Central European University A Program for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University

1. The conceptualization of Late Antiquity and modes of periodization (Seminar, 1 ½ hours)

2. The interpenetration of polytheist images in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim contexts (Seminar, 1 ½ hours)

3. Martyrdom and Martyrs (Lecture, 45 minutes)

4. Iconoclasm --- Christian, Jewish, Muslim (Lecture, 45 minutes)

5. Open Tutorial for discussion (45 minutes): Any or all of the foregoing topics.

1: Background, and overview of the topic, 6th-9th century (Lecture)

2: The texts transmitted and commented on: (a) Aristotle's Organon and related literature (Lecture)

3: The texts transmitted and commented on: (b) Other philosophical literature (Lecture)

4: The texts transmitted and commented on: (c) Medical and scientific literature (Lecture)

5:  The scholars involved (Lecture)

6:  Changing attitudes to translation practice (Lecture)

7:  The wider significance of Syriac as a bridge between Late Antiquity and Islam (Seminar)

1: Wealth in an Ancient World (Lecture)

2: Treasure in Heaven: Religious Giving in the Early Church (Lecture)

3: "Treasuries in the Heights": Religious Giving and in Manichaeism and in the Early Ascetic Movement (Lecture)

4: The Spiritual Exchange: Paulinus of Nola and the Use of Wealth (Seminar)

5: Augustine, Pelagius and a Crisis of Wealth in Late Antiquity (Seminar)