Mr. Spyros Panagopoulos, Patras
BBBS 2010
‘The early Byzantine cities. The decline of Greek-Roman civilization’, ΙστορικάΘέματα68 (December 2007) 26-39 (in Greek); ‘Byzantine Diplomacy: The “hidden weapon” of Byzantine empire’, ΙστορικάΘέματα79 (December 2008) 92-107 (in Greek); with Christos Terezis, ‘The theological controversy between Eunomius and Basil the Great: A philosophical approach’, ΓρηγόριοςοΠαλαμάς 824 (September-October 2008) 609-642 (in Greek; this study is going to be published in English under a revised form); ‘The higher education in Byzantium, Proceedings of 4th International Scientific Conference History of Education: The History of University Education: Website
(in Greek with an English summary); ‘Macedonian Renaissance: A period of prosperity and spiritual civilization (9th-12th century)’, Φιλογένεια Χ(2), 25-28 (in Greek); ‘Kassia: A female hymnographer of the 9th century’, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Byzantine Musical Culture (Website as a pdf file).
Reviews
Joel Thomas Walker, The Legend of Mar Quardahg: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, in Le Museon 122 (1-2) 236-237.
Forthcoming
With Christos Terezis, ‘Love and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Denys the Areopagite’, in Θεολογία; ‘The revolts in Byzantium’, ΙστορικάΘέματα(Spring 2010); ‘Basilius, bishop of Philippoi and his sermon on the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin’, Βυζαντινά (2010; critical edition); ‘Η συναξαριακή επιγραμματική ποίηση του Αγίου Νικοδήμου Αγιορείτη’, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Byzantine Musical Culture.
In Progress
‘The emperor Heraclius and 7th century’; with Georgios Panagopoulos, ‘Zwei unedierte Reden von Demetrius Chrysoloras’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2011. [It is about an annotated critical editio princeps of two sermons on the Holy Burial of Christ and the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin respectively, by Demetrius Chrysoloras, Byzantine literati of the 15th c. The work will contain an introduction with information on both Chrysoloras’ personality and his oeuvre, text, critical edition and commentary]; an article about the old age, death and the burial practices in Byzantium; an article with Professor Christos Terezis about “theurgy” in Denys the Areopagite; a study with Professor Christos Terezis about the Christian philosopher Aretha of Caesarea and his commentary on Aristotelian Categoriae; a study with Professor Christos Terezis and Professor Fr. George Dragas about Gregory Palamas and his First Letter to Barlaam; an article about the model of Bishop in Late Antiquity.

Dr Tassos Papacostas, London
BBBS 2010
Review of M. Campagnolo and M. Martiniani-Reber, eds., From Aphrodite to Melusine. Reflections on the archaeology and history of Cyprus (Geneva 2007), in BMGS 33 (2009) 219-20.
Forthcoming
‘The medieval progeny of the Holy Apostles: trails of architectural imitation across the Mediterranean’, in P. Stephenson, ed., The Byzantine World (Routledge 2010); ‘Echoes of the Renaissance in the eastern confines of the stato da mar: Architectural evidence from Venetian Cyprus’, Acta Byzantina Fennica n.s.3 (2010); ‘Building activity and material culture in Venetian Cyprus: an evaluation of the evidence’, in Acts of the Fourth Cyprological Congress, Nicosia 2008; ‘Byzantine rite in a Gothic setting: aspects of cultural appropriation in late medieval Cyprus’, in P. Grotowski and S. Skrzyniarz, eds., Towards rewriting? New approaches to Byzantine art and achaeology (Brill).

