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Mitsos Bilalis
Studying on the Screen: Interactive Technologies and Historians' Educational Practices, 1994-1999
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Maria Roussou
High-end interactive media in the museum
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Vangelis Christodoulou
3D monument reconstruction and its reception by a varied audience
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Lila Patsiadou
The Coroplast's Art in Boeotia in the Classical Period (475-330 B.C.)
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Aphrodite Kamara
Speaking in Greek? The Use of the Greek Language in the "Dead
Cities" of Northern Syria in Late Antiquity
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Vasilis Siametis
The Katholikon of the Ìonastery of Ayia Paraskevi at Monodendri: Ôhe
Second Phase of the Painting Decoration (1689)
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Eleni Gara
Murderers and Judges in Ottoman Veria (Kara Ferye)
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Seyyed Mohammad T. Shariat-Panahi
Taxation in the kaza of Selanik (Salonica), 1768-1770
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Antonios Anastasopoulos
The Ottoman Court Registers (Ser’iye sicilleri) of Veria: Classification Problems
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Yorgos Tzedopoulos
The Incorporation of the Rebellion of the Popolari into Greek National History
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Aimilia Salvanou
The Structure of Relation in the "Karlakohori" Village of
Corfu: Bilinearity and Preservation of Patrilinear Elements
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Abstracts
Mitsos Bilalis, Studying
on the Screen: Interactive Technologies and Historians' Educational
Practices, 1994-1999
This paper focuses on the issue of the introduction of innovative
technological structures in the historical research and education
centers. A bilateral approach is selected: at the first part there is an
attempt to trace in brief the major developments that have taken place
during the last seven years of the 20th century, highlighting the
connection of specific educational functions with cyber-space. In the
second part I seek to investigate the perceptions of the above-mentioned
course by the very historians' communities. The argument is that, at
least in the present stage, the prospects of the so-called
"intervention" are not strictly defined by the typified use of
the interactive technologies; rather than this, the key-role belongs to
the potential of the subjects of the historical research along with the
members of the educational communities to perceive the "new"
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(available only in Greek)
Maria Roussou, High-end interactive media in the museum
This paper examines the issues involved in the use of high-end
interactive media, computer graphics applications and virtual reality
technology in museums. As museums adapt advanced digital media for use
in exhibitions and public programmes, new relationships take place
between the audience, the venue, the virtual representation and the real
object or fact. While the use of state-of-the-art technology can
effectively shape how museums deliver public education, issues of high
cost and maintenance of such technology, larger and diverse audience
throughput and difficulty in content development present important
drawbacks. Both the benefits as well as the problems caused by the
deployment of technology in the museum will be analysed. Examples will
be presented of special museums worldwide that use technology in
innovative ways for educational and artistic purposes. Particular focus
is given to the presentation of the projects created by the Foundation
of the Hellenic World (FHW), a cultural heritage institution in Greece,
that uses immersive virtual reality, VRML, and three-dimensional
graphics for the reconstruction of archeological sites, historical
interpretation, and education.
Vangelis
Christodoulou, 3D monument reconstruction and its reception by a varied audience
The 3D Graphics Sector of the Foundation of the Hellenic World
produces digital, three-dimensional representations of archaeological
monuments and sites. Three types of 3D models are produced: fully
photorealistic, VRML, and Virtual Reality models. This article deals
with the methodology used in 3D models production, the way the public
responds to 3D reconstruction, and with considerations arising from the
interaction between such technological innovations and history and archaeology.
Lila Patsiadou, The Coroplast's
Art in Boeotia in the Classical Period (475-330 B.C.)
The aim of this article is to present the general guidelines of the
development of the Boeotian coroplast's art in the Classical period.
Given the fact that Boeotia was one of the most important coroplast
centers in the Ancient Greek world, mention is made of the Boeotian
workshops' production beyond the boundaries of the classical period.
The figurines are being examined on the basis of the stylistic
development of their basic types during the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.
Other aspects stressed in the article are techniques of manufacture and
decoration, as well as relations with other major workshops and with
sculpture.
Aphrodite Kamara, Speaking in
Greek? The Use of the Greek Language in the "Dead Cities" of
Northern Syria in Late Antiquity
The countryside of Northern Syria was dominated by a complex of
settlements administratively linked to major cities, such as Antioch or
Apamea. Although part of the settlers had been Roman veterans of the
Roman army, Latin was used only scantily. After the Tetrarchy Latin
seems to have been completely obliterated. The use of Greek was
intensified with the spread of Christianity, as all Christian
inscriptions up to the end of the 5th century were written in Greek. It
is only at that time that the first inscriptions in Syriac, the local
Aramean dialect, appear. The extensive use of Greek can only be
explained through the leading role of the Church of Antioch in the
formation of the rural clergy, whereas the increasing use of Syriac can
be attributed to the spread of monophysism and the increasing power of
the Syrian monks and ascetics, hostile to the Antiochene doctrines.
