Byzantine Studies

The center aims to develop and facilitate research projects that are dedicated to the history, art, architecture and archaeology of civilizations in Turkey through exhibitions, symposiums, fellowships and publications.

GABAM has been founded in Istanbul, a city with great potential in terms of Byzantine studies. Being the first research center on Byzantine studies in Turkey, GABAM aims to support scientific research projects in relevant field, provide doctoral and post doctoral scholarships, organize scientific meetings, publish scientific literature and contribute to the protection and promotion of the Byzantine cultural heritage.

Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Centre for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) seeks to be a leading research center on the Mediterranean world focusing on the history, archaeology, art history, ancient languages, architectural history, cultural heritage and related disciplines. AKMED’s mission is to pioneer and support national and international academic studies in the above-mentioned disciplines.

The Netherlands Institute in Turkey is a research center dedicated to the study of Turkey and surrounding regions through the ages. It conducts historical and archaeological research, and aims to support studies in the humanities and social sciences that have a bearing on Turkey, by scholars as well as students, from the Netherlands and other countries.

The aim of the Boğaziçi University Byzantine Studies Research Center is to contribute to the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey and around the world by actively promoting interdisciplinary research and education in this field and by serving as a platform for discussion and dialogue. Research on Byzantine history, culture, art, and archaeology conducted and supported by the Center will shed new light on the history and culture of medieval Istanbul, Anatolia, and the Balkans, as well as the early Ottoman Empire.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute in Washington, D.C., administered by the Trustees for Harvard University. It supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships and internships, meetings, and exhibitions. Located in residential Georgetown, Dumbarton Oaks welcomes researchers at all career stages who come to study its books, objects, images, and documents.

The German Archaeological Institute is a research institute charged with conducting, furthering and publishing research in the field of archaeology and its allied sciences. It seeks to promote unity within German archaeological sciences in the broader context of classical and ancient studies, and engages in and encourages meaningful dialogue and well-founded cooperation with its host and partner countries, as well as cultivating productive relations with international scientific institutions

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is dedicated to promoting and advancing knowledge about the rich heritage of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted for more than a thousand years and spanned three continents. The Center’s mission is to create academic and educational resources that engage the wider public, scholars, and the Orthodox Christian community. Its programs encourage awareness and appreciation of Byzantium and its legacy.

The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting North American and Turkish research and exchanges related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT provides support for these aims by maintaining research centers and libraries in Istanbul and Ankara, and administering fellowship programs to support research in Turkey at doctoral and advanced research levels.

IFEA yurtdışındaki Fransız araştırma enstitülerinden biridir.Fransa Dışişleri Bakanlığı'na ve CNRS'e (Ulusal Bilimsel Araştırma Merkezi) bağlı olan enstitünün konusu Türkiye ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu toprakları olan beşeri ve sosyal bilimler alanında ve Antik Dönem bilimleri alanındaki araştırmalarına eşlik etme, yardım etme ve onları yüreklendirme, koordine etme ve buluşturma görevi vardır.Kütüphanesi, haritalama birimi, dokümantasyon merkezleri ile hizmetlerde bulunan enstitü araştırmacıların, doktora öğrencilerinin ve stajyerlerin karşılandığı herkese açık bir dizi bilimsel etkinlikler sunan bir kurumdur.

As manifested through Pera Museum founded in 2005, İstanbul Research Institute is the second significant step in the wide spectrum of culture and arts projects Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation has pioneered since its establishment in 2003, in the fields of culture, arts, education and healthcare.

The aim of SRII is to promote academic research on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Among the many fields of study represented at the Institute are Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Classical and Byzantine Studies, Educational Studies, General History, with the emphasis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history, Political Science, including International Relations, Religion, Social Anthropology, Sociology as well as West and Central Asian Languages and Literatures.

L’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (AISB), affiliata all’Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB), ha lo scopo di promuovere gli studi bizantini, di assicurarne la continuità in tutto il territorio italiano, e di prendere ogni iniziativa idonea al raggiungimento di tali obiettivi.

The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) was established in 1983 to further study and knowledge of the history and culture, language and literature of the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours. Its scope is wide, covering history, archaeology, art history, philology, theology and literary studies, and embraces all the language areas formerly within the Byzantine Empire – Syriac, Armenian, Arabic and Slavic, as well as Greek and Latin. It is a registered educational charity in the UK.

Like many of the works we all study, there is no original record of the birth of the Oxford Byzantine Society (OBS), now Oxford University Byzantine Society (OUBS): there is oral tradition, there are memories from the members who witnessed the birth and growth of this group of scholars, students and even amateurs who gathered together under the one flag of Byzantinism.

The Byzantine Studies Association of North America, Inc. (BSANA) was formed in 2006. It is composed of three parts: the U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies (USNCBS), the Canadian Committee of Byzantinists (CCB), and the Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC). USNCBS and CCB are both entities within the International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB, an acronym formed from its French name). The AIEB, founded in 1948, is responsible for the international Byzantine Congress held every five years.

Η Ελληνική Επιτροπή Βυζαντινών Σπουδών είναι επιστημονικό σωματείο που ιδρύθηκε το 1970 και έχει έδρα την Αθήνα. Σύμφωνα με το Καταστατικό της, σκοπός της είναι «α) Η σύνδεσις των Ελλήνων Βυζαντινολόγων μετά της Διεθνούς Ενώσεως Βυζαντινών Σπουδών. β) Η προαγωγή των υπό της Διεθνούς Ενώσεως Βυζαντινών Σπουδών προγραμματιζομένων έργων. γ) Εν γένει η προαγωγή και ο συντονισμός των Βυζαντινών Σπουδών εν Ελλάδι. δ) Η συμμετοχή των Ελλήνων Βυζαντινολόγων και εις άλλας διεθνείς οργανώσεις επιστημονικού χαρακτήρος, πλην της Διεθνούς Ενώσεως Βυζαντινών Σπουδών (οίον η Διεθνής Ένωσις Ιστορικών Επιστημών, η Διεθνής Ένωσις Κλασσικών Σπουδών, η UNESCO, κλπ.)

Die „Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung Byzantinischer Studien“ (DAFBS) entstand in den 50er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihrer Satzung nach „unterstützt und fördert sie alle Arten von byzantinischen Studien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“. Sie bietet eine organisatorische Plattform für alle diejenigen, die sich mit der Erforschung der Geschichte, Kultur, Kunst, Sprache, Literatur und Philosophie der Byzantiner im weitesten Sinne forschend und lehrend beschäftigen.

Formed in 1978, the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies is a non-profit organisation that aims to foster links between scholars, students and laypersons within Australia and New Zealand who are interested in Byzantium and related fields. The Australian Association is a member of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines.

Le Comité Français des Études Byzantines (CFEB) est membre de l’Association Française des Études Byzantines (AIEB), fondée en 1948 pour la diffusion et la promotion des études portant sur l’empire et la civilisation de Byzance. Cette Association regroupe actuellement 34 comités nationaux.

The Research Centre specialises in the archaeology, history and art history of Europe (including Britain) and the Mediterranean circa AD250-circa AD800 and of the Byzantine world circa AD 400-circa 1453. Its recent work has included studies of long-distance contacts in Late Antiquity; Byzantine pottery and the end of Roman Britain and an ongoing major fieldwork project in Istanbul.

The “Centre for Byzantine Research" was founded in 1966 on the initiative of a group of Professors from the Faculty of Letters of the Aristotle University (R.D. 413/1966, FEK 106 T.A).
The Centre is a research organization which promotes the study of the Byzantine history, culture and civilization. It encompasses five Research Departments (Byzantine History, Literature, Theology, Archaeology and Art, and Byzantine Law). The Centre’s mission also includes offering research opportunities to young scholars and specialized researchers from Greek (domestic) or foreign educational institutions.

