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Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147
, 2008 This thesis aims to revise the established history of the passage of the Second Crusade through the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia in 1147. In particular, it seeks to readdress the ill-fated advance of the army nominally headed by King Conrad III Staufen ...
Roche, Jason T.
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Stylites in the Middle Byzantine Period: the Case of the Novelistic Life of Theodore of Edessa
, 2022 The eleventh and twelfth centuries are not a heroic epoch for stylites, buta period during which they continue to forge a path towards holiness, among other monastic lifestyles, both within Byzantine society and in its literary imagination. Their numbers are not decreasing, but, during this same period, the official Church treats them with increased ...
Caseau, Béatrice, Messis, Charis
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Orthodox Christian theology in general prides itself on bearing the mantle of patristic thought. Orthodox theological anthropology is no different, often drawing on Greek patristic sources in presenting its vision of the human being. Yet Orthodox anthropology can also broadly be categorized as personalist in ways that are not necessarily so ...
Alexis Torrance
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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The ascending prayer to Christ: theodore Stoudite's defence of the Christ-єikwv against ninth century iconoclasm [PDF]
, 2003 Theodore Stoudite (759-826) was at the centre of a revival of patristic learning which equipped him to apply the weight of the Christian tradition to the Byzantine image controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Thorne, Gary Wayne Alfred
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.Summary This paper investigates the economic and political transformations of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (late eleventh to mid‐fourteenth centuries AD) through the lens of material culture and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Using the distribution of seven types of glazed pottery as archaeological indicators, the study examines changing patterns
Katerina Ragkou
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 496-506, June 2026.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Byzantine Missions among the Magyars in the Later 10th Century?
, 2012 Byzantine missions among the Magyars during the later 10th century? For many 10th century Christian observers, as they frequently noted, the arrival of the conquering Hungarians at the end of the 9th century meant the beginning of the Apocalypse ...
Bollók, Ádám
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The Textual Tradition of the Gospel of John in Greek Gospel Lectionaries from the Middle Byzantine Period [PDF]
, 2010 It has been over 50 years since the last doctoral dissertation on the Gospel of John in the Greek lectionary tradition. The present dissertation on the pericopae of the Gospel of John in the Synaxarion section of the Greek Gospel lectionary hopes to ...
Jordan, Christopher Robert Dennis
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A group of local production middle byzantine period pottery from tripolis [PDF]
Anatolia Antiqua, 2014 Abstract Not ...
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