We are happy to announce that two of our team members as well as one colleague who took part in our Trouble with Taxation’s workshop will be participating in the online seminar series “People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE” organised by the team members of the ERC Consolidator project SSE1K_seminars_2025-2026 (Modificato).pdf led by Prof. Helen Foxhall Forbes.

This seminar series focuses on relationships between people and their environments in the Mediterranean in the first millennium. Papers explore social, intellectual, religious and political contexts from around the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE. Three seminars will explore the Islamicate world and topics related to the project. Prof. Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Philip Booth (St Peter’s College, Oxford) will present on “Nile Floods and Delta Revolts in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries CE” (9th February 2026), Dalia Hussein, Georgi Obatnin and Marie Legendre will present on “People and Taxes: The Functioning of the Fiscal Cycle in Abbasid Egypt” (9th March), and Dr. Carlo Scardino (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf) will talk about “The Role and Significance of Syriac and Arabic Translations of Late Antique Agricultural Treatises in the First Millennium CE around the Mediterranean” (12th May).

If you would like to attend any of the seminars online, please register using the QR code on the left of the poster available on that link: SSE1K_seminars_2025-2026 (Modificato).pdf .

Banner Image: Fayyoum, Egypt, credit Marie Legendre.

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