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Christine Amadou is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities. Her work is situated within the field of History of Ideas, with a focus on intellectual and cultural history from antiquity to the modern era.
Her research interests include classical reception, religious studies, gender and antiquity, medieval thought, biblical translation history, and the transmission of knowledge. She has published on diverse topics such as Saint George, Thecla, Simone Weil, Procopius, Homeric reception in Norway, philhellenism, and the cultural identity embedded in religious translations.
Her recent publications reveal a strong interdisciplinary trend, combining historical analysis with literary, philosophical, and gender studies approaches. Articles span from Late Antique hagiography to 19th-century Norwegian intellectual history, showing her engagement with both Scandinavian and Mediterranean intellectual traditions.
- Local Cult, Transforming Miracles, and Global Discourses: Saint George in Lydda
- Reading Thecla: Holy Women as Transmitters of Knowledge
- Philhellenism as a Regime of Forgetting: The Norwegian Archaeologist Ingvald Undset and His Report from Greece
- Simone Weil og "det greske mirakel"
- Den ukjente historien om keiser Justinian og Theodora
Christine Amadou is involved in research groups such as 'Children and Youth in a History of Ideas Perspective' and 'Textual Traditions and Communities in Early Modern Europe.' She has contributed to projects like 'Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing.' There is no public information available about her advising of students or research grants. She can be contacted at christine.amadou@ifikk.uio.no and is based in room 603 at the university’s campus in Oslo.
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