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, 1993 W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Early Christian and Byzantine architecture : an annotated bibliography and historiography . In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 51, 1993. pp.
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Beyond Deviant : Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography
, 2015 Early Byzantine historiography offers two contradictory portrayals of Theodora (Crowned Empress 427-458 CE). Whereas in Procopius’ Wars of Justinian and Buildings she appears to be a courageous and influential empress, in his later work, Secret History,
Foka, Anna,
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Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 416-443, May 2024.Abstract This paper examines the evolution of consumption practices in Venice in the long eighteenth century through the combined use of post‐mortem inventories and household budgets. Although Italy experienced a period of relative decline between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, our findings suggest that Venetian households enjoyed a rich and
Mattia Viale
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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Sozomen, Barbarians, and Early Byzantine Historiography
, 2003 Sozomen, writing in mid-fifth century Constantinople, stands out as an exception proving the rule in Byzantine historiography. He is the first and last Christian Byzantine historian to make a serious effort at ethnography.5 When we consider how quickly ...
Stevenson, Walter
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Valor and martial excellence in Byzantine historiography: (9th - 12th c.)
, 2018 This thesis focuses on the motif of valor and martial excellence in the historiography of the Middle Byzantine era. The main objective is to monitor the evolutionary course and the special features of the motif as manifested in historical works over a ...
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The Routledge handbook of the Byzantine city: from Justinian to Mehmet ii (ca. 500 – ca. 1500)
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors.
Zavagno, Luca, Bakirtzis, Nikolas
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Dances at the Palace Classical Reminiscences in Byzantine Historiography
, 2023 The purpose of this article is to comment on three dance-related passages from the (Greek text) of the Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates (1155 ca.-1217).
Silvia Tessari, Tessari Silvia
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Reassessing Agathias : early Byzantine historiography beyond Procopius
, 2023 "This work was supported by the University of St Andrews (Joint PhD Roma La Sapienza-St Andrews Programme ...
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, 2019 In the study of thirteenth-century Byzantium, historiography (made up of linguistic, narrative, and ideological texts) and the past (constituted of things that happened before now) have been conflated.
Kinloch, Matthew
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