Batovici, Dan
ERC Consolidator Grant for the CLAIM research project
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The CLAIM Project “Secondary Pseudepigraphy” tackles – across five manuscript cultures around the Mediterranean space – the intricate literary network of works attributed to secondary figures of the earliest Christianity that are styled as companions, followers, or otherwise interlocutors of main apostolic figures.
From early late antiquity through late middle ages, authors have published their works placing them under the name of such figures, in a variety of genres: epistolary works (Ignatius of Antioch, Dionysius the Areopagite, and also Seneca), full-scale theological tracts (famously, Dionysius the Areopagite), ecclesiastical canons (mainly Clement of Rome, but occasionally also Ignatius of Antioch), as well as important apocryphal works (under the pen-name of Clement of Rome, Prochorus, Onesimus of Byzantium, Evodius of Rome, or Linus of Rome).
A complex investigation in the reception of idealised early Christianities, the CLAIM project will study over the next five years the production and adaptation of this literary network in Greek, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, and Armenian manuscripts and their contexts, and the peculiar type of secondary pseudepigraphy that sustains it.