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An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium
Zutot, 2002Very 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
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Sources for Early Medieval Byzantium
1996As one would expect, this book is written on the basis of a body of Byzantine sources, written mostly in Greek between the seventh and the eleventh centuries, that includes chronicles, saints’ lives, law codes, property documents, inscriptions, the acts of church councils, works of theology, sermons, homilies, letters, panegyrics and handbooks to ...
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Canonical Supervision of Rural Communities in Early Byzantium
Journal of Orthodox Canon Law, 2022The author attempts in this study to analyse the canonical texts of the Orthodox Church in order to identify certain canonical institutions used by the Church for its pastorship and mission in rural communities and how rural parishes were canonically supervised.
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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
1992This 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 ...
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Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium
2013This 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 ...
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Enthronement in Early Rus: Between Byzantium and Scandinavia
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2018This article examines enthronement as a rite of inauguration in early Rus in the tenth to twelfth centuries, and what the practice of enthronement suggests in terms of the earliest mechanics of pri...
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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1996Irfan Shahîd +2 more
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