Austin Goodwin Andrews
late antique religion + material culture • Yale Divinity School '26 • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
- the season of preparing for next steps in life is a season of being Schrödinger's cat in the box or the speaker in Thunder, Perfect Mind: I am student and non-student, I am employed and non-employed, I have every option and I have no option
- “my year in late antiquity” wrapped 2025
- 1. visiting the monastery of St Catherine’s at Mt Sinai for the feast of the Nativity in January was the wildest way to start my year. An easy #1
- 2. Tied for 2nd are the new late antique finds uncovered at the excavations in Stromboli (Italy) and Golemo Gradište, Konjuh (N Macedonia). These projects continue to teach me so much about rituals sites in peculiar regions—and I’m grateful to work with incredible teams in such wonderful locations
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View full thread7. Now that my semester has officially finished(!), I can add that I wrote 5 term papers about religion & late antiquity this year. My topics included the famous BM crucifixion amulet; a gold medallion with St Thomas; liturgy and Santa Costanza; Eucharist fraction; and Samaritans in late Roman laws.
