About the Journal

The journal Estudios bizantinos aims to be a research communication tool at the service of the community formed by scholars of the Byzantine world. To this end, the contents published are offered to readers in Open Access free and under a Creative Commons license. Its creation by the Sociedad Española de Bizantinística (Spanish Society of Byzantine Studies) is seen as a means to achieve the overall objective of promoting Byzantine Studies in Spanish-speaking countries.

Estudios bizantinos is an international journal, published annually, open to all those who wish to publicize their research on any aspect of Byzantine civilization. Although the editors of the journal are open to receive content in all languages​​, we feel that publication in languages which are less common ​​in scientific circles is detrimental to the assessments and reviews of the research presented in the journal; we therefore encourage authors to submit their work in English, French or Spanish.
Originals sent to the journal’s editorial office should deal with one or more of the following areas:

  • Byzantine Civilization: archaeology, art, law, philology, philosophy, history, linguistics, palaeography, theology, etc.
  • The impact of Byzantium and its relationship with neighbouring peoples.
  • Late Antiquity in both the Western and the Eastern Mediterranean and, in particular, Byzantium’s contacts with the Iberian Peninsula and Western Christianity.
  • Relationships with the Slavic, Latin and Islamic cultures.

The journal may devote part of each annual volume to a single theme, with its own introduction and accompanying materials.

Works presented for publication will be submitted to an evaluation process which will decide as quickly as possible whether to accept or reject it  [see Publication policy]. The publication process is free for authors.
We encourage readers of Estudios bizantinos to subscribe to the journal in printed version here. They can also learn about other news relating to Byzantium on the web of the Sociedad Española de Bizantinística.

The journal is indexed in databases such as ERIH Plus, Index Islamicus, L'Année philologique, Scopus, CIRC, MIAR, Latindex-Catálogo, Latindex-Directorio, Índices CSIC, Sherpa Romeo, Dialnet, Dialnet Métricas, DOAJ o Carhus, among others (see Indexation)

Open Access Policy

Estudios Bizantinos is published in Open Access to its content, hosted on this website and downloadable in pdf format, under the principle of making the contents freely available and in order to promote the circulation of knowledge. Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms: They retain authorship rights and grant the journal the right to be the first publication of the work, as well as license it under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal. Authors are allowed to self-archive the post-print version (editorial version) of their texts in institutional repositories and personal websites immediately after publication in the journal, but may not use the material for commercial purposes and, if the original text is transformed, it must be published under the same license. In short, access to Estudios Bizantinos is free and open without delay, with no embargo period, and users do not have to register to read the content. There is no fee, in short, neither for authors nor for readers of the journal.

Privacy statement  

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