gender, civic religion and religious aspects of political culture, and historical memory and historiography

Books

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios, (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society: 950-1100, (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Paperback reprint, 2008.

Selected Publications:

Byzantine Gender, under contract with Arc Medieval Press, Past Imperfect series.
co-author with Irina Tamarkina, Guide to Byzantine Historiography, under contract with Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Lamentation, History, and Female Authorship in Anna Komnene’s Alexiad,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53.1, (2013): 192–218. View Article
“Organic Local Government and Village Authority.” In Authority in Byzantium, ed. Pamela Armstrong, Ashgate, 2013, 285-295.
“Strong Women and their Husbands in Byzantine Historiography.” In The Byzantine World, ed. Paul Stephenson, Routledge, 2010, 72-82.
“A history of Caesar John Doukas in Nikephoros Bryennios’s Material for History?” In Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 32.2 (2008) 168-188.
“Taxing Sophronia’s Son-in-Law: Representations of Women in Provincial Documents.” In Women in Byzantium: Varieties of Experience, 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 75-87.
“Information, ceremony and power in Byzantine fiscal registers: varieties of function in the Cadaster of Thebes,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25 (2001): 20-43.