Talk: "Facing Muslim Criticism of the Doctrine of the Trinity: Matt'eos Jughayeci and His Reply to the Followers of the Prophet"

with Benedetta Contin

Manuscript Research at the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Between 5 and 7 August 2024, PI Adrian C. Pirtea examined Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in the collections of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with a focus on Syriac, Melkite and Copto-Arabic monastic, liturgical and canon law collections.…

Workshop “Remembering the Desert. The Reception, Circulation and Translation of the Apophthegmata Patrum in the Medieval Christian East”

panel within the XIX. Oxford Patristics Conference (5-9 August, 2024), Oxford; co-organized with Prof. Samuel Rubenson (Lund University)

International Conference: "Connected Revivals?"

Transregional Perspectives on the Syriac, Copto-Arabic and Armenian Cultural Renaissances

Talk: "Dal deserto alla città: metamorfosi della pratica ascetica nel Tardo medioevo armeno"

with Benedetta Contin

Talk: "Oriens Christianus: Kirchen, Literaturen und Handschriften des christlichen Ostens jenseits des Griechischen"

with Benedetta Contin

Talk: “Monastic Book Culture in Syro-Palestine and Sinai. Syriac and Christian Arabic Manuscripts as Sources for Early Islamic History.”

with Adrian C. Pirtea at International Conference: The Other Narratives of Early Islam. Contemporary Sources and Critical Readings. University of Frankfurt a.M., 22-23 March 2024

Talk: "Armenisches Christentum im Bergkarabach: ein Einblick in die Geschichte"

with Benedetta Contin

Manuscript Research at Cambridge University Library and Westminster College Library

On 29 and 30 January 2024, PI Adrian C. Pirtea studied several East and West Syriac, as well as Christian Arabic manuscripts in the collections of Cambridge University Library. He also examined a few little known manuscripts from the collection of…

Talk: “Apostolic Authority and the Origins of Monasticism in the Syriac Liber Graduum.”

with Adrian C. Pirtea at International Conference: Imagining Apostolic Connections in Late Antiquity. Alternative Lines of Authority and Pseudepigraphy. University of Cambridge

lecture by Prof. Alexander Treiger (Dalhousie University): “Arabic Translations of the Church Fathers”

University of Vienna, Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, organized by Giulia Rossetto and Adrian C. Pirtea