Davide Bianchi
Postdoctoral Fellow
RG »Religious Studies«
Contact
Email: Davide.Bianchi(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581 4151
Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
BA and MA degrees (with Distinction) in Classical Archaeology from the University of Milan; studies in Christian Archaeology at the Pontificia Universitas Antonianum (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum) Jerusalem; 2017 PhD with a focus on Christian Archaeology from the University of Milan; 2023 Italian Habilitation in Archaeology. 2017–23 University Assistant (post doc) at the Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna; Since 2023 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pécs (Hungary). Since 2023 postdoctoral research associate at the ÖAI and Principal Investigator of the project »Caskets of Late Antiquity - CLA«
Research Projects
- »Caskets of Late Antiquity. Syncretic Images, Ritual Contexts and Production Techniques in a Time of Change«
- »Early Christianity in Hungary«
Research interests
- Late Antique, Christian and Early Byzantine Archaeology
- Visual and material culture of early Christianity in the Danube provinces and the Near East
- Relics veneration and burial practices in sacred spaces
- Monasticism in the Holy Land
- Religious and cultural interactions in the late antique Mediterranean