Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam

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Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, July 26–28, 2019

Secrets and secrecy are key features in late-antique, Byzantine, and early Islamic literature. They can manifest as hidden knowledge or sanctity, as disguise or the veiling of intentions, as a physical and metaphorical absence, as the creation of new identities or even as alternative modes of existence. This international conference, organised by Anne Alwis (Kent), Anis Ben Amor (Tunis), Kirill Dmitriev (St Andrews) and Konstantin Klein (Bamberg) and funded by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and the Humanities (AGYA), will be investigating the role of secrets and secrecy in a diachronic and interdisciplinary way.

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