Vittorio Berti

is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Padua

Vittorio Berti is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Padua, with special interests in the Syriac churches during late antiquity and the early Islamic age. He studied the life and development of the intellectual elites of East-Syrian schools and monasteries, and their philosophical, theological and spiritual culture. Former secretary of the Italian Society of Syriac Studies (Syriaca), he is member of several international research projects. Author of more then thirty scientific contributions, he wrote two monographs: Vita e Studi di Timoteo I, patriarca cristiano di Baghdad, Peeters, Paris 2009 and L’au-delà de l’âme et l’en-deçà du corps. Approches d’anthropologie chrétienne de la mort dans l’église syro-orientale, Paradosis, Fribourg 2015.