Publications
The following publications by members of the DBBE team focus on book epigrams, including editions of, or commentaries on, hitherto inaccessible texts.
Forthcoming
- E. Lauro, “Alongside the text : Byzantine metrical paratexts in Gospel manuscripts from medieval Southern Italy”
in: Intersection : interdisciplinary approaches to New Testament text and manuscripts, Plano (TX), 2025 - C. Swaelens, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “Linguistic annotation of Byzantine book epigrams”
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, 2025
2025
- K. Bentein and K. Giannikou, “Formulaic language (Medieval Greek)”
in: Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online, G. Giannakis, E. Crespo, P. Filos, B. Joseph, and T. Markopoulos, Eds. Leiden: Brill, 2025
2024
- C. Swaelens, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “Lemmatisation of Medieval Greek: Against the Limits of Transformers’ Capabilities?”,
in: Proceedings of the 62th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, 2024, pp. 10293-10302 - K. Giannikou, C. Swaelens, I. De Vos, E. Lefever and K. Bentein, “Decoding Byzantine book epigrams : an exploration of machine-assisted extraction of formulaic material”
in: C. Swaelens, M. Deforche, I. De Vos and E. Lefever (eds), Proceedings of the first workshop on Data-driven Approaches to Ancient Languages (DAAL 2024). Language & Translation Technology Team (LT3), Ghent, 2024, pp. 22-32 - C. Swaelens, M. Deforche, G. De Tré, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “How relevant is part-of-speech information to compute similarity between Greek verses in a graph database?”
in: C. Swaelens, M. Deforche, I. De Vos and E. Lefever (eds), Proceedings of the first workshop on Data-driven Approaches to Ancient Languages (DAAL 2024). Language & Translation Technology Team (LT3), Ghent, 2024, pp. 33-43 - C. Swaelens, M. Deforche, I. De Vos and E. Lefever (eds), Proceedings of the first workshop on Data-driven Approaches to Ancient Languages (DAAL 2024). Language & Translation Technology Team (LT3), Ghent, 2024.
- C. Swaelens, P. Singh, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “Lemmatisation of Medieval Greek : against the limits of transformer’s capabilities?”
in: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, 2024, pp. 10293–10302 - M. Deforche, I. De Vos, A. Bronselaer and G. De Tré, “A Hierarchical Orthographic Similarity Measure for Interconnected Texts Represented by Graphs“,
Applied Sciences 14.4 (2024)
2023
- C. Swaelens, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “DBBErt : part-of-speech tagging of pre-modern Greek text”
in: CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, Leuven, 2023, pp. 155–158 - M. Deforche, I. De Vos, A. Bronselaer and G. De Tré, “An Orthographic Similarity Measure for Graph-based Text Representation“,
in: H. Legind Larsen, M. J. Martin-Bautista, M. Dolores Ruiz, T. Andreasen, G. Bordogna and G. De Tré (eds), Flexible Query Answering Systems: 15th International Conference, FQAS 2023, Mallorca, Spain, September 5–7, 2023, Proceedings, Springer Cham, 2023, pp. 206-218 - C. Swaelens, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, “Evaluating existing lemmatisers on unedited Byzantine Greek poetry”
in: Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, Varna, 2023, pp. 111–116 - C. Swaelens, I. De Vos and E. Lefever, Medieval Social Media: Manual and Automatic Annotation of Byzantine Greek Marginal Writing,
in: J. Prange and A. Friedrich (eds), Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), Toronto: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, pp. 1-9. - R. Ricceri, K. Bentein, F. Bernard, A. Bronselaer, E. De Paermentier, P. De Potter, G. De Tré, I. De Vos, M. Deforche, K. Demoen, E. Lefever, A-S. Rouckhout and C. Swaelens, “The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams Project: Principles, Challenges, Opportunities“,
Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities: On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies (2023)
2022
- J. Bértola, “A first critical edition of the cycle of epigrams on Herodotus in the margins of manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and some of its apographa“,
Journal of Byzantine Studies (JOeB) / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 72 (2022), pp. 63-96 - K. Demoen, “Préface. Épigramme grecque”,
in: C. Urlacher-Becht (ed.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (vol. 2), Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, pp. 1267-1272. - K. Demoen, “Dédicace d’un livre, épigr. dédicatoire. Épigramme grecque”,
in: C. Urlacher-Becht (ed.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (vol. 1), Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, pp. 400-403. - K. Demoen, “Verzen bij Lucianus”,
Kleio 51.1 (2022), pp. 68-73. - K. Demoen, R. Ricceri and M. Tomadaki, “Paul in Byzantine Book Epigrams”,
in: M. Cacouros, J.-H. Sautel (eds), Des cahiers à l’histoire de la culture à Byzance, Leuven – Paris – Bristol: Peeters, 2022, pp. 117–134. - C. Cocola, “A Repentant Sinner: Representing the Self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ Katanyktic Alphabet“,
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 46.2 (2022), pp. 176-195. - J. Bértola, “Tzetzes’ verse scholia on Thucydides and Herodotus: A survey with new evidence from Laur. Plut. 70,3“,
in: E. Prodi (ed), Τζετζικαὶ ἔρευναι, Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2022, pp. 335-357.
2021
- M. Tomadaki, “Constantine Manasses, A Dedicatory Epigram to the Sebastokratorissa Eirene”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1416-1423. - R. Ricceri and R. Meesters, “A metrical colophon on John Klimax’s Ladder of Divine Ascent”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1399-1407. - R. Ricceri, “A laudatory epigram on Gregory of Nazianzos”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1408-1415. - K. Demoen, “Reading: book epigrams: introduction”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1369–1380. - K. Demoen, “Manuel Philes and (an) anonymous poet(s): epigrams on the evangelists in an illuminated gospel manuscript”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1388–1397. - K. Demoen, “An Aristophanean Epigram on the Psalter”,
in: F. Spingou (ed), The visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350), vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 1381–1386. - R. Ricceri, “The Byzantine Reception of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum: Paratextuality and Visual Representation“,
in: R. Ceulemans and B. Crostini (eds), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala: Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 2021, pp. 259-275. - J. Bértola, “Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates“,
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 114.3 (2021), pp. 929-1000.
2020
- S. De Groot, “Byzantine Book-Epigrams: From Manuscript to Edition”,
in: M. Berghöfer, A. Beron, F. Etling, G. Hedderich, M. Stralla, and A. Wilken (eds), (Un)documented: What remains of the document in the publication?, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 39-60. - R. Meesters, “The visual Representation of the formulaic Colophon Verse τῷ συντελεστῇ τῶν καλῶν θεῷ χάρις”,
in: C. Brockmann, D. Harlfinger and S. Valente (eds), Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 333-347.
2019
- F. Bernard, “Christophoros Mitylenaios, gedichten 33 en 34 (ed. De Groote)“,
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 51-53. - K. Demoen, “Μᾶρκος εὐφραίνει ψυχὰς σκότει μενούσας. Marc vrolijkt sombere zielen op (DBBE type 2630)“,
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 127-130. - I. De Vos, S. De Groot and A. Rouckhout, ““I am a Grammatical Textbook”. Towards a Critical Edition of a Deceivingly Simple Book Epigram“,
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 91-94. - R. Ricceri, “Gregory of Nazianzus, carm. I, 1, 21 (PG 37, 491-492)“,
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 119-121. - J. Boeten, “Byzantine particles: A case study of juxtaposed τε καί and δέ in medieval dodecasyllables”,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 59 (2019), pp. 529-550. - M. Tomadaki and E. van Opstall, “The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides”,
Medioevo greco 19 (2019), pp. 65-92. - K. Demoen, “Literary Epigrams on Authors, Texts and Books“,
in: C. Carey, M. Kanellou and I. Petrovic (eds), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 66-82. - F. Bernard and K. Demoen, “Book Epigrams“,
in: A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas and W. Hörandner (eds), Brill Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden: Brill, 2019, pp. 404-429. - J. Boeten and S. De Groot, “The Byzantine Antiquarian: a Case Study of a Compiled Colophon“,
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112 (2019), pp. 31-46.
