Arietta Papaconstantinou
Arietta Papaconstantinou is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading and Associate Faculty Member in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.[1][2][3] She is an expert in the religious, social and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate.
Education and career
[edit]Papaconstantinou was educated at the German School of Athens and Deree College in Athens.[4] She received a Masters in Archaeology and a PhD in Ancient History from the Université de Strasbourg. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Le Culte des saints en Egypte d'après la documentation papyrologique et épigraphique grecque (Ve - VIIe siècle) (1993).[5] Papaconstantinou was Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she taught since 1999.[6][4] She joined Reading University in 2011.
Papaconstantinou was a Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 1998. Her project was “The Cult of Saints in Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt: The Contribution of Greek and Coptic Papyrological and Epigraphical Evidence”.[7] She was a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, 2006–7. Her research project was 'The Rise and Fall of Coptic: A Cultural History of the Language and its Speakers'.[8] She contributed to the University of Oxford's 'Cult of Saints Project', funded by the European Research Council,[9] and she collaborated on the 'Provinces et empires: l'Égypte islamique dans le monde antique' Project at the Institut français d’archéologie orientale.[10] With David B. Hollander and Andrew Erskine, Papaconstantinou is a General Editor for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, published by Wiley.[11]
Select bibliography
[edit]- Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides. L’apport des sources papyrologiques et épigraphiques grecques et coptes, Le monde byzantin (Paris 2001)
- The material and the ideal. Essays in medieval art and archaeology in honour of Jean-Michel Spieser, co-ed. with Anthony Cutler, The Medieval Mediterranean 70 (Leiden 2007).
- Becoming Byzantine: children and childhood in Byzantium, co-ed. with Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia (Washington 2009).
- ‘Writing true stories’: historians and hagiographers in the late antique and medieval Near East, co-editor with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 9 (Turnhout: Brepols 2010).
- The multilingual experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the ‘Abbāsids, ed. (Farnham 2010).
- Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbassides: peuplement et dynamiques spatiales, co-ed. with Antoine Borrut, Muriel Debié, Dominique Pieri and Jean-Pierre Sodini, Bibliothèque d’Antiquité Tardive 19 (Turnhout: Brepols 2011).
References
[edit]- ^ Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (2012-10-11). The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-999633-9.
- ^ "Search Results for: Arietta Papaconstantinou | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ "Becoming Byzantine — Arietta Papaconstantinou, Alice-Mary Talbot". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ a b "The Arabicization of Christian Egypt: Reframing the Debate". www.international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ Papaconstantinou, Arietta (1993). Le Culte des saints en Egypte d'après la documentation papyrologique et épigraphique grecque (Ve - VIIe siècle).
- ^ Papaconstantinou, Arietta (2016-12-14). The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-88537-9.
- ^ "Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Byzantine Studies". Archived from the original on 2021-01-28.
- ^ Wilson, Lain. "Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Byzantine Studies". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ "Welcome | The Cult of Saints". csla.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ l'IFAO, Cellule Web de. "IFAO - Institut français d'archéologie orientale". www.ifao.egnet.net (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ^ Bagnall, Roger S; Brodersen, Kai; Champion, Craige B; Erskine, Andrew; Huebner, Sabine R, eds. (2013). Major Reference Works. Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/9781444338386. hdl:1808/11108. ISBN 9781405179355. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
External links
[edit]- Worldcat Author Page
- Google Scholar Profile
- 'Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium' Colloquium, 2006, Dumbarton Oaks, co-organised with Alice-Mary Talbot
- Oxford University Staff Profile
- Reading University Staff Profile
