The Byzantine Review

ByzRev 07.2025.N01: An Echo of the Forerunner: Theodore Prodromos and John Chortasmenos

Michael Grünbart — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Michael Grünbart, An Echo of the Forerunner: Theodore Prodromos and John Chortasmenos

ByzRev 07.2025.044: Clive Foss, The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire

A. C. S. Peacock — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Clive Foss, The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. 282 pp. – ISBN 978-0-198865438

ByzRev 07.2025.043: Salvatore Costanza – Amphilochios Papathomas, I trattati divinatori greci e il dinamismo della società tardoantica e bizantina:

Florin Filimon — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Salvatore Costanza – Amphilochios Papathomas, I trattati divinatori greci e il dinamismo della società tardoantica e bizantina: papiri, epigrafi e fonti letterarie (Tyche Supplementband 15). Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag, 2023. 238 pp. – ISBN 978-3-903207-74-5 (€ 105)

ByzRev 07.2025.042: Konstantinos El. Liakouras, Γεωργίου Μετοχίτου λόγοι πέντε περὶ τῆς ἐκπορεύσεως τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, νῦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐκδιδόμενοι

Francesca Samorì — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Konstantinos El. Liakouras, Γεωργίου Μετοχίτου λόγοι πέντε περὶ τῆς ἐκπορεύσεως τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος, νῦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐκδιδόμενοι (Analecta Vlatadon 73). Thessaloniki: Πατριαρχικόν Ίδρυμα Πατερικών Μελετών 2023. 348 pp., 6 tables. – ISBN 978-960-8062-39-9

ByzRev 07.2025.041: Epiphanios the Monk: Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and Life and Acts of St Andrew the Apostle.

Mark Huggins — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Epiphanios the Monk: Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and Life and Acts of St Andrew the Apostle. Introduction, translation and commentary by Mary B. Cunningham (Translated Texts for Byzantinists 13). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2024. xi+195 pp. – ISBN 978-1-80207-853-4

ByzRev 07.2025.040: Stefano Parenti, Storia regionale del Rito Bizantino.

Aleksandr Andreev — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Stefano Parenti, Storia regionale del Rito Bizantino. Volume I: Costantinopoli e dintorni (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum 47). Münster: Aschendorff 2025. 342 pp. – ISBN 978-3402-11082-9

ByzRev 07.2025.039: Susana Torres Prieto, The Early Slavs: The First Centuries of Eastern Europe

Florin Curta — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Susana Torres Prieto, The Early Slavs: The First Centuries of Eastern Europe (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe). London – New York: Routledge 2025. 211 pp. – ISBN 978-1-032-25113-4

ByzRev 07.2025.038: Rafał Quirini-Popławski, The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261–1475)

Michalis Olympios — Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Rafał Quirini-Popławski, The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261–1475) (The Medieval Mediterranean 136). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2023. 410 pp., 299 figures. – ISBN 978-90-04-53893-1 (paperback), 978-90-04-67890-3 (e-book)

ByzRev 07.2025.037: Didier Clerc, Théodore Métochite, Comparaison de Démosthène et d’Aristide.

Thierry Grandjean — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Didier Clerc, Théodore Métochite, Comparaison de Démosthène et d’Aristide. Introduction, traduction princeps et commentaire (Sapheneia 24). Basel: Schwabe 2024. 464 p. – ISBN 978-3-7965-4999-1 doi:10.24894/978-3-7965-5033-1

ByzRev 07.2025.036: Paraskevi Toma – Péter Bara (eds), Latin Translations of Greek Texts from the 11th to the 13th Century

Lisa Devriese — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Paraskevi Toma – Péter Bara (eds), Latin Translations of Greek Texts from the 11th to the 13th Century (The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, 143). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2025. XXII, 476 pp. – ISBN 978-90-04-70756-6

ByzRev 07.2025.035: Ioan-Gabriel Alexandru (ed.), Konstantinos Harmenopoulos De haeresibus:

Hisatsugu Kusabu — Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Ioan-Gabriel Alexandru (ed.), Konstantinos Harmenopoulos De haeresibus: Edition, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen (Supplementa Études byzantines et post-byzantines 3). Heidelberg: Herlo Verlag 2022. 116 pp. – ISBN 978-3-948-6700-7-8

