Byzantine History Sources

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• San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice - Henry Maguire - Robert S. Nelson - Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia - 2010
  
• A Painting Becomes Canonical: Bernard Berenson, Royall Tyler, and the Mellon Madonna  - Robert S. Nelson
• Miniatures of the Imperial Menologia - Anna Zakharova Nea Rhome. Rivista di ricerche bisantinistiche 7 (2011), pp. 131–153
• The 'Byzantine' Madonnas: Technical Investigation - Ann Hoenigswald Studies in the History of Art 12 (1982)
• The Illuminators of the Menologium of Basil II. - Ihor Ševčenko - Dumbarton Oaks Papers 16, 1962
• Hands off that Sacred Image! - The Vladimir Icon and its Power - Maria Bakatkina - University of Virginia - 2017
• Legends of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir: A Study of the Development of Muscovite National Consciousness - David B. Miller - The University of Chicago Press - 1968
• Selling Russia's Treasures - The Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art - Natalya Semyonova and Nicolas V. Iljine - Abbeville Press - 2013
• Divine Heiress - the Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian Constantinople - Vasiliki Limberis - Routledge - London and New York - 1994
  
• Blachernae Palace and its decoration - Steven Runciman - Studies in Memory of David Talbot Rice - Edinburgh University Press - 1975
  
• Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire - John Thomas - Dumbarton Oaks Studies - 1988
  
• Emperor to Emperor - Italy Before the Renaissance - Edward Burman - Constable Press - 1991
  
• The Norman Fate 1100-1154 - David C. Douglas - University of California Press - 1975
  
• The Greeks of Constantinople under Latin Rule 1204–1261- David Jacoby
  
• Merchant culture in 14th Century Venice -The Zibaldone Da Canal  - John Dotson - MRTS - 1994
  
• The Letters of Manuel II Palaeologus - George Dennis - Dumbarton Oaks Studies - 1977
  
• Mistra - Steven Runciman - Thames and Hudson - 1980
  
• The Brazen House - Cyril Mango - Copenhagen
• The Emperor Romanos Lecapenus and his Reign - Steven Runcimen - Thames and Hudson - 1988
  
• Nicholas I Patriarch of Constantinople: Letters - R. Jenkins - Dumbarton Oaks Studies - 1973
  
• The Fall of Constantinople - Steven Runciman - Thames and Hudson - 1965
  
• Art and Eloquence in Byzantium - Thomas Maguire - Dumbarton Oaks - 1994
  
• Icons - Robin Cormack - Harvard University Press -2007
  
• De Administrando Imperio - Constantine Porphrogenitus - Dumbarton Oaks Studies - 1962
  
• Imperial Byzantine Portraits - Constance Head - Caratzes Press - 1977
  
• The Sacred Image - East and West - Robert Ousterhout- University of Illinois Press - 1994
  
• The Newer Temples of the Greeks - Leo Allatios - Anthony Cutler - Penn State Press - 1969
  
• The Antiquities of Constantinople - Peter Gillies - Italica Press
• The Capture of Constantinople - Gunter of Pairis - Alfred J. Andrea - University of Pennsylvania Press
• The Early Churches of Constantinople - Architecture and Liturgy - Thomas Mathews - Penn State -1990
  
• Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople - Ken Dark - Oxbow Books - 2019
• Materials for the study of the mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul - Cyril Mango - Dumbarton Oaks Studies - 1962
• Constantine Porphyrogennetos: The Book of Ceremonies - Byzantina Australiensia - 2017
• Die Blachernen - Alfons Maria Schneider - Brill
• Saint Sophia in Istanbul: An architectural survey - Robert van Nice - Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies - 1986
• Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 - edited by Henry Maguire - Harvard University Press - 1998
  
• Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950 - Robert S. Nelson - The University of Chicago Press - 2004
• De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem: The Journey of Louis the Seventh to the East - Odo of Deuil  - W. W. & Norton Co - 1965
  
• Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) - Leonora Neville - Oxford University Press - 2016
  
• The Last Byzantine Renaissance (The Wiles Lectures) - Steven Runciman - Cambridge University Press - 1970
  
• Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Michael Angold - St. Martin's Press - 2001
  
