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Alessio Sopracasa

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Historian medievalist, Byzantine Studies, Digital Humanities, Byzantine sigillography, Venetian commerce.

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Alessio Sopracasa @surmaison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The SigiDoc Portal in Vienna sigidoc.hypotheses.org/666
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The SigiDoc Portal in Vienna
During the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, held in Vienna (24th-29th of August 2026), the SigiDoc Portal, created in the framework of the Franco-German ‘DigiByzSeal’ project, has bee...
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Alessio Sopracasa @surmaison.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
From the 14th Symposium of Byzantine sigillography (Thessaloniki, 6-8 October 2025) sigidoc.hypotheses.org/505
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SigiDoc is growing
The 14th Symposium on Byzantine Sigillography, recently held in Thessaloniki (event page), has just come to a close. During the second day of the conference, Pantelis Charalampakis (more here) present...
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Alessio Sopracasa @surmaison.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The digitisation campaign of the Byzantine seals of the IFEB collection sigidoc.hypotheses.org/407
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The digitisation campaign of the Byzantine seals of the IFEB collection
As part of the ANR-DFG DigiByzSeal project, the digitisation campaign of the seal collection held by the Institut Français d’Études Byzantines (IFEB), hosted by the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP),...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Join us on May 16 at @mfoxford.bsky.social for "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", a workshop on digital corpora, prosopography, TEI, 3D & more in Byzantine research. Organized by @sealygirl.bsky.social, @surmaison.bsky.social, Olivier Delouis & Claudia Sode.
Poster for the workshop "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", to be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford on May 16.Poster for the workshop "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", to be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford on May 16.
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Alessio Sopracasa @surmaison.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Highlights from the 13th Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography (Cologne, 27-29 March) sigidoc.hypotheses.org/336 @digibyzantine.bsky.social
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Highlights from the 13th Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography (Cologne, 27-29 March)
The symposium on Byzantine sigillography that concluded last week was both a testament to the excellent organization by the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne and a vibrant space for high-quality presentations and engaging, fruitful discussions. Unlike previous editions, which were often by invitation only, this year’s symposium included a highly successful … Continue reading Highlights from the 13th Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography (Cologne, 27-29 March) →
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
That’s a wrap! The #siegelsymposium has come to an end, and what an incredible days it has been! We had discussions about every aspect of Byzantine history and new insights that pushed the field forward. We had great food & company, and a unique excursion that made this symposium even more special.
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Ioanna Koukouni (Independent Researcher) 📜 "Two New Byzantine Lead Bullae from the Island of Chios" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) 📜 "The Lead Seals of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum in Athens" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Christos Stavrakos (University of Ioannina) 📜 "The Byzantine Lead Seals from the Acropolis of Athens" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Pantelis Charalampakis, Nikolay Dimitrov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) et al. 📜 "Towards a Digital Sigillographic Corpus of Bulgaria" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Jan Bigalke, Claes Neuefeind et al. (University of Cologne) 📜 "The DigiByzSeal Project: A Digital Infrastructure for Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Andreas Gkoutzioukostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) et al. 📜 "Remarks on Seals Found Along the Danube (7th-9th c.)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Marco Muresu (University of Cagliari) 📜 "Framing Byzantine Culture in Medieval Sardinia Between Continuity and Storytelling. The Seals of the ‘Carte Volgari’" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Dimitris Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos Diados (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) et al. 📜 "The Distribution of Seals in Early Byzantine Thrace (6th-8th c.): An Interdisciplinary Approach" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Eugen Paraschiv-Grigore and Ioana Paraschiv-Grigore (The National History Museum of Romania) 📜 "Commercial Links between the Western Black Sea and Western Asia Minor 4th - 6th Centuries AD" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Lucia Maria Orlandi (École française de Rome) 📜 "Signacula-Markers: The “Poor Relation” of Seals?" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Max Ritter (University of Silesia) 📜 "The Seal of Patronage: Monograms in the Architectural Sculpture of Sixth- to Tenth-Century Constantinople" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Austrian Academy of Sciences) 📜 "Χρυσὸς κοσμεῖ δάκτυλον. Neue Aspekte zu Inhalt und Funktion vier spätbyzantinischer Goldringe" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University) 📜 "The Praetorian Prefecture of North Africa in the Mid-7th Century: The Case of Marinus, praefectus et commerciarius" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Margherita Elena Pomero (University of Bologna) 📜 "From Prefect to Exarch of Italy: The Seals of Theodore Calliopa" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens) 📜 "New Molybdoboulla from Turkish Museums Issued by Thematic Officials in Asia Minor" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Pantelis Charalampakis (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens), and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Addenda and Corrigenda in the TAKTIKON (2021)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens) 📜 "Byzantine Thematic Officials in the WWW: The TAKTIKON online" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Lead Seals from the Collection of the Museum of Antiocheia of Pisidia (Yalvaç)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nikolaos Mastrochristos (Independent Researcher) 📜 "Byzantine Lead Seals from Rhodes, Greece. New Data from Old and Recent Finds" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Thanasis Sotiriou (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH) 📜 "Exploring the Seals of Late Byzantine Sebastoi, 1204-1350" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nathan DC Websdale (University of Oxford) 📜 "The Problem With ‘Being’ King David: Reassessing the Seals and Letters of David Grand Komnenos of Paphlagonia (1204-c.1212)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Maria Teresa Catalano (University of Cologne) 📜 "The Usage of Participles on Byzantine Lead Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou (Museum of Art and History, Geneva) 📜 "À qui la faute? L’usage de l’accusatif dans les légendes des sceaux byzantins" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) 📜 "The Administrative Personnel of the Charitable Institutions in Byzantium in the Light of Lead Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Jean-Claude Cheynet (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Le comte de l’Etable" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our goodie (or should we say foodie?) bags are ready, packed with seal-themed surprises! 🎁 Come grab yours tomorrow at the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography and see what we’ve prepared for you! ✨
Sugar cookie with stamped with a custom cookie cutter in form of a cruciform invocative monogram on a Byzantine lead seal
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
And here it is—the final programme of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography! 🎉 For more information, make sure to keep an eye on the official conference website: byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos... See you on Thursday in Cologne! 👇🏾 #siegelsymposium
Programme of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography / Part 1Programme of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography / Part 2Programme of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography / Part 3
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Digital Byzantine Studies @digibyzantine.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🎉 The 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography is just one week away! Check out the full programme on the dedicated website: 🔗 byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos... 🤳🏽We'll be posting live updates from this account with the hashtag #siegelsymposium – don’t miss it!
Flyer of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography
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Martina Filosa @sealygirl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Join @palaeofuturist.bsky.social & me for the Digital Classicist Wiki Editing & Tutorial on 27 February 2025, 2-3 PM (GMT)! Learn how to contribute to this collaborative resource on digital humanities for ancient world studies. Register now: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...
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Digital Classicist Wiki Editing and Tutorial
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Martina Filosa @sealygirl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Exciting news! Our special issue of Digital Medievalist, edited by Claudia Sode, Claes Neuefeind, and yours truly, is out! Eight open-access articles explore how Digital Humanities enhance sigillography. Read it here: journal.digitalmedievalist.org/collections/... ✨ @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
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Alessio Sopracasa @surmaison.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Image of one of the several posters in the streets of Paris, with the following words: 2015-2025, Fluctuat nec mergitur. Paris se souvient. 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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