Eleni Tounta
Professor of Western Medieval History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Eleni Tounta is Professor of Western Medieval History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She pursued her under- and postgraduate studies in Greece, Belgium, and Germany. Her research focuses on the German kingdom and the Kingdom of Sicily during the High and Late Middle Ages, exploring topics of social and cultural history, as well as the interactions between the medieval West and the Byzantine Empire. Currently, she is engaged in research on travel writing, the formation of early ethnographic discourses, and colonialism in the late medieval eastern