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Serbian pronoia and pronoia in Serbia: The diffusion of an institution [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2011
Of all of Byzantium’s neighbors who appropriated the fiscal and agrarian institution of pronoia, it was the Serbs whose adaptation of the institution most closely resembled the Byzantine model.
Bartusis Mark C.
exaly   +4 more sources

The pronoia in the state of Serbian despots [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2016
The pronoia as type of land holding through Byzantium began to live in medieval Serbia. The aim of this paper is to study characteristics and diffusion of this kind of estate in the state under the rule of Serbian despots. I will make comparison
Ivanović Miloš
doaj   +4 more sources

Pronoia or reverse paranoid delusion: A brief exploration into a conspiracy in your favour [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Pronoia is a neologism originally coined in 1982 to describe a state of mind that is, in essence, the positive counterpart of paranoia.
S. Jesus   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Leichoudes’ pronoia of the Mangana [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2018
Leichoudes held the pronoia of the Mangana. In this case that means that he was a pronoetes of an imperial estate, in latin a curator domus divinae. The pronoia thus implies that he held an emphyteutic lease.
Lauritzen Frederick
doaj   +3 more sources

The Chadenos affair: Pachymeres, book I, chapters 5-6 [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2008
The author offers an interpretation of a passage from the history of George Pachymeres involving the fate of the highlanders of Asia Minor under Michael VIII Palaiologos during the 1260s.
Bartusis Mark C.
doaj   +2 more sources

Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 728-758, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The paper examines mortality patterns in the city of Hermoupolis, on the Greek island of Syros, from 1859 to 1940. It produces important new insights into Mediterranean urban historical demography and is the first comprehensive study of urban mortality in Greece, utilising the largest and one of the longest time series at the individual level ...
Michail Raftakis
wiley   +1 more source

Were Byzantine monks of the 13th-15th centuries holders of imperial grants? [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2013
A small number of imperial grants to monks appear in the Byzantine sources from the late 13th to the 15th centuries, and mainly in the 14th, before the Serbian expansion in Macedonia.
Maniati-Kokkini Triantafyllitsa
doaj   +1 more source

Emotions that Foster Learning: Wonder and Shock in Proclus

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2022
In his Commentaries, Proclus (Neoplatonic philosopher, 5th century A.D.) describes the ways in which a teacher can awaken the desire for knowledge and philosophy in a given soul, and help this soul to make cognitive and moral progress. He considers such
Corentin Tresnie
doaj   +1 more source

Tributary World-Ecologies, Part II

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2022
This essay—the second in a two part series—reconceptualizes the High Medieval Mediterranean World as a tributary world-ecology. Area Studies view the High Medieval Mediterranean as a culturally fragmented world, while the Commercialization Theorists ...
Çağrı İdiman
doaj   +1 more source

Forms of corruption in the middle ages [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2012
The paper continues the story of corruption as a socially harmful phenomenon that affected all societies, from ancient times, through mediaeval times, to modern age.
Deretić Nataša
doaj   +1 more source

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