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CLOSEChurch and Intellectuality in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Late Medieval Period
Eleftherios Despotakis
Research coordinator
Eleftherios DespotakisAssociate Researcher
Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates Latin archival documents alongside evidence from Greek manuscripts, the studies conducted within the framework of the project seek to reconstruct the profiles of scholars, priests, and scribes active during the 14th and 15th centuries in Latin-dominated regions of Greece, such as Venetian-occupied Crete, as well as in Italy.
- E. Despotakis, John Plousiadenos (1423?-1500). A Time-space Geography of his Life & Career, Leuven 2020.
- P. Ch. Athanasopoulos, E. Despotakis, “Greek Manuals for the Catholic Confession (ms. Athens, National Library, gr. 2473)”, in Translation Activity in the Late Byzantine World, ed. P. Ch. Athanasopoulos Berlin 2021, 531-603.
- Remarks on the Disputatio contra Iudaeos of the 15th century Cretan Author Manuel Savios. Polemical Literature in the Late Byzantine World (13th-15th centuries) (17 December 2021, Mainz).
Research coordinator
Eleftherios DespotakisAssociate Researcher