Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
About the Book Series
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies is devoted to the history, culture and archaeology of the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds of the East Mediterranean region from the fifth to the twentieth century. It provides a forum for the publication of research completed by scholars from the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and those with similar research interests from around the world.
For further information about the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Myrto Veikou
December 29, 2025
Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into ...
Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople
1st Edition
By Nicholas Melvani
August 29, 2025
This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394–1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city’s Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic Empire. ...
Architectural Heritage of the Ottoman Balkans: Public Buildings and Urban Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Velika Ivkovska, Stela Tasheva, Haris Dervišević
April 15, 2025
The Ottoman Empire’s rule in the Balkans began in the late 14th century and continued until the late 19th century, and its impact on the region’s history, culture, and society was significant. The systematic study of Ottoman influence in the Balkans, however, has only gained pace from the early ...
Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium: Dialogues Between Rich and Poor
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna C. Kelley, Flavia Vanni
January 20, 2025
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of ...
Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America
1st Edition
Edited
By William R. Caraher, Kostis Kourelis, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
September 19, 2024
This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s. The eleven authors represent a generational voice that employed theory to redirect ...
Orthodox Mercantilism: Political Economy in the Byzantine Commonwealth
1st Edition
By Alex Feldman
April 02, 2024
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural by-product of perpetually limited growth rates and rulers’ relentless pursuits of bullion. It contributes to discussions of ...
After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett
1st Edition
Edited
By Liz James, Oliver Nicholson, Roger Scott
May 31, 2023
After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and ...
Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas J. MacMaster, Nicholas S.M. Matheou
May 31, 2023
Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula’s relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages. The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term "...
The Byzantine Neighbourhood: Urban Space and Political Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Fotini Kondyli, Benjamin Anderson
May 31, 2023
The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic ...
Well-Preserved Boundaries: Faith and Co-Existence in the Late Ottoman Empire
1st Edition
By Gülen Göktürk
May 06, 2022
Cappadocia was a place of co-habitation of Christians and Muslims, until the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (1923) terminated the Christian presence in the region. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, political science and anthropology, this study investigates the relationship...
An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala
1st Edition
By Velika Ivkovska
April 29, 2022
An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from ...
Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680 - 880
1st Edition
By Francesca Dell'Acqua
December 13, 2021
Awarded the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei’s Mario Di Nola Prize 2023 Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images – conventionally addressed as ‘Byzantine iconoclasm’ – engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent....