Literature
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- Hans-Georg Beck, Byzantinistik heute. Berlin, De Gruyter 1977. ISBN 3-11-007220-3
- Herbert Hunger, Studien zur griechischen Paläographie (= Biblos-Schriften 5), Wien 1954
- Herbert Hunger, Byzantinische Grundlagenforschung, London 1973
- Johannes Irmscher, Einführung in die Byzantinistik, Berlin 1971
- Alexander Kazhdan, Giles Constable, People and Power in Byzantium. An introduction to modern Byzantine studies, Washington 1982
- Otto Mazal, Handbuch der Byzantinistik, Graz 1989
- Gyula Moravcsik, Einführung in die Byzantologie, Darmstadt 1976
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