The Tale of the Quadrupeds and the Poulologos in the same manuscript: the illustrated codex Serail gr. 35 International Congress “Miscellaneous Manuscripts of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literary Texts”, Athens (Danish Institut of Athens) [5.2002]
Handing over of knowledge through discourse in Medieval Greek Diglossia Plenary talk at the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [4.2002] This is the first major talk I did on my own, it’s all about trasfer of knowledge through language and written texts in the Greek-speaking Middle Ages. The Powerpoint presentation is […]
From instructing to entertaining: the institutional functions of narrative discourse in the Greek medieval World 24. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) at the University of Mannheim [03.2002] This was a paper about the use of narrative text in language education in Byzantine times and their transformation to entertainment texts in the Early Modern […]
Paper given together with Sophia Voulgari. International Colloquium “Multilingualism from a Historical Perspective: Functional and Structural Aspects” of the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [06.2001]
Style as a category of written discourse of the Greek Middle Ages Internal Colloquium ›Style‹ of the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [05.2001]
Paper given together with Sophia Voulgari. International Colloquium ›Code Switching, Accomodation and Multilingualism‹ of the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [12.2000] An interesting paper with many examples of mixing of registers in different periods of Greek. I have got an old Powerpoint (MacOs 9) with text examples which I will upload […]
Copying vernacular texts in the 15th c. The role of the manuscript scribe International Congress ›Neograeca Medii Aevi V‹, University of Oxford [09.2000] This paper was published in the proceedings of the conference in a very short form. There is still a lot to be written about this question.
Diglossia and literature. The development of vernacular Greek narrative discourse Paper given together with Sophia Voulgari). Plenary talk at the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [08.2000] The very first talk I did with the use of Powerpoint. I will post the slides after the necessary conversion from Mac OS 9.