SPBS Members Complete Publications List (B)

Peter Balcárek, Olomouc, Czech Republic

BBBS 2007
‘Slavibor Breuer and his Influence on Society of the First Half of the XX century’ (in Czech with English Summary), in Pavel Marek a Jiří Hanuš, eds., Osobnost v církvi a politice. Čeští a slovenští křesťané ve 20. století (Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, Brno 2006) 56-66. This is an article about a less known Czech Byzantologist - Slavibor Breuer (monk Sáva of Chilandar); ‘A Pendant Cross from Sady - Contribution to its Interpretation’ (in Czech, with English summary), Byzantinoslovaca I (2006) 40-52.
Public Lectures: Eastern Christain Art in the Czech Lands (in Czech), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Olomouc, Czech Republic, unpublished; Florian Zapletal, Joseph Strzygowski and the Vienna School of Art History (in Czech), at the Museum in Přerov, Czech Republic, publication in preparation.

BBBS 2004
 'Historical Outline of the Romanian Orthodox Church' in: P. Suler, edit, Vychodni krestanstvi, Catalogue of Morvaske zemske muzeum (Eastern Christianity, catalogue of the exhibition at the Moravian Musem in Brno, the Czech Republic), Brno, 2003, pp. 60-66, together with Manuela E. Gheorghe; Review of the book Byzantine Garden Culture, edited A. Littlewood, Washington, 2000, in the international journal, Byzantinoslavica LXI (2003), 296-299; Review of the book Icons, by U. Abel and U. Moore, Stockholm, 2002, in Byzantinoslavica LXI (2003), 305-308.

BBBS 2003
'Trinitarian Iconography in Codex Ostroviensis (A57/1) fol. 83r and Liber Viaticus (KNM XIII A12) fol. 170v' in: Historia Artium. Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Philosophica. Philosophica - Aesthetica 23, Historia Artium IV, Universita Palackého, Olomouc, 2002, 111-137.

Forthcoming:  Review of the book Byzantine Garden Culture, edited by Antony Littlewood, Henry Maguire, and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 2000. To be published in: Byzantinoslavica (2003).

Work in ProgressThe Splendour of Russian Icons, catalogue (In Czech and English) for the coming icon exhibition in Moravská Tøebová, Olomouc, and Prague, the Czech Republic, in 2003-2004, from the J.Ch. Danobeitiov collection of 15th -20th icons;  Encyklopedie Byzance (in the Czech language), with Vladimír Vavøínek, “Libri“ Publishing House, Prague (postponed for 2004).

BBBS 2002
‘Trinitarian iconography in Codex Ostroviensis (A57/1), fol. 83r and Liber Viaticus (KNM XIII A 12) fol. 170v’, Festschrift für Prof Rudolf Chadraba in Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Facultas Philosophica. Philosophica-Aesthetica, Historia Artium IV (Olomouc, 2002).

In progress: (with Vladimír Vavrinek) Encykopedie Byzance (Prague: ‘Libir’ Publishing House, 2002).

BBBS 2001
The Image of Sophia in Medieval Russian Iconography and its Sources’, Byzantinoslavica 60 (1999), 2.

Dr. Suzanne Bangert, Oxford

BBBS 2006
Forthcoming: Ashmolean Collection of Menas Ampullae, BAR Oxford; 'Menas Ampullae in Britain?' Minerva; 'The Archaeology of Pilgrimage: Abu Mina and other sites', LAA 5, Brill.
Work in progress: The Dagmar Cross: a Byzantine cross as a Danish national token; Byzantine reliquaries (with Prof Øystein Hjort)

Jane Baun, New York, U.S.A.

BBBS 2000
Forthcoming: ‘"Middle Byzantine Tours of Hell": Outsider Theodicy?’, in Dion Smythe, ed., Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); ‘Taboo or Gift? The Lord’s Day in Byzantium’, in Studies in Church History 37 (2000).
In progress: The Byzantine Apocryphal Imagination, monographic study of the ‘Apocalypse of the Theotokos’ and the ‘Apocalypse of Anastasia’, with translations.

Dr Richard Bayliss, Newcastle

BBBS 2006
'From temple to church: converting paganism to Christianity in late antiquity', Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology 16:5 (2005) 45-7; 'Water for the Queen of Cities: a review of recent research in the Byzantine and early Ottoman water supply of Constantinople', (with J. Crow) Basilissa 1 (2005) 28-49; Provincial Cilicia and the Archaeology of Temple Conversion, BAR International Series 1281, Oxford (ISBN: 1841716340); 'Geomatics and visualisation in archaeology: the view from Byzantium', in L. Lavan & W. Bowden, Late Antique Archaeology 1: Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology, Brill 2003.

BBBS 2000
‘Usurping the urban image: The experience of ritual topography in late antique cities of the Near East’, in P. Baker et al., eds., TRAC 98 (Oxford 1999), 59-71; (with H. Çambel et al.) ‘Karatepe-Aslantas, Domuztepe ve Kadirli 1997 Dönemi Çalismalari’, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantasi XX (1999), 399-416; ‘A place of permanence in the cemetery at Flavias (Kadirli, Cilicia)’, in S. Durugönül and M. Durukan, eds., Olba II (Mersin 1999), 483-497.

Prof Roderick Beaton, London

BBBS 2009
‘Antique nation? "Hellenes" on the eve of Greek independence and in twelfth-century Byzantium’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 31/1 (2007) 79-98.
Forthcoming: From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval literature and its modern reception (Variorum Reprints, Ashgate, Aldershot 2008 or 2009).

BBBS 2008
‘Antique nation? "Hellenes" on the eve of Greek independence and in twelfth-century Byzantium’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 31/1 (2007) 79-98.
Forthcoming: From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval literature and its modern reception (Variorum Reprints, Ashgate, Aldershot 2008 or 2009).

BBBS 2005
La fortune de Digénis Akritis: de l'épopée médiévale au symbole du nationalisme grec, in J. Labarthe-Postel (ed.), Formes modernes de la poésie épique: nouvelles approches (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 23-35; 'Balladry in the medieval Greek world,' in Philip Bennett and Richard Green (eds), The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures. Series: Internationale Forschung zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2004, pp. 13-21; 'Erotokritos and the history of the novel,' Kampos: Cambridge Studies in Modern Greek, 12 (2004), 1-25.
Work in progress: 'Byzantine wonderlands: the role of the fantastic in two Paleologan romances.' Paper submitted for the 2006 Byzantine Congress (panel convened by Panagiotis Roilos on 'The Byzantines and the Fantastic'); 'The poetics of the vernacular romances and the Bakhtinian "chronotope".' Paper submitted for the 2005 conference in the series, Neograeca Medii Aevi; In general: Byzantine fiction in relation to the diachronic development of the European novel from its Hellenistic origins to modern times.

BBBS 1999
‘Our glorious Byzantinism’: Papatzonis, Seferis, and the rehabilitation of Byzantium in post-war Greek poetry’, in D. Ricks and P. Magdalino, eds., Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).

David Bennett, London

BBBS 2001
‘Three Xenon Texts’, Medici nei Secoli Arte e Scienza 11: 3 (2000), 507-519; ‘Medical Practice and Manuscripts in Byzantium’, Social History of Medicine 13: 2 (2000), 279-291.

Massimo Bernabò, Pontassieve, Italy

BBBS 1999
(with K. Weitzmann +) The Byzantine Octateuchs, The Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint 2 (Princeton, N.J.: Department of Art and Archaeology, 1998); Il Fisiologo di Smirne. Le miniature del perduto codice B.8 della Biblioteca della Scuola Evangelica di Smirne (Florence: SISMEL, 1998); ‘Nota iconografica sulle scene del Vecchio Testamento nelle croci lignee postbizantine di Sant’ Oreste e di Firenze’, JÖB 47 (1996) [1998], 257-72; ‘L’illustrazione bizantina della Bibbia greca dei Settanta: dalla creazione alla distruzione di Babele’, in Gianfranco Ravasi, Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré, Massimo Bernabò, «In principio»: Le parole della creazione, Genesi 1-11 (Torino: Umberto Allemandi, 1998).

Forthcoming: ‘Un modello costante: la miniatura bizantina da Giustiniano ai Paleologhi’, in Putaturo Muraro, ed., Lineamenti di storia della miniatura in Italia (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1999); ‘Ritratti di autori: dall’antichità ai classicisti, a Bisanzio’, in Immaginare l’autore, Atti del Convegno, Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 26-27 marzo 1998; ‘Bisanzio e la romanità: da De Amicis a Longhi’, in Festschrift Hermann Fillitz zum 75. Geburtstag (Römische Historische Mitteilungen, 1997); Pseudepigraphical Images and Early Art (Berkeley, Cal.: The Berkeley Institute of Biblical Archaeology and Literature - D.& F. Scott Publishing).

Dr. Bente Bjornholt, Sussex

BBBS 2007
Forthcoming: ‘The Spectacles of Physical Punishment’, in M. Mullett, ed., Performing Byzantium (Ashgate, Aldershot 2007); with John Burke, ‘Narrative, Word and Image’, in Liz James, ed., Companion to Byzantium (Blackwell, Oxford).

BBBS 2005
Forthcoming: 'The Man in the Street: some problems of gender and identity in Byzantine material culture', with L. James, Material Culture and Well-being in Byzantium 400-1453, eds. A. Muthesius, M. Grünbart, W. Kislinger and D. Stathakopoulos (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna); 'Aspects of the production of the Madrid Skylitzes (Bib. Nac. vitr. 26-2)' with J. Burke.

Dr Ian Booth, London

BBBS 2005
'Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Sangarios Frontier 1280-1282', Archeion Pontou 2002, pp 317-343; 'The Sangarios Frontier: The History and Strategic Role of Paphlagonia in Byzantine Defence in the 13th Century', Byzantinische Forschungen, 2004; 'Theodore I Laskaris and Paphlagonia 1204-1214: towards a chronological description', Archeion Pontou 2003-2004, pp 151-224.
Forthcoming: 'Ghazis, Roads and Trade in north-west Anatolia 1179-1291', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (expected 2005).
Work in progress: Article: 'Theodore Laskaris and Paphlagonia, 1204-1214: What happened to David Komnenos in 1211? An assessment'. (This last is part of the Cantonisation study mentioned previously and will use Catastrophe Theory in support of the argument).

BBBS 2003
'Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Sangarios Frontier, 1280 to 1282' in Archeion Pontou 2002, pp.317-343.

Forthcoming:  'The Sangarios Frontier: The History and Strategic Role of Paphlagonia in Byzantine Defence in the 13th Century' in Byzantinische Forschungen.

In Progress:'Theodore Lascaris and Paphlagonia 1204-1214: towards a chronological description' [now almost finished];  Mechanisms for change: this continuation of the above study looks at the use of Catastrophe Theory for analysing situations such as that in Paphlagonia in 1211.  (This is part of the Cantonisation study mentioned previously).

BBBS 2003
Forthcoming:  'Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Sangarios Frontier, 1280 to 1282' in Archeion Pontou;  'The Sangarios Frontier in the 13th Century: a new view on the role of Paphlagonia in Byzantine Defence' in Byzantinische Forschungen.

Work in Hand :'Theodore Lascaris and Paphlagonia: A study in Byzantine Regional Policy, 1204-1214';  'The eastern border of Byzantine Paphlagonia in the 13th Century';  'Mechanisms of Failure: the problems of reimposing Imperial Authority in a border area that has not renounced it'.

BBBS 2000
‘The collapse of Byzantine authority in Paphlagonia in the 13th century’, abstract, BBBS 26 (2000).
In progress:
‘Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Sangarios Frontier, 1280-1281’; ‘Cantonisation in Asia Minor, 1100-1360’; ‘The strategic importance of Paphlagonia to the imperial defence of the Sangarios frontier’.

Dr Sebastian Brock, Oxford

BBBS 2009
(tr. M. Campatelli), “Una fontana inesauribile”.  La Bibbia nella tradizione siriaca (Rome:  Lipa 2008); The Holy Spirit in the Syrian Baptismal Tradition (revised edn, Piscataway NJ:  Gorgias Press 2008); Studies in Syriac Spirituality (expanded edition, Bangalore 2008); ‘Jacob of Serugh’s poem on the Sleepers of Ephesus’, in P.Allen, M. Franzmann and R. Strelan, eds., ‘I sowed fruits into hearts’ (Od.Sol. 17:13.   Festschrift for Michael Lattke (Early Christian Studies 12; Strathfield NSW 2007) 13-30; ‘The Syrian Orthodox Church in modern history’, in A. O’Mahony, ed., Christianity in the Middle East.  Studies in Modern History, Theology and Politics (London 2007) 17-38; ‘Early dated manuscripts of the Church of the East, 7th to 13th century’, Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 21:2 (2007) 8-34; ‘St Ephrem and his importance for today’, Harp 22 (2007) 6-17; ‘The Ancient of Days:  the Father or the Son?’, The Harp 22 (2007) 121-130; ‘Two editions of a new Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel’, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 48/49 (2005/6) [2008] 7-18; ‘St Marina and Satan:  a Syriac dialogue poem’, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 5 (2008) 35-57; ‘Saints in Syriac:  a little-tapped resource’, Journal of Early Christian Studies 16 (2008) 181-196; ‘The use of the New Testament in the writings of Mor Ephrem’, in Sh. Cherian, ed., Bringing Light to the World,  Syriac Tradition Re-visited.  Essays in honour of the Very Revd Dr Adai Jacob Chorepiscopa (Tiruvalla 2008) 103-18; ‘Poetry and Hymnography (3) Syriac’, in S.A. Harvey and D.G. Hunter, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford 2008) 657-71; ‘Syriac Studies:  a classified bibliography (2001-2005)’, Parole de l’Orient 33 (2008), 281-446; ‘Les versions syriaques de l’Ancien Testament:  quelques approches récentes’, in F. Briquel Chatonnet and Ph. Le Moigne, eds., L’Ancien Testament en syriaque (Études syriaques 5;  Paris, 2008) 21-32

BBBS 2008
‘The genealogy of the Virgin Mary in Sinai Syr. 16’, Scrinium 2 (2006) 58-71; ‘Mary and the Angel, and other Syriac dialogue poems’, Marianum 68 (2006) 117-151; ‘An archaic Syriac prayer over baptismal oil’, Studia Patristica 41 (2006) 3-12; ‘The use of the Syriac versions in the Liturgy’, in B. ter Haar Romeny, ed., The Peshitta: its Use in Literature and Liturgy (Leiden 2006) 3-25; (with H. Goldfus and A. Kofsky), ‘The Syriac inscriptions at the entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem’, Aram 18/19 (2006/7) 415-38; ‘East Syriac pilgrims to Jerusalem in the early Ottoman period’, Aram 18/19 (2006/7) 189-201; ‘A further funerary mosaic from Osrhoene’, Aram 18/19 (2006/7) 715-21; ‘The Fenqitho: a source for theologizing in the Syriac Church. The present state of study’, in J. Puthuparampil, ed., Theologizing in the Malankara Catholic Church (Pune 2007) 233-250; ‘A Syriac intermediary to the Arabic Theology of Aristotle? In search of a chimera’, in C. D’Ancona, ed., The Libraries of the Neoplatonists (Philosophia Antiqua 107, 2007) 293-306; ‘In search of St Ephrem; St Ephrem on Women in the Old Testament; A brief guide to the main editions and translations of works attributed to Ephrem’ (with 5 appendices), in Saint Éphrem: un poète pour notre temps (Patrimoine Syriaque: Actes du Colloque XI, Antélias 2007) 11-25; 35-44; 281-338; ‘St Ephrem the Syrian on reading scripture’, Downside Review 438 (Jan. 2007) 37-50; ‘The contribution of deceased Syriacists, 1997-2006’, Hugoye 10:1 (2007); ‘Syria and Mesopotamia: the shared term Malka Mshiha’, in M.Bockmuehl and J. Carleton Paget, eds., Redemption and Resistance. The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity (London 2007) 171-182; ‘Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife: two anonymous dispute poems’, in W.J. van Bekkum, J.W. Drijvers and A.C. Klugkist, Syriac Polemics. Studies in Honour of Gerrit Jan Reinink (OLA 170, 2007) 41-57; ‘Jacob of Serugh’s poem on the Sleepers of Ephesus’, in P. Allen, M. Franzmann, R. Strelan, eds., “I sowed fruits into hearts” (Odes Sol. 17:13). Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke (Early Christian Studies 12; Strathfield NSW 2007) 13-30.

BBBS 2007
‘Judah Benzion Segal’, Proceedings of the British Academy 130, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IV (2005) 210-12; ‘The Instructions of Anton, Plato’s Physician’, in Studia Semitica (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 16, 2005) 129-38; ‘The imagery of the spiritual mirror in Syriac literature’, Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 5 (2005) 3-17; ‘The use of Hijra dating in Syriac manuscripts:  a preliminary investigation’, in J.J. van Ginkel, H.L. Murre-van den Berg, and T.M. van Lint, eds., Redefining Christian Identity.  Cultural Interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 134;  Leuven 2005) 275-290; ‘Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek (1942-2005): Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Middle Europe’, Sobornost/ECR 27:2 (2005) 57-62; ‘H.E. Mor Julius Yeshu‘ Çiçek:  an appreciation’,  Qolo Suryoyo 147 (2005) 41-45; ‘The ecumenical role played by monastic literature:  the case of St Isaac the Syrian’, One in Christ 40:4 (2005) 53-58; ‘An unknown Syriac version of Isaiah 1:1-2:21’, in W.Th. van Peursen and R.B. Ter Haar Romeny, eds., Text, Translation, and Tradition.  Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (MPIL 14, 2006) 11-23;‘A fragment of the Harklean version of St Matthew’s Gospel in the Monastery of Mar Musa’,  Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 3 (2006) 337-342; ‘St Aninas/Mar Hanina and his monastery’, Analecta Bollandiana 124 (2006) 5-10;‘A concordance to Bedjan’s Breviarium Chaldaicum and Darmo’s Hudra’, The Harp 19 (2006) [Festschrift J. Madey] 117-136;‘The Dialogue between the Two Thieves (Luke 23:39-41)’, The Harp 20 (2006) [Festschrift J. Thekeparampil] 151-170;‘The origins of the qanona ‘Holy God, holy Mighty, holy Immortal’ according to Gabriel of Qatar (early 7th century)’, The Harp 21 (2006)[Festschrift E. Thelly] 173-185;‘The Lives of the Prophets in Syriac:  some soundings’, in C. Hempel and J.M. Lieu, eds., Biblical Traditions in Transmission.  Essays in Honour of M.A. Knibb (JSJ Suppl. 111;  Leiden 2006) 21-37; ‘Syriac literature:  a crossroads of cultures’, Parole de l’Orient 31 (2006) 17-35; ‘Manuscrits liturgiques en syriaque’, in F. Cassingena-Trevédy and I. Jurasz, eds., Les liturgies syriaques (Études syriaques 3;  Paris 2006) 267-83;‘Syriac sources and resources for Byzantinists’, in Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (Ashgate, Aldershot 2006) 193-210.

BBBS 2006
'A neglected witness to the East Syriac New Testament Commentary tradition, Sinai Arabic ms 151', in R. Ebied and H. Teule (eds), Studies on the Christian Arabic Heritage [Festschrift Samir Khalil] (Eastern Christian Studies 5; Leuven 2004), 205-215; 'The earliest Syriac manuscript of the Martyrdom of Philemon and companions', in U. Zanetti and E.Lucchesi (eds), Aegyptus Christiana. Mélanges d’hagiographie égyptienne et orientale dédiés à la mémoire du P.Paul Devos Bollandiste (Cahiers d’Orientalisme 25; Geneva 2004), 29-42; 'Without Mushe of Nisibis where would we be? Some reflections on the transmission of Syriac literature', in R. Ebied and H. Teule (eds), VIIIth Symposium Syriacum = Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 56 (2004) 15-24; 'Du grec en syriaque: l’art de la traduction chez les syriaques', in Les Syriaques transmetteurs de civilisations. l’expérience du Bilad el-Sham à l’époque omeyyade (Patrimoine Syriaque: Actes du Colloque IX; Antelias/Paris, 2005) 11-34; Introduction, Liturgical Texts, Poetry, Secular Literature, Appendix 1-2, in Nos Sources: Art et Littérature Syriaques (Sources Syriaques 1; Antelias, 2005) 9-20, 291-313, 315-338, 451-474, 581-592; 'The spirituality of Syriac liturgy', in Bethany Ashram: 50 Glorious Years. Souvenir (Pune 2005) 31-36; 'The Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles: an English translation', in J. Getcha and A. Lossky (eds), Thysia aineseos: Mélanges liturgiques offerts à la mémoire de l’archévêque Georges Wagner (1930-1993), (Analecta Sergiana 2; Paris 2005), 65-75; 'Greek and Latin words in Palmyrene inscriptions: a comparison with Syriac', in E. Cussini (ed.), A Journey to Palmyra. Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers (Leiden 1905) 11-25; 'Il dibattito cristologico del V e VI secolo nel contesto del dialogo teologico moderno', in E. Vergani and S. Chialà (eds), Le Chiese sire tra IV e VI secolo: dibattito dottrinale e ricerca spirituale (Milano 2005) 73-92; 'Sobria ebrietas according to some Syriac texts', Aram 17 (2005) 185-91; 'The Syriac Orient: a third ‘lung’ for the Church?', Orientalia Christiana Periodica 71 (2005) 5-20; 'Dinah in a Syriac poem on Joseph', in G. Khan (ed.), Semitic Studies in Honour of Edward Ullendorff (Leiden 1905) 222-235; 'The Syriac inscription of Androna/al-Andarin', in A. Schmidt and S. Westphalen (eds), Christliche Wandmalereien in Syrien. Qara und das Kloster Mar Yakub (SKCO 14; Wiesbaden 2005) 199-202; 'The Bridal Chamber of Light: a distinctive feature of the Syriac liturgical tradition', The Harp 18 (2005) 179-191.

