NICOLETTA DE TROIA
- Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn)
- L’Orient, d’Alexandre à Muhammad (OrAM)
Présentation
As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ArScAn UMR 7041 (Supervisor Prof. G. Tallet), I am working on the project RISE (DOI 10.3030/101210173), which explores the political and societal transformations that took place in Egypt’s Western Desert over the transition of Egypt from a Roman province to an Arab Muslim state (from the late 3rd to10th centuries CE). RISE focuses on overlooked historical actors: the nomads in the Western Desert and their interactions with the oasis settlers. The working hypothesis is that these relations lie at the basis of the region's historical evolution.
I was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in Ancient History within the ERC-funded LIFE project (ERC CoGrant 681673). This project has reconstructed the management of settlements and resources in the Late Roman oases of Egypt, with a particular focus on the Oasis of Kharga. My role consisted of analysing literary descriptions of Egypt’s oases (3rd-5th c. CE), complemented by documentary texts from the Great Oasis, alongside training in Roman archaeology with a focus on desert environments and fieldwork participation.
Specialising in the cultural and political history of Romano-Byzantine Egypt, my PhD dissertation examined the representations of Egypt’s oases in Graeco-Latin literature (from Herodotus to Emperor Justinian) within their broader historical contexts, blending ancient literature with politico-cultural history. My research combines a strong background in Classics and Ancient history with expertise in Medieval Arabic literature and Early Islamic history of the Mediterranean world. This interdisciplinary approach let me explore the transition from Byzantine to Arab Egypt.
Publications
Publications
Travelling through Egypt’s Western Desert. A perspective from early Arab geographers’ accountsEtudes Arabes, 2023, 119, pp.21-47
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The Oases of Egypt's Western Desert from Byzantine to Islamic Rule: Problems and New PerspectivesJournal of Late Antiquity, 2022, 15 (1), pp.277-303. ⟨10.1353/jla.2022.0008⟩
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Living in a fringe environment: three Late Roman settlements in the Kharga Oasis (Egypt's Western Desert)Journal of Roman Archaeology (JRA), 2022, 35 (2), pp.743-778. ⟨10.1017/S1047759421000829⟩
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Identità e mobilità in età tardoantica : la fascia presahariana lungo i confini dell'Africa romanaQuaderni di Archeologia della Libya , 2020, 22, pp.133-155. ⟨10.48255/1028⟩
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On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case StudyLiving the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, Huebner, Sabine, May 2017, Basel, Switzerland. pp.163-180, ⟨10.1515/9783110683554-015⟩
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Le oasi del Deserto Libico nelle Storie di ErodotoFirst International Congress Historical and Mythical Geography in Antiquity, Manuel ALBALADEJO VIVERO; David HERNÁNDEZ DE LA FUENTE; Stéphane LEBRETON e Pierre SCHNEIDER, May 2017, Valencia, Spain. pp.259-274
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Ceramics trade networksCorinna Rossi. Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib. A Remote Investigation, Sidesone Press, pp.159-180, 2025
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Continuity and discontinuity along the borderCorinna Rossi. Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib. A Remote Investigation, Sidesone Press, pp.181-198, 2025, 9789464271171. ⟨10.59641/yy901bk⟩
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How agriculture became sustainable in the desertCorinna Rossi. The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib, Sidesone Press, pp.67-80, 2025
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Olimpiodoro di Tebe e le oasi del Deserto Occidentale d’Egitto (F 33 Müller) e Problemi e prospettive di studioSources et modèles des historiens anciens, 3, Ausonius Éditions, pp.315-326, 2024, Scripta Antiqua, 9782356136107
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