Hide and Seek. Roads, Lookouts and Directional Visibility Cones in Central Anatolia [PDF]
, 2017 In Cappadocia (central Turkey), routes that were only of a secondary importance during the Roman age acquired a new relevance starting from the end of the 7th century.
Salemi, Giuseppe, Turchetto, Jacopo
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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The cultural dynamics of the term Hellanodikes in Palaiologan Byzantium [PDF]
, 2015 In ancient Greek literature, Hellanodikai (Ἑλλανοδίκαι) were figures of public authority and high esteem, renown for their fair judgment, overseeing control, and morally transparent life.
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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John Tzetzes and the blemish examiners : a Byzantine teacher on schedography, everyday language and writerly disposition [PDF]
, 2017 The paper focuses on John Tzetzes (ca. 1110-after 1166), a well-known teacher and scholar of the Komnenian era, with the aim of examining two issues.
Agapitos, Panagiotis
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Health and Culinary Art in Antiquity and Early Byzantium in the Light of De re coquinaria [PDF]
, 2012 The article is aimed at indicating and analyzing connections existing between De re coquinaria and medicine. It is mostly based on the resources of extant Greek medical treatises written up to the 7th century A.D.
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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Exhibition “Byzantium through the Centuries” at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Tyragetia, 2017 From June 24 to October 2, 2016, the Hermitage Museum held the exhibition Byzantium through the Centuries that enjoyed an exceptionally great success among the general public and professionals.
Yuri Pyatnitsky
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The Handmaid of the Lord Redux: Constructing the New Orthodox Womanhood between Cradle and Convert
, 2020 In an era when questions of sexuality and gender dominate much of the debate in theological circles, regardless of religious or confessional affiliation, the meaning of Orthodox Christian womanhood remains a simultaneously over-discussed and under ...
Kelaidis, Katherine
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Byzantium after Byzantium in Ukrainian Perception [PDF]
, 2016 URL: http://byz2016.rs/SSS/Utorak/016_potvrdj%20chair_Byzance%20apras%20Byzance%201 ...
Domanovskyi, A.
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Adversus Iudaeos in the Sermon Written by Theodore Syncellus on the Avar Siege of AD 626 [PDF]
, 2016 A sermon attributed to Theodore Syncellus (Theodoros Synkellos) is considered as one of the basic sources for the study of the Avar siege of Constantinople in AD 626.
Hurbanič, Martin
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