Maria Mavroudi | |
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Born | 1967 (age 55–56) |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Anatolia College, University of Thessaloniki, Harvard University |
Thesis | The So-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Ihor Ševčenko |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Byzantine studies,history,philology |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967) [1] is a Greek-born American Byzantinist,historian,and philologist. [2] She is a history professor at University of California,Berkeley. [3] [4]
Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki,Greece;from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree;[ when? ] and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies. [5] Her doctoral advisor was Ihor Ševčenko. [6]
She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam;Byzantine intellectual history;and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453,along with other various topics.
Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, [1] she also understands Coptic,Latin,and Syriac,and speaks Modern Greek,French,and English fluently. She formerly taught at Princeton University. [7]
Andronikos I Komnenos, Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185. He was the son of Isaac Komnenos and the grandson of the emperor Alexios I. In later Byzantine historiography, Andronikos I became known under the epithet "Misophaes" in reference to the great number of enemies he had blinded.
Rūm, also romanized as Roum, is a derivative of the Aramaic (rhπmÈ) and Parthian (frwm) terms, ultimately derived from Greek Ῥωμαῖοι. Both terms are endonyms of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East and the Balkans and date to when those regions were parts of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Achmet, son of Seirim, the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, the Oneirocriticon of Achmet, is probably not the same person as Abu Bekr Mohammed Ben Sirin, whose work on the same subject is still extant in Arabic in the Royal Library at Paris, and who was born AH 33 and died AH 110.
Muhammad Ibn Sirin was a Muslim tabi' who lived in the 8th century CE. He was a contemporary of Anas ibn Malik. He is claimed by some to have been an interpreter of dreams, though others regard the books to have been falsely attributed to him. Once regarded as the same person as Achmet son of Seirim, this is no longer believed to be true, as shown by Maria Mavroudi.
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Ihor Ševčenko was a Polish-born philologist and historian of Ukrainian origin. Byzantinist and paleo-Slavic professor of classical philology at Harvard University. He died 26 December 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Demetrios Chloros was a 14th-century Byzantine physician, astrologer, priest and sorcerer who was tried for possessing magic books.
Pascalis Romanus was a 12th-century priest, medical expert, and dream theorist, noted especially for his Latin translations of Greek texts on theology, oneirocritics, and related subjects. An Italian working in Constantinople, he served as a Latin interpreter for Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
Speros Vryonis Jr. was an American historian of Greek descent and a specialist in Byzantine, Balkan, and Greek history.
Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born May 8, 1952 in Philadelphia) is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is best known for her work on the history of Babylonian astronomy.
Robin Sinclair Cormack, FSA is a British classicist and art historian, specialising in Byzantine art. He was Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991–2004.
Paul Magdalino FBA is the Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History in the University of St Andrews, professor of Byzantine history at Koç University, Istanbul; and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Ziaka Angeliki is an academic scholar on Islamic studies expertise on Byzantine studies, Ibadi Studies and Shia Studies.
Leo Tuscus was an Italian writer and translator who served as a Latin–Greek interpreter in the imperial chancery of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Manuel Komnenos.
Deno John Geanakoplos was a renowned scholar of Byzantine cultural and religious history and Italian Renaissance intellectual history and the Bradford Durfee Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History, Renaissance History, and Eastern Orthodox Church History at Yale University. He was the author of 13 books and over 100 articles and was considered one of the foremost Byzantine scholars in the world. He was the father of Yale Economist and Professor John Geanakoplos.
Nevra Necipoğlu is a Turkish historian of the Byzantine Empire who is a professor of history at Boğaziçi University.
Ingela Nilsson is a Professor of Greek at Uppsala University in Sweden, specializing in Byzantine literature and narratology.
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