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NEWSLETTER 45: JANUARY 2003
CONTENTS
1.
Call for Papers: AABS Conference 2003
2.
Publications of Members of AABS, 1998-2002
3.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: Australia
4.
Forthcoming Conferences, Seminars, and Events: International
5.
Notices
6.
Conference Report
7.
AABS News and Recent Publications
8.
2002 and 2003 Subscriptions
9.
Next Newsletter
Appendix
I: AABS Executive 2001-2005
Appendix
II: Web address for previous Newsletters
Addenda
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: AABS CONFERENCE 2003
FEAST, FAST OR FAMINE: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD AND DRINK IN BYZANTIUM
XIIIth Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
11-13 July 2003, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
CALL FOR PAPERS
Organised by the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, in conjunction with the Centre for European Studies and the Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, University of Adelaide, this conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse fields on a topic currently exciting considerable interest internationally.
The language of the conference is English. Papers will be 25 minutes in length.
ABSTRACTS of no more than 300 words are invited on any topic related to food and drink in the period from the very beginnings of the Byzantine world in the fourth century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 CE.
Possibilities for papers
include the relationship between eating and politics; humour and dining;
material objects associated with food and drink; the portrayal of food
in art; restriction of diet (fasting/famine); diet and medicine or health;
poisons; potions and magic; the economics of
food production; transport;
the sociology and culture of eating and drinking; the treatment of food
in literature; regional industries; the impact of disasters; and military
logistics. Papers which address the topic metaphorically (e.g., music
or poetry as food for the soul; eating one's words) are also welcome.
Papers from the conference will be published in the series 'Byzantina Australiensia', subject to review by an international panel of referees.
International speakers will include:
Professor
Eunice Maguire (Johns Hopkins University)
Professor
John Haldon (University of Birmingham)
Dr
Diontsios Stathakopoulos (University of Vienna)
DEADLINE
FOR ABSTRACTS: 15 March 2003
Notification of acceptance
of papers: early April 2003
Email submissions are
encouraged and should be sent to Dr Wendy Mayer at:
wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: +61 8 8267 2438
Post: 52 Walter Street,
North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia
ENQUIRIES regarding the conference, the suitability of topics, organisation of panels etc. may be sent to Wendy Mayer at the above address.
REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION details for the conference are now available on the conference web site: www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/aabs/aabs_2003.htm. A copy of the registration form is appended here for your convenience. You must make your own accommodation arrangements. Send registration form and payment to:
Dr Han Baltussen,
The Treasurer, AABS Conf,
Centre for European Studies
and General Linguistics,
University of Adelaide,
SA 5005
Fax +61 8 8303 5241
REGISTRATION FORM:
FEAST, FAST OR FAMINE:
(XIIIth Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies)
REGISTRATION FORM
ABN: 61 249 878 937
Please print out and send with your payment.
Surname:
Preferred First Name:
Address:
University/Institution:
Email address:
Tel.:
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Please circle the registration required:
Full rate ($145.45 + $14.55
GST) $160
Full rate: early registration*
($131.82 + 13.18 GST) $145
Unwaged/full-time student
rate ($109.09 + $10.91 GST) $120
Unwaged/full-time student
rate: early registration* ($100.00 +$10.00) $110
Day rate - Friday or
Saturday ($63.64 + $6.36 GST) $70
Day rate unwaged/full-time
student - Friday or Saturday ($45.45 +$4.55 GST) $50
Day rate - Sunday only
($45.45 + $4.55 GST) $50
Day rate unwaged/full-time
student - Sunday only ($18.18 + $1.82 GST) $20
* The early registration rates apply to registrations received before 30 April 2003. No registrations will be accepted after Friday, 4 July 2003.
Conference dinner (drinks
not included) ($31.82 + $3.18 GST) $35
(The conference dinner
will be held on the evening of Saturday, 12 July 2003.)
Vegetarian meal required:
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Completed registration forms with payment details for the conference and dinner (not accommodation) are to be sent to:
Dr Han Baltussen,
The Treasurer, AABS Conf,
Centre for European Studies
and General Linguistics,
University of Adelaide,
SA 5005
Fax +61 8 8303 5241
Cancellation penalties:
Delegates should be aware
that cancellations made before 30 June 2003 will incur a $25 cancellation
fee. Cancellations made after 30 June will incur a cancellation fee
equal to 50% of the registration fee paid.
NB. Please note that if your paper is accepted, your paper will be included in the program ONLY if your payment is received by 30 May 2003.
Delegates are required to make their own accommodation arrangements.
Following is a list of
work published by members of AABS during 1998 to 2002, or in press, forthcoming
in 2003. A future issue of the Newsletter will feature members' current
work in progress.
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PAULINE ALLEN
Books:
P. Allen and B. Neil, Scripta saeculi VII vitam Maximi Confessoris illustrantia, Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 39 (Turnhout/Leuven, 1999). Pp. l + 250.
W. Mayer and P. Allen, John Chrysostom (London/New York, 2001). Pp. x + 230.
P. Allen and B. Neil, Maximus the Confessor and his Companions: Documents from Exile, (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2002).
Books Edited:
M.B. Cunningham and P. Allen (eds.), Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics (Leiden, 1998). Pp. viii + 370.
P. Allen, R. Canning and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Volume 1 (Brisbane, 1998). Pp. xvi + 409.
P. Allen, W. Mayer and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Volume 2 (Brisbane, 2000). Pp. xx + 440.
Book Chapters:
M.B. Cunningham and P. Allen, "Introduction," Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics (1998) 1-20.
"The Sixth-Century Homily: A Re-assessment," in Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics (1998) 201-225.
"The Preacher and the Audience in the Patristic World," in J. Bigelow (ed.), Our Cultural Heritage, Papers from the 1997 Symposium of The Australian Academy of the Humanities (Canberra, 1998) 203-218.
"A Bishop's Spirituality: The Case of Severus of Antioch," in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church (1998) 169-180.
"The Identity of Sixth-Century Preachers and Audiences in Byzantium," in G.W. Clarke (ed.), Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity, = Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (1999) 245-253.
"Severus of Antioch and Pastoral Care," in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Volume 2 (1999) 387-400.
"John Chrysostom," pp. 1128-1150 in P.E. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World, Volume 2 (London/New York, 2000).
Journal Articles:
"John Chrysostom's Homilies on I and II Thessalonians: The Preacher and His Audience," Studia Patristica 31 (1997) 3-21.
P. Allen and W. Mayer, "Through a Bishop's Eyes: Towards a Definition of Pastoral Care in Late Antiquity," Augustinianum 40 (2000) 345-497.
"Severus of Antioch as Pastoral Carer," Studia Patristica 35 (2001) 353-368.
Encyclopaedia Entries:
Thirty-seven articles in A. Di Berardino (ed.), Patrologia V, I Padri orientali (secoli V-VIII) (Genoa, 2000).
Other Publications:
P. Allen (ed.), Association Internationale d'Etudes Patristiques, Bulletin d'information et de Liaison 33 (2000) pp 79.
P. Allen (ed.), Association
Internationale d'Etudes Patristiques, Bulletin d'information et de Liaison
34 (2001) pp. 109.
