Publications

Monograph

Whalin, D. (2020): Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. 315 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60906-1

Co-Edited Volume

Sode C. and Whalin D., eds. (forthcoming): Realism and Hagiography. Journal of Ancient History Supplemental Series. Journal of Ancient History: 335 pp.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

Whalin, D. (forthcoming): “Miraculous realist landscape in Late Antique Syria,” in C. Sode and D. Whalin, eds. Realism in Hagiography. Journal of Ancient History Supplemental Series. Journal of Ancient History: 71-96.

Sode C. and Whalin D. (forthcoming): “Introduction,” in C. Sode and D. Whalin, eds. Realism in Hagiography. Journal of Ancient History Supplemental Series. Journal of Ancient History: 1-24.

Whalin, D. (2026): “Talisman or conduit? Beliefs about statuary and miracles,” in R. Denson and C. Spence, eds. The Christian and the Supernatural in Late Antiquity. Trivent Publishing: 241-274. https://doi.org/10.22618/TP.CSLA.2026.388

Whalin, D. (2021): “Mountains and the holy in Late Antiquity,” in Dawn Hollis, Jason König, eds. Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity. Bloomsbury: 89-107. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350162853.ch-005

Whalin, D. (2019): “A note reconsidering the message of Heraclius’ silver hexagram, circa AD 615,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112/1: 221-232. https://doi.org/10.1515/bz-2019-0011

Whalin, D. (2016): “Bede and the Syriac Chroniclers: Interactions of Subject and Genre in Contemporaneous Historiography,” in Ilya Afanasyev, Juliana Dresvina and Erik Kooper, eds. The Medieval Chronicle X. Leiden; Boston. Brill: 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004318779_010

Reviews

Whalin, D. (2024): “Kasper, Michael / Rollinger, Robert / Rudigier, Andreas / Wieshöfer, Josef (eds.), Religion in den Bergen. Sakrale Orte, Heiligtümer, Performanz, Mythos und Alltagsleben. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2023.” Reviewed for Orbis Terrarum, Franz Steiner Verlag, Vol. 22 (2024), pp. 344-347. https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515138826

Whalin, D. (2021): “Sadi Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity: a study of the evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) 2021.06.36. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.06.36/

Whalin, D. (2018): “David Frendo and Athanasios Fotiou, John Kaminiates: The Capture of Thessaloniki: Translation, Introduction and Notes. Byzantina Australiensia 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) 2018.06.36. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.06.36/

Whalin, D. (2014): “J.E. Cooper and M. Decker, Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (BMGS) 38.2: 285–293. https://doi.org/10.1179/0307013114z.00000000049

Whalin, D. (2014): “Peter Bell, Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian: Its Nature, Management, and Mediation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.” Reviews in History 1660. https://doi.org/10.14296/rih/2014/1660

Encyclopedia Entries

Whalin, D. (2016): “Conquest of Jerusalem by the Sassanians (614);” “Muslim invasion of Egypt (641) and the creation of the Coptic Church;” and “Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681),” in Holt and Curta, eds. Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. 2 Vols. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO Greenwood. Vol. 2 pp. 340-342; 355-358; 374-376.