JbAC Special Issue on Migration is out!
The feeling is incomparable: the fruits of many years of hard work now in hands. The idea of a panel on migration has begun in a discussion with Samuel Cohen at NAPS 2018 in Chicago. 4 years later, after a […]
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‘Migrant Relics’ Featured in the SRII Bulletin
A copy of the most recent bulletin of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) with the quite peculiar title Kalabalık! had reached me the other day. It recalled immediately all the fond memories of my research stay during the […]
McKitterick’s Invention of the Papacy and Myself
Lately, I frequently used Rosamund McKitterick’s masterly book on the Liber pontificalis and the invention of papacy for my ‘Migrant Popes in Late Antiquity’ paper. By strolling over the preface, I discovered myself on the impressive list of distinguished scholars […]
Fresh out of the Press: Heiligt der Zweck alle Mittel?
The newest piece of my scholarship was just printed in the renowned Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde edited by the Römische Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft and published by Herder. This paper goes back on a presentation at a conference organised by […]
In Search of Constantinople
As someone studying Rome for decades, I thought, the ‘new Rome’ Constantinople must be in many respects similar like the ‘old’: One has a hard time to aviod more or less well preserved ruins of the imperial past all over […]