Professor Samuel N. C. Lieu
MA Cantab., DPhil. Oxford. FRAS, FRHistS, FSA, FAHA
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Professor of Ancient History and Co-Director Ancient History Documentary Research Centre Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8882 |
Profile
I have a broad research interest in Ancient and Early Medieval History, especially in the study of the contacts between Ancient Civilizations across Central Asia. I am currently Co-Director of the UNESCO-sponsored Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum Project and I also have research projects on the military and religious history of the Late Roman East. I began my teaching career at Warwick University in the UK in 1976 and was promoted to a full Professorship in 1994 and appointed Director of the Centre for East Roman Studies. I joined the Department at Macquarie in 1996 as Professor of Ancient History and became Co-Director of the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre in 1998. Besides winning a succession of ARC Large and Discovery Project Grants, I have concentrated on developing younger scholars in researching in my many areas of interest and a number have succeeded to win academic appointments. My current major research project is on the history of Zayton (Quanzhou) in South China - a key port-city of the Maritime Silk Road at the time of Marco Polo and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I also conduct regular field surveys in Syria and S. Turkey. I am a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and represent the Australian Academy at the International Union of Academies.
External Appointments
- Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow, Tübingen Universität
(Inst. f. Antik. Judentum u. Hellenist. Religionsgeschichte) 1989-1990,
2002.
Leverhulme Visiting Professor (salaried), London University 2002-3. - Co-Director Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum Project (An international project funded by the British Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of History and Letters, the Leverhulme Trust, the Australian Research Council etc.) 1994-.
- Professorial Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University 2002-.
Fellowships and Awards
Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1974-1976.
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1981 -
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1983 -
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1989 -
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999-
Centenary Medal 2002 (awarded by the Commonwealth Government for contribution
to Classical and Oriental Studies)
Major Grants
British Academy
1978 A Comparative study of Early Christian (Greek and Syriac) and Early
Buddhist Chinese hagiography
1984 Publication Grant (Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval
China)
1986 Libanius as a source for the history for the eastern frontier
1988 The Artemii Passio as a source for fourth century history
1990 Data-Base of Manichaean Texts and Dictionary of Manichaean Terms and
Concepts (Major Research Grant)
1990 Dictionary of Manichaean Terms and Concepts (Major Research Grant)
1993 Visiting Professorship (for Prof. P. Nagel, Halle) for Centre for Research
in East Roman Studies
1994 Visiting Professorship (for Prof. A. van Tongerloo, Leuven) for Centre
for Research in East Roman Studies
1994-95 Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum - Greek and Chinese sections (Major
Research Grant)
1994 Visiting Professorship (for Dr. J. van Oort, Utrecht) for Centre for
Research in East Roman Studies
Leverhulme Trust
1991-92 Data-Base of Manichaean Texts (Major Award)
Nuffield Foundation
1977 Rome and Persia (grant for innovative teaching)
1978 The Holy Man in Early Byzantium and Medieval China (Social Sciences
Award)
1988 Urbanism in Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman Mesopotamia and Syria (ditto)
Royal Swedish Academy
1990 Dictionary of Manichaean Terms and Concepts (Extraordinary award for
international collaboration)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust
1990-98 Dictionary of Manichaean Terms and Concepts (Staff salary)
Society of Antiquaries
1989-91 Data-Base of Manichaean Texts from Central Asia (equipment grant)
Wolfson Foundation
1986 Roman Foreign Policy in the East from Severus Alexander to the Arab
Conquest and the development of a frontier (major award in classics and
historical geography for collaboration with Tel Aviv University Israel)
Australian Research Council
Large Grant : 1997-2000 (With I. M. F. Gardner and L. Eccles): Corpus Fontium
Manichaeorum
Research Initiative: 1998: Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Large Grant : 2000-2002 (With Dr Erica Hunter): Manichaean Texts in Syriac.
International Research Exchange: 2001-03 (with Prof Nicholas Sims-Williams,
FBA) Silk Road Language and Religion.
Discovery Project Grant: 2002-2004 (with I. M. F. Gardner and M. Franzmann)
Manichaean and Nestorian Iconography at Quanzhou.
