Bücher der Reihe Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

This volume is designed as a primary source for the history of the first Byzantine iconoclasm (730-787 AD) and the iconodoulic reaction (787-815 AD). The author argues that Stephen's opposition to the emperor Constantine V was as much political as it was religious.

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Slyvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos's text.

Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsuläs relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east, across the early and central Middle Ages.

This volume explores the letters of Theophylacht of Ochrid. It concentrates on the letters as examples of Byzantine literature and attempts to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts and makes an analysis of the personal networks of Theophylacht.

The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that 'the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy', and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna.

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes and the distribution of booty. The Syl

This book focuses on the impact of political relations with the East, especially the Muslim caliphate, on the reign of the last iconoclast emperor of Byzantium, Theophilos (829-842), reinterpreting the major events of the period and their chronology. Separate sections are devoted to the influence of Armenians at the court.

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos¿s text, a rare eye-witness account of the Council of Fer

The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. Beyond its Byzantine focus, it also contributes to broader discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the spatial dimension of social life.

After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. It is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies.

The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that 'the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy', and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of ap