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The Late Antique Cult of Saints in Eastern Christianity
4–5 May, 2023
ERTEGUN HOUSE,OXFORD
4–5 MAY 2023
THURSDAY, 4 MAY
CORNELIA HORN (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Memories of Mary among the Pilgrims in Early Byzantine Palestine
PIETY AND PRACTICE
CHAIR: PHIL BOOTH
CALLAN MEYNELL (University of Oxford) Saint Demetrios and Thessaloniki in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries: The Rise and Fall of an Intercessor?
RAFAIL ZOULIS (Yale University) Swearing in Saints’ Shrines: Legal Oaths, Localised Law, and Hagiography in the Late Antique Mediterranean
KAROLINA TOMCZYSZYN (University of Warsaw) “Anoint your chest and eat some of the wax-salve”: The Use of “Holy Oils” in the Late Antique Cult of Saints in Eastern Christianity
9:15–9:45 COFFEE & TEA
9:45–11:15 PLENARY SESSION
11:15–11:30 BREAK
11:30–13:00 PANEL A
13:00–14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00–15:30 PANEL B
15:30–15:45 BREAK
15:45–17:00 A VISIT TO THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
18:00 SOCIAL DRINKS AT THE ROYAL OAK PUB
CONSTRUCTING HOLINESS
CHAIR: DAVID TAYLOR
TOM ALEXANDER (University of Oxford) The Ravenous Marwānid Lion and Constantine of the Khurasanis: Navigating the ʿAbbāsid Revolution in the Life of Khaʿīl I (d. 767)
GIULIA DI DOMENICO (University of Bologna) The Cult of the Cross Dressing Saints and the Legitimisation of Gender Metamorphosis
GEORGE RAMBOW (Princeton Theological Seminary) The Invention of Cyprian of Antioch
FRIDAY, 5 MAY
ANDREW HOCHSTEDLER (University of Oxford) The Late Antique Syriac Book of Mary: From Codicology to Cult
KONSTANTINOS BILIAS (Inscriptiones Graecae/ Freie Universität Berlin) Three new Fragments of the Parapegma of Sicyon (CSLA E06318)
10:30–11:00 COFFEE & TEA
11:00–13:00 PANEL C
13:00–14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00–15:30 PANEL D
15:30–16:00 BREAK
16:00–17:30 PLENARY SESSION
17:30–18:30 WINE RECEPTION
19:00. DINNER
RECORDING SAINTHOOD
CHAIR: ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU
DRAGOLJUB GARIC (KU Leuven) Virginity and Noble Suicide in John Chrysostom and Eusebius of Emessa’s Martyr Homilies
SIMON PIERRE (Sorbonne Université) The Construction of a Cult and a Life (6th-9th cent) – How Mār Aḥūdemmeh Became the “Apostle and Martyr” Patron Saint for the Miaphysites of Iraq
SAINTS AND THE RELIGIOUS OTHER
CHAIR: ALISON SALVESEN
NUNA TERRI (Université libre de Bruxelles) Saint Thekla in Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos: Model of intercession and Interconnector between Religious Traditions in Rough Cilicia?
OSNAT EMILY RANCE (University of Regensburg) Copy-Paste: Symeon Stylites' Triumph over the Jews as a Local Version of the Callinicum Episode
ADINA GOLDMAN (Princeton University) “Rejoice, my innards, rejoice!”: Comedy and Awe in the Life of a Rabbinic “Saint”
DAVID TAYLOR (University of Oxford) Adopting the Saints of 'the Neighbours': The Case of Egyptian Saints in Syriac
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