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Here we present selected parts of the very interesting paper “The Lycurgus Cup – A Roman Nanotechnology“, by Ian Freestone, Nigel Meeks, Margaret Sax and Catherine Higgitt. Continue reading “The Lycurgus Cup – (Accidental?) Roman Nanotechnology”
Here we present selected parts of the very interesting paper “Surgery on Aneurysms in Byzantine Times (324-1453 A.D.)“, Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 15, 110-114 (1998), by J. Lascaratos, C. Liapis and C. Ionidis. Continue reading “Surgery on Aneurysms in Byzantine Times”
Here we present selected parts of the very interesting paper “Constantinople of emperors and Rome of popes in 6th-8th centuries: dialogue and separation“, Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 236 ( 2016 ) 327 – 332, by Maria Grafova. Continue reading “Constantinople of emperors and Rome of popes in 6th-8th centuries”
(…) historical research has shown that Christianity on the Northern shores of the Black Sea did not take root until well after the time of the apostles. The first traces left to us point to the end of the third century, and the most ancient Christian inscriptions in South Russia are of the fourth. Continue reading “Empire of God: Conversion Propaganda in the Christian Roman Empire”
“In his account of the military organization of the Turks (= Magyars), the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Sage repeatedly compares the Magyars with the Bulgarians, and in doing so emphasises that the customs of the Magyars differed from those of the Bulgarians only in so far as the latter had embraced the Christian religion and, adapting themselves to Byzantine morals, had abandoned both their savage and nomadic characteristics and their paganism.’ Continue reading “Byzantine Christianity and the Magyars in the period of their migration”
Byzantine tendencies toward urbanization and feudalization and the concomitant economic development in the provinces in the eleventh and twelfth centuries certainly affected contemporary culture, although different sectors of society reacted in distinct ways. Ιn Byzantium the peasantry and craft-working classes have left few traces. Continue reading “Popular and Aristocratic cultural trends in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire”
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