Outputs (8)

Einhard and the Historia Augusta (2023)
Journal Article
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Einhard and the Historia Augusta. The Journal of Medieval Latin, 33, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JML.5.133612

In recent years, a consensus has begun to develop that Einhard had read the Historia Augusta and that he used it in his Vita Karoli magni. In particular, scholars have argued that he must have drawn the rare word dicaculus from the text. In this arti... Read More about Einhard and the Historia Augusta.

Earliest Western References to Islam (2023)
Book Chapter
Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Earliest Western References to Islam. In Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600-1500 (264-270). Bloomsbury Publishing

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (2023)
Book
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of his historical work. Though little regarded today, Victor is... Read More about The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor.

The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore (2023)
Journal Article
Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2023). The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore. Revue d'histoire des textes, 18, 409-416. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.rht.5.133022

This study brings together the evidence for the circulation of an important monument of early medieval scholarship, the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore, which Claudia Villa brilliantly attributed to Paul the Deacon in 1984. Starting from the Vallice... Read More about The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore.

Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpr... Read More about Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus.

The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta (2022)
Journal Article
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2022). The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta. Journal of Roman Studies, 112, 173-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/s007543582200034x

Lurking in the Historia Augusta’s life of the short-lived Emperor Carus is what appears to be a reference to the genuine contemporary poet Nemesianus and an extant work by him, the Cynegetica. Given the HA’s predilection for ‘bogus authors’, this is... Read More about The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta.

Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust (2022)
Journal Article
Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2022). Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust. Histos, 16, 1-27

This article examines the influence of Sallust on Hegesippus, the fourth-century historian and adaptor of Josephus (commonly referred to as pseudo-Hegesippus). Analysis of the structure of his work reveals that Hegesippus strove to write in five book... Read More about Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust.

'A Faraway Land of Which We Know Little'? Britain in the Politics of the Fourth-Century Empire (2021)
Book Chapter
Woudhuysen, G. (2021). 'A Faraway Land of Which We Know Little'? Britain in the Politics of the Fourth-Century Empire. In B. Ward-Perkins, R. Miles, & M. Hessérus (Eds.), Roman Britain in the Roman Empire (63-73). Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation