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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]

open access: yesEarly Mediev Eur, 2023
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Simeonov G.
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Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers According to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2012
As the Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor includes a lot of information about the foreign states and tribes which were connected with the Byzantine Empire.
Błażej Cecota, Konrad Figat
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Could a Caliph Be Virtuous? Selected Aspects of the Image of Muslim Rulers in the "Chronography" of Theophanes the Confessor

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2022
The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor is one of the few Byzantine historiographical works in which so much space is devoted to the Islamic world and the first ruling caliphate.
Błażej Cecota
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Gnesioi filoi: George Syncellus and Theophanes the Confessor – Addenda

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2022
The paper provides the addenda to A. Kompa, Gnesioi filoi: the search for George Syncellus’ and Theophanes the Confessor’s own words, and the authorship of their oeuvre, Studia Ceranea 5, 2015, p. 155–230. All the expressions crucial to the stylistic and
Andrzej Kompa
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The Argead Kings of Macedonia in the 'Chronicle' of John of Nikiu

open access: yesKaranos, 2023
This essay deals with a description of the reigns of the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (Philip II, Alexander the Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus) in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu (late 7th century AD).
Maxim Kholod
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Asparuh and His People on the Lower Danube through the Eyes of Theophanes, or a Story that Was Not Meant to Happen

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2018
The Bulgarians’ settlement in the Lower Danube area constituted one of the most significant events in the history of the Balkan Peninsula in the Middle Ages. The Danube Bulgaria’s rise and its territorial expansion changed the political situation in this
Kirił Marinow
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Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz as a Byzantinist (1926–2016) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The authors summarize the academic legacy of late Oktawiusz Jurewicz and his role as a leading Polish byzantinist of the second half of the 20th century.
Kompa, Andrzej, Leszka, Mirosław J.
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Parabiblical and Biblical Chronographic Compilations in Simeon’s Bulgaria

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The paper explores the role of a lost Byzantine chronographic compilation in shaping Bulgarian historiographic model in the early 10th c. The compilation was translated into Bulgarian by order of Tsar Simeon the Great and survived in five Russian copies ...
Anna-Maria Totomanova
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A Lost Byzantine Chronicle in Slavic Translation

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2011
Until recently the so-called Slavic version of the Chronicle of George Synkellos has not been paid proper attention. The attribution of Vasilij Istrin who in the beginning of the 20th c identified the Slavic text as a translation from an abridged ...
Anna Maria Totomanova
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