Apostolos Spanos


Department	Department of Religion, Philosophy and History
Position	Associate Professor (temporary)
Tel. (work)	(++47) 38141098
Tel. (mobile)	(++47) 96234812
E-mail	apostolos.spanos@hia.no

Educational background	Dr. Philos. in Byzantine History and Literature, University of Bergen, 2007. Title of thesis: An Annotated Critical Edition of an Unpublished Byzantine Menaion for June: Codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11. MA in Greek Palaeography, University of Athens 1999 (grade: A). Title of thesis: Τὸ Λειμωνιακὸ Ζήτημα. Ἀνέκδοτα καί τινα ἐκδεδομένα ἔγγραφα ἀπὸ τὸ Ἀρχεῖο τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Μηθύμνης Νικηφόρου Γλυκᾶ (= The Leimoniakon issue. Unpublished, and some published, documents from the Archives of the Bishop of Methymna Nikeforos Glykas) . Bachelor in Theology (University of Athens, 1992). Diploma in Journalism (Professional Journalism Institute of Athens, 1991).
Subject areas	Byzantine History and Literature Orthodox Liturgics and Church History Greek Palaeography Edition of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine texts Byzantium and Scandinavia
Current research activity	I am currently working on an EU-project of digitization of the Byzantine Manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery, Lesbos, Hellas, run by the Prefecture of Lesbos. The project produces a Data Base and a digital library of the manuscript collection, to be on-line by August 2008. At the same time I am preparing a research project on “Propaganda and Political Sanctity in Byzantium”, that will hopefully open by the beginning of 2009. The main aim of this project, that will produce a monograph and several papers, is to establish new knowledge in the field of Byzantine and medieval political propaganda, by studying published and unpublished Byzantine textual and visual sources. In particular, the project will focus on Byzantine imperial propaganda and the use of sanctification and sanctity by and in it, from the beginning of the 8th century to 1453. Furthermore, it will undertake a comparative study of how sanctity was used by Byzantine propaganda to corresponding propagandistic methods used in the Slavic and the Western European world.
Publications	Books
In progress	A. Spanos – A. Kalamatas (eds.), The Holy Leimonos Monastery. Theology – History – Art. Proceedings of a conference held at Leimonos Monastery, 27-30.9.2001. Forthcoming; ISBN 960-88478-5-0.
In progress	An Annotated Critical Edition of an Unpublished Byzantine Menaion for June: Codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11. A revised version of my doctoral thesis, to appear by the end of 2009. The thesis is published in Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA): https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/2633.
2006	Κῶδιξ Α´ Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Μυτιλήνης (18ος αἰ.) [=Codex A of the Diocese of Mytilene (18th c.)], Mytilene: Editions of the Holy Diocese of Mytilene, 2006 (An annotated edition of the manuscript; 351 pp. + 23 plates; ISBN 960-87733-1-8).
2003	Συνοπτικὴ Ἱστορία Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος [=Synoptic history of Leimonos Monastery], Edition of the Holy Leimonos Monastery, 2003 (203 pp.; ISBN 960-87758-0-9; 2nd edition, 2008).
	Papers
In progress	(with Charalambos Dendrinos), “An unpublished Akolouthia on the Emperor John III Doucas Vatatzes”, to be published by 2009.
In progress	(with Nektarios Zarras), “Representations of Emperors and Royals as Saints in Byzantine Virtual and Textual Sources”, to be published in spring 2009, in the Proceedings of the International Spring School: Integration and Disintegration of Civilizations in Medieval Europe, Schwerte 29 March – 2 April 2008.
Forthcoming	“Δύο ὁμάδες σταχώσεων Βυζαντινοῦ τύπου, ἔργων Κωνσταντινουπολίτικου(;) ἐργαστηρίου τοῦ 16ου αἰ., σὲ Βυζαντινὰ χειρόγραφα τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος [=Two Groups of Book-bindings of the Byzantine type, made in a 16th-century Constantinopolitan(?) scriptorium, in Byzantine Manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery]”, forthcoming in vol. 3 of Vivlioamphiastes (=Proceedings of the International Conference The Book in Byzantium: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Bookbinding, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 13-16 October 2005).
Forthcoming	“Ἡ συλλογὴ χειρογράφων τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος [=The Collection of Manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery]”, in A. Spanos – A. Kalamatas (eds.), The Holy Leimonos Monastery. Theology - History - Art, forthcoming.
2006	“Λειμωνιακὸ Ζήτημα. Ἐπισκόπηση βάσει τοῦ ἀρχειακοῦ ὑλικοῦ [=The Leimonos Issue. Overview based on the relevant documents]”, Hagia Sion 1 (Mytilene, 2006) 67-99.
2004	“Ἡ ἀλληλογραφία Μονῆς Λειμῶνος καὶ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου κατὰ τὸν “Μέγα Κώδηκα” τῆς Μονῆς (19ος αἰ.) [=The correspondence between Leimonos Monastery and the Patriarchate of Constantinople according to the ‘Great Codex’ of the Monastery (19th c.)]”, Lesbiaka 20 (Mytilene, 2004) 190-214.
