People and Powers: Rome, Persia, and Armenia in the Fifth Century

Workshop

University of Lille & online

31/03/2025

Campus Pont-de-Bois, Bat. E 1.51

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Programme

Organizer: Ekaterina Nechaeva

Respondent: Geoffrey Greatrex

10:15 Welcome

10:30 Daniel Alford (Université de Lille), Kings, Wives, and Put-Upon Priests: Exerting Sasanian royal control in the fifth century Caucasus

11:15 Giusto Traina (Paris-Sorbonne), The tractus Armeniae before and after 428 CE: a New Reading of Nov. Theod. V, 3

12:00 Lunch

13:45 Khodadad Rezakhani (Universiteit Leiden), Ērān or Anērān?: Sasanian Center and Its Peripheries in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries

14:30 Ekaterina Nechaeva (Université de Lille), Alamundarus, Anatolius, Areobindus, Ardaburius, Ardazanes, and Aspebetus: A Military Prosopography of the Conflict of 421

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 Michael David Ethington (Université de Lille), Merchants and Craftsmen, Bishops and Apostates: Christian Identities in Persia and the Perceptions of Captivity surrounding the Conflict of 421

16:30 Anna Usacheva (Université de Lille), The Educational-Ecclesiastic Missions and Networking between the Roman Osrohene and Sasanian Armenia in the First Half of the Fifth Century

17:15 Ani Honarchian (Saint Louis University), Bad Seeds and Sacred Fires: Religious Defiance and Imperial Contamination in Fifth Century Armenia

18:00 Discussion