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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 1996
The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by
Alfredas Bumblauskas
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Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De administrando imperio and the Byzantine historiography of the mid-10th century [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2019
The paper is dedicated to certain aspects of the treatise De administrando imperio, composed at the court of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in 948-952. It first examines the diplomatic basis of the information collected in the treatise,
Komatina Predrag
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]

, 2012
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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The rus’-byzantine treaty of 971: the authentic byzantine act or the chronicler’s mystification

Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія, 2022
This contribution attempts to analyze these arguments versus authenticity of document of 971 and presents a survey of the different kind of hypotheses encountered within the recent historiography.
Oleksandr Fylypchuk
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Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]

, 2006
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
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The Historiography of Byzantine City: Interpretations, Methodology, and Sources

, 2021
This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first one will try to propose a more nuanced and complex approach, as paired with its archaeological penchant to the traditional historiographical juxtaposition continuity vs. discontinuity which has been the unavailable starting point in any discourse on the Byzantine city.
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The News on “the Germans” (οἱ Νεμίτζοι) in Byzantine Narrative Essays of 10-12th Centuries

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015
The article is a review of the news of the Byzantine narrative sources of the 10-12th centuries, in which an ethnonym “the Germans” is mentioned. The use of this term is extremely rare in Byzantine historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ...
Maksim Igorevich Drobyshev
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Sir Steven Runciman at Istanbul University: How British Wartime Politics Led to the Establishment of the Byzantine Art History Chair

Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2022
The historiography of Byzantine art history education in Turkiye is a widely overlooked subject, despite a number of studies that have already been carried out.
Verda Bingöl, Zeynep Kuban Tokgöz
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The Muslims of medieval Italy [Book Review] [PDF]

, 2012
This article reviews the book 'The Muslims of medieval Italy', by Alex ...
Drury, Abdullah
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Prolegomena to the Christian Images Not Made by Human Hands

Studia Ceranea, 2018
Images not made by human hands (acheiropoietai, Gr. ἀχειροποίηταιι) played a significant role in Byzantine spiritual culture and history. This paper discusses the emergence and rise of the acheiropoietai, which represented a most important and unusual ...
Matej Gogola
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