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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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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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Le passage du sceptre : rapports entre générations et modèles de citoyenneté à Ravenne

, 1998
Die Übergabe des Zepters. Beziehungen der Generationen untereinander und Vorbilder für Bürgerlichkeit in Ravenna Ideal auf halbem Weg zwischen Rimini und Byzanz gelegen, ist die Stadt Ravenna Schauplatz eines stillen Konflikts zwischen den Generationen,
Diasio, Nicoletta, Kichelmacher, Marzia
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The Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Museum: The museumization of a cultural asset for an Ottoman conqueror

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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Music in the Imaginary Worlds of the Greek Nation: Greek Art Music during the Nineteenth-Century's fin de siécle (1880s–1910s)

, 2011
This essay analyzes ways in which music becomes attached to the growing demand for national culture by the Greek middle class since the last decades of the nineteenth century.In modern Greece of that period, the predominant notions of ‘historic ...
Anastasia Siopsi
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The death of art: the transformation of art from a religious perspective [PDF]

, 1998
The hypothesis put forth in this dissertation is twofold. The first part is based on a view (supported by writers such as Hans Belting) that maintains that art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages, when art was emancipated from religion and ...
Andreopoulos, A., Andreopoulos, Andreas
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