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'''Ilaria L. E. Ramelli''' (born 1973) is an Italian-born historian, academic author, and university professor who specializes in ancient, late antique, and early mediaeval [[philosophy]] and [[theology]].
== Life ==
Ilaria Ramelli was born in [[Piacenza]] in 1973. At the age of 8, she was involved in a serious road accident that left her with serious after-effects, forcing her to lie down.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.aristofane.it/pdf/Ilaria_Ramelli.pdf |title=La donna che sa tutte le lingue del mondo |journal=Il Giornale |date=2002-11-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=A Light to Our Community|url=http://mosaic.shms.edu/a-light-to-our-community/|journal=Mosaic|publisher=Michigan|date=2014}}</ref> In her youth, she enjoyed painting.<ref>{{cite journal|publisher=Université de Chicago|date=2010|title=Ilaria Ramelli on Redemptive Suffering |journal= The Beacon|url=https://www.lumenchristi.org/pdfs/newsletters/2010-spring.pdf}}</ref> One of her paintings appears on the cover of one of her books.<ref>{{cite book|title=Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2016|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-justice-and-the-legitimacy-of-slavery-9780198777274?cc=gb&lang=en}}</ref>
=== Education ===
She earned two MAs (Classics with specialization in Early Christianity and Philosophy with specialization in History).{{when|date=July 2023}} She also holds a PhD (Classics and Early Christianity, 2000), a Doctorate honoris causa, a postdoctorate (Late Antiquity and Religion), and some Habilitations to Full Professor - Ordinarius (History of Philosophy, Classics, Greek Language and Literature).<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilaria L. E. Ramelli|url=https://wipfandstock.com/author/ilaria-l-e-ramelli/|website=wipfandstock.com|access-date=2023-07-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI FRHistS|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/ilaria-ramelli|website=stanford.edu|access-date=2023-07-23}}</ref>
== Academic appointments ==
After being Professor of Roman History, {{when|date=July 2023}} Ramelli has been Full Professor of Theology and endowed Chair ([[Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas|Angelicum]]), Humboldt Fellow at [[Erfurt University]], Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Center), and Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]] {{when|date=July 2023}} <ref>{{Cite web|title=Current Fellows and Members {{!}} RHS|url=https://royalhistsoc.org/membership/rhs-fellows-and-members/|access-date=2020-07-25|website=royalhistsoc.org}}</ref> as well as Professor (Durham University, Hon.; KUL) and Senior Member (CCSP, University of Cambridge).<ref>{{Cite web|[email protected]|title=Members — The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism|url=https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory|access-date=2020-07-21|website=www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk|date=8 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref> She has also been, e.g., Senior Research Fellow in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy (both at Durham University, for two fellowships,{{when|date=July 2023}} and at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]),<ref>See the profiles at Durham University: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/cofundsnr/#Ramelli, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford: https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/former-visiting-fellows {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713141629/https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/former-visiting-fellows/ |date=13 July 2017 }}</ref> in Hellenic Studies at [[Princeton University]], Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Oxford University.<ref>See the profile on the website of Princeton University: https://hellenic.princeton.edu/people/ilaria-ramelli</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://philpeople.org/profiles/ilaria-l-e-ramelli|title=Adademic Profile}}</ref>
== Awards ==
Ramelli has received a number of academic and scientific prizes and awards, including a Forschungspreis from the [[Humboldt Foundation]] (2017).<ref>{{cite web |title=Biblical Studies and Early Christianity Newsletter December 2017 |url=http://www2.brill.com/webmail/319031/28154464/8b43c5da7161f818f1673dcef27a4991985548705b7c47b6d49973a7745635c7 |website=Brill |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main |publisher=[[Humboldt Foundation]] |access-date=3 April 2019 |archive-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820035258/http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Selected works ==
=== As author or co-author ===
* ''I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contatti'', preface by B.P. Reardon, Madrid, Signifer 2001; Cascade Books, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-62032-032-7}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Romanzi Antichi e il Cristianesimo {{!}} WipfandStock.com|url=https://wipfandstock.com/i-romanzi-antichi-e-il-cristianesimo.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=wipfandstock.com|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio'', (Il Pensiero occidentale). [[Bompiani]], 2001.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio|last=Capella|first=Martianus|publisher=Bompiani|others=Ramelli, Ilaria|year=2001|isbn=
* ''Allegoria'', vol. I, ''L'età classica,'' Milan: Vita e Pensiero 2004, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico Series. {{ISBN|
* ''Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica'' (Marcello Gigante International Classics Prize, 2006), Naples: Bibliopolis, 2006, Series: Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. {{ISBN|88-7088-528-3}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Memorie
* ''Hierocles the Stoic: elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts''. Brill - [[Society of Biblical Literature]], 2009.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hierocles the Stoic : elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|publisher=Society of Biblical Literature|others=Konstan, David.|year=2009|isbn=
* ''Terms for eternity: Aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts''. Gorgias Press, 2013;<ref>{{Cite book|title=Terms for eternity : aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|publisher=Gorgias|others=Konstan, David|year=2013|isbn=
* ''The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena''. [[Brill Publishers|Brill]], 2013.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|url=https://brill.com/view/title/16787|title=The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena|date=2013-08-05|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-24570-9|language=en}}</ref><br />The book was reviewed, e.g., in [[Theological Studies (journal)|''Theological Studies'']],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McClymond|first=Michael|date=November 2015|title=Origenes Vindicatus vel Rufinus Redivivus? A Review of Ilaria
* ''Tempo ed eternità in età antica e patristica: filosofia greca, ebraismo e cristianesimo'', Assisi: Cittadella, 2015. {{ISBN|978-88-308-1412-7}}.