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JOAN BARCLAY LLOYD
Book:
J.E. Barclay Lloyd and K. Bull-Simonsen Einaudi, Ss. Cosma e Damiano in Mica Aurea: Architettura, storia e storiografia di un monastero romano soppresso, Miscellanea della Societa Romana di Storia Patria 28 (Societa Romana di Storia Patria; Rome, 1998). Pp. 164 pages, 65 illustrations and 5 drawings by J.M.Blake.
Book Chapters:
J.E. Barclay Lloyd, "The Depictions of Figures from the Hebrew Scriptures in the Art of the Roman Catacombs," in P. Allen, R. Canning and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, volume 1 (Brisbane, 1998) 97-110.
J.E. Barclay Lloyd, "The
Medieval Rebuilding and Decoration of the Early Christian Church of San
Clemente in Rome," in P. Allen, W. Mayer and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer
and Spirituality in the Early Church, volume 2 (Brisbane, 1999)
279-297.
J.E. Barclay Lloyd, "The
River of Life in the Medieval Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome," in
Bernard J. Muir (ed.), Reading Texts and Images: Essays in Medieval
and Renaissance Art and Patonage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion (Exeter
University Press; Exeter, 2002) 35-55 (includes 16 b&w figures).
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LENA CANSDALE
Book Chapters:
Lena Cansdale, "Vikings by Boat to Byzantium," Byzantium and the North, Acta Byzantina Fennica 9 (Helsinki, 1999) 9-20.
Lena Cansdale, "Harald,
a Viking Prince in Byzantium", Byzantium and the North, Acta Byzantina
Fennica 10 (Helsinki, 2000) 42-50.
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BRIAN CROKE
Book:
Brian Croke, Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2001).
Book Chapters:
Brian Croke, "Wilken, Mommsen, and the Invention of Papyrology," in T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University, volume 1 (Eerdmans; Michigan/Cambridge, 1998) 192- 204.
Brian Croke, "Latin Historiography in the Barbarian Kingdoms," in Later Greek and Latin Historiography: Fourth to Sixth Century (Brill; Leiden, 2002).
Journal Articles:
Brian Croke, "Chronicles, Annals, and `Consular Annals' in Late Antiquity," Chiron 31 (2001) 291-331.
Forthcoming 2003: Article:
Brian Croke, "The Imperial
Reigns of Leo II," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2003).
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TIM DAWSON
Books:
Tim Dawson, Everday Women's Clothing of the Byzantine Empire: c. 900-c. 1204, Levantia Historical Guides 1 (Levantia; Armidale, 2002) ISBN 0-9580481-0-X.
Tim Dawson, Everday Men's Clothing of the Byzantine Empire: c. 900-c. 1204, Levantia Historical Guides 2 (Levantia; Armidale, 2002) ISBN 0- 9580481-1-8
Tim Dawson, Introduction to Middle Byzantine Footwear, Levantia Historical Guides 3 (Levantia; Armidale, 2002) ISBN 0-9580481-4-2
Book Chapters:
Tim Dawson, "Suntagma Hoplon: The Equipment of Regular Byzantine Troops, c. 950 to c. 1204," in David Nicolle (ed.), Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour (Boydell and Brewer; London, 2002) ISBN 085115 872 2.
Journal Articles:
Tim Dawson, "Kremasmata, Kabbadion, Klibanion: Some Aspects of Middle Byzantine Military Equipment Reconsidered," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 22 (1998) 38-50.
Tim Dawson, "Concerning an Unrecogised Tunic from Eastern Anatolia", Byzantion 72 (2002) 1-10.
Forthcoming 2003: Journal Article:
Tim Dawson, "Klivanion
Revisited: An Evolutionary Typology and Catalogue of Middle Byzantine Lamellar,"
Journal
of Roman Military Equipment Studies 13 (2002).
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LYNDA GARLAND
Books:
L. Garland, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 (Routledge; London/New York, 1999). Pp. xix, xix + 343, with 28 plates. ISBN 0-415-14688-7.
M.P.J. Dillon and L. Garland, Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates (c. 800-399 BC), 2nd ed. (Routledge; London/New York, 2000). Pp. xx + 540. ISBN 0-415-217-547, 0- 415-217-555 (pb).
Journal Articles:
L. Garland, "How Different, How Very Different from the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen: Sexual Morality at the Late Byzantine Court, with Especial Reference to the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Byzantine Studies/Études Byzantines, new series 1-2 (1995-1996 [1998]) 1-49.
L. Garland, "Social and Family Life at Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Imperial Women and their Priorities," in Acts, 18th International Byzantine Congress, Selected Papers: Main and Communications, Moscow, 1991, ed. I. Sevcenko and G.G. Litavrin = Byzantine Studies/Études Byzantines, new series 1 (1998) 184-195.
L. Garland, "The Fair Shepherdess: a Translation of JH Eumorfh Boskopouvla, with an Introduction", Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 12 (1996/1997 [1998]) 423-39.
L. Garland, "Stephen Hagiochristophorites: logothete tou genikou 1182/83-1185", Byzantion 69.1 (1999) 18-23.
L. Garland, "Basil II as Humorist", Byzantion 69 (1999) 321-43.
L. Garland, "Byzantium's Age of Chivalry: the Historical Context of Digenes Akrites and the Akritic Songs," Review article on Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry, ed. Roderick Beaton and David Ricks (1993), for Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 12/13 (1998) 573-89.
Reviews:
L. Garland, Review of Jacqueline Long, Claudian's In Eutropium or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch (1997) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 27 (1998) 157-65.
L. Garland, Review of D.M. Nicol, The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c. 1295-1383 (1996) for Parergon 16 (1998) 190-92.
L. Garland, Review of Kita Sapurna and Pandora Petrovska, Children of the Bird Goddess: a Macedonian Autobiography (1997) for Journal of Australian Folklore 13 (1998) 271-73.
L. Garland, Review of L.J. Engels and H. Hofmann (eds.), Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, volume 4: Spätantike mit einem Panorama der Byzantinischen Literatur (1997) for Classical Review 49 (1999) 100-02.
L. Garland, Review of Geoffrey Horrocks, Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers,* (1997) for Parergon 16 (1999) 253-57.
L. Garland, Review of Margaret Mullett, Theophylacht of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, (1997) for Parergon 16 (1999) 279-83.
L. Garland, Review of Andrew Stewart, Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (1997) for The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms (Cambridge, MA) 6.4 (2001) 537-8.
Encyclopaedia Entries (Online):
L. Garland, "Sophia," "Ino (Anastasia)," "Constantina," "Leontia," "Fabia (Eudocia)," "Gregoria," "Leo IV," "Constantine VI and Irene," in De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors http://www.salve.edu/~romanemp.
Forthcoming 2003: Journal Article:
L. Garland, "A Treasury
Minister in Hell: a Little-Known Dialogue of the Dead of the Twelfth Century",
Modern
Greek Studies Yearbook 19 (2003).
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ANDREW GILLETT
Book Edited:
Andrew Gillett (ed.), On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Medieval West, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 4 (University of York/Brepols; Turnhout, 2002). Pp. xxiv + 265. ISBN 2-503-51168-6.
Book Chapters:
Andrew Gillett, "Jordanes and Ablabius," in Carl Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History X, Collection Latomus 254 (Brussels, 2000) 479-500.
