Masculine crusaders, effeminate Greeks, and the female historian: relations of power in Sir Walter Scott's Count Robert of Paris [PDF]
, 2017 Gender employed as a methodological lens in the analysis of historical fiction can help to reveal implicit or explicit evaluative statements. It is deployed here to examine hierarchies in the military, political and cultural context of the encounter ...
Kolovou, Ioulia
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Cross-cultural Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Introduction and Dissemination of Sugar-based Potions from the Islamic World to Byzantium. [PDF]
Speculum, 2021 Bouras-Vallianatos P.
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ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟ ΚΑΙ ΣΕΡΒΟΙ: ΤΟ ΖΗΤΗΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΙΩΑΝΝΗ Β΄ ΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΥ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΟΝ ΤΩΝ ΣΕΡΒΩΝ
, 2013 The aim of this paper is to examine the number of campaigns conducted against the Serbs by John II Komnenos (1118-1143). Until recently, scholars believed that there was only one campaign against the Serbs, because they failed to take into account a ...
Αγγελικη Παπαγεωργιου
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John Tzetzes and the pseudo-Aristotelian Peplos in middle-Byzantium. The testimony of the "Matritenses gr." 4562 and 4621 [PDF]
Tras mi reciente edición de los pseudo-aristotélicos Pepli Epitaphia, el presente trabajo se centra en los apochrypha a dichos epitafios que compuso Juan Tzetzes en el siglo xii, un conjunto de ocho dísticos elegíacos para los héroes que consideró ...
Martins de Jesus, Carlos A.
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The Grand Designs of Gilbert of Assailly: The Order of the Hospital in the Projected Conquest of Egypt by King Amalric of Jerusalem (1168-1169) [PDF]
, 2016 The chronicler William of Tyre is highly critical of the Hospitaller master Gilbert of Assailly, whom he blames for bankrupting the Order of the Hospital through his support for invasions of Egypt undertaken by King Amalric of Jerusalem.
Murray, AV
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Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore [PDF]
, 2012 “Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser ...
Abramovitsh +187 more
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Notes on eschatological patterns in a 12th century anonymous satirical dialogue the "Timarion" [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper I shed some light on one aspect of the Timarion, which has been rather neglected in modern scholarship, namely the motif of the katabasis to Hades and the elements of afterlife imagery.
Bzinkowski, Michał
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The Oral Background of Byzantine Popular Poetry [PDF]
, 1986 The popular poetry of Byzantium first appears in the form of consistent surviving texts of some size in the middle of the twelfth century, at the courts of the emperors John Komnenos (1118-1143) and Manuel Komnenos (1143-1180).1 Little or no such poetry ...
Jeffreys, Elizabeth, Jeffreys, Michael
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The medieval climate anomaly and Byzantium: a review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change [PDF]
, 2015 At the beginning of the Medieval Climate Anomaly, in the ninth and tenth century, the medieval eastern Roman empire, more usually known as Byzantium, was recovering from its early medieval crisis and experiencing favourable climatic conditions for the ...
Fleitmann, Dominik +8 more
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Late Byzantine bridges as markers of imagined landscapes. [PDF]
Levant, 2020 Fingarova G.
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