Alessandra BUCOSSI
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 6320
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alessandra.bucossi@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Byzantine Civilization [HELL-01/C]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/alessandra.bucossi(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Office hours
Notice
Alessandra Bucossi will be on research leave from November 1, 2025, to October 15, 2026.
During this period, she will supervise only theses (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD) already agreed upon.
Exams will take place as scheduled.
Teaching activity current year
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Laurea
FILOLOGIA, LINGUISTICA E LETTERATURA ITALIANA [FM40]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LETTERE [FT3]
Laurea
LETTERE [FTR3]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LTR40]
Laurea
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: ARCHEOLOGIA, LETTERATURE E STORIA [FMR2]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
STORIA [FTR5]
Laurea
STORIA DELLE ARTI E CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI ARTISTICI [FMR9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STUDI STORICI: ETÀ MEDIEVALE, MODERNA, CONTEMPORANEA [FMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
Teaching activity previous years
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
FILOLOGIA, LINGUISTICA E LETTERATURA ITALIANA [FM40]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DELLE ARTI E CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI ARTISTICI [FM9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
FILOSOFIA [FT2]
Laurea
LETTERE [FT3]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Laurea
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [LT7]
Laurea
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
FILOLOGIA, LINGUISTICA E LETTERATURA ITALIANA [FM40]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DELLE ARTI E CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI ARTISTICI [FM9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LETTERE [FT3]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LT40]
Laurea
ALTRE OPPORTUNITÀ FORMATIVE [AOF]
Micro-credenziali
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DELLE ARTI E CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI ARTISTICI [FM9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
LETTERE [FT3]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ: LETTERATURE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA [FM2]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
STORIA DELLE ARTI E CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI ARTISTICI [FM9]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [FT1]
Laurea
LETTERE [FT3]
Laurea
STORIA [FT5]
Laurea
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Civiltà bizantina [HELL-01/C]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, Balcani, Medio Oriente, Russia e aree caucasiche
- Known languages
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Inglese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
Greco moderno (scritto: base parlato: base)
(scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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• Member of the board of the Editors in Chief of Alterum Byzantium Series, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
• Member of the Commission for the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantine of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines – AIEB
• Member of the Advisory Board of the series Foundations, Arc Humanities Press
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
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- Expert for the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
- Reviewer for the ERC Starting Grant 2020 Call
- Reviewer for the ERC Advanced Grant 2021
- Reviewer Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) 2023
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Archeologia ed arti Linea:
Architettura e paesaggio
Area: Archeologia ed arti Linea: Arte medievale
Area: Filologia e Lingua Linea: Storia e filologia bizantina
Area: Religioni e filosofie Linea: Religioni e filosofie – Oriente Cristiano
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Storia del cristianesimo
- Studio di testi relativi alla divisione tra Chiesa Cattolica e Chiesa Ortodossa nel Medioevo
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- Description:
- Writings on the division between Catholic and Orthodox Church in the Middle Ages
- Keywords:
- Philology, Orthodox theology, Medieval history
- Filologia Bizantina
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- Description:
- Byzantine Philology
- Keywords:
- Philology, Ancient greek, Classical philology
- Paleografia Greca
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- Description:
- Greek Palaeography
- Keywords:
- Paleography, Classical philology, Greek literature
- Storia Bizantina
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- Description:
- Byzantine History
- Keywords:
- Medieval history, Church history
- I secoli XI e XII prodromi dell'Europa unita e divisa: confronti e scontri tra l'Oriente bizantino e l'Occidente latino
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- SSD:
- L-FIL-LET/07
- Other members of the research group:
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Antonio RIGO
- International research project RAP (Repertorium auctorum polemicorum de pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam)
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- SSD:
- L-FIL-LET/07
- Panoplia Panopliarum - The long twelfth century: the Byzantine age of anti-heretical compilations
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- SSD:
- HELL-01/C
- Other members of the research group:
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Paolo ELEUTERI
Marco FANELLI
Antonio RIGO
- Diplomacy, Rhetoric and Pragmatism. A Study on Greek Acts and Privileges issued by the Byzantine Emperors to the Italian Mercantile Cities (AD 1100-1400)
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- Funding body:
- MUR
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Antonio RIGO
- PNRR_CHANGES - Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society - Progetto PE00000020 - CUP H53C22000850006 - ● Spoke 1 – HISTORICAL LANDSCAPES, TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES - WP 1 - History and Global Archaeology of Stratified Landscapes
