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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Agricultural production and installations in Byzantine Cappadocia: a case study focusing on Mavrucandere	5
Seven Byzantine lead seals from the museum of Ödemiş in western Anatolia	2
Representation as indwelling: Contextualizing Michael Psellos’empsychos grapheacross artistic, liturgical, and literary theory	2
The Serpent Column and the talismanic ecologies of Byzantine Constantinople	2
The Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Enosis politics and the British authorities during the First World War	2
Did the Byzantines call themselves Byzantines? Elements of Eastern Roman identity in the imperial discourse of the seventh century	1
Reading social change on a potter's wheel: Chalcis (Euboea) from the Byzantine to the Modern Greek era	1
Logistical considerations for the arms production industry in the Middle Byzantine Empire	1
Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy	1
An embattled charismatic: assertiveness and invective in Niketas Stethatos’ Spiritual Centuries	1
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	1
Reassessing a Late Byzantine masterpiece: the Deesis mosaic in the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople	1
The departure of the Greeks from Egypt, 1961: the perspective of Greek diplomacy	1
Living by his wit: Tzetzes' Aristophanic variations on the conundrums of a ‘professional writer’	1
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	1
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
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	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
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	0
Speros Vryonis, Jr. (1928–2019)	0
Elisavet Kotzia, Ελληνική Πεζογραφία 1974–2010: Το μέτρο και τα σταθμά. Athens: Polis, 2020. Pp 751.	0
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
Margaret E. Kenna, Greek Island Life. Fieldwork on Anafi. Canyon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2017. Pp. x, 241.	0
Middle and Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: eighth- to early twelfth-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0

Greek–Soviet relations 1959–1962: the Greek response to the Kremlin's challenge	0
George Andreiomenos (ed.), Γιάννης Ρίτσος, Πρώιμα ποιήματα και πεζά. Athens: Kedros 2018. Pp. 288.	0
‘A very good and dear friend’: is Panagiotis Nikousios the author of the ‘Mournful story concerning the unjust death of the Grand Postelnic Constantine Cantacuzenus’?	0
The Grammatical Introduction by Nikolaos Sofianos: manuscripts, date, and linguistic models	0
Thomas Arentzen, The Virgin in Song. Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 265.	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
BYZ volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Linda Yuretich (trans.), The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses. Translated Texts for Byzantinists 6. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 320.	0
Editorial	0
The Rebellious 1960s via the Prosperous 1990s: Youth, Modernity and Consumption in Antonis Kokkinos’ Τέλος εποχής (End of an Era) (1994)	0
William McGrew, Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece. Lanham, Boulder, New York, LondonRowman and Littlefield. 2015, Pp. 508.	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
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
Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos (BHG 1875b): Edition and translation of a post-Byzantine prophecy	0
BYZ volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Kazantzakis and America	0
BYZ volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Alexander Kitroeff, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. Pp 249	0
BYZ volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Of dogs and men: a note on Liudprand's Greek (Rel. 1, 21–23)	0
BYZ volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Nicolas Argenti, Remembering Absence: the Sense of Life in Island Greece Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 352.	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
BYZ volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 195.	0
The voices of the tale: the storyteller in early Byzantine collective biographies, miracle collections, and collections of edifying tales	0
BYZ volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
The abduction of General Kreipe in Crete: bloodless or bloody?	0
Durrells and donkeys: the representation of animals, Greeks, and Corfu in Gerald Durrell's The Donkey Rustlers	0
BYZ volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Another reconsideration of the Madaba map	0
Petros T. Pizanias, The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Pp. xiii, 544.	0
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Η Κυπριακή Συλλογή Πετραρχικών και άλλων Αναγεννησιακών Ποιημάτων, Introduction: Elsi Mathiopoulou-Tornaritou, Accompanying texts: Giovanna Carbonaro, Eirini Papadaki.	0
Peter Heather, Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 408.	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
BYZ volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Ruth Macrides: an appreciation	0
Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864-1914. London: Hurst, 2012. Pp. 320	0
BYZ volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	0
The novel of the Greek civil war in the twenty-first century: (post)memory and the weight of the past	0
Local involvement in modern Greek revivals of ancient theatres: Delphi and Epidaurus in the inter-war period	0
Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xiv, 130 + 10 b/w illustrat	0
