Events Archive - 2017
The recently published History of the Episcopate of Alexandria (ed. A. Bausi and A. Camplani, Adamantius 22, 2016, 249-302), preserved in Ethiopic, Latin, Greek, and Syriac manuscripts and fragments, offers an exceptional opportunity to study not only the self-representation of the Alexandrian bishopric at the end of the fourth century, but…
This conference and edited volume represent the first international effort dedicated to exploring continental European illuminated manuscripts from the multifaceted, still poorly understood era of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The project demonstrates how the study of manuscripts revises and enriches our knowledge of this elusive historical…
This conference and edited volume represent the first international effort dedicated to exploring continental European illuminated manuscripts from the multifaceted, still poorly understood era of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The project demonstrates how the study of manuscripts revises and enriches our knowledge of this elusive historical…
By his incarnation, Christ had made it possible to touch God through objects sanctified by his contact. He could be experienced through different material objects such as the consecrated bread and wine, or relics such as the wood of the Cross. The faithful were called to "Taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8). We find numerous…
The orations of Gregory of Nazianzus on the major feasts of the Christian calendar ranked among the most popular and most widely translated works of literature in the Byzantine world. However, before being canonized as Saint Gregory the Theologian, Gregory was an Athenian-trained teacher of Classical Greek literature and as such learned to…
The fate of the countryside in late antiquity has been hotly debated, with much recent work on the continuity - or not - of villas, trade and agricultural production in different parts of the empire. This paper presents new work from central Italy, gathered during a project focused on the lives and landscapes of the rural poor. The questions of…
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Work in Progress
Remaking the Saint:
Antonius’ Life of Symeon the Elder
and the Cult of Symeon the Younger
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Robert Brody is professor emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his work on the literature of the Babylonian Geonim, he has also published extensively on Mishnah and Tosefta as well as issues concerning the Babylonian Talmud and the textual history and…
Robert Brody is professor emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Best known for his work on the literature of the Babylonian Geonim, he has also published extensively on Mishnah and Tosefta as well as issues concerning the Babylonian Talmud and the textual history and…
Antioch-on-the-Orontes has been the focus for scholarly attention at Princeton since the excavations of the 1930s. Last year a class in the Art and Archaeology Department taught by Alan Stahl studied a sector of the site excavated within the ancient city itself and reported on it at a public program. This year’s class…