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Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 467-481, July 2025.Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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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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Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources (second to seventh centuries AD) [PDF]
, 2014 The present book aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food.
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Measuring Ancient Inequality [PDF]
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered.
Lindert, Peter +2 more
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Byzantijnse boekepigrammen / metrische parateksten: terminologie en classificatie [PDF]
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Meesters, Renaat
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The cultural dynamics of the term Hellanodikes in Palaiologan Byzantium [PDF]
, 2015 In ancient Greek literature, Hellanodikai (Ἑλλανοδίκαι) were figures of public authority and high esteem, renown for their fair judgment, overseeing control, and morally transparent life.
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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, 2015 Common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and foxtail millet, also known as Italian millet (Setaria italica P. Beauv.), are among crop grasses that in the Antiquity and the early Byzantine period were grown on a relatively large scale.
M. Kokoszko +2 more
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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