PROFILE


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 * ** ﻿ Dr ELENI ROSSIDOU KOUTSOU**

**was born in Nicosia (Trahonas-Home Town) and finished the Secondary High School at Neapolis in 1974. She went to England as a refugee after the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in that year. There, after many hardships, she was qualified as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and read for her B.A. at King's College, University of London, from which she was graduated in 1988 with a Second Class Honours Degree. In 1993 she enrolled at the University of London as an external postgraduated student to pursue research for her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees, on John Eugenikos. In the meantime she was appointed to a full time teaching post in State High Schools in Cyprus in 1996. In August 2001 having been granted leave of absence (without payment) by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, she returned to London to complete her doctoral research. She was appointed a Doctor of Philosophy in 2004. She has a particular interest in Byzantine History, Culture, Hagiography, Hagiographical, Dogmatic and Hymnographical works and Patristic Literature. She is married to Ioannis.**   **She writes articles and gives speeches on various occasions. Her publications include:** ** // Πιτσιλιά //// Μάνα //// και //// Μάννα //// Ηρώων //// και //// Μαρτύρων, //// Το //// Εύδαιμον //// το //// Ελεύθερον, //// το //// δε //// Ελεύθερον //// το //// Εύψυχον //(Nicosia, 2008), an annotated critical edition, //John Eugenikos' Antirrhetic Speech on the Decree of the Council of Ferrara - Florence /1438-1439// (Nicosia, 2006), // Αυτοί //// Θυμούνται //... // Εμείς Μαθαίνουμε. Προφορική Παράδοση της Περιφέρειας Πιτσιλιάς // (Nicosia, 2005) and // Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά και Λαϊκή Αρχιτεκτονική των // // Δεκατεσσάρων Χωριών της // Μαραθάσας (Nicosia, 2004). **  **Dr Koutsou is currently preparing an edition of the hitherto unpublished //opuscula// of the fifteenth-century Byzantine Theologian John Eugenikos. **