Kalliope Mavrommati, Section of Byzantine Research, IHR | NHRF

1st Panhellenic Conference on Environmental History, December 12-14, 2025

December 13, 2025
11:45

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA

Maria Gerolymatou, Section of Byzantine Research, IHR | NHRF

Hybrid International Conference: BASIL II AND HIS AGE (976-1025): Material Culture, Art and Architecture (on the Occasion of the completion of 1000 years from his death), 13-15 December 2025

December 13, 2025
11:10

Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki

Maria Gerolymatou, Section of Byzantine Research, IHR | NHRF

Conference “Researching Greek Micronesia”

December 19, 2025
11:50

National Historical Museum (Old Parliament Building), Kolokotronis Square, Stadiou 13, Athens

Maria Leontsini, Section of Byzantine Research, IHR | NHRF

1st Panhellenic Conference on Environmental History, December 12-14 2025

December 13, 2025
12:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA

Nikos Livanos, Section of Byzantine Research, IHR | NHRF

New Considerations at the Crossroads between Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies – History & Society

December 19, 2025
16:00

Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Speaker
Zachary Chitwood, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

November 24, 2025
18:00

Princeton Athens Center (3 Timarchou street, 116 34 Athens)

The project The “Greek-speaking” Merchants of Constantinople, the Southern Balkans, Asia Minor, and the Islands aims to record and utilize information concerning the activities of “Greek-speaking” merchants within this geographical area.

The digital database contains information on the Peloponnese concerning raw materials (soil, subsoil), natural resources (forest products, fishery products, rocks), and agricultural produce (farming, livestock) from Late Antiquity to the Late Byzantine period, that is, from the 4th to the 15th century.

The database includes iconographic material focusing on depictions of the codex in mosaics, frescoes, panel paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and works of minor arts. Its purpose is to document and analyze the iconographic conventions used in portraying the codex — which, in most cases, represents the Gospel Book.

The churches built during the Byzantine period are the ones still standing today in the historic center of Athens and beyond. Many of these churches are featured on the website “Byzantine Monuments of Attica”. Alongside the churches, a selection of frescoes, sculptures, mosaics, inscriptions, as well as rare and unpublished material from the British School at Athens (drawings and photographs by 19th-century British architects) are presented here to encourage on-site visits.

The project highlights the imported categories of pottery found in sites in the Peloponnese and in Crete and the fluctuations in the distribution and circulation of ceramic products depending to each period, from the 4th to the 15th or 16th c., respectively. The database contains more than 5800 records and is accompanied by a digital map.

In the ever-growing scholarly interest in studying aspects of the material culture of past societies, research on ceramics has experienced remarkable growth. The study of glazed vessels immured in churches of various areas of Greece offers an important tool for gaining deeper insight into this rich facet of material culture found throughout the Greek world, as the material itself forms a kind of open-air museum for medieval and post-medieval glazed pottery.

This database includes terms related to bookbinding and to the description of the codex as a physical object. It is organized into sections corresponding to the structure of the book, and each term is accompanied by an explanatory text in Greek and a translation of the term only into English.

The database “Chrysothemis” consists of entries concerning methods of food preparation in Byzantium, mainly of the Byzantine recipes, cooked food called mageiriai. Some of the relevant comments are extended studies investigating food preparation and standard of living over time and making comparisons not only among various social classes, but also among various ethnic and religious groups within and beyond the boundaries of the Byzantine Empire.

The research examines the role of domestic animals and wild fauna in everyday life. It aims to approach the subject from geographical, historical, and environmental perspectives, focusing on the collection of data concerning the perception and use of wild animals, the breeding and exploitation of domestic animals and livestock, as well as activities such as fishing, apiculture, and hunting.

The database includes written works classified under the following categories: Lives of Saints, Encomia, Miracles, Homilies, and Unclassified, according to their listing in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (=BHG). The texts are entered into the database page by page, exactly as they were published in the original edition.

