Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond 17-19 March 2023

The annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies takes place between 17-19 March 2023 at Corpus Christi College & All Souls College, Oxford.

However, this event is also available via Zoom.

For more information: https://spbs2023.wordpress.com/

And if you would like to join the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies please visit: https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/about-us/

And, if you have an interest in the Byzantine Empire, i.e. the Eastern Roman Empire, Antiquity and Medieval Studies you may find some of my own publications of interest:

Publications by Dr. Bernard Mulholland

 

Fiction:

 

Bernard Mulholland, Nazareth Quest (2022).

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=NfWkEAAAQBAJ&pli=1

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445327630

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B92V9VYF

 

Non-fiction:

 

Bernard Mulholland, The man from MENSA - 1 of 600: Mensa research (2016).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445329346

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=gfWkEAAAQBAJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535307269

 

---, The man from MENSA - 1 of the 600: Politics 1990-1995 (2016).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445329553

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=j_WkEAAAQBAJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535324376

 

---, Ratio analysis of financial KPI in the Higher Education sector: a case study (2018).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445320705

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=YfWkEAAAQBAJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MB99NWP

 

---, Early Byzantine Ireland: a survey of the archaeological evidence (2021).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445354716

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ChilEAAAQBAJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MG1YZ8W

 

---, Navan Fort, Ireland: archaeological and palaeoecological analysis (2021).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6445397300

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=PhilEAAAQBAJ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYXX9GM

 

---, The Early Byzantine Christian Church (Oxford, 2014).

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-early-byzantine-christian-church/id1023114473

 

---, 'Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and Roman church plans in the Levant and some possible consequences', Patristic Studies in the twenty-first century: proceedings of an international conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies, ed. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Theodore de Bruyn and Carol Harrison (Turnhout, 2015), 597-633.

https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.BAIEP.5.107536

 

Mulholland, B. (2021). 'Can archaeology inform the climate change debate?' Academia Letters, Article4385. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4385

#archaeology #history #Byzantine #Christianity #Church #liturgy

Open-access databases of the National Hellenic Research Foundation

Grateful to AIEB for this notice.

Open-access databases of the National Hellenic Research Foundation

The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) provides open access to 16 databases concerning Byzantine History and especially Byzantine Greece: https://anavathmis.eu/?lang=en.

Based on the scrutiny of a large body of primary and secondary sources by members of the Section of Byzantine Research of the IHR/NHRF and associated scholars, the databases provide various search possibilities in certain types of texts (historiography and hagiography) and in specific topics (e.g. gastronomy, bookbinding, imported ceramics, raw materials, natural resources and agricultural products, domestic and wild fauna, Greek merchants), as well as a catalogue of the Byzantine documents kept in the archives of the monastery of Saint John the Theologian in Patmos, notes found in manuscripts of the same monastery, the diplomatic transcriptions of Greek post-Byzantine documents kept in the archives of the monasteries of Mount Athos, a gazetteer of late Byzantine conflicts, a prosopographical index (for the Venetian colonies in Greece), a catalogue of western religious orders in Greece. Of special note is the “Kyrtou Plegmata” platform, which offers search possibilities in the trade and communication networks in and around Greece from Prehistory to the 19th c. 

The IHR/NHRF also provides open access to a number of e-books regarding Byzantine History: https://anavathmis.eu/e-books/?lang=en#1573422809019-ffd3837c-0760 

#highereducation #research #postdoc #PhD #Art #archaeology #history #Byzantine #Byzanz #Byzantium #Medieval #blog #blogger  

Lecture by Mary Cunningham: Who was Mary? The Mother of God seen through Byzantine Eyes

Grateful to Bedlam for this notice. In brief:

Lecture (in person): Mary Cunningham: Who was Mary? The Mother of God seen through Byzantine Eyes. Maliotis Cultural Center, Hellenic College Holy Cross, Brookline, MA, USA, 21st April, 2023, 1900 hrs. All Welcome! For further information, please click here: https://www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/theotokos-lecture

#christianity #highereducation #research #archaeology #history #byzantine #medieval

Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, First Volume, Open Access

Grateful to AIEB for this notice.

Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, First Volume, Open Access

The first volume of the Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies has just been published and is available Open Access for 60 days.
#archaeology #history #byzantine #medieval #islamic #lateantique #art

https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/jlaibs/1/1-2

New online resource: Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism

New online resource: Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism

 

The ERC project Purism in Antiquity: Theories of Language in Greek Atticist Lexica and their Legacy (PURA), based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, is delighted to announce the opening of its Digital Encyclopedia of Atticism (DEA), accessible at www.atticism.eu
DEA collects our work on the lexicographic entries in the Atticist lexica and their linguistic history; the major scholars and works of the ancient and Byzantine Atticist debate; and the transmission of the lexica in the medieval and early modern periods. All contents are open access, peer-reviewed, and are published under a Creative Commons license. 

