Centre Contacts
Academic Staff and Associates
School of Religious and Theological Studies
Dr. Crystal Addey is a tutor in Religion in Late Antiquity. Her interests are in Ancient Philosophy, especially Neoplatonism, Graeco-Roman religion, especially divination, oracles, astrology and magic, and in the use of anthropology for the study of ancient history and religious traditions.
Dr. Nicholas Baker-Brian is a specialist on Augustine and Manichaeism in Roman North Africa. His most recent publication is Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire: A Study of Augustine's Contra Adimantum (Lampeter 2009). He is currently writing a book on Manichaeism (to be published by T&T Clark in 2010) and editing, with Shaun Tougher, a volume on the writings of Julian the Apostate. His teaching includes Celtic Religion, Gnosticism and Manichaeism.
Dr. Daniel King is a post-doctoral research assistant working on the Latin and Syriac Commentary project. He specialises in Aristotelian commentaries in Syriac. His PhD dissertation on Syriac translations of the works of Cyril of Alexandria is published with Peeters (2009). He also published on translation theory, and on Jerome of Stridon in Syriac. He teaches Hebrew, Syriac, Syriac Christianity and Judaism.
Dr. Josef Lössl specialises in Greek and Latin Patristics. His interests include the second century (in particular Tatian the Syrian), the origin of commentarial literature, the origin and history of the chronicle, the work of Augustine and Jerome and their contemporaries, and the reception of Late Antiquity in the medieval and modern periods. His new translation of Augustine's 'On True Religion', his volume on Jerome of Stridon, co-edited with Andrew Cain, and his book The Early Church: History and Memory, have just been published He is co-investigator in the Latin and Syriac Commentary project and teaches Hellenistic Greek, early Christianity and Monotheism.
Dr. James Siemens is an honorary research fellow in Patristics and Late Antiquity at the School of Religious and Theological Studies. His research interests are in the area of late-antique Christian historiography, especially the theology of late-antique Latin chronicles.
Dr. Frank Trombley specialises in religion and society in the Byzantine world, the Christian Orient and early Islam. He also teaches on War and Ethics. His two volumes on Hellenic Religion and Christianisation (Brill: Leiden, 1993) are currently in their third edition (2001) and he is preparing a volume on Kekaumenos' Strategikon (Brill: Leiden).
Dr. John Watt is an expert in Syriac Christianity. He also teaches Jewish religion and philosophy. The focus of his research is on the reception of Classical Greek thought in Syriac literature. With Jan Willem Drijvers he co-edited Portraits of Spiritual Authority (Leiden 1999). His edition of Bar Hebraeus' Syriac translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric has just been published (Brill: Leiden, 2005). He is lead investigator of the AHRC funded Latin and Syriac Commentary project.
School of History and Archaeology
Dr. Peter Guest specialises in the study of coinage in late antiquity and the archaeology of later Roman Britain. He also teaches courses on coins in Ancient Britain, Roman Britain and death and burial in Late Antiquity. He recently excavated a fourth-century villa complex at Bradford-on-Avon and is currently excavating at Caerleon. His most recent publications include The Late Roman Gold & Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure (London 2005) and, with N. Wells, Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales (Wetteren 2007).
Dr. Dirk Krausmüller is a Byzantine scholar with interests in theological and cosmological speculation in Early Medieval Byzantium, Byzantine concepts of the human person, gender, and self-determination, the afterlife and the communication between the living and the dead, Byzantine hagiography and monasticism and many other topics of Byzantine intellectual, spiritual and cultural life. His most recent publication is 'The Constantinopolitan abbot Dius: his life, cult and hagiographical dossier,' in: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2007, pp. 13-31.
Dr. Alan Lane is a senior lecturer in Archaeology. His main interests lie in the post-Roman Celtic West, pre-Norman Wales and Scotland, Viking age Britain and Ireland, and in early medieval artefacts, in particular Hebridean ceramics.
Professor Denys Pringle is a specialist in the archaeology of the Crusader settlements in Syria and the Holy Land and teaches a course on the Archaeology of Late Antiquity. He is the author of, among others, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. A Corpus, 3 vols. (Cambridge 1993, 1998, and 2007), and Fortification and Settlement in Crusader Palestine (Aldershot 2000).
Dr. Shaun Tougher is interested in the political and social history of the later Roman and Byzantine empire. His main research is on eunuchs and on the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium (867-1056), in particular the emperor Leo VI. on whom he published The Reign of Leo VI. (886-912). Politics and People (Brill: Leiden 1997). His most recent book is on Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh 2007). Together with Nicholas Baker-Brian he organised the conference Julian the Apostate. Emperor and Author in Cardiff (July 2009) and is currently preparing the conference volume.
Academic Associates
Professor Andrew Cain, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, is a Classicist with a special interest on the work of Jerome. His book The Letters of Jerome was published in 2009 (OUP). In 2006 he collaborated on the Cardiff Jerome Conference, and co-edited (with Josef Lössl) the publication of the conference volume: Jerome of Stridon. His Life, Writings and Legacy (Ashgate 2009). With Noel Lenski he is preparing the volume of the 2007 conference Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Ashgate 2010).
Prof. DDr. Alfons Fürst, Faculty of Theology, University of Münster, Germany is Professor of early Church History and Patristics. His many publications include books on Augustine and Jerome, Alexandria in Late Antiquity, and on social and political issues related to early Christianity, including the political role of monotheism and 'religion and peace'. His current projects include the co-editorship, with Christoph Markschies, of a complete bilingual edition of the extant works of Origen (published by De Gruyter and Herder), and he is project-partner of the 'Latin and Syriac Commentary Project'.