Vassa Kontouma
Vassa Kontouma | |
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| Born | 1967 Boulogne, France |
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| Discipline | history |
| Sub-discipline | Byzantine studies |
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Vassa Kontouma or Vassa Kontouma-Conticello, born in Boulogne in 1967, is a Franco-Greek historian and Byzantinist. She specializes in the history of ideas within the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world, particularly focusing on theological questions. She is also an expert on specific authors, such as John of Damascus.
Biography[edit]
She was born in Boulogne in 1967 to Greek parents.[1] She traveled to numerous European countries before returning to France in 1984. Kontouma then pursued studies in philosophy and oriental languages, eventually completing a thesis on the theology of John of Damascus under the supervision of Pierre Magnard.[2] Her research focused on his treatise "De Fide orthodoxa", which remained one of her ongoing subjects of research.[3] She has been teaching at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) since 1998, became a lecturer in 2012, and later became the dean of the section of religious sciences within the institution.[1][4] In 2016, she also obtained her Habilitation.[5][6] The historian serves as the president of the association of the French Institute of Byzantine Studies (IFEB).[7][8][9]
In 2017, in collaboration with the French School at Athens, Xavier Bisaro, and Flora Kritikou, she organized a research project on the Byzantine chants of Candia (Venetian Crete),[10] an art form that is relatively unknown but characterized by a close connection between Latin and Greek traditions.[10] She is a specialist of John of Damascus, among others.[11] Thus, alongside other scholars, she revisited the commonly accepted biography of John of Damascus, offering new interpretations of his life.[12]
In collaboration with Eastern Orthodox Bishop Job Getcha, Kontouma contributed to an interreligious work to present Eastern Orthodox Christian theology.[13] She was also involved in explaining her research, participating in discussions on platforms such as France Culture[5][9] and France 2.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Vassa Kontouma | École Pratique des Hautes Études". www.ephe.psl.eu (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ Kontouma, Vassa (1996-01-01). La "Source de connaissance" de S. Jean Damascène : traduction annotée des livres I (Dialectica) et III (Expositio de fide orthodoxa) (These de doctorat thesis). Paris 4. Archived from the original on 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ Bastit-Kalinowska, Agnès (2013). "L'Introduction d'Antonio Orbe: Une vision inédite de la première pensée chrétienne". Gregorianum. 94 (2): 231–237. ISSN 0017-4114. JSTOR 23582312. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ "Front Matter". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 237 (1). 2020. ISSN 0035-1423. JSTOR 26977473. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ a b "Livres et confessions". France Culture (in French). 2017-03-05. Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ Kontouma, Vassa (2022). "Vu depuis l'au-delà. Le monde selon Jacques de Néa Skètè". Études Balkaniques (in French). 26 (1): 153–175. ISSN 1260-2116.
- ^ Agati, Maria Luisa (2013). "Un copista greco della dominazione ottomana: Δανίήλ, da due manoscritti del Museo Bizantino e cristiano di Atene". Scriptorium. 67 (1): 39–85. doi:10.3406/scrip.2013.4260. S2CID 160656248. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ "Vassa KONTOUMA – CFEB" (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ a b "L'Institut français d'études byzantines (II)". France Culture (in French). 2014-11-30. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ a b Thoraval, Fañch (2019). "Xavier Bisaro (1972-2018)". Revue de Musicologie. 105 (1): 159–164. ISSN 0035-1601. JSTOR 48671402.
- ^ "Saint Jean Damascène ou le triomphe des images". La Croix (in French). 2019-05-17. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Chrysostomides, Anna (2021). "John of Damascus's Theology of Icons in the Context of Eighth-Century Palestinian Iconoclasm". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 75: 263–296. ISSN 0070-7546. JSTOR 27107158. Archived from the original on 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ De Prémare, Viviane Comerro; Rauwel, Alain (2016). "Les sciences religieuses au défi du comparatisme: Notes critiques". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 233 (3): 291–303. ISSN 0035-1423. JSTOR 26542273. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ De Prémare, Viviane Comerro; Rauwel, Alain (2016). "Les sciences religieuses au défi du comparatisme: Notes critiques". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 233 (3): 291–303. ISSN 0035-1423. JSTOR 26542273. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