2018
- J. Bértola, “Book epigrams bizantinos sobre novelas griegas antiguas“,
Anales de Filología Clásica 31.1 (2018), pp. 25-36. - M. Tomadaki, “The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature in the Iambic Poems of John Geometres“,
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 73-95. - R. Meesters and R. Ricceri, “A 12th-century cycle of four poems on John Klimax: Editio princeps“,
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 285-386. - R. Meesters, “A 12th-century cycle of four poems on John Klimax: a Brief Analysis”,
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 387-406. - S. De Groot, “Hij die ons allen zonder dwaling verlichtte: boekepigrammen in de Byzantijnse manuscripten van Pseudo-Dionysius de Areopagiet”,
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 71 (2018), pp. 5-21. - M. Tomadaki, “An unpublished poem on Porphyry”
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 111.3 (2018), pp. 777-792. - J. Boeten and M. Janse, “A Cognitive Analysis of Metrical Irregularities in the Ὥσπερ ξένοι Book Epigrams”,
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42.1 (2018), pp. 79-91.
2017
- J. Boeten and S. De Groot, “Book epigrams in Byzantine manuscripts”,
British Library Greek Manuscripts blog, 25 October 2017.
2016
- K. Demoen and V. Somers, “Grégoire de Nazianze, le Fils du tonnerre. Encore quelques adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits grégoriens”,
in: V. Somers and P. Yannopoulos (eds), Philokappadox. In memoriam Justin Mossay (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), Leuven: Peeters, 2016, pp. 199-221. - R. Meesters, R. Praet, F. Bernard and K. Demoen, “Makarios’ cycle on the Psalms, Bodleianus Baroccianus 194“,
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109.2 (2016), pp. 837-860. - R. Meesters, “Byzantijnse boekepigrammen / metrische parateksten: terminologie en classificatie”,
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 69 (2016), pp. 169-184. - R. Meesters, “Ascending the Ladder: Editio Princeps of Four Poems on the Ladder of John Klimakos (Bodleian Baroccianus 141)“,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56.3 (2016), pp. 556-571.
2013
- K. Demoen, “La poésie de la συλλογή. Les paratextes métriques des manuscrits byzantins et le (vocabulaire du) recueil”,
in: C. Gastgeber, C. Messis, D. Muresan & F. Ronconi (eds), Pour l’amour de Byzance: hommage à Paolo Odorico (Eastern and Central European Studies 3), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 89-98.
2012
- K. Bentein and K. Demoen, “The Reader in Eleventh-century Book Epigrams”,
in: F. Bernard and K. Demoen (eds), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 69-88. - F. Bernard and K. Demoen, “Byzantine book epigrams from manuscripts to a digital database”,
in: C. Clivaz, J. Meizoz, F. Vallotton and J. Verheyden (eds), From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies, Proceedings, Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2012, pp. 431-440.
2011
- K. Bentein and F. Bernard, “A Cycle of Book Epigrams on the Four Evangelists”,
Scriptorium 65.2 (2011), pp. 237-249.
2010
- K. Bentein, F. Bernard, K. Demoen and M. De Groote, “New Testament Book Epigrams: Some New Evidence from the Eleventh Century“,
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 103 (2010), pp. 13-23.
2009
- K. Bentein, F. Bernard, K. Demoen, and M. De Groote, “Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers. Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century“,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 49 (2009), pp. 281-294.
Conference papers and presentations
We seek to disseminate our ideas and discuss them as widely as possible.
2025
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2024
- Colin Swaelens, Part-of-Speech Tagging & Lemmatisation in Unedited Greek: Simple Tasks, Complex Challenges?
Computational Humanities Research Group Seminar Series, London, 10 December 2024 - Colin Swaelens, Similarity Detection: A Starting Point for Greek.
Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin Workshop, Leuven, 28-29 November 2024 - Eleonora Lauro, Epigrams in Context: Glimpses into Medieval Southern Italian Book Culture
LW Research Day, Ghent, 27 November 2024 - Kyriaki Giannikou, Dealing with Building Blocks of Expression: Formulaic Elements & their Creative Variations in Byzantine Book Epigrams
LW Research Day, Ghent, 27 November 2024 - Kristoffel Demoen, Kyriaki Giannikou & Colin Swaelens, The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams. Paratextual Poems from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts to a Searchable Digital Corpus.
the 8th International Byzantine Seminar Lecture Series (2024) on “Digital Methods for Byzantine Studies”, online, 21 November 2024 - Eleonora Lauro, Alongside the Text: Byzantine Metrical Paratexts in Gospel Manuscripts from Medieval Southern Italy.
