43 2017

BULLETIN OF BRITISH BYZANTINE STUDIES BULLETIN OF BRITISH BYZANTINE STUDIES

43 ISSN 0265-162 2017

being the Bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

CONTENTS

1. National Committees of International Association 1 2. Membership of the S.P.B.S. Executive Committee 4 3. Publications & Work in Progress 6 4. Fieldwork & Projects 43 5. Theses 60 6. Conferences, Lectures & Seminar Series 72 7. SPBS Conference grants - reports 87 8. Exhibitions 98 9. University News 101 10. Obituaries 104 11. 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Report 109 12. 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Programme 111 13. SPBS Spring Symposia 137 14. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 144 A. Society Lecture B. New Members C. Membership of the Executive D. Minutes of 2016 AGM E. Treasurer’s Report F. Agenda of 2017 AGM 15. Books, Journals & Websites 155 International Association of Byzantine Studies National Committees

1. Officers and Addresses of National Committees of the International Association of Byzantine Studies

Albania: Lida Miraj (President), [email protected]; Andi Rëmbeci (Secretary), [email protected]

Argentina: Pablo Ubierna (President), Comité Argentino de Estudios Bizantinos, Dpto. Estudios Medievales, IMHICIHU CONICET, Saavedra 15, 5o piso, 1183 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, [email protected]

Armenia: Hrach Bartikyan (President), Erna Manca Shirinian (Vice President), Anna Arevshatyan (Secretary), Zaruhi Pogossian (Treasurer), Yerevan, 53 Mashtots Av.

Australia: Dr Ken Parry (President), [email protected]; Dr Amelia Brown (Secretary), [email protected]; Andrew Stephenson (Treasurer), [email protected]; Australian Catholic University, PO Box 456, Virginia, Queensland 4014

Austria: Prof Dr Andreas Külzer (Secretary), Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien, Postgrasse 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, [email protected]

Belgium: Peter Van Deun (President), [email protected]; Anne-Marie Doyen (Vice-President and Treasurer); Dr. Antonio Ricciardetto (Secretary), [email protected]. Address of the Society for Byzantine Studies: Belgisch Genootschap voor Byzantijnse Studies, Hertogstraat 1, B-1000 Brussels; address of the secretariat: Blijde Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)

Bulgaria: Prof. Vassil Ghiuselev (President), University of Sofia "St Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of History, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Bd., Room 40A, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria, [email protected]

Canada: Geoffrey Greatrex (President), Dept. d'études anciennes et de sciences des religions /Dept. of Classics & Religious Studies, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 70 av. Laurier est / Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5, [email protected]

Cyprus: Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou (President), Lefkonos 8/ Apt. 3, CY-1011 Lefkosia, Cyprus, [email protected]

Czech Republic: Petra Melichar (President), Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Valentinská 1, CZ-110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, [email protected]

Denmark: K. Fledelius (President), Centre d’ Études Byzantines, Institut d’Histoire, Université de Copenhague, Njalsgade 102, DK-2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

Estonia: Michael Bibikov (President), [email protected]

International Association of Byzantine Studies National Committees

Finland: Björn Forsén (President), Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, FIN - 00 170 Helsinki, Finland, [email protected]

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Toni Filiposki (President), Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Bul. Krste Misirkov, 2, P.O. Box 428 1000 Skopje, (FY)R Macedonia, [email protected]

France: Vincent Déroche (President), Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, F- 75005 Paris

Georgia: Nodar Lomouri (President); Erekle Jordania (Secretary), [email protected]

Germany: Albrecht Berger (President), [email protected]; Michael Grünbart, Vasiliki Tsamakda (Vice-Presidents); Sergei Mariev (Secretary), Institut für Byzantinistik, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München

Greece: Prof. T. Kolias (President); T. Maniati-Kokkini (General Secretary), 48 Bas. Konstantinou str., 116 35 Athens (www.byzantinestudies.gr)

Hungary: Bálint Csanád (President); Juhász Erika (Secretary), [email protected]

Israel: Joseph Patrich (President), The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Mt Scopus IL-91905, Jerusalem, Israel, [email protected]

Italy: Antonio Rigo (President), [email protected]; Alessandra Guiglia (Secretary)

Japan: Kazuo Asano (President), Department of History, Graduate School of Literature, Osaka City University, 3-3-138, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan, [email protected]

Netherlands: Joanita Vroom (President), [email protected]; Daphne Penna (Secretary), [email protected], Comité Néerlandais de l'Association Internationale des Études Byzantines, c/o Dr. D. Penna, University of Groningen (RUG), Law Faculty, Legal History Department, visiting address: Turftorenstraat 21 (building 1323), room 169 // Postal address: Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands

Norway: Dr. Staffan Wahlgren (President), [email protected]

Poland: Prof. dr hab. Maciej Kokoszko, prof. UŁ, (President), Uniwersytet Łódzki (University of Łódź), [email protected]; Dr Andrzej Kompa, (Secretary), Uniwersytet Łódzki (University of Łódź), [email protected]

Romania: Nicolae Şerban Tanaşoca (President), [email protected]; Andrei Timotin (Secretary), [email protected]; Daniela Solomie (Treasurer), International Association of Byzantine Studies National Committees [email protected]; Institut d’études sud-est européennes de l’Académie roumaine Calea 13 Septembrie no. 13, 050711 Bucarest, Roumanie

Russia: Sergey Karpov (President), 119991, Russia, Moscow, Lomonosovskiy prospekt 27, kor. 4, MGU, Historical faculty, [email protected]

Serbia: L. J. Maksimovic (President), Vizantoloski Institut SANU, Knez Mihailova 35/ 111, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Slovakia: Tatiana Štefanovičová (President), Šafárikovo námestie 6, m.č. 428, 818 06 Bratislava, Slovensko, [email protected]

Spain: I. Pérez Martín (President), Sociedad Española de Bizantinística, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, despacho 1C16, C/ Albasanz 26 - 28, 28037 Madrid (España), [email protected]

Sweden: Ingela Nilsson (President), [email protected], Department of Linguistics and Philology, Box 635, SE-75126 Uppsala

Switzerland: Jean-Michel Spieser (President), [email protected], Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, case postale 3432, CH. 1211 Genève

Turkey: Prof. Dr. Nevra Necipoğlu (Secretary General), [email protected], Boğaziçi University, Department of History, 34342 Bebek, Istanbul

Ukraine: G. Ivakin (Secretary), [email protected], Institute of Archaeology, Av. Heros of Stalingrad 12, 254655 Kiev - 210 Ukraine

United Kingdom: Elizabeth Jeffreys (Chair), Tim Greenwood (Secretary), School of History, University of St Andrews, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW

United States of America: Derek Krueger (President), [email protected]

Vatican: Cesare Pasini (President), [email protected], Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche, I-00120 Città del Vaticano

2. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

A. Ex officio

Professor Cyril Mango (Vice-President, 2014-2019) Professor Robin Cormack (Vice-President, 2014-2019) Professor Margaret Mullett (Vice-President, 2014-2019) Professor Michael Angold (Vice-President, 2014-2019) Mr Michael Carey (Vice-President, 2012-2017) Dr Rosemary Morris (Vice-President, 2013-2018) Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Chair, 2013-2018) Dr Tim Greenwood (Honorary Secretary, 2015-2020) Mr Chris Budleigh (Honorary Treasurer, 2014-2019) Ms Rowena Loverance (Chair, Publications Committee, 2013- 2018) Dr Archie Dunn (Chair, Development Committee, 2016-2021) Dr Hannah Hunt (Chair, Membership Committee, 2016-2019)

B. Elected by the Membership of the Society

Until AGM 2017: Dr Claire Brisby Dr Rebecca Darley Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Until AGM 2018: Dr Elena Vasilescu Mr Michael Heslop

Until AGM 2019: Dr Anne Alwis Professor Judith Herrin Dr Ida Toth

C. Dr Fiona Haarer (Chair, Bulletin Committee & Editor, BBBS) Mr Brian McLaughlin (Webmaster) Dr Elisabeth Mincin (Membership Secretary)

Addresses

Chair Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys Exeter College, Oxford OX1 3DP

Hon. Secretary Dr Tim Greenwood School of History, University of St Andrews, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW [email protected]

Hon. Treasurer Mr Chris Budleigh 2 Boxhill Station House, Westhumble Street, Westhumble, Surrey RH5 6BT

Editor Dr Fiona Haarer Department of Classics, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS [email protected]

Membership Secretary Dr Elisabeth Mincin, Flat 2 Columbia Court, 68 The Avenue, Beckenham BR3 5ES [email protected]

PUBLICATIONS

3. PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

Dr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, London ‘Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines’, in Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger, eds., Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World (Brill, Leiden 2016) 390-409; ‘Miraculous Fish Therapy for Leprosy (Elephant Disease) and other Skin Diseases in Byzantium’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016) 170- 175; ‘Modelled on Archigenes theiotatos: Alexander of Tralles and his Use of Natural Remedies (physika)’, Mnemosyne 69 (2016) 382-396; ‘Η Ιατρική Τέχνη στο Βυζάντιο’, Neusis [‘The Art of Medicine in Byzantium’, article in modern Greek] 24 (2016) 189-223. Forthcoming ‘Pseudo-Galenic Text on Urines and Pulse in Late Byzantium: The Case of Wellcome MS.MSL.60’, in Caroline Petit and Simon Swain, eds., Pseudo- Galenic Texts and the Formation of the Galenic Corpus (Warburg Institute, London:); ‘Reading Galen in Byzantium: The Fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon’, in Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos, eds., Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, London); ‘Theories on Pneuma in the Work of the Late Byzantine Physician John Zacharias Aktouarios’, in Sean Coughlin, David Leith and Orly Lewis, eds., The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Edition Topoi, Berlin); ‘Andreiomenos’, ‘Ioannes Aktuarios’, ‘Ioannes von Prisdrianai’, ‘Marcellus’, ‘Medizin’, ‘Nikolaos Myrepsos’, ‘Oreibasios’, ‘Paulos von Aigina’, ‘Philagrios’, ‘Stephanos’, ‘Symeon Seth’, ‘Theophilos Protospatharios’ in Michael Grünbart and Alexander Riehle , eds., Lexikon der byzantinischen Autoren (Akademie Verlag, Vienna); ‘Medizinisches Shriftum’, ‘Häufige Krankheiten’ in F. Daim, Byzanz: Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch [Der Neue Pauly, Supplemente 11], (J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart) in press; with Sophia Xenophontos eds., Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, London). Work in progress Medical Theory and Practice in Late Byzantium: John Zacharias Aktouarios (ca.1275 – ca. 1330) and his Works (monograph); ‘Cross-Cultural Exchange of Medical Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Introduction and Dissemination of Sugar-Based Potions from Islam to Byzantium’ (long article); with Barbara Zipser eds., A Companion to the Reception of Galen (Brill, Leiden); with Dionysios Stathakopoulos, A History of Byzantine Medicine (monograph). PUBLICATIONS

Research Project: ‘Experiment and Exchange: Byzantine Pharmacology between East and West (ca. 1150-ca. 1450)’, (Wellcome Research Fellowship in Medical History, King’s College London, 2016-2019).

Dr Sebastian Brock, Oxford with S.A. Harvey and others, Jacob of Serugh’s Homilies on Women whom Jesus met (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 44; Piscataway NJ, 2016); ‘Syriac manuscripts of the 9th - 10th centuries from a codicological perspective’, Semitica et Classica 8 (2015) 157-164; ‘The History of Mar Yawnan’, in M.Kozah, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Saif Shaheen al-Murikhi, Haya al-Thani, eds., An Anthology of Syriac Writers from Qatar in the Seventh Century (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 39, 2015) 1-42; ‘A half century of Syriac studies’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016) 38-48; ‘Miaphysite, not Monphysite!’, Cristianesimo nella Storia 37 (2016) 45-51; ‘Animals and humans: some perspectives from an Eastern Christian tradition’, Journal of Animal Ethics 6 (2016) 1-9; ‘Patristic quotations in Gabriel Qatraya’s Commentary on the Liturgical Offices’, in A. Binggeli, A. Boud’hors, et M. Cassin, eds., Manuscripta Graeca et Orientalia. Mélanges en honneur de Paul Géhin (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 243/Bibliothèque de Byzantion 12, Leuven 2016) 129-149; ‘Two hitherto unattested passages of the Old Syriac Gospels in Palimpsests from Sinai’, Deltion Biblikōn Meletōn 31A (2016) 7-18; ‘Controverses christologiques: réelles et controverses imaginées’, in F. Ruani, ed., Les controverses religieuses en syriaque (Études syriaques 13, Paris 2016) 105-17; ‘Isacco il Siro: Giustizia e misericordia in Dio’, in L. d’Ayala Valva, L. Cremaschi, A. Mainardi, eds., Misericordia e perdono (Magnano 2016) 169-90.

Dame Professor Averil Cameron, Oxford Arguing it Out. Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, The Natalie Zemon Davis Lectures (Central European University Press, Budapest 2016); with Niels Gaul, ed., Dialogues and Debate from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium (Milton Park 2017); ‘Late antiquity and Byzantium – an identity problem’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40.1 (2016) 27-37; ‘Introduction’, in Nicholas S.M Matheou, Theofili Kampaniaki and Lorenzo M. Bondioli, eds., From Constantinople to the Frontier. The City and the Cities (Brill, Leiden 2016) 1- 10; ‘Christian Literature and Christian History’, in Enrico Norelli, Markion und der biblische Kanon, Averil Cameron, Christian Literature and Christian History, Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen 11/15 (De Gruyter, Berlin 2016) 29-53; ‘Culture wars: late antiquity and literature’, in Christel Freu, Sylvain Janniard, PUBLICATIONS

Arthur Ripoli, eds., Libera Curiositas. Mélanges d’histoire romaine et d’Antiquité tardive offerts à Jean-Michel Carrié (Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité Tardive 31, Brepols, Turnhout 2016) 307-16.

Dr Simon Corcoran, Newcastle ‘Roman law in Ravenna’, in J. Herrin and J. Nelson, eds., Ravenna: Its Role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange (London 2016) 163-197; ‘The Codex of Justinian: the life of a text through 1,500 years’, in B. Frier, ed., The Codex of Justinian. A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek Text (Cambridge 2016) vol. 1, xcvii-clxiv; ‘The Würzburg fragment of Justinian’s constitutions for the administration of recovered Africa’, in S. Janniard et al., eds., Libera curiositas. Mélanges d’histoire romaine et d’Antiquité tardive offerts à Jean-Michel Carrié (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive 31, Turnhout 2016) 97-114.

Professor Jim Crow, Edinburgh With S. Turner, ‘L’archéologie des églises aniconiques de Naxos’, in M. Campagnolo, P. Magdalino, M. Martiniani-Reber and A.-L. Rey, eds., L'aniconisme dans l'art religieux byzantine (Geneva: La Pomme d’Or 2015) 193-204; ‘A Tale of Two Davids: the Russell Trust Expedition to conserve the Wall Paintings of the Church of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) at Trabzon’, in A. Eastmond, ed., Byzantium’s Other Empire: Trebizond (ANAMED: Istanbul 2016) 239-260; ‘The Byzantine City and the Archaeology of the Third Millennium’, in S. Marjanović-Dušanić, ed., Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August 2016, Plenary Papers (2016) 65-68, 141-143. In Press ‘Fortifications’, pp. 90-108; ‘Sinope’ pp. 395-400; and ‘Amastris’, pp. 389-94, in Neiwoehner, P., ed., The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia, From Late Antiquity to the Coming of the Turks (OUP, New York 2017); ‘New Cities of Late Antiquity: Theodosiopolis in Armenia’, in E. Rizos, ed., New Cities in Late Antiquity (Bibliotheque de l' Antiquité Tardive, Brepols, Turnhout 2017) 99- 113; ‘Blessing or Security? Understanding the Christian Symbols of a Monumental Aqueduct Bridge in The Hinterland of Late Antique Constantinople’, in I. Garipzanov, C. Goodson and H. Maguire, eds., Graphic Signs of Power and Faith in Late Antiquity and The Early Middle Ages: Essays on Early Graphicacy (CURSOR, Brepols, Turnhout 2016) 147-174. Forthcoming PUBLICATIONS

‘The Balkans, 600-1200’, in M. Decker, ed., Cambridge Handbook to Byzantine Archaeology; with K. Ward, M. Crapper, ‘Water supply infrastructure of Byzantine Constantinople’, Journal of Roman Archaeology; with D. Hill, eds., Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean (Norwegian Institute in Athens); with S. Turner, ‘The Archaeology of the Aniconic Churches of Naxos’, in J. Crow and D. Hill (forthcoming); *with F. Ruggeri, M. Crapper, J.R. Snyder, ‘A GIS- based assessment of the Byzantine water supply system of Constantinople’, in 4th IWA International Symposium on Water and Wastewater Technologies in Ancient Civilizations, Coimbra, Portugal 2016; *with M. Crapper, F. Ruggeri, K.A. Ward, ‘A Steady Flow Hydraulic Model of the 4th and 5th Century Aqueducts Supplying Constantinople’, in 4th IWA International Symposium on Water and Wastewater Technologies in Ancient Civilizations, Coimbra, Portugal 2016; *with K.A. Ward, M. Crapper, K. Altuğ, ‘The Byzantine Cisterns of Constantinople’, in 4th IWA International Symposium on Water and Wastewater Technologies in Ancient Civilizations, Coimbra, Portugal 2016. *They have been selected for publishing in the journal Water Science and Technology: Water Supply.

Dr Mary Cunningham, Nottingham and Dumbarton Oaks (Felllow, 2015- 2016) ‘The Interpretation of the New Testament in Byzantine Preaching: Mediating an Encounter with the Word’, in D. Krueger and R. Nelson, eds., The New Testament in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C. 2016); ‘The Bible and Eastern Christianity’, in C.L. Crouch and R. Deines, eds., Why Does the Bible Matter (University of Nottingham, Nottingham) 45 – 52; ‘The Mother of God and the Natural World: Byzantine Conceptions of Sacrament and Creation’, Analogia 1 (2016) 43 – 53. Forthcoming ‘Byzantine Reception’, in P.M. Blowers and P.W. Martens, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017); ‘Dialogue in Byzantine Homilies and Hymns: The Human Encounter with Divine Truth’, in Y. Papadogiannakis and P. Toth, eds., ‘Apocryphization’: Theological Disputes in Biblical Disguise from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Brepols, Turnhout 2017); ‘Marian Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period: Unity or Diversity?’, Apocrypha (2016); ‘Mary, the Mother of God in Dialogue: The Drama of Personal Encounter’, in A. Torrance, ed., Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, VT 2016).

PUBLICATIONS

Work in Progress With Leslie Brubaker, The Virgin Mary in the Byzantine World, 400 – 1200: Images, Texts, Relics and Ceremony (Cambridge University Press); with Thomas Arentzen, eds., The Reception of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge ‘Hebraists and Hellenists in the sixth-century synagogue: a new reading of Justinian’s Novel 146’, in Constanza Cordoni and Gerhard Langer, eds, “Let the wise listen and add to their learning” (Prov 1:5). Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday (Berlin/Boston 2016) 217–26.

Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, London With Christopher Wright and Maria Argyrou, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library (Lambeth Palace Library and Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London: London, February 2016) published online at: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/hellenic-institute/Research/LPL-Greek-MSS- Cataloguing-Project.html. Forthcoming With † Julian Chrysostomides and Richard Clogg, ‘The tombstone of an Ecumenical Patriarch in Muswell Hill, London: Meletios II (1700-1780, r. 1768-1769). Work in progress An annotated critical edition of Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus’ Praecepta educationis regiae; (with Christopher Wright, Philip Taylor and Konstantinos Palaiologos) an electronic edition of the Correspondence of George of Cyprus (Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-89).

Professor Antony Eastmond, London ‘Greeks bearing gifts: The Icon of Xaxuli and enamel diplomacy between Byzantium and Georgia’, in I. Foletti and E. Thunø, eds., Convivium supplementum: The medieval South Caucasus: Artistic cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia, Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Seminarium Kondakovianum Series Nova (Prague 2016) 88-105. PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming Tamta's World: the life and encounters of a medieval noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia (CUP, Cambridge, April 2017)

Dr Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, Oxford Ed., with Mark Edwards, Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristics thought (Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2016). Forthcoming ‘Gregory of Nyssa’, in Philip F. Esler, ed., The Encyclopaedia of Early Christian World (Routledge 2017, first edition 2000).

Professor Garth Fowden, Cambridge ‘Foreword’, in Ibn al-Jawzī (tr. M. Cooperson), The life of Ibn Ḥanbal (Library of Arabic Literature: New York University Press, New York 2016) xiii-xvi; ‘Gibbon on Islam’, English Historical Review 131 (2016) 261-92; ‘War das erste Jahrtausend eine bedeutsame Periodisierung für die Zeitgenossen?’, in N. Schmidt, N. K. Schmid and A. Neuwirth, eds., Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran (Episteme in Bewegung: Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte 5: Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2016) 499-531; with E. K. Fowden, Review: R. Talgam, Mosaics of faith: Floors of pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (Jerusalem 2014), Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67 (2016) 140-42.

Dr Peter Frankopan, Oxford Work in progress The Greeks and the Crusades; Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean, 800-1400; Anna Komnene & The Alexiad; Court ritual in Byzantium, the Seljuk world and the Khmer empire; Russia.

Dr J. David Frendo ‘Through Western Eyes: Greek and Latin Sources for Byzantine – Iranian Relations’, Melita Classica 3 (2016) 217-241; ‘Anonymus – graeco – siculus: A Twelfth – Century Greek Poet’, Peritia 24-25, 181-196; ‘Alexander’s Anti – Persian Rhetoric and the Destruction of the Achaemenid Empire’, BAI 26, 129 – 132. PUBLICATIONS

Dr Tim Greenwood, St Andrews ‘“Imagined past, revealed present”: A Reassessment of the History of Tarōn [Patmut‘iwn Tarōnoy]’, in P. Boisson, A. Mardirossian, A. Ouzounian and C. Zuckerman, eds., Mélanges Jean-Pierre Mahé, Travaux et mémoires XVIII (2014) 377–392; ‘Armenian Epigraphy’, in V. Calzolari with the collaboration of M. Stone, eds., Armenian Philology in the Modern Era, Handbuch der Orientalistik 23/1 (Leiden 2014) 101–121; ‘Oversight, Influence and Mesopotamian connections to Armenia across the Sasanian and early Islamic periods’, in R. Rollinger and E. van Dongen, eds., Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact, Continuities, Parallels Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Obergurgl, Austria 4–8 November 2013, Melammu Symposia 7 (Münster 2015) 509–523; ‘A Corpus of Early Medieval Armenian Silver’, Dumbarton Oak Papers vol. 69 [2015] 115–146.

Professor Jonathan Harris, London ‘“A blow sent by God”: Changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades’, in Megan Cassidy-Welch, ed., Remembering Crusades and Crusaders, (Routledge, Abingdon and New York 2016) 189-201; ‘Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: The travels of Nicholas Agallon’, in Norman Housley, ed., The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and Competing Cultures (Routledge, Abingdon and New York 2016) 34-46; ‘Constantinople’ in David Wallace, ed., Europe: a Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford University Press 2016, 2 vols) ii. 347-67; ‘The age of chivalry’, Argo: A Hellenic Review 3 (Spring/Summer 2016) 24-6; Bizant o lume pierdută, Romanian translation of The Lost World of Byzantium by Mihai Moroiu (Baroque Books and Arts, Bucharest 2016). Forthcoming Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium, second edition (Bloomsbury, London and New York); with Georgios Chatzelis, A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum (Routledge, Abingdon and New York); ‘Institutional Settings: the court, schools, church, and monasteries’, in Anthony Kaldellis and Niketas Siniossoglou, eds., The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (Cambridge University Press); ‘The Patriarch of Constantinople and the last days of Byzantium’, in Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Christian Gastgeber, eds., The Patriarchate of Constantinople in Context and Comparison (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna); ‘Byzantium and the Latin States c.1095-c.1198/1204’, in Marcus Bull and Thomas Madden, eds., The Cambridge History of the Crusades, vol. 1: Sources, Conquest and PUBLICATIONS

Settlement (Cambridge University Press); ‘Who was who at the court of Constantine XI, 1449-1453’, in Shaun Tougher, ed., The Emperor in the Byzantine World (Routledge, Abingdon and New York); ‘Constantinople’ and other entries in Oliver Nicholson and Mark Humphries, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press).

Mr Michael Heslop, London ‘Hospitaller Statecraft in the Aegean: Island polity and mainland power?’ in Jochen Schenk and Mike Carr eds., The Military Orders, Volume 6.1, Culture and Conflict in the Mediterranean World (Routledge, Abingdon). Forthcoming ‘Defending the Frontier: The Hospitallers in Northern Rhodes’, in George Cassar and Noel Buttigieg, eds., The Struggle for Supremacy; The Mediterranean 1453-169 (Malta, Sacra Militia Foundation); ‘The Countryside of Rhodes and its defences under the Hospitallers 1306-1423: Evidence from Unpublished Documents and Late Medieval Texts and Maps of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’, Crusades 15 (2016); ‘The defences of middle Byzantium in Greece (7th-12th centuries): the flight to safety in town, countryside and islands’, joint plenary paper with Nikos Kontogiannis in the Proceedings of the 46th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 23-25 March, 2013.

Dr Mark Jackson, Newcastle Forthcoming ‘A critical examination of Gertrude Bell’s contribution to archaeological research in central Asia Minor’, in P. Collins and C. Tripp, eds., Gertrude Bell and Iraq - A Life and Legacy (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford 2017); ‘Binbirkilise’, P. Niewoehner, ed., The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia. From the End of Late Antiquity to the Coming of the Turks (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017); ‘Building on the past; Gertrude Bell and the transformation of space in the Karadağ’, in Y. Heffron, A. Stone, and M. Worthington, eds., Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Postgate (Eisenbrauns 2017); ‘2007–2011 Excavations at Kilise Tepe: A Byzantine Rural Settlement in Isauria’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 69 (2016) 355-380; with A. Parkin, eds., The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell (Tyne Bridge Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2016).

PUBLICATIONS

Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford A princess, two books and an icon: a twelfth-century puzzle?, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien, Sonderheft 2015; ‘The manuscript transmission of Malalas’ chronicle reconsidered’, in M. Meier, ed., Tübingen Malalas Workshop I (Heidelberg 2015) 133-146; ‘Literary trends in the Constantinopolitan courts in the 1120s and 1130s’, in A. Bucossi and A. Suarez, eds, John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son (London 2016) 110-20; with M. Jeffreys, ‘The traditional style of thirteenth-century Greek “politikos stichos” poetry and the search for its origins’, BMGS 40.1 (2016) 69-81; ‘A date and context for the War of Troy’, in U. Moennig, ed., «…ΩΣ ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΑΣ» Festschrift für Hans Eideneier (Edition Romisini, 2016) 85-93 [Online Bibliothek des Edition Romiosini: www.edition-romiosini.de)

Professor Michael Jeffreys, Oxford Ed. with M. Lauxtermann, The Letters of Psellos: cultural networks and historical realities (Oxford 2016).

Professor G.A. Loud, Leeds ‘Innocent II and the kingdom of Sicily’, in John Doran and Damian J. Smith, eds., Pope Innocent II (1130-1143): the World vs the City (London 2016) 172- 180; ‘Communities, cultures and conflict in southern Italy from the Byzantines to the Angevins’, Al-Masāq. Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 28 (2016) 132-52; ‘The German Emperors and Southern Italy, 962-1137’, in Jean-Marie Martin and Rosanna Alaggio, eds., Quei Maladetti Normanni. Studi offerti a Errico Cuozzo per i suoi settant’anni da Colleghi, Allievi, Amici (Ariano Irpino 2016) 583-605; ‘I Principi di Capua, Montecassino e le chiese del principato, 1058-1130’, in Mariano dell’Omo, Federico Marrazzi, Fabio Simonelli and Cesare Crova, eds., Sodalitas. Miscellanea di studi in memoria di don Faustino Avagliano (Miscellanea Cassinese 2016) 595-617. Forthcoming G.A. Loud and Martial Staub, eds., The Making of Medieval History (York Medieval Press / Boydell and Brewer 2017); ‘A political and social revolution: the development of the territorial principalities in Germany’, in G.A. Loud and Jochen Schenck, eds., The Origins of the German Principalities 1100-1350 (Routledge 2017); ‘Labour services and peasant obligations in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern Italy’, in Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow and Patricia PUBLICATIONS

Skinner, eds., Italy and Early Medieval Europe: Essays Presented to Chris Wickham (Oxford 2017); ‘The problem of Pseudo-Hugo. Who wrote the History of “Hugo Falcandus”?’, in N. Kivilcim Yavuz and Richard Broome, eds., Transforming the Early Medieval World. Studies in Honour of Ian N. Wood (Kismet Press, Leeds 2017); ‘The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava’, in David Bates and Elisabeth Van Houts, eds., Peoples, Texts and Artifacts in the Norman World (Institute of Historical Research, London 2017); ‘A New Document concerning the Bishopric of Sebastea’, Crusades 16 (2017); ‘The ecclesiastical institutions of the Lombard principality of Capua’, in Federico Marazzi, ed., Felix Terra. Capua e la Terra di lavoro nell’età langobarda (Special issue of Archivio storico della Terra di Lavoro, 2017?) Forthcoming Research Project ‘The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300’, will be funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2017-19 (to include two visits to the archive of the Badia di S. Trinità, Cava de’ Tirreni, southern Italy).

Professor Henry Maguire, London ‘Imperial and Saintly Bodies in Byzantine Portraiture’, in Vasiliki Penna, ed., Heads and Tails, Tales and Bodies: Engraving the Human Figure from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (exhibition catalogue, The Benaki Museum, Athens and The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 2016) 341-49; ‘Heaven on Earth: Neoplatonism in the Churches of Greece’, in Sharon E. J. Gerstel, ed., Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean (Brepols, Turnhout 2016) 53-65; ‘Where Did the Waters of Paradise go after Iconoclasm?’ in Brooke Shilling and Paul Stephenson, eds., Fountains and Water culture in Byzantium (Cambridge 2016) 229-45. Forthcoming ‘Magic in Byzantine Pottery: the Other Within’, in Paul Magdalino, Koray Durak, and Ivana Jevtic, eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium (Koç University Press, Istanbul); ‘Parody in Byzantine Art’, in Ingela Nilsson and Przemyslaw Marciniak, eds., A Companion to Byzantine Satire (Brill); ‘Rhetoric and Artistry in Early Byzantium’, in Wolfgang Brassat, ed., Handbuch Rhetorik in der bildenden Künsten (De Gruyter); ‘Why did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art?’ in Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson, eds., Round Trip to Hades (Brill).

PUBLICATIONS

Dr Rosemary Morris, York ‘Byzantine Courts and their Roman Antecedents’, in R. Murphey, ed., Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 18, Routledge, London 2017) 17-34. Forthcoming ‘The "Life Aquatic" on Athos in the tenth and eleventh centuries’, in R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow and P. Skinner, eds., Italy and Medieval Europe (Essays for Chris Wickham), (OUP, Oxford 2017). In Progress ‘In praise of actes mentionnées; reconstructing Athonite legal processes (10th- 11th c.)’, in O. Delouis et al., eds., Proceedings of the Conference Lire les archives de l'Athos (Athens 2015) (Travaux et Mémoires 2017); with Dr Robert Jordan (Belfast), for the DOML series, notes and introductory material to Texts and English translations of i) the Life of Theodore Stoudites by Mark the Monk; ii) The Eulogy by Naukratios; iii) the Translations of the Relics of Theodore and his brother Joseph.

Dr Jennifer Nimmo Smith, Edinburgh ‘Some Observations on ‘Being All Things to All Men to Save All’ and apparent Inconsistency in the Works of Gregory of Nazianzus, the Emperor Julian and the Apostle Paul’, M. Vinzent and A. Brent, eds., Studia Patristica LXXIV, Including papers presented at the Fifth British Patristics Conference, London, 3-5 September 2014 (Peeters 2016) 169 - 180. Forthcoming ‘Pillars and monuments (στῆλαι) in the works of Gregory of Nazianzus’, for a volume in commemoration of the late Prof. Mossay, of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Work in Progress Chapter on ‘Christianity’ for R.Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (University of New Hampshire); collation of the manuscripts of Sermons 4 and 5 by Gregory of Nazianzus, with the scholia they contain on these sermons, for an edition and translation of their texts.

