Il Thesaurus Linguae Latinae e il lessico filologico antico by Cioffi, Carmela

“…My paper arises from a reflection on these and other relevant questions: a marginal research on ancient and late antique Latin philological lexicon. …”
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Literary Forgery and the Monothelete Controversy: Some Scrupulous Uses of Deception by Susan Wessel

“…</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">680), conflicting assessments of texts were argued, and these debates, documented in the acts of the council, illuminate theories of authenticity and authorship in late antique Christianity.</span>…”
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The murder at Mount Kangar: The oral narratives of the Caucasian ‘Schism’ by Aleksidze, N

“…The present volume gathers eleven selected papers from the fields of Late Antique, Byzantine, Ottoman, Western Medieval, Caucasus, and Jewish studies on themes that reflect on and address the complex formation and development of cultural, intellectual and religious identities in the Mediterranean.…”

Les fortifications de Besançon durant l’Antiquité tardive, révision du dossier et proposition d’une nouvelle hypothèse by Adrien Saggese, Marie-Laure Bassi, Thomas Chenal

“…This observation motivated the re-examination of the questions of the implantation of the late antique fortifications within the very particular topographical context of Besançon.…”
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(Nie)równoległe narracje biograficzne o parach małżeńskich w kronice Thietmara z Merseburga i polskich średniowiecznych tekstach kronikarskich by Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec

“… The genre of the medieval written biography is an understudied area of research, although a broader understanding of the concept of biographical fiction makes it possible to identify biographical features in a large proportion of late antique and mediaeval writings. The article presents a literary and cultural comparative analysis of biographical narratives about selected married couples (Dobrawa and Mieszko I, Emnilda and Bolesław Chrobry, Rycheza of Lorraine and Mieszko II) in the chronicles of Thietmar of Merseburg and mediaeval Polish chronicle works. …”
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From the Womb to the Page: Gynaecology and History in John of Lydia by Raf Praet

“… This paper aims to contribute to the cultural history of late antique embryology and gynaecology, by focusing on the historian John Lydus (ca. …”
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Spolia w budowlach konstantyńskich. Dekadencja, innowacja czy kontynuacja tradycji? by Anna Głowa

“…For a long time spolia were perceived as a sign of decline in late antique art. Nowadays interpretations of spolia alternate between the “pragmatic”, the “aesthetic” and the “ideological”. …”
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The Great Palace mosaics. A contribution to the interpretation of their iconography by Plemić Bojana

“…The mosaics of the Great Palace in Constantinople represent an exceptional work of art from the Late Antique period, unsurpassed in their style and composition features as well as the richness of the prevailing motifs. …”
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Did Antiquity Disappear in the Cities of Asia Minor Long Before the Fall of the Roman Empire? (Book Review: Pont, A.-V. La fin de la cité grecque: métamorphoses et disparition d’un... by Alexander Kozlov

“…The author of the review points out that such a method of analyzing late-antique processes is outdated and goes back to the Enlightenment views on the fall of the Roman Empire. …”
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<em>In Search of the Inner Mind</em>: Old English <em>Gescead</em> and Other Lexemes for Human Cognition in King Alfred’s <em>Boethius</em> by Rūta Šileikytė

“…The study argues that although no exact relationship can be established between the vernacular and the corresponding Latin set of terms, the Old English rendering does succeed in conveying the essential structures of Boethius’thought, thus transmitting Late Antique heritage to the ninth-century philosophical discourse of Anglo-Saxon England.…”
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Uomini e "cocci": i contesti ceramologici del Quartiere Bizantino del Pythion in una prospettiva antropologica by Enrico Zanini

“…From this point of view, the potsherds can provide relevant informations about the ways of urban life in the district, the disposal of solid urban refuses and the natural catastrophes as element of transformation of urban fabric in Late Antique and Early Byzantine age.…”
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Metrodora’s Work on the Diseases of Women and Their Cures by Gemma Storti

“…Moreover, I propose that Metrodora’s text must be read according to three different perspectives: the production of Byzantine medical collections (syllogai), the Byzantine hospitals, and the role of women in the medical field in the late antique and Byzantine periods. …”
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0227 Spectacula turpitudinum by Donatella Tronca

“…The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of the Christian intellectual perspective of choreutic gesture, putting forward the hypothesis that by regulating dancing, late antique bishops became spokesmen for an anthropology of gesture which on the one hand demonised all forms of performative dancing and on the other hand encouraged men to become perfect imitators of an angelic choreia in the Platonic framework. …”
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Muriel Debié. L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque. Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam. by Peter Brown

“…It is nothing less than a compendium of historical writing in Syriac in the late antique and medieval periods. It puts Syriac historiography on the map. …”
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The Resurfaced Medieval Manuscript Codex Filippi and the Zadar redaction of the Passion of St Anastasia by Trpimir Vedriš

“…Mariae) contains two hagiographic legends: a late antique Passio Sanctae Anastasiae and a local legend called Translatio Beati Grisogoni martyris. …”
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Socrate o dello specchio. Strategie di scrittura nell’Apologia e nell’Alcibiade by Lidia Palumbo

“…Through a mention to the Middle Platonists and a reference to a late antique text that presents a comparison between Plato and the Demiurge, I set out to show just one of those rhetorical strategies that have been used by the author Plato to give his writings the unity and consistency that make the corpus a kosmos, a living animal, like the universe. …”
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Sidonio Apollinare e i suoi modelli. Un mosaico letterario e le conquiste orientali di Roma by Francesco Montone

“…By quoting texts of Latin and Late antique writers, Sidonius creates a very impressive passage, that should certainly please the Roman court.…”
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Coptic Culture in the Byzantine World: Nationalism and Religious Independence by Glanville Downey

“…--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The emergence of a distinctive Christian culture in late antique Egypt, increasingly turned in on itself, was facilitated by the development of the written Coptic language, the triumph of Monophysism, and perhaps most the limited access of Egyptians to Greek education.…”
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Revenging Vestments: On the Chasubles of the Bishops Ildefonsus and Adaulfus (Toledo and Compostela, Tenth–Twelfth Centuries) by Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez

“…Bonitus of Clermont (620–700), but also in light of the similarities with the miracle of the bishop Adaulfus II of Compostela (ninth century), and the possible late antique inspiration of both from the <i>Libellus Precum</i> and from Gregory of Tours´ hagiographies. …”
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Trash from a temple: a deposit next to the Isis Temple at Berenike (Egypt) by Szymon Popławski, Urszula Kraśniewska, Filippo Mi, Jerzy Oleksiak

“…The article discusses the stratigraphy and chronological phasing of a late antique trash deposit discovered just outside the north wall of the Isis Temple courtyard. …”
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