Biography:Ilaria Ramelli

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Ilaria Ramelli


Ilaria L. E. Ramelli (born 1973) is an Italian-born historian, academic author, and university professor who specializes in ancient, late antique, and early mediaeval philosophy and theology.

Life

Ilaria Ramelli was born in Piacenza in 1973. At the age of 8, she was involved in a serious road accident that left her with serious after-effects, forcing her to lie down.[1][2] In her youth, she enjoyed painting.[3] One of her paintings appears on the cover of one of her books.[4]

Education

She earned two MAs (Classics with specialization in Early Christianity and Philosophy with specialization in History).[when?] She also holds a PhD (Classics and Early Christianity, 2000), a Doctorate honoris causa, a postdoctorate (Late Antiquity and Religion), and some Habilitations to Full Professor - Ordinarius (History of Philosophy, Classics, Greek Language and Literature).[5][6]

Academic appointments

After being Professor of Roman History, [when?] Ramelli has been Full Professor of Theology and endowed Chair (Angelicum), Humboldt Fellow at Erfurt University, Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Center), and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society [when?] [7] as well as Professor (Durham University, Hon.; KUL) and Senior Member (CCSP, University of Cambridge).[8] She has also been, e.g., Senior Research Fellow in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy (both at Durham University, for two fellowships,[when?] and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford),[9] in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Oxford University.[10][11]

Awards

Ramelli has received a number of academic and scientific prizes and awards, including a Forschungspreis from the Humboldt Foundation (2017).[12][13]

Selected works

As author or co-author

  • I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contatti, preface by B.P. Reardon, Madrid, Signifer 2001; Cascade Books, 2012. ISBN:978-1-62032-032-7.[14]
  • Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, (Il Pensiero occidentale). Bompiani, 2001.[15][16][17]
  • Allegoria, vol. I, L'età classica, Milan: Vita e Pensiero 2004, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico Series. ISBN:978-88-343-5007-2.
  • Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica (Marcello Gigante International Classics Prize, 2006), Naples: Bibliopolis, 2006, Series: Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. ISBN:88-7088-528-3.[18]
  • Hierocles the Stoic: elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts. Brill - Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.[19][20][21]
  • Terms for eternity: Aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts. Gorgias Press, 2013;[22][23][24] Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
  • The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena. Brill, 2013.[25]
    The book was reviewed, e.g., in Theological Studies,[26] Journal of Early Christian History,[27] The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition.[28] and The Journal of Theological Studies.[29]
  • Tempo ed eternità in età antica e patristica: filosofia greca, ebraismo e cristianesimo, Assisi: Cittadella, 2015. ISBN:978-88-308-1412-7.
  • Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnostika, Leiden-Atlanta: Brill-SBL, 2015. Pp. lxxxviii + 434. ISBN:1-62837-041-6 (hardback); ISBN:1-62837-039-4 (paperback)
  • Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: The role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN:978-0-19-877727-4.[30][31][32]
  • A Larger Hope? 1, prefaced by Richard Bauckham, Cascade Books, 2019.[33]
  • Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation, Gorgias 2009; De Gruyter 2019.
  • Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Ancient Christianity, co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism and its Sources in Patristic and Ancient Philosophy, directed, Leuven: Peeters, 2021.[34]

As contributor

Professor Ilaria Ramelli at Cambridge University from 2019 to 2020
  • "Unconditional Forgiveness in Christianity? Some reflections on ancient Christian sources and practices," in The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory). Routledge, 2011.[35][36][37]
  • "The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus' Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen's Theory of Apokatastasis," in A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Contexts, edited by Richard Bauckham et al, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008.[38][39]
  • "Divine Power in Origen of Alexandria: Sources and Aftermath," in Divine Powers in Late Antiquity, eds. Anna Marmodoro and Irini Fotini Viltanioti, Oxford: OUP, 2017, 177-198. ISBN:978-0-19-876720-6.
  • "Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration): From Plato to Origen," in Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, 110-141. ISBN:978-0-19-882642-2.
  • "Origen," in A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 245-266. ISBN:978-1-107-18121-2.
  • "Epicureanism and Early Christianity," in Oxford Handbook to Epicurus and Epicureanism, ed. Phillip Mitsis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 582-612. ISBN:978-0-19-974421-3.
  • "Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius," in Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite, ed. Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and Georgios Steiris, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 94-108. ISBN:978-0-19-881079-7

