Volker MENZE

Associate Professor
 
Late antique history, Syrian Christianity, early Byzantium

Current Position

Associate Professor of late antique studies and the eastern Mediterranean


Fields of Interest

Early and late antique Christianity, Syrian ecclesiastical history, early Byzantium


Research Projects

Formation of ecclesiastical structures in times of persecutions: edition, translation and commentary of sixth-century Syriac texts (together with Kutlu Akalin; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2007 - April 2009)
Legitimation of religious violence and imperial-ecclesial authorities in early Byzantium (together with Kutlu Akalin and Pamela Bonnekoh; funded by the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics” at the Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster, April 2009 - December 2009)
Missionaries, Prophets and Theologians: Religious Intellectuals and the Transformation of Late Antique Society (Second-Seventh Centuries)