Collaborators

Aglaia Kasdagli

Aglaia Kasdagli teaches European medieval history. Her main research interests concern the family, agrarian history and more generally the economic and social history of both medieval Europe and the early modern Greek island societies. The social history of the Greek islands as well as the overall evaluation of notary public documents for researching a variety of issues regarding economic, social and cultural history. Her long involvement with notary public documents led her to re-evaluate this valuable source, which owing to its sheer volume and multifariousness has not yet been evaluated as much as it should have, either in Greece or elsewhere. Her concern resulted in the conception, elaboration and realization of the programme in collaboration with her associates.

Theofania Aggelopoulou

Theofania Aggelopoulou is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens and holds a specialist diploma in "Systems of cultural information and cultural heritage management" of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Studies Programme of the Departments of History-Archaeology and Computer Sciences of the University of Crete. She has completed successfully a doctoral thesis on 'Household items in the Aegean societies in the 17th-18th centuries: a tentative approach to material culture(University of Crete). Regarding the project, she undertook the design and realization of the thesaurus of terms and the marriage contract data base.

Panagiotis Stathis

Panagiotis Stathis was born in Athens in 1966. He is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens, and completed postgraduate studies in Modern History at the University of Athens and the University of Crete, where he is currently reading for his doctoral thesis. He worked at the Historical Archive of the Agricultural Bank of Greece and the University of Crete Library (in the Rare Editions and Historical Archive sections). He taught Modern History at the Tourist Guide School in Heraklio, Crete. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Historein. His research interests centre on robbery and the protection offered by armed Christians against thieves during the 1821 revolution as well as the revolution in general and the history of Modern Greek historiography. Articles by him on these subjects have been published in academic journals and collective volumes.
In connection with the "Marriage Documents" project, he undertook the collection, organisation and classification of the material, thus making a major contribution to the first stage of the programme.

Meropi Vaggeli

Meropi Vaggeli is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete, in the Ancient and Medieval History section. She is a postgraduate student of the Interdepartmental Byzantine Studies Programme of the University of Crete, specialising in western Medieval History. She has participated in excavations conducted by the University of Crete in the area of Ancient Eleftherna in the Prefecture of Rethymnon, and completed in practical work at τηε State Archives (Syros branch). In connection with the "Marriage Documents" project, she participated actively in all stages, from the collection of primary material, to scanning, and classifying the natural archive. She has had a significant contribution not just in feeding the database with data from a great number of documents but also in bibliographical documentation and in checking errors and omissions.

Stathoula Chartomatsidou

Stathoula Chartomatsidou is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete, in the Ancient and Medieval History section. She is a postgraduate student of the Interdepartmental Byzantine Studies Programme of the University of Crete, specialising in western Medieval History. She has participated in practical work at the State Archives in Amorgos and has conducted research in Venice (Erasmus Programme). She joined the "Marriage Documents" project at a later stage. Since then she has greatly contributed to the realisation of the electronic database not only entering a great amount of data but also in bibliographical documentation and in checking errors and omissions.

Katerina Alexopoulou

The following also assisted in various ways:

Stamatoula Zapadi, director of GAK Kefallinia
Charalabos Flouris, Accounts Department IMS, Rethymnon