Vicky Manolopoulou

Vicky Manolopoulou

Vicky ManolopoulouPhD Project Title: Processions in Byzantine Constantinople: an archaeological approach of emotion and memory.

Subject Area: Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantine Texts, History of Liturgy, History of Art.

Supervision team: Dr. Sam Turner and Dr. Mark Jackson

Personal Profile

My research aims to advance our knowledge of the experience of processions (imperial and liturgical) created understandings and meanings in the Byzantine landscape, and how this can be examined archaeologically today. It will provide an analysis of the qualities that landscape and material culture embody, the ways these qualities are gained and the ways they create affective relationships. I aim to explore the role of memory and emotion in the Byzantine world through the archaeological record.I take an interdisciplinary approach of processions, including:

  • An analysis of their nature, meaning and ‘affect’.
  • An analysis of the material culture involved in processions and its affect.
  • An analysis of the landscape of Constantinople, the topography, architecture and its affect.

There will be an approach to all primary sources related to processions in Constantinople in order to:

  • provide an English translation of the relevant parts
  • source information about the archaeology of processions
  • examine emotion and memory in Byzantium
  • create a database of all processions recorded in sources of Constantinople until its fall, and their archaeology
  • create GIS maps showing the processional use of the City.

Other Research Interests:

  • Byzantine landscapes
  • Theory on emotion, memory and personhood
  • Religious studies
  • History of liturgy
  • Byzantine music
  • Byzantine literature
  • Palaiography
  • Byzantine art

Academic qualifications:

  • MA in Roman and Byzantine Archaeology October 2010-2011 (Newcastle University)
  • Ptyhion(Greek equivalent of British BA ) in Archaeology and History of Art (2010) (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Conferences

  • Communication in 44thSpring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Processing Emotion: Litanies in Byzantine Constantinople

Funding

  • 2010-2011 The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece
  • 2011-2012 The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece

Contact

School of Historical Studies
The Armstrong Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
United Kingdom
NE1 7RU

Email: v.manolopoulou@newcastle.ac.uk