Staff Catalogue

STAVROULA CONSTANTINOU

CONSTANTINOU STAVROULA
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Apostolides, 200
10, Kallipoleos Ave.& 1, Eressou str.
She is the founder and director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (CeMAR; https://www.ucy.ac.cy/cemar/?lang=en). She is also the initiator and editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed and diamond open access journal Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/eventum). She is a member of the European Cultural Parlament (http://www.kulturparlament.com/members/members/). Creator of the NetMAR Blog: A Blog on Medieval Arts & Rituals (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/netmar/blog/). She teaches at the University of Cyprus since 2004.
 
She was born in Dhekelia (Cyprus). She studied at the University of Cyprus (1992-1996), the Free University of Berlin (1997-1999, 2000-2003), and the University of Cambridge (1999-2000). Her studies have been financed by Aridemi Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and the Free University of Berlin.
 
She spent the academic year 2010-11 in Berlin as a Humboldt fellow (2010-2011) and she received a research stipend by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (2023). She is also the Coordinator of the research projects Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium, 4th Century BCE-7th Century CE [MotherBreast] (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/motherbreast/) and Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd Century CE–7th Century CE) [TaleTheory] (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/taletheory/ ). Both projects are funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Foundation of Research and Innovation. Furthermore, she is the coordinator of the European twinning project Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/netmar/) which constitutes a close collaboration among the University of Cyprus, the Center of Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark) and the Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (University of Bamberg).
  • Byzantine culture and its interrelations with its Western counterpart
  • Byzantine narratives
  • Byzantine and post-Byzantine hagiography
  • Byzantine rituals and arts
  • Issues of poetics and performance
  • Bodies in Byzantium
  • Mothering and breastfeeding in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Cultural theories and their uses for understanding the Middle Ages
Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts and Rituals
Issue 1: The Arts & Rituals of Pilgrimage, https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/eventum/issue/view/1980/496
 
MONOGRAPHS
1. Interactive Embodiment: Approaching Byzantine Βοdies [Brill Research Perspectives in Byzantine Studies]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, forthcoming
 
2. 2005. Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 9]. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
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 Reviews and Book Presentations
•Per-Arne Bodin, “Att genom lidande bli till man”, Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper) 04.08.05, section culture
•Kathryn Ringrose, Speculum (2006) 81: 4, 1171-1172
•Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Le Museon (2006) 119: 3-4, 474-476
•Alice-Mary Talbot, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2007), 58: 309-310
•Panayotis Yannopoulos, Byzantion (2008), 78: 531
 
EDITED VOLUMES
1. with A. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou 2024. Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Byzantium [Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies]. London and New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003265658
Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium
 
2. with C. Høgel 2020. Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill
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3. with M. Meyer 2019. Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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 4. with A. Beihammer and M. Parani 2013. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Medieval Mediterranean [The Medieval Mediterranean 98]. Leiden and Boston: Brill
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 Reviews
•Martin Marko Vučetić, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2016) 43.3
•Martin Schaller, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (2016) 124.1: 179-180
•Nicholas Matheou, Royal Studies Journal (2015), 2. 2: 47-51
•Leonora Neville, Speculum (2015) 90.2: 498-499
•David Rollason, The English Historical Review (2015) 130.1: 947-948
 
ARTICLES (last seven years)

2024

  1. Constantinou, S. “Gendered Emotions in Byzantine Narrative Literature”, in: M. Meyer and Ch. Messis (eds) The Routledge Handbook on Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium. New York and London: Routledge, 461-474
  2. Constantinou, S. “Women in the Byzantine Empire”, in: C. Kleinhenz (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press
  3. Constantinou, S. and A. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou. "The Lactating Woman: Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium". New York and London: Routledge, 1-63, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003265658-1/lactating-woman-stavroula-constantinou-aspasia-skouroumouni-stavrinou?context=ubx&refId=239191fb-f424-4dd0-886c-14484c23194c
  4. Constantinou, S. and A. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou. "Breast Rules: The Body of the Wet Nurse in Ancient and Early Byzantine Discourses". New York and London: Routledge, 67-90, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003265658-3/breast-rules-stavroula-constantinou-aspasia-skouroumouni-stavrinou?context=ubx&refId=54ea15f2-6d14-4963-ab55-02411354fa99
  5. Constantinou, S. and A. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou. "'Galaktology' and Gender: Simple Literary Forms on Milk and Breastfeeding in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Treatises". New York and London: Routledge, 152-180, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003265658-8/galaktology-genre-stavroula-constantinou-aspasia-skouroumouni-stavrinou?context=ubx&refId=ff1f2fa0-157e-435d-85ff-38d99479389e

2023

  1. Constantinou, S. “Monastic ‘Gynealogy’: The Maternal-Feminine Structure of Byzantine Women’s Asceticism”, in: A. Purpura and T. Arentzen (eds), Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity. Eugene, ORE: Wipf & Stock, 88-103

2022

  1. Constantinou, S. and A. Skouroumouni-Stavrinou, "Premodern 'Galaktology': Reading Milk in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Treatises", Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies 1.1-2, 1-40, https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/jlaibs.2022.0003 
  2. Constantinou, S. “Angry Warriors in the Byzantine War of Troy”, in D. Cairns, M. Hinterberger, A. Pizzone, and M. Zaccarini (eds) Emotions Through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium. Heidelberg: Mohr Siebeck, 339-358
  3. Constantinou, S. “Same-Gender Friendships and Enmity in the Life of Eupraxia”, in: L. James, O. Nicholson and R. Scott (eds) After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett. London and New York: Routledge, 218-232, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003021759-21/gender-friendships-enmity-life-eupraxia-stavroula-constantinou

2021

  1. Constantinou, S.,  “Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives”, in: I. Nilsson and P. Marciniak (eds.) A Companion to Byzantine Satire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 81-103; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442566_006
  2.  Constantinou, S. “Metaphrasis: Mapping Byzantine Rewriting”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 3-60, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438453_002
  3. Constantinou, S. “A Rewriter at Work: Nikephoros Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 324-342, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438453_014
  4. Constantinou, S. and A. Andreou, "The Voices of the Tale: The Storyteller in Early Byzantine Collective Biographies, Miracle Collections, and Collections of Edifying Tales", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 46/1, 24 - 40, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2021.31

2020

  1. Constantinou, S. “‘Woman’s Head is Man’: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) The Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. 6.1: The Early Middle Ages. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 13-32

2019

  1. “Thekla the Virgin: Women’s Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr”, in: A. Korangi and L. Rouhi (eds.) The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures [Martyrdom and Literature]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 73-86
  2.  "Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response", in: S. Constantinou and M. Meyer (eds.) Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 283-315

2018

  1. "Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy: Between (Wo)men", in A. Goldwyn and I. Nilsson (eds.) Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 254-271
  2. “‘Das Haupt der Frau ist der Mann’: Kyriarchat und die Rhetorik weiblicher Unterordnung in der byzantinischen Literatur”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Frühmittelalter (6.-11. Jh.), Die Bible und die Frauen, 6.1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 21-44

2017

  1.  "The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (Self-)Torture in Byzantine Hagiography", Classica et Mediaevalia 66 (2015), 285-320
  2. "Bloodthirsty Emperors: Performances of Imperial Punishments in Byzantine Hagiography", in: E. Birge Vitz and M. Pomerantz (eds.) In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-modern Middle East (700-1600 CE). New York and London: New York University Press, 30-41