{{short description|Italian historian, author and academic (born 1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic|image=File:Ilaria_Ramelli_Regensburg.jpg|birth_date=1973|birth_place=[[Piacenza]], Italy|discipline=[[history]]|main_interests=ancient, late antique, and early mediaeval [[philosophy]] and [[theology]]|work_institutions=[[Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas]]<br/>[[Durham University]]|alma_mater=[[Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore]]}}
'''Ilaria L. E. Ramelli''' (born 1973) is an Italian-born historian, academic author, and university professor who specializes in ancient, late antique, and early mediaeval [[philosophy]] and [[theology]].
== Life == Ilaria Ramelli was born in [[Piacenza]] in 1973. At the age of 8, she was involved in a serious road accident that left her with serious after-effects, forcing her to lie down.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.aristofane.it/pdf/Ilaria_Ramelli.pdf |title=La donna che sa tutte le lingue del mondo |journal=Il Giornale |date=2002-11-10 |archive-date=9 January 2017 |access-date=24 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109190306/http://www.aristofane.it/pdf/Ilaria_Ramelli.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=A Light to Our Community|url=http://mosaic.shms.edu/a-light-to-our-community/|journal=Mosaic|publisher=Michigan|date=2014}}</ref> In her youth, she enjoyed painting.<ref>{{cite journal|publisher=Université de Chicago|date=2010|title=Ilaria Ramelli on Redemptive Suffering |journal= The Beacon|url=https://www.lumenchristi.org/pdfs/newsletters/2010-spring.pdf}}</ref> One of her paintings appears on the cover of one of her books.<ref>{{cite book|title=Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2016|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-justice-and-the-legitimacy-of-slavery-9780198777274?cc=gb&lang=en}}</ref>
=== Education === She earned two MAs (Classics with specialization in Early Christianity and Philosophy with specialization in History).{{when|date=July 2023}} She also holds a PhD (Classics and Early Christianity, 2000), a Doctorate honoris causa, a postdoctorate (Late Antiquity and Religion), and some Habilitations to Full Professor - Ordinarius (History of Philosophy, Classics, Greek Language and Literature).<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilaria L. E. Ramelli|url=https://wipfandstock.com/author/ilaria-l-e-ramelli/|website=wipfandstock.com|access-date=2023-07-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI FRHistS|url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/ilaria-ramelli|website=stanford.edu|access-date=2023-07-23}}</ref>
== Academic appointments == After being Professor of Roman History, {{when|date=July 2023}} Ramelli has been Full Professor of Theology and endowed Chair ([[Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas|Angelicum]]), Humboldt Fellow at [[Erfurt University]], Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Center), and Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]] {{when|date=July 2023}} <ref>{{Cite web|title=Current Fellows and Members {{!}} RHS|url=https://royalhistsoc.org/membership/rhs-fellows-and-members/|access-date=2020-07-25|website=royalhistsoc.org}}</ref> as well as Professor (Durham University, Hon.; KUL) and Senior Member (CCSP, [[University of Cambridge]]).<ref>{{Cite web|last=djt57@cam.ac.uk|title=Members — The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism|url=https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory|access-date=2020-07-21|website=www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk|date=8 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref> She has also been, e.g., Senior [[Research fellow|Research Fellow]] in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy (both at Durham University, for two fellowships,{{when|date=July 2023}} and at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]),<ref>See the profiles at Durham University: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/cofundsnr/#Ramelli, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford: https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/former-visiting-fellows {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713141629/https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/former-visiting-fellows/ |date=13 July 2017 }}</ref> in Hellenic Studies at [[Princeton University]], Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Oxford University.<ref>See the profile on the website of Princeton University: https://hellenic.princeton.edu/people/ilaria-ramelli</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://philpeople.org/profiles/ilaria-l-e-ramelli|title=Adademic Profile}}</ref>
