Costanza Bianchi

Affiliated Reseracher

bianchi@fscire.it

Research interests

The Corpus Canonum in its Coptic tradition and translation (supervisor prof. Alberto Camplani).

Education, academic and professional experience

Since July 2023, she has been a research fellow at the Department of Education and Human Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Her study on the reception of the Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creed in the Egyptian area is part of the broader research initiative on the history of the elaboration, tradition, and translation of the Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creed carried out at the Foundation.

In March 2023 she obtained the diploma of advanced scientific qualification from the Alta scuola europea di scienze religiose Giuseppe Alberigo (FSCIRE), with a thesis entitled Il Corpus Canonum in area egiziana: tradizione ed elementi di originalità (supervisor Prof. Alberto Camplani, Sapienza University of Rome).

From October to December 2021, she was a visiting scholar at the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 2019 she completed a post-graduate internship at the publisher Brepols in Turnhout.

In September 2018 she earned her Master’s degree in Historical-Religious Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis in the history of Christianity entitled Da meretrix a emblema di redenzione: donne, ascete, sante nella tradizione cristiana della tarda antichità (supervisor Prof. Emanuela Prinzivalli; co-supervisor Prof. Alberto Camplani). During her university studies she spent five months at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris and two months at the Université de Strasbourg.

In December 2016 she graduated in Classics at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis in Medieval History entitled Teodora, Teodolinda, Marozia: donne e potere nell’alto Medioevo nelle testimonianze dei contemporanei (supervisor Prof. Eleonora Plebani).

Featured publications

Edited Volumes

A. Melloni – C. Bianchi – M. Proietti (eds.), Il Concilio e il Credo (325-2025). Storia e trasmissione dei simboli di Nicea e di Costantinopoli, EDB, Bologna, 2025.

A. Melloni – C. Bianchi (eds.), The Creed of Nicaea (325). The Status Quaestionis and the Neglected Topic, V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2025.

C. Bianchi (ed.), “Forum of Discussion on the Volumes Il Credo commentato dai Padri” in Cristianesimo nella Storia, 1(2024), pp. 209–262.

Chapter in books

C. Bianchi, “Two Writings Preserved in Coptic against the Council of Chalcedon: The Apophthegma de Incarnatione and the Homily Contra Concilium Chalcedonense,” in P. Blaudeau (ed.), Documenting the Challenges of the Late Antique Miaphysite Church, Brill (forthcoming).

C. Bianchi, “The Council of Nicaea (325) and Its Creed. Forum of Discussion on the Volumes Il Credo commentato dai Padri (Rome, Città Nuova, 2020–2022),” in Cristianesimo nella Storia, 1(2024), pp. 209–214.

Reviews

Una sposa per Gesù. Tra antichità e postmoderno, E. Lupieri (ed.), Rome, Carocci, 2017, in Contacts on the Move 84, 2 (2018), pp. 342–362.

R. Franchi, Dalla Grande Madre alla Madre. La maternità nel mondo classico e cristiano: miti e modelli, 3 vols., Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018, in Augustinianum 60, 2 (2020), pp. 629–635.

Seminars, conferences and workshops