SPBS Members' Publications Archive S

SPBS Members Complete Publications List (S)

D. Sahas, Canada

BBBS 2001
‘Barthomeus of Edessa on Islam: A polemicist with nerve!’, Graeco-Arabica 7-8 (1999-2000), Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Graeco-Oriental and African Studies, 467-483; ‘Why Did Heraclius Not Defend Jerusalem, And Fight The Arabs?’, Parole de I’Orient 24 (1999), 79-97.

Dr. Peter Sarris, Cambridge

BBBS 2004
'The Islamic Takover of the Near East', 'Byzantium 700-1000', and 'Byzantine Culture' in R. McKitterick (ed.) The Times Medieval World (2003).
Forthcoming: 'Rehabilitating the Great Estate: Aristocratic Property and Economic Growth in the Late Antique East' in W. Bowden and L. Lavan (ed.) Late Antique Archaeology Volume Two: Recent Research On The Late Antique Countryside (2004); 'The Origins of the Manorial Economy: New Insights From Late Antiquity' in English Historical Review vol. 119 (April, 2004); 'Banaji, Late Antiquity, and the Feudal Mode of Production' in Historical Materialism; 'Aristocrats and Aliens in Early Byzantine Constantinople' in E. Jeffreys (ed.) Studies In Byzantine Style, Religion, And Civilisation In Memory Of Sir Steven Runciman.
Work in Progress: Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian ( for C.U.P.); The Oxford History of Medieval Europe Volume 2: 500-700 (for O.U.P.); Debates and Documents in Ancient History: The Age Of Justinian (for E.U.P.).

BBBS 2003
'The Eastern Roman Empire from Constantine to Heraclius' in C. Mango (ed.) The Oxford History of Byzantium (Oxford, 2002); 'The Justinianic Plague: Origins and Effects' in Continuity & Change 17.2 (2002).
Forthcoming: 'The Origins of the Manorial Economy: New Insights From Late Antiquity' in English Historical Review.
Work in Progress: Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian ( for C.U.P.); The Oxford History of Medieval Europe Volume 2: 500-700 (for O.U.P.).

Dr Nadine Schibille, Paris

BBBS 2009
With F. Marii and Th. Rehren, ‘Characterisation and Provenance of Late Antique Window Glass from the Petra Church in Jordan’, Archaeometry 50 (2008) 627-642; Review: Robert Nelson, Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument, ‘19th and 20th Century Appropriation of Byzantine Art’, Art History 31 (2008) 406-411.
In press: ‘The Profession of the Architect in Late Antique Byzantium’, Byzantion (2009); ‘Astronomical and Optical Principles in the Architecture of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople’, Science in Context (2009).
Forthcoming: Review: John Onians, Neuroarthistory: from Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki, ‘A History of Neuroarthistory’, Art History.

Dr Teresa Shawcross, Cambridge

BBBS 2009
‘ “Do Thou Nothing without Counsel”: Political Assemblies and the Ideal of Good Government in the Thought of Theodore Palaeologus and Theodore Metochites’, Al-Masaq 20 (2008) 89-118; ‘In the Name of the True Emperor: Politics of Resistance after the Palaiologan Usurpation’, Byzantinoslavica 66 (2008) 203-227; Review: George Boustronios, A Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus, 1456-1489 (Translated from the Greek by Nicholas Coureas together with an Anthology of Greek Texts of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries relating to Cyprus and Translated by Hans Pohlsander (Cyprus Research Centre, Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus LI - Sources for the History of Cyprus XIII), Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre 2005), in Jahrbuch der Oesterreichischen Byzantinistik 58 (2008) 225-227.
Forthcoming: The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009); ‘Greeks and Franks after the Fourth Crusade: Identity in the Chronicle of Morea’, in S. Lambert and L. James, eds., Languages of Love and Hate: Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brepols, Turnhout 2009); ‘ “Listen, all of you, both Franks and Romans”: The Narrator in the Chronicle of Morea’, in R. Macrides, ed., Byzantine History as Literature (Ashgate, Aldershot 2010?); ‘The Lost Generation (ca.1204-ca.1222): Political Allegiance and Local Interests in the Crusader Lands’, in The Eastern Mediterranean in the Thirteenth Century: Identities and Allegiances, ed. J. Herrin (Ashgate, Aldershot 2010?); ‘The Making of a Byzantine Emperor in Crusader Constantinople (1204-1261): Visual Symbols, Ritual and Titulature’, in K. Fleet, J. Harris and C. Holmes, eds., Between Byzantines and Turks: Understanding the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean World (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010?).

