Byzantine Studies

Judicial Power in Medieval Byzantium

Romain Goudjil studies the relationship between ecclesiastical and imperial power in medieval Byzantium

The Office of Holy Communion

Stefanos Alexopoulos studies expressions of private Byzantine eucharistic piety and how it intersects with public worship

Textiles and Hagia Sophia Restorations

Ilgin Nas catalogues comprehensive research on Hagia Sophia restorations

Feeling Texts in Place

Sarah F. Porter asks how Antioch’s deathscapes felt

Reviving an Eighth-Century Coptic Chronicle

Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga shifts our understanding of what constitutes a Byzantine person

Breaking Your Oath

Savvas Kyriakidis talks tyrants, trial by hot iron, and social relationships in Byzantium

Hagia Sophia Meets Plaster Casts

Flavia Vanni makes the case for analyzing a material that has persisted from antiquity to today

Studying Classics in Byzantium

Baukje van den Berg studies how the Byzantines used ancient literature for teaching grammar and rhetoric

Female Characters and Narrative Subordination

Matthew Kinloch examines the textual logics and hierarchies of gender of Byzantine historiographical narratives

Tracing the Enormous Byzantine Diaspora

Alasdair Grant explodes the geography of the Late Byzantine world by studying the lives of captive and enslaved Greeks

A New History of Byzantium

Anthony Kaldellis rethinks a thousand years of history from the Persian occupation to Byzantine society as the law in motion

Slavonic Beyond Byzantium

Jakub Kabala looks at papal traces in the language of an iconic medieval Christian mission to the Slavs

Wearing Wonder

Stephanie Caruso reveals how a group of gold pendants created a sense of wonder in late antique viewers

Revolutionary Churches Hewn from Rock

Mikael Muehlbauer identifies medieval churches in Ethiopia that evoke a lost Byzantium

Ancient Pandemics Meet Climate Change

Michael McCormick combines science, archaeology, and history to solve puzzles from the past