33 2007

BULLETIN OF BRITISH
BYZANTINE STUDIES
BULLETIN OF BRITISH BYZANTINE STUDIES

33 ISSN 0265-162 2007

being the Bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
 Chairmen, Secretaries and Addresses of National Committees of the
International Association of Byzantine Studies

Albania: Dhorka Dhamo, Pellumb Xhufi, Rr Sulejman Pasha Pall 124, Shk. 3, Apart
37 Tirana-Albanie

Australia: John Melville-Jones (President), Classics and Ancient History (M205)

University of Western Australia, Crawley W.A. 6009, Australia; Kathleen Hay
(Secretary) 104, Abbott Street, Sandringham, Victoria 3191, Australia; Lynda
Garland (Treasurer)

Austria: W. Hörander, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neograzistik der Universität

Wien, Postgrasse 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria

Belgium: Anne Tihon (President); Jacques Noret (Vice-President and Treasurer);

Caroline Mace (Secretary). Address of the Society for Byzantine Studies: Rue Ducale
1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; address of the secretariat: Kardinaal Mercierplein 2,
B3000 Leuven, Belgium

Brazil: Angela Comnene, G. Kambani, 505 St Laurent Blvd, suite 106, Ottowa
K1K4-4, Canada

Bulgaria: Prof. Vassil Ghiuselev (President), University of Sofia "St Kliment

Ohridski", Faculty of History, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Bd., Room 40A, 1504 Sofia,
Bulgaria.

Canada: Antony Littlewood, Dept. of Classical Studies, The University of Western

Ontario, Talbot College, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7

Chile: Alejandro Zorbas, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia, Centro de

Estudios Bizaninos y Neohelenicos, Casilla 10136, Santiago, Chile

China: Zhu Huan, Xu Jia-Lin, Wang Yue, History Dept., Lanzhou University,
730000 Lanzhou, Gansu Province, P. R. China

Cyprus: Th. Papadopoullos, K. Kyrris, P.O. Box 22031, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus

Czech Republic: R. Dostalova, V. Vavrinek, Institut des Études Grecques, Romaines

et Latines pres l’Academie Tchecoslovaque des Sciences et Lettres, Lazarska 8, 120
00, Prague 2, Czech Republic

Denmark: K. Fledelius, A-M. Gravgaard, Centre d’ Études Byzantines, Institut

d’Histoire, Université de Copenhague, Njalsgade 102, DK-2300, Copenhagen S,
Denmark

Finland: Dr. Matti Kotiranta, Department of Orthodoxy and East European Church
Studies, PO Box 33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7), University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland

France: Michel Kaplan, Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, F-75005

Paris France
Germany: G. Prinzing, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, FB-16 Historisches
Seminar, Abteilung für Byzantinistik, D-5099 Mainz, Germany

Great Britain: Margaret Mullett, Tony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute of Art,

Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, U.K

Greece: Institute for Byzantine Research, 48, Vassileos Constantinou Ave., 116 35
Athens, Greece

Hungary: Joseph Perenyi, Pesti Barnabeas u 1 PF 107 H-1364 Budpest V, Hungary

Ireland: T. N. Mitchell, Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Israel: David Jacoby, Dept. of History, The Hebrew University, Mt Scopus IL-91905,
Jerusalem, Israel

Italy: A. Garzya, R. Maisano, via Simone Martini, Parco Mele C, I-80128 Naples,
Italy

Japan: S. Tsuji, H. Wada, c/o Institut for History and Anthropology, University of
Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, 305 Tsukuba, Japan

Netherlands: H. Hennephof, W. G. Brokkaar, Byzantijns-Nieuwgrieks Seminarium,

Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Norway: Professor Bente Kiilerich, Dr. Torstein Tollefsen, Professor Ingunn Lunde,
Dr. Staffan Wahlgren, Norsk komite for bysantinske studier, c/o Kiilerich,
Universitetet i Bergen, IKK, Sydnesplass12, N-5007 Bergen, Norway

Poland: Professor Maciej Salamon (President), Jagellonian University, Cracow;

Professor Jozef Naumowicz (Vice-President), Stefan Wyszynski’s Catholic
University of Warsaw

Romania: E. Popescu, O. Iliescu, T. Teoteoi, Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene,

Casa Academiei, Calea 13 Septembrie, nr 13, etj. 4A, Bucharest, Romania

Russia: G. Litavrin, La Presidence de l'Academie des Sciences de la Russie, Leninskij

Prospekt, 32A, Institut d'Histoire Universelle, Moscow 117334, Russia

Serbia: L. J. Maksimovic, Vizantoloski Institut SANU, Knez Mihailova 35/ 111,

11000 Belgrade, Serbia

South Africa: J. H. Barkhuizen, B. Hendrickx, Rand Afrikaans University Auckland

Park Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Johannesburg 2000, R. of South Africa

Spain: Pedro Badenas, C/Duque de Medinaceli, 6; E28014 Madrid, Spain

Sweden: Jan Olof Rosenquist, Uppsala University, Dept. of Classical Philology,

Byzantine Studies, PO Box 513, S751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Ukraine: P. Tolotsko (Vice- President); O. Pritsak (Director); G. Ivakin (Secretary);
Institute of Archaeology, Av. Heros of Stalingrad 12, 254655 Kiev - 210 Ukraine

United States of America: Robert Ousterhout (President), School of Architecture,

University of Illinois, 661 Taft Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-6921; Kathleen Corrigan
(Vice-President), Elizabeth Fisher (Secretary) and Alice-Mary Talbot (Treasurer).

Vatican: W. Brandmüller, Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche, I-00120 Città del

Vaticano
 CONTENTS

1. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

National Committees of International Association 2
Membership of the Executive Committee 4
2. Publications and Work in Progress 6
3. Fieldwork 35
4. Theses 49
5. Conferences, Lectures & Seminar Series 59
6. 40th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 80
7. International Congress of Byzantine Studies 99
8. Announcements 101
9. Exhibitions 119
10. Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire 121
11. Icons 123
12. The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 127
Treasurer’s Report
Agenda of 2007 AGM

Addresses

Chairman: The Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University, Belfast

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Secretary: Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London
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Treasurer: Barnards Inn, 86, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1AD
Editor and Membership Secretary: 19, Purcell Road, Marston, Oxford
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Front cover:

Niketas Choniates, Vind. Hist. gr. 53, f. 1v

1. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

A. Ex officio
Professor Cyril Mango, FBA (President)
Professor Margaret Mullett (Chairman)
Dr. Antony Eastmond (Honorary Secretary)
Mr Michael Carey (Treasurer)
Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys (Chairman, Publications
Committee)
Dr Liz James (Chairman, Development Committee)

B. Elected by the membership of the Society

until A.G.M. 2007:

Professor Judith Herrin
His Honour Christopher Young

until A.G.M. 2008:

Dr. Ida Toth
Dr. Ruth Macrides
Dr. Jonathan Harris

until A.G.M. 2009:

Mr Michael Heslop
Ms Rowena Loverance
Professor Hugh Kennedy

until A.G.M. 2010:

Professor Rosemary Morris

C. Co-opted by the Society until A.G.M. 2008:

Mr Michael Carey (Treasurer)

D. Co-opted by the Society until A.G.M. 2011:

Dr Antony Eastmond (Secretary)

E. Ex officio
Editor of BBBS, Dr Fiona Haarer
F. By invitation
The Secretary of the British Academy, Mr Peter Brown
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2. PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

Dr. Bente Bjornholt, Sussex

Forthcoming: ‘The Spectacles of Physical Punishment’, in M. Mullett,
ed., Performing Byzantium (Ashgate, Aldershot 2007); with John Burke,
‘Narrative, Word and Image’, in Liz James, ed., Companion to Byzantium
(Blackwell, Oxford).

Dr. Sebastian Brock, Oxford

‘Judah Benzion Segal’, Proceedings of the British Academy 130,
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IV (2005) 210-12; ‘The Instructions of
Anton, Plato’s Physician’, in Studia Semitica (Journal of Semitic Studies
Supplement 16, 2005) 129-38; ‘The imagery of the spiritual mirror in
Syriac literature’, Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 5
(2005) 3-17; ‘The use of Hijra dating in Syriac manuscripts: a preliminary
investigation’, in J.J. van Ginkel, H.L. Murre-van den Berg, and T.M. van
Lint, eds., Redefining Christian Identity. Cultural Interaction in the Middle
East since the Rise of Islam (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 134; Leuven
2005) 275-290; ‘Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek (1942-2005): Syrian Orthodox
Metropolitan of Middle Europe’, Sobornost/ECR 27:2 (2005) 57-62; ‘H.E.
Mor Julius Yeshu‘ Çiçek: an appreciation’, Qolo Suryoyo 147 (2005) 41-
45; ‘The ecumenical role played by monastic literature: the case of St Isaac
the Syrian’, One in Christ 40:4 (2005) 53-58; ‘An unknown Syriac version
of Isaiah 1:1-2:21’, in W.Th. van Peursen and R.B. Ter Haar Romeny, eds.,
Text, Translation, and Tradition. Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the
Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of his
Sixty-Fifth Birthday (MPIL 14, 2006) 11-23; ‘A fragment of the Harklean
version of St Matthew’s Gospel in the Monastery of Mar Musa’,
Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 3 (2006) 337-342; ‘St Aninas/Mar
Hanina and his monastery’, Analecta Bollandiana 124 (2006) 5-10; ‘A
concordance to Bedjan’s Breviarium Chaldaicum and Darmo’s Hudra’, The
Harp 19 (2006) [Festschrift J. Madey] 117-136; ‘The Dialogue between the
Two Thieves (Luke 23:39-41)’, The Harp 20 (2006) [Festschrift J.
Thekeparampil] 151-170; ‘The origins of the qanona ‘Holy God, holy
Mighty, holy Immortal’ according to Gabriel of Qatar (early 7th century)’,
The Harp 21 (2006) [Festschrift E. Thelly] 173-185; ‘The Lives of the
Prophets in Syriac: some soundings’, in C. Hempel and J.M. Lieu, eds.,
Biblical Traditions in Transmission. Essays in Honour of M.A. Knibb (JSJ
Suppl. 111; Leiden 2006) 21-37; ‘Syriac literature: a crossroads of
cultures’, Parole de l’Orient 31 (2006) 17-35; ‘Manuscrits liturgiques en
syriaque’, in F. Cassingena-Trevédy and I. Jurasz, eds., Les liturgies
 PUBLICATIONS

syriaques (Études syriaques 3; Paris 2006) 267-83; ‘Syriac sources and

resources for Byzantinists’, in Proceedings of the 21st International
Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (Ashgate, Aldershot 2006) 193-210.

Professor Anthony Bryer, Birmingham

‘People get the Heroes and Martyrs they deserve’, in Pamela Armstrong,
ed., Ritual and Art. Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter (London
2006) 122-28; ‘James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (1903-2000)’, in
Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: in
honour of Sir Steven Runicman (Cambridge 2006), xxxix-lv.
Forthcoming: ‘Dawkins and the crypto-Christians’, in P. Kitromilides and
M. Llewellyn-Smith, eds., Scholars, Travels, Archives (Athens 2007);
‘Final Thoughts’, in G. Erkut and S. Mitchell, eds., The Black Sea
Region: Past, Present and Future (Oxford 2007); ‘Byzantium and the
Orthodox World, 1395-1492’, in J. Shepard, ed., The Cambridge History
of the Byzantine Empire (Cambridge 2007), chap.24; ‘Ta mesa tes
agrotikes paragoges: myaka dynama kai ergaleia’, in The Economic
History of Byzantium (Athens 2007) I.181-202; ‘Chronology and Dating’
and ‘Feasting and Food’ in The Oxford Handbook to Byzantium (Oxford
2007).
Work in Progress. Baladan, enfin.

Dame Averil Cameron, Oxford

The Byzantines (Blackwells, Oxford 2006); ‘Constantine and the peace of
the church’, in Margaret Mitchell and Frances Young, eds., Cambridge
History of Christianity I (Cambridge 2006) 538-51; ‘Constantius and
Constantine: an exercise in publicity’, in Elizabeth Hartley, Jane Hawkes
and Martin Henig, eds., Constantine the Great. York’s Roman Emperor
(Aldershot 2006) 18-30; ‘Constantine and Christianity’, ibid., 96-103;
‘Art and the Christian Imagination’, Eastern Christian Art 2 (2005) 1-8;
‘New themes and styles in later Greek literature – a title revisited’, in
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, ed., Greek Literature in Late Antiquity.
Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism (Aldershot 2006) 11-28.
Forthcoming: ‘Byzantium between East and West’, in J.-M. Spieser, ed.,
Présence de Byzance (Lausanne 2006); ‘The violence of orthodoxy’, in
Holger Zellentin and Edward Iricinschi, eds., Heresy and Identity in Late
Antiquity (Tübingen 2006); ‘Enforcing Orthodoxy in Byzantium’, in Kate
Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, eds., Discipline and Diversity, Studies in
Church History 43 (Woodbridge).
 PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Mary Cunningham-Corran, Birmingham

‘The letter and the spirit: some problems in transmitting patristic texts to
a modern audience’, in M. Mullett, ed., Metaphrastes, or, Gained in
Translation. Essays and Translations in Honour of Robert H. Jordan,
BBTT9 (Belfast 2004) 28-38; ‘The meeting of old and new: the typology
of Mary the Theotokos in Byzantine homilies and hymns’, in R.N.
Swanson, ed., The Church and Mary, Studies in Church History 39
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY 2004) 52-62; ‘“All-holy
infant”: Byzantine and Western views on the conception of the Virgin
Mary’, St Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 50, nos. 1-2 (2006) 127-48.
Forthcoming: (with Leslie Brubaker): ‘The Christian book in Medieval
Byzantium’, in J. Smith and T. Noble, eds., The Cambridge History of
Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianity, ca. 600- ca. 1100
(Cambridge University Press); ‘Divine banquet: the Theotokos as a
source of spiritual nourishment’, in L. Brubaker, ed., Food and Drink in
Byzantium (Ashgate 2007); ‘Wider Than Heaven’: Eighth-Century
Homilies on the Mother of God (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary
Press 2007?).

Dr. Ken Dark, Reading

Archaeology and the Origins of Insular Monasticism = Kathleen Hughes
Memorial Lecture 5, for 2004 (Cambridge 2006) (28 page pamphlet
publishing lecture); ‘The eastern harbours of Early Byzantine
Constantinople’, Byzantion 75 (2005) 152-163.

Dr. Charalambos Dendrinos, London

Co-editor (with J. Chrysostomides), “Sweet Land ...”: Lectures on the
History and Culture of Cyprus (Porphyrogenitus: Camberley 2006); co-
editor (with C. Brown and J. Chrysostomides), The Greek Manuscript
Collection of Lambeth Palace Library: An exhibition held on the
occasion of the 21st International Byzantine Congress, London, 22-23
August 2006 (Lambeth Palace Library, London 2006).
In preparation: Co-operation and friendship among Byzantine scholars in
the circle of Manuel II Palaeologus, as reflected in their autograph
manuscripts.

Dr. Archie Dunn, Birmingham

‘The rise and fall of towns, ports, and silk-production in western Boeotia :
the problem of Thisvi-Kastorion’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style,
 PUBLICATIONS

Religion and Civilization: in honour of Sir Steven Runicman (Cambridge

2006) 38-71.
In Press: with Kh. Koilakou and Ch. Mavromatis, ‘The Anglo-Greek
collaborative survey of Thisve-Kastorion and its natural harbours (2005)’,
Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον. Χρονικά 52 (2005); with Kh. Koilakou, Ph.
Kondyli, and Ch. Mavromatis, ‘The Anglo-Greek collaborative survey of
Thisve-Kastorion and its natural harbours’, Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον.
Χρονικά 53 (2006); ‘From officialdom to provincial elite: the evidence of
the inscribed seals of Corinth (8th – 12th cc.)’, in William Caraher et al.
eds., Methods and meanings in medieval and post-medieval Greece, a
tribute to Timothy E. Gregory (Ashgate)

Dr Antony Eastmond, London

Ed. with Robin Cormack and P. Stewart, The Road to Byzantium: Luxury
Arts of Antiquity (Fontanka, London 2006). Catalogue of an exhibition in
the Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, 30 March – 3 September 2006.

Dr Niels Gaul, Oxford

Thomas Magistros und die spätbyzantinische Sophistik (Mainzer
Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik, 9, 2007); ‘The Partridge's Purple
Stockings - Observations on the historical, literary and manuscript
context of Pseudo-Kodinos' Handbook on Court Ceremonial’, in M.
Grünbart, ed., Theatron. Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter
(2007) 69-102; ‘The Twitching Shroud - Collective Construction of Late
Byzantine Paideia in the Circle of Thomas Magistros’, in Segno e testo
(2007).

Zaga Gavrilović, Birmingham

‘Women in Serbian politics, diplomacy and art at the beginning of
Ottomn rule’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and
Civilization: in honour of Sir Steven Runicman (Cambridge 2006) 72-90.
Forthcoming: ‘New observations on the miniature of the vision of
St.Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris gr.510’, ZRVI 44 (Belgrade); ‘Markov
Manastir revisited’, Papers of the Symposium in memory of V. J. Djuric
held in October 2006, Belgrade.

Dr. Fiona Haarer, London

Anastasius I: Politics and Empire in the Late Roman World (Francis
Cairns, Cambridge 2006).
 PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: ‘Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography of

Byzantine History’, in L. James, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the
Byzantine World (Blackwell, Oxford); ‘Justinian I: the troparion
monogenes’, in J.R. Watson, ed., The Canterbury Dictionary of
Hymnology (Canterbury Press); Review: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, ed.,
Greek literature in late antiquity: dynamism, didacticism, classicism
(Ashgate, Aldershot 2006) in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 2007.

Dr. Jonathan Harris, London

‘Cardinal Bessarion and the ideal state’, in Evangelos Konstantinou, ed.,
Der Beitrag der byzantinischen Gelehrten zur abendländischen
Renaissance des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Philhellenische Studien 12
(Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006) 91-7; ‘Greek sources’, ‘Manuel
II’, ‘John V’, ‘Bessarion’, ‘Paul II’, and ‘Innocent VIII’, in Alan Murray,
ed., Encyclopedia of the Crusades, 4 vols. (ABC Clio, Santa Barbara
2006); ‘Introduction’, in Timothy Venning, ed., A Chronology of the
Byzantine Empire (Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006) xiii-xxv.
Forthcoming: Constantinople (Continuum, London, to appear during
2007); ‘Collusion with the infidel as a pretext for military action against
Byzantium’, in Sarah Lambert and Liz James, eds., Clash of Cultures: the
Languages of Love and Hate (Brepols, Turnhout); ‘More Malmsey, your
grace? The export of Greek wine to England in the Later Middle Ages’,
in L. Brubaker, ed., Eat, Drink and be Merry: Proceedings of the 37th
Byzantine Symposium, Birmingham, 2003 (Ashgate, Aldershot); (with
Heleni Porphyriou), ‘The Greek diaspora: Italian port cities and London,
c.1400-1700’, in Donatella Calabi and Stephen Turk Christensen, eds.,
The Place of Exchange: Cities and Cultural Transfer in Europe: 1400-
1700 (Cambridge University Press).
Work in progress: The last 150 years before the fall of Constantinople.

Professor Judith Herrin, London

Judith Herrin opened the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies
held in London in August 2006 with the inaugural lecture ‘Byzantine
Studies on Display’, published in Proceedings of the 21st International
Congress of Byzantine Studies, eds., Elizabeth Jeffreys et al. (Ashgate,
Aldershot 2006), vol. 1.
‘The icon corner in medieval Byzantium’, in A. Mulder-Bakker and J.
Wogen-Browne, eds., Household, Women and Christianities (Brepols,
Turnhout 2005) 71-90; ‘Changing functions of Monasteries for Women
during Byzantine Iconoclasm’, in Lynda Garland, ed., Byzantine Women:
Varieties of Experience ca. 800-1200 (Ashgate, Aldershot 2006) 1-15;
 PUBLICATIONS

“‘Femina byzantina’: Social and Political Practices in the Byzantine

Empire”, in Kari Elisabeth Borresen and Sara Cabibbo, eds., Gender,
Religion, Human Rights in Europe (Herder, Rome 2006), 225-35;
Reviews: Turks. A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600, exhibition
held at the Royal Academy, London 2005, in History Workshop Journal
61 (2006) 238-42; Paul Fouracre, ed., The New Cambridge Medieval
History ca.500-ca.700, vol 1 (2005) in The Times Higher Educational
Supplement (October 2006).

Mr. Michael Heslop, London

Forthcoming: ‘The Search for the Defensive System of the Knights in
Southern Rhodes’ in Judi Upton-Ward, ed., The Military Orders on Land
and Sea, the Fourth International Conference of the London Centre for
the Study of the Crusades, the Military Religious Orders and the Latin
East (Ashgate 2007); ‘The Search for the Byzantine Defensive System in
Southern Rhodes’, in Byzantinos Domos 16 (2007). This will be a volume
dedicated to the memory of Alexandra Stefanidou.

Dr Paul Hetherington, London

‘The image of Edessa: some notes on its later fortunes’, in Elizabeth
Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: in honour of Sir
Steven Runicman (Cambridge 2006) 192-205; (with David Buckton) ‘"O
Saviour, save me, your servant", an unknown Masterpiece of Byzantine
enamel’, in Apollo (August 2006) 28-33.

Dr. Catherine Holmes, Oxford

‘Constantinople in the reign of Basil II’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed.,
Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: in honour of Sir Steven
Runicman (Cambridge 2006); 'Byzantine Historians at the Periphery',
21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 2006
(http//:www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/paper/V/V.1_Holmes.pdf)
Forthcoming: ‘Treaties between Byzantium and the Islamic World’, in P.
de Souza and J. France, eds., War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval
History (Cambridge 2007).

Professor Lucy-Anne Hunt, Manchester

‘Byzantium-Venice-Manchester: an early thirteenth-century carved
marble basin and British Byzantinism at the turn of the twentieth
century’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion and
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Civilisation: in honour of Sir Stephen Runciman (Cambridge 2006)

chapter 5, 91-134; ‘Melisende Psalter’ and ‘Art of Outremer and Cyprus’,
entries in A.V. Murray, ed., The Crusades: an Encyclopedia (Sta Barbara,
CA 2006); ‘Orientalische Christen: Kunst und Kultur zur Zeit
Kreuzfahrer’, in A. Wieczorek, M. Fansa and H. Meller, eds., Saladin
und die Kreuzfahrer (Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the
Landemuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (21/10/05-12/2/06);
Landemuseum für Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg (5/3/06-2/7/06) and the
Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim (23/7/06-5/11/06), 191-203 (Phillip
von Zabern, Mainz); ‘For the salvation of a Woman’s Soul: An Icon of
St. Michael described within a medieval Coptic context’, in A. Eastmond
and L. James, eds., Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium.
Studies presented to Robin Cormack (Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington
VT, USA 2004) 205-232; ‘Art in the Wadi Natrun: an assessment of the
earliest wallpaintings in the Church of Abu Makar, Dayr Abu Makar’,
Proceedings of the Wadi Natrun Symposium (February 2002), Coptica 3
(2004) 69-103.
Forthcoming: ‘Artistic Interchange in Old Cairo in the Thirteenth-early
Fourteenth Century: the role of painted and carved icons’, in C.
Hourihane, ed., Interactions: Artistic Exchange between the Eastern and
Western Worlds in the Medieval Period, Proceedings of the Conference,
Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 8-9 April 2005 (Penn State
University Press, in press, to appear 2007); ‘Illustrating the Gospels in
Arabic: Byzantine and Arab Christian Miniatures in Two Manuscripts of
the early Mamluk Period in Cambridge’, in D. Thomas, ed., The Bible in
Arab Christianity, Proceedings of the 5th Woodbrooke-Mingana
Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam 14-17 Sept. 2005 (Brill,
Leiden, forthcoming 2006 or 2007); ‘Eastern Christian Art and Culture in
the Thirteenth Century: Cultural Convergence between Jerusalem,
Greater Syria and Egypt’, in S. Auld and R. Hillenbrand, eds., Ayyubid
Jerusalem: The Holy City 1187-1250 (Altajir World of Islam Festival
Trust, London 2007). Delivered as a paper at the conference Cultural
Convergencies in the Medieval Mediterranean, History of Art
Department, University of Michigan, September 11, 2004 and
subsequently at the Universities of Cardiff (Cardiff Centre for the
Crusades, 21 February 2006) and Manchester (Middle East Studies
seminar, 29 March 2006); ‘Oriental Orthodox Iconographical and
Architectural Traditions’, in K. Parry, ed., The Companion to Eastern
Christianity (Blackwell, Oxford 2007).
Books in Progress: Christian Painting in Egypt of the 12th-14th Centuries:
a study in cultural interaction; Catalogue of the Illustrated Manuscripts
in the Coptic Museum, Old Cairo.
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Dr. Liz James, Sussex

‘Byzantine glass mosaic tesserae: some material considerations’,
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 30.1 (2006)
Forthcoming Ed. Art and Text in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press
2007).

Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford

The Age of the Dromon: the Byzantine navy ca 600-1204 (with J.H.
Pryor; Leiden 2006); Edited book: Byzantine Style, Civilization and
Religion: in honour of Sir Steven Runciman (Cambridge 2006); Edited
Conference Proceedings: Approaches to Texts in Early Modern Greek
(= NeoGraeca Medii Aevi V; with M. Jeffreys; Oxford 2005);
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies,
21-26 August, London 2006, 3 vols (Aldershot 2006); Articles: ‘The
Oxford manuscripts Auct. T. 5. 20-25’, in D. Holton and others, eds.,
Copyists, Collectors, Redactors and Editors (Iraklio, Crete 2005) 151-
60; ‘Writers and audiences in the early sixth century’, in Scott
Fitzgerald Johnson, ed., Greek Literature in Late Antiquity.
Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism (Aldershot 2006) 127-40;
‘Rhetoric in Byzantium’, in I. Worthington, ed., A Companion to
Greek Rhetoric (Oxford 2006) 166-84.

Dr. Robert Jordan, Belfast

Work in Progress: Indexes to The Synaxarion of the monastery of the
Theotokos Evergetis, vols. 1 & 2 (Publication expected summer 2007);
with Dr Rosemary Morris, Commentary on the Hypotyposis of Timothy
for the monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis (publication expected
summer 2007); ‘Greek Monastic Charity: “...to one of the least of these
my brothers...” in D. Stathakopoulos, ed., The Kindness of Strangers:
Charity in the Pre-modern Mediterranean, Papers of the Annual
Byzantine Colloquium, London, 2 May 2006; English translation of the
Synagoge of Paul of Evergetis, Book 1 (currently being revised, but
slowly owing to 1 and 2 above).

Dr. Dirk Krausmuller, Belfast

‘The triumph of hesychasm’, in M. Angold, ed., The Cambridge History
of Christianity, V, Eastern Christianity (Cambridge, 2006) 101-126;
‘Divine Self-Invention. Leontius of Jerusalem’s Reinterpretation of the
Patristic Model of the Christian God’, Journal of Theological Studies 57
(2006) 526-545; ‘Strategies of Equivocation and the Construction of
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Multiple Meanings in Middle Byzantine Texts’, Jahrbuch der

Österreichischen Byzantinistik 56 (2006) 1-11
Forthcoming: ‘Patriarch Methodius, the First Hagiographer of Theodore
of Stoudios’, Symbolae Oslonses 81 (2006); ‘Abbots and monks in
eleventh-century Stoudios: An analysis of rituals of installation and their
depictions in illuminated manuscripts’, Revue des Études Byzantines 65
(2007); ‘The Identity, the Cult and the Hagiographical Dossier of Andrew
“in Crisi”’, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 44 (2007/8); ‘The
Constantinopolitan Abbot Dius: His Life, Cult and Hagiographical
Dossier’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 31 (2007); ‘Moral
Rectitude vs Ascetic Prowess: the Anonymous Treatise On Asceticism
(Edition, Translation and Dating)’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100 (2007);
‘Do we need to be stupid in order to be saved? Knowledge and ignorance
in Gregory Palamas’, in V. Twomey and D. Krausmüller, eds., Salvation.
The Sixth Maynooth Patristic Conference, 19-21 July 2005 (2007);
‘Denying Mary’s agency in miracles effected through her apparitions and
icons: divine impersonation in the tenth-century Life of Constantine the
Ex-Jew’, in M. Cunningham, ed., The Mother of God in Byzantium:
Relics, Icons and Texts (2007); ‘Borrowings from Methodius’ Life of
Theophanes in the Life of Phantinus the Younger’, Analecta Bollandiana
126 (2008); ‘Religious instruction for laypeople in Byzantium: Stephen
of Nicomedia, Nicephorus Ouranos, and the Pseudo-Athanasian
Syntagma ad quendam politicum’, Byzantion 77 (2007).
Work in Progress: Revision of doctoral thesis for publication under the
title: Saints’ Lives, Typika, and Monastic Reform: the Monastery of
Panagiou in the Eleventh Century.

Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge

‘Research on Byzantine Jewry: the state of the question’, in András
Kovács & Michael L. Miller, eds, Jewish Studies at the Central European
University IV, 2003–2005 (CEU, Budapest 2006) 41–51; ‘The Orthodox
Churches in dialogue with Judaism’, in James K. Aitken and Edward
Kessler, eds, Challenges in Jewish–Christian relations (Paulist Press,
New York/Mahwah, NJ 2006) 51–62; ‘Can we speak of Jewish
Orthodoxy in Byzantium?’, in Andrew Louth and Augustine Casiday,
eds, Byzantine Orthodoxies. Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring
symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March
2002 (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies,
12) (Ashgate, Aldershot 2006) 167–78; ‘Jewish use of Greek in the
Middle Ages: evidence from Passover Haggadoth from the Cairo
Genizah’, Jewish Quarterly Review 96 (2006) 490–497.
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Forthcoming: ‘Jewish Sources for Byzantine Prosopography 1025–1204’,

in Mary Whitby, ed., Byzantines and Crusaders in non-Greek sources,
1025-1204 (Proceedings of the British Academy, 132) (Oxford 2006)
363–71; ‘Jewish and Christian messianic hopes in pre-Islamic
Byzantium’, in a Festschrift; (with Natalie Tchernetska and Judith
Olszowy-Schlanger) ‘An early Hebrew–Greek biblical glossary from the
Cairo Genizah’, Revue des Études Juives 2007.

