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Malcolm Choat, Laity and Leadership in Fourth Century Egypt ChristianityDoctor of Philosophy, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University
Supervisors: Associate Professors Ted Nixon and Alanna Nobbs
The fourth century witnessed the rise of the Christian Church in Egypt as a major player in the social, economic and political spheres, corresponding to its increasing religious significance. This thesis examines how these changes affected the Christian laity by focusing on their relationship with their religious leaders, both clerical and monastic. Particular prominence is given to the manner in which the rise of monasticism, a new locus of religious authority (initially) outside the Church structure, affected this relationship. Egypt offers a unique perspective on these affairs through the survival of documentary papyri, especially personal letters, written by lay Christians, clergy and monks, which allow an insight into their attitudes towards one another. The thesis also seeks to correct a previous imbalance towards Greek evidence, highlighting fourth century Coptic documentary material, and examining what sort of link existed between the rise of Coptic as a written language and the emergence of monasticism, which occur at roughly the same time in the Mid Third century. This will allow conclusions to be drawn on the general cultural and religious atmosphere in fourth century Egypt, and how this changed during the period from the Decian persecution in the Mid Third century to the Council of Chalcedon in the Mid fifth.
1998 Fieldwork conducted by teams from Australian Universities From Byzantium to the Middle Ages
Contributions from two seasons at Gharandal (Arindela) in south Jordan
Settlement processes in the south of Jordan between Late Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages (ca. 6th - 15th century) have attracted only cursory interest in the past. In particular there has been little attention paid to issues of rural-urban interchange, the use of public space in towns and the role of local (Arab) elites during the Byzantine period, at the time of the Islamic conquest (630s CE) and in the Islamic period up to and after the devastating Crusader interlude of the 12th century. Was there a smooth continuum from one period to the next, or periods of rapid change, growth and decline? Did existing social structures adapt easily to new circumstances or were they overturned by the arrival of new ruling elites and beliefs?
These issues have been barely addressed for the south of Jordan from an archaeological perspective. To date the emphasis has been on closely defined work at a few sites (e.g. Petra, Udhruh, Aqabah), while surveys have found scant evidence for occupation after the 6th century - an observation clearly contradicted by Arabic and Crusader sources. The Gharandal Archaeological Project (GAP) has adopted a comprehensive approach to the investigation of Gharandal (Byzantine Arindela, early Islamic `Arandal) by combining individual site work (survey, excavation) with regional, environmental and settlement studies. The intention is to form a "whole view" of socio-economic developments in the Gharandal region from Antiquity until the Islamic Middle Ages.
A first season of archaeological work at Gharandal was conducted between 12 April and 22 May 1997, and was followed by a second season from 16 May to 9 July, 1998. The work in both seasons concentrated on three major areas.
1) the planning of standing remains at Gharandal and its immediate environs;
2) detailed excavations at the site; and
3) a preliminary regional survey of surrounding areas.
A comprehensive recording system, including a relational database on computer for site records and finds, was set up before entering the field and proved invaluable.
A major objective of the 1997 field season was the comprehensive recording of the natural and built environment at Gharandal and the valley in which it stands. A detailed contour map and three site plans were produced, on which all visible standing remains were recorded. The results were compared with aerial photographs taken in the 1950s, which revealed that less than 25% of ancient Gharandal has been preserved under the ownership of the Jordanian Government. The rest of the site has been built over by modern housing, mostly in the last decade, and is privately owned. In addition an initial assessment of outlying sites in the Gharandal catchment area as identified on aerial photographs was undertaken with Associate Professor David Kennedy (University of Western Australia). A total of 47 sites was identified, most previously unknown.
Also important in 1997 and continued in 1998 was the detailed investigation of the Byzantine cathedral church of Gharandal, where preliminary soundings had been undertaken by the Department of Antiquities in 1994. Excavations in 1997 reached the largely intact floor of the church, which consisted of a paved nave and brightly coloured floor mosaics in the aisles and narthex. Many pieces of the fine white marble screens that embellished the church sanctuary were recovered, with at least six screens identified to date. Open lattice screens were particularly favoured. Work in 1998 concentrated on the east end of the church, where an apse and flanking rooms were exposed (Figure 1). The apse was constructed of finely dressed masonry, with a step up in line with the east wall of the church. The sanctuary platform extended deeply into the nave, and was approached by two steps. Slots for the sanctuary screens and posts are preserved in the stonework edging the sanctuary. Extensive remains of floor mosaics are preserved along the north and west sections of the sanctuary, and their arrangement suggests that an altar stood on the platform in front of the apse. A large base, constructed from two flat stones, was discovered at the north-west corner of the sanctuary, and exhibits three (of originally four) sextagonal sockets. These were intended to hold colonnettes for a pulpit. In plan the Gharandal church is very similar to the mostly intact Justinianic Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and is probably also of sixth-century date.
