OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Evan Jones (tr.), C.P. Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose. Manchester: Carcanet Classics, 2020. Pp. 338.	2
Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts	1
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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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Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	1
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	1
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	1
An antidote to anarchy? Images of monarchy in Greece in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries	1
For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	1
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Reading social change on a potter's wheel: Chalcis (Euboea) from the Byzantine to the Modern Greek era	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
Greek light, Greek photography	0
A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
E. McGreer (tr.), Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057–1079). Leiden: Brill, 2020, Pp. xvi, 216.	0
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Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	0
Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
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Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0

Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	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
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	0
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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
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
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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
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	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
Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
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Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	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
Georgia Gotsi, Ελίζαμπεθ Μ. ´Εντμοντς, μια βικτωριανή βιογραφεί τον Ρήγα, Εισαγωγή – Κείμενο – Σχόλια. Athens: Ε.Ι.Ε. /Ι.Ι.Ε, 2020. Pp. 161	0
Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	0
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	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
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	0
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	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
David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou and Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 20	0
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	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
The Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	0
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Petros T. Pizanias, The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Pp. xiii, 544.	0
A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	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
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	0
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
The Rebellious 1960s via the Prosperous 1990s: Youth, Modernity and Consumption in Antonis Kokkinos’Τέλος εποχής(End of an Era) (1994)	0
Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
The controversy over Ancient Greek as a school subject: education, ideology, and politics in times of crisis	0
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	0
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
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0
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
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
The Battle of Peta (1822): when the Philhellenes fought like the Greek irregulars	0

Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
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Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	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
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	0
Έρωτος Αποτελέσματα (1792): Τα στιχουργήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Ναταλία Δεληγιαννάκη, γλωσσάρι Peter Mackridge. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2018. Pp. 309.	0
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Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Lambros Kamperidis and Denise Harvey (eds.), Alexandros Papadiamandis, The Boundless Garden. Selected Short Stories, Volume II. Limni, Evia: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2019. Pp. xx, 363.	0
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	0
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	0
Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928–2019)	0
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Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	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
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
Martha Karpozilou, Τα ελληνικά περιοδικά του 19ου αιώνα, Athens: Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2021. Pp. 220 and 410.	0
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
Alexander Kitroeff, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. Pp 249	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
Στέφανος Κακλαμάνης, Ἡ Κρητικὴ ποίηση στὰ χρόνια τῆς Ἀναγέννησης (14^ος – 17^ος αἰ.), 3 volumes, Athens: Μορφωτικὸ Ἵδρυμα Ἐθνικῆς Τραπέζης, 2019–20.	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Editorial	0
Reassessing a Late Byzantine masterpiece: the Deesis mosaic in the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople	0
The Albanoi in Michael Attaleiates’ History: revisiting the Vranoussi-Ducellier debate	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
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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
Gonda van Steen, Adoption, Memory and the Cold War: Kid pro quo? Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 330, xx.	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
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A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
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Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Marc D. Lauxtermann, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts. Volume Two. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019. Pp. 431.	0
Catherine Vanderheyde, La Sculpture byzantine du IXe au XVe siècle: contexte – mise en oeuvre – décors. Paris: Éditions A. & J. Picard, 2020. Pp. 364, 193 figs.	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
Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	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
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	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
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	0
A change of heart? Theophilos on his deathbed	0
Narrative coherence inDigenes Akrites(G)	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
Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
The abduction of General Kreipe in Crete: bloodless or bloody?	0