Hollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]

Review of O. Zwierlein, Die ‘Carmina Profana’ des Dracontius. Prolegomena und kritischer Kommentar zur Editio Teubneriana (Berlin 2017), Gnomon 92.5, 466-67

O’Hogan, C. (2019) ‘Review of Patrick McBrine. Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England: Divina in laude voluntas.’, The Journal of Medieval Latin. Brepols Publishers, 29, pp. 344–347. doi: 10.1484/J.JML.4.2019007.

Pre-copyedited version of article.

As a number of studies have pointed out, the sin of Sodom was not always assumed to be related to homosexual relations; the development of this association began in Late Antiquity and developed throughout the middle ages. Augustine is usually seen as the first to paint an explicit connection between Sodom and…[Read more]

This is a post-peer-review, pre-typesetting copy of the article.

This paper discusses the use by late antique Christian historiographers of the classical topos of corrupting abundance. Roman historians had understood that excessive abundance in any society caused decadence and intemperance, which in turn led to moral and physical decline. I…[Read more]

Published in the proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

The miracles depicted by the Venerable Bede – particularly in his Historia ecclesiastica – have proved problematic for historians. This article will first recapitulate the argument that miracles were not a clearly defined category for Bede in the way they would become for later philosophers and as is often assumed by modern commentators. It wil…[Read more]