Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
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Artistic Practice, Materiality, and Ideology in the Medieval East Roman Empire and Neighboring Eastern Polities
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariana Bodnaruk
April 09, 2026
This anthology foregrounds the complex interplay of artistic production, material conditions, and political conjuncture in East Roman Empire and the wider Orthodox Commonwealth. While art-historical research has long been shaped by the “visual” and “spatial” turns, this volume insists that a ...
An Empire of Elites: The Self-Representation of the Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman State in the Fourth Century AD
1st Edition
By Mariana Bodnaruk
December 31, 2025
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire. In the Roman hierarchy, the senatorial order stood above all social strata. By examining ...
Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War: The Tale of Achilles and the Tale of Troy
1st Edition
By Adam J. Goldwyn, Dimitra Kokkini
November 13, 2025
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War. Set in the deep past of Greek ...
Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century
1st Edition
By Elias Petrou
November 03, 2025
Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century explores the intellectual life and educational institutions of fifteenth-century Constantinople, a period often overlooked in the history of Byzantine scholarship. While the twilight of the empire is frequently associated with decline, ...
Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Stavroula Constantinou, Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou
June 27, 2025
This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors ...
State and Society in the Palaiologan Era: (13th–15th Centuries)
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Raúl Estangüi Gómez
April 09, 2025
Often described as a period of decline and decadence, the history of the Byzantine Empire under the emperors of the Palaiologan dynasty (1261–1453) has undergone a considerable historiographical revival that has allowed this deeply negative image to be nuanced. State and Society in the Palaiologan ...
Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric
1st Edition
By Florin Leonte
November 28, 2024
Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries: panegyrics, encomia, city descriptions, ...
Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
1st Edition
Edited
By Mihail Mitrea
August 26, 2024
Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich...
Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas
1st Edition
By Tikhon Pino
May 27, 2024
St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk, abbot, and...
The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioannis Smarnakis, Zissis D. Ainalis
April 23, 2024
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in ...
Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204–1318
1st Edition
By Leonela Fundić
January 29, 2024
The Principality of Epirus was a medieval Greek state established in the western part of the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople to the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The Epirote rulers from the Komnenos Doukas family claimed to be legitimate successors to the Byzantine imperial throne ...
Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire
1st Edition
By Mark Masterson
January 29, 2024
The presence and importance of same-sex desire between men in the Byzantine Empire has been understudied. While John Boswell and others tried to open a conversation about desire between Byzantine men decades ago, the field reverted to emphasis on prohibition and an inability to read the evidence of...