Dr Doug Lee, Nottingham

‘Traditional Religions’, in N. Lenski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
the Age of Constantine (Cambridge) 159-179.
Forthcoming: War in Late Antiquity. A Social History (Blackwell)
Work in Progress: ‘The eastern frontier in late antiquity. Roman warfare
with Sasanian Persia’, in B. Campbell and L.A. Tritle, eds., The Oxford
Handbook of War and Warfare in the Classical World; From Rome to
Byzantium AD 363-565: The Transformation of Ancient Rome (Edinburgh
History of Ancient Rome, vol. 8).

Christopher Lillington-Martin, Glasgow

‘Prokopios and battlefield archaeology for Dara’, Proceedings: 21st
International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, August 2006,
Ashgate (Volume III).
Forthcoming: ‘The Archaeological and Literary Evidence for a Battle
near Dara, July AD 530’, Congress Proceedings: Late Roman Army in
the East, University of Basilicata, May 2005, British Archaeological
Reports International Series, Oxford; with T. Pollard, ‘Ancient and
Modern: Combining eyewitness and other accounts with satellite imaging
and field reconnaissance to locate the battle of Dara AD 530’, Journal of
Conflict Archaeology 3 (2007).
Work in progress: Analysing topography with satellite imagery to seek
unrecorded temporary and permanent battle related late-antique
fortifications.

Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Open University

Forthcoming: The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: Art
and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-Dominated Crete (Pindar
Press, London, February 2007); ‘The painter Angelos and post-Byzantine
Art’, in C.M. Richardson, ed., Locating Renaissance Art (New Haven and
London, February 2007); ‘Audiences and Markets for Cretan Icons’, in
C.M. Richardson, K.W. Woods, A. Lymberopoulou, eds., Viewing
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Renaissance Art (New Haven and London, Spring 2007); ‘‘Pro anima
mea’ but do not touch my icons: Provisions for private icons in wills from
Venetian-dominated Crete’ in D. Stathakopoulos, ed., The Kindness of
Strangers: Charity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, Papers of the
Annual Byzantine Colloquium, London, 2 May 2006 (late spring 2007);
‘Fish on a Dish and its Table Companions in Fourteenth-Century Wall
Painting on Venetian-Dominated Crete’, in L. Brubaker, ed., Eat, drink
and be merry (Luke 12:19). The production, consumption and celebration
of food and wine in Byzantium, Papers from the Thirty-seventh Spring
Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2003 (Ashgate,
Aldershot 2007); Review of Antony Eastmond and Liz James, eds., Icon
and Word. The Power of Images in Byzantium. Studies presented to
Robin Cormack (Ashagte, Aldershot 2003), Jahrbuch der
Österreichschen Byzantinistik 56 (2006) 363-368; Catalogue entry in C.
Campbell and A. Chong, Bellini and the East, National Gallery
Company, London 2005, exh. cat. (entry no. 13, p. 63, fig. on p. 65).
Work in Progress: Representations of Hell in fourteenth and fifteenth-
century Cretan mural decorations, in collaboration with Dr Vasiliki
Tsamalda

Professor Henry Maguire, Baltimore, MN

With Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Other Icons: Art and Power in
Byzantine Secular Culture (Princeton University Press 2006); ‘“A Fruit
Store and an Aviary”: Images of Food in House, Palace, and Church’, in
Food and Cooking in Byzantium (Athens 2005) 133-45.
Forthcoming: With Ann Terry, Dynamic Splendor: the Wall Mosaics in
the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec (Pennsylvania State University Press
2007); Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art (Variorum collected
studies series, no 866, Aldershot 2007).
Work in Progress: Byzantine sculpture in Venice

Dr. Anne McCabe, London

Forthcoming: A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: the
Sources, Compilation, and Transmission of the Hippiatrica (Oxford
February 2007)

Professor Rosemary Morris, York

‘The origins of Mount Athos’, in A.A.M. Bryer and M. Cunningham,
eds., Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism (Variorum, Aldershot
1996) 37-46; ‘Emancipation in Byzantium: Roman Law in a Medieval
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Society’, in M.L. Bush, ed., Serfdom and Slavery. Studies in Legal

Bondage (Longman, London 1996) 130-43; ‘Idéaux et préjugés: la
femme dans l'imagination culturelle byzantine des XI-XIe siècles’, in S.
Lebecq, A. Dierkens, R. Le Jan and J-M Sansterre, eds., Femmes et
pouvoirs des femmes en occident et en orient, Xe-Xie siècles (Centre de
Recherche sur l'histoire de Europe du Nord-Ouest, Université Charles de
Gaulle-Lille 3, 1999) 133-47; ‘The Athonites and their neighbours’, in R.
Scott, ed., Byzantine Macedonia (University of Melbourne 2001) 157-67;
‘Beyond the de ceremoniis; the sources for Byzantine ceremonial’, in C.
Cubitt, ed., Early Medieval Court Culture (Brepols, Turnhout 2003) 223-
42; ‘Curses and clauses: the language of exclusion in Byzantium’, in
Toleration and Repression in the Middle Ages (Centre for Byzantine
Studies, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 2002) 313-26;
‘The spread of the cult of St. Nikon' in Heroes of the Orthodox Church:
the new saints, 8th-16thc (Centre for Byzantine Studies, National Hellenic
Research Foundation, Athens 2004) 433-58; ‘What did the epi ton
deeseon actually do?’ in D. Feissel and J. Gascou, eds., La petition à
Byzance (Centre de recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance,
Monographies, 14, Paris 2004) 125-40; ‘The epoptes Thomas at work’, in
E. Kermeli and O. Őzel eds., The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities and
‘Black Holes’. Contributions in Honours of Colin Imber (Isis Press,
Istanbul 2006) 23-37.
Forthcoming: ‘Where did the early Athonite monks come from?’ in
R.Gothoni, ed., Mount Athos and European monasticism (Finnish
Academy of Science and Letters, Folklore Fellows Communications
Series, Helsinki); ‘Symeon the Sanctified and the Re-foundation of
Xenophon’, in M. Mullett and R.H. Jordan, eds., Founders and Re-
founders in Byzantine monasticism (Belfast Byzantine Texts and Studies,
6.3, Belfast 2007); ‘The archives of Mount Athos’, in E. Jeffreys et al.,
Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford Studies in Byzantium, Oxford);
‘The problems of property’, in J.M.H. Smith and T.F.X. Noble, eds.,
Cambridge History of Christianity (CUP, Cambridge 2007?).

Dr. J.A. Munitiz, Birmingham

Ed. with Marcel Richard (†) Anastasii Sinaitae Quaestiones et
Responsiones (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 59, Turnhout/Leuven
2006); ‘An Exhortation by Manuel Philes to Pay Attention’, ed., Pamela
Armstrong, Ritual and Art: Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter,
(Pindar Press, London 2006) 28-43; Review: Theodori Dexii opera
omnia, ed., Ioannis D. Polemis (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 55,
Turnhout/Leuven 2003), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 55
(2005) 319-322.
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Work in Progress: with R. Macrides and D. Angelov, Ps-Kodinos, Traité

des Offices, simplified text, translation and commentary; Anastasius of
Sinai, Questions and Answers, translation and commentary.

Dr. Jennifer Nimmo Smith, Edinburgh

‘The River Alpheus in Greek, Christian and Byzantine Thought’,
Byzantion LXXIV (2004), Fasc. 2, pp.416-432; ‘Magic at the Crossroads
in the Sixth Century’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Religion
and Civilisation: in honour of Sir Stephen Runciman (Cambridge 2006)
224-237.
Work in Progress: An article on the Scholia Oxoniensia for a forthcoming
Studia Nazianzenica, Brepols, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
A short communication ‘From Gorgias to Gregory of Nazianzus: a
Platonic formula revisited’ to be presented at the Oxford Patristic
Conference in August 2007.

Dr. Anthousa Papagiannaki, Oxford

Work in progress: ‘Contemporary elements in the depiction of performers
on the medieval Byzantine ivory and bone caskets’ (working title);
‘Twelfth century ivory and bone casket production in Byzantium?’
(working title); ‘Cheetahs in medieval Byzantine life and art’ (working
title).

Dr. Peter Pattenden, Cambridge

Work in progress: A critical edition of the Pratum of John Moschus,
translation and commentary.

Dr. Christos Simelidis, Washington D.C.

Work in Progress: A critical edition of the Carmina of St. Gregory of
Nazianzus for the Corpus Christianorum series.

Dionysios Stathakopoulos, London

‘Crime and Punishment: The Plague in the Byzantine Empire 541–749’,
in L.K. Little, ed., Plague and the End of Antiquity; The Pandemic of 541
– 750 (Cambridge 2007) 99-118; ‘Discovering a military Order of the
Crusades: the Hospital of St. Sampson of Constantinople,’ Viator 37
(2006) 255-273; ‘La peste de Justinien (541-750): questions médicales et
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la réponse sociale’, in A.-M.. Flambard Héricher, Y. Marec, eds.,

Médedine et Société de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Rouen 2005) 31-48.
Forthcoming: Critical Study: The Late Byzantine Aristocracy, BMGS;
‘The Plague of Justinian’ and ‘Plagues in the Roman Empire’ in J. Byrne,
ed., Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic (Greenwood Press
2008); ‘To Have and To Have Not. Supply and Shortage in the Late
Antique World’, in M. Grünbart, E. Kislinger, A. Muthesius, D.
Stathakopoulos, eds., Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium,
Papers given at a Conference in Cambridge, 2001 (Vienna, Austrian
Academy of Sciences, in press); ‘Population, Demography and Disease’,
in E. Jeffreys, R. Cormack and J. Haldon, eds., Oxford Handbook of
Byzantine Studies (Oxford University Press); ‘Medicine and Society
before the Fall’ (in Greek) (Ιατρική και κοινωνία πριν την Άλωση), in
Acts of the Conference ‘Constantinopla, 550 anos desde su caida’,
Granada, Dezember, 4-6, 2003.
Work in Progress: The Kindness of Strangers: Charity in the Pre-modern
Mediterranean, Papers of the Annual Byzantine Colloquium, London, 2
May 2006; Medical and Paramedical Professionals in the Palaiologan
period; ‘Put a Price on Human Flesh’ Cannibalism and Popular Myths in
Late Antiquity.

Dr. Shaun Tougher, Cardiff

‘“The angelic life”: monasteries for eunuchs’, in Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed.,
Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: in honour of Sir Steven
Runicman (Cambridge 2006) 238-252.
Forthcoming: ‘Julian the Apostate’; ‘The Eunuch in Byzantine History
and Society’; ‘Byzantium after Iconoclasm: c. 850 – c. 886’, in J.
Shepard, ed., The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, 500-1492;
‘Eyeing up eunuchs: western perceptions of Byzantine cultural
difference’, in Liz James and Sarah Lambert, eds., Clash of Cultures: the
Languages of Love and Hate (Brepols, Turnhout).
Work in Progress: ‘Having fun in Byzantium?’; ‘The imperial family: the
case of the Macedonians’; entries on ‘Ammianus Marcellinus’, ‘Cassius
Dio’, ‘Classical Historical Writing’, ‘Eusebius of Caesarea’, ‘Jerome of
Strido’ and ‘Panodorus’ for the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.

Dr. Mary Whitby, Oxford

‘The St Polyeuktos epigram (AP 1.10): a literary perspective’, in Scott
Fitzgerald Johnson, ed., Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: dynamism,
didacticism, classicism (Aldershot 2006) 159-87; Review of Gianfranco
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Agosti, ed., Nonno di Panopoli, Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni,

Canto Quinto (Florence 2003), Eikasmos 17 (2006) 553-61.
Forthcoming: (Ed.) Byzantines and Crusaders in non-Greek Sources,
1025-1204, Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 132 (Oxford 2007).
This collection of 14 essays, each by a specialist and accompanied by a
detailed analytical bibliography, surveys the range of historical sources in
Latin, northern vernaculars, Arabic, Hebrew, Slavonic, Georgian,
Armenian and Syriac for the peoples who collided with the Byzantine
empire during this period of dramatic upheaval.
‘The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian’, in Simon Swain, Stephen
Harrison, Jas’ Elsner, eds., Severan Culture (Cambridge 2007); ‘The
Bible Hellenized: Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel and
“Eudocia’s” Homeric centos’, in David Scourfield, ed., Texts and Culture
in Late Antiquity: inheritance, authority and change (Classical Press of
Wales).
In press: ‘The biblical past in John Malalas and the Paschal Chronicle’
(Brill).
Work in progress: ‘The Anacreontic poetry of John of Gaza’ (paper
presented at the 2006 International Colloquium of Byzantine Studies);
‘Rhetorical questions’, in Liz James, ed., Blackwell’s Companion to
Byzantium (Blackwell, Oxford).

Professor J.M. Wagstaff, Southampton

‘Interactions between Italy and the Peloponnese: The geographical basis’,
in X. Kalliga kai A. Malliaris, eds., Peloponnisos: Poleis kai Epikoinosies
sti Mesogeio kai ti Mauri Thalassa (Athina: Estias 2006) 169-176.

Dr. Monica White, Cambridge

‘Byzantine Visual Propaganda and the Inverted Heart Motif’, Byzantion
(October 2006).
Forthcoming: ‘The Rise of the Dragon in Middle Byzantine
Hagiography’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies; Entry on ‘Military
Saints’ for M. E. Sharpe, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence.

Mr. Nigel Wilson, Oxford

‘L’archetipo tardoantico di Faust’, in Eudocia Augusta, Storia di San
Cipriano, a cura di Claudio Bevegni (Milan: Adelphi 2006) 173-207.
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Mr. David Winfield, Isle of Mull

‘Byzantine and Crusader Art. Sir Stephen was right’, in Elizabeth
Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine Style, Civilization and Religion: in honour of Sir
Steven Runciman (Cambridge 2006) 159-173.

MEMBERS RESIDENT OUTSIDE THE U.K.:

Professor Panagiotis Agapitos, Nicosia, Cyprus

‘Writing, reading and reciting (in) Byzantine erotic fiction’, in B.
Mondrain, ed., Lire et écrire à Byzance (Centre de Recherche d’Histoire
et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies, 19, Paris 2006) 126-175; The
Tale of Livistros and Rhodamne: Critical Edition of Redaction “alpha”
with Introduction and Glossary (Byzantine kai Neoellenike Bibliotheke
9, Athens (MIET) 2006) [540 pp., in Greek]; in collaboration with Martin
Hinterberger and Efterpi Mitsi, Image and Word: Six Byzantine
Descriptions of Works of Art (Agra Publications, Athens 2006) [198 pp.,
in Greek].
Forthcoming: ‘Plots of fate, fantastic tales and figments: fiction in
Byzantium’, in L.B. Mortensen and P.A. Agapitos, eds., Narratives
between History and Fiction in the “Periphery” of Medieval Europe,
Copenhagen (Museum Tusculanum Press); P.Odorico and P.A. Agapitos
eds., L’écriture de la memoire: la littérarité de l’historiographie.
HERMENEIA. Actes du troisiéme colloque international sur la littérature
byzantine, Dossiers Byzantins 7, Paris.
Non-scholarly publications: Last summer Panagiotis’ second Byzantine
mystery novel was published: O Chalkinos Ofthalmos (Agra Publications,
Athens 2006). The story is set in Thessaloniki in late January of 833. The
protospatharios Leo, while canvassing the iconophile attitudes in the city,
investigates the peculiar murder of the city’s temporary governor, only to
find himself confronted with the nun and poetess Kassia. Comments on
all aspects the book, as well as pointers to possible historical errors are
most welcome ([email protected]).
Work in Progress: In collaboration with Ioannis D. Polemis (Athens)
critical edition of Michael Psellos’ nineteen funeral orations for the
“Psellos Project” of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana (Sauer); a monograph
on the rhetoric of death in Byzantine literature, primarily of the 11th and
12th centuries; Greek translation with introduction and notes of Michael
Psellos’ eight “essays” on Ancient Greek and Christian literature (Agra
Publications).
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Mr Christos Argyrou, Larnaca, Cyprus

With Diomedes Myrianthefs, The Church of the Holy Cross of Ayiasmati
(Guides to the Byzantine Monuments of Cyprus Series), (Bank of Cyprus
Cultural Foundation and Holy Bishopric of Morphou, Nicosia) 2004 (in
Greek) 2006 (in English and German); Icon 19, Theotokos – Madonna in
St. G. Casu, Chr. Hadjichristodoulou and Y. Toumazis, eds., Catalogue
of the exhibition “Theotokos–Madonna” (Pierides Foundation, Nicosia
2005) 74-75 (in Greek and English); ‘Mosaics through teaching History
and Art in Secondary Education of Cyprus. Realities and Perspectives’, in
Ch. Bakirtzis, K. Raptis and P. Mastora, eds., Proceedings of the VIIIth
Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of
Mosaics (ICCM), (Thessaloniki 29 October - 3 November 2002)
(European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments and
Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities of Thessaloniki, 2005) 137-144;
Odoiporiko sta Christianika Mnimeia tis Mitropolitikis Periphereias
Kyreneias, ed., Chr. Hadjichristodoulou, Nicosia (Holy Bishopric of
Kyrenia, 2006) 64-71, 234-237, 254-265, 272-294, 431, 478-481 (in
Greek).

Petr Balcárek, Olomouc, Czech Republic

‘Slavibor Breuer and his Influence on Society of the First Half of the XX
century’ (in Czech with English Summary), in Pavel Marek a Jiří Hanuš,
eds., Osobnost v církvi a politice. Čeští a slovenští křesťané ve 20. století
(Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, Brno 2006) 56-66. This is
an article about a less known Czech Byzantologist - Slavibor Breuer
(monk Sáva of Chilandar); ‘A Pendant Cross from Sady - Contribution to
its Interpretation’ (in Czech, with English summary), Byzantinoslovaca I
(2006) 40-52.
Public Lectures: Eastern Christain Art in the Czech Lands (in Czech), at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Olomouc, Czech Republic, unpublished;
Florian Zapletal, Joseph Strzygowski and the Vienna School of Art History
(in Czech), at the Museum in Přerov, Czech Republic, publication in
preparation.

Professor Hans Buchwald, Stuttgart

‘Directions of Research in Byzantine architecture’, JÖB (2006)
Forthcoming: The Churches of Sardis, Churches E, EA, and M (Harvard
University press, Cambridge Mass., 2007?); Byzantine town Planning –
Does It Exist?’, in Anna Muthesius, ed., Material Culture and Well-being
in Byzantium (Vienna 2007)
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Dr. Stavroula Constantinou, Nicosia, Cyprus

‘Generic Hybrids: The ‘Life’ of Synkletike and the ‘Life’ of Theodora of
Arta’, JÖB 56 (2006) 113-133; Book Review: Thomas Pratsch, Der
hagiographische Topos: Griechische Heiligenviten in
mittelbyzantinischer Zeit (Millennium-Studien 6, Berlin 2005, pp. 475),
Le Muséon 119: 3 (2006) 476-481.
Forthcoming: ‘Women Teachers in Early Byzantine Hagiography’, in J.
Ruys, ed., Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early Modern
Periods; ‘Performing Gender in the Lives of Lay Saints’, in M. Mullett,
ed., Performing Byzantium; ‘Performing the ‘Male Woman’: Roles of
Female Sainthood in Byzantine Lives of Holy women’, in D. Smythe, ed.,
Byzantine Masculinities. Papers from the Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, May 2002 (Ashgate, Aldershot);
‘The Rewriting of Youth in Female Martyr Legends’, in M. Gray, ed.,
Rewriting holiness: rémaniement, réécriture and the reconfiguration of
cults.
Work in Progress: Preparation of a monograph on collections of miracle-
stories.

Professor Maria Constantoudaki, Athens

‘The new Baptism is an authentic El Greco: The painting of the
Municipality of Irakleio fits into the artistic production of the painter on
the basis of stylistic criteria’, I Kathimerini-Arts and Letters (Athens, 6
February 2005) 5 (in Greek); ‘Works by Michael Damaskinos in the
sanctuary of the church of Saint George in Venice: Expenses and
remuneration (unpublished documents, 1577-1579)’, Deltion tis
Christianikis Archaiologikis Etaireias, 4th period, vol. 27 (2006) 505-510
(in Greek with a summary in English); ‘Αlexios and Anghelos
Apokafkos, Constantinopolitan painters in Crete (1399-1421). Documents
from the State Archives in Venice’, electronic publication, internet site of
the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies:
(www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/communications); ‘St. Jerome as a
Church father and as a hermit in works of Cretan art. Iconography and
iconology’, 10th International Cretological Congress. Khania, 1-8
October 2006, Abstracts, 165 (in Greek); ‘Cretan painting of the 15th and
16th centuries in the European context of the period’, 10th International
Cretological Congress. Khania, 1-8 October 2006, Abstracts, 165-166 (in
Greek); ‘Nikolaos Kalbos, prete: San Nicola e scene della sua vita’, in
Michele Bacci, ed., San Nicola. Splendori d’arte d’Oriente e
d’Occidente, Exhibition catalogue, Bari, Castello Svevo, 7 December
2006 - 6 Μay 2007, 293, no. V.11.
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In press: ‘Atlantes, Masks, Lions: Sculptures of the Venetian period in

the Monastery of Angarathos, Crete’, Sculpture in the Latin Orient.
Proceedings of a Symposium (Rethymno 2002), Rethymno (in Greek with
a summary in English).

Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska, University of Lodz, Poland &

Visiting Professor at Rice University, Houston TX
‘The Power of Virtue. The case of the last Palaiologoi’, in Cesarstwo
Bizantynskie. Dzieje religia kultura. Prace ofiarowane Profesorowi
Waldemarowi Ceranowi na 70 lecie urodzin (Byzantine empire. History,
Religion, Culture. Papers offered to Professor Waldemar Ceran on the
occasion of his Seventieth Birthday) (Lodz 2006) 12-24
Forthcoming: ‘Ought One to Marry? Manuel II Palaiologos’ Point of
View’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 2007; ‘Could Poland have
reacted to the desperate submission of Byzantium to the Turks in 1372-
1373’, in E. Chrysos, ed., Papers devoted to the memory of Professor
Polemis (Athens 2007?)

Professor Claudine Dauphin, Sophia Antipolis/Nice and Paris

‘Sainte-Anne de Jérusalem: le projet Béthesda’, Proche-Orient Chrétien
55, Fasc. 3-4 (2005) 254-262; ‘The Bethesda Project at St. Anne’s in the
Old City of Jerusalem’, Proche-Orient Chrétien 55, Fasc. 3-4 (2005) 263-
269; ‘Land and Nation: Archaeology, the Rabbis and Zionism. Identity-
building from the Myth of the Promised Land to the Reality of the Wall
of Infamy (second part)’, Dialogue 15 (October 2006) 20-26; Ste-Marie
de la Probatique à Jérusalem (territoire français): mosaïques de pavement,
stratigraphie architecturale et histoire événementielle’ in H. Morlier, ed.,
La mosaïque gréco-romaine IX (Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome
352, Ecole française de Rome, 2005) vol.1, 247-261; La
Paléodémographie: Mémoire d’os, mémoire d’hommes. Actes des
huitièmes journées anthropologiques de Valbonne (5-7 juin 2003), 340
pp. (Editions APDCA, Antibes 2006): Co-editing and Foreword (pp.7-8)
with L. Buchet and I. Séguy. Also translation into English of all French
summaries and vice-versa, as well as of a Russian article into English;
‘Introduction’ to Part 1 (‘Les Questions de subsistance’) in L. Buchet, C.
Dauphin and I. Séguy, eds., La Paléodémographie: Mémoire d’os,
mémoire d’hommes. Actes des huitièmes journées anthropologiques de
Valbonne (5-7 juin 2003) (Editions APDCA, Antibes 2006) 19-21;
‘L’Alimentation monastique en Egypte byzantine’, in L. Buchet, C.
Dauphin and I. Séguy, eds., La Paléodémographie: Mémoire d’os,
mémoire d’hommes. Actes des huitièmes journées anthropologiques de
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Valbonne (5-7 juin 2003) (Editions APDCA, Antibes 2006) 29-48;

‘Fièvres et Tremblements: la Palestine byzantine à l’épreuve de la
malaria’, in L. Buchet, C. Dauphin and I. Séguy, eds., La
Paléodémographie: Mémoire d’os, mémoire d’hommes. Actes des
huitièmes journées anthropologiques de Valbonne (5-7 juin 2003)
(Editions APDCA, Antibes 2006) 101-118.
Forthcoming: ‘Land and Nation: Archaeology, the Rabbis and Zionism,
in H. Humphries, ed., Palestine and the Legacy of Balfour. Acts of the
International Colloquium of the Scottish Friends of Palestine, The Town
House, Haddington, 12-13 November 2005.

Dr. Stavros Georgiou, Nicosia, Cyprus

‘The metropolitan region of Kyrenia from the beginning of the
Christianity in Cyprus until today’, in Chr. Hadjichristodoulou, ed.,
Odoiporiko sta christianika mnemeia tes metropolitikes perifereias
Kyreneias. Atlantas mnemeion (Nicosia 2006) 23-45 (in Greek); ‘About
the founder of the monastery of Virgin Mary of Asinou Nikephoros
Ischyrios’, Epeterida Kentrou Meleton Ieras Mones Kykkou 7 (2006)
191-197 (in Greek); ‘The Seizure of Power in Cyprus by Isaac Doukas
Komnenos (1184-1191)’, Epeterida tou Kentrou Epistemonikon Erevnon
32 (2006) 67-78 (in Greek with a summary in English).
Forthcoming: ‘The Anonymous Kamytzes of Pentekontakephalon of
Saint Neophytos the Recluse’, Kypriakai Spoudai 69 (2005) (in Greek
with a summary in English); The Honorific Titles of the Comnenian Era
(1081-1185), PhD Thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2005,
forthcoming in “Byzantina Keimena kai Meletai” (Byzantine Texts and
Studies) of the Byzantine Research Centre in Thessaloniki (in Greek);
Book-reviews in: Byzantiaka 25 (2005), Kypriakai Spoudai 69 (2005).

Professor Geoffrey Greatrex, Ottawa

‘Urbicius' Epitedeuma: an edition, translation and commentary’, (with
Hugh Elton and Richard Burgess) Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2005) 35-
74; Review of C. Kelly, Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Cambridge
2004), Phoenix 60 (2006) 178-81; ‘Pseudo-Zacharie de Mytilène et
l'historiographie du VIe siècle’: summary in Proceedings of the 21st
International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London 2006) III.160-1;
full text at
http://www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/comms/Greatrex/index.html
‘Pseudo-Zachariah of Mytilene: the context and nature of his work’,
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 6 (2006) 39-52; ‘El
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paganismo en el siglo VI (translated into Spanish), Debats 90 (autumn

2005) 79-85.
Forthcoming: ‘Dukes of the eastern frontier’, in J.F. Drinkwater and B.
Salway, eds., Lupi Passus. Festschrift W. Liebeschuetz (Institute of
Classical Studies, London, forthcoming January 2007); ‘Moines et
militaires et la défense de la frontière orientale’, to be published in the
Proceedings of the conference on the Army and the Late Roman East held
in Matera and Potenza, Italy (May 2005), edited by Ariel Lewin et al.;
‘Political history, c.250-518’, in E. Jeffreys, J. Haldon and R. Cormack,
eds, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford); Review of N.
Lenski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
(Cambridge 2006) (in German), Historische Zeitschrift.
Work in Progress: ongoing translation and commentary of Pseudo-
Zachariah of Mytilene's Ecclesiastical History, in collaboration with Dr
Cornelia Horn and Dr Robert Phenix (St Louis, Missouri). The first half
of 2006 was spent on sabbatical in Munich, Germany, where both my
stay and my research were much assisted by Professor Albrecht Berger. I
was able to complete in draft my commentary on the final six books of
Pseudo-Zachariah's work while there.

Professor John Haldon, Princeton

‘Civilizations, states and empires. Some comments on Igor M.
Diakonoff, The paths of history’, Historical materialism 16 (2005) 169-
201; ‘Trouble with the Opsikion: some issues concerning the first
themata’, in F. Evangelatou-Notara, ed., In Memoriam Nikos
Oikonomidès. Essays in honour of Nikos Oikonomidès (Athens 2006)
111-136; ‘Roads and communications in Byzantine Asia Minor: wagons,
horses, supplies’, in J. Pryor, ed., The logistics of the Crusades (Sydney
2006) 1-23; ‘ “Greek fire” revisited: recent and current research’, in
Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., Byzantine style, religion and civilization: in
honour of Sir Steven Runciman (Cambridge 2006) 290-325; ‘Social
transformation in the 6th-9th c east’, in W. Bowden, A. Gutteridge and C.
Machado, eds., Social and political life in Late Antiquity (Late Antique
Archaeology 3.1, Leiden 2006) 603-647; ‘“Cappadocia will be given over
to ruin and become a desert”. Environmental evidence for historically-
attested events in the 7th-10th centuries’, in Mediterranea. Festschrift
Johannes Koder (Vienna 2007)

Forthcoming: Byzantium in Transition, 680-850 (Cambridge

University Press: Cambridge 2007) (with L. Brubaker, Bham/UK); (Ed.)
The social history of Byzantium. Problems and perspectives
(Blackwell, Oxford 2007); (Ed.) International library of essays in
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military history: Byzantine warfare (Ashgate, Aldershot/London

2007); ‘Introduction: Ancient states, empires and exploitation:
problems and perspectives’, in I. Morris, W. Scheidel, eds., Empires and
exploitation. States and social power in the ancient world (Stanford
2007) (with Jack Goldstone, George Mason University); ‘Empires and
exploitation: the case of Byzantium’, in I. Morris, W. Scheidel, eds.,
Empires and exploitation. States and social power in the ancient
world (Stanford 2007); ‘The resources of late antiquity’, in C.
Robinsoned., New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge 200?),
chapter 1, vol. I; ‘Introduction: towards a social history of Byzantium’,
in J. F. Haldon, ed., Blackwell social history of Byzantium (Oxford
2007), chapter 1; ‘Social élites, wealth and power’, J. F. Haldon, ed.,
Blackwell social history of Byzantium (Oxford 2007), chapter 9; ‘The
Laudatio Therapontis. A neglected source of the later seventh or early
eighth century’, in H. Amirav and B. ter h. Romeney, eds., Essays in
honour of Averil Cameron (Leiden 2006); ‘Contribution to the
symposium on Alex Callinicos’ Making history. Agency, structure, and
change in social theory’, in Historical materialism 15 (2007)
In preparation:
The Taktika of Leo the Wise: critical commentary (Dumbarton Oaks
Studies, Washington DC).

