Aglae Pizzone is professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication at the 海角社区.
After earning her PhD the University of Milan and before joining the 海角社区, Aglae Pizzone carried research in France, the USA, the UK, and Switzerland.
At 海角社区 she leads the MSCA doctoral network From antiquity to community: rethinking classical heritage through citizen humanities () and two Carlsberg funded projects (E-Rhetoric, digital infrastructure; A Rhetoric for the Empire, Semper Ardens Accelerate) investigating rhetorical theory in the Middle Byzantine period.
Recent publications include:
- Boundless Invention. The Corpus Hermogenianum and Its exegetical Tradition in the Middle Byzantine Period. Palgrave, in press. With Cairns D. and Hinterberger M., Zaccarini M., eds., Emotions through Time: From Greece to Byzantium. Heidelberg: Mohr Sibeck, 2022
- ‘The occasionality of Byzantine didacticism: a case study from the 12th century (Milan, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C 222 inf. f. 218r)’, Interfaces 11 (2024), 51-73.
Aglae Pizzone is a byzantinist with a training in classics. In her research she focuses on cultural history and history of the ideas. She has worked on conceptualizations of fiction and imagination from Graeco-Roman to Medieval times as well as on the history of emotions in Byzantium and digital approaches to manuscript studies.
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