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Early Russian Hagiography. (Andreas Ebbinghaus) [PDF]
, 2001 Prof. Dr. Andreas Ebbinghaus. Rezension zu: Lenhoff, Gail, Early Russian Hagiography: The Lives of Prince Fedor the Black. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. XII, 496 S.
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
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, 2015 Stephanos Efthymiadis, The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus: Saints, Hagiographers and Texts (Fourth to Thirteenth Century). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025. XI, 346 pp.
Kim, Young Richard, Efthymiadis, S.
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Holy foolishness and gender transgression in Russian hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity
, 2023 This chapter explores the history of the hagiographical sub-genre of the holy fool in medieval Rus’ and early modern Russia from the perspective of gender. It focuses on gender performances in three of the most renowned holy fool hagiographies: beginning
Mayhew, Nick
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Word Translating Image. In Search of Modern-Language Equivalents for Syriac and Coptic Terminology
Folia OrientaliaIn 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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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 12-29, December 2025.ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Old age in Byzantine society [PDF]
, 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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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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