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, 2023 Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of Nubia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium ..
Gnisci, Jacopo
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Island of Discord: Tenedos in the Fourteenth-Century Byzantine-Venetian Relations
Античная древность и средние века, 2022 This article examines the history of Venice’s struggle for the control over the Byzantine island of Tenedos. In the Late Middle Ages, this island was of great strategic importance, since its owner could control the passage of ships through the Hellespont
Tatiana Viktorovna Kushch
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.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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The Theme System and Byzantine Provincial Armed Forces at the Early Palaeologian Period (1259–1328)
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the state, nature and the leadership system of stratiotic forces as part of the Byzantine provincial armed forces of the Early Palaeologian period.
Vladimir A. Zolotovskiy
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Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 77-86, April 2026.Abstract By pushing for adequate modes of conceptualisation, ontological turn theorists have made significant headway in the attempt to take seriously ontological worlds that are typically considered irreconcilable to those of the Western intellectual project.
Daniel Tranter‐Santoso
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Поволжская археологияThe paper presents a new interpretation of the Theodorite memorial inscription from Mangup of AD 1282, erected in honor of a certain ‘*…fairy from Poika’ (IOSPE³ V 175).
Kuzenkov Pavel V. +1 more
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 114-127, January 2026.ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries +2 more
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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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The Haemus Mountains and the geopolitics of the first Bulgarian empire: An overview [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014 The role of the Haemus Mountains (that is Stara Planina and Sredna Gora) as a geographical factor is visible in the fact that between the close of the 7th century and the beginning of the 9th century, the eastern parts of that massif turned ...
Marinow Kirił
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