Bulgarians, Serbs, and the Rus in the Central Balkans in Byzantine historical narratives (late 10th - mid-13th century): The view from Constantinople [PDF]
This paper analyzes the information provided in the Byzantine historical narratives composed between the end of the 10th and mid-13th century on Bulgarians, Serbs and the Rus as these peoples permanently settled or just temporarily resided in ...
Nikolić Maja, Pavlović Bojana
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Deconstructing the narrative, constructing a meaning: Why was the Alexiad written? [PDF]
In the present article I offer a narratological approach to Byzantine historiography and an aim to elucidate the key elements of narrative theory that would be useful for investigating medieval Byzantine histories and their complex narrative ...
Vilimonović Larisa
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The Question of Byzantine Armenia in “Ancient Armenian Geography” (or “Ashkharatsuyts”)
Introduction. Until now, the issue of four Byzantine (Justinian) Armenias in historiography has been considered according to the data of the Byzantine historian of the 6th century Procopius of Caesarea, which does not give grounds for a final ...
Hakob Harutyunyan
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The Birth of the Myth About the Byzantine-Bulgarian War of 863
The Byzantine-Bulgarian relationship from the mid-9th to the early 10th century has attracted the attention of historians for years. However, this topic is fraught with multiple myths and misconceptions. The Byzantine invasion of Bulgarian territories in
Kostiantyn Bardola
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Manuele I Comneno e la crociata: uno strumento di egemonia imperiale?
Historiography has often read in battle of Miriocephalus (1176), in which the Seljuks of Rûm severely defeated the Byzantine army, a sort of “Byzantine crusade”.
Carlo Venturi
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Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples [PDF]
This article analyzes two instances where Byzantine historians Anna Komnene and Nikephoros Gregoras used a syntagm about intimate and dedicated friendship between two ancient Greek mythological heroes, Orestes and Pylades.
Korać Dušan, Radić Radivoj
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Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz as a Byzantinist (1926–2016) [PDF]
The authors summarize the academic legacy of late Oktawiusz Jurewicz and his role as a leading Polish byzantinist of the second half of the 20th century.
Kompa, Andrzej, Leszka, Mirosław J.
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Between sacrilegium and ἀνδρομανία. Justinian’s Law in the Testimonies of Byzantine Historians
The Roman legislator regulated various sexual attitudes, according to him, morally reprehensible: fornication, adultery, prostitution, pedophilia, sodomy and homosexuality. Republican leges, and later imperial leges, concerned the problems connected with
Ewa Gajda
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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 Pink: Alexis Gritchenko’s Narrative of Constantinople
Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko (Oleksa Hryshchenko), who lived in Istanbul between November 1919 and April 1921 during the occupation of the Allied forces, opened the Constantinople Bleu et Rose exhibition in Paris in 1923, where he displayed his ...
Emir Alışık
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