About the Centre for Late Antiquity
Established in 1996, the Centre for Late Antiquity is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary inquiry into the history and cultures of the late ancient and early medieval Mediterranean through
- post-graduate teaching and research
- collaborative research projects
- interdisciplinary colloquia involving scholars from the UK, Europe, and the US
This Centre is affiliated to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts.
Collaborative Publications
Major Collaborative Projects
- Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in a Christian Capital: Rome, 300-900, a volume of collected essays edited by Kate Cooperand Julia Hillner, forthcomingfrom Cambridge University Press in 2007.
- The Early Saints of Rome, a volume of translated texts from the Gesta martyrum, edited by Kate Cooper and Carole Hill, forthcoming.
- The Peace in the Feud: History and Anthropology 1955-2005 , edited by Conrad Leyser
- Early Medieval Europe 9:3 (2000), 'The Roman Martyrs and the Politics of Memory' a special issue edited by Kate Cooper, offers an initial overview of the Roman Martyrs Project's work.
- AHDS Database
Collaborative Articles
- Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser, "The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West," Gender & History 12 (2000), 536-551. (PDF 830KB)
- Hillner, Julia and Conrad Leyser, "Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Rome, c.440-c.840. A Database Project of the Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester," in Le Scritture dai Monasteri. Atti del IIº Seminario Internazionale di Studio 'I Monasteri nell'Alto Medioevo' Roma 9-10 Maggio 2002, eds Flavia De Rubeis and Walter Pohl (Roma: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, vol 29, 2003), 227-247. (PDF 2,319KB)
- Hillner, Julia and Conrad Leyser, JISC Inform 5 (2004), 21. (PDF 79KB)
Other Articles by Centre for Late Antiquity Staff
- Kate Cooper, "Contesting the Nativity: Wives, virgins, and Pulcheria's imitatio Mariae," Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 19 (1998), 31-43. (PDF 770KB)
- Kate Cooper, "Empress and Theotokos: Gender and Patronage in the Christological Controversy," Studies in Church History 39 (2004), 39-51. (PDF 707KB)
- Kate Cooper, "The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities in the Lives of Melania the Younger," in Household, Women, and Christianities, eds., Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Brepols, 2005), 11-35. (PDF 1,399KB)
- Kate Cooper, "Household and Empire: The Materfamilias as Miles Christi in the Anonymous Handbook for Gregoria," in Household, Women, and Christianities, eds., Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Brepols, 2005), 91-107. (PDF 952KB)
- Kate Cooper, "The martyr, the matrona and the bishop: the matron Lucina and the politics of martyr cult in fifth- and sixth-century Rome," Early Medieval Europe 8 (1999), 297-317. (PDF 1,196KB)
- Kate Cooper, "Matthidia's Wish: Division, Reunion, and the Early Christian Family in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions" in Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts, eds., G.J. Brooke and J.-D. Kaestli (Leuven University Press, 2000), 243-264. (PDF 1,118KB)
- Kate Cooper, "Ventriloquism and the Miraculous: Conversion, Preaching, and the Martyr Exemplum in Late Antiquity," Studies in Church History 41 (2005), 22-45. (PDF 1,290KB)
- Kate Cooper, "Voice of the Victim: Gender, Representation and Early Christian Martyrdom," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 80 (1998), 147-157. (PDF 743KB)
- Conrad Leyser, "Vulnerability and Power: The Early Christian Rhetoric of Masculine Authority," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 80 (1998), 159-173. (PDF 937KB)