Resources

Scroll down for links to resources in the following categories: Datasets and Data Driven Projects, Image Collections, Newsletters and Listservs, and Open Educational Resources. These items are synched from the Byzantine Data Zotero group library.

Datasets and Data-Driven Projects

Austrian Academy of Sciences. “Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini.” Accessed February 16, 2022. https://tib.oeaw.ac.at/.
“World Historical Gazetteer.” Accessed January 14, 2022. https://whgazetteer.org/.
“SITAR – Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico di Roma.” Accessed November 3, 2021. https://www.archeositarproject.it/.
“Patrimonium.” Digital resource. Accessed October 18, 2021. https://patrimonium.huma-num.fr/.
Yale University. “Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive (YDEA).” Archaeological data resource. Accessed October 18, 2021. https://ydea.yale.edu/.
American Numismatic Society. “MANTIS: The ANS Collection Database.” Digital catalogue. American Numismatic Society. Accessed October 14, 2021. http://numismatics.org/search/.
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library. “HMML Authority File.” Accessed October 5, 2021. https://haf.vhmml.org/.
Open Heritage 3D. “Open Heritage 3D.” Database and resources. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://openheritage3d.org/.
Open Context. “Open Context: Publisher of Research Data.” Data management and publishing. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://opencontext.org.
“The Database of Religious History.” Database and resources. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://religiondatabase.org/landing/.
“Virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.” Accessed July 2, 2021. https://www.vhmml.org/.
“EAMENA: Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa.” Database and resources. Accessed July 2, 2021. https://eamena.org/.
Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, and the Online Archives of the Society for Libyan Studies. “Heritage Gazetteer of Libya/SLS Archives.” Gazetteer and digitized archives. Accessed July 2, 2021. http://slsgazetteer.org/.
Heath, Sebastian. Roman Amphitheaters. 2021. Reprint, Roman Amphitheaters, 2021. https://github.com/roman-amphitheaters/roman-amphitheaters.
Hayes, Dawn Marie, and Joseph Hayes. “The Norman Sicily Project.” The Norman Sicily Project. Accessed May 13, 2021. http://www.normansicily.org/en/home/.
“Open Access Images at the National Gallery of Art.” Museum website, n.d. https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html.
“Pelagios Network,” n.d. https://pelagios.org/.
“Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database,” n.d. http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/.
“DARMC: The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations,” n.d. https://darmc.harvard.edu/.
“ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World,” n.d. https://orbis.stanford.edu/.
“Pleiades.” Ancient World Mapping Center, the Stoa Consortium, and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2018. https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads.
“Penn Museum Collections Data.” Penn Museum, 2018. https://www.penn.museum/collections/objects/data.php.
“Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Data,” updated weekly 2018. https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess.
Halsall, Paul. “Internet History Sourcebooks Project.” Fordham University, last updated 2018 1996. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp.
Lange, N. de, A. Panayotov, and G. Rees. “Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire.” University of Cambridge, 2013. http://www.byzantinejewry.net/.

Image Collections

“The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database.” Accessed November 15, 2023. https://koseodiah.org/.
BYZART project: Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana. “BYZART - AMS Historica.” Accessed November 14, 2023. https://historica.unibo.it/handle/20.500.14008/42.
“Index of Medieval Art.” Image collection. Accessed July 1, 2023. https://theindex.princeton.edu/.
Darley, Rebecca. “Birmingham East Mediterranean Archive.” Image collection. BEMA. Accessed May 17, 2023. https://birminghameastmedarchive.com/.
Travelogues. “Travelogues - Travellers’ Views.” Curated resources. Accessed March 27, 2023. https://eng.travelogues.gr/.
“Archnet,” n.d. https://www.archnet.org/.
Albert Kahn archives. “Archives de la Planète.” Accessed June 2, 2022. https://opendata.hauts-de-seine.fr/explore/dataset/archives-de-la-planete/?disjunctive.operateur.
“Photographs of Dura-Europos: 1922 – 2022 and Onward | Institute of Sacred Music.” Accessed April 6, 2022. https://ism.yale.edu/events/photographs-dura-europos-1922-2022-and-onward.
Bizans Anıtları Fotoğraf Arşivi - Byzantine Monuments Photographs Archive. “Byzantine Monuments Photographs Archive.” Digital library of collections. Accessed February 24, 2022. https://libdigitalcollections.ku.edu.tr/digital/collection/BYGA/search/searchterm/imrahor%20ilyas%20bey%20camii%20%252F%20the%20church%20of%20stoudios%20monastery/field/title/mode/exact/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc.
Harvard Library. “Byzantine Fieldwork Photography.” Accessed January 7, 2022. https://library.harvard.edu/collections/byzantine-fieldwork-photography.
PBase. “Galleries by Dick Osseman.” Digital photo album. Accessed December 15, 2021. https://pbase.com/dosseman/root.
www.wikiart.org. “WikiArt.Org - Visual Art Encyclopedia.” Digital catalogue. Accessed November 4, 2021. https://www.wikiart.org/.
Stanford University. “Images of Rome: The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive.” Digital catalogue of historic photographic images. Accessed November 2, 2021. https://exhibits.stanford.edu/lanciani.
American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR). “ASOR Photo Collection.” Accessed September 23, 2021. https://www.asor.org/resources/photo-collection/.
Historic Environment Image Resource. “HEIR Project.” Digital catalogue of historic photographic images. Accessed July 2, 2021. http://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk/pages/home.php.
Hendrix, David. “The Byzantine Legacy Photostream,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/photos/byzants/.
University of Michigan Library. “Art Images for College Teaching.” Digital image collection for teaching. Accessed June 4, 2021. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/aict?page=index.
“Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts Photostream,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/.
“Penn State University Libraries Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library’s Phtostream,” n.d. https://flickr.com/photos/psulibscollections/.
MyMiniFactory. “Scan The World.” Accessed May 4, 2021. https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/.
“Open Access Images at the National Gallery of Art.” Museum website, n.d. https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html.
Louvre. “Louvre Site Des Collections.” Museum website. Accessed March 28, 2021. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/.
Rijksmuseum. “Rijksstudio.” Accessed March 4, 2021. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio.
“Digital Archives of Greek Civilization.” Scholarly photo collection, n.d. http://monuments.hist.auth.gr/index.php/en/mainpage-en/.
“Arthur Urbano Photostream,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/photos/60661697@N07/.
Index of Medieval Art. “Svetlana Tomeković Database of Byzantine Art,” n.d. https://ima.princeton.edu/digital-image-collections/collection/tomekovic.
Harvard Law School Library. “Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media.” Library Guides, n.d. https://guides.library.harvard.edu/Finding_Images#s-lg-page-section-2072819.
“The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database,” n.d. https://kos.aahvs.duke.edu/.
“Brad Hostetler Photostream,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradhostetler/.
“Steven Zucker Photostream,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/people/profzucker/.
“Manar Al-Athar,” n.d. http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/.
“Ancient World Image Bank,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/groups/awib/.

