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Articles from the latest issue of Dumbarton Oaks Papers , no 71: Maya Maskarinec, “Saints for All Christendom: Naturalizing the Alexandrian Saints Cyrus and John in Seventh- to Thirteenth-Century Rome”;  Joseph Glynias, “Prayerful Iconoclasts: Psalm Seals and Elite Formation in the First Iconoclast Era (726–750)”;  Jordan Pickett, “Water and Empire in the De Aedificiis of Procopius”;  Florin Leonte, “Visions of Empire: Gaze, Space, and Territory in Isidore’s Encomium for John VIII Palaiologos (1429)”;  Anastasia Drandaki, “Piety, Politics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Venetian Crete”; Julian Baker, Filippo Dompieri, and Turan Gökyildirim, “The Reformed Byzantine Silver Based Currencies (ca. 1372–1379) in the Light of the Hoards from the Belgrade Gate”;  Vasileios Marinis, “The Vision of Last Judgment in the Vita of Saint Niphon (BHG 1371z)”;  Daniel Reynolds, “Rethinking Palestinian Iconoclasm”;  Athanasios Vionis, “Understanding Settlemen...

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The aristocratic oikos on the Vrina Plain, Butrint c. AD 830−1200 pp. 1-19(19) Authors: Greenslade, Simon; Hodges, Richard The illusion of continuity: Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes and the eastern border pp. 20-34(15) Author: Garrood, William The original source for Tzimiskes' Balkan campaign (971 AD) and the emperor's classicizing propaganda pp. 35-52(18) Author: Kaldellis, Anthony At the origins of ephoreia* pp. 53-62(10) Author: Chitwood, Zachary The fair of Agios Demetrios of 26 October 1449: Byzantine-Venetian relations and land issues in mid-century* pp. 63-80(18) Author: Wright, Diana Gilliland Contemporary perception of Byzantium in Turkish cinema: the cross-examination of Battal Gazi films with the Battalname pp. 81-91(11) Authors: Bayrı, Buket Kitapçı Nicosia and its municipal administration during the very early years of British rule in Cyprus pp. 92-110(19) Author: Markides, Diana `Peasantist nationalism' in inter-war Greece (1927-41) pp. 111-129(...

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Parekbolai, the Online Journal of Byzantine Studies announces the publication of two more articles: A. Riehle: Epistolography as Autobiography: Remarks on the Letter-Collections of Nikephoros Choumnos Abstract: This article highlights challenges involved in understanding and interpreting Byzantine epistolary literature, and suggests that we pay closer attention to the transmission of letters and its hermeneutic ramifications. The letters penned by the late Byzantine court official Nikephoros Choumnos are a case in point. The author assembled, revised and arranged his letters, which were originally composed and dispatched mostly for pragmatic purposes (e.g., letters of request). By embedding these missives into the framework of a collection, he created an autobiographical narrative that was to promote and perpetuate his multi-faceted persona. I. Polemes: Φιλολογικές παρατηρήσεις σε ένα ανώνυμο υπόμνημα στις Κατηγορίες του Αριστοτέλη Some emendations to the text of the rec...

From the latest issue of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Alwis, Anne P, Men in pain: masculinity medicine and the Miracles of St. Artemios The Miracles of St Artemios, which reveal a catalogue of men who are in severe pain and who express their anguish volubly, are analysed to provide two methodological frameworks (anthropological and medical), within which to investigate the masculinity of these ‘ordinary’ Byzantine men. Nikolaos G. Chrissis, The City and the Cross: the image of Constantinople and the Latin empire in thirteenth-century papal crusading  rhetoric This paper examines the way papal rhetoric made use of the image and reputation of the city of Constantinople in order to legitimise and incite support for its crusading calls for the defence of the Latin empire after 1204. A number of relevant themes that reflect the city’s temporal and religious importance are explored, such as its wealth, its relics, its imperial past and its patriarchal status as New Rome. Th...

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Byzantinische Zeitschrift , August 2011 Die Argumentation des Patriarchen Gregorios II. Kyprios zur Widerlegung des Filioque-Ansatzes in der Schrift. De processione Spiritus sancti, Theodoros Alexopoulos Leo III and the Anemodoulion, Benjamin Anderson A Poem of Philes to Makarios Chrysokephalos? The Case of Poem Florentinus 58, Marina Bazzani Procopius De aedificiis 4.2.1–22 on the Thermopylae Frontier, William J. Cherf Theophanes Continuatus VI and De Cerimoniis, Jeffrey Michael Featherstone The Term Kandaulos/Kandylos in the Lexicon of Photius and the Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem of Eustathius of Thessalonica, Maciej Kokoszko, Katarzyna Gibel-Buszewska A Rhetorical Declamation of Sophonias the Monk and Paraphrast, Denis M. Searby, Ambjörn Sjörs Ein Griechischer Doppelvers Sulān Walads Neu Gelesen, Dimitri Theodoridis You can read these articles if you sign up (for free) for the summer offer of De Gruyter. Click here for more info. Byzantine and Modern ...

Focus and Scope PAREKBOLAI is an electronic journal, which is published yearly by an Editorial Committee of Byzantinists of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The name is inseparably linked with the well-known Commentaries of Eustathius of Thessalonica, and was chosen as a sign of both the journal’s association with the University of Thessaloniki as host institution and its subject matter. The journal publishes original articles on Byzantine Literature and Philology as well as related text-based studies covering the period from the 4 th to the 15 th centuries in English, French, German, Greek, and Italian. All articles submitted will be peer-reviewed by two members of the journal’s International Editorial Advisory Board, and once approved will be uploaded immediately as pdf files, which will be created by the Editors in consultation with the authors. Click here for more information.