2004	“Χρονολογικὰ καὶ ἄλλα προβλήματα περὶ τὸν βίο τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰγνατίου, κτίτορος τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος [=Chronological and other questions on the Vita of Saint Ignatios, the founder of Leimonos Monastery]”, Gregorios o Palamas 87 (Thessaloniki, 2004) 55-68.
2002	“Πέντε ἀνέκδοτα Πατριαρχικὰ ἔγγραφα τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος. Συμβολὴ στὴ βιογράφηση τοῦ Μητροπολίτη Μηθύμνης Νικηφόρου Γλυκᾶ [=Five unpublished patriarchal letters of Leimonos Monastery. Contribution to the composition of the Vita of Nikephoros Glykas, Bishop of Methymna]”, Lesbiaka 19 (Mytilene, 2002) 137-145.
2000	Μέθοδοι διδασκαλίας τῶν “Ἑλληνικῶν μαθημάτων” (18ος-19ος αἰ.). Μαρτυρίες τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος [=Teaching methods for the ‘Greek courses’ (18th-19th c.). The evidence of the manuscripts of Leimonos Monastery], Paidagogiko Vima Aigaiou 36 (Mytilene, 2000) 11-20 (in Greek).
2000	Οἱ “Πίνακες” τοῦ ἱεροδιδασκάλου Πορφυρίου: Νόμοι καὶ κανόνες λειτουργίας τῆς Λειμωνιάδος Σχολῆς [=The ‘Tables’ of the monk and teacher Porphyrios: Operating rules of the ‘Leimonias’ School], Paidagogiko Vima Aigaiou 36 (Mytilene, 2000) 60-66 (in Greek).
	Data Bases – CD-ROMs – On-line editions
In progress	Byzantine Manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery. Description of 108 manuscripts to be published by July 2008 in an on-line digital library, in the framework of the project Registration and Promotion of the Cultural Treasures of Leimonos Monastery, run by the Prefecture of Lesbos, November 2007 – May 2008.
2000	Ἡ Ἐθνικὴ καὶ Πολιτισμικὴ Δράση τῶν Μοναστηριῶν τοῦ Βορείου Αἰγαίου καὶ τῆς Κύπρου [=The National and Cultural Activity of the Monasteries of North Aegean and Cyprus]. CD-ROM, in collaboration with Nannina Sakka - Nikolakopoulou, Athens 2000 (www.ineag.gr/MonesCD/opener.htm).
	Scientific Popularisation
2003	Christian Monuments of the Diocese of Mytilene, Athens: Ephesus, 2003 (Greek - English edition; 240 pp.; illustrated; ISBN 960-8326-07-9).
2003	Ναοὶ καὶ μοναστήρια Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Μυτιλήνης [=Churches and Monasteries of the Diocese of Mytilene], Mytilene: Editions of the Holy Diocese of Mytilene, 2003 (155 pp.; illustrated; ISBN 960-87733-0-X).
2003	Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Leimonos, Athens: Akritas, 2003 (110 pp; ISBN 960-328-211-1; also in Greek: Ἱερὰ Πατριαρχικὴ καὶ Σταυροπηγιακὴ Μονὴ Λειμῶνος, Athens: Akritas, 2003, ISBN 960-328-187-5).
	Turist guides
Forthcoming	(with Petter Hangeland), Lesbos, Kristiansand: Portal 2009.
2003	Lesvos. Tourist Guide, Mytilene 2003 (142 pp., ISBN 960-87718-1-1).
Paper presentation in international conferences
2008	“Emperors and Saints in Byzantium”, to be presented in the conference Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, International Conference at the University of Heidelberg, 29 September – 2 October 2008.
2000	“Βυζαντινὰ Χειρόγραφα τῆς Μονῆς Λειμῶνος (=Byzantine manuscripts at Leimonos Monastery)”, 3rd Conference of Byzantinologists of Greece and Cyprus (University of Crete, 22-24 September 2000. Summary in J. Vassis - M. Loukaki - E. Papadopoulou (eds.), Γ´ Συνάντηση Βυζαντινολόγων Ἑλλάδος καὶ Κύπρου. Περιλήψεις (= 3rd Conference of Byzantinologists of Greece and Cyprus. Abstracts), Rethymno 2002, pp. 77-78.
Participation ininternational conferences
2006 2001 2000 1998 1996	21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006. 2nd International Conference on Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, National Louis University –Research and Training Institute of East Aegean, Samos 27-29 June 2001. Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Research and Training Institute of East Aegean – Wyzsza Szkola Bisnesu – National Louis University, Samos 25-27 August 2000. 1st Conference of Byzantinologists of Greece and Cyprus (University of Ioannina, 25-27 September 1998. The Greek Script in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Institute of Byzantine Research – National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 18-20 September 1996.
Conferences and seminars organised
2001 1999	Initiator and chief organiser of the conference Ἱερὰ Μονὴ Λειμῶνος. Θεολογία - Ἱστορία – Τέχνη (= The Holy Leimonos Monastery. Theology – History – Art), held at Leimonos Monastery, 27-30 September 2001. Initiator and chief organiser of the conference Information Society and Human Resources in North Aegean Region, held in Samos, September 1999.
Visiting scholar	The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway College, University of London, February – March 2006. The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway College, University of London, October 2007.
Affiliation and Membership	Reviewer of the journal Hagia Sion – Scientific Yearbook of the Diocese of Mytilene (January 2006–). Member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (2007–). Administrative manager, Xristos Research Centre (2005–). Member of the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFF) (2004–). Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Hagia Sion – Scientific Yearbook of the Diocese of Mytilene, ISSN 1790-5494 (January 2006 — February 2008).

Publisert av Janne Elisabeth Frøysaa <janne.froysaaSPAMFILTER@hia.no> 04.06.2008

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