Nathanael Aschenbrenner

Nate Aschenbrenner received his PhD in History from Harvard in 2019 and is currently a Mary Seeger O'Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. His publications have examined subversive orators in late Byzantium, panegyric poetry, connections between colonialism and scholarship, and early modern encounters with Byzantine ceremony. He recently published a co-edited volume, The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe, that offers a new history of Byzantine scholarship in early modern erudition. Nate is currently finishing his first monograph, provisionally entitled Empire Beyond Rome: Antiquity, Legitimacy, and Power in the Late Medieval Mediterranean for Princeton University Press. In addition to his monograph, Nate is working on a new collaborative project exploring the early modern collection and interpretation of Byzantine material culture.