The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire Interview of Edward N. Luttwak Filmed December 8, 2009 at the University of California at Berkeley…
Interview with Haris A Kalligas
Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State, the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a…
Petrarch’s Vision of the Muslim and Byzantine East
Petrarch’s Vision of the Muslim and Byzantine East By Nancy Bisaha Speculum, Vol. 76:2 (2001) Introduction: Born just thirteen years after the fall of…
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth By Louise Joyner Hesperia, Vol.76:1…
Justinian and the International Silk Trade
Justinian and the International Silk Trade By Heleanor B. Feltham Sino-Platonic Papers, No.194 (2009) Introduction: In this study I will be looking at…
The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy
The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy By Dionysios Stathakopoulos Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 33 No. 1…
‘Fit for the task’: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries
Fit for the task: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries By Timothy Dawson Byzantine and Modern Greek…
The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?
The primacy of the Walpurgis Fechtbuch (Royal Armouries I.33) as the earliest surviving illuminated book giving instruction on individual combat has generated a great deal of discussion about why it was compiled, and where the techniques depicted came from.
Dividing the indivisible: The monastery space – secular and sacred
Dividing the indivisible: The monastery space – secular and sacred By Svetlana Popović Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 44 (2007) Abstract: The spatial dualism, secular…
A generation gap or political enmity?: Emperor Manuel Komnenos, Byzantine intellectuals and the struggle for domination in twelfth century Byzantium
More than decade and a half into the reign of Manuel Komnenos a mysterious conspiracy came to light, master-minded by a person from the emperor’s closest circle and one of the Empire’s most senior bureaucrats…
Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions?
Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions? By Ljubica D. Popovich Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 44 (2007)…
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples By Korać Dušan and Radić Radivoj Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 44 (2007) Abstract: This article analyzes…
Byzantium: Rome’s Lost Empire
In the 5th century A.D., the Roman Empire had two capitals: Rome and Constantinople. While Rome was invaded by barbarians, Constantinople endured for another thousand years.
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century By Nikos Oikonomides BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: The Xth…
The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae
The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae By T.K. LOUNGHIS BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA, Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: In this…
The Byzantine historiography on the state of Serbian despots
The Fifteenth Century Byzantine sources narrating, among the other things, of the Serbian history of the first half of the century, also testify that the contemporaries regarded Serbia as a state.
Mehmed II, ‘The Conqueror’, in Byzantine short chronicles and old Serbian annals, inscriptions, and genealogies
This article analyzes how Byzantine Short Chronicles and Old Serbian Annals , Inscriptions, and Genealogies depicted sultan Mehmed II, ‘The Conqueror’.
E. A. Freeman (1823-1892), a Neglected Commentator on Byzantium and Modern Greece
E. A. Freeman (1823-1892), a Neglected Commentator on Byzantium and Modern Greece By Paul Stephenson The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, Vol. 4 (2007)…
Books on Byzantine History published in 2009
Here is a list of books published in 2009 that deal with Byzantine History (links go to their page on Amazon.com): Byzantine Slavery…
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization By Lars Brownworth Crown Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-307-40795-5 In AD 476…
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire By Edward N. Luttwak Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-674-03519-5 In this book, the distinguished writer Edward…
Fishes and other aquatic species in the Byzantine literature: Classification, terminology and scientific names
Fish was a substantial food item during antiquity and the Middle Ages for the people living around the Mediterranean area, as it is considered of high nutritional value.
The Byzantines in Medieval Arabic Poetry: Abu Firas’ “Al-Rumiyyat” and the Poetic Responses of al-Qaffal and Ibn Hazm to Nicephore Phocas’ “Al-Qasida al-Arminiyya al-Malʿuna” (The Armenian Cursed Ode)
The Byzantines in Medieval Arabic Poetry: Abu Firas’ “Al-Rumiyyat” and the Poetic Responses of al-Qaffal and Ibn Hazm to Nicephore Phocas’ “Al-Qasida al-Arminiyya…
Byzantines in the Florentine polis: Ideology, Statecraft and Ritual during the Council of Florence
Byzantines in the Florentine polis: Ideology, Statecraft and Ritual during the Council of Florence By Stuart M. McManus Journal of the Oxford University…
The Location and Reconstruction of a Byzantine Structure in Marea, Egypt Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing
The Location and Reconstruction of a Byzantine Structure in Marea, Egypt Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing By Stephan A…