Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Dedicated Byzantine Sites
Byzantine Studies - Top Sites
GENERAL BYZANTINE

MAJOR SITES
Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet Created by the maintainer of this links page, this is currently the most extensive Byzantine site on the net.
Dumbarton Oaks The leading research center for Byzantine studies.
Dumbarton Oaks: Library Online
By far the most important library for Byzantine studies - now searchable online.
Byzantine Studies Conference The BSC is both a conference and and organization of Byzantinists. The site contains minutes and conference program information.
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Home Page [British Site]
MINOR SITES [based on amount or quality of content]
Byzantine and Orthodox Studies [At Beaver College]
Byzance: A Byzantine History Page A very well put together page by Edward Choh in Singapore. Dedicated to Byzantine studies, it covers general history, religion, military issues, architecture, and geography. The aim is to present information for those who know little about Byzantium, but in fact the site will be of interest to all Byzantinists. It includes a pocket history of Byzantium and a hypertexted Chronological Guide to Byzantine Emperors.
ByzNet Byzantine Studies on the Net
Byzantine Information Site
Byzantina Site [in Italian], by Tommaso Braccini
ROMANITY ROMANISM ROMIOSINI
Site presenting the theories of John Romanides. Lots of theories.
Focus on Byzantine Civilisation Part of a quick overview of world cultures.
Ed's Byzantine Home Page
Labelled "The Underground Byzantine Home Page". Not much there.
The Byzantine Web Page
I could not get it to load.
Byzantium A collection of Byzantine names (for babies?)
WEB GUIDES
Yahoo: Byzantium Links Page Yahoo, the prime Internet listing service, now has a dedicated Byzantine Studies page.
NM's Creative Impulse..Byzantium
Excellent webguide to Byzantine studies
Byzantine Studies - Medieval/Renaissance History Net Links
From the Mining Company. It usually manages to dig up interesting places to browse.
Rechtsgeschiedenis RUG - (faculty of law); Byzantium
Useful guide - in Dutch.
Greek History Pages. GREECE: Modern History. The Byzantine Empire. Ancient Greece
Many useful pointers, but messy and with far too many images loading at odd points.
Byzantine Links
Stolen from an older version of this page.
BIBLIOGRAPHY SITES
Library of Congress Guide to Classics Collections - includes Byzantine studies.
Byzantium
A short bibliogaphy from Stanford.
Sources littéraires - Auteurs byzantins
Women of Byzantium bibliography
HISTORY SITES
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors From Augustus to Constantine Dragases.
Rulers of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
Rome and Romania, 27 BC-1453 AD
A useful site which combines a dynasty by dynasty chronology with a series of historical maps showing the ebb and flow of Byzantine power.
Knox, The Byzantine Empire
From Skip Knox's History of the Crusades course.
Romiosini Homepage A general Byzantine site with an effort to create a hyperlinked history of the Byzantine Empire. Well worth a visit. It presents an overall history, but from a nationalist point of view.
FOCUS on CIVILIZATIONS Anatolian Throught the Ages.
We do not often think of Hittites and Byzantines at the same time!
Late Byzantium Highly recommended page by Steven Reinart at Rutgers University.
Decadence, Rome and Romania, and the Emperors Who Weren't
Europe and Byzantium
Great course notes from University of Hawaii
Levantia: Byzantine Medieval Near Eastern Social History
ROMAN TIMES / BYZANTIUM
At a history of costume site.
HISTORICAL POINTS
CH Issue 54 Also: East Criticizes Roman Pope
An Orthodox archbishop on the Catholic pope. 1134
CH Issue 54 Killing Each Other over Icons
Kissers and Smashers: Why the Orthodox killed one another over icons. by Bradley Nassif
Menander Rhetor: the true story
paper by Malcolm Heath
Manuel Palaeologus' inebriate father
paper by Malcolm Heath,
Irene of Athens
Presented as a feminist heroine.
BYZANTINE STUDIES CENTERS
Dumbarton Oaks The leading research center for Byzantine studies.
Istituto di Teologia Ecumenico-Patristica Greco-Bizantina
Center for East Roman Studies at the University of Warwick
Christian Hagiography - a site dedicated to hagiography run by the Bollandists.
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar - both Catholic, and Old and New Calendar Orthodox, by Marcos J. MONTES
Gouden Hoorn An online Periodical of Byzantine studies. Roughly half in Dutch, half in English.

