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Under pressure. The impact of socio-economic and institutional dynamics on the late Roman aristocracy (565-641)

2022

This research studies the changes in the late-Roman aristocracy from 565 to 641. In this period the imperial elite lost importance to the provincial one. The base of this study ...read more
History
Late Antiquity
In the mind of the scribe. An integrated sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach to orthographic variation and change in the Greek language of the papyri

2022

This project proposes to combine for the first time historical (socio)linguistics with the insights from modern psycholinguistic research to study linguistic variation in post-Classical Greek. For this purpose the study ...read more
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
Spectacular Claudian. Immersive scenes in late antique epic

2022

Let’s put on 3D glasses as we enter and immerse ourselves in the poetic universe of Claudius Claudianus, active at the court of the 4th-century Roman emperor Honorius and one ...read more
Archaeology
Literary studies
Challenging and expanding the national canon: the case of Usmān’s Citrāvalī (1613) and its afterlife in India’s multilingual contexts

2022

The Indian Sufi romances (premākhyāns), written in the Avadhi language by poets with Muslim origins, are mystical narratives that have circulated across South Asia, defying literary genres and linguistic barriers. ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Asia
Canonisation
Hindi
Language and text analysis
Literary canon
Literary studies
Multilingualism
Oriental languages
Religion
Storytelling
Sufism
The holy romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography

2022

This project envisages a literary-rhetorical analysis of Italo-Greek hagiography, a corpus of which the prominent, narrative qualities have long been recognized but, for historical reasons of academic ideology, have not yet received much systematic scholarly attention in ...read more

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