Team

Principal investigator

Research interests: History and literature of Late Antiquity; Graeco-Roman religion; Early Christianity; Ancient philosophy
Contribution to project: Overall coordination; Latin historiography; space and historiography
Personal Focus: Jordanes; Latin fragmentary historians; Syriac fragmentary historians; late ancient disputations
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.Edu

Research interests: Byzantine, Syriac and Christian Arabic historiography; Intercultural transmission of texts in Late Antiquity; Byzantine and Eastern Christianity; History of the Oriental provinces of the Byzantine Empire
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Syriac historiography, Christian Arabic historiography; Historiography and intercultural exchange in Late Antiquity
Personal Focus: Chronicle of Seert; Syriac fragmentary historians
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.Edu

Research interests: Late antique historiography and literature; Armenian-Byzantine relations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Byzantine food
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Armenian historiography; Living texts
Personal Focus: Ph.D. on the reception of the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates in Greek, Latin and Armenian historiography
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.edu

Research interests: Late antique historiography; Pagan-Christian relations; Ancient antiquarianism; History and literature of Hellenistic world; Indian ancient history (Mauryan Empire)
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: late antique antiquarianism, edition of fragmentary authors
Personal Focus: Ph.D. on late antique antiquarian histories (3^rd-5^th c. A.D.)
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.edu

Research interests: Late antique and medieval historiography (Syriac, Greek, Armenian, Arabic); Circulation of historiographical, exegetical and apocryphal knowledge in the late ancient and early medieval Near and Middle East; Translation studies (Syriac, Greek, Armenian, Arabic)
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Syriac historiography
Personal Focus: Ph.D. (2014) on anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234; Michael the Syrian
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.edu

Research interests: Byzantine literature and history, Paleography, Collections of excerpts
Contribution to project: Contribution to database; early Byzantine Greek Historiography, Ecclesiastical History, Chronicles
Personal focus: Ph.D. on Excerpta anonymi Byzantini, Excerpta Planudea, Excerpta Salmasiana
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.edu

Research interests: Syriac historiography; Medieval Syriac poetry
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Syriac historiography; Co-edition of Syriac fragmentary historians
Personal Focus: Ph.D. on Barhebraeus’ Ecclesiastical History
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.edu

Research interests: Historiography of Sasanian Iran; Use of historiography in epic and novel; Motif and legend
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Sasanian traditions in late antique historiography
Personal Focus: Ph.D. on romantic traditions attached to Constantine I and Ardashir I
More info and bibliography: Academia.edu

Research interests: Late antique and Byzantine historiography; antiquarianism in Late Antiquity; late antique grammar; Byzantine book epigrams; digital humanities
Contribution to project: Contribution to database: Latin historiography, antiquarianism
Personal Focus: Ph.D. on antiquarianism in late antiquity, focusing on the works of John the Lydian, John Malalas and Cassiodorus
More info and bibliography: RUG, Academia.edu

Research Interests: Greek (and Latin) literature under the Roman empire; Socio-cultural History; Imperial rhetoric, epistolography, philosophy; Social network analysis
Contribution to project: Coordination of database; Greek historiography 300-600; Rhetoric and historiography in Late Antiquity
Personal focus: Libanius, Letters
More info and bibliography: UGent, Academia.Edu