The Byzantine Review

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• ByzRev 06.2024.072: Kaya Şahin, Peerless among princes: the life and times of Sultan Süleyman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

  András Kraft

  494-498

  • ByzRev 06.2024.072

• ByzRev 06.2024.071: Taisiya Leber, Stifterinnen und ihre Stiftungen auf dem Balkan des Spätmittelalters (Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2023.

  Georgi Parpulov

  491-493

  • ByzRev 06.2024.071

• ByzRev 06.2024.070: Nina-Maria Wanek, Cultural Transfer of Music Between Byzantium and the West: The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca (Byzantina Austaliensia 27). Leiden: Brill 2024.

  Evangelia Spyrakou

  486-490

  • ByzRev 06.2024.070

• ByzRev 06.2024.069: Baukje van den Berg, Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad. Oxford – New York 2022 | Douglas Olson – Eric Cullhed, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey. II: Rhapsodies 5–8. Leiden: Brill 2023

  Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

  477-485

  • ByzRev 06.2024.069

• ByzRev 06.2024.068: Konstantin M. Klein – Johannes Wienand (eds), City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity (Millennium Studies 97). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2022.

  Haggai Olshanetsky

  473-476

  • ByzRev 06.2024.068

• ByzRev 06.2024.067: Christopher James Sprecher, Emperor and God: Passion Relics and the Divinisation of Byzantine Rulers, 944–1204 (Kulturelles Erbe: Materialität – Text – Edition, 5). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing 2024.

  Brad Hostetler

  467-472

  • ByzRev 06.2024.067

• ByzRev 06.2024.066: Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Brill Research Perspectives in Byzantine Studies). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2024.

  Albrecht Berger

  458-466

  • ByzRev 06.2024.066 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.065: Neil Churchill, Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty (Studies in Byzantine Cultural History). London – New York: Routledge 2024.

  Juan Signes Codoñer

  443-457

  • ByzRev 06.2024.065

• ByzRev 06.2024.064: Zhenya Zhekova – Stela Doncheva, Production of Imitative Byzantine Folles in the First Bulgarian Kingdom. Veliko Tarnovo: Faber 2022.

  Ilia Curto Pelle

  427-442

  • ByzRev 06.2024.064

• ByzRev 06.2024.063: Fotini Kondyli, Rural Communities in Late Byzantium: Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 302 pp.

  Pavel Murdzhev

  423-426

  • ByzRev 06.2024.063

• ByzRev 06.2024.062: Charalambos Dendrinos (ed.), Manuelis II Imperatoris Opera Theologica. De processione Spiritus Sancti, De ordine in Trinitate, Epistula ad Alexium Iagoupem (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 71). Turnhout: Brepols 2022.

  Florin Leonte

  418-422

  • ByzRev 06.2024.062

• ByzRev 06.2024.061: Lara Frentrop, The Art of Dining in Medieval Byzantium (Studies in Byzantine Cultural History). Abingdon – New York: Routledge 2023.

  Elena Stamatellou

  413-417

  • ByzRev 06.2021.061

• ByzRev 06.2024.060: Alexander Olson, Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650–1150. Between the Oak and the Olive. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2020.

  Grigori Simeonov

  406-412

  • ByzRev 06.2024.060 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.059: Émeline Marquis (Hrsg.), Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature (Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary volumes 19). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2023.

  Michael Grünbart

  397-405

  • ByzRev 06.2024.059 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.058: Maria Tomadaki, Iohannis Geometrae Carmina Iambica (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 100). Turnhout: Brepols 2023.

  Nikolas Churik

  391-396

  • ByzRev 06.2024.058

• ByzRev 06.2024.057: Fabian Stroth, The Church of St. Polyeuktos at Constantinople (Elements in the History of Constantinople). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024

  Georgios Makris

  373-390

  • ByzRev 06.2024.057

• ByzRev 06.2024.056: Michael Malone-Lee, Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472). Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins (Studies in Medieval History and Culture). Abingdon – New York: Routledge 2023.

  Gianmario Cattaneo

  368-372

  • ByzRev 06.2024.056 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.055: Heather A. Badamo, Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023.

  Piotr Ł. Grotowski

  358-367

  • ByzRev 06.2024.055

• ByzRev 06.2024.054: Alessandra Bucossi – Luigi D’Amelia (eds), Nicetae Thessalonicensis dialogi sex de processione spiritus sancti (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 92). Turnhout: Brepols 2021.

