Staff Profile:Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou

Name:

Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou

Job Title:

Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Examination Officer

Areas of Interest:

Arietta Papaconstantinou's research interests cover the religious, social and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate. She is particularly interested in the evolution Christian communities during the first two centuries of Islamic rule. She likes to mobilise a wide range of sources and approaches, from economic to textual and linguistic, using traditional narrative sources as well as archaeology, papyrology and epigraphy.

Current Projects

• Papaconstantinou is currently completing a project that was funded from 2014 to 2016 by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, entitled Credit, debt, and the transformation of rural society in Egypt and Palestine from Constantine to the Abbasids, studying the evolution and effects of credit and debt on the rural societies of Egypt and Palestine from the fourth to the eighth century.
• She also participated in the recently concluded Oxford-based ERC-funded project The Cult of Saints, is a collaborator in the international project Provinces et Empires: l'Égypte islamique dans le monde antique, and a member of the network Defining the Global Middle Ages.
• She is General Editor of the book series The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, ca 300-1500 initiated by Ashgate (now terminated), and is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Ancient History. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, of the advisory board of the journal Estudios Bizantinos, and of the Advisory Editorial board of the series Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity (Gorgias Press).
• Papaconstantinou is also an associate member of the Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance in Paris, the Maison française d'Oxford, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity.

Academic Career

Before joining Reading in 2011, Papaconstantinou was Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, where she had taught since 1999, after several years at the Universities of Strasbourg, Franche-Comté, and Val de Marne (Paris XII). She was educated at the German School in Athens, Deree College in Athens, and the Université de Strasbourg, from where she holds an MA in Archaeology and a Ph.D. in Ancient History.

Options Taught

CL2LAN: Literature and Society in Late Antiquity (with Christa Gray)

CL3LAE: Late Antique Egypt

CL3SHM: Saints and Holy Men in the Late Antique Mediterranean

CLMOP: Coptic Life-Writing

Postgraduate Supervision Areas

Subjects on Greek epigraphy, papyrology, archaeology, social, religious or economic history, sociolinguistics of the Late Antique and Byzantine periods; the transition of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Graeco-Roman world to the Caliphate.

Personal Webpage

https://reading.academia.edu/AriettaPapaconstantinou

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

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Number of items: 74.

2020

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2020) Women in need: debt-related requests from early medieval Egypt. In: Hübner, S., Marthot, I., Müller, M., Schmidt, S. and Stern, M. (eds.) Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt. DeGruyter, Berlin. ISBN 9783110683554
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2020) Arabic: language of empire, language of Egypt. In: O'Connell, E. (ed.) Egypt and Empire: Religious Identities from Ancient to Modern Times. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan (11). Peeters, Leuven. (In Press)

2019

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2019) Lifting the cloak of invisibility: Identifying the Jews of late antique Egypt. In: Brand, M., Hoogendijk, C. and Scheerlink, E. (eds.) Late Antique Religion in Practice: Papyri and the Dynamics of Religious Identification. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2019) The desert and the city: the rhetoric of savagery and civilisation in early Byzantium. In: Durak, K. and Jevtic, I. (eds.) Identity and the other in Byzantium. Koç University Press, Istanbul, pp. 83-92. ISBN 9786052116968
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2019) Hagiography in the archives: real-life miracles and the sacred economy in eighth-century Egypt. In: Déroche, V., Ward-Perkins, B. and Wisniewski, R. (eds.) Culte des saints et littérature hagiographique. Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies, 55. Peeters, Leuven, pp. 55-75.

2018

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) Coptic. In: Papaioanou, S. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Byzantine Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) Coptic life stories. In: De Temmermann, K. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) Debt’s fourth millennium seen from below: how papyri modify the picture. In: Weisweiler, J. (ed.) Debt: The First 3000 Years. Oxford University Press, New York. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) “Great men”, churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period. In: Rathbone, D. and Langelotti, M. (eds.) Village institutions in Egypt from Roman to early Arab rule. British Academy, London. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) Papyri and the study of building in Byzantium. In: Decker, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Byzantine Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2018) Shifting the poetics of gender ambiguity: the Coptic naturalisation of Thekla. In: Dabiri, G., Ruani, F. and De Temmerman, K. (eds.) Imitatio Theclae: The Literary Reception of Thecla in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)

