Lieve Van Hoof
Biographic Data
| ID | 1482919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lieve Van Hoof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lieve |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Hoof |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HOOF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiteit GentBelgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3592-7765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
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…
In cauda venenum
Ever since the appearance of Foerster’s acclaimed edition of Libanius’ letters, scholars have asserted that Libanius’ letter collection consists of 1544 genuine items. This article shows that the end of Libanius’ letter collection as printed in Foerster is problematic. A return to the manuscripts, inspired by new philology as well as recent trends in the study of ancient epistolography, reduces the lacuna in book 1, corrects chronological and pro…
The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620)
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)
The Historiography of Crisis
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…
The omnimoda historia of Nummius Aemilianus Dexter
This article discusses two problems of interpretation in the entry on Dexter in Jerome's De viris illustribus (Hier. vir. ill.). In particular, it offers the first detailed discussion of the information we possess on Dexter's omnimoda historia, and suggests that it may have been a Latin translation and/or adaptation of the first part of the chronicle of Eusebius, the so-called chronography
Literature and society in the fourth century AD
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
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 …
Libanius
The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century ad
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…
Self-Censorship and Self-Fashioning
Zelfcensuur en zelfpresentatie : Lacunes in Libanius’ Briefcollectie. De brieven van Libanius dateren uit de jaren 355 tot 365 enerzijds, en 388 tot 393 anderzijds. Sinds de zestiger jaren wordt het ontbreken van brieven uit de tussenliggende jaren verklaard als een act van zelfcensuur : Libanius zou zijn briefarchief onderbroken hebben uit angst voor vijandige keizers. Dit artikel stelt een nieuwe interpretatie voor. In de eerste twee secties wo…
Performing Paideia
Paideia – i.e. Greek culture, comprising, amongst other things, language, literature, philosophy and medicine – was a constituent component of the social identity of the elite of the Roman empire: as a number of influential studies on the Second Sophistic have recently shown, leading members of society presented themselves as such by their possession and deployment of cultural capital, for example by performing oratory, writing philosophy or show…
Monarchy and Mass Communication
The a.d. 362/3 crisis in Antioch is usually interpreted as an economic or ideological crisis, and Julian's Misopogon as a ‘festive satire’ or ‘edict of chastisement’. This article situates the root of the problem in a crisis of communication: Julian's failure to communicate publicly as expected in a situation that was tense because of the food shortage led to a short-circuit between emperor and subjects. Whilst the Misopogon is Julian's extraordi…
Plutarch's Practical Ethics
The Second Sophistic was a time of intense competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman Empire. This book studies Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. According to Plutarch (c. AD 45–120), the key for a happy life lies wit…
Greek rhetoric and the later Roman empire. The bubble of the ‘third sophistic’
Longtemps négligée, la rhétorique tardo-antique fait maintenant l’objet d’un nombre croissant d’études. Pour mieux marquer cette revalorisation, on a introduit la dénomination de “Troisième Sophistique”. Le présent article entend démontrer que ce syntagme reste problématique: faute de s’accorder sur son signifié précis, les caractéristiques qui lui sont attribuées font l’objet d’une discussion constante. En particulier, le rapport entre la “Trois…
Plutarch's practical ethics
Greek rhetoric and the later Roman empire. The bubble of the ‘third sophistic’
Longtemps négligée, la rhétorique tardo-antique fait maintenant l’objet d’un nombre croissant d’études. Pour mieux marquer cette revalorisation, on a introduit la dénomination de “Troisième Sophistique”. Le présent article entend démontrer que ce syntagme reste problématique: faute de s’accorder sur son signifié précis, les caractéristiques qui lui sont attribuées font l’objet d’une discussion constante. En particulier, le rapport entre la “Trois…
Monarchy and Mass Communication
