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
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
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
www.arsedendi.org
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text still unpublished.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.