Dr. Jonathan Shepard, Oxford

BBBS 2009
‘Crowns from the Basileus, Crowns from Heaven’, in M. Kaimakamova and M. Salamon, eds., Byzantium, New Peoples and Powers: the Byzantino-Slav contact-zone, from the ninth to the fifteenth century (Cracow 2007) 139-59; Ed., The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia (Aldershot 2007); ‘Invisible Byzantiums’, in M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger, D. Stathakopoulos and A. Muthesius, eds., Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium, 400-1453 (Vienna 2007) 225-34; Nespokoini s’sedi: B’lgaro-vizantiiska konfrontatsiia, obmen i s’zhitelstvo prez srednite vekove (Uneasy Neighbours: Bulgaro-Byzantine Confrontation, Exchange and Co-existence in the Middle Ages) (Sofia 2007); ‘Rus’’ in N. Berend, ed., Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus’ c. 900–1200 (Cambridge 2007) 369-414; Ed., The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500-1492 (Cambridge 2008); ‘The Coming of Christianity to Rus: authorized and unauthorized versions’, in C.B. Kendall et al., ed., Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age (Minneapolis 2008); ‘Slavic Christianities’, in T.F.X. Noble and J.M.H. Smith, eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity, III: Early Medieval Christianities (Cambridge 2008) 130-66; ‘The Viking Rus and Byzantium’, in S. Brink and N. Price, eds., The Viking World (London 2008) 496-516.
Forthcoming: ‘Goods, gods and guidelines’, in L. James, ed., The Blackwells Companion to Byzantium (Oxford); ‘Imperial Outliers: Byzantine Building Work On and Beyond the Borderlands’, in P. Stephenson, ed., The Byzantine World (London); ‘Mists and Portals: The Black Sea’s North Coast’, in M.M. Mango, ed., Byzantine Trade, Fourth to Twelfth Centuries, Proceedings of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 2004 (Ashgate)

BBBS 2004
'Emperors and Expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium' in Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices, eds. D. Abulafia and N. Berend (Aldershot, 2002); 'Spreading the Word: Byzantine Missions' in The Oxford History of Byzantium, ed. C. Mango (Oxford, 2002); 'Marriages Towards the Millennium' in Byzantium in the Year 1000, ed. P. Magdalino (Brill, 2003); 'The “muddy road” of Odo of Arpin from Bourges to la Charité-sur-Loire' in The Experience of Crusading. Vol. 2: Defining the Crusader Kingdom, eds. P. Edbury and J. Phillips (Cambridge, 2003); 'The Ruler as Instructor, Pastor and Wise: Leo VI of Byzantium and Symeon of Bulgaria' in Alfred the Great. Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences, ed. T. Reuter (Aldershot, 2003); 'Teaching Byzantium', in Overnight Expert! (LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology) (2003)

http://hca.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/overnight_expert/index.php

'The Uses of “History” in Byzantine Diplomacy: Observations and Comparisons' in Prophyrogenita. Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, eds. C. Dendrinos, J. Harris, E. Harvalia-Crook and J. Herrin (Aldershot, 2003).

Forthcoming: 'Closer Encounters at the Straits of Kerch: the Byzantine and the Rus in the eleventh century', Festschrift for Thomas S. Noonan (Minneapolis); 'The Coming of Christianity to Rus: Authorized and Unauthorized Versions' in Conversions and Christianity, eds. C. Kendall, O. Nicholson, W. Phillips and M. Ragnow (New York); 'Conversions Compared: Poles and Rus' in East Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages, ed. F. Curta, (Ann Arbor); 'Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky, 1918-2001. A Memoir' in Proceedings of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows (Oxford, 2004); '“How St. James the Persian’s Head was brought to Cormery”. A Relic Collector around the time of the First Crusade' in Festschrift for Günter Prinzing, ed. L. Hoffmann(Mainz, 2004); 'Invisible Byzantiums' in Proceedings of the Byzantine Material Culture Conference, eds. M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger, D. Stathakopoulos and A. Muthesius (Vienna); 'Manners Maketh Romans? Young Barbarians at the Emperor’s Court' in Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization in honour of Sir Steven Runciman, ed. E. Jeffreys (Cambridge); 'The Origins of Rus (c. 900 – 1015)' in The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 1: From Early Rus to 1689, ed. M. Perrie (Cambridge, 2004); 'Past and Future in Middle Byzantine Diplomacy' in Byzance et le monde extérieur, eds. M. Balard and E. Malamut(Paris); Byzantium Between Barbarians (Cambridge); The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, ed. J. Shepard (Cambridge).

