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]
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul: A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective
1st Edition
By Asli Niyazioglu
December 12, 2019
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book ...
Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhoads Murphey
December 12, 2019
The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern ...
Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Clarence Gallagher
May 23, 2019
This book presents a comparative study of church order in the East and West of the Christian world. It deals with the development of canon law from the 6th century, the time of Dionysius Exiguus and John Scholastikos, up to the period of Balsamon and Gratian. While the focus is upon Rome and ...
The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images
1st Edition
Edited
By Leslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham
November 29, 2016
This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, ...
La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le Diacre: Introduction, édition et Traduction
1st Edition
By Marie-France Auzépy
November 10, 2016
The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the ’Dark Ages’ and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm. This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction. Stephen was a hermit...
Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop
1st Edition
By Margaret Mullett
November 10, 2016
Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and ...
Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire: The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age
1st Edition
By Zeynep Yürekli
October 10, 2016
Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions, archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age. It thus provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the formative process of the Bektashi order, which ...
The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698): Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary
1st Edition
By Stephanos Efthymiadis
September 06, 2016
The patriarch Tarasios holds a key position in the ending of the first period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium, with the seventh Oecumenical Council at Nicaea in 787. His Life forms an equally key source for the history and culture of the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries. This book ...
Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond
1st Edition
By Antony Eastmond
October 20, 2004
The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first ...
Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics
1st Edition
By Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos
February 10, 2004
Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Based on a catalogue of all such events in the East Roman/Byzantine empire between 284 and 750, it gives ...
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources: An Annotated Survey
1st Edition
By Leslie Brubaker, John Haldon
September 28, 2001
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a ...
L’Hagiographie et l’Iconoclasme Byzantin: Le cas de la Vie d’Étienne le Jeune
1st Edition
By Marie-France Auzépy
December 28, 1999
The period of Byzantine Iconoclasm remains in many ways a 'Dark Age'. With this volume Marie-France Auzépy continues her fundamental re-examination of one of the key sources for the time, the Life of Stephen the Younger. Previously in this series she has published a new edition, translation and ...