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Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou, Reading Ed. with Jean-Luc Fournet, Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou), Travaux et Mémoires du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (Paris 2016); ‘Laonikos Chalkokondylis, Démonstrations historiques, Livre VIII’ (translation, introduction and notes), in Vincent Déroche and Nicolas Vatin, eds., La conquête de Constantinople (Anacharsis, Toulouse 2016) 323-341; ‘The rhetoric of power and the voice of reason: tensions between central and local in the correspondence of Qurra ibn Sharīk’, in Stephan Procházka, Lucian Reinfandt and Sven Tost, eds., Official epistolography and the language(s) of power. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Research Network Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom, University of Vienna, 10-12 November 2010, Papyrologica Vindobonensia 8 (Vienna 2015) 267-281; ‘Byzantine Childhoods’, in Heather Montgomery, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies (Oxford University Press, New York 2016): http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780199791231; ‘Credit, debt, and dependence in early Islamic Egypt and Southern Palestine’, in Jean-Luc Fournet and Arietta Papaconstantinou, eds., Mélanges Jean Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou), (Paris 2016) 613-642; ‘« Choses de femme » et accès au crédit dans l’Égypte rurale sous les Omeyyades’, in Olivier Delouis, Sophie Métivier, Paule Pagès, eds., Le saint, le moine et le paysan. Mélanges d’histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan, Byzantina Sorbonensia 29 (Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 2016) 551-561. Reviews: Ville Vuolanto, Children and asceticism in late antiquity: Continuity, Family Dynamics, and the Rise of Christianity (Farnham 2015), for Childhood in the Past 9 (2016) 75-76; Andreas Kaplony, Daniel Potthast and Cornelia Römer, eds., From Bāwīṭ to Marw: Documents from the Medieval Muslim World (Islamic History and Civilization 112, Brill, Leiden 2015), for Journal of Religion in Europe 9 (2016) 294-296. In Press: ‘Coptic Life-Writing’, in Koen de Temmermann, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography (OUP, Oxford); ‘Papyri and the study of building in Byzantium’, in Michael Decker, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Byzantine Archaeology (CUP, Cambridge). Work in Progress A study on debt, credit, and patronage in rural communities of the eastern Mediterranean, 500-800; a study of the eighth-century Coptic child donation deeds, with full translation of the documents; various articles on Coptic literature, multilingualism, and early Islamic governance. PUBLICATIONS

Professor Charlotte Roueché, London ‘Byzantine Epigraphy for the 21st Century’, in Andreas Rhoby ed. Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna 2015) 115-120. With S.Dunn and T. Papacostas, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus: http://www.cyprusgazetteer.org/

Dr Jonathan Shepard, Oxford Ed. with F. Androshchuk and M. White, Byzantium and the Viking World (Uppsala 2016); ‘Back in Old Rus and the USSR: Archaeology, History and Politics [Review Article]’, The English Historical Review 131 (2016) 384-405; ‘Byzantine Emissions, Not Missions, to Rus, and the Problems of “False” Christians’, in N. A. Makarov and A. E. Leontiev, eds., Русь в IX-X вв.: общество, государство, культура [Rus in the 9th-12th Centuries: Society, State, Culture] (Moscow 2014) 234-42; ‘Communications Across the Bulgarian Lands: Samuel’s Poisoned Chalice for Basil II and his Successors?’, South- Eastern Europe in the Second Half of 10th – the beginning of the 11th Centuries: History and Culture (Sofia 2015) 217-35; ‘History as Propaganda, Proto- Foundation-Myth and “Tract for the Times” in the Long Eleventh Century (c.1000-c.1130)’, in T. Jackson, ed., Old Rus’ and Medieval Europe: The Origin of States (=The Earliest States of Eastern Europe 2014) (Moscow 2016) 332- 55; ‘Small Worlds, the General Synopsis, and the British Way from the Varangians to the Greeks’, in F. Androshchuk, J. Shepard and M. White, eds., Byzantium and the Viking World (Uppsala 2016) 3-35; ‘Things, Рersons and Рractices in Сirculation Between Byzantium and the British Isles in the Viking Age: a Role for Rus?’, in P. G. Gaidukov, ed., Goroda i vesi srednevekovoi Rusi: arheologiia, istoriia, kul’tura: k 60-letiiu Nikolaia Andreeviča Makarova (Moscow 2015) 274-85; Entries on ‘Byzantine Empire 650-1204 CE’, ‘North Sea (Anglo-Scandinavian) Empire’ and ‘Rus’ and the Riurikid dynasty (9th century to c.1240 CE)’ in J. MacKenzie, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Empire (Oxford 2016). Forthcoming With M. Ančić and T. Vedriš, eds., Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812) (Abingdon); ‘Adjustable Imperial Image-Projection and the Greco-Roman Repertoire: their Reception among Outsiders and Longer-Stay Visitors’, in J. Stouraites, ed., Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval Byzantine World (Millennium Studies Series) (Berlin and New York); ‘Anglo-Danish “Empire-Building”, Rus and Byzantium: a Background for Boleslaw Chobry?’, in L. Slupecki, ed., PUBLICATIONS

Proceedings of the 5th Congress of Polish Medievalists, Rzeszów, 20-24 September2015 (Rzeszó); ‘Anna Komnena as a Source for the Crusades’, in A. Mallett, ed., Eastern Christian Historians on the Crusades (Leiden); ‘The Byzantine Sphere of Influence in Eastern Europe, 867-1025’ and ‘The Byzantine sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, 1025-1204’, in T. Lounghis and E. Kislinger, eds., Βυζάντιο. Ιστορία και πολιτισμός (Athens and Paris); ‘Circles Overlapping in the Adriatic’, in M. Ančić, J. Shepard and T. Vedriš, eds., Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812) (Abingdon); Entries on ‘Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantine Sources’, in J. Jesch and C. Lee, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Viking World (Oxford); ‘Convergence and Collision in Eleventh-Century Christendom: Some Repercussions of the Christianisation of Rus on East-West Relations’, in J. Arnason, S. Bagge and B. Wittrock, eds., The Formation of the Great Civilizations: Contrasts and Parallels (Uppsala); ‘The Emperor’s “Significant Others”’, in S. Tougher, ed., The Emperor in the Byzantine World (Abingdon); ‘The Knowledge of the West in Byzantine Sources’, in S. Burkhardt and S. Kolditz, eds., Byzantium and the West 850-1204 (Leiden); ‘Man-to-Man, “Dog-Eat-Dog”, Cults in Common: the Tangled Threads of Alexios’ Dealings with the Franks’, in J.-C. Cheynet and B. Flusin, eds., Travaux et Mémoires (Paris); ‘Memoirs as Manifesto: the Rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos’, in T. Shawcross and I. Toth, eds., Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond (Cambridge); ‘Photios’ Sermons on the Rus Attack of 860: the Questions of his Origins, and the Route of the Rus’, in C. Ludwig et al., eds., Millennium: Yearbook on the Culture and History of the First Millennium CE (Berlin and New York); ‘Power-Seeking on the Imperial Fringes in the Later Eleventh Century: the Uses of Seals’, in B. Caseau, ed., L’exercise du pouvoir: à Byzance ou dans les Etats voisins (Paris); ‘Storm Clouds and a Thunderclap: East-West Tensions Towards the Mid-Eleventh Century’, in M. Lauxterman and M. Whittow, eds., Being in Byzantium: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century (Abingdon); ‘Superpower to Soft Power: the Many Facets of Byzantium in the Eyes of Contemporary and Modern Historians’, in B. Haider and W. Godsey, eds., International History in Theory and Practice: Traditions and Perspectives (Vienna).

Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, London ‘John II Komnenos: a historiographical essay,’ in A. Bucossi and Alex Rodriguez, eds., John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium. In the Shadow of Father and Son (London and New York 2016) 1-10; ‘Gesellschaft und Demographie im spätbyzantinischen Griechenland (1261-1453),’ in F. Daim PUBLICATIONS and J. Drauschke, eds., Hinter den Mauern und auf dem offenen Land: Neue Forschungen zum Leben im Byzantinischen Reich (Mainz 2016) 181-188. Forthcoming ‘Dealing with an Ubermeister: the reception of Galen in Byzantine non medical texts,’ in B. Zipser and P. Bouras-Vallianatos, eds., Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen; ‘From Crete to Hell,’ in A. Lymberopoulou and V. Tsamakda, eds., Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th – 17th centuries); ‘Herbert Hunger und der Zeitgeist: die Erforschung von Alltagsleben und materieller Kultur,’ in Proceedings of the Conference dedidated to 100 years from the birth of H. Hunger (Vienna, Austrian Academy); ‘Irrevocable Blood: Ethnoreligious Violence and Collective Identity Formation in the Late Twelfth Century,’ in Y. Stouraitis, ed., Ideologies and Identities in the medieval Byzantine world (De Gruyter, Millenium Studies); ‘Sister, Widow, Consort, Bride: Four Latin Ladies in Greece (1330-1430)’, in A. Lymberopoulou, ed., Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? (Routledge, SPBS Spring Symposia); ‘Early modern translations of late Byzantine medical texts: contexts, use and dispersion,’ in Sonja Brentjes and José Luis Mancha, eds., Narratives on Translations (Berlin); ‘The boundaries between possession and disease: medical concepts in Byzantine exorcisms,’ in K.-H. Leven and N. Metzger, eds., (Un-)heilige Krankheiten. Besessenheit in Medizin, Religion, Dämonologie, special issue of Medizinhistorisches Journal (2017); ‘Aristocracy in Nicaea,’ in P. Papadopoulou and A. Simpson, eds., The Empire of Nicaea revisited (Brepols); several chapters on the social history of the Palaiologan period in T. Loughis, ed., Βυζάντιο, Ιστορία και Πολιτισμός; several entries in the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Work in Progress With Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Byzantine Medicine (monograph); Filthy Lucre: Wealth and its uses in the late Byzantine World (monograph); ‘The question of usury in the late Byzantine period’; ‘Apology for a parvenu: Alexios Apokaukos revisited’; ‘Sodomy in Hell: observations on some depictions of the damned in Hell in Cretan frescoes’.

Dr Alexandra Vukovich, Cambridge ‘Promissory Rituals in Rus’: Heteropraxy and oath-taking ‘by kissing the Cross’’, Byzantinoslavica 75.1 (2017); ‘Le Prince et son épée dans le Rous’ du Nord à la suite du séjour de Vsévolod Iourevich à Byzance’, in Élisabeth Yota, ed., Byzance et ses voisins (Peter Lang, Bern 2017); ‘Itinerant Rulership in Early Rus’’, in Teresa Earenfight, ed., New Perspectives on Elite and Royal PUBLICATIONS

Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Explorations in Medieval Culture 3, Brill, Leiden 2017).

Dr Mary Whitby, Oxford ‘Nonnus and biblical epic’, in Domenico Accorinti, ed., Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis, Leiden 2016, 215-239. Forthcoming ‘Christodorus of Coptus on the statues in the Baths of Zeuxippus at Constantinople: text and context’, in Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll eds., Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: poetry, religion and society, Brill; ‘Greek epic’, in Scott McGill and Edward Watts, eds., in Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity.

Dr Monica White, Nottingham Co-editor, with Jonathan Shepard and Fedir Androshchuk, Byzantium and the Viking World (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 2016); ‘Relics and the Princely Clan in Rus’, in ibid., 391-408. Work in Progress Two awards in 2015-16 for work on a new monograph about relations between Byzantium and Rus: a Leverhulme fellowship for an extra semester of research leave and a travel grant to visit the Hilandar Library at the Ohio State University to consult East Slavonic manuscripts on microfilm for the same project.

Dr Christopher Wright, London With Maria Argyrou and Charalambos Dendrinos, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library, (online publication): https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/Research/LPL/Greek- MSS/Catalogue.pdf ‘Non ex unica natione sed ex plurimis: Genoa, the Catalans and the Knights of St John in the fifteenth century’, Mediterranea: ricerche storiche 36 (2016) 9- 44; ‘Constantinople and the coup d’état in Palaiologan Byzantium’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 70 (2016). Forthcoming ‘Sea power and the evolution of Venetian crusading’, Magdalena Skoblar et al., eds., The Adriatic as a Threshold to Byzantium: Acts of the Adriatic Connections Conference, British School at Rome 14-16 Jan 2015 (Cambridge PUBLICATIONS

University Press, Cambridge); with Charalambos Dendrinos and Philip Taylor, ‘Presenting a 16th-century Greek Manuscript using 21st-century Technology: the Autograph Encomium on Henry VIII and Elizabeth I by George Etheridge’, VIII Colloque Internationale de Paléographie Grecque: Actes, ed. Christian Brockmann (De Gruyter, Berlin). Work in Progress Edition of Demetrios Kydones’s Greek translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars. Interactive online edition of the Letters of George of Cyprus. Articles: The Genoese community of Rhodes, 1400-1480’; ‘The emergence and function of the ‘appanage’ in Palaiologan Byzantium’.

Dr Sophia Xenophontos, Glasgow Ethical Education in Plutarch: moralising agents and contexts (Walter de Gruyter: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Berlin - Boston 2016); ‘Casting new light on the connection between Pseudo-Plutarch’s On the education of children and Galen’s Exhortation to the study of medicine’ Latomus 75 (2016) 71–77; Introduction to Γαληνός Για την αποφυγή της λύπης, Η πραγματεία Περὶ ἀλυπίας, Μετάφραση-σχόλια Παρασκευή Κοτζιά, Επίμετρο Ιωάννης Πολέμης (Thyrathen, Thessaloniki); Review on P. Stadter, Plutarch and his Roman Readers (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2014), Classical Review 66.2 (2016) 377-379. Forthcoming Theodore Metochites’ On morals or concerning education: Introduction, Translation, and Notes (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., London 2017); with Petros Bouras- Vallianatos eds., Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, London); ‘Galen’s Exhortation to the study of medicine: an educational work for prospective medical students’, in P. Bouras-Vallianatos and S. Xenophontos, eds., Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, London); with K. Oikonomopoulou, eds, A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch (Brill, Leiden); ‘Plutarch and Theodore Metochites’, in K. Oikonomopoulou and S. Xenophontos, eds., A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch (Brill, Leiden); ‘Plutarch and Adamantios Koraes’, in K. Oikonomopoulou and S. Xenophontos, eds., A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch (Brill, Leiden); ‘The military and cultural space in the Life of Pyrrhus and Marius’, in A. Georgiadou and K. Oikonomopoulou, eds., Space, time, and language in Plutarch’s vision of Greek culture (De Gruyter, Berlin/New York); ‘The PUBLICATIONS

Byzantine Plutarch: self-identity and model in Theodore Metochites’ Essay 71 of the Semeioseis gnomikai’, in P. Mack and J. North, eds., The Afterlife of Plutarch, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement (Institute of Classical Studies, London). Work in progress Physician of the soul: philosophical guidance and practical ethics in Galen (monograph); editio princeps, George Pachymeres’ commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (De Gruyter: Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina).

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Professor Albrecht Berger, Munich With Sergei Mariev, Günter Prinzing, and Alexander Riehle, eds., Koinotaton Doron. Das späte Byzanz zwischen Machtlosigkeit und kultureller Blüte (Byzantinisches Archiv 31, Berlin 2016); ‘Nikephoros Kallistou Xanthopoulos and Jewish history’, in ibid., 1–15 [in German]; ‘Urban elites in the Byzantine realm’, in Elisabeth Gruber, Mihailo Popović, Martin Scheutz, and Herwig Weigl, eds., Städte im lateinischen Westen und im griechischen Osten zwischen Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Topographie – Recht – Religion (Vienna 2016) 165–175 [in German]; ‘The dark side of sacrality – enchanted places and statues in Constantinople’, Distant Worlds Journal 2 (2016) 97–107 [in German]; ‘Magical Constantinople: statues, legends, and the end of time’, Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek studies 2 (2016) 9–29; ‘In the ‘Wild East’ of Byzantium. The story of Digenes Akrites’, in Hans Sauer, Gisela Seitschek, and Bernhard Teuber, eds., Höhepunkte des mittelalterlichen Erzählens. Heldenlieder, Romane und Novellen in ihrem kulturellen Kontext (Heidelberg 2016) 19–38 [in German]; ‘Constantinople’, in Falko Daim, ed., Byzanz, Der Neue Pauly, Supplemente 11 (Stuttgart 2016) [in German]. Forthcoming Caspar Ludwig Momars, Η Βοσπορομαχία. Εισαγωγή και κριτική έκδοση [in Greek]; ‘Serial production oder writer’s contest? Some remarks on Byzantine hagiographical texts of the tenth century’, in Antonio Rigo, Michele Trizio, and Eleftherios Despotakis, eds., Byzantine hagiography. Texts, themes and projects, Proceedings of a symposium in Moscow 2012 [in German]; ‘Constantinople’, in Michael Decker, ed., Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Byzan- tine Archaeology; ‘Monuments and buildings in Byzantine Constantinople’, in PUBLICATIONS

Raimondo Tocci, ed., The Brill Companion to Byzantine Chronicles; with Christian Gastgeber, eds., The Scholar and his Library; ‘The Church History of Nikephoros Kallistou Xanthopoulos’, in ibid., with Niccolò Zorzi, eds., I tondi di Campiello Angaran a Venezia e di Dumbarton Oaks. Stato dell’arte e prospettive della ricerca. Proceedings of a symposium in Venice in 2014; ‘The historical setting’, in ibid., [in Italian]; with Sergey Ivanov, eds., Holy fools and divine madmen: Sacred insanity through ages and cultures. Proceedings of a symposium in Munich in 2015; ‘Holy fools in modern Greece’, in ibid., ‘From outpost in the West to destroyer of the empire: Venice seen from Byzantium’, in Barbara Kuhn, ed., Proceedings of a series of lectures in Eichstätt 2014/15; ‘The emperor and the city: processions and receptions in Constantinople’, in Manfred Luchterhandt, ed., Palatium sacrum, Proceedings of a symposium in Göttingen in 2015; ‘Constantinople as a centre of economy and trading’, in Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, ed., Transformations of city and countryside in the Byzantine period. Proceedings of a symposium in Mainz in 2016 [in German].

Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Mainz With Benjamin Fourlas and Susanne Greiff, ‘Gold- und Silberschmiedearbeiten’, in Falko Daim, ed., Byzanz. Historisch - kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch (Neuer Pauly Supplemente 11, Stuttgart 2016); with Stephan Albrecht and Susanne Greiff, ‘Edelsteine’, in Falko Daim, ed., Byzanz. Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch (Neuer Pauly Supplemente 11, Stuttgart 2016). Editorial work Antonaras, Anastassios Ch.: ‘Arts, Crafts and Trades in Ancient and Byzantine Thessaloniki. Archaeological, Literary and Epigraphic Evidence’, Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 2 (Publications of the Leibniz-ScienceCampus Mainz: Byzantium between Orient and Occident), eds., Antje Bosselmann- Ruickbie and Leo Ruickbie (Mainz 2016). Esssys submitted ‘The Ornamental Decoration of the Bessarion Cross (14th Century)’, in Peter Schreiner and Holger A. Klein, eds., La Stauroteca di Bessarione: Restauro, Provvenienza, Ambito Culturale a Constantinopoli e a Venezia (conference Venice, 17-18 October 2013); ‘The Symbolism of Byzantine Gemstones: Written Sources, Objects and Sympathetic Magic in Byzantium’, in Susanne Greiff, Alexandra Hilgner and Dieter Quast, eds., Gemstones in the First Millennium AD: Mines, Trade, Workshops and Symbolism (conference Mainz, 20-22 October 2015); ‘Protection against Evil in Byzantium: Magical Amulets PUBLICATIONS and their Survival from the Early to the Late Byzantine Period’, in Judith Noble and Dan Zamani, eds., Visions of Enchantment. Occultism, Spirituality & Visual th Culture (conference Cambridge, 17-18 March 2014); ‘A 10 -Century Necklace from the Preslav Treasure: Byzantium and Bulgaria’, in Hans Belting and Fabian Stroth, eds., The History of Early Christian and Byzantine Art in 100 Alternative Objects. Forthcoming Neue Forschungen zur spätbyzantinischen Goldschmiedekunst (13.-15. Jahrhundert) - New Research on Late Byzantine Goldsmiths’ Works (13th-15th Centuries), conference Mainz, 29-30 October 2015, Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident (Publications of the Leibniz-ScienceCampus Mainz: Byzantium between Orient and Occident), ed., Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie (Mainz 2017). Work in Progress Project (with Dr Susanne Greiff/Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany): ‘Der griechische Traktat Über die hochgeschätzte und berühmte Goldschmiedekunst – Edition und interdisziplinärer Kommentar’ (‘The Greek Treatise On the Most Appreciated and Famous Art of the Goldsmith – Edition and interdisciplinary commentary’), with Prof. Dr Günter Prinzing (University of Mainz); Dr Susanne Greiff, Stephan Patscher MA (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz), Dr Michael Herdick, Erica Hanning MA, Sayuri da Zilva MA (Competence Centre for Experimental Archaeology Mayen, Germany): http://www.byzanz-mainz.de/forschung/a/article/der-griechische- traktat-ueber-die-edle-und-hochberuehmte-goldschmiedekunst-edition-und-int/

Dr Elisabeth Chatziantoniou, Thessaloniki Συμβολή στη διοικητική προσωπογραφία της παλαιολόγειας Θεσσαλονίκης. Η περίπτωση του σεβαστού Θεόδωρου Παζουδίνου (1274), βυζαντινος δομος 22- 24 (2014-2016) 5-22; Βιβλιοκρισία: «Μαρία Νυσταζοπούλου-Πελεκίδου, Η Βυζαντινή Διπλωματική. Τα έγγραφα των δημοσίων λειτουργών [Εταιρεία Βυζαντινών Ερευνών 23], Εκδόσεις ΒΑΝΙΑΣ, Θεσσαλονίκη 2015», βυζαντιακα 32 (2015) 337-349. Forthcoming ‘Founders of monasteries practising philanthropy. The case of the sebastokrator Isaakios Komnenos’, in G. Kakavas et al., eds., Proceedings of the International Conference ‘The Institution of Sponsorship – from Ancient to Modern Times’, 1-27; ‘The kritai / praitores of Βoleron, Strymon and Thessalonike in the 11th century. A contribution to prosopography and provincial administration’, Byzantina 34 (2015-2016) 63 pp. Work in Progress PUBLICATIONS

The fiscal administration of the thema of Thessalonike in the early Palaiologan period (Monograph, to be published in 2017).

Dr Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Athens ‘Byzantine crusaders: Holy war and crusade rhetoric in Byzantine contacts with the West (1095-1341)’, in A. Boas, ed., The Crusader World (Routledge, London 2015) 259-277. Forthcoming ‘Ideological and political contestations in post-1204 Byzantium: The orations of Niketas Choniates and the imperial court of Nicaea’, in S. Tougher, ed., The Emperor in the Byzantine World: Proceedings of the 47th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (Cardiff, 25-27 April 2014) (Routledge, London); ‘Worlds apart? Reconsidering late Byzantine identity through the image of the West (13th-14th c.)’, in N. Chrissis, A. Kolia-Dermitzaki, and A. Papageorgiou, eds., Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality (Routledge, London); ‘The Crusades seen from Greece’, in Felix Hinz and Johannes Meyer-Hamme, eds., Current International Perspectives on the Crusades. Texts from Historians of Different Nations – and Didactical Approaches; ‘Frankish Greece’, in J. Phillips and A. Jotischky, eds., The Cambridge History of the Crusades, vol. II: Expansion, Impact and Decline (CUP, Cambridge); ‘Gregory IX and the Greek East’, in C. Egger and D. Smith, eds., Pope Gregory IX (1227-41); ‘Tearing Christ’s Seamless Tunic? The ‘Eastern Schism’ and Crusades against the Greeks in the Thirteenth Century’, in Proceedings of the Eighth Quadrennial Conference of the SSCLE (Cáceres, Spain, 25-29 June, 2012); ‘Broken brotherhood: Greeks and Latins in the thirteenth century’, in N. Giantsi, ed., The Presence and Contribution of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Formation of Europe (EPLO, Athens).

Professor Maria Constantoudaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ‘Angelos, Damaskinos, Theotokopoulos: Convergencies and Divergencies in Their Work’, Mouseio Benaki 13-14 (2013-14) [published in 2016], 185-212 (in Greek with a summary in English).

Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska, Lodz Edition: Stanisław Kościałkowski pamięci przywrócony, (Stanislaw Koscialkowski Recollected) (Warsaw-Lodz 2016) pp. 358. PUBLICATIONS

Articles: ‘Bertrandona de la Broquiere pielgrzymka do Ziemi Świętej w latach 1432-1433, w kontekście zagrożenia Bizancjum przez Turków Osmańskich’, in Na szlakach dwóch światów. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Jerzemu Hauzińskiemu (‘The Pilgrimage of Bertrandon de la Broquiere to the Holy Land in the context of the Osmanlis threat against Byzantium’, in Studies offered to Professor Jerzy Hauzinski), (Academy of Pomerania Press, Slupsk 2016) 191-202; ‘Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic conclusion’, Text Matters. A Journal of literature, theory and culture vol. 6, no.6 (University of Lodz Press, Lodz 2016) 247-263. Papers: ‘Posłowie. Bogumił Zwolski i jego sentyment do Mistrza’ (‘Afterword. Bogumil Zwolski and his affectionate attitude to the master’), in M. Dąbrowska, Stanisław Kościałkowski pamięci przywrócony (Warszawa- Lodz 2016) 311- 316; ‘Profesor Gieysztor i Lamande’ (‘Professor and rue Lamande’), in M. Koczerska & P. Węcowski, eds., Aleksander Gieysztor. Człowiek i dzieło, (Warsaw University Press, Warszawa 2016) 187-190; ‘Pępek świata nad Bosforem. Historia konstantynopolitańska: z prof. Małgorzatą Dąbrowską rozmawia Beata Janowska’, in Ale Historia. Tygodnik Historyczny (‘The hub of the universe. Constantinopolitan history. An interview with Professor Malgorzata Dabrowska’, in What a story! Agora, Nr 16 (222) (Warsaw 2016) 3- 5. Forthcoming Book: The Hidden Secrets. Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context, (Lodz University Press, Lodz 2016). Articles: ‘Steven Runciman (1903-2000)’, in J.Strzelczyk, ed., Mediewiści IV (The Medievalists) (Poznan University Press, Poznan 2016); ‘Jana Dlugosza spojrzenie na Bizancjum’ (‘Joannes Dlugossius’ point of view on Byzantium’), in Kwartalnik Historyczny (The Historical Review), Warsaw 2016; ‘The Image of a Trapezuntine Empress in the 14th Century According to Panaretos’, in Studies offered to Professor Danuta Quirini-Popławsk, (Cracow 2016). Reviews: Sebastian Kolditz, Johannes VIII. Palaiologos und das Konzil von Ferrara-Florenz (1438/39). Das byzantinische Kaisertum im Dialog mit dem Westen, Bd 1-2, Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters (Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2014, 776), in Kwartalnik Historyczny (Historical Review) (Warsaw 2016); V. Nosilla and M. Prandoni, eds., Trama contraluce. « Il patriarca protestante » Cirillo Loukaris (Firenze 2015, 207), in Odrodzenie i Reformacja (Renaissance and Reformation) (Warsaw 2016). Others: Przedmowa do: Andrew Pawłowski, Julian Cesarini, kardynał od św. Anioła (Forward to: Julian Cesarini, Cardinal of Saint Angel (Warszawa 2017). Work in Progress PUBLICATIONS

Edition: Henryk Paszkiewicz wydobyty z zapomnienia (To remind Henryk Paszkiewicz) (Warszawa-Lodz 2017). Articles: ‘Odpocząć od Bizancjum w XV w.’ (‘To have a rest from Byzantium in the 15th century’), in Studies offered to Professor Zbigniew Anusik (Lodz 2017); ‘The King of the Kalmar Union, Eric of Pomerania, and the Byzantine Puzzle’, in Studies offered to Elisabeth Malamut (Aix-en-Provence 2017).

Professor Claudine Dauphin, Paris Les Animaux dans le Monde Antique: Le Bestiaire Levett (Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins 2016) 97 pages, 178 black-and-white and colour photographs. https://www.mouginsmusee.com/en/shop/books/les-animaux-dans-le-monde- antique-le-bestiaire-levett In collaboration with B. Hamarneh, M. Ben Jeddou, and J.-M. Castex, ‘Population Dynamics in the al-Karak Region in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods’, Studies on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (SHAJ), Actae of the 12th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ) ‘Transparent Borders’, Berlin, 5-11 May 2013 (Amman 2016) 683- 702. Forthcoming In collaboration with M. Ben Jeddou, ‘All Roads Lead to Mecca: on foot, camel-back and steam, the Syro-Jordanian Darb al-Hajj al-Shami (7th-20th centuries) through the prism of the new technologies’, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58 (2017), in Arabic. Web Pages  Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: Population Dynamics and Artistic Expression, CBRL (Council fro British research in the Levant) -Affiliated Project: http://cbrl.org.uk/british-institute-amman/visiting-scholars-and-fellows http://cbrl.org.uk/research/papers http://cbrl.org.uk/research/item/name/fallahin-and-nomads-in-the-southern- levant-from-byzantium-to-the-crusades-population-dynamics-and-artistic- expression  Specifically on the discovery by C. Dauphin of the Pilgrim Camps on the Hajj Roads in Jordan, contribution to the Palestine Exploration Fund Blog Adventures in the Archives and in the Field: http://www.pef.org.uk/blog/category/from-the-field/ Obituaries PUBLICATIONS

Yoram Tsafrir, Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, died 23rd November 2015. Obituary: ‘Yoram Tsafrir, B.A., M.A., PhD (30 January 1938 - 23 November 2015)’, Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 148, No. 1, March 2016) 5-7.

Dr Stavros G. Georgiou, Strovolos, Cyprus Ed., First Annual Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, Nicosia, 13- 15 January 2017. Abstracts of Presentations, Byzantinist Society of Cyprus (Nicosia 2017); ‘The Office of Katepano of Cyprus in the Eleventh Century’, Vyzantiaka 32 (2015) (= Afieroma sti mnimi tou Kathigiti Emmanouil Kriara) 187-200 (in Greek with Summary in English); ‘Limassol during the Proto- Christian and Byzantine Periods. The Saved Testimonies for the City and the Local Church’, Epetirida Kentrou Meleton Ieras Monis Kykkou 11 (2016) 31-50 (in Greek); ‘Notes on the Byzantine Cyprus III’, Epetirida Kentrou Meleton Ieras Monis Kykkou 11 (2016) 115-122 (in Greek); ‘The Byzantine Aristocracy in Cyprus during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’, in Tiziana Creazzo, C. Crimi, Renata Gentile, G. Strano, eds., Studi bizantini in onore di Maria Dora Spadaro (Orpheus, 2, Acireale - Roma 2016) 211-224; ‘Theodosios Byzantios Goudelis and the “φρούριον τῶν Κιττιέων”’, Epistimoniki Epetiris tis Kypriakis Etaireias Istorikon Spoudon 12 (2016) 41-52 (in Greek); ‘The political status of Cyprus during the tyranny of Isaac Doukas Komnenos (1184-1191)’, in St. G. Georgiou, ed., First Annual Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, Nicosia, 13-15 January 2017. Abstracts of Presentations, Byzantinist Society of Cyprus (Nicosia 2017) 46-47; Book-review in: Vyzantiaka 32 (2015) (= Afieroma sti mnimi tou Kathigiti Emmanouil Kriara) 373-378, Hellenica 65 (2015) 387-390, Epistimoniki Epetiris tis Kypriakis Etaireias Istorikon Spoudon 12 (2016) 469-472. Forthcoming ‘An Interesting Complement to the Byzantine Sources: Michael the Syrian’s Testimony for a Famine in Cyprus in 1132/1133’, Bizantinistica 17 (2016); ‘The Incident in Metabole. A Vague Passage of John Kinnamos (ed. Bonn, p. 127.21-128.23)’, Vyzantiaka 33 (2016) (in Greek); ‘The Saved Testimonies fot the Byzantine Karpasia (4th-12th Centuries)’, in P. Papageorgiou, ed., Karpasia. Praktika Defterou Epistimonikou Synedriou “Eis gin ton Agion kai ton Iroon”, Kyriaki 19 Iouniou 2011, Xenodocheio Navarria, Lemesos (Limassol 2017) (in Greek); ‘The Byzantine Tillyria (4th-12th Centuries)’, in St. Perdikis, ed., Praktika Defterou Synedriou “Tillyria: Mnimes, Istoria kai Archaiologia” (Nicosia 2017) (in Greek); ‘Addenda for the Anonymous Kamytzes of Pentekontakephalon of Saint Neophytos the Recluse’, Hellenica PUBLICATIONS

66 (2016) (in Greek). Book-reviews in: Vyzantina 34 (2015), Vyzantiaka 33 (2016).

Dr Ruthy Gertwagen, University of Haifa and Oranim Academic College, Israel ‘The naval power of Venice in the Oriental Mediterranean in the Middle Ages’, in Michel Balard, ed., Maritime History, the Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2017) 170-184; co-editor with Tonnes Nielsen-Bekker (Denmark), The Inland Seas: towards an ecohistory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea (Geographica Historica, Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016); ‘Towards A Maritime Eco-history of the Byzantine and Medieval Eastern Mediterranean’, in ibid., 292-316; ‘A Chapter on Maritime History: Shipping and Nautical Technology of Trade and Warfare in the Medieval Mediterranean, 11th–16th Century’, in Michael Borgolte and Nikolas Jaspert, eds., Maritimes Mittelalter. Meere als Kommunikationsräume (Vorträge und Forschungen 83, Ostfildern 2015) 109-148; ‘Venice's Policy towards the Islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas, 13th to 15th centuries’, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. 26, no.3 (2104): 529-548; ‘Nautical Technology’, in P. Horden and Sh. Kinoshita, eds., A Companion to Mediterranean History (WileyBlackwell 2014) 154-169. Forthcoming ‘Genoa, Venice and the fights over the ionian sea lanes (late fourteenth to mid fifteenth century)’, Gerassimos Pangratis, ed., War, State and Society in the Ionian Sea in the Early Modern Period; ‘Shipbuilding and technologies of trade and warfare 6th -16th century’, in Amity Law and Julian Deahl, eds., Mapping the Medieval Mediterranean, c. 300-1550: an encyclopedia of perspectives in research (Brill). Work in Progress The impact on the environment of the decline of Ceasarea Maritima from a port town to a coastal town in the late Roman and Byzantine periods on the environment; ‘Re-evaluating Venice's dominion over the Adriatic from the eleventh to late fifteenth century-the maritime perspective 11th to 16th centuries’; Struggles for Survival or for Power?– The Venetian Maritime Empire up to 1500; Trade and Naval Warfare in the Mediterranean 11th -16th Centuries [in Hebrew].

