Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
This project focusses on the socialization of, and interaction between, two non-elite groups in the Roman world: freed slaves and freeborn members of the urban ‘middle class’. Scholarly interest in ...read more
As a crossroads between three continents, the Middle East has always been a complex contact zone for intercultural relations. Dating back to the Bronze Age, when the first 'international' contacts ...read more
Whereas computers can reliably process text documents in terms of their factual content (e.g. for classifying them into topics, searching or extracting information from them), they have difficulty interpreting opinions, ...read more
Embedded in the field of archaeology, this project focuses on thetrade and commerce of bitumen in the Persian Gulf in Antiquity.Basically, the export of Iranian bitumen in the late 3rd- ...read more
The project examines how contemporary Chilean and Argentinian writers and filmmakers imagine new forms of human interaction and resistance in everyday life, by focussing on how they represent intimate relationships ...read more
In Italy, almost 1/3 of the Roman urban settlements were abandoned between the fourth and the eighth century but, more generally, it is the concept of city itself which changed, ...read more
The modern term “epyllion” commonly refers to a narrative poem in hexameters, which is shorter than a full epic. Literary overviews tend to focus on Hellenistic Greek epyllia, considered pioneers ...read more