Field: | Byzantine History |
Rank: | Professor |
Government Gazette: | 590/23-06-2017, τ. Γ΄ |
Telephone: | +30 2661087341 |
Email: | yarenis@ionio.gr |
Website: | https://history.ionio.gr/gr/department/teachers/134-yarenis/ |
Ilias Giarenis is Associate Professor of History of Byzantine Paideia, and Vice-Rector for Finance, Student Care and Quality Assurance at Ionian University.
He has published on the empire of Nicaea, Nikolaos Mesarites, Byzantine Education, Bessarion, the Holy Face in Middle-Byzantine Constantinople, and Receptions of Byzantium in the 19th and 20th centuries.
He has co-edited collective volumes on Bessarion (2017), Scholars in Byzantium (2019), and Books and Learning in the Byzantine World (2021). He is the author of: Establishment and Consolidation of the Empire of Nicaea. The Emperor Theodoros I Komnenos Laskaris (Athens, 2008 [2nd edition, Athens, 2010]); Nikolaos Mesarites: A Byzantine Scholar Before and After 1204 (Turnhout, 2021).