Byzantine Studies

The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing.

John Lowden provides an authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art from the third century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. From the grandest public buildings to the smallest personal items, it was - and still is - an art of extraordinary directness, but also of mystery and transcendence. Lowden explains how and why early Christian and Byzantine art was made and used, and situates it within the controversies of its time.

The LCI has long been a standard work and is indispensable to the understanding of the Christian world of images. According to a uniform lexical point of view, the LCI reveals all pictorial themes of sacred art from the early period up to the beginning of the 20th century.

Partial Contents:
Bd. 1. Abendmahl-Dura-Europos -- Bd. 2. Durchzug durch das Rote Meer-Himmelfahrt -- Bd. 3 Himmelsleiter-Kastoria -- Bd. 4. Kathedra-Kreta -- Bd. 5. Kreuz-Maltechnik -- Bd. 6. Mandorla-Nubie -- Bd. 7. Numidien-

Series A. Textus ( v.) -- Series B. Scholia ( v.)

When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law.

Contents:
t. 1. Nearai kai Chrysoboulla tōn meta ton Ioustinianon Byzantinōn autokratorōn, ek tēs ekdoseōs C. E. Zachariae von Lingenthal. -- t. 2. Nomothesia Isaurōn kai Makedonōn: Eklogē tōn nomōn -- Nomoi geōrgikoi, stratiōtikoi, nautikoi -- Procheiros nomos -- Epanagōgē tou nomou -- Leontos tou Sophou Eparchikon biblion. -- t. 3. Theophilou Antikēnsoros ta Institouta; Hai Rhopai -- Peri pekouliōn -- Peri idikōn agōgōn. -- t. 4. Peira Eustathiou tou Rhōmaiou; Epitomē nomōn, ek tēs ekdoseōs C. E. Zachariae von Lingenthal. -- t. 5. Synopsis tōn Basilikōn, ek tēs ekdoseōs C. E. Zachariae von Lingenthal. -- t. 6. Ēuxēmenē eklogē -- Ēuxēmenē epanagōgē -- Ecloga ad Prochiron mutata -- Mikra synopsis, ek tēs ekdoseōs K. E. Zachariae von Lingenthal. -- t. 7. Ēuxēmenon procheiron -- Meletē peri psilōn symphōnōn -- Michaēl Psellou Synopsis tōn nomōn -- Michaēl Attaleiōtou Poiēma nomikon -- KST́ [i. e. 26] apophanseis Dēmētriou tou Chōmatianou. -- t. 8. Kōdix politikos tou prinkipatou tēs Moldavias -- Politikos kōdix Houngrovlachias -- Syllogē topikōn Hellēnikōn ethimōn.

The book discusses Byzantine literature, including prose literature, poetic literature, and vulgar Greek literature.

History of Byzantine literature. This volume is part of the manual, which provides a general overview of the history of the Latin language in the Middle Ages. The work is divided into two main parts, lexicology and grammar, distributed in four volumes.

The history of Byzantine including the subjects of philosophy, historiography, music, mathematics, medicine, and literature.

Important collection of imperial, patriarchal, provincial and monastic acts.

Collection of Byzantine letters, funeral orations, court documents, etc.

Short descriptions in chronological order of Byzantine imperial documents with detailed citation to their source and tradition.

Chronological list of patriarchal acts.

Indispensable source of primary source citations on all aspects of Byzantine social history.

A catalogue of Greek hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the translations of their relics, and their miracles, arranged alphabetically by saint.

The Clavis Patrum Graecorum is a series of volumes published by Brepols of Turnhout in Belgium. The series aims to contain a list of all the Fathers of the Church who wrote in Greek from the 1st to the 8th centuries.

These ten holy women, whose vitae range from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints. From nuns disguised as monks to desert harlots, these holy women exemplify some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium. These vitae are also notable for their details of Byzantine life, providing information on family life and household management, monastic routines, and even a smallpox epidemic.

Gives a history of the beginning of patristic literature, the ante-Nicene literature after Irenaeus, and the golden age of Greek patristic literature.

The Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online/Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period Online (PMBZ Online) is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Byzantine Empire in the early Medieval Period (641-1025 AD) documenting more than 21,000 persons. PMBZ Online is based on the print edition of the Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit which appeared in two parts 1998 and 2013. PMBZ Online documents all persons mentioned either by name or anonymously in the relevant Byzantine and non-Byzantine sources, and secondly all persons mentioned in the Byzantine sources both from Western Europe and from the Arabic and Slavonic areas, together with those from the Christian East.

A German-language reference work on the people of the last two centuries of the Byzantine Empire, from 1261 until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, when the Empire was governed by the Palaiologos dynasty. The work is a comprehensive source on the biographies and genealogy not only of Byzantine Greeks, but also Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, Turks and other peoples who interacted with the Byzantine Empire at the time.

The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire provides a complete secular biographical dictionary of the period AD 527 (the beginning of the reign of Justinian) to 641 (the death of Heraclius). The information has been gathered from a wide variety of sources in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Syriac and other languages. The project makes available for the first time in one work mass of information relating to the personnel of the Roman Empire and the western kingdoms that were its heirs, and of other nations with which Rome had dealings.