People

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Mihail Mitrea

Education and employment

2018: PhD in Classics, University of Edinburgh
2019-: Senior researcher, Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
2020-: Lecturer, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca


Research fellowships
2014-15: Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Postgraduate Research Fellowship (II)
2016-17: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies
2018-20: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, Newcastle University 

 

Publications
Articles in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Travaux et Mémoires

Chapters in collective volumes with Brill, Brepols, and Herlo Verlag
Edited volumes with Solivagus Verlag (2016), Routledge (2023)

 

Research interests

Byzantine hagiography, epistolography, theology, monasticism, manuscript studies, textual criticism

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PROJECT MENTOR

Andrei Timotin

Education and employment

2008: PhD in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2010: PhD in Études grecques, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
2017-21: Director of the Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
2021-: Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris


Prizes
2012: Nicolae Iorga Prize of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
2012: Reinach Prize of the Association des Études grecques, Paris
2014: Excellence Prize for Research in Humanities, Ad Astra Association, Bucharest

 

Publications (selection)
Monographs with Brepols (2017), Brill (2012, 2022)
Edited volumes with Brepols (2020, 2020), Brill (2016, 2018)

 

Research interests

History of the religious thought in Late Antiquity, religious and intellectual history of Byzantium

CV and Publications

“This is why I have always hastened into the wilderness, father, and longed for spiritual tranquillity; in order to find in abundance the fruit of prayer, which is divine love and rapture of the mind unto the Lord.”

St Maximos Kausokalybites, BHG 1237, ch. 15