Studied Modern Greek Philology, Byzantine Studies, and British Studies at the Humboldt-Universität and the Freie Universität Berlin. There, in 1997, he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Ancient Studies with a dissertation on Theodoros Studites, an important monastic father in Byzantium of the 8th/9th century. In 2004, he completed his habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on structures and developments within Byzantine hagiographic literature from the 7th to the 11th century. From 1994 to 2011, he was an academic staff member at the academy project "Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Since 1998, he has been teaching Byzantine Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. In the winter semester of 2005/06, he was a substitute for the chair of Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universität Berlin (4 semester hours per week). From 2012-2017, he was a Heisenberg scholarship student of the German Research Foundation at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz with a project on finance in the Middle Byzantine period. 2017-2019 academic staff member on the project "Port Administration in the Byzantine Empire (7th-11th centuries). Administrative Structure, Official Apparatus and Functionality of Byzantine Seaports" within the framework of the SPP 1630 of the DFG "Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages. On the Archaeology and History of Regional and Supra-Regional Transport Systems."

2017 - 2019	academic staff member on the project "Port Administration in the Byzantine Empire (7th-11th centuries). Administrative Structure, Official Apparatus and Functionality of Byzantine Seaports" within the framework of the SPP 1630 of the DFG "Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages. On the Archaeology and History of Regional and Supra-Regional Transport Systems" under the direction of Falco Daim and Claus von Carnap-Bornheim
2012 - 2017	Scholarship student in the Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with association at Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies of the Johannes GutenbergUniversität Mainz with the project "finance, monetary transactions and trade policy. Financial transactions and exchange of goods in the eastern Mediterranean region in the period between the Muslim expansion and the Crusades (7th-11th centuries)"
2006/2007	appointment procedure for the W2-Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the university of Leipzig: 3rd place (tertio loco)
2005/2006 Winter Semester	substitute of the chair of Byzantine Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities
1994 - 2011	academic staff member at the academy project "Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period" at the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
1993 - 1994	freelance scientific-technical employee at the academy project "Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period" at the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin

2017	habilitation in Byzantine Studies at Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2004	habilitation in Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Freie Universität Berlin
1997	doctorate to Dr. phil. at the Faculty of Ancient Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin
1993	M. A. in Byzantine Studies and British Studies at the Faculty of Ancient Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin; M. A. Thesis: "Investigations on De thematibus Emperor Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos"
1988 - 1993	Studied Byzantine Studies and British Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
1984 - 1988	Studied Modern Greek Philology and British Studies (Language Mediator degree program) at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin

2013 - present	Teaching in the subject of Byzantine Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
1998 - 2013	Teaching in the subject of Byzantine Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2009	Organization (together with R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig and B. Zielke) of the International Conference "Conflict Management 1000 Years Ago. The Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009 / Conflict Management 1000 Years Ago. The Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009", 24-26 September 2009 in Berlin, held at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
2007	Organization (together with A. Effenberger, L. Hoffmann, R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, G. Mietke, G. Prinzing and B. Zielke) of the 22nd meeting of the German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, 22-24 February 2007 in Berlin, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage
2003	Organization (together with V. Bulgakova, A. Effenberger, R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, D. R. Reinsch, C. Sode and B. Zielke) of the 8th International Symposion of Byzantine Sigillography, 1-4 October 2003 in Berlin, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Freie Universität Berlin and the State Museums Prussian Cultural Heritage

2003/2004	Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): "The Old Europe. Questions of historical legitimation in the past and present", Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2003/04, 9 lectures and a panel discussion from October 2003 to 17 February 2004
2002/2003	Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): "Ritual and Message in Pre-Modern Cultures", Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2002/03, 8 lectures from 22 October 2002 to 4 February 2003
2001/2002	Organization and implementation of a scientific lecture series (together with colleagues from the BerlinBrandenburg Academy of Sciences): "Media Society Antiquity? Information and Communication from Ancient Egypt to Byzantium", Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Winter Semester 2001/02, 10 lectures and a panel discussion from 20 November 2001 to 12 February 2002

2006 - 2010

employee representative in the committees of the Academy Administration, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin

