Arietta Papaconstantinou
Biographic Data
| ID | 598139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arietta Papaconstantinou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arietta |
| FAMILY NAME | Papaconstantinou |
| SIGNATURE | PAPACONSTANTINOU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2307-9607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Papyri and the Study of Archaeology in Byzantium
The archaeology of Byzantium is the archaeology of an empire whose chronological bounds, broadly speaking, spanned the fourth through fifteenth century AD. The authors whose works are collected in this handbook examine methods and practice of Byzantine archaeology as well as the materials typically encountered in artifacts produced within the imperial boundaries. Byzantine archaeology is still a relatively young discipline, and, while vast in its…
Late Antique Egypt as an Observatory of Multilinguism and Empire
This article offers a broad overview of research on multilingualism in Egypt, focusing more specifically on the languages that have interacted with Egyptian in its late antique form, known as Coptic. These interactions took place in an imperial framework that changed over time, both in the empire it was based on (Roman, east Roman, Caliphate) and in its internal linguistic make-up (the eastern Roman empire, for instance, being less and less Latin…
Byzantine Linguistic Pluralism Revisited
This introductory essay discusses the historiographical background of Byzantine multilingualism against which the contributions that follow can be read. It focuses at more length on Gilbert Dagron’s ‘Le pluralisme linguistique à Byzance’, which remained until recently the only proper exploration of the subject, and argues that it reflects a concept of the Byzantine empire that differs in significant ways from that proposed by other scholars, incl…
The Making of the Medieval Middle East
In this fascinating book, Jack Tannous sets out to write a new history of the transformation of the Middle East from multilingual and Christian to Arabic-speaking and Islamic. It is well known, at least among historians, that the transformation did not take place as an immediate consequence of the Muslim conquests but took several centuries to materialize. As Tannous points out, however, the corollary of that reality, namely that Christians remai…
The Sound of a Thousand Tongues
International audience
Conversion in Late Antiquity
From Bāwīṭ to Marw
The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofia Torallas Tovar -- Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse -- Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn -- Case studies in language use in a mult…
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics, and the Rise of Christianity." Childhood in the Past, 9(1), pp. 75–76
Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power
Der Band enthält die Ergebnisse der im November 2010 in Wien veranstalteten Ersten Internationalen Konferenz des Nationalen Forschungsnetzwerks „Imperium und Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom“. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand bildeten die in einen offiziellen Kontext eingebetteten Kommunikationsstrategien, der Einsatz rhetorischer Mittel und die Funktion einer Verwaltungskorrespondenz in Hinblick auf Mechanismen ein…
Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East
The outcome of Fergus Millar’s Schweich Lectures in Biblical Archaeology, delivered in 2010 at the British Academy, this book offers an amazingly wide-ranging image of the groups inhabiting ‘the Roman Near East’ in late antiquity, with particular attention given not only to the Syriac sources, but also to Jewish and Samaritan history and texts. Woven into this compendium is a restatement of Millar’s long-held and still controversial argument rega…
Egypt
International audience
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, lang…
Writing ‘True Stories’
"The papers in this volume examine the interaction between history and hagiography in the late antiquity and meadieval Middle East, exploring the ways in which the two genres were used and combined to analyse, interpret, and re-create the past. The contributors focus on the circulaation of motifs between the two forms of writing and the modifications and adaptations of the initial story that such reuse entailed. Beyond this purely literary questi…
The Material and the Ideal
Reflecting the diverse interests of Jean-Michel Spieser, his colleagues, students and friends contribute papers focused on topics ranging from the changing role of the apse and the layout of late antique basilicas to holy relics said to have been brought from Constantinople. Many of the articles address the nature and impact of specific media - goldsmiths' work, ivory and ceramics - while a group of highly original, broader studies is devoted to …
Material and the Ideal
The Material and the Ideal
Feast, Fast or Famine
Conversions monétaires byzantines (P.Vindob. G 1265)