2016

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2016) 'Choses de femme' et accès au crédit dans l’Égypte rurale sous les Omeyyades. In: Delouis, O., Métivier, S. and Pagès , P. (eds.) Le saint, le moine et le paysan: mélanges d'histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan. Byzantina Sorbonensia (29). Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 551-561. ISBN 9782859449728
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2016) Credit, debt, and dependence in early Islamic Egypt and Southern Palestine. In: Fournet, J.-L. and Papaconstantinou, A. (eds.) Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou). Travaux et Mémoires (20/1). Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Collège de France - CNRS, Paris, pp. 613-642. ISBN 9782916716596
• Fournet, J.-L. and Papaconstantinou, A., eds. (2016) Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou). Travaux et Mémoires, 20 (1). Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Collège de France - CNRS, Paris, pp686. ISBN 9782916716596
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2016) Byzantine childhoods. Oxford Bibliographies Online. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0170
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2016) Laonikos Chalkokondylis, Démonstrations historiques, Livre VIII. In: Déroche, V. and Vatin, N. (eds.) Constantinople 1453: des Byzantins aux Ottomans. Anacharsis, Toulouse, pp. 323-341. ISBN 9791092011296

2015

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2015) The rhetoric of power and the voice of reason: tensions between central and local in the correspondence of Qurra ibn Sharīk. In: Procházka, S., Reinfandt, L. and Tost, S. (eds.) Official epistolography and the language(s) of power. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Research Network Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom, University of Vienna, 10-12 November 2010. Papyrologica Vindobonensia (8). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, pp. 267-281. ISBN 9783700177050
• Papaconstantinou, A., McLynn, N. and Schwartz, D., eds. (2015) Conversion in late antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and beyond. Ashgate, Farnham, pp436. ISBN 9781409457381
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2015) Fusṭāṭ and its governor: administering the province. In: Treptov, T. and Vorderstrasse, T. (eds.) A cosmopolitan community: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo. Oriental Institute Museum Publications (38). Oriental Institute, Chicago, pp. 43-47. ISBN 9781614910268
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2015) Introduction. In: Papaconstantinou, A., McLynn, N. and Schwartz, D. (eds.) Conversion in late antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and beyond. Ashgate, Farnham, xv-xxxvii. ISBN 9781409457381
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2015) Language and writing. In: Fluck, C., Helmecke, G. and O'Connell, E. (eds.) Egypt: faith after the Pharaohs. British Museum, London, pp. 198-205. ISBN 9780714151144
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2015) Sprache und Schrift. In: Fluck, C., Helmecke, G. and O'Connell, E. R. (eds.) Ein Gott: Abrahams Erben am Nil : Juden, Christen und Muslime in Ägypten von der Antike bis zum Mittelalter. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, pp. 198-205. ISBN 9783731901495

2014

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2014) Egyptians and 'Hellenists': linguistic diversity in the early Pachomian monasteries. In: Tallet, G. and Zivie-Coche, C. (eds.) Le myrte et la rose: mélanges offerts à Françoise Dunand par ses élèves, collègues et amis. Cahiers Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne. University Paul Valery Montpellier, Montpellier, pp. 15-21.

2013

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2013) L’enseignement en Égypte à la fin de l’Antiquité. In: Lumières de la sagesse. Ecoles médiévales d'Orient et d'Occident (Exhibition catalogue). Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 30-31.

2012

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2012) Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic succeeded? Linguistic developments in Egypt and the Near East after the Arab conquest. In: Mullen, A. and James, P. (eds.) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 58-76. ISBN 9781107013865
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2012) Donation and negotiation: formal gifts to religious institutions in late antiquity. In: Donations et donateurs dans la société et l’art byzantins. Realités byzantines. Desclée, Paris, pp. 75-95.
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2012) Egypt. In: Johnson, S. F. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, pp. 195-223. ISBN 9780195336931 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336931.013.0007
• Borrut, A., Debié, M., Papaconstantinou, A., Pieri, D. and Sodini , J.-P., eds. (2012) Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbassides: peuplement et dynamiques spatiales. Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité Tardive, 19. Brepols, Turnhout, pp400. ISBN 9782503535722
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2012) Les propriétaires ruraux en Palestine du sud et en Égypte entre la conquête perse et l’arrivée des Abbassides. Mélanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome - Moyen Age, 124 (2). pp. 405-416.
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2012) A fourth-century inventory of columns and the late Roman building industry. In: Papyrological texts in honor of Roger S. Bagnall. American Studies in Papyrology (53). American Society of Papyrologists, Durham, NC, pp. 215-231. ISBN 9780979975868

2011

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2011) Hagiography in Coptic. In: Efthymiadis, S. (ed.) The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography. Volume I: periods and places. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 323-343. ISBN 9780754650331
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2011) Saints and Saracens: on some miracle accounts of the early Arab period. In: Sullivan, D., Fisher, E. and Papaioannou, S. (eds.) Byzantine religious culture: studies in honor of Alice-Mary Talbot. The Medieval Mediterranean (92). Brill, Leiden, pp. 323-338. ISBN 9789004212442

