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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Christian Perfection in Basilian Monastic Hospitals from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries

Religions
The purpose of Byzantine hospitals—whether primarily curative facilities or caring hospices—has long intrigued scholars. This paper proposes a third perspective on Byzantine hospitals, suggesting that the Basilian monastic hospitals of the fourth to ...
Sung Hyun Nam
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Kyiv Theological Academy Professors at the Beginning of the 20th Century: At the Intersection of Cultures [PDF]

, 2018
This article attempts to reveal intercultural connections at the Kyiv Theological Academy at the beginning of the 20th century by reconstructing the spiritual biographies of two theological academy professors: Archimandrite (later, Archbishop
Pastushenko, Liudmyla
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Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law

WIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
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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Curriculum vitae of D. Mikuláš (Nicolas) Russnák Theologian and liturgist

Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2007
University professor D. Mikuláš Russnák came from a clerical family. His father, Pavol Russnák was a Catholic priest o f the Byzantine rite. His mother Many, originally itemed Brinszky, came from Varhaftovce, and was a daughter of a priest.
Vojtech Bohač
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THE BYZANTINE ICON, A CULMINATION OF ART – THEOLOGY, SYMBOL AND REALITY

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education, 2022
The Byzantine icon has a complex language because it comprises true iconic hierophanies or sacred images, with a profound theological symbolism, hard to express. The image and the symbol are two indissoluble realities by which the human spirit is helped to feel and know the mystery of the real presence of God.
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Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 467-481, July 2025.
Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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An Examination of an Eschatological Christian Leader: Last Emperor Topos in Oracula Attributed to Byzantine Emperor Leo VI. (886-912)/ Hıristiyan Bir Eskatolojik Lider İncelemesi: Bizans İmparatoru VI. Leon'a (886-912) Atfedilen Oracula'da Son İmparator Toposu

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In Christian eschatology, the leadership typology is not limited solely to the figure of the Messiah. This typology has been expanded, particularly with figures such as the Last Emperor. Oracula, attributed to Byzantine Emperor Leo VI (886-912), presents
Umut Var
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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„Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam al Moldovei. Izvoarele şi originalitatea [PDF]

Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2013
The paper summarizes the author monograph „Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam (Bucharest, 2013, 1100 p.) dedicated to the Metropolitan of Moldavia Varlaam’s Romanian Book of Learning, also known as Homiliary (1643), in which ...
Dan Zamfirescu
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