‘Pagan’ classics, Christians, and a Late Antique world-mountain

The following appeared as a guest-post for the Mountains in the Classical Tradition Blog, part of a Leverhulme-supported research project by Jason König and Dawn Hollis, members of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. My thanks to both of them for the opportunity to share a bit of Late Antiquity with a wider audience. The mou... Read more 27 Mar 2020 - 7 minute read

Digital Syriac codicology and paleography resources

I was looking for tools to help identify Syriac manuscripts, and was surprised to find how diffused the resources were. I’m putting them together with some short annotations in this blog post partially in order to ensure that I will be able to find them again the next time I need them, although hopefully it might help someone else find something... Read more 23 Mar 2020 - 3 minute read

Visiting the Research Centre for Islamic Numismatics Tübingen (FINT)

Last week, I along with other fellows currently based at the Center for Advanced Studies “Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter” at the University of Tübingen, had the opportunity to visit the university’s world-class collection of Islamic coins. Our visit was organized and hosted by Dr. al-Chomari from the Forschungsstelle f... Read more 03 Mar 2020 - 1 minute read

Tübingen Research Group Seminar

Since the start of February, I have held a short-term fellowship with the Center for Advanced Studies Research Group ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ at the University of Tübingen. Tomorrow (21 February 2020) I will be giving a paper for the bi-weekly seminar. The seminar lasts from 18.00 to 19.30, and the dis... Read more 20 Feb 2020 - 1 minute read

Dumbarton Oaks & HMML Coptic Summer Program

From 8 July to 2 August 2019 I attended the Coptic language course hosted at the Hill Manuscript Museum and Library at St John’s University, Minnesota. The course was generously supported by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. While they have offered a Syriac summer language program for several years now, the inclusion of a second language course i... Read more 05 Aug 2019 - 1 minute read