Hiroyuki Hashikawa, Kyoto

‘The Armenian Element in Early Byzantium: A prosopographical
perspective’, in Tetsuro Nakatsukasa, ed., Humaniora Kiotoensia: On the
centenary of Kyoto Humanities (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto
University 2006) 181-213; Japanese translations of R.J. Macrides,
‘Killing, Asylum, and the Law in Byzantium’, Speculum 63 (1988) 509-
38 [Yoshihisa Hattori, ed., Conflict and Conflict-Resolution in Medieval
Europe (Kyoto 2006) 216-57] and Giles Constable, ‘Mary and Martha in
the Middle Ages’, a lecture given at Kyoto University on October 23,
2003 [Seiyo Bijutsu Kenkyu / Studies in Western Art, 12 (2006) 195-212].
Forthcoming: ‘Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople and Two Abbots
of the Great Lavra: On the appointments of Iakobos and Malachias as
metropolitan of Thessaloniki (in Japanese)’, Seiyoshigaku / Studies in
Western History, 232; ‘The Wanderjahre of Patriarch Athanasios I of
Constantinople’, Orient (in Japanese).
Work in Progress: ‘The Autograph Manuscripts of Patriarch Athanasios I
of Cosntantinople, are they extant?’; ‘Patriarch Athanasios I of
Constantinople and the Hesychia of Mount Athos’; ‘Theology and
Politics in Thirteenth-century Byzantium: On the resurgence of the
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Filioque controversy’; ‘A Peace Endangering the soul: Byzantine

Orthodox faith and the Union of Lyons’.

Professor Michel Kaplan, Paris

Monastères, Images, Pouvoirs et Société à Byzance : Nouvelles
approches du monachisme byzantin (XXe Congrès international des
Études Byzantines, Paris 2001) ; Le second iconoclasme et ses suites
(Byzantina Sorbonensia 23, Paris); ‘L’économie des monastères à travers
les Vies de saint byzantines des XIe-XIIIe siècles’, in M. Kaplan, éd.,
Monastères, images, pouvoirs et société à Byzance (Byzantina
Sorbonensia 23, Paris 2006) 27-42; ‘L’évêque à l’époque du second
iconoclasme’, in M. Kaplan, éd., Monastères, images, pouvoirs et société
à Byzance (Byzantina Sorbonensia 23, Paris 2006) 183-206; ‘Les saints
en pèlerinage à l’époque protobyzantine’, in B. Caseau, J.-Cl. Cheynet,
V. Déroche, éd., Pèlerinages et lieux saints dans l’Antiquité et le Moyen
Âge. Mélanges offerts à Pierre Maraval (Centre de recherches d’Histoire
et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies, 23, Paris 2006) 249-262;
‘Constantinople et l’économie urbaine’, Le monde byzantin, t. 2,
L’Empire byzantin (641-1204), dir. J-Cl. Cheynet, (Nouvelle Clio, Paris
2006) 249-287; Byzance. Villes et campagnes (Picard – Les médiévistes
français 7, Paris 2006).
Forthcoming: Byzance, Les Belles Lettres – Guides de civilisation; ‘Les
contrats de location agraire à Byzance du VIe au XIVe siècle’, Contratti
agarri e rapporti di lavori nell’Europa medievale. Convegno
Internazionale di Studi Storico (Montaclino, 20-22 septembre 2001); ‘La
viticulture byzantine (VIIe-XIe siècles)’, Olio e Vino nell’alto Medioevo,
54a Settimana di studio, Spolète 2006.
Work in progress: space organization in the miracle shrines of
Constantinople.

Dr. Olga Karagiorgou, Athens

‘Die sigillographische Sammlung des Benaki Museums in Athen’, in J.-
Claude Cheynet and Claudia Sode, eds., Studies in Byzantine
Sigillography 9, 33-47; Review of the book by A.-K. Wassiliou and
Werner Seibt, Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel in Österreich. 2. Teil:
Zentral- und Provinzialverwaltung, Vienna 2004, in Byzantinische
Zeitschrift 99/2 (2006) 694-702; Translated from English into Greek:
Cyril Mango, ed., Ιστορία του Βυζαντίου (Athens (Nefeli) 2006); ‘“καὶ
Ἀτρακὶς ỏππόσα (μάρμαρα) λευρῶν χθὼν πεδίοις ἐλόχευσε...”: The
Quarry at Omorphochori near Larisa (Thessaly) and its Contribution to
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Byzantine Art’, in the volume Archaeological evidence on manufacturing

installations during the Byzantine period (5th-15th c.) [= Proceedings of
the 22nd Symposium of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Archaeology and Art,
Athens], (Athens 2004) 183-219 & 385-386 (in Greek with Greek and
English summaries); ‘The Late Roman 2 amphora: a container for the
military annona on the Danubian border?’, in Sean Kingsley and Michael
Decker eds., Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during
Late Antiquity (Oxbow, Oxford 2001) 129-166; ‘Demetrias and Thebes:
the fortunes and misfortunes of two Thessalian port-cities in Late
Antiquity’, in Luke Lavan, ed., Recent Research in Late-Antique
Urbanism, Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplementary Series No. 42,
2001) 182-215; with Chris Lightfoot, ‘Byzantine Amorion: a provincial
capital in Asia Minor’, Αρχαιολογία 69 (December 1998) 92-96 and repr.
Αρχαιολογία 70 (March 1999) 87-88 (in Greek with English summary).
Forthcoming: ‘Mapping trade by the amphora: potentialities, restrictions,
possible future directions’, in Byzantine Trade (4th-12th c.): Recent
Archaeological Work, Proceedings of the 38th Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies (Oxford University: 27-29 March 2004); ‘Byzantine
themes and sigillography: I. The sigillographic corpora of the themes of
Hellas, Opsikion and Armeniakon’, in Byzantine and Modern Greek
Studies; ‘Marble fragments from the Bathhouse’, in C. S. Lightfoot, O.
Karagiorgou, O. Koçyigit, H. Yaman, P. Linscheid and J. Foley, ‘The
Amorium Project: Excavation and Research in 2003’, in Dumbarton Oaks
Papers 61.
Work in Progress: ‘The Architecture and Sculptural Decoration of the
Byzantine basilica of Kalambaka in Thessaly’; The Byzantine lead seals
discovered at Amorion; with Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou, The
Byzantine lead seals of the Benaki Museum, Athens.

Professor Bente Kiilerick, Bergen

‘Antiquus et modernus: Spolia in Medieval Art - Western, Byzantine and
Islamic’, in A.C. Quintavalle, ed., Medioevo: il tempo degli antichi
(Milan 2006) 135-145; ‘Making Sense of the Spolia in the Little
Metropolis in Athens’, Arte Medievale n.s. IV (2005:2).
Forthcoming: ‘What is Ugly? Art and Taste in Late Antiquity’; ‘Picturing
Ideal Beauty: The Saints in the Rotunda at Thessaloniki’; ‘The Aesthetics
of Marble and Coloured Stone’.

Professor W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Bloomington

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‘Antioch, Jerusalem, Rome: The Patronage of the Emperor Constantius II

and Architectural Invention’, Gesta: International Center of Medieval Art
XLV/2 (2006) 125-145.

Jacek Maj, Heidelberg

Forthcoming: ‘Kazimierz Chledowski and Byzantine Culture’, in Jerzy
Miziolek and Jacek Maj, eds., Kazimierz Chledowski (1843-1920); ‘Jozef
Kremer’s Byzantium’, in Jacek Maj, ed., Jozef Kremer (1806-1875)
(Krakow 2007).

Professor Ljubomir Maksimović, Belgrade

Sima M. Ćirković, Srbi među evropskim narodima (The Serbs among the
European Nations) (Eqilibrium, Beograd 2005, XXV+337, 40 pictures,
16 maps) and review in: Istorijski časopis 52 (2006) 383-387; Istorijski
atlas (Historical Atlas), Beograd 62006 (with a group of authors);
‘Sučeljavanje i prožimanje dvaju svetova’ (‘Confrontation and
Coalescence of Two Worlds'), ZRVI 43 (2006) 11-23; ‘Βυζάντιο και
Βαλκάνια’, in Ημερίδα στη μνήμη Διονυσίου Α. Ζακυθηνού (13 Μαΐου
2005) (Αθήνα 2006) 51-59; ‘Challenging the idea of world empire: the
case of Serbia’, in Rival Empires, Proceedings of the 21st International
Congress of Byzantine Studies (London 2006) II.3-4; ‘Makedonija u
politici srednjovekovne Srbije’ (‘La Macédoine dans la politique de la
Serbie médiévale’), Glas SANU 404 (2006) 29-50; ‘Aspects of the every-
day life in Byzantium – The Congress in London’, Politika 16.9.2006
(Culture-art-science 12); ‘Τρεις διαφορετικές βυζαντινές σφραγίδες’, in
Κλητόριον εις μνήμην Νίκου Οικονομίδη, Αθήνα-Θεσσαλονίκη 2005 (ed.
2006) 347-352
Forthcoming: King Milutin and His Time; Karl Krumbachers serbische
Schüler; Prokops Schrift De aedificiis als toponomastische Quelle

Professor Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini, Athens

“Γυναίκα και ‘ανδρικά’ οικονομικά προνόμια” / “Women and ‘male’
economic privileges”, in Fl. Evangelatou-Notara and Tr. Maniati-
Kokkini, eds., Κλητόριον in memory of Nikos Oikonomides (Athens-
Thessaloniki) 403-470.
Forthcoming: Κρατική πολιτική και προσωπικά προνόμια στο Ύστερο
Βυζάντιο: Ο θεσμός της ‘προνοίας’ / State Policy and Personal Privileges
in Late Byzantium: The Institution of ‘Pronoia’, (Society for Byzantine
Research, Thessaloniki, pp. ca. 440 and Indices, Glossary, English
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Summary); ‘Η άλωση του 1204 στις σύγχρονες βυζαντινές πηγές’ / ‘The

capture of Constantinople in 1204 seen by the Byzantine historians’, in
The Fourth Crusade (The National Hellenic Research Foundation /
Institute for Byzantine Research, Athens) pp. ca 24.
Work in Progress:
Army and Economy: the evidence of the Byzantine sources, 976-1204.
Byzantium and West, 11th-15th c. (in cooperation with colleagues): social-
economical elements in Byzantine sources.
Taxation and tax-exemptions in the 13th-15th centuries - The project is
co-funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources
(EPEAEK II) PYTHAGORAS II.

Dr. Mihailo Popović, Vienna

Review: Ruth Macrides, ed., Travel in the Byzantine World. Papers from
the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham,
April 2000 (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications
10, Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot 2002, pp.302), in Jahrbuch der
Österreichischen Byzantinistik 56 (2006) 316-317.
Forthcoming): ‘Die Gesandtschaften des byzantinischen Kaisers Basileios
I. zu den Serben’ (‘The embassies of the Byzantine emperor Basil I to the
Serbs’), to be published in the proceedings of the conference Byzantium
and new countries – New peoples on the frontier of Byzantino-Slavonic
area (IX-XV centuries) (Cracow, 6.-8. April 2006); ‘Eirēnē – Gefangene
und Geliebte Sultan Mehmeds II. nach dem Fall Konstantinopels’
(‘Eirēnē – Prisoner and love of the Sultan Mehmed II after the capture of
Constantinople’), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 57 (2007);
Review: G. Aibalē, E. Zachariadu, A. Xanthynakēs, Το χρονικό των
ουγγροτουρκικών πολέμων (1443-1444) (Ērakleio, Πανεπιστημιακές
Εκδόσεις Κρήτης 2005, pp.245), Jahrbuch der Österreichischen
Byzantinistik 57 (2007).
Work in progress: In March 2006 I started to work on a volume of the
Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB 16) on ‘Macedonia, northern part’
(‘Makedonien, nördlicher Teil’) comprising FYROM and parts of
Bulgaria (Kjustendil, Blagoevgrad) under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
Johannes Koder at the Institute of Byzantine Studies (Austrian Academy
of Sciences); cf. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/tib014.htm

Dr Hilary Richardson, Dublin

‘John Scottus Eriugena and Irish High Crosses’, in Marion Meek, ed.,
The Modern Traveller to our Past. Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin
(2006) 78-83.
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Forthcoming Entries for The Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish

Academy) on Françoise Henry; R.A.S. Macalister; ‘“Hands On” Dvin:
Reflections – The Dvin Capital’, for a Festschrift.

Dr. Alice-Mary Talbot, Washington DC

(with Stamatina McGrath) ‘Monastic Onomastics’, in M. Kaplan, ed.,
Monastères, images, pouvoirs et société à Byzance (Paris 2006) 89-118;
(with Sharon Gerstel), ‘Nuns in the Byzantine Countryside’, in Deltion
tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 27 (2006) 481-490; ‘The
Devotional Life of Laywomen’, in D. Krueger, ed., Byzantine
Christianity (Minneapolis 2006) 201-220, 237-240; (with Sharon
Gerstel) ‘The culture of lay piety in medieval Byzantium 1054-1453’, in
M. Angold, ed., The Cambridge History of Christianity, V, Eastern
Christianity (Cambridge 2006) 79-100; ‘Byzantine Studies at the
Beginning of the 21st Century’ in The State of Medieval Studies [=Journal
of English and Germanic Philology] (January 2006) 25-43.
Forthcoming: ‘Mealtime in Monasteries: The Culture of the Byzantine
Refectory’, in L. Brubaker, ed., Eat, Drink and be Merry: Proceedings of
the 37th Byzantine Symposium, Birmingham, 2003 (Ashgate, Aldershot);
‘Hagiography’ in R. Cormack, J. Haldon and E. Jeffreys, eds., The
Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford 2007?); ‘Hagiography in
Late Byzantium (1204-1453)’, in S. Efthymiades, ed., Byzantine
Hagiography: A Handbook (Aldershot 200?).

Professor Hjalmar Torp, Bergen

‘Un paliotto d'altare norvegese con scene del furto e della restituzione
della Vera Croce. Ipotesi sull'origine bizantina della iconografia
occidentale dell’imperatore Eraclio’, in A.C. Quintavalle, ed., Medioevo:
il tempo degli antichi (Milano 2006) 275-300; Il Tempietto Longobardo.
La cappella palatina di Cividale (Cividale 2006) (text in Italian and
English).
In press: ‘The Laura of Apa Apollo at Bawit. Considerations on the
Founder’s Monastic Ideals and the South Church’, Arte Medievale n.s. V
(2006:1).

Dr. Vasiliki Tsamakda, Heidelberg

‘Representations of St. Sophia in the churches of Ioannes Pagomenos in
Crete’, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine
Studies 2006, London 21-26 August 2006, vol. III, Abstracts of
Communications, 305-306; ‘Die Fresken der Heiligen Paraskeve - Kirche
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in Trachiniakos, Kreta’, Mitteilungen zur Spatantiken Archaologie und

Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 5 (2006).
Forthcoming: ‘Die Darstellungen der Hl. Sophia bzw. der Weisheit
Gottes in der kretischen Wandmalerei’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift;
Review: Massimo Bernabo, Le miniature per i manoscritti greci del libro
di Giobbe (Millennio Medievale 45, Strumenti e studi n. s. 6, Florenz
2004), JÖB; ‘Pitture sconosciute della catacomba di Domitilla’ (together
with Norbert Zimmermann), Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana; ‘Das
START-Projekt "Domitilla". Arbeitsbericht uber die Dokumentation und
Erforschung einer romischen Katakombe unter Einsatz des 3D-
Laserscanners’ (together with Norbert Zimmermann), Mitteilungen zur
christlichen Archaologie (Vienna).

Dr. David Woods, Cork

‘An 'Earthquake' in Britain in 664’, Peritia 19 (2005) 256-62; ‘Flavius
Felix and the Signum of the Numerus Divitiensium’, ZPE 156 (2006) 242-
44; ‘Adomnán, Arculf, and the True Cross: Overlooked Evidence for the
Visit of the Emperor Heraclius to Jerusalem c.630 ?’, ARAM Periodical
18-19 (2006-07) 403-13; ‘Sopater of Apamea: A Convert at the Court of
Constantine I ?’, Studia Patristica 39 (2006) 139-44; ‘On the Health of
the Emperor Heraclius c.638-41’, Byzantinoslavica 64 (2006) 99-110.
Forthcoming: ‘The Origin of the Cult of St. George at Diospolis’,
Proceedings of the Fifth Maynooth Patristics Conference 2003; ‘The
Cross in the Public Square: The Column-Mounted Cross c.AD450-750’,
Proceedings of the Sixth Maynooth Patristics Conference 2005;
‘Adomnán, Arculf, and Aldfrith’, Proceedings of the Iona Conference
2004; ‘Libanius, Bemarchius, and the Mausoleum of Constantine I’, in C.
Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII
(Brussels); ‘Valentinian I, Severa, Marina, and Justina’, Classica et
Mediaevalia 57 (2006); ‘On the Alleged Reburial of Julian the Apostate
at Constantinople’, Byzantion; ‘Late Antique Historiography: A Brief
History of Time’, in P. Rousseau, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Late
Antiquity (Oxford 2007); ‘Jews, Rats, and the Reason for the Byzantine
Defeat at the Battle of Yarmuk’, in A. Lewin, ed., The Late Roman Army
in the Near East. From Diocletian until the Arab Conquest; ‘Bede,
Ninian, and the Candida Casa’, The Innes Review; ‘Gildas, Aetius, and
Patrick’, Journal of Celtic Studies; ‘Pompey, Geiseric, and 'The Treasures
of Solomon'’, Journal of Jewish Studies.
Work in Progress: Papers currently under review by various journals
include ‘Lactantius, Valerian, and Halophilic Bacteria’, ‘On the Alleged
Letters of Honorius to the Cities of Britain in AD410’, and ‘Pope
Zacharias (746-52) and the Head of St. George’. I am also completing a
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monograph provisionally entitled The Seventh Century Revisited: A Lost

Christian Source on Early Islam.

Dr. Nada Zečevič, Budapest

‘Prvi brak despota Leonarda III Toko’ (The first marriage of Despot
Leonardo III Tocco), Zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta 43 (2006)
155-173; ‘The Genoese Citizenship of Carlo I Tocco of December 2,
1389 (II)’, Zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta 42 (2005) 61-75;
‘Bračni ugovor Leonarda III Toko I Milice Branković, I. maj 1463’ (The
marriage contract between Leonardo III Tocco and Milica Branković),
Stari srpski arhiv 4 (2005) 209-237; ‘The Genoese Citizenship of Carlo I
Tocco of December 2, 1389 (I),’ Zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
41 (2004) 361-376; ‘Brotherly Love and Brotherly Service: on the
relationship between Carlo and Leonardo Tocco’, in Miriam Müller,
Isabel Davis and Sarah Rees Jones, eds., Love, Marriage and Family Ties
in the Middle Ages: Selected Papers presented at the International
Medieval Congress, Leeds 2001 (Brepols, Turnhout 2003) 143-156; ‘The
Italian Kin of the Tocco Despot: Some Notes about the Relatives of Carlo
I Tocco’, Zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta 39 (2002) 237-247; :
‘λέξις γλυκεῖα : The importance of the Spoken Word in the Public
Affairs of Carlo Tocco (from the Anonymous Chronaca dei Tocco di
Cefalonia)’, in Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter, eds., Oral History of
the Middle Ages: The Spoken Word in Context (Medium Aevum
Quotidianum 12 = CEU Medievalia 3, Krems – Budapest 2001) 108-116;
‘Searching for Acceptance: a fifteenth-century Refugee’s History’,
Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 6 (2000) 129-143.
Work in Progress: The Tocco of the Greek Realm (14th-15th centuries).
Monograph in preparation; working title.
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3. FIELDWORK

Greece

Dr. Archie Dunn: The Survey of Thisve-Kastorion (the Urban Site:

2006)

The second season of the archaeological survey of Thisve

(Byzantine Kastorion) and its natural harbours lasted from September 1 st
to 23rd, 2006. It continues as a collaboration between the 9th Ephoreia of
Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, the 1st Ephoreia of Byzantine
Antiquities, and a team from the University of Birmingham. The
withdrawal of the Ephoreia of Underwater Antiquities from the approved
and fully funded survey of the floor of the great natural harbour, the
Ormos Dhomvrainas, last year, entails a more circumscribed approach to
the archaeology of Thisve-Kastorion’s loci of maritime traffic. But our
aim continues to be the integration of the study of the ancient and
Byzantine town with that of its harbour and of the small plain which links
them. Meanwhile the team has concentrated entirely in 2006 upon (1) the
topographical survey, (2) the architectural survey, and (3) the geophysical
survey, of the urban site and of its suburbium. The present phase of the
project is concerned with the visible remains of ancient Thisve and
medieval Kastorion, but also records examples of post-medieval or early
modern structures which may illuminate either the discussion of
Byzantine urban topography or of pre-industrial agricultural production in
and around the plain.
1. For the urban topographical survey (the responsibility of Mr
Christopher Mavromatis) all of Thisve-Kastorion’s in situ visible
archaeological remains have been first registered using a Global
Positioning System (whose readings typically erred up to three metres
either side of the true). Readings were then entered into the Greek
military maps at a scale of 1:50,000, which the project has digitised and
has geo-referenced so that “GPS” readings can be added. The corners or
“footprints” of archaeological features selected for detailed study were
then fixed using an Electronic Distance Measurer in relation to several re-
identifiable points, including points identifiable on the Greek military
maps at a scale of 1:5,000. The project has also digitised and geo-
referenced this series so that “GPS” readings can be added. However, at
this scale GPS-based readings of the footprints of features selected for
detailed study (for which see 2a and 2b) should eventually be obtained
using a high-resolution (“Differential”) GPS.
In 2006 the team completed, for present purposes, the search for in
situ visible archaeological remains within the study area defined by the
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Permit issued in 2005. In the process twenty-seven more features or

associations of features were registered (LOCI 51 to 77). These additional
features are: fragments of the eastern and western curtain walls which
linked the twin acropoles, including substantial remains of an externally
projecting tower on each of these walls (one of which is hidden inside a
modern shed, but was probably described by the Classicist and translator
of Pausanias, J.G.Frazer, in 1895); an important fragment of the Lower
Acropolis (Neokastro) not recorded on the German Archaeological
Institute’s sketch-plans of 1956-58; large manmade dumps (ancient or
Byzantine) of the murex purpurea group of molluscs recorded by the
British ambassador Sir Thomas Wyse ca.1858; the position of the church
of the Panagia (Koimêsis tês Theotokou) on the village square, as the site
of a demolished medieval church which was described in the 1870s by
Archduke Ludwig Salvator von Habsburg ; a probable parekklêsion of the
ruined Middle Byzantine church of “Agios Loukas”; the single-aisled
post-Byzantine chapel of “Prophêtês Êlias”, which is associated with
several massive ashlar orthostates of the kind always found in the
masonry of Thisve’s Byzantine churches and chapels; the spolia-built
ekklêsaki of Agios Konstantinos; five monumental wine fermentation-
vats with exterior stone-framed niches (making a running total, probably
incomplete, of seven around the village); eleven cobbled threshing floors
(certainly an incomplete running total); and substantial fragments of a
lime mortar-bonded phase, or phases, of fortifications extending all
around the hill of “Palaiokastro” (the Upper Acropolis), perhaps
Justinianic, which are clearly to be connected with the single large
fragment of a curtain wall recorded there in the German Archaeological
Institute’s sketch-plans. Palaiokastro’s fortifications, of which there are at
least four phases (in contrast to Neokastro’s two apparent phases) are
unstable and are collapsing.
2a. The identification, registration, and mapping of visible in situ
features of the urban site therefore continued throughout the season.
Meanwhile the recording of the architecture and masonry of selected
churches and secular monuments registered in 2005 proceeded. Eight
churches (seven Byzantine, including Byzantino-Frankish, and one post-
Byzantine), a tower with Hellenistic and medieval (probably Frankish)
phases, and one of the monumental wine-fermentation vats, were
recorded using a CYRAX High-Definition Three-Dimensional Laser-
Scanner. Meanwhile top-plans of the Hellenistic fortifications of the
Lower Acropolis (Neokastro), and of substantial walls of post-Roman
type which were revealed by removal of vegetation in the geophysical
survey area, were made by Mr Christopher Mavromatis using an
electronic distance measurer. See 2b for further details.
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3a. Geophysical survey took place in a part of the wider defined

and demarcated study area, 160 metres N/S by 80 metres E/W, where
three substantial lime mortar-bonded walls are visible at ground level (in
one of which Greco-Roman disjecta membra predominate). All walls are
of typical post-Roman types. The area chosen is the nearest to the
Hellenistic city walls in which geophysical survey is practical:
immediately to the south of “Neokastro”. The area is, like the twin
acropoles, associated with a relatively high density of rubble,
constructional terra cotta, and pre-modern sherds, including Late Roman
and medieval. Geophysical survey is completely impractical within the
original walled town, which is occupied by the modern village, and on
Neokastro, whose surface, whilst artefact-rich, consists of bedrock and
manmade stone features founded upon bedrock. The area chosen for
geophysical survey offers therefore a unique opportunity to explore non-
destructively a relatively large section of the urban settlement
(technically the suburbium) other than the visible fortifications and
churches.

2b. THE ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY

The Byzantine Ephoreia concentrated upon the cleaning of
monuments that were selected for detailed architectural survey, and
focused also upon a search, in the archives of the Christian
Archaeological Society and the Byzantine Museum (Athens), the
Archaeological Museums of Thebes and of Thespiai, and at the
Makariotissa Monastery (Dhomvraina), for elements of the architectural
sculpture of Thisve’s Byzantine churches. A Middle Byzantine capital
with the motif of an eagle carved in low relief on its four faces (very
worn) was reported to the British team, by whom it was recorded. The
architectural survey of ten monuments (by Mr Michael Lobb, assisted by
Mr Kevin Colls) was effected using the laser-scanner, which, on the
basis of a single recording operation, can generate ground-plans, top-
plans, sections, elevations, stone-plans, and architectural models viewed
from any angle. The following structures were recorded over the course
of six days:
Locus 1: remains of a Middle Byzantine church which would have had a
central dome carried on four piers, and which reveals traces of a minor
secondary phase.
Locus 2: Agios Vlasios, a single-aisled chapel, possible post-Byzantine,
in which both lime mortar and mud bonding appear to have been used in
a single building phase.
Locus 3: Agios Loukas, remains of a Middle Byzantine church with two
important phases which affect the naos and narthex, and sub-phases
which affect the narthex and the northern side (Locus 74). In both major
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phases there would have been a central dome over the naos carried on
piers. Its southern façade and other probably Byzantine structures were
this year identified in the road which currently defines the south and east
sides of the monument, but could not be recorded.
Locus 4: Agia Triada, remains of a Middle Byzantine church of whose
interior spaces there is no visible trace at the surface today. Its
dimensions suggest that it would have been domed.
Locus 9: single-aisled building on an east-west orientation, within
Neokastro, probably originally a chapel (Byzantine or Frankish), of the
same construction as 74 (See below).
Locus 16: Agios Konstantinos, a single-aisled chapel whose masonry of
opus incertum, and of spolia deployed as jambs and quoins, is Middle
Byzantine or later. The apse is excavated into the cliff-face of Neokastro.
Locus 18: Agioi Taxiarkhai, single-aisled chapel, post-Byzantine, in one
corner of a walled yard which contains architectural elements possibly
derived from a Byzantine church. The Hellenistic city wall may cross the
yard (topographically recorded).
Locus 21: one of seven recorded wine-fermenting vats; encased within
freestanding or partially engaged stone structures which have niches in
one of their four sides. This planned example has three such niches
instead of the usual pair, which could have contained inscribed plaques
and religious objects.
Locus 25: a tower of the Hellenistic lower acropolis (Neokastro),
restored as a freestanding tower in Byzantine or later medieval times
(freestanding to the extent that it was no longer entered directly from the
Hellenistic battlements, although the precise means of access to its
masonry platform remains unclear). It is the only part of the lower
acropolis’s defences to show evidence of medieval restoration. The
exposed floor above its internal vault could not be recorded this year.
Locus 74: annexe (a parekklêsion?) attached to the north side of Agios
Loukas, whose relationship to the identifiable phases of the naos and
narthex is not established. Its masonry, as preserved, is the same as that of
the chapel on Neokastro ( Locus 9).

3b. THE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY

This was carried out by Ms Photeini Kondyli (assisted by Mr
Kevin Colls) who reports that the three visible post-Roman walls
reported above fit coherently inside linear anomalies, probably
representing walls, which enclose or cross the eastern half of the
160-by-80 metre targeted area. The western half of the targeted area
meanwhile is devoid of detectable features (in terms of the magnetic
readings). Given the quality of the readings, which were taken every
100 centimetres using a GEOSCAN Fluxgate Gradiometer,
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Kondyli’s report advocates that Resistivity be applied to the

anomaly-rich area while the axis of the transects be shifted through
90 degrees. By doing this, and by collecting artefacts within the
geophysical survey’s 20-by-20-metre quadrats, in next year’s
proposed programme, we suggest (a) that this year’s results (obtained
by Magnetometry) can be usefully tested, (b) that the Ohio State
University’s Thisve Basin Survey can be usefully complemented,
and (c) that a unique description of the remains of a colonnade or
colonnades at this spot, which was made in 1895, can be better
evaluated (J.G.Frazer, Pausanias’s description of Greece translated
with a commentary, London, 1913, vol.5, p.162).

Fieldwork planned for 2007:

The team from Birmingham University’s responsibilities are: completion
of the topographical survey of the monuments of Thisve-Kastorion;
completion of the architectural survey of the pre-Classical, Hellenistic,
Late Roman, Byzantine, and Frankish monuments; re-survey using
Resistivity of the post-Roman extramural complex surveyed by means of
Magnetometry in 2006; completion of the vegetational survey of the
Thisve Basin effected in 2004-5. The team from the American School of
Classical Studies (Athens)’s responsibilities are: re-analysis of the pottery
of the “Thisbe Basin Survey” and “Corinthian Gulf Islands Project” [Bay
of Thisve-Dhomvraina] in collaboration with Dr Ioanita Vroom; re-
evaluation of the Thisve Basin Survey’s topographic data; merging of the
British and American teams’ topographic data within GIS. The Greek
Archaeological Service’s responsibilities are: preparation of the urban
monuments for further architectural and topographical survey; the search
in museums and other offsite locations for the sculptural furniture of the
Byzantine churches; analysis of samples from the murex purpurea
middens.

Dr. Anne McCabe, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Excavation of a new area at the NW corner of the Athenian Agora
(Section BH) carried out this June to August by the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens produced domestic architecture of the 10 th
century: modest rooms defined by rubble wall foundations, with two
wells and numerous storage vessels. At the bottom of one of these vessels
appeared part of the foundations of the Painted Stoa. See our website:
www.agathe.gr
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Israel

Ken Dark: Nazareth Landscape Archaeology Project

The project that began in 2004 under the direction of Ken Dark (Research
Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Reading)
continued in 2006 with work at the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, adjacent
to the Church of the Annunciation in the centre of modern Nazareth. This
involved completing a detailed measured and photographic survey of the
many archaeological features visible in the cellars of the convent, and
compiling a preliminary catalogue and photographic record of the
artefacts from the site. Earlier excavation records were also copied for
future analysis.

This is the first time that the Sisters of Nazareth site and its finds have
been examined in full by professional archaeologists since its discovery
in the 1880s and after almost a hundred years of unscientific excavations,
none of which have been either properly published or analysed using
current archaeological methods. Together, these records allow a
reinterpretation of the date and sequence of the excavated features.

The earliest phase of activity on the site may comprise a series of

rectilinear rock-cut walls cut into a natural north-south slope and spatially
associated with, probably early Roman-period, limestone vessels and
Roman-period cooking-pot sherds. This evidence may suggest a low-
status domestic structure dating to the early Roman period, analogous to
the rock-cut structures identified during our work in the countryside
outside Nazareth in 2005. If so, this is the first surface-built domestic
structure to have been identified from early Roman-period Nazareth.

When the rock-cut structure was disused, a kokhim-tomb, also probably

of early Roman date, was cut into the steep slope to its south probably
before the construction of a large apsidally-ended, at least partly artificial,
cave with at least two associated rock-cut cisterns and ancillary rooms
along its flank. The large cave was decorated with polychrome Byzantine
mosaics and may be associated with a large quantity of Byzantine finds,
including pottery and sculptured architectural stonework and possible
liturgical fittings. On this basis, the artificial cave may be interpreted as
an elaborately decorated cave-church with associated water-related
features.
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While some of the sculpted stonework seems to have been employed in the
cave itself, some appears to derive from a large church, perhaps Byzantine in
date, built above the features already described – three apses of which were
planned in detail in the unpublished, and hitherto unknown, records of
earlier investigators. The earlier Roman features seem to have been
incorporated into this ecclesiastical building. Provisionally, this might be
interpreted as a major church complex in the centre of Byzantine Nazareth.

The cave-church was used in the Crusader period, as evidenced by

Crusader-period stonework, much Crusader-period pottery, and an
elaborate array of vaults, stairways and a flagstone floor constructed to
incorporate and give access to the earlier features from the level of the
church above them. A chapel was constructed next to the earlier tomb. A
thick burning deposit, perhaps dating to the late twelfth or early thirteenth
century, covered all of these, and the flagstone floor was discoloured by
fire, before the site was disused.

It is hoped to undertake further fieldwork in 2007 to investigate the rock-

cut features in the survey area discovered in 2005 and at the Sisters of
Nazareth Convent, if permission is given.

Acknowledgements:
The 2006 survey was only possible through the kind permission and help
of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Sisters of Nazareth Convent in
Nazareth. The assistance provided by Dr Eliya Ribak, and by Sister
Margherita of the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, was invaluable.
Questions or enquiries about the possibility of volunteering to participate
in the project’s 2007 season should be sent to [email protected].

Turkey

Professor Michel Kaplan

(with M.-F. Auzépy, H. Çentinkaya, O. Delouis, J.-P. Grélois) survey of
monasteries of Bithynia known by the text but not precisely localised ;
started in 2004 ; continued in 2005 and 2006 ; due to go on 2006 and
2007. Some interesting finds already. Published every year in Anatolia
Antiqua, since 2006. 2004 report found in ‘À propos des monastères de
Médikion et de Sakkoudion’, Revue des Études Byzantines 63 (2005)
183-194.
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Professor John Haldon: The Avkat Survey Project

The Avkat Survey (jointly managed by members of Princeton University

and of the University of Birmingham/UK), for which planning and
fundraising began in 2005, is now established. A successful
workshop/colloquium was held at Princeton in May 2006 to discuss and
work out strategic issues; and the first season’s survey work, in August
2007, is now planned and budgeted. Project funding is managed by an
oversight committee of colleagues from several departments at Princeton.
The project is conducted in co-operation with the HPVista Spatial and
Visualisation Centre of the University of Birmingham/UK. The project is
part of the British Institute at Ankara strategic research initiative
Settlement history of Anatolia. Co-operation with the Tabula Imperii
Byzantini of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of
Fribourg (Switzerland) and Koç University, Istanbul, is in place.

In July and August 2006 two separate reconnaissance visits were made,
and the results more than fulfilled expectations. The intention was to
scout the site and survey area and liaise with local officials with a view to
establishing more permanent relationships in the course of the year 2006-
2007. In the event, we were able to complete all preliminary negotiations
ahead of schedule and received good support from senior, middle and
junior officials at local and regional levels as well as at government level
in Ankara. The site includes a prominent hill jutting out from the Avkat
Dağ where a (medieval) wall circuit, corner tower, probable gateway and
proteichisma were clearly visible. Substantial amounts of surface
ceramics, both pottery and rooftile, were visible, as well as worked stone,
and also small quantities of Bronze Age material. A good deal of ancient
stonework was visible in the village, including large column fragments, a
water channel block, some pavers from a road, substantial amounts of
ceramic pipework. Two relatively crude inscriptions in Greek, as yet
unrecorded, as well as epigraphic material in Armenian and Ottoman
script, were also noted.

The survey area is located in the province of Çorum, sub-district

Mecitözü. The central focus is on the village of Beyözü, formerly Avkat
(Euchaita) and its hinterland (westwards towards Alveren, east towards
Sülüklü, northwards onto the Avkat Dağı, and south along the local roads
towards the D180), including the communications network, hydrology
and settlement pattern of the region. Given the nature of the project,
aimed at investigating the topographical interfaces between the ancient
settlement and the later history of its district, the total survey area will
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eventually extend across a broader region, to take account of the wider

geographical and land-use context, and will include the area framed by
the settlements of Elmalı to the west and Kalecik in the east, with the
Duvenci Ovası in the north and the Kirlar Dağı to the south – essentially,
the northern part of the river plain of the Efennik/Tanözü Ç.

For our provisional webpages, see

http://history.princeton.edu/programs/e157/the_euchaita-avkat_p.html

Beyözü, July 2006

The ancient site of Euchaita, mod. Beyözü, has been occupied since
prehistoric, and certainly since Hittite times – the modern village, which
partially occupies the Roman lower city, is dominated by two hills, a
bronze age site and what is currently taken to be the location of a
Byzantine/Seljuk fortress. This project is about bringing a traditional
rural community into contact with its own past, both recent and more
distant, by involving local people in historical and archaeological
research and educational programs, and by helping them develop tourism
which is sensitive to the cultural and social needs of the community and
to the historical and natural environment. It also aims to open up
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opportunities for local economic development and enhancement of local

resources, especially water resources.
The project thus has three distinct foci: an archaeological-historical
dimension; a social-cultural dimension, which will concern itself with the
community’s recent past, family history, and development; and,
connecting with both of these, an economic and cultural development
dimension concentrating on the enhancement of local resources, know-
how and amenities for the community as a whole.

Why Beyözü? The answer is simple: Beyözü (Avkat until the 1930s), is
the site of ancient and medieval Euchaita, located on the northern edge of
the central Anatolian plateau. Historical information about such sites in
the medieval period especially is extremely sparse, and the site at Beyözü
gives historians and archaeologists a wonderful opportunity to fill a huge
gap in our knowledge, while at the same time offering cultural and
economic support and development opportunities to a typical small
Anatolian rural community in an environmentally- and community-
friendly way. During the Roman period it was a fairly unimportant
settlement. But from the third or fourth century it began to gain a
reputation as the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro (‘the Recruit’),
was walled in the early 6th century, and raised to the status of a bishopric
by the Roman emperor Anastasius before 518. From the seventh century,
with the Arab Islamic conquest of the eastern Roman provinces and the
retreat of the Roman – now Byzantine – frontier into Anatolia, Euchaita
became a military base behind the frontier. It remained a provincial
centre until its conquest at the time of the Seljuk occupation of eastern
Asia Minor in the later 11th century. Thereafter its importance dwindled
and though most of the Ottoman period was a small village below the
acropolis or fortress. Yet the district itself remained economically
important and the history of the several villages in the region can be
traced through the Ottoman archival documents right up to the later
nineteenth century.

From a historical perspective, therefore, the project offers the opportunity

to trace the history of a single region across a period of more than two
millennia, to elucidate its role in the ancient, medieval and modern
political contexts, and to show the effects of human activity in
transforming the landscape, tracking shifting settlement and demographic
patterns, and explaining transformations in land-use, agricultural and
pastoral farming and urban-rural relationships.
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View from the ‘fortress hill’ across the plain towards the main west-east road
(Ankara – Amasya)

Location of Euchaita (= no. 37)

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The importance of the site lies in four areas. First, unlike nearly all
excavated or surveyed urban or fortified centres of the Hellenistic,
Roman and Byzantine periods – 6th – 11th centuries – Euchaita was never
a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site. In contrast, it
was a small, if at times strategically significant, provincial town,
something of a backwater for much of its history. In this respect,
therefore, it is much more typical of the ‘average’ urban or fortified
centre of Asia Minor, yet we know almost nothing about such sites
because none has yet been excavated with a view to following such long-
term changes. Archaeologists have concentrated, for a range of reasons,
on major ports and cities whose history is relatively well-known at least
in their broad outlines – Ephesos, Amastris, Pergamon, Ankara, Amorion
– whereas sites such as Euchaita, which are no longer occupied and thus
offer superb possibilities for excavation, have been ignored. A full
survey of the site and its wider environs is possible, therefore, with
minimal disturbance to local populations and minimal complications from
later settlement. It offers a unique opportunity to research the history of a
late Roman town from its foundation as such under Anastasius between
515 and 518 CE, along with the small fortress which grew up on the hill
behind it after the middle of the seventh century. It was a typical fortified
semi-urban site, which formed an important element in the network of
urban centres of the middle Byzantine world, a significant part of the
defences along the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the
medieval period, one which represented the ‘norm’ of provincial fortified
sites; as well as a typical rural province within the Ottoman empire right
up to the 20th century. It also offers an outstanding opportunity to
establish an environmental and landscape history of the region and relate
this directly to the pattern of human activity across several millennia.
The development of computer technologies that permit the manipulation
and visualisation of complex, spatially referenced geographic and
mathematical data in complex situations makes a much more detailed and
functionally-useful account of the survey area possible. GISs, virtual
reality modelling and a variety of visual technologies are at the forefront
of this development, and make the complex modelling of the effects of
human behaviour on landscapes and the environment an attainable target.

Second, its history is not undocumented. Casual references in ancient

texts, and potentially some Hittite administrative documents of the early
1st millennium BCE, provide evidence of its status in pre-Hellenistic
times; a collection of medieval miracles of the later seventh century CE
offers important information about life in such a fortress at that time; the
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letters of its bishop, John Mauropous, who held the see in the eleventh
century, describe many aspects of life in the town; while Ottoman
documents provide information about the local population, their tax-
status and occupations, from the 16th century onwards. There is in
addition a good deal of incidental material in chronicles of both
Byzantine and Islamic origin, as well as epigraphic and sigillographic
material, especially with regard to its ecclesiastical history. Travellers of
the Ottoman period, and European visitors, have also left reports or
comments on the site or its district.

Third, its role as a military base, situated as it was near an important

military road in Byzantine times, together with the opportunity to conduct
a detailed paleoenvironmental survey of the region around it, to
reconstruct its medieval landscape, and to relate the archaeological and
palynological (pollen analysis) evidence for land-use and food-production
during the ancient, medieval and early modern periods, makes it a perfect
focus for the detailed surveys of specific catchment areas required by the
Medieval Logistics Project.

Finally, Avkat in the Ottoman period was a small village typical of the
Asia Minor hinterland of the empire, and in comparison with many larger
and more substantial centres, both commercially as well as in terms of
local industry, offers a useful opportunity to study such a rural settlement
in its larger historical context.

This project offers opportunities for an interdisciplinary research project

of international importance, which will advance very considerably our
knowledge and understanding of the history of the site and the area
around it, of the society and economy of the ancient, medieval Byzantine
and Seljuk/Ottoman periods – in other words, from ca. 500 BCE – 1900
CE - and also permit the application of modern survey, mapping and
digital modelling techniques on a large scale, in ways which will benefit
archaeological and historical research as well as the earth and
geographical sciences.
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Christopher Lillington-Martin:
Dara Battlefield Revisited, May 2006

The AD 530 battlefield. The view is taken from the roof of the church at
Ambar looking east during the cereal crop harvest, May 2006. The
position is about 3km south of Dara. The north - south road from Dara is
a grey line just beyond the foreground buildings. There is a track running
east-west in the mid-ground beyond the washing line. The low hills are in
the background. I was assured by local farmers that they find 6 cm
arrowheads in this area which, fortunately, they drop back onto the
ground.

Planned Fieldwork for 2007: Preliminary pilot survey of Marathon and

Plataia Battlefields
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4. THESES

Theses in progress / started 2006/7:

Aleks Dubaic, A comparison of Byzantine-Arab diplomatic relations in

the seventh and ninth centuries, MPhilB, Birmingham. Supervisors:
Professor Leslie Brubaker and Dr. Ruth Macrides

A. Aser Eger, Settlement, Interaction, and Land Use on the Byzantine-

Islamic Frontier in the Early Islamic Period, University of Chicago.
Supervisor: Donald Whitcomb.

Philip Emmott, Bulgaria in Byzantine literature, Birmingham.

Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Macrides

Raul Estangüi, Les activités économiques des monastères athonites

(1354-1464), Paris. Supervisor: Professor Michel Kaplan

Ioanna Koukounis, Byzantine and medieval settlement, economy, and

society, in northern Chios, Ph.D., Birmingham. Supervisor: Dr Archie
Dunn

Charalambos Machairas, Art and Patronage in the late thirteenth

century: the Church of Porta Panagia in Pyli Trikkalon and the
sebastokrator of Thessaly, John I Angelos Komnenos Doukas, MPhilB
Birmingham. Supervisor: Professor Leslie Brubaker

Matthew dal Santo, Orthodoxy, asceticism and the cult saints as aspects
of the Byzantine Latinism in the writings of Pope Gregory the Great (590-
603), Jesus College, Cambridge. Supervisor: Dr. Peter Sarris

Michal Zytka, Baths and Bathing in Late Antiquity, Cardiff. Supervisor:

Dr. Shaun Tougher

Theses completed in 2005

Stavros G. Georgiou, The Honorific Titles of the Comnenian Era (1081-

1185), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Philosophy,
School of History and Archaeology. Supervisor: Professor Alkmene
Stavridou-Zafraka

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The subject of this thesis is the honorific titles of the Comnenian Era
(1081-1185), one of the most important innovation of Alexios I
Komnenos (1081-1118). The aim of the study is the description of the
new hierarchy of honorific titles and the verification of the relation
between the new system of titles and the new perceptions introduced by
the Comneni into Administration. Many other issues are also discussed
and examined (vestments, insignia etc).

Cedomila Marinkovic, Imagery of a completed building: the

representation of churches on donor portraits in Serbian medieval
monumental art and their Byzantine parallels, MA, University of
Belgrade. Supervisor: Dr. M. Suput

The text deals with modes of representation of church buildings in donor

portraits in Serbian medieval and Byzantine art. Previous research on the
topic has left many open questions and has not succeeded in giving a
comprehensive insight into this complex subject. Results of recent
research on Byzantine art and architecture in general have shown that in
the study of this topic, which is a border area between medieval
architecture and painting, comparative and interdisciplinary methods
should be used.

Serbian medieval monuments in which the representation of a church

appears within a donor’s portrait provided the core of research material.
The material from each church which contained such a composition was
treated monographically in order to make a complete, chronologically
represented repertoire of monuments. On the other hand, an investigation
of Byzantine monuments, as material for comparative study, made it
possible to gain a more comprehensive idea of the basic material set
against the background of Orthodox Christian Art as a whole. The first
step in the investigation was to establish the relationship between the
representation of a church building and its wider context – an
iconographic motif. The next step necessary to define the problem of the
representation of a church building was to establish a precise and clear
terminology, since the commonly used idiom ‘donor’s (ktetor’s) model’
has often proved confusing and misleading. In the central part of the
study, the relationship between the actual building and its image is
discussed. Were maquettes in use and could they have been used as
models for the painted architecture in donor portraits? Is the
representation in the donor’s hand an image of a built church or its
maquette made as a project model? The analysis of the research material
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models for the representations of buildings in donor portraits. Moreover,

this particular type of architectural imagery had a completed building for
a model and it conformed to a set of principles regarding the
representation of architecture.

Available evidence in favour of this hypothesis is indirect and has been

deduced from the technical, legal and symbolic aspects of such
representations. Evidence of the use of architectural models in the
Byzantine, as well as Serbian medieval tradition is scarce, but this fact by
no means proves that such models did not exist. Donor portraits with a
representation of a church building also have a legal function, being a
statement of the donor’s right expressed by visual means i.e. a visual
counterpart of a written charter. Belief that motivates the construction
and endowment of a church is eschatological in nature. The donor stands
before the Lord’s throne hoping for mercy at the Day of Judgement,
carrying his church – not its maquette. Hence, we can state it is with a
high degree of probability that the project models, even if they were in
use, could not have acted as models for the painted images in donor
portraits, but, rather, that this kind of architectural imagery was made
according to the completed buildings.

Matthew dal Santo, The narrative function of the Dialogues of Pope

Gregory the Great and their evidence for cultural exchange between East
and West in the late sixth-century Mediterranean, MPhil, Jesus College,
University of Cambridge (completed August 2005). Consult in Seeley
Historical Library, Faculty of History.

The Dialogues of Gregory the Great are analysed on the three majors
levels of their literary composition (symbol, question, and narrative) and
considered in the context of late antique hagiographical and monastic
literature. A particular comparison is made between the hagiological
ideas expressed in the second dialogue (Life of Benedict) and the
arguments presented in Eustratius Presbyter’s near-contemporary
Refutation. The thesis contends that the Dialogues represent a defence of
the cult of saints and other aspects of Christian doctrine and practice
against detractors and sceptics. The particular vision of the cult of saints
which the Dialogues present can be explained in the context of a broader
debate about the place of the saints in the Church across the early
Byzantine world.

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Chris Wright, The Gattalusi of Lesbos: Diplomacy and Lordship in the

Late Medieval Aegean, Royal Holloway, University of London
(November 2005). Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Harris

Theses completed in 2006:

Teodora Burnand: The church "St. Virgin" in Dolna Kamenitsa (XIV c.),
Institute of Art Studies, B. A. S., Sofia, Bulgaria. Supervisor: Prof. Elka
Bakalova. Reviewers: Prof. Luben Prashkov and Dr. Georgi Gerov

The Bulgarian medieval church “St. Virgin” in the village of Dolna

Kamenitsa (XIV c.) is situated in northeast Serbia. It was founded by an
unknown boyar from the Vidin kingdom. The partially preserved
inscription “Despot Michael, the son of tsar Michael” is found next to the
portrait of the nobleman who ruled the area. There are not historical
sources about Despot Michael but it is generally considered that he is the
son of the Bulgarian tsar Michael Shishman. The dating of the church
should be placed in the period 1323-1352/56. The church is very small,
with a cross-shaped plan of the nave, a dome and a two-storey narthex
with two steeples which characterizes certain Western influences.

The majority of the mural paintings are preserved. Certain aspects of the
iconographic programme point to the funeral purpose of the church. The
scenes of the Passion cycle dominate the nave. A very dramatic
Lamentation is depicted along the whole length of the north wall opposite
to that of the Last Supper. The Marian cycle, the Life of St. Nicholas and
the Life of St. Paraskevi are painted in the narthex. The Mother of God,
St. Nicholas and St. Paraskevi appear as great intercessors and protectors
of people in the face of various illnesses and afflictions. What is more,
they intercede for people on the Day of Judgment. Representations of
Virgin Eleusa and scenes of Nicholas cycle are very often found in
conjunction either with actual burials or with painted portraits of noble
donors, whose tombs though lost, we may presume to have been located
nearby. The name of St. Paraskevi is associated with a particular day of
the week – Friday – and the fast which is held on that day in memory of
the Sufferings of Our Lord. The selection of saints in Dolna Kamenitsa
includes Holy Warriors and Holy Healers who are directly connected
with life and death. One of the Holy Monks, St. Stephen the Younger,
holds a diptych showing the lamenting Virgin and the Man of Sorrow.
Such icons were placed on the chest of the dead during funerals. The
scene of the communion of St. Mary of Egypt by St. Zosimas also has
substantial funeral connotations.

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Evangelia Daphi, Thera and the Southern Aegean from Late Antiquity to
Early Byzantium: pottery, production and routes of exchange,
Birmingham. Supervisor: Dr. Archie Dunn

During Late Antiquity, the Aegean Sea had an advanced network of

maritime routes, which remained in use in the Byzantine period. Coastal
sites were used as stations, while even small settlements were of relative
importance, by the fact that they were located on the course of
standardised interregional itineraries. In the Southern Aegean, coastal
sites were flourishing in Late Antiquity, presenting evidence for
production and trade functions. Recent excavations at the coastal hamlet
of Perissa on the island of Thera have revealed a Late Antique to Early
Byzantine coastal settlement, which includes a large Christian basilica,
residential and possibly public buildings and an extensive cemetery. The
coarse and fine pottery finds indicate connections with various sites, from
the 1st to at least the 8th century AD. Certain individual characteristics of
the island are suggested by pottery, in combination with inscriptions from
the site. The continuity of types and the predominance of Cretan and
other Aegean transport containers suggest intensive trade and close
relations within the Southern Aegean region, while the exchanges with
North Africa seem to have been continuous through the whole period.
Finally, the plethora of fine pottery types of various origins indicates the
well-being of the settlement, whose existence continued in the 8 th and
probably in 9th century.

Olivier Delouis, Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Stoudios à Constantinople. La

contribution d’un monastère à l’histoire de l’Empire byzantin (c. 454-
1204), Paris. Supervisor: Professor Michel Kaplan.

St John the Baptist of Stoudios is one the most famous monasteries in

Byzantine history. It has not been studied as a whole before, due to the
discontinuity of written sources that have been preserved. From its
foundation to the Latin conquest of Constantinople (ca. 454-1204), its
history can be split into three periods. During the first (until 787),
Stoudios appears to be an ordinary consequence of aristocratic evergetism
in the capital, in a context where monasticism is often opposed to the
Emperor until Justinian re-establishes his authority upon it. During the
second period, from the Second Council of Nicea (787) to the restoration
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peculiar interest, the origins of which had not been examined closely
enough till now. The third period, until 1204, is an era of triumph: the
monastery becomes a sort of associate to the imperial power; it provides
many dignitaries to the Empire and receives many signs of favour. The
meticulous analysis of the reasons for such an unmatched success during
the Middle Byzantine times constitutes the framework of the study.

Andriani Georgiou, The Role of Elite Women as Patrons of Religious

Buildings and Book Production during the Early Palaiologan Period
(1261-1355), MA, Birmingham. Supervisor: Professor Leslie Brubaker.

A study of the patronage of six imperial and elite women - Theodora

Doukaina Palaiologina, Theodora Kantakouzene Palaiologina Raoulaina,
Maria Palaiologina, Theodora Doukaina Komnene Palaiologina
Synadene, Maria Doukaina Komnene Branaina Palaiologina Glabaina,
and Eirene Choumnaina Laskarina Palaiologina - that pieces together a
broad range of secondary literature, of the primary written documentation
of the period, and of the primary visual sources, particularly church
architecture and deluxe manuscripts. Main focus of the thesis is to
interpret the motivations that impelled this certain group of women into
acts of patronage.

Hiroyuki Hashikawa, Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople and the

Crisis of the Late Byzantine Empire (in Japanese), submitted to Kyoto
University, December 2006.

Maria Konstantinidou, St. John Chrystostom’s Homilies on the Letter of

St. Paul to Titus. A critical edition with introduction and notes on
selected passages, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Mr. Nigel Wilson

Bojana Krsmanović, The Byzantine Provincial Administration at the

End of 10th and the Beginning of 11th Century, Belgrade (July 18, 2006).
Supervisor: Professor Ljubomir Maksimović

Maria Matthaiou, Η ακίνητη περιουσία λαϊκών στη Βυζαντινή

Μακεδονία και Θράκη την εποχή των Παλαιολόγων, University of Athens
(December 2006). Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Tr. Maniati-Kokkini (members

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of the Committee: Prof. Fl. Evangelatou-Notara and Sub. Prof. El.

Papayanni).

Anthousa Papagiannaki, The Production of Middle Byzantine Ivory,

Bone and Wooden Caskets with Secular Decoration, University of
Oxford (Hilary 2006). Supervisor: Dr. Marlia Mango.

The medieval Byzantine secular ivory and bone caskets, known in

scholarship as the “rosette caskets”, form a complex body of research
material. Each casket is comprised of different component parts
assembled to create the finished artefact. Modern scholarly research has
focused on iconographic and stylistic aspects of these artefacts. The
importance of technical details, such as the serial character of the
production of these artefacts, has only recently been re-asserted and never
previously studied in detail.

This thesis explores the production mechanisms of the medieval

Byzantine secular ivory and bone caskets through the study of eighty-
three caskets, both complete and fragmentary, recorded in the
accompanied illustrated catalogue. Iconography has been used to group
together the panels and revetments of the caskets thematically, offering
an insight into the extent of their serial production and requiring a re-
examination of the subjects depicted on the caskets. The medieval caskets
have then been deconstructed into their component parts, analysed in
detail, and workshops have been identified for the production of the
constituent parts and of the caskets themselves. At the same time, the
organisation of the production of these artefacts has been approached in
terms of individual workshops and their interaction with each other and
with the potential owners and uses of the artefacts discussed. This
analysis in turn sheds further light on an important but poorly understood
aspect of medieval Byzantine society, the manufacture and channelling
of luxury artefacts to the urban and court milieu of imperial
Constantinople.

Christos Simelidis, Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus: a Critical

Edition with Introduction and Commentary, University of Oxford.
Supervisor: Nigel G. Wilson.

This thesis offers a critical edition (from 29 manuscripts), with

introduction and commentary, of four poems (266 verses) written by St.
Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. AD 330-390): two autobiographical (II.1.10

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and 19), one lament (ΙΙ.1.32) and one gnomology (I.2.17). My

commentary on the text is primarily linguistic, but I am treating literary,
historical, and religious questions suggested by the text alongside my
detailed verbal work. The introductory chapters to each poem (I. General
Outline, II. Literary Characteristics, III. Place in Gregory’s Life and
Thought) include historical and theological evidence which is relevant to
the understanding of the poems. Apart from their sources and the
allusions to earlier texts, I investigate their influence in later centuries,
especially upon Byzantine poets. The fate and the understanding of the
poems in later ages are also depicted in the three different Byzantine
paraphrases, which are transmitted by the majority of the manuscripts
together with the text of the poems. The paraphrases of 9 poems
(including the 4 which I am editing) are edited as an appendix to my
thesis. A chapter of the thesis’ introduction discusses their linguistic
characteristics and their support of the idea that Gregory’s poems were
used in schools.

The introduction examines features of Gregory’s poetry in general, using

material from the entire corpus. I discuss Gregory’s use of poetic
allusion, as well as his relationship with Hellenistic poets, especially
Callimachus. Gregory often wants to engage his reader in exploring
literary allusions. In fact the reader of Gregory’s verses can often fully
understand his text only if he is aware of the classical texts which
Gregory alludes to. The fact that some texts which he echoes are erotic
(cleverly transformed) is particularly striking. I also comment on the
poems’ language and metre, and offer an account of the poems’ reception
in Late Antiquity and Byzantium.

Elissavet Tzavella, Burial and Urbanism in Early Byzantine and ‘Dark

Age’ Athens (AD 4th-9th c.), M.Phil., Birmingham. Supervisor: Dr. Archie
Dunn.

This is an archaeological study of urbanism in Early Byzantine Athens

(4th - 9th c.), based on the evidence of cemeteries and graves excavated
in rescue and systematic excavations. The location of cemeteries up to the
middle of the seventh century shows considerable continuity from earlier
periods, while new, intramural cemeteries appear, gradually replacing the
traditional extramural ones. The location of cemeteries and the number of
graves do not indicate a reduction of the town's population and size either
after the Herulian invasion or in the seventh century, as has been
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pagan city in the Early Byzantine period is re-examined in the light of

information provided by Christian and pagan graves. Moreover, evidence
for the disruptive character of the Slavic invasions in Athens is
questioned. A remarkable shift in the location of cemeteries and churches
is observed after the middle of the seventh century, connected with
changes in the overall topography of the city. Publications of the results
of recent excavations and precise dating of their archaeological finds is
indispensable for more detailed future research into the subject.

Andrew Vladimirou, Byzantine astrology in the 11th and 12th centuries,

Birmingham. Supervisor: Professor John Haldon.

Konstandinos Yiavis, A critical edition of the rhymed mediaeval

romance ‘Imberios and Margarona’, University of Cambridge.
Supervisor: Professor David Holton; Examiners: Professor R.M. Beaton
and Professor E.M. Jeffreys.

This thesis is a rigorously philological critical edition which makes

available one of the most popular post-Byzantine romances, the rhymed
Imberios and Margarona. The earliest complete edition (1553) was used
as the basic text together with what has been salvaged of the editio
princeps of 1543. The third earliest chapbook (1562) was discovered in
Paris.

The extensive Introduction inter alia: 1.- establishes palaeographically

that Imberios was perused by two eminent humanists (Huet and Allatius),
thus challenging the perception that popular literature was disparaged by
intellectuals of that time; 2.- suggests a solution to the tantalising problem
of the manuscript tradition; 3.- sheds light on the Venetian printing
houses, where most of post-Byzantine printing was undertaken, by the
discovery of a heretofore unknown connection between two leading
firms; 4.-discusses thoroughly the language of the text; 5.-identifies with
precision the process from manuscript to print.

The Commentary is concerned with literary, textual and hermeneutical

issues, as well as realia, and traces dozens of unknown thematic
analogues. The Glossary, of over eight thousand words, augments the
data in the standard lexicon at several points.

On the other hand, the thesis is provocatively interdisciplinary, and seeks

to transform exclusively text-centred views of the romance. The section

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devoted to the literary appreciation of Imberios brings together research

in material culture with theoretical thought, and inscribes the romance in
the context of Western European literature. It refutes the current
categorisation of Imberios as a “courtly” romance by offering a
comparative examination of the courtly literature proper in the Western
Middle Ages, especially English and French. By using the
methodological tools of historicism, it argues that Imberios anticipates the
thought world of the Renaissance.

