The aim of the Paleography Workshop is to create a significant database for the greek manuscripts of middle Age and and post-byzantine era and its scientific use, with ultimate goal the study of the history of the texts of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature. This database relies on a collection of more than 500 digitized copies of Byzantine and post- byzantine greek manuscsripts, whose originals are found in various libraries all over the world. The Workshop also provides descriptive catalogues, specialized studies on Byzantine manuscripts and a basic library with research tools. The Workshop addresses to scholars, editors and historians of the University of Crete, and of other research Foundations of Greece and abroad as well.
Laboratory of Paleography
Department of Philology
Objectives
Topics
Greek Paleography and Text Editions, History of the texts of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature, Codicology and History of manuscript book.
Members
(FACULTY) Eustratios Papaioannou (Professor, UoC), Stefanos Kaklamanis (Professor, UoC), Marina Detoraki (Associate Professor, UoC), Manolis Patedakis (Assistant Professor, UoC). (TEACHING STAFF) Alexandra Zervoudaki (member of the Faculty of Philology, UoC)
Research Projects (after 2010)
Publications
ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
- Marina Detoraki, «L’Éloge de saint Dèmètrius par Grégoire le Référendaire (BHG 544)», Revue des Études Byzantines 73 (2015) 1-51
- Marina Detoraki, "Livres censurés: Le cas de l'hagiographie byzantine" Bulgaria Mediaevalis 3 (2012) 45-58.
- Bernard Flusin & Marina Detoraki, «Les histoires édifiantes et Constantinople », Travaux et Mémoires 22/1 (2018), 509-568.
- Marina Detoraki, “Les collections de miracles: histoire du texte et histoire du culte. À propos de la tradition du texte des Miracles des saints Cyr et Jean”, Travaux et Mémoires 23 (2019).
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE VOLUMES/BOOKS
- Marina Detoraki, “Un recueil palamite inconnu du XIVe s. au Musée de Sainte Catherine d’Héraklion : Κώδικας Ηρακλείου, Μουσείου Αγίας Αικατερίνης αρ. 094”, στον τόμο Kalligrafos, ed. A. Alexakis, De Gruyter (υπό δημοσίευση).
- Nikolaos Kalviainen, ‘Not a Few of the Martyr Accounts Have Been Falsified from the Beginning’. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Censorship and Fortunes of the Demonic Episode in the Greek Passion of St. Marina (BHG 1165–1167c). in: J. Hämeen-Anttila – I. Lindstedt (ed.), Translation and Transmission. Collection of articles, 107-137. (The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient and Medieval Near East 3.) Münster., 2019.
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Marina Detoraki, Histoire du texte et histoire du culte: Remarques sur la tradition du texte des Miracles des saints Cyr et Jean.
EDITING OF COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
Bibliothèques Grecques Dans l'Empire Ottoman– [Bibliologia 54], Brepols, March 15 2020.
Contact
Tel.: (+30) 28310 77262, (+30) 6948401584
E-mail: detoraki@uoc.gr, marina.flusin@gmail.com
