Resources and Links

Ephrem Graecus Project (The Pappas Patristic Institute)
Studying and translating the extensive Greek writings attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian

Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (Ghent University)
Search and read medieval Greek book epigrams and learn about the people who wrote them

Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus
A collaborative project to edit and study the Byzantine reception of Thomas Aquinas

Projet 'Pseudo-Chrysostomica'
A research project and searchable database dedicated to all known details of the massive corpus of texts attributed to St. John Chrysostom

Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum (RAP) (Ca'Foscari, Venice)
Headed by Alessandra Bucossi and Marie-Hélène Blanchet, RAP is a research project entirely dedicated to cataloguing Byzantine polemical literature for and against the Latin Church in the 9th-13th centuries. The goal is to publish the first online repertorium on the subject, integrated into the Pinakes database (see above). There is currently no website, but you can read about the project here.
 
Byzantium and Beyond (Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Medieval Research) (IMAFO)
Highlights the cultural significance of Byzantium within the context of the global middle ages. Subprojects include 'Transmissions: Greek, Syriac, and Arabic,' 'Moving Byzantium,' and 'The Byzantine Heritage.'
 
Euchologia Project (IMAFO)
Devoted to the study of Greek prayer books as a source for understanding daily life and social history in Byzantium.
 
Priests, Books, and the Library at St. Catherine's, Sinai (IMAFO)
Devoted to the study of the 80 Euchologia from various parts of the Greek-speaking world held at Sinai. Affiliated with the Euchologia Project.

Spaces That Matter: Enclosed and Secluded Places in Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography (IMAFO)
Examines how the places of confinement and seclusion are depicted in saints' Lives on a literary-narrative level and how the protagonists' experience affects both the development of the narrative and the protagonists' character and spiritual progress.

Beyond Canon: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity (Regensburg)
Part of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Universität Regensburg, the Beyond CRG focuses on literary traditions beyond the biblical canon (understood as heterotopias, i.e. as “effective spaces,” serving as “abutments” in late ancient Christianity), on their diverse, often material forms of expression and starting points in “lived” and “popular” religion, and on their underestimated significance in the ritual life of the churches. 

Novum Testamentum Patristicum
The Novum Testamentum Patristicum (NTP) aims to explore the reception and various interpretations of the texts of the Christian Scriptures in the early Christian and late Roman eras. The main focus is on the creation of a comprehensive commentary, divided into forty-five volumes, which will provide a verse-by-verse commentary on the Patristic reception of each scripture passage. Interdisciplinary topics will also be explored via research symposia and relevant publications. The NTP group consists of approximately thirty scholars from different countries, disciplines and confessions.
 
The Making of the Byzantine Ascetical Canon: Monastic Networks, Literacy and Religious Authority in Palestine and Sinai (7th-11th centuries)
Investigates the role played by the multilingual Christian monastic communities of Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai (7th-11th centuries CE) in the formation of the Byzantine literary canon of ascetic works. There is no website for this project, but you can read it about on the website of the European Commission here.

Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)
A research project to analyse the role the monastic communities on Mount Athos played in the medieval society of the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU-funded MAMEMS project will study how this monastic republic was intimately connected with the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox principalities of the Balkans and Caucasus, South Italy, as well as the Ottoman Empire. The project will draw on a database containing information about every monk to have ever resided on the Holy Mountain, as well as every Athonite benefactor and each visitor between 850 and 1550. Click here for more information.

Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE)
Goethe University, Frankfurt. The purpose of the POLY research group, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, is twofold. First, we aim to facilitate and support comparative interdisciplinary research into preindustrial or premodern Christianities around the globe. Second, we will investigate the ways in which dynamic plurality works as a driving force of change across and within communities of belief. Our primary goal is to decentralise religious history before 1800. We will also historicize and question the unitary and universalist self-images nurtured by institutional churches, as well as the corresponding models of religious culture or transformation found in modern scholarship.

Sourcebook of Byzantine Philosophy
The Sourcebook of Byzantine Philosophy (SBPh) will contain selected Byzantine philosophical texts in the original and in English translation, as well as comments that place these texts in their historical context and provide a philosophical analysis of them. The selected texts will cover the period from the 8th to the 15th century and raise interesting points in the areas of logic, theory of knowledge, metaphysics, natural philosophy, psychology, ethics and politics.