CSNTM Text & Manuscript Conference ‘Intersection. Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Testament Text and Manuscript Studies‘, Plano (Texas), 30-31 May 2024 - Kyriaki Giannikou, Navigating Digital Frontiers: Unveiling Formulaicity in Byzantine Book Epigrams.
International workshop “The Impact of Digital Methods and Approaches on Ancient Studies Research”, Berlin, 13-14 May 2024 - Eleonora Lauro, The Bible and the Periphery: the transmission of Greek New Testament manuscripts in medieval Southern Italy.
Enlight/U4 Winter School in Classics “Big and Small, Global and Local”, Athens, 12-17 March 2024 - Kyriaki Giannikou, Formulaic Expressions in Byzantine Book Epigrams: Global Definitions, Local Complexities.
Enlight/U4 Winter School in Classics “Big and Small, Global and Local”, Athens, 12-17 March 2024
2023
- Maxime Deforche, Ilse De Vos, Antoon Bronselaer and Guy De Tré, An Orthographic Similarity Measure for Graph-Based Text Representations.
The Dutch-Belgian DataBase Day 2023, Ghent, 21 December 2023 - Rachele Ricceri, The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams: Getting People In and Out Again.
PROSOPON Workshop: Entangled Prosopographies Connecting the ‘Prosopographies of the Later Roman and Byzantine Worlds’ Across the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond, Edinburgh, 8-9 December 2023 - Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos and Els Lefever, DBBErt: Part-of-Speech Tagging of Pre-Modern Greek Text.
CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, Leuven, 16-18 October 2023 - Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos and Els Lefever, Annotation pipeline for unedited Byzantine Greek.
The 33rd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, Antwerp, 22 September 2023 - Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos and Els Lefever, Evaluating Existing Lemmatizers on Unedited Byzantine Greek Poetry.
Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP), Varna, 2-8 September 2023
- Maxime Deforche, An Orthographic Similarity Measure for Graph-based Text Representation.
FQAS 2023, Palma de Mallorca, 5-7 September 2023 - Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos and Els Lefever, Medieval Social Media: Manual and Automatic Annotation of Byzantine Greek Marginal Writing.
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toronto, 9-14 July 2023 - Rachele Ricceri, DBBE-database.
Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity, Ghent, 10 February 2023
2022
- Maxime Deforche, Ilse De Vos and Colin Swaelens, From Umbrellas to Nodes: The Ever-evolving Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
International workshop: Repetition and Ritual. Text and Edition. Challenges and Solutions, Vienna, 24-25 November 2022 - Rachele Ricceri, Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams.
International Conference: Versus ad picturas. Relation texte/image dans la poésie grecque, latine et arabe entre l’Antiquité, Strasbourg, 28-30 September 2022 - Rachele Ricceri, Building an Ever-Evolving Database. Byzantine Book Epigrams in Context.
International Medieval Congress, Session: Life and Afterlife of Digital Projects in Medieval Manuscript Studies, Leeds, 4-7 July 2022 - Anne-Sophie Rouckhout & Rachele Ricceri, Reaching out from the Margins: Spotlighting Byzantine Book Epigrams in the Digital Era.
LW Research Day, Ghent, 28 April 2022 - Colin Swaelens, You shall know a verse by the company it keeps. Detecting orthographic and semantic similarity between epigrams.
Workshop on Digital Humanities, Argentine Committee of Byzantine Studies, 4 March 2022
2021
- Julián Bértola, Book Epigrams, Verse Scholia and Some Limit Cases: Versified Paratexts on Historiography and Their Interplay.
Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures. Fall 2021 Series, Ghent University, Ghent, 14 December 2021 - Renaat Meesters, A Plea for a Database of Latin Book Epigrams.
Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures. Fall 2021 Series, Ghent University, Ghent, 14 September 2021 - Sien De Groot, Reading and Writing the Areopagite. Book Epigrams as Witnesses to the Transmission of the Corpus Dionysiacum.
Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures. Spring 2021 Series, Ghent University, Ghent, 25 May 2021 - Renaat Meesters, Terra incognita? Latin Book Epigrams in the Royal Library of Belgium.