Dr Georgi R. Parpulov, Oxford
BBBS 2010
‘Psalters and Personal Piety in Byzantium’, in R. S. Nelson and P. Magdalino, eds., The Old Testament in Byzantium (Washington DC 2009) 77-105; ‘Четири гръко-български миниатюри от XIV век’, Проблеми на изкуствотo 42 (2009) no. 2.31-34, 63; ‘Три добавки към старите описания на Зографския манастир’, ibid., 60, 64.
Forthcoming
‘Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue’, Palaeoslavica 18 (2010); ‘Two Icons from Sinai: Elijah in the Desert, Moses Receiving the Law’, in L. James and A. Eastmond, eds., ‘Wonderful things’. Byzantium through its art (42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College London and Courtauld Institute, March 2009, Ashgate: Farnham 2010); ‘Art and Architecture, Bulgarian’, ‘Manuals, Artistic’, and ‘Tempera Painting’, in R.E. Bjork, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages,(Oxford 2010); Review: M. Brisbane and J. Hather, eds., Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod (Oxford 2007), in Speculum 85 (2010).

Dr Mihailo Popović, Vienna
BBBS 2010
‘Did Dragōtas conquer Melnik in 1255?’, Glasnik Institut za Nacionalna Istorija 51/1 (Skopje 2007) 15-24; ‘Continuity and change of Byzantine and Old Slavonic toponyms in the valley of the river Strumica (FYROM)’, in P. Jordan, H. Bergmann, C. Cheetham, I. Hausner, eds., Geographical Names as a Part of the Cultural Heritage (Wiener Schriften zur Geographie und Kartographie 18, Wien 2009) 173-175; ‘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 15 (2008) 77-81.   
 Review
A. Giannouli, Die beiden byzantinischen Kommentare zum Großen Kanon des Andreas von Kreta. Eine quellenkritische und literarhistorische Studie (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 26: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2007, pp. 427), in Ostkirchliche Studien 57/2 (2008) 371-373.
Forthcoming
‘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; ‘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; ‘The Order of the Dragon founded by king Sigismund of Hungary and the Serbian despot Stefan Lazarević’, to be published in the volume Emperor Sigismund and the Orthodox World; ‘Siedlungsstrukturen im Wandel: Das Tal der Strumica bzw. Strumešnica in spätbyzantinischer und osmanischer Zeit (1259-1600)’ (‘The structures of settlements in change: the valley of the Strumica / Strumešnica in Late Byzantine and Ottoman times (1259-1600)’), Südostforschungen; ‘Altstraßenforschung am Beispiel des Tales der Strumica bzw. Strumešnica in spätbyzantinischer Zeit (1259-1375/76)’ (‘Research on lines of communication using the example of the valley of the Strumica / Strumešnica in the Late Byzantine period (1259-1375/76)’), to be published in the volume Zbornik Niš i Vizantija VIII; Monograph: Mara Branković - eine Frau zwischen dem christlichen und dem islamischen Kuturkreis im 15. Jahrhundert (‘Mara Branković – a woman in-between the Christian and the Islamic cultural field in the 15th century’) (Peleus, Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns, volume 45). For further information: Website 
Work in progress
On 1 March 2009 began a project entitled ‘Economy and regional trade routes in northern Macedonia (12th-16th century)’ 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 (P 21137-G19). See: Website

Dr Hilary Richardson, Dublin
BBBS 2010
Entries on Françoise Henry, vol.4, 622-624, and R.A.S.Macalister, vol.5, 686-687, in J. Maguire and J.Quinn, eds., The Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009).

Dr Eileen Rubery, Cambridge
BBBS 2010
‘Christ and the Angelic Tetramorphs: The Meaning of the eighth-century Apsidal Conch at Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome’, in Savvas Neocleous, ed., Sailing to Byzantium (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2009) 183-220.
Forthcoming
‘The Vienna ‘Empress’ Ivory and its companion in Florence: Crowned in different Glories?’, in L. James and A. Eastmond, eds., ‘Wonderful things’. Byzantium through its art (42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College London and Courtauld Institute, March 2009, Ashgate: Farnham 2010); ‘Papal Opposition to Imperial Heresies: text as image in the church of Sta Maria Antiqua in the time of Pope Martin I (649-54/5)’, in Proceedings of the Second National Patristics Conference, Cambridge, September 2009 (Studia Patristica 2010).

