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The Western imaginary of "Greekness" in the reports on diplomatic relations between Byzantium and the West (949-1007)

open access: yes, 2021
Diplomsko delo skuša raziskati in primerjati dva opisa bizantinskega dvora v Konstantinoplu, ki ju je v razmiku dvajsetih let v sredini 10. stoletja napisal zgodovinar in kasneje cremonski škof Liutprand.
Škraban, Kajetan
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Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

The modality of historical thinking in the latest Greek primary school curriculum and the new challenges in history education

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Empire, Islam and the postcolonial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
One of the most persistent criticisms of postcolonialism is that it promotes an antipathy to imperialism that tends to focus on the experience of European colonial empires and neglects other, non-western instances of imperial hubris.
S. Sayyid
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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

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

Zones of Maximal Translatability:Borderspace and Women's Time

open access: yes, 2017
Yeung explores Emily Apter’s The Translation Zone, Julia Kristeva’s Murder in Byzantium, and Marina Warner’s The Leto Bundle, attending to acts of border-crossing, both physical and imaginary.
Heather H. Yeung   +1 more
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Two ornitomorphic graffiti from the temple of “Hagia Sophia”, Constantinople

open access: yes, 2023
Първата графична рисунка от северната галерия, която представяме тук, съдържа хералдически орел. Византия наследява от Рим използването на едноглавия орел като една от емблемите на имперската власт, но изглежда, че употребата му като военна инсигния ...
Томов, Тома, Thomov, Thomas
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