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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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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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Blockweave: An Arweave‐Based Decentralized Storage Solution to Tackle the Blockchain Trilemma

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2025.
Leveraging Arweave's blockweave and Proof‐of‐Access consensus, this framework reduces on‐chain metadata to 48 bytes, enabling throughput up to 7200 TPS, 99%$$ 99\% $$ storage savings, and robust security (Q(0.4)=0.82)$$ \left(\mathrm{Q}(0.4)=0.82\right) $$ while achieving Tier‐S decentralization on $300 mining nodes.
Saha Reno, Koushik Roy, Tamanna Tabassum
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Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147

, 2008
This thesis aims to revise the established history of the passage of the Second Crusade through the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia in 1147. In particular, it seeks to readdress the ill-fated advance of the army nominally headed by King Conrad III Staufen ...
Roche, Jason T.
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Tractoriae and the logistics of Carolingian entourages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 158-182, May 2025.
Entourages played a central role in Carolingian politics and military organization. Yet historians have neglected the important question of how kings and magnates supplied their retinues. This article investigates that topic by examining an overlooked genre of evidence: tractoriae or royal letters of requisition.
Eric J. Goldberg
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Byzantine perceptions of the outsider in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : a method

, 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
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender

International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
wiley   +1 more source

Descriptions of battle in the Wars of Procopius [PDF]

Procopius of Caesarea wrote a classicizing history of the wars of Justinian, which focuses squarely on warfare in an age when his contemporaries were often directing their attention towards theological matters.
Whately, Conor Campbell
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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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Xth century byzantine army according to two anonymous Byzantine sources

, 2014
The tradition of Byzantine military texts considered as continuation of the Greek war narrative which goes back to IVth century B.C. Along with the political, technological, religious, economic and geographical changes Byzantine military texts have built
Bozalioğlu, Tuğçe Müge Sakarya
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