Beyond Byzantium: Christian Communities of the Late Antique and
Early Islamic Near East
Saturday, January 8, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
Westin, Vashon Room I
Chair: Paul
Cobb, University of Notre Dame
Papers: A Second Constantine? The Sasanian King Yazdgard in
Christian History and Historiography
Scott McDonough, University of California at Los Angeles
”Only his Bible with him”: Books and Literacy in East-Syrian
Monastic Tradition
Joel Walker, University of Washington Seattle
Making Place Count: The Role of Bishops in Preserving a Christian
Topography in Early Medieval Iraq
Cynthia Villagomez, Wake Forest University