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THE RENAISSANCE OF BYZANTIUM DURING THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY 867-1056
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Catholica Latina, 2021 The Macedonian dynasty (867-1056) opened a new stage in the history of Byzantium, which will lead the Byzantine Empire to its medieval peak. Thus, for 150 years the Byzantine Empire had a period in which it experienced important achievements on all levels.
DUȘE, Călin Ioan
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Simeonov G.
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story?
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 360-379, August 2023., 2023 This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason
Claudia Rapp
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From Servant of the Empire to Servant of God: Images of the Emperor From Constantine to the Macedonian Dynasty [PDF]
, 2000 This is an insight into the changing iconography of Byzantine art from the Constantinian age (AD 306-337) to the end of the Macedonian Dynasty in AD 1081.
Pampoulides, Andreas D. G
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann +3 more
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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 726-758, December 2022., 2022 Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples.
Anna‐Katharina Rieger
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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1997 Distinct and various political forms existed and even coexisted in Caria. To each one of them corresponded a specific type of territory : community territories (cities, towns, villages), states still engaged in a process of territorial integration ...
Isabelle Pimouguet-Pedarros
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L’unique galatomachie découverte à Pergame
Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2011 The only galatomachy found in Pergamon. A small bronze plate from the Pergamon Museum offers a new point of view on the confrontation between the Attalid dynasty and its opponents, mostly Galatians.
Gilles Courtieu
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The triad Zeus, Herakles and Dionysos a contribution to the study of ancient cults in upper Moesia [PDF]
Balcanica, 2008 The triad Zeus, Herakles and Dionysos has been attested in Upper Moesia by the relief from the village of Bukovo near Negotin, eastern Serbia. The Roman supreme god was frequently shown in association with other deities but the presence of Bacchus and ...
Pilipović Sanja
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