At the moment, DEA contains 50 entries dealing with Greek words or linguistic phenomena discussed in Atticist lexica. Each entry is divided into an initial section that collects Greek texts in English translation, and a second section that contains a philological and linguistic commentary on the use of the lemma throughout the history of Greek (Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek where appropriate). A search tool allows users to search the content of these entries. User guides provide assistance in navigating the various sections of the site.

In the future, DEA will open its sections Scholars & works, and Transmission: Manuscripts & Editions. Other instalments of lexicographic entries will be uploaded throughout the lifespan of the project. 

DEA has been made possible by an ERC Consolidator grant (grant agreement no. 865817) and by collaboration with the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities. 
Contents have been created with the Cadmus program, developed by Daniele Fusi. 
Our partners include the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” – CNR Pisa, a member of the Clarin-IT cluster, and Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press. We also acknowledge the invaluable collaboration of PURA's Advisory board.

The PURA team hope that this resource will be useful to all those interested in the use of the Greek language, its evolution, and ancient theories about linguistic correctness. Much of our work may be of interest to scholars working on Byzantine literature, scholarship and linguistic history, so we encourage you to visit DEA.

#highereducation #research #postdoc #PhD #Art #archaeology #history #Byzantine #Byzanz #Byzantium #Medieval #blog #blogger 

Call for Blog Post Submissions: The Blog on Medieval Arts & Rituals

From the AIEB:

Call for Blog Post Submissions: The Blog on Medieval Arts & Rituals

The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR) invites proposals for blog posts that will be published on its official website (https://netmar.cy/blog/). 

Through a series of NetMAR monthly blogposts, medievalists share their insights, original research, ideas and opinions concerning medieval arts and rituals in a way that is accessible to wider audiences.

Among the subjects that are broached in our monthly posts are the following:

What do we mean by heritage and how can we protect it?
How do medieval arts and rituals survive in contemporary theatre?
Manuscripts produced in medieval Cyprus for church rituals.
Storytelling in monastic contexts
Rituals of medieval breastfeeding
A Cistercian nunnery in medieval Nicosia.

For more information, visit our website: https://netmar.cy/blog/ 
Please prepare your blog texts by using the attached template (files here and here). 

Send your proposals to Stavroula Constantinou (konstans@ucy.ac.cy). 

#Byzantine #Medieval #archaeology #art #history #highereducation #research #blog 

Christmas Letter 2022 from the International Association of Patristic Studies

As we collectively turn our minds to celebrating and commemorating a number of religious festivals at this time of year it is perhaps appropriate to share this Christmas message from the International Association of Patristic Studies - Association Internationale D'Études Patristiques. Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a truly Happy New Year.

Dear Members of AIEP,

The holiday season always invites us to reflect on how we have used the time that God has given us. This is undoubtedly necessary and beneficial both on a personal and institutional level. The AIEP Executive Committee also believe it is important that we reflect, in order to make our members aware of the great effort we are undertaking to update and modernize our association. This effort also implies an immense challenge, which is not to lose sight of the mission AIEP’s founders entrusted us with “to promote the study of Christian antiquity, especially the Church Fathers, and to connect all academics dedicated to this fascinating field of study.”

Some of the tasks carried out this year are:

Enhancing our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@aiep with interesting videos on "Research in Patristic Studies in the 21st century: Challenges, Possibilities and New Methods". Also continuing with the section dedicated to thanking members who have contributed significantly to expanding AIEP.

Updating our database and email addresses so as to provide all members with useful information regarding the field of Patristic Studies. This task has been and continues to be difficult and for this reason we apologize to some AIEP members who have not received this information properly.

Remodeling our website https://www.aiep-iaps.org/, which will allow all members of our association to find information referring to the immense production carried out by AIEP members more efficiently.

Keeping the Facebook group updated, which is undoubtedly a way of linking and generating friendship among AIEP members.

These tasks would have been impossible without the help of Fernando Soler, Paolo Bernardini, Alyson Nunez and Margrethe Kamille Birkler. We also want to especially thank the National Correspondents of the 54 countries in which AIEP is present, for helping us disseminate information regarding activities related to Patristic Studies and for connecting members of their country.

Next year, we will continue to improve these activities already begun and start new and challenging initiatives. Finally, we would like to thank all AIEP members for their continued support and friendship and share with you some of the many reflections on Christmas that the Fathers and the great authors of Early Christianity offer us as strength and spiritual nourishment: 

Augustine of Hippo: (Sermon 185, 1)

Wake up: God has become man for you. Wake up, you who sleep, rise from the dead, and Christ will be your light. For you precisely, God has become man. You would have died forever, if he had not been born in time." 

Leo the Great, Pope (Sermon on the Nativity of the Lord 1, 13)

«Today, dear brothers, our Savior has been born; Let us rejoice. There can be no place for sadness, when life has just been born; the same one that ends the fear of mortality and instills in us the joy of the promised eternity”.

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Update on submission to literary agency

Apprehensive! I submitted my novel Nazareth Quest to a really great literary agency to see if it is suitable for a book-to-film/television/gaming contract.

The indicative date for a response is three months from submission, and I guess I will be on tenterhooks until then to discover whether it passes muster.

