Networks and Initiatives

This list of platforms, networks, research projects and other initiatives relevant to the study of the history and culture of the Medieval Black Sea and its hinterland is a work in progress. We welcome recommendations for additions (please email medievalblackseaproject@gmail.com).

Armenia – Crossing Frontiers: Christians and Muslims and their art in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus

Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project

Black Sea Networks

The Black Sea Trade Project

The Book and the Silk Road

De Byzance au monde ottoman en Europe du Sud-Est

Byzantine Sites Photo Archive

Byzantium & Friends

The Caucasus Through Time Network

East of Byzantium

Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World: Black Sea

Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy

Global Middle Ages

Graph-East: Latin as an Alien Script in the Medieval ‘Latin East’

Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture

The La Sphera Project: Exploring Gregorio Dati’s 15th-century Mediterranean

Mapping Eastern Europe

Medievalists.net

Mediterranean Seminar

Middle Ages for Educators

New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World Network

Nordic Tales Byzantine Paths

North of Byzantium

OLKAS: “From the Aegean to the Black Sea” – Medieval Ports in the Maritime Routes of the East

The Origins of Kyiv’

Performing History

Pre-conquest Narratives of Siberia

Rus’ Genealogy      

Silver and the Origins of the Viking Age

Society for Armenian Studies Podcast 

Viking Metal

Visions of the End