Professor Dr. Claudia Rapp

University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences


Project Leader

 Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin; D.Phil. Oxford 1992; Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (1994-2011);  Professor of Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna (since 2011); Director of the Division of Byzantine Research/IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2012); Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Utrecht University, EHESS Paris, CEU Budapest, University of Ioannina; Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Dumbarton Oaks, Institute for Advanced Studies Jerusalem, All Souls College Oxford, Macquarie University Sidney, Corpus Christi College Oxford.

 

Research interests:

  • Social and religious history
  • History of written and writing culture
  • Hagiography and the cult of saints
  • Cultural history

     

 

Publications (selection):

Rapp, C., Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition, Berkeley etc. 2005 (paperback 2013).

Rapp, C., Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual, New York and Oxford 2016.

 

W: https://univie.academia.edu/ClaudiaRapp

W: http://www.byzneo.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/akademisches-personal/rapp-claudia/

 

Contact

E: claudia.rapp@univie.ac.at

 

A: Professor Dr. Claudia Rapp

Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

University of Vienna

Postgasse 7/1/3

1010 Vienna, Austria

T: Secretary (Frau Greger) +431427741001

Fax: +43142779410

or

Director, Division of Byzantine Research

Institute for Medieval Research

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Hollandstrasse 11-13/4

1020 Vienna, Austria