KATERINA NIKOLAOU
Katerina Nikolaou received her B.A. in history and archaeology and her Ph.D. in Byzantine history from the department of history and Archaeology of the University of Athens.
She worked as a professor of philology at the American College of Greece and from 1988 to April 2008 as a researcher at the Institute (Centre) of Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, where she was promoted to the rank of Senior Researcher (B). Today she is a professor of Byzantine History, specializing in the early and middle Byzantine period.
Her research interests focus on the social and practical life of the Byzantines, with particular emphasis on the place and role of women in society, on hagiology (6th-11th centuries) and epigraphy [in 2016 she was selected as a member of the Commission d'épigraphie (Inscriptiones Graecae Aevi Byzantini) of the International Commission for Byzantine Studies (AIEB) -and remains so to date]. He has also been involved in digital technologies in Byzantine studies since 1985.
Selective publications:
♦Η γυναίκα στη μέση βυζαντινή εποχή. Κοινωνικά πρότυπα και καθημερινός βίος στα αγιολογικά κείμενα [The woman in the middle Byzantine period. Social models and everyday life] (Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών / Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών. Μονογραφίες 6), Athens 2005.
♦«The Depiction of Byzantine Woman in Hagiographical Texts (Eighth-Eleventh Centuries)», in A. Rigo, M. Trizio, E. Despotakis (ed.), Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes & Projects, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium 2018, 247-263.
♦Οι Βυζαντινές και ο πόλεμος. Ιστορίες γυναικών σε πολέμους του Βυζαντίου (6ος-11ος αι.), Δεύτερη έκδοση βελτιωμένη και επαυξημένη [Byzantinewomenandwar. Women’s tales in Byzantine wars (sixth - eleventh c.). 2nd ed. Abstract in English], Athens 2021.
♦Έρωτας και πολιτική στο Βυζάντιο. Επτάιστορίες [Love and politics in Byzantium. Seven stories. Abstract in English], Athens 2021.
♦«Indices of Published Christian and Byzantine Inscriptions. An Old Project carried through with New Technologies», in A. Rhoby (ed), Inscriptions in Byzantium and beyond. Methods – Projects – Case Studies [Österreichische Akademie der WIssenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften, 478. Band, Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung Band 38.] Vienna 2015, 129-133 (in collaboration with Irene Chrestou).
CV: http://scholar.uoa.gr/anikolaou/biocv/cv
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