ByzRev 07.2025.034: Martin Illert, Presbyter Kozma, Gegen die Bogomilen:

Hisatsugu Kusabu — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Martin Illert, Presbyter Kozma, Gegen die Bogomilen: Orthodoxie und Häresie auf dem mittelalterlichen Balkan (Βyzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 18). Turnhout: Brepols 2021. 155 pp. – ISBN 978-2-503-59625-9

ByzRev 07.2025.033: Maroula Perisanidi, Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000–1200:

Stavroula Constantinou — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Maroula Perisanidi, Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000–1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024. 206 pp. – ISBN 978-1-00949979-8

ByzRev 07.2025.032: Katharina Schoneveld, Illustrationen zur Kriegstechnik in byzantinischen Handschriften.

Philip Rance — Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Katharina Schoneveld, Illustrationen zur Kriegstechnik in byzantinischen Handschriften. Transfer und Adaption antiken Wissens in Byzanz (Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen 2). Göttingen: V & R Unipress 2024. 668 pp. – ISBN 978-3-8471-1648-6

ByzRev 07.2025.031: Liv Ingeborg Lied – Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts:

Peter J. Montoro IV — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Liv Ingeborg Lied – Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars. New Haven: Yale University Press 2025. viii+179 pp. – ISBN 978-0-300-26442-5

ByzRev 07.2025.030: Mark Roosien, Ritual and Earthquakes in Constantinople:

Andrew Mellas — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Mark Roosien, Ritual and Earthquakes in Constantinople: Liturgy, Ecology, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024. 204 pp. – ISBN 978-1-009-42728-9

ByzRev 07.2025.029: Georgios Theotokis, The Art of War in Byzantium

Savvas Kyriakidis — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Georgios Theotokis, The Art of War in Byzantium (Past Imperfect). Leeds: Arc Humanities Press 2024. 134 pp. – ISBN 978-1-80270-100-5

ByzRev 07.2025.028: Maria Alessia Rossi, Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture.

Rossitza Schroeder — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Maria Alessia Rossi, Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024. xxvii+337 pp., with illustrations. – ISBN 978-1-009-38762-0

ByzRev 07.2025.027: Christoph Begass (Hrsg.), Johannes Lydos’ De magistratibus.

Nikolas Hächler — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Christoph Begass (Hrsg.), Johannes Lydos’ De magistratibus. Autor – Werk – Kontext. Akten der Internationalen Tagung in Mannheim, 17.–18. Januar 2020 (Roma Aeterna 17). Stuttgart: Steiner 2024. 240 S. – ISBN 978-3-515-13775-1 (€ 54,00)

ByzRev 07.2025.026: Robert Volk (ed.), Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos, X: Iohannis Damasceni Vitae.

Caroline Macé — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Robert Volk (ed.), Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos, X: Iohannis Damasceni Vitae. Mit Nachträgen zum Druck besorgt von Annamaria Peri (Patristische Texte und Studien 81). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2024. xlii + 547 pp. – ISBN 9783111384641

ByzRev 07.2025.025: Renate Burri – Katharina Heyden (eds), The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy

Norman Russell — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Renate Burri – Katharina Heyden (eds), The Role of Gregory Akindynos in the Hesychast Controversy (Eastern Church Identities 17). Paderborn: Brill Schöningh 2024. xv+140 pp. – ISBN 978-3-657-79452-9 (€ 89.00)

ByzRev 07.2025.024: Marica Cassis, Medieval Archaeology in the East Roman World

Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Marica Cassis, Medieval Archaeology in the East Roman World (Past Imperfect). Leeds: Arc Humanities Press 2024. x, 112 pp. – ISBN 978-1-64189-219-3 (paperback), e-ISBN 978-1-80270-202-6 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-80270-203-3 (ebook)

ByzRev 07.2025.023: Romain Goudjil, Une symphonie des pouvoirs judiciaires à Byzance.

