Maria Parani
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of History and Archaeology
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus
Biography
Undergraduate studies at the University of Athens (diploma in History and Archaeology, with a specialization in Archaeology and Art History, 1991), postgraduate studies at University College London (M.A. in Field and Analytical Techniques in Archaeology, 1993) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. in Byzantine Art and Archaeology, 2000). Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (2001-2002). Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Program of Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (2002-2003). Visiting Staff (P.D. 407) in Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology (spring 2004). Summer Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (2004). She teaches at the University of Cyprus since January 2005.
Research Interest
Formation processes of Byzantine art, representation of realia, Byzantine and medieval Cyprus, cultural exchange in the fields of court ceremonial, dress and art, daily life in Byzantium and the exploration of alternative sources for the study of Byzantine material culture, Byzantine dress, imperial ceremonial, light and lighting in Byzantium.
Publications
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"The Stuff of Life: The Material Culture of Everyday Living on Middle Byzantine Cyprus (11th-12th centuries)», in Cyprus and the Balance of Empires. Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion, ed. Ch. A. Stewart, T. W. Davis and A. Weyl Carr (Boston, 2014), 153-163.
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Living in a Sweet Land: The Material Culture of Daily Life on Cyprus, 13th-14th centuries,†in Medieval Cyprus. A Place of Cultural Encounter, ed. S. Rogge and M. Grünbart (Μünster, 2015), 219-244.
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"'The Joy of the Most Holy Mother of God the Hodegetria the One in Constantinople': Revisiting the Famous Representation at the Blacherna Monastery, Arta," in Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, ed. S. E. J. Gerstel, Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages 11 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016), 113-145.