Byzantine Studies at Notre Dame is a research-oriented field of inquiry devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the history and legacy of the Byzantine Empire (324–1453).
It investigates the long-lived and influential Byzantine Empire, whose territory stood between the Islamic Middle East and Catholic Europe. As the Greek continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire, its story spans the period from the ancient world to the early modern era.

The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies was established in 2007 with the aim of fostering interest in the Late Antique period in western Europe and the Byzantine Empire in the Balkans, north Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, broadly during the period c. AD 300 to AD 900. The Centre is a joint venture between the Departments of Archaeology and Classics, both of which have strong traditions in the field. The Honorary President is Wolf Liebeschuetz, Emeritus Professor of Classics and a distinguished scholar in late antique studies.

The Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies at CUA offers a meeting point and active scholarly community for researchers and students of the medieval period. It involves over forty faculty members from various schools and departments and offers an interdisciplinary program in Medieval and Byzantine Studies both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.The Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program was organized in 1969 and operates under the general direction of an interdisciplinary committee. The purpose of the program is to promote the understanding and study of the medieval world and its cultures, to introduce students to various fields of the discipline and their methodologies, and to provide a solid basis for advanced research into the medieval period in subject areas which require a background that transcends the boundaries of a single discipline.

The AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History was established on 1 October 2000, and is a collaborative project involving Queen's University Belfast, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Sussex. This interdisciplinary centre brings together the literary and theological achievements of Belfast, the archaeological strengths of Newcastle, and the art historical expertise of Sussex. The Centre for Byzantine Cultural History is a collaborative project-based structure, generating conferences, colloquia, day-schools for the general public, monographs, web-pages, databases and a journal.

he Centre of Byzantine, Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies (C.E.B.N.Ch.) of Granada was founded by the Greek State through the Greek Embassy in Spain, in July 1998.
In its Governing Council, the Embassy of Greece in Spain, the Embassy of Cyprus in Spain, the University of Granada, the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Government of Andalusia and the Municipality of Adra (ancient Abdera) participate as institutional members of Greece in Spain.It functions as a contracted centre of the University of Granada and has attached protocols of collaboration with the University of Cyprus, Democritus University of Thrace and the University of Patras.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Over 53 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 18 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 36 million unique visitors a month.

This research project (2000-2005) aims to advance our understanding of urbanism in Constantinople throughout its history by investigating the provisions for water supply. This is being achieved through the integrated application of advanced data capture techniques, multi-disciplinary analysis and historical research.

Le projet intitulé «Artefacts and Raw Materials in Byzantine Archival Documents / Objets et matériaux dans les documents d'archives byzantins» a pour but de développer une base de données rassemblant les différentes mentions d'objets dans les textes d'archives byzantins.

Byzantium 1200 is a non-funded project aimed at creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine Monuments located in Istanbul, TURKEY as of year 1200 AD. This project is partly inspired by the model of the old city in Rome and the famous painting of Istanbul by Allan Sorell which are shown below.

The initiatives in the field of Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and also the related developments in Byzantine Studies in the last couple of years have encouraged the TIB to step up its efforts to provide a platform for the adequate presentation and sustainable usage of data, which was and is published in respective TIB volumes. This page is a step into this very direction and at the same time work in progress. The aim of the "Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini (DIGTIB)" is to create an online alphabetical gazetteer based on all published TIB volumes (starting with TIB 1) by extracting the indices of places and by listing the specific pages of documented toponyms within the respective volumes.

The Istanbul Documentation Project aims to create a digital platform for the virtual presentation of Istanbul's Ancient, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and early Republican sites and monuments, and thus provide a rich resource for scholars, students, and the general public to study the deep history of the city in preparation for site visits and as a dynamic tool for individual study, research, and teaching in the classroom. The available resources appear in a variety of digitized media and include high-resolution photographs, virtual-reality tours, panoramas, archival images, architectural plans and drawings, historic sketches, modern and historical maps, as well as detailed descriptions of individual buildings and artifacts.

stanbul Urban Database is an accessible, interactive mapping platform for historians, architects, city planners and other researchers to examine and contribute to the collective memory of Istanbul. This project is a sustainable platform that blends a wide range of historical data, and is the most comprehensive online archive of Istanbul’s urban history.

