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Conferences by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar - Special Series - Procopius and the Language of Buildings

The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organ... more The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organized jointly with the DFG Project 'Procopius and the Language of Buildings' (University of Mainz, University of Halle)

Research paper thumbnail of Conference Programme: Women and Pilgrimage in the Ancient and Pre-Modern World - University of Amsterdam, 8-9 June 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Call for Papers: Women and Pilgrimage (Conference 8-9 June, University of Amsterdam)

We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-mod... more We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-modern period. The aim of the conference is to explore the social dimensions of women's religiously motivated travel ("pilgrimage") by taking a cross-cultural and diachronic perspective on the phenomenon. Researchers from different disciplines, such as historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and specialists in religious, Near Eastern and gender studies, are warmly welcome to submit their abstracts by January 12, 2018.

Issue 2 by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of Marlena Whiting & Emilia Salerno - Women and Pilgrimage In the ancient and pre-modern world (University of Amsterdam. June 8-9, 2018)

Kleos Issue 2, 2019

This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Genderi... more This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Gendering Sacred Space: Female Networks, Patronage, and Ritual Experience in Early Christian Pilgrimage”, to encourage scholars working on the field of women and pilgrimage in different periods and different cultures to explore and share some of the methodological challenges and insights that their particular area of expertise has yielded. The conference was co-organized by Ms Emilia Salerno (MA), a specialist in gender and the Roman cult of Magna Mater.

Doctoral Dissertation by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of Travel in the Late Antique Levant: a study of networks of communication and travel infrastructure in the 4th-7th centuries

The purpose of this thesis is to study the travel infrastructure that existed in the Late Antique... more The purpose of this thesis is to study the travel infrastructure that existed in the Late Antique Levant (defined as extending from southern Asia Minor to the Sinai Peninsula), and how it enabled people to travel around the region for a variety of official, professional or personal reasons.

Books by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of (2017) Fluvial Landscapes in the Roman World (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 104)

by Tyler Franconi, Brendan Haug, Philippe LEVEAU, Nicholas Purcell, Marlena Whiting, Andrew Wilson, hugo delile, Cécile Vittori, Ilaria Mazzini, Matthieu Giaime, and Brian Campbell

Papers by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering the Rose Red City: Religion, pilgrimage and the shaping of Byzantine Petra

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, Impact of the Ancient City Series 2, edited by Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Oxbow) open-access, 2022

This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landsc... more This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landscape of Petra were regarded and remembered in the transition from Nabataean/Roman to Christian society, by examining the pagan, Christian, and civic buildings in the centre of the ancient city, and the suburban pilgrimage shrine of Jabal Harun.

Research paper thumbnail of Monastery Hostels in the Byzantine Near East

Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean San... more Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Monastery (Helsinki, 2016), 108-13.

Research paper thumbnail of Musings on Gender, Archaeology, and Pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East

What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgr... more What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East reveal about women and pilgrimage?
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380

Research paper thumbnail of The Monastic Paradox: negotiating monastic seclusion and pilgrim hospitality in the Late Antique Near East

Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/510

Research paper thumbnail of "Gift of the Orontes: fluvial landscapes of northwest Syria in late antiquity" in T.V. Franconi (ed.) Fluvial Landscapes in the Roman World (JRA Suppl. 104) (Portsmouth, RI, 2017), pp. 127-137

Research paper thumbnail of Mount Nebo

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Catalog of Selected Registered and Other Finds’ with A. Lehtinen in Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Monastery (Helsinki, 2016), 369-79.

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Asceticism and Hospitality as Patronage in the Late Antique Holy Land: the examples of Paula and Melania the Elder’ in M.E. Mullett, M. Grünbart, G. Fingarova, M. Savage, L. Theis, eds, Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (Wien, 2013).

Research paper thumbnail of 'Mount Nebo’ in R. Bagnall and K. Brodersen, eds, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012).

Research paper thumbnail of ‘The Metal Objects from the Church and Chapel’ with S. Pouta in J. Frösén and Z. Fiema (eds), Petra – The Monastery of Aaron. Volume 1: The Church and Chapel (Helsinki, 2008).

Talks by Marlena Whiting

Research paper thumbnail of The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Conference - University of Warsaw, 27-29 September 2018

by Robert Wiśniewski, The Cult of Saints, Maria Lidova, Efthymios Rizos, Adam Łajtar, Konstantin Klein, Aaltje Hidding, Olga Špehar, Anna Lampadaridi, András Handl, Julia Doroszewska, and Marlena Whiting

Full programme now available: http://cslaconference.ihuw.pl/

Research paper thumbnail of The Epigraphic Landscape of Early Christian Pilgrimage

Research paper thumbnail of Pilgrim's Progress: Travel Through an Incremental Landscape in the Late Antique Near East

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Pilgrimage Networks in the Holy Land during the 4th and 5th Centuries

Research paper thumbnail of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar - Special Series - Procopius and the Language of Buildings

The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organ... more The programme for the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar (Hilary Term 2022), organized jointly with the DFG Project 'Procopius and the Language of Buildings' (University of Mainz, University of Halle)

Research paper thumbnail of Conference Programme: Women and Pilgrimage in the Ancient and Pre-Modern World - University of Amsterdam, 8-9 June 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Call for Papers: Women and Pilgrimage (Conference 8-9 June, University of Amsterdam)

We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-mod... more We welcome contributions for a conference on women and pilgrimage from the ancient to the pre-modern period. The aim of the conference is to explore the social dimensions of women's religiously motivated travel ("pilgrimage") by taking a cross-cultural and diachronic perspective on the phenomenon. Researchers from different disciplines, such as historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and specialists in religious, Near Eastern and gender studies, are warmly welcome to submit their abstracts by January 12, 2018.

Research paper thumbnail of Marlena Whiting & Emilia Salerno - Women and Pilgrimage In the ancient and pre-modern world (University of Amsterdam. June 8-9, 2018)

Kleos Issue 2, 2019

This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Genderi... more This conference was organized as part of Dr. Marlena Whiting’s NWO Veni research project “Gendering Sacred Space: Female Networks, Patronage, and Ritual Experience in Early Christian Pilgrimage”, to encourage scholars working on the field of women and pilgrimage in different periods and different cultures to explore and share some of the methodological challenges and insights that their particular area of expertise has yielded. The conference was co-organized by Ms Emilia Salerno (MA), a specialist in gender and the Roman cult of Magna Mater.

Research paper thumbnail of Travel in the Late Antique Levant: a study of networks of communication and travel infrastructure in the 4th-7th centuries

The purpose of this thesis is to study the travel infrastructure that existed in the Late Antique... more The purpose of this thesis is to study the travel infrastructure that existed in the Late Antique Levant (defined as extending from southern Asia Minor to the Sinai Peninsula), and how it enabled people to travel around the region for a variety of official, professional or personal reasons.

Research paper thumbnail of Remembering the Rose Red City: Religion, pilgrimage and the shaping of Byzantine Petra

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, Impact of the Ancient City Series 2, edited by Javier Martínez Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Oxbow) open-access, 2022

This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landsc... more This paper explores the impact of religious change on the way in which the city and sacred landscape of Petra were regarded and remembered in the transition from Nabataean/Roman to Christian society, by examining the pagan, Christian, and civic buildings in the centre of the ancient city, and the suburban pilgrimage shrine of Jabal Harun.

Research paper thumbnail of Monastery Hostels in the Byzantine Near East

Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean San... more Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Monastery (Helsinki, 2016), 108-13.

Research paper thumbnail of Musings on Gender, Archaeology, and Pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East

What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgr... more What can a gendered reading (based in feminist critique) of the archaeological evidence for pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East reveal about women and pilgrimage?
Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380

Research paper thumbnail of The Monastic Paradox: negotiating monastic seclusion and pilgrim hospitality in the Late Antique Near East

Available in full at https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/510

Research paper thumbnail of "Gift of the Orontes: fluvial landscapes of northwest Syria in late antiquity" in T.V. Franconi (ed.) Fluvial Landscapes in the Roman World (JRA Suppl. 104) (Portsmouth, RI, 2017), pp. 127-137

Research paper thumbnail of Mount Nebo

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Catalog of Selected Registered and Other Finds’ with A. Lehtinen in Z. T. Fiema, J. Frösén and M. Holappa (eds), Petra – The Mountain of Aaron II: The Nabataean Sanctuary and the Byzantine Monastery (Helsinki, 2016), 369-79.

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Asceticism and Hospitality as Patronage in the Late Antique Holy Land: the examples of Paula and Melania the Elder’ in M.E. Mullett, M. Grünbart, G. Fingarova, M. Savage, L. Theis, eds, Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (Wien, 2013).

Research paper thumbnail of 'Mount Nebo’ in R. Bagnall and K. Brodersen, eds, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012).

Research paper thumbnail of ‘The Metal Objects from the Church and Chapel’ with S. Pouta in J. Frösén and Z. Fiema (eds), Petra – The Monastery of Aaron. Volume 1: The Church and Chapel (Helsinki, 2008).