Connected Philology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transcultural Encounters

Connected Philology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transcultural Encounters

Edited by: Korinna Gonschorek , Marco Pouget , Luis Schäfer and Nikola Wenner

In collaboration with: Emanuele Ciarrocchi , Simon Haffner , Enbo Hu , Matthias Knallinger , Jonas Müller , Ophelia Norris , Elisabeth Seidel   and   Bastian Jürgen Wagner 

Even though the similarities of philological methods and traditions across various cultures have been the subject of scholarly research, the reasons for these occurrences usually remain obscure. The present volume addresses this obscurity through introducing the concept of 'Connected Philology' from an interdisciplinary perspective. 'Connected Philology' explores underlying causes for similarities in philological practices: in the process of re-textualisation, written and oral traditions are translated, reformulated, and combined; the contact with foreign cultures leads to the expression of unfamiliar concepts in other languages, and the reconceptualisation of word meanings. In addition, such practices are understood in the context of an interplay between politics, society, and individual actors. The contributions focus on transcultural encounters, the subsequent movement of texts, processes of cultural transfer, as well as the history and politics of connected and connecting philology.
Connected Philology transcends both national and disciplinary boundaries within philology and establishes connections with history, cultural studies, and linguistics.  

of cultural transfer, as well as the history and politics of connected and connecting philology.
Connected Philology transcends both national and disciplinary boundaries within philology and establishes connections with history, cultural studies, and linguistics.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111432861

eBook ISBN: 9783111432861

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111366753

Keywords for this book

Philology; transculturality; methodology of Humanties; cultural connectivity

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars and students of all philologies, cultural studies, linguistics, history

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Frontmatter

Open Access

	I
Preface Open Access

	V
Contents Open Access

	VII
Frontmatter Open Access

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Connected Philology: Introduction Marco Pouget and Luis Schäfer Open Access

	1
Single Words in Cultural Transfer Processes
Himalayan Encounters Philological Practices in Reading Orazio della Penna’s (1680–1745) Tibetan-Italian-Tibetan Dictionary Federica Venturi Open Access

	19
Scriptio Buddhica, Interpretatio Islamica Buddhist Sūtras and Cultural Translation in Rašīd al-Dīn’s Ǧāmiʿ al-tawārīḫ Chia-Wei Lin Open Access

	49
The Reciprocity of Paul’s Identity Formation An Analysis of Gal 3:28 through the Lens of Cultural Transfer Jonas Müller Open Access

	79
Textual Networks and Transcultural Encounters
Tracing Transregional Connections through References to Sanskrit Texts in the Śaiva Old Javanese Literature from Java and Bali Andrea Acri Open Access

	99
Making Sense of the Other: Reading and Contextualising Xuanzang’s Representation of India Max Deeg Open Access

	133
Imagining Male Fairies in European Literature of the Middle Ages Korinna Gonschorek Open Access

	151
History and Politics of Connected and Connecting Philology
Connecting Two Assyrian Dictionary Projects (1930–1935): James Henry Breasted and Bruno Meissner Nikola Wenner Open Access

	185
Clandestine Resistance Literature as the Literature of Trauma Natalia Kamovnikova Open Access

	215
Transformation through Translation: The Introduction of Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre into the Turkish Theatrical System Mert Moralı Open Access

	233
Afterword Christian Høgel Open Access

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List of Contributors Licensed
Index Licensed

 

The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity

The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity

by Susanna Elm (Author)

In this book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As she shows, the so-called eastern decadence of the Emperor Theodosius and his successors was in fact a calculated revolution in masculinity and the representation of imperial power. Here, the emperor's hard yet soft, mature yet youthfully gorgeous beauty was central. Because the Theodosian emperors were divine—gods one could see—so was their beauty: their manliness was the face and body of God. The emperors' gorgeousness, their sparkling regalia, how they wished their bodies to be seen by their elite subjects—who authored the texts on which Elm's analysis is based—were as important as laws, taxes, and armies. Their vir-ness strategically deployed male same-sex erotic desire to enhance the unity of the realm in times of tension, incorporate the signifying potency of child emperors, and create a flexible yet stable model of Christian sovereignty.

