Marta Szada
A late antique historian and a classicist studying the later Roman empire and post-Roman kingdoms in the West with a special focus on Christian literature and the history of the Church.
Forthcoming and recent publications
Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2024
Succession Crises in Sixth-Century Iberia: Dead Bishops, Greedy Clerics, and the Council of Valencia in 546 (with Jamie Wood)
Chapter in Lincoln Readings of Texts, Materials, and Contexts, eds. G. Barrett and L. Wilkinson, ARC Humanities, Leeds 2024, available in OPEN ACCESS
Christian Community and the Barbarians in the Life of Severinus of Eugippius
Article in Journal of Medieval History 50 (3), 2024, 267-293
about me
I am a late antique historian and a classicist working in the Department of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2020, I defended my doctoral thesis at the University of Warsaw on religious conversions between Nicene („Catholic”) and Homoian („Arian”) Christianity in the Roman successor kingdoms in the West.
I worked on projects concerned with the cult of saints and hagiographic literature (Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/) and the history of the clergy in late antiquity (http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/). I published in a number of scholarly journals on the topics concerning Nicene-Homoian controversy, Christianization of the Goths, late antique hagiography and exegesis.
In addition to church history, doctrinal disputes and religious practices in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, I am also interested in intellectual history and book history in the ancient world.
My interests also include the modern printed book with a particular focus on the Prussian book collections, especially those of Elblag.
Events
Here you can find the most recent events in which I am involved. For the fuller list see the tab „News and Events”.
The Scholarship of Polish Historical Mission of NCU at the Julius and Maximilian University in Würzburg
A 15 day research stay in Würzburg funded by the scholarship of Bayerischen Staatskanzlei on the theme: „Book circulation and other intellectual practices in the letters of Augustine of Hippo”.
International Conference of Medieval Canon Law, Canterbury
I am having a talk titled „Buying the gift of God: payments for clerical ordinations and promotions in the canons of the Visigothic councils”.