Abbreviations
| AASS |
Acta Sanctorum (Antwerp, 1643–) |
| AB |
Analecta Bollandiana |
| AHG |
Analecta Hymnica Graeca e codicibus eruta Italiae inferioris |
| AHR |
American Historical Review |
| ASCL |
Archivio Storico per la Calabria e la Lucania |
| ASS |
Archivio Storico Siciliano |
| BHG |
F. Halkin, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca. Subsidia Hagiographica 8a, ed. 3 (Brussels, 1957) |
| BHG Nov. Auct. |
F. Halkin, ed., Novum auctarium bibliothecae hagiographicae Graecae. Subsidia Hagiographica 65 (Brussels, 1984) |
| BMGS |
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies |
| BZ |
Byzantinische Zeitschrift |
| CFHB |
Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae |
| CRAI |
Comptes rendus des séances de l’ Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |
| CSHB |
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae |
| DOP |
Dumbarton Oaks Papers |
| Lampe |
G.W.H. Lampe, A patristic Greek lexicon (Oxford, 1961) |
| LCL |
Loeb Classical Library |
| Mansi |
J.D. Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Florence, 1769–) |
| MGH |
Monumenta Germaniae Historica |
| PG |
J.P. Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, ser. Graeco-latina (Paris, 1857–) |
| PL |
J.P. Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, ser. Latina (Paris, 1884–) |
| PW |
Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll, Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1894–) |
| RÉB |
Revue des études byzantines |
| SRLI |
Scriptores Rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum Saec. VI–IX. MGH (Hannover, 1878) |
| VP |
The Life of St Pankratios of Taormina |