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A Fountain of Fire: Idolatry, Alterity, and Ethnicity in Byzantine Book Illumination

Arts, 2023
This article examines the visual representation of pagan idols in Byzantine book illumination and investigates how such images were employed to convey a sense of geographical or ethnic distance.
Giovanni Gasbarri
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Alexander’s Gate and the Unclean Nations: Translation, Textual Appropriation, and the Construction of Barriers

TranscUlturAl, 2016
The Alexander Romance and the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius deserve a place in any discussion of the impact of the translator’s work on the construction of memory in multicultural societies.
Benjamin Garstad
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The Flying King: the novelistic Alexander (Pseudo-Callisthenes 2.41) and the traditions of the Ancient Orient

Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2020
The story of Alexander’s flight is preserved in early Byzantine versions of the Alexander Romance (codex L, recensions λ and γ) but is already mentioned by Rabbi Jonah of Tiberias (4th century AD) in the Jerusalem Talmud.
Ioannis M. Konstantakos
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Suites arcadiennes : le roman sidnéien au-delà de sa fin

Etudes Epistémè, 2022
Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia (first published in 1590, but which had been circulating in manuscript form for a few years) gave rise to multiple imitations and continuations in seventeenth-century Britain ...
Aurélie Griffin
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L’image d’Alexandre le Conquérant chez les chroniqueurs byzantins (VIe-XIIe siècles)

Kentron, 2001
The chapter devoted to Alexander the Great in Byzantine chronicles usually consists of a juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements : historical data, borrowings from the Alexander Romance, passages drawn from the Judaeo ...
Corinne Jouanno
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Alexander Blok’s “The Rose and the Cross” and Charles Robert Maturin’s “Melmoth the Wanderer” [PDF]

Литературный факт, 2023
This article deals with Alexander Blok’s symbolist drama “The Rose and the Cross” (1913), the main idea of which is the tragedy of love and death. There is no doubt that this play reflected the writer’s own experiences, national literary associations ...
Mark G. Altshuller
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On Byzantine origins of figural miniatures of Belgrade Alexandride [PDF]

Zograf, 2013
The late antique literary biography of Alexander the Great known as Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Alexander Romance was remarkably popular reading both in Byzantium and in the West in the middle ages.
Živković Miloš
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Gog and Magog: the renditions of Alexander the Great from the context of different pre-Islamic to Islamic traditions. [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2019
This article follows the one published in Verbum et Ecclesia (Sukdaven & Ahmed, 2017: 1-10) which is associated with the Timbuktu Project at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Dr Maniraj Sukdaven
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Alexander Blok as a reader of courtly literature: the origin of some motifs and characters in the drama "The Rose and the Cross" [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2021
This article studies mediaeval sources of The Rose and the Cross that influenced the representation of the imagery of the mediaeval world in this text. It gives a review of relevant literature on this topic and demonstrates, among other things, that Blok’
Maria Efimova
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