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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 +1 more
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Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Mixed Reality Methodologies for Digital Survey, 3D Modelling and Historical Recreation of Religious Heritage Monuments [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Preserving and safeguarding the Cultural Heritage (CH) of our world from unforeseen hazards should be viewed as a collective responsibility for humanity. Consequently, there is a growing imperative for targeted measures aimed at conserving, rejuvenating, and safeguarding historical assets that carry cultural significance.
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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
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Towards a Performance Model for Byzantine Fault Tolerant (Storage) Services [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Byzantine fault-tolerant systems have been researched for more than four decades, and although shown possible early, the solutions were impractical for a long time. With PBFT the first practical solution was proposed in 1999 and spawned new research which culminated in novel applications using it today.
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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Fixing by Mixing: A Recipe for Optimal Byzantine ML under Heterogeneity [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Byzantine machine learning (ML) aims to ensure the resilience of distributed learning algorithms to misbehaving (or Byzantine) machines. Although this problem received significant attention, prior works often assume the data held by the machines to be homogeneous, which is seldom true in practical settings.
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The slav reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s works: an overview of early slavonic translations [PDF]
, 2011 Although a lot has been written about the "translatio" of Byzantine Christianity in the mediaeval Slavia orthodoxa, advancing a critical assessment of the Slav reception of the Greek Fathers remains a precarious undertaking.
Sels, Lara
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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Slavonic Translations of Saint Basil’s Works [PDF]
, 1982 This feature "ЛѢТОПИСЬ" ('Chronicle') reports on recent events in the field of Early Slavic studies, e.g., celebrations, conferences, symposia, announcements of forthcoming colloquia, and past study groups, etc.On March 21-24 1981, in Birmingham, the ...
Petrović, Danica +4 more
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On the representation of visions in Coptic hagiographical texts [PDF]
, 2023 My thesis examines the functions of visions of heavenly beings in Coptic hagiography and their relationship to the cult of saints in Egypt. I use six saints’ hagiographical traditions as case studies: Kollouthos, Menas, Phoibammon of Preht, Merkourios ...
Agar, Chloe
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