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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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SOME POSSIBLE FRAGMENTS OF EARLY MYTHOGRAPHY IN STEPHANUS OF BYZANTIUM

The Classical Quarterly, 2019
In this article I consider five anonymous quotations in Stephanus of Byzantium. The first is very probably an overlooked fragment of early mythography. The other four are much less likely to be early, but theoretically could be and are included for the sake of completeness.
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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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The David Plates Revisited: Transforming the Secular in Early Byzantium

The Art Bulletin, 2000
The conventional interpretation of the set of nine early seventh-century silver plates known as the David Plates sees them as an allegory of events in the reign of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610–41 c.e.). This article challenges such readings and argues that the plates can best be understood in terms of the Christianization of late Roman silver's
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Inscriptions of Early Byzantium and the Continuity of Ancient Onomastics

2012
Greek and Latin inscriptions are now fully embraced within the study of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era. At Constantinople, inscriptions of the Byzantine era were displayed along with ancient texts imported from elsewhere in the Empire, symbolising the welding of Hellenism and Romanitas.
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Helena: The Subversive Persona of an Ideal Christian Empress in Early Byzantium

Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2013
The present paper explores the ways in which the social memory of the mother of Constantine the Great was reconstructed, judged, and appreciated between the late fourth and ninth centuries, in an effort either to qualify or challenge commonly held perceptions of her.
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Chapter Two. Ancient and early christian Europe and Byzantium

2008
The use of marble rather than wood or local stone involves organisation, skilled workmanship and great expense, as well as dedication on the part of rich collectors. It is a deliberate choice over cheaper and locally available materials. Its value therefore makes it suitable for re-use.
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Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium

2017
Early Byzantine church leaders regularly admonished against grief as a Christian response to death. Yet, mourning practices continued unabated, and church leaders also participated in the lavish mourning that attended the funerals of beloved church figures, whether bishops or holy men or women.
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The God-Protected Empire? Scepticism Towards The Cult Of Saints In Early Byzantium

2011
The last decades of the sixth century saw a concerted effort by the imperial government to tie its legitimacy and prestige to saints' and relic cults. This process led to the increasing incorporation of numerous objects of Christian cult and piety (including icons and saints' relics) into imperial ceremonial.
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Vladimír Vavřínek (Hrsg.), From Late Antiquity to Early Byzantium

1987
Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd.
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