BYZANTIUM: CITY SPECIFIC SITES

CONSTANTINOPLE
Constantinople -- Home Page Excellent page by Bob Ousterhout concentrating on Architecture.
Byzantium1200
A wonderful site which provided CAD drawings of 50 buildings in Constantinople as they would have been in 1200.
The Constantinople Project Over the past several years, Professor Ahmet Cakmak, of Princeton University's Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research has undertaken the structural analysis, under earthquake loads, of the Hagia Sophia, the major church built by the Emperor Justinian during the 6th century AD. Professor Cakmak sought to determine the susceptibility of the structure, specifically its large dome and arches, to collapse due to the earthquakes that often strike that part of the world. As an extension of that work into the architectural realm, he recently offered a class which studied Byzantine structures from a structural and art-historical perspective. One of the goals set forth in the class was for students to construct three-dimensional models of specific Byzantine structures utilizing the computer drafting software AutoCAD. This was the first step towards a long term goal of creating a full model of the topography of ancient Constantinople, with models of many Byzantine buildings in place.
"ISTANBUL"
Istanbul Guide
History of Istanbul A Turkish perspective
Searching Byzantium
Photographs of Modern Istanbul.
Istanbul and the Marmara Region
Photographs
Images of Istanbul
The Liberation of Constantinople
Turkish view of 1453.
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
Chapter 1 of Constantinople City of the World's Desire 1453-1924
By Philip Mansel
ANATOLIA
Greek & Roman Cities of Western Turkey [At Artserve/Australian National University. This site now charges for use.]
GREECE AND AEGEAN
The City of Thessaloniki Illustrated History of Thessaloniki, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki website.
Thessaloniki Page Somewhat populist! [in multiple languages]
Thessaloniki: Cultural Capital of Europe 1997
Virtual Patras
A Journey Through the Morea images available
Monemvasia
Byzantine Museum of Chios
CRETE:Culture
BALKANS
Diocletian's Palace at Split
BYZANTINE ITALY
The Norman City of Cefalu
SYRIA/PALESTINE
The Roman-Byzantine Period At the Jerusalem Mosaic
The Roman-Byzantine Sites At the Jerusalem Mosaic

BYZANTINE: TECHNICAL SITES

MANUSCRIPTS/PALEOGRAPHY
Catalogi Codicum Montis Athonis
Philtheou Project [link updated 11/23/96]
Archive of Watermarks and Papers in Greek Manuscripts This developing site consists of the guide (html texts) and 3 major components: an archive images & prints of watermarks (from Greek manuscripts), a database of paper descriptions, and a bibliographical database. It is both a research tool and a mode of publishing information on papers in a centrally accessible way, and much more. The database interface is not yet functional, but the rest is, and there's a lot to think about there relevant to the methodological issues about use of evidence from paper to identify scribes and centers of book production. Part of it (the bibliographical database) is mostly just a shell at the moment, but you can see how it will work once our database interface is done.
Byzantine Paleography
With illustrated guides to Byzantine writing through the centuries, along with decoding tools.
THE Infimae Aetatis PAGE /ICE-ICK INFORMATION A Textual Data Bank of Late Antique and Medieval Inscriptions.
Cambridge University Library:The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit The Genizah was the document house of a Cairo Jewish community. Its resources pertain to a massive array of aspects of Eastern Mediterranean life in the Middle Ages.
TLG Information on the Theasaurus Linguae Greaca.
NUMISMATICS
JEAN ELSEN s.a. numismatic website
Ancient and Byzantine Coins
Byzantine Coins still a very limited site.
WARFARE
Giovanni Amatuccio- PERI TOXEIAS ABSTRACT-Bow for War in The Byzantine World
LAW
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Law Page
Roman Law on the WWW Contains texts and commentaries on the Corpus Iuris Civilis. Available in English, German, Italian and Latin.
PROSPOGRAPHY
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire Home Page
SCIENCE/TECH/MEDICINE
Antiqua Medicina: Byzantine
Ancient Medicine: Homer, Hippocrates, Galen, and Vesalius

BYZANTINE MUSIC

Byzantine Chant Page, by Pavlos Papadakis
Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae A site in Copenhagen devoted to Byzantine Music.
Byzantine Music with some downloadable examples. Part of Nick G's Homepage which contains information and links about Greek and Orthodox communities in Montreal.
Thamones Home Page Greek music group

BYZANTIUM - RELATED REGIONS AND CULTURES

Vryonis Center homepage Mainly modern Greek concerns.
Cyprus Homepage
Cyprus through the ages
Cyprus Tourist Page, including Roman sites and museum material
Armenian Research Center: UMichigan- Dearborn
The Alexandria Page

BYZANTINE RELATED MISCELLANY

Perseus Project Home Page The Perseus Project is concerned with the classical world. But it is also of great use to Byzantinists. For instance it has the entire Liddell-Scott-Jones in a searchable form - and with the ability to display the results in Greek [if you use a fixed with Greek font downloadable from the Perseus site.
Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Covers much more than its title implies.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World
Inventing the Subject: Gender, Sex, and Texts, 350-1400
People With A History: Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
With significant Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval coverage.
Byzantine Chess a site devoted to a game known as Byzantine or Round chess, apparently once popular in Constantinople.
Byzantine Textiles Illustrated site by an SCA enthusiast.
Irene of Athens
Medieval New York A site dedicated to the impact of the middle ages on New York city. It contains pictures of various Byzantine (-style) buildings and churches.
Drafn Drafn is a SCA [Society for Creative Anachronism] affiliate dedicated to recreating the Varangian Guard.
Roman/Byzantine Discussion Some modern Greek writers are concerned about the use of the word "Byzantine". This is an article on the subject.

