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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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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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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
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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Money in the Apophthegmata Patrum
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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GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART
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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The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
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Hagiography and History - The Life of Gregory-Thaumaturgus [PDF]
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Van Dam, Raymond
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The article is devoted to the publication history of two poetic gnomologies (collections of maxims) as part of the collection “Anfologion” published in 1660 at the Moscow Print Yard.
Наталья Вячеславовна Савельева
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Book Review:A. RIGO – M. TRIZIO – E. DESPOTAKIS (eds.), Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes and Projects (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 13), Turnhout 2018 [PDF]
Book Review:ANTONIO RIGO – MICHELE TRIZIO – ELEFTHERIOS DESPOTAKIS (eds.), Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes and Projects (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 13), Turnhout ...
ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ, Σταυρούλα Ανδρέα
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The Elegiac Puella as Virgin Martyr [PDF]
This is a postprint (author's final draft) version of an article published in the journal Transactions of the American Philological Association in 2009. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.0.0023 (login may be ...
Uden, James
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