Dear Colleagues, In the Faculty of History, as of May 6, 2021, we have a Dean's Anti-Discrimination Plenipotentiary. This is the person who, in a situation requiring support or advice, is the first contact in our Faculty. The scope of...
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Ewa Wipszycka's Late Antique Seminar On 13 May at 4.45 pm (Warsaw time) Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholms Universitet) will present a paper The Reckoning of the Soul: The development of the motif of the Demonic Tollhouses in late antique Eastern...
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International conference "Epiphanies of the saints in late-antique literature" 21 May 2021 10:00-18:15 CET Programm More at: www.historia.uw.edu.pl/epiphanies
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27 V (4.45 Warsaw time): Enno Friedrich (Universität Graz), Pindaricus Fortunatus? How well did Venantius Fortunatus (Gaul, 6th c. CE) know Pindar (Greece, 5th c. BCE)? Venantius Fortunatus, late antique author of occasional poems, letters, saints’ lives and one hagiographical...
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"In 6th century Italy, saints were said to perform an unusual number of water miracles. Paleoclimatological data from a stalagmite may reveal why. In early medieval Italy (then a troubled peninsula transitioning from the collapse of Roman rule) a group...
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It was with great sorrow that we learned of the death of Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz. Born in 1930, Henryk Samsonowicz was an eminent historian, an expert on the history of the Middle Ages and an important man of the University...
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