Cyprus Conference on Letters by Rulers

Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus,…

Corsi and Morvillez on Hospitality

Two articles on hospitality have been published: Cristina Corsi, ‘”Strangers on the way”: hospitalité, identité et défis lors des voyages à la fin de l’Antiquité’, in: Fauchon-Claudon and Le Guennec 2002, 303-20. Éric Morvillez, ‘Louer l’hospitalité des évêques dans l’Antiquité…

Becker on the Power of Humility

Audrey Becker writes on ‘The Power of Humility: Fifth-Century Gallic Bishops in Negotiations with Barbarian Kings’ in the latest thematic issue of Studies in Late Antiquity. Abstract. This essay examines the diplomatic efforts of Gallic bishops with barbarian kings, in…