Byzantine News

Cristopher Kelty on Virtual Libraries: shutting down knowledge?

2012-03-27T10:46:00.001-07:00

An interesting article by C. Kelty, author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Experimental Futures) on virtual libraries and their role in shaping knowledge:

The disappearing virtual library

The shutdown of library.nu is creating a virtual showdown between would-be learners and the publishing industry. Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free.

And not just any books - not romance novels or the latest best-sellers - but scholarly books: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social science and humanities. Read more

Burial Chamber Dating Back to Byzantine and Ayyubid Eras Uncovered in Cavern in Sweida

2012-03-27T02:54:00.003-07:00

A national archeological expedition working in Tel Ara in Sweida governorate uncovered an ancient burial chamber dating back to the Byzantine and Ayyubid eras in a cavern.

Hussein Zeineddin, head of the expedition, said that the volcanic cave is located north of al-Hesha volcanic hill, east of Ara mountain, and that it has an arch-like entrance with a roof consisting of handmade arches.

He said that excavations uncovered four semicircular tombs, the first located in the eastern part of the cave and consisting of an oval alcove serving as a grave for an individual or a family, while the second is located in the center of the cavern and is raised from the floor, containing small bone fragments that could have belonged to a young person. Read more.

Highlights from "Byzantium and islam. Age of Transition" exhibition

2012-03-27T02:52:00.000-07:00

From the New York Times

And another article on the same exhibition.

Basel Psalter online, 9th century

2012-03-26T11:57:00.001-07:00

Psalterium graeco-latinum, 9th century

Via Paleografia Greca:

Click here to browse the manuscript from the University Library of Basel.
Description:

In addition to Greek and Latin Psalms, written somewhere in continental Europe by Irish monks during the Carolingian period, this famous Basel codex also contains a brief series of devotions in Latin for private use, appended by the monks. The exact place where the manuscript was written and its various subsequent travels are unknown, although, based on one note, whose interpretation is under debate, some relation to the Abbey of St. Gall and/or to that of Bobbio is frequently mentioned. In about 1628-1630 the manuscript was listed in the catalog of the Amerbach family, then around 1672-1676 in that of Johannes Zwinger. (and)

BMCR Review of The Homer Encyclopedia, Three Volume Set

2012-03-26T06:56:00.000-07:00

BMCR Review of The Homer Encyclopedia, Three Volume Set

As the general editor Margalit Finkelberg explains in the Introduction, this Homeric Encyclopedia contains 1300 entries divided into three categories: the first one includes approximately 900 entries on personal or geographical names. Both groups cover a wide span of references, the former stretching from the two most important heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey (Achilles is masterfully presented by Seth Schein in a five-column entry— Odysseus receives an equally tight but outstanding treatment by Richard B. Rutherford) to the so-called minor warriors (around 220 Trojans and Achaeans), who enjoy only a passing reference in the epics as victims of the first- rank heroes, and the latter from Odysseus’ fatherland Ithaca and the debate concerning its identification to (the still picturesque) Oitylos in Laconia, as well as the other hapax legomena included in the Catalogue of Ships. The rest of the entries (i.e. the second and the third categories) can be divided on the basis of a diachronic and a synchronic perspective; a ‘synopsis’ (pp. xxxixff.) facilitates the consultation of all items pertaining to a given field or area (a full list of entries appears in pp. viff.). The second category of entries contains everything related to the historical framework (e.g. Mycenaean, Dark and Archaic Age etc.) as well as the Nachleben of Homeric epic (textual tradition, ancient and modern Homeric philology, Nachleben from antiquity to the 20th century, among which I stress those entries dealing with less known topics such as "Reception, in Rabbinic Judaism" or "Reception, Syriac and Arabic"), and also ancient and modern interpretive trends in Homeric scholarship.

Wall Street Journal: Byzantine Route to Met

2012-03-26T05:45:00.001-07:00

A recent article on the Met exhibition, Byzantium and Islam:

As the Arab Spring roiled the Middle East last year, curators at the Metropolitan Museum were watching anxiously.

They were preparing an exhibition on art from southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire, including a swath of countries from Tunisia to Syria that were now suddenly consumed by revolutionary protests. The movement and its unprecedented demands for freedom captured the world's attention. It also made for unfortunate timing on the museum's loan requests. Read more here.