Discovery Project Grant: 2002-2009 (with I. M. F. Gardner and M. Franzmann)
Mission and Inculturation: Manichaean and Nestorian Texts and Iconography
in China.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Research Grant: 1997-2000 (with Prof. A. van Tongerloo) Manichaean texts
and inscriptions from China.
Research Grant: 2002-2006 (with Prof. A. van Tongerloo) Manichaean and Nestorian
inscriptions and Iconography from Quanzhou.
Research Grant 2006-2008 (with Dr Gunner Mikkelsen) Nestorian Epigraphical
texts from China.
Publications etc.
Books
Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China (Tübingen:
Mohr, 1992).
Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East, Religions in the
Graeco-Roman World 118 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), 325pp.
with M. Dodgeon, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD
226-363, (London: Routledge, 1991, revised paperback edn. 1994) 430pp.,
Reprinted with additional material 1996.
with D. A. S. Montserrat, From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine
Views (London: Routledge, 1996), 285pp.
Manichaeism in Central Asia and China, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean
Studies 27 (Leiden: Brill, 1998) 258 pp.
with D. A. S. Montserrat (edd.), Constantine History, Historiography
and Legend (London: Routledge, 1998), 230pp.
with S. Clackson, E. D. C. Hunter and M. Vermes, Dictionary of Manichaean
Texts I: Texts from the Roman Empire (Texts in Syriac, Greek, Coptic
and Latin), Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Series Subsidia II, (Turnhout:
Brepols, 1998) 282pp.
with M. Vermes: Hegemonius, Acta Archelai, Manichaean Studies IV
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), ISBN 2-503-51156-2, 177pp.
with G. Greatrex, The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars
(4-6th Cs.) (London: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 0-415-14687-9, 357pp.
with I. Gardner: Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire (Cambridge
UP, 2004)
Articles
Over 100 articles in international and refereed journals, encyclopaedias
and Festschriften. The latest include:
‘Byzantium Persia and China - interstate relations on the eve of the
Islamic Conquest’, in D. Christian and C. Benjamin (edd.) Realms
of the Silk Road, Silk Road Studies IV (Turnhout 2000): 47-66.
‘A new figurative representation of Mani?’, in Studia Manichaica:
IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.-18.
Juli 1997, Eds. Ronald E. Emmerick et alii, Berichte und Abhandlungen,
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Sonderband 4, (Berlin
2000): 380-86.
‘Students and Scholars in Late Roman East’, in Roy MacCleod
(ed.), The Library of Alexandria - Centre of Learning in the Ancient
World, (London 2000): 127-42.
‘Nestorian angels and other Christian and Manichaean remains on the
South China Coast’, in S. Lieu and C. Benjamin, (edd.) Silk Road
Studies VI: Walls and Frontiers (Turnhout 2002): 1-17.
‘From Turfan to Dunhuang - Manichaean Cosmogony in Chinese Texts’,
in D. Durkin-Meisterernst et al. eds. Turfan Revisited - The First Century
of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road (Berlin: Ditrich
Reimer Verlag), pp. 169-75.
‘Libanius and Higher Education at Antioch’ in Sandwell, I and
Huskinson, J. eds. Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch,
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004, pp. 13-23.
‘Manichaean Terms in Syriac: Some Observations on their Transmission
and Transformation’, Aram Periodical 16 (2004) 129-40. ISSN
0959-4213
‘Select Palmyrene Inscriptions’ Silk Road Studies X: From
Palmyra to Zayton, (Turnhout 2005) pp. 27-188.
‘Constantine in Legendary Literature’ in N. Lenski ed. The
Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge 2006), pp.
298-324.
‘“My Church is superior ...” Mani’s missionary statement
in Coptic and Middle Persian’, in P.-H. Poirer, (ed.), P.-H. Poirier,
Coptica - Gnostica - Manichaica. Mélanges
Wolf-Peter Funk, (Quebec, Laval University Press, 2006) pp.
519-27.
Department of Ancient History:
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Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum
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Zayton (Quanzhou) Project
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Research and Innovative Teaching Project: The Roman East
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