Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies UK

Welcome to the official account of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (UK)! We will periodically tweet about our activities, including our annual Spring Symposium, as well as other items of interest to #medievaltwitter #classicstwitter #twitterstorians

The continuity of art in the Greek world. Saint Mark in a Greek 11th-century AD Ευαγγελιστάριο/ lectionarium A philosopher, fresco in the "Tomb of Philosophers", Pella, Macedonia, Greece, 3rd-century BC

Do you know there is an Orthodox church in Constantinople that remained untouched following the Fall of the City in 1453. A place where the Divine Liturgy persists since the thirteenth century (!) The small unassuming crimson painted church is known as the Panagia Mouchliotissa (Virgin of the Mongols) - Founded by Maria Palaiologina, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Michael VIII, who spent fifteen years in the Mongol lands, protecting Christianity withing the vast Khanate, before returning to Constantinople (thus the church name). The Panagia Mouchliotissa was saved as it was protected by Mehmed the Conqueror's decree, which remains in effect up to this day. A true gem hidden in the bustle of modern day Istanbul! Must visit.

Attend: 2026–2027 LECTIO Visiting Fellows Program, KU Leuven. Applications due March 6, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/20262027-… via @mjcbac

CFP: The Transmission of Classical Authors from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, LECTIO XV International Conference, KU Leuven, December 2–4, 2026. Submissions due March 1, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-trans… via @mjcbac

Job posting: Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, Hamilton College. Applications due February 23, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/visiting-… via @mjcbac

Late Antique chapel in a Roman amphitheater Durrës, Albania (ancient Epidamnos / Byzantine Dyrrachion)

Attend: Eros in the "Macedonian Renaissance": Reconsidering Two Byzantine Authors, lecture by Theodora Antonopoulou, NHRF at the Princeton Athens Center and Zoom, February 16, 2026, 6:00 PM (EET). Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/eros-in-t… via @mjcbac

Nativity wikiart.org/en/byzantine-m…

Media coverage on the spectacular discovery of an unknown Christian World Chronicle of the 8th century by our #Byzanzforschung-colleague Adrian Pirtea. #IMAFO @oeaw #ERC heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300-y… danielemancini-archeologia.it/allo-studio-un… opoka.org.pl/News/Swiat/202… assyriapost.com/1-300-year-old…

Vortrag Christopher James Sprecher "Von Herren und Heeren: Südkaukasische Perspektiven auf byzantinische Mobilität" 4. März 2026, 18:30 Uhr Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien, Postgasse 9, 2. Stock

Opportunity: Evans-Pritchard Lectureship, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Applications due March 13, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/evans-pri… via @mjcbac

Still a lot of time to enroll! 👉Summer School of Languages of the Christian East, Rome, July 6–17, 2026. (including an intensive course in medieval and early modern vernacular Greek, taught by yours truly.)

Macellum/Forum in Durrës, Albania Its round shape is vaguely similar to the design of the Forum of Constantine in Constantinople It possibly dates to the reign of Anastasius who was a native of the city

Mausoleo Di Galla Placidia wikiart.org/en/byzantine-m…

Attend: Money and Power: Spices, Specie and Social Transformation in the First-Millennium Western Indian Ocean, lecture by Rebecca Darley, Boğaziçi University, February 12, 2026, 5:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/money-and… via @mjcbac

Siege of Constantinople in 1453 Illustration by Jean Le Tavernier (c. 1450s) MSS fr. 9087 (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

We are pleased to invite you to the 20th GABAM Lecture: Byzantine Liturgical Tradition in the Narthex of the Chora Church (Kariye Mosque) by Prof. Dr. Manuela Studer-Karlen (University of Vienna). The talk will be held in English at ANAMED auditorium on Friday, 13 Feb., 18.00.

On February 27, Laury Sarti will discuss "The Frankish Kingdom and the Eastern Empire: Rethinking Their Interconnections from a Medieval Perspective" for our joint @HarvardMedieval lecture. Join us! 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: maryjahariscenter.org/events/the-fra…

Happy birthday to Emperor Titus, born #OnThisDay in 39 AD in Rome.

Preview of a video on the Magi at Chora (now Kariye Camii) youtu.be/F7PPWhQLBQo