Peter Van Nuffelen

Biographic Data

ID1341639
NAMEPeter Van Nuffelen
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEVan Nuffelen
SIGNATUREVAN NUFFELEN P
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT10
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Belief in Greek and Roman Religion

    Open AccessJohn Cottingham, Peter Harrison et al.BOOKBelief in Greek and Roman Religion2026

    For the Greeks and Romans, the world was full of gods, but this fundamental aspect of their experience poses major challenges to modern understanding. The concept of belief has been central to meeting those challenges but has itself been hotly debated, and has at times even been rejected as a supposedly Christianising anachronism. Others, meanwhile, have argued that a culture-neutral model of belief is both possible and essential, while the adven…

  • The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius

    Open AccessMaria Conterno, Lorenzo Focanti et al.BOOKThe Fragmentary Greek Chronicles…2025

    This is the first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles from the period AD 350–650 and provides an edition and translation of and commentary on the fragments. Introducing neglected authors and proposing new interpretations, it reveals the diversity of the genre and revises traditional views about its development, nuancing in particular the role usually attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea. It shows how the writing of chr…

  • Performing Justice in the Later Roman Empire

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenBOOKPerforming Justice in the Later…2025

    In the Later Roman Empire (AD 300–650), power seems to manifest itself mostly through legislation, bureaucracy, and an increasingly distant emperor. This book focuses instead on personal interaction as crucial to the exercise of power. It studies four social practices (petitions, parrhesia, intercession, and collective action) to show how they are much more dynamic than often assumed. These practices were guided by strong expectations of justice,…

  • Iudicia Dei . Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2025References: 5

    Natural calamities, such as earthquakes and plagues, are one of the misera that form the subject matter of the Histories of Orosius. This article makes three points. First, through a range of rhetorical means, Orosius suggests that the common interpretation of his day, that natural disasters are divine retribution for mankind’s sins, is also applicable to man-made disasters: the sins of a society produce warfare and murder, which also are divine …

  • Francesco Massa, Les Cultes à mystères dans l’Empire romain. Païens et chrétiens en compétition

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenARTICLEKernos2024

  • Jordanes

    Peter Van NuffelenARTICLEActa Archaeologica Academiae…2021

  • The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620)

    Open AccessLieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenBOOKFragmentary Latin Histories of…2020

    The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300–620, this volume provides an edition and translation of, and commentary on, the fragments. It proposes new interpretations of the fragments and of the works from which they derive, whilst also spelling out what the fragments add to our knowledge of Late Antiquity. Integrating the fragmentary material with the texts preserved in full, the volume suggests new way…

  • Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620)

    Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenBOOKFragmentary Latin Histories of…2020

  • Religious Violence in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenCHAPTERCambridge World History of Violence2020

    This chapter starts by locating the common association of religious violence with Christianity and late antiquity in a Protestant polemic which was further developed by the Enlightenment. New approaches have started to question this master narrative, however, by highlighting the limited number of temple destructions and other paradigmatic acts of religious violence, contextualising religious violence within the prominent role played by violence i…

  • Hans C. Teitler. The last pagan emperor

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenARTICLEByzantinische Zeitschrift2020

    Article Hans C. Teitler. The last pagan emperor: Julian the Apostate and the war against Christianity, bespr. was published on August 1, 2020 in the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift (volume 113, issue 3)

  • Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessHistoriography and Space in Late Antiquity Gent, Peter Van NuffelenBOOKHistoriography and Space in Late…2019

    The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire. This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period. Minds adapt…

  • Un poète arménien à Gand – cent ans après

    Peter Van Nuffelen, Simon PayaslianARTICLERevue belge de philologie et d…2019

    Le but du dossier est, d’abord, d’étudier, à travers le prisme du poète arménien Daniel Varoujan, étudiant à Gand de 1905 à 1909, les échanges entre la Belgique et l’Empire ottoman et les expériences d’étudiants provenant de cette région à Gand. Ainsi des études sur des étudiant étrangers (P. De Messemaeker et C. Verbruggen) mais aussi l’attitude de l’opinion publique belge vis-à-vis la question arménienne (H. Alloul et H. De Smaele) sont incluse…

  • Collatio Carthaginensis anni 411

    Peter Van NuffelenARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2019

  • Abrahams Aufbruch

    Open AccessLutz Doering, Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath et al.BOOKAbrahams Aufbruch2017

    Philons Schrift De Migratione Abrahami ist ein allegorischer Kommentar zu Gen 12. Der Auszug Abrahams aus seiner chaldäischen Heimat wird von Philon allegorisch auf den Auszug der Seele aus der Sinnenwelt und ihre Rückkehr zu Gott gedeutet. Die vorliegende Ausgabe bietet neben einer ausführlichen Einführung in Leben und Denken des alexandrinischen Religionsphilosophen den Text mit Übersetzung und erläuternden Anmerkungen. Kommentierende Essays au…

  • The Poetics of Christian History in Late Antiquity

    Peter Van NuffelenCHAPTERStudia Patristica. Vol. XCII -…2017

  • The wor(l)ds of Procopius 1

    Peter Van NuffelenCHAPTERProcopius of Caesarea2017

    This chapter proposes, by contrast, that the problematic transition from world to word is an explicit theme of his narrative. It argues that this work reflects upon its own use of language and what it means to represent a shifting world with words that are themselves subject to change. This reflection is entangled in an even more fundamental discussion about language as man's medium to connect with reality and to exercise control over it, whilst …

  • The Historiography of Crisis

    Open AccessLieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenARTICLEThe Journal of Roman Studies2017References: 39

    This article presents a new interpretation of the historiographical production of Jordanes by situating it in the political and social environment of Constantinople of the years 550–552. It argues that these years were a period of crisis in Justinian's reign and that this is reflected in the pessimistic view of Roman power and the critique of Justinian's military and religious policy we can see in Jordanes’ Romana . If this prevents us from under…

  • Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

    Open AccessBarbara Graziosi, Renaud Gagné et al.BOOKTheologies of Ancient Greek…2016

    Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to re…

  • Jan-Markus Kötter. Zwischen Kaisern und Aposteln

    Peter Van NuffelenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    The Acacian Schism pitted the see of Rome against that of Constantinople for more than three decades (484–519). The schism started when Acacius of Constantinople accepted the so-called Henotikon of the Emperor Zeno, which sought to reunite the churches after the Council of Chalcedon. To Rome it meant a dangerous devaluation of the Fourth Ecumenical Council and the acceptance of heretics as orthodox. The schism ended with a compromise: Constantino…

  • Imperial Identities in the Roman World

    Arjan Zuiderhoek, Wouter Vanacker et al.BOOKImperial Identities in the Roman…2016Cited by: 9

    Die Ideologie des römischen Kriegerstaates der Republik mit ihren Werten Tapferkeit, Härte etc. wurde auch in der Kaiserzeit weiterhin gepflegt, obwohl die Bevölkerung, im besonderen die der Hauptstadt Rom, mit Kriegführung und Kämpfen nicht länger mehr in Berührung kam. Die ludi mit Gladiatorenkämpfen, Tierhetzen und grausamen öffentlichen Hinrichtungen, mit ihrer ritualisierten Gewalt und Abschlachtung von Menschen und Tieren, dienten der Manif…

  • Literature and society in the fourth century AD

    Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenBOOKLiterature and Society in the…2015

    Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadowed by bishops. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD argues that this presumed difference should be attributed less to a fundamental change …

  • Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD

    Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenBOOKLiterature and Society in the…2015

    Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadowed by bishops. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD argues that this presumed difference should be attributed less to a fundamental change …

  • Not Much Happened

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenARTICLEThe Journal of Roman Studies2015Cited by: 3References: 1

    Even in these unclassical times, the sack of Rome by the Goths in a.d . 410 remains entrenched in Western collective memory as a ‘key date’ in history. For a scholarly audience, its sixteen-hundreth anniversary in 2010 was commemorated by no fewer than three conferences in Rome. The resulting volumes illustrate the ambivalent relationship historical scholarship entertains with commemoration. While the conferences draw their appeal from the constr…

  • Not the last pagan

    Open AccessPeter Van NuffelenCHAPTERLibanius2014

    Introduction The religious history of the fourth century used to be understood in terms of a conflict between paganism and Christianity, with the former resisting the irresistible progress of the latter. As one of the major representatives of Greek culture in the fourth century, Libanius has often been interpreted in this light. Indeed, several of his works seem to substantiate such a view. His thirtieth oration To the Emperor Theodosius for the …

  • The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century ad

    Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van NuffelenCHAPTER2014

    This chapter focuses on one specific issue, namely the social role of literature and explores how literature functioned within fourth-century society. First, the question of the social function of literature cuts across some of the traditional oppositions with which scholarship has tended to approach late antique literature. Without wishing to claim that it does justice to every piece of scholarship, the chapter suggests that three main narrative…