The Thousand-Year Spiritual Tradition of Lesnovo Monastery in Macedonia
, 2017 Through the rich Christian tradition in Macedonia from the early Christian, medieval and up to the modern period numerous churches and monasteries were built, where all forms of development of spiritual and cultural life took place.
Velev, Ilija
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Tackling the technical history of the textiles of El-Deir, Kharga Oasis, the Western Desert of Egypt [PDF]
, 2020 The site of El-Deir is situated north of Kharga in the “Great Oasis” of the Egyptian Western Desert (fig. 1). The site was occupied between the 6th century BC and the 6th century AD. A complex history emerged with the influence of many cultures: Persian,
Letellier-Willemin, Fleur
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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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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Early Medieval World (Chapter 2 of World History, A Short, Visual Introduction)
, 2015 The fifth through the tenth centuries was a period of significant transformation for Europe. As a result of the Germanic invasions and the collapse of the economy, the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus (475-76), was deposed in 476.
Corning, Caitlin
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Христианизация западных славян и первые христианские храмы в Моравии [PDF]
, 2015 The religious ideas of the Western Slavs appear to us in the testimonies of Cosmas of Prague, who described Czech settlers. According to him, the Czechs, as the heathen worship waters, fire, rivers, trees, rocks, mountains, hills, and sometimes homemade ...
Kaputsian, R. +3 more
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“Through Thick and Thin” How Black Educators Support Urban Students' Postsecondary Plans
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 47-66, February 2026.How does exposure to Black educators influence minority students' postsecondary planning processes and long‐run educational ambitions? Prior studies have documented positive effects of student‐teacher racial matches on achievement and non‐academic outcomes, but quantitative research designs are often unable to uncover the mechanisms underlying these ...
Joseph Sageman
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Diversity in pig husbandry from the Classical-Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods: an integrated dental analysis of Düzen Tepe and Sagalassos assemblages (Turkey) [PDF]
, 2017 Ethnographical, historical and archaeological evidence suggests that a great diversity in pig husbandry may have existed in the past. However, such diversity remains difficult to document from traditional zooarchaeological methods and its study may ...
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Terminology Associated with Silk in the Middle Byzantine Period (AD 843-1204)
Zea Books, 2017 During the 1st millennium AD, silk became the most desirable fibre in the Mediterranean region. While the expansion of silk production and consumption is widely acknowledged, specific features of the industry’s development are more difficult to discern.
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An environmental and cultural study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: a research prospectus [PDF]
, 1980 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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