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The strength and quality of the research being conducted in Australian institutions in Late Antique and Byzantine studies and related fields continues to be demonstrated as individuals attract further grants. The following grants have been awarded since November 1998.Pauline Allen, Centre for Early Christian Studies, Institute for the Advancement of Research, Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus. ARC Large Grant (1999-2001).
This is the second phase of a project devoted to editing and translating documents pertaining to the life of Maximus Confessor. It involves two of the three versions of Maximus' biography, both never before edited. The text of the first of these has been established and will now be furnished with an extensive introduction and translated into English. The text of the second biography will be established and likewise translated into English. Bronwen Neil is the Research Associate for the duration of the research, which forms part of a large international publishing project co-ordinated in Belgium.
Rifaat Ebied, Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney and David Thomas, Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham, UK. ARC Large Grant (1999-2001). Project title: A Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity: al-Dimashqi's Letter to the People of Cyprus.
Postgraduate Research in progress in Australian and New Zealand Universities Tim Dawson
The Ceremonial Dress and Regalia of the Byzantine Court, tenth to fourteenth centuries
Master of Arts by Research, School of Classics and History, University of New England
Supervisors: Lynda Garland, Iain Spence
Commencing with the specifications of dress and personal accoutrements in the Kleterologion of Philotheos at the end of the ninth century and the extensive elaboration of them in the Book of Ceremonies, the objective is to specifically identify the garments worn and important items borne by the various members of the court on ceremonial occasions by correlation with pictorial and other literary sources and the rare instances of archaeology, then to trace their uses and variations through to the Treatise on the Offices of Pseudo-Kodinos in the mid-fourteenth century.