Projects

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Late or too late? Old age in the late Latin elegies of Maximianus (6th c. AD)

2022

This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
Comparative
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary Ageing Studies
Literary studies
Southern Europe
Western Europe
The making of the second sophistic. Literary periodization as an intellectual and cultural construct

2022

The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
19th Century
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
French
German
Greek
History
History of scholarship
Imperial literature
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Philosophy
Second Sophistic literature
Coming After. Late antique ecopoetics

2022

Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
Contemporary
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Monstrosity in Claudian

2022

The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Nothing but the truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in Ancient Greek and Latin novels

2022

Most ancient Greek and Latin novels contain trial-scenes made of ingredients similar to modern-day legal drama series, such as emotionally-charged testimonies, wrathful confrontations and sidebar talks; and during the adversarial debates, ...read more
Ancient novel
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
Greek
Greek novels
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Latin novels
Literary studies
Narratology
MELA. The meaning of language. A digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in late Constantinople

2022

Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
15th Century
Asia
Communication
Comparative
Didactics
Eastern Europe
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Linguistics
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Quantitative
Tracing change and reaction in the Latin tense system. An empirical analysis of language-internal and language-external influences on the development of morphological innovations and form-function pairings from Early Latin to Early Romance

2021

To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more
Antiquity
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Linguistics
Quantitative
Transitivity oppositions in a diachronic typological perspective. Labile verbs in the history of the Indo-European languages

2021

Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more
Antiquity
Asia
Central Europe
Comparative
Dutch
Eastern Europe
Eastern European languages
English
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Icelandic
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Linguistics
Middle Ages
Northern Europe
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Russian
Sanskrit
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Tours on paper. Literary explorations of the travel guide book (itinerarium) in late antiquity and the early middle ages

2020

The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
Art
Greek
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Religion
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Cross-channel stylistic exchanges. A stylometric approach to the impact of mobility and multilingualism on medieval Latin literature, 1000–1150

2020

This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe

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