In the ca. 9th century, based on the ceramics, the sanctuary was dismantled and the body of the church filled with a yellow soil. Stone walls were then built. Associated levels contained early hand made pottery: hard, thin-walled jars with a chaff temper and red-orange to light brown faces and black cores. No paint is attested. The type compares well with later 11th century varieties from Amman Citadel and Aylah/Aqabah. Later levels produced the first painted hand made wares in a thick, bright red paint. The decoration is linear, comprising wavy lines, dots and droplets. This pottery compares well with Brown's 12th century Shawbak Castle (Crusader) ware. Levels immediately above those with the linear hand made ware produced the first geometric painted ware. However the paint was still very red in colour and applied to a similar, if thicker, fabric to the Shawbak linear ware. This pottery would appear to be a precursor to Hand Made Geometric Painted Ware (HMGPW). Upper levels produced "classic" HMGPW that appears to have had a very long life.
Next (south) of the church at the site's highest point stands the impressive remains of a double compound, probably of later Nabataean or early Roman date judging from the masonry. In the 1998 season two adjoining 10 x 10 m squares were laid out to span the central wall common to both compounds. In the first square a thick deposit of ash and dump was excavated, revealing four phases from the 11th century to the recent past. In the second square removal of a stone collapse deposit exposed numerous room walls of a domestic complex. Doorways were narrow, and surfaces mostly soft and elusive. The rooms do not suggest intensive occupation; rather storage, processing and preparation of food/feed. A major architectural feature soon identified in B/11 was a stout engaged column abutting the east face of the central wall of the double compound, part of the original Nabataean/Roman structure. A blocked doorway 2.25 m wide to its south was also a feature in this wall.
Australian funding for the Gharandal Archaeological Project is provided through the Australian Research Council's Large Research Grants Scheme and the University of Sydney. The director is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney. As a fully collaborative project, considerable logistic and financial support was provided by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (Dr Ghazi Bisheh, Director-General) and the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History (Ms Alison McQuitty, Director). The Australian Ambassador to Jordan, Ms Merry Wickes, also supported the Project and gave invaluable assistance. Finally special thanks must go to the two Gharandal teams; they were both pleasant to live with and worked incredibly hard.
Alan G. Walmsley
ARC Research Fellow & Director, Gharandal Archaeological Project
Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Scholarship 1995-1997
Please note that certain of the items listed as in progress or as forthcoming have now been accepted for publication or have already appeared. Full details will be provided in an update in the May Newsletter next year.
ALLEN
P. Allen, "The Homilist and the Congregation: A Case-Study of John Chrysostom's Homilies on Hebrews", Augustinianum 36 (1996) 387-421.
-, "John Chrysostom's Homilies on I and II Thessalonians: the Preacher and his Audience", Studia Patristica 31 (1996) 3-21.
-, "Severus of Antioch and the Homily - The End of the Beginning?", in The Sixth Century - End or Beginning?, P. Allen and E.M. Jeffreys (eds), Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 163-175.
-, "The Definition and Enforcement of Orthodoxy from 425-600", The Cambridge Ancient History, XIV, forthcoming.
Christ in Christian Tradition, Volume Two, Part Two, by A. Grillmeier (= Jesus der Christus im Glauben der Kirche), translated by P. Allen and J. Cawte, Cassells and John Knox Westminster Press, London-Louisville, 1995. (pp.xxv + 565).
P. Allen and E.M. Jeffreys (eds), The Sixth Century - End or Beginning?, Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996.
P. Allen and W. Mayer, "Chrysostom and the Preaching of Homilies in Series: A Re-examination of the Fifteen Homilies In epistulam ad Philippenses (CPG 4432)", Vigiliae Christianae 49 (1995) 270-289.
-, "The Thirty-Four Homilies on Hebrews: The Last Series Delivered by Chrysostom in Constantinople?", Byzantion 65 (1995) 309-348.
-, "Traditions of Constantinopolitan Preaching: Towards a New Assessment of Where Chrysostom Preached What", Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 93-114.
In Progress:
Sophronius of Jerusalem and a Monoenergist Dossier, translated with introduction and notes.
Various articles in A. Di Berardino (ed.), Patrologia IV (continuation of J. Quasten).