Sea of Marmara (Ancient Propontis), which is located in the northwest of Turkey has always been the passageway between the countries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea and thus has an especially wide selection of archaeological remnants. 16 archaeological sites have been located around the islands in the Sea of Marmara (Ancient Prokonessos) since 1993, proving this richness. 13 of them are shipwrecks, 2 of them amphora kilns (Medieval times) and 1 mound settlement from BC 3200-1100.

After several decades of abandonment, the 5th c. St John of Stoudios Monastery / Imrahor Camii site was removed from the jurisdiction of Hagia Sophia Museum, in order to be completed and start functioning again as a mosque. The purpose of this website is to raise public concern about the future of this outstanding and challenging monument.

The TAY (Archaeological Settlements of Turkey) Project was set up to build a chronological inventory of findings for the cultural heritage of Turkey - an important component of World Heritage sites - and to share this information with the international community.

“The History of Byzantium” is a podcast dedicated to the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Byzantine history is fascinating, world changing and largely forgotten. Listen and discover who they were.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) publishes timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology).

MilitaryArchitecture.com has been set up to focus on and promote the study of military architecture and fortification around the world. It seeks to bring together and build an extensive international corpus of information, data, and ideas – research papers, lectures, videos, forums, conferences, publications, etc., – that are freely available on the web and make these educational resources available to researchers and students through direct internet access via this website.

Ancient history Encyclopedia a non-profit company publishing the world's most-read history encyclopedia.Their mission is to improve historical literacy worldwide through the creation of the most complete, freely accessible, and reliable resource about history online.

A website on the Pantokrator Monastery Of Constantinople by Bob Atchison.

A website on the Byzantine Churches Of Constantinople by Prof. Thomas Mathews.

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire tells the story, tracing political and military events, religious controversies and economic change. It offers clear, authoritative chapters on the main events and periods, with more detailed chapters on particular outlying regions, neighbouring powers or aspects of Byzantium.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. is a global leader in educational publishing, with products in many media, including online and mobile devices. A pioneer in digital publishing since the early 1980s, the company markets a variety of curriculum products for schools, language-study courses, online learning services, encyclopedias and other reference works, and language products through its Merriam-Webster subsidiary.

The Byzantine Legacy aims at providing documented, quality information on art, architecture and history from Late Antique, Early Christian and the Byzantine eras. While the term "Byzantine" is useful, it is important to remember that they always called themselves Romans. Yet there were significant changes, especially the ascendancy of Christianity and the loss of the Western Roman Empire

A website from Linda Safran at the University of Toronto.

This is a preliminary bibliography of Byzantine sources and editions. The goal is to list available translations of Byzantine sources in Western European languages.

Byzantine scribes and authors refer repeatedly to book collections and libraries. Georgi Parpulov outlines what private, monastic and imperial libraries were like in medieval Byzantium.

In this podcast Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos of King's College London looks at the history of the Byzantine Empire from its origins in the Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople.

We explore the capital of the Byzantine Empire: Constantinople. We look at the origins of the city and trace its development from Greek city to Imperial centre. Then we see why it had such a strategically valuable location. After that we visit the city itself in the 6th century from the Great Palace to the streets.

The project aims to make digital objects accessible online through Europeana Collections. During the project photos, video and audio content, as well as 3D surveys and reconstructions about Byzantine history and culture will be digitised. The content and accompanying narratives will capture users’ attention and provide them with a rich online experience. In addition, the digitised data will enhance Europeana’s artistic content by adding to the Byzantine art and archaeology material already available on the platform.