2017	Scientific Evaluation: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2006/2010	Scientific Evaluation: Fund for the Promotion of Scientific research (FWF), Austria

1994 -

German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

Theodoros Studites (759–826) – between dogma and pragma. The abbot of the Studios Monastery in Constantinople in the field of tension between patriarch, emperor and his own claim, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1998 (Berliner Byzantinistische Studien 4).
The hagiographic topos. Greek Saints' Lives in the Middle Byzantine Period, Berlin – New York 2005 (Millennium Studies 6).
Theodora of Byzantium. Courtesan and Empress, Stuttgart 2011 (Urban paperbacks 636).
Conflict and Coping. The Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009, ed. by Thomas Pratsch, Berlin – Boston 2011 (Millennium Studies 32).

Investigations on De thematibus Emperor Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos, in: Varia V, Contributions by T. Pratsch, C. Sode, P. Speck and S. Takács, Bonn 1994 (Poikila Byzantina, 13) 13–145.
Source-critical studies on Epistolography (pp. 34–42), Homiletics (pp. 147–151), "Specialist Writings" (pp. 152–166), Greek Papyri from Egypt after 642 (pp. 167–169), Coptic Sources (pp. 242–245), Inscriptions (pp. 266–284), in: Prolegomena zur Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit, Erste Abteilung (641–867), Berlin – New York 1998.
Tarasios. After the Council (pp. 97–108), Nikephoros I. (pp. 109–47), Theodotos I. (Melissenos "Kassiteras") (pp. 148–155), Antonios I. ("Kassymatas") (pp. 156–168), The bynames of the Patriarchs of Constantinople at the time of the second Iconoclasm (pp. 261–266), The mentions of the Patriarchs of the first Iconoclasm in the Synaxar of Konstaninopel (pp. 267–276), in: Die Patriarchen der ikonoklastischen Zeit: Germanos I. – Methodios I. (715–847), ed. by Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Frankfurt a. M. et. al. 1999 (Berliner Byzantinistische Studien, 5).
Together with R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, B. Zielke, brochure: Byzantium 641–1025. Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 2001.
Based on preliminary work by F. Winkelmann, compiled by R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, T. Pratsch, I. Rochow et al., Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period, I. Abteilung (641–867), Prolegomena, Berlin – New York 1998; 1. Band: Aaron (# 1) – Georgios (# 2182), Berlin – New York (de Gruyter) 1999; 2. Band: Georgios (# 2183) – Leon (# 4270), Berlin – New York 2000; 3. Band: Leon (# 4271) – Placentius (# 6265), Berlin – New York 2000; 4. Band: Platon (# 6266) – Theophylaktos (# 8345), Berlin – New York 2001; 5. Band: Theophylaktos (# 8346) – az-Zubair (# 8675), Anonymi (# 10001 – # 12149), Berlin – New York 2001; 6. Band: Abkürzungen, Addenda und Indices, Berlin – New York 2002.
Based on preliminary work by F. Winkelmann, compiled by R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, T. Pratsch, B. Zielke et al., Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period, II. Abteilung (867–1025), Prolegomena, Berlin – New York 2009; 1. Band: A..i. (# 20001) – Christophoros (#21278); 2. Band: Christophoros (# 21279) – Ignatios (# 22712); 3. Band: Ignatios (# 22713) – Lampudios (# 24268); 4. Band: Landenolfus (# 24269) – Niketas (# 25701); 5. Band: Niketas (# 25702) – Sinapes (# 27088); 6. Band: Sinko (# 27089) – Zuhayr (# 28522); 7. Band: Anonyma (# 30001) – Anonymus (32071), Berlin – Boston (de Gruyter) 2013
The Late Antique Byzantine Empire (324–641), in: Der Große Ploetz, 35th, completely revised edition, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, 285–291.
The Byzantine Empire (641–1204), The Latin Empire of Constantinople 1204–1261, The Late Byzantine Empire 1261–1453 (“Palaiologan Period”), in: Der Große Ploetz, 35th, completely revised edition, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, 638–650.
Constantine the Great in the Middle Byzantine Period, in: Prosopon Rhomaikon. Supplementary Studies on the Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period, ed. by A. Beihammer, B. Krönung, C. Ludwig, Berlin – Boston 2017 (Millennium Studies 68) 65–83
Youth and Healing, in: Coming of Age. Adolescence and Society, ed. by Despoina Ariantzi, Berlin-Boston 2018 (Millennium Studien/Millennium-Studies 69), 237-249
Miracles in Byzantium or Byzantine Studies and the Compendium of Early Christian Miracle Narratives, in: Fascination of the Miracles of Jesus and the Apostles. The debate about the early Christian miracle narratives continues, ed. by Ruben Zimmermann, Göttingen 2020 (Biblisch-Theologische Studien 184), 133–139
Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia, in: The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600–1500, ed. by David Thomas, London et al. 2022, 136–138
Theodora Augusta: from the stage to the imperial throne, in: Dominant, seductive, eternally guilty. Women in the environment of the ruler, ed. by Ludger Körntgen, Heide Frielinghaus, Sebastian Grätz, Heike Grieser, Johannes Pahlitzsch and Doris Prechel, Göttingen 2022 (Kraftprobe Herrschaft, Bd. 2), 265–289

