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Papers

(The median citation count of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	5
Agathias’ Greek: sixth-century language through two case studies from the Histories	2
Dante in Smyrna: imagery of destruction and forced migration from Turkey's Aegean littoral in the early Republican period	1
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Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts	1
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	1
Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	1
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Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	1
Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	1
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	1
Ingela Nilsson, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 222.	1
For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	1
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	1
The forbidden word: the art of periphrasis and church politics in the icon controversy under Alexios I Komnenos	1
Editorial	0
Baukje van den Berg, Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessaloniki on the Composition of the Iliad (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. XVIII, 260	0
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Greek light, Greek photography	0
Georgia Gotsi, Ελίζαμπεθ Μ. ´Εντμοντς, μια βικτωριανή βιογραφεί τον Ρήγα, Εισαγωγή – Κείμενο – Σχόλια. Athens: Ε.Ι.Ε. /Ι.Ι.Ε, 2020. Pp. 161	0
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0

Learning Modern Greek in nineteenth-century Paris: K. B. Hase's student notes on Amiras’ translation of Costin, History of the Kingdoms and Princes of Moldavia	0
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Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
Greek modern art in interwar Paris: networks rather than a generation	0
Personal responses to danger in Greek graffiti: inscriptional formulae and self-expression at three late antique and Byzantine sites	0
Remarks on the collection of Byzantine lead seals of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (University of Birmingham): mobility, networks, and identity in eastern Pontos	0
Who is listening? Apostrophe and ‘double relevance’ in the hymns of Romanos the Melodist	0
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David J.D. Miller and Peter Sarris, The Novels of Justinian: A Complete Annotated English Translation. (2 vols). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix, 1192	0
The teaching of logic among the Greeks in the early modern period: was there such a thing as ‘post-Byzantine philosophy’?	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	0
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Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	0
The pleasure of storytelling: anecdotes in Nikephoros Bryennios’ Material for History	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Between myth and reality: the modern underground reception of Michael Psellos	0
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	0
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
The ‘Generation of the Thirties’ in art: Cold War cultural politics and modern painting in Greece	0
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
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Mathieu Couderc, Identités subies, identités integrées: Les Grecs dans l'Europe du Nord-Ouest (XVe-XVIe siècle). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2023. Pp. 627.	0
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	0
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	0
A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
Theophilos and the Generation of the Thirties (again)	0
Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
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Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	0
Nikos Zagklas, Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems. An Edition and Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 382	0
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021 and Paschalis M. Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds), The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dict	0
Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	0
Alexander Riehle (ed.), A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 7). Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 531.	0
Hubert Faustmann and Georgios Kazamias (eds), Cyprus and the First World War . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. xii, 223.	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (eds), The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2021, Pp. xviii + 457.	0
The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	0
The Presence of Christ in the Eucharist κατ' οὐσίαν. On the interpretation and the source of a fragment from the Homily of George Scholarios and its impact on the Eucharistic doctrine of the Greek Ort	0
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine. The Writings of John Aktouarios (c. 1275-x. 1330). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. xviii + 342.	0
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0

Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
‘The sublime objects of liminality’: the Byzantine insular-coastal koine and its administration in the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (ca. 600–ca. 850)	0
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, 3rd ed., 2022. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 306 + Appendices.	0
Markéta Kulhánková and Przemysław Marciniak (eds), Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023. Pp. xi, 278.	0
Gioula Koutsopanagou, The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949: Orchestrating the Cold-War ‘Consensus’ in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xii, 375.	0
Ninety new Greek proverbs of Hermodorus Rhegius: edition and textual history	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
Edward J. Watts, The Romans: A 2000-Year History . New York: Hachette, 2025. Pp. xvi + 718.	0
Rico Franses, Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: the vicissitudes of contact between human and divine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 247, 64 figs.	0
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Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: a cinema of biopolitics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 268 - Marios Psarras, The Queer Greek Weird Wave: ethics, politics and the crisi	0
Nicholas Melvani, Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople . Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2026. Pp. xvi, 291.	0
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	0
The Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	0
The Cretan version of Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido : remarks on its rhetorical and lyrical construction	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
Katerina Krikos-Davis (ed.), George Seferis, Μέρες Η (2 Γενάρη 1961–16 Δεκέμβρη 1963) and Μέρες Θ (1 Φεβρουαρίου 1964–11 Μάη 1971). Pp. 384 + 352 Athens: Ikaros 2018, 2019.	0
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A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis, Alexandrian Sphinx. The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy . London: Simon and Schuster [UK Edition], 2025. Pp. xxiv	0
Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
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Paris Papamichos Chronakis, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2024. Pp. xx, 390.	0
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	0
Marc D. Lauxtermann, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts. Volume Two. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019. Pp. 431.	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	0
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
Panagiotis Agapitos (tr.), The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13^th Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 224.	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes – moving frontiers, shifting identities in the land of Rome (13th-15th centuries). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 259.	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Ιστορία, έθνος και μυθιστόρημα στη Μεταπολίτευση. Τραύμα, μνήμη και μεταφορά . Irakleio: Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis, 2024. Pp.1-45	0
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Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
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Elli Filokyprou, Μέσα στις πέτρες κοιμούνται τα πουλιά: Το ποιητικό τοπίο του Γιάννη Ρίτσου . Athens: Nefeli, 2022. Pp. 302	0
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Georgia Gotsi and Despina Provata (eds.), Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers. Modern Greeks in the Press (1850–1900). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, Pp. 270.	0
The ‘alternative preface’ to Theophilos Korydalleus’ Logic : a minor episode of factional intrigue in the Patriarchal School of Constantinople in the sev	0
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Martha Karpozilou, Τα ελληνικά περιοδικά του 19ου αιώνα, Athens: Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2021. Pp. 220 and 410.	0