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Maria Leontsini

Institute of Historical Research

Department of Byzantine Research

Senior Researcher (Grade B)

Program: ''Everyday and Social Life in Byzantium''

Phone: 030+210-7273622

Fax: 030+210-7273629

E-mail: leontsini@eie.gr

Website: http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/ihr/index-gr_IHR.html

STUDIES

Bachelor of Arts, History (University of Ioannina 1986)

Master of Arts, Byzantine History, University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne 1988)

Ph.D. in Byzantine History (University of Athens 2001).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY • 1988-1998: Functional Researcher, Program ''Historical Geography of Byzantine

Peloponnese'', Institute for Byzantine Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation.

• 1999-2001: Assistant Researcher, Program ''Byzantine History Data Bank''.

• 2007˗2013: Associate Researcher Program: ''Everyday and Social Life in Byzantium''

• 2013- : Senior Researcher Program: ''Everyday and Social Life in Byzantium''

RESEARCH INTERESTS • Military and Political Encounters in the 7th Century

• Administrative structures of the Byzantine empire

• Society and theological views during Arab expansion

• Historical Geography

• Everyday life and environmental changes in Byzantium

RESEARCH AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES • Participation to the Project “Byzantiou katoptron” of the Operation 3.3 of the Excellence

Program of the Action at Research Institutes under the auspices of the General Secretariat

for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development, of Hellenic Republic, which

   

 

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financed the publication of my monograph and the collective volume in which I contributed

with a book chapter.

•"National Information System for Science & Technology/Social Networks - content

generated by users', call 04_2.1 on 31.03.2009, which will include the recording of data

concerning natural and rural scenery in Crete and Peloponnese from Late Antiquity to the

present, the repositories will be created.

• Participation to the Project Program "DYAS", beginning 3/5/2010 and ending 28/2/2011.

My contribution was to participate in TE2 ("Feasibility Study") and its mission, monitoring

and processing of the questionnaire sent by the Academy of Athens in others.

• Secretarial support of postdoctoral fellowships and scientific supervision of one post-

doctoral project among the four, approved by the Operational Program "Education and

Lifelong Learning" in "Scientific Area’’': Humanities and Social Sciences (Thematic area:

SH6). The Program was launched by the Ministry of Education on 14 October 2010 (protocol

number.12258)

• Program "Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers". Responsible for the supervision of the

research proposals in the Institute for Byzantine Research in the frame of the Supporting

Postdoctoral Candidates of the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious

Affairs.

• Seminars (in collaboration with Aggeliki Panopoulou and D. Dimitropoulos) on "Man

and the natural environment/5th-16th century", Tutorial on Historical Sciences of the

IBR (2009-2010), Friday 16, 23, 30 (February 2010,

http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/ibr/news/fie/09.pdf) and Friday 4, 11 (May 2012,

http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/ibr/news/ibr-frontistirio2011-2012.pdf).

• Αγροτικά εργαλεία και τεχνικές: εκχέρσωση, καλλιέργεια, παραγωγή και αποθήκευση

των αγροτικών προϊόντων/Agricultural tools and techniques: land clearing, cultivation,

production and storage of agricultural products, the VII session: The technology the

Byzantine era, The Workshop on Industrial heritage, in collaboration with the Greek

Section of the International Commission for the Conservation f the Industrial Heritage

and the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, scientific coordination: Heleni Beneki,

November 25, 2012, website: http://www.hist–arch.uoi.gr/pdfs_docs/TICCIH–

PIOP_program.pdf.

• Contribution to the annual bibliographic bulletin of the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2008-.

• Member of the team for editorial assistance to the Institute of Historical Research

scientific journal Byzantina Symmeikta.

• Member of organizing committees of international conferences.

• Member of scientific societies.

   

 

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MAIN PUBLICATIONS • Kωνσταντίνος Δ΄ (668–685). O τελευταίος πρωτοβυζαντινός αυτοκράτορας/ Constantine IV (668–685).The Last emperor of the Early Byzantine Period, Athens, Institute for Byzantine

Research Monographs 7, Athens 2006, funded by the Project “Byzantiou katoptron” of the

Operation 3.3 of the Excellence Program (Action at Research Institutes under the auspices of

the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development,

Hellenic Republic).

• The Pope and the Byzantine Emperor (395–800): Stages in the Development of Papal

Independence, Byzantine Diplomacy: a Seminar, edited by St. Lampakis, transl. N. Russell,

Athens, National Printing House, 2007, pp. 83–120.

• Οι δυσκολίες διατήρησης της Δύσης/The Difficulties of maintaining the Western Pars, in:

Βυζαντινά στρατεύµατα στη Δύση (5ος–11ος αι.). Έρευνες πάνω στις χερσαίες και ναυτικές επιχειρήσεις: Σύνθεση και αποστολή των βυζαντινών στρατευµάτων στη Δύση/Byzantine Armies in the West (5th–11thc.). Studies on the Operations on Land and at Sea: Composition and Mission of the Byzantine Task Forces in the West, Institute for Byzantine Research,

Research Series 5, Athens 2008, pp. 161–261.

• Εκκλησιαστικές µεταβολές και µοναστικές δραστηριότητες στην Κορινθία (10ος αι.). Η

περίπτωση της επισκοπής Zεµενού/Changes in the church organization and monastic

activities in Corinth (10th c.). The case of the bishopric of Zemenon, Proceedings of the 1rst Symposium of Corinthian Studies, Corinth 2009, pp. 141–156 (in collaboration with Aggeliki

Panopoulou).

• Regional Government and Social Strife in the Exarchate of Africa between the Persian

Invasion and the Arab Conquest, East and West. Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Ages, edited by J.P. Monferrer–Sala, V. Christides and Th. Papadopoullos, Gorgias

Eastern Christian Studies 15, New Jersey 2009, pp. 55–69

• Οικόσιτα, ωδικά και εξωτικά πτηνά. Αισθητική πρόσληψη και χρηστικές όψεις (7ος–11ος

αι.)/Domesticated, singing and exotic birds. Aesthetic conception and utilitarian aspects

(7th–11th c.), Animals and Environment in Byzantium (7th–12th c.), edited by H.

Anagnostakis, T. G. Kolias and E. H. Papadopoulou, Institute for Byzantine Research, Series

International Symposia 21, Athens 2011, pp. 285–317.

• Byzantine references to the flora and fauna of the Arabian Peninsula and the Classical

Greek tradition (4th–12th c. AD), Arabia, Greece and Byzantium. Cultural contacts in Ancient and Medieval Times, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Historical Relations between Arabia, the Greek and Byzantine World (5th c. BC–10th c. AD), edited by A. Al–

Helabi, M. Al–Moraekhi, D. Letsios and A. Abduljabbar, History Department, King Saud

University, Riyadh 2012, pp. 361–385

• Byzantine policy towards the Arabs in the 7th century: diplomatic contacts and official

emissaries, Byzantium and the Arab World. Encounter of Civilizations, edited by A. Kralidis

   

 

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and A. Gkoutzioukostas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 16–18/12/2011, Thessaloniki

2013, pp. 281–296.

• Hens, cockerels and other choice fowl. Everyday food and gastronomic pretensions in

Byzantium, Flavours and Delights. Tastes and Pleasures of Ancient and Byzantine Cuisine,

edited by I. Anagnostakis, Athens: Armos Books 2013, 113-131.

• «Μαγικά» και αποτροπαϊκά τεκµήρια από τη βυζαντινή Κόρινθο: Συµβολικές χρήσεις και

συλλογικές συµπεριφορές/ Magical and apotropaic records from Byzantine Corinth. Symbolic

uses and collective behavior, Αντικήνσωρ. Τιµητικὸς Τόµος Σπύρου Ν. Τρωιάνου γιὰ τὰ ὀγδοηκοστὰ γενέθλιά του/ ANTECESSOR. Festschrift für Spyros N. Troianos zum 80. Geburtstag, Herausgegeben von Vassiliki A. Leontaritou, Kalliopi (Kelly) A. Bourdara und

Eleftheria Sp. Papagianni, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Verlag, Athen 2013, 855-880 (in collaboration

with Aggeliki Panopoulou).