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Basil I’s Path to Power according to the Vita Basilii as a Heroic Myth
Studia Ceranea, 2023 This paper aims to illustrate how the tradition of Basil I’s rise to power in the Vita Basilii includes elements typical of heroic myths, according to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth scheme.
Łukasz Kubicki
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Religions, 2023 Although John Chrysostom is critical of the theatre, delivering a homily was never a tiresome monologue of the preacher in Byzantium; it was a theatrical performance combining text-reading and multiple ceremonies, during which spaces, lights, and ...
Cao Gu
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How Many Books Does It Take to Make an Emperor's Library? Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and a Chapter of History of the Manuscript Book [PDF]
, 2023 In tenth-century Byzantium, the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus commissioned a series of works that aimed to collect and select the knowledge accumulated over the centuries. In the Excerpta Constantiniana this enormous material was distributed in
Luciano Bossina
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Powerful Women in Byzantine Empire: The Life and Ideology the Empress Theophano (941 – after 978)
Vox Patrum, 2022 In this paper we present the life and the character of Theophano, the mother of Basil II Porphyrogenitus, the Macedonian. Some women made spectacular progress up the social ladder by marrying into higher-class families, even sometimes into the imperial ...
Eirini Artemi
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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1977 Nadel Benjamin. Literary Tradition and Epigraphical Evidence : Constantine Porphyrogenitus' Information on the Bosporan Kingdom of Emperor Diocletian Reconsidered. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 3, 1977. pp.
Benjamin Nadel
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New “Russian Translation” of the Treatise “De Adminstrando Imperio” Amid Its Contemporary Studies
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. The article is a critical essay about an attempt to translate the Constantine’s treatise “De Administrando Imperio” into an artificially archaic “Pseudo-Slavic” language, made by R.A. Gimadeev. It is shown that his commentaries accompanying
Aleksei S. Shchavelev
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. The article aims to compare two texts concerning byzantine diplomatic practices of the mid 10th century. The first one is described in the 13th chapter of the treatise “De Administrando Imperio”, in which its author Constantine VII ...
Aleksey S. Shchavelev
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Review Article:The de thematibus (“on the themes”) of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and notes by John HALDON [Τranslated Texts for Byzantinists, v. 11], Liverpool University Press 2021 [PDF]
, 2022 Review Article: The de thematibus (''on the themes") of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with introductory chapters and notes by John Haldon, L[Τranslated Texts for Byzantinists, v.
LOUNGHIS, Telemachos
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The oldest elements of the Serbian statehood [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017 Starting from the Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus' work De Administrando Imperio, where he wrote that after the death of a Serbian archon, the rule over the people was shared between his two sons, it is assumed that the Serbs were then a nomadic, animal ...
Đekić Đorđe N.
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