Position
Post-doctoral Researcher
Faculty Address
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Associate Faculty Member from 3rd May 2023)
Current Projects:
ERC Project "DocuMult: Documenting Multiculturalism. Co-existence, law and multiculturalism in the administrative and legal documents of Norman and Hohenstaufen Sicily, c.1060-c.1266" (P.I.: Professor Jeremy Johns, University of Oxford); PRIN Project “EbyRome: epigrafia di Roma bizantina: iscrizioni greche medievali a/da Roma e Lazio” (P.I.: Professor Francesco D’Aiuto, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Biography
DR FRANCESCA POTENZA obtained her Master’s magna cum laude in Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, at University of Rome “Roma Tre”, with a Thesis in Byzantine Philology. Her doctoral dissertation (PhD in History, at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), “The hagiographic dossier of Saint Pantaleemon: general study and critical edition”, focused on the critical edition of the premetaphrastic Passio of St. Pantaleemon, which was passed on in different redactions, mostly unedited. From 2015 to 2019, she was a Research Fellow at the Vatican Library, for the study and cataloguing of the Greek manuscripts in the Library of Pope Nicholas the Fifth (1447-1455). Research was published as a book in 2022. Since February 2017, she’s been a Theaching Assistant in Byzantine History and Philology at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She is a member of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini and of the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici "Bruno Lavagnini". She collaborates with the ERC Project "DocuMult: Documenting Multiculturalism. Co-existence, law and multiculturalism in the administrative and legal documents of Norman and Hohenstaufen Sicily, c.1060-c.1266" (P.I.: Professor Jeremy Johns, Università of Oxford). She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata for the PRIN Project “EbyRome: epigrafia di Roma bizantina: iscrizioni greche medievali a/da Roma e Lazio” (P.I.: Professor Francesco D’Aiuto).
For more details, please visit:
https://uniroma2.academia.edu/FrancescaPotenza
Research Interests
Byzantine Hagiography and Hymnography; Byzantine History; History of the Libraries; Greek Palaeography; Greek documents; Norman Sicily.
Recent Publications
Books
Arthur Grouard de Tocqueville and Francesca Potenza, Ex Bibliotheca Mureti. Un indice secentesco dei codici di Marc-Antoine Muret al Collegio Romano (Par. lat. 10393, ff. 54r-55r) (Quaderni di Νέα Ῥώμη, 9), Roma 2024 (212 pp.).
Antonio Manfredi and Francesca Potenza (eds.), I codici greci di Niccolò V. Edizione dell’inventario del 1455 e identificazione dei manoscritti. Con approfondimenti sulle vicende iniziali del fondo Vaticano greco della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Studi e testi, 552), Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2022 (968 pp.).
Articles
- “Multilingualism in the Greek documents of Norman Sicily”, in L. Andriollo, P. Tomei and A. Cotza (eds.), Entangled Semantics of Power between East and West: Multilingualism and Byzantine Cultural Heritage in Documentary Sources from Medieval Italy [Proceedings of the Thematic Strand organized during the International Medieval Congress 2023 in Leeds] (forthcoming: 2024, in the series Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, published by Amsterdam University Press) [Peer-reviewed conference proceedings].
- (with Francesca Paola Vuturo) “Ferrari dalle Spade un secolo dopo: aggiornamenti, riletture, novità”, in C. Rognoni and V. von Falkenhausen (eds.), Byzantino-Sicula [Proceedings of the Round Table “Fonti scritte e fonti materiali dalla Sicilia e dall’Italia bizantine: riletture e nuove prospettive di ricerca”, organized during the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua, Aug. 2022] (forthcoming: 2024, published by the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini, Palermo) [Peer-reviewed conference proceedings].
- “La Passio di s. Pantaleone: per lo studio dei rapporti fra dossier copto e redazioni greche premetafrastiche”, in P. Cesaretti and M. Re (eds.), Byzantino-Sicula IX [Proceedings of the Round Table “La scrittura agiografica: spazio di incontro e di confronto tra lingue e culture”, organized during the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua, Aug. 2022], (Istituto siciliano di studi bizantini e neoellenici «Bruno Lavagnini». Quaderni, 25), Palermo 2024, 55–90 [Peer-reviewed conference proceedings].
- (with Alain Delattre) “Un nouveau fragment de la passion de saint Pantaléon en copte”, Aegyptus 103 (2023) 157–167 [Peer-reviewed scientific journal].
- “Un Lezionario dei Vangeli di Giorgio Isakiotes, giudice del velum e dell’ippodromo: il codice Amherst (MA), Amherst College Library, MS L4”, Scriptorium 74 (2022) 193–217 [Peer-reviewed scientific journal].
- “Un acquisto da farsi prudenter et sine strepitu: l’arrivo in Vaticana di manoscritti e stampati del Collegio Romano all’inizio del XX secolo”, Νέα Ῥώμη 19 (2022) 317–368 [Peer-reviewed scientific journal].
- “I Menei vergati da Giorgio Basilikos per la chiesa maggiore di Bova, I: gr. 535 (an. 1556: Trimeneo di settembre-novembre)”, Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici, n.s. 58 (2021) 297–362 [Peer-reviewed scientific journal].