In the meantime the novel is available from Amazon and good book sellers. 

Nazareth Quest by Bernard Mulholland

 

Book review of Nazareth Quest in Mensa Magazine:

‘Irish Mensan Bernard Mulholland is well known for his academic publications. An archaeologist and historian with a PhD from Queen’s University in Belfast, his thesis was published as The Early Byzantine Christian Church – and his other works include The Man from Mensa, a look at Mensa’s history and research projects.

Now, in a complete change of direction, Bernard has published his first novel. Nazareth Quest is a dramatic thriller set in the historic lands of Israel.

Invited to join a team of archaeologists in Nazareth, to survey the archaeology beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, Brendan Mallon leaps at the opportunity.

Crusaders, both Templars and Hospitallers, have been intimately associated with the history of Christian churches in Nazareth for more than a millennia, and now these archaeologists find themselves tasked with uncovering secrets of these ancient orders. What first drew these Crusaders to Nazareth, and could the archaeologists reveal the hidden truth behind many of the mysteries that have transcended time?

Forced to battle, first with soldiers of Christ and then for their very existence against a demon overlord with ties to the British monarchy, the archaeologists each have to dig deep to discover the route to their own salvation.

And, more than that, to then decide whether to join a quest to recover holy relics associated with the Last Supper‘.

Editor (2022), ‘Bernard’s on a Nazareth Quest’, Books, Mensa Magazine, November, p. 12.

About the author Dr. Bernard Mulholland

Bernard Mulholland is author of the novel, NAZARETH QUEST (2022).

 

Dr. Bernard Mulholland is an archaeologist and historian with a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Belfast. His thesis was published as a monograph: The Early Byzantine Christian Church (Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies, 9, Oxford, 2014).

His other academic publications include:

Bernard Mulholland, 'Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and Roman church plans in the Levant and some possible consequences', Patristic Studies in the twenty-first century: proceedings of an international conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies, ed. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Theodore de Bruyn and Carol Harrison (Turnhout, 2015), 597-633

---, 'the man from MENSA' - 1 of 600: Mensa research (Charleston, 2016).

---, 'the man from MENSA'  - 1 of the 600: Politics 1990-1995 (Charleston, 2016).

---, Ratio analysis of financial KPI in the Higher Education sector: a case study (Belfast, 2018).

---, Early Byzantine Ireland: a survey of the archaeological evidence (Belfast, 2021).

---, Navan Fort, Ireland: archaeological and palaeoecological analysis (Belfast, 2021).

 

Mulholland, B. (2021). 'Can archaeology inform the climate change debate?' Academia Letters, Article4385. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4385

 

Visit his website: https://www.bernardmulholland.com/    

 

Bernard is a member of the International Association of Patristic Studies, the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, the Council for British Archaeology, and has been a member of Mensa for some thirty years.

            Dr. Bernard Mulholland was elected in April 2016 to the Irish Mensa committee for a two year term. Previously he was a regional organiser for the Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children during the early nineties. Bernard has been the editor and secretary for Poliphony, which is the journal of British Mensa’s politics special interest group, between 1995-96 and then again 2000-05. He also wrote reports for Spacesig’s newsletter Spacesignl and also wrote a bi-monthly media column between 1997-2003. Bernard founded Mensa’s science interest group and was its secretary and editor of its journal Wissenschaft from 2003-08.

As an archaeologist, Bernard has worked professionally in Ireland, and as an academic in Italy and Israel.

Interests include travel, especially on overland expeditions throughout Africa, but with ambitions to travel throughout Asia as well, good food, great company, and wildlife.

 

All business enquiries email: bernardmulholland.phd [at] gmail.com

Alternatively, make contact via Bernard Mulholland's Academia.edu profile.

 

#Crusades #Templar #Hospitaller #Christianity #Christian #Church #Israel #SistersofNazareth #archaeology #history #religion #Desposyni #JesusofNazareth #Nazareth #Mary #Theotokos #Bible #soldiersofChrist #demon #novel #author

 

Nazareth Quest - a novel by author Bernard Mulholland

Nazareth Quest - a novel by author Bernard Mulholland.

Invited to join a team of archaeologists in Nazareth, Israel to survey the archaeology beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, Brendan Mallon leapt at the opportunity to do so. Crusaders, both Templars and Hospitallers, have been intimately associated with the history of Christian churches in Nazareth for more than a millennia, and now these archaeologists found themselves tasked with uncovering their secrets. What first drew these Crusaders to Nazareth, and could the archaeologists reveal the hidden truth behind many of the mysteries that have transcended time.

Forced to battle, first, with soldiers of Christ, and then for their very existence against a demon overlord with ties to the British monarchy. The archaeologists each had to dig deep to discover the route to their own salvation. And, more than that, to then decide whether to join a quest to recover holy relics associated with the Last Supper. 

#Crusades #Templar #Hospitaller #Christianity #Christian #Church #Israel #SistersofNazareth #archaeology #history #religion #Desposyni #JesusofNazareth #Nazareth #Mary #Theotokos #Bible #soldiersofChrist #demon #novel #author