In spite of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror’s glorious assaults on, and Emperor Constantine XI’s heroic defence of the proud walls of Constantinople, the 1453 siege, conquest and fall of the ...read more
This PhD project studies the political and economical history of Chinese Buddhism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (mainly 5th century).read more
A study of language and culture contacts in the history of the Greek language, with particular attention to Greek in contact with Hebrew and Aramaic in the Hellenistic and Roman ...read more
This project takes issue with the traditional, static conception of the hexameter as being composed, rather mechanically, of two cola ending obligatorily after the first or second syllable of the ...read more