The theological and historical issues surrounding Byzantine sanctity have never been thoroughly tied together by historians. However, the inner experience of theosis (union with God) and the external recognition of saints were in fact closely tied in the Byzantine mind. Once thi…
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This study explores the representation of holy places in devotional images from the early Christian era to the post-Byzantine period. I delineate five phases of this development. The first phase (300s–500s) was connected to the rise of Christian sacred sites. Christian ideas abo…
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…
This dissertation explores how medieval French romances of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries construct representations of Byzantium. I claim that the culture of contact that existed during the Crusades offers a unique context for understanding how Byzantium comes to signi…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the acculturation and differentiation at the site of al-Mina (one of the ports of Antioch) through its material culture (coins, pottery, and glass). The site was excavated in 1936 and 1937 by Sir Leonard Woolley, who did not retain …
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the formative but obscure time in Ottoman history known as the Interregnum (1402-1413). The Interregnum was a period of dynastic warfare following the Battle of Ankara, in which the Ottoman Sultan Yildirim Bayezid I was crush…
This dissertation is a study in Byzantine historiography with specific emphasis on rhetoric, politics, and gender to show that Byzantine women in the eleventh century were active participants in imperial political history, instead of isolated phenomena separate from the historic…
Devotion to military saints flourished in Egypt and the Levant in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the era of the Crusades. During this period of conquest and expansion, icons of warrior saints were made in great number. Image makers responded to local concerns by depicting…
This dissertation is a study of Damascus during the period of passage from Byzantium to early Islam. I have subtitled the thesis "Studies on Damascus in the Umayyad Era" to indicate the specificity of the chapters. Each comprises a study of a particular monument, residential pat…
"This book presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Based on an catalogue of all such events in the East Roman/Byzantine empire between 284 and 750, it gives an authoritative analysis of the ca…
"This book presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Based on an catalogue of all such events in the East Roman/Byzantine empire between 284 and 750, it gives an authoritative analysis of the ca…
"This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It highlights the overwhelming mass of information about drug…
With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. This collection opens up n…
"This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It highlights the overwhelming mass of information about drug…
