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Marianna Mazzola
Trained as an oriental philologist at Pisa University, I earned a joint-PhD in history from Ghent University and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (2018). I work on the cultural and social history of the Medieval Middle East (7th-13th c.) with a focus on Syriac Christianity and its relation with Byzantium and Islam, Syriac historiography and codicology, including excerpt collections in transcultural comparison.
From 2013 to 2017, I worked as doctoral researcher in the context of the ERC project Memory of empire: the post-imperial historiography of Late Antiquity at Ghent University, which explored the historiographical traditions of the Mediterranean and their interaction. Within this framework, I collaborated to the edition and study of fragmentary historians and carried out personal research on the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo (13th c.). My PhD aimed at studying the adaptation of eastern Christian historiographical discourse to the new context of the Islamicate world in terms of geo-ecclesiological, theological and political concerns.
In 2018, I joined as postdoctoral researcher the FWO Project Dionysius of Tell-Mahre, Early Syriac historiography and its Byzantine and Arab context (582-842), working on the edition and study of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre’s Chronicle, with a focus on Christian-Muslim relations and the intersection of Syriac, Byzantine and Muslim historiographical traditions in Dionysius’ work. A monograph is currently in preparation.
Following a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brenninkmeijer-Werhan Center for the Study of Christianity (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), from October 2022 I am undertaking a Humboldt Foundation fellowship at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, where I am working on Syriac conceptualization of kingship in the Umayyad and Abbasid period (7th-10th c.), looking at the dynamics of persistence, rupture and adaptation of former Roman-Christian concepts of politeia in the new Islamic political context.
From 2013 to 2017, I worked as doctoral researcher in the context of the ERC project Memory of empire: the post-imperial historiography of Late Antiquity at Ghent University, which explored the historiographical traditions of the Mediterranean and their interaction. Within this framework, I collaborated to the edition and study of fragmentary historians and carried out personal research on the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo (13th c.). My PhD aimed at studying the adaptation of eastern Christian historiographical discourse to the new context of the Islamicate world in terms of geo-ecclesiological, theological and political concerns.
In 2018, I joined as postdoctoral researcher the FWO Project Dionysius of Tell-Mahre, Early Syriac historiography and its Byzantine and Arab context (582-842), working on the edition and study of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre’s Chronicle, with a focus on Christian-Muslim relations and the intersection of Syriac, Byzantine and Muslim historiographical traditions in Dionysius’ work. A monograph is currently in preparation.
Following a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brenninkmeijer-Werhan Center for the Study of Christianity (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), from October 2022 I am undertaking a Humboldt Foundation fellowship at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, where I am working on Syriac conceptualization of kingship in the Umayyad and Abbasid period (7th-10th c.), looking at the dynamics of persistence, rupture and adaptation of former Roman-Christian concepts of politeia in the new Islamic political context.
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