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Greek historian, philologist and university teacher (1914?2003)
Manousos Ioannou Manousakas
(
Greek
:
Μανο?σο? Ιω?ννου Μανο?σακα?
, 3 December 1914 ? 16 July 2003), was a Greek
Byzantinist
and
Modern Greek scholar
.
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Life
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Manousakas was born in
Rethymno
, Greece to Ioannis Manousakas and Anna Petroulaki. His father was a lawyer who hailed from the villages of
Argyroupoli
and
Imbros
in
Sfakia
on his father's side. After attending high school in his home town,
[2]
he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the
University of Athens
from 1932 to 1937. From 1938 to 1941 he was the secretary of the editorial committee of the
Society for Cretan Studies
. In 1942 he was appointed editor of the Medieval Archive, the later Research Center for the Medieval and Newer Greece of the
Academy of Athens
, and 1951 to 1961 its director.
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From 1947 to 1951, he studied in Paris on a scholarship from the
French Government
. With another grant from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (
CNRS
), he attended courses at the
Sorbonne
and the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
to specialize in
paleography
and in the editing of ancient texts and prints. In March 1951 he received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled
Contribution a l'histoire de l'epistolographie neo-hellenique
as the best of his year at the Faculte des Lettres of the
University of Paris
. In March 1960 he published a second doctoral dissertation under the title
The
conspiracy of Sifis Vlastos
on Crete (1453?1454) and the new conspiracy movement from 1460-1462
("
Η εν Κρ?τη συνωμοσ?α του Σ?φη Βλαστο? (1453?1454) και η ν?α συνωμοτικ? κ?νησι? του 1460?1462
”) as the best of his class at the
University of Thessaloniki
.
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In 1961 he was appointed to the Chair of Medieval and Modern History at the School of
Philology
of the University of Thessaloniki, where he taught until 1966. That year the Academy of Athens appointed him director of the
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice
, a post he held until 1982. From 1975 to 1980 he was director of the Center of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the
National Hellenic Research Foundation
and from 1975 to 1981 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the then newly established
University of Crete
. In 1980 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, in 1982 he was elected a full member and in 1995 its chairman.
[3]
From 1962 to 1982 he published the journal
Θησαυρ?σματα (Thesaurismata)
of the
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies
.
Research focus
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Manousakas' main areas of research were modern Greek epistolography (Frangiskos Skouphos,
Greek
:
Φραγκ?σκο? Σκο?φο?
), Byzantine and post-Byzantine history, in particular the period of
Venetocracy
and Cretan Renaissance literature (he discovered an unknown Cretan comedy titled
The Forgotten Bride
) and paleography (the 574
miniatures
in the work of
John Skylitzes
) and edition philology.
Awards
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