Manuscript Studies

Nubian and Sudan Studies

Early and Medieval Christianity

Ancient Religions

Religion and Writing

KOP 101 - Autumn 2014 & 2016

RELV 105 - Spring 2015 & 2016

Conference lecture

• Andreas Klein; Astrid Johanne Elvatun Sømhovd; Alexander Haraldsvik-Lyngsnes et al. (2026). Sexus, medicamenta et musica in collectionibus specialibus - The Who, the why and the how om Norsk nettverk for spesialsamlinger. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2016). Documents on leather – a Nubian phenomenon?. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2016). The Coptic Manuscript BL 80 in the frame of Medieval Nubian Literacy. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Coptic Literary Texts from Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). In search of apocryphal literature in Christian Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Religious Literature in Christian Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Religious Literature Across the Borders between Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Alexandros Tsakos (2025). Letters from Heaven. The archangel Michael as God’s messenger in Western Christianity. (external link)
• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2016). Nubian cathedrals with granite columns: A view from Sai Island. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2018). Inscriptions in Greek Script on Rock Outcrops in the Wadi Abu Dom. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2024). Fragmentene fra Kaupanger. Historiske funn i arkeologisk drakt.. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Vincent W.J. Van Gerven Oei (2023). Apostolic Memoirs in Old Nubian. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2018). Reconstructing a Codex with the Coptic Encomia of Apa Victor. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2016). A Paleographic Detail from Nubian Manuscripts. The decoration of the lobes of the letter ‘Φ’ with red ink. (external link)
• Claudia Näser; Alexandros Tsakos (2014). From Bits and Pieces. A Corpus of Medieval Manuscripts from the Humboldt University (H.U.N.E.) Concession in the Fourth Nile Cataract. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos (2014). A Note on the Medieval Period of Sai Island. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2017). On Place Names Used by Nubians for Places outside Nubia (Notes on Medieval Nubian Topography 2). (external link)
• Vincent WJ Van Gerven Oei; Alexandros Tsakos (2017). The Etymology of the Toponym "Pourgoundi" (Notes on Medieval Nubian Toponymy 5). (external link)
• Vincent W.J. Van Gerven Oei; Alexandros Tsakos (2017). The Etymology of the Toponym "Dorginarti" (Notes on Medieval Nubian Toponymy 6). (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). “Introduction: Christian Nubia”. (external link)
• Vincent WJ Van Gerven Oei; Alexandros Tsakos (2020). Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the Lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Dobrochna Zielinska (2019). “Representations of the Archangel Michael in Wall Paintings from Christian Nubia”. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). "The African Context". (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Richard H. Pierce (2018). The Past and the Future of Fontes Historiae Nubiorum. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Cornelia Kleinitz (2018). Medieval graffiti in the sandstone quarries of Meroe: texts, monograms and cryptograms of Christian Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2018). Progress of work on the corpus of Old Nubian texts from SR022.A. (external link)
• Marianne Paasche; Nils-Erik Moe-Nilssen; Alexandros Tsakos (2021). Skillingsviser i et biblioteksperspektiv. (external link)

Exhibition production

• Daniel Henry Øvrebø; Alexandros Tsakos; Marianne Paasche et al. (2025). Emigrantviser fra Spesialsamlingene. (external link)

Popular science article

• Marianne Paasche; Nils-Erik Moe-Nilssen; Alexandros Tsakos (2023). 8. mai – frigjøringsdagen; men også en nasjonalsosialistisk avis…. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2018). Adventstid og unike kilder. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Sommerferie!. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2018). Hvit ingeniør og «Black-history month». (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). It all sounds Greek to me…. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2021). Gullivers reiser på reisefot. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2021). En stein blir nedlagt i Bergen – starten på Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Skatter fra Nubia og Sudan i Bergen. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2020). Å lese én klassiker i korona-epoken.... (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Sudan. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). En reise til Hellas i 1958. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Andrew David Lock (2020). Skadedyr og "wrong bodies". (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2024). Til minne om Rune Kyrkjebø (1968-2023). (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Halsnøy klosteret ved Manuskript- og librarsamlingen. (external link)
• Juliane Tiemann; Alexandros Tsakos (2020). Norrønt på Shetland. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2024). Markering av Grunnloven og Landsloven. (external link)
• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2011). Katedralen på Sai. Gresk-norske utgravninger av en middelalderkirke i Sudan. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Henriette Hafsaas (2009). Kirker som bergtar. Reisemålet Lalibela. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Inkunabler og paleotyper - de eldste trykksakene vi har. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Pedro Vasquez; Kristin Synnøve Kjos et al. (2019). Woodstock & Stonewall: To 50-årsjubileum. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Utstillinger og forestillinger. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Rune Kyrkjebø (2019). Hymnologiske «apokryfer» i Manuskriptsamlingen. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Kjære mennesker, hilsen Kristus. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Splitte mine bramseil! I går var det «Talk Like a Pirate Day»!. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Nina Stensaker (2019). Lovfragment på vandring. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Meet the Hertzbergs!. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Hannah Gillow-Kloster (2019). Skeive juletradisjoner. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2020). Skal vi feire jul en gang til?. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). - Kjære Professor Dr. H. Shetelig - korrespondanse mellom arkeologer. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Richard Johan Natvig (2020). Ut av gjemsel ut av glemsel: Religionsvitenskaps ukjente samlinger. (external link)
• Zuzana Stankovitsova; Alexandros Tsakos (2020). Spesialsnop: Om laug og knapper. (external link)

