A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186) [PDF]
, 2012 The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore- Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is viewed in the modern scholarship ...
Dobyčina, Anastasia
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Adversus Iudaeos in the Sermon Written by Theodore Syncellus on the Avar Siege of AD 626 [PDF]
, 2016 A sermon attributed to Theodore Syncellus (Theodoros Synkellos) is considered as one of the basic sources for the study of the Avar siege of Constantinople in AD 626.
Hurbanič, Martin
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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The Handmaid of the Lord Redux: Constructing the New Orthodox Womanhood between Cradle and Convert
, 2020 In an era when questions of sexuality and gender dominate much of the debate in theological circles, regardless of religious or confessional affiliation, the meaning of Orthodox Christian womanhood remains a simultaneously over-discussed and under ...
Kelaidis, Katherine
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Exhibition “Byzantium through the Centuries” at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Tyragetia, 2017 From June 24 to October 2, 2016, the Hermitage Museum held the exhibition Byzantium through the Centuries that enjoyed an exceptionally great success among the general public and professionals.
Yuri Pyatnitsky
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE GREEK-ROMAN REPEATING CATAPULT [PDF]
, 2010 An “automatic” repeating weapon used by the Roman army is presented. Firstly a short description is shown of the working principle of the torsion motor that powered the Greek-Roman catapults.
F. Russo, ROSSI, CESARE
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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W kręgu dyskusji o sztuce bizantyjskiej
Klio, 2016 Robin Cormack, Byzantine art, Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2000, ISBN 9780192842114, ss. 256; Thomas F. Mathews, Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 1998, ISBN 9780300167665, ss. 176; Johannes
Przemysław Waszak
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