From 25th to 26th November

Friday: 3.30-6.00pm
Saturday :10.00am-4.00pm

Writing History from Archival Documents:

The Case of Byzantium
SATURDAY

26TH NOVEMBER

10.00am-12.30pm : The Lion's share

Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Universit
d'Amiens) : A not-so-distant mirror. Western archival
sources for the history of the Late Byzantine Empire
Alessio Sopracasa (Universit Paris-Sorbonne) :
Late Medieval Venetian archival documents from the
Eastern Mediterranean and the economic and social
history of the Levant.
1.30-4.00pm: The Tyrrhenian Duchies
FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER
Adele Di Lorenzo (LABEX RESMED, Paris) :
Donations 'pro anima' in South Italian Greek and
3.30-6.00pm : Byzantine and post-Byzantine Latin private deeds (10th 12th century)
Greek documents
Thierry Ganchou (CNRS, Paris) : New Archival
Kostis Smyrlis (New York University) : Byzantine Material from the Archives of Genoa and Venice on
monastic archives and the history of the Empire
Loukas Notaras, the last prime minister of
Byzantium ( 1453)
Cristina Rognoni (Universit di Palermo) : Greek
Documents as sources for the history of Byzantine and
post-Byzantine Southern Italy (9th-13th Centuries)
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CONVENORS:

Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading-Universit Paris 1)

and Vivien Prigent (CNRS-MFO)

Centre dhistoire et de civilisation

de Byzance

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