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Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies


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This series publishes a selection of papers delivered at the annual British Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, now held under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. These meetings began fifty years ago in the University of Birmingham and have built an international reputation. Themes cover all aspects of Byzantine history and culture, with papers presented by chosen experts. Selected papers from the symposia have been published regularly since 1992 in a series of titles which have themselves become established as major contributions to the study of the Byzantine world.

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Global Byzantium Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Global Byzantium: Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

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Edited By Leslie Brubaker, Rebecca Darley, Daniel Reynolds
January 29, 2024

Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is ...

Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?: Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Archibald Dunn
August 18, 2023

This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world – Greece – in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine ...

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium Continuities and Transformations

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations

1st Edition

Edited By Marc Lauxtermann, Ida Toth
February 21, 2020

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes ...

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century Being in Between

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: Being in Between

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Edited By Marc D. Lauxtermann, Mark Whittow
March 07, 2017

The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental...

The Emperor in the Byzantine World Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

The Emperor in the Byzantine World: Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Stefan Aykut
March 14, 2019

The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but ...

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669 Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?

1st Edition

Edited By Angeliki Lymberopoulou
March 29, 2018

The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-exist, frequently learning to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and their interactions all contributed ...

Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996

Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?: Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996

1st Edition

Edited By Leslie Brubaker
November 28, 2016

9th-century Byzantium has always been viewed as a mid-point between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival; in scholarly terms it is often treated as a ’dead’ century. The object of these papers is to question such an assumption. They present a picture of political and military ...

Byzantine Orthodoxies Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002

Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002

1st Edition

Edited By Augustine Casiday, Andrew Louth
October 06, 2017

The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the Emperors, many of whom ...

Travel in the Byzantine World Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000

Travel in the Byzantine World: Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000

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Edited By Ruth Macrides
September 05, 2002

The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000. Travellers to and in the Byzantine world have long been a subject of interest but travel and communications in the medieval period have ...

Eastern Approaches to Byzantium Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999

Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999

1st Edition

Edited By Antony Eastmond
February 27, 2017

The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new ...

Constantinople and its Hinterland Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

Constantinople and its Hinterland: Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

1st Edition

By Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron
January 05, 2017

From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the ...

Desire and Denial in Byzantium Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997

Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997

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Edited By Liz James
January 05, 2017

The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike ...

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