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The byzantine empire in the intercloud
ACM SIGACT News, 2010The relevance of Byzantine fault tolerance in the context of cloud computing has been questioned [3]. While arguments against Byzantine fault tolerance seemingly makes sense in the context of a single cloud, i.e., a large-scale cloud infrastructure that resides under control of a single, typically commercial provider, these arguments are less obvious ...
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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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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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The Byzantine Empire and Islam
2017The Qur'an itself contains references to the Byzantines. Indeed, Sura 30, Surat al-Rum is named after them. According to Ibn Ishaq's eighth-century hagiographical biography of Muhammad, in 628 the Prophet wrote a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius calling on him to convert to Islam. The Muslim conquest of Syria and Palestine was completed within
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Seals and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
2003For certain periods of the middle Byzantine era, seals, especially lead seals (molybdoboulla), played much the same role as do inscriptions for the Roman epoch. This chapter begins by stressing the impressive size of the epigraphic material. The number and importance vary through the centuries, but even from the most casual glance, one gets the ...
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Hagiography in the Byzantine Empire
2023Hagiography is the literary genre represented by the texts written in honor of a saint or a group of saints and unfolding as shorter or longer accounts of their biography, martyrdom, and/or other manifestations of their confession of faith. Derived from the components hagios (saint) and graphe (writing), hagiography is a term coined by European ...
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Byzantine ‘Nationalism’ and the Nicaean Empire
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1975The fall of Constantinople on the night of 13 April 1204 to the Venetians and the soldiers of the fourth crusade is taken as the crucial turning point of the history of the later Byzantine Empire. For many the final period of Byzantine history is nothing but the pathetic survival of a state built on the memories of its former greatness. This is in many
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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 Byzantine Empire, 1025–1118
2004In 992 Basil II encouraged their activities by reducing the tolls on their ships paid for passage through the Hellespont to Constantinople. The effect was to favour Constantinople's role as the clearing house of Mediterranean trade. It underlined Constantinople's position as the cross-roads of the medieval world. This brought the Byzantine empire great
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