PUBLICATIONS

Dr Geoffrey Greatrex, Ottawa ‘Réflexions sur la date de composition des Guerres perses de Procope’ in C. Freu, S. Janniard and A. Ripoll, eds, Libera Curiositas. Mélanges d’histoire romaine et d’Antiquité tardive offerts à Jean-Michel Carrié (Turnhout 2016) 363-6. Review: M. Kahlos, ed., The Faces of the Other. Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman World, Mouseion 13 (2016) 188-91. Work in Progress Historical commentary on Procopius, Persian Wars, I-II.

Professor John Haldon, Princeton Books: A tale of two saints. The martyrdoms and miracles of Sts. Theodore ‘the recruit’ and ‘the general’ (Translated texts, Liverpool UP 2016); The empire that would not die: the paradox of Byzantine survival ca 660-720 (Harvard UP: Cambridge MA 2016). Journal Articles: ‘Res publica Byzantina? State formation and issues of identity in medieval east Rome’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016) 4 – 16; ‘Cooling and societal change’, Nature Geoscience 9 (Feb 2016), 191–192 (comment on Büntgen, U. et al., ‘Causes and concurrences of Europe’s unprecedented sixth-century summer cooling’, Nature Geoscience 9 (February 2016) 1-7. Chapters in books: ‘Bureaucracies, elites and clans: the case of Byzantium ca 500-1100’, in P. Crooks and T. Parsons, eds., Empires and Bureaucracy in World History. From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge 2016) 147-169 ‘Die byzantinische Stadt – Verfall und Wiederaufleben vom 6. bis zum ausgehenden 11. Jahrhundert’, in F. Daim and J. Drauschke, eds., Hinter den Mauern und auf dem offenen Land. Leben im Byzantinischen Reich (Mainz 2016) 9-22; ‘A context for two “evil deeds”: Nikephoros I and the origins of the themata’, in O. Delouis, S. Métivier and P. Pagès, eds., Le saint, le moine et le paysan. Mélanges d’histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan (Byzantina Sorbonensia 29: Paris 2016) 245-265; ‘Euchaïta’, in Ph. Niewöhner, ed., The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: from Late Antiquity to the coming of the Turks (OUP, Oxford 2016) 375-388. Forthcoming Articles/chapters: ‘Eastern Roman (Byzantine) views on Islam and on jihād, ca. 900 CE: a papal connection?’, in R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow and P. Skinner, eds., Italy and Medieval Europe: Papers for Chris Wickham on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Past & Present Publications, Oxford); ‘More questions about the origins of the imperial Opsikion’, in A. Beihammer, B. Krönung, C. Ludwig PUBLICATIONS and B. Zielke, eds., Festschrift Ralph-Johannes Lilie zum 65. Geburtstag (Berlin); ‘L’armée au IXe siècle. Quelques problèmes et quelques questions’, in J.-Cl. Cheynet and B. Flusin, eds., A la suite de Paul Lemerle : L'humanisme byzantin et les études sur le XIe s. quarante ans après (Paris); with W.J. Eastwood, ‘Euchaita, landscape and climate in the Byzantine period’, in J. Preiser-Kapeller, A. Izdebski and M. Popović, eds., A companion to the environmental history of Byzantium (Brill, Leiden); ‘The political economy of Empire: “imperial capital” and the formation of central and regional elites’, in P. Bang, C. A. Bayly and W. Scheidel, eds., The Oxford world history of empire (OUP, Oxford); ‘A Mediterranean empire? Byzantium 565-1204’, in Fred Donner, Robin Adèle Greeley, Peter Sluglett, and Harvey Weiss, eds., Empire in the Middle East: from Antiquity to the French/British Mandates (CUP, Cambridge); ‘Introduction’ to the re-edition of M. Dobb, Studies in the development of capitalism (London/NY); ‘Contribution to the symposium on Alex Callinicos’ Making history. Agency, structure, and change in social theory’, in Historical materialism.

Professor Bente Kiilerich, Bergen With Hjalmar Torp, The Rotunda in Thessaloniki and its Mosaics (Kapon editions, Athens 2016); with Hjalmar Torp, ‘Η Ροτοντα της Θεσσαλονικης και τα ψηφιδωτα της’ (Kapon Editions, Athens 2016); ‘The Barletta Colossus Revisited: The Methodological Challenges of an Enigmatic Statue’, Acta archaeol. artium hist pert XXVIII 2015 [2016], 55-72; ‘The Style and Visual Characteristics of the Centcelles Mosaics’, in A. Arbeiter and D. Korol, eds., Der Kuppelbau von Centcelles. Neue Forschungen zu einem enigmatischen Denkmal von Weltrang. Internationale Tagung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Madrid [22-24.11.2010], Iberia Archeologica 21 (Madrid 2016) 325- 332; ‘Subtlety and Simulation in late antique opus sectile’, in P. Andreuccetti, ed., Il colore nel medioevo 6 (Convegni Lucca 2013) (Lucca 2016) 41-59. Forthcoming ‘Colour, Light and Luminosity in the Rotunda Mosaics’, in A. Eastmond and M. Hatzaki, eds., The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited (Courtauld Institute, London, 30 May 2014) (Kapon Editions, Athens 2017); various entries in P. Corby Finney, ed., Eerdman’s Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology (2017); with Hjalmar Torp, ‘From Alexandria to Kenchreai? The Puzzle of the Glass Sectile Panels’, in T. Bács, A. Bollók and T. Vida, eds., Festschrift Laszlo Török (Budapest); ‘Etude typologiques des portraits de martyr’, in H. Torp, La Rotonde palatiale à Thessalonique; ‘Riegl’s Concept of Late Roman Art: Judging the Evidence’, in U. Hansson, ed., History of PUBLICATIONS

Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century, Swedish Institute, Rome, 4-6 April 2013 (De Gruyter ?); ‘Abstraction in Late Antique Art’, in C. Olovsdotter, Symbolism and Abstraction in Late Antiquity, Swedish Institute Istanbul, 9-10 May 2013 (2017?); ‘Spolia’, in O. Brandt, L. Rutgers and J. Magness, eds., Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Late Antiquity (2017); ‘Spolia in Byzantine Art and Architecture”, in E. Schwarz, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture, scheduled for publication in 2018/19. In progress ‘The Hephaisteion in the Byzantine Period’, in H. Saradi, ed., Papers from Byzantini Athena, Byzantine and Christian Museum Athens, October 2016 (Brepols, Turnhout 2018); ‘In Search of the Patron: late antique Style in Context’, Acta archaeol. artium hist pert. XXX 2017/18.

Dr Dirk Krausmüller, Vienna ‘Showing one’s true colours: Patriarch Methodios on the morally improving effect of sacred images’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016) 298- 306; ‘Between Tritheism and Sabellianism: Trinitarian Speculation in John Italos’ and Nicetas Stethatos’ Confessions of Faith’, Scrinium 12 (2016) 261- 280; ‘Monks who are not priests do not have the power to bind and to loose’: the debate about confession in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109 (2016) 703-732; ‘John of Phoberos, a 12th - Century Monastic Founder, and His Saints: Luke of Mesembria and Symeon of the Wondrous Mountain’, Analecta Bollandiana 134 (2016) 83-94; ‘Diorasis Denied: Opposition to Clairvoyance in Byzantium from Late Antiquity to the Eleventh Century’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 65 (2015) 111- 128; ‘Responding to John Philoponus: Hypostases, Particular Substances and Perichoresis in the Trinity’, Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture 9 (2015) 13-28. Forthcoming ‘From Individual Almsgiving to Communal Charity: the Impact of the Middle Byzantine Monastic Reform Movement on the Life of Monks’, in Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik; ‘Aristotle in Cappadocian Garb: the Trinitarian Speculation of NicetasStethatos and Leo of Chalcedon’, in Erytheia; ‘An Ambiguous Authority: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Debate about the Care of the Dead (6th-11th Century)’, in Revista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici; ‘Multiple Hierarchies: Servants and Masters, Monastic Officers, Ordained Monks, and Wearers of the Great and the Small Habit at the Stoudios Monastery (10th-11th Centuries)’, in Byzantinoslavica; ‘Under the Spell of John Philoponus: How Chalcedonian Theologians of the Late Patristic Period PUBLICATIONS

Attempted to Safeguard the Oneness of God’, in Journal of Theological Studies; ‘Enhypostaton: being 'in another' or being 'with another'? How Chalcedonian theologians of the sixth century defined the ontological status of Christ's human nature’, in Vigiliae Christianae; ‘The Procession of the Holy Spirit from the Divine Substance: Observations about the Trinitarian Theology of Symeon the New Theologian and Nicetas Stethatos’, in Greek Orthodox Theological Review; ‘Beyond the Iconoclast Controversy: Theodore of Stoudios' Engagement in Contemporary Debates About Asceticism, Predestination, Clairvoyance and the Vision of God’, in Ch. Erismann, ed., Theodore the Stoudite: Intellectual Context, Logic, and Logical Significance; ‘On the Relation Between the Late Antique and Byzantine Christological Discourses: Observations About Theodore of Stoudios' Third Antirrheticus’, in Ch. Erismann, ed., Theodore the Stoudite: Intellectual Context, Logic, and Logical Significance; ‘Sophisticated Simplicity: On the Style of the Vita prima of Athanasius the Athonite’, in L. James, ed., in Festschrift Margaret Mullett; ‘The "Greek East": Christianisation and the Provincial Elites (Emerging Byzantium)’, in J. Lössl and N. Baker-Brian, eds., Blackwell’s Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity.

Dr Maximilian Lau (Tokyo) ‘Ioannoupolis: Lopadion as ‘City’ and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos’, in N.S.M. Matheou, T. Kampanaki and L.M. Bondioli, eds., From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities (Brill, Leiden 2016); ‘Multilateral Cooperation in the Black Sea in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries: The Case for an Alliance between Byzantium, Kiev and Georgia’, in K. Stewart and J. Wakeley, eds., Cross Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.300 – 1500 A.D.: Selected Papers from the XVII Oxford University Byzantine Society’s International Graduate Conference (Peter Lang, Oxford 2016); ‘Rewriting the 1120s: Chronology and Crisis under John II Komnenos’, Making and Remaking Byzantium, Limes Plus Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgrade 2016); ‘The Naval Reform of Emperor John II Komnenos: A Re-evaluation’, Mediterranean Historical Review 31.2 (2016). Work in Progress Monograph on John II Komnenos Fieldwork: Survey of fortifications connected to John II Komnenos in Eastern Turkey, planned Summer 2017

PUBLICATIONS

Professor Emeritus Ljubomir Maksimović, Belgrade ‘Karl Krumbachers serbische Schüler’, Süd-Ost Forschungen 73 (2014, ed. 2016) 429-443; ‘Propast Vizantije u ogledalu srpske istorije’ (Untergang von Byzanz im Spiegel der serbischen Geschichte), Zbornik radova u čast akademiku desanki Kovačević-Kojić (Banja Luka 2015, izd. 2016) 83-93; with B. Krsmanović, ‘Byzantium in Serbia – Serbian Authenticity and Byzantine Influence’, in D. Vojvodić and D. Popović, eds., Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art, vol. II: Sacral Art of the Serbian Lands in the Middle Ages (Belgrade 2016) 41–55 = with B. Krsmanović, ‘Vizantija u Srbiji – srpska samosvojnost i romejski uticaj’, in D. Vojvodić and D. Popović, eds., Vizantijsko nasleđe i srpska umetnost, knj. II: Sakralna umetnost srpskih zemalјa u srednjem veku (Beograd 2016) 41–55.

Professor Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini, Athens Editor (in cooperation): Η γοητεία του Βυζαντίου άλλοτε και τώρα. ς΄ Συνάντηση Βυζαντινολόγων Ελλάδος και Κύπρου - Πρακτικά / The charm of Byzantium in the past and the present. 6th Congress of Byzantinists from Greece and Cyprus – Proceedings (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 22-25 September 2005), (Athens, pp.396). Forthcoming Κρατική πολιτική και προσωπικά προνόμια στο Ύστερο Βυζάντιο: Ο θεσμός της ‘προνοίας’ / State Policy and Personal rivileges in Late Byzantium: The Institution of ‘Pronoia’ (Thessaloniki, pp. ca 490 & Indices - Glossary - English Summary); ‘Στρατιώτες προνομιούχοι ή στρατός προνομιούχων; Δημοσιονομικά μέτρα εν όψει πολεμικών συγκρούσεων στο Ύστερο Βυζάντιο’ / ‘Privileged soldiers or an army of beneficiaries? Economic measures under war threat in Late Byzantium, in Proceedings of the International Congress Ιστορίες Πολέμου στη Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη: Μια διαχρονική προσέγγιση / Histories of War in South-Eastern Europe: An Approach in the Longue Durée (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 7-9 November 2013), pp. ca 17; ‘Μιξοβάρβαροι and λίζιοι: Theory and Practice Regarding the Integration of Westerners in Late Byzantine Social and Economic Reality’, in Proceedings of the International Congress Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality, 12th-15th c. / Το Βυζάντιο και η Δύση: Αντιλήψεις και πραγματικότητα, 12ος- 15ος αι. (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 5-6 September 2015), pp. ca 25; ‘Οι προνοιάριοι της υστεροβυζαντινής εποχής (11ος-15ος αι.): Μια νέα κοινωνική ‘τάξη’ μέσα από μια δημοσιονομική ‘αταξία’;’ / ‘The pronoiars PUBLICATIONS of Late Byzantium (11th-15th c.): Was a new social ‘group’ created as the result of a fiscal ‘disorder’?’, in Proceedings of the International Workshop ‘Social’ Profiles and “Social” Groups: Perceptions about Social Position in Byzantium (National Research Foundation, 19 December 2015), pp. ca 15. Work in Progress Byzantium and West, 11th-15th c. (in cooperation with colleagues). Taxation and tax-exemptions in Byzantium during the Palaeologan era, 13th- 15th c.

Dr Ann Moffatt, Canberra Forthcoming ‘The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna ca AD 700’, in Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, eds., Byzantine Culture in Translation (Byzantina Australiensia 21, Brill, Leiden 2017).

Mr Spyros P. Panagopoulos, Patras ‘Μορφές οικονομικής οργάνωσης στη Μέση Βυζαντινή περίοδο: οι περί εργασίας, πλούτου και πενίας απόψεις του Αγίου Ευσταθίου του Κατάφλωρου Αρχιεπισκόπου Θεσσαλονίκης (12ος αιώνας)’, Σπουδές την Ορθόδοξη Θεολογία. Επιστημονικη επιθεώρηση του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος «Σπουδές στην Ορθόδοξη Θεολογια» 5 (2014) 194-205; ‘Man as a Superior Quality of the Rest of Creation: Human Being and Natural Environment in Gregory of Nyssa’, Dialogue and Universalism 1(2016) 69-78; ‘Ο μύθος της Ατλαντίδας υπό το φως της σύγχρονης φιλολογικής έρευνας’, in Christos Terezis, ed., ΤΟΚΟΣ ΕΝ ΚΑΛῼ ΤΟΜΟΣ ΤΙΜΗΤΙΚΟΣ – ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟ ΜΠΑΓΙΟΝΑ (Athens 2016) 181-208; ‘The relationship of the theology of uncreated light in St. Gregory Palamas and the Byzantine iconography of 14th-16th century’, in Constantinos Athanasopoulos, ed., Triune God: Incomprehensible but Knowable— The Philosophical and Theological Significance of St Gregory Palamas for Contemporary Philosophy and Theology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016) 327-344; with Christos Terezis, ‘Ἡ ἀντι-ἐξουσιαστικὴ λειτουργία τῆς ἐξουσίας στὴν κοσµολογία τοῦ Ἁγίου Γρηγορίου Νύσσης’, Θεολογία 2 (2016) 153-182. Forthcoming ‘The Relationship of Saint Gregory Palamas’ Theology of Transfiguration and the Hesychast Iconography of 14th- 16th c.’; Arethas of Caesarea's Platonism on his commentary of the Categoriae of Aristotle: Aristotelianism vs Platonism in 10h century Byzantium; ‘Η ΠΡΟΣΛΗΨΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗΣ PUBLICATIONS

ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟ ΤΟΥ 19ΟΥ ΑΙΩΝΑ’; ‘The Influence of the Protevangelium Iacobi in the Middle Byzantine Homiletic Tradition on the Mother of God’; ‘Όψεις της λατρείας της Θεοτόκου κατά τη Μέση Βυζαντινή περίοδο’; a study on the Cult of the Holy Virgin during the Middle Byzantine Period. Book reviews Journal of Theological Studies, Al-Masaq, Religious Studies Review, Early Medieval Europe, Σπουδές την Ορθόδοξη Θεολογία. Επιστημονικη επιθεώρηση του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος «Σπουδές στην Ορθόδοξη Θεολογια».

Eirini Panou, Patras Forthcoming The cult of St Anne in Byzantium (Routledge 2017); ‘Female Patronage in the churches of Macedonia during the Middle and Late Byzantine period’, in George Kakavas et al., eds., The institution of sponsorship from ancient to modern times (Athens 2017) ; ‘Between condemnation and use: Byzantine amulets of pregnancy’, in Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Leo Ruickbie, eds., The Material Culture of Magic (2017).

Dr Georgi R. Parpulov, Plovdiv ‛Philotheou and Stavronikita in AD 1520’, Palaeoslavica 24/2 (2016) 281-4; review of E. Boeck, Imagining the Byzantine Past (Cambridge 2015), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016) 325-6. Forthcoming ‛Notes on Tenth-Century Greek Book Decoration’, in M. Martiniani-Reber, ed., Autour des métiers du luxe à Byzance (Musée d'art e d'histoire, Geneva); ‛Two More Manuscripts for Basil the Bastard’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41 (2017); ‛The Miraculous Icon of the Neamţ Monastery’, under review for Revue roumaine d'histoire de l'art 54 (2017); review of C. Wright, M. Argyrou and Ch. Dendrinos, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library (London 2016), Manuscript Studies 2 (2017).

Dr Mihailo Popović, Vienna ‘Die Balkanhalbinsel zwischen luxemburgischem Europa und Osmanischem Reich: Drei Forschungsfragen’, in Rom 1312. Die Kaiserkrönung Heinrichs VIII. und die Folgen. Die Luxemburger als Herrscherdynastie von PUBLICATIONS gesamteuropäischer Bedeutung (Forschungen zur Kaiser- und Papstgeschichte des Mittelalters, Beihefte zu J. F. Böhmer, Regesta Imperii 40, Köln-Weimar- Wien 2016) 475-486; ‘L'Espace impérial, l'Espace contesté : le sud-est de la Macédoine entre Byzance et l'Empire serbe’, in Zbornik radova u čast akademiku Desanki Kovačević Kojić (Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske, Zbornik radova, Knjiga 10, Odjeljenje društvenih nauka, Knjiga 38, Banja Luka 2015), 409-425; ‘Raumordnung und Stadtgestalt in den Städten auf der Balkanhalbinsel in der spätbyzantinischen Zeit’, in Elisabeth Gruber, Mihailo Popović, Martin Scheutz and Herwig Weigl, eds., Städte im lateinischen Westen und im griechischen Osten zwischen Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Topographie – Recht – Religion, (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 66, Wien 2016) 79-95; ‘Српска принцеза Мара Бранковић између Свете земље, Васељенске патријаршије и Дубровника’, Smederevski zbornik 5 (2016) 55-73; ‘The “Medieval Serbian Oecumene” – Fiction or Reality?’, in Vesna Bikić, ed., Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art I. Process of Byzantinisation and Serbian Archaeology (Belgrade 2016) 37-43; ‘Хришћанска султанија Мара Бранковић и манастири Свете Горе’, in Deveta kazivanja o Svetoj Gori (Beograd 2016) 141-169; ‘Saint Clement of Ohrid: His Life and Aftermath between Sofia and Skopje’, in Homage to Tibor Živković (Institute of History Belgrade, Collection of Works Volume 32, Belgrade 2016) 77-91; ‘“Средњовековна српска екумена“ – фикција или стварност?’, in Весна Бикић, ed., Византијско наслеђе и српска уметност I. Процеси Византинизације и српска археологија (Београд 2016) 37-43. Forthcoming: ‘The Holy Mountain of Athos as Contact Zone between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in the 15th Century’, in Proceedings of the Conference “The Union of Florence” (Eastern and Central European Studies) (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main – Berlin – Bern – Bruxelles - New York – Oxford – Wien); ‘South–East European Princesses, Christian Renegades and Early Ottoman Statehood in the Balkans: State of Research and New Perspectives’, in Proceedings “Tradition and Transformation: Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean. Third CEMS International Graduate Conference”; Article ‘Ioannes von Rila (ca. 876/80-946)’, in Michael Grünbart and Alexander Riehle, eds., Lexikon byzantinischer Autoren; ‘Vlachen in der historischen Landschaft Mazedonien im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit’, in W. Haubrichs, W. Pohl and I. Hartl, eds., Romanen und ihre Fremdbezeichnungen im Mittelalter: Walchen, Vlachen, Waliser; ‘The Macro- and Micro-Level of Roads and Routes in the Medieval Balkans’, in Proceedings “Kulturstraßen als Konzept: 20 Jahre Straße der Romanik”; ‘Les Balkans : routes, foires et PUBLICATIONS pastoralisme au XIe siècle’, in Proceedings “À la suite de Paul Lemerle : L’humanisme byzantin et les études sur le XIe siècle quarante ans après”; ‘Le changement des élites en Macédoine face à l’expansion serbe – Le cas de Skopje et ses environs au 14e siècle’, in Proceedings “Colloque International Byzance et ses voisins, XIIIe-XVe siècle : art, identité, pouvoir”; ‘Jahrmärkte im europäischen Teil des Byzantinischen Reiches und deren neuzeitliches Nachleben’, in Proceedings “Internationale Messen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart”, Leipzig; ‘The Patriarchate and the Churches of the Balkans’, in A Companion to the Patriarchate of Constantinople (Brill); ‘Das Zarenreich Bulgarien und der Souveräne Malteser Ritter Orden – Die österreichische Sanitätsmission in Sofia (1915-1918)’, in Proceedings “Der Krieg auf dem Balkan. 100 Jahre Kriegseintritt Bulgariens in den 1. Weltkrieg”. Monograph (Editor and Co-Editor): together with Elisabeth Gruber, Mihailo Popović, Martin Scheutz and Herwig Weigl, eds., Städte im lateinischen Westen und im griechischen Osten zwischen Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Topographie – Recht – Religion (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 66), (Böhlau Verlag, Wien 2016), 354 pages, ISBN 978-3-205-20288-2. Websites: http://oeaw.academia.edu/MihailoPopovic http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/ https://oeaw.academia.edu/DigitisingPatternsofPower

Dr Andreas Rhoby, Vienna 'A Short History of Byzantine Epigraphy’, in A. Rhoby, ed., Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond. Methods – Projects – Case Studies (Wien 2015) 17–29; ‘Lexikographisch-sprachliche Bemerkungen zu den byzantinisch-griechischen Urkunden des Heiligen Berges Athos’, in ΠΕΡIBOΛΟΣ. Zbornik u čast Mirjane Živojinović / Mélanges offerts à Mirjana Živojinović (Belgrade 2015) I.35–60; ‘“When the year ran through six times of thousands …”: The Date in (Inscriptional) Byzantine Epigrams’, in St. Efthymiadis et al., eds., “Pour une poétique de Byzance”. Hommage à Vassilis Katsaros (Dossiers byzantins 16, Paris 2015) 223–242; ‘Inscriptions and Manuscripts in Byzantium: A Fruitful Symbiosis?’ in M. Maniaci and P. Orsini, eds., Scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria: fra Oriente e Occidente (Studi e ricerche del Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia 11, Cassino 2015) 15–44; ‘Labeling Poetry in the Middle and Late Byzantine Period’, Byzantion 85 (2015) 259–283; ‘Methods of Self- Representation in Byzantine Inscriptional Epigrams: Some Basic Thoughts’, in PUBLICATIONS

E. Santin and L. Foschia, eds., L’epigramme dans tous ses états: épigraphiques, littéraires, historiques, Nouvelle édition [en ligne] 2016: https://books.openedition.org/enseditions/5621; ‘Challenges of Byzantine Epigraphy in the 21st Century. A Short Note’, in A.E. Felle and A. Rocco, eds., Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders. Proceedings of the VI EAGLE International Meeting (24–25 September 2015, Bari, Italy) (Oxford 2016) 85–90, online: http://www.archaeopress.com; ‘Wie lange lebte Manuel Philes?’ in A. Berger, S. Mariev, G. Prinzing, A. Riehle, eds., ‘Koinotaton Doron. Das späte Byzanz zwischen Machtlosigkeit und kultureller Blüte (1204–1461)’, (Byzantinisches Archiv 31, Berlin, Boston 2016) 149–160.

In press With Paolo Odorico and Elisabeth Schiffer, Wolfram Hörandner. Facettes de la littérature byzantine. Contributions choisies; ‘“Tower stablished by God, God is protecting you”: Inscriptions on Byzantine Fortifications’, in Chr. Stavrakos, ed., Inscriptions in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine History and History of Art. Proceedings of the International Symposium “Inscriptions: Their Contribution to the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine History and History of Art (Ioannina, June 26–27, 2015) (Wiesbaden 2016); ‘Gemalt, gemeißelt, geritzt – die inschriftliche Überlieferung’, in F. Daim, ed., Byzanz (Der Neue Pauly, suppl. vol. 11); ‘Bildung und Ausbildung – Wissensvermittlung in Byzanz’, in ibid.; ‘Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display’, in Proceedings conference Heidelberg 2013; ‘The Textual Programme of the Cross of Bessarion’s Staurotheke and its Place within the Byzantine Tradition’, in Proceedings conference Venice 2013; 28 contributions to M. Grünbart and A. Riehle, eds., Lexikon byzantinischer Autoren; ‘Interpunktionszeichen in byzantinischen Versinschriften’, in Proceedings Congress of Greek Palaeography, Hamburg 2013; ‘Der byzantinische Literaturhorizont’, in Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropas, III; with Wolfram Hörandner, ‘Prose Rhythm and Metrics’, in St. Papaioannou, ed., Handbook of Byzantine Literature; ‘Epigrams in Byzantium and Beyond’, in Chr. Heriksén, ed., A Companion to Ancient Epigram; ‘Manuel Philes etc.’, in Ch. Barber and F. Spingou, eds., Byzantine Texts on Art and Aesthetics. From the Komnenoi to the Early Palaiologoi (1081 – ca. 1330); ‘Herbert Hunger, Wien und die byzantinische Epigraphik’, in E. Kislinger and A. Külzer, eds., Herbert Hunger und die Wiener Schule der Byzantinistik – Rückblick und Ausblick. Akten des Symposiums Dezember 2014; ‘Inscriptions and the Byzantine Beholder: The PUBLICATIONS

Question of the Perception of Script’, in M. Lauxtermann and I. Toth, eds., Proceedings Spring Symposium Oxford 2016. Work in Progress Byzantinische Epigramme in illuminierten Handschriften. Verse und ihr „inschriftlicher“ Gebrauch in Codices des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts (= Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung, vol. 4); with Anneliese Paul, Konstantinos Manasses, Synopsis Chronike, German translation (Hiersemann, Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur); with Wolfram Hörandner and Nikolaos Zagklas, A Companion to Byzantine Poetry (Brill); ‘Byzantine Poetry on Commission: The Case of Manuel Philes’, in ibid.; with Ivan Drpić, ‘Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: The Interaction of Word and Object’, in ibid.; with Nikolaos Zagklas, Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Brepols); ‘The Epigrams of Theodore Balsamon: Text and Context in the Late Twelfth Century’, in ibid.; ‘Hunde in Byzanz’, in Festschrift; ‘Latin Inscriptions in Byzantium’, in Le Latin à Byzance; Contributions to V. Tsamakda et al., Die griechischen Inschriften Kretas (13.–17. Jh.). Project Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081–1204): Text and Context, funded by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF), 01.10.2016–30.09.2019, based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/die-abteilungen/byzanzforschung/language-text- script/diplomatik-texteditionen/byzantine-poetry-1081-1204/

Dr Sonja Schönauer, Cologne Book Review of: Eustathii Thessalonicensis Exegesis in canonem iambicum pentecostalem, recenserunt indicibusque instruxerunt Paolo Cesaretti – Silvia Ronchey (Supplementa Byzantina 10, Berlin – New York 2014), in Medioevo Greco 16 (2016) 467–470. Work in Progress Ioannes Kantakuzenos, Historia. Critical edition (for the CFHB, series Berolinensis); The manuscripts of the Ἱστορίαι by Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos; Fälschung einer Chronik – Chronik einer Fälschung. Entstehung und Tradierung des sogenannten Chronicon maius des Pseudo-Sphrantzes (3-year DFG project at the University of Cologne, March 2015–February 2018); Pseudo-Sphrantzes, Chronicon. Critical edition.

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Professor Hjalmar Torp, Bergen With Bente Kiilerich, The Rotunda in Thessaloniki and its Mosaics (Kapon Editions, Athens 2016); with Bente Kiilerich, Η Ροτοντα της Θεσσαλονικης και τα ψηφιδωτα της (Kapon Editions, Athens 2016); ‘Lo sfondo storico- iconografico dell’immagine di Cristo nel Tempietto Longobardo di Cividale’, Acta archaeol. artium hist pert XXVIII 2015 [2016] 73-93; ‘Some Remarks on the Technique of the Centcelles Mosaics’, in A. Arbeiter and D. Korol, eds., Der Kuppelbau von Centcelles. Neue Forschungen zu einem enigmatischen Denkmal von Weltrang. Internationale Tagung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Madrid [22-24.11.2010] (Iberia Archeologica 21, Madrid 2016) 333- 337. Forthcoming ‘Considerations on the Chronology of the Rotunda Mosaics’, in A. Eastmond and M. Hatzaki, eds., The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited (Courtauld Institute, London, 30 May 2014) (Kapon Editions, Athens 2017); with Bente Kiilerich, ‘From Alexandria to Kenchreai? The Puzzle of the Glass Sectile Panels’, in T. Bács, A. Bollók and T. Vida, eds., Festschrift Laszlo Török (Budapest 2017). Work in Progress La Rotonde palatiale à Thessalonique, 2 vols. FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

4. FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

Professor Jim Crow (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh) Professor Sam Turner and Dr Mark Jackson (McCord Centre for Landscape, Newcastle University)

Landscape and settlement on Byzantine Naxos: Apalirou Environs Project 2015 and 2016

Naxos is the largest of the Cyclades and its distinctive landscape character has long been recognised by islanders and visitors, who frequently describe it as one of the most beautiful Greek islands. Topography, geology and climate have combined to create a series of markedly different environmental zones. A high spine of limestone mountains runs from north to south, separating the steep valleys of the island’s eastern third from the alluvial plains and low granite hills of the west. Today most people live in these low-lying western areas and in the fertile upland plain of Traghea/Dhrymalia, which nestles below the highest peak in the Cyclades, Mount Zas.

Whilst the special qualities of the island’s landscape are well-known to geologists and ecologists, its historic character is not so well understood. Historical sources provide some information about the historic landscape. An Ottoman tax register of 1670 shows that the island was divided into 56 estates (called topoi in Greek). They seem likely to have been the same 56 estates established by the Venetian conqueror Marco I Sanudo when he had established Venetian supremacy in 1207 (Slot 1991, 197-98). In the seventeenth century much of the agricultural land on Naxos comprised large fields subdivided into small plots that were cultivated side-by-side by different farmers. The outer boundaries of the fields were sometimes stone walls, but also irrigation channels, trees, boulders and other natural features (Kasdagli 1999, 90). In mountainous areas, it seems likely that the steep hillsides were terraced to create blocks known as louroi in the written sources (Kasdagli 1999, 88).

As in many Mediterranean countries, the origins and evolution of the cultural landscape of settlements, roads, fields and terraces, remains poorly understood. Whilst these elements are valued by local people and tourists for their contribution to the island scene, their medieval and earlier histories remain FIELDWORK & PROJECTS largely unappreciated. The many archaeological interventions on the island have usually focussed on specific monuments. Major excavation and survey projects have focused on important classical sites like the temples of Giroulas and Iria, or the aqueducts which brought the waters of Flerio to the island’s classical and late Antique centre at Chora (Sfyroera and Lambrinoudakis 2010). Relatively little archaeological research has considered the landscape context for these monuments. In the 1980s a French team undertook extensive field survey in the north-west of the island. Their work identified a number of prehistoric and classical sites, but did not consider the post-classical landscape in any detail (Dalongueville and Renault-Miskovsky 1993). In 2015 a new field survey commenced in the south-eastern part of Naxos began under the aegis of the University of Cambridge. Although this research will greatly improve our knowledge of that area and its maritime relationships, its focus is mainly on the settlement systems of the early Bronze Age.

