Annick PETERS-CUSTOT

Annick Peters-Custot is a graduate of the École normale supérieure de Paris (Ulm), as well as the holder of an agrégation in history and a doctorate from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has served as a professor of Medieval History at the University of Nantes since 2014. She is a specialist in Byzantine, Norman, and Swabian Southern Italy (ninth to thirteenth century), Italian-Greek monasticism, and contacts between the Latin West and the Byzantine world between the eighth and fifteenth century. She coordinates the Imperialiter program (École française de Rome/Casa de Velázquez/CRHIA/Collège de France), which studies the imperiality of medieval and early modern kingdoms: https://www.efrome.it/imperialiter.html.

She has notably published: Les Grecs de l’Italie méridionale post-byzantine. Une acculturation en douceur (ixe-xive siècles) (Rome: Collection de l’École française de Rome, n°420, 2009); and Bruno en Calabre. Histoire d’une fondation monastique dans l’Italie normande : S. Maria de Turri et S. Stefano del Bosco (Rome: Collection de l’École française de Rome, n°489, 2014).

She has also co-edited with Jean-Marie Martin and Vivien Prigent, the four volumes of L’héritage byzantin en Italie, viiie-xiie siècles (Rome: Collection de l’École française de Rome n°449, 461, 510 and 531, 2011-2017) ; with Olivier Delouis and Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, Les mobilités monastiques en Orient et en Occident, de l’Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge (ive-xve siècles)(Rome: Collection de l’École française de Rome, n°558, 2019) ; with Camille Rouxpetel and Bernadette Cabouret, La réception des Pères grecs en Italie au Moyen-Age, (Paris: Le Cerf/MOM-Lyon co-publication, 2020) ; with Y. Lignereux, A. Messaoudi et J. Wilgaux, Ethno-géopolitique des empires. De l’Antiquité au monde contemporain (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Enquêtes et documents n°70, 2021) ; with Fulvio Delle Donne, Le souverain et l’Église / Il sovrano e la Chiesa (Imperialiter vol. 1, Basilicata University Press, 2022) open-access :

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The Lion from the Venice Arsenal, symbol of this political commerce that saw war and predation as a means of commercial development: the lion is from the port of Piraeus in Greece, and was brought by the future doge Francesco Morosini in 1687. The lion was sculpted circa 360 BCE, and bears long runic inscriptions winding around its shoulders and flanks, which were engraved by Scandinavians during the second half of the eleventh century, probably mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Emperor (the Varan
The Lion from the Venice Arsenal, symbol of this political commerce that saw war and predation as a means of commercial development: the lion is from the port of Piraeus in Greece, and was brought by the future doge Francesco Morosini in 1687. The lion was sculpted circa 360 BCE, and bears long runic inscriptions winding around its shoulders and flanks, which were engraved by Scandinavians during the second half of the eleventh century, probably mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Emperor (the Varangians). Image: Annick Peters-Custot.
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Venetian merchants and traders, actors of the Venetian Empire

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