Gelina Harlaftis is Associate Professor of Maritime History and Head of Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Nikos Karapidakis is Professor of Medieval History, Ionian University, Corfu. Kostas Sbonias is Assistant Professor of Prehistorical Archaeology, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Vaios Vaipoulos is Assistant Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Changing Ancient Greek History by Robin Osborne, Cambridge University, UK Chapter 2: Problems in Studying Ancient Greek Religion by Stella Georgoudi, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France Chapter 3: New Perspectives in Greek Archaeology in the last twenty years by John Bintliff, Leiden University, Netherlands Chapter 4: Landscape History and Archaeology by Kostas Sbonias, Ioanian University, Corfu, Greece Chapter 5: Medieval History in France: Attempts to Balance by Anita Guerreau-Jalabert, Ecole des chartes, France Chapter 6: Byzantine History by Cecile Morrisson, Collège de France, France Chapter 7: Historiographical Trends in Renaissance Studies 1985-2005 by Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv University, Israel Chapter 8: On Economic History: The Progress of a Discipline Living with its Neighbours by Peter Mathias, Cambridge University, UK Chapter 9: Business History by Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School, USA Chapter 10: The Encounter of History with the Social Sciences by Paschalis Kitromilidis, University of Athens, National Research Foundation/INR, Greece Chapter 11: Gender History by Jean Quataert, Binghampton University, State University of New York, USA Chapter 12: Diaspora and Historical Memory by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Tufts University, USA Chapter 13: Maritime History by Gelina Harlaftis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Chapter 14: Ottoman History by Donald Quataert, Binghampton University, State University of New York, USA Chapter 15: The Historian in the Modern World: A Proposal for a Critical Perspective by Francois Hartog, E.H.E.S.S, France Chapter 16: Historians and the Return to the Diachronic by Penelope J. Cornfield, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK