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Receiving Byzantium in Early Modern Greece (1820s-1840s)
The paper explores the stance of Greek intelligentsia towards the Byzantine past during the first two decades of Greek independence challenging some of the established views on the issue. Despite the idealization of classical antiquity and the caustic anti-Byzantinism of the 1830s and 1840s, a sizeable part of Greece’s liberal and secularizing elites ...
Marios Hatzopoulos
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Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium
Stavroula Constantinou+1 more
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Early Medieval Byzantium and the End of the Ancient World
To talk of the Roman empire after 600 as Byzantine carries the implication that something fundamental had changed. Clearly the empire was much smaller, but was it also distinct as a social system? Did the Roman aristocracy adapt and survive in the seventh and eighth centuries, or did a new elite emerge? Did those farming the empire's fields notice any
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Traditional twentieth-century histories and art historical narratives point to a series of revivals in Byzantine art and literature in the ninth, twelfth and fourteenth centuries, thus representing Byzantine culture as a constant sequence of deaths and rebirths motivated by its internal ‘Classical’ component.
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Social and Political Destabilization in Byzantium in the Early 14th Century: Causes and Consequences
Pavel Lysikov
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