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Religious Hatred and Byzantine Ideology before the Crusades [PDF]

, 2022
Religious hatred has a long and painful history. It was conceptualized, defined and employed in various ways and for various ends throughout history. The present article focuses on the religious hatred and the roles that it played in Byzantium.
ROTMAN, Youval
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Sirmian Martyrs in Exile: Pannonian Parallels and a Re-evaluation of the St. Demetrius Problem [PDF]

, 2010
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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Reliable Broadcast despite Mobile Byzantine Faults [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
We investigate the solvability of the Byzantine Reliable Broadcast and Byzantine Broadcast Channel problems in distributed systems affected by Mobile Byzantine Faults. We show that both problems are not solvable even in one of the most constrained system models for mobile Byzantine faults defined so far.
arxiv  

Creating an »Orthodox« Past: Georgian Hagiography and the Construction of a Denominational Identity

, 2019
In the early Middle Ages, Georgia consisted of two kingdoms. The western part was called Egrisi by the local inhabitants, and Lazica by the Byzantines and to the east of the Likhi range of mountains was Kartli, known as Iberia to outsiders.
E. Leeming
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Philotheos Kokkinos"™s hypomnÄ“ma on Saint Nikodemos the Younger (BHG 2307) [PDF]

, 2019
Philotheos Kokkinos was one of the most prolific late-Byzantine hagiographers, who eulogized saints of old, as well as contemporaneous holy figures. He dedicated the first among his vitae of contemporaneous saints to the little-known holy man Nikodemos ...
Mitrea, Mihail
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
wiley   +1 more source

Pierced, looped and framed: the (re)use of gold coins in jewellery in sixth‐ and seventh‐century England

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 337-386, August 2024.
The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth, Kelly M. Clarke‐Neish   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantine Dispersion on Graphs [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper considers the problem of Byzantine dispersion and extends previous work along several parameters. The problem of Byzantine dispersion asks: given $n$ robots, up to $f$ of which are Byzantine, initially placed arbitrarily on an $n$ node anonymous graph, design a terminating algorithm to be run by the robots such that they eventually reach a ...
arxiv  

What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.
Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
wiley   +1 more source