ILIAS ANAGNOSTAKIS
Senior Researcher
Programmes: "Everyday and Social Life in Byzantium"
                    "Historical Geography of the Greek Region"

ACADEMIC DEGREES
• 1975: Degree from the Faculty of Philosophy (Department of Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies), University of Thessaloniki.
• 1978: Diplôme d'Études Approfondies, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
• 1983: Ph.D., University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS
• 1985-1987: Research Assistant at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF.
• 1987-2000: Research Associate at the Institute for Byzantine Research / NHRF.
• 2000- : Senior Researcher at the Institute for Historical Research, Department for Byzantine Research / NHRF.

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
• Byzantine every day and social culture.
• Byzantine wine and olive oil production.
• Byzantine Peloponnese.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES, ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA (2000-2010), PROJECTS
• Member of the team for the publication of Historical Geography of Byzantine Peloponnese, 395-1204, vol. II. The Byzantine Places.
• Member of The Monemvasia and Parnon Project, in collaboration with the Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group PIOP, for the study of the history and archaeology of the regions of Mount Parnon and the region of Monemvasia in the Peloponnese.
• Founding member of the research team ''The History of Greek Wine. Technology and Economy''. Member of the editorial board of ΟΙΝΟΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΩ / HISTORY OF WINE (Conferences, publications).
• Research Project: Glossary of Wine Treading and Pressing(Sample).
• Symposium Μονεμβάσιος Οίνος - Μονοβασ(ι)ά - Malvasia (19-20.05.2006) (Program).
• Symposium Animals and Environment in Byzantium (7th-12th c.) (6-7.06.2008) (Program, Abstracts).
• Lecture on Bears.
• Supervisor of the research team and editor in chief of the History of the Οlive Τree and Οlive Οil (Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group, PIOP).
• Participation in over 30 (2000-2010) national and international Conferences and Academic Meetings.

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
• The Saint Symeon and Theodoros, Founders of the Monastery of Mega Spelaion [Agioreitika Tetradia 4], 1985, pp. 122 (in collaboration with Monk Ioustinos, in Greek).
• The Chronicle of Galaxeidi, Athens 1985, pp. 95 (in Greek).
• The Kappadokia of Living Monuments, Athens 1990, pp. 95 (in collaboration with Evangelia Balta, in Greek).
• La découverte de la Cappadoce au 19eme s., Istanbul 1994, pp. 149 (in collaboration with Evangelia Balta, in French).
• Byzantine Wine. Vine and Wine in Byzantine Poetry and Hymnography [The Wine Poetry B1] Athens 1995, pp. 157 (in Greek).
• Byzantine Wine. Vine and Wine in Byzantine Poetry and Hymnography [The Wine Poetry B2] Athens 1995, pp. 265 (in Greek).
• The Chronicle of Galaxeidi (revised edition), Athens 2004 (in Greek).
• Monemvasian Wine - Monovas(i)a - Malvasia, Proceedings of the International Symposium, ed. I. Anagnostakis [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 17 - Οίνον Ιστορώ V], Athens 2008.
• Wine Culture in Byzantium. The Bithynian Example, Athens 2008, pp. 150 (in Greek).

