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CLOSEThe Society of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period
Christos Malatras, Kostis Smyrlis
Topics of inquiry include the structures of society, social and economic inequalities, various social groups and their attitude towards international and domestic challenges of the period, as well as the ideological foundations of Byzantine society.
- K. Smyrlis, “A Merchant of Τhessalonike: Kasandrenos and His Ledger of 1356–1357”, in: State and Society in the Palaiologan Era (13th-15th centuries), eds. M.-H. Blanchet, R. Estangüi Gómez (London & New York: Routledge, 2025), 23-88.
- Ch. Malatras, “Τα μοναστήρια του Αγίου Όρους και η επαρχιακή κοινωνία στο Ύστερο Βυζάντιο”, in: Πρακτικά του Γ’ Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Εργαστηρίου της Αγιορείτικης Εστίας (Thessaloniki: 2024), 39-55.
- Ch. Malatras, “Towards the Upper Echelon: Agency and Social Ascent in Late Byzantium”, in: Microstructures and Mobility in the Byzantine world, eds. C. Rapp, Y. Stouraitis (Vienna: 2024), 137-156.
- Ch. Malatras, The Earthly Order: Social Stratification in Late Byzantium (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2023).
- K. Smyrlis, “Social Change in the Countryside of Eleventh-Century Byzantium, in: Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, eds. J. Howard-Johnston (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 62-75.
- Peasants in the Byzantine World: The State of the Question, National Hellenic Research Foundation and École française d’Athènes, 2 May 2023, organized by K. Smyrlis, Ch. Gasparis, P. Ralli, and G. Meyer-Fernandez.
- Ch. Malatras, “Structures and Characteristics of the Palaiologan Society”, lecture in the Sorbonne University, 10 October 2024.
- Ch. Malatras, “Hierarchy and Order in Late Byzantine Society”, lecture in the Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies, Bucharest, 23 April 2024.
- Ch. Malatras, “Social Structures and Expressions of Social Identity through the Archival Sources of Late Byzantine Thessaly”, in: Byzantine Thessaly, Twelfth – Fourteenth Centuries: A Tribute to Prof. Paul Magdalino, Larissa, 21-22 October 2023.
- Ch. Malatras, Society in Late Byzantine Constantinople,seminar in the University of Cologne, 1 June 2023.
- Ch. Malatras, 2024: Teaching in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the module “Strukturen und Institutionen der byzantinischen Gesellschaft” (spring semester).