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WITHDRAWN: Redefining the timing and circumstances of cat domestication, their dispersal trajectories, and the extirpation of European wildcats

open access: yes
Doherty S   +45 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter examines book burning as a form of purification, designed to protect readers and listeners from inaccurate or downright misleading material, during the early Byzantine period. Throughout the fourth and fifth centuries, when Christianity was struggling to define its theology more closely, every official condemnation was followed by ritual ...
Judith Herrin
exaly   +3 more sources

An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium

Zutot, 2002
Very little is known about Hebrew book-making techniques and scripts in the Byzantine world before the thirteenth century. This is due principally to the lack of early dated Hebrew books and the paucity of datable ones from this area. The earliest dated and explicitly localised Byzantine manuscript known to us is a marriage contract (ketubbah), written
openaire   +2 more sources

To Triumph Forever: Romans and Barbarians in Early Byzantium

2022
The majority of recent scholarship on identity in the post-imperial West rightfully has sought to uncover the much more complex realities beneath the traditional tropes found in the early Byzantine literature. In this chapter, however, Stewart argues that analysing an ongoing belief amongst some Byzantines in the simplistic Roman/barbarian binarism can
openaire   +3 more sources

Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests

1992
This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Arabs, the course of the military ...
openaire   +1 more source

Lighting in early Byzantium

2008
TP716.B68 ...
Bouras, Laskarina   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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