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Papers

(The median citation count of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	4
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	2
Ingela Nilsson, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 222.	1
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Evan Jones (tr.), C.P. Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose. Manchester: Carcanet Classics, 2020. Pp. 338.	1
Dante in Smyrna: imagery of destruction and forced migration from Turkey's Aegean littoral in the early Republican period	1
BYZ volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	1
Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts	1
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	0
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine. The Writings of John Aktouarios (c. 1275-x. 1330). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. xviii + 342.	0
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
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Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	0
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Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	0
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Greek modern art in interwar Paris: networks rather than a generation	0
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Georgia Gotsi and Despina Provata (eds.), Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers. Modern Greeks in the Press (1850–1900). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, Pp. 270.	0
Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: a cinema of biopolitics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 268 - Marios Psarras, The Queer Greek Weird Wave: ethics, politics and the crisi	0

Baukje van den Berg, Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessaloniki on the Composition of the Iliad (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. XVIII, 260	0
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Martha Karpozilou, Τα ελληνικά περιοδικά του 19ου αιώνα, Athens: Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2021. Pp. 220 and 410.	0
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (eds), The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2021, Pp. xviii + 457.	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	0
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Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	0
A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
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Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
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Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes – moving frontiers, shifting identities in the land of Rome (13th-15th centuries). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 259.	0
Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
Learning Modern Greek in nineteenth-century Paris: K. B. Hase's student notes on Amiras’ translation of Costin, History of the Kingdoms and Princes of Moldavia	0
Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	0
The Presence of Christ in the Eucharist κατ' οὐσίαν. On the interpretation and the source of a fragment from the Homily of George Scholarios and its impact on the Eucharistic doctrine of the Greek Ort	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	0
Katerina Krikos-Davis (ed.), George Seferis, Μέρες Η (2 Γενάρη 1961–16 Δεκέμβρη 1963) and Μέρες Θ (1 Φεβρουαρίου 1964–11 Μάη 1971). Pp. 384 + 352 Athens: Ikaros 2018, 2019.	0
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The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	0
Nikos Zagklas, Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems. An Edition and Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 382	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	0
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	0
Mathieu Couderc, Identités subies, identités integrées: Les Grecs dans l'Europe du Nord-Ouest (XVe-XVIe siècle). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2023. Pp. 627.	0
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
The forbidden word: the art of periphrasis and church politics in the icon controversy under Alexios I Komnenos	0
Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Between myth and reality: the modern underground reception of Michael Psellos	0
Petros T. Pizanias, The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Pp. xiii, 544.	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0
Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	0
Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
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Editorial	0
Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
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A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	0
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0

Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021 and Paschalis M. Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds), The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dict	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
Pınar Üre, Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century. London: I B Tauris 2020. Pp. 212	0
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
Panagiotis Agapitos (tr.), The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13^th Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 224.	0
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Marc D. Lauxtermann, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts. Volume Two. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019. Pp. 431.	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
‘The sublime objects of liminality’: the Byzantine insular-coastal koine and its administration in the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (ca. 600–ca. 850)	0
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	0
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
Gioula Koutsopanagou, The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949: Orchestrating the Cold-War ‘Consensus’ in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xii, 375.	0
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	0
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	0
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	0
Rico Franses, Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: the vicissitudes of contact between human and divine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 247, 64 figs.	0
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	0
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Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
The ‘Generation of the Thirties’ in art: Cold War cultural politics and modern painting in Greece	0
Trine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus Katsan (eds.), Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books, Pp. 276.	0
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	0
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	0
The Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	0
Theophilos and the Generation of the Thirties (again)	0
Greek light, Greek photography	0
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A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	0
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	0
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Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Alexander Riehle (ed.), A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 7). Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 531.	0
The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	0
Personal responses to danger in Greek graffiti: inscriptional formulae and self-expression at three late antique and Byzantine sites	0
David J.D. Miller and Peter Sarris, The Novels of Justinian: A Complete Annotated English Translation. (2 vols). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix, 1192	0
Georgia Gotsi, Ελίζαμπεθ Μ. ´Εντμοντς, μια βικτωριανή βιογραφεί τον Ρήγα, Εισαγωγή – Κείμενο – Σχόλια. Athens: Ε.Ι.Ε. /Ι.Ι.Ε, 2020. Pp. 161	0
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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	0
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
Έρωτος Αποτελέσματα (1792): Τα στιχουργήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Ναταλία Δεληγιαννάκη, γλωσσάρι Peter Mackridge. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2018. Pp. 309.	0
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0