About the VCLA

About the VCLA

The VCLA is an independent research organization, established on a non-profit basis to promote research and public understanding of late antiquity – the period from about 200 to 700 CE.

Its thematic and geographical range is wide – covering the political, economic, social, cultural and religious history, including the textual and material culture, of:

• the territories and former territories of the Roman and Persian empires;
• the regions and peoples of Europe, Africa and Asia with which the citizens or subjects of those empires interacted, either directly or indirectly;
• those territories that saw any observance or promotion of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Manichaeism or Islam at any time between about 200 and 700 CE.

For a further sense of the stimulus underlying our work, please see Why the VCLA?

For more information about governance, click here.