Guoda Gediminskaitė, Ph.D.
KHI-ANAMED Postdoctoral Fellow
Guoda Gediminskaitė is a young Lithuanian Byzantinist. On 16 October, 2025, she will defend her doctoral thesis, which will lead to the formal awarding of the PhD degree in Historical Studies from the University of the Republic of San Marino. In 2014 and in 2016, she obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in History and Theory of Arts from Vilnius Academy of Arts. In 2019, she earned her second Master’s Degree with a cum laude distinction from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, double majoring in History of Arts and Conservation of Artistic Heritage (Curriculum of Medieval and Byzantine Art). In addition to extensive international academic experiences, she participates in numerous projects and conferences, publishes articles in prestigious venues. Her research interest focuses on the intellectual history and material culture of Late Byzantium. Relying on a thorough autoptic interrogation of evidence through a combined philological, historical, and art historical investigation, she aims to examine the history of ideas and intellectual exchanges between the capital Constantinople and the key area of Byzantium, Crete, in the late 14th - early 15th century.
- Material culture and religious ideas on the move between Constantinople and its geographical margins in Late Byzantium
- Latin and Greek bi-confessional communities of Late Byzantium, Venetian Crete in particular
- Compositional processes, modes of art transmission in Late Byzantium
> Rather Assertive than Polemical Imagery? Religious Politics in Constantinople and its Spinoffs in Crete during the Late Palaiologan Times