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Tonsure and Punitive Shaving in Early Medieval Byzantium

Viator
From the sixth century onward, it was common for Byzantine monks and clerics to be tonsured. What that meant in practice varied, but usually seems to have involved a shaving of the entire head for monks, and a portion of it for clerics.
Mike Humphreys
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early Examples of Old Rus Chrysography (The 11th–14th Centuries) in the Context of the Writing with Gold in Byzantium and Western Europe

Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy
The paper is dedicated to the cases of writing with gold by Rus 11th to 14th-century scribes of books and charters, and the technique of writing with gold. The earliest case of such writing is examined, the Mstislav charter (c. 1130), as well as headings,
Sergey M. Kashtanov, Lyubov V. Stolyarova   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sources for Early Medieval Byzantium

1996
As 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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Lighting in early Byzantium

2008
TP716.B68 ...
Bouras, Laskarina, Parani, Maria G., Bouras, Laskarina, Parani, Maria G.   +3 more
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To Triumph Forever: Romans and Barbarians in Early Byzantium

The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium, 2022
M. Stewart
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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 ...
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Bishops and the Politics of Lithomania in Early Byzantium

, 2021
D. Caner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Philanthropy and the Repertoire of Christian Gifts in Early Byzantium

Wohltatigkeit im antiken und spatantiken Christentum, 2021
D. Caner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium

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 ...
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Enthronement in Early Rus: Between Byzantium and Scandinavia

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, 2018
This 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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