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My (post‐)post‐socialism: A personal photo essay
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
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One of the most intriguing moments in the history of the use of protective arms in the Byzantine army is the message of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his treatise "On the ceremonies of the Byzantine court".
Gennady Baranov
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MILITARY UNIT OF THE SCYTHAE IUSTINIANI: TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF ITS FORMATION
Introduction. Evidence of the military unit of the Scythae Iustiniani has been preserved in papyrus documents of the 6th century from Thebais. The presented article is intended to answer the questions of when and for what purpose this military unit
Andrey Nazarov
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The Theme System and Byzantine Provincial Armed Forces at the Early Palaeologian Period (1259–1328)
Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the state, nature and the leadership system of stratiotic forces as part of the Byzantine provincial armed forces of the Early Palaeologian period.
Vladimir A. Zolotovskiy
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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The two earliest international treaties in the history of Slavic law [PDF]
The Russia-Byzantium treaties of 911 and 944 are the two earliest international agreements in the Slavic legal history, which have justifiably drawn considerable attention of legal historians since the mid-19th century.
Nikolić Dragan
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Retired Army Bulletin, Vol. II
Bulletin published by the United States Department of the Army for it's retirees, featuring the article "Action on Army Retiree Councils ...
Department of the Army
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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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