Work in Progress meeting - Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

On 15 December 2021 the OIKOS research group Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is having an online Work in Progress meeting.

Programme

The program of the online-session Work in Progress offers the following five items:

• Andrea Cuomo (UGent) will introduce himself as a full professor in Ancient and Medieval Greek, January 2022 ERC-CoG, on late Byzantine grammarians.
• Kay Boers (UU) will present his dissertation on civis and citizenship in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain.
• Cristina Cocola (UGent) will present her PhD-project on Byzantine katanyctic poetry.
• Berenice Verhelst (UvA) will present her new project DICES (http://www.epicspeeches.net/) in which epic, epyllia and biblical epic from Late Antiquity play an important role.
• Ewan Short (Cardiff University) will present his article ‘Monomachos and the Mangana: Imperial Legitimacy (1042-1046)', Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 6.

A savoury variety of topics! We are looking forward to hearing about the above mentioned recent developments and projects. Everybody is welcome to join the session.