Code
01J08919
Duration
01 October 2019 → 30 July 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Auxiliary sciences of history
Keywords
Excerpt collections
Syriac studies
codicology
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Miaphysitism
History of historiography
Byzantine studies
Narrative identity
Project description
Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to
histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the
intertwining of identity formation and historical narratives, to provide the first cross-cultural study of
late antique excerpt collections, and to study the changing status of historical knowledge compared
to other types of knowledge.