Research project / 2024–2028
Beyond the Sacred
Conceptions of Nature in Byzantium (4th–15th c.)
National Science Centre, Poland · OPUS
UMO-2023/49/B/HS2/01572
Cod. med. gr. 1, fol. 483vImage source · Public domain ↗
Publications
- 2026Monograph
Denson, Ryan. 2026. A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster. Ancient Environments. Bloomsbury Academic.
- 2026Book chapter
Denson, Ryan. 2026. “‘You Who Broke the Heads of the Monsters Upon the Waters’: An Ecotheological Assessment of Ancient Sea Monsters.” In Monstrum in Fabula: Monsters and Monstrosities in Ancient Contexts, edited by Luca Valle Salazar and Davide D’Amico, 193–214. De Gruyter.
- 2026Journal article
Denson, Ryan. 2026. “Nereids in the Ancient Greco-Roman Imagination and an Anomalous Legend.” Folklore 137 (2): 234–256.
- 2026Journal article
Denson, Ryan. 2026. “Between Ancient Animal Studies and Mythology: The Case of the Hippocamps and Other Mixokētē.” Greece & Rome 73 (2): 274–297.
DOI Open access - 2025Journal article
Ritter, Max. 2025. “The Sea Bows to the Relic’s Power: An Ecocritical Approach to Seaborne Relic Importations into Byzantine Constantinople.” Mediterranean Historical Review 40 (2): 83–116.