Byzantium

An online class from the Bibliothè que Nationale de France discussing al-Idrisi, his atlas, and the Mediterran ean world of the 12th century.

Presents the theory of hypertext and its medieval applicatio n in Byzantine manuscript s, using examples from the Theodore Psalter, a manuscript created in 1066 in the Stoudious monastery near Constantin ople. Hypertextu ality in this case manifests as a complex interactio n between the text and the illustrati ons in the manuscript and the text as it relates to other manuscript s and its historical context.

Links and resources relating to various facets of Byzantine history and culture.

Published by the Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998, offering a comprehensive description and analysis of the historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy.

The launch version of the first database produced by the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project: Prosopographical Reading of Byzantine Sources, 1025-1102.

This is a forum where SCA members can discuss the history of the Byzantine Empire within the context of the Society. Topics can include clothing, daily life, history, travels, food, living quarters, etc.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

A group of medieval re-enactors, primarily SCA, who share an enthusiasm for the Byzantine empire as it existed especially during the Middle Ages.

By Dionysios Hatzopoulos
Professor of Classical and Byzantine Studies, and Chairman of Hellenic Studies Center at Dawson College, Montreal, and Lecturer at the Department of History at Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.