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Publication: "Worlds of Byzantium Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East" by Elizabeth Bolman, Scott Johnson, Jack Tannous
Nov. 14, 2024

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…

Podcast: “Women Who Went Before” Season 2
Oct. 22, 2024

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…

Peter R. Brown Prize 2024
Sept. 19, 2024

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.

Peter R. Brown Prize
Feb. 9, 2024

Applications are now Open. 

We would like to invite applications for this year’s Peter R. Brown Prize.
 
The Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity sponsors the annual Peter R. Brown Prize for the best graduate student essay on any subject…

Peter R. Brown Prize 2023
Oct. 26, 2023

Emily Chesley, a graduate student in the Department of History, won the prize for her paper "Gendered Responses to Military Violence in Late Antique Mesopotamia: A View from Syriac Sermons". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.

Peter R. Brown Prize 2022
Sept. 27, 2022

Yitz Landes, a graduate student in the Department of Religion, won the prize for his paper "The Rise of the Jewish Patriarchate and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Literature". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.

The Implications of Time: Time and Temporalities in Medieval Artistic and Musical Culture
Feb. 7, 2022

The notion of time has emerged in both medieval art history and musicology as a key category for understanding works of art in their historical and cultural contexts. This graduate workshop investigates the notion of time as a fundamental dimension in the various artistic expressions of the Middle Ages. It offers doctoral candidates in a…

Peter R. Brown Prize 2021
Sept. 10, 2021

Walter Beers, a graduate student in the Department of History, won the prize for his paper "A Miaphysite Subalternity? John of Ephesus, the Jafnids, and the Villages of the Ḥawrān". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.