Chapter on sixth century Greek preaching, in P. Allen and M.B. Cunningham (eds), Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics, Brill.
Documenta ad S. Maximi Confessoris vitam spectantia (with B. Neil), Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca.
P. Allen and M.B. Cunningham (eds), Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics, Brill.
P. Allen and W. Mayer, "John Chrysostom", invited chapter in The Early Christian World, ed. Philip Esler, Routledge.
P. Allen, R. Canning, L. Cross with B. Caiger (eds), Prayer and Sprituality in the Early Church, Centre for Early Christian Studies, Brisbane.
W. Mayer and P. Allen, John Chrysostom. Preacher and Carer of Souls, translation of selected homilies and letters, with scholarly introduction, Early Church Fathers series, Routledge.
BARCLAY LLOYD
J. Barclay Lloyd, "Heaven and Hell in medieval Italian Art", Spunti e Ricerche 11 (1995) 18-34.
-, "The architecture of the Medieval Monastery at S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome", in Architectural Studies in Memory of Richard Krautheimer, ed. Cecil Lee Striker and P. von Zabern, Mainz 1996, 99-102.
-, "Sixth-century Art and Architecture in 'Old Rome' - End or beginning", in The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?, P. Allen and E. Jeffreys (eds), Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 224-235.
- "Rome II, Urban development", "Rome VI, Buildings (ii) and (iii) S. Clemente (a) architecture", in The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner, Macmillans, London 1996, 313-1419, 380-1084, and after 1084.
-, The Architecture of the Medieval Cistercian Abey of Saint Anastasius (SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio) at Tre Fontane near Rome, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich., forthcoming.
-, "The medieval murals in the Cistercian abbey of SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio ad Aquas Salvias at Tre Fontane near Rome in their architectural setting", Papers of the British School at Rome, forthcoming.
-, "'Next let us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations...' (Si.44:1) The depiction of figures from the Hebrew Scriptures in the Early Christian Art of the Roman Catacombs", in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, P. Allen and L. Cross (eds), forthcoming.
J. Barclay Lloyd and K. Einaudi, SS. Cosma e Damiano in Mica Aurea: Un monastero soppresso, Miscellanea series, Società Romana di Storia Patria, Rome, forthcoming.
In Progress:
An architectural study of medieval Mendicant Houses in Rome.
BRENNAN
P. Brennan, "Divide and Fall: the separation of legionary cavalry and the fragmentation of the Roman Empire", in T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon and A.M. Nobbs (eds), Ancient History in a Modern University, II, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids-Cambridge 1998, pp.238-244.
-, "The Notitia Dignitatum as Cultural Artifact", Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 42 (1996) 00-00.
In Progress:
The Notitia Dignitatum. Edition, translation and commentary (Liverpool University Press).
BURKE
R. Scott and J. Burke (eds), Byzantine Macedonia, 2 vols, forthcoming.
FARQUHARSON
P. Farquharson, "Byzantium, Planet Earth and the Solar System", in The Sixth Century - End or Beginning?, (eds) P. Allen and E. Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 263-269.
In Progress:
A compilation of descriptions of natural phenomena from the British Isles, the Frankish kingdom and the Middle East, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, and the implications of this data-base for millenium-scale climate history and climate modelling.
GARLAND
L. Garland (ed.), Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium (= Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV), Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1997 (380 + vii pp., with 9 plates). (ISBN 90-256-1107-9)
-, Byzantine Empresses, Routledge, London & New York 1998 (forthcoming).
-, "Conformity and Licence at the Byzantine Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries", in Bosporos: City, Court and Countryside, Byzantinische Forschungen XXI (1995) 101-115.
-, "Morality versus Politics at the Byzantine Court: the Charges against Marie of Antioch and Euphrosyne", in L. Garland (ed.), Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium, Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 259-295.
-, "'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 (1995-96) 1-62 (forthcoming).
-, "Social and Family Life at Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Imperial Women and their Priorities", Acts, 18th International Byzantine Congress, Selected Papers: Main and Communications, Moscow, 1991, ed. I. Shevchenko and G.G. Litavrin, vol. I: History, 1997, 184-195, forthcoming.
-, "The Fair Shepherdess: a Translation of JH Eu[morfh Boskopouvla, with an Introduction", Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 12 (1996), forthcoming.
-, "Byzantium's Age of Chivalry: the Historical Context of Digenes Akrites and the Akritic Songs", Review of Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry, ed. Roderick Beaton and David Ricks (King's College London Publications 2: Variorum, 1993), Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 12 (1996), forthcoming.
