The idea of the digitalisation and reworking of the hagiographical texts written during the Late Byzantine era arose from the need to group them in a research tool for the study of the Late Byzantium society. The initiative was taken by Dr. Eleonora Kountoura Galaki and was implemented with the approval of the Directors of the Institute of Historical Research. The Program "Hagiography of the Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453" started as a sub-project in the Program "Archival, Paleographic and Diplomatic Research". In 2018/2019, after the structure of the Institute of Historical Research was reshaped, the Program of "Hagiography" joined the Research Direction A "The Byzantine Empire: Institutions, Society, Economy", as the hagiographical texts constitute valuable sources for the study of the Late Byzantine society.

Technical support and design of the Database by I. Pelekoudas and the company Infolib

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Data Base “Hagiography of the Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453)”
The Data Base “Hagiography of the Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453)” that runs at the Institute of Historical Research/Section of Byzantine Research aims at collecting, elaborating and digitising the hagiographic material of the time; including additional elucidative metadata, the Data Base constitutes a useful tool for those who study Byzantine society.

It includes texts classified into the following categories: Saints' Lives, Encomia, Miracles, and Orations, according to the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca (= BHG).

The user by entering a password has the possibility to search in the texts and in the "Books", i.e. in the information that has been recorded for each text of the Database (e.g. author, text dating, edition, manuscripts, etc.).
Τhe Data Base constitutes a useful tool for those who study Byzantine History.
Limited access to the database for non users
The visitors that are not registered users of the database can browse the following two typical texts, in order to examine them without the required database access rights:

<Φιλοθέου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως> Βίος καὶ πολιτεία τοῦ ἁγίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Σάβα τοῦ Νέου τοῦ ἐν τῷ Ἁγίῳ Ὄρει τῷ Ἄθῳ 

Author: Κόκκινος Φιλόθεος  

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Τοῦ σοφωτάτου κυροῦ Κωνσταντίνου Λογοθέτου Ἀκροπολίτου Λόγος εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην τὸν Δαμασκηνόν  

Author: Ακροπολίτης Κωνσταντίνος  

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Coordinator
Dr. Eleonora Kountoura Galaki

Scientific collaborators: 
Dr. D. Bianconi (2004-2006), Dr. Nike Koutrakou (Byzantinist), Dr. Ekaterini Mitsiou (Byzantinist), Professor St. Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus), Professor S. Paschalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), D. Kaklamanos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)