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Chastity or procreation? Models of sanctity for Byzantine laymen during the Iconoclastic and Post-Iconoclastic period [PDF]

, 2013
This article presents evidence for married saints, which can be dated to the early ninth century, and compares such material with hagiographical data about chaste laymen from the tenth century.
Cardiff University, Krausmuller, Dirk
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The Byzantine apocalyptic tradition a fourteenth-century Serbian version of the Apocalypse of Anastasia [PDF]

, 2011
Early translations of the Apocalypse of Anastasia into Old Church Slavonic appear in several versions incorporated into miscellanies of the zbornik (collection) type. These texts belong to various genres of religious prose and are usually assembled in
Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja
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Reliable Broadcast despite Mobile Byzantine Faults [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
We investigate the solvability of the Byzantine Reliable Broadcast and Byzantine Broadcast Channel problems in distributed systems affected by Mobile Byzantine Faults. We show that both problems are not solvable even in one of the most constrained system models for mobile Byzantine faults defined so far.
arxiv  

Creating an »Orthodox« Past: Georgian Hagiography and the Construction of a Denominational Identity

, 2019
In the early Middle Ages, Georgia consisted of two kingdoms. The western part was called Egrisi by the local inhabitants, and Lazica by the Byzantines and to the east of the Likhi range of mountains was Kartli, known as Iberia to outsiders.
E. Leeming
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St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements [PDF]

, 2012
The trial at Orleans in 1022 of a group of aristocratic clergy, who included the confessor of Queen Constance of France, and their followers on the charge of heresy is the most fully reported among the group of heresy trials which were conducted in the
Hamilton, Bernard, Hamilton, Janet
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
wiley   +1 more source

Dream Archaeology [PDF]

, 2017
A paper on dreams in Greek archaeology prepared for a 2010 Presidential Lecture series at the University of North ...
William Caraher
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantine Dispersion on Graphs [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper considers the problem of Byzantine dispersion and extends previous work along several parameters. The problem of Byzantine dispersion asks: given $n$ robots, up to $f$ of which are Byzantine, initially placed arbitrarily on an $n$ node anonymous graph, design a terminating algorithm to be run by the robots such that they eventually reach a ...
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PSELLOS’ HAGIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS: RESOURCES AND NEW DIRECTIONS [PDF]

, 2021
Resources available for Byzantine scholarship in general and for studying Psellos in particular have improved greatly in recent years. Electronic databases assist editors of texts in isolating an author’s stylistic habits and in identifying parallel and ...
Fisher, Elizabeth A.
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