For International Women's Day: the handwriting of Anna Comnena identified by Spanish palaeographers. digitescgr.hypotheses.org/2012

📣This Wednesday in our CBOMGS UoB Seminars: 💎The Meaning of Jewellery in Byzantium: An Archaeological Perspective 💬Georgios Makris (British Columbia) 🗓️Wednesday 13 March 2024 🕠17:00-18:00 Please register in advance below: ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byz…

📣JOIN US TODAY!!! 💎The Meaning of Jewellery in Byzantium: An Archaeological Perspective 💬Georgios Makris (British Columbia) 🗓️Wednesday 13 March 2024 🕠17:00-18:00 Please register in advance below: ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byz…

The Archiepiscopal Chapel in Ravenna. Built in the 490s. The earliest surviving depiction of Christ Militant. Christ dressed like a Roman emperor while holding a cross and standing on a lion and snake, representing Satan.

📣 THIS WEEK!!! "Speech Difference and Disability Gain in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200" 💬 Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds) @maroulix 🗓️ Wednesday 24 April 2024 🕐 13:00-14:00 ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byz…

📣 TODAY!!! "Speech Difference and Disability Gain in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200" 💬 Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds) @maroulix 🗓️ Wednesday 24 April 2024 🕐 13:00-14:00 ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byz…

🚨Edinburgh’s (CLAIBS) announces Crow Week! 13 May at 5.30 pm, joint lecture of the Austrian (OEBG) & Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies UK: Jim Crow with Galina Fingarova ‘Peeping under the Palimpsest: reclaiming the urban topography of Byzantine Constantinople’. Register here edin.ac/3QiNueS

New Issue of Parekbolai, volume 14 (2024) maryjahariscenter.org/blog/new-issue… via Mary Jaharis Center

Relaxing in the garden with a good book…

Don’t miss this week our last seminar for this academic year! “Reading Ancient Poetry and Christian Hymnography in Twelfth-Century Byzantium” 🗓️14th May 2024 🕠5:00PM 💬 Baukje van den Berg (Central European University) ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-byz…

Deadline extended to Friday 19th July, any M4C students looking for a placement which provides them with multiple skills in the non-academic sector should express interest now!! (See VPP for more details)

Teaching Opportunities for M4C students. See the VPP news item for more details. Deadline to apply is 26th July: uniofnottm.sharepoint.com/sites/M4CVPP/S…

Applications for the Global Professorships are now open. The scheme offers mid-career and senior researchers an opportunity to undertake high-risk, cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences. Awards are up to £900,000. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global…

#OTD in 1974 Greece saw the end of the military junta and the beginning of Μεταπολίτευση! So let us remember this excellent article by Ioannis Chalkos on #BMGSJournal “The international dimensions of the Metapolitefsi, 1974–1976: a reassessment” cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"Don't overthink, just start writing." BnF MS Latin 276; Evangelia; 12th century; f.36v Gallica BnF

We're delighted to have received so many paper proposals for #IMC2025! But today we're wondering - what were your favourite parts of IMC 2024? 😊😊 Our highlights can be found in the August Newsletter:imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/imc-news…

Looking forward to tomorrow's conference at the University of Hamburg on "How Rebellion Ends: Conflict Resolution in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate World, 500-1000 CE". aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschun…

New Issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies now available 📚 cup.org/3Yynhxv #ByzantineStudies CBOMGS UoB

New Issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies now available 📚 cup.org/4hUhEQD #classicstwitter #ByzantineStudies Uni of Birmingham CBOMGS UoB

New Issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies now available Cambridge University Press - Classics CBOMGS UoB 📚 cup.org/3E0fvFk