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CLOSEProsopography and Aspects of Byzantine Society
Christos Malatras
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Christos MalatrasAssociate Researcher
This research programme includes the study of various aspects of Byzantine society, particularly through the examination of Byzantine seals. It highlights issues such as gender, identity, and otherness, with particular emphasis on prosopographical research, that is, the study of both the personnel of the state administration and the Church, as well as aristocratic families and individual figures.
- Christos Malatras, Byzantine lead seals as expressions of power and identity, in M. Bodnaruk και A. Adanshikaya (eds.), Art and Power in Medieval Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Era, Budapest 2025 (in print).
- Christos Malatras, 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, BMGS 48.2 (2024), 207-234.
- Christos Malatras, An unpublished seal of Konstantinos Philosophos, his family, and the thema of the Islands, ZRVI 59 (2022), 27-53.
- Christos Malatras, The making of an ethnic group: the Romaioi in the 12th–13th centuries, in K. Dimadis (ed.), Proceedings of the IVth European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, 9–12 September 2010, Granada, Spain: Identities in the Greek world (from 1204 to the present day), Athens 2011, 419–430.
- Christos Malatras, Η ελληνικότητα του Βυζαντίου στη μεταπολεμική ιστοριογραφία (The Greek nature of Byzantium in the Post-War historiography), Ιστορικά Θέματα 104 (July 2011).
- Christos Malatras, Identity and Representation on Byzantine Seals during Iconoclasm, in the 20th Spanish Conference of Byzantine Studies, 4-7 June 2025, Valencia.
- Christos Malatras, Seals and identity in Byzantium, in the 21st Workshop of the Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ΖΕΜΑΚ), Cologne, 1 December 2023.
- Christos Malatras, Το λιμάνι του Μεγάλου Θεοδοσίου στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και τα θαλάσσια ταξίδια τη βυζαντινή εποχή, invited lecture in the seminar Επιστήμης Κοινωνία ΣΤ΄ Κύκλος: «Αρχαία λιμάνια και εμπορικά φορτία», National Research Foundation, Athens, 7 November 2023. Accessible online in: https://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/18755
- Christos Malatras, Expressions of power and identity on Byzantine lead seals, in Art and Power in Medieval Societies: Censorship, Propaganda and Public Service in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Era, 19-20 May 2023, Budapest.
- Christos Malatras, Rituality and Gestures in Late Byzantine Culture, in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2022, Venice and Padua.
- Christos Malatras, Lead seals and communication networks in the Byzantine world, invited lecture on 2 December 2021 at the University of Marburg (Germany).
- Christos Malatras, The relation of the Byzantines to their Latin Roman past, invited lecture on 10 September 2021 at the Argentine Center of Byzantine Studies, Buenos Aires (Argentina) (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
- Christos Malatras, The Romaioi and the Romans: the Latin Roman heritage in Byzantium, in the 7th International Symposium “Days of Justinian I”: Identities, 15-16 November 2019, Skopje.
- Christos Malatras, Byzantium as Greece: the scholarship on the character of Byzantium in the 20th century in Transformation and adaptation: the reception of Byzantium between the 16th and 21st centuries, 5-6 September 2014, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland).
- Christos Malatras, Old Rome in New Rome: Byzantine identity and the imperial Roman heritage, in Texts, Monuments and heritage of Byzantine Constantinople, 16 May 2014, Koç University, Constantinople.
- Christos Malatras, Byzantium in the twelfth century: the creation of an identity, in Tradition and transformation: Dissent and consent in the Mediterranean, 30 May–1 June 2013, Central European University, Budapest.
- Christos Malatras, The making of an ethnic group: the Romaioi in the 12th-13th centuries, in 4th Paneuropean Congress of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies, 9-12 September 2010, Granada (Spain).
- Christos Malatras, The perception of the Roman heritage in 12th century Byzantium, in XLIIth Spring Symposium of Byzantine studies, 20–22 March 2009, The King’s College, London.
- Christos Malatras, 2023-2024 (winter semester): International Seminar “Approaching Byzantium through seals: a digital exhibition” organised by the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Cologne. The design and the content of the seminar was organized by me, while the participants (25 in total, Phd students and early career scholars) were chosen after an open call and evaluation.
Research coordinator
Christos MalatrasAssociate Researcher