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Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1269-1284, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Christian praxis economic justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The major aim of this thesis is to formulate the principles of economic justice and propose a just economic system which would critically guide Christian praxis in a secular pluralist society in general and Korea in particular.
Park, D.H.
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Early Umayyad Syria : a study of its origins and early development

open access: yes, 2015
This is a study dealing with the origins and early development of Early Umayyad Syria to the early 660s, including a description of Syria at the end of the preceding period. Late Roman Syria's continuing material prosperity, despite the ravages of plague
O'Sullivan, Shaun
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Non-exposed Funerary Inscriptions and the Cult of the Cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th - 9th centuries

open access: yes, 2020
Some funerary graffiti found in Early Medieval Apulia, just as other contemporary inscriptions in Northern and Southern Italy, were scratched or painted inside the tombs: they do not seem to have been inscribed with the intention of ever being read or ...
Antonio Enrico Felle, FELLE, Antonio
core   +1 more source

Byzantium over Aesillas

open access: yes, 1973
A tetradrachm of Byzantium of Lysimachus type struck over an issue of Aesillas throws new light on the chronology of the Macedonian coinage. On the evidence of several recently-published hoards the Byzantine issue belongs to the 80s of the first century ...
Thompson, Margaret
core   +1 more source

След края – ранновизантийско и средновековно присъствие в църква Extra Muros до крепостта Бузово кале, Казанлъшко

open access: yesПриноси към българската археология, 2018
The article presents the results of the archaeological excavations at an extra muros church, situated on the northern slope of the Sarnena Gora Mountain, not far from the village of Buzovgrad, Kazanlak region (Figs. 1–3). Built in the early 6th century,
Deyan Rabovyanov   +2 more
doaj  

Church Construction in the Early Justinian’s Rule (527–534)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
There are some unsolved problems in the historiographical field of the church history of Early Byzantium. One of them concerns the public rules and standards for the construction of religious objects. Why did they begin to form only in the 520s?
Vadim V. Serov, Yuriy A. Kreydun
doaj   +1 more source

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