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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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Quaestio Rossica, 2021 Modern methods for studying old Russian texts are based on the reconstruction of foreign translations: this makes it possible to define the extent to which the world of the Middle Ages and the early modern period was acquainted with them.
M. Bibikov
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Physician and miracle worker. The cult of Saint Sampson the Xenodochos and his images in eastern Orthodox medieval painting [PDF]
Zograf, 2015 Saint Sampson, whose feast is celebrated on June 27, was depicted among holy physicians. However, his images were not frequent. He was usually accompanied with Saint Mokios (in Saint Sophia in Kiev, the Transfiguration church in the Mirozh ...
Starodubcev Tatjana
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Word Translating Image. In search of modern-language equivalents for Syriac and Coptic terminology
Folia Orientalia, 2023 In general the iconographic details recorded in the hagiographic literature are pretty meagre. Authors focus on the miraculous properties of icons. The Coptic lives of the saints may be selected as representative for the Early Christian and Byzantine ...
Tomasz Polański
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Studia Ceranea, 2018 The study attempts to determine the economic condition of a small provincial bishopric, namely the church of Gaza (Palestine) during the rule of bishop Porphyry (circa 395–420 AD).
Ireneusz Milewski
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Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 881-897, October 2023., 2023 Abstract During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance.
Silvia Negri
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Money in the Apophthegmata Patrum
Studia Ceranea, 2019 The objective of this paper is to discuss accounts related to money in Apophthegmata Patrum, a collection of sayings attributed to famous Egyptian monks. The collection as we know it was produced in the 6th century.
Ireneusz Milewski
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