PAIXUE Publications

  • C. Virág and F. Spingou, ‘The Pleasures of Virtue and the Virtues of Pleasure: The Classicizing Garden in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century China and Byzantium’, Medieval Worlds 13 (2021): 229–65. Open access.
  • D. Kong, ‘Empresses Eirene and Wu Zetian: Examining Imperial Authority in Early Medieval Byzantium and China through the Angle of Female Rule’, PhD thesis, The University of Edinburgh (2026).
  • N. Gaul and C. Virág (eds), Performing Antiquity across Medieval Eurasia: Classicising Learning, Power and Community in Byzantium, China and Neighbouring Lands (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026/7). Open access.
  • C. Virág and N. Gaul (eds), Reinventing Antiquity in Middle Period China and Byzantium: Ritual, Learning and Visual Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026/7). Open access.
  • N. Gaul, The Schools of Byzantine Constantinople, Cambridge Elements in the History of Constantinople (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027).