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Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum [PDF]
The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic ...
Jagusiak, Krzysztof+2 more
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Drake, basilisk, amphisbaena eller senmurv? Frågor kring några tidiga fasadreliefer i Vä, Skåne
A dilemma that the iconographer is often faced with when it comes to medieval imagery is what the fantastic hybrid animals actually represent. What are they? What do they mean?
Lars Berggren
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Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered
This work is the most complete investigation to date of the enigmatic ivory rings found in graves of fifth‐ to seventh‐century lowland Britain. This new survey of the archaeological evidence has produced a corpus of 752 ivory rings from seventy‐eight cemeteries.
Rowan S. English
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Remapping the European Cultural Memory: The Case of Julia Kristeva’s \u3cem\u3eMurder in Byzantium\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
This article considers Julia Kristeva’s novel Murder in Byzantium in the context of some of the most pressing ehtical and political dilemmas faced by Europe today, regarding the role of religion and the inclusion of religious references in the ...
Rus, Bianca Laura
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]
Rapp C.
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While William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" is often described as "less complex" than "Byzantium," the differences between the two poems appear to have rarely been considered on levels other than meaning or referents. This essay aims to unearth a basic textual difference which may account for the above judgement with the help of a framework ...
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Imaging Evil in the First Chapters of Genesis: Texts behind the Images in Eastern Orthodox Art [PDF]
Satan’s interference in the events described in the first chapters of the book of Genesis and in the life of the protoplasts is not mentioned at all in the biblical text. This happens, however, in pseudo-canonical texts.
Kuyumdzhieva, Margarita
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Simeonov G.
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The discussion about the development of the Byzantine city (M. Syuzyumov – A. Kazhdan)
The article is about the fait of the Byzantine cities during the «dark ages». Two major Russian Byzantine scientists spent years discussing on the continuity of the Byzantine city. M.
M Cmilyanich
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