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Byzantina Symmeikta
http://www.byzsym.org/
The Institute for Byzantine Studies of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (http://www.eie.gr) announces the launch of Byzantina Symmeikta, an international peer-reviewed open access journal on 22 April 2008 at http:/www.byzsym.org.
Starting 22 April electronically papers may be submitted for publication and books to be reviewed at http:/www.byzsym.org. More information on Byzantina Symmeikta and on Open Access in general can be found at http://www.openaccess.gr.
Annotated Justinian Code
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/blume&justinian/default.asp
The web site contains Justice Blume’s Annotated Justinian Code, togtheer with related documents. The site has a customized search facility.
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval Studies
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval Studies, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and renaissance studies. Double-spaced manuscripts should not exceed forty pages in length and all references should be in footnotes. We prefer submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper submissions are also accepted. Please include an e-mail address.
Submission deadline for volume 39 (2008) - 1 February 2008.
The editorial board will make its final selections by early May. Please send submissions to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or to Dr. Blair Sullivan, Publications Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485.
Journal
for Late Antique Religion and Culture
http://www.cf.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc/jlarc-home.html
Cardiff University's Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture (CLARC) is launching a new journal for inter-disciplinary research into the post-classical and late antique period.
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture (JLARC) is a full text, open access online Journal edited by members and associates of CLARC and published by Cardiff University.
Contributions are welcome for a wide range of topics in the research area as defined on the homepage of the centre.
ISSN: 1754-517X
Further information, including details of the editorial board, may be found at http://www.cf.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc/jlarc-home.html.
The
launch of the journal is planned for the end of November 2007.
Oxford
Centre for Late Antiquity
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk
There is a new centre
in Oxford for Late Antique studies. It is the aptly named 'Oxford
Centre for Late Antiquity' (OCLA). It now has a web site which lists
Oxford faculty, graduate students, research projects, seminars, courses,
and individual lectures. The centre organizes together the work of
some 67 faculty members attached to Oxford. The Centre is formally
under the History faculty but its membership represent eight academic faculties
at Oxford supporting the study of this period. OCLA is run by an
interdisciplinary committee chaired by Bryan Ward-Perkins and currently
consisting of Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, Helena Hamerow, Neil McLynn
and Chase Robinson.
Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections on the Web
All medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands are available on the web site Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC), http://www.mmdc.nl. The web site provides a portal to a database with short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6,000 items in all.
Medieval Snapshot
Medieval manuscripts provide a fascinating snapshot of the cultural and intellectual life of this period. Until now, information about these manuscripts and the related knowledge and expertise was dispersed, but MMDC brings all of this material together. MMDC has been set up by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer and it is partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
One Web Site for all Manuscripts
MMDC is focussed on creating possibilities for progressive research based on medieval manuscripts, by building a database with uniform descriptions, digital images and links to facsimile editions and subject-specific web sites. This way, all the disseminated information about medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands has been brought together and made available through one database. To benefit international use, all information is published in English.
Virtual Platform
The web site also contains more information on medieval books in the Netherlands. This web site will function as a virtual platform for researchers and students in palaeography, art history, philology and other fields. Visitors will find an overview of all Dutch institutions with medieval books, along with information on the history of the collections, contact information and procedures of requesting manuscripts. The web site also contains digital versions of several key out-of-print books about medieval manuscripts and an illustrated overview of medieval script.
For questions contact
Saskia van Bergen, project coordinator Parchment to Portal, tel.: 070-3140430,
e-mail: saskia.vanbergen@kb.nl.
Byzantium
1200 Project and Museum
http://www.byzantium1200.com/
There is a new museum in Istanbul based on the 'Byzantium 1200' project, which aims to recreate the city of Constantinople as it was in the year 1204. Many buildings and monuments are shown in reconstruction on the web site.
The
associated new museum in Istanbul, which opened in November of last year,
is located at the Philoxenos (Binbirdirek) Cistern. There are many models
and pictures of what Constantinople would have looked like in 1204.
Journal
of Late Antiquity
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/
The website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins University Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as subscription forms and library recommendation forms.
The journal provides a venue for multi-disciplinary coverage of all the methodological, geographical and chronological facets of Late Antiquity, going from AD 250 to 750, ranging from Arabia to the British Isles and running the gamut from literary and historical studies to the study of material culture. One of the primary goals of the journal is to highlight the status of Late Antiquity as a discrete historical period in its own right.
