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Libraries

It is likely that the best collection of books and journals for Byzantine studies is that at the library at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington DC.

Much of that library's catalog is available on line through the HOLLIS system of Harvard University. It is the premiere place for any bibliographic inquiry about Byzantium. If you have TELNET client hooked up to your web browser you can reach HOLLIS at telnet://hollis.harvard.edu The Harvard University Libraries Webpage is at http://www.harvard.edu/home/library.html

From Mid 1998, Dumbarton Oaks put its own catalog online - Dumbarton Oaks: Library Online. So now, by far the most important library for Byzantine studies is searchable online.

In some respects the best library available via the Internet is the University of California System, MELVYL, although larger libraries, such as Harvard, the Library of Congress, Oxford University, and the New York Public are on line, the virtue of the California system is that it has cataloged virtually all its collections. Many others have cut off dates in the early 1970s. One you get the hang of the MELVYL system it can even be set to email bibliographic date to you in a form that can be read by bibliographic programs. If you have TELNET client hooked up to your web browser you can reach MELVYL at telnet://melvyl.ucop.edu

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Byzantine Bibliographies

Here are a series of basic Byzantine bibliographies. If you have another one prepared, please send me a copy and I will mount it on this page.

• An Extensive Guide to Byzantine Sources [Halsall]
• Byzantine Sources in Translation - Preliminary Version Updated, and reformated, October 1997 - an effort to list all Byzantine sources translated into Western European languages.
• Byzantine Manuscript Indices and Catalogs NEW AUGUST 1996
• The Tradition of Byzantine Historiography [Halsall] NEW [Uses HTML Tables]
• Women in Byzantium [Gouma-Petersen] a comprehensive listing of sources and secondary literature
• Translations of Greek Saints Lives in Modern Western Languages [A.M. Talbot] UPDATED NOVEMBER 1997 [Now at Dumbarton Oaks Site]
• Basic Tools of Medieval Studies [K. Green]
• List of Journals of Use to Byzantinists [Halsall]
• Annotated Guide to Feminist Historiography [Halsall]
• Byzantine Art: Sources and Studies [Halsall]
• Warfare in the Roman World [Hugh Elton, Internet Archive]
• The Worlds of Late Antiquity Readings for Students [O'Donnell]
• Bibliography of Syrian Arab-Byzantine Coinage [Michael L. Bates]
• Bibliography for Paleologan Period [Halsall]
• Bibliography for Trebizond [Halsall]
• Byzantine Sexualities [Halsall]
• Modern Fiction, Plays and Poetry about Byzantium [Halsall] Updated October 1996 and now in HTML
• Loeb Classical Library General guide - not just Byzantium.

The author and maintainer of this site is Paul Halsall [a picture!] . He can be contacted by email at halsall@fordham.edu

Please do not hesitate to mail comments or suggestions.