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Alessandra Bucossi
alessandra.bucossi@gmail.com
Bisanzio è forse solo un simbolo insondabile,
segreto e ambiguo come questa vita,
Bisanzio è un mito che non mi è consueto,
Bisanzio è un sogno che si fa incompleto,
Bisanzio forse non è mai esistita.
(F. GUCCINI, 'Bisanzio', in Metropolis, 1981)


Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
  • Doctorate in Byzantine Studies
    • University of Oxford
    St John's College, Oxford (UK)
    November 2001 - January 2006
  • Diploma in Greek Palaeography - 30/30
    • School of Greek Palaeography - Vatican Secret Archive
    Vatican City
    October 2004 - June 2005, Diploma awarded 2 July 2009
  • Master in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies - with distinction
    • University of London
    King's College, London (UK)
    September 2000 - November 2001
  • Laurea in Lettere Classiche - 110/110 summa cum laude
    • Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
    October 1993 - March 1999
  • Diploma di Maturità Classica
    • Liceo Classico Andrea D'Oria - Genova (Italy)
    September 1988 - June 1993


    CURRENT POSITION

    Research Fellow
    Stockholm University - Ars Edendi project
    Department of Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages - Stockholm (SE)
    April 2010 - Present
    www.arsedendi.org

    LAST POSITIONS

    Guest Researcher
    Stockholm University - Ars Edendi project
    Department of Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages - Stockholm (SE)
    October 2009 - March 2010
    October 2008 - March 2009


    Byzantine Studies Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks
    Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
    Washington, D.C. (USA)
    September 2007 - May 2008


    MEMBERSHIPS

    The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS)
    Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (AISB)


    Work in process
    I am working on the critical edition of a medieval theological Greek text still unpublished.
    The Sacred Arsenal is a twelfth century theological text written by Andronikos Kamateros, a nobleman active at the Constantinopolitan court during the second half of the twelfth century. The Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos (1143-1180) commissioned this immense work (600 pages) to assist in refuting two enemies of Christian Orthodoxy: the Catholic Church and the Armenian Church.