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German scholar
Claudia Rapp
FBA
Portrait of Claudia Rapp
Alma mater
University of Oxford
Thesis The Vita of Epiphanius of Salamis : an historical and literary study (1991)Notable works Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual
Claudia Rapp
FBA is a German scholar of the
Byzantine Empire . She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the
University of Vienna , a position she has held since 2011.
[1]
Having studied at the
Free University of Berlin , she then obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the
University of Oxford in 1992.
[2] She was a Professor in the History Department of the
University of California, Los Angeles between 1994 and 2011, before taking up her current post in Vienna. In 2012 she became the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the
Austrian Academy of Sciences
[3] and became a Full Member of the
Academy two years later.
[4] In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Wittgenstein Prize.
[5] In July 2017, she was elected a
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the
national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the UK.
[6]
Career and research
Rapp is a member of the editorial board of the online open-access journal
Medieval worlds .
[7]
She is the author of two major monographs, and has published over fifty research articles in English and German.
[8]
On 4 November 2019 Rapp gave the twenty-eighth annual
W. Kendrick Pritchett Lecture at
University of California, Berkeley , with 'The
Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscripts: A Crossroads of Christendom in the Late Antique Mediterranean'.
[9]
Selected bibliography
Monographs
Edited Volumes
Bosphorus. Essays in Honour of Cyril Mango (with S. Efthymiadis, D. Tsougarakis), (Amsterdam, Byzantinische Forschungen, 21, 1995)
Elites in Late Antiquity (with Michele Salzman), special issue of the journal Arethusa 33 (2000)
The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World. Changing Contexts of Power and Identity (with H. Drake), (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2014)
T
he Bible in Byzantium: Appropriation, Adaptation, Interpretation (with A. Külzer), Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements 25 (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018)
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Journeys, Destinations, Experiences across Times and Cultures: Proceedings of the Conference held in Jerusalem, 5th to 7th December 2017, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020 (with F. Daim, J. Pahlitzsch, J. Patrich, J. Seligman), (Mainz, Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident, Vol. 19, 2020)
References
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"Prof. Claudia Rapp, Keely Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford" . University of Oxford. 2013. Archived from
the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019 .
^ Katerina Zacharia, ed.(2008) Hellenisms. Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity . Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. xi–xii
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"Prof. Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien" . univie.ac.at/ .
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"Prof. Claudia Rapp, Austrian Academy of Sciences" . oeaw.ac.at .
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"The Wittgenstein Award 2015 Goes to Claudia Rapp,"
Archived 1 December 2017 at the
Wayback Machine Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6 August 2015.
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"Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research" . 21 July 2017.
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Website of Medieval Worlds . Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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"Prof. Claudia Rapp: Publications, Lectures" (PDF) . oeaw.ac.at . September 2017.
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"The Pritchett Lecture | Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology" . ahma.berkeley.edu . Retrieved 30 October 2019 .
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