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Byzantine culture, hagiography, performance, rituals, gender

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Biography

Stavroula Constantinou is the founder and director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals at the University of Cyprus. She is also an Associate Professor in Byzantine Studies. She studied at the University of Cyprus (1992-1996), the Free University Berlin (1997-1999, 2000-2003), and the University of Cambridge (1999-2000). Since 2004, she teaches Byzantine culture at the University of Cyprus. She spent the academic year 2010-11 in Berlin as a Humboldt fellow (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de). She is a member of the European Cultural Parliament (http://www.kulturparlament.com/). Her research interests include hagiography, critical edition of hagiographical texts, Byzantine literary genres, poetics, performance, rituals, narrative and feminist approaches, the body in Byzantine literature and culture and the literary image of the Other.

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University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

2013 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
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University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

2008 to 2013 | Assistant Professor (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
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University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

2004-01-01 to 2008 | Lecturer (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1999-09-01 to 2000-06-30 | MPhil (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages )
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University of Cyprus: Nicosia, CY

1992-09-01 to 1996-06-20 | BA (Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies)
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Works (41)

Body Work in Saint Marina’s Legend

23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies: Byzantium - A World of Changes / Belgrade
2016 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Byzantium, miracles in

in: P. J. Hayes (ed.) Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 51-54
2016 | Encyclopedia entry
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Stavroula Constantinou

Hagiographical Mockery: Satire in Byzantine Hagiography

Tagung des Hagiographischen Arbeitskreises / Akademie in Stuttgart-Hohneheim, Stuttgart
2016 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Horizons of Clerical Authors and Their Audiences: Towards a Sociology of the Miracle Story Collection

23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies: Byzantium - A World of Changes / Belgrade
2016 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Motherhood in History: Herstory in Byzantine Historiography

23rd International Congress of Medieval Studies: Food, Feast and Famine / University of Leeds
2016 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Short Story: The Medieval Story of an Allegedly Modern Narrative Form

2016 | Conference paper
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A Rewriter at Work: Nikephoros Kallistou Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles

International Symposium: Rewriting Hagiographical Legends and Texts in Byzantium / University of Southern Denmark, Odense
2015 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Bettina Krönung, Gottes Werk und Teufels Wirken: Traum, Vision, Imagination in der frühbyzantinischen monastischen Literatur, Millennium Studies 45, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2014

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
2015 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Female Monks and Male Doubts: Questioning Cross-Dressing Monastics in the Byzantine Tradition

XVII International Conference on Patristic Studies / Oxford
2015 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Getting Byzantine: Anna Komnene, Julia Kristeva, the Female Subject, and the Modern Uses of the Past

International Workshop: Investing in the Past: Medieval Europe in the Globalized 21st Century (IPMEG) / Sarajevo
2015 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Monastic ‘Gynealogy’: The Maternal-Feminine Structure of Byzantine Women’s Asceticism

International Conference: Gendering Ascetic Knowledge in Christianity, Judaism and Islam / Free University, Berlin
2015 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Pious and Impious Gestures in Miracle Collections

International Symposium: Gestures and Performances in Ancient and Medieval Greek Art and Literature / Helsinki
2015 | Conference paper
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Stavroula Constantinou

Rewriting Beauty and Youth in Female Martyr Legends

in: S. Efthymiadis, Ch. Messis, P. Odorico, I. Polemis (eds.), "Pour une poétique à Byzance". Hommage à Vassilis Katsaros, Paris 2015 [Dossiers Byzantins 16]. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 99-112
2015 | Book chapter
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Rewriting Beauty in Byzantine Hagiography

International Medieval Congress: Reform & Renewal / University of Leeds
2015 | Conference paper
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‘Woman’s Head is Man’: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature

in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Donne e Bibbia nel Medioevo. Secoli VI-XII, Vol. 6.1. Tripani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 17-36
2015 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

Crystal Lynn Lubinsky, Removing Masculine Layers to Reveal a Holy Womanhood: The Female Transvestite Monks of Late Antique Eastern Christianity, Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology 13, Turnhout: Brepols, Pp. xii, 252. ISBN 978-2-503-54981-1

Byzantinische Zeitschrift
2014 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Holy actors and actresses fools and cross-dressers as the protagonists of saints' lives

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume II: Genres and Contexts
2014 | Book
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2-s2.0-84901079862
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Performing gender in lay saints' Lives

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1179/0307013113Z.00000000034
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2-s2.0-84897435348
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The morphology of healing dreams: Dream and therapy in Byzantine collections of miracle stories

Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond
2014 | Book
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2-s2.0-84937695019
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Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Medieval Mediterranean

2013 | Encyclopedia entry
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Stavroula Constantinou

Family in the Byzantine Greek Legend of Saint Alexios the Man of God

in: L. Brubaker and S. Tougher (eds.) Approaches to the Byzantine Family. Aldershot: Ashgate, 267-278
2013 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

Healing dreams in early byzantine miracle collections

Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84900971810
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Male Constructions of Female Identities: Authority and Power in the Byzantine Greek Lives of Monastic Foundresses

2013 | Journal article
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Stavroula Constantinou

Retelling the Tale: The Byzantine Rewriting of Floire and Blancheflor

in: J. Eming and M. Baisch (eds.) Hybridität und Spiel. Der europäische Liebes- und Abenteuerroman von der Antike zur Frühen Neuzeit. Berlin: Berliner Akademie-Verlag, 227-242
2013 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

Violence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios’s Secret History

in: A. Beihammer, S. Constantinou and M. Parani (eds.), Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Medieval Mediterranean [The Medieval Mediterranean 98]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 375-387
2013 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

Virginity in Danger: Holiness and Sexuality in the Life of Mary of Antioch

in: D. Searby, E. B. Witakowska and J. Heldt (eds.), ΔΩΡΟΝ ΡΟΔΟΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ: Studies in Honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist, [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 12] Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 123-132
2012 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus

A. Classen and M. Sandidge (eds.), Friendship in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse [Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 6]. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 201-230
2011 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

A Byzantine hagiographical parody: Life of Mary the Younger

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1179/030701310X12572436087370
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2-s2.0-77957078276
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Grotesque bodies in hagiographical tales: The monstrous and the uncanny in Byzantine collections of miracle stories

Dumbarton Oaks Papers
2010 | Book
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2-s2.0-79957178737
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Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennitos

in: R. G. Dunphy (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 974-975
2010 | Encyclopedia entry
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Stavroula Constantinou

Sofia Kotzabassi (ed.), Das hagiographische Dossier der heiligen Theodosia von Konstantinopel. Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar, Byzantisches Archiv 21, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xv, 196. ISBN 9783110219852. $155.00

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2010 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Vita Basilii

R. G. Dunphy (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1487
2010 | Encyclopedia entry
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Stavroula Constantinou

David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature. How to Study Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. vii, 139. ISBN 9781405168267. $25.00 (pb)

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2009 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Oberhelman, Steven M. Dreambooks in Byzantium: Six Oneirocritca in Translation, with Commentary and Introduction. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 260. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0754660842

The Medieval Review
2009 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Women Teachers in Early Byzantine Hagiography

in: J. F. Ruys (ed.) “What Nature Does Not Teach”: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods [Disputatio 15]. Turnhout: Brepols, 189-204
2008 | Book chapter
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Stavroula Constantinou

Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience AD 800-1200. Ed. Lynda Garland (Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London 8). Aldershot, Ashgate 2006. 226 pp. ISBN 0-7546-5737-X

2007 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Generic Hybrids: The ‘Life’ of Synkletike and the ‘Life’ of Theodora of Arta

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
2006 | Journal article
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Stavroula Constantinou

Thomas Pratsch, Der hagiographische Topos: Griechische Heiligenviten in mittelbyzantinischer Zeit [Millennium-Studien 6]. Berlin 2005, pp. 475

Le Museon
2006 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Connor, Carolyn L., Women of Byzantium. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 396. ISBN 0-300-09957-6. $45.00

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2005 | Book review
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Stavroula Constantinou

Subgenre and Gender in Saints’ Lives

in: P. Odorico and P. Agapitos (eds.), Les Vies des Saints à Byzance. Genre littéraire ou biographie historique? Actes du IIe colloque international sur la littérature byzantine. Paris, 6-8 juin 2002 [Dossiers Byzantins 4]. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 411-423
2004 | Book chapter
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The Authoritative Voice of St. Catherine of Alexandria

Acta Byzantina Fennica
2003 | Journal article
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