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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Засади творення сучасної української візантології: кілька міркувань з огляду на сучасний стан дисципліни [PDF]

, 2004
The article is dedicated to the problems of a becoming of the modern Ukrainian science about a history of Byzantium. The main problems with which it collides at a stage of the becoming emerge, and ways of their solution are offered.
Домановський, А.М.
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Representation c. 800: Arab Byzantine Carolingian [PDF]

, 2009
What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around the year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian and Palestinian Christian attitudes toward representation ...
Brubaker, Leslie
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Climate History of Byzantium at the Crossroads

, 2022
This chapter is meant as a basic introduction to the field of climate history of Byzantium as of AD 2022. After explaining what climate history is, it discusses the source base and the big questions of the field, as well as it outlooks for the future.
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The Past Requires Reconciliation

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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History of Byzantium (1967): From Concept to Implementation

Античная древность и средние века
This article discusses the problem of the implementation in the 1950s–1970s USSR of a large-scale project of collective works covering the history of particular foreign countries.
Tatiana Viktorovna Kushch
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874

Historical Review, 2015
This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
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Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 19 [PDF]

, 1964
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mupress-book/1010/thumbnail ...
Dvornik, Francis
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(Re)writing History in Byzantium [PDF]

, 2020
Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh ...
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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