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Divine Diplomacy in the late Eleventh Century
The subject of the XXIV Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies was Byzantine Diplomacy and many of the papers dealt with high-level contacts between Byzantium and other medieval states.
Rosemary Morris
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Cheynet Jean-Claude. Jonathan Shepard and Simon Franklin (Éd.), Byzantine Diplomacy. Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 51, 1993. pp.
Cheynet, Jean-Claude
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Blue Economy Struggles—Capital and Power in the Global Ocean: Introduction
ABSTRACT If we heed the calls of fisher movements, coastal communities and environmentalists worldwide a striking picture emerges: the ocean is being claimed, carved up and commodified at an unprecedented scale. This symposium, comprising four contributions and an introductory essay, debates this ongoing capitalist capture of the oceans in the Blue ...
Felix Mallin
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Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Byzantine-Frankish relations portrayed in the letters of Merovingian monarchs to Emperor Justinian I [PDF]
The following article is the first part of a broader study dedicated to diplomatic relations between Merovingian monarchs and the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century.
Bętkowski, Mateusz
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
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
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