Stefan Faust deals with the concepts of representation and the narrative strategies that stand behind these images of war and deals with media of various object types.

The book of Dennis Sullivan is an edition of two Byzantine siege treatises attribute to “Heron of Byzantium”

This study deals with the many forms of slavery that resiliently continued in the Euro-Mediterranean world after the end of the Western Roman Empire, studying the major post-Roman polities with a comparative lens. The book’s main thesis concerns our understanding of early medieval unfreedom itself; according to the author, different categories of unfreedom could be adopted by landlords to manage and control their labour pool.

John F. Shean’s monograph Soldiering for God approaches the topic by giving an analysis of the development of Christianity within the Roman army.

Jonathan Conant asks the question in his book “Staying Roman”: “what became of the idea of Romanness […] once Roman power collapsed?”

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, which was one of the most significant events of the seventh century.

Thomas Salmon aims at providing an overview on the characterizing features of the Byzantine science of warfare, siege and weaponry

“The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630” by Anthony Kaldellis and Marion Kruse is a new study that challenges the scholarship on the Notitia Dignitatum and offers a diffrent view on the source material. Spanning from Emporer Julian to Heraclius, the analysis provides insights into the military administration of the eastern roman troops.

Harold Mattingly’s two papers are devoted to coins with images and/or legends that refer to vota publica. This is the only work that deals extensively with vota coinage.

In the book The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus Griffin examines the sources of information for eleventh- and twelfth-century Rus clerics

This book by Nicholas Morton focuses not, as the title would suggest, on the Mongol Empire itself but on the many different cultures, religions, and empires of the Near East and their reactions to the oncoming Mongol Storm. The book is divided into twelve rather short sections, which highlight the various aspects of the invasion from different geographical, political, religious, and cultural viewpoints.

The Romanian scholars Liviu Pilat and Ovidiu Cristea conduct an exhaustive diplomatic and political narrative focused on lower Danube and Black Sea areas

Ovidiu Cristea’s attention is focused on words, gestures, and information related to warfare and how they were transmitted and understood in Danubian Principalities

In this short book, Charles J. Halperin examines the transformation of the myth of the Rus’ Land. According to the author’s concept, this myth, which originated in the pre-Christian era (before 988), evolved from a clan-based myth into a dynastic legend of the Rurikids. Initially associated exclusively with the Dnieper River valley, the myth was transferred in the 14th century to the Suzdal region (translatio of the Rus’ land), where Moscow rulers (Vladimirovichi, a branch of the Rurikids dynasty) monopolized it.