Historical Biography

In 2009, the National Archaeological Museum at Athens opened the “Terracotta Figurines Collection” in which around five hundred objects from its depots were presented for the first time to the public. This collection had been built at the end of the nineteenth century with finds from excavations as well as out of purchases and donations from private assemblages. One of these was the antiquities collection of the professor at the University of Athens and art dealer Athanasios Rousopoulos (1823—1898). With Rousopoulos’ death in 1898, the antiquities he owned went into his eight children’s possession. These managed the artifacts’ distribution between the state museum and private ownership according to Greece’s second Law on Antiquities (1899).

This paper follows the storyline of one exemplary figurine — “monkey grinding corn with a pestle” (NAM inv. No. 12980) — that was passed from the Rousopoulos household to the museum on account of the new legislation. This type of provenance research considers archaeological artifacts as historiographical sources for biographical studies. In the case of Rousopoulos’ collection, the names we find in administrative records from the Museum archives and the Archives of the Archaeological Service bring together the history of antiquities in modern contexts and family biography.

Located at the northern tip of Dirk Hartog Island in Western Australia, Cape Inscription is one of the most significant cultural heritage sites in Australia.  It marks the accidental landfall of Dutch skipper Dirk Hartog and his crew on 25 October 1616. Historical events associated with Hartog’s landfall and successive European visits to the Cape Inscription site are firmly embedded within the context of the exploration of the Indian Ocean region and Australia in the post-Medieval period.

This chapter provides an historic overview of Dirk Hartog’s life and seafaring activities. It also places his arrival in Western Australia into the broader setting of seventeenth-century Dutch exploration. Finally, it investigates the archaeological and historical context of the Hartog Inscription Plate, emphasising the nature of similar monuments left by European explorers in the Indian Ocean region and contemporary ship communication practices.

This essay explores the many lives of Minhaj Siraj al-Din Juzjani (fl. 1193–1260), author of the Tabaqat-i Nasiri. Before writing the Tabaqat-i Nasiri in Delhi in 1259–60, Juzjani had served for a half-century in the role of judge, imam, and other positions. In re-reading the historical evidence, I offer twofold analyses of the extant evidence regarding this under-studied historian of Islam. Firstly, I show that Juzjani’s personal and social privileges defined his career peregrinations across medieval ‘Afghanistan’ and Hindustan. He belonged to a Sunni scholarly bureaucratic family from Khurasan with deep familial, career, and political connections to the Ghaznavid and Ghuri ruling houses. Secondly, this re-reading of the Tabaqat-i Nasiri is an attempt to make a contribution to the basic epistemic question of how to study the human and historical agency of medieval Muslim scholar-historians like Juzjani without losing sight of the political landscapes and historical contexts in which they operated, and wrote key works of medieval Islamic history.

A survey of the mythos and history of the Grahams through the ages.

Are you a Graham, Graeme, Grame, Grimes or de Giresme? Or a Nethery? Or perhaps a Jordan, Johnson or Noble whose Y-chromosomal DNA has a distinctive Graham haplotype (J1 / J-M267)? Or are you related to such families through your family tree? If so, this book is for you!

Illustrated in colour throughout, it provides a fresh survey of the mythos and history of the Grahams through the ages, including the family’s origins, heraldry, heroes and villains. Genetic genealogy is used to untangle the family’s origin myths and main branches, encompassing both the noble house of Montrose and the bandit “reivers” of the Anglo-Scottish border. The heady mix of history and science is complemented by an original – and at times irreverent – biographical examination of some illustrious and nefarious Grahams, ranging from knights and generals whose battlefield exploits are immortalised in verse to the inventors of the sexually supercharged Celestial Bed and its nemesis, the libido-crushing Graham cracker.

"This special issue of Comparative Literature Studies brings together talks, some extensively revised, others virtually unchanged, that were delivered at a conference entitled "What is Philology?" The gathering took place on Saturday, March 19, 1988 at Harvard University under the aegis of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. The depth and breadth of interest in the conference was deeply gratifying. I had not experienced another occasion when so many scholars from different language and literature departments gathered at Harvard, and I hope that publishing the proceedings will benefit a larger community outside the University.

By way of introduction I will describe how the event originated. My description will explore a few of the reasons why an interdisciplinary conference of a dozen speakers and respondents attracted an audience of more than two hundred, and why a topic that 'may sound rarefied drew participants whose main fields of research and teaching interests ran the gamut from the most ancient Indo-European languages to the most recent African American literature. In short, I will offer tentative explanations for the urgency of the topic to students, professors, and independent scholars who engage in philology, linguistics, literary history, literary criticism, and literary theory."

