Data Bibliography: The Byzantine World
This list contains resources in Byzantine history, including resources focused on the Byzantine Empire itself and those focused on its immediate neighbours which may contain persons of interest for writing histories of Byzantium.
Databases of Texts
| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| TITUS project | Linguistic database: corpus includes numerous Middle + Old Georgian and Armenian texts | |
| Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) | Historical texts including translations of Kekaumenos and various saying collections (gnomologia/florilegia) | |
| Thesaurus Linguae Graecae | Large but non-linkable array of entirely Greek material: some elements paywalled, all require logins. | |
| Hagiography of the Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453) | Hagiographies in Greek, mostly available only to registered users: links for non-users did not work when tested (as of 2026). | |
Databases of Paratexts |
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| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE) | Database of poetic epigrams in Greek sources up to the 15th century. | |
Epigraphy |
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| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| Inscriptions of Ancient Sicily | ||
| Telamon: Ancient Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria | ||
| Inscriptions of Aphrodisias | ||
Sigillographic Databases |
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| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| Sammlung Feind, Köln | ||
| Dumbarton Oaks Seals | ||
| Trismegistos | ||
| Digital Sigillographic Corpus of Bulgaria | ||
| IFEB Seals Collection | ||
Numismatic Databases |
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| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| Nomismata | ||
| DO Coin Catalogue | ||
Prosopographies |
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| Project Name / Link | Data Model | Notes |
| Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW) | Factoid. | Broad coverage 'flagship' database of Byzantine persons, starting in 1025. |
| Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE) | Factoid. | Broad coverage database for the early Byzantine period. |
| Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit | Broad coverage database for the early to middle Byzantine periods. | |
| Prosopography of the Lascarid Period + ENCHANT | ||
| SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations | Factoid / TEI. | |
| Prosopography of the Greek-Venetian World | Project seeking to catalogue people in Venetian-owned Greek regions between 1204 and 1669: current data mostly C13 Crete. | |
| Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550) |
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| Mamluk Prosopography | ||
| A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land | ||
| Prosopography and Epistolary Networks of a Fragmented Byzantium (1200–1240) | Still unpublished (as of 2026). Link is to project videos. Project lead: Nathan Websdale (University of Oxford) | |
| Prosopography of High Medieval Georgia | Person-Prosopon. | Still unpublished (as of 2026): link to project webforum. Project lead: James Baillie (Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
| People of Byzantine Thessaloniki | Still unpublished (as of 2026). Project lead: Elisabeth Chatziantoniou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) | |
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