Theophilus of Edessa on the death of Constans II	0
Anthony Kaldellis, Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 373.	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
Kostas Yiavis, Imperios and Margarona. The Rhymed Version. Critical Edition with Introduction, Commentary and Index–Glossary. Athens: ΜΙΕΤ 2019. Pp. 523 + 31 plates.	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

Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	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
An antidote to anarchy? Images of monarchy in Greece in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries	0
Scotland's ‘Vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688	0
The ring, the gown, and the apple: the role of magical objects in the Byzantine vernacular romance Kallimachos and Chrysorroi	0
Dimitris Tziovas: Η πολιτισμική ποιητική της Ελληνικής πɛζογραφίας: από την ɛρμηνεία στην ηθική. Irakleio: University of Crete Publications, 2017. Pp. 589.	0
Έρωτος Αποτελέσματα (1792): Τα στιχουργήματα. Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Ναταλία Δεληγιαννάκη, γλωσσάρι Peter Mackridge. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2018. Pp. 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
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
Ingela Nilsson, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 222.	0
Narrative coherence in Digenes Akrites (G)	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	0
BYZ volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	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
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
Mark Whittow (1957–2017): a tribute	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
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
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0
Roderick Beaton Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, London: Allen Lane2019. Pp. 462, 26.	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
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
The controversy over Ancient Greek as a school subject: education, ideology, and politics in times of crisis	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
BYZ volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
Tina Bucuvalas (ed.), Greek Music in America. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Pp. xii, 468.	0
The reception of Plutarch in George Pisides’ panegyrical poems	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
BYZ volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0
Geoffrey Greatrex & Sylvain Janniard (eds), Le Monde de Procope/ The World of Procopius. Paris (Orient et Mediterranée 28): Éditions de Boccard, 2018. Pp. 426	0
The metropolitan and the Theban silk industry: a hypothetical reconstruction	0
Monks, laity and the prospect of self-sufficiency: Souflar Metochi of Vatopedi Monastery	0
Joseph Bryennios and eschatological theology in Late Byzantium	0
BYZ volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
BYZ volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Paschalis Nikolaou, The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue. Bristol: Shearsman Books2017. Pp. 159.	0
Performance and subversion under the Colonels’ gaze: changing notions of identity in the different editions of Dido Sotiriou's Οι νɛκροί πɛριμένουν	0
Early Byzantine sigillographic evidence from western Anatolia: sixth- and seventh-century lead seals from Bergama (ancient Pergamon)	0
Peter Mackridge and David Ricks (ed.), The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945-1955. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xii, 261.	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Marjorie Chambers, Yannis Ritsos Among his Contemporaries. Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry Translated by Marjorie Chambers. London: Colenso Books, 2018. Pp. xvii, 233.	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
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
Konstantina Zanou, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 248.	0
Trapped in the imperial narrative? Some reflections on warfare and the provincial masses in Byzantium (600-1204)	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
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	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
The Battle of Peta (1822): when the Philhellenes fought like the Greek irregulars	0
A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	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
Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey	0
Evan Jones (tr.), C.P. Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose. Manchester: Carcanet Classics, 2020. Pp. 338.	0
BYZ volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The Albanoi in Michael Attaleiates’ History: revisiting the Vranoussi-Ducellier debate	0
Alexios G. C. Savvides, The Beginnings and Foundation of Byzantine Studies: a Survey. With a bibliographical appendix. Athens: Hêrodotos, 2018. Pp. 264	0
Vangelis Hatzivasiliou, Η κίνηση του εκκρεμούς: Άτομο και κοινωνία στη νεότερη ελληνική πεζογραφία 1974–2017. Athens: Polis, 2018. Pp 910.	0
Donald J. Mastronarde, Preliminary Studies on the Scholia to Euripides. Berkeley, CA: California Classical Studies, 6, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 246.	0
Philipp Niewöhner (ed.), The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: from the End of Antiquity until the Coming of the Turks. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 464.	0
Making sense of an execution: Patriarch Gregory V between the Sublime Porte and the Patriarchate	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0