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The Image of Light in the “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” by Paul the Silentiary [PDF]
The paper explores the imagery of light in a poem by Paul the Silentiary (6th century) “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” (and in an adjoining poem “Ekphrasis of the Ambo”) written by order of the Emperor Justinian in 562 on the occasion of the re ...
Tatiana L. Aleksandrova
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The Naming of Food and Drink in the Ladder of John Climacus
The article is devoted to the analysis of the names of food and drink in the Ladder of John Climacus. The material for analysis is the published text of the work (Patrologia Graeca, vol.
Tatiana G. Popova
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Michael Glykas and the three royal murderers [PDF]
Michael Glykas is best known as the author of a vast Chronicle covering the historical events from Creation to the death of the emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1118 AD).
Varvara Zharkaya
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Bu makale Bizans imparatoru II. Manuel Palaiologos’un (1350-1425) tahta çıkmadan önce, Selanik yöneticisiyken yazdığı bir söylevi incelemektedir. 1382-1387 yılları arasında Selanik’i babası V. Ioannes’ten bağımsız bir şekilde yöneten Manuel, aynı zamanda
Siren Çelik
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Byzantine incubation literature is the term used in research to denote early Byzantine collections of healing miracles (5th–7th century) in which the saint’s miraculous intervention is related to the incubation experience.
Giulia Gollo
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Deconstructing the narrative, constructing a meaning: Why was the Alexiad written? [PDF]
In the present article I offer a narratological approach to Byzantine historiography and an aim to elucidate the key elements of narrative theory that would be useful for investigating medieval Byzantine histories and their complex narrative ...
Vilimonović Larisa
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John Lydus and the libraries in Constantinople of 6th century CE
This work is devoted to the study of the sources of the books of the early Byzantine writer-antiquary of the 1st half of the 6th century, Johannes Lydus.
Sinitsa, M.M. , Buzanakov, Yu.V.
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L’assassinio di Niceforo Foca attraverso la lente di due citazioni omeriche
A couple of Homeric verbatim quotations in two texts of the 10th century shed light on the authors’ views about the emperor Nicephorus Phokas’ murder.
Lia Raffaella Cresci
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