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Byzantium & Friends — 158 episodes
158. The Book of Daniel, the Four Kingdoms, and imperial eschatology, with Chris Bonura
157. Julian Augustus and the dream of a Platonic Roman empire, with Jeremy Swist
156. The Menologion of Basil II, with Charlie Kuper
155. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, with Nicole Eddy
154. How and why we teach Roman history, with Beth Digeser
153. Three heresiologists of the twelfth century: Zigabenos, Kamateros, and Choniates, with Alessandra Buccosi, Niccolò Zorzi, Marco Fanelli, and Ottavia Mazzon
152. Heresiology in the twelfth century, with Alessandra Bucossi
151. East Roman archaeology: goals and challenges, with Marica Cassis
150. Why were pseudo-Arabic inscriptions placed on churches in Greece?, with Alicia Walker
149. The Classical Near East, with Kevin van Bladel
148. The survival of esoteric academic fields, with Jana Matuszak and Petra Goedegebuure
147. How the ninety percent experienced the Roman economy, with Kim Bowes
146. Ezana of Aksum, the first Christian king in Africa, with Aaron Butts
145. Seeing into the minds of others, with Ellen Muehlberger
144. The two millennia of Roman history, with Ed Watts
143. Coping with earthquakes in the churches of Constantinople, with Mark Roosien
142. The decline of animal sacrifice in the late Roman world, with James Rives
141. The Renaissance and Byzantium are characters in the same play, with Ada Palmer
140. A newly identified portrait of Konstantinos XI Palaiologos (1448-1453), with Anastasia Koumousi
139. Captivity and enslavement in the late medieval Aegean, with Alasdair Grant
138. Romeyka, a parallel branch of Greek surviving in northeastern Turkey, with Ioanna Sitaridou
137. Conspiracy theories and the deep state, now and then, with Winston Berg
136. The federal assault on American research universities, with Clifford Ando
135. Latin literature in late antiquity, with Gavin Kelly
134. Peer-review: the good, the bad, and the amusing, with Tina Sessa and Marion Kruse
133. Taste, meals, and food culture, with Adam Morin
132. Who was Allah before Islam?, with Ahmad Al-Jallad
131. To Miklagarðr and back again: Varangians return from Constantinople, with Sverrir Jakobsson
130. A conversation with Johanna Hanink on Greek literature, on publishing in a new field, and on podcasting
129: Labor organizations and collective action, with Sarah Bond
128. Constantinople as seen by its inhabitants, with Paul Magdalino
127. The genetic history of Rome, with Hannah Moots
126. Can scholars and clerics be manly?, with Maroula Perisanidi
125. Souvenirs and city branding in the experience of the Roman world, with Maggie Popkin
124. Shadow empires, with Thomas Barfield
123. The fall of Constantinople, pope Pius II, and the birth of Europe, with Nancy Bisaha
122. Latin words in ancient and Byzantine Greek, with Eleanor Dickey
121. Ali Pasha of Ioannina, antiquities and archaeology between empire and the nation-state, with Emily Neumeier
120. Dioskouros of Alexandria, Or the making of a Church villain, with Volker Menze
119. Byzantium in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with Przemysław Marciniak
118. Pathogen paleogenetics and late antique disease: A cross-discipline discussion
117. Human paleogenetics and late antique migration: a cross-discipline discussion
116. Africa and Byzantium, with Andrea Myers Achi
115. Imaginary Byzantiums in modern Russia, with Eugene Smelyansky
114. Byzantium and the early Rus’, with Monica White
113. The emperor’s clothing and public appearances, with Maria Parani
112. Crisis and resilience in late antique Rome, with Michele Salzman
111. Inheriting the mantle of the Roman empire, with Nathan Aschenbrenner
110. Justinian: statecraft, law, and self-glorification, with Peter Sarris
109. The discovery of Constantinople, with Sarah Bassett