The “Byzantine History Database” is an ongoing project of the SBR/IHR. It is the result of in-depth scholarly processing of more than one hundred Greek and Latin texts to date and aims to create a significant tool for research and support of the educational process.

The database “Byzantine Documents of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian” forms part of the preparation for a unified catalogue of the Byzantine documents preserved in the Monastery’s Archive. In its current form, it includes Imperial, Official, and Patriarchal documents for which a modern diplomatic edition exists.

The database “Western Religious Orders in the Aegean, the Ionian, and Cyprus (11th–19th centuries)” aims to: (a) map for the first time the extent, density, and diversity of the establishments of Western religious orders in these regions from the 11th century to 1830, the year of Greek independence; and (b) collect and present the essential bibliographical documentation concerning these establishments.

The data have been drawn primarily from the scholarly literature and published sources, as well as from unpublished archival material.

The Gazetteer includes all military conflicts that took place in the Byzantine or former Byzantine territories of the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor during the period 1204–1461, in which one of the opposing sides consisted wholly or partly of Byzantines. It is accompanied by an interactive digital atlas.

The database records, in diplomatic transcription, the texts of Greek post-Byzantine documents preserved in the archives of the Athonite monasteries. At this stage, it includes all the documents from the monasteries of Esphigmenou and Stavronikita, as well as selected ones from Pantokrator, Xeropotamou, and Karakallou. The database will gradually be enriched with the complete corpus of documents from the remaining monasteries.

The “Prosopography” offers a treasury of processed historical data in a state of constant reconstruction. It is a powerful analytical tool that includes a catalogue of all the persons mentioned in the sources, constituting a complete and objective record of the past.

The database records the notes found in manuscripts of the Monastery of Patmos that have been published in the catalogues of its collection issued to date and, as a final stage, it aims to develop it into a thesaurus of primary historical evidence from the collections of the monastery, with the addition of historical information in its published documents.

Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
Teresa Shawcross, Princeton University

Series of lectures on Byzantine History, Literature, Art and Archaeology.

Organised by:
Kostis Smyrlis, Marina Koumanoudi and Stratis Papaioannou
Institute of Historical Research, Hellenic Institute of History

June 16, 2025
18:00 EEST

location in english

Historical Sciences Seminar 2024-2025

Organised by: Institute of Historical Research, NHRF | Section of Byzantine Research

May 2025

Olivier Delouis, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Byzantine Studies Lectures, Spring 2025.
Series of lectures on Byzantine History, Literature, Art and Archaeology.

Organised by:
Kostis Smyrlis, Marina Koumanoudi and Stratis Papaioannou
Institute of Historical Research, Hellenic Institute of History

March 17, 2025
18:00 EET

Princeton Athens Center
(3 Timarchou srt., 11634 Athens)
& Online

Salvatore Cosentino, University of Bologna

Byzantine Studies Lectures, Spring 2025
Series of lectures on Byzantine History, Literature, Art and Archaeology

Organised by:
Kostis Smyrlis, Marina Koumanoudi and Stratis Papaioannou
Institute of Historical Research, Hellenic Institute of History

May 19, 2025
18:00 EEST

Princeton Athens Center (Τιμάρχου 3, 11634, Αθήνα) & Διαδικτυακά

Οι βυζαντινές σπουδές από τον 19ο στον 20ό αιώνα: ιδεολογικά ρεύματα, μεθοδολογικά εργαλεία και οι πολλαπλές κατασκευές του Βυζαντίου

Organised by: The Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (IHR/NHRF)

Academic Year 2024-2025

Ιστορικό Αρχείο του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Σκουφά 45, Αθήνα

“Consumer Goods and Consumers in the Aegean Islands during the Early Middle Ages”
Salvatore Cosentino, University of Bologna
18:00 EEST // Princeton Athens Center (Τιμάρχου 3, 11634, Αθήνα) & Διαδικτυακά

May 19, 2025
18:00

Princeton Athens Center (Τιμάρχου 3, 11634, Αθήνα) & Διαδικτυακά

Ημερομηνία ανάρτησης: December 19, 2024

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