09:00
Registration & Coffee
10:00
5a. Negotiating with the Other. Chair: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Evan Andersson (King’s College, London)
“TON I7NEYMATIKON AAEAOON: The Language of Hierarchy in Byzantine Diplomacy”
Matthew Barber (University of Edinburgh)
Fatimid interactions with Byzantium after the emergence of the Seljuqs: an inter-textual analysis.
Alasdair Grant (University of Edinburgh)
Aichmalosia: Coercion, Detention and the Travelling Plea between Byzantium and its Neighbours, c.1204-1453
5b. Documents of Change. Chair: David Barritt
Jakub Sawicki (Linacre College, Oxford)
Roman law in transmission — Isidore’s of Seville book V of the Etymologiae (De legibus)
Jacques Beauseroy (University Paris-Sorbonne)
Bequeathing estates in 11th century Byzantium: the drawing up and execution of wills in the Peira
Aikaterini Vavaliou (Wadham College, Oxford)
Sea Routes of Architecture in the Middle Byzantine period. The case of Venice.
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
6a. Moving Orthodoxy. Chair: Mirela Ivanova
Nicholas Ttofis (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford)
Anti-anthropomorphite precedents in Pseudo-Macarius: Highlighting the circulation of anti-anthropomorphite ideas outside of Egypt in 4th Century Syria
David Eichert (Central European University)
Nos in Africanis partibus commorantes “those of us residing in Africa”: North Africa and its Connectivity with Constantinople during the Three chapters Controversy and the Fifth Ecumenical Council
Carl Dixon (University of Nottingham)
Between East Rome and Armenia: Who were the Paulicians anyway?
6b. Moving and Compiling Texts. Chair: Dr Kirsty Stewart
Giulia Paoletti (Exeter College, Oxford)
Between Vergil and Metaphrastes: the fate of a collection of oracles Carole Hofstetter (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,Paris) Circulation and transmission of texts of the Late Antique during the Middle Ages: the case of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus
Elena Spangenberg Yanes (University of Rome La Sapienza)
From Constantinople to Carolingian Europe: glosses and corrections of the Greek in Priscian’s manuscripts
13:30
Lunch
14:30
Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (Worcester College, Oxford)
Naturalising the Islamic Alexander: epistemology and the transmission of late antique traditions into ArabicTransmission of Alexander to Armenia
Nathalie Gier (St Stephen’s House)
The Portrayal of the Byzantines in the Turkish Epics
7b. Understanding the Material World Chair: Philip Atkins
Marko Jelusic (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg)
Artists or archivists? A Late antique tomb sheds new light on the source value of the Notitia Dignitatum
Valentina De Pasca (University degli Studi di Milano)
A Shield Boss in Gilded Bronze from Nocera Umbra: the complexity of the study of a unicorn
Aleksandra Krauze-Kolodziej (University of Lublin)
Both the East and the West. Latin and Byzantine tradition in the complex mosaic decoration from Torcello
16:00
Coffee Break
16:00
8a. Moving People. Chair: Nathalia Gier
Julia Burdajewicz (University of Warsaw)
Travelling painters’ workshops in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Levant
Adele Curness (St John’s College, Oxford)
Slavery outside the ‘slave trade’: the traffic in peoples between Byzantine Calabria and the Islamic World
Nicholas Matheou (Pembroke College, Oxford)
Armenians in East Roman Cappadocia, c.900-1071 Settlement, the State Apparatus and the Material Reproduction of Ethnicity
8b. Instability Inside the Text. Chair: Benjamin Kybett
Jakub Wolak (University of Warsaw)
Distortion and Clarification: Vague Aspects of Origen’s Cosmology in the Light of 6th Century De Sectis
Marton Rozsa (Blitvos Lorand University)
The transmission of ideas to Byzantine metrical seals in the “long” twelfth century
Julie Boeten (University of Ghent)
The Travelling of Imagery: a cognitive analysis of the meter of two medieval colophons
18:00
Closing Remarks
18:30
Wine Reception
20:30
Conference Dinner