Andrew Gillett, "The Purposes of Cassiodorus's Variae" in Alexander C. Murray (ed.), After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1998) 37-50.
Andrew Gillett, "Introduction: History, Ethnicity, and Methodology," in On Barbarian Identity (above) 1-18.
Andrew Gillett, "Was Ethnicity Politicized in the Earliest Medieval Kingdoms?" in On Barbarian Identity (above) 85-121.
Journal Articles:
Andrew Gillett, "Rome, Ravenna, and the Last Western Emperors," Papers of the British School at Rome 69 (2001) 131-167.
Andrew Gillett, "The Accession of Euric," Francia 26/1 (1999) 1-40.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Thirteen entries for Andrew Traver (ed.), From Polis to Empire: The Ancient World, c. 800 BC-AD 500 (Greenwood; Westport, 2002): "Aetius," "Alaric," "Attila," "Claudian," "Euric," "Eusebius," "Galla Placidia," "Odoacer," "Ricimer," "Sidonius," "Stilicho," "Syagrius," "Ulfila."
Two entries for Jana Schulman (ed.), The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300 (Greenwood; Westport, 2002): "Jordanes," "Procopius."
Reviews:
Andrew Gillett, Review of G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (eds.), Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World (2002) for Scholia 12 (2003) online at http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2003.htm
Andrew Gillett, Review of David Rohrbacher, The Historians of Late Antiquity (2002) for Scholia 12 (2003) online at http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2003.htm
Andrew Gillett, Review of P. E. Dutton and H. L. Kessler, The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald (1997) for Parergon 16 (1999) 201-204.
Andrew Gillett, Review of S. Bocci, L'Umbria nel Bellum Gothicum di Procopio (1996) for Journal of Roman Studies 88 (1998) 34.
Andrew Gillett, Review of Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (eds.), The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813 (1997) for Electronic Antiquity 5 (1998) (an abridged version of this review appeared in the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies Newsletter 35 [1998])
Andrew Gillett, Review of P. S. Barnwell, Kings, Courtiers and Imperium: The Barbarian West, 565-725 (1997) for Ancient History 28 (1998) 62-65.
Andrew Gillett, Review of S. A. Rabe, Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier: The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert, in Journal of Religious History 22 (1998) 107-110.
Forthcoming 2003: Book:
Andrew Gillett, Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411- 533, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 55 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, June 2003) ISBN 0521-81349-2.
Forthcoming 2003: Review:
Andrew Gillett, Review
of Bernard Barchrach, Early Carolingian Warfare (2001) for Parergon.
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SAM LIEU
Books:
S. Clarkson, E. Hunter, S.N.C. Lieu, and M. Vermes, Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, vol. 1: Texts from the Roman Empire (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin) Corpus fontium Manichaeorum (Brepols; Turnhout, 1998).
S.N.C. Lieu and M. Vermes, Acta Archelai, Manichaean Studies 4 (Brepols; Turnhout, 2001). Pp. 177. ISBN 2-503-51156-2
S.N.C. Lieu and Geoffrey Greatrex, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, vol. 2: 363-630 (Routledge; London, 2002). Pp. 373. ISBN 0- 415-14687-9.
Book Edited:
S.N.C. Lieu and D. Montserrat (eds.), Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend (Routledge; London, 1998).
Book Chapters:
S.N.C. Lieu, "From History to Legend and Legend to History: The Medieval and Byzantine Transformation of Constantine's Vita," in S.N.C. Lieu and D. Montserrat (eds.), Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend (Routledge; London, 1998), pp. 136-176.
S.N.C. Lieu, "From Iran to China: The Eastward Diffusion of Manichaeism" in C. Benjamin and D. Christian (eds.), Worlds of the Silk Road, Silk Road Studies 2 (Brepols; Turnhout, 1998) 1-22.
S.N.C. Lieu, "Fact and Fiction: Ming-chiao (Manichaeism) in Jin Yong's I-t'ien t'u-lung chi" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Jin Yong's Novels (Taipei, 1999) 43-66.
S.N.C. Lieu, "Lexicographica Manichaica: Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, vol. 1: Texts from the Roman Empire (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic and Latin)- An Interim Report and Discussion on Methodology," in J. Van Oort (ed.), Augustine and Manichaeism Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Leiden, 1999) 137-47.
S.N.C. Lieu, "A New Figurative Representation of Mani?" in R. Emmerick and P. Zieme (eds.), Studia Manichaica 4: Internationaler Kongre zum Manichismus Berlin, 14-18 Juli, 1997 (Berlin, 2000) 380-86.
S.N.C. Lieu, "Students and Scholars in Late Roman East" in Roy MacCleod (ed.), The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World (London, 2000) 127-42.
S.N.C. Lieu, "Byzantium, Persia and China: Interstate Relations on the Eve of the Islamic Conquest," in David Christian and Craig Benjamin (eds.), Realms of the Silk Roads: Ancient and Modern, Silk Road Studies 4 (Brepols; Turnhout, 2000) 47-66.
Articles:
S.N.C. Lieu, "The Self-Identity of Manichaeans in the Roman East," Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (1998) 205-227.
Forthcoming 2003: Book Edited:
Craig Benjamin and S.N.C. Lieu, Walls and Frontiers in Inner Asian History, Silk Road Studies 6 (Brepols; Turnhout 2003).
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WENDY MAYER
Book:
W. Mayer and P. Allen, John Chrysostom, The Early Church Fathers (Routledge; London, 2000).
Book Edited:
P. Allen, W. Mayer and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Volume 2 (Brisbane, 2000). Pp. xx + 440.
Book Chapter:
W. Mayer, "John Chrysostom", chapter 45 in The Early Christian World, ed. P. Esler, 2 vols. (Routledge; London, 2000) 1128-1150.
Articles:
W. Mayer, "Constantinopolitan Women in Chrysostom's Circle," Vigiliae Christianae 53 (1999) 265-288.
W. Mayer, "Female Participation and the Late Fourth-Century Preacher's Audience," Augustinianum 39 (1999) 139-147.
W. Mayer, "Who Came to Hear John Chrysostom Preach? Recovering a Late Fourth-Century Preacher's Audience," Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 76 (2000) 73-87.
W. Mayer, "Cathedral Church or Cathedral Churches? The Situation at Constantinople (c.360-404 AD)," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 66 (2000) 49-68.
W. Mayer, "`Les homélies de s. Jean Chrysostome en juillet 399'. A Second Look at Pargoire's Sequence and the Chronology of the Novae homiliae (CPG 4441)," Byzantinoslavica 60/2 (1999) 273-303.
P. Allen and W. Mayer, "Through a Bishop's Eyes: Towards a Definition of Pastoral Care in Late Antiquity," Augustinianum 40 (2000) 345-397.
W. Mayer, "Patronage, Pastoral Care and the Role of the Bishop at Antioch," Vigiliae Christianae 55 (2001) 58-70.
W. Mayer, "At Constantinople, How Often Did John Chrysostom Preach? Addressing Assumptions about the Workload of a Bishop," Sacris Erudiri 40 (2001) 83-105.
W. Mayer, "The Homily as Historical Document: Some Problems in Relation to John Chrysostom," Lutheran Theological Journal 35 (2001) 17-22.
