All Scholars

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

Syrian Refugees and Women Photographers

Isabella Beroutsos makes research in cultural heritage and art history widely accessible

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

Composition for Wooden Box

Viet Cuong gives a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere of an unconventional piece

Tracing the Enormous Byzantine Diaspora

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

Cults, Cacti, and Chavín

Michelle Young reconstructs ancient rituals and reveals the long-distance connections in ancient Peru

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

Recovering Our History

Iyaxel Cojti Ren tracks the emergence of the ancient Kaqchikel polity in the Guatemalan highlands during the Late Postclassic period

Conquest as Revival

Victor Castillo finds evidence that sixteenth-century Maya nobles revived ancient religious architecture while claiming Christian identities

Monuments, Hieroglyphs, and Native Fauna

Stephanie Strauss conducts the first art historical assessment of Epi-Olmec elite visual culture

Wearing Wonder

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