This article shows how mid-Byzantine literature reveals tensions between different segments of power in Constantinople, addressing the regional characteristics of the Empire both geographically and anthropologically. The example given is that of Paphlagonia and its multiple perceptions during the first half of the 10th century, a period when its inhabitants reached the summit of political power. Families of the military aristocracy aspiring to the throne (such as the Doukai) and powerful eunuchs at the court (Constantine the parakoimomenos, Constantine Goggylios, Joseph Briggas) give a framework to this literary controversy. Opponents denounce their home region as a host of evil eunuchs and as a country of wandering musicians. Paphlagonians...
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The period from the 8th through the llth century is central in the interaction of social organizatio...
The object of the article is the review for the book «The Church and the Empire in the Byzantine ec...
The article examines the relations between Byzantine garrisons on the Apennine Peninsula and the emp...
L’article examine les liens familiaux et le réseau social qui ont appuyé le patriarche Photios dans ...
In article are examined notions of John Apokaukos, metropolitan of Naupaktos, about participants of ...
Cet article examine les allusions théâtrales et matrimoniales dans l’hagiographie de la « relique-ta...
The article presents, through the study of documents, the foundations of the Byzantine political the...
International audienceThis article investigates the question of censorship and self-censorship in By...
La période iconoclaste byzantine est considérée à tort comme une période de recul politique et intel...
This article considers Byzantine church-state relations during the second period of iconoclasm and t...
This article aims to cast more light on the relatively under-researched subject of warfare in late B...
When in XIV to ages the Byzantine Empire had to level with the Ottomans, did not turn over to himsel...
Abstract: Fourteenth-century Byzantium witnessed civil wars between cliques of the ruling elite, con...
During classical era, the notion of Greek identity was built relatively to barbarian identities. Wha...
The article reconsiders the establishment of the military districts (themata) of Makedonia, Strymon,...
The period from the 8th through the llth century is central in the interaction of social organizatio...
The object of the article is the review for the book «The Church and the Empire in the Byzantine ec...
The article examines the relations between Byzantine garrisons on the Apennine Peninsula and the emp...