Newsletters and Listservs

American Research Institute in Turkey. “ARIT Newsletter,” n.d. https://aritweb.org/news/newsletter/.
“byz-fr Google Group,” n.d. byz-fr@googlegroups.com.
Byzantine Studies Association of North America. “BSANA Listserv,” n.d. https://bsana.net/communications/.
Substack. “Pasts Imperfect.” Newsletter. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/.
“Canadio-Byzantina.” Newsletter archives. Accessed January 28, 2021. https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/cb/issue/archive.
“North of Byzantium Subscription,” n.d. https://www.northofbyzantium.org/subscribe/.
American School of Oriental Research. “The Ancient Near East Today,” n.d. http://www.asor.org/asor-publications/asor-newsletters/.
American School of Oriental Research. “News@ASOR,” n.d.
Australasian Association for Byzantine Studies. “Web Sites for Byzantinists,” n.d. http://www.aabs.org.au/links/.
Society of Biblical Literature. “SBL Society News,” n.d. https://www.sbl-site.org/membership/membernews.aspx.
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. “Mary Jaharis Center Blog,” n.d. https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog.
“Medieval Art Research,” n.d. https://medievalartresearch.com/.
Jones, Charles E. “AWOL: The Ancient World Online,” n.d. http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/.
“Bryn Mawr Classical Review,” n.d. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/.
“H-Net Medieval and Byzantine History/Studies Networks,” n.d. https://networks.h-net.org/networks.
University of Liverpool Classics. “Classicists at Liverpool Listserv,” n.d. https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CLASSICISTS.
Digital Classicist. “Classical Mailing Lists,” n.d.
International Association of Byzantine Studies. “AIEB Newsletter, ‘Byzantine News,’” n.d. https://aiebnet.gr/newsletter-main/.
Oxford University Byzantine Society. “The Byzness,” n.d. https://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com/category/byzness/.
Dumbarton Oaks. “The Oaks News,” n.d. https://www.doaks.org/newsletter.
“The Mediterranean Seminar Listserv,” n.d. http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/subscribe.

