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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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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
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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Les élites rurales byzantines

Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge, 2012
La bibliographie byzantine est tres reservee sur l’usage du terme elites au sommet de la pyramide sociale, preferant parler d’aristocratie. Mais, depuis les annees 1970, elle s’est attachee a etudier la hierarchie sociale a l’interieur des societes villageoises et donc a definir ceux qui y occupaient une position plus elevee que les autres, en lien ou ...
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Arab-Islamic reception of Hellenistic science [PDF]

, 2015
This article is an overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. It particularly refers to mathematics, physics and astronomy. It focuses on the following topics: 1) Two interpretative models of this reception in the 19th,
Lelli, Giovanna
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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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Colour in Byzantine Historiography (13th–15th centuries)

Byzantina Symmeikta, 2019
  To άρθρο πραγματεύεται τη λειτουργία του χρώματος στα κείμενα της βυζαντινής ιστοριογραφίας μεταξύ του 13ου και του 15ου αιώνα. Μέσα από την ανάλυση της χρήσης των χρωμάτων και των αποχρώσεών τους γίνεται σαφές ότι το χρώμα αποτελεί μέσο με το οποίο οι συγγραφείς μεταφέρουν το πολιτικό και θρησκευτικό κλίμα της εποχής, προσφέροντας στον σημερινό ...
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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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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 114-127, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
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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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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 12-29, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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