'Every thunder means something’. Meteorology, culture and the self in Late Antiquity

Religious difference and deviance: re-appraising toleration in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Memory of empire: the post-imperial historiography of Lata Antiquity

A Re-Appraisal of Religious Toleration in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Doctoral project Alexander Meert

Doctoral project Lorenzo Focanti

Doctoral project Marianna Mazzola

Doctoral project Matthew O'Farrell

Doctoral project Panagiotis Manafis

Doctoral project Rebecca Debeerst

Doctoral project Sara Van Hoecke

Meteorology in Late Antiquity

Old Stories for new times. Syriac Historiographical Excerpt Collections (6th-10th c.)

the 6th century to early Islamic rule (8th century)

Thomas of Marga and the Book of Superiors: texts, formation and socio-cultural context of a East-Syrian bishop in the mid-ninth century

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

Doctoral project Piril Us MacLennan

Doctoral project Renaat Meesters

Hierarchy and equality in Late Antiquity

BOF staff support in the framework of an ERC-Grant

BOF-ZAP professorship in cultural history of antiquity

Caliphs on the Throne of Constantine: Syriac Orthodox Reassessment of Kingship in the Umayyad and Abbasid Period

Coexistence, Conflict, Persecution: The Revival and Extinction of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean World

COEXISTENCE, CONFLICT, PERSECUTION: THE REVIVAL AND EXTINCTION OF MANICHAEISM IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Defeating Doom with History: Syriac historiography of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Finding the present in the distant past: The cultural meaning of antiquarianism in Late Antiquity (4-7th c. AD)

Hierarchy and equality in Late Antiquity. Subverting power relations in the Later Roman Empire.

John Bar Andreas (d. 1155 or 1156) and Syro-Armenian polemics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

Living texts. Historiography and literature in the early Byzantine Period

New Polities. Political thought in the first millennium

Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies

Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies

Politics and Culture in Late Antiquity

Re-assembling the past: Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, early Syriac historiography, and its Byzantine and Arab context (582-842)

Setting boundaries. Purity in 4th-9th c. Syriac Christianity and its interreligious context

Sharing the past: Christian Arabic identity formation and the intercultural circulation of historical knowledge in the Late Ancient melkite bishop of Manbij (c. 942). 

The Church, the desert, and the mountains: the social organization of Miaphysite communities from the 6th century to early Islamic rule (8th century)

The First Jewish Revolt (66-70 A.D.): a socio-anthropological study into its causes

The First Juewish Revolt (66-70 A.D.): a socio-anthropological study into its causes

This story may provide proof. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond

‘This story may provide proof’. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond.

Thomas of Marga and the Book of Superiors: texts, formation and socio-cultural context of a East-Syrian bishop in the mid-ninth century

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

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

Writing Christian history in the language of Islam: a study on the beginnings of Christian historical writing in Arabic (mid 9th-early 11th cent.)

Byzantine Book Epigrams: function and context of a genre in the margin

Making Narratives of an Empire's Unmaking: A Critical Spatialization of Byzantine Historiography of the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries.

BOF-ZAP professorship in cultural history of antiquity