-, Review of David Buckton (ed.), Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections, British Museum Press, 1995, Parergon 14 (2) (1997) 151-153.
-, Review of Costas N. Constantinides and Robert Browning, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre, 1993, Parergon 14 (2) (1997) 158-160.
-, Review of Jacqueline Long, Claudian's In Eutropium or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch, University of North Carolina Press, 1996, Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 1997, forthcoming.
-, Review of Victor Bivell (ed.), Macedonian Agenda. 16 essays on the development of Macedonian culture in Australia, Pollitecon Publications, 1995, Journal of Australian Folklore, 1997, forthcoming.
-, Review of Adelbert Davids (ed.), The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium, Cambridge University Press, 1995, Parergon 15 (1), 1997, forthcoming.
In Progress:
Byzantine Imperial Women
Byzantine Humour AD 527-1453.
GILLETT
A. Gillett, "The Date and Circumstances of Olympiodorus of Thebes", Traditio 48 (1993) 1-29 [despite the cover date, published in 1995].
-, "The Birth of Ricimer", Historia 44 (1995) 380-384.
-, "The Purposes of Cassiodorus's Variae", in After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Frankish and Italian History in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Walter Goffart, ed. Alexander C. Murray, Toronto, forthcoming.
-, Review of Richard Burgess (ed. and tr.), The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana, Journal of Roman Studies, forthcoming.
-, Review of Susan A. Rabe, Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier: The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert, Journal of Religious History 22 (1998) 107-109.
In Progress:
"Jordanes and Ablabius".
"The Accession of Euric".
"Rome, Ravenna, and the Last Western Emperors".
Ceaseless Wayfarers: Envoys and Diplomacy in the Late Antique West.
Arianism in the Barbarian West.
GRISHIN
A.D. Grishin, A Pilgrim's Acount of Cyprus: Bars'kyj's Travels in Cyprus, essay, translation and commentaries, Sources for the History of Cyprus, New York 1996. 114pp & 18 plates (ISBN 0-9651704-3-8).
-, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art: Monumental Painting and Mosaic c.843-c.1204", The Dictionary of Art, vol. 6, Grove, London 1996, 575-582.
-, "Bars'kyj's account of the monasteries of Cyprus", Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, vol. x/xi (1994/95), University of Minnesota, 19-35.
In Progress:
Vasyl' Hryhorovych-Bars'kyj's Stranstvovanija, 3 vols. To be published in the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature (text volume complete, as is the first volume of translation and commentaries).
Mural Painting of Cappadocia: A Study of its ornament. Monograph plus corpus of illustrations.
HAY
K.M. Hay, "The Impact of St. Sabas: the Legacy of Palestinian Monasticism", in P. Allen and E.M. Jeffreys (eds), The Sixth Century - End or Beginning?, Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 118-125.
- "Peter the Iberian: Itinerant Bishop and Symbol of Resistance", in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, edd. P. Allen, R. Canning, L. Cross with B. Caiger, forthcoming.
-, "The Cure of Helenic Maladies: Monasticism", Scriptorium. Postrgraduate Journal of the Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne 1/1 (1996) 36-39.
-, "Sorcery Trials in the Fourth Century AD: Magic or Manipulation?", Scriptorium 2/1, forthcoming.
In Progress:
The Impact of Palestinian Monasticism: Charisma, Control and Controversy. PhD dissertation, Dept of Art History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne.
JACKSON
K.R. Jackson, "Late Platonist Poetics: Olympiodorus and the Myth of Plato's Gorgias" in I. Sluiter (ed.), Post-Aristotelian Literary Theory, Vrije Universitaet, Amsterdam, 1995.
R. Jackson, K. Lycos and H. Tarrant, Olympiodorus: Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, translated with introduction by H. Tarrant, E.J. Brill, Leiden, forthcoming.
LATTKE
Oden Salomos, übersetzt und eingeleitet von M. Lattke, Fontes Christiani 19, Herder, Freiburg [im Breisgau] et al. 1995. 293 pp.
M. Lattke, "Hymnus", "Psalmen", "Salomo", in Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur, Herder, Freiburg [im Breisgau] et al. 1997, forthcoming.
-, Review of H. Strutwolf, Gnosis als System: Zur Rezeption der valentinianischen Gnosis bei Origenes, Theologische Literaturzeitung 121 (1996) 174-176.
-, Review of M.-J. Pierre, Les Odes de Salomon, Theologische Literaturzeitung 121 (1996) 256-257.
-, Review of B.A. Pearson (ed.), Nag Hammadi Codex VII, Theologische Literaturzeitung 122 (1997), forthcoming.
