Professor Mark Humphries

Research Highlights

1. Humphries, M. (2020). The Rhetorical Construction of a Christian Empire in the Theodosian Code. In Richard Flower and Morwenna Ludlow (Ed.), Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity, edited by R. Flower & M. Ludlow (pp. 145-159). Oxford University Press

   https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813194.003.00010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52547
2. Humphries, M. (2020). The Memory of Mursa: Usurpation, Civil War, and Contested Legitimacy Under the Sons of Constantine. In Nicholas Baker-BrianShaun Tougher (Ed.), The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361 (pp. 157-183). Springer International Publishing

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39898-9_6, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43503
3. Humphries, M. (2020). Romulus and Peter: Remembering and Reconfiguring Rome’s Foundation in Late Antiquity. In Roald Dijkstra (Ed.), The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800): the Anchors of the Fisherman (pp. 172-187). Brill

   https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425682, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53166

   https://brill.com/view/title/54775
4. Humphries, M. (2019). Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity Brill.

   https://doi.org/10.1163/25425374-12340006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52342

   https://brill.com/view/title/56872?lang=en
5. Humphries, M. (2019). ‘Narrative and Subversion: Exemplary Rome and Imperial Misrule in Ammianus Marcellinus’. In Ian Repath, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Ed.), Some organic readings in narrative, ancient and modern : gathered and originally presented as a book for John (pp. 233-254). Barkhuis & Groningen University Library 2019

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa525

   https://www.barkhuis.nl/product_info.php?products_id=248

All Research

• Untitled (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Maria Pretzler

• Laudatio Funebris – An Exploration of Orations Concerning the Recently Deceased in Late Antiquity. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Ian Goh

• The Court of the Theodosian Dynasty (379-455) (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Ersin Hussein

• The Roman Face of the Gower - how the Gower changed under Roman occupation and what this tells of us of the impact of the Roman occupation on a rural community. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Nigel Pollard

• CL-M08 Research Methodologies in Ancient History

  This module is designed to develop academic research skills, an understanding of the methods used in the advanced study of Classics and Ancient History, and a grasp of appropriate ways of presenting the results of such study.

• CL-M09 Dissertation in Ancient History and or Classical Literature

  Dissertation in Ancient History or an approved Classical subject.

• CL-M50 Narrative genres and theory

  A series of case-studies surveying the narrative literature of classical antiquity, and exploring appropriate literary and cultural theory.

• CLD300 Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology Dissertation

  Dissertation module for students doing single honours or joint honours degrees in Classics, Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or Egyptology. The aim is for students to do detailed research, to work on a project for several months and to produce a scholarly study of c. 8000-10000 words. The dissertation topic can be chosen freely, in consultation with a member of academic staff and subject to compatibility with a student's degree scheme and availability of supervisors and library material. This is a chance for students to pursue an area in which they are especially interested, and to deal with it in depth. Students may choose to do museum-based research. There are two preparatory pieces of assessment: an abstract, outline and bibliography, and an analysis of crucial source material and/or secondary literature. Work on the dissertation itself takes up most of the two semesters. Students are expected to do research independently, but there is a series of lectures in the first semester to provide advice on research and scholarly writing, Every student will be assigned a supervisor who will be organising group sessions with his/her supervisees and who will also be available for one-to-one supervision sessions.

• CLH230 The Heirs of Rome: The Making of Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam in the Early Middle Ages, 400-800

  The period between AD 400 and 800 saw the unmaking of the world of antiquity and the forging of the new civilizations of medieval Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam. It is, in short, an era with reverberations that are keenly felt in the present. This module will trace the main outlines of this seminal period, showing how the heritage of the Roman world was transformed in diverse ways during the early medieval centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of new forms of polity, religion, and socio-economic structures. On completion of the module, students will have a keen appreciation of how and why the different regions of eastern and western Europe and the Middle East, once untied under Roman rule, had come to follow widely diverging destinies.

• CLQ100 Study Group: Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology (Year 1)

  2 hour weekly Study Group for Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology students (Year 1)

• CLQ200 Study Group: Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology (Year 2)

  2 hour weekly Study Group for Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology students (Year 2)

• FY-012 Introduction to Being Human

  This module will focus on introducing what it is to be human from a broad humanities and social science perspective. It will offer the opportunity to engage with key ideas, theory and literature within these disciplines. It will therefore prepare students for further academic work in the humanities and social sciences and initiate the development of critical thinking and creative abilities.

• FY-018 History, Memory and the creation of Identity

  In most human societies, history and memory are important in the creation of identity. For example, consider how recent political debates often involve debates about the relevance of particular strands of history (such as `empire¿) to modern society. This module explores these relationships from the ancient societies of Egypt, Greece, and Rome to the modern world. It is designed to provide Foundation Year students intending to pursue degrees in Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology or History with an opportunity to reflect critically on what the past means and how we go about studying it.