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Accounts of single combat in Byzantine historiography: 10th - 14th centuries

Acta Classica, 2016
Accounts of single combat between heroic figures feature prominently in descriptions of battle that can be found in the works of historians of the middle and late periods of Byzantine history. This article investigates the characteristics of single combat in Byzantine historiography and examines how different authors used descriptions of single combat ...
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The Rulers of European Nomads and Early Mediaeval Byzantine Historiography

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2005
The dynamics of socio-political evolution of nomadic societies depends on many internal and external factors, leadership being a special one amongst them. There was interrelation between the power of nomadic empires and their significant rulers. The investigation of ethno-symbolic content of leadership makes possible to present rulers of nomadicempires
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The Prophetic Legend of Emperor Marcian in Byzantine Historiography

The Near East and Georgia
The article examines the intersection of social hierarchy, captivity, and divine symbolism through the legend of Emperor Marcian (r. 450–457) as narrated by Procopius of Caesarea (6th c), Evagrius Svholasticus (6th c.), and Theophanes the Confessor (8th-9th c.).
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Byzantine historiography and modern Greek oral poetry: the case of Rapsomatis

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1986
In the ninth book of the Alexiad, Anna Comnene tells the story of the simultaneous revolts against her father Alexios which broke out in Crete and Cyprus in the year 1093. The rising in Crete was shortlived, as the Cretans changed their minds and murdered their leader on hearing the news that the emperor’s fleet was approaching.
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Towards a New History of Byzantine Literature: The Case of Historiography

2018
Byzantium's many histories and chronicles are often disdained because of repetition and inaccuracy, so modern historians now turn to other sources for historical research. But the abundance of histories suggests a fondness for narrative as being significant in Byzantine culture, which merits discussion in any proper treatment of its history.
Ingela Nilsson, Roger Scott
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The Byzantine City and Its Historiography

2023
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Introduction:

2023
Benjamin Anderson, Mirela Ivanova
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Alexander Alexakis – Dimitrios S. Georgakopoulos (Hrsg.), Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language and Literature and Palaeography, from Byzantine Historiography to Post-Byzantine Poetry.

The Byzantine Review, Bd. 6 (2024)
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The Corpus of Byzantine Historiography

2015
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A Collective Bibliography Toward a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies

2023
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