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“A Companion to Byzantine Italy “: new publication available from January 21

The publication of “A Companion to Byzantine Italy”, edited by Salvatore Cosentino (Series: Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume 8), is scheduled for January 21st. This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview… Read More »“A Companion to Byzantine Italy “: new publication available from January 21

Conference 7 December: Rebuilding Byzantium starting from Southern Italy

Monday 7 December at 16:00 CET,  prof. Arthur will give a lecture at the University of Molise with the topic: “Rebuilding Byzantium starting from Southern Italy”. This event will take place via Microsoft Teams and requires advance registration. Please send request to dipscienzeumanistiche@unimol.it

Wednesday 2 December, Molly Cotton Lecture by Professor Arthur at the British School at Rome

Wednesday 2 December at 18:00 CET,  prof. Arthur will give a lecture at the British School at Rome with the topic: “Searching for identity: Byzantine southern Italy”. This event will take place via Zoom and requires advance registration. Please click here to reserve your place. There is abundant literature on the Byzantine reconquest of Italy in the 6th century and on the transition from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Paradoxically, despite various historical contributions on the… Read More »Wednesday 2 December, Molly Cotton Lecture by Professor Arthur at the British School at Rome

The first volume of the “Themata” series has been published

“From Polis to Madina. The transformation of Sicilian cities between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages “is the first volume published within the new series of historical-archaeological studies ”Themata“, published by Prof. Lucia Arcifa (University of Catania) and the late Prof. Mariarita Sgarlata , prematurely disappeared, to whose memory the volume is dedicated. This publication, which collects the proceedings of the homonymous study conference held in Syracuse in June 2012, aims to renew studies of… Read More »The first volume of the “Themata” series has been published