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Prof Frank Trombley 


Books

  1. Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529 (Religions in the Graeco-Roman  World 115/1-2, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993-4; reprinted in hardcover 1995 and in paperback 2001).  ISBN 9004-09624-8 and 9004-09691-4
  2. The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite. Translation and commentary with J.W. Watt, Translated Texts for Historians 32, Liverpool University Press (Liverpool, 2000).  ISBN 0-85323-585-6

Articles and Book Chapters Published

  1. ‘The fall of Constantinople in 1453 and late medieval Greek culture: the experience of defeat’, Groniek. Historisch Tijdschrift 184 (2010), 267-284.
  2. ‘‘Amr b. al-‘Ās’s refurbishment of Trajan’s canal: Red Sea contacts in the Aphrodito and Apollōnos Anō papyri,’ Connected Hinterlands. Proceedings of Red Sea IV Project held at the University of Southampton September 2008, ed. Lucy Blue, Ross Thomas, John Cooper and Julian Whiteright (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 99-109.
  3. ‘The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (4th-6th c. C.E.)’, The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology and Power (Louvain: Peeters, 2008), 139-160.
  4. ‘Operational methods of the Late Roman army in the Persian War of 572-591’, The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab conquest. Proceedings of a Colloquium Held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy (May 2005), edd. Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini, with the aid of Zbigniew Fiema and Sylvain Janniard, British Archaeology Reports, International Series 1717 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007), 321-356.
  5. ‘Christianity and Paganism II: Asia Minor’, Cambridge History of Christianity II. Constantine to c. 600, edd. A. Casiday and F. Norris (Cambridge, 2007), 189-209.
  6. ‘Nikopolis and its territorium in the Byzantine Dark Age (c. 580-850 A.D.)’, Nikopolis B. Praktika tou Deuterou Diethnous Symposiou gia tē Nikopolē (11-15 Septembriou 2002, Konstantinos L. Zachos I (Preveza: Aktia Nikopolis Foundation, 2007), 151-162.        ISBN: 978-960-7660-17-6.
  7. ‘The documentary background to the History of the Patriarchs of ps.-Sawīrus ibn al-Muqaffa‘ ca. 750-969 CE’, From Al-Andalus to Khurasan. Documents from the Medieval Muslim World. Edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Lennart Sundelin, Sofía Torallas Tovar and Amalia Zomeño (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 131-152.
  8. ‘Autochthons and barbarians in early medieval Greece: identity and symbiosis’, in Philip J. Smith (ed.), Cults, Coins History & Inscriptions VIII: Studies in Honor of John M. Fossey 4, Ancient World 37/2 (2006), 157-178.
  9. ‘Armed pilgrimage and the reign of the anti-Christ: Steven Runciman and the origins of the First Crusade’, Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization in honour of Sir Steven Runciman, ed. Elizabeth Jeffreys (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 253-272.
  10. ‘Overview: the geographical spread of Christianity’, Cambridge History of Christianity I. Origins to Constantine, eds. Frances Young and Margaret Mitchell (Cambridge, 2005), 302-313.
  11. ‘The Late Roman practice of war on the Syrian frontier (A.D. 502-641): leadership, infrastructure and operations’, Krieg - Gesellschaft - Institutionen Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte, edd. B. Meissner, O. Schmitt and M. Sommer (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005), 387-416.
  12. ‘Paganismo en el Mediterráneo oriental entre 392 y 518 D.C.’, Debats 90 (Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2005), 56-62.
  13. ‘Sawirus b. al-Muqaffa‘ and the Christians of Umayyad Egypt: war and society in documentary context’, Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt, edd. Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Lennart Sundelin, in Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts 55 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 199-226. ISBN 90-04-13886-2
  14. ‘Demographic and cultural transition in the territorium of Antioch, 6th-10th c.’, Topoi Supplement 5: Antioche. Histoires, images et traces de la ville antique (2004), 341-362.
  15. ‘The Arabs in Anatolia and the Islamic law of war (fiqh al-jihād) (seventh-tenth centuries)’, Al-Masāq. Islamic and the Medieval Mediterranean 16/1 (2004), 147-161.
  16. ‘Epigraphic data on village culture and social institutions: an interregional comparison (Syria, Phoenice Libanensis and Arabia)’, Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside, edd. W. Bowden, L. Lavan and C. Machado, Late Antique Archaeology 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), 73-101. ISBN 90-04-13607-X
  17. ‘Christian demography in the territorium of Antioch (4th-5th c. A.D.): observations on the epigraphy’, Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch, edd. J. Huskinson and B. Sandwell (Oxford: Oxbow, 2004), 58-84.
  18. ‘Christianisation of rite in Byzantine Anatolia: F. W. Hasluck and continuity’, Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck 1878-1920, ed. David Shankland, 2 (Istanbul: Isis, 2004), 55-75.
