Seminar Series: The Cult of Saints in the First Millennium

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Series Organiser: Efthymios Rizos
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Danson Room (26th October and 9th November), Sutro Room (23rd November)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00– Book launch: Richard Price, The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), Translated Texts for Historians 68, Liverpool University Press. 
Richard Price

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00– Prison Space and Holiness in Martyr Narratives: A Literary Approach to Greek Passions 
Christodoulos Papavarnavas (Oxford)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term) 

17:00 – Fluid textual traditions and untethered historical data: some philological problems of using martyrdom accounts as sources for cult 
Nikolaos Kalviainen (Oxford)