conferences.html.
5–8 May 2005. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at
Kalamazoo, Michigan. Contact: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ., 1903
W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-4079.
URL: http://www.wmich.edu/ medieval/congress.
5-8 May 2005.
"Contact and Synergy from the Archaic Period to Late
Antiquity". The Association of
Ancient Historians 2005 Meeting, University of Missouri-Columbia. URL:
http://www.trentu.ca/ahc/aah/welcome.shtml.
14–15 May 2005. "Astro-Medicine: Medicine and Astrology, East
and West," a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London. Contact:
Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB (Charles.Burnett@sas.ac.uk).
5-8 June 2005. "Early
Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines". Catholic University of America.
URL: http://csec.cua.edu/conference/conference2005.cfm.
16-21 June 2005. "La
mobilité des personnes en Méditerranée, de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne.
Procédures de contrôle et documents d'identification. VI : Le monde de
l'itinérance ". Istanbul,
Turkey. Organizers: l'Institut français
d'Études anatoliennes, l'Université Paris VIII, l'EHESS, la Maison
méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, le CNRS (UMR 8585 et UMR 8066) and
l'Institut Universitaire Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples. For details, contact Prof. W. Kaiser
(email : kaiserw@t-online.de).
24-26 June 2005.
"HISTORY AS TRANSLATION",
Vicennalia Celebration for Translated Texts for Historians. University of Liverpool. The colloquium theme
is the role of translation in the historiographical process. Papers will
reflect on ways in which translating can change or make history and speakers
will consider how translation has influenced historians past and present to
rethink their positions and methods as historians, and so to reshape the
histories that they might otherwise have written. A central theme is translation of historical texts in the period
of late antiquity itself, including topics in hagiography, multilingualism and
the transmission of Eusebius of Caesarea's historical works. Other speakers
will survey the role of translations in changing approaches to the study of
late antiquity during the twenty years of TTH's evolution. For general information please contact Mary
Whitby (mary.whitby@ccc.ox.ac.uk)
or Mark Humphries (Mark.Humphries@nuim.ie). For registration, travel advice and
accommodation suggestions please contact Janet Smith (J.M.Smith@liv.ac.uk).
6th-9th July 2005. The
fourth "Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church" conference will
be held in Melbourne, Australia, 6th-9th July 2005. The conference will focus
on the theme of 'The Spiritual Life'. Invited speakers will address
aspects of the spiritual life in the Jewish, early
church and Byzantine traditions, eastern and western. We are now calling for other papers on
related subjects, including monasticism, the
relationship between dogma and spiritual practice, the
Desert Fathers, hesychasm, the role of prayer and women in ascetic communities.
Keynote and selected papers will be published in the series Prayer and
Spirituality in the Early Church (Volume IV).
Abstracts due 29 April, 2005.
URL: http://www.prayerspirit.com.au/.
31 July–3 August 2005. The First International Conference on the
History of Exact Sciences along the Silk Road, at the Dept. of Mathematics,
Northwest University, Xian, 7110069, China. This series of conferences will
provide a platform for those who are interested in the comparative study of
history of mathematics and astronomy in the old civilizations along the Silk
Road, from China to Greece, including Japan, Korea, India, Arabic/Islamic
countries, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Medieval Europe. It is hoped that every 2 or
3 years a conference will be organized in different countries. Each time the
conference will focus on one or two special topics, and about 10 invited
speakers coming from all the fields mentioned above will offer plenary talks on
the main topics. The main topics at the first conference are mathematical
methods in astronomy, and transmission and transformation of exact sciences;
contributions related to other topics in the history of mathematics and
astronomy along the Silk Road are also welcome. Call for papers, authors are requested to submit the title and
abstract at the latest by 15 June 2005. Contact: Anjing Qu and/or Baoshan Yang,
Center for the History of Mathematics and Sciences Northwest University, Xi'an
710069, China (+86-29-8303334; fax: +86-29-8303908; hs@nwu.edu.cn)
5-7 October 2005. 'Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks and Christians.
Villanova University. This
conference focuses on the intersection of Jews, Greeks, and Christians in
antiquity. It is an interdisciplinary effort to examine this period from
different religious, social, philosophical, and cultural perspectives.
The aim is to deepen our understanding of how these three traditions thought of
their gods, themselves, and the world around them. Abstracts due 31
March. URL: http://www.geocities.com/lgustafs/antiquity.swf.
14-16 October 2005. "Reading, Community, and Identity,"
the 30th annual Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR), at
Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. Call for papers, proposals for papers,
panels, or sponsored sessions in all areas and topics in late antiquity,
medieval studies, and renaissance/reformation studies. Papers related to the
plenary topic are especially encouraged, but all topics are open. Proposals
must be postmarked or e-mailed by 30 April. Contact: PMR, c/o Anna Misticoni,
The Augustinian Institute, Villanova Univ., 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA
19085 (PMR.conference@villanova.edu). URL:
http://www3.villanova.edu/augustinianinstitute/main/PMR.htm.
28-30 October 2005. 21st
Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia. Abstracts due: April 1. URL:
http://www.byzconf.org/.
15-19 November 2005.
"Lessons Learned: Reflecting on the Theory and Practice of Mosaic
Conservation". The 9th Conference of the International Committee
for the Conservation of Mosaics, Hammamet or Sousse, Tunisia. Further details: http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/
(click 'Events Calendar').
Looking ahead to Conferences in 2006-07
21-26 August 2006. 21st International
Congress of Byzantine Studies, London.
The theme will be "Display," explored under eight headings
which highlight different aspects of the theme and different disciplines within
Byzantine Studies. URL: http://www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/.
2-8 September 2007.
'Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences'. 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford
University. Details on website: http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml.
Recent Books
Accorinti, Domenico (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache.