BBBS 2002
‘Europe and the wider world’, R. McKitterick, ed., Short Oxford History of Europe. The Early Middle Ages (Oxford, 2001), 201-42; ‘Courts in East and West’, P. Lineham and J. L. Nelson, eds., Voyages et voyageurs à Byzance et en Occident du VI au XI siècle (Geneva, 2000) [published 2001], 375-96; ‘Constantine VII, Caucasian Openings and the road to Aleppo’, A. Eastmond, ed., Eastern Approaches to Byzantium (Aldershot, 2001), 19-40; ‘Otto III, Boleslaw Chobry and the “Happening” at Gniezno, A. D. 1000: some possible implications of Proffesser Poppe’s thesis concerning the offspring of Anna Porphyrogenita’, G. Prinzing, M. Salamon and P. Stephenson, eds., Byzantium and East Central Europe, Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensi 3 (Cracow, 2001), 27-48.

Forthcoming: ‘Marriages towards the Millenium’, P. Magdalino, ed., Byzantium around the Year 1000; ‘The uses of history in Byzantine diplomacy: observations and comparisons’, J. Harris et al, eds., Porphyrogenita: Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides.

BBBS 2000
‘Constantine VII’s doctrine of "containment" of the Rus’, in S. Ivanov et al., eds., Gennadios, K70-letiiu Akademika G.G.Litavrina (collection of articles celebrating G.G. Litavrin’s 70th birthday) (Moscow, 1999), 264-83; ‘Byzantium and the steppe nomads: the Hungarian dimension’, in G. Prinzing and M. Salamon, eds., Byzanz und OstMitteleuropa 950-1453 (Wiesbaden, 1999), 55-83.
Forthcoming: ‘The Vikings in Southern Russia and Byzantium’, in T.S. Noonan, ed., The Vikings in Russia and the East (University of Minnesota); ‘Byzantium in equilibrium’; ‘Byzantium expanding’; ‘Bulgaria: the other Balkan empire’; ‘Byzantium and the West’, chapters in T. Reuter, ed., New Cambridge Medieval History III (Cambridge, 1999); ‘Spreading the word’, in C. Mango, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Byzantium (Oxford, 2000); ‘Constantine VII, some Armenian kastra and the Road to Aleppo’, in A. Eastmond, ed., Byzantium’s Eastern Approaches (Aldershot: Variorum, 2001); ‘The emperor and the extension of borders: from Rome to Byznatium’, in D. Abulafia and N. Berend, eds., Frontier Societies. Problems and Practice (Aldershot, 2000); ‘Courts in East and West’, in P. Linehan and J.L. Nelson, eds., The Medieval World (London, 2000); ‘The ruler as pastor, instructor and wise: Leo VI, Boris-Michael and Symeon of Bulgaria’, in T. Reuter, eds., King Alfred. Proceedings of the Conference Commemorating the 1,100th Anniversary of the Death of King Alfred (Aldershot, forthcoming).
In progress: Byzantium between Neighbours, 840-1118.

BBBS 1999
‘Silks, skills and opportunities: some reflexions’, BMGS 21 (1997), 246-57; ‘Byzantine relations with the outside world in the ninth century: an introduction’, in L. Brubaker, ed., Dead or Alive? Byzantium in the ninth Century (Aldershot, 1998), 167-80; ‘The Rus treaties with the Byzantines in the tenth century’, Russia Medievalis 11 (1998), 179-84; ‘The Khazars’ formal adoption of Judaism and Byzantium’s northern policy’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, new series 31 (1998) (= Festschrift for Dimitri Obolensky), 11-34.