Investigations on De thematibus Emperor Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos, in: Varia V, Contributions by T. Pratsch, C. Sode, P. Speck and S. Takács, Bonn 1994 (Poikila Byzantina, 13) 13–145.
The "Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period" (641/42–1025) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, in: Medieval Prosopography 17 (1996) 193–204.
Ignatios the Deacon – Cleric of the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate, Metropolitan Bishop of Nicaea, Private Scholar, Teacher and Writer (a Life Reconsidered), in: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 24 (2000) 82–101.
A letter from Plato in two letters from Theodoros Studites — a text-critical note, in: Göttinger Beiträge zur Byzantinischen und Neugriechischen Philologie 1 (2001) 63–74.
H AΡΧAIA TOΥ ΠOΛITEΥMATOΣ ΔIKAIOΔOΣIA – Reflections on the Ecloga, in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 51 (2001) 133–158.
The Prologues of Byzantine Saints’ Lives, in: XXe Congrés International des Études Byzantines, Collége de France – Sorbonne, 19 – 25 Août 2001, Pré-Actes. II. Tables rondes, Paris 2001, 205f.
Exploring the Jungle – Hagiographical Literature between Fact and Fiction, in: Fifty Years of Prosopography, ed. Av. Cameron, London 2003 (Proceedings of the British Academy, 118) 61–74.
Alexandros, Metropolitan of Nicaea and Professor of Rhetoric (10th century) – biographical clarifications, in: Millennium-Jahrbuch 1 (2004) 243–278.
The date of death of Maria (the Younger) of Bizye (BHG 1164): † February 16, 902, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 97 (2004) 567–569.
The opponent (ἐχθρός, adversarius) – on a topos in Middle Byzantine hagiographic literature, in: Acta Fennica Byzantina N. S. 2 (2003–2004) 72–89.
On the letter corpus of Symeon Magistros: Edition, order, dating, in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 55 (2005) 71–86.
On the origin of Niketas Magistros (* around 870 – † earliest 946/47) from Lakonien, in: Byzantion 75 (2005) 501–506.
Constantinople and the Crusaders. The Byzantine Empire in the Age of the Crusades, in: Pax et gaudium 22 (2006) 19–23.
Leon (* around 939; † before April 6, 945): the second son of Constantine VII. Porphyrogennetos, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2005) 485–494.
Kosmas the India Traveler, in: Pax et gaudium 24 (2006) 31–35.
Decentralized network and cipher – on the communication system of Byzantine monastic communities, in: Media Society Antiquity? Information and Communication from Ancient Egypt to Byzantium. Altertumswisssenschaftliche Vortragsreihe an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ed. by Ulrike Peter and Stephan Seidlmayer, Berlin 2006 (Berichte und Abhandlungen, Sonderband 10) 69–91.
The idiomatic expression πρὸ Εὐκλείδου in Byzantine texts, in: Millennium-Jahrbuch 3 (2006) 295–297.
On the trail of the saints. Pilgrimage in the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empire, in: Pax Geschichte 2 (2007) 22–25.
Rhetoric in Byzantine Hagiography: The Prooimia of the Saints' Lives, in: Theatron. Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by M. Grünbart, Berlin – New York 2007 (Millennium Studies 13), 377–407.
Monastic orders in Byzantium? – on the emergence and development of monastic associations in Byzantium (8th–10th centuries), in: Millennium-Jahrbuch 4 (2007) 261–277.
Athos and the Eastern Mediterranean region 1000 years ago, in: Das Altertum 54 (2009) 199–210.
The place of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Christian veneration in the East, in: Conflict and Coping. The Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the Year 1009, ed. by Thomas Pratsch, Berlin – Boston 2011 (Millennium Studies 32), 57–66.
Stations of an alienation. Papacy and Byzantium on the eve of the Crusades (9th–11th centuries), in: Foteini Kolovou (Hrsg.), Byzanzrezeption in Europa. Spurensuche über das Mittelalter und die Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart (Byzantinisches Archiv 24), Berlin – Boston 2012, 15–26
"... awoke and was healed" - Incubation representations in Byzantine Saints' Lives, in: Incubation – Healing in Sleep: Heathen Cult and Christian Practice, ed. by H. C. Brennecke, V. H. Drecoll, C. Markschies, Berlin – Boston 2013, 68–86 (= Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 17 [2013]).
Guimarães and the emergence of the Kingdom of Portugal, in: Das Altertum 58 (2013) 61–68.
Agiografia e culto costantiniano delle Chiese d’Oriente. La figura di Costantino tra l’invasione araba a la quarta crociata, in: Costantino I: enciclopedia costantiniana, Bd. 2, Rom 2013, 321-331.
Anchorites in Byzantium (7th–10th centuries). The “withdrawal from the world” as a topos of hagiographic literature, in: Das Altertum 59,1 (2014) 23–30.
Correspondence in the Middle Ages – Messengers, Messages and Encryption using the example of a Byzantine monastic alliance, in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 213–222.
Pirates of the Aegean. Arab pirates in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th/10th century, in: Das Altertum 60,1 (2015) 35–43.
Office purchase in Byzantium? Largitiones and Sportulae – the levies of the highest dignitaries in the Byzantine Empire of the 9th/10th centuries on the occasion of their appointment, in: Saeculum 64,2 (2014) 221-240.
“The murderous disposition of the evil neighbors” – on Symeon Magistros, Ep. 79, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 110 (2017) 713-718.
From gold and silk to candles and soap: The payments within the guilds of Constantinople in the 10th century, in: Das Altertum 62,1 (2017) 33-48.