Late Byzantine literature acknowledged the West in ways as yet

undefined. Imberios is not unique in owing debts to Western originals,
but is exceedingly conducive to an examination of how this occurred
because of its extreme popularity across Europe. The thesis presents an
edition of the Middle English version, and compares the Greek adaptor’s
modus operandi with that of his English counterpart. By highlighting
awareness of their temporal dimension, the analysis reflects the
constructedness and historicity of the works under scrutiny

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5. CONFERENCES, LECTURES & SEMINAR SERIES

2006

5-8 January, Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Cambridge

Stavroula Constantinou gave a paper entitled: The Female Prostitute
Becomes a ‘Male’ Saint: Gender, Ecstasy and Identity in Byzantine Lives
of Holy Prostitutes.

30 March – 1 April, The Legacy of Antiquity. Perceptions of the

Classics throughout History, St. Andrews University
Dr Anthousa Papagiannaki gave a paper entitled: Nereids and
Hippocamps: The echo of Skopas’ marine group on medieval ivory and
bone caskets.

1-2 April, The British Association for Soviet, Slavonic, and East
European Studies Conference, Cambridge
Jacej Maj gave a paper entitled: Byzantine Art in Medieval Poland.

6-8 April, Thirty-Third Sewanee Symposium: Power in the Middle

Ages (Tenessee)
Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska gave a paper entitled: The power of
virtue. The case of the last Palaiologoi.

6-8 April, Byzantium and new countries – New peoples on the

frontier of Byzantino-Slavonic area (IX-XV centuries), Cracow
Dr. Mihailo Popović gave a paper entitled: Die Gesandtschaften des
byzantinischen Kaisers Basileios I. zu den Serben [The embassies of the
Byzantine emperor Basil I to the Serbs]

May, 1st International Symposium of Mardin History, Turkey

Christopher Lillington-Martin gave a paper entitled: Mardin and its
Surrounding in the Ancient Period of History: the Battle of Dara, AD
530.

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1-21 May, The Complete Hospitallers' Tour

Michael Heslop joined this tour led by Jonathan Riley-Smith. They
visited all the major Hospitaller and other related sites in Israel, Cyprus,
Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rhodes and Malta

11-13 May, 18th Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche

Archäologie zur Erforschung spätantiker, frühmittelalterlicher und
byzantinischer Kultur
Jacek Maj gave a paper entitled: Byzantinische Kunst in Polen. Eine
Forschungsbilanz.

12 May, 26th Symposium of the Christian Archaeological Society,

Athens
Dr. Olga Karagiorgou gave a paper entitled: Αξιωματούχοι του θέματος
Ελλάδος με βούλλα (η αρχή ενός ερευνητικού προγράμματος).

12-14 May, The International Meeting ‘Byzantium and the Slavs’

(Sofia) was attended by Professor Ljubomir Maksimović.

8-10 June, Conference on Jozef Kremer (1806-1875), Krakow

Jacek Maj gave a paper entitled: Jozef Kremer’s Byzantium.

29 June-2 July, 3rd International Sifnean Symposium

was attended by Michael Heslop

Summer 2006, Visual Resources for Teaching and Research in Early

East Slavic Culture, summer institute sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, New York Public Library
was attended by Monica White.

10-13 July, XIII International Congress of the European Middle

Ages, Leeds
Dr. Anthousa Papagiannaki gave a paper entitled: Laughing one’s head
off: Comic mimes on medieval Byzantine ivory and bone caskets, in
which she reconstructed the iconography of one ivory panel of a casket
currently in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt.

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18-19 July, Unlocking the potential of texts: interdisciplinary

perspectives on Medieval Greek, Centre for Research in Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge

The aim of the conference was to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue

among researchers whose primary material consists of texts in vernacular
Greek of the late medieval and early modern periods (ca. 1100-1700). It
was organized by David Holton, on behalf of the AHRC-funded research
project for a grammar of Medieval Greek, based at Cambridge. Speakers
included: Aglaia Kasdagli, Kriton Chrysochoidis, Martin Hinterberger,
Stavros Perentidis, Georgios Velenis, David Holton, Nicholas de Lange,
Charalambos Dendrinos and Agamemnon Tselikas. Tina Lendari, Peter
Mackridge and Arnold van Gemert participated in a round table
discussion. Some of the papers are now available on-line at:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/grammarofmedievalgreek/unlocking/contents.html

21-26 August, 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies,

London
Petr Balcárek gave a communication entitled: Ways of Transmission of
Byzantine Idea. Some Examples from Central Europe.

Professor Lucy-Anne Hunt (with Denys Pringle) gave a paper entitled:

The artistic programme surrounding the tomb of tomb of the Virgin in
Jerusalem in the twelfth century. In preparation to be published as an
article.

Dr. Olga Karagiorgou gave a paper entitled: Byzantine themes and

sigillography: I. The sigillographic corpora of the themes of Hellas,
Opsikion and Armeniakon.

Professor Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini gave a communication entitled:

Taxes and tax-exemptions in the 13th-15th centuries. A research
programme in progress: Τhe decade 1346-1355.

Dr. Anthousa Papagiannaki gave a communication entitled: “The couple

of servants adore, as they should, the imperial couple, which is blessed
by Christ”: An ivory casket in Rome and its patrons

Dr. Mihailo Popović gave a communication entitled: Mara Branković:

the life and work of a woman on the cultural intersection between Serbs,
Byzantines and Ottomans

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Dr. Nada Zečevič gave a communication entitled: The Image of Carlo

Tocco as a ruler: features, models, reception.

1-8 October, 10th International Kretologikon Congress, Chania,

Crete
Dr. Angeliki Lumberopoulou gave a paper entitled: ‘A Noli me Tangere
Icon in the British Museum’ (in Greek).
The International Kretologika Congresses take place every five years and
each of the four major cities on Crete – Chania, Rethymnon, Herakleion
and Agios Nikolaos – host them in turn. The Kretologika are divided in
three parts – Prehistoric and Classical, Medieval, and Modern – and cover
all periods and aspects of Cretan studies. Unfortunately for the
Byzantinists, the Kretologika usually follow shortly after the International
Byzantine Congresses. As a consequence, the Byzantine sessions suffer
diminished numbers. Last year, however, was a successful one. The count
of participants was surprisingly high - especially since a number of them
had already followed the 21st International Byzantine Congress in London
- with many interesting papers. The 11th International Kretologikon
Congress will take place in Rethymnon in 2011 and, as usual, it will
follow shortly after the 22nd International Byzantine Congress in Sofia.
See you in both.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou

6-7 October, Travels, Archives. The Contribution of the British School

of Athens to Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Athens
Dr. Paul Hetherington gave a paper entitled: William Miller: medieval
historian and modern journalist.
The proceedings are to be published in BSA Studies series.

16-21 October, Following the Research Aspects of Academician

Vojislav J. Djurić, Belgrade
was attended by Zaga Gavrilović and Professor Ljubomir Maksimović.

3-4 November, Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages, NIAS,
Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Matthew dal Santo gave a paper entitled: Gregory the Great and
Eustratius of Constantinople.

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10-12 November, Thirty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies

Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska: Consultations on Palaiologian writings
with Professor John Barker (University of Wisconsin).

18 November, The Council of Chalcedon, Oxford

A one-day colloquium, ‘The Council of Chalcedon’, organized by Dr.
Mary Whitby, was held on 18th November, 2006 in the Corpus Christi
Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity. Publication of a
selection of the papers is planned.

24 November, a day of papers and appreciation in memory of the

Reverend Professor William Frend, 1916-2005
Society of Antiquaries, London

Professor David Phillipson FSA in the Chair

10.30 Arrival and Coffee
11.00 Welcome and introduction by Professor Phillipson
11.15 Professor Brent Shaw, Athletes of Death: Suicide in Augustine’s
Africa
12.15 Dr. Heimo Dolenz, Martyr Veneration at the Damous El Karita,
Carthage
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Dr. Richard Miles FSA, Re-thinking the Reconquista: Christian
Carthage in the Byzantine era
15.00 Reverend Brian Taylor FSA, A personal appreciation
15.15 Discussion and close followed by wine reception

25 November, Annual Symposium of the Canadian Society for Syriac

Studies in Toronto, Ontario
The theme was: The Era of the Christological Councils: Syriac writings
and Greek theologians. Fred McLeod (St Louis University) spoke on
Narsai's dependence on Theodore of Mopsuestia, Patrick Gray (York
University) spoke on ‘Fighting with History: Severus, his Opponents, and
the Historical Cyril’ and George Bevan (University of Toronto) spoke on
‘The Last Days of Nestorius in the Syriac sources’.

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9-10 December, New Approaches to the origins of Western

monasticism and to the development of sacred space, Institut für
Österreichische Geschichtforschung, Vienna, Austria
Matthew dal Santo gave a paper entitled: The representation of personal
holiness in the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great and the development
of notions of sacred space in early medieval Christianity.

16 December, 1st Symposium of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine

History and Archaeology, Aspects of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine
Cyprus, Society of Cypriot Studies, Old Archbishopric Palace,
Nicosia, Cyprus
The Symposium was organised by Dr. Stavros G. Georgiou and the
Society of Cypriot Studies. It brought together fifteen Byzantinologists
and other scholars to discuss new approaches to the Byzantine and post-
Byzantine history and archaeology of Cyprus. The organisers are
planning to publish papers from the Symposium.

Christos Argyrou gave a paper entitled: Teaching Byzantium: Realities

and Perspectives in Primary and Secondary Education of Cyprus (in
Greek)

Stavros G. Georgiuos gave a paper entitled: Cyprus in the Eleventh and

Twelfth Century: Aspects of a Byzantine Province (in Greek)

2007

23 January, FaRiG, Georgian Churches, Jesus College Oxford

Bruce Clark (Economist): Georgian Christianity, an Overview
Tony Anderson: Georgian Churches in Tao Klarjeti

24 January, Byzantine Seminar, Oxford

Christopher Lillington-Martin gave a paper entitled: Prokopios and
Battlefield Archaeology

22-24 February, Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher

Byzantinisten, Berlin
Stavroula Constantinou gave a paper entitled: Gefährtete
Jungfräulichkeit: Der Fall von Maria von Antioch.

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February – March, The University of London Seminar on Editing

Byzantine texts was established in 1988 through the co-operation of Dr
Joseph A. Munitiz, Miss Julian Chrysostomides and Dr Athanasios
Angelou, initially with the aim of studying Byzantine literary works. It
later developed into a working Seminar on editing Byzantine texts, joined
by graduate students and visiting scholars who happened to be in London.
The Seminar, the only of its kind in London, has been the focus of
Byzantinists specializing in various areas, such as textual criticism,
language and literature, palaeography, history and historiography,
theology and art history. The Seminar always tries to reach its decisions
by common consent, in a spirit of friendly co-operation and discussion,
each member contributing his/her own expertise and experience. More
importantly, graduate students have the opportunity to learn and practise
the editorial process, from the transcription of manuscripts to the final
stages of publication of critical editions and annotated translations of
Byzantine texts. The Seminar has produced an annotated critical edition
and translation of The Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Emperor
Theophilos and Related Texts on the Second Phase of Iconoclasm (eds.
J.A. Munitiz, J. Chrysostomides, E. Harvalia-Crook and Ch. Dendrinos
[Porphyrogenitus: Camberley, 1997]) and has edited a number of texts,
including two unpublished religious works by the 15th-century scholar
Manuel Calecas. At present, an annotated critical edition and translation
of the extensive Correspondence of George of Cyprus (Ecumenical
Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-89) is under preparation. Members are asked
to prepare a transcription of a letter or a group of letters from the
principal manuscripts (Mutinensis graecus 82 and Vaticanus graecus
1085), followed by an edition with an apparatus criticus and an
apparatus fontium, together with a translation and notes to the text. Their
work is then presented and discussed at the Seminar. So far, fifty letters
have been edited, translated and annotated.

The Seminar meets during the second term (February-March) on Fridays,

16.30-18.30, at the Institute of Historical Research, 3rd floor, Seminar
Room, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E
7HU. Scholars and graduate students who are interested in Byzantine
texts are welcome to participate. For further information please contact
Miss Julian Chrysostomides ([email protected]) or Dr
Charalambos Dendrinos ([email protected]) at The Hellenic
Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20
0EX. Tel. +44 (0)1784 443086/443791; Fax +44 (0)1784 433032.

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5 March, The Seventh Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture, by Sir

Andrew Burns on ‘Classics and International Politics: Past, Present (and
Future?)’ to be held at Royal Holloway, University of London, Main
Lecture Theatre, Founder’s Building, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, on 5
March 2007 at 17.30. The lecture will be followed by reception in the
Picture Gallery. All are welcome. For further information, please contact
Dr Charalambos Dendrinos ([email protected]) at The Hellenic
Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20
0EX. Tel. +44 (0)1784 443086/443791; Fax +44 (0)1784 433032

10-11 March, Late Antique Archaeology

The Archaeology of War in Late Antiquity
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

This conference will examine the military archaeology of late antiquity,

from the perspective of conflict history. It will leave aside the everyday
life of soldiers, and concentrate on studying strategies, campaigns, battles
and decisive advantage in weapons technology. Texts and archaeology
will be compared, for the strengths and weaknesses of both.

SATURDAY 10TH MARCH 2007

**Logistics**
10.00-10.40 John Haldon (Princeton)
Information and War: intelligence operations and surveillance networks
10.40-11.20 Andrew Poulter (Nottingham)
The Archaeology of Supply: the role of granaries, ports and
communications in offensive and defensive military campaigns

**Fortification And Siege Warfare**

12.00-12.40 Jim Crow (Newcastle)
Walls in War and Peace, the design and maintenance of military and
urban fortifications
12.40-1.20 Michael Whitby (Warwick)
Siege Warfare and Counter-Siege Tactics

**Weaponry**
2.30-3.10 Jim Coulston (St. Andrews)
Characterising Late Roman Military Equipment Culture
3.10-3.50 Michel Kazanski (Paris)

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L'équipement militaires des peuples barbares frontaliers du Bas-Empire

et son origin

**Battles: Literary And Topographical Evidence**

4.30-5.10 Christopher Lillington-Martin (Glasgow)
Procopius and the Topographical Evidence for the Battles of Belisarius
5.10-5.50 Ian Colvin (Cambridge)
Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and
Agathias: topography and sources
5.50-6.00 Discussion

SUNDAY 11TH MARCH

**The Rhine Frontier And The Western Provinces**

9.00-9.40 Hugh Elton (Trent)
Imperial Campaigning from Diocletian to Honorius

**The Balkan Frontier And Provinces**

10.20-11.00 Archibald Dunn (Birmingham)
The Archaeology of the Imperial Response to invasion in the Southern
Balkans: the state of the question
11.00-11.40 Alexander Sarantis (Oxford)
Military Encounters in the Northern Balkans from Anastasius to Justin II

**The East**
1.00-1.40 James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
The End of the (Ancient) World
1.40-2.20 Hugh Kennedy (St. Andrews)
The Roman Defeat and Arabic Invasions

**Civil War**
3.00-3.40 Neil Christie (Leicester)
War Within the Frontiers: rebellions, revolts and civil wars
3.40-4.20 Maria Kouroumali (Wolfson College, Oxford)
The Justinianic re-conquest of Italy: imperial campaigns and local
responses

For application form and accommodation, visit:

www.lateantiquearchaeology.com. Send application form with payment
to Alexander Sarantis, 8 Penhurst Court, Sidney Street, Oxford OX4
3AB, England.

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£40 admission (£15 student/unwaged). Cheques in sterling to "Late

Antique Archaeology". Cash payment for overseas visitors, by
arrangement. Queries: [email protected].

1 April, RAC/TRAC 2007 (joint Roman Archaeology Conference &

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London)
The Archaeology of Ethnic Conflict: race, equality and power in the
Roman world:- Christopher Lillington-Martin will give a paper entitled:
The Roman-Persian Conflict near Dara, AD 530 – where was it?

25-27 April, Symposium on Turkish Art and Archaeology, Selcuk

University, Konya
Christopher Lillington-Martin will give a paper entitled: Turkish
Battlefield Archaeology

26 April, British Academy, London

Averil Cameron will give the Raleigh Lecture in History at the British
Academy with the title: Byzantium and the limits of Orthodoxy.
Admission is free and open to all.

18 May, Niketas Choniates. A Byzantine Historian and Writer, A one

day colloquium at Koç University, Istanbul

Hosted by the Department of History at Koç University in association

with the Department of Philology at the University of Ioannina

Provisional Programme

Morning Session
Chair: Alicia Simpson
10:00: Introduction: Niketas Choniates, One of Us Moderns (Alicia
Simpson-Stephanos Efthymiadis)

10:15: Stephanos Efthymiadis (Ioannina University), Greek Mythology

and Biblical Metaphor in the Service of an Artful Writer
10:45: Paul Magdalino (St. Andrews/Koç University), Prophecy and
Divination in the Historia

Coffee break

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11:45: Luciano Bossina (Akademie der Wisssenschaften zu Goettingen),

Theology in the Context of the Fourth Crusade: the Historia and the
Dogmatike Panoplia
12:15 John Davis (Independent scholar), The Historia metaphrased:
Virtues and Vices

Lunch break

Afternoon Session
Chair: Stephanos Efthymiadis
2:00: Niels Gaul (Oxford University), Chains and Gems, Tears and
Smiles: The Performance of Empire
2:30: Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University), Paradox, Reversal and
the Meaning of History

Coffee break

3:30: Titos Papamastorakis (Aegean University), Interpreting the ‘De

Signis’ of Niketas Choniates
4:00: Alicia Simpson (Koç University), Narrative Images of Medieval
Constantinople

For further information please contact:

Dr. Alicia Simpson, Department of History

Koç University, Rumeli Feneri Yolu
34450 Sariyer-Istanbul, TURKEY
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Stephanos Efthymiadis

Visiting Professor
Central European University
Department of Medieval Studies
Nádor ut. 9, H 1051 Budapest, HUNGARY
E-mail: [email protected]

4-9 June, Annual Congress of The International Association of

Literature and Philosophy, Nicosia, Cyprus
Stavroula Constantinou will give a paper entitled: The Layers of the
Saint’s Immortal Flesh: Torture in Byzantine Hagiography.

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11 June, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies

Colloquium on Byzantine Manuscripts, Scholars and Teachers in the
Palaeologan Period.
The colloquium is being organised by Julian Chrysostomides, Pat
Easterling and Charalambos Dendrinos and will be held at the Institute of
Classical Studies, North Block, Room 336, Senate House, University of
London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU on Monday 11 June 2007,
9.30-19.00. For further information, please contact Charalambos
Dendrinos ([email protected]).

13 June, Bristol: Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad, Camberwell College of Arts,

will give a lecture entitled: Preserving the oldest library in Christendom:
the Saint Catherine's Monastery Library Project on Mount Sinai on
Wednesday 13 June 2007, 19.15 for 19.30 at the University of Bristol,
Dept. of Classics, 11, Woodland Road (enter by the front door),
organized by the Bristol Anglo-Hellenic Cultural Society, and followed
by a buffet.

14-15 June, British Museum / LARG Byzantine Seminar. Recent

Research on Byzantine Pottery

A two-day Conference to be held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, the

Great Court, the British Museum on Thursday June 14th and the Main
Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, London, Friday June 15th 2007

Provisional Programme

Thursday 14th June

10.00-10.40 Ken Dark (University of Reading), Introduction
10.40-11.10 Paul Roberts and Claire Pickersgill (British
Museum), Early Byzantine Pottery from Sparta
11.10-11.35 Coffee
11.35- 12.05 Roberta Tomber (British Museum), Early Byzantine
pottery/Egypt
12.05-12.30 Don Bailey (British Museum), Early Byzantine
pottery/Egypt
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.30 David Peacock (University of Southampton), The
imported pottery of Aksumite Adulis, Eritrea
2.30-3.00 Susanne Bangert (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford),
Early Byzantine ampullae

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3.00-3.25 Tea
3.25-3.55 Yvonne Gerber (University of Basle), To be
announced
3.55-4.25 Konstantinos Politis (Hellenic Society for Near
Eastern Study, Athens), Late Antique pottery
traditions as evidenced from recent studies at Deir
‘Ain ‘Abata and Ghor es-Safi in Jordan: an argument
for cultural continuity from the Roman/Byzantine to
the Umayyad/Abbasid periods

Friday 15th June

10.00-10.30 Mark Jackson (University of Newcastle), Early and
Middle Byzantine ceramics in Cilicia, Turkey
10.30-11.00 Erica d’Amico (University of Durham), Trade,
commerce and consumption of Middle Byzantine fine
wares in Italy: status quaestionis and new
perspectives of analysis
11.00-11.25 Coffee
11.25-11.55 Tony Grey (Museum of London), Byzantine to
Crusader: the ceramic record from Tel Jezreel
11.55-12.25 Edna Stern (Israeli Antiquities Authority), Pottery
from the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: the current
state of research
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.30 Joanita Vroom (University of Sheffield), To be
announced
2.30-3.00 Pamela Catling (University of Oxford), To be
announced
3.00-3.25 Tea
3.25-3.55 Veronique Francois (Institut français du Proche-
Orient, Damascus), Céramiques Byzantines
d’Aphrodisias (Carie) – quelques données inédites
3.55-4.25 Demetra Bakirtzis (Byzantine Museum, Thessaloniki),
Late Byzantine/Cypriot connections
4.25- Judith Herrin (King’s College, London), Concluding
Remarks

The conference fee will be £15. Cheques payable to: The British Museum

Contact: Chris Entwistle, Department of Prehistory and Europe, British

Museum, Gt Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Tel. 0207-323-8724; email [email protected]

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18 June, London: Spirituality in late Byzantium

Lamentation of Christ. Nerezi near Skopje (1164). A fresco on the walls

of St. Panteleimon Church in Nerezei, depicting the descent from the
Cross

Provisional programme to include:

Teodora Burnand (London): Donors and iconography: the case of the

church “St. Virgin” in Dolna Kamenitsa (XIV c.)
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev (Durham): Gregory of Narek's Christology
Hannah Hunt (Leeds): The Reforming Abbot and his tears: Penthos in
late Byzantium
Dirk Krausmüller (Belfast): Banishing reason from the divine image:
Palamas's Spiritual Chapters and Patristic anthropology
Jozef Matula (Palacky University): Journey of Soul to Perfection: Niketas
Stethatos
Robert Mihajlovski (La Trobe University): The Anti-Palamite theologian
Gregory Akyndinos and his native town of Prilep at the beginning of the
fourteenth century
Maria Haralambakis (Manchester): The ‘Testament of Job’: from
Testament to Vita

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Eugenia Russell (Royal Holloway, University of London): St Demetrius

and his people, in the mind of Symeon, the last metropolitan of Byzantine
Thessalonica
Norman Russell (London): The theology of Patriarch Philotheos
Rebecca White (Oxford): Hesychasm as theology in Gregory Palamas

The conference will be held at: Boardroom, 2, Gower Street, London

WC1E (UK). Delegates will have to sign in first, at: 11 Bedford Square,
Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3RA.
Lunch will be provided and we will have use of the gardens, and probably
go for dinner after the conference.

Due to the generosity of our sponsors, registration will be free, but space
is limited. Please register early and at least by 20 February. A number of
student bursaries will be available to help with expenses. Please ask when
applying. Please also mention if you are unaffiliated or retired. We may
be able to help. It is hoped that a selection of papers will be published in
due course.
The organiser, Eugenia Russell (RHUL), can be reached at
[email protected]

7-9 July 2007, Monemvasia

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Photograph: The Feast of Transfiguration in “Mikros Sotiris”. Symi 6 August 2005

MONEMVASIOTIKOS HOMILOS
th
18 SYMPOSIUM OF HISTORY AND ART

FAIRS AND FEASTS

Saturday 7 July 2007 to Monday 9 July 2007

www.monemvasiotikosomilos.gr

The 18th SYMPOSIUM OF HISTORY AND ART organized by

MONEMVASIOTIKOS HOMILOS
will take place from Saturday 7 July 2007 to Monday 9 July 2007 on:
FAIRS AND FEASTS
Scholars wishing to present papers within the theme of the Symposium
are kindly requested to send the title of their proposed paper along with
an abstract following the instructions stated below, not later than the 15 th
of April 2007. The communications should be original, unpublished and
up to 20’ in length. Papers can be presented in Greek or English. The
permanent Scientific Committee reserves the right to decide which
papers will be accepted. The members of the Committee are:
Michel Balard, Université Paris I
Charalambos Bouras, N.T.U., Prof. Em.
Francesca Cavazzana Romanelli, Università di Trieste
Haris Kalligas
Sergei Karpov, Moscow University
Angeliki Laiou, Academy of Athens and Harvard University
Chryssa Maltezou, Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine
Studies, Venice
Accommodation and transportation from and to Athens by a specially
hired coach can be offered to the speakers and the Committee members.
There is no subscription fee for the Symposium, which is open to anyone
interested.
Contacts: Haris Kalligas, Monemvasiotikos Homilos, MONEMVASIA
GR 23070
Telephone +30-27320-61284
FAX +30-27320-61207
[email protected], [email protected]
The website of Monemvasiotikos Homilos is in operation:
www.monemvasiotikosomilos.gr

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9-11 July, International Colloquium The Greek Bible in Byzantine

Judaism, Wolfson College, Cambridge
The aim of the colloquium (which is part of a AHRC-funded research
project) is to examine all the issues associated with Jewish use of Greek
Bible translations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including
particularly: primary sources; the role of these translations within Jewish
culture, both written and oral; the nature of the translations and their
relationship with the Septuagint and other ancient translations; linguistic
questions; modes of transmission; and implications for Jewish–Christian
relations. Speakers include: Johannes Panagiotides-Niehoff (Berlin);
David Jacoby (Jerusalem); Silvia Cappelletti (Milan); Giuseppe Veltri
(Halle); Peter Gentry (Louisville); Saskia Dönitz (Berlin); Patrick Andrist
(Geneva).
For general information contact Dr Cameron Boyd-Taylor:
[email protected]
to book contact Catherine Hurley: [email protected].

12-15 July, Leeds Medieval Congress

Cities and War:- Christopher Lillington-Martin will give a paper entitled:
Prokopios and Satellite Imagery

Stavroula Constatninou will give a paper entitled: Family and Marriage

in the Byzantine Legend of Saint Alexius

6-11 August, The 15th Patristic Conference, Oxford

For information, please consult the website www.patristics.org.uk or e-
mail [email protected].

20-23 September, 7th Meeting of Byzantinologists from Greece and

Cyprus, University of Thraki, Komotini

11-14 October, 33rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University

of Toronto.
The conference is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of
papers on all aspects of Byzantine Studies. It is open to all, regardless of

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nationality or academic status. Deadline for the submission of proposals

is 15th March, 2007. For more information, see our website:
www.byzconf.org

November, University of London Workshop on Greek Texts and

Manuscripts, to be held at the Warburg Institute, Ground floor, Large
Seminar Room, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB in November 2007
(date to be announced). This workshop is designed for MA and research
students who pursue research in Classical and Byzantine texts preserved
in Greek manuscripts. It concentrates on research methods and
techniques used in tracing published texts, manuscripts and scribes. For
further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos
([email protected]) at The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway,
University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX. Tel. +44 (0)1784
443086/443791; Fax +44 (0)1784 433032.

Graduate Workshops

Birmingham
8th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and
Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, Saturday 9th June.
Vera Andriopoulou

Cambridge
A two-day graduate workshop is being organised for graduate students
working in the fields of religion, culture and intellectual history in the
early Byzantine Mediterranean. It will be held at the University of
Cambridge, probably in late June 2007. Please e-mail [email protected]
if you are interested in attending or presenting a paper.
Matthew dal Santo

Oxford
The Oxford Graduate Byzantine Studies Day, open to all graduates, will
be held on 3rd March at Lincoln College, Oxford. The theme is Conflict
and Resolution.
Meredith Reidel

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17-18 April, Postgraduate Forum in Byzantine Studies: Sailing to

Byzantium, Centre for medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity
College Dublin

An international forum for postgraduates and young scholars* of

Byzantine Studies will be held on 17-18 April 2007 at the Centre for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Dedicated to
the promotion of interdisciplinary research on Medieval Studies and
within the spirit of Trinity College’s strategic development of research in
the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Long Room Hub initiative),
the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies has not excluded from
its research agenda Byzantine Studies.

What title more appropriate than Sailing to Byzantium, after the poem of
the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, could be given to a symposium on
Byzantine Studies in Ireland? This forum aims to be a challenging and
fruitful journey to Byzantium through the eyes of young scholars who
have chosen Byzantine culture as their research interest.

The Postgraduate Forum in Byzantine Studies will open with the plenary
lecture Playing the Endgame: New Approaches to Byzantium’s Last
Century by Dr. Jonathan Harris of Royal Holloway, University of London
on Tuesday April 17th 2007 at 7.30pm.
This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together postgraduate
researchers from various areas of Byzantine Studies. It will provide them
with an excellent opportunity to present their work, exchange new ideas,
and meet people who conduct research in the same field. To this end,
proposals for papers on any aspect of Byzantine Studies are invited. If a
sufficient number of papers is submitted, we intend to publish them. (NB
All submissions will be subject to editorial review, and acceptance for
presentation does not therefore automatically guarantee inclusion in the
final publication).

Abstracts (max 250 words), and CVs should be submitted by 1 st March

2007 to Savvas Neocleous ([email protected]). Papers should be no more
than 30 minutes long. Undergraduates are also cordially invited to attend.
Personal details (full name, status, institution, phone, e-mail) should be
submitted by the same date. There will be a registration fee of 10 EURO
(either payable on the day or by mailed cheque made payable to ‘The
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin’).

For further information regarding participation or attendance at the

Postgraduate Forum in Byzantine Studies please contact Savvas

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Neocleous ([email protected]).

We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin.

* scholars who completed their Masters of PhDs after 1 January 2005.

Seminar Series

Seminar : spring term 2007 : Centre de Recherches d’Histoire et

civilisation byzantine et du Proche-Orient médiéval, Sorbonne, 17 rue de
la Sorbonne, 75005 PARIS, stair B, final floor : Every Monday 5-7 pm.

