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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Did the Byzantines call themselves Byzantines? Elements of Eastern Roman identity in the imperial discourse of the seventh century	2
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	1
Reassessing a Late Byzantine masterpiece: the Deesis mosaic in the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople	1
The departure of the Greeks from Egypt, 1961: the perspective of Greek diplomacy	1
Living by his wit: Tzetzes' Aristophanic variations on the conundrums of a ‘professional writer’	1
The ring, the gown, and the apple: the role of magical objects in the Byzantine vernacular romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi	1
Logistical considerations for the arms production industry in the Middle Byzantine Empire	1
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	1
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	1
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	1
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	1
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	1
Reading social change on a potter's wheel: Chalcis (Euboea) from the Byzantine to the Modern Greek era	1
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
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
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Monks, laity and the prospect of self-sufficiency: Souflar Metochi of Vatopedi Monastery	0
The reception of Plutarch in George Pisides’ panegyrical poems	0
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Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xiv, 130 + 10 b/w illustrat	0
E. McGreer (tr.), Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057–1079). Leiden: Brill, 2020, Pp. xvi, 216.	0
Mark Whittow (1957–2017): a tribute	0
Peter Mackridge and David Ricks (ed.), The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945-1955. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xii, 261.	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
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
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
Performance and subversion under the Colonels’ gaze: changing notions of identity in the different editions of Dido Sotiriou's Οι νɛκροί πɛριμένουν	0
Roderick Beaton Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, London: Allen Lane2019. Pp. 462, 26.	0
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
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	0
An antidote to anarchy? Images of monarchy in Greece in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries	0
Local involvement in modern Greek revivals of ancient theatres: Delphi and Epidaurus in the inter-war period	0
Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928–2019)	0
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
Alexander Kitroeff, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. Pp 249	0
George Andreiomenos (ed.), Γιάννης Ρίτσος, Πρώιμα ποιήματα και πεζά. Athens: Kedros 2018. Pp. 288.	0
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
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Marjorie Chambers, Yannis Ritsos Among his Contemporaries. Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry Translated by Marjorie Chambers. London: Colenso Books, 2018. Pp. xvii, 233.	0
Έρωτος Αποτελέσματα (1792): Τα στιχουργήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Ναταλία Δεληγιαννάκη, γλωσσάρι Peter Mackridge. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2018. Pp. 309.	0
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	0
Linda Yuretich (trans.), The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses. Translated Texts for Byzantinists 6. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 320.	0
Lambros Kamperidis and Denise Harvey (eds.), Alexandros Papadiamandis, The Boundless Garden. Selected Short Stories, Volume II. Limni, Evia: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2019. Pp. xx, 363.	0
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	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
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	0
Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	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
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Greek–Soviet relations 1959–1962: the Greek response to the Kremlin's challenge	0
‘A very good and dear friend’: is Panagiotis Nikousios the author of the ‘Mournful story concerning the unjust death of the Grand Postelnic Constantine Cantacuzenus’?	0
Στέφανος Κακλαμάνης, Ἡ Κρητικὴ ποίηση στὰ χρόνια τῆς Ἀναγέννησης (14^ος – 17^ος αἰ.), 3 volumes, Athens: Μορφωτικὸ Ἵδρυμα Ἐθνικῆς Τραπέζης, 2019–20.	0
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Joseph Bryennios and eschatological theology in Late Byzantium	0
The Albanoi in Michael Attaleiates’ History: revisiting the Vranoussi-Ducellier debate	0
Editorial	0
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Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
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Petros T. Pizanias, The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Pp. xiii, 544.	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0

Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
Evan Jones (tr.), C.P. Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose. Manchester: Carcanet Classics, 2020. Pp. 338.	0
Peter Heather, Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 408.	0
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	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
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	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
Ruth Macrides: an appreciation	0
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Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
The Battle of Peta (1822): when the Philhellenes fought like the Greek irregulars	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
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Ingela Nilsson, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 222.	0
David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou and Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 20	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
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	0
Gonda van Steen, Adoption, Memory and the Cold War: Kid pro quo? Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 330, xx.	0
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 195.	0
Catherine Vanderheyde, La Sculpture byzantine du IXe au XVe siècle: contexte – mise en oeuvre – décors. Paris: Éditions A. & J. Picard, 2020. Pp. 364, 193 figs.	0
Vangelis Hatzivasiliou, Η κίνηση του εκκρεμούς: Άτομο και κοινωνία στη νεότερη ελληνική πεζογραφία 1974–2017. Athens: Polis, 2018. Pp 910.	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
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
The Rebellious 1960s via the Prosperous 1990s: Youth, Modernity and Consumption in Antonis Kokkinos’Τέλος εποχής(End of an Era) (1994)	0
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	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 Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	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
Of dogs and men: a note on Liudprand's Greek (Rel. 1, 21–23)	0
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
The novel of the Greek civil war in the twenty-first century: (post)memory and the weight of the past	0
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Kostas Yiavis, Imperios and Margarona. The Rhymed Version. Critical Edition with Introduction, Commentary and Index–Glossary. Athens: ΜΙΕΤ 2019. Pp. 523 + 31 plates.	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	0
The abduction of General Kreipe in Crete: bloodless or bloody?	0
The controversy over Ancient Greek as a school subject: education, ideology, and politics in times of crisis	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Anthony Kaldellis, Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 373.	0
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Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	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
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	0
Tina Bucuvalas (ed.), Greek Music in America. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Pp. xii, 468.	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
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
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Narrative coherence inDigenes Akrites(G)	0
Theophilus of Edessa on the death of Constans II	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	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
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Nicolas Argenti, Remembering Absence: the Sense of Life in Island Greece Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 352.	0
Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
Donald J. Mastronarde, Preliminary Studies on the Scholia to Euripides. Berkeley, CA: California Classical Studies, 6, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 246.	0
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	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
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
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William McGrew, Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece. Lanham, Boulder, New York, LondonRowman and Littlefield. 2015, Pp. 508.	0
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0