All but four of the 29 essays reproduced here were written by Oikonomides (1934-2000) in his final 11 years, while he headed the Byzantine history department at the University of Athens; 14 are in Eng
A prodigious historian of Byzantium, Oikonomides is spoken of in the past tense, which might explain why this fourth Variorum collection is described as his last. The 28 articles from the tail end of
The vast collection of 17,000 Byzantine lead seals in the Harvard collections has long been recognized as an important source for the study of the Byzantine provinces. This volume is the fourth in the
