Claudia Rapp FBA is a German scholar of the

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. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the

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, a position she has held since 2011. Having studied at the

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, she then obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the

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in 1992. She was a Professor in the History Department of the

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between 1994 and 2011, before taking up her current post in Vienna. In 2012 she became the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and became a Full Member of the

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two years later. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Wittgenstein Prize. In July 2017, she was elected a

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(FBA), the

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for the humanities and social sciences in the UK.

Career and research

Rapp is a member of the editorial board of the online open-access journal Medieval worlds. She is the author of two major monographs, and has published over fifty research articles in English and German. On 4 November 2019 Rapp gave the twenty-eighth annual W. Kendrick Pritchett Lecture at

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, with 'The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscripts: A Crossroads of Christendom in the Late Antique Mediterranean'.

Selected bibliography

Monographs

*
Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition
' (Berkeley, California University Press, 2005, paperback 2013). *
Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual
' (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Edited Volumes

*
Bosphorus. Essays in Honour of Cyril Mango
' (with S. Efthymiadis, D. Tsougarakis), (Amsterdam, Byzantinische Forschungen, 21, 1995) * ''Elites in Late Antiquity'' (with Michele Salzman), special issue of the journal ''Arethusa'' 33 (2000) *
The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World. Changing Contexts of Power and Identity
' (with H. Drake), (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2014) * '
he Bible in Byzantium: Appropriation, Adaptation, Interpretation
' (with A. Külzer), Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements 25 (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018) * '' Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Journeys, Destinations, Experiences across Times and Cultures: Proceedings of the Conference held in Jerusalem, 5th to 7th December 2017, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020'' (with F. Daim, J. Pahlitzsch, J. Patrich, J. Seligman), (Mainz, Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident, Vol. 19, 2020)

References

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