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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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One script for two languages. Latin & Arabic in an early allographic papyrus [PDF]
, 2018 This contribution presents a unique papyrus letter in Latin script and Latin language and in Latin script and Arabic language that is possible to date, on palaeographic grounds, from the end of the 7th to the 9th century AD. This precious witness is exam-
D'Ottone, Arianna, Internullo, Dario
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review
The Laryngoscope, Volume 135, Issue 7, Page 2249-2254, July 2025.This historical study investigates ancient Roman surgical techniques for treating ozena as described by Celsus, with a focus on its historical and etymological context. Independent translation and archaeological evidence contextualize two ancient procedures: closed nasal cauterization using a heated probe and an open approach involving dissection and ...
Perry Hammond +2 more
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Sophia – the Personification of Divine Wisdom in the Culture of Novgorod the Great from 13th to 15th Century [PDF]
, 2014 The idea of Sophia – the personified Wisdom of God served as a symbol of independence and identity of the republic in the political culture of Novgorod the Great. In Old Russian chronicles and other narrative sources which can be connected with Novgorod,
Brzozowska, Zofia Aleksandra
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Dating an ancient spring tunnel using archaeological artefacts functioning as nuclei of cave pearls
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 748-772, June 2025.Abstract Cave pearls are spherical concentric speleothems growing radially around nuclei in shallow pools saturated with calcite. They are very rare in the Southern Levant. We present a unique assemblage of 50 cave pearls found in the Iron Age Joweizeh artificial spring tunnel in the Jerusalem Hills of Israel. Some of these deposits represent the first
Azriel Yechezkel +6 more
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Образы военачальников в византийской исторической литературе X - XI вв.: "бездарный полководец" Михаил, сын логофета Анастасия [PDF]
, 2016 Анализ исторических сочинений X -XI вв.
Капсалыкова, К. Р.
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The periphery against the center: The case of Paradunavon [PDF]
, 2003 The "mixobarbarians" in Paradunavon, confronted with the force of Pechengs entered under a new domination, a local and barbarian one, that replaced the central Byzantine administration. The centrifugal trends were expressed in this case by the settlement
Madgearu Alexandru
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Byzantine Taurica in the Second Half of the 11th Century and New Seal of Leon Aliates from Cherson
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 he discovery of a valuable and important sphragistic source in Cherson – the seal of Strategos and Patrikios Leon Aliates, known by the inscription of 1059, brings us back to the old problems of the development of the administrative system of the Crimean
Nikolay A. Alekseenko
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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
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