2010

• Clackson, S. and Papaconstantinou, A. (2010) Coptic or Greek? Bilingualism in the papyri. In: Papaconstantinou, A. (ed.) The multilingual experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 73-104. ISBN 9780754665366
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2010) Introduction. In: Papaconstantinou, A. (ed.) The multilingual experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780754665366
• Papaconstantinou, A., ed. (2010) The multilingual experience in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Ashgate, Farnham, pp250. ISBN 9780754665366
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2010) Administering the early Islamic Empire: insights from the papyri. In: Haldon, J. (ed.) Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria: a review of current debates. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9780754668497
• Papaconstantinou, A., Debié, M. and Kennedy, H., eds. (2010) Writing ‘true stories’: historians and hagiographers in the late antique and medieval Near East. Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 9. Brepols, Turnhout, pp241. ISBN 9782503527864
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2010) A preliminary prosopography of moneylenders in early Islamic Egypt and South Palestine. Travaux et Mémoires, 16. pp. 631-648. ISSN 0150-2522 (Special issue: 'Mélanges Cécile Morrisson')

2009

• Papaconstantinou, A. and Talbot, A. M., eds. (2009) Becoming Byzantine: children and childhood in Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp336. ISBN 9780884023562
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2009) Introduction: Homo Byzantinus in the making. In: Papaconstantinou, A. and Talbot, A. M. (eds.) Becoming Byzantine: children and childhood in Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780884023562
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2009) 'What remains behind': Hellenism and Romanitas in Christian Egypt after the Arab conquest. In: Cotton, H., Hoyland, R., Price, J. and Wasserstein, D. (eds.) From Hellenism to Islam: cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 447-466. ISBN 9780521875813

2008

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2008) Dioscore et le bilinguisme dans l’Égypte du VIe siècle. In: Fournet, J.-L. (ed.) Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte: histoire et culture dans l'Egypte byzantine. Etudes d'archéologie. De Boccard, Paris, pp. 77-88. ISBN 9782701802503
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2008) Between umma and dhimma: the Christians of the Middle East under the Umayyads. Annales islamologiques, 42. pp. 127-156. ISSN 0570-1716
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2008) Child or monk? An unpublished story attributed to John Moschos in MS Coislin 257. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 45. pp. 171-184. ISSN 1938-6958

2007

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2007) The cult of saints: a haven of continuity in a changing world? In: Bagnall, R. S. (ed.) Egypt in the Byzantine world, 300–700. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 350-367. ISBN 9780521871372
• Papaconstantinou, A. and Métivier, S. (2007) Institutions et associations charitables. In: Métivier, S. (ed.) Economie et société à Byzance (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Textes et documents. Byzantina Sorbonensia . Publications De La Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 167-176. ISBN 9782859445713
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2007) L’enfance. In: Métivier, S. (ed.) Economie et société à Byzance (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Textes et documents. Byzantina Sorbonensia . Publications De La Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 203-212. ISBN 9782859445713
• Papaconstantinou, A. and Métivier, S. (2007) Maîtres et écoles. In: Métivier, S. (ed.) Economie et société à Byzance (VIIIe-XIIe siècle). Textes et documents. Byzantina Sorbonensia. Publications De La Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 213-220. ISBN 9782859445713
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2007) Divine or human? Some remarks on the design and layout of late antique basilicas. In: Cutler, A. and Papaconstantinou, A. (eds.) The material and the ideal: essays in medieval art and archaeology in honour of Jean-Michel Spieser. The Medieval Mediterranean (70). Brill, Leiden, pp. 31-46. ISBN 9789004162860
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2007) 'They Shall Speak the Arabic Language and Take Pride in it': reconsidering the fate of Coptic after the Arab Conquest. Le Muséon, 120 (3-4). pp. 273-299. ISSN 1783-158X
• Cutler, A. and Papaconstantinou, A., eds. (2007) The material and the ideal: essays in medieval art and archaeology in honour of Jean-Michel Spieser. The Medieval Mediterranean. Brill, Leiden, pp298. ISBN 9789004162860

2006

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2006) Au-delà de l’hagiographie: réflexions sur les sources de l’histoire du culte des saints à Byzance. In: Caseau, B., Cheynet, J.-C. and Déroche, V. (eds.) Pelerinages et lieux saints dans l'Antiquite et le Moyen Âge: melanges offerts e Pierre Maraval. Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (23). Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Paris, pp. 329-340. ISBN 9782916716084
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2006) Historiography, hagiography, and the making of the Coptic “Church of the Martyrs” in early Islamic Egypt. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 60. pp. 65-86. ISSN 0070-7546

