Maria Mavroudi
Maria Mavroudi ( Greek Μαρία Μαυρουδή , * 1967 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek Byzantinist .
Life
She graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, the University of Thessaloniki with a degree in philology and Harvard University with a doctorate in Byzantine Studies. From 2004 to 2009 she was the holder of a MacArthur Fellowship . She was a professor at Princeton University from 2006 to 2008 and has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 2008 . She is one of the few Byzantinists and Gracists who have a command of Arabic . A study visit to the American University in Cairo contributed to this .
She explores Byzantium and the Arabs, bilingualism in the Middle Ages, Byzantine and Islamic science, the re-use of ancient tradition between Byzantine and Islam, Byzantine intellectual history, survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453.
Fonts (selection)
- A Byzantine book on dream interpretation. The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and its Arabic sources . Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12079-3 .
- as editor with Paul Magdalino : The occult sciences in Byzantium. Colloquium held in November 2003 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC . Geneva 2006, ISBN 954-8446-02-2 .
Web links
- Maria Mavroudi - Department of History - Berkeley
- Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin : Fellow 2016/2017 (with photography and video of the lecture Byzantine and Modern Homer: A Thousand Years of Reception on February 22, 2017)
- Personal page on the MacArthur Foundation website
- Lecture Ελληνική φιλοσοφία στην αυλή του Μωάμεθ Β΄ (video) ("Greek philosophy at the court of Mohammed II.") At the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (in modern Greek)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mavroudi, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mavroudi, Maria V. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thessaloniki |