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The opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies in the Aula of the University of Sofia, 9 November 1934. Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Byzantine administrative nature was characterized by its versatility and unfixed duties in constant role change depending on a specific situation. The vast Byzantine bureaucracy had a number of titles, more varied than aristocratic and military titles. In Constantinople there were normally hundreds, if not thousands, of bureaucrats at any time.
The Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on Late Antique, Byzantine, and Islamic literature, history, archaeology, and material culture. The journal covers research from the fourth to the fifteenth century and emphasizes interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural exchange.
International Association of Byzantine Studies (French: Association Internationale des Études Byzantines, AIEB) was launched in 1948. It is an international co ...
The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, exterior Stelios Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, atrium. The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research of classics. The teaching of classics at Oxford was ...
Jonathan Shepard FRHistS (born 1948) is a British historian specialising in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. [2] He specialises in diplomatic and archaeological history of the early Kievan period. [3]
The Centre for Byzantine Studies or Centre for Byzantine Research (Greek: Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών) is an organization based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was founded in 1966 on the initiative of a group of professors from the Faculty of Letters of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .
In the early period Rome, Athens, and Alexandria were the main centers of learning, but were overtaken in the 5th century by the new capital, Constantinople.After the Platonic Academy closed in 529, only a few other important centers remained apart from Constantinople such as Law school of Berytus for legal studies and the Rhetorical school of Gaza with its focus on rhetoric and classical ...