Theses on Late Antiquity completed since September 2007
2017
Andreas Duering (St Cross; Archaeology)
Computer-based simulations of early medieval populations based on cemetery evidence
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Abigail Tompkins (St Cross; Archaeology)
The Avon Valley in the 5th to mid-7th centuries: A frontier polity?
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
2016
Scott Ables (Regent's Park College; Theology)
The Purpose of Perichōrēsis in the Polemical Works of John of Damascus
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Renie Choy (Pembroke College; Theology)
Carolingian Monasticism and Intercessory Prayer, c.750830
Supervisor: Sarah Foot
James Cook (Christ Church; Classics)
Preaching and Christianization: reading the sermons of John Chrysostom
Supervisor: Teresa Morgan
Sarah Leeser (Keble College: Theology)
Eighth-century lives of English saints
Supervisor: Sarah Foot
Oliver Pengelley (Keble College; History)
Rome and the Anglo-Saxon Imagination
Supervisor: Sarah Foot
2015
Renan Baker (Wolfson College; Classics)
A study of a late antique corpus of biographies [Historia Augusta]
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Girolamo De Simone (St John’s College; Archaeology)
The dark side of Vesuvius: Landscape change and the Roman economy
Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Morgan Dirodi (St Cross College; History)
Space, monuments, and religion. The christianisation of the late antique Levant
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Carmela Franco (Wolfson College; Archaeology)
The production and distribution of Sicilian amphorae in the Roman and
Late Roman periods
Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Javier Martinez (Lincoln College; Archaeology)
Urban water supply in late antique Iberia (AD 400–800)
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Prerona Prasad (Keble; History)
Byzantine foreign policy in the age of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: diplomacy, military intervention and ideology
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
Miranda Williams (Wolfson College; History)
The African Policy of Justinian I
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
2014
Richard Marshall (Wadham College; Classics)
Varro in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Tobias Reinhardt
Adrastos Omissi (Oriel College; History)
Usurpation and the Formation of Legitimacy in the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 284–455
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Luigi Prada (The Queen's College; Oriental Studies)
Dream interpretation and its sociocultural context in Roman Egypt: Edition of an unpublished dream interpretation handbook in Demotic
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Alberto Rigolio (St John's College; Classics)
Higher education in the Eastern Roman Empire during the IV–V centuries
Supervisors: Neil McLynn and David Taylor
Stuart Thomson (Corpus Christi College: Classics)
Clement of Alexandria’s ‘Stromateis’
Supervisors: Tim Whitmarsh and Mark Edwards
2013
Erica Buchberger (University College; History)
Perceptions of ethnicity in early medieval Francia and Spain
Supervisors: Bryan Ward-Perkins and Chris Wickham
Sean Leatherbury (Corpus Christi College; History)
Early Byzantine Mosaic and Text
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Adam Levine (Corpus Christi College; History)
Late Antique/Early Byzantine religious iconography
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Jennifer Strawbridge (Keble College: Theology)
Early Christian education
Supervisors: Christopher Rowland and Teresa Morgan
2012
Davor Aslanovski (Kellogg College; History)
Byzantine iconoclasm – concepts of apophatic theology
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Camille Geisz (Wolfson College; Classics)
Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca
Supervisor: Jane Lightfoot
Kelly Kilpatrick (Wadham College; History)
Early Insular environmental history
Supervisor: Thomas Charles-Edwards
Gavin McCormick (Brasenose College; Classics)
The Christian community as family up to the fourth century
Supervisor: Teresa Morgan
Jesse Simon (University College; History)
Images of the built landscape in the later Roman Empire
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
Clifford Sofield (St Cross College; Archaeology)
Placed deposits in early medieval settlements
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
2011
Susan Blackburn Griffith (Regent’s Park College; Theology)
Medical imagery in the sermons of Augustine of Hippo
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Emilio Bonfiglio (Pembroke College; Oriental Studies)