Old Books and New Technologies: Medieval Books and the Digital Humanities in the Low Countries, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, 6 May 2021 - Kristoffel Demoen & Floris Bernard, Collected from all kinds of places. Building and Exploring a Corpus of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, 10 March 2021 - Julie Boeten, The Focus in and on Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Investigation of Object Clitic Pronouns and the Topic-Focus Pair in Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures. Spring 2021 Series, Ghent University, Ghent, 2 March 2021
2020
- Maria Tomadaki, Η ηλεκτρονική βάση των βιβλιακών επιγραμμάτων του Πανεπιστημίου της Γάνδης (DBBE): επιγράμματα Κρητικών λογίων και κωδικογράφων.
Division of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Crete, Rethimno, 26 November 2020. - Julián Bértola, Reactions, reflections, paraphrases: functions and contexts of Byzantine verse scholia on historiography.
Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2 March 2020.
2019
- Maria Tomadaki & Ilse De Vos, Τα βυζαντινά βιβλιακά επιγράμματα και η νέα ηλεκτρονική τους βάση στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Γάνδης.
Division of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Crete, Rethimno, 22 October 2019 - Sien De Groot, A Cycle of Three Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
XVIII. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 19-24 August 2019 - Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Church Fathers in the Margins: Patristic Traditions in Biblical Manuscripts, Munich, 24-25 June 2019 - Ilse De Vos, A Walk through the New Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE).
Church Fathers in the Margins: Patristic Traditions in Biblical Manuscripts, Munich, 24-25 June 2019 - Renaat Meesters, Book Epigrams on John Climacus.
Lectio Round Table “The Ladder of John of Sinai”, Leuven, 30 April 2019 - Julián Bértola, Hic rursus poeta scholiastes: un ciclo de escolios en verso a la Historia de Nicetas Coniata.
XVIII Conference on Byzantine studies of the Spanish Byzantine Studies Society (SEB), Barcelona, 30 January – 2 February 2019
2018
- Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite – From Document to Edition.
(un)documented – Was bleibt vom Dokument in der Edition?, Wuppertal, 18-19 October 2018 - Julián Bértola, Byzantine Verse Scholia on Ancient Authors.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Julie Boeten, The metrical pause in Byzantine metre: The example of juxtaposed τε καί in medieval book epigrams.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Sien De Groot, Three Book Epigrams in Honour of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Sien De Groot, The Manuscripts Flor. BML Plut. 13 Dext. 1, 2 and 3: a Curious Case of Bilingualism.
IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque, Paris, 10-15 September 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, Book Epigrams on the Psalter: Manuscript Evidence and Editorial Approach.
IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque, Paris, 10-15 September 2018 - Julián Bértola, Tzetzes’ verse scholia: a particular case of book epigrams.
International Conference: “Tzetzes”, Venice, 6-8 September 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, “Ascolta Davide, il nostro Orfeo”: verso un’edizione dei book epigrams sul Salterio.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 4 July 2018 - Julián Bértola, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians.
International Conference “Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204): Perceptions, Motivations, and Functions”, Vienna, 13-15 June 2018 - Julián Bértola, Byzantine book epigrams on ancient authors: the case of verse scholia.
U4 Winter School Antiquity “Hybridity and Complexity in Antiquity”, Athens, 7-10 March 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, See the beauty of these writings: visual elements of Byzantine book epigrams.
The Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar. The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, 22 February 2018 - Kristoffel Demoen, Les paratextes métriques dans les manuscrits bibliques grecs. A propos d’une série d’épigrammes sur les évangélistes dans le Moscow, Synod. gr. 407.
Colloque international “Poésie, bible et théologie de l’Antiquité tardive au Moyen Age“, Strasbourg, 25-27 January 2018
2017
- Kristoffel Demoen, Presentation of the Project “Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams”.
International Conference “Two Myths and two Languages: Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Poetry“, Vienna, 7-9 December 2017 - DBBE team, Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
LW Research Day: poster presentation, Ghent, 29 November 2017 - Sien De Groot and Rachele Ricceri, Medieval Byzantine manuscripts: Byzantine book epigrams in a European database project.
CARMEN Annual Meeting, Ghent, 22-24 September 2017 - Julián Bértola, Book epigrams bizantinos sobre novelas griegas.