Forthcoming: ‘The Vikings in Southern Russia and Byzantium’, in T.S. Noonan, ed., The Vikings in Russia and the East (University of Minnesota); ‘Byzantium in equilibrium’; ‘Byzantium expanding’; ‘Bulgaria: the other Balkan empire’; ‘Byzantium and the West’, chapters in T. Reuter, ed., The New Cambridge Medeival History 3 (Cambridge, 1999); ‘Constantine VII and the containment of the Rus’, in S. Ivanov et al., eds., Collection of Articles in Celebration of Georgii G. Litavrin’s 70th Birthday (Moscow, 1999); ‘Byzantium and the steppe nomads: the Hungarian dimension’, in G. Prinzing, ed., Byzanz und Ost-Mittleeuropa (Mainz, 1999); ‘Spreading the Word’, in C. Mango, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Byzantium (Oxford, 1999); ‘Courts in East and West’, in P. Linhan and J.L. Nelson, eds., The Medieval World (London, 2000).
In progress: Byzantium between Neighbours, 840-1118.

Franziska E. Shlosser, Canada

BBBS 2006
'Weaving a Precious Web: The Use of Textiles in Diplomacy', Byzantinoslavica 63 (2005) 45-52; Review of Wolfram Hõrandner, Johannes Koder, Maria A. Stassinopoulou, Wiener Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik: Beiträge zum Symposium vierzig Jahre Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien in Gedenken and Herbert Hunger, Wien, 2004, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 8 June, 2005; Review of Michael Grünbart, Formen der Anrede im byzantinischen Brief vom 6. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert, Wien, 2005, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 9 October, 2005; Review of Nicole Zeddies, Religio et sacrilegium. Studien zur Inkriminierung von Magic, Häresie und Heidentum (4.-7. Jahrhundert), Frankfurt am Main, 2003, in Mediaevistik, 2005, 252-256; Review of Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100, Cambridge, 2004, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 19 March, 2005.

BBBS 2002
Forthcoming: ‘The Exarchates of Africa and Italy’, JÖB 53 (2003).
In progress: ‘The early Slavs in Byzantine Sources’.

BBBS 2001
Entries on ‘Anna Komnene’, ‘Carthage’, ‘Theophylaktos Simokattes’, ‘The Early Byzantine Period’ and ‘Political History of the Byzantine Empire A.D. 330-802 in Graham Speake (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London, 2000).

George D. Siderountios, London

BBBS 2001
In progress:
‘The use of the term Hellene, and its derivation, from the early Christian Fathers to 1453’ – ‘Developments in the Use of the Terms Graikos and Romaios.

Dr. Christos Simelidis, Oxford

BBBS 2008
Forthcoming: ‘The Compilation of the Lexica to the Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: Lexicon Casinense and Paraphrase A for the Gedichtgruppe I’, in A. Schmidt, ed., Studia Nazianzenica II (Corpus Christianorum - Corpus Nazianzenum, Brepols, Turnhout 2008).

BBBS 2007
Work in Progress: A critical edition of the Carmina of St. Gregory of Nazianzus for the Corpus Christianorum series.

BBBS 2005
Forthcoming: Review Article of Saint Grégoire de Nazianze: Œuvres poétiques. Tome I, 1re partie. Poèmes personnels: II, 1, 1-11. Texte établi par A. Tuilier et G. Bady, traduit et annoté par J. Bernardi. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004, in Antiquité Tardive 12, 2004; 'Aeschylus, Supplices 691/2: A Supplementary Note with Remarks on ¡brÒj', Philologus 149, 2005. [Related to St. Gregory of Nazianzus; cf. BBBS 30 (2004), 14-15].

BBBS 2004
'Aeschylus, Supplices 691/2: prÒnoma d †brÒtatoj† polÚgona telšqoi', Philologus 147 (2003), 343-347. [A word which has been considered so far to be a hapax in Aeschylus exists twice in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Carmina, not with the meaning which it has been given until now. The use of the word by Gregory and its meaning are absent from all dictionaries. The new meaning makes much better sense in Aeschylus and, moreover, invites a reconsideration of a textual problem in the Aeschylean verse in question].

Work in Progress:

1. D.Phil thesis (University of Oxford): 'Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: a Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary' (Supervisor: Mr. Nigel G. Wilson).

2. paper on 'Gregory of Nazianzus and Hesychius’ Lexicon'.

Alicia Simpson, London

BBBS 2002
‘Marriage alliances between Byzantine and Western courts: affinity or political expediency?’ Byzantinos Domos 12 (2001), 39-47.

