Marie-Hélène Blanchet, PhD, is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée) in Paris. Her research focuses on the intellectual and religious history of the Byzantine Empire during the Palaiologan period (13th-15th centuries). Among other works, she is the author of Georges Gennadios Scholarios (vers 1400-vers 1472): un intellectuel orthodoxe face à la disparition de l'Empire byzantin (2008) and Théodore Agallianos, Dialogue avec un moine contre les Latins (1442) (2013). Within the 'Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus' project, she now prepares the critical edition of the two Greek translations of Thomas Aquinas' De rationibus fidei.

Raúl Estangüi Gómez, PhD, studied and taught at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is currently a research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid. His main fields of research are the history of the Byzantine Empire during the Palaiologan period (1261-1453) and the medieval archive documentation in Greek. He is the author of numerous publications, including the book Byzance face aux Ottomans. Exercice du pouvoir et contrôle du territoire sous les derniers Paléologues (milieu du xiv e - milieu du xv e siècle) (2014). He is a member of the team responsible for publishing the Acts of Mount Athos and he is the coeditor of Actes de Vatopédi, vol. III, De 1377 à 1500 (2019).

Introduction

The Byzantine State and its Transformation in the Palaiologan Era (13th-15th c.): the Outlines of an Old Historiographical Debate and New Research Approaches

Raúl Estangüi Gómez

Chapter 1

A Merchant of Thessalonike: Kasandrenos and his Ledger of 1356-1357

Kostis Smyrlis

Chapter 2

Changing Trends in Palaiologan Public Giving

Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Chapter 3

Forms of Political Power in Byzantine Macedonia in the Second Half of the 14th Century. The Case of Christoupolis' Region

Anastasia Kontogiannopoulou

Chapter 4

Contextualization and Reinterpretation of Nikolaos Kabasilas's so-called 'Anti-Zealot Treatise', the Discourse on the Audacities against Sacred Goods Committed by the Archons in Infringing the Law

Marie-Hélène Blanchet and Raúl Estangüi Gómez

Chapter 5

Patriarch Kallistos I as a Spiritual Author

Antonio Rigo

Chapter 6

Remembering Athanasios the Athonite in the 14th Century

Olivier Delouis

Chapter 7

Literature for Hard Times: Palaiologan Apocalyptic between Tradition and Innovation

Luigi Silvano