Paul Stephenson

 


AN INTRODUCTION TO BYZANTINE HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION



SECONDARY LITERATURE, 1
 
 

General

Angold, M. (2001) Byzantium. The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London.

Cavallo, G. ed. (1997), The Byzantines. Chicago & London.

Evans, H. C. & W. D. Wixom (eds.) (1997), The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture in the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York.

Gregory, T. E. (2005) A History of Byzantium. Oxford.

Haldon, J. (2001) The Byzantine Wars. Stroud.

Harris, J. (2005), ed., Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History. New York.

Jenkins, R. J. H. (1966) Byzantium: the Imperial Centuries, AD 610-1071. London.

Kazhdan, A. & G. Constable (1982) People and Power in Byzantium. Washington D.C.

Kazhdan, A. et al. eds (1991) The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, 3 vols. Oxford.

Loverance, R. (2004) Byzantium. 2nd edn. Cambridge, MA.

Mango, C. (1980) Byzantium. The Empire of the New Rome. London & New York.

Mango, C. (2002), ed. The Oxford History of Byzantium. Oxford

Obolensky, D. (1971) The Byzantine Commonwealth. Eastern Europe, 500-1453. London.

Ostrogorsky, G. (1968) History of the Byzantine State, trans. J. Hussey. Oxford.

Treadgold, W. (1997) A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford.

Treadgold, W. (2001) A Concise History of Byzantium. New York.

Whittow, M. (1996) The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025. Berkeley.


 

 

Roman Religious Background

Beard, M. et al. (1999) Religions of Rome, 2 vols. Cambridge.

MacMullen, R. (1983) Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven.

MacMullen, R. (1986) Christianizing the Roman Empire, AD 100-400. New Haven.

MacMullen, R. (1999). Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven.


 

The Fourth and Fifth Centuries
 

Barnes, T. D. (1981) Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, MA.

Bowersock, G., P. Brown & O. Grabar, eds (1999) Late Antiquity. A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge, MA.

Cameron, Alan (1976) Circus factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium. Oxford

Holum, K. (1982) Theodosian Empresses. Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. Berkeley.

MacCormack, S. (1981) Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity . Berkeley, Los Angeles & London; reprinted 1989

Mathews, T. (1993; repr. 1999), The Clash of Gods. A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. Princeton.


The Sixth and Seventh Centuries -- Justinian --Decline and Transformation -- 'The Dark Ages'

Barker, J. (1966) Justinian and the Later Roman Empire. Madison.

Browning, R. (1987) Justinian and Theodora. London & New York.

Cameron, Alan (1976) Circus factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium. Oxford

Cameron, Averil (1977), 'Abstract: Imperial ceremonies in context', Byzantine Studies Conference, 3-5 December, 1977, Columbia University, New York, Abstracts of Papers , pp. 4-6

Cameron, Averil. (1992) 'Byzantium and the Past in the Seventh Century: the search for redefinition', in J. Fontaine & J. N. Hillgarth, eds, The Seventh Century: Change and Continuity, 250-76. London.

Cameron, Averil. (1994) 'Texts as Weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages', in A. K. Bowman & G. Woolf, eds, Literacy and Power in the Ancient World, 198-215. Cambridge.

Cameron, Averil. (1996) Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium. Aldershot. (A collection of articles)

Diehl, C. (1963) Byzantine Empresses. New York.

Garland, L. (1999) Byzantine empresses: women and power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204. London & New York.

Harvey, S. A., 'Theodora the "Believing Queen": a study in Syriac historiographical tradition', Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies 4/2(July 2001)

Moorehead, J. (1994) Justinian. London & New York.

Wickham, C. (1984) 'The Other Transformation: fom the Ancient World to Feudalism', Past & Present 103, 3-36.
 
 

The Seventh Century -- Cities and the Land


Barnish, S. J. B. (1989), 'The transformation of classical cities and the Pirenne debate', Journal of Roman Archaeology 2, 385-400.

Foss, C. (1975) 'The Persians in Asia Minor and the end of Antiquity', English Historical Review 90, 721-47.

Foss, C. (1976) Byzantine and Turkish Sardis, Cambridge MA & London.

Foss, C. (1977a) 'Archaeology and the "Twenty Cities" of Byzantine Asia', American Journal of Archaeology 81, 469-86.

Foss, C. (1977b) 'Late Antique and Byzantine Ankara', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 31, 29-87.

Foss, C. (1990) History and Archaeology of Byzantine Asia Minor. London. (A collection of articles)

Haldon, J. (.1990) Byzantium in the Seventh Century. Cambridge.

Hodges, R. et al. (1997) 'Late-antique and Byzantine Butrint: interim report on the port and its hinterland (1994-95)', Journal of Roman Archaeology 10, 207-34. Look out for subsequent reports.

Kennedy, H. (1985) 'From polis to madina: urban change in Late Antique and Early Islamic Syria', Past & Present  106, 3-27.

Lemerle, P. (1979) The Agrarian History of Byzantium. Galway.

Lightfoot, C. et al (1995) 'Amorion Excavations 1994: the Seventh Preliminary Report', Anatolian Studies 45, 105-38. See also earlier and later volumes for further reports.

Metcalf, D. M. (1991) 'Avar and Slav invasions into the Balkan peninsula (c. 575-625): the nature of the numismatic evidence, Journal of Roman Archaeology 4, 140-8.

Ostrogorsky, G. (1959) 'Byzantine Cities in the Early Middle Ages', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 13, 45-66.

Whittow, M. (1990) 'Ruling the Late Roman and Early Byzantine City: a Continuous History', Past & Present 129, 3-29.
 

 

The Eighth Century -- Iconoclasm -- Knowledge


Brown, P. (1973) 'A Dark-Age Crisis: aspects of the Iconoclastic controversy', English Historical Review 88, 1-34.

Brubaker, L. & J. Haldon, with R. Ousterhout, Byzantium in the iconoclast era (ca.680-850): the sources, an annotated survey. Birmingham 2001.

Bryer, A. & J. Herrin, eds (1977) Iconcoclasm. Birmingham.

Cameron, A (1979) 'Images of Authority: elites and icons in late sixth-century Byzantium', Past & Present 84, 3 35.

Cameron, A. (1992) 'The language of images: the rise of icons and Christian representation', in D. Wood, ed., The Church and the Arts, Studies in Church History 28, 1-42. Oxford.

Cormack, R. (1985) Writing in Gold. London.

Herrin, J. (1987), The Formation of Christendom. Oxford.

Mango, C. (1963) 'Antique statuary and the Byzantine beholder', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 17, 55-75.

Mango, C. (1975) 'The availablity of books in the Byzantine Empire, A.D. 750-850', in Byzantine Books and Bookmen: a Dumbarton Oaks colloquium, 29-45. Washington D.C.

Mango, C. (1984) Byzantium and its Image. London. (A collection of articles)


Paul Stephenson, November 2006