Open Educational Resources

Hagiography Society. “Resources.” Hagiography Society website. Accessed May 4, 2023. https://www.hagiographysociety.org/?page_id=102.
Ancient World Open Bibliographies. “Ancient World Open Bibliographies.” Accessed May 25, 2022. https://ancientbiblio.wordpress.com/.
National Gallery of Art. “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections.” Exhibition online feature. Accessed May 24, 2022. https://www.nga.gov/features/byzantine.html.
About JSTOR. “Open and Free Content on JSTOR and Artstor.” Accessed April 4, 2022. https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/.
Tice, James. “Interactive Nolli Map Website 2.0.” Historical GIS. Accessed November 1, 2021. https://nolli.stanford.edu/index.html.
Internet Archive. “Dumbarton Oaks Collection in the Internet Archive,” n.d. https://archive.org/details/dumbarton-oaks.
Heath, Sebastian. “The American Excavations at Kenchreai.” Archaeological archive. Accessed October 20, 2021. https://www.kenchreai.org/.
Peopling the Past. “Peopling the Past.” Digital resource. Accessed October 7, 2021. https://peoplingthepast.com/.
Diker, Hasan Fırat, Mine Esmer, Mesut Dural, Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi FSM Vakıf Üniversitesi, and 0-Belirlenecek. Proceedings of the International Hagia Sophia Symposium. Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi, 2020. http://acikerisim.fsm.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/11352/3239.
“Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th-17th Centuries.” Accessed September 29, 2021. https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu/.
American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR). “ASOR Online Resources.” Accessed September 23, 2021. https://www.asor.org/resources/.
My Virtual Armenia. Accessed September 22, 2021. http://farbridge.co/mva/.
CyArk. “One Place, Many Stories: Madaba, Jordan.” Digital exhibit. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://cyark.org/projects/madaba/overview.
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Madaba Mondays. Accessed September 22, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTwiJTvbVGfVyjAI2-atyKc1bzoj9nduh.
“Gardens of the Roman Empire.” Accessed September 21, 2021. https://roman-gardens.github.io/home/.
Archnet. “Archnet.” Accessed September 1, 2021. https://archnet.org/.
Frey, Jon M. “MSU Excavations at Isthmia.” Excavation website. Accessed August 5, 2021. https://msuisthmia.org.
“Living Late Antiquity.” Digital resource. Accessed July 26, 2021. http://livinglateantiquity.org/.
“Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy Project.” Digital resource, October 30, 2020. https://byzantineitaly.it/.
Toth, Ida, and Andreas Rhoby, eds. “Materials for the Study of Late Antique and Medieval Greek and Latin Inscriptions in Istanbul.” Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1553/Inscriptions_in_Istanbul.
“Virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.” Accessed July 2, 2021. https://www.vhmml.org/.
“Treasures of Heaven.” Digital monograph to augment a museum exhibition. Accessed July 2, 2021. https://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/treasuresofheaven/.
Europeana. “Europeana.” Digital catalogue of objects and related resources. Accessed May 26, 2021. https://www.europeana.eu/en.
“Internet Archive.” Digital library. Accessed May 6, 2021. https://archive.org/.
The Met. “MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Museum website portal for digital publications. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “A Digital Corpus of Early Christian Churches and Monasteries in the Holy Land | Huji.” Accessed March 15, 2021. https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/.
“Media Center for Art History.” Accessed January 21, 2021. https://learn.columbia.edu/.
“Perseus Digital Library.” Digital library of texts and collections. Accessed January 18, 2021. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/.
Vadnal, Jane. “Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture,” 1997. https://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/.
Dumbarton Oaks. “Oral History Project.” Accessed January 14, 2021. https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/dumbarton-oaks-archives/historical-records/oral-history-project.
Pendse, Liladhar R. “Byzantine Studies Electronic Resources.” Library Guides. Berkeley Library, University of California. Accessed January 13, 2021. https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=316127&p=2111694.
Dumbarton Oaks. “Dumbarton Oaks Videos.” Films posted on Vimeo, n.d. https://vimeo.com/doaks.
Art History Teaching Resources. “Art History Teaching Resources.” Accessed January 6, 2021. https://arthistoryteachingresources.org/.
Durgun, Pınar, ed. An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching About the Ancient World. Open access e-Book. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 2020. http://archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={48586A9F-7C7A-4840-97AD-3C33D17D6E2A}.
Rick Steves’ Europe. “Rick Steves’ Classroom Europe.” Travel and tourism website. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://classroom.ricksteves.com/.
National Geographic. “World Heritage.” Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/.
Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. “UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List.” UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. “The Online Books Page.” Searchable index of online sources. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/.
International Center of Medieval Art. “ICMA Resources.” Professional organization. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.medievalart.org/icma-resources.
Smarthistory Commons. “Smarthistory Commons.” Accessed January 5, 2021. https://smarthistoryblog.org/.
“Smarthistory.” Accessed January 5, 2021. https://smarthistory.org/.
Heath, Sebastian. “Trading at the Edge: Pottery, Coins, and Household Objects at Dura-Europos.” In Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos, edited by Jennifer Chi, Sebastian Heath, and New York University, 63–73. New York, NY : Princeton, NJ: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; Distributed by Princeton University Press, 2011. https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/edge-of-empires/trading-at-the-edge-pottery-coins-and-household-objects-at-dura-europos.
Yale University Art Gallery. “Dura-Europos: Excavating Antiquity | Yale University Art Gallery.” Exhibition online feature. Accessed January 5, 2021. http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/.
Christianian, Jirair, and Robert W. Edwards. “The Christian Architecture of the Levant,” 2019. https://charlvarchive.org/.
Dumbarton Oaks. “Online Catalogue of Byzantine Coins.” Digital catalogue of objects and related resources. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.doaks.org/resources/coins.
Dumbarton Oaks. “Catalogue of the Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection.” Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.doaks.org/resources/textiles.
Shea, Jonathan. “Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals.” Page. Dumbarton Oaks. Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.doaks.org/resources/seals.
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. “Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Accessed January 5, 2021. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah.
Raff, Katherine A., ed. Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017. https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/roman-art-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago.