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Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands,
Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed.
Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukasinovic.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Matthew Kinloch holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (2014-18), an MRes from the University of Birmingham (2013-14), and a BA from the University of Durham (2010-13). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Alex MacFarlane is writing a D.Phil. titled
Alexander Re-Mapped: Geography and Identity in the Alexander Romance
in Armenia (University of Oxford). This follows an MSt in Classical Armenian Studies (University of Oxford) and an MA in Ancient History (KCL).
