This was the title of my presentation on an expert’s workshop focusing on the legitimatisation of ‘religous’ violence in Antiquity (“Religiöse (De-)Legitimationsansätze von Gewalt in der Antike”) at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. (During my stay I re-realised that Gutenberg is an adopted name; he was called originally “Gensfleisch” [i.e. Goosemeat]. I can understand […]
This paper was presented as part of a workshop “Migration: Rhetoric and Reality in Late Antiquity”, which Samuel Cohen and I organised at the XVIII International Conference on Patristics Studies conference in Oxford. Although we got the two last slots allocated for our workshop, an interested crowd found together in the East Examination School for […]
Gert Partoens, professor for latin literature at KU Leuven and an expert on Augustine and I was invited for a talk at an expert’s workshop on anonymous sermons in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. It was organised by Matthieu Pignot on the 16th May 2019 at the Universtiè de Namur and entitled “Les sermons […]
This paper will be presented at the “International Symposium on the 1600th anniversary of Jerome’s Death” (Ljubljana, 24-26 October 2019). AbstractDespite all ambivalences, women played an important role in the life of Jerome: the circle of aristocratic woman at Rome, the ascetic circle in Bethlehem or the torment of dancing women in his memories. A […]
And once again Bishop Calixtus I. of Rome (217?-222?). This time, it is about the question, whether he was a presbyter (priest) or a deacon prior to his election to bishop. The problem is particularly intriguing, because Calixtus was also an authentic confessor and thus his possible installation into the office of a presbyter could […]