Unlocking the Potential of Texts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Medieval Greek 

The conference brought together experts in the various disciplines that use source materials written in vernacular Greek in the late medieval and early modern periods. Our aim is to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue on methodological issues relating to the use and editing of such texts, whose subject matter may be historical, legal, religious, literary, etc. The conference contributed directly to our research project, which is producing a Grammar of medieval Greek (ca. 1100-1700). Copies of the papers given at the conference can be found below.

Speakers included:

• Dr Kritonas Chrysochoidis (National Research Foundation, Athens)
• Professor Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)
• Dr Charalambos Dendrinos (Royal Holloway, London)
• Professor Aglaia Kasdagli (University of Crete)
• Professor Nicholas de Lange (University of Cambridge)
• Dr Nils Langer (University of Bristol)
• Professor Peter Mackridge (University of Oxford)
• Professor Stavros Perentidis (Panteion University, Athens)
• Dr Agamemnon Tselikas (Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece)
• Professor Arnold van Gemert (University of Amsterdam)
• Professor Georgios Velenis (University of Thessaloniki)
• Dr Tina Lendari (University of Cambridge)

Papers

Where available, click on the link to download a PDF of the papers given at the conference. The copyright of all papers is held by their authors. If you wish to quote from them please refer to them with their URL and the date you last accessed them.

Session 1

Notarial acts as sources for social and cultural history: the Greek world under Venetian rule  Professor Aglaia Kasdagli

​Monastic documents in vernacular Greek Dr Kritonas Chrysochoidis

​Session 2

How should we define vernacular Literature?  Professor Martin Hinterberger

​L'infiltration du grec populaire dans les compilations juridiques: la Synopsis minor (fin du XIIIe s.) et sa Paraphrase par Théodose Zygomalas (fin du XVIe s.) Professor Stavros Perentidis

Aspects and uses of Medieval Greek inscriptions Professor Georgios Velenis

​Session 3

Editions of literary and non-literary texts: some comparisons  Professor David Holton

Historical grammars of German Dr Nils Langer

​The evidence of manuscripts in Hebrew characters Professor Nicholas de Lange

Session 4

Co-operation and friendship among Byzantine scholars in the circle of Manuel II Palaeologus, as reflected in their autograph manuscripts  Dr Charalambos Dendrinos

The anarchic spelling of manuscripts with texts in vernacular Greek (in Greek) Dr Agamemnon Tselikas

The conference has been organized with sponsorship from CRASSH and the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and the Ministry of Culture, Greece.

The original webpage of the conference can be found here.