James Morton — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Romain Goudjil, Une symphonie des pouvoirs judiciaires à Byzance. Le rôle de l’Église dans l’administration de la justice (Xe–XVe siècle). Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses 2024. 450 pp. – ISBN 979-10-231-0801-9

ByzRev 07.2025.022: Aleksandar Jovanović, Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, c.1223–1259

Lorenzo Maria Ciolfi — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Aleksandar Jovanović, Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, c.1223–1259 (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022. xiii, 255 pp. – ISBN 978-3-031-09277-0

ByzRev 07.2025.021: Anna Gioffreda – Ugo Mondini – Andreas Rhoby, Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes.

Anita Belcheva — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Anna Gioffreda – Ugo Mondini – Andreas Rhoby, Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes. Einleitung, kritische Edition und Indices (Byzantinisches Archiv 44). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2024. 443 pp. – ISBN 978-3-11-079302-4 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110796544 (open access)

ByzRev 07.2025.020: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier

Vladislav Knoll — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier (Past Imperfect). Leeds: ARC Humanities Press 2024. xxix, 99 pp. – ISBN 978-1-64-189079-3

ByzRev 07.2025.019: Clair McPherson, Nilus of Ancyra, Byzantine Theologian and Ascetic

Joel Kalvesmaki — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Clair McPherson, Nilus of Ancyra, Byzantine Theologian and Ascetic (Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 81). Piscataway: Gorgias Press 2024. viii, 337 pp. – ISBN 978-1-4632-4609-9

ByzRev 07.2025.018: Garrick V. Allen, Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament.

Georgi Parpulov — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Garrick V. Allen, Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament. Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans 2024. xviii, 198 pp. – ISBN 978-0-8028-8335-3

ByzRev 07.2025.017: Gabriella Bernardi with a contribution by Spyros Koulouris and preface by Massimo Bernabò, Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art: Correspondence, 1920–1957

Georgi Parpulov — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Gabriella Bernardi with a contribution by Spyros Koulouris and preface by Massimo Bernabò, Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art: Correspondence, 1920–1957 (Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World 3). Turnhout: Brepols 2022. 697 pp. – ISBN 978-2-503-59671-6

ByzRev 07.2025.016: Roland Betancourt, The Secrets We Keep: Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire.

Benjamin Anderson — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Roland Betancourt, The Secrets We Keep: Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute 2024. 90 pp., 23 ill., incl. 1 map. – ISBN 978-1-60606-908-0

ByzRev 07.2025.015: Claudia Rapp, Elitekultur und christliche Religiosität in Spätantike und Byzanz

Georgi Parpulov — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Claudia Rapp, Elitekultur und christliche Religiosität in Spätantike und Byzanz (Karl-Christ-Preis für Alte Geschichte 6). Göttingen: Verlag Antike 2024. 84 pp. – ISBN 978-3-911065-06-1

ByzRev 07.2025.014: Theodoros Alexopoulos, Photios von Konstantinopel „Mystagogie des Heiligen Geistes“.

Cristian I. Dumitru — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Theodoros Alexopoulos, Photios von Konstantinopel „Mystagogie des Heiligen Geistes“. Übersetzung und theologischer Kommentar (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 153). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2023. 433 pp. – ISBN 978-3-11-079011-5

ByzRev 07.2025.013: Maria Luisa Agati, Alla vigilia delle Crociate: Michele VII Ducas (1071–1078)

Luisa Andriollo — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Maria Luisa Agati, Alla vigilia delle Crociate: Michele VII Ducas (1071–1078) (Hellenica 104). Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2022. xii, 268 pp. – ISBN 978-88-3613-294-2

ByzRev 07.2025.012: Emmanuel S. Moutafov, The Chora Monastery of Constantinople

Athanasios Semoglou — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Emmanuel S. Moutafov, The Chora Monastery of Constantinople (Elements in the History of Constantinople). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2024. 96 pp. – ISBN 978-1-108-93113-7

ByzRev 07.2025.011: Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto, Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum:

John Raffan — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto, Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum: introduzione, testo critico e traduzione (Akribos anaginoskein 3). Potenza: Basilicata University Press 2024. 196 pp. – ISBN 978-88-31309-36-3 http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/book/978-88-31309-36-3 (open access)

ByzRev 07.2025.010: Claire Vernon, From Byzantine to Norman Italy:

Dana Katz — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Claire Vernon, From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari (New Directions in Byzantine Studies). London: I. B. Taurus 2023. xii + 269 pp. 137 ill., 4 maps. – ISBN 978-1-7883-1506-7 (hb). £76.50 (hb), £20.87 (e-book).

