We held a series of 15 seminars.
Epitaph for a Saint: Considerations on the Epigraphical Aspects of the Burial of Martyrs (January 2016)
Speaker: Pawel Nowakowski
King Vačagan the Pious and His Long Hunt for Relics (February 2016)
Speaker: Nikoloz Aleksidze (Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
Art as Evidence for the Joint Cult of Saints: John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in Early Medieval Rome and Byzantium (February 2016)
Speaker: Maria Lidova (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
Text, Shrine, and Supplicant in the Eastern Cult of Saints (5th – 7th Centuries) (March 2016)
Speaker: Philip Booth (Trinity College, University of Oxford)
The Cult of St Alban of Verulamium (April 2016)
Speaker: Mark Laynesmith (The Archbishop's Examination in Theology, Lambeth Palace)
Thinking About Saints with Gregory of Tours (May 2016)
Speaker: Simon Loseby (University of Sheffield)
The Burials Ad Sanctos (June 2016)
Speaker: Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw)
The Syriac Life of Mar Awgen: Portraying a Monastic Holy Man in Late Antique Mesopotamia (January 2017)
Speaker: Sergey Minov (Oxford)
The Cult of Saints and the Origins of the Constantinian Basilica (February 2017)
Speaker: John Mitchell (East Anglia)
‘His Master’s Voice’: Martyrs as Teachers and Preachers in the Roman Gesta Martyrum (February 2017)
Speaker: Kate Cooper (Manchester)
Offered to Saint Constantine: Thoughts on the Historical Significance of the Early Byzantine Silver Hoard of Karlsruhe (March 2017)
Speaker: Benjamin Fourlas (Mainz)
Lupus of Troyes and his Vita (December 2015)
Speaker: David Lambert (History Faculty)
Saint Anne. Another Heavenly Wife (November 2015)
Speaker: Elena Draghici-Vasilescu (Wolfson College, University of Oxford )
Sanctity and Society in Sixth-Century Antioch: The Cult of Symeon Stylites the Younger (November 2015)
Speaker: Lucy Parker (Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
Saints from the Latin East: The Memory of North Illyricum in Greek Hagiography (October 2015)
Rulers and Saints (13 May 2016)
A workshop was held to understand how rulers build their family identity and take for granted that the sanctity of the holy patrons they chose is something well-defined, stable, and always available to use.
Marta Tycner (‘Cult of Saints’): Constantine the Great and the cult of saints at the very beginnings of Christian monarchy
Paweł Nowakowski (‘Cult of Saints’): Epigraphic manifestations of an early dynastic discourse. Anicia Juliana, Justinian, and the building inscriptions of the churches of St. Polyeuktos and Sts. Sergios and Bakchos in Constantinople
Nikoloz Aleksidze (‘Cult of Saints’): Parthian in Form, Roman in Essence: Legitimising kingship in the late antique Caucasus
Marta Szada (Warsaw University): Holy Queens and Their Children. Sanctity and Dynastic Policies in Merovingian Gaul
Grzegorz Pac (Warsaw University): Limits of royal female sanctity in the Early Middle Ages
Steffen Hope (Odense): A dynasty of saints? The minor saints of medieval Norway and their association with Saint Olaf
Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University, Budapest): 'Beata stirps' revisited. The use of the concept of dynastic sainthood by the Angevins and the Luxemburgs in the 14th century
Stanislava Kuzmová (‘Jagiellonians’): The failed saints of the Jagiellonians? King Wladislaus of Poland and Hungary and contemporary ideas of dynastic sainthood
Giedrė Mickūnaitė (‘Jagiellonians’): Dynasty at the gates of paradise: Casimir is the name, Jagiellonian is the password