As editor

  • Musonio Rufo, Diatribe, frammenti e testimonianze, Milan: Bompiani, 2001. Pp. 357. ISBN:978-88-452-9099-2.
  • Anneo Cornuto, Compendio di teologia greca, Milan: Bompiani, 2003, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 607. ISBN:88-452-9249-5.
  • Diogene Laerzio, Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi, co-edited, Milan: Bompiani, 2005, Il Pensiero Occidentale. ISBN:88-452-3301-4.
  • Gregorio di Nissa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte. Milan: Bompiani, 2007.[40][41][42]
  • Eschilo: Tutti i Frammenti con la Prima Traduzione degli Scolii Antichi e Bizantini, Milan: Bompiani, 2009, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 2061. ISBN:978-88-452-6289-0.
  • Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms, edited by Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. ISBN:978-3-16-152033-4
  • Evagrius, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism, edited volume, Leuven: Peeters 2017.
  • Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature - Volume One: To 600 CE, co-edited, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
  • T&T Clark Handbook to the Early Church, co-edited, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
  • Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body. Phiilosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late Antiquity, Harvard University Press, 2022.

References

  1. ↑ "La donna che sa tutte le lingue del mondo". Il Giornale. 2002-11-10. http://www.aristofane.it/pdf/Ilaria_Ramelli.pdf. 
  2. ↑ "A Light to Our Community". Mosaic (Michigan). 2014. http://mosaic.shms.edu/a-light-to-our-community/. 
  3. ↑ "Ilaria Ramelli on Redemptive Suffering". The Beacon (Université de Chicago). 2010. https://www.lumenchristi.org/pdfs/newsletters/2010-spring.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. 2016. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-justice-and-the-legitimacy-of-slavery-9780198777274?cc=gb&lang=en. 
  5. ↑ "Ilaria L. E. Ramelli". https://wipfandstock.com/author/ilaria-l-e-ramelli/. 
  6. ↑ "Prof. Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI FRHistS". https://profiles.stanford.edu/ilaria-ramelli. 
  7. ↑ "Current Fellows and Members | RHS". https://royalhistsoc.org/membership/rhs-fellows-and-members/. 
  8. ↑ djt57@cam.ac.uk (8 February 2018). "Members — The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism" (in en). https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory. 
  9. ↑ See the profiles at Durham University: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/cofundsnr/#Ramelli, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford: https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/former-visiting-fellows
  10. ↑ See the profile on the website of Princeton University: https://hellenic.princeton.edu/people/ilaria-ramelli
  11. ↑ "Adademic Profile". https://philpeople.org/profiles/ilaria-l-e-ramelli. 
  12. ↑ "Biblical Studies and Early Christianity Newsletter December 2017". http://www2.brill.com/webmail/319031/28154464/8b43c5da7161f818f1673dcef27a4991985548705b7c47b6d49973a7745635c7. 
  13. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award". Humboldt Foundation. https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main. 
  14. ↑ "I Romanzi Antichi e il Cristianesimo | WipfandStock.com" (in en). https://wipfandstock.com/i-romanzi-antichi-e-il-cristianesimo.html. 
  15. ↑ Capella, Martianus (2001). Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio. Ramelli, Ilaria. Milano: Bompiani. ISBN 88-452-9102-2. OCLC 49843737. 
  16. ↑ Polverini, Leandro (2004). "Review of Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, (Il Pensiero occidentale)". Aevum 78 (1): 216–218. 
  17. ↑ Panti, Cecilia (2003). "Review of Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, («Il pensiero occidentale»)". Il Saggiatore musicale 10 (2): 367–374. 
  18. ↑ "Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici – Bibliopolis – Edizioni di Filosofia e Scienze" (in it-IT). http://bibliopolis.it/memorie-istituto-italiano-studi-filosofici/. 
  19. ↑ Ramelli, Ilaria (2009). Hierocles the Stoic : elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts. Konstan, David.. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 978-1-58983-419-4. OCLC 587468715. 
  20. ↑ Tsouni, Georgia (2012-03-04). "Review of: Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments and Excerpts. Writings from the Greco-Roman World". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-03-04.html. 
