"Generative Authority" | FWF Start Award 2024Publications | Talks | The seminar
The GenAut online seminar
- The main hub for interacting with adjacent projects and for outreach is the online research seminar. Started in May 2025 with invited papers on GenAut characters in various traditions, it runs for the duration of the project and is open to all.
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Publications | Talks | The seminar
Talks
Coming up:
- Maria S. Thomas, “Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem,” in the TeTra: Text and Transmission Research Seminar (online), Vienna, 26 February 2026.
- Dan Batovici, “Between genres: secondary early Christian characters in apocryphal, hagiographic, and other literature,” at the annual conference of the Association pour l’Etude de la Littérature Apocryphe Chrétienne (AELAC), 25-27 June 2026.
- “The Followers of the Apostles in Byzantium” session at the 25 international Congress of Byzantine Studies, Vienna, 24–29 August 2026 (convenors Dan Batovici and Maria S. Thomas):
- Madalina Toca, “Secondary Early Christian Figures in Late Antique Historians”
- Maria S. Thomas, “‘One among the apostles’: A Syriac Mary Magdalene from twelfth-century Jerusalem”
- Armine Melkonyan, “The Armenian Life of Mary Magdalene”
- Andy Hilkens, “Apostolic daughter, physician and prophetess: the early Christian martyr Hermione in the Armenian tradition”
- Dan Batovici, “The Polycarp Hagiographic Dossier Once Again”
2025
- Maria S. Thomas, “Dionysius Bar Salibi and the Theology of Images: Insights from a Newly Identified Discourse,” | Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike (hybrid), Vienna, 12 November 2025.
- Dan Batovici, “Notes on the Armenian Translation of the Martyrdom of Polycarp,” in the Patristic Heritage in Eastern Christianity workshop, Padova, 27 October, 2025.
- Dan Batovici, “Characters, Authors, and Idealised Early Christianities in Late Antiquity (and Beyond)” | Lecture at the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, CEU Vienna, 2 October 2025.
- Maria S. Thomas, “Mary Magdalene in Twelfth-Century Syriac Fenqitho Manuscripts from Jerusalem,” in the GenAut Project online seminar, Vienna, 24 June 2025. [Recording here]
- Dan Batovici, “Author and Character: Following Hermas across Manuscript Traditions,” in the Books of Faith: Religious Manuscripts Colloquium, Innsbruck, 2-3 May 2025.
- Dan Batovici, “Crossing the Mediterranean: Notes on the Career of Clement of Rome in the Medieval East,” in the Migration and Religion Workshop, Leuven, 24–25 March 2025.
- Dan Batovici, “Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters around the Eastern Mediterranean Space” | Online talk for the lectures series of the Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies, 28 January 2025.
- Dan Batovici, “The Greek Biblical Pandects of the Fourth and Fifth Century and Their Scriptoria,” in the workshop Spaces of Book Production and Scribal Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, 16-17 January 2025.
2024
- Dan Batovici, “The Literary Career of Polycarp of Smyrna as a Character” | Gesprächskreis zum christlichen Diskurs im Mittelmeerraum bis zum Ausklang der Spätantike (hybrid), Vienna, 19 December 2024.
- Dan Batovici, “At One Remove: Building a Literary Network around the Mediterranean” | Guest lecture at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut – Neulateinische Studien, University of Innsbruck, 5 November 2024.
Publications | Talks | The seminar
Publications
2025
- Dan Batovici, “Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1Clement in the Sequence of the Liturgical Cycle of Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1700,” in D. du Toit, J.N. Cerone, K. Hager (eds.), 1 Clement as an Argumentative Text (NovTSupp 196; Leiden: Brill, 2026), 296–316.
- Dan Batovici, The Shepherd of Hermas in Late Antiquity (Texts and Studies 32; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2025). In press.
- Dan Batovici, “Layered Authorship in Ignatius of Antioch’s Epistolary Corpora,” Early Christianity 16.1 (2025): 24–41.
- Dan Batovici, Andy Hilkens, Mina Monier, and Marion Pragt, “The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext,” Early Christianity 16.2 (2025) 225-239 — an overview for the “New Projects” section of the journal:
