A Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean? New results and theories on the interplay between climate and societies in Byzantium and the Near East, ca. 1000-1200 AD [PDF]
Jahrbuch der \"Osterreichischen Byzantinistik 65 (2015) 195-242, 2017 This paper discusses a recently proposed scenario of a climate-induced Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 11th century AD. It demonstrates that such a scenario cannot be maintained when confronted with proxy data from various regions. On the other hand, data on the interplay between environment and economy in the Komnenian period (1081-1185 ...
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Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2017 The geography of the so-called princely finds, related to the last third of the 4th — first half of the 5th century on the northern and western periphery of the Black Sea steppes, occupied at that time by the Huns, is considered.
Kazanski Michel
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Studia Ceranea, 2020 It seems obvious that 10th century was a period in which the Byzantine polemology flourished once again, before it collapsed one hundred years later. During that period numerous authors of Byzantine military treaties instructed imperial commanders how to
Szymon Wierzbiński
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50 Years Anniversary of Sergei Bocharov
Поволжская археология, 2020 The article is dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Candidate of Historical Sciences Sergei Gennadievich Bocharov, academic secretary of the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences.
Yavorskaya Liliya V. +2 more
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Saint Luke of Steiris in the exonarthex of the church of the Treskavac monastery and his cult and representation in the middle ages [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2019 The study investigates the portrayal of St. Luke of Steiris in the exonarthex of the church of the Treskavac Monastery (between 1334 and 1343), identified as St. Loukas the Stylite in earlier literature.
Starodubcev Tatjana
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]
, 2016 A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Fu-lin dances in medieval Chinese art - Byzantine or imaginary? [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2019 Chinese artists, active from the Tang dynasty to Northern Song dynasty, created famous paintings including Fu-lin musical and dancing scenes; as e. g. Yan Liben, Wu Daozi and Li Gonglin.
Liveri Angeliki
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The Chieftains of the Eastern Roman Empire in Light of the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes
Studia Ceranea, 2022 It is clear that while Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes belongs to most important works from the 6th century, there is significant problem with indicating his personal attitude towards the discussed characters and the described events.
Szymon Wierzbiński
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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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