OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	4
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	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
Ingela Nilsson, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 222.	1
Evan Jones (tr.), C.P. Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose. Manchester: Carcanet Classics, 2020. Pp. 338.	1
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For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	1
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	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
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
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	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
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	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
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
Martha Karpozilou, Τα ελληνικά περιοδικά του 19ου αιώνα, Athens: Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2021. Pp. 220 and 410.	0
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Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
Pınar Üre, Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century. London: I B Tauris 2020. Pp. 212	0
Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	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
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	0
Nikos Zagklas, Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems. An Edition and Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 382	0
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Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	0
Trine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus Katsan (eds.), Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books, Pp. 276.	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
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	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
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
Greek light, Greek photography	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
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The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	0
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Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	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
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Editorial	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0
Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
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Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	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
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	0
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The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	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
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	0
Personal responses to danger in Greek graffiti: inscriptional formulae and self-expression at three late antique and Byzantine sites	0
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	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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Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
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Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	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
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
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A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	0
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	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
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Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
Petros T. Pizanias, The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Pp. xiii, 544.	0
The ‘Generation of the Thirties’ in art: Cold War cultural politics and modern painting in Greece	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
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 popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	0
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
The Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	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
Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	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
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Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	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
Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	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
The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	0
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	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
Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	0
Έρωτος Αποτελέσματα (1792): Τα στιχουργήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Ναταλία Δεληγιαννάκη, γλωσσάρι Peter Mackridge. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2018. Pp. 309.	0
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	0
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Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0
Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	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
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	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