Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos read Byzantine and Medieval history in Münster and received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He has taught at the University of Vienna, the Central European University, the University of Regensburg and King’s College London (2005–2020). In August 2020 he joined the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus. His research interests are broadly in the social history of Byzantium. He has published two monographs, 4 edited volumes and over 50 articles and chapters in edited volumes on epidemics and famines, the history of medicine and disease, physicians and hospitals, poverty and charity, the transfer of knowledge and Byzantine mentalities. His latest publications include (edited with Petros Bouras-Vallianatos) Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge (Cambridge University Press 2023) and the revised edition of his A Short History of the Byzantine Empire (Bloomsbury 2023). He is currently working on two monographs: one on wealth, consumption and inequality in the late Byzantine world and another on a cultural history of the late Byzantine aristocracy.