  19. ‘The Arabs, the Byzantine state and the Islamic law of war (fiqh al-jihād) (7th-10th c.)’, Just War in Comparative Perspective, ed. Paul Robinson (London: Ashgate, 2003), 153-166.
  20. ‘Military cadres and battle during the reign of Heraclius’, The Reign of Heraclius (610-641): Crisis and Confrontation, edd. Gerrit Reinink and Bernard Stolte (Louvain: Peeters, 2002), 241-259.
  21. ‘Town and territorium in Late Roman Anatolia (late 5th to early 7th c.)’, Recent Research in Late Antique Urbanism, ed. Luke Lavan, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, no. 42 (2001), 217-232. ISBN 1-887829-42-3
  22. ‘Mediterranean sea culture between Byzantium and Islam (c. 600-850 A.D.)’, The Dark Centuries of Byzantium (7th-9th c.), ed. Eleonora Kountoura-Galake (Athens: National Research Foundation, 2001), 133-169.
  23. ‘Early medieval Boeotia (c. 580-1050 A.D.)’, Epeteris tēs Etaireias tēs Boiōtikōn Meletōn 3/1, Archaiologia, ed. Basileios Arabantinos, Trito Diethnes Synedrio Boiōtikōn Meletōn, Thebes 4-8 September 1996  (Athens, 2000), 990-1008.
  24. 'Byzantine and Islamic era systems in the seventh century’, Storia della storiografia 37 (2000), 41-54.
  25. ‘Religious experience in Late Antiquity: theological ambivalence and Christianization’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 24 (2000), 2-60.
  26. ‘Ammianus Marcellinus and fourth-century warfare: a protector’s approach to historical narrative’, The Late Roman World and its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus, edd. J. W. Drijvers and D. Hunt (London: Routledge, 1999), 17-28.  . ISBN 0-415-20271-X
  27. ‘War, society and popular religion in Byzantine Anatolia (6th-13th c.)’, Hē byzantinē Mikra Asia (6os-12os ai.) [Byzantine Asia Minor (6th-12th cent.], edd. Stelios Lampakis, N. Oikonomides and S. Vryonis (Hellenism: Ancient, Medieval, Modern 27 [Athens: National Research Foundation, 1998]), 97-139.
  28. ‘L’epoca bizantina e islamica nel secolo VII ed il problema della periodizzazione’, CIRSS Quaderni di studi e ricerche sull’ Europa centro-orientale 1 (1997), 33-40.
  29. ‘War and society in rural Syria c. 502-613 A.D.: observations on the epigraphy’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 21 (1997), 154-209.
  30. ‘The Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos and military encyclopaedism.’ Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts: Proceedings of the Second COMERS Congress University of Groningen 1-4 July 1996, ed. Peter Binkley (Studies in Intellectual History 79 [Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997]), 261-274.
  31. ‘Religious transition in sixth-century Syria.’ Byzantinische Forschungen 20 (1994), 153-195.
  32. ‘Byzantine “Dark Age” cities in comparative context’, To Hellenikon: Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr. 1 (New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas, 1993), 429-449.
  33. ‘The Greek communities of Umayyad Palestine (661-749 A.D.)’, Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Hellenic Diaspora from Antiquity to Modern Times I: From Antiquity to 1453, ed. John Fossey et alii (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1991), 261-269.
  34. ‘Prolegomena to the systemic analysis of late Hellenic religion: the case of the aretalogy of Isis at Kyme’, Religious Writings and Religious Systems, edd. Jacob Neusner et alii 1 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), 95-113.
  35. ‘Boeotia in Late Antiquity: epigraphic evidence on society, economy, and Christianization’, BOIOTIKA: Vorträge vom 5. Internationalen Boeotien-Kolloquium zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Siegfried Lauffer, edd. H. Beister and John Buckler (Münchener Arbeiten zur Alten Geschichte 2 = Münchener Universitätsschriften 2 [Munich, 1989]), 215-228.  ISBN 3-925801-04-9
  36. ‘The Eufrasiana altar inscription of Parentium (Saec. VI)’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 42 (1988), 59-60.
  37. ‘Korykos in Cilicia Trachis (sic): the economy of a small coastal town in Late Antiquity (Saec. V-VI)--a precis’, The Ancient History Bulletin 1 (1987), 16-23.
  38. ‘Paganism in the Greek world at the end of antiquity: the case of rural Anatolia and Greece’, Harvard Theological Review 78 (1985), 327-352.
  39. ‘The decline of the seventh century town: the exception of Euchaita’, Studies in Honor of Milton Anastos, ed. Speros Vryonis, Jr.,  Byzantina kai Metabyzantina 4 (Malibu: Undena,1985), 65-90.  ISBN 0-89003-168-1
  40. ‘Monastic foundations in sixth-century Anatolia and their role in the social and economic life of the countryside’, Greek Orthodox Theological Review 30 (1985), 45-59. Reprinted with corrections in Byzantine Saints and Monasteries, ed.  N. Michael Vaporis (Brookline: Hellenic College, 1985), 45-59.
  41. ‘A note on the see of Jerusalem and the synodal list of the Sixth Oecumenical Council (680-681)’, Byzantion 53 (1983), 632-638.
  42. ‘The survival of paganism in the tenth-century Peloponnese’, Newsletter of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Spring 1983. 14-15.
  43. ‘The Council in Trullo (691-692): a study of the canons relating to paganism, heresy, and the invasions’, Comitatus 9 (1978), 1-18.

