Compilations and excerpt collections of historiographical material in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: A workshop
Ghent, 24-25 March 2016
PROGRAMME
Supported by the European Research Council (ERC), the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University
Thursday 24 March
9.00-9:20: Opening – Peter Van Nuffelen and Emerance Delacenserie
Transformation of texts
9.20-10.00: A. Meeus (Mannheim/Leuven) - Compilation or Tradition? The Methods of Historians and Other Scholars in Antiquity
10.00-10.40: M. Stein (Düsseldorf) - Aus der Arbeit an den Kleinen und fragmentarischen Historikern der Spätantike
10.40-11.10 : coffee break
The West
11.10-11.50: R. McKitterick (Cambridge) - The ninth-century historiographical compilation in Leiden UB Voss, Lat. Q.20
11.50-12.30: E.M. Schoolman (Nevada) - Another Kind of Compilation: The Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum and the Organization of the Past in Ninth-Century Naples
12.30-13.00 : General discussion
13.00-14.00: lunch break
The Orient
14.00-14.40: M. Mazzola (Gent/Paris) - Syriac Renaissance Chronicles: a new compilation trend?
14.40-15.20: S. Rapp (Huntsville, Texas) - The Making of the ‘’Georgian Chronicles’’
15.20-15.50: coffee break
15.50-16.30: P. Pilette (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Compiling Christian and Muslim historiographical sources in Arabic: the case of the "History of the Churches and Monasteries of Egypt"
16.30-17.10: M. Romanov (Tufts/Leipzig) - Copy-Paste, Medieval Style: Computational Analysis of a 50-Volume Arabic Chronicle-cum-Biographical Collection From the 14th Century
17.10-17.40: General discussion
19.30: Dinner
Friday 25 March
Byzantium
9.30.-10.10 : S. Mariev (München) - Πάντα ῥεῖ: the Protean Nature of the Corpus of John of Antioch
10.10-10.50 : L. Carrara (Heidelberg/Tübingen) - Excerpts from (christianized) pagan wisdom: the Tübingen Theosophy
10.50-11.20: coffee break
11.20-12.00 : P. Odorico (Paris) - Les recueils historiographiques à Byzance : un cas de sélection de textes raffinés (Wenxuan)?
12.00-12.30 General Discussion
12.30-13.30 : lunch break
Constantinian Excerpts
13.30.-14.10: A. Nemeth (Venice) -Technologies of the Excerpta Constantiniana Revisited: Production and Use
14.10-14.50: X. Agati – B. Campos – L. M. Ciolfi – M. Vukasinovic (Paris) - Quand la structure détermine le significat. Le cas du De legationibus de Constantin VII
14.50-15.20: coffee break
15.20-16.00: D. Rafiyenko (Leipzig)- Excerpta Constantiniana: Some aspects of an excerpt collection from the 10th century Byzantium
16.00-16.40: P. Manafis (Gent) The Excerpta Anonymi and the Constantinian Excerpts
16.40-17.10: General Discussion
19.30: Dinner
Everyone who wishes to attend the conference is kindly asked to register by writing to Emerance Delacenserie Emerance.Delacenserie@UGent.be (no registration fees required).