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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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Contemporary Historiography on Christianity in Vandal and Byzantine Africa (1785-2020)

Revista de Historiografía, 2021
The present chapter examines the historiography of Vandal and Byzantine religion from ca. 1785 to the present. Until relatively recently, extended studies of post-Roman North Africa were scarce.
Andy Merrills
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874

Historical Review, 2015
This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
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“Byzantine Myth” in the Historiography of Pre-Mongol Rus’

Античная древность и средние века
This 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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Many Hands Without Design:The Evolution of a Medieval Prophetic Text [PDF]

, 2014
This article reconstructs the pre-manuscript history of the Sibylla Tiburtina, a late antique prophetic text, very widespread after c.1000. It argues against the prevailing belief that a single intelligence structured the Latin text to a single meaning ...
Holdenried, Anke
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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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TEXTBOOKS AND TEMPLATES IN BYZANTINE STUDIES

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2018
Though the modern study of Byzantine civilisation and history dates back to the late 19th century, the establishment of a definitive introductory textbook in the English language would be a slow process that would not culminate until the 1950’s.
Matthew Gray Marsh
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Medieval Chersonesus in the Second Half of the 13th Century: a city, a village, a trading post?

Археология евразийских степей, 2022
The paper addresses the results of the study of medieval Chersonesus as a municipal structure in the second half of 13th century. Historiography was previously dominated by the viewpoint that in that time period Chersonesus remained a major trade, craft ...
Ushakov Sergey V. , Bayburtsky Arkadiy M.   +1 more
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“Philosopher” and “Philosophy” in Kyivan Rus’ Written Sources: of the 11-14th centuries. The Need for a new Asking of the “Old” Question

Sententiae, 2021
The author justifies the need to return to an analysis of the meaning of such words as “philosophy” and “philosopher” in the Kyivan Rus’ written sources of the 11th–14th centuries.
Oleksandr Kyrychok
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