Description: The course will underline the particular character of the sources as works of a male �lite. It will be in particular emphasized that the women�s history of the archaic and classical periods consists in the history of women�s images perceived by men. In addition, the course will focus on women from all social classes, although our literary sources provide us with information concerning mainly the wealthy women..

Description: The course will focus on the various problems arising from the limited range of interest of ancient Greek historians, who were mainly concerned with political matters. Emphasis will put on the contribution of archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics.

Description: Avar and slav attacks on the Empire .- Slavs in the Balkans and Greece .- The Byzantine Sources .- The Fountation of the Bulgarian State .- the Bulgarian Conquests.- The Church .- Achivements of Cyril and Methodius.-Conversion of Russia to Christianity.

Description: Our purpose is to give a general idea of the byzantine studies as a scientific field as much as the byzantine society. From this point of view, we examine first: 1. The history of the byzantine studies 2. Categories of available sources. 3. Chronological diagrama of byzantine history. The main events during early, middle and later byzantine period. 4. The borders of the byzantine empire during its period. The composition of the population. 5. The organisation of the byzantine state. The imperial institution and the administration. 6. The social and economic structures during its period. The main characteristics during the early, the middle and the late byzantine period. The decline of the cities. Small and large landownership. The byzantine aristocracy. 7. The identity of the byzantine people.

Description: We examine the conditions under which were formed the Nicean empire and the so called despotate of Epirus after the fall of Constantinople in 1204. The two states are examined regarding their administrative and ecclesiastical organisation, the relatioship between them, as well as the relation that each of them seek to preserve with the destroyed byzantine empire. We also examine the social structure and we empasize the rural policy of the emperors of Nicea.

Description: In this seminar we examine the space organisation Constantinople between the 10th and the 15th century. Based on the written sources mainly, we examine the urban tissue of the city, as it is formed during the years in relation with social change. We also study the function of specific areas and buildings. The mental representation of the city and the corresponding system of values. Our purpose is to examine the relationship between the organisation of the space and the social life into the capital of the byzantine empire.

Description: The emperor; the structure of authority; the state services; justice, economy, diplomacy, imperial mail, army and navy; the patriarchates; the patriarchity of Constantinople; the institution of ecumenical patriarchity; the clergy and the monasteries.

Description: An outline (search and study) of the basic principles of the organisation and means of byzantine diplomacy accomplished in the capital of the empire from the 10th to the 15th century.

Description: Enthroned scholar and patron of the arts, Constantine Porfyrogennitos prevails at the most important and intellectually fruiful period of the byzantine history. His inadequacy in politics is compansated by his unique offer in the domain of education and sciences.

Description: The lectures will examine some of the important aspects of the political, economic and social life that shaped western Europe from about 13th to 15th century, such as the great schism, the hundred years war, the black death, the popular revolt and the italian communes.

Description: Introduction to history of Crete under Venetian rule (historical outline 1204-1669, administrative and social structure, the religious question, economic activity, everyday life).

Description: Succesive political crisis has appeared in Greece not only during the interwar period but also in the postwar period until 1967 when dictatorship was estadlished . Political crisis has influenced the fuction and the evolution of constitutional intitutions.Constitutional institutions contributed in encountering crisis respectively.

Description: Political crisis during the interwar period has appeared in the area of constitutional institutions either in the form of abolition or has an occasional infringment and falsification of the institutions of liberal parliamentary regime that has been established since the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Description: The course deals with the critical representation of major aspects of greek politics, economics and society. More specifically, will be examined aspects of political instability, institutional reform and party politics between 1909-1940; economic development and industrialisation; the refugee question and emergence of new social strata.

Description: The seminar aims at giving the students the opportunity to: a. evaluate different historical sources on the Greek War of Independence. b. Face critically the relative works and be able to discern the political and ideological � uses � of this event during the 19th and 20th centuries. c. Get familiarized with those historical approaches which to have opened new horizons in historiography of its. d. Compare similar phenomena (the French revolution, the Italian Risorgimento) with the Greek War of Independence.

Description :This is an introductory course destined especially for first and second year undergraduate students. A brief overview of the diplomatic, political, institutional, social and economic History of Modern Greece and of Greek populations of the Ottoman realm will be made, covering the period from the establishment of the Independant Greek State to the 1909 military Coup dՎtat that paved the way for the Amendement of the Greek Constitution and the rise to power of Eleutherios Venizelos. - The Greek society and economy in the aftermath of the Greek War of Independance. The authoritarian bavarian rule and the administrative foundations of the Greek State. The �Revolution� of September 3, 1843. - The 1844 Constitution and the Kolettis Administration. The new 3-partite political system. The eastern Crisis (1852-1856) and the Adventurism of the Royal Government. - The Fall of king Otto and political strife in the interregnum period (1862-1864). The Ionian islands under british rule. Union with Greece. The beginning of Modern industry in Greece and the distribution of National Estates to the rural population. - The situation of the christian peasant population in Ottoman South Eastern Europe and the Rise of a Greek merchand class during the Ottoman Reforms (Tanzimat ). The Cretan Revolts (1850s-1860s) and the Greek-Ottoman confrontation. - The 1864 Constitution and the Foundation of a modern parlementary system (1864-1875). The new intellectual developments. Romantism and Nationalism in Greece (1840-1880). - The New Eastern Crisis and the Diplomatic events leading to the anexation of Thessaly and Arta to Greece (1875-1881). - The reign of Trikoupis (1881-1895). Modernization and State expansion. The two-party system. - The Greek Economy and Finances in the Trikoupis period : the road to Bankrupsy. - The financial, economic, political, social and intellectual crisis of 1893-1909. The massive transatlantic emigration mouvement. Signs of recovery : A dynamic economy and a modernized army and administration. - The conflicting Balkan Nationalisms and the Struggle for Macedonia (1878-1912). - The Greek population under the Hamidian Regime (1875-1908). The new Cretan revolt and the establishment of an Autonomous Cretan principality (1897-1908). The Young Turks and the eastern Question (1908-1912). - The Greek Society in the turn of the century : The �language issue�, new nationalism and the rise of the socialists. The 1909 Coup dՃtat : problems of Interpratation.

Description: The purpose of the course is to offer a review of the main schools of historical thought of the last 250 years .The course tries to show that the changes in the historiographical paradigm occured in specific social and political conditions and in close relationship with developmemt in philosophy and in the others social sciences. The argument is that allthough one can distinguish between seperate national historical schools, especially in the 19th century, one has to think the development of social sciences as a European phenomenon.The main topics of the course do inlude the Gottingen school of th 18th century, Gibbon and british historiography, French historiography in the time of Augustine Thierry, Francois Guizot et Jules Michelet, Leopold von Ranken and the German historicism,the geography of Friedrich Ratzel,the influence of Durkeim�s sociology and Vidal de la Blache�s geography on the French historiography, Marxist historiography, "La nouvelle histoire", the crisis of the Annales paradigm, new historicism and hermeunetical approach.

Description: The uprooting of 1,2 million people in Asia Minor and their settlement in Greece in the 1920 � s represents a major breach in the development of greek society. These events are usually seen in an ethnocentric perspective as a unique national success story. The seminar tries to avoid this heroic approach by pointing on the various factors-sociological, cultural, economic-which facilitated or hindered the integration of the refugees.To this effect comparison will be drawn with other countries which had faced a massive refugee inflow like Turkey in the late 19th century, postwar Germany, France after the independance of Algeria. Students have to prepare short seminar papers on related subjects using the existing bibliography and primary sources as the national and refugee press, community and association records etc.

Description: The seminar is based on a critical reading of the Greek historiographical production since the 18th century .the aim is to trace the influence of foreign paradigms on Greek histiriography and to elucidate the domestic factors which shaped its development .Students have to prepare seminar papers on the work of some choosen historians or the manner greek authors have approached some major historical questions.
Assessement: Oral presentation and submission of a paper on a specific subject

Aim: To present in a comprehensive way the development of the arts in the islamic world. A first contact of the students with these arts with the aid of slides. Description: 1. Introduction: islamic religion and the importance of the islamic art. 2. a short islamic history. 3. The characteristic of islamic art. A. Islamic architecture: 1. Mosque as a new architectural element. 2. The arabic mosque. 3. The persian mosque. 4. The seldjucic mosque. 5. The mosque in India. 6. The mosque in central Asia. 7. The turkish mosque. 8. The islamic architecture in Spain. B. The art of miniature: introduction. 1. Miniatures in early islamic times. 2. Persian miniatures. 3. Safawwid miniatures. 4. Miniatures in Mogul India. 5. Miniatures in the ottoman empire. C. Islamic ceramics: 1. Ceramics. 2. Tiles. 3. Woring out the glass. D. Islamic metallurgy. E. Islamic tapestry. 1. Carpets in the middle east. Turkish carpets. Carpets in other middle eastern countries. The art weaving in the islamic world. F. Decorative designs.

Aim: To familiarize the students with the method of histrical research and the way of writting a small article by using the relevant bibliography. Description: The study of various problems confronting the research of the history of an ottoman town. Salonica was chosen because there is an extensive bibliography about the history of the town and a great number of venetian and turkish documents translated into greek, to be used by the students in their research. Subjects to be investigated: construction of the town. Demography. Adminisration. Trade. Occupations of the inhabitants. Trans-comunal relations.

Description: A course of a very general character to be given to students of exact sciences (Herakleion). The phenomenon will be examined in combination with the emergence of a new power, the ottoman empire.

Description: A course for beginners. The first date marks the loss of Asia minor to the Turks and the second the beginning of the turkish conquest of the Balkans.

Description: The greek language was used by the ottomans for their foreign relations with Christian states. The reading of such documents is usefull for thereconstruction of certain events and for the understanding of ottoman political thought.

Description: The purpose of the course is to intoduce the main stages in the history of Black Africa, beginning with the middle ages in western Sudan and the towns of the East African coast, and ending with the anti-colonial struggle for independence.

Description: The purpose of the course is to describe the colonial system and to analyse its socio-economic and political impact on Black Africa.