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.
Periodicals
Revue d’études augustiniennes et patristiques.