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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]
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
Claudia Rapp
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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
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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Hagiography and History - The Life of Gregory-Thaumaturgus [PDF]
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Van Dam, Raymond
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St. Symeon the New Theologian and Western Dissident Movements [PDF]
The trial at Orleans in 1022 of a group of aristocratic clergy, who included the confessor of Queen Constance of France, and their followers on the charge of heresy is the most fully reported among the group of heresy trials which were conducted in the
Hamilton, Bernard, Hamilton, Janet
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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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Sirmian Martyrs in Exile: Pannonian Parallels and a Re-evaluation of the St. Demetrius Problem [PDF]
The question of the origins of the cult of the fourth century martyr, Demetrius of Thessalonica has been the focal point of hagiographical research since the first publication of his passions by the Bollandists in 1780.
Tóth, Péter
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The cycle of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of Peć: Part one [PDF]
The Saint Demetrius Church, a part of the complex of The Patriarchate of Peć, was built by the Serbian Archbishop St. Nikodim (1317-24) as his mausoleum.
Pajić Sanja R.
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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]
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 ...
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