Self-Fashioning in Late-Antique Epistolary Corpora (FWF-Projekt)

Madalina Toca’s FWF Lise Meitner project "Self-Fashioning in Late-Antique Epistolary Corpora" (M 3270) draws on the recent shift in the field from considering ancient epistolary corpora as sources for mining historical data, towards giving them due as complex literary works with intricate aims that ultimately project a carefully mediated image of the author and his context. Focusing on Isidore of Pelusium, she studies his self-presentation in relation to his networking strategies and the very construction of his epistolary corpus. She is also preparing a critical edition of a sample of letters from the corpus.