The Hellenic Institute

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Web Name: The Hellenic Institute

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The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), is a research centre for the interdisciplinary and diachronic study of Hellenism. Based in the School of Humanities, Department of History, it maintains close links with the Department of Classics and cooperates with other RHUL Departments and Centres. The Institute has a long history of working with other institutions in the University of London and with The Hellenic Centre, the main cultural hub of the Greek and Cypriot communities in London.It promotes the study of Greek language, literature, history and thought from the archaic and classical age, through the Hellenistic and Roman times, Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine period, to the establishment of the Modern Greek State and the modern world. The Hellenic Institute hosts a number of research projects and organises seminars, lectures and conferences addressed to students, scholars and to a wider public.The Hellenic Institute currently runs two taught postgraduate degree courses: MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and MA History: Hellenic Studies. It also offers supervision to students who pursue MPhil/PhD research in various subjects within the field of Hellenic, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Staff of the Institute also contribute to undergraduate courses on Byzantine and Modern Greek history and language at RHUL.The Hellenic Institute currently receives funding from Royal Holloway, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Hellenic Foundation (London), the Bodossaki Foundation (Athens), the Samourkas Foundation (New York), the Orthodox Cultural Association (Athens), The Friends of the Hellenic Institute, and private donors.Under the directorship of the late Julian Chrysostomides, the Hellenic Institute expanded its academic and research activities. To honour her memory, the Friends of the Hellenic Institute established The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund. She will be remembered as a true scholar and an affectionate and inspiring teacher.Donations to the Hellenic Institute can be made online at: https://royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/support-us/ways-to-make-a-donation/donate-to-the-hellenic-institute/  and by cheque payable to "RHBNC Hellenic Institute" and posted to The Hellenic Institute, School of Humanities, History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom.Dr Charalambos DendrinosDirector of the Hellenic InstituteE: Ch.Dendrinos@rhul.ac.ukT: +44 (0)1784 443791Professor Ken Badcock, Senior Vice-Principal (Academic Strategy and Research)Professor Giuliana Pieri, Head of School of HumanitiesDr Daniel Beer, Head of History DepartmentProfessor Richard Alston, Head of Classics DepartmentProfessor Dan Stone, Head of Research, History DepartmentDr Charalambos Dendrinos, Director of The Hellenic InstituteDr Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, Senior Manager at the Hellenic Institute, Director of Centre for Greek Diaspora StudiesDr Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Lecturer in Modern Greek HistoryProfessor Veronica della Dorra, Co-Director, Centre for the GeoHumanitiesProfessor Mike Edwards, Honorary Research FellowMr Michael Heslop, Honorary Fellow, Representing the Friends of the Hellenic InstituteMrs Edmée Leventis, OBE, Honorary FellowProfessor Francis Robinson, CBEAssociated StaffProfessor Richard Alston, BA, PhD: Roman history, especially Roman Egypt; urbanism in the ancient world; Roman armProfessor Kate Cooper, BA, MTS, PhD: The Mediterranean world in the Roman period, particularly daily life and the family, religion and gender, social identity; early Christianity, Christian saints and martyrsProfessor Veronica Della Dora, BA, PhD: Cultural and historical geography; landscape studies; history of cartography; Byzantine and post-Byzantine sacred geographiesCharalambos Dendrinos, MA, PhD (Senior Lecturer): Byzantine literature and Greek palaeography; editing and transmission of Byzantine textsProfessor Mike Edwards, BA, PhD (Honorary Research Fellow): Classical oratory and rhetoric; Greek palaeography and textual criticism.Professor Manolis Galenianos, MA, PhD: Contemporary Greek economy; the Greek financial crisis.Liz Gloyn MA, PhD (Lecturer): Reception of classical Greece in popular culture, with a particular interest in film and children's literature.David Gwynn, MA, DPhil (Reader): Late Antique history and theologyProfessor Jonathan Harris, MA, PhD: Byzantine history, 1000-1453; Byzantium and the West, especially during the Crusades and the Italian RenaissanceRichard Hawley, MA, DPhil (Senior Lecturer): Greek literature, especially drama; Greek social history; women in classical antiquity; later Greek literatureChristopher Hobbs, MA, PhD (Teaching Fellow in Byzantine and Medieval History): Byzantine History and Historiography, Byzantium and the WestProfessor Andrew Jotischky, MPhil, PhD (History): Byzantium and the West, Byzantium and the Latin East; Eastern and Western MonasticismLakis Kaounides, BSc, BComm, MA, FRSA (Senior Teaching Fellow): Political and Socio-economic impact of Climate change in contemporary Greece and Cyprus; Science, Technology and Industrial Strategies for socio-economic development of Greece and CyprusChristos Kremmydas, MA, PhD (Lecturer): Greek rhetoric and oratory (especially Demosthenes); Athenian political and social history (especially law); Greek papyrologyNick Lowe, MA, PhD (Reader): Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy; Greek religionDavid Natal Villazala MA, PhD (Lecturer), Head of the ERC-project 'Connected Clerics', Christianity in Late AntiquityProfessor Jari Pakkanen, BA, PhD: Greek archaeology and Architecture; the methodology of architectural reconstructionsParis Papamichos Chronakis, MA. PhD (Lecturer), Modern Greek History, Greek Jewry, Interrelations among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Balkans, Greek cities, Greek Diaspora Professor Boris Rankov, MA, DPhil: Greek triereme project; Roman history; archaeology of the Roman EmpireProfessor Francis Robinson, MA, PhD: Greek influence on Islamic thoughtProfessor Lene Rubinstein, MA, PhD: Athenian social history; Athenian oratory and law; papyrology; Roman EgyptJohn Sellars, MA, PhD: Hellenistic philosophy, the Stoic tradition.Professor Emerita Anne Sheppard, MA, DPhil: Greek philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; ancient literary criticismEfi Spentzou, MA, DPhil: Reception of the classical tradition, especially in modern Greece; classics and modern critical thoughtPolymnia Tsagouria, MA, PhD (Tutor seconded by Greek Ministry of Education): Modern Greek language, literature and cultureBarbara Zipser, PhD (Lecturer): Byzantine manuscripts; Greek medicine; history of textsResearch AssociatesSamuel Barnish, MA, DPhil (former Lecturer): Early Christianity; transformation of the Roman world; Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries AD; CassiodorusToby Bromige, MA, PhD (Lecturer): Byzantium and Armenia, Byzantium and the CrusadesLia Chisacof, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Post-Byzantine studies; Greek palaeography; modern Greek language and literature; Greek authors in the Romanian principalities (18th-20th c.)John Demetracopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine philosophy and theology, editor-in-chief of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"Laura Franco, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and hagiography, editions of Byzantine texts, Greek palaeographyAchilleas Hadjikyriacou, MA, MRes, PhD (Research Associate): Greek and Cypriot Diaspora; Greek Cinema and Gender.Michael Heslop, MA (Honorary Research Associate, Honorary Fellow): The defence system of Rhodes and the Dodecanese in the medieval periodJames M. Holt, MA (Research Associate): Greek paleography; editing of Greek textsProfessor Emeritus Peregrine Horden, MA (Research Associate): Byzantine medicine; the Mediterranean worldKostas Kalimtzis, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek philosophical and political thoughtJohn Karabelas, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Post-Byzantine and modern Greek historiographyMichail Konstantinou-Rizos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Greek and Latin palaeography; member of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"Hieromonk Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos (Stavrides), PhD (Research Associate): Orthodox theology and ecclesiology; Orthodox and Irish spiritualityChrysovalantis Kyriacou, MA, PhD (Research Associate), Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval history and culture; History and culture of Cyprus; Orthodox theology and spirituality.Georgios Liakopoulos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Ottoman Epigraphy and Palaeography, Historical Geography, the Greek world in the Ottoman Empire.Anthony Luttrell, MA, DPhil (Honorary Research Associate): the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes and Malta; the Greek population of Rhodes in the Medieval PeriodBrian McLaughlin, MA, MSc, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine history, 1204-1453; Byzantine historiography and literatureNikolaos Moschonas, MA, PhD (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Research Fellow): Greek and Latin palaeography; Byzantine relations with Western Europe.Fevronia Nousia, MA, PhD (Research Associate): Byzantine literature and education; editions of Byzantine texts; Greek palaeographyRobin Oakley, MA, DPhil (Honorary Research Fellow): History of Cypriot Diaspora in BritainKonstantinos Palaiologos, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography; member of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"Vasos Pasiourtides, MA, PhD (Research Associate): editions of Byzantine texts; Orthodox theology; Greek palaeography; member of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"Nil Palabiyik-Pektas, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): history of the Greek book in the post-Byzantine and early modern period; Greek communities in the Ottoman EmpireRichard Price, MTh, DPhil (Honorary Research Fellow): history of Christianity; Ecumenical Councils; relations between Greek East and Latin WestPhilip Taylor (Honorary Research Associate): Porphyrogenitus Project, TeX editing; electronic editions of Byzantine textsGeorge Vassiadis, MA, PhD: Modern Greek History; Anglo-Hellenic Relations; Greek DiasporaChristopher Wright, MA, PhD (Honorary Research Associate): Greek and Latin palaeography; editing of Greek texts; history of Byzantium and the Latin East; member of "Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus Project"Nada Zecevic, MA, PhD (Research Associate): History of Greek Diaspora in the Post-Byzantine and Early-Modern Europe (15th-18th c.); Classical Reception in the Balkans (15th-18th c.)Visiting scholarsTristan Burt (University of Sydney): Transmission of Platonic TextsAnnaclara Cataldi Palau, MA, PhD (Visiting Professor): Greek palaeographyProfessor Emeritus Richard Clogg, MA, DPhil (Visiting Professor): Modern Greek history Professor Emeritus Costas N. Constantinides, MA, PhD (University of Ioannina): Byzantine education, history and literature; Greek palaeographyAndreas Meitanis, MA, PhD (Zurich International School): Byzantine literature and society; Greek palaeography The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of LondonIn 2018-19 The Hellenic Institute celebrated the 25th Anniversary since its establishment with a series of concerts, lectures and other events, which can be found in the Previous Events webpage.In 2020-21we celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021) with the 21 in 21: Celebrating 2021 in 21 Encounters, supported by the A. G. Leventis Foundation with the collaboration of the National Bank of Greece and Initiative 1821-2021.We look forward to seeing you, your family and friends at our forthcoming events and activities, posted below. For a guide to travel to the College, please click here.17 October 2020: “Scholê and Paideia: Leisure in Liberal Education as a Political End” by Dr Kostas Kalimtzis Twelfth Memorial Lecture for Julian Chrysostomides, delivered online.For the Greek citizens of the polis, leisure, or what they called scholê (from which the word school and scholar derives) came to be viewed as a necessary condition for freedom,for participation in the commons, and for cultivating bonds of political friendship. The concept of scholê found its grandest expression in Aristotle’s Politics where he argued that happiness occurs in leisure and that politics must have this as its aim. Legislators, he held, must educate with this end-in-view. Is the life of leisure a utopian ideal or is it a concept that continues to beckon us to actualize our deepest humanity within a commonwealth of friends? To listen to the audio recording of the lecture please press here.  Organised jointly by The Hellenic Institute and the Friends of The Hellenic Institute the memorial event was attended by 50 students, colleagues and friends. A fitting tribute to a great teacher and a true scholar, whose spirit and vision still lives, and guides us.Donations towards the Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund in support of students pursuing Hellenic and Byzantine Studies at RHUL can be made online. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.5 February-26 March 2021: The University of London Postgraduate Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine TextsThe Seminar meetings take place online on Fridays 15:00-17:00 (GMT).The Seminar is preparing a new annotated edition and translation of the Letters of George of Cyprus (later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-1289). Scholars and graduate students from University of London Colleges, other Colleges and Universities, and visiting students and academics, are most welcome to attend.To join our meetings please use the following link at Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91980167322?pwd=bGxCdUlnV0VPOG1wSHZLM2IvcG94QT09Meeting ID: 919 8016 7322     Passcode: 7jqDD2For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.11 March 2021: “The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Multiple Legacies” by Professor Gonda Van SteenNineteenth Annual Hellenic LecturePart of 21 in 21 programme of events celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021)The Lecture took place online via Zoom at 6pm (GMT)Since the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Greek people have celebrated three major anniversaries: the 50th, 100th, and 150th anniversary date of the inception of this revolutionary war that led to sovereign statehood after nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. These three jubilees, each with their own legacies, have come to represent three different ways of celebrating Greek statehood that have, nonetheless, much in common. They posited a linear progression from Greek antiquity through postclassical, Byzantine, and post-Byzantine (Ottoman) times. The lecture explored in what ways the celebrations and re-enactments, with their commemorative events and symbolic images, acquired a prescriptive character, which advanced their aim to educate youth in state-promoted nationalism, and to what extent the present 200th anniversary celebrations differ from the three aforementioned ones.Professor Gonda Van Steen holds the Koraës Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Director of Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London.Hosted by Professor Ken Badcock, Senior Vice-Principal (Academic Strategy, Partnerships and Resources) and Chairman of the Hellenic Institute Steering Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Lecture was attended by 100 guests.To see and listen to the Lecture please press here.For further information please contact Dr Achilleas Hadjikyriacou.19, 26 March and 2, 9 April 2021: Greek Orthodox Salutations to the Mother of GodCathedral of the Divine Wisdom, Bayswater, London W2 4LQGreek Orthodox Services dedicated to the Salutations to the Mother of God officiated by His Eminence the Archbishop Niketas of Thyateira and Great Britain. To attend the services online please press here.14 April 2021: “Virtual Book Talk: Sephardi Holocaust Histories: Families Adrift”Part of the Family Histories of the Holocaust events series, The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DPThe event took place online at 7-8pm (GMT).Panel discussion led by Dr Paris Chronakis exploring Sephardi family microhistories of the Holocaust including Thessalonian Jewry. Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein will discuss her book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century (2020), based on the copious Levy family papers, which helped chronicle Sephardi Jewish life across and beyond the Ottoman Empire; and François Matarasso Matarasso will discuss his father’s and grandfather’s memoirs, published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 (2020). Hosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with the Hellenic Institute, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, the event was attended by over sixty guests.To see and listen to the discussion please press here.For further information please press this link or contact: Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis22 April 2021: “The Greek Revolution through the Eyes of 'Others'”Part of 21 in 21 programme of events celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021)The event will take place online via MS Teams at 6.00-7.30pm (GMT)Panel discussion focusing on perceptions of the Greek War of Independence across Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean during and after the event, including attitudes of early nineteenth-century Albanian warlords, interwar Sephardi Jews, and mid-twentieth century Turkish historians. Speakers include Dr Antonis Hadjikiriakou (Panteion University, Athens), Dr Sukru Ilicak (Research Centre for the Humanities, Athens), and Dr Paris Chronakis (Royal Holloway, University of London). Respondent: Dr Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University, NYC).  The event was attended by over 80 guests. For further information on the talks and the speakers please visit 21 in 21.For further information please contact Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis 1-2 June 2021: Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond: People, Objects and Relics2021 Institute of Classical Studies Byzantine Virtual ColloquiumThe Colloquium took place via ZoomAll religious belief implicates space; all religious practice makes geography. In the broad sense, the term ‘sacred’ indicates something ‘different’, ‘set apart’, ‘other’, as well as something invested with special meaning. Yet, where do the boundaries of the sacred lie? Is sacred space an ontological given, or is it a social construction? Is it a portion of territory or the product of a set of embodied practices? Is it permanent or ephemeral?Over the past two decades, the construction, experience and use of sacred space have generated increasing scholarly interest in the humanities, including Byzantine studies—from Alexei Lidov’s pioneering studies in hierotopy (2006) to more recent interdisciplinary initiatives (e.g., Mapping the Sacred in Byzantium at Newcastle University). Far from being understood as a fixed given entity, in these recent studies sacred space has intersected with issues of embodiment and performance, with environmental perceptions, attitudes and practice, with social mobility and identity, with the relations of private and public space, and with geopolitics and territorial imaginations. At the same time, the so-called ‘Mobility Turn’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) has extended from the domain of the social sciences to the humanities, prompting among historians, archaeologists and art historians new questions, approaches and understandings of issues of transport, movement and circulation of people, objects and ideas. Our Colloquium aims at setting these two strands—sacred space and mobility—in conversation with each other, in order to gain further insight into Byzantine and post-Byzantine spiritual culture.In addition to conventional sacred spaces such as churches, shrines and religiously significant topographical features (such as holy mountains or caves, for example), holy people, sacred objects and relics were frequently used to create or sanctify other public or private profane spaces in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world, and remain key to Orthodox worship. The mobility of certain sacra linked sacred sites with potentially new sacred destinations; it created new trajectories; it helped articulate and sustain the extra-ordinary within the ordinary. Sacred mobilities thus upset the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane as mutually exclusive. Examples of such mobilities include, but are not limited to travelling icons, processions, pilgrimages, the translation of relics, the reproduction of holy images and architecture. Eleven speakers from Britain, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Russia and the USA reflected on different types of sacred mobilities, including the use of sanctifying materialities, the duration of the transformation of sacred space, and the creation of ‘infrasecular geographies’ in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world.Co-organised by the Institute of Classical Studies, The Hellenic Institute and the Centre for the Geohumanities at Royal Holloway the Colloquium was attended by over seventy-five guests. To download the programme with abstracts of papers please use the following link: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23337. For further information please contact Dr Mark Guscin and Revd David-John Williams 31 July-1 August 2021: “Tasting the Lotus”International Conference on the Reception of and Reaction to the Transmission of Latin Works in ByzantiumThe Conference will take place via ZoomAn International Virtual Conference on the theological and philosophical dialogue between the Greek East and the Latin West was held online on 31 July and 1 August 2021. Fourteen scholars from Austria, Britain, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, the Russian Federation and the United States of America explored the reception of and reaction to the transmission of Latin authors in Byzantium. Focusing on the reception of Thomas  Aquinas’ works, they presented and discussed findings of their research including work on critical editions of translations of, and commentaries on Thomisitic works by Byzantine scholars and theologians as part of the ongoing research project Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus.Co-organised by The Hellenic Institute, the University of Patras and Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the conference was attended by 36 students and scholars. For the programme of the conference with abstracts of the papers please visit https://www.workinbyzantium.com/. For further information please contact Revd Dr Christiaan Kappes26 November 2021: “Lord Guildford and the Ionian Academy” by Professor Richard CloggPart of 21 in 21 programme of events celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence (1821-2021)The Conference will take place via ZoomTaking as a point of departure the famous Ionian Academy established by the great Philhellene Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford (1766-1827), being the first University established on Greek soil (1824-1827), the panel discussion, led by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis, will explore the history and tradition of the intellectual movements that led to the liberation of the Greeks, including the contribution of the Cypriots and the Greek communities in Britain, Europe and Russia.All welcome. For further information and to book a place please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos and Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis 13 March 2020: Greek Orthodox Salutations to the Mother of GodRoyal Holloway Chapel, Surrey TW20 0EX at 7.30-9pmA Greek Orthodox Service dedicated to the Salutations to the Mother of God, officiated by Father Asterios was performed for students, staff, members of the Greek Orthodox local parish of St Andreas the Apostle of The Holy Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, and other Christian communities of Egham and Englefield Green. Prayers were offered especially for the victims of Covid-19 and for the divine protection of health in our College, parish and the world from the  pandemic. For further information please contact: apostolos.andreas.windsor@gmail.com 9 March 2020: “Greek-Orthodox Religioscapes” by Dr Georgios E. TrantasExhibition and LectureThe Hellenic Centre, Friends Members Room, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS, 6-9pm (lecture at 7.30pm)Dr Georgios E. Trantas, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Ashton University, will presented a showcase of the European Union Commission Horizon 2020 research project ‘GO Religioscapes’, examining and comparing the migratory narratives of the Greek and Greek-Cypriot migrant communities in present day Germany and Britain respectively from the perspective of religious aesthetics. Either previously heterodox converted to Greek-Orthodox or newly built, the churches of these communities contain traces of migratory narratives in their icons, frescoes, architectural and linguistic elements. This study sheds light on how the migratory establishment in the receiving country has been experienced, perceived and immortalised by religious means. The exhibition ws organised jointly by The Hellenic Institute, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, and Aston University, and supported by the Hellenic Centre. For further information please contact Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis. 5 March 2020: “The Power of Logos: Classical Greek Rhetoric and the Modern World” by Professor Michael EdwardsEighteenth Annual Hellenic LectureMoore Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX at 6.15pmWhat relevance does classical Greek rhetoric have to the world today? In 2016, the then President of the United States, Barack Obama, delivered a speech at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in which he praised Greece’s contribution to humanity through the ages. In the course of his speech Obama spoke, among other things, about the concept, ideals and importance of democracy, and the belief in equality before the law for all. In this lecture Professor Edwards  discussed these themes, illustrating them by comparisons of ancient texts with modern examples drawn from American, British and Greek political contexts. Michael Edwards is Professor of Classics, former Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and currently Senior Research Fellow at Royal Holloway. Hosted by Professor Paul Hogg it was attended by over 80 students, colleagues, Friends, members of the Steering Group, sponsors and supporters. It was followed by drinks in the Moore Building Foyer and dinner in honour of Professor Edwards in the Herringham Room, Founders' Building. Among our distinguished guests were The Very Reverend Aimilianos Papadakis, representing the Archbishop Niketas of Thyateira and Great Britain, H.E. The Ambassador of Greece in UK, Mr Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras, H.E. The High Commissioner for Cyprus in UK, Mr Andreas S. Kakouris, Dr Marios Psaras, Cultural Counsellor of the High Commission for Cyprus, Mrs Edmée Leventis, Mr Michael Heslop and Dr Helen Heslop, Mr George Lemos, Secretary of the Hellenic Foundation, and Dr Natasha Lemos, Member of Executive Board of the Hellenic Centre. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.24 February 2020: Book Launch of Dr Georgios Liakopoulos, The Early Ottoman PeloponneseBritish School at Athens, 52 Souedias Street, Athens 10676, Greece at 7.00 pm.Dr Georgios Liakopoulos’ study The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the light of an annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman taxation cadastre (ca. 1460–1463), published by The Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with the Gingko Library, was launched in the Director’s residence at the British School at Athens in the presence of many academics and Friends. Speakers included Professor Francis Robinson (Royal Asiatic Society, and Royal Holloway, University of London), Associate Professor Paraskevas Konortas (University of Athens), Research Professor Georgia Katsouda (Academy of Athens), and the author, Dr Georgios Liakopoulos (Max Planck Institute, Jena). The event was organised jointly by the British School at Athens, The Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, The Gingko Library, and The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London. The volume was dedicated to the memory of Julian Chrysostomides.7 February-27 March 2020: The University of London Postgraduate Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine TextsRoom 103, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, Fridays 15:00-17:00.The Seminar continued its work preparing a new annotated edition and translation of the Letters of George of Cyprus (later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-1289). This year the seminar was attended by eleven students and scholars, including students and staff from Royal Holloway, UCL, Birkbeck, and Oxford. The Seminar had to postpone its last two meetings due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.12 October 2019: Grand Vespers and Eleventh Annual Memorial for Julian ChrysostomidesRoyal Holloway Chapel, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, 4.00-5.30pm.Grand Vespers and Memorial Service to the distinguished Byzantinist Julian Chrysostomides, former Director of the Hellenic Institute were officiated by Father Asterios followed by a Memorial Lecture by Professor Evangelos Chrysos delivered in absentia by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis. Julian Chrysostomides will be remembered as a true scholar and an affectionate and inspiring teacher. Organised by The Hellenic Institute, the event was attended by thirty students and former students, former colleagues and Friends. Donations towards the Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund in support of students pursuing Hellenic and Byzantine Studies at RHUL can be made online. The programme of the event is available here. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.4-5 June 2019: ICS Byzantine Colloquium Polities of Faith: Theology, Ecclesiology, and Spatiality in the Christian worldSenate House, University of London, Third Floor, Room 349/350, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HUIn 1932 Olof Linton’s dissertation Das Problem der Urkirche in der neueren Forschung overturned the existing consensus that presented the Church as a historical construct that followed the triumph of Christianity. According to Linton, the Church already existed in the minds of the earliest Christian thinkers, who had envisaged a structured community of believers and clerics. More recently, sociologists have similarly responded to previous approaches focused on the efficiency of institutions by emphasising the key role that intellectual legitimisation plays in the survival of organisational structures. While Late Antique and Medieval historians have underlined the importance of discourse and ritual in the construction of a Christian world-view, there is still much work to be done in assessing how theological and ecclesiological discussions shaped the structure, organisation and ongoing development of the Christian Churches. Our colloquium contributed in this direction. It brought together scholars working on the construction of the Christian Churches from Late Antiquity to the early Renaissance.In this two-day colloquium we explored three main topics: 1. How Christian intellectuals applied classical political theory in their theological and ecclesiological analyses. 