Doctoral candidate at the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Byzantine Studies)
Provisional title of the dissertation: “Kairos und Krisis: Angemessen entscheiden in militärischen Kontexten vom 6. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert” (Kairos and Krisis: appropriate decision-making in military contexts between the 6th and the 12th centuries)
Immacolata Eramo proposes a new critical edition of the Rhetorica militaris, the only manual of military rhetorics handed down by tradition, written in the in the second half of the 9th century. Her project aims to establish a critical version of the text based on the entire manuscript tradition known to us by now and to provide the first Italian translation of the manual.