Paul Stephenson, historian, professor



My published works, including some that are forthcoming, are are listed in full here.

I am author or editor of the following books:

The Serpent Column: a cultural biography will appear in the Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture, published by Oxford University Press
Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
(Cambridge, 2000; repr. 2002; paperback 2006)
Byzantium and East Central Europe, ed. with G. Prinzing & M. Salamon (Cracow, 2001)
The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer (Cambridge, 2003; paperback 2010; French trans. in progress)
Ο θρυλος του Βασιλειου του Βουλγαροκτονου (Athens, 2007)
Constantine. Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor (London, 2009; paperback 2011; Dutch version: Kampen, 2012; Turkish trans. in progress)
Constantine. Roman Emperor, Christian Victor (New York, 2010; US History Book Club edn 2011)
The Byzantine World (London and New York, 2010; paperback, 2012; Turkish version in production)
Wanted: Byzantium. The Desire for a Lost Empire, edited with Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala, 2014)
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium, edited with Brooke Shilling (Cambridge, 2016), forthcoming

In addition, I served as editor of the Byzantine entries (and author of 17) in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, ed. C. Rogers, 3 vols. (Oxford, 2010)

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Translated excerpts from Byzantine Sources (pages no longer updated)



August 2015