Institute of Ancient History

Maurits Sterk de Leeuw

Doctoral student

Contact

Hölderlinstr. 29, Room 111, 72074 Tübingen

49 / 7071 / 29 73172

maurits.de-leeuwspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours

  • by appointment

Power and Influence: Influencing Emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
since march 2017
doctoral student

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Power and Influence: Influencing Emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages": PhD student in charge of second sub-project (395-565 East)

2015-2017
Teacher of Classics

Gymnasium Felisenum and St. Ignatiusgymnasium (Netherlands)

2016-2017
Initial Teacher training Program Classics

University of Amsterdam

August 2013, 2015 and 2016
Teacher of Latin

Amsterdam Classics Summer School at the University of Amsterdam and Free University Amsterdam

2014-2015
MSt Greek and/or Latin languages and literature at the University of Oxford

thesis on Leonardo Bruni’s reception of Thucydides

2012-2014
MA (research) Classics and ancient civilizations

University of Amsterdam and Free University Amsterdam

2008-2012
BA Classics with minors in (Ancient) History

University of Amsterdam and University of Vienna (Erasmus exchange program)

Research

Research interests

  • processes of influence on (Eastern) Roman emperors in Late Antiquity
  • religion and politics in late antique Constantinople
  • Greek historiography
  • classical reception studies

Publications

Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes

  • ‘Plinius de Oudere in de S. Agostino’, in: Roma Aeterna 5.1, 2017, 70-82.
  • ‘Van de Egyptische zon tot de Romeinse hemelpoort’, in: Roma Aeterna 1.1, 2013, 25-27.

Reviews

  • review of: Nikki K. Rollason: Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature. London/New York: Routledge 2016. In: Plekos 20, 2018, 321–326.

Presented papers

Presented papers

  • 1-3 June 2018 ‘The Holy Man against the Emperor: Monastic Opposition in Late Antique Constantinople’, 18th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018): Power and (Op)position in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean World, University of Tartu (poster presentation)
  • 4-5 May 2018 ‘The Holy Man against the Emperor: Monastic Opposition in Late Antique Constantinople’, PhD Colloquium on Late Antiquity, University of Reading (poster presentation)
  • 15 September 2017 ‘Bribe or blessing? The legitimacy of ‘gifts’ as a resource for influence in the early fifth century Eastern Roman Empire’, 4th annual workshop of the Postgraduate & Early Careers Late Antiquity Network, Institute of Classical Studies, London
  • 13 June 2015 – ‘Thucydidean politics in Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People.’ Centuries of Original Latin (COOL) Colloquium, Corpus Christi College Oxford
  • 5 February 2015 – ‘Thucydides’s definition of civil war’ CRASIS Annual Master Class, University of Groningen
  • 19 December 2013 – Paper on Latin translations of Mussolini’s speeches and sayings at the Symposium on Fascist Latin Literature at Leiden University
  • 31 May 2013 – ‘Reception in the work of Laonikos Chalkokondyles.’ at the ‘OIKOS National Research School in Classics, the Netherlands, AiO/ReMa’ days, Ravenstein