Alte Geschichte

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
July / August 2024
Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography

Lincoln College, University of Oxford

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

Monographs

  • Il terzo libro del De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido. Analisi critica, traduzione italiana, commento linguistico e storico, forthcoming.

Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes

  • Il quarto libro del De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido: ipotesi sulla bipartizione (irrealizzata) del terzo libro, in «Mediterraneo Antico. Economie società culture» 27 (2024), pp. 229-237.
  • Tre prefetti al pretorio descritti nel De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido: Marino di Apamea, Giovanni di Cappadocia e Foca, in «La préfecture du prétoire tardo-antique et ses titulaires (IVe-VIe siècle). Études réunies par Pierfrancesco Porena et Olivier Huck» Bari 2023, pp. 539-559.
  • 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
  • Giovanni Lido: credo religioso e cultura tradizionale nella Costantinopoli di Giustiniano, in «Atti del IX Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini» Palermo forthcoming.
  • Il balneum di Giovanni di Cappadocia. Degenerazione morale e inadeguatezza politica nel De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido, forthcoming.

Reviews and conference reports

  • Franceschini G., Frizzera A., Zambonin F., Il terzo seminario Volterra. ‘Senatoconsulti e documentazione epigrafica: acquisizioni e prospettive’ (Roma, 17 giugno 2022), in «Quaderni Lupiensi di Storia e Diritto» 12 (2022), pp. 510-513.
  • Review of “Dey H., Oppedisano F., Justinian’s Legacy. The Last War of Roman Italy / L’eredità di Giustiniano: l’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana, Roma-Bristol 2024”, forthcoming.
  • Review of “Begass Ch. (Hg.), Iohannes Lydos, De magistratibus. Autor – Werk – Kontext, Stuttgart 2024”, forthcoming.

Presented Papers / Workshops

Presented Papers / Workshops

  • July 2025: International Medieval Congress (IMC 2025), session “Political Networks and Urban Dynamics in the Late Roman East III: Centre and Periphery in Major and Minor Eastern Cities”.
    Talk: The Price of Patronage: the Case of Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus and the Lycians.
  • May 2025: Series of seminars by Dottorato di Ricerca in Civiltà e culture linguistico-letterarie dall’antichità al moderno (curr. Civiltà e tradizione greca e romana).
    Talk: Le relazioni tra il prefetto al pretorio d’Oriente e gli Augusti a Costantinopoli.
  • May 2025: Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH 2025), “Crossing Cultures. Encounters, Clashes and their Reception in Antiquity”, Università del Molise, Campobasso.
    Talk: La rappresentazione dell’alterità e la romanitas nel De magistratibus di Giovanni Lido: incontri interculturali e declino imperiale.
  • February 2025: Conference “Connecting Late Antiquities” (org. Julia Hillner, Richard Flower, Jeroen Wijnendaele e Jessica van ’t Westeinde), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
    Talk: Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus: reconstructing the life, career and downfall of a 4th century Eastern praetorian prefect.
  • November 2024: Workshop “Land and Loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman World (4th-6th c.)”, St. Andrews.
  • June 2024: IX Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini. Territori e culture. Letture contemporanee del mondo bizantino, Palermo.
    Talk: Giovanni Lido: credo religioso e cultura tradizionale nella Costantinopoli di Giustiniano.
  • November 2023: Teach@Tübingen Fellow Workshop, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen.
    Talk: The Praetorian Prefect John the Cappadocian. Administration and Politics in Justinian I’s Constantinople.
  • November 2023: British Epigraphy Society – Autumn Colloquium”, Institute of Classical Studies, London.
    Poster: PPRET Inscriptions. Inscriptions pertaining to the Praetorian Prefects from 284 to 395 AD.
  • October 2023: Conference “Roman Baths and Agency. The human factor in designing, building, using, experiencing, and maintaining bath buildings in the Roman territories” (org. Dr. Konogan Beaufay e Dr. Sadi Maréchal), Academia Belgica. Centro per la Storia, le Arti e le Scienze, Roma.
    Poster: Bathing Practices and Political Inadequacy in 6th century Constantinople: John Lydus’ account of the praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian.
  • September 2023: Workshop “Bearers of Faith: Local Practice, Communal Ritual, and the expression of Religious Identity in the Ancient and Late-Antique Mediterranean, ca. 200 BC – AD 600” (org. James Worth and Luca Ricci), Institute of Classical Studies, London.
    Talk: John Lydus: Religion and Cultural Identity in Justinian’s Constantinople.
  • 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, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen.
    Talk: “Three Praetorian Prefects in John Lydus’ De magistratibus populi romani: Marinus of Apamea, John the Cappadocian and Phocas”.

Teaching

Teaching

  • Winter semester 2023-2024: Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus: reconstructing the life, career and downfall of a 4th century Eastern praetorian prefect

  • Summer semester 2023: John the Lydian and the third book of De magistratibus: praetorian prefecture and imperial power in the 6th century AD

     

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