Call for papers 

Acta Byzantina Fennica (ISSN 1458-7017) 

Acta Byzantina Fennica is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the Finnish Society for Byzantine Studies. The journal is interested in receiving papers treating the history of Byzantium as well as the history of the Eastern Mediterranean basin in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Papers are welcomed across diverse disciplines, e.g., history, philology, art history, archaeology, and the study of religion.  

The next Acta Byzantina Fennica will be published in spring/summer 2026. It will be published both in printed form and as an open access PDF version on the journal.fi platform. 

Submission deadline: August 31, 2025 

Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2025 

Final versions due: January 31, 2026 

Article submission: Contributions should be written in English and submitted by e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief vesavahtikari@live.com. Submissions must be sent in two copies: a text version and a PDF version. The Greek should be written with a Unicode font. The maximum length for the papers is 10,000 words. 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and either accepted for publication (in their present form with minor or major revisions) or rejected. All peer-reviewed articles accepted in publication will be indicated with the peer-review label of the Federation of the Finnish Learned Societies. 

Footnotes 

Footnotes (not endnotes) are used. Footnotes should consist of the following parts: authors last name, year of the publication, referred page numbers. References to Latin and Greek authors should follow the system used in Oxford Classical Dictionary or in Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Epigraphical and papyrological references follow L’Année épigraphique (AE) and Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG). 

Examples: 

Ambr. De ob. Theod. 7.  

Anth. Pal. 16.65. 

Attaleiates Hist. 99-101. 

Becatti 1960, 151-264; McCormick 1986, 49f., 52-55 with figures.  

Burns 1994, 348, n. 118. 

Chronicle of Morea 5706-5738; Livre de la conqueste §§ 396-397. 

John Chrys. Hom. in Acta apostt. 37 PG 60.266-267. 

Williams and Friell 1995, 28-33. 

Bibliography 

All articles and publications referred to should be listed in a bibliography. Journals and periodicals are not abbreviated.  

Examples: 

Braun 2004 = T. Braun, ‘Hecataeus’ Knowledge of the Western Mediterranean’, in K. Lomas (ed.), Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, Leiden 2004, 287-347. 

Bryer and Winfield 1985 = A. Bryer and D. Winfield, The Byzantine Monuments and Topo-graphy of the Pontos (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 20), Washington, D.C. 1985. 

Clavin 2005 = P. Clavin, ‘Defining Transnationalism’, Contemporary European History 14 (2005), 421-439. 

Davis et al. 2003 = J.L. Davis, A. Hoti, I. Pojani, S.R. Stoker, A.D. Wolpert, Ph.E. Acheson, J.W. Hayes, ‘The Durres Regional Archaeological Project. Archaeolog-ical Survey in the Territory of Epidamnus / Dyrrachium in Albania’, Hesperia 72 (2003), 41-119. 

Griffiths 1961 = J.G. Griffiths, ‘The Death of Cleopatra VII’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 47 (1961), 113-118. 

Haldon 1999 = J. Haldon, Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204, London 1999. 

Hoti et al. 2008 = A. Hoti, E, Metalla, B. Shkodra and J. Wilkes, ‘The Early Byzantine Circular Forum in Dyrrachium (Durrës, Albania) in 2002 and 2004-2005: Recent Recording and Excavation’, Annual of the British School at Athens 103 (2008), 367-397.  

Lampsides 1958 = O. Lampsides, Μιχαήλ Πανάρετου, Περί των Μεγάλων Κομνηνών, Εισαγωγή, έκδοσις, σχόλια, Athens 1958. 

Papadopoulos-Kerameus 1891 = A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus (ed.), ‘Funerary oration to Alexios II Komnenos by Constantine Loukites’, in Ανάλεκτα Ιεροσολυμιτικής σταχυολογίας, ή, συλλογή ανεκδότων και σπανίων ελληνικών συγγραφών περί των κατά την Εώαν ορθοδόξων εκκλησιών και μάλιστα της των Παλαιστινών I, St. Petersburg 1891, 421-430.  

Praschniker and Schober 1919 = C. Praschniker and A. Schober, Archäologische Forschungen in Albanien und Montenegro (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Schriften der Balkankommission, Ant. Abt. 8), Wien 1919. 

Snipes 1982 = K. Snipes, ‘A Newly Discovered History of the Roman Emperors by Michael Psellos’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 32.2 = Akten II/3, XVI. Internationaler Byzantinistenkongress (1982), 53-61. 

Tables and illustrations 

Tables and illustrations are accepted. Images should be submitted in TIFF or JPEG format; the required resolution is at least 300 dpi.