The News on “the Germans” (οἱ Νεμίτζοι) in Byzantine Narrative Essays of 10-12th Centuries
The article is a review of the news of the Byzantine narrative sources of the 10-12th centuries, in which an ethnonym “the Germans” is mentioned. The use of this term is extremely rare in Byzantine historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ...
Maksim Igorevich Drobyshev
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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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Byzantine law as a nursery garden for legal transplants with specific review of Dusan's Code [PDF]
The term Byzantium or Byzantine Empire is used for a state creation that existed from the 4th to the 15th century, more precisely until 1453 and the fall of Constantinople due to the Ottoman conquests.
Macura Milan M.
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The Byzantine historiography on the state of Serbian despots [PDF]
The four Byzantine historians of 'the Fall' of the Byzantine Empire, Doucas Chalcocondyles, Sphrantzes and Critobulos, as well as the Byzantine short chronicles, bring many news concerning Serbian history of the first half of the XV century.
Nikolić Maja
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Byzantine Lead Seal of Constantine, Notarios and Abydikos from Bulgaria
Introduction. The paper deals with a byzantine lead seal of Constantine, notarios and abydikos, which originated from the vicinity of the medieval fortress of Rusokastro, southeastern Bulgaria. Methods.
Nikolay Kanev
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Ethics and politics of Great Moravia of the 9th century [PDF]
The author studies the role of Christianity in two forms of 9th century political ethics in the history of Great Moravia, represented by the Great Moravian rulers Rastislav and Svatopluk.
Gluchman, Vasil
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The History of the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia
The Catholic Church of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite, that is the Greek-Catholic Church (but also Roman-Catholic Church), derives its presence in the territory of Slovakia from the activities of the Holy Brothers. Their arrival in the Great Moravian Empire
Jaroslav Coranič
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Libanius the Historian? Praise and the Presentation of the Past in Or. 59 [PDF]
A study of Libanius' use of historiographical topoi in his imperial panegyric of Constans and Constantius ...
Alan J. Ross
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Menander Protector. History: On the Turkish Embassy to the Persians and Byzantines in 568 A.C. (translation and commentary) [PDF]
The article presents annotated translation from ancient Greek into Russian of the book of Menander Protector. In this text Menander Protector describes first the Turkish embassy to the Persians, and then to the Byzantines.
Olesia Zhdanovich
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