Patricia Kret
PhD candidate
- Name
- P.M.M. Kret MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3466
- p.m.m.kret@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Patricia Kret is working on a PhD thesis on continuities and discontinuities in the use of Roman amulets (100 BCE – 600 CE).
More information about Patricia Kret
Fields of interest
- Ancient daily life
- Religion in the ancient world
- Early Christianity
- Ancient funerary culture
- Material culture of the ancient world
- Museum and reception studies
Research
Patricia Kret is working on her PhD-thesis on the use of Roman amulets (100 BCE – 600 CE) with the title: Changing use, changing needs? The use of amulets from the first century BCE to the early Christian world. This research project studies transformations in the use of amulets in a period of religious change: from traditional Graeco-Roman religions to Christianity. (Dis)continuities in the use of amulets are studied with ‘encirclement’: the idea that amulets were used to surround and protect bodies and spaces. In this way the objects themselves and the contexts in which they were used are included to gain new insights in the religious choices and motivations of ancient individuals, who used objects to deal with everyday uncertainty.
Grants and awards
Patricia won two prizes for her thesis Functions of amulets: the power of objects in the ancient world: The Fruin-prize for the best thesis written by a student of the History (R)MA at the University of Leiden 2018-2019 and the National OIKOS award for the best Dutch Research MA thesis in Ancient History 2017-2019. In 2019 she won the RMO-KNIR Stipendium to perform research in Rome.
Curriculum vitae
Patricia completed a BA in History, First Year in Art History and a MA in Ancient History (all cum laude) at Leiden University. During and after her studies, she both did internships and worked in the cultural heritage sector, most of all in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO). In 2019, she received a grant from the RMO to work at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) for three months to perform research on an upcoming exhibition. She is currently working as a PhD candidate at the Institute for History of Leiden University.
Faces of Science: Patricia Kret
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- Oude Geschiedenis
- Kret P.M.M., Griekse monsters of Nevermore: de Griekse, Romeinse en Egyptische oudheid in de Netflixhit Wednesday. Faces of Science of NEMO Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M., Op zoek naar de Grieks-Romeinse oudheid in Amerika. Faces of Science of NEMO Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M. (19 January 2023), Waarom vrouwen uit de oudheid zo populair zijn: trends in de boekwinkel. Faces of Science of NEMO Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M., Hoe een tijdreizende Romein opduikt in Japanse badhuizen. Waarom je Thermae Romae Novae op Netflix moet kijken. Faces of Science op Nemo Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M. (2022), Ancient Death and the Contemporary World: The Role of Graeco-Roman Death in Museum Display. In: Beerden K. & Epping T. (Eds.), Classical Controversies. Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century. Leiden: SideStone Press. 157-176.
- Kret P.M.M., Hoe de magische vrouwen uit de oudheid jou kunnen inspireren. Faces of Science op Nemo Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M., De kracht van een ketting tegen ziekte en ongeluk. Oude Romeinse amuletten in een moderne pandemie. Faces of Science op Nemo Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M., Rome: lekker eten en geschiedenis op iedere straathoek. Faces of Science op Nemo Kennislink. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M. (2021), Changing use, changing needs?: The use of amulets from the first century BCE to the early Christian world, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie (65): 59.
- Kret P.M.M. (2021), Review of: Frankfurter D. (2019), Guide to the study of ancient magic. Leiden: Brill. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 133(4): 732-733.
- Kret P.M.M. (15 April 2021), De oudheid door nieuwe ogen: Circe van Madeline Miller en de oudheid vanuit een vrouw. 'Wegen naar Rome': Week van de Klassieken . [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M. (2020), Ancient death and the modern world. The role of death in museum display. Conference on Classical Controversies 11 November 2020 - 13 November 2020. Leiden: Classical Controversies.
- Kret P.M.M. (2020), Magie in de oudheid, een kleine tentoonstelling met bijzondere invalshoek (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden). [other].
- Kret P.M.M. (2020), Review of: Parker A. & McKie S. (2018), Material approaches to Roman magic: occult objects and supernatural substances. TRAC Themes in Archaeology no. 2. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 62: 68-70.
- Kret P.M.M. (2019), Langs Romeinse graven: onderzoek naar de dood in Rome, RMO magazine 20(48): 20-22.
- Dekker W., Geudens J., Kret P.M.M., Snoep M. & Zanten M. van (Eds.) (2019), . Leidschrift.
- Kret P.M.M., Death in the … museum: NIA, Netherlands Institute at Athens. [blog entry].
- Kret P.M.M. (2018), Wereldwijd gebruikt: van schenking tot tentoonstelling in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, De Beeldenaar 42(2): .
- Kret P.M.M. (2018), Schenking van een studiecollectie, RMO magazine 19(45): .
- Kret P.M.M. (2018), Review of: Versluys M.J. (2017), Visual style and constructing identity in the Hellenistic world. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131(4): 707-709.
- Ven V. van, Ruurd Halbertsma, Peters Marieke & Kret P.M.M. (Eds.) (2018), Projectweekpakket Mythologie: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
- Bosch S. van de, Korsuize D., Kret P.M.M., Linden I. van der & Snoep M. (Eds.) (2017), . Leidschrift.
- Halbertsma R., Kret P.M.M. & Zon T. van der (2017), Wereldwijd gebruikt, small exhibition on a new coin-collection (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden). [other].
- Barreveld J., Bouwman A., Debets J., Ham C. van der, Kret P.M.M., Linden R. van der & Wiegerinck I. (Eds.) (2016), . Leidschrift.
- Kret P.M.M. (2016), Hic situs est: occupational identity of Roman jewelers. no. 2: Student Undergraduate Research E-Journal.