Publication Date: Nov 2025

Edition: 1st Edition

Title Details:

Rights: World

Pages: 338

ISBN: 9780520413344

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Illustrations: 19 color figures, 1 b/w figure

Series:

• Transformation of the Classical Heritage

Contents
 
Preface
Abbreviations
 
Introduction
 
Part I. Forever Young: Theodosius and Honorius in the 380s and 390s
1. Civil War Triumphs and Delicate Men: Pacatus's Panegyric for Theodosius
2. The Importance of Being Splendid: Beauty, Desire, and Child-Emperor Rule
3. Top Boys: The Life of Heliogabalus in the Historia Augusta
4. Epic Warriors and Imperial Father (Figure)s: Claudian's Panegyrics on the Consulships of Honorius and Stilicho
5. Love of Mankind: Theodosius in Constantinople
 
Part II. Soft Power: Arcadius and Eutropius in Constantinople, 399
6. Eutropius the Consul, Eutropius the Eunuch: Claudian's Palimpsest Against Eutropius
7. Eutropius the Scythian, Arcadius the Jellyfish: Synesius's On Kingship
8. The Adornment of the Altar: John Chrysostom on the Fallen Eutropius
 
Conclusion
 
References
Index

 

 

 

New on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz

New on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz

Thousands of new texts on TLH^dig

The TLH^dig online text corpus has been supplemented by the transliterations of thousands of texts. These include ca. 1350 fragments rediscovered in the museum in Boğazköy in August 2025 (EBo 73–1446) as well as texts recently published in DAAM 3 (Ş. Bozgun) and DAAM 4 (S. Çilingir Cesur). In addition, most of the published texts still missing in TLH^dig – Beta Version 0.2 have now been included in the recent update to Version 0.3. This brings TLH^dig closer to its goal of providing digital transliterations of all available Hittite texts. The entire TLH^dig XML dataset is available for download (for more information, see here).

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Ένα νέο έργο του Ζωγράφου της Ερέτριας

H Πυξίδα του «Μουσαίου» από το Κυνόσαργες: Ένα νέο έργο του Ζωγράφου της Ερέτριας

Theodore Eliopoulos

 

In dieser Monographie wird ein bedeutender Neufund der attischen Vasenmalerei veröffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine rotfigurige Pyxis vom Typ A aus den Jahren 430-425 v. Chr., die in einer Opferrinne auf dem Athener Kynosarges-Friedhof gefunden wurde. Die Vase trägt eine hervorragend erhaltene Darstellung des Barden Mousaios und der Neun Musen. Alle zehn Figuren sind durch aufgemalte Inschriften gekennzeichnet. Die Vase lässt sich durch eine erschöpfende Analyse als ein Werk aus der Zeit des Höhepunkts des Eretria-Malers bestimmen. 

Lizenz

Urheberrechtsschutz

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1548

ISBN 978-3-96929-404-8 (PDF)

ISBN 978-3-96929-405-5 (Hardcover)

Veröffentlicht

03.12.2025 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Seiten

PDF

Titelei

Περιεχόμενα

5-6

Κατάλογος εικόνων

7-11

Πρόλογος

13

Εισαγωγή

15

1 Χώρος εύρεσης

17

2 Περιγραφή

19-30

3 Απόδοση και χρονολόγηση

31-32

4 Το σχήμα

33-37

5 Η γραμμική διακόσμηση

39-46

6 Οι τεχνικές

47-48

7 Εικονογραφία

49-65

8 Επιμέρους εικονογραφικά στοιχεία

67-112

9 Οι επιγραφές

113-128

10 Παραστάσεις Μουσών – Ο μουσικός αγώνας τους με τον Θάμυρη – Ο Μουσαίος υπό τύπον Θάμυρη

129-144

11 Συγκεφαλαίωση

145-146

Παράρτημα: Κατάλογος αγγείων

147-161

Συντομογραφίες

163

Βιβλιογραφία

165-177

Ευρετήρια αγγείων

179-226

Ευρετήριο χωρίων

227-229

Πίνακες

231-263

Summary

265-268

Zusammenfassung

269-272