PICERAN Post 1: introducing the project

This is the first blog post of a project titled the “The Prosopography of the Imperial Church of the Empire of the Romans in Antioch during the time of Nikon of the Black Mountain, circa AD 950-1100” (PICERAN, ID # 101208459). The project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (Horizon-MSCA), based at the University of Cologne, lasting twenty-four m... Read more 24 Jun 2026 - 7 minute read

Review of Religion in den Bergen in Orbis Terrarum

My review of Michael Kasper, Robert Rollinger, Andreas Rudigier, and Josef Wiesehöfer (eds.), Religion in den Bergen. Sakrale Orte, Heiligtümer, Performanz, Mythos und Alltagsleben (2023) has just been published. It appears in Orbis Terrarum vol. 22 (2024). The reviewed volume contains the proceedings of a 2021 conference on Religion in the Moun... Read more 25 Jan 2025 - less than 1 minute read

IHAC 7th International Byzantine Seminar

This year we are holding the seventh international Byzantine seminar series at the Institute for Ancient History (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilian Province, China. The event is organized in collaboration with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cologne and the Department of Historical ... Read more 30 Sep 2023 - less than 1 minute read

Paper from the IAWC 2023

I attended the International Ancient Warfare Conference (IAWC) on 22-24 June 2023 in Bonn, Germany, delivering a paper titled ‘Roman strategy in the second Roman-Arab war (AD 654—659)’. A parallel conference was held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the benefit of researchers based in the US and Canada. The conference used to run quite regularl... Read more 13 Jul 2023 - 3 minute read

Contribution to Realism in Hagiography workshop

With Prof. Dr. Claudia Sode I co-hosted the international workshop ‘Realism in Hagiography’ earlier this month, on 12-13 January 2023. The format was hybrid, meeting both in-person at the University’s International House and online. We were both very pleased with how the event worked, and hope that everyone who joined us had as lovely a time as ... Read more 16 Jan 2023 - 33 minute read