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Reconsidering the 1095 novella of Alexios I Komenenos: A testimony to the Byzantinization of the Slavic population [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
The Novella issued by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1095 regulates the process of proving freedom for persons descended from “Bulgarians and the like” and the introduction of mandatory religious marriage, which scholarship tends to
Ilić Tamara
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetoric in history: Nikephoros Gregoras and his portrayal of Andronikos II palaiologos [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
The paper examines the rhetorical tools employed by the Byzantine historian Nikephoros Gregoras to create a complex and multilayered portrait of the emperor Andronikos II.
Pavlović Bojana
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Self-Stabilization, Byzantine Containment, and Maximizable Metrics: Necessary Conditions [PDF]

, 2011
Self-stabilization is a versatile approach to fault-tolerance since it permits a distributed system to recover from any transient fault that arbitrarily corrupts the contents of all memories in the system.
Dubois, Swan, Masuzawa, Toshimitsu, Tixeuil, Sébastien   +2 more
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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

John I Tzimiskes and Basil II: Two approaches to the Byzantine policy in the Balkans [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
The text analyzes different methods and principles implemented by emperors John I Tzimiskes and Basil II during the pacification and integration of the Balkans into the Byzantine political and legal framework.
Cvetković Miloš
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
wiley   +1 more source

Tight Mobile Byzantine Tolerant Atomic Storage

, 2015
This paper proposes the first implementation of an atomic storage tolerant to mobile Byzantine agents. Our implementation is designed for the round-based synchronous model where the set of Byzantine nodes changes from round to round.
Bonomi, Silvia, Del Pozzo, Antonella, Potop-Butucaru, Maria   +2 more
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Stall‐Free Asynchronous State Repartitioning With a Proactive Workload Tracking Window

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 38, Issue 3, February 2026.
ABSTRACT High‐throughput stateful applications rely on dynamic data repartitioning to adapt to changing workloads, but this process presents significant challenges. This paper provides a detailed analysis of such challenges, drilling down into the tradeoffs between adaptation, computational overhead, and service availability. We identify that a primary
Douglas Pereira Luiz, Odorico Machado Mendizabal   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the O(n^2) Bit Barrier: Scalable Byzantine agreement with an Adaptive Adversary [PDF]

, 2010
We describe an algorithm for Byzantine agreement that is scalable in the sense that each processor sends only $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$ bits, where $n$ is the total number of processors.
King, Valerie, Saia, Jared
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