George Woudhuysen

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• George.Woudhuysen@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I arrived at Nottingham in September 2018. Before that, I did my undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Oxford, where I was also a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College.

I will be in research leave in the Spring Semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

Teaching Summary

I enjoy teaching a wide range of topics across the history of the ancient world. My current and upcoming teaching includes Latin language and a module on the fourth-century Roman Empire. In the past,… read more

Research Summary

I am an historian of the later Roman Empire and late antiquity more generally. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the Roman Empire under Constantine, his sons, and successors, with a particular focus on… read more

Selected Publications

• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2023. The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor Edinburgh University Press.
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2022. The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta The Journal of Roman Studies. 112, 173-197
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2021. Codex Nicholsonianus The Journal of Roman Studies. 111, 225-238
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2021. Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus Histos. 15, 150-188

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I enjoy teaching a wide range of topics across the history of the ancient world. My current and upcoming teaching includes Latin language and a module on the fourth-century Roman Empire. In the past, I have also taught Greek, as well as our first-year introduction to ancient history, special subject on Francia in the age of Clovis and Gregory of Tours, and modules on Britain in the Later Roman Empire, the emperor Justinian, and ancient narratives.

Current Research

I am an historian of the later Roman Empire and late antiquity more generally. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the Roman Empire under Constantine, his sons, and successors, with a particular focus on Constantius II and Julian the Apostate. I have recently published a major book on the lost history of Sextus Aurelius Victor (written with Dr Justin Stover at the University of Edinburgh). I also work on late-antique onomastics, late-antique letters and letter collections, and the manuscripts and transmission of late-Latin texts.

• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2024. Review of P. Sarris, Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (London, 2023) The Critic. 43(Dec 23-Jan 24), 58-59
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2024. Review of D. Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost its Mind (London, 2024) The Critic. 49(July), 62-3
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2023. Review of L. Van Hoof and P. Van Nuffelen, The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620): Edition, Translation and Commentary (Cambridge, 2020) and P. Van Nuffelen and L. Van Hoof, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris: An Inventory of Late Antique Historiography (A.D. 300-800) (Turnhout, 2020) The Journal of Roman Studies. 113, 287-289
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2023. The Earliest Western References to Islam. In: DAVID THOMAS, ed., Christian-Muslim Relations I: Primary Sources 600 - 1914 1. Bloomsbury. 264-270
• ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, eds., 2023. Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces Oxford University Press.
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2023. The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor Edinburgh University Press.
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2023. Einhard and the Historia Augusta The Journal of Medieval Latin. 33, 1-16
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2023. The Circulation of the Scholia Vallicelliana to Isidore Revue d'Histoire des Textes. 18, 409-416
• ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2023. Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. In: ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, eds., Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. Oxford University Press. 1-34
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2022. Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust Histos. 16, 1-27
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2022. The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta The Journal of Roman Studies. 112, 173-197
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2021. Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus Histos. 15, 150-188
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2021. Codex Nicholsonianus The Journal of Roman Studies. 111, 225-238
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2021. 'A Faraway Land of Which We Know Little'? Britain in the Politics of the Fourth-Century Empire. In: B. WARD-PERKINS, R. MILES and M. HESSÉRUS, eds., Roman Britain in the Roman Empire Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. 63-73
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2020. Aurelius Victor and the Ending of Sallust's Jugurtha Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review. 199(Winter 2015), 93-134
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2020. Review of James Hankins, Virtue Politics (Cambridge Mass., 2019) Standpoint. 122(August/September), 12
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2019. Myrmeicus or Myrmecius? Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies. 72(5), 840-860
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2018. Gibbon among the Barbarians. In: KAREN O'BRIEN and BRIAN YOUNG, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon Cambridge University Press. 93-109
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2018. Uncovering Constans' Image. In: DIEDERIK W.P. BURGERSDIJK and ALAN J. ROSS, eds., Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire Brill. 158-182
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2018. Review of P. Crawford, Constantius II: Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist (Barnsley, 2016) and R. Flower, Imperial invectives against Constantius II: Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari, The necessity of dying for the Son of God (Liverpool, 2016) The Journal of Roman Studies. 108, 310-312
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and JUSTIN STOVER, 2017. Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De Viris Illustribus Vrbis Romae Exemplaria Classica: Journal of Classical Philology. 125-148
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and GRAHAM BARRETT, 2016. Assembling the Austrasian Letters at Trier and Lorsch Early Medieval Europe. 24(1), 3-57
• GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN and GRAHAM BARRETT, 2016. Remigius and the 'Important News' of Clovis Rewritten Antiquité Tardive. 24, 471-500