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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
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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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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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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The Revolts of the Varangians in Constantinople: Two Incidents at the Palace
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
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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Bιβλιοκρισία: Charles BARBER / Stratis PAPAIOANNOU, εκδ., Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics, [Michael Psellos in Translation], University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame/Indiana ...
Marina Loukaki
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Justice, Tyche and Fate: Transcendent Forces in the “History” of George Pachymeres
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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A new witness to Michael Psellos’ poem “On Medicine” (“De medicina”) [PDF]
This paper deals with a new fragmentary witness, viz. Library of the Hellenic Parliament (Athens) 84, to Michael Psellos’ didactic poem “On Medicine”. It is divided into three parts: a brief codicological description of the manuscript, a detailed presentation of the various connections between the new witness and the extant manuscripts of the complete ...
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«Wittiness» in Byzantium: Eutrapelia
The Old Greek term «eutrapelia» cannot be easily rendered in other languages: Its literal meaning is «turnability», but it is generally translated as «ready wit» or «liveliness». Whatever its semantic nuances, eutrapelia was anathematized by St.
Sergei Arkadʹevich Ivanov
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