This task force is dedicated to the history, culture, and people of the
Byzantine Empire (and successor states like the
Empire of Trebizond) and the wider
Byzantine commonwealth, from the early 4th century to the fall of the last Byzantine remnants in the second half of the 15th century. It aims to serve as a point of reference for editors interested in the topic and will facilitate some administrative tasks on Byzantine-related articles, and as the Wikipedia-internal counterpart to the Byzantine Empire Portal. A (mostly) complete, manually updated listing of all Byzantine-related articles can be found at the Index of Byzantine Empire-related articles. If you wish to contribute, a good place to begin is the
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Rochow, Ilse (1994). Kaiser Konstantin V. (741–775). Materialien zu seinem Leben und Nachleben (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
ISBN3-631-47138-6.
Tougher, Shaun (1997), The Reign of Leo VI (886–912): Politics and People, BRILL,
ISBN90-04-09777-5
Toynbee, Arnold (1973). Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World. London and New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-215253-X.
Some modern editions to essential primary sources are:
Alexiad: Dawes, Elizabeth A., ed. (1928).
The Alexiad. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Attaleiates: Kaldellis, Anthony; Krallis, Dimitris, eds. (2012). Michael Attaleiates: The History. Cambridge, Massachussets and London: Harvard University Press.
ISBN978-0-674-05799-9.
Doukas: Magoulias, Harry, ed. (1975). Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks, by Doukas. An Annotated Translation of "Historia Turco-Byzantina" by Harry J. Magoulias, Wayne State University. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
ISBN0-8143-1540-2.
Kodinos: Verpeaux, Jean, ed. (1966). Pseudo-Kodinos, Traité des Offices (in French). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Theophanes:
Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-822568-7.
Social, administrative, and economic history
Angelov, Dimiter (2007), Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330, Cambridge University Press,
ISBN978-0-521-85703-1
Kaldellis, Anthony (2017). Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN0190253223.
Ahrweiler, Hélène (1966), Byzance et la mer. La marine de guerre, la politique et les institutions maritimes de Byzance aux VIIe–XVe siècles (in French), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
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