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Dr.
Ovidiu Olar

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Ovidiu Olar is Post-Doc researcher in the research unit Balkan Studies.

Brief Biography

Ovidiu Olar holds a PhD in history, granted by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), in 2015. Previously, he studied in Iași, Perugia, and Bucharest. Researcher of the “N. Iorga” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) [2010-] and research fellow at the Chair in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey at Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2015-2018], Ovidiu Olar held fellowships at the New Europe College in Bucharest (2007-2008), Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation in Geneva (October – November 2008), the Scaliger Institute in Leiden (October – November 2009), and École française d’Athènes (June 2009, February 2010). He was involved in several projects, such as the FP 7 EU project Anticorrp – Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption [2012-2017] and the DFG project Bibliographische Datenbank zur Geschichtsschreibung im Osmanischen Europa (15.–18 Jh.)” [2015-2018].

Research Interests

Period: 15th-19th centuries
Area: Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Topics: History of political ideas, cultural history, Early Modern adventurers, the religious reforms and the confessional “Cold War” of the 17th century.

Selected Publications

  • Writing History in Ottoman Europe (Fifteenth – Eighteenth Centuries), eds. with Konrad Petrovszky, Leiden: de Gruyter Brill 2026.
  • La boutique de Théophile. Les relations du patriarche de Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1570-1638) avec la Réforme, Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes – EHESS (“Autour de Byzance”) 2019.
  • “« The Father and his Eldest Son ». The Depiction of the 1667 Muscovite Palm Sunday Procession by the Metropolitan of Gaza Paisios Ligaridis and its Significance”, Revue de l’Histoire des Religions 235/1 (2018): 5-36.
  • “Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions, and Networks, Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century”, in Ronald Kroeze / André Vitória / Guy Geltner (ed.), Anticorruption in History. From Antiquity to the Modern Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, pp. 225-238 (text), 366-371 (notes).
  • “Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of Constantinople”, in Ines G. Županov / Pierre Antoine Fabre (ed.), The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, Leiden-Boston: Brill 2018, pp. 233-263.
  • Răzbunare împotriva tiranilor. Teoria politică a protestantismului francez [Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos. The Political Theory of the French Protestantism], Bucharest: Nemira (“Idei politice fundamentale”) 2007.

Monographien

  • La boutique de Théophile. Les relations du patriarche de Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1570-1638) avec la Réforme. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes – EHESS, 2019. (Autour de Byzance 6).
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Herausgeberschaften und Sammelbände

  • Writing History in Ottoman Europe, 15th–18th Centuries. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor (Editor); Petrovszky, Konrad (Editor).
    Leiden: Brill, 2026. (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; Vol. 82).
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  • The Akathistos Hymn in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Traditions. The History of a Liturgical Masterpiece Between Text and Image. / Olar, Ovidiu; Timotin, Emanuela (Editor); Cotovanu, Lidia (Editor).
    Heidelberg: Herloo Verlag, 2024. 304 p. (Supplementa Études byzantines and post-byzantines; Vol. 5, No. 1-2).
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  • Paolo Odorico, Méthodes et contextes dans la littérature byzantine. Recueil d’articles. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor (Editor); Timotin, Andrei (Editor).
    Heidelberg: Hero, 2023.
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Artikel

  • Connecting Views. Towards a History of Historiography of Ottoman Europe, 1500–1800. / Petrovszky, Konrad; Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    Writing History in Ottoman Europe, 15th–18th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2026. p. 1-19 (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; Vol. 82).
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  • St. Cosmas of Aetolia, the New Martyr. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    Icons In-Between. Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece) : Catalog of the exhibition in the Recklinghausen Icon Museum January 25th to July 6th. ed. / Liliya Berezhnaya. Recklinghausen: EIKON, 2025. p. 58-59.
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  • St. Archangel Michael. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    Icons In-Between. Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece) : Catalog of the exhibition in the Recklinghausen Icon Museum January 25th to July 6th. ed. / Liliya Berezhnaya. Recklinghausen: EIKON, 2025. p. 112-113.
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  • Mother of God « Life-Giving Spring. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    Icons In-Between. Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece) : Catalog of the exhibition in the Recklinghausen Icon Museum January 25th to July 6th. ed. / Liliya Berezhnaya. EIKON, 2025. p. 86-87.
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  • “« Menacing, powerful and frightful captain of the heavenly host » The Archangel Michael in Early Modern Eastern and Southeastern Europe. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxies: History, Politics and Popular Culture . ed. / Alexandros Tsakos; Marie von der Lippe . London – New York – Oxford – Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. p. 65-95.
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  • Hărţile Istoriei ieroglifice. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    Dimitrie Cantemir şi Sud-Estul european. Noi cercetări. ed. / Andrei Timotin; Daniel Cain. Iași: Editura Universitatii Al. I. Cuza Iasi, 2025. p. 79-92.
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  • Istoria « Istoriei » banului Mihai Cantacuzino. / Lidia Cotovanu.
    In: Revista Istorica, Vol. 36, No. 1-3, 2025, p. 221-243.
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  • Greek in Cyrillic Script: A Manuscript from the Library of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre at Constantinople. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    In: The Historical Revue / La Revue Historique, Vol. 20, 2025, p. 27-42.
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  • Libertà et licenza... di stampare mille heræsie et schismi: The Propaganda Fide and the Greek Printing Press at Constantinople (1627-1628). / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Dipratu, Radu (Editor); Noble, Samuel (Editor).
    Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond. Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. p. 89-120.
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  • Giulio Mancinelli SI (†1618) şi călătoria sa prin Valahia şi Moldova. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Anton, Mioara (Editor); Ţăranu, Georgiana (Editor).
    În căutarea ceiluilalt. Diplomaţie, război, memorie. In honorem Ileana Căzan. Târgovişte: Cetatea de Scaun, 2024. p. 117-141.
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  • Giulio Mancinelli, SJ (†1618) and his Journey across Wallachia and Moldavia. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Tudorie, Ionuț-Alexandru (Editor); Benga, Daniel (Editor).
    The Manifold Faces of the East: Western Images of the Post-Byzantine Christian World in the Age of Reformation. Leiden – Boston: Brill Schöningh, 2024. p. 231-263.
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  • Byzance après Byzance: The Paradigm. / Cristea, Ovidiu; Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Rossi, Maria Alessia (Editor) et al.
    The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300–1600. London – New York: Routledge, 2024. p. 11-25.
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  • A Post-Byzantine Calligrapher: Luke of Cyprus. / Olar, Ovidiu.
    The Akathistos Hymn in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Traditions. The History of a Liturgical Masterpiece Between Text and Image. ed. / Emanuela Timotin; Lidia Cotovanu; Ovidiu Olar. Vol. 2 Heidelberg: Herloo Verlag, 2024. p. 63-92 (Supplementa Études byzantines and post-byzantines; Vol. 5, No. 2).
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  • Corupția și anticorupția în Principatele Române: reguli de guvernare, excepții și rețele, din secolul al XVII-lea până în secolul al XIX-lea. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    In: Revista Istorica, Vol. 34, No. 4-6, 01.12.2023, p. 293-301.
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  • “‘Io se puotesse riformare la mia Chiesa...’ Patriarch Kyrillos Loukaris and the Protestant ‘Public Library’ of Constantinople (1628-1636),” in Confessionalization and / as Knowledge Transfer in Eastern Christianity, ed. by Konstantinos Sarris, Nikolas Pissis, and Miltos Pechlivanos. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    N/A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022. p. 17-46.
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  • “The Arbitrary Distribution of Emphasis” (Conclusions to the experimental section Cantafabule 1974-1976). / Agrigoroaei, Vladimir; Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    In: Museikon, A Journal of Religious Art and Culture / Revue d’art et de culture religieuse, Vol. 5, 17.01.2022, p. 213-222.
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  • “A Murderer Among the Seraphim. Lăpușneanu’s Transfiguration Embroideries”. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Sullivan, Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella (Editor).
    Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300 – c.1550). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. p. 369-399 (Sense, Matter, and Medium).
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  • Foreign Wisdoms: Tradition in the Služebnik of Metropolitan Stefan of Ungrovlachia (†1668). / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    In: Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture, No. 4 (2020), 20.12.2020, p. 163-188.
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  • Nikon’s Legacy beyond Muscovy: Forgotten Manuscripts from Leiden and Bucharest. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Kain, Kevin M (Editor); Goldfrank, David (Editor).
    Russia’s Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Apogee and Finale, 1648-1721. London: Academia Press, 2020. p. 129-149.
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  • Dimitrie Cantemir. / Olar, Ovidiu; Thomas, David (Editor); John, A (Editor).
    Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 14 Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800). Leiden: Brill, 2020. p. 279-297.
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  • War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Black sea Region during the Long War (1593-1606). / Cristea, Ovidiu; Olar, Ovidiu; Cristea, Ovidiu (Editor) et al.
    From Pax Mongolica to Pax Ottomanica: War, Religion and Trade in the Northwestern Black Sea Region (14th-16th Centuries). Leiden: Brill, 2020. p. 228-248.
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  • Despre îndatoriri și virtuți. Elemente de retorică vizuală în documente valahe de epocă fanariotă: Milostenia. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Timotin, Emanuela (Editor).
    Elemente de ceremonial în literatura din spaţiul românesc (secolele al XIV-lea – al XVIII-lea). Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2019. p. 181-200.
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Sonstige

  • Der Hauptmann der himmlischen Heerscharen.Olar, Ovidiu (Author). 2025. Der Standard.
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  • De la Muntele Athos la București: Peregrinările unui manuscris din colecția Mănăstirii Stavropoleos / From Mount Athos to Bucharest: The Travels of a Manuscript from Stavropoleos Monastery’s Collection. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor; Monastery, Stavropoleos; Monastery, Stavropoleos (Editor).
    Bucharest: Cuvântul Vieţii, 2024.
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  • Louis Armstrong, König hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang. / Olar, Ovidiu-Victor.
    In: Der Standard, 27.10.2020.
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Link

Academia.edu

Research

Historiographies of Early Modern Southeast Europe (HEMSEE)

Orthodoxies and Politics (ORTHPOL) (starts in January 2022)

Publications

La boutique de Théophile

Orthodoxy and Politics: The Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, the Prince Mihnea III Radu of Walachia and the Great Church of Constantinople, pp. 233–263

“The Father and his Eldest Son”. ‪The Depiction of the 1667 Muscovite Palm Sunday Procession by the Metropolitan of Gaza Paisios Ligaridis and its Significance‪‪, pp. 5-36