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Quel rôle, quelle place la lecture et l’écriture ont-elles tenus dans la culture et la société byzantines? Quel rapport ont-elles entretenu? Telles sont les questions auxquelles huit spécialistes de domaines très divers s’efforcent... more
Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique " golden age " (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine " Reconquista " (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase... more
"This publication presents the first study of the defining features of Psellos' Chronographia, written in the 11th century. Character is the single most important feature of the Chronographia written by Michael Psellos (1018-1081?). It... more
Dissertation von 1976 mit einer Liste zusätzlicher Titel zu den dort behandelten Themen
Article based on a presentation given at the Thomas Latinus - Thomas Graecus. Thomas Aquinas and His Reception in Byzantium International Conference held at the Hellenic Library of Athens (Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center) in Dec. 15-16... more
Taft R. F. The Great Entrance. A History of the Transfer of Gifts and other Preanaphoral Rites of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. [A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, vol. II]. Roma, 1975. (Orientalia Christiana Analecta;... more
Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of... more
Procopius's Secret History has attracted the attention of a generation of social historians. Yet, the significant, albeit subtler ways, in which gender colors Procopius’s most significant work, the Wars, has received far less notice.... more
Social changes in the contemporary era have directly influenced human life and existence, especially the meaning of marriage. In light of these contemporary developments, researchers have emphasized the urgent need to deconstruct marriage... more
This essay was published in The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology, edited by Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman, for the CUAP Studies in Early Christianity (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2018); this is the... more
Images of dragon-slaying by Eastern Christian warrior saints allegorise the overthrow of evil forces, a topos that appears first on the eastern confines of the Byzantine Empire in Transcaucasia. Representations of a triumphal rider... more
The relationship of King Arthur to the Byzantine Empire is something akin to that of the missing years of Jesus being spent in India, & the Grand Tour of Europe made by William Shakespeare 1585-87. The evidence for Arthur's own travels &... more
Winner of the 2022 Edmund Keeley Prize https://mgsasymposium.org/anno-kb.html In the middle of the fifteenth century, ominous portents like columns of fire and dense fog were seen above the skies of Constantinople as the Byzantine... more
Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή στο Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου,
Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών
Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα Θεατρικές Σπουδές με τίτλο:
Χριστός Πάσχων: η ευριπίδεια δραματουργία
σε χριστιανικά συμφραζόμενα.
Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών
Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα Θεατρικές Σπουδές με τίτλο:
Χριστός Πάσχων: η ευριπίδεια δραματουργία
σε χριστιανικά συμφραζόμενα.
Those who work with topics related to Modern Greek identity usually start discussing these issues by quoting the famous Georgios Gemistos Pletho (c.1360-1454): we, over whom you rule and hold sway, are Hellenes by genos (γένος), as is... more
L’Antiquité tardive constitue une période de première importance en raison de l’ampleur des sources conservées et des événements survenus. Durant cette époque, qui s’étend du IIIe au VIIe siècle, l’Empire romain connaît des évolutions... more
This paper aims to present a historical reconstruction of a very powerful, but up to recently almost neglected ‘spatial icon’ — the Tuesday miraculous performance with the Hodegetria of Constantinople. Spatial icons are iconic images... more
In this paper I propose a new narrative of the history and milieu of the Jerusalem (Hagiopolitan) Daily Office in Constantinople. I show that this Office was monastic neither typologically nor sociologically, but practiced at the Great... more
Asceticism is founded on the possibility that human beings can profoundly transform themselves through training and discipline. In particular, asceticism in the Eastern monastic tradition is based on the assumption that individuals are... more
The study focuses on the monumental painting of the island of Rhodes, Greece, during the 13th century and specifically from the year 1204, when the Byzantine official Leo Gabalas took over the administration of the island, until the... more