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- Funding body:
- Unione Europea - NextGenerationEU
- Type:
- Altri programmi ministeriali
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Carlo BELTRAME
Francesco BORRI
Flavia DE RUBEIS
Stefano RICCIONI
Chiara STOMBELLINI
- Panoplia Panopliarum - The long twelfth century: the Byzantine age of anti-heretical compilations
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- Funding body:
- Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR), PRIN PNRR 2022
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Paolo ELEUTERI
Marco FANELLI
Antonio RIGO
- Progetto di Ricerca FIR 2013 - I secoli XI e XII prodromi dell'Europa unita e divisa: confronti e scontri tra l'Oriente bizantino e l'Occidente latino
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- Funding body:
- MIUR
- Type:
- FIRB/FIR/SIR
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=181305
- Starting date:
- Year: 2014 Length in months: 60
- SPIN 2019 - International research project RAP (Repertorium auctorum polemicorum de pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam)
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- Funding body:
- Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
- Type:
- Progetti di Ateneo
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Sito di progetto:
- https://pric.unive.it/projects/rap/home
- Starting date:
- Year: 2021 Length in months: 18
Publication highlights
Bucossi Alessandra; D'amelia Luigi Dialogi sex de processione Spiritus Sancti , Leuven, Brepols, vol. 92, pp. 1-284 (ISBN 978-2-503-58640-3)
- URL correlato 2021,
Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/3702636
Alessandra Bucossi, Antonio Rigo, Chiara Gazzini Contro Roma e contro Gregorio Palamas. Il manoscritto Città del Vaticano, BAV, Barb. gr. 291 da Costantinopoli a Leone Allacci in REVUE D'HISTOIRE DES TEXTES, vol. 16 (ISSN 0373-6075)
DOI - URL correlato 2021,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3729578
(a cura di) Bucossi Alessandra; Calia Anna Contra Latinos et Adversus Graecos: The separation between Rome and Constantinople from the 9th to the 15th century , Leuven, Peeters Publishers (ISBN 978-90-429-3785-7) (ISSN 0777-978X)
- URL correlato 2020,
Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/3702634
Bucossi, Alessandra Scriptural citation in Andronikos Kamateros , Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 296-314 (ISBN 9781108418416)
DOI - URL correlato 2018,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/39966
Bucossi, Alessandra Sacrum Armamentarium - Pars Prima , TURNHOUT, Brepolis, vol. 75, pp. 1-376 (ISBN 9782503544106)
- URL correlato 2014,
Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/39967
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
She graduated in Classics in 1999 (University of Genoa, summa cum laude, old system), with a thesis in Byzantine Philology (supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Lia Cresci). In 2001 she was awarded a Master of Arts (with distinction) in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from King’s College London (UK).
From 2001 to 2005 she pursued her doctoral studies (D.Phil.) at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys (Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature), supported by two doctoral scholarships, one from St John’s College (Oxford) and one from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now Arts and Humanities Research Council), the UK’s national funding body for the humanities. In 2005 she defended her doctoral thesis, with Prof. Paul Magdalino (Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History, University of St Andrews) as external examiner.
In 2006 she attended a Master’s programme funded by the European Social Fund (FSE), organized by Sviluppo Italia in collaboration with SDA Bocconi, in Local Development Management and Territorial Marketing. This led to two years of professional experience at a regional development agency, where she managed European projects aimed at the promotion of cultural heritage.
From 2007 to 2008 she was a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University, Washington, D.C.). From 2008 to 2011 she was a Research Fellow at Stockholm University (Sweden), as a core member of the interdisciplinary project Ars edendi, funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. In 2009 she obtained the Diploma in Greek Palaeography from the Vatican School of Greek Palaeography.
From 2011 to 2014 she was Research and Teaching Fellow (RTDa) at King’s College London. From 2014 to 2019 she served as national scientific coordinator (Principal Investigator) of a high-level research programme (Futuro in Ricerca) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she held positions as fixed-term researcher (RTDa and RTDb) and research fellow. In 2019 she was awarded an internal university grant (SPIN funds) for the project RAP – Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum.
On 1 September 2020 she was appointed Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. From 2022 to 2026 she is Principal Investigator of the PRIN PNRR 2022 project Panoplia Panopliarum – The Long Twelfth Century: The Byzantine Age of Anti-Heretical Compilations. In 2026 she is Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library (4 May – 5 June).
ONLINE REPERTORY:
RAP-Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum
RECENT BOOKS:
Alessandra Bucossi and Luigi D'Amelia, Nicetas Thessalonicensis, Dialogi sex de processione Spiritus Sancti (Leuven: Brepols, 2021)
Marco Fanelli, Ottavia Mazzon e Niccolò Zorzi (eds), Eresia e ortodossia a confronto: Manoscritti e testi da Bisanzio alla Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Padova: PUP, 2025)
Research interests:
Byzantine textual criticism and Greek palaeography, with a special interest in theological literature (theological discussions, polemical writings, heresiological compilations and patristic anthologies). History of the Byzantine empire and of the Byzantine church, with a special interest in definition and development of religious identities in Byzantium (Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, etc.), relationship between imperial and religious powers, relationship between the Latin West and the Byzantine East (9th –15th century).
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