Previous LASRG Readings

Elizabeth A. Clark, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (Harvard University Press, 2004)
Sarah Bassett, Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth A. Clark, Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Rebecca Schabach Wollenberg, The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Hugo Mendez, The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Georgia Frank, Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Laura Lieber, Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Performance in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Ellen Muehlberger, forthcoming work

Elizabeth A. Clark, “The Retrospective Self,” The Catholic Historical Review 101.1 (Winter 2015).
C. Michael Chin, “Elizabeth A. Clark,” Studies of Late Antiquity 5.4 (2023)
Yuliya Minets, The Slow Fall of Babel: Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Kyle Smith, Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity (University of California, 2022)
Julia Kelto Lillis, Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2022).
Stephen Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical Critical Study (University of California Press, 2022)
J. B. Rives, Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE): Power, Communication, and Cultural Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Blossom Stefaniw, “Feminist Historiography and Uses of the Past,” Studies in Late Antiquity 4.3 (2020): 260-83
Nicola Denzey Lewis, The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood, eds., Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Words (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Mattias P. Gassman, Worshippers of the Gods: Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Mary K. Farag, What Makes a Church Sacred: Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2021)
Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh, trans. Robert Hurley (Pantheon Books, 2021)

Christoph Markschies, God’s Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God, trans. Alexander Johannes Edmonds (Baylor University Press, 2019 [German original, 2016])
Maia Kotrosits, The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Jeffrey Wickes, Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith (University of California Press, 2019).
Maria Doerfler, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2020).
Adi Ophir & Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Goy: Israel’s Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Maijastina Kahlos, Religious Dissent in Late Antiquity, 350-450 (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Jennifer Barry, Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2019)
Rebecca Falcasantos, “A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual Habit,” in The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity, ed. Frank, Holman, & Jacobs (Fordham University Press, 2019)

Jack Tannous, The Making of the Medieval Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2018)
Blossom Stefaniw, Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (University of California Press, 2019)
Ellen Muehlberger, Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2019)

September 14th – Richard L. Kalmin’s Migrating Tales: The Talmud’s Narratives and their Historical Context (University of California Press, 2014)
October 12th – Essays from Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World edited by Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong (SBL Press, 2016).
November 28th – Noel Lenski’s Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Evagrius and His Legacy, edited by Robin Darling Young and Joel Kalvesmaki (Notre Dame University Press, 2016).
Symposium Readings
David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Mira Beth Wasserman, Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities (Penn, 2017).

September 15 – Andrew S. Jacobs’ Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2016).
October 26 – Kyle Smith’s Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia (University of California Press, 2016).
December 6 – Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
January 25 – Todd S. Berzon’s Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2016).
February 20 – Heidi Wendt’s At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (Oxford Press, 2016).
March 21 – Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

September 24 – Essays from the recent collection edited by Catherine M. Chin and Moulie Vidas Late Ancient Knowing: Explorations in Intellectual History (University of California Press, 2015).
October 26 – Select chapters from Michael Philip Penn’s Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
November 12 – Select chapters from Dayna Kalleres’ City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2015).
January 20 – Select chapters from Chris L. de Wet’s Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2015).
February 22 – Select chapters from Scott Fitzgerald Johnson’s Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
March 30 – Select chapters from Heidi Marx-Wolf’s new work Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority: Plutonists, Priests, and Gnostics in Third Century CE (University of Penn Press, 2016).
April 13 – Essays from a collection edited by C. Laes, K. Mustakallio and V. Vuolanto Children and Family in Late Antiquity: Life, Death, and Interaction (Peeters, 2015).