Lecture Series organized by Claudia Sode (University of Cologne) and Zachary Chitwood (University of Munich): Egyptian Christianities

6 Nov 25

06 November, 2025- 05 February, 2026

SCHEDULE

November 6: Rhiannon Williams

Death and Burial among Early Egyptian Christians. A Case Study in Oasis Magna

November 13: Eline Scheerlinck

Protecting Tax Evaders, Securing the Revenue: The Paradox of Local Governance in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside

November 20: Jenny Cromwell

Papyri, Property, and Patronage: Rural Life in Early Islamic Egypt

November 27: Lajos Berkes

God, Satan, and Divorce: The (Not So) 'Simple Believer's' World in Late Antique Egypt

January 8: Martina Ambu

Rules and Penances in Ethiopian Monasticism (14th- 16th Centuries?)

January 15: Arietta Papaconstantinou

Normative Code-switching in Late Antique Egypt

January 22: Ina Eichner

The Paulos Monastery (Deir el-Bachît) in Western Thebes/Upper Egypt

January 29: Teresa Bernheimer

Entangled Afterlives: Textual and Material Reuse in Tombstones of Early Islamic Egypt

February 5: Darlene Hedstrom

Monastic Settlement Expansion after the Arab Conquest: Revising the Narrative

Lecture will be held via Zoom