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A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification. Although repulsed by Ptolemy IV at the Battle of Raphia, his eastern campaigns reaffirmed Seleucid hegemony as far as modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Returning westward, he defeated Ptolemy V at Panion (200 BC) and succeeded in adding Koile Syria to the Seleucid realm. At the height of his powers, he challenged growing Roman power, unimpressed by their recent successes against Carthage and Macedon. His expeditionary force was crushed at Thermopylae and evacuated. Refusing to bow before Roman demands, Antiochus energetically mobilized against Roman invasion, but was again decisively defeated at the epic battle of Magnesia. Despite the loss of territory and prestige enshrined in the subsequent Peace of Apamea, Antiochus III left the Seleucid Empire in far better condition than he found it. Although sometimes presented as a failure against the unstoppable might of Rome, Antiochus III must rank as one of the most energetic and effective rulers of the Ancient world. In addition to discussing the career of Antiochus III, Michael Taylor examines Seleucid military organization and royal administration. uk £14.99 us $26.95

Corrected and combined from 2 articles originally published in Slavonica, Keele University Press, vol. 1, 1994/5, no. 2, pp. 47-66, and vol. 2, 1995/96, no. 2, pp. 61-4.
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The correspondence between Tsarevich Aleksei Petrovich (1690-1718) and his mistress/fiancée Afrosin’ia Fedorova on their journey from Italy back to Russia in the winter of 1717-8 was first published in Russia in the nineteenth century. Subsequently, only extracts have been available in English, in popular works primarily concerned with Peter I. These have been taken out of context and used selectively to support questionable and/or sensational interpretations of their characters and the nature of their relationship

Introducción El siglo XXI ha visto un renacer global del estudio de las dinámicas interactivas de la persona con ella misma, con los demás y con sus entornos relacionales (del-Olmo-Ibáñez, López Vega & Parra-Martínez, 2019). Entre otras manifestaciones, esto se ha materializado en un resurgir de las investigaciones sobre la Autobiografía y la Biografía muy destacadamente en el ámbito de la formación. Para entender el presente, a uno mismo y 'al otro' es imprescindible comprender su pasado y sus contextos, conocer la historia y la literatura propias y ajenas. Sin embargo, dentro del entorno docente actual, globalizado y tecnológico, los alumnos muestran un desinterés considerable por esas dos disciplinas transmisoras de la herencia social y cultural, y al mismo tiempo profundamente unidas. La Biografía cuenta entre sus rasgos definitorios con una intencionalidad ejemplarizante y una función didáctica que se evidencia desde sus mismos orígenes y que se ha mantenido en todos los subgéneros biográficos hasta la actualidad. Se trata de un género intrínsecamente pedagógico. El presente trabajo plantea dos objetivos principales. Por un lado, la rentabilización del género de la Biografía como recurso didáctico para la enseñanza de las asignaturas de Historia y Literatura. Por otro, una visión de finalidad interdisciplinar, favorecida también por la propia entidad de la Biografía en varios aspectos. En cuanto al primero de los objetivos, una aplicación de índole universal en este sentido es la ligada al estudio de la historia desde un punto de vista hegeliano y diltheano. El primero entiende la historia como lección para la humanidad (Hegel, 1974) y el segundo establece la conexión entre los actos individuales y su repercusión en la humanidad (Dilthey, 1978), con todas las implicaciones que esto tiene desde el punto de vista pedagógico y, teniendo en cuenta, además, la hermenéutica comparatista que hace el segundo sobre el significado de la Autobiografía y de la Biografía. 623 En lo que concierne a la didáctica de la Literatura, la Biografía es un género paradójicamente casi olvidado en los programas reglados. Tampoco hay estudios sobre su presencia en la enseñanza no formal. Sus posibilidades parten de su identidad genérica y su caracterización retórica discursiva. Por su índole ensayística, la Biografía admite todos los tipos de discurso y la inclusión de otros géneros en su construcción. En un texto de predominante tercera persona por su condición de descubrimiento del otro, existe una presencia muy significativa de la primera persona del autor manifestada en los discursos descriptivo, argumentativo, narrativo; en ocasiones es dialógico con el personaje y con el mismo lector, y re-flexivo a partir de la exposición de las experiencias del biógrafo. En su variante Literaria, permite la inclusión de la ficción, y el elemento falsario en algunas ocasiones, con toda legitimidad, por lo que constituye un modelo, asimismo, de literatura creativa. Además, la línea de Biografía de Literatos ha sido tradicionalmente un recurso para el aprendizaje de la lengua y de la literatura cuya actualización metodológica la convierte en herramienta altamente rentable para los objetivos que aquí se proponen. Finalmente, desde la interdisciplinariedad, otro de sus componentes genéricos es elemento fundamental en este trabajo: los contextos situacionales y culturales y los universos existenciales de los personajes. La sujeción a la realidad es otro definidor de la Biografía. Si bien permite la ficción, su fábula debe ajustarse a la realidad del personaje histórico y esto obliga a una contextualización, coincidente con el estudio de la Historia y de la Literatura. Lo que aquí se propone es una armonización interdisciplinar para la enseñanza de ambas a través del personaje biografiado y sus entornos culturales y existenciales.

