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ENGLISH ABSTRACT This paper was the opening conference for the 2013 congress of the Spanish Byzantine Studies Society. Drawing on his experience as editor of three volumes in the Greek Series of the Corpus Christianorum, the author offers... more
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      Greek manuscripts, Byzantine philology, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Filologia Bizantina
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The article discusses the date of composition of Procopius of Caesarea's De Aedificiis or Buildings. It advances a detailed rebuttal of arguments recently put forward by Denis Roques for dating the work to c.560 and deals... more
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      Byzantine Literature, Constructions, Procopius, Buildings
ENGLISH ABSTRACT In the mid-sixth century, the Emperor Justinian sent an army to Spain, under the pretense of intervening in a dynastic dispute among the Visigoths. This expedition ended in the acquisition of territory for the Empire in... more
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      Late Antiquity, Antigüedad Tardía, Western Roman Empire, Justinian
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The aim of the present article is to give a general picture of the Akathistos hymn's influence in Western literature. This imprint of this beautiful Greek hymn dedicated to the Mother of God was indirect but real and... more
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      Byzantine Poetry, Akathistos, Latin Translations, Marian hymnography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT Starting at least by the late tenth century, Byzantine emperors took icons of the Mother of God with them on campaign. This article examines the appearances of such icons in the narratives of historical texts. It argues... more
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      Byzantine historiography, Byzantine Icons, Imperial Ideology, Historiografía bizantina
ENGLISH ABSTRACT In previous studies, the Old Slavic translations of the aphorisms attributed to Menander, an Attic playwright of the fourth century B.C.E., have been used primarily as evidence for reconstructing lost or incompletely... more
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      Old Church Slavonic, Wisdom Literature, Byzantine Greek, Literatura sapiencial
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The main subject of this study is an outstanding twelfth-century psalter produced in Normandy which has clear Eastern influences, both in terms of technical conception and iconography. This manuscript, kept in the Royal... more
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      Medieval Art, Christian Iconography, Byzantium, Manuscript Illumination
RÉSUMÉ FRANÇAIS L’ étude de la documentation conservée dans les archives vaticanes et de plusieurs manuscrits montre que, durant le troisième quart du XICe siècle, le monastère du Saint-Sauveur de Chôra était devenu favorable à l’ union... more
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      Constantinople, Ortodoxia, Constantinopla, XIVe Siècle
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The present article is an state of the art about Constantine Palaiokappa, a Cretan scribe who co-worked with Angelos Vergekios and Jacob Diassorinos in describing and rearranging the Greek manuscripts of the French Royal... more
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      Greek Palaeography, Siglo XVI, Venice, Fontainebleau
ENGLISH ABSTRACT This paper studies an incense burner (thuribulum) preserved at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional of Madrid (MAN). This bronze censer joined the collection in the sixties of the 20th century, being its archaeological context... more
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      Late Antiquity, Hispania, Antigüedad Tardía, Early Byzantium
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The Monastery of Apa Sabinos, situated in Antinopolis, in Middle Egypt, offers a bilingual archive containing more than thirty Greek and Coptic papyri, mostly unpublished. The study of these papyri as a whole sheds light... more
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      Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Antigüedad Tardía, Monastic administration
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The Rome of the Arabs is, in part, the result of a literary misunderstanding, a city imagined as real but in fact imaginary; such a representation did not come from the "wilder imaginations" of the Arabs, nor from a... more
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      Arabic image of Rome, Constantinople in Arabo-Islamic sources, Muḥammad ibn 'Alī al-Būrsawī, Ibn Sibāhī-zāde
ENGLISH ABSTRACT This paper focuses on two byzantine enkolpia and an unpublished byzantine "seal" from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Both enkolpia (n.º inv. 61742 and 1973/84/1-3) and the bivalbe "seal" (n.º inv. 55152) seem to... more
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      Metalwork, Byzantine art, Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid), Arte Bizantino
ENGLISH ABSTRACT A recurring theme in the historiography of the First Crusade is that of the Byzantine emperor asking Pope Urban to send a small contingent against the Turks and receiving instead vast armies over which he had no control.... more
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      Crusades, Byzantine History, Bizancio, Komnenoi
ENGLISH ABSTRACT With the intensive focus on military affairs in the Alexiad provoking contentious theories and much debate, this article investigates more closely the sources of information available to Anna Komnene for her coverage of... more
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      Nikephoros Bryennios, Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Warfare, Alejo I Comneno
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to examine the creative ways in which John Tzetzes (c.1110-after 1160) uses the figure of Cato the Elder within his Chiliads. In appropriating Cato's care for his son's education to his own... more
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      Roman History, Byzantine Literature, Plutarch, Historia romana
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The Passio Imaginis legend played an important role during the II Council of Nicaea in 787 to defend the miraculous status of images against iconoclasts. The conclusions of Nicaea were rejected by pope Hadrian I and by... more
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      Christianity, Iconoclasm, Medieval Art, Cristianismo
ENGLISH ABSTRACT Among other volumes of the same work, the Spanish humanist Diego Hurtado de Mendoza possessed the editio princeps of Ptolemy's Geography, printed in Basilea by Forben (1533) and now preserved with the rest of his library... more
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      Spanish Humanism, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Ptolemy's Geography, Humanismo Español
ENGLISH ABSTRACT This contribution offers an analysis of the most ancient manuscript inventories relative to the Greek manuscripts of the Agostinian monastery of SS. Salvatore in Bologna. The library of this monastery flourished mainly... more
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      History of libraries, Greek manuscripts, Italian Renaissance, Historia de las Bibliotecas
ENGLISH ABSTRACT The Spanish scholar Diego Hurtado de Mendoza possessed the second volume of Aristotle's editio Erasmiana, printed in Basel by Johann Bebel (1531; Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 25.III.11).... more
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      Aristotle's Politics, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Arnoldus Arlenius, Aristotle's Ethic