Tom Sinclair, Cyprus

BBBS 2001
‘The Site of Tigranocerta. I’, REArm 25 (1994-1995), 183-254; ‘The Site of Tigranocerta. II’, REArm 26 (1996-1997), 51-111; ‘The Ottoman Monuments of Southern Cyprus’, in A. Temimi (ed)., Corpus D’Archéologie Ottomane (Zaghouan, 1997); ‘Two Problems Concerning the Lake Van Region: Arakel of Tabriz on the earthquake of 1646, and the evidence for the rise in the level of the lake’, in E. Zachariadou (ed.), Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire (Rethymnon, 1999), 207-222; Articles on ‘Trebisonda’ and ‘Tur Abdin’ in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, vol XII (Rome, 2000) and ‘Armenian Monastic Architecture’ in Encyclopaedia of Monasticism (Chicago, 2000); Reviews of J. M. Thierry, monuments arméniens du Vaspurakan (Paris, 1989), in the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 7, T. K. El-Azhari, The Saljuqs of Syria during the Crusades, 463-549 A. H., 1070-1154 AD., (Berlin, 1997), in Middle East Studies Association [of America] Bulletin 33 (1999), 57, R. Hovannisian (ed.), The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, 2 vols (New York, 1997), in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 63.1 (February, 2000).

Forthcoming:
‘The Armenians and the Kurdish Emirs of Bitlis under the Kara Koyunlu’ in R. Hovannisian (ed.), Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces: Taron/Mush and Baghesh/Bitlis (Costa Mesa, 2000); ‘The Structure and Territorial Extent of the Bitlis Principality’, ‘The Coins of the Kurdish Dynasties of the Lake Van Region’, ‘The Ishak Pasa Sarayi, Dogubayazit’: all three to be published in I. Ch. Vanly (ed.), Kurdistan in the 16^th and 17^th Centuries: A conference to celebrate the quartercentenary of the Sharafnâma (Berlin); ‘The Government of the Lake Van Region under the Kara Koyunlu’, in 13. Symposium of the Comité International des Études Ottomanes et Pré-Ottomanes (Vienna); ‘The Use of the Colophon and Minor Chronicles for Turkish and Armenian History’ in The Journal of Armenian Studies 10 (2000); ‘The Castles of Greater Armenia’ in The Problems of Study and Protection of Armenian Historical and Cultural Monuments Abroad, Proceedings of a conference (Erevan). Also Maps: Three sheets, comprising most of eastern Turkey, of the Atlas of the Greek and Roman World to be published under the auspices of the American Philological Association, ed., R. Talbert: Antiocheia, 1: 500, 000; Armenia, 1: 1,000,000; Pontus, 1: 1,000,000

In progress:
Series of articles on the cities of the Lake Van Region, and the history of the local principalities, in the late Middle Ages and early Ottoman period. Ultimate target is a book on the administration of the Lake Van Region in the Turcoman and early Ottoman periods.

Dion C. Smythe, London

BBBS 2001
Entries on 'Minorities' and 'Homosexuality' in Graham Speake (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London, 2000); Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider, ed., Dion C. Smythe

(Aldershot, 2000). Review of A History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren Treadgold (Stanford, 1997), in The Medieval Review [online]. 99.05.07 [cited 15/9/00]. ISSN:1096-746X. In press: 'Macedonians in Middle Byzantine Historiography', in Roger Scott, Pauline Allen and Michael Jefferys, eds., Byzantine Macedonia (forthcoming 2001); Three articles on 'Censorship in Byzantium', 'Gerontios of Lampe' and 'John Italos' in D. Jones (ed.), Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (London, 2000); 'Sex, Rhetoric and Prosopography: Middle Byzantine family values' in Lynda Garland (ed.), Beyond the Veil: Women in Patriarchal Byzantium AD 800-1200 (Ashgate, 2001); 'Byzantine Masculinities' commissioned by Liz James for her collection Men, Women and Eunuchs II.

BBBS 1999
‘Outsiders by taxis: perceptions of non-conformity in eleventh- and twelfth-century literature’, in Lynda Garland, ed., Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium, Byzantinische Forschungen 24 (Hakkert, 1997), 229-50; ‘Making Byzantine data conform’, in ibid., 297-314; ‘Behind the mask: empress and empire in middle Byzantium, in A. Duggan, ed., Queens and Queenship (Woodbridge, 1997), 141-52; ‘Women as outsiders’, in Liz James, ed., Men, Women and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium (Routledge, 1997), 149-67; ‘Minorities in the cities of the Maeander Valley, c. 610-1100’, in Peter Herz and Jorn Kobes, eds., Ethnische und religiose Minderheiten im Menanderthal (Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998), 141-52.

