Luise Marion Frenkel.

The goal is to analyse the communicative processes that enabled seventh-century Greek, Latin, Syriac and Coptic authors to employ the characterisation of violence, destruction, death and damnation consolidated in fourth- and fifth-century writings on Christian polemics to refer to (power) political, economic, administrative, cultural and religious processes, such as the Arab expansion, which are posed as threats, countering propaganda of peace and stability which had gained strength after the end of the Persian might.

The proposed research addresses the late-antique narrative resources used to present consensual and unanimous actions in processes of institutionalisation and individualisation in religious contexts, and the changes in the interpretation of the texts during their reception and transmission. My project aims to examine their sociohistorical framework and political function, especially in processes of institutionalisations of the past and of religious or political groups. The focus falls on fifth-century Greek sources which inaugurate the redaction and compilation of proceedings and codes as known in Roman Law and Christian Conciliar Studies. The project also follows the changes in the material and social ideas about codifications and compilations. It engages with theories on Christian and Roman identities, and their development and influence. For example, the seemingly similar proceedings of Christian synods and decision-making sessions of civil institutions in the Roman Empire and their cultural and historical significance will be analysed. Expanding previous work, in part pursued in conjunction with the Kolleg-Forschergruppe Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive (KFG) at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (MWK) during a three-months junior fellowship in 2015-16, the project advances the thesis that the written representations of unanimity and consensus are primarily literary creations which contributed tokens of authority to the discourse for which they were composed.

The project examines the contents, literary articulation and codicological presentation of dialogues and florilegia in which Cyrillian passages predominate. It analyses their contribution to anti-Nestorian invective in Greek, Syriac and Arabic literary communities, relating their reception to the concomitant composition of works in these intellectual cultures.

The proposed research addresses the late-antique narrative resources used to present consensual and unani-mous actions in processes of institutionalisation and individualisation in religious contexts, and the changes in the interpretation of the texts during their reception and transmission. My project aims to examine their sociohistorical framework and political function, especially in processes of institutionalisations of the past and of religious or political groups. The focus falls on fifth-century Greek sources which inaugurate the redaction and compilation of proceedings and codes as known in Roman Law and Christian Conciliar Studies. The project also follows the changes in the material and social ideas about codifications and compilations. It engages with theories on Christian and Roman identities, and their development and influence. For example, the seemingly similar proceedings of Christian synods and decision-making sessions of civil institutions in the Roman Empire and their cultural and historical significance will be analysed. Expanding previous work, in part pursued in conjunction with the Kolleg-Forschergruppe ?Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive? (KFG) at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (MWK) during a three-months junior fellowship in 2015-16, the project advances the thesis that the written representations of unanimity and consensus are primarily literary creations which con-tributed tokens of authority to the discourse for which they were composed.

O objeto da pesquisa são textos gregos do V século d.C. e suas traduções siríacas (V-VI d.C.) relacionados às polêmicas do reinado de Teodósio II. A finalidade é a edição crítica e comentada de manuscritos que preservam tratados e diálogos inéditos (publicação prevista na série CCSG, editora Brepols, Turnhout-BE).

Este projeto analisa as estratégia de comunicação tardo-antigas para a representação escrita de decisões unânimes. Questionando a relevância dos modelos elaborados nos últimos dois séculos a partir de um conjunto de fontes limitado, o projeto pretende mostrar que as semelhanças estruturais e argumentativas entre as atas e registros sinodais e senatoriais não resultaram de emulação (deliberada) ou imposição de práticas dos Senados (de Roma e de Constantinopla). Os resultados podem ser estendidos para as estratégias tardo-antigas de registro e reinterpretação de demonstrações coletivas de aprovação e desaprovação, e para seu uso na auto-representação de grupos e de seus membros em relação à identidade imperial e às diretrizes de religiões institucionalizadas.

O objeto da pesquisa são as cartas e discursos compostos na primeira metade do século V d.C. e, daí, transmitidos nas coleções gregas e latinas de documentos conciliares. A finalidade da pesquisa é o estudo dos efeitos retóricos na recepção dos textos, no qual se distinga a recepção imediata e posterior das obras e coleções, ou ainda, o "público original", a que o autor mesmo visou ao compor sua carta ou discurso, e o "público posterior", que o compilador teve em mente ao reunir as obras.

British Academy Research Development Award (BARDA) project

Inspired by recent developments in the social scientific study of rituals, we aim to focus on the ritualisation of a number of different aspects of social life. For, arguably, many social spheres or social phenomena (e.g. the economy, social hierarchies, political communities) could hardly function properly without the trust, legitimation or sense of collective identity provided and reinforced by public rituals.In addition to exploring ritual in a wider section of social phenomena than usual in Classics, the breadth of expertise within the centre (archaeology, social, economic, and cultural history) will allow us to expand the range of sources usually adduced. Specific attention will also be dedicated to comparative studies: the Roman Empire was a multicultural and multireligious society, and rituals in one part of the empire or among adherents of one religion should not be presumed to be identical.

The project?s principal goal is to gain a better understanding of the processes by which Christian identity was formed liturgically, especially as evidenced by sermons preached on the feasts of Ascension and Pentecost.

O projeto analisa da construção retórica da auto-representação de bispos e membros da administração imperial em cenários sinodais do quinto-século, em que os concílios lidam tanto com assuntos disciplinares como doutrinais. Estuda a veiculação oral e escrita de sermões, discursos e cartas para angariar apoio, reivindicar que as decisões eram unânimes e difamar oponentes como heterodoxos, excomungados ou corruptos. A pesquisa interdisciplinar histórica, teológica e literária de textos gregos, latinos e etiópicos, e arqueológica da evidência de recintos cristão em Éfeso no início do quinto século acrescenta uma nova dimensão às evidências para os estudos conciliares, que geralmente atem-se às minutas e aos documentos mencionados naquelas.

O projeto visa estender o Problema de Kendall, formulado para rolamentos de uma esfera sobre o plano, aos movimentos de uma esfera de raio 1, rolando sem escorregar e sem pivotar sobre geodésicas de uma esfera de raio maior que 1. Mais precisamente, busca determinar quantos movimentos desse tipo são necessários para levar posições prefixadas de referenciais ortonormais de um ponto a outro da esfera maior. Emprega-se para tanto resultados de Teoria de Controle, Cinemática do corpo rígido, Mecânica Hamiltoniana e Lagrangiana, Ângulos de Euler e Sistemas Dinâmicos.