Lea Niccolai

Lea Niccolai is an Italian Late-Antique historian specializing in religious philosophy and socio-political thought.

[1] Niccolai studied Classics at the Scuole Normale Superiore di Pisa and Ancient Near East Studies with a focus in Syriac at the University of Pisa.

[1] She later attained a PhD in Ancient History at King's College, Cambridge.

[1] In 2023, she published her first monograph, Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power: Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire, which has been described in the Journal Mythos as a "rich contribution to the history of the late Roman Empire".

[1][2] In 2024, she was awarded the Phillip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding achievement in research in Classical Studies.