New, previously unpublished scholarship is solicited for the journal. Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length, but much briefer notes will also be considered.
For further information, consult Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@uiuc.edu.
Ralph
W. Mathisen, Managing Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity
Professor
of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies
Dept.
of History, MC-466
309
Gregory Hall, University of Illinois
Urbana,
IL 61801 USA
217-244-5247,
FAX: 217-333-2297
The Melbourne
Manuscript Resource Unit
http://academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au/manuscriptstudies/
The Melbourne Manuscript Resource Unit is located at the Academic Centre, St Mary's and Newman Colleges, The University of Melbourne. Its objective is to support teaching and research in Medieval and Renaissance (Early Modern) Manuscript Studies.
The associated NEER Research Cluster for Manuscript Studies consists of senior scholars, middle and early career researchers and postgraduate students with related interests in the field of Manuscript Studies. It is interdisciplinary in scope, with an emphasis on the following areas: the relationship of text, decoration and illustration in the hand-made book; the function of particular manuscript genres; and the interaction between social and patronal contexts and manuscript production.
The Cluster is committed to the fostering of research in Manuscript Studies in Australia and New Zealand and to the strengthening of international links in this field, especially with respect to research on Australasian manuscript collections and the provision of collaborative research opportunities for scholars and curators based in Australia and New Zealand.
International Association of Byzantine Studies
http://www.aiebnet.gr/
Byzantine Studies Association of North America
http://www.bsana.net
Monash University Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/religion-theology/
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/Byzantine/
The Byzantine churches of Istanbul.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/classics/ascs/directory.html
This is the new look web version
of the 'Classics Blue Book' - a directory of staff and research in classics
and related fields within Australia. Check this site for details concerning
postgraduate and staff research being done in Australia in late antique
and Byzantine Studies. It is a quick source of email, postal addresses
and other useful details and is updated once a year in April.
http://www.salve.edu/~romanemp/startup.htm
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An On-line
Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. This site will eventually offer linked
entries on all emperors, pretenders, wives and family members from the
beginning of the principate to the end of the Byzantine period. For more
detail about what this site has to offer see Reviews and Resources below.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/Classics/Morosini.html
The Morosini codex, a substantial
Venetian document currently being edited and translated by a team of scholars
under the leadership of AABS president John Melville-Jones, has a web site
which gives a sample of the document and provides information about the
edition and its progress.
http://www.ucc.ie/milmart
This site, set up by David Woods,
a late antique scholar based at the University of County Cork, Ireland,
provides access to translations of the lives of late antique to mediaeval
and Byzantine military martyrs, plus useful links to other select sites.
http://www.ucpress.edu
University of California Press
has just released the first of its e-editions. These are full text, fully
searchable on the web and access is free. Follow the link to the UCPress
Web Catalog, then click "read this book online" to access the e-edition.
In the present listing there is little of interest to Byzantinists, but
one Late Antiquity item: Derek Krueger's Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius'
Life and the Late Antique City.
http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/welcome.html
This web site operates as a bibliography
for a multitude of sites relevant to classics and related disciplines.
As such it contains the occasional site of use to Byzantinists. All of
the listed sites are linked and can be accessed directly from the site.
If you've forgotten the address for a particular site or simply want to
know what's available, it's a good place to start.
Further information on Byzantine scholarly activity around the world can be obtained via the Halsall Byzantine web site:
Hagiography websites:
http://www.fordham.edu./halsall/byzantium
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, UK Note: New to this web site: Alice-Mary Talbot's translation of the lives of Early Women of Byzantium. Free of copyright and available for downloading for use in classes. Also: the results of the fifteen year project to publish monastic typika. Sixty-one typika in pre-publication form. To appear in hard copy in 4 vols in 1999.
Dumbarton Oaks
http://www.kbr.be/~socboll/
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~tfhead/guides/hagio.html#2.
http://www.bway.net/~halsall/texts/vittrans.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html (texts in translation)
http://www.levantia.com.au
The Varangian Guard Tim Dawson, the site's author, intends rather to provide a general source for practical aspects of Byzantine social history. In its latest incarnation it provides information on Near Eastern Social History by reconstruction. It was revised on 18 March 1999 with Frankish and Seljuk costume material.
http://www.eie.gr/AIEB The Bulletin d'Information et de Coordination of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines. The Bulletin is a useful guide to research being conducted by members of affiliated associations around the world. To access use Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not use Webcrawler.
Archived copies of The Medieval Review, which carries a steady trickle of Byzantine reviews, can be located at:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/tmr.html The Medieval Review also operates as an electronic mailing list to subscribers, on which reviews of books appear at intervals. For further information see the above site.
Another Medieval site which may occasionally have material of interest to Byzantinists and persons interested in Late Antiquity is:
http://orb.rhodes.edu/ Claudia Rapp has secured funding to bring all of the scholars active in Late Antique studies in California together into a Multi-Campus Research Group for the History and Culture of Late Antiquity. For their new web site and list of members and activities see:
http://www.humnet.edu/humnet/ltantiq There are a plethora of Late Antiquity sites appearing on the web. Some of the following may be of interest:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~acxlav/larg.html
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~sjml/lateantiquity(Grad. Student Assoc. for the Study of Late Antiquity, UCLA)
http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc (this site is useful mostly for its links to a plethora of other sites - other associations, courses, bibliographies, resources etc.) There is also a useful electronic list to which one can subscribe to tap into information and lively international debate on various issues in late antiquity. The list also publishes Calls for Papers and Registration details for a wide range of conferences.
To subscribe email: LISTSERV@VM.SC.EDU and in content of message write: Subscribe LT-ANTIQ Firstname Lastname New Domain name. De Imperatoribus Romanis: An On-line Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors has changed its domain name to the shorter and more easily remembered: www.roman-emperors.org
Gouden Hoorn. This small-scale Byzantine journal is produced by the Council of Independent Byzantinists (Onafhankelijk Byzantinologen Overleg [OBO]) in the Netherlands. Items are presented in both Dutch and English and are particularly accessible to the non-specialist. Issues appear several times a year and can be viewed at: http://www.geocities.com/goudenhoorn
The Suda On Line project. This site aims to make available the Suda in a freely accessible, keyword-searchable, xml-encoded databse with translations, annotations, bibliogrpahy, and automatically generated links to other important electronic resources. The Suda is a massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by even earlier authors. For detail about becoming an editor or translator for the project see under Reviews and Resources below.
http://www.stoa.org/sol/While you're checking out the Suda On Line project, have a look at its host site:www.stoa.org. This consortium for electronic publication in the humanities has a strong emphasis on Classics, but lists the occasional electronic resource of interest to the late antiquarian.
http://www.unf.edu/classes/saints/
"Saints, Sainthood and Society". Paul Halsall has produced another extremely useful web site for his latest class on the phenomenon of saints and sainthood. It has links to numerous other sites, a long list of bibliographical resources, images, music and more. While it covers the full history of the phenomenon from the earliest period up to the modern day, there is much of use to the Byzantine and Late Antique scholar.www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/kirke/artikel/html
Check out this site for reviews and articles on Late Antique topics. The items are culled from a range of international journals, some electronic, and are conveniently collected together.http://www.nupedia.com
This site isn't of use to the Byzantinist or Late Antique scholar yet, but is one to keep an eye on in the future. Nupedia, according to the advertising, is an on-line open content encyclopedia which promises to be the largest, most informative and up-to-date ever compiled. With a rigorous peer review system, permanent financial backing and full time support staff it promises to provide high quality information that is instantly available to users of the internet for free. Launched earlier this year, it now has a variety of functioning subject areas of which Music, Classics, Computer Science and Philosophy/Logic are the most established. Medieval European History is the first History subject to be established and the editor of that subject area, Michael Kulikowski (Dept of History, Smith College, Northampton, MA) is currently calling for contributors and peer reviewers. All other history subject areas, including Byzantine and Late Antique History, await editors. If you are interested in applying for the position of editor or in participating in some other capacity, contact Larry Sanger via the above web address.
(summarised from a posting to LT-ANTIQ@vm.sc.eduby Michael Kulikowski, Editor, Medieval History, Nupedia.com)http://www.unipissing.ca/department/history/orb/conf.htm
This extremely useful service, provided by Steven Muhlberger, is an up-to-date listing of conferences relevant to Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean with links to the relevant web sites. It also lists some conferences of interest to Byzantinists.http://www.unipissing.ca/department/history/orb/LA-TEST.htm
Also provided by Steven Muhlberger, this site (associated with The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies ) provides introductory material to Late Antiquity, information and links regarding online references, atlases, journals and sites containing useful bibliographical material. It is a must for students and is a good place to start if you are trying to track down a particular type of resource.From 2002, NEWLETTERS will carry further information - check relevant newsletters for updates.
