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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Rational Design of High‐Entropy Materials for Photo and Electrocatalytic Applications

Small Structures, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2025.
This review highlights high‐entropy materials (HEMs) as a promising platform for advancing energy conversion and environmental catalysis, particularly in photocatalytic water splitting along with organic waste degradation and electrocatalytic OER and HER. The stability, scalability, and cost‐effectiveness are critically discussed, along with the merits
Binod Raj KC, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti
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“Then So Did the General’s Lady with Great Magnificence”: the Role of Noble Women in Byzantine Provincial Military Family

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The article is devoted to the role of women in the families of the Byzantine provincial military nobility, in the middle of 9th – middle of 11th century. This issue remains poorly understood in historiography, and it is surely very urgent in light of the
Anton S. Mokhov, Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Byzantium: The Social Basis of Decline in the Eleventh Century

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2001
Of the various problems that undermined Byzantine strength in the 11th century, the two most serious were the conflict between the landed military aristocracy and the civil administration, and the religious and ethnic conflicts of the diverse national ...
Speros Vryonis, Jr
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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Constantinopolitan Charioteers and Their Supporters

Studia Ceranea, 2011
Support in sport is certainly one of the oldest human passions. Residents of the eastern Roman imperial capital cheered the chariot drivers The passion for supporting the drivers was common for all groups and social classes. The hippodrome was visited by
Teresa Wolińska, Katarzyna Gucio
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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The Byzantine Army in 626–628 AD: Near East Frontier and Armenian Provinces

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2018
Two aspects of the Byzantine military organization in 626–628 AD were considered: the role and status of Armenian ethnic units within the Byzantine army and the measures of Emperor Heraclius for reestablishment the Byzantine defense system in the Near ...
E.A. Mekhamadiev
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