John Moorhead, Justinian, London – New York (Longman) 1994, in: Klio 78 (1996) 287.
Kountoura-Galake, Byzantine Clergy and Society in the Dark Centuries (Monographs 3), Athens 1996, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 91 (1998) 150f.
Enkyklopaidiko Prosopografiko Lexiko Byzantines Historias kai Politismu, ed. by A. G. K. Savvidis, 3. Band: Antiochos - Apsimaros, Addenda et Corrigenda zu den Bänden 1 und 2, Athen (Metron/Iolkos) 1998, in: Südost-Forschungen 58 (1999) 431–433.
ΛΙΘΟΣΤΡΩTON. Studies on Byzantine Art and History, festschrift for Marcell Restle, ed. by Birgitt Borkopp and Thomas Steppan, Stuttgart 2000, in: Das Altertum 46 (2001) 299–301.
Ioannis Spatharakis, Dated Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete, Leiden 2001 (Alexandros Press), in: Das Altertum 47 (2002) 267f.
Michael Fr. P. Jost, Die Patrozinien der Kirchen der Stadt Rom vom Anfang bis in das 10. Jahrhundert, 2 Bände, Neuried 2000 (HORREA. Beiträge zur römischen Kunst und Geschichte, Bände 2 und 3), Bd. 1: Die Geschichte der frühen römischen Patrozinien, Bd. 2: Codex Patrociniorum, in: Das Altertum 48 (2003) 231f.
Mischa Meier, Das andere Zeitalter Justinians. Kontingenzerfahrung und Kontingenzbewältigung im 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr., Göttingen 2003 (Hypomnemata 147), in: Das Altertum 49 (2004) 78f.
Carmela Vircillo Franklin, The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian. Hagiographic Translations and Transformations (Studies and Texts, 147), Toronto 2004 (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 40,2 (2005) 34f.
Axinia Džurova, Byzantine Miniatures. Treasures of Illumination from the 4th to the 19th Century. With a foreword to the German translation by Peter Schreiner, Regensburg 2002 (Schnell Steiner), in: Das Altertum 49 (2004) 315f.
Juan Maria Laboa (ed.), Monasticism in East and West. Historical Atlas, Regensburg 2003 (Schnell Steiner), in: Das Altertum 49 (2004) 317–319.
Erich Lamberz, The Episcopal Lists of the VII. Ecumenical Council (Nicaenum II), Munich 2004 (Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the philosophical-historical class, N. F. 124), in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 55 (2005) 286f.
Vasiliki Tsamakda, The Illustrated Chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid, xii, 436 p., with 604 illustrations, Leiden 2002 (Alexandros Press), in: Das Altertum 49 (2004) 237–240.
Jonathan Bardill, Brickstamps of Constantinople, Vol. I: Text, Vol. II: Illustrations, Oxford 2004 (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology), in: Das Altertum 50 (2005) 61–66.
Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Byzantium. The Second Rome, Berlin 2003, in: Pax et gaudium 24 (2006) 83.
Byzantine Sicily and Southern Italy, Adele Cilento with an introduction by Filippo Burgarella, Petersberg 2006, in: Pax et gaudium 25 (2006) 80.
Pirates. Fear and Terror on the World's Oceans, ed. by D. Cordingly, Cologne 2006, in: Pax et gaudium 26 (2007) 31 and pax Geschichte 1 (2007) 65.
Catherine Holmes, Basil II and the Governance of Empire, Oxford 2005, in: Das Altertum 51 (2006) 223–225.
Figures de l’évêque idéal. Jean Chrysostome Panégyrique de Saint Mélèce, Jean Damascène Panégyrique de Saint Jean Chrysostome. Discours traduits et commentés par Laurence Brottier, Paris 2004 (Les Belles Lettres), in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 57 (2007) 441.
Florian Hartmann, Hadrian I. (772–795). Early Medieval Noble Papacy and the Detachment of Rome from the Byzantine Emperor, Stuttgart 2006 (Popes and Papacy 34), in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 42 (2007) 322–325.
Sebastian Scholz, Politics – Self-Image – Self-Representation. The Popes in Carolingian and Ottonian Times, Stuttgart 2006 (Historical Research 26), in: Das Altertum 52 (2007) 237f.