  Tikhon Alexander Pino

  352-357

  • ByzRev 06.2024.054

• ByzRev 06.2024.053: Dieter R. Simon – Diether R. Reinsch, Ἡ Πεῖρα – Die Peira: Ein juristisches Lehrbuch des 11. Jahrhunderts aus Konstantinopel. Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Glossar (Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte. Neue Folge 4). Berlin: De Gruyter 2023.

  Marc D. Lauxtermann

  347-351

  • ByzRev 06.2024.053

• ByzRev 06.2024.052: Marco Fasolio, Ai margini dell’impero. otere e aristocrazia a Trebisonda e in Epiro da Basilio II alla quarta crociata. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto medioevo 2022.

  Brendan Osswald

  339-346

  • ByzRev 06.2024.052 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.051: Glenn Peers, Byzantine Media Subjects. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2024.

  Georgi Parpulov

  334-338

  • ByzRev 06.2024.051

• ByzRev 06.2024.050: Vincent Puech, Les élites de cour de Constantinople (450--610). Une approche prosopographique des relations de pouvoir (Scripta Antiqua 155). Bordeaux: Ausonius 2022.

  Fiona Haarer

  330-333

  • ByzRev 06.2024.050

• ByzRev 06.2024.049: oby Bromige, Armenians in the Byzantine Empire: Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098. London: I. B. Tauris 2023.

  Polina Ivanova

  323-329

  • ByzRev 06.2024.049

• byzRev 06.2024.048: Anthony Kaldellis, The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024.

  Boris Todorov

  318-322

  • ByzRev 06.2024.048

• ByzRev 06.2024.047: Jesse W. Torgerson, The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes. The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople (Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages 28). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2022.

  Błażej Cecota

  303-317

  • ByzRev 06.2024.047

• ByzRev 06.2024.046: Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity (The Rostovtzeff Lectures). Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020.

  Siegfried G. Richter

  297-302

  • ByzRev 06.2024.046 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.045: Giulia Rossetto, Greek Palimpsests at Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai): Three Euchologia as Case Studies (Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 544; Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 44). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2023.

  Margherita Matera

  288-296

  • ByzRev 06.2024.045 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.044: Georgi Parpulov, Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraitsv A Corpus of Miniature Paintings (Manuscripta Biblica, Paratextus Biblici 7). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2022.

  Kathleen Maxwell

  286-287

  • ByzRev 06.2024.044

• ByzRev 06.2024.043: Georgi Parpulov, Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits Georgi Parpulov, Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits  A Corpus of Miniature Paintings (Manuscripta Biblica, Paratextus Biblici 7). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2022.

  Ioanna Rapti

  282-285

  • ByzRev 06.2024.043

• ByzRev 06.2024.042: Rustam Shukurov, Византия и Азия. Гибель цивилизации [Byzantium and Asia: The Demise of a Civilization]. Saint Petersburg: Наука 2023.

  278-281

  • ByzRev 06.2024.042

• ByzRev 06.2024.041: Marco Aimone (with contributions by Erica Cruikshank Dodd – Rika Gyselen – Peter Northover – Jack Ogden), The Wyvern Collection: Byzantine and Sasanian Silver, Enamels and Works of Art. London: Thames & Hudson 2020. 552 pp.

  Lara Frentrop

  273-277

  • ByzRev 06.2024.041

• ByzRev 06.2024.040: David Khunchukashvili, Die Anfänge des letzten Zarentums Politische Eschatologie in der Moskauer Rus’ zwischen Byzanz und dem Heiligen Römischen Reich (Europa im Mittelalter 42). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2023.

  Susana Torres Prieto

  269-272

  • ByzRev 06.2024.040

• ByzRev 06.2024.039: Gregory Tucker, The Hymnography of the Middle Byzantine Ecclesiastic Rite & its Festal Theology. Introduction – Edition & Translation – Commentary (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 5). Münster: Aschendorff 2022.

  Eirini Afentoulidou

  264-268

  • ByzRev 06.2024.039

• ByzRev 06.2024.038: Oliver Hellmann – Arnaud Zucker (éds.), On the Diffusion of Zoological Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period (AKAN-Einzelschriften 14). Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2023.

  Stavros Lazaris

  259-263

  • ByzRev 06.2024.038 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.037: Alexander Alexakis – Dimitrios S. Georgakopoulos (Hrsg.), Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language and Literature and Palaeography, from Byzantine Historiography to Post-Byzantine Poetry. Festschrift in Honour of Ioannes Mavromatis (Byzantinisches Archiv 42). Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023.

  Martin Hinterberger

  251-258

  • ByzRev 06.2024.037 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.036: John Osborne, Rome in the Ninth Century. A History in Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.

  Annie Labatt

  245-250

  • ByzRev 06.2024.036

• ByzRev 06.2024.035: Joanita Vroom, Feeding the Byzantine City. The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 500–1500 (Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology 5). Turnhout: Brepols 2023.The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 500–1500 (Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology 5). Turnhout: Brepols 2023.

  Pamela Armstrong

  242-244

  • ByzRev 06.2024.035

• ByzRev 06.2024.034: Giedré Mickunaite, Maniera Greca in Europe’s Catholic East. On Identities of Images in Lithuania and Poland, 1380s–1720s (Central European Medieval Studies 6). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2023.

  Mirosław Piotr Kruk

  234-241

  • ByzRev 06.2024.034

• ByzRev 06.2024.033: Catherina Recker, Seraphim und Cherubim in der Spätantike und Byzanz. Der Dunkle Stil Gottes (Dissertationen der LMU München 63). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2023.

  Christopher Sprecher

  228-233

  • ByzRev 06.2024.033

• ByzRev 06.2024.032: Florin Leonte, Ethos, Logos, and Perspective. Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric (Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies). London – New York: Routledge 2023.

  Vessela Valiavitcharska

  219-227

  • ByzRev 06.2024.032

• ByzRev 06.2024.031: Sergej Pavlovič Karpov, История Таны (Азова) в XIII--XIV вв. [History of Tana (Azov) in the XIII--XIV centuries]. Vol. I: Тана в ХIII–XIV вв. [Tana in the XIII–XIV centuries] (Новая Византийская библиотека. Исследования). Saint Petersburg: Алетейя 2021.

  Rafał Quirini-Popławski

  212-218

  • ByzRev 06.2024.031

• ByzRev 06.2024.030: Mirela Ivanova, Inventing Slavonic. Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024.

  Vladislav Knoll

  201-211

  • ByzRev 06.2024.030

• ByzRev 06.2024.029: George Theotokis – Dimitrios Sidiropoulos, Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century. A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. Abingdon: Routledge 2021.

  Jonathan T. Wild

  196-200

  • ByzRev 06.2024.029

• ByzRev 06.2024.028: Patria von Konstantinopel. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Margarethe Billerbeck (Opuscula 11). Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag 2023.

  Albrecht Berger

  193-195

  • ByzRev 06.2024.029 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.027: Stephanie Rumpza, Phenomenology of the Icon. Mediating God through the Image. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.

  György Geréby

  185-192

  • ByzRev 06.2024.027

• ByzRev 06.2024.026: Joanna Benčeva, Трапезата във византийско-балканския свят X–XV век [Die Ernährung in Byzanz und auf dem Balkan, 10.–15. Jahrhundert]. Sofia: ИК „Гутенберг“ 2019.

  Grigori Simeonov

  176-184

  • ByzRev 06.2024.026 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.025: Tenčo Popov, Солун и Епир под върховната власт на цар Йоан II Асен след 1230 г. [Thessalonica and Epirus under the Sovereignty of Tsar Ivan Asen II after 1230]. Sofia: Университетско издателство ‟Св. Климент Охридски” 2023.

  Francesco Dall’Aglio

  168-175

  • ByzRev 06.2024.025

• ByzRev 06.2024.024: Anthony Kaldellis – Marion Kruse, The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630. Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press 2023.

  Adrastos Omissi

  159-167

  • ByzRev 06.2024.024

• ByzRev 06.2024.023: Paul Gonetz, Antike und Byzantinische Compendia medica. Ihre Intention und Dimension für die Medizin- und Pharmaziegeschichtsschreibung (Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Medica 3). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2023.

  Thibault Miguet

  154-158

  • ByzRev 06.2024.023 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2022.022: Panagiotis Ch. Athanasopoulos (ed.), Translation Activity in the Late Byzantine World. Contexts, Authors, and Texts (Byzantinisches Archiv, Series philosophica 4). Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2022.

  Péter Bara

  141-153

  • ByzRev 06.2024.022

• ByzRev 06.2024.021: Maria Manolova-Voykova, Византийска керамика от българското черноморско крайбрежие (VIII–XIV в. сл. Хр.) [Byzantine Pottery from the Bulgarian Black Sea Region (8th–14th c.)]. Varna: Онгъл 2023.

  Vesna Bikić

  136-140

  • ByzRev 06.2024.021

• ByzRev 06.2024.020: Andreas Rhoby, La letteratura bizantina. Un profilo storico (Studi Superiori). Roma: Carocci 2022.

  Emanuele Scieri

  131-135

  • ByzRev 06.2024.020

• ByzRev 06.2024.019: Hans Georg Thümmel, Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst, Band 4: Ostkirche. Paderborn: Schöningh 2022.

