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Mission and/or conversion: strategies of Byzantine diplomacy [PDF]
The religious element has always represented, inevitably, a feature of Byzantine diplomacy, offering it the instruments necessary for a fruitful dialogue with the pagan peoples in Eastern Europe.
Marius Telea
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Le pouvoir et les populations extérieures à l’Empire (284-410 apr. J.-C.)
Studies on the barbarians in the twenty-first century seek to go beyond the Roman discourse, which goes on with the vision of an emperor eternally victorious against perpetual and identical barbarian threats.
Magali Coumert
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A successful search for hidden Barbarians in the Watsonia asteroid family
Barbarians, so named after the prototype of this class (234) Barbara, are a rare class of asteroids exhibiting anomalous polarimetric properties. Their very distinctive feature is that they show negative polarization at relatively large phase-angles ...
Bagnulo, S. +4 more
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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]
Altgriechische Quellen sind voll von Verweisen auf die Musik von Völkern, die nicht griechisch sind und deshalb stereotyp als ,Barbaren‘ bezeichnet werden.
Rocconi, Eleonora
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The Insidious Poison of Degeneration: Vampires in Czech Decadence [PDF]
The article examines vampires in Czech Decadent literature as polyvalent symbols that stand simultaneously for culture as a vampiric force and for decadence as a poisonous and infectious phenomenon.
Kirsten Lodge
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Introduction: Music, Social Identity, Political Cohesion [PDF]
Zwischen dem 5. und 1. Jhdt. v. Chr. betrachteten politische Theoretiker in China und Europa Musik als nützlichen Maßstab für den politischen Charakter und Zustand von Gesellschaften und ihren Machthabern.
Eichmann, Ricardo +2 more
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Funeral traditions of Romans and barbarians of Gallia in I-III centuries AD
Death and funeral traditions in the pre-Christian era have been studied in different degree, thoroughly in the cultures of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, much less in detail in the cultures of pagans, who in Europe were commonly called barbarians.
Khrul Anastasiia
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Sidonius Apollinaris has let us the most important testimony we have of the Vth century in the Roman West. One of the main problems this member of the Romano-Gaulish political and cultural elite confronted was that of Barbarian populations and Barbarian ...
Jean-Marie Pailler
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The study of the world view propounded by Strabo in his Geography enables one to analyse the transformation of the concept of Mediterranean. Strabo’s work seems to complete the unification of Posidonius’s two worlds.
Katherine Clarke
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Diplomatic devices : the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan [PDF]
The present paper explores the social lives of European timepieces as a particular set of objects in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan, when the archipelago first encountered the “Southern Barbarians” from Portugal and Spain.
Koch, Angelika
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