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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And of course her book, only just published from her Ghent PhD, which you can find here in open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out her other articles, published as a PhD candidate, in JEastCS and Le Muséon (actually huge pieces!)

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In Konat 1.239, in a gap left empty on the top of second column on fol. 6r, there is a transfer-sticker representing a mounted knight in full armour holding a jousting lance.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Strange paragraphs to write: "In JRL Syr. 10, in the left margin of fol. 304r, aligned to the top of the column, there is a transfer-sticker representing an anthropomorphic green frog dressed as a medieval soldier with breastplate, sword, and chainmail head protection, topped by a feathered hat. 1/

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is great news for late antiquity: top journal turns full Open Access. Way to go, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum! More info here: www.degruyterbrill.com/.../10.../za...

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century! Basically, new apocryphon just dropped. You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Meet our team! Starting next month: Christoph Scheerer The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=37

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I suppose this is the first to come to mind (from a facebook post here: www.facebook.com/share/17cx9V...).

A dried out pigeon in an old nest atop of a group of even older books.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The 2025 GenAut FWF START project seminar is completed! Excellent group of papers, check them out. The 2026 series, on GenAut figures in cultic contexts, is curated by Maria S. Thomas (info soon). Recordings: youtube.com/@receptionmatters The 2025 programme: genaut.univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Bit of news here: genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1595 @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here you go; no scaffolding yesterday.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Got my contributor's copy of the volume. Many thanks to the editors for a really nice volume! ToC here: brill.com/display/titl...

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This piece is just out, part of this volume: brill.com/display/title/70849 Happy to send a pdf out to anyone interested.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at ‪@dekayra.bsky.social‬

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Meet our postdocs: Andy Hilkens The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Proofs time. Look out for a volume with Brill later this year on 1 Clement as an argumentative text.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025. Might be interesting for someone out there. vicas.univie.ac.at/

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

An overview of the project is now out in EC. www.academia.edu/129536859/Th... genaut.univie.ac.at/

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I recently gave a brief interview for Die Presse, the daily Viennese newspaper funded in 1848, about the FWF START GenAut Project. www.diepresse.com/19570423/spi... (no subscription:) www.academia.edu/129476597/In... @univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The online seminar of the GenAut Project is now live – open to all. With @dekayra.bsky.social @angelnarro.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @janetspittler.bsky.social off Bsky, and others. Do get in touch if you'd like to be added to our email list. genaut.univie.ac.at?page_id=671

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Four-year postdoc in Syriac studies in Vienna. Join my team in the FWF START Project "Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters," genaut.univie.ac.at/ Deadline June 1st. Happy to respond to any inquiries! @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This thematic issue on practices of authorship was just published, edited by Sabrina Inowlocki. Happy to send my piece to those interested. Thanks for including me in this, @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social!

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bit of an early announcement: a new online seminar will start in May, with papers on the followers of the apostles in various traditions, part of the GenAut project in Vienna. All are welcome! Programme to follow. More here: genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671 @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Got some proofs today. Keep an eye out for a nice thematic issue of EC on EC practices of authorship edited by @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social!

First page of a forthcoming article on "Layered Authorship in Ignatius of Antioch's Epistolary Corpora" in the journal Early Christianity.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

There are couple of layers in here, including a digital one on top. Is that a bird in the middle, of the lower script? Or more like a crown?

Detail from the manuscript Vat.gr. 1853 which is a palimpsest, with a crown like drawing around a letter in the lower script.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Visiting Fellowships in Leuven, if you were looking for one. They basically offer a travel subsidy and accommodation for 4-6 weeks. www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Is that an angry rabbit? Ambrosiana F 144 sup. fol. 117v.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ignatius of Antioch, as on a stool? It's the beginning of his Martyrdom. If Ignatius, it'd be an 'historiated' ε; if not, an 'anthropomorphic' – definitely 'inhabited' – initial. 'Gymnastic' only at a stretch. Vat. gr. 866, f. 195r. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.866

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Online this Tuesday, if that happens to be your thing. From the organisers: "You are warmly invited to the first SRSB online lecture of this year. Date: 28.01.2025, 11:00 (EET), on Zoom. To register, please send an email to contact@srsb.ro srsb.ro/events%22

From the organisers: "You are warmly invited to the first SRSB online lecture of this year.
Dan Batovici (University of Vienna) will talk about “The Followers of the Apostles as Characters around the Eastern Mediterranean Space.”
Date: 28.01.2025, 11:00 (EET), Zoom
To register, please send an email to contact@srsb.ro"

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What snaky animal is that? Vat. gr. 866, fol. 27r.

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Bit of an update/introduction: I recently relocated to Vienna from Leuven to start a 5-year team project on the followers of the apostles as literary characters, and I’m pretty thrilled to announce that it is all now in full swing! Check out the website: genaut.univie.ac.at/

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Quick visit to Innsbruck for a guest talk – it’s really pretty. Thanks to @krithemp.bsky.social for the invitation and to the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for hosting it! neolatin.lbg.ac.at/news/guest-t...

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