  Manuela Studer-Karlen

  127-130

  • ByzRev 06.2024.019 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.018 Rustam Shukurov, Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 (Global Histories before Globalisation). London: Routledge 2023.

  Alexandre M. Roberts

  112-126

  • ByzRev 06.2024.018

• ByzRev 06.2026.017: Diana Mishkova, Rival Byzantiums. Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.

  Boris Todorov

  103-111

  • ByzRev 06.2024.017

• ByzRev 06.2024.016: Christian Gastgeber, Byzantinische Soziographik. Der griechische Schreiber und seine Handschrift (Prolegomena Byzantina 1). Baden-Baden: Ergon 2024.

  Georgi Parpulov

  99-102

  • ByzRev 06.2024.016

• ByzRev 06.2024.015: Cilliers Breytenbach – Elli Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas. From Paul to Justinian I (1st–6th cent. AD) (Early Christianity in Greece 1 = Ancient Judiasm and Early Christianity 114). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2023.

  Felix Schäfer

  86-98

  • ByzRev 06.2024.015 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.014: Georgios Theotokis, The Campaign and Battle of Manzikert, 1071. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2024.

  Maximilian Lau

  81-85

  • ByzRev 06.2024.014

• ByzRev 06.2024.013: Niamh Bhalla, Experiencing the Last Judgement (Studies in Byzantine Cultural History). Abingdon – New York: Routledge 2022.

  Angeliki Lymberopoulou

  77-80

  • ByzRev 06.2024.013

• ByzRev 06.2024.012: Cyril Pavlikianov, Medieval Greek and Slavic Documents of the Athonite Monastery of Hagiou Pavlou (St. Paul) (1010-1580). Critical Edition and Commentary of the Texts. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2023.

  Kirill Maksimovič

  74-76

  • ByzRev 06.2024.012

• ByzRev 06.2024.011: Nikolas Bakirtzis – Luca Zavagno (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City. From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 – ca. 1500). London: Routledge 2024.

  Philipp Niewöhner

  69-73

  • ByzRev 06.2024.011

• ByzRev 06.2024.010: Mihail Mitrea, Holiness on the Move. Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography. London – New York: Routledge 2023

  Rosemary Morris

  63-68

  • ByzRev 06.2024.010

• ByzRev 06.2024.009: Nektarios Zarras, Ideology and Patronage in Byzantium. Dedicatory Inscriptions and Patron Images from Middle-Byzantine Macedonia and Thrace (Βυζάντιος. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 21). Turnhout: Brepols 2023.

  Georgi Parpulov

  60-62

  • ByzRev 06.2024.009

• ByzRev 06.2024.008: John Osborne, Rome in the Ninth Century. A History in Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023.

  Chiara Croci

  52-59

  • ByzRev 06.2024.008 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.007: Richard Evans – Shaun Tougher (eds), Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2022.

  Jonathan Wild

  41-51

  • ByzRev 06.2024.007

• ByzRev 06.2024.006: Arabella Cortese, Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity. A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints (Spätantike, frühes Christentum, Byzanz, Reihe B, Studien und Perspektiven 53). Wiesbaden: Reichert 2022.

  Jon C. Cubas Díaz, Philipp Pilhofer

  32-40

  • ByzRev 06.2024.006

• ByzRev 06.2024.005: Michiel D. J. Op de Coul (ed.), Theodori Prodromi Epistulae et Orationes (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 81). Turnhout: Brepols 2023.

  Ioannis Polemis

  28-31

  • ByzRev 06.2024.005

• ByzRev 06.2024.004: Marek Meško, Alexios Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095 (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). Cham: Palgrave MacMillan 2023.

  Savvas Kyriakidis

  20-27

  • ByzRev 06.2024.004

• ByzRev 06.2024.003: Alexander Riehle, Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Choumnos. Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung (Byzantinisches Archiv 43). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2023.

  Ioannis Polemis

  17-19

  • ByzRev 06.2024.003

• ByzRev 06.2024.002: Maria Bakondiu – Olga Gratziu (Hrsg.), Η γλυπτική στη βενετική Κρήτη (1211–1669). Τόμ. Α΄: Μελέτες, τόμ. Β΄: Lapidarium. Herakleio: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης 2022.

  Chryssa Ranoutsaki

  9-16

  • ByzRev 06.2024.002 (Deutsch)

• ByzRev 06.2024.001: Dariusz Brodka, Prokop von Caesarea (Studienbücher Antike 29). Hildesheim – Zürich – New York: Georg Olms Verlag 2022.

  Annegret Weil Helmbold

  1-8

  • ByzRev 06.2024.001 (Deutsch)