This thesis examines how medieval Byzantium is represented in French epics, romances, and chronicles of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries within a discursive triangle formed by Exoticism/Orientalism/Otherness. Despite their geographical proximity with the Muslim world, …
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The 1978 stratigraphic excavation of the Esbous North Church at Hesban, Jordan, resulted in the discovery of a well-preserved church plan, nicely executed, inscription bearing mosaics, dual reliquaries, preserved in situ, in the reliquarium under the altar in the three phase cha…
Islam established itself as a force to be reckoned with both as a religion and a civilization. During the early 5th century, the two titans, Rome and Iran, were in the midst of major conflict, providing the opportunity for a third party to rise in their absence. The objective of…
The Islamic-Byzantine frontier ( al-thughur ) traditionally has been described either as a "no-man's land" or as a closed fortified border dominated by a line of castles. Such perceptions convey a sense of propaganda and hyperbole, as the frontier was neither an empty wilderness…
From the time Otto the Great was proclaimed Western Emperor in 962 to the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, numerous ambassadors traveled east on errands from their principals. The diplomacy they engaged in at the Byzantine capital infected every aspect o…
The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, houses a collection of ca. 2000 papyri from Egypt inscribed in several different languages, principally Greek. In this dissertation, I edit thirty-four previously unpublished Greek documents, offering for each papyrus a transcr…
Spanning a 1,123 year period between Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, the Byzantine Empire was the legitimate continuation of the imperium Romanum. Although the main defender of Christianity against the encroachments of Islam in the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the bulw…