Forthcoming: ‘Macedonians in middle Byzantine historiography’, in Roger Scott, Pauline Allen and Michael Jeffreys, eds., Byzantine Macedonia (forthcoming, 1999); ‘In denial: same-sex desire in Byzantium’, in Liz James, ed., Desire and Denial (Variorum, forthcoming 1999).

In Progress: ‘Tolerance and repression: other families and the exercise of power’, L. Mavrommatis and N. Oikonomides, eds., Tolerance and Repression in the Middle Ages; ‘Sex, rhetoric and prosopography: middle byzantine family values’ in L. Garland, ed., Acculturisation and Survival in a Patriarchal Society: Byzantine Women AD 800-1200.

Dr. Graham Speake, Oxford

BBBS 2009
Ed. with René Gothóni, The Monastic Magnet: Roads to and from Mount Athos (Oxford: Peter Lang 2008).

BBBS 2006
Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002) appeared in paperback (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004) and in a Greek edition (Athens: Indiktos, 2005); (Ed. with Dimitri Conomos) Mount Athos the Sacred Bridge: The Spirituality of the Holy Mountain (Oxford etc: Peter Lang, 2005); 'A Friend of Mount Athos', in John Behr, Andrew Louth, and Dimitri Conomos (edd), Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West. Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2003) 29-40.

BBBS 2004
'A Friend of Mount Athos', in John Behr, Andrew Louth, and Dimtri Conomos (eds), Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West. Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2003), pp.29-40.

BBBS 2003
Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002).

Dr. Dionysios Stathakopoulos, London

BBBS 2009
‘The Plague of Justinian’ and ‘Plagues in the Roman Empire’, in J. Byrne, ed., Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic (Greenwood Press 2008); ‘Philoptochos basileus: Kaiserliche Armenfürsorge zwischen Rhetorik und Realität in Byzanz’, in L. Raphael and H. Uerlings, eds., Zwischen Ausschluss und Solidarität: Modi der Inklusion/Exklusion von Fremden und Armen: Praktiken und Repräsentationen im Wandel von Herrschaft und Gesellschaft (Inklusion/Exklusion Studien zu Fremdheit und Armut von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 5, Frankfurt a. M. 2008) 165-179; ‘Population, Demography and Disease’, in E. Jeffreys with J. Haldon and R. Cormack, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford 2008) 309-316.
Forthcoming: ‘The Dialectics of Expansion and Retraction: Recent Scholarship on the Palaiologan Aristocracy’, BMGS 33 (2009); ‘“Even the mother did not spare the babe at her breast.” Cannibalism, Taboos and Popular Myths’ (Festschrift, Ashgate); Zoonoses: Animals as Vectors and Victims (Proceedings Animals and Environment in Byzantium, Athens)
Work in Progress: Dealing with an uebermeister: worshiping/censoring Galen in Byzantium (Proceedings Authority in Byzantium, Ashgate); ‘Byzantine Medicine’ and ‘Welfare Institutions in Late Antiquity’ in Roger Bagnall et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell); Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan period; Disinvestment: Charity and Remembrance in the Late Byzantine Period.