The heritage of Naxos is best known to Byzantinists for its dense scatter of small rural churches dating to the Middle Ages, which has long been recognised as exceptional not only in the Aegean but also in the wider context of the eastern Mediterranean (Dimitrokallis 1968; 2000; Chatzidakis 1989; Mastoropoulos 2006; Aslanidis 2014). Naxos is particularly unusual because a relatively high proportion of these buildings appear to date to the early Middle Ages (AD c. 600-1000). Out of a total of around 150 Byzantine churches, perhaps as many as 50 should be dated to the early medieval period. Of these early examples, more than 20 preserve the distinctive geometric decoration known to art historians as ‘aniconic’ (Crow and Turner 2015, 202). This means that Naxos preserves a greater density of Byzantine churches with significant surviving early medieval fabric than anywhere else in Greece.

Characterising the historic landscape The possibility of researching a relatively unexplored historic landscape with many surviving Byzantine churches led us to initiate our research programme using Naxos as a case study in 2006-7. Our initial work took the form of a desk- based assessment using GIS (Geographical Information Systems) to analyse the historic landscape using data from aerial photography and satellite remote sensing. The research was part of a project designed to investigate the applicability in Mediterranean contexts of a method developed in the UK which is known as ‘historic landscape characterisation’ (HLC) (Turner 2006). Through case-studies on Naxos and around Silivri (Thrace, Turkey: Crow and Turner 2009), we were able to show that distinctive historic landscape types could be recognised and used to map patterns of historic landscape character (Turner and FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

Crow 2010). During this initial phase we were fortunate to establish a collaboration with Dr Athanasios Vionis, who had recently undertaken fieldwork on behalf of the 2nd Ephorate of Byzantine Archaeology and its then Ephor, Dr Charalambos Pennas. Together we used the GIS analysis and the historic characterisation to help understand some aspects of the location of the churches, for example their relationships to areas of cultivated land (Crow et al. 2011). We were also able to indicate the strong likelihood that many of the terrace systems on Naxos have early origins, dating at least to the medieval period and in some cases earlier. Nevertheless, because our early work did not involve fieldwork, our conclusions about the chronological relationships between churches and landscape types were only tentative. Vionis’ recent fieldwork had included rapid ceramic survey around a selection of the known early medieval churches which suggested that early Byzantine settlement was often located in their vicinity. The potential for renewed fieldwork to inform the landscape analysis was clear.

Apalirou Environs Project Since 2009 a team led by Professor Knut Odegard from the University of Olso (Norway) has been carrying out detailed survey of site at Kastro Apalirou, which occupies a mountainous spur rising to 474 m above sea level on the south-western approach to Mount Zas. The Norwegian survey has been able to document and plan the houses, streets, churches and other structures within and around the walled area of this mountain-top kastro (Hill et al. 2017). Our team has had the opportunity to collaborate with the Oslo group and the Cyclades Ephorate to develop a field survey of the wider region in the form of the Apalirou Environs Project. This began in 2015 with systematic ceramic survey in the immediate vicinity of the kastro combined with detailed survey of remains of an extensive village which has been discovered on the west flank of the mountainside, and which we call ‘Kato Apalirou’. In addition we commenced a detailed documentation of some of the important early churches in the survey area, including Ag Ioannis at Adissarou with its distinctive aniconic decoration, and the several ruined churches associated with the Kato Apalirou settlement.

The mountainside immediately to the west of the kastro drops steeply into a shallow bowl before sloping down sharply towards the fertile plain of Lathrina. In July 2015 we carried out an intensive pick-up survey using systematic line field-walking with participants spaced at 10m intervals on 100 x 100m transects (using the method based on that described by Bevan and Connolly 2013). Having established a grid with a Leica dGPS we were able to collect FIELDWORK & PROJECTS approximately 20,000 sherds which are now stored in the Byzantine Museum at Chora Naxou. The method employed quantities of ceramics which were collected represented a total sample approximating to around 10% of the material from the western slope, which was surveyed from the outer face of the west curtain wall of the kastro, down to the lower field wall of Kato Apalirou (a total area of around 11 hectares in 2015).

Processing of the finds was begun during the field season at the Byzantine Museum in Chora by Mark Jackson, Maria Duggan and Hallvard Indgjerd. At the first level body and feature sherds (handles, rims etc.) were split with initial quantification by count and (more usefully) weight. At this stage the team began construction of a working ceramic type series for the project. A second level of detailed quantification by fabric, form, weight and estimated vessel equivalent was begun but will be completed during future museum study of the finds.

From preliminary observations by the ceramics team it was possible to suggest that the main period of occupation on the kastro itself extended from the later- sixth to the eleventh century AD. On the steepest scree slopes immediately below the kastro walls the evidence suggests the main period of occupation extended from the later sixth to the eleventh century. Although there are the remains of structures in this area including terraces and some buildings, the majority of this material is assumed to derive largely from the kastro above (this theory will be tested using spatial analysis to establish the likely movement of objects downslope when the ceramic analysis has been completed). Lower down the mountainside, the initial evaluation of ceramics collected from the area of Kato Apalirou suggests a more restricted period of occupation, perhaps from the late-sixth to the ninth century AD.

In 2016 the ceramics team (Dr Mark Jackson, Dr Maria Duggan, Dr Charikleia Diamanti, Rosanna Valente, Hellvard Indgjerd and Matteo Randazzo) processed over 17,000 sherds from the 2015 season at Apalirou in the basement of the Byzantine museum at the Chora. They will be returning to Naxos in January 2017 for further study of the 2016 assemblage. The ceramics promise to contribute an important element for Apalirou, Naxos and the Cyclades in the period from the 7th – 12th centuries AD.

Kato Apalirou Below the steep, sherd-covered flanks of the kastro is an extensive walled enclosure measuring 200m N-S and 250m W-E, today partly covered with dense juniper wood which obscures traces of old terraces and stone buildings. FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

Further down the slope to the west the ground becomes more open and level and there are the remains of a later farmstead and other buildings probably contemporary with the enclosure wall. The area of Kato Apalirou is limited and screened from the plains of Lathrinou and Marathos to the west and south by a series of rocky knolls. The enclosure wall is clearly secondary to the terraces and buildings which extend across the upper slope for over 200 m from N-S. Survey with a total station has been able to define dense groups of buildings, many of them set on stepped and braided terraces. In the south part of the site some of the houses are seen to be approximately square and laid out in rows. Further north and beyond the north side of the enclosure wall there are traces of long houses, with clear internal subdivisions. All appear to be dry-stone built or clay/soil bonded with no evidence for lime mortar. Unlike the structures of the kastro there is no evidence for cisterns either associated with or below the houses. It is still not possible to discern the density of the settlement, although in places there are rows of four or more buildings, with lower rows down the slope. Altogether we have been able to identify at least 50 individual structures and we are confident that further survey will be able to document many more. The ceramic survey noted from the slopes towards the kastro has not yet completed the area of Kato Apalirou, however a preliminary assessment suggests that it dated between the later-sixth and tenth centuries, with a terminal date significantly earlier than from the kastro itself. Four churches are known, the church dedicated to the Theoskepasti situated on the boundary wall on the east side is discussed in the next section. Towards the centre of the settlement is a ruined single-apsed church with a secondary side aisle on the south side. It is located on a distinctive knoll and provides a central focus for the settlement. Below the south enclosure wall traces of an apse indicate another chapel. Lower down the slope the ground is more open and there are the remains of another rectangular building, aligned east-west, with a raised platform on the west side, together with remains of further terraces and an earlier enclosure wall. From preliminary observations of the ceramic evidence seen across the site the settlement dates from the end of the sixth up to the end of the tenth century, with no evidence for the glazed wares seen on the Kastro above. Villages of later medieval date are known from the Peloponnese and elsewhere (Kourelis 2005; Gregory 2013) but what is significant about Kato Apalirou is the early date of the settlement in the Transitional period and its association with the kastro above.

Building Survey In 2015 our team also began to record selected buildings using detailed methods, including photography and terrestrial laser scanning. These FIELDWORK & PROJECTS monuments included the archaeological remains of two churches in the deserted settlement of Kato Apalirou, along with two standing monuments: the small churches of Ag. Ioannis Adissarou to the north-west of Apalirou and the church of (?) Theoskepasti in Kato Apalirou. Although the island’s Byzantine churches have been subject to relatively sustained research, many questions remain about their foundation and context. Our aim is to produce detailed analyses of these structures using the methods of digital buildings archaeology and try to understand how the histories of the buildings may be related to the long-term histories of their surrounding landscapes.

In the field conventional survey using photography and record sheets was complemented by digital survey undertaken by Alex Turner and Sam Turner with a Faro Focus x330 laser scanner. The resulting data was processed using Faro SCENE software to create 3D point clouds. These point clouds provide a detailed survey of the buildings that can be used directly for analysis, or exported to provide the basis for 3D solid models of the buildings. All the buildings we studied were shown to have long histories of development and change, including the ruined or part-ruined churches of Kato Apalirou.

The church of Theoskepasti in Kato Apalirou provides an example of a surprisingly complex building. This deceptively tiny structure today measures just 3.32 m long x 2.29 m from the west wall to the springing of its apse, which is set without windows directly against the rocky mountainside. The church has the appearance today of a post-medieval chapel but detailed survey showed that this is certainly due to a renovation which took place sometime before the late nineteenth century. Careful analysis showed that this work effectively remodelled the second of two medieval phases, whose stone roof is preserved in the current vault.

In 2016 windy conditions meant that this season building survey using laser scanning was relatively limited, comprising re-survey of part of the church of Ag. Ioannis Adissarou to the north-west of Apalirou and the church of Ag. Stephanos to the south.

A further aspect of the landscape research concerns the application of OSL dating of soil samples. These were collected from the terrace systems on the western flank of the mountain to provide material for luminescence dating at SUERC, Glasgow. Field profiling allowed the team to identify 10 terraces for sampling which should produce a good range of evidence for the use of terraces FIELDWORK & PROJECTS of the mountainside. Samples are currently being processed through the lab and results are expected in January or February 2017.

Conclusion Our programme of research on Naxos aims to take a multi-scale assessment of the landscapes of the island and focuses particularly on the periods from the end of the classical world to recent times. Through HLC assessment we have been able to demonstrate the potential for future landscape research which will be combined with intensive surface survey in the Apalirou Environs Project. Analysis of the detailed survey data from the flanks of Apalirou Kastro can contribute to a better understanding of the chronology of the occupation of the kastro and its settlement. In addition the large sample of ceramic material collected so far will also contribute to a better awareness of the economic and cultural connections of the community through trade and exchange in the Aegean and beyond and potentially help to define the character of the defended settlement. Study of the lower Kato Apalirou has been able to discern an extensive open settlement contemporary with the kastro. Settlements of this period (better termed Transitional rather than Dark Age) are extremely rare in Byzantine Greece and Asia Minor and the juxtaposition of a defended settlement with possible elite structures, cisterns etc and the lower, more uniform dwellings below, helps to define a service/agricultural function for the latter, with a more public/state administrative role for the kastro. Further survey and study will ensure greater granularity to the chronological range of the ceramic material which can assist in assessing the historical context of the settlements. The transitional age in the Aegean was a period of new challenges by land and sea and the combined settlements of Apalirou show how the state and the island communities could reconfigure and demonstrate both resistance and resilience to external threats. Within the settlements of the transitional period and in the adjacent countryside the rich heritage of Byzantine churches reveals both patronage and a distinctive creativity defined by their aniconic decoration. Our documentation of the churches in the study area will enable a greater recognition of their structural complexity, as demonstrated at the Theoskepasti, and can ensure they are better contextualised as part of a wider diachronic landscape.

Acknowledgements: We acknowledge the financial support of a field survey grant from Dumbarton Oaks in 2015, and support from the Universities of Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2015 we worked from 9th to 24th July 2015 and the team comprised Professor Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh), Professor Sam FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

Turner, Dr Mark Jackson, Dr Joe Skinner, Alex Turner, Maria Duggan, Vicky Manolopoulou (Newcastle University), Hallvard Indgjerd (Oslo University). Mrs Irini Legaki represented the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Professor Knut Ødergård (University of Oslo) was present during the first week. In 2016 the survey was conducted from 11th to 23rd July. The survey team comprised Professor Jim Crow, Rossana Valente, Christianna Veloudaki, Matteo Randazzo (University of Edinburgh), Professor Sam Turner, Dr Mark Jackson, Alex Turner, Maria Duggan, Gianluca Foschi, Oliver Dempsey, Chris Whittaker, Stelios Lekakis (Newcastle University), Dr Tim Kinnaird (University of Glasgow) and Hallvard Indgjerd (University of St Andrews). Professor Knut Ødergård (University of Oslo) was present during the first week of fieldwork, Dr Dimitris Athanasoulis and Dr Maria Sigala represented the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

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Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia, 277-306. Kourelis, K. 2005 The rural house in the medieval Peloponese. An archaeological reassessemnt of the Byzantine domestic architecture, in J. J. Emerick and D. L. Deliyaninis (eds), Archaeology in Architecture, Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, Mainz, 119-128. Hill, D., Ødegård, K., and H. Roland, 2017 Kastro Apalirou, Naxos, A Seventh Century Urban Foundation, in E. Rizos (ed.), New Cities in Late Antiquity, (Bibliotheque de l' Antiquité Tardive), Brepols, Turnhout, 277-286. Mastoropoulos, G.S. 2006 Νάξος - το άλλο κάλλος. Naxos: Byzantine Monuments. Athens: Ellinikes Omoiographikes Ekdoseis. Sfyroera, A. and B. Lambrinoudakis 2010. Συντήρηση και ανάδειξη του αρχαίου υδραγωγείου Μελάνων Νάξου, αρχαίου ιερού στις πηγές των Μελάνων και αγαλμάτων στα αρχαία λατομεία της περιοχής. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Turner, S. 2006 Historic landscape characterisation: a landscape archaeology for research, management and planning. Landscape Research 31(4), 385-398. Turner, S. and J. Crow 2010. Unlocking historic landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean: two pilot studies using historic landscape characterisation. Antiquity 84 (323), 216-229.

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Professor Claudine Dauphin

Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Crusades: population dynamics and artistic expression Affiliated to the Council for British Research in the Levant - CBRL, Amman.

Mapping of Southern Jordan and Southern Palestine/Israel (Topography, Geology, Pedology, Hydrology, Springs, Road Networks, DEM - Digital Elevation Model) was completed, and, for each category, the maps West and East of the River Jordan were assembled together into single maps. Data processing, GIS analyses and preliminary historical interpretations for Southern Jordan and Southern Palestine/Israel are in progress. A study in Agrarian Morphology was conducted on the ancient landscapes of Dhiban, Nakhl, Umm er-Rasas and Nitl in Southern Jordan. It was remarkably fruitful on the delimitation and definition of the Byzantine agricultural lands of Umm er-Rasas (Byzantine Mefa’a), a site with 14 churches formerly excavated by Fr Michele Piccirillo, ofm, of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem. The FIELDWORK & PROJECTS evidence of interaction between Byzantine farmers and nomads is also etched in the landscape.

The Pilgrim Camps on the Darb al-Hajj al-Shami

Within the framework of a Landscape Archaeology and GIS study of the Mediaeval (7th-15th centuries) and Ottoman (16th-early 20th centuries) “Syrian” pilgrimage routes (Darb al-Hajj al-Shami) to Mecca, which running south from Damascus bisect Jordan lengthwise, following on from the preliminary exploration conducted by myself and Dr Mohamed Ben Jeddou, with the assistance of Qutaiba al-Dasouqi, Department of Antiquities of Jordan surveyor, in November-December 2014, I decided to focus specifically on the Hajj pilgrim camps. I had reconstructed two on paper from the descriptions of J.L. Burckhardt (1822) at Ramtha and Ch. Doughty (1888) at Ma’an and was determined to locate these and the others.

The magnitude of the Hajj caravan - from 3,000 camels in the 15th century up to 60,000 pilgrims and 80 000 camels in its heyday in the 16th-18th centuries - had resulted in the abandonment of the few khans punctuating the original Mediaeval road in favour of vast open-air encampments on the outskirts of cities, attracting merchants and farmers selling their produce. In 2014 I had located several, but many more remained to be detected and fully recorded.

With a grant from the Palestine Exploration Fund, London and a permit from the Department of Antiquities of Jordan for field reconnaissance of six sites on the Mediaeval route and twelve on the Ottoman road, as well as access to its Jadis and Mega computerized Databases and Archives to check these, I spent three weeks in Jordan (15 April-6 May 2016) exploring the Hajj pilgrim camps.

Using RAF aerial photographs of 1953 provided by the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center, and applying British methods of Historic Landscape recording and interpretation (walking the entire area, detecting features thanks to slanting afternoon light, recording by GPS, measuring, drawing and photography, all integrated with historic mapping and other documents), with the assistance of Qutaiba al-Dasouqi, DAoJ surveyor, access from the main Hajj road or via secondary paths was plotted, the extent of each camp was determined and its natural limits (wadi or terracing) defined, hearths, traces of FIELDWORK & PROJECTS tents and enclosures for the thousands of camels, donkeys, mules and horses of the Hajj caravan were recorded, and sherd scatters dated. Upon returning to Europe, all the data was mapped against the background of aerial photographs or Google Earth by Mohamed Ben Jeddou, GIS Expert of the ‘Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant’ Project and myself.

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Professor Sam Turner and Dr Mark Jackson, Newcastle University, UK Professor Engin Nurlu and Dr Nurdan Erdoğan, Ege University, Turkey Dr Günder Varinlioğlu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey Dr T. Emre Şerifoğlu, Bitlis Eren University, Turkey Dr Ebru Ersoy, Adnan Mederes University, Turkey

Cultural Heritage in Landscape: Planning for Development in Turkey (CHiLaT) 2016-18

The project is a collaboration between Newcastle and Turkish archaeologists, historians, ecologists, planners and landscape architects in four universities. The aim of this project is to create and implement innovative methods for mapping the value of cultural heritage in landscape and for integrating this knowledge into systems of landscape planning and management. The research team will carry out two detailed case-studies in Turkey that build on a series of recent national and international research projects funded by bodies including TUBITAK, AHRC, the British Academy and the Newton Fund.

The methods and approaches developed in the project will not be specific only to Turkey, but instead will demonstrate good practices that could be applied in any context around the world where rapid change threatens the value of cultural and natural heritage in landscape. Our objective is to promote the value and sensitive use of landscape heritage to underpin sustainable social and economic development.

The project will be managed as five Work Packages (WPs) which together will create and demonstrate innovative applications of GIS-based characterisation for historic landscape research, public participation and landscape planning.

The project will be focussed around two case-studies in the regions of Mersin (Taşucu Gulf and the lower Göksu Valley with their important Byzantine settlement remains) and Izmir, each of which will include detailed analysis of a FIELDWORK & PROJECTS large area (including all available modern/historic cartography, remote sensing and aerial photographic data), with targeted ecological and archaeological fieldwork (WP2); public engagement and participation to underpin interpretations of landscape value (WP3); and GIS-based modelling of scenarios to develop methods for visualising and planning future landscapes (WP4).

The project will address these two fundamental challenges in the Turkish context: 1. To identify and implement effective methods for advocating positive landscape change based on a well-understood and clearly presented base of evidence that includes cultural heritage; 2. To create effective relationships between landscape researchers in different scientific disciplines, landscape planning policy and practical implementation in landscape management.

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Dr Günder Varinlioglu, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul Professor Sam Turner and Dr Mark Jackson, Newcastle University

New approaches to historic landscapes: Bogsak in Isauria

This project has enabled Dr Günder Varinlioglu to collaborate with Newcastle University as a British Academy Newton Advanced Fellow.

The collaboration is focused on her existing landscape archaeology project in the Taşucu Gulf in southern Turkey, namely the Boğsak Archaeological Survey (www. bogsakarchaeology.org), which explores the island of Boğsak (ancient Asteria), a now deserted early medieval settlement, as its main case study.

The project has allowed the team to apply cutting-edge digital humanities techniques, including GIS-based landscape characterisation and digital building analysis using terrestrial laser scanning and digital photogrammetry to deliver benefits in four key areas:

(a) The Fellowship is enabling the Turkish team to acquire a new range of skills and expertise (b) The collaboration is enabling the UK team to promote techniques developed in its research and engage with stakeholders in Turkey FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

(c) The team is creating a new understanding the landscape archaeology of Boğsak and its region (d) The team is promoting new methods for cultural heritage management that will facilitate implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Turkey

Two workshops have been organised in Istanbul as part of the project, ‘New Approaches to Historic Landscapes’ in February 2016 and ‘Digital approaches to landscape analysis’ in 2017.

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Professor John Haldon

The Avkat Archaeological Project surface survey is now finished and publication of the volume presenting results is planned for 2017.

Climate Change and History. See BBBS 2015-16. For details of the project members, project aims and rationale; for our seminar and public lecture series, as well as for current activities, see the project webpages at: http://climatechangeandhistory.princeton.edu/. A project colloquium entitled Approaches to climate, environment and society in Eurasia, 300-1900. Towards understanding the impact of climate on complex societies took place at Princeton in May 2016, and presentations of the work of project members took place in the session on Climate and History at the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 22-27 August 2016, Belgrade, Serbia (Haldon, Izdebski); at the Climate and History session at the 2016 MedCLIVAR conference, 26-30 September 2016 (Haldon, Izdebski, Laparidou); and at the Late Antique Archaeology Conference (co-sponsored by the Princeton CCHRI project) in October 2016 on Environment and society in the first millennium (Haldon, Izdebski, Roberts). In September 2016 the project’s second introductory workshop on palaeoclimate science for historians, this year on palynology (the first, in September 2015 addressed questions of dendro-dating), was held at Princeton University, led by Professor Neil Roberts and Dr Warren Eastwood. The third introductory workshop will be on speleothems and ice-cores, and will take place at Princeton in September 2017. Project members have published a number of papers arising from the team’s research, details of which can again be found on our webpages.

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A third colloquium is planned for May 2017, on the theme Vulnerability and resilience: from catastrophe to complexity. Program details will shortly be available on our website. The results of the project work will be presented at the ‘Climate & Society’ annual meeting at the Navarino Environmental Observatory (Messinia, Greece), in the fall of 2017. The project team is currently co-authoring a substantial multi-authored contribution on resilience and vulnerability in the Balkans, Near and Middle East from Roman to Ottoman times for the journal Human Ecology, to appear in 2017.

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Dr. Mihailo Popović Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World

Funded within the programme “Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (4 years: 2015- 2018) Host institution: Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW, Hollandstraße 11-13, 1020 Vienna, Austria Principal Investigator: Doz. Mag. Dr. Mihailo Popović, Institute for Medieval Research/ Division of Byzantine Research, ÖAW (e-Mail: [email protected])

The project ‘Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World’ entered its second year (2016) with several highlights. Four out of four sessions of the DPP team had been accepted by the organisers of the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds (4-7 July 2016).

In 2015 the application of Mrs. Marija Vasiljević MA, a PhD student in the field of Medieval Studies at the Department of History of the University of Belgrade, for a two-month scholarship of the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria (Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research, OeAD-GmbH) had successfully been supported by Mihailo Popović. Mrs. Vasiljević joined the Team Institute for Medieval Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences) from 1 April 2016 until 31 May 2016 and cooperate closely with Mihailo Popović and David Schmid on the medieval Slavonic charters concerning Case Study no. 3 [The Historical Region of Macedonia (12th–14th Cent.) – The Transformation of a Medieval Landscape].

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Accompanying to the project DPP, Mihailo Popović has initiated a scholarly collaboration with the publishing house Akademska Knjiga in Novi Sad and has founded a new peer-reviewed publication series as chief editor entitled ‘Studies in Historical Geography and Cultural Heritage’. This series aims at exploring new methods and theories in the Historical Geography of Byzantium and adjacent areas as well as at discussing new thoughts and ideas within the disciplines of Historical Geography and Digital Humanities (GIS; HGIS), Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Paleobotany, and Paleozoology of the Mediterranean World, and their influence on existing methodologies. The first volume of the new series will be entitled ‘The Urban and Sacred Topography of Prilep – a Byzantine Town in the Balkans’ and is due to be published in the first half of 2017. Please feel free to consult the following link for further details: http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/histgeo/

The 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies was held in Belgrade from 22 August until 27 August 2016. Byzantine scholars from around the world were warmly welcome to the Serbian capital in order to exchange important scholarly thoughts and ideas and thereby present the current state of research in Byzantine Studies. The DPP team was represented by Mihailo Popović and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller in Belgrade. Apart from their individual papers during the Congress they both took part in a Special Session on ‘The Digital Humanities and Byzantine Studies’, which was organised by Professor Staffan Wahlgren (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Mihailo Popović spoke on the current results of DPP in the first year of the project. He also commented on emerging new thoughts and ideas within the discipline of Historical Geography of the Mediterranean World, their consequences for existing methodologies and projects, the possible contribution of applications deriving from Digital Humanities (GIS; HGIS) on shaping the respective field of study and new ways of outreach to the interested public in the future. In addition, Mihailo Popović organised a Round Table ‘Historical Geography of Byzantium in the 21st Century: New Methods and Theories’, which united the expertise of different internationally renowned scholars.

The project DPP and the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (Faculty of Philosophy, Institute for History) have started a joint scholarly project entitled ‘The Ethnonym of the Vlachs in the Written Sources and the Toponymy in the Historical Region of Macedonia’, which focuses on the interplay between the resident population and the nomads (i.e. the Vlachs) in the respective historical region from the 11th to the 16th century. This project, which was successfully submitted by the project coordinators Mihailo Popović and FIELDWORK & PROJECTS

Professor Dr Toni Filiposki, is funded by the Centre for International Cooperation & Mobility (ICM) of the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH) for two years (2016- 18) and will form an additional, new case study within DPP. In addition, a new case studies has been incorporated into our project, namely the case study on ‘The Herzheimer Family Chronicle (613-1506)’ by Veronika Polloczek.

In the last months various new map features have been implemented for the DPP-database. In written sources very often only vague information is given regarding the spatial position of the mentioned entities. For example, a village that is mentioned in a charter might be identified either with a still existing village, the exact extent or shape of which we know, or it might be identified with an abandoned village, which can be attributed to a certain area, in which it was originally located. In order to be able to deal with this fuzziness of spatial information, a framework based on Leaflet and PostGIS was developed. This allows the user to draw polygons with the aim to mark the spatial extent of a historical entity or simply to create a centerpoint of its position. The respective features are implemented in the map interface of the web application. Therefore, it is possible to record in our DPP-database any type of precise or vague localisation without loss of information.

The DPP members at the University of Vienna, Department for Geography and Regional Research are currently working on the first prototype of the map based online application, which will be the prominent frontend of the DPP project. This application, which is a key aspect of the project, will serve two equally important functions. One function is to enable the scholars of DPP to view the spatial data and explore spatial relations between different database entities and thus gain insight to the medieval landscape. The second function of the application is to present the research of DPP and its results to an interested public audience. In the final application key results of DPP will be communicated via “story maps”, predefined views of the data which are complemented with a detailed description of the topic shown and information about its significance for the historiography.

Finally, the First International Workshop entitled ‘Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Theory and Practice in Historical Geography and Digital Humanities’ took place on 28/29 September 2016 at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW) in Vienna. It was organised by the DPP team. In total 25 national and international researchers, representing manifold academic FIELDWORK & PROJECTS disciplines, talked about relevant aspects, expectations and possibilities of digital methods in History, Archaeology and Geography, especially databases, digital editions and mapping.

Please feel free to consult our web page at http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/ for further information and also if you would like to subscribe to our DPP newsletter, which is published quarterly: http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?seite=Contact.

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Alberto Bardi (PhD) On the trails of Persian astronomy in Byzantium. Edition of the Παράδοσις εἰς τοὺς περσικοὺς κανόνας τῆς ἀστρονομίας Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Byzantinistik Supervisor: Professor Albrecht Berger

Vincenzo Castalgo (PhD) Late Ceramic Production and Trade in Campagna University of Edinburgh

Elif Demirtiken (PhD) Monasteries and Monasticism in Late Byzantine Constantinople University of Edinburgh

Georgios Diamantopoulos (PhD) Niketas Stethatos, life and works Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Byzantinistik Supervisor: Professor Albrecht Berger

Marco Dosi (MRes) Rome after Rome: The cult of the state, ideology and propaganda in the reigns of Zeno (474-491) and Anastasius (491-518) University of Birmingham Supervisors: Professor Michael Whitby and Dr Ruth Macrides

Alasdair Grant (PhD) The Perception of Difference: Cross-Confessional Interfaces in the Later Medieval Eastern Roman World University of Edinburgh

Mark Huggins (PhD) The Reception of John Chrysostom in Byzantium: a study of the catechetical homily on Pascha University of Edinburgh

Mirela Ivanova (DPhil) Cultures of Writing in Early Medieval Bulgaria, c. 700–1000 University of Oxford

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Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Shepard and Dr Catherine Holmes

Christos Kafasis (PhD) Education in the Empire of Trebizond Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Byzantinistik Supervisor: Professor Albrecht Berger

Nikolaus Klassen (PhD) Prudentius: A Lyrical Poet in the Age of Asceticism University of Reading Supervisors: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou and Dr Karla Pollmann

Lorenzo Livorsi (PhD) Religion and Literature in the 6th century AD: the Vita S. Martini by Venantius Fortunatus University of Reading Supervisors: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou and Dr Karla Pollmann

Ivan Marić (PhD) Imperial Ideology after Iconoclasm: Negotiating the limits of imperial power in Byzantium, 843-913 University of Edinburgh

Joseph Parsonage (PhD) Dynastic evolution in the middle centuries of Byzantium: marriage, succession and gentle usurpation c. 800-1200 University of Birmingham Supervisors: Dr Ruth Macrides and Professor Leslie Brubaker

Matteo Randazzo (PhD) Sicily and Crete between Byzantium and Islam University of Edinburgh

Anastasia Sirotenko (PhD) The reception of the emperor Herakleios in medieval authors Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Byzantinistik Supervisor: Professor Albrecht Berger

Flavia Vanni (PhD) Byzantine stucco decoration 850-1453. Cultural and economic implications across the Mediterranean world University of Birmingham Supervisors: Professor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Ruth Macrides

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Christianna Veloudaki (PhD) Kythnos and Medieval Fortified Settlements in the Cyclades University of Edinburgh

Gang Wu (PhD) Women, status and social hierarchies in the middle Byzantine period King’s College London Supervisor: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Yang Zhang (PhD) The state and the economy in the middle Byzantine period King’s College London Supervisor: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Gianluca Foschi (PhD student, 2nd year) The Role of Musical Proportions in Early Christian Buildings Newcastle University Supervisors: Dr Mark Jackson, Dr David Creese, Professor Sam Turner and Professor Magnus Williamson

The project examines the extent to which representative case studies of early churches were intentionally based upon proportions derived from ancient musical theory and establishes how these elements were employed in their aesthetics and acoustics in order to create a mystical experience.

Music was a mathematical science studied in combination with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy and connected to the concept of cosmic beauty. Harmonic theory, through the monochord (kanōn), allowed for visualising sound in numerical ratios corresponding, for instance, to the length of strings producing concordant intervals. These ratios, also represented in geometrical shapes, were synonym of perfection and gained a symbolic value as expression of universal beauty and divine archetypes. Through geometry and arithmetic, musical proportions were often employed outside the realm of sound. Vitruvius already considered music as an educational requirement for architects and gave evidence for the usage of harmonic ratios to improve acoustics. Early Christian authors (e.g. Clement of Alexandria, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa) continued to link music to the divine essence of the cosmos. Therefore, music could play a fundamental role in the early Christian temple, which in written sources is described as a sacred and inspired structure meant to be an image of divine archetypes.

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The presence of harmonic ratios in early Christian architecture was noticed in the Nineties by Hans Buchwald, who recognised a ‘classical system’ of proportions in churches which included all the ratios of the main musical intervals (1:1, 2:1, 3:2, 4:3). Buchwald wondered about the meaning of these proportions and raised some fundamental questions that still need to be answered. The employment of musical proportions, under assessment in Classical architecture (Edmund Thomas) and approached in Carolingian buildings (Carol Heitz, Willi Apel), is being recognised in Gothic churches through new evidence (Alpay Özdural). Furthermore, the influence of three out of four disciplines of the Quadrivium of liberal arts (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy) on late antique architects has been recently assessed (Nadine Schibille). For these reasons, an investigation of early Christian architecture based on reliable surveys which sytematically takes into account the complex field of ancient musical science – the fourth discipline of the Quadrivium – together with the intentional acoustic properties of the buildings, is now essential as part of an important trajectory of understanding of architecture from the classical to later periods.

The project examines written sources concerning, on the first hand, ancient musical science and, on the second hand, architectural design and acoustics, their meaning and their link to philosophy and theology. The analysis of architectural proportions is based primarily on the gathering – through laser scanner and photogrammetry – of original data from early churches in Greece (Naxos, within the 'Apalirou Environs Project, Naxos') and Italy (Ravenna). A qualitative approach is applied to these case studies and to other published surveys whose methodology and approach guarantee a high level of precision (e.g. Istanbul, Turkey; Zenobia-Halabieh, Syria; Jerash, Jordan; Cimitile, Italy). 3D models will be designed to analyse, through ODEON software, the correlation between proportions and acoustics with attention to recent researches (e.g. 'Icons of Sound'; ‘CAHRISMA Project’; ‘The Acoustics of Worship Places’). A large amount of other published surveys is being gathered in a database and classified according to the purpose of the surveyor (e.g. recording the schematic outline of the building; recording the exact measurements and irregularities, etc.) in order to evaluate their reliability and apply statistics with a quantitative approach. This methodology aims to create a database suitable to be continuously updated with new reliable data and to obtain durable results on different typologies (small-scale, monumental urban), chronologies (4th-10th centuries) and areas (East- West; city-countryside) in order to determine the extent and meaning of the intentional employment of musical proportions in early Christian buildings.

