KARPOV Serguei P.

Dean of the Faculty of History State University M.V. Lomonosov, Moscou

Medieval Period

BIOGRAPHY Born in Stavropol, USSR in 1948. Professor Karpov is the Head of Department of History of the Middle Ages and Dean of the Faculty of History at the University MV Lomonosov of Moscow since his first appointment in 1995, his mandate was renewed in 2000, 2005 and 2010. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Moscow in 1974 after 8 years of research and his habilitation in the same year. In 1992, he was elected member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Encyclopedia) and elected as President of the Russian Association of medievalists. In 2008, along with his research and Academic obligations he became Chairman of the National Committee for Byzantinists. During his research he explored diverse themes and taught multiple modules such as: History of the Middle Ages, Sources of Medieval History (12th-15th centuries), Introduction to Byzantine studies, the Black Sea during Middle Ages, Methodology and Research Instruments in Medieval History, Italian Trade at shores of the Black Sea (13th-15th centuries). He has also lectured widely, held conferences and seminars in many universities and schools in Genoa, Venice, Paris I, Montpellier, Athens, Thessaloniki, Nicosia, Seoul, Beijing, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia. BIBLIOGRAPHY He is the author of several publications about the history of Byzantium, Italy and Latin Romania in the Middle Ages including;

• L'Empire de Trébizonde et les pays de l’Europe Occidentale, XIIIe-XVe siècles. Moscou, 1981 (in russian).

• L'Impero di Trebizonda, Venezia, Genova e Roma, 1204-1461. Rapporti politici, diplomatici e commerciali. Roma: il Veltro,1986.

• Les Républiques maritimes italiennes et Mer Noire septentrionale, XIIIe-XVe siècles: problèmes des rapports commerciaux. Moscou, 1990 (in russian).

• La Romanie Latine. Saint-Pétersbourg, 2000 (in russian).

• La Navigazione Veneziana nel Mar Nero XIII-XV sec. Ravenna, 2000.

• Le Pontos au Moyen Age. New York, 2001 (in russian).

• ’Histoire de l’Empire de Trebisonde. S. Pétersbourg, 2007 (in russian)

• L’Histoire du Moyen Age (rédacteur en chef et auteurs des chapitres), vol. 1-2. Moscou, 1997-2010 (7 éditions, in russian)

Articles not in the Russian language:

• Il Problema delle tasse doganali nei rapporti tra Venezia e Trebisonda (XIV - prima metà del XV secolo) // Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi. (1983). T.III. Bologna, 1984. P. 161-171.

• L' impero di Trebisonda, Venezia, Genova e Roma, 1204-1461. Rapporti politici, diplomatici e commerciali. Roma: il Veltro editrice, 1986.

• Grecs et Latins à Trébizonde (XIIIe-XVe ss.).Collaboration économique, rapports politiques // Etat et colonisation au moyen Âge et à la Renaissance.Lyon, 1989. P.413-424.

• Trade and Crime in Venetian Crete (According to an Unknown Document of 1382) // Η Καθηµερινή ζωή στο Βυζάντιο. Αθήνα, 1989. P. 311-323.

• Some Notes on the Social Structure of Pontic Towns in the XIIIth - XVth Centuries. // ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΑΚΑ,1989. T.9. P. 139-150.

• Il contratto di commenda nel commercio italiano della regione del Pontos alla fine del XIII secolo // L'Impresa, Industria, Commercio, Banca. Secc. XIII - XVIII. Atti della XXIIa Settimana di Studi. Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F.Datini". Prato, Firenze, 1991 P.467-473.

• Un documento sconosciuto della curia genovese a Trebisonda // Rivista di Bizantinistica, 2, 1992. P.163-171.

• Genovesi e Piemontesi nell'Impero di Trebizonda (secc. XIII-XV) // Atti del Congresso Internazionale "Dai feudi monferrini e dal Piemonte ai nuovi mondi oltre gli Oceani",Alessandria, 2-6 aprile 1990, Alessandria, 1993. P.369-376.

• From Syria to Modon and Venice: a difficult voyage of 1443 described in an unknown document // Η Επικοινονία στό Βυζάντιο. Αθήνα, 1993. P. 543-549..

• The Grain Trade in the Southern Black Sea Region: The Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century // Mediterranean Historical Review, 1993. Vol. 8, N 1. P.55-73.

• I piacentini nel Mar Nero: Le priorità e le condizioni del commercio internazionale (secc. XIII-XIV) // Precursori di Cristoforo Colombo. Mercanti e banchieri Piacentini nel mondo durante il Medioevo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi, Piacenza, 10-12 sett. 1992. Bologna, 1994. P.191-198.

• Une ramification inattendue: les Bourguignons en Mer Noire au XVe siècle // Coloniser au moyen âge/ sous la direction de M.Balard & A.Ducellier.Paris, 1995. P.186-189,217-218.

• Оn the Origin of medieval Tana // STEFANOS. Studia byzantina ac slavica Vladimíro Vavřínek dedicata. BS, LVI/1. 1995. P. 227-235.

• New Documents on the Relations between the Latins and the Local Populations in the Black Sea Area (1392-1462) // Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 1995. T. 49. P.33-41.

• Genois et Byzantins face à la Crise de Tana de 1343 d'après les documents d'archives ine'dits// Byzantinische Forschungen. 1996 Bd.XXII P.33-51.

• Black Sea and the Crisis of the Mid XIVth Century: an underestimated Turning Point // Thesaurismata. 1997. T.27. P. 65-77.

• Una famiglia nobile del mondo coloniale Genovese : i Di Negro, mercanti e "baroni" dei Grandi Comneni di Trebisonda // Oriente e Occidente tra Medioevo ed eta'moderna. Studi in onore di Geo Pistarino / a cura di L.Balletto. Acqui Terme, 1997. T.2. P.587-604.

• Orthodox Christians in Italian-Tartar surrounding. New Archival Evidences on Rich and Poor in Venetian Tana, XIVth- XVth Centuries // Ricchi e Poveri nella Società dell’Oriente Grecolatino. Simposio Internazionale / a cura di Chryssa A.Maltezou. Venezia, 1998. P.453-472.

• Le comptoir de Tana comme le centre des rapports économiques de Byzance avec la Horde d’Or aux XIIIe-XVe siècles // Byzantinische Forschungen. 1999. Bd.XXV. S.181-188.

• The Crimeans //History of Humanity. Scientific and Cultural Development. Vol. IV: From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century .Paris; London; NY, 2000. P.257-258.

• La Navigazione Veneziana nel Mar Nero XIII-XV sec. Ravenna, 2000.

• An unknown letter of a Venetian Doge on Trade and Conflicts in Trebizond (1445) // ΠΟΛΥΠΛΕΥΡΟΣ ΝΟΥΣ. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag / hrsg. von C. Scholz und G.Makris. München; Leipzig, 2000 [Byzantinisches Archiv, Bd.19]. S. 103-105.

• Le Vie del Mar Nero, secoli XIII-XV: dall’Oriente all’Occidente per mare e per terra // Le vie del medioevo. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Parma, 28 settembre-1 ottobre 1998) / a cura di A.C.Quintavale. Parma, 2000. P.55-59.

• Τραπεζούντα, ένα µεγάλο εµπορείο και η διεθνής σηµασία του // Mésogeios. 2001. T. 12. P.137 –181.

• Venezia e Genova: rivalità e collaborazione a Trebisonda e Tana, secoli XIII-XV // Genova, Venezia, il Levante nei secoli XII-XIV. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Genova – Venezia, 10-14 marzo 2000 / a cura di G.Ortalli – D.Puncuh. Venezia, 2001. P.257-272.

• Les Occidentaux dans les villes de la périphérie byzantine: la mer Noire «vénitienne» aux XIVe-XVe siècles // XXe Congrès International des Etudes Byzantines. Pré-Actes. I. Séances Plénières. Paris, 2001. P. 291-299; repr. in: Byzance et le monde extérieur. Contacts, relations, échanges. Actes de trois séances du XXe Congrès international des Etudes byzantines, Paris, 19-25 août 2001. Paris, 2005. P. 67-76.

• Tana – une grande zone réceptrice de l’émigration au Moyen Âge // Migrations et Diasporas Méditerranéennes (Xe-XVIe siècles). Actes du colloque de Conques (octobre1999) réunis par M.Balard et A.Ducellier. Paris,2002. P.77-89.

• I Genovesi nel Mar Nero: alti magistrati di Caffa di fronte alle accuse // Comuni e memoria storica. Alle origini del comune di Genova. Atti del Convegno di studi,Genova, 24-26 settembre 2001. Genova, 2002. P.583-593.

• Mixed Marriages in a Polyethnic Society: Case Study of Tana, 14th-15th Centuries // Tolerance and Repression in the Middle Ages. In memory of Lenos Mavrommatis. Int. Symposium 10, Athens, Nov. 1998. Athens, 2002. P.207-214.

• Hunting for People: Black Sea Piracy in the XIVth-XVth Centuries // Peirates kai Koursaroi, 10th Symposium of History and Art. Monemvasia, 1997. Monembasiatikos Omilos 1; Athens, 2003, p.66-72.

• Orthodox Church of the Pontos (Byzantium and the Empire of Trebizond) // Die Kaukasischen Kirchen. Kanon XVIII. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für das Recht der Ostkirchen. Wien, 2004. P.17-34.

• Les empereurs de Trébizonde, débiteurs des Génois // Chemins d’outre-mer. Etudes sur la Méditerranée médiévale offertes à Michel Balard. Paris, 2004, P. 489-494.

• The Black Sea Region, before and after the Fourth Crusade // Urbs capta: The Fourth Crusade and its Consequences; La IVe Croisade et ses conséquences. Paris, 2005. P.285-294.

• Ports of Peloponnese in the system of Venetian trade navigation to the Black Sea, XIVth - XVth Centuries // Πελοπόννησος, πόλεις και επικοινωνίες στη Μεσόγειο και τη

Μαύρη Θάλασσα. Μονεµβασιωτικός ‘Όµιλος, Συµπόσια Ε’, ΣΤ’, Ζ’, Η’. Αθήνα, 2006. Σ.181-194.

• Was Trebizond really captured by Uzun Hasan after 1461? New archival evidences // Byzantina Mediterranea. Festschrift für Johannes Koder zum 65. Geburtstag / hrsg. K.Belke, E. Kislinger, A. Külzer, M. A. Stassinopoulou. Wien; Köln; Weimar, 2007. S.295-301.

• The Empire of Trebizond: in search of the Byzantine heritage // Dopo le due cadute di Costantinopoli (1204, 1453): Eredi ideologici di Bisanzio. Atti del Convegno Int.di Studi. Venezia, 2008. Р.253-257.

• Greci e Latini in Tana Veneziana // Colloquio di Venezia. 2008 // I Greci Durante la venetocrazia: Uomini, spazio, idée (XIII-XVIII sec.). Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi. Venezia, 3-7 dicembre 2007. Venezia, 2009. P.325-335.

• L’Empire de Trébizonde // Le monde byzantin. Tome 3. Byzance et ses voisins 1203-1453 /sous la direction de Angeliki Laiou ( † ) et Cécile Morrisson. Paris, 2011. P. 425-437

• Main changes in the Black Sea Trade and Navigation, 12th-15th Centuries // Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Sofia, 22-27 August 2011. Volume 1. Plenary Papers. Sofia, 2011. P.417-429.

• New archival discoveries of documents concerning the Empire of Trebizond // Προσεγγίσεις στην ιστορία του Πόντου. Πρακτικά 2ου Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Ποντιακών Ερευνών. Δράµα 27-29 Σεπτεµβρίου 2008 / επιµ. : Θ.Α.Κυριακίδης, K.St. Χατζηκυριακίδης. Thessaloniki, 2011. P.23-32.

• La presenza Genovese nel Mar Nero e il contributo scientifico di Geo Pistarino // Atti del convegno di studi “Dall’isola del Tino e dalla Lunigiana al Mediterraneo e all’Atlantico. In ricordo di Geo Pistarino (1917-2008)”. La Spezia, Licciana Nardi 22-23-24 maggio 2009 / a cura di Laura Balletto-Edilio Riccardini. La Spezia, 2009 [ed.-2011]. P. 169-177.

• Enforced councilor: Franceschino Bon in Venetian Tana, 1342-1343 // Questiones Medii Aevi Novae. Vol.16:Frontiers and Borderlands. Warszawa, 2011. P.265-269.

• The Impact of the Italian trade on the development of the Black Sea region and Pontic Hellenism (13th-15th centuries) // Ρωσία και Μεσόγειος. Πρακτικά Α’ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου (Αθήνα, 19-22 Μαΐου 2005). Αθήνα, 2011. Τ.1. P.223-236.

• Les vices et la criminalité des marins vénitiens à bord des navires voyageant vers la Mer Noire, XIVe-XVe siècles // Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies: Studies in Honour of John Pryor. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. P.105-114.