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, 2014 Beirut, Sidon and Tyre were major centres of maritime trade from the Bronze Age onwards. This economic prosperity generated increased pressures on the local environment, through urbanization and harbour development.
Carayon, N. +3 more
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Cotton textiles from the Byzantine period to the Medieval period in ancient Palestine
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019 In ancient Palestine, the early presence of cotton textiles can only be attested by one net dated to the Roman period. Cotton was first imported in small quantities during the Byzantine period, in the 5th-7th c. CE.
Orit Shamir
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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My (post‐)post‐socialism: A personal photo essay
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract The paper is a multi‐modal, autoethnographic exploration of the visual remnants of lived post‐communism in a typical block of flats neighborhood of a Romanian city. By using film and digital photography, alongside narrative reflection, the author summons memories and blends observed and lived reality with creative non‐fiction to build an ...
Oana Borlea‐Stăncioi
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Iconographic Veneration of St. Gregory Palamas in the Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Period
Forum Theologicum SardicenseThe study covers a wide range of sources that provide information about the remembrance of St. Gregory Palamas after the fall of Constantinople and its submission to the Ottoman rule (1453).
Svetoslav Ribolov
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Byzantine painting treatises: the case of Codex Panteleimoniensis 259
I Quaderni del MAES, 2018 This article aims to examine the material of a codex entitled Hermeneia of the Painters. The manuscript in question constitutes a copy of an esteemed constitutio textus of late byzantine period regarding the descriptions of Saint’s physiognomy along with
Constantine M. Vapheiades
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 409-420, June 2026.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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A Blockchain‐Less Traceability System for Agriculture Using DAG, IPFS, and Serverless Deployments
International Journal of Network Management, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Ensuring transparency and integrity in agricultural data management is a critical challenge as the sector increasingly relies on advanced technologies. The primary problem is maintaining data traceability and security throughout the supply chain.
Antonio Villafranca +6 more
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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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