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Basil I’s Path to Power according to the Vita Basilii as a Heroic Myth

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2023
This paper aims to illustrate how the tradition of Basil I’s rise to power in the Vita Basilii includes elements typical of heroic myths, according to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth scheme.
Łukasz Kubicki
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On the Serbian-Bulgarian border in the 9th and the 10th centuries [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2015
The paper analyzes the information concerning the border between the Serbs and the Bulgarians in the 9th and the 10th centuries found in the work De administrando imperio by the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
Komatina Predrag
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Sacred Theatres: Listening to Homilies and Experiencing the Holy Beauty in 9th- and 10th-Century Byzantine Churches

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Although John Chrysostom is critical of the theatre, delivering a homily was never a tiresome monologue of the preacher in Byzantium; it was a theatrical performance combining text-reading and multiple ceremonies, during which spaces, lights, and ...
Cao Gu
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The identity of Diocletians according to the De administrando imperio [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014
The article discusses the issue of ethnic identity of the Diocletians referred to by the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in his work De administrando imperio. Of all the tribes of the southern part of the eastern Adriatic coast, only for
Komatina Predrag
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Review article: Small futures. sortilege, divination and prognostication in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages

open access: yes, 2023
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 297-307, May 2023.
Carine van Rhijn
wiley   +1 more source

Sources de Constantin VII Porphyrogénète concernant le passé le plus ancien des Serbes et des Croates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
THE SOURCES OF CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS CONCERNING THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE SERBS AND CROATSThere are eight chapters (29-36) in De Administrando Imperio by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus that contain known historical information on the ...
ŽIVKOVIĆ, Tibor
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The Reflection of Ancient Greek Biography in Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus’ Vita Basilii

open access: yesFluminensia, 2023
The Vita Basilii, compiled by Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913–959) in honour of his grandfather Basil I (867–886), appears as the first laudatory biography in Byzantine literature glorifying the emperor’s life and deeds (βασιλικὸς λόγος).
Teuta Serreqi Jurić, Tihana Jurišić
openaire   +1 more source

Review Article:The de thematibus (“on the themes”) of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and notes by John HALDON [Τranslated Texts for Byzantinists, v. 11], Liverpool University Press 2021 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Review Article: The de thematibus (''on the themes") of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and notes by John Haldon, L[Τranslated Texts for Byzantinists, v.
LOUNGHIS, Telemachos
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The legal framework of the foreign policy of the Byzantine in the era of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (945-959)

open access: yesCuestiones Políticas, 2022
The aim of the article is to determine the legal foundations. The methodological basis of the study is analysis and synthesis, systems approach, genetic and comparative methods. Conclusions: The Byzantine law can be traced to the legislation of Basil I and Leo VI.
Volodymyr Kuzovkov   +3 more
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The oldest elements of the Serbian statehood [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017
Starting from the Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' work De Administrando Imperio, where he wrote that after the death of a Serbian archon, the rule over the people was shared between his two sons, it is assumed that the Serbs were then a nomadic, animal ...
Đekić Đorđe N.
doaj   +1 more source

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