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Theses completed in 2016

Jeff Brubaker (PhD) Religion and Diplomacy: The Role of the Disputatio in Byzantine-Latin Relations after 1204 University of Birmingham

This study considers the development and evolution of Byzantine diplomacy through a crucial and previously overlooked period of the empire’s history. Current scholarship has neglected the analysis of Byzantine diplomacy from 1204, when the capital of Constantinople was seized by the Fourth Crusade, to 1261, when the city was returned to Byzantine control. During these years the institutions of the Byzantine state were preserved at Nicaea, which continued the complex relationship between Greeks and Latins and adapted the tested methods of diplomacy to meet new challenges.

Of central concern is the frequency of church-union negotiation, or disputatio, during the period in question. Attempts to heal the schism of the Eastern and Western Churches were a frequently used tool of Byzantine diplomacy even before 1204, but the sources, problems and implications surrounding this aspect of foreign relations, although taken up by those pursuing theological analysis, have been neglected by historians. The emperors in Nicaea repeatedly opened talks with the papacy to end the schism before 1261, most notably in 1234, a meeting which carried profound implications for Byzantine foreign policy. By placing the disputatio in the context of Byzantine-Latin relations after 1204, we gain a more complete understanding of Byzantine diplomacy.

Siren Celik (PhD) A Historical Biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425) University of Birmingham This dissertation offers a new biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350- 1425), attempting to depict him as a ruler, writer and personality. The dissertation is organized as a chronological narrative, each chapter dealing with a time period in Manuel’s life. For the first time, this study offers an in-depth analysis of Manuel’s complete literary, philosophical and theological oeuvre. Some of the key discussions are Manuel’s self- representation and how he adopts various stances and personas under

64 THESES specific conditions, his literary style, the innovations he introduces to topoi and the allusions he makes to Classical authors in order to display his wit and to give different layers of meaning. An attempt is made to gain an insight into Manuel’s thoughts and feelings, his pastimes and his relationships with the literati, family members and foes. This study also strives to envisage Manuel’s surroundings and everyday life, such as his environment in Constantinople and other cities, his travels, the conditions in the campaigns in which he participated, his daily life in the palace, fashions and food. Finally, through an analysis of Byzantine, Western and Ottoman sources, the dissertation studies the political history of the period.

Nicholas Evans (DPhil) Mountains, Steppes and Empires: Approaches to the North Caucasus in the Early Middle Ages University of Oxford Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Shepard and Dr Mark Whittow Examined by Professor Chris Wickham and Professor Hugh Kennedy (awarded November 2016)

Lara Frentrop (PhD) The Art of Dining in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium Courtauld Institute of Art, London

This thesis investigates a group of Middle Byzantine silver-gilt dishes displaying images that span both the religious and the secular, ranging from images of courtly entertainments to representations of saints, scenes of battle, and altogether more enigmatic visions of human-animal violence. The dishes, discovered in remote regions of Russia, have only received passing mentions since their first (and last) in-depth study in the 1970s, and have been attributed variously to Byzantium, Russia, and the Balkan states, with their dating ranging from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries.

This thesis argues that the majority of the bowls dates to the twelfth century, based on textual, visual, and cultural evidence; and that these artworks were made and viewed in the Byzantine Empire. By investigating the dishes together with textual sources and artworks from the Middle Byzantine period, this thesis localises the decorated bowls within the milieu of twelfth-century Byzantium and, more specifically,

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The first part of this thesis focuses on the viewing context of the banquet and the spectacle enveloping it. This part opens by considering the performances that accompanied the banquets of the elite, including acrobats, dancers, and musicians, arguing that the decorated dishes actively contributed to the theatrical effects of the banquet. Then, it investigates the vessels’ role in the display of power and feasting’s connotations of triumph.

The second part investigates how the vessels refer to and construct the individual. This part examines how the artworks were essential components in the creation and display of the ideal Byzantine individual. Then, it examines how the dishes visualise and structure the relationships of their audience; lastly, this thesis investigates how the decorated metal bowls reflected their viewers’ fears and hopes for the afterlife.

Jacek Gruszczynski (DPhil) Comparative Study of the Archaeological Context of Silver Hoards c. 800-1050 in Northern and Central Europe University of Oxford Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Shepard and Dr Luke Treadwell Examined by Professor Lesley Abrams and Professor Neil Price (awarded December 2016)

Chris Hobbs (PhD) A Study of the Historia Byzantina of Doukas Royal Holloway Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Harris

This thesis examines the Historia Byzantina of the fifteenth-century historian, Doukas. Key historiographical questions are investigated in five chapters. It starts by posing fundamental questions such as how he structured his narrative and what his sources were, and once these points are established, the final chapters attempt to reconstruct his worldview and motivations. While aspects of his history have clearly been influenced by the classicising Byzantine historiographical tradition, other elements and influences, such as the Bible and oral sources, have not been fully appreciated. Chapter one examines Doukas and the late- medieval Aegean world in which he lived. Chapter two examines

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Doukas’ organisation and structure. Chapter three determines his literary choices, style and intended audience. Chapter four establishes the likely sources he used to construct his history. Finally, chapter five questions Doukas’ understanding of causation: tyche, divine providence, and his motivations and intentions. Doukas’ work is not best considered solely as part of the chain of Byzantine historiography, but also as part of a range of Greek historiography written outside the Byzantine Empire and its literary traditions.

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou (PhD) The Orthodox Church in Frankish- and Venetian-ruled Cyprus (1191– 1571): Society, Spirituality and Identity The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London Supervisor: Dr Charalambos Dendrinos. Advisor: Dr David Gwynn. Examiners: Richard Price and Costas N. Constantinides

The thesis is a study of the Orthodox Cypriot Church and society between 1191 and 1571, which was marked by various political and socio- religious developments during the island’s Frankish and Venetian rule. It aims to investigate to what extent did Latin-ruled Cypriot Rhomaioi (i.e., Byzantine Romans) succeed in preserving and adapting their Orthodox identity, and in what ways did political and socio-economic developments affect their ideological and spiritual orientation in this period.

The Latin rule in Cyprus (1191–1571) has been a subject of much debate among scholars. Greek-Cypriot Byzantinists (e.g., Th. Papadopoullos, C. P. Kyrris and B. Englezakis) tend to stress the continuity of ethno- religious resistance against the oppressive nature of the Latin regime, though pointing out that inter-communal symbiosis generated phenomena of socio-religious and cultural interaction in the long term. On the other hand, revisionist Medievalists (e.g., N. Coureas, A. Nicolaou-Konnari and C. D. Schabel), give a different picture, placing emphasis on recently-published Latin sources and the fifteenth-century Chronicle of Leontios Machairas, which seem to portray all Cypriot Christians as obedient members of the Western Church. It should be noted that revisionist scholars appear to have been influenced by earlier colonial interpretations of Cypriot history (G. F. Hill), which underline the distinctiveness of Cypriot identity and the passive nature of Britain’s Greek-Cypriot subjects, in order to marginalise nationalistic calls for Union with Greece in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Rather than pursuing the via media between traditionalist and revisionist interpretations, the thesis explores fundamental questions related to faith, ideology and

67 THESES identity in a distinct, independent and deeper way. It argues that Cypriot Orthodoxy managed to survive under Latin rule because it adopted a Realpolitik of non-coercive, non-violent and covert anti-Latinism. This was expressed, among other ways, through the development of multiple identities and the embodied performance of devotional practices associated with the cultivation of Orthodox theophanic theology

Based on published and hitherto unpublished sources, this study is the first to explore the subject in a comprehensive way, placing emphasis on issues related to society, spirituality and identity, during the Frankish (1191–1489) and Venetian (1489–1571) periods. The material comprises historiographical works, epistolography (including patriarchal and papal letters), synodal acts and canons, liturgical, theological and hagiographical texts, travellers’ accounts, Venetian state reports, manuscript notes, and archaeological evidence. The thesis includes an editio princeps of four important unpublished sources, which shed light on aspects of Orthodox identity in Latin-ruled Cyprus: the Confession of faith of the Monks of Kantara; the Encyclical letter to the Cypriots by Patriarch Kallistos I of Constantinople (1350–1353 and 1354–1363); the Florilegium on Purgatory and the Afterlife by Francis the Cypriot, OFM; and the Report on the errors of Cypriot Christians and other ecclesiastical, administrative and financial matters by an anonymous clergyman of the Venetian period. In analysing and interpreting the material we have adopted a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, applying modern theories from the fields of sociology, psychology and social anthropology, which are discussed from a theological and historical perspective.

The thesis comprises an Introduction, five Chapters (I-V) and Conclusions. The Introduction presents the aim and scope of the thesis, the approach and methodology adopted, the material examined, and an overview of previous research on the subject. Chapter I explores the encounter between Cypriot Rhomaioi and Latins from the Crusader conquest of Cyprus in 1191 to ca. 1300. Chapter II examines Orthodox Cypriot spirituality towards the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century in the light of theoretical models employed throughout the thesis. Chapter III contextualises the Cypriot Rhomaic and Latin involvement in the Hesychast Controversy (ca. 1340–ca. 1400). Chapter IV focuses on the Cypriot Rhomaic proposals for restoration of ecclesiastical union with Constantinople (1406 and 1412) and the impact of the ‘Union’ of Florence (1439) on the island. Chapter V examines the adaptation of Orthodox Cypriot identity in the new conditions created by the establishment of Venetian rule in Cyprus. The Conclusions

68 THESES summarise the findings of the thesis and suggest areas for further research. The thesis closes with Appendices I-IV, which contain the edition of the four unpublished sources mentioned above (accompanied by brief palaeographical and historical commentaries), full Bibliography, and facsimiles of selected folios of manuscripts cited.

M. Alessia Rossi (PhD) Christ's Miracles in Monumental Art in Byzantium and Serbia (1280- 1330) Courtauld Institute of Art, London

In the years between 1280 and 1330, innovative depictions of miracles performed by Christ proliferate in monumental decoration in the Byzantine Empire and the Serbian Kingdom. The uniqueness in the evolution of this cycle is that, notwithstanding its popularity by the beginning of the fourteenth century, it is rarely found before or after the early Palaiologan period and never achieves an established iconographic tradition.

The aim of this PhD thesis is, firstly, to reach a critical assessment and understanding of the exponential increase of this iconography by linking it to the Byzantine and Serbian socio-political, historical, and religious context of these decades. Then, through a detailed examination of 13 churches housing the miracle cycle, the rationale behind the selection and grouping of the episodes will be investigated, and they will be discussed in connection with the patronage and literary influences of the time. Finally, a comparative framework will be used to assess similarities and differences in the display and function of these scenes in Byzantine and Serbian churches.

The outcome of this thesis sheds new light on the iconography, function and meaning of this cycle, leading to an assertion of its uniqueness. It also challenges the way we are used to thinking of late Byzantine art by defining the role played by the miracle cycle in the broader context of church decoration and patronage.

Nafsika Vassilopoulou (PhD) Τα βασιλικά συνοικέσια κατά την εποχή των Παλαιολόγων (1258-1453). Πολιτικές προσεγγίσεις / Byzantine imperial match-making in the Palaeologan era (1258-1453). Political approaches. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Supervisor: Professor Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini

The thesis presents an overall examination of royal arranged marriages throughout the rule of the Palaeologan dynasty, without chronological or geographical restrictions, as well as their function as a diplomatic medium.

Byzantine diplomacy and its means have always captured the interest of historians. The gentle manoeuvres of byzantine diplomats were in many occasions the reason of Byzantium’s survival for over a millennium. One of the most significant methods to avoid conflict or to create a firm coalition was the conclusion of a nuptial agreement with the powerful enemy or the desirable ally.

This study presents the strategy under which the weddings of the Palaeologan emperors, princes and aristocrats were designed. In a period of almost two centuries, nearly a hundred marital unions were negotiated. Some of them led to marriage, others to short or long engagements and others failed utterly. The grounds of this success or failure are also interesting for this thesis. Other parameters like dowry and religion are also being taken into consideration.

Of particular importance are other individual topics such as the foreign affairs of each emperor, the planning of these marriages on behalf of the Byzantines, the prosopographical elements concerning some of those «grooms» and «brides» and the benefits that the participants enjoyed from such diplomatic connections. Moreover, this study helps in presenting the liaisons of the Byzantine Empire with the dominant states of the Palaeologan era. Such states were the wealthy Italian maritime cities, the kingdoms of western and central Europe, the remaining crusader states in the Mediterranean, as well as the neighbouring Balkan and Turkish principalities.

The sources for the matter are ample and of various origins. Firstly, there are the works of byzantine historians and chronographers, many of those had immediate implication with the state bureaucracy. In addition to these texts, extremely helpful are the corpora of letters and documents survived to us. Treaties, letters of byzantine emperors, foreign kings, diplomats, ambassadors, state officials and clerics, patriarchal and monastic documents as well as local versed chronicles, support this research providing plenty of information. Last, but not least, archaeological facts complete the picture of the period.

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All of the above portray thoroughly one of the key factors of the byzantine state and society; the diplomatic tactics, which in numerous cases achieved the endurance of the empire, even when there were described as scheming and intriguing.

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6. CONFERENCES, LECTURES, SEMINARS

Papers delivered by members

Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie

Late Byzantine Enamel Colloque international autour des métiers du luxe à Byzance Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva University 26-27 February 2016

Rahmen und Beschlag des Freisinger Lukasbildes: Studien zur Ornamentik in Byzanz Internationales Symposium zum Freisinger Lukasbild: Eine Ikone und ihre tausendjährige Geschichte Diocesan Museum Freising 21-22 April 2016

Byzantine Ornaments: Cultural Transfer in the 13th and 14th Centuries Barnard College’s 25th Biannual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference:- Beyond Borders: Mutual Imaginings of Europe and the Middle East (800-1700) Barnard College/Columbia University New York 3 December 2016

Mobility and Migration of Late Byzantine Goldsmiths’ Works Workshop: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: The Perspective of Material Culture Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vienna University 20-21 January 2017

Dress Ornamentation in the Late Byzantine Period Lecture at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo 11-14 May 2017

Conference Organisation Session organiser at the 4th Forum Medieval Art, Berlin, 20-23 September 2017: ‘Late Byzantine Ornaments (13th-15th Centuries): Crossing Genres, Cultural Boundaries and Research Disciplines’, Session sponsor: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

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Session organiser at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017: ‘Jewellery as a Medium of Cultural Transfer: Jewellery Hoards of Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in Multicultural Contact Zones’ (with Dr Maria Stürzebecher)

Dr Elisabeth Chatziantoniou

Δημοκρατικές διαδικασίες και ισότιμη αντιμετώπιση στις βυζαντινές μοναστικές κοινότητες Α΄ Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου Ελληνικής – Παγκόσμιας Κληρονομιάς: Θουκυδίδης, ονοματοθέτης της Δημοκρατίας, Καβάλα (to be published). 5-7 Μαΐου 2016

‘Οι φορολογικές περιφέρειες της Μακεδονίας: από τις ενορίες στα κατεπανίκια. Η περίπτωση της Ιερισσού’, Γ΄ Συμπόσιο “Βυζαντινή Μακεδονία”, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη (to be published). 14-15 Μαΐου 2016

The involvement and institutional role of the doux of Thessalonike in the civil administration (second half of the 11th – 12th centuries) Round Table: Η Θεσσαλονίκη στους 11ο-12ο αιώνες: Ἡ ἐν ταῖς ὑπ’ οὐρανὸν πόλεσι πάνυ λαμπρῶς φαίνουσα (Εὐστάθιος, Ἃλωσις 6.4-6), Conveners: Professors Maria Kambouri-Vamvoukou / Polymnia Katsoni (to be published). 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August 2016

The fiscal administration of the thema of Thessalonike in the Palaiologan period A lecture in the context of the Postgraduate Seminar ‘Nikos Oikonomides’ School of History and Archaeology / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – National Hellenic Research Foundation / Section of Byzantine Research May 2016.

Dr Nikolaos G. Chrissis

Vanquishing deviance by pen and sword: Intellectual currents in western Europe and crusading against Orthodox Christians

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Ninth Quadrennial Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Odense, Denmark 27 June-1 July 2016

Paradise lost or negligent shepherd? Constantinople and Byzantine identity after 1204 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Belgrade) 22-27 August 2016

Les croisades et le schisme dans les relations entre Byzance et l’Occident sous les premiers Paléologues Seminar series ‘Histoire de la période paléologue (1261-1453): Byzance, Orient latin, monde slave’ CNRS/Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2 March 2017

Dr Simon Corcoran

I appeared on BBC Radio 4's ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg discussing ‘Justinian's Legal Code’ on 17 November 2016 (with Caroline Humfress and Paul du Plessis): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082j2q2. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas brought together under Justinian I, Byzantine emperor in the 6th century AD, which were rediscovered in Western Europe in the Middle Ages and became very influential in the development of laws in many European nations and elsewhere.

Professor Claudine Dauphin

Pilgrims’ Progress, Pilgrims’ Rest in Jordan: In Search of the Camps on the Hajj Roads to Mecca Iain Browning Memorial Lecture, Palestine Exploration Fund and British Museum, Dept of Middle East, BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, British Museum, London Thursday 6 October 2016, 4 pm. http://www.pef.org.uk/lectures/iain-browning-memorial-lecture- pilgrims-progress-pilgrims-rest-in-jordan-in-search-of-the-camps- on-the-hajj-roads-to-mecca

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Pilgrimage to Mecca is the fifth pillar of Islam - an obligation for every Moslem sound of body and mind, and with adequate means (Kuran 22 - The Pilgrimage, 27-30). Its rites were fixed by the Prophet Muhammad during his ‘Farewell Pilgrimage’ in 632. The transfer of the Umayyad caliphate from Medina to Damascus in 661 led to the sanctification of the ancient route (followed by caravans from the Arabian desert to the fertile lands of the Southern Levant and used by the Moslem conquerors to invade Palestine and Syria in 634-636), into a Pilgrimage Road. The outline of this route shifted several times between the Conquest and the Ottoman Empire. The magnitude of the Hajj caravan - some 60,000 pilgrims and 80,000 camels in its heyday in the 16th-18th centuries - resulted in the abandonment of the few khans punctuating the original road in favour of vast open-air encampments.

As an offshoot of the Project ‘Fallahin and Nomads in the Southern Levant’, which notably examines the impact of roads on population dynamics, literary, archaeological and cartographic data were collated to reconstruct the Mediaeval ‘Syrian’ route, the Darb al-Hajj al-Shami, running from Damascus to Mecca and bisecting Jordan longitudinally (7th-15th centuries). It incorporated stretches of the Iron Age and Nabatean Kings’ Highway and of the Roman Via Nova Traiana. It was subsequently replaced further east into the desert by the Ottoman route (16th-early 20th centuries), probably planned by Sinan, the famous architect of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent as a global project of civil engineering (road, bridges and forts) with strategic aims, also shared by the Hijaz Railway (1910-1918).

The two roads were followed in 2014 and 2016, from Ramtha on the Syrian border southwards to Mudawwara on the Saudi Arabian frontier (425 kms or 264 miles), section by section, between the historically- attested stop-overs. Using RAF aerial photographs of 1953, and applying British methods of Historic Landscape recording and interpretation, with a surveyor’s assistance, access from the main Hajj road or by secondary paths was plotted, the extent of each of the six Mediaeval and twelve Ottoman camps determined, their limits defined and main features recorded (hearths, traces of tents, enclosures for the thousands of camels, donkeys, mules and horses of the Hajj caravan), with the aim of reconstructing the moulding of the natural landscapes of Hajj pilgrim resting-places in Jordan into ‘sacred landscapes’ viewed holistically - a First in Islamic Landscape Archaeology.

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Dr Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

‘Love never fails’. Gregory of Nyssa on theosis Annual Meeting of the North American Patristic Society, Chicago 26 May - 28 May 2016

San Marco in the eleventh century 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies 22-27 August 2016.

‘If you wish to contemplate God’: Pseudo-Dionysius on will and love The Sixth British Patristics Conference 5-7 September 2016.

Late developments in meta-Byzantine icon-painting The Slavonic and East European Mediaeval Studies Group, Wolfson College, University of Oxford 5 November 2016.

Dr Peter Frankopan

I gave lectures on ‘Medieval Venice’ at the Society of Antiquaries, on ‘The Origins of Islam’ at the Salaam Centre; on European slave trading at the Dublin History Festival; on ‘The Silk Roads’ at the Literary Festivals at Cheltenham, Hay on Wye, Oxford, Cambridge, Dalkey and Edinburgh. I also gave lectures about a range of different topics in Hong Kong, Jaipur, Astana, Sydney, Lahore, Liverpool John Moores University and the School of International Futures. I gave The Gibraltar Lecture 2015.

Dr J. David Frendo

Through Western Eyes: Greek and Latin Sources for Byzantine – Iranian Relations Conference of the Malta Classics Conference University of Malta, Valletta, 11 – 12 December 2014

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Stavros G. Georgiou

The political status of Cyprus during the tyranny of Isaac Doukas Komnenos (1184-1191) (in Greek). First Annual Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, Nicosia Byzantinist Society of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 13-15 January 2017

Michael Heslop

The Hospitallers (Knights of St John in Mainland Greece, the Aegean and Turkey: 1306-1522 accompanied by an exhibition of photographs entitled Broken teeth point at the sky; Peloponnesian castles at war in the 14th century Hellenic Centre, London

Where was Villehardouin’s castle of Grand Magne {Megali Maini}? A new synthesis of the evidence 9th Conference of the SSCLE, Odense, Denmark

Smoke, Mirrors and Zigzags: the Hospitallers in the Dodecanese 1306- 1522 Sette of Odd Volumes, London 17 January

Public lecture and exhibition Where in the Mani was the Frankish castle of Megali Maini (Grand Magne)? A New Synthesis of the Evidence’

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The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS 23 January 2017

The lecture presents new research on a hitherto overlooked location of the Frankish castle of Megali Maini (Grand Magne) in the Peloponnese. It will be illustrated by maps and photos, and will be accompanied by an exhibition of photographs entitled ‘Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Castles of the Mani: Embellishment or Intrusion?’, which includes, by kind permission of David McClay and the National Library of Scotland, some of the photos of castles taken by Patrick Leigh Fermor’s wife, Joan Rayner. This is a joint event organised by The Hellenic Centre and The Patrick Leigh Fermor Society (PLFS).

Dr Maximilian Lau

Emperor John II Komnenos and the Imperial Crisis of 1126 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August, 2016

From Crisis to Consolidation: Migration and Imperial Authority under John II Komnenos Crisis and Migration in Late Antique and Medieval World Conference Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 4-5 November 2016

From Usurpers to Unquestions Autokrators: The Construction of Komnenian Authority under John II Komnenos

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Conference: Authority beyond the Law: Traditional and Charismatic Authority in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Oxford 3 December 2016

‘The Dream That Was Rome’: Memory of Empire during the Komnenian Restoration Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium, 19th Australian Association of Byzantine Studies Conference 24-26 February 2017

Professor emeritus Ljubomir Maksimović

President of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies Belgrade 22-27 August 2016

Professor Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini

‘Γυναίκες ευνοημένες με οικονομικές παροχές ή προνόμια και γυναίκες παρανομούσες ως κατέχουσες ‘ανδρικά’ προνόμια’ / ‘Women privileged with grants and women holding ‘male’ privileges illegally’ Lecture in the Law Seminar of the Law Faculty, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 11 January 2016

Βυζαντινή Θεσσαλονίκη: σταθμοί στην ιστορία, κοινωνία και καθημερινότητα, πνευματική ζωή, τέχνη και ακτινοβολία / Byzantine Thessaloniki: stages in history, society, literature and art Colloquium of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Seminar ‘Nikos Oikonomides’ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 26-27 May 2016

‘Φεουδαρχικοί θεσμοί στην κοινωνική και οικονομική πραγματικότητα της Βυζαντινής αυτοκρατορίας. Θέσεις και αντιθέσεις της έρευνας’ / ‘Feudal Institutions in Byzantine social and economic reality’ (with 18 tables) Colloquium of Medieval History - Greek and Western Middle Ages

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The Society for the Research of Relations between East and West & Association of Philologists of Argolis, Argos 25 June 2016

23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Belgrade 22-27 August 2016) A. Round Table Thessaloniki in the 11th and 12th centuries….: ‘Thessalonike in the centre of economic developments under Komnenoi and Angeloi: privileged grants after 1081’ (with 12 tables) B. Thematic Session of Free Communications War and peace in Byzantium: Changes and turning-points in the middle and late byzantine period (7th-15th centuries): ‘Economic effects of internal wars for individuals and the State in Byzantium, 1282 to the middle of 14th century’ (with 12 tables) C. Session of Free Communications Economy in the Byzantine World (President in cooperation)

Mr Spyros P. Panagopoulos

Τhe Influence of Aristotle within the Theology of Byzantine Iconoclasm International Conference on Byzantine Philosophy: The Influence of the Byzantine Philosophical and Cultural Initiative on Forming the Image of Modern Europe Nitra, Slovakia 18-19 October 2016

Eirini Panou, Patras

Colour as information 1st Annual Conference on Byzantine Studies, Cyprus January 2017

Dr Sonja Schönauer

Chair of session 14. Tagung und Mitgliederversammlung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neogräzistik in Deutschland München 10-12 November 2016.

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Dr Jonathan Shepard

Lost in Translation? Ibn Fadlan and the Great Unwashed Corpus Christi College, Oxford 14-15 March 2016

Ibn Fadlan’s vivid eye-witness report of his mission to the Bulgars on the Middle Volga in 921/2 is probably one of the most widely known and intensively studied of early Arabic texts. This interdisciplinary conference drew on historians, numismatists, textual scholars and archaeologists and attempted to set Ibn Fadlan’s account within the broader context of tenth-century Europe, the Islamic world and the Eurasian steppes.

Speakers included Irina Arzhantseva, Moscow; Jean-Charles Ducène, Paris; Heinrich Härke, Tübingen/Reading; Thórir Jónsson Hraundal, Iceland; Marek Jankowiak, Oxford; Evgeniy Kazakov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences; Hugh Kennedy, SOAS; Viacheslav Kuleshov, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; James Montgomery, Cambridge; Veronika Murasheva, State Historical Museum, Moscow; Leonard Nedashkovsky, Kazan Federal University; Walter Pohl, Vienna; Neil Price, Uppsala; Jonathan Shepard, Oxford; Søren Michael Sindbæk, Aarhus; Luke Treadwell, Oxford; Ian Wood, Leeds.

The proceedings are to be published as Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and Islam in the World of Ibn Fadlan (ed. J. Shepard and L. Treadwell) (London, forthcoming)

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Conference Announcements

The 43rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, BSANA University of Minnesota 5-8 October, 2017 http://www.bsana.net/conference/2017_BSANA_CallforPapers.pdf https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/bsc2017/home

Kunst des Mittelalters Berlin 20-23 September 2017

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The 7th International Military Orders Conference will be held at Clerkenwell, London from 7th to 10th September, 2017. Please contact Michael Heslop ([email protected]), Chair of the Organizing Committee, for further information.

39th Congress of Hellenic Historical Society Thessaloniki May 2017 Title of Communication in the Section of Byzantine period (to be announced)

The Ottoman Conquest and Knowledge: A Global History With the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, the conference will be held at Newnham College, Cambridge 6-8 July, 2017.

This conference focuses on networks, production, and transmission of knowledge during the Ottoman conquest of the eastern Mediterranean.

The aim of this conference is to further our understanding of the ways in which knowledge was transformed, exchanged, diversified, expanded, and suppressed during the period from the Ottoman conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean. The conference, and the intended publication, it is hoped will make an important contribution to the growing body of research that challenges long-held assumptions, prejudices, and misconceptions that the Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium and former Byzantine lands signalled the beginning of a ‘Dark Age’ of the production and exchange of knowledge.

The conference is meant to cover a broad geographical and disciplinary field. Each panel will focus on a different geographical area, with chronologically ordered papers to cover both diverse regions–Europe, the Near East, the Balkans, North Africa, and Muscovy–and a large number of historical questions regarding the effects of the Ottoman Conquest on written culture, book-learning, and the production of knowledge. The conference will engage substantially with questions concerning the mechanics of the transmission of knowledge: the transfer of books and texts from the Byzantine Empire to other parts of the world, the transformation of the built landscape, intermarriage and marriage alliances, exiles and refugees, and diplomatic exchange; and the

70 CONFERENCES, LECTURES, SEMINARS production of knowledge: through cross-cultural exchange and dialogue, the production and recuperation of texts and written culture, the collection and recuperation of Byzantine learning and knowledge in the wake of the Ottoman Conquest, and the creation and function of networks of knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond.

One of the major thematic strands examines intellectual exchange and the transmission of information through diplomatic, mercantile, and religious infrastructures that rose out of the Ottoman Conquest. A second major thematic strand examines how cultural and religious tolerance developed out of the Ottoman Conquest based on knowledge exchange and transmission and why the early Ottoman Empire attracted rather than simply created immigrants. It is important to ensure a geographic diversity, so that the regional impact of knowledge expansion (or contraction) during the period and in the wake of the Ottoman Conquest is addressed. It is precisely for this reason that the geographic limits of the conference are not restricted to the lands that the Ottomans conquered, but include regions that were affected by the transmission, production, and exchange of knowledge that occurred during the period of the Ottoman Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean. This is also why the chronological boundaries have been substantially enlarged to encompass the Ottoman Conquest from the 14th century and the Byzantine-Ottoman wars and period of Ottoman conquest to about 1566 and the consolidation of Ottoman rule, the rise of Muscovy, and the winding down of Ottoman expansion. This geographical and chronological framework will ensure that the conference papers, and the planned publication, draw on diverse sources that are rarely treated in conjunction. Participants will include historians of the Byzantine Empire, the Medieval Mediterranean basin, the late Medieval Balkans, the early Ottoman Empire, the Medieval European States, and Muscovy.

It will include the following thematic panels:  Visual dialogues: conservation, transformation, and transmission of the built landscape  The Ottoman Conquest and the Northern World  The Ottomans and Venice: dissemination, understanding, and transmission  Islands of learning: Byzantino-Latin cultural echoes in the eastern Mediterranean  Travel, Travellers, and cross-cultural dialogue across the Ottoman world  Cross-cultural knowledge and exchange across the Balkans

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 Perceptions of the Ottoman ‘Other’, Byzantine Perspectives  The reception of Ottoman culture in Mamluk Egypt  Cross-cultural exchange in and about the east: from Safavid Persia and Central Asia

Speakers at the conference will include the renowned Ottomanist Michel Balivet, specialists on Mamluk Egypt, Amina Elbendary and Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Russianist Don Ostrowski, Byzantinists Alexander Beihammer and Ida Toth, and Balkan specialist Sophia Laiou. Dr Alexandra Vukovich

The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts is preparing a new annotated edition and translation of the lengthy Correspondence of George of Cyprus (Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-89). Scholars and graduate students interested in Byzantine texts are welcome to participate. The Seminar will be meeting at The Warburg Institute, University of London, Classroom 2, Ground floor, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB in February and March 2017 on Fridays 15:45-17:45, starting from 3 February. For further information please visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/research/Seminar.htm or contact Dr Christopher Wright at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, e-mail: [email protected]

Sixteenth Annual Hellenic Lecture The Greek Communities in Turkey: Past, Present and Future by Dr Alexis Alexandris, diplomat and historian, former Consul General of Greece in Istanbul and Representative of Greece to the UN, Geneva, to be held in the Management Lecture Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX on 16 March 2016 at 6.15pm.

The lecture will trace the history of the most important Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire and of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople during the transition to republican rule. It will also offer insights into more recent developments in Turkey and their impact on the long term future of the Greek Orthodox Community of Istanbul, one of the oldest religious and ethnic minorities in a rapidly changing region. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the foyer of the Management Building. This event is co-organised by the Hellenic Institute and the Events Office, Royal Holloway, University of London. All welcome. For further information please contact George Vassiadis

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Conference Reports

Professor Maria Constantoudaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

An International Symposium of the Department of History and Archaeology Painting and Society in Venetian Crete: Evidence from Portable Icons Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 11-12 January 2017

The Symposium was organised in the framework of events of the Department of History and Archaeology, and took place on the 11 and 12 January 2017 at the historic central building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It aspired to address the broader issue of the relationship between painting and society. Its main focus was set on Venetian-ruled Crete and a vital field of Post-Byzantine art, portable icons. The purpose was to highlight the multiple testimonies connected with these works of art and devotion, and contribute to a comprehensive perception of the character of painting produced in the mixed society of areas in the Greek East under Western rule during late Medieval and Renaissance periods.

The symposium forms part of the anniversary celebrations for the 180 years of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and marked the beginning of events for 2017, as stressed by the Rector Prof. M.-A. K. Dimopoulos in his address.

In an intensive programme 38 original papers by scholars from all over Greece and abroad were presented, academics, directors of Museums and

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Ephorates of Antiquities, younger researchers as well as other specialists of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine painting. Among them were experienced scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, USA. Fruitful discussions were facilitated by simultaneous translations into Greek and English. The sounds of music by the Cretan 16th century composer Franghiskos Leontaritis (1518-1572), performed by the ‘PolyPhonia’ Music Ensemble (director N. Kotrokois), added a further dimension to the event.

