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Zograf, 2009 This article analyzes a fresco from the ninth or tenth century preserved in a sepulchre church at Guzelyurt (ancient Karbala) in Cappadocia. Two officers of the Byzantine army, Leon, a skribon, who is buried there, and Michael, a turmarch, are depicted ...
Jolivet-Levy Catherine
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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
Studia Ceranea, 2015 Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian.
Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka
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Harald Sigurdsson and the Russo-Byzantine War of 1043
Slovene, 2014 The present article analyzes Kekaumenos’ commentary on the service of Harald Sigurdsson in the Byzantine army. Special attention is given to the composition of Consilia et Narrationes and the historiographic perception of this text.
Oleksandr M. Fylypchuk
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Synowie Hagar. Wiedza bizantyńczyków o armii arabskiej w świetle traktatów wojskowych z IX i X wieku
Vox Patrum, 2015 Arab military expansion was a real challenge to the Byzantine Empire. The defeats sustained in wars with the Arabs, whom the Byzantines called sometimes Hagarenes to refer to Biblical Hagar, forced new method of war waging.
Teresa Wolińska
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The Images of War in the Byzantine Historical Literature of the 10th Century: Nikephoros Ouranos
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016 The reign of Basil II is considered by historians to be the time of the highest military and political power of Byzantium in modern historiography. Despite this fact, many issues connected with the period of 976-1025 remains poorly studied.
Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Wojsko pogańskiej Bułgarii w opinii bizantyńczyków. Wybrane aspekty
Vox Patrum, 2015 The present text focuses on presenting opinions of the Byzantines about the rulers of pagan Bulgaria as military leaders and reasons given by Byzantine authors explaining mishaps of their troops in battles against Bulgaria.
Mirosław J. Leszka
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Simeonov G.
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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?
The English Historical ReviewAbstract: The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the most famous examples of a group of lavishly furnished graves of the late sixth and early seventh centuries in south-east England. The discovery in 2003 of another, at Prittlewell (in Southend, Essex), and its publication in 2019, has brought our knowledge of them into sharper focus.
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Rapp C.
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Nuova Antologia MilitareThis article examines the Nomos Stratiōtikos as a source of military law in the Eastern Roman Empire. Traditionally interpreted by scholarship as a mere compilation derived from Justinianic legal material, the text is here reconsidered through the ...
Danilo Ceccarelli Morolli
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