Annunziata DI RIENZO
PhD in Philology and History of the Ancient World obtained at the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), jointly with the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2019 with a dissertation on “Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections”. From 2019 to 2022 she collaborated with the ERC project PAThs, at La Sapienza, working on the codicological description of Coptic manuscripts.
She works in the field of Ancient Christian Literature and History of Christianity, mainly focusing on Syriac Christianity. Her main field is the Syriac Hagiography.
Among her publications:
Di Rienzo, A. (2023). Présence et utilisation des canons conciliaires du ive siècle
dans les premiers synodes syro-orientaux (410-424), in V. Berti and M. Debié (eds.), Le droit en monde syriaque, (Études Syriaques 18), Paris: Geuthner, 2023: 135-172
Di Rienzo, A. (2017). Risemantizzare la memoria. Il conflitto tra Papa bar Aggai e Miles di Susa nell’ottica del catholicos di Seleucia. CRISTIANESIMO NELLA STORIA, vol. 38: 637-654
Di Rienzo, A. (2016). Gli Actus Silvestri nella tradizione in lingua siriaca: il testimone contenuto nel manoscritto BL Add 12 174. ADAMANTIUS, 22: 328-348
Di Rienzo A., Pope Sylvester: How to Create a Saint. The Syriac Contribution to the Sylvestrian Hagiography, in S. Minov and F. Ruani (eds.), Syriac Hagiography – Texts and Beyond, Leiden: Brill, 2021: 113-134