Staff Spotlight: Dr Ine Jacobs
Photo credit: John Cairns.
Dr Ine Jacobs, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture, was recently profiled for this article 'Unearthing the secrets of the Byzantine world' by the Development and Alumni Engagement team.
Ine teaches on both our undergraduate degree and taught masters. She is happy to supervise on topics related to late antique urbanism, the archaeology of religion and popular culture in Late Antiquity, and the Byzantine Dark Ages.
Looking at people’s lives in the round is crucial to our understanding of the period, says Dr Jacobs. ‘Very often you end up with subjects that are taught almost in a void, whereas these people were like you and me. I don't think that you can understand the way they talk about their gods, for instance, unless you understand the buildings in which they came together to worship in, unless you understand how they used their lamps to light particular icons, or how they built their buildings to catch the morning sunlight. I think I'm adding a layer of materiality to other subjects in the Byzantine world that is absolutely essential to really understand the past and to learn from it.’
