Churches

In May, I am going to a conference on the topic of monumentality in archaeology. When invited, I fired off a rather superficial abstract that talked about how Early Christian church architecture in Greece both used existing, earlier forms of urban and domestic architecture to communicate the new status of the Christian religious elite, but… Read More →

I have finally finished the edits on my paper “The Ambivalent Landscape of Early Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City.” The editors of the volume in which it will appear made some excellent suggestions on how I could improve the paper that went far beyond rounding some… 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 new semester begins tonight at 5 pm (or something). This is my first semester with tenure which I officially received on August 15. It felt a lot like my team winning the World Series (which I have experienced) or the Super Bowl. I woke up the next day expecting things to be or feel… Read More →

Those of you not particularly interested in Early Christian Polis are probably suffering right now and for that I apologize. I’ve been on the road, so I can only think about one thing at a time, so I continue to think about the E.F2 Basilica at Polis. So here’s another view of the basilica. This… Read More →

Before I left Polis for the Northern Plains, Scott Moore and I prepared a short tour of the E.F2 Basilica there. We’ve been working on the basilica for the previous month and used the short video tour as a way to summarize some of our results. For the academic purists, I can assure you that… Read More →