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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	4
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	2
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	1
Dante in Smyrna: imagery of destruction and forced migration from Turkey's Aegean littoral in the early Republican period	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
Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	1
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	1
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Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts	1
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For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	1
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	0
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	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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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
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	0
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	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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Kazantzakis and America	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	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
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
Nikos Zagklas, Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems. An Edition and Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 382	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	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
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
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Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	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
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Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0
Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
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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
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	0
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	0
The Cretan version of Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido: remarks on its rhetorical and lyrical construction	0
Greek modern art in interwar Paris: networks rather than a generation	0
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
The forbidden word: the art of periphrasis and church politics in the icon controversy under Alexios I Komnenos	0
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0
Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, 3rd ed., 2022. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 306 + Appendices.	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
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Greek light, Greek photography	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
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
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	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
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	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
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
The ‘Generation of the Thirties’ in art: Cold War cultural politics and modern painting in Greece	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
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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
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
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Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	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
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
Editorial	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
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	0
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	0
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	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 Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	0
A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	0
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
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Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Personal responses to danger in Greek graffiti: inscriptional formulae and self-expression at three late antique and Byzantine sites	0
A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	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
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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
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
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	0
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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
The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	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
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	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
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	0
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Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	0
Theophilos and the Generation of the Thirties (again)	0
Between myth and reality: the modern underground reception of Michael Psellos	0
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Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	0