Rachele Ricceri earned her BA (2006) and MA (2009) degrees in Classics at the University of Catania, Italy. In 2010, she obtained the Diploma in Greek Paleography at the Vatican School of Paleography. She completed a joint PhD in Classical Philology at Ghent University and the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2013, focusing on Gregory of Nazianzus' poetry.

Since 2013, she has been a member of the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, currently serving as the content manager. Beginning in 2018, she embarked on a postdoctoral research position within a project exploring the reception of the Psalms in Byzantine poetry. This project, funded by the Flemish Research Council and the Austrian Research Council, has been a collaboration between Ghent University, KU Leuven, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2019, Rachele was as a summer fellow at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University).

Her research interests encompass textual criticism and Greek palaeography, with a specific focus on late antique and Byzantine poetry. She is engaged in exploring the reception of the Psalms in Byzantium, investigating the interaction between texts and paratexts on the manuscript page, and studying the transmission of Byzantine metrical paratexts.

Projecten

Projecten als co-promotor

Expressing compunction: The literary motifs of Byzantine katanyktic poetry and their religious and scriptural background (2018 - 2023)

Projecten als postdoctoraal medewerker

Projecten als doctoraatsonderzoeker

Critical edition and commentary of Gregory of Nazianzus' poem II,1,50 (2009 - 2013)

Projecten als onderzoeker

Database of Byzantine book epigrams (2010 - 2015)

Publicaties

Meest recente publicaties

Ricceri, Rachele. “David as Model for the Emperor and His Poet : Theodore Prodromos and John II Komnenos.” Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204), edited by Baukje van den Berg and Nikos Zagklas, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 283–302, doi:10.1017/9781009467292.012.
Ricceri, Rachele, et al. “The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams Project : Principles, Challenges, Opportunities.” JOURNAL OF DATA MINING AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES, 2023, doi:10.46298/jdmdh.10244.
Ricceri, Rachele. “‘Rejoicing in the Lord’ : Lexical Choiced from the Septuagint to Manuel Philes’ Metaphrasis of the Psalms.” Translation Automatisms in the Vernacular Texts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, edited by Vladimir Agrigoroaei and Ileana Sasu, vol. 1, Brepols, 2023, pp. 423–29, doi:10.1484/M.BIBVER-EB.5.135216.
Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (2023) Kristoffel Demoen (UGent), Gilbert Bentein, Klaas Bentein (UGent), Floris Bernard (UGent), Julián Bértola (UGent), Julie Boeten (UGent), Mathijs Clement (UGent), Cristina Cocola (UGent), Eline Daveloose (UGent), Sien De Groot (UGent), Pieterjan De Potter (UGent), Ilse De Vos (UGent), Krystina Kubina, Hanne Lauwers (UGent), Paulien Lemay (UGent), Renaat Meesters (UGent), Marjolein Morbé (UGent), Delphine Nachtergaele (UGent), Marthe Nemegeer (UGent), Joachim Nielandt (UGent), Mace Ojala, Lisa-Lou Péchillon (UGent), Raf Praet (UGent), Rachele Ricceri (UGent), Anne-Sophie Rouckhout (UGent), Jeroen Schepens (UGent), Febe Schollaert (UGent), Lev Shadrin (UGent), Nina Sietis (UGent), Dimitrios Skrekas (UGent), Colin Swaelens (UGent), Maria Tomadaki (UGent), Sarah-Helena Van den Brande (UGent), Merel Van Nieuwerburgh (UGent), Lotte Van Olmen (UGent), Noor Vanhoe (UGent), Nina Vanhoutte (UGent)
Ricceri, Rachele. “Gregor von Nazianz : Threnos Über Die Leiden Seiner Seele (Carmen II, 1, 45).” JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, vol. 73, no. 2, 2022, pp. 871–72, doi:10.1093/jts/flac089.

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Onderwijs

Since a.y. 2020/2021: Lecturer-in-charge of the course "Seminar Classical Languages" (BA 3). Ghent University. [in Dutch]
Since a.y. 2018/2019: Either Lecturer-in-charge or Co-lecturer of the course in Greek Palaeography. Ghent University. [in Dutch]
2023: Summer Course in Greek Palaeography, University of Amsterdam
2019-2024: Crash course in Greek Palaeography, addressed to doctoral students. Ghent University and University of Leiden (organized by OIKOS, the Dutch National Research School in Classical Studies)
a.y. 2016/2017: Lectures within the course of Medieval Greek Language and Literature. Ghent University. [in English]
a.y. 2011/2012: Lectures of Greek Palaeography (12 hours). University of Catania, Department of Humanities. [in Italian]

Aankondigingen

Conference presentations and seminars:

