• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Efthymios Rizos
• Timing: Friday 5.00 – 7.00 pm, Weeks 3, 5, 7

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Cult of St Alban of Verulamium: Romano-British, Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon devotion, c. 400-800
  Mark Laynesmith (The Archbishop's Examination in Theology, Lambeth Palace)

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Thinking about saints with Gregory of Tours
  Simon Loseby (University of Sheffield)

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The burials "ad sanctos"
  Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw)

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - An Unedited Copto-Arabic Text from the End of Late Antiquity: Constantine of Assiout's First Encomium on St John of Heraclea (c. 600)
  Phil Booth (Trinity College), Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (Worcester College)

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Cults and Hagiographies: Collecting Saints’ Stories in the Early Medieval West
  James Palmer (Saint Andrew’s)

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The girdle of Mary: from Jerusalem, to Constantinople, Prato and … Pisa?
  Francesca dell’ Acqua (Birmingham)

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Origin of the Cult of Saints: the Evidence from Salona
  Alan Thacker (London)

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Syriac Life of Mar Awgen: Portraying a monastic holy man in late antique Mesopotamia
  Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Cult of Saints and the Origins of the Constantinian Basilica
  John Mitchell (University of East Anglia)

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘His Master’s Voice’: Martyrs as teachers and preachers in the Roman gesta martyrum
  Kate Cooper (University of Manchester)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Offered to Saint Constantine: thoughts on the historical significance of the Early Byzantine silver hoard of Karlsruhe
  Benjamin Fourlas (Mainz University)

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Through the Eyes of Two Deacons: Church Property, Clerical Office, and the Cults of Stephen and Laurence in Fifth-Century Rome
  Conrad Leyser (Worcester College)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Invoking Martyrs for Justice, Expecting Healing through Saints: a Glimpse into the Early Realities of Cult through Greek and Coptic Documentary Evidence
  Gesa Schenke (University of Oxford)

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Saints Basil and Basilissa at Ancyra
  Aude Busine (Brussels)

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Mary at Daphni
  Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Debating the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity: Critics and Defenders
  Efthymios Rizos (Linacre College)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Power, Praise and Prayer in Venantius Fortunatus' Life of Saint Martin
  Lorenzo Livorsi (University of Reading)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Presentation of: Saints and Salvation: the Wilshere Collection of Gold-glass, Sarcophagi and Inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy by S. Walker, S. Leatherbury, and D. Rini
  Susan Walker (Ashmolean), Jaś Elsner (Corpus Christi College), Marlia Mango (St. John's College)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Saints for Every Age: a Hagiographic Stratigraphy of Ravenna
  Edward Schoolman (University of Nevada)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Eutropius the Consul - Power, Ugliness, and Late Roman Imperial Representation (OCLA Special Lecture)
  Susanna Elm (Berkeley)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ""Garden without Seed": The Virginal Motherhood of Mary, the Theotokos, in Byzantium"
  Mary Cunningham (Nottingham)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cult in Latin Martyrdom Accounts from Italy before 700. An Overview
  Matthieu Pignot (Brussels)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Processus and Martinian: From African Montanist Martyrs to Roman Wardens of Peter and Paul
  Raúl Villegas Marín (Barcelona)

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Fabricating Martyrs in Early Rus
  Monica White (Nottingham)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reconstructing Justinian’s Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
  Nikolaos Karydis (Kent)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Sudden Rise of Trophimus of Arles
  David Lambert (Oxford)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Promoting Cult of Friday among Syriac Christians: The Witness of the Story of the Holy Friday
  Sergey Minov (Oxford)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: Richard Price, The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), Translated Texts for Historians 68, Liverpool University Press.
  Richard Price

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Prison Space and Holiness in Martyr Narratives: A Literary Approach to Greek Passions
  Christodoulos Papavarnavas (Oxford)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fluid textual traditions and untethered historical data: some philological problems of using martyrdom accounts as sources for cult
  Nikolaos Kalviainen (Oxford)