This is a database of authors of Byzantine History, which has been created to help editors find both source materials and reviews of the authors. Authors are organized alphabetically into subheadings, with a short color-coded review of the general quality of their works. Each authors works are broken down into various collapsed containers depending upon type; at present the types used are "Books", for works written by them, "Book chapters" for chapters they have written for use within a different work, and "Articles", pieces they have written for journals. All containers should be organized chronologically.
The styling of sources is dependent upon what type of source they are: "Books" should be organized as #Title (date) (language [if not in English]), "Book chapters" should be organized as #Chapter title in Book title (date) (language [if not in English]) pp. [page range]., "Articles" should be organized #Title in Journal [issue no.] (date) (language [if not in English]) pp. [page range]
The color coding should be organized into distinct colors, at present five colors are used:
Green: Best
Blue: Good, however some parts may be challenged or else not covered in depth
Purple: Should complement with other sources
Orange: Decent, however source may be biased or very outdated
Red: Do not use source.
All help is appreciated and all suggestions for improvement are welcome, however I do ask that you do not modify the existing format (described above) without first discussing it with me.
Some of his works are still fundamental, e.g. his studies on Byzantium during the 10th century, from Nikephoros II on. Like Bury, still good for narrative history, but use with newer sources.
Largely OK for narrative purposes, but there are more modern and qualitative sources. Always complement with more modern works, or avoid it altogether.
Books
A History of Greece (From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864) (1877)
Indispensable resource for administrative history, and generally very reliable. It still pays to check his conclusions and assumptions with more modern sources.
One of the greatest living Byzantinists; his more general view of Byzantine history, particularly in earlier works, is Marxist-oriented, and hence rather out of date with the mainstream. His studies on Byzantine art etc are fundamental
One of the greatest Byzantinists and Slavicists, but some of his theses have been overturned. Remains indispensable for a treatment of Byzantium's relations with Eastern Europe.
His History of the Byzantine State was for a generation the most important work on Byzantine history. His theses on the pronoia, peasant-farmers, etc. have been mostly overturned, but have defined the field.
Very good, but should be complemented with other sources on financial, social, etc. commentary.
Books
The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (1980)
The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (1982)
The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (1988)
Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (1995)
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997)
A Concise History of Byzantium (2001)
The Early Byzantine Historians (2007)
The Middle Byzantine Historians (2013)
Studies in Byzantine Cultural History (2016)
The Later Byzantine Historians (Pending)
Book chapters
Photios and the Reading Public for Classical Philology in Byzantium in Byzantium and the Classical Tradition (1980) pp. 123–126
The Struggle for Survival (641-780) in The Oxford History of Byzantium (2002) pp. 129–150
Army and Defence in Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History (2005) pp. 68–82
Byzantium, the Reluctant Warrior in Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages, 378-1492 (2006) pp. 209–233
The Formation of a Byzantine Identity in Culture and Identity in Eastern Christian History (2009) pp. 319–342
Trajan the Patrician, Nicephorus, and Theophanes in Bibel, Byzanz und Christlicher Orient: Festschrift für Stephen Gero zum 65. Geburtstag (2011) pp. 589–621
Opposition to Iconoclasm as Grounds for Civil War in Byzantine War Ideology: Between Roman Imperial Concept and Christian Religion (2012) pp. 33–39
The Lost Secret History of Nicetas the Paphlagonian in The Steppe Lands and the World Beyond Them: Studies in Honor of Victor Spinei on his 70th Birthday (2013) pp. 645–676
Paying the Army in the Theodosian Period in Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian Period (2014) pp. 303–318
The Unwritten Rules for Writing Byzantine History in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2016) pp. 277–292
The Lost Books of Ammianus in Byzantine Historiography in Armenia between Byzantium and the Orient: Celebrating the Memory of Karen Yuzbashyan (Pending)
Articles
