Education and Religion in Christian Libraries in Late Antiquity (A02)

• Subject Area: Greek and Latin Philology
• Term: from 2015 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 244798977

The project investigates the interactions of education and religion in the case of several important early Christian libraries; continuities and discontinuities vis-à-vis their non-Christian predecessors will be documented by a comprehensive coverage of the relevant literary and archaeological evidence. Three paradigmatic cases will be studied: 1. the establishment of the school and library of Origen in Caesarea; 2. the transformation of the Bibliotheca Pacis (Rome) into the ecclesiastical building complex St. Cosmas and Damian; 3. the establishment of the (library and educational institution) Vivarium of Cassiodorus in Calabria.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1136: Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath