SPBS Members Complete Publications List (O-P)

Sophia Oikonomou, London

BBBS 2000
Forthcoming: ‘An unpublished letter by Nikolaos Kladios, a notarios in Rethymnon, Crete (ca.1465)’, in the forthcoming volume Porphyrogenita. Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides; ‘Ioannes Xenos as a founder’, in M.E. Mullett, ed., Founders and Re-founders, BBTT from colloquium held September 1998.

BBBS 1999
Forthcoming: ‘An unpublished letter by Nikolaos Kladios, a notarios in Rethymnon, Crete (ca. 1465)’, in the forthcoming volume Porphyrogenita. Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides; ‘Ioannes Xenos as a serial founder’, in M.E. Mullett, ed., volume of papers presented in the Belfast Colloquium on Founders and Refounders, September 1998.

J. Osborne, Canada

BBBS 2001
‘Politics, Diplomacy and the Cult of Relics in Venice and the Northern Adriatic in the First Half of the Ninth Century’, Early Medieval Europe 8 (1999), 369-386; (co-authored with David Buckton), ‘The Enamel of Doge Ordelaffo Falier on the Pala d’Oro in Venice’, Gesta 39 (2000), 43-49.

Elena Oxenstierna, Stockholm

BBBS 2003
'Ikonmålare har målat dig svart - Ortodoxa Gudsmodersikonografier i Gunnar Ekelöfs tolkning' ('The Icon Painter Painted You Black" - Byzantine-Orthodox Iconographies of the Mother of God in Gunnar Ekelöf's Interpretation'), Journal for Comparative Literature (Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, TfL, 2002:1).

In preparation:  an article in English: 'Byzantine Iconographies of Jesus Christ and the Mother of God in Gunnar Ekelöfs Diwan-trilogy'.

Dr Tassos Papacostas, London

BBBS 2008
‘Μια ξεχασμένη κληρονομία. Η γοτθική αρχιτεκτονική της Κύπρου’ (‘A forgotten heritage: the Gothic architecture of Cyprus’), in G. Giorgis, A. Marangou, K. Staikos et al., eds., Κύπρος, από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι σήμερα (Athens 2007); ‘The history and architecture of the monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis, Cyprus’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61 (2007) 25-155.

BBBS 2002
‘The economy of Late Antique Cyprus’, in S. Kingsley and M. Decker, eds., Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. Proceedings of a one-day conference at Somerville College, Oxford, 29 May 1999 (Oxford, 2001), 107-28.
Forthcoming: ‘Middle Byzantine Nicosia’, to be published in a volume dedicated to the history of the city, ed. D. Michaelides (Nicosia 2002); ‘A tenth-century inscription from Syngrasis, Cyprus’ (submitted for publication to BMGS).

Dr. Anthousa Papagiannaki, Oxford

BBBS 2007
Work in progress: ‘Contemporary elements in the depiction of performers on the medieval Byzantine ivory and bone caskets’ (working title); ‘Twelfth century ivory and bone casket production in Byzantium?’ (working title); ‘Cheetahs in medieval Byzantine life and art’ (working title).

Dr. Aphrodite Papayianni, London

BBBS 2004
Review article of the EgkuklopaidikÒ ProswpografikÒ LezikÒ Buzantin»j Istor…aj kai PolitismoÚ((Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilisation), ed. Alexis Savvides, Athens 1996-2002, vols.1-4), Crusades 2 (2003), pp.174-175; Review article of the book Introducing Byzantine History (A Manual for Beginners), (by A. Savvides and B. Henrickx, Paris 2001), Crusades 2 (2003), pp.187-188.

Forthcoming: 'The Fourth Crusade: The Greek Historiographical Point of View', in Actes de las Terceras Jornadas Internationales: Medio siglo de estudios sobre las Cruzadas y las Ordenes Militares, 1951-2001 (Teruel 2004).

BBBS 2003
Forthcoming
:  'John III Vatatzes: An Orthodox Saint', in BuzantinÒj DÒmoj 14 (2003);  Seven lemmas ('Byzantium', 'Nicaea', 'Theodore I Lascaris', Theodore II Lascaris', John III Vatatzes', Michael VIII Palaeologos', Constantine XI Palaeologos'), in the Encyclopdaedia of the Crusades, ABC-Clio 2003.

Dr Georgi R. Parpulov, Oxford

BBBS 2009
‘Няколко стари описания на Зографския манастир’, Проблеми на изкуството41 (2008), no. 2, 26-31, 64-65; Review: B.V. Pentcheva, Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (Penn State University Press, University Park 2006) in The Journal of Religion 88 (2008) 538-539.
Forthcoming: ‘The Psalms and Personal Piety in Byzantium’, in R.S. Nelson and P. Magdalino, eds., The Old Testament in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC 2009); ‘Mural and Icon Painting at Sinai in the Thirteenth Century’ and ‘Three East Slavic Pilgrims at Sinai’, in S. Gerstel and R.S. Nelson, eds., Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine¹s Monastery in the Sinai (Brepols, Turnhout 2009); ‘Четири гръко-български миниатюри от XIV век’, Проблеми на изкуството 42 (2009); with Irina V. Dolgikh and Peter Cowe, ‘A Byzantine Text on the Technique of Icon Painting’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 64 (2010); ‘Formats and Transmissions: The Bibles of the Christian East’, in E.A. Matter and R. Marsden, eds., The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2: The Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press).

Dr Philip Pattenden, Cambridge

BBBS 2007
Work in progress: A critical edition of the Pratum of John Moschus, translation and commentary.

BBBS 2003
Work in Progress
: John Moschus Pratum Spirituale, editio critica Corpus Christianorum series graeca (Louvain); plus separate English translation and commentary.

BBBS 2002
In progress: John Moschus Pratum Spirituale, CChr, ser. gr. (Louvain); plus separate English translation and commentary.

BBBS 2001
In progress:
John Moschus Pratum Spirituale, CChr, ser. Gr. (Louvain); plus separate English translation and commentary.

BBBS 2000
In progress: John Moschus Pratum Spirituale, CChr, ser.gr. (Louvain); plus separate English translation and commentary.

BBBS 1999
In progress: John Moschus Pratum Spirituale, CChr, ser. gr. (Louvain), plus separate English translation.

J. Payton, Canada

BBBS 2001
‘Toward an Orthodox Worldview for the Third Millenium’ (in Russian) in G. Carilet (ed.), Humanity and the Christian Worldview: Conceptualizing the normal and abnormal in medicine, science and society (Ukraine, 1999), 95-106; ‘Toward an Orthodox Approach to Higher Education in 21st - Century Russia’, in N. Pecherskaya (ed.), Higher Education in 21st-Century Russian Culture: A Christian perspective (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, 2000), 46-57 (in Russian), 57-66 (in English); Entries on ‘St. Gregory of Nyssa’ and ‘Iconoclasm (Controversy)’, in W. M. Johnston (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Monasticism, 2 vols (Chicago, 2000), Vol 1, 554; 633-634 respectively.

Robert Penkett, Reading

BBBS 2002
(with John Chryssavgis) In the footsteps of the Lord: the teaching of Abba  Isaiah of Scetis (Sisters of the Love of God, Oxford, 2001)

Forthcoming: (with John Chryssavgis) English translation of The Ascetic Discourses of Abba Isaiah (Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, 2002); (with Andrew Knowles) Augustine and His World (Lion Publications, Oxford, 2002); ‘The contribution of The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos to the debate on the holy icons’, Reading Medieval Studies 28 (2002); ‘Palestinian monasticism in The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos’, ARAM Periodical 15 (2003).

In progress: The Gates of Perception: asceticism and mystical experience in The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos; (with John Chryssavgis) English translation of The Letters of Barsanouphios and John of Gaza (Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo); Byzantine and Russian Icons in British Collections

BBBS 2001
‘Symeon the New Theologian’s Visions of the Godhead’, Phronema 15 (2000).

Forthcoming:
(with John Chryssavgis), In the Footsteps of the Lord: The teaching of Abba Isaiah of Scetis (Sisters of the Love of God, Oxford, 2001); (with John Chryssavgis), English translation of The Ascetic Discourses of Abba Isaiah (Kalamazoo, 2002).

In progress:
The Gates of Perception: Asceticism and mystical experience in The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos; (with Andrew Knowles), Augustine and His World (Oxford, 2002); (with John Chryssavgis), English translation of The Letters of Barsanouphios and John of Gaza (Kalamazoo).

BBBS 2000
‘Walking in the footsteps of the saints: Antony’s vision of Paul of Thebes and the angels’, Fairacres Chronicle 32/3 (Winter, 1999); ‘Sensory phenomena and experience in the medieval other world’, Reading Medieval Studies 25 (1999).
Forthcoming: (with John Chryssavgis) English translation of The Ascetic Discourses of Abba Isaiah (Cistercian Publications); ‘Symeon the New Theologain’s Visions of the Godhead’, Phronema 15 (2000).
In progress: (with John Chryssavgis) English translation of Barsanouphios and John of Gaza (Cistercian Publications).

BBBS 1999
‘Towards a theology of tears: penthos in the writings of Abba Isaiah, in Fairacres Chronicle 30/2 (Winter, 1997); ‘Discerning the divine and the demonic in The Life of St Antony’, in Reading Medieval Studies 24 (1998).

Forthcoming: ‘Walking in the footsteps of the saints: Antony’s vision of Paul of Thebes and the angels’, in Fairacres Chr onicle 32/1 (Spring, 1999); (with John Chryssavgis), English translation of The Ascetic Discourses of Abba Isaiah.

In progress: English translation of Theodore the Studite, Letters, Long Catechesis and Short Catechesis; (with John Chryssavgis), English translation of Barsanuphios and John, Letters.

G. Peers, Canada

BBBS 2001
‘Iconoclasm, Peter and the Use of Nature in the Smyrna Physiologus (Evangelical School B.8)’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 50 (2000), 267-292.

Forthcoming:
Subtle Bodies: Representing angels in Byzantium, Transformations in Late Antiquity, vol. 32 (series editor Peter Brown), (Berkeley, February 2001).

In progress:
G. Peers is at present (2000-2001) at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto and is working on another book, Framing Byzantine Art.

Greg Peters, Toronto, Canada

BBBS 2002
Forthcoming: ‘An examination of fourth century arguments against Syneisaktism: a search for understanding’, The Journal of Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Studies; ‘Spiritual marriage in early Christianity: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 in modern exegesis and the earliest Church,’ Trinity Journal.

Dr. Mihailo Popović, Vienna

BBBS 2009
Ed. with J. Preiser-Kapeller, Junge Römer – Neue Griechen. Eine byzantinische Melange aus Wien. Beiträge von Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Instituts für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien, in Dankbarkeit gewidmet ihren Lehrern Wolfram Hörandner, Johannes Koder, Otto Kresten und Werner Seibt als Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag (Wien, Phoibos Verlag 2008, pp. 275, ISBN 978-3-901232-95-4). For further information and to place orders see website
‘Die Gesandtschaften des byzantinischen Kaisers Basileios I. zu den Serben’ (‘The embassies of the Byzantine emperor Basil I to the Serbs’), in M. Kaimakamova, M. Salamon, M. Smorąg Różycka, eds., Byzantium, New Peoples, New Powers: The Byzantino–Slav Contact Zone, from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century (Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia V, Cracow 2007) 103-108; ‘Reisen auf der Donau – Die Rezeption Serbiens im Werk Eines Dichters Bazar von Hans Christian Andersen’ (‘Travelling on the river Danube – The reception of Serbia in the work Eines Dichters Bazar by Hans Christian Andersen’), biblos, Beiträge zu Buch, Bibliothek und Schrift 56/2 (2007) 127-133; with J. Preiser-Kapeller, ‘Das Patriarchat von Konstantinopel und die Kirchen Bulgariens und Serbiens vom 13. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert’ (‘The Patriarchate of Constantinople and the churches of Bulgaria and Serbia from the 13th until the 15th century’), Historicum, Zeitschrift für Geschichte (Frühling – Sommer 2007) 62-70; ‘Neue Überlegungen zu der alten Metropolitankirche Sveti Nikola in Melnik als Ergänzung zur Forschung des Vladimir Petković’ (‘New considerations on the old metropolitan church Sveti Nikola in Melnik in addition to the research conducted by Vladimir Petković’), in Junge Römer – Neue Griechen. Eine byzantinische Melange aus Wien (see above) 179-185; ‘Zur Topographie des spätbyzantinischen Melnik’ (‘On the topography of Late Byzantine Melnik’), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 58 (2008) 107-119; Review:A. Bresson, M.-P. Masson, St. Perentidis, J. Wilgaux, eds., Parenté et société dans le monde grec de l’Antiquité à l’âge moderne. Colloque international, Volos (Grèce) – 19-20-21 juin 2003 (Ausonius éditions, Études 12) (Bordeaux, Ausonius 2006, pp. 412), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 58 (2008) 266-267.
Forthcoming: ‘Did Dragōtas conquer Melnik in 1255?’, Glasnik Institut za Nacionalna Istorija (Skopje 2008); ‘Continuity and change of Byzantine and Old Slavonic toponyms in the valley of the river Strumica (FYROM)’, to be published in the proceedings of the conference GeoNames 2008, Geographical Names as Part of the Cultural Heritage, Vienna, 19-21 May 2008; ‘Zur Kontinuität der Römerstraßen in Südosteuropa – Das Beispiel der Felsenstraße im Bereich des Djerdap’ (‘On the continuity of Roman roads in South-East Europe – The example of the road in the area of Djerdap’), to be published in the proceedings of the conference Die Welt der Straße 2 – Straßen und Brücken in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Krems-Stein, 29 November-1 December 2007; ‘Sie befahl, im ganzen Land Töchter armer Eltern zu sammeln ... – Zur Vorbildwirkung der Stiftertätigkeit der serbischen Königin Jelena († 1314)’ (‘She ordered to assemble daughters of poor parents from all over the country ... – On the example of benevolence by the Serbian queen Jelena’), Thetis, Mannheimer Beiträge zur klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns (2008); ‘Mapping Byzantium – The project ‘Makedonien, nördlicher Teil / Macedonia, northern part’ in the series Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’, to be published in the proceedings of the conference Mapping Different Geographies, Puchberg am Schneeberg, 11-15 February 2009; Review: A. Giannouli, Die beiden byzantinischen Kommentare zum Großen Kanon des Andreas von Kreta. Eine quellenkritische und literarhistorische Studie (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 26) (Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007, pp. 427), Ostkirchliche Studien (Würzburg 2008).
Work in progress: A volume of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB 16) on ‘Macedonia, northern part’ (‘Makedonien, nördlicher Teil’) comprising FYROM and parts of Bulgaria (Kjustendil, Blagoevgrad) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johannes Koder at the Institute of Byzantine Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and financed by the FWF – Austrian Science Fund (P18866-G02). See: website This project will end on 28 February 2009.

BBBS 2007
Review: Ruth Macrides, ed., Travel in the Byzantine World. Papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 10, Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot 2002, pp.302), in Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 56 (2006) 316-317.
Forthcoming): ‘Die Gesandtschaften des byzantinischen Kaisers Basileios I. zu den Serben’ (‘The embassies of the Byzantine emperor Basil I to the Serbs’), to be published in the proceedings of the conference Byzantium and new countries – New peoples on the frontier of Byzantino-Slavonic area (IX-XV centuries) (Cracow, 6.-8. April 2006); ‘Eirēnē – Gefangene und Geliebte Sultan Mehmeds II. nach dem Fall Konstantinopels’ (‘Eirēnē – Prisoner and love of the Sultan Mehmed II after the capture of Constantinople’), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 57 (2007);
Review: G. Aibalē, E. Zachariadu, A. Xanthynakēs, Τοχρονικότωνουγγροτουρκικώνπολέμων (1443-1444) (Ērakleio, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης 2005, pp.245), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 57 (2007).
Work in progress:  In March 2006 I started to work on a volume of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB 16) on ‘Macedonia, northern part’ (‘Makedonien, nördlicher Teil’) comprising FYROM and parts of Bulgaria (Kjustendil, Blagoevgrad) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johannes Koder at the Institute of Byzantine Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences); cf. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/tib014.htm 

BBBS 2006
'Der Familienname Krambonites und ähnliche Formen auf Siegeln sowie in anderen Quellen' (On the surname Krambonites and on similar forms on Byzantine lead seals and in other sources), in Siegel und Siegel, Akten des 8. Internationalen Symposions für Byzantinische Sigillographie, ed. C. Ludwig (Berliner Byzantinische Arbeiten 7), Frankfurt am Main 2005, 123-129, 203-204.

BBBS 2005
'Zum Bild des römischen Kaisers Trajan in der byzantinischen Literatur' (On the representation of the Roman emperor Trajan in Byzantine literature), Weiner Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik. Beitrage zum Symposion vierzig Jahre Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien im Gedenken an Herbert Hunger (Wien, 4-7 Dezember, 2002), ed. W. Hörandner, J. Koder, M.A. Stassinopoulou (Byzantina et Neograeca Vindobonensia XXIV), Wien 2004, 337-347.
Forthcoming: 'Der Familienname Krambonites und ähnliche Formen auf Siegeln sowie in anderen Quellen' (On the surname Krambonites and similar forms on Byzantine lead seals and in other sources), 8 Internationales Symposion für Byzantinische Sigillographie, Berlin 1-4 October, 2003.
Work in progress: A thesis entitled: 'Mara Brankovic - the life and work of a woman on the cultural point of intersection between Serbs, Byzantines and Ottomans'; it is written in German at the University of Vienna.

BBBS 2004
'Zur Lokalisierung des "Trajansweges" des Theophylaktos Simokattes' in Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 53 (2003) 83-95.

Work in progress:

A thesis entitled ‘Mara Branković – the life and work of a woman on the cultural point of intersection between Serbs, Byzantines and Ottomans’; it is written in German at the University of Vienna

BBBS 2003
Forthcoming: 'The ‘young emperor of Constantinople’: an overlooked prosopographical note in an itinerary of the fourteenth century'; to be published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 26 (2002) 292-296;  'Zur Lokalisierung des "Trajansweges" des Theophylaktos Simokattes'; to be published in Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 53 (2003).

Work in progress:

A thesis entitled ‘Mara Branković – the life and work of a woman on the cultural point of intersection between Serbs, Byzantines and Ottomans’; it will be written in German at the University of Vienna.

BBBS 2002
Forthcoming: ‘The “Young Emperor of Constantinople”: an overlooked prosopographical note in an itinerary of the fourteenth century’ to be published in BMGS 26 (2002).

In progress: A thesis entitled ‘Mara Brankovic- the life and work of a woman on the cultural point of intersection between Serbs, Byzantines, and Ottomans’ (see Theses).