Architecture of Antiquity: the Byzantine Empire: General resources

Baynes, Norman H., “The icons before iconoclasm” The Harvard Theological Review, April 1951, p.93-106 (via Jstor)

Carr, Annemarie Weyl, “Icons and the object of pilgrimage in middle Byzantine Constantinople” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.56, 2002, p.75-92 (via Jstor)

Elsner, Jaś, “Iconoclasm as discourse: from antiquity to Byzantium,” The Art Bulletin, September 2012, p.368-394 (via Jstor)

Von Grunebaum, G. E., “Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Influence of the Islamic Environment” History of Religions, Summer 1962, p.1-10 (via Jstor)

John, of Damascus, Saint, Three treatises on the divine images, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, BR65 .J63 O513 2003

Klitzinger, Ernst, “The cult of images in the age before iconoclasm” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.8, 1954, p.83-150 (via Jstor)

Nelson, Robert S., Holy images, hallowed ground: icons from Sinai, The J. Paul Getty Museum, N8186.E3 S564 2006

Peers, Glenn, Subtle bodies: representing angels in Byzantium, University of California Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Pelikan, Jaroslav, Imago dei: the Byzantine apologia for icons, Princeton University Press, BR238 .P44 2011

Pentcheva, Bissera V., “The performative icon,” The Art Bulletin, December 2006, p.631-655 (via Jstor)

Tradigo, Alfredo, Icons and saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, The J. Paul Getty Museum, N8187.5 .T7313 2006

Cameron, Averil, “Procopius and the church of St. Sophia,” The Harvard Theological Review, January 1965, p.161-163 (via Jstor)

Downey, Glanville, “Justinian as a builder,” The Art Bulletin, December 1950, p.262-266 (via Jstor)

Downey, Glanville, “Paganism and Christianity in Procopius,” Church History, June 1949, p.89-102 (via Jstor)

Kaldellis, Anthony, Procopius of Caesarea: tyranny, history, and philosophy at the end of antiquity, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Procopius, Of the buildings of Justinian, Elibron Classics, DS102 .P16 2005 (Stewart translation)

Procopius, Procopius: in seven volumes: Buildings, Heinemann; Harvard University Press, NA370.P642 1961 v.7 (Dewing translation)

Armstrong, Gregory T., “Constantine's Churches,” Gesta, January 1967, p.1-9 (via Jstor)

Bikai, Patricia Maynor, "The Churches of Byzantine Petra," Near Eastern Archaeology, December 2002, p.271-276 (via Jstor)

Buchwald, Hans H., Form, style, and meaning in Byzantine church architecture, Ashgate, NA4829.B9 B83 1999

Frösén, Jaakko & Zbigniew T. Fiema, "Excavations at a Byzantine pilgrimage site and monastic center: the Finnish Jabal Harun project 2000." Near Eastern Archaeology, March – June 2001, p.65-66 (via Jstor)

Karydis, Nikolaos, “The vaults of St. John the theologian at Ephesos: visualizing Justinian’s church,” JSAH, December 2012, p.524-551 (via Jstor)

Kostof, Spiro, Caves of God: the monastic environment of Byzantine Cappadocia, MIT Press, NA5869.C3 K6 

Marinis, Vasileios, “Tombs and burials in the monastery tou Libos in Constantinople,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2009, Vol.63, p.147-166 (via Jstor)

Mark, Robert & Ahmet S. Çakmak, Hagia Sophia from the age of Justinian to the present, Cambridge University Press, NA5870.A9 H34 1992 

Pentcheva, Bissera V., Hagia Sophia: sound, space, and spirit in Byzantium, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA5870.A9 P46 2017

Pentcheva, Bissera V., “Hagia Sophia and multisensory aesthetics,” Gesta, 2011, Vol.50, #2, p.93-111 (via Jstor)

Piotrowski, Andrezej, “Heresy, hybrid buildings, and a geography of architectural traditions,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2015, p.7-19 (via Jstor)

The Rule of Benedict (6^th century guidelines for monastic life)

Talbot, Alice-Mary, “Women's space in Byzantine monasteries,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 1998, Vol.52, p.113-127 (via Jstor)

Ustinova, Yulia & Gregory Seriy, “ A Byzantine-period funerary chapel in the New Yam Dalet neighborhood in Ashqelon,” ‘Atiqot, Vol.90, 2018, p.147-158 (via Jstor)

Avni, Gideon, “’From Polis to Madina’ revisited – urban change in Byzantine and early Islamic Palestine,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 2011, p.301-329 (via JStor)

Bakirtzis, Charalambos, “The urban continuity and size of late Byzantine Thessalonike,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.57, 2003, p.35-64 (via Jstor)

Bogdanović, Jelena, “The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire,” in Political landscapes of capital cities, edited by Jelena Bogdanović et al, University Press of Colorado, 2016, p.97-154 (via Jstor)

​Ostrogorsky, George, “Byzantine cities in the early Middle Ages” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.13, 1959, p.45-66 (via Jstor)

Pinon, Pierre, Rassegna # 72: Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium, NA1.R37 1997 #72

Segal, Arthur & Michael Eisenberg, "Sussita-Hippos of the Decapolis: town planning and architecture of a Roman-Byzantine city," Near Eastern Archaeology, June 2007, p.86-107 (via Jstor)

“Symposium on late Byzantine Thessalonike,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.57, 2003 (via Jstor)

Tillinghast, Richard, An armchair traveler’s history of Istanbul: city of remembering and forgetting, Haus Publishing, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Vanderpool, James Grote, “A comparison of Byzantine planning at Constantinople and in Greece,” The Art Bulletin, December 1936, p.552-569 (via Jstor)

Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks

Cameron, Averil, “Thinking with Byzantium,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol.21, 2011, p.39-57 (via Jstor)

Oikonomides, Nicolas, “The contents of the Byzantine house from the eleventh to the fifteenth century” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.44, 1990, p.205-214 (via Jstor)

Runciman, Steven, The fall of Constantinople, 1453, Cambridge University Press, DF649 .R87 

Ševčenko, Ihor, “The decline of Byzantium seen through the eyes of its intellectuals,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.15, 1961, p.167-186 (via Jstor)

Skedros, James C., “’You cannot have a church without an empire:’ political orthodoxy in Byzantium,” in Chiristianity, democracy, and the shadow of Constantine, edited by Demacopoulos & Papanikolaou, Fordham University, 2017, p.219-231 (via Jstor)

Casson, Stanley, “Byzantium and Anglo-Saxon Sculpture-1,” & “Part 2” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, December 1932 & January 1933 (via Jstor)

Eger, A. Asa, “(Re)mapping medieval Antioch: urban transformations from the early Islamic to the middle Byzantine periods,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.67, 2013, p.95-134 (via Jstor)

Jacoby, David, “Silk economics and cross-cultural artistic interaction,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.58, 2004, p.197-240 (via Jstor)

Maranci, Christina, “The architect Trdat: building practices and exchange in Byzantium and Armenia,” JSAH, September 2003, p.294-305 (via Jstor)

Meyendorff, John, “Byzantine views of Islam,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.18, 1964, p.113-132 (via Jstor)

Necipoğlu, Gülru, “Visual cosmopolitanism and creative translation: artistic conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II’s Constantinople,” Muqarnas, Vol.29, 2012, p.1-81 (via Jstor)

Ousterhout, Robert G., Eastern medieval architecture: the building traditions of Byzantium and neighboring lands, Oxford University Press, NA370 .O97 2019

St. Pachomius Library (Rich source of translations, commentary & links relating to the early church)

Stewart, Charles Anthony, “Architectural innovation in early Byzantine Cyprus,” Architectural History, Vol.57, 2014, p.1-29 (via Jstor)

Vryonis, Speros, Jr., “The Byzantine legacy and Ottoman forms,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.23, 1969/1970, p.251-308 (via Jstor)

Walker, Alicia, “Patterns of flight: middle Byzantine adoptions of the Chinese feng huang bird,” Ars Orientalis, Vol.38, 2010, p.188-216 (via Jstor)

Weitzmann, Kurt, “Various aspects of Byzantine influence on the Latin countries from the sixth to the twelfth century” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.20, 1966, p.1-24 (via Jstor)

Hunger, Herbert, “On the imitation (ΜΙΜΗΣΙΣ) of antiquity in Byzantine literature” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.23, 1969/1970, p.15-38 (via Jstor)

Jenkins, Romilly J. H., “The Hellenistic origins of Byzantine literature” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.17, 1963, p.37, 39-52 (via Jstor)

Kaldellis, Anthony, “Historicism in Byzantine thought and literature,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.61, 2007, p.1-24 (via Jstor)

Krumbacher, Karl, The history of Byzantine literature: from Justinian to the end of the Eastern Roman Empire (527-1453), 2^nd edition, Beck, 1897

Marciniak, Przemyslaw, “Reinventing Lucian in Byzantium,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.70, 2016, p.209-224 (via Jstor)

Trapp, Erich, “Learned and vernacular literature in Byzantium,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.47, 1993, p.115-129 (via Jstor)

Von Grunebaum, Gustave E., “Relations of Arab and Byzantine philosophy, literature, and piety,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.18, 1964, p.89-111 (via Jstor)

Walker, Jeffrey, “These things I have not betrayed: Michael Psellos’ encomium of his mother as a defense of rhetoric,” Rhetorica, Winter 2004, p.49-101 (via Jstor)  

Eastmond, Antony, Art and identity in thirteenth-century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the empire of Trebizond, Routledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Hilsdale, Cecily J., "Constructing a Byzantine Augusta: A Greek book for a French bride." The Art Bulletin, September 2005, p.458-483 (via Jstor)

Kitzinger, Ernst, “The Hellenistic heritage in Byzantine art” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.17, 1963, p.95-115 (Jstor)

Maguire, Henry, “Garments pleasing to God: the significance of domestic textile designs in the early Byzantine period” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.44, 1990, p.215-224 (via Jstor)

Marinis, Vasileios, “’He who is at the point of death’: the fate of the soul in Byzantine art and liturgy,” Gesta, March 2015, p.59-84 (via Jstor)

Niewohner, Philipp & Natalia Teteriatnikov, “The south vestibule of Hagia Sophia at Istanbul: the ornamental mosaics and the private door of the patriarchate,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.68, 2014, p.117-156 (via Jstor)

Nelson, Robert S., “’And so, with the help of God’: the Byzantine art of war in the tenth century,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2011-2012, Vol.65-66, p.169-192 (via Jstor)

Nelson, Robert S., Holy image, hallowed ground: icons from Sinai, The J. Paul Getty Museum, N8186.E3 S564 2006 

Peers, Glenn (editor), Byzantine things in the world, Menil Collection, N6250 .B95 2013