Dr Nadine Schibille, Oxford
BBBS 2010
‘The Profession of the Architect in Late Antique Byzantium’, Byzantion 79 (2009); ‘Astronomical and Optical Principles in the Architecture of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople’, Science in Context 22 (2009) 27-46.
Forthcoming
(under review) ‘A History of Neuroarthistory’, Art History. Book Review of John Onians’ Neuroarthistory: from Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki; with Th. Rehren, F. Marii, L. Stanford and C. Swan (in press), ‘Glass supply and circulation in early Byzantine southern Jordan’, in Daniel Keller and Jörg Drauschke, eds., Glas in Byzanz – Produktion, Verwendung, Analysen. RGZM Symposium, Mainz 2008.

Dr Sonia Schönaurer, Bonn
BBBS 2010
‘Belthandros und Chrysantza’, ‘Eustathios von Thessalonike (Syngraphe tes haloseos Thessalonikes)’, ‘Ioannes Klimakos (Klimax)’, ‘Kallimachos und Chrysorrhoe’, ‘Libistros und Rhodamne’, ‘Mazaris (Epidemia Mazari en Hadu)’, ‘Theodoros Meliteniotes (Eis ten Sophrosynen)’, ‘Phlorios und Platzia-Phlore’, ‘Timarion’, in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, hrsg. von H.-L. Arnold (Stuttgart 2009).
Forthcoming
‘Glas und Gläser in byzantinischen Texten’, in J. Drauschke and D. Keller, eds., Glas in Byzanz. Produktion, Verwendung, Analysen. Workshop der Byzantinischen Archäologie Mainz (BAM), 17th-18th January 2008, RGZM-Tagungen (Mainz 2010); ‘Zu Spielarten der mimesis in der profanen Dichtung der Kassia’, in A. Rhoby and 
E. Schiffer, eds., Imitatio – aemulatio – variatio. Akten des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposions zur byzantinischen Sprache und Literatur, Wien, 22th – 25th October 2008 (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, Vienna 2010);  ‘Martin Crusius’, ‘Konstantinos Laskaris’, ‘Johannes Leunclavius’, ‘Hieronymus Wolf’, in P. Kuhlmann and H. Schneider, eds., Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften, Biographisches Lexikon, Der Neue Pauly Supplement 6 (Stuttgart 201- ).
In Progress
Ioannes Kantakuzenos, Historia (critical edition for the CFHB, series Berolinensis); Fälschung einer Chronik – Chronik einer Fälschung. Entstehung und Tradierung des sogenannten Chronicon maius des Pseudo-Sphrantzes; Pseudo-Sphrantzes, Chronicon (critical edition).

Dr Christos Simelidis, Oxford
BBBS 2010
Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary (Hypomnemata 177, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2009).
Forthcoming 
Review of G. Cavallo, Leggere a Bisanzio (Sylvestre Bonnard: Milan 2007), in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009); Review of Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni opera. Versio Graeca, I. Orationes X et XII. Editae a Justin Mossay cum prooemio a Bernard Coulie (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 64/Corpus Nazianzenum 22; Brepols: Turnhout-Leuven 2006), in Byzantina; with Emilio Bonfiglio, Review of Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni opera. Versio Armeniaca, IV. Oratio VI. Edita a Clotaire Sanspeur cum indice a Nancy Castillo (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 61/Corpus Nazianzenum 21; Brepols: Turnhout-Leuven 2007), in Byzantina.

Dr Jonathan Shepard, Oxford
BBBS 2010
‘Mists and portals: Byzantium and the Black Sea north coast’, in
M. Mundell Mango, ed., Byzantine trade 4th-12th centuries (Ashgate: Farnham 2009) 421-41; ‘The coming of Christianity to Rus: authorized and unauthorized versions’, in W.D. Phillips, jr., C. B. Kendall, O. Nicholson and M. Ragnow, eds., Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas (Minneapolis 2009) 185-222.
Forthcoming
‘From the Bosporus to the British Isles: the Way from the Greeks to the Varangians’, Drevneishie Gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy (2008g.) (Moscow 2009); Emergent elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe (Collected Studies, Ashgate: Farnham).

Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, London
BBBS 2010
‘The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy’, BMGS 33 (2009) 92-101; ‘Population, Demography and Disease’, in E. Jeffreys, R. Cormack and J. Haldon, eds, Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (OUP: Oxford 2008) 309-316.
Forthcoming
‘I seek not my own: Is there a female mode of charity?’, Proceedings of the conference Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond, Vienna, September 2008, (to be published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences); ‘Invisible protagonists: a zoocentric view of the Justinianic Plague’, Proceedings of the Symposium Animals and Environment in Byzantium (7th-12th c.), Athens, June 2008 (to be published by the National Hellenic Research Foundation); ‘On whose authority? Regulating medical practice in the twelfth and early thirteenth century’, Proceedings, Authority in Byzantium (Ashgate); ‘Byzantine Medicine’, ‘Earthquakes’, ‘Famine and Food Shortages in Byzantium’, and ‘Welfare Institutions in Late Antiquity’, in Roger Bagnall et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell); ‘I beg of you: inciting mercy through the body in Byzantium’ (to be published in the journal Médiévales); ‘Disease and where to treat it: a Byzantine vade mecum’, in B. Zipser, ed., Byzantine Medical Manuals in Context, Proceedings of the Conference held at London on the 19th of September 2009 (Brill).
In Progress
Several chapters on the social history of the Palaiologan period in T. Loughism ed., Βυζάντιο, ΙστορίακαιΠολιτισμός; Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan period; Disinvestment: Wealth, Charity and Remembrance in the Late Byzantine Period.

Professor Hjalmar Torp, Bergen
BBBS 2010
Forthcoming
‘Some Reflections on the early Byzantine Martyr Inscriptions in the Rotunda at Thessaloniki’, Acta ad archaeologiam et atrium historiam pertinentia XXIV; ‘Mario Brozzi e il dilemma carolingio-longobardo del tempietto di Cividale’, Forum Iulii 2009.
Work in progress
La rotonde palatiale à Thessalonique.

Dr Shaun Tougher, Cardiff
BBBS 2010
Forthcoming
‘Cherchez l’homme! Byzantine men: a eunuch perspective’, in P. Stephenson, ed., The Byzantine World; ‘Having fun in Byzantium’, in Liz James, ed., A Companion to Byzantium; ‘Julian’s first panegyric on Constantius II’, in N. Baker-Brian and S. Tougher, eds.,  Emperor and author: the writings of Julian the Apostate.
Work in Progress
‘Imperial blood: family relationships in the dynasty of Constantine the Great’; ‘Eunuch material culture’; ‘Military eunuchs: the case of Narses’; ‘Robert Graves’ Count Belisarius’; Ed., Approaching the Byzantine Family.

Rev Dr H.J.M. Turner, Frinton-on-Sea
BBBS 2010
The Epistles of St. Symeon the New Theologian, (OUP: Oxford 2009).

Dr Maria Vassilaki, Thessaly
BBBS 2010
‘Commissioning art in fifteenth-century Venetian Crete: the case of Sinai’, in Ch. Maltezou, A. Tzavara and D. Vlassi, eds., I Greci durante la venetocrazia: uomini, spazio, idée (XII – XVIII sec.) (Venice 2009) 741-748.
Forthcoming
‘Female piety, devotion and patronage: the case of Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina of Ioannina and Helena Uglješa of Serres’, in J.-M. Spieser et E. Yota, eds., Donations et Donateurs dans le monde byzantin, Actes du colloque international de l’Université de Fribourg (Fribourg 13-15 mars 2008) (Réalités Byzantines 14, De Bouwer 2009); ‘Byzantine icon-painting around 1400: Constantinople or Crete?’ inL. Jones, ed., The Afterlife of Forms. Proceedings of a conference dedicated to Annemarie Weyl Carr (Ashgate: Farnham 2010); ‘Learning Lessons: form the ‘Mother of God’ to ‘Byzantium’, in L. James and A. Eastmond, eds., ‘Wonderful things’. Byzantium through its art (42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College London and Courtauld Institute, March 2009, Ashgate: Farnham 2010); Ed., Hand of Angelos: an icon-painter in Venetian Crete (Exhibition catatlogue, Lund Humphries, London 2010).

