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I read Byzantine and Medieval History in Muenster, where I obtained my first degree. I took my doctorate at the University of Vienna with a thesis on Famines and Epidemics in late Antiquity now published by Ashgate. I have taught at the University of Vienna and the Central European University in Budapest.

• Wealth and its uses in the late Byzantine empire (1261-1453)
• Poverty and social stratification

I am preparing a book on wealth and its uses in the late Byzantine empire (1261-1453), particularly investments in afterlife management strategies such as charity and the cult of remembrance. Furthermore, I am interested in the study of poverty and social stratification. For an overview see this recent publication: The Kindness of Strangers. Charity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean.

I am part of an international team that was recently granted a major award from the Leverhulme Trust for the research Project Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th- 17th centuries).

I am equally part of a King's team working on a pilot project  entitled Register Medicorum Medii Aevi funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.

• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2011)  'John the Physician's Therapeutics: A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek' Medical History, 55 (1), pp. 120-121.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2010)  'Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium' HISTORIAN (US), 72 (1), pp. 224-225.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2010)  'Pestilential complexities: understanding medieval plague, Medical History' Medical History, 54 (1), pp. 133-134.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2010)  'Tilling the Hateful Earth. Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East' Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 103 (2), pp. 793-797.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2009)  'The Epitome of the Greek Hippiatrica, History of the text, critical edition, translation and notes' Medical History, 53 (1), pp. 148-149.
  [Book Review (Print)]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2009)  'The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy' BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES, 33 (1), pp. 92-101.
  [Article in print Journal]
• Dionysios Stathakopoulos (2007) 'Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire, 541-749 ', in Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750 pp. 99-118
  [Chapter]
• Stathakopoulos, Dionysios, Gruenbart, Michael, Muthesius, Anna, Kislinger, Ewald (2007) Material Culture and Well–Being in Byzantium (400–1453). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 
  [Edited book in print]

• Stathakopoulos, Dionysios (2007) The Kindness of Strangers. Charity in the Pre–Modern Mediterranean. London: Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London                                                                            [Edited book in print]

 Undergraduate

 

• 5AABZ319 The Byzantine Empire, 600-1453
• 5AAH1030 Medicine in Western Civilization I

Postgraduate

 

• 7AABMB12 One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600-800    
• 7AABM113 Dissertation

I am interested in supervising students in:

• Late Antique and Byzantine History
• History of medicine

• A recent balloon debate at the Petchey Academy on the impact of the individual in the History of Medicine. The balloon passengers were: Hippocrates, Galen, Thomas Willis and Mary Seacole. I was Hippocrates and I survived. You can listen to or download the podcast here.
• A short contribution on the Greek understanding of solstices for the Radio 4 programme "Making History". You can listen to it here.
• Collaboration with EMMA: A Research Program on Emotions in the Middle Ages here.