Vol. IV: canti XL-XLVIII. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e
Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp.
758. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00262-3
Agosti, Gianfranco (trans.), Nonno di Panopoli. Le Dionisiache.
Vol. III: canti XXV-XXXIX. Testo greco a fronte. BUR Classici Greci e Latini.
Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 898. EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN
88-17-00261-5.
Bassett, Sarah, The Urban Image of Late Antique
Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. Pp. 291. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.
Borca, Federico, Confrontarsi con l'Altro. I Romani e la
Germania. Milano: Lampi di stampa,
2004. Pp. 125. EUR 14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-488-0318-0.
Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of
Judaeo-Chritianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ISBN
0-8122-3764-1. Pp. xv +374
Kessler, Edward, Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the
Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 222. ISBN 0-521-83542-9. $75.00.
Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M.H. Smith (edd.), Gender in the Early
Medieval World. East and West, 300-900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004. Pp. 333. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-01327-5.
Campbell, Brian, Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected
Readings. Routledge Classical
Translations. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 231. $27.95 (pb). ISBN
0-415-28547-X.
Clark, Gillian, Christianity and Roman Society. Series 'Key Themes
in Ancient History'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137.
$24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-63386-9.
Edwards, Douglas R. (ed.), Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New
York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.
Evans, Roger Stevens. Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a
Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity. New York: University Press of America,
2004. ISBN 0-7618-2769-2. Pp. xvii + 185. $30 (paper).
Frilingos, Christopher A., Spectacles of Empire. Monsters,
Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2004. Pp. 192. $35.00. ISBN 0-8122-3822-2.
Greco, Claudia (ed.), Nonno. di Panopoli. Parafrasi del Vangelo di
S. Giovanni. Canto tredicesimo. Hellenica, 12. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso,
2004. Pp. 176. EUR 17.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-744-2.
Grig, Lucy, Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. London: Duckworth,
2005. Pp. 207. L45.00. ISBN
0-7156-3285-X.
Hall, Linda Jones, Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity.
London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 375. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-28919-X.
Harmless, William, S.J. Desert Christians: An Introduction to the
Literature of EarlyMonasticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN
0-19-516223-4. Pp. xxiv + 488.
Harris, W.V., and Giovanni Ruffini (edd.), Ancient Alexandria
between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 26.
Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 296. $99.00. ISBN 90-04-14105-7.
Heidl, György. Origen's Influence on the Young Augustine: A
Chapter of the History ofOrigenism. Eastern Christian Studies III. Piscataway,
NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003. ISBN 1-59333-079-0. Pp. xiv + 328.
Hill, Timothy D., Ambitiosa Mors. Suicide and Self in Roman
Thought and Literature. Series 'Studies in Classics'. London/New York:
Routledge, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-97097-0.
Holloway, R. Ross. Constantine and Rome. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10043-4. Pp. xiv + 191. $35.
Horstmanshoff, H.F.J., and M. Stol (edd.), Magic and Rationality
in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine,
27. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 407. $110.00. ISBN 90-04-13666-5.
Jacobs, Andrew S. Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian
Empire in Late Antiquity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ISBN
0-8047-4705-9. Pp. xiv + 249. $55.
Jeanjean, Benoi^t, and Bertrand Lanc,on, Saint Je/ro^me.
Chronique. Continuation de la Chronique
d'Euse\be, anne/es 326-378. Collection 'Histoire'. Rennes: Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2004. Pp. 207.
EUR 19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0018-5.
Keating, Daniel A. The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria.
Oxford Theological Monographs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN
0-19-926713-8. Pp. x + 315.
Konrad, C.F. (ed.), Augusto augurio. Rerum humanarum et divinarum
commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2004. Pp. 203. EUR 36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08578-5.
Lactantius, Divine Institutes, translated with an introduction and
notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey. Translated Texts for Historians 40.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85323-988-6. Pp. xiv + 472.
$21.95
Laird, Martin. Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union,
Knowledge and Divine Presence. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926799-5. Pp. x + 240.
Lieu, Judith. Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman
Context. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-1992-6289-6. Pp. 370.
$99.
McGuckin, John. Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological
Controversy: Its History, Theology and Texts. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's
Seminary Press, 2004. ISBN 0-88141-259-7. Pp. xv + 427. $22.99 (paper).
——. The Westminster
Handbook to Patristic Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
ISBN 0-664-22396-6. Pp. xxiii + 367
Nancy, Michel, and Eric Rebillard, editors. Hellénisme et
christianisme. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
ISBN 2-85939-825-2. Pp. 195. €21.
Odahl, Charles Matson, Constantine and the Christian Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 400.
$104.95. ISBN 0-415-17485-6.
Rademaker, Adriaan (ed.), Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of
Self-Restraint. Polysemy and Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term.
Mnemosyne Suppl. 259. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 375. EUR 85.00. ISBN
90-04-14251-7.
Sauer, Eberhard W. (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History.
Breaking down the Boundaries. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 206. $34.95
(pb). ISBN 0-415-30201-3.
Smith, Andrew, Philosophy in Late Antiquity. London/New York:
Routledge, 2004. Pp. 151. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22511-6.
von Haehling, Raban (ed.), Griechische Mythologie und fruehes
Christentum. Die antiken Goetter und der eine Gott. Darmstadt: WBG, 2005. Pp.
336. EUR 59.90. ISBN 3-534-18528-5.
Whittaker, C.R., Rome and its Frontiers. The Dynamics of Empire.
London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 246. $96.95. ISBN 0-415-31200-0.
Younger, John G., Sex in the Ancient World, from A to Z.
London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 217. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.
Information and announcements may be forwarded to:
Scott
Bradbury
SBRADBUR@email.smith.edu
Editor,
Late Antiquity Newletter
Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures
Smith College