Hassan S. Khalilieh, Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050). The Kitab Akriyat al-Sufun vis-à-vis the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos, Leiden 2006 (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500), in: Das Altertum 53 (2008) 237f.
James Allan Evans, The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire, Westport – London 2005 (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World), in: Das Altertum 53 (2008) 236f.
Byzantine Rhetoric. Studies on Byzantine Literature Dedicated to Wolfram Hörandner on his 65th Birthday. Edited by M. Hinterberger and Elisabeth Schiffer, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin – New York 2007 (Byzantine Archive 20), in: Das Altertum 54 (2009) 230f.
Egypt in the Byzantine World 300–700. Ed. by R. S. Bagnall, Cambridge 2007, in: Das Altertum 54 (2009) 230
Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan, The Land Wall of Constantinople-Istanbul. Historical-topographical and architectural investigations, Berlin – New York 2007 (Millennium Studies 18), in: Das Altertum 54 (2009) 229.
Büchsel, Martin, The Emergence of the Christ Portrait. Image Archaeology instead of Image Hypnosis, 3rd revised ed., Mainz 2007, in: Das Altertum 54 (2009) 228f.
Beihammer, Alexander (ed.), Greek Letters and Documents from Crusader Cyprus. The Formulary of a Royal Secretary in Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 367. Translated and commented by Alexander Beihammer. (Sources and Studies on the History of Cyprus, 57) Nicosia, Cyprus research center, Ministry of Education and Culture 2007, in: Historische Zeitschrift 289 (2009) 745f.
Peter Hatlie, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople ca. 350–850, Cambridge et al. 2007 (Cambridge University Press), in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 69f.
Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan – Effenberger, Arne, The Porphyry Sarcophagi of the Eastern Roman Emperors. Attempt at an inventory, dating and assignment, Wiesbaden 2006 (Late Antiquity – Early Christianity – Byzantium. Art in the First Millennium, Series B: Studies and Perspectives, Vol. 15), in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 148f.
Holy Mountains and Deserts. Byzantium and its Environment. Presentations at the 21st International Congress for Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006, ed. by P. Soustal, Vienna 2009 (Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, Denkschriften 379; Publications on Byzantine Studies XVI), in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 149f.
Johannes Malalas: World Chronicle. Translated by Johannes Thurn (†) and Mischa Meier (ed.). With an introduction by Claudia Drosihn, Mischa Meier and Stefan Priwitzer and explanations by Claudia Drosihn, Katharina Enderle, Mischa Meier and Stefan Priwitzer, Stuttgart 2009 (Library of Greek Literature 69), in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 150f.
Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000–1500. Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication. Ed. by Alexander D. Beihammer, Maria G. Parani and Christopher D. Schabel, Leiden – Boston 2008 (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, Vol. 74), in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 151f.
Necipoglu, Nevra, Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire, Cambridge 2009, in: Das Altertum 56 (2011) 152f.
Walter Pohl – Veronika Wieser (eds.), The Early Medieval State – European Perspectives, Vienna 2009 (Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Denkschriften, 386. Volume = Research on the History of the Middle Ages 16), in: Das Altertum 57 (2012) 228f.
