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Details for Dr Isabella Sandwell
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Isabella Sandwell |
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Ancient History |
| Department | Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Bristol |
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| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Romans religious history religion Greek history Roman history anthropology |
| Areas of expertise | My main research interest is the religious history of the Roman period, particularly religious interaction between Christians and non-Christians in late antiquity. I am currently working on a book from my PhD, entitled Identity and Religious Interaction in Late Fourth Century Antioch that uses the writings of Libanius and John Chrysostom to develop a new model for understanding religious interaction in late antiquity. In this I explore in some depth the impact of the ways Chrysostom and Libanius wrote about religion on what they wrote about it. I am also interested in the categories that we use to think about religion (religion/magic, pagan/Christian, public/private) and of the continuities between the third and fourth century religious situations. As well as my specialism in religion I also have broader interests in Greek and Roman social history, the Greek world under Roman rule and the use of anthropology for studying ancient history. |