How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic

2012-03-24T13:54:00.001-07:00

How To Cite A Tweet In Academic Papers | Edudemic

BYZANTIUM, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND ITS CULTURES: DIVERSITY AND INTERACTION XVIITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

2012-03-24T13:39:00.000-07:00

BYZANTIUM, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND ITS CULTURES: DIVERSITY AND INTERACTION
XVIITH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

Call for Papers

Papers exploring any aspect of cultural and political interactions between Byzantium and its neighbours, or within regions of the Byzantine empire, are invited. Abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes' duration should be sent by 30 April to AABS2012@mq.edu.au.

20-21 July 2012

Macquarie University

Keynote Speaker
Professor Jonathan Shepard, University of Cambridge

Our understanding of Byzantium's external and internal interactions has shifted significantly as a result of recent scholarship. The significance of this state to a millennium of developments throughout Eurasia has been examined; more importantly, the nature of contacts between Byzantium and its Eurasian neighbours has been reconceived. Models for understanding Byzantium's interactions with its neighbours have moved from imperial centre and periphery, to 'commonwealth', to 'overlapping circles', to parallel and mutual developments in political and cultural identity. The Byzantine millennium now seems more connected, by commerce, diplomacy and common cultural heritage, than before. Artefacts and ideologies were acquired, appropriated or mediated amongst Byzantium and its neighbours in the Latin West, southeastern and central Europe, Iran and Dar al-Islam; even prolonged conflict did not preclude exchanges and indeed sometimes sprang from shared developments. At the same time, what we think of as the distinctively Byzantine milieu of Constantinople also interacted with regional cultures that at various times formed part of its empire. Coptic and Syriac cultures in Late Antiquity, Latin and Arabic regions in later periods, displayed both ambivalence and engagement with the culture of Constantinople and with its imperial and ecclesiastical leaders. As with Byzantium's external connections, 'centre and periphery' models of internal interactions are giving way to more dynamic models seeing metropolis and regions as parts of broader, common developments. The conference aims to explore these developments.

The Conference will be held 20-21 July 2012 at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The Biennial General Meeting of the Association will be held during the conference.

Read here the announcement

A Comparative Dialectical Study of Genitive Constructions in Aramaic Translations of Exodus

2012-03-24T07:20:00.000-07:00

Meyer, Mark. A Comparative Dialectical Study of Genitive Constructions in Aramaic Translations of Exodus

The purpose of this book is to "mine the gold" in multiple Aramaic translations of the biblical book of Exodus. The pages within reveal important similarities and differences between five Aramaic dialects in the use of genitive constructions: Targum Onkelos, the Syriac Peshitta, three corpora of the Palestinian Targum, the Samaritan Targum, and fragments of a Christian Palestinian Aramaic translation of Exodus.

The book argues that there are three primary Aramaic genitive constructions that translate the construct phrase in Hebrew: the construct phrase, the genitive adjunct phrase with d-, and the genitive phrase with d- anticipated by a possessive suffix on the head noun (cataphoric construction). One important finding is that all the Aramaic dialects, except Samaritan Aramaic, use the adjunct genitive construction when the second member denotes the material composition of the first member.

It appears that the later the writing, the larger the percentage of adjunct genitive constructions and cataphoric genitive constructions. Regarding geography, since P has the lowest percentage of construct genitive constructions (with the exception of CPA), there may be a tendency to use more adjunct genitive constructions and cataphoric genitive constructions in Eastern Aramaic than in Western Aramaic.

Victory for classics at Royal Holloway

2012-03-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

As seen on listserv

Last Friday an email from a member of the Senior Managament team at Royal Holloway University of London findally confirmed, eight and a half months after the dissolution of the Classics Department was proposed, that there would be NO REDUNDANCIES WHATSOEVER in Classics. Thanks to everyone who supported this campaign.

Meanwhile, proof has arrived of the potency of our subject. One of my PhD students, Katie Billotte, sent a copy of a scholarly book I published as a sedate OUP monograph in 1989, "Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy", to her penpal currently housed in a Colorado gaol. This is the letter she has just received from the Wardens's Office--Crowley Correctional Facility (pictured here): 'We are returning to you this shipment made to Inmate #90704 currently held in the Colorado Department of Corrections. We have determined that Inventing the Barbarians by Edith Hall constitutes contraband under the State of Colorado's Revised Statute. It has been determined by the wardens of this facility that the primary or secondary purpose of the author was to compromise the good order and efficient operation of a facility under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Department of Corrections. Please note that any further attempts to introduce this item into any facility currently operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections will be referred to the Office of the Attorney General.' Phew! No wonder people want to close Classics down!

