Corinthian Matters

Category: Byzantine

  • On the Churches and Saints of Corinth

    On the Churches and Saints of Corinth

    Tomorrow marks the feast day of Kodratos, Corinth’s most famous ancient country saint martyred during the reign of the Emperor Decius. As I noted a number of years ago when I paraphrased a Latin version of his life, Kodratos was Corinth’s quintessential rural saint: an orphan raised by his Father God in the fields and mountains after his parents’ early death. When he descended into the city of sin…

  • Coming Soon: Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium (Gerstel)

    Landscape approaches to the Byzantine world are still uncommon these days despite the increasing integration of regional approaches into ancient and medieval studies generally. It is gratifying, then, to see that another work dedicated to the subject of Byzantine landscapes will be out in print this month. Sharon Gerstel’s book looks delightful  in its combination…

  • 2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Byzantine-Modern Periods

    This is the third in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014: See Monday’s post for further information about the sources of this bibliography See  Tuesday’s post for Prehistoric-Hellenistic period See Wednesday’s post for the Roman era This list contains new scholarship broadly related to the Corinthia in the…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 2

    Here is the second part to last week’s post about new scholarship in the last three months. You can find the full collection of articles and books related to Corinthian studies at the Corinthian Studies Zotero Page. If you don’t see URLs for articles and books below (they sometimes don’t transfer in the copy), visit…

  • The American School of Classical Studies: Recent Archaeological Work

    Let’s face it. Excavation is pretty boring. Hours of tedium, careful digging, and extensive notetaking with occasional glorious bursts of finds and findings (and often: nothing or very little at all). I admit that I still like the process of excavation and get enthusiastic about the prospects of discoveries that change the way we think…

  • Call for Papers: Byzantine Maritime Technology and Trade

    I was happy to see that the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group of the Archaeological Institute of America is (co-)sponsoring another session for next year’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Here are the details for submission. *********************************************************************** Proposed Colloquium Session for the 2015 AIA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 8-11, 2015 Sponsored by: AIA…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

    With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…

  • Portal to the Past: A Digital Resource

    The Canadian Institute in Greece recently announced a new digital tool called “Portal to the Past: Digital Archive of Archaeological Projects and Research.” According to the press release posted on the Canadian Institute website, “The user will find detailed information pertaining to all 18 field projects that have been undertaken during the CIG’s history. These…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December 2012)

    Now that the dust has settled on 2012, I release this final CSM issue for the last month of the year. By the end of the January, I’ll post some year-in-review lists for different categories of scholarship. As always, the best place to start for recent Corinthian scholarship at this site is the modern library…

  • Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society

    Byzantinists were stunned last week by the announcement that the Christian Archaeological Society had launched a digital version of its journal Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, with some open access material.  The announcement from the journal’s website: The Christian Archaeological Society (ChAE) is pleased to announce the launch of the online edition of the…