They collect and they exchange. Castle Ambras as a regional node within a network of European princely courts of the late Renaissance This paper explores dimensions of cultural exchange, a research area that traces mutual exchange activities of various kinds in material culture, including portraits and statues, but also tools of everyday life. At the heart of this study is Castle Ambras, a centre of regional cultural exchange activities in Renaissance Tyrol. Since the days of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, its proprietors cultivated relationships with other European princes interested in the arts. As will be shown in this paper, various objects found their way to Tyrol as part of this cultural exchange-and can still be found in the halls of Ambras' present-day museum. 1. Einleitung: Die Kunstkammer im Schloss Ambras-Abbild höfischer Tauschbeziehungen Sie sammeln und sie tauschen-mit Blick auf die Herrscher*innenportraits der Renaissance lässt sich ein solcher Trend durchgehend feststellen. Erzherzog Ferdinand II. von Tirol war einer der bekanntesten Kunstsammler im deutschsprachigen Raum. Der seit 1564 regierende Statthalter Tirols und der vorderösterreichischen Lande erwarb neben

El historiador gallego Santiago Montero Díaz (1911-1985) fue un personaje atípico de la escena política gallega y española del siglo XX. Estudiante en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y después bibliotecario en Madrid y Compostela, fue un ferviente nacionalista español, pero próximo durante un tiempo a los anhelos autonomistas gallegos. Después abrazó el credo socialista, para militar en el comunismo en 1931-32, protagonizando una disidencia con la dirección del PCE. Su enfrentamiento con el nacionalismo gallego le llevó en poco tiempo a las JONS de Ledesma Ramos, cuyas esencias revolucionarias siguió pregonando al rechazar la fusión con Falange Española en 1934. En 1936 se convirtió en uno de los catedráticos de más jóvenes de la Universidad española.
El estallido de la guerra civil lo sorprendió en Madrid, donde se escondió, se refugió en una legación diplomática y colaboró después con la Quinta Columna hasta evadirse a la zona insurgente. Rápidamente cooptado en los Servicios de Propaganda del Nuevo Estado, que abandonó para servir en el frente, se mantuvo fiel a las esencias del nacionalsindicalismo e intentó sin éxito hacer campaña por su realización. Catedrático de Historia Antigua en la Universidad de Madrid desde agosto de 1941, pregonó hasta el final de la II Guerra Mundial el alineamiento de España con el Eje, y criticó el oportunismo de la política exterior franquista. Sus actividades le valieron un confinamiento temporal.
Retornado a la cátedra universitaria, Montero Díaz se refugió en el estudio y enseñanza de la Historia Antigua, en cuyas personalidades señeras buscaba al Duce inexistente en el presente. Desde mediados de la década de 1950 experimentó un creciente acercamiento a la oposición al régimen franquista. Primero, como fascista desencantado, y más tarde como partidario de una reconciliación nacional con los vencidos. Se unió a ello un renovado y radicalizado sentimiento galleguista. Su creciente compromiso con la oposición universitaria culminó con su participación en los incidentes de febrero de 1965 en la Universidad de Madrid, que le reportaron una separación temporal de su cargo de catedrático. Tras un período de exilio académico en Chile, retornó a España en marzo de 1967, donde se convirtió en una referencia intelectual y moral para varias generaciones de estudiantes durante la última fase del franquismo y la Transición democrática.
Basado en un amplio caudal de fuentes hemerográficas, textuales y un rico epistolario personal, esta biografía pretende trazar, a través del estudio de un personaje complejo y polifacético, una visión caleidoscópica del siglo XX español y de sus ambigüedades.

