Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self‐confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces.
Papavarnavas C.
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Simeonov G.
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason
Rapp C.
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Bankers and Usurers in the Early Byzantine Hagiographical Texts
Studia Ceranea, 2023 The text discusses accounts from early Byzantine hagiographical texts depicting the activities of bankers and usurers in the period from the early 5th to the second decade of the 7th century.
Ireneusz Milewski
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Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
Studia Ceranea, 2020 This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria).
Ireneusz Milewski
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The Byzantines between the Cure of the Physicians and the Miracles of the Saints: A Study in the Hagiography of the Early Byzantine Period البيزنطيون بين علاج الأطباء ومعجزات القديسين: دراسة في هجيوجرافيا العصر البيزنطي الباکر [PDF]
Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, 2007 تعد کتابات سير القديسين Hagiography أحد أهم المصادر غير التقليدية لتاريخ الإمبراطورية البيزنطية، إذ أنها نوع من القصص الدينى الشعبى کتبه رهبان ورجال دين بيزنطيون، بعضهم معلوم وآخرون مجهولون، يسردون فيه ويخلدون من خلاله سير القديسين البيزنطيين ومعجزاتهم کما سمعوها وتناقلتها الألسن جيلا بعد جيل، أو ربما کما تخيلوها هم أنفسهم، ومن ثم تکمن قيمته في أنه ...
Abdel-Aziz Ramadan
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Merchants in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
Studia CeraneaThis article deals with accounts devoted to merchants and merchant activity that can be found in hagiographic texts from the early Byzantine era. Such accounts are few and far between, which is surprising, especially when compared to the patristic texts ...
Ireneusz Milewski
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The cycle of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of Peć - III [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022 The painted biography of the patron saint of the church of St. Demetrius in the complex of the Patriarchate of Peć is preserved in the middle zone of the nave.
Pajić Sanja R.
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Studia Ceranea, 2022 The text analyses a short account by Cyril of Scythopolis concerning the imperial decision to finance the repair of the damages caused in Palestine by the Samaritan uprising of 529–531.
Ireneusz Milewski
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