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The Byzantine historiography on the state of Serbian despots [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2008 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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Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2007 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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Middle Byzantine Historiography: Tradition, Innovation, and Reception
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015 This paper provides an overview of Greek historical writing of the Middle Byzantine period (approx. 800 until 1000 A.D., with a particular focus on the major chronicles, such as Theophanesthe Confessor (early 9th c.), George the Monk (probably late 9th c.
Staffan Wahlgren
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Sozomen, Barbarians, and Early Byzantine Historiography
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2006 Sozomen in his Ecclesiastical History departs from the tradition of Eusebius, which focused on the triumph of Christianity in the Empire, in employing ethnography as a proper element of Christian historiography, emphasizing the mission of ...
Walter Stevenson
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“Byzantine Myth” in the Historiography of Pre-Mongol Rus’
Античная древность и средние векаThis article analyses the scholarly works of historians and art historians written from the mid-twentieth to the early-twenty-first century, discussing the Rus’ian-Byzantine contacts from the eleventh to thirteenth century.
Valerii Pavlovich Stepanenko
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Balcanica, 2016 The focus of the paper is on the manner in which the so-called Four Historians of the Fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks - Doukas, Laonikos Chalko?kondyles, George Sphrantzes and Kritoboulos of Imbros - describe the 1453 conquest of Constantinople, revealing at the same time their different political views both on this event ...
Maja Nikolic
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Bulgarians, Serbs, and the Rus in the Central Balkans in Byzantine historical narratives (late 10th - mid-13th century): The view from Constantinople [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2023 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]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2015 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”)
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023 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
Studia Ceranea, 2023 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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