Search for dissertations about: "Byzantium"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Byzantium.
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1. A theory of history and society : with special reference to the Chronographia of Michael Psellus ; 11th century Byzantium
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2. Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis astronomike and the study of philosophy in early Palaiologan Byzantium
Abstract : Ancient Greek philosophy was taught and studied in the Greek-speaking world throughout the Middle Ages. This period in the history of philosophy is still imperfectly known, partly owing to the fact that many of the relevant texts are still unedited. This is true not least of the philosophical works produced during the 'Palaiologan Renaissance. READ MORE
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3. Between Old and New Rome : Armenian and Bulgarian Contacts with the Papacy around 1204
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of symbolic power at the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Cilician kingdom of Armenia, and to further explore and discuss problems of language, translation, ethnography, legitimacy, culture and distinctions between “East” and “West” through these cases. Despite their geographical distance and diverse histories, these regions are united through a past of Byzantine domination and by their entering into unions with the Roman Papacy at this time. READ MORE
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4. A Grin without a Cat 1 : 'Adversus Iudaeos' Texts in the Literature of Medieval Russia (988–1504)
Abstract : This study, which is the first and main part of a two-volume work, is concerned with the history and philology of original and translated works Adversus Iudaeos circulating among the Eastern Slavs from the baptism of Rus' c.988 till the early 16th century. Excluded is the literature of Lithuanian Ruthenia from the 14th century onwards. READ MORE