Arietta Papaconstantinou is

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at the

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and Associate Faculty Member in the

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. She is an expert in the religious, social and economic history of

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and the Near East during the transition from the

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to the

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Education and career

Papaconstantinou was educated at the German School of Athens and

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in Athens. She received a Masters in

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and a PhD in

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from the

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. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Le Culte des saints en Egypte d'après la documentation papyrologique et épigraphique grecque (Ve - VIIe siècle)'' (1993)''.'' Papaconstantinou was

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at the Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she taught since 1999. She joined Reading University in 2011. Papaconstantinou was a Summer Fellow at

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in 1998. Her project was “The Cult of Saints in Byzantine and Umayyad Egypt: The Contribution of Greek and Coptic Papyrological and Epigraphical Evidence”. She was a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, 2006–7. Her research project was 'The Rise and Fall of

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: A Cultural History of the Language and its Speakers'. She contributed to the University of Oxford's 'Cult of Saints Project', funded by the

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, and she collaborated on the 'Provinces et empires: l'Égypte islamique dans le monde antique' Project at the Institut français d’archéologie orientale. With David B. Hollander and

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, Papaconstantinou is a General Editor for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, published by

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Select bibliography

* ''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 Alice-Mary Talbot (born May 16, 1939) is director of Byzantine studies emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her particular expertise is the social context of Byzantine religious practices, including hagiography, monasticism a ...

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

External links

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Papaconstantinou, Arietta Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Greek historians Greek women historians Greek Byzantinists Scholars of Byzantine history Women Byzantinists Women medievalists