{"id":199,"date":"2020-10-23T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ucy-web-server-test.ucy.ac.cy\/chem\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2025-02-18T21:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:09:56","slug":"research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/research\/research-projects\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eu-Funded Projects<\/strong><\/a>
\nResearch and Innovation Foundation (former R.P.F) Projects<\/strong><\/a>
\n“A. G. Leventis” Foundation Projects<\/strong><\/a>
\nInternal Research Projects<\/strong><\/a>
\nOther Research Projects and Collaborations<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>EU-FUNDED PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Canopy of Heaven under a Microscope. Cataloguing Medieval Roofs in Italy: The Roofs of Churches in the Veneto Hinterland between the 5th and 15th Centuries<\/strong><\/a> (CaMeRoofs\u00a0\u2013 GA no. 101104788)<\/div>\n
2024-2026<\/i><\/div>\n
Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01)<\/div>\n
Angelo Passuello (Principal Investigator)<\/div>\n
M. Olympios and A. Sarris (coordinators)<\/div>\n
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Greek heritage in European Culture and Identity (GrECI)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2023-2025<\/em>
\nCall: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021ACCESS
\nN. Constantinidou (coordinator)<\/p>\n

Blood in the Theatre: Gladiatorial and Other Associated Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Greece<\/strong><\/a>
\n(GlaSpeRG – 101105350)
\n2023-2025<\/em>
\nMarie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Action – Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01)
\nMichael Karambinis (Principal Inverstigator)
\nAthanasios Vionis (Coordinator)<\/p>\n

Design and Implementation of a Joint Master Degree Byzantine Studies: A Global Perspective (DIMAByz)<\/strong>
\n2022-2023<\/em>
\nERASMUS-EDU-2022-EMJM-DESIGN (European Education and Culture Executive Agency)
\nIn collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz (supportive cocoordinator: Johannes Pahlitzsch) and Universit\u00e0 Ca’ Foscari Venezia (contact person: Alessandra Bucossi).
\nD. Stathakopoulos (overall coordinator), Paraskevi Sykopetritou (project manager)<\/p>\n

Training the next generation of archaeological scientists: Interdisciplinary studies of pre-modern Plasters and Ceramics from the eastern Mediterranean<\/strong><\/a>
\n(PlaCe \u2013 GA no. 956410)<\/strong>
\n2021-2025<\/em>
\nMarie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Action – Innovative Training Networks (H2020 MSCA-ITN)
\nAthanasios Vionis (coordinator, on behalf of UCY)
\nTheodoros Vasileiou and Myrto Kalofonou (research special scientists)<\/p>\n

NetMAR: Network for Byzantine Arts and Rituals<\/strong><\/a>
\n2021-2023
\n<\/em>Call: H2020 \u2013 WIDESPREAD-05-2020 \u2013 Twinning
\nS. Constantinou (coordinator)<\/p>\n

People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923), Cost Action 18140<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Action Chair: G. Tarantino)
\n2019-2023<\/em>
\nN. Constantinidou (member of Workgroup 3: Paper in Motion)<\/p>\n

DEBATE: Innovation as Performance in Late Medieval Universities, ERC-Consolidator Grant 771589<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(Principal Investigator: M. Brinzei)
\n2018-2023<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (senior researcher)<\/p>\n

THESIS: Theology, Education, School Institution and Scholars-Network, ERC-Starting Grant 313339<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Principal Investigator: M. Brinzei)
\n2012-2018<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (senior researcher)<\/p>\n

Research Networking Programme: Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies (COMSt), funded by the European Science Foundation<\/strong><\/a>
\n2009-2014<\/em>
\nA. Giannouli , member of the COMSt Steering Committee (for the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation), and member of a team (Team 2: Manuscripts as text witnesses: philology as text criticism)<\/p>\n

INTERREG III B ARCHIMED \u2013 Byzantine Heritage Network: Rehabilitation, \u0397ighlighting and \u039canagement in the Eastern Mediterranean BasinINTERREG III B ARCHIMED \u2013 Byzantine Heritage Network: Rehabilitation, \u0397ighlighting and \u039canagement in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin<\/strong><\/a>
\n2006-2007
\n<\/em>M. Parani, on behalf of the University of Cyprus (partner), in collaboration with the Dipartimento Attivit\u00e0 Produttive, Regione Basilicata (Italy), the Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Istituto per i beni archeologici e monumentali (Italy), the Provincia di Lecce (Italy), the Prefecture of Rethymnon and the Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens<\/p>\n

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<\/a>RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION (FORMER R.P.F) PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium (4th century BCE-7th century CE)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2019-2021<\/em>
\nProgramme “Excellence Hubs”
\nS. Constantinou (project coordinator),\u00a0 A. Skouroumouni-Staurinou (early-stage researcher)<\/p>\n

Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd Century CE\u20137th Century CE)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2019-2021<\/em>
\nProgramme \u201cDIDAKTOR\u201d
\nS. Constantinou (project coordinator), A. Andreou (post-doctoral researcher)<\/p>\n

Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (UnSaLa CY)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2018-2021<\/em>
\nEXCELLENCE HUBS research project (EXCELLENCE\/1216\/0362)
\nA. Vionis (coordinator), G. Papantoniou (senior researcher)<\/p>\n

The Spatiality and Materiality of Pilgrimage in Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus and Religious Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean (SpaMaP)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2018-2021<\/em>
\nDIDAKTOR research project (POST-DOC\/0916\/0251)
\nA. Vionis (coordinator), O. Perdiki (postdoctoral researcher)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>“A. G. LEVENTIS” FOUNDATION PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recapturing, documenting, digitizing and promoting the Mill Heritage of Cyprus. The grain-grinding mills: animal-driven mills, windmills, watermills (GraMiC)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2022-2024<\/em>
\nA. Nicolaou-Konnari (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Byzantine Thaumaturgic Narratives: The Art of Miracle Story Collection (ThaumArt)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2019-2021<\/em>
\nS. Constantinou (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Articulating Greek Visual Identity in the ‘Long’ Middle Ages: An Ecclesiastical, Social and Architectural History of the Bedestan in Nicosia<\/strong><\/a>
\n2017-2019<\/em>
\nM. Olympios (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Continuing the Bullarium Cyprium: Pope John XXII\u2019s Letters to Cyprus, 1316-1334<\/strong>
\n2017-2019<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

The Vocabulary of Byzantine classicizing and literary koine texts: A database of correspondences<\/strong><\/a>
\n2014-2016<\/em>
\nM. Hinterberger (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

The Church of the Transfiguration at Sotera (Famagusta District) in Context: History – Architecture – Murals<\/strong><\/a>
\n2014 \u2013 2016<\/em>
\nM. Parani (coordinator)<\/p>\n

Stirring Pots on Fire: A Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Study of Cooking Pots from Cyprus (CCP)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2011 \u2013 2013<\/em>
\nA. Vionis (coordinator)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>INTERNAL RESEARCH PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

MedCyprus: A Digital Corpus of Painted Greek Inscriptions from Medieval Cyprus (10th \u2013 13th centuries AD)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2021-2023<\/em>
\nM. Parani (coordinator)<\/p>\n

Greek Learning in France in the Sixteenth Century: Grammars and\u00a0<\/a>Sententiae<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>2020-2022<\/em>
\nN. Constantinidou (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Rural Life in Cyprus: Digitising and Reconstructing Material Culture through Monastic Property Lists, 18th-19th Centuries (RURAL CY)
\n2019-2021<\/em>
\nA. Vionis (coordinator), E. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou and P. Hadjittofi (collaborators)<\/p>\n

Lexical differentiation in Byzantine texts: the correspondence between the learned classicizing vocabulary and the vocabulary of ‘usual’ prose<\/strong><\/a>
\n2017-2019<\/em>
\nM. Hinterberger (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Digital Makhairas<\/strong>
\n2014-2016<\/em>
\nA. Nicolaou-Konnari (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Byzantine Hymnography and the Tradition of Rhetoric (HYMNORHET)<\/strong>
\n2013-2016<\/em>
\nA. Giannouli (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

The Past, Present, and Future of Late-Medieval Theology: The Commentary on the Sentences of Nicholas of Dinkelsb\u00fchl<\/strong>
\n2013-2015<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Prosopography of Medieval Cyprus<\/strong>
\n2012-2013<\/em>
\nA. Nicolaou-Konnari (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Sources for Frankish and Venetian Cyprus<\/strong>
\n2010-2012<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Petri de Candia Opera Omnia<\/strong><\/a>
\n2007<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

Bullarium Hellenicum<\/strong>
\n2004-2005<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (principal investigator)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) – Excavation Project<\/strong><\/a>
\n2024 – today<\/em>
\nA. Vionis (coordinator), in collaboration with D. Nicolaou (Cyprus)
\nSystematic excavation at the sitr of Kophinou – Agios Herakleios, Kophinou (Larnaca District, Cyprus).
\nFunded by: University of Cyprus<\/p>\n

Princeton University Excavations at Polis Chryssochous<\/strong><\/a>
\n2019 \u2013 today<\/em>
\nA. Vionis (Byzantine pottery study), in collaboration with W. Caraher, S. Moore, A. Papalexandrou, J. Smith (excavation directors)<\/p>\n