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html

Book Review: Aristoteles Latinus XVII 1.III, De motu animalium. Fragmenta translationis anonymae

2012-03-23T11:00:00.001-07:00

Book review from BMCR: Pieter De Leemans, Aristoteles and Guilelmus (ed.), Aristoteles Latinus XVII 2.II-III, De progressu animalium; De motu animalium. Translatio Guilellmi de Morbeka. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

The latest installment of the Aristoteles Latinus series comprises two volumes which contain the Medieval Latin versions of Aristotle’s De motu animalium and De progressu animalium. Both volumes, which were edited by Pieter de Leemans, are part of tome XVII of the Aristoteles Latinus. The first volume contains the text of an anonymous translation which had to be reconstructed on the basis of one of the writings of Albert the Great. The second volume encompasses a critical edition that collates the existing manuscripts of William of Moerbeke’s translation of De progressu animalium and De motu animalium. Read more

The Editorial Adventure of a Text from the Middle Ages

2012-03-23T08:41:00.001-07:00

The latest article from Parekbolai:

Critical Remarks on Theophylact of Ohrid's Martyrdom of the Fifteen Martyrs of Tiberiopolis: The Editorial Adventure of a Text from the Middle Ages. By Eirini-Sophia Kiapidou.
Abstract:

This article aims to highlight the editorial adventure of Theophylact of Ohrid’s less known work Historia martyrii XV martyrum, and as a preview of the overall critical edition that this much afflicted hagiographical text requires and deserves, it offers some critical remarks based on the study of codex Baroccianus gr. 197, the single manuscript that delivers this text, as well as the previous editions and critical comments.

Oxford Patristics: FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE AT IIAS

2012-03-23T08:22:00.001-07:00

Oxford Patristics: FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE AT IIAS: FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE AT IIAS Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Fellowships at the International Institute for Asian Studies. We We are particularly looking for researchers focusing on the three clusters: ‘Asian Cities’, ‘Asian Heritages', and ‘Global Asia’. Application deadline: 1 April 2012

Oldies but goldies: Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae

2012-03-23T08:12:00.001-07:00

PLGO is hosting links to the 50 volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, the 19th c edition of many interesting Greek texts.

Click here to access the collection.

CFP: The ‘School of Gaza’: Literary Space and Cultural Identity in Late Antiquity

2012-03-22T10:22:00.001-07:00

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (UMR 8167) 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine 75005 Paris May 24-25, 2013
The ‘School of Gaza’: Literary Space and Cultural Identity in Late Antiquity
(source: Calenda)

Guiding line

The study of literary activity in V-VI c. AD Gaza is in full bloom. In recent years, new editions of Procopius of Gaza, Chorikios and John of Gaza have been published or are in preparation as well as a bibliography of the literature covering the period 1930-2012, to appear in Lustrum. This is a good moment for an international conference in which senior specialists and young researchers of the period will be able to exchange views and to advance research on the topic.

Building on the results achieved by two previous conference (Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity, ed. B. Bitton-Ashkelony, A. Kofsky, Leiden-Boston 2004 and Gaza dans l’Antiquité tardive. Archéologie, rhétorique et histoire, ed. C. Saliou, Salerno 2005), the present occasion intends to surpass the designation ‘School of Gaza’ invented by K. B. Stark in 1852, a certainly convenient formula, but which runs the risk of screening the perception of a reality rich in nuance. Our focus will be on the common characteristics that define as such the authors of Gaza.
The confront of these authors and texts defines a specific literary space that resonates with the spirit of the period, as part of the thread of a more general trend which bridges Antiquity and Byzantium. This literature is crossed and inspired by the practice of Rhetoric, Poetry, History and Science. It produces a unique cultural identity inscribed in the heritage of Gaza, one of the first cities mentioned in the Bible and still present in the news of the modern world.

Scientific organization
A scientific committee composed of both experts of the period and scientific personalities chosen for their ability to provide an outside view on the matter was formed. The following professors have agreed to participate: Prof. Jean Bouffartigue, Luciano Canfora, Béatrice Caseau, Raffaella Cribiore, Vincent Déroche, Denis Feissel, Pierre-Louis Malosse, Enrico Maltese, Lorenzo Perrone and Jacques Schamp. At least ten nationalities will be represented. Around thirty interventions of twenty minutes, presented in three languages (French, Italian, English = official languages of the conference) will be divided into eight sessions (1. Texts, authors, structures. – 2. Epistolography. – 3. History. – 4. Spiritual literature. – 5. Poetry. – 6. Rhetoric. – 7. Science and Philosophy. – 8. Background and posterity. Each session will be introduced and chaired by a scholar who has authority on the subject. Several moments of discussion will also take place, as well as partial and general conclusions that will punctuate the progress of the scientific debate. Finally, the proceedings
will be rapidly published. Each article will be peer-reviewed. The publishing house and collection will be indicated at a later date.

