Prof. Dr. Sabine Feist
Investigator
Department of Christian Archaeology
Regina-Pacis-Weg 1
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 / (0)228 / 73 7454
sabine.feist@uni-bonn.de

Academic Profile
Sabine Feist focuses on the formative role of the Christian veneration of saints in late antique and early medieval societies. Particular attention is given to relics and their distribution and to the question how the availability of different relics determined not only their value, but also the circle of those who could come into their possession, who could establish sacral networks and who could buy sacral alliances.
2012–2016
Ph.D. in Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, University of Munich, Germany
2005–2011
M.A. in Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Classical Archaeology, and Ancient History, Universities of Freiburg, Germany, Athens, Greece, Basel, Switzerland, and Göttingen, Germany
since 2020
Director of the Department of Christian Archaeology
since 2020
Professor for Christian Archaeology, University of Bonn, Germany
2019–2020
Substitute Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, University of Munich, Germany
2015–2020
Research Associate, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2014–2015
Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations33, Koç University Istanbul, Turkey
2013–2016
Member of the Graduate School "Distant Worlds44", University of Munich, Germany
2012–2015
Ph.D. scholarship of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
2011–2012
Member of the Graduate School for the Humanities55 (Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften), University of Göttingen, Germany
since 2009
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie665 (AGCA)
since 2012
Verein für Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte776 (SABK)
since 2015
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien887 (DAFBS)
- Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- Verein für Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte
- Renate König-Foundation
- 2021. The Material Culture of Byzantine Iconoclasm. In A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm , published by M. Humphreys, 261–321. Boston-Leiden.
- 2021. Barrierefreier Zugang? Der Engelspfeiler von Öşk Vank. In Distant Worlds Journal Special Issue 3, 35–46.
- 2020. Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period. Wiesbaden.
- 2020. The Impact of Late Antique Churches on the Ecclesiastical Architecture during the Transitional Period: The Case Study of St. Irene in Constantinople. In Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period, edited by S. Feist, 129–145. Wiesbaden.
- 2019. Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte. Wiesbaden.
- 2013. Die nachantike Siedlung auf dem Theaterhügel. In Neue spät- und nachantike Monumente von Milet und der mittelbyzantinische Zerfall des anatolischen Städtewesens. In Archäologischer Anzeiger 2, 206–214.
- Geschichte der Christlichen Archäologie in Göttingen 988