BBBS 2008
Ed., with M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger and A. Muthesius, Material Culture and Well–Being in Byzantium (400–1453) (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch–Historische Klasse, Denkscriften 356 = Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 11, Vienna 2007); Ed., The Kindness of Strangers. Charity in the Pre–Modern Mediterranean (Centre for Hellenic Studies Occasional Publications 2, London 2007); ‘Between the field and the plate: how agricultural products were processed into food’, in L. Brubaker & K. Linardou, eds., Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19). Food and Wine in Byzantium (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 13, Aldershot 2007) 27–38; ‘To Have and To Have Not: Supply and Shortage in the Centres of the Late Antique World’, in Material Culture and Well–Being in Byzantium (400–1453) [as above] 211–217; ‘Making Use of the Plague: Readings in Sixth Century History’, in K. Belke, E. Kislinger, A. Külzer and M.A. Stassinopoulou, eds., Byzantina Mediterranea. Festschrift für Johannes Koder zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna – Cologne – Weimar 2007) 633–639; ‘Ιατρική και κοινωνία πριν από την Άλωση’, in E. Motos Guirao & M. Morfakidis Filactós, eds., Constantinopla. 550 años de su caida, (Granada 2006) vol. 1, 285–291.
Forthcoming: ‘The Plague of Justinian’ and ‘Plagues in the Roman Empire’, in J. Byrne, ed., Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic (Greenwood Press, 2008); ‘Philoptochos basileus: Kaiserliche Armenfürsorge zwischen Rhetorik und Realität in Byzanz’, in L. Raphael, A. Gestrich and H. Uerlings, eds., Modi der Inklusion/Exklusion von Fremden und Armen: Praktiken und Repräsentationen im Wandel von Herrschaft und Gesellschaft (Inklusion/Exklusion Studien zu Fremdheit und Armut von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 5, Frankfurt a. M. 2008); ‘Population, Demography and Disease’, in E. Jeffreys, R. Cormack and J. Haldon, eds., Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (to be published by Oxford University Press).
Work in Progress: Critical Study: The Late Byzantine Aristocracy; “Even the mother did not spare the babe at her breast.” Cannibalism, Taboos and Popular Myths; Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan period; Disinvestment: Charity and Remembrance in the Late Byzantine Period.

BBBS 2007
‘Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire 541–749’, in L.K. Little, ed., Plague and the End of Antiquity; The Pandemic of 541 – 750 (Cambridge 2007) 99-118; ‘Discovering a military Order of the Crusades: the Hospital of St. Sampson of Constantinople,’ Viator 37 (2006) 255-273; ‘La peste de Justinien (541-750): questions médicales et la réponse sociale’, in A.-M.. Flambard Héricher, Y. Marec, eds., Médedine et Société de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Rouen 2005) 31-48.
Forthcoming: Critical Study: The Late Byzantine Aristocracy, BMGS; ‘The Plague of Justinian’ and ‘Plagues in the Roman Empire’ in J. Byrne, ed., Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic (Greenwood Press 2008); ‘To Have and To Have Not. Supply and Shortage in the Late Antique World’, in M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger, A. Muthesius, D. Stathakopoulos, eds., Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium, Papers given at a Conference in Cambridge, 2001 (Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, in press); ‘Population, Demography and Disease’, in E. Jeffreys, R. Cormack and J. Haldon, eds., Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford University Press); ‘Medicine and Society before the Fall’ (in Greek) (Ιατρική και κοινωνία πριν την Άλωση), in Acts of the Conference ‘Constantinopla, 550 anos desde su caida’, Granada, Dezember, 4-6, 2003.
Work in Progress: The Kindness of Strangers: Charity in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, Papers of the Annual Byzantine Colloquium, London, 2 May 2006; Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan period; ‘Put a Price on Human Flesh’ Cannibalism and Popular Myths in Late Antiquity.

BBBS 2006
(Translation in Greek of) Johannes Koder, Der Lebensraum der Byzantiner. Historisch-geographischer Abriß ihres mittelalterlichen Staates im östlichen Mittelmeerraum (Byzantinische Geschichtsschreiber 1N), Vienna 2001, Thessaloniki (Banias editions 2005); 'Stiftungen von Spitälern in spätbyzantinischer Zeit (1261-1453)', in M. Borgolte (ed.), Stiftungen in den großen Kulturen des alten Europa (Stiftungsgeschichten 4, Berlin 2005) 149-160.
Forthcoming: 'To Have and To Have Not. Supply and Shortage in the Late Antique World', in M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger, A. Muthesius, D. Stathakopoulos, (eds.), Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium, Papers given at a Conference in Cambridge, 2001 (Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, in press); 'La peste de Justinien (541-750): questions médicales et la réponse sociale', in Cahiers du GRHIS, Université de Rouen (in press); 'Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire 541–749', in The Justinianic Plague 541 – 767 AD: Papers at the Conference held at the American Academy in Rome, December 13 – 15, 2001 (to be published by Cambridge University Press); 'Population, Demography and Disease', in E. Jeffreys, R. Cormack and J. Haldon, (eds), Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (to be published by Oxford University Press); 'Medicine and Society before the Fall' (in Greek) (Ιατρική και κοινωνία πριν την Άλωση), in Acts of the Conference 'Constantinopla, 550 años desde su caida', Granada, Dezember, 4-6, 2003.
Work in Progress: The Hospital of St Sampson of Constantinople; Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan period; 'Put a Price on Human Flesh' Cannibalism and Popular Myths in Late Antiquity.

