Recommended reading

Primary sources

• Anon, Book of Gifts and Rarities, Ghâda al-Hijjâwî al-Qaddûmî (tr.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996. (English text)
• Constantine Porphyrogennetos, De Cerimoniis Aulae Byzantinae, Johannes Jacob Reiske (ed.), E. Weber, Bonn, 1839. (Greek text)
• Constantine Porphyrogennetos, Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions, John F. Haldon (ed. and tr.), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1990. (Greek and English text)
• Ibn Yahya, Harun, 'Harun ibn Yahya and His Description of Constantinople', Alexei Vasiliev (tr.), Seminarum Kondakovum, 5, 1932. (English text)
• Liutprand of Cremona, Die Werke Liudprands von Cremona, Joseph Becker (ed.), Hahn, Hannover, 1915. (Greek text)
• Liutprand of Cremona, The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Writings, F. A. Wright (tr.), J. M. Dent, London, 1993 (1930). (English text)
• Maurikios, Das Strategikon des Maurikios, George T. Dennis (ed.) and Ernst Gamillscheg (tr.), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1981. (Greek text)
• Maurikios, Maurice's Strategikon, George T. Dennis (tr.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. (English text)
• Nikephoros Phokas, Composition on Warfare published as – Eric McGeer, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth century, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, 1988.

Secondary monographs

• Jennifer Ball, Byzantine Dress, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2005.
• Andrew Dalby, Flavours of Byzantium, Prospect Books, Devon, 2003.
• Ken Dark (ed), Secular Buildings and the Archaeology of Everyday Life in the Byzantine Empire , Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2004.
• Ken Dark, Byxantine pottery Tempus publishing, Stroud, 2001.
• Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Cavalryman: Eastern Roman Empire, c.900 – 1204, Warrior Series, Osprey Publishing, 2009
• Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire, c.900 – 1204, Warrior Series, Osprey Publishing, 2007.
• Timothy Dawson, One Thousand Years of Lamellar Construction in the Roman World, Levantia Guides no. 8, Armidale, 2003
• Timothy Dawson, Everday Women’s Clothing of the Byzantine Empire: c. 900 – c. 1204, Levantia Guides no. 1, Armidale, 2002
• Timothy Dawson, Everday Men’s Clothing of the Byzantine Empire: c. 900 – c. 1204, Levantia Guides no. 2, Armidale, 2002
• Timothy Dawson, Introduction to Middle Byzantine Footwear, Levantia Guides no. 3, Armidale, 2002
• Lynda Garland (ed), Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience AD 800 – 1200, Ashgate, Aldershot 2006
• John F. Haldon (ed), Byzantine Warfare, Aashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007.
• H. J. R. Murray, A History of Board-games other than Chess, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951.
• Maria Parani, Recovering the Reality of Images, Brill, Leiden, 2003.

Articles

• Timothy Dawson, ‘The Monomachos Crown – Towards A Resolution’, Byzantina Symmeikta (New window) 2009. Pdf available.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: an inheritance of Constantinople?’, Arms and Armour, Royal Armouries Museum, 2009. Pdf on Levantia.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Suntagma Hoplôn: the equipment of regular Byzantine troops, c. 950 – c. 1204’, republished in John Haldon (ed) Byzantine Warfare, Ashgate, London, 2007.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Fit for the Task: Equipment Sizes and the Transmission of Military Lore, sixth to tenth centuries’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 31 (2007). Pdf on Levantia.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Propriety, Practicality and Pleasure: the parameters of women’s dress 1000 1204’, in Lynda Garland (ed) Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800 – 1200, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 41–75.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Oriental costumes in the Byzantine Court Reconsidered’, Byzantion 75 (2006), pp. 97–114.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Concerning an unrecognised tunic from eastern Anatolia’, Byzantion, 73/1 (2003), pp. 201-210.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Klivanion revisited: an evolutionary typology and catalogue of middle Byzantine lamellar‘, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, 13 (2002).
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Suntagma Hoplôn: the equipment of regular Byzantine troops, c. 950 to c. 1204’, in David Nicolle (ed.), Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour, Boydell and Brewer, London, 2002.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘Kremasmata, Kabbadion, Klibanion: Some aspects of middle Byzantine military equipment reconsidered’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 22, (1998) pp. 38 - 50. Web text on Levantia,
• Timothy Dawson, ‘The Myth of Purple Pants’, Varangian Voice, no. 37 (November 1995) pp. 24-6.
• Timothy Dawson, ‘The Varangian Rhomphaia: A Cautionary Tale’, Varangian Voice, no. 22, (May 1992) pp. 28-31.
• Melita Emmanuel, ‘Hairstyles and Headdresses of Empresses, Princesses and Ladies of the Aristocracy in Byzantium’, Deltio thV ChristianikhV ArcaiologikhV EtaireiaV, 17, 1993-4, pp. 113-120.
• John F. Haldon, ‘Some Aspects of Byzantine Military Technology from the Sixth to the Tenth Centuries’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, I, 1975, pp. 11-47.