In Progress:
Commentary on the Odes of Solomon.
LIEU
S. Lieu, "Manichaean Studies in the Electronic Age", in H. Preiler and H. Seiwert (eds.), Gnosisforschung und Religionsgeschichte. Festschrift für Prof. Kurt Rudolph, Marburg 1995, 155-66. (ISBN 3-927165-31-X)
-, "From Parthian into Chinese - the transmission and transformation of Manichaean texts in Central Asia", Orientalische Literatur Zeitung 20 (1995) pt. 4 (Berlin) cols 1-18.
-, "From Villain to Saint and Martyr - Flavius Artemius Dux Aegypti", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 20 (1996) 56-76.
S. Lieu and M.H. Dodgeon, "Libanius and the Persian Wars of Constantius II", Acta Orientalia Belgica for 1994 (War and Peace) 5 (Leuven 1995), 83-109.
S. Lieu and I.M.F. Gardner, "From Medinet Madi to Kellis - a century of discovery of Manichaean Texts from Roman Egypt", Journal of Roman Studies 86 (1996) 146-169.
S. Lieu and D.A.S. Montserrat, From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views, Routledge, London 1996.
In Progress:
Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum - a major international project funded by an Australian Research Council Large Grant to bring out in 60+ volumes all genuine Manichaean texts as well as Byzantine polemical works against the religion.
LYCOS
R. Jackson, K. Lycos and H. Tarrant, Olympiodorus: Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, translated with introduction by H. Tarrant, E.J. Brill, Leiden, forthcoming.
MARTLEW
I. Martlew, "The Reading of Paul the Silentiary", in The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?, P. Allen and E. Jeffreys (eds), Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 105-111
In Progress:
The Greek Novel in the Twelfth Century, PhD disertation, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia.
MAYER
W. Mayer, The Provenance of the Homilies of St John Chrysostom. Towards a new assessment of where he preached what, PhD dissertation, Dept of Studies in Religion, University of Queensland, 1996.
-, "John Chrysostom and His Audiences. Distinguishing different congregations at Antioch and Constantinople", Studia Patristica 31 (1996) 80-85.
-, "The Dynamics of Liturgical Space. Aspects of the interaction between John Chrysostom and his audiences", Ephemerides Liturgicae 111 (1997) 104-115.
-, "Liturgical Tradition or Traditions? A Late Fourth Century Perspective", Lutheran Theological Journal 31 (1997) 20-30.
-, "Monasticism at Antioch and Constantinople in the Late Fourth Century. A case of exclusivity or diversity?", in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, edd. P. Allen, R. Canning, L. Cross with B. Caiger, forthcoming.
-, "The Sea made Holy. The liturgical function of the waters surrounding Constantinople", Ephemerides Liturgicae, forthcoming.
-, "John Chrysostom: Extraordinary Preacher, Ordinary Audience", invited chapter in Preacher and Audience. Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics, P. Allen and M. Cunningham (eds), Brill, forthcoming.
-, Review of Golden Mouth. The Story of John Chrysostom - Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop, by J.N.D. Kelly (Duckworth, London 1995) in Sobornost, incorporating Eastern Churches Review 18:1 (1996) 79-82.
P. Allen, and W. Mayer, "Chrysostom and the Preaching of Homilies in Series: A Re-examination of the Fifteen Homilies In epistulam ad Philippenses (CPG 4432)", Vigiliae Christianae 49 (1995) 270-289.
-, "The Thirty-Four Homilies on Hebrews: The Last Series Delivered by Chrysostom in Constantinople?", Byzantion 65 (1995) 309-348.
-, "Traditions of Constantinopolitan Preaching: Towards a New Assessment of Where Chrysostom Preached What", Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 93-114.
In Progress:
"'Les homélies de s. Jean Chrysostome en juillet 399'. A second look at Pargoire"s sequence and the chronology of the Novæ homiliæ (CPG 4441)".
The Homilies of St John Chrysostom - Provenance. Reshaping the foundations.
W. Mayer and P. Allen, John Chrysostom. Preacher and Carer of Souls, translation of selected homilies and letters, with scholarly introduction, Early Church Fathers series, Routledge.
P. Allen and W. Mayer, "John Chrysostom", invited chapter in The Early Christian World, P. Esler (ed.), Routledge.
MELVILLE-JONES
Melville-Jones, John R., "Lixola di Caxandra", Qhsaurivsmata (1997), forthcoming.
In Progress:
Venice, Thessaloniki and the Turks 1423-1430.
