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Publications

Books, edited volumes, articles and book chapters from the Center’s researchers.

2026

  1. Ryan Denson · Monograph

    Denson, Ryan. 2026. A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster. Ancient Environments. Bloomsbury Academic.

    Publisher

  2. Ryan Denson · Book chapter

    Denson, Ryan. 2026. “‘You Who Broke the Heads of the Monsters Upon the Waters’: An Ecotheological Assessment of Ancient Sea Monsters.” In Monstrum in Fabula: Monsters and Monstrosities in Ancient Contexts, edited by Luca Valle Salazar and Davide D’Amico, 193–214. De Gruyter.

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  3. Ryan Denson · Journal article

    Denson, Ryan. 2026. “Nereids in the Ancient Greco-Roman Imagination and an Anomalous Legend.” Folklore 137 (2): 234–256.

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  4. Ryan Denson · Journal article

    Denson, Ryan. 2026. “Between Ancient Animal Studies and Mythology: The Case of the Hippocamps and Other Mixokētē.” Greece & Rome 73 (2): 274–297.

    DOI Open access

  5. Przemysław Marciniak · Edited volume

    Turning over a New Leaf: Perspectives on Byzantine Nature, eds. P. Marciniak and T. Schmidt (Harrassowitz, 2026, in production).

    In production

  6. Przemysław Marciniak · Edited volume

    Microhistories Retold: Insects in the Premodern World, ed. P. Marciniak (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2026).

  7. Przemysław Marciniak · Book chapter

    “All the Emperor’s Men: Uncovering Byzantium in the Nineteenth-Century Press,” in Byzantium Beyond Byzantium, eds. A. C. Pirtea, G. Rossetto, and N. Zagklas (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2026), 437–455.

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  8. Przemysław Marciniak · Book chapter

    "Orthodoxy, the Church and the Reception of Byzantium," in The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church, eds. A. Mellas and B. Neil (Cambridge: CUP, 2026), 555–566.

  9. Przemysław Marciniak · Journal article

    "Byzantine Animals: Forgotten Citizens of a 'Forgotten' Empire," Animal History 2.1 (2026), 5–18.

  10. Przemysław Marciniak · Book chapter

    “Byzantium’s Journey Through Centuries: Byzantium as a Literary Inspiration,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium, eds. N. Bhalla and D. Kotoula (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2026), 503–517.

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2025

  1. Max Ritter · Journal article

    Ritter, Max. 2025. “The Sea Bows to the Relic’s Power: An Ecocritical Approach to Seaborne Relic Importations into Byzantine Constantinople.” Mediterranean Historical Review 40 (2): 83–116.

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  2. Przemysław Marciniak · Book chapter

    "Byzantine Mime: A Marginalized Profession?," in Marginalization and Marginal Groups in Byzantium, ed. D. Ariantzi (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025), 197–209.

2024

  1. Przemysław Marciniak · Edited volume

    Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Human-Animal Relations, eds. P. Marciniak and T. Schmidt (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024).

  2. Przemysław Marciniak · Book chapter

    "Animals We Love: Pets and Companion Animals in Byzantium?," in Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Human-Animal Relations, eds. P. Marciniak and T. Schmidt (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 332–341.

  3. Przemysław Marciniak · Journal article

    "Writing a Byzantine Zoobiography: The Case of the Octopus," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 117.3 (2024), 669–692.

  4. Przemysław Marciniak · Journal article

    "How to Lament a Fallen Mouse? A Parody of Ancient Lament in the Katomyomachia by Theodore Prodromos," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 117.1 (2024), 157–168.

Bibliographies: Beyond the Sacred · Przemysław Marciniak, 2024 onwards