Material organization
Participation in the conference fee is set at 50 euros per person (25 euros for students) and includes the conference materials, two buffet lunch and refreshments. Accommodation costs (two nights, on the basis of a single room) will be covered by the conference organization for invited participants only. Transport costs are borne by participants.

Call for Papers

People who wish to submit a paper are requested to send an abstract of ca. 500 words to the organizers by June 15, 2012. The themes which will be more welcome are Philosophy of the School of Gaza (Theophrastus of Aeneas and Ammonius of Zacharias) and the author Zacharias Scholasticus in general. The decisions taken by the Scientific Committee will be sent to the interested parties prior to July 15, 2012.
Contacts For any correspondence concerning the conference, you are cordially invited to write to: Delphine Lauritzen delphinelauritzen@gmail.com
with copy to: Eugenio Amato eugenio.amato@univ-nantes.fr
Aldo Corcella aldo.corcella@unibas.it

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Book Review: "Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views"

2012-03-22T10:01:00.001-07:00

From BMCR Classical Review: M. E. Stone, Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011. Review by Juan Carlos Ossandón, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce: In the field of ancient Jewish literature, few authors can display such an impressive list of publications as Michael Edward Stone.1 Despite the title his latest book is not an overall presentation of Second Temple Judaism but rather a collection of specialized studies, with some relationship to each other. Read more

Theodore Psalter Online

2012-03-22T09:29:00.001-07:00

From the Medieval and Early Manuscripts Blog:

The Theodore Psalter (British Library Additional MS 19352) is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts to survive from the Byzantine Empire. Completed in Constantinople in February 1066, the Psalter consists of 208 folios which include 440 separate images, making it the most fully illuminated Psalter to come down from Byzantium. It is undeniably one of the greatest treasures of Byzantine manuscript production and of supreme importance for our understanding of Byzantine art.

Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of its texts

2012-03-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

From Perseus announcement:

Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object in Perseus, allowing individuals to modify (where rights allow), and to create new, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, translations, commmentaries, introductions, as well as machine actionable annotations such as identifications of people and places and the morpho-syntactic analyses in the Greek and Latin Treebanks. Read more.

And here are the videos explaining Perseus plans:

Perseus edit workflow

Perseus Translation Workflow

Perseus Review Workflow

Digressus online journal

2012-03-21T09:52:00.003-07:00

Digressus is a fully refereed online journal publishing reviews and articles related to Classical Studies, Archaeology and Byzantine Studies.
Click here to access Digressus online issues

New Online Articles from Parekbolai, the Online Journal of Byzantine Studies

2012-03-21T00:59:00.000-07:00

Parekbolai, the Online Journal of Byzantine Studies announces the publication of two more articles:

A. Riehle: Epistolography as Autobiography: Remarks on the Letter-Collections of Nikephoros Choumnos

Abstract: This article highlights challenges involved in understanding and interpreting Byzantine epistolary literature, and suggests that we pay closer attention to the transmission of letters and its hermeneutic ramifications. The letters penned by the late Byzantine court official Nikephoros Choumnos are a case in point. The author assembled, revised and arranged his letters, which were originally composed and dispatched mostly for pragmatic purposes (e.g., letters of request). By embedding these missives into the framework of a collection, he created an autobiographical narrative that was to promote and perpetuate his multi-faceted persona.

I. Polemes: Φιλολογικές παρατηρήσεις σε ένα ανώνυμο υπόμνημα στις Κατηγορίες του Αριστοτέλη

Some emendations to the text of the recently published anonymous commentary to the Categories of Aristotle, preserved in the so-called Archimedes Palimpsest, are proposed.

Latest Issue of "Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies"

2012-03-06T00:56:00.001-08:00

From the latest issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Alwis, Anne P, Men in pain: masculinity medicine and the Miracles of St. Artemios

The Miracles of St Artemios, which reveal a catalogue of men who are in severe pain and who express their anguish volubly, are analysed to provide two methodological frameworks (anthropological and medical), within which to investigate the masculinity of these ‘ordinary’ Byzantine men.

Nikolaos G. Chrissis, The City and the Cross: the image of Constantinople and the Latin empire in thirteenth-century papal crusading rhetoric

This paper examines the way papal rhetoric made use of the image and reputation of the city of Constantinople in order to legitimise and incite support for its crusading calls for the defence of the Latin empire after 1204. A number of relevant themes that reﬂect the city’s temporal and religious importance are explored, such as its wealth, its relics, its imperial past and its patriarchal status as New Rome. The differences of emphasis and occasional omissions of such arguments provide insights as to what was expected to motivate the audience, while also revealing the papacy’s priorities.

