Michael Mulryan
University of Kent, Classical and Archaeological Studies, Department Member
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, History, Department Memberadd
- Late Antique Archaeology, Urban Anthropology, Late Antiquity, Urban Studies, Urban History, Urban Geography, and 24 moreTopography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Ancient Topography (Archaeology), Ostia (Archaeology), Ancient Religion, Archaeology of Religion, Archaeology, Ostia Antica, Early Christian Archaeology, Constantinople, Roman Temples, Roman Religion, Early Medieval Archaeology, Late Roman Archaeology, Roman History, Roman Archaeology, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Early Christianity, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Archaeology, Rome, City of, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and Early Medieval Historyedit
- Assistant Director of Kent 'Late Antique Ostia Project' Honorary Research Fellow - Centre for Late Antique Archaeolog... moreAssistant Director of Kent 'Late Antique Ostia Project'
Honorary Research Fellow - Centre for Late Antique Archaeology, University of Kent
Associate Researcher - École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Former DFG Research Fellow - Migration and Mobility, University of Tuebingenedit
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Space and Place, Urban History, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Christianity, and 17 moreUrban Studies, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Paganism, Ostia (Archaeology), Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Ancient construction (Archaeology), Ancient Topography (Archaeology), Public Space, Ancient Urbanism, Ancient Architecture and Construction History, Ostia Antica, Streets, Housing, ancient, Fountains and Nymphaea, Ancient Public Architecture, and Shops
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This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context. It argues that some of these were deliberately sited by their builders so as... more
This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context. It argues that some of these were deliberately sited by their builders so as to utilise prominent positions within the urban landscape or to pragmatically reuse pre-existing bath facilities for Christian liturgical practice. Several examples are discussed with the latest archaeological discoveries explored. Two particular case studies are also examined within the Subura area of the city, and their urban location is examined in relation to the commercial, religious, social and public spaces around them, known through a 3rd century A.D. survey of the city. Certain other Christian basilicas in the city encroached or blocked roads, were situated by main arterial highways, were located on hills and eventually reused prestigious public buildings. Other examples were located by potent ‘pagan’ sites or important places of public congregation, with two structures suggesting the political astuteness of a 4th century pope. This book shows that the spatial Christianisation of Rome was not a random and haphazard process, but did at times involve projects that strategically built new Christian centres in places that would visually or practically enhance what were generally small and modest structures.
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A micro examination of a region of Ostia in late antiquity. Paths of movement, accessibility, and how the road space was used and interacts with the buildings off it, are the foci of the study. This analysis gives us some insights into... more
A micro examination of a region of Ostia in late antiquity. Paths of movement, accessibility, and how the road space was used and interacts with the buildings off it, are the foci of the study. This analysis gives us some insights into the spatial 'working' of late antique Ostia as a whole.
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This article argues that from about the 7th century A.D. a narrative-driven itinerary was created within the streets of Rome to allow individuals to follow in the footsteps of the popular martyr deacon Lawrence. Three Christian centres... more
This article argues that from about the 7th century A.D. a narrative-driven itinerary was created within the streets of Rome to allow individuals to follow in the footsteps of the popular martyr deacon Lawrence. Three Christian centres were founded at about this time (with a fourth a few centuries later) that laid claim to be built on the site of important places in the recently canonised passion of Lawrence, sites that led up to and marked the place of his death. There are no real comparable narrative-driven devotional itineraries for holy men, heroes or deities in the pre-Christian Classical world, with only Remus in Rome coming close, so this seems to be a Christian innovation.
Key words: Rome, Lawrence, Martyrdom, churches, Hercules, Remus, nodes, paths.
Key words: Rome, Lawrence, Martyrdom, churches, Hercules, Remus, nodes, paths.
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This paper looks at one form of 'Christianisation': spatial Christianisation, and its impact. It does this by focusing on two 'ordinary' Christian buildings constructed within a typical neighbourhood in the city of Rome, and discusses the... more
This paper looks at one form of 'Christianisation': spatial Christianisation, and its impact. It does this by focusing on two 'ordinary' Christian buildings constructed within a typical neighbourhood in the city of Rome, and discusses the roads, monuments and buildings around it.
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This seminar reviews the state of funerary archaeology across the late antique world, providing an up-to-date overview of the latest discoveries in the field and in the lab, organised in terms of a series of regional portraits, from the... more
This seminar reviews the state of funerary archaeology across the late antique world, providing an up-to-date overview of the latest discoveries in the field and in the lab, organised in terms of a series of regional portraits, from the cemeteries of Britain to the caves of Egypt.
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Research Interests: Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Environmental Science, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 11 moreEnvironmental microbiology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Environmental Sustainability, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Roman Archaeology
Michael J. Kelly – Preface: Iberian Rivalries Ian Wood – Introduction Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius... more
Michael J. Kelly – Preface: Iberian Rivalries
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 15 moreEarly Christianity, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire, Early Middle Ages (History), Late Roman Archaeology, Mediterranean and North Africa, Visigothic Spain, Medieval Spain, Medieval Mediterranean, Middle Ages, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, and Early Medieval Period
Michael J. Kelly – Preface: Iberian Rivalries Ian Wood – Introduction Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius... more
Michael J. Kelly – Preface: Iberian Rivalries
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul