The Saints Envisioned: Visual Representations of Saints in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ertegun House, Oxford, June 12, 2015
An Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity collaborative colloquium between two Oxford-based research projects – ‘Empires of Faith’ and ‘Cult of Saints’
The colloquium is free, but space is limited so registration is essential.
Papers:
Saints and their icons
Jaś Elsner (‘Empires of Faith’ project)
Saints in their architectural configuration
Efthymios Rizos (‘Cult of Saints’ project)
Saints for every day: depictions of saints on household objects
Ine Jacobs (Oxford University)
The two processions of saints in S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
Bryan Ward-Perkins (‘Cult of Saints’ project)
Papal agency and mosaic images of saints in 7th-century Rome
Maria Lidova (‘Empires of Faith’ project)