Stephanos Efthymiadis (Ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Vol.1: Periods and Places. Farnham/Burlington, Ashgate 2011, in: Historische Zeitschrift 295/3 (2012) 723f.
Elisabeth Chatzeantoniu, Η μητρόπολη Θεσσαλονίκης από τα μέσα του 8ου Αι. έως το 1430. Ιεραρχική τάξη – εκκλησιαστική περιφέρεια – διοικητική οργάνωση, Θεσσαλονίκη 2007 (Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται 42), in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 106 (2013) 852–857.
Judith Herrin, Byzantium. The Amazing History of a Medieval Empire. Translated from the English by Karin Schuler. With 6 maps, Philipp Reclam jun. GmbH Co. KG, Stuttgart 2013, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 62,1 (2014) 71f.
Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West, ed. by Lucy Donkin Hanna Vorholt, Oxford et al. 2012 (Proceedings of the British Academy 175), ISBN 978-0-19-726504-8, in: SEHEPUNKTE – review journal for the historical sciences (ISSN 1618-6168).
Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska, Niklot Krohn, Sebastian Ristow (eds.), Christianization of Europe. Genesis, Development and Consolidation in the Archaeological Findings. International Conference in December 2010 in Bergisch-Gladbach, Regensburg 2012 (Schnell + Steiner Verlag), in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 230f.
Moritz Schnizlein, Patchwork Families in Late Antiquity, Göttingen – Bristol 2012 (Hypomnemata. Investigations on Antiquity and its Afterlife 191), in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 232f.
Raymond Graeme Dunphy (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Leiden 2010 (Brill Academic Publishers), in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 234.
Toni Diederich, Sigillography. Contributions to its Specialization and Continuation, Vienna - Cologne - Weimar 2012, in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 234f.
Jacques Le Goff, Money in the Middle Ages. Translated from the French by Caroline Gutberlet, Stuttgart 2011, in: Das Altertum 59,3 (2014) 235f.
Robert Feind, Byzantine Sigillography. An Introduction to the Sigillography of Byzantium, Regenstauf 2010, in: Das Altertum 61 (2016) 74f.
Robert Feind, Byzantine Monograms and Personal Names. An Alphabetized Lexicon, Regenstauf 2010, in: Das Altertum 61 (2016) 75f.
Robert Feind, Verses on Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1: Α – Π, Regenstauf 2012, in: Das Altertum 61 (2016) 76f.
Robert Feind, Verses on Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2: Ρ – Ω / Regenstauf 2013, in: Das Altertum 61 (2016) 77
Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Corpus of Byzantine Seals with Metric Legends, Part 1: Introduction, Seal Legends from Alpha to My, Vienna 2011 (Vienna Byzantine Studies, Vol. 28/1), in: Das Altertum 61 (2016) 77-79
Falko Daim (ed.), The Byzantine Ports of Constantinople, Mainz 2016 (Byzantium between Orient and Occident 4), in: Das Altertum 63 (2018) 125-127
Stephanos Efthymiadis (Ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Vol. 2: Genres and Contexts, Farnham/Burlington, Ashgate 2014, in: Das Altertum 63 (2018) 127f.
Henriette Baron, For Better or Worse. Man, Animal and Environment in the Byzantine Empire, Mainz 2016 (MOSAIKSTEINE – Research at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Volume 13), in: Das Altertum 63 (2018) 129f.
Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Prison as a Liminal Space of Byzantine Hagiography. An Examination of Early and Middle Byzantine Martyr Acts, Berlin – Boston 2021 (Millennium Studies 90), in: The Byzantine Review 3 (2021) 186-189
Robert H. Jordan – Rosemary Morris (eds.), The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios, Cambridge - London 2021 (Dumbarton Oaks Medievsl Library 70), in: Byzantine Review 3 (2021) 292-293

