Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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 Dr Phil Booth

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College

Contact
Email: pb281@cam.ac.uk

Research interests

History of Europe and the Middle East from antiquity to the early middle ages. Latin, Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic literature, in particular historiographic and hagiographic texts. At present, the Muslim conquest of Roman Egypt esp. the Chronicle of John of Nikiou; Arabic futūh literature; Greek, Coptic and Arabic papyrology.

Publications

Moschus, Sophronius, Maximus: Palestine and Its Dissidents in the Age of Heraclius (under review)

‘Saints and Soteriology in Sophronius Sophista’s Miracles of Cyrus and John’ in T. Claydon and P. Clarke (eds) The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul, Studies in Church History 45 (Woodbridge, 2009) 52-63.

‘Shades of Blues and Greens in the Chronicle of John of Nikiou’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 104 (2011).

‘Orthodox and Heretic in the Early Byzantine Cult(s) of Saints Cosmas and Damian’ in P. Booth, M. Dal Santo and P. Sarris (eds) An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity (Leiden, 2011).

(ed.) An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity, Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages (Leiden, 2011).

‘Gregory and the Greek East’ in B. Neil and M. J. Dal Santo (eds) Handbook of Gregory the Great (Leiden, forthcoming).

‘Anastasius of Sinai’ in R. S. Bagnall et al. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Ancient History (Oxford, forthcoming).

‘Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History’ in P. Wood (ed.) History and Identity in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Near East (Oxford, forthcoming).

The Chronicle of John of Nikiou: Ethiopic Text with Translation (in preparation for CSCO Series Aethiopica, with M. Krawzcuk)

The Chronicle of John of Nikiou and the Muslim Conquest of Egypt (in preparation for CSCO Subsidia).