Fragment opisthographe mesurant 7 x 14,3 cm. Bords superieur et gauche intacts (face ->). Kollesis a environ 1,5 cm du bord gauche
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics, and the Rise of Christianity." Childhood in the Past, 9(1), pp. 75–76
Conversions monétaires byzantines (P.Vindob. G 1265)
Fragment opisthographe mesurant 7 x 14,3 cm. Bords superieur et gauche intacts (face ->). Kollesis a environ 1,5 cm du bord gauche
Feast, Fast or Famine
The Material and the Ideal
Reflecting the diverse interests of Jean-Michel Spieser, his colleagues, students and friends contribute papers focused on topics ranging from the changing role of the apse and the layout of late antique basilicas to holy relics said to have been brought from Constantinople. Many of the articles address the nature and impact of specific media - goldsmiths' work, ivory and ceramics - while a group of highly original, broader studies is devoted to …
Material and the Ideal
The Material and the Ideal
Writing ‘True Stories’
"The papers in this volume examine the interaction between history and hagiography in the late antiquity and meadieval Middle East, exploring the ways in which the two genres were used and combined to analyse, interpret, and re-create the past. The contributors focus on the circulaation of motifs between the two forms of writing and the modifications and adaptations of the initial story that such reuse entailed. Beyond this purely literary questi…
Egypt
International audience
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, lang…
Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power
Der Band enthält die Ergebnisse der im November 2010 in Wien veranstalteten Ersten Internationalen Konferenz des Nationalen Forschungsnetzwerks „Imperium und Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom“. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand bildeten die in einen offiziellen Kontext eingebetteten Kommunikationsstrategien, der Einsatz rhetorischer Mittel und die Funktion einer Verwaltungskorrespondenz in Hinblick auf Mechanismen ein…
Religion, Language and Community in the Roman Near East
The outcome of Fergus Millar’s Schweich Lectures in Biblical Archaeology, delivered in 2010 at the British Academy, this book offers an amazingly wide-ranging image of the groups inhabiting ‘the Roman Near East’ in late antiquity, with particular attention given not only to the Syriac sources, but also to Jewish and Samaritan history and texts. Woven into this compendium is a restatement of Millar’s long-held and still controversial argument rega…
Conversion in Late Antiquity
From Bāwīṭ to Marw
The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofia Torallas Tovar -- Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse -- Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn -- Case studies in language use in a mult…
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics, and the Rise of Christianity." Childhood in the Past, 9(1), pp. 75–76
The Making of the Medieval Middle East
In this fascinating book, Jack Tannous sets out to write a new history of the transformation of the Middle East from multilingual and Christian to Arabic-speaking and Islamic. It is well known, at least among historians, that the transformation did not take place as an immediate consequence of the Muslim conquests but took several centuries to materialize. As Tannous points out, however, the corollary of that reality, namely that Christians remai…
The Sound of a Thousand Tongues
International audience
Byzantine Linguistic Pluralism Revisited
This introductory essay discusses the historiographical background of Byzantine multilingualism against which the contributions that follow can be read. It focuses at more length on Gilbert Dagron’s ‘Le pluralisme linguistique à Byzance’, which remained until recently the only proper exploration of the subject, and argues that it reflects a concept of the Byzantine empire that differs in significant ways from that proposed by other scholars, incl…
Late Antique Egypt as an Observatory of Multilinguism and Empire
This article offers a broad overview of research on multilingualism in Egypt, focusing more specifically on the languages that have interacted with Egyptian in its late antique form, known as Coptic. These interactions took place in an imperial framework that changed over time, both in the empire it was based on (Roman, east Roman, Caliphate) and in its internal linguistic make-up (the eastern Roman empire, for instance, being less and less Latin…
Papyri and the Study of Archaeology in Byzantium
The archaeology of Byzantium is the archaeology of an empire whose chronological bounds, broadly speaking, spanned the fourth through fifteenth century AD. The authors whose works are collected in this handbook examine methods and practice of Byzantine archaeology as well as the materials typically encountered in artifacts produced within the imperial boundaries. Byzantine archaeology is still a relatively young discipline, and, while vast in its…
History (14 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works)