Peters-Custot Annick

Professor at the University of Nantes since 2014, Annick Peters-Custot is a specialist, first and foremost, of Southern Italy in the Byzantine, Norman and Swabian periods (9th-13th centuries), in particular the Italian-Greek communities and their legal, religious and linguistic culture. She is particularly interested in the history of monastic and liturgical contacts between the Byzantine world and the West in the Middle Ages, and in Western representations of the Byzantines. She also works on the political ideology of the kingdom of Sicily, and on the notion of imperiality. She has coordinated several international research programs included in the scientific programs of the French School of Rome since 2008, the latest being Imperialiter, which analyzes the transfers of imperial ideology in non-imperial political constructions in the West between the 12th and 17th centuries.