Renowned specialists in the field, including Prof. em. of the University of Athens and academician P. L. Vocotopoulos, formed the academic committee. The Symposium was organised by Prof. of Byzantine Archaeology M. Constantoudaki-Kitromilides, a specialist on Cretan icons, assisted by D. Mourelatos, PhD, University of Athens. Prof. Constantoudaki also edited the programme and the bilingual booklet of abstracts. Support offered by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Carriers Chartering Corporation, S.A. Shipping Company, and the Museum of Hellenic Education (Kalambaka) has been essential.

Dr Geoffrey Greatrex

Report on the conference Finding the Present in the Distant Past. The Cultural Meaning of Antiquarianism in Late Antiquity, Ghent, 19-21 May 2016.

This conference, organised by Lorenzo Focanti and Raf Praet, was a well- organised and thought-provoking affair, which allowed plenty of time for discussion; it was co-sponsored by the universities of Ghent and Groningen and the research agencies of Flanders and the Netherlands.

Sessions considered issues such as the term ‘antiquarianism’ itself – hard, if not impossible, to translate into (e.g.) French and German – the phenomenon in both West and East in Late Antiquity, and indeed beyond, into the Byzantine period. There were some sixteen papers, spread over three separate days, which allowed ample time for discussion. Peter van Nuffelen and Jan Willem Drijvers ably drew together the threads of the various presentations and stimulated debate. Worthy of note too was the presence of an array of talented young researchers at the event. Among those participating were Clifford Ando, discussing antiquarianism in the law, Giusto Traina, who dealt with Procopius’ handling of Armenian material, and Bruno Bleckmann, who offered a close analysis of a tetrarchic triumph as related in later sources.

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All in all, the event was stimulating and enjoyable. The subject of antiquarianism is clearly one that is attracting a lot of attention now and the conference gave the opportunity to reflect on how exactly one should approach the notion and how applicable it may be to our understanding of Late Antiquity. Some of the contributions will be published in a forthcoming special edition of Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis - Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire.

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7. SPBS Grants: Conference Reports & Programmes

M. Alessia Rossi and Andrea Mattiello Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era One and a half day Symposium & Workshop, held at the University of Birmingham Friday 24 - Saturday 25 February 2017

This one day and a half conference combines a symposium and a workshop. The aim is to examine and contextualise the artistic and cultural production of the geopolitical centres that were controlled by or in contact with the late Byzantine Empire. This conference will explore the many intellectual implications that are encoded in the innovative artistic production of the Palaiologan Era often simplified by a rigid understanding of what is Byzantine and what is not.

Programme

Symposium 24 February 2017

14.00-14.10 Opening remarks: Professor Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham 14.10-15.00 First Keynote lecture and discussion: Dr Cecily Hilsdale, McGill University, Title TBC

15.00-16.00 First panel – Chair Dr Ruth Macrides, University of Birmingham Ivana Jevtic: Late Byzantine Painting Reconsidered: Art in Decline or Art in the Age of Decline? Andrew Griebeler: The Greek Botanical Albums in Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Constantinople

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Maria Alessia Rossi: Political ruin or spiritual renewal? Early Palaiologan art in context 16.00-16.20 Discussion

16.30-16.50 Coffee break

17.00-17.50 Second Keynote lecture and discussion: Professor Niels Gaul, University of Edinburgh: Palaiologan Byzantium(s): East Rome’s Final Two Centuries in Recent Research 18.00-19.00 Reception

25 February 2017 9.00-9.50 Opening keynote lecture and discussion: Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Open University, Palaiologan art from regional Crete: artistic decline or social progress? 10.00-10.40 Second panel – Chair Dr Daniel Reynolds, University of Birmingham Anđela Gavrilović: The Stylistic Features of the Frescoes of the Church of the Mother of God Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć (c. 1335- 1337) Ludovic Bender: Mistra and its countryside: The transformation of the late Byzantine religious landscape of Laconia 10.40-11.00 Discussion

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.30-12.30 Third Panel - Chair Dr Francesca Dell’Acqua, University of Birmingham Andrea Mattiello: Who’s that man? The perception of Byzantium in 15th century Italy Tatiana Bardashova: Palaiologan Influence on the Visual Representation of the Grand Komnenoi in the Empire of Trebizond (1204-1461) Lilyana Yordanova: The Issues of Visual Narrative, Literary Patronage and Display of Virtues of a Bulgarian Tsar in the Fourteenth century 12.30-12.50 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

Workshop

14.10-14.50 Two 10-mins presentations by MA students and 20-mins discussion

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14.50-15.30 Two 10-mins presentations by MA students and 20-mins discussion 15.40-16.00 Coffee break 16.10-16.50 Two 10-mins presentations by MA students and 20-mins discussion 16.50-17.00 Closing remarks: Andrea Mattiello/Maria Alessia Rossi

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Mike Carr, Leeds IMC Session Report (July 2016)

This year at the Leeds International Medieval Congress I organised three sessions on “Crossing Cultural and Religious Boundaries”, the first focussing on the Aegean, Black Sea, and Asia, the second on Cyprus and the Levant, and the third on Central and Northern Europe. The aim of the sessions was to look at how individuals and institutions, both secular and religious, aimed to limit and facilitate exchange across perceived religious and cultural boundaries in three different contested zones.

The SPBS kindly sponsored the first of my sessions which contained three papers. The first was given by Brian McLaughlin (Royal Holloway), on Byzantine maritime and mercantile policy in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the second was presented by myself, Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh), on papal privileges during the Mongol siege of Caffa and the Black Sea “crisis” of the fourteenth century, and the third was by Marie Favereau (University of Oxford), who looked at commercial partnerships and social cohesion within the Mongol Golden Horde during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The panel was chaired by Georg Christ (University of Manchester).

The three papers had considerable overlap as they all focussed on interactions between Italians, Byzantines, Turks and Mongols in the Aegean, Black Sea and the Golden Horde, although from three contrasting scholarly perspectives: those of a Byzantinist, a western medievalist and a specialist in Western Asian history. The speakers paid particular attention to the economic mechanisms created to regulate exchange in these regions (e.g. embargoes, exemptions and treaties), the importance of sustaining transcultural trade routes and networks in the face of military and political pressures, and the tensions created by the desire for maritime and land-based commercial superiority. The three contrasting scholarly perspectives allowed for a broad understanding of how people of different cultures interacted in this incredibly complex region and of how economic, religious and political pressures impacted

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Dr Alexandra Vukovich Cambridge Byzantine studies Seminar

As the principal organiser, I am very grateful to The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies its generous and on-going support of the Cambridge Byzantine Studies Seminar, which meets fortnightly during full-term at Jesus College. Without the support of the SPBS, I would not have been able to invite and host scholars from institutions outside of Cambridge. The SPBS grant was mainly used to fund travel and accommodation expenses of Byzantine scholars from Oxford, Nottingham, Reading, London, Paris, and the US.

The Cambridge Byzantine Seminar was designed to provide students and faculty members with a forum to discuss new and innovative research in the field of Byzantine Studies, representing a range of disciplines and a long chronology. The variety of topics highlighted this diversity by examining topics from Late Antiquity, the Middle Byzantine Period, and the Late Byzantine Period. Byzantine palaeography and codicology, philology, archaeology, art history, and historiography were examined in regions ranging from Spain to Ethiopia, and from Rus to Rome.

The seminar welcomed scholars from several Cambridge faculties and presented a vibrant programme that included topics such as practice and ritual in Santa Maria Antiqua on the Roman Forum, a revisionist historiography for the Middle Byzantine Period, the Christian narratives of the Islamic conquests, the community of Melkites in Palestine, Christian sectarianism in the Late Antiquity, Church archaeology in Medieval Ethiopia, the transformation of the pagan landscape in Late Antiquity, economic fluctuations in the period from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, palaeographic evidence for the Library of Photius, Late Byzantine imperial orations, and Russo-Byzantine political relations.

The study of the Byzantine Empire and its cultural sphere provides a particular framework for understanding the Medieval World as one of continuity, dialogue, transformation, translation and dynamism. Support from the SPBS has permitted this seminar to represent the field of Byzantine Studies at Cambridge and to showcase the diversity of the

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23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016

Olga Grinchenko

Thanks to the generosity of the SPBS funding I was able to attend the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (22-27 August 2016) in Belgrade, where I presented a paper on the Slavonic manuscript tradition of the popular Byzantine erotapokritic text called Quaestiones ad Antiochem Ducem at a thematic session on Byzantine Literary Models and Patterns of Reception: Translation and Transformation in the Slavonic and Middle Eastern Traditions. The session was organised and chaired by Professor Anissava Miltenova and consisted of ten 20-minute papers, three of which were dedicated to other collections of erotapokripic texts. The session was well attended by other participants of the Congress (there were at least 40 people in the audience). A thought- provoking discussion with questions for all speakers concluded the session.

As I am doing my research in the narrow field of Byzantine-Slavonic literary connections, I do not get many opportunities to receive professional academic feedback. The Congress therefore gave me a rare and much appreciated opportunity to meet with leading specialists in the field and to hear their response to my paper. Furthermore, I was invited to publish my paper alongside other participants of the session in the next issue of Scripta & e-Scripta (issue 16).

I would like to thank the Committee for supporting me in my endeavours. As a currently unwaged scholar, I would have otherwise been unable to attend the Congress.

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Matthew Kinloch

Thanks to SPBS funding I was able to attend my first AIEB Congress in Belgrade last summer. My paper, entitled Narratives, Significance, and Nodal-Points: The many battles of Pelagonia (1259), was part of a panel organised primarily by Serbian scholars, several of whom I had met before, who were all speaking towards questions of literature and history. I found the panel itself a useful space for discussion of my own paper and the more general questions of the panel. More generally, gaining access to the congress was a really useful process for me. I had organised several specific meetings in advance, but the most interesting part of the congress I found, were the chance meetings at sessions and in the corridors. Furthermore, the congress exposed me to the scale and quality of Byzantine studies in a global context, which was really interesting to observe. Again, I would like to thank the SPBS for funding my attendance of the congress. The society has introduced me to global Byzantine studies as it introduced me to British Byzantine studies when it allowed me to attend the spring symposium in Newcastle/Durham in 2011.

Dimitra Kotoula

A generous travel grant from the Society of Promotion of Byzantine Studies enabled me to travel to Belgrade, in August 2016, in order to participate in the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies. More precisely, I took part in the ‘Gesture and Performance’ round table (24th of August). The round table was organized by Professor Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Germany), and its aim was to bring scholars from different areas together in order to discuss directions and approaches to gesture and performance in the Byzantine world focusing, among other issues, on aspects of representing power, performances at court, the aurality of Byzantine culture, performing rhetoric in public, normative texts on gesture, the setting of performances, depictions of gesture. My contribution to the round table, entitled Art as Gesture: Performing the Miracle in the Burial Shrines of Byzantine Saints, discussed religious gestures, and, in particular, it examined human gesticulation during miraculous performances in a specific type of religious building in Byzantium: the burial shrine that housed the relics of Byzantine saints. Within this context, I discussed art, the creation of artistic artifacts, as an essential, though much sophisticated, ‘gesture’, that appears to have been established as a vital component to miracle performances in the burial shrines of Byzantine

92 SPBS Conference Grants - reports saints, challenging the conventional language of religious gestures and performances in Byzantium.

My research profited considerably not only from the most constructive discussions of the round table, as well as by attending the Congress as a whole. For the past years, I am focusing on aspects of the art which had been developed in Byzantium in relation to buildings with burial use and ceremonials of funerary/commemorative character. Thus, the plenary sessions devoted to ‘Byzantine Religious Practices and the Senses’ as well as ‘Death and Social Memory: Funerary Practices and the Art of the Tomb in Byzantium and Beyond’ contributed significantly to my reevaluation of the nature, intensity and ideological significance of funerary rituals and the art related to these in Byzantium. In addition, during my stay in Belgrade, I had the opportunity to visit key monuments of the Serbian-Byzantine heritage, the majority of which had funerary function, such as the monasteries of Studenica, Grabac and Gračanica. The iconography of the pictorial cycles that decorate these buildings had occupied me in the past, in juxtaposition to contemporary Byzantine monuments with similar function (see: Dimitra Kotoula, ‘The decoration of the burial chapel of the founder in the Byzantine monastery, charity and the quest for posthumous salvation: the case of the Koutsovendis and the Pammakaristos chapels’ in D. Stathakopoulos, ed., Charity in the Pre- Modern Mediterranean (King’s College London 2007) 49-70) and my in situ examination of their iconography and style gave me the opportunity to elaborate further on the results of my previous research in the field.

Theodora Panella

First of all, I would like to thank not only the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) for offering me a travel grant, but also the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB) and the Serbian National Committee for exempting me from paying the participation fees. This gave me the opportunity to attend the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies that was held in Belgrade 22-27 August 2016.

The large amphitheatre at the opening ceremony was full and only a few people had to stand (certainly it was better than in Sofia, 2011). Inaugural addresses were given by the President of the Republic of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić, the representative of the Serbian National Commission for UNESCO, the president of AIEB, Johannes Koder, and the president of the Serbian National Committee of the Byzantine Studies, who impressed the public with his address since he started in Serbian and with

93 SPBS Conference Grants - reports amazing ease continued his following sentences in English, German, Greek, Italian, French without repeating his message to conclude in English. Then the exquisite inaugural lecture given by Professor John F. Haldon (Princeton University) was totally compatible with the main theme of the congress “Byzantium – A World of Changes” and the motto of the congress “Πάντα μὲν γὰρ μεταβάλλεται, ἀπόλλυται δὲ οὐδέν” (Maximos Planoudes).

The first plenary session, ‘L’âge d’or de l’hagiographie byzantine’.

Inaugural lecture, John F. Haldon

There were about twelve hundred participants from 49 countries, that presented papers related to the Byzantine Archaeology, History, Law, Philology and Theology in 6 plenary sessions, 50 round tables, many more free communications and 22 posters, in a marathon from 9 in the morning until 20:30 at night every day. Really interesting were the six special sessions: of these, the ‘Digital Humanities and Byzantine Studies’ packed the Main Hall of the Academy indicating the great interest in the subject; the session where Research Centres from all over the world and

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“Digital Humanities and Byzantine studies” special session

Concerning the publications, in our conference pack there was a book with the proceedings of the conference (plenary papers) and online in downloadable form Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art I-III and the abstracts of the papers.210.225.1234

What was new at this conference was the Conference App BYZ 2016 for Android and iPhone that participants could use to be informed of the programme, in addition to the printed and online versions. It was a good first attempt that can be improved in the future, since similar Apps for other big meetings allow the attendees to build their own schedule not only by session, but also by paper. The second new innovation, important for multiple reasons, was the electronic pass of the participants for accessing all the buildings of the conference and the events.

Faculty of Philology

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The opening and the closing ceremony, as well as most of the sessions were held at the Faculty of Philology, whereas others at the building of the Serbian academy of Sciences and Art, both at the heart of Belgrade within easy reach of worth visiting places and many hotels. Throughout the conference the weather was hot and sunny (with the exception of one rainy day), with the result that some rooms grew unbearably warm in the day and any attempt to open the windows was not good because the noise of the traffic would cover the voice of the speakers. Other rooms proved too small for some sessions.

The participants not only heard interesting papers and had the opportunity to network, but could also attend events organised because of the congress such as exhibitions on Byzantine art, musical and film programmes, excursions and two formal receptions at the beginning and at the end of the conference given by the President of the Republic of Serbia at the presidential palace and the Mayor of Belgrade at the City Hall respectively. There was also a book fair at which international publishers exhibited new books in the field. The books were available for order at the fair, but could not be purchased due to complicated fiscal legislation between the Republic of Serbia and the European Union.

Last night, reception at the City Hall

Concluding I would say that this was a successful conference and the participants were satisfied and happy, since it is a unique occasion where byzantinologists from different fields come together. Also, Belgrade is a beautiful city, with plenty of things to see and to do and with reasonable prices for goods and services, hence scholars from all countries could afford to participate in the conference. Serbians are smiling and always willing to help. I will definitely visit Belgrade again in the future, but for the purposes of the next International Congress of Byzantine Studies in

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2021 I hope to visit Constantinople for another trip through the centuries and Byzantine culture.

Maria Alessia Rossi

I would like to thank the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies for allowing me to attend the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies that took place in Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016.

I presented in the thematic session of free communications titled ‘Studies in Byzantine Iconography – Part 2’. My paper focused on the examination of Christ’s miracle cycle in monumental decorations of fourteenth-century Thessaloniki. The session was well attended and there was time for questions at the end of each paper and thought-provoking discussion at the end of the session as well.

My PhD, carried out at The Courtauld Institute of Art, aims to challenge traditional assumptions about artistic transmission and interactions between the Byzantine Empire and the Serbian Kingdom in the early fourteenth century, by focusing on the case study of Christ’s miracles. The Congress’ location in Belgrade and affiliation with Serbian Institutions allowed me to discuss my research and receive feedback directly from Serbian scholars I would otherwise not have been able to meet.

The international and inclusive nature of the Congress gave me the opportunity to meet with renowned specialists and create new academic contacts; consolidate those already existing; and finally, obtain beneficial and stimulating feedback that contributed to the final version of my thesis submitted for examination this autumn. Furthermore, the discussion and insight gained during the Congress have been fruitfully elaborated in the conference I am co-organising, Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era, that will take place in Birmingham in February 2017.

This was my first International Congress of Byzantine Studies and I would like to thank once again the SPBS for allowing me to participate and present in this exciting, stimulating and unique gathering of Byzantinists.

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8. Exhibitions

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural

20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017

The Catalogue is available to buy here: https://shop.ashmolean.org/index.php/power- and-protection-islamic-art-and-the- supernatural.html

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Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66, St Giles’, Oxford

The Hidden Gospels of Abba Garima, Treasures of the Ethiopian Highlands

16 January – 12 April 2017

Organised by Judith McKenzie, Miranda Williams, and Foteini Spingou, with Michael Gervers’

photographs.

For further information see: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event-reader/events/hidden-gospels.html

The exhibition accompanies the publication of The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia, by Judith McKenzie,

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Francis Watson, Michael Gervers, et al., which places the Garima Gospels firmly within the historical and artistic contexts of the late antique Mediterranean world.

Sponsored by the Classics Faculty, the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, and the ERC Advanced Project, Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East, directed by Judith McKenzie.

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Wolfson College, Oxford

Byzantium endures

4-6 November 2016

Curator: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

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9. University News

Royal Holloway, University of London

Studentships and Bursaries in Byzantine and Hellenic Studies (2017) offered at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London.

His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine Studies, established by the Orthodox Cultural Association of Athens, through a generous donation by Mrs Angeliki Frangos in memory of her late mother Stela N. Frangos. The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine Studies, established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in memory of the distinguished Greek Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides (1934-2000), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Byzantine Studies. Both studentships cover tuition fees at UK/EU rate for one year. They are open to full-time and part-time students who wish to pursue either the University of London intercollegiate taught MA degree programme in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, or MPhil/PhD research in some aspect of Byzantine studies at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London. Both studentships are awarded on the basis of proven academic merit. Candidates should meet the normal entrance requirements of the University of London. The closing date for submission of applications is 1 September 2017.

George of Cyprus Bursaries, offered to Hellenic Institute’s part-time or full-time MA and MPhil/PhD students towards support and research expenses. The bursaries were established thanks to a generous grant awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, in honour of George of Cyprus, later Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Gregory II, 1283-9).

The Julian Chrysostomides Memorial Bursaries, offered to Hellenic Institute’s part-time or full-time MA and MPhil/PhD students towards support and research expenses. These bursaries were established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in memory of the distinguished Byzantinist J. Chrysostomides (1928-2008), Emeritus Reader in Byzantine History and former Director of the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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The Pat Macklin Memorial Bursaries, offered to Hellenic Institute’s part- time or full-time MA and MPhil/PhD students towards support and research expenses. These bursaries were established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in memory of the former student, Friend and supporter of the Institute Pat Macklin (1915-2009).

The Konstantinos Kokonouzis Memorial Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies, offered to Hellenic Institute’s self-supported part-time or full-time MA and MPhil/PhD students towards support and research expenses. Established thanks to an annual donation by Mr Yiannis Chronopoulos, graduate and Friend of the Hellenic Institute, in memory of his cousin Konstantinos Kokonouzis (1974-1997), who served as Second Lieutenant (Engineer) in the Hellenic Air Force.

There are no special application forms for the studentships and bursaries. Applicants should send a letter of application to Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, Director, The Hellenic Institute, History Department, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK; e-mail: [email protected]

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University of Oxford Oxford Centre for Byzantine Studies

The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (OCBR) had a busy year in 2015-6, helping arrange, host or facilitate a wide range of lectures, colloquia and conferences. These included conferences on Ibn Fadlan, on the reception of Dionysios the Areopagite, on medieval Georgia and on the work of al-Baladhuri. The Centre provided travel grants for graduate students to visit Armenia as well as individual study grants relating to field work and language learning in Russia and northern Turkey. It continued its support for important projects on the Greek manuscripts from Holkham Hall and the Manar al-Athar projects. The OCBR also hosted several Special Lectures in 2015-16, including by Professor Tia Kolbaba on Heresy in Byzantium, and continued its support of the annual International Graduate Symposium, as well as for OCBR’s sister organisation OCLA (The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity).

Dr Peter Frankopan Director

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University of Cambridge

See the new Cambridge Byzantine Seminar website, which includes news of the Byzantine Reading Group, and a growing image catalogue of Byzantine sites with picture galleries of Byzantine sites from Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Ukraine, and others: https://cambridgebyzantine.wordpress.com/about/

Dr Alexandra Vukovich Convenor

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10. Obituaries

A.A.M. Bryer (31 October 1937 – 22 October 2016)

Anthony Applemore Mornington Bryer, who died on 22 October 2016, was responsible for founding all our national Byzantine institutions: this Bulletin, of which he was the first editor, this Society (1983--), the journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (1975--), the annual spring symposium, which celebrates its half-century in March 2017, and its publications series, begun under his chairmanship of the SPBS in 1992. He, more than any of his illustrious predecessors or his contemporaries in the ‘great generation’, established Byzantine Studies in the UK academy as a subject in its own right: ‘we don’t want your respectability,’ he told classicists at the Oxford triennial of 1975, who had generously invited him to deliver a plenary lecture. Yet he could be equally generous, enfolding Modern Greek and Ottoman Studies into the Centre he founded in 1976 to join the Shakespeare Institute, John Fage’s Centre of West African Studies, and Richard Hoggart’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (it was a time when

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But that career, which could be traced back to the birthday gift of a coin of Trebizond, a wartime childhood in Jerusalem, and Arabic lessons from Freya Stark, encompassed a great deal more. Bryer was a dazzlingly erudite historian with deceptively esoteric interests matched with an exceptional ability to reach a very wide public. He knew so much about so many things, so entertainingly, with a vast store of anecdote. He chose an unfashionable patch of history (both geographically and chronologically) and studied it in a way well ahead of his time. His taste for the exotic concealed a real concern for economic and agrarian history, monastic cartularies and intellectual history, all of which at that time in that place might have been expected to focus on the West Midlands or the Chartist movement, but for him were best served by the empire of Trebizond. From the DPhil thesis on, his work on Pontos was really about identity--religious, linguistic, cultural-- and in fact a synecdoche for the premodern Mediterranean. The material turn had turned him by the late 1950s, but the Acts of Vazelon and the Seven Brothers of Lazia were close to his heart. He read all sources with the care and scepticism (‘Beware of [your subject])’, he warned a young biographer, ‘when he is laying a false trail’) which also prevented a rush to print; when he gave the Wiles lectures in Belfast in 1990 his crabwise advance on the truth impressed his interlocutors; he was indirect, oblique and subtle.

He never wrote the magnum opus of the thesis, but an excluded chapter on monuments grew into the acclaimed book, co-authored with David Winfield, The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos, 2 vols. (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 20, Washington DC, 1985) and the three Variorum reprinted volumes of articles; never academically vain, he knew when co-authorship would help. His collaborative project funded by Dumbarton Oaks on Rural Settlement, ‘the Demography Project’, was thirty years ahead of its time. In later years he wrote about the history of food, and about the history of the subject, but there had been a brief moment when he was writing the heavily specialist Pontic work alongside pellucid, intellectually vigorous and wide-ranging treatments of the place of Byzantium in the middle ages. He gave a lecture in 1986 on processions in Constantinople, which was picked up twenty years later by students of ritual and court cultures. He pioneered experimental history. He collected

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What he did write was elegant, witty, full of ideas that chased one other around the page. His early articles for The Times, just like the much later (1993) Cornucopia piece on Tamara Talbot Rice are jewels. He was a stylist with deep scholarly practices and a journalist’s instincts. In person his energy and enthusiasm were overwhelming: listening to him was like standing in a force ten gale. He handled multiple audiences with ease: his earliest articles were in Sailing Time and History Today, but schoolchildren at Open Days, a radio audience, engineers in an interfaculty course which out-enrolled ‘Sex and Society’, zimmered passengers on Swan’s Cruises, dining clubs eating octopus ice-cream off his reconstructed Byzantine dinner services, all were treated to the depth of his learning and the clarity of his communication. His impact factor was off the scale.

He was born to Group Captain Gerald Bryer and his wife, Joan (nee Grigsby) in Southsea, on 31 October 1937. After school at Canford he studied at the Sorbonne and did national service before taking up his scholarship at Balliol College Oxford. He coincided at Oxford with a brilliant cohort of historians (Michael Angold) and classicists (Averil Cameron, Robin Cormack) who also became Byzantinists, studied historical geography with Dimitri Obolensky and the Richard II special subject with Gervase Mathew, and refounded the Oxford Byzantine Society. But the friends who were entertained by him in college and travelled with him in the Black Sea were of many disciplines; one, Elizabeth Lipscomb, a mathematician, married him in 1961. They travelled widely, on honeymoon in the Mediterranean, taking in a bullfight, and, in the first year of Greek Government scholarships, to Athens. Back in Oxford, living in Christ Church, he began the DPhil. with Obolensky on Trebizond and helped organise the 1966 international congress (he was responsible for attaching delegates’ badges).

In 1964 he won an Arts Faculty fellowship to Birmingham instigated by Ellis Waterhouse and his new Committee for Byzantine Studies of which Bryer became secretary. Won over by his welcome from the committee and from the Marxist Old Guard, he decided to stay and took the world by storm.

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He proceeded to build alliances with Waterhouse at the Barber, George Thomson and Meg Alexiou in Classics, and with the Selly Oak Colleges and Sebastian Brock. There, after appointment to a lectureship, he instituted undergraduate courses (‘The Mongols’, ‘Twelfth-Century Art, East and West’, ‘Byzantium Confronts the West’) and recruited graduate students (four by 1971). He began a Byzantine seminar which with the help of Extra- Mural Studies blossomed into the spring symposium, a conference welcoming to all but different from any other (there were performances of Pontic lyre music, Cretan drama, the Game of the Nineteen Beds, Greek fire; there were daffodils, bear-suits, red socks, ruthless chairpersons and elegant receptions, and his booming voice recalled symposiasts to the sessions). His friendship with Philip Whitting, born of a schoolboy bicycle ride into Salisbury to hear a talk at the Historical Association, brought a substantial collection of coins to the Barber Institute, and in ten years he was on the brink of the foundation of the Centre. Temptations to move to Oxford, Royal Holloway, Manchester, were resisted, and he and Liz settled into the red brick and wisteria of Crosbie Rd, where, as their visitors’ book reveals, they and their daughters Theodora, Anna, and Katie were to entertain the entire Byzantine world.

Bryer was charismatic, exciting and exuberant, but also modest, shy and sometimes abrupt, yet he was at home in many social settings: in Trebizond with his blood-brother Cumhur’s family, in Runcie’s Lambeth Palace, colloguing with members of the Orthodox hierarchy, carousing competitively with the most senior British Byzantinist and delivering him safely to his club, enchanted by Dubonnet-fuelled lunches with the Queen Mother, a regular in Staff House Bar, an intimate of Brummie taxi society-- you never knew whom you would find on a visit to Crosbie Rd—or indeed what: mugs of soup after the champagne bus, mint drink in the garden, notable lodgers, and impressive home improvements (the Dodonion, the asparagus bed, the newly acquired orchard, previously owned only by St Chad, the nymphaion, the Fossati and Runciman guest rooms or, earlier, super-Ruskin rabbit hutches). There were always new things to do (throwing eggs over the house, hearing of the exploits of Felix the cat) and see, for Bryer was a great collector--of hats, rugs, agricultural implements, travel books, people.

He taught inspirationally, travelled memorably on horseback and on foot to the yayla, castles and churches of Pontos, Paphlagonia, Albania, with students, spent time in Dumbarton Oaks which he called ‘the best swimming

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In 1995 he handed on the chairmanship of SPBS (he later accepted the presidency of the Society) and, more shockingly, in 1994 began to take early retirement from Birmingham. This was to give time to Liz’s cancer, (indirectly) to turn a jobshare into two senior Byzantinist positions, and, as we became increasingly aware, to manage his own illnesses. He was fortunate in his marriages, wedding Jenny Banks in 1998 and travelling, thinking, talking, collecting, entertaining enthusiastically with her for the next ten years or so. He had always been proud of being ‘the youngest’ (as he resisted a Festschrift for his fiftieth birthday and accepted instead a jersey) and it was a shock twenty years later to see how suddenly he had aged. Visitors towards the end saw a quieter, slighter, tidier Bryer, who was still, as conversation became more difficult, acutely, shrewdly, appreciative of news and friendship. He rejoiced in his grandchildren, his godchildren and Jenny’s brood, in his OBE, in the eventual edible Festchrift (2007), and in the doings of his huge network of pupils and protegés, all inspired and supported by him to advance the study of Byzantium. We miss him.

Margaret Mullett Belfast 3.ii.2017

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49th SPRING SYMPOSIUM

11. XLIX Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Exeter College, Oxford 18-20 March 2016

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations

Symposiarchs: Professor Marc Lauxtermann & Dr Ida Toth

Last year’s was the first SPBS Symposium dedicated to an ancillary discipline, and the first major international conference on Late Antique and Byzantine Epigraphy. The symposiarchs, Marc Lauxtermann and Ida Toth, were delighted to welcome more than 120 scholars from the UK and abroad, and to offer a splendid array of contributions from over forty specialists in the field, who were invited to examine diverse epigraphic material and to discuss its significance for Byzantine writing culture as a whole. In addition to the customary format of panel papers and shorter communications, the 49th SPBS Symposium organized a round table, whose participants led a debate on the topics presented in the panel papers, and raised methodological questions related to collecting and interpreting Byzantine inscriptional material.

The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium is currently being prepared with an aim to advance the current scholarship on Byzantine Epigraphy, and to open the field to scholars in related disciplines. This collection is envisaged as a valuable scholarly resource covering a substantial quantity of epigraphic material, and setting agenda for the future of the subject. It will discuss individual epigraphic habits, and overall epigraphic traditions, in a manner that would make Byzantine inscriptional culture relevant to a wider scholarly community.

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The 49th Symposium was made possible through the generous support of:

The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research The Faculty of History (Sanderson Fund) The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages The Faculty of Classics 9Craven Committee) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

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12. 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Global Byzantium

25-27 March 2017 Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham

Symposiarchs: Professor Leslie Brubaker, Dr Rebecca Darley & Dr Daniel Reynolds

PROGRAMME

Friday 24 March

19.00: Welcome drink Venue: Staff House bar A welcome drink for researchers attending the symposium

19.30: Speakers’ dinner

Saturday 25 March

9.00-10.00: Registration (with refreshments, Muirhead Tower)

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Opening of the Symposium (Main Lecture Theatre)

10.00-10.15: Welcome: Professor Michael Whitby (University of Birmingham) 10.15-10.30: What is Global Byzantium? Professor Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham) 10.30-11.00: Key Note Lecture Global Byzantium: a whirlwind romance or fundamental paradigm shift? Dr Catherine Holmes (University of Oxford) 11.00-11.30: Tea & Coffee

Session One (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Dr Ruth Macrides

11.30-13.00: India in the Byzantine worldview: Dr Rebecca Darley (Birkbeck, University of London) Constantinople: global or local? Professor Antony Eastmond (Courtauld Institute of Fine Art) What about Greek(s) in eighth- and ninth-century Italy? Dr Francesca Dell’ Acqua (University di Salerno / University of Birmingham)

13.00-14.00: Lunch SPBS Executive committee Meeting (Muirhead 112)

Sessions Two and Three 14.00-15.30

Room: Muirhead 112 Room: Muirhead 113 Chair: Dr Rebecca Darley Chair: Dr Dan Reynolds

Communication 1 Communication 2 Communication 3 Communication 4 Communication 5 Communication 6 Communication 7 Communication 8 Communication 9 Communication 10 Communication 11 Communication 12

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15.30-16.00: Tea & Coffee with words from Lauren Wainwright (lead curator) of Excavating Empire: the forgotten archives of Mount Sinai

Session Four (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos

16.00-18.00: Forgotten Africa and the Global Middle Ages: Dr Corisande Fenwick (University of London) Composing World history at the margins of empire: Armenian chronicles in comparative perspective: Dr Tim Greenwood (University of St Andrews) Crossing Imagined Boundaries: A look into and out of the Byzantine village: Professor Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) A ‘global’ empire: The structures of East Roman longevity: Professor John Haldon (Princeton University)

18.00-19.15: Wine reception with words from Professor Averil Cameron

19.15: Champagne bus leaves from the North Gate

19.30: Symposium dinner with words from Professor Judith Herrin Syriana Restaurant, 1 Constitution Hill, Birmingham, B19 3LG. Individuals responsible for return taxis. See below for the menu.

