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Bankers and Usurers in the Early Byzantine Hagiographical Texts
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
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Family and Authority: Reflections on the dynastic policy of Constantine I [PDF]
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.
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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
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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
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Museum Interpretations of Byzantium [PDF]
This chapter examines the representations of Byzantium as effected through two national museum exhibitionary complexes. The first exhibitionary complex is in the British Museum in London, UK and the second in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens,
Mali, Sofia
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The evolution of historical topography of Egyptian Alexandria in early Byzantine time
This article examines the topographical features of one of the largest trading cities of the late Roman Empire, Egyptian Alexandria. The problems and achievements of the study of the city's topography are highlighted. On the basis of the complex analysis
Rudneva, M.A.
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Women in Early Christianity and Byzantium
The presentation investigates the role and authority of women in early Christianity and Byzantium by adopting a longue durée perspective. The comparison between early Christianity and Byzantium will show the evolution of female holiness from the early ...
M. Dell'isola
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Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
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
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Book culture and education in Early Byzantium (4th — 7th centuries CE): Asia Minor
The paper considers the role of book culture, the state and evolution of education in the Eastern Mediterranean of the early Byzantine time (4th — 7th centuries) in the context of the cultural continuity between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, using the ...
Denisova, I.V.
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