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A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child.
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Imperial Visual Propaganda in the Empire of Trebizond (1204-1461)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015
The topic of this paper is the visual propaganda employed in the Empire of Trebizond to convey a sense of the greatness and power of the imperial dynasty of the Grand Komnenoi.
Tatyana Bardashova
doaj   +1 more source

Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

Protection of Documents, Cryptography and Secret Communications in Byzantium (the 4th—15th centuries)

open access: yesБезопасность информационных технологий, 2012
Origin and evolution of cryptography in Byzantium haven’t been studied yet. We discuss here how the written texts were ciphered, how the integrity and authenticity of documents were ensured in Byzantium in the 4th—15th centuries A.D.
S. V. Zapechnikov
doaj  

Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources (second to seventh centuries AD) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The present book aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food.
Jagusiak, Krzysztof   +2 more
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874

open access: yesHistorical Review, 2015
This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
doaj   +1 more source

Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

The history of separation: the Kievan Metropolitanate, the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Genesis of the Brest Union

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2016
The Brest Union marks a turning point in the history of the Kyivan Church. Since the time of Vladimir and the introduction of Christianity in at the end of X century.
Borys Gudziak
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