A two-day, international English-language workshop held at FU Berlin on diverse aspects of the late antique and early medieval papacy in its Mediterranean capacity, with a special focus on its connections to North Africa, Egypt, Constantinople, Illyricum, Spain and Southern Italy.

The aim is informal discussion which will generate new questions and insights from the rich source material available, in ways that move beyond the (rather unhelpful) older paradigms of ‘East vs West’, ’emperor vs pope’, ‘Ostpolitik’, ‘papal emancipation’, etc.

Attendance and participation from scholars at all career levels is very welcome! Please contact Prof. Stefan Esders (esdersst@campus.fu-berlin.de) or Dr Benjamin Savill (benjamin.savill@fu-berlin.de) to register your interest.