Each course meets over a term of six seminars, with a curated reading list and a working scholar leading the discussion.
Short, focused sessions on a single theme — designed for close engagement with primary sources in a single sitting.
Power, intrigue, and the darker side of the Byzantine world. A two-hour live workshop on murder plots, political betrayal, and palace intrigue — and how historians distinguish event from accusation.
To become Byzantine emperor was an extraordinary achievement. To remain emperor could be considerably harder. This two-hour online workshop examines how Byzantine emperors gained, maintained, and lost power — from palace intrigue and conspiracy to legitimacy, ceremony, and the writing of history.
Recordings of past workshops — buy once, download the video, and revisit the sources whenever you like.
The full recording of our workshop on the Justinianic Plague — a guided reading of Procopius, John of Ephesus, Evagrius Scholasticus, and other contemporary voices of Late Antiquity's great pandemic.
