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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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Христианизация западных славян и первые христианские храмы в Моравии [PDF]
The religious ideas of the Western Slavs appear to us in the testimonies of Cosmas of Prague, who described Czech settlers. According to him, the Czechs, as the heathen worship waters, fire, rivers, trees, rocks, mountains, hills, and sometimes homemade ...
Kaputsian, R. +3 more
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Representation c. 800: Arab Byzantine Carolingian [PDF]
What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around the year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian and Palestinian Christian attitudes toward representation ...
Brubaker, Leslie
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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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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Merchants in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts
This article deals with accounts devoted to merchants and merchant activity that can be found in hagiographic texts from the early Byzantine era. Such accounts are few and far between, which is surprising, especially when compared to the patristic texts ...
Ireneusz Milewski
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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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Money in “Historia monachorum in Aegypto”
The text discusses the accounts of money in Historia monachorum in Aegypto. There are not many of them and, in addition, they are quite succinct. The first illustrates the face of early Byzantine fiscalism, the difficulty of paying taxes, and the ...
Ireneusz Milewski
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Documents on early Christian and Byzantine architecture [PDF]
There are many models in the entire history of architecture which have travelled across the world, from one to another part of the big world. For various reasons, very frequently not at all scientific or professional, in our part of the world, be it ...
Milošević Predrag
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