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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2019
The Mani Peninsula is home to hundreds of Orthodox Christian churches that were built within the last millennium. As in other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean countryside, the topological relationship between churches and settlements is a critical ...
Seifried Rebecca M., Kalaycı Tuna
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THE HISTORY OF THE CAVE-CHURCH IN COPTIC EGYPT [PDF]

open access: yesالمجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2015
The paper spots the light on the origin of the Cave-Shrine in ancient Egypt: how it appeared in the Pharaonic period, disappeared, and reappeared in the Byzantine period in the so-called the Cave-Church.
Heba Magdy
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The enduring embodiment of Byzantine culture and symbolism in the Eastern Orthodox Church

open access: yesLusitania Sacra, 2023
The architectural style of the Eastern Orthodox Church temples in the twentieth century, in most countries that were under the Byzantine Empire, has had minor changes since the fall of the Empire.
Bouchra Assa'ad Tohme
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Burial practices in early Byzantine Syro-Palestine (4th–7th centuries CE) – review article [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2022
The paper summarises current knowledge of burial customs in Syro-Palestine in the early Byzantine period (4th–7th centuries CE). It identifies elements that constituted the continuation of burial practices from the Roman period (1st–3rd centuries CE) as ...
Mariusz Gwiazda
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Congresses of Velehrad

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2002
The desire for unity among Christians, called the popular term "ecumenism", has its origins. The split between the Byzantine and Catholic churches finally established itself in the minds of ordinary people after the Crusades and the capture of the ...
N.M. Madey
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Comments on the artistic interchange between conquered Byzantium and Venice as well as on its political background [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2012
Political choices and historical imperatives dictated a rapprochement of the Eastern and Western Churches in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Venetian state, attracted by the superiority of Byzantine culture, always coveted a seat among its ...
Drakopoulou Eugenia
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Archaic architectural foundations of the former churches from the area of today's Yimok diocese in the Black River (Crna Reka) area [PDF]

open access: yesBaština, 2023
Although our theoretical consideration of the former churches in the area of Crna Reka is based exclusively on the analysis of the foundations of the churches and indirect observations and analogies, the hitherto sporadic interpretations, based on ...
Janjić Dragana J.   +1 more
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Anno 1928 competition for projects of Orthodox Churches in the Second Polish Republic: in searching new architectural identity

open access: yesBudownictwo i Architektura, 2013
Staying of Polish lands in the Russian Empire was accompanied by active construction of Orthodox churches in “Moscow-Byzantine” style. After regeneration of II Rzeczpospolita its authorities try to generate such new trends in church architecture, which ...
Petro Rychkov, Olga Mykhaylyshyn
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Liturgical Translation in Europe’s Medieval East: Matters of Civilization and Textual Praxis

open access: yesEast/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2023
The paper focuses on the medieval period of the history of liturgical translation in Ukraine and Poland. In the ninth century, the evangelizing mission of SS Cyril and Methodius brought Christian translations to the east of what was then Europe ...
Taras Shmiher
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The Christianisation of the Peloponnese : the case for strategic change

open access: yes, 2015
The issue of the persistence of paganism is now quite well considered; however, it is only in recent times that the same concern approached from another perspective, the multifaceted nature of the Christianisation of the Peloponnese, has become the topic
Rebecca Sweetman, Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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