The 2019 Spring Symposium for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies was held at Churchill College, Cambridge from 30 March through 1 April 2019. In addition to acting as the conference webmaster, I gave a communication titled ‘“It devoured many people and made bitter havoc among men”: stories of violence in the late antique wilderne... Read more 07 May 2019 - 2 minute read
‘A note reconsidering the message of Heraclius’ silver hexagram, circa AD 615’ has appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Byzantinische Zeitschrift. The short article identifies a previously unidentified connection between sources, which provides an important correction to our understanding of the reign of Heraclius (AD 610-41). The abstract reads... Read more 15 Mar 2019 - less than 1 minute read
Tomorrow, 15 January 2019, I will be participating in the Spring ‘work-in-progress’ workshop of the First Millennium Network (formerly WARBLES), generously hosted by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. I will be sharing a revised chapter of my doctoral thesis, exploring the representation of Roman identity in a collection of... Read more 14 Jan 2019 - less than 1 minute read
I attended a workshop, organized by Dr Hollis and Prof König of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. It was held 3rd-4th December, 2018, at the Cambo House, on the coast of Fife a few miles outside of St Andrews. All participants pre-circulated draft papers, and the estate made a cozy setting where we were able to have some ve... Read more 09 Dec 2018 - 2 minute read
My review has recently appeared in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review of David Frendo and Athanasios Fotiou, John Kaminiates: The Capture of Thessaloniki: Translation, Introduction and Notes. Byzantina Australiensia 12. (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017, availabele to read here. It reads, in part: This volume was originally published in 2000 by the Au... Read more 20 Jun 2018 - 1 minute read