 
Research Centers

Το Πατριαρχικό Ίδρυμα Πατερικών Μελετών
 The Patriarchal Foundation for Patristic Studies at the historic Vlatadon Monastery in Thessaloniki, Greeces

Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik (Universität Wien)
Founded by Herbert Hunger in 1962, the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies is devoted to the study of all aspects of Byzantine culture from Late Antiquity to the modern period. Through the work of A.E. Müller, Claudia Rapp, and others, the Institute oversees the Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB).

The Louvain Center for Eastern and Oriental Christianity
The Center exists to promote the study of the Christian Orient and thus extends the legacy of such famous names as Jean-Baptiste Abbeloos, Thomas-Joseph Lamy, Joseph Lebon, Louis Théophile Lefort, and Joseph Muyldermans, specialists in the field of Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian studies.

The Netherlands Center for the Study of Early Christianity
The NCSEC is supported by the Faculty of Religion and Theology (FRT) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. The directors are Dr. Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte (VU) and Dr. Bart Koet (TST).  The research institute is the successor of the Center for Patristic Studies (CPO), founded in 2008 on the initiative of Dr. Paul van Geest (TST).

The Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies at Duke University
EAC-CLAS seeks to promote the interdisciplinary study of the culture of the Roman Empire, its neighbors and successors, from the second to the eighth century. The Center was formally established in 2000, as a successor to the Late Ancient Studies Forum. In addition to its annual lecture series, the Center is active in creating and maintaining reading and discussion groups at Duke University as well as in arranging conferences.

Center for the Study of Christian Origins (Edinburgh)
The Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh (New College) is a collection of scholars committed to the study of early Christianity and the world that it was born in. Their interests range from New Testament studies to Patristics, to the world of Late Antiquity, and many of our members have specializations within these fields. More than that, they are interested in encouraging and supporting study in these areas and put on a range of conferences and seminars to this end.

The Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
The Centre was set up in 1993 as a focus for the College's various postgraduate activities in classical research. The Centre consists of Senior Members (all Corpus Fellows and lecturers with classical interests), Members (all classical graduates at Corpus  Visiting Members), Short-term visiting graduates and academics, Associate Members (Classical scholars who are not members of the college but who maintain a close relationship with the Centre). The Centre organises the Corpus Christi Classical Seminar Series in Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms each year, conferences, one-off lectures and occasional social events.

The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL)
Founded in 2014. The Society is currently involved in the e-Clavis database of apocryphal texts and resources and the 'Early Christian Apocrypha' series of pocket-size editions, published in conjunction with the Westar Texts and Translation Series. 

Mеждународный институт афонского наследия (International Institute of the Athonite Legacy)
A very active center devoted to the study of the spiritual and cultural heritage of Mt Athos in Central and Eastern Europe. Involved in publishing and the organization of conferences. Among its projects is afonit.info, dedicated to the connection between Russia and the Holy Mountain.

Center for the Study of Early Christian Texts (Concordia Seminary, St. Louis)
Concordia Seminary’s Center for the Study of Early Christian Texts (C-SECT) aims to acquaint the church with the early Church Fathers and their contribution to Christianity. It is directed by Joel Elowsky, editor of the Biblical Commentaries published by InterVarsity Press.

Center for Ancient Christian Studies
Founded by Dr. Coleman Ford to be an Evangelical Protestant voice in the academic study of Ancient Christianity, the CACS boasts a Fellows program, an annual symposium, and publishes the journal Fides et Humilitas. 

Center for Early African Christianity
Founded by Thomas Oden, CEAC is a center for collaborative research and education on the depth of African intellectual literary achievements, especially those from the Christian tradition of the first millennium. 

Istanbul Research Center
A source of funding, research, exhibitions, publications, and events related to the city of Constantinople and its cultures, including Byzantine Studies.

Société des Bollandistes
A historic research institute and library in Belgium dedicated to the study of critical hagiography (saints's lives and biographies).


Scholarly Associations

North American Patristics Society (NAPS)
Produces the Journal of Early Christian Studies and hosts an annual meeting of patristic scholars.
 
International Association of Byzantine Studies (AIEB)
Established in 1948, the AIEB brings together the National Committees of Byzantine Studies of member countries around the world. It is responsible for the International Congress of Byzantine Studies held every five years. Their site hosts a 'List of Editions and Translations in Progress' as well as a very useful newsletter.

Digital Medievalist
An international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media, established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects; publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, and runs an email discussion list.
 
Academic Journals
This section of the webpage is coming soon.

Open-Access Scholarship and Journals
 
The Byzantine Review
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes reviews of new publications and short articles from all areas of Byzantine studies.
 
Parekbolai
An electronic journal for Byzantine Literature, including papers of relevance for theology.