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His article is devoted to the problem of relationship of the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Iconium in the reign of Michael VIII (1259-1282). The author concludes that this problem is not rightfully disregarded in the historiography, since the ...
K.V. Belyiy
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Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law
Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large‐scale weather and climate research projects. ABSTRACT With a few exceptions, the history of climate studies is currently dominated by work on scientists from North America and Europe, often those with ...
Robert Luke Naylor
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This study explores the historicization of Hagia Sophia in the early classical Ottoman chronicles and examines how its perception evolved in the half century following the conquest.
Sedat Akdoğmuş, Bilge Ar
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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Introduction. The publication is a review of the critical edition of the preserved fragments of the Early Byzantine intellectual and diplomat Priscus Panita’s historical work who presented first of all unique information about the nature of international
Alexander S. Kozlov
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Abstract One of the most important developments in modern Islamic missionary activism was the establishment in 1972 of the Libya‐based World Islamic Call Society (WICS, originally the Islamic Call Society) which acted as a leading think tank advocating Muslim unity and Pan‐Arabism throughout the Qaddafi era.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych
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Byzantine historiography, which is heavily indebted to the classical tradition stretching back to Herodotos and Thucydides in the fifth century BCE, continued to evolve over more than a millennium, demonstrating the vitality of the genre and the stimulus
Angold, Michael, Whitby, Michael
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The origin of the Tatars in Armenian historiography: the People of Magog or the clan of Тorgom?
This article analyzes the origins of the Tatars in Armenian historiography of the 13th–15th centuries. The aim of the study is to systematize and analyze known and previously unstudied references to the Tatars in Armenian written sources, as well as to ...
Margaryan G.
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Swedish income inequality in 1613
Abstract In this paper we present the first estimate of the full income distribution in pre‐industrial Sweden (including present‐day Finland). We draw on the schedule and the individual assessments devised by the authorities to distribute the 1613 Älvsborg ransom taxation to estimate income inequality, as well as the income shares of the top quantiles ...
Martin Andersson, Jakob Molinder
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