BBBS 2001
‘The Justinianic Plague Revisited’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 24 (2000), 256-276.
Forthcoming:
‘Loimos kai Limos: A survey and typology of epidemics and famines in the Late Roman and early Byzantine world (284-750)’, to be published in the forthcoming volume of the same name in the series, ‘Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs’; ‘Travelling with the Plague’: paper read at the 34^th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (Birmingham, 2000) to be published in the forthcoming volume of the Symposium.
In progress:
‘The New Elites of the Byzantine Empire during the “Dark Ages” (601-867): Identity and social behaviour’; ‘”Put a Price on Human Flesh”’: Cases of Cannibalism in Late Antiquity’; ‘Rain Miracles: An essay in typology’; ‘The Occurrence of Locusts in Late Antiquity: Facts and topoi’; ‘Illness as Metaphor: The plague in sixth-century historians’.

Dr Paul Stephenson, Oxford

BBBS 2003
Byzantium's Balkan Frontier. A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, (reprint with corrections, Cambridge Univ. Press); ed. with M. Salamon & G. Prinzing, 'Byzantium and East Central Europe', Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia 3 (2002); 'The Balkan frontier in the year 1000', in P. Magdalino, ed., Byzantium in the Year 1000, (Leiden: Brill).

Forthcoming: Ta valkanika synora tou Vyzantiou. Mia politiki meleti ton voreion Balkanion, 900-1204, (Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 2003); The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003); 'Basil II Boulgaroktonos. the origins of a legend', in E. Chrysos & L. Mavromattis (+), eds, Vyzantio kai Voulgaroi, 1018-1185, (Athens: EIE, 2003); 'Anna Comnena's Alexiad as a source for the Second Crusade', Journal of Medieval History 29 (2003).

Work in Progress:
'Byzantium in the Balkans, 1018-1204', for J. Shepard, ed., Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire; A study of Byzantium in the later tenth century.

BBBS 2000
‘Byzantine policy towards Paristrion in the mid-eleventh century: another interpretation’, BMGS 23 (1999), 43-66; ‘Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: a political overview, 900-1204’, Byzantium and the North: Acta Byzantina Fennica 10 (1998-9); ‘Political authority in Dalmatia during the reign of Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180)’, in G. Prinzing and M. Salamon, eds., Byzanz und Ostmitteleuropa: Beiträge zu einer table ronde des XIX International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen 1996 (Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik 3 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999), 127-50; ‘The Byzantine frontier at the lower Danube in the late tenth and eleventh centuries’, in D. Power and N. Standen, eds., Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands c. 700-1700 (London: Macmillan, 1999), 80-104.
Forthcoming: Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 (Cambridge University Press, 2000); ‘Byzantine conceptions of otherness after the annexation of Bulgaria in 1018’, in D. Smythe, ed., Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2000), 245-57; ‘The Byzantine Frontier in Macedonia’, Dialogos 7 (2000); ‘The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer’, BMGS 24 (2000); ‘Alexios I Komnenos’, ‘John II Komnenos’, ‘Manuel I Komnenos’, in G. Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
In progress: The Byzantine Balkans: Politics and Early Medieval Historiography in Southeastern Europe; Early Medieval Dalmatia: a province between empires, 600-1200; Review Article: ‘The Central European University and Medieval Hungary in English’, commissioned by Early Medieval Europe.

BBBS 1999
‘The Byzantine frontier at the lower Danube in the late tenth and eleventh centuries’, chapter in D. Power and N. Standen, eds., Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands c. 700-1700 (London: Macmillan, 1998), 80-104.

Forthcoming: Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999); ‘Byzantine policy towards Paristrion in the mid-eleventh century: another interpretation’, BMGS 23 (1999); ‘Political authority in Dalmatia during the reign of Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180)’, in G. Prinzing and M. Salamon, eds., Byzanz und Ostmitteleuropa (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999); ‘Byzantine conceptions of otherness after the annexation of Bulgaria in 1018’, in D. Smythe, ed., Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider (Aldershot: Variorum 2000); ‘The Byzantine frontier in Macedonia’, in D. Abulafia and N. Berend, eds., Frontier Societies Revisited: Medieval Concepts and Policies (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2000).

In progress: The Byzantine Balkans: Alternative Histories of the Medieval Balkan Lands and Peoples.