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Byzantine perceptions of the outsider in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : a method

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis examines the portrayal of outsiders in Michael Psellos's Chronographia, Anna Komnene's Alexiad, and Niketas Choniates's Narrative - using sociological theories of deviancy.
Smythe, Dion Clive
core  

Byzantine Multiple Access

open access: yesCoRR, 2019
Part II is an extended version of the paper titled "Multiple Access Channels with Adversarial Users" to be presented at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory ...
Neha Sangwan   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Essence of Crisis Decision‐Making: Saving Ravenna During the 2023 Floods

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores decision‐making processes in crisis situations by proposing an interpretive framework grounded in multiple criteria of rationality. Crises, characterized by uncertainty, urgency, and ethical dilemmas, require critical choices that go beyond standard procedures.
Alexandra D'Angelo, Federico Toth
wiley   +1 more source

The 'Synopsis Chronike' and its place in the Byzantine chronicle tradition: its sources (Creation – 1081 CE)

open access: yes, 2008
The subject of this thesis is the Synopsis Chronike (or Synopsis Sathas), a Byzantine chronicle of the thirteenth century that conveys the history of the world, starting from Adam and concluding with the recapture of Constantinople in 1261.
Zafeiris, Konstantinos A.
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ByzRev 07.2025.022: Aleksandar Jovanović, Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, c.1223--1259: (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022.

open access: yes
Aleksandar Jovanović, Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, c.1223–1259 (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022. xiii, 255 pp.
Ciolfi, Lorenzo Maria
core   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 496-506, June 2026.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

My (post‐)post‐socialism: A personal photo essay

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract The paper is a multi‐modal, autoethnographic exploration of the visual remnants of lived post‐communism in a typical block of flats neighborhood of a Romanian city. By using film and digital photography, alongside narrative reflection, the author summons memories and blends observed and lived reality with creative non‐fiction to build an ...
Oana Borlea‐Stăncioi
wiley   +1 more source

Protocolos tolerantes a faltas bizantinas para transações em bancos de dados [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Automação e Sistemas, Florianópolis, 2015.No âmbito de sistemas computacionais, a noção de transações constitui um dos elementos ...
Luiz, Aldelir Fernando
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Funerary Mosaic Found in Northern Syria

open access: yesJournal of Mosaic Research, 2016
A mosaic was discovered in 2007, in a funerary chamber at Frykia village in northern Syria, by the excavation service of the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of Syria.
Komait ABDALLAH
doaj  

Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 409-420, June 2026.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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