Chiara D’Agostini

August 25, 2022

NetMAR SDU Scientific Project Manager Dr Chiara D’Agostini has been awarded a two-year postdoc position by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Warm congratulations to our NetMAR SDU Scientific Project Manager Dr Chiara D’Agostini who has been awarded a two-year postdoc position by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for the project ‘Necessity by Design: The Mathematics of Rhetoric in Middle Byzantine Culture’. Dr D’Agostini will analyse the diagrammatic commentaries on the Corpus Hermogenianum.
March 30, 2022

A ‘Byzantine’ Map in Context: ‘Since You can See the Earth as a Whole, you Should Believe you are in the Sky’

By Dr Chiara D’Agostini

NetMAR examines medieval arts together with rituals with the intention of addressing their intersections. Does this approach also apply to the investigation of scientific subjects? Would NetMAR’s holistic approach fit to the subject of geography? By taking as a case study the reception of Ptolemy’s Geography in 13th-century Byzantium, this blog post will try to answer this question.