Segundo Coloquio Bizantino de la UBA “Entre castidad y lujuria. Sexo y amor en Bizancio“, Buenos Aires, 28-29 August 2017 - Sien De Groot, Book Epigrams in the Manuscript Tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
International Medieval Congress, Session “Webs of Paratexts, Paratexts on the Web: Collecting and Editing Medieval Greek Paratexts“, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017 - Julie Boeten, The Ὥσπερ ξένοι Colophon and Its Metrical Variances: A Window to the Scribe’s Mind?
International Medieval Congress, Session “Medieval Book Epigrams: Colophons through the Ages“, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017 - Sien De Groot, Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of Ps.- Dionysius the Areopagite.
Lectio Doctoral Seminar “Transmitting Science in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (c. 1100-c. 1500): the Material Evidence”, Leuven, 11 May 2017 - Julie Boeten, The Travelling of Imagery: A Cognitive Analysis of the Metre of Two Medieval Colophons.
The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s 19th International Graduate Conference: Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds, Oxford, 24-25 February 2017
2016
- Julie Boeten, Metrical Variation in the Ὥσπερ ξένοι Book Epigrams.
Varieties of Late Antique and Byzantine Greek, Gent, 1-2 December 2016 - Krystina Kubina, The Many Ways of Reading Poetry in Late Byzantium: Manuel Philes’ Laudatory Poems.
Gent, 24 November 2016 - Rachele Ricceri, Texts, Paratexts, Manuscripts: the Reception of the Psalms in the Metaphrasis Psalmorum.
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Thematic session on “Byzantines and the Bible”, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Julie Boeten and Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: The Case of ὥσπερ ξένοι …
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Maria Tomadaki and Emilie M. van Opstall, Book Epigrams on Ancient Poets.
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Round table “Poetic Circles and Anthologies in Byzantium”, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Sien De Groot and Julie Boeten, Byzantine Book Epigrams: Poetry from the Margins.
17th Annual CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium, Birmingham, 4 June 2016 - Julie Boeten and Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Analysis of Medieval Meter.
Dialing Lecture, Gent, 2 June 2016 - Kristoffel Demoen, Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Dumbarton Oaks, 3 May 2016 - Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: Poetry of Transmission.
U4 Winter School, Istanbul, 8-12 March 2016 - Julie Boeten, Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Analysis of Medieval Meter.
U4 Winter School, Istanbul, 8-12 March 2016
2015
- Maria Tomadaki, Βυζαντινά βιβλιακά επιγράμματα αφιερωμένα σε κείμενα και συγγραφείς της αρχαίας ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας / Book Epigrams on Texts and Authors of Ancient Greek Literature.
8th Meeting of Greek Byzantinists, Athens, 16-18 December 2015 - Mark Janse, The Principle of Pairing: A Cognitive Approach to Byzantine Versification.
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar, Oxford, 27 May 2015
2014
- Renaat Meesters, The Visual Representation of Paratexts in Byzantine Manuscripts. Case study: The Colophon Verse.
Ghent Institute for Classical Studies, Ghent, 24 October 2014 - Kristoffel Demoen, Metrische parateksten in Griekse manuscripten. Een elektronisch corpus en een tragisch voorbeeld.
Nederlandse Hellenistendag, Groningen, 24 January 2014
2013
- Renaat Meesters and Floris Bernard, Towards a Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams. Building a Contextual Corpus of Paratexts.
VIII. Colloque International de Paléographie Grecque, Hamburg, 26 September 2013 - Kristoffel Demoen, The ‘Bookishness’ of Epigrams on Authors and Texts.
International Conference “Greek Literary Epigram: From the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era”, London, 11-13 September 2013 - Renaat Meesters, Byzantine Book Epigrams as Living Texts. Meeting Points between Authors, Manuscripts and Readers.
U4 Winter School, Palermo, 6 March 2013
2012
- Kristoffel Demoen, Adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits byzantins.
EHESS, Paris, 12 February 2012
2011
- Kristoffel Demoen, Towards an on-line database of Byzantine book epigrams.
22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Round table “Instrumenta Studiorum”, Sofia, 22-27 August 2011 - Floris Bernard, A Database of Poetic Paratexts in Byzantine Manuscripts: At the Threshold between Text and Context.
Conference From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era. Readings and Literacies. UNIL, Lausanne, 24 August 2011