Late Antique and Byzantine Historiography
A one day colloquium at Cardiff University
Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture
Date: 21 January 2009, 10.00am-5pm
Place: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Room 2.03
Provisional Programme:
10.00am: Mark Humphries (Swansea), Visa vel lecta? Ammianus Marcellinus and the monuments of Rome
10.45: Andy Fear (Manchester), A new chosen people? Orosius and the epic of Rome
11.30: Coffee break
12: Josef Lössl (Cardiff), Prophecy in historiography
Lunch break
2pm: Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Procopius of Caesarea on past and present
2.45: Conor Whately (Warwick), Textual unity in Procopius’ Wars
3.30: Tea break
4pm: Frank Trombley (Cardiff), Michael Attaleiates: professional experience and history writing
For further information please contact:
Dr Shaun Tougher, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Humanities Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF10 3XU, tel: 029-20876228, Email: TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk
If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to:
TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk
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