Yasmine Amory
I am a post-doctoral research fellow at the Collège de France -- chair "Culture écrite de l'Antiquité tardive et papyrologie byzantine" (Prof. J.-L. Fournet).
Before that, I was the PI of the project "An ancient world of manners. A multimodal approach to politeness theory through Greek documentary papyri" (funded by the Special Research Fund - BOF, 2021-2024) at Ghent University, where I also served as the coordinator of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (https://www.gcla.ugent.be/).
Despite my exotic name, I am Italian. As most of my compatriot colleagues, I have an international background. I was trained in Classics at the University of Florence, at the École Normale Supérieure and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), where I received a Master’s degree and was initiated to Greek Papyrology. I then perfected my papyrological skills in Late Antique documents at the 9th Summer Institute in Papyrology (Princeton University, 2014). I obtained my PhD title at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 2018 with a dissertation on the Greek letters of the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodite (Title: Communiquer par écrit dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité tardive: les lettres grecques des archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité [Égypte, VIe s. apr. J.-C.], supervisor: Jean-Luc Fournet), the richest papyrological archive from Byzantine age. I later joined as a postdoctoral fellow (2018-2021) the ERC project “Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I – VIII AD). A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation", where I investigated the socio-semiotic value of paleography in Greek documentary papyri.
My research interests include documentary papyrology, Late Antique epistolography, communication practices, politeness in ancient sources, and Greek-Coptic language contacts.
Before that, I was the PI of the project "An ancient world of manners. A multimodal approach to politeness theory through Greek documentary papyri" (funded by the Special Research Fund - BOF, 2021-2024) at Ghent University, where I also served as the coordinator of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (https://www.gcla.ugent.be/).
Despite my exotic name, I am Italian. As most of my compatriot colleagues, I have an international background. I was trained in Classics at the University of Florence, at the École Normale Supérieure and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), where I received a Master’s degree and was initiated to Greek Papyrology. I then perfected my papyrological skills in Late Antique documents at the 9th Summer Institute in Papyrology (Princeton University, 2014). I obtained my PhD title at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 2018 with a dissertation on the Greek letters of the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodite (Title: Communiquer par écrit dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité tardive: les lettres grecques des archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité [Égypte, VIe s. apr. J.-C.], supervisor: Jean-Luc Fournet), the richest papyrological archive from Byzantine age. I later joined as a postdoctoral fellow (2018-2021) the ERC project “Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I – VIII AD). A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation", where I investigated the socio-semiotic value of paleography in Greek documentary papyri.
My research interests include documentary papyrology, Late Antique epistolography, communication practices, politeness in ancient sources, and Greek-Coptic language contacts.
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The article is open access here: https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=BASP&issue=0&vol=60
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Even if there is almost no mention of any kind of visual and graphic norms in ancient epistolary manuals, papyri show that there might have been some awareness of the visual disposition of a text and of its semiotic possibilities. By taking into consideration late antique letters on papyrus written from subordinates to superiors, this paper aims to investigate whether the register of deference could also be visible on the graphic and visual level, representing an additional way of mitigating the illocutionary act of the request. This examination hopefully forms the basis for a “visual politeness theory” for ancient documents.
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PhD thesis by Yasmine Amory
Conferences and Workshops Organized by Yasmine Amory
On 23-24 May 2022, the Greek department of Ghent University offers a two-day course in Greek palaeography in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS. The course is intended for MA, ResMA and doctoral students in the areas of Classics, Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations and Medieval studies with a good command of Greek. It offers an chronological introduction into Greek palaeography from the Hellenistic period until the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and/or manuscripts. We will also provide the unique opportunity to read from original papyri in the papyrus collection of the Ghent University Library and become familiar with the ongoing research projects at Ghent University.
Registration is now open through this link:
https://www.novelperspectives.ugent.be/registration/
The article is open access here: https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=BASP&issue=0&vol=60
Even if there is almost no mention of any kind of visual and graphic norms in ancient epistolary manuals, papyri show that there might have been some awareness of the visual disposition of a text and of its semiotic possibilities. By taking into consideration late antique letters on papyrus written from subordinates to superiors, this paper aims to investigate whether the register of deference could also be visible on the graphic and visual level, representing an additional way of mitigating the illocutionary act of the request. This examination hopefully forms the basis for a “visual politeness theory” for ancient documents.
On 23-24 May 2022, the Greek department of Ghent University offers a two-day course in Greek palaeography in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS. The course is intended for MA, ResMA and doctoral students in the areas of Classics, Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations and Medieval studies with a good command of Greek. It offers an chronological introduction into Greek palaeography from the Hellenistic period until the end of the Middle Ages and is specifically aimed at acquiring practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and/or manuscripts. We will also provide the unique opportunity to read from original papyri in the papyrus collection of the Ghent University Library and become familiar with the ongoing research projects at Ghent University.
Registration is now open through this link:
https://www.novelperspectives.ugent.be/registration/
The Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (GCLA - https://www.gcla.ugent.be/) is an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together the rich and variegated expertise on Late Antiquity present at Ghent University.
Some fifty researchers from the departments of archaeology, history, linguistics and literature collaborate within the GCLA. Their research, which is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and the UGent Special Research Fund (BOF), is characterized by close working with sources, material culture and languages, and covers Late Antiquity from North-Western Europe to Egypt and the Caucasus.
The GCLA offers a gateway for international scholars, senior as well as junior ones, wishing to collaborate or come to Ghent to work on Late Antiquity.
Attendance is free but registration is mandatory (before 27th September) through https://eventmanager.ugent.be/GCLA.
The entire event can also be followed online through MS Teams (link on the program).
Più di un'arte, più di un'intuizione. Una proposta tipologica per l'analisi paleografica dei papiri documentari greci.
appartenant aux archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité, le plus grand ensemble papyrologique d’époque byzantine, invite à nuancer cette affirmation. L’expéditeur du dossier, bien qu’il se distingue par sa maîtrise stylistique et linguistique dans les deux langues, se trahit parfois en adaptant dans une langue des expressions courantes dans l’autre. Ce glissement se traduit aussi graphiquement, dans la mesure où le scribe emploie deux mains assez similaires. Ce dossier invite alors à réfléchir tant sur les interférences entre les écritures que sur l’éducation de ce scribe, notamment par la comparaison avec le cas d’un autre scribe bilingue bien connu, Dioscore d’Aphrodité lui-même.
This paper represents an attempt to question the simple qualification of the letter as a material document and to illustrate the further employ of the private literary letter in Late Antiquity, at a time when contemporary rhetoric and art of epistolography considerably influenced it.
Englober les ordres et les lettres administratives dans la catégorie plus générale de «correspondance officielle», où une instance supérieure s'adresse à un subordonné, permet de réévaluer l'insolite incipit épistolaire et, le cas échéant, d'interpréter certains changements structurels de la lettre à l'époque byzantine.
The book includes essays by Tessa Canella, Agostino Soldati, Yasmine Amory, Sophie Kovarik, Dario Internullo, Martin Hellmann.
The book is available for download in Open Access at
<https://www.storiaeletteratura.it/catalogo/segni-sogni-materie-e-scrittura-dallegitto-tardoantico-alleuropa-carolingia/16568>