SPBS Members Complete Publications List (N)

Dr Oliver Nicholson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

BBBS 2001
‘Constantine’s Vision of the Cross’, Vigiliae Christianae 54:3 (2000), 309-323.

Forthcoming:
‘Caelum Potius Intuemini: Lactantius and a statue of Constantine the Great’, Studia Patristica (2001); ‘Broadening the Roman Mind: Foreign prophets in the historical scheme of Lactantius’, Studia Patristica (2001); ‘Arnobius and Lactantius’ article for L. Ayres, A. Louth & F. Young, eds., Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature; Two articles and various translations in M. Mullett (ed.), The Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia.

In progress:
An Anatomy Of Persecution; Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity - This will be a general reference work of 800, 000 words in a similar vein to the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

BBBS 2000
‘"Civitas quae adhuc sustentat omnia": Lactantius and the city of Rome’, in W. Klingshirn and M. Vessey, eds., The Limits of Ancient Christianity. Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honour of R.A. Markus (Michigan U. Press, 1999), 7-25; review of Michael Simmons, Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian in JTS 50 (1999), 319-27.
Forthcoming: ‘Constantine’s vision of the cross’, Vigiliae Christianae; ‘Caelum potius intuemini: Lactantius and a statue of Constantine the Great’, Studia Patristica; ‘Broadening the Roman mind: foreign prophets in the historical scheme of Lactantius’, Studia Patristica; ‘Arnobius and Lactantius’, for Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth and Frances Young, eds., Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature.
In progress: An Anatomy of Persecution, Lactantius and the Christian Revolution; Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity; Translation, with notes, of Dionysius of Byzantium (Greek topographer of 2nd century A.D.), Anaplus Bospori; ‘Constantinople: Christian community, Christian landscape’ for Mark Williams, ed., The Making of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; ‘God, the Sun, and the Emperor Constantine’.

BBBS 1999
Forthcoming: ‘Arnobius and Lactantius’, article for Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth and Frances Young, eds., Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge, 1999?); ‘"Civitas quae adhuc sustentat omnia": Lactantius and the City of Rome’, in W. Klingshirn and M. Vessey, eds., The Limits of Ancient Christianity (Michigan University Press, 1999); Review article of Michael Simmons, Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, in Inl. Theol. St. 50 (1999); Two articles and various translations in M. Mullett, ed., The Forty Martyrs of Sebastia, BBTT 2 (Belfast).

In progress: An Anatomy of Persecution; Lactantius and the Christian Revolution; Translation, with notes, of Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplus Bospori; ‘Lactantius and a Statue of Constantine’; ‘Constantine’s vision of the Cross’; ‘Constantinople: Christian community, Christian landscape’, for Mark Williams, ed., The Making of Christian Communities in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; ‘Foreign prophets in the historical scheme of Lactantius’; proposal for an Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, along the lines of the 3rd edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, but taking into account the full variety of the half-millenium c.250- c.750.

Prof D.M. Nicol, Cambridge

BBBS 2002
‘A sojourn on the Holy Mountain in the year 1949’, Part I, Friends of Mt Athos, Annual Report 2000, 91-107, to be concluded.

BBBS 1999
Byzantine Mistra-- Sparta in the Mind, British School at Athens, BSA Studies, No. 4, W.G. Cavanagh and Susan Walker, eds., Sparta in Laconia (1998).

Nevra Necipoglu, Bebek, Istanbul

BBBS 2002
‘The coexistence of Turks and Greeks in Medieval Anatolia (eleventh-twelfth centuries)’, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 5 (1999-2000), 58-76; ‘Constantinopolitan merchants and the question of their attitudes towards Italians and Ottomans in the late Palaiologan period’, in C. Scholz and G. Makris, eds., Polypleuros nous: Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag (Munich-Leipzig, 2000), 251-63; Ed., Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life, The Medieval Mediterranean 33 (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2001); ‘Introduction’, in ibid., 1-14.

Forthcoming: ‘The Byzantine aristocracy during the period of Ottoman conquests’, in N. Göyünc, J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont and O. Ergenc, eds.,  Festschrift for Halil Inalcik (Istanbul).

Dr. Jennifer Nimmo Smith, Edinburgh

BBBS 2009
Review of A. Tuilier, G. Bady, J. Bernardi, eds., Sainte Grégoire de Nazianze Œuvres poétiques.  Tome I.  1re partie.  Poèmes personnels II, I, 1-11 (Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l ‘Association Guillaume Budé), pp. ccxviii + 214 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2004).  Paper, E60, in Classical Review 56.1 (2006) 84-86.
Forthcoming: ‘Sidelights on the Sermons: the Scholia Oxoniensia on Gregory of Nazianzus' Orations 4 and 5’(an earlier version of which was presented at the Oxford Patristic Conference in 1999) in Studia Nazianzenica II, the publication of which is delayed through difficulties in communication with colleagues in Georgia.
Work in progress: 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.

BBBS 2007
‘The River Alpheus in Greek, Christian and Byzantine Thought’, Byzantion LXXIV (2004), Fasc. 2, pp.416-432; ‘Magic at the Crossroads in the Sixth Century’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilisation: in honour of Sir Stephen Runciman (Cambridge 2006) 224-237.
Work in Progress: An article on the Scholia Oxoniensia for a forthcoming Studia Nazianzenica, Brepols, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
A short communication ‘From Gorgias to Gregory of Nazianzus: a Platonic formula revisited’ to be presented at the Oxford Patristic Conference in August 2007.

BBBS 2002
‘The early scholia on the Sermons of Gregory of Nazianzus’, B. Coulie, ed., Studia Nazianzenica I (Leuven University Press, Brepols 2000), 69 – 148 (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 41 Corpus Nazianzenum 8); A Christian’s Guide to Greek Culture: the Pseudo-Nonnus Commentaries on Sermons 4, 5, 39 and 43 by Gregory of Nazianzus, Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool University Press 2001.

BBBS 2000
Forthcoming: ‘The early scholia on the sermons of Gregory of Nazianzus’, to be included in a publication of the papers delivered at seminars at the Institute Orientaliste, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1996-1997; ‘The Language of the Pseudo-Nonnos Commentaries’,Thesaurus Pseudo-Nonni Commentarii in IV Orationes Gregorii Nazianzeni curantibus Bernard Coulie, Jennifer Nimmo Smith et CETEDOC, Universitas Catholica Lovanensis Lovanii Novi (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999).
In progress: Translation of the Pseudo-Nonnos Commentaries for the series Translated Texts for Historians, Liverpool University Press; collaboration with international scholars at the Institute Orientaliste, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium on the scholia on the sermons of Gregory of Nazianzus.

Dr. Fiona Nicks, London

BBBS 2003
Revision and updating of several articles for the New Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, reprinted 2002), including a long essay on the History of the Byzantine Church.

Forthcoming:  The Reign of Anastasius I, 491-518, Francis Cairns (Publications);  Review Article: Cambridge Ancient History XIV, edd. A. Cameron, M. Whitby, B. Ward-Perkins, in Dialogos.

Work in Progress:  Review: J.A.S. Evans, The empress Theodora partner of Justinian, University of Texas Press, 2002 for The Journal of Roman Studies;  An article on: A Fragmentary Encomium: P. GR. Vindob. 29788B-C.