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Godišnjak, 2022 The post-Byzantine historian Laonikos Chalkocondyles pioneers a unique approach to the writing of the Byzantine history. A marked difference from both previous and contemporary Byzantine historians is his generally positive and benevolent attitude toward
Darko Krstić
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.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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Libanius the Historian? Praise and the Presentation of the Past in Or. 59 [PDF]
, 2017 A study of Libanius' use of historiographical topoi in his imperial panegyric of Constans and Constantius ...
Alan J. Ross
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The Nomads and Byzantine Empire in the Writings of Early Byzantine Historians of the 4th–6th centuries » [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2015 Based on the information of Byzantine authors (Ammianus Marcellinus, Priscus Panites, Procopius of Caesarea, Agathius Myrine, Menander Protector), this paper explores the relationship between the Byzantines and nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe ...
Olesia Zhdanovich
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Vizantijskaja derevjannaja skul'ptura [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014 The paper is devoted to the Byzantine wooden sculpture, least known and conserved segment of artistic creativity in Byzantine empire. All such artefacts, well known to experts for a long time, are commented in the text.
Pucko Vasilij
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Linear Scalarization for Byzantine-robust learning on non-IID data [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In this work we study the problem of Byzantine-robust learning when data among clients is heterogeneous. We focus on poisoning attacks targeting the convergence of SGD. Although this problem has received great attention; the main Byzantine defenses rely on the IID assumption causing them to fail when data distribution is non-IID even with no attack. We
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Views from the East: changing attitudes to Venice in late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.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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Old and new coins in Southern Hispania in the sixth century A.D [PDF]
, 2016 The purpose of this paper is to analyse the behaviour of monetary circulation in Southern Hispania in the 6th century AD. During this time, there was a visible renewal of the monetary stock.
Mora-Serrano, Bartolome
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Solon: Communication-efficient Byzantine-resilient Distributed Training via Redundant Gradients [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 There has been a growing need to provide Byzantine-resilience in distributed model training. Existing robust distributed learning algorithms focus on developing sophisticated robust aggregators at the parameter servers, but pay less attention to balancing the communication cost and robustness.
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Tractoriae and the logistics of Carolingian entourages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 158-182, May 2025.Entourages played a central role in Carolingian politics and military organization. Yet historians have neglected the important question of how kings and magnates supplied their retinues. This article investigates that topic by examining an overlooked genre of evidence: tractoriae or royal letters of requisition.
Eric J. Goldberg
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