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Apostolos Spanos
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Political approaches to Byzantine liturgical texts
2014
Accepted version of a chapter in the book: Approaches to the text : from Pre-Gospel to Post-Baroque, edited by Roy Eriksen and Peter Young.
Leimoniako Zetema : Episkopese vasei tou archiakou ylikou
2006
Published version of an article in the journal: Hagia Sion. The province of Methymna on the island of Lesvos underwent from 1866 until 1886 a multiple economical, social, educational and ecclesiastical turmoil, known as ≪The Leimoniakon Issue≫, as Leimonos Monastery was at its heart. The financial crisis of almost all the villages of the area at that time caused serious dysfunctions in the educational system and the notables of the villages appealed to the wealthy Leimonos Monastery for help, facing the negative reaction of the monks. But only a few years later, when the Patriarchate of Constantinople tried to use the property of the Monastery for its own needs, notables and monks united to…
Anekdota patriarchika eggrafa peri tou Leimoniakou Zetematos (1881-1888)
2010
Published version of an article published in the journal: Hagia Sion. The Archives at Leimonos Monastery, Lesbos, Hellas, consist of some 2,500 documents. A part of the Archives, namely the Archives of Nicephoros Glykas, the Bishop of Methymna [1881–1896], that consist of 332 documents, is related to the so-called Leimoniakon issue. By Leimoniakon issue is meant a composite conflict between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Diocese of Methymna on the one side, and the local authorities and the monks of Leimonos Monastery on the other. The main point of the Leimoniakon issue was the claim of the local authorities to use a part of the revenues of the rich Leimonos Monastery to build …
He sylloge cheirografon tes Mones Leimonos
2009
Published version af an article published in the book: A. Spanos & A. Kalamatas (Eds.), Hiera Mone Leimonos : Historia, palaiografia, tekhne (pp. 35-55). Athena: Bartzoulianos. The manuscript Collection of the Leimonos monastery consists of more than five hundred manuscripts, dated or datable to the tenth through the twentieth century. The article presents the collection, the categories of the manuscripts and their dating. It focuses on: (a) the Byzantine manuscripts of the collection; (b) the so-called monastic codices, i.e. manuscripts used by the monastery to record or copy its most important documents and texts; (c) the calligraphic activity of the monks of the monastery; and (d) manusc…
"To every innovation, anathema" (?) : some preliminary thoughts on the study of Byzantine innovation
2010
Published version of a chapter in the book: Mysterion, strategike og kainotomia : et festskrift til ære for Jonny Holbek, redigert av Harald Knudsen (et al.). Also available from the publisher at: http://www.agderforskning.no/reports/mysterion.pdf A well established notion in Byzantine, and generally in medieval studies, is that Byzantium was a conservative civilization, highly resistant to innovation. This general idea has influenced our evaluation of innovation in Byzantium up to the present time. Even modern scholars have considered innovation as being either totally absent or at least as something the Byzantines were generally opposed to. This article makes a preliminary effort to reexa…
Was innovation unwanted in Byzantium?
2014
Offprint of a chapter published in the book: Wanted: Byzantium : the desire for a lost empire, edited by Ingela Nilsson and Paul Stephenson.