Recent dissertations
Porphyry head, 4th cent.
(By permission of the Ashmolean Museum)
The following dissertations have been written and successfully defended at Oxford in the last five years :
- Alessandra Bucossi, Prolegomena to the critical edition of Hiera hoplotheke – Sacred arsenal by Andronikos Kamateros (2006)
- William Danny, Society and State in Byzantium, 1025–1071 (2007)
- Simon Davies, Medieval Figural Sculpture in Constantinople, A.D. 829–1204 (2009)
- Ioanna Dimopoulos, A Study of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares (11th–13th Century): Classification, Production, Circulation and Art Historical Analysis (2006)
- Greg Fisher (Keble), Between Empires. Ghassanids, Lakhmids and Others in Middle Eastern Borderlands, 400–600 AD (2008)
- Judith Gilliland–Ryder, The career and writings of Demetrius Kydones : a study of Byzantine politics and society, c. 1347–c. 1373 (2006)
- Scott Johnson (Keble), Life and Miracles of Thekla (2005)
- Elif Keser-Kayaalp, The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia, 300–800 AD (2009)
- Maja Kominko, The World of Cosmas: The Universe Described and Depicted in Byzantine Manuscripts of the Christian Topography (2006)
- Maria Kouroumali, Procopius and the Gothic War (2005)
- Eleni Lianta, Byzantine Coinage and Money in the Economy, 1204–1453: Some Problems in Monetary Affairs (2005)
- Hallie Meredith, The Open Work Aesthetic: Elite Valuation in Late Antiquity (2006)
- Anthousa Papagiannaki, The Production of Middle Byzantine Ivory, Bone and Wooden Caskets with Secular Decoration (2006)
- Theodore Papaioannou, Aspects of the Archaeology of Western Asia Minor in the Post-Roman Period, with Particular Reference to the Thrakesian Theme and to the Production and Circulation of Amphorae (2008)
- Alexander Sarantis, The Balkans during the Reign of Justinian: Barbarian Invasions and Imperial Responses (2005)
- Lukas Schachner, Economic Production in the Monasteries of Egypt and Oriens, AD 320–800 (2006)
- Teresa Shawcross, The Chronicle of Morea : historiography in Crusader Greece (2006)
- Pananos Sophoulis, A Study of Byzantine–Bulgar Relations, 775–816 A.D. (2005)
- Yvonne Stolz, Late Antique Gold Jewellery from Herakleion in Egypt (2007)