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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]

, 2016
A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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John Tzetzes and the blemish examiners : a Byzantine teacher on schedography, everyday language and writerly disposition [PDF]

, 2017
The paper focuses on John Tzetzes (ca. 1110-after 1166), a well-known teacher and scholar of the Komnenian era, with the aim of examining two issues.
Agapitos, Panagiotis
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MICHAEL PSELLOS AND IOANE PETRITSI ON INTELLECT

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 2021
Michael Psellos exposed his theory on intellect in two major texts: De omnifaria doctrina and Philosophica minora. Psellos’ theory is based on different philosophical sources, including, first and foremost, Proclus’ texts. The younger contemporary of Psellos, Georgian philosopher Ioane Petritsi, who was trained in Byzantine philosophical school and was
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The Revolts of the Varangians in Constantinople: Two Incidents at the Palace

Studia Ceranea
This article deals with the revolts staged by the Varangians at the imperial palace in 1068 and 1078. The first part of the article focuses on the revolt at the beginning of Romanos IV Diogenes’s reign as described by the Continuator of Skylitzes.
Oleksandr Fylypchuk
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The images of military commanders in historical composition of John Skylitzes

Античная древность и средние века, 2019
This article is devoted to analysis of polemological representations of John Skylitzes. In the «Synopsis historiarum» the military ideal was presented realistically, in contrast to the images of military leaders in historical compositions of Leo the ...
Karina Ramazanovna Kapsalykova
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Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry [PDF]

, 2012
Poets of the Byzantine eleventh-century disposed of a powerful means to have their works patroned without incurring the accusation that they chased ambitions: the gift. Numerous poems are offered as gifts, in exchange for tangible rewards.
Bernard, Floris
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Les Oracles chaldaïques entre idéologie et critique (XVe/XVIIe s.) [PDF]

, 2010
Texte de la communication faite lors du colloque international « Oracles chaldaïques II », organisé par Lucia Saudelli et Adrien Lecerf, Paris, INHA, 2 octobre 2010 (publication prévue dans les actes de ce colloque en 2011)Comment les « Oracles ...
Tambrun-Krasker, Brigitte
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Resorting to rare sources of antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in twelfth-century Byzantium [PDF]

, 2014
This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ <i>Progymnasma</i> 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s <i>Mulierum virtutes</i> 262D ...
Xenophontos, Sophia
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Justice, Tyche and Fate: Transcendent Forces in the “History” of George Pachymeres

Античная древность и средние века
George Pachymeres was an outstanding scholar and historiographer of the early Palaiologan period. Although his History, covering the second half of the thirteenth and the early fourteenth centuries, is well known to scholarship, so far it remains poorly ...
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Chernoglazov
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L’entrée dans la carrière à Byzance au XIe siècle : Michel Psellos et Jean Skylitzès

, 2008
International audienceEtude des relations entre Michel Psellos et Jean Skylitzès au moment du démarrage de la carrière du second.
Limousin, Eric
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