Sunday 26 March

Session Five (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Professor Leslie Brubaker

9.00-11.00: Looking Beyond Byzantium: Professor Liz James (University of Sussex) The State as an economic actor in Byzantium and the Caliphate c.650-c.950: A cross-cultural comparison: Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)

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Maniera Greca and Renaissance Europe: more than meets the eye: Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou (The Open University) Magical Signs in Byzantium and Islam: a Global Language: Professor Henry Maguire (John Hopkins University Emeritus / University of Birmingham) 11.00-11.30: Tea & Coffee

Session Six (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Professor Rosemary Morris

11.30-13.00: Silk in the Byzantine world: Transmission and technology: Dr Julia Galliker (University of Birmingham) Attracting Poles: Byzantium, al-Andalus and the shaping of the Mediterranean in the tenth century: Professor Eduardo Manzano (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CISC) Spice Odysseys: exotic ‘stuff’ and its imaginary geography: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading)

13.00-14.00: Lunch SPBS Annual General Meeting (Main Lecture Theatre)

14.00-14.30: Auction Constantinopoly to be auctioned off, proceeds to contribute to a new AAM Bryer travel fund for postgraduate students from the Centre of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies

Session Seven (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Professor Margaret Mullett

14.30-16.00: The ‘Helladic Paradign’ in a Global Perspective: Professor Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)

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Secluded Place or Global Magnet? The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its manuscript collection: Professor Claudia Rapp (Universität Wien)

16.00-16.30: Tea & Coffee

Sessions Eight and Nine

16.30-18.00

Room: Muirhead 112 Room: Muirhead 113 Chair: Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou Chair: Dr Fotini Kondyli

Communication 13 Communication 14 Communication 15 Communication 16 Communication 17 Communication 18 Communication 19 Communication 20 Communication 21 Communication 22 Communication 23 Communication 24

18.00-19.30: Wine reception (Barber Institute of Fine Arts) with words from Maria Vrij, Coin Curator, and Anna Kelley, Lead Curator of Excavating Empire: David Talbot Rice

19.30: Symposium Feast (The Noble Room) With words from Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys and Professor Rosemary Morris See below for the menu.

Monday 27 March

Session Ten (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Dr Tim Greenwood

9.30-11.00: Jerusalem and the fabrication of a global city: Dr Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) ‘Monuments of Unageing Intellect’: Teaching Byzantine art in China: Professor Linda Safran (University of Toronto)

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Centre or Periphery? Constantinople and the Eurasian trading system at the end of Antiquity: Dr Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) 11.00-11.30: Tea & Coffee

11.30-13.00 Concluding Remarks (Main Lecture Theatre)

Chair: Professor Chris Wickham

Dr Fotini Kondyli (University of Virginia) – material culture Professor Margaret Mullett (Queens University Belfast / Dumbarton Oaks Emeritus) - literature Professor Jo Story (University of Leicester) – the West Professor Scott Redford (SOAS) – the Middle East Professor Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham) – the Far East Professor Chris Wickham (All Souls, University of Oxford Emeritus, University of Birmingham) – final remarks

13.00: Announcement of the 2018 Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

13.10: Close of the Symposium

14.00-17.30: Postgraduate workshop on Global Byzantium (see separate programme below)

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Communications

Elisa Bianchi, Università di Pavia Traces of Foreign Prosopography in the Imperial Documents of the First Palaeologan Age (1261-1328) as a globalization indicator. Introductory Notes and considerations

Byzantine diplomacy is a remarkable area of Greek civilization and an increasingly fertile research field. In particular, the prosopographical study of an historical-documentary source is a good tool to check the roles of individual members within a specific socio-cultural reality and also to verify the historical accuracy of the correlated events. For this reason the aim of this paper is to focus on all types of the so-called «Aussenpolitische Urkunden» (by referring to the material handed down by Regesten der Kaiserurkunden des Oströmische Reiches) belonging to the first Palaeologan age, from the reconquest of Byzantium (1261) by the emperor Michael VIII to Andronikos II (1328). In this period, the Byzantine Empire has forged deep relationships (in a kind of «Kultursymbiose») with foreign neighbours in the Near East (for example the Seljuk Dynasty of Ikonium or the Mamluk Sultanate) and, more often, in the West. In particular, this contribution will deal with personal names referring to foreign characters involved in various diplomatic relationships with the Byzantine Empire. This prosopographical, paleographical and historical analysis will evaluate the presence of foreign names in different documents, classifying them according to their country of origin and to Urkunden’s type; on a further level the present contribution will consider the diplomatical context and the specific relationships between Byzantium and its foreigners and immigrants. What kind of documents, privileges and arrangements were signed between the two counterparts? What kind of features can be seen and analyzed?

The Byzantine Chancery represents an insight into daily life: the purpose of this research is to give a panorama of the Near East and the West in the last centuries of Byzantium’s life: it will be a new opportunity to evaluate the interactions between very different (but not too far!) peoples and also to assess the openness to the outside (especially to the East) of the Byzantine Empire, at the exact moment that the Fourth Crusade’s effects became more insidious and difficult to control.

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Jeff Brubaker, University of Birmingham What is Byzantine about ‘Byzantine’ diplomacy?

At the twelfth international congress of Byzantine Studies, Dimitri Obolensky noted that ‘the diplomacy of the Byzantine Empire still awaits its historian.’ Today, after over fifty years of research, we can certainly claim some progress. Many capable and well-regarded historians have pursued the subject, identifying the goals and methods of Byzantine diplomacy and giving context and clarity to specific incidents. However, a concise explanation of what Byzantine diplomacy is has remained elusive. Part of the problem, as Obolensky noted, is the issue of scale. With over a millennium of evidence and material, the subject appears as too vast to be quantified by one singular statement. A possible solution would be to identify and flesh out an ‘institution’ of Byzantine diplomacy – a theory of diplomatic conduct adhered to by emperors throughout the centuries.

However, this too has remained difficult to elucidate, and some even doubt whether diplomacy was ever conducted at such a level.

Nina Chichinadze, Ilia State University Icons and Ideology: royal patronage of Byzantine miracle-working cult icons in medieval Georgia

The Byzantine official ideology incorporated various tools for establishing of the authority of the Empire and for manifestation of its “global” political, cultural and religious dimensions. The cult of miraculous icons associated to the imperial court must be viewed as one of the symbols of the Byzantine- centered ideological concepts of its time. This paper focuses on cult of Byzantine miracle-working icons, which reveal complex interrelations between Byzantine Empire and medieval Georgia. These many-fold interrelations involving cultural, diplomatic, military and religious spheres are presented in various ways and forms.

Rather than attempt an answer that will invariably fall short, this study will present the issue in new terms. Recent research into ideas of Byzantine identity may present an alternative methodology for addressing the question. A discussion of the tools and methods of diplomacy employed by Byzantium, shown in contrast to those of its neighbours, may indicate their unique nature and further illuminate their use in a global community. Instead

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM of being an investigation of the diplomacy pursued by Byzantium, this paper will ask ‘what made that diplomacy particularly Byzantine?’

Miraculous icons associated to the Byzantine imperial court were actively incorporated into official ideology of Georgian sovereigns. Such icons enjoyed a special royal patronage and were viewed by Georgian rulers as an efficient instrument for promoting of their power and authority within and beyond the country. Royal patronage of icons is manifested in variety of ways – they are transferred to royal religious foundations and are depicted on their walls, they receive precious embellishments (mount-cases, repouse revetments, cloisonné enamelled decoration, precious stones, etc.) and are praised by hymns created by royal order. The association of rulers with cult icons is also reflected in historical chronicles. Such practices going back to Byzantine imperial tradition were recognised as a privilege of representatives of power and elucidated their piety and divine provenance of their rulership. At the same time sovereigns, who were involved in modification of the original “sacred fabric” of icons were perceived as privileged rulers, who enjoyed a special protection from depicted “heavenly patrons”.

I will argue that mentioned practices for establishing cult of miracle-working icons of Christ and the Virgin was not region/country-specific phenomenon and was “imported” from Byzantium as an efficient tool for construction of monarchic authority in other Orthodox medieval countries.

Koray Durak, Bogazici University Byzantine Medical Tradition: adaptability to the global trends

The traditional belief that Byzantine medical tradition was a pale imitation of the Graeco-Roman tradition has been criticized and its adaptability to the new conditions and needs have been recognized in an increasing number of studies. My aim is to focus on the pharmacological lore in Byzantium in order to present another case of openness to the global trends taking place in the Middle Ages. Introduction of new medicinal substances into the Byzantine pharmacopeia, induced especially by the advances in Islamic pharmacological tradition, can be traced in pharmacological writing of the middle and later Byzantine periods. Various medicinal plants, most of which originated from South Asia and Near East, were introduced into the recipes such as camphor, clove, jujube, and musk. This phenomenon was

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM accompanied by a number of translations of medical treatises from Arabic, and adjustment of a number of classical works attributed to Graeco-Roman medical authorities. In other words, Byzantine pharmacology was soundly based on the ancient pharmacological tradition but modified the latter with advances in the Middle Ages. The present work attempts to show mechanisms that the Byzantines employed in order to incorporate the changes in the larger scientific world into their own tradition.

Adrian Elías Negro Cortés, Universidad de Extremadura Tributes Linked to Military Action in Both Ends of the Mediterranean: from Byzantium to Spain

The aim of this paper is to analyse the payments of tributes in two frontiers of Islam with Christians. We always have thought of the “parias”, the word used in Spanish sources to refer to this kind of payments, as a phenomenon which only happened in Spain, but very similar institutions were implemented in the diplomatic relationship between Byzantium and the ‘Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates from the 7th century onwards. They are probably the origin of our parias. The first payments involving Christians, Muslims and military action in the frontier took place in Byzantium in 659. The first ‘Umayyad caliph: Mu’awiya paid to Byzantium while he was quarrelling with ‘Ali during the civil war. These payments would be repeated until 690. In 782 we find a change of tendency, because the military superiority of the Abbasid caliphate forced Byzantium to pay tributes until 839. After that there is a period of equilibrium in which no state pays to the other until 910. This kind of payment spread quickly in Medieval Europe. In 810 the Vikings began collecting Danegeld from the late Carolingians, and finally the Catalonian counties, began using the same payments in their relation with Islam. Our theory is that Varangian merchants learned about these payments, resulting in the Vikings using them in Russia, France and England. Then, the Catalonians found out and began taxing the weak Islamic kingdoms with them.

To sum up, Byzantium is the first place where those payments are found in Medieval Europe, and direct links could be traced from Constantinople to Barcelona, resulting in the institution of the parias, which is key to understand the XIth century in Spain

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Alex M Feldman, University of Birmingham The Byzantine Metropolitanates of Gotthia and Rus’ in the Notitiae Episcopatuum: two case studies in Monotheization

It is well-known that the Rus’ metropolitanate was established at the behest of the Byzantine emperors and adopted by the princes of Kiev in the 10-11th c., but in many ways this mirrors the earlier establishment of the Byzantine metropolitanate of Gotthia in the 8-9th c., which subsequently disappeared. Some scholars have argued that this effectually encompassed a Byzantine attempt at Christianizing Khazaria. That both metropolitanates, essentially Byzantine attempts to Christianize an area previously populated mostly by pagans, via their rulers, are mentioned in various iterations of the Notitiae Episcopatuum should come as little surprise. Many scholars have examined one metropolitanate or the other, but few have contextualized them alongside each other. The respective fates of each metropolitanate differed markedly: one ultimately failed where the other succeeded.

Engy Hana, Minia University Reading Global Byzantium through women’s physical appearance in early Byzantine Egypt

The cultural hegemony of Byzantium, the heart of the Byzantine world, was one of the main characteristics of its globalism. Since the early centuries of the Byzantine rule, Byzantium ensured its cultural hegemony over the Mediterranean region through different practices; interregional trade, tourism, pilgrimage, and migration. The most explicit manifestation of these global practices was the spread of imperial fashion of dress and jewellery in distant provinces. Most prominently, provincial women imitated the physical appearance of imperial ones in a gesture of the display of their status. In Early Byzantine Egypt, this feature of global Byzantium appeared clearly in women’s representations on Coptic artworks. This paper investigates how women’s physical appearance, depicted on Coptic artworks, reflects the way the local culture of Egypt absorbed the global culture of Byzantium. This involves analysing the cultural implications of embracing imperial fashion and its effect on the local norms of women’s ‘proper’ appearance. These goals will be achieved through a social-context art historical approach. It compares women’s depictions on Coptic wall paintings, mummy portraits, and tapestry textile from Egypt with representations of imperial women elsewhere. The study also considers these depictions in the light of surviving

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM archaeological examples of dress and jewellery from Egypt. It also explores these depictions in the light of contemporary literature that deals with women’s ‘proper’ appearance, like the exhortations of Egyptian Church Fathers.

Kristian Hansen Schmidt, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Constantine’s monoxyla: canoe or Viking ship?

In considering Byzantine influence on the emerging Scandinavian kingdoms, it is difficult to disentangle a Western - Eurocentric perspective, even if Scandinavia had access to a short cut to Byzantium consisting of the east European Rivers. Thus it is not easy to lose the connotations of all things Viking, to the extent that many scholars even today imagine Vikings travelling all the way, by route of Kiev, to Constantinople in their iconic Viking Ships. A careful reading of the relevant passages in Constantine VII’s results in a very different picture, but even where this is acknowledged, new pitfalls are opened. In translation ‘monoxyla’ usually becomes canoe, a term both anachronistic and confusing. It is possible, however, to reconcile this with still existing modes of construction of eastern European river-boats, as, amongst others, the archaeologist Ole Crumlin Pedersen has suggested. Furthermore an increasingly complex picture has been drawn of differing modes of transportation on ‘The Road from the Varangians to the Greeks’, including sledging on the frozen rivers in winter. This picture is compatible with archaeology and different written sources as far apart as Iceland and Constantinople. In doing so, this paper argues that both Byzantium and Scandinavia in this instance are badly served by appellations as Viking and Viking Age, even when (or rather because) it in a Western European context makes sense. To understand the role Byzantium played for the people we today call Vikings, we must modify the very concept itself.

Cecily Hennessy, Christie’s Education Mary Magdalene: east is east and west is west?

This paper addresses the globalisation of imagery and the relation of Byzantine and western art. Certainly after the eleventh century, Mary Magdalene’s cult in the west far surpassed in notoriety that in Byzantium. However, her early reputation was securely tied to the east and not tainted

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM by association with harlotry as in the west. Her relics were translated by Leo VI from Ephesus in about 900, to be enshrined at a splendid new monastic church in Constantinople dedicated to her ‘brother’ Lazaros, which seems to have survived until the end of Byzantine rule, although the relics themselves may well have ended up in western hands. The traditional view is that the earliest eastern images that highlighted Mary’s role among the women attending to Christ’s body at the tomb derive from western sources, but is this the case? In Byzantium, Mary Magdalene had a strong identity in texts and in iconography, particularly in certain eleventh-and twelfth-century manuscripts. In the later period, western and Russian pilgrims to Constantinople did not focus on the church containing the relics of Mary and Lazaros, from which it is assumed that it was not a major feature of the city. This perhaps can be explained by the wealth of relics held in Constantinople, principally those of the Virgin and of Christ’s passion, which provided steep competition, quite surpassing those of any site in the west claiming Mary’s relics.

Hajnalka Herold, University of Exeter How Byzantine was 9th-century Moravia? An archaeological perspective

In Byzantine research, Moravia in east central Europe is mainly known through the mission of Cyril and Methodius in the 860s. This paper will explore to what extent the area that they arrived in was connected to the (global) Byzantine world in the 9th century, both before and after the 860s. Central Europe, and especially east-central Europe, is a neglected region both in Byzantine studies and in research on the Carolingian world. No doubt, many reasons for this lie in the history of the 20th century. However, it is problematic to consider relations between early medieval western Europe and Byzantium without considering east-central Europe. While there were certainly also other routes of communication between the Byzantine East and the Carolingian West – e.g. via the areas north of the Black Sea and Scandinavia, or via ports in the western Mediterranean – the most direct way geographically between these two major political, cultural and economic entities is east-central Europe.

The archaeological record of east-central Europe in the 9th century displays strong Byzantine influences (in addition to elements linked to the Carolingian world). This paper will focus on these influences, which can be

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM seen in a ‘Byzantium beyond Byzantium’ framework, mainly by discussing items of personal adornment (e.g. earrings, belt mounts) but also by considering elements of the built environment, both at the level of buildings (mostly churches) and the internal structure of settlements. When investigating Byzantine influence and impact on east-central Europe, one possible aspect to think about is how the Byzantines saw this area and how important it was to them. But it is also interesting to consider the agency of the people of east-central Europe. What did Byzantium mean to them, what did they want from Byzantium? As a final point of the paper, the relevance of Byzantine influence on Moravia, and east-central Europe more generally, for present-day (20th/21st-century) identities will be discussed. Many past connections and identities in Europe, especially early medieval ones, are linked to present-day national and regional identities. It is interesting to make some of these links explicit and consider their impact on how we see early medieval east-central Europe and its connections to the (global) Byzantine world.

Lucy-Anne Hunt, Manchester Metropolitan University Melkite art in the 13th century: Constantinople, Crusader Syria and Byzantium’s global reach

This communication takes a particular textile example to argue the case for considering Melkite art within the nexus of ecclesiastical, political and economic networks between Constantinople and Crusader Syria in the early Palaeologan period. Touching on the art and commodities the Melkite community produced and traded it is suggested that this activity can be linked with imperial art and politics facing in both eastern and western directions. The ways in which the visual transcends geographical and linguistic barriers has implications for a global approach to Byzantine Studies.

Anna Kelley, University of Birmingham Identity in the Outer-reaches: representing the self through textiles

The period from the seventh through tenth centuries was one of rapid political and demographic change in the eastern Mediterranean. As invading forces continued to push farther out of the Arabian Peninsula, borders shifted, central polities were consolidated and the pressure exerted on the

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Consequent continuities and transformations of the social identities people were constructing for themselves were reflected in their material culture, including textiles. As items of everyday use for all segments of society, they could serve as visual statements of either choice or imposition. This paper will seek to examine how such changes were reflected in the textiles of the peripheral regions of the Byzantine Empire and successive Caliphates in the final three centuries of the first millennium, and the differences in how social belonging was communicated. Using a combination of archaeological and documentary evidence, changes to regional textiles such as fibre type, production method and iconography will be considered in relation to the political changes and movements of people at the time.

Matthew Kinloch, University College, University of Oxford Historiographies of Reconquest: Constantinople, Iberia, and the Danelaw

Byzantine history between 1204 and 1261 has predominantly been defined by modern historians as a period of exile, finally brought to an end by the so-called reconquest of Constantinople by ‘Byzantine’ forces. In particular, the political history of the period has been structured around a narrative of constant military reconquest, by the forces of the polity, which ‘recaptured’ Constantinople. The total failure of Byzantinists to engage critically with the implications of the narrative of reconquest, which they themselves constructed, has led to the wholesale teleological distortion of the history of thirteenth-century Byzantium.

Reconquest has been a repeated trope throughout both the medieval texts and modern historiographies. Consequently, many historians have engaged with similar problems to those found in the study of thirteenth-century Byzantium. The basic premise of this communication is that examination of similar historiographical problems, in other medieval contexts, has something to offer Byzantinists. In this communication, I compare the so- called reconquest of Byzantium in the thirteenth century, with

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM historiographical treatments of the so-called reconquests of Iberia between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and the Danelaw in tenth-century Britain, whilst also drawing on a wider range of examples. In addition, this communication will add to discussion of the comparative tranche of global historical practise, by highlighting the utility of a ‘global perspective’ at the (meta)historiographical level.

Dr. Ioannis Kioridis, Open University of Athens, Universidad de Valencia and Universidad de Zaragoza Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger, University of Birmingham The relations between Muslims and Christians on the Byzantine poem of Digenis Akritis (El Escorial manuscript) and on the Castilian Cantar de mio Cid.

During recent years, we have conducted a series of comparisons between the Cantar de mio Cid (from now on CMC) and Digenis Akritis’ Escorial manuscript (from now on E). These texts, dated to the 14th and mid-15th centuries respectively, seem to preserve the general tone from the early 13th and 12th century’s original compositions. This time we analyse a new aspect of the two epics: the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Particular emphasis is given to the Arab-Byzantine and the Arab-Spanish frontier societies. The ambivalence behind the concept of ‘frontier’ must be analysed first: the frontier lands can be regarded as a space for collision between two universes, but also a place for contacts and coexistence. The frontier has constituted a frequent literary topos; this paper will analyse how this topos was used by the authors of the epics.

The paper initially describes the evidence of contacts between the two worlds, followed by the evidence of conflict between them. Further on the paper it will be debated if the attitude of the two epics towards the Muslim ‘Other’ is unidirectional. The answer is negative: both epics show a clear divergence between the depiction of the Muslims who live together with Christians and the Muslim outsiders who pillage the territory.

The conclusion reached is that the two epics eloquently describe, sometimes realistically, sometimes in a more idealized way, the frontier world where Christians and Muslims lived together. They focused more on coexistence rather than conflict.

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Dimitra Kotoula, The Greek Ministry of Culture and The British School at Athens The global Byzantium of the Arts and Crafts

It was around the end of the 19th century, that Byzantium first entered the cultural limelight as a subversive precedent for modernity’s escape from the deathly grip of classicism and the neo-classical values nurtured by the Renaissance. Byzantine art was particularly rehabilitated by legendary figures of the British Arts and Crafts movement. John Ruskin was among the first to turn his interest in Gothic architecture and art, and, through it, Byzantium in Venice. William Morris, William Richard Lethaby, Philip Webb, Rhéne Spiers, all leading Arts & Crafts figures and pioneers in the appreciation of Medieval culture and the protection of historic buildings, focused consistently on Byzantium in the Mediterranean encouraging their students, such as Robert Weir Schultz, Sidney Barnsley and Walter George, to do so. Their appreciation of monuments of the Byzantine world outside Italy and Venice popularized Byzantine art and architecture giving a global significance to it. The architecture and the visual culture of the Byzantines, thus, inspired one of the most consistent and impressive, in many aspects, neo-Byzantine revivals in Europe. For the Arts and Crafts pioneers ‘the creation of the two chief medieval styles: the Gothic and the Byzantine’, meant the beginning of a ‘global modern art’. The aim of this paper is to address questions related to the appreciation of Byzantium and its culture by the Arts and Crafts avant-gardes, as an international modern culture. To what extent had Byzantium and its culture been interpreted by the Arts and Crafts pioneers as the interaction of a series of different national and regional traditions, cultures and styles? What did they mean by describing the style of the Byzantines as a ‘universal style’?

Nik Matheou, University of Oxford New Rome & the Caucasus, c.900-1100: empire, elitedom and identity in a global perspective

In this communication I outline a regional-global framework for situating interactions between the medieval Eastern Roman Empire and the Christian Caucasus in the period c.900-1100. In this period New Rome replaced as regional hegemon the various political units of the Islamic Caliphate, subordinating local Christian polities by integrating different levels of their

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM elitedom, transforming southern Caucasia’s political-economic structures, and providing the context and model for the united Abkhazian-K‘art‘velian kingdom’s regional hegemony of the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries. The period and region thus demonstrate many of global history’s key leitmotifs, from the interconnection of human and non-human actors across different regional social systems, to the structural role of imperial hegemons and state apparatuses in the playing out of short-, medium- and long-distance associations. It therefore provides a perfect case study for a regional-global framework that moves beyond the macro, applying global history’s critical concepts at differentiated and aggregating levels of interaction. Focusing on one of global history’s central problematics, empire, and drawing on global historian Pamela Kyle Crossley’s pioneering work on the constitutive role of Ching imperial apparatuses on ethnic constructions in nineteenth-century China, I analyse its effects on two fundamental aspects of Christian Caucasian social systems, elitedom and identity. Through a number of comparative examples across different times and places, as well as an in- depth illustration in the person of Grigor Bakurian (d.1086), the framework developed points towards a globally-situated social history of New Rome and the Caucasus c.900-1100.

Sandro Nikolaishvili, Central European University From Center to Periphery: Byzantine political culture translated to medieval Georgia

One cannot deny the fact that Byzantine political culture was the source of inspiration for the empire’s neighbouring polities. Much research has been done on the influence of the Byzantine political culture on Medieval Bulgaria and Medieval Serbia. While Byzantium’s Balkan neighbors are relatively studied in this respect, the possible influence of the Byzantine concepts of power representation in Medieval Georgia still awaits comprehensive survey.

In this paper I aim to bring under close scrutiny the renewed kingship ideology of Georgian King Davit IV (r. 1089–1125) and argue that he exploited Byzantine imperial imagery, symbols and the language of power in order to propagate his image. Moreover, in this paper I will demonstrate how strongly Davit IV’s literary and visual image in encomiastic historical narratives, royal imagery, and coinage, resembled the contemporary emperor Alexios I Komnenos’s (r. 1081–1118) image. It will not be exaggeration to

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Giuseppe Pascale. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano Greek Books and Bookmen at the Sultan’s Court

While Gemistos Pletho conversed with Cosimo de’ Medici at the Council of Florence (1439), marking the start of the rediscovery of Greek literature in the West, some of his former followers refused any compromise with Latin Church and with Western political entities.

The manuscript Milan, Ambr. G 69 sup. (ca. 1450), testifies to the cultural path of John Doceian, a Greek scholar who chose, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, an "alternative" way to that of most of the Byzantine scholars of the same period. In fact John Doceian copied this book in Mystras, where he was fellow of the Neoplatonic circle. The manuscript followed then its owner to Constantinople, where Doceian - along with a handful of other Greek scholars - preferred to continue his activities under the Turkish Sultan Mohammed II, rather than accept the Union of Churches and to flee to the West, transferring the Greek legacy to Western Humanism. The codex stayed in Constantinople until at least 1492, as some marginal notes show. In this period it was read and annotated by various well known and less known Greek men: among others by the important anti-Latin scholar Matthew Kamariotes. Moving from this and other manuscripts copied by these “disobedient” scholars (in particular Turin, University Library, B.V. 33 and Paris. gr. 2153, both partly copied by a same anonymous scribe, colleague of John Doceian, as I shall demonstrate), and from the texts copied in these books, this paper aims to give a sketch of this “alternative” Renaissance in order to show shortly books, texts, and Greek men who animated the new Islamic Empire, and to better understand the meaning of “Greek identity” in one of its crucial periods, “threatened” by various and conflicting elements - political, religious and cultural.

Eventually this issue could allow us to understand which ideological contributions were provided by Greek scholars to the Ottoman Empire in the years right afterwards the fall of Constantinople.

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Maroula Perisanidi, University of Leeds Clerical marriage in a comparative perspective

Global historians have primarily advocated three approaches: the exploration of connectedness; the study of globalisation; and comparative history. I propose here to discuss Byzantium in a global context through a comparison with the West, focussing on the marriage of clerics. After the eleventh- century Gregorian reforms, clerical marriage came to represent an area of striking divergence between Eastern and Western Christendom: in the West it was decried as an abomination, in the East it maintained a sanctifying nature. In this paper, I will discuss why post-Gregorian Christian Europe produced such conflicting attitudes towards clerical marriage. My central argument will focus on two contemporary objections against such unions: fears of pollution of the sacred and fears of Church property alienation. More specifically, some Western ecclesiastics argued that because Christ was a virgin, his body in the form of the eucharist should only be handled by virginal hands. They also expressed concerns about the clerics' investment in their own families: a father was likely to squander church resources, and especially church lands, on his wife, sons, and daughters. Were these issues raised in Byzantium? How did Byzantine ecclesiastics deal with them? To answer this, I will focus on twelfth-century canon law and canonical commentaries, including the writings of Gratian and Balsamon. This juxtaposition of Byzantine and Western contexts will allow for a clearer picture of Byzantine views on purity, sexuality, marriage, and ecclesiastical property, and will provide a case study of the advantages of studying Byzantium in a global context.

Andrew Poulter, University of Nottingham Goths and Avars: a change in Byzantium’s economic and military capacity to defend its Danubian frontier?

This paper is founded principally upon the results of excavations on the site of Nicopolis ad Istrum, a Byzantine city in northern Bulgaria, and two neighbouring forts: Dichin and Dobri Dyal (1985-2012). Large scale excavation, and especially the systematic analysis of zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical evidence, have provided a wealth of information about the regional economy in the 5th-6th centuries AD. It will be argued that an understanding of the character of local agricultural production, as well as the level of external support by central authority (annona), help to explain the

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50th SPRING SYMPOSIUM radical change in Byzantine military strategy adopted after the reign of Anastasius. Not that all the archaeological evidence points in the same direction; whereas it is apparent that there was a remarkable continuity in military structure, founded upon the exploitation of local resources both in the 5th and 6th centuries, Nicopolis in the 6th century appears to have relied upon direct imperial support and ‘a market garden’ economy, a state far removed from its prosperous development under the Antonine and Severan dynasties. It had radically changed from a Roman city to a centre of imperial authority: a military and ecclesiastical stronghold. Clearly, imperial policy played a role in determining the often difficult relations between the Byzantine state and the Goths, then the Avars, but the ability of Byzantium to mobilize sufficient forces to counter a perceived or actual threat was dictated, partly by Byzantium’s capacity (or willingness) to supply its army on the Danube but, more importantly, rested upon the army’s own ability to acquire – or directly exploit – the local agricultural resources without which any military strategy was doomed to failure.

Oscar Prieto Domínguez, Universidad de Salamanca Globalizing sanctity: the extension of the Constantinopolitan cult to provincial heroes

Byzantium was a global Empire. Its religion would also work frequently as a globalizing tool aimed at integrating peripheral cults and provincial heroes into the liturgical/political agenda of Constantinople and even of the imperial court. After the end of the Iconoclasm in 843, a social, religious and political re-foundation of the Byzantine identity was urgently needed. It is precisely at this moment that several cults of new provincial saints are deliberately promoted in the very capital of the Empire. Following the model of the Constantinopolitan cults, the devotees, partisans, disciples, relatives or merely sympathisers of these peripheral saints started to venerate them and to extend their cult. This is the case of saints such as George of Amastris in the Black Sea (BHG 668); Eudokimos, who was born in Cappadocia (BHG 607); the Isaurian Gregory of Decapolis (BHG 711); the brothers Theodore and Theophanes Graptoi, who came from Palestine (BHG 1745z); the patriarch Methodios from Syracuse in Italy (BHG 1278), etc. Moreover, a series of provincial cults of married female saints arrived in Constantinople in this period: Athanasia of Aegina (BHG 180); Theodora of Thessalonike (BHG 1737-41); Thomaïs of Lesbos (BHG 2454), Mary the Younger of Bizye, a native to Armenia (BHG 1164), etc. This communication aims to

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Adam Simmons, Lancaster University The Role of Nubia and Ethiopia in Globalising Byzantium

There is a difference between a world view and knowledge of the world. This was the case for Byzantium too. The peripheries of the empire, though not part of the Byzantine ‘world’, were important actors in exercising the empire’s global power. Looking at the African kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia (Aksum), how influential was Byzantine ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ power? Both kingdoms knew Greek, though they prospered with different relationships with Byzantium. Ethiopia’s economy was linked directly to Byzantium as seen through corresponding weighted coins, with the most notable relationship being the military alliance between Justinian and Caleb in the sixth century. Nubia, on the other hand, did not appear to have an as direct relationship with Byzantium as Ethiopia despite its conversion in the sixth century being the product of Byzantine royal politics. Instead, Nubia was influenced by Byzantium, not only through language, but also through the influence of art, architecture, and nomenclature. It could be said that Byzantium and Ethiopia had primarily a ‘hard’ relationship, whereas Nubia and Byzantium had a ‘soft’ relationship. It would also appear that the ‘soft’ relationship lasted the longest as witnessed by the Nubian king in Constantinople in 1203 showing no signs of a lack of connectivity. Moreover, both Ethiopia and Nubia, along with Byzantium, were active traders in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean which place these relationships alongside those with India and China. Globalising Byzantium to the south is as important as globalising to the east. The rise of Islam did not prohibit the wider relationships of Ethiopia and Nubia. Defining what is ‘Byzantine’ defines how global we see the empire.

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Andrew Small, Exeter College, University of Oxford ‘From the halls of Tadmakka to the shores of Sicily’: Byzantine Italy and sub-Saharan Africa in the eleventh century

The history of eleventh-century Byzantine Italy has tended to suffer from a degree of teleological blindness. Partly due to the biases of the narrative sources, both Norman and Byzantine and partly due to the unconscious biases of later historians, Byzantine Italy has either been seen as a prelude to Norman Italy or been neglected as peripheral, and also ephemeral, by Byzantinists in general. When Byzantinists have studied the region it has tended to be viewed as world of its own, largely self-contained and quite distinct from the rest of the Empire. All of the above has downplayed the importance of southern Italy to the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century.

