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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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The Past Requires Reconciliation
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 3-4, Page 205-221, July–October 2025.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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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Economic inequality, culture, and governance quality
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 375-402, February 2025.Abstract We review work that has linked economic inequality and culture to governance quality. We start with contributions that have considered the relationship between inequality and governance from a long‐run perspective. This historical perspective yields a range of insights and helps identify the deep drivers of specific cultural traits that relate
Andreas P. Kyriacou
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Everyday Bordering and Migrant Schooling Timescapes in Post‐Crisis Athens
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 392-411, January 2025.Abstract This paper explores the geographies of migrant schooling in Athens following the 2015–2016 crisis, which left thousands of migrants stranded in the country. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnography of everyday bordering (2017–2018), I examine the school as an ordinary bureaucratic institution and as a physical space in relation to the border.
Anna Papoutsi
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 57-82, January 2025.Abstract Conversion to a museum is a common destiny of many cultural assets that cannot continue to serve their original functions. They are usually re‐functioned to provide public benefits in return for the expenditures made for their preservation. However, their architectural features may not always meet the expected results when functioning as a ...
Hasan Fırat Diker
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[Imaginary Landscapes Student Demos 47]
, 2003 Wet on wet landscape in brown and yellow. On same sheet as [Imaginary Landscapes Student Demos 48]Tiff file: 3310x2196 pixels, 20.7 Mb; Display: jpeg, 529x800 pixels ...
Father Edward Catich
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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[Imaginary Landscapes Student Demos 33]
, 2003 Wet on wet landscape in blue. On same sheet as [Imaginary Landscapes Student Demos 32]Tiff file: 3320x1850 pixels, 17.6 Mb; Display: jpeg, 446x800 pixels ...
Father Edward Catich
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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