III. Selim, II. Mahmud ve Abdülmecid gibi yenilik yanlısı padişahların saltanatlarını görmüş olan devlet adamı Mehmet Emin Rauf Paşa, bu çalışmanın konusunu oluşturmaktadır. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda büyük değişimlerin yaşandığı bir zamanda, toplamda on beş yıla yaklaşan sadaretlerini ve yine on beş yılı bulan taşra yöneticiliklerini göz önüne aldığımızda Rauf Paşa’nın biyografisi, devre ait siyasetin nasıl şekillendiğini anlamamıza yapacağı katkılar sebebiyle önemlidir. Nitekim Rauf Paşa, Anadolu’daki ve Suriye’deki memuriyetleri sırasında Osmanlı-İran savaşlarına Yeniçeri Ocağı’nın kaldırılışına, Asakir-i Mansure’nin kuruluşuna ve çıkışından kısa bir süre sonra uluslararası soruna dönüşmüş olan Mısır valisinin isyanına tanıklık etmiştir. Kalem terbiyesi almış olması sayesinde Rauf Paşa, XIX. yüzyılda, Babıali’nin reformları uygulayacak kadrolara ihtiyaç duyduğu bir dönemde seyfiye kökenli bürokratlar yerine kalemiye kökenli bürokratları tercih eden II. Mahmud’a uzun yıllar sadrazamlık yapmış ve onun ilk Başvekil’i olmuştur. Rauf Paşa, ülkede yenilikleri sağlam bir zemine oturtmak amacıyla merkezin eyaletler üzerindeki egemenliğini yeniden tesis etmek için taşradaki güç odaklarını ortadan kaldırmayı planlayan II. Mahmud’un siyasi merkeziyetçilik projesini desteklemiştir. Rauf Paşa, II. Mahmud’un vefatına yakın Tanzimat’ın üzerinde yükseleceği kurumsal dönüşümü mümkün kılacak bürokratik reformların hazırlanmasında Mustafa Reşid Paşa ile birlikte çalışarak, yönetimde modernleşmenin önünü açan devlet adamları arasında yer almıştır. Tanzimat’ın ilanından sonraki sadaretlerinde de çizgisini koruyan Rauf Paşa, yenilik yanlılarıyla muhafazakârlar arasında yaşanan mücadelede yeniliklerden yana tavır alarak, imparatorluğun devamını sağlayacak askeri ve mali reformların gerçekleştirilmesinde önemli roller üstlenmiştir. Dolayısıyla Rauf Paşa’nın kişiliğinde karşılığını bulan Osmanlı devlet adamı kimliği Tanzimat öncesi ve sonrası olmak üzere iki zamanın birlikteliği üzerine inşa edilmiş; ancak bu birliktelik Rauf Paşa’nın siyasi hayatında ikiliğe yol açmamış ve çatışmadan varlığını bir arada sürdürmeyi başarmıştır.

The Ego-network of Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925), Head of the General Staff of the Austrian-Hungarian army at the beginning of World War I (red: family members; green: politics; blue: military; yellow: politics and military; purple: private). Based on data from Wolfram Dornik (Des Kaisers Falke. Wirken und Nach-Wirken von Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. Innsbruck 2013, 279 p.; http://www.bik.ac.at/team/biografien/50-wolfram-dornik.html), network graph created in cooperation with Wolfram Dornik by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, 2013 ([email protected])

1. Η ανασκαφή των Μυκηναϊκών τάφων Καστρουλίου Δεσφίνας και άλλες έρευνες και ανασκαφές από τον Ν. Φωκίδας, Δελφοί 2006 // 2. Νέες αρχαιολογικές θέσεις στον Ν. Φωκίσας, Δελφοί 2007 // 3. Ανασκαφή ναού Ιλιάδος Αθηνάς στους Φυσκείς (Μαλανδρίνο) Ν. Φωκίδος, Δελφοί 2005 // 4. Σ.Ραπτόπουλος, Ε.Σιδηράς, Μια νέα επιγραφή από την περιοχή της Κασταλίας Κρήνης Δελφών, Δελφοί 2007 // 5. Μία νέα αρχαιολογική θέση στον Προφήτη Ηλία Χρισσού, Δελφοί 2007 // 6. Δελφικά Βιογραφικά (Ε. Καστόρχης, Χ. Καρούζος, Α. Σικελιανός, Πίνδαρος ο Θηβαίος). // 7.  Τιμητική εκδήλωση 07.12.2007 για τον Χρισσαΐτη Δ. Κ. Στεφόπουλο και την συμβολή του στην τοπική Ιστοριογραφία (εφημ. "Απόπειρα" και μπλογκ "Βοιωτικά Γράμματα - Πολιτισμός" της Δ.Β.Λιβαδειάς): Σ. Ραπτόπουλος, Θ. Αγγελόπουλος, Κ. Ζαχαροπούλου).