== Awards == Ramelli has received a number of academic and scientific prizes and awards, including a Forschungspreis from the [[Humboldt Foundation]] (2017).<ref>{{cite web |title=Biblical Studies and Early Christianity Newsletter December 2017 |url=http://www2.brill.com/webmail/319031/28154464/8b43c5da7161f818f1673dcef27a4991985548705b7c47b6d49973a7745635c7 |website=Brill |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main |publisher=[[Humboldt Foundation]] |access-date=3 April 2019 |archive-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820035258/http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/pls/web/pub_auswahlergebnisse.main |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Selected works ==
=== As author or co-author === * ''I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contatti'', preface by B.P. Reardon, Madrid, Signifer 2001; Cascade Books, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-62032-032-7}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Romanzi Antichi e il Cristianesimo {{!}} WipfandStock.com|url=https://wipfandstock.com/i-romanzi-antichi-e-il-cristianesimo.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=wipfandstock.com|language=en}}</ref> * ''Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio'', (Il Pensiero occidentale). [[Bompiani]], 2001.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio|last=Capella|first=Martianus|publisher=Bompiani|others=Ramelli, Ilaria|year=2001|isbn=88-452-9102-2|location=Milano|oclc=49843737}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Polverini |first1=Leandro |title=Review of Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, (Il Pensiero occidentale) |journal=Aevum |date=2004 |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=216–218 |jstor=20861560 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Panti |first1=Cecilia |title=Review of Le nozze di Filologia e Mercurio, («Il pensiero occidentale») |journal=Il Saggiatore musicale |date=2003 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=367–374 |jstor=43029741 }}</ref> * ''Allegoria'', vol. I, ''L'età classica,'' Milan: Vita e Pensiero 2004, Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico Series. {{ISBN|978-88-343-5007-2}}. * ''Il βασιλεύς come νόμος ἔμψυχος tra diritto naturale e diritto divino: spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardoantica'' (Marcello Gigante International Classics Prize, 2006), Naples: Bibliopolis, 2006, Series: Memoirs of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies 34. {{ISBN|88-7088-528-3}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici – Bibliopolis – Edizioni di Filosofia e Scienze|url=http://bibliopolis.it/memorie-istituto-italiano-studi-filosofici/|access-date=2020-07-21|language=it-IT}}</ref> * ''Hierocles the Stoic: elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts''. Brill - [[Society of Biblical Literature]], 2009.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hierocles the Stoic : elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|publisher=Society of Biblical Literature|others=Konstan, David.|year=2009|isbn=978-1-58983-419-4|location=Atlanta|oclc=587468715}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tsouni|first=Georgia|date=2012-03-04|title=Review of: Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments and Excerpts. Writings from the Greco-Roman World|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-03-04.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wildberger|first=Jula|date=2015|title=Review of . Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts. Translated by David Konstan. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/WILRO-4|journal=Gnomon|volume=87|pages=399–405}}</ref> * ''Terms for eternity: Aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts''. Gorgias Press, 2013;<ref>{{Cite book|title=Terms for eternity : aiônios and aídios in classical and Christian texts|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|publisher=Gorgias|others=Konstan, David|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4632-0316-0|location=Piscataway, New Jersey|oclc=882242964}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wolfe|first=B. N.|date=2009-02-16|title=Review of: Terms for Eternity: aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-02-16.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6984|title=Review of Biblical Literature|website=www.bookreviews.org|access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref> Berlin: [[De Gruyter]], 2021. * ''The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena''. [[Brill Publishers|Brill]], 2013.