05/02 : Olivier Delouis (CNRS) : L’Épire et ses vestiges mésobyzantins :

une enquête en Albanie du Sud
12/02 : Renaud Rochette (Paris I) : Le parcours d’Andronic IV
19/02 : Raul Estangüi (Paris I) : Les biens des Athonites à Lèmnos
(milieu XIVe siècle – milieu XVe siècle)
26/02 : Diane Pasquier (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardennes) : la
réclusion dans les monastères féminins de Constantinople à l'époque
Paléologue
05/03 : Michel Kaplan (Paris I) : Les miracles de Côme et Damien et
l’organisation de l’espace sacré au Kosmidion de Constantinople
12/03 : Vincent Déroche (CNRS) : La Vie de Nicolas de Sion.
19/03 : Paolo Odorico (EHESS) : La Vie de David de Thessalonique
26/03 : Vincent Déroche (CNRS) : L’enfance des Saints.
02/04 : Anne Alwis (Université du Kent, Canterbury) : Masculinity and
the Miracles of St Artemios
23/04 : Stéphanos Efthymiadis (Université de Iannina, Central European
University) : Écriture et réécriture à Byzance.
30/04 : Id
07/05 : Id.
14/05 : Id.

University of Cambridge: Modern Greek lectures series

Faculty of Classics, Room 1.02, 5 p.m. on Thursdays:

19 October: Dr David Ricks (King’s College London), “A faint

sweetness in the never-ending afternoon”: Cavafy and the Greek
epigram

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2 November: Dr Eleni Kefala (University of St Andrews): Peripheral

Modernisms in Greece and Argentina: thecases of Borges, Cavafy,
Kalokyris and Kyriakidis

9 November: Professor Richard Clogg (St Antony’s College, Oxford),

Defining the Diaspora: the case of the Greeks

25 January: Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of

London), After Philhellenism: perceptions of the modern Greeks among
the Victorian intellectual elite

8 February: Dr Liana Giannakopoulou (King’s College London), The

Parthenon in poetry

15 February: Dr Charles Stewart (University College London), An

epidemic of dreaming on Naxos in 1930: antecedents and consequences

1 March: Professor Michael Jeffreys (King’s College London), Modern

Greek in the 11th century

8 March: Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus), Recording the

history of the Cretan War (1645-1669): an overview

3 May: Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford), Inventing

a literary past: the first two surveys of Modern Greek literature

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6. 40th SPRING SYMPOSIUM OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

Byzantine History as Literature

13-16 April 2007

The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies

University of Birmingham

Symposiarch: Dr. Ruth Macrides

The Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies returns to the University of

Birmingham to celebrate its 40th year in its original home. The subject of
the symposium is the literary analysis of Byzantine historical writing.
Perceived since the 16th century as the most impressive literary
achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains
unstudied as literature and underdeveloped as a field of study. Historical
texts are still read first and foremost for the information they contain, as
main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history.
Whatever is literary in these works is rejected. The features which
Byzantine writers of historical texts inherited, imitated and absorbed from
the classical tradition are regarded as standing in the way of
understanding the meaning of the text. The Symposium is the first
international conference devoted exclusively to the techniques and
methodologies of the literary interpretation of Byzantine historical
writing. Visual narrative in illustrated manuscripts will also be examined.

The format is simple. ALL PAPERS, apart from the opening framework
lecture, are 30-minutes long. There are four discussion sessions, each led
by INVITED speakers and an active convenor, who is a ruthless
timekeeper and will ensure that there is half as much time again for
public discussion, along with a break to take tea, coffee or just the air.
The sessions are named after Byzantine and modern writers who have
pronounced on history and literature:
I. David LODGE: ‘Literature is mostly about having sex and not much
about having children. Life is the other way round’. (The British Museum
is Falling Down) (1965);
II. ANNA KOMNENE: ‘The tale of history forms a very strong bulwark
against the stream of time…as I recognised…I was not ignorant of letters,
for I carried my study of Greek to the highest pitch, and was also not
unpractised in rhetoric; I perused the works of Aristotle and the dialogues
of Plato carefully, and enriched my mind with the four schools of
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III. Henry FORD: ‘History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t
want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is
worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.’ (1916);
IV. Steven RUNCIMAN: ‘Homer, as well as Herodotus, was a Father of
History, as Gibbon…was aware… History-writing today has passed into
an Alexandrian age, where criticism has overpowered creation.’ (Preface
to The Crusades) (1951).

A morning is set aside for VOLUNTEERED Communications of 12

minutes each – time enough to test an argument or announce a finding.
They are a vital part of the Symposium.

In addition to the BOOK DISPLAYS, there will be EXHIBITIONS in the

Coin Gallery of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, THE CURRENCY OF
FEMININITY: Women on coins, and ENCOUNTERS: Travel and
Money in the Byzantine World. Symposiasts are encouraged to view the
exhibition in their free time throughout the weekend of the Symposium.
Guided tours of the exhibitions will be given on FRIDAY 13 April from
1500-1700. The Barber is open Monday-Saturday, 10.00-5.00; Sunday,
12.00-5.00.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 13 APRIL 2007

1400 onwards, check-in at Manor House
1500-1700 Guided tours of coin exhibitions, Barber Institute of Fine
Arts, Coin Gallery
1800 Depart for the University from Manor House
1800 onwards Registration in the Arts Building
1900 Joint meeting of the Classical Association and the Spring
Symposium:
MARGARET MULLETT (Director, AHRB Centre for
Byzantine Cultural History, Belfast): History and truth, lies
and fiction: Byzantium and the classical tradition, twenty-
five years on
2000 Buffet dinner in the Great Hall, Rotunda
2130 Depart for Manor House

SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2007

0730 Breakfast in Manor House
0900 Depart for University
0900 onwards Registration in Arts Building

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1000 Opening of the Spring Symposium by ANTHONY BRYER

(Birmingham): Forty years on
1015 Framework lecture. BRIAN CROKE (Sydney):
Uncovering Byzantium’s historiographical audience
1130 Session I: The Lodge Session, convened by ROGER
SCOTT
I.1. Stephanos Efthymiades (Ioannina), A historian and his
tragic hero: a literary reading of Theophylaktos Simocattes’
Ecumenical History
I.2. Dmitry Afinogenov (Moscow), The story of the
patriarch Constantine IV in Theophanes and George the
Monk: the transformation of a narrative
I.3. Konstantinos Zafeiris (St Andrews), Hagiographical
tropes in the Synopsis Sathas: Constantine the Great
1330 Buffet Lunch, Arts Building
1430 Session II: The Anna Session, convened by DIMITER
ANGELOV
II.1. Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio), Prokopios’ Persian Wars: a
thematic and literary analysis
II.2. Paolo Odorico (Paris), The chronicle of John Malalas
between philosophy and literature
II.3. Michael Jeffreys (Oxford), Truth, lies and genre: the
histories of Michael Psellos
II.4. Athanasios Angelou (Ioannina), History and literature:
the case of Niketas Choniates
1800 Book Launch, wine reception sponsored by Oxford
University Press
1930 Depart for Manor House
2000 Dinner at Manor House

SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2007

0730 Breakfast in Manor House
0900 Depart for University
0930 Communications, Sessions A and B, convened by
DIMITER ANGELOV
1230 Buffet lunch in the Arts Building
Annual General Meeting of The Society for the Promotion
of Byzantine Studies, Arts Main Lecture Theatre
1400 Session III: The Ford Session, convened by LESLIE
BRUBAKER

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III.1. Niels Gaul (Oxford), ‘The archipelago of Poleis re-

emerging’: civic discourse and ritualised communication in
late Byzantine historiography
III.2. Teresa Shawcross (Princeton), The narrator in the
Chronicle of the Morea
III.3. John Davis (Athens), Anna Komnene and Niketas
Choniates ‘translated’: the fourteenth-century Byzantine
metaphrases
III.4. Elena Boeck (Chicago), Claiming Byzantine history:
illuminating the Byzantine past in Sicily and Bulgaria
1700 Reception at the Barber Institute of Art sponsored by
Ashgate
Guided tours of coin exhibitions, Coin Gallery, Barber
1830 Depart for Manor House
1900 Executive Meeting of The Society for the Promotion of
Byzantine Studies
2000 Feast at Manor House

MONDAY 16 APRIL 2007

0730 Breakfast at Manor House
Check-out of Manor House (bags can be left in a secure
room in the Arts Building)
0900 Depart from Manor House for University
1000 Session IV: The Runciman Session, convened by RUTH
MACRIDES
IV.1. George Calofonos (Athens), Dream narratives in
historical writing
IV.2. Martin Hinterberger (Cyprus), Phthonos and nemesis
in Vita Basilii and Leo the Deacon: literary mimesis or
semi-pagan outlook on life?
IV.3. Catherine Holmes (Oxford), History as handbook and
handbook as history: ‘On skirmishing’ as historiography
IV.4. Nicolette Trahoulia (Athens), The Venice Alexander
Romance: pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories in
the fourteenth century
12.30 Buffet Lunch in the Arts Building
1330 Closing lecture: Stratis Papaioannou (Brown), The
aesthetics of History: from Theophanes to Eustathios
1400 Closing of the Symposium and Announcement of 41st
Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 2008

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Abstracts of Communications

Rina Avner: The Account of Caesarea by the Piacenza Pilgrim and

the Recent Archaeological Discovery of the Octagonal Church in
Caesarea Maritima

The purpose of this paper is to present a case in which information

reported in a written historical source – considered by scholarship
distorted and unreliable – can be clarified by means of archaeological
evidence. Conversely, archaeological enigmas could be explained by a
proper interpretation of an historical text. Thus, in some cases,
archaeology and written sources may be found to complement each other
in a synthesis which improves our understanding of the past.

To date, the description of Caesarea Maritima by the Piacenza Pilgrim to

the Holy Land (c. 570 AD) is generally considered as a muddled and an
unreliable report. It is said to combine and confuse two different cities in
the Holy Land named Caesarea: one is Caesarea Philippi, today known as
the Banias situated in the northern part of the State of Israel; the other is
the Caesarea Maritima located on the Mediterranean seashore.

In the 1990's, Ken Holum excavated in Caesarea Maritima and uncovered

the remains of an octagonal church located on the top of the ancient
Herodian temple platform which overlooks the seaport. He identified the
church as a martyrium. Since its discovery, Holum proposed several
suggestions for identification of the saint to whom the martyrium was
dedicated. None of these however, is unequivocally established.

A synthesis between the archaeological evidence of a martyrium and the

written description of Caesarea by the Piacenza Pilgrim clarifies this text
erroneously evaluated as distorted and muddled. Such a synthesis leads
also to identification of the saintly figure to whom the octagonal
martyrium in Caesarea Maritima was dedicated.

Aleks Dubaic: A reappraisal of the value of literary sources

The value of literary sources in determining the nature of Arab-Byzantine

relations in the second half of the seventh century is intriguing. Though it
was once fashionable to rely upon texts in recreating the history of this
period, the difficulty in reconciling Arab and Byzantine versions often

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caused the historian to eschew one set of accounts in favour of the other
according to his personal standpoint. In both cases, a lack of
contemporary literary source material is an obvious problem. The
Byzantine chroniclers are silent until the ninth century, when Theophanes
the Confessor takes up the tale. Likewise, no contemporary Arab
historian has survived, and the difficulty of extracting reliable data from
the Arab authors is further compounded by the Arab tradition of oral
transmission. Though later Arab historians provide reproductions of
earlier lost authors, the extent to which these earlier authors themselves
depended upon oral accounts is difficult to ascertain. The multitude of
competing traditions make identification of even fairly simple details a
laborious and sometimes impossible task. The most gargantuan difficulty,
however, lies in the glaring discrepancy between the written word and all
other sources. Strong archaeological and numismatic evidence suggest
continued exchange between the parties at all levels, yet all the literature
points to two superpowers, each convinced of an absolute and God-given
superiority over the other, engaged in perpetual ‘holy’ struggle. This
communication seeks to demonstrate that despite the above limitations,
the literary sources should not be undervalued.

Phillip Emmott: The Barbarous Bulgars: History as a Rhetorical

Tool in Byzantium

The plan is to highlight some interesting instances, from the ninth to

eleventh centuries, where the history of the Bulgars, at least as the
Byzantines perceived it, was used to assert the inherent inferiority of the
Bulgarians compared to the empire, whether in apparent anger or in jest.
It is clear that, despite references to the “fusion” of Byzantine and Bulgar,
largely expressed in literature addressed to Bulgaria, the official
conversion of Bulgaria in 864 kept the Bulgarians for the most part below
Byzantium hierarchically. This is largely achieved through drawing
attention to the “Scythian” nature of the Bulgars associated with the days
before their “slavonicisation” and Christianisation, processes which
appear to have elevated their status in Constantinople. There is sometimes
the implication that the Bulgars retain some of their “Scythian” attributes,
whether in terms of costume, leading a less than settled existence or
simply being hostile to the empire as a representation of all that is
ordered. Three items of particular interest will be considered. First is the
peace homily of 927, attributed to Daphnopates among others, which
outlines the two-stage process of cultural development among the
Bulgarians. Second, and perhaps the most famous, is Nikephoros II
Phokas’ tirade against the audacious Bulgarian embassy, which seeks

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payment of the late Maria-Lekapena’s maintenance allowance. Third is

Theophylact of Ohrid’s portrait of his rather contemptible flock. All three
appear to be acutely aware of the “barbarous” beginnings of Bulgaria, and
to express this awareness in a rather derogatory manner.

Manuela De Giorgi: Περὶ τῶν ἁγίων εἰκόνων in Twelfth-Century

Sicily: Philagatos Kerameus’ 20th Homily and the Perception of Holy
Images

The Italo-Greek Philagatos Kerameus’ homiliary is well-known in

particular for the 27th homily describing the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
because of the popularity of this text for scholars. However, the 20th
homily has been overshadowed and has not been not studied until now.

The homily was read in the Orthodoxy Feast from the ambo of the old
cathedral in Palermo (according to the Ambrosianus gr. 196). The text
offers a great number of points of discussion: from a literary standpoint,
in the first part it describes significant historical events of Iconoclasm in
Byzantium. It is in the second part that it talks explicitly of holy images;
the author distinguishes here two main categories of them: images in
Christological cycles and Acheiropoietas; within this second group, he
mentions two subgroups (Acheiropoieta of Abgar and St. Lucas’ images).

With particular regard to the second part of Philagatos’ text, this

investigation has two main purposes; the first focuses on the eventual
identification of the Christological cycle the author seems to describe: the
location in Palermo offers very little help, since there is no chronological
reference in the text that can date the homily and, consequently, the
described cycle; different hypothesises will be proposed. The second will
clarify, through the analysis of the Acheiropoietas and of the terminology
used, the perception of sacred images and their cult in Norman Sicily, and
the related icon production in the atelier of the island.

Nubar Hampartumian: Dimitrie Cantemir, Prince/Voivode of

Moldavia (1710-1711), scholar and man of letters

From the age of 15, Dimitrie Cantemir the son of the Voivode of
Moldavia, Constantin Cantemir, spent 22 years at Constantinople, where
he became fully involved in the cultural and intellectual life of the capital
of the Ottoman Empire. When he became Voivode of Moldavia in 1710,
he joined Peter the Great in his anti-Ottoman campaign which ended in

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failure. Consequently, in 1711 he lost his throne and fled to Russia where
he spent the rest of his life. It is here that the highly educated prince
wrote, with literary skill and using knowledge and ideas gained during his
stay in Constantinople, his wide and varied work devoted to south-east
European, Oriental and Ottoman history and civilisation. In 1714 he was
elected as a member of the Brandenburg Scientific Society (the Berlin
Academy)

Maria Kouroumali: Heroes and Villains: Character Presentation in

the Gothic War of Procopius

Classical and classicising historical works deal with political and military
events deemed important by their authors. The narrative of these histories
revolves primarily around the actions and deeds of certain figures. While
there is existing scholarship concerned with the portrayal of historical
figures in most of the classical historians, there has been little attempt to
engage with this issue in the examination of Byzantine historians. The
historical work of one of the most important sixth-century classicising
authors, Procopius of Caesarea, has often been compared to the works of
famous classical authors as it displays a wide array of the features which
characterize classical and classicising historiography.

The aim of this paper is to examine briefly the variety of literary

techniques used by Procopius to shape the presentation of the central
historical characters in the section of his History, known as the Gothic
War (Books 5-7 and 8. 21 onwards). The presentation of the Roman
generals Belisarius and Narses, the Gothic kings Wittigis and Totila, the
Gothic queen Amalasuntha, and the imperial couple, Justinian and
Theodora, will be taken as examples to be considered and compared.
Underlying themes of sixth-century notions of ethnicity, identity and
gender will also be touched upon.

Through this comparison it is hoped to show that the figures which

appear in the historical texts, are, to a large extent, also literary constructs
and their portrayal in historical Byzantine texts may be influenced by the
historian’s prejudices and perceptions of these figures, sometimes at the
expense of historical facts.

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Savvas Kyriakidis: Military terminology in late Byzantine sources:

Inconsistencies and misinterpretations

One of the main difficulties for the study of the military organisation of
the late Byzantine empire is the absence of military treatises, which are
the most valuable sources for the study of warfare through the eleventh
century. Without contemporary military manuals most of our knowledge
of matters of war after 1204 relies on historical accounts and monastic
archives. However, that the major late Byzantine historians made little
use of contemporary technical terminology is a major constraint for the
study of military developments in the late Byzantine period. For instance,
the use of the terms strateumata, dynameis, stratopeda, stratia, tagmata,
taxeis, to refer indiscriminately to various army units prohibits us from
fully understanding the internal organisation of the late Byzantine
military forces. Similarly, it is rather difficult to study thoroughly the
meaning, role and internal differences of the allagia, a term that appears
almost exclusively in monastic archives and in chronicles written in a
language close to the contemporary spoken language. In addition, the
inconsistent use of classical terms such as stadia and stathmoi to measure
distances crossed by campaigning armies makes difficult the study of late
Byzantine logistics and campaign organisation.

This paper will discuss the problems caused by the lack of a consistent
military terminology and will suggest solutions by cross-examining the
terminology employed by individual authors and different types of
sources.

Helen Saradi: The City in Procopius’ History of the Wars: Literary

Tradition and Historical Messages

In a book on the early Byzantine city, currently in press, I have shown

that the image of the city dominates all early Byzantine literary genres.
Rhetorical tradition of the Roman empire and Late Antiquity shaped the
image of the city as magnificent, decorated with splendid buildings,
marvellous, prosperous, attracting people with its beauty. Historiography
displays numerous literary conventions: imperial panegyric, legends and
stories (mythoi) and various digressions (ekphraseis).
In the military narrative of the History of the Wars by Procopius cities are
mentioned only in the context of expeditions. Cities are praised briefly for
their size and population, their first rank in the provinces, their antiquity
and magnificence. Procopius employs a vocabulary of aesthetics to
identify the prominent cities. Civilized life is defined in urban terms, and
thus contrasted with the rusticity of the countryside.

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In the Books on the Gothic War Procopius gives elevated descriptions of

cities and urban life. Roman monuments are presented as national
symbols of urban life and civilization, and hold aesthetic and cultural
value for the future generations. Those related with the Trojan War and
the myth of Aeneas connect Constantinople with Rome and Troy and
legitimise Justinian’s policy of the reconquista. The Thucydidean ring
composition gives a majestic tone to the History of the Wars.
Influence of the Patria, linking cities with their glorious past, is identified
in the History of the Wars. The historian conveys his message through
ingenious literary devices.

Roger Scott: The function of stories in Byzantine chronicles:

Theodosios' apple and Marcian's eagles

Byzantine chronicles make considerable use of stories as a way of

constructing narratives. A good story tends to be repeated from chronicle
to chronicle but the function of the story can vary in different chronicles.
This will be illustrated with the well-known stories of Theodosios' apple
and Marcian's eagles. In both cases these stories were invented originally
as pieces of political propaganda, linked to the events surrounding
Marcian's unexpected accession and instigation of the Synod of
Chalcedon in 451. The stories of the eagles, which protected Marcian as a
common soldier, revealing his imperial destiny, were needed to combat
Monophysite criticism of his irregular elevation, while the story of
Theodosios' apple was originally told against Pulcheria and Marcian,
again as Monophysite innuendo. Applying it to Eudocia and Paulinus was
a necessary counter by the supporters of Chalcedon to save the reputation
of the Synod's instigators and heroes, even though this involved
sacrificing Eudocia's reputation. This status is reflected in Malalas and
Theophanes, though with different emphases to suit their separate
chronicles. Later, as the stories became accepted as true history (being
good stories) and the fifth-century religious conflicts were forgotten, the
stories were necessarily retained but adapted to meet later chroniclers'
literary programmes.

Boris Shopov: From the bottom to the top: or, some notes on war and
conquest in the early 13th century according to Anciens and Modernes

In the communication offered to this forum I shall try to look at the

territorial expansion of the Byzantine successor states and of Bulgaria and

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the Latin Empire in the first half of the 13 th century from a somewhat
different point of view: namely, from the bottom to the top. What I mean
is that it is necessary to study the turbulent political history of the period
also from the perspective of lesser players like local aristocracies as far as
it is possible to detect their interests and intentions.

I shall try the hypothesis that in depicting this phenomenon in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries Byzantinists were often using the medieval
history of two ‘exemplar countries’ (England and France) as a model with
the potential to explain the reality of the opposite corner of medieval
Europe. The consequence is that the history of the Eastern Empire and its
‘Commonwealth’ was usually presented as a series of conflicting trends
of ‘centralization’ and ‘decentralization’ much in the fashion of medieval
France.

To what extent was this tradition (still very powerful) based on

information contained in the narrative sources with their strong literary
and rhetorical element and authors placing emperor and court at the
center of the picture? The case of Akropolites on war and conquest may
help us understand the importance of literary means used to convey a
desirable picture of the past.

This may help us watch Byzantine history from an unexpected angle and
– I hope – see new things.

Dion C. Smythe: The Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle

The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, planned to appear under the

Brill imprint (Leiden) in 2009, will be a single-volume interdisciplinary
reference work (c.900 pages, c. 1000 words per page) which will fill an
important gap especially for historians and literary scholars working on
medieval chronicles from Europe and the Near East. Approximately 2500
entries will describe individual anonymous chronicles or the historical
oeuvre of particular chroniclers, covering the widest possible selection of
works written in Latin, English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norse,
Irish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Syriac and other languages. About a further
30 leading articles will give overviews of genres and historiographical
traditions, and perhaps 50 thematic entries will cover particular features
of medieval chronicles and such general issues as authorship and

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patronage. About 20 of these thematic entries will cover art-historical

questions.

Given that most of the single work entries are to be limited to 200 or
exceptionally 400 words, it will be a great challenge to convey to non-
Byzantinists the richness of our narrative sources, both in terms of
historical details and clarification or amplification of historical issues, but
also to treat the works seriously as exempla of a rich historiographic and
literary tradition.

We may be used to thinking in terms of a divide between 'work-a-day'

chronicles on the one hand and more 'literary' [not to say 'rhetorical']
histories on the other. This symposium and development of the EMC
project perhaps gives us an occasion to think through some of the issues
that circle Byzantine history-writing: Is the division between 'chronicle'
and 'history' relevant to Byzantium at all? How may we define 'chronicle'
and/or 'history'? To what extent is there a common tradition of history
writing between east and west? Will a major fault line run through the
EMC volume?

Entries for EMC will have to be minimalist. Will this be too difficult to
achieve or will it be possible to create articles that are small yet perfectly
formed; short, but full of intelligible meaning?

Athanasia Stavrou: Written sources as corroborating material for

issues of economic history: The case of late Byzantine Thessalonike

The late Byzantine world and its transition to the Ottoman polity will be
treated in this paper as an incremental process of social and economic
change with reference to the notion of the city. Basis for the
understanding of the transformation of the late Byzantine city to the early
Ottoman one will constitute the theory of New Institutional Economics
that interprets the changes experienced within a certain society as a
product of its belief system and perception of reality, which in their turn
activate forces of order or disorder.

Within this theoretical framework the reality that late Byzantine

Thessalonike experienced in the years of its siege and ultimately conquest
by the Ottomans will be discussed as depicted in contemporary writings.
Particular reference will be made to the homilies of its three archbishops,

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Isidore Glabas, Gabriel and Symeon, and the ‘Monody’ of Ioannes

Anagnostes on the capture of the city by the Turks in 1430. My main
purpose will be to explore the locals’ degree of self-awareness and
observation of current events, as well as their response to them. On the
other hand, these works can provide us with valuable insights into the
manner the transference of power took place in the area in question, and
whether and these methods coincide with the pattern of Ottoman
conquests proposed by modern scholarship.

George Tcheishvili: Armenian saints in Georgian hagiographical

literature (The Martyrdom of David and Tirichan)

The Martyrdom of David and Tirichan is a story about two infants who
were assassinated by a pagan uncle, who had deprived the boys of their
lordship and made several vain attempts to get them apostatized.

The author of the Martyrdom is an anonymous Georgian monk who

composed the writing in the province of Tao in the 9th-10th c.

The hagiographer provides precise information about the country of

origin of the infants, place of their martyrdom, and sites of their cult.
However, the Georgian anonymous writer is rather inaccurate when it
comes to the date of the martyrdom. He made indiscriminative references
to the Emperor Heraclius (7th c.), king Arshak of Armenia (4th c.), Vram-
Shapuh of Persia (4th c.), and Nerses the Great, Catholicos of Armenia.
What he do care is the fact that David and Tirichan were canonized by
Nerses III, Armenian Catholicos who was popular among Georgians due
to his Chalchedonic faith and pro-Byzantine orientation.

In the 9th-10th c. "old" cults of the Queen Sadukht, Nerses the Great,
Vardan Mamikonian, etc. revitalized in the Georgian Church. The latter
sponsored translation of Armenian hagiographical writings into Georgian.
These literary activities were carried out by the Chalchedonian
Armenians and targeted at Armenian communities of Tao who had almost
lost their identity by that time.

Both, Georgian original and translated texts unveil competition of the

Georgian and Armenian Churches over Tao in the 9 th-10th c., the fact that
remains absolutely unknown to the Georgian historical chronicles of that
time.

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Larisa Urnysheva: The Story of Constaninople's Creation

The Story of Constaninople's Creation (Story), known in many Old

Russian manuscript copies, is contained as separate paper in different
Annals, including the Litsevoy Svod - the illuminated Annals of the 16th-
century. I research the text of the Story in later printed version:
Летописный сборник именуемый Патриаршая или Никоновская
летопись с. XVI. Reprint edition: Полное Собрание Русских
Летописей. Т. 11-12. М., 1965. Between the annual reports under the
6961 or 1453 year there is a Tale about the Fall of Constantinople under
the command of Sultan Mehmed II, which begins by the legend of
creation of city: "О взятiи Царягорода отъ безбожнаго Ахметя,
Амуратова сына. отъ Турскаго. О семъ же Цариграде и начало
положимъ, отъ кого создан бысть, и почему назвася Византия, и отъ
кого прозвася Царьгородъ".

The anonymous literary text of the Story begins with ancient history of
Byzantium. Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, has returned to her
father Pholus (Фол), Ethiopian tsar, after the death of Alexander the
Great. Olympias has married Byzas (Виз), and a daughter Antine
(Антия) was born. Byzas founded the city of Byzantium in honour of the
name of his daughter; the city was renamed in Constantinople later. "Въ
лето 5800 третiе царствующу въ Риме богосодетельному великому
Констянтину Флавiю"... Constantine Flavius reigning in Rome in 5803,
has started to strengthen and expand Christian faith, to decorate and erect
churches, to break idols and transform idols temples into glory divine. He
has created new legal canons for strengthening Christianity:
-prelates of the Christ should own idols temples;
-Christian people should fast on Wednesday and Friday for the
sake of Passions;
-Christian people should celebrate on Sundays for the sake of
Resurrection;
-Jews should not make sacrifice;
-the court should not condemn on the crucifixion for the sake of
disgrace of a cross of the Christ;
-Christian people should not buy slaves;
-gold coins should mint with an image of the Christ.

In the thirtieth year of his reign Constantine wanted to create a city, and
has sent wise persons in Asia, Libya and the Europe in search of a
suitable place for the city. Constantine wished to create a city in Troada
where a victory of the Greeks over the Frisians (Фряги) has been gained,
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Byzantium has been chosen. Constantine sends to Byzantium magistrates

and masters as well as city-makers, and having left Rome, arrives there
with his mother Helena, his wife and tsarina Maximina, the daughter of
tsar Diocletean, his son Constantius and his son-in-law Licinius, two
brothers Dalmat and Constandion (son of Dalmat - Dalmat, two sons of
Constadion - Galius and Julianus). His two sons Constans and
Constantine have remained in Rome, Adamant has been sent in Britain.

Further, the Story narrates the creation of the city between two seas called
Black and White on seven mountains, which have been made even before
the construction of the city, the re-settlement of people from Rome and
other countries in the new city, the building of a market, hippodrome,
churches, sacred places, the placement of a column which has been
carried by sea from Rome for three years as it was very heavy, and the
placement on top of the column of an idol which has on its head seven
beams brought from a Frigian Solar city.

The patriarch and the tsar along with all the prelates, all the sacred court
and the entire imperial synod have created a liturgy and have transferred
the city into the hands of the Virgin and Odigitria. The text of the Story,
having literary-historical and archaeological interest, is investigated a
little because many facts of a Story cannot be historically precisely
attributed and identified. The Letter of Donation of Constantine to Pope
Sylvester (Donatio Constantini) which is contained in Epistle of Pope
Leo IX to Constantinople Patriarch Michael Cerularius 1053, in Vlastar's
Syntagma, in Photius Nomocanon, in Russian printed Nomocanon of
Nicon's edition 1653 are used for the analysis in my paper. Constantine
writes in the Letter about four patriarches, names the first Byzantine
patriarch and explains that he has renamed this patriarchy into his name.

The Story involves a legend about the fight between a snake and an eagle.
Constantine has invited grandees, magistans, magistrates; they reflect on
what should be the walls, towers, gates of the city, and, suddenly, a snake
leaves from her hole and an eagle comes from the sky, seizes and flies up
with the snake. The snake wins the fight with the eagle, they fall to the
earth and people kill the snake. Amazed by the phenomenon, Constantine
invites bibliophiles, scribes and wise men to interpret the sign. The given
episode is illustrated on manuscripts miniatures and coins.

