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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 4d

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 9 October (4.45 p.m.): Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania), "Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier". In person and online, as usual.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 10d

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 2 October: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back.
In person and online. For the full programme see: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 10d

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look!
More on the seminar's website...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 17d

CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on 25-27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw. If you happen to be in town, do join us!
Programme: bit.ly/42JturY

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Jul 4

Ah, that was your Warsaw stay! See you in Leeds?

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Jul 4

A medieval job. And a saintly one...
Warsaw is fun!

historia.uw.edu.pl/en/job-offer...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Jun 2

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 June : Thomas Laver (Cambridge) New Insights into the Organisation of Monastic Estates in Egypt, 5th-9th c. In-person and online

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · May 26

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 29 MAY: Przemysław Nehring (UMK) & Aldona Glińska-Neweś (UMK): St Augustine’s Sermons 355-356 as an Example of Communication Strategy in an Institution’s Reputational Crisis – Rhetorical Analysis vs. Modern Crisis Management Theory. In person and on Zoom.

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · May 21

James has helped organise four panels for the IMC, featuring @rorynaismith.bsky.social on shady deals in the Fens; Roy Flechner on redistribution & the Papacy; Bronwen Neil on monks & prostitution; @relicsclerics.bsky.social on priests & bankers - and much more besides, including a panel on slaving.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · May 19

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 V: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria. As always in person and online...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · May 12

Peter Van Nuffelen, 'The Easter Date at the Council of Nicaea: Old and New Evidence'. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (15 May), 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · May 5

On 8 May Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon) will speak on "Religious Literacy in the Late Ancient Near East: Liturgical Catechesis and Not-So-Simple Believers of Roman Arabia". At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. 4.45 CET, in-person and online, as always.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Apr 22

Perrine Pilette (CNRS), 'Patriarchs, Month After Month : Rewritings of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion' at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 24 April, 4.45 p.m. In person and online.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Apr 13

For the period up to 700 check the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database: csla.history.ox.ac.uk Choose Aspects of cult / relics / eating-drinking-inhaling relics...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Apr 7

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 10 April: Zachary Chitwood (München), Eastern Roman Law, Islam and the First Millennium: Prolegomena to a ius commune orientale. As always, in person and online.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 31

Paweł Filipczak (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Commentary on John Malalas (XI, 3-4) on Emperor Trajan’s Expedition to the East. At Warsaw Late Antique seminar on Thursday, 3 April, 4.45 p.m. CET.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 26

We could have bumped into each other. Returned only yesterday to Warsaw :(

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 26

Wonderful tool, thanks a lot Matthieu!!! Look at this lion!

Beatus de Saint-Sever, Médaillons avec des animaux, Paris, BnF, Latin 8878, f.198r

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 24

On Thursday Daria Elagina (Hamburg Universität) & Dorota Dzierzbicka (UW) will speak An Ethiopian pilgrim at Old Dongola, Sudan. New insights from a Vatican manuscript. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 March (for the full programme see our website: tiny.pl/9499pyx2).

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 17

Noel Lenski (Yale University) Feeding a Young Capital: The Food Supply of Constantinople in the Fourth Century. At Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. This Thursday (20 March) at 4.45 p.m. CET. In person and online, as always.

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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · Feb 28

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

The cover of the volume "Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood:
Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity" (ed. Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio, Brepols, 2025), including a detail from the painting "Project of an Icon" by Jerzy Nowosielski

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 10

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 13 March: Nicola Holm (UW): Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops. As always on 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in person and on Zoom.

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Mar 4

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 March (4.45 p.m. CET) : Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Ecclesiastical Rivalries and Urban Violence in Late Antique Rome: Evidence from Canonical Collections. Join us in person or on Zoom!

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Feb 24

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 February: Julia Schwarzer (Universität Regensburg), Christian Brotherhoods and Liturgical Song during Long Late Antiquity. At 4.45 p.m. and as always in person and online

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · Feb 18

...and let me repost the full Warsaw Late Antique seminar programme. Also, take a look at our website: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

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