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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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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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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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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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The Curriculum Journal, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 574-587, November 2025.Abstract This paper refers to the concept of ‘historical thinking’ as it appears in the three versions of the recent Greek History Curriculum for primary school. It is a comparative study of the discourse of the three versions of the recent history curriculum for primary school.
Kyriaki Fardi
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A Sociocultural History of Violence in Twelfth-century Byzantium
, 2022 The present study addresses experiences and narrative representations of violence in the long twelfth century in Byzantium. This unique period was characterized by instability, transition, and a collision of cultures in the eastern Mediterranean.
Hioureas, Vicky Andrea
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Unfinished Talk. In Memoriam Professor Margarita Adolfovna Polyakovskaya
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2020 The article is dedicated to the memory of Margarita Adolfovna Polyakovskaya, the Professor at the Ural Federal University, the well-known specialist in the history and culture of Byzantium.
Tatiana Viktorovna Kushch
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In search for ’Higher education’ in Byzantium [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013 This study aims to present and critically investigate the development of the socalled ‘higher education’ in the Byzantine Empire. Some institutions will be examined, such as the teaching with public funding (the case of Themistios), the well ...
Markopoulos Athanasios
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The Pace di Siena and its Gems
Journal 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
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion
Text Matters, 2016 A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Małgorzata Dąbrowska
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