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The Image of Byzantium in the Novel In Front of the Mirror by Veniamin Kaverin

open access: yesSlovene, 2017
Veniamin Kaverin’s novel In Front of the Mirror, which was published in 1972, is based on the actual correspondence between the Soviet mathematician Pavel Bezsonov and the painter Lidia Nikanorova, which Bezsonov handed over to the writer.
Asia V. Kulakova
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Bucossie and Rodriguez Suarez (eds.), John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son (Routledge, 2016)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2018
Review of Alessandra Bucossi and Alex Rodriguez Suarez eds., John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son (London: Routledge, 2016).
K. S. Parker
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Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz as a Byzantinist (1926–2016) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The authors summarize the academic legacy of late Oktawiusz Jurewicz and his role as a leading Polish byzantinist of the second half of the 20th century.
Kompa, Andrzej, Leszka, Mirosław J.
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1. The Heirs of the Roman Empire: Byzantium, Islam, and Medieval Europe

open access: yes, 1958
The fall of Rome did not, as many contemporaries had expected, preface the end of the world. Rather, it was the end of a world, of a way of life which had characterized the Mediterranean basin for centuries.
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Beihammer, Constantinou, and Parani (eds.), Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives (Brill, 2013)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2015
Review of Alexander Beihammer, Stavroula Constantinou, and Maria G. Parani, eds., Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives (Leiden: Brill, 2013).
Nicholas Matheou
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Aristotle in Byzantium

open access: yesGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2002
The study of Aristotle in Roman and late Roman times is well known, but the Byzantine period, comparatively neglected, also witnessed the vitality of Aristotelian scholarship, especially as applied to Christian doctrine.
Klaus Oehler
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