2005

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2005) La Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire: le cas du volume égyptien. In: Baslez, M.-F. and Prevot, F. (eds.) Prosopographie et histoire religieuse:Actes du colloque tenu en l'Université Paris XII-Val de Marne les 27 & 28 octobre 2000. De Boccard, Paris, pp. 315-328. ISBN 9782701801869
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2005) Aux marges de l’empire ou au centre du monde? De l’Égypte des Byzantins à celle des historiens. Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 35. pp. 195-236. ISSN 0075-4277
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2005) Confrontation, interaction, and the formation of the early Islamic oikoumene. Revue des études byzantines, 63. pp. 166-181. ISSN 0766-5598
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2005) La prière d’Anne dans la version sahidique du Premier Livre des Règnes: quelques témoins méconnus. Adamantius, 11. pp. 227-231. ISSN 1126-6244
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2005) La reconstruction de Saint-Philoxène à Oxyrhynchos: l’inventaire dressé par Philéas le tailleur de pierres. In: Baratte, F. (ed.) Mélanges Jean-Pierre Sodini. Association des amis du centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Paris, pp. 183-192. ISBN 9782951919877

2004

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2004) 'Je suis noire, mais belle': le double langage de la Vie de Théodora d’Alexandrie, alias Abba Théodore. Lalies, 24. pp. 63-87. ISSN 0750-9170
• Papaconstantinou, A. and Nachtergael, G. (2004) Une lampe d’Égypte au nom de sainte Théopistè. Ricerche di egittologia e di antichità copte, 6. pp. 87-89.

2002

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2002) Notes sur les actes de donation d’enfant au monastère thébain de Saint-Phoibammon. Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 32. pp. 83-105. ISSN 0075-4277
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2002) Theia Oikonomia: les actes thébains de donation d'enfants ou la gestion monastique de la pénurie. Travaux et Mémoires, 14. pp. 511-526. ISSN 0150-2522

2001

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2001) Le Culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides: l'apport des inscriptions et des papyrus grecs et coptes. Monde byzantin. CNRS Editions, Paris , pp504. ISBN 9782271058492
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2001) 'Là où le péché abondait, la grâce a surabondé': sur les lieux de culte dédiés aux saints dans l’Égypte des Ve - VIIIe siècles. In: Kaplan, M. (ed.) Le sacré et son inscription dans l'espace à Byzance et en Occident: études comparées. Série Byzantina Sorbonensia (18). Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 235-249. ISBN 9782859444211
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2001) La manne de saint Jean. À propos d’un ensemble de cuillers inscrites. Revue des études byzantines, 59. pp. 239-246. ISSN 0766-5598

2000

• Papaconstantinou, A. (2000) Antioche ou l'Egypte? Quelques considérations sur l'origine du Danielstoff. Cahiers archéologiques, 48. pp. 5-10. ISSN 0068-4945
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2000) Les sanctuaires de la Vierge dans l’Égypte byzantine et omeyyade: l’apport des textes documentaires. Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 30. pp. 81-94. ISSN 0075-4277
• Papaconstantinou, A. (2000) Martyres ou martyria? Une relecture de P. Vindob. G22.683 (MPER XVII 78). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 130. pp. 193-196. ISSN 0084-5388

1996

• Papaconstantinou, A. (1996) La liturgie stationnale à Oxyrhynchos dans la première moitié du VIe siècle. Réédition et commentaire de POxy XI 1357. Revue des études byzantines, 54. pp. 135-159. ISSN 0766-5598
• Papaconstantinou, A. (1996) Sur les évêques byzantins d'Oxyrhynchos. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 111. pp. 171-174. ISSN 0084-5388

1994

• Papaconstantinou, A. (1994) Conversions monétaires byzantines (P.Vindob. G 1275). Tyche, 9. pp. 93-98. ISSN 1010-9161
• Papaconstantinou, A. (1994) Oracles chrétiens dans l'Egypte byzantine: le témoignage des papyrus. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 104. pp. 281-286. ISSN 0084-5388

1993

• Papaconstantinou, A. (1993) Un calendrier de saints hermopolite (P.Vindob. G 14043). Tyche, 8. pp. 101-104. ISSN 1010-9161

1992

• Papaconstantinou, A. (1992) L’agapè des martyrs: P.Oxy. LVI 3864. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 92. pp. 241-242. ISSN 0084-5388

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