2. How clerical writings used ritual descriptions, theology, and memory to rationalise the social and political context and to justify a specific hierarchical structure of offices within the Church. 3. How letter and treatise exchanges contributed to strengthen different geographical ideals of the Church, ranging from a universal, united organisation to a decentralised structure.Beyond its scholarly aims, this colloquium also addressed issues of wider concern for students and the wider public; many of the institutional structures and behaviours that rule the Christian Churches today were devised in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In addition, the challenges to the process of European integration have also shown how difficult it can be for supranational institutions to foster legitimacy and belonging. Late Antique and Medieval clerics faced similar crises in their attempts to preserve unity in such a vast and expanding organisation, and this colloquium examined some of the intellectual strategies they used to confront them.Speakers included Kate Cooper (Royal Holloway), James Corke-Webster (King's College London), Anthony Dupont (Louvain), Tom Hunt (Newman College, Birmingham), Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway), Chrysovalantis Kyriacou (Cyprus), Ioannis Papadogiannakis (King's College London), and Richard Price (Royal Holloway). This colloquium stemmed from research conducted at The Hellenic Institute and the ERC-Starting Grant project ‘Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West (380-604)’ based at the History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London and The Austrian Academy of Sciences.The colloquium was sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies, ERC-Starting Grant project ‘Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West (380-604), and The Hellenic Institute.Organisers: David Natal Villazala, Sapfo Psani, Brian McLaughlin, Chris Hobbs and Charalambos Dendrinos.For the Programme of the Colloquium and abstracts of papers please click hereFor further information on the Colloquium please contact David.Natal@rhul.ac.uk29 April 2019: Greek Orthodox Matins and Holy Liturgy for the feast of St George Royal Holloway Chapel, Surrey TW20 0EX at 9.30am-12.00Greek Orthodox Service for Matins and Holy Liturgy for the feast of St George, officiated by Father Asterios was performed in the presence of students, staff, members of the Greek Orthodox parish of St Andreas the Apostle, and Friends of the College and the Hellenic Institute. For further information please contact: apostolos.andreas.windsor@gmail.com15 March 2019: Greek Orthodox Salutations to the Mother of GodRoyal Holloway Chapel, Surrey TW20 0EX at 7.30-9pmA Greek Orthodox Service dedicated to the Salutations to the Mother of God, officiated by Father Asterios was performed in the presence of students, staff, members of the Greek Orthodox parish of St Andreas the Apostle, and Friends of the College and the Hellenic Institute. For further information please contact: apostolos.andreas.windsor@gmail.com1 February-29 March 2019: The University of London Postgraduate Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine TextsInstitute of Historical Research, Pollard Room (N301), Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E , Fridays 15:00-17:00.The Seminar, which this year celebrates its 35th Anniversary (1984-2019), continued its work preparing a new annotated edition and translation of the Letters of George of Cyprus (later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-1289). A reunion of old and current members of the Seminar to celebrate the 35th Anniversary took place in the presence of its co-founder Revd Dr Joseph. A. Munitiz, S.J., at RHUL, 11 Bedford Square, London on 29 March 2019.The Seminar will resume its meetings next Spring. Scholars and graduate students from University of London Colleges, other Colleges and Universities, and visiting students and academics, are most welcome to attend. Please contact the convenors, Dr Charalambos Dendrinos and Dr Brian McLaughlin.7 March 2019: “Christianity and Greek Paideia” by Revd Dr Richard Price,Seventeenth Annual Hellenic LectureMoore Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX at 6.15pmDid Jewish Christianity and Greek culture have much in common? Or was Christianity the product of a distinctively Jewish culture, which, on entering the Greco-Roman world, had to be translated into the concepts of Greek paideia (education and culture)? If so, does it need to be ‘de-hellenized’ in order to speak to our own post-classical world? This debate has died down in the context of contemporary eclecticism, which views the Hellenic inheritance as something to be plundered, or ignored, at will. Is the study of ancient Greek culture an aid, a distraction, or a hindrance in the quest for a Christianity at once faithful to its biblical roots and relevant in today’s world? These questions were explored by Revd Dr Richard Price, Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London, and RHUL Honorary Research Fellow. You can listen to the podcast of the Lecture by clicking here.The lecture was hosted by the Principal, Professor Paul Layzell. Attended by over eighty students, colleagues and Friends, it was followed by drinks in the Moore Building Foyer, and Dinner in honour of Professor Price in the Large Boardroom, Founders' Building. 27 October 2018: “Odyssey” by Lydia KakabadseA concert to performed by The Choir of Royal Holloway to mark the closing of The Hellenic Institute 25th Anniversary celebrationsIn memory of Julian Chrysostomides (1928-2008)The College Chapel, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX at 7pmThe premiere of a specially commissioned choral piece, Odyssey, composed by leading choral composer and RHUL alumna  Lydia Kakabadse, was performed by the Choir of Royal Holloway , accompanied by the harpist, fellow RHUL alumna and former Choir Scholar Cecily Beer, under the direction of Rupert Gough, Director of Choral Music and College Organist. The lyrics is a synthesis of selected Greek poetry from Homer and the Classical period, through the Hellenistic and Roman times, to Byzantium, post-Byzantium and Modern Hellenism. A musical journey through centuries of Greek history and culture marked the closing of The Hellenic Institute 25th Anniversary celebrations. The concert was followed by drinks in the Picture Gallery. Hosted by Professor Francis Robinson, the event was attended by 130 guests, including HE the Ambassador of Greece in UK, Mr Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras, Mr and Mrs George Lemos, Mr and Mrs Michael Heslop, Mr and Mrs Jonathan Woolley, and many former and current students, colleagues, supporters and Friends of The Hellenic Institute. 18 October 2017: Ninth Annual Memorial for Julian ChrysostomidesThe Holy Church of Apostle Barnabas, The “Apostle Barnabas” Seminary of the Church of Cyprus, 85 Steliou Chatzipetri Street, 1304 Nicosia, Cyprus, after matins and the holy liturgy, 7-9am.A Memorial Service for Julian Chrysostomides former Director of  The Hellenic Institute and Emeritus Reader in Byzantine History, University of London was officiated by the Director of the Seminary, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Benedict Ioannou,followed by a Memorial Lecture by Dr Vasilis Pasiourtides. Julian Chrysostomides will be remembered as a true scholar and an affectionate and inspiring teacher. The memorial event was co-organised by the Alumni and Friends of the Hellenic Institute and the “Apostle Barnabas” Seminary of the Church of Cyprus. Donations towards the Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund in support of students pursuing Hellenic and Byzantine Studies at RHUL can be made online.For further information please contact Dr Christina Kakkoura and Dr Vasilis Pasiourtides. 10 November 2017: Julian Suite, Opus 85 by Philippos TsalahourisMegaron, The Athens Music Hall, Vassilissis Sophias and Kokkali, 11521 Athens, Greece, at 8.30pm (with introductory lecture at 7.45pm).Premiere performance in Greece by the  Athens State Orchestra of Julian Suite (Ιουλιανή Σουΐτα), Opus 85 by Philippos Tsalahouris commissioned by The Hellenic Institute on the occasion of the Fifth Anniversary of Julian Chrysostomides’ passing away (18.X.2013). The concert was cancelled due to ilness of the conductor and will take place at a later date to be announced in due course. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, which was beyond our control.For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.  30 November 2017: Memory and HarmonyAn evening celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London with Bettany Hughes and Panayiotis GogosIn this event, which celebrated the opening of the Hellenic Institute’s 25th Anniversary, the well-known historian, author and broadcaster Dr Bettany Hughes shared her thoughts on the study of Hellenism, followed by a recital of music with Greek association by the celebrated Greek pianist Panayiotis Gogos, under the theme Metamorphoses. The repertoire includes Schubert-Liszt, Der Atlas, Der Müller und der Bach, Liebesbotschaft, Aufenthalt, Der Doppelgänger, Erikönig, Schumann-Liszt, Frühlingsnacht, Widmung, and Chopin, Scherzo No 2. 15-16 December 2017: Thomas Latinus – Thomas GraecusInternational Conference on Thomas Aquinas and his Reception in Byzantium National Library of Greece, Books Tower, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, GreeceThe Conference explored the reception of Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) in Byzantium. The first day of the conference was devoted to Aquinas’ Philosophy and Theology, while on the second day scholars presented findings of their research as part of the ongoing research project Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus, co-hosted by the University of Patras and The Hellenic Institute, and currently funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation through the Artos Zois Foundation. The Conference was co-organised by the National Library of Greece, the University of Patras and The Hellenic Institute. 