Byzantine Studies
As an academic publisher with strengths in classics, early Christianity, medieval studies, and Middle Eastern studies, and a long-standing interest in both the eastern and western worlds and the cross-currents between them, Brill has an active and diverse publishing list in Byzantine studies. Our flagship series in the field regularly publish titles in Byzantine studies, while we also publish monographs, edited volumes, text editions and translations, reference works, and journal articles of interest to Byzantinists, housed in a variety of book series and journals with wider remits. The portfolio is further supported by a number of online resources, which aim to facilitate research and study via accessible scholarly reference collections and digitized primary sources.
Below is a selection of our book series, related books, journals, and online resources.
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Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World
Editor: Wolfram Brandes
By publishing coherent research companion volumes with scholarly, analytical investigations of key themes and subjects from across the Byzantine world, from the 4th to the 15th centuries, this series offers broad and balanced accounts along with a synthesis of debate, reflections on the field, and considerations of future directions for research.
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- A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium
Editors: Adam Izdebski and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
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Editor: Sofia Kotzabassi
- A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea
Editors: Mischa Meier and Federico Montinaro
- A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204
Editors: Nicolas Drocourt and Sebastian Kolditz
The Medieval Mediterranean
Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500
Editors: Frances Andrews, Corisande Fenwick, Paul Magdalino, Maria G. Parani, Larry Simon, Daniel Lord Smail, and Jo van Steenbergen
Publishes outstanding, original scholarly monographs and article collections, as well as editions and translations of primary sources, encompassing any aspect of the history of the Medieval Mediterranean. Also available online.
- Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond
People, Objects and Relics
Editors: Veronica della Dora, Charalambos Dendrinos, Marc Guscin, and David John Williams
- Poetry in Late Byzantium
Editor: Krystina Kubina
- The dromos and Byzantine Communications, Diplomacy, and Bureaucracy, 518–1204
Jason Fossella
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Editors: Myrto Veikou and Ingela Nilsson
- The Paulicians
Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c.750-880
Carl Dixon
Byzantina Australiensia
Editors: Amelia Brown, Danijel Dzino, Sarah Gador-Whyte, Mark Masterson, Meaghan McEvoy, Andrew Mellas, Bronwen Neil, Ryan Strickler and Janet Wade
Dedicated to publishing high quality scholarly work in the field of Byzantine Studies. Its primary focus is translations and commentaries of ancient source material, as well as the publication of conference papers. Also available as an e-book collection.
- Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?
The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca
Nina-Maria Wanek
- Dissidence and Persecution in Byzantium
From Constantine to Michael Psellos
Editors: Danijel Dzino and Ryan Strickler
- Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium
Editors: Sarah Gador-Whyte and Andrew Mellas
- Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
Editors: Bronwen Neil and Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Frankokratia
A Journal for the Study of Greek Lands under Latin Rule
Editors: Chris Schabel and Michalis Olympios
A peer-reviewed scholarly journal committed to publishing original research on all areas of the Greek world where Latin (‘Roman Catholic’) populations from western Europe settled in the aftermath of the crusades.
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Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue
Promotes discussion and dialogue across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries on the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures during the period from the fourth through to the sixteenth century C.E.
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Scrinium
Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography
Editor: Basil Lourié
An international scholarly periodical devoted to patristics, critical hagiography, and Church history. Its scope is the ancient and medieval Christian Church worldwide, but especially Eastern / Oriental Christianity and Christian Origins.
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online
Franco Montanari
Editors: Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder
The English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond.
Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages
Editor: Florin Curta
A fundamental source of information for the study of the history and archaeology of medieval East Central and Eastern Europe, an area of great interference and symbiosis of influences from Scandinavia, Western Europe, the steppe lands of Eurasia, as well as Byzantium.
Codices Vossiani Graeci et Miscellanei Online
Contains the 174 manuscripts in Greek, and the 42 manuscripts containing both Latin and Greek, from the world-famous Isaac Vossius manuscript collection at Leiden University Library.
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"Sullivan’s is the first English monograph to provide a comprehensive overview of Moldavia’s artistic and architectural landscape during the 15th and 16th centuries, locating the region as a significant facet in the global map of art history."
Basilica Online
Justinian's Corpus iuris in the Byzantine world
Editor: Bernard Stolte
Basilica Online is a fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal.
- Storyworlds in Short Narratives
Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales
Open Access
Editors: Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou
- More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus
Catherine T. Keane
- Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond
Conor Whately
- Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
Open Access
Editor: Manuela Studer-Karlen
- Armenia and Byzantium without Borders
Mobility, Interactions, Responses
Editors: Emilio Bonfiglio and Claudia Rapp
- The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia
Winner of the 2023 Early Slavic Studies Book Prize from the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) (Best book)
Alice Isabella Sullivan
- Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Editors: Jelena Bogdanović, Ida Sinkević, Marina Mihaljević, and Cedomila Marinkovic
- Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th centuries)
Historical and Art Historical Perspectives
Petr Balcárek
- The Culture of Latin Greece
Seven Tales from the 13th and 14th centuries
Vladimir Agrigoroaei
- A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law
Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources
Daphne Penna and Roos Meijering
- The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes
The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople
Jesse W. Torgerson
Open Access
Dr Kate Hammond: kate.hammond@brill.com.
Byzantina Australiensia Online
The online edition of the series Byzantina Australiensia a refereed academic series dedicated to publishing high quality scholarly work in the field of Byzantine Studies.
Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Iliad
This is the online version of the complete critical edition by Marchinus van der Valk of Eusthathius of Thessalonica’s Commentary on the Iliad.
Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey
This online publication offers a new text edition of the Byzantine scholar and rhetorician Eusthathius of Thessalonica’s Commentary on the Odyssey.
