Colloquium - Consuming Ecologies:

Environment and Society in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

29 March 2025

9am-6pm

The Quran today is recited in ten distinct canonical reading traditions. These differ from one another in terms of phonology and morphology and, to a lesser extent, meaning. Our earliest formal description of seven of these reading traditions stems from the 10th century, more than three centuries after the Quran was composed and first recited.…

Emotions are integral to social life and social relations. When it comes to understanding the variety of the hitherto unacknowledged ways in which they informed, motivated and organised individual and collective behaviours within and across a wide range of social situations in the day-to-day living in Late Antiquity, few sources are…