Institute of Ancient History

Dr. Giordana Franceschini

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Kontakt

Wilhelmstr. 36, Raum 508, 72074 Tübingen

07071 / 29 74231

giordana.franceschinispam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Sprechstunde (Präsenz-Termine)

  • Dienstag 12 - 14 Uhr

since April 2024
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Philosophische Fakultät of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Project “Land and Loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman World (4th-6th c.)”

April 2023 – March 2024
Teach @ Tübingen Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Philosophische Fakultät of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

March 2023
Research stay

Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) in Munich

September 2022
Research stay

École normale supérieure de Paris

October 2021 – January 2022
DAAD four months research fellowship (Research Grants – Short-Term Grants, 2021)

Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Philosophische Fakultät of the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen

March 2020 – April 2023
PPRET Inscription project

ppret-inscriptions.huma-num.fr/en/

June 2022
Atelier de formation à la recherche – Introduction aux sources du droit romain (June 13-17, 2022)

 École Française de Rome

November 2019 - January 2023
PhD in “Greek and Roman Tradition”

PhD course “Civiltà e culture linguistico-letterarie dall’antichità al moderno” (Department of Humanities - University of Roma Tre - Rome, Italy).

Title of the research project: Il terzo libro del De Magistratibus di Giovanni Lido. Analisi critica, traduzione italiana, commento linguistico e storico (Field research: Byzantine Studies and Roman History).

December 2018 - June 2019
Advanced Training Course in Digital Archive

Archivio Centrale dello Stato

November 2017 - June 2019
APD Archival science, Paleography and Diplomatics

Scuola dell’Archivio di Stato di Roma

July 2017
Master’s degree in Classics (Filologia, letterature e storia dell’antichità, LM-15) (DM 270)

Roma Tre University with a thesis in Latin Epigraphy entitled “Lis fullonum de pensione non solvenda: epigrafia e diritto processuale nella Roma del III secolo d.C.”

November 2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Classics

Roma Tre University with a thesis in History of Ancient Christianity entitled “Εὐχαριστοῦμεν σοι: Le origini del rito eucaristico attraverso le fonti del I e II secolo”

Research

Research interests

  • Late Antiquity (focus on the administrative history of the Late Roman Empire)
  • Eastern Praetorian Prefecture
  • John the Lydian and the De magistratibus populi romani
  • Power relationships between center and peripheries in the Late Roman Empire

Publications

Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes

  • PPRET 82-94 in P. Porena (dir.), E. Angius, A. Bernier, G. Franceschini, P. Porena, I. Vagionakis, PPRET Inscriptions. Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD, Strasbourg (MISHA) 2022, http://ppret-inscriptions.huma-num.fr
  • “Tre prefetti al pretorio descritti nel De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido: Marino di Apamea, Giovanni di Cappadocia e Foca”, in Atti del Convegno Internazionale La préfecture du prétoire tardo-antique et ses titulaires (IVe-VIe siècle), forthcoming.

Presented Papers / Workshops

Presented Papers / Workshops

  • October 2021: Research Seminar: “Tre prefetti del pretorio d’Oriente descritti da Giovanni Lido: Marino di Apamea” in the context of the Stage Dottorale of Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Dottorato di ricerca in civiltà e culture linguistico-letterarie dall’antichità al moderno “Civiltà e tradizione greca e romana”.
  • July 2021: Kolloquium des Seminars für Alte Geschichte Tübingen: “Three Praetorian Prefects in John Lydus’ De magistratibus populi romani: Marinus of Apamea, John the Cappadocian and Phocas”.

Teaching

Teaching

  • Summer semester 2023: John the Lydian and the third book of De magistratibus: praetorian prefecture and imperial power in the 6th century AD
  • Winter semester 2023: Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus: reconstructing the life, career and downfall of a 4th century Eastern praetorian prefect