John Chrysostom’s discourses on his first exile: critical edition and commentary of the Greek original and of the Latin, Armenian and Syriac ancient versions (CPG 4396–9)
Supervisors: Theo van Lint and Nigel Wilson
Felicity Clark (The Queen’s College; History)
The frontiers of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
Supervisor: John Blair
Christopher Ferguson (St Cross College; Archaeology)
The nature of coastal communities in the NE of England, c.AD 400–800
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Elif Keser-Kayaalp (Exeter College; Archaeology)
Church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia, AD 300–800
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Georges Kazan (Kellogg College; History)
Cults and Relics at Constantinople: their origins and development before Iconoclasm (A.D. 300–720)
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Jonathan Kirkpatrick (Balliol College; Classics)
Evidence for paganism in Roman Palestine
Supervisor: Martin Goodman
Bec McGann (Exeter College; Archaeology)
Image and text in early Christian iconography
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Francis Morris (Merton College; Archaeology)
Trade and exchange across the North Sea in the Late Roman Period
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Thomas Munt (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The Caliphs and the Hijaz, ca. 660–860
Supervisor: Chase Robinson
Robert Portass (Balliol College; History)
The transformation of Gallaecia and northern Spain in the late antique period
Supervisor: Chris Wickham
Efthymios Rizos (Keble College; Archaeology)
Late antique urbanism in Thrace
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Alan Ross (Wolfson College; Classics)
Ammianus Marcellinus
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Mark Tomlinson (Wolfson College; Theology)
Pagan and Christian theory of sacrifice
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Ryan Topping (Regent’s Park College; Theology)
Augustine’s educational theory
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
2010
Ann Cole (Kellogg College; History)
The place-name evidence for a routeway network in early medieval England
Supervisor: John Blair
Mikael Oez (Somerville College; Oriental Studies)
Cyriacus of Tagrit and his book On The Divine Providence
Supervisor: David Taylor
Joanna Pike (St Cross College; History)
Spectacle entertainment in Late Antique Rome
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Timothy Power (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The Red Sea economy during the ‘long’ late antiquity, AD 500–1000
Supervisor: Jeremy Johns
Alberto Rigolio (St John's; Classics)
Syriac translations from Greek in the V–VI centuries
Supervisor: David Taylor
Enid Rubenstein (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
Women's voices in Jewish liturgy in antiquity
Supervisor: Martin Goodman
Miranda Williams (Wolfson College; History)
Roman-Sasanian Relations (532 to 545 CE)
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
2009
Susannah Belcher (Magdalen College; Classics)
Ammianus Marcellinus
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Nicola Clarke (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
Historiographical perspectives on the Islamic conquest of Spain
Supervisor: Chase Robinson
Greg Fisher (Keble College; Classics)
Between empires: Ghassanids, Lakhmids and others
Supervisor: Averil Cameron
Michael Griffin (Oriel College; Classics)
The Reception of Aristotle’s Categories, c. 80 BC to AD 220
Supervisor: Tobias Reinhardt
Meaghan McEvoy (New College; History)
Imperial minorities in the fourth- and fifth-century west
Supervisor: Peter Heather (King’s College London)
Timothy Michael Law (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The value of the Syrohexapla for recovering Origen’s Greek text
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
Christian Sahner (St John’s College; History)
The parting of the ways between East and West in Late Antiquity (M.Phil.)
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
2008
Julia Hofmann (The Queen’s College; History)
The politics of Merovingian Gaul 512–751
Supervisor: John Nightingale
Theodore Papaioannou (University College; History)
Transport amphorae in western Asia Minor, 6th to 11th centuries
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Dimitrios Skrekas (Merton College; Modern Languages):
The iambic cannons of John of Damascus
Supervisor: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Rota Stone (St Hilda’s College; Oriental Studies)
Interpretation of the theme of enmity in the Exodus narrative in Origen and the Mekhilta d-Rabbi Ishmael
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
2007
Christopher Stephens (Christ Church; Theology)
Council of Antioch 341
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
