sunday – The Apocryphal Sunday

The Apocryphal Sunday in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages is led by Uta Heil and receives funding by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project P 31428-G32.

The Apocryphal Sunday in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages is an FWF-funded collaboration project hosted at the Department of Christian History, Art and Archaeology at the University of Vienna. The project investigates the significance of the Sunday between 300 and 700 AD by digital means. The pivotal research tool of the project is SOLA – Sunday Observance in Late Antiquity, a text database which offers selected annotated passages from Greek and Latin literature on the cultural history of Sunday as well as commentary, translations and rich metadata of related persons, institutions and historical events. 

The content of SOLA can be accessed via a user-friendly interface which – next to various search and filter options – provides an intuitive timeline visualization to allow users to gain insights into the rich sources investigated by the project. Below the surface, SOLA uses an instance of APIS, the Austrian Prosopographical Information System, as its backend.  

Next to adapting and further developing APIS, the ACDH-CH is responsible for data modelling, data archiving and application and frontend development. All code produced in the course of this project can be found on GitHub.