2 February-23 March 2018: The University of London Postgraduate Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine TextsThe Warburg Institute, University of London, Classroom 2, Ground Floor, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, Fridays 15:45-17:45. The Seminar continued its work preparing a new annotated edition and translation of the Letters of George of Cyprus (later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-1289). Scholars and graduate students from University of London Colleges, the University of Oxford, and the University of Sydney participated this year. For further information please contact the convenors, Dr Charalambos Dendrinos and Dr Christopher Wright.For further information please see the Seminar webpage. 6 March 2018: "Ruins" of Athens: ancient modes reimaginedA piano recital by Carlo Grante for the benefit of The Hellenic InstituteWindsor Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX at 7pmA concert of classical piano works with links to ancient and modern Greece. The eminent pianist Carlo Grante began with Beethoven’s thrilling Variations on “The Ruins of Athens”, in Liszt’s transcription. They were written in 1811 as incidental music for a play of that name in which Minerva and Mercury meet Greeks dreaming of their liberation. The rest of the concert, featuring some of the best-loved works in the classical repertoire, illustrated how the music of the ancient world lives on in the DNA of western music. The programme included also Chopin, Mazurkas, op. 24/2, op. 30/4, op. 68/4, Satie, Gnossiennes, nos.  3, 4, 5, Debussy, Hommage à Rameau (Images, I/2), Danseuses de Delphes (Préludes, I/1), Brouillards (Préludes, II/1) and Canope, II/10, and Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56.The Concert was followed by drinks in the Picture Gallery and Dinner in honour of our Donors.MA Late Antique and Byzantine Studies: An intercollegiate University of London programme taught jointly with University College London and the collaboration of King's College London and Birkbeck, University of London. This programme is designed especially for those who are interested in progressing to doctoral research in Late Antique and Byzantine studies. It also aims to relate the history of Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the wider world.MA History: Hellenic Studies: This programme aims to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to have an overall view and appreciation of Greek history and culture embracing the Homeric and Classical ages, the Hellenistic and Roman world, the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods, and the modern world. Its diachronic and interdisciplinary nature enable students to examine the elements which characterise Hellenic culture through the centuries, at the same time acquiring a deeper knowledge of a certain period and discipline, including philosophy, history, law, religion, theatre, language, literature, papyrology and palaeography.Students applying for the above MA programmes are eligible to be considered for The Hellenic Institute Studentships and other awards.Other related MA Programmes are offered at Royal Holloway, Classics Department: MA in Ancient HistoryMA in Classical Art and ArchaeologyMA in ClassicsMRes in RhetoricMRes in Classical Reception The Hellenic Institute offers supervision of doctoral research in a wide range of topics. The following students are currently conducting MPhil/PhD research in Hellenic and Byzantine subjects at the Departments of Classics, History, Drama, Theatre Dance, and Media Arts:Georgios Argiantopoulos (MPhil/PhD, History), The British Occupation of Egypt in 1882 and its consequences for the Greek and Cypriot CommunitiesMaria Argyrou (PhD, History), The printed Greek book production and trade in the eastern Mediterranean in the sixteenth century: the case of the editio princeps of St Basil’s Συγγράμματά τινα. Opera quaedam beati Basilii Caesariensis episcopi by Stefano de Sabio (Venice, 1535)Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis (PhD, Classics), The concept of Aretē in Hellenistic honorary decrees James Cook (PhD Classics), Thersites and the Voice of the Subaltern in ancient Greek epic poetryWilliam Coles (PhD, Classics), Envoys and Eloquence: Ambassadorial Speeches in the Hellenistic Period  Selena Faye (MPhil/PhD History), The Persecution of Manichaeism ReconsideredCharlotte Gauthier (PhD, History), The Marketplace of Salvation: the English experience of crusading, 1396-1526Francesca Kaminski-Jones (MPhil/PhD, Classics), The modern perception of the Homeric similesLilly Markaki (PhD, Media Arts), "Yes and Love": Marcel Duchamp's Philosophy of LifeAlexandra Melita (PhD, History), Magic and healing and the Greeks in seventeenth-century VeniceAnn Morrison (MPhil/PhD, History), Feeding the people in Byzantium (c.800 – c.1260)James Norman (PhD, Classics), The Liminal Underworld in Homer: Examining how the dead in Hades represent a Liminal State of Being Yiannis Papadimitriou (MPhil/PhD, History), Who, Ηow and Why they Fought: Examining Identities and Motives in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922Stephen Pearce (MPhil/PhD, History), What happened to the Late Roman Army in the Notitia Dignitatum? Nikolaos Tzoumerkas (MPhil/PhD, History) Pain and Punishment in Late Antique EgyptRecently submitted thesesJack Sheard (PhD, History), Byzantium and the Black Sea, 1080-1230Successfully completed theses (2001-present)Sandor Aladics, Aristotle and the Atomists on the nature of space – PhD (2017)Sofia Alagkiozidou, Existential and political agony in Sophocles, Trachiniae and its dramatic reception – PhD (2017)†David Bennett, Xenonica: Medical texts associated with hospitals in the late Byzantine period – PhD (2003)Carolyn Bowyer, Echoes of the Salpinx: The lone trumpeter and the trumpet in the ancient Greek world – PhD (2017)Toby Bromige (PhD, History), Strangers in a foreign land: the assimilation and alienation of the Armenians in the Byzantine Empire c.867-1100 – PhD (2020)David Bullen, Performing the Feminisms of Euripides' The Bacchae in Britain – PhD (2019)Mike Carr, Motivations and Response to Crusades in the Aegean, 1302-1348 – PhD (2011)Georgios Chatzelis, The Syllogē Tacticorum and the development of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century – PhD (2016)Nikolaos Chrissis, Crusading in Romania: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and Attitudes, 1204-1276 – PhD (2008) Stella Chrysochoou, The Chartographical Tradition of Claudius Ptolemaeus’ Γεωγραφική Ὑφήγησις in the Palaeologan Period and the Renaissance (13th-15th century) – PhD (2010) Andriana Domouzi, Fragments of Euripides, Melanippe – PhD (2018)Niccolò Fattori, Identity and integration in the Greek community of Ancona in the sixteenth century – PhD (2017)Laura Franco, A Study of the Metaphrastic Process: an annotated critical edition of the Vita of Saint Hilarion, and the Passiones of Saints Iakovos and Platon by Symeon Metaphrastes – PhD (2009) Daniel Goad, Performance reception of Aristophanes – PhD (2019)Mark Guscin, The Tradition of the Image of Edessa – PhD (2015)Robert Heller, Unifying the Stoic System: the concept of time in Stoicism – PhD (2018)Christopher Hobbs, A Study of the Historia Byzantina of Doukas  – PhD (2016)Edward Humphreys, Epictetus on Anger – PhD (2019)Christina Kakkoura, An annotated critical edition of Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus’ Seven Ethico-political Orations – PhD (2012) Sophia Kapetanaki, An annotated critical edition of Makarios Makres’s "Life of St Maximos Kausokalyves", "Enconium on the fathers of the seven ecumenical councils", "Consolation of a sick person", "Verses on the Emperor Manuel ll Palaeologos", "Letter to Hieromonic Symeon", "Supplication on barren olive-trees" – PhD (2002) Michael Kaplanoglou, Contribution to the Economic History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople under the Ottoman Rule (15th-19th c.) – MPhil (2004) Eleni Katsae, The concept of daimon in Homer – PhD (2016)Stavroula Kiritsi, Menandrian Characters in Context – PhD (2016)Michael Konstantinou-Rizos, An edition of Prochoros Cydones’ (ca. 1330-1369/71) unpublished Greek translation of Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestiones disputatae de potentia and Quaestio disputata de spiritualibus creaturis – PhD (2017)Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, The Orthodox Church in Late Frankish and Venetian Cyprus (1191-1571): Society, Spirituality and Identity – PhD (2016)Georgios Liakopoulos, The Historical Geography of the Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Peloponnese – PhD (2008) Peter Long, The role of guarantors in agreements involving the city-state in ancient Greece – PhD (2016)Jarrid Looney, Mrs. Robinson Before and After: An Existential Character Analysis of Euripides’ Hippolytos in Reception – PhD (2017)Stephanie Magowan, The development of psychological thought in early Greek philosophy and medicine – PhD (2018)Elliot Mason, An annotated edition of the unpublished metaphrasis of St. John of Sinai’s Ladder of Divine Ascent by Matthaios Blastares – PhD (2018)Julia Maltagliati, Persuading by paradeigmata: the use of historical examples in Attic Oratory - PhD (2020)Brian McLaughlin, An annotated translation of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, History, Book III – PhD (2018)Andreas Meitanis, Aspects of Violence in Byzantium – PhD (2001) Andria Michael, Antigone on the Modern Greek Stage – PhD (2018)Sebastian Moro, Music and Philosophy in the Neo-Platonic tradition – PhD (2011) Fevronia Nousia, Byzantine Textbooks of the Palaeologan Period (13th-15th century) – PhD (2007)Peter Olive, The Greek vocabulary of Incest Prolegomena to a Cultural History of Forbidden Propinquity – MPhil (2019)Nil Palabiyik, The First Greek Press of Constantinople (1625-1628) – PhD (2014) Konstantinos Palaiologos An annotated critical edition of the Refutation of the Error of the Latins by Matthaios Blastares – PhD (2011)Vasos Pasiourtides, An annotated critical edition of Demetrios Chrysoloras’ Dialogue on Demetrios Kydones’ Antirrhetic against Neilos Kabasilas – PhD (2013)Christina Pouros, The murderous relationship between mothers and children: the evolution of myths concerning Medea, Clytemnestra and Electra from Homeric epic to Seneca – MPhil (2019)Kostas Prapoglou (Classics) Late