Results 1 to 10 of about 559 (158)

An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature

Religions
This article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Yassine Yahyaoui
doaj   +6 more sources

Byzantium. The early centuries

Revista de História, 1991
NORWICH, John Julius. Byzantium. The early centuries.
Jonatas Batista Neto
doaj   +3 more sources

Persian Immigrants in the Armed Forces of Early Byzantium

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. The article is devoted to Persians who served in the Early Byzantine armed forces. Even during the Principate period, alae and cohortes which were originally recruited from Parthians were part of the Roman imperial army.
Andrey D. Nazarov
doaj   +3 more sources

Oribasius and Medical Tradition of Early Byzantium

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Introduction. The purpose of this article is the attraction of attention to the individual and the heritage of Oribasius, the first known physician of the early Byzantine era. Methods.
Anna M. Bolgova
doaj   +2 more sources

Iatrosophist Zeno and Medical Schools of Alexandria in the Fourth Century [PDF]

Hypothekai, 2022
This article discusses some aspects of the curriculum of medical schools in Late Antiquity, the status of medical schools and the educational space of Late Antique Alexandria in the fourth century AD.
Michael Vedeshkin
doaj   +1 more source

Bankers and Usurers in the Early Byzantine Hagiographical Texts

Studia Ceranea, 2023
The text discusses accounts from early Byzantine hagiographical texts depicting the activities of bankers and usurers in the period from the early 5th to the second decade of the 7th century.
Ireneusz Milewski
doaj   +1 more source

Family and Authority: Reflections on the dynastic policy of Constantine I [PDF]

Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022
The article is a polemical review of I.A. Mirolyubov’s monograph “Dynastic Policy of Emperor Constantine the Great”. The book brings to the academic discussion several topics, including the thesis that the dynastic policy of Constantine sharply breaks ...
Vedeshkin, M.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Violating the Convention: M. Ja. Sjuzjumov’s Participation in the Preparation of the History of Byzantium

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
This article examines the history behind the writing of the three-volume History of Byzantium (1967). In the 1950s and 1960s, the writing of “meta-narratives” meant covering the history of different states from the standpoint of the Marxist ...
Tatiana Victorovna Kushch
doaj   +1 more source

Recensione al volume North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam, Susan T. Stevens, Jonathan P. Conant edd., Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, Washington D. C. 2016; XII + 322 p.; ill.; index; 28,5 cm; ISBN 978-0884024088

Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 2020
Incentrato sulla transizione dell’Africa romana dall’età classica a quella medioevale, il volume raccoglie una serie di saggi che tentano di ribaltare la visione pessimistica dell’età bizantina e di spiegarne le peculiarità non come il frutto di ...
Antonio Ibba
doaj   +1 more source

Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies

Studia Ceranea, 2020
This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria).
Ireneusz Milewski
doaj   +1 more source