BBBS 2005
'The changing faces of St Ephrem as read in the West', in J.Behr, A.Louth, D. Conomos (eds), The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West: Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia (Crestwood NT, 2003), 65-80; 'Syriac translations of Greek popular philosophy', in P. Bruns (ed.), Von Athen nach Bagdad: zur Rezeption griechischer Philosophie von der Spaetantike bis zum Islam (Hereditas 22; 2003), 9-28; 'Syriac on Sinai: the main connections', in V. Ruggieri and L. Pieralli (eds), Eukosmia. Studi miscellanei per il 75 di V. Poggi SJ (Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro), 2003), 103-17; 'Crossing the boundaries: an ecumenical role played by Syriac monastic literature', in M. Bielawski and D.Hombergen (eds), Il monachesimo tra eredita e aperture (Studia Anselmiana 140, 2004), 221-38; 'Changing fashions in Syriac translation technique: the background to Syriac translations under the Abbasids', Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, Journal 4 (2004), 3-14; 'Syriac Studies: a classified bibliography (1996-2000)', Parole de l'Orient 29 (2004), 263-410; 'Transformations of the Edessa portrait of Christ', Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 18:1 (2004), 46-56.

BBBS 2003
'The rise of Christian thought:  the theological schools of Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis' [in Arabic tr], in al-Masihiyya `ind ta'rihiha fi'l-Mashriq (Beirut, 2001), 143-164;   'Golinduch', Encyclopaedia Iranica 11:1 (2001), 95-6;  'Invocations to/for the Holy Spirit in Syriac liturgical texts:  some comparative approaches', in R.F. Taft and G. Winkler (eds), Comparative Liturgy fifty years after Anton Baumstark (1872-1948), (OCA 265, 2001), 377-406;  'Syriac into Greek at Mar Saba:  the translation of Isaac the Syrian', in J. Patrich (ed.), The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present (OLA 98; 2001), 201-8;  'Two Syriac translations of the Life of Epiphanius', in J. Herrin, M. Mullett and C. Otten-Fox (eds), Mosaic: Festschrift for A.H.S. Megaw (British School at Athens Studies 8; 2001), 19-25;  Some basic annotation to The Hidden Pearl:  The Syrian Orthodox Church and its Ancient Aramaic Heritage, I-III;  in Hugoye 5:1 (2002);   'The seeds of liturgical drama in Syriac?', in A. Chehwan and A. Kassis (eds), Etudes Bibliques et Proche-Orient ancien. Melanges offerts au Pere Paul Feghali (Federation Biblique, Subsidia 1; Dekouaneh/Jounieh, 2002), 323-41;  'The dispute between the Cherub and the Thief', Hugoye 5:2 (2002).

BBBS 2002
(with contributions from D.G.K. Taylor, E. Balicka-Witakowski and W. Witakowski) The Hidden Pearl: The Syrian Orthodox Church and its Ancient Aramaic Heritage.  I, The Ancient Aramaic Heritage;  II, The Heirs of the Ancient Aramaic Heritage;  III, At the Turn of the Third Millennium:  the Syrian Orthodox Witness (Rome:  TransWorld Film Italia, 2001); ‘Syriac writers from Beth Qatraye’, Aram 11-12 (1999/2000), 85-96; ‘From Qatar to Tokyo, by way of Mar Saba:  the translations of Isaac of Beth Qatraye (Isaac the Syrian)’, Aram 11-12 (1999/2000), 475-84; ‘Greek words in Ephrem and Narsai:  a comparative sampling’, Aram 11-12 (1999/2000), 439-49; ‘Two Syriac dialogue poems on Abel and Cain’, Le Museon 113 (2000), 333-75; ‘The background to some terms in the Syriac eucharistic epicleses’, The Harp 13 (2000), 1-12; ‘Prayer of the heart in the Syriac tradition’, Alliance for International Monasticism, Bulletin 72 (2001), 49-57; ‘An acrostic poem on the soul by Jacob of Serugh’, Sobornost/ECR 23 (2001), 40-4; ‘Madrosho d-Mor Yaqub Malfono d’al naphsho’, Qolo Suryoyo 133 (2001), 227-30 [Syriac text of previous item]; ‘Traduzioni siriache degli scritti di Basilio’, in E. Baudry, S. Brock, M. Cortesi et alii, Basilio tra Oriente e Occidente (Magnano, Communita di Bose:  Qiqajon, 2001), 165-180; ‘Hellenike kai Suriake, He metaphrase sten archaioteta, Hellenike kai Suriake:  metaphrase’, in A-Ph Christides, Historia tes hellenikes glossas (Thessaloniki, 2001), 610-15,  649-61, 691-701; ‘Text divisions in the Syriac translations of Isaiah’, in A. Rapoport-Albert and G. Greenberg, eds., Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Texts: Essays in Memory of M.P.Weitzman (Sheffield, 2001), 200-21; ‘The Dispute Poem:  from Sumer to Syriac’, Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies (Toronto) 1 (2001), 3-10.

