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The project was completed almost in time in January 2024. 672 passages of 224 works of more than 166 authors have been sampled and evaluated. Of course, there will be passages left, but the aim to provide access to the vast majority of texts dealing with Sunday from the second...

Session held at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies Byzantium – Bridge Between Worlds. Venice and Padua, 22–27 August 2022

Publication with contributions of the international conference "From Sun-Day to the Day of the Lord", Vienna 2019/10/10–12

On Friday, 11 September 2020, a workshop on "Sunday in Monasticism" took place in the Faculty of Protestant Theology. In compliance with the coronavirus measures of the University of Vienna, a small group of experts came together to discuss preliminary results and open questions on monastic Sunday practice. The focus was particularly on source texts on Eastern monasticism from the 4th-6th centuries, although an outlook on Late Antique monasticism in the Latin West was also given.

Date: October 10-12, 2019 Location: Sky Lounge, Oskar Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, 12th floor Organized by Univ.Prof. Dr. Uta Heil, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, together with Nadine Pirringer and Svenja Sasse of the FWF-Project "The Apocryphal Sunday" (FWF-P31428). With...

Date: 19.–24. August 2019 Uta Heil: Days of the Week in the Chronicon Paschale Although it is well known that probably in the year 321 the Sunday law of Emperor Constantine was enacted, and although additional legal texts and ecclesiastical canons are also known, this is too littl...

Sessions held at the International Medieval Congress Leeds 2018 In Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, time was not a neutral but a qualified category. But how and why did special days get an intrinsic quality as good days, bad days or specific days for specific activities...