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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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MICHAEL PSELLOS’ THEOLOGICA I.30 AND THE BYZANTINE INTERPRETATIONS OF SCALA PARADISI XXVII/2.13
, 2021 The article2 examines the exegesis of Michael Psellos on the most mysterious of the “difficult places” of the Ladder by John of Sinai — Step XXVІІ/2.13. This interpretation is one of the so-called Theologica treatises (Theol. I.30).
rodionov, Oleg
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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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, 2021 The present paper is focused on Psellos’ letters, which contain a number of remarks on his role as a teacher of rhetoric and as a rhetor active at the imperial court, as well as many comments on his correspondents’ and his own style – including ...
Corinne Jouanno, Jouanno, Corinne
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The philosopher, the emperor, and mathematics: Michael Psellos’s epistemology of proofs in context
Revista Brasileira de História da MatemáticaThis paper explores the epistemology of mathematical proofs in the work of Michael Psellos (1018–1081), a central figure of the Byzantine intellectual milieu in eleventh-century Constantinople. While Psellos is primarily celebrated for his contributions
Alberto Bardi
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Studia Ceranea, 2017 The paper investigates the establishment of the office of the epi ton kriseon during the Reign of emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (1042–1055), analysing the reasons behind its creation and its initial character.
Symeon Antonov
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Miejsce ekfrazy w bizantynistycznej historiografii artystycznej
Vox Patrum, 2018 In Byzantium, writing ekphrases was one of the standard literary skills, developed during school instruction. Yet, in Byzantine art history, the analysis of Byzantine ekphrases had long been beyond the scope of researchers who favoured rather the ...
Małgorzata Smorąg Różycka
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The influence of Proclus on the metaphysics of Michael Psellos
, 2022 The thesis examines the influence received by the Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos from the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus, in the field of Metaphysics.
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 Introduction. The article considers a fairly common practice of compiling the codices of the original letters and other charters in Byzantium. Until now, this phenomenon in the history of the Greek book was completely unobserved. Methods.
Marina A. Kurysheva
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 The paper offers new arguments for the more exact dating – autumn-winter of 963 – of the manuscript of the treatise De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Leipzig, Univ. Bibl. Rep. I 17).
Marina A. Kurysheva
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