IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 223: The Lost Latin Historiography of Late Antiquity

Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	National Science Centre Poland Project 'The Missing Link: The Lost Latin Historiography of the Later Roman Empire (3rd-5th Centuries)'
Organisers:	Paweł Janiszewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski Aleksander Paradziński, Institute of History, University of Warsaw
Moderator/Chair:	Salvatore Liccardo, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 223-a	Marius Maximus and the Tradition of Biographies on Roman Emperors: From Anecdota to the Historia Augusta (Language: English) Chiara Battisti, Department of Classics, Princeton University Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 223-b	Lost Sources on 5th-Century Civil Wars (Language: English) Marzia Fiorentini, Centre for Late Antique Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 223-c	The Identity of Sulpicius Alexander: A Soldier Historian? (Language: English) Aleksander Paradziński, Institute of History, University of Warsaw Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Military History
Abstract	This session is going to explore the issues of transmission, historiographic significance, intertextual relationships and authorship of lost and fragmentary preserved history works composed in Latin in the Later Roman Empire. Chiara Battisti's paper is devoted to re-examining the fragmentary material of imperial biographies by Marius Maximus found in Historia Augusta, considering methodological pitfalls of such studies and problems of circulation of 'popular' opinions on imperial figures. Marzia Fiorentini intends to discuss the relationship between Gallic chronicles and lost works of Sulpicius Alexander and Renatus Frigeridus and how authors' political perspectives shaped these. Aleksander Paradziński is going to investigate the identity of Sulpicius Alexander and its wider implications for the Late Antique phenomenon of soldier historians.