Encyclopaedia Article:
W. Mayer, "Aelia Eudoxia (Wife of Arcadius)," in De Imperatoribus Romanis: An on-line encyclopedia (www.roman-emperors.org; 2002).
Other: Web Site:
W. Mayer, "Bibliography of scholarship in the field of Chrysostom studies (including ps. Chrysostomica, but excluding the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom", http://www.acu.edu.au/earlychr (2001, updated 6-monthly)
Reviews:
W. Mayer, Review of St. John Chrysostom: On Repentance and Almsgiving* trans. G.G. Christo (1998), for Journal of Early Christian Studies 7 (1999) 323-324.
W. Mayer, Review of M. Illert, Johannes Chrysostomus und das antiochenish-syrische Mönchtum (2000), for Sobornost 23 (2001) 86-88.
W. Mayer, Review of N. Russell, Cyril of Alexandria (2000), for Journal of Religious History 26 (2002) 99-100.
W. Mayer, Review of B. Leyerle, *Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage* (2001) for Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002) 406-408.
W. Mayer, Review of M. Mitchell, The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation (2000) for Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002) 408-409.
Forthcoming: Books:
W. Mayer, The Homilies of St John Chrysostom - Provenance: Reshaping the Foundations (Orientalia Christiana Analecta; Rome, forthcoming).
J. Leemans, W. Mayer, P. Allen and B. Dehandschutter, "Let Us Die That We May Live": Greek Homilies on Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine, and Syria (c. 350-c. 450 AD), (Routledge; London, forthcoming July 2003).
Forthcoming: Article:
W. Mayer, "Antioch: Examining the episcopate of John Chrysostom from another angle", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, forthcoming.
Forthcoming: Reviews:
W. Mayer, Review of F.R. Trombley and J.W. Watt, The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (2000) in Journal of Religious History forthcoming.
W. Mayer, Review of B.
Leyerle, Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack
on Spiritual Marriage (2001) for Journal of Roman Studies 92
(2002) 266-267.
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JOHN MELVILLE-JONES
Book:
J.R. Melville-Jones, M.P.
Ghezzo, and A. Rizzi, The Morosini Codex, volumes 1 and 2
(Padua Univercity Press; Padua, 1999, 2000). Volumes 3 to 6 forthcoming.
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BRONWEN NEIL
Books:
P. Allen and B. Neil, Scripta saeculi VII vitam Maximi Confessoris illustrantia, Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 39 (Turnhout/Leuven, 1999). Pp. l-250.
P. Allen and B. Neil,
Maximus
the Confessor and his Companions: Documents from Exile, (Oxford University
Press; Oxford, 2002).
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ALANNA NOBBS
Book Edited:
T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University, volume 1: The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome; volume 2: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Beyond (Eerdmans; Michigan/Cambridge, 1998). Pp. 436 with 22 pages of plates (volume 1); 493 (volume 2).
Book Chapters:
A.M. Nobbs, "Formulas of Belief in Greek Papyrus Letters of the Third and Fourth Centuries," in T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University, volume 2, 233-37.
S.R. Llewelyn and A.M. Nobbs, "The Earliest Dated Reference to Sunday in the papyri," in S.R. Llewelyn (ed.), New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, volume 9: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1986-87,* (Eerdmans; Grand Rapids/Cambridge, 2002) 86-98.
Journal Articles:
Alanna Nobbs, "Gnosticism
and the Greek Papyri from Egypt," Phronema 14 (1999)
53-60.
Alanna Nobbs, Ian Gardner and Malcolm Choat, "P.Harr. 107: Is This Another Greek Manichaean Letter?," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 131 (2000) 118-124.
Other: Journal Special Issue Edited:
J. Gascoigne, M. Harding,
and A. Nobbs (eds.), Journal of Religious History 26 (2002) = Dead
Sea Scrolls Special Issue (Blackwells; Sydney, 2002).
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KEN PARRY
Book Edited:
Ken Parry (chief editor), David J. Melling, Dimitri Brady, Sydney H. Griffith, and John F. Healey (eds.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (Blackwell; Oxford, 1999; paperback edition 2001). Pp. xxii + 581.
Encyclopaedia Entries:
120 entries to The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999).
9 entries to Trevor Hart
(ed.), The Dictionary of Historical Theology (Paternoster/Eerdmans;
Carisle/Michigan, 2000): "John of Damascus," "John Chrysostom," "Symeon
the New Theologian," "John Meyendorff," "Sergius Bulgakov," "Nicholas Berdyaev,"
"Iconoclast Controversy,"
"Baalam the Calabrian,"
and "Photius."
Review:
Ken Parry, Review of G. Peers, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium (2001) for Prudentia 34/1 (2002).
Other:
Curator of "Byzantine Icons" exhibition, Macquarie University Library, May-June 2001.
Curator of "Christian Angels on the South China Coast" exhibition, Macquarie University Library, March-April 2003.
Forthcoming 2003: Articles:
Ken Parry, "Byzantine and Melkite Iconophiles Under Iconoclasm," in Judith Herrin et al., Porphyrogenita: Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides (Ashgate; Aldershot, 2002).
Ken Parry, "Japan and the Silk Road Legacy," in S. Lieu and C. Benjamin (eds.), Worlds of the Silk Roads Ancient and Modern: Walls and Frontiers in Inner Asian History, The Silk Road Studies Series 6 (Brepols; Turnhout, 2002).
Ken Parry, "The Ascetical Theology of Maximus the Confessor," in Phronema 17 (2002).
Ken Parry, "The Christian Tombstones from Quanzhou," Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia 13 (2003).
Ken Parry, "Origen and Image-Making," in John McGuckin (ed.), The Westminster Handbook to Origen, (John Knox Press; Louisville/London, 2003).
Ken Parry, "Crisis in
the Balkans: The Byzantine Monuments of Kosovo," in The Eastern Churches
Journal 8/3 (2002).
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PHILIP ROUSSEAU
Books:
Philip Rousseau, Basil of Caesarea, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 20 (University of California Press; Berkeley, 1998).
Philip Rousseau, Pachomius: the Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, 2nd ed., Transformation of the Classical Heritage 8 (University of California; Berkeley, 1999).
Philip Rousseau, The Early Christian Centuries (Longmans; London, 2002).
Book Edited:
Philip Rousseau and Tomas Hägg, Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 31 (University of California Press; Berkeley, CA: 2000).
Book Chapters:
Philip Rousseau, "Jerome's Search for Self-Identity," in P. Allen, R. Canning and L. Cross (eds.), Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, Volume 1 (Brisbane, 1998).
Philip Rousseau, "`The Preacher's Audience': a More Optimistic View," in T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon, and A.M. Nobbs (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University, volume 2: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Beyond (Eerdmans; Michigan/Cambridge, 1998) 391-400.
Philip Rousseau, "Ascetics as Mediators and as Teachers," in James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (eds.), The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1999) 45-59.
Philip Rousseau and Tomas Hägg, "Introduction: Biography and Panegyric" (with Tomas Hägg), in Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000) 1-28.
Philip Rousseau, "Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life," in Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (2000) 89-109.
Philip Rousseau, "Monasticism" in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, and Michael Whitby (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, volume 14: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 2000) 745-780.
Journal Articles:
Philip Rousseau, "The Identity of the Ascetic Master in the Historia Religiosa of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: a New Paideia?" in G.W. Clarke (ed.), Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity, = Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (1998) 229-244.
Philip Rousseau, "Procopius's Buildings and Justinian's Pride," Byzantion 68 (1998) 121-130.
Philip Rousseau, "Sidonius and Majorian: the Censure in Carmen V," Historia 49 (2000) 251-257.
Encyclopaedia Entries:
Eight entries in G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (eds.), Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World (Harvard University Press; Cambridge, MA, 1999): "Baptism," "Basil of Caesarea," "Bishops," "Gregory of Nyssa," "Monks," "Nitria," "Pachomius," and "Scetis."
Reviews:
Philip Rousseau, Review of Lynda L. Coon, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity (1997) for English Historical Review 114 (1999) 398-399.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Teresa M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity (1998) for Catholic Historical Review 85 (1999) 272-275.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: an Intellectual Biography (1999) for Heythrop Journal 41 (2000) 474-477.
Philip Rousseau, Review of David Frankfurter (ed.), Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt (1998) for Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51 (2000) 775-776.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority (1997) for Heythrop Journal 41 (2000) 218-220.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Anthony Meredith, Gregory of Nyssa (1999) for Heythrop Journal 41 (2000) 490-491.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Lionel R. Wickham, Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-Century Church (1997) for Heythrop Journal 41 (2000) 338.
Philip Rousseau, Review of John C. Cavadini (ed.), Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity: Imagining Truth (1999) for Heythrop Journal 42 (2001) 501-503.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, Types of Authority in Formative Christianity and Judaism (1999) for Heythrop Journal 42 (2001) 368-370.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Elizabeth A. Clark, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (1999) for Journal of Ecclesiastical History 52 (2001) 342-344.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Jeffrey W. Hargis, Against the Christians: the Rise of Early Anti-Christian Polemic (1999) for Heythrop Journal 42 (2001) 505-507.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: the Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature (2000) for Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001) 717-719.
Philip Rousseau, Review of Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages (2000) for Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53 (2002) 336-337.
Philip Rousseau, Review
of Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria (2000) for Heythrop Journal
43 (2002) 229-230.
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ANDREW F. STONE
Journal Articles:
Andrew F. Stone, "The Grand Hetaireiarch John Doukas: the Career of a Twelfth-Century Soldier and Diplomat," Byzantion 69 (1999) 145-164.
Andrew F. Stone, "A Threefold Controversy Concerning the Trinity: an Unregarded Attempt at Crosspollination between the Orthodox and Islamic Faiths at Byzantium in 1180," Greek Orthodox Theological Review (1999) 155-166.
Andrew F. Stone, "The Library of Eustathios of Thessaloniki: Literary Sources for Eustathian Panegyric," Byzantinoslavica (1999) 351-366.
Andrew F. Stone, "Eustathian Panegyric as a Historical Source," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (2001) 225-258.
Andrew F. Stone, "On the influence of Hermogenes' Theory of Ideas and Other Factors Affecting Style in the Panegyrics of Eustathios of Thessaloniki," Rhetorica (2001) 307-339.
Forthcoming: Articles:
Andrew F. Stone, "The Oration by Eustathios of Thessaloniki for Agnes of France: a Snapshot of Political Tension between Byzantium and the West," forthcoming in Byzantion.
Andrew F. Stone, "The Funeral Oration of Eustathios of Thessaloniki for Manuel I Komnenos: the Portrait of a Byzantine Emperor," forthcoming in Balkan Studies.
Andrew F. Stone, "Dorylaion
Revisited: Manuel I Komnenos and the Refortification of Dorylaion and Soublaion
in 1175," forthcoming in Revue des Études Byzantines.
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PAUL TUFFIN
William Adler and Paul
Tuffin (trs.), The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle
of Universal History from the Creation (Clarendon Press; Oxford, 2002).
Pp. lxxxviii + 638.
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ALAN WALMSLEY
Book:
A. Walmsley, K.A. Sheedy, and R.A.G. Carson, Pella in Jordan 1979-1990: The Coins, ed. K. da Costa, Adapa Monograph Series 1. (Adapa; Sydney, 2001). ISBN 0957889003.
Book Edited:
A. Walmsley (ed), Australians Uncovering Ancient Jordan: Fifty Years of Middle Eastern Archaeology (Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney: Sydney, 2001).
Book Chapters:
A.G. Walmsley, "Production, Exchange and Regional Trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: Old Structures, New Systems?", in I.L Hansen, I. L. and C. Wickham (eds.), The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand (Brill; Leiden, 2000) 265-343.
A.G. Walmsley, "Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Jordan and the Crusader Interlude," in B. MacDonald, R. Adams and P. Bienkowski (eds.) The Archaeology of Jordan (Sheffield Academic Press; Sheffield, 2001) 515-559.
A.G. Walmsley, "Turning East: The Appearance of Islamic Cream Wares in Jordan - the End of Antiquity?," in E. Villeneuve and P.M. Watson (eds.), La céramique byzantine et proto-islamique en Syrie-Jordanie (IVe - VIIIe siécles) (Institut Français d'Études Arabes; Beyrouth, 2001) 305-13.
A.G. Walmsley, "Die Dekapolis-Städte nach dem Ende des Rümischen Reiches: Kontinuität und Wandel," in S. Kerner (ed.), Gadara - Gerasa und die Dekapolis (Philipp von Zabern; Mainz, 2002).
Journal Articles:
A.G. Walmsley, "Archaeology in Jordan: Gharandal (Arindela)," American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998), 605-606.
A.G. Walmsley, "Gharandal in Jibal: First Season Report," Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42 (1998) 433-41.
A.G. Walmsley, "Archaeology in Jordan: Gharandal (Arindela)," American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999) 517-18.
A.G. Walmsley, "Coin Frequencies in Sixth and Seventh Century Palestine and Arabia: Social and Economic Implications," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 42(1999) 324-50.
A.G. Walmsley, P. Karsgaard, and A. Grey, "Town and Village: Site Transformations in South Jordan (The Gharandal Archaeological Project, Second Season Report)," Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43 (1999) 459-478.
A.M.H. Shboul and A.G. Walmsley, "Identity and Self-image in Syria-Palestine in the Transition from Byzantine to Early Islamic Rule: Arab Christians and Muslims," in G.W. Clarke (ed.), Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity, = Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (1999) 255-87.
A.G. Walmsley, "The `Islamic City': The Archaeological Experience in Jordan," Mediterranean Archaeology 13 (2000) 1-9.
A.G. Walmsley, "An Archaeological Evaluation of Gharandal in Jordan, 1996-1999," Mediterranean Archaeology 13 (2000) 149-59.
A.G. Walmsley, "Restoration or Revolution? Jordan between the Islamic Conquest and the Crusades: Impressions of Twenty-Five Years of Archaeological Research," Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan (Department of Antiquities, Amman) 7 (2001) 633-40.
A.G. Walmsley and A. Grey, "An Interim Report on the Pottery from Gharandal (Arindela), Jordan," Levant 33, 137-62 (2001).