* ''Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnostika'', Leiden-Atlanta: Brill-SBL, 2015. Pp. lxxxviii + 434. {{ISBN|
* ''Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: The role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity''. [[Oxford University Press]], 2017. {{ISBN|978-
* ''A Larger Hope? 1'', prefaced by Richard Bauckham, Cascade Books, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Larger Hope?, Volume 1 {{!}} WipfandStock.com|url=https://wipfandstock.com/a-larger-hope-volume-1.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=wipfandstock.com|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation'', Gorgias 2009; De Gruyter 2019.
* ''Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Ancient Christianity'', co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2021.
* ''Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism and its Sources in Patristic and Ancient Philosophy'', directed, Leuven: Peeters, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peeters Publishers Leuven |url=https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042947726&series_number_str=122&lang=en |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=www.peeters-leuven.be}}</ref>
=== As contributor ===
[[File:Ilaria Ramelli Cambridge University 2019 to 20.png|thumb|Professor Ilaria Ramelli at Cambridge University from 2019 to 2020]]
* "Unconditional Forgiveness in Christianity? Some reflections on ancient Christian sources and practices," in ''The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)''. [[Routledge]], 2011.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The ethics of forgiveness : a collection of essays|date=2011|publisher=Routledge|others=Fricke, Christel.|isbn=
* "The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus' Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen's Theory of Apokatastasis," in ''A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Contexts'', edited by Richard Bauckham et al, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A cloud of witnesses : the theology of Hebrews in its ancient contexts|date=2008|publisher=T & T Clark|others=Bauckham, Richard.|isbn=
* "Divine Power in Origen of Alexandria: Sources and Aftermath," in ''Divine Powers in Late Antiquity'', eds. Anna Marmodoro and Irini Fotini Viltanioti, Oxford: OUP, 2017, 177-198. {{ISBN|978-0-19-876720-6}}.
* "Gregory of Nyssa on the Soul (and the Restoration): From Plato to Origen," in ''Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives'', eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, 110-141. {{ISBN|
* "Origen," in ''A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 245-266. {{ISBN|
* "Epicureanism and Early Christianity," in ''Oxford Handbook to Epicurus and Epicureanism'', ed. Phillip Mitsis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 582-612.
* "Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius," in ''Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite'', ed. Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and Georgios Steiris, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 94-108.
=== As editor ===
* ''Musonio Rufo'', ''Diatribe, frammenti e testimonianze'', Milan: Bompiani, 2001. Pp. 357.
* ''Anneo Cornuto,'' ''Compendio di teologia greca'', Milan: Bompiani, 2003, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 607.
* ''Diogene Laerzio, Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi'', co-edited, Milan: Bompiani, 2005, Il Pensiero Occidentale.
* ''Gregorio di Nissa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte''. Milan: Bompiani, 2007.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sull'anima e la resurrezione|last=Gregory of Nyssa|first=Saint|publisher=Bompiani|others=Ramelli, Ilaria.|year=2007|isbn=978-
* ''Eschilo: Tutti i Frammenti con la Prima Traduzione degli Scolii Antichi e Bizantini'', Milan: Bompiani, 2009, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 2061.
* ''Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms'', edited by Ilaria Ramelli and [[Judith Perkins]], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. {{ISBN|978-3-16-152033-4}}
* ''Evagrius, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism'', edited volume, Leuven: Peeters 2017.
* ''Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature - Volume One: To 600 CE'', co-edited, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
* ''T&T Clark Handbook to the Early Church'', co-edited, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
* ''Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body. Phiilosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late Antiquity'', Harvard University Press, 2022.
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