Short biography published in Working Papers in The Health Sciences: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wphs/current_issue.page
Alan Glasper, Professor of Nursing Studies at the University of Southampton retired in March. His career
has been a full and inspirational one and this article provides an overview of his professional life
and impact upon children’s nursing and nurse education.

"[A] 7,500-page genealogical blockbuster going far beyond existing individual clan and family histories." (Dr. Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Senior Lecturer, Sabhal Mor Ostaig.)
The Red Book of Scotland Online seeks to fill an enormous void that exists in Scotland’s genealogical history. Researched over 30 years, this publication is fruit of a massive self-funded research project undertaken by Gordon MacGregor, and places genealogy back within its rightful place as a serious academic discipline.
The Red Book of Scotland Online is, quite simply, a new essential reference tool which should be constantly at hand for anybody working within the fields of Scottish history and Scottish genealogy in the broadest senses.

Correa y Zafrilla ha ocupado un lugar escueto en numerosas historias de la filosofía o de los movimientos políticos españoles. Este libro no pretende reivindicar ni sobrevalorar su aportación al pensamiento republicano de izquierdas. Por el contrario, su objetivo es explicar, a través de su figura, el papel que jugó un pequeño número de activistas, tan desconocidos como comprometidos con el fin de democratizar su país, a la hora de vertebrar un movimiento de gran calado social, como fue el federalismo español. A través de un estudio detallado de su amplia labor periodística puede reconstruirse una extensa obra intelectual que culminó en 1886 con su libro Federación, democracia y socialismo, una obra que sirvió para inyectar savia marxista en la ideología republicana justo en los años en los que el propio Correa publicó la primera traducción al castellano de El Capital.

Per la ricostruzione della Vita di Socrate, che, come si sa, non ha lasciato nulla di scritto, disponiamo, grazie alla fama che ben presto raggiunse il grande filosofo ateniese, a buon diritto considerato il fondatore della filosofia occidentale, di un gran numero di testimonianze sparse tra varie fonti, tra le quali purtroppo è molto arduo distinguere quanto della figura storica del nostro personaggio si è conservato e quanto invece è frutto di una ricca e fantasiosa opera di rielaborazione. Oltre alle notizie ricavabili dai suoi discepoli, e in primo luogo da Platone e Senofonte, la biografia più dettagliata è quella trasmessa da Diogene Laerzio all’interno della sua raccolta delle Vite dei Filosofi, e precisamente ai capitoli 18-47 del libro secondo: quest’opera di Diogene, pur essendo una compilazione che contiene vistose grossolanità e rivela la mancata applicazione di un’adeguata analisi critica delle fonti, racchiude tuttavia notizie preziose. Altri particolari si trovano in autori di varia estrazione e provenienza, tra i quali meritano di essere presi in considerazione Aulo Gellio, Claudio Eliano, Ateneo e Suida.

This paper explores dimensions of cultural exchange, a research area that traces mutual exchange activities of various kinds in material culture, including portraits and statues, but also tools of everyday life. At the heart of this study is Castle Ambras, a centre of regional cultural exchange activities in Renaissance Tyrol. Since the days of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, its proprietors cultivated relationships with other European princes interested in the arts. As will be shown in this paper, various objects found their way to Tyrol as part of this cultural exchange – and can still be found in the halls of Ambras’ present-day museum.

Ο Γρεβενιώτης αρχαιολόγος Ανδρέας Βαβρίτσας (κατά καιρούς Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Βορείου Αιγαίου, Κυκλάδων, Θράκης, Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας), συνέδεσε το όνομά του με την πρώτη φάση επισκευών του αρχαίου Θεάτρου Μήλου και την ανάδειξη των Κατακομβών Μήλου. Στην ανακοίνωση αυτήν , μέσω των υπηρεσιακών αναφορών του έκτακτου επιμελητού Μήλου Γ. Καμακάρη προς τον Α. Βαβρίτσα, διερευνάται η-λιγότερο γνωστή-"Κυκλαδική" του περίοδος και η συμβολή του στην ανάδειξη των αρχαίων μνημείων της Μήλου.