  21. ↑ Wildberger, Jula (2015). "Review of . Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts. Translated by David Konstan. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009". Gnomon 87: 399–405. https://philpapers.org/rec/WILRO-4. 
  22. ↑ Ramelli, Ilaria (2013). Terms for eternity : aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts. Konstan, David. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias. ISBN 978-1-4632-0316-0. OCLC 882242964. 
  23. ↑ Wolfe, B. N. (2009-02-16). "Review of: Terms for Eternity: aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-02-16.html. 
  24. ↑ "Review of Biblical Literature". https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6984. 
  25. ↑ Ramelli, Ilaria (2013-08-05) (in en). The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-24570-9. https://brill.com/view/title/16787. 
  26. ↑ McClymond, Michael (November 2015). "Origenes Vindicatus vel Rufinus Redivivus? A Review of Ilaria Ramelli's The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis (2013)". Theological Studies 76 (4): 813–826. doi:10.1177/0040563915605264. 
  27. ↑ Wet, Chris L. de; Stenschke, Christoph (2015). "Book Review: The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena". Journal of Early Christian History 5 (2): 184–190. doi:10.1080/2222582X.2015.11877333. 
  28. ↑ Meredith, Anthony (August 2014). "Book review: The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena, written by Ilaria Ramelli". The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8 (2): 255–257. doi:10.1163/18725473-12341295. 
  29. ↑ Edwards, M. J. (1 October 2014). "The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. By ILARIA L. E. RAMELLI". The Journal of Theological Studies 65 (2): 718–724. doi:10.1093/jts/flu075. 
  30. ↑ Tobon, Monica (April 2018). "SLAVERY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PHILOSOPHY - (I.L.E.) Ramelli Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery. The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 293. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £70, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-877727-4.". The Classical Review 68 (1): 126–128. doi:10.1017/S0009840X17002207. 
  31. ↑ Konstan, David (2018). "Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli". Classical World 111 (2): 275–276. doi:10.1353/clw.2018.0011. 
  32. ↑ Ramelli, Ilaria L. E. (2016). Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-108306-8. 
  33. ↑ "A Larger Hope?, Volume 1 | WipfandStock.com" (in en). https://wipfandstock.com/a-larger-hope-volume-1.html. 
  34. ↑ "Peeters Publishers Leuven". https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042947726&series_number_str=122&lang=en. 
  35. ↑ The ethics of forgiveness : a collection of essays. Fricke, Christel.. New York: Routledge. 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-88543-0. OCLC 617619350. 
  36. ↑ Cowley, Christopher (May 2012). "The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays". International Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (2): 289–294. doi:10.1080/09672559.2011.634233. 
  37. ↑ Pettigrove, Glen (2013). "Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (New York: Routledge, 2011) 212 pp. ISBN: 9780415885430. £76.00.". Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (4): 564–566. doi:10.1163/17455243-01004006. 
  38. ↑ A cloud of witnesses : the theology of Hebrews in its ancient contexts. Bauckham, Richard.. London: T & T Clark. 2008. ISBN 978-0-567-14775-2. OCLC 698127529. 
  39. ↑ Swetnam, James (2009). "Review of A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in Its Ancient Contexts (Library of New Testament Studies 387)". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 71 (3): 680–682. 
  40. ↑ Gregory of Nyssa, Saint (2007). Sull'anima e la resurrezione. Ramelli, Ilaria. (1. ed. Bompiani Il pensiero occidentale ed.). [Milan, Italy]: Bompiani. ISBN 978-88-452-5974-6. OCLC 191923017. 
  41. ↑ Tzamalikos, P. (2008). "Review of Gregorio di Nyssa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte". Vigiliae Christianae 62 (5): 515–523. doi:10.1163/157007208X333993. 
  42. ↑ Edwards, Mark J. (October 2009). "Gregorio di Nissa. Sull'anima e la resurrezione. Testo greco a fronte. Edited by Ilaria Ramelli. (Il Pensiero Occidentale.) Pp. 1,367. Milan: Bompiani, 2007. €34. 978 88 452 5974 6". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 60 (4): 764. doi:10.1017/s0022046909990686. 

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