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]
The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Olsen Lam, Rossitza Schroeder
December 13, 2021
For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art...
Approaches to the Byzantine Family
1st Edition
Edited
By Leslie Brubaker, Shaun Tougher
June 30, 2021
The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ’the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy’, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by ...
Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context
1st Edition
By Thomas Sinclair
June 30, 2021
At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading...
Writing About Byzantium: The History of Niketas Choniates
1st Edition
By Theresa Urbainczyk
August 14, 2020
Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and ...
Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies
1st Edition
By Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz, Dimiter Angelov
June 30, 2020
The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual ...
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330
1st Edition
By Patricia Blessing
June 30, 2020
This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the...
Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV
1st Edition
Edited
By Fotini Kondyli, Vera Andriopoulou, Eirini Panou, Mary B. Cunningham
June 30, 2020
The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a Î’yzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century. Syropoulos participated in the Council for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches held in Ferrara and Florence, Italy, in 1438-1439. As a high-ranking official and an eye-witness of...
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium
1st Edition
By Eirini Panou
June 30, 2020
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually ...
The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842: Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm
1st Edition
By Juan Signes Codoñer
June 30, 2020
Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims. ...
A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Harris, Georgios Chatzelis
December 17, 2019
The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE, a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its ...
Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130
1st Edition
By Alexander Daniel Beihammer
December 12, 2019
The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. ...
Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600�800): An Island in Transition
1st Edition
By Luca Zavagno
December 12, 2019
Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique "golden age" (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine "Reconquista" (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political ...