108. Who is ‘Islamic History’ about?, with Christian Sahner
107. Shifty Greeks, Arrogant Latins: Polemical authors and the schism of the Churches, with Alessandra Bucossi
106. Medieval Europe without a “core”, with Christian Raffensperger
105. So you’re the Roman emperor... now what?, with Olivier Hekster
104. Byzantine law, its experts, and its languages, with Daphne Penna
103. About time, with Jesse Torgerson
102. Byzantium and Balkan national identities, with Diana Mishkova
101. How to de-colonize Byzantine Studies, with Ben Anderson and Mirela Ivanova
100. Our new book on the armies, and on revisionism in history, with Marion Kruse
99. A new history of medieval Christianity, with Peter Heather
98. Egyptian hieroglyphs in late antiquity, with Jennifer Westerfeld
97. The remarkable world of hospitals, orphanages, and leprosaria, with Tim Miller
96. Pre-Islamic Arabia, with Valentina Grasso
95. Rome and Byzantium in Heavy Metal music, with Jeremy Swist
94. What academic tenure does for you (yes, you!), with Jacques Berlinerblau
93. The afterlife of pagan inscriptions in Byzantium, with Anna Sitz
92. An insider’s guide to academic publishing, with Byzantine studies in mind, featuring Anna Henderson
91. Scavenging in the ruins of empire, with Robin Fleming
90. At the dawn of Byzantine Studies: Martin Crusius (1526-1607), with Richard Calis
89. The resilience and agency of rural communities, with Fotini Kondyli
88. Women’s labor, with Anna Kelley
87. Dragons! with Scott Bruce
86. How to organize a museum exhibition – and bring the Holy Land home, with Amanda Luyster
85. Lead mining and lead pollution in the Roman world, with Paul Stephenson
84. On writing narrative history, with guest-host Marion Kruse
83. Blinding as punishment and enforced disability, with Jake Ransohoff
82. What was First Iconoclasm about?, with Leslie Brubaker
81. Surviving the Mongol storm, with Nicholas Morton
80. Diagrams: from sundials to the schematics of the Trinity, with Linda Safran
79. The enduring power of ancient statues in Constantinople, with Paroma Chatterjee
78. How to be philanthropic in early Byzantine Christianity, with Dan Caner
77. How did most people in the Roman empire get by? with Kim Bowes
76. Exploring the monuments of Byzantine Constantinople, with Sergey Ivanov
75. The politics of archaeological heritage and reclamation, with Jonathan Hall
74. Laments for the Fall: Constantinople and Tenochtitlan in counterpoint, with Eleni Kefala
73. When did women “bind up” their hair, and why?, with Gabriel Radle
72. What do we mean by “Byzantine literature”?, with Stratis Papaioannou
71. Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425) had a lot to say, with Siren Çelik
70. Trees have histories too, with Alexander Olson
69. The experiences of Byzantine children, with Oana-Maria Cojocaru
68. Classical scholarship and philology in Byzantium, with Filippomaria Pontani
67. Wherein Tina and I take bad scholarly habits to task, with Tina Sessa
66. The perils of childbirth, with Christian Laes
65. Who was Hypatia of Alexandria and what does she stand for? with Silvia Ronchey
64. How did emperors make decisions?, with Michael Grünbart
63. The religion of simple believers, with Jack Tannous
62. Byzantine dress and fashion, with Jennifer Ball and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
61. Being Roman in Syriac, with Hartmut Leppin
60. Representing the trauma of captivity, enslavement, and degradation, with Adam Goldwyn
59. What exactly ended in Late Antiquity?, with Polymnia Athanassiadi
58. The column and equestrian statue of Justinian, a landmark monument of Constantinople, with Elena Boeck
57. A global history of the Greeks, with Roderick Beaton
56. Cyril, Methodios, and the conversion of the Slavs, with Mirela Ivanova
55. If you could meet and interview one person from Byzantine history, who would it be and why? (Part II), with Paroma Chatterjee and Merle Eisenberg
54. The power and journeys of the True Cross and other holy relics, with Lynn Jones
53. What can we know about the life of the Prophet Muhammad?, with Sean Anthony
52. Crowd behavior in imperial Rome and Constantinople, with Daniëlle Slootjes
51. Byzantine poetry on its own terms, with Marc Lauxtermann
50. If you could meet and interview one person from Byzantine history, who would it be and why?, with Fotini Kondyli and Alexander Sarantis
49. Why is there an Egyptian obelisk in the hippodrome of Constantinople?, with Cecily Hilsdale
48. What did Byzantine music sound like? (The answer is more political than you’d expect), with Alexander Lingas
47. The materiality of Byzantine objects, with Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
46. Raiders, marauders, ravagers, and pirates: their impact on Byzantine life, with Alexander Sarantis
45. Neoliberalism in academia and its impact on the humanities, with Tamar Hodos
44. How can historians use new media to disseminate ideas?, with Merle Eisenberg
43. Is it time to abandon the rubric “Byzantium”?, with Leonora Neville
42. Byzantium in video games, with Troy Goodfellow
41. Ravenna, capital of empire between east and west, with Judith Herrin
40. Byzantine tales of horror and the macabre
39. The monastic experience, with Alice-Mary Talbot
38. Manuscripts, databases, and the joys of Byzantine literature, with Dave Jenkins
37. The study of Byzantine skeletons, with Chryssa Bourbou
36. Slavery in late antiquity and Byzantium, with Noel Lenski
35. Theophano: A Byzantine Tale, with Spyros Theocharis and Chrysa Sakel
34. An antidote to toxic medievalism, with Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant
33. The study of ethnic identities in Byzantium and beyond (Listener Questions II), with Brian Swain
32. Anastasius the Librarian, the greatest enemy of Byzantium you probably haven't heard of, with Réka Forrai
31. Ethnicity and empire in China and Byzantium, with Shao-yun Yang and Ying Zhang
30. Byzantium in modern Greek life (Listener Questions I), with Dimitris Krallis
29. The many identities of Hagia Sophia, past and present, with Bob Ousterhout
28. How we choose our research topics, with Tia Kolbaba
27. The hidden treasures of sigillography, with Jonathan Shea
26. Homer in Byzantium, with Baukje van den Berg
25. Disability in Byzantium, with Christian Laes
24. Social class in Byzantium, with Efi Ragia
23. Digital humanities and Byzantium, with Kuba Kabala
22. Social distancing in early Byzantium, with Ellen Muehlberger and David Brakke
21. Coping with pandemics, with Tina Sessa and Kyle Harper
20. Carolingian and Byzantine practices of empire compared, with Jennifer Davis
19. ”Get out of the way, Battal Gazi is Coming!”: Turkish films on Byzantium, with Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
18. Byzantine soft power in an age of decline, with Cecily Hilsdale
17. The peoples of the Caucasus between Rome, Iran, and the steppe, with Garth Fowden
16. The Parthenon mosque, with Elizabeth Key Fowden
15. When does Roman history end and Byzantine begin?, with Marion Kruse
14. Byzantine Orthodoxy and homosexuality, with Stephen Morris
13. The case for Shenute the Great and the Coptic tradition, with Sofia Torallas Tovar and David Brakke
12. Byzantine Studies in Turkey 2.0, with Siren Çelik
11. Byzantine erotic epigrams, with Steven Smith
10. A Byzantine man of affairs, with Dimitris Krallis
9. From India to Byzantium, with Paroma Chatterjee
8. Hagia Sophia rediscovered, with Bissera Pentcheva
7. The kingdom of Rus' and "medieval Europe," with Christian Raffensperger
6. Armenian art, with Christina Maranci
5. Western fantasies about Byzantium, with Elena Boeck
4. The New Environmental History, with Tina Sessa
3. The Colonial Fourth Crusade, with George Demacopoulos
2. Imagining the Moment of Death, with Ellen Muehlberger
1. Byzantine Gender, with Leonora Neville