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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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Christian praxis economic justice [PDF]
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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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
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 Emperor Heraclius: investigations into the image of an emperor [PDF]
This thesis is an investigation into the image of the emperor Heraclius as depicted by the ancient sources who cover his reign (610-641 A. D.). In order to establish the relevant criteria for the portrayal of an emperor it was first necessary to ...
Pritchard, David M.
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Jean-Michel Spieser, Urban & Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity & Early Byzantium [PDF]
Walter Christopher. Jean-Michel Spieser, Urban & Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity & Early Byzantium. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 60, 2002. pp.
Walter, Christopher
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Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147 [PDF]
This thesis aims to revise the established history of the passage of the Second Crusade through the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia in 1147. In particular, it seeks to readdress the ill-fated advance of the army nominally headed by King Conrad III Staufen ...
Roche, Jason T.
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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
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Church Construction in the Early Justinian’s Rule (527–534)
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
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A tragic case of complicated labour in early Byzantium (404 a.d.)
Presentation and comment on the problematic delivery of the Byzantine empress Eudoxia's stillborn child.The original Greek language Byzantine histories, chronicles and hagiographical sources were investigated. Comparisons were then made of the knowledge of obstetrics among contemporary and ancient physicians.The case of Eudoxia's delivery is described ...
Lascaratos, J, Lazaris, D, Kreatsas, G
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On the Issue of Athens School Closing in 529 AD
The article describes one of the most important events in the cultural life of Byzantium under Justinian I, namely, the closure of the pagan school of philosophy in Athens in 529 AD. Referring to legal sources, the author concludes that Justinian’s legal
Anna Mikhailovna Bolgova
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