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Dr Nadine Viermann is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Durham University and a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, having joined in September 2021 after serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University and a research fellow at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul. Her research centers on political decision making and communication within the East Roman monarchy of the 6th and 7th centuries, alongside sacred space construction and religious connectivity in the Late Antique Mediterranean.
Dr Viermann earned her PhD from Konstanz University in 2020 following studies in Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, and Byzantine Archaeology at Heidelberg University.
Her primary research interests include political communication, political decision making, sacred space, structural history, and urbanism. She is renowned for her structural analysis of Emperor Heraclius' reign in her monograph Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser and currently investigates relic translations in Constantinople through interdisciplinary approaches combining historical analysis with GIS mapping to reconstruct Christian sacred topography.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent thematic focus on East Roman political transformation, imperial authority, and religious spatial dynamics during the 7th century crisis period, with notable interdisciplinary integration of digital humanities methodologies in her relic translation project.
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Dr Viermann supervises postgraduate researchers including Michael O'Ryan (focusing on Byzantine empresses from Theodora to Theodora Porphyrogenita) and actively leads major collaborative projects: co-editing Brill’s Companion to the Age of Heraclius with Phil Booth, Reading the Late Roman Monarchy with Johannes Wienand, and Empresses-in-waiting with Christian Rollinger, while co-founding a research network on the Cult of Relics in the Late Antique Mediterranean with Katinka Sewing.
She co-established the international research network on Cult of Relics in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterranean with Katinka Sewing, which convened its inaugural workshop at Heidelberg University in March 2023 to examine relic translations and sacred topography across Mediterranean societies.