The Problem of the Marriage of the Emperor Theophilus in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 16 (1975), pp. 325–341
The Preface of the Bibliotheca of Photius in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 31 (1977) pp. 343–349
"Photius on the Transmission of Texts," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 19 (1978), pp. 171–175
"The Bride-Shows of the Byzantine Emperors," Byzantion 49 (1979), pp. 395–413
"The Chronological Accuracy of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete for the Years 813-845," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 33 (1979), pp. 157–197
"The Revival of Byzantine Learning and the Revival of the Byzantine State," American Historical Review 84 (1979), pp. 1245–1266
"The Recently Completed Edition of the Bibliotheca of Photius," Byzantinoslavica 41 (1980), pp. 50–61
"Notes on the Numbers and Organization of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Army," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21 (1980), pp. 269–288
"The Unpublished Saint's Life of the Empress Irene," Byzantinische Forschungen 8 (1982), pp. 237–251
"Remarks on the Work of Al-Jarmī on Byzantium," Byzantinoslavica 44 (1983), pp. 205–212
"The Military Lands and the Imperial Estates in the Middle Byzantine Empire," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 7 (Okeanos: Essays Presented to Ihor Ševčenko, 1983), pp. 619–631
"The Bulgars' Treaty with the Byzantines in 816," Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi 4 (1984), pp. 213–220
"An Indirectly Preserved Source for the Reign of Leo IV," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 34 (1984), pp. 69–76
"The Preface of the Bibliotheca of Photius Once More" (with Tomas Hägg), Symbolae Osloenses 61 (1986), pp. 133–138
"The Empress Irene's Preparation for the Seventh Ecumenical Council," The Patristic and Byzantine Review 7 (1988), pp. 49–58
"Three Byzantine Provinces and the First Byzantine Contacts with the Rus'," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 12-13 (1988-89) pp. 132–144
"On the Value of Inexact Numbers," Byzantinoslavica 50 (1989), pp. 57–61
"The Break in Byzantium and the Gap in Byzantine Studies," Byzantinische Forschungen 14 (1990), pp. 289–316
"Seven Byzantine Revolutions and the Chronology of Theophanes," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 31 (1990), pp. 203–227
"A Note on Byzantium's Year of the Four Emperors (641)," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 83 (1990), pp. 431–433
"The Missing Year in the Revolt of Artavasdus," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 42 (1992), pp. 87–93
"Byzantium in the Tenth Century," Rivista di Bizantinistica 2 (1992), pp. 81–100
"The Army in the Works of Constantine Porphyrogenitus," Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, n.s. 29 (1992), pp. 77–162
"Imaginary Early Christianity," International History Review 15 (1993), pp. 535–545
"Taking Sources on Their Own Terms and on Ours: Peter Brown's Late Antiquity," Antiquité Tardive 2 (1994), pp. 153–159
"Procopius and the Imperial Panels of San Vitale" (with Irina Andreescu-Treadgold), Art Bulletin 79 (1997), pp. 708–723
Why Write a New History of Byzantium? (1997), pp. 1–22
"Observations on Finishing a General History of Byzantium," in Aëtos: Studies in Honor of Cyril Mango (B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart, 1998), pp. 342–353
"The Persistence of Byzantium," The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 1998, pp. 66–91
"Late Ancient and Byzantine History Today," Historically Speaking 4 (April 2002), pp. 20–22
"Photius Before His Patriarchate," in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53 (2002) pp. 1–17
"A Reply to a Recent Review," in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2003) pp. 802–804
"Travel and Trade in the Dark Ages," in International History Review 26 (2004) pp. 80–88
The Historicity of Imperial Bride-Shows in Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 54 (2004), pp. 39–52
The Prophecies of the Patriarch Methodius in Revue des Études Byzantines 62 (2004) pp. 229–237
The Diplomatic Career and Historical Work of Olympiodorus of Thebes in International History Review 26 (2004) pp. 709–33
Standardized Numbers in the Byzantine Army in War in History 12 (2005), pp. 1–14
Predicting the Accession of Theodosius I in Mediterraneo Antico 8 (2005), pp. 767–791
The Byzantine World Histories of John Malalas and Eustathius of Epiphania in International History Review 29 (2007), pp. 709–745
Byzantine Exceptionalism and Some Recent Books on ByzantiumHistorically Speaking 12 (2010), pp. 16–19
The Darkness of the Seventh-Century Near East in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 18 (2011), pp. 579–592
The Life and Wider Significance of George Syncellus in Travaux et Mémoires 19 (2015), pp. 9–30
