The Church of Divine Wisdom or of Christ – the Incarnate Logos? Dedication of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in the Light of Byzantine Sources from 5th to 14th century [PDF]
, 2012 The article attempts to answer the question of how the name of the most important Byzantine church of Constantinople, the basilica of Hagia Sophia, built in the mid-4th cent., and then rebuilt during the reign of Justinian the Great was understood and ...
Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra
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Vox Patrum, 2022 The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor is one of the few Byzantine historiographical works in which so much space is devoted to the Islamic world and the first ruling caliphate.
Błażej Cecota
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Tărnovgrad Viewed by the Others: the Case of Niketas Choniates
Studia Ceranea, 2021 The text is devoted to the analysis of the portrayal of Tărnovo, the new capital of the restored near the end of the twelfth century Bulgarian state, in the historical work and speeches by Niketas Choniates, a Byzantine historian, official and ...
Kirił Marinow
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The roots of "Western European societal evolution". A concept of Europe by Jenő Szűcs [PDF]
, 2014 Jenő Szűcs wrote his essay entitled Sketch on the three regions of Europe in the early 1980s in Hungary. During these years, a historically well-argued opinion emphasising a substantial difference between Central European and Eastern European societies ...
Anderson P. +34 more
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Reassessing Agathias : early Byzantine historiography beyond Procopius
, 2023 This thesis aims to provide a new evaluation of the Histories of Agathias Scholasticus, one of the main sources for the reign of Justinian (527-565 CE). By contextualising the author and approaching his text with the tools of modern research, the thesis casts light on crucial aspects of sixth-century history, literature, and language.
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Studia Ceranea, 2022 The paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of direct and indirect references to Tărnovo, the capital of the so-called Second Bulgarian Tsardom (12th–14th centuries) in Roman history of Nikephoros Gregoras, an outstanding Byzantine scholar of the first ...
Kirił Marinow
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The Jewish Theme in Theophanes the Confessor’s Testimony on the Prophet Muḥammad
Studia Ceranea, 2023 Theophanes’ account regarding the rise of Islam and the history of the Prophet Muḥammad appears to be the most detailed and precise one that can be found in Byzantine historiography.
Błażej Cecota
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Citazioni nel proemio dell'"Alessiade" di Anna Comnena: tra ideologia e metodologia storiografica [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2014 In her prologue to the Alexiad, Anna Comnena opts both for explicit quotations from ancient tragedy and quotations which are not stressed by ancient and late ancient historiographers.
Lia Raffaella Cresci
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Saltovo-Mayaki Provincial Byzantine Culture of the Crimea
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 Introduction. The material culture of Byzantium throughout the entire period of existence of the empire consisted of a number of the provincial Byzantine cultures. This is also true for material cultures of border territories of Byzantium which could not
Vadim V. Maiko
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