BBBS 2001
‘St Ephrem in the Eyes of Later Syriac Liturgical Tradition’, Hugoye 1:2 (1999); ‘Syriac Studies: A classified bibliography (1991-1995)’, Parole de L’Orient 23 (1998), 241-350; ‘A Syriac Dispute Poem: The river Pishon and the river Jordan’, Parole de L’Orient 23 (1998), 3-12; ‘The Robe of Glory: A biblical image in the Syriac tradition’, The Way 39 (1999) [Spirituality and Clothing], 247-259; ‘A Syriac Letter on Papyrus: P. Berol. Inv. 8285, Hugoye 2:2 (1999); ‘Two Letters of the Patriarch Timothy from the Late Eighth Century on Translation from Greek’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 9 (1999), 233-246; ‘The Ruah Elohim of Gen. 1, 2 and its Reception History in the Syriac Tradition’ in J-M. Auwers & A. Wenin, eds., Lectures et Relectures de la Bible. Festschrift P. –M. Bogaert (Bibl. Ephem, Theol. Lov. 144, Leuven, 1999), 327-349; ‘The Earliest Known Manuscript Written in the Monastery of Mar Gabriel’, Stimme des Tur Abdin 5 (18) (1999), 6-8; ‘Aspects Oecuméniques de Saint Isaac le Syrien’ in Le Monachisme Syriaque du VIIe siècle à nos Jours (Patrimoine Syriaque, Actes du Colloque VI, Antelias, CERO, 1999), 121-127; ‘Stomathalassa, Dandamis and Secundus in a Syriac Monastic Anthology’, in G. J. Reinink & A. C. Klugkist, eds., After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Professor Han J. W. Drijvers, OLA 89 (1999), 35-50; ‘Fragments of Ps.- John Chrysostom, Homily on the Prodigal Son, in Christian Palestinian Aramaic’, Le Muséon 112 (1999), 335-362; ‘Towards a Typology of the Epicleses in the West Syrian Anaphoras’, in H-J. Feulner, E. Velskovska & R. F. Taft, eds., Crossroad of Cultures: Studies in Liturgy and Patristics in Honour of Gabriele Winkler, OCA 260 (Rome 2000), 173-192; Articles on ‘St Ephraim’ and ‘St Isaac’, in G. Speake (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London, 2000), I, 559-560; 825-827.

BBBS 1999
‘A monastic anthology from twelfth-century Edessa’, in R. Lavenant, ed., Symposium Syriacum VII, OCA 256 (1998), 221-31; ‘Translating the New Testament into Syriac (classical and modern)’ in J. Krasovec, ed., Interpretation of the Bible (Ljubljana/ Sheffield, 1998), 371-85; ‘Le monachisme syriaque: histoire et spiritualité’, in Le monachisme syriaque (1). Patrimoine Syriaque, Actes du Colloque V (Antélias, 1998).

Kevin A. Brook

BBBS 2004
'Khazar-Byzantine Relations' in the reference work The Turks, published by Yeni Turkiye of Ankara, Turkey in 2002, vol. 1, pp.509-515. The article consists of the following sections:
* The Alliance Between Byzantine Emperor Herakleios and the Ziebil, Overlord of the Khazars
* Justinian's Stormy Relationship with Khazaria
* Princess Chichek's Marriage into the Byzantine Royal House
* Khazar and Byzantine Wars against the Arabs
* The Liberation of Abkhazia from Byzantine Overlordship
* The Struggle for Control over the Crimea
* The Joint Byzantine-Khazar Construction of Sarkel
* Byzantine Religious Outposts in Khazaria and Constantine's Mission to Khazaria
* Trade Relations between Khazaria and the Byzantine Empire
* Khazar-Byzantine Relations from 861 to 969
* The Destruction of the Khazar State
I endeavoured to discuss every relevant fact and theory relating to Khazar-Byzantine relations. The article is fully footnoted.

Dr Leslie Brubaker, Birmingham

BBBS 2000
Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Cambridge, 1999); ‘The Chalke Gate, the construction of the past, and the Trier ivory’, BMGS 23 (1999), 258-85.
Forthcoming: (with J.F. Haldon) Sources in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Aldershot, 2000).

Emeritus Prof A.A.M. Bryer, Birminghman and KCL

BBBS 2009
‘Chronology and dating’ and ‘Food, wine, and feasting’, in E. Jeffreys with J. Haldon and R. Cormack, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford 2008) 31-36, 669-78; ‘The Roman Orthodox world’, in Jonathan Shepard, ed., The Cambridge History of the Byantine Empire (Cambridge 2009) 852-880.
Forthcoming: ‘Dawkins Hasluck and the crypto-Christians of Trebizond’, (with illustrations) in M. Llewellyn-Smith and P. Kitromilides, eds., Scholars, Travels and Archives (London and Athens 2009); Last Judgements in the Empire of Trebizond. Painted churches in Inner Chaldia’, (with 33 illustrations) in Rustam Shukurov, ed., Festschrift for Sergei Karpov (Moscow & St Petersburg 2009).

