This book, with its intense study of the texts within Byzantine Psalters and its rich and comprehensive engagement with the secondary literature across all the many languages at work in Byzantine Studies provides a fresh new point of departure and an essential reference work. The appendices are an indispensable resource for understanding the extent of the corpus of Byzantine Psalters, their variety, their texts, and their use. Anyone who wishes to work with Byzantine Psalters, no matter their disciplinary identity, will find endless riches in this impressive work of observation and scholarship.

Georgi R. Parpulov. Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters ca. 850-1350 AD. Plovdiv, 2014.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Charles Barber, Princeton University