Articles in Press

  1. ‘The imperial cult in Late Roman religion (ca. A.D. 244-395): observations on the epigraphy’, Spätantiker Staat und religöser Konflikt. Imperiale und lokale Verwaltung und die Gewalt gegen Heiligtümer, ed. Johannes Hahn (Berlin: De Gruyter, April 2011), proofs in 35 pages (16,802 words).

Articles forthcoming

  1. ‘Christianity in Asia Minor’, Cambridge History of Ancient Religions, ed. Michele Salzman and William Adler 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), article in 9,102 words.
  2. ‘Fiscal documents from the Muslim conquest of Egypt military supplies and administrative dislocation ca. 639-644’, Proceedings of the Fourth International Society for Arabic Papyri Conference, Papyrussammlung, Österreichisches Nationalbibliothek, eds. Andreas Kaplony, Petra Siejpesteijn and Cornelia Roemer.  Article in 12,631 words.
  3. ‘From Kastron to Qasr: Nessana between Byzantium and the Umayyad Caliphate ca. 602-689: a demographic and microeconomic aspects of Palaestina III in interregional perspective’, Palaeochristian Levant.  Proceedings of Symposium held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 2006. McGill University Monographs in Classical Archaeology and History, eds. Ellen Aitken and John Fossey.  Article in 21,120 words.

Encyclopaedia Entries

  1. ‘Bálas ē Balásēs’, Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilisation, A. G. C. Savvides 4 (Athens: Iolkos/Metron Publications, 2002), 132-134.
  2. ‘Christentum.’ Der neue Pauly Enzyklopaedie der Antike. Ed. H. Canlik and H.Schneider. 2 (Stuttgart 1997), 1154-1162.
  3. Sub-editor, and author or co-author of the following entries in Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. Kazhdan et alii. 3 vols. (New York: Oxford, 1991): Popular Religion, Artemis, Magic, Magic and Magicians, Sorcery, Witch/engastromythos, Brumalia, Lupercalia, Kalends, Kollyba, Bota, Mantic Arts, Divination, Brontologion, Iatrosophia, Oracle, Sibylline Oracles, Mithraism, Incubation, Incantation, Chnoubis.

Reviews of Books

  1. Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (eds.), The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1997), in Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004), 278.
  2. Anthony Eastmond, Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia (University Park, Pennsylvania, 1998), in Al-Masāq (2004), 177-178.
  3. Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael Frede (eds.), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 1999), in Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002), 263-265.
  4. Peter Brown, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge, 1995), in Classical Review N.S., 47 (1997), 210-211.
  5. Jessica A. Coope. The Martyrs of Cordoba: Community and Family Conflict (Lincoln, Nebr. 1995), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996), 581- 582.
  6. Jaroslav Pelikan. Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (New Haven 1993), in The Catholic Historical Review 82 (1996), 679-681.
  7. G. Fowden. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Princeton 1993), in The International History Review 17 (1995), 107-109.

Publications on the Internet

  1. ‘Christianization and the transformation of local gods’, and ‘Discussion with Frank Trombley’, Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins Minutes, April 7, 1988. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/year25/8804.shtml
  2. ‘Korykos in Cilicia Trachis (sic): the economy of a small coastal city in Late Antiquity (saec. V-VI)—a précis’, The Ancient History Bulletin 1.2 (1987), 16-23. http://www.trentu.ca/ahb/ahb1/ahb-1-1f.html. (Website no longer active.)

Poetry

  1. ‘Arkadia’, Zeitgeist, December 2001 (Cardiff, 2001).
  2. ‘Two Poems of Tu Fu.’ Pequod 4 (San Diego: University of San Diego Press, 1969), 18-19.