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2000-2010)
• ΟΙΝΟΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΩ / HISTORY OF WINE (Conferences, publications).
• The Dark Age of Peloponnesus. The Slavic Question, in: Transformations of Peloponnese (4th-15th c.), Special Cultural Events, Athens 2000, 19-34 (in Greek).
• Over the Wine-dark sea. Tracing Greek wine through the Middle Ages, in: N. Manessis (ed.), The Illustrated Greek Wine Book, Geneva 2000.
• The Resort of the Slavs to the Church of Saint Andreas in Patras: A Case Study on the Application of the Byzantine Institution of the Asylum in the Peloponnese, Symmeikta 14 (2001), 29-47 (in collaboration with Anna Lambropoulou, in Greek with English summary) (Abstract, PDF).
• The Chosen People, in: E. Kountoura-Galake (ed.), The Dark Ages of Byzantium (7th-9th centuries) [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 9], Athens 2001, 325-346 (in Greek).
• Contribution to the Interpretation of Archaeological Evidence from the Dark Ages Peloponnese, in: E. Kountoura-Galake (ed.), The Dark Ages of Byzantium (7th-9th centuries) [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 9], Athens 2001, 189-229 (in collaboration with Anna Lambropoulou, Voula Konti, Angelike Panopoulou, in Greek).
• Coastal Installations in Early Byzantine Messenia. The Silence of Sources and the Fragmentary Evidence of Archaeology, in: P. G. Themelis - V. Konti (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium, Early Christian Messene and Olympia. Urban and Agrarian Area in the Western Peloponnese, Athens 2002, 137-160 (in Greek).
• Repression: A Form of Tolerance in the Peloponnese during the 9th and 10th c.), in: ed. K. Nikolaou (ed.), Repression and Tolerance in the Middle Byzantine Period [NHRF/IBR International Symposia 10], Athens 2002, 47-61 (in collaboration with Anna Lambropoulou, in Greek).
• Consensus with Byzantine Historiography: The Irony, Archaiologia and Technes 88 (Sept. 2003), 8-13 (in Greek with English summary) (pdf).
• Εκμανής νέος Βάκχος, Τhe Drunkenness of Noah in Medieval Art, in: Ch. Angelidi (ed.), Byzantium matures. Choices, Sensitivities and Modes of Expression in Byzantium (Eleventh to Fifteenth Century) [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 13], Athens 2004, 209-256 (in collaboration with Titos Papamastorakis, in English).
• The Monk of Apostle Andreas in Patras and his Representation in Skylitzes Ms., in: V. Konti (ed.), Monasticism in the Peloponnese, 4th-15th c. [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 14], Athens 2004, 147-198 (in collaboration with Titos Papamastorakis, in Greek).
• From the Icon of Euphrosyna to the Vita of the Saints Founders of the Mega Spelaion Monastery: Constructing a Life, in: V. Konti (ed.), Monasticism in the Peloponnese, 4th-15th c. [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 14], Athens 2004, 147-198 (in Greek).
• Οn the Oily Doings behind the Attempted Coup of Elaiostaphylon and of the Eladion by the Notary John, in: Ελαίας Εγκώμιον / Ode to the Olive Tree, Athens 2004, 110-117 (in Greek and English).
• Memory and Oblivion of the Worship of the Saints of Peloponnese (9th-15th c.), in: E. Kountoura-Galake (ed.), Heroes of the Orthodox Church (8th-16th centuries) [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 15], Athens 2004, 265-294 (in collaboration with Anna Lambropoulou, Voula Konti, Angeliki Panopoulou, in Greek).
• Intoxications in Byzantium, in:D. Papanikola-Bakirtzi (ed.), Food and Cooking in Byzantium, Athens 2005, 61-110 (in Greek).
• ...and Radishes for Appetizers. On Banquets, Radishes and Wine, in: D. Papanikola-Bakirtzi (ed.), Food and Cooking in Byzantium, Athens 2005, 147-174 (in collaboration with Titos Papamastorakis, in English).
• Wine Culture in Byzantium, στο Οίνος: Πολιτισμός και κοινωνία, Athens, 2006, 38-67 (in Greek) (PDF).
• Oleum vero ex pauco. Olive Oil Production in Byzantine Peloponnesus, in: Olive in Peloponnesus[= Ο δε τόπος ελαιοφόρος. Η παρουσία της ελιάς στην Πελοπόννησο], Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group PIOP, Athens 2007, 48-59 (in Greek).
• Olive oil production in Middle Byzantine Peloponnesus, in: Olive in Peloponnesus [= Ο δε τόπος ελαιοφόρος. Η παρουσία της ελιάς στην Πελοπόννησο], Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group PIOP, Athens 2007, 60-73 (in Greek).
• Byzantine Messenia, 4th -12th c., in: Messenia, Space - Time - People, Athens 2007, 105-137 (in Greek).
• Paroinia en pourpre: le pouvoir du vin et l'ivresse du pouvoir a Byzance, in: Olio e vino nell'Alto Medioevo, Atti della LIV Settimana di studio (Spoleto, 20-26 aprile 2006), Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto 2007, 897-957 (in French).
• When Physicians are (almost) Hardly Needed, in: D. Trakkas (ed.), History of Medical Care, Archaiologia and Technes 103 (2007), 50-57 (in Greek with English summary) (pdf).
• Solomon and his Ambivalent Byzantine Use by the First Macedonian Emperors and its Apocalyptic Origin, in: A. Lambropoulou - K. Tsiknakis (eds.), The Jewish Presence in the Greek Region (4th-19th c.) [NHRF/IBR, International Symposia 12], Athens 2008, 39-60 (in Greek).
• Toys in Byzantium, in: The Greek Toy [= Το ελληνικό παιχνίδι. Διαδρομές στην ιστορία του], Athens 2008, 68-89 (in collaboration with Anna Lambropoulou, in Greek).
• Sculptures des ages obscurs provenant de la basilique du theatre de l'antique Messene, in: Ch. Pennas - C. Vanderheyde, La sculpture byzantine: VΙΙe-XIIe siecles, Actes du colloque international organisé par la 2e éphorie des antiquités byzantines et l 'École francaise d' Athenes (6-8 septembre 2000), Athens 2008, 375-392 (in collaboration with Vasso Penna, Anna Lambropoulou, in Greek with French summary).
• Byzantine Perceptions of Milk Products, in: History of Greek Milk and Dairies, Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group PIOP, Athens 2008, 199-209 (in collaboration with Christine Angelidi, in Greek).
• Singing (?) and Milking Sheperds in Byzantium [= Αγραυλούντες καί αμέλγοντες], in: History of Greek Milk and Dairies, Cultural Foundation of Piraeus Bank Group PIOP, Athens 2008, 211-237 (in collaboration with Titos Papamastorakis, in Greek).
• Changing Names and Places in the Region of Coron [= Μετονομασίες-μετοικεσίες. Η περίπτωση της Κορώνης], in: Αίπεια - Κορώνη - Πεταλίδι, Τοπικόν Συνέδριον Δήμου Πεταλιδίου, Petalidi 2009, 45-69 (in Greek).
• Bishoprics and Religious Life until 1204 in Modern Day Metropolis of Messenia, in: Christian Messenia. History of the Metropolis of Messenia, Athens 2009/2010, 113-146 (in Greek).