Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working with David Pettegrew on a short paper that considers the role of intensive pedestrian survey in documenting and creating Byzantine landscapes in the countryside of Corinth. One of the challenges of this analysis is our scatters of Byzantine pottery tend to be rather small and sometimes… Read More →
After my paper on Friday, I kept thinking about time and Byzantium. In particular, I spent part of the weekend mulling over the idea of the wilderness as space of hybridized time where past and present (and in some cases the future) combine in strange and wondrous ways. At the same time, I was alerted… Read More →
The scholarly process can be a source mystery for students and the general public. Even I occasionally wonder how my peers transform ideas into provocative and sophisticated final products. Part of the goal of this blog was to make my scholarly process a bit more transparent. Typically my ideas begin as blog posts, I develop… Read More →
I’ve been fascinated lately by the modern minimalist movement (not the minimalism movement in art, but the more popular minimalist movement careering around the blogosphere). In its purest form, this movement urges people to resist the pressure to acquire things and consume good that is so common in American society. Appealing to a kind of… Read More →
I think that there are some important things afoot in the Late Antique and Byzantine blogging community. Not only is the Byzantine Studies Association of North America looking to enhance its web presence, but the venerable David Pettegrew appears to have made a serious commitment to blogging his ongoing research on all things Corinthian. Check… Read More →
