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Mediaeval Studies

Dr. Christopher Bonura earned his PhD in History in 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation entitled “The Roman Empire of the Apocalypse: History, Eschatology, and the Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Late Antiquity, the Early Middle East, and Byzantium.” He has been a lecturer in the History Department, UC Berkeley since the summer of 2020. In addition to three forthcoming articles, Dr. Bonura’s most recent publication is “When did the Legend of the Last Emperor Originate? A New Look at the Textual Relationship between the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius and the Tiburtine Sibyl,” Viator, vol 47, no. 3 (Autumn, 2016): 47-100. While a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Bonura will begin work on a monograph drawn from his dissertation, dealing with the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius.