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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 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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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Night Combat in Late Antiquity in the Light of Roman Military Treatises

Studia Ceranea, 2023
The aim of the text entitled: Night Combat in Late Antiquity in the Light of Roman Military Treatises is to present the theory and practice of night combat in the 6th century.
Łukasz Różycki
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 458-479, August 2026.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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The Arabs in the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses

Studia Ceranea, 2019
This paper looks into the piece by Constantine Manasses considering how it depicts the Arabs. It appears Manasses saw the Arabs primarily as bloody and cruel plunderers who invaded the Byzantine lands.
Mirosław J. Leszka, Mikołaj Deckert
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The Portrayal of Abbasid Rulers in Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor

Studia Ceranea, 2022
This text supplements another, a paper presented a decade ago on the portrayal of Umayyad rulers in Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor (B. Cecota, Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography, “Studia ...
Błażej Cecota
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 600-633, May 2026.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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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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Theodore II Lascaris as co-emperor: Reality and misapprehensions in Byzantine historiography [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
This article consists of two main parts. The first part quotes, once again, relevant sources for Theodore II Lascaris’ status as co-emperor and discusses some of Theodore II’s activities as co-ruler. The second part deals with the testimonies of
Pavlović Bojana
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