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Originally practiced in Greek and Latin, the genre was adopted and modified by the new languages that enrich the late antique landscape, such as Syriac, Armenian and Arabic. The changing cultural and religious environment of the years 300 to 800 A.D. gave rise to new questions about time, reality, and language that would shape historical thinking in the Mediterranean for centuries to come.</p> <p>This website is dedicated to this fascinating genre in all its variety. It includes a <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/database/">database</a> offering a complete inventory of all late ancient works of history, editions of fragmentary texts, and detailed studies on specific histories and related texts. It covers works in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic and, to a lesser extent, Hebrew, Aramaic and Middle-Persian.</p> <p>The database was composed by the Research Group Late Antique Historiography, led by Peter Van Nuffelen and including ancient historians, classicists as well as oriental philologists. This website also offers information on the <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/team/">team</a>, the various research <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/projects/">projects</a> they conducted, and the <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/conferences/">conferences and events</a> they organized. Finally, the website also contains a list of <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/publications/">publications</a> on late antique historiography resulting from the various research projects.</p> <p>The Research Group was generously supported by the <a href="http://erc.europa.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Research Council</a>, the <a href="http://www.fwo.be/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research Foundation – Flanders</a>, and <a href="http://www.ugent.be/nl/onderzoek/financiering/bof" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ghent University Research Fund</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/logo-ugent.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-45" src="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LOGO-ERC-300x287.jpg" alt="LOGO-ERC" width="90" height="86" srcset="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LOGO-ERC-300x287.jpg 300w, https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LOGO-ERC.jpg 603w" sizes="(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px" /></a> <a href="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/logo-ugent.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-44" src="https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FWO_web_klein.png" alt="FWO_web_klein" width="114" height="70" /></a></p> </div> </article> </main> </div> </section> </section> </div> </div> <footer class="page-footer fluid-container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <div class="bg-primary padding-20"> <div class="mbottom-small border-bottom"> <div class="row flexbox"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-ms-6 col-md-3 pbottom-small"> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 pbottom-small branding-container"> <h2> <a href="https://www.ugent.be/en"><img class="svg" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/images/logo_lw_en.svg" alt="facultylogo"></a> </h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div id="socialbanner" class="container-share col-xs-12 col-sm-4"> <ul class="list-inline list-unstyled social"></ul> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-8"> <ul class="list-inline list-unstyled pull-right"> <li><a href = "https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-login.php">Log in</a></li> <li>2023 Ghent University</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/modernizr-custom.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/jquery-migrate.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/moment.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/locale/nl.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap-select.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/smooth-scroll.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/vendor/tocbot.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ugent-lw/huisstijl2016@2/static/js/main.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-content/themes/ugent2016/js/main.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://apps.flw.ugent.be/chta/media/js/default.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js'></script> </body> </html>

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