My research focuses on the two-volume autobiography of the 13th-century Byzantine scholar, theologian, and cleric Nicephorus Blemmydes. Despite being one of the most important figures of the intellectual life of his time, a significant portion of his work remains unpublished, while the parts that have already been edited have received disproportionately little scholarly attention. My…
On the Transmission of the Constituent Parts of the Eisagoge tou nomou
Under the reign of Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180), a significant translation movement from Greek into Latin was underway. While major Aristotelian and theological translations received considerable scholarly attention, other works remain relatively understudied. One such text is the Latin translation of the Oneirocriticon attributed to the Pseudo-Achmet, produced in 1176 by Leo Tuscus, an…
The so-called Chronicle of Monemvasia is a short text of historical content that has acquired a considerable notoriety for more than a century mainly due to its information about the entry and settlement of the Slavs in Greek territory and the Peloponnese specifically. Equally intriguing issues have been the structure of the text’s narrative, the…
After the edition provided by P.K. Chrestu (1985), the Corpus of Homilies by Gregory Palamas received another edition by B. Pseutogkas in 2015, for which a total of 13 manuscripts were used. One of these manuscripts is Hagion Oros, Μονή Βατοπεδίου 134 (Diktyon 18278), which since the brief description by Arkadios Vatopedinos has been wrongly…