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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘And thus a shared marriage bound us to Germany’: the image of Wilhelmine Germany in the Kingdom of Greece (1889–1914)	5
Agathias’ Greek: sixth-century language through two case studies from the Histories	2
For the love of literature: a Byzantine perspective	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
Dante in Smyrna: imagery of destruction and forced migration from Turkey's Aegean littoral in the early Republican period	1
Elizabeth Jeffreys (22 July 1941–12 September 2023)	1
Edward J. Watts, The Romans: A 2000-Year History . New York: Hachette, 2025. Pp. xvi + 718.	1
BYZ volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
BYZ volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Hellenizing Mycenae: from Heinrich Schliemann's excavations to National Museum	1
Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature	1
Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts	1
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire	1
The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment	1
The forbidden word: the art of periphrasis and church politics in the icon controversy under Alexios I Komnenos	1
The Preacher and the King: vision and meaning in Atheniensis 211	1
Greek light, Greek photography	0
Greek identity and education in the seventeenth century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ political movement in the Orthodox East	0
BYZ volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
BYZ volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni	0
Late Antiquity, post-modernity, and Islam: the 1970s as a point of departure and retrospection	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Ιστορία, έθνος και μυθιστόρημα στη Μεταπολίτευση. Τραύμα, μνήμη και μεταφορά . Irakleio: Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis, 2024. Pp.1-45	0
Paula Meehan's Greek journey: environmental footsteps	0
Konstantinos Dapontes, Selected Writings: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Elina Tsalicoglou. Cambridge, MA 2019, Pp. lxvii, 128	0

A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet	0
‘The English despot’: Francis Noel-Baker and his support for the Colonels’ regime	0
Review of Takis Kayalis, Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities . Cham: Springer Nature [Palgrave Macmillan], 2024. Pp. viii, 282.	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
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule , Stanford, California: Stanfor	0
Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades , 3rd ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 Pp. 306 + Appendices.	0
Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield's eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century	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
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
Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 344	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
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
Eleni Kakoulidi-Panou, Eleni Karantzola, Katerina Tiktopoulou, Δημώδης Πεζός Λόγος του 16ου αιώνα. Athens: Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2023. Pp. cxii + 761.	0
Generic self-awareness in a Komnenian novel: the hero in Drosilla and Charikles	0
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)	0
BYZ volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Founding fathers of Greek history-writing in early modern Constantinople	0
Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan Translated by David Connolly. Athens: Aiora Press, 2019. Pp. 231	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
The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915 - 1923	0
Greek modern art in interwar Paris: networks rather than a generation	0
The Cretan version of Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido : remarks on its rhetorical and lyrical construction	0
Hiding in plain sight: visual histories in Greece	0
Class and society in Ithaca under Tocco and early Venetian rule (1357–ca. 1600)	0
BYZ volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Nikos Kazantzakis on Palestine, Jerusalem, and the Zionist movement: literary and historical considerations	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 Ottoman translation of the Greek Declaration of Independence: some further considerations	0
Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας, Στον αστερισμό των αντιθέσεων. Ο κριτικός και δοκιμιογράφος Τ.Κ. Παπατσώνης. Αthens: Gutenberg 2021. pp. 499.	0
Kazantzakis and America	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
BYZ volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Recycling and adapting Constantine Manasses’ Aristandros and Kallithea in the Palaiologan Chapters in Political Verse	0
Τὰ μαθήματα for Byzantinists	0
Who is listening? Apostrophe and ‘double relevance’ in the hymns of Romanos the Melodist	0
Art and female agency in late Byzantium: three methodological case studies.	0
Hubert Faustmann and Georgios Kazamias (eds), Cyprus and the First World War . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. xii, 223.	0
BYZ volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Ninety new Greek proverbs of Hermodorus Rhegius: edition and textual history	0
The semantron to Western ears: othering through sound	0
Personal responses to danger in Greek graffiti: inscriptional formulae and self-expression at three late antique and Byzantine sites	0
Constructing continuity: heritage listing and monument preservation in Greater Athens from the 1920s to the 1970s	0
Byzantine excess, Slavic hesitancy: Euthymios of Tarnovo on visions	0
Building women's social capital in Late Antique Egypt: business owners and civic administrators	0
BYZ volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Bonds and affinities among successional spaces: spatial performativity in the New Museum of the Acropolis in Athens	0
Time to say goodbye? Some thoughts on Georg Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State in the twenty-first century	0
Markéta Kulhánková and Przemysław Marciniak (eds), Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023. Pp. xi, 278.	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
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
BYZ volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (eds), Nicaea and the Future of Christianity . New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. Pp. 334.	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
Holy icon or sacred body? The image of the emperor in the iconoclastic controversy	0
BYZ volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
The ‘Generation of the Thirties’ in art: Cold War cultural politics and modern painting in Greece	0
The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture	0
Some remarks on Elytis’ Crinagoras	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
Sir Emanuel Asanes alias Sophianos of Tregoose, a fifteenth-century Greek émigré in Cornwall	0
Between myth and reality: the modern underground reception of Michael Psellos	0
Theophilos and the Generation of the Thirties (again)	0
Philhellenism and after: Greece in E.F. Benson's life and work	0
Legal pluralism for whose sake? Ottoman law, Greek jurists, and religious privileges	0
The weak life of the nation: Spyridon Zambelios’ philosophical history and its Hegelian roots	0
Nicholas Melvani, Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople . Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2026. Pp. xvi, 291.	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
A late Ottoman intellectual on the Chora monastery: Mehmed Ziya's book on the ‘Kaʻriye Cami-i Şerifi’ in context	0
Marriage, comedy, and the patristic tradition in the first Ptochoprodromic poem	0
Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis, Alexandrian Sphinx. The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy . London: Simon and Schuster [UK Edition], 2025. Pp. xxiv	0
Nikos Zagklas, Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems. An Edition and Literary Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 382	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
A cosmic poet: C.P. Cavafy's global and digital legacy under the Onassis Foundation	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
The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus	0
BYZ volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Constructing the ‘theatre of power’: the performance of speeches of Emperor Leo VI the Wise	0
BYZ volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Alexander Kazamias, Greece and the Cold War: Diplomacy and Anti-Colonialism in the Aftermath of Civil Conflict . London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 315.	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
‘The Way We Were’: a journey in the last fifty years of Byzantine archaeology (1975-2024)	0
Rock-cut façades: conveyors of ‘false’ monumentality in Byzantine Cappadocia	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
Andrew Mellas, Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: compunction and hymnody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 206.	0
The teaching of logic among the Greeks in the early modern period: was there such a thing as ‘post-Byzantine philosophy’?	0
Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J. (1931-2022)	0
The pleasure of storytelling: anecdotes in Nikephoros Bryennios’ Material for History	0
Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity, London: I.B. Tauris 2021. Pp. viii + 309	0
BYZ volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Fragments from Ottoman Zagori: continuity and change in a montane landscape through a local perspective	0
A taste for all things Byzantine: Byzantium in the collections of Antonis Benakis	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
Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem	0
Greek Folk Songs, translated by Joshua Barley. Athens: Aiora Press, 2022. Pp. 184.	0
Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture. The building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, Pp. 783	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
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
Elli Filokyprou, Μέσα στις πέτρες κοιμούνται τα πουλιά: Το ποιητικό τοπίο του Γιάννη Ρίτσου . Athens: Nefeli, 2022. Pp. 302	0
Contemporary history: the growth of a field in Greece since 1974	0
Inter-faith relations and their spatial representation in the Late Medieval Aegean: the double-apsed churches of Kythnos in the Western Cyclades	0
Editorial	0
The ‘alternative preface’ to Theophilos Korydalleus’ Logic : a minor episode of factional intrigue in the Patriarchal School of Constantinople in the sev	0
BYZ volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Martha Karpozilou, Τα ελληνικά περιοδικά του 19ου αιώνα, Athens: Library of the Hellenic Parliament, 2021. Pp. 220 and 410.	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
Wonder dogs of Byzantium from an animal point of view	0
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