Dr Georgi R Parpulov
Lincoln College
Research Interests
I have worked on Byzantine and Slavonic manuscript illumination, Byzantine panel icons and other devotional imagery. I am now preparing a book-length study of Byzantine miniature painting in the reign of Alexis I (1081-1118).
Doctoral dissertation:
Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters (University of Chicago, 2004) (copies can be purchased at http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/disexpress.shtml)
Recent and forthcoming publications:
- 'Psalters and Personal Piety in Byzantium', in: R. S. Nelson & P. Magdalino, eds. The Old Testament in Byzantium (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2010), 77-105.
- 'Art and Architecture, Bulgarian', 'Manuals, Artistic' and 'Tempera Painting', in: R. E. Bjork, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 4 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 712-13, 1076, 1602.
- 'Mural and Icon Painting at Sinai in the Thirteenth Century', in: S. Gerstel & R. S. Nelson, eds. Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 345-414.
- 'Pre-1650 Cyrillic Manuscripts in U.S. Public Collections: A Catalogue', Palaeoslavica 18 (2010), no. 2, 1-53.
- 'A Byzantine Text on the Technique of Icon Painting' (with Irina V. Dolgikh and Peter Cowe), Dumbarton Oaks Papers 64 (2010), in press.
- 'The Date of Two Icons from Sinai', in: A. Eastmond & E. James, eds. Wonderful Things: Byzantium through Its Art (Burlington VT: Variorum, 2011), in press.
- 'Formats and Transmission: The Bibles of the Christian East', in: E. A. Matter & R. Marsden, eds. The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2: The Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in press.