2ο Συνέδριο Απανταχού Γρεβενιωτών, 19.08.2018, Γρεβενά.

In May 1929, the Canadian Department of External Affairs (DEA) formalized diplomatic ties with Japan by opening its Tokyo legation. Although the third of its kind, Canada's Tokyo legation initiated and managed bi-lateral relations with a degree of autonomy unparalleled by those in Washington and Paris. Within this newfound autonomous space was room for each of Canada's diplomats to negotiate, internalize, and perform their roles differently. This thesis investigates how and why First Secretary Hugh Keenleyside, Minister Herbert Marler, and Second Secretary Kenneth Kirkwood – the vanguards of Canadian national self-representation in the Pacific – engaged and employed that personal and national autonomy, studying their reactions to and participation in transnational political and cultural exchanges at the imperial Japanese capital. Their dissimilar experiences meanwhile act to demonstrate the complexities of those exchanges and highlight the various motives and opinions prevalent amongst Canada's late-interwar social political, and intellectual elite.
By adopting the perspectives of the individual as its primary subject of analysis, this study contributes to an extant literature that has regularly portrayed the DEA and its foreign offices as unitary practitioners of a singular ideology or policy. Furthermore, the individual voices of Canada's first ranking official in the Japanese capital are recovered from the silencing effect of top-down, national-political analyses that have so dominated the field. Finally, it eschews teleological readings of the period preoccupied with Europe, a North Atlantic Triangle, and the 'road to war' narrative, thus providing a new view of an understudied aspect of Canadian international history.

József Holub and the relocation of the Tagányi Library to Pécs.
The existential opportunity-conditions of a small town history professor at the end of the 1920’s (Part 1)
by Gábor Szeberényi

(Summary)

The position of university professors, who formed a defining group of the intellectual elite between the two world wars, has been the subject of sociological and prosopographical studies. From a biographical point of view, discussions on the subject are mainly limited to the genre of „university memorial literature.” Present study examines historian József Holub’s (1885-1962) appointment as a university teacher and the beginning of his career in Pécs. By reconstructing the actual biographical situation using archival and other sources, the study aims to demonstrate that this significant „prosopographical fact” cannot be judged comprehensively either along the lines of the established schemes of scientific career histories, nor by the later developments of scholarly works and achievements. Furthermore, the study attempts to highlight the methodological and attitudinal limits of the „rationalising” biographical scheme often present at the reconstruction of biographies, and also aims to contribute to the testing of parameters mapped out based on prosopographical/sociological aspects. By achieving the above, it intends to advance the exploration of a more general context using biographical tools: understanding the existential opportunity-conditions of a small town history professor in the 1920’s.

The first part of the study discusses József Holub’s work in Budapest, the development of his professional position and relations until spring 1923.

Manuel II Palaiologos (1391--1425) was a significant political and intellectual figure of Late Byzantine history. Born in an age of political upheaval for Byzantium, Manuel faced three civil wars, two sieges of Constantinople and the continuous shrinking of his territories. His search for help against the Ottomans took him as far as France and Britain. Manuel was also an avid intellectual who wrote many literary, philosophical and theological works, earning the epitaph of 'philosopher--emperor.' This paper, which presents a brief excerpt from my biography on Manuel II, will attempt to shed light on the emperor's childhood, his possible childhood reminiscences and will discuss the challenges regarding the portrayal of Manuel as a child. The study of imperial childhood is bound by many problems on the grounds of the lack of sources and the insufficiency of the methodological framework. However, despite all the challenges, Manuel II's childhood still presents a unique and an interesting case since as a child, the emperor witnessed civil strife amongst his family and preserved memories of these relatives, as well as witnessing important political events. Finally, as a writer emperor, later on in his life, Manuel reflected on the education he received as an imperial child, which offers fascinating insights into his childhood.

Ευσύνοπτη και περιεκτική βιογράφηση του συνθέτη Δημήτρη Δραγατάκη (Πλατανούσα Ηπείρου, 1914-Αθήνα, 2001) στηριγμένη αποκλειστικά σε υλικό πρωτογενών πηγών, στο πλαίσιο πολύχρονης έρευνας της συγγραφέως σε δημόσια και ιδιωτικά αρχεία και τη συλλογή προφορικών μαρτυριών.