Dr. Marianna Mazzola

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsIslamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies,Religious Studies
KeywordsLate Antique, Medieval Middle East, Syriac Christianity, Eastern Christian political thought

Current contact address

CountryBelgium
CityGent
InstitutionGhent University
InstituteDepartment of History

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ronny VollandtInstitut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Leif StenbergInstitute for the Study of Muslim Civilisation, Aga Khan University, London
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2022

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024M. Mazzola: ‘Finding common Ground: Syriac Orthodox monastic Culture in the interconfessional Context of Byzantine Melitene (10th-11th c.). In: D. Oltean, Foreign Monks in Byzantium: Migration Trends and Integration Policies in Religious Context (Bibliothèque de Byzantion, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta). Peeters, 2024.
2023M. Mazzola and P. Van Nuffelen: ‘The Julian Romance completed: A full text and a new date’. In: Journal of Late Antiquity, 16.2, 2023, 324-377
2023M. Mazzola and P. Van Nuffelen: ‘A lost Source for Syriac Christianity in the Umayyad era: the Ecclesiastical History of Daniel son of Moses of Ṭur ʿAbdin (8th c.)’, Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, 118.3-4, 2023.. In: Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, 118.3-4, 2023,
2021Marianna Mazzola: Grigorios Abu al-Farağ Bar ‘Ebroyo. Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography. Brepols, 2021. 257-280
2020Marianna Mazzola: From High-Priest to Patriarch: History and Authority in the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo. Peeters, 2020
2020Marianna Mazzola: Intercultural Exchange in Late Antique Historiography. Peeters, 2020
2019Marianna Mazzola: Centralism and Local Tradition: A Reappraisal of the Sources on the Metropolis of Tagrit and Mor Matay . In: Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales, 132.3-4, 2019, 399-413
2018Marianna Mazzola: The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronicle: A Preliminary Study . In: Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales, 131.1-2, 2018, 73-100
2017Marianna Mazzola: 'A ‘Woven-Texture’ Narration: On the Compilation Method of the Syriac Renaissance Chronicles' . In: Sacris Erudiri: Journal of Late Antique and Medieval Christianity, 56, 2017, 445-463
2013Marianna Mazzola: ‘Alcuni poemi di Barhebraeus nella redazione del ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Orientale 298’. In: Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 36, 2013, 73-95