Basema Hamarneh

Basema Hamarneh (born October 18, 1965 in Moscow ) is an Italian Christian archaeologist from Russia .

Life

She first studied at the Lomonosov University in Moscow , where she graduated in 1989 with a Master of Arts in history. She then studied at the University of La Sapienza in Rome late antique archeology and was there in 1989 with the thesis I motivi zoomorfi nei mosaici della Giordania bizantina ed omayyade doctorate . From 1991 to 1994 she specialized in Christian archeology as a scholarship holder at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome, where she received her doctorate in 2000. From 1998 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2011 she was Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Milan . From 2005 to 2009 she taught as professor for Christian and medieval archeology at the University of Enna , department for Mediterranean archeology. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research gave it to the national habilitation in 2012 the title of professor of Archeology. From 2012 to 2014 she lectured as Associate Professor of Roman History and Byzantine Civilization at the University of Bergamo . From 2010 to 2017 she taught Arabic at the University of Milan . Since July 2017 she has been teaching as professor for late antiquity and early Christian archeology at the University of Vienna .

She has been involved since 1991 and directs archaeological excavations in Italy and Jordan on sites from the late Roman, early Christian, Byzantine and Islamic periods. Since 2012 she has been researching as a member of the research project Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: Population Dynamics and Artistic Expression of the Augustus Foundation and the Council for British Research in the Levant, British Institute in Amman . Since 2011 she has been a corresponding member of the AIEMA (Association internationale pour l'étude de mosaïque antique) (area of ​​Jordan). She has been a member of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini since 2012. In 2013 she received a grant for the research project Rapporto tra cultura scritta e cultura visiva nell'elaborazione bicina della "Santa Follia" from Andrea Salos X secolo from the University of Bergamo.

Her research areas are urban and rural settlements in the late antique and early Christian times, Christianization of Roman Castra, archeology and artistic forms of expression of the late antique, early Christian, Byzantine and early Islamic Middle East, early Christian monuments of Rome and the Orbis Christianus Antiquus, monastic and religious identity, hagiography applied to topographical studies, hagiography, visual and archaeological sources in the Byzantine vites of the holy fools Symeon Salos and Andreas Salos as well as fellahs and nomads in the southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: Population dynamics.

Fonts (selection)

• with Simona Manacorda: Pellegrini a Roma. Dalle catacombe alle basiliche (= Giubileo 2000 ). San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 1998, ISBN 8821534367 .
• Topografia cristiana ed insediamenti rurali nel territorio dell'odierna Giordania nelle epoche bizantina ed omayyade V – IX sec. (= Studi di Antichità Cristiana. Volume 57). Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Vatican City 2003, ISBN 88-85991-30-0 (also dissertation, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana 2000).
• with Claudine Dauphin (ed.): Fr. Michele Piccirillo, ofm (1944–2008). Celebrating His Life and Work (= British Archaeological Reports, International series. Volume 2248). Archaeopress, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-40-730815-9 .
• with Paolo Cesaretti: Spazio agiografico e orizzonte visivo. Ricontestualizzare le Vite dei saloi Simeone e Andrea (BHG 1677, 115z) (= Testi e Studi Bizantino-Neoellenici. Volume 20). Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità "Sapienza", Rome 2016, ISBN 978-88-681276-5-7 .

Web links

• Homepage with CV and list of publications at the University of Vienna
• Basema Hamarneh at academia.edu