Events Archive - 2016
The talk aims to reflect on the implications the way we coin the concepts and periodisations of Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam have on our approach of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. How do Syriac studies -a field that has been thriving in the last 15 years- fit in the picture and can help us both displace and broaden our…
Respondent: Jack Tannous, History
Prior to the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE), diversity characterized asceticism in late antique Syria. Canon four of the council put monasteries and individual monks under ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Consequently, post-Chalcedonian bishops and monks relegated independent ascetics to monasteries…
Sixth Annual Workshop of the Graduate Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval History Between the University of Vienna, Oxford, Mainz, Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton
Program
Thursday, May 19, 2016
9:00-11:15 a.m. Moderator: …
Further information is available.
Those planning to attend should register at http://religion.princeton.edu/beyondauthority
The horizons of the Silk Road and the Iranian Empire were largely coterminous. The former spanned Eurasia circa 50 CE-750 CE, while the latter dominated the Near East 226-636 CE. Trans-Eurasian trade nevertheless appears only marginally and offhandedly in current accounts of Iranian history in late antiquity. The paper will argue that the…