Reviews:
A.G. Walmsley, "The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: a Historical and Archaeological Study." Review of Robert Schick, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 2, for Journal of the American Oriental Society 119 (1999) 320-22.
A.G. Walmsley, Review of Juma Mahmoud H. Kareem, The Settlement Patterns in the Jordan Valley in the Mid- to Late Islamic Period for Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 326 (2002).
A.G. Walmsley, Review of Phyllis Lambert (ed.), Fortifications and the Synagogue: the Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, 2nd ed., for Ancient Near Eastern Studies 39 (2002).
3. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS: AUSTRALIA
COMMEMORATIVE SYMPOSIUM OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, 29 MAY 2003
The 29th of May 2003 will mark the 550 year anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople.
Project 1453 plans to mark this anniversary by hosting a symposium in Melbourne, home to Australia's largest Greek and Turkish communities.
The project aims to bring together balanced participation from various perspectives, in an atmosphere of mutual respect and common interest. We believe this is the first time in Australia diverse communities will co-operate in marking this special event. Project 1453 has the following objectives:
- To explore historical events, outcomes and implications of the Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
- To involve the people on whom it had the most impact.
- To further mutual understanding between the Hellenic and Turkish communities while engendering a spirit of goodwill and reconciliation.
- To popularise the study of history and expose audiences to a variety of informed opinions and academic views.
Project 1453 is attracting interest and support from religious and secular academic and community organisations and individuals. Media organisations have also shown interest.
Lectures and workshops will feature Faith (Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism), Personalities (biographies of Sultan Fatih, the last Emperor, Byzantine and Ottoman women), Environment (The City, Iconoclasm, Art and Architecture) and Performances (historical re-enactments by the New Varangian Guard and the Mehter Takimi, the only Ottoman military band outside Turkey, classical music).
We welcome your views
and participation. Please contact Dr. Susan Aykut or Mr. Terry Papadis
on e-mail: orgcom1453@bigpond.com
or phone +61 3 9523 1950.
CHRISTIAN
ANGELS ON THE SOUTH CHINA COAST
Macquarie
University Library
March
3 - April 12 2003
A photographic exhibition of Christian tombstones of the Mongol Period (13th-14th centuries) from Quanzhou in Fujian province in South China will be on display in the ground floor exhibition area at Macquarie University Library from March 3 - April 12 2003. Quanzhou was known to Western travellers as Zaitun and it was the port from which Marco Polo left China in 1292. Since 1997 it has gained fame as the City of Light from the title given to the manuscript of a Jewish merchant, Jacob d'Ancona, who allegedly spent six months in the city in 1271-72. The curator is Dr Ken Parry and the exhibition is being held as part of an ARC research project based in the Ancient History Department at Macquaire University. Further details on the Library's website: www.lib.mq.edu.au/about/exhibitions/index.html
4. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND EVENTS: INTERNATIONAL
The following meetings are listed as addenda to the list of forthcoming events in issue 44 of the Newsletter.
BYZANTINE
WOMEN AND THEIR WORLD
25
October 2002
The exhibition "Byzantine Women and Their World" will open on Friday, 25 October 2002 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass. There will be a lecture by Ioli Kalavrezou at 6:00 pm to introduce the exhibition. It will stay on view until April 25, 2003.
THE
BARBARIANS OF ANCIENT EUROPE
21-23
March 2003
The University of Richmond's
Department of Classical Studies is sponsoring a conference on "The Barbarians
of Ancient Europe," 21-23 March 2003. The conference will be hosted
by Larissa Bonfante, Visiting Professor of Classical Studies at the University
of
Richmond for the second
semester of this academic year. Please visit our web site to review
the program, the speakers, and how to register. http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/classics/Barbarians/home.html
If you have further inquiries, please e-mail Stuart Wheeler at: swheeler@richmond.edu.
ARCHITECTURE
AND LITURGY COLLOQUIUM
Greifswalf,
Germany 25-27 July 2003.
The Colloquium will cover the period from Late Antiquity to the MiddleAges (including the liturgical and art-historical developments in theEast -- Egypt, Syria, Byzantium -- and the West). The aim is to reveal thedifferences and/or similarities concerning the relationship of architecture and liturgy in different regions and different times. Papers of 20 minutes in length invited. Contact Prof. Dr Claudia Nauerth or Dr Michael Altrip, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Univeristat, Victor-Schultze-Institut, Am Rubenowplatz 2/3, 17487 Greifswald (Germany). Email: christku@uni-greifswald.de
SYRIAC
CHRISTIANITY: CULTURE AT THE CROSSROADS
9-12
July 2003
The Fourth North American Syriac Symposium, "Syriac Christianity: Culture at the Crossroads", will be held in Princeton, New Jersey, 9-12 July 2003. Princeton Theological Seminary will be our host institution, with the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University and Beth Mardutho, the Syriac Institute, as co-sponsors. To add your name to the mailing list, please fill out the form at http://www.bethmardutho.org/
NOBLE
IDEALS AND BLOODY REALITIES: WARFARE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, 378-1492
31
October-2 November 2003
CALL
FOR PAPERS
The Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia invites proposals for papers to be given at the 33rd Annual Medieval Workshop.
Please send before
20 March 2003 a 300-word abstract and a brief Curriculum Vitae to:
Drs. Maya Yazigi and
Niall Christie
Department of Classical,
Near Eastern and Religious Studies
University of British
Columbia
BUCH C260 1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
CANADA
Fax# (604) 822-9431
E-mail: yazigi@interchange.ubc.ca
or nchristi@interchange.ubc.ca
BYZANTIUM:
FAITH AND POWER (1261-1557) METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
15
March-4 July, 2004
The exhibition will focus on the cultural importance of the last centuries of the state known as the 'empire of the Romans'. The cultural and artistic importance of the period will be primarily demonstrated through the works of art created for the Orthodox Church and for churches of other Eastern Christian states that aspired to be the heirs to the empire's power. The significance of Byzantine culture for the Islamic world and for the Latin West will be explored, and especially the importance of the Christian East in the development of the Renaissance. The exhibition will begin with the year 1261 when Constantinople was restored to Byzantine rule, and the show will conclude in 1557 when the empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, was renamed "Byzantium," the name by which it is still known today. For information on "Byzantium: Faith and Power," contact: byzantium@metmuseum.org.
THE
21ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES
London
21-27 August 2006
The committee is currently seeking proposals and suggestionsfor theme, and panels. Email Anthony Bryer on: bryer@compuserve.com.
PRIZE IN HONOUR OF THE MEMORY OF NIKOLAOS M. PANAGIOTAKES (1935-1997)
The Greek Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Culture, the Universities of Ioannina and Ca'Foscari (Venice), and the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation and the Italia-Grecia Association of Venice announce a Prize in Honour of the Memory of Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes, Director of the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Post-Bizantini, Venice.
The prize is intended for younger researchers not over 40 years old. A special committee will judge unpublished studies submitted to the prize organizers, of up to 100 A4 pages in length, which should be related to areas of research that were of particular interest to Panagiotakes, such as Byzantine literature, the vernacular tradition, the Cretan Renaissance, and Byzantine-Venetian relations. The study may be in written in Greek, Italian, English or French.
The Prize will be Euro 2,500.
