The Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) fosters interdisciplinary discussion and cooperation among University members who study the period extending from 200 to 800 CE in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Comprised of specialists in history, classics, religion, art and archaeology, and Near Eastern studies, the CSLA provides a forum for discussion among students, faculty, visiting scholars, and members of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton Theological Seminary. The committee also organizes a program of public lectures, often in collaboration with other departments and programs.
The CSLA is under the aegis of the Council of the Humanities.
Upcoming Events
Six Latin sermons attributed to the fourth-century Syrian theologian Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373) circulated in western Europe from the sixth century onwards. These sermons share common themes, including the need for compunction and repentance motivated by fear of the Last Judgment and the value of weeping and contrition to temper God’s…
This one-day workshop aims to investigate late antique and early medieval ecologies as unfolding socio-environmental formations. Recent publications have highlighted some of the messy ecological entanglements that gave root to political ideologies and homegrown squashes across the Mediterranean world, feeding hairy pigs alongside persistent…
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Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Arguing that linguistic and cultural frontiers do not always coincide with political ones, it suggests that Byzantine studies should look not only within but also beyond the…
Women have bodies. They live in them, and they experience the world through them. In Season 2, Women Who Went Before follows an ancient woman’s life cycle, tracing her…
John Ladouceur, a graduate student in the Department of Religion, won the prize for his paper "'At What Time Was This Revelation Made?’: The Apocalypse of Paul and Theodosian Religious Politics". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.