mriedel@div.duke.edu
Publications
Books
Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity. Writings of an Unexpected Emperor,
Cambridge University Press, 2018
Byzantium and Islam, 7th-13th centuries (co-authored with Harry Munt, under contract), Routledge 2022
The Novels of Leo VI, translation of legal corpus of Leo VI (in preparation)
Book chapters
‘Photios’ Hermeneutic for Wisdom Literature in Amphilochia 9’
Reception of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, R. Ceulemans and B. Crostini (eds.),
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, (Uppsala, 2021), 91-106.
'God has sent the thunder: Ideological distinctives of middle Byzantine military manuals',
Greek and Roman Military Manuals, Chlup and C. Whately (eds.), (New York, 2020), 245-264.
'Echoes of Scripture in Byzantine Political Identity',
The Bible in Byzantium: Appropriation, Adaption, Interpretation, C. Rapp and A. Külzer (eds.),
Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 25.6, (Göttingen, 2018), 23-38.
'Warfare and Historiography', in Oxford History of History Writing, vol. 2 (History Writing in the Middle Ages),
Sarah Foot and Chase Robinson (eds.), (Oxford, 2012), 576-603.
'The Sacrality of a Sovereign: Leo VI and Politics in Middle Byzantium', in Zwei Sonnen am Goldenen Horn?, Band 3-I,
Michael Grünbart, Lutz Rickelt, Martin M. Vucetic (eds.), (Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf Berlin, 2011), 127-135.
Articles
'Demonic Prophecy as Byzantine Imperial Propaganda: The rhetorical appeal of the tenth-century Narratio de Imagine Edessena', Fides et Historia 49.1 (2017): 11-23
'Leo VI and the Cleansing of the Law', Medieval Perspectives 31 (2016): 129-142.
'Biblical Echoes in Two Byzantine Military Speeches', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40.2 (2016): 207-222.
'Nikephoros II Phokas and Orthodox Military Martyrs', Journal of Medieval Religion and Culture 41/2 (2015): 121-47.
'Syriac Sources for Byzantinists: an introduction and overview', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 105/2 (2012): 783-810.
Encyclopedia entries
Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. Graeme Dunphy (Brill, 2010); 10 entries co-written with J. Van Ginkel:
Composite Chronicle of 636/40
Dionysius of Tell Mahre
Iliya ibn Sinaya
John of Ephesus
John of Phenek
Khuzistan Chronicle
Maronite Chronicle of 663/4
Melkite Chronicle of 641
Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite
Syriac Short Chronicles
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, ed. Elizabeth Bull, (Blackwell Publishing, 2012); 12 entries:
Asia Minor
Byzantine administration
Caesaropapism
Foreigners
Forts
Military lands
Missions
Paganism
Byzantine popular religion
Ports
Roads
Strategy
Book reviews
Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople. (Central European Medieval Studies 2.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018., Speculum, vol. 94 no. 1 (January, 2019), University of Chicago Press
A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The ‘Sylloge tacticorum’. by Georgios Chatzelis, Jonathan Harris (trans.),
London; New York: Routledge, 2018., Bryn Mawr Classical Review (August, 2018), Bryn Mawr College
Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200, by Monica White (Cambridge, 2013) in English Historical Review 129/540 (2014): 1163-65.
The History of the Medieval World from the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade, by Susan Wise Bauer (Norton, 2010), in Modern Reformation 20/1 (2011): 51-52.
James, by Daniel M. Doriani (P&R, 2007), in Modern Reformation 16/6 (2007): 43-44.