The aim of the project is – quite generally – a socio-cultural analysis of the composition (synthesis) of the society of the Byzantine Empire of the middle period (7th-11th centuries) focused on selected thematic priorities, which is essentially based on the data material compiled within the framework of the "Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period (641–1025 AD)" (PmbZ), but also takes into account more recent prosopographical findings. The focus of this analysis is – in particular – on a more detailed investigation and interpretation of certain social groups and their structures, i.e. both their internal hierarchization and their social localization, as well as their networks, i.e. their internal links and interactions, their connections with each other and in relation to the total population, with special consideration of modern social science methods

With regard to the various social groups to be examined, different theories and models of the social sciences are applied. Within the broader research field of Gender Studies, questions of elite sociology are of particular relevance with regard to women and eunuchs. For example, the primary question should be whether these social groups formed their own or a common elite or were merely part of an overall social elite. Questions of social network analysis are also important here. The focus should be on whether there were separate social networks of women and eunuchs, or whether the representatives of these social groups acted more in isolation. With regard to clerics and lay people, the questions of social network analysis then become even more important. The social networks and hierarchies within these social groups should be investigated and the commonalities and differences of the respective networks should be worked out. It should also be examined more closely what relationships exist between the two types of networks and what interconnections between or transformations and integrations of both networks are possible. With regard to the ethnic groups and Gentes, i.e. the still tangible indigenous peoples of Asia Minor, the islands and other regions of the empire, questions of social identity theory are particularly applied. For example, it should be examined what significance the ethnic-cultural identity of these social groups had and how it related to postulated superordinate identities, such as a Roman-Byzantine or a Christian identity. The focus on youth and old age is less suitable for the application of social science theories and models, but requires a greater inclusion of archaeological research and its results, in particular grave archaeology and age determination in skeletal examinations, and then enables a comparison of these findings from the examined Byzantine necropolises with the information from the historical sources in order to arrive at more precise and better-founded statements about the life expectancy of the Byzantines or certain social groups of the Byzantine population and about the entire age structure of Byzantine society. The project is therefore a focused and priority-oriented socio-cultural analysis on the basis of quantitative and qualitative relations of certain selected social groups of Byzantine society in the Middle Byzantine period.

Lektürekanon Mittelalterliche Geschichte