Peter Van Nuffelen
Having obtained his Ph.D. in Leuven (2003), Peter Van Nuffelen was first a post-doctoral research fellow and then a lecturer at the University of Exeter. Since 2009 he is a Research Professor at Ghent University. His research currently focuses on late antique history, literature and historiography, ancient religion, toleration and religious violence. He also has an interest in the re-assessment of modern social and political issues with ressources drawn from Antiquity. and in the history of Modern Greece. The monograph Rethinking the Gods. Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period was published with Cambridge University Press (2011), and a further monograph on Orosius (2012) with Oxford University Press. A book on late antique toleration is forthcoming (Penser la tolérance durant l'Antiquité tardive). Edited volumes on the reception of Antiquity (Peeters), episcopal elections (De Gruyter), the Melitian Schism (Collected papers of Hans Hauben, Ashgate), 4th century literature (Brill), competition and religion (Latomus) and late antique historiography (De Gruyter) have been published in recent years. A longer term project is the study of late antique historiography, for which he was awarded various grants, including an ERC consolidator grant (2013-2017). Since 2017 he is Korrespondierendes Mitglied des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich.
Address: Department of History
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, Office 120.008
9000 Ghent
Belgium
Address: Department of History
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, Office 120.008
9000 Ghent
Belgium
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