One strategic reason for Byzantine interest was the ability to tax burgeoning maritime trade through the control of ports on the peninsula’s coastline. My communication will examine the evidence of how some of these trade networks that crossed Byzantine territory extended deep into west Africa bringing with them supplies of gold and ivory. I will trace these connections through archaeological, numismatic and documentary material. Taken together, these sources show how Byzantine Italy was not an imperial outpost but a key point in a Byzantine Imperial system in a Global Mediterranean economy whose hinterlands stretched far into the Sahara and beyond.

Flavia Vanni, University of Birmingham Transferring skills and techniques across the Mediterranean: some preliminary remarks on stucco in Italy and Byzantium

Relations between Italy and Byzantium lasted during the whole life of the Byzantine empire, and the Italian art can provide us several examples of these interactions. Artistic exchanges across the Mediterranean can be seen through the direct contribution of Byzantine artisans and through the circulation of Byzantine iconographies, models, and technical traditions then absorbed and used by local artisans. This paper will explore these interactions from a particular perspective: the manufacturing of stucco. Stucco was a material both used in Byzantine territories and in the Early Medieval and Medieval Europe. Some well-known Italian Early Medieval

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Alexandra Vukovich, Newnham College, University of Cambridge A Facet of Byzantium’s Ideological Reach: the case of Byzantine imitation coins

One means of evaluating Byzantium’s global reach is to trace the production and distribution of Byzantine imitation coins, which were coins minted based on a Byzantine model with varying degrees of precision. Cultures as far apart in space and time as the Merovingians and the Artuqids reproduced, integrated, and appropriated Byzantine symbols of power as represented iconographically on their coinage. My paper will focus on the case of early Rus’, where coins reproduced some of the most iconic features of Byzantine coins along with local symbols of power and authority. The princes of Rus’ were not unconscious or passive recipients of Byzantine culture and religion, and their coins (produced during the late 10th and early 11th centuries) bear witness to a process of distinction both for the princely clan and for Rus’ as an emergent society within a Byzantine framework of visual and ideological expression. This paper will end with a general exploration of commonalities and differences in the appropriation and imitation of Byzantine coins and their purpose within the different societies that utilised Byzantine cultural ideas. More broadly, my paper will discuss the avenues that facilitated the cultural influence of the Byzantine Empire on farflung regions, e.g. long- distance commercial interaction, voluntary and forced migration, multi- ethnic empires, Byzantine diplomacy, and the transmission of cultural forms through scholastic exchange.

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Menus

Saturday 25 March: Middle Eastern Dinner (£35)

Starter A section of meat and vegetable meze Moutabal, fattoush salad, muhammara, mousakhan, falafel, borak sabanekh, hummus

Main course Shish Tahouk, mahashi (veg.,) kofta meshwi

Dessert Baklava and tea

Menu includes wine and soft drinks

Price includes transfer to restaurant in the Champagne bus Additional drinks will be available for purchase

Sunday 26 March: Symposium feast menu (£40)

Starter (please select one) Thai-spiced crab cake Salad of pear, gorgonzola, watercress and walnut

Main course (please select one) Chicken and tarragon ballotine Wild mushroom goat’s cheese and toast garlic caramel

Dessert Milk chocolate tart with salted caramel mousse

Menu includes a glass of wine and water Additional drinks will be available for purchase

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Global Byzantium & the Age of Technology Postgraduate workshop

University of Birmingham

Monday 27th March, 14.00-17.30

To complement the 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, an afternoon of workshops have been organised on Monday 27th. The postgraduate members of the symposium – though of course, all attendees are warmly welcomed – will be invited to explore how we can incorporate new technologies into historical research to expand the possibilities for the synthesis of data and material remains, and thus increase the global impact of postgraduate research. Speakers will include Dr Julia Galliker, Dr Maria Vrij and Dr Henry Chapman, who will discuss innovations in their own research.

Themes of the workshop will include:  Computer imaging technology to understand production techniques of objects.  Programming to create comparative statistical models.  Chemical and physical analysis to understand the provenance of objects and material changes over time (carried out at the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Barber Institute of Fine Art).  The rise of new digital humanities programmes at universities, and what this may mean for future research projects.

Places for this event are limited to 50 places. Please reserve your place on the online shop when you register for the Spring Symposium.

For further details please contact: Anna Kelley: [email protected] Lauren Wainwright: [email protected]

Speakers will include: Dr Julia Galliker, Dr Maria Vrij and Dr Henry Chapman

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13. SPBS Spring Symposia: our golden jubilee

A.A.M. Bryer gave a brief ‘record’ of the early history of the symposia in A. Bryer and M. Cunningham, Mt Athos and Byzantine Monasticism (1996: see below). He recounted how the symposia gradually became formalised (and numbered), and how the first full publication of a symposium as such was that of the 9th, on Iconoclasm. He also gave information about some other related publications, such as videotapes of proceedings or catalogues of exhibitions put on to accompany the symposium. These have not been included here.

Information about the early symposia seems hard to find: if anyone knows the exact dates of the early ones (1-8) and the identity of the symposiarchs of the symposia that had no direct publication (1-8, 10-11, 15, 17, 21 and 23), please do send them to the Editor of the Bulletin, and we can add them to a final list which we will update in later Bulletins and make available on our website.

1st Spring Symposium 1967 Byzantium and Europe (University of Birmingham)

2nd Spring Symposium 1968 Byzantium 976–1261 (University of Birmingham)

3rd Spring Symposium 1969 The Tourkokratia (University of Birmingham)

4th Spring Symposium 1970 The Roman Empire in the East: Constantine to Justinian (University of Birmingham)

5th Spring Symposium 1971 Asceticism in the Early Byzantine World (University of Birmingham)

6th Spring Symposium 1972 Byzantium and the East (University of Birmingham)

7th Spring Symposium 1973 Byzantine Literature and Art (University of Birmingham)

8th Spring Symposium 1974 Byzantine Society and Economy (University of Birmingham)

9th Spring Symposium 22-24 March 1975 Iconoclasm (University of Birmingham)

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Iconoclasm: papers given at the Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1975, edited by Anthony Bryer and Judith Herrin (Birmingham: University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine Studies, 1977)

10th Spring Symposium 20-22 March 1976 The Byzantine Underworld: Heroic Poetry and Popular Tradition (University of Birmingham)

11th Spring Symposium 19-22 March 1977 The Two Shining Lights: Islam and Christendom: Empire, Caliphate and Crusades (University of Birmingham)

12th Spring Symposium 18-20 March 1978 The Byzantine Black Sea (University of Birmingham) ‘Maurē Thalassa’: 12on Symposion Vyzantinōn Spoudōn (Birmingham, M. Bretannia, 18-20 Martiou 1978), edited by Anthony Bryer = Archeion Pontou Vol. 35 (1978 [1979])

13th Spring Symposium 1979 Byzantium and the Classical Tradition (University of Birmingham) Byzantium and the classical tradition: 13th Spring symposium of Byzantine Studies 1979: Papers, edited by Margaret Mullett and Roger Scott (Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine studies, University of Birmingham, 1981)

14th Spring Symposium 1980 The Byzantine Saint (University of Birmingham) The Byzantine saint. Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, edited by Sergei Hackel (London: Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, 1981)

15th Spring Symposium 1981 Byzantium and the Slavs (University of Birmingham)

16th Spring Symposium 1982 The Byzantine Aristocracy (University of Edinburgh) The Byzantine aristocracy, IX to XIII centuries, edited by Michael Angold (Oxford: B.A.R., 1984)

17th Spring Symposium March 1983 Life and Death in Byzantium (University of Birmingham)

18th Spring Symposium 30 April–1 May 1984 Byzantium and the West c.850–c.1200 (University of Oxford)

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Byzantium and the West: c. 850 - c. 1200; proceedings of the XVIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 30. March - 1. April 1984, edited by James D. Howard-Johnston (Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1988)

19th Spring Symposium March 1985 Manzikert to Lepanto: The Byzantine world and the Turks 1071-1571 (University of Birmingham) Manzikert to Lepanto : the Byzantine world and the Turks 1071-1571 : papers given at the nineteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1985, edited by Anthony Bryer and Michael Ursinus (Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1991)

20th Spring Symposium 1986 Church and People in Byzantium (University of Manchester) Church and people in Byzantium: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies : twentieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Manchester, 1986, edited by Rosemary Morris (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek studies, University of Birmingham, 1990)

21st Spring Symposium 1987 The Byzantine Eye: Word and Perception (University of Birmingham)

22nd Spring Symposium 1988 Latins and Greeks in the Aegean World after 1204 (University of Nottingham) Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204, edited by Benjamin Arbel, Bernard Hamilton, David Jacoby (London: Cass in association with The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies; The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, 1989)

23rd Spring Symposium 18-21 March 1989 (University of Birmingham) Salonica, the second city

24th Spring Symposium March 1990 Byzantine Diplomacy (University of Cambridge) Byzantine Diplomacy. Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990, edited by Jonathan Shepard and Simon Franklin (Ashgate, 1992)

25th Jubilee Symposium 25-28 March 1991 The Sweet land of Cyprus (University of Birmingham)

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‘The Sweet Land of Cyprus’: papers given at the Twenty-Fifth Jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, edited by A.A.M. Bryer and G.S. Georghallides (Nicosia Research Centre, 1993)

26th Spring Symposium 1992 New Constantines: the rhythm of Imperial Renewal in Byzantium, 4th-13th centuries (University of St Andrews) New Constantines. The Rhythm of Imperial Renewal in Byzantium, 4th- 13th Centuries. Papers from the twenty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St Andrews, March 1992, edited by Paul Magdalino (Ashgate, 1994)

27th Spring Symposium April 1993 Constantinople and its Hinterland (University of Oxford) Constantinople and its Hinterland. Papers from the Twenty-seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, 1993, edited by Cyril Mango and Geoffrey Greatrex (Ashgate, 1995)

28th Spring Symposium 26-29 March 1994 Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism (University of Birmingham) Mt Athos and Byzantine Monasticism. Papers from the Twenty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, 1994, edited by Anthony Bryer and Mary Cunningham (Ashgate, 1996).

29th Spring Symposium March 1995 Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes (University of London) Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes. Papers from the Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King's College, London, March 1995, edited by Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys (Ashgate, 2000).

30th Spring Symposium 23-26 March 1996 Byzantine in the Ninth Century: Dead or alive? (University of Birmingham) Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, 1996, edited by Leslie Brubaker (Ashgate, 1998).

31st Spring Symposium March 1997 Desire and Denial in Byzantium (University of Sussex) Desire and Denial in Byzantium. Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997, edited by Liz James (Ashgate, 1999)

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32nd Spring Symposium March 1998 Strangers to Themselves: the Byzantine Outsider (University of Sussex) Strangers to Themselves The Byzantine Outsider. Papers from the Thirty- Second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1998, edited by Dion C. Smythe (Ashgate, 2000)

33rd Spring Symposium 27-29 March 1999 Eastern Approaches to Byzantium (University of Warwick) Eastern Approaches to Byzantium. Papers from the Thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999, edited by Antony Eastmond (Ashgate, 2001)

34th Spring Symposium 1-4 April 2000 Travel in the Byzantine World (University of Birmingham) Travel in the Byzantine World. Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000, edited by Ruth Macrides (Ashgate, 2002)

35th Spring Symposium March 2001 Rhetoric in Byzantium (University of Oxford) Rhetoric in Byzantium. Papers from the Thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001, edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys (Ashgate, 2003)

36th Spring Symposium 23-25 March 2002 Was Byzantium Orthodox? (University of Durham) Byzantine Orthodoxies. Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002, edited by Andrew Louth and Augustine Casiday (Ashgate, 2006)

37th Spring Symposium 29-31 March 2003 Eat Drink and be Merry (Luke 12:19): Food and Wine in Byzantium (University of Birmingham) Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) - Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, In Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, edited by Leslie Brubaker and Kallirroe Linardou (Ashgate, 2007)

38th Spring Symposium March 2004 Byzantine Trade 4th-12th Centuries (University of Oxford) Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries. The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange. Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of

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Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004, edited by Marlia Mundell Mango (Ashgate, 2009)

39th Spring Symposium 2-4 April 2005 Performance Indicators (Queen’s University, Belfast: Symposiarch - Professor Margaret Mullett)

40th Spring Symposium 13-16 April 2007 Byzantine History as Literature (University of Birmingham) History as Literature in Byzantium. Papers of the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007, edited by Ruth Macrides (Ashgate, 2010)

41st Spring Symposium 4-6 April 2008 The Archaeologies of Byzantium (University of Edinburgh: Symposiarch - Professor Jim Crow)

42nd Spring Symposium 20-22 March 2009 ‘Wonderful Things’: Byzantium through its Art (Courtauld Institute of Art) Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art. Papers from the Forty-Second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 2009, edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James (Ashgate, 2013)

43rd Spring Symposium 27-29 March 2010 Byzantium behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion (University of Birmingham) Power and Subversion in Byzantium. Papers from the Forty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 2010, edited by Dimiter Angelov and Michael Saxby (Ashgate, 2013)

44th Spring Symposium 8-11 April 2011 Experiencing Byzantium (University of Newcastle) Experiencing Byzantium. Papers from the Forty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011, edited by Claire Nesbitt and Mark Jackson (Ashgate, 2013)

45th Spring Symposium 24-26 March 2012 Being in Between: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century (University of Oxford) Being in Between: Byzantium in the Eleventh Century, edited by Marc D. Lauxtermann and Mark Whittow (Routledge, 2017)

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46th Spring Symposium 23-25 March 2013 Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? (University of Birmingham) Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?, edited by Archie Dunn (Routledge, forthcoming 2017)

47th Spring Symposium 25-27 April 2014 The Emperor in the Byzantine World (University of Cardiff) The Emperor in the Byzantine World: Papers from the 47th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, edited by Shaun Tougher (Routledge, forthcoming 2017)

48th Spring Symposium 28-30 March 2015 Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? Cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West 1204–1669 (Open University, Milton Keynes) (Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou)

49th Spring Symposium 18-20 March 2016 Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: continuities and transformations (University of Oxford) (Professor Marc Lauxtermann and Dr Ida Toth)

50th Spring Symposium 25-27 March 2017 Global Byzantium (University of Birmingham) (Professor Leslie Brubaker, Dr Daniel Reynolds and Dr Rebecca Darley)

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14. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

A. Society Lecture

The 2017 Joint SPBS - Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture will take place at 6pm on Tuesday 21 March at Senate House, London.

Dr Ken Dark University of Reading

Building Orthodoxy: Recent Archaeological Work at Haghia Sophia

B. New members

The following new members have joined the Society since the publication of BBBS 42 (2016): Carolin Alcalay, Evan Andersson, Leonard Belderson, Massimo Bianchi, Chiara Coppolo, Paolo Dalla Pria, Angus Docherty, Marco Dosi, Corisande Fenwick, James Holt, Hallvard Indgjerd, Becky Learner, Stavros Panayiotou, Maroula Perisanidi, Oliver Pickford, Miss Polimac, Rhodri Gillham, David Royle, Louis-Patrick St-Pierre, Sean Strong, Jessica Varsallona, Aikaterini Vavaliou, Clare Vernon, Barbra Wagner.

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At the A.G.M., Dr Claire Brisby, Dr Hannah Hunt and Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou are due to retire from the Committee. (They are eligible for re- election). Nominations for three members to be elected at the meeting should be sent to the Secretary, Dr Tim Greenwood, School of History, University of St Andrews, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW as soon as possible, and not less than 14 days before the date of the A.G.M. Nominations of student and ‘lay’ members would be especially welcome.

D. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies held at 11.00 on Sunday 20 March, 2016 at Exeter College, Oxford

Present: Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Chair), Dr Tim Greenwood (Secretary), Mr Chris Budleigh (Treasurer)

246. The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, 240-245, held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on Sunday 29 March, 2015 were adopted.

247. Election of Chair of Membership Committee Dr Greenwood reported that Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos had tendered his resignation from the office after two years of service. He offered thanks to Dr Stathakopoulos for his contribution to the Society. He noted that the vacancy had been advertised through the Autumn Newsletter and via the website. One nomination had been received, from Dr Hannah Hunt, an existing member of the Executive. Dr Greenwood proposed to the meeting that Dr Hunt be duly elected. Professor Michael Jeffreys seconded the proposal and Dr Hunt was unanimously elected, for the remaining term of three years.

248. Election of Chair of the Development Committee Dr Greenwood reported that the five-year term of Dr Ruth Macrides in this office ended at the AGM. He expressed grateful thanks to Dr Macrides for her significant contribution to the Society in this role and her previous years of service on this Committee and the Executive. He noted that the vacancy had been advertised through the Autumn Newsletter and via the website. One nomination had been received, from Dr Archie Dunn, another existing member of the Executive. Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys proposed to the meeting that Dr Dunn be duly elected. Professor Marc Lauxtermann seconded the proposal and Dr Dunn was unanimously elected, for a full term of five years.

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Dr Greenwood reported that, unusually, there were four vacancies on the committee by virtue of the appointment of Dr Hannah Hunt as Chair of the Membership sub-Committee. There were however four nominations: Dr Anne Alwis, nominated for re-election by Mr Chris Budleigh and seconded by Ms Rowena Loverance; Dr Rebecca Darley, nominated by Professor Leslie Brubaker and seconded by Dr Antony Eastmond; Professor Judith Herrin, nominated by Dr Fiona Haarer and seconded by Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou; and Dr Ida Toth, nominated by Professor Niels Gaul and seconded by Dr Tim Greenwood. All four were duly declared elected.

250. Chair’s Report Professor Jeffreys began by welcoming three new Graduate Associates: Wei Shen Lin, Anna Kelley and Mike Smith. She commented that many of those present at the Symposium would have met Wei and Anna manning the book stall selling off the Society’s stock and thanked them for their sterling efforts.

Professor Jeffreys noted that the Society’s finances were balanced in a time of uncertainty. She reported that although a more generous level of funding for postgraduates to run workshops or conferences or attend the Symposium had been announced at the previous AGM, this had not translated into any significant increase in the number of applications. This would be addressed through more visible advertising on the website but Professor Jeffreys encouraged everyone present to broadcast the availability of funds for these purposes from the Society.

Professor Jeffreys invited Ms Rowena Loverance to report to the meeting in her capacity as Chair of the Publications Committee on the takeover of Ashgate by Taylor & Francis and the implications for the publication of the proceedings of future symposia. Ms Loverance reported that the takeover had been followed by the closure of the Ashgate offices in both the US and the UK; that the Ashgate imprint had been discontinued and that the proceedings would in future be published by Routledge. The Society was maintaining a watching brief and would review its future publishing arrangements as appropriate.

Professor Jeffreys reminded members that in addition to the annual Symposium, there were other patterns of outreach and activity, including three annual lectures. The Fifth Spring Lecture, a joint SPBS initiative with the Friends of the British School at Athens, had been delivered on 15 March 2016 by Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, Philip Taylor and Christopher Wright, titled Hellenic Studies in Tudor England: An on-line interactive edition of an unpublished Greek encomium on Henry VIII. She reported that Professor Liz James will be delivering the Sixth Summer Lecture, titled Material Faith: the mosaic of the Archangel Gabriel in Hagia Sophia Constantinople and the angels of the

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Panagia Angeloktistos, Kiti, Cyprus, on 7 June 2016, again a joint SPBS event with the Hellenic Centre. She expressed her warm thanks to the Webmaster, Brian McLaughlin for his diligent maintenance of the Society’s website.

Turning to national matters, Professor Jeffreys recorded the Society’s sorrow at the unexpected death of Professor Frank Trombley. She reported on the recent announcement of the loss of twelve academic jobs in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Nottingham and the implications this may have for the continuation of Byzantine studies at that University. The Executive had agreed that a letter of protest should be sent to the University’s authorities expressing the Society’s deep concern at this development and inviting them to reconsider this decision. She also reported with regret that Dr Dion Smythe had taken early retirement from Queen’s Belfast and that his departure marked the end of Byzantine studies at that institution. On a more positive note, the appointment of Niels Gaul to the Chair at Edinburgh was welcomed once again but in person on this occasion.

Finally, Professor Jeffreys reported on international matters. The website for the forthcoming AIEB Congress in Belgrade in August 2016 was now live and being populated. She noted that a General Assembly would be held during the Congress, in the course of which the venue for the next Congress would be decided. SPBS, in its role as the British National Committee would have a vote in this process. Three applications had been submitted – Cyprus, Munich and Istanbul – and following discussion, it had been the unanimously view of the Executive our single vote should be cast in favour of Istanbul.

251. Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer referred the meeting to the accounts to 31 December 2015 published in the 2016 Bulletin, at pp. 132-136. He noted that in relation to the balance between income and expenditure, the General Fund had experienced a small loss of £310.68. This was due in part to the one-off payment of a final fee to the retiring Membership Secretary. This had been offset by the lower than anticipated level of grants awarded in the course of 2015. Income had been £7153.10 and expenditure had been £7463.78. Nevertheless a surplus of £14,366.71 remained in the General Fund at the year’s end, a slight reduction on 2014.

Turning to the Publications Fund, the Treasurer reported that the contract with Ashgate had been renegotiated shortly before their takeover. Taylor & Francis had given assurance that this would be honoured although he reiterated the need to remain vigilant given the ongoing restructuring of the new company. The new contract no longer required the Society to pay for 50 copies in advance of publication but the royalty rate would be at a lower level. In the 2015 financial

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Overall the Treasurer reported that the Society had assets of £27,840.12, an increase of £3,438.06 since 2014. In his judgement, the Society was in sound financial health.

Moving forward, he announced that it had been agreed by the Executive that the balance in the Publications Fund would be invested in an income-generating fund managed by the Charities Aid Foundation. In his estimation, this would generate an income of approximately £500 a year and there was also an annual royalties’ payment of perhaps £700 to look forward to as well. Given the low level of grants made in recent years, the Treasurer announced that up to £2000 had been set aside each year going forward for making grants to postgraduates for running workshops and conferences or attending the Symposium. This would produce a deficit on the General Fund but it would serve to articulate the Society’s core activity. Again the Executive would maintain careful watch on the financial impact of this decision. One condition of its continuation was that the size of, and hence the subscription income from, the membership remained broadly constant. He announced that in the current financial year, there would be grants totalling approximately £2500 from the General Fund for bursaries to enable travel to and participation in the 2016 Congress in Belgrade.

He reiterated his plea from the 2015 AGM, that all Members who were UK tax payers should complete a Gift Aid form. This was a straightforward process now that there was a link to the relevant form, and directions on what to do, on the Society’s website. To date, around 120 Members had done so but he suspected that there was a sizeable minority who had not yet done so.

The accounts were formally adopted by the meeting

252. Welcome to New Members Professor Jeffreys referred to the list of 39 new members who had joined since the previous AGM printed in the 2016 Bulletin, at p.126 and warmly welcomed them to the Society.

There being no other business, the meeting closed at 11.30.

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E. Treasurer's Report for 2016

General Fund

Income and Expenditure Fund

2016 2015 Income to 31 Dec to 31 Dec

Subscriptions 6,035.00 6,370.00 Advertising 45.00 260.00 Interest received (Gift Aid) 0.34 8.10 Gift Aid 460.00 515.00

Total income 6,540.34 7,153.10

Expenditure

Membership Secretary's fee 1,500.00 2,250.00 BBBS Editorial fee 2,000.00 2,000.00 Postage 638.41 523.98 Printing 626.07 650.49 AIEB subscription 155.24 152.33 Sundry expenses (Note 1) 374.59 518.85 Webmaster’s fee 1,000.00 1,000.00 Website 400.00 - Stationery - 68.74 Grants 2,664.85 170.00 PayPal fees 114.39 114.39 Bank charges (AIEB) 15.00 15.00

9,488.95 7,463.78 Deficit (2,948.61) (310.68)

Royalties 259.30 708.86 Book sales 1,765.00 560.00 Other income - 2,480.10 Net Surplus / (Deficit) (924.31) 3,438.28

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Balance Sheet

2016 2015 at 31 Dec at 31 Dec Current assets Debtors (note 2) 1,392.50 515.00 Bank of Scotland a/c 11,178.70 11,314.84 PayPal a/c 5,567.58 3,282.37 18,138.78 15,112.21

Current liabilities Creditors (Note 3) - 645.50 Accruals - 100.00 Net assets - 745.50

Total Net assets 18,138.78 14,366.71

General Fund

Balance b/f 2,530.26 2,840.94 Transfer grants to Trustees Fund 2,664.85 - Surplus/deficit for the year (2,948.61) (310.68) Balance c/f 2,246.50 2,530.26

48th Symposium Fund 1,720.68 - Kaplanis Fund 5,000.00 - 2006 Trustees’ Fund 9,171.60 11,836.45 18,138.78 14,366.71

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Notes

Note 1 Sundry Expenses

Committee expenses 125.55 153.35 Autumn Lecture & Reception 249.04 365.50 Total 374.59 518.85

Note 2 Debtors

Gift Aid tax rebate 2016 462.50 515.00 Total 462.50 515.00

Note 3 Creditors

Autumn Lecture Expenses - 365.50 Due to Publications Fund - 280.00 Total - 645.50

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Publications Fund

Income and expenditure account

Year to 2016 2015 to 31 Dec to 31 Dec Income £ £ Book sales Symposium & 1,765.00 - Birmingham Other book sales - 560.00 Compensation for lost stock - 2,480.10 Royalties received for volumes 259.30 708.86 sold in year

2,024.30 3,748.96 Expenditure Publication costs - -

Surplus/deficit for the year 2,024.30 3,748.96

Balance Sheet

2016 2015 Current Assets at 31 Dec at 31 Dec £ £

Bank balance 15,497.71 13,193.41 15,497.71 13,473.41

Net assets 15,497.71 13,473.41

Publications Fund Balance b/f 13,473.41 9,724.45 Surplus/(deficit) 2,024.30 3,748.96 Balance c/f 15,497.71 13,473.41

Total Society assets 33,636.49 27,840.12

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F. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies will be held on Sunday 26 March at 1pm, Main Lecture Theatre, University of Birmingham.

AGENDA

253. Adoption of the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting of the Society, 246-252, held at the University of Oxford.

254. Election of President of the SPBS.

255. Election of Vice-President of the SPBS.

256. Elections to the Executive Committee.

257. Chair’s Report.

258. Treasurer’s Report.

259. Subscription rates.

260. Welcome to new members.

Dr TIM GREENWOOD Secretary

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15. Books, Journals & Websites

Liverpool University Press: Translated Texts for Historians

2016 publications

TTH 65: Raffaella Cribiore, Between City and School: Selected Orations of Libanius (Orr. 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52, 53, 55, 61, 63). January 2016. TTH 66: Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis. Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things. June 2016.

TTC 2: Richard Miles (ed.), The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts. July 2016.

TTH 67: Richard Flower, Imperial Invectives against Constantius II (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Lucifer of Cagliari). December 2016.

Expected 2017 Spring TTH 64: Alexander O’Hara ad Ian Wood, Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanus (Books 1-2), Life of John of Réomé and Life of Vedast.

Translated Texts for Byzantinists

TTB 2: TTB 2: John Haldon, A Tale of Two Saints: the martyrdoms and miracles of Saints Theodore ‘the Recruit’ and ‘the General’. April 2016.

Please visit the website for further information, including on-line ordering: http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk

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AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BYZANTINE STUDIES ANNOUNCEMENT

The publication series Byzantina Australiensia has proved highly successful since the first volume was published in 1981. The series was created to publish scholarly work in the field of Byzantine Studies. Its major focus has been in the direction of translations and commentaries of the ancient source material and the publication of conference papers,

As of 2017, Brill will publish and distribute the series.

Please contact Brill directly for orders, at www.brill.com, including back issues.

Full details of each published volume are available at http://www.aabs.org.au/byzaust/ . Proposals for future volumes should be addressed to the AABS Secretary at [email protected] . Byzantina Australiensia is officially recognized as a refereed series and all material submitted will be submitted to at least one independent referee before it is accepted for publication.

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Journals & Books

Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta (ZRVI) – Zbornik radova de l’Institut d’Etudes byzantines 52 (2015, ed. 2016)

Proceedings of the 23rd International Byzantine Congress, Plenary Papers, ed. Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić, The Serbian National Committee of AIEB, Belgrade 2016, 353

Byzantium in Serbia – Serbian Authenticity and Byzantine Influence, Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Art, vol. I-III, eds. D. Vojvodić and D. Popović (Belgrade 2016)

Web: www.byzinst-sasa.rs

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Vol. 9 of ΕΩΑ & ΕΣΠΕΡΙΑ / EOA & ESPERIA, Journal of the Society for the Research of Relations between East and West, Athens, now on-line (see for information: www.eoesperia.org). Papers to be submitted for peer review: For information: T. Maniati-Kokkini (Journal manager and member of the Editorial Committee), e-mail: [email protected]

Volumes 1-8 Orders for printed vv. 1-8 addressed to: Kardamitsa Library, Hippokratous 8 - Athens 10679-GR, e-mail: [email protected], or to: T. Maniati-Kokkini

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Price of each book: EUR 125 for individuals and 212,50 for Libraries and Institutions (plus VAT and postage) instead of 250, only if ordered directly from Alexandros Press, not through (or for) booksellers. For more details about the books, see: www.alexandrospress.com The Byzantine church of Panagia Krena in Chios. History, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting (late 12th century), by Charalampos Pennas, 2017, ISBN 978-94-90387-08-2. Bound 24x17 cm., 388 pp. (256 pp. text plus 305 illustrations mostly in colour). Thomas Becket and the Plantagenets. Atonement through Art, by Sara Lutan-Hassner, 2015, ISBN: 9789490387099. Bound, 24x17 cm. 344 pp. (208 pp. text and 252 illustrations, mostly in colour) Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete, Vol. IV: Agios Basileios Province, by Ioannis Spatharakis, 2015, ISBN ISBN 9789490387075, Bound 24x17 cm., 544 pp. (272 pp. text plus 554 illustrations in full colour). Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete, Vol. III: Amari Province, by Ioannis Spatharakis and Tom van Essenberg, 2012, ISBN 9789490387006, Bound 24x17 cm., 664 pp. (336 pp. text plus 670 illustrations in full colour and a few in black and white). Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete, Vol. II: Mylopotamos Province, by Ioannis Spatharakis, 2010, ISBN 9789490387020, Bound 24x17 cm., 640 pp. (384 pp. text plus 450 illustrations in full colour and 64 in black and white). XOPOΣ, the Dance of Adam. The Making of Byzantine Chorography, by Nicoletta Isar, 2011, ISBN 9789490387044, Bound 24x17 cm., 448 pp. (304 pp. text and 286 illustrations, mostly in full colour). Die Kunst der späten Palaiologenzeit auf Kreta: Kloster Brontisi im Spannungsfeld zwischen Konstantinopel und Venedig, by Chryssa Ranoutsaki, 2011, ISBN 9789490387037068, Bound 24x17 cm., c. 500 pp. (c. 330 pp. text and 270 illustrations, mostly in full colour). The Southern Porch of Chartres Cathedral: The margins of monumental sculpture, by Sara Lutan- Hassner, 2011, ISBN 9789490387051, Bound 24x17 cm, 368 pp. (192 pp. text and 310 illustrations, mostly in full colour). Die Ikonographie der Gleichnisse Jesu in der ostkirchlichen Kunst (5.-15. Jh.), by Apostolos G. Mantas, 2010, ISBN 9789490387037, Bound 24x17 cm., 576 pp. (480 pp. text plus 214 illustrations in full colour and 43 in black and white). Worshipping the Gods, Art and Cult in Roman Eretz Israel, by Asher Ovadiah and Sonia Mucznik, 2009, ISBN 9789080647695, Bound, 24x17, 464 pp. (368 pp. text, 58 illustrations in full colour and c. 500 in black and white). Visual Representations of the Afterlife. Six Roman and Early Byzantine Painted Tombs in Israel, by Talila Michaeli, 2009 ISBN 9789490387013, Bound 24x17, 368 pp. (224 pp. text, plus more than 250 illustrations in full colour and c. 100 in black and white) Dionysios of Fourna. Artistic Creation and Literary Description, by George Kakavas, ISBN 9789080647688, Bound 24x17 cm., 552 pp. (368 pp. text plus 230 illustrations in full colour and 100 in black and white). The Iconography of Constantine the Great, Emperor and Saint. With Associated Studies by Christopher Walter, 2006, ISBN 9789080647664, Bound, 24x17cm., 416 pp. (256 pp. text, plus 154 illustrations in full colour and 178 in black and white). The Illustrated Chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid by Vasiliki Tsamakda, 2002. ISBN 9789080647626, Bound, 24x17cm., 664 pp. (448 pp. text, 584 illustrations in full colour and 20 in black and white). The Iconostasis of Peter the Great in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg by Julia Gerasimova, 2004, ISBN 9789080647633, Bound, 24x17 cm., ca. 450 pp. (ca. 250 pp. text, plus 149 illustrations in full colour and 128 in black and white). The Pictorial Cycles of the Akathistos Hymn for the Virgin by Ioannis Spatharakis, 2005, ISBN: 9789080647657, Bound, 24x17 cm., 490 pp. (256 pp. text, 302 illustrations in full colour and 424 in black and white). The Illustrations of the Cynegetica in Venice by Ioannis Spatharakis, 2004, ISBN 9789080647640 Bound, 24x17cm., 400 pp. (300 pp. text, 184 illustrations in full colour and 60 in black and white). Dated Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete by Ioannis Spatharakis, 2001, ISBN 9789080647619, Bound, 24x17 cm., 352 pp., 194 illustrations in full colour.

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