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Izvestia Ural Federal University Journal Series 2: Humanities and Arts, 2022 This article examines the history behind the writing of the three-volume History of Byzantium (1967). In the 1950s and 1960s, the writing of “meta-narratives” meant covering the history of different states from the standpoint of the Marxist ...
Tatiana Kushch
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An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature
ReligionsThis article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.
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Arts, 2022 This article explores the use and adaptation of the iconographic motif of the waiting servant, known primarily from late Roman wall paintings, mosaics, and other media, within the sphere of Late Antique furnishing textiles. Taking as a case study a fifth-
Katharine A. Raff
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Byzantium after Byzantium? Forum
Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2022 The Byzantine Empire has existed longer than all the empires that were on Earth — more than 1000 years. She created the «Byzantine Commonwealth» of countries (D. D. Obolensky’s term), stretching from the South Baltic to the Mediterranean and from the Adriatic Sea to the Caucasus Mountains.
Dmitriy Mikhailovich Bulanin +8 more
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The Syrian campaign of Romanos III Argyros in 1030 CE [PDF]
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2021 The paper discusses various aspects of Romanos III Argyros’ expedition in Syria, such as its objectives and route. It is argued that Romanos’ goal was to not just replace the Mirdāsids with Manṣūr Ibn Lu’lu’ in Aleppo, but to annex the city and then lend
Maciej Czyż
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The peculiarities of the Byzantine provincial administration in the Balkans under the Komnenoi [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2023 The text presents the results of the research on the Byzantine provincial organization in the parts of the Balkans that the Empire directly controlled during the Komnenian era.
Cvetković Miloš
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Studia Ceranea, 2019 The article proposes a new version of the history of the famous Byzantine political treatise De Administrando Imperio. The text of this treatise was written after 952 and before November 959 personally by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus for his ...
Aleksei Shchavelev
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The Idea of Byzantium in the Construction of the Musical Cultures of the Balkans
Arts, 2020 In this article, I discuss the persistence of Byzantium as a cultural model in the arts, and in music in particular, in the countries of the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople.
Ivan Moody
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The Dates of Diplomatic Letters of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 Introduction. The article aims to analyze the possible dating of letters from the archive, which belonged to Hasdai ibn Shaprut, the grandee of the court of the first two caliphs of the Cordoba from the Umayyad dynasty.
Aleksey S. Shchavelev
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Αγιοσ Γεωργιοσ ο Γοργοσ: Η αλληγορικη ερμηνεια στην εννοιολογικη μεταλλαξη του επιθετου [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013 The author of this article attempts to interpret the name “gorgos” associated with Saint George, utilizing data from the oldest tradition in conjunction with the historical environment in which revives the worship of the saint as equestrian ...
Kacaros Vasilis
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