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Introduction. John of Gaza is the only known grammarian poet who belongs to the cultural environment of the Gaza School. His work “Description of the Сosmic Table” is a unique extant poetic work that corresponds to the ancient literary genre. Despite the
Marina Yu. Lopatina
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Imaging Evil in the First Chapters of Genesis: Texts behind the Images in Eastern Orthodox Art [PDF]
Satan’s interference in the events described in the first chapters of the book of Genesis and in the life of the protoplasts is not mentioned at all in the biblical text. This happens, however, in pseudo-canonical texts.
Kuyumdzhieva, Margarita
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Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum [PDF]
The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic ...
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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"Lines of royal red": On the presence and patterns of use of red ink in Nemanjid documents [PDF]
The paper discusses the presence and patterns of use of red ink in the documents of Serbian rulers belonging to the Nemanjid dynasty (cca 1170-1371).
Porčić Nebojša
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Autoproscoptae, Bogomils and Messalians in the 14th Century Bulgaria [PDF]
This paper discusses the use of the names of heresies: bogomilism, messalianism and the heresy of autoproscoptae in 14th century Bulgarian sources. The author underlines that the names of bogomilism and messalianism do not always refer to dualism.
Wolski, Jan Mikołaj
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Introduction. The article presents an analysis of North African society on the eve of Belisarius’s campaign against the vandals in North Africa (533–534). The campaign directed by Justinian under the leadership of Belisarius aimed to return the territory
Natalya E. Zolotukhina +1 more
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Talking about Balkanism in Romanian contemporary poetry means to betray, to a certain extent required by degradation or alteration, some literary themes and motifs.
Carmen Darabus
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Catherine II’s the early reign of Oleg: Sarti, Canobbio and Pashkevich working towards an ideal [PDF]
This paper focuses on Catherine II’s The Early Reign of Oleg (1790) as a demonstrative performance of the sovereign’s policy. In the context of Catherine’s early nationalistic pride and her ‘Greek project’, the performance is understood as a ...
Giust Anna
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Introduction. The order of deaconesses in Byzantium was formed by the time of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The idea of the institutionalization of the women’s ministry was revived in the new conditions in Russia of the 19th – early 20th ...
Andrey Posternak
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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