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job announcement for a four year doctoral project funded by the Research Council of K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Research group (the dept of Greek philology and the De Wulf-Mansion-centre for ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy) is involved in the recently established centre "LECTIO. The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance".Candidates will be asked to do doctoral research into the theinfluence of philosophical theories of matter on 5th-9th c. byzantinetreatises on the combination of body and soul. The text corpus is alittle known and largely unedited collection of texts, influenced byGregory of Nyssa and Nemesius of Emesa, but with manymedical/scientific/philosophical side issues. The texts will be editedby the promoters and another collaborator. The aim of the part of theproject concerned in this announcement is to study the sources of thetexts, within the framework of the development of a Christiananthropology in Early Middle Ages.The project starts on Oct. 1, 2010.For more details, please contact Prof. G. Van Riel(gerd.vanriel@hiw.kuleuven.be) or Prof. C. Macé(caroline.mace@arts.kuleuven.be).