MOFFATT
A. Moffatt, "The Master of Ceremonies' Bottom Drawer: The Unfinished State of the De Ceremoniis of Constantine Porphyrogennetos", STEFANOS, Studia byzantina ac slavica Vladimíro Vavrínek ad annum sexagesimum quintum dedicata, Byzantinoslavica 56 (1995) 377-88
-, Greek Art through the Ages", in Greece: A Lonely Planet travel survival kit, ed. D. Willett et al., 2nd ed., 1996, 53-68.
-, "Celebrating a Byzantine imperial birthday", in FILELLHN. Studies in Honour of Robert Browning, ed. C.N. Constantinides, N.M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys and A.D. Angelou, Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia, Bibliotheke N. 17, Venice 1996, 255-266.
-, "Variations in court ceremony: the De Ceremoniis", in Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium; Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 217-225.
-, "Sixth-Century Ravenna from the Perspective of Abbot Agnellus", in The Sixth Century - End or Beginning?, (eds) P. Allen and E.M. Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 236-246.
-, "Italian Art and Architecture", in Italy: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit, 3rd ed., forthcoming.
-, Review of T.F. Mathews, The Clash of Gods. A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1993; cloth; pp. x+223; 138 plates; in Parergon 12 (1995) 206-208.
-, Review of J. Williams, The Illustrated Beatus. A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, 5 vols., London, Harvey Miller, vol. 1: Introduction; 1994; Vol. 2: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries, 1994; in Parergon 12 (1995) 242-45.
-, Review of E. Kitzinger, The Mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo, with a chapter on the Architecture of the Church by Slobodan Curcic, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXVII, Washington DC1990; in Parergon 13 (1996) 296-299.
-, Review of A. Cutler, The Hand of the Master. Craftsmanship, ivory, and society in Byzantium (9th-11th centuries), Princeton NJ, Princeton UP, 1994; in Parergon 13 (1996) 281-283.
Constantine Porphyrogennetos, The Ceremonies, including The Banquet List (Kletorologion) by Philotheos, and The Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions , translated and introduced by A. Moffatt with M. Tall, with a reprinting of the Greek of J.J. Reiske, 2 vols., Byzantina Australiensia, Canberra, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, forthcoming.
In progress:
Constantine Porphyrogennetos, The Ceremonies, vol. 3: Commentary. To be published in the series Byzantina Australiensia.
Contributions to the British Academy Project, A Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire.
Agnellus, The Bishops of Ravenna, a translation of the 9th-cent. Latin Liber Pontificalis Ravennatis (with Helen Lindsay), and commentary; Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool UP.
NEIL
In Progress:
B. Neil, A critical edition of Anastasius Bibliothecarius' translation of documents pertaining to the life of Maximus the Confessor, with an analysis of Anastasius' translation methodology, and an English translation of the text, PhD dissertation, Institute of Advanced Research/Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University.
NICHOLAS
G. Baloglou and N. Nicholas, The Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds: Translation and Commentary, forthcoming.
G. Baloglou, N. Nicholas and T. Karanastassis, "Lexicological and Grammatical Observations on The Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds", forthcoming
N. Nicholas, Review of J. J. Norwich: Byzantium: The Decline And Fall., Dhumbadji. Journal for the History of Language , forthcoming.
NOBBS
T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon and A.M. Nobbs (eds), Ancient History in a Modern University, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich.-Cambridge 1998.
ROUSSEAU
P. Rousseau, "'Learned Women' and the Formation of a Christian Culture in Late Antiquity", Symbolae Osloenses 70 (1995) 116-47.
-, "Cassian: Monastery and World", in The Certainty of Doubt: Tributes to Peter Munz, M. Fairburn and W.H. Oliver (eds), University of Victoria Press, Wellington 1996, 68-89.
-, "Ambrose and the Christian Empire: Some Misgivings", in Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, M. Dillon (ed.), Hakkert, Amsterdam 1996, 477-89.
-, "Eccentrics and Coenobites in the Late Roman East", in Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium, L. Garland (ed.), Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 35-50.
-, "Inheriting the Fifth Century: Who Bequeathed What?", in P. Allen and E. Jeffreys (eds), The Sixth Century-End or Beginning? (Byzantina Australiensia 10), Brisbane 1996, 1-19.
-, "Christianity" and ten shorter items. In The Oxford Classical Dictionary, S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds), Third Edition, Oxford 1996.
-, "'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, II. Early Christianity, Late Antiquity and Beyond, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids-Cambridge 1998, pp.391-400.
-, "Orthodoxy and the Coenobite", in E. Livingstone (ed.), Studia Patristica XXX, Peeters, Leuven, 239-256, forthcoming.
