
Member of LEM’s Cluster 2 "Bible exegesis, religious literature and history", Laetitia Ciccolini is Associate professor in Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne Université (Faculté des Lettres), as well as a member of the Institut d’études augustiniennes (IEA). She specializes in the work of Cyprian, bishop of Carthage and Church Father (200-258 AD. J.-C.).
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Fields of research
– Latin patristic Literature.
– Text transmission and reception.
– Intellectual history of Late Antiquity.
Topics of research
– First Christian Latin literature (2nd-3rd c.).
– History of the philosophical and religious doctrines of Late Antiquity, with a specific attention granted to the texts about martyrdom and virginity.
– Literature of controversy.
– Phenomena of pseudepigraphy and discussions around criticisms of attribution.
Current project
Critical edition of the Quod idola dii non sint.
Selected books
Edition : with P. Mattei,
De habitu virginum ; Pseudo-Cyprianea I,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2016.
With Ch. Guérin, S. Itic and S. Morlet (ed.),
Réceptions antiques. Lecture, transmission, appropriation intellectuelle,
Paris, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2006.