NICOLETTA DE TROIA

Boursière Marie Skłodowska–Curie Projet: RISE, Relations and Identities in a Saharan Environment (late third-tenth century CE) - DOI 10.3030/101210173
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Affiliations actuelles
  • 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.

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Publications

On the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late Roman Period: The Khārga Oasis Sites as a Case Study

Nicoletta de Troia
Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, Huebner, Sabine, May 2017, Basel, Switzerland. pp.163-180, ⟨10.1515/9783110683554-015⟩
Communication dans un congrès hal-05384289 v1

Le oasi del Deserto Libico nelle Storie di Erodoto

Nicoletta de Troia
First 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
Communication dans un congrès hal-05389153 v1

Ceramics trade networks

Clementina Caputo , Nicoletta de Troia
Corinna Rossi. Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib. A Remote Investigation, Sidesone Press, pp.159-180, 2025
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05389165 v1

Continuity and discontinuity along the border

Corinna Rossi , Nicoletta de Troia
Corinna Rossi. Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib. A Remote Investigation, Sidesone Press, pp.181-198, 2025, 9789464271171. ⟨10.59641/yy901bk⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05389161 v1

How agriculture became sustainable in the desert

Mauro Moreno , Andrea de Sio , Ludovico Fusco , Francesco Giannino , Fabrizio Cartení et al.
Corinna Rossi. The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib, Sidesone Press, pp.67-80, 2025
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05389167 v1

Olimpiodoro di Tebe e le oasi del Deserto Occidentale d’Egitto (F 33 Müller) e Problemi e prospettive di studio

Nicoletta de Troia
Sources et modèles des historiens anciens, 3, Ausonius Éditions, pp.315-326, 2024, Scripta Antiqua, 9782356136107
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05384297 v1