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Byzantium, Rus and Cumans in the early 13th century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper examines the foreign policy of the Galician-Volhynian prince Roman Mstislavich. Roman became the main military ally of the Byzantine Empire in the early 13th century.
Alexander V. Maiorov   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Dioclea between Rascia and Byzantium in the first half of the twelfth century [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2006
The conflict between Rascia and Dioclea began in the reign of King Bodin of Dioclea (1081-1099) and it was brought to an end during the rule of Stephen Nemanja, Grand Zhupan of Serbia about 1185.
Živković Tibor
doaj   +1 more source

The Pace di Siena and its Gems

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1254-1278, November 2025.
For the first time, the gems of the Pace di Siena, a rare en ronde bosse enamel preserved in Arezzo (Italy), have been analyzed using a transdisciplinary approach. The combination of gemmology and Raman spectroscopy has led to the identification of blue sapphires and pink spinels, contradicting previous historical classifications.
Stefania Martiniello   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
wiley   +1 more source

The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
wiley   +1 more source

Hearing the Past through the Sonic Icon

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 394-398, June 2026.
Reyhan Durmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
wiley   +1 more source

‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

open access: yesOxford 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
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantium and Scandinavia

open access: yes, 2022
Föller D. Byzantium and Scandinavia. In: Kolditz S, Drocourt N, eds. A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900–1204. Brill Companions to the Byzantine World. Vol 10. 1st ed.
Drocourt, Nicolas   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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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