Dr. Philip Richard Rance

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsClassical Philology,Ancient History
KeywordsAltertumswissenschaft, Byzanz, Kodikologie, Militärwesen, Rezeptionsgeschichte

Current contact address

CountryBulgaria
CitySofia
InstitutionCentre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS)
Homepagehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6701-6678

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Albrecht BergerInstitut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Klaus GeusFachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2009

Program(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Philip RANCE: 'Vegetius graecus: a late antique Greek translation of Vegetius’ Regulae bellorum generales (Epitoma rei militaris 3.26)'. In: F. FIORUCCI, Das antike Militärwesen. Autoren, Werke und ihr Nachleben. Rombach: Freiburg im Breisgau, 2024. 77-110
2023Philip RANCE: 'A Greek Military Manuscript in Poland: Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. graec. fol. 22 and Early Scholarship on Byzantine Military Literature'. In: Krzysztof ULANOWSKI and Bogdan BURLIGA, Καθηγητής. Studies in Ancient History, Warfare and Art, presented to Nick Sekunda on his Seventieth Birthday. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. 215-228
2023Philip RANCE: 'Archimedes at Syracuse: two new witnesses to Cassius Dio’s Roman History 15 (Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca and Hypomnema in S. Luciam)'. In: Classical Quarterly, 73.1, 2023, 436-456
2023Philip RANCE: 'Arrian’s Ektaxis – Text, Translation, Commentary: Review of D.B. CAMPBELL, Deploying a Roman Army. The Ektaxis kat’ Alanōn of Arrian. Text with translation and commentary (Glasgow 2022)'. In: The Classical Review, 73, 2023, 474-476
2023Philip RANCE: 'In the Margins of Strabo: Menander Protector on Persian Religion and the "Passio S. Isbozetae"'. In: Journal of Byzantine Studies (JOeB) / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 73, 2023, 125-150
2023Philip RANCE: 'Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature: Review of Anne P. ALWIS, Martin HINTERBERGER and Elisabeth SCHIFFER (edd.), Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature ([Byzantioς 17] Brepols: Turnhout 2021)'. In: The Byzantine Review, 5, 2023, 129-137
2022Philip RANCE: 'A Late Byzantine Book Inventory in Sofia, Dujčev gr. 253 (olim Kosinitsa 265) – a monastic or private Library?'. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 115, 2022, 977-1029
2022Philip RANCE: 'Finding the Right Words: a Letter to the Emperor (Laur. Plut. 55.4, f. 197v) – Books, Education and Rhetoric in a Late Byzantine Household [with Corrigenda to Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit]'. In: Παρεκβολαί / Parekbolai. A Journal for Byzantine Literature, 12, 2022, 27-56
2022Philip RANCE: 'The Ideal of the Roman General in Byzantium: the Reception of Onasander’s ‘Strategikos’ in Byzantine Military Literature'. In: Shaun TOUGHER and Richard EVANS, Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 242-263
2022Philip RANCE: 'Tzetzes and the “Mechanographoi”: the Reception of Late Antique Scientific Texts in Byzantium'. In: Enrico Emanuele PRODI, Τζετζικαì ἔρευναι (Proceedings of “Tzetzes”: an International Conference, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice), Bologna. EIKASMOS. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, 2022. 427-481
2022Philip RANCE: '“Simplicitas militaris”: Ammianus Marcellinus and “sermo castrensis”'. In: Michael HANAGHAN and David WOODS, Ammianus Marcellinus: from Soldier to Author. Brill, 2022. 83-139
2021Philip RANCE: 'Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Review Article on James T. CHLUP and Conor WHATELY (edd.), Greek and Roman Military Manuals. Genre and History (London/New York 2020)'. In: The Byzantine Review, 3, 2021, 267-287
2021Philip RANCE: 'Photios and the Bulgar Language (τῶγα, tuğ)'. In: Byzantinoslavica 79, 2021, 41-58
2021Philip RANCE: 'Procopius in Context: Review-Discussion of Geoffrey GREATREX and Sylvain JANNIARD (edd.), Le Monde de Procope / The World of Procopius (Paris 2018)'. In: Histos, 15, 2021, i-xv
2021Philip RANCE: 'Reading Procopius: “Wars”'. In: Mischa MEIER and Federico MONTINARO, A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea. Brill, 2021. 70-120
2021Philip RANCE: 'Review-Discussion of Jan DEN BOEFT, Jan Willem DRIJVERS, Daniël DEN HENGST and Hans C. TEITLER, Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI (Leiden/Boston 2017)'. In: Histos, 15, 2021, liii-lxiv
2021Philip RANCE: 'Soldier and Civilian in the Byzantine Empire c.600 – c.900. A Militarised Society?'. In: Ellora BENNETT, Guido M. BERNDT, Stefan ESDERS and Laury SARTI, Early Medieval Militarisation. Manchester University Press, 2021. 31-47
2020Philip RANCE: 'Health, Wounds, and Medicine in the Late Roman Army (250-600)'. In: Lee L. BRICE, New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare . Wiley, 2020. 173-185
2020Philip RANCE: 'New Viewpoints on Procopius: Review-Discussion of Christopher LILLINGTON-MARTIN and Elodie TURQUOIS (edd.), Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations (London/New York 2018)'. In: Histos, 2020, xciii-cvi