-, "Baptism" and seven other entries. In A Guide to the Late Antique World, G. W. Bowersock, P. Brown and O. Grabar (eds), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., forthcoming.
-, "Monasticism". The Cambridge Ancient History, XIV, chapter 26. New edition. Edited by A. Cameron, B. Ward-Perkins and M. Whitby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
-, "Asceticism and Paideia", in The Cult of Saints in Christianity and Islam: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown, J. Howard-Johnston and P.A. Hayward (eds), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
-, "Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life", in Greek Biography and Panegyrics in Late Antiquity, T. Hagg and P. Rousseau (eds), University of California Press, Berkeley, forthcoming.
-, "Jerome's Search for Self-Identity", in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, P. Allen, R. Canning and L. Cross (eds), forthcoming.
T. Hagg and P. Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyrics in Late Antiquity,, University of California Press, Berkeley, forthcoming.
In Progress:
"Procopius's Buildings and Justinian"s Pride".
"Sidonius and Majorian: the Censure in Carmen V".
"The 'Identity' of the Ascetic Master in the Late Roman East: the New Paideia". A paper to be presented to the Fergus Millar Seminar, Canberra, November 1997.
The Early Christian Centuries . A history of the first six hundred years. Under contract to Longmans, to be completed during 1998.
Social Structures of Early Christian Asceticism: the Transformation of Household and School.
"Pachomius and Gnosticism: an Issue Revisited".
"A Crisis of Authority in the Later Roman Empire".
SADJDJADI
P. Sadjdjadi, The evolution of the Islamic Madrasa in Iran, PhD dissertation, Department of Architecture, Sydney University, 1997.
SAIKAL
M. Saikal, Aspects of Arabic Poetry on the Arab-Byzantine Conflict: a Study of al_Mutanabbi's Poems on Sayf al-Dawla's Campaigns, MPhil dissertation, Dept of Semitic Studies, Sydney University, 1995.
SCOTT
The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813. Edited by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott, with the assistance of Geoffrey Greatrex. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997. Pp. ci + 744.
R. Scott, "Writing the reign of Justinian: Malalas versus Theophanes", in P. Allen and E. Jeffreys (eds), The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?, Byzantina Australiensia 10, Brisbane 1996, 20-34.
-, "The use of Theodore Lector in the Chronicle of Theophanes", in K. Fledelius (ed.), Byzantium : Identity, Image, Influence (XIX International Congress of Byzantine Studies, University of Copenhagen, 18-24 August 1996), Abstracts, Copenhagen 1996, 7.3.2.1
-, Review of Derek Krueger, Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City,, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 25 (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1996), ELECTRONIC ANTIQUITY, Vol. 3 Issue 7 - May 1997.
In Progress:
History of the Byzantine Empire. I. Constantine to Justinian, Longmans.
R. Scott and J. Burke (eds), Byzantine Macedonia, 2 vols (one to appear in Byzantina Australiensia; the other to be published by the Australian Institute of Macedonian Studies).
SHAMSIN
A.N. Shamsin, Peace Treaties in the Early Islamic Period: A Historical and Juristic Study, MPhil dissertation, Dept of Semitic Studies, Sydney University, 1995.
SHBOUL
A.M.H. Shboul, "Sadr", "Taqwa", in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Contemporary Islamic World, ed. J. Esposito, Oxford University Press, 1995.
-, "Christians and Muslims in Syria and upper Mesopotamia in the early Islamic period: Cultural change and continuity", in Religious Change, Conversion and Culture, ed. L. Olson, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 12, Sydney 1996.
-, "Arab Islamic Perceptions of Byzantine Religion and Culture", in Muslim Perceptions of other Religions and Cultures Throughout History, ed. J. Waardenburg, Université de Lausanne, forthcoming.
-, "Socio-cultural Change in early Islamic Damascus", in ARAM, ed. S. Abouzayd, Oxford, forthcoming.
A. Shboul and A. Walmsley, "Identity and Self-Image in Syria-Palestine in the Transition from Byzantine to Early Islamic Rule: Christian Arabs and Muslims", in G. Clarke (ed.), Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity, Mediterranean Archaeology 11, Sydney, forthcoming.
In Progress:
"Hellenistic traditions between Byzantium and the Arab-Islamic world"
Arabs and Greeks in the Medieval world: aspects of the Islamic-Byzantine cultural encounter.
STONE
A. Stone, "The amphibious serpent - Manuel I and the Venetians", Byzantinische Forschungen 24 (1997) 251-258.
-, "A Norman Shipwreck in 1173", Thesaurismata 27 (1997) 19-25.
-, Manuel I Komnenos, the Maiandros campaigns of 1177-8 and Thessaloniki", Balkan Studies 38 (1997) 21-29.
TARRANT
H. Tarrant, "Olympiodorus and the Surrender of Paganism", in L. Garland (ed.), Conformity and Non-conformity in Byzantium, Byzantinische Forschungen XXIV (1997) 179-190.
-, "Olympiodorus and History", in A. Nobbs et al. (eds), Ancient History in a Modern University, II, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1998, pp.417-425.
-, "Restoring Olympiodorus' Syllogistic", Ancient Philosophy 17 (1997), forthcoming.
-, "Politikh; Eujdaimoniva: Olympiodorus on Plato's Republic", in K. Boudouris (ed.), Plato's Political Theory and Contemporary Political Thought, International Association for Greek Philosophy and Culture, Athens, forthcoming.
R. Jackson, K. Lycos and H. Tarrant, Olympiodorus: Commentary on Plato's Gorgias, translated, with introduction by H. Tarrant, E.J. Brill, Leiden, forthcoming.
WALMSLEY
A. Walmsley, "Tradition, Innovation, and Imitation in the Material Culture of Islamic Jordan", Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 5 (Amman, Department of Antiquities), 1995, 657-668.
-, "Byzantine Palestine and Arabia: Urban Prosperity in Late Antiquity", in N. Christie and S.T. Loseby (eds), Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Scolar Press, London 1996 (ISBN 1859281079), 126-158.
-, "Coin Frequencies in Sixth and Seventh Century Palestine and Arabia: social and economic implications", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, forthcoming.
A. Shboul and A. Walmsley, "Identity and Self-Image in Syria-Palestine in the Transition from Byzantine to Early Islamic Rule: Christian Arabs and Muslims", in G. Clarke (ed.), Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity, Mediterranean Archaeology 11, Sydney, forthcoming.
In Progress:
"The Decapolis after Rome: urban continuity and change in the late antique - early Islamic period", for inclusion in a special edition of AntikeWelt dedicated to the Decapolis.
"The Gharandal Archaeological Project: a report on the first season of archaeological research at Gharandal (Arindela), Tafilah District", for publication in the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan vol. 42. [Will include a report on the excavation of the Byzantine church (of Justinian I or Justin II date) in the town centre of Arindela, a Bishopric of Palestine Tertia.]
"Gharandal (Arindela), Ruwath (Robota) and the district of Jibâl (Gabalitis) in Byzantine and Islamic geographical and historical literature", Palestine Exploration Quarterly.
"The Church at Arindela (Gharandal) of Palaestina Tertia", for publication in Liber Annuus.
A number of short reports for various newsletters on the Gharandal Archaeological Project.
WATSON
P. Watson, "The Pella Hinterland Survey 1994: Preliminary Report", Levant XXVIII (1996) 63-76.
-, "Production and Classification of 'Jerash Bowls': the role of chemical analysis", in Hellenistic and Roman Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean. Advances in Scientific Studies. IInd Workshop at Nieborów, 1993, Zas Pan, Warsaw 1996.
-, "Pictorial Painting on Pottery and its Demise in the mid-7th Century A.D.: the case of the Jerash Bowls", in S. Abou Zayd (ed.), Cultural Interchange in the Umayyad Era. Fourth International Conference of ARAM, 1993, Oxford, forthcoming.
-, "Pella of the Decapolis", Antike Welt (special issue on the Decapolis), forthcoming.
-, Review of D. Adan-Bayewitz, Common Pottery in Roman Galilee. A Study of Local Trade, 1993, Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1997), forthcoming.
-, "The Hellenistic to Byzantine Pottery of North Shuna", in D. Baird and G. Philip (eds), North Shuna Final Report, forthcoming.
P. Watson and J. Tidmarsh, "Preliminary Report on the Excavations of Tell al-Husn, Pella, 1993", Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan XL (196) 293-313.
P. Watson and E. Villeneuve (eds), Byzantine and Early Islamic Ceramics of Syria-Jordan, IVth-VIIIth Centuries A.D. Acts of the Colloquium in Amman, 3-5 December 1994, Series Bibliotheque archeologique et historique, IFAPO, Damascus, forthcoming.
In Progress:
The Roman-Byzantine period on Tell al-Husn at Pella in Jordan (from the 1988, 1989 and 1993 excavations).
P. Watson and M. O'Hea, The Pella Hinterland Survey, 1994-1996, Final Report.