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From Enemies to Allies: the Mystery of Prince Oleg’s Campaign against Constantinople
Studia Ceranea, 2021 This article proposes a rethinking of the main patterns of Rus-Byzantine relations at the turn of the 9th–10th centuries. The Christianization of some groups of Rus’ elite after 860 seems to be plausible, but short-lived.
Aleksandr A. Romensky
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
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Social and Political Destabilization in Byzantium in the Early 14th Century: Causes and Consequences
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. For the considerably weakened Byzantine state the reign of emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282–1328) was mainly a time of foreign policy failures and internal contradictions.
Pavel I. Lysikov
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Economic inequality, culture, and governance quality
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 375-402, February 2025.Abstract We review work that has linked economic inequality and culture to governance quality. We start with contributions that have considered the relationship between inequality and governance from a long‐run perspective. This historical perspective yields a range of insights and helps identify the deep drivers of specific cultural traits that relate
Andreas P. Kyriacou
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Early Byzantine Baldenheim-Type Helmets in the Dnieper Region
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. Recent finds of Baldenheim-type helmets in the Dnieper (Klimovsk district of Bryansk region, Boldyzhsky Forest and Cherkasy region) indicate the proliferation of prestigious weapons in the territory of the Kolochin and Penkovka cultures ...
Michel Kazanski
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Everyday Bordering and Migrant Schooling Timescapes in Post‐Crisis Athens
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 392-411, January 2025.Abstract This paper explores the geographies of migrant schooling in Athens following the 2015–2016 crisis, which left thousands of migrants stranded in the country. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnography of everyday bordering (2017–2018), I examine the school as an ordinary bureaucratic institution and as a physical space in relation to the border.
Anna Papoutsi
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 57-82, January 2025.Abstract Conversion to a museum is a common destiny of many cultural assets that cannot continue to serve their original functions. They are usually re‐functioned to provide public benefits in return for the expenditures made for their preservation. However, their architectural features may not always meet the expected results when functioning as a ...
Hasan Fırat Diker
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The Historical Evolution of Early Byzantine Liturgy in 6–7 AD [PDF]
Tractus Aevorum, 2014 At the end of the 6 – early 7 centuries the ideological and symbolic interpretations of liturgy and church buildings finalized. The importance of the liturgy, actions of the clergy acquire some deep symbolic meaning.
N.N. Bolgov, A.D. Strzhalkovskaia
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Христианизация западных славян и первые христианские храмы в Моравии [PDF]
, 2015 The religious ideas of the Western Slavs appear to us in the testimonies of Cosmas of Prague, who described Czech settlers. According to him, the Czechs, as the heathen worship waters, fire, rivers, trees, rocks, mountains, hills, and sometimes homemade ...
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“Where Now for Visible Unity?”
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 542-553, December 2024.Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
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