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The Julian romance : a full text and a new date Universiteit Gent
The Syriac Julian Romance, a tripartite fictional account of the reign of the Emperor Julian, was hitherto only partially known from two manuscripts. This article publishes the missing first section from Vat. Sir. 37, a section that narrates the death of Constantius II. The complete text allows us to demonstrate that the narrative was composed by a single author and that the tripartite structure does not reflect three older, separate texts. ...
Stepping out of the shadows : Italy in late antique historiography Universiteit Gent
True to their words : Theodore Lector and his predecessors Universiteit Gent
The chapter offers an inventory of the predecessors of Theodore Lector who composed ecclesiastical histories that overlapped with histories that had been written before. To that end, it edits the fragments of some fragmentary authors. Theodore does not stand out by relying on the accounts of his predecessors but by adopting their very words. It is suggested that this reflects the change in patristic culture whereby citations from acknowledged ...