Bronwen Neil

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Biography

Bronwen Neil is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie, and member of the Macquarie University Ancient Cultures Research Centre. She studied Linguistics, Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland (1987-1991), before undertaking a Master of Arts in Theological Research at Durham University, UK (1997/1998) and completing her PhD at Australian Catholic University in 1999. Subsequently, she joined the Centre for Early Christian Studies there (2000-2015), serving as Associate Director (2014-2015). From 2001-2005 she held an ARC Postgraduate Research Fellowship, while teaching in the School of Theology at ACU. In 2010 she was appointed the inaugural holder of the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin, and in 2015 was promoted to Associate Professor. She was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship (2014-2018) and joined Macquarie University as Professor of Ancient History in 2017.

Education/Academic qualification

Medieval Latin, PhD, Australian Catholic University

1992 → 1999

Theological Studies, Masters of Arts, University of Durham

1997 → 1998

Classics, Bachelor of Arts Honours, The University of Queensland

1990 → 1991

External positions

Editorial board, Journal of Late Antiquity

2019 → …

Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities

2017 → 2020

Series editor, Byzantina Australiensia, E.J. Brill

2017 → …

Research Associate, University of South Africa

2017 → 2019

Editorial board, Vigiliae Christianae, E.J. Brill

2016 → …

Editorial board, Scrinium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2015 → …

Subject editor, Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, E.J. Brill

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Projects 2009 2019

4 Active

Mycenaean Religion: The Formation and Expression of a Society's Identity

Lupack, S. & Neil, B.

1/01/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Other

Memories of Utopia: Destroying the Past to Create the Future (300-650 CE)

Neil, B., Mayer, W., Allen, P. & De Wet, C.

26/06/17 → …

Project: Research

Utopias

Appointments and Schedules

Dreams, Prophecy and Violence from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Neil, B.

3/01/17 → …

Project: Research

Christianity

Islam

Violence

Ancient Cultures Research Centre (MQACRC)

Neil, B., Choat, M., Behlmer-Loprieno, H., Chan, S., Kanawati, N., Evans, T., Evans, L., Gillett, A., Gore, D., McKechnie, P., Kohler, C., Mikkelsen, G., Ockinga, B., Parry, K. & Sheedy, K.

1/01/09 → …

Project: Research

Research Outputs 1998 2020

39 Chapter
22 Article
19 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book
15 Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
34 More

Memories of Utopia: the revision of texts and landscapes in Late Antiquity

Neil, B. (ed.) & Simic, K. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 352 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › Research › peer-review

Late Antiquity

Utopia

Religion

Religious Identity

Conceptual Framework

Merovingian Letters and Letter-Writers

Neil, B. & Rosbrook, C., 2020, In : Journal of Medieval Latin.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review › Research › peer-review

Dreams, virtue and divine knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

Neil, B., Costache, D. & Wagner, K., 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). 350 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

Egypt

Egyptians

Deity

Medieval Period

Platonism

Gelasius I

Neil, B., 2019, Great Christian jurists and legal collections in the first millennium. Reynolds, P. L. (ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (CUP), p. 297-314 18 p. (Law and Christianity).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

Rome

Decretals

Civil Law

Theology

Medieval Period

Hagiography

Neil, B., 2019, The Oxford handbook of early Christian Biblical interpretation. Blowers, P. M. & Martens, P. W. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, p. 304-314 11 p. (Oxford Handbooks).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

Confessors

Hagiography

Persecution

John the Baptist

Christ