Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) 0198891504, 9780198891505

Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) 0198891504, 9780198891505

Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe,

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Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) 9780198888697, 9780198888673, 0198888694

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Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: Traces of Latin, Greek and Church Slavonic in Slavonic Syntax 9783110647204, 9783110651331, 9783110647068

The impact of the ecclesiastical languages Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic on the Slavic standard languages still lacks

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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium 9781474254656, 9781474254649, 9781474254687, 9781474254663

Jonathan Harris’ new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended

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Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies 9780823291045

This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the fi

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Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity 0199739404, 9780199739400

The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two

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Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople 9789048529650, 9048529654

Creating Memories in Late 8th-Century Byzantium is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in

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Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: Traces of Latin, Greek and Church Slavonic in Slavonic Syntax 9783110651331, 9783110647068

The impact of the ecclesiastical languages Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic on the Slavic standard languages still lacks

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Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople 9789048529650

A historical analysis of manners of representation of Byzantine emperors and patriarchs in the Short History of Nikephor

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The Three Romes: Moscow, Constantinople, and Rome 1351472690, 9781351472692

Moscow, Constantinople (now Istanbul), and Rome itself are vitally alive in the present and are magnets for tourists. Al

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