Welcome

The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) was established in 1983, with the object of furthering study and knowledge of the history and culture, language and literature of the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours.

Its scope is wide, covering history, archaeology, art history, philology, theology and literary studies, and embraces all the language areas formerly within the Byzantine Empire – Syriac, Armenian, Arabic and Slavic, as well as Greek and Latin.

The Society’s world-wide membership is drawn from the interested public as well as practising academics: no professional qualifications are required. The executive of the SPBS also serves as the UK National Committee of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB).

Latest News

Call for communications: 56th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham

Byzantium from below: rural and non-elite life in the Byzantine world 12th-14th April 2025 Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham Call for communications   Abstracts are invited for communications at the 56th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies to be held at the University of Birmingham, UK. Communications are 10-mins long. Communications …

CONTEXTUALIZING PHARMACOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES FROM ASIA IN BYZANTINE MEDICAL WORKS

When: Thursday, December 5, 2024 | 18:00 Where: Deree Faculty Lounge Speaker: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Associate Professor of History of Science, University of Athens Organized by: Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts The seminar can also be attended via Zoom. The link will be provided on the day of the event and sent via email to those …

The Funerary Archaeology of Byzantine Constantinople. New Approaches, New Discoveries

Date: 16th–17th January 2025 Zoom registration: https://shorturl.at/hRBhD Contact: fabian.stroth@archaeologie.uni-freiburg.de   Mortuary practices are cultural phenomena common to humanity, and therefore burials and the “archaeology of death” have long been recognized as essential sources for all archaeologies. This is also true of Byzantine archaeology, and in recent decades graves and tombs, cemeteries and burial churches have …