Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Workshop 3 - 27 April 2018

Programme at a glance

10.00–10.30 Coffee and welcome

10.30–10.45 Workshop introduction: Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari

10.45–12.15 Session 1 Generic Change and Continuity / Social Contexts (Chair: TBC)

  • Martin Bloomer (Notre Dame), ‘Education and reading’
  • Thorsten Fögen (Durham), ‘Technical and encyclopaedic literature’

 

12.30–13.30 Lunch

 

13.30–15.00. Session 2 From the Last Years of the Western Empire to the Seventh Century (Chair: TBC)

  • Ian Fielding (Michigan), ‘Ostrogothic and Byzantine Italy’
  • Brian Croke (Sydney), ‘Latin literature in early Byzantium’

 

15.00–15.30 Coffee

 

15.30–16.15 Session 3 From the Last Years of the Western Empire to the Seventh Century (Chair: TBC)

  • Danuta Shanzer (Vienna) ‘Post-Roman Gaul’

16.30–17.15 Session 4 Cambridge Dictionary of Later Latin Literature

 

17.30 Reception

19.00 Conference dinner (Location: TBC)

 

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