Denis Michael Searby Professor

Grekiska I-II-III och avancerad nivå.

Ancient Greek anthologies, gnomologia, biographical anecdotes. Byzantine reception of Thomas Aquinas. Birgitta of Sweden.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Articles and chapters in books:

1. “Florilegium Rhetoricum”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd 119/3, 2026
2. “Greek and Latin Interaction”, forthcoming in Brill’s Companion to Byzantine Philosophy (edd. B. Bydén, M. Trizio)
3. “Thomas Aquino: Liv och verk”, Att tänka med Thomas (“Thinking with Thomas”) edd. Clemens Cavallin, Mats Wahlberg, Artos 2025
4. “Anekdotisk evidens eller bara en salig anekdotflora? Om anekdoter i helgonbiografier” (“Anecdotal evidence or just anecdotes? On anecdotes in hagiographies”, in Perspektiv på medeltida pastoral praxis. Festskrift till professor Stephan Borgehammar [Bibliotheca Theologicae Practicae], edd. Erik Bergman, Anna Minara Ciardi, Clara Nystrand, Lund: 2024, 31-58
5. “Toppling the Statues of Favorinus & Demetrius of Phalerum”, Classical Quarterly 73 (2023) 356-61.
6. “The Unmentionable Apophthegm: An Overview of the Pagan Greek Tradition”, chapter 4 (75-96) in Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation, edd. Ashbrook Harvey; Arentzen, Johnsén, Westergren. Brill: Leiden / Boston 2020.
7. “The Fossilized Meaning of Chreia”, Mnemosyne 72 (2019) 197-228.
8. “Stridskvinnan Birgitta” in Humanitas: Festskrift till Arne Jönsson, Lund 2017, 217–230.
9. “The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers in the Digital Age”, in The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook, ed. E. Göransson et al., Toronto, 2016, 338-366.
10. “Greeks and Some Romans on the Pyramids”, in Boreas: Uppsala studies in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilizations 36 (2016) 13-25.
11. “Greek Collections of Wise and Witty Sayings”, in Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: an introduction, ed. A. Bausi, Hamburg: COMSt , 2015, 443-448.
12. “Birgittinsk bukett”, i Latinet i tiden: En festskrift till Hans Aili, ed. E. Andersson, E. Kihlman, M. Plaza, Stockholm 2014, 313-318. “Demetrios Kydones: Defending Thomas or Defending Himself”, in Knotenpunkt Byzanz. Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen [De Gruyter: Miscellanea Mediaevalia 36], Berlin/Boston 2012, pp. 439-451.

13. “Byzantine ‘Encyclopedism’, Sacro-Profane Florilegia and the Life of Saint Cyril Phileotes” in Dōron rodopoikilon: Studies in honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist, D. Searby, E. Balicka Witakowska, J. Heldt, Uppsala, 2012, 197-209.
14. “A Rhetorical Declamation of Sophonias the Monk and Paraphrast" (with Ambjörn Sjörs), Byzantinische Zeitschrift Volume 104:1 (2011) 147-182

15. “Intertitles in Stobaeus: Condensing a Culture” in Thinking Through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus, ed. Reydams-Schils, Brépols, Turnhout 2010, pp. 23-70.
16. “Non-Lucian Sources for Demonax with a New Collection of Fragments”, Symbolae Osloenses 83 (2008) 120-147 [note: some corrigenda to this article are included in issue no. 84]

17. “Thomists in Byzantium”, in Förbistringar och Förklaringar: En festskrift till Anders Piltz, ed. P. Beskow, S. Borgehammar, A. Jönsson. Lund 2007, pp. 558-567.
18. “A new prose paraphrase of carm. mor. I.2.9 by Gregory of Nazianz”Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 69 (2003) 341-353
19. “A Collection of Mathematical Problems in Cod. Ups. Gr. 8”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2003) fasc. 2 689-702
20. “The Sources of the So-Called Gnomologium Parisinum”, Revue d'histoire des textes 29 (1999) 295-300

Books:

1. En kort introduktion till den heliga Birgittas Uppenbarelser, Veritas: Stockholm 2022
2. The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, vol. 4 OUP NY 2015
3. Digital Publication of Apophthegmata et gnomae secundum alphabetum (SAWS edition 2013): Annotated edition of Greek Gnomologia by Denis Searby, Måns Bylund, Pontus Österdahl, with English translation by Denis Searby. ISBN 978-1-897747-26-1
4. The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, vol. 3 OUP NY 2012
5. The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, vol. 2 OUP NY 2008
6. The Corpus Parisinum (2 vols.) Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston NY 2007
7. The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden, vol. 1 OUP NY 2006
8. Aristotle in the Greek Gnomological Tradition, Uppsala 1998