BBBS 2008
Forthcoming: ‘Last Judgements in the Empire of Trebizond. Painted churches in Inner Chaldia’, (with 33 figs.), ed., Rustam Shukurov, Festschrift for Sergei Karpov (Moscow 2008); ‘Prologos’ to Proceedings of International Pontic Congress, Thessaloniki 2004., ed. and tr. Throdosios Kyriakidis (Thessaloniki 2008).
Work in progress: Acts of Vazelon.

BBBS 2007
‘People get the Heroes and Martyrs they deserve’, in Pamela Armstrong, ed., Ritual and Art. Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter (London 2006) 122-28; ‘James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (1903-2000)’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: in honour of Sir Steven Runicman (Cambridge 2006), xxxix-lv.
Forthcoming: ‘Dawkins and the crypto-Christians’, in P. Kitromilides and M. Llewellyn-Smith, eds., Scholars, Travels, Archives (Athens 2007); ‘Final Thoughts’, in G. Erkut and S. Mitchell, eds., The Black Sea Region: Past, Present and Future (Oxford 2007); ‘Byzantium and the Orthodox World, 1395-1492’, in J. Shepard, ed., The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (Cambridge 2007), chap.24; ‘Ta mesa tes agrotikes paragoges: myaka dynama kai ergaleia’, in The Economic History of Byzantium (Athens 2007) I.181-202; ‘Chronology and Dating’ and ‘Feasting and Food’ in The Oxford Handbook to Byzantium (Oxford 2007).
Work in Progress. Baladan, enfin.

BBBS 2003
The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos. A source book, with David Winfield and others (Aldershot, 2002);  'The means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools', in The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, ed. Angeliki Laiou (Dumbarton Oaks and Athens, 2002), I, 101-13;  'The pilgrim monastery of Soumela as an economic paradigm', Xxe Congres International des Etudes Byzantines (Paris, 2001), II, 90-91;  'Who won the battle of the Acropolis? The evidence of William James Mueller in 1838', Anglo-Hellenic Review 24 (2001), 4-6; 'Cruise Control: Runcie at Sea with Swan' in Runcie: on Reflection. An Archbishop Remembered, ed. Stephen Platten (London 2002), 116-124.

Obituaries of Sir Dimitri Obolensky (The Independent, 31 December 2001), and four of Sir Stephen Runciman (including Anatolian Studies 50 (2000), v-vi and History Today 51 (2001), 45-47, with British Academy Memoir to come.

In press: contributions to volumes for Nikos Oikonomides (seals) and Christopher Walter (saints).

BBBS 2001
‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’, Archaeologia 74 (June, 2000) and History Today 51 (January, 2001); ‘Alice Lindsell’s Botanical Sketchbook’ in J. E. Raven, Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2000); Articles in G. Speake (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London, 2001); Obituaries of Nikolaos Oikonomides (The Independent, 8th June 2000) and of Sir Steven Runciman (Cornucopia IV, 22, 2000/2001).

Forthcoming:
(with David Winfield and others) Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos (Ashgate, 2001).

BBBS 2000
Forthcoming: ‘The means of agricultural production: muscle and tools’, in The Economic History of Byzantium.
In progress: an edition of the Acts of Vazelon; additions and corrections to Bryer and Winfield, Pontos.

BBBS 1999
‘Trabzon Imparatorlugu’nda Gimicilik’ in I.G. Kayaoglu et al., eds., Bir Tutkudur Trabzon (Istanbul, 1997), 97-105; ‘Byzantium and the Pontos during the "Time of Troubles" (1332-63)’, in I. Sevcenko et al., eds., Acts. XIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Moscow) (Shepherdstown, 1996), I, 93-105; ‘The Holy Mountain’, Cornucopia III, 15 (1998), 42-63; ‘The Black Sea in Crisis’, Anglo-Hellenic Review 17 (1998), 11; ‘Byzantium and the Roman Orthodox World, 1395-1492’, in C. Allmand, ed., The New Cambridge Medieval History VII (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 771-95; (with James Crow) ‘Survey in Trabzon and Gumushane Vilayets, Turkey, 1992-1994’, DOP 51 (1997), 283-89; Public Oration on the late N.M. Panayiotakis [in Greek], Anti II, 672 (1998), 21.

Prof Hans Buchwald, Stuttgart, Germany

BBBS 2009
Forthcoming: The Churches of Sardis, Churches E, EA, and M (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 2008?).

BBBS 2007
‘Directions of Research in Byzantine architecture’, JÖB (2006)
Forthcoming: The Churches of Sardis, Churches E, EA, and M (Harvard University press, Cambridge Mass., 2007?); Byzantine town Planning – Does It Exist?’, in Anna Muthesius, ed., Material Culture and Well-being in Byzantium (Vienna 2007)

BBBS 2006
'Job Site Organisation in 13th Century Byzantine Buildings', Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" Prato. L'edilizia prima della rivoluzione industriale secc. XIII-XVIII, Atti della "Trentaseisima Settimana di Studi" 26-30 aprile 2004 (Prato 2005) 625-667.
Forthcoming: The Churches of Sardis. Churches E, EA, and M (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2006); 'Byzantine Town Planning - Does it Exist?', Material Culture and Well-being in Byzantium, ed. A. Muthesius, Vienna 2006; 'Directions of research in Byzantine architecture', Jahrbuch der Oesterreichischen Byzantinistik 2006.

