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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Byzantine Empire"”.
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Nikájské císařství - basileus ton Romaion a jeho říše po ztrátě
The present thesis deals with the Byzantine Empire at the beginning of the 13th century. The text concentrates on events following the conquest of Constantinople by the crusader army in 1204 and the response of Byzantine elites to the new political reality. The main attention is paid to Theodore I …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… is also valuable. The education available in the Byzantine Empire is particularly useful to examine. This society existed for a millennium and contributed substantially to the development of many aspects of the world as we know it today. In contradiction to its importance, however, its study has …
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ANNA DI SAVOIA IMPERATRICE E REGGENTE RUOLI E STRATEGIE DI POTERE FEMMINILE ATTRAVERSO LE CRISI DEL XIV SECOLO A BISANZIO.
… of Anne of Savoy, empress and regent of the Byzantine Empire between 1341 and 1347, on behalf of the young emperor John V Palaeologus. It focuses on two main areas: the foundations and limits of Anne’s power as a woman and empress, and the exercise of that power. In this second area, …
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Housing and Urban Transformation in Carthage, 400--700 CE
… to early medieval town on the periphery of the Byzantine empire.
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Postoje alexandrijské církve k islámskému vpádu a převzetí moci v letech 639-645
… this area, including the economic decline of the Byzantine Empire. The conclusionof the thesis focuses on the long-term consequences of the fall of Alexandria for the entire region, including changes in geopolitical arrangements and religious transformations.
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Bulgarian Contribution in Building the Byzantine Commonwealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
… Community under the cultural influence of Byzantine Empire from the middle of ninth century.</p> <p>The study primarily uses original Greek and Latin sources translated either in Old Church Slavonic or in contemporary Bulgarian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian or English. The approach of this …
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ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΑ ΣΤΑΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΙΣΤΙΚΑ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΤΑ ΔΩΔΕΚΑΝΗΣΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ 1189-C. 1240 Μ.Χ.
… CONTROL). DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE SOURCES (BYZANTINE- FOREIGN) AND ANALYSIS OF THE RELEVANT TERMS (EPIBULE, APOSTASIA, SYNOMOSIA, ETC). THERE ARE EXAMINED IN DETAIL 7REBELLIONS MOVEMENTS (CHAPTERS I-IV OF PART ONE) AND 5 AUTONOMY-SEPARATIST ONES (CHS I-V OF PT TWO). ON A PARALLEL BASIS THERE …
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Diplomatic communication between Byzantium and the West under the late Palaiologoi (1354-1453)
… studies the diplomatic communication between the Byzantine Empire and the West during the last century of the empire’s life from 1354 to 1453. The first chapter deals with ambassadorial travel to the West, studying land and sea routes, the season of travel, its speed and duration and the choice of …
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The late Byzantine city: social, economic and institutional profile
… aims to contribute to the discussion of late Byzantine urban centres by researching four important cities for which written, archaeological and numismatic sources are available, and by creating a profile for each. Conclusions drawn from the study of Monemvasia, Ioannina, Arta and Thessalonike …
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(Re)Turn to Stone
… a period described as the Dark Age for the Byzantine Empire, Armenian masons developed advanced stone building techniques, producing a rich heritage of religious architecture, much of which still stands today. However, driven by standardization and efficiency, concrete has largely replaced …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… on mercenaries has traditionally weakened empires. The Periclean strategy necessitated an increase in mercenaries during the Peloponnesian War. This increase initiated a self-perpetuating cycle of decline, leaving the city-states vulnerable to eventual subjugation by Philip of Macedon. The …
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Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World
… of Christian Hagiography in the Early Byzantine Empire points towards a unique moment in Christian History. The role of the saint was moved from the margins to a central and dynamic position within the church hierarchy and broader religious landscape. Meeting the pagan claims of power …
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Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
… in the ninth century C.E., artisans in the Byzantine Empire mastered the complex process of cloisonné enameling – fusing colored glass to metal plaques divided into compartments by delicate metal wires. Enameling demanded fluency in the physical properties of multiple materials and …
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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
… Powers for influence over the decaying Ottoman Empire could unfold. The pretext: the Great Powers’ ‘historical’ and ‘moral’ role as protectors of Christian minorities under Muslim rule. Imperial Russia, as part of its self-understanding as the traditional benefactor of Orthodoxy in the Arab …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… state. Furthermore, with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, Muscovy declared itself capital of Orthodox Christendom, casting its authority across the Russian lands. </p> <p>Accordingly on the ascent, Muscovy actively sought to define its emerging sense of national identity in a new …
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The Life and Works of Manuel Chrysaphes the Lampadarios, and the Figure of Composer in Late Byzantium
… and Crete after the disintegration of the Empire in 1453. Aside from Edward Williams’ study dedicated to the fourteenth-century musical reforms of Ioannes Koukouzeles, there are virtually no complete studies on notable musicians of the late Byzantine Empire. This dearth of scholarship is …
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The Show Must Go On: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)
… the legacies of Greco-Roman theater in medieval Byzantine visual and material culture and disrupts the centuries-long scholarly narrative that theater disappeared in the Byzantine Empire. In contrast to the textual focus of previous scholarship, I center visual culture within a broad perspective …
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The evolution of a craft: Post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century from the libraries of the Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt.
… late fifteenth century, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the early eighteenth century. The Greek-style bookbinding is a distinctive typological binding structure confined in the milieu of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine civilization. The research is based on two major monastic …
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Totalising Rhetoric in Late Antique Greek Poetry
… poets from the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire roughly between 4th-7th c. AD, at the critical juncture between the Classical Era and the Middle Ages. This poetic corpus – which has long lived at the edges of the (traditionally more ‘classical’) discipline of Classics – has …
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A psychological reading of the history of Byzantium : the trilogy by John Julius Norwich
… the history, the writers and the story of the Byzantine Empire. These four books were read with a psychological lens, where the exercise was to lift themes pertaining to the life and development of individuals in this unique state across 1200 years. Of the many themes that emerge, four themes …
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