2019Philip RANCE: 'The Farmer and the Soldier should be Friends – Justinian’s Legislation on the Provisioning of Soldiers (Novel 130)'. In: Journal of Late Antiquity, 2019, 380-421
2018Philip RANCE: 'Late Byzantine Elites and Military Literature: Authors, Readers and Manuscripts (11th-15th Centuries)'. In: George THEOTOKIS, Aysel YILDIZ, A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea – Aspects of War, Diplomacy and Military Elites. Brill, 2018. 255-286
2018Philip RANCE: 'The Army in Peacetime: the Social Status and Function of Soldiers (c.300-1204)'. In: Yannis STOURAITIS, A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204 . Brill, 2018. 394-439
2018Philip RANCE: Review of David WHITEHEAD, Philo Mechanicus: On Sieges ([Historia Einzelschrift 243] Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart 2016). In: Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 2018, 685-689
2018Philip RANCE: Review of Mark HEBBLEWHITE, The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 (Routledge: London/New York 2017), pp. xvi, 240.. In: The Classical Review, 2018, 523-526
2018Philip RANCE: Review of Ph. FLEURY (ed., tr.), De Rebus Bellicis. Sur les affaires militaires. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par Philippe Fleury (Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé 416. Les Belles Lettres: Paris 2017), pp. cxl, 116. In: The Journal of Military History , 2018, 590-591
2017Philip RANCE: 'An Unpublished Byzantine Medical Fragment (Parisinus suppl. gr. 607): Pharmaceutical Knowledge and Practice in Tenth-Century Constantinople'. In: Parekbolai. A Journal for Byzantine Literature, 2017, 69-95
2017Philip RANCE: 'Introduction'. In: Philip RANCE, Nicholas V. SEKUNDA, Greek Taktika. Ancient Military Writing and its Heritage. Akanthina Press, 2017. 9-64
2017Philip RANCE: 'Maurice’s Strategicon and “the Ancients”: the Late Antique Reception of Aelian and Arrian'. In: Philip RANCE, Nicholas V. SEKUNDA Greek Taktika. Ancient Military Writing and its Heritage. Akanthina Press, 2017. 217-255
2017Philip RANCE: 'Review of Bruno BLECKMANN and Jonathan GROß (edd.), Historiker der Reichskrise des 3. Jahrhunderts, I. (Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike A1-4, 6-8) (Paderborn 2016)'. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017,
2017Philip RANCE: 'The Reception of Aineias’ Poliorketika in Byzantine Military Literature'. In: Maria PRETZLER, Nicholas BARLEY, A Companion to Aineias Tacticus. Brill, 2017. 290-373
2017Philip RANCE, Nicholas V. SEKUNDA: Greek Taktika. Ancient Military Writing and its Heritage. Akanthina Press, 2017
2017Philip RANCE: Review of Edward N. LUTTWAK, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire. From the First Century CE to the Third. Revised and updated edition (Baltimore 2016), pp. xx, 276. In: The Classical Review, 2017, 1-2
2015Philip RANCE: 'A Roman-Lazi War in the Suda: a Fragment of Priscus?'. In: Classical Quarterly, 2015, 852-867
2015Philip RANCE: 'quam gentilitate appellant. The Philological Evidence for Barbarians in the Late Roman Army: Germanic Loanwords in Roman Military Vocabulary'. In: Tivadar Vida, with Philip Rance (Eng. ed.), Romania Gothica II. The Frontier World: Romans, Barbarians and Military Culture (Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1-2 October 2010) . Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2015. 51-94
2015Philip RANCE: Review of Leif Inge Ree PETERSEN, Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 AD) ([History of Warfare 91] Leiden 2013), pp. xxvii, 819. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2015, 256-260
2015Tivadar VIDA (ed.), with Philip RANCE (Eng. ed.): Romania Gothica II. The Frontier World: Romans, Barbarians and Military Culture (Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1-2 October 2010) . Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2015
2014Philip RANCE: 'An unnoticed regimental diaconus in the correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrrhus'. In: Historia, 2014, 117-128
2014Philip RANCE: 'Sculca, *sculcator, exculcator and proculcator: the Scouts of the late Roman Army and a disputed Etymology'. In: Latomus, 2014, 474-501
2012Philip RANCE: 'Epiphanius of Salamis and the Scotti: new evidence for late Roman-Irish relations'. In: Britannia, 2012, 227-242
2012Philip RANCE: 'The Third Equites Stablesiani at Cyrrhus'. In: Chiron, 2012, 345-358
2010Philip RANCE: 'The De Militari Scientia or Müller Fragment as a philological resource. Latin in the East Roman army and two new loanwords in Greek: palmarium and *recala'. In: Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache , 2010, 63-92
2010Philip RANCE: Review of Edward N. LUTTWAK, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Cambridge, MA/ London 2009), pp. xi, 498. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2010, 827-831
2009Philip RANCE: 'Hannibal, Elephants and Turrets in Suda Θ 438 [Polybius Fr. 162B] – An Unidentified Fragment of Diodorus'. In: Classical Quarterly , 2009, 76-96