The a.d. 362/3 crisis in Antioch is usually interpreted as an economic or ideological crisis, and Julian's Misopogon as a ‘festive satire’ or ‘edict of chastisement’. This article situates the root of the problem in a crisis of communication: Julian's failure to communicate publicly as expected in a situation that was tense because of the food shortage led to a short-circuit between emperor and subjects. Whilst the Misopogon is Julian's extraordi…
Performing Paideia
Paideia – i.e. Greek culture, comprising, amongst other things, language, literature, philosophy and medicine – was a constituent component of the social identity of the elite of the Roman empire: as a number of influential studies on the Second Sophistic have recently shown, leading members of society presented themselves as such by their possession and deployment of cultural capital, for example by performing oratory, writing philosophy or show…
The omnimoda historia of Nummius Aemilianus Dexter
This article discusses two problems of interpretation in the entry on Dexter in Jerome's De viris illustribus (Hier. vir. ill.). In particular, it offers the first detailed discussion of the information we possess on Dexter's omnimoda historia, and suggests that it may have been a Latin translation and/or adaptation of the first part of the chronicle of Eusebius, the so-called chronography
Plutarch's Practical Ethics
The Second Sophistic was a time of intense competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman Empire. This book studies Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. According to Plutarch (c. AD 45–120), the key for a happy life lies wit…
Greek rhetoric and the later Roman empire. The bubble of the ‘third sophistic’
Longtemps négligée, la rhétorique tardo-antique fait maintenant l’objet d’un nombre croissant d’études. Pour mieux marquer cette revalorisation, on a introduit la dénomination de “Troisième Sophistique”. Le présent article entend démontrer que ce syntagme reste problématique: faute de s’accorder sur son signifié précis, les caractéristiques qui lui sont attribuées font l’objet d’une discussion constante. En particulier, le rapport entre la “Trois…
Plutarch's practical ethics
Monarchy and Mass Communication
The a.d. 362/3 crisis in Antioch is usually interpreted as an economic or ideological crisis, and Julian's Misopogon as a ‘festive satire’ or ‘edict of chastisement’. This article situates the root of the problem in a crisis of communication: Julian's failure to communicate publicly as expected in a situation that was tense because of the food shortage led to a short-circuit between emperor and subjects. Whilst the Misopogon is Julian's extraordi…
Performing Paideia
Paideia – i.e. Greek culture, comprising, amongst other things, language, literature, philosophy and medicine – was a constituent component of the social identity of the elite of the Roman empire: as a number of influential studies on the Second Sophistic have recently shown, leading members of society presented themselves as such by their possession and deployment of cultural capital, for example by performing oratory, writing philosophy or show…
Libanius
The Social Role and Place of Literature in the Fourth Century ad
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…
Self-Censorship and Self-Fashioning
Zelfcensuur en zelfpresentatie : Lacunes in Libanius’ Briefcollectie. De brieven van Libanius dateren uit de jaren 355 tot 365 enerzijds, en 388 tot 393 anderzijds. Sinds de zestiger jaren wordt het ontbreken van brieven uit de tussenliggende jaren verklaard als een act van zelfcensuur : Libanius zou zijn briefarchief onderbroken hebben uit angst voor vijandige keizers. Dit artikel stelt een nieuwe interpretatie voor. In de eerste twee secties wo…
Literature and society in the fourth century AD
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
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 …
The Historiography of Crisis
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…
The omnimoda historia of Nummius Aemilianus Dexter
This article discusses two problems of interpretation in the entry on Dexter in Jerome's De viris illustribus (Hier. vir. ill.). In particular, it offers the first detailed discussion of the information we possess on Dexter's omnimoda historia, and suggests that it may have been a Latin translation and/or adaptation of the first part of the chronicle of Eusebius, the so-called chronography
The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620)
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)
In cauda venenum
Ever since the appearance of Foerster’s acclaimed edition of Libanius’ letters, scholars have asserted that Libanius’ letter collection consists of 1544 genuine items. This article shows that the end of Libanius’ letter collection as printed in Foerster is problematic. A return to the manuscripts, inspired by new philology as well as recent trends in the study of ancient epistolography, reduces the lacuna in book 1, corrects chronological and pro…
The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
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…
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