Associate Professor Lisa Kaaren Bailey

MA (Auckland) PhD (Princeton)

Associate Professor

In: Classics and Ancient History » Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Associate Dean

In: Faculty of Arts Administration » Faculty of Arts

Associate Professor

In: History » Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Associate Professor in History and in Classics and Ancient History

Research | Current

Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Slavery and the rhetoric of religious service
The religious cultures of the laity
Preaching and sermon collections, especially in Gaul

Teaching | Current

ANCHIST 110 Ancient Eygpt, Greece and Rome

ANCHIST 103 Roman History

ANCHIST 255 The Later Roman Empire

ANCHIST 260 Roman Revolutions

ANCHIST 314 Historians of Rome

ANCHIST 355 The Later Roman Empire

ANCHIST 360 Roman Revolutions

ANCHIST 747AB Themes and Issues in Roman Culture

HISTORY 254 Barbarians: Antiquity to Vikings

HISTORY 354 Barbarians: Antiquity to Vikings

HISTORY 735 Saints and Sinners c. 300 - 800

HISTORY 706 European Cultural History

Postgraduate supervision

Topics currently supervising

Magic, religious deviance and the late antique legal tradition
Virgins and sacrifice
Punishment in Early Medieval texts
Structural transitions from the Late Roman Empire to Early Byzantium

Topics available to supervise

Late antiquity and early middle ages, especially religious and cultural history
Saints, relics and miracles; religious conflicts
‘Barbarian’ cultures in Western Europe, early Byzantium
The end/ transformation of the Roman empire
Lay culture and religious experiences

Distinctions/Honours

Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant 2017
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast-Start Grant 2008

Responsibilities

Incoming Associate Dean Postgraduate, Faculty of Arts

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Bailey, L. K. (2018). Scripture in the sermons of Caesarius of Arles. Early Medieval Europe, 26 (1), 42-60. 10.1111/emed.12247
Bailey, L. (2018). Preaching in fifth-century Gaul. Valerian of Cimiez and the Eusebius Gallicanus collection. In A. Dupont, S. Boodts, G. Partoens, J. Leemans (Eds.) Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers and Audiences in the Latin West (pp. 253-273). Leiden: Brill. 10.1163/9789004363564_014
Bailey, L. K. (2016). Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul (1st). Bloomsbury Publishing. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/29454
Bailey, L. K. (2012). The strange case of the portable altar: Liturgy and the limits of episcopal authority in early medieval Gaul. Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 8, 31-51. Related URL.
Bailey, L. K. (2012). Within and without: lay people and the Church in Gregory of Tours' miracle stories. Journal of Late Antiquity, 5 (1), 119-144. 10.1353/jla.2012.0006
Bailey, L. K. (2010). Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Pages: 278.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9087
Bailey, L., Diggelmann, L., & Phillips, K. M. (2009). Old worlds, New worlds: European Cultural Encounters. Turnhout: Brepols Pub. Pages: 217.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/12251
Bailey, L. K. (2009). "Our own most severe judges": the power of penance in the Eusebius Gallicanus sermons. In A. Cain, N. Lenski (Eds.) The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (pp. 201-211). Surrey: Ashgate.