Dr. Philip Richard Rance

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGreek and Latin 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

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2025Philip RANCE: 'Anna Komnene and John of Epiphania’s Histories: Quotation, Allusivity or Plagiarism?'. In: Παρεκβολαί / Parekbolai. A Journal for Byzantine Literature, 15, 2025, 139-158
2025Philip RANCE: Illustrations of Military Technology in Byzantine Manuscripts: Review Article on K. SCHONEVELD, Illustrationen zur Kriegstechnik in byzantinischen Handschriften. Transfer und Adaption antiken Wissens in Byzanz (V & R Unipress: Göttingen 2024). In: Byzantine Review, 7, 2025, 218-234
2025Philip RANCE: Review of Bruno BLECKMANN and Carlo SCARDINO, Panegyrische Zeitgeschichte des 4. und 5. Jahrhunderts. Ediert, übersetzt und kommentiert. Mit einem Beitrag von Johannes WIENAND ([Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike C 1–21] Brill Schöningh: Paderborn 2023), l, 444. In: Plekos, 27, 2025, 73-90
2025Philip RANCE: Review of C. WHATELY (ed.), Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond (Leiden 2024), pp. xiii, 454. In: The Byzantine Review, 7, 2025, 396-406
2025Philip RANCE: Review of G. CAVALLO, Παραδείγματα. Le liste degli autori greci esemplari dall’antichità a Bisanzio ([Transmissions 8] De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2024), pp. x, 205. In: Plekos 27, 2025, 591–599
2025Philip RANCE: ‘Heroes, Historiography and Homer on the Late Antique Battlefield: Constructing Courage in Procopius’ Wars’. In: Jenn FINN, A Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Warfare. Brill, 2025. 480-537
2024Philip RANCE: 'Some Micro-Fragments of Menander Protector’s Histories: the Evidence of the Lexicon Αἱμωδεῖν'. In: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 64, 2024, 654-695
2024Philip RANCE: 'The Last Byzantine Military Manuscript: Istanbul, TSMK, G.İ. 36 and the Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos'. In: Byzantina Symmeikta, 34, 2024, 251-291
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
2024Philip RANCE: Review of Anthony KALDELLIS and Marion KRUSE, The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630 (CUP: Cambridge/New York 2023), pp. xxii, 228. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2024, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.11.28/
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, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017.08.47/
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