Byzantium for Dummies?

Sad there’s no #Byzantium for Dummies? So was Bertha of Sulzbach (later Irene) when she was sent from Bavaria to become empress of the #ByzantineEmpire. So she commissioned a poet, John Tzetzes, to write one for her!

📖Read it in ALLEGORIES OF THE ILIAD: https://t.co/oAWnNB4nmk pic.twitter.com/UGBblJhRCD

— Dumbarton Oaks (@DumbartonOaks) August 29, 2021

The Genius of Byzantium

The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire (essay by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna) https://t.co/7TZgHqMi4L

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) January 26, 2021

Oxford University Byzantine Society Call for Papers

#CallforPapers #CFP #Byzantinebrigade #Byzantine #History #conference @OxUniStudents @camedieval @CRASSHlive @kingshistory @clamskcl @IMEMSDurham @DumbartonOaks https://t.co/45m31FhqkL

— Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (@OxfordByzantine) November 6, 2020

Kyrie Eleison

OrthoChristian: ON ENVY AND LOVE OF POWER IN THE HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM AND RUS’
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik

Are catastrophic events connected with envy characteristic only of Byzantium? Alas, no.

Eastern Christian Books: From Rome to Byzantium

Eastern Christian Books: From Rome to Byzantium

BART

Posted by Orthodox Arts Journal on Thursday, April 23, 2015

Documentary on Byzantium

Post by Orthodox Christian Network.

The Long Shadows of Byzantium

Post by Orthodox Christian Network.

Medievalists.net: Byzantium Revisited: The Mosaics of Hagia Sophia in the Twentieth Century

Byzantine Sacred Architecture

Nicholas Patricios, The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium: Art, Liturgy and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches (I.B. Tauris, September 2013), 384pp. (via Eastern Christian Books)

A Pricey Volume

113 pounds

I had forgotten that there was a Centre for Eastern Christian Studies at the International Theological Institute. I was looking through the news section and found this from From February of last year:

On 16th February the Eastern Centre hosted Dr Judith Ryder of Wolfson College, Oxford. She addressed the ITI and a number of other visitors from the wider academic and ecclesiastical communities on the topic 'Demetrius Kydones: Statesman and Thomist in the Twilight of Byzantium'. Demetrius Kydones and his brother Prochorus were amongst the most prominent of the Byzantine Thomists of the fourteenth century. Kydones also served as Mesazōn (Prime Minister) to three Byzantine Emperors. Personally in communion with theHoly See, he worked to accomplish the (canonical and intellectual) reunification of Byzantium and Rome and to obtain the assistance of a Crusade for the Empire ever more threatened by the rise of the Ottoman Turks. Dr Ryder persuasively argued that for Kydones the key to his task was the effort toconvince his fellow Byzantines that they must remain in dialogue not just with each other but with both the Latin Fathers and their Western contemporaries. Dr Ryder is currently working on eleventh century Byzantium. Her study of Kydones "The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones" (2010) is published by Brill.

Has anyone done a review of her book on Demetrius Kydones?

Cappella Romana - Lament for the Fall of Constantinople

Medievalists.net: The Monk as an Element of Byzantine Society

Dumbarton Oaks: The New Testament in Byzantium

2013 Byzantine Studies Symposium, April 26-28, 2013, Symposiarchs: Robert S. Nelson, Yale University and Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Aeon Magazine: End of Byzantium by Helena Drysdale
Besieged by a majority Turkish culture, Istanbul's Ecumenical Patriarch Barthomelew I attempts a cosmopolitan revival

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
“Bartholomew is Seeking to Reinvigorate Dialogue With Roman Catholics”

"The New Testament in Byzantium"

Dumbarton Oaks: 2013 Byzantine Studies Symposium, April 26-28, 2013, Symposiarchs: Robert S. Nelson, Yale University and Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

tentative program (pdf)
poster (pdf)

Byzantine, Texas: The Liturgy in 13th century Constantinople

The chanting is splendid, but are the vestments accurate? I'm not understanding the headgear. I think that is supposed to be the emperor, rather than the bishop? NO barrier or ciborium or altar?

Misc.
Cultural Identity and Dress: The Case of Late Byzantine Court Costume

Medievalists.net: A Spectacle of Great Beauty: The Changing Faces of Hagia Sophia

The frailties of men

Could Byzantium have been saved?

The First Crusade, the true story

Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *

Harvard University Press & Random House UK

A review in The Tablet.