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Suicide in the Byzantine Empire.
Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki, 2014Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law.
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2023
Chapter 1 charts the declining diplomatic and territorial importance of the Byzantine polity of Antioch in the years between 1050 and the fall of city to the Anatolian Seljuq ruler Sulayman b. Qutlumush in 1084. It presents a new chronology for the decline of Byzantine influence from 1062 onwards.
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Chapter 1 charts the declining diplomatic and territorial importance of the Byzantine polity of Antioch in the years between 1050 and the fall of city to the Anatolian Seljuq ruler Sulayman b. Qutlumush in 1084. It presents a new chronology for the decline of Byzantine influence from 1062 onwards.
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2009
Abstract In the context of the other “empires” being discussed in this volume, the Byzantine example is something of an anomaly. First, it was for most of its existence— from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E.—territorially rather small (restricted largely to the southern Balkans and Asia Minor); second, although historians from ...
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Abstract In the context of the other “empires” being discussed in this volume, the Byzantine example is something of an anomaly. First, it was for most of its existence— from the seventh to the fifteenth century C.E.—territorially rather small (restricted largely to the southern Balkans and Asia Minor); second, although historians from ...
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Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire
2014This chapter focuses on the history of leprosy within the Byzantine Empire. Over the years, Byzantine society debated the social, religious, and medical implications of leprosy, which they usually called “elephantiasis,” or “Elephant Disease.” Moreover, Byzantine ecclesiastical and political leaders managed to create an environment in which victims ...
Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt
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Armenians in the Byzantine Empire
2023Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from the ninth through eleventh centuries. Utilising primary sources from multiple traditions, the evidence is clear that until the eleventh century Armenian migrants were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, in time recognized fully as
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2008
Abstract For a modern observer in the Balkans, traces of the region’s prehistory and early history are readily found. Visitors can explore the tells (sites of ancient settlements where successive layers of homes created large artificial hills) of the Bulgarian plains, the Lion Gate at the fortress of Mycenae in Greece, or the magnificent
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Abstract For a modern observer in the Balkans, traces of the region’s prehistory and early history are readily found. Visitors can explore the tells (sites of ancient settlements where successive layers of homes created large artificial hills) of the Bulgarian plains, the Lion Gate at the fortress of Mycenae in Greece, or the magnificent
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The Fall of the Byzantine Empire
2021This chapter analyzes the Byzantine Empire. After Rome had completely collapsed, Byzantium was a center of power, prosperity, and culture. There was a rough period in the 600s and 700s, when it was victimized by barbarian invasion, but it recovered well.
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The heart of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, began life in the seventh century BCE as a Greek colony known as Byzantium. While its location along the Bosporus, the narrow strip of water connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara (providing access to the Mediterranean), has always given the city an important place along trade routes, it was ...
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Monasticism in the Byzantine Empire
2020AbstractModern scholars are in a good position to write broad, engaging, and coherent accounts of Byzantine monasticism, ones that explain its vital role in politics and society, its remarkable resiliency in response to historical change, and its lasting contribution to values and culture.
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Governing the Byzantine Empire
2023This chapter seeks to move the conversation surrounding governance and administration in the medieval Roman Empire away from the emperor and his court, instead examining the administrative system at multiple levels, both in Constantinople and in the more remote provinces.
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