BYZANTINE STUDIES DEPARTMENTS

Catholic University of America: Medieval and Byzantine Studies
Byzantine and Modern Greek studies at Queens College/City University of New York

BYZANTINE COURSE MATERIALS/PAGES

The Byzantine Empire, 330-1453, At Assumption College, taught by Fr. Dave Gallo A.A.
Late Byzantium Highly recommended page by Steven Reinart at Rutgers University.
Early Byzantine History, At Ohio State University, taught by Timothy Gregory. The site includes a useful and interesting Outline of Early Byzantine History.


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Byzantine Art and Architecture
See also the Gallery , a series of illustrated exhibitions of Byzantine art and antiquities, at this site.

The Glory of Byzantium. A very professional guide to Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mounted in connection with its "Glory of Byzantium Exhibition". It includes many images from the MMA's collection [but not from the Exhibition's borrowed works.]
Royal Ontario Museum - Gallery of Byzantine Art
BYZANTIUM - Exhibition at University of Michigan
Images of Ravenna Large collection of photographs of the main sites in Ravenna.
Images of from Early Byzantine History, at Images from World History Site.
Art and Architecture of the Byzantine Empire, part of a course at Wisconsion.
Byzantine Art Page in Mexico
Byzantine museum of "Antivouniotissa" on Corfu.
Ashkelon - Byzantine Church archeological site
Franciscan Archeological Institute - Jordan
Eliadis Archeological Photography - Greece
The Monastery of Deccani near the town of Pech. Its frescoes were painted between 1335 and 1350.
Orthodox Christian Fellowship Icon Archive
Dakota State University Art History Site - Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval Images
Life In Byzantine Jerusalem, part of a wonderfully illustrated Internet exhibit by Israel Information Services on Jerusalem in early Christian times. This is a MUST SEE.
Roman and Byzantine Sites in Israel Part of a much larger illustrated guide to historic sites in Israel called The New Jerusalem Mosaic
Historical Museum of Crete minor site for Byzantine items.
The Alexander Project Technical description of a project to create a multimedia database of the artifacts of the Byzantine Museum of Athens.
World Art Treasures this is a major resource, based on a 100,000 image archive. It organizes a series of web exhibitions. Of special interest to Byzantinists is its
Roman Portraits from Egypt Exhibition. This is a stunning collation of Roman-Egyptian portraiture linked to images from museums all over the world.
Art Serve Art history related images from Australian National University. This is a vast resource - over 4000 images on Western Art alone, plus much more.
Mosaic Matters on the Web (Paul Bentley & Andy Mitchell)
Catholic Encyclopedia: Byzantine Architecture
Catholic Encyclopedia: Byzantine Art
Catholic Encyclopedia: Byzantine Empire, The

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Byzantine Texts
Internet Medieval Sourcebook A sourcebook of Medieval and Byzantine sources directed at classroom use.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Hagiography Page
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library This is an effort to alphabetize and make links to all the Christian literature on the internet. Of special, and recent, interest is that the entire 38 volumes of the Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene is now available on line. Some of it is not cleaned up from initial scanning, but this is a great resource. There are also a variety of links to Bible tools, including parallel texts in English/German and English/Latin.
Early Church Fathers A direct link to the 38 volumes of the Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene fathers.
St. Pachomius Library
St. Pachomius Library; Greek Sources to 1200
St. Pachomius Library; Byzantine Sources, 1200+
St. Pachomius Library; Syriac Fathers
St. Pachomius Library; Lives of Saints
Cyril of Alexandria Page
Gregory of Nyssa HomePage This page contains English translations of Gregory's works by Brother Casimir McCambley, OCSO of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusetts. McCambley has published numerous translations of Gregory's works including his Song of Songs Commentary.The Web Page contains a growing number of translations, introductions and bibliographies. The Page is written and maintained by David A. Salomon of the University of Connecticut.
Roman Law on the WWW Contains texts and commentaries on the Corpus Iuris Civilis. Available in English, German, Italian and Latin.
Indiana University Gopher
Virginia Tech Gopher This site contains the full text of a large number of books, including the works of Plato and Aristotle.
The Tech Classics Archives Full texts of many classical authors.
American University file archives A site which under the heading "Catholic" has not only full texts of many papal documents, but also ascii texts of many of the Church fathers.
Daniel Ridings on Chrysostom An entrance point to an edition D. Ridings is working on of one of Chrysostom's works. It will be updated as time goes by.
The Poetry of Yeats
Bibliography: ALEX: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

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Byzantine Commercial Sites
BYZANTINE BOOKS

Camden Books
De Gruyter Publishers: Byzantine Studies / Byzantinistik
Dumbarton Oaks Publications Web page
Seraphim Rose Books - an Orthodox book seller
SVS Press : Overview
Papyrus Books Commercial 2nd hand bookseller, with Byzantine stock. Mainly Art history, and very expensive in my opinion. Still if you need a book... [The owners of this store contacted me and objected to the "very expensive" note. They pointed out that their prices are standard in the book trade. I still think, after direct comparison with prices at the Strand in NYC that "standard book trade" prices are high.]

BYZANTINE ART, ICONS AND CRAFTS [C