Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Publications (selection)

Scientific publications

Articles in journals and edited volumes:

  • Bianchi Mancini, S., contributor in Nickel, R. _Lexikon der antiken Literatur_, 4. Auflage. Marburg: Tectum. (forth.).
  • Bianchi Mancini, S.; Dell’Isola, M. (eds.) (2024): Divine Property and Boundary Violation from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, (in preparation).
  • Bianchi Mancini, Sofia (2024): "Gods’ Landed Property: Sacred Groves in Republican and Imperial Literature“, In: Bianchi Mancini, S., Gibson, H., Schuck, D., Vinzent, M. (eds.): Relating to Landed Property, Frankfurt: Campus.
  • Vinzent, Markus (2024): "Inheritance of land – the origin of property“, In: Helen Anne Gibson, Dirk Schuck, Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Markus Vinzent (eds.), Relating to Landed Property, Frankfurt: Campus.
  • Vinzent, Markus (2024): "Nature – our common good? A Patristic challenge“, In: Marcin Wysocki (ed.) Christians of the Patristic Period in Relation to Nature, ed. Studia Patristica, Leuven.

Edited volumes:

Media and podcasts
  • Rüpke, Jörg (2023): "Holidays as divine property: Moving symbols of ownership from the countryside into the city”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published 27.11.2023)

Lectures (selection)

  • Bianchi Mancini, Sofia (2024): Internationale conference "Objects as a Lens on Group Formations in the Cities of the Roman Empire (1st-4th Centuries CE)“ – Geschlossene Podiumsdiskussion (mit Prof. Laura Carnevale): "Property of Ritual Space“, Universität Erfurt.
  • Bianchi Mancini, S.; Dell’Isola, M. (2022): EASR — Geschlossene Podiumsdiskussion: "Boundary Violation Between Property and Freedom: Case Studies from Antiquity to the Middle Ages“, University College Cork, Irland.

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