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Money in “Historia monachorum in Aegypto”
Studia Ceranea, 2021 The text discusses the accounts of money in Historia monachorum in Aegypto. There are not many of them and, in addition, they are quite succinct. The first illustrates the face of early Byzantine fiscalism, the difficulty of paying taxes, and the ...
Ireneusz Milewski
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Ideological confrontation between the Church and imperial authority in Byzantium in the early 9th century according to hagiographical evidence [PDF]
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ II. Istoriâ, Istoriâ Russkoj Pravoslavnoj Cerkvi, 2015 The article concerns an iconoclastic definition of the Council of Constantinople of 815, which was proposed by Byzantine Emperor Leo V in the early 9th century.
Izotova Ol'ga
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Early Palaiologan Hagiography: “Old” and “New” Saints under the Shadow of Symeon Metaphrastes
Античная древность и средние века, 2022 This article focuses on the hagiographical rewriting from the Palaiologan Period. Having outlined the corpus of relevant texts, the author discusses the two paradigms that currently permeate the scholarship dealing with the Late Byzantine hagiography ...
Lev Vsevolodovich Lukhovitskiy
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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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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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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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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 380-404, August 2023., 2023 In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 405-429, August 2023., 2023 This paper aims to shed light on the mobility of people and relics in the seventh century. It will show that Emperor Heraclius strategically designed his movements and those of his household, citizens, and officials, as well as those of relics within and beyond the borders of Byzantium, in order to consolidate the empire and his position in it.
Paraskevi Sykopetritou
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 410-430, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Navid Kermani's and Feridun Zaimoglu's engagements as Muslims with Christian art reveal the possibilities and limitations of aesthetic experiences of the divine beyond all doctrinal divides. Although Kermani's own research into the aesthetic dimension of Islam highlights the potential for art to offer spiritual insight, his rejection of some ...
Joseph Twist
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