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ramelli|first=Ilaria|url=https://brill.com/view/title/16787|title=The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena|date=2013-08-05|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-24570-9|language=en}}</ref><br />The book was reviewed, e.g., in [[Theological Studies (journal)|''Theological Studies'']],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McClymond|first=Michael|date=November 2015|title=Origenes Vindicatus vel Rufinus Redivivus? A Review of Ilaria Ramelli's The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis (2013)|journal=Theological Studies|volume=76|issue=4|pages=813–826|doi=10.1177/0040563915605264|s2cid=171491356 }}</ref> ''Journal of Early Christian History'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wet|first1=Chris L. de|last2=Stenschke|first2=Christoph|date=2015|title=Book Review: The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena|journal=Journal of Early Christian History|volume=5|issue=2|pages=184–190|doi=10.1080/2222582X.2015.11877333|s2cid=218601329 }}</ref> ''[[The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meredith|first=Anthony|date=August 2014|title=Book review: The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis A Critical Assessment from the New Testament To Eriugena, written by Ilaria Ramelli|journal=The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition|volume=8|issue=2|pages=255–257|doi=10.1163/18725473-12341295|doi-access=free}}</ref> and ''[[The Journal of Theological Studies]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Edwards |first1=M. J. |title=The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. By ILARIA L. E. RAMELLI |journal=The Journal of Theological Studies |date=1 October 2014 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=718–724 |doi=10.1093/jts/flu075 }}</ref> * ''Tempo ed eternità in età antica e patristica: filosofia greca, ebraismo e cristianesimo'', Assisi: Cittadella, 2015. {{ISBN|978-88-308-1412-7}}. * ''Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnostika'', Leiden-Atlanta: Brill-SBL, 2015. Pp. lxxxviii + 434. {{ISBN|1-62837-041-6}} ([[Hardcover|hardback]]); {{ISBN|1-62837-039-4}} (paperback) * ''Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: The role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity''. [[Oxford University Press]], 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-19-877727-4}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tobon |first1=Monica |title=SLAVERY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PHILOSOPHY - (I.L.E.) Ramelli Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery. The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 293. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £70, US$99. {{text|ISBN}}: 978-0-19-877727-4. |journal=The Classical Review |date=April 2018 |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=126–128 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X17002207 |s2cid=165946324 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Konstan |first1=David |title=Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli |journal=Classical World |date=2018 |volume=111 |issue=2 |pages=275–276 |doi=10.1353/clw.2018.0011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ramelli |first1=Ilaria L. E. |title=Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-108306-8 }}</ref> * ''A Larger Hope? 1'', prefaced by [[Richard Bauckham]], Cascade Books, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Larger Hope?, Volume 1 {{!}} WipfandStock.com|url=https://wipfandstock.com/a-larger-hope-volume-1.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=wipfandstock.com|language=en}}</ref> * ''Bardaisan of Edessa: A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation'', Gorgias 2009; De Gruyter 2019. * ''Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Ancient Christianity'', co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2021. * ''Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism and its Sources in Patristic and Ancient Philosophy'', directed, Leuven: Peeters, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peeters Publishers Leuven |url=https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042947726&series_number_str=122&lang=en |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=www.peeters-leuven.be}}</ref> * ''Origen, the Philosophical Theologian: Trinity, Christology, and Philosophy-Theology Relation Selected Studies/Kleine Schriften'', Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.
