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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 77-86, April 2026.Abstract By pushing for adequate modes of conceptualisation, ontological turn theorists have made significant headway in the attempt to take seriously ontological worlds that are typically considered irreconcilable to those of the Western intellectual project.
Daniel Tranter‐Santoso
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021 Introduction. I expose in Ivan Kireyevsky a specific attitude to the Byzantium, which I qualify as byzantinocentric. Methods and materials. I use the historical method. Materials are Russian Historical and Publicistic Literature. Analysis.
Dmitry Biriukov
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Ingvar the Far-Travelled: between the Byzantium and Caucasus. A Maritime Approach to Discussion
Studia Ceranea, 2019 The Journey to the East of the Viking Ingvar the Far-Traveled is one of the events that fit into the history of medieval relations of the Scandinavians with the world of Byzantium.
Marcin Böhm
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 114-127, January 2026.ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries +2 more
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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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The Curriculum Journal, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 574-587, November 2025.Abstract This paper refers to the concept of ‘historical thinking’ as it appears in the three versions of the recent Greek History Curriculum for primary school. It is a comparative study of the discourse of the three versions of the recent history curriculum for primary school.
Kyriaki Fardi
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The Pace di Siena and its Gems
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1254-1278, November 2025.For the first time, the gems of the Pace di Siena, a rare en ronde bosse enamel preserved in Arezzo (Italy), have been analyzed using a transdisciplinary approach. The combination of gemmology and Raman spectroscopy has led to the identification of blue sapphires and pink spinels, contradicting previous historical classifications.
Stefania Martiniello +6 more
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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Безопасность 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
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