Natela Vachnadze and Karlo Kutsia: L’image de la Byzance formée

par la Byzance elle-même (d’après la littérature ancienne géorgienne)

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Aux années de règne de l’empire byzantin par Theodora (842-856),

épouse de Theophilus, la situation politique tant au niveau de l’empire
lui-même que dans des pays l’entourant se présentait toujours très fort
tendue ce que l’auteur anonyme de l’oeuvre hagiographique de l’écrit
ancien géorgien n’aurait pas su ne pas prendre en considération. Avec sa
politique aussi sage, raffinée et subtile, la Byzance a pu former une image
d’elle telle qui a su bien s’accorder quant à ses relations avec les pays
transcaucasiens, chose bien importante alors, pour la Byzance elle-
même, car l’empire continuait à avoir toujours l’ambition pour les
dominer, y compris la Géorgie, et cela à l’époque des luttes acharnées
contre le khalifat arabe. Dans son attitude envers la Géorgie, la Byzance
se montrait comme pays tranquille, bienveillant, affectueux et amical.
Ayant formé une communauté des nations et des peuples, elle appelle le
peuple géorgien se réunir et repousser vivement leur ennemi commun
aussi méchant. Inspiré d’amitié et d’affection, l’appel de Theodora
propose au peuple géorgien de se mettre sous protection de son
royaume, de mettre un fardeau sur les épaules et, sous le joug de Christ,
s’incliner aussi par devant Christ. De par sa disposition et l’esprit,
l’appel de Theodora adresse au peuple géorgien pour la lutte contre un
monde hétérodoxe voire les Arabes, poursuit, d’autre part, un but
impérial, en proposant à la Géorgie une dépendance vassale de la
Byzance. Mais elle n’était pas la seule, Theodora, d’avoir ces visées.
Elle exprimait plutôt l’esprit de la psychologie politique de toute la
société byzantine et de sa conscience politique.

Aussi, notre source est unique à la fois car elle représente une catégorie
épistolaire parvenue à nos jours depuis le IX-ème siècle et , n’ayant pas,
d’autre part, d’analogue dans la science. Il est à souligner encore que
dans cette situation où l’original grec s’avérait perdu, une traduction
ancienne géorgienne nous apparaît comme l’original. Le texte
épistolaire, construit en oeuvre hagiographique, donne la possibilité de
prendre connaissance à fond des processus ayant lieu alors autour de
l’empire, des processus vus sous l’image formée par l’empire
byzantin lui-même.

Conor Whately: Battle narratives in Procopius’ Wars: some

observations

In a paper at last summer’s Byzantine Congress Anthony Kaldellis

lamented the dearth of literary analyses for late antique authors with the
noteworthy exception of Ammianus Marcellinus. Indeed, as Kaldellis
states, such an analysis (or analyses) would “expose[s] the deeper

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purposes and structures of the text.”1 Procopius is an author largely

lacking such analyses (apart from Kaldellis). Regardless, Procopius has
been a particularly popular figure of late, and despite some opposition, he
is slowly emerging as a sensitive and intelligent historian. For example,
Kaldellis has recently studied some aspects of Procopius’ narrative and
made some important observations about fate and good council in the
Vandal Wars and the Gothic Wars.2 Still, in regard to the narrative of
Procopius’ Wars much remains to be done. In this communication I am
going to present some early observations on narrative techniques
employed by Procopius in his descriptions of battle. Given the length of
the paper I shall only look at a selection from four battles found in
Procopius’ Wars, and I shall also be selective in regard to which narrative
features I highlight. The battles in question are the Battles of Dars (530),
Callinicum (531), Ad Decimum (533), and Busta Gallorum (552). The
specific issues that I shall address include the narrative order, the
narrative pace, the role of the narrator, characterization, the role of battle
exhortations, and the use of narrative markers such as the names of the
combatants and the number of fighters. Rossi, who examined Virgil’s
battle narratives in the Aeneid, has shown that analysing battle narratives
can highlight some important points for a text, including, for example,
how other literary genres permeate that text (in Rossi’s case
historiography suffused Virgil’s epic poem), and its narrative structure.3
It is hoped that such an analysis of Procopius’ battle narratives might do
the same for the Wars.

David Woods: Nicephorus, the battle of Tyana, and the Chronicle of

Zuqnīn

The witnesses to the so-called common Syriac source – Theophanes

Confessor (AM6201), Agapius, the Chronicle of 1234, and Michael the
Syrian – agree that the Arabs captured Tyana c.708. The Breviarium
attributed to Nicephorus agrees with them (Brev. 44). The Chronicle of
Zuqnīn alone reports that the Arab capture of Tyana occurred during their

1 Kaldellis, Anthony (2006), ‘Byzantine Historiography: the literary dimension’,

from the Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies,
London, 21-26 August 2006, Volume II: Abstracts of Panel Papers, ed., Elizabeth
Jeffreys (Aldershot, Hampshire, England) 159. For a recent discussion of Ammianus’
battle narratives see Kagan (Kagan, Kimberley (2006), The Eye of Command (Ann
Arbor) esp. pp.7-95.
2 Kaldellis, Anthony (2004), Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and
Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (Philadelphia).
3 Rossi, Andreola (2004), Contexts of War (Ann Arbor).

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retreat from the siege of Constantinople in 719. Which tradition is correct

? Nicephorus preserves a strange account of how the victors at Tyana
were able to send a contingent of 30 men as far as Chrysopolis. This
appears to preserve a rather corrupt account of the story best preserved by
the Chronicle of Zuqnīn, that the Arab commander Maslama was allowed
to enter Constantinople with 30 men before he commenced his retreat
during which he captured Tyana. Nicephorus’ reference to Chrysopolis (ἡ
Χρυσόπολις) seems to conceal a corrupt reference to the Golden Gate (ἡ
Χρυσόπολις) of Constantinople. The realisation, therefore, that the
Chronicle of Zuqnīn best preserves the tradition of its ultimate Greek
source in this matter, suggests that it best preserves also the associated
material concerning the capture of Tyana, that this should indeed be dated
to 719. Therefore, the fact that Nicephorus and the common Syriac source
share this serious error in dating the Arab capture of Tyana to 708 rather
than to 719 suggests that they share a common Greek source for this
period.

Luca Zavagno: Deconstructing and reconstructing the Byzantine

city: the case of Ephesus between Late Antiquity and the early
Middle Ages.

Ephesus lies on the western coastal plain of the Anatolian peninsula.

Inserted in the saddle between two hills (Bulbul Dag and Panayr Dag) the
city had a rich port which benefited from the Mediterranean system of
shipping and exchange and was renowned in both the ancient and
Christian period as a pilgrimage centre. The literary sources recalled its
importance since the classic period and Ephesus retained a significant
economic, political and religious role through the Roman period down to
the Byzantine era. As for the Byzantine period, however, only a few
historians have focussed their attention on the fate of the city in the
passage from the Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Indeed,
Ephesus underwent important changes during the passage from the Late
Antiquity to the early Middle Ages both in its urban structure (de-
monumentalisation, which however, does not imply an inferior form of
urbanism or urban recession) and functions. It suffered from an economic
weakening, which resulted from the systemic crisis of the Aegean region.
But the city did not vanish into the walled kastron of Ayasoluk: it showed
some continuity, which benefited from its relevance as pilgrimage centre,
from the presence of an important ecclesiastical hierarchy and possibly,
the residual members of the old local aristocratic elites. In this sense, we
could discern that Ephesus retained its importance both for the state-

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based fiscal system and for the local commercial circuits. Moreover, its
distance from the frontier allowed the city, although suffering from
ruinous Arab raids, to exploit the high levels of demand of the capital,
enhancing its role as grain supplier, and to fuel local levels of production
and distribution, mirrored in the presence of a ceramic workshop
manufacturing a local variant of the Phocean Red Slip Ware ( in the first
half of the 7th century), and later, by the vitality of the artisanal quarter of
the Hanghauser and by the continuous relevance of its port.

Giulia Zulian: The Account of Basil I’s Adventus as Portrait of the

First Macedonian Ruler

Contrary to the scant pieces of information about tenth-century

imperial coronation in the Book of Ceremonies, wherein names and
dates are omitted as so to create a model (Dagron 2003, 54), accounts
of the emperor’s adventus to Constantinople appear more varied and
detailed, and accordingly leave room for comparisons and ideological
reflection. Not simply does their characterisation as ritualised
movement in space engender considerations about the ways in which
the emperor took possession of the urban space; at a broader level,
textual references to spatial coordinates may draw images of power or
suggest, by means of symbolic associations, ideological conceptions
concerning the emperor portrayed and the idea of rulership he
expressed, which were to be identified and promptly decodified by the
listener/reader.

In the present paper, a comparison between the adventus of

Theophilos and that of Basil I (ghost?) written by Constantine
Porphyrogennetos as appendices for a military treatise (late tenth
century) will be drawn by focusing less upon the ‘placement’ of the
emperor within the Constantinopolitan urban milieu – partly already
analysed by Marie-France Auzépy – than upon the ideological
purposes of their author.

By (re)placing the two accounts side by side in his narrative (Haldon

1990, 58), Constantine creates for his grandfather Basil a portrayal
which stresses the sacred dimension of statesmanship and describes
the emperor’s entry as a devotional ‘travel’ along the ceremonial route
up to the Great Church. The account of Basil’s triumph is possibly
best understood as complementary to the process of sanctification of
the imperial image found in the Vita Basilii, pious emperor, patron of
many buildings, and ‘Christ-loving’, victorious commander.

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7. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies,

London 21-26 August 2006

Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales

President: Marina, Lady Marks

www.byzantium.ac.uk /2006Congress

Congress Funding Reports

The Congress distributed £12,500 pounds to students and those who

applied from countries which could not possibly support their
participation from official funds. This was made up from a grant of
£10,000 from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and £1,500 for Turks from
the British Council in Istanbul, to which we added £1000 in Congress
funds because a further 4 applied from Turkey. In addition, Farig,
Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Georgia, distributed six
bursaries to Georgians.

Below are some extracts from recipients of the Esmee Fairbairn

Foundation Grant:
From Russia: “For the first time in my life I met so many Byzantinists
who are really interested in the work of each other.”
“… in a great international forum… I got to know the actual problems of
world Byzantine Studies. .. I presented my report…and communicated
with foreign colleagues…”
“The bursary gave me such a unique opportunity of participating in a
great international forum. It allowed me to come to London and to know
the actual problems of the world of Byzantine Studies. I had a chance to
present my report and to communicate with my foreign colleagues. I will
continue my research and I believe that all contacts and useful
information I knew during the Congress was very significant.”
From Czechoslovakia: “…the first time in my life… to discuss my
subject with other Byzantinists…contact with these people will help me
so much with my studies.”
From Bulgaria: “…participier pour la premiere fois a un tel evenement,
de rencontrer les professors don’t je n’avais que lu les ouvrages jusque
la, et les autres collegues…C’etait parfait.”
From Serbia: “Most satisfying…Since I come from Serbia and
especially its provinces where scholarship has been almost extinguished.”

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From Romania: “…the most important scientific event in Byzantine

Studies…an inside look about the major developments during the last 5
years in general, as well as “economy, archaeology and numismatics” in
particular.”
“I was able to come and give my paper and especially to discuss with
students and unknown scholars about the subject of my research. My
participation in the Congress, the fact that I was able to attend many
different sessions, provided me with an essential feedback for my own
research, which I am now more eager to finish.”
From Poland: “I could broaden my scientific horizons and meet many
people. Without a bursary I would not be able to come to the Congress at
all.”

From Turks receiving bursaries from the British Council in Istanbul:

“Having a bursary from British Council motivated me for attending this
event in London. I also visited London and its museums. I attended
numerous lectures that paved the way new approaches for my
dissertation. I met with several scholars who are expert on the late period
and some of them gave me their articles and books as well as new
bibliographic notes which directly related with my subject. Meeting with
same generation future scholars of Byzantium will help during my whole
academic life.”

“I had a really good time at the Congress. It was a great chance for me to
experience an international congress about Byzantium, a great civilisation
many years ago on the land that I was born and grew up in.”

From Turks receiving Congress bursaries:

“It was a great experience for me. I met lots of people and caught a
chance to discuss about my studies, It is really a helpful bursary for
students as me.”

“I would like to thank you for providing me with this bursary without
which my participation in the Congress would have been very difficult.”

“I had the chance to meet many of the scholars whom I’ve been reading
through their publications, and to see many precious Byzantine items in
exhibitions which were specially organised for the congress. Lastly, I
caught the recent studies in international Byzantine studies, publications,
web-sites.”

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8. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Obituaries

Gregorio de Andrés
At the recent London International Congress of Byzantine Studies I
learned with great regret of the death of Gregorio de Andrés, author of the
monumental catalogue of the Escorial Greek manuscripts, published back
in the sixties; they served as a model of their kind, all the more
remarkable as Fr Gregorio (as he then was) was a relative amateur in the
field; he later left the Augustinian Order and did further work cataloguing
Greek manuscripts in Madrid (see J.-M. Olivier, Répertoire des
Bibliothèques et des Catalogues de MSS grecs de Marcel Richard, 3rd ed.,
Turnhout 1995, pp.513-516).
Dr. J.A. Munitiz

Professor J.M. Hussey, 1907-2006

Formidable Byzantine Scholar

Joan Mervyn Hussey, historian, Byzantine scholar and teacher: born

Trowbridge, Wiltshire 5 June 1907; Assistant Lecturer in History,
Manchester University 1937-43; Lecturer in History, Bedford College,
London 1943-47, Reader 1947-50; Professor of History, Royal Holloway
College, London 1950-74 (Emeritus); President, British National
Committee for Byzantine Studies 1961-71; died Virginia Water, Surrey
20 February 2006.
Joan Hussey made an important contribution to Byzantine studies in
Britain and internationally; she was a formidable scholar with penetrating
judgement, wide knowledge and deep understanding of her subject.
For many years she was engaged in editing and contributing to the new
Byzantine volumes in The Cambridge Medieval History. Planned
immediately after the Second World War with the help of N.H. Baynes,
the two parts of volume 4, The Byzantine Empire, did not appear until
1966-67, which delay demonstrates the enormous task in dealing with
such a wide subject and co-ordinating with such a diverse group of
scholars.
At the same time, as President of the British Committee for Byzantine
Studies, Hussey was involved in the organisation of the 13th International
Byzantine Congress held in Oxford in 1966.

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Later, from 1970 to 1984, she applied herself to the history of the
Byzantine Church, stimulated into activity by Henry Chadwick. Her The
Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, in the Oxford History of the
Christian Church series, appeared in 1986.
Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in 1907, Joan Hussey was first taught
privately at home, then at Trowbridge High School for Girls and the
Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris. She read History at St Hugh's College,
Oxford. As a postgraduate she was first supervised by W.D. Ross in
Oxford and later in London by N.H. Baynes, completing her PhD in
1935.
As an International Travelling Fellow of the Federation of University
Women in 1934-35, and then as Pfeiffer Research Fellow at Girton
College, Cambridge, she had the opportunity to study abroad. She spent
sometime with the Byzantinist Franz Dölger in Munich and began
investigating the manuscripts of the 11th-century scholar John
Mauropous in the Hofbibliothek in Vienna, in the Vatican Library and in
the monastery of St Stephen on Meteora. It was at this time that she also
did a good deal of work on the great Byzantine mystic Symeon the New
Theologian which she later handed over to Father Basil (later
Archbishop) Krivocheine.
In 1937 she was appointed Assistant Lecturer at Manchester University,
then from 1943 Lecturer and, subsequently, Reader at Bedford College,
London, and from 1950 Professor of History in London University at
Royal Holloway College, where she remained Head of the History
Department until she retired in 1974.
Academic obligations during this period left little time for research. Her
PhD thesis had already been expanded and published in 1937 as Church
and Learning in the Byzantine Empire, 867-1185. In addition, various
articles reflected her research on Mauropous and Symeon the New
Theologian, and her long-standing interest in Byzantine monasticism.
At London University Hussey introduced undergraduate special and
optional subjects mainly on Byzantine topics, and went on to produce for
her students a brief survey of Byzantine life and history, The Byzantine
World (1957), which still remains a model of its kind.
With her English-speaking students in mind she went on to translate
George Ostrogorsky's 1952 Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates, as
History of the Byzantine State (1956), to provide them with an up-to-date
general history of Byzantium. To those who are familiar with translating

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from one language into another, the exceptional merits of this work are
self-evident.
Meanwhile in 1964 she had discovered the apparently neglected and
certainly deteriorating papers of the 19th- century Byzantine historian and
Philhellene George Finlay in the British School at Athens. For the next 10
years she spent every September in Athens trying to sort these out. The
result was The Finlay Papers: a catalogue (1973) and the subsequent
edition of two volumes with selected items, The Journals and Letters of
George Finlay (1995).
Parallel with her academic activities and links with European universities,
she had a keen concern for educational developments both in universities
and schools. (University material, she knew, was largely formed in the
schools.) For many years she was one of the Chief Examiners for the
Cambridge Local Examination Board, and as a teacher of London
University she had contacts with the developing university colleges
abroad. This meant involvement in setting up appropriate history
syllabuses at various levels in Africa and in Malaya - giving her the
opportunity to visit universities and schools in Nigeria, East Africa
(particularly Uganda), the Sudan and Malaysia.
"Looking back", Hussey once wrote in a letter, "apart from the valued
links abroad, I should like to pay tribute to two of my Oxford tutors, E.M.
Jamison and E.S.S. Proctor, who instilled into me as an undergraduate the
principles of scholarship, to the University of Manchester which revealed
the true meaning of an academic community, to my own students in the
University of London whose discussions so often elucidated East Roman
history, and most of all to Norman Baynes who demonstrated the perfect
balance between historical detail and the wider implications of the
subject, and whose friendship illuminated so many other aspects of
everyday life."
Tribute was paid to her in turn in an 80th-birthday Festschrift published
in 1988 under the appropriate title Kathegetria ("Teacher"). A forceful
and unassuming character, Joan Hussey was an inspiring kathegetria. She
represented the old tradition of scholarship and integrity.
Julian Chrysostomides

Geoffrey Constantine Lintott, 1926-2006

Geoffrey Lintott was born in Brighton where he studied painting at the
College Art from 1948-1951 after serving in the Intelligence Corps. In

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1951 he won a scholarship to study Byzantine iconography at the British

School at Athens and in 1975 he studied print-making for a year and
developed his own method of printing linocuts without a press. His
Byzantine studies bore fruit much later when he accepted a commission
to paint six icons for a newly-built church, and subsequently, he received
numerous requests for his painstaking and radiant icons. In 2003, he was
received into the Orthodox Church taking the name Constantine.

A.H.S. Megaw, 1910 - 2006

Public servant who defined Byzantine archaeology

Peter Megaw, architect, scholar, administrator, diplomat, was a key figure

in the development of the now flourishing subject of Byzantine
archaeology. He was born on 14 July 1910 in Portobello House on the
Grand Canal in Dublin, then a fashionable nursing-home. (Philip
Grierson, the Byzantine numismatist, was also born there in November
1910). Peter was christened Arthur Hubert Stanley, and was brought up
on Antrim Road, part of a distinguished Belfast family – ‘There’s a whole
tribe of Megaws’, said an impatient senior archaeologist. His father was
Honorary Secretary of the Linen Hall Library, and his three brothers,
Eric, who was to become a pioneering radio engineer, Basil, another
archaeologist, and Dennis, a designer and typographer, were responsible
for first calling him ‘Peter’. Like them he was educated at Campbell
College, and like Basil he went on to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he
read architecture.

Peter then set up house in a (literally) unfurnished flat in London with a

fellow architecture graduate, James Mason, but those were hard times for
architects. So Mason tried acting, and Megaw archaeology. Both were
successful: Mason broke into films while Peter took his architecture to
the British School of Archaeology at Athens, funded by the Cambridge
Walston Studentship in 1931, the Craven and Byzantine Research and
Publication Funds (1932-33), then as Macmillan Student (1933-35),
Senior Student and Librarian (1934-35). He embarked on various classic
architectural studies of middle Byzantine churches, at Osios Loukas, in
Athens and the Mani, as well as excavating with Humfrey Payne at
Perachora. He acted as Assistant Director and briefly Acting Director,
1935-36, before he was appointed to the newly created Department of
Antiquities of Cyprus in 1936.

In Athens, he also met, and married in 1937, Elektra Eleni Mangoletsi, an

Albanian from Koritsa, born in Thessalonike on the feast of St.

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Demetrios, brought up in Manchester and educated at the Slade; elegant,

exotic, a great beauty and an accomplished artist, she was thoroughly
down-to-earth with a wicked sense of humour and a delight in teasing
young men (who made Melba toast for her) and amusing children (who
invited her and Peter to their birthday parties). If complementarity is the
source of perfection in a marriage, she was the perfect wife for Peter at
every stage of his career. Without her, it may be hazarded, his career
would have been very different. She brought imagination, character, a
strong aesthetic sense, an interest in ethnography and an enormous
amount of fun to their life together.

Cyprus
Peter’s life work was the Department of Antiquities. Appointed in 1936,
he remained in this post until 1960. Described in Bitter Lemons as ‘a
quite exceptional archaeological officer’, he was a highly competent
colonial officer in charge of a fledgling department which he nurtured
into the effective and respected agency it has became. He left digging to
his Cypriot colleagues and foreign expeditions, directing his own energy
towards organizing the service with meticulous attention to detail, editing
reports, keeping an eye on developments in Farmagusta, setting up a
medieval museum at Paphos, saving the apse at Kiti, rescuing tomb slabs.
His excellent eye he put to use in the conservation of standing buildings,
assembling teams of permanently employed stonemasons and carpenters,
buying land to preserve the site as well. His restoration of churches and
monasteries, castles and fortifications all over the island earned him
friends in almost every village. He saw the importance of survey and
rescue archaeology early and set up the Archaeology Survey of Cyprus.
He stayed in Cyprus during the war, though Elektra left for South Africa
and later Egypt to put her artistic skills towards the war effort. After the
earthquake of 1953 he designed the houses provided for those whose
homes had been flattened. He brought into the filed the bright young
Cypriots who were to continue his work after independence, and ensured
their university education. He received the CBE in 1951 in recognition of
his achievement as a public servant, but he was to offer yet more signal
service: during the delicate independence negotiations, he was trusted as
a true friend of Cyprus. He may be seen in photographs of the signing of
the Treaty of Guarantee on Independence Day, 16 August 1960, standing
in black tie and decorations behind the signatories, keeping a close eye on
their progress.

Istanbul and Athens

After a short period as Acting Field Director of the Byzantine Institite in
Istanbul (1961), he became Director of the British School in Athens in

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1962. He was a distinguished and much loved director, acting

effortlessly as honorary cultural attaché at the embassy, creating the
conditions for good research, developing new generations of Byzantine
archaeologists. Students of that era recall the family atmosphere that
Peter and Elektra created in the School, and among the outlying
Byzantinist households: the excursions to remote archaeological sites, the
glorious Christmas parties, unshockable assistance with personal
problems, enthusiastic support for impending marriages, charades in the
Upper House, scrabble in the Finlay. They gave shrewd advice to
students, and treated them like adults. Under Peter’s guidance, the
School weathered the beginnings of the colonels’ regime, built the
Visiting Fellow’s flat and the Byzantine room in the Library, opened up
seven new excavations (one in Libya, one in Cyprus, two Byzantine) –
and recorded its Byzantine levels.

Washington
After retirement from the School, his second retirement, Peter went back
to Dumbarton Oaks as Visiting Scholar during the academic year 1968-69
(he had been there previously in the fall of 1958 and the spring of 1962).
This connection was of great value as the patronage of Dumbarton Oaks
was brought to bear on the cleaning of churches and the financing of
excavations. The sixties and early seventies were a golden age of
collaboration between Dumbarton Oaks and Cyprus, the time of the
cleaning of Neophytos and Asinou, Monagri, Lagoudera and
Chrysostomos, of the excavation of Saranda Kolones and Kourion. And
in all this Peter played an important part, helping for example to appoint
to the staff of Dumbarton Oaks a field-architect who would work in
Turkey and Macedonia as well as Cyprus.

Retirement
Peter and Elektra divided their lives between winter in their flat in
Athens, round the corner from the School, and summer in London in
Perrins Walk: in both they were hospitable, bringing together their
archaeological ‘family’, introducing students from ‘home’ to a new
generation of Greek scholars. And in spring and autumn he excavated,
and she worked on her paintings, in Cyprus. A place on those
excavations at Saranda Kolones and Kourion was greatly coverted, and
the team included Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Greeks, other Europeans
and Americans. At weekends the whole expedition relocated to the
remotest corners of the island and entrancing deserted beaches to find
rare orchids for Elektra to paint as part of her major project on the wild
flowers of Cyprus. (Both Peter and Elektra, at different times, were
responsible for designing an issue of Cypriot stamps, and Elektra’s were

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of flowers). At the end of excavations Peter was know to sing

Theodorakis. Eventually a permanent base in Cyprus was found, at
Exovrisi in Paphos, to assist the continuing work. After the invasion of
1974 Peter led the first archaeological expedition into the newly divided
Cyprus, with a heavy heart. But the work continued, even after the death
of Elektra in June 1993.

Last Years
Peter became an Ordentliches Mitglied of the Deutsches
Archaeologisches Institut and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,
receiving the Frend Medal in 1995. He was an early Honorary Life
Member of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, and in
Cyprus was both an honorary citizen of Paphos and honoured by his
erstwhile colleagues in recognition of his contribution to Cypriot
archaeology (every single person invited to the party came). His 90 th
birthday in 2000 was celebrated in the Institute of Classical Studies, and
also in the School in Athens, and his Festschrift, Mosaic, was published
in 2001. In November of 2002 he returned to Belfast for the last time for
the opening of a small library in the Institute of Byzantine Studies to
house his books and celebrate his work. He was still working at Saranda
Kolones in his 90s, but increasingly travel became difficult and his health
declined. He died in London on 28 June 2006.

Legacy
Peter Megaw made a major contribution to our understanding of
Byzantine monuments in Istanbul, Greece and Cyprus. His monograph
on Kanakaria was published in 1977 and proved to be of forensic as well
as academic importance when the mosaics were stolen; preliminary
fieldwork reports, pottery studies and articles on Cypriot churches
appeared in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, or the Annual of the British School
at Athens. His magnum opus on the episcopal precinct at Kourion is in
press at Dumbarton Oaks. His nice understatement, amazing visual
memory and accuracy were prized by art historians and archaeologists
alike. But this underestimates the breadth and originality of his
achievement, in both Crusader and Byzantine Studies. He saw Cyprus in
the context of the Levant and of southern Anatolia. He excavated,
conserved, studied mosaics and wall-painting and became the doyen of
middle and late Byzantine glaze wares, studying fabric and technique
rather than iconography. He discovered a crusader castle (previously
thought to be a temple of Aphrodite), grasped the (controversial)
importance of the stained glass from Pantokrator and Chora, and with
young colleagues invented kite photography and pioneered the scientific
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in such a modest, discreet and academically cautious man. His lifetime’s

devotion to the material culture of the Greek world led him into paths
never contemplated by the ‘British School architects’ of an earlier age.
What he shared with them – besides his training – was a passion for the
standing buildings of Byzantium which he combined with inspired
scholarship, academic rigour and the diplomatic skills necessary to create
a subject, Byzantine archaeology.

Peter and Elektra had no children. Peter hardly ever supervised

doctorates, and he never held an academic job. But as an expatriate for
much of his life he trained and inspired generations of Byzantinists,
indeed far more students than he would have had as a professor. Above
all, he enabled them to see Cyprus through his eyes, and those of his wife
Elektra: the archaeological and art historical establishment of Greece and
Cyprus, as well as the world-wide community of Byzantinists, owes a
great deal to them both.

Margaret Mullett

Professor Anna Różycka-Bryzek, 1928-2005

Professor Anna Różycka -Bryzek graduated from the faculties of history

of art and English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
She was an outstanding pupil of Vojeslav Molè (1886-1973) - Slovene art
historian, who initiated systematic research on Byzantine and
Postbyzantine art in Poland. In the beginning of her scientific activity,
Professor Różycka-Bryzek concentrated on Italian painting of 14-15th
centuries, and on Postbyzantine art, particularly in Slavic countries.

In 1961 Różycka -Bryzek received a PhD degree in humanities on the

basis of the thesis entitled Bizantynsko-ruskie malowidla scienne w
kaplicy Swietokrzyskiej na Wawelu [Byzantine-Russian wall-paintings in
the Holy Trinity chapel of Wawel Castle] - see a bibliography of her
works from 1956-2000 in: Ars graeca - Ars latina. Studia dedykowane
Profesor Annie Różyckiej-Bryzek [Ars graeca - ars latina. Studies
dedicated to Professor Anna Różycka-Bryzek], Krakow 2001, pp. 17-22.
In the following year she published an important work on frescoes in the
church Santa Maria di Castelseprio.

Until 1978 she worked in the National Museum in Krakow. During that
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in the Petit Palais (Paris, 1969) and in the Royal Academy of Arts
(London, 1970). In 1983 she completed her habilitation thesis, entitled
Bizantynsko-ruskie malowidla w kaplicy zamku lubelskiego [Byzantine-
Russian wall-paintings in the chapel of Lublin Castle]. This work
constituted a part of the analysis of the Byzantine frescoes in Poland,
created under the personal patronage of Ladislas Jagiello, the Grand Duke
of Lithuania, and through the marriage with Jadwiga of Anjou the King
of Poland, which Professor Różycka-Bryzek prepared in the course of a
few decades. She was also the author of pioneering works on the origins
and medieval history of the Our Lady in the Paulin monastery of Jasna
Gora in Czestochowa and Orthodox monasteries in south eastern Poland.
In addition to that Professor Różycka-Bryzek dedicated a few years to
research on the corpus of icon painting from Little Poland.

In 1989 she held the Chair for Byzantine Art History in the Department
of Art History at the Jagiellonian University. Since 1997 she was
Correspondent Fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Jacek Maj

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AIEB

At the XXI International Congress in London in August 2006, the

Association International d’Etudes Byzantines met for its 5-yearly main
meeting. At the meeting the officers for the coming session were
appointed: Prof Peter Schreiner as President, Prof Evangelos Chrysos as
Secretary and Prof Michel Kaplan as Treasurer (replacing Prof Cecile
Morrison).
Armenia was welcomed as a new national committee, and new statutes
were approved. Prof Chrysos is in the process of updating the AIEB’s
website, so soon you should be able to read all the news about
international matters at http://www.aiebnet.gr, including the activities of
the other national committees.
Dr Antony Eastmond

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The Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek

Palaeography
University of Oxford, 28 August-1 September 2006

The first Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek

Palaeography was convened at Lincoln College and in the University of
Oxford in the week following the XXIst International Congress of
Byzantine Studies in London. Over five days, from 28 August to 1
September, 2006, twenty-nine postgraduate students from fifteen
countries (selected from some fifty applicants) jumped at this opportunity
to study Greek palaeography in an international community and in the
unique setting of Lincoln and Exeter Colleges and the Bodleian Library.
Participants were given the chance of tailoring the programme to their
academic requirements and interests: on top of plenary lectures in the
morning, small-group reading classes (twice daily) and evening seminars,
each participant was offered three tutorials on topics of his/her choice. In
the afternoons, participants were taken on ‘field-trips’ to the Bodleian
Library and introduced to a representative selection of manuscripts in
situ. Additionally, the Bodleian featured a small exhibition of seven select
manuscripts (including Arethas’ autograph scholia of Plato, MS E. D.
Clarke 39) over the summer school week, while Greek Renaissance
manuscripts of mostly scientific content from Archbishop Laud’s
collection were put on display in St John’s College Library. Evening
seminars were given by Mr N. Wilson, Oxford, who had also kindly
agreed to act as the programme’s Honorary President (‘Greek
Palaeography & Textual Criticism’); Prof. P. Schreiner, Cologne
(‘Writing Against Oblivion: Reasons for and Methods of Writing and
Book Production in the Greek Middle Ages’); Prof. C. Rapp, UCLA
(‘Christian Writing Culture in Early Byzantium’); Dr T. Janz, Vatican
Library (‘Field-work in the Library: Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts’);
and Prof. E. M. Jeffreys, Oxford (Closing Lecture: ‘Post-Byzantine &
Renaissance Greek Manuscripts’). Dr T. Janz, Vatican Library, and Dr C.
Simelidis, Dumbarton Oaks, taught as Summer School Tutors along with
the Programme Director, Dr N. Gaul. Thanks to various funding bodies a
generous bursary scheme assisting participants could be established.
For anyone who missed this year’s opportunity but might be interested in
such a programme, we strongly expect to offer the next Summer School
in Greek Palaeography in 2008. Further details will be posted on the
programme’s website, http://www-gpss.linc.ox.ac.uk, in due course.
Further information can be obtained via email:

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([email protected]) or by directing a letter or fax to The Greek

Palaeography Summer School, Lincoln College, Oxford OX1 3DR (UK),
fax +44 (0)1865 279802.