• The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans: Context and Consequences (Turning Points)  - Michael Angold - St. Martin's Press - 2012
• Master Builders of Byzantium- Robert Ousterhout - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - 2008
• The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans - Donald Nicol - Cambridge University Press - 2002
• Mediterranean Food and Wine for Constantinople: The Long-Distance Trade, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century - David Jacoby
• Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration - Robert Ousterhout - Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University - 2004
• Byzantium in the Mirror - Elisabeth Piltz - British Archaeological Reports - 2005
• Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria - Albrecht Berger - Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library - 2013
• The History - Michael Attaleiates, - Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library - 2013
• The Last Centuries of Byzantium 1261-1453 Donald M. Nicol - Cambridge University Press - 1993
  
• Byzantine Painting  - Andre Grabar - Skira ISBN: 0-8478-0225-6 - 1979
  
• The Forum of Constantine in Constantinople: What do we know about its original architecture and adornment? - Anthony Kaldellis - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56 (2016) 714–739
• Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins - Nevra Necipoglu - Cambridge University Press - 2009
  
• Constantinople Merchants and the Question of Their Attitudes Towards Italians and Ottomans in the Late Palaiologian Period - Nevra Becipoglu - Leipzig 2000
• The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change - Quaternary Science Reviews xxx (2015) 1-24
• Middle and Late Byzantine Jewellery from Thessaloniki and its Region - Anastassios C. Antonaras - BYZAS 15 (2012) 117-126
• Three Illuminated Chrysobulls of Andronikos II? - Annemarie Weyl Carr - New Rome -2009
• Gospel Frontispieces from the Comnenian Period - Annemarie Weyl Carr - GESTA 1982
• Best and bad practices - The imperial guilds of Constantinople - Dimitrios G. Mavridisa, Konstantinos I. Vatalis - Procedia Economics and Finance - 2014
• Glass Vessels in Late Byzantine Graves in Thessaloniki - Anastassios C. Antonaras
• Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries - K.R. Dark - Journal of Medieval History 30 (2004) 83–107
• An Architectural Interpretation of the Early Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople, from Constantine I to Heraclitus - Nigel Westbrook B. Arch. (RMIT) M. Arch. (RMIT)
• Sacred Relics and Imperial Ceremonies at the Great Palace of Constantinople - Holger A. Klein
• The Patriarchal Palace at Constantinople in the seventh century: locating the Thomaites and the Makron - Dark, K. and Kostenec, J. 2014
• Observations on the Great Palace at Constantinople- The Sanctuaries of the Archangel Michael, the Daphne Palace and the Magnaura - Jan Kostenec
• New Findings on Hagia Sophia Subterranean and its Surroundings - ÇIGDEM ÖZKAN AYGÜN - Bizantinistica 2010
• The Emperor Theophilos (829-842) Between Classicism and Exoticism - Silvia Padone
• The Fires of the Fourth Crusade 1203-04 A Damage Reassessment - T.F. Madden
• Some Byzantine Aromatics - Andrew Dalby
• Ceiling Rings in the Aisles of Hagia Sophia - Neil Moran - 2017 Eichter
• Peribleptos ("SULU") Monastery In Istanbul - Ferdun Ozgumus 2000
• New Evidence For the Byzantine Church of Holy Apostles From Fatih Camii - Ken Dark and Ferdun Ozgumus - Oxford Journal of Archaeology 2002
• The Lincoln College Typikon: Influences of Church and Family in an Illuminated Foundation Document for a Palaiologan Convent in Constantinople - Cecily Hennessy
• Defining Personal Space: Dress and Accessories in Late Antiquity - Maria G. Parani
• Cultural Identity and Dress: The Case of Late Byzantine Ceremonial Costume - Maria G. Parani
• Dressed to Kill - Middle Byzantine Ceremonial Military Attire - Maria G. Parani
• Byzantine Jewellery: The Evidence from Byzantine Legal Documents - Maria G. Parani
• Eunuchs in the Late Byzantine Empire - 1250-1400 - Niels Gaul
• Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond - WIENER JAHRBUCH FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE - 2011-12
• Great Fire in the Metropolis - The Case of the Istanbul Conflagration of 1569 - Minna Rosen and Benjamin Arbel
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557) Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture - Edited by Sarah T. Brooks
• Designing Receptions in the Palace - Christine Angelidi - BRILL 2013
• Tools, Textile Production and Society in Viking Age Birka - Eva B. Andersson
• DOP 56 Icons and the Object of Pilgrimage in Middle Byzantine Constantinople - Annemarie Weyl Carr - 2003
• DOP 39 Marble and Stoneworking in Byzantium, Seventh–Fifteenth Centuries - Jean-Pierre Sodini - 2002
• The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos 1143-1180 - Paul Magdalino - Cambridge University Press
• Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople - Paul Magdalino - Variorum Collected Studies Series
• The Alexiad - Anna Comnena translated by Elizabeth A. S. Dawes - Publications Byzantine Series Cambridge, Ontario 2000
• A HISTORIC DISTRICT ADJACENT TO EYÜP: AYVANSARAY - Dr. Ahmet Kamil GÖREN Professor at Istanbul University Faculty of Literature
• The Blachernai Palace and Its Defense - Neslihan ASUTAY-EFFENBERGER- 2013 PEETERS
• Bertrandon de la Broquière on Byzantium and Serbia. Richness and Decline in the Age of the Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans - Boris Stojkovski - Budapest 2018
• Space and Ceremony in the Great Palace of Constantinople Under the Macedonian Emperors - 2014 - Michael Featherstone
• Luxury in the Palace - The Buildings of Theophilus - 2013 - Michael Featherstone
• Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires - Ceremonies and the City: The Court in Fourteenth Century Constantinople - Ruth Macrides - Brill 2011
• Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies - By Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz, Dimiter Angelov
• Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires - Court and Capital - Paul Magdalino - Brill 2011
• The Marble Floor of St. John Studius in Constantinople: a Neglected Masterpiece - Claudia Barsanti - 2009
• Istanbul Viewed: The Representation of the City in Ottoman Maps - IFFET ORBAY - June 2001
• The Marble Omphalos of Saint Sophia in Constantinople - An Analysis of an Opus Sectile Pavement of Middle Byzantine Age - Silvia Pedone - 2009
  
