SECTORS

The Department of History and Archaeology is composed of the following four sectors:

• Sector of Ancient and Medieval History 
• Sector of Modern History 
• Sector of Archaeology and Art History 
• Sector of Folklore Studies

 Presentation/Description of the Disciplines

1. Sector of Ancient and Medieval History (e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Ancient Greek History: history of ancient Greece from the prehistoric period until the 3rd century AD.
• Epigraphy: study of ancient Greek inscriptions as key historical sources.
• Roman History: history of the Roman world from the founding of Rome to the Imperial times.
• Byzantine History: history of institutions, political, social, economic and intellectual history of the Byzantine state from the 4th to the 15th century AD and its relations with the Arab world.
• Balkan History: social history of the balkan people and the establishment of the Balkan States (6th-15th century). The medieval past in the Balkan states (19th-20th century).
• Medieval European History: history, economy and institutions of Medieval Europe until the 15th century AD.

 

2. Sector of Archaeology and Art History ( e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Prehistoric Archaeology: theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity. Prehistory and Proto-history. Overview of Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age (Cycladic Minoan, Mycenaean cultures).
• Classical Archaeology: Early Iron Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
• Byzantine Archaeology: Early Christian period, Byzantine period, Post-Byzantine Archaeology and Art.
• History of Modern Art: From the Renaissance to the present day.

 

3. Sector of Modern History(http://pms.hist-arch.uoi.gr/, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Research, study and teaching of modern Greek, Balkan, European and World History divided into two sections:

• Modern Greek History: political, social and economic history of Modern Hellenism, as well as the history of institutions, from the period of Venetian and Ottoman rule to the organization and operation of the modern Greek state from the early years to the modern era.
• Modern European and World History: all aspects of Europe's modern history, important events and issues of contemporary world history.

 

4. Sector of Folklore Studies (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Theoretical directions of Folklore
• Social-economic structures and transformations
• Material life and culture. Pre-industrial technology and techniques
• Economic realities and collective mentalities in traditional society during the period of Ottoman rule
• Rural society and culture
• Clothing
• Musicology
• Oral history and collective memory
• Ethnic and national identities in the Balkans
• Genders and identities
• Ethical Folklore
• Popular literature