Carolina Cupane

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Carolina Cupane , also Cupane-Kislinger (* 1948 in Palermo ) is an Italian Byzantinist .

Life

Cupane completed a degree in Classical and Byzantine Philology at the University of Palermo . There she received her doctorate in 1970 with a dissertation on the Ethiopics of Heliodorus . In 1976 she came to the Institute of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna for a postdoc course . Since 1994 she has been a university lecturer at this institute, and from 1999 to 2013 she also worked at the Institute for Medieval Studies, Byzantium Research Department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna . She has been retired since 2014.

Cupane is married to the Austrian Byzantinist Ewald Kislinger .

Her main research interests are Byzantine literature, especially vernacular literature, narrative literature (especially the Byzantine novel), literature comparison, the migration of narrative motifs between East and West.

Fonts (selection)

  • La cronologia delle Etiopiche di Eliodoro. Diss. Mach. Palermo 1970.
  • The register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , indices, 1st and 2nd part (2nd part with Elisabeth Schiffer) l (1315–1350) ( Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae XIX / 1. 2, supplement). Vienna 1981.1995.
  • (together with Herbert Hunger , Otto Kresten , Ewald Kislinger ): The register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , 2nd edition and translation of the documents from the years 1337-1350 (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae XIX / 2). Vienna 1995.
  • Romanzi cavallereschi bizantini. Callimaco e Crisorroe. Beltandro e Crisanza. Storia di Achille. Florio e Platziaflore. Storia di Apollonio di Tiro. Favola consolatoria sulla Cattiva e la Buona variety. Testi, traduzioni e note a cura di Carolina Cupane. Ute, Torino 1995.
  • (together with Erich Trapp , S. Schönauer, Elisabeth Schiffer et al.): Lexikon zur Byzantinische Gräzität , Fasz. 5–8, Vienna 2005–2017.
  • (together with Bettina Krönung): Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 1) Leiden and Boston 2016.

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