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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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Treatise "De Administrando Imperio" by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Date of the Paris. gr. 2009 Copy, Years of Compiling of the Original Codex, and a Hypothesis about the Number of Authors

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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“Image of the Soul” of a Learned Metropolitan in the Thirteenth Century: Some Notes on John Apokaukos’ Epistles

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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Between myth and reality: the modern underground reception of Michael Psellos

Byzantine and modern Greek studies
Among occultists, Hermetic writers, modern Templar groups, and conspiracy theorists, Michael Psellos has been imagined as a guardian of occult Hermetic knowledge, the secret founder of the Knights Templar, and a key figure in global conspiracy narratives.
Berke Çetinkaya
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RECEPTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN PSELLOS’S IMPERIAL ORATIONS DEDICATED TO ROMANOS IV DIOGENES

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This 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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THE CONCEPT OF MATTER IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL PSELLOS AND JOHN ITALOS

ΣΧΟΛΗ Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
. In this article, I discuss the concept of matter - both the first matter and the physical matter of the world, that is, elements - in Byzantine philosophy of the 11th century, namely, in the works of Michael Psellos and John Italos. In particular, I am
M. Varlamova
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Michaél Psellos teológiai munkái

Antik Tanulmányok
Michaél Psellos teológiai munkái bevezetések és szövegmagyarázatok a Szentírás egyes helyeihez, különösen a Zsoltárokhoz. A tanköltemények és szónoki beszédek egyfelől a patrisztikus hagyomány nyomvonalát követik, elsősorban Teológus Szent Gergely és ...
Zoltán Farkas
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The Images of Eros: Love and Communion with God in the Writings of Michael Psellos and Symeon the New Theologian

ΣΧΟΛΗ Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
The paper deals with the theme of love and communion with God in the writings of Michael Psellos and Symeon the New Theologian. In the first case, the material for analysis was the poetical interpretation by Michael Psellus on the Song of Songs.
T. Shchukin
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