Code
01CD8423
Duration
09 January 2024 → 08 July 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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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.