BBBS 2005
Fothcoming: The Churches of Sardis. Churches E, EA, and M (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2005?); 'Byzantine Town Planning - Does it Exist?', Material Culture and Well-being in Byzantium, ed. A. Muthesius, Vienna 2005; 'Job Site Organisation in 13th Century Byzantine Buildings', Proceedings of the International Conference on the Construction Industry before the Industrial Revolution, 13th-18th Centuries, 25-30 April, 2004, Prato (Prato 2005).

BBBS 2004
Forthcoming: The Churches of Sardis (Churches E, EA, and M), Cambridge, Mass. 2004; 'Byzantine Town Planning - Does it Exist?' Material Culture and Well-being in Byzantium, Anna Muthesius, ed. (Vienna 2004);  'Job Site Organization in 13th Century Byzantine Buildings,' Proceedings of the International Conference on the Construction Industry Before the Industrial Revolution, 13th-18th Centuries (Prato, 2004-5).

BBBS 2001
‘Imitation in Byzantine Architecture’, Festschrift für M. Restle  (Munich, 2001). The festschrift appeared at a special ceremony for Marcel Restle in Munich on February 9th.

In progress:
The Churches of Sardis (Harvard University Press, Cam. Mass., 2001?).

BBBS 2000
‘Chancel barrier lintels decorated with carved arcades’, JÖB 45 (1995); ‘Romanesque sculpture in the Veneto’, The Dictionary of Art (Macmillan, London, 1996); ‘Byzantine architecture, introduction’, ibid.; ‘Saint Sophia, turning-point in the development of Byzantine architecture?’, in V. Hoffmann, ed., Die Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Akten des Berner Kolloquiums vom 21. Oktober 1994, Neue Berner Schriften zur Kunst, Band 3 (Bern: Verlag Peter Lang, 1998); Form, Style and Meaning in Byzantine Church Architecture (Ashgate/ Variorum, 1999).
Forthcoming: ‘Imitation in Byzantine architecture’, Festschrift für M. Restle (Munich, 2000?)
In progress: The Churches of Sardis (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000).

D. F. Buck, Canada

BBBS 2001
In progress:
He has been spending a sabbatical leave examining Socrates Scholasticus’ treatment of Julian the Apostate and comparing that with Eunapius’ of Christian emperors.

David Buckton, London

BBBS 2006
'Now we see through a glass, darkly', in Nina Crummy (ed.), Image, Craft and the Classical World. Essays in honour of Donald Bailey and Catherine Johns (Montagnac 2005), 285-290 (= Monographies Instrumentum 29).
Forthcoming: 'An unknown Byzantine enkolpion of Constantine proedros' (with Paul Hetherington) Apollo 2006; 'Byzantine enamels in the twentieth century', in E. M. Jeffreys (ed.), Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization. Essays in honour of Steven Runciman (Cambridge University Press 2006).

BBBS 1999
‘Emailarbeiten’, in Ludwig Wamser and Gisela Zahlhaas, eds., Rom und Byzanz. Archäologische Kostbarkeiten aus Bayern (Munich, 1998), 35-9.

Forthcoming: ‘The gold icon of St Demetrios’, in Dietrich Kötzsche, ed., Der Welfenschatz und sein Umkreis (Berlin, 1998); (with Andrew Middleton, Fleur Shearman, Colleen Stapleton and Susan Young) ‘The Guilton Brooch: the earliest medieval cloisonné enamel?’, Jewellery Studies (1999); ‘Gold link with Greek inscription’, in David M. Wilson and Signe Horn Fuglesang, eds., The Hoen Hoard (Oslo, 1999), no. 39; ‘Brass disk with enamelled plant motif’, in Julia Andrasi, Antiquities from the Carpathian Basin in the British Museum (London, 1999).

In progress: Catalogue of the Medieval Enamels in the British Museum I: Byzantine and Early Medieval Western Enamel (London, 2000); Byzantine Enamel (London, 2001).

Dr. Vera Bulgurlu, Istanbul

BBBS 2001
Forthcoming:
Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde Bizans Kurpun Mühürlerinden bir Gruben Deđerlendirilmesi (Evaluation of a group of Byzantine Lead Seals from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum Collection). In Turkish with an English summary. Planned for May 2001.

In progress:
Catalogue of the complete collection of Byzantine Lead Seals at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, together with Professor J. Cheynet and archaeologist Turan Gokyildirim of the Museum’s Numismatic Cabinet.

Teodora Burnand, Milton Keynes

BBBS 2006
T. Vasileva, 'The scene "Melismos" in the church "St. Virgin" in Dolna Kamenitsa (XIV c.)' in The Collection of Scientific Works II (Niš and the Byzantine International Symposium II), Niš 2004, 271-277; T. Burnand, 'On the function of the church "St. Virgin" in Dolna Kamenitsa (XIV c.)' in Problemi na izkustvoto, Sofia 2005, no.4, 27-33, 62 (in Bulgarian with summary in English).