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Античная древность и средние века, 2022 So far, the collection of letters of Maximos the Confessor (580–662) has not been studied from the point of view of philology. The purpose of this article is to analyse Maximos’ letters as examples of epistolary prose and to find out the extent to which ...
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Chernoglazov
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An illustration of the heavenly ladder of John Climacus in Psellos’ funeral eulogy dedicated to Nikolaos of the monastery of the beautiful source [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog InstitutaThe present study is based on a passage in Michael Psellos’ funeral eulogy dedicated to Nikolaos, the founder and abbot of the monastery of the Beautiful Source (τῆς Ὡραίας Πηγῆς) on Mount Olympus in Bithynia.
Moniou Dimitra
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Joy, Sorrow, Wrath: Some Considerations over the Byzantine People’s Emotionality in Literary Sources
Античная древность и средние века, 2020 The people’s emotions make up a phenomenon not measurable in objective way. This paper’s author has confirmed this conclusion by the cases of accounts on treasons and violent deaths of the emperors as described by several Byzantine historians. This paper
Peter Schreiner
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An unpublished poem on Porphyry [PDF]
, 2018 This paper offers an editio princeps, an English translation and a commentary of an interesting epigram on Porphyry, the commentator of Aristotle. The epigram was transcribed in Vat. Reg.
Tomadaki, Maria
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DIE CHRONOGRAPHIA DES MICHAEL PSELLOS ALS WERK MÜNDLICHER PROSA [PDF]
, 2021 Michael Psellos’ Chronographia as Oral Prose. Until now only Herbert Hunger and Warren Treadgold had pointed out that Michael Psellos has his Chronographia not written by his own hand but dictated to a professional scribe. Therefore also the structure of
Reinsch, Diether Roderich
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Studia Ceranea, 2019 The article proposes a new version of the history of the famous Byzantine political treatise De Administrando Imperio. The text of this treatise was written after 952 and before November 959 personally by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus for his ...
Aleksei Shchavelev
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Античная древность и средние века, 2020 John Apokaukos (ca. 1155–1233), the metropolitan of Naupaktos, was a church and political figure of the early thirteenth century and an outstanding Byzantine writer.
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Chernoglazov
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RECEPTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN PSELLOS’S IMPERIAL ORATIONS DEDICATED TO ROMANOS IV DIOGENES
ИстраживањаThis study analyzes the biblical motifs used by Michael Psellos, one of the most learned figures of the eleventh-century Constantinople intellectual elite, as prototexts for his imperial orations dedicated to Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes.
JASMINA ŠARANAC STAMENKOVIĆ
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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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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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