Niketas Siniossoglou, Sect and Utopia in shifting empires: Plethon, Elissaios, Bedreddin

This discussion reopens the ﬁ le on Plethon’s purported stay in Ottoman territory in order to trace the origins of the Plethonean belief in sectarianism as a vehicle for attaining utopian sociopolitical ends. In the ﬁ rst part, possible approaches to Plethon’s alleged study with the mysterious mentor Elissaios are considered. In the second part, an argument is presented that in both the changing Ottoman Empire and the disintegrating Byzantine Empire esoteric societies contemporaneously developed a potentially antinomian role. Just like Plethon’s ‘brothers’, the ‘Brethren of Purity’ of al-Bistami, Sheikh Bedreddin and Börklüce Mustafa opted for sectarianism in order to recover a supraconfessional religious law and construe a novel political identity. This indicates the probability of a common nexus between Rumelia, the Peloponnese and the Aegean spanning confessional lines and tilizing sect as the vehicle of utopianism.

A History of the World in 100 Objects: The Icon of The Triumph of Orthodoxy

2012-03-05T13:37:00.002-08:00

Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects is describing how people expressed devotion and connection with the divine in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Today he is with an icon from Constantinople that looks back in history to celebrate the overthrow of iconoclasm and the restoration of holy images in AD 843 - a moment of triumph for the Orthodox branch of the Christian Church. This icon shows the annual festival of orthodoxy celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent, with historical figures of that time and a famous depiction of the Virgin Mary.

The American artist Bill Viola responds to the icon and describes the special characteristics of religious painting. And the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the often troubled relationship between the Church and the images it has produced.

Listen here for the programme from the BBC 4.

TED talk: Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object

2012-03-05T08:30:00.004-08:00

The Cyrus Cylinder:

The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script[3] in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 1879.[3] It is currently in the possession of the British Museum, which sponsored the expedition that discovered the cylinder. It was created and used as a foundation deposit following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when the Neo-Babylonian Empire was invaded by Cyrus and incorporated into his Persian Empire.

The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus the Great, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings. The Babylonian king Nabonidus (see earlier Cylinder of Nabonidus), who was defeated and deposed by Cyrus, is denounced as an impious oppressor of the people of Babylonia and his low-born origins are implicitly contrasted to Cyrus's kingly heritage. The victorious Cyrus is portrayed as having been chosen by the chief Babylonian god Marduk to restore peace and order to the Babylonians. The text states that Cyrus was welcomed by the people of Babylon as their new ruler and entered the city in peace. It appeals to Marduk to protect and help Cyrus and his son Cambyses. It extols Cyrus's efforts as a benefactor of the citizens of Babylonia who improved their lives, repatriated displaced people and restored temples and cult sanctuaries across Mesopotamia and elsewhere in the region. It concludes with a description of how Cyrus repaired the city wall of Babylon and found a similar inscription placed there by an earlier king. Read more on the Cyrus Cylinder here

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

2012-03-04T08:47:00.000-08:00

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

ed. by Stephanos Efthymiades, Open University of Cyprus

Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It will consist of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. The present volume covers, first, the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, and then the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. A second volume will deal with questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.

Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Part I The Periods of Byzantine Hagiography: The Life of St Antony between biography and hagiography, Tomas Hägg; Greek hagiography in late antiquity (4th–7th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis with Vincent Déroche (with contributions by André Binggeli and Zissis Aïnalis); Hagiography from the 'dark age' to the age of Symeon Metaphrastes (8th–10th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; The hagiography of the 11th and 12th centuries, Symeon A. Paschalidis; Hagiography in late Byzantium (1204–1453), Alice-Mary Talbot. Part II The Hagiography of the Byzantine Periphery and the Christian Orient: Palestinian hagiography (4th–8th centuries), Bernard Flusin; Italo-Greek hagiography, Mario Re; Syriac hagiography, Sebastian P. Brock; Georgian hagiography, Bernadette Martin-Hisard; Armenian hagiography, S. Peter Cowe; Hagiography in Coptic, Arietta Papaconstantinou; Arabic hagiography, Mark N. Swanson; Slavic hagiography, Ingunn Lunde; Latin hagiographical literature translated into Greek, Xavier Lequeux; Indexes.

A video from the British Library on the Project of Greek Manuscript Digitization

2012-03-03T23:41:00.002-08:00

The British Library has digitised over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online at www.bl.uk/manuscripts thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Check out here images from the Theodore Psalter mentioned in the video.