Participants in the Panagiotakes Prize should submit their studies by 1 June 2003 to:
Caterina Carpinato
Dipartimento di Scienze
dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente
Università Ca'Foscari
San Sebastiano
Dorsoduro 1686, 30123
Venezia, Italia.
The Prize will be awarded on 1 October 2003, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary since the passing away of Nikolaos Panagiotakes.
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MARGO TYTUS VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program. Tytus Fellows, in the fields of philology, history and archaeology, will ordinarily be at least 5 years beyond receipt of the Ph. D. Apart from residence in Cincinnati during term, the only obligation of Tytus Fellows is to pursue their own research. Fellowships are tenable during the regular academic year (October 1 to May 31).
There are two categories of Tytus Fellowships, long-term and short- term. Long Term Fellows will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one academic quarter (two and a half months) and a maximum of three during the regular academic year. They will receive a monthly stipend of $1000 plus housing and a transportation allowance. Short Term Fellows will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of two during the regular academic year. They will receive housing and a transportation allowance. Both Long Term and Short Term Fellows will also receive office space and enjoy the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries. While at Cincinnati Tytus Fellows will be free to pursue their own research.
The University of Cincinnati
Burnam Classics Library is one of the world's premier collections in the
field of Classical Studies.Comprising 175,000 volumes, the library covers
all aspects of the Classics: the languages and literatures, history, civilization,
art, and archaeology. Of special value for scholars is both the richness
of the collection and its accessibility -- almost any avenue of research
in the classics can be pursued deeply and broadly under a single roof.
The unusually comprehensive core collection, which is maintained by three
professional classicist librarians, is augmented by several special collections
such as 15,000 nineteenth century German Programmschriften, extensive
holdings in Palaeography,Byzantine
and Modern Greek Studies. At neighbouring Hebrew Union College, the
Klau Library, with holdings in excess of 400,000 volumes, is rich in Judaica
and Near Eastern Studies.
Application Deadline:
January 1.
For application forms
please write to:
Director, Margo Tytus
Visiting Scholars Program
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0226
e-mail: secretary@classics.uc.edu
http://classics.uc.edu/tytus
BRITISH ACADEMY PORTAL
The British Academy has launched a public-access online Humanities and Social Sciences directory to web resources, the British Academy Portal. The Portal lists web sites by subject area. Searching under 'Topics A-Z: Byzantium' (using the Topics function on the home page) produces sites listed under 'Byzantine art, commonwealth, Greek, and Egypt';'`Byzantine Studies'; and 'Byzantium.' There are also a variety of cognate topic, e.g. classical and medieval studies.
The web address is: http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal
CALL FOR REVIEWERS: THE HEROIC AGE
Dr. Brad Eden, Book Reviews Editor for the ejournal The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe, calls for those interested in being placed on a list of reviewers for the journal. Reviews cover late antiquity and early medieval northwestern Europe on history, literature, archaeology, and anthropology. Contact him directly with credentials/vita, contact information (email and snailmail), and subject areas of interest, on: beden@ccmail.nevada.eduThe Heroic Age is archived at: http://member.aol.com/heroicage/homepage.html.
CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS
The Ohio State University Press, with forty years' experience publishing women's studies, history, crime and criminal justice, political science, literary studies, and original poetry and fiction, is developing a new line in classics in the areas of gender studies, sexuality, and literature and narrative. We welcome book-length proposals (both monographs and focused collections of essays) in these and related fields, including neo-Latin. Proposals should include at least a detailed prospectus, a table of contents, a projected word count and date of completion, and the author's curriculum vitae. Please send all materials by mail to:
Eugene O'Connor
Managing Editor
The Ohio State University
Press
180 Pressey Hall
1070 Carmack Road
Columbus, OH 43210
oconnor.136@osu.edu
www.ohiostatepress.org
Prospective authors are also welcome to make preliminary inquiries by e-mail to: oconnor.136@osu.edu
Report on the conference, Ancient Studies - New Technology II: The World Wide Web and scholarly research, communication, and publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 6-8 December 2002
If you are involved in blended or on-line teaching using the web, are producing web-based research tools, host a web site for your Department or Research Centre, or are simply interested in what web technology can do for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, this is a conference not to be missed. Because the gathering is small (c. 50 participants), because everyone who comes is convinced of the utility of the web, because the methodologies and primary source material of all three disciplines are similar, and all papers are delivered in a single stream, every paper presented is of interest to everyone and the discussion that follows is lively, instructive, and focused.
This is only the second time the conference has been held and already the advances in technology and in the uses to which the web is being put are evident. At the same time, while some of the major issues raised by the first conference (e.g. how to present specialised fonts on the web - see my Report in Byzantine Studies in Australia Newsletter 42 [May 2001]) have been resolved, others (e.g. copyright of images, getting tenure committees to value web publication, quality control of web publications and resources) remain high on the agenda.
Rather than discuss the papers item by item (these will all be posted shortly on the conference web site: http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002, along with useful URLs), I will focus on the key issues that arose, and mention some of the more interesting technological tools that were demonstrated.
Two issues of major interest are those of duplication of effort, particularly in the area of on-line or blended teaching, and how do you teach your students to discriminate between good and bad web resources. What do you do, too, if someone has placed on the web the answers to all of the class exercises for a widely used textbook (in this case Wheelock's Latin Grammar) and your students, being techno-savvy, have located them? Although these problems were raised more than once throughout the duration of the conference, they were given special focus by Janice Siegel (U of Illinois). Janice's plea was for a web site that becomes a reference key to all of the sites in a particular area (here, Latin language teaching), with peer review of sites, under the auspices of a recognised body (in this case the American Philological Association and the ACL). Another solution offered (this time for teaching Greek) was by Dora Pozzi (U of Houston), who has developed a non-textbook-based on-line class with unique language drills and teaching materials. While this has the advantage of keeping the student focused and lessening the likelihood of them finding related materials (good or bad) elsewhere on the web, it involves a huge amount of effort on the part of the individual lecturer. If the resources are password protected, to protect the interests of the person who developed the course, then it is also the case that each lectuer is forced to reinvent the materials from scratch for their own purposes.
Another issue raised by Celia Chazelle (College of New Jersey) was the possibility of modelling new web practices on those already adopted in scientific disciplines, in this case, the archiving a pre- and e-prints on a centralised web site under the auspices of a recognised authoritative body within the displine area. Already adopted in physics and other disciplines it provides a means of disseminating research results while waiting for articles to make it into the print journals or conference proceedings. Each article submitted is given a certification number and date; there is no refereeing involved; copyright (up until the point of publication) is retained by the author. There are several advantages to this approach: it enables scholars to make a claim to a particular approach or result several years before the final version of the article makes it into print; it enables scholars to check whether anyone else is working on a specified area, to avoid duplication; and scholars can refer a tenure committee to the pre-print. Since most journal articles go through at least one set of revisions before publication, the final published version still retains its status as the standard citation by other scholars, but an interim citation of the pre-print can be made (much in the same way as one refers to a "personal communication by?" or an unpublished conference paper). One consequence of this kind of approach in Physics has been the death of a variety of print journals as the e-print format has taken over as the preferred means of publishing. There are a number of issues associated with this mechanism. If this becomes a form of publication in itself, rather than an interim measure, what happens to peer review? How is quality assured? What happens when the pre-print is published? Is it removed? Is there a tag that refers the user to the newly published print version? What application might this approach have for the disciplines of Classical, Mediaeval and Byzantine Studies, where the time lag between submission and publication can be quite lengthy?