Roman residences in Thessalonica – PhD (2014)David Preston, Plato and Greek comedy – PhD (2018)Eleni Rossidou-Koutsou, John Eugenikos’ Antirrhetic of the Act of Union of the Churches at the Council of Ferrara-Florence - PhD (2004)Eugenia Russell, Fourteenth Century Byzantine Encomia to St. Demetrius – PhD (2009)Quentin Russell, Greek Identity in Victorian London: Community and Assimilation – PhD (2011)Kenneth Scot Parker, The Impact of the Crusades on the Christian Churches of the Near East, 1291-1402 – PhD (2011)Peggy Shannon, Catharsis, trauma and war in Greek tragedy: an inquiry into the therapeutic potential of Greek tragedy, with special reference to the female experience – PhD (2017)Robin Shields, Trade and Diplomacy in the fifteenth-century Balkans: Carlo II Tocco and the Despotate of Arta (1429-1448) – PhD (2020)Will Shuler, The Teaching Theatre of Ancient Athens – PhD (2015)Stephen Smith,Greek architectural forms in Republican Rome – PhD (2016)Kit Tempest-Walters, A translation of and commentary on Plotinus' Ennead III.7  with  an interpretive essay – PhD (2020)Dawn Thomas, Galen’s Hygiene in Context – PhD (2011) Panayiotis Tofis, Libraries in Thessalonike in the Palaeologan period (1246-1430) – PhD (2020) Dmitri Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, The Italian Policy of Manuel I Komnenos, 1135-1180 – PhD (2008) Christos Triantafyllopoulos, An annotated critical edition of the treatise Against the Errors of the Latins by Macarios, Metropolitan of Ankyra (1397-1405) – PhD (2009) Aaron Turner, The role of the individual in Thucydides – PhD (2018)Mark Whelan (History), Sigismund of Luxemburg and the Imperial Response to the Ottoman Turkish Threat, c.1396-1437 – PhD (2014)Jenny Winter, The Rhetoric of Leadership in Xenophon – PhD (2016)Christopher Wright, The Gattilusi of Lesbos: Diplomacy and Lordship in the Late Medieval Aegean – PhD (2006) Andrea Zerbini, Production and trade in marginal lands: a study of the Levantine agricultural economy in Late Antiquity – PhD (2013) Further information on the Institute’s MPhil/PhD programme is available from Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos  – PhD (2017) StudentshipsHis All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Postgraduate Studentship The studentship in honour of his All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his accession to the Patriarchal throne of Constantinople, was established by the Orthodox Cultural Association of Athens, through a generous donation by Mrs Angeliki Frangos in memory of her late mother Stela N. Frangos.The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate StudentshipThe studentship was established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in memory of the distinguished Greek Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides (1934-2000), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Byzantine Studies.Both studentships are awarded towards tuition fees at UK rate for one year and are open to full-time and part-time UK and EU/International students who wish to pursue the MA in History: Hellenic Studies, or the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, or MPhil/PhD research in some aspect of Hellenic and/or Byzantine studies at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London. The closing date for submission of applications for the next academic year is 1 September 2021.BursariesGeorge of Cyprus Bursaries Established thanks to a generous grant awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, in honour of George of Cyprus, later Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (under the name Gregory II, 1283-9). Born in Cyprus, in 1240, then under Latin occupation, at the age of seventeen he fled to Nicaea, the Byzantine Empire in exile, in order to pursue his studies. After the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261, he settled in Constantinople, where he completed his higher education and subsequently taught the eminent scholars of the next generation. One aspect of his personality was his tenacity and dedication to his studies, despite enormous adversities.The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies Established in memory of J. Chrysostomides (1928-2008), Emeritus Reader in Byzantine History in the University of London and former Director of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway College.The Pat Macklin Memorial Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies In memory of Pat Macklin (1915-2009), former student and Friend of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway College.The Konstantinos Kokonouzis Memorial Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies Established thanks to an annual donation by Mr Yiannis Chronopoulos, graduate and Friend of the Hellenic Institute, in memory of his cousin Konstantinos Kokonouzis (1974-1997), who served as Second Lieutenant (Engineer) in the Hellenic Air Force (offered only to self-supported students).All Bursaries are offered towards support and research expenses to part-time and full-time students who pursue MA programmes and MPhil/PhD research in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. There is no closing date for submission of applications for these bursaries.PrizesThe John Penrose Barron Prize in Hellenic Studies In memory of the eminent Hellenist Professor J.P. Barron (1934-2008), former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and Friend and member of the Steering Group of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway College. The Prize (£200) is offered to students who complete the MA History: Hellenic Studies at the Hellenic Institute with the mark of distinction.The Joan Mervyn Hussey Prize in Byzantine StudiesIn memory of the distinguished Byzantine scholar and teacher J.M. Hussey (1907-2006), Emeritus Professor of History in the University of London and former Head of the History Department at Royal Holloway College. The Prize (£200) is awarded annually to Hellenic Institute students who complete the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies with the mark of distinction.There are no special application forms for the studentships and bursaries. Applicants should send a letter of application to Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, Director, The Hellenic Institute, School of Humanities, History Department, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. For the work of the Hellenic Institute to continue, the next generation of teachers and scholars has to be trained and endowed with essential skills.The Friends of the Hellenic Institute have come together to provide a scholarship - The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate Studentship, and have established two Prizes: The Joan Mervyn Hussey Memorial Prize in Byzantine Studies, and The John Penrose Barron Memorial Prize in Hellenic Studies.In addition the Friends have established The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries, The Pat Macklin Bursaries, and The Konstantinos Kokonouzis Bursaries.Friends pay an annual subscription of £15. Voluntary donations above and beyond this sum help fund studentships, bursaries, and prizes. Friends also receive the Institute’s  Newsletter, which presents our activities.Donations to the Hellenic Institute can be made online at: https://royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/support-us/ways-to-make-a-donation/donate-to-the-hellenic-institute/ and by cheque payable to "RHBNC Hellenic Institute" and posted to The Hellenic Institute, History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom.For further information on how to join the Friends of the Hellenic Institute please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, Director, The Hellenic Institute, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK The Hellenic Institute publishes its own series of texts, monographs and collections of essays with Porphyrogenitus Publishers Ltd.The Reign of Cunincpert: Saga, Reality, Stability and Progress in Lombard Italy at the End of the Seventh Century, by Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Camberley, 2010). 137 pp., 175x245 mm, illustrations: 2 coloured, 1 map, index. Hardback. ISBN 1 871328 18 7. Amazon Price: £15A study exploring the life and reign of the Lombard king Cunincpert (AD688-700) in the broader sphere of international relations at the end of the seventh century. It consists of four parts. The first is devoted to biographical details while the second examines changes within the Lombard state, including Cunincpert’s monetary reform and building activity, and his role in healing the Aquileian Schism. The third part discusses Cunincpert’s external policies, Byzantium, the Frankish states, and the Anglosaxon kingdoms, followed by the final part, which discusses Paul the Deacon’s division of Cunincpert’s reign in his Historia Langobardorum. This book is the first comprehensive study on this ruler.“Sweet Land ...”: Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus, edited by J. Chrysostomides and Charalambos Dendrinos (Camberley, 2006). 320 pp., 170x245 mm, illustrations: 50 coloured, 6 B/W, 2 maps, index. Paperback. ISBN 1 871328 15 2. Amazon Price: £25.A collection of papers which explore perceptions and self-perceptions of the ‘Cypriot’ through the ages. The papers comprise a variety of themes, from history, archaeology and linguistics, to art and literature, manuscripts and travel, hagiography and religion, sociology and psychology, covering the whole period of Cypriot history, from the prehistoric age, through the classical Greek and Hellenistic times, to the Roman, Byzantine, Frankish and Venetian periods, and finally the Ottoman and British rule to the present.The Greek Islands and the Sea: Proceedings of the International Colloquium held at The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, 21-22 September 2001, edited by J. Chrysostomides, Charalambos Dendrinos and Jonathan Harris (Camberley, 2004). 170x245 mm, 304 pages, 40 B/W illustrations including maps, index. Paperback. ISBN 1 871 328 14 4. Amazon Price: £25.A collection of 13 papers given by scholars, exploring various aspects of the activities and vicissitudes of the seafaring Greeks and other peoples, who at various stages left their imprint on the history of the Greek Islands and the Mediterranean. The papers, spanning from the Prehistoric Age, through the Classical and Hellenistic times, to Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine Period to the present, cast new light on many areas including religion, society, ethnography, demography, law, economy, trade, navigation, travel, cartography, fishing, husbandry, and poetry.Monumenta Peloponnesiaca. Documents for the History of the Peloponnese in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, edited by J. Chrysostomides (Camberley, 1995). 