Empress Irini Series – Selected Bibliography

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• Arnott, W. Geoffrey, Routledge, Birds of the Ancient World from A to Z, Routledge, 2007.
• Baumann, Hellmut and Stearn, William and Stern Eldwyth trans, Greek Wild Flowers and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece, The Herbert Press, c. 1982, 1986, 1993.
• Bosworth, C.E., trans/annoted., University of Manchester, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Editor Bibliotheca Persica, The History of al-Tabari Volume XXX, The ‘Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium, State University of New York Press, 1989.
• Brubaker, Leslie, Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm, Bristol Classical Press, c. 2012.
• Brubaker, Leslie and Haldon, John, Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c. 680-850 A History, Cambridge University Press, c. 2011.
• Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents. A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders’ Typika and Testaments, Dumbarton Oaks Studies, c. 2000.
• Calonfomos, George, “Dream Interpretation: A Byzantinist Superstition,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 9, 1, 215-220.
• Chatzidakis, Manolis, The Greek Museums, Benaki Museum, Ekdotike Athenon S.A., Athens, c. 1975.
• Dennis, George T., Maurice’s Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy, University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2001.
• Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World, British Museum Exhibition, February 2007-January 2008.
• Grimm, Veronica, From Feasting to Fasting: the Evolution of a Sin: Attitudes to Food in Late Antiquity, Routlege, 1996.
• Haldon, John, Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World 565-1204, University of Birmingham, Routledge, c. 1999.
• Hatlie, Peter, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople ca. 350-850, Cambridge University Press, c. 2007.
• Hort, A. F. trans., Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants, Books VI-IX and Concerning Odours and Concerning Weather Signs,  Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd, London, c. 1926, 1949, 1961, 1977.
• James, Liz, Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium, Routledge, c. 1997.
• James, Liz and Eastmond, Anthony, Icon and Word: the Power of Images in Byzantium: Studies Presented to Robin Cormack,  Aldershot, England: Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c. 2003.
• Kazhdan, Alexander, Talbot, Alice-Mary, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (three volumes), Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Kennedy, Hugh, ed/trans., University of St. Andres, Ehsan Yar-Shater, Editor Bibliotheca Persica, The History of al-Tabari Volume XXIX , Al-Mansur and al-Mahdi, State University of New York Press, 1990.
• Laiou, Angeliki, The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh to the 15th Centuries, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, c. 2002.
• Laiou, Angeliki and Simon, Dieter, ed, Law and Society in Byzantium, Ninth-Twelfth Centuries, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, c. 1994.
• “Literacy and the Byzantine World,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 4:39-54.
• Macrides, Ruth, Travel in the Byzantine World, Papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000, Ashgate Variorum, c. 2002.
• Mango, Cyril, The Oxford History of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, c. 2002.
• Mango, Cyril, “The Availability of Books in the Byzantine Empire A.D. 750-850”, Byzantine
• Books and Bookmen, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium, 1971.
• Mayer, Wendy and Triczionk, Silke, Feast, Fast, or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, c. 2005.
• Miller, Timothy, The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire, Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1997.
• Miller, Timothy, Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire, Catholic University of America Press, c. 2003.
• Niebuhr, Alta Dodds, Herbs of Greece, The New England Unit of the Herb Society of America, Printer: J. Makris, Athens, 1970.
• Peers, Glenn, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, University of California Press, 2001.
• Online reference: “Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire”, http:/www. pbe.kcl.ac.uk, King’s College London, 1989-2001.
• Riddle, John M., Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Texas Press, c. 1985.
• Rotman, Yuval, Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World, Harvard University Press, c. 2009.
• Scarborough, John, ed, Symposium on Byzantine Medicine, Dumbarton Oaks Papers Number Thirty-eight, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, District of Columbia, c. 1985.
• Sfikas, George, Flowers of Greece, Efstathiadis Group, Athens, c. 1999.
• Tierney, Tom, Byzantine Costumes Paper Dolls, History of Costume Series, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, c. 2002.
• Tierney, Tom, Byzantine Fashions, Coloring Book, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, c. 2002.
• Treadgold, Warren, The Byzantine Revival, Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Turtledove, Harry, ed/trans, The Chronicle of Theophanes, Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
• Weitzmann, Kurt, The Icon: Holy Images, 6th to 14th Century, George Braziller, NY, c. 1978.
• Whittow, Mark and Barnes, Sue, The Making of Byzantium 600-1025, University of California Press, Augusst 5, 1996.