Religions of Late Antiquity Research Seminar (Patristics Seminar)
The Religions of Late Antiquity Seminar (formerly the Patristics Seminar) meets in even weeks during term time.The seminar gathers graduate students, scholars and visiting scholars in the University interested in religions of late antiquity (Christianity, Judaism, cults of the Greco-Roman and near eastern worlds) and their interactions. It shares a common interest with the Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminars (CLANS), which engage with the late antique and early medieval periods from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary perspectives (including Classics, History, Theology and Religious Studies).
Lent Term 2026
Material texts: inscriptions and manuscripts, stenographers and scribes
2nd February - Dr Arkadiy Avdokhin, Oxford: Ma Ouranie: Schroedinger's goddess in a late antique dipinto from Aphrodisias
16th February - Dr Caroline Barron, Durham: Latino-Punic inscriptions in a Christian funerary landscape
2nd March - Prof. McKitterick, Cambridge: Paris, BnF lat. 5516 (Liber pontificalis) from the ninth century: content and context
16th March - Prof. Aaron Koller, Cambridge: How does an oral text become written? Orality, scribal practices, and early manuscripts of the Mishnah
Mondays, 2-3.30pm in the Lightfoot Room, Divinity Faculty, Cambridge, and online;
please email Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (sjl39@cam.ac.uk) for more details of how to join remotely.
All colleagues, undergraduate and postgraduate students, from within and outside the faculty, are warmly welcome.