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Courses
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H-218: Social and Cultural History of
Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(Undergraduate compulsory course)
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H-222: Tolerance, Persecution and Otherness
in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(Undergraduate elective course)
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FPK-5 Gender Body and "Race" in Early Modern Europe
(postgraduate elective course)
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Pr/S-052: Representations of the East and
Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(Undergraduate seminar)
Biography
Giorgos Plakotos studied
History
at the University of Athens and at the
University of Glasgow, where he received his PhD
with a thesis on “The Venetian Inquisition and
Aspects of ‘Otherness’: Judaizers, Muslim and
Christian Converts (16th-17th century), (2005).
He has taught at the University of the
Peloponnese and the University of Athens. He is
also teaching at the European Civilization
Programme of the Hellenic Open University.
He has been teaching in the Department of Social
Anthropology and History at the University of
the Aegean since 2008. In 2011 he was elected
Lecturer in
Cultural and Social History of Early Modern
Europe.
His research interests focus on the Italian
peninsula during the Renaissance and the
Counter-Reformation, on practices and discourses
of criminal justice, constructions of otherness,
and gender representations.
Selected
Publications
Articles
“La mise au ban ‘interne’ de l’autre: les
perceptions du crypto-judaïsme et l’Inquisition
à Venise à la Renaissance”, in Yan Brailowsky
and Pascale Drouet (ed.),
Le
bannissement et l’exil en Europe aux XVIe et
XVIIe siècle, s.
La
Licorne, 96, Presses universitaires de
Rennes, Rennes 2010, pp. 31-42.
“Rumours, Gossip and Crypto-Jewish Identity in
the Sixteenth-Century Venetian Inquisition”,
Annali
della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe
di Lettere e Filosofia, s. 5th, 1/2
(2009), Special issue:
Inquisizioni, pp. 425-443.
“Deviance, Conformity and Gender in the Venetian
Inquisition (16th-17th century)”,
Ta
istorika / Historica,
46 (2007), pp. 89-128 [in Greek].
“Christian and Muslim Converts from the Balkans
in Early Modern Venice: Patterns of Social and
Cultural Mobility and Identities”, in Raymond
Detrez and Pieter Plas (ed.), Developing
Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence
vs. Divergence, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels
2005, pp. 125-145.
Translations
R.W. Scribner,
For the
Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the
German Reformation, Athens 2011 (in
collaboration with A. Dialeti).
Book Reviews
Jeffrey Watt,
The
Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust and
Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian
Convent, University of Rochester Press,
Rochester, NY 2009.
Canadian Journal of History / Annales
Canadiennes d’Histoire,
ΧLV/2
(2010), pp. 365-367.
Peter Burke,
Popular
Culture in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate,
Farnham 2009.
Historein: A Review of the Past and Other
Stories, 10 (2010) pp. 235-239.
“From Victims’ ‘Voice’ to Inquisitorial
Discourse: Recent Works on the Roman
Inquisition”.
Historein: A Review of the Past and Other
Stories, 6 (2006), pp. 212-215.
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