Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century:
Dr Ine Jacobs
Research Interests
The development of the Eastern Mediterranean in late antique and Byzantine times.
Research Activities
I was a member of the Sagalassos team (Turkey) between 2003 and 2014, director of the British Archaeological Project at Grumentum (Italy) between 2012 and 2015. I now co-direct the Kostoperska Karpa Regional Archaeological Project (FYROM) and am field director at Aphrodisias (Turkey). Because I am an archaeologist, I mainly deal with material evidence, but I am particularly interested in how this relates to and can (or cannot) be combined with literary sources. My doctorate looked into the how and why of late antique and Early Byzantine urban development and representation. In a first postdoctoral fellowship I investigated the reciprocal relations between the drastic political and religious changes taking place in the Theodosian period on the one hand and the economic developments and general prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean on the other. Since then I have been focussing ever more on the influence of Christianity on contemporary society. I am examining how the augmenting power of bishops over their congregations is expressed in the urban fabric as well as how ordinary people enacted their personal, everyday religiosity.
After a degree in Archaeology at Leuven (Belgium), I obtained a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders to start a DPhil. The same foundation also funded my postdoctoral research as well as a long research stay in Munich. In the meantime, I had also become Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Brussels. In October 2013, I moved to Edinburgh as a Chancellor’s Fellow in Classics. Since January 2015, I am the Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture at Oxford.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
JACOBS, I, Elton, HEdited by:JACOBS, I, Elton, H2019|Chapter|Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future DirectionsPresents a comprehensive impression of the quality of life across Asia Minor during the last century or so before the end of Antiquity.History, late antique archaeology, Late Antiquity, Asia Minor -
Chapter 3. Pagan-mythological statuary in sixth-century Asia Minor
JACOBS, IEdited by:JACOBS, I, Elton, H2019|Chapter|Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century Current Research and Future DirectionsPresents a comprehensive impression of the quality of life across Asia Minor during the last century or so before the end of Antiquity.History, late antiquity, late antique archaeology -
The sixth-century city in the Roman East: survival or demise of the traditional urban context?
JACOBS, IEdited by:Stenger, J2018|Chapter|Learning Cities in Late Antiquity The Local Dimension of EducationWith its interdisciplinary and comparatist approach, the volume aims to contextualise ancient education, in order to stimulate further research on ancient learning cities.History, Late antiquity -
Cross Graffiti as Physical Means to Christianize the Classical City: An Exploration of Their Function, Meaning, Topographical, and Socio-Historical Contexts
Jacobs, I2017|Chapter|Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesIn this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and monograms in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds and the contexts that facilitated their dissemination in diverse media.History
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Undergraduate teaching
Undergraduate course lecture:
- FHS core paper: Urbanisation and Change in Complex Societies
Undergraduate course convenor:
- FHS option: Byzantium: the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Postgraduate teaching
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