Written Helena!

I have not blogged in a while – in fact, my last blog post dates from over a year ago.…

Table of Contents Sneak Peek

Helena is hopefully going into production before too long. Here’s a sneak peek at the Table of Contents:

I am slowly continuing to prune material from my Helena manuscript. Here’s something about the mother of Julian ‘The Apostate’…

I have completed a full draft of my ‘Helena’ manuscript. Although this is of course excellent news, it is 150,000…

I recently gave a talk for the British School at Rome online lecture series on the relationship between Helena and…

Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine’s biographer, claims that when Helena visited the Holy Land in c. 328 one could see her…

Helena’s world was a cruel one, but it produced some mightily beautiful artwork, including portraits of the empress herself. It…

I recently gave a talk on Helena at the Institute of Classical Studies in London. You can watch a recording…

Writing the life of an empress of the early fourth century sometimes is unnecessarily hard. These past weeks I have…

Six months ago, I embarked on Chapter 2 of #Helena, claiming that writing it would be a short affair. This…