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First Name
Linda
Last Name
Safran
Country
Canada
State
Affiliation
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Website URL
utoronto.academia.edu/lindasafran
Keywords
Byzantine and medieval art history, southern Italy (especially Salento region of Apulia), Byzantine diagrams
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PhD
PhD

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Recent Publications

The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

“Two Classrooms in China” (with Adam S. Cohen). Common Knowledge 24, no. 3 [“Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom, Part 2”] (2018): 375–88 (forthcoming).

“Remembering the Jewish Dead in Medieval Apulia and Basilicata.” In Letters in the Dust, Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, ed. Leonard Rutgers and Ortal-Paz Saar. Leuven: Peeters (forthcoming 2018).

“Four Inscriptions from Salento.” In Medieval Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3, From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081–ca. 1330), ed. Charles Barber and Foteini Spingou (Cambridge: Cambridge University press, forthcoming 2018).

“La mise-en-page dei testi pubblici nel Salento medievale.” In “Gli uomini e le lettere: personaggi, testi e contesti della Terra d’Otranto di cultura bizantina,” special issue of Rudiae: Ricerche sul mondo classico, n.s. 3 (2017)[2018], ed. Alessandro Capone, 265–84.

“Introduzione.” In Botrugno: Chiesa dell’Assunta; La parete absidale dopo il disvelamento degli affreschi, ed. Sergio Ortese, xv–xviii. Galatina: Congedo, 2016.

“Greek in the Salento: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Public Texts.” In Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond: Methods–Projects–Case Studies. Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 38, ed. Andreas Rhoby, 227–39. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Local & Regional, Material Culture