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Miejsce ekfrazy w bizantynistycznej historiografii artystycznej

Vox Patrum, 2018
In Byzantium, writing ekphrases was one of the standard literary skills, de­veloped during school instruction. Yet, in Byzantine art history, the analysis of Byzantine ekphrases had long been beyond the scope of researchers who favoured rather the ...
Małgorzata Smorąg Różycka
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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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Byzantine Missions among the Magyars in the Later 10th Century?

, 2012
Byzantine missions among the Magyars during the later 10th century? For many 10th century Christian observers, as they frequently noted, the arrival of the conquering Hungarians at the end of the 9th century meant the beginning of the Apocalypse ...
Bollók, Ádám
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Introduction to Kalophony, the Byzantine Ars Nova The Anagrammatismoi and Mathemata of Byzantine Chant Translated and revised by Konstantinos Terzopoulos

, 2014
The anagrams, or more generally, the mathemata and morphologically related kalophonic forms of Byzantine melopoeia, constitute the artistic creations by which Psaltic Art is known in all its splendour and becomes an object of admiration. Kalophony as ars
Terzopoulos, Konstantinos, Stathis, Gregorios   +1 more
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Divine kingship and Afro-Byzantine political theology through syncretism: Intersections of faith, power, and art in Nubia and Ethiopia [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
This article examines how Byzantine political theology was transmitted and transformed within African Christian kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia particularly through religious art.
Professor Raita Steyn
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BYZART project (Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana): activities and outcomes

, 2019
The paper presents the main activities and outcomes of the Byzart - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana ...
Lucia Orlandi, Giulia Marsili
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Interdisciplinary Study of a 15th-Century Byzantine Embroidery Fragment from St Elisabeth’s Cathedral in Košice (Slovakia)

Religions
This study investigates a Byzantine embroidery fragment found in the Cathedral of St Elisabeth in Košice, Slovakia, which is believed to come from a 15th-century epitrachelion.
Eva Hasalová, Andrej Krivda, Alena Piatrová   +2 more
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The Mounted Angel in Byzantine Art

Visual Studies, 2020
Angels, incorruptible beings of incorporeal matter, according to the teaching of Christianity are the first and most perfect God’s creatures, members of the Church whose Head is Christ. God’s messengers, guardians and heavenly warriors, or belonging to other ranks which were later defined and classified by theologians as found in the different texts of
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An Image of Power in Transition: St. George Slaying Diocletian and the War of Images

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2019
This essay discusses the mounted image of St. George slaying an emperor within the broader context of how and why early Christian images were transformed and adapted to the early Byzantine religious style. The representational framework of Arthur Danto’s
Stephen Snyder
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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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