Arthur Urbano
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Brown University
Area(s) of Expertise:
Early Christianity, Patristics, Late Antiquity, Early Christian Biography, Art and Archaeology, Jewish-Christian relations
Selected Publications:
Urbano, A. (2022) In Ronald E. Heine, Karen Jo Torjesen (Ed.), Difficulties in Writing a Life of Origen. Oxford University Press
Urbano, A. (2018) In Samuel Rubenson, Lilian Larsen (Ed.), Plato Between School and Cell: Biography and Competition in the Fifth-Century Philosophical Field. Cambridge University Press
Urbano, A. (2016) The Philosopher Type in Late Roman Art: Problematizing Cultural Appropriation in Light of Cultural Competition. Society of Biblical Literature Press
Urbano, A. (2015) Fashioning Witnesses: "Hebrews" and "Jews" in Early Christian Art. Brown Judaic Studies
Urbano, A. (2014) Narratives of Decline and Renewal in the Writing of Philosophical History. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
Urbano, A. (2014) Sizing-Up the Philosopher's Cloak: Christian Verbal and Visual Representations of the Tribon. Ashgate
Urbano, A. (2013) "Dressing a Christian": The Philosopher's Mantle as Signifier of Pedagogical and Moral Authority. Studia Patristica.(62),
Urbano, A. (2013) Tailoring Rhetoric: Verbalizing Philosophical Dress in the Second Sophistic. Society of Biblical Literature
Urbano, A. (2013) The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press
Urbano, A. (2008) “Read It Also to the Gentiles”: The Displacement and Recasting of the Philosopher in the Vita Antonii. Church History.(77),
Urbano, A. (2005) Donation, Dedication, and Damnatio Memoriae: The Catholic Reconciliation of Ravenna and the Church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. Journal of Early Christian Studies.(13),
Selected Presentations:
Urbano, A. The Christianity Seminar. The Westar Institute, - "The Wardrobe of Christian Philosophers and the Making of Late Antique Intellectual and Moral Authority" March, 2023
Urbano, A. Collective Biographies from Antiquity to the Early Medieval Times. University of Leuven, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, - "Collective Portraits in the Light of Collective Biographies" December, 2022
Urbano, A. Dress and Body Association . , - "#SartorialTheology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Religion and Dress in Ancient and Modern Christianity" November, 2022
Urbano, A. North American Patristics Society. , Chicago, IL - "Paper: Their Garb, Our Truth: Dress and the Demarcation of Intellectual Status in Early Christian Literature and Art" May, 2016
Urbano, A. North American Patristics Society. , Chicago, IL - "In the Company of Wisdom: The Cult of Martyrs and the Translocation of Paideia" May, 2014
Urbano, A. Society of Biblical Literature. , Baltimore, MD - "In the Company of Wisdom: Pilgrimage, Portraits, and the Transformation of Paideia" November, 2013
Urbano, A. Early Monasticism and Classical Paideia. Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, Lund, Sweden - "Plato between School and Cell: Biography and Paideia in the Fifth Century" October, 2013
Urbano, A. Society of Biblical Literature. , Chicago, IL - "The Philosopher Type in Late Roman Art: Problematizing Cultural Appropriation in Light of Religious Competition" November, 2012
Urbano, A. International Conference on Patristic Studies. , Oxford, England - "Paper: 'Dressing the Christian': The Philosopher's Mantle as Signifier of Pedagogical and Moral Authority in Late Antiquity" August, 2011
