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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 list of missing articles (redlinks). Newly created or greatly expanded articles should be added to the new articles page of the Byzantine Empire Portal.

Related projects and task forces are the Classical Greece and Rome WikiProject, which covers Late Antiquity (early Byzantine period) as well, the Middle Ages WikiProject, which covers the middle and later Byzantine periods, the Military History WikiProject's Roman and Byzantine, Medieval, Crusades, early Muslim, Balkan, Middle Eastern, and African task forces, the Eastern Orthodoxy WikiProject, and the Ottoman Empire WikiProject.

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To categorize articles under the task force, add | byzantine-task-force = yes to the ((WikiProject Greece)) template on the article talk page
((Byzantine Empire topics)) – the catch-all Byzantine Empire navbox template
((History of the Byzantine Empire)) – periodization of Byzantine history by period and dynasty
((Byzantine culture)) – main aspects of Byzantine culture
((Byzantine Military)) – main aspects of Byzantine military history
((Roman Emperors)) – Roman and Byzantine emperors from Augustus to Constantine XI
((Byzantine historians)) – Byzantine historians and chroniclers
((Byzantine coinage)) – Monetary systems and coin types of the Byzantine Empire
((Byzantine-stub)) – used to categorize Byzantine Empire-related stub articles
((Byzantine-bio-stub)) – used to categorize Byzantine Empire-related biographical stub articles

For more topic-specific templates, see Category:Byzantine Empire templates.

Sources[edit]

Reference works

Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Haldon, John; Cormack, Robin, eds. (2009), The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-925246-6
Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Template: ((Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium))
Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (1998–2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
- Template: ((Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit))
Martindale, John R.; Jones, A. H. M.; Morris, John, eds. (1971–1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Template: ((Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire))
Mango, Cyril, ed. (2002), The Oxford History of Byzantium, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 248–283, ISBN 0-19-814098-3
Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.
- Template: ((Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit))

Narrative and general history

Bury, John Bagnell (1912). A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A.D. 802–867). London: Macmillan and Co.
Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81539-0.
- Template: ((Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250))
Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
- Template: ((The Early Medieval Balkans))
Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
- Template: ((The Late Medieval Balkans))
Geanakoplos, Deno John (1959). Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West, 1258–1282: A Study in Byzantine-Latin Relations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC 1011763434.
- Template: ((Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West))
Haldon, John (1999). Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565–1204. London: UCL Press. ISBN 1-85728-495-X.
- Template: ((Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565–1204))
Lilie, Ralph-Johannes (1996). Byzanz unter Eirene und Konstantin VI. (780–802) (in German). Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-30582-6.
Magdalino, Paul (2002) [1993]. The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52653-1.
- Template: ((The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos))
Nicol, Donald M. (1993). The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453 (Second ed.). London: Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. ISBN 0-246-10559-3.
- Template: ((The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453))
Rochow, Ilse (1994). Kaiser Konstantin V. (741–775). Materialien zu seinem Leben und Nachleben (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-47138-6.
Tougher, Shaun (1997), The Reign of Leo VI (886–912): Politics and People, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-09777-5
Toynbee, Arnold (1973). Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World. London and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-215253-X.
Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
- Template: ((The Byzantine Revival, 780–842))
Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
- Template: ((A History of the Byzantine State and Society))
Whittow, Mark (1996). The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20496-6.
- Template: ((The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025))

Primary sources

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. ISBN 978-0-674-05799-9.
Bryennios: Gautier, Paul, ed. (1975). Nicéphore Bryennios: Histoire. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae (in French). Brussels: Byzantion. OCLC 814361996.
Choniates: Choniates, Nicetas (1984). O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniatēs. Translated by Harry J. Magoulias. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1764-2.
- Template: ((O City of Byzantium))
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. ISBN 0-8143-1540-2.
Kodinos: Verpeaux, Jean, ed. (1966). Pseudo-Kodinos, Traité des Offices (in French). Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Kletorologion: Bury, John Bagnell (1911). The Imperial Administrative System of the Ninth Century - With a Revised Text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos. London: Oxford University Press.
Psellos: Sewter, Edgar Robert Ashton, ed. (1953). The Chronographia of Michael Psellus. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Skylitzes: Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7.
- Template: ((John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057))
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. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.

Social, administrative, and economic history

Angelov, Dimiter (2007), Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-85703-1
Cheynet, Jean-Claude (1996). Pouvoir et Contestations à Byzance (963–1210) (in French). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-85944-168-5.
Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). Recherches sur les institutions byzantines, Tomes I & II (in French). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Haldon, John F. (1990). Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31917-1.
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. ISBN 0190253223.
Laiou, Angeliki E. (2002), "Political History: An Outline", in Laiou, Angeliki E. (ed.), The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, Dumbarton Oaks, ISBN 978-0-88402-332-6
Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (1979), Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-22438-1

Military history

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
Bartusis, Mark C. (1997), The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society 1204–1453, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-1620-2
Birkenmeier, John W. (2002), The Development of the Komnenian Army: 1081–1180, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-11710-5
Treadgold, Warren T. (1998), Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3163-2

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