Exploring archives between albania and france: how research uses archival work?

Abstract

Since decades, most certainly centuries, Albania and France are close to each other and this paper gives us the opportunity to recall the proximity of these two countries. At the end of the 19th century, two of the most important figures of both Greek paleography and Biblical studies, Anthimos Alexoudis, Metropolitan of the city of Berat and the French priest Pierre Batiffol, met and revealed a unique Albanian treasure: the Greek manuscripts housed in Berat where Batiffol stayed in 1885 at the Metropolitan’s place. For decades, Pierre Batiffol remained the first and unique Western Biblical scholar to travel to Albania.