General Online & In Print

Online

• Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks
  Research Center for Byzantine studies located in Washington D. C. maintains a growing list of digital resources and online publications.
• International Medieval Bibliography
  Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
• New Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995-2005. 7 v.
  Including Byzantium.
• Modern Language Translations of Byzantine Sources
  Database of modern language translations of Byzantine primary sources, which can be searched by keyword or browsed using pull-down menus.
• From Rome to Byzantium AD 363-565: The Transformation of Ancient Rome. Lee, A.D. Edinburgh.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
  Texts of Greek literature from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Constantinople (1453 CE).
• Clavis Clavium
  Clavis clavium is an integrated reference database and collaborative update platform to access Patristic, Medieval and Byzantine texts.
• Hierokles: Synekdemos Atlas
  “Containing nearly a thousand toponyms, the Synekdemos is an unparalleled source on the geography of the Byzantine world. It not only indicates the administrative divisions of Justinian’s time, but also suggests what places, in the view of one educated Roman, ‘mattered’ in the early 6th century CE.”
• Regesta Imperii
  Bibliographic database covering Byzantine studies hosted by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica: OPAC
  Bibliographic database hosted by the MGH which covers Byzantine studies as well.
• Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur von Justinian bis zum Ende des oströmischen Reiches, 527-1453 by Krumbacher, K.
  “History of Byzantine Literature from Justinian to the end of the Easter Roman Empire”
• English translation of Introductory chapters
• Index of Medieval Art
  The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 (extended in the case of the Morgan and Princeton Library projects to include manuscript holdings up to the end of the sixteenth century).
• Typika
  Searchable database of “Artefacts and Raw Materials in Byzantine Archival Documents / Objets et matériaux dans les documents d’archives byzantins.”
• Acta et diplomata Graeca medii aevi sacra et profana. Vols. 1-6.
  Important collection of imperial, patriarchal, provincial and monastic acts.
• Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Bonn corpus) Links to the Internet Archive and Google digitizations of this famous set of primary sources.
• Mesaionike vivliotheke – Vol. 1(A), Vol. 2(B), Vol. 3(Γ). Sathas, K. ed. En Venetia: Typois tou Chronou, 1872-94.
  Collection of Byzantine letters, funeral orations, court documents, etc.
• TIB: Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini
  “The TIB carries out systematic research in the historical geography of the Byzantine Empire, from the beginning of the 4th century to the mid-15th century. The aim of the project is to create a historical atlas of the Byzantine space from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period.”

Print

• History and culture of Byzantium. New Pauly Supplement 10. Edited by Falko Daim. 2019.
  Classmark: LRG DF 521 DAI
• Byzantium and its Image: History and Culture of the Byzantine Empire and its Heritage. Mang, C.A. 1984. Variorum Reprints.
  Classmark: DF 521 MAN
• Streams of gold, rivers of blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955AD to the First Crusade. Kaldellis, A. 2017. Classmark: DF 591 KAL
• Byzantine philosophy and its ancient sources. Ierodiakonou, Katerina. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York : O.U.P., 2002. Classmark:  B 722.B97 B98 IER

Hagiography & Prosopography – Online & In Print

Online

• Acta Sanctorum
  Collection of saint’s lives, organized according to each saint’s feast day, & covers the 2 January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.
• Calendar of Saints in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescos
  Lois Drewer’s unpublished book presented as database by the Index of Medieval Art, “intended to be a reference work on illustrated calendars of saints in Byzantine manuscripts and frescoes.”
• Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database
  Includes information from the Greek vitae and martyria of one hundred and nineteen saints of the 8th-10th c., accounts of the translations of their relics, and collections of miracles, as well as notices from the Synaxarion of Constantinople (a 10th-century liturgical collection of brief hagiographical notices.
• Hagiography of the Later Byzantine Period (1204-1453)
  Database of hagiographic texts developed and maintained by the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the National Research Institute in Athens.
• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints’ Lives in English Translation. Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot.
• Liturgical Texts of the Greek Orthodox Church

Print

• Early Christian Hagiography & Roman History. Barnes, T. D. 2016.
  Classmark: BX4662 bar
• Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology. Head, T. 2000. Garland Pub.
  Classmark: BR 1710 HEA

Prosopography

Online

• Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
  Biographical dictionary of the Byzantine Empire covering the years 641-867 AD.
• Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online
  Biographical dictionary of the Byzantine Empire covering the years 641-1025 AD.
• Prosopography of the Byzantine World
  Covers the period 1025-1150 CE, as a continuation of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (see below; covering the period 260-641 C.E) and the Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit.

Print

• The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. 3 Vols. Jones (vol. 1) & Martindale (vols. 2-3).
  Classmark: DG 203.5 JON V.3B. Available in the library and, depending on your location, online:
  Vol 1. A.D. 260-395,
  Vol. 2. A.D. 395-527,
  Vol. 3A. A.D. 527-641.
  Vol. 3B. A.D. 527-641.
  Addenda and Corrigenda published variously in Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. Searchable in the library database.
• Fifty years of prosopography: the later Roman Empire, Byzantium and beyond. Cameron, A. Oxford.
  Classmark: PER AP 4.B7

Online Dictionaries

• Epitome of the Kriaras Dictionary
  Covers volumes I-XIV of E. Kriaras’ Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100-1669), from A – παραθήκη.
• Glossarium Græco-Arabicum
  Lexicon of the medieval Arabic translations from the Greek.
• Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität (LBG): Besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts Fascicles 1-8. Edited by Erich Trapp. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1994-.
  The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies (covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D.) taken from more than 3,000 texts.
• Suda Online
  10th century Byzantine historical encyclopedia derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by earlier authors.
• Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams
  Provides “textual and contextual data of book epigrams (or: metrical paratexts) from medieval Greek manuscripts (seventh to fifteenth century).”