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Reading the world after Constantine, with the seriousness it deserves.

Ce séminaire propose une introduction rigoureuse au corpus hagiographique byzantin : formes littéraires, transmission manuscrite, et fonctions sociales des vies de saints du IVᵉ au XVᵉ siècle.

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  1. Introduction à l'hagiographie byzantine : textes, récits et élaboration des modèles de sainteté dans le monde byzantin

    Introduction à l'hagiographie byzantine : textes, récits et élaboration des modèles de sainteté dans le monde byzantin

    Ce séminaire propose une introduction rigoureuse au corpus hagiographique byzantin : formes littéraires, transmission manuscrite, et fonctions sociales des vies de saints du IVᵉ au XVᵉ siècle.

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  2. Religion and Society in Byzantium

    Religion and Society in Byzantium

    A survey of the entanglement of religious practice and social life in Byzantium — from urban ritual and monastic economies to household piety and the politics of orthodoxy.

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  3. Martyrdom in the Roman Empire: Christians, Persecution, and Memory

    Martyrdom in the Roman Empire: Christians, Persecution, and Memory

    A close reading of the sources for early Christian martyrdom under Rome, and of the long afterlife of the martyr as a figure of memory, legitimation, and dispute.

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Imprisoned for Christ: Captivity and Identity in Early Christianity

How did imprisonment shape early Christian identity? A collaborative workshop on captivity as a social, legal, and theological space in Late Antiquity — reading Perpetua, Ignatius of Antioch, and Eusebius.

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A quiet place for serious reading. The seminars are small, the reading lists are rigorous, and the instructors are working scholars — not curators of a syllabus, but authors of it.

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