The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams: Getting People In and Out Again, PROSOPON Workshop: Entangled Prosopographies Connecting the ‘Prosopographies of the Later Roman and Byzantine Worlds’ Across the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond, Edinburgh, 8-9 December 2023.
Open Traditions: Use and Reuse of Book Epigrams, Workshop on Editorial Practices of Byzantine Texts, Ghent, 24 May 2023.
The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams project, Ghent Centre of Late Antiquity Meeting, Ghent, 10 February 2023.
Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams, International Conference on “Versus ad picturas. Relation texte/image dans la poésie grecque, latine et arabe entre l’Antiquité Tardive et le Moyen Âge”, Strasbourg, 29 September 2022.
Building an Ever-Evolving Database. Byzantine Book Epigrams in Context, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 4-7 July 2022.
Self-Representation and Personal Poetry: the Psalms in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poems. XVIII. International Conference on Patristic Studies. Oxford, 19–24 August 2019.
A Re-Evaluation of Michael Psellos’s Writings on the Psalms and Their Transmission. Research Presentation, Dumbarton Oaks. Washington D.C., 26 June 2019.
Gregory of Nazianzus Praying the Psalms: Religious Practices and Poetic Models. International Workshop on “Cultural Identity and Transmission in Early Christian Literature”. Aarhus, 12–14 June 2019.
Kopiëren, lezen en leren: filologie en boekproductie in Byzantium. Griekenlandcentrum. Ghent, 12 December 2018.
Michael Psellos’ Poem 1 On the Inscriptions of the Psalms: Between Exegesis and Poetry. The 44th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. San Antonio (Texas), 4–7 October 2018.
Book Epigrams on the Psalter: Manuscript Evidence and Editorial Approach. IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque. Paris, 10–15 September 2018.
“Ascolta Davide, il nostro Orfeo”: verso un’edizione dei book epigrams sul Salterio. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 4 July 2018.
David, Poet and King: Some Evidence from Theodoros Prodromos’s Poetry. International Conference on “Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204). Perceptions, Motivations, and Functions”. Vienna, 14 June 2018.
“See the beauty of these writings”: visual elements of Byzantine book epigrams. Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar. Oxford, 22 February 2018.
Adaptation Τechniques in Τwo Greek Μetrical Paraphrases of the Psalms: ps. Apollinaris of Laodicea and Manuel Philes. International Colloquium on “Poésie, bible et théologie de l’Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge (IVe-XVe s.)”. Strasbourg, 26 January 2018.
Medieval Byzantine manuscripts: Byzantine book epigrams in a European database project. CARMEN Annual Meeting. Ghent, 22 September 2017 (with Sien De Groot).
Texts, Paratexts, Manuscripts: the Reception of the Psalms in the Metaphrasis Psalmorum. 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Belgrade, 24 August 2016.
Peace and war as inner states: Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poem II,1,50. U4 Winter School, “Meeting People(s) in peace and war”. Palermo, 7 March 2013.
Su alcuni passi di Greg. Naz. carm. II,1,50. University “Tor Vergata”, PhD in Ancient Classics and their Fortune. Rome, 28 September 2011.

Research stays and participation in research activities:

June 2019 – August 2019: Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.
June 2018 – July 2018: research activity at the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice (funded by the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome).
June 2018 – July 2018: visiting scholar at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
July 2013: Summer School “Communautés et groupes à Byzance”, Thessaloniki.
July 2013: Summer School “Medieval Codicology and Palaeography”, Budapest.
November 2011 – December 2011: visiting scholar at the University of Thessaloniki, Department of Medieval and Modern Greek (tutor Dr. Ch. Simelidis).
September 2011: Summer School “IX Seminario Papirologico Fiorentino”, Florence.
November 2010 – February 2011: visiting scholar at Ghent University, Department of Latin and Greek (tutor Prof. K. Demoen).
August 2009: visiting student at University of Heidelberg, Department of Classical Philology (funded by the University of Catania).
July 2009: Scholarship for a research stay at the Hardt Foundation, Geneva (funded by the Fondazione Giuseppe D’Angelo).
May 2009: University of Heidelberg, attendance of a series of lectures in Latin Palaeography (Prof. W. Berschin).

Dienstverlening

Co-organizer of:

24-26 June 2024: International conference on "Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures".
30 May 2024: Annual gathering of the Belgian Society of Byzantine Studies, Ghent.
25 June 2023: Annual gathering of the Belgian Society of Byzantine Studies, Namur.
2021-2022: Online Lecture Series "Speaking from the Margins"
23-25 June 2020: International conference on “Growing Corpora: Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections” (cancelled due to the covid pandemic)
23-24 April 2020: International conference on “Biblical Poetry: the Legacy of the Psalms in Late Antiquity and Byzantium” (cancelled due to the covid pandemic)
25 May 2018: Annual gathering of the Belgian Society of Byzantine Studies, Ghent.
5 February 2015: Workshop preceding the launch of the “Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams”, Ghent.

Service:

Since 2023: member of the Outreach Team of the Greek Section at Ghent University.
Since 2022: Co-secretary and member of the steering committee of the Belgisch Genootschap voor Byzantijnse Studies | Société belge d’études byzantines
2022-2023: Jury member of the Homeric contest for Flemish secondary schools.
2019-2021: Co-organizer of the Literary Studies Workshop.