Code
3G019409
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Historical theory and methodology
- Theology and religious studies
Keywords
history of religions
orientalism
Franz Cumont
19th Century
20th Century
French literature
Greek literature
Latin literature
Literary studies
Project description
Cumont offers a unique scientific dossier: he published ca. 800 titles on the religious and cultural interaction between Near-East and West in Antiquity, corresponded with leading scientists, and wrote travel-accounts of the Middle East when it came under colonial European control. These different communicative contexts offer unique opportunities for a nuanced reflection on orientalism and postcolonialism.