Another issue raised was the false distinction made by tenure or review committees between pedagogy and research/scholarship when assessing the development by a staff member of web resources. As both Bert Lott (Vassar College) and Guy MacLean Rogers (Wellesley College) pointed out in separate papers, a resource that has pedagogy as its primary aim often also incorporates or pushes the boundaries of research. In the material developed by Guy Maclean Rogers for teaching about Alexander the Great online, the process of thinking through the visualisation of the material (audio, video-streaming etc) changed the questions asked of the material, so that the medium became an important test control of the primary data.
This leads to the issue of the utility of web tools for education. As Guy pointed out, the ability for students to inspect a tomb visually for themselves and to see where archaeological finds are located within it is an educational tool far superior to drawing the tomb in two dimensions on a blackboard. Students who took the course totally online did better on the material objects side of the course than those who took it with the lecturer up front. A similar result was experienced by Bryon Grigsby (Centenary College), who incorporated threaded discussions (an online tutorial aid) in his classes in medieval literature. When he was unable to deliver one of the lectures in person, students performed better that week by arguing about the meaning of the text among themselves online. He found that such discussions, in which students were required to participate and to lead the discussion by posting an initial question, greatly improved the preparation by students prior to entering the classroom. On the other hand, this may be a tool that works better in classes with small numbers. Others who had tried the same technique in a class of approx. 200 students had found its utility markedly diminished. The use of Blackboard software for teaching in and out of the classroom came up several times in presentations.
One tool that was of particular interest was DjVu, a new image format, with markedly improved compression in comparison to the current formats (JPEG, GIF etc). Not only can it significantly improve download times for images incorporated into web sites, but it has a very attractive magnifying glass feature (without loss of resolution), that makes it ideal for the presentation of coins, art images, or original manuscripts on the web. With the download of a plug-in, it runs on all platforms. Information about this tool can be found at www.lizardtech.com and www.djvuzone.org.
One could continue to discuss at length the issues, tools and even simply the web projects that were presented. This is an enormously useful conference. Even if as yet you have nothing to present yourself, the web is becoming an inevitable and inescapable part of research and teaching. Anyone envisaging a long-term career in Byzantine or Late Antique Studies should give serious thought to attending.
Wendy Mayer
Australian Catholic University
7. AABS NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Byzantine Macedonia: Art, Architecture, Music, Hagiography, ed. by John Burke and Roger Scott, National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research, Latrobe University 2001.
This second volume of papers from the conference Byzantine Macedonia is now available from the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research. For orders, please contact the Administrative Officer, Lucy Aloneftis (l.aloneftis@latrobe.edu.au). It is listed as item no.10 on the Centre web site (www.latrobe.edu/nhc/) under Publications.
8. 2002 AND 2003 SUBSCRIPTIONS
Members are reminded that, if either their 2002 or 2003 subscriptions have not yet been paid, payment is very welcome.
Annual rates are: $15/$10 unwaged and students.
Subscriptions may be sent to the AABS Treasurer, Dr Lynda Garland:
Dr Lynda Garland
School of Classics, History
and Religion
University of New England
Armidale NSW
2351
email: ldillon@metz.une.edu.au
The next Newsletter will include abstracts of papers presented at "Feast, Fast, or Famine: An International Conference on Food and Drink in Byzantium," AABS Conference XIII, University of Adelaide, 8-10 July 2003.
Contributions for the next Newsletter are very welcome. Please direct them to:
Dr Andrew Gillett
Department of Ancient
History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
Fax: +61-2-9850 9001
Email: andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au
or agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au
APPENDIX I: AABS Executive 2001-2005
President:
Assoc. Professor John
Melville-Jones
Department of Classics
and Ancient History
University of Western
Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Email: jrmelvil@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Secretary:
Dr Wendy Mayer
Centre for Early Christian
Studies
Australian Catholic University
McAuley Campus
PO Box 247
Everton Park QLD 4053
Email: wendy.mayer@adelaide.edu.au
Treasurer:
Dr Lynda Garland
School of Classics and
History
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: ldillon@metz.une.edu.au
Other members:
Professor Pauline Allen
Centre for Early Christian
Studies
Australian Catholic University
PO Box 247
Everton Park OLD 4053
Email: P.Allen@mcauley.acu.edu.au
(Byzantina Australiensia
distribution; past president)
Dr Andrew Gillett
Department of Ancient
History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
Email: andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au
or agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au
(Newsletter editor)
Dr Ann Moffatt
Department of Classics
and Modern European Languages
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Email: ann.moffatt@anu.edu.au
Assoc. Professor Alanna
Nobbs
Department of Ancient
History, Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
Email: alanna.nobbs@mq.edu.au
Assoc. Professor Roger
Scott
Department of Classics
and Archaeology
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3053
Email: r.scott@arts.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Paul Tuffin
Classics
Centre for European Languages
University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
Email: paul.tuffin@adelaide.edu.au
APPENDIX II: Previous AABS Newsletters
Copies of previous AABS Newsletters numbers 36 (1998) to 44 (2002) can be viewed at the AABS Web site:
http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/AABS
CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS PRIVATE
Eat,
Drink and Be Merry (Luke 12:19)
The
production, consumption and celebration of food and wine in Byzantium.
The 37th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies the University of Birmingham, Saturday 29 to Monday 31 March 2003.
Call for Communications (deadline 24 February 2003) Communications of 12 minutes each, on the theme of the Symposium are invited. Applications should include the speaker's name, address, email address along with the title of the proposed communication and a 250 word abstract. If at all possible, please send these electronically (as attachment or in the body of the email) either to L.Brubaker@bham.ac.uk or Anna_byz@hotmail.com.
Astracts are published in the SPBS Newsletter.
Registration details can be obtained from the website: www.byzantium.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS
Female Relations: Imagery of Women and Girls in Old and New Rome Session at the 2004 College Art Association's Annual Conference (Seattle, WA, February 18-21, 2004)
Images of women and girls in ancient Rome and Byzantium, the new Rome in the east, have received much attention, yet interest has typically focused on how women related to the male social, religious, and political spheres, while the bonds or distinctions between female figures have received less consideration. This session seeks to highlight the significance of exploring female relations in images, and to discuss the continuities and ruptures in visual representation and by extension its social context in ancient Rome, early Christianity, and Byzantium. We invite papers that explore any aspect of the social, political, spiritual, biological, psychological, physical, allegorical, or purely representational ties, associations, or conflicts between females in relation to one another, and the implications of such imagery for the investigation of gender.
Kriszta Kotsis, University of Washington; and Cecily Hennessy, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Mail to: Kriszta Kotsis,
1617 Summit Ave #31, Seattle, WA 98122
(balaton@u.washington.edu)
and
Cecily Hennessy, Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House,
Strand, London, WC2R
ORN,
UK
(cecily.hennessy@courtauld.ac.uk)
Submit abstracts by May 12, 2003.