Notes on Contributors
Frédéric Berland
is Doctor of Philosophy from the University Paris 8 (Saint-Denis). His work focuses on non-Aristotelian logic in Neoplatonism, medieval philosophy and contemporary logic. He published a book on the Neoplatonism influence on Descartes, papers on Dietrich of Freiberg, and he translated into French several works by Graham Priest on paraconsistent logic.
Benjamin Gleede
Dr. theol. 2008, Dr. theol. habil. 2014, currently holds a Heienberg position at the University of Tübingen. His research specialisation is Greek patristics and its relationship with ancient philosophy and science. Main publications include Platon und Aristoteles in der Kosmologie des Proklos. Ein Kommentar zu den 18 Argumenten für die Ewigkeit der Welt bei Johannes Philoponos (Tübingen 2009), The development of the term ἐνυπόστατος from Origen to John of Damascus (Leiden 2012), and Parabiblica latina. Studien zu den griechisch-lateinischen Übersetzungen parabiblischer Literatur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der apostolischen Väter (Leiden 2016).
Carlo dell’Osso
is Professor of Patristics and Church History at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome. He obtained his Laurea with a thesis on Ps.-Justin and earned a Doctor of Theology and Patristic Studies at the Augustinianum with a dissertation on the Christology of Leontius of Byzantium. He has published widely on the Greek and Latin fathers. Recent books include Cristo e Logos: Il calcedonismo del VI secolo in oriente (Rome 2010) and Monoenergiti/monoteliti del VII secolo in Oriente (Rome 2017).
Laurent Lavaud
is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He specialises in the history of Neoplatonism, especially Plotinus and Proclus. He has also worked on the influence of Greek philosophy on patristic thought (Augustine, Marius Victorinus, Gregory of Nyssa) and is engaged in the translation of the complete works of Plotinus for the Flammarion editions. He is the author of L’Image (Paris, Flammarion, 1999), D’une métaphysique à l’autre. Figures de l’altérité dans la philosophie de Plotin (Paris, Vrin, 2008) and Mystique et monde (Paris, Cerf, 2015).
Radu Marasescu
earned a doctorate in philosophy from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (2010) with a thesis entitled Le symbolisme de l’entrée au sanctuaire selon les rites orientaux. L’exemple de la Prière du Voile dans la Liturgie de saint Jacques. He is the author of various articles and studies on biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, anthropology and the history of religions.
Pascal Mueller-Jourdan
Full Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of the West (Angers, France) has published several studies in late antique philosophy and theology. Among them are numerous articles on prime matter, space and time, the souls of animals and more recently on light as an energy in Philoponus’ commentary on the De anima of Aristotle.
Ilaria Ramelli
FRHistS, holds two MAs, a PhD, a Postdoc, and various Habilitations to Ordinarius. She has been Professor of Roman History, Senior Visiting Professor (Harvard; Boston U.; Columbia; Erfurt), Full Professor of Theology and Endowed Chair (Angelicum), and Senior Fellow (Durham, twice; Princeton, 2017–; Sacred Heart U., 1998–; Corpus Christi; Christ Church, Oxford). She is also Professor of Theology and of Patristics (Durham, hon.; KUL) and Senior Fellow and Member (MWK; Bonn U. elect; Cambridge U.). Recent books include Apokatastasis (Brill 2013), Social Justice (OUP 2016), Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism (Peeters 2021), Patterns of Women’s Leadership (ed., OUP 2021), and Lovers of the Soul (ed., Harvard 2022).
Marwan Rashed
is Professor of History of Greek and Arabic Philosophy, Sorbonne University (Paris), and Assistant Director of the Léon-Robin Center (CNRS, UMR 8061). He has dedicated several works to Aristotle and his ancient commentators and is also interested in the philosophical doctrines of classical Islam, studying in particular the interactions between Arab philosophy in the Greek tradition and rational theology. He is the author of a critical edition with commentary of Aristotle’s treatise On Generation and Corruption, of two books on Alexander of Aphrodisias and has recently discovered and edited the manuscript of a work by al-Hasan Musa al-Nawbakhti (ca 850–ca 920). He is currently working on the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions, focusing on the mathematical ontology of the Timaeus, of which he is preparing a critical edition for Les Belles Lettres and a book for Oxford University Press. In the Aristotelian field, Marwan Rashed is working, in collaboration with Oliver Primavesi (LMU München), on a new critical edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics for the Oxford Classical Texts collection.
Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc
is Professor of History of Art and Philosophy at the University Paris VII. She has published on the history of Byzantine Art, Patristic, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and translated into French the Ambigua of Maximus the Confessor. Research topics and publications: Ancient traditions of natural philosophy; World-systems of Late Antiquity; Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Gnostic sources, and their influence in Byzantine texts (4th–9th c.). She is the author of a forthcoming book, The Reversed Perspective. Mathematical Structures in Byzantine Art and Thought.
Peter Van Deun
Full Professor of Byzantine Studies, Leuven University (Belgium); President of the Belgian Association of Byzantine Studies; Editor-in-chief of the Series Graeca of the Corpus Christianorum; Editor-in-chief of Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (and subseries Bibliothèque de Byzantion); Editor-in-chief of the international journal Byzantion. Research topics and publications: Byzantine anthological literature; Byzantine capita literature; critical text editions of Greek Patristic and Byzantine authors; Maximus the Confessor (580–662); Metrophanes of Smyrna (9–10th c.); Nilus Doxapatrès (12th c.); Mark the Monk (13th c.).
Johannes Zachhuber
is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. His research is focussed on ancient Christianity and the modern history of Christian ideas since the Reformation. Publications include Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa (2000); Theology as Science in Nineteenth Century Germany (2013); The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics (2020). He is also general editor of The Oxford History of Modern Germany Theology.