MARIA K. LEONTSINI
Associate Researcher
Programme ''Everyday and Social Life in Byzantium''

Piraeus, 24 May 1964

STUDIES
• 1986: Degree in History and Archaeology (Department History and Archaelogy), University of Ioannina.
• 1988: Diplome d' Études Approfondies, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
• 2001: PhD in Byzantine History, University of Athens.

 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• 1988-1998: Functional Researcher, Programme ''Historical Geography of Byzantine Peloponnese'', Institute for Byzantine Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation.
• 1999-2001: Assistant Researcher, Programme ''Byzantine History Data Bank''. In the frame of the Programme I worked in the indexing of  the ''Liber Pontificalis'' (on the 7th c.), and the ''Historia Langobardorum'' of Paulus Diaconus, and defended my PhD thesis (see publications below).
• 2001-: Associate Researcher.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• History of political thought and perceptions on Byzantine Ecumene.
• Administrative structures of the Byzantine Empire.
• Military and political encounters in the 7th Century.
• Linguistic tradition and theological views in the years of the Arab expansion.
• Historical geography of Corinthia (4th-15th c.).
• Study of the natural environment and rural landscape of Peloponnese (4th-15th c.).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
• Invited lectures and presentations in under-graduate and the post-graduate seminars at the Universities of Athens and Ioannina.
• Participation with papers in Greek and international scientific conferences.
• Articles and papers in scientific issues of the Greek daily press.
• Contribution to the Lexikon der Byzantinistik, Amsterdam 1998 -; to the Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexikon of Byzantine History and Civilization, Brepols 2007-; and the journal  Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2008.
• Participation in the Bibliographies published by the journal Byzantinoslavica 1990 and in the ''Bibliographie Byzantine. Publications des Byzantinistes Grecs (1975-1990)'', published for the XIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Moscow 1991.
• Support to the IBR's Library documentation.
• Member of organizing committee of several international conferences. 
• Member of scientific societies.

SELECTION OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
• Kωνσταντίνος Δ΄ (668-685). O τελευταίος πρωτοβυζαντινός αυτοκράτορας / ConstantineIV (668-685). The Last Emperor of the Early Byzantine Period [IBR/NHRF, Monographs 7], Athens 2006, pp. 280 (in Greek).
• Historical Views and Symbolic Uses of the Land of Assyria in Byzantium, in: 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London 2006), Proceedings, vol. III, Abstracts of Communications, pp.162-163.
• The Pope and the Byzantine Emperor (395-800): Stages in the Development of Papal Independence'', in: St. Lampakis (ed.), Byzantine Diplomacy: a Seminar (transl. by N. Russell), IBR/NHRF and the Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens 2007, 83-20.
• Some Observations on the Relations between Byzantium and the Umayyads: Recognition and Repugnance, in: Cultural Relations Betwen Byzantium and Arabs, Institute for Graeco-Oriental and African Studies, Αthens 2007, 103-114.
• Οι δυσκολίες διατήρησης της Δύσης / The Difficulties of Maintenace of the Western Pars, in: Βυζαντινά στρατεύματα στη Δύση (5ος-11ος αι.). Έρευνες πάνω στις χερσαίες και ναυτικές επιχειρήσεις: Σύνθεση και αποστολή των βυζαντινών στρατευμάτων στη Δύση / ByzantineArmiesintheWest (5th-11thc.). Studies on the Operations on Land and at Sea: Composition and Mission of the Byzantine Task Forces in the West, [IBR/NHRF, Research Series 5], Athens 2008, 161-261 (in Greek).
• Ποιμένες και ποίμνια: Αντιλήψεις σχετικά με την κτηνοτροφία και τα προϊόντα της στο Bυζάντιο (5ος-10ος αι.) / Shepherds and Flocks: Perceptions on Flock Raising and its Products in Byzantium, in: 10ο Tριήμερο Eργασίας ΠIOΠ, Ξάνθη  / 10th Scientific Meeting organized in Xanthi, Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group and the Foundation Aristeidis Daskalopoulos, Athens 2008, 169-191 (in Greek).
• (in collaboration with Angeliki Panopoulou) Mια προσέγγιση στις συνθήκες εξάπλωσης του μοναχισμού στην Kορινθία: Η περίπτωση του Zεμενού / An Approach to the Conditions of the Development of Monasticism in the Region of Corinthia, in: Πρακτικά 1ου Συνεδρίου Kορινθιακών Σπουδών / Proceedings of the 1rst Symposium of Corinthian Studies, Corinth 2009, 141-156 (in Greek).
• Regional Government and Social Strife in the Exarchate of Africa between the Persian Invasion and the Arab Conquest, in: J. P. Monferrer-Sala - V. Christides - Th. Papadopoullos (eds.), East and West. Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Ages [Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 15], New Jersey 2009, 55-69.