A-H 322 Byzantine Art and Civilization
LINKS TO ON-LINE RESEARCH RESOURCES
For your research, study, and general
internet browsing pleasure, explore the links listed below. Don't forget to
cross-check with the more listing of more generally related links (museums,
contemporary Greek, Orthodox, and Turkish culture, music, etc.) on the Byzantine
e-Links page here.
Byzantine Studies on the Internet:
THE place to start, beyond what's provided in class, for exploring Byzantine
studies, painstakingly organized and updated by Paul Halsall at Fordham University
click here
Chronology of Early Byzantine
History: from Timothy E. Gregory at Ohio
State University, a detailed outline of the period, organized reign and century
click here
Bibliography on Women in Byzantium
and related topics (most recent update, 1997), organized by Professor Thalia
Gouma-Peterson of the College of Wooster for the Byzantine Studies Conference
click here
The Medieval Sourcebook:
primary sources from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, including the Byzantine
period and thereafter.
click here
for main page; click here
for section with Byzantine
primary sources.
Constantinople Home Page:
provides information on recent developments concerning the Byzantine antiquities
of Istanbul, based on personal observations, information from Turkish colleagues,
newspaper accounts, and recent publications. It is created and maintained by
Professor Robert Ousterhout at the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana.
click here
Byzantine
Architecture: a site maintained
by Princeton University to showcase current projects -- art historical, archaeological,
and engineering -- underway in Constantinople, including at Hagia Sophia, the
monastery of Constantine Lips, and the Kariye Cami.
click here
Constantinople Home Page:
Views of the Architecture and Mosaics
in H. Sophia, Istanbul:
Internet Archive of Texts and
Documents on the Byzantine Empire: Another site of primary sources
and links to primary sources from Byzantine civilization, primarily of interest
to students of history and the humanities, in translation- maintained at Hanover
College.
click here
Electronic Texts on Byzantium:
maintained by Dumbarton Oaks, varied and reliable
translations of primary sources -- history, hagiography, literature, documents
-- relevant to the study of Byzantium and its civilization.
click here
Survey of Translations of Byzantine
Saints' Lives: provides a listing of those
vitae which are available in translation and links to those available
on-line.
click here
Dumbarton Oaks Website:
Dumbarton Oaks, an estate in the Georgetown area of Washington DC., was
conveyed to Harvard University by the Bliss Family after World War II to showcase
the family interests in garden design and history and Pre-Columbian and Byzantine
art and civilization. for our purposes, the Byzantine Library and Research Collections
are especially important, as they are the single best library for Byzantine
studies in this country. The wonderful gardens are open to the public from Tuesday
through Sunday, in case you happen to be in the area; well worth the trip.
From the main page of the Dumbarton Oaks website, you can connect to a variety
of on-line sources dealing with Byzantine history, hagiography, literature,
and art, some of which are listed above, others linked directly from the relvant
topic in your e-syllabus.
click here
More and Varied Links:
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