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The revolutionary past: decolonizing law and human rights [PDF]

, 2013
Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights.
Fitzpatrick, Peter
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D’une Méditerranée de pirates et de barbares à une Méditerranée cœur de civilisation : Strabon et la construction d’un concept unifié dans le cadre romain

Pallas, 2009
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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Serbs in the works of Demetrios Cydones [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2012
One of the main topics of the works of Cydones is the foreign policy of Byzantium. Mutual incomprehension of Byzantium and the West, the growing threat and fear of the Ottoman Turks, lack of trust and, in a way, animosity towards the neighboring ...
Pavlović Bojana
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The barbarians in Tyras in the Late Roman period [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice
After the events of the middle of the 3rd century AD, associated with mass barbarian invasions, life in Tyras resumed. The barbarians, who had settled in the steppes of the North-Western Black Sea region, became the main military and political force ...
Oleh Saveliev
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Le pouvoir et les populations extérieures à l’Empire (284-410 apr. J.-C.)

Pallas, 2023
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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Mission and/or conversion: strategies of Byzantine diplomacy [PDF]

International Journal of Orthodox Theology, 2015
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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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]

, 2019
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]

Slovo a Smysl, 2015
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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Diplomatic devices : the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan [PDF]

, 2020
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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Krvoločni osvajalci in hudičevi vojaki: »Turki« kot »barbari« v ideoloških diskurzih in slovenski folklori
The Bloodthirsty Conquerors and the Devil’s Soldiers: “the Turks” as “Barbarians” in Ideological Discourses and Slovene Folklore

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2014
This paper presents and compares the image of “the barbaric Turk” in the politicalideological discourses and the perception of “the Turk” as a dangerous, cosmos-disturbing Foreigner in Slovene folklore.
Anja Mlakar
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