Francesca Potenza

Francesca Potenza is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) since May 2023, and a Teaching Assistant in Byzantine History and Philology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata since 2017. Her work focuses on Byzantine hagiography, multilingualism in medieval documents, and the history of libraries.

• Collaborates with Oxford's ERC project on Norman Sicily multiculturalism
• Part of Rome Tor Vergata's PRIN project on Byzantine Rome
• Member of Italian and Sicilian Byzantine studies associations

Her research includes critical editions of Byzantine texts, analysis of Greek documents from Norman Sicily, and studies on manuscript provenance. Recent publications examine multilingual legal documents, liturgical manuscripts, and Vatican Library acquisitions.

• Current Projects: DocuMult (ERC, Oxford) and EbyRome (PRIN, Rome)
• Expertise: Byzantine philology, hagiographic dossier analysis, Greek palaeography