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Hide and Seek. Roads, Lookouts and Directional Visibility Cones in Central Anatolia [PDF]
, 2017 In Cappadocia (central Turkey), routes that were only of a secondary importance during the Roman age acquired a new relevance starting from the end of the 7th century.
Salemi, Giuseppe, Turchetto, Jacopo
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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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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Journal 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
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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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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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A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred [PDF]
, 2014 The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child.
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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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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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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The revival of Byzantium through early twentieth century domestic collections in Greece: Tradition, modernity and gender [PDF]
, 2020 Alexandra Bounia
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