Daniil Pleshak

Daniil Pleshak is a Researcher at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen. He is affiliated with the Emmy Noether research group 'Religious Conflict and Mobility between Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Byzantium and the wider Mediterranean, 700-900'. His academic background includes extensive training in Byzantine studies, classical languages, and historical anthropology.

Education:

• Promotion (PhD), Universität Tübingen (2021)
• MA in Bibelsprachen (Bible Languages), Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg (2017)
• BA in Bibelsprachen, Staatliche Universität Sankt Petersburg (2015)
• Additional training: Byzantine Greek Summer School (Boğaziçi University), 'Aspirantura' in Byzantinistik (St. Petersburg State University), and specialized summer schools in Judaistik and linguistics.

Research Focus: Pleshak specializes in Byzantine history and literature, with emphasis on epistolography, rhetoric, encomia, religious conflict, and mobility. His work examines cultural and textual transmission across the Mediterranean, utilizing philological and historical methods to analyze Byzantine sources.

Publication Trends: His recent articles (2015–2020) focus on Byzantine poetry (particularly George of Pisidia), apocryphal literature, linguistic analysis of ancient Greek texts, and cultural aspects of sexuality/space in antiquity. Methodologically, they blend philology, narratology, and socio-historical analysis.

Academic Engagement: Pleshak has presented at international conferences including Oxford University, Central European University, and King's College London, covering topics like zoological knowledge diffusion, religious warfare, and Byzantine literary genres.