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Project

This story may provide proof. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond
Code
01CD8423
Duration
09 January 2024 → 08 July 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Ancient history
    • Cultural history
    • Comparative literature studies
    • Literary translation
    • Other Middle Eastern literatures
    • Study of Christianity
Keywords
Middle East Greek Oriental languages Late Antiquity History of historiography Middle Ages codicology Miaphysitism Byzantine studies Narrative identity collections Syriac studies History
 
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.