Dr. Christopher Sprecher

• geb. 1982 in Orange, Kalifornien, USA
• 1999 Schulabschluss (high school diploma),?University High School, Irvine, CA, USA
• WS 1999–SS 2003 Studium der Germanistik (German Studies), der Klassischen Philologie (Classics) sowie des Sanskrit an der McGill University, Montréal, QC, Kanada (Abschluss: BA First Class Honours)
• 2008–14 Studium der orthodox-christlichen Theologie,?Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY, USA
• 2019–22 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, DFG-GRK 2337 ?Metropolit?t der Vormoderne,“ Universit?t Regensburg
  • SS 2019–SS 2020 Studium im MA-Studiengang ?Kulturgeschichtliche Mittelalterstudien,“ Universit?t Regensburg
  • Masterarbeit: “A Banquet of Victory”: Constantinopolitan Feasts of Relic Translation and the Politics of Relics in Ninth-Century Byzantium (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. J?rg Oberste)
  • Promotion: “Emperor and God: Passion Relics and the Divinisation of Byzantine Rulers, 944–1204” (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. J?rg Oberste, Prof. Dr. Leslie Brubaker [University of Birmingham, UK])?
• 05/2022-08/2024 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte bei Prof. Dr. Oesterle
• ab 11/2024 Post-Doc-Stelle im Exzellenzcluster "EurAsian Transformations", ?sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien

• Emperor and God: Passion Relics and the Divinisation of Byzantine Rulers, 944–1204 (Kulturelles Erbe: Materialit?t – Text – Edition 5), Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Press 2024 (online per Open-Access herunterladbar)
• “‘A Banquet of Victory’: Constantinopolitan Feasts of Relic Translation and the Politics of Relics in Ninth-Century Byzantium.” In Objektzeiten. Antike Artefakte und historische Zeitvorstellungen in transepochaler Perspektive. Internationale Tagung, 11.–12. Juni 2021, Basel, ed. Mirjam H?hnle and Julian Zimmermann (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2023), 39–76.
• “From Noregur to Nea Rhōmē: The Cult of Saint Olaf in Byzantium and Metropolitanism.” Studia Patristica 124, vol. 21, 21–27. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.

?bersetzungen

• J?rg Oberste, The Birth of A Metropolis: Civic Space and Social Practice in Medieval Paris, trans. C. Sprecher. Leiden: Brill, 2021 (translation awarded the 2023 Médaille Jean-Jacques Berger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, France)
• Georges Florovsky, “Revelation, Philosophy and Theology” and “Western Influences in Russian Theology,” trans. C. Sprecher, in: The Patristic Witness of Georges Florovsky: Essential Theological Writings, ed. Brandon Gallaher & Paul Ladouceur, 115–52. London: T&T Clark, 2019.
• Fabian Federl, “Can a Bordeaux Be a Bordeaux When Grown Outside of Bordeaux?” trans. C. Sprecher. Mayday 2 (2018): 65–79.
• Christos Yannaras, “Church and Sexuality,” trans. C. Sprecher. The Wheel 13–14 (2018): 72–82
• Pantelis Kalaitzidis, “‘To Coin New Names’: The Imperative of Reform and the Danger of Marginalization,” trans. C. Sprecher. The Wheel 8 (2017): 39–43.
• Address of His Beatitude, Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus, to the Holy and Great Council, trans. C. Sprecher. The Wheel 6 (2016): 5–9.
• Jean-Claude Larchet, Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses, trans. C. Sprecher. Montréal: Alexander Press, 2012.

Rezensionen

• “ByzRev 06.2024.033: Catharina Recker, Seraphim und Cherubim in der Sp?tantike und Byzanz. Der Dunkle Stil Gottes (Dissertationen der LMU München 63).” The Byzantine Review 6 (2024): 228–233. https://doi.org/10.17879/byzrev-2024-5651.
• “ByzRev 05.2023.019: Karin Krause, Divine Inspiration in Byzantium. Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.” The Byzantine Review 5 (2023): 161–164. https://doi.org/10.17879/byzrev-2023-5101.
• “ByzRev 02.2020.019: Philipp Pilhofer, Das Martyrium des Konon von Bidana in Isaurien. Einleitung, Text und ?bersetzung. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.” The Byzantine Review 2 (2020): 101–104. https://doi.org/10.17879/byzrev-2020-2918.