Sammelband 15-16: A project that studies the creation and use of Sammelb\u00e4nde in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe<\/strong><\/a>
\n2018 – today<\/em>
\nN. Constantinidou (international partner)
\nFunded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen [KNAW]), Descartes-Huygens Prize<\/p>\n

Wealth, Consumption and Inequality in the Late Byzantine World, 1200-1453<\/strong>
\n2018-2019<\/em>
\nD. Stathakopoulos (principal investigator)
\nFunded by the Leverhulme Trust, Gerda Henkel Stiftung<\/p>\n

Emotions through time: from Antiquity to Byzantium<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Principal investigator D. Cairns)
\n2016-2018<\/em>
\nM. Hinterberger (network member)<\/p>\n

Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Research Network (UnSaLa)<\/strong><\/a>
\n2015 \u2013 today<\/em>
\nA. Vionis, in collaboration with G. Papantoniou (network coordinator), Ch. Morris (Trinity College Dublin), \u0391. Sarris (UCY). Funded by the Irish Research Council, Trinity Long Room Hub, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies<\/p>\n

Heimarros Tower Archaeological Project, Naxos<\/strong><\/a>
\n2015 \u2013 today<\/em>
\nA. Vionis, in collaboration with O. Filaniotou (coordinator), and G. Papantoniou, \u0391. Kaldeli, Ch. Loizou (collaborators)
\nFunded by the University of Cyprus and the Municipality of Naxos<\/p>\n

Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) – Archaeological Survey<\/strong><\/a>
\n2014 \u2013 2022<\/em>
\nA. Vionis (coordinator), in collaboration with G. Papantoniou (Trinity College Dublin) and D. Nicolaou (Cyprus Museum of Natural History)
\nArchaeological field project in the Xeros River valley (Larnaca District, Cyprus).
\nFunded by: Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, University of Cyprus, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Irish Research Council, Long Room Hub \u2013 Trinity College Dublin, University of Bonn<\/p>\n

Achaia Survey: Historical Topography of W. Achaia Research Project<\/strong><\/a>
\n2013 \u2013 today<\/em>
\n\u0391. Vionis, in collaboration with the Institute of Local History (Patras)
\nFunded by the University of Cyprus, the Municipality of Kato Achaia and the Institute of Local History<\/p>\n

ByzAD: Artefacts and Raw Materials in Byzantine Archival Documents<\/strong><\/a>
\n2012 \u2013 today
\n<\/em>M. Parani, in collaboration with B. Pitarakis (CNRS) and J.-M. Spieser (Prof. Emeritus, University of Friburg)<\/p>\n

The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame at Saint-Omer: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its History, Architecture and Art<\/strong>
\n2011-2016<\/em>
\nM. Olympios, in collaboration with Dr Delphine Hanquiez (Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Artois). Funds for travel and technical analyses were provided by the University of Cyprus.<\/p>\n

Digital Boeotia: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Boeotia Digitisation Project<\/strong><\/a>
\n2011 \u2013 2012<\/em>
\n\u0391. Vionis (coordinator), in collaboration with Prof. J. Bintliff (Universities of Leiden & Edinburgh)
\nFunded by ArtLandS and the Universities of Cyprus and Leiden<\/p>\n

Damned in Hell in Frescoes on Venetian-Dominated Crete<\/strong><\/a>
\n2010-2014<\/em>
\nD. Stathakopoulos (co-investigator)
\nFunded by the Leverhulme Trust<\/p>\n

Register Medicorum Medii Aevi<\/strong><\/a>
\n2010-2011<\/em>
\nD. Stathakopoulos (co-investigator)
\nFunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<\/p>\n

Edition of the philosophical works of Pietro de Nores, National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece) – Section of Neohellenic Research<\/strong>
\n2009 – today
\n<\/em>A. Nicolaou-Konnari, in collaboration with P. M. Kitromilides (Prof. Emeritus, University of Athens, and member of the Athens Academy) and Kenneth Owen Smith (University of Nicosia)<\/p>\n

A Cistercian Nunnery in the Latin East: The History and Archaeology of St Theodore Abbey, Nicosia, Cyprus<\/strong>
\n2005-today<\/em>
\nM. Olympios, in collaboration with Eftychia Zachariou (Department of Antiquities, Cyprus) and Christopher Schabel (University of Cyprus). The project has been funded intermittently by the University of Cyprus and the Department of Antiquities.<\/p>\n

Bullarium Cyprium<\/strong>
\n2001-2012<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel and J. Richard (principal investigators)
\nFunded by the Cyprus Research Centre<\/p>\n

Synodicum Nicosiense<\/strong>
\n1997-2001<\/em>
\nCh. Schabel (pincipal investigator)
\nFunded by the Cyprus Research Centre<\/p>\n

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