The Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a way to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture. The Festival is an online event, allowing attendees from all over the world to join in. It holds every two years in order to promote a wider understanding and awareness of Byzantine scholarship in a spirit of collegiality. It is also intended to encourage future collaborations and networking among the various presenters and attendees.

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Lilyana Yordanova will present her next book published by the French school at Athens: À la gloire de Dieu ! Commande et donation pieuses en Bulgarie médiévale (The Glory of God! Religious commissions and donations in medieval Bulgaria), Saturday 11 March, at 14:20 – 14:50 (GMT)

In 2020, she joined the EFA’s Section for Modern and Contemporary Studies where she is working on a project that examines the relationship between Christians and Muslims in Thrace and Macedonia during the 15th century through religious architecture and urban morphology. In addition, she is co-director, in tandem with Olivier Delouis (CNRS, MFO) of the five-year programme De Byzance au Monde Ottoman en Europe du Sud-Est (2022-2026)

Please see below the programme: 2nd Byzantine Book Festival Programme (4.41 MB PDF)

Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, University of Edinburgh