• DOP 54 - The Commercial Map of Constantinople - Marlia Mundell Mango - 2000
• The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies - edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys with John Haldon and Robin Cormack - Oxford University Press
• The South Vestibule of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul. The Ornamental Mosaics and the Private Door of the Patriarchate - DOP -Natalia Teteriatnikov and Philipp Niewöhner
• The Mosaics of Haghia Sophia at Istanbul, Fourth Preliminary Report - work done in 1934-1938 - The Deesis Panel in the South Gallery - Thomas Whittemore - 1952 University Press, Oxford
• Hagia Sophia, Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church - Rowland J. Mainstone - 1988 Thames and Hudson
• The Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute - Natalia B. Teteriatnikov - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• The Mosaics and Frescoes of St. Mary Pammakaristos (Fethiye Camii) at Istanbul - Hans Belting, Cyril Mango and Doula Mouriki
• The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul by Thomas Matthews
• Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - George Majeska
• DOP 19 The Apse Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul - Report on Work Carried Out in 1964 - Cyril Mango and Ernest J. W. Hawkins
• Studies on Constantinople - Cyril Mango
• The Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul - The Mosaics of the Southern Vestibule - Thomas Whittemore - Oxford University Press - 1936
• The Mosaics of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul - Imperial Portraits of the South Gallery - Thomas Whittemore - Oxford University Press - 1942
• The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople - James Crow, Jonathan Bardill, and Richard Bayliss - 2008
• A Byzantine Jerusalem, The Imperial Pharos Chapel as the Holy Sepulchre - Alexei Lidov
• Spatial Icons. The Miraculous Performance with the Hodegetria of Constantinople - Alexei Lidov
• The Barletta Colossus Revisited: The Methodological Challenges of an Enigmatic Statue - Bente Kiilerich - 2015
  
• Likeness and Icon - The Imperial Couples in Hagia Sophia - Bente Kiilerich - 2004
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• The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column - Robert Ousterhout - The Journal of Roman Archaeology - Volume 27 2014
• Houses, Markets, and Baths: Secular Architecture in Byzantium - Robert Ousterhout - Heaven & Earth - Athens 2003
• Building Medieval Constantinople - Robert G. Ousterhout - University of Pennsylvania 1996
  
• Sacred Geographies and Holy Cities - Constantinople as Jerusalem - Robert Ousterhout
• Devotional Crosses in the Columns and Walls of Hagia Sophia - Natalia Teteriatnikov
• Justinianic Mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Their Aftermath - Natalia Teteriatnikov

• The Last Palaiologan Mosaic Program of Hagia Sophia - Dome and Pendentives - Natalia Teteriatnikov