=== As contributor === * "Unconditional Forgiveness in Christianity? Some reflections on ancient Christian sources and practices," in ''The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)''. [[Routledge]], 2011.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The ethics of forgiveness : a collection of essays|date=2011|publisher=Routledge|others=Fricke, Christel.|isbn=978-0-415-88543-0|location=New York|oclc=617619350}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cowley |first1=Christopher |title=The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays |journal=International Journal of Philosophical Studies |date=May 2012 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=289–294 |doi=10.1080/09672559.2011.634233 |s2cid=145292695 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pettigrove |first1=Glen |title=Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (New York: Routledge, 2011) 212 pp. {{text|ISBN}}: 9780415885430. £76.00. |journal=Journal of Moral Philosophy |date=2013 |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=564–566 |doi=10.1163/17455243-01004006 }}</ref> * "The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus' Priestly Sacrifice: The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen's Theory of Apokatastasis," in ''A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Contexts'', edited by Richard Bauckham et al, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A cloud of witnesses : the theology of Hebrews in its ancient contexts|date=2008|publisher=T & T Clark|others=Bauckham, Richard.|isbn=978-0-567-14775-2|location=London|oclc=698127529}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swetnam |first1=James |title=Review of A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in Its Ancient Contexts (Library of New Testament Studies 387) |journal=The Catholic Biblical Quarterly |date=2009 |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=680–682 |jstor=43709869 }}</ref> * "Divine Power in Origen of Alexandria: Sources and Aftermath," in ''Divine Powers in Late Antiquity'', eds. Anna Marmodoro and Irini Fotini Viltanioti, Oxford: OUP, 2017, 177-198. {{ISBN|978-0-19-876720-6}}. * "[[Gregory of Nyssa]] on the Soul (and the Restoration): From Plato to Origen," in ''Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives'', eds Anna Marmodoro and Neil McLynn, Oxford: OUP, 2018, 110-141. {{ISBN|978-0-19-882642-2}}. * "Origen," in ''A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 245-266. {{ISBN|978-1-107-18121-2}}. * "Epicureanism and Early Christianity," in ''Oxford Handbook to Epicurus and Epicureanism'', ed. Phillip Mitsis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 582-612. {{ISBN|978-0-19-974421-3}}. * "Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius," in ''Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite'', ed. Mark Edwards, Dimitrios Pallis, and Georgios Steiris, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 94-108. {{ISBN|978-0-19-881079-7}}
=== As editor === * ''Musonio Rufo'', ''Diatribe, frammenti e testimonianze'', Milan: Bompiani, 2001. Pp. 357. {{ISBN|978-88-452-9099-2}}. * ''Anneo Cornuto,'' ''Compendio di teologia greca'', Milan: Bompiani, 2003, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 607. {{ISBN|88-452-9249-5}}. * ''Diogene Laerzio, Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi'', co-edited, Milan: Bompiani, 2005, Il Pensiero Occidentale. {{ISBN|88-452-3301-4}}. * ''Gregorio di Nissa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte''. Milan: Bompiani, 2007.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sull'anima e la resurrezione|last=Gregory of Nyssa|first=Saint|publisher=Bompiani|others=Ramelli, Ilaria.|year=2007|isbn=978-88-452-5974-6|edition=1. ed. Bompiani Il pensiero occidentale|location=[Milan, Italy]|oclc=191923017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tzamalikos |first1=P. |title=Review of Gregorio di Nyssa, sull'Anima e la Resurrezione, testo greco a fronte |journal=Vigiliae Christianae |date=2008 |volume=62 |issue=5 |pages=515–523 |doi=10.1163/157007208X333993 |jstor=20474891 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Edwards |first1=Mark J. |title=Gregorio di Nissa. Sull'anima e la resurrezione. Testo greco a fronte. Edited by Ilaria Ramelli. (Il Pensiero Occidentale.) Pp. 1,367. Milan: Bompiani, 2007. €34. 978 88 452 5974 6 |journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |date=October 2009 |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=764 |doi=10.1017/s0022046909990686 |s2cid=162519091 }}</ref> * ''Eschilo: Tutti i Frammenti con la Prima Traduzione degli Scolii Antichi e Bizantini'', Milan: Bompiani, 2009, Il Pensiero Occidentale. Pp. 2061. {{ISBN|978-88-452-6289-0}}. * ''Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms'', edited by Ilaria Ramelli and [[Judith Perkins]], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. {{ISBN|978-3-16-152033-4}} * ''Evagrius, the Cappadocians, and Neoplatonism'', edited volume, Leuven: Peeters 2017. * ''Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature - Volume One: To 600 CE'', co-edited, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. * ''T&T Clark Handbook to the Early Church'', co-edited, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. * ''Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body. Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late Antiquity'', Harvard University Press, 2022.
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1479-4182 Profile] at [[ORCID]]
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