Vasilis Siametis, The Êatholikon
of the Ìonastery of Ayia Paraskevi at Monodendri: Ôhe Second Phase of
the Painting Decoration (1689)
The study concerns the monastery of Ayia Paraskevi at Monodendri, and
especially the second phase of the painting decoration of the katholikon
(monastery church). This phase is chronologically placed, according to a
donor's inscription, in 1689 and comprises the representations on the
south wall of the one-aisle church, which are developed in three
superimposed registers: seven scenes of the Dodekaorton, a group of
twelve full-length saints and a band of geometrical ornament. The
iconographic analysis of the scenes proves that their prototypes are
consecrated forms of the Cretan school, particularly the ones which have
been used for the icons' decoration and the illustrations of Akathistos.
Sometimes the compositions are also enriched with few popular elements.
The small depicted surface and the uniform style of the decoration
indicate that we have to do with the work of only one painter, whose
identity is unknown; consequently we could speak about him only with
suppositions.
Eleni Gara, Murderers and Judges
in Ottoman Veria (Kara Ferye)
The article discusses the processes of crime detection, court hearing
and punishment in seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. As a way of
approaching the issue, the analysis focuses on a particular murder case,
that of Mirza suba{è, who was murdered in the town of Veria (Kara
Ferye) in June 1620. The narration closely follows the steps of the
authorities and persons involved in that case, using as a guide the
relevant archival sources, three entries from the Ottoman court
registers (kadè sicilleri) of the town.
Seyyed Mohammad T. Shariat-Panahi,
Taxation in the kaza of Selanik (Salonica), 1768-1770
The article focuses on the taxation of the population of the kaza
(administrative district) of Selanik (Salonica) during the first two
years of the first Russian-Ottoman war (1768-1774). The central point of
the article is the increase of the tax quote of the kaza, which was due
to the war and had as a result the reaction of the population. A brief
presentation of the historical and geographical framework as well as of
the tax regime of the inhabitants is followed by an analysis of the
taxation between 1768-1770. In this respect light is shed both on the
contribution of the kaza of Selanik to the tax income of the Ottoman
state and on the reaction of the local society in circumstances of
unusual financial pressure on the part of the authorities.
Antonios Anastasopoulos, The Ottoman Court Registers (Ser’iye
sicilleri) of Veria: Classification Problems
The introductory section of the paper is dedicated to the history of
the Ottoman court registers of Veria since their discovery in the old
Ottoman courthouse of the town in 1918. The author discusses two issues
in the light of this account: the numbering that some of the registers
bear on their covers (these numbers do not coincide with the respective
numbers of the catalogue of the archive of Veria) and the page numbering
of the registers. As is illustrated by the appendix and discussed in the
article, both the cover and the page numberings are not as irrational as
they originally appear to be, but can be accounted for on the basis of
the handling of the registers in the course of the twentieth century.
Yorgos Tzedopoulos, The
Incorporation of the Rebellion of the Popolari into Greek National History
The rebellion of Zante's urban population in 1628, at a time when the
Ionian Islands were under Venetian rule, is known as rebellion of the
popolari. Until recently, the only historical source referring to it was
the chronicle of Angelos Soumakis, a Zantiote who was contemporary to
the events. The limited amount of historical sources contributed to a
rather ideologically than scientifically based analysis of the rebellion
by Greek historiography. The aim of this article is to explore how the
Greek historians of the nineteenth century incorporated the 1628
rebellion into the body of national history and how they used it in
order to justify their argumentation in the ideological and political
controversies of the time.
Aimilia Salvanou, The
Structure of Relation in the "Karlakohori" Village of Corfu:
Bilinearity and Preservation of Patrilinear Elements
The present article regards the structure of relation in a village
community of Corfu, in particular the genealogical memory, parental
property transfer, marital strategies, as well as the post-marital
settlement practices. Fundamental point of the article is that, although
the community recognizes the bilinear descent, it shows in fact strong
patrilinear tendencies that affect the lifestyle of its members, since
it fosters the application of a common law rather than that of the Civil
Code. Furthermore such tendencies also seem to affect the essential
definition of relation and genealogical memory. The research has been
based on the practice of open-type and questionnaire interviews, as well
as on archive material from the Court of the First Instance and from the
community Land Registry.
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