Lecture

• Alexandros Tsakos (2021). Why did Nubians adopt the Greek and Coptic alphabets during the medieval period replacing the cursive Meroitic script?. (external link)
• Marianne Paasche; Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Medieval Manuscripts in the Special Collections of the University of Bergen Library: From the storeroom to the world wide web (Workshop). (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Ola Søndenå; Marianne Paasche (2019). Bibliotekenes spesialsamlinger og deres møte med den digitale fremtiden. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Digitaliseringsprosjekter og relansering av Urda-tidsskriftet ved Manuskript- og librarsamlingen. (external link)

Introduction

• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2009). Mahmoud Salih - Connecting south and north. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Alexandros Tsakos (2025). Introduction. (external link)

Book anthology

• Ingvild S. Gilhus; Alexandros Tsakos; Marta Camilla Wright (2019). The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult, and Persona. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Marie von der Lippe (2025). The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxies: History, Politics and Popular Culture. (external link)
• Pål Steiner; Alexandros Tsakos; Eivind Heldaas Seland (2018). From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in Honor of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th Birthday. (external link)
• Robin Seignobos; Alexandros Tsakos (2017). Place Names and Place Naming in Nubia. (external link)

Academic article

• Einar Thomassen; Alexandros Tsakos; Christian Hervik Bull et al. (2013). A New Edition of the Wizz Codex with an English Translation. (external link)
• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2012). A second look into the medieval period on Sai Island. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2015). The Cryptogram MXΓ as a variant of the cryptogram ΧΜΓ. On text and image in Medieval Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2014). The Liber Institutionis Michaelis in Medieval Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Archangel Michael in Nubia. Sources about his cult and persona. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2012). Medieval Funerary Stelae from the Island of Sai. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Words on Warfare from Christian Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2014). Miscellanea epigraphica nubica v: The names of the four creatures of the apocalypse in Christian Nubia. (external link)
• Henriette Hafsaas; Alexandros Tsakos (2021). Michael and other archangels behind an eight-pointed cross-symbol from Medieval Nubia: A view from Sai Island in northern Sudan. (external link)
• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2009). First Glimpses into the Medieval Period on Sai Island. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Vincent WJ Van Gerven Oei (2018). “An Old Nubian Letter from the Daughter of an Eparch”. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Materiality and Physicality of Medieval Manuscripts from Christian Nubia. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Alexandros Tsakos; Vincent W.J. Van Gerven Oei; Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney et al. (2016). The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Alexandros Tsakos (2013). The Greek manuscripts on parchment discovered at Site SR022.A in the Fourth Cataract Region, North Sudan. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Vincent W.J. Van Gerven Oei; Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Rubrication patterns in two old Nubian manuscripts from Serra East. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Christina Videbech; Thomas Halvdan Brøns Sørensen (2017). Derfor sa grekerne nei til Gucci. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos; Henriette Hafsaas (2011). Katedralen på Sai Gresk-norske utgravninger av en middelalderkirke i Sudan. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Peter Mitchell; Hans-Åke Nordström; Elena A. A. Garcea et al. (2012). Petition to Stop the Dams in Sudan European Committee for Preserving the Middle Nile. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). Nekrolog: Sean O’Fahey (1943-2019). (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Alexandros Tsakos (2023). Medieval/Christian Nubia. (external link)

Journal review

• Alexandros Tsakos (2022). Geoff Emberling and Bruce Beyer Williams (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia, Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. 1201. ISBN: 9780190496272. £150.00.. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2022). Review of Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian, Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta 299, Leuven, Paris & Bristol: Peeters 2021 (ISBN 9789042941854, XXXII+449 pages, € 138).. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2022). Review of "A. Łajtar, A Late Pilgrimage Centre in Nubia" and of A. Deptuła, Liturgical Poetry of Christian Nubia".. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2019). · “Book reviews of Piquette Kathryn E. & Whitehouse Ruth D. – Writing as Material Practice. Substance, Surface and Medium. London, Ubiquity Press, 2013, 364 p., bibl.; Kay Sarah – Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chicago-London, The University of Chicago Press, 2017, 232 p. index, ill.”. (external link)
• Randi Håland; P Mitchell; Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos et al. (2012). Preserving the Middle Nile (Sudan). (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Alexandros Tsakos (2022). Coptic Literary Texts from Nubia. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2021). Invoking Archangels Graphically: The Archangel Michael in Christian Nubia as a Case Study. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Alexandros Tsakos (2016). Unruly Spaces: Cairo Metro. (external link)
• Alexandros Tsakos (2016). Urban Layers: Athens. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Sören Koch; Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen; Brage Thunestvedt Hatløy et al. (2024). Publisering av Landsloven - Paneldebatt og podcast. (external link)

Media interview

• Alexandros Tsakos; Knut Melvær (2014). En øy i Nilen. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos; Alexandros Tsakos (2009). Connecting south and north - Sudan Studies from Bergen in Honour of Mahmoud Salih. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

- Fayyumic Manuscripts from the Schøyen Collection

- Coptic Manuscripts in Greek collections

- Coptic Manuscripts from Nubia

- Literacy on the Island of Sur (Fourth Cataract Region - Sudan)

- Graffiti from the medieval Christian kingdom of Alwa (Sudan)

- The textual finds from the medieval monastery of Qasr el Wizz (Lower Nubia - Egypt)

- The textual finds from the medieval town of Serra East (Lower Nubia - Sudan)

- The textual finds from the Church of Sonqi Tino (Lower Nubia - Sudan)