Dr Mary Whitby, Oxford
BBBS 2010
‘Sugaring the pill: Gregory of Nazianzus’ advice to Olympias (Carm. 2.2.6)’, in Katerina Carvounis and Richard Hunter, eds., Signs of Life? Studies in later Greek  poetry, Ramus 37 (2008) 79–98; Richard Price and Mary Whitby, eds., Chalcedon in Context. Church Councils 400-700 (Translated Texts Contexts, vol. 1: Liverpool 2009); ‘Rhetorical questions’ in Liz James, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Byzantium (2010) 239-50.

Mr Nigel Wilson, Oxford
BBBS 2010
Appendix A in R.M. Thompson, A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Merton College Oxford (Cambridge 2009) 267-8; Review of A.-M. Doyen-Higuet, L’Epitome de la Collection d’ hippiatrie grecque, in Gnomon 81 (2009) 268-9; Review of P. Canart, Etudes de paleographie grecque et de codicologie (Studi e Testi 450-1), in Classical Review 59 (2009) 641-2.
In Progress
I am actively involved in preparations being made for the official publication of the Archimedes palimpsest, which contains several other texts, the interest of which is not limited to classical antiquity.

Dr David Woods, Cork
BBBS 2010
‘The Origin of the Cult of St. George at Diospolis’, in D.V. Twomey and M. Humphries, eds., The Great Persecution: Proceedings of the Fifth Patristic Conference, Maynooth 2003 (Dublin 2009) 141-158; ‘Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time’, in P. Rousseau, ed., A Companion to Late Antiquity (Chichester 2009) 357-371.
Forthcoming
‘The Cross in the Public Square: The Column-Mounted Cross c.AD450-750’, in D.V. Twomey and D. Krausmüller, eds., Salvation in the Fathers of the Church: Proceedings of the Sixth Maynooth Patristic Maynooth 2005 (Dublin 2010); ‘On the Circumstances of Adomnán's Composition of the De Locis Sanctis’, in J. Wooding, ed., Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker (Dublin 2010); ‘Gildas and the Mystery Cloud of 536-37’, Journal of Theological Studies 61 (2010); ‘Ammianus versus Libanius on Barbatio’s Alleged Bridge across the Rhine’, Mnemosyne 63 (2010); ‘The Deathbed Conversion of Galerius Maximianus to Religious Tolerance: Fact or Fraud ?’, Studia Patristica (2010).
In Progress
I am also completing a monograph provisionally entitled The Seventh Century Revisited: A Lost Christian Source on Early Islam dealing chiefly with the reliability of the so-called ‘Syriac Common Source’ as a source for Arab-Byzantine relations during the seventh century.

Dr Bogdan Yankovvy, Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
BBBS 2010
Творчість Григорія Нісського в літературному контексті каппадокійської групи // Літературознавчі Обрії. Праці молодих учених. Випуск 8. — Київ : Інституту Літератури ім. Т. Г. Шевченка НАН України, 2009. — 255 С. — С. 113—118.
(Gregory of Nyssa’s works in the literary context of the Cappadocian Group)
In Progress
Василій Великий і каппадокійська група як творці парадигми середньовічної рецепції літератури античності
(Basil the Great and the Cappadocian group as creators of the paradigm of the mediaeval reception of classical literature). Website