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In this post we present, almost complete, the very informative paper titled “Byzantium and Migration: an introduction“, by Yannis Stouraitis, 2016. Here is the first part: Continue reading “Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) history as a history of migration – Part 1”
Prior to the 12th century, writers of the Eastern Roman Empire had described the west in terms delineating the region as being comprised of a series of distinctly different peoples, cultures and territories (Spaniards, Italians, etc.). By the time that Manuel began to reach the heights of Imperial power, eastern intellectuals had begun to describe Europe as a unified people, bringing the concept of “The West” to the East (Kahzdan). Continue reading “The Komnenian reform; why did it fail”
Despite modern interpretations of the Empire, it was not without military dynamism throughout its 800-year hold on the East. Continue reading “What led the Komnenian Emperors to embrace aspects of the Western Way of War”
In this post we present extracts from three different publications which deal with the very interesting posibility that a number of Chinese monuments had been built with the use of a magnetic compass.
Continue reading “Chinese monuments oriented using a magnetic compass?”
In this article we present selected parts of the very interesting paper “Aspasia and Cleopatra Metrodora, Two Majestic Female Physician – Surgeons in the Early Byzantine Era“, by Tsoucalas Gregory and Sgantzos Markos. Continue reading “Aspasia and Cleopatra Metrodora: Female pioneers of Medicine in the Christian Roman Empire”
In this post we present the very interesting paper titled “Evidence for Long-Term Migration on the Balkan Peninsula Using Dental and Cranial Nonmetric Data:Early Interaction Between Corinth (Greece) and its Colony at Apollonia (Albania)“, by Britney Kyle McIlvaine et al. We also comment on the findings and their possible further importance. Continue reading “Homogeneity among Illyrian and Greek populations and shared ancestry, study finds”
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