Idea of the Church Union at the Council of Constance: The Polish Initiative in the Byzantine Game
This article examines the international context of the Council of Constance, where, in the fall 1415, the idea of the Church union between the Latin West and the Orthodox East was voiced on behalf of the Polish King.
Nikolai Gennadievich Pashkin
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Byzantine Diplomacy, in The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, 2018, vol. I, 247-263
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Nicolas Drocourt, Drocourt, Nicolas
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What the coins from the Preslav treasure can tell us about the social status of its owner
This paper reviews the potential reason why the fifteen silver Byzantine coins (miliarensia) of Constantine VII with his son and co-Emperor Romanos II (945 – 959), part of the famous Preslav gold treasure buried in 971, could have found their way as a ...
Vladimir Penchev
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The rus’-byzantine treaty of 971: the authentic byzantine act or the chronicler’s mystification
This contribution attempts to analyze these arguments versus authenticity of document of 971 and presents a survey of the different kind of hypotheses encountered within the recent historiography.
Oleksandr Fylypchuk
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This article discusses the aims and means of the Byzantine diplomacy at the initial stage of the Council of Constance. Shortly before the opening of the Council, the Roman King Sigismund of Luxembourg and Venice concluded a truce, but the hidden struggle
Nikolai Gennadievich Pashkin
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Strategic Planning in the Middle Byzantine Period: A "Limitrophe" Policy Reintroduced?
In order to maintain or improve its political stability and overall might every state conducts certain policies, both domestic and foreign, throughout its history.
Dragan Gjalevski
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Exarch L. Fedorov on the religious policy of soviet authorities: “The government themselves regulate the dogmata of the Church in a way that seems most beneficial...” [PDF]
This article analyses a document that has up to now been unknown to the present-day historiography, i.e. a letter from the head of the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia Leonid Fedorov in which he reports about the state of aff airs in the ...
Ivan Fadeyev, Dmitry Shebalin
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Avar Embassies to Byzantium according to Menander Protector (annotated translation of the source’s fragments) [PDF]
Research objective: to provide the comments and translation of some fragments of Byzantine’s historian Menander Protector, which described the embassies from the Avars’ to Byzantine Empire.
Olesya Zhdanovich
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This article addresses historical circumstances under which the negotiations on the church union between Byzantium and Latin West started in the fifteenth century.
Nikolai Gennadievich Pashkin
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Island of Discord: Tenedos in the Fourteenth-Century Byzantine-Venetian Relations
This article examines the history of Venice’s struggle for the control over the Byzantine island of Tenedos. In the Late Middle Ages, this island was of great strategic importance, since its owner could control the passage of ships through the Hellespont
Tatiana Viktorovna Kushch
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