The politics of land in the later Roman world
We are pleased to share a new contribution by Dr. Becca Grose, which offers fresh insights into the intersections of gender, authority, and political belonging in the Burgundian hegemony. Her chapter, “Some preliminary evidence from the Letters of Avitus of Vienne on women and gender in the Burgundian hegemony”, has been recently published in E. Fournier, & … Read more
Project member Dr Giordana Franceschini has just released a new review of Matthias Stern’s monograph on the changing landscape of tax and authority in the late ancient Egyptian countryside. Giordana Franceschini, “Matthias Stern, Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside. The Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284–642 CE). (Archiv … Read more
Conference29 June to 1 July 2026TübingenSchloss Hohentübingen, Fürstenzimmer Organised by:Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Carlos Machado, Giordana Franceschini, Becca Grose The conference aims to re-examine the links between land and power in the late Roman world in their legal, socio-economic and material dimensions. By bringing together scholars from different disciplines and academic traditions, the event will survey recent … Read more
Congratulations to team member Dr Giordana Franceschini on her recent co-edited volume, PPRET Inscriptions: Inscriptions Pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD (Res Publica Litterarum, Quaderni 6) (Rome, Roma Tre Press, 2025), edited together with Pierfrancesco Porena, Eleonora Angius, Andrea Bernier, and Irene Vagionakis. You can download the full volume in open … Read more
Tübingen, June 29 to July 1, 2026 Land and landownership underpinned the socio-economic fabric of the late Roman world. Land played a defining role in the working of the state and secular elites, providing their revenue and assuring their power over substantial parts of the rural population. The consolidation of the Christian Church as a … Read more
On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th December 2025, the project held its first open workshop at the University of St Andrews. The event united scholars working across regions from China to Germany, Scotland to Armenia, working on periods from the first millenium BC to the end of the early-modern period, to ask how political authority … Read more
At a ceremony held on 19 and 20 November at Naples, Dr. Giordana Franceschini received an international research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her dissertation, a critical commentary and translation of John the Lydian’s De Magistratibus Book 3. The prize is awarded for dissertations that contribute exceptionally to the study of late antique … Read more
On 25 June 2025 at Spello, Perugia, Dr. Giordana Franceschini was awarded the international “Giuliano Crifò” prize by the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana for her dissertation, a critical commentary and translation of John the Lydian’s De Magistratibus Book 3. The prize, awarded for contributions to late Roman law and history in any language, is internationally respected as one of … Read more