ByzRev 07.2025.009: Jason Fossella, The dromos and Byzantine communications, diplomacy, and bureaucracy, 518–1204

Lucas McMahon — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Jason Fossella, The dromos and Byzantine communications, diplomacy, and bureaucracy, 518–1204 (The Medieval Mediterranean 137). Leiden – Boston: Brill 2023. XV, 202 pp. – ISBN 978-90-04-68127-9

ByzRev 07.2025.008: David Holton – Geoffrey Horrocks – Marjolijne Janssen – Tina Lendari – Io Manolessou – Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek in 4 vols.

Maxim Kisilier — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

David Holton – Geoffrey Horrocks – Marjolijne Janssen – Tina Lendari – Io Manolessou – Notis Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek in 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. 2024 pp. – ISBN 978-0-521-19529-4

ByzRev 07.2025.007: Friederike Berger, Die griechischen Handschriften der Signaturengruppen Rep. I und Rep. II

Luigi Orlandi — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Friederike Berger, Die griechischen Handschriften der Signaturengruppen Rep. I und Rep. II (Leihgabe Leipziger Stadtbibliothek) (Katalog der Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Neue Folge, 5, 2). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2022. 229 pp., 8 tav. – ISBN 978-3-447-11885-9

ByzRev 07.2025.006: Theodore Metochites, On Morals or Concerning Education. Translated by Sophia Xenophontos

Eleni Kaltsogianni — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Theodore Metochites, On Morals or Concerning Education. Translated by Sophia Xenophontos (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 61). Cambridge, Massachusetts – London: Harvard University Press 2020. xxvi, 285 pp. – ISBN 978-0-6742-4463-4

ByzRev 07.2025.005: James Howard-Johnston, Byzantium: Economy, Society, Institutions 600–1100.

Paul Magdalino — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

James Howard-Johnston, Byzantium: Economy, Society, Institutions 600–1100. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024. 320 pp. – ISBN 978-0-19-8897-8

ByzRev 07.2025.004: Susanna Valpreda, Sikelia 1: La cultura bizantina della Sicilia orientale.

Francesco Dalbon — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Susanna Valpreda, Sikelia 1: La cultura bizantina della Sicilia orientale. Castelvetrano: Lithos 2023. 384 pp. – ISBN 979-12-80926-10-4

ByzRev 07.2025.003: Alain Touwaide, Greek Medical Manuscripts – Diels’ Catalogue, newly revised and updated, 5 vols.

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Alain Touwaide, Greek Medical Manuscripts – Diels’ Catalogue, newly revised and updated, 5 vols. (Medical Traditions 2/1–5). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2021.

Vol. 1: Diels’ Catalogue with Indices. CCI, 421 S. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599961)

Vol. 2: Corpus Hippocraticum. LXXXIV, 122 S. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600001)

Vol. 3: Corpus Galenicum. XCI, 120 S. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600049)

Vol. 4: Ceteri Medici. CXVIII, 189 S. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601992)

Vol. 5: The Manuscripts and their Texts. CLVI, 410 S. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110621556)

ByzRev 07.2025.002: Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, The Orthodox Icon and Postmodern Art:

Maximos Constas — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, The Orthodox Icon and Postmodern Art: Critical Reflections on the Christian Image and Its Theology (Routledge Research in Art and Religion). New York – London: Routledge 2025. 190 pp., 39 figs. – ISBN 978-1-032-18113-4

ByzRev 07.2025.001: Michael Edward Stewart – David Alan Parnell – Conor Whately (eds), The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium.

Catherine Holmes — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Michael Edward Stewart – David Alan Parnell – Conor Whately (eds), The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium. Abingdon – New York: Routledge 2022. xiv, 453 pp. – ISBN 978-0-367-14341-1