Essays in Long Late Antiquity (ELLA) is a newly created Open Access journal which positions itself in the field of first millennium studies. It is a field which has seen growth in recent years and has an established momentum. The journal intends to move away from the Western European view of periodization, a view which the editors hope will entice interdisciplinary and supraregional approaches. Therefore, the journal hopes to cover the 3rd to the 9th centuries (200 – 800) and broader Afroeurasia in its research and to stand apart from discipline siloing.
Les Antiquités dépaysées
Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme's Les Antiquités dépaysées is the March volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book is the first on geopolitics of antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century. In this blog post, Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme discuss this new publication and how the volume came to exist. In recent decades there … Continue reading
Challenging perceptions on Columbanus and Jonas of Bobbio – an interview with Alexander O’Hara and Ian Wood
Perceptions on the life of Columbanus, Jonas of Bobbio and hagiography itself are changing in the eyes of historians. We interviewed Alexander O'Hara and Ian Wood, authors of the highly anticipated Jonas of Bobbio to find out more. How long have you been working on Jonas of Bobbio? Have you encountered anything surprising in your research? O’ HARA: What … Continue reading
Classical sculpture and the modern world – an interview with Elizabeth Bartman
Author of the newly released catalogue The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture, Elizabeth Bartman, discusses the history of the collection, sculptural restoration and how the qualities of the collection transcend into modern life with Chrissy Partheni of the World Museum, Liverpool. You have described yourself as an archaeologist of the storeroom, can you explain what that means? … Continue reading
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