Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and author of The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt (U California Press, 2025), specializing in late antique and Ethiopian-related sources.
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Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 21min
Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, "The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt" (U California Press, 2025)
Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and specialist in late antique and Ethiopian sources. He explores John of Nikiu’s Chronicle, its Ge'ez transmission, and how a post-Roman writer retools Roman historiography to explain crises. Conversation covers identity, piety, omens, Hypatia, daily life after 642, and the Chronicle as a coping text.