704 pp., 280x220 mm, 16 B/W illustrations, map, select vocabulary, general index. Hardback. ISBN 1 871328 06 3. Amazon Price: £80.A collection of 320 fully annotated documents in Latin, Italian and Greek, drawn from the archives of Dubrovnik, Florence, Malta, Paris, the Vatican and Venice, the majority of which are previously unpublished. The edition of these documents shed new light and are a major contribution to the understanding of the political, social and economic issues concerning the Eastern Mediterranean and in particular the Peloponnese under Byzantine and Frankish rule.Greek Emigres in the West, 1400-1520, by Jonathan Harris (Camberley, 1995). 282 pp., 220x150 mm, index. Hardback. ISBN 1 871328 11 X. Amazon Price: £31.Most studies of emigration from Constantinople and Greece in Western Europe during this period have focused on the scholars who contributed so much to the study of Greek during the Italian Renaissance. This original investigation reveals that the emigrants also included physicians, shipbuilders, artists and other skilled craftsmen, and argues that the readiness of western regimes to employ them undermines traditional assumptions about Byzantium's cultural and technological backwardness in the century before the fall of Constantinople.Kathēgētria: Essays presented to Joan Hussey on her 80th birthday, edited by J. Chrysostomides (Camberley, 1988). 543 pp., 242x170 mm, illustrations: 1 B/W, 2 drawings, index. Hardback. ISBN 1 871328 00 4. Amazon Price: £40.A collection of 31 essays exploring a wide range of important aspects of Byzantine political and ecclesiastical history, theology, hagiography, archaeology and economy by distinguished scholars, written as a tribute to the distinguished British Byzantinist, Professor Joan M. Hussey (1907-2006). Contributors include M. Anastos, Averil Cameron, J. Darrouzès, F. Halkin, B. Hamilton, H. Hunger, J. Koder, A.H.S. Megaw, J. Meyendorff, J.A. Munitiz, N. Oikonomides, G. Podskalsky, E. Catafygiotou-Topping and Sir Steven Runciman.The Journals and Letters of George Finlay, edited by Joan M. Hussey, 2 vols. (Camberley, 1995), vol. 1: 490 pp., vol. 2: 457 pp., 240x165 mm, index, ISBN 1 871328 10 1. Hardback. Amazon Price: £80 (2 vols.)The journals and selected correspondence of the distinguished nineteenth-century Scottish scholar, historian, traveller, political commentator and philhellene. His writings give a vivid picture of the problems in travelling during the nineteenth century, as well as a general view into the day-to-day life of the people of Greece, Turkey, England and other western European countries. It is an invaluable source to topographers, archaeologists and historians of Greece, the European Powers and the Ottoman Empire. Published in two volumes, it is richly illustrated with over 130 of Finlay's own sketches.These publications can be ordered directly from Porphyrogenitus Publishers Ltd, 27 Upper Gordon Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 2HJ, United Kingdom. The Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies (CGDS) has been established within The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first academic centre of its kind in the United Kingdom.The foundation of the CGDS represents the fulfilment of a long-term aim of the Hellenic Institute. The initiative was first proposed by Professor Richard Clogg on 14 March 2013, at the end of the Twelfth Annual Hellenic Lecture, “Xeniteia: the Greek Diaspora in Modern Times.” Two years later, on 17 March 2015, the establishment of the CGDS was formally announced by Dr Charalambos Dendrinos following the Fourteenth Annual Hellenic Lecture, "From Greeks Abroad to the Greek Diaspora: Hellenism in a Changing World," delivered by Professor George Prevelakis.The CGDS is guided by an Advisory Board of internationally recognised scholars including Professor Richard Clogg (Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Professor Olga Katsiardi-Hering (University of Athens), and Professor George Prevelakis (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Dr George Vassiadis served as CGDS's first Director. From 1 February 2021 the Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies is directed by Dr Achilleas Hadjikyriakou.ActivitiesThe CGDS aims at creating an active network of international scholars and students interested in all aspects of the Greek Diaspora, focussing on the modern period. The involvement of members of the general public in the UK and abroad is encouraged as well. The Centre examines the history and contribution of Greek migrants to their host communities and countries, and promotes interdisciplinary cooperation through the sharing of ideas and information, and the coordination of collaborative research projects. Since the establishment of The Hellenic Institute, a particular area of interest has been the history of the Greek Community in London, and the CGDS continues to encourage research into this promising subject.Associate members of the CGDS include postgraduate students and staff from History and other Royal Holloway departments who are working in related fields. Students and scholars from other universities and institutions worldwide are warmly invited to participate in the Centre’s activities. The CGDS welcomes support from members of the public, and private, public and corporate funding bodies.Thanks to a three-year grant (£111,792) awarded by  the A. G. Leventis Foundation a 0.6 post of Director of the CGDS and Senior Manager at the Hellenic Institute was established and advertised by the College on 23 November 2020 with closing date for applications 7 December 2020 at 24:00. Following online interviews on 15 December 2021, the Selection Panel, chaired by Professor Katie Normington, Deputy Principal (Academic) and Chair of the Hellenic Institute Steering Group, the post was offered to Dr Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, who has now accepted and will be assuming his post on 1 February 2021.In September 2019, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Hellenic Institute a four-year Scholarship in Greek Diaspora Studies was established in the History Department of Royal Holloway, thanks to generous donations from The Hellenic Foundation (London), The Samourkas Foundation (New York), The Bodossaki Foundation (Athens), The Friends of the Hellenic Institute, and private sponsors and donors. The 25th Anniversary Scholarship was awarded by the History Department Postgraduate Awards Committee to Georgios Argiantopoulos, who is conducting research on The British Occupation of Egypt in 1882 and its consequences for the Greek and Cypriot Communities, under the supervision of Professor Dan Stone and Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis.EventsExhibition and Lecture on “Greek-Orthodox Religioscapes. Dr Georgios E. Trantas, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Ashton University, presented a showcase of the European Union Commission Horizon 2020 research project ‘GO Religioscapes’, examining and comparing the migratory narratives of the Greek and Greek-Cypriot migrant communities in present day Germany and Britain respectively from the perspective of religious aesthetics. Either previously heterodox converted to Greek-Orthodox or newly built, the churches of these communities contain traces of migratory narratives in their icons, frescoes, architectural and linguistic elements. This study sheds light on how the migratory establishment in the receiving country has been experienced, perceived and immortalised by religious means. The event was organised jointly by The Hellenic Institute, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, and Aston University, and supported by the Hellenic Centre. The event took place in The Hellenic Centre, Friends Members Room, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS, on 9 March 2020.Article by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis, “Between Liberalism and Slavophobia. Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the (re)making of the Interwar Modern Greek State,” Jewish Social Studies 25/1 (2020): 20-44.Navigating Dark Waters. Diaspora Greeks, Port-City Jews, and a Mediterranean History of Modern Antisemitism, 1830-1912. Paper delivered by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis at Royal Holloway History Department Research Seminar on 19 May 2020.A Blood-Dark Sea? Greek Antisemitism across the Eastern Mediterranean, 1830-1912. Paper delivered by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis at the Oxford Seminar in Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford on 17 February 2020.A “Sephardi Holocaust”? Mediterranean and Sephardi Jewries during World War Two.  This International Workshop situated the Holocaust in Greece within the broader contours of the Mediterranean. Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis examined the entangled escape networks of Greek Christians and Jews across the Aegean Sea. Sponsored by Royal Holloway’s Holocaust Research Institute and The Wiener Holocaust Library with the support of The Hellenic Institute, the event was co-organised by Dr Pedro Correa Martin Arroyo and Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis at The Wiener Holocaust Library, London on 17 December 2019.Cosmopolitan port cities, trans-regional migrations and the cross-Mediterranean circuit of modern antisemitism, 1830-1912. Paper delivered by Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis at the workshop Decolonising Colonial Ports and Global History: Rethinking Archives of Power held at the University of Oxford on 9 November 2019.Introduction of MA modules in Modern Greek and Cypriot History and Diaspora in the History Department of Royal Holloway (2019/20 2020/21):Refugees: A global twentieth-century History involves the Asia Minor, Greek Civil War and Cypriot refugee experience, introducing students to the history of refugees in the twentieth century.Concepts in History: Space discusses the importance of space to the study of the past through the examples of neo-classical Athens and multi-ethnic Thessaloniki, among others.Bloodlands: Violence, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1912-1945 situates the history of interwar Greece to the broader regional history of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.Diasporas, Refugees, and Minorities in twentieth-century Europe and the Mediterranean is offered as part of MA History, MA History: Hellenic Studies and MA Holocaust Studies programs. The course draws from the rich history of the Greek diaspora, minorities in Greece, and refugees in Greece and Cyprus to discuss the interrelated histories of population displacement and minority groups in Europe’s tumultuous twentieth century.International Conference: Greeks and Cypriots in the United Kingdom, 1815-2015: Culture, Commerce Politics. This two-day conference was the first time researchers studying the history of the Greek and Cypriot communities in the United Kingdom came together and presented their work. Papers covered a broad range of topics related to social, cultural, commercial and political history and diaspora studies. The conference took place on Friday 14 October and Saturday 15 October 2016 at the Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS, United Kingdom. Over 150 students, scholars, officials and members of the general public attended the event. Co-organised by The Hellenic Institute / Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Cyprus High Commission, Cultural Section, and the Embassy of Greece, with the support of the Hellenic Centre and under the auspices of the High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus, Euripides L. Evriviades, and the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, Dimitris Caramitsos-Tziras. To download abstracts of the papers, please click here.Fifteenth Annual Hellenic Lecture: The Gennadius Library in Athens: The Vision of a Greek of the Diaspora by Dr Maria Georgopoulou, Director, The Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 1926 John Gennadius, a retired Greek diplomat in London, offered his 30,000-volume library to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the use of “the scholars of all nations” following the example of earlier benefactors from the Greek diaspora. The guiding principle of his collecting was to illuminate the history of the Greek “genius” through the ages. Dr Georgopoulou's lecture assessed the significance of the Gennadius Library for the development of post-antique Hellenic studies over the past ninety years and the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead. The Lecture, followed by Reception and Dinner in honour of Dr Georgopoulou, was held at Royal Holloway, University of London on 22 March 2016.Greeks and Others in the Centre: the London Launch of Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture...and Stories (Berlin: Jovis, 2015). Downtown Cairo is a unique, living treasure house of nineteenth and twentieth century residential and commercial architecture. Until the 1950s, it was home to a flourishing Greek community numbering many thousands. Most Cairene Greeks lived downtown, close to their shops, offices, restaurants, schools, churches and clubs. Some Greek-Egyptians still live and work there today. At the London launch of their book, Dr Vittoria Capresi and Barbara Pampe spoke about "The Making of Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture ...and Stories", Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University) responded with thoughts on "'A Piece of Europe'? Reflections on Khedivial Cairo after the Opening of the New Suez Canal", and Dr George Vassiadis (RHUL) provided an introduction entitled "Greeks and Others in Downtown Cairo from Khedive Ismail to the Arab Spring". This event, organised in cooperation with the Society of Modern Greek Studies and Baladilab, was held at The Hellenic Centre in London on 29 October 2015.Making Space for Diasporas and the Sacred. The first CGDS event, a postgraduate workshop organised in cooperation with HARC and the Royal Holloway Geography Department, took place at Royal Holloway on 29 May 2015.For information on the CGDS please contact the Director Dr Achilleas Hadjikyriacou A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace LibraryLambeth Palace Library (LPL) is the historic library of the archbishops of Canterbury and the principal library and record office for the history of the Church of England. Founded as a public library by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, its collection have been freely available for research ever since. Officially designated by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council as outstanding in national and international importance, the LPL Collection, which includes Western medieval and Byzantine manuscripts, focuses on ecclesiastical history. The Library forms part of the National Church Institutions and, as such, receives no public funding.As part of an on-going collaborative programme which dates from 2003, University of London students attending Greek Palaeography courses and research students in Classical and Byzantine Studies have been visiting LPL at the invitation of the Librarians and Archivists Dr Richard Palmer and Giles Mandelbrote and the Archivist Mrs Clare Brown, to examine and study original Greek manuscripts as part of their training in Greek Palaeography and Codicology.The Greek Manuscript Collection consists of fifty-five Greek codices acquired by LPL since its founding in 1610, including those received in 2006 from Sion College, an institution for clergy founded in the City of London in the late 1620s. Dated between the tenth and nineteenth centuries, these manuscripts include Gospel and Acts and Epistles Books and Lectionaries, an Octateuch with catena, patristic and other theological texts including works of John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus and John of Damascus, liturgical and hymnographic texts, classical texts by Aeschylus, Dionysios Periegetes, Pseudo-Aristotle, Plutarch, Lycophron and Demosthenes, chronographic and legal texts, post-Byzantine texts including an anonymous Chronicle in vernacular Greek and Damaskenos Stoudites, On Animals, and descriptions and collations of LPL manuscripts. Among the most important manuscripts is MS 461, containing a theological treatise on the procession of the Holy Spirit by George Scholarios (later Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Gennadios II), with his autograph signature, notes and corrections.An exhibition of the Greek Manuscript Collection was organised jointly by LPL and The Hellenic Institute on the occasion of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies in London between 23-24 August 2006. The exhibition comprised the following sections: Doctrine; Liturgy and Spirituality; Byzantium, its Provinces and Neighbours; Before and after Byzantium; From Manuscript to Print. The last section, on Anglicanism and Orthodoxy, included printed books, documents and photographs illustrating the dialogue, past and present, between the two Churches. The exhibition catalogue included the first complete invenory of the LPL Greek Manuscript Collection.Thanks to a generous grant (£121,000 over two years) awarded by The A. G. Leventis Foundation and with the support of LPL and Royal Holloway, University of London, a full descriptive catalogue of this important collection has been compiled by Dr Christopher Wright and Ms Maria Argyrou under the supervision of Dr Dendrinos and the guidance and support of eminent scholars and technical advisors, member of the Project Board:Mrs Clare Brown, LPL Archivist - Internal LPL AdvisorDr Annaclara Cataldi Palau, Visiting Professor in Greek Palaeography, RHUL Hellenic Institute, History Department - Internal RHUL AdvisorDr Rachel Cosgrove, LPL Senior Archivist - Internal LPL AdvisorDr Charalambos Dendrinos, Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography, Director, RHUL Hellenic Institute, History Department - Project DirectorDr Pat Easterling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge University - External AdvisorGiles Mandelbrote, LPL Librarian and Archivist - Chairman of the Project BoardRevd Dr Joseph A. Munitiz, S.J., former Master of Campion Hall, Oxford University - External AdvisorProfessor Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of the Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts London - Internal LPL AdvisorPhilip Taylor, Honorary Research Associate, Hellenic Institute, History Department, former RHUL webmaster - Internal RHUL IT AdvisorA Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace LIbrary  was published online in Adobe PDF format on the websites of both LPL and the Hellenic Institute on 25 February 2016, thus further enhancing the accessibility of, and interest in, this collection among scholars and the public worldwide. The catalogue is accessible here and linked from : https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/content/greekThe Editorial Board would be very pleased to receive any comments, corrections, criticisms, and/or suggestions for possible improvements. These should be sent by e-mail to : LPL-Greek-MSS-Catalogue@Hellenic-Institute.Org.UkThe publication of this catalogue sheds light on textual, palaeographical and codicological aspects of these important manuscripts which so far remain largely unexplored and advances our knowledge on the relations between the Anglican Church and the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchates between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period of major political and ecclesiastical changes in Europe and the Middle East.The Hellenic Institute would like to express its deepest thanks to the Most Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to his predecessor the Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams, now Baron Williams of Oystermouth, for allowing us to pursue our research in the Greek collections of their Library; His Beatitude Theophilos III Patriarch of Jerusalem and All Palestine, His Eminence the Archbishop of Constantina Aristarchos, Chief Secretary of the Patriarchate, the Librarian of the Patriarchal Library, Father Aristoboulos; and Professor Agamemnon Tselikas, Director, Centre for History and Palæography, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, for their kindness, invaluable help and guidance in our research concerning the MSS returned to the Patriarchal Library by LPL in 1817; the LPL Librarian and Archivist Giles Mandelbrote and LPL Archivist Mrs Clare Brown and their staff for their support and co-operation; the Members of the Project Board for their advice and guidance; scholars who contributed with their expertise in specialised topics; and last but not least the A.G. 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