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Theseus and the Fourth Crusade: Outlining a Historical Investigation
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The Venetian Crusade of 1122-1124
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Inspiration and Innovation: Orthodox Art in the Romanian Lands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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Wellsprings of Heresy: Monks, Myth and Making Manichaeans in Orleans and Aquitaine
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The Debate on the Fourth Crusade
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Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century
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The “Wild Beast from the West”: Immediate Literary Reactions in Byzantium to the Second Crusade
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Representations of Jerusalem in Christian-European Maps from the 6th to the 16th Centuries: A Comparative Tool for Reading the Message of a Map in its Cultural Context
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Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
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The role of castles in the political and military history of the Crusader States and the Levant 1187 to 1380
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Constructing Belisarius: His Life in Context
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Novgorodian Travelers to the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages
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The Crusaders through Armenian Eyes
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Between Monks: Tales of Monastic Companionship in Early Byzantium
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New Byzantine and Roman galleries open at the Royal Ontario Museum
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The Struggle Between Osman Gazi and The Byzantines For Nicaea
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The Holy Fools: A Theological Enquiry
What is the significance of the deployment of madness in the early Christian ascetic experience of holiness?
The Western Roman Embassy to the Court of Attila in AD 449
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The Mese: Main Street of Constantinople
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The Genoese Colonies In Front Of The Turkish Advance (1453-1475)
The Genoese Colonies In Front Of The Turkish Advance (1453-1475) By Giustina Olgiati Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü Tarih Araştırmaları…
Acropolites And Gregoros On The Byzantine- Seljuk Confrontation At Antioch-On-The Maeander (A.D.1211). English Translation And Commentary
Modern research has conclusively established that the battle of Antiochad-Maenderum in Phrygia, considered to be the third most hotly contested confrontation between the Byzantines and the Seljuks since Manzikert (Malasgirt) in 1071 and Myriocephalum (Çardak) in 1176, took place is the spring or early summer of A.D. 1211 and not in A.D. 1210, as it was previously believed
Soldier Biographies and Family Chronicles: Uncovering Lost Sources of the Middle Byzantine Period
Soldier Biographies and Family Chronicles: Uncovering Lost Sources of the Middle Byzantine Period By Kyle Sinclair Rosetta, Issue 9: Suppl. (2011) Introduction: As…
1500-year-old building discovered at Acre
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a 1500 year old building in the historic city of Acre (also known as Akko). The Israel Antiquities…