Virtual

Shaping the Lectionary: Liturgical Readings and the Genesis of Syriac Manuscript Illumination (11th–13th c.).

Fri Nov 14, 2025 12:00 p.m.—1:15 p.m.
Mosaic tile floor

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Each year, the Institute of Sacred Music organizes a series of Zoom lectures that focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. The Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture lecture series is offered in collaboration with the departments of Classics and History of Art and is organized by Robert S. Nelson (History of Art, emeritus), Felicity Harley (Yale Divinity School/ISM), Justin Willson (History of Art) and Vasileios Marinis (Yale Divinity School/ISM).

Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

François Pacha Miran, Ph.D. (EPHE - PSL)

Institut des Langues Rares, EPHE - PSL

Associate Member, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée

Respondent: Ephrem Ishac, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Contact: Katya Vetrov

Image: Extract from Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis, ca. 540 CE, The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery

Mosaic floor tile