Projects

Members of the Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS) are currently engaged in a number of research projects.The principal ones are detailed below, together with some details of significant past projects.

For more information about the individual research of CLABS members, please see the people profiles page.

Current projects

Caistor Roman Project:Since 2006 principal investigator William Bowden from The University of Nottingham has been working with the Norfolk Archaeological Trust who own the site, to investigate this important Roman town. In 2014 the project secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. For further information see the Caistor Roman Project website.
The Butrint Project: An interdisciplinary research project focused on the ancient and medieval town of Butrint on the coast of southern Albania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. William Bowden has been a member of the project since its inception, working on the Roman and late antique phases of the site, and has published a number of reports on the excavations. For further information please see The Butrint Foundation website.
Historical ice cores project: This lrge, ongoing project is run by Dr Christopher Loveluck an includes a number of publications relating to his work with CLABS, including Loveluck et al., 2018. Alpine ice-core evidence for the transformation of the European monetary system, AD 640-670 Antiquity. 92(366), 1571-1585. For further information, please visit the main project page.

Current and recent collaborations

Diaporit Roman Villa: William Bowden, The Butrint Foundation
The Late Roman City: Nicopolis ad Istrum: Andrew Poulter

6th-7th century belt buckle, Walters Museum, Baltimore

Past projects

Within each set of dates, you can search/filter for research projects by:

project name
member of staff
region
project dates

Additional projects and publications to those listed below can be viewed on the relevant pages on the Department of Classics and Archaeology website and under the CLABS publications page.

Past projects: REF 2021 (1 August 2013 to 31 July 2020)

Research projects
Project	Principal Investigator	Region	Project Dates
Mosaic glassy tesserae from Italian sites: the study of provenance and technology	Julian Henderson, Kalliopi Nikita, Chloe Duckworth	Italy
Warfare in the Roman world, a monograph for Cambridge University Press's Key Themes in Ancient History series (2020).	Doug Lee		2020

Past projects: REF 2014 (1 January 2008 to 31 July 2013)

Research projects
Project	Principal Investigator	Region	Project Dates
The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis), a monograph published by Oxford University Press (2007)	John Drinkwater	Italy	2007
Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between City and Desert, a monograph published by Oxford University Press (2011)	Wolf Liebeschuetz		2011
Flixborough Anglo-Saxon settlement	Christopher Loveluck	UK	1995-2010
Glass in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Sparta	Kalliopi Nikita	Greece	2007-08
Northwest Chistendom from the Carolingians to the Crusades, AD600-1200	Chris Loveluck	Northwest Europe	2000-13
Provenance of glass	Julian Henderson	Worldwide	2012

Past projects: pre-2008

Research projects
Project	Principal Investigator	Region	Project Dates
Transition to Late Antiquity	Andrew Poulter	Bulgaria	1999-2003

Doctoral projects

See our PhD Research page for a full list of current and completed projects by our doctoral students.