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Door of Humility, main entrance into the Church; One of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Byzantium. The early centuries
, 1991 NORWICH, John Julius. Byzantium.
Batista Neto, Jonatas +1 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1269-1284, October 2025.ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli +11 more
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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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Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity : Polemics or Communication?
, 2013 Paper presented at the round table Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium, 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2011.
Crostini, Barbara, +2 more
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Визуальная теологияThe origin of this ‘Eleousa’ icon is unknown. In 1949, the image was in a private collection in Rome. The icon suffered losses. The board was sawed off at the bottom; the background was re-primed; the layers of paint are incompletely preserved.
Liliya Evseeva / Лилия Михайловна Евсеева
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Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond
, 2013 This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and monasteries, but also their rich ...
Theis, Lioba +4 more
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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