Belfast Summer School

Sixth Annual Byzantine Greek Summer School, 2007, at the Institute of

Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University Belfast. Level 1 (Beginners) 24
June – 8 July. Level 2 (Intermediate) 8-22 July. For more details go to
http:www.qub.ac.uk/ibs and click on the Summer School link under the
heading news and Events, or email Dr. Anthony Hirst
([email protected]).

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The Medieval Friendship Workshop Series (MFWS)

Representing Friendships: Narrative Uses of Friendship during the
Middle Ages
University of Cyprus, 2-3 November 2007

Since the 1990s, when gender studies, the province of feminism, started
becoming a popular interdisciplinary field, gendered emotions and
relations, such as friendship and kinship have become issues of inquiry.
The investigation of such matters has been also undertaken by
medievalists, who have become interested in the ways in which medieval
people treated human emotions and relations. One of the human relations
that captured the interest of medievalists is that of friendship. So far there
is a considerable number of studies dealing with friendship in medieval
culture (the most controversial of which being The Friend [2003] by Alan
Bray). However, the subject has not been exhausted. There are many
questions concerning medieval friendship, which have not even been
posed yet. The British Academy Network for ‘Medieval Friendship
Networks’ (2004-2010), an international network of western medievalists
and Byzantinists (www.univie.ac.at/amicitia), has undertaken to both
pose some of these questions and look for possible answers.

The scholars involved in the medieval friendship network organize

international conferences and workshops taking place in various
countries. One of the network’s next workshops will be hosted by the
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of
Cyprus (2-3 November 2007). This workshop with the theme
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Middle Ages proposes to explore the literary constructions of medieval

friendship. The workshop will consider questions, such asthe following:
• Is friendship an essential element of medieval literature?
• Which literary genres of the Middle Ages thematise friendship?
• How does friendship work in medieval narrative?
• How do medieval narratives define and represent friendship?
• Which are the categories of literary friendship?
• Are there any relations between social stratification and the fictional
representation of friendship?
• Which are the discourses of friendship?
• How is the friend’s body presented?
Other issues that will be also addressed are the relations between literary
friendship and identity, gender, class and power.
Speakers will be asked to submit in advance papers of around 4000
words, which will be circulated before the meeting. During the workshop
each speaker will have 15 minutes to present his/her main argument.

Dr. Stavroula Constantinou, Nicosia, Cyprus

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Research project: The Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism

The project is funded by the AHRC for just over three years (May 2006
to July 2009). The permanent research team consist of Nicholas de
Lange, Cameron Boyd-Taylor and Julia Krivoruchka, and IT support is
provided by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's
College London. The project is housed in the Centre for Advanced
Religious and Theological Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of
Cambridge.

While it is recognised that the books of the Hebrew Bible were originally
translated into Greek in Greco-Roman antiquity by Jews for Jews, it is
generally supposed that at some early point Jews gave up using the
translations, along with the use of the Greek language generally, and they
were preserved and used only in the Christian Church. All current
introductions to the Greek Bible are written within this framework and
focus on the transmission within the Christian Church.

However, materials have come to light, some very recently, that make it
plain that some Jews continued to use the Greek language throughout the

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Middle Ages, and that, while the Hebrew Bible played a central part in
their religious and cultural life, they also knew the Bible in Greek. Parts
of such versions survive, ranging from entire books to scattered words.

Our objective is to make these texts (many of which are unpublished)

available to scholars, together with the information that is necessary for
an appreciation of their historical background, meaning and exegetical
implications, and relationship with other translations, as well as their
wider place in the history of Jewish religious culture. An important
overall objective is to determine whether it is reasonable to speak of a
continuous tradition extending from antiquity to the early modern period
and beyond. The implications for Jewish–Christian relations will not be
neglected.

A website is in the course of construction. In the meantime, queries may

be addressed to:
Professor Nicholas de Lange <[email protected].>

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The Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 1015-1102

The Prosopography of the Byzantine World, 1025-1102, was launched at

the Congress in August as a free and open resource
(http:www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/). Averil Cameron was chair of the committee
from 1997 to 2005 and has been succeeded by Charlotte Roueche. Work
is continuing on Arabic material and applications are being made for
further funding for the chronological of the Prosopography to 1261. A
related colloquium on the thirteenth century organised by Judith Herrin
will be held at the British Academy on March 30-31, 2007. PBW online
is a major new resource for teaching and research, and all Byzantinists
are strongly encouraged to use it, to bring it to the attention of their
students, and of their librarians as a major electronic resource.

Dame Averil Cameron

For further information, see section 10.

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University of Cyprus, Postgraduate Programme

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From September 2007 an Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme in

Byzantine Studies will start at the University of Cyprus, run by the
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and the Department
of History and Archaeology.

The first postgraduate student positions will be announced in January 15,

2007. For full information, please visit the Programme’s Website:
www.ucy.ac.cy/byz

For further information, contact the two Programme co-ordinators Martin

Hinterberger ([email protected]) and Alexander Beihammer
([email protected]).

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THE HELLENIC INSTITUTE

Postgraduate Studentships and Awards in Hellenic and Byzantine
Studies (2007/8)
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Postgraduate
Studentship in Byzantine Studies, in honour of His All-Holiness the
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I, was established by the Orthodox
Cultural Association of Athens through a generous donation by Mrs
Angeliki Frangos in memory of her late mother Stela N. Frangos.

The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine

Studies, was established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in
memory of the distinguished Greek Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides
(1934-2000), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Byzantine
Studies.

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Both studentships cover tuition fees for one year and are open to UK/EU
students who wish to pursue either the University of London federal
taught MA degree programme in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, or
MPhil/PhD research in Byzantine Studies at the Hellenic Institute, Royal
Holloway, University of London. The studentships are awarded on the
basis of proven academic merit. Candidates should meet the normal
entrance requirements of the University of London.

George of Cyprus Bursaries in Hellenic Studies, was established

through the generous support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of
the Republic of Cyprus, in honour of the great thirteenth-century scholar
George of Cyprus, later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II (1283-89). Born
in Cyprus in 1240, then under Latin occupation, at the age of seventeen
he fled to Nicaea in order to pursue his studies. After the restoration of
the Byzantine Empire in 1261 he settled in Constantinople, where he
completed his higher education and subsequently taught the eminent
scholars of the next generation. One aspect of his personality was his
tenacity and dedication to his studies, despite enormous adversities.
These grants are usually of a few hundred pounds to assist with general
expenses of studying. They are awarded to part-time and full-time
students who pursue either the University of London federal taught MA
degree programme, or MPhil/PhD research in Hellenic and Byzantine
Studies at The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Closing date for submission of applications: 31 August 2007.

In addition, the Hellenic Institute offers The Joan Mervyn Hussey Prize
in Byzantine Studies in memory of the great Byzantine scholar and
teacher J.M. Hussey (1907-2006), Emeritus Professor of History in the
University of London and former Head of the History Department at
Royal Holloway College. The Prize (£500) is awarded to Hellenic
Institute students who complete the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine
Studies with the mark of distinction.

For further information please contact:

Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway,

University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK; tel. +44 (0)1784
443791/443086/ 443311, fax +44 (0)1784 433032, e-mail:
[email protected]

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For updated information on the Hellenic Institute and its activities please
consult the web page: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/hellenic-institute/

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Liverpool University Press: Translated Texts for Historians

2006 publications
The Chronicle of Ireland, translated with introduction and notes by
T.M. Charles Edwards (2 vols.)
Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, translated with an
introduction and notes by Scott DeGregorio

Expected 2007/8
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, translated with an
introduction and notes by Richard Price and Michael Gaddis (3 vols.):
corrected pbk. edition
Bede, On Genesis, translated with an introduction and notes by
Calvin Kendall

Please visit the website for further information, including on-line

ordering:

http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk

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Byzantinoslovaca

In the Slovak Republic the first issue of the new Byzantological

periodical Byzantinoslovaca (ISBN 80-89236-07-3, EAN
9788089236077) was published by the Department of History,
Faculty of Arts, Bratislava, www.phil.uniba.sk, e-mail:
[email protected]. The Editor in Chief is Miroslav Danish and the
Executive Editor is Martin Hurbanich. The first issue was dedicated
to the Slovak byzantologist Alexander Avenarius (+ 26.10.2004).

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Recent Publications recommended by members:

Κλητόριον in memory of Nikos Oikonomides, ed. Fl. Evangelatou-Notara

& Tr. Maniati-Kokkini, Athens - Thessaloniki. Orders addressed to:
VANIAS Publications, Armenopoulou 26 – Thessaloniki 54635 – GR,
tel. +2310-218963.

LEIMWN PNEUMATIKOS / PRATUM SPIRITUALE PHOTOTYPE

EDITION (COD. FLORENTINUS MEDICEUS LAURENTIANUS,
PLUT. X, 3)
Edited and introduced by Eugeni D. Zashev
Published by: ‘Text-Consult, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2006
ISBN 954-90506-2-9
Pages: 352
Language: Bulgarian & Ancient Greek; Introduction and Contents in
English
Address for contact: Galia Filipova, 1000 Sofia, post box 311
E-mail [email protected] ; [email protected]

The aim of this book is to present the most complete and relevant version,
known up to now, of the work Pratum spirituale, created by the early
medieval Byzantine writer John Moschus. This version is contained in a
Greek manuscript from the 12th century, preserved in the library of
Lorenzo Medici in Florence.

The Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu

Translated from Zotenberg's Ethiopic Text
R. H. Charles, translator (1916)

Out of print for nearly a century, this volume represents the only English
translation of the work and includes an introduction by R.H. Charles.
February 2007 [1916]
ISBN 978-1-889758-87-9

For further information on this title, visit:

http://www.evolpub.com/CRE/CREseries.html#CRE4

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Warwick Ball, Syria: A Historical and Architectural Guide (new edition,

Melisende Publishing, London 2006)

Nadal Cañellas, Juan, La résistance d’Akindymos à Grégoire Palamas,

enquête historique, avec traduction et commentaire de quatre traités
édités récemment, Vol.1: Traduction, Vol.2: Commentaire historique
[Spicilegium Sacrun Lovaniense 50 & 51, ISBN 90-429-1165-4, and
ISBN 90-429-1166-2].

Stephen Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641

(Oxford 2006)

Bibliography from Geoffrey Greatrex:

L.S.B. MacCoull, ‘Menas and Thomas: Notes on the Dialogus de scientia
politica’, GRBS 46 (2006), 301-13
A. Kaldellis, ‘Classicism, Barbarism, and Warfare: Prokopios and the
Conservative Reaction to Later Roman Military Policy’, AJAH n.s. 3
(2006) forthcoming.
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 6 (2006), a volume
dedicated to Syriac historiography. It contains papers by R. Burgess and
M. Debié (both on Eusebius), A. Al-Jadir (on dating formulae), G.
Greatrex (on Pseudo-Zachariah), J. van Ginkel (on Michael the Syrian)
and W. Witakowski (on Barhebraeus). Copies may be obtained from
Prof. A. Harrak, [email protected]

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WEB-SITES

http://www.univ-
paris1.fr/recherche/ed113_histoire/cr/histoire_et_civilisation_byzantines_
et_du_proche-orient_medieval/rubrique2018.html

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Personal

Professor Małgorzata Dąbrowska is in her second year as a Visiting

Professor at Rice University, Houston. She is teaching courses in: Polish
Drama in translation, Central and East European Cinema, and

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Contemporary Polish and Central European Politics and Culture. She has
written the preface for and edited the following textbooks for these
courses:
History in Polish Drama, Rice University, Fall 2006
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Cinema, Rice University, Fall 2006
Let the Witnesses Speak…, Spring 2007.

At the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26

August 2006, Professor Dąbrowska participated in the General Assembly
of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines as a
representative of the Polish Byzantine Committee.

Dr. Liz James (University of Sussex) has been awarded a grant by the
Leverhulme Trust to set up an International Network to look at the
composition of Byzantine glass mosaic tesserae.

Dr. Teresa Shawcross: Doctoral thesis (The Chronicle of Morea:

Historiography in Crusader Greece) won the Hellenic Foundation 2005
Award for the best British thesis in Greek Studies on a Byzantine or
Medieval subject.

Dr. Monica White: Doctoral thesis (Military Saints in Byzantium and

Rus, 900-1200) won the Hellenic Foundation Award 2004 for the best
British thesis in Byzantine / Medieval History.

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9. EXHIBITIONS

2006

An Exhibition of the Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth

Palace Library was held at Lambeth Palace Library (LPL) between 22-
23 August 2006. Organised jointly by LPL and The Hellenic Institute,
Royal Holloway, University of London on the occasion of the 21st
International Congress of Byzantine Studies, the exhibition was open to
the participants of the Congress. LPL is the historic library of the
Archbishops of Canterbury. Founded as a public library by Archbishop
Bancroft in 1610, its collections have been freely available for research
ever since. The Greek Manuscript Collection of LPL comprises fifty-
three manuscripts dated between the tenth and seventeenth centuries.
They include the Octateuch with catena and synopses of Old Testament
texts, Gospel Books and Lectionaries, Acts and Epistles, Book of
Revelation, Apocryphal texts on Jesus and the Apostles, liturgical texts,
Menaia and synaxaria/menologia, theological works, treatises and
excerpts (Justin the Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyon, Athanasius of Alexandria,
Clement of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, John Damascene), Gerontika,
Classical authors (Aeschylus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Libanius,
Lycophron, Dionysius Periegetes), post-Byzantine texts (Chronicle in
vernacular Greek by an anonymous author, and Damaskenos Studites, On
Animals), and papers on, and descriptions and collations of, LPL
manuscripts. Among the most important manuscripts is codex 461
containing theological treatises by George Scholarios with his autograph
signature, notes and corrections.

The exhibition comprised the following sections: Doctrine; Liturgy and

Spirituality; Byzantium, its Provinces and Neighbours; Before and after
Byzantium; From Manuscript to Print. The last section, on Anglicanism
and Orthodoxy, included printed books, documents and photographs
illustrating the dialogue, past and present, between the two Churches.
The catalogue of the exhibition comprises a summary of the history of
"Lambeth Palace Library (1610-2006)" by Dr Richard Palmer; a history
of the relations between the Anglican and Orthodox Churches, entitled
"Constantinople and Canterbury: contact and collaboration" by Professor
John Barron and Mrs Clare Brown; and finally a history of "The Greek
Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library" by Miss J.
Chrysostomides and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos. This is followed by the
first complete inventory of the collection, which is part of an on-going
research project between The Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway,

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University of London and LPL for the study and cataloguing of this
Collection by a team of scholars and graduate students consisting of Miss
Maria Argyrou, Miss Laura Franco, Dr Maria Kalli, Miss Fevronia
Nousia, Mr Konstantinos Palaiologos and Mr Christopher Wright under
the guidance of Miss Chrysostomides and Dr Dendrinos.

For further information on the catalogue of the exhibition, please contact

Mrs Clare Brown, Assistant Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library, London
SE1 7JU, Tel: + 44 (0)20 7898 1400; Fax: + 44 (0)20 7928 7932. For
information on the Collection please contact Miss Julian Chrysostomides
([email protected]) and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos
([email protected]).
Charalambos Dendrinos

2006 - 2007

18 August, 2006 – 21 January, 2007: Athos – Monastic Life on the Holy

Mountain, Tennis Palace Museum, Helsinki

21 October, 2006 – 7 January, 2007: In the Beginning: bibles before the

year 1000, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian

14 November – 5 December, 2006: Verse and Vigor showing Medieval

period-inspired paintings by Penrod Unger, Agora Gallery, 530 West 25 th
Street, Chelsea, New York

14 November, 2006 – 4 March, 2007: Holy Image, Hallowed Ground:

Icons from Sinai, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center

6 December, 2006 – 6 May, 2007: San Nicola di Bari. Il corpo e

l'immagine tra Oriente e Occidente, Castello Svevo, Bari

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10. Prosopography of the Byzantine World

A British Academy Research Project funded by the AHRC

PBW launched version 2006.1 of its electronic database of eleventh-

century sources at King’s College London last August, during the
International Byzantine Congress. The database has since been updated
and version 2006.2 is now freely accessible on the net:
http://www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk. It contains information on some 12,000
individuals, culled from more than 7,800 lead seals and from textual
sources mainly in Greek but also in Latin and Arabic. This information is
presented in some 63,000 small packets (“factoids”) that appear as
answers to specific searches (or combinations of search terms) and are
organized where appropriate in chronological order, based on almost
3,000 events (“narrative units”) recorded in the empire and the wider area
in the course of the 11th and 12th centuries. Thus, PBW is much more than
a fully searchable prosopographical database: its chronological
component and the abundant sigillographic material it integrates turn it
into a valuable research tool for sigillographers and historians alike. It is
also a rich resource for students and for the interested general public.

This elaborate yet user-friendly database is the result of seven years’

work by the PBW team, guided by a committee of Byzantinists chaired
by Dame Averil Cameron and more recently by Prof. Charlotte Roueché.
The project was funded by two successive AHRC Resource Enhancement
awards and was also generously supported by the British Academy.
Throughout these years PBW was based at the Centre for Computing in
the Humanities (CCH) at King’s College London, and has benefited
enormously from the expertise of staff at the CCH (in particular Elliott
Hall and John Bradley) under the guidance of its director, Prof. Harold
Short.

During these years PBW has organized several workshops, including an

international colloquium entitled Byzantines and Crusaders in non-Greek
sources that was held at the British Academy in December 2002; the
resulting volume, edited by Dr Mary Whitby for Oxford University Press,
is due to appear in early 2007. Another international colloquium, this
time entitled The Eastern Mediterranean in the Thirteenth century:
identities and allegiances, will take place on 30-31 March 2007, also at
the British Academy (further details on the project website). Its aim will
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issues raised by the fragmentation of the empire after 1204, and the role
of its immediate neighbours and the key players of the period.

In order to tackle the problem of non-Greek sources, and in particular the

immensely rich Arabic material, PBW was instrumental in establishing a
sibling project with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the
Prosopography of Arabic Sources for Byzantines and Crusaders, 1025-
1204. Its aim is to process sources in Arabic which are also relevant to
PBW’s period of coverage, and it is directed by Charlotte Roueché,
Michael Jeffreys, Averil Cameron and Chase Robinson. Dr Letizia Osti
was appointed in the summer of 2005 as the main researcher to carry out
this work.

Funding is now being sought in order to ensure the proper maintenance

and expansion of the database with the addition of further material,
mainly from 12th-century sources. Also conditional on funding, PBW
intends to initiate a new project that will deal with the prosopography of
the thirteenth century. As there already exists a multi-volume
prosopography of the Palaeologan period, published in 1979-1996 by the
Austrian Academy (Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit
1261-1453), this will bridge the gap: the prosopography of the entire
period from the fourth to the fifteenth century, that also includes the
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE, 260-641), the
Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PmbZ, 641-1025), and the
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I CD-ROM (PBE, 641-867), will
have been fully covered. Thus the goal of full prosopographical coverage
for the entire Byzantine period, bringing to a successful completion a
quest begun more than half a century ago, will have been achieved. The
next goal, of course, will be to unite these disparate products into a
seamless searchable whole! In the meantime, please visit the project
website, use the database, and send any feedback either through the form
provided on the web page or to [email protected].

Tassos Papacostas
King's College London

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Six smuggled icons (13th - 16th c.) recovered by the Church of Cyprus

In 2005 the California-based Charles Pankow Foundation consigned six

Cypriot icons for sale at Sotheby’s in New York. The sale was halted
when the Metropolis of Morphou (one of the Ecclesiastical Metropolises
of Cyprus), after having found out that four of the icons came from its
jurisdiction, demanded that they should not be offered in an auction until
their provenance and the way they were exported from the island were
clarified.

In May 2005, during a visit to Sotheby’s in New York, the Cypriot origin
of the icons was confirmed. Further research has proved that one of the
panels, the 13th century Saints Andronikos and Athanasia was smuggled
from the island in 1936. The icon was first published in 1935 by George
Soteriou, in his book The Byzantine Monuments of Cyprus. When
Soteriou saw the icon, it was housed in the Church of Saint Andronikos at
the village of Kalopanayiotis. Two years later, David Talbot-Rice who
included the panel in his publication The Icons of Cyprus, said that the
icon was stolen in 1936 and that it was no longer on the island. The
precision and confidence with which Talbot-Rice spoke is remarkable,
even a little bit suspicious! A sticker of a British transport company on
the reverse of the panel testifies to the icon's trafficking via London.

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Saints Andronikos and Athanasia is a monumental icon, and its reverse is

decorated with a cross, flanked by the initials of Jesus in Greek majuscule
and surrounded by foliate motifs. Such large and heavy icons, in their
original settings, were not meant to be hung on the wall. Instead, they
were placed on a special stand, to be venerated by the faithful. In order to
accommodate the display of the icon in a modern setting, two wooden
battens were fastened with nails on the back, causing considerable
damages to the old panel. Luckily, the obverse of this important icon is in
exceptional condition, as it is not damaged or overpainted.

The next three icons came from the Church of Asinou, which is in the
Troodos Mountains. In the late 1960s, a decision had been made for the
creation of a Byzantine Museum in Cyprus. A number of important icons
from throughout the island, which would have formed the core of the
museum, were gathered at the Bishop’s palace in the northern town of
Kyrenia. This is where the following panels from Asinou were smuggled
from after the Turkish invasion of 1974.

The first one shows the Hodegetria. It is typical of the Cypriot

production, with the relief gesso background and the sharply defined
features and it dates to the end of the 13 th century. On the reverse it bears
many labels that reveal part of the panel’s history since it had been looted

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from the island and prior to its acquisition by the PANKOW Foundation.
Three of the labels attest that the icon was exhibited in the Kasteel
Wijenburg and in Ulvenhout, in the Netherlands, where it must have been
kept at least until 1980, as the dates on the labels prove.

The next two Asinou icons show respectively Saints Peter and Paul.
Saint Peter was included in Soteriou’s book mentioned above and,
according to the author, at the time of the publication the icon was in
Asinou. Stylistic reasons indicate that the icon of Saint Paul was painted
by the same artist or workshop that produced Saint Peter and that the two
icons, which date to circa 1400, formed a pair.

Two more icons were recovered and although they cannot be attributed to
a particular Church of the Metropolis of Morphou, they are without doubt
from Cyprus. One shows the Glykophilousa with a relief gesso halo. It
probably dates to the 13th century but it has been substantially restored.
The last panel portrays Archangel Gabriel. The strong contrast of the
facial shades and the geometrical rendition of the garments' folds are
typical of the 16th century. The abolition of the gold background and its
replacement with a terracotta colour appears on several Cypriot icons of
the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Since it was demonstrated that five of the icons had been illegally
exported from the island after 1974 and one had been stolen in 1936, the
Pankow Foundation relinquished ownership of the icons to the Cypriot
Church, which in turn paid a token maintenance fee to the Foundation.
The repatriation of the icons marked an important moment for Cyprus
and it also sends a message to those who still trade in artefacts of dubious
provenance and doubtful ownership.

Further information and coloured images of the six icons appear on:
www.savingantiquities.org

Maria C. Paphiti
Courtauld Institute of Art
Icons Specialist, Christie’s

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12. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE

STUDIES

(a) The following new members have joined the Society since the
publication of BBBS 32 (2006): Michael Alexander, Klaus Belke, James
Butters, John Chapman, Simon Corcoran, Florina Fodac, Panagiotis
Fragkiadakis, Andriani Georgiou, Stavros Georgiou, Grigorios Grigoriou,
Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos, John Isles, J. Joannou, Marine Kenia,
Andrew MacCormick, Cedomila Marinkovic, Spyridon Panagopoulos,
Chris Papadopoulos, Kenneth Scott Parker, Meredith Reidel.

(b) Membership of the Executive. At the A.G.M. Judith Herrin and

Christopher Young are due to retire from the Committee. (They are
eligible for re-election). Nominations for three members to be elected at
the meeting should be sent to the Secretary, Dr. Antony Eastmond,
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
as soon as possible. Nominations of student and 'lay' members would be
especially welcome.

c) Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Society for the

Promotion of Byzantine Studies held on Tuesday 22nd August,
2006 at The Institute of Education, London

Present: Professor Cyril Mango in the chair, Professor Margaret Mullett

(Chairman), Dr. Antony Eastmond (Secretary), Mr Michael Carey
(Treasurer).

189. The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held at The
Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, on Sunday 3 rd
April, 2005 were adopted.

190. Chairman's Report

Margaret Mullett noted that the major business of the year had, of course,
been the Congress and recorded the thanks of the Society to Judith Herrin
and Elizabeth Jeffreys for their hard work. Meanwhile, the work of the
society would continue. She noted the publication of the Symposium
volume Byzantine Orthodoxies and reported progress on the other
volumes. Finally, she reflected on the loss this year of Philip Grierson,
Joan Hussey and Peter Megaw, but noted the following new
appointments: Tim Greenwood (St. Andrews), Dennis Stathakopoulos
(King’s College London), Mark Jackson (Newcastle) and Dimeter
Angelov (Birmingham).

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191. The Treasurer referred members to the report set out in the BBBS,
and noted the grants made to students to allow them to attend the
Congress. He also commented on the low sales of the Symposium
volumes, but in discussion it was agreed that they did constitute a record
of the Society’s Symposia and as most of them were self-funding were
not a burden on the Society’s finances.

192. Professor Mango referred to the new members recorded on p.122 of

the BBBS 32 (2006).

193. Three new members of the Executive Committee were announced:

Mr. Michael Heslop (nominated by Jonathan Harris); Ms Rowena
Loverance (nominated by Margaret Mullett); Professor Hugh Kennedy
(nominated by Antony Eastmond).

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Treasurer's Report for 2006

General Fund

Year To

Receipts 31.12.05 31.12.06

Balance brought forward 4,737.43 4,406.65

Subscriptions 5,772.30 5,844.37
BBBS sales and advertising 495.88 466.36
Deposit interest 101.12 98.05
Income Tax Refund 647.30 671.28
Donation 1,455.97

Total receipts 11,754.03 12,942.68

Less expenditure

Membership Secretary's fee 1,000.00 1,000.00

BBBS editorial fee 1,250.00 1,250.00
Postage 1,078.44 588.14
Printing 1,605.00 1,095.00
AIEB subscription (2003/4) 165.70 136.00
Treasurer's secretarial expenses 252.62 252.62
Website 450.00 450.00
Stationery and copying 560.62 436.03
Committee expenses 60.00 260.00
Grants (Note 1) 925.00 3,800.00

Total expenditure 7,347.38 9,267.79

Balance at Bank carried forward £4,406.65 £3,674.89

Note 1: Grants were made to Students for attendance at the

International Congress

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Publications Fund

Year to 31.12.06

Receipts
Balance brought forward 10,249.91

Sales: (Note 1)

Desire and Denial in Byzantium 98.00

Strangers to Themselves 48.00
Through the Looking-glass 83.00
Eastern Approaches 94.00
Travel in Byzantium 142.00
Rhetoric and Byzantine Culture 145.00

610.00

Royalties 311.80
Deposit Interest 160.70
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11,332.41

Payments

Ashgate Publishing (for Byzantine Orthodoxies) Note 2 1,653.75

Balance at Bank 9,678.66

Note 1 Sales

Constantinople and cost of 100 copies 1,968.75

its Hinterland: sales to 31.12.06 2,983.00
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surplus £1019.25
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Mount Athos cost of 100 copies 2,073.75

sales to 31.12.06 2,329.30
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surplus £255.55
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Dead or Alive? cost of 100 copies 2,231.25

sales to 31.12.06 2,200.41
----------
shortfall £30.84
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Desire and Denial cost of 100 copies 2,362.50

sales to 31.12.06 1,129.00
-----------
shortfall £1,233.50
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Strangers to Themselves cost of 100 copies 2,362.50

sales to 31.12.06 1,694.49
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shortfall £668.01
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Looking-Glass cost of 100 copies 3,604.50

sales to 31.12.06 1,256.00
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shortfall £2,438.50
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Eastern Approaches cost of 100 copies 2,362.50

sales to 31.12.06 1,431.00
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shortfall £931.50
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Travel in Byzantium cost of 70 copies 1,953.75

sales to 31.12.06 2,100.74
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surplus £146.99
======

Rhetoric cost of 70 copies 1,653.75

sales to 31.12.06 1,283.24
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shortfall £370.51
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Byzantine Orthodoxies cost of 70 copies 1,653.75

Royalties 118.16
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shortfall 1,535.59
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Note 2 The sales for Strangers, Travel and Rhetoric include royalties on
copies sold by Ashgate. Only royalties on Ashgate sales of Orthodoxies
(published in June) were received, as shown above.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of

Bzyantine Studies will be held on Sunday 15th April, 2007, at 12.30, Arts
Main Lecture Theatre, University of Birmingham

AGENDA
194. Adoption of the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting of the
Society, 189-193, held at The Institute of Education, London (see above).

195. Chairman's report.

196. Treasurer's report (see above).

197. Election of new members.

198. Elections to the Executive Committee (nominations to the Secretary

as soon as possible).

Dr. ANTONY EASTMOND Professor CYRIL MANGO

Secretary President

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