Danubius

Available

 * https://danubius.huma-num.fr

Editor

 * Dominic Moreau

Description
The Danubius Project intends to study the Christianisation of the Lower Danube over a very long period, between the 3rd and the 8th centuries AD. One of its work packages was conceived in order to offer a first historical interpretation of the sources collated in its archaeological and epigraphic database, through the compilation of a Christian prosopography of the Lower Danube. As the very first phase of a complete Christian prosopography of the Balkan Late Roman provinces, that part of the project also constitute the foundation for a historical study of the ancient ecclesiastical organisation in the region. The results will be produced in two formats. First, a computer database is planned for the period between the 3rd century and 787 (the year of the Second Council of Nicea, which is the last known event during which clerics of this territory attended as members of the Byzantine ecclesiastical hierarchy). Second, a printed edition will be derived from that database. It will stop in the year 641. That printed version will be part of the Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire (PCBE) series.