Maria Mavroudi
Professor
Contact
Office:
Hours: On Leave
Phone: (510) 642-4413
Email: mavroudi@berkeley.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Byzantine Studies, Harvard University, Committee on Byzantine Studies, 1998
M.A. in Byzantine Literature, Harvard University, Department of the Classics, 1992
B.A. in Philology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1990
Research Interests
Byzantium and the Arabs; bilinguals in the Middle Ages; Byzantine and Islamic science; the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453.
Selected Publications
Books
The Ocult Sciences in Byzantium, ed. with Paul Magdalino (Geneva: éditions de la Pomme d'Or, 2007).
Bilingualism in Greek and Arabic: Evidence from the Manuscripts (in preparation).
A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources. E.J. Brill: Leiden, 2002.
Artemidorou Oneirocritica. Translation of a 2nd century A.D. manual on dream interpretation from Classical into Modern Greek and Introduction. Histos: Athens, 2002.
Articles
(with Simon Franklin), "Byzantino-Slavica and Byzantino-Arabica: possibilities and problems of comparison" Byzantinoslavica 65 (2007), 51-67.
(with Paul Magdalino), Introduction to co-edited volume, The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (Geneva: edition de la Pomme d'Or, 2007), 11-37.
"Occult Science and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research" in P. Magdalino and M. Mavroudi, eds. The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (Geneva: éditions de la Pomme d'Or, 2007), pp. 39-95.
"Late Byzantium and Exchange with Arabic Writers", in S. T. Brooks, ed., Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261-1557). Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 62-75.
"Ta'bīr al-ruyʼā and aḥkām al-nujūm: References to Women in Dream Interpretation and Astrology Transferred from Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Medieval Islam to Byzantium: Some Problems and Considerations", in B. Gruendler and M. Cooperson, eds., Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms. Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65. Birthday from His Students and Colleagues (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008), 47-67.
"Arabic Words in Greek Lettrers: The Violet Fragment and More" in Jacques Grand'Henry and Jerôme Lentin, eds. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic throughout History, Louvain-la-Neuve 11-14 May 2004. Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, Peeters 2008, 321-354.
(with Mary-Lyon Dolezal). "Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Byzantine Descriptions of Gardens." A. Littlewood, H. Maguire, J. Wolschke-Buhlmann, eds. Byzantine Garden Culture (Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, D.C., 2002), 105-158.
Book Reviews
Review of Arietta Papaconstantinou, Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides. L'apport des inscriptions et des papyrus grecs et coptes. Préface de Jean Gascou. Collection Le monde byzantin dirigée par Bernard Flusin (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2001). International Journal of Middle East Studies 36:2 (2004), pp. 289-91.
Review of Garth Fowden, Quṣayr 'Amra. Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004). Journal of Roman Archeology 19 (2006), pp. 731-39.
Review of Nadia-Maria El Cheikh, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004). Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100:1 (2008), 200-204.
Honors and Awards
MacArthur Fellowship (2004-09)
Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship (2004)
Hellman Family Faculty Fund (2004)
Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship (2004-05)
Hanna Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (2001-02)
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship (2000-01)
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities for Dissertation Completion (1995-96)
Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship (1994-95)