Research
My research starts from the micro-historical level by situating cultural products in their socio-cultural context and fans out to encompass the endlessly interconnected medieval world. My work entails crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries between social, art, and literary history, as well as bridging the cleavage that separates the study of Byzantium from West European and East Asian Medieval Studies. Posing hard but vital research questions, I adopt, adapt, and combine digital and traditional methods as suited for the limited data from the medieval world. I have penned two monographs and twenty-four articles, and edited two major collaborative volumes with primary sources on Byzantium and a further book on manifestations of classicisms across medieval Eurasia.
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Monograph: Words and Artworks in Byzantium. Twelfth-century Poetry on Art from MS. Marcianus Gr. 524 (Tolworth, 2021).
Edited works: The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (c.1081 to c.1350), 2 vols., Sources for Byzantine Art History (Cambridge, 2022).
Articles:
‘Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Piroska’s Son, Sebastokrator Andronikos’, in Piroska and the Pantokrator: Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople, eds. B. Ousterhout and †M. Sághy, Central European Cultural Heritage (Budapest, 2019), 305–22.
‘Snapshots from the Eleventh Century: The Lombards from Bari, a Chartoularios from “Petra”, and the Complex of Mangana’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39 (2015), 50–65.
‘Revisiting Lips Monastery. The Inscription at the Theotokos Church Once Again’, The Byzantinist 2 (2012), 16–19. Public engagement: YouTube
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Edited volume (with Curie Virág): Performing Antiquity in Medieval Eurasia: Classics, Community and Power (Edinburgh, forthcoming).
Articles:
New publication: ‘Classicising Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates’ De Signis’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 76 (2022) 181–121
‘Legal practice, classicising learning, and fiction in twelfth-century Constantinople’, Subseciva Groningana (forthcoming)
Current book project:
Byzantine Beauty: A Classical Ideal in the Greek Middle Ages.
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Monograph: Devotion and Propaganda in Byzantium. The Anonymous Poems in the Anthologia Marciana, Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford, forthcoming).
Articles:
‘Introduction’, in: Spingou, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, xliii–lxxv
‘A Platonising Dialogue from the Twelfth Century: The Logos of Soterichos Panteugenos’, in Dialogue and Debate from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, eds. Av. Cameron and N. Gaul (London, 2017), 123–36
‘John IX Patriarch of Jerusalem in Exile: A “Holy Man” from Mar Saba to St Diomedes/New Zion’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109/1 (2016), 179–206.
‘The Supreme Power of the Panoply and the Veneration of the Emperor’s Body in Twelfth-century Byzantium’, in Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power: The King’s Body Never Dies, eds. K. Mroziewicz and A. Sroczyński, series: Central European Medieval Studies (Amsterdam, 2017), 47–72.
‘A Poem on the Refortification of Dorylaion in 1175’, Byzantina Symmeikta 21 (2011), 137–68 .
Current Project:
‘Polyandria: Common Burials in Byzantium’, in Premodern Care for the Dead – Perspectives of a Vital Practice, eds. M. Grünbart, J. Mariel, and H. Poeschel, Series: Das Mittelalter. Beihefte (De Gruyter).
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Article (with Curie Virág): ‘The Pleasures of Virtue and the Virtues of Pleasure: The Classicizing Garden in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century China and Byzantium’, Medieval Worlds 13 (2021), 229–65
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Articles:
‘“How to Find the Ring”: A Byzantine Game or a Problem from Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci? An Unpublished Note from ms. Athen. 2429’, Byzantion 84 (2014), 357–69
‘John Apokaukos, What is Memory?: A Letter to Kamateros’, in Spingou, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 793-800.
‘Making Colours: Seven Ink Recipes from the Twelfth Century’, in Spingou, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 416-431
Current project:
Article: ‘The Four Elements, the Hexaemeron, and the Creation of the World’, in D. Reynolds and L. Brubaker, Nature and the Environement in Byzantium (SPBS Publications).
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‘Épigrammes byzantines’, in Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, eds. D. Meyer and C. Urlacher-Becht (Brepols).
‘Instructing and Dedicating: Epigrams on Works of Art’ and ‘Lamenting: Tomb Epigrams’, in: Spingou, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 2, 1291–1297 and 1521–1535,
‘Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry’, in A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, eds. W. Hörandner, A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (Leiden and Boston, 2019), 381–403.
‘Thinking about Letters: The Epistolary of “Leo the Wise”’, The Annual of Medieval Studies at Central European University 21 (2015), 177–92
‘The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship’, in The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: Modes, Functions, and Identities, ed. A. Pizzone (Boston, 2014), 137–50.
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Manuscripts catalogue: The Greek Manuscripts in Keble College, Oxford
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Monograph: Devotion and Propaganda in Byzantium. The Anonymous Poems in the Anthologia Marciana, Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford, forthcoming)
Articles:
John Apokaukos: The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Painter Nicholas from Euripos, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 143–154
Manuel Straboromanos: Epigrams on the Emperor’s Epanoklivanon, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 220–226
John Apokaukos: Epigram on a Depiction of the Last Supper, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 265–268
(with Maria Mavroudi), Epigrams on Rings from the Twelfth and Fourteenth Centuries, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 291–302
(with Alicia Walker), John Apokaukos: A Seljuq-Style Hall in Nafpaktos, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 644–654
John Apokaukos: What is Memory?: A Letter to Kamateros, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 1, 793–800
John Apokaukos: Nafpaktos and the Episkopeion: A Letter by John Apokaukos to the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 2, 958–970
John Apokaukos: An Epigram on the Basin in the Palace, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 2, 1325–1328
John Apokaukos: A Tomb Epigram on a Shared Burial, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium, vol. 2, 1540–1545
‘A Poem on the Refortification of Dorylaion in 1175’, Byzantina Symmeikta 21 (2011), 137–68
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Article
‘Γράμμα από την Φυλακή. Η φυλακή ως συλλογική εμπειρία στο έργο του Μιχαήλ Γλυκά και του Καισάριου Δαπόντε ’, Mandragoras 59 (2018), 76–79.
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‘A. Goldwyn and I. Nilsson, Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook (Cambridge, 2019)’, in Speculum 96 (2021), 826–827.
‘Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Erich Trapp, Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek. Studies in Byzantine history and civilization (SBHC), 12. (Brepols: Turnhout 2017)’, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2019.09.42)
‘Fl. Bernard and Chr. Livanos, eds. and trans., The Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 50 (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018)’, in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1120–1121
‘S. Harvey and M. Mullett, eds., Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2017)’, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2018.07.34)
‘Fl. Bernard, Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)’, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42.2 (2018), 303
‘I. Taxidis, Les épigrammes de Maxime Planude, Byzantinisches Archiv 32 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017)’, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2017.10.49)
‘Fl. Bernard and Kr. Demoen, Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium (Ashgate, 2012)’, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39 (2015), 152–53