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First Name
Lilian
Last Name
Diniz
Country
Italy
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https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/LilianDiniz
Keywords
Early medieval history, Late Antiquity, inter-religious encounters, popular culture, popular religion, religious hybridity
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

I seek subversion and unorthodoxy in religious practices. I am interested in processes of religious conversion from Late antiquity to the Early Middle ages and its relationship with the concept of apostasy. I work with the concepts of hybridization, popular piety, religious crafting, lived religion and the construction of a popular identity of religious practices. I am also interested in comparative studies, anthropology of religious conversion and the relationship between archaeology and written sources.

Recent Publications
  • “‘When a woman recites an incantation, a serpent recites it’- Female magic and medicine in Caesarius of Arles” in Eventum 2, 2024. (Forthcoming)
  • “How to Be Both: Individuating Religious Hybridity in Material Culture in Early Medieval Gaul” In Leonard Rutgers, Stephan Mols and Sible de Blaauw (eds.) Frontiers: The Transformation and Christianization of the Roman Empire between Centre and Periphery. Acta XVII International Congress of Christian Archaeology 2018 Utrecht-Nijmegen. Leuven: Peeters, 2024, pp. 349-363.
  • “Religious Crafting and Subversion – Women and Magic in Early Medieval Iberian Sources” In Andrea Maraschi (ed.) Becoming a witch. Women and magic in Medieval Europe (ca. 500-1400). Trivent, 2023, pp 21-55.
  • “Valerius of Bierzo as an interpreter of the seventh-century ecclesiastical environment of northwestern Iberia” In Journal of Medieval Iberian studies, vol.13, n.2 (2021), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.1930098
  • “Diffusione del cristianesimo e fenomeni di ibridazione culturale dalla tarda antichità al medioevo in Europa Occidentale” In Adamantius. Annuario di Letteratura Cristiana Antica e di Studi Giudeoellenistici, 23 (2017), pp. 215-225.
  • “Paganism and traditional practices in the sermons of Caesarius of Arles” In M. VINZENT and A. BRENT (eds.) Studia Patristica Vol LXXIV – Including Papers presented at the Fifth British Patristics Conference, London, 3-5 September 2014. Leuven: Peeters, 2016, pp. 393-400.
  • “O conflito religioso no século V por meio de duas visões paralelas – O saque de Roma, de 410 d.C., em duas obras literárias: De Reditu suo, de Rutilio Namaziano, e A Cidade de Deus, de Santo Agostinho” In Revista Mirabilia v.13, (2011), pp. 192-213. http://www.revistamirabilia.com/nova/images/numeros/2011_13/09.pdf
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
France, Mediterranean, Spain
Expertise by Chronology
Ancient, Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Food History, Gender, Local & Regional, Medicine, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, Women