Robert Wiśniewski

Julia Doroszewska (UW) on Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality - at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 5 March 2026, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar this Thursday, 26 February (4.45 p.m.): Mariusz Gwiazda (UW), 'Marmora Christiana? Marble Use and Distribution Patterns in the Early Byzantine Southern Levant'. In person in Warsaw, but also on Zoom.

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on Thursday, 19 February: Agnieszka Lic (IMOC), 'Eastern Arabia and the Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: Archaeological Perspectives on the Christianisation, Islamisation, and Urbanisation of the Region'. As always, in person (-14C in Warsaw this morning:) and online.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: we are starting the new semester next week. Take a look at the programme.

A new issue of Viator with a thematic cluster: 'Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair', edited by Dawn LaValle Norman and Lea Niccolai.
If you feel un urgent need to read why clerics started to shear their heads (or why the bishops made them to), let me know:)

I'm sure I will! Thanks:)

Going to Marburg!

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 22 January: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts. BTW, it's -13C and sunny in Warsaw:)

Right now in Warsaw...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 15 January: Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton), 'Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus'. In person and online, as always.

Today (8 I 2025) at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar : Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier. As always in person (in snow-covered Warsawa) and online.

List of persons giving/receiving money and wine, Qasr Ibrim, 12th cent. (Ruffini, Giovanni R. The Bishop, the Eparch and the King: Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim IV. JJurP Supplement 22. Warsaw: Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, 2014, fig. 13

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 18 December: Grzegorz Ochała (UW) "Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia". As always in person and online.

On my way to Bamberg...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 11 December: Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy. In-person in now terribly grey Warsaw and on Zoom.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 4 XII : Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 27 November: Jean-Michel Carrié (EHESS), Origins and pagan precedents of christian military chaplains in the late Roman army. In person, in snow-covered Warsaw, and online.

Image credits: Angel Drawing, Rossi’s Tractate, p. 22 (tracing from Francesco Rossi, “Di alcuni manoscritti copti che si conservano nella Biblioteca nazionale di Torino,” Memorie della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino 44 [1894] p. 43).

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 20 November: Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg), Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt

Today (Thursday, 13 November, 4.45 p.m.) at Warsaw Late Antique Seminar: Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Body Horror of the Empress and Dark Palaces of the Emperor: Rulers and Resentment c.400-c.1100. In-persona and on Zoom.

📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 6 November: David Addison (University of Liverpool), "Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea". In person and online, as always.

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday, 30 October, Robert Wiśniewski, 'Was St Pater a popular saint?' As always im person and online

No, Sabrina, it was only live...

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 23 X: Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In-person and online.

Warsaw Late Antoque Seminar on 16 November: 16 X Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder): 'A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.' In person and on Zoom

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on Thursday 9 October (4.45 p.m.): Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania), "Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier". In person and online, as usual.

Credit: University of Oxford

Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 2 October: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back.
In person and online. For the full programme see: lateantiqueseminar.historia.uw.edu.pl

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look!
More on the seminar's website...

CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on 25-27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw. If you happen to be in town, do join us!
Programme: bit.ly/42JturY

Ah, that was your Warsaw stay! See you in Leeds?