NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Georgios Kardaras
Senior Researcher
Institute of Historical Research
Department of Byzantine Research
Phone: 0030 210 7273638
Fax: 0030 210 7273629
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.eie.gr
STUDIES
1996: Degree from the Department of History and Archaeology (University of Ioannina).
2000: MA in Medieval Studies/Byzantine History (University of Ioannina).
2007: Ph.D in Byzantine History (University of Ioannina).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY [line spacing: multiple 1,3]
• 2006-2007: Research collaborator at the NHRF/IBR, attached to the Programme
''Byzantium and the World of the Slavs and the Balkans''.
• 2007-2010: Assistant Researcher at the NHRF/IBR. Research Programs: a)
''Byzantium and the World of the Slavs and the Balkans''. b) ''Institutions, Society,
Internal and Foreign Policy of Byzantium'' (since November 2009).
• 2011-2014: Associate Researcher.
• 2014-: Senior Researcher.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Relations between Byzantium and its northern neighbours.
• History and civilization of the early Slavs, Great Moravia and the Kiev Russian state.
• History and civilization of the nomads.
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RESEARCH AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
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The Danubian limes and its world (01/10/2006-30/06/2008). The project was
part of the ‘‘Scientific Excellence’’ prize (Aristeia) under the title: Byzantiou
katoptron: Sources and Studies on the Byzantine World.
Cultural, social and economic transformations at the Byzantine province of
Scythia Minor during the Late Antiquity (4th-7th c.). During my participation in
the research team (July 2008-November 2009), I recorded a detailed literature on
the Byzantine limes of Scythia Minor (4th-7th c.), following some specific
thematic units.
Since November 2009 participation at the project Byzantine History Data Bank.
My work focuses on the entry of sources relevant to Late Antiquity, as well as
the barbaricum, followed by bibliographical reference, in a data base. (Up to
now the historical work of Priscus, Menander Protector, Jordanes and Excerpta
Valesiana).
Personal research activity with work title: a) The Empire and the Nomads. Image
of the other, cultural influences and integration’s issues (4th-7th c.). b) Morals
and customs of the nomads, 4th-7th c. (from 2014 onwards).
Preparation of a monograph on the history and culture of the Antes (5th-7th c.).
Editorial Assistant of the journal Byzantina Symmeikta.
My activities include also collaboration with Universities/Research Centers
(either as tutor of students or offering some lectures), research trips and summer
schools abroad as well as six months sabbatical leave in Cracow, invited by the
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology/Polish Academy of Sciences (MayOctober 2011).
Teaching activity at the Seminar of Historical Sciences-IHR since 2009 (indicative)
 Period XXIII (2009-2010) Byzantium and its northern neighbours: Early Slavs,
Avars, Turks, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Great Moravia and Kievan Rus (November
- December 2009).
 Period XXIV (2010-2011) Early Byzantium and nomadic peoples (November
2010). Byzantium and Early Slavs (December 2010).
 Period XXV (2011-2012) The Avar Khaganate, 568-796 (December 2011).
Byzantium and the Antes, 518-602 (January 2012).
 Period XXVI (2012-2013) The Early Slavs, 5th-7th c. (November 2012). The
Avar Khaganate, 568-796 (December 2012).
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Μεταξύ Αττίλα και Βαϊανού. Το Βυζάντιο και οι νοµαδικοί λαοί από το 453 έως
το 558, Βyzantina Symmeikta 24 (2014), 67-110.
Christian symbols among the nomads, 5th-8th Century A.D., in: Rome,
Constantinople and Newly-Converted Europe. Archaeological and Historical
Evidence. M. Salamon, M. Wołoszyn, A.E. Musin, P. Špehar, M. Hardt, M.P.
Kruk, A. Sulikowska-Gąska (eds.). U źródeł Europy ŚrodkowoWschodniej/Frühzeit Ostmitteleuropas, Kraków-Leipzig-Rzeszów-Warszawa
2012, vol. Ι, 79-90.
Byzantine-Avar Relations After 626 and the Possible Channels of
Communication, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 18 (2011), 21-42.
Η εξέγερση των Σλάβων υπό τον Σάµο εναντίον των Αβάρων και το ζήτηµα του
γεωγραφικού προσδιορισµού της ηγεµονίας του, Byzantiaka 29 (2010-2011), 91111.
Το Βυζάντιο και οι Άβαροι, ΣΤ΄-Θ΄ αι. Πολιτικές, διπλωµατικές και πολιτισµικές
σχέσεις (ΕΙΕ/ΙΒΕ, Monographs 15), Αthens 2010.
The Byzantine-Antic treaty (545/56 A. D.) and the defence of Scythia Minor,
Byzantinoslavica 68 (2010), 74-85.
Η πολεµική τέχνη των πρώιµων Σλάβων (ΣΤ΄-Ζ΄ αι.), Βyzantina Symmeikta 18
(2008), 185-205.
The Bulgarians and the Avar chaganate, 6th-9th c. A. D., in: Balgarija, Balgarite
i Evropa- Mit, Istorija, Savremie vol. III (Bulgaria, the Bulgarians, and Europe
– Mythus, History, Modern Times, Naucia Conferencija, Veliko Tarnovo 31
Oktomvri 2008), Veliko Tarnovo 2009, 105-118.
Όψεις συµβίωσης, συνεργασίας και επιδράσεων µεταξύ Αβάρων και Σλάβων,
6ος-9ος αι., Βyzantiaka 28 (2009), 131-149.
Οι βυζαντινοαβαρικές διενέξεις και η µεθόριος του ∆ούναβη (558-626), in:
Sophia Patoura-Spanou, The Danubian limes and its World during the Migration
Period (4th-7th c.), [NHRF/IBR, Research Series 6], ed. G. Th. Kardaras, Athens
2008, 237-266.