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Physician and miracle worker. The cult of Saint Sampson the Xenodochos and his images in eastern Orthodox medieval painting [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 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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The Economic Condition of the Bishopric of Gaza (Palestine) during the Rule of Bishop Porphyry (circa 395–420)

open access: yesStudia 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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The Early Byzantine Domed Basilicas of West Asia Minor, An essay in Graphic Reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper investigates the methodology employed in the recent survey and reconstruction of the major Early Byzantine domed churches of west Asia Minor.
Karydis, Nikolaos
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Money in the Apophthegmata Patrum

open access: yesStudia 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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From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

open access: yesArt 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
wiley   +1 more source

Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c. 700-980 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This thesis takes the hagiographical texts written in the diocese of Liège between approximately 700 and 980 and examines them in their political, social and cultural context.
Zimmern, Matthew
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Old age in Byzantine society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper examines the status afforded old age in the Byzantine Empire. Frequently neglected in accounts of state formation or comparative history, this Christian imperial state transformed the moral ordering of the lifecourse.
Chris Gilleard, Gilleard, C
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Changes in glass consumption in Pergamon (Turkey) from Hellenistic to late Byzantine and Islamic times [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We present compositional data for nearly 100 glass samples from Pergamon, western Turkey, spanning 1500 years from the Hellenistic to Late Byzantine and Islamic periods.
Connolly, P   +8 more
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Чудеса херсонесских епископов в контексте раннехристианской агиографической традиции / Miracles of the Bishops of Chersonesos in the Context of Early Christian Hagiographical Tradition

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2019
The article is devoted to the concept of miracles in the “Lives of Holy Bishops of Chersonesus” and the “Miracle of St. Capiton”. Miracles in the people’s representation of the early Middle Ages proved clearly the advantages of the preached religious ...
A.A. Romensky
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