Empires of Faith

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Where are the women?

Our final look (for now...) at critiques of in the Ashmolean Museum focuses on the presence of female figures and the role of women in the exhibition empiresoffaith.com/2018/02/09/ima…

Imagining the Divine: where are the women? In this short series, Dominic Dalglish responds to three appraisals of Imagining the Divine from some of the UK’s leading scholars. In the final piece, we focus on the presence of women in the exhi…

Imagining the divine at two and a half feet tall, or, what you spot when your baby leads the way around an exhibition.

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Imagining the Divine at two and a half feet tall What’s the correct position from which to view the exhibition – what should we be looking for? Katherine Cross gets down to ground level with a youthful take on Imagining the Divine.

Where's the BBQ? Part two of our responses to takes on , this time former director Neil MacGregor on the lack of sacrifice in the exhibition empiresoffaith.com/2018/02/07/ima…

Imagining the Divine: where’s the BBQ? Dominic Dalglish responds to three appraisals of the Imagining the Divine exhibition from some of the UK’s leading scholars. In this piece, we look at the suggestions of Neil Macgregor, former Dire…

Where are all the blobs? We have a go at responding to some of the best observations about - this time from Mary Beard. Only a couple of weeks to get yourself to the exhibition if you've not already been, and to go again before it shuts! https://empiresoffaith.com/2018/02/05/imagining-the-divine-where-are-the-blobs/ …

Imagining the Divine: where are the blobs? In this short series, Dominic Dalglish responds to three appraisals of the Imagining the Divine exhibition from some of the UK’s leading scholars.

Your FINAL chance to see both 'Imagining the Divine' and 'Those Who Follow' with the curators of the exhibitions, AND to take part in our ongoing research, AND to do all that for free (including lunch no less) will be on 17th and 18th February.

Sign up now - places limited.

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Open Days: Religion, Art and Community in Oxford

Professor Jaś Elsner (project lead for the 'Imagining the Divine' exhibition currently showing in the Ashmolean) will be speaking at the seminar tomorrow (Monday 22 Jan):

‘Imagining the Divine’: exhibition as exploration of questions of religion’ (Biblical Art in Oxford series)

5.00pm in The Danson Room, Trinity College

Tonight, 6pm (GMT) tune in live to Mary Beard & Neil Macgregor at the Sheldonian, Oxford discussing - What are religious images? What's significant about images of gods? And what can we learn about religion from material culture? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjYf-BEDi5AyPxPdblJ-wOg/live …

Live Streaming from Oxford Digital Media - YouTube

New 'Unexpected Meetings' blog post: Jaś Elsner on two hanging figures contrasted in one object on display in the Imagining the Divine exhibition Ashmolean Museum

Unexpected Meetings #4: The Maskell Ivory The fourth in a series of blog posts inspired by the juxtaposition of objects in the Ashmolean exhibition Imagining the Divine, which closes on February 18th 2018. Here, Prof. Jaś Elsner considers …

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Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750

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Stepping out in style with the Scythians | Apollo Magazine Peter Frankopan sees ’Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia’ at the British Museum

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Cameron, Averil. “Blame the Christians” [review] 21 September 2017 | by Averil Cameron The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Catherine Nixey (Macmillan, 2017, 352p., £20) Hearts will sink among historians of early C…