1985 – – – – BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY.

1984 – – – UNIVERSITE DE PARIS I, PANTEON, SORBONNE / D.E.A D HISTOIRE ET CIVILIZATION DU MONDE BYZANTIN ET POST BYZANTIN: “Recherches sur l’ économie de Moschopolis aux XVII – XVIII siècles d’ après le code du monastère de Timios Prodromos”. Based on economic evidence derived from a monastic codex dealing with the period 1650–1860, as well as on economic evidence from the relevant secondary literature, my research aimed to re–examine the fiscal condition of this Greek community and to explain the factors that led to its eventual disintegration.

1987 – – – UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS / P.H.D: “Commerce, Navigation et modèles d’impôts à Corfu de 1815–1845”. My research was based on historical evidence filed in the Corfu Historical Archives under “Magistrato Sanitario”. Its aim: to shed light on the mechanisms of commerce and navigation on the island, to establish the institutional patterns, economic structures and conditions of local and international communications on Corfu during the period of British rule.

So how else could